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[Kelmscott Press]. Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted
.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36233 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$44,812.50
Missale, Use of Magdeburg.
[Magdeburg: Moritz Brandis, 14 April 1497].
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36102 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$41,825.00
Henry David Thoreau.
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36214 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$35,850.00
[Captain James Cook]. John Hawkesworth
. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,
(Total: 9 Items)
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36161 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$33,460.00
Herman Melville.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
First American edition. Octavo. xxiii, [1, blank], 634, [1, "Epilogue"], [1, blank], [6, ads], [4, blank] pages.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36622 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$29,875.00
Peter Force.
American Archives: Consisting of a Collection of Authentick Records, State Papers, Debates, and Letters and Other Notices of Publick Affairs, the Whole Forming a Documentary History of the Origin and Progress of the North American Colonies
;
(Total: 9 Items)
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36014 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$26,290.00
Doris Ulmann, photographs. Julia Peterkin, text.
Roll, Jordan, Roll
.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36199 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$23,302.50
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$34,954 or more
Ernest Hemingway.
In Our Time.
New York: 1925.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36582 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$22,705.00
[F. Scott Fitzgerald]. Fitzgerald's Personal Copy of George Washington's
The Farewell Address of George Washington
/ Daniel Webster's
The First Bunker Hill Oration
.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36556 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$21,999.95
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$33,000 or more
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787
.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36017 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$20,315.00
[John Augustine Washington].
The Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates, Held at the Capitol, In the City of Williamsburg, In the Colony of Virginia, on Monday the 6th of May, 1776
.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36046 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$20,315.00
Garth Williams.
Original watercolor and preliminary artwork and layout materials for dust jacket of
Stuart Little
, 1945.
Original watercolor on stiff watercolor paper (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36477 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$19,717.50
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$29,576 or more
[Bushrod Washington]. [American Constitutions].
The Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America; The Declaration of Independence; The Articles of Confederation between the Said States;
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36043 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$19,120.00
J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
.
[London]: Bloomsbury, [1997...
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36353 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$15,535.00
J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
.
[London]: Bloomsbury, [1997].
First edition, first printing, of the first and rarest of the Harry Potter books, with the correct full number line
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36354 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$15,535.00
Raymond Chandler.
The High Window.
New York: Knopf: 1942.
First edition, first printing. Octavo.
Inscribed on front free endpaper, "Joe Messick / from Raymond Chandler / La Jolla Oct 3, 1950".
240 pages.
Publisher's light brown cloth with dark purplish
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36480 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$15,535.00
[Meriwether] Lewis, and [William] Clark.
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clar...
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36021 | Apr 7, 2011
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$15,535.00
[Garth Williams]. Rosemary Wells. Group of Forty-Eight Illustrations for
Charlotte's Web
, Wi...
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36435 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$14,340.00
Ernest Hemingway.
The Old Man and the Sea
.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1952].
Later edition.
With handwritten annotations by Hemingway on several pages.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36583 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$13,145.00
[Alcoholics Anonymous]. [Bill Wilson].
Alcoholics Anonymous
.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36241 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$13,145.00
Albrecht von Eyb.
Margarita poetica
.
[Part I only (all published)]. [Paris: Ulrich Gering, 29 November 1478].
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36092 | Apr 7, 2011
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$12,547.50
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$18,821 or more
Garth Williams.
ALS from E.B. White to Garth Williams with instructions on how to draw
The Wasp
,
Stuart Little
.
(Total: 13 Items)
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36475 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$11,950.00
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$17,925 or more
[Silvia Rennie, art binder]. Marc Chagall.
The Lithographs of Chagall.
Introduction by Marc Chagall. Notes and Catalogue by Fernand Mourlot. New York and Boston: George Braziller, Crown Publishers, and Boston Book and Art Shop, [1960-1984]. (Total: 7 Items)
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36210 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$11,950.00
Garth Williams. Numerous studies of Charlotte for
Charlotte's Web
....
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36416 | Apr 7, 2011
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$10,157.50
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$15,236 or more
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Beautiful and Damned.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36554 | Apr 7, 2011
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$10,157.50
Ernest Hemingway.
A Farewell to Arms
.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36575 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$10,157.50
John Steinbeck.
Cup of Gold.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36648 | Apr 7, 2011
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$10,157.50
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Garth Williams. Illustration #3,
Charlotte's Web
....
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36367 | Apr 7, 2011
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$9,560.00
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$14,340 or more
Garth Williams. Illustration #25,
Charlotte's Web
....
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36393 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$9,560.00
Alexander Wilson.
American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Plates.
Engraved and Coloured from Original Drawings taken from Nature. New York and Philadelphia: Collins
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36271 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$9,560.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby.
New York: The Modern Library, [1934].
First Modern Library edition, with the first appearance of Fitzgerald's new introduction,
inscribed and signed by Fitzgerald
: "For Ned Griffith
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36557 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$8,962.50
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Tender is the Night.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36560 | Apr 7, 2011
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$8,962.50
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$13,444 or more
Ken Kesey.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36602 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$8,365.00
Garth Williams. Unused illustration,
Charlotte's Web
.
...
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36423 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$7,767.50
Garth Williams. Painting of unused dust jacket design for
The Rabbits' Wedding
.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36441 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$7,767.50
John Steinbeck. Autograph Manuscript for Part of
The Log from the Sea of Cortez
.
(Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36646 | Apr 7, 2011
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$7,767.50
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$11,651 or more
Charles Dickens. Autograph Quotation Signed, "Charles Dickens",
one page, 8.625" x 10.4375", Tremont House, Boston, J...
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36692 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$7,767.50
Guillermus (or Guillelmus) Parisiensis.
Postilla super epistolas et evangelia
.
[Vienne: Eberhard Frommolt, not before 1480].
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36104 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$7,767.50
Charles Dickens.
A Tale of Two Cities
.
With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: C...
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36714 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$7,468.75
Sir Walter Scott.
The Works of Sir Walter Scott.
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1829-1839.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36212 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$7,468.75
[Kay Nielsen, illustrator]. [Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Ingebreksten Moe].
East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
Old Tales from the North.
Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1914].
Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36342 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$7,170.00
Ayn Rand.
Atlas Shrugged.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36632 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$7,170.00
[Illuminated Manuscript]. Large Leaf from Missal or Antiphoner.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36098 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$7,170.00
Garth Williams. Illustration #9,
Charlotte's Web
....
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36377 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$6,572.50
Frank Herbert.
Dune.
Philadelphia / New York: Chilton Books, 1965.
First edition.
Signed by the author
on the half-title page. Large octavo. 412 pages including multiple appendices.
Publisher's light blue cloth with white lettering to spine.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36494 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$6,572.50
[Henry R. Schoolcraft, LL.D., editor].
Information, Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indi...
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36036 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$6,572.50
[Ferdowski]. Nineteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript of the Persian Epic,
Shahnameh
.
[N.p., n.d., ca. 1800s].
Octavo. 388 pages. With sixty-four hand-colored illustrations in the text, heightened in gold. Text in Farsi,
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36093 | Apr 7, 2011
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$6,572.50
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$9,859 or more
Lewis Carroll.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866 [1865].
First American edition (i.e., first edition, second issue), comprising pages from the 1865
Alice
with a new title.
Auction 6053
| Lot: 36328 | Apr 7, 2011
Sold For:
$5,975.00
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$9,660 or more
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