A Book Auction in Maine August 16th
- By Bruce McKinney
Auction Highlights on the Poulin website
On August 16th in Fairfield, Maine just off Route 95, at Poulin Antique and Auction Gallery, an authentic collection of gems and rhinestones in the books, maps and ephemera field come up for sale. The event is a throwback to the days when the interesting and sometimes spectacular were lotted-up and offered as a challenge to buyers to sort-out. In the upcoming sale an average lot contains 11 books as 5,000 items are offered in 475 lots. Adding to the sense of deja-vu the buyer’s premium rate for lots paid for in cash, with money orders and transfers is ten percent. The field has not consistently seen a 10% buyer’s premium in decades. The sale promises to be immense fun and an intellectual challenge. For those who love books there may not be a better way to invest two days, the first to inspect the material and the second to bid. The sale that gets under way at 11:00 am on the 16th will be sold at breakneck speed. The goal is to dispose of all lots by 6:30 pm, in time to meet the lobster boats bringing in dinner.
The material comes into the rooms from various sources.
As befits a sale in the ‘country style’ an advertisement running in the Maine Antique Digest and Newtown Bee projects a sense of material that is at once difficult to find and stacked up like cordwood. The goal, for the house is of course to encourage a substantial audience. The complexity of the box lots, well advertised and described, increases the prospects that a wider audience, via the internet, will find objects to bid-on online or by absentee offer. In past auctions Poulins has had as many as 8 lines for phone bidders and this sale may use them all. All lots are offered without reserve, subject only to a $25 starting bid. Prices will be determined in the room and promptly reported soon after.
Here is the working text of the ad going to press in the next few days:
IMPORTANT MAINE BOOK AUCTION: Tues. Aug.16th at our Auction Gallery in Fairfield, Maine at 11:00. PREVIEW: Mon., Aug. 15th, 9-5:00 and Tues, Aug. 9-11. The catalog with detailed descriptions and photographs is now ONLINE on Artfact to review, register and bid as well as on the Americana Exchange to review and research to confirm material of interest. On the Poulin website, http://www.poulinantiques.com/ background on the house and details on the lots [via the AUCTIONS link], are accessible. There is a thirteen buyer’s premium with a 3 percent discount for cash, pre-approved checks and money orders.
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A Book Auction in Maine August 16th
- By Bruce McKinney
A selection of some of the interesting books
A Small Portion of the Material
AMERICANA: 1777 Robertson; Best Ed. of Marshall's G. Washington (all maps and plates) and many Howes titles and others. Important BIBLES 1806 to DORE, DALI and others. BEST COLLECTION OF CIVIL WAR BOOKS EVER SOLD AT AUCTION IN MAINE (100+ lots). TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: 1776 ANSON; Fenning’s 1744 NEW...GEOGRAPHY; 1704 BUCKANIERS OF AMERICA; 1823 LONG'S NARRATIVE; 1776 HISTORICAL...USA by Botham. Great collection of FAIRY TALES including GAY'S FABLES (Blake), Dore, Lang, etc. ENGLISH & AMER. NEWSPAPERS 1707-1880 from many States, many Harper's Weeklys (Homers). Many folios on GARDENS and ARCHITECTURE (B.Asher, etc.), and INTERIORS. 1st Amer. ADVENTURES OF S. HOLMES. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (Dore, Rackham, and others). ART BOOKS (some signed) and books with original etchings, color lithographs (birds, fish, etc.). RARE A. LINCOLN books and many Presidential related books, a medal, portraits, signatures, etc. 32 crisp BIG LITTLE BOOKS. Complete YELLOW BOOK; VERVEs and others. Paper lots (OHIO, NAUTICAL, MASSIVE ODD FELLOWS ARCHIVE-ECHO LODGE, BERWICK, ME.- 1870S-EARLY 20TH.) and others. Books on GOLF; TENNIS; BASEBALL; HORSES; DOGS; HUNTING; FISHING; CHESS; BIRDS; SCIENCE; PHILOLOGY; RELIGION(some early); NAUTICA and EXPLORATION. Important ANTIQUE REFERENCE BOOKS from a New England Museum. WESTERN AMERICANA. Clean lots of 19th and 20th century Travel Books from many countries. Good selection of LAW BOOKS (17th, 18th, and 19th centuries) LAWS...MASS (1799) which includes the D.O.I., TREATY OF PEACE, the U.S. and MASS CONSTITUTIONS; legal works by J. Story and others. Books on ECONOMICS (Ist Ed. J.Necker, A.Smith etc); POLITICAL ECONOMY; PHILOSOPHY, etc. MANY HUNDREDS OF LEATHER-BOUND BOOKS and DECORATIVE CLOTH BINDINGS- sold in sets, singles and large lots. COOK BOOKS (19th and 20th Cent.). Great lot of 62 1920/30s FORD DEALER MAGS. 1930s FORTUNE MAGAZINES. Small Press, Fine Press and LECs. COLOPHON MAGS; MAINE & NEW ENGLAND titles and sets.
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A Book Auction in Maine August 16th
- By Bruce McKinney
One of many interesting items
Each Auction lot buys in at $25.00 with ABSOLUTELY NO ADDITIONAL RESERVES.
Book dealers, collectors, e-Bayers, and interior decorators will decidedly profit from personal attendance. Many lots unexamined for the presence of signatures, laid-in material and the like. This will be a fast-moving sale of more than 450 lots to be concluded by 6:30 PM. Catered, air-conditioned. Shipping available at buyer’s expense.
Enough said. It’s an interesting sale, a time capsule of bookselling forty years ago.
Link to full text action search.
Poulin Antiques via the internet [www.poulinantiques.com]
Contact by phone:
(207) 453-2114
Contact by eMail: info@poulinantiques.com
Links to online Bidding artfact.com [online bidding]
Bid by phones or absentee bidding contact the house.
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