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[Photography]. [Abel Briquet] Photo Album with Photos of Mexico.
[N.p., n.d., ca. 1890]. Twenty-two photos, many of which have a printed signature of "A Briquet" mounted onto stiff leaves of the album. Photos appear to have been excised from a book of Briquet's work. Oblong quarto. Publisher's binding. Binding quite worn, photos a bit toned. Bookplate, previous owner's signature. Overall, good.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93296 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$1,875.00
[Publisher's Dummy Copy]. Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan the Invincible.
Tarzana: Burroughs, [1931].
Publisher's dummy (most pages are blank) with first edition jacket.
Octavo. Publisher' original binding, dust jacket. Some light wear to jacket. Near fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93058 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$937.50
Make Offer to Owner
$1,406 or more
[Captain F. E. S. Adair].
Sport in Ladakh. Five Letters From the Field.
London: Horace Cox, 1895. First edition. Quarto. 32 pages. Illustrated from photographs by R. S. A. Publisher's binding. Covers well worn and soiled with significant staining and warping to boards. Front hinge lightly cracked. Corners and spine ends somewhat abraded. New endpapers. Pages somewhat toned, preliminaries and terminals moreso. Light thumbsoiling and a few small spots of dampstaining in margins, not affecting text or images. Full-page illustrations opposite each chapter. With a handwritten pencil signature across author's name on title page, "Captain F. E. S. Adair," though likely a library notation and not the author's actual signature. Generally, a good copy of this exceedingly scarce title.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93228 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$500.00
Agatha Christie (English Novelist, 1890-1976). Signed Photograph.
[London, n.d., ca. 1940]. Signed by Dame Agatha in upper left corner in blue ballpoint (also signed by photographer Walter Bird in lower right). Approximately 8.25 x 6.25 inches. Christie's signature slightly faint, photographer stamp on verso. Fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93018 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$468.75
William Shakespeare.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare,
from the Original Text...
New York: Martin, Johnson, [n.d., ca. 1890]. Three Quarto volumes. Illustrated with steel engravings. Contemporary half calf over boards, gilt, burgundy and brown gilt lettering labels. Some rubbing, mild wear to bindings, front joint of one volume cracking (yet solid), plates somewhat foxed. Very good. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93199 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$468.75
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Llana of Gathol.
Tarzana: Burroughs, [1948]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 317 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket spine sunned, some wear to jacket spine and panels, some wear to binding, price sticker on front free endpaper. Spine leaning. Tape to verso of jacket. Good.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93057 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$406.25
[J. M. W. Turner, subject]. W. Cosmo Monkhouse.
The Turner Gallery.
New York: Appleton, [n.d., 1880]. First American edition. Two folio volumes. Illustrated with 120 engravings. Publisher's bindings. Some rubbing to bindings, some minor foxing to plates, bookplates. Fine. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93320 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$375.00
Make Offer to Owner
$565 or more
Fredric Brown. LIMITED.
Sex Life on the Planet Mars.
[Miami Beach]: Dennis McMillan, 1986. First edition,
limited to 400 numbered copies. Signed by Charles Willeford,
who provides introduction. Twelvemo. 190 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93050 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$356.25
[Dante Alighieri]. [Evelyn Paul, illustrator].
The New Life.
Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
[London]: Harrap, [n.d., ca. 1900]. First edition. Quarto. [167] pages. Illustrated in colors, including gold. Publisher's binding. Spine browned, some rubbing to binding, hinges starting. Very good. Beautiful illustrations.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93074 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$325.00
Ian Fleming.
The Man with the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. First edition, first printing. Twelvemo. 221 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor rubbing and bumping to cloth extremities. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges. Very good.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93100 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$325.00
Stephen King. SIGNED.
Bag of Bones.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1998]. First English edition.
Signed by King on the half-title.
Octavo. 516 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Mild rubbing, else fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93153 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$325.00
[Sir J. M. Barrie, W. Somerset Maugham, D. H. Lawrence, et al., contributors]. [Cynthia Asquith, compiler].
The Black Cap.
New Stories of Murder & Mystery.
London: Hutchinson, [n.d., 1927]. First edition. Octavo. 318 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit browned, with a few tears, some wear to jacket edges, some rubbing to binding, some sunning to spine and upper edge of boards. Still, a fine copy, rare in jacket.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93037 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$301.25
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
The Mote in God's Eye.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1974]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 537 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Toning to upper and lower board edges, and along page edges. Soft bumping to lower corners. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few tiny tears and a touch of sunning to spine. Very good.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93171 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$300.00
Ludwig Bemelmans.
Madeleine.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition, first printing. Quarto. Illustrated. Publisher's binding. Spine torn and worn at ends, some wear to binding, previous owner's gift inscription and bookplate on front free endpaper. Good.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93039 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$275.00
Henry Barth.
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa.
Being a Journal of an Expedition...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First American edition. Three tall octavo volumes. Fully illustrated. Publisher's bindings. Covers well worn with edges and extremities rubbed and bumped. Spine ends abraded with some loss. Spine of volume three has large portions torn, but intact and easily repairable. Front board soiled. Interiors generally clean with minor occasional foxing. text blocks lightly toned. Bookseller's blindstamp to front free endpaper. Otherwise, generally a very good set. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93233 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$275.00
Joseph Benjamin Oakleaf, compiler. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
Lincoln Bibliography. A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln
.
Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press, 1925. Limited to 102 numbered copies signed by the compiler on a special limitation page in front. Quarto. 424 pages. Illustrated. Contemporary three-quarter leather and blue cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Boards worn at the joints and corner with some soiling and shelf wear. Former owner's signature on the front free endpaper and contents page. Contents toned, otherwise in near very good condition.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93292 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$263.75
Homer.
The Iliad of Homer.
Translated by Alexander Pope. New York: Hurst, [n.d., ca. 1900]. Octavo. 450 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's binding. Spine a bit darkened, minor rubbing, else an unusually bright, fine copy.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93119 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$237.50
[Jerry Weist]. Fritz Lieber.
Night Monsters
.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1974. First English edition. Octavo. 190 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Light foxing to top edge, else near fine.
From the Jerry Weist collection.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93156 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$237.50
[Jerry Weist]. Fritz Leiber. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
The Demons of the Upper Air
.
[Frankfurt am Main]: Roy A. Squires, printer, 1969.
Limited edition of 275 hand-numbered copies signed by the author on a special limitation page.
Octavo. Unpaginated. Paper wrappers with titles printed on a paper label mounted to the front wrapper. Fine, in the original printed paper catalog envelope.
From the Jerry Weist collection.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93155 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$200.00
Ian Fleming.
Doctor No.
New York: Macmillan, 1958. First American edition, first printing. Octavo. 256 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to cloth extremities with a very slight spine lean. Offsetting to endpapers. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with small chips and tears. Very good.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93098 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$188.75
Wilkie Collins (English Novelist, 1824-1889). Autograph Sentiment Signed.
[N.p.]: March 14th, 1871. Approximately 3.25 x 4.25 inches. On laid paper. Minor toning, thumbsoil, else fine. Collins wrote two influential mystery novels,
The Woman in White (
1860) and
The Moonstone
(1868).
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93022 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$187.50
Calvin Coolidge (American Politician, 1872-1933, President of the United States, 1923-1929). Clipped Signature.
[Northampton: Nov. 17, 1930]. Boldly signed on a small, blank card. Approximately 2.25 x 3.25 inches. With mailing envelope. Thumsoiling, else fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93023 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$187.50
John P. Holman
.
SIGNED/LIMITED.
Sheep and Bear Trails.
A Hunter's Wandering in Alaska and British Columbia
. New York: Frank Walters, 1933.
One of seventy-five numbered copies signed by the author, of which this is number
40
.
Publisher's binding. Covers and spine lightly faded, covers lightly rubbed and with a few spots. Some light shelfwear. Light toning and foxing. Otherwise, a better than very good copy.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93268 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$187.50
[Photography]. SIGNED. Sebastiao Salgado.
Workers
.
[New York]: Aperture, [1993]. First edition.
Inscribed to Tim on the title-page by Salgado.
Folio. 397 pages. Illustrated. With a key to the photos in wrappers in a plastic pocket on the rear pastedown, as issued. Minor rubbing, else fine.
Housed in the original cardboard shipping box.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93297 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$180.00
[Gustave Dore, illustrator]. Dante Alighieri.
Dante's Inferno.
London: Cassell, [n.d., ca. 1890]. New Edition in English. Folio. 183 pages. Illustrated with engravings. Publisher's decorative leather binding. Spine sunned, soiling and wear to joints and fore-edges of boards, offsetting to endleaves. Overall, near fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93082 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
[Jerry Weist]. Jack Vance. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
Lost Moons
.
San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 1982.
First edition of two hundred clothbound copies signed by the author on a special limitation page in front.
Octavo. 250 pages. Publisher's pictorial simulated leather and dust jacket. Fine.
From the Jerry Weist collection.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93209 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
T. Alexander Barns.
An African Eldorado: The Belgian Congo.
London: Methuen & co. Ltd., [1926]. First edition. Octavo. xiv, 229 pages, 8 pages of publisher's ads. Publisher's binding. Covers and extremities lightly rubbed with a slightly abraded bottom corners. Spine very lightly sunned. Some small spots of foxing to page edges. Very good.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93232 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$150.00
Daniel Fish, compiler. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION REPRINT.
A Reprint of the List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln
.
Rock Island [Illinois]: Augustana Book Concern, 1926. Reprint of the 1906 edition limited to 102 numbered and signed copies.
Signed by Joseph Benjamin Oakleaf on the limitation page.
Octavo. 380 pages. Contemporary three-quarter leather binding and blue cloth boards. Top edged gilt. Very good.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93264 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$150.00
Fredric Brown. LIMITED.
Nightmare In Darkness.
[Miami Beach]: Dennis McMillan, 1987. First edition,
limited to 425 numbered copies. Signed by Linn Brown,
who provides introduction. Twelvemo. 179 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93048 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$143.75
Fredric Brown. LIMITED.
Red is the Hue of Hell.
[Miami Beach]: Dennis McMillan, 1986. First edition,
limited to 400 numbered copies. Signed by Walt Sheldon,
who provides introduction. Twelvemo. 184 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93049 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$143.75
Robert Bloch. SIGNED.
Selected Stories of Robert Bloch.
Los Angeles: Underwood-Miller, 1987. First editions. Three octavo volumes.
Signed in all three volumes by Bloch.
Publisher's bindings. Fine. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93043 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
Lorenzo Sabine.
Notes on Duels and Duelling.
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, [1855]. First edition. Octavo. 394 pages. Publisher's binding. Some wear to spine and corners, front free endpaper is lacking, some occasional soiling or offset in text. Overall, a good copy.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93309 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
Ernie Chan (Philippine-Born American Comic Book Artist, 1940-). Original Signed and Inscribed Drawing of Conan the Barbarian.
[N.p.]: '92. Inscribed to David, Conan is holding his sword with a grim look on his face. Initialed E. C. Approximately 10 x 7.75 inches. A small area near the bottom of the drawing is mildly smudged, else fine. Chan's work on Conan the Barbarian is some of the most famous of that series.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93015 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$125.00
Robert E. Howard.
Conan the Conqueror.
New York: Gnome, [1950]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 255 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor rubbing to cloth with an area of staining to lower corner of rear board, affecting jacket and textblock. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few small chips and tears. Sunning along spine. Overall very good.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93122 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$125.00
[Limited Editions Club]. Mark Twain.
Slovenly Peter.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. One of 1,500 copies. Publisher's binding. Some rubbing to binding, hinges just starting, offset to endleaves, bookplate. Very good.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93157 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$125.00
Ramon F. Adams and William S. Reese.
The Adams One-Fifty and Six Score: the 120.
Austin: Jenkins, 1976. First combined edition. Two quarto volumes. 91; 85 pages. Publisher's binding and slipcase. Minor rubbing to extremities of slipcase, otherwise a fine set. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93229 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$125.00
Buzz Aldrin (American Astronaut, 1930-). Signed Postcard.
[N.p., n.d.]. Postcard of the Apollo 11 Astronauts with President Nixon, shortly after their return to Earth. Signed on verso. Approximately 4 x 6 inches. Signature a bit smudged. Fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93005 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$112.50
[Jerry Weist]. Clement Fezandié.
Through the Earth
.
New York: The Century Co.,. 1898. First edition. Octavo. 238 pages. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Very good.
From the Jerry Weist collection.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93097 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$112.50
[Jerry Weist]. Brian W. Aldiss. SIGNED.
Dracula Unbound
.
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1991. First Easton Press edition.
Signed by the author on a special limitation page in front.
Quarto. 196 pages. Artwork by Frank Mayo. Leather binding with decoration and titles stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Fine.
From the Jerry Weist collection.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93032 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Escape on Venus.
Tarzana: Burroughs, [1946]. First edition. Octavo. 347 pages. Publisher's blue pebbled cloth and dust jacket. Jacket spine sunned and somewhat rubbed, minor wear to jacket edges, some rubbing, light soiling to binding. Near fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93055 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
M. R. James.
The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James.
London: Edward Arnold, [1949]. Later impression. Twelvemo. 647 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Price clipped jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with sunning and faint staining along spine. Near fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93133 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
[Jerry Weist]. Jack Vance. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
The Man in the Cage
.
San Francisco: Underwood-Miller, 1983.
Specially bound edition limited to 200 hand-numbered copies signed by the author on a special limitation page in front.
Octavo. 183 pages. Jacket art by Stephen Fabian. Publisher's special binding and dust jacket. Small closed tear on the rear panel of the jacket, else near fine.
From the Jerry Weist collection.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93211 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
John James Audubon. Plate LXXXXI: Ocelot or Leopard Cat Hand-Colored Lithograph From
The Quadrupeds of North America
.
10.5" x 7". Excised from
The Quadrupeds of North America
, New York: V. G. Audubon, 1849-1870. Drawn from nature by John J. Audubon, drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock, and printed by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia. Toned around the edges, else very good
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93335 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
Nelson De Mille. SIGNED.
The Talbot Odyssey
.
New York: Bernard Geis Associates/Delacorte Press, 1984. First printing.
Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Publisher's quarter-cloth and dust jacket. Near fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93078 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$100.00
Ian Fleming. Group of Two James Bond Books,
including:
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
[1963]. Second impression. [and:]
You Only Live Twice.
[1964]. Second impression. A few spots of soiling to boards. Name and doodle on front free endpaper. Price clipped. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93099 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$100.00
Philip Francis Nowlan.
Armageddon 2419 A.D.
New York: Avalon Books, [1962]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 224 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with mild sunning along spine. Near fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93175 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$100.00
William Brashler.
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings
.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973. First edition. Octavo. 244 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Near fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93045 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$98.75
H. P. Lovecraft.
The Dunwich Horror and Others.
Sauk City: Arkham, 1963. First edition, with second state dust jacket. Octavo. 431 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor toning and rubbing to extremities. Near fine.
Auction 201211
| Lot: 93159 | Mar 15, 2012
Sold For:
$96.25
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