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Frederick Courteney Selous. INSCRIBED.
Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia.
London: Rowland Ward, 1896.
First edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "To Miss May Sanders/With the kind regards and best/wishes of the Author/F. C. Selous [underlined]/Worplesdon/Surrey/July 8th/1901."
Octavo. 290 pages. With illustrations, fold-out map and ten pages of publisher's ads. Publisher's original binding, zebra-patterned endleaves. Spine lightly browned and rubbed, some rubbing, light soiling to boards, previous bookshop's sticker on rear free endpaper (on blank side, not affecting zebra pattern). Still, near fine. Rare.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90250 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$1,912.00
Ernest Hemingway.
L'Adieu aux Armes. [A Farewell to Arms].
[Paris: Gallimard, 1931]. First French edition, limited to 1180 copies. Octavo. 382 pages. Publisher's wrappers and glassine protector.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90088 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$479.20
John Quincy Adams as President Signed Land Grant
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90001 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$448.13
[Maps]. Engraved Map of North America.
[N.p., n.d., ca. 1650]. One leaf excised from unknown book. with a large segment of North America marked "Parts Undiscovered". Five-inch tear, with tape repair to verso, a few tears on edge. Lower edge a bit jagged from where it was cut from a book. Good. Approximately 11 x 8 inches.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90337 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$418.25
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$627 or more
Captain H. L. Haughton (36th Sikhs).
Sport & Folklore in the Himalaya
.
London: Edwin Arnold, 1913. First edition. Illustrated. Octavo. 332. Publisher's binding. Some rubbing to binding, bookplate. Near fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90202 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$358.50
John Grisham. SIGNED.
A Time to Kill.
New York: Wynwood Press, [1989].
First edition of the author's first book. Signed by the author on the first blank.
Octavo. 415 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket spine chipped and soiled, some scuffing to corners, some wear to edges, some soiling to text, large spot of Liquid Paper to title-page (not affecting text), verso of last leaf of text has some tape removal (not affecting text). Overall, good.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90084 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$334.60
[Jerry Weist]. Seabury Quinn. SIGNED CARD LAID IN.
Roads.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1948. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Quinn on a laid in card illustrated by Virgil Finlay with an image from book.
Octavo. 110 pages.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90140 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$286.80
J. F. Campbell.
Popular Tales of the West Highlands Orally Collected.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1860-1862. Four small octavo volumes. Bound by Tout & Sons in contemporary half olive morocco, gilt. Some rubbing, wear to bindings, minor foxing in text. Very good. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90028 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$262.90
[George Washington, subject]. John Frederick Schroeder.
Life and Times of Washington: Containing a Particular Account of National Principles and Events, and the Illustrious Men of the Revolution.
New York: Johnson, Fry, [1857]. First edition. Illustrations by Alonzo Chappel. With 47 full-page engravings and a four-page facsimile of an early draft of the Declaration of Independence. Two large quarto volumes. Publisher's half brown morocco over dark brown pebbled morocco boards, spines lettered in gilt and ruled in black, five raised bands. Some wear to binding, a few pages loose, at least one leaf with tape repair. some markings indicating that these are ex-library books from the library of the University of Texas, including perforated stamps to title-pages. Still, very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90263 | Nov 10, 2011
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$262.90
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$408 or more
[A. Bell, engraver].
Geography A Map of the World in Three Sections, Describing the Polar Regions to the Tropics.
[N.p., n.d., ca. 1710]. Handcolored map of the world with views from the top of each pole, and the Torrid Zone, taken from an unknown book. One crease, some wear to left edge where removed from book. Still, fine. Approximately 17.5 x 10.5 inches.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90311 | Nov 10, 2011
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$262.90
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$408 or more
Robert E. Howard.
King Conan.
New York: Gnome Press, [1953]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 255 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Some wear and a few tears to jacket, some rubbing to binding. Very good.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90094 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$227.05
Tom Lea. SIGNED.
The King Ranch.
Boston: Little, Brown, [1957]. First edition, first state.
Signed by Lea on the front free endpaper in volume I.
Two octavo volumes. Publisher's binding, slipcase. Some wear to slipcase, books are fine. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90292 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$215.10
[Jerry Weist]. Robert B. Zeuschner.
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Jefferson: McFarland, [1996]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 287 pages. Publisher's binding. Fine.
From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90267 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$203.15
Jose Pardal. SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION.
Elephant Hunting in Portuguese East Africa.
Long Beach: Safari Press, [1990].
First English edition, one of 1,000 numbered copies (#360) signed by Pardal.
Illustrated. Octavo. 285 pages. Publisher's deluxe binding and slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90239 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$191.20
[Rockwell Kent, illustrator]. Herman Melville.
Moby Dick or the Whale.
New York: Random House, 1930. First trade appearance of the Rockwell Kent illustrations, done for the Lakeside Press edition. Octavo. 822 pages. Publisher's binding. Mild wear to spine. Very good. Housed in later custom-made slipcase.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90100 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$179.25
John H. Batten. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
The Best of Tiger Hunting. An Anthology.
Clinton: Amwell Press, 1986.
First edition, one of 1,000 numbered (#757) copies specially bound by the publisher and signed by Batten, illustrator Peter Darro, and Jim Rikkoff, President of the National Sporting Fraternity Limited.
Two octavo volumes. Publisher's special binding of full brown leather, slipcase. One gilt letter on the spine of volume II a bit tarnished. Fine. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90172 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$179.25
F. Stanley. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Rodeo Town: Canadian, Texas.
[Denver: World Press, 1953]. First edition,
limited to 500 numbered copies. Signed by Stanley
on front free endpaper. Octavo. 418 pages. Publisher's binding
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90303 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$179.25
Patrick O'Brian.
The Letter of Marque.
London: Collins, 1988. First edition. Octavo. 284 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Publisher's price sticker on jacket, very minor rubbing to jacket, else fine. A title in the famed
Aubrey/Maturin
series.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90130 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$167.30
Lee de Forest. SIGNED.
Father of Radio: The Autobiography of Lee de Forest.
Chicago: Wilcox & Follett, 1950. First edition, first printing.
Signed by de Forest
on front free endpaper. Octavo. 502 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90194 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$167.30
Robert E. Howard.
Conan the Barbarian.
New York: Gnome Press, [1954]. First edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Some wear and soiling to jacket, a few small chips and creased tears, some rubbing to binding. Still, very good.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90095 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$155.35
Stephenie Meyer. SIGNED.
New Moon.
New York: Little, Brown, [2006]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Meyer
on title page. Octavo. 563 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90120 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$155.35
[Jerry Weist]. C. L. Moore.
Northwest of Earth.
New York: Gnome, [1954]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 212 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. A touch of shelfwear to bottom board edges.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90124 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$151.77
[Jerry Weist]. Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny.
Deus Irae.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 182 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90051 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$143.40
George A. Hoyem.
British Sporting Guns & Rifles
.
[N.p.]: Armory Publications, 1996. First edition. Two large quarto volumes. Extensively illustrated with facsimiles of sporting catalogues. Publisher's binding. Fine. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90207 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$143.40
Robert Taylor Signed Confederate Bond with Seven Coupons Attached.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90002 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$131.45
Isaac Asimov. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Pebble in the Sky.
Garden City: Doubleday, [1990]. Fortieth anniversary edition,
limited to 1500 numbered copies. Signed by Asimov.
Octavo. 223 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket, and slipcase.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90008 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$131.45
Ray Bradbury. SIGNED.
Now and Forever. Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99.
[New York]: William Morrow, [2007]. First edition.
Signed by the author on the title-page.
Octavo. 209 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90018 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$131.45
[Jerry Weist]. Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The Master Mind of Mars.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1929]. Later edition. Octavo. 312 pages. Publisher's red cloth binding and dust jacket. Mild offsetting to endpapers.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90023 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$131.45
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$300 or more
[Cinema]. [Philip J. Riley, editor]. SIGNED/LIMITED.
House of Frankenstein (The Original 1944 Shooting Script).
Absecon, MagicImage, [1991].
First edition, one of 100 numbered (#48) copies signed by Peter Coe (Co-Star), Curt Siodmak (Author of Story), Philip J. Riley (Author and Editor), Michael D. Stein (Publisher), Forrest J. Ackerman (Contributor) and Gregory Wm. Mank (Author, Researcher).
Quarto. Illustrated. Publisher's binding. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90036 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$131.45
Bernard Cornwell. SIGNED.
Sharpe's Skirmish. Richard Sharpe and the defence of the Tomes, August 1812.
London and New York: Sharpe Appreciation Society, [2002]. First edition thus of this revised and extended edition of a story originally published in 1999 for Harper Collins.
Signed by the author on the title-page.
Octavo. 63 pages. Publisher's wrappers. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90041 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$131.45
[Edward Gorey, illustrator]. SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY.
Jack the Giant-Killer.
[New York:] Scholastic Magazines, 1973. First edition of the fourth book in the Lucky Mini-Book series.
Signed by Gorey on the first leaf
. Publisher's accordion-folded pages, self wrappered. Fine. Housed in custom-made slipcase.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90064 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$131.45
Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews.
Camps and Trails in China.
New York: D. Appleton, 1918. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated. Publisher's binding. Spine a bit dull, some minor rubbing to binding, else near fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90169 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$131.45
Pearl S. Buck. SIGNED/LIMITED.
My Mother's House.
Richwood: Appalachian Press, [1965].
First edition, one of 500 copies signed by Buck
. Publisher's binding, slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90176 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$126.67
Patrick O'Brian.
Clarissa Oakes.
London: Harper Collins, [1992]. First edition. Octavo. 256 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Fine. From the famous
Aubrey/Maturin
series.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90128 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$119.50
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$300 or more
[Jerry Weist]. Hugh B. Cave.
Murgunstrumm and Others.
Chapel Hill: Carcosa, 1977. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 475 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90029 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$113.53
Bernard Cornwell. SIGNED.
Sharpe's Tiger. Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799.
London: Harper Collins, [1997]. First edition.
Signed by the author on the title-page.
Octavo. 303 pages. Publisher' binding, dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90040 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$113.53
Allan Mallinson. SIGNED.
A Close Run Thing.
London: Bantam, [1999].
First edition of the first of the Matthew Hervey of the Light Dragoons series, signed by the author on the title page.
With the correct price of 15.99 GBP on the dust jacket. Octavo. 336 pages. Publisher's binding dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90108 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$113.53
[Jerry Weist]. Gregory Benford. SIGNED.
Timescape.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1980]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Benford
on title page. Octavo. 412 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90013 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$107.55
[Photoplay Edition]. Alexandre Dumas.
The Man in the Iron Mask.
London: Readers Library, [n.d., ca. 1928]. Film Edition, set to coincide with the release of the
1928 British Filmcraft Productions of
The Man in the Iron Mask
directed by George Banfield
.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90052 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$107.55
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$300 or more
Cormac McCarthy.
Cities of the Plain.
[London]: Picador, [1998]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 291 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90115 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$107.55
Frank McCourt. SIGNED.
Angela's Ashes.
A Memoir. [New York]: Scribner, [1996]. First edition. Signed by the author. Octavo. 363 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Two tickets for reading laid in. Very slight shelfwear. Otherwise, near fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90227 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$107.55
Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Arctic Drift.
New York and Tualatin, Putnam's and Norwood Press, 2008.
First edition, one of only 52 lettered copies ("S") out of a total edition of 150 signed by the authors.
Octavo. 515 pages. Publisher's special binding and slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90044 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$101.58
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$300 or more
Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos. SIGNED/LIMITED.
Medusa.
New York and Tualatin: Putnam's and Norwood Press, 2009.
First edition, one of only 52 lettered copies ("S") out of a total edition of 150 copies signed by the authors.
Octavo. 454 pages. Publisher's special binding, slipcase. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90045 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$101.58
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$310 or more
W. R. Burnett.
The Asphalt Jungle.
London: Macdonald, [1950]. First English edition. Octavo. 240 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Jacket spine sunned and chipped, some wear to jacket, some rubbing to binding. Very good. Rarer than the American first which precedes.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90022 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$101.58
Bernard Cornwell. SIGNED.
Sharpe's Triumph. Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September, 1803.
London: Harper Collins, [1998]. First edition.
Signed by the author on the title-page.
Octavo. 297 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90039 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$101.58
Bernard Cornwell. SIGNED.
Sharpe's Battle. Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811.
London: Harper Collins, [1995]. First edition.
Signed by the author on the title-page.
Octavo. 303 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket. Very minor rubbing to jacket. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90042 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$101.58
Cormac McCarthy.
No Country for Old Men.
[London]: Picador, [2005]. First British edition, first printing. Octavo. 309 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90116 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$101.58
[Jerry Weist]. Leigh Brackett.
The Starmen.
New York: Gnome, [1952]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 213 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to jacket with a few tiny tears. Near fine.
Auction 201145
| Lot: 90017 | Nov 10, 2011
Sold For:
$95.60
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