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H. G. Wells.
The Invisible Man.
London: 1897. First edition.
With an original drawing of the Invisible Man by Wells, inscribed to novelist Ralph Straus.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36460 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$10,000.00
[Werewolves]. Sabine Baring-Gould.
The Book of Were-Wolves....
London: 1865. First edition.
Baring-Gould's wife's copy, with her bookplate.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36424 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$5,625.00
Jules Verne.
The Mysterious Island.
Henry L. Shepard, 1875. First American edition, first printing.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36450 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$4,687.50
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan of the Apes.
Chicago: McClurg, 1914. First edition, rare second state with "Acorn" on spine.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36426 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$3,500.00
Douglas Adams.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
London: [1979]. First edition.
Signed by Adams
.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36418 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$3,250.00
Ludwig von Mises.
Planned Chaos.
Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Economic Education, [1947]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Mises.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36593 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$3,250.00
Herman Melville.
Pierre; or the Ambiguities.
New York: 1852. First edition.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36384 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$2,750.00
H. G. Wells.
The First Men in the Moon.
London: 1901. First edition, first issue binding.
Superb copy.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36455 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$2,750.00
H. G. Wells.
The Island of Doctor Moreau.
[and:]
The Stolen Bacillus.
London: 1896; 1895. First editions.
A superb copy of
Island of Doctor Moreau.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36462 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$2,750.00
H. G. Wells.
The Shape of Things to Come.
London: 1933. First edition.
Signed by Wells.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36468 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$2,750.00
H. G. Wells.
The World Set Free.
London: 1914. First edition.
Presentation copy, warmly inscribed to "Sir Thomas".
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36471 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$2,750.00
Ayn Rand.
Atlas Shrugged
.
New York: [1967].
Tenth anniversary edition limited to 2,000 numbered copies
signed by Rand
.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36394 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$2,125.00
[George Washington, subject]. [John Marshall].
The Life of George Washington. Maps and Subscriber's Names.
Philadelphia: Published by C. P. Wayne, 1807. First edition of the atlas volume.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36628 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$2,125.00
Hunter S. Thompson.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72.
[San Francisco]: Straight Arrow Books, [1973]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by Thompson, Ralph Stedman, and George McGovern.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36627 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$2,000.00
[Vampires]. Dom Augustin Calmet.
Dissertations Upon the Apparitions of Angels, Daemons, and Ghosts, and Concerning the Vampires .....
London: 1754. First edition in English.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36428 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,875.00
Charles M. Doughty.
Travels in Arabia Deserta.
Vol. I & II.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1888. First edition, first printing. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36584 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,750.00
Jean B[aptiste]
Rousseau. Odes, Cantates, Épîtres et Poésies Diverses...
Paris: 1790. One of 250 copies.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36399 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,625.00
H. G. Wells. Autograph Letter Signed.
Whitehall Court, 1.4.27.
To Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, addressed "My dear Doyle".
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36453 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,625.00
H. G. Wells.
Floor Games.
London: [1911].
Two copies of the first edition; one inscribed by Wells to his children's governess [With:] A leaf of original drawings by Wells.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36457 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,625.00
H. G. Wells.
The Food of the Gods And How It Came to Earth.
London: 1904. First edition.
Inscribed to British poet and fellow Utopian, Sir Henry Newbolt.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36458 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,625.00
H. G. Wells.
The Invisible Man.
London: 1897. First edition.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36461 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,625.00
H. G. Wells.
The Sea Lady.
London: 1902. First edition.
Inscribed by Wells for English poet Sir Edmund William Gosse.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36466 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,625.00
[Photography].
Photograms. A Pictorial and Literary Record of the Best Photography of the Year.
London: Dawbarn & Ward, Ilife, 1895-1962. Sixty-nine issues of this photography annual.
(Total: 69 Items)
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36565 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,625.00
[Illuminated Manuscript Leaf]. King David Kneeling Before God in a Meadow
. [N.p., ca. 1500's]. From a Book of Hours in Latin. Manuscript text with illuminated initials on verso.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36589 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,625.00
Ulysses S. Grant.
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First edition. Publisher's deluxe binding.
From the Collection of Judith Adelman.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36612 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,500.00
H. G. Wells. Material Related to
Declaration of the Rights of Man.
[London: 1940].
Including galley of
General Note
of the
Rights of Man,
with Wells' notes and corrections.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36452 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,375.00
[Photography]. [Business Album].
The Michigan Bridge & Construction Co.
Detroit: O. S. Gulley's Steam Press, 1871.
With thirteen photographic albumen prints of bridges and buildings.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36563 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,375.00
Thomas Hobbes.
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill.
London: Andrew Crooke, 1651. First edition, first issue.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36586 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,375.00
[Harry Houdini, association]. F. Bernard and Richard Whiteing.
Wonderful Escapes.
London: Cassell, [n.d., ca. 1900's]. Later English edition.
Inscribed by Harry Houdini ("Harry Handcuff Houdini").
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36615 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,375.00
John Locke.
The Works of John Locke Esq;
in Three Volumes. London: Printed for Arthur Bettesworth, et al., 1727. Third edition. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36592 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,312.50
Ernest Hemingway.
To Have and Have Not.
New York: 1937. First edition. Near fine.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36371 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,250.00
[Werewolves]. Sabine Baring-Gould.
The Book of Were-Wolves:
London: 1865. First edition.
Beautiful binding by Riviere.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36423 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,250.00
Robert A. Heinlein.
Stranger in a Strange Land
.
New York: 1961. First edition.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36438 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,250.00
Herman Melville.
The Confidence-Man:
New York: 1857.
First edition. In the rare original red cloth.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36382 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,125.00
Make Offer to Owner
$1,688 or more
H. P. Lovecraft. Autograph Postcard Signed. Addressed to fellow horror writer, Clark Ashton Smith.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36442 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,125.00
H. G. Wells.
The Wonderful Visit.
London: 1895. First edition.
Inscribed to poet Richard Le Gallienne.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36470 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,125.00
H. G. Wells.
Select Conversations With an Uncle (Now Extinct) and two other reminiscences.
London: 1895. First edition.
Inscribed by Wells.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36467 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,102.50
H. G. Wells.
The First Men in the Moon.
Indianapolis: [1901]. First American edition.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36454 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,062.50
Isaac Asimov.
Foundation and Empire
. New York: [1952]. First edition, first state, first issue dj.
Signed by Asimov.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36420 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,000.00
Alfred Bester.
Tiger! Tiger!
London: [n.d., 1956]. First edition.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36425 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$1,000.00
Frank C. Pape. Original Ink and Watercolor Drawing Entitled "The Elves' Visit to the Woodcutter's Cottage".
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36547 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$937.50
Make Offer to Owner
$1,406 or more
Charles Bukowski.
Ham on Rye
.
Santa Barbara: 1982. First edition,
350 copies signed, with drawing
. Near fine.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36361 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$937.50
Jules Verne.
For the Flag.
Sampson Low, Marston, 1897. First British edition, first printing.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36449 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$937.50
Roger Zelazny.
Lord of Light.
Garden City:1967. First edition
. With a signed bookplate by Zelazny.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36472 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$937.50
Robert A. Heinlein.
The Green Hills of Earth.
Chicago: [1951]. First edition.
Inscribed by Heinlein to author Edwin Hoyt.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36436 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$875.00
Jules Verne.
An Antarctic Mystery.
Lippincott, 1899. First American edition, first printing.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36447 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$875.00
Garth Williams. Original Preliminary Watercolor Drawing for an Alternate Design for the Frontispiece of
Wait Till the Moon Is Full.
Signed twice by Williams.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36530 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$875.00
[Texana]. Joseph McCoy.
Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest.
Kansas City: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, 1874. First edition of one of the earliest books on the cattle trade.
Auction 6094
| Lot: 36620 | Apr 10, 2013
Sold For:
$875.00
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