A sealed-bid auction of the books listed below will be held from 9:00 to 11:00 AM on the first day of the Sale. There will be no previous viewing of these books. They may be seen from the Sale's opening, at the table marked Sealed Bids.

Bid forms will be found and are to be submitted at the Sealed Bids table. No bid will be accepted after 11:00 AM. In the case of bids of identical amounts for the same book, the bid submitted earlier will be preferred. The identities of winning bidders will be made known at the Sealed Bids table as soon after 11:00 AM as the bids have been collated, usually before noon. Successful bidders may pay in cash or by personal check. Bidders unable to wait for the auction's conclusion may arrange for books on which their bids are successful to be mailed. No discounts apply to books bought at auction.

Books to be Sold by Sealed Bids 2011

THE ARTISTRY AND HISTORY OF MATA ORTIZ by John V. Bezy and Stuart D. Scott. Part I: Natural History, Archaeology, and History. Part II: The Artists of Mata Ortiz: The Second Generation. Arizona Lithographers. 2010. Bidding will begin at $50.00.

CAPE COD by Henry David Thoreau. With Illustrations From Sketches in Colors by Amelia M. Watson. In Two Volumes. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1896. Bidding will begin at $75.00.

JOHN CURRIN: The Taka Ishii Gallery Exhibition Catalog. Hard cover catalog presented as an Artist Book. Limited Edition of 3000 copies. Tokyo, Japan 2002. Bidding will begin at $40.00.

DE KOONING. Text by Harold Rosenberg. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York. Second Printing 1978. Bidding will begin at $50.00.

EARLY MANOR AND PLANTATION HOUSES OF MARYLAND by Henry Chandlee Forman. An Architectural and Historical Compendium, 1634-1800, with three hundred twenty photographs and one hundred forty-five plans, details and sketches. Printed privately by the author. 1934. Bidding will begin at $50.00.

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION, VENICE. By Angelica Zander Rudenstine. Published by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. 1985. Bidding will begin at $50.00.

HISTORIC INTERIORS IN COLOUR. 80 coloured views from Castles and private houses, with in Introduction by Adolf Feulner. Translated by Prof. Dr. W. E. Walz, Bad Boll, Wurttemberg. Printed in Germany. 1929. Bidding will begin at $40.00.

HISTORY OF DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS: The Times When and the People by Whom It Was Settled, Unsettled and Resettled: With a Special Study of the Indian Wars in the Connecticut Valley. With Genealogies. By George Sheldon, in Two Volumes. Deerfield, Mass., 1895 and 1896. Bidding will begin at $50.00.

HUDIBRAS In Three Parts, by Samuel Butler. Written in the time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: With Additions. To which are added, Annotations, And an exact Index to the Whole. Adorned with Cutts, designed and engraved by Mr. Hogarth. London 1761. Bidding will begin at $50.00.

LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE. A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by W. D. Howells. Illustrated. Autograph Edition Limited to 150 copies, of which this is number 41, signed by the author. Harper & Brothers Publishers 1900. Bidding will begin at $40.00.

GEORGE MANSON AND HIS WORKS. Being a Series of Permanent Photographs From His Pictures and Sketches. With a Biographical and Critical Sketch by John M. Gray. Edinburgh 1880. Bidding will begin at $30.00.

MODERN MASTERS and OLD MASTERS from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Two volumes. Modern Masters text by Jose Alvarez Lopera. Old Masters text by Jose Manuel Pita Andrade and Maria del Mar Borobia Guerrero. Photographs by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. 1992. Bidding will begin at $60.00.

PICASSO EXPOSITION. (Catalogue) Documentation reunie par Charles Vrancken. 16 Juin - 30 Juillet 1932. Galeries Geroges Petit, Paris. Bidding will begin at $50.00.

RAMALLAH: Its History and Its Genealogies by Azeez Shaheen. English text by Naseeb Shaheen. Birzeit University, Birzeit, Israeli Ocuppied West Bank of Jordan. 1982. Bidding will begin at $75.00.

THE WESTERN RESERVE AND ITS MEDICAL TRADITIONS by Harvey Cushing, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School. An Address At the Dedication of the New Medical Building of Western Reserve University, October 9th, 1924. Cleveland, Ohio. Signed by Cushing for his nephew (?): "Edward H. Cushing from H. C." Bidding will begin at $200.00.

YOU’RE ONLY OLD ONCE! By Dr. Seuss. "Of the first edition of You’re Only Old Once! five hundred copies have been specially bound. These books are signed by the author and numbered 1 to 500." This is #231. Random House. 1986. Bidding will begin at $75.00.