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Poul Anderson. Group of Two Signed and Inscribed First Edition Books.
Includes:
Star Ways
and
Virgin Planet.
Avalon, 1956-1959.
Both with a mounted label to the ffep with an associational inscription to Gerry de la Rae, publisher.
Publisher's binding and djs. Light shelfwear.
Star Ways
with minor jacket wear and little tape to verso. Very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90014 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$468.75
Lewis Carroll. Millicent Sowerby. Illustrator.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
London: Chatto and Windus Publishers, 1907. First edition, first printing. Publisher's binding. Profusely illustrated. Previous owner's inscription on FFEP. Offsetting to endpapers. Light toning. Spine slightly cocked. Light rubbing to boards. Very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90026 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$468.75
H.G. Wells.
Tales of Space and Time.
Harper & Brothers, 1900. First edition, first printing. Contemporary binding. FFEP partly torn out. Moderate wear and toning to boards. Spine sunned. Corners bumped. Light toning. Mild foxing to endpapers. Contemporary owners inscription in front endpapers. Good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90078 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$406.25
Robert A. Heinlein.
The Man Who Sold the Moon.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1950. First edition, first printing. Publisher's binding and dj. Original price of $3.00 on dj. Light toning. Mild wear to dj. Very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90054 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$375.00
Make Offer to Owner
$565 or more
[Books About Books, Gold Leaf and Gilt]. Group of Seven Technical and Historical Books About Gilding and Gold Leaf
. Various publishers. Previous owner's bookplate to paste downs. Some ex-library with usual markings. Mild to moderate toning. Good to better. (Total: 7 Items)
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90115 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$312.50
Make Offer to Owner
$478 or more
[Black Americana] Two Examples of Sheet Music With African-American Themes, Circa Mid-Nineteenth Century.
Approximately 10" x 13". Sheet music for "The Coal Black Rose" (two separate sheets disbound from a larger volume) and "Song of the Negro Boatmen". Scattered foxing to one example, else very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90207 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$275.00
Willy Pogany (1882-1955), artist. Lot of Four Original Limited Edition Engravings.
13" x 17.5" overall. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Some toning and discoloration in the margins not affecting view area, else very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90254 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$268.75
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$416 or more
Willy Pogany (1882-1955), artist. Lot of Four Original Limited Edition Engravings.
13" x 17.5" overall. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Some toning and discoloration in the margins not affecting view area, else very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90255 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$268.75
Make Offer to Owner
$416 or more
Bernie Wrightson [illustrator]. Stephen King. SIGNED BY WRIGHTSON.
Creepshow.
New American, 1982. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Bernie Wrightson on the title page.
Mild rubbing to covers, else a fine copy.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90056 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$225.00
Charles Bragg, artist. Signed Print "Ship of Fools".
21.25" x 35.25". Fine condition.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90208 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$225.00
Make Offer to Owner
$355 or more
Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, et al.
The Whole Booke of Psamles
.
Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1609. Folio. Letterpress music in text. Disbound from a larger work. Preliminary and terminal pages foxed; else very good.
From the Collection of Judith Adelman
.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90146 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$212.50
Gulielmi Dondini.
Bononiensis E Societate Jesu Historia de Rebus in Gallia Gestis ab Alexandro Farnesio, Parmæ et Placentiæ duce III. Supremo Belgii Præfecto
.
No publishing history, circa 1653. Latin text. Contemporary leather boards. Fold out illustrations, most detached. Not collated. Scattered foxing and toning. Hinges cracked, else good condition.
From the Collection of Judith Adelman
.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90107 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$200.00
Mark Twain.
The American Claimant
.
Charles L. Webster, 1892. First edition. Illustrated. Publisher's original olive cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Modest shelf wear and toning to boards; contents a bit toned, else very good.
From the Collection of Judith Adelman
.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90070 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$187.50
Sir David Brewster.
The Stereoscope:
Its History, Theory and Construction.
London: Murray, 1856. First edition. Octavo. With 50 wood engravings. Publisher's cloth. Cloth spotted, with some wear, text overopened in a few places. Good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90102 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$187.50
Bill Clinton. SIGNED.
Back to Work.
New York: Knopf, 2011. First edition.
Signed by President Clinton on the title-page.
Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90106 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$181.25
Charles Dickens.
Master Humphrey's Clock, Volume I
.
Chapman and Hall, 1840. Early edition. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Brown. Late 19th Century quarter-leather binding. Modest shelf wear with slightly bumped corners and wear at the extremities and spine ends, else very good.
From the Collection of Judith Adelman
.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90044 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$175.00
[Production Script]. Paul Schrader.
Taxi Driver.
Copy of shooting script. Ocean Park Productions/Columbia Pictures, 1976. Quarto. 122 leaves. Black vinyl covers with title stamped to front in white. Minor rubbing with staining to edges. Abrading to fore-edge of title page and one other leaf. Toning to edges. Title written in black marker along spine. Very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90065 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$175.00
Philip Pullman. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
His Dark Materials Trilogy.
New York: Scholastic Press, 2005.
Tenth Anniversary Edition, each volume signed by the author.
Three octavo volumes. Publisher's bindings, jackets, slipcases. In original shrinkwrap. Mint. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90066 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$175.00
George Orwell.
Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1950. First edition, first publishing. Publisher's binding and dj. Light toning. Mild rubbing and abrading to dj. Very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90061 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
[Photography].
La Revue des Folies Bergere.
Un Soir de Folie.
Paris: Paris Art Editions, 1925. Third album. Folio. Wrappers. Wrappers sunned with some wear. Very good. With excellent photos of the Folies.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90139 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$162.50
[Science Fiction]. Five First Editions of Science Fiction Books Published by John C. Winston, Philadelphia.
1952-1953. Publisher's bindings, dust jackets. One jacket price-clipped, one with a sticker on front, one with bookplate, one with ink notes, jackets sunned and worn. Overall, Fair or better.
From the Almington Collection.
(Total: 5 Items)
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90079 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$150.00
[Maps] Lot of Eight Vintage Hand Colored Maps Germany, the German States, France and Middlesex, England.
23.5" x 17". Disbound from a larger atlas. Very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90241 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$150.00
George R. R. Martin.
A Storm of Swords
.
London: Voyager, [2000]. First English edition of the third book of the
Song of Fire and Ice
series. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Fine. The series is the basis of HBO's
A Game of Thrones.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90057 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$138.75
Berni Wrightson, artist. Signed Print "Momentos".
24" x 19". Copyright 1992. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Fine.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90264 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$137.50
[Almanac].
The North-American Calendar: or the Rhode-Island Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1787.
Bennett Wheeler, 1786. String bound. Moderate toning. Light abrading and creasing to edges. Very good
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90088 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$131.25
J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
New York: Scholastic, 1999. First American edition, first printing of book and jacket. Publisher's binding, jacket. Some rubbing, bumping, else near fine.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90068 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$125.00
John Thomas.
An Address to the Youth of the Principality of Wales...With a Compendious New Welsh Grammar...Arithmetic...Natural Philosophy...Gardening...
A. Tye, n.d., circa 1850. Welsh text. Contemporary leather binding. Boards worn at the edges and spine; contents with scattered foxing, else good condition.
From the Collection of Judith Adelman
.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90147 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$125.00
Alberto Vargas, artist. Twelve 1948 Color Lithograph Calendar Pages Illustrated by Alberto Vargas.
8.5" x 12". Copyright 1947 by Varga Enterprises, Inc. Fine condition.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90262 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$125.00
A.E. van Vogt. SIGNED.
The House That Stood Still.
Greenberg, 1950. Publisher's binding and wrappers. Signed and inscribed on title page. Original price of $2.50 on dj. Light toning. Offsetting to endpapers. Light wear to dj. Very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90074 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$112.50
A.E. van Vogt.
Slan.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. First edition, first printing. Original price of $2.50 intact on dj. Light toning. Moderate toning and rubbing to dj. Very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90077 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$112.50
J. H. Wynne.
Amusing and Instructive Tales for Youth: in Thirty Poems. With Moral Applications
.
J. Harris, 1815. Early edition. Engraved illustrations. Contemporary binding. Wear to the edges of the boards and spine; contemporary gift inscription on the FFEP; former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, scattered foxing, else very good.
From the Collection of Judith Adelman
.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90080 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$112.50
[Presidential]. Jimmy Carter. SIGNED.
Sources of Strength. Meditations on Scripture for a Living Earth.
New York: Times Books/Random House, 1997. First edition, first printing. Signed by Carter on the title page. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild shelfwear and a few tiny spots of foxing to top page edges, else a fine copy.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90104 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$112.50
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Group of Four First Edition
Tarzan
Books Published by Burroughs, Inc.
1931-1935. Publisher's blue cloth binding with rubbing. About good or better.
From the Almington Collection.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90023 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$106.25
A. E. van Vogt. Group of Two Signed and Inscribed First Edition Books.
Includes
The Mind Cage
and
The War Against the Rull.
Simon and Schuster, 1957-1959.
Signed and inscribed by the author.
Publisher's binding and djs. Overall very good.
From the Almington Collection.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90073 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$106.25
[Almanac].
The Ladies' Diary: or Woman's Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1779.
Company of Stationers, 1778. Spine abrading. Moderate toning. Stamp mark to bottom corner of front wrapper. Very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90085 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$106.25
Harvey Araton. SIGNED BY RON GUIDRY AND YOGI BERRA.
Driving Mr. Yogi.
Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 2012. First edition.
Signed by Guidry and Berra on the half-title.
Publisher's binding, jacket. Fine.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90094 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$106.25
Lot of 15 Tinted Lithographs From the Pacific Railroad Survey, Circa 1860.
11.5" x 8.5" overall. Various views of the western United States taken from the larger volume of the U.S.P.R.R. survey. Some examples with scattered foxing, small areas of loss along the edges and toning, else generally very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90252 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$106.25
A.E. van Vogt. SIGNED.
Masters of Time.
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1950. First edition, first printing. Publisher's binding and dj. Signed on title page. Original price of $3.00 intact on dj. Light toning to endpapers. Moderate wear to dj. Very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90075 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$93.75
A.E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull. SIGNED.
Out of the Unknown.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing, 1948. First edition, first printing. Signed after title page. Original price of $2.50 intact on dj. Light toning. Offsetting to pastedowns. Two corners bumped. Moderate wear to dj. Good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90076 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$93.75
[Books About Books]. Large Group of More Than Forty-Five.
Various publishers. Includes numerous bibliographies and titles such as
The Gregynog Press, The House of Blackwood, Imprints On History, Summoned by Books
, and others. Good to better.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90101 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$87.50
Gilbert A. Beckett.
The Comic History of Rome
.
Bradbury and Evans, n.d. [1852]. First edition. Illustrated by John Leech. Publisher's original green cloth, all edges gilt. Joints repaired; former owner's ex-libris on the front pastedown, else very good condition.
From the Collection of Judith Adelman
.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90018 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$81.25
[Books About Books]. Large Group of More Than Thirty-Five.
Various publishers. Includes
The History of the Horn Book, Latin Manuscripts, Nature and Language, The Triumph of the Printing Press
, and others. Mild to heavy wear. Good to better.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90099 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$75.00
[Books About Books]. Large Group of More Than Forty-Five.
Various publishers. Includes
Prints and People, Modern Prints and Drawings, Men and Books
, and others. Mild to heavy wear. Good to better.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90100 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$75.00
[Native American Illustrations] Lot of 15 Vintage American Indian Illustrations.
7.75" x 11.25". Removed from the Bureau of American Ethnology 21st Annual Report, circa 1899-1900. Each plate features four character illustrations. Some browning to the edges; a bit chipped on the bound edge, else generally very good condition.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90227 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$75.00
Lot of 14 Tinted Lithographs From the Pacific Railroad Survey, Circa 1860.
11.5" x 8.5" overall. Various views of the western United States taken from the larger volume of the U.S.P.R.R. survey. Some examples with scattered foxing, small areas of loss along the edges and toning, else generally very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90251 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$75.00
[Advertising Illustration]. Lot of Four French Advertising Poster Prints, Circa 1897.
Matted to an overall size of 15" x 19" . Removed from
Les Maitres de l'Affiche
(Masters of the Poster), printed between 1898-1900. A bit of chipping to the right edge of one example, else very good.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90198 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$69.00
[Limited Edition Print]. Striking Colorful Limited Edition Print.
21.5" x 30". Number IV of X. Artist's name appears to be "Gironelle". Fine.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90222 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$69.00
[Antique Maps] Lot of 12 Antique Engraved European Maps, Circa 1787.
17.25" x 12.75", portrait and landscape formats. Disbound from a larger atlas. Cartographer: M. Bonne. Toned with light to moderate chipping to the edges, else good condition.
Auction 201338
| Lot: 90240 | Sep 19, 2013
Sold For:
$69.00
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