Lot 212

Literature & Adventure Books, 1896-1959

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Literature & Adventure Books, 1896-1959

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by Atlee Raber Auctioneer
August 3, 2026 6:00 PM EDT
Live Auction
17020 Dover Road
Dundee, OH, US 44624

This collection consists of multiple vintage hardcover volumes featuring popular fiction, biography, and adventure titles from the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries. Notable works in the group include "WE" by Charles A. Lindbergh (Grosset & Dunlap, 1927), "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun (Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books), and "Smilin' Jack and the Daredevil Girl Pilot" by Zack Mosley (Whitman Publishing Co., 1943). Other identified titles and authors include "The Little Duke" by Charlotte M. Yonge (Saalfield), "St. Elmo" by Augusta J. Evans (Hurst & Company, identified as an Illustrated Edition for Theatre Patrons), "The Mighty Atom" by Marie Corelli (Lippincott, 1896), "The Young Titan" by F. van Wyck Mason (Doubleday, 1959), "The Poor Little Rich Girl" by Eleanor Gates (Grosset & Dunlap), "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy (Grosset & Dunlap), "Silver Threads" by Harriet B. McKeever, a "Sherlock Holmes" volume by Arthur Conan Doyle, and "The Big Aviation Book for Boys" (McLoughlin Bros.). The books are bound in publisher's cloth in various colors including blue, green, tan, red, and maroon. Several volumes feature decorative or pictorial front covers and spines with gilt or colored stamping. The collection includes standard octavo and duodecimo formats.

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