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William Faulkner. SIGNED LIMITED. Idyll in the Desert. New York: Random House, 1931. First edition. Signed by Faulkner on the limitation page at back. Octavo. 17 pages. Publisher's binding. Contents slightly toned, front hinge cracked and repaired, else very good.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94057 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $1,062.50
Wilbur A. Smith. When the Lion Feeds. London: Heinemann, 1964. First edition. Octavo. 459 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Minor shelf wear; slight toning to the edges of the text block, else a very good copy.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94129 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $325.00
[Jerry Weist]. John Wyndham. Re-Birth. New York: Ballantine Books, 1955. First edition. Octavo. 185 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Pages toned as usual with this title, else a very good copy. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94153 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $300.00
[Jerry Weist]. Ben Bova. Exiled From Earth. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971. First edition. Octavo. 202 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. About fine condition. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94022 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $275.00
John Milton. Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books. Boston: T. Bedlington, 1826 on engraved title page (1825 on the printed title page). Twelvemo. 294 pages. Contemporary calf binding. Modest wear to leather; contents with occasional light foxing, else a very good copy.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94106 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $275.00
John James Audubon. The Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds of America. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., [Distributed by Crown Publishers), 1966. First edition. Two folio volumes. 451 color plates. Publisher's blue cloth and slipcase. Moderate shelf-wear to the slipcase, else a very good set.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94159 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $275.00

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[Jerry Weist]. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Back to the Stone Age. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, [1937]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 318 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor wear and rubbing to cloth with a slight spine lean.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94030 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $225.00
William N. Beach. LIMITED EDITION. In the Shadow of Mount McKinley. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Edition limited to 750 copies. Octavo. 289 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's blue cloth. Minor toning to the spine panel, else a handsome copy in very good condition.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94165 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $200.00
Edward Gibbon. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, et al., 1813. New edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Contemporary calf bindings with titles stamped in gilt on morocco spine labels. Front board of volume one detached; volumes one, four and nine with small areas of loss on the spine; joints tender on a few volumes, scattered foxing throughout, still a sound set in good condition. (Total: 12 Items)
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94205 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $200.00
[Photoplay Edition]. Tod Browning and Harry Sinclair Drago. Where East is East. New York: Jacobsen Publishing Company. Movie tie-in version. Small octavo wrappers. 97 pages. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. A couple of shallow creases and minor chips to covers; some paper loss to rear wrapper, affecting an image of Lon Chaney's face. Pages browned and brittle; a couple of small chips to title page. Very good. With photographic images (on wrappers only) from the 1929 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production of Where East is East, starring Lon Chaney and Lupe Velez.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94112 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $175.00
Kenneth Roberts. Trending Into Maine. Boston: Little, Brown, 1938. First trade edition. Large octavo. 394 pages. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. Index. Publisher's yellow-tan pictorial cloth and dust jacket with $4.00 price. Jacket spine a bit darkened. Near fine. A non-fiction work on Roberts' home-state of Maine.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94251 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $150.00
[Jerry Weist]. Brian W. Aldiss. SIGNED. Space Odysseys. A New Look at Yesterday's Futures. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1976. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo., 266 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Near fine. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94006 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $137.50
[Jerry Weist]. Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. SIGNED. The Light of Other Days. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2000. First edition. Signed by authors on the half-title page. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Fine. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94042 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $137.50
Lot of Three Antique Maps of Japan From the Perry Expedition. From Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy by Order of the Government of the United States, Volume II, Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1856. A collection of three maps made during Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan. They include two fold-out charts, one of the Pacific Ocean; the other a chart of gales and hurricanes in the Pacific. Each chart measures about 25" x 9". A smaller map, 11" x 9", depicts the coal mines on the island of Formosa. Also included is the original title and contents page from the original book from which these maps were originally contained in. The paper has toned and there is scattered light foxing, otherwise they are in very good condition. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94311 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $137.50
Franklin W. Dixon. Two Hardy Boys Books, including: The House on the Cliff. [1927] [and:] The Secret of the Old Mill. [1927]. New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Later impressions. Two octavo volumes. Publisher's binding and dust jackets. Both volumes in good condition. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94050 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $125.00
Sax Rohmer. The Island of Fu Manchu. New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1941. First edition. Octavo. 299 pages. Publisher's orange cloth binding and dust jacket. Minor wear and creasing to price-clipped jacket; a couple of instances of surface loss to rear panel. Very good. Published serially under the title Fu Manchu and the Panama Canal.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94122 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $125.00
[Jerry Weist]. David Duncan. Beyond Eden. New York: Ballantine Books, 1955. First edition. Octavo. 169 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth and dust jacket. Pages evenly toned, as usual with this title, else near fine. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94054 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $121.25
G. O. Young. Alaskan Yukon Trophies Won and Lost. Huntington: Standard Publications, 1947. First edition. Octavo. 273, v, pages. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Wear to the jacket at the spine ends, else very good.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94276 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $121.25
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1914. June, 1914 edition published a few months after the McClurg original. Octavo. 392 pages. Publisher's red cloth. Former owner's name in ink on the front pastedown and front free endpaper; a few pages coffee stained; else a good copy.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94031 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $118.75
William Faulkner. Mirrors of Chartres Street. [Minneapolis: Faulkner Studies, 1953]. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is number 68. Octavo. 93 pages. Publisher's tan cloth and dust jacket with $3.25 price. Endpapers with binder's glue stains to pastedowns. Some chipping along edges of jacket. Generally very good.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94058 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $118.75
Mary Austin. California. The Land of the Sun. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition. Illustrated by Sutton Palmer. Octavo. 178 pages. Publisher's illustrated cloth. Modest shelf wear to boards; rear hinge cracked; map bound at back loose but present, still a sound copy in very good condition.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94160 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $118.75
Elgin T. Gates. SIGNED. Trophy Hunter in Asia. New York: Winchester Press, 1971. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo. 272 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Very good condition.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94204 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $118.75
[Jerry Weist]. James Blish. A Life For the Stars. First edition. Octavo. 188 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper, else a very good copy. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94019 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $112.50
Zane Grey. West of the Pecos. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition. Octavo. 314 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket with $2.00 price. Lower corner of front board bumped. Light shelf wear to jacket. Near fine.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94071 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $112.50
Robert Penn Warren. Eleven Poems on the Same Theme. Norfolk: New Directions, [1942]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's wrappers and dust jacket. Toning to wrappers edges. Jacket shows toning and minor rubbing to extremities. Overall near fine.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94147 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $112.50
Sasha Siemel. Tigrero! New York: Prentice-Hall, 1953. Octavo. 266 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth and price-clipped dust jacket. Small tear to the cloth at the head of the spine; dust jacket slightly soiled and tatty, else very good condition.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94257 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $106.25
[J. W. Powell]. Report of the Secretary of the Interior; Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicating to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Forty-Seventh Congress, Volume III. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882. First edition. Large quarto. 588 pages. Profusely illustrated with several fold-out diagrams, maps, etc. Includes large folding map laid-in. Contemporary leather binding. Binding shelf worn with some soiling. Contents slightly toned but sound, else a very good copy.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94216 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $100.00
Lewis H. Morgan. League of the Ho-De'-No-Sau-Nee, or Iroquois. Rochester: Sage & Brother, 1851. First edition. Octavo. 474 pages. Engraved illustrations throughout text. Publisher's original decorated boards. At least one plate with damage. Ex-library with the usual stamps and labels; rebacked using portions of the original spine; boards well-worn at the extremities; contents with scattered light foxing, otherwise a good copy.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94294 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $100.00
[Jerry Weist]. Novalyne Price Ellis. One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard the Final Years. West Kingston: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1985. First edition. Octavo. 317 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few small tears. About near fine condition. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94056 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $96.25
[Jerry Weist]. Robert E. Howard. Post Oaks & Sand Roughs. Hampton Falls: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1990. First edition. Octavo. 176 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Fine. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94079 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $96.25
Henry James. The Other House. New York: Macmillan Company, 1886. First edition. Octavo. 388 pages. Publisher's maroon cloth. Light shelf wear with some darkening to spine, else a sound copy in very good condition.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94089 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $95.00
[Jerry Weist]. Poul Anderson. INSCRIBED. The Trouble Twisters. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1966. First edition. Inscribed on the title page by the author. Octavo. 189 pages. Publisher's black cloth and dust jacket. Fine. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94008 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $93.75
Andre Dubus. The Lieutenant, A Novel. New York: The Dial Press, 1967. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 199 pages. Publisher's green cloth and dust jacket. Top edge of board slightly faded. Price-clipped jacket has a couple of short tears and minor yellowing along top edge. Near fine.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94053 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $93.75
C. S. Forester. The Captain from Connecticut. London: Michael Joseph, [1941]. First edition. Small octavo. 324 pages. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue lettering to spine and dust jacket with 8/6 net price. Binding slightly cocked; corners and foot of spine bumped. Mild chipping to jacket. Very good. Naval fiction.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94059 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $93.75
Large Lot of Ludwig Hohlwein Advertising Illustration Art. From Ludwig Hohlwein, compiled and edited by Professor H. K. Frenzel, Berlin: Phoenix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag G.M.B.H., 1926. A wonderful collection of four color and twenty-two monochrome double-sided illustrations by famed German illustrator and artist Ludwig Hohlwein. The illustrations include examples of Hohlwein's advertising art for hotels, restaurants, travel, book covers, and magazine covers. All pages measure 9" x 11.75". With the exception of age toning to the paper these magnificent examples are in very good condition.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94304 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $93.75
David A. White. News of the Plains and Rockies 1803-1865. Spokane: Arthur H. Clarke Company, 1996-2001. First edition. Eight octavo volumes. Some illustrations. Publisher's cloth. Fine condition. (Total: 8 Items)
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94275 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $87.50
Zane Grey. The Dude Ranger. New York: Harper & Brothers, [n.d., but "F-A" on copyright page denoting 1951]. Stated first edition. Octavo. 240 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket with $2.50 price. Short tear to rear panel of jacket. "Zane Grey" embossed on front free endpaper. Fine.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94069 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $81.25
Major Zinovi Pechkoff. The Bugle Sounds, Life in the Foreign Legion. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. First edition. Octavo. 286 pages. Publisher's green cloth and dust jacket with $2.50 price. Chips to edges of jacket, particularly spine head; front flap detached but present. Very good.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94246 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $81.25
Lot of Five Arthur Rackham Illustrated Color Plates From Undine. From Undine by La Motte Fouqué, London: William Heinemann and New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1911. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. A handsome lot of five Rackham illustrated color plates from the classic story of the water nymph Undine. Each color illustration measures 5" x 6.75" and is mounted to a stiff backing page to an overall size of 7.25" x 9.75". The backing has toned slightly and a few of the illustrations have slight imperfections from the original mounting process, otherwise they are in near fine condition. (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94314 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $75.00
James Hilton. SIGNED. Random Harvest. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 327 pages. Publisher's cloth. Boards soiled, spine panel faded, else very good condition.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94076 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $69.00
Henry James. Embarrassments. New York: Macmillan Company, 1896. First American edition. Octavo. 320 pages. Publisher's cloth. Moderate shelf-wear to the extremities with some darkening to the spine, else a good copy.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94087 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $69.00
Roy Rockwood. Lost on the Moon, or In Quest of the Field of Diamonds. New York: Cupples & Leon, [1911]. First edition. Octavo. 248 pages plus publisher's ads. Publisher's pictorial dark orange cloth and dust jacket. Lightly worn jacket with some chipping at extremities. Pencil name. A better than very good copy. Juvenile.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94121 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $69.00
Colonel C. H. Stockley. Stalking in the Himalayas and Northern India. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1936. First edition. Octavo. 254 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's original cloth and dust jacket. Moderate wear to and slight warp to boards; scattered light foxing at the edges of the pages; dust jacket tatty and soiled with a large section of the spine panel missing, still a good copy.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94262 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $69.00
Isobel Lennart. Funny Girl: A New Musical. New York: Random House, [1964]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94096 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $62.00
Lot of Ludwig Hohlwein Wine and Beer Advertising Illustrations. From Ludwig Hohlwein, compiled and edited by Professor H. K. Frenzel, Berlin: Phoenix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag G.M.B.H., 1926. A wonderful collection of two color and ten monochrome double-sided illustrations by famed German illustrator and artist Ludwig Hohlwein. The illustrations mainly include prime examples of Hohlwein's advertising art for wine, beer and spirits. All pages measure 9" x 11.75". With the exception of age toning to the paper these magnificent examples are in very good condition.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94305 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $62.00
[Jerry Weist]. Bram Stoker. The Gates of Life. New York: Cupples & Leon Company., 1908. First American edition. Octavo. 332 pages. Publisher's olive cloth. Modest shelf wear and spotting to boards, else a very good copy. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94133 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $59.00
Kurt Vonnegut. Deadeye Dick. [New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1982]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94146 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $56.00
Henry James. Hawthorne. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. First American edition. From the English Men of Letters series. Octavo. 177 pages. Publisher's cloth. Modest shelf wear, front hinge cracked but binding remains sturdy, else a very good copy.
Auction 201202 | Lot: 94217 | Jan 12, 2012

Sold For: $56.00

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