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August Derleth. SIGNED.
Three Problems for Solar Pons.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1952. First edition, one of 990 copies
(colophon is printed with "Two thousand" but is crossed out and "990" is written in Derleth's purple ink). Signed by Derleth on the front free endpaper.
Octavo. 112 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket spine and extremities a bit browned, and rubbed. Still, near fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92084 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$468.75
C. S. Lewis.
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
London: Bles, [1950]. First edition. Octavo. [173] pages. Publisher's binding, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket worn, torn and chipped, book spine sunned and rubbed. Good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92151 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$468.75
[Jerry Weist]. Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan and the Forbidden City.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, [1938]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 315 pages. Publisher's blue cloth binding and dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Minor rubbing to cloth extremities with soft bumping to upper corners. Sunning to top board edges. Offsetting and small tape shadows to endpapers. Jacket with $2.00 price on front flap. Very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92055 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$437.50
[Jerry Weist]. A. M. Low.
Mars Breaks Through.
London: Herbert Joseph Limited, [1937]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 251 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor toning and bumping to board edges. Offsetting and tape shadows to endpapers. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with tape shadows to top and bottom edge. Overall very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92167 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$437.50
Jack Kerouac.
The Dharma Bums.
New York: Viking, [1958]. First edition. Octavo. 244 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket and binding rubbed. Very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92144 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$406.25
Edmund Dulac [illustrator]. Leonard Rosenthal.
The Kingdom of the Pearl.
New York: Brentano's, [n. d., ca. 1920].
Limited to 675 numbered copies.
Quarto. 150 pages. Publisher's half cloth with paper over boards. Minor rubbing and abrading to extremities. Binding cracking.
Illustrated with 10 tipped-in color plates
with captioned tissue guards. Very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92214 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$375.00
James Lee Burke.
To the Bright and Shining Sun.
New York: Scribner's [1970]. First edition. Octavo. 241 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Mild rubbing to jacket and binding. Fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92042 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$350.00
E. Annie Proulx. SIGNED.
The Shipping News.
New York: Scribners, [1993]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Proulx
on title page. Octavo. 337 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92205 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$350.00
[Jerry Weist]. Jack Vance. SIGNED.
The Languages of Pao.
New York: Avalon, [1958]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Vance
on title page. Octavo. 223 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Faint soiling to page edges. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a bit of sunning to spine. Overall near fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92247 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$332.50
[Andrew Wyeth]. INSCRIBED BY WYETH TO DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.
Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons
.
[New York]: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [1976]. First edition of this exhibition catalogue.
Inscribed by Wyeth on the first leaf: "I think we should/add this to Doug's/World -/Andy". With Fairbanks' bookplate.
Quarto. 126 pages. Publisher's wrappers. Slightly rubbed. Near fine. An excellent inscription with a play on the title of Wyeth's most famous painting -
Christina's World
.(1948).
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92412 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$300.00
L. Frank Baum.
Glinda of Oz.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1920]. First edition. Octavo. 279 pages. With 12 color plates throughout. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket spine lightly sunned, jacket chipped and a bit worn, some wear to binding, several black and white illustrations in text are colored in a later hand (done quite well). Overall, Near fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92012 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$275.00
Make Offer to Owner
$1,800 or more
[Disney]. Robert D. Feild.
The Art of Walt Disney.
New York: Macmillan, 1942. First edition, first printing. Quarto. 290 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. A remarkably clean and bright copy of the book. Jacket shows only light wear and soiling to extremities. A fine book in a near fine jacket and seldom found in this amazing condition.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92303 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$275.00
Make Offer to Owner
$425 or more
[Disney]. SIGNED. Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.
Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life.
New York: Abbeville Press, [1981].
Special edition signed by both authors and containing "a foot of original film from a classic Disney feature" (this strip being from
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
).
Square folio. 575 pages. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's red cloth binding and dust jacket in fine condition. Illustrated slipcase with only a bit of modest rubbing.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92306 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$275.00
Frank Herbert
Dune.
Radnor: Chilton, [1965]. First edition, second issue of book and jacket. Octavo. 412 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket rubbed and a bit soiled, some rubbing to binding, bookseller's sticker on rear pastedown, gift inscription on front free endpaper. Very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92126 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$256.25
[Limited Editions Club]. SIGNED. [Thomas Hart Benton, illustrator]. Mark Twain.
Life on the Mississippi.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944.
One of 1,200 copies signed by Benton.
Octavo. 418 pages. Publisher's binding, glassine jacket, folding box. Fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92153 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$253.75
Ray Bradbury. INSCRIBED.
The Machineries of Joy.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Bradbury on front free endpaper. Octavo. 255 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with mild sunning along spine. Near fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92038 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$250.00
Make Offer to Owner
$390 or more
Edgar Allan Poe.
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
New York: Worthington, 1886. Octavo. 267 pages. Publisher's binding. Some rubbing to spine and corners, corners bumped, rear hinge cracked. Text shaken. Good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92200 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$250.00
Mario Puzo.
The Godfather.
New York: Putnam's, [1969]. First edition. Octavo. 446 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket somewhat worn with several tears and some soiling, tape repairs to verso, some rubbing to binding. Very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92206 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$237.50
Truman Capote.
In Cold Blood.
New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 343 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Faint rubbing to spine ends of jacket, otherwise a crisp, fine copy.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92288 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$237.50
[Fine bindings]. Mary de Morgan. LIMITED.
The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde; and Other Stories.
London: Macmillan& Co., 1880. First edition.
One of 100 copies of the large paper edition, this being number 25.
Large octavo. 184 pages. Illustrations by Walter Crane on india paper. Half-bound in rose-pink morocco over grey cloth boards with gilt borders, decorations, and titles to morocco spine label. Covers lightly rubbed with some shelfwear and bumping to top corners. Spine somewhat sunned. Hinges lightly beginning. Light foxing to endpapers, preliminaries, and terminals. Bookplate of John Hadmar Sticht on front free endpaper. Bookseller's ticket. Else a near fine copy of a beautifully executed book.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92366 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$237.50
W. R. Burnett.
Iron Man.
New York: Dial, 1930. First edition. Octavo. 312 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit browned, some very minor rubbing to jacket. Fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92044 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$225.00
[Pop-Up Book]. Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The New Adventures of Tarzan "Pop-Up".
Chicago: Pleasure Books, [1935]. Illustrated pop-up edition. Quarto. Publisher's binding. Three pristine pop-ups. Modest wear to extremities, otherwise fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92202 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$225.00
Arthur Szyk. [With Esky-Card #6].
The New Order.
New York: Putnam's, [1941]. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Mild rubbing and soiling to jacket, else fine. With
six Szyk Caricatures (Esky-Card Set #6) laid-in, in original envelope. Rare.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92236 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$225.00
William H. Seward. SIGNED.
The True Issue.
[Auburn: n. p., 1838]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Seward on title page.
Octavo. 11 pages and with additional pages relating to New York area. Pamphlet bound in contemporary full green cloth covered boards with lightly abraded paper spine label. Pages trimmed. Very good. Issued when Seward was then a member of a committee reporting to a town meeting at Albany, February, 1838.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92002 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$212.50
[Limited Editions Club]. SIGNED. [Thomas Hart Benton, illustrator]. Mark Twain.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942.
One of 1,500 copies signed by Benton.
Octavo. 396 pages. Publisher's binding, slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92152 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$212.50
Winston Spencer Churchill.
My African Journey.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition. Octavo. 226 pages. Illustrated with photos taken by Churchill. Publisher's binding. Rebacked, preserving most of the original spine, new endpapers, spine a bit sunned, some rubbing and mild wear to boards, embossed library stamps, one embossed stamp on the title-page which says, "Presentation Copy". Very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92294 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$212.50
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Pirates of Venus.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1935]. First British edition, first printing. Octavo. 312 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. A remarkably fresh copy with some minor wear to jacket edges, mainly at spine head. Overall near fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92047 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$200.00
[Walter Crane and Kate Greenaway].
The Quiver of Love.
A collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern.
London: Ward, 1876. First edition. Octavo. 152 pages. With 8 inserted plates and illustrated title-page. Publisher's binding. Some rubbing to binding, bookplate. Near fine. An early example of Greenaway's work.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92070 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$200.00
[Walt Disney]. Deems Taylor.
Walt Disney's Fantasia.
With a foreword by Leopold Stokowski. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First edition of this beautiful Disney work. Folio. 158 pages. With numerous color illustrations throughout, fifteen of which are tipped-in. Publisher's light beige cloth with blue lettering on spine and cover, with pictorial endpapers. Boards with softly bumped corners and tape shadows to upper and lower edges. Spine slightly leaning. Tatty and torn jacket with tape residue to verso of upper and lower edges, and portions lacking along spine. A very good copy, rare in jacket.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92309 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$200.00
[Horticulture]. [William Lawson].
The Country Housewifes Garden.
Containing Rules for Hearbs and Seeds of common use, with their times and seasons, when to set and sow them. TOGETHER With the Husbandry of Bees, published with secrets very necessary for every Housewife. As also divers new Knots for Gardens.
[N.p.: n.p., n.d. circa 1630s]. Early edition. Small quarto, 7.25 x 5.5 inches. [2], 24 pages. J2-M2. Woodcut illustrations. Disbound pages. Pages toned with moderate tears and chipping. First two leaves have significant loss, with loss occurring across top of pages 9 and 10 as well. Long tears across several pages with illustrations. Some minor markings, thumbsoiling, folded corners, and browning. Beautiful illustrations of an early edition of the first book of gardening written for women. Set in Blackletter with woodcut initials. Generally good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92349 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$200.00
Richard Avedon.
Made in France.
[San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2001]. First trade edition, first printing. Quarto. Publisher's binding with modest bumping to upper corner of front board. Fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92261 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$187.50
Ian Fleming.
Goldfinger.
New York: Macmillan, [1959]. First American edition. Octavo. 318 pages. Publisher's binding, price-clipped dust jacket. Some wear and browning to jacket, tape repairs to verso, shelf location in ink on title-page. Very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92101 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$175.00
[Disney]. Pierre Lambert. SIGNED BY ROY DISNEY.
Mickey Mouse.
New York: Hyperion, [1998]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Roy E. Disney
on title page. Square quarto. 298 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92308 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$175.00
Norman Mailer. SIGNED.
The Executioner's Song.
Boston: Little, Brown, [1979]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Mailer
on title page and dated in 1997. Octavo. 1056 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Modest rubbing to cloth extremities with a few small spots of thumb-soiling. Faint rubbing to jacket edges. Near fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92355 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$175.00
August Derleth. SIGNED.
The Return of Solar Pons.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1958. First edition, one of 2,000 copies.
Signed by Derleth on the front free endpaper.
Octavo. 261 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket spine rubbed and slightly browned, some rubbing to jacket. Near fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92081 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
H. P. Lovecraft and Others.
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Collected by August Derleth. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1969. First edition, one of 4,000 copies. Octavo. 407 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit browned, else fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92166 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
[Pop-Up Book]. Alex Raymond.
Flash Gordon: The Tournament of Death.
Chicago: Pleasure Books, [1935]. Illustrated pop-up edition. Quarto. Publisher's binding. Vultan partially detached from first pop-up, otherwise no issues. Minor wear to extremities with softly bumped corners. Near fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92203 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
Duncan Gilchrist. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
Quest for Giant Bighorns.
[Corvallis: Outdoor Expeditions, 1994].
First edition, one of 1,000 copies signed by the author.
Octavo. 224 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92322 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
Robert Bloch. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Psycho: The 35th Anniversary Edition.
[Springfield]: Gauntlet, 1994.
Limited to 500 numbered copies. Signed by Bloch and Richard Matheson,
who provides introduction. Publisher's binding, dust jacket, and slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92035 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$150.00
August Derleth. SIGNED.
"In Re: Sherlock Holmes" The Adventures of Solar Pons.
Sauk City: Mycroft and Moran, 1945. First edition, one of 3,000 copies.
Signed by Derleth on the front free endpaper.
Octavo 238 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket spine browned, some rubbing and wear to jacket (slight chipping to spine), minor rubbing to binding. Very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92080 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$150.00
Tim O'Brien. SIGNED.
Going After Cacciato.
[New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1978]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by O'Brien.
Octavo. 338 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Spine slightly leaning with minor toning to spine and board edges. Jacket shows mild rubbing to edges. Very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92180 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$150.00
Robert B. Parker. SIGNED.
Looking for Rachel Wallace.
[New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1980]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Parker
on title page. Octavo. 219 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, otherwise fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92185 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$150.00
Maurice Le Blanc.
Arsene Lupin Super-Sleuth.
New York: Macauley, [1927]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 320 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild darkening to cloth edges with a bit of rubbing to spine ends. Price clipped jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few small chips and tears. One-inch tear from tail of front joint. Very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92033 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
August Derleth. SIGNED.
Someone in the Dark.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1941. First edition.
Inscribed by Derleth on the front free endpaper.
Octavo. 335 pages. Publisher's binding, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket spine torn, with a tape repair to recto and several tape repairs to verso, spine a bit browned, some wear to jacket edges, some rubbing to binding. Good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92083 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
[George Barbier, illustrator]. Richard Le Gallienne.
The Romance of Perfume.
New York: Hudnut, 1928. First American edition. Octavo. 46 pages. Illustrated with 8 full-color plates. With brochure for the perfumerie at "20 Rue de la Paix" housed in a pocket on the rear pastedown. Spine browned, tears at headcap, slight rubbing. Still, very good.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92267 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
[Bibliography]. Jacob Blanck.
Bibliography of American Literature.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955-1983. Volumes I through VII (out of 9). 7 quarto volumes. Publisher's binding. Some rubbing, spine of Volume VI a bit darkened. Overall, very good. (Total: 7 Items)
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92273 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
J. W. Buel.
The Story of Man: A History of the Human Race.
Philadelphia: Paris, 1890. First edition. Quarto. 720 pages. With three color fold-out plates and six color plate and nearly 600 engravings. Publisher's binding. Some rubbing to binding. Near fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92286 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
[Disney]. Christopher Finch. SIGNED/LIMITED.
The Art of the Lion King.
New York: Hyperion, [1994]. First edition,
limited to 3500 copies. Signed by Peter Schneider, Disney's President of Animation, Don Hahn, producer, and the film's directors, Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers.
Large quarto. 193 pages. Publisher's binding and slipcase.
Sericel in publisher's envelope included.
Fine.
Auction 201205
| Lot: 92305 | Feb 2, 2012
Sold For:
$127.50
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