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Lot 76

Works of Sir Walter Scott including: 12 Volume set The Waverley Novels Edition De Luxe by Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Published by The Nottingham Society, Three Quarter burgundy leather with burgundy cloth over boards, Set is in good condition with some wear to covers; and The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Containing Lay of the Last Minstrel - Marmion - Lady of the Lake - Rokeby - Don Roderick - Ballads, Lyrics, and Songs. Notes, and Life of the Author., Philadelphia, 1856, brown tooled leather hardbound with gilt lettering and 5 raised bands on spine, good condition with some water staining to the front end papers, some foxing throughout.

Lot 77

Two 19th Century Robert Burns Books including: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1869, blue cloth hardcover, One of 600 limited edition copies signed by the printer James M'Kie, good condition with some wear to cover and spine; and The Burns Calendar: A Manual of Burnsiana; Relating Events in the Poet's History, Names Associated with His Life and Writings, A Concise Bibliography, and A Record of Burns Relics. 1874, printed and published by James M'Kie, blue cloth hardcover, good condition with some wear to cover and spine.


Lot 78

Title: A Dictionary of Quotations from The British Poets. In Three Parts. Part the Second. Blank Verse. (Volume II)
Author: Kingdom, William
Description: Volume II of III volume set. 355 pp., book measures 4.75 in. X 7.75 in., Full brown leather with 4 raised bands on spine and gilt lettering on spine and boards.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: G. And W. B. Whittaker
Date Published: 1824
Edition: First
Binding: Leather Hardbound


Lot 79

Title: The River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia: And Other Poems. To Which is Annexed, A Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes, in the North of England
Author: Wordsworth, William
Description: 321 pp. A rare first edition copy in three quarter brown leather with marble boards and page edges, gilt lettering and design to spine, book measures 5.5 in. X 8.5 in.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date Published: 1820
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover


Lot 80

Group of 1920's poem books including: Chills and Fever, by Ransom, John Crowe, 1924 first edition, cloth hardcover with original sticker label on spine, good condition with some wear to cover; The Tall Men, by Davidson, Donald, 1927 first edition, cloth hardcover with paper label on front board, very good condition with little wear to cover and spine; Dionysus In Doubt, A Book of Poems, by Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1925 First Edition, cloth hard cover with paper label on front board and spine, very good condition; Edwin Arlington Robinson, by Doren, Mark Van, 1927 First Edition, cloth hard cover with gilt lettering to front board and spine, good condition with some wear to cover; and Tristram, by Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1927 first edition, cloth hard cover with gilt lettering to front board and spine, good condition with some wear to cover.


Lot 81

Group of 4 poem books including: A Roycroft Anthology, Edited by Hoyle, John T., 1917, three quarter brown leather with paper over boards, gilt spine decoration, good condition with some wear to cover and spine; Lyra Elegantiarum, Edited by Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1891, green leather hardbound with 4 raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, good condition with some cracking between spine and boards; Lucasta. The Poems of Richard Lovelace, Esq., by Hazlitt, W. Carew, 1864, brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine, fair condition with small tear to top of spine, wear to cover, spine loose from book, frontis portrait detached but present; and Harvard Classics, The Complete Poems of John Milton, 1909, brown cloth hardback with gilt design on front board and lettering on spine, good condition with some wear to cover.


Lot 82

Title: The Works of Francis Bacon (12 Volume Set)
Author: Speeding, James; Ellis & Heath (eds)
Description: 12 Volume Set, brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine, Frontis Portrait in Vol. 1.
Heading: Place Published: Boston
Publisher: Brown & Taggard
Date Published: 1861
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover


Lot 83

Title: The Diary of an Old Lawyer Scenes Behind the Curtain
Author: Hallum, John
Description: : 458pp. brown cloth hardcover, gilt lettering on spine, frontis portrait of author and his wife. Rare Civil War Related Book. Author was soldier in Confederate Army and became a successful lawyer. 4to - over 9¾"" - 12"" tall.
Heading: Place Published: Nashville, TN.
Publisher: Southwestern Publishing House
Date Published: 1895
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover


Lot 84

Title: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Description: The 2nd edition, a photocopied facsimile of Jefferson's original, red leather binding with gilt decoration to cover and marble end papers.
Heading: Place Published: Washington
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Date Published: 1904
Edition: Facsimile
Binding: Hard Cover


Lot 85

Title: The History of the French Revolution (In Five Volumes)
Author: Thiers, Louis Adolphe
Description: Beautiful Five volume set. 8vo. With 41 engravings by William Greatbach. Finely bound in full crimson calf, fillet borders, spines heavily gilt with revolutionary symbols in panels, leather labels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Thiers (1797-1877) was a French statesman and historian. He was a prime minister under King Louis-Philippe of France. This title was the second of his two famous works on French history and is one of the standard texts on the immediate post-revolutionary era. It is considered one of the best of the English editions.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Richard Bentley and Son
Date Published: 1881
Binding: Hardbound


Lot 86

Title: History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon. Forming a Sequel to ""The History of the French Revolution.""
Author: Thiers, M. A.
Description: Beautiful 20 volumes bound into 13. 8vo. Finely bound in full crimson calf, fillet borders, spines heavily gilt with revolutionary symbols in panels, leather labels, inner dentelles, with marbled endpapers.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher Vol.1 - Vol.12: Henry Colburn, Great Marlborough Street, Sold Also by Chapman and Hall, Strand. Publisher Vol. 13 - Vol.20: Willis and Sotheran, 136, Strand
Date Published: 1845-1862
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardbound


Lot 87

Title: Report of the Secretary of War, Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of February 2, 1857, Information Respecting the Purchase of Camels for the Purpose of Military Transportation.
Author: Davis, Jefferson
Description: 238 pp. 8vo. original binding and grey cloth hardcover, blind stamped. Illustrated with engravings.
Heading: Place Published: Washington
Publisher: A. O. P. Nicholson
Date Published: 1857
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover


Lot 88

Pair of Illustrated Civil War Narratives including: Camp Fires of the Confederacy, edited by LaBree, Ben, 1898, 560 pp. grey cloth hardcover with illustrated front board and spine, Illustrations throughout, book measures 7.5 in. X 9.75 in., from V. Y. Cooks library with signed full page photograph of Col. Cook attached to front end paper, good condition with some wear to cover; Deeds of the Daring by both Blue and Gray, by Kelsey, D. M., 1890, 672 pp. blue cloth hardcover with illustrate front board and spine, illustrations throughout, book measures 6.25 in. X 9 in., from V. Y. Cooks library with his stamp on front end paper, good condition with some wear to cover, front board is loose from spine; and Story of the War. Pictorial History of the Great Civil War: Embracing Full and Authentic Accounts of Battles by Land and Sea, by Wilson, John Laird, 1881, 976 pp. green cloth hardcover with illustrated front board and spine and marble paper edges, Illustrations throughout, book measures 8 in. X 10.25, from V. Y. Cooks library with his stamp in front end papers, good condition with some wear to cover.


Lot 89

Four 1890 Jefferson Davis volumes including: The Davis Memorial Volume; or Our Dead President, Jefferson Davis, and the World's Tribute to His Memory, by Jones, J. W. M., 1890, blue cloth hardcover, fair-good condition with some wear to cover, front and back boards and spine loose; Life and Reminiscences of Jefferson Davis, by Distinguished Men of His Time, 1890, brown cloth hardcover, good condition with some wear to cover and light foxing; and Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir (2 Volume Set), by his wife, 1890, blue cloth hardcover, fair condition with wear to covers, foxing on title pages and frontis portraits, Ex-Library copies with inventory numbers on spine and stamps on front end papers, spines are very loose with front boards completely loose.


Lot 90

Pair of Civil War History Books including: A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States; Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results. Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty Hall, by Stephens, Alexander H., Vol. 1, 1868, brown cloth hardcover, good condition with some wear to cover, Confederate Military History Vol. X., 1899, Three quarters brown leather with cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and seal to front board, good condition with some wear to cover, front bard loose from spine, "Presented to Tenn. Confederate Soldiers House from Capt. M. S. Cockrill, May 29, 1912" Inscribed on inner side of front board.


Lot 91

Title: The Civil War on the Border
Author: Britton, Wiley
Description: 473 pp., brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and marbled page edges, frontis portrait of General Lyon.
Heading: Place Published: New York and London
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 1891
Edition: Second
Binding: Hardcover


Lot 92

2 Arkansas Civil War History Books including: Arkansas in War and Reconstruction 1861 - 1874, by Thomas, David Y., 1926, dark green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to front board, good condition with light foxing in end papers; and The Camp, The Bivouac, and the Battle Field. Being a History of the Fourth Arkansas Regiment, From its First Organization Down to the Present Date. "Its Campaigns and Its Battles," by W. L. Gammage, Brigade Surgeon, 1958, grey cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to front board and spine, very good condition.


Lot 93

Four years in the Saddle, by Colonel Harry Gilmor, 1866, Harper & Brothers, 291 pp., brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine, from V. Y. Cook personal library with stamp in front end papers, good condition with some foxing mostly in end papers and portrait frontis, some shelf wear; and Fugitive Lines by Henry Ferome Stockard, 1897, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 93 pp., green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and front board, good condition with some wear to cover, slight foxing, and gift inscription on inner side of front board.


Lot 94

The Confederate Mail Carrier or from Missouri to Arkansas, Through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. An Unwritten Leaf of the "Civil War.," by James Bradley, 1894, 275 pp., blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to front board and spine, frontis portrait, good condition with some shelf wear to cover and gift inscription in front end papers; and The Postal Service of the Confederate States of America, by August Dietz, 1929, 439 pp., grey cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to front board and spine, Signed by author in front end papers, very good condition with some slight shelf wear.


Lot 95

Two Robert E. Lee volumes including: Lee`s Sharpshooters or Forefront of The Battle by W.S. Dunlop, The exploits of Robert E. Lee`s Confederate sharpshooters as told by Major W.S. Dunlop, lot includes letters from Robert F. ward to General V. Y. Cook concerning Confederate affairs April 1920, Former library copy "Arkansas College"., Published Little Rock, Arkansas., Tunnah and Pittard, 1899., First Edition., Hardcover, 488 PP., Front board has a series of ink dots center top, spine has a small loss and tears, browning to page edges, some light foxing to front and back end pages, top edge pages have minor old paint spots, overall this is a good old copy; and The Soul of Lee By One of His Old Soldiers, Randolph H. McKim, The life and campaigns of general Robert E. Lee told by one of his soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia, New York, Longmans and Green, 1918, First Edition, Hardcover, 258 pp., 5.25" X 8.125", Boards and spine are in good condition, front and back interior boards and end pages have foxing, interior pages have light foxing, overall book is in good condition.


Lot 96

Title: The Immortal Six Hundred
Author: Major J. Ogden Murry
Description: 274 pp., 5.25"" X 7.5"" grey cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to front board and spine.
Heading: Place Published: Winchester, Va.
Publisher: Eddy Press Corp.
Date Published: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hard Cover


Lot 97

Title: Letters of A Confederate Surgeon 1861-65, selling 2 volumes
Authors: Gaughan, Thomas and Bragg, Peter Newport
Description: 276 pp., grey cloth hard cover with gold gilt lettering to cover. The Civil War letters of Confederate surgeon Junius Newport Bragg 1861-May 20th, 1865
Heading: Place Published: Camden, Arkansas
Publisher: The Hurley Co.
Date Published: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover


Lot 98

Title: Reminiscences of A Private
Author: , Bevens W.E.
Description: 89 pp, grey cloth hardcover, gold gilt lettering to cover, 8vo. The Jackson Guards fought in most of the major engagements in the western theater as part of the Army of Tennessee. Contains a 2 half page letter dated 10/3/1916, Newport, Arkansas and signed W.E. Bevens, on W.E. Bevens Druggist stationary, also in the front endpapers a pasted in inscription ""From W.E. Bevens, Newport, Ark., Mrs. Helen Hulsey, Newport, Ar."", pasted in the back endpapers a 1916 newspaper article by W.E. Evans ""Veterans Return Northern Flag"" article tells of the return of the 76th Ohio Infantry flag captured at the battle of Ringold Gap being returned at their annual reunion in 1916.
Heading: Place Published: np
Publisher: np
Date Published: 1913
Edition: Rare Second Edition
Binding: Grey cloth hardcover


Lot 99

Title: Chapters From The Unwritten History of The War Between States
Author: Lieut. R.M. Collins
Description: Dark green cloth, w/gilt lettering & lines on spine, 335 pp., 5.5"" X 7.75"", frontis portrait., illus.,Lt. Collins was born in East Tennessee & moved to Texas, settling in Decatur. Early in 1862, he joined the Confederate army & rose to the rank of lieutenant in Co. B, 15th Texas Cavalry, Cleburne""s Division. Fought at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Nashville, etc. Collins"" narrative is an especially good one, well written, informative, he was an excellent observer. Very good and rare copy.
Heading: Place Published: St. Louis
Publisher: Nixon-Jones Prtg. Co.
Date Published: 1893
Edition: 1st.
Binding: Original dark green embossed cloth hardboard


Lot 100

Five books about the civil war and Tennessee history.
(1)Recollections of Thomas D. Duncan: a confederate soldier, by Duncan Thomas D., Private Thomas D. Duncan story of his service in the Civil War in West Tennessee, Northern Mississippi and Alabama under Nathan Bedford Forrest. Published by McQuiddy Publishing Co. Nashville, TN. 1922, 213 pp., paperback, photograph illustrations of the Duncan, 8 vo, Front and back boards and spine have bends, edge paper has darkening and spotting, some foxing rear end papers, overall book is in good condition. (2) Parson Brownlow's Book: Sketches of the Rise, Progress and Decline of Secession with a Narrative of Personal Adventures among the Rebels, By Brownlow W.G.,Cincinnati: George W. Childs, 1862, First Edition, 458 pp. , 8 vo. Original brown pebbled cloth boards. Frontis portrait missing, Good overall condition. Faded early inscription on ffep, edges worn, spine ends frayed, hinges well attached but loose, scattered light foxing, browning of page edges. Hard Cover. Good. (3) Reminiscences of the Early Settlement and Early Settlers of McNairy County, Tennessee, General Marcus J. Wright, Commercial Publishing Co., Washington D.C., 1882, 1st Edition, paperback, 8 vo, 96 pp. Early settlers of McNairy County, Tennessee, Purdy, Tennessee the county seat was burned by the U.S. Army. Frontis portrait is loose, book is fragile, pages are browning, book has several page and front and back board tears.(4) The Story of Shiloh, Rice Delong, The story of the battle of Shiloh in the Civil War told by one of the early superintendents of the park. Brandon Printing Company, Nashville, Tennessee 1919, Paperback, 4"" X 7"", 64 pp. book has shelf wear with bends to front and back boards, overall good condition. (5) Personal Record of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, Vaughn A.J.,John L. Heflin, Jr. 1975 Hardcover Facsimile reprint, one of 500 numbered copies, this copy #126 of 500, 5.75"" X 8.75, 95 pp. Green cloth, no dust jacket. Faint wear, still fine.

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