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[Biblical, Arthur Szyk]. Cecil Roth, editor. The Haggadah. Jerusalem, [n.d.]. Bilingual text in English and Hebrew. Octavo. Beautifully bound in aluminum with blue ornamental stones. Fine.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94026 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $1,187.50
[Fore-Edge Painting]. William Cowper. Poems, Vol. I. With drawings by John Gilbert and a fore-edge painting. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1861. One octavo volume only (of two). Full burgundy calf, with two morocco spine labels. Leather tooled in gilt and blind. Rear board detached. Offsetting to endpapers. Bookplate. Good or better.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94062 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $875.00
Dwight D. Eisenhower. SIGNED. Crusade in Europe. Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. First trade edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's tan cloth, with custom slipcase. Near fine.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94337 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $750.00

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$1,125 or more
Carson McCullers. INSCRIBED. The Ballad of the Sad Café. Riverside Press, 1951. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP. Octavo. Publisher's original cloth. Modest shelf wear, mostly at the spine ends and corners; light toning to the edge of the text block, else very good.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94097 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $547.50
[Fore-Edge Painting]. John Tyndall. Heat: A Mode of Motion. London: Longmans, Green, 1875. Fifth edition. With a fore-edge painting depicting a train. Full embossed red morocco with gilt titles and decoration. Some staining to boards and rubbing to extremities. Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94347 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $500.00
[Americana] A Pocket Full of Fun. New York: Leslie & Brother, Publishers, 1867. Post-Civil War satire magazine, profusely illustrated. Octavo. Publisher's original printed wrappers. Wrappers toned with some chipping along the edges; several interior pages with closed tears, else generally in very good condition. From the collection of Zita Books.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94013 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $437.50
Maya Angelou. INSCRIBED. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, [1969]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's black cloth and original dust jacket. Some wear to jacket at spine ends, else fine. From a private collection in North Carolina.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94017 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $437.50
William Faulkner. Mosquitoes. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. Publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, gilt lettering rubbed, joints and edges worn, corners bumped. Endpapers renewed, toning to title page. Small hole worn into page 397, repaired by tape. Good.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94055 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $437.50
J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories. Sauk City, Arkham House, 1945. First edition, one of 2,000 copies. Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket with $3.00 price. Near fine.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94231 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $437.50

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$656 or more
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[Erotic Fore-Edge Painting]. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With an erotic fore-edge painting. London: Frederick Warne, 1893. The "Albion" edition. Contemporary tree-calf, rebacked. Corners bumped and showing. Bookplate. Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94064 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $406.25
[Fore-Edge Painting]. Lord Macaulay. Lays of Ancient Rome. With woodcuts by George Scharf. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1867. New edition. Full green morocco, ruled in gilt with gilt titles and decoration. Rubbing to edges, spine extremities, hinges and corners. Ownership signatures to front flyleaf. Bookplate. Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94345 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $406.25
Garth Williams (1912-1996), illustrator. SIGNED. Group of Three Preliminary Watercolors for Animal ABC, circa 1957. Measures 13" x 7.75". Signed by Williams. Also includes a pencil sketch and an artist's mock-up of the Animal ABC book. Handling wear, else fine. From the estate of Garth Williams.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94577 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $406.25
[Fore-Edge Painting]. Proper Lessons to be Read at Morning and Evening Prayer...Oxford: Samuel Collingwood, 1833. With a fore-edge painting of Dover Castle in Kent. Small twelvemo. Full leather. All edges gilt. Rubbing and wear to extremities, else very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94346 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $375.00

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$565 or more
[Mother Jones]. The Autobiography of Mother Jones. With an introduction by Clarence Darrow. Chicago: Charles Kerr, 1925. Assumed first edition. Publisher's blue cloth and original dust jacket. Jacket somewhat soiled, with mild staining to spine. Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94383 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $325.00

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$495 or more
[Fore-Edge Painting]. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. London: Frederick Warne, [n.d., ca. 1880]. The "Albion" edition. With a fore-edge painting of Segovia, Spain. Full morocco, with sunned edges and spine. Some foxing to title and frontispiece. Corners slightly bumped. Offsetting to endpapers. Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94063 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $325.00
John James Audubon. Original Folio Hand-Colored Lithograph, American Cross Fox. Plate VI from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, Philadelphia, 1843 Measures. 21 x 27-3/4 inches (53.3 x 70.5 cm) (sheet). Framed.

Viviparous Quadrupeds was a 150 folio-plate undertaking by John James Audubon and his son, John Woodhouse Audubon. While many of the later prints were drawn by Audubon's son, as his health was declining, this one is by John James Audubon.

The animal prints in Viviparous Quadrupeds are considered the finest published in America.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94521 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $325.00
[Americana]. The Pictorial History of the American Revolution. Illustrated with several hundred engravings. New York: Redfield, 1845. Publisher's black embossed cloth with gilt titles. Corners bumped. Wear to spine ends (tail reinforced with adhesive). Foxing throughout. Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94287 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $300.00

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$460 or more
Eudora Welty. SIGNED. One Writer's Beginnings. Cambridge: Harvard, 1984. First edition, signed by the author on the front endpaper. Publisher's binding in jacket. Jacket edges lightly rubbed with two small closed tears to top edge and a small crease to bottom edge of rear panel. Near fine.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94494 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $300.00

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[George Catlin]. Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe, With His North American Indian Collection. London: Published by the author, 1848. Third edition. Two volumes in one. Octavo. A few illustrations. Publisher's original brown blind-stamped cloth lettered in gilt. Spine sun faded; edges of text block toned, else a solid copy in very good condition. From the collection of Judith Adelman.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94319 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $275.00
[Washington Irving]. LIMITED. The Letters of Washington Irving to Henry Brevoort. [together with:] The Letters of Henry Brevoort to Washington Irving. New York: Putnam's, 1915, 1916. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies. Two volumes signed by the publisher. Four octavo volumes in total, uniformly bound in three quarter green morocco over light green cloth with gilt titles. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Two volumes have sunned spines. A near fine set.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94376 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $275.00
Yves Michaud. LIMITED EDITION. Sam Francis. Paris: Editions Daniel Papeirski, 1992. Limited to 7000 copies of which this copy is numbered 2451. With an original Sam Francis lithograph used as the frontispiece, signed by Francis in pencil on the plate. Publisher's original grey cloth lettered in silver. Dust jacket. Fine in the slipcase of issue.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94409 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $275.00
Edward Weston. My Camera on Point Lobos. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First edition, first printing. Folio. Publisher's black glossy paper over boards, spiral bound. Original dust jacket, with chipping and wear to edges. Front panel detached, rear panel lacking. A very good copy in a fair dust jacket.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94495 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $275.00

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$425 or more
Edward Albee. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Play. New York: Antheneum, 1962. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust jacket. Slight toning to jacket, else fine.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94012 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $250.00
Charles Dickens. Six Volume Set of Works. London: Chapman and Hall, [1890-1893]. Includes: Bleak House, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son [and:] Martin Chuzzlewit. Illustrated. Six octavo volumes. Uniform half-calf with marbled paper board with matching endpapers and page ends. Boards and edges gently rubbed, some wear to joints, spines lightly rubbed and soiled, some top stains faded, some volumes with light foxing. Very good. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94047 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $250.00
[Cartoons]. Group of Three Books about American Cartoons in the Early-20th Century. Various publishers and dates. Pittsburgers Cartooned is limited to 100 copies. Two octavos, one oblong quarto. Original cloth bindings, with rubbing to extremities. Front hinges loose. Good or better. From the collection of Zita Books.

(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94507 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $250.00
Washington Irving. The Life of Washington. Chicago: Belford, Clarke, [1855]. Complete in three octavo volumes. Later half morocco over marbled boards. Some rubbing to extremities. Near fine.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94377 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $237.50
[Carte de Visite]. Group of Three Cartes de Visite. The signed photos are of W.D. Ticknor and Joseph Henry. The woman is unknown. Measures 2.5" x 4". Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94534 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $237.50

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$372 or more
Garth Williams (1912-1996), illustrator. SIGNED. Group of Seventeen Original Pencil Studies and Notes for Laura Ingalls Wilder, circa early 1980s. These studies were for Laura Ingalls Wilder's Franklin Mint Little House figure. Drawing paper. Most are signed by Williams. Measures 8.5" x 11". Working sketches with some handling wear, else fine condition. From the estate of Garth Williams.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94575 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $237.50

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$729 or more
James Alan McPherson. SIGNED. Hue and Cry. Boston: Little Brown with Atlantic Monthly, 1969. First edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's binding in dust jacket. Dust jacket rubbed at front and rear panel. Very good. From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94103 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $225.00
Hajo Herrmann. INSCRIBED. Eagle's Wing. The Autobiography of a Luftwaffe Pilot. Motorbooks International, [1991]. First U.S. edition. Inscribed by the author, and additionally signed by four Luftwaffe Aces on the title page. Publisher's black cloth and original dust jacket. Fine. From a private collection in North Carolina.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94367 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $225.00

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$355 or more
[Russian Space Missions]. SIGNED. Blue Planet Sons. 1973. Text in Russian. Includes 31 signatures (on title page and inside the book) of Russian cosmonauts. Publisher's pictorial boards. Joints torn at spine head. Rubbing to extremities. Very good. From a private collection in North Carolina.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94448 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $225.00
William Crookes Typed Letter Signed. One page, 4" x 6.25", London, October 25, 1897, to a Dr. Walsh regarding an invitation to hear Professor Silvanus Thompson speak on x-rays. Crookes (1832-1919) was a British scientist who experimented with spectroscopy and invented the Crookes vacuum tube. Near fine.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94004 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
[Fore-Edge Painting]. La Comtesse Diane. Le Livre D'Or de la Comtesse Diane. Paris: 1910. New edition, with a fore-edge painting of a pastoral scene. Twelvemo. Contemporary full morocco ruled in gilt with gilt titles. Some rubbing to extremities and offsetting to endpapers. Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94061 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
Eugene O'Neill. SIGNED/LIMITED. Anna Christie. New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. Illustrated by Alexander King. Limited to 775 copies, of which this is number 229, and signed by the author. Publisher's binding in jacket and original slipcase. Jacket edges cockled, spine faded, lightly soiled. Slipcase rubbed, some edges splitting, corners bumped. Bookplate. Very good.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94123 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $212.50

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$338 or more
William Godwin. The Enquirer. Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, 1797. Modern full leather. Dampstaining to margins of textblock. Title page reinforced on verso with backing. Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94354 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
Henry M. Stanley. The Congo and the Founding of its Free State. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885. Two octavo volumes. Illustrations throughout. Publisher's bindings with stamped illustration at front boards. edgeworn and lightly soiled. Spine rolled. Very good. From a private collection in North Carolina. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94471 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
[George Washington]. Facsimile of Washington's Accounts, circa 1833. The accounts span from 1775 to 1783. Folio. Contemporary full calf, rebacked. Preserved in a suede folio, rubbed. Contemporary ink signatures and inscriptions to preliminary pages. Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94492 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
[Cartoons]. Group of Three Books about American Cartoons in the Early-20th Century. Various publishers and dates. Quartos. Original cloth bindings, with rubbing to extremities. Front hinges either loose or cracked. Good or better. From the collection of Zita Books.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94508 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
[Original Art]. Willard Mullin (1902-1978). Original Pen and Watercolor Drawing for "The Great American Game." Used in the April 1959 issue of American Heritage. Measures 24" x 18.5". Production notes and adhesive to margins. Reworked drawing is in lower left corner (where original has been cut out). A very good, clean copy.

Willard Mullin was an American sports cartoonist, best known for his creation of the "Brooklyn Bum, "the personification of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94544 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $212.50
Arthur Miller. SIGNED/LIMITED. Death of a Salesman. Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem. The Viking Press, 1981. Special edition limited to 500 copies of which this is 147, signed by Miller. Octavo. Publisher's original brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Matching slipcase, as issued. Fine in the original, albeit opened, shrink wrapping.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94111 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $206.25
Aaron Bancroft. An Essay on the Life of George Washington. Worcester: Thomas & Sturtevant, 1807. First edition. Contemporary full calf with morocco spine label. Offsetting to endpapers and title page. Scattered foxing throughout. Some scratching to leather and rubbing to spine. Very good.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94298 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $206.25
Vachel Lindsay. SIGNED/LIMITED. Collected Poems. New York: MacMillan, 1925. Signed limited edition of 350, of which this is 200. Octavo. Illustrations throughout. Publisher's cloth and printed paper binding. Some light edgewear and soiling. light toning. Very good. From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94090 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
Park Yongjun, compiler. Traditional Tales of Old Korea. A Mixture of Legend and History of Korea's Colorful Past. Seoul: Hanguk Munhwa, [1974]. Illustrated. Five volumes. Publisher's bindings. Covers rubbed and lightly soiled, some corners gently bumped, some hinges cracked. Very good. (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94425 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
John Holland Rose. The Life of Napoleon I Including New Material From the British Official Records. London: George Bell and Sons, 1902. Early edition. Two octavo volumes. Illustrated. Maps. Beautiful contemporary three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Light scuffing to joints, else fine condition. From a private collection from New Orleans. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94444 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $200.00
William Bast. James Dean. A Biography. New York: Ballantine Books, 1956. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original cloth lettered in black. Dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown; closed tear to dust jacket, else near fine.
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94299 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
Dennis Hopper. LIMITED.1712 North Crescent Heights. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2001. First edition, limited to 5,000 copies. Folio. Publisher's binding and original dust jacket. Slipcase lacking. Fine.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94372 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
Harry S. Truman. SIGNED. Year of Decisions [and:] Years of Trial and Hope. Garden City: Doubleday, 1955, 1956. Volume two is inscribed by the author. Publisher's cloth and original dust jackets. Corners bumped. Jackets soiled, with moderate edgewear. Volume two has a bookplate adhered to the half-title page. Very good, in a custom slipcase.

(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201417 | Lot: 94484 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $187.50
Harry S. Truman. INSCRIBED. Memoirs Volume One: Year of Decisions. Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author and dated in the year of publication. Publisher's blue cloth. Mild rubbing to corners. Near fine.

Auction 201417 | Lot: 94485 | Apr 24, 2014

Sold For: $187.50

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