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Robert Burns. Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: Printed by John Wilson, 1786.
Auction 6295 | Lot: 45023 | Jun 27, 2024

Sold For: $52,500.00

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Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories & Ten Poems. Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923.
Auction 6295 | Lot: 45087 | Jun 27, 2024

Sold For: $52,500.00
H. P. Lovecraft. Small archive of nine lengthy autograph letters signed variously ("H.P.L.", "E'ch-Pi-El", and "H.P. Lovecraft") over a period of six years to J. Vernon Shea. Various places, 1931-1937.
Auction 6295 | Lot: 45117 | Jun 27, 2024

Sold For: $52,500.00
Ian Fleming. Notebook Containing Autograph Notes for You Only Live Twice. No place, [circa 1962].
Auction 6258 | Lot: 42008 | Jul 16, 2022

Sold For: $52,500.00
[Magna Carta]. By Permission of... [the] Trustees of the Cottonian Library. This Plate being a correct Copy of King John's Great Charter, taken from an Original... [London]: John Pine, [1733]. First impression.
Auction 6256 | Lot: 43001 | May 7, 2022

Sold For: $52,500.00
[Mark Hofmann, forger]. The Oath of a Freeman. Printed broadside comprising a forgery of the first document printed in English North America. [The Oath of a Freeman. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Stephen Daye, circa 1638-1639 but Salt Lake City, Utah: Mark Hofmann, March 25, 1985].
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45390 | Jun 9, 2021

Sold For: $52,500.00
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. [London: Strange-ways, privately printed for the Author, December, 1901]. First edition, first printing.
Auction 6234 | Lot: 45174 | Dec 16, 2020

Sold For: $52,500.00
[Presidents of the United States]. Charles H. Grosvenor [biographical sketches]. The Book of the American Presidents. Washington: Continental Press, 1902. First edition. Large folio (15.5 x 12 inches; 393 x 305 mm.). [2], 124 pages.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36262 | Apr 11, 2012

Sold For: $51,562.50
Jules Cheret (editor). Les Maîtres de l'Affiche - Complete in Five Volumes Comprised of 256 ...
Auction 6043 | Lot: 36039 | Jun 8, 2010

Sold For: $50,787.50

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Ian Fleming. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, [1953].

First edition. Pro...
Auction 6030 | Lot: 37253 | Oct 16, 2009

Sold For: $50,787.50
Dashiell Hammett. Red Harvest. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition of Hammett's first book.
Auction 6201 | Lot: 45045 | Sep 14, 2017

Sold For: $50,625.00
Emily Dickinson. Poems... Edited by two of her friends, Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890.
Auction 6295 | Lot: 45048 | Jun 27, 2024

Sold For: $50,000.00

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Nathaniel Hawthorne. Autograph manuscript signed of the story "The Lily's Quest. An Apologue." Signed at head ("Nathaniel Hawthorne"). [1839].
Auction 6295 | Lot: 45081 | Jun 27, 2024

Sold For: $50,000.00
Herman Melville. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866.
Auction 6295 | Lot: 45127 | Jun 27, 2024

Sold For: $50,000.00
Henry Vaughan. Silex Scintillans: or Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. London: T[homas]. W[alkley]. for H. Blunden, 1650.
Auction 6295 | Lot: 45191 | Jun 27, 2024

Sold For: $50,000.00

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Herman Melville. The Whale. London: Richard Bentley, 1853. (Total: 3)
Auction 6280 | Lot: 47062 | Dec 15, 2023

Sold For: $50,000.00

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[Sojourner Truth]. Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life."
Auction 6248 | Lot: 47058 | Oct 19, 2022

Sold For: $50,000.00
[Emancipation Proclamation]. Abraham Lincoln. By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. [Washington: Government Printing Office, circa January 5, 1863]. Fourth edition.
Auction 6256 | Lot: 43024 | May 7, 2022

Sold For: $50,000.00
Earl Derr Biggers. The House Without a Key. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1925]. First edition of the first Charlie Chan mystery.
Auction 6230 | Lot: 45198 | Oct 15, 2020

Sold For: $50,000.00
[Mormon Church]. [Joseph Smith, Junior, Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, Frederick G. Williams, compilers]. Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God... Kirtland, Ohio: Printed by F. G. Williams & Co. for the Proprietors, 1835. Second edition of the revelations to Joseph Smith (after the first incomplete publication in 1833 titled The Book of Commandments); the first edition under the title Doctrine and Covenants; and the first to include the "Lectures on Faith."
Auction 6222 | Lot: 45076 | Mar 4, 2020

Sold For: $50,000.00
[The Nuremberg Chronicle]. Hartmann Schedel. Liber cronicarum cum figuris et ymaginibus. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493]. First Latin edition.
Auction 6201 | Lot: 45271 | Sep 14, 2017

Sold For: $50,000.00
James Joyce. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, of which this is one of 750 copies on handmade paper, numbered 444.
Auction 6212 | Lot: 42045 | Sep 5, 2019

Sold For: $48,125.00
Joseph Smith, Junior. The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken From the Plates of Nephi. By Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor. Palmyra, [New York]: Printed by E. B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830. First (Total: 18 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37034 | Sep 14, 2011

Sold For: $47,800.00
Charles Darwin. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. London: John Murray, 1877. First edition, first issue. Inscribed by Darwin on the title page: "From the Author with kind regards." Also with three autograph letters signed by Darwin
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37038 | Sep 14, 2011

Sold For: $47,800.00
The Amazing Spider-Man #1 Twin Cities pedigree (Marvel, 1963) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages.
Auction 6065 | Lot: 5 | Apr 16, 2011

Sold For: $47,800.00
John Milton. ["Lycidas" in:] Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab Amicis moerentibus (second title on F1r: Obsequies to the memorie of Mr Edward King, Anno Dom. 1638). Cambridge: Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the University, 1638.
Auction 6295 | Lot: 45133 | Jun 27, 2024

Sold For: $47,500.00
Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition in the first state dust jacket.
Auction 6241 | Lot: 45038 | Dec 9, 2021

Sold For: $47,500.00

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J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1954-1955. First editions, first impressions, with original illustrated dust jackets. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45298 | Jun 9, 2021

Sold For: $47,500.00
[Early American Imprints]. [Alexander Hamilton]. Collection of Twenty-Eight Early United States Government Publications. [Philadelphia: 1791-1800]. Various government documents, including several acts and bills (some being working copies or printed drafts), includes the First Federal Budget, written by Alexander Hamilton in 1791. (Total: 30 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45141 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $47,500.00

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J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit. Or, There and Back Again. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1937]. First edition, first impression, with text errors as called for, and first issue dust jacket with "Dodgeson" misspelling to rear flap.
Auction 31172 | Lot: 71111 | Oct 14, 2021

Sold For: $47,500.00
Through the Looking-Glass, What Alice Found There
Auction 997075 | Lot: 31 | Dec 16, 2009

Sold For: $47,200.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing, with all first printing points: "chatter" on p. 60, line 16; "northern" on p. 119, line 22; "it's" on p. 165, line 16; "away" on p. 165, line 29; "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10; and "Union Street station" on p. 211, lines 7-8. Octavo. 218 pages. Original, unrestored first printing dust jacket designed by Francis Cugat, with the lowercase "j" in "jay Gatsby" on the back panel hand-corrected in ink. A fabulous example of the book, with bright spine gilt, and only light edge wear to the cloth and mild cocking to the spine and a small inked price stamp to the rear free endpaper. The original dust jacket has a few small chips, tiny tears, and some loss to the edges and spine ends, affecting, only slightly, the "T" in "The" at the beginning of the title at both the spine head and front panel. A short horizontal tear across the spine of the jacket just touches the top part of the word "GATSBY." A triangular-shaped area near the middle of the spine is missing. The piece of the jacket spine towards the spine tail, where "SCRIBNERS" is printed, has only recently become detached, but is still present. The spine folds are a bit weak. It is a somewhat fragile, but mostly complete, original, and unsophisticated dust jacket. Overall, it is a wonderful copy of one of the true rarities in American literature, a book Cyril Connolly described in 1966 as, "a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it." Bruccoli A11.1.a. Connolly, The Modern Movement, p. 48.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36174 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $46,875.00
[Bible in English]. [William Tyndale, translator]. The Newe Testament of our Sauiour Iesus Christe, faithfully translated out of the Greke with the Notes and Expositions of the darke places therein. [London: Richard Jugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, [n.d., 1566, as ascribed from the first year in the Almanack].
Auction 6094 | Lot: 36060 | Apr 10, 2013

Sold For: $46,875.00
[Thomas Robert Malthus]. An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society. With Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1798.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36214 | Apr 11, 2012

Sold For: $46,875.00
Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
Auction 6319 | Lot: 45058 | May 9, 2025

Sold For: $45,000.00

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Mark Twain. Autograph manuscript of Chapter 15 ("Down the River") from A Tramp Abroad, with numerous revisions and deletions by the author. [c.1879-80].
Auction 6295 | Lot: 45189 | Jun 27, 2024

Sold For: $45,000.00

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Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Charles Ryder. London: Chapman & Hall, 1945 [1944].
Auction 6295 | Lot: 45200 | Jun 27, 2024

Sold For: $45,000.00

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Arthur Conan Doyle. The Complete Run of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes issued in The Strand Magazine (UK). London: George Newnes, 1891-1927. (Total: 7)
Auction 6241 | Lot: 45101 | Dec 9, 2021

Sold For: $45,000.00
Charles Dickens. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition. Signed and dated by the author in black ink at head of title, "Charles Dickens [flourish] / New Year's Day 1842."
Auction 6186 | Lot: 45018 | Mar 7, 2018

Sold For: $45,000.00
William Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio... London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, at the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane in St. Pauls Church-Yard, and in Russel-Street Covent-Garden, 1685. The fourth collected edition of Shakespeare's plays (after the 1623, 1632, and 1664 editions), first issue, without Chiswell's name in the imprint.
Auction 6186 | Lot: 45110 | Mar 7, 2018

Sold For: $45,000.00
W[illiam]. W[illiston]. Heartsill: Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days, in the Confederate Army.
Auction 6134 | Lot: 53087 | Mar 12, 2016

Sold For: $45,000.00

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Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1860. First English edition, with a comma following the author's name on the title page in Volumes II and III, as called for. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 31172 | Lot: 71015 | Oct 14, 2021

Sold For: $45,000.00
[Kelmscott Press]. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted.
Auction 6053 | Lot: 36233 | Apr 7, 2011

Sold For: $44,812.50
Frederic LeClerc: Le Texas et sa Revolution....
Auction 661 | Lot: 56106 | Dec 1, 2007

Sold For: $44,812.50

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[Nobel Prize in Science]. Excellent Collection of 218 Nobel Lectures & Related Offprints by 80 Nobel Prize Laureates, 175 Signed. Collection includes 63 Nobel Lectures, 58 signed; 121 Offprints, 84 signed; 32 typescript letters, 31 signed; and two signed photographs. Housed in six portfolios.

Includes Linus Pauling and Harold C. Urey, among many others. The following is just a sampling of the overall collection: Langmuir, Irving (Chemistry). Photograph Signed. Urey, Harold C. (Chemistry). Some Thermodynamic Properties of Hydrogen and Deuterium. Stockholm 1935. (Noble Lecture, February 16, 1935, pp.1-16). Signed. Szent-Györgyi, Albert (Medicine & Physiology). Typescript Letter Signed. December 14, 1962. Typescript Letter Signed. March 28, 1966. Kuhn, Richard (Chemistry). Der Nobelpreis des Jahres 1938 für Chemie, wurde am 9. November 1939. (Copy). Signed. Typescript Letter Signed. February 19, 1959, and its English translation. Heymans, C. (Medicine & Physiology). Sur le Role des Presso- et des Chimio-Récepteurs. Stockholm 1946. (Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1945, pp; 142-158). Signed. Baroceptor and Chemoceptor Reflexes in Monkeys. (Offprint. 3pp. Reprinted from Circulation Research, Vol. VI, No.5, September, 1958). Typescript Letter Signed. February 11, 1959. Fermi, Enrico (Physics). Artificial Radioactivity produced by Neutron Bombardment. Stockholm 1939. (Nobel Lecture, December 12. 1938, 8 pp.). Hevesy, G. (Chemistry). Historical Notes on the Discovery of Hafnium. (Offprint. 543-548 pp. Reprinted from "Archiv för Kemi", Bd. 3, Nr. 58, June 6, 1951). Signed. On the New Element H
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36227 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $43,750.00
Thomas L. M'Kenney [McKenney] and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia; Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, 1842-1842-1844. First edition of "The grandest color plate book issued in the United States up the time of its publication" [Reese]. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6094 | Lot: 36023 | Apr 10, 2013

Sold For: $43,750.00
J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition, first issue (with "Joanne Rowling" and the complete number line on the copyright page, as well as "1 Wand" listed twice on page 53.
Auction 6094 | Lot: 36201 | Apr 10, 2013

Sold For: $43,750.00
Thomas L McKenney. and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36025 | Oct 4, 2012

Sold For: $43,750.00

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