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[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley].
Frankenstein.
Or, The Modern Prometheus.
London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818. First edition.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71090 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$162,500.00
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$243,750 or more
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan of the Apes.
In
The All-Story
, Volume XXIV, Number 2, October 1912. New York and London: Frank A. Munsey Company, 1912. First edition of the first appearance of Tarzan, containing the entire text of
Tarzan of the Apes
. This first appearance precedes the A. C. McClurg book edition by a year-and-a-half.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71008 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$68,750.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan of the Apes.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1914. First edition, first printing, with "W. F. Hall Printing Co. / Chicago" in Old English type in two lines on the copyright page and without acorn device on the spine panel, as called for.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71009 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$60,000.00
H. P. Lovecraft. Autographed Manuscript Signed for the short story,
Pickman's Model
.
Circa mid-1926.
Signed by the author
on the first leaf. Includes correspondence with notable Lovecraft colleagues including James F. Morton, August Derleth, W. Paul Cook, Victor E. Bacon, and more.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71066 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$55,000.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit.
Or, There and Back Again.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1937]. First edition, first impression, with text errors as called for, and first issue dust jacket with "Dodgeson" misspelling to rear flap.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71111 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$47,500.00
Wilkie Collins.
The Woman in White.
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1860. First English edition, with a comma following the author's name on the title page in Volumes II and III, as called for. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71015 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$45,000.00
[Jane (Webb) Loudon].
The Mummy!
A tale of the twenty-second century.
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition; one leaf supplied in facsimile. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71064 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$37,500.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1954-1955. First editions, first impressions, with original illustrated first state dust jackets. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71112 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$34,750.00
Raymond A. Palmer; Ralph Milne Farley; David H. Keller; et al.
Cosmos.
[Jamaica, NY: Science Fiction Digest Co. (later Fantasy Magazine), 1933-1935]. First edition, in one volume.
Each chapter (17 in total) with unique artwork and signed and inscribed by the respective author to Raymond A. Palmer, Literary Editor, with Raymond A. Palmer signing as both himself and under his pseudonym, Rae Winters.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71080 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$30,000.00
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Frankenstein.
Or, The Modern Prometheus.
London: Printed for G & W. B. Whittaker, 1823. Second edition in English, third edition overall. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71091 | Oct 14, 2021
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$30,000.00
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$67,500 or more
Bram Stoker.
Dracula.
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. First edition, first issue, without ad to final flyleaf.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71107 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$28,750.00
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$43,125 or more
William Hope Hodgson.
The Night Land.
A Love Tale.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First edition in rare dust jacket.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71040 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$25,000.00
[Anonymous; James Malcolm Rymer, presumed].
Varney, the Vampyre: Or, The Feast of Blood
. A Romance.
London: E. Lloyd, [1847]. First edition in book form.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71089 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$25,000.00
[Karl Friedrich Kahlert], Lawrence Flammenberg, pseudonym; Peter Teuthold, translator.
The Necromancer: or, The Tale of the Black Forest.
London: William Lane, Minerva Press, 1794. First edition in English. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71054 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$22,500.00
Eric Stanislaus, Count Stenbock.
Studies of Death.
Romantic tales by Eric, Count Stenbock.
London: David Nutt, 1894.
Presumably a
family association copy to the author's stepbrother, Godfrey F. Mowatt, in a seemingly custom binding and with the author's embossed bookplate.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71101 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$22,500.00
J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
The House by the Churchyard.
London: Tinsley Bros., 1863. First edition.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71056 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$21,250.00
Edgar Allan Poe.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First edition, one of 750 copies.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71082 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$20,625.00
[Anonymous];
[
Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, compiler and translator].
Fantasmagoriana.
Paris: F. Schoell, 1812. First edition.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71023 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$20,000.00
M. R. James.
Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary.
London: Edward Arnold, 1904. First edition.
Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto in light brown ink, "G. C. R. J. / from / M. R. J. / mdcccciiii."
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71047 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$18,750.00
David Lindsay.
A Voyage to Arcturus.
London: Methuen & Co., [1920]. First edition in the scarce dust jacket.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71061 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$18,750.00
Franz Kafka.
Die Verwandlung
[
Metamorphosis
]
.
Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915. First edition in book form, issued in boards and with rare dust jacket.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71051 | Oct 14, 2021
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$17,500.00
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$26,250 or more
[Matthew Gregory Lewis].
The Monk.
A Romance.
London: J. Bell, 1796. First edition, presumed first issue; cancel title pages with "In Three Volumes" appearing below the quote and featuring horizontal chain lines, Volume I, page 219 (L2) water marked "1794," Volume III, page [316] without advertisements, text points as called for, including the description of Ambrosio's six days of agony after he is hurled onto the rocks. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71060 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$14,375.00
Ray Bradbury.
Fahrenheit 451.
New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1953. First edition, limited edition of 200 copies bound in Johns-Manville Quinterra (chrysolite asbestos material), of which this is number 192.
Signed and numbered by the author
on the limitation page.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71007 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$13,750.00
Guy Endore.
The Werewolf of Paris.
London: John Long, Ltd., no date [but circa 1933]. Presumed first English edition. With the bookplate of Dennis Wheatley.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71021 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$13,750.00
Dennis Wheatley.
The Devil Rides Out.
London: Hutchinson & Co., no date [but 1935]. First edition.
Signed with a lengthy inscription by the author
to the title page, "Being the further adventures of / the devoted friends who/ figured in / "The Forbidden Territory" / For / Dorothy / Douglas Hamilton. / One of the first friends, / of "The Forbidden Territory," and a very good one indeed / to the author too / Dennis Wheatley / Jan 4th 1935."
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71125 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$13,750.00
H. P. Lovecraft. Original Typescript Signed for
The Festival.
Providence, RI: no date [circa 1923].
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71065 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$13,125.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
A Princess of Mars.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917. First edition, with "Published October, 1917" stated on the copyright page, in the rare dust jacket.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71010 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$12,500.00
Michael Egremont, pseudonym; [Michael Harrison].
The Bride of Frankenstein.
London: Queensway Press, undated [but 1936]. First edition in scarce dust jacket.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71020 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$11,562.50
J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
In a Glass Darkly.
London: R. Bentley & Son, 1872. First edition.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71057 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$11,562.50
William Hope Hodgson.
The Night Land.
A Love Tale.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First edition.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto, "The Reverend / Stopford A. Brooke, M.A. LL.D., / from / William Hope Hodgson- / March 22nd -|12 / It's the heart-ache that teaches, isn't it?"
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71039 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$11,250.00
[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley].
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.
Bentley's Standard Novel No. IX. London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831. Third edition in English (fourth overall), first illustrated edition.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71092 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$11,250.00
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$16,875 or more
William Hope Hodgson.
The House on the Borderland.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1908. First edition.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto, "Frances G. Knowles-Foster / from / William Hope Hodgson - / Dec: 29th -|10. / "This one moment in / Eternity. Where next, / Sir Time?"
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71037 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$10,625.00
Aldous Huxley.
Brave New World.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71046 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$10,625.00
H. P. Lovecraft; August Derleth, Donald Wandrei [editors].
The Outsider and Others.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1939. First edition. With
clipped author's signature and Virgil Finlay portrait print of H.P. Lovecraft.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71069 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$10,625.00
Bram Stoker.
Dracula.
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1901. First paperback edition, abridged from the original text.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71108 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$10,312.50
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
A Princess of Mars.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917. Advanced review copy, first edition in wrappers.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71011 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$10,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$15,000 or more
Hugo Gernsback.
Ralph 124C 41+.
Boston: Stratford Co., 1925. First edition.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto, "Yours Sincerely / Hugo Gernsback."
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71026 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$8,750.00
M. R. James.
Wailing Well.
Stanford Dingley: Mill House Press, 1928.
Limited edition of seven copies,
signed and numbered by the author
to the limitation page and with the title page printed in blue and black, this being copy number five.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71048 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$8,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$13,125 or more
David Lindsay.
The Haunted Woman.
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., [1922]. First edition in the scarce dust jacket.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto, "To Peter Judge / with sincere / regards / from David / Lindsay / Nov. 1929."
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71062 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$8,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$13,125 or more
Charlotte Perkins Stetson.
The Yellow Wall Paper.
Boston: Small, Maynard, & Co., 1901. Second edition.
Signed by the author
to the half-title page, "Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Feb. 1903."
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71104 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$8,750.00
Jules Verne.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. First American edition.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71115 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$8,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$13,125 or more
Isaac Asimov. The Original Foundation Trilogy.
New York: Gnome Press, [1951]-[1953]. First editions, first state bindings and dust jackets. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71002 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$8,125.00
[J. Sheridan Le Fanu].
Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery.
Dublin: James McGlashan, 1851. First edition.
With an autographed letter signed from M. R. James to Scottish criminologist, William Roughead, partially discussing this title, laid in.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71055 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$8,125.00
[John William Polidori].
The Vampyre; a Tale.
Including the first appearance in print and first edition thus, third issue, together with facsimile letter from Lord Byron to publisher Jean Antoine Galignani.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71085 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$8,125.00
[Horace Walpole].
The Castle of Otranto.
A story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto.
London: Tho[mas] Lownds, 1765. First edition of the first major Gothic novel.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71121 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$8,125.00
[John Russell Fearn]; Vargo Statten, pseudonym.
Creature from the Black Lagoon.
[London]: Dragon Pub. Ltd., no date [but 1954].
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71024 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$7,500.00
Sabine Baring-Gould.
The Book of Were-Wolves.
Being an account of a terrible superstition.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1865. First edition.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71027 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$7,500.00
H. P. Lovecraft.
The Shunned House.
Athol, MA; [Sauk City, WI]: W. Paul Cook; [Arkham House], 1928 [actually circa 1961]. First edition, rare copy with both the R. H. Barlow and Arkham House copyright cancel notices.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71067 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$7,500.00
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