Mar 12, 2009 - Sale 2173

Sale 2173 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
[IRVING, WASHINGTON.] The Crayon Miscellany. Nos. 1-3: A Tour of the Prairies * Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey * Legends of the Conquest of Spain. 3 volumes. 12mo, original green cloth with paper spine labels, mild browning and rubbing, some corners bumped; scattered light foxing, contemporary owner's signature in first two volumes; custom cloth chemises housed in a single morocco-backed slipcase lettered in gold, moderately scuffed; book labels of Allan Browning Lane. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835

Additional Details

first american edition. First state and catalog D, label B of Volume 1; First printing, catalog A, label A of Volume 2; complete preliminary setting A of Volume 3. BAL 10140; 10142; 10144.