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1* ADAMS, RICHARD Watership Down. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
8vo, publisher’s cream cloth spine over matching boards with gilt facsimile signature to upper board, dust jacket, unclipped. First American edition, with 1) card signed twice tipped to f.f.e.p. 2) photograph signed and inscribed to Dr. Moorhead laid in 3) verso of photograph with autograph note signed “Mr. Moorhead, Better late than never ... God isn’t good in a sense that we can understand” 4) Typed letter signed by Adams to Dr. Moorhead, responding that the “ultimate question” to him is: “What does Jesus Christ mean to you?” Light wear to spine ends. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 2* ALGREN, NELSON The Man with the Golden Arm. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949.
8vo, publisher’s cream cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title of part 1. Light spotting to dust jacket and a few very small tears; otherwise very good. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
3* ALGREN, NELSON The Man with the Golden Arm. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949.
8vo, publisher’s cream cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title of part 1. Two 1-inch, two 2-inch and a few small tears, overall soiling, to dust jacket; hinges cracked. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400


4* BURNS, ROBERT Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: For the Author, 1787.
8vo, full recent calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine label, renewed endpapers, half-title, engraved frontispiece, subscriber’s list. Second [first Edinburgh] edition, with “Boxburgh” for “Roxburgh” in subscriber’s list and “stinking” (for “skinking”) on p. 263. Offsetting from frontispiece; otherwise very fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $600-800
5* BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE A group of three works.
Tarzan the Magnificent. Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burrows, Inc., (1939). 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in red, dust jacket, clipped. The Master Mind of Mars. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1928). 8vo, publisher’s red cloth lettered in black, dust jacket. At the Earth’s Core. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1922. 8vo, publisher’s grey cloth lettered in black, no dust jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
6* BYRON, LORD A group of two first editions.
Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain. London: John Murray, 1821. 8vo, original boards, half-title, housed in quarter morocco over brown cloth slipcase and matching chemise. First edition. Rubbing to spine slipcase; soiling to boards. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1841. 8vo, rebound in full brown morocco stamped in foliate gilt design, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., half-title. First illustrated edition, with engraved frontispiece portrait, extraengraved title page, numerous engraved vignettes, folding map. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
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7* [DICKENS, CHARLES] Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz.” London: Bentley, 1838.
3 vols. 8vo, publisher’s reddish-brown cloth with arabesque design stamped in blind, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, skilfully recased retaining original yellow endpapers with previous owner’s name to front pastedown. First edition, first issue, with fireside plate at end of vol. 3, half-titles and ads to vols. 1 and 2 and Bentley’s Standard Library ads to vol. 3. Inner hinges starting vol. 1 and black spot to upper board of cloth; brownspotting to some plates; spine ends and corners bumped; otherwise very good with gilt on spines still very fresh. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $2,000-4,000
8* DICKENS, CHARLES The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, April-September, 1870.
Original six monthly parts. 8vo, publisher’s blue printed paper wraps, housed in custom chemise and slipcase with pastedown facsimile of the upper cover of no. 1 to slipcase. First edition, lacking nine ads (four to pt. 2, one to pt. 5 and four to pt. 6), otherwise collates as complete. Wear to wrappers, with upper covers of nos. 1, 3, 4, and 6 detached and starting on others, loss to spine and edges. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois Literature: Hatton & Cleaver, p. 377-384 $200-400
9* DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [and] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1892, 1894.
2 vols. 8vo, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in 3/4 teal morocco over blue cloth, a.e.g. First editions in book form, illustrated by Sidney Paget. Adventures has the misprint Miss “Violent” Hunter for “Violet” on p. 317. Spines faded. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $2,000-4,000
10* DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950.
3 sets containing 8 vols. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth spine over decorative boards with embossed portrait vignette to upper board, housed in three slipcases delineating The Adventures (3 vols.), The Later Adventures (3 vols.), and The Final Adventures (2 vols.), with pastedown labels. Limited to 1,500 sets. Lacking original acetate wrappers. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
11* ELIOT, GEORGE The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1860.
3 vols. 8vo, publisher’s cinnamon-colored cloth stamped in blind (Carter’s “B” binding) with Edmunds and Remnants sticker to rear endpaper vol. 2, housed in custom halfmorocco slipcase with individual chemises, 16-page undated publisher’s catalogue to end of vol. 3. First edition, with half-titles. Without the advertisement for Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede in vol. 1 (Carter, 110-111, signifies earlier state). Spine ends and corner bumped; hinges tender on all volumes. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $800-1,200
12* (ELIOT, GEORGE) FEUERBACH, LUDWIG The Essence of Christianity. Translated from the Second German edition by Marian Evans (George Eliot, pseud). London: John Chapman, 1854.
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth. First edition of this translation. Spine faded and deteriorating; manuscript ex-libris to title page and f.f.e.p. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
11 FAULKNER, WILLIAM The Town. New York: Random House, 1957.

8vo, publisher’s tan buckram with facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper cover, title in gilt to spine, red top stain, glassine jacket. First edition, first printing, limited to 450 copies signed on limitation page. Small chip to glassine with inventory sticker to back panel; otherwise very fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $800-1,200
14* (GASPEY, THOMAS) The Lollards: a tale, founded on the persecutions which marked the early part of the fifteenth-century. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.
3 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, half-titles. First edition. Rare, with no records of sale at auction. A few light brown spots; else fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $600-800
15* GORCEY, LEO B. An Original Dead End Kid Presents Dead End Yells. New York: Vantage Press, 1967.
8vo, publisher’s red cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Gorcey on the f.f.e.p. Minor rubbing to jacket; otherwise interior is tight and clean. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200

16* HEINLEIN, ROBERT A group of seven first editions, all but one with original illustrated dust jackets. New York: Charles Scribner, various dates.
Rocket Ship Galileo, (1947). No dust jacket. Farmer in the Sky, (1950). Between the Planets, (1951). Tunnel in the Sky, (1955). Time for the Stars, (1956). The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, (1959). The Menace from Earth, (1959). Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
17* HEINLEIN, ROBERT Podkayne of Mars. New York: Putnam, 1963.
8vo, publisher’s black cloth lettered in green, pictorial dust jacket designed by Irv Doktor. First edition of Heinlein’s uncommon last juvenile novel. Second issue, with $3.50 price and 0263 code on the front flap. A few small tears and creasing to jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $500-700
18* HELLER, JOSEPH Catch-22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in white, pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Inscribed, “For Florence, with good wishes. Joseph Heller,” to f.f.e.p. in red pen. Small chip at head of spine of dust jacket with light toning. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $3,000-5,000 19* HELLER, JOSEPH Catch-22. Tel Aviv, Israel: Bitan, 1971

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in white, pictorial dust jacket. First edition in Hebrew, printed the same year as the first edition. Signed by Heller to the f.f.e.p. Newspaper clippings laid in. A few creases to dust jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $600-800
20* HELLER, JOSEPH A group of three works signed or inscribed by Heller
Catch-22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961 (but later). 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, later dust jacket. Book Club edition. Inscribed by Heller to Florence on f.f.e.p. Clevinger’s Trial (from Catch-22). A Play in One Act. Based on Chapter 8 from his novel Catch-22. New York: Samuel French, (1973). 12mo, publisher’s cream-colored printed wraps. We Bombed in New Haven. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. 8vo, publisher’s maroon cloth lettered in silver-gilt, dust jacket. Inscribed by Heller to Florence on f.f.e.p. First edition, first printing. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
21* HELLER, JOSEPH Catch-22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in white, pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed on the f.f.e.p. Corner of first three pages; 1/2-inch tear to head of spine; jacket toned. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $1,000-2,000


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22* HELLER, JOSEPH A group of three editions of Catch-22 each inscribed by the author, including the first Delacorte edition; a Taiwanese edition, 1961; and the first Modern Library edition. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
23* JOYCE, JAMES Ulysse. Paris: La Maison des Amis des Livres, 1930.
8vo, contents rebound in recent blue cloth lettered in gilt and stamped in blind, original covers bound in. Nouvelle edition. Title page, half-title and cover torn; a few others torn; even toning. [Together with:] Chamber Music. Boston: Cornhill, 1918. Thin 12mo, green cloth lettered in gilt. Unauthorized edition of Joyce’s first book. Fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 24* (KENT, ROCKWELL) Later Bookplates & Marks of Rockwell Kent. New York: Pynson Printers, 1937.
12mo, gilt-stamped melon cloth-backed boards, matching dust jacket, lime green endpapers, largely uncut, partially unopened. Limited edition, one of 1,250 copies signed by Rockwell Kent to the limitation page. Supplement laid in. [Together with:] The Jewel: A Romance of Fairyland. By Sally Kent Gordon. (Portland): (The Baxter Society), (1990). 2 vols. 8vo, cloth spine over grey boards lettered in gilt, matching slipcase. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
24A KOSINSKI, JERZY The Painted Bird. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1965.
8vo, publisher’s brown cloth lettered in blind, dust jacket, unclipped. First edition, first printing. Some tape residue to endpapers; otherwise fine. $100-200
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28 25* (MINIATURE BOOKS) QUR’AN A miniature qur’an. 1-1/2 x 1 inch, gilt-decorated red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, a.e.g. Fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $1,000-2,000

26* (MINIATURE BOOKS) A group of four miniature books in French and Spanish.
Souvenir. S.l.: s.n., n.d. Brown calf lettered in gilt, clasp closure, with fold-out color photographs. Petit mois de Saint-Joseph. Limoges: Dalpayrat et Depelley, n.d. Brown morocco, title in gilt to spine, silk endpapers, a.e.g. La vida y la obra de Altamirano. Mexico: Libreria Anticuaria, 1964. Red morocco decorated in gilt. Jornada Principal de las Californias. Mexico: Libreria Anticuaria, 1963. Red morocco decorated in gilt, title in gilt to black leather spine label. Size of largest 3 x 2 inches. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
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27* (MINIATURE BOOKS) BLACK CAT PRESS A group of 25 books published by the Black Cat Press, Evanston, Illinois, housed in a wooden box. Most leather bound, gilt-lettered, some slipcased. Fine. Size of largest 3 x 2 inches. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $600-800
28* (MINIATURE BOOKS) SCHORI, WARD A group of 12 miniature books pertaining to Presidents, including Kennedy and Lincoln, and US politics, mainly printed by Ward Schori, Skokie, Illinois, most leather bound.
“The Death of Your Kind and Brave Father.” President Lincoln Writes to Miss Fanny McCullough. Introduction by Ralph Geoffrey Newman. Valparaiso, IN: Sandlin’s, (1994). Washington’s Farewell Address; Extracts from the Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge; and Lincoln’s Farewell Address. Kingsport, TX: Kingsport Press, 1992. Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy. LA: Bela Blau, (1965). Inaugural Address of Lyndon B. Johnson. Amsterdam: Proost en Brandt, n.d. Lincoln: It’s Easy to Like Him Now! Evanston, IL: Ward Schori, (1975). Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer, President, Youth. Evanston, IL: Ward Schori, 1992. 3 vols. Abraham Lincoln’s Last Full Measure of Devotion. Chicago: Monastery Hill, 1981. 2 copies. Size of largest 3 x 2 inches. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
29* (MINIATURE BOOKS) SCHORI, WARD A group of 17 miniature books published by Ward Schori. Mainly leather bound, most gilt-decorated. Fine. Size of largest 2 3/4 x 2 inches. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $400-600 30* (MINIATURE BOOKS) WALDMANN & PFITZNER Lord’s Prayer. [Munich: Waldmann & Pfitzner, 1952.]
5 x 5 mm. Original black morocco, with cross stamped in gilt to upper board, preserved in original perspex box with sliding lid. With the Lord’s Prayer in English, Dutch, Spanish, German, French and Swedish. Fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois Literature: Bondy, p. 155; Spielmann 355 $200-400
31* (MINIATURE BOOKS) A group of 33 miniature books by various printers, 20th century. [Together with:] Catalogue of the Library of Miniature Books. By Percy Edwin Spielmann. London: Edward Arnold, (1961). 8vo, quarter red calf, title in gilt to spine, dust jacket. Limited edition, number 428 of 500 copies. Wear to jacket with tape repair to right flap; otherwise good. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
32* (MINIATURE BOOKS) A group of eight miniature books.
Je ne vis que par la. Roma: Tipografia Ferraiola, n.d. The Ten Commandments. LA: Bela Blau, (1965). Climb the Mountains. Pasadena: Bela Blau, (1966). Chicken Little. S.l.: A. & D. Bromer, 1979. ...Mais j’aime, j’aime, j’aime. Rome: Tipografia Ferraiola, n.d. Book Catalog. S.l.: Mosaic Press, 1983. 3 copies. Size of largest 1 1/2 x 1 inches. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
33* (MYSTERY) A group of 10 signed works.
One False Move. By Harlan Coben. New York: Delacorte, (1998). Double Whammy. By Carl Hiaasen. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, (1987). Body of Evidence. By Patricia Cornwell. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, (1991). The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1994). Tourist Season. By Carl Hiaasen. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, (1986). The Odessa File. By Frederick Forsyth. New York: Viking, (1972). Virgin. By James Patterson. New York: McGraw Hill, (1980). Dr. Joe Bell. By Ely Liebow. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, (1982). Escape the Night. By Richard North Patterson. New York: Random House, (1983). The Jericho Commandment. By James Patterson. New York: Crown, (1979). Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
34* (MYSTERY) RENDELL, RUTH To Fear a Painted Devil. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.
8vo, publisher’s black cloth, dust jacket, unclipped. Signed on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 35* O’HARA, JOHN Appointment in Samarra. New York: Harcourt, (1934).
8vo, publisher’s black cloth, title in gilt to spine, dust jacket, clipped. First edition, first printing, with errata slip and “Recent Fiction” on rear panel of dust jacket. Signed on the f.f.e.p. Spine ends and corners bumped; gilt to spine faded; hinges tender; creasing to jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $2,000-4,000
36* OVID Operum. Leiden: Anssonius, 1689.
4 vols. 4to, full calf, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines, half-title to volume one. Light dampstaining to some pages; 1-inch foot of spine lacking vol. 4, 1/2-inch to the head on vol. 3, and rubbing to boards on all vols.; Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 37* (POETRY) A group of eight signed works.
Sassafrass. By Ntozake Shange. Berkeley, CA: Shameless Hussy Press, (1977). Signed on f.f.e.p. Brotherhood of Men. By Richard Eberhart. S.l.: Banyan, (1949). 110/200 copies. Signed on the limitation page. This Earth is a Drum. By Joseph Bruchac. Austin, TX: Cold Mountain, (1976). 81/200 copies. Signed on the limitation page. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide. By Ntozake Shange. New York: Macmillan, (1977). Signed on f.f.e.p. Bashful Ballads. By Burges Johnson. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911. Signed on the f.f.e.p. Collected Poems, 1930-1960. By Richard Eberhart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960. Inscribed on the f.f.e.p. Voltaire. Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster. By Francois Marie Arouet. S.l.: Penmaen Press, 1977. 158/200 copies. Signed on the limitation page. A Poem for Those Who’ve Reached 40. By Diane Wakoski. Huntington, NY: A Poem A Month Club, 1977. Signed. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
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38* (POETRY) WESTCOTT, GLENWAY The Bitterns, a Book of Twelve Poems. Evanston: Monroe Wheeler, (1920).
12mo, original decorated wrappers, cloth folding case. First edition of the author’s first book. Fine in fine case. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
39* (POETRY) A group of six titles.
The Morning Road. By Thomas Wood Stevens and Alden Charles Noble. Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, 1902. Number 122 of 200 copies. Fumes of Formation. By Amanda M. Ross. Belfast: R. Carswell, 1933. Revolution. A Poem. By Ebon Dooley. Chicago: Third World Press, (1968). The Poetical Works of John Keats. Boston: Little, Brown, 1859. The Circus and Other Essays. By Joyce Kilmer. New York: Laurence J. Gome, 1916. [Housed in slipcase with:] Trees and Other Poems. By Joyce Kilmer. New York: George H. Doran, (1914). Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 40* (POGANY, WILLY) FITZGERALD, EDWARD The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: George C. Harrap, (1930).
4to, original turquoise morocco with gilt floral device incorporating red morocco onlay on upper cover, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut. Limited, one of 700 copies signed by Pogany with an additional etched frontispiece signed in pencil, 12 tippedin color plates by Willy Pogany, decorations and mounted illustrations. Spine faded; corners rubbed. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $500-700 41* STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS A group of two first English editions.
The Master of the Ballantrae. A Winter’s Tale. London: Cassell, 1889. 8vo, publisher’s red cloth decorated in black, gilt-lettered spine. St. Ives. London: Heinemann, 1898. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
41A (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) BROWNING, ROBERT The Pied Pipe of Hamelin. London: George G. Harrap, 1934.
8vo, original limp vellum gilt. Limited edition, one of 410 copies signed by the artist, color frontispiece and three plates. Rippling to pages; light soiling to boards. $600-800


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42* (LITERATURE) A group of 13 signed works.
Of a Fire on the Moon. By Norman Mailer. Boston: Little, Brown, (1970). Tested on Orphans. By David Mamet. S.l.: Trillium, (2006). The Works of Love. By Wright Morris. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1952. A Cool Million. By Nathanael West. New York: Covici, Friede, (1934). Familiar Territory. By Joseph Epstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Place Called Estherville. By Erskine Caldwell. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1949). A Touch of Danger. By James Jones. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. Blackberry Winter. By Margaret Mead. New York: William Morrow, 1972. The Name Above the Title. By Frank Capra. New York: Macmillan, (1971). And Green Grass Grows All Around. By Marguerite Lyon. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, (1942). The Long March. New York: Random House, (1952). Franky Furbo. By William Wharton. New York: Henry Holt, (1989). Shadrach. By William Styron. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1979. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 43* (AMERICANA, CIVIL WAR) HEADLEY, J.T. The Great Rebellion. A History of the Civil War in the United States. Hartford, CT: Hurlbut, Williams, 1863.
2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth with gilt-stamped vignette to upper cover vol. 1, engraved portraits of Johnson and Lincoln to both vols., additional engraved title page to vol. 1, and 24 engraved plates with tissue guards. Some offsetting from plates; light wear to boards with minor loss to spine ends. [Together with:] Reminiscences of Big I. By William Nathaniel Wood. Ed. by Bell Irvin Wiley. Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer, 1956. 8vo, publisher’s tan cloth, dust jacket. Limited edition, autographed by the editor for the Civil War Book Club. Some loss to dust jacket with minor soiling. A Captain’s War: The Letters and Diaries of William H.S. Burgwyn 1861-1865. Edited by Herbert M. Schiller. (Shippensburg, PA): White Mane, 1994. 8vo, publisher’s red leatherette, dust jacket. (4 total) Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
44* (AMERICANA, CIVIL WAR) SANDBURG, CARL Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years. New York: Harcourt Brace, (1954).
8vo, publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt, dust jacket. One volume edition. Inscribed by Sandburg on the half-title. A few small chips and light toning to dust jacket. [Together with:] The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy Basler. Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1953). 9 vols. 8vo, publisher’s grey cloth. (10 total) Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 45* (AMERICANA) DE ABBEVILLE, JEAN IGNACE Etat present de la Pensilvanie. [Paris:] s.n., 1756.
Small 8vo, full mottled calf, marbled endpapers. First edition of this rare contemporary source on the history of Pennsylvania during the French and Indian war. With fold-out map. Edge of map curled; some light loss to spine ends; otherwise very good. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $800-1,200
46* (AMERICANA, GENEALOGY) HOWE, DANIEL WAIT Howe Genealogies. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1929.
2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s green cloth. [Together with:] Letters To, From and Concerning Stephen Tompkins and His Wife. By Julia Pamela. S.l.: s.n., 1922. 4to, brown cloth. With six pastedown photographs of the Tompkins home. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
47* (AMERICANA, ILLINOIS) DISTURNELL, J. The Traveller’s Guide through the State of Illinois. New York: J. Disturnell, 1838.
16mo, brown cloth lettered in gilt. 16pp. text, fold-out map of Illinois. A few splits at the fold; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; some light wear to boards. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400

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48* (AMERICANA, ILLINOIS) A group of six works pertaining to Illinois history.
Past and Present of Marshall and Putnam Counties Illinois. By John Spencer Burt and W.E. Hawthorne. Chicago: Pioneer Publishing, 1907. History of Deerfield Illinois. By Marie Ward Reichelt. Chicago: Glenview Press, 1928. Mount Morris: Past and Present. By the Kable Brothers. Mount Morris, IL: Kable Brothers, 1900. Plan of Evanston. By The Evanston Small Parks and Playgrounds Association. Evanston, IL: Bowman, (1917). Decisive Dates in Illinois History. By Lottie E. Jones. Danville, IL: Illinois Printing Company, 1909. View from the Tower. A History of Fort Sheridan, Illinois. By Martha E. Sorenson. Fort Sheridan, IL: s.n., 1978. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
49* (AMERICANA, INDUSTRY) A group of eight volumes pertaining to American industry.
American Playgrounds: Their Construction, Equipment, Maintenance and Utility. Edited by Everett B. Mero. New York: Baker and Taylor, (1909). Third edition. Dates in American Telephone Technology. Compiled by C.D. Hanscom. S.l.: s.n., 1961. First Annual Report of the Factory Inspectors of Illinois for the Year Ending December 15, 1893. Springfield, IL: H.W. Rokker, 1894. The History of the Standard Oil Company. By Ida B. Tarbell. New York: Macmillan, 1925. 2 vols. Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932. First edition. 50 Years of Inland Steel, 1893-1943. S.l.: Inland Steel Company, 1943. A Camera Looks at the Past. Photo album compiled by David W. Harris, n.d. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 50* (AMERICANA, MIDWEST) FISHER, RICHARD S. Indiana: In Relation to Its Geography, Statistics, Institutions, County Topography, etc. New York: J.H. Colton, 1853.
16mo, original blind-stamped boards, gilt-lettered. Text only, lacking maps; some rubbing to cloth. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
51* (AMERICANA, MIDWEST) A group of three works.
Indiana: Editorial Excursions. By C.W. Ainsworth. Indianapolis: Printing and Publishing House, 1875. 8vo, gilt-lettered green cloth. The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne Indiana. By B.J. Griswold. Chicago: Robert O. Law, 1917. Thick 4to, gilt-lettered red cloth. Yesterday, Today & Forever. A Pictorial History of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. By Pamela Vandermark Vollbracht. Hurst, TX: Curtist Media, 1994. Signed. 4to, black cloth, pictorial pastedown to upper board. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
52* (AMERICANA, MILITARY) A group of five works.
Fighting the Flying Circus. By Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1919). D-Day with the Screaming Eagles. By George E. Koskimaki. New York: Vantage Press, (1970). Viet Journal. By James Jones. New York: Delacourte, (1974). History of United States Naval Operations: Korea. By James A. Field. Washington: s.n., 1962. Yank: The Army Weekly, Aug. 17, 1945, Vol. 4, No. 9. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 53* (AMERICANA, NATIVE AMERICAN) A group of five titles in six volumes.
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. By Henry R. Schoolcraft. Philadelphia: J. Lippincott, 1856. 8vo, blind-stamped brown cloth, title in gilt to spine. London: Trubner, 1856. 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth. First edition. Information Respecting the History and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. By Henry Schoolcraft. Part V. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1855). 4to, publisher’s red cloth. Ex-library copy. The Seminoles of Florida. By Minnie Moore Wilson. Philadelphia: American Printing House, 1896. Thin 8vo, publisher’s grey cloth. First edition. Twasinta’s Seminoles; or, Rape of Florida. By Albert A. Whitman. St. Louis: Nixon-Jones, 1885. Thin 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth. Revised edition. Sweet Medicine. By Peter J. Powell. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. 2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth, slipcase. First edition. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $150-250
54* (AMERICANA, NATIVE AMERICAN) FILLEY, WILLIAM The Life and Adventures of William Filley. Chicago: Filley & Ballard, 1867.
Thin 8vo, quarter maroon leatherette over plain boards. Second edition, published the same year as the first, with eight wood-engraved plates. Clipped newspaper article regarding the kidnapping pasted down to f.f.e.p. First and last few leaves chipped and f.f.e.p. detached; dampstain and light rubbing to boards; intermittent soiling to leaves. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
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61 55* (AMERICANA, US NAVY) Original 16mm film reel, 1956, “History of the U.S. Navy, 1814-1860.” Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200

56* (AMERICANA, NORTHEAST) A group of six works.
King’s Handbook of New York City. Boston: Moses King, 1893. Historical Collections of New Jersey. By John Barber. Newark: Justus H. Bradley, (1844). The History of Braintree, Vermont. By H. Royce Bass. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1883. Brooklyn, Flatbush, Bushwick, Flatlands, New Utrecht, and Gravesend. New York: The Brooklyn Eagle, n.d. Annals of the Town of Keene. By Salma Hale. Keene: J.W. Prentiss, 1851. Kegley’s Virginia Frontier. By F.B. Kegley. Virginia: Southwest Virginia Historical Society, 1938. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
57* (AMERICANA, NORTHEAST) EATON, WALTER PRICHARD New York, a Series of Wood Engravings. New York: Grolier Club, 1915.
4to, original cloth-backed blue boards, gilt-lettered spine label, uncut, slipcase. Limited to 250 copies, with 10 full-page color woodblocks. Some light brownspotting to endpapers; wear to slipcase. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $600-800
58* (AMERICANA, NORTHEAST) HALE, EDWARD EVERETT Vacation School in Boston. S.l., s.n., n.d. [c. 1885]
8vo, 3/4 morocco over cloth. 21 pp., original manuscript journal of Edward Everett Hale, with printed title page stating “Original Manuscript Journal.” First 2 and last 4 pp. in the hand of Hale. Others in an unknown hand. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200

59* (AMERICANA) NUTTALL, THOMAS [Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory, during the Year 1819.] [Philadelphia:] [Thos. H. Palmer,] [1821]
8vo, contents bound into archival folder, first 8pp. supplied in facsimile. First edition, with five plates (all trimmed). Lacking map. Spotting throughout; lacking blanks and all pages preceding xi; large tear to p. 39. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
60* (AMERICANA, PRESIDENTIAL) A group of four titles in eight volumes pertaining to American presidents, including one signed.
1999. By Richard Nixon. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1988). 8vo, quarter cloth, dust jacket. Signed by Nixon on the half-title. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Edited by Ray Stannard Baker. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1925). 3 vols. 8vo, full red cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. George Washington. By Douglas Freeman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951. 4 vols. 8vo, blue blind-stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
61* (AMERICANA, RAILROAD) ASHCROFT, GEORGE Ashcroft’s Railway Directory for 1862. New York: By the Author, (1862).
8vo, publisher’s brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Contents detached from backstrip; wear to fore edge of last few pages. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
62* (AMERICANA, RAILROAD) BEEBE, LUCIUS AND CHARLES CLEGG A group of four works by Beebe and Clegg, all signed.
Rio Grande. Mainline of the Rockies. Berkeley: Howell-North, 1962. The Age of Steam. A Classic Album of American Railroading. New York: Rinehart, n.d. Great Railroad Photographs U.S.A. Berkeley: HowellNorth, 1964. Mansions on Rails. Berkeley: Howell-North, 1959. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
63* (AMERICANA, RAILROAD) A group of 12 books.
Railway Guide for the New England States. Boston: Geo. K. Snow, 1855. The Road-Master’s Assistant and Section-Master’s Guide. By William S. Huntington. New York: A.N. Kellogg, 1972. The Portsmouth Guide Book. Portsmouth, N.H.: Joseph H. Foster, 1884. Appleton’s Railroad and Steamboat Companion. By W. Williams. New York: D. Appleton, 1849. First Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States... Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. Report of the Fortieth Annual Convention of the American Railway Master Mechanics’ Association. Chicago: Henry O. Shepard, 1907. The Motorman Conductor and Motorcoach Operator. Brooklyn, NY: The amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, 1929. With five others. (12 total) Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 64* (AFRICAN AMERICANA) WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. Up From Slavery. An Autobiography. New York: A.L. Burt, (1901).

8vo, publisher’s red cloth stamped in blind. First edition. Inscribed on the dedication page. Fading and light dampstain to boards; inner hinge cracked; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $800-1,200
65* (AMERICANA) A group of five titles in 10 volumes pertaining to the history of the United States.
An Address of Members of the House of Representatives, of the Congress of the United States, to Their Constituents, on the Subject of the War with Great Britain. Philadelphia: Printed at the Office of the United States’ Gazette, n.d. 8vo, printed paper wraps. Das MississippiThal. By Theodor Olshausen. Kiel: Akademische Buchhandlung, 1854. 8vo, housed in archival folder, lacking boards. The Triumphant Progress of a Great Nation. By Henry Davenport Northrop. Chicago: Chicago Publication and Lithograph Co., [1890]. 4to, brown morocco lettered in gilt, green spine label. Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775-1783. Edited by Lloyd A. Brown. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1939. 8vo, cloth, pastedown label to spine, slipcase. Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton, 1888. 6 vols. 4to, blind-stamped red cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
66* (ANGLING) KREH, LEFTY The complete set of 25 volumes of Lefty Kreh’s Little Library of Fishing. Birmingham: Odysseus, n.d. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, pictorial pastedown labels to upper boards. Fine.
[Together with:] The Fish Decoy. By Art, Brad and Scott Kimball. Bouler Junction, WI: Aardvark, (1987). Vol. II only. 4to, publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth. A Popular Treatise upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America. By G. Goode. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, (1887). 4to, publisher’s brown cloth stamped in black. Ends bumped; otherwise good. (27 total) Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
67* (ARCHITECTURE, ADLER, DAVID) PRATT, RICHARD David Adler: The Architect and His Work. New York: M. Evans, 1970.
4to, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in silver gilt, dust jacket. First and only edition. Minor chipping to jacket; bookplate tipped in front pastedown. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
68* (ARCHITECTURE) BICKNELL, AMOS Detail, Cottage and Constructive Architecture. New York: By the Author, 1873.
Folio, maroon cloth stamped in black. First edition, with 75 lithograph plates and six pages of ads at rear. First three pp., including frontispiece, detached; wear to boards; hinges cracked at center; large tear to f.f.e.p. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
69* (ARCHITECTURE) LINDEBERG, H. T. Domestic Architecture. New York: William Helburn, 1940.
Large folio, quarter buckram over red cloth lettered in gilt. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Fading to spine and text block shifted; bookplate tipped in front pastedown. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 70* (ARCHITECTURE) STEGMAN, CARL MARTIN VON Architecture in Tuscany. New York: Architectural Book Publishing, n.d. [c. 1920]
2 vols. Folio, publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and illustrations. From the library of architect Joseph W. McCarthy, with his ex-libris stamp to endpapers, titles, preliminary text pages and five plates. Wear to boards with hinges tender; some intermittent brownspotting. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
71* (ARCHITECTURE) WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD A group of three works.
Drawings for Living Architecture. New York: Horizon, 1959. Oblong 4to, publisher’s orange cloth stamped in blind, dust jacket with tears. The Architectural Forum. New York: Times, 1948. 4to, original illustrated wraps with light soiling and some rubbing to edges. [Imperial Hotel, Tokyo]. Tokyo: s.n., 1970. Folio, red cloth lettered in gilt. Text in English and Japanese. Including a separate pamphlet of blueprints. Fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200

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72* (ARCHITECTURE) WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD The House Beautiful. Park Forest, IL: The Prairie School Press (and Wilbert Hasbrouck), 1963.
Oblong folio, original gilt-stamped green and brown cloth. Facsimile of Wright’s 1896 Auvergne Press edition of which only 90 copies were printed. One of 1,000 copies printed, with 14-page booklet sewn into f.f.e.p. Light edgewear; else fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
73* (ARCHITECTURE) WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD Wendingen: The Life-Work of the American Architect. Santpoort, Holland: C.A. Mees, 1925.
Oblong 4to, original cloth-backed boards lettered in black, pages uncut. First edition in book form, with photographic illustrations of Wright’s work. Very minor soiling to boards; otherwise near fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500 74* (ARCHITECTURE) A group of five titles in eight volumes pertaining to architecture.
The Architecture of Ricardo Legorreta. Edited by Wayne Attoe. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, (1990). Punta del Este. Arquitectura y Paisaje. By Alejandrina Morelli. Buenos Aires: Manrique Zago Ediciones, 1996. Grinling Gibbons and the Wood-Work of His Age, (1648-1720). By H. Avray Tipping. London: Country Life, 1914. L’Axe majeur de Cergy-Pontoise. Cergy-Pontoise: Etablissement Public d’Amenagement de Cergy-Pontoise, 1992. Forms and Functions of TwentiethCentury Architecture. Edited by Talbot Hamlin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. 4 vols. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
75* AFFICHES DE LA COMMUNE DE PARIS 1797-1794. Edited by Albert Soboul. Paris: Editions d’Histoire Sociale, (1975)
Large folio, full crimson morocco lettered in gilt. An extensive facsimile of 234 numbers of this important French journal, printed on papier Verge. Number 88 of 150 copies. Fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200

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76* (ART HISTORY) Two sets of works bound in leather.
Histoire de l’art. By Elie Faure. Paris: Les Editions G. Cres, 1921. 4 vols., comprising Antique, Medieval, Renaissance and Modern. 8vo, quarter black morocco over marbled boards. A History of Painting. By Haldane Macfall. London: T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1911. 8 vols. 4to, 3/4 mottled calf over cloth, marbled endpapers. The Romanesque Edition, limited to 500 numbered sets. Chipping to some spines and hinges tender. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
77* (ART HISTORY) A group of eight works pertaining to art history, including four pertaining to ethnographic art.
The Modern Woodcut. By Herbert Furst. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924. Das Bauhaus. By Hans M. Wingler. Koln: DuMont, 1968. Collage. By Herta Wescher. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1964). L’Art Nouveau en Catalogne. By Francois Loyer. Geneva: Atelier d’edition, 1991.The Fuller Collection of Pacific Artefacts. By Roland W. Force and Maryanne Force. New York and Washington: Praeger, 1971. The Arts of the South Pacific. By Jean Guiart. New York: Golden Press, 1963. Paracas Fabrics and Nazca Needlework. By Junius Bird. Washington: National Publishing, 1954. American Ceramics: 1876 to the Present. By Garth Clark. New York: Abbeville, 1987. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
78* (ART, DE KOONING) ROSENBERG, HAROLD De Kooning. New York: Harry Abrams, n.d. [1974]
Oblong folio, publisher’s dark green cloth over light green boards, dust jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
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79* (ART, DESIGN) PESCHERET, LEON The Principles and Practice of Interior Decorating. Chicago: By the Author, 1925.
Folio, publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the title page. Hinges cracked; boards lightly rubbed and spine faded. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
80* (ART, DESIGN) SPELTZ, ALEXANDER The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles. Leipzig: K.F. Koelers, (1914-1915).
3 vols., comprising the Middle Ages, Modern Times and Antiquity. Folio, original linen over illustrated boards. Numerous color plates tipped to thick paper, text booklets, loose as issued. Wear to boards with soiling and some loss; previous owner’s ex-libris stamp to inside of boards. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
81* (ART) L’ART D’AUJOURD’HUI A group of six issues, comprising serie 4, 1953: no. 1, lithograph in color by Jacques Villon; no. 2, gouache after Ben Nicholson; no.3, Cubisme, with original glassine, lithograph in color by Juan Gris; no. 6, lithograph in color by E.W. Nay; no. 7, lithograph in color by Francisca Clausen [And:] Serie 5, 1954: no. 6, lithograph in black and white by Hans Hartung. 6 vols. Folio, publisher’s illustrated wraps. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
82* (ART, PHOTOGRAPHY) AVEDON, RICHARD A group of two works.
Avedon Photographs: 1947-1977. New York: Farrar, Strauss, 1978. Folio, publisher’s photo-pictorial boards, original acetate jacket with facsimile signature. In the American West. New York: Abrams, 1985. Folio, publisher’s soft cover photopictorial wraps, original acetate jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
83* (ART, PHOTOGRAPHY) HOCKNEY, DAVID Cameraworks. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
Oblong folio, publisher’s light grey cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Hockney on the title page. Fine in fine jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
84* (ART, PHOTOGRAPHY) LYON, DANNY Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1971).
Oblong 8vo, publisher’s white and grey cloth, dust jacket, unclipped. First edition. Previous owner’s presentation inscription to f.f.e.p.; light soiling to jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 85* (ART, PHOTOGRAPHY) WEBER, BRUCE Bruce Weber. Los Angeles: Twelvetrees Press, 1983.
Folio, publisher’s black cloth, dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with full-page black and white photographs. First edition, limited to 5,000 copies. Fine in fine dust jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
86* (ART, PHOTOGRAPHY) A group of six books.
Camera Shots at Big Game. By Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wallihan. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1904. What Happens at the Circus. By Art Shay. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1972). Signed. Bystander: A History of Street Photography. By Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz. Boston: Little, Brown, n.d. Inscribed. American Places. By Eliot Porter. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1981). L’Amour fou. By Rosalind Krauss. New York: Abbeville Press, (1985). 13 Photo-Essays. By Erwin Fieger. New York: Universe Books, (1969). Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
87* (ART) PICASSO, PABLO Les Metamorphoses d’Ovide. [Geneva:] [Edito-Service], [1973].
4to, loose as issued in calf-backed cloth chemise and board slipcase. Facsimile of the original 1931 Skira edition. Light wear to calf; near fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200

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88* (ART) THIELE, VLADIMIR Josef Capek a kniha soupis knizni grafiky. Prague: Nakl. Ceskoslovenskych Vytvarnych Umelcu, 1958.
8vo, publisher’s cream cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. With over 127 full page color lithographic plates. Fine in fine dust jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
89* (ART) TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, HENRI DE The Circus. New York: Paris Book Center, (1952).
Folio, original color pictorial wrappers over flexible boards, glassine. One of 2,500 copies. Illustrated with 39 color lithograph plates. Contents detached from backstrip; glassine toned and lightly chipped at spine; contents fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
90* (ART) ZERVOS, CHRISTIAN, ed. Cahiers d’Art. Paris: Editions Cahiers d’Art, 1933, 1950, 1952 and 1958.
6 vols. 4to, publisher’s printed wraps. Comprising Annee 8 (1933), nos. 3-4; Annee 25 (1950), no. 2; Annee 27, (1952), no. 1, two copies; Annee 28 (1958), nos. 1 and 2. Light wear to wraps; contents in good condition. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 91* (ART) A group of nine artist’s monographs.
Leonardo Nierman. Mexico: Artes de Mexico, 1967. Inscribed by Nierman. Dix. Stuttgart: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1991. The Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz. By Otto Nagel. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. Frankenthaler. By Barbara Rose. New York: Harry N. Abrams, n.d. Drawings and Digressions. By Larry Rivers. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1979. Giacomo Manzu. By John Rewald. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphics Society, 1966. Rufino Tamayo. By Octavio Paz and Jacques Lassigne. New York: Rizzoli, 1982. Henri Matisse, a novel. Aragon. Translated by Jean Steward. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. 2 vols. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
92* (ART) A group of five oversized artist’s monographs.
Tamayo. Mexico: Galeria de Arte Misrachi, 1967. Un Acercamiento a Polesello. By Ricardo Pau-Llosa. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1984. Larry Rivers: Drawings 1949-1969. Chicago: The Art Institute, n.d. Noa Noa. By Paul Gauguin. Tahiti: Edition de l’Association des Amis du Musee Gauguin; New York: Gauguin and Oceania Foundation, 1987. Ivan Albright. By Michael Croydon. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Signed by Albright. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200


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93* (ASIAN) MEINERTZHAGEN, FREDERICK MCI, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum. Edited by George Lazarnick. New York: Alan Liss, 1986.
2 vols. 4to, publisher’s blue cloth, dust jacket, unopened in original plastic wrapping. First edition. Fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
94* (ASIAN) KHANDALAVALA, KARL Pahari Miniature Painting. Bombay: The New Book Company, 1958.
Large folio, publisher’s illustrated boards rebacked with grey leatherette, inner hinge strengthened, dust jacket. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Illustrated with numerous tippedin color plates. Minor soiling to boards; a few tears to dust jacket. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $400-600
95* (ASIAN) A group of six titles pertaining to Asian art and history.

Science and Education in China. By George Ranson Twiss. Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1925. Courage and Change. The Life of Kiichiro Toyoda. By Kazuo Wada. S.l.: Toyota Motor Corporation, 2002. The Vanguard. A Tale of Korea. New York: Laymen’s Missionary Movement, (1904). Winning Buddha’s Smile. A Korean Legend. By Charles M. Taylor. Boston: Richard G. Badger, (1919). The Hand is My Sword. By Robert A. Trias. S.l.: Sandmar, (1959). Visions of Japan. S.l.: Ades Publishing, n.d. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
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96* (BINDINGS) BROWNING, ROBERT The Poetical Works. London: Smith, Elder, 1888.
16 vols. 12mo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Rubbing to boards; hinges tender on some vols.; bookplates tipped in front pastedowns. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
97* (BINDINGS, EASTON PRESS) A group of seven titles, five of which are signed first editions. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, various dates. 8vo and 4to, full multi-colored morocco decorated in gilt, two in original plastic wrap.
A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. By Stanley Kramer, 1997, Signed first edition. The New War. By Senator John Kerry, 1997, Signed first edition. Broken Covenant. By Moshe Arens, 1995, Signed first edition. Bech at Bay. By John Updike, in original wrap date obscured, Signed first edition. All Too Human. By George Stephanopoulos, in original wrap date obscured, Signed first edition. Treasury of the Library of Congress: Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, n.d. Treasures of the Library of Congress: Uniform and Dress of the Army of the Confederate States, n.d. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
98* (BINDINGS) EVELYN, JOHN The Memoirs. London: Henry Colburn, 1827.
5 vols. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. New edition. Very light rubbing to boards; otherwise a fine set. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 103* (BINDINGS) A group of 27 volumes bound in varying shades of dark red.

Oeuvres de C. Marot de Cahors. Paris: Delarue, n.d. [c. 1890] 4 vols. 12mo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards. The Satyricon of Petronius. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1902. 8vo, full red morocco, marbled endpapers. Limited to 500 copies. Ringan Gilhaize. Edinburgh: G & W.B. Whittaker, 1823. 3 vols. 12mo, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. The Letters of Anna Seward. Edinburgh: George Ramsay, 1811. 6 vols. 8vo, full straight-grain red morocco, a.e.g. The Life of Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, 1872. 3 vols. Large 8vo, full red morocco, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. The Life of Sir Walter Scott. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1869. 10 vols. 12mo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
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99* (BINDINGS) GIBBON, EDWARD History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Dublin: Printed for Luke White, 1789.
6 vols. 8vo, full mottled calf, gilt lettered red leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. With engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1 and three fold-out maps. Some loss to spine ends and labels; otherwise interior, including maps, in fine condition. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
100* (BINDINGS) ROSCO, THOMAS The History of Painting in Italy. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1828.
6 vols. 4to, half morocco over marbled boards, titles in gilt to spines. First edition. Rubbing to boards; corners bumped; bookplates tipped in front pastedowns; otherwise good. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
101* (BINDINGS) A group of three sets 10 volumes.
Venetian Life. By William Dean Howells. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, (1885). 2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, titles in gilt to spines, t.e.g. The Lives of the Sheridans. By Percy Fitzgerald. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. 2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, t.e.g. The Poetical Works of John Milton. London: Printed for J. Johnson, et. al., 1801. 6 vols. 8vo, quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
102* (BINDINGS) A group of 17 volumes.
The Works of Ben Johnson. Edited by W. Gifford. London: W. Bulmer, 1816. 9 vols. 8vo, full stamped calf, marbled edges and endpapers. Life of Mrs. Siddons. By Thomas Campbell. London: Effingham Wilson, 1834. 2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers. The Works of Joseph Addison. Edited by George Washington Greene. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1876. 6 vols. 8vo, full calf, gilt-lettered black leather spine label, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 (BINDINGS) A group of 23 volumes.
The Works of Douglas Jerrold. London: Bradbury, Evans, 1863. 4 vols. 8vo, full calf, marbled edges and endpapers. [Lives of the British Poets.]. Boston, Little, Brown, n.d. [c. 1860] 11 vols. 12mo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers. With eight others. (23 total) Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
104A (BINDINGS) A group of four sets in nine volumes.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1854. Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper. By Susan Fenimore Cooper. New York: W.A. Townsend, 1861. Letters of an Architect, from France, Italy, and Greece. By James Woods. London: Printed for John and Arthur Arch, 1828. Vol. 2 only. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times. By M. Guizot. Boston: Dana Estes and Charles Lauriat, n.d. 6 vols. $100-200
105* (BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS) Two sets of works in seven volumes pertaining to books and book collecting.
Hours in a Library. By Leslie Stephen. New York: Putnam, 1894. 3 vols. 8vo, 3/4 orange morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. New edition. [Together with:] A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland and Ireland. By Horatio Walpole. London: John Scott, 1806. Vols. 1, 3, 4 and 5 only. 8vo, full calf ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Light wear to boards with some loss to spine; bookplate tipped to front pastedown. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
106* (BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS) GROLIER CLUB Catalogue of the Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Wither to Prior. Various Contributors. New York: The Grolier Club, 1905.
3 vols. Tall 8vo, original leather-backed boards, uncut. Limited to 400 sets on Holland handmade paper. Dampstain to lower edge of some pages. [Together with:] Curiosities of Literature. By I. D’Israeli. Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman and Holden, 1834. 3 vols. 12mo, green cloth. Second edition. Intermittent foxing. Aspects of Book-Collecting: More Binding Variants. By John Carter. London: Constable, (1938). 12mo, orange cloth, dust jacket, pages interleaved. First edition. Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia. Compiled by Edwin Wolf, II, with an introduction by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Philadelphia: s.n., 1937. 8vo, publisher’s red cloth. Limited to 1,000 copies. Inscribed by Rosenbach to f.f.e.p. (8 total) Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
107* (CHICAGO, LAKESIDE PRESS) CHENEY, JOHN VANCE, ed. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1905.
12mo, original black cloth stamped in gilt. One of the rarest of the Lakeside Classics series. Pencilled inscription “From Ted Donnelley, 1905” to front pastedown. First few pages starting; minor rubbing to spine ends. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500 108* (CHICAGO, LAKESIDE PRESS) The Indian Captivity of O.M. Spencer. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1917.
8vo, original green cloth decorated in gilt, t.e.g. Ends bumped; otherwise fine. [Together with:] The Lakeside Annual Directory of The City of Chicago, 1891. By Reuben H. Donnelley. Chicago: The Chicago Directory Company, [1891]. Thick 8vo, blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges stamped with advertisements. Boards lightly worn; chipping to leaves; otherwise good. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
109* (CHICAGO, LITERATURE) A group of 10 titles in 13 volumes by Chicago authors, including one Nelson Algren, signed.
Streetwise Chicago: A History of Chicago Street Names. By Don Hayner and Tom McNamee. Chicago: Loyola University Press, (1988). Plants of the Chicago Region. By Floyd Swink. S.l.: The Morton Arboretum, (1969). Brillig. By Vincent Starrett. Chicago: Dierkes, 1949. The Fasting Cure. By Upton Sinclair. Los Angeles: By the Author, (1911). Chicago. By Studs Terkel. New York: Pantheon, (1985). 2 copies. Maud Martha. By Gwendolyn Brooks. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1953). What of the City? By Walter D. Moody. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1919. 2 copies. Reminiscences of John V. Farwell by His Elder Daughter. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, (1928). 2 vols. A Walk on the Wild Side. By Nelson Algren. New York: Farrar, Strauss, Cudahy, (1956). 2 copies, one inscribed. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 110* (CHICAGO) A group of five books.
The Gang. By Frederic M. Thrasher. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1927). Chicago Police Problems. By The Citizens’ Police Committee. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, (1931). The Public Schools of Chicago. By Hannah B. Clark. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1897. Chicago Accent. By Art Shay. Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery, (2007). Steppenwolf 25. Portraits by Victor Skrebneski. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, n.d. (5 total) Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
111* (CHILDREN’S) BAUM, FRANK L. A group of three titles from the Oz Series, by and after Frank L. Baum.
Tik-Tok of Oz. By Frank L. Baum. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1914). 4to, publisher’s blue cloth with pastedown cover. The Wonder City of Oz. Written and illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1940). 4to, publisher’s lime green cloth with pastedown cover. Very fine. The Wizard of Oz (The Original Oz Book). MGM movie version. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1903). 4to, publisher’s full green cloth stamped in black, dust jacket, photographic endpapers. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
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112* (CHILDREN’S) BAUM, FRANK L. Christmas Stocking Series. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1905-1911.
6 vols. 16mo, original decorative red boards stamped in green, each with color pictorial pastedown. Titles include: The Story of Peter Rabbit, Little Black Sambo, Fairy Tales from Andersen, Fairy Tales from Grimm, The Night Before Christmas, and Cinderella and the Sleeping Beauty. Boards worn with contents starting to detach on all vols.; fair condition. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
113* (CHILDREN’S) CRANE, WALTER A group of two works illustrated by Crane, each containing three stories with individual title pages.
Red Riding Hood’s Picture Book. London and New York: John Lane, (1898). Folio, red cloth illustrated in black. 1-inch tear to first two pages; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; Bluebeard’s Picture Book. London and New York: John Lane, (1899). Folio, blue cloth stamped in blind. Two-inch tear to one page; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 114* (CHILDREN’S) DISNEY, WALT Mickey Mouse Movie Stories. Philadelphia: David McKay, (1931).
Tall 8vo, publisher’s green cloth-backed boards with illustrated pastedown, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. Illustrated throughout with a small flip-book animation of Mickey Mouse (on recto) and Minnie Mouse (on verso) in lower corner of each page. Fading to spine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
115* (CHILDREN’S, FRENCH) A group of six children’s books in the French language
Mon village ceux qui n’oublient pas. By L’Oncle Hansi. Paris: H. Floury, n.d. Nos petits Alsaciens chez eux. By P. Kauffmann. Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres, n.d. Le Royaume des Marmousets. By A. Wolson. Paris: Georges Cres, n.d. La Diligence de Ploermel. By Quatrelles & Eug. Courboin. Paris: Hachette, n.d. Placide et Gedeon. By Benjamin Rabier. Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres, n.d. Les Contes de Perrault. Introduction by M. Gustave Larroumet. Paris: Librairie Renouard, n.d. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 116* (CHILDREN’S) HARGREAVES, ROGER A group of 37 titles from the “Little Mr.” series. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $40-60
117* (CHILDREN’S) HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER Daddy Jack and Other Stories by “Uncle Remus”. New York: Century, (1889).
4to, publisher’s printed boards. First edition. Previous owner’s manuscript ex-libris to second blank; minor soiling to boards. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
118* (CHILDREN’S) NURA A group of four works by Nura Ulreich, all inscribed by the author/illustrator.
Nura’s Garden of Betty & Booth. New York: William Morrow, 1935. 4to, publisher’s cloth-backed illustrated boards, dust jacket. First edition, with 12 lithographs. All Aboard We Are Off. New York: American Studio Books, (1944). 4to, plain grey boards. First edition. The Silver Bridge. New York: (Harbor Press), (1937). Small 4to, publisher’s clothbacked illustrated boards. First edition, limited to 650 copies, with seven original lithographs. The Mighty Children Fix Things. New York: American Studio Books, (1946). Small 4to, publisher’s yellow cloth lettered in gilt. First edition. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
119* (CHILDREN’S, PANORAMA) PLATT & MUNK Two ten-foot long panoramic works, comprising Mother Goose Panorama, with 12 fold-outs, and Grandfather’s Farm Panorama, with 12 fold-outs. New York: Platt & Munk, 1943, 1950. Light repair to one hinge on Grandfather’s, but otherwise in fine condition. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $80-120
120* (CHILDREN’S, POP-UP) BLUE RIBBON BOOKS A group of three pop-up books. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, various dates.
The “Pop-Up” Cinderella and Three Other Tales, (1933). Illustrated with four pop-ups by Harold Lentz. 8vo, publisher’s illustrated boards, dust jacket. All pop-ups in working order. Minor wear to boards and dust jacket; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. Jack the Giant Killer, (1933). Illustrated with pop-up by Harold Lentz. 8vo, publisher’s illustrated boards, glassine. Pop-up in working order. Minor soiling to boards. The Pop-Up Minnie Mouse, (1933). Illustrated with three pop-ups by Walt Disney staff. 8vo, publisher’s illustrated boards, glassine. Center pop-up partially detached; minor soiling to boards. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
121* (CHILDREN’S, POP-UP) KUBASTA, (VOITECH) A group of seven pop-up books comprising Prelude to Christmas, The Tournament, 2 copies, Noah’s Ark, Peter and Sally on the Farm, How Columbus Discovered America, and Ricky the Rabbit. London: Bancroft, n.d. [c. 1960]
4to, decorative boards with cloth spine. Light wear to boards; with all pop-ups in working condition. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 122* (CHILDREN’S, POP-UP) A group of 24 modern pop-up books for young children, including Fairy Tales. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $50-100
123* (CHILDREN’S, POP-UP) A group of 24 modern pop-up books for young adults, including science titles. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $50-100
124* (CHILDREN’S, POP-UP) A group of 11 early pop-up books, including five titles from the Jolly Jump-Ups series, by Geraldine Clyne. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $50-100
125* (CHILDREN’S) PYLE, HOWARD Twilight Land. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895.
8vo, finely bound in full blue morocco with giltlettered red leather spine label, marbled endpapers. Illustrated throughout. A few brown stains to pages; otherwise very fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 126* (CHILDREN’S) RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB A Child-World. S.l.: By the Author, (1896).
12mo, rebound in red cloth retaining upper cover and spine of publisher’s original red gilt-decorated cloth. Limited edition, number 36 of 100 copies signed by the author on the title page. Inscribed on the verso of the final blank leaf by the son of Eugene Field: “This is my mother’s, Mrs. Eugene Field, own copy of a child world. Eugene Field II, September 4, 1921.” Rebound; renewed endpapers; wrapped in glassine; very good. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $150-250
127* (CHILDREN’S) SCOTT, ANNA M. A Year with the Fairies. Chicago: P.F. Volley, 1914.
4to, publisher’s cloth-backed illustrated boards. First edition, with numerous full-page color plates of fairies. Very fine with only a touch of soiling to rear board. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
128* (CHILDREN’S) SHEPHARD, ERNEST H., illus. Let’s Pretend. By Georgette Agnew. London: J. Saville, 1927.
4to, original quarter vellum over blue cloth lettered in gilt. First edition. Limited to 160 copies signed by Shephard and Agnew, printed on hand-made paper. Light soiling to boards; otherwise interior is very good. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400


129* (CHILDREN’S) THOMPSON, KAY Eloise. Illustrated by Hilary Knight. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955.
4to, publisher’s cream boards, dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Large tear to dust jacket; brown stain to upper edge of board. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
130* (CHILDREN’S) TUDOR, TASHA A group of four works, all very good in dust jackets.
Linsey Woolsey. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. Thistly B. New York: Henry Z. Walck, 1949. Pumpkin Moonshine. New York: Henry Z. Walck, (1938). Corgiville Fair. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1971). Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 131* (CHILDREN’S) A group of 17 titles in 25 volumes.
Picture Book. By R. Caldecott. London and New York: Frederick Warne, n.d. 4 vols. My Bookhouse. Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, (1928). 6 vols. The Kewpies. Their Book. By Rose O’Neill. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1912). The Water Babies. By Charles Kingsley. London: Hutchison, n.d. The Pearl and the Pumpkin. By Paul West. Chicago: M.A. Donohue, (1904). The Story of Ferdinand. By Monro Leaf. New York: Viking, 1937. With 11 others. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400

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132* (CHILDREN’S) A group of seven books.
The Clockwork Twin. By Walter R. Brooks. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Claws of the Thunderbird. By Holling C. Holling. New York: P.F. Volland, (1928). The Little Peacock’s Gift. By Cherry Denman. London: Blackie, (1987). Tortoise’s Dream. By Joanna Troughton. London: Blackie, (1980). Annaluise and Anton. By Erich Kastner. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1933. The Road in Storyland. Edited by Watty Piper. (New York): Platt & Munk, (1952). The Boy Who Ate Flowers. By Nancy Sherman. New York: Platt & Munk, (1960). Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
133* (CHILDREN’S) A group of four books with nursery rhymes.
Funfizig Kinder und Hausmarchen. By Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. Leipzig: Otto Spamer, n.d. 8vo, cloth, pictorial paper pastedown label to front board, dust jacket. Ring-A-RoundA-Rosy. Pictures and Verses. By Mary A. Lathbury. S.l.: R. Worthington, 1885. 4to, decorative boards. The Ella Jenkins Song Book for Children. By Ella Jenkins. New York: Oak Publications, (1966). 4to, printed wrappers. Signed. When Little Boys Sing. By John & Rue Carpenter. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, (1904). Oblong 4to, quarter cloth over decorative boards, title to paper pastedown label. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 134* (CHILDREN’S) A group of seven works.
McElligot’s Pool. By Dr. Seuss. New York: Random House, (1947). Karl’s Wooden Horse. By Lois Donaldson. Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1944. Piper’s Pony. By Paul Brown. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. Muggins Mouse. By Marjorie Barrows. Racine, WI: Whitman, (1932). King Stork. By Howard Pyle. Boston: Little, Brown, (1973). From the Mundane to the Magical. By Mus White. Los Angeles: Dawson’s, 1999. Welcome Home! By Ludwig Bemelmans. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1960). Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
135* (COMICS) D. C. COMICS T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archives. New York: D.C. Comics, 2002.
Complete in 6 vols. 4to, original navy pebbled leatherette with blue gilt illustration, dust jackets. [Together with:] AllStar Comics Archives. New York: D.C. Comics, 2005. Complete in 11 vols. 4to, original maroon leatherette lettered in gilt, dust jackets. (17 total) Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
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136* (CULINARY, FRENCH) Dictionnaire portatif de cuisine, d’Office et de distillation. Paris: Chez Vincent, 1767.
2 vols. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, a.e.g., halftitle to vol. 1. First edition. Light wear to boards; library stamp to title pages; some light dampstaining. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
137* (CULINARY) A group of three works.
Widdifield’s New Cook Book; or, Practical Receipts for the Housewife. By Hannah Widdifield. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, (1856). 8vo, brown cloth stamped in blind. Mrs. Beeton’s EveryDay Cookery. London: Ward, Lock, 1912. 8vo, original green cloth stamped in black and gilt. New edition. In Camp and Kitchen: A Handy Guide for Emigrants and Settlers. By the Author of “The Successful Home Cook, etc.” London: Andrew Melrose, 1912. Small 8vo, red cloth. First edition. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 138* (EINSTEIN, ALBERT) HECHT, SELIG Explaining the Atom. New York: Viking, 1947.
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth stamped in blind, illustrated endpapers, dust jacket. First edition. Presentation Copy from Albert Einstein to John Nuveen, founder of Nuveen Investments, Chicago, IL, with a typed letter signed (“A. Einstein”), 1 page, on Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists letterhead, Princeton, NJ, April 29, 1947. The author, Selig Hecht, was the Vice-President of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, for which Albert Einstein was President. Einstein praises the book in his letter to Nuveen for giving a clear account of nuclear fission. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $4,000-6,000
139* (ENGLAND) LODGE, EDMUND Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. London: London Printing and Publishing, n.d.
5 vols. 4to, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered red leather spine labels, silk endpapers, a.e.g. Complete with 240 engraved portraits. Light rubbing to boards; offsetting from plates to tissue guards; minor foxing to some vols.; otherwise a fine set. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
140* (ENGLAND) CAULFIELD, JAMES Portraits, Memoirs and Characters, of Remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Reign of George II. London: H.R. Young and T.H. Whiteley, 1819.
Vols. 1-3 (of 4) only. 8vo, black straight grain morocco gilt, a.e.g. With three frontispieces and 114 (of 116) engraved portraits of interesting characters, including traitors, derelicts, thieves, prize-fighters, eccentrics, individuals with malformations, and others who “excite public curiosity.” Bookplates tipped in front pastedowns; intermittent brownspotting. [Together with:]Fool of Quality; History of Henry Early of Moreland. By William Brooke. London: Printed for Edward Johnston, 1776. 4 vols. 12mo, full calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. New edition. With engraved frontispieces to vols. 1-3. Vol. 4 lacking title page and engraved frontispiece; some pages with light dampstain; portion cut out of frontispieces vols. 1 and 2; a few tears. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
141* (ENGLAND) CORNWELL, BERNARD Sharpe’s Eagle [and] Sharpe’s Enemy. London: Collins, 1981 and 1984.
2 works. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth, dust jackets. Both first editions. Fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 142* (ENGLAND) A group of four works in six volumes pertaining to the British Isles.
A New Baronetage of England. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1769. Vols. 1 and 3 (of 3) only. 16mo, rebound in full calf, retaining original upper and lower boards of vol. 3, giltlettered black leather spine labels. With 32 pages of crests to vol. 1. Early Travellers in Scotland. Edited by Hume Brown. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1891. 8vo, publisher’s purple cloth stamped in gilt. First edition, with three fold-out maps. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Edited, with a translation by, Benjamin Thorpe. London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861. 2 vols. 8vo, quarter calf over green cloth. Wear to boards; ex-library copy. A Text Book of Naval Architecture for the Use of Officers of the Royal Navy. By J.J. Welch. London: Stationery Office, 1891. 8vo, blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. With 18 fold-out plates. Dampstain along lower edge. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
143* (ENGRAVINGS) PUGIN, AUGUSTE CHARLES AND CHARLES HEATH Paris and Its Environs. London: Jennings, 1831.
2 vols. 4to, 3/4 black morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. With two engraved titles and 202 views on 101 plates of engravings illustrating the principle architecture works of Paris and their interiors. Wear to boards; ends bumped; hinges starting; intermittent foxing; offsetting from plates. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200



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144* (ENGRAVINGS) SCHNITZLER, ARTHUR Die Hirtenflöte. Vienna: Deutsch-Osterreichischer Verlag, 1912.
12mo, full green calf stamped with vertical gilt decorations to covers and spine. First edition. Limited to 400 copies, with nine original etchings by Ferdinand Schmutzer. Light rubbing to boards with small tear to head of spine; inner hinge cracked slightly. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $500-700
145* (ENGRAVINGS. LEECH, JOHN) A group of five volumes from the sporting books series by Surtees, including Mr. Romford’s Hounds; Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrock’s Hunt; “Ask Mamma”; or, the Richest Commoner in England; Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour; and Plains or Ringlets. London: Bradbury, Agnew, n.d. [c. 1890]
5 vols. 8vo, 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Illustrated throughout with hand-colored engraved plates by John Leech. Minor rubbing to boards; hinges tender on some vols.; otherwise interior in very good condition with bright coloring. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500 146* (ENGRAVINGS. LEECH, JOHN) The Comic History of England [and] Rome. By Thomas A’Beckett. (London): Punch, 1847-1848.
3 vols. 8vo, full red morocco ruled in gilt, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. With 30 hand-colored engraved plates by John Leech. First edition. [Together with:] Another copy of The Comic History England. Same edition. 2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 black morocco over marbled boards. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
147* (ENGRAVINGS) A group of three nineteenth-century works.
Punch. London: Bradbury, Agnew, 1883-1885. Vols. 85-88 bound in one. 4to, 3/4 red morocco over green cloth. Cruikshank at Home: A New Family Album of Endless Entertainment. London: Bohn, 1845. 12mo, full gilt-tooled calf. First and Second series bound in one vol. Historia de las Cruzadas. By. M. Michaud. Madrid: Libreria Espanola; Barcelona: Libreria Espanola, 1855. 4to, quarter blue morocco over marbled boards. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
148* (ENGRAVINGS. HOGARTH) IRELAND, JOHN Hogarth Illustrated. London: J. and J. Boydell, 1791-1798.
3 vols. 8vo, full tree calf ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers. First editions of all three, with three frontispiece portraits, three engraved titles pages and 122 engraved plates. Rubbing to boards; some intermittent foxing; bookplates tipped in front pastedowns. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
149* (EXPLORATION) BROWNE, BELMORE The Conquest of Mount McKinley. New York: Putnam, 1913.
8vo, publisher’s pictorial tan cloth stamped in gilt, map endpapers. First edition, with color frontispiece, folding map and numerous black and white plates. William A. Baehr copy, with manuscript ex-libris to front pastedown and first blank leaf. Previous owner’s inscription erased from first blank; light toning to spine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500
150* (EXPLORATION) LE BON, GUSTAVE La Civilisation des Arabes. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot, 1884.
4to, original morocco-backed cloth decorated in silver and gilt, decorative endpapers, a.e.g. First edition, with 10 chromolithograph plates, maps, wood-engraved plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Very light rubbing to boards; some intermittent foxing. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
151* (FINE PRESS, ARION PRESS) MILOSZ, CZESLAW AND JIM DINE Swiat/The World. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1989.
Folio, publisher’s brown cloth spine over decorative boards, slipcase. Illustrated with a dry-point engraving of the poet by Dine. One of 250 (of 275) copies signed by the poet on the halftitle and by the artist. First edition, with 20 poems printed in Polish and English. Fine in fine slipcase. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $150-250 152* (FINE PRESS, ARION PRESS) HAMMETT, DASHIEL The Maltese Falcon. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1983.
4to, quarter black morocco over grey cloth with black, red and silver gilt onlay of a falcon to both boards, map endpapers, slipcase. Limited edition, one of 400 copies printed and bound by the Schuberth Bookbindery. Light dampstain to slipcase; otherwise near fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $600-800
153* (FINE PRESS, BLACK SPARROW PRESS) CASSAVETES, JOHN Minnie and Moskowitz. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1973.
Large 8vo, original decorative cloth spine over photo-pictorial yellow boards, glassine. The original screenplay upon which the motion picture “Minnie and Moskowitz” is based, limited edition, signed by six members of the cast, including John Cassavetes. Fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $400-600
154* (FINE PRESS, DOVES PRESS) POLLARD, ALFRED W. Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Press. The History of the Press and the Story of its Types Told by Alfred W. Pollard. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1929.
Folio, full vellum, spine lettered in gilt, slipcase. With tipped-in vellum leaf from a Doves Press printing. Number 5 of 339 copies. Wear to slipcase; light soiling to boards; tipped in leaf beginning to detach; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400


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155* (FINE PRESS, THE ESTIENNES) PATTISON, MARK The Estiennes. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1949.
Folio, original linen spine over pink boards with gilt vignette to upper board and paper spine label, plain dust jacket, glassine. Limited to 390 copies with three original manuscript leaves printed by the Estiennes, including leaves from Eusebi Pamphili Evangelicae Praeparationis, p. 213, 1544, Galeni de Differentiis Foebrium, p. 38, 1512, and Dionis Cassii Romanarum Historiarum, p. 561, 1592. Fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
156* (FINE PRESS, LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) THE EVERGREEN TALES Edited by Jean Hersholt. New York: LEC, 1949.
Complete in 15 vols. 4to, various shades of cloth, slipcased in five groups of three with pastedown printed spine labels to red slipcases. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Robert Lawson, Fritz Eichenberg, Arthur Szyk, Fritz Kredel, and others. Limited edition, including 12 signed by their illustrators and contributors. Light wear to slipcases and boards; otherwise good. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $500-700 157* (FINE PRESS, LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of ten books.
The Education of Henry Adams. An Autobiography. Boston: LEC, 1942. Jude the Obscure. By Thomas Hardy. New York: LEC, 1969. The Trial and Death of Socrates. By Plato. Verona: LEC, 1962. The Prince. By Niccolo Machiavelli. New York: LEC, 1954. Far From the Madding Crowd. By Thomas Hardy. Cambridge: LEC, 1958. Together with five others. (10 total) Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
158* (FINE PRESS, NONESUCH PRESS) CERVANTES, MIGUEL Don Quixote de la Mancha. London: Nonesuch Press, (1930).
2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s full tan pigskin, brown morocco labels to spines. Limited to 1,475 copies printed on Cainensis hand-made paper. Light darkening to spines and some rubbing; lacking slipcase; otherwise very good. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 159* (FINE PRESS, YOLLY BOLLY PRESS) CHAGOYA, ENRIQUE The Bread of Days / El Pan de los Dias. Once Poetas Mexicanos / Eleven Mexican Poets. English and Spanish text. Translated by Samuel Beckett. With notes by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz. Covelo, CA: Yolly Bolly Press, 1994.
Folio, sewn linen-backed boards by Julien Chen, publisher’s linen slipcase with pastedown paper spine label. Illustrated with 12 color etchings by Chagoya. Number 8 of 141 copies signed by Paz, Chagoya, and Weinberger. Fine in fine slipcase. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $1,000-2,000
160* (FINE PRESS, YOLLY BOLLY PRESS) GIDE, ANDRE Theseus. Translated by John Russell. Drawings by Sidney Goodman. Covelo, CA: Yolly Bolly Press, 1998.
Folio, original quarter suede and cork boards with pastedown etching, decorative slipcase. Illustrated with seven lithographs by Sidney Goodman, two double-page and the rest full-page. Number 40 of 85 copies signed by the artist. Fine in fine slipcase. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
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161* (FINE PRESS, YOLLY BOLLY PRESS) THOREAU, HENRY DAVID The Winged Life. Covelo, CA: The Yolly Bolly Press, 1986.
Folio, bound in quarter leather over beige Dutch linen, gilt-lettered spine, matching folding case with pastedown engraved label, uncut. One of 15 specially bound copies (from a total edition of 112) signed by Robert Bly and Michael McCurdy and printed by Arches 88, this one for the library of James R. Donnelly. Illustrated with wood-engraved frontispiece and five full-page black and white plates. Accompanied by typed letter signed by Carolyn and James Robertson of the Yolly Bolly Press and original invoice of sale. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $800-1,200 162* (FINE PRESS) A group of six titles printed by various private, limited, and fine presses.
The Man Who Made Wine. By J.M. Scott. Covello, CA: The Yolly Bolly Press, (1966). Number 99 of 200 copies printed and signed by the illustrator, Deanna Glad, and publisher Rod Smith. Sad Azrael and Other Poems. By Clifford Raymond. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, (1947). Number 53 of 100 signed by the author. The Garden of Caresses. Translated by Franz Toussaint and Christopher Sandford. [London:] Golden Cockerel Press, (1934). Number 165 of 275 numbered copies. Tales from a Beekman Hill Library. By Charles Honce. Mount Vernon, NY: Golden Eagle Press, 1952. Number 34 of 100 copies inscribed for friends. Theocritos. The Complete Poems. Translated by Jack Lindsay. London: The Fanfrolico Press, n.d. Number 150 of 500 numbered copies. Daphnis and Chloe. Translated by George Thornley. [London:] Golden Cockerel Press, 1923. Number 71 of 450 numbered copies. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 163* (HERALDRY) A group of three works in four volumes pertaining to Heraldry.
Pedigree of the Royal House of Guelph. By William Alexander Lindsay. S.l.: s.n., 1891. Fold-out family tree. 27 1/2 x 48 inches, linen-backed and folded into boards. A Treatise on Heraldry British and Foreign. By John Woodward and George Burnett. Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1892. 2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s illustrated blue cloth. Numerous color plates throughout, uncollated. Some Feudal Coats of Arms from Heraldic Rolls 1298-1418. By Joseph Foster. London and Oxford: James Parker, 1902. 8vo, 3/4 black morocco over green cloth. With numerous plates, uncollated. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
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164* (IRELAND) JOHNSON, J. A View of Jurisprudence of the Isle of Man. Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay, 1811.
8vo, rebound in tan buckram, gilt-lettered spine, uncut, renewed endpapers. First edition. [Together with:] Illustrated History of Ireland from the Earliest Period. By M.F. Cusack. London: Longmans, Green, 1873. 8vo, original green cloth decorated in gilt and black. Numerous plates, uncollated. History of the Irish Rebellion. London: Baily, Brothers, Cornhill, 1845. 8vo, 3/4 black calf over marbled boards. Numerous plates, uncollated. (3 total) Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
165* (MEDICINE) BATEMAN, THOMAS Delineations of Cutaneous Diseases. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828.
4to, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered black leather spine label. Second edition, with 72 color printed hand-finished plates with tissue guards. Rubbing to boards; intermittent foxing. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $600-800
166* (MEDICINE) CELSUS, AULUS CORNELIUS De Medicina libri octo brevioribus Rob. Constantini. Leiden: Joh. Arn, Langerak, 1730.
2 vols. in one. 12mo, quarter vellum over plain boards, manuscript title to spine, engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title page. Wear to boards and edges of leaves; previous owner’s manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. and bookseller’s sticker to front pastedown. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200 167* (MEDICINE) MAYGRIER, J.D. Midwifery Illustrated. Translated from the French by A. Sidney Doane. New York: Harper, 1835.
4to, full calf. Third edition, with 82 (of 83) plates on 81 sheets. Hinges cracked and front board detached; wear to boards; ex-libris to title page; library stamps to f.f.e.p.; fold-out plate torn. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $50-100
168* (MEDICINE) A group of 12 works in 19 volumes.
Contributions to Medical and Biological Research. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1919. 2 vols. Indice Bibliografico de Lepra. Sao Paulo, 1946. 3 vols. Physiognomie. By J.E. Lavater. Vienna: s.n., 1829. 4 vols. The Life and Letters of Nathan Smith. By Emily Smith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914. Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart. By R.J. Bertin. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, 1833. Autobiography of Andrew T. Still. Kirksville, MO: By the Author, 1908. The Value of Ureteric Meatoscopy in Obscure Diseases of the Kidney. By E. Hurry Fenwick. London: J. & A. Churchill, 1903. The Personality of a Hospital. By Harvey Cushing. Boston: Jamaica Printing Co., 1930. The Mechanical Factors of Digestion. By Walter Cannon. London: Edward Arnold, 1911. Lecons sur le diabete. By M. Claude Bernard. Paris: Libraire J.B. Bailliere, 1877. With three others. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 169* (MUSIC, OPERA) LEHMANN, LOTTE More than Singing. The Interpretation of Song. By Lotte Lehmann. New York: Boosey & Hawkes, (1945).
8vo, publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt. Inscribed. [Together with:] Autographed letter signed (“Lotte Lehmann”), one page, laid into a black sequined purse owned by Lehmann. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
170* (MUSIC) A group of seven titles.
Great Concert Artists: Claudio Arau. S.l.: s.n., n.d. Songs by Solomon Golub. New York: Metro, n.d. Eubie Blake. By Al Rose. New York: Schirmer, (1978). Her Majesty’s Ship “Pinafore.” By Gilbert and Sullivan. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1878. Bobby Short: The Life and Times of a Saloon Singer. With Robert Mackintosh. New York: Clarkson Potter, (1995). Antonio Stradiavari. By W. Henry Hill. London: Macmillan, 1909. Violins & Violinists. By Franz Farga. New York: Macmillan, 1950. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
171* (NATURAL HISTORY) RICKETT, HAROLD WILLIAM Wild Flowers of the United States. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966-[1973].
6 vols. Large 4to, publisher’s multi-colored clothbacked boards, glassine, cartographic endpapers. Rickett’s complete series (without index) including the Northwest, Southwest, and Texas, profusely illustrated. Lacking slipcases; otherwise near fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400
172* (NATURAL HISTORY) A group of four works.
Plants of the Chicago Region. By Floyd Swink. Chicago: Morton Arboretum, (1969). 4to, publisher’s linen. First edition. The Floral Kingdom. By Mrs. Cordelia Harris Turner. Chicago: Moses Warren, 1877. 4to, green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Fleurs de France. By Raymond Hesse. S.l.: La Tradition, 1946. Folio, contents loose as issued in decorative slipcase and chemise. With numerous color lithographs intext. Geographie animale. By Jean Lurcat. S.l.: s.n. n.d. 4to, contents loose as issued in matching slipcase and chemise. Illustrated with 18 color lithographs and an additional suite of reproductions. Facsimile of the original. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
173* (POP-CULTURE) MATHIS, JACK Valley of the Cliffhangers. (Northbrook, IL): (By the Author), (1975).
Folio, original padded leather boards stamped in gilt. Profusely illustrated with photographic reproductions. First edition of this printed history of the motion picture series made by Republic Studios between 1935 and 1955. Light wear to boards; ends chipped; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400 174* (POP-CULTURE) A group of four works, including three signed.
Tim McGraw. A Mother’s Story. By Betty “McMom” Trimble. Nashville: D’Agostino/Dahlhauser/Ditmore, (1996). Signed. Blinking with Fists. By Billy Corgan. New York: Faber and Faber, (2004). Signed. Trump. Surviving at the Top. By Donald J. Trump. New York: Random House, (1990). Limited, signed. Men Without Ties. By Gianni Versace. New York: Abbeville, n.d. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
175* (RELIGION) BAADER, SEBASTIAN Der Spanische prediger auf teutscher Cantzel, das ist. Augsburg: Veith, 1746-1748.
3 vols. in one. Folio, blind-stamped vellum with original clasps, title in red and black. Soiling and wear to boards; intermittent foxing; ex-library copy with stamp to front pastedown. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $80-120
176* (RELIGION) BIBLE, IN GERMAN Biblia, das ist die gantze Heilig Schrifft. Basel: Emanuel Thunensen, 1798.
Large folio, rebound in full thick smooth calf stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, title in red and black. With numerous large woodblock prints in-text. Pages worn with some loss at edges; intermittent light dampstaining; binding slightly rubbed. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $150-250 177* (RELIGION, REFORMATION TRACT) A Vindication of the Freedom and Lawfulnesse, and so of the Authority of the Late Generall Assembly. S.l.: s.n., 1652.
8vo, original calf, slipcase. Wear to boards; spine chipped with 1-inch of loss to head and tail; text block detached from backstrip; scattered brownspotting; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; light wear to slipcase. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $100-200
178* (RELIGION) A group of 12 works in 13 volumes.
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. By Lawrence H. Schiffman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 2 vols. The Steps of Life. Further Essays on Happiness. By Carl Hilty. New York: Macmillan, 1907. A Discourse on the Great Duty of Mortification. By Ezekiel Hopkins. London: Printed by W.B. for J. Robinson, 1701. A Dissuasive from Revenge: In a Discourse. By Nicolas Stratford. London: Richard Chiswell, 1684. Footsteps of Our Lord and His Apostles. By W.H. Bartlett. London: Arthur Hall, 1852. A Persuasive to Frequent Communion in the Holy Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. London: M. Flesher, 1685. With six others. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $200-400

