Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. -- May 14, 2011 - Estate Treasures Auction - 3:00 PM Featuring two private Raleigh Estates; a Collection from Ocean Isle; and a Collection from Richmond, Virginia. Offerings include silver, estate jewelry, paintings, furniture, rugs, books, and more!
New York" Diedrich Knickerbocker, 1887; "Vie De George Washington" Por A. N. Girault, 1841; "Make 'Em Laugh!" Charles N. Lurie, 1927; "Select Orations of Cicero" William Underwood, 1885.
Lot 3016. "The Etchings of the French Impressionists" - "& Their Contemporaries" Edward T. Chase, 1946, filled with full page etchings.
Lot 3017. First Edition of "Giant" - by Edna Ferber, with dust jacket, 1952.
Lot 3018. "Shepp's Photographs of the World" - by James and Daniel Shepp, 1891; "Forming the largest and most unique collection of photographs ever published in one volume." - title page.
Lot 3019. Four Vintage Controversial Children's Books - "Epaminondas and His Auntie" Sara Cone Bryant, illustrated by Inez Hogan, 1938, with dust jacket; "The Peek-A-Boo Japs" Tom Preston, illustrated by Chloe Preston, circa 1930, of the Peek-A-Boo Series; "Ten Little Niggers" McLoughlin Brothers, NY, 1894, fully illustrated song book; "Second Adventures of Uncle Wiggly" Howard R. Garis, illustrated by Iang Campbell.
Lot 3020. "The Day Dream" - by Alfred Tennyson, illustrated, 1886.
Lot 3021. "The Aesop For Children" - Rand McNally & Co., 1919.
Lot 3022. 12 Met. Art Books - "Metropolitan Seminars in Arts" John Canaday, 1990.
Lot 3023. 12 Impressionist & Modern Art Books - "Women, Art & Society" Whitney Chadwick, 1990; "Watteau" Humphrey Wine, 1992; "Munch" Ulrich Bischoff, 1995; "Renior" Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1985; "From Poussin to Matisse" The Art Institue of Chicago, 1990; "Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, The Annenberg Collection" Philadelphia M.O.A., 1991; "American Impressionist Masterpieces" Lisa N. Peters, 1997; "Van Gogh" Meyer Schapiro, 1983; "Great Artists" Robert Cumming, 1998; "Van Gogh" Pascal Bonafoux, 1990; "Treasures of the Louvre" Alain Nave, 1997.
Lot 3024. David Wilkie Art Book - "The Wilkie Gallery, a Selection of the Best Pictures of the Late Sir David Wilkie, R.A.; including his Spanish and Oriental Sketches" James s. Virtue, late 19thc, leatherbound, filled of full page engravings.
Lot 3025. Six Vintage Children's Books - "Little Prayers for Little Lips" Elisabeth R. Scovil, 1921; "Leaves from Nature's Story Book" Mrs. M.A.B. Kelly, 1893; "Favorite Fairy Tales" Belford, Clarke and Co., Illustrated, 1889; "Friendly Fairies" Johnny Gruelle, illustrated by author, Henry Darger style, 1919, 20th ed.; "Rhymes For Kindly Children" Ethel Fairmont, illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, Henry Darger style illustrations; "Rip Van Winkle's Travels in Foreign Lands" Rupert Van Wert, 1881.
Lot 3026. Four Vintage Books - "Silas Marner, Scenes From Clerical Life" George Eliot, leatherbound; "The Bread Winners" Harper & Bros., 1883; "These Young Rebels" Frances R. Sterett, 1921; "Self Help" Samuel Smiles, revised ed.
Lot 3027. Four Books of Law & Order - "Robert's Rules of Order" Lieut Colonel Henry M. Robert, 1889; "The Woman's Manual of Parlimentary Law" Harriette R. Shattuck, 6th ed., 1896; "The Age of Reason" Thomas Paine, 1879; "In the Light of Myth" Rannie B. Baker, 1925.
Lot 3028. Three Vintage Life Lessons Books - "We Have With Us Tonight" Samuel G. Blythe, 1909; "The Path to Home" Edgar A. Guest, 1919; "A Heap O' Livin'" Edgar A. Guest, 1916.
