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[New York City].
Pictures of Life & Character in New York.
[New York: Averell, 1877]. A likely printer's or publisher's copy with extensive diagrams and charts in holograph pencil to each verso. Twenty lithograph plates. Folio. Blind and gilt-stamped cloth. Boards and spine worn with spotty discoloration at edges. Soiled and scratched. Corners bumped. Over-opened. Fair.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94134 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$625.00
Ian Fleming. Group of Fourteen James Bond Novels with SIGNED photograph of Fleming.
London, Jonathan Cape. Reprint or facsimile editions. Octavos. Publishers' cloth bindings and dust jackets. Some toned. Very good. Photograph severely scabbed. Good. (Total: 14 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94034 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$531.25
[California Gold Rush]. Daniel Knower.
The Adventures of a Forty-Niner.
Albany: Weed-Parsons, 1894. First edition. Octavo. 200 pages. Contemporary half leather binding with gilt titles. Lightly toned. corners rubbed with boards showing through. Good.
From the Library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94132 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$325.00
Make Offer to Owner
$495 or more
Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas, editors.
Adventures in Time and Space.
New York: [Random House, 1946]. Octavo. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Tears and rubbing to dust jacket edges, with some shelfwear, else very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94039 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$275.00
[Herbert Rose Barraud].
Men and Women of the Day. A Picture Gallery of Contemporary Portraiture.
Richard Bentley and Son, 1889
.
In two volumes. Includes only 30 of 36 photos. Scattered areas of light foxing. Minor shelfwear. Very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94100 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$226.25
Wright, Arnold (editor).
Twentieth Century Impressions of British Malaya.
London: Lloyd's, 1908. Quarto. Publisher's full leather. Covers worn and soiled. Front board and preliminary leaves detached. Spine faded and rubbed. Corners bumped. Front free end paper stuck to paste down. Pages cockled. Fair.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94151 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$200.00
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin. A Tale of Life Among the Lowly
.
John C. Winston & Co., 1897. First edition, thus. Illustrated. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Boards scuffed and soiled with wear along the edges; contents lightly toned, else very good condition.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94076 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$162.50
Bengough, J.W. SIGNED.
A Caricature History of Canadian Politics.
Toronto: Grip, 1886. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated. Quarto. Half-bound over gilt-stamped cloth. Covers rubbed and soiled with small stains, peeling on rear board. Leather worn at spine and corners, backstrip torn with pieces missing. Joints cracked. Part of cartoon excised from page 101. Fair.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94103 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$162.50
[Slavery]. Henry Clay.
Remarks of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on Introducing His Propositions to Compromise, on the Slavery Question. In the Senate of the United States, January 29, 1850
.
Jno. T. Towers, 1850. Self wrappers. Modest toning and old, smoothed fold creases, else very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94114 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$162.50
Heywood Broun. SIGNED/LIMITED.
A Shepherd.
New York: Privately printed, 1926. First edition,
limited to 245 copies printed for George A. Nelson. Broun's clipped signature mounted to front pastedown.
Octavo. 11 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Light rubbing and toning to edges of boards. One-inch split at head of front joint. Toned and lightly tattered dj. Very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94020 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$125.00
[African-American Literature and Dialect]. [E. W. Kemble, illustrator]. Marietta Holly.
Samantha Among the Colored Folks "My Ideas on the Race Problem"
.
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1891. Early edition. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble. Publisher's original pictorial cloth. Modest soiling and shelf wear, else very good condition.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94041 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$125.00
[Anti-Slavery].
"One of Them" [Pseudonym for Leonard Marsh]. A Bake-Pan, For the Dough-Faces.
Published by C. Goodrich, 1854. Printed wrappers; string bound. Toned and ragged along the edges; ink signature on front wrapper, else very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94143 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$125.00
[Political Cartoon].
Father's Pet.
[No publisher., 1931]. Original ink drawing for New York political cartoon. 14.5" x 11.5" affixed to board with overall size of 12" x 15." Lightly soiled with minor edgewear. Pinholes. Good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94219 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$125.00
[Edgar Rice Burroughs]. Two Tarzan-Related Titles,
including: Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan and the Castaways.
New York: Canaveral, 1965. First edition. [and:] Philip Jose Farmer.
Tarzan Alive.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. First edition. Publisher's bindings and dust jackets. Some toning and tears to jackets, else very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94025 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$118.75
Henry Miller. INSCRIBED.
Tropic of Capricorn
[and:]
The World of Sex & Max and the White Phagocytes.
London: Calder, [1964, 1970]. First British Editions of Miller's works, both inscribed to Pierre Sicari. Publisher's bindings in dust jackets.
Tropic of Capricorn
copyright notice blacked out in holograph ink on copyright page. Both jackets with two horizontal lines of offset ink from old archival jacket protectors.
Tropic of Capricorn
price-clipped. Extremities rubbed with minor chips. Very Good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94059 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$118.75
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Savage Pellucidar.
New York: Canaveral Press, 1963. First edition. Posthumously published. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Small tears to jacket edges and corners. Some shelfwear, else very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94023 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$100.00
Ernest H. Shepherd. Signed Sentiment Card With Original Drawing.
Clipped irregularly. Toned. Folds. Fixed to backing. Lightly soiled. Good. By the illustrator of the original Winnie-the-Pooh books.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94008 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$93.75
[Homer]. A.J. Church. Two (2) Books,
including:
The Story of the Iliad
[and:]
The Story of the Odyssey.
New York: Macmillan, 1891, 1892. Publisher's bindings. Over-opened at some places. Spine edges bumped, with some rubbing to boards. Very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94042 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$93.75
Henry Miller. INSCRIBED. Group of Eight Periodicals and Chapbooks Relating to Henry Miller.
Various publications and dates. All inscribed by Miller. Original wraps. Some toning and light edgewear. Very good.
From the collection of Henry Miller's personal friend, Pierre Sicari.
(Total: 5 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94063 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$93.75
Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot.
A Popular History of France.
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [circa 1869]. Six Quarto volumes. Heavily illustrated. Half calf over marbled boards with gilt titles. Marbled edges and endpapers. Boards and Edges rubbed with corners showing through. First gathering detached from volume one. Else very good. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94124 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$93.75
Set of Two Book Ends Depicting Sailing Ships.
Wood, cloth and string construction. 6" x 3.5" x 7.25". Light layer of dust. Some string has loosened, causing the sails to sag. Good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94158 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$93.75
Rudolf Koller. Poster for an Exhibition of Koller's Work in Zurich, 1898.
Imprimerie Chaix. 11.5" x 15.75". Printer's blindstamp. Toned. Very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94230 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$87.50
Eric Frank Russell.
Sinister Barrier.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Rubbing to jacket. Small tears to edges. Overall very good. Includes four small promotional pamphlets from the publisher.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94071 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$82.50
[Abolition of Slavery]. Edward L. Pierce. PRESENTATION COPY.
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
.
Roberts Brothers, 1877. First edition. Two octavo volumes.
With author's presentation inscription on the flyleaf.
Publisher's original green cloth lettered in gilt. Modest shelf wear at the spine ends and corners; some light soiling to boards, else very good condition. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94135 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$81.25
[Map]. G.M. Christman.
San Francisco & Environs.
Haunted Bookshop, 1961. A comical map of the United States from the perspective of a San Franciscan. Toning and tears to top. Good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94231 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$81.25
William Makepeace Thackeray. Set of Eleven Books of Thackeray's Works.
New York: John Wurtele Lovell, 1880 (some undated). Later editions. Octavos. Illustrated by the author. Half calf binding with marbled boards and edges. Some edgewear and dampstains. Very good. (Total: 11 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94079 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$75.00
Charles Dickens. Group of Ten Books by Dickens.
Various publishers, most twentieth century. Later editions. Octavos. Most in publishers' bindings, two in dust jackets. Edgeworn and toned. Good or better. (Total: 10 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94032 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$75.00
Rudyard Kipling. Group of Four Books by Kipling.
Various publishers, twentieth century. Later editions. Publishers' bindings, two lacking jackets. Some rubbing and edgewear. Good or better. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94051 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$75.00
[Typeface Design]. Bauer Type Foundry Incorporated. Special Christmas Presentation Pack, 1937.
Folder contains a print of Bauer's family tree of printing types, along with descriptions of each type. Some tears and wrinkles to edges, else very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94250 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$75.00
[Roy G. Krenkel, Illustrator]. Robert Howard. Group of Six Books by Howard.
Various publishers, 1973-1981. First editions.
The Sowers of the Thunder
is signed by the illustrator Roy G. Krenkel. Publishers' bindings in dust jackets. Some edgewear to jackets.
The Sowers of the Thunder
suffers several closed tears. Most very good. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94048 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$69.00
Anna Seward.
Monody
on Major Andre; and Elegy on Captain Cook.
London: Longman Hurst , Reese, et al. 1817. Tenth edition. Sixteenmo. 178 pages. Calf binding with gilt titles and decorations. Toned. Edges worn. Board rubbed. Joints starting. Good.
From the Library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94072 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$69.00
J. W. Coleman, Jr.
Slavery Times in Kentucky
.
University of North Carolina Press, 1940. First edition. Illustrated. Publisher's original cloth and price-clipped dust jacket. Very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94116 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$69.00
List of Officers and Men in the Pennsylvania Navy, 1775-1781.
N.P. Octavo. 359 pages. Half leather binding over marbled boards. Lightly toned. Boards rubbed. Corners worn. Front board almost entirely detached. Good.
From the Library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94166 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$69.00
[Santa Fe Trail].
Along the Old Trail:
A History of the Old and a Story of the New Santa Fe Trail.
Cimarron: Tucker-Vernon Company, 1910. Octavo. 141 pages. String bound in publisher's pictorial wraps. Lightly edgeworn. Near fine.
From the Library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94170 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$69.00
[Cooking]. Alice Louise Waters, editor.
Thirty Recipes Suitable for Framing.
Folio. Berkeley: Saint Heironymous Press, [1970]. Fourth printing. Loose-leaf recipes artistically formatted and housed in a folder. Folio. Calligraphy and illustrations by David L. Goines. Includes recipes for marinated tomatoes, blueberry tart, orange duck, and others. Missing five recipes. Toned, with some tears to edges. Very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94191 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$69.00
[African-American Literature and Dialect]. Martha S. Gielow.
Old Plantation Days
.
R. H. Russell, 1902. First edition. Illustrated. Publisher's original cloth. Endpapers toned, else very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94035 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$65.00
Robert Bloch.
Psycho.
Two (2) Mass Market Paperback Editions, Both First Printings.
Publisher's printed wrappers. Pages toned, with minor shelfwear. Very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94017 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$62.00
[August Derleth]. Two First Edition Science Fiction Anthologies with Stories Selected by Derleth.
Publishers bindings and dust jackets. Minimal tears and toning. Very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94030 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$62.00
Henry Miller. SIGNED. Poster for the Opening of an Exhibition of Miller's Work at the Windsor Gallery, Featuring a Painting by Miller.
20.25" x 30". Exhibition date October Eighth, 1974. Signed by Miller and numbered 60/150. Edges very lightly worn. Very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94064 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$62.00
Edgar Allen Poe. Group of Four Books by Poe.
Franklin Library and Easton Press, late twentieth century. Later editions. Octavos. Publishers' leather bindings with gilt titles and decorations. Fine. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94069 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$62.00
William Shakespeare. Group of Four Illustrated Books of Shakespeare.
Various publishers, circa 1880's to 2003. Illustrated editions. Octavo or larger. All illustrated. Publishers' bindings, one rebacked. Some toning. Very good. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94073 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$62.00
Tennyson, Alfred.
The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson.
London: King, 1875-1877. Octavo. Five volumes with one duplicate [Volume IV]. Publisher's quarter-leather over cloth. Boards rubbed with small bubbles. Backstrips scratched. Some spine leans. Corners bumped. Previous owner signature. Good. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94078 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$62.00
S. Fowler Wright.
Deluge: A Romance.
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1928. First edition. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Also includes later Grosset & Dunlap reprint edition dust jacket. Both jackets have small tears to edges. G&D jacket has one small dampstain. Overall very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94083 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$62.00
[Frank Schoonover, Walter Stewart and Louis Rhead, Illustrators]. Group of Four Illustrated Classics.
New York: Harpers, circa 1910's. Later editions. Octavos. Illustrations throughout. Publisher's binding in dust jackets. Dust jackets mildly soiled and edgeworn. Toned. Very good. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94089 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$62.00
R.O. Faulkner. LIMITED.
Dialogue of the Tired of Life.
California: Rasmussen Press, 1973. Limited to nine copies
.
Faulkner's translation of a literary piece from Ancient Egypt which contains a discussion between a man and his soul on the topic of suicide. Publisher's binding. No dust jacket as issued. Some extraneous markings and rubbing on boards, else very good.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94122 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$60.00
[Pro-Slavery]. A Southern Clergyman.
A Defence of Southern Slavery, Against the Attacks of Henry Clay and Alex'r Campbell
.
Robinson & Carlisle, 1851. Self wrappers; string bound. Offsetting from the printing process, else very good condition.
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94142 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$59.00
[American History]. Large Group of Periodicals Relating to American History.
Approximately sixty-one items including issues of
Journal of the West, Western American Literature, The Chronicles of Oklahoma
, and others. Primarily twentieth century. Most in original wraps. Toned. Wear at spines. Good. (Total: 61 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94152 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$59.00
[Philosophy.] Group of Seven Books Relating to Philosophy.
Primarily Franklin Library and Easton Press, most twentieth century. Later editions. Octavos. Publishers' bindings.
Paradise Lost
edgeworn, else Fine. (Total: 7 Items)
Auction 201402
| Lot: 94167 | Jan 9, 2014
Sold For:
$59.00
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