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Raymond Chandler.
The Lady in the Lake.
New York: Knopf, 1943. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 216 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to cloth extremities.
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| Lot: 37302 | Sep 14, 2011
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Theodore Roosevelt
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The Rough Riders
. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First edition.
Signed by the author
. Octavo. 298 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped titles and device on front cover and titles on spine.
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| Lot: 37162 | Sep 14, 2011
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Thomas Hardy
.
The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse, with Prefaces and Notes
. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1920. Anniversary edition, one of 1,250 sets; this one unnumbered. Twenty-one octavo volumes. (Total: 21 Items)
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| Lot: 37347 | Sep 14, 2011
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Abraham Merritt:
Dwellers in the Mirage.
New York: Liveright, Inc., [1932]. First edition. Octavo. 295 pages. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles. Original pictorial dust jacket.
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| Lot: 37342 | Sep 14, 2011
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Charles Kingsley
.
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children
. London: Philip Lee Warner, 1912.
One of twelve copies printed on vellum, of which this is number nine
. Quarto.
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| Lot: 37276 | Sep 14, 2011
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William Cunningham.
Pretty Boy.
First edition. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1936. The rare second novel by the author of The
Green Corn Rebellion
, which, like this novel, was also a story championing the depression-era Oklahoma proletariat. Cunningham was the first
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| Lot: 37366 | Sep 14, 2011
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Michael Shaara.
The Killer Angels
.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., [1974]. First edition, review copy with slip laid in. Publisher's binding and dust jacket with $8.95 price. Foxing to top page edges;
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| Lot: 37409 | Sep 14, 2011
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Hunter S. Thompson
.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
. A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
. New York: Random House, [1971]. First edition, first printing with first state dust jacket.
Signed by the author
. Octavo. 206 pages.
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| Lot: 37419 | Sep 14, 2011
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[Aubrey Beardsley]. Thomas Malory.
Le Morte Darthur.
[London]: J. M. Dent, 1893-4. One of 1,500 copies. Two quarto volumes. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Original ivory cloth elaborately decorated in gilt. Cloth darkened a bit. Minor shelfwear. (Total: 2 Items)
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| Lot: 37265 | Sep 14, 2011
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Stephen King.
Night Shift
.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First edition, first impression (with code "S52" printed in the gutter of page 336).
Inscribed and signed by King.
Octavo. xxiv, 336 pages.
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| Lot: 37335 | Sep 14, 2011
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R. R. M. Carpenter.
Game Trails From Alaska to Africa
.
N.p.: Privately printed, [1944]. First collected edition limited to 50 numbered copies, of which this is number 37.
Inscribed.
Octavo. Two parts in one volume. xii, 180; 56 pages.
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| Lot: 37218 | Sep 14, 2011
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Rowland Ward.
A Naturalist's Life Study in the Art of Taxidermy
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London: Rowland Ward, Ltd., 1913. First edition "For Private Circulation". Quarto. 227 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's yellow cloth over beveled boards
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| Lot: 37240 | Sep 14, 2011
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Ernest Hemingway.
The Old Man and the Sea
.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition, in the first state dust jacket with image on rear panel tinted in blue. Octavo. 140 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket with $3.00 price.
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| Lot: 37386 | Sep 14, 2011
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Ernest Hemingway.
To Have and Have Not.
New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1937. First edition, with "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page. Octavo. 262 pages. Bottom edge of boards slightly rubbed. Top edge dusty. A very nice dust jacket (with
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| Lot: 37388 | Sep 14, 2011
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[Ernest Franklin, illustrator].
Tony Hillerman. Talking God.
New York: Harper & Row, [1989]. First edition, first printing.
With twenty original, signed illustrations by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin.
Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Fine condition.
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| Lot: 37274 | Sep 14, 2011
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Tony Hillerman.
The Ghostway
.
New York, et al.: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1985]. First trade edition.
With twenty fantastic
ink and watercolor drawings signed by Ernest Franklin
within, and illustrating, the text,
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| Lot: 37316 | Sep 14, 2011
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Truman Capote.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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New York: Random House, [1958]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. [viii], [1]-179 pages. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt spine titles. Original dust jacket,
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| Lot: 37363 | Sep 14, 2011
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Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein
. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1931]. "Illustrated with scenes from the Universal Photoplay." Front pastedown with white spot where previous owner's name has been removed. Inked name of previous owner to rear pastedown.
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| Lot: 37411 | Sep 14, 2011
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John Steinbeck.
Of Mice and Men
.
New York: Covici Friede, [1937]. First edition, first issue, with a bullet between the "8"s on page 88 and "pendula" on page 9, line 21. Octavo. 186 pages. Publisher's tan cloth with orange and black stamping. Original
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| Lot: 37413 | Sep 14, 2011
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[Chinese Calligraphy]. Original Rubbings from Engraved Stones.
[N.p.: n.d., 20 C.].
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| Lot: 37190 | Sep 14, 2011
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Elim Demidoff, Prince San Donato.
Hunting Trips in the Caucasus
.
London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition. Octavo. 319 pages. With ninety-six illustrations and map. Publisher's light blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt.
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| Lot: 37223 | Sep 14, 2011
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Johnston McCulley.
The Mark of Zorro.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1924]. First edition and first photoplay edition. Octavo. 300 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Illustrated with four photographic images from the film.
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| Lot: 37340 | Sep 14, 2011
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John Steinbeck.
The Grapes of Wrath.
New York: Viking, [1939]. First edition. Octavo. 619 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket (with "First Edition" tag on the lower front flap, as issued).
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| Lot: 37412 | Sep 14, 2011
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R. Lydekker
.
The Great and Small Game of Europe, Western & Northern Asia, and America.
Their Distribution, Habits, and Structure
.
London: Rowland Ward, 1901.
One of five hundred numbered copies signed by the publisher, of which this is number 9
.
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Alphons Hoch, editor
.
International Sport: North American Big Game Hunters
. London and Munich: Houbard & Co., [1963-64]. Edition de luxe, one of two hundred and fifty numbered copies, of which this is number 113. Unpaginated.
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| Lot: 37232 | Sep 14, 2011
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Stephen King.
The Stand
.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1978. First edition (with code "T39" present in the gutter of page 823).
Inscribed and signed by King on the title page,
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| Lot: 37337 | Sep 14, 2011
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Tennessee Williams.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
[New York]: New Directions, [1955]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 197 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Modest wear to cloth extremities with a tiny spot of abrading to fore-edge.
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| Lot: 37427 | Sep 14, 2011
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Three Books on Africa's Waterways
, including:
S. W. Baker
.
Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia
... Hartford: O. D. Case, 1868. First edition. [and:]
David and Charles Livingstone
.
Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
;
(Total: 3 Items)
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| Lot: 37187 | Sep 14, 2011
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Frederick S. Colburn
.
The Unbelievable Game Country
. [N.p.]: Privately Printed, 1927. First edition.
Inscribed by the author to William J. Morden
. Large quarto. 181 pages. Numerous photographic reproductions and a map.
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| Lot: 37221 | Sep 14, 2011
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Major W. Robert Foran.
Kill: or Be Killed.
The Rambling Reminiscences of an Amateur Hunter
. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1933. First edition. Octavo. 320, [12, publisher's catalog] pages. Illustrated with photographs by the author and others.
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| Lot: 37226 | Sep 14, 2011
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Six Volumes Elaborately Boxed in African Hunting Reprint Series
, including:
Roualeyn Gordon Cumming
.
A Hunter's Life in South Africa, Volumes I and II
. [and:]
The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter 1864-1875
. [and:]
William Charles Baldwin
. (Total: 6 Items)
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| Lot: 37244 | Sep 14, 2011
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Dr. Seuss.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
New York: Random House, [1957]. First edition in first issue dust jacket. Publisher's glazed paper boards. Minor wear to edges; light bump to fore-edge of front board and to one corner. Dust jacket with "250/250"
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| Lot: 37285 | Sep 14, 2011
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[Sangorski & Sutcliffe].
Omar Khayyam.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: Siegle, Hill & Co., [n.d., ca. 1910]. Edition limited to 550 copies, of which this is number 54,
signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.
Large quarto. Unpaginated. 12 striking
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| Lot: 37352 | Sep 14, 2011
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Cormac McCarthy.
Suttree.
New York: Random House, 1979. First edition. Octavo. 471 pages. Square stain on front free endpaper from removed resale sticker. Faint red remainder stamp of the Random House logo on bottom edge. Overall, a near fine copy
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| Lot: 37397 | Sep 14, 2011
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Hunter S. Thompson.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72.
[San Francisco]: Straight Arrow Books, [1973]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Thompson.
Octavo. 506 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.
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| Lot: 37164 | Sep 14, 2011
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Garth Williams.
Preliminary drawings and sketches for illustrations appearing in
Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1953. Pencil on tracing paper. Nine sheets, ranging in size from 4.5 x 5.5 inches to 8.875 x 5.875 inches.
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| Lot: 37296 | Sep 14, 2011
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Henry M. Stanley.
In Darkest Africa.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American edition. Two octavo volumes. (Total: 2 Items)
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| Lot: 37186 | Sep 14, 2011
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Isaac Asimov.
Foundation
.
New York: Gnome Press Publishers, [1951]. First edition, first issue (Currey priority A binding). Octavo. 255 pages. Publisher's dark blue cloth with red titles. Original first issue dust jacket
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| Lot: 37298 | Sep 14, 2011
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Edward Albee.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
New York: Atheneum, 1962. First edition, first printing.
Inscribed by Albee
on half-title page. Octavo. 242 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.
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| Lot: 37356 | Sep 14, 2011
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Robert Frost.
Complete Poems of Robert Frost 1949.
New York: Henry Holt, [1949]. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is number 357.
Signed by Frost.
Octavo. 642 pages. Publisher's binding and slipcase.
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| Lot: 37380 | Sep 14, 2011
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R. Lydekker
.
The Great and Small Game of India, Burma & Tibet.
London: Rowland Ward, 1900.
One of five hundred numbered copies signed by the publisher, of which this is number 235
. Quarto. 416 pages.
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| Lot: 37233 | Sep 14, 2011
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Stephen King.
Firestarter.
Huntington Woods: Phantasia, 1980. First edition, number 17 of 725 limited edition copies
signed by King
on the limitation page. Octavo. 428 pages. Publisher's binding, dust jacket, and moderately rubbed slipcase. Fine.
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| Lot: 37328 | Sep 14, 2011
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William Faulkner.
Requiem for a Nun
.
New York: Random House, [1951]. First edition. Limited to 750 copies of which this is number 694, and
signed by Faulkner.
Octavo. 286 pages. Publisher's half black cloth with gilt stamping
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| Lot: 37375 | Sep 14, 2011
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Cormac McCarthy.
No Country For Old Men.
[New Orleans: Trice, 2005]. First edition, limited to 325 numbered copies of which this is 83.
Signed by McCarthy.
Octavo. Publisher's binding and slipcase. Fine and still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap.
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| Lot: 37395 | Sep 14, 2011
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[Henry M. Stanley].
The American Testimonial Banquet to Henry M. Stanley In Recognition of His Historic Achievements in the Cause of Humanity Science & Civilization and a Greeting to His Chief Officers
...
May 30 1890
.
London: Privately printed, 1890.
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| Lot: 37184 | Sep 14, 2011
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Captain William Cornwallis Harris
.
The Wild Sports of Southern Africa
; Being the Narrative of a Hunting Expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, through the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn
. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852.
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Pair of Books About Elephant Hunting
, including:
Captain C. H. Stigand.
Hunting the Elephant in Africa and Other Recollections of Thirteen Years' Wanderings
.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First edition. Octavo. xv, 379 pages. Illustrated. (Total: 2 Items)
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| Lot: 37236 | Sep 14, 2011
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Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Special edition limited to 1,500 copies, of which this is number 596,
signed by Alice Hargreaves (nee Alice Liddell, "the original Alice")
.
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| Lot: 37266 | Sep 14, 2011
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