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Ernest Hemingway.
A Farewell to Arms.
Scribners, 1929. First edition, first printing. Light rubbing and bio-predation to cloth. Spine slightly leaning and sunned. Very good.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92089 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$593.75
Make Offer to Owner
$891 or more
[Jerry Weist]. Anne McCaffrey.
The Ship Who Sang.
Walker, 1969. First edition, first printing. Minor toning to edges. Small folded tear to front panel of dj with tape shadow to verso. A beautiful, clean copy in about fine condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92143 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$531.25
[John James Audubon].
The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for Birds of America.
American Heritage, 1966. First edition. Quarto text volume and 431 folio or quarto loose color plates.
Plates housed in publisher's wooden two-drawer case.
Mild wear to case, else near fine. A handsome presentation. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92254 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$531.25
[Jacques] Basnage.
The History of the Jews...
J. Beaver, et al., 1708. First edition in English of Basnage's continuation of Josephus. Folio. Contemporary calf. Joints cracking, binding worn, text a bit toned, foxed, bookplate. Lacking engraved frontis. Good.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92256 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$406.25
Frank Frazetta Signed Limited Edition Print.
10.5" x 17.5". Damp staining along bottom edge not affecting image, else very good.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92442 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$375.00
Henry Miller. INSCRIBED.
Tropic of Cancer.
Grove, 1961. First American edition, first printing.
Signed and inscribed by the author.
Boards slightly bowed with minor rubbing to binding. Light toning and wear to dj with several small tears. Very good. From the collection of Henry Miller's personal friend, Pierre Sicari.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92164 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$325.00
Henry Miller. INSCRIBED. Lot of Three Henry Miller Titles,
including:
Black Spring
(third Grove printing);
Tropic of Cancer
(first Grove printing);
Tropic of Capricorn
(Castle Books edition). Grove [and] Castle, [1961, 1963]. Three octavo volumes.
All three volumes inscribed by Miller to Pierre Sicari.
Some wear to jackets, offsetting to jacket versos. Generally very good. From the collection of Henry Miller's friend (and collector) Pierre Sicari.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92163 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$306.25
Luciani Samosatensis. [
Opera
].
Io. Frob., 1521. Quarto. Text in Latin. Woodcut title-pages and initials. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Text dampstained. Good.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92135 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$300.00
John Steinbeck.
Cannery Row
.
Viking, 1945. First edition. Publisher's original binding and dust jacket. Cream colored boards with light shelf wear; edges of pages slightly toned; jacket with wear along the edges, otherwise a very good copy.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92208 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$300.00
Make Offer to Owner
$460 or more
John F. Kennedy.
Profiles in Courage
.
Harper & Brothers, 1956. First edition. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Very good condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92325 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$300.00
[Limited Editions Club]. Edward Gibbon.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
LEC, 1946. One of 1,500 copies. With illustrations from Piranesi. Seven large octavo volumes. Rebound in half burgundy morocco, gilt. Some rubbing to bindings. Very good. (Total: 7 Items)
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92331 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$300.00
[Paul Outerbridge, subject]. [Elaine Dines, editor].
Paul Outerbridge a Singular Aesthetic.
Arabesque, 1981. First edition. Quarto. With original printed mylar dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92361 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$275.00
William H. Prescott.
History of the Conquest of Mexico.
Harper, 1843. First American edition, first printing of all three volumes, as per BAL. With half-titles as required (volume III not issued with half-title). Publisher's full green cloth. Minor rubbing, some foxing, ownership inscription on front blank of each volume, overopened in a few places. Still a fine set. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92370 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$275.00
Ludwig Bemelmans. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
Hotel Splendide
.
The Viking Press, 1941. One of sixty copies for private distribution signed by the author. Specially bound in the draperies of a famous New York hotel. Slipcase wear at the edges of the boards, else very good in a moderately worn slipcase, as issued.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92018 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$237.50
[Civil War, Fort Pillow Massacre]. 1864 Congressional Report Concerning the Massacre of Negro Troops at Fort Pillow, 1864.
38th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 65. [Government Printing Office], [1864]. Original blind-stamped boards. Illustrations of Union prisoners. Boards worn and soiled with a small area of the spine panel lacking; contents with occasional light to moderate foxing, else very good.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92308 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$225.00
Wolfgang Wittrock.
Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints
.
Sotheby's Publications, 1985. First Printing. Two folio volumes. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's original binding, dust jacket and the slip case of issue. Near fine condition in a dusty slipcase. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92406 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$225.00
Joseph Roda. INSCRIBED.
Bows for Musical Instruments of the Violin Family.
Lewis, 1959. First edition, one of 3,000 copies.
Inscribed by Roda on the front blank.
Minor rubbing. Fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92378 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$212.50
Richard Nixon. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
.
Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. First edition limited to 2500 numbered copies signed by Nixon. Illustrated. Publisher's original leather binding All edges gilt. Certificate of Authenticity laid-in. Light shelf wear, else about fine condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92357 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$193.75
William Everson. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
The Poet Is Dead.
Good Book Press, 1987.
One of 140 copies signed by Everson.
Folio. In slipcase. Minor soiling to slipcase, else fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92072 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$175.00
Henry Miller. INSCRIBED.
Plexus.
Correa, [1952]. First French edition, one of 100 copies
(copy number 3). Inscribed by Miller to noted book collector Alfred J. Liebmann.
Jacket chipped and worn, some wear to wrappers, front joint torn at bottom, upper corner bumped. Still, a good copy of a fragile item.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92157 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$175.00
Henry Miller. INSCRIBED.
Tropic of Cancer.
Medusa, 1940. Reprint.
Inscribed by Miller to noted book collector, Alfred J. Liebmann.
No jacket. Binding sunned, mildly soiled, and a bit worn. Skewed. Still, good. With a pamphlet by Anais Nin,
preface to Henry Miller's tropic of cancer.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92165 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$175.00
[Julius Caesar].
C. Julii Caesaris qua extant ex emenddatione Ios. Scaligeri
.
Lugduni Batavorum la officinal Elzeviriana, 1635. Early edition. Latin text. Original vellum. First gathering of pages loose, else in very good condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92269 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$175.00
[Playboy]. Continuous Run of 36
Playboy
Wall Calendars from 1959-1994.
Measuring approx. 12.5 x 8 inches. A few with minor foxing and some occasional light rubbing and wear to edges. Very good or better condition. (Total: 36 Items)
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92001 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
Victor Hugo.
The Works.
DeFau, [1887-1888]. One of 1,000 copies. Complete in sixteen octavo volumes. Illustrated with engraved plates and hand-colored frontispieces. Some rubbing, bumping to bindings, ownership stickers on front pastedowns. Overall, very good. (Total: 16 Items)
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92095 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
[Barry Moser, engraver]. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
Master Richard's Bestiary of Love and Response.
Pennyroyal Press, [1985].
One of 200 copies signed by Moser.
In slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92169 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
Make Offer to Owner
$300 or more
[Jerry Weist]. Larry Niven. INSCRIBED.
Neutron Star.
Macdonald, 1969. First British edition, first printing.
Signed and inscribed by the author to Weist.
Soft bumping to corners. Minor toning and rubbing to edges. Near fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92175 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$162.50
[Limited Editions Club]. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Paul Celan.
Todesfuge.
Limited Editions Club, 2001.
One of 300 copies signed by the translator, John Felstiner.
Folio. With the audio CD of Celan reading this poem. In original slipcase. Minor soiling and bumping to slipcase, else fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92131 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$150.00
[Codex]. Karl Anton Nowotny [editor].
Codex Borgia.
Akademische Druck, 1976. Book in wrappers and facsimile codex held in publisher's box. Text in Spanish and German. Fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92278 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
Eric Gill. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
A Book of Alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon Drawn by Eric Gill.
Skelton, 1987.
One of 50 copies signed by Cleverdon. With a portfolio of prints of Gill's alphabet.
In slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92301 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
[Jerry Weist]. [Arkham House Bibliography]. Sheldon Jaffery. SIGNED.
Horrors and Unpleasantries.
A Bibliographical History & Collector's Price Guide to Arkham House.
[Bowling Green: Bowling Green, 1982]. First edition.
Signed by Jaffery on a laid-in label.
Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Light rubbing with a one-inch folded tear to front of dj. Very good.
From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92318 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
[Modigliani, subject]. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Garibaldo Marussi.
Modigliani.
Studio Editoriale D'Arte Perna, [n.d., ca. 1963].
One of 1,000 copies (this copy unnumbered) signed by Marussi and the editor.
Two folio volumes. Illustrated with 25 full-color reproductions (one loose, as issued) in the text volume, and with 24 full-color loose plates in the second volume. In original slipcase. Some sunning to spines, rubbing to bindings and slipcase. Still, fine. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92350 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
Frederic Remington.
Pony Tracks
.
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895. First edition. Author's first book. With illustrations by the author. A beautiful, bright copy with trivial wear and in near fine condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92376 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$137.50
Tony Hillerman. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
A Thief of Time
.
Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988. First edition, limited to 250 specially bound numbered copies signed by the author. Publisher's binding and original slipcase of issue. Fine condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92091 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$125.00
[Limited Editions Club]. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Giuseppe Di Lampedusa.
The Leopard.
LEC, [1988].
One of 750 copies signed by the illustrator, Pierro Guccione.
Quarto. In slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92124 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$125.00
Stephen King [subject]. Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller [editors]. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King.
Columbia: Underwood-Miller, 1982. First edition,
limited to 225 copies. Signed by Stephen King, Charles L. Grant, Fritz Leiber, Alan Ryan, Peter Straub, Douglas E. Winter, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ben P. Indick, Don Herron, Bill Warren, and Deborah L. Notkin.
Octavo. 255 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor rubbing and toning to dj. No slipcase. Near fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92102 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$118.75
Norman Mailer. INSCRIBED.
A Transit to Narcissus: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript.
Fertig, 1978. First edition, first printing.
Signed and inscribed by the author.
Minor rubbing and staining to dj, with a few tiny tears. Overall near fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92140 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$118.75
Henry Miller. INSCRIBED.
The Books in My Life
.
A New Directions Book, [1952]. First American edition. With a warm inscription by Miller on the FEP. Illustrated. Publisher's original binding and dust jacket. A very good copy in fair jacket which is ragged and lacking the lower portion of the front panel.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92152 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$118.75
Tench Coxe.
A View of the United States of America in a Series of Papers Written at Various Times, Between the Years 1787 and 1794
.
William Hall, 1794. First edition. Contemporary leather binding. Boards worn and abraded along the edges; joints weak; contents toned with occasional foxing and staining, else about very good condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92283 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$118.75
D. H. Lawrence.
Women in Love.
Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1920. First edition, one of 1,250 copies. Binding rubbed at edges, gutter after title-page cracked, title-page torn and partially loose, front free endpaper a bit worn, final gutter cracked. Still, a good copy of this rare book.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92116 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$112.50
Henry Miller. INSCRIBED BY MILLER TO A FRIEND.
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare.
New Directions, [1945]. First edition.
Inscribed warmly by Miller to Pierre Sicari at a later date.
Jacket worn, some offsetting to jacket verso, binding rubbed. Good. From the collection of Henry Miller's friend (and collector) Pierre Sicari.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92151 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$112.50
Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949) Original Watercolor, Circa 1930.
12" x 16.75". Paper a bit toned, else fine condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92419 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$112.50
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes.
New York: Norton, [2005-2006]. First edition of this new version with notes by Leslie S. Klinger. Three quarto volumes.
In the original shrinkwrap.
Publisher's bindings, dust jackets, slipcases. Virtually as new.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92061 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
Aldous Huxley. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
Arabia Infelix.
Fountain Press, 1929.
First edition, one of 692 copies signed by Huxley.
Minor rubbing, bumping, else fine. From the collection of well-known book collector Alfred J. Liebmann, with his bookplate.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92096 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
Make Offer to Owner
$300 or more
Aldous Huxley. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
Brief Candles.
Fountain Press, 1930.
First American edition, one of 842 copies signed by Huxley.
Light rubbing to binding, else fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92097 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
Make Offer to Owner
$300 or more
Peter H. Hassrick.
Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture.
Abrams, 1973.
Limited to 350 numbered and signed copies.
Fine.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92314 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
[Richard Nixon]. LIMITED EDITION.
The Inaugural Address of Richard M. Nixon Thirty-Seventh President of the United States
[sold with:] One Page Typed Letter Signed by Nixon's Personal Secretary Rose Mary Woods.
[N.p.], [1969]. Limited to a thousand bound copies issued in slip case. Near fine. With one page presentation TLS on White House letterhead to singer Connie Francis laid-in. Fine condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92356 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
[George Washington].
Legacies of Washington Being a Collection of the Most Approved Writings of the Late General Washington
.
Sherman, Mershon & Thomas, 1800. Contemporary leather binding. Boards well worn; front joint cracked, front board loose; contents significantly toned with some insect damage and pencil marginalia, else good condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92401 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$106.25
Washington Irving.
The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall
Illustrated by C. E. Brock.
J.M. Dent & Sons, [N.d.]. First edition thus. Illustrated in color. Publisher's binding and price-clipped dust jacket. Modest wear to jacket, else very good condition.
Auction 201240
| Lot: 92098 | Oct 4, 2012
Sold For:
$100.00
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