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[Spanish Periodical].
El Motin. Periodico Satirico Semanal,
January 1882- December 1884
. Numbers 1 through 52, bound in three folio volumes. Ex-library, with envelope at rear pastedown of 1884 volume, and bookplates on front pastedowns. Offsetting from the numerous (and humorous) double page color illustrations. Page edges toned and chipped, with some tears. Good.
From the collection of Zita Books.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91257 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$350.00
Agatha Christie.
Ten Little N*****s
.
London: Crime Club, [1939]. First edition. Octavo. 252, [2, ads] pages. Publisher's orange cloth with black spine titles. Lacking dust jacket. Spine sunned. Board edges faded. Over-opened in some places. Foxing throughout. About very good. Obviously, a very controversial title only used in Great Britain (for Crime Club editions). In America, it was published as
And Then There Were None
and was later reissued as
Ten Little Indians.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91036 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$325.00
[Antiquarian Leaf]. Single Leaf from the
Nuremberg Chronicle.
1493. The leaf features eleven woodcuts, some of which could possibly have been illustrated by Albrecht Dürer, who was an apprentice in a printer's shop at the time this was printed. Measures 11 x 16.25 inches. Printed on recto and verso. Small 1/2" foxed area, else fine.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91343 | Apr 3, 2014
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$325.00
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$495 or more
Patricia Daniels Cornwell.
Post-Mortem.
New York" Scribner's. [1990]. First edition, first printing. This is the first novel featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Publisher's binding and original dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91038 | Apr 3, 2014
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$300.00
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$460 or more
[Slavery]. Frederick Douglass.
My Bondage and My Freedom.
New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First edition. Octavo. 464 pages. Three tissue-guarded engraved plates, including the frontispiece, taken from the famous daguerreotype of Douglass. Publisher's embossed brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Rubbing to extremities, with additional chipping to spine ends. Scattered foxing throughout. Overall a very good copy of Douglass' scarce second autobiography.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91280 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$300.00
Ralphe Brooke.
A Discoverie of Certaine Errours Published in Print in...Britannia, 1594.
To which is added, The Learned Mr. Camden's Answer to this Book.
London: J. Bettenham, 1723. This copy is bound together with an edition printed in the following year (1724), which contains Mr. Brooke's reply to Mr. Camden's answer. The two bound copies provide an excellent sparring match. Quarto. Nineteenth century full calf, rebacked in morocco with gilt titles and five raised bands. Typical edgewear. Corners bumped and showing. Very good.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91212 | Apr 3, 2014
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$275.00
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$425 or more
Ernest Hemingway.
For Whom the Bell Tolls.
New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition, first printing, with "A" on copyright page. Octavo. 471 pages. Publisher's beige cloth with red and black stamping. Offsetting to endpapers, with small previous ownership sticker on front pastedown.
First state dust jacket with original price of "$2.75" and no photographer's credit on rear panel. Jacket is somewhat tattered and edgeworn, with panels lightly rubbed. A very good copy.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91067 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$250.00
Edgar Allan Poe.
The Bells.
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1881. First edition thus. Profusely illustrated. Brown cloth decoratively stamped in blind, gilt and silver. Some shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, else near fine.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91096 | Apr 3, 2014
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$237.50
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$372 or more
[Slavery]. William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison, editors.
Slave Songs of the United States.
New York: A. Simpson, 1867. First edition. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine titles. Ink signatures on the FFEP and front pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers from a jacket which is no longer present. Very good.
The earliest collection of Negro spirituals.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91290 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$237.50
[Spanish Periodical].
El Cangrejo. Diario Politico Burlesco...Al Nivel de las Actuales Circunstancias,
April-October, 1841
.
Numbers 1 through 163, bound in two folio volumes. Contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards. First volume is slightly (and noticeably) smaller than the second. Some rubbing to extremities. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Very good.
From the collection of Zita Books.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91258 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$212.50
John Updike and Warren Chappell. SIGNED. The
Magic Flute.
New York: Knopf, [1962]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by both Updike and Chappell on the title page.
Oblong quarto. Publisher's original pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Some rubbing to corners and spine edges, else near fine.
From the collection of Alexander J. Jemal, Jr.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91143 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$200.00
Bernard Shaw. LIMITED.
Saint Joan.
With stage settings and sketches by Charles Ricketts. London: Constable and Co., [1924]. First edition, limited to 750 copies. Folio. Publisher's quarter cloth over printed boards. Some dampstaining to FFEP and front pastedown. Original dust jacket, soiled and edgeworn. Bookplate. A near fine copy in a good dust jacket.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91115 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$187.50
Thomas McGuane. SIGNED.
The Sporting Club.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. First edition, first printing.
Signed by the author on the FFEP.
Publisher's red cloth binding and original dust jacket. Near fine.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91085 | Apr 3, 2014
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$162.50
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[Americana, Dakota Territory].
A Scream from the American Eagle in Dakota, 1882.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1882. Small quarto, 10 pages. Front pictorial wrapper only, rear wrapper lacking. A Dakotan's perspective on patriotism in the 1880s. Reprints the text of the the Fourth of July Oration delivered by Col. P. Conan, of the Fargo, D.T., "Argus". String binding; most pages disbound. Still, a good copy.
From the collection of Zita Books.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91228 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$162.50
[American History]. Group of Seven Limited or First Editions.
Various publishers and dates. All first editions, most limited.
Indian Summer is
signed by its author, Van Wyck Brooks.
Most exhibit one or more of the following characteristics: fine bindings, slipcases, untrimmed edges, folding maps. Some varying degrees of soiling. Slipcases are worn. Most with bookplates. A very good group.
(Total: 7 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91306 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$162.50
[Bibliography].
Dictionary Catalog of the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection of Negro Authors.
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1970. First edition, first printing. Two folio volumes. Publisher's blue cloth. Fine.
From the collection of Zita Books.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91188 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$150.00
Walter Scott.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
Edinburgh: James Ballantine, 1810. Fourth edition. Complete in three volumes. Modern half calf over boards with gilt spine titles. Rubbing to leather extremities, else a near fine set.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91272 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$150.00
Poet Louise Chandler Moulton: Group of Two Autograph Letters and Two Poems.
Chandler (1835-1908) was an American poet. Included in the lot are two letters, one of which concerns one of her poems which she says "
is not included in either of my two published volumes of verse.
" This letter also includes the poem in question, signed a second time by the author. Also included is a 3.5" x 2.5" card bearing the first four lines of her poem
We Lay Us Down to Sleep
which she has also signed. Very good or better condition.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91008 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
Thomas Percy.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.
London: J.G. Fleischer, 1790. Three twelvemo volumes. Near contemporary full red calf. All boards either detached or starting. Chipping to spine ends. Fair.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91095 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
[Pulps].
Strange Detective Mysteries,1940-1942.
Three issues. Chicago: Popular Publications, [1940-1942]. Original printed wrappers. Tattered, toned and edgeworn. Still, very good.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91107 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
[James Joyce, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Dos Passos]. Group of Four First Edition, First Printing Books from the 1930s.
Various publishers and dates. Original cloth bindings. A very good, impressive set.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91175 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
Pierre Charron.
Of Wisdome Three Bookes.
London: Luke Fawne., 1658. Sixth printing in English. Small octavo. Contemporary calf with a later paper spine label. Front hinge cracked and starting. Ink signatures to title page. Ink stamp on front pastedown. Rubbing to extremities. Good or better.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91216 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
Edward V. Rickenbacker. SIGNED.
Rickenbacker. An Autobiography
.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1967.
Boldly signed and dated the year of publication by the author on the FFEP.
Octavo. Illustrated. Publisher's original cloth. Dust jacket. A crisp copy in fine condition.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91266 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
[Slavery]. [Theodore Dwight Weld].
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses.
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839. Publisher's cloth-backed printed boards. Soiled, with foxing and the occasional dampstain. Good or better.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91276 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
William Cobbett. LIMITED.
Rural Rides in...England, Together with Tours in Scotland...
London: Peter Davies, 1930. Three octavo volumes. First edition thus, limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Modern quarter cloth over boards. Spines lightly sunned, with mild edgewear. Near fine.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91222 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$133.75
Grover Cleveland Typed Letter Signed.
One page, 7.25" x 10", Princeton [New Jersey], June 24, 1905, to Charles T. Scott declining a request for "
an expression from me bearing upon the subject of a man's chances of winning success before or after forty
" for the Boston Sunday Herald. Folds.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91002 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$125.00
[Grabhorn Press]. LIMITED.
The Book of Job.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, [1926]. First edition, limited to 210 numbered copies.
Frontispiece signed by Valenti Angelo, the artist
. Folio. Publisher's quarto cloth over boards, with paper spine label. Publisher's slip laid in. Bookplate. Some sunning to board edges and biopredation to spine label, else a near fine copy.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91061 | Apr 3, 2014
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$125.00
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$300 or more
Lola Montez.
Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfield).
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1858. First edition. Publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth. Ex-library, with blind stamp to title page and spine label. Offsetting to endpapers. Previous owner's ink signature on front flyleaf. Very good.
From the library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91256 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$125.00
[Science Fiction]. Group of Twelve Paperbacks.
Various publishers and dates. Original pictorial wrappers, with some wrinkling and shelfwear. Very good.
(Total: 12 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91176 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$118.75
John Updike. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Not Cancelled Yet: Thirteen New Poems.
Limberlost Press, 2003. Lot includes the specially bound edition, limited to 100 numbered copies
signed by the author
, as well as one of the 700 copy first editions, bound, as issued, in paper wrappers.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91148 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$112.50
[Books about Books]. Lawrence Wroth.
Some Reflections on the Book Arts in Early Mexico.
Harvard College Library, 1945. Folio. Publisher's printed wrappers, with gilt decoration. Fine. Housed in chemise.
From the library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91209 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$112.50
Charles Keeler.
San Francisco Through Earthquake and Fire.
San Francisco: Paul Elder, [1906]. First edition. Publisher's printed wrappers, rebacked with tape and with edges reinforced as well. Very good.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91245 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$112.50
[WWII Cartoons]. Two Books about Cartoons during WWII.
Various publishers, [1941, 1946]. First editions. Quartos. Publisher's cloth bindings and original dust jackets. Jackets rubbed, with moderate edgewear. Very good.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91304 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$112.50
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1900. First edition thus, in the Altemus' Young People's Library. With ninety illustrations. Twelvemo. Publisher's printed cloth binding with a miniscule incident of biopredation on the spine. Original pictorial dust jacket, with minor soiling and moderate edgewear. Overall, this copy is in excellent condition.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91119 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$110.00
Erle Stanley Gardner. INSCRIBED.
The Case of the Backward Mule.
New York: William Morrow, 1946.
Warmly inscribed by the author on the FFEP.
Publisher's binding and original dust jacket. Rear jacket panel is soiled, with a few closed tears to edges. Very good.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91058 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$106.25
Tony Hillerman. SIGNED.
Sacred Clowns.
HarperCollins, 1993. Advance Reading Copy.
Signed by Hillerman on the half-title page.
Publisher's illustrated wrappers. A crisp, fine copy.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91069 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$106.25
[Pulps]. [Harold Lamb, Georges Surdez, et al.] Volume 1 Number 1 of
The Big Magazine
, March 1935.
Popular Publications, 1935. Pulp format. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. Illustrated. Contents toned and brittle, as usual, else very good.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91102 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$106.25
John Updike. INSCRIBED.
Of the Farm.
New York: Knopf, 1965. First edition, first printing.
Inscribed by the author on the FFEP.
Publisher's quarter green cloth over boards. Original dust jacket. A fine copy, in slipcase.
From the collection of Alexander J. Jemal, Jr.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91149 | Apr 3, 2014
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$106.25
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Robert Graves. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE.
Good-Bye to All That
.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition, expurgated second edition with asterisks on pages 290, 341-343, and an erratum slip between 398 and 399. Octavo. 448 pages. Portrait of Robert Graves used as frontispiece. Publisher's original cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and the publisher's blind stamped logo on the rear board. Moderate shelf wear to the edges of the boards; corners slightly bumped; spine ends worn; spine a bit dark; a few stains to boards; contents a bit toned, else a solid copy in very good condition.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91236 | Apr 3, 2014
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$106.25
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[Bookends]. Matching Pair of Charming Curious Puppy Bookends.
Metal with bronze finish. A few faint surface rubs and with a rich patina. Each measures 5" tall x 3.5" wide x 4.5" deep. One with original felt bottom partially detached, one lacking. Very good.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91318 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$106.25
Francis Beeding.
Death Walks in Eastrepps
.
Mystery League, 1931. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's black cloth. Dust jacket. Slight lean to text bock, else very good.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91027 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$100.00
J. Allan Dunn.
The Flower of Fate
.
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1928. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth. Dust jacket. Light foxing; dust jacket a bit dirty, else very good.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91048 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$100.00
Maria Edgeworth.
The Parent's Assistant; or, Stories for Children.
London: R. Hunter, 1822. New edition. Complete in six volumes, bound into three twentyfourmo's. Modern full calf. One volume has light dampstaining to boards. Bookplates on front pastedowns. A near fine set.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91049 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$100.00
[Children's].
Little ABC Book.
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1884. Printed on linen, with linen wrappers. Twelvemo. Minor fraying at edges, with moderate soiling. Colors bright. A near fine copy.
From the collection of Zita Books.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91080 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$100.00
Charles Dickens.
Dombey and Son.
New York: John Wiley, 1848. First American edition. Two octavo volumes, uniformly bound in half calf over blue boards. Hinges cracked. Some stains to leather. Foxing throughout. Good or better.
From the collection of Zita Books.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91041 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$93.75
[Grabhorn Press]. LIMITED. Yvan Goll.
Jean Sans Terre / Landless John.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1944. Folio. First edition, limited to 175 copies. Quarter cloth over boards with a paper spine label. Bookplate. Some rubbing to cloth extremities, else a fine copy.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91060 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$93.75
John Updike. SIGNED/INSCRIBED.
Marry Me.
New York: Knopf, 1976. First trade edition, one of 300 numbered copies
signed by the author.
This copy also
inscribed by the author
on the following leaf. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
From the collection of Alexander J. Jemal, Jr.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91145 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$93.75
[George Cruikshank]. Original Hand-Colored Engraving accompanying
A Report of the Evidence Given before the Coroner's Inquest on the Body of Richard Honey...
London: T. Dolby, 1821. Engraving measures 13.25 x 8.5 inches and has two vertical fold creases from being bound into the report, which itself has been disbound. There is some roughness to the bound edge and very light, scattered foxing to the report itself, else very good.
From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201414
| Lot: 91227 | Apr 3, 2014
Sold For:
$93.75
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