[MISSISSIPPI RIVER REFERENCE]. A group of 280 modern reference works, including:

BISSELL, Richard. My Life on the Mississippi, or Why I Am Not Mark Twain. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1973. Publisher's blue cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- BOTKIN, B.A. (ed.). A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the Mid-American River Country. New York: Bonanza Books, 1978. Publisher's black cloth; dust jacket. -- DUDEN, Gottfried (1789-1856). Report on a Journey to the Western States of America. Columbia, MO: The University of Louisiana Press, 1980. Publisher's black cloth; dust jacket. -- HEARN, Chester G. (b. 1932). The Capture of New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Publisher's blue cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- MORMINO, Gary Ross (b. 1947). Immigrants on the Hill. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Publisher's red cloth; dust jacket. -- REPS, John (1921-2020). Cities of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century Images of Urban Development. Columbia, MO: The University of Missouri Press, 1994. Publisher's green cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- TANNER, Henry. The Martyrdom of Lovejoy. New York: Augustus M. Kelly, 1971. Publisher's gray cloth. -- And 273 others. Together, 280 works in 292 volumes, various folio, 8vo, and 4to sizes, condition generally very fine. Provenance for the lot: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009). Complete list available upon request.

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Gretchen Hause joined the Books and Manuscripts Department at Hindman Auctions in 2017, after working for nearly 8 years as a specialist in the Books and Manuscripts Department at Christie’s in New York. During her tenure at Hindman, Gretchen has handled numerous books and maps for record prices, including the superb Mellon-Garden copy of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, sold in 2019 for the world auction record price of $564,500. She also secured and sold a rare copy of Palmatary’s 1857 pre-fire view of Chicago (the only copy in private hands) for nearly $200,000, and secured and auctioned a copy of Ratzer’s fine Plan of the City of New York for a world auction record $162,500.

In 2023, Gretchen secured the Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie. The white-glove sale was 100% sold by lot, realizing nearly double the high estimate. In that same year, she served as head of sale for the Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright, another white-glove sale which realized more than three times the low estimate. In 2019, Gretchen was responsible for the sale of the Library of a Midwestern Collector. The 86-lot sale achieved a record total for any sale for the department, setting the world auction record for Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and bringing strong prices for several scientific works, works on computing, and other notable high spots. In 2018, she secured and handled the Fine Cartographic and Printed Americana Collection of Eric and Evelyn Newman, which was 97% sold by lot, achieving the highest sale total at the time for a single-session auction in department history, and bringing several record prices. She also organized the successful sale of The Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett. The two-session sale realized a department record sold total at the time, and achieved a 100% sell through rate.

Prior to joining Hindman Auctions, Gretchen spent nearly 8 years in the Books and Manuscripts department at Christie’s in New York. While at Christie’s, she contributed to the successful sales of several collections, including the Dorothy Shea collection of fore-edge paintings (96% sold by lot) and duplicates from the Warren H. Corning Library of the Holden Arboretum, which were 95% sold by lot in 2013 to benefit the acquisitions fund. She also helped catalogue the Cornelius J. Hauck Private Botanical Library (92% sold by lot in 2016), and the American Literature collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, which was 95% sold by lot. She had the opportunity to work on a number of landmark single-owner sales, including those of the collections of President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan and Huguette Clark, and the libraries of Kenneth Nebenzahl (exploration and maps), Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow (the art of book illustration), and Jean Perrette (travel and exploration), as well as the sale of the iconic Kelmscott printing press.

Gretchen has attended introductory and advanced bibliography and history of bookbinding courses at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, and holds a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature. She studied primarily British literature, with emphases in medieval and modern literature. Gretchen is a member of the Grolier Club, the Caxton Club, the Washington Map Society, and the Chicago Map Society. She currently serves on the board as Treasurer for the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies. She is an auctioneer, and has nearly 15 years of experience working with rare books and manuscripts. In addition to her commitment to the bibliophilic community, Gretchen is committed to public service as well, and is currently serving a 6-year term as a publicly-elected Commissioner for the Berwyn Park District in her hometown.

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