May Premier Auction: Day 2
Sat, May 20, 2017 09:00AM EDT - Mon, May 22, 2017 09:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 858
Five William Gilmore Simms Books
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
William Gilmore Simms (South Carolina, 1806-1870), four of his early Southern novels including [The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution], New York: Harper and Brothers, 1835, two volumes in original cloth with paper spine labels, [good only with the spine label on Volume II missing]; [Mellichampe: A Legend of the Santee], New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836, two volumes in original cloth with paper spine labels, BAL 18057, [good condition, the paper spine labels have disintegrated]; [The Damsel of Darien], Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1839, two volumes in original cloth with paper spine labels, [good only with loss at the top of Volume I, paper spine label of Volume II is missing]; [Atalantis; A Story of the Sea], Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848, Sabin 81190, in three-quarter leather over marbled boards, teg., [very good condition with wear at the extremities]; and [Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S.C.], Oglethorpe University Press, 1937, [very good condition]
