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Philip K. Dick. INSCRIBED.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1965. Book club edition.
Signed and inscribed by Dick to Cordes on front free endpaper, "11/10/66 / To Jack Cordes - / with much appreciation / for kind words said. / Best wishes / Philip K. Dick".
Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Faint bumping to extremities of boards. Front hinge starting. Toned jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a little sunning to spine. Overall near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94126 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$3,750.00
[Gustave Dore, illustrator]. [Joseph] Michaud.
History of the Crusades.
Philadelphia: Barrie, [n.d., ca. 1880]. Two folio volumes. Illustrated with 100 engravings by Dore. Publisher's half brown morocco, gilt binding. Some wear to bindings, plates generally clean. Overall, very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94371 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$1,750.00
Paramhansa Yogananda. SIGNED.
Autobiography of a Yogi.
New York: Philosophical Library, [1946]. First edition.
Inscribed by Yogananda on the front free endpaper dated 1947.
Octavo. Illustrated. Publisher's binding. Spine sunned, some rubbing to binding. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94461 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$687.50
Philip K. Dick.
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick.
(Total: 5 Items)
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94122 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$562.50
[Jerry Weist]. Robert A. Heinlein.
Time Enough for Love.
New York: Putnam, [1973]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Toned jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges. Overall fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94182 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$500.00
Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Toronto: Belford, 1867. New Illustrated Edition. Octavo. 341 pages. Original cloth spine and front cover bound-in at rear. Twentieth-century three-quarter autumn morocco, gilt. Some rubbing to binding. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94301 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$500.00
Robert Bloch (1917-1994, American Horror Writer, Author of Psycho ). Signed Excerpt from
Psycho.
Approximately 7 x 5 inches. Fine
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94015 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$468.75
[Erle Stanley Gardner]. A. A. Fair. INSCRIBED.
Beware of the Curves.
New York: Morrow, 1956. First edition, first printing.
Inscribed by Gardner
on front free endpaper. Twelvemo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to cloth extremities. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94163 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$437.50
Swami [Paramhansa] Yogananda. SIGNED.
Whispers from Eternity.
Universal Scientific Prayers and Poems.
Los Angeles: Yogoda and Sat-Sanga, 1929. Second Enlarged Edition.
Inscribed by Yogananda on the front free endpaper.
Publisher's binding. Minor rubbing to binding, philosophical inscription under Yogananda's in an unknown hand. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94462 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$406.25
Eric Frank Russell. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Sinister Barrier.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition,
limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is copy 403. Signed by Russell.
Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Upper corner of rear board lightly bumped. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94267 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$375.00
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. (American Astronaut, and the Third Person to Walk on the Moon, 1930-1999). Signed Card.
[N.p.: n.d.]. Signed on plain white index card. Approximately 3 x 5 inches. Fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94039 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$350.00
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$530 or more
Ross Macdonald. SIGNED.
Archer in Hollywood.
New York: Knopf, 1967. First edition, first printing.
Signed and inscribed as both Ken Millar and Ross Macdonald.
Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. A few tiny spots to bottom page edges. Mild toning to endpapers. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few small tears and a bit of sunning to spine. Overall near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94224 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$312.50
H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. INSCRIBED.
The Lurker at the Threshold.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. First edition, first printing.
Signed and inscribed by Derleth to Cordes on front free endpaper, "For Jack Cordes / with all best wishes / Sincerely, / August Derleth".
Twelvemo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Toned jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a couple of tiny tears. Very good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94220 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$300.00
[Jerry Weist]. Robert A. Heinlein.
I Will Fear No Evil.
New York: Putnam, [1970]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Faint offsetting to endpapers. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94181 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$275.00
Eric Frank Russell. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Dreadful Sanctuary.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1951. First edition,
limited to 350 numbered copies of which this is number 332. Octavo. Signed by Russell.
Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing and toning to cloth extremities. Front pastedown with small abrasions, possibly from bookplate. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges. Very good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94266 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$275.00
Dennis Wheatley. SIGNED.
They Found Atlantis.
London: Hutchinson, [ca. 1936]. Presumed first edition, first printing.
Signed by Wheatley
on title page. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild foxing to page edges. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few small chips and tears. Very good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94321 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$275.00
Fletcher Martin [illustrator]. Upton Sinclair. SIGNED/LIMITED.
The Jungle.
Baltimore: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Later edition,
limited to 1500 numbered copies of which this is copy 330. Signed by Sinclair and Martin.
Quarto. Publisher's binding and slipcase. Faintest rubbing to head of spine. Slipcase is lightly rubbed and edge darkened. Fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94277 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$262.50
C. L. Moore. GNOME PRESS FILE COPY/SIGNED BY GREENBERG.
Northwest of Earth.
New York: Gnome Press, [1954]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Martin Greenberg on the front pastedown and with his notation that this is a file copy.
Octavo. Publisher's binding with mild rubbing and spotting to cloth extremities. Two jackets are included, a standard first edition jacket and a proof jacket with variant title which is blank on the rear panel and inner flaps. Standard jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a bit of sunning to spine. Proof jacket shows only faint edge wear. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94241 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$257.50
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Last Tycoon.
An Unfinished Novel, together with
The Great Gatsby
and Selected Stories
.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First edition. Octavo. 476 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94159 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$250.00
Judith Merril [editor]. GNOME PRESS FILE COPY/SIGNED BY GREENBERG.
SF: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy.
New York: Gnome Press, [1956]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Martin Greenberg on the front pastedown and with his notation that this is a file copy.
Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor rubbing to cloth extremities with soft bumping to head of spine. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges. Overall near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94235 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$237.50
Isaac Asimov, et al. [editors]. INSCRIBED.
The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. First edition, first printing.
Signed and inscribed by Asimov
on title page. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to jacket extremities with a bit of sunning to spine. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94059 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$225.00
[Jerry Weist]. [Henry Hasse's copy]. Hannes Bok [illustrator]. Emil Petaja. INSCRIBED.
Breif [Brief] Candle.
[n. p.: Petaja, 1936]. First edition, first printing.
Inscribed by Petaja to Hasse
on the title page. Octavo. Publisher's string-tied wrappers with minor toning and wear. Very good. Seldom seen.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94248 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$225.00
[Californiana]. Major Horace Bell.
Reminiscences of a Ranger or, Early Times in Southern California.
Los Angeles, Yarnell, Caystile & Mathes, 1881. First edition. Octavo. 457 pages. Publisher's binding. Some rubbing and mild wear to binding. Skewed. Front hinge cracking. Overall, very good.
Zamorano 80 #5 (the first clothbound book to be printed in Los Angeles).
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94350 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$225.00
J. Evetts Haley (and others). SIGNED BY HERTZOG.
Some Southwestern Trails.
El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1948. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Carl Hertzog, publisher.
Oblong 4to. 30 pages. Publisher's binding and slipcase. Illustrations by Harold Bugbee. Fine, in slightly rubbed slipcase.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94397 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$225.00
[Robert Bloch's copy]. Ralph Milne Farley. INSCRIBED TO BLOCH.
The Omnibus of Time.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing, 1950. First edition, first printing.
Signed and inscribed by Farley to Bloch on front free endpaper and with Bloch's signature above.
Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Toning and minor rubbing to cloth extremities. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few tiny chips and tears. Toning to verso. Very good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94148 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$220.00
H. M. Brock [illustrator]. James Hilton. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Good-bye, Mr. Chips.
[Boston]: Atlantic Monthly/Little Brown, 1935. Birthday edition,
limited to 600 numbered copies of which this is copy 504. Signed by Hilton and Brock.
Octavo. Publisher's binding and slipcase. Minor toning and rubbing to slipcase, else fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94193 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$212.50
[Angling]. SIGNED LIMITED. Roderick L. Haig-Brown.
Return to the River.
A Story of the Chinook Run.
New York: Morrow, 1941.
First edition, one of 520 copies signed by the author and the illustrator, Charles DeFeo.
Octavo. [260] pages. Illustrated. Publisher's binding, slipcase. Some wear to slipcase, mild rubbing to binding, some offsetting to endleaves. Still, fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94332 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$212.50
James Lee Burke. SIGNED.
Heaven's Prisoners.
New York: Henry Holt, [1988]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Burke
on title page. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild shelfwear to bottom edge. Faint rubbing to jacket extremities. About fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94080 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$200.00
James Lee Burke. SIGNED.
Neon Rain.
New York: Henry Holt, [1987]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Burke
on title page. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild shelfwear to bottom edge and lightest of bumping to corners of boards. Toning to jacket. Overall fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94081 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$200.00
Garth Williams. Eleven Preliminary Drawings for Unused Cover Art for
Baby's First Book
, 1955
. Eleven sheets, with ten measuring 11 x 8.5, and one measuring x 10.5 14.5 inches. Ten sheets contain rough pencil drawings on paper; one sheet is on a "Little Golden Book Layout Sheet" on card stock (this with cut-out pictures and words glued to sheet). Large sheet is
signed in full by Garth Williams
, with his written notations, and the other ten are
initialed by Garth Williams
. All generally fine.
From the Estate of Garth Williams.
(Total: 12 Items)
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94323 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$200.00
[Arms and Armor]. [W. M. Hawley, compiler].
Japanese Swordsmiths Revised.
Hollywood: Hawley, 1981. First edition. Quarto. 1046 pages. Several pages with new mounted text. Publisher's binding. Some rubbing, soiling, unknown transparent residue to boards, contents page laid-in (as issued). Good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94335 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$188.75
Lester del Rey.
The World of Science Fiction: 1926-1976. The History of a Subculture.
New York: Garland, [1980]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's binding with faint wear to cloth and a bit of foxing to top page edges. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94115 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$187.50
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The Courtship of Miles Standish.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First American edition, first printing. Twelvemo. Publisher's binding with light rubbing and abrading to cloth extremities. Hinges cracking. Bookplates. Pages with minor toning and occasional tiny spot of soil. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and quarter leather slipcase.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94218 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$187.50
Erik van Lhin.
Battle on Mercury.
Philadelphia: Winston, [1953]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to cloth extremities. Pages mildly toned. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a bit of sunning to spine. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94310 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$187.50
[Big Game Hunting]. A. Mervyn Smith.
Sport and Adventure in the Indian Jungle.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1904. First edition. Octavo. 307 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's binding. Spine a bit sunned, some rubbing to binding, bookplates. Overall, very good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94342 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$187.50
[Emancipationist]. Cassius Marcellus Clay [subject]. Horace Greeley [editor].
The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. First edition, first printing. Octavo. xv, 535 pages. Publisher's binding with rubbing and soiling to cloth. Spine perished. Foxing to endpapers. Textblock with staining and foxing throughout, and occasional light wear to pages. About good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94354 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$187.50
[Wyatt Earp, subject]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Stuart N. Lake.
Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. First edition, first issue, with "belly" misspelled on page 54.
Signed by Lake on the front free endpaper.
Octavo. 392 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's binding. Spine slightly sunned, some rubbing to binding. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94375 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$187.50
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878, American Poet, Journalist, Editor of the New York Evening Post). Autograph Poem Signed.
Marseilles: December. 29, 1857. Approximately 7.25 x 5.25 inches. Two horizontal creases and a few tiny spots of soiling. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94021 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$175.00
S. Fowler Wright. INSCRIBED TO ERLE M. KORSHAK/LIMITED.
The World Below.
Chicago: Shasta, [1949]. Autographed edition,
limited to 500 unnumbered copies. Signed and inscribed by Wright to Erle Korshak, publisher of Shasta.
Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Modest rubbing to cloth extremities. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94329 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$175.00
Willy Pogany [illustrator]. Lewis Carroll. SIGNED BY POGANY.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
New York: Dutton, [1929]. Later edition.
Signed by Pogany
on half-title page and dated "1929". Twelvemo. 192 pages. Publisher's binding with soiling and light rubbing to cloth extremities. Spine darkened with chipping to ends. Bookplate. Front hinge soft and rear hinge cracked. Pages with minor toning and occasional thumb-soiling. Overall very good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94098 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
[Lost Race Novel]. [Jerry Weist]. J. Allan Dunn.
The Flower of Fate.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, [1928]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor rubbing and bumping to cloth extremities with darkening to spine. Light staining to top edge. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few small chips and tears. Staining to top edge of jacket, extending about two-inch into spine. Overall very good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94139 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
E. Everett Evans. INSCRIBED.
Man of Many Minds.
Reading: Fantasy Press, [1953]. First edition, first printing.
Signed and inscribed by Evans
on front free endpaper. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket with advertising band. Faint toning and wear to cloth extremities. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few small chips and tears. Very good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94146 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
Ross Macdonald. Group of Four First Editions, One Signed,
including:
The Blue Hammer; Sleeping Beauty; The Underground Man;
and
Archer in Hollywood.
New York: Knopf, 1967-1976. All volumes are first edition, first printing.
Archer in Hollywood
is signed by Macdonald
on title page. Publisher's binding and dust jackets. All volumes in very good or better condition. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94227 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
James Whitcomb Riley. INSCRIBED.
Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers.
New York: Century, 1897. First edition, first printing.
Signed and inscribed by Riley on endpaper, "Christmas Greetings - of 1897 / - James Whitcomb Riley. / ..... / With perfect faith in God and man / a=shinin' in his eyes. / [Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers.]".
Twelvemo. Publisher's binding with light wear and toning to cloth extremities. A few small spots of soiling to boards. Bookplate. Front hinge broken with a few leaves somewhat loose. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and quarter leather slipcase. Overall very good.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94262 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
Edward E. Smith. INSCRIBED/LIMITED.
Skylark of Valeron.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1949. First edition,
limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is copy 224. Signed and inscribed by Smith.
Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild toning to cloth extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few tiny tears to spine ends. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94285 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
Barry Gray and John Savage.
Ale: in Prose and Verse
.
New York: [Privately printed for friends of the John Taylor & Sons Brewery by] Russell's American Steam Printing House, 1866. First, and presumably only, edition.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94392 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
E. H. Nolan.
The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia.
London: Virtue, [n.d., ca. 1857]. First edition, two-volume issue. Two quarto volumes. Illustrated. publisher's binding. Spines a bit dull, some rubbing and wear to extremities, minor soiling, some foxing in text, overopened in a few places. Still, very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94427 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
L. Sprague de Camp. SIGNED/GNOME PRESS FILE COPY/SIGNED BY GREENBERG.
Lost Continents.
New York: Gnome Press, [1954]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by de Camp on front free endpaper. Signed by Martin Greenberg on the front pastedown and with his notation that this is a file copy.
Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to spine ends with minor offsetting to endpapers. Jacket shows most rubbing and wear to edges. Near fine.
Auction 201217
| Lot: 94114 | Apr 26, 2012
Sold For:
$157.50
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