9 vols. Bixby family copies of the following nine works: (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. Very good. 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. Very good. 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 endpapers spotted. 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 (this copy not numbered). 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 “Roxie from WKB 10/5/1915”. (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. Somewhat spotted within. Binding bright. Charles I (king of England). 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. Bixby (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 not perfectly clean, endpapers spotted, else very good. 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. Bixby (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. Front free endpaper sweepingly inscribed in pencil “Lillian from WKB”. 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. Very good. 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.