The Edition of this Volume XI. of AMERICAN BOOKPRICES CURRENT is limited to Six Hundred and Seventy-eight Copies. BOOK-PRICES CURRENT A RECORD OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND AUTOGRAPHS ΤΟ SEPTEMBER I, 1905, WITH THE PRICES REALIZED COMPILED FROM THE AUCTIONEERS' CATALOGUES BY LUTHER S. LIVINGSTON NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 1905 WIT PREFACE ITH this eleventh volume AMERICAN BOOK-PRICES CURRENT virtually begins a new series. Most of the more important records of the preceding volumes have been incorporated in a single alphabet in our larger compilation, AUCTION PRICES OF BOOKS. It is true that, as the AUCTION PRICES OF BOOKS is limited in its scope by the fixing of a minimum price of $5.00 for the lot and as for various reasons other lots were discarded in making up the larger work, and as autographs and manuscripts are entirely beyond its scope, the annual series is not by any means rendered useless. Least of all is this the case with the volumes for 1903 and 1904, both of which were issued after the greater work was well under way, and in the case of the volume for 1904, in large part in type. The selection from these years is less copious, though a place was found for most of the important items. With this volume we have adopted a new arrangement which we hope will meet with the approval of subscribers (or at least not with their disapproval.) Our record has been growing so voluminous that some form of condensation has become necessary. The present volume records the sale of 10,793 lots, more than 75 percent increase over our initial volume of 1895. The arrangement, therefore, of the AUCTION PRICES OF BOOKS has been adopted for the present and succeeding volumes. The name of the author, or, in the case of anonymous books the first words of the title, are set in black-faced type. The author's name is followed (in the case of the first record under an author) by the title of the book. Other titles by the same author are preceded by a dash. These titles are arranged in alphabetical order. This first portion of the description is general and applies, as in AUCTION PRICES OF Books, to all copies of the same book. Following this general description is the specific description of the copies of the book as sold, each lot beginning a new line. This specific description is made up as follows: First. A description of the binding, the abbreviations being those which are universally used and understood. vii 142312 |