Connecticut River Book Auction
will hold a LIVE and IN-PERSON AUCTION
on SEPTEMBER 10th, at 6 pm
South Congregational Church
949 Main St, South Glastonbury, CT 06073.
www.ctriverbookauction.com •

SOUTH GLASTONBURY, CONN. — The October 1 Connecticut River Book Auction welcomes its fall attendees with several print and photograph lots that will appeal to several collecting interests. For fans of the “Galveston Giant,” the auction has a Johnson signed photograph. While Johnson was generous with his autograph, signed photos are less common. Johnson was America’s first Black heavyweight boxing champion and endured intense racial hatred during his life. In 1910, former heavyweight champion James Jeffries left retirement to fight Johnson, “for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a Negro.” This outdoor match took place in Reno, Nev., and to protect the fighters, firearms were checked at the entrance. After 15 rounds, Jeffries’ ringside handlers threw in the towel.

There are two framed Police Gazette newspaper broadsides offered for sale. One of the 1889 heavyweight fight between Jake Kilrain and John L. Sullivan conducted in Richburg, Miss., in 100-degree-plus heat lasted 75 rounds before Sullivan was declared the winner. The other, an 1892 broadside of the Corbett–Sullivan fight documents the event in which Gentleman Jim knocked out Sullivan after 21 rounds.
If fighting is not your thing, then this auction offers an auction lot of early circus cabinet cards featuring General Tom Thumb, Serpent Queen Miss Betra and Tattoo Lady Nora Hilderbrandt.

There is a signed Leroy Neiman golfing poster, Aubrey Schartz proof etchings and a scarce copy of Rabajoi’s signed Quelques dessins et Lithographies Originales sur la Guerre par Rabajoi, 1914-1918.
Face masks are required with inspection beginning at 1 pm, with the auction starting at 6 pm. This live and in-person book auction will be conducted at the South Congregational Church, 949 Main Street. For information, 860-908-8067 or www.ctriverbookauction.com.

860-908-8067
Inspection begins at 1:00pm Friday, September 10th
Across Connecticut the harvest season is upon us with squash, late season corn and luminescent pumpkins vying with apples for our attention. Here at Connecticut River Book Auction, we have sorted thru several consignments to pick a variety of anthropology, history, fiction, maps, and artwork to sell on Friday, September 10th as a live in-person event in South Glastonbury, CT. With over 200 lots for sale, believers of Aliens will be pleased with a 1967 letter attesting to the sighting of a UFO. Students of Vermont, Maine and Connecticut history will have their reading needs fulfilled. Enthusiasts of children’s literature will find first editions of Babar and other timeless story characters for sale. For art lovers there are several signed prints and photographs by Colley, Mersky, Alfredo Ramon and two huge Napoleonic lithographs by Maclise. To the items just mentioned, this sale offers a rarely found first edition (1853) copy of “Exodus or The Second Book of Moses translated into the Cherokee Language.” Translated by Stephen Foreman and Austin Worcester, it was printed in Oklahoma by the Mission Press, Edward Archer printer. Oh, and did we mention the tabletop brass telescope or the autograph signatures of Juan and Eva Peron, P.T. Barnum, Jerry Falwell, Henry Ward Beecher and more?
Visit ctriverbookauction.com for full details.
Still have questions, then call Tom at 1-860-908-8067.