10 vols.

Bixby family copies of the following ten works:

Bixby, William K. List of Books Privately Printed by William K. Bixby and those Privately Printed by Book Clubs from Manuscripts in his Collection, Including short Sketches written by Mr. Bixby for Book Clubs. St. Louis: Printed for Libraries & Collectors, 1919. Colophon: SIXTY COPIES of this list were printed by D. B. Updike The Merrymount Press, Boston in June 1919. Tall octavo, (vi), 18 pp. plus blanks and colophon leaf, orig. cloth-backed boards, printed label on front cover. Unopened (uncut) copy, covers dust-soiled, internally very good.

(Burns, Robert). Stevens, Walter B. (editor). Burns Nights at the Burns Club of St. Louis. St. Louis: Printed by Private Distribution to Lovers of Burns by The Burns Club of St. Louis, 1918. Octavo, 83 pp., photo-engraved frontispiece portrait of W. K. Bixby, orig. cloth-backed printed boards. Covers slightly soiled, else very good. Front free endpaper INSCRIBED by WKB “Donald From Father 12/25/1918”.

Benjamin Franklin on BALLOONS: A Letter Written from Passy, France, January Sixteenth MDCCLXXXIV. St. Louis: Privately Printed for his Friends by W. K. Bixby, 1922. Colophon: Two hundred and fifty copies ... printed on Vidalon Paper for W. K. Bixby by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, October 1922. Small thin quarto, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, printed paper label on front cover.

Some Edgar Allan Poe Letters. Printed for private distribution only from originals in the collection of W. K. Bixby. St. Louis, Mo.: William K. Bixby (The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa), 1915. Titleleaf verso: Two hundred copies of this edition were printed (this one not numbered). Octavo, 26 pp. plus folding facsimiles, orig. gilt-stamped boards. Binding and some margins spotted else good. Front free endpaper sweepingly INSCRIBED in pencil “Lillian from WKB”.

Laurence Sterne’s Letter to the Rev. Mr. Blake. Privately printed from original in possession of William K. Bixby. St. Louis, Mo.: (The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa), 1915. Titleleaf verso: Two hundred copies of this edition were printed, of which this is number 3. Thin octavo, 6 pp. plus folding facsimile, orig. gilt-stamped off-white boards. Boards dust-soiled, spine-edges rubbed, text spotted. Front free endpaper INSCRIBED in ink by WKB “Donald from Father Xmas 1915” below D.C.B. blind-stamp.

(Caption title): Letter of Maria White (Mrs. James Russell) Lowell to Sophia (Mrs. Nathaniel) Hawthorne, with Remarks by F. B. Sanborn. (St. Louis, 1912.) One of only 150 copies. Thin octavo, orig. green-cloth-backed gilt-stamped off-white boards, 10 pp. plus facsimile. Not perfectly clean, but almost.

Holograph Letter of Charles I. Formerly in possession of John Evelyn. Later in the collection of Wm. Upcott and now privately printed for the friends of the present owner. St. Louis, Mo.: William K. Boxby (by the Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa), 1915. Titleleaf verso: Two hundred copies of this edition were printed, of which this is number 3. Thin octavo, 6 pp. plus facsimile, orig. gilt-stamped off-white boards. Boards dust-soiled, spine-edges rubbed through. Front free endpaper INSCRIBED in ink by WKB “Donald from Father Xmas 1915” below D.C.B. blind-stamp.

Palmer, J. W. Stonewall Jackson’s Way. The manuscript from which this is printed was written by the author for Edmund Clarence Stedman and is now privately printed for the friends of the present owner. St. Louis, Mo.: William K. Boxby (by the Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa), 1915. Titleleaf verso: Two hundred copies of this edition were printed, of which this is number 3. Thin octavo, 6 pp. plus facsimile, orig. gilt-stamped off-white boards. Boards dust-soiled, spine-edges rubbed through. Front free endpaper INSCRIBED in ink by WKB “Donald from Father Xmas 1915”.

Lamb, Charles. A Letter regarding Roast Pig to William Hazlitt and A Letter on Friendship to Robert Lloyd together with A Dissertation on Roast Pig. (St. Louis, Mo.): Privately Printed for his Friends by W. K. Bixby, 1922. Colophon: Two Hundred and Fifty copies ... printed in October, 1922 by D. B. Updike The Merrymount Press Boston. Small quarto, orig. cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt-stamped red-leather spine label. Spine-bottom chipped away, portions of covers darkened, else very good. Front free endpaper INSCRIBED in ink by WKB “Donald From Father 12/25/22”.

James Whitcomb Riley’s Letter from Boston, Written when he first felt that he was gaining Recognition. St. Louis: Privately Printed For a few Friends of W. K. Bixby, 1922. Colophon: Five hundred copies ... with view of the Doorway of the Longfellow House, Cambridge, engraved on wood by Rudolph Ruzicka, were printed by D. B. Updike, the Merrymount Press, Boston, in September, 1922. Small thin octavo, orig. stiff printed wraps. Wraps good but not perfectly clean, internally very good.