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[Jerry Weist]. [Forrest J. Ackerman's copy]. H. L. Gold, editor. SIGNED. The Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1954. First edition thus. Signed by the editor and contributing author Robert Sheckley on the front-free endpaper. Octavo. 504 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Ackerman's copy with his red plastic "A" affixed to head of spine. About fine. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90148 | Feb 23, 2012

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Rod Serling. INSCRIBED. From the Twilight Zone. Garden City: Doubleday, [1962]. Book club edition. Inscribed by Serling to Cordes on front free endpaper. Octavo. 314 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor rubbing and bumping to cloth extremities. Front hinge tender. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few small tears. Very good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90226 | Feb 23, 2012

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Michael Connelly. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Blood Work. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. Special edition limited to 100 copies, specially bound, slipcased, and signed by the author on the title page. Octavo. 393 pages. Quarter leather and marbled boards and slipcase, as issued. Fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90062 | Feb 23, 2012

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[Civil War]. [Slavery]. John Russell Bartlett, compiler. LIMITED. The Literature of the Rebellion. A Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the Civil War in the United States, and on Subjects Growing Out of That Event, Together with Works on American Slavery, and Essays From Reviews and Magazines on the Same Subjects. Boston: Draper and Halliday, 1866. First edition, one of 60 copies printed in quarto format. Publisher's wrappers. Uncut. Front cover rubbed, lightly soiled, and detached. Spine cracked at signature seams with some abrasions. Paper spine label intact, though with some splits. Covers have some wear and small tears at edges. First gathering loose. Some minor foxing and toning. In custom cloth chemise and matching slipcase with leather spine and gilt titles. Otherwise, a generally very good copy of this scarce item. Sabin 3743.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90284 | Feb 23, 2012

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Isaac Asimov. SIGNED/LIMITED. The Robots of Dawn. Huntington Woods: Phantasia Press, 1983. First edition, limited to 750 numbered copies. Signed by Asimov. Octavo. 336 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket, and slipcase. Minor sunning to spine of jacket, otherwise a fine copy.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90011 | Feb 23, 2012

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H. P. Lovecraft. The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces by H. P. Lovecraft and Diverse Hands. Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers, 1959. First edition of 2500 copies printed. Compiled by August Derleth. Octavo. 313 pages. Jacket art by Richard Taylor. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Jacket with modest toning, else fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90187 | Feb 23, 2012

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Edgar Rice Burroughs. Land of Terror. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1944. First edition. Octavo. 319 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Trivial wear to the jacket's spine ends, else fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90042 | Feb 23, 2012

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Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Master Mind of Mars. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1928. First edition. Octavo. 312 pages. Illustrated with five plates by J. Allen St. John. Publisher's orange cloth. A beautiful copy, internally bright with modest shelf wear and a small inked stamp on the rear end paper; else near fine, housed in a custom slipcase.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90046 | Feb 23, 2012

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August Derleth. INSCRIBED. Not Long For This World. Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers, 1948. First edition of 2000 copies printed. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 221 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Boards with light shelf wear; pages toned around the edges and endpapers; jacket toned with some wear at the spine ends and corners, else very good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90098 | Feb 23, 2012

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A Run of Americana, Western Americana, and Texana Catalogues from Michael D. Heaston, including: Michael D. Heaston Company. Catalogues 1-44. Austin: Michael D. Heaston, [1982 - n.d.]. Eight large octavos and 36 small quarto volumes. Illustrated. Publisher's wrappers. Some general wear to covers and edges. Occasional light toning, small tears, and bumping. Some light creasing or folding in places. Minor pencil notations. Otherwise, a very good set. (Total: 44 Items)
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90303 | Feb 23, 2012

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[Map]. Willem Janzsoon Blaeu. Campagna di Roma, olim Latium: Patrimonio Di S. Pietro; et Sabina. [Amsterdam: n.d., ca. 1640]. Hand-colored copper engraved map of the Papal lands including the city of Rome, Lago di Bolsena, Lago di Bracciano and a section of the west coast of Italy. Light toning and soiling, else, very good. Measures 19.75 inches x 15 inches (23.75 inches x 20 inches overall).
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90369 | Feb 23, 2012

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Willa Cather. Shadows on the Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. Octavo. 280 pages. Publisher's green cloth and dust jacket. Titles printed on paper labels on the spine and front board. Spine panel sunned; modest shelf wear to the extremities of the boards; jacket toned and brittle with a few closed tears and minor chipping along the edges, else internally bright and in very good condition complete with slipcase.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90054 | Feb 23, 2012

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Isaac Asimov. SIGNED/LIMITED. Have You Seen These? Boston: NESFA, 1974. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Signed by Asimov on title page. Octavo. 94 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Minor rubbing and toning to jacket. Near fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90009 | Feb 23, 2012

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[Jerry Weist]. John W. Campbell, Jr., editor. Astounding Science Fiction July 1939. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. Facsimile reprint of the original with added commentary by A. E. Van Vogt and Isaac Asimov on their original stories in the magazine. 1946 Astounding Science Fiction Christmas greeting card signed by Campbell and 1971 "In Memoriam" laid-in. Octavo. 180 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Fine. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90048 | Feb 23, 2012

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[Jerry Weist]. Groff Conklin, editor. Omnibus of Science Fiction. New York: Crown Publishers, 1952. First edition thus. Canceled check made out to Groff Conklin from Forrest J. Ackerman, signed by Ackerman and countersigned by Conklin on the verso laid-in. Octavo. 562 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Light bumping to corners; former owner's name on the half-title page, else a near fine copy in a slightly chipped very good jacket. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90060 | Feb 23, 2012

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Martin H. Greenberg, [editor]. SIGNED/LIMITED. The Asimov Chronicles. Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1989. Deluxe first edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Signed by Asimov and illustrators. Large octavo. 678 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket, and slipcase. Minor rubbing to jacket edges with an area of trimming to bottom edge of front panel. Near fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90151 | Feb 23, 2012

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Frank Herbert. Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1968. First edition, second printing. Octavo. 412 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Boards worn at the spine ends; half title page and fly leaf attached near the bottom edge; jacket scuffed, toned and chipped around the edges, else very good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90159 | Feb 23, 2012

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[Jerry Weist]. John Taine [Eric Taine Bell]. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. The Crystal Horde. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1952. First edition limited to 3000 copies of which the first 300 are numbered and autographed by the author on a special limitation page in front. Jacket design by Hannes Bok. Octavo. 254 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. About fine. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90248 | Feb 23, 2012

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Larry McMurtry. SIGNED. Terms of Endearment. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo. 410 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Scribner's ink stamp on the lower edge of text block; pages toned; boards with light shelf wear; jacket with a few small chips and minor toning to rear panel, else very good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90192 | Feb 23, 2012

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H. P. Lovecraft. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels. Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers, 1964. Second printing. Octavo. 432 pages. Jacket art by Lee Brown Coye. Publisher's cloth and red dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90184 | Feb 23, 2012

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H. P. Lovecraft. The Dunwich Horror and Others. The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft. Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers, 1963. First edition of 3000 copies printed. Octavo. 431 pages. Jacket art by Lee Brown Coye. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Boards slightly scuffed with light shelf wear; edges of pages toned; jacket with adhesive tape reinforcement at the corners and spine ends, else very good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90186 | Feb 23, 2012

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William J. Schaldach. LIMITED EDITION. Carl Rungius: Big Game Painter. Fifty Years With Brush and Rifle. West Hartford (Vermont): The Countryman Press, 1945. Limited edition of 1275 hand-numbered copies. Folio. 117 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's brown cloth. Modest shelf wear at the extremities, else near fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90342 | Feb 23, 2012

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Seymour Haden. Etching of Ships in a Harbor. 1870. Matted area measures 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Minor overall toning. Very good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90364 | Feb 23, 2012

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[Big Little Book]. Edgar Rice Burroughs. SIGNED BY JOHNNY WEISSMULLER. Tarzan Escapes. Racine: Whitman, 1936. Signed by Weissmuller on front free endpaper. Square sixteenmo. 264 pages. Publisher's binding. "1182" on spine. Minor rubbing and wear to extremities. Very good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90026 | Feb 23, 2012

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Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan and the Foreign Legion. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1947. First edition. Octavo. 314 pages. Illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90044 | Feb 23, 2012

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Mickey Spillane. SIGNED. Together We Kill: The Uncollected Stories of Mickey Spillane. Waterville: Five Star, 2001. First edition. Signed by Spillane on the half title; additionally signed by Max Allan Collins, the editor, on the title page. Octavo. 210 pages. Publisher's laminated pictorial boards. Fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90244 | Feb 23, 2012

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Galignani's New Paris Guide, for 1851. Paris: Galignani, 1851. Twelvemo. 626 pages. Publisher's binding with rubbing and abrading to extremities. Lacking upper portion of spine. Hinges cracked and pages with toning and scattered abrading to edges. Engraved plates with tissue guards. Good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90299 | Feb 23, 2012

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Joseph Payne Brennan. Nine Horrors. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1958. First edition of 1200 copies printed. 120 pages. Jacket art by Frank Utpatel. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Toning to the edges of the pages; dust jacket toned at the edges and spine, else near fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90037 | Feb 23, 2012

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August Derleth. Night's Yawning Peal. A Ghostly Company. Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers, 1952. First edition. Octavo. 280 pages. Jacket illustration by Robert Crane. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Boards damp stained at the leading edges with general light shelf wear; contents slightly toned around the edges; jacket worn with some chipping along the edges, else very good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90097 | Feb 23, 2012

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William Everson. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Renegade Christmas With the Typescript Manuscript With Author's Corrections. Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. Limited to 125 numbered copies and twenty-six lettered copies of which this is lettered "m", signed by the author on the flyleaf. Folio. Unpaginated. Half leather and decorated paper over boards. Near fine. Accompanied by five typescript pages titled "Renegade Christmas" with pencil corrections, presumably in the author's hand.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90113 | Feb 23, 2012

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William Everson. INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Tendril in the Mesh. [San Francisco]: Cayucos Books, 1973. Limited to 250 copies, of which this copy is lettered "N", and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Folio. Unpaginated. Publisher's announcement laid-in. Quarter leather and decorated paper boards. Near fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90116 | Feb 23, 2012

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H. P. Lovecraft. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels. Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers, 1964. First printing of 3000 copies. Octavo. 432 pages. Jacket art by Lee Brown Coye. Publisher's cloth and green dust jacket. Modest shelf wear to boards; jacket slightly toned with some wear at the spine ends, else fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90183 | Feb 23, 2012

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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. SIGNED. Reliquary. New York: Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1997. First edition. Signed by both authors on the title page. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90209 | Feb 23, 2012

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Dan Simmons. Hyperion. New York: Doubleday, 1989. First edition. Octavo. 482 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Slight toning to the edge of the text block, else near fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90236 | Feb 23, 2012

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John James Audubon. Plate CXIII: Esquimaux Dog Hand-Colored Lithograph From The Quadrupeds of North America. 10.5" x 7". Excised from The Quadrupeds of North America, New York: V. G. Audubon, 1849-1870. Drawn from nature by John J. Audubon, drawn on stone by William E. Hitchcock, and printed by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia. Toned around the edges, else very good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90274 | Feb 23, 2012

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James D. Gordon. Winchester's New Model of 1873, A Tribute, Volume II. Grant (Colorado): published by the author, 1997. First edition. Volume II only. Oblong quarto. 345-702 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's binding. Fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90300 | Feb 23, 2012

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Robert Bloch. SIGNED. The Early Fears. Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer, 1994. First printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo. 514 pages. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90030 | Feb 23, 2012

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Roy G. Krenkel and Bernie Wrightson [illustrators]. L. Sprague de Camp. LIMITED. The Conan Reader. Baltimore: Mirage, 1968. First edition, limited to 1500 numbered copies. Octavo. 148 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Soft bumping to lower corners. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few tiny chips and tears. Near fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90081 | Feb 23, 2012

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August Derleth. The Mask of Cthulhu. Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers, 1958. First edition of 2000 copies printed. Octavo. 201 pages. Dust jacket art by Richard Taylor. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Light toning to the edges of the text block; small bookseller's label on front pastedown; jacket with some toning and light soiling, else near fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90096 | Feb 23, 2012

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H. P. Lovecraft. Collected Poems. Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers, 1963. First edition of 2000 copies printed. Octavo. 134 pages. Illustrated by Frank Utpatel. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Toning to the jacket's spine and edges, else fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90185 | Feb 23, 2012

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John Metcalfe. The Feasting Dead. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1954. First edition of 1200 copies printed. Octavo. 123 pages. Jacket art by Frank Utpatel. Publisher's cloth and price-clipped dust jacket. Minor scuffing and toning to the jacket, else near fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90193 | Feb 23, 2012

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Manly Wade Wellman. Who Fears the Devil? Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers, 1963. First edition of 2000 copies printed. Octavo. 213 pages. Jacket art by Lee Brown Coye. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90259 | Feb 23, 2012

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Anthony Dyer. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. The Big Five. Agoura: Trophy Room Books, 1996. Limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator on a special limitation page bound in front and additionally inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Quarto. 204 pages. Illustrated by Bob Kuhn. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Slight fade to jacket's spine, else fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90295 | Feb 23, 2012

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Michael Connelly. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Angels Flight. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First edition. Limited to 300 special copies the money of which went to a fund to help restore Angels Flight, a Los Angeles landmark. Includes Angels Flight ticket and signed limitation sheet laid-in. Additionally signed by the author on the title page. Octavo. 393 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90061 | Feb 23, 2012

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[Jerry Weist]. Robert A. Heinlein. Tunnel in the Sky. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1965. First English edition. Octavo. 273 pages. Publisher's cloth and price-clipped dust jacket. Small damp stain on the front free endpaper; edges of text block toned; small bookseller's inkstamp on the front pastedown; jacket worn at the edges and slightly faded on the spine, else a very good copy. From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90156 | Feb 23, 2012

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Robinson Jeffers. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Tragedy Has Obligations. [Santa Cruz]: The Lime Kiln Press, 1973. Limited to 200 copies signed by William Everson and artist Allison Clough. Folio. Unpaginated [11 leaves]. Original woodcut by Allison Clough and illustration of holograph page of the poem tipped-in. Publisher's folio sized advertisement laid-in. Beautifully bound in quarter leather and cloth. Near fine.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90165 | Feb 23, 2012

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[Map]. Nicolaum Visscher. Galliae seu Franciae Tabula, qua omnes Provinciae, Viae angiariae, et aliae res notatu dignae distincte et accurate ostenduntur. [Amsterdam: n.d., ca. 1690]. Hand-colored copper engraved map of the Kingdom of France and surrounding territories. Mounted on board, paper weakness down the center, repaired tear 2 inches above Paris, some toning and soiling, else, very good. Measures 22.25 inches x 18.5 inches (23.75 inches x 20 inches overall).
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90370 | Feb 23, 2012

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Robert E. Howard. Conan the Conqueror. New York: Gnome, [1950]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 255 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to cloth with some minor wear at head of spine. Jacket shows light rubbing and wear to edges with a few small chips and tears. Sunning along spine. Very good.
Auction 201208 | Lot: 90162 | Feb 23, 2012

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