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[Bound Periodical].
The Peking Gazette.
Shanghai, 1895. Translated into English. Three octavo volumes, comprising the years from 1894-1899. Bound in three-quarter morocco. Some wear and rubbing to spine ends. Very good.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94328 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$1,750.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs. INSCRIBED.
Apache Devil.
Tarzana: Burroughs, [1933]. First edition.
Inscribed by the author. With bookplate of Ella Oldham Burroughs.
Publisher's blue cloth with red titles. Front panel of dust jacket adhered to front pastedown. Spine sunned. Rubbing and fraying to cloth extremities. Even toning to textblock. About very good.
From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94149 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$1,000.00
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$1,500 or more
[Maps]. Early Map of Texas and Its Environs.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. With hand-colored borders. Measures about 16" x 13.25". Fine.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94435 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$937.50
Mark Twain.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
New York: Webster, 1889. First issue with 'S' ornament. Publisher's cloth. Covers rubbed with some soiling and minor scuffs, some wear to spine and spine ends, corners bumped. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94122 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$687.50
[Maps]. Early Map of North America.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. With hand-colored borders. Measures about 16" x 13.25". Fine.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94431 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$687.50
Make Offer to Owner
$1,031 or more
Cormac McCarthy. SIGNED UNCORRECTED PROOF.
All the Pretty Horses.
New York: Knopf, 1992. First edition.
Signed by the author.
Publisher's printed wrappers. In paper case with some shelfwear. Near fine.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94087 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$562.50
[Olaf Wieghorst]. SIGNED ORIGINAL DRAWING. William Reed.
Olaf Wieghorst.
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1969. First edition.
Signed by Wieghorst with an original drawing of a horse.
Quarto. Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket. Jacket spine and edges a bit discolored and sunned. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94333 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$531.25
Christopher Shores.
Fighter Aces.
London: Hamlyn, [1975]. First edition.
Signed by 50 American and German World War II fighter pilots.
Quarto. Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket. Near fine.
From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94358 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$500.00
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$750 or more
Frank Moore.
Diary of the American Revolution. From Newspapers and Original Documents.
New York: Charles Scribner, 1860. Complete in two octavo volumes, uniformly bound in three-quarter morocco. Some shelfwear, else very good.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94318 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$422.50
Henry D. Thoreau.
Cape Cod.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition with ads from 1964. Original cloth affixed to leaves and sewn in back of book. Three-quarter leather with cloth boards, spine stamped in gilt. Boards rubbed, joints worn, small scuffs to spine, concluding pages textured from impressions by original cloth, bookplate. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94374 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$400.00
[Maps]. Official Centennial Map of Texas.
Daughters of the Republic of Texas. C.M. Burnett, 1934. Measures 34.25" x 25". Some edgewear. Large closed tear to upper right corner. Good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94434 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$375.00
[Fore-Edge Painting]. William Cowper.
Poems.
London: J. Johnson, 1812. New edition. Two twelvemo volumes,
each with a fore-edge painting.
Later black straight grain morocco ruled in gilt. Rubbing to hinges. Ink ownership notations to endpapers. Very good.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94042 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$350.00
Ernest Hemingway.
A Moveable Feast.
New York: Scribner's, [1964]. First edition. Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket. Near fine.
From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94285 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$350.00
Larry McMurtry.
Lonesome Dove
.
New York: Simon and
Schuster, [1985]. Later printing.
Inscribed by the author.
Publisher's
black quarter-cloth. Original dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94090 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$325.00
Frederick Forsyth. SIGNED.
The Day of the Jackal.
New York: Viking Press, [1971]. First edition.
Signed by the author and dated in the year of publication.
Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket. Some sunning to board edges and toning to jacket. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94172 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$325.00
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$495 or more
[Marilyn Monroe]. Ed Feingersh. Kodak Transparency of Portrait of Marilyn Monroe on Rooftop of New York City Hotel.
1954. Measures 4 x 5 inches. Fine.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94410 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$325.00
[Eugene O'Neill]. SIGNED/LIMITED.
The Complete Works of Eugene O'Neill.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1924. Edition limited to 1200 numbered sets
signed by the author.
Two octavo volumes. Publisher's cloth-backed paper over boards. Spins darkened, with bumping to ends. Corners bumped and showing. Very good.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94102 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$275.00
Eugene O'Neill. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Strange Interlude.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition, limited to 775 numbered copies
signed by the author.
Quarto. Parchment over boards, ruled in blue. Foxing and soiling to parchment. Rubbing to extremities. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94105 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$275.00
John Le Carré. SIGNED. Group of Three First Editions.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [various dates]. All three are
signed by the author.
Publisher's bindings and original dust jackets. Fine.
From a private collection in North Carolina.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94158 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$275.00
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$425 or more
[Soviet Space Missions]. SIGNED. K. Tsiolkovsky.
Way to the Stars
.
Moscow, 1960. Text in Russian.
Signed by Gagarin
. Octavo. Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket. Rubbing and edgewear to jacket. Very good.
From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94368 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$275.00
Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya. SIGNED.
Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan.
Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, [1955]. Third printing.
Signed by Fuchida.
Publisher's red cloth. Offsetting to endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities. Very good.
From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94266 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$250.00
[J.J. Lankes, illustrator]. Robert Frost. SIGNED/LIMITED.
West-Running Brook.
New York: Henry Holt, [1928]. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies
signed by the author. With a woodcut frontispiece signed by J.J. Lankes.
Green cloth-backed printed paper over boards. Rubbing to spine ends and extremities. Creasing to lower edge. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94056 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$237.50
[Fore-Edge Painting]. Samuel Rogers.
Poems.
London: Cadell and Davies, 1814.
With a lovely fore-edge painting.
Later full brown calf, decoratively tooled and ruled in gilt and blind. Rubbing to extremities. FFEP nearly detached. Rear hinge starting. Good or better.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94110 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$237.50
Robert Frost. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Steeple Bush.
New York: Henry Holt, 1947. First edition, limited to 751 numbered copies
signed by the author.
Publisher's cloth-backed blue paper over boards. Original glassine dust jacket, with chipping to spine. In slipcase, as issued. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94055 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$225.00
Make Offer to Owner
$355 or more
Ray Bradbury.
The Golden Apples of the Sun.
Doubleday, 1953. First edition. Publisher's grey cloth and original dust jacket. Some foxing and soiling to jacket, with a slight spine lean. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94145 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$212.50
Make Offer to Owner
$338 or more
[World War II]. Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, editors.
The Army Air Forces in World War II.
University of Chicago Press, [1952]. Third impression. Seven thick octavo volumes. Publisher's navy cloth and original dust jackets. Some rubbing and edgewear to jackets. Volume one price-clipped. A very good, impressive set.
(Total: 7 Items)
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94255 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$212.50
John Dunning. INSCRIBED.
Booked to Die.
New York: Scribner's, [1992]. Uncorrected advance proof inscribed by the author on the title page. Publisher's binding with printed wrappers in slipcase. Wrappers somewhat soiled, spine rolled with slight lean, light wrinkles and creases to edges. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94170 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$200.00
Truman Capote.
In Cold Blood.
A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences.
New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition. Publisher's binding in dust jacket. Top edge very lightly soiled, minimal rubbing to bottom edge. Jacket crown with three tiny chips and small closed tear. Near fine.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94246 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$200.00
Colonel Harold B. Simpson. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Audie Murphy. American Soldier.
Hillsboro: Hill Jr. College Press, 1975. First edition, limited to 5,000 copies.
Signed by the author.
Quarto. Publisher's red cloth and original dust jacket. Mild shelfwear. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94359 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$200.00
Ray Bradbury.
The Martian Chronicles.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1989. First edition thus. Presumably signed by the author on a front flyleaf (still in publisher's shrinkwrap). Small quarto. 309 pages. Publisher's full red leather with gilt titles and three raised spine bands. No dust jacket (as issued). An as new copy, still in the shrinkwrap
.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94146 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$187.50
John le Carré. SIGNED.
The Tailor of Panama.
[London]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1996. First edition.
Signed by the author.
Publisher's cloth and original dust jacket. Fine.
From a private collection in North Carolina.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94157 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$187.50
E.B. White.
Charlotte's Web.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. First edition. Publisher's tan cloth with blue titles. Over-opened at title page. Some soiling and scuffing to boards. Good or better.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94207 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$175.00
[Richard E. Byrd]. SIGNED. William Edwin Rudge and Hobart Oliver Skofield.
Christmas at Little America.
Mount Vernon: Privately printed, 1930. First edition, one of 250 copies.
Signed by Richard E. Byrd.
Slim octavo. Original brown paper boards. Fine.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94352 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$175.00
[Almanac].
Weatherwise's Town and Country Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord, 1782.
Boston: Nathaniel Coverly and Robert Hodge, [1782]. Original self-wrappers, string-bound. Toned and edgeworn. Good.
From the collection of Zita Books.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94217 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$162.50
Al Hirschfeld. SIGNED.
Manhattan Oases: New York's 1932 Speak-Easies.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1932]. First edition.
Signed by the author
. Publisher's light blue cloth with paper spine label. Some discoloration to spine and cloth edges. Offsetting to endpapers. Front hinge tender. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94288 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$162.50
Anne Pratt.
The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain.
London: Frederick Warne, [n.d., ca. 1900]. With chromolithographs throughout. Complete in six octavo volumes, uniformly bound in green cloth decorated in gilt, black and red. All edges gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Corners lightly bumped. Very good.
(Total: 5 Items)
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94329 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$162.50
[Original Art]. Leo Politi (1908-1996), artist. SIGNED. Original Watercolor, "Old Plaza Church."
Measures 19.5" x 13". Adhered to backing for an overall size of 30.5" x 24". Areas of light foxing. Near fine.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94448 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$162.50
[Photoplay Edition]. Victor Hugo.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
New York: A.L. Burt, [n.d., 1923]. Photoplay edition. Publisher's black cloth and original dust jacket. Tape reinforcement to jacket spine ends. Contemporary ink ownership signature to FFEP. Very good overall.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94068 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$150.00
[Fore-Edge Painting]. Richard Laurence.
The Book of Enoch the Prophet: An Apocryphal Production.
Oxford: S. Collingwood, 1838.
With a Civil War-themed fore-edge painting depicting the burning of Richmond.
Later full morocco, ruled in gilt. Spine and edges sunned. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94073 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$150.00
Gilbert White.
The Natural History of Selborne.
London: Rivington, et al., 1825. Two volumes. New edition, each volume with frontis and one additional plate. Uniform full calf, spines stamped in gilt. Boards rubbed with some fading and soiling, joints worn and starting, corners gently bumped, over-opened, preliminary leaf and frontis of volume one detached but present, some offsetting opposite plates, bookplates. Good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94384 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$150.00
Hezekiah N. Woodruff.
A Sermon Preached at Spipio, N.Y. at the Execution of John Delaware...
Albany: Charles R. and George Webster, 1804. [bound with:]
William B. Sprague.
A Sermon Preached December 16, 1825...
Springfield, Tannatt & Co., 1826. Second edition. Later three-quarter morocco. Foxing and toning to textblock. Rubbing to extremities. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94388 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$150.00
Collotype Print Reproduction of Mythical Sea Serpent Engraving from 1817.
Originally published by Lane and How in Boston. Used in
American Heritage Magazine
in April of 1956. 19 x 22 inches. Image area fine, margins somewhat soiled with bottom edge toned, sticker with archival notes in bottom margin. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94417 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$150.00
Truman Capote. SIGNED.
Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1979.
Signed by the author.
Publisher's full brown leather with gilt titles and decoration. Fine.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94032 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
[Screenplay]. Stephen King.
The Dead Zone.
Second draft screenplay. April 7, 1982. [bound with:]
Cujo.
First draft screenplay. New York, Dino de Laurentiis Corp, 1982
.
Original salmon wrappers, with black plastic VeloBind. Some sunning to front panel. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94179 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
[Pulps] [Robert Bloch].
Unusual Stories,
Vol. I, No. 2.
Winter 1935. Fantasy Publications, [1935]. Featuring the story
Black Lotus
by Robert Bloch. Octavo. Publisher's printed wrappers. Toned, with wear to edges. About very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94195 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
James Boswell.
The Life of Samuel Johnson.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. Complete in four octavo volumes, uniformly bound in full calf, ruled in gilt. Rubbing to hinges and edges. Corners bumped. Some scabbing from a bookplate. Very good.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94241 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
[Manuscript Leaf on Vellum]. Early Manuscript Leaf from a Dutch Prayer Book, circa 1420.
Twenty-four lines of script in black-brown ink, ruled in brown with two-line foliated versal initials alternating in blue and red inks. Leaf measures just under 3" x 5". There is some bleeding of the red ink, and some rubbing to the text. Very good.
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94423 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$137.50
[Pulps]. Four Issues of
Astounding Stories.
1937. Publisher's printed wrappers. Toned and edgeworn. Very good.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201422
| Lot: 94187 | May 29, 2014
Sold For:
$125.00
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