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Cormac McCarthy. Correspondence Archive between McCarthy and Fellow Tennessee Author, John Fergus Ryan. This amazing archive contains fairly regular correspondence between 1976 and late-1985 or early-1986. The contents include: eleven original Autograph Letters Signed from McCarthy to Ryan (totaling twenty-two pages in McCarthy's hand),
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45418 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $56,250.00
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.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45310 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $37,500.00
[Bill Wilson]. Alcoholics Anonymous. The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism. New York City: Works Publishing, Inc., 1939. The very rare first edition, first printing of Alcoholics Anonymous' famous "Big Red Book."
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45034 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $21,250.00
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings, including: The Fellowship of the Ring. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. First edition, first impression. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45348 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $20,000.00
[Mormons]. [Joseph Smith, Jr]. The Book of Mormon. Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr. Third Edition Carefully Revised by the Translator. Nauvoo, Ill: Printed by Robinson and Smith, 1840. Third edition, later issue (with broken type on page 9, without index leaves printed later, and with two facing pages of witness testimony beginning on the verso of page 571).
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45149 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $15,625.00
Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West. New York: Random House, [1985]. First edition of the author's fifth novel. Presentation copy inscribed by McCarthy on the front free endpaper: "For John Sheddan/at Saxon Oaks Manor/In April of 1985/All the Best, old friend/Cormac".
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45419 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $15,000.00
"Kyd" [Joseph Clayton Clarke, 1857-1937]. A Series of 649 Original Character-Studies illustrating the Works of Charles Dickens. Drawn in colours by "Kyd". [London:] 1885-1889. 649 original pen, ink and watercolor drawings of Dickensian characters (including the general title-page, which also features characters in full color). Each drawing is signed by him. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45385 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $13,125.00
[Chromolithography]. Owen Jones and Jules Goury. Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra, from drawings taken on the spot in 1834 by the late M. Jules Goury and in 1834 and 1837 by Owen Jones. First edition. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45197 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $12,500.00
Cormac McCarthy. The Orchard Keeper. New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition of the author's first book. Presentation copy, inscribed by McCarthy on the front free endpaper: "To John Sheddan/Cormac McCarthy".
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45431 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $11,250.00
Cormac McCarthy. Collection of Eleven Advance Uncorrected Proof Copies. New York and London: Random House, Alfred A. Knopf, and Picador, 1965-2006. (Total: 11 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45438 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $10,625.00

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[Photography]. Alvin Langdon Colburn. London: With an Introduction by Hillaire Belloc. London: Duckworth & Co., [1909]. First edition, the first of two major works in book form (the second being New York, 1910).
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45191 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $10,625.00
Cormac McCarthy. The Orchard Keeper. London: Andre Deutsch, [1966]. First English edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by McCarthy on the title-page: "For Jim & Cynthia/With Fond Best Wishes/Cormac".
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45430 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $10,000.00

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$15,000 or more
Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776. First edition. Quarto (volume I only).
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45106 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $8,750.00
Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. The true first American edition. One of only a small number of copies extant (perhaps fifty copies or less). Octavo. viii, 303 (with "The End" on page 303).
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45349 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $8,125.00
Jim Morrison. The Lords and The New Creatures. Poems. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1970]. First edition. Signed by Morrison ("Morrison") on page [3].
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45446 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $7,500.00
[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Sherlock Holmes]. Original Brass Plate Mounted to a Dinner Tray Celebrating Sherlock Holmes and the Publication of Vincent Starrett's 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45316 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $7,187.50
[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Sherlock Holmes]. Original Brass Plate Mounted to Plaque Celebrating Sherlock Holmes and the Publication of Vincent Starrett's 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45317 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $7,187.50
Reginald Scot [Scott]. The Discovery of Witchcraft: Proving, That the Compacts and Contracts of Witches with Devils and all Infernal Spirits or Familiars, are but Erroneous Novelties and Imaginary Conceptions... London: For Andrew Clark, and are to be sold at Mrs. Cotes's, 1665. Third edition.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45104 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $6,875.00

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Robert Fludd. Utriusque Cosmi Maioris scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica. Physica Atque Technica Historia In duo Volumina secundum Cosmi differentiam divisa. Tomus Primus: De Macrocosmi Historia in duos tractatus divisa. [Bound With:] Tractatus Secundus. De Naturae Simia seu Technica macrocosmi historia, in partes undecim divisa. Oppenheim and Frankfurt: Johann Theodore de Bry, Hieronymus Galler (volume I) and Kaspar Rotel (volume II), 1617 - 1624.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45160 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $6,875.00
[Kelmscott Press]. [William Morris, and A.J. Wyatt, translators]. The Tale of Beowulf. [Done out of the Old English tongue by William Morris & A.J. Wyatt]. [Hammersmith: Sold by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1895].
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45257 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $6,875.00
"Kyd" [Joseph Clayton Clarke, 1857-1937]. A Collection of 186 Original Drawings of Dickensian Characters. [London: n.d., ca. late 1800's]. 186 original pen, ink and watercolor drawings of Dickensian characters. Each drawing is signed by him. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45384 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $6,875.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender Is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First edition, second printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Fitzgerald on the front free endpaper: "For Ivia ("Lupe") Waterman/Pride of Florida/with me three/sheets to the wind/and her six sheets/to the laundry pile/with Best Wishes/F. Scott Fitzgerald/Marburg 1934".
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45396 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $6,562.50

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Thomas Jefferson. Notes on the State of Virginia. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Prichard and Hall, 1788.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45017 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $6,250.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First edition, first printing. With in-text decorations by Edward Shenton.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45397 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $6,250.00

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Athanasius Kircher. Oedipus Aegyptiacus. Hoc Est Universalis Hieroglyphicae Doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae Instauratio. Opus ex omni Orienalium doctrina & sapientia conditum, nec non viginti diversarum linguarum authoritate stabilitum... Rome: Vitalis Mascardi, 1652-1654. First edition. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45069 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $6,093.75
[American Military]. [Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben]. Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States. Part I [all published]. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1779. First edition.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45031 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,937.50
Richard Pococke. A Description of The East, And Some other Countries. London: William Bowyer for the Author, 1743-1745. First edition. Three folio volumes bound in two. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45094 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,937.50
Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities. With illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition, first issue. Page 134 line 12 showing the misspelling of "affetcionately" and page 213 shows incorrect pagination ("113.")
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45388 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,937.50
[Benjamin Franklin, printer]. The Charters of the Province of Philadelphia and City of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, 1742. [Together With]: A Collection of All the Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania: Now in Force.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45011 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,625.00

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$8,438 or more
[Johnnes Pistorius ,editor]. [Johannes Reuchlin, Paolo Riccio, Leo Hebraeus, Archangelus de Burgo Novo, Gikatila, contributors]. Artis Cabalisticae: Hoc Est, Recondite Theologiae Et Philosophiae, Scriptorum: Tomus I. In quo Pauli Ricii Theologicos & Philosopicos libros sunt Latini pene omnes & Hebraei nonnulli praestantissimi Scriptores... Opus Omnibus Theologis Et Occultae Abstrusaeq'ue Philosophiae Studiosis pernecessarium... Basle: Sebastian Henicpetri, 1587. First edition.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45145 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,625.00
Louis Hennepin [also Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle; Louis Joliet; Jacques Marquette.] A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, Extending above Four Thousand Miles, Between New France and New Mexico...To which are added, Several New Discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition. London: Mrs [Katherine] Bentley, J[acob] Tonson, H[enry] Bonwick, T[imothy] Goodwin, & S[amuel] Manship, 1698. First English edition, first "Bon" issue.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45063 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,312.50
James Joyce. Ulysses. Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. One of 1,500 copies signed by Matisse ("511").
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45256 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,312.50

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Samuel Beckett. The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett. New York: Grove Press, [1970]. First edition of this collection, one of 200 copies signed by Beckett (signed limitation leaf is tipped-into the first volume, Waiting for Godot, this is copy 38). (Total: 16 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45353 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,312.50
Niccolo Cabeo [Cabaeus]. Philosophia Magnetica, In Qua Magnetis Natura Penitus Explicatur. Et Omnium Quae Hoc Lapide cernuntur, causae propriae afferuntur: Nova Etiam Praxis Construitur. quae propriam Poli elevationem, cum meridiano, ubique demonstrat, Multa Quoque Dicuntur De electricis & aliis attractionibus, & eorum casis. Cologne and Ferrara: Johann Kinckius, Francesco Succi, 1629. First edition, Cologne issue, of the first work to discuss electrical repulsion, "perhaps the most significant discovery of the century following Gilbert." (Wolf).
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45155 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,000.00
[Kelmscott Press]. William Shakespeare. The Poems of William Shakespeare. [Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893]. One of 500 copies.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45262 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,000.00
[Aesop]. Francis Barlow. Aesop's Fables, With His Life: In English, French and Latin. London: William Godbid for Francis Barlow, 1666. First Barlow Illustrated Edition; Large Paper Issue.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45268 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,000.00
H. P. Lovecraft. The Shunned House. With a Preface by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. Recluse Press: Athol, Mass., 1928. First edition, one of a supposed edition of only 300 copies.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45344 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $5,000.00
Cormac McCarthy. Outer Dark. New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition of McCarthy's second novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by McCarthy on the half-title: "For John Markham/With Best Wishes/Cormac McCarthy".
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45432 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $4,843.75
Cormac McCarthy. The Border Trilogy [All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, 1994, 1998. First trade editions. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45423 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $4,687.50
Barack Obama. Dreams from My Father. A Story of Race and Inheritance. New York: Times Books, [1995]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Obama on the title-page: "Dream big dreams!/Barack Obama".
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45024 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $4,375.00
[Kelmscott Press]. [Raoul LeFevre]. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. [London: Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1892]. One of 300 paper copies printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45263 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $4,375.00
[Pablo Picasso, illustrator]. Aristophanes. Lysistrata. A new version by Gilbert Seldes. With a special introduction by Mr. Seldes and illustrations by Pablo Picasso. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited to 1,500 numbered copies signed by Picasso ("530").
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45265 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $4,375.00

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Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First edition, number 213 of 200 copies [i.e. 215 copies, see note below] signed by Bradbury and bound in "an asbestos material with exceptional resistance to pyrolysis."
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45308 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $4,375.00
Sir Arthur Evans. The Palace of Minos at Knossos. A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921-1935. First editions. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45057 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $4,062.50
Antiphonal. Manuscript in Latin. [N.p. (Spain?): n.d. (16th century?)].
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45116 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $4,062.50

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Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) della Porta. Natural Magick By John Baptista Porta, A Neopolitane: In Twenty Books... London: Thomas Young and Samuel Speed, 1658. First English edition, second state with correct pagination on pages 133 and 120.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45177 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $4,062.50
Roald Dahl. James and the Giant Peach. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1961]. First edition, first issue with the five line colophon stating "Bound by H. Wolff, New York." Signed by Dahl on the front free endpaper.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45273 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $4,062.50
[Robert Frank, photographer]. The Americans. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1959]. First American edition, hardcover issue.
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45192 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $3,906.25

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