MCGINNIS
& WOLF ESTATES RARE BOOKS & DOCUMENTS -
ABSOLUTE AUCTION
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Historic Books, Maps,
Documents & Photographs from the Estates of Clyde McGinnis &
John Quincy Wolf Jr.
Auction Preview April 25th & 26th - 9:00a.m.-7:00p.m.
Saturday, April 27th - 10:00a.m.
1690 White Drive - Batesville, AR 72501
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Title:
The Campaigns of Walker's Texas Division
Author: Blessington, Joseph P.
Description: 314 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth hardcover with
oval decorations on front and back boards with gilt lettering
on the spine.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Lange Little, & Co.
Date Published: 1875
Edition: First
Binding: Hardbound
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Group
of 3 Kentucky History Books Including: Kentucky in the Nation's
History, by McElroy, Robert McNutt, 1909, blue cloth hardcover,
good condition with signature of previous owner V. Y. Cook in
front end papers.; History of Kentucky, by Collins, Lewis, 1877,
Three quarter brown leather with 4 raised bands, and gilt lettering
on the spine. Very good condition with previous owner V. Y.
Cooks signature in front end papers.; and Kentucky Eloquence,
Past and Present, by Young, Bennett H. Editor, 1907, Three quarter
brown leather, brown paper over boards with gilt lettering on
the spine, good condition with some wear to cover and signature
of previous owner V. Y. Cook in front end papers.
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53
Title:
History of the 3d, 7th, 8th and 12th Kentucky C.S.A.
Author: George, Henry
Description: 193 pp. 8vo. Portrait frontis., portraits,
illus., maps. Orig. green cloth. This fine regimental history
concerns Kentuckians who saw action in the battles of Corinth,
Vicksburg, and Shiloh, and then rode under Bedford Forrest
throughout Kentucky and Tennessee.
Heading: Place Published: Louisville, KY.
Publisher: C. T. Dearing Printing Co.
Date Published: 1911
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
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54
Title:
My Cave Life in Vicksburg. With Letters of Trial and Travel
Author: A Lady (Loughborough, Mrs. James)
Description: 196 pp., Brown cloth hardcover, Book measures
5 in. X 7.25 in.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Date Published: 1864
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
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2 copies
of Whip and Spur by Waring, George E., Jr., including 1 -
professionally rebound brown leather hardcover 1892 first
edition in good condition with repair to title page; and 1
- 1897 copy in illustrated/decorative grey cloth hardcover,
good condition with Original owner V. Y. Cook's signature
in front end papers. Both books measure 4.5 in. X 6.75 in.
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56
3 Missouri
Civil War history books including: Reminiscences of the
Women of Missouri During the Sixties, Compiled and published
by the Missouri Division Untied Daughters of the Confederacy,
Grey cloth hardback with gilt lettering on cover and spine,
good condition; The Civil War Reminiscences of General M.
Jeff Thompson, edited by Davis, Stephen, 1988, grey cloth
hardcover with gilt lettering to spine, good condition; and
With Porter in North Missouri, by Mudd, Joseph A., 1909, red
cloth hardback with gilt lettering to spine, good condition
with some wear to cover and spine.
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57
Title:
A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, Being
an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux,
and Times of Peace.
Author: Monks, William
Description: 247 pp., 5.5 in. X 7.75 in., Frontis Portrait
of Monk and Wife, original green cloth hardcover with gold
lettering on cover. Extremely rare first edition copy.
Heading: Place Published: West Plains, MO.
Publisher: West Plains Journal Co.
Date Published: 1907
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
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Title:
History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades.
1861-1865. and from Wakarusa to Appomattox, A Military Anagraph
Author: Bevier, R. S.
Description: 480pp., plus appendix of 27pp. List of
survivors, illustrated with steel engravings. light blue cloth
hardcover. The old Missouri State Guard was involved on all
the early battles in Missouri and Arkansas and then crossed
the Mississippi and joined the Confederate Army to fight in
most of the battles in the West. Book measures 6 in. X 8.5
in.
Heading: Place Published: St. Louis
Publisher: Bryan, Brand & Company
Date Published: 1879
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
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3 Missouri
Civil War history books including: Memoirs of the Rebellion
on the Border, 1863, by Britton, Wiley, 1882, black cloth
hardcover with gilt lettering to spine, good condition with
some wear to cover; The Fight for Missouri, from the Election
of Lincoln to the Death of Lyon, by Snead, Thomas L., 1886,
fold out map, blue cloth hardcover, overall good condition
with fading to front and back cover and spine; and Gen. Nathaniel
Lyon, and Missouri in 1861. A monograph of the Great Rebellion,
by Peckham, James, 1866, Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering
to spine, good condition with some damage to back board.
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60
Title:
Tennessee Cavalier in the Missouri Cavalry, Major Henry Ewing,
C.S.A., of the Saint Louis Times
Author: Crowley, William J.
Description: 5 Copies, 229 pp., 8vo, gray cloth hardcover,
each copy is a limited edition with all but 1 signed by the
author. All Copies are in very good condition.
Heading: Place Published: Columbia, Missouri
Publisher: Kelly Press, Inc.
Date Published: 1978
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
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Title:
The Rise of the Dutch Republic, A History - 3 Volume Set
Author: Motley, John Lothrop
Description: Three Volumes in three quarter brown leather
with marbled paper over boards and five raised bands and gold
stamping on the spine. Frontis Portrait.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1885
Binding: Hardbound
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62
Group
of 5 leather bound Shakespeare books including A Life
of William Shakespeare, by Lee, Sidney, 1899 Fourth Edition,
blue leather hardcover with raised bands and gilt decoration
and lettering on spine, good condition; The Works of William
Shakspeare (Shakespeare,) Life, Glossary, Ec., No Date Specified,
Suttaby and Co., Red leather hardcover with 4 raised bands
and gilt writing on spine; and The Works of William Shakspeare
(Shakespeare) 3 Volume Set, Edited by Knight, Charles, no
date specified, published by George Routledge and Sons, three
quarter blue leather with marbled paper over boards and 5
raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, very good condition
with little shelf wear.
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63
Title:
Bulwer's Novels in 16 Volumes
Author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer
Description: Bulwer's Novels in 16 Volumes Including:
Night & Morning 1851, My Novel Vol. 1 & 2 1854, Harold
1853, Devereux 1852, Lucretia 1853, Earnest Maltravers 1851,
Last of the Barons 1850, Paul Clifford 1848, Godolphin 1850,
Pelham 1849, Rienzi 1848, Zanoni 1853, Eugene Aram 1849, The
Disowned 1852, and The Last Days of Pompeii 1850. Full red
leather with gold paper edges and 5 raised bands and gilt
lettering on spine.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Date Published: 1848-1854
Binding: Full Red Leather Hardcover
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Title:
The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote: From
the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. By T. Smollett,
M.D. To Which is prefixed a Memoir of the Author, by Thomas
Roscoe. 3 Volume Set
Author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
Description: 3 Volume Set. 4.25 in. X 6.5 in. Three
Quarter black leather with marble paper boards, 4 raised bands
and gilt lettering and design on spine.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Effingham, Wilson, Royal Exchange; W. F.
Wakeman, Dublin; and Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh
Date Published: 1833
Binding: Hardbound
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Title:
The Poetical Works and Remains of Henry Kirke White. With
Life
Description: Single Fore-Edge Painting of Saint Paul's,
London, 521 pp., 5 in. X 7.25 in., Frontis Portrait, burgundy
leather hardcover, 4 raised bands and gilt lettering and design
on spine, gilt decoration on front and back boards
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: John Kendrick
Date Published: 1854
Binding: Hardbound
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Title:
Jacob's Room
Author: Woolf, Virginia
Description: 303 pp., 5.5 in. X 7.75 in., Cloth Hardcover
with original paper label on spine. First U.S. appearance.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Date Published: 1923
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
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Title:
Elmer Gantry
Author: Lewis, Sinclair
Description: 432pp., bound in blue cloth lettered,
ruled and blocked in orange with original dust wrapper. 5.5
in. X 7.5 in.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Date Published: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
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Title:
The Nature of Gothic, A Chapter of the Stones of Venice
Author: Ruskin, John
Description: 127pp. Vellum with green silk ties. Limited
to 500 copies. Wood-engraved border, decorations and initials
designed by William Morris, 5.75 in. X 8.25 in.
Publisher: Kelmscott Press
Date Published: 1892
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
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69
Group
of 4 William Wordsworth books including: The Early Letters
of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (1787 - 1805), 1935 first
edition, 578 pp., Oxford University Press, Good Condition
with Dust Jacket, dust jacket is in fair condition with torn
edges; and 3 Vol. Set, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth,
Edited by Selincourt and Darbishire, Oxford, The Clarendon
Press, 1940 - 1947, Good Condition with original dust jackets,
dust jackets have some tears around edges and discoloration.
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70
Title:
The Peripatetic; or Sketches of the Heart, of Nature and Society;
in a Series of Politico Sentimental Journals, in Verse and
Prose, of the Eccentric Excursions of Sylvanus Theophrastus;
Supposed to be Written by Himself. (Three Volume Set)
Author: Thelwall, John (1764-1834)
Description: Extremely rare three volume first edition
set, uncut in original drab boards, Vol. 1 - 224 pp., Vol.
2 - 228 pp., and Vol. 3 - 228 pp., Volumes measures approx.
4.75 in. X 8 in., each volume is signed on the inner side
of the front board R. D. Havens, Nov. 1933, with Raymond Dexter
Havens, Robert Southey Collection, scenic book plate. Lot
includes the original invoice for Raymond D. Havens, Esq.
John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, from James Miles Antiquarian
Bookseller, 82 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, England, on Nov. 4,
1933. This set is part of the John Quincy Wolf Jr. collection.
Wolf spent much of his career on the faculty of Southwestern
at Memphis (now Rhodes College) and completed his PhD at John
Hopkins in 1946. Professor Raymond Havens was John Quincy's
Professor and Mentor while at John Hopkins. Havens was considered
by many to be the foremost William Wordsworth authority in
the world prior to his death in 1954. Wolf replaced Havens
in the minds of many scholars as the world's greatest Wordsworth
expert until his death in 1972. John Thelwall (27 July 1764
17 February 1834), was a radical British orator, writer,
and elocutionist. Thelwall was born in Covent Garden, London,
but was descended from a Welsh family which had its seat at
Plas y Ward, Denbighshire. He was the son of a silk merchant.
He published a volume of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects,
in 1787, and The Peripatetic; or, Sketches of the Heart, of
Nature and Society; in a Series of Politico-Sentimental Journals
in 1793. From 1795 to 1796, he published The Tribune, a periodical
that mostly consisted of his own political lectures. He helped
form the London Corresponding Society in 1792. In 1794, he
was tried for treason along with fellow radicals John Horne
Tooke and Thomas Hardy, although all three men were acquitted.
Government officials who considered him to be the most dangerous
man in Britain continued to hound him even after his acquittal.
Many of his plays and other works were consequently banned.
Among his other views, Thelwall was known for his denunciation
of all wars except those of self-defense. John Thelwalls ""The
Peripatetic"" is a long overlooked work by the best
known and most controversial English Jacobin of the late 18th
Century.
Vol. 1: Printed for the Author, and Sold by him, No. 2, Maze
Pond, Southwark. Entered at Stationers-Hall.
Vol. 2 & 3: Printed for the Author, and fold by Mr. Eaton,
Bifhops-gate-Ftreet; and Mr. Refce, Carthufian-Ftreet, Charter-Houfe-Fquare.
Entered at Stationers-Hall. Date Published: 1793
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
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Title:
The White Doe of Rylstone; or the Fate of the Nortons. A Poem.
Author: Wordsworth, William
Description: A good copy of this scarce first edition,
162 pp., measuring 9"" x 11"" and bound
in brown paper boards, grey cloth spine. Engraved frontis
by J C Bromley and painted by Sir George Beaumont. Originally
composed in 1807 by Wordsworth this narrative poem was not
well received at private readings and following suggestions
made by Coleridge, he withheld it from publication for a period
of seven years. Having revised it substantially the work was
published in 1815 in an expensive quarto edition.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date Published: 1815
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
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Title:
Lyrical Ballads, With Other Poems, Volume II
Author: Wordsworth, William
Description: First edition of Volume Two. 227 pp. Original
full leather hardbound, book measures 4 in. X 6.25 in. Title
page is missing to book. ""1st Issue of Vol. II
Lyrical Ballads Edition of 1800"" is written in
pencil on the inner side of the front board.
Heading: Place Published: London
Date Published: 1800
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardbound
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Group
of Three Books including: The Girl I Loved, by Riley,
James Whitcomb, Illustrations by Christy, Howard Chandler,
1910, cloth hardcover, very good condition with some shelf
wear; A Heap O' Livin', by Guest, Edgar A., 1916, blue cloth
hardcover, very good condition with some shelf wear; and The
Mansion, Dyke, Henry Van, 1911, green cloth hardcover, very
good condition with some shelf wear.
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Title:
Christianity Restored, A Connected View of the Principles
and Rules by Which the Living Oracles May Be Intelligibly
and Certainly Interpreted: of the Foundation of Which All
Christians May Form One Communion and of the Capitol Positions
Sustained in the Attempt to Restore the Original Gospel and
Order of Things; Containing The Principal Extras of the Millennial
Harbinger, Revised and Corrected.
Author: Alexander Campbell
Description: 404 pp., 4.5 in. X 7.5 in. X 1.25 in.,
Extremely rare first edition brown full leather hardcover
with black label on spine with gold leaf lettering. Examples
of this book are extremely hard to find. Our research yielded
one example in the Beasley Rare Book Room at the Phillips
Theological Seminary, which they state is a book of particular
interest.
Heading: Place Published: Bethany, VA
Publisher: M'Vay and Ewing
Date Published: 1835
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Leather Hardbound
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The Wye:
Its Ruined Abbeys and Castles. Extracted from "The Ruined
Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain," by Howitt, William
and Mary, 1863, hardbound with gilt lettering and decoration
on front board, Five original albumen photos., Very good condition;
and Select Views of Great Britain, by Middiman, Samuel, Not
Dated, 53 engraved plates through book, burgundy tooled leather
hardcover with gilt decoration and lettering, overall good
condition, interior of book is loose from spine, wear to cover,
some cracking to spine.
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