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James Otto Lewis.
The Aboriginal Port Folio.
Or a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians.
Philadelphia: [Published by the author] J.O. Lewis, [1835]-1838. First edition, complete with ten parts, title page, and advertisement leaves.
One of only three known copies complete with the title page.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45017 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$100,000.00
[Bible in Latin]. Single Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.
[Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, ca. 1455]. A single folio leaf on bull's head watermarked paper from the first volume of the Gutenberg Bible, f. [146] containing I Kings (I Samuel) 29:6-31:12, notably featuring the death of Saul, a watershed moment after which David became King. Tipped into A. Edward Newton's "A Noble Fragment..."
signed and inscribed by Newton to Lucy Doheny.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45002 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$90,625.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1954-1955. First editions, first impressions. First two titles with original illustrated first state dust jackets,
Return of the King
in second state dust jacket.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45226 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$57,500.00
James Cook; John Hawkesworth; James King. The Complete
Cook's Voyages.
London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell; G. Nicol & T. Cadell, 1773-1784. First editions, the First Voyage is second issue. (Total: 9)
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45012 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$56,250.00
[Hartmann Schedel].
Liber Chronicarum [Nuremberg Chronicle].
[Nuremberg: Printed by Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermaister, 12 July 1493]. First edition, with the title page in Latin.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45005 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$37,500.00
H. G. Wells.
The Invisible Man.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1897. First edition.
Inscribed and signed with an original ink drawing of the Invisible Man by Wells, to novelist Ralph Straus.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45116 | Jul 27, 2022
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$32,500.00
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J. R. R. Tolkien. Autograph Letter Signed "J. R. R. Tolkien," regarding the history of Tolkien's own name and his inspiration for
Lord of the Rings
.
Oxford: April 12, 1956.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45227 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$30,000.00
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$45,000 or more
Ayn Rand.
Atlas Shrugged.
New York: Random House, [1957]. First edition, first printing stated on the copyright page.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to the half-title page, "To Mary Carter - / - Cordially - / Ayn Rand / 4/12/61."
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45222 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$27,500.00
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$41,250 or more
Dashiell Hammett.
The Maltese Falcon.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition in the first state dust jacket.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45163 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$25,000.00
Thucydides.
Historiarum Peloponnensium, Liber Primus.
Laurentii Vallensis ad sanctissimum Nicolaum Quintum Pontificem Maximum in Thucydidis historici translationem.
[
Presumably Treviso, Italy, Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis,
circa
1483]. First edition in Latin of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45009 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$22,500.00
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$33,750 or more
Ian Fleming.
Casino Royale.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1953]. First edition, first impression, first issue dust jacket.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45193 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$20,625.00
George Orwell
.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
[1984]
. London: Secker and Warburg, 1949. First edition.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45221 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$20,000.00
[J. Sheridan Le Fanu].
Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery.
Dublin: James McGlashan, 1851. First edition, first state.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45100 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$18,750.00
L. Frank Baum.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., [1908]. First edition, first state with "Co." included in the publisher's imprint at the foot of the spine and textual points as called for.
Boldly
signed and inscribed by the author
to the ownership page, "Ozzily yours, L. Frank Baum."
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45233 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$18,750.00
[WWII]. Large Archive of Photographs and Documents Related to the Japanese-American Confinement Site, "Heart Mountain."
Wyoming:
Circa
1942-1945.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45043 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$17,500.00
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$26,250 or more
[Jane Webb Loudon].
The Mummy!
A tale of the twenty-second century.
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition. (Total: 3)
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45132 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$16,250.00
Ellery Queen.
The Egyptian Cross Mystery.
A problem in deduction.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1932. First edition.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45173 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$16,250.00
Benjamin Graham.
The Intelligent Investor.
New York: Harper & Bros., [1949]. First edition, first printing, with code "D-Y" for April, 1949, to the copyright page and with the first issue dust jacket.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45066 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$13,750.00
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$20,625 or more
Stephen King.
The Dark Tower
Series, I-VI, together with an Advance Review Copy of The Dark Tower III,
The Wastelands
.
West Kingston; Hampton Falls: Donald M. Grant, [1982 - 2004].
Featuring first limited editions of The Dark Tower II-VI, signed by the author and illustrator, all numbered 5.
The Gunslinger
additionally signed and inscribed by the author to noted literary agent, Glenn Lord.
(Total: 7)
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45097 | Jul 27, 2022
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$13,750.00
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Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Sign of Four.
New York: P. F. Collier, 1891. First American edition.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45152 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$13,750.00
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay].
The Federalist, on the New Constitution.
By Publius.
Written in 1788. To which is added, Pacificus, on the proclamation of neutrality. Written in 1793. Likewise, The Federal Constitution, with all the Amendments. Revised and Corrected.
New York: George F. Hopkins, 1802. Second American edition, third edition overall. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45042 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$12,500.00
Herman Melville.
Moby-Dick.
Or, The Whale.
New York: Harper & Bros., 1851. First American edition.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45074 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$12,500.00
Bram Stoker.
Dracula.
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1901. First paperback edition, abridged from the original text.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45113 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$11,250.00
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$16,875 or more
Margaret Mitchell.
Gone With the Wind.
New York: Macmillan Co., 1936. First edition, first printing with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page and no mention of other printings; in an unrestored first issue dust jacket.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto, "For / J. Lesser Goldman / Margaret Mitchell."
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45215 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$10,937.50
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$16,406 or more
Ernest Shackleton.
South.
The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917.
London: William Heineman, 1919. First edition.
Autographed note signed
by the author, mounted to the front pastedown.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45021 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$10,625.00
Ernest Hemingway.
The Sun Also Rises.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, third or later issue without the "vanity" verse on page [viii].
Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto, "To George wishing / we'd been in Paris together / in the old days and looking / forward to when we take it / away from the F-ing / Germans / Ernie."
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45202 | Jul 27, 2022
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$10,625.00
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$15,938 or more
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five.
Or the Children's Crusade.
[New York]: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, [1969]. First edition, first printing stated on the copyright page.
Boldly signed by the author with an ink self-caricature
to the half-title page.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45228 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$10,625.00
Marc Chagall.
Psaumes de David.
Geneva: Gérald Cramer, 1979. Limited to 160 copies on vélin d'Arches, from a total edition of 175, of which this is number 142, signed by Chagall.
Additionally inscribed and signed by Chagall to the half-title and with a full-page original drawing
opposite the half-title
,
all in pencil, drawing heightened in blue and red crayon.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45239 | Jul 27, 2022
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$10,000.00
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$15,000 or more
[American Frontier]. Large Archive of Documents Related to the Cattle Industry of Johnson County, Wyoming.
Circa
late 1800s/early 1900s.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45275 | Jul 28, 2022
Sold For:
$9,687.50
Charles B. Hall.
Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate United States of America.
New York: Charles B. Hall, 1898.
Publisher's custom bound copy with
an autographed letter signed by Charles B. Hall to the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen,
mounted to the front blank recto.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45041 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$9,375.00
[Michael Harrison].
The Bride of Frankenstein.
By Michael Egremont.
London: The Reader's Library, no date [but 1936]. First trade edition, issued simultaneously with the Queensway edition.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45086 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$8,750.00
Lewis Carroll.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866. First edition, second issue (American issue), variant "a"; featuring sheets of the suppressed 1865 printing with the Appleton cancel title page and text points as called for.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45234 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$8,437.50
Philip K. Dick.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1968. First edition, stated on the copyright page and with code "J5" on page 210.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45122 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$8,125.00
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$12,188 or more
Homer.
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets
[Bound with:
Homer's Odysses
...]
.
Translated by George Chapman. London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, no date [circa 1612-1615]. First complete edition in English.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45069 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$8,125.00
H. Russell Wakefield.
Imagine a Man in a Box.
London: Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., [1931]. First edition.
Presentation copy, amusingly signed and inscribed by the author in green ink
to the front free endpaper recto, "H / R / Wakefield / to / A very Bogus Fellow / [?] / June 1931."
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45114 | Jul 27, 2022
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$8,125.00
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$12,188 or more
L. P. Hartley.
The Killing Bottle.
London: Putnam, 1932. First edition.
Inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto, "Tessa / from / L. P. H. / October 14th 1932."
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45127 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$8,125.00
Toni Morrison.
The Bluest Eye.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1970. First edition, stated on the copyright page.
Signed and inscribed by the author
to the half-title page, "For Helen Johnson / from / Toni Morrison / 7/7/77."
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45217 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$8,125.00
[Horace Walpole].
The Castle of Otranto.
A story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto.
London: Tho. Lownds, 1765. First edition of the first major Gothic novel.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45115 | Jul 27, 2022
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$7,500.00
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$11,250 or more
Winston Churchill.
Marlborough: His Life and Times.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1933-1938. First edition. Limited edition of 155 copies, of which this is number 111,
signed by the author on the limitation page of Volume I.
(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45053 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$7,187.50
H. G. Wells.
The War of the Worlds.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. First edition in book form.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45140 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$7,187.50
[William Shakespeare]. Tea Caddy Embellished with Shakespeare's Mulberry Tree Motif, Accompanied by Three Snuff Boxes and Two "
Jubilee at Stratford
" Medals.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45008 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$6,875.00
[Walt Whitman].
Leaves of Grass.
New-York: [Wm. E. Chapin & Co., printers], 1867. Fourth edition, first issue with the imprint including "& Co." on the copyright page and the correct order of contents.
Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to
the
Leaves of Grass
title page, "Talcott Williams / Walt Whitman / Feb. 16, '85."
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45078 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$6,875.00
M. R. James.
The Five Jars.
London: Arnold & Co., 1922. First edition.
Presentation copy to C.A. Alington, inscribed in Latin, signed, and dated 22 October 1922
on the front free endpaper recto.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45092 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$6,875.00
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$10,312 or more
J. D. Salinger.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. First edition, stated on the copyright page, in the first state dust jacket.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45223 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$6,875.00
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$10,312 or more
Harper Lee.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1960]. First edition stated on the copyright page, advanced reading copy in wrappers.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45209 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$6,562.50
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$9,844 or more
M. R. James. Two copies of
A Thin Ghost and Others.
London: Edward Arnold, 1919. First edition.
One presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Gwendolyn McBryde
on the front free endpaper recto, "Gwen McBryde / From the Author." (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45091 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$6,250.00
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$9,375 or more
[John William Polidori].
The Vampyre.
A Tale.
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1819. First edition thus, presumed second issue.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45110 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$6,250.00
Aldous Huxley.
Brave New World.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45128 | Jul 27, 2022
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$6,250.00
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