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Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The Gods of Mars.
Chicago: McClurg, 1918. First edition. Octavo. 348 pages. Publisher's red cloth and dust jacket. Frontispiece. Minor wear to jacket extremities with a few small chips to spine ends and corners. Overall near fine.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30245 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$14,340.00
Stanley Weinbaum.
Dawn of Flame and Other Stories
.
[Jamaica, NY: Ruppert Printing Service, 1936]. First edition,
Currey priority A, with a very warm inscription signed from Forrest J Ackerman to Jerry Weist
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30512 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$9,560.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs
.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. First edition ("Published October, 1920" and Donohue imprint on copyright page).
Inscribed and signed by Burroughs
on the front free endpaper. Octavo. [viii], 256 pages plus twelve-page publisher's catalog. Ten inserted sepia plates illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Publisher's olive-green cloth with black titles. Original pictorial dust jacket. Light rubbing to boards. Corners rubbed. Spine slightly cocked. Minor thumb-soiling to text. Small abrasions and tears to the margin at the bottom edge of pages 197-200. Light spotting to edges, with a small stain on the top text edge near the head of the spine. A few small creases and minor edge wear to the dust jacket. A beautiful copy in very good condition, in an unusually nice example of the rare dust jacket. Zeuschner 802. Currey 75. Bleiler,
Science- Fiction: The Early Years
307.
From the Jerry Weist Collection.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30285 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$9,560.00
Ray Bradbury
.
Fahrenheit 451
. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc. [1953]. First edition.
One of 50 privately bound copies, inscribed by the author
on the front free paper. Octavo. 199 pages. Red cloth over boards with gilt spine
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30224 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$8,365.00
Philip K. Dick.
Time Out of Joint
, A Novel of Menace.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1959]. First edition.
Inscribed by the author to Jerry Weist.
Octavo. 221 pages. Publisher's orange binding; dust jacket with price $3.50.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30338 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$7,170.00
H. P. Lovecraft.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Everett: Visionary Publishing Company, 1936. First edition ("Published, April, 1936" on the copyright page). Twelvemo. 158 pages. Publisher's black cloth with silver lettering (Currey binding B).
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30423 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$7,170.00
Philip K. Dick.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Octavo. 210 pages. Publisher's gray cloth with gilt spine titles. In the original pictorial dust jacket by Harry Sehring. Minimal edge
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30329 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$6,572.50
Ray Bradbury.
Fahrenheit 451.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. First edition. Number 199 of 200 limited edition copies,
signed by Bradbury
on the limitation page. Octavo. 199 pages. Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30225 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$5,975.00
Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.
The History of Civilization:
Triplanetary
,
First Lensman
,
Galactic Patrol
,
Gray Lensman
,
Second Stage Lensmen
,
Children of the Lens
. Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, Inc., 1955. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30468 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$5,377.50
Philip K. Dick.
Confessions of a Crap Artist
.
New York: Entwhistle Books, 1975. First edition, first state.
Signed by Dick on the front pastedown, with his hands outlined in red ink on the front endpapers.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30328 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$5,078.75
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The Cave Girl.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1925. First edition. Octavo. 323 pages. Frontispiece. Blue cloth over boards. Excellent
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30236 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$5,078.75
A. E. van Vogt.
Slan
.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First edition.
The author's own copy with his penciled revisions.
Inscribed by the author to Forrest J. Ackerman. Also, signed by van Vogt's wife,
beneath her printed name on the dedication page. One of 4,000 copies. Octavo. 216 pages. In the
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30490 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$5,078.75
Thea von Harbou.
Metropolis.
Berlin: August Scherl, 1926. First edition. In German. Octavo. 274 pages. Five pages of ads. Original green cloth over boards, titles to spine gilt on red, ruling and titles to upper
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30360 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$4,780.00
Frank Herbert.
Dune.
Philadelphia / New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. First edition. Octavo. xxvi, 412 pages including multiple appendices. Publisher's light blue cloth over
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30396 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$4,780.00
H. P. Lovecraft.
The Outsider and Others.
Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1939. First edition of only 1,200 copies. Octavo. xiv, 553 pages. Publisher's black cloth over boards with gilt titles
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30422 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$3,883.75
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan and the Ant Men.
Chicago: McClurg, 1924. First edition. Octavo. 346 pages. Bound in at the rear is the unpaginated four page essay by Robert H. Davis, "How Burroughs Wrote the 'Tarzan
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30263 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$3,346.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan Lord of the Jungle.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1928. First edition. Octavo. 377 pages. Five plates, including the frontispiece. Green cloth
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30276 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$2,629.00
Daniel Keyes.
Flowers for Algernon.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1966]. First edition.
Inscribed by the author to Jerry Weist; additionally signed on the title page.
Octavo. 274 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30410 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$2,390.00
Larry Niven.
Ringworld
.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1972. First hardcover edition.
Warmly inscribed and signed by the author to Jerry Weist:
"For Jerry Weist / It is a pleasure / to know a man who / has fulfilled his life's / ambition. / Larry Niven"
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30438 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$2,390.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The Bandit of Hell's Bend
.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1925. First edition. Octavo. 316 pages. Frontispiece by Modest Stein. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles. Original pictorial dust jacket.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30233 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$2,270.50
Robert A. Heinlein.
Starship Troopers.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1959]. First edition, first printing with no statement of printing on copyright page; $3.95 price on dust jacket. Octavo. 309 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Blue cloth a
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30389 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$2,270.50
Isaac Asimov.
The End of Eternity
. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955. First edition.
Signed by the author and jacket designer Mel Hunter
on the title page.
Also includes an original signed color pencil drawing by Hunter
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30193 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$2,151.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan at the Earth's Core.
New York; Metropolitan Books, 1930. First edition (binding state A, per Currey). Octavo. vii, 301 pages. Light blue cloth over boards. Black lettering to spine and top board. Some slight water damage
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30275 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$2,151.00
Thea von Harbou.
Metropolis
.
Berlin: August Scherl, [1926]. German-language movie tie-in edition issued to coincide with the film's German release.
With a card laid in inscribed, "Greetings / from / METROPOLIS / Fritz Lang."
Twelvemo. [1] - [194] pages
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30361 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$2,151.00
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First edition. Octavo. 320 pages. Lavender cloth over boards with black backstrip. An outstanding dust jacket with the original orange promotional
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30433 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$2,031.50
Isaac Asimov:
Foundation and Empire
. New York: Gnome Press, 1952. First edition, first state.
Inscribed by the author
on the title page, "This is the second / installment of the Foundation / series / Isaac Asimov."
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30195 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,912.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs
.
The Son of Tarzan
. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1917. First edition, first state, lacking the dedication. Octavo. 394 pages. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30258 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,912.00
Philip K. Dick.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1965. First edition. Octavo. 278 pages. Publisher's gray binding; dust jacket with price $4.50, covered -- as is common -- by a sticker reading "$4.95 / D & CO. INC."
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30337 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,912.00
H. G. Wells
.
The
Atlantic Edition
of
The Works of H. G. Wells
.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Number 898 of 1,050 sets intended for the American market and
signed by the author
on a limitation bound at the front of volume one. (Total: 28 Items)
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30532 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,912.00
Jules Verne.
From the Earth to the Moon
Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It.
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1874. First illustrated American edition. Octavo. viii, 323 pages. Four
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30496 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,852.25
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit,
or There and Back Again.
London: George Allen & Unwin, [1946]. Fourth impression. Green cloth over boards. Black lettering and designs to boards and spine. Map endpapers. The price-clipped dust jacket with four shallow
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30486 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,792.50
Make Offer to Owner
$4,725 or more
H. G. Wells.
The Invisible Man,
A Grotesque Romance.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. First edition. Octavo. viii, 245 pages, plus two pages of advertisements. Original red cloth over boards with top board
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30517 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,792.50
[H. G. Wells].
Pearson's Magazine
Bound Volumes with Complete Serialization of H.G. Wells'
The War of the Worlds
. [London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1897.] Eight
Pearson's Magazines
, April of 1897 through December (Total: 9 Items)
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30529 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,732.75
Edgar Rice Burroughs
.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1919. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 319 pages. Five sepia plates and twelve black-and-white illustrations in text by J. Allen St. John.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30246 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,673.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The Mucker.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1921. First edition. Octavo. 414 pages. Five plates including frontispiece. Green cloth over
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30253 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,673.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tanar of Pellucidar
.
New York: Metropolitan Books Publishers, [1930]. First edition. Octavo. 312 pages. With dust jacket art and frontispiece by Paul F. Berdanier.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30261 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,673.00
Make Offer to Owner
$2,510 or more
Philip K. Dick.
Ubik.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First edition. Octavo. 202 pages. Gray cloth over boards with silver spine titles. Dust jacket. Covers show very light rubbing at extremities.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30339 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,673.00
H. P. Lovecraft.
Beyond the Wall of Sleep.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1943. First edition of the second collection of Lovecraft's work, and the fourth publication by Arkham House. One of approximately 1,200 copies
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30421 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,673.00
Jules Verne.
To the Sun?
[with:]
Off on a Comet!
.
A Journey Through Planetary Space.
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878. First American hardcover edition. Two octavo volumes. 401; 472 pages. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30507 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,673.00
H. G. Wells.
The Time Machine.
London: William Heinemann, 1895. First British edition (the American edition of the book preceded the British edition by a few weeks). Octavo. 152 pages, plus 16 pages of advertisements. Original
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30526 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,673.00
Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. Six Signed or Inscribed Fantasy Press first editions
, including:
Triplanetary
. Number 74 of 500 and
inscribed to Poul W. Anderson
. Bookplate. Two copies of prospectus. Two different issue dust jackets. [and:]
Galactic Patrol
, which is (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30470 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,613.25
Isaac Asimov.
I, Robot.
New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First edition. Typed note card
signed by Asimov
tipped to front free endpaper. Octavo. 253 pages. Red cloth over boards. Black lettering
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30197 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,553.50
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The Master Mind of Mars.
Chicago: McClurg, 1928. First edition. Octavo. 312 pages. Publisher's orange cloth and dust jacket. Frontispiece. Mild rubbing and abrading to cloth extremities.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30251 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,553.50
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The Oakdale Affair and The Rider.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, [1937]. First edition. Octavo. 144 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Frontispiece. Mild rubbing to cloth extremities. Ownership stamps to page
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30255 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,553.50
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan's Quest
.
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1936]. First edition.
Inscribed and signed by Burroughs to collector Russell Van Der Clock,
whose collection was bought by Gerry de la Ree in 1967.
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30262 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,553.50
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1918. First edition, with "Published April, 1918" and "W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO" on copyright page. Octavo. 350, plus 4-page catalog. Illustrations by J. Allen
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30268 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,553.50
Arthur C. Clarke
.
Reach for Tomorrow
. New York: Ballantine Books [1956]. First edition. Twelvemo. 166 pages. Blue cloth over boards. Uniform toning to the pages throughout. Minor shelf-wear to the dust jacket. Slight rubbing and scuffing to the
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30313 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,553.50
Gardner Dozois, editor. The First Three Annual Collections of
The Year's Best Science Fiction
, Each With Many Signatures of Contributors,
including:
The Year's Best Science Fiction First Annual Collection.
New (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6069
| Lot: 30345 | Sep 12, 2011
Sold For:
$1,553.50
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