AMER AUGUST 2015
The live portion of this session begins on Monday, August 24, 2015.
VERY RARE CONFEDERATE IMPRINT, "THE CRUISE OF THE ALABAMA AND THE SUMTER", 1864. 338 pages, Octavo. 3/4 leather and marble boards with gilt title and bands on spine. Imprint of Saunder''s, Otley & Co London and West and Johnson, Richmond VA 1864. Doug O''Dell, the quintessential Confederate book dealer of the ''70s and ''80s cataloged a copy of this book in wraps with repaired spine in 1978 for $15,000 and stated there were only two other copies extant one being at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond and the other at Western Reserve Library in Cleveland. This in an important first edition listed in many references as the definitive contemporary Confederate Naval history taken from the private journals and other papers of Raphael Simms Confederate States Navy. In Tall Cotton No. 165, Parrish and Willingham #5045 Howes Iana S285, Confederate one hundred #78. SIZE: 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". CONDITION: Good to very good overall, some staining and foxing. Laid in obituary of Semmes on end paper and back cover. Front end paper loose, chipped. Blind stamp "R. WRIGHT" stamped inside front board and Robert Wright 1871 penciled over old ink inscription on front end paper. Book is scuffed, edges of spine worn with chipping, corners scuffed and worn. Book is slightly shaken with one signature (ending page 160) printed on slightly creased paper. 49339-10 (800-1,200) JS0