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J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
[London]: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition in hardcover, with "1 wand" listed twice on page 53 and without a space between "Taylor and "1997" on the seventh line of the publisher's imprint, as called for.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45062 | Dec 9, 2021
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J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1954-1955. First editions, first impressions, with original illustrated first state dust jackets.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45068 | Dec 9, 2021
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F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing with all six textual variants as called for, in the rare dust jacket.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45075 | Dec 9, 2021
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C. S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia.
London: Geoffrey Bles, [1950-1954] [and:] Bodley Head, 1955-1956. First editions, in original, unrestored dust jackets.
Each volume signed by illustrator Pauline Baynes to the title page.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45053 | Dec 9, 2021
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[Jane Austen].
Pride and Prejudice.
London: T. Egerton, 1813. First edition.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45002 | Dec 9, 2021
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Dashiell Hammett.
The Maltese Falcon.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition in the first state dust jacket.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45038 | Dec 9, 2021
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Arthur Conan Doyle. The Complete Run of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes issued in
The Strand Magazine
(UK).
London: George Newnes, 1891-1927. (Total: 7)
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45101 | Dec 9, 2021
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Ian Fleming.
Casino Royale.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1953]. First edition, first impression, first issue dust jacket.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45026 | Dec 9, 2021
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J. D. Salinger.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. First edition in the first state dust jacket.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45063 | Dec 9, 2021
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William Goldman.
The Princess Bride.
Screenplay by William Goldman from his Novel.
No place: Act III Communications Inc., May 3, 1986. "Revised Final Draft."
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45337 | Dec 10, 2021
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[Bill of Rights]. Gazette of the United States.
[New York: John Fenno], October 3 [misprinted "1" and hand-corrected in ink], 1789. No. 50. Contains one of the first public printings of the Bill of Rights.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45124 | Dec 9, 2021
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[Bill Wilson].
Alcoholics Anonymous.
The story of how more than one hundred men have recovered from alcoholism.
New York City: Works Pub. Co., 1939. First edition, first printing, in an unrestored first issue dust jacket.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45143 | Dec 9, 2021
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[Jane Austen].
Sense and Sensibility.
London: T. Egerton, 1811. First edition. (Total: 3)
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45001 | Dec 9, 2021
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Harper Lee.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., [1960]. First edition in the first issue dust jacket.
Signed by the author
to the dedication page.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45052 | Dec 9, 2021
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom,
The Montgomery Story.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1958]. First edition, first printing.
Signed by the author.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45129 | Dec 9, 2021
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Benjamin Franklin.
Experiments and Observations on Electricity,
made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and illustrated with Copper Plates.
London: Printed for David Henry and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769. First complete edition, fourth overall.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45139 | Dec 9, 2021
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Stephen King.
The Dark Tower
Series.
Featuring first limited editions of
The Dark Tower I-VII
and
The Wind Through the Keyhole
and the Artist editions of
The Dark Tower VII
and
Little Sisters of Eluria,
all numbered 1
.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant Pub. Inc., [1982 - 2012].
Limited editions signed by the
author and respective illustrator, artist editions signed by the illustrator,
The Gunslinger
additionally inscribed by King.
From the estate of Hal Kinney. (Total: 10 Items)
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45184 | Dec 9, 2021
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[William Goldman]. Olympia International Typewriter, SM9 Model.
Western Germany: Circa 1970s.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45353 | Dec 10, 2021
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James Joyce.
Ulysses.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, from a total edition of 1,000, of which this is number 502.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45079 | Dec 9, 2021
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[Anonymous; James Malcolm Rymer, presumed].
Varney, the Vampyre: Or, The Feast of Blood
. A Romance.
London: E. Lloyd, [1847]. First edition in book form.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45207 | Dec 9, 2021
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Roald Dahl.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, first issue, with the Oompa-Loompas in their original design and with the six-line colophon, fifth line reading, "Paper manufactured by S. D. Warren Co," and with the first state dust jacket.
With autograph postcard signed by the author laid in.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45021 | Dec 9, 2021
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Ian Fleming.
Dr No.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1958]. First edition, first impression, first state, binding B.
Signed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45029 | Dec 9, 2021
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Booker T. Washington.
The Future of the American Negro.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1899. First edition.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to the front pastedown, "To / Mrs. Mary G. Boardman / from / Booker T. Washington / Feb. 7, 1900."
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45132 | Dec 9, 2021
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Ian Fleming.
From Russia, With Love.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1957]. First edition, first impression, binding A.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto, "To Dan / from / Ian Fleming."
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45028 | Dec 9, 2021
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[Jane Austen].
Emma.
London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, complete with half-titles; rebound. (Total: 3)
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45003 | Dec 9, 2021
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J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit
or There and Back Again.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1938. First American edition, first impression with an illustration of a bowing Hobbit on the title page, the list of illustrations on page 9 erroneously listing
"Thror's Map
" first, Chapter VII mislabeled as "Chapter VI" on page [118], and with final leaf blank and without half-title as issued.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45094 | Dec 9, 2021
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Margaret Mitchell.
Gone With the Wind.
New York: Macmillan, 1936. First edition, first printing with "Published May, 1936" on copyright page and no mention of other printings, in the first issue dust jacket with this title listed in the second column on the back panel.
Inscribed and signed by the author
, "For / William L. Hyde / Margaret Mitchell" and with
signed envelope
laid-in.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45089 | Dec 9, 2021
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J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
[London]: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition in paperback, with "1 wand" listed twice on page 53 and without a space between "Taylor" and "1997" on the seventh line of the imprint, as called for.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45092 | Dec 9, 2021
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Bram Stoker.
Dracula.
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. First edition, later issue with the "Shoulder of Shasta" advertisement on page [392].
Autographed letter signed by the author on Lyceum Theatre letterhead to Mr. Colles on 11 July 1892, laid in.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45214 | Dec 9, 2021
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Cormac McCarthy.
Blood Meridian.
Or, the evening redness in the West.
New York: Random House, [1985]. First edition, publisher's review copy with review slip and publicity letter laid in.
Signed by the author
to the half-title page and with an
autographed letter signed
by the author to
the writer and reviewer, William Boozer.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45056 | Dec 9, 2021
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Mark Twain.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Tom Sawyer's Comrade.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First American edition, early mixed issue.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45069 | Dec 9, 2021
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Daphne du Maurier.
Rebecca.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1938. First edition.
Signed by the author
to the title page.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45025 | Dec 9, 2021
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William Goldman.
The Princess Bride.
S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., [1973]. First edition.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45329 | Dec 10, 2021
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Ian Fleming.
Goldfinger.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition, first impression (without the disclaimer on the dedication page verso, as called for), first issue, second state.
Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto in blue ink, "To / F. C. Roberts / Who wasted an hour / of his time! / from / Ian Fleming." The "F" has been darkened where Fleming evidently first referred to the recipient as "J.C." and rectified his mistake with a flourish.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45030 | Dec 9, 2021
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Ian Fleming.
Thunderball.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1961]. First edition, first impression with all printing points as called for, first issue, binding A with gilt-stamped spine.
Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto, "To / Alan / who awarded the / first & greenest / laurels! / From / Ian."
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45031 | Dec 9, 2021
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Amelia Earhart.
20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship.
The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1928]. Author's autograph edition, limited to 150 signed copies, of which this is number 62,
signed by the author and publisher
and containing "one of the small silk flags which Miss Earhart carried in the 'Friendship' from Boston to Wales."
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45125 | Dec 9, 2021
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[William Shakespeare].
A Midsommer Nights Dreame
[Extracted from the Second Folio].
[London: Thomas Cotes, 1632].
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45120 | Dec 9, 2021
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J. F. Champollion Le Jeune.
Panthéon Égyptien,
Collection des Personnages Mythologiques de l'Ancienne Égypte, d'après les monuments...
Paris: Firmin Didot, [1823] - 1825. First edition.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45135 | Dec 9, 2021
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Ian Fleming.
Live and Let Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1954]. First edition, first impression with all printing points as called for, first issue, first state.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45027 | Dec 9, 2021
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Ian Fleming.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1963]. First edition, first impression, binding A.
Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author, likely to Sarah Dugdale, one of the author's presumed mistresses,
"To / Sarah / Who doesn't deserve / it! / x / Ian."
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45032 | Dec 9, 2021
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Frank Herbert.
Dune.
Philadelphia, New York, and London: Chilton Book Co., 1965. First edition, first printing, with the first issue dust jacket.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45156 | Dec 9, 2021
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[Photoplay]. Delos W. Lovelace.
King Kong.
[Based on the film] conceived by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Pub., 1932. First photoplay in the first issue, unrestored dust jacket.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45198 | Dec 9, 2021
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Philip Barry.
The Philadelphia Story.
A comedy in three acts.
New York: Coward McCann, Inc., [1939]. First edition in book form, in rare dust jacket.
Signed by Katharine Hepburn, who starred in both the Broadway and film adaptations, and additionally signed and inscribed by the author,
both to the front free endpaper recto.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45004 | Dec 9, 2021
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John Polidori.
The Vampyre.
A tale related by Lord Byron to Dr. Polidori.
London: Colburn and Co., no date [but 1819]. First edition, second issue with the title page reset to include Polidori's name and with an early state of page 36 with the "a" in "almost" dropped on the final line.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45203 | Dec 9, 2021
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James M. Cain.
The Postman Always Rings Twice.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto, "To Miss Teddy Le Beau, / who only has to ring / once, for sure - / James M. Cain."
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45012 | Dec 9, 2021
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Guy Endore.
The Werewolf of Paris.
London: John Long, Ltd., no date [but circa 1933]. Presumed first English edition.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45471 | Dec 10, 2021
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Albert Einstein.
Relativity,
the Special & the General Theory, a Popular Exposition.
London: Methuen & Co., [1920]. First edition in English, translated by Robert W. Lawson.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45137 | Dec 9, 2021
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Albert Einstein.
Relativity,
the Special & the General Theory, a Popular Exposition.
London: Methuen & Co., [1920]. First edition in English, translated by Robert W. Lawson.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45138 | Dec 9, 2021
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