872 lots.

"Sale number 1552"--Prelim.

Date of sale: November 23 and 24, 1954.

Bidding sheet tipped in.

"A splendid series of John Baskerville publications; literary and historical autographs, letters, documents, manuscripts, corrected proofs, lottery tickets; collected by the late Rev. Dr. Harris E. Kirk, Baltimore, Md. sold by order of Mrs. Kirk; selections from the library of Harry and Caresse Crosby, Washington, D.C., sold by order of Caresse Crosby; and property of Ogden Goelet, Paris, estate of the late Dr. Ernest F. Slater, Orangeburg, S.C., sold by the order of the National State Bank, Newark, N.J., and other owners."

Place of sale: New York.