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John Sanderson. Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy, 1823. Complete in nine octavo volumes, uniformly bound in contemporary tree calf with black morocco spine labels. Varying degrees of leather cracking to the spines, along with additional scuffing to the boards. Bookplates. Offsetting to endpapers. Very good.

(Total: 9 Items)
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93470 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $700.00
Ann Radcliffe. The Mysteries of Udolpho. London: Robindon, 1794. Second edition. Four twelvemo volumes. Modern full calf with morocco spine labels. Foxing to contents, else near fine.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93126 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $625.00
Frank B. Goodrich. The Court of Napoleon...With Portraits of Its Beauties Wits and Heroines. Illustrations by Jules Champagne. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. Early printing. Quarto. Bound in a later three quarter morocco over green marbled boards. Some foxing to preliminary leaves. Rubbing to hinges. Near fine. From a private collection from New Orleans.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93371 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $593.75
Elias Ashmole. The History of the Most Noble Order of the Garter: and the several Orders of Knighthood extant in Europe. London: A. Bell, 1715. Engraved portrait frontispiece and plates. Bound in a later half calf with morocco spine label. Spine extremities rubbed. Bookplate. Offsetting to endpapers. A very good copy. From the collection of Judith Adelman.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93294 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $500.00
[Edith Wharton's Copy]. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid: 1771. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked. Some scratches to boards. Dampstaining to top edge of textblock. Bookplate of Edith Wharton affixed to front pastedown. A very good copy.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93026 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $468.75
Flannery O'Connor. Three First Editions. Includes Two copies of The Violent Bear It Away (1960) and A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955). One copy of Violent is in original dust jacket. A very good group.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93121 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $406.25
[Miniature Books]. John Updike. SIGNED. Mites and Other Poems in Miniature. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1990. Two copies, one in red cloth with slipcase, one in white handmade paper over boards. Both are signed by the author. Both measure 3 x 2.25 inches. Fine. From the collection of Alexander J. Jemal, Jr.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93168 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $406.25

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$609 or more
Uwe Feist. The Fighting Me 109. London: Arms and Armor, 1988. First edition. Signed at the half title by eight Luftwaffe pilots. Large octavo. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's binding in dust jacket. Fine. From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93358 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $406.25

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$609 or more
[Hebrew Book of Prayers]. Siddur Avodat Israel. Tel Aviv: Sinai Publishing, [1967]. Bilingual text in Hebrew and English. Twelvemo. Beautifully bound in aluminum with decorative blue stones. Binding somewhat loose. Overall very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93387 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $406.25
August Derleth. SIGNED. Something Near. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. First edition, one of 2,000 copies. Signed by the author. Publisher's black cloth and dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned, with some edgewear to corners and spine edges. Near fine.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93256 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $375.00
Jack Kerouac. The Dharma Bums. New York: Viking, [1958]. First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding, with some rubbing to edges. Original dust jacket, with rubbing to panels. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93089 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $350.00
Hebrew Book of Prayers. Israel, [n.d., 1967]. Bilingual text in Hebrew and English. Twelvemo. Beautifully bound in aluminum. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93386 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $325.00
Mark Rothko. Text by David Anfam. New Haven: Yale University Press, [2001]. Later printing. Thick quarto. Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket. Fine in slipcase.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93468 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $325.00
Robert Frost. SIGNED. Selected Poems. New York: Henry Holt, [1934].Third edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Foxing to edges of textblock. Jacket is toned and edgeworn. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93056 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $300.00

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$460 or more
Eudora Welty. SIGNED. The Ponder Heart. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1954]. First edition. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Publisher's binding and original dust jacket, price-clipped. Fine.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93212 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $300.00
Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event. London: J. Dodsley, 1790. Rebound in modern full calf with modern endpapers. Fine.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93318 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $300.00
Tony Hillerman. SIGNED. Canyon de Chelly. Illustrations by Ernest Franklin. California: James Cahill, 1998. First edition. Signed by Hillerman and Franklin. Publisher's leather-backed marbled boards. Fine in slipcase. From a private collection in North Carolina.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93393 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $300.00
William Paley. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. London: R. Faulder, 1788. Sixth edition. Two octavo volumes, uniformly bound in full calf with morocco spine labels. Some scratching and scuffing to boards. Hinges expertly repaired with adhesive. Previous owner's ink signature to FFEPs. Very good.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93453 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $300.00
[Walter Crane, illustrator]. Beatrice Crane. The Months. Two copies. [N.p., n.d., 1890?]. Publisher's printed cream wrappers, soiled, with handling wear. Ink inscription on one wrapper reads "With the compliments of the authoress/February 1890." Foxing. Very good. From the collection of Judith Adelman.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93031 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $275.00
Pat Frank. Alas, Babylon. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1959]. First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth and original dust jacket. Some rubbing to jacket panels, with minimal edgewear. Near fine.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93055 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $275.00
Arthur Miller. SIGNED. Death of a Salesman. New York: Viking Press, [1949]. First book club edition. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Publisher's orange cloth, with rubbing to edges. Original dust jacket, with minimal edgewear. Large closed tear to front panel. Toning. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93114 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $275.00
Ellsworth Kelly. Text by John Coplans. With 68 color plates tipped in. New York: Harry Abrams, [n.d., 1971]. First edition. Quarto. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Front hinge loose. Jacket panels rubbed. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93411 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $275.00
Ernie Bulow. SIGNED/LIMITED. Navajo Taboos. Foreword by Tony Hillerman. Illustrations by Ernest Franklin. Buffalo Medicine Books, 1991. First edition, limited to 50 numbered copies signed by Bulow, Franklin and Hillerman. Publisher's brown leather with gilt titles. Fine in slipcase. From a private collection in North Carolina.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93316 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $250.00

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$640 or more
Graham Greene. The Quiet American. London: William Heinemann, [1955]. First edition, first printing. Publisher's navy cloth and dust jacket. Fine.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93059 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $237.50
Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition, with "A" on copyright page. First issue dust jacket, with no photographer credit on rear panel. Publisher's tan cloth. Front hinge loose. Offsetting to endpapers. Jacket severely torn at spine, but remains intact in a mylar sleeve. A very good copy in a fair jacket.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93069 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $237.50
Aldous Huxley. SIGNED/LIMITED. Apennine. Gaylordsville: The Slide Mountain Press, 1930. First edition, limited to 91 numbered copies. Signed by the author. Quarto. Publisher's binding. Rubbing to boards. Original glassine jacket, with severe toning and edgewear. Slipcase, with severe wear. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93077 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $237.50

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$372 or more
Rudyard Kipling. SIGNED. Twenty Poems. London: Methuen, [1918]. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author in pencil on the half-title page, along with the name Elsie Kipling, his second daughter. Thin octavo. Publisher's printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached. Light foxing. Very good. From the collection of Judith Adelman.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93094 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $237.50
Clark Ashton Smith. Lost Worlds. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1944. First edition, one of 2,000 copies. Publisher's black cloth and dust jacket. Top edge of textblock dust stained. Minimal edgewear to jacket. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93270 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $237.50
Lewis and Clark. Journals of the Expedition. Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1988. Limited edition. Two octavo volumes. Leather bound with gilt titles and decorations. Fine in original shrinkwrap. From a private collection in North Carolina. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93525 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $237.50
[Americana]. Minstrel Gags and End Men's Hand-Book. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1875; First edition. Twelvemo. Publisher's printed wrappers. Minor soiling and edgewear. Very good. From the collection of Zita Books.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93009 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $225.00
John Locke. The Works of John Locke. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Two octavo volumes, uniformly bound in half calf with morocco spine labels. Some scratching and rubbing to boards, with additional rubbing to extremities. A very good set.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93428 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $225.00
Roald Dahl. James and the Giant Peach. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. New York: Knopf, [1961]. First trade edition. Publisher's red cloth. Two original dust jackets. Ink ownership signature to front pastedown. Near fine.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93035 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan and the Ant Men. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1924. First edition. Publisher's original brown cloth lettered in dark brown ink. Modest shelf wear; former owner's book label on the front pastedown, else very good.
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93232 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
Enid Clay. SIGNED/LIMITED. The Constant Mistress. With engravings by Eric Gill. Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. Thin octavo. Publisher's cloth-backed paper boards with paper spine label. Some smudging to boards. Spine label slightly peeling. Bookplate. Near fine.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93025 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
Stephen Crane. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. New York: D. Appleton, 1896. First edition, first printing. Publisher's printed cloth binding, heavily soiled. Housed in chemise and slipcase. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93030 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
John Updike. INSCRIBED. The Same Door. New York: Knopf, 1959. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Whiteout over original name with this additional note from the author on the verso of the half-title: "Forgive the whiteout-/the product of a/momentary confusion/J.U." Publisher's binding, with lightly sunned edges. Original dust jacket, with some rubbing to spine ends. Near fine. From the collection of Alexander J. Jemal, Jr.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93183 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
John Adams and Jonathan Sewell. Novanglus, and Massachusettensis; or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775. Boston: Hews & Goss, 1819. First edition. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Contents foxed and toned. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93281 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
[Tony Hillerman]. Ernie Bulow. SIGNED/LIMITED. Words, Weather and Wolfmen: Conversations with Tony Hillerman. Illustrations by Ernest Franklin.The Southwesterner, 1989. First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Hillerman, Bulow and Franklin. Publisher's binding and original dust jacket. Fine. From a private collection in North Carolina.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93392 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
[Harry Truman]. INSCRIBED. William Hillman. Mr. President:The First Publication from the Personal Diaries...and Revealing Interviews of Harry S. Truman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, [1952]. First edition, first printing, with publisher's errata slip laid in. Inscribed by Harry Truman on the frontispiece photo. Also included is a typed letter signed by Bess Truman. Quarto. Publisher's binding, with soiling and rubbing to edges. Original dust jacket, with creases, rubbing and tears to edges. A very good copy in a good jacket.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93398 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
Richard Nixon. SIGNED. Leaders. New York: Warner Books, [1982]. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's cloth with gilt titles and borders. Housed in matching slipcase. Some minor wear to slipcase. Near fine. From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93444 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
Aldous Huxley. SIGNED/LIMITED. Point Counter Point. London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. First British edition, limited to 256 numbered copies signed by the author. Publisher's green cloth. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine sunned. Front hinge loose. Light, scattered foxing throughout. A very good copy.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93080 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $192.50
Jack Kerouac. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First edition, first printing. Publisher's binding. Original dust jacket, price-clipped, with some creasing and rubbing to panels. A near fine copy in a very good jacket.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93088 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
William Morris. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, Vol. II. [Kelmscott Press, 1895]. Eighteenmo. One volume only of two. Bound in original blue cloth with paper spine label, with some chipping that does not affect titles. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93118 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
Alexander Pope. The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. In Nine Volumes Complete. London: J. and P. Knapton, 1751. Nine octavo volumes. Twenty-four copper engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf with morocco spine labels. Leather cracking to joints. Hinges starting on one volume. Rubbing to extremities. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers. Still, a very good, early set.
(Total: 9 Items)
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93125 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
Eudora Welty. SIGNED. The Robber Bridegroom. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1987]. First edition thus. Signed by the author and the illustrator on the title page. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93213 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
Edward Ruscha. Editions 1959-1999: Catalogue Raisonne. Walker Art Center, [1999-2000]. Two quarto volumes, housed in a black cloth slipcase. Some rubbing to slipcase, else fine.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201416 | Lot: 93469 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
[Arthur Rackham, Hugh Thomson, et al, illustrators]. Mrs. Mabel H. Spielmann. The Rainbow Book. Tales of Fun & Fancy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Spine and board edges sunned. Some soiling. Foxing to endpapers. Gift bookplate. Very good. From the collection of Judith Adelman.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93143 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $181.25
Walt Whitman. November Boughs. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. First edition. Publisher's beveled maroon cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Spine sunned and rubbed. Corners bumped and showing. Walter Chrysler bookplates on front pastedown, with offsetting to endpapers. Pencil notations to front flyleaves. Very good.

Auction 201416 | Lot: 93215 | Apr 17, 2014

Sold For: $175.00

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