02-14-201302-14-2013
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
February 14, 2013 10:00 AMCalender
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Mixed Lot, Nine Volumes:

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$90$90
Auction: Discovery - 2637MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: February 14, 2013 10:00AM

Description:

Mixed Lot, Nine Volumes: Autograph book c. 1920, Dorchester, Massachusetts High School, cloth binding; Mary Chambers' A Book of Unusual Soups, Boston: Little Brown, 1930, cloth binding; Wallpaper Sample Book, High Grade Wallpapers, Chicago: Sears, Roebuck, & Co., 1915, original limp paper binding; Marjory Tillotson's The Complete Knitting Book, London: Pitman & Sons, 1933, with colored frontispiece, publishers' half blue cloth and printed paper boards; Souvenir of California, San Francisco: Cunningham, Curtiss, & Welch, 1904, photogravures, in half green publishers' cloth and paper boards with bright orange California poppy on the front board; Official Publication, Panama Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, Hand-Colored, in limp publishers' printed covers, tied binding, color illustrations tipped onto heavy paper throughout; Evelyn Stefansson's Here is Alaska, New York: Scribner's Sons, [1943]. illustrated throughout, with polychrome dust jacket, chipped at head, spine sunned, spotting to endleaves; and two copies of Report of the [New York] State Botanist on Edible Fungi of New York, from the University of the State of New York Memoir of the New York State Museum, No. 4, Vol. 3, Albany, 1900; both in green paper-covered boards, one copy with damage to the binding, boards detached, sewing perished, both illustrated with more than twenty full-paged color lithographs of edible mushrooms. (9)
Estimate $150-200


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Keywords

Massachusetts High School, Mary Chambers, Marjory Tillotson, Chicago, Roebuck & Co., London, Pitman & Sons, Evelyn Stefansson, Alaska, State Botanist, University of the State of New York Memoir, New York State Museum