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[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two Volumes. New-York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, 1788. First collected edition of the "Federalist Papers," one of only 500 copies printed. From the library of Samuel Boyd, prominent New York lawyer and one of a powerful group of Federalists, who, led by Alexander Hamilton, would found the New-York Evening Post (now New York Post) in 1801, with his ink signature on each title-page. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45010 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $175,000.00
Joseph Smith. The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi...By Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor. Palmyra: Printed by E. B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830. First edition, one of 5,000 copies printed by E. B. Grandin in Palmyra, New York. Foreman of the press Pomeroy Tucker's copy, signed by him in pencil on the front free endpaper: "P. Tucker;" and on the front flyleaf: "P. Tucker / Palmyra / N Y;" with his pencil markings and annotations throughout. Additional ink presentation inscription on the front flyleaf: "Dec 12 - 1954 / To Al Fowers / Man of sterling worth / and true and loyal friend / Sydney Tucker Jones / grandson of / Pomeroy Tucker, / in whose print shop / this book was produced."
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45017 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $100,000.00
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings, including: (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45138 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $30,000.00

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$47,250 or more
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Beasts of Tarzan. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Burroughs on the front free endpaper: "With kindest regards to / W. A. Sommerville, Esq. / and many thanks for his / generous help and the / use of his roll top chair / Edgar Rice Burroughs / Coldwater / Michigan / July 7 1916."
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45101 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $18,750.00

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$28,125 or more
[Alcoholics Anonymous]. [Bill Wilson]. Alcoholics Anonymous. The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism. New York: Works Publishing Inc., [1939]. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson on the front free endpaper in blue ink: "Dear John Grant- / We have come a / long way since this / volume was printed. / Please have my gratitude / for all you have done / to make this possible- / Ever Devotedly / Bill Wilson / NY / 3/15/60."
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45002 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $17,500.00
[Continental Congress]. Journals of Congress. Containing Their Proceedings [from September 5, 1774, to November 3, 1788]. Philadelphia: From Folwell's Press, 1800-1801. First collected edition, one of only 400 copies printed. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45007 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $16,250.00
Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923. First edition of Hemingway's first book, one of only 300 copies printed.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45160 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $15,625.00
[Law]. Henrici de Bracton. De Legibus & consuetudinibus Anglia, Libri Quinq... London: Richardum Tottellum, 1569. First edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45065 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $14,375.00
Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark. Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806. By Captains Lewis and Clarke [sic]. Published from the Official Report, and Illustrated by a Map of the Route, and Other Maps. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. First English (and first quarto) edition, preceded by the 1814 Philadelphia first edition in two octavo volumes.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45042 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $13,750.00

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[Salem Witch Trials]. Increase Mather. A Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches. London: J. Dunton, 1693. First English edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45016 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $12,500.00
[Carl Sagan, association]. Jon Lomberg. Archive of Production Artwork for Carl Sagan's Cosmos. [No place: no publisher, circa late 1970s to 1981]. Exhaustive archive of nearly 150 individual items from the Chief Artist of the pioneering television mini-series.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45081 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $12,500.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Moon Maid. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1926. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Burroughs, with an original drawing, on the front free endpaper: "To / Hulbert Burroughs / future world's / champ; former / International / Polo Prospect / From / His Fond and Foolish / Father / (alias Edgar Rice Burroughs) / Los Angeles / April 22 1926). To the immediate left of this inscription is a wonderful drawing of a golfer standing on the Earth and hitting the Moon to the pin on Mars.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45109 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $12,500.00
[George Washington]. John Marshall. The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War Which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States. London: Printed for Richard Phillips by T. Gillet, 1804. First English edition, quarto issue. (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45020 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $11,875.00
John James Audubon. Great Auk. [London: circa 1836]. Hand-colored aquatint engraving by Robert Havell, from the first edition of The Birds of America, plate 346.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45077 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $11,250.00
Overton Johnson, and William H. Winter. Route Across the Rocky Mountains, With a Description of Oregon and California; Their Geographical Features, Their Resources, Soil, Climate, Productions, &c., &c. Lafayette, Ind.: John B. Semans, Printer, 1846. First edition, variant issue, with the correct orientation of the letters "Ri" in "River" in line 3, page 26; with no vertical slug before the word "Fort" in line 13, page 36; but with the signature mark "8" appearing under the "i" in "individuals" instead of between the words "different" and "individuals" on page 57. Signed presentation copy, inscribed by Overton Johnson in black ink on the front pastedown: "From / Overton Johnson / to / L L McDonald." Additional early ink signature of George McDonald on the front board.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45040 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $10,000.00
Ernest Hemingway. Men Without Women. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45162 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $10,000.00
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York: Harper & Row, [1967]. First edition, association copy, inscribed by the author to Leonard Bernstein on the front free endpaper, "To Leonard Bernstein / In appreciation for / your great support / Martin Luther King Jr."
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45012 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $9,375.00

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$17,325 or more
Charles Mackay. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. London: Richard Bentley, 1841. First edition. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45071 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $9,375.00
Edwin James. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, and '20, by order of The Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party. Compiled by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist for the the Expedition. In Two Vols. With an Atlas. Vol. I [-II]. Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & Lea, [1822]-1823. First edition. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45036 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $8,750.00
[James Bond]. Ian Fleming. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. First edition, first state binding.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45127 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $8,750.00
William. H[enry]. Browne. Ten Coloured Views Taken During the Arctic Expedition of Her Majesty's Ships "Enterprise" and "Investigator," under the Command of Captain Sir James C. Ross... With a Summary of the Various Arctic Expeditions in Search of Captain Sir John Franklin...and His Companions in H.M. Ships "Erebus" and "Terror"... London: Ackermann and Co., 1850. First edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45066 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $8,437.50
D. H. Lawrence. The Trespasser. London: Duckworth & Co., 1912. First edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45169 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $8,125.00

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$12,188 or more
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876. First U. S. edition, first printing.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45218 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $8,125.00
Alfred E. Mathews. Gems of Rocky Mountain Scenery, Containing Views Along and Near the Union Pacific Railroad. New-York: Published by the Author, 1869. First edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45043 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $7,500.00
Simon Latham. Falconry. Or the Faulcons Lure, and Cure. London: Printed by I. B. for Roger. Jackson, 1615. First edition, second issue, K3 present in uncancelled state. [Bound with]: Simon Latham. New and Second Booke of Falconry... London: Printed by I. B. for Roger. Jackson, 1618. First edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45080 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $7,500.00
Mark Twain. The Writings of Mark Twain. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922-1925. Definitive Edition, limited to 1,024 numbered sets of which this is number 734. Inserted leaf in Volume I signed "S. L. Clemens / Mark Twain / [flourish]," with the explanatory note signed by Albert Bigelow Paine on the facing page: "This fly-leaf was signed by Mark Twain in 1906 in anticipation of the present definitive edition of his works." (Total: 37 Items)
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45225 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $7,500.00
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Quatorze Lithographies Originales de Toulouse Lautrec Pour Illustrer des Chansons. [Paris: H. Lefebre, 1935]. One of only twenty copies printed in green ink on China paper, from a total edition of 140 (the remaining 120 printed in black).
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45090 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $6,875.00
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings, including: The Fellowship of the Ring. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. [and:] The Two Towers. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. [and:] The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955. First editions, first impressions (signature mark "4" present on p. 49 in each volume). (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45139 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $6,875.00
Virginia Lee Burton, author and illustrator. The Little House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45094 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $6,250.00

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Shasta Publishers. Vast Archive of Publishing Correspondence. [Chicago: circa 1953-1954]. A fascinating collection of letters, documents, telegrams, invoices, and more from the legendary science fiction publishers based in Chicago, Illinois.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45135 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $6,000.00
Scott and Stuart Gentling. Of Birds and Texas. Fort Worth: Gentling Editions, 1986. First edition, limited to 500 copies, of which this is number 332, and signed by the Gentling Brothers and John Graves. Complete with 149 acid-free sheets.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45079 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $5,750.00

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[Harriet Beecher Stowe]. Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly. Serialized in the abolitionist newspaper, The National Era. Washington D. C.: G. Bailey, June 5, 1851- April 1, 1852. Including: volume V, numbers 23-35 and 37-44 (whole numbers 231-252) and volume VI, numbers 45-52 (whole numbers 253-274). The very first appearance of this landmark novel in print. The novel is complete. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45217 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $5,500.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Lost on Venus. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1935]. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Burroughs to his son, on the pictorial front free endpaper: "Dear Hulbert / This is the guy / who was Lost / on Venus / O.B." With an arrow pointing to a spot on the map where Burroughs has drawn a small picture of a man. "O. B." stands for "Old Burroughs," a nickname that Burroughs sometime used with friends and family.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45107 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $5,250.00
Walt Whitman. Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855...1888. [Camden: privately printed, 1888]. Seventh edition, thirteenth printing of Leaves of Grass [Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros. & Co., Printers, 1888], together with Specimen Days & Collect and November Boughs. Collection limited to 600 copies, of which this is number 188, signed by the author on the title page of Leaves of Grass, and additionally inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Dr O W True / from the author / Aug : 17 '89."
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45227 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $5,250.00
Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. New York: Random House, [1985]. First edition. Signed by McCarthy on the half-title page.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45177 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $5,000.00
Ayn Rand. We the Living. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition. Review copy, with publisher's review slip (signed by the recipient) laid-in.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45189 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $5,000.00
John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, [1939]. First edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45201 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $5,000.00
Henry David Thoreau. The Maine Woods. [Portland, Maine]: 1998. Limited.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45762 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,750.00

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Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West. New York: Random House, [1985]. First edition. Signed by the author on the half-title.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45176 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,750.00
John Steinbeck. Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici Friede, [1935]. First edition, signed by John Steinbeck on front free endpaper.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45214 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,750.00
L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago and New York: George M. Hill Company, 1900. First edition, second state, binding variant "C" with publisher's imprint at foot of spine in red in serifed type.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45093 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,625.00
F. V. Hayden, M.D. Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery, with A Description of the Geographical and Geological Features, and Some Account of the Resources of the Great West. New York: Julius Bien, 1870. First edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45033 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,500.00

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$6,750 or more
Thomas Sturgis. Pair of Titles in One Volume Regarding Native American Disputes. Includes:
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45058 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,250.00
[James Bond]. Ian Fleming. Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, [1955]. First edition, first impression, second state, in the first issue dust jacket with prices intact. With "shoot" corrected on page 10, but the other broken or ill-defined letters of the first impression are present as called for by Gilbert.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45118 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,250.00
[James Bond]. Ian Fleming. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, [1959]. First edition, uncorrected proof, one of 125 copies printed.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45123 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,250.00
[Henry Wood Elliott, illustrator]. F[erdinand] V[andeveer] Hayden. Profiles, Sections and Other Illustrations, Designed to Accompany the Final Report of the Chief Geologist of the Survey and Sketched under His Directions...Under Authority of the Secretary of the Interior. New York: Julius Bien, 1872. First edition, containing Henry Wood Elliott's art work for the Hayden Survey, most of which was published nowhere else. Limited to 100 copies.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45032 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,000.00

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James Redpath, and Richard J. Hinton. Hand-Book to Kansas Territory and the Rocky Mountains' Gold Region; Accompanied by Reliable Maps and a Preliminary Treatise on the Pre-Emption Laws of the United States. New York: J. H. Colton, Publisher, 1859. First edition.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45052 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,000.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Son of Tarzan. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917. First edition, first state, lacking the dedication page, as issued.
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45110 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $4,000.00

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