Lot 10[BOOKSELLER CATALOGUE]
LEON AND BROTHER. Catalogue of First Editions of American Authors. New York: Leon & Brother, 1885. First edition. Three quarters leather, gilt ruled and lettered, marbled paper boards, top edge gilt. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 58 pp., interleaved, engraved frontispiece printed in bistre, paper watermarked "Old Berkshire Mills 1885". Rubbing and wear, mostly at extremities, hinges cracked but sound, contents bright.

The first bookseller's catalogue devoted entirely to American First Editions, with a short preface on the state of book collecting in America.


C Property of a Massachusetts Gentleman

Sold for $50
Estimate $60-80


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