Fine books and manuscripts including Americana. [ Sotheby's, auction catalogue, sale date: 5 June 1996 ]
by Sotheby's
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good. List of prices realized laid in
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5 June 1996. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm,. approximately 240 pp, ills (a few in colour). 351 lots. The sale comprised: Fine Printed and Manuscript Americana Lots 1-123; Manuscripts and Books by Mark Twain, Property of a Private Collector 124-146; Fine Books and Manuscripts 147-351; Letters and Books of Ernest Hemingway, the Property of A.E. Hotchner 243-264. Very Good. List of prices realized laid in.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-49652
- Title
- Fine books and manuscripts including Americana. [ Sotheby's, auction catalogue, sale date: 5 June 1996 ]
- Author
- Sotheby's
- Format/Binding
- Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good. List of prices realized laid in
- Publisher
- Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5 June 1996
- Date Published
- auction catalogue for the sale
- Pages
- approximately 240 pp, ills (a few in colour)
- Keywords
- Sotheby's auction catalogue Estate of Daniel F. Keyes Estate of Augusta Harrison Nightingale Estate of Marian Blacklock Miller Descendant of Benjamin Lincoln George McMaster Jones Collection Estate of Polly Guggenheim Logan
Terms of Sale
Wykeham Books
Prices are net, and postage and insurance (if required) are extra. Books sent overseas will normally be despatched by surface mail at printed paper rate unless air mail is requested. Terms: We accept payment by bank (wire) transfer (all bank charges payable by the purchaser) or PayPal. Alternatively we accept cash or cheques in UK Pounds (payable to Wykeham Books) drawn on a UK bank account. Prices are net, and postage and insurance (if required) are extra. For overseas orders, any applicable sales or value added tax, or customs duties, or administration charges for the collection thereof, are payable by the purchaser on importation. Books may be returned within 10 days of receipt if not as described.
About the Seller
Wykeham Books
Biblio member since 2005
LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
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