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[
Petrus Apianus].
Astronomicum Caesareum
.
[Ingolstadt: In aedibus nostris, May 1540]. First edition of the "most spectacular contribution of the book-maker's art to sixteenth-century science" (Owen Gingerich).
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45195 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$325,000.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit or There and Back Again
.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1937]. First edition with "First published in 1937" on the copyright page and all 16 misprints called-for in the Hammond and Anderson bibliography.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45111 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$60,000.00
J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
[London]: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45031 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$55,000.00
Earl Derr Biggers.
The House Without a Key.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1925].
First edition of the first Charlie Chan mystery.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45198 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$50,000.00
Ellery Queen [pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee].
The Roman Hat Murder.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1929. First edition.
Signed and inscribed by the author
on the dedication page, "To / Norm Nolan / With the best wishes of / "Ellery Queen" / (Frederic Dannay)."
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45300 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$40,000.00
Rex Stout.
Fer-De-Lance.
A Nero Wolfe Mystery.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1934]. First edition of the first Nero Wolfe novel.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45323 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$31,250.00
William Birch.
The Country Seats of the United States of North America, with some scenes connected with them.
Designed and published by W. Birch, Enamel Painter.
Springland near Bristol, Pennsylvania: W. Birch, 1808 [i.e. 1809]. First (subscriber's) edition in 4 parts, 3 in original wrappers. Complete with 20 hand-colored engraved plates.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45127 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$31,250.00
J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
[London]: Bloomsbury, 1997. Uncorrected proof copy. One of approximately 200 proof copies.
Signed by the author
on title page.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45033 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$30,000.00
A. A. Milne.
When We Were Very Young.
London: Methuen & Co., [1924]. First edition, number 53 of 100 of the large paper copies
signed
by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard. Also
signed
by Billy Moon on the frontispiece, additionally
inscribed
by A. A. Milne, and with an
autograph letter signed
by Billy Moon and a
photo
to Leonard Amster. (Total: 4)
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45003 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$27,500.00
Ellery Queen.
The Egyptian Cross Mystery.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1932. First edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45304 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$25,000.00
Christopher Marlowe.
The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England: With The Tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.
And also the life and death of Peirs Gavestone, the great Earle of Cornewall, and mighty favorite of King Edward the second. As it was publikely Acted by the late Queenes Maiesties Servants at the Red Bull in S. Johns streete
. Written by Christopher Marlow Gent. London: Printed [at Eliot's Court Press] for Henry Bell, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Lame-Hospitall Gate, neere Smithfield, 1622. Fourth edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45183 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$25,000.00
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$52,500 or more
[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. Vol. II. New-York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, 1788. First collected edition in book form of "The Federalist Papers." Volume II only.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45138 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$23,750.00
James Joyce.
Ulysses.
First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is number 868, one of the 750 copies printed on handmade paper in its distinctive blue wrappers. Printed for Sylvia Beach by Maurice Darantiere at Dijon, France.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45099 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$22,500.00
Graham Greene.
The Power and the Glory.
London: William Heinemann, [1940]. First edition.
Inscribed and signed,
"For Clive Hirschhorn / Graham Greene."
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45097 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$19,375.00
Theodore Roosevelt.
In Memory of My Darling Wife Alice Hathaway Roosevelt and of My Beloved Mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt
Who Died in the Same House and on the Same Day on February 14, 1884.
[New York: Press of G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884]. Only edition, privately published by Roosevelt.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45146 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$19,375.00
John Dickson Carr.
The Mad Hatter Mystery.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1933. The rare first edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45214 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$17,500.00
Make Offer to Owner
$26,250 or more
Ellery Queen [pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee].
The Dutch Shoe Mystery.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1931. First edition.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to Otto Penzler on the dedication page, "To / Otto / What a find! / (I envy your possession / of it!) / "Ellery Queen" / (Fred Dannay)."
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45302 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$17,500.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings,
including:
The Fellowship of the Ring.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. First edition. (Total: 3)
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45112 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$17,500.00
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$26,250 or more
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
A Princess of Mars.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917. First edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45049 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$16,250.00
[Alchemy]. Johannes Antonius Pantheus [or Giovanni Agostino Pantheo].
Ars transmutationis metallicae cum Leonis X. ponti. max. et conci. capi. Decemvirum Venetorum Edicto
.
[Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, 3 January 1519 (the first part with a separate colophon dated 7 September 1518)]. Scarce first edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45166 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$16,250.00
James Joyce.
Ulysses.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is number 877, one of the 750 copies printed on handmade paper in its distinctive blue wrappers. Printed for Sylvia Beach by Maurice Darantiere at Dijon, France.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45100 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$13,125.00
Make Offer to Owner
$22,050 or more
Frank Herbert.
Dune.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. First edition.
Editor Sterling Lanier's personal copy, with personal notes and annotations, all initialed.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45075 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$12,500.00
Giordano Bruno.
De progressu et lampade venatoria logicorum
.
[Wittenberg: Z. Crato], 1587. First edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45172 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$12,500.00
Victor Hugo.
Les Misérables.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1862. First authorized English edition. (Total: 3)
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45259 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$11,250.00
Make Offer to Owner
$16,875 or more
Clayton Rawson.
Death from a Top Hat.
A Merlini Mystery.
Illustrated. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First edition of the author's first novel.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45309 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$11,250.00
Make Offer to Owner
$16,875 or more
Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1876. True first edition, preceding the American edition by six months.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45125 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$11,250.00
Albert Einstein.
Relativity.
The Special & the General Theory.
London: Methuen & Co., [1920]. First edition in English.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45090 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$10,625.00
[Alchemy] Donato d'Eremita.
Dell'elixir vitae...Libri quattro...
Naples: Per Secondino Roncagliolo con licenza de superiori, 1624. First and only edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45168 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$10,625.00
Make Offer to Owner
$18,594 or more
Philip K. Dick. Three First UK Editions.
London: Victor Gollancz, [various dates].
One Inscribed by Dick.
(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6230
| Lot: 46035 | Oct 16, 2020
Sold For:
$10,000.00
John Dickson Carr.
The Three Coffins.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1935. First edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45220 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$10,000.00
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition (true first edition, published on January 5, 1886, four days prior to the English edition). One of only 1,250 copies of the first edition issued in publisher's forest green boards.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45123 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$9,375.00
Cormac McCarthy.
The Orchard Keeper.
New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by the author
on the title page.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45105 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$9,062.50
Make Offer to Owner
$13,594 or more
Mark Twain.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches.
Edited by John Paul
[Charles Henry Webb]. New York: C. H. Webb, 1867. First edition, first printing, with single leaf of advertisements on cream-yellow paper inserted between front flyleaf and title-page, and unbroken type on pages 21, 66, and 198.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45343 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$8,750.00
John Dickson Carr.
Hag's Nook.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933. First edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45215 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$8,125.00
Make Offer to Owner
$12,188 or more
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist, on the New Constitution.
By Publius. Written in 1788. To Which is Added, Pacificus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality. Written in 1793. Likewise, the Federal Constitution, with all the Amendments, Revised and Corrected.
New York: Printed and sold by George F. Hopkins, 1802. Second U.S. edition, third overall. (Total: 2)
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45139 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$8,125.00
Make Offer to Owner
$12,188 or more
Kenneth Millar.
The Dark Tunnel.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. First edition of the author's rare first book (he later became famous writing under the pseudonym, Ross Macdonald).
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45290 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$7,812.50
Mario Puzo.
The Godfather.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. First edition, advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in at front.
Inscribed
, "For Otto Penzler / Thanks for making / me rich / Best Wishes / Mario Puzo."
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45299 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$7,500.00
E. H. Shepard. Original Ink on Paper Illustration of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh.
No place, no date.
Signed in ink, "Ernest H. Shepard."
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45022 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$7,500.00
Make Offer to Owner
$11,250 or more
[Edgar Rice Burroughs]. J. Allen St. John (American Artist, 1872-1957). Original illustration in pen, ink, charcoal, and pencil on brown paper. "
I rose stealthily from my couch"
from
Black Pirates of Barsoom.
The story and illustration originally appeared in
Amazing Stories,
June 1941, on p. 8. Signed lower right.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45070 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$7,500.00
James Joyce.
Ulysses.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924. First edition, fourth printing.
Inscribed by Joyce
on the front blank
:
"To A. K. Griggs / James Joyce / Paris 16. Vi. 934."
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45101 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$7,500.00
[Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton] William Seale.
The President's House.
Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association, 1986. Limited deluxe edition, #397/1,500.
Autograph dedication by Bill Clinton to President and Mrs. Ford
, "with thanks for your / wonderful hospitality / on this beautiful Colorado / weekend / Bill Clinton."
Also signed and dated by Hillary Clinton
and
signed by Chelsea Clinton
.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45149 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$7,500.00
William Golding.
Lord of the Flies.
London: Faber and Faber, [1954]. First edition, in a first state dust jacket.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45095 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$7,187.50
[John Dickson Carr writing as Roger Fairbairn].
Devil Kinsmere.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1934]. First edition of the only novel using the "Roger Fairbairn" pseudonym.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45216 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$6,875.00
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$10,312 or more
John Dickson Carr.
Death Watch.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45219 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$6,875.00
Make Offer to Owner
$10,312 or more
James Ellroy.
White Jazz
. Original holograph manuscript, signed.
1992.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45239 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$6,875.00
Frank Herbert.
Dune.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. First edition, review copy with slip laid in.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45076 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$6,875.00
[Alchemy]. [Elias Ashmole, editor].
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. Containing Severall Poeticall Pieces of our Famous English Philosophers
, who have written the Hermetique Mysteries in their owne Ancient Language
. Faithfully Collected into one Volume, with Annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, Esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus. The First Part [All Published]. London: Printed by J. Grismond for Nath: Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1652. First edition this collection of English alchemical poems drawn from manuscript sources, with an introduction and notes by Elias Ashmole.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45169 | Oct 15, 2020
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$6,875.00
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$12,031 or more
John P. Marquand.
Thank You, Mr. Moto.
Boston: 1936. First edition.
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45744 | Oct 16, 2020
Sold For:
$6,562.50
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