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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 01, 2025 - May 01, 2025
Page Size: 428 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Bentley, Rev. and Mrs. Charles

Letter from a New England minister about to reluctantly become Pastor of a Connecticut church bitterly divided over the issue of slavery

Harwinton, Connecticut June 23-24,1839 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 312.50
2 [Strother, David Hunter]

Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the Adventures of Porte Crayon and his Cousins

New York 1857 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
3 Heffren, Horace

Speech of Hon. Horace Heffren of Washington and Harrison Counties [with] Report of the Minority of the House Committee

[Indianapolis?] 1861 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 531.25
4 Raphall, Rabbi Morris Jacob

"The Ethics of Slavery...The Bible View of Slavery, Dr. Raphall's Discourse in the Synagogue"

New York January 5, 1861 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
5 Strine, Peter

Letter from a 21 year-old Union soldier declaring that some Ohio troops would not fight just to free the slaves

[Columbia, Kentucky] December 23, 1862 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
6 Niblack, William E., et al

Address of the Democratic Members of the General Assembly to the People of Indiana, Setting Forth...the Reasons why more had not been accomplished during its Constitutional Term

Indianapolis 1863 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 812.50
7 Burr, C. Chauncey, editor

The Old Guard, A Monthly Journal, Devoted to Literature, Science and Art, and the Principles of 1776 and 1787. Issue of April 1865

New York; Toronto; London April 1865 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
8 Steward, T.G.

The Colored Regulars In the United States Army

Philadelphia 1904 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
9 Pollard, Hughes

Autograph note by the jazz musician brother of Black sports legend Fritz Pollard (who integrated the National Football League)

New York c.1914 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
10 Larkin, John

The Empire. Holland's Vaudeville Entertainers Commencing Saturday Next, July 7th...Last Week! Last Week! of the Popular Favourites Paul Stanhope's Breezy Revue Coy...

Brisbane [1917] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
11 Pickett, Bill

The Norman Film Mfg. Co....Presents "The Bull-Dogger" Featuring Bill Pickett and the Greatest Array of World Champions Ever Assembled in a Motion Picture

Jacksonville, Illinois c. 1921 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
12

49th Annual Session - Missionary Baptist Sunday School and B.T.U. Congress of Kansas

Kansas City, Mo. 1940 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 212.50
13 Weaver, Robert C.

The Negro Ghetto

New York 1948 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
14

Elliottorian Business Women's Club. L'Eleganza Beaux Arts Ball '73

Detroit [1973] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 225.00
15

Acts and Laws for the State of Arkansas from 1866 to 1879

Little Rock 1867-1881 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
16

Sabbath Reading. Vol. VIII. No. 4...The Sweet By-and-By

New York 1882 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
17 Atcheson, Nathaniel

American Encroachments on British Rights; or Observations on the Importance of the British North American Colonies. And on the Late Treaties with the United States:...

London 1808 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
18 Atherton, Gertrude

The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California

New York 1902 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
19 Boyce, Col. J. Ward, editor

American Fighter Aces Album

[Mesa, AZ] [1996] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
20

Five volumes on WWII aviation

1987-1995 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
21

Five volumes on aviation

1990-1998 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
22

Spitfire--The Story of a Famous Fighter [with] The Art of William S. Phillips

1961-1994 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
23 Ruth, George Herman

Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball

New York 1928 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
24

Nevada Tri-Weekly Herald

Nevada City, California 1878 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
25 Riley, James Whitcomb

All the Year Round

Indianapolis [1912] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
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