$500
Estimate: $300 - $500
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer, Part III
Auction: January 30, 2020 10:00:00 AM EDT
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First American edition, later state: frontispiece portrait in third state, title-leaf in third state, p. 13 in second state, p. 57 in second state, p. 283 in fourth state, p. 155 in third state. 8vo. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, stamped in black and in gilt, moderately scuffed, extremities rubbed, spine ends frayed; some soiling to text; ownership signatures on front free endpaper, dated December 1885 and 1936; book-plate on front paste-down. BAL 3415.
As Huck said, "We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down. Jim allowed they'd got spoiled and was hove out of the nest."