$1,800
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
New York: D. Appleton, 1881. First edition, first issue, with "presumptive" to last line of p. 9. Illustrated by Frederick S. Church & James H. Moser with a frontispiece, title vignette, seven plates, and in text illustrations. 12mo. Publisher's pictorial brown cloth, stamped in black and in gilt, with light wear; contemporary ownership signature to front fly leaf in pencil. 8pp. publisher's ads following text. With small label at foot of verso of back fly leaf, "Deacidified/1990." BAL 7100; Penrod pp. 56-57.
An exceptionally tight and internally clean copy of the first issue of the author's first book, and the first Uncle Remus book.