ABSOLUTE AUCTION

Thursday, May 18 - 10:00 A.M.

4872 Hwy 64 East, Selmer, TN 38375

Robert E. Lee Wilson III Books

Kennedy’s Auction Service is honored to sell the Library and book collection of the Wilson family of Wilson, Arkansas. The town of Wilson, Arkansas, was owned and ran continuously by the Wilson family for the last 125 years. In 1886, Lee Wilson founded the town in the Southern part of his farming and logging operation. In 2010, the Wilson family sold their 65,000 acre farming operation, homes and historic buildings. The Wilson book collection is composed of books descending from the collection of Lee Wilson and subsequent members of the Wilson family including Robert E. Lee Wilson Jr. and Robert E. Lee Wilson III, who were both graduates of Yale University. 

Lot Number                                Title

1              General Robert Edward Lee, Brock, 1897, 586pp

2              Ten Civil War Books - Battles & Leaders

3              6 Civil War Books - Forrest, Mosby, Stuart, Morgan

4              Five Civil War History Books

5              Five Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis Books

6              6 Books - US Records & European Civil War Thoughts

7              4 Civil War Books - Battles, Leaders, Atlanta, Etc

8              Five Civil War Books - Grant, Custer, Nashville

9              Battle of the Little Big Horn - Where Was Custer?

10           Rommel & The Rebel - A Novel - Lawrence Wells

11           USS Valley Forge & Columbus Army AF Annual

12           WWI - The Balloon Buster - Norman S. Hall, 1928

13           Three WWII books on 90th Division & Ninth Army

14           Five WWII Books on the US Marine Corps

15           6 WWII German Officer Books Goebbels Kesselring

16           WWII Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler 1939

17           4 WWII Panzer Battles, Panzer Leader & Blitzkrieg

18           Six WWII US, German & Japanese Navy Books

19           Five WWII Books on Rommel - The Desert Fox

20           Six WWII Books on the War in the Pacific & Asia

21           Six WWII Books on Eisenhower and Churchill

22           Eight WWII Books on Various Topics of the War

23           Six  Books on Various Leaders of World War Two

24           Twelve WWII Books on USAF & Battles in the Skies

25           7 WWII Books on USAF and Battles in the Skies

26           Six WWII Spy and Espionage Books

27           Nine WWII Books on Battles, Soldiers Experiences

28           Four WWII Books US, Nazi, Polish Experiences

29           Three WWI Books on Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker

30           Five WWI Books on the Air War

31           WWI - World War Through The Stereoscope Vol. 1 & 2

32           Ten WWI Books on Battles & Officer Manuals

33           Six WWI Books on Officers of the War

34           3 National Steeplechase & Hunt Association Books

35           Three Racing and Breeding Horse Books

36           Six Horse Racing Story and Cartoon Books

37           Hoofbeats - Warren T. Halpin. Rare Limited Edition

38           Sporting Architecture - c.1845 - George Tattersall

39           Two Books on Horse Racing  - Palmer, Curzon

40           2 Large Format Horse Books on Farms & Racing

41           Three Large Format Horse Picture Books

42           Seven Books on Horse Racing - Fact & Fiction

43           Eight Books on Horses - Fact and Fiction

44           Three Thoroughbred Books on Racing and Training

45           Racing And 'Chasing - Alfred Watson - Autographed

46           Three Thorough Books on Thoroughbreds and Riders

47           Stable Economy - John Stewart - 1840 3rd Edition

48           Four Large Format Picture Books on Horses

49           3 Books on Horse Racing & the Kentucky Derby

50           Three Books on Horse Training, Racing and Polo

51           Travels in the Old South Volumes 1 & 2 - 1973

52           Six Books on Hunting Large and Small Game

53           Five Books on Hunting in North America

54           Two Books on Birds and Waterfowl in America

55           Three Books on North American Waterfowl

56           Seven Books on Waterfowl and Game Birds

57           Full Tilt - The Sporting Memoirs of Foxhall Keene

58           2 Books - Hunting Big Game - America & Africa

59           3 Books Coverts & Casts, Sportsman, Trophy Hunters

60           Five Books on Fishing True and Fiction

61           Eight Books on Guns, Hunting and Camping

62           Four Large Format Print and Illustration Books

63           Three Books on Golf - Sarazen & Wesson

64           Round By Round, 1st Edition, by Jack Dempsey

65           Bridge, Auction, Redskins, Princeton Football

66           Lot of 5 Books on Baseball, Hockey and Tennis

67           7 Books on History of Flight and Automobiles

68           2 Modern Surfing Around the World and Hawaii

69           Hawaiian Surfriding  - The Ancient & Royal Pastime

70           Locomobile Car Promotional Photo Book - WWI

71           Rifles and Rifle Practice - C.M. Wilcox - 1859

72           Dance Of Death - Charles Boner - 1857

73           Pamphlets - Loyal Publication Society, 1-44, 1864

74           Cloud Boat Stories by Olive Roberts Barton - 1917

75           No Man's Land by John Heminway - 1983

76           Recherches Sur Le Systeme Nerveux - Gall Spurzheim

77           Recherches Sur Le Systeme Nerveux - Flourens 1842

78           Oeuvres de Laplace #7 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1847

79           Memphis, TN Heroes - Everett Cook, Bill Mallory

80           Paris Universal Exposition Reports 1878 - 5 Vols.

81           Literary Digest, History of the World War, 10 Vols

82           James Fenimore Cooper - 19 Vol. Set - 1920?

83           Works of Kipling 10 Vols, Nottingham Society, 1913

84           Tales & Memoirs of European Courts - Sully - 1910

85           Zane Grey - 10 Volumes - 1925-1945

86           Collected Works of Joseph Conrad - 1925-1928

87           Eight Small Sets - 60 Books total - 1840-1920's

88           3 Sets Alban Butler, Edmund Head, Thomas Hood

89           Messages and Papers of the Presidents - 9 Vols.

90           The King Ranch, Vols. 1 & 2 - Tom Lea - 1957

91           Historie de la Revolution Francaise - Thiers 1834

92           Historie Des Deux Restaurations - Tenaille  - 1847

93           5 Book Set of Classics by Italian Authors, 1847-52

94           Collection of French Titles - 1840-1860 - Dumas

95           2 Beautiful French Dictionaries by Bouillet - 1855

96           2 Books, Burke's Landed Gentry 1952 & Peerage 1949

97           The Complete Works of Charles Dickens - Ltd. Ed.

98           The Works of Oscar Wilde - Limited Edition - 1909

99           Literature of Italy, Great Events by Historians

100         Three Sets - L'Amour, R.L. Stevenson, Proust

101         The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - 1829

102         Two Sets - History of Magic & Lives of Painters

103         Two sets - Poetry and Madden's Phantasmata 1857

104         Three Sets - Conquests, Spiritualism & Girondists

105         Ten Rebound 1800's Books on Various Topics

106         Eight Italian Books by Firenze from 1853-1856

107         Two Secret Hideaway Books from 1773-1780

108         Secret Hideaway Book/Safe from 1700's/1800's

109         Yale University Scroll and Key Society 1936 Album

110         Eight Yale Scroll and Key Society History Books

111         Eight  Yale University Class History of '12 & '36

112         Six Books - Yale Personal and Pictorial Books

113         Four Delta Psi Catalog of National Members- Yale

114         Group of 12 St. Paul's & Gunston School Yearbooks

115         The Shekinah - S. B. Brittan editor - Vol I, 1852

116         6 Books on Christianity and Spiritualism

117         5 Books on Architecture & Literature 1848-1925

118         12 Educational - Science, History, Astronomy Books

119         9 English, French and Italian Dictionaries

120         4 Books on Educational Literary Works - 1838-1931

121         5 Books on Europe, America, Italy 1853-1862

122         6 German Leather Half Bound  Books 1806-1821

123         Set: Des Publius Virgilius Maro Werke - Voss. 1821

124         1820 Book on the Dutch Education System

125         Homer's Odyssey & Iliad - J. Heinrich Voss, 1814

126         Set: Schauspiele von de la Barca, Vols 1-4 - 1815

127         6 Classic Novel Books by Various Authors 1873-1963

128         Group of 10 Books by Various Authors 1925-1971

129         Group of 4 Embossed Books from 1838-1857

130         2 Books Russia, Persia, Sweden, Baltic Region  Map

131         Orlando - Virginia Woolf - 1st Edition - 1928

132         5 Books: Hans Bricker, Robin Hood, Van Buren

133         Popular History of England, 8 Vols, Charles Knight

134         15 Books Shakespeare's Works 19th Century

135         The Penny Cyclopedia - 30 Volumes - Knight - 1833

136         The Penny Magazine - 14 Volumes, Knight, 1832-1845

137         Messages and Papers of the Presidents - 1903

138         Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846, Carey

139         University of Virginia Quarterly Review 1925-1929

140         Histoire Du Peuple Anglais - Elie Halevy - 1924

141         Journeys Through Bookland - Sylvester - 1909

142         2 Books: Translations of Freud & Shelley - 1920-22

143         Animal Magnetism & Magic - Joseph Ennemoser - 1844

144         Histoire Naturelle Des Plantes - Brisseau-Mirbel

145         Voyage Dans La Tertarie - 1st Edition - Huc - 1853

146         Les Trois Mousquetaires - Vol 1 & 2 - Dumas - 1922

147         Group of 6 Leather Bound Books  - 1819-1859

148         5 Leather & Canvas Bound Books  - 1853-1902

149         10 Leather & Canvas Bound  Books - 1814-1858

150         7 Books: Harper Valley Library, German, French

151         12 Small Books for Repair or Display

152         The Literature of Italy: 1265-1907 - 5 Volumes

153         Twelve Books of Poetry 19th - 20th Century

154         Eight Pretty Blue Books 1855-1969

155         11 Decorative Brown Books 1833-1913

156         Fourteen Pretty Green Books 1832-1939

157         Journal of House of Delegates - Virginia - 1781-86

158         5 Early Fiction Books - Poe, Defoe, Shakespeare

159         Group of 8 Small Leather Books 1853-1917

160         10 Decorative Red Books in Sets - 1920's

161         Mississippi State College On Record - RCA - 1950's

162         My People, The Sioux - Standing Bear 1928

163         3 Books on the American West - Cowboys and Indians

164         Six Books on the Early American West - 1938-1976

165         Six  Large Books on Art Through the Centuries

166         2 Books, American Prints - Currier & Ives, Craven

167         Group of 5 Books American & Homes Around The World

168         Group of 5 Books, Great Homes and Martha Stewart

169         Narrow Gauge in the Rockies - Railroad 1958

170         Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence - 1935

171         Murder in Newport - Gerard B. Lambert - 1938

172         10 Books Newspapers, Cartoons & Publishing Scripps

173         The Bridges at Toko-Ri, James Michener, 1953

174         Group of 11 Novels, etc.... Steinbeck & Others

175         Two Books on the Game of Bridge - 1931 & 1952

176         Eight Children's Books - Early 20th Century

177         Down From the Hills - Arkansas Governor Faubus

178         16 Books on Arkansas & Arkansans - 20th Century

179         Five Books on Memphis & the Mississippi River

180         7 Books on the Mississippi River - 20th Century

181         3 Books from Arkansas State University - 1967-1984

182         Six  University of Arkansas Books

183         The Random File: Private Letters of E.W. Scripps

184         Seven Novels, Story Books, Etc.. Mid 20th Century

185         Six Novels, Educational, Storybooks, Etc...

186         Five Novels, Educational, Storybooks, Etc...

187         Nine on 20th Century Politics and Figures

188         Three Early Books on/by African Americans

189         Six Novels, Storybooks, Etc...1800s/1900s

190         Six Books on Adventures, Spies & Mysteries

191         Seven Books on Poetry & Plays - 1800's

192         Eighteen Books on Poetry - 19th & 20th Centuries.

193         Seven Books on The American West. L'Amour & Combs

194         Approximately 22 Books on WWI & WWII, Etc...

195         Approximately 12 Books on WWII, Etc...

196         Approximately Nineteen Books on Religion - 1800's

197         Approximately Twenty Four Books on Religion

198         Eight Fiction Books - 1902-1963

199         5 Books on Travel & Stories from Around the World

200         Ten Books on Agriculture in the 20th Century

201         Circus Holiday Behind The Scenes

202         Apollo 13, Signed by Jim Lovell

203         3 Books on Photographic Enlarging & Print Quality

204         Eight Books Slave Ship, Mississippi Biography Etc.

205         Six Poetry Books Keats, Byron & Wilcox

206         Historie de Manon Lescaut, L'Abbe Prevost

207         Dominoes by Dominic C. Armanino C. 1967

208         Arkansas 1846 Justice of Peace, 1909 Will Etc.

209         U.S. Postage Stamp Mint Sheet File 1960's - 70's

210         Approx. $500 Face Value 1970`s, Full Sheet Stamps

211         Sailing  the Great Lakes & Rivers of America 1855

212         Group of Commemorative U.S. Postage Stamps

213         Shadow & Light, M.W. Gibbs  Intro B.T. Washington

214         Two African American Military History Books

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