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SALE NUMBER 1394

ON PUBLIC EXHIBITION FROM JANUARY TWENTIETH

CATALOGUE OF

THE LIBRARY OF

HERSCHEL V. JONES

[H-P]

ORDER OF SALE

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 29, LOTS 749- 935
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, LOTS 936-1122
AFTERNOON, JANUARY 30, LOTS 1123-1309

THURSDAY

THE ANDERSON GALLERIES

PARK AVENUE AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET

NEW YORK

CONDITIONS OF SALE

All bids to be PER LOT as numbered in the Catalogue.

The highest bidder to be the buyer. In all cases of disputed bids the lot shall be resold, but the Auctioneer will use his judgment as to the good faith of all claims and his decision shall be final.

Buyers to give their names and addresses and to make such cash payments on account as may be required, in default of which the lots purchased to be immediately resold.

Goods bought to be removed at the close of each sale. If not so removed they will be at the sole risk of the purchaser, and subject to storage charges, and The Anderson Galleries, Incorporated, will not be responsible if such goods are lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed.

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TERMS CASH. If accounts are not paid at the conclusion of each sale, or, in the case of absent buyers, when bills are rendered, this Company reserves the right to recatalogue the goods for immediate sale without notice to the defaulting buyer, and all costs of such resale will be charged to the defaulter. This condition is without prejudice to the rights of the Company to enforce the sale contract and collect the amount due without such resale at its own option. Unsettled accounts are subject to interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum. All books are sold as catalogued, and are assumed to be in good SECOND-HAND condition. If material defects are found, not mentioned in the catalogue, the lot may be returned. Notice of such defects must be given promptly and the goods returned within ten days from the date of the sale. No exceptions will be made to this rule. Magazines and other periodicals, and all miscellaneous books arranged in parcels, are sold as they are, without recourse.

Autograph Letters, Documents, Manuscripts and Bindings are sold as they are, without recourse. The utmost care is taken to authenticate and correctly describe items of this character, but this Company will not be responsible for errors, omissions, or defects of any kind. BIDS. We make no charge for executing orders for our customers and use all bids competitively, buying at the lowest price permitted by other bids.

Priced Copy of this Catalogue may be secured for fifty cents for each session of the sale.

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FIFTH SESSION

LOTS 749-935

749. HARTE (BRET). East and West Poems. 12mo, original cloth.

FIRST EDITION.

Boston, 1871

With illus

750. HARTE (BRET). "The Heathen Chinee." trations by S. Eytinge, Jr. 12mo, original limp boards, advertising "Bret Harte's Poems" on cover. In half morocco slip-case.

FIRST EDITION. Rare. Fine copy.

Boston, 1871

751. HARTE (BRET). That Heathen Chinee and other Poems, mostly humorous. Frontispiece. 12mo, original illustrated wrapper, in full olive levant morocco solander case, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. London: Hotten, n. d. (1871)

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, issued the same year as the American edition. With advertisements in back dated, 1871. Very Scarce.

752. HARTE (BRET). Lothaw; or, The Adventures of a Young Gentleman in Search of a Religion. By Mr. Benjamins. Illustrated. 12mo, original wrappers, in full olive levant morocco solander case, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.

London: Hotten, n. d. (1871).

FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Very Scarce.

753. HARTE (BRET). The Pliocene Skull. Title within ornamental border and sketches by E. M. Schaeffer. Small 4to, original pictured limp boards, in half morocco slip-case. (Washington 1871) FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Very scarce in this condition.

754. HARTE (BRET). Poems. 12mo, original cloth.

Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871

FIRST EDITION. Autograph presentation copy from the author, with the following inscription on fly-leaf: “George Hickox from Bret Harte. San Francisco, Jany. 20, '70." Fine copy.

755. HARTE (BRET). The Luck of Roaring Camp and other Sketches. Illustrated. 4to, original cloth, gilt. Boston, 1872

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

756. HARTE (BRET). Prose and Poetry by Bret Harte. Authorized Edition. 2 vols. in one, 16mo, half morocco. Leipzig, 1872 FIRST TAUCHNITZ EDITION. With bookplate of William Forbes Morgan.

757. HARTE (BRET). Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands, and other Sketches. 12mo, original cloth.

Boston, 1873

FIRST EDITION. Autograph presentation copy from the author, with inscription: "To Miss Myra Pintard Gilder from Bret Harte. Newark, January 16, '73."'

758. HARTE (BRET). Echoes of the Foot-Hills. 12mo, original cloth. Boston, 1875

FIRST EDITION.

759. HARTE (BRET). original cloth.

FIRST EDITION.

Gabriel Conroy. Illustrated. 8vo,
Hartford, 1876

760. HARTE (BRET). Two Men of Sandy Bar. A Drama. 16mo, original cloth.

FIRST EDITION.

761. HARTE (BRET).

Boston, 1876

Thankful Blossom. A Romance of the
Boston, 1877

Jerseys, 1779. Illustrated. 16mo, original cloth.

FIRST EDITION. Autograph presentation copy from the author, with inscription: "To Mrs. Faulkner, with the seasonable compliments of Bret Harte. Xmas, 1877."

762. HARTE (BRET). The Story of a Mine. 16mo, original cloth. Boston, 1878

FIRST EDITION.

763. HARTE (BRET). The Twins of Table Mountain and other Stories. 16mo, original cloth. Boston, 1879

FIRST EDITION.

764. HARTE (BRET). The Twins of Table Mountain. 12mo, original cloth. London: Chatto and Windus, n. d. (1879)

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Autograph presentation copy from the author, while he was Consul at Crefeld, with signed inscription on title-page, and dated "Crefeld, Oct. 6, '79.''

765. HARTE (BRET). Flip and Found at Blazing Star. 16mo, original cloth. Boston, 1882

FIRST EDITION.

766. HARTE (BRET). On the Frontier. 16mo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION.

Boston, 1884

Boston, 1885

767. HARTE (BRET). Maruja. 16mo, original cloth.

FIRST EDITION.

768. HARTE (BRET). By Shore and Sedge. 12mo, original

cloth.

Boston, 1885

FIRST EDITION.

769. HARTE (BRET). The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Illustra tions by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and printed in color by Edmund Evans. 8vo, original pictorial canvas covers, cloth back. London: F. Warne and Co., n. d. (1886)

FIRST EDITION. Very fine copy. Scarce.

770. HARTE (BRET). Snow-Bound at Eagle's. 16mo, original cloth.

FIRST EDITION.

Boston, 1886

771. HARTE (BRET). Devil's Ford. A Novel. 12mo, original wrappers (worn), uncut, in full olive levant morocco solander case, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.

FIRST EDITION. Very Scarce.

London; 1887

772. HARTE (BRET). A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready, and Devil's Ford. 16mo, original cloth.

FIRST EDITION.

Boston, 1887

773. HARTE (BRET). The Argonauts of North Liberty. 16mo, original cloth.

FIRST EDITION.

Boston, 1888

774. HARTE (BRET). The Crusade of the Excelsior. Illustrated. 12mo, original cloth. Boston, 1888

775. HARTE (BRET). A Phyllis of the Sierras, and a Drift from Redwood Camp. 16mo, original cloth.

FIRST EDITION.

Boston, 1888

776. HARTE (BRET). Cressy. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. FIRST EDITION. Boston, 1889

777. HARTE (BRET). A Waif of the Plains. 16mo, original cloth. Boston, 1890

FIRST EDITION.

778. HARTE (BRET). A Ward of the Golden Gate. 12mo, original cloth. Boston, 1890

FIRST EDITION.

779. HARTE (BRET). A First Family of Tasajara. 2 vols. 12mo, full red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt border on sides, uncut, with the original wrappers and backs bound in, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. In cloth case. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891

THE GENUINE FIRST EDITION, ante-dating the American First Edition, by one year. Very fine copy, with the publishers' embossed presentation stamp on the title-page of the first volume. Rare.

780. HARTE (BRET). A Sappho of Green Springs and other Stories. 12mo, original cloth, uncut. Boston, 1891

FIRST EDITION.

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