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Historic Books, Maps, Documents & Photographs from the Estates of Clyde McGinnis & John Quincy Wolf Jr.
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Lot 51 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

Lot 52 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.



Lot 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

Lot 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

Lot 55 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.



Lot 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.


Lot 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

Lot 58 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

Lot 59 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.


Lot 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

Lot 61 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

Lot 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.


Lot 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


Lot 64 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

Lot 65 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


Lot 66 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

Lot 67 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


Lot 68 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


Lot 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.


Lot 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



Lot 71 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

Lot 72 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

Lot 73 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.


Lot 74 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


Lot 75 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.