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Neal Cassady (1926-1968). The Joan Anderson Letter to Jack Kerouac (1922-1969). Denver: 17 December 1950. Typed letter of eighteen pages with autograph content and with autograph additions, deletions, and edits, by hand in pencil and ink.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45378 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $206,250.00
Jack Kerouac (John Louis Kerouac). Original Typescript of The Dharma Bums (published October 2, 1958), typed by Kerouac himself from his original scroll manuscript.1 This is the very draft Kerouac submitted to his publisher Viking Press in January 1958.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45379 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $137,500.00
[Bible in English]. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Newly Translated out of the Original Greek; And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by R. Aitken, Bookseller, opposite the Coffee-House, Front-Street, 1781.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45134 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $75,000.00
Andreas Vesalius. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: [Johannes Oporinus, 1543]. First edition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45184 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $60,000.00

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$90,000 or more
[Early American Imprints]. [Alexander Hamilton]. Collection of Twenty-Eight Early United States Government Publications. [Philadelphia: 1791-1800]. Various government documents, including several acts and bills (some being working copies or printed drafts), includes the First Federal Budget, written by Alexander Hamilton in 1791. (Total: 30 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45141 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $47,500.00

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$71,250 or more
[Larry McMurtry]. Pair of Hermes 3000 Typewriters. [Yverdon, Switzerland: E. Paillard, circa 1963-1970]. Larry McMurtry's typewriters, one stationed in Archer City, Texas, and the other in Washington, D. C., both used to write Lonesome Dove. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45314 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $37,500.00

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$56,250 or more
[Mark Twain]. Stagecoach Trunk once owned by Samuel L. Clemens. St. Louis, Missouri: J. Barwick Trunk Manufacturer, circa 1865. Dome-top, single compartment stagecoach trunk, likely purchased by Clemens in 1867 while he was in St. Louis, with "Property of / Samuel L. Clemens" painted in black on the outside of the lid.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45333 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $31,250.00
[King James Bible]. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by his Majesties Speciall Comandement. Appointed to be read in Churches. London: Robert Barker, 1611. First edition of the King James Bible, first state, known as "The Great He Bible," with Ruth 3:15 reading "and he went into the citie." Old and New Testaments married from separate copies.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45278 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $31,250.00

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$46,875 or more
Ernest Hemingway. in our time. Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. First edition of the author's second book, edition limited to 170 numbered copies, of which this is number fifty-two.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45294 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $22,500.00
Herman Melville. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First U. S. edition (first published in three volumes in London as The Whale).
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45315 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $21,250.00
Parley Parker Pratt. A Voice of Warning and Instruction to all People, Containing a Declaration of the Faith and Doctrine of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, Commonly Called Mormons. New York: Printed by W. Sandford, 1837. First edition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45150 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $20,000.00
[Thomas Jefferson]. [William Stone, engraver]. The Declaration of Independence. [Washington, D. C.: circa 1833]. Copper-plate engraving for Peter Force and originally issued in the first volume of his American Archives (published 1837-1853).
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45118 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $18,125.00
Alfred E. Mathews. Pencil Sketches of Colorado, Its Cities, Principal Towns and Mountain Scenery. [New York: A. E. Mathews], 1866. First edition Mathews's first view book, with magnificent and incredibly accurate views of Colorado.

Auction 6174 | Lot: 45147 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $15,625.00
John Edwards Holbrook. North American Herpetology; Or, a Description of the Reptiles Inhabiting the United States. Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1842. First complete edition of this work (second edition overall). (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45177 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $14,375.00
[Mickey Spillane]. Tony Varady's Original Painting for I, the Jury. Circa 1947. (Total: 3)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45004 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $13,750.00
[James Madison]. [James Harris, the first Earl of Malmesbury]. An Introduction to the History of the Dutch Republic, for the Last Ten Years, Reckoning from the Year 1777. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1788. First edition, from the personal collection of James Madison, with his ownership signature at the upper-right corner of the title-page.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45121 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $12,500.00
Doris Ulmann and Julia Peterkin. Roll, Jordan, Roll. The Text by Julia Peterkin. The Photographic Studies by Doris Ulmann. New York: Robert O. Ballou, Publisher, [1933]. First edition, deluxe issue. Number 85 of 350 special edition copies (327 of which were offered for sale), signed in ink by both Doris Ulmann and Julia Peterkin beneath the colophon; additional photogravure, signed by Doris Ulmann in pencil in the lower margin, laid in.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45197 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $12,500.00
[James Bond]. Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, [1963]. First edition, limited issue, one of thirty-five unnumbered copies marked "Presentation," from a total limitation of 285, including 250 numbered copies, and signed by the author on the limitation page.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45245 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $12,500.00

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$18,750 or more
[African Americana]. W. E. B. Du Bois (editor). Augustus Granville Dill (business manager). The Crisis. A Record of the Darker Races. New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1911-1927. Large collection of early issues of the official magazine of the NAACP that once belonged to Augustus Granville Dill, who served as business manager and DuBois's assistant editor between 1913 (first issue receiving credit being in November, Volume 7, Number 1) and 1928. One issue with his ownership ticket; four with his rubber stamp (in two variations, both associated with his time working at Atlanta University); and ten issues with his name, "AG Dill," or initials, "AGD," written in holographic black ink on the front cover, likely in a secretarial hand. Most issues with notes in holographic blue pencil (limited to issue and page numbers). (Total: 132 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45133 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $11,250.00
[James Bond]. Ian Fleming. Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, [1953]. First edition, first impression, first issue of the first James Bond novel.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45236 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $11,250.00
Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1936. First edition. According to Mr. Kaufmann, this was one of the fabled Norman Unger copies, well known and highly desirable for their remarkable condition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45365 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $11,250.00

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$16,875 or more
Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, limited to 510 copies, of which this is number ninety-nine, and signed by Hemingway.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45097 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $10,625.00

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$15,938 or more
[Bible in English]. [Pony Express Bible]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. New York: American Bible Society, 1857. Twenty-eighth edition (page [1]), for employees of Russell, Majors & Waddell, the freighting company responsible for The Pony Express.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45137 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $10,625.00
Ernest Hemingway. Men Without Women. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition of Hemingway's second collection of short stories, first printing, on heavy stock, weighing 15.875 ounces, and with a perfect "3" in the pagination on page 3 of the text.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45357 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $10,000.00

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$15,000 or more
Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1943]. First edition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45320 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $9,687.50
[Bible in English]. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the Original Greek: and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Appointed to be read in Churches. [Vignette of Great Seal of the United States] Boston: Printed...by Alexander Young and Thomas Minns, for J. Boyle, B. Larkin, J. White, Thomas and Andrews, D. West, E. Larkin, W. P. Blake, and. J. West. Sold by them at their respective Book Stores, 1794.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45136 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $9,375.00
[Confederate Imprints]. Constitution of the Confederate States of America. Adopted unanimously by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, March 11, 1861. Richmond: Wyatt M. Elliott, Printer. 1861. Early Virginia edition, following a proof copy of sixteen leaves printed on rectos only, and roughly concurrent with a seventeen-page issue with no textual differences, according to The Boston Athenaeum, and another Richmond edition by J. E. Goode.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45138 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $9,375.00
John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking, [1939]. First edition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45112 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $8,750.00

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$13,125 or more
Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917. First edition of Burroughs's first Martian novel. Published October 10, 1917.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45217 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $8,750.00

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$13,125 or more
W. R. Burnett. Little Caesar. New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1929. First edition of the author's first book.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45342 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $8,750.00
[Republic of Texas]. Journals of the Consultation Held at San Felipe de Austn [sic], October 16, 1835. Published by Order of Congress. Houston: [Telegraph Power Press] 1838. First edition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45084 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $8,125.00
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Warlord of Mars. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1919. First edition of the third book of the Mars series, first printing, with the imprint of "W. F. Hall, Printing Company, Chicago" on the copyright page, and "A. C. / McCLURG / & CO." set in three lines at the foot of the spine. Published September 27, 1919. Signed presentation copy, inscribed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper to his son Hulbert: "Dear Hulbert / It is, of course, a / compliment that you / have had two previously / autographed sets of / my books stolen. / However, I hope the / fiend in human form / who swipes this one / swallows a fish bone / sideways / Lovingly / Papa / Edgar Rice Burroughs / Los Angeles April 23 1925."
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45218 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $8,125.00

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$12,188 or more
John Milton. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books. London: Printed By S. Simmons...to be sold by T. Helder, 1669. First edition front matter, fifth state of the title-page with "Angel" in roman type, married to a first edition text block, matching the collation provided by the Bridwell on their online catalog listing for the same issue.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45317 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $8,125.00
William Kennedy. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. In Two Volumes. Vol. I[-II]. London: R. Hastings, 1841. First edition. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45080 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $7,812.50
[Incunabula]. Marsilio Ficino. Platonica theologia de immortalitate animorum. [Florence : Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 7 November, 1482]. First edition of Ficino's masterpiece of Renaissance theology, arguing for the immortality of the human soul, using Platonic works as a foundation.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45157 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $7,500.00
Charles Dickens. The Nonesuch Dickens. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938. First Nonesuch edition, limited to 877 sets; limitation determined by the number of original illustrated plates used in the first editions by Chapman and Hall, and each set includes a steel or wood block plate. This set includes the steel plate for the engraved title-page of Dickens's first book, Sketches by Boz, originally published in 1836. (Total: 24 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45283 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $7,500.00

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$11,250 or more
Cormac McCarthy. The Orchard Keeper. New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition, signed by McCarthy at the front free endpaper.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45311 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $6,875.00

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$10,312 or more
John Adams. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America... Vol. III. London: Printed for C. Dilly ... and John Stockdale, 1788. First edition of the final volume in John Adams's defense of the nascent American system of checks and balances, from Adams's personal collection, donated by him to Dickinson Library at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1823. Dickinson Library notations, including note of provenance, in manuscript ink on front pastedown: "A Present from / John Adams, Esq / Late President of / the United States."

Auction 6174 | Lot: 45116 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $6,875.00
John F. Kennedy. Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1956]. First edition, inscribed by the author: "To Mr. and Mrs. / [---] - / with the very highest / regards - / John Kennedy."
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45126 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $6,875.00
John Harris. Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a Complete collection of Voyages and Travels... London: Printed for T. Osborne, H. Whitridge et al., 1764. Third edition. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45155 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $6,562.50
David B. Edward. The History of Texas; Or, the Emigrant's, Farmers, and Politician's Guide to the Character, Climate, Soil, and Productions of that Country. Cincinnati: Stereotyped and Published by J. A. James & Co., 1836. First edition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45077 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $6,000.00
John Maynard Keynes. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co., 1936. First edition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45158 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $6,000.00

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$9,000 or more
J. K. Rowling. First Five Harry Potter Deluxe Editions - Inscribed. (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45214 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $6,000.00
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). Superb archive belonging to Anne Wills Gardner, Vassar roommate and life-long friend of Edna St. Vincent Millay. (Total: 37 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45316 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $6,000.00
Caroline Gordon. Penhally. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First edition of the author's first book.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45353 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $6,000.00
Reverend C. Newell. History of the Revolution in Texas, Particularly of the War of 1835 & '36; Together with the Latest Geographical, Topographical, and Statistical Accounts of the Country, From the Most Authentic Sources. Also, An Appendix. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1838. First edition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45082 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $5,500.00
A. A. Parker. Trip to the West and Texas. Comprising a Journey of Eight Thousand Miles, Through New York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the Autumn and Winter of 1834-5. Concord, N. H.: William White and Boston: Benjamin Mussey, 1836. Second edition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45083 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $5,500.00
John F. Kennedy. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940. First edition, second printing, inscribed by the author, "with warmest regards," and signed by the author as Jack Kennedy.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45125 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $5,500.00

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