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The Library of a Minnesota Collector was formed over a thirty-five-year period with a primary emphasis on English and
American literature. Major themes in the collection are 19th-century novels, horror fiction from the late 18th century to
the modern era, science fiction, fantasy, poetry, and illustrated books. The collector maintained a very high standard for
condition—which is evident throughout the library.
The 19th-century English literature includes substantial runs of Sir Walter Scott in original boards, and Charles Dickens and
George Eliot in original cloth and parts. Among the highlights are first editions of Waverley and Rob Roy in boards, Martin
Chuzzlewit in original blue cloth, fine sets of David Copperfield and Bleak House in original parts, a complete set of the
Christmas books in original cloth, the very fine Burdett-Coutts copy of Hard Times in original cloth, Scenes of Clerical Life in
original cloth, and Middlemarch in the very rare original eight parts, collating complete.
Among the American 19th-century authors are works by Washington Irving, including Salmagundi, A History of New York in
original binding, and a double presentation copy of Tales of a Traveller; Melville’s Typee and Moby Dick, both in original cloth;
and very fine copies of Twain’s Life on the Mississippi and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Additionally, there are
several first American editions of major works by Jules Verne in their magnificent original illustrated bindings.
Some of the 20th-century highlights include J. M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy in the scarce dust jacket, Edith Wharton’s The Age
of Innocence in a first state dust jacket, an exceptional signed copy of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, in its rare
original paper dust jacket, signed or inscribed copies of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel, and presentation
copies of Robert Graves’s I, Claudius and Claudius the God. The sale includes an extremely fine set of Tolkien’s The Lord of
the Rings, among the finest unrestored sets offered at auction. Other Tolkien includes an extremely rare manuscript in Tolkien’s
hand providing corrections for a portion of the text in The Return of the King—presenting collectors with a unique opportunity
to acquire original manuscript material from the most popular book of the 20th century.
Ghost stories and mysteries are found throughout the collection, beginning with Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
(1794); classic horror stories by Poe, in their original periodical appearances, including “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House
of Usher,” and “The Masque of the Red Death”; and an exceedingly rare first edition of Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly, in three
volumes in original cloth—which contains the classic stories “Green Tea” and the proto-erotic vampire novella Carmilla. The
sale also includes the rare first issue Dracula in original cloth, an unusually well-preserved copy of the first issue in book form
of Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and a clean and bright copy of Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. Additionally,
numerous embedded ghost stories can be found in the works of Scott, Irving, and Dickens.
Early 20th-century ghost story collections are particularly noteworthy, with runs of M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, and E.
F. Benson. The sale also includes a copy of Shudders from H.P. Lovecraft’s library, with his signature and bookplate. Among the
modern authors are Daphne du Maurier, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Umberto Eco, Robert Aickman, and Anne Rice.
The early poetry offerings include a superb copy of John Donne’s Poems, by J. D. (1633), the largest-paper copy recorded at
auction, and Robert Herrick’s Hesperides (1648), a remarkable copy with distinguished provenance. From the modern era there
is a significant focus on poets and chroniclers of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, Siegfried
Sassoon, and Isaac Rosenberg.
The illustrated books section features signed illustrated works by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, Harry Clarke’s Tales
of Mystery and Imagination, and Walter Crane’s stunning six-volume set of Spenser’s Faerie Queene in the original publisher’s
box. Noted early naturalist photographer Peter Henry Emerson’s very rare Wild Life on a Tidal Water in original cloth features
thirty photogravures of life in East Anglia in the late nineteenth-century. Early Tolkien illustrators The Brothers Hildebrandt,
known for their annual Tolkien calendars, have signed their Greg and Tim Hildebrandt: The Tolkien Years and drawn two custom
pictures on the endpapers.
Finally, the collection contains autograph letters signed by authors found in the collection: Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving,
illustrator John Leech, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, E. F. Benson, D. H. Lawrence, and H. P. Lovecraft; also a typed letter
signed by Robert Aickman.
This introduction offers only a partial overview of the collection, to reflect the distinctive preferences and interests of the
collector. The complete range of material is presented both in the initial section of this printed catalogue and continues in the
online session.
The Library of a Minnesota Collector
Session One, Auction #6323 | Monday, December 15, 2025 | 10:00 AM CT 5
45001 Robert Aickman and Elizabeth Jane Howard. We Are for the Dark. Six Ghost Stories. London: Jonathan Cape, [1951].
8vo. Original maroon cloth-textured boards, spine lettered in silver; pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of Aickman’s scarce rst book. Collects six stories: Aickman’s “The Trains,” “The View,” and the vampire story “The Insucient Answer”;
and Howard’s “Three Miles Up,” “Left Luggage,” and “Perfect Love.”
Condition: Binding very ne and bright with minimal bumping to extremities. Dust jacket with ap corners with Cape’s decorative clip not aecting
price (“10s. 6d. net”), with very minor rubbing and slight wear to spine ends and corner tips. A very ne copy in a bright dust jacket.
References: Bleiler, Supernatural 851; Tymn, Horror Literature 4-7.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45002 Robert Aickman. 3 First Editions and an Uncorrected Advance Proof.
Robert Aickman. Dark Entries. London: Collins, 1964. 8vo. Original brown cloth-
textured boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of Aickman’s rst independent collec-
tion of short ction. Collects six stories, including one of Aickman’s best, “Ringing
the Changes.” Neat contemporary owner’s signature on front paste-down. Dust
jacket unclipped (priced “18s. net”), spine panel lightly toned with minor wear at
ends; light wear to front corner tips; a little soiling to rear panel with a small stain.
Overall, a ne copy in a near ne dust jacket of Aickman’s scarcest book. Tymn,
Horror Literature 4-2.
Robert Aickman. Powers of Darkness. London: Collins, 1966. 8vo. Original red
wrappers with printed paper label on upper cover. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED
PROOFS of the First Edition. Condition: Some very minor soft creasing to wrap-
pers, otherwise ne.
Robert Aickman. Powers of Darkness. London: Collins, 1966. 8vo. Original blue-
gray cloth-textured boards, gilt-lettered on spine; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of
the author’s second individual collection of stories, containing six macabre sto-
ries, including “Your Tiny Hand is Frozen” and “The Wine-Dark Sea.” Binding very
ne. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “18s. net”), with some faint wear to the outer
corners and the heel of the spine panel. Otherwise a very ne and bright copy.
Barron, Horror Literature 4-7.
Robert Aickman. Sub Rosa: Strange Tales. London: Victor Gollancz, 1968. 8vo.
Original mulberry-colored textured boards, spine gilt-lettered; dust jacket. FIRST
EDITION of perhaps Aickman’s strongest collection, including “Ravissante,” “The
Inner Room,” “Never Visit Venice,” and “The Cicerones.” A ne copy in ne unclipped
dust jacket.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45003 Robert Aickman. Group of 3 First Editions and
Advance Proof.
Robert Aickman. The Late Breakfasters. London: Victor Gollancz
Ltd., 1964. 8vo. Original brown cloth-textured boards, spine
lettered in gilt; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Very ne copy in an
equally ne unclipped dust jacket.
Robert Aickman. The Attempted Rescue. London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd., 1966. 8vo. Original terracotta cloth-textured
boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Upper
corner bumped (with corresponding bump to text block at
beginning); dust jacket unclipped (priced “32/6 net”), with small
reinforcements to ends of spine panel and top of ap folds on
verso (spot of color retouched at head of spine); a reinforce-
ment repairing a tear on front ap fold; two small tape stains on
verso; minor soiling.
Robert Aickman. The Model. New York: Arbor Press, [1987]. 8vo.
Original printed pale blue wrappers. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED
PROOFS for the First Edition. Fine.
Robert Aickman. The Model. New York: Arbor Press, [1987]. 8vo.
Original green textured-cloth backed mulberry boards, spine
gilt-stamped; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A very ne copy in an
equally ne unclipped dust jacket.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45004 Robert Aickman. Group of 4 First Editions and one Typed Letter Signed.
Robert Aickman. Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories. London: Victor Gollancz, 1975. 8vo. Original purple cloth-textured boards, spine lettered in
gilt; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Includes the vampire story, “Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal,” and “The Hospice”—regarded by many as Aickman’s
nest story. A very ne copy in equally ne unclipped dust jacket. Barron, Horror Literature 4-3; Tymn, Horror Literature 4-1.
Robert Aickman. Tales of Love and Death. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1977. 8vo. Original black cloth-textured boards, gilt-lettered on spine; dust
jacket. FIRST EDITION. A ne copy in a ne unclipped dust jacket.
Robert Aickman. Intrusions: Strange Tales. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1980. 8vo. Original black cloth-textured boards, gilt-lettered on spine; dust
jacket. FIRST EDITION. Includes “The Fetch,” one of Aickman’s more straightforward horror stories. A ne copy in a ne unclipped dust jacket.
Robert Aickman. Night Voices: Strange Stories. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1985. 8vo, original black cloth-textured boards, gilt-lettered on spine;
dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. This posthumous collection contains six stories by Aickman with introduction by Barry Humphries. It includes “The Stains,”
rst published in Ramsey Campbell’s New Terrors anthology (1980). A ne copy in a ne unclipped dust jacket.
Robert Aickman. Typed letter signed (“Robert”) to literary agent Kirby McCauley (“Dear Kirby”). London, 11 September 1978. 2 pages on one sheet,
8vo, on personal letterhead. With one holograph correction and closing sentiment. Discussing placement of his long story “The Stains,” which rst ap-
peared in Ramsey Campbell’s New Terrors anthology (1980) and won the British Fantasy Award in 1981, the year of Aickman’s death. It was later pub-
lished in the posthumous collection Night Voices (1985). Creased at folds, otherwise ne.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45005 Cynthia Asquith. Shudders. A Collection of new Nightmare Tales. London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., [1926].
8vo. Publisher’s purplish-blue cloth, stamped on upper cover and spine in gray; original pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION IN THE SCARCE DUST JACKET. Cynthia Asquith’s second supernatural anthology including stories by E. F. Benson, L. P. Hartley, Arthur
Machen, Algernon Blackwood and Somerset Maugham. Includes the rst book appearances of many classics, including “Rats,” by M.R. James.
Condition: Spine slightly faded with two tiny splits at extreme bottom edge; some minor fading to covers near outer edges. Dust jacket with upper
and lower spine panel defective (missing 1 ¼ “ piece at bottom and approximately ½” chipped at head) with loss of price and publisher’s name at foot
and portions of title letters at head; other edgewear with some small chips and creasing; spine and rear panels a bit soiled. Very good internally.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45006 J. M. Barrie. Peter and Wendy. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911].
8vo. Half-title, frontispiece with pictorial title and 11 plates by F. D. Bedford. Publishers green elaborately gilt-stamped pictorial cloth; original dark
gray gilt-stamped pictorial dust jacket; housed in a custom quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION of the novelization of Barrie’s classic children’s story, here extended and developed in response to the success of both his 1906 book
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (illustrated by Arthur Rackham) and the play Peter Pan that ran from 1904. “It contains much that is not in the play,
including an opening chapter which relates how Wendy and her brothers knew of Peter Pan and the ‘Neverland’ (sic) before Peter ever came to their
nursery; the last chapter, ‘When Wendy Grew Up’, describes how Wendy’s daughter Jane takes Wendy’s place in the Never Never Land in later years”
(The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature). VERY SCARCE IN THE FRAGILE DUST JACKET—especially in such well-preserved condition.
Condition: Binding very ne and bright with minor rubbing to cloth extremities; minor spotting to endpapers, preliminaries, and text block edges.
Dust jacket with spine panel toned and with fading to gilt; a few small chips to the spine ends.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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45007 E. F. Benson. The Room in the Tower and Other Stories. London: Mills & Boon, Limited, [1912]. With an Autograph Letter Signed.
8vo. 36 pp. publisher advertisements at end. Original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher’s monogram stamped in blind
on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed.
FIRST EDITION of Benson’s rst collection of ghost stories. FIRST PRINTING, with “Published 1912” on copyright page. “By far the best of his four books
of ghost stories, this contains seventeen tales, each almost too well-rounded to fault” (The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 30).
Condition: Spine very slightly faded; a few light spots on covers; touch of rubbing to extremities; very slight spotting or toning to front endpapers,
but otherwise generally very clean. A ne copy.
References: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17; Bleiler, Checklist (1978), p. 21; Bleiler, Supernatural 139; Reginald 01134; Tymn (ed), Horror Literature
3-15.
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E. F. Benson. Autograph letter signed (“E F Benson”) to publisher Edward Arnold. 2 March [1914]. 4 pages, 8vo, on a bifolium. Benson declining a pub-
lishing arrangement while committed to two more books with another publisher: “Dear Arnold, I haven’t written to you sooner and have to nd out
how I stand rst with regard to publishing engagement, and I have only just done that because I have been doing other things rst. Now I nd that I
am pledged for two books after Dodo, so this chance of an early association with you is not possible I am sorry to say. But many thanks for the oer...”
Benson’s Dodo: a Detail of the Day was published 1893; Dodo the Second was published 1914 by Hodder & Stoughton, and this is likely the novel to
which Benson refers. Creased at folds.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45008 E. F. Benson. Group of 3 First Editions.
E. F. Benson. Visible and Invisible. London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., [1923]. 8vo. With 40 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end. Original blue cloth, upper
cover and spine lettered in black. FIRST EDITION. Spine a bit leaned and darkened; a pale ring stain on rear cover; minor soiling. Foxing to preliminar-
ies. Overall very good, especially considering the pulp paper used.
E. F. Benson. Spook Stories. London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., [1928]. 8vo. Original maroon cloth, lettered and illustrated in gray on cover (with a way-
side gibbet). FIRST EDITION. Collects twelve excellent ghost stories juxtaposing nature mysticism with graphic horrors to striking eect; including
classics “The Face,” “Naboth’s Vineyard,” and “And No Bird Sings.” “A competent, well-handled collection” (Bleiler). Spine slightly faded; some light spot-
ting to preliminaries and text block edges, but near ne. Barron, Horror Literature 3-17; Bleiler (1978), p. 21; Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction 145;
Reginald 01135; Tymn, Horror Literature 3- 16. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67.
E. F. Benson. More Spook Stories. London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., [1934]. 8vo. With 8 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Original orange cloth let-
tered and illustrated in black on cover (with a wayside gibbet). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, which can be distinguished by dierences in the spine
lettering, as well as the presence/absence of the catalogue. Minor wear to extremities; some light soiling. Endpapers discolored; some very minor
spotting to a few preliminary pages. Overall, a very good copy of this rare book.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45009 Algernon Blackwood. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1906.
8vo. With 31 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end dated January 1907. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth, front panel stamped in black, red and white,
gilt-lettered on spine.
FIRST EDITION of the author’s rst book. “The rst collection by one of the great English writers of supernatural ction” (Barron).
Condition: Minor rubbing to extremities; a few minor bumps; very minor rubbing or soiling to rear cover; some light foxing to text block edges; front
hinge just starting; endpapers lightly discolored. Some light foxing to title and preliminaries (and occasionally mostly marginal within). Overall, a
bright copy of a very scarce book.
References: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-26; Bleiler, Checklist (1978), p. 24; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 175; Reginald 01383; Tymn (ed),
Horror Literature 3-30.
Provenance: J. Timothy Kenrick (bookplate). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45010 Algernon Blackwood. The Listener. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907.
8vo. Original black cloth, upper with stamped red lettering panel, spine lettered
in gilt, publisher’s device in blind on rear cover.
FIRST EDITION of Blackwood’s second book. This collection of nine short stories
includes his highly regarded story “The Willows,” one of the most powerful of all
supernatural tales. H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the nest supernatural tale
in English literature. It also includes “The Woman’s Ghost Story,” an early instance
of pity replacing fear in a ghostly encounter, and seven other stories. It is found
with and without publisher’s catalogues inserted at rear, this copy bound with-
out a catalogue at end.
Condition: Slight bumping to spine extremes; a few fore-edges trimmed rough;
trace of foxing to text block edges and endpapers (two on title). Overall, a very
ne and generally clean copy in an unusually bright and fresh binding.
References: Bleiler, Checklist, p. 24; Bleiler, Supernatural 176.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45011 Algernon Blackwood. The Lost
Valley and Other Stories. London: Eveleigh
Nash, 1910.
8vo. With 8 black-and-white plates by W.
Graham Robertson. Original green cloth, up-
per cover lettered in black, spine gilt-lettered.
FIRST EDITION. Collects ten of Blackwood’s
horror stories, including the rst published
appearance of his classic novella “The
Wendigo.”
Condition: Spine a bit sunned; minor rub-
bing to extremities; slight fading to upper
board edges. A little foxing to text block
edges; a little foxing to title and prelims (and
occasionally some margins); early owner’s
monogram signature on front pastedown
(dated 1910). Overall, a much nicer than aver-
age copy of one of Blackwood’s most elusive
books.
References: Bleiler, Checklist (1978), p. 24;
Bleiler, Supernatural 180.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota
Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45012 Algernon Blackwood. Incredible Adventures. London: Macmillan & Co., 1914.
8vo. 2 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Publisher’s green cloth, upper cover and spine gilt-lettered and decoratively blindstamped; original dust
jacket.
FIRST EDITION of this important collection, comprising three novellas and two short stories. It includes “A Descent into Egypt,” which Joshi considered
“perhaps Blackwood’s nest single work.” IN THE SCARCE DUST JACKET.
Condition: Slightest touch of rubbing to spine extremities and corner tips, otherwise extremely ne and bright. Internally very fresh. Dust jacket with
price printed at foot of spine (“Six Shillings) and with “6/- net.” overslip label detached from placement on spine; spine panel a bit toned with chip at
head on joint fold, and short tear at foot along each joint fold; archival repairs and reinforcements on verso along spine ends and folds; very minor
edgewear; some toning to ap folds and less so to panel edges; some toning to verso of jacket. Overall, an exceptionally ne book in a well-preserved
near ne dust jacket.
References: Bleiler, Checklist (1978), p. 24; Bleiler, Supernatural 184.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45013 Algernon Blackwood. A group of 3 First Editions.
Algernon Blackwood. John Silence. Physician Extraordinary. London: Eveleigh
Nash, 1908. 8vo, original maroon cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt.
FIRST EDITION. Minor wear to extremities; joints and edges rubbed; some soiling
and staining to covers; free endpapers a little discolored. Previous owner signa-
ture on front free endpaper. Bleiler, Supernatural 177.
Algernon Blackwood. Pan’s Garden. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912.
8vo, illustrated, original green pictorial cloth, upper cover and spine stamped
in black and gilt. FIRST EDITION. Touch of wear to extremities, otherwise very
bright and ne. Bleiler, Supernatural 182.
Algernon Blackwood. The Tales of Algernon Blackwood. London: Martin Secker,
1938. 8vo, original blue-green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; dust jacket. FIRST
EDITION. Very slight wear to spine extremities with a few tiny splits, otherwise
ne and bright; dust jacket spine panel with a few minor pale stains, minor soil-
ing to jacket. Overall, a very ne copy and jacket. Bleiler, Supernatural 198.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45014 Edmund Blunden. Undertones of War. London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, [1928].
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of Blunden’s celebrated World War I memoir. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on front free endpaper.
Condition: Minor rubbing on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “10s. 6d. net.”), spine panel slightly toned with minor wear at ends; very minor
wear to extremities; a little toning at edges; light soiling. Very light spotting to prelims and text block edges.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45015 Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872.
8vo. With 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. Original red cloth, gilt-stamped, spine gilt-lettered, edges gilt; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE with the misprint “wade” for “wabe” in the second line of the poem “Jabberwocky” on page 21; without the foliation for
page 95, but present on page 98 (no priority known).
Condition: Very minor wear to joints and extremities; spine slightly leaned; minor blistering on rear cover; text block cracked after rst quire; one
quire slightly sprung. A few small pencil annotations.
References: Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 84.
Provenance: Albert Giles (signature on front free endpaper, dated “14th Dec 1871”); the Norman and Cynthia Armour Collection (sold, Christie’s New
York, 27 April 2005, lot 45). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45016 Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. Oxford: Printed at the Theater,
1702-04.
3 volumes, folio. Engraved portrait frontispiece in each volume; half-titles present in Vols. I and II. 19th-century half brown morocco and marbled
boards, spines ruled in blind and lettered in gilt in compartments with ve raised bands, by Zaehnsdorf (according to pencil note).
FIRST EDITION. Clarendon began his work in April, 1641, and nished it during the period of his exile (1667-74). It is considered to be the “most valu-
able of all the contemporary accounts of the civil wars” (DNB). “One of the handsomest books hitherto produced in England” (Barker, The Oxford
University Press and the Spread of Printing, 28).
Condition: Some wear to joints with some chipping; light wear to extremities (color retouched in a few places); boards rubbed. Lacking half-title in
Vol. III; tear in lower margin of p. 383 in Vol. I; Vol. II with some light dampstaining to the lower corners of several pages; Vol. III with short tear to lower
margin of pp. 333 and 563, respectively; occasional spotting or marginal toning, but overall a crisp wide-margined copy.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45017 Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, April 1836 - November 1837.
20 parts in 19, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page, and 41 engraved plates by or after R. Seymour, R.W. Buss, and Hablot K.
Browne (“Phiz”). Original printed blue-green pictorial wrappers; quarter morocco slipcase with folding chemise.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS OF DICKENS’S FIRST NOVEL, mixed issue with later issues of wrappers on parts 1-11, wrappers of each
part dated 1836, the text and plates in mixed states. The early numbers are later issues without the addresses and ads (but Part 3 does have a copy of
the address laid in) and with the simplied illustrator credits on the wrappers. The suppressed Buss plates appear in Part 3; most of the later numbers
have their ads. The wrappers for Parts 1, 2, 4-9, and 11 are from the May 1837 printing, though front and back wrappers do not agree in Parts 1 and 9.
The wrappers for Part 3 are from the January 1837 printing. Parts 12-19/20 are rst issue in all respects, with the following exceptions: Part 12 contains
one extra front slip (Fox’s Book of Martyrs), and “Mechi’s Catalogue” in this part contains only the wrappers and the rst internal leaf; Part 13 lacks the
rare “Pigot’s Views” insert; Part 14 lacks one rear ad leaf.
Condition: Most spines rebacked or repaired; some light toning, staining, and soiling; minor chipping or creasing to edges, a few with small repairs.
Text and plates are generally quite bright. Sold with all faults.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45018 [Charles Dickens]. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Edited by “Boz”. London: Chapman and Hall, April 1838-October 1839.
20 parts in 19, 8vo. Half-title. Engraved frontispiece by Finden after Maclise and 39 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”). Original blue-green
pictorial printed wrappers, uncut; housed together in a quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. First issue of the text, with “visiter” for “sister” on p. 123 in Part 4, and “latter” instead of “letter” on p. 160
in Part 5. All plates in Parts 1-2 and the portrait in Part 19/20 are rst state, with the publisher’s imprint at bottom. Plate 29 is in the rst of four impres-
sions. Set collates near complete, with “The Nickleby Advertiser” in each part, and most of the other inserted advertisements and announcement slips
noted in Hatton & Cleaver, lacking only one back ad in Part 8 (“This Day is Published...”) and one in Part 16 (“The Medical Casket”). Includes the very
rare “optional” yellow slip in Part 11 (Charles Tilt), and contains intact the rare and fragile “Hill’s Wafer’s” ad in Part 19/20.
Condition: Some spines (approximately seven) repaired or rebacked; some minor chips or wear to spine ends and edges; scattered soiling; a few with
old ink numerals on spines, one with early owner’ inscription on front wrapper. The plates are very good, with slight marginal browning and foxing,
except for plate 39, which is heavily browned. An excellent, near complete set of this early title in the original parts.
References: Eckel, pp. 64-66; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 131-160.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45019 [Charles Dickens]. Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz”. London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
3 volumes, 12mo (201 x 124 mm). Half-titles in Vol. I and II (as issued); with 4 pp. integral publisher’s advertisement at end of Vol. I, and 2 pp. at begin-
ning Vol. III. Etched frontispiece in each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank. Original plum ne-diaper cloth, covers decorated with ne
arabesques stamped in blind, spine blind-ruled in ve compartments, gilt-lettered in two, yellow endpapers, uncut; quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the “Fireside” plate at p. 312 in Vol. III, and authorship ascribed to “Boz” on each title-page. This set with binding vari-
ant with the imprint “London/Bentley” present at the foot of the spines, and the list of illustrations is present in Vol. I. Smith states that he was unable
to determine priority of issue among 25 copies examined and containing various combinations of these features. Of the 24 plates, 16 have at least a
portion of the Bentley imprint visible.
Condition: Vol. I: spine with a tiny repair at each end at corner (small frayed spots lled in with purple cloth); upper edges of rear cover with minor
water damage and light discoloration with a little blistering, discreet repairs to rear pastedown including small portion replaced at corner; lower
corner extremes of last three leaves (including two ad leaves) slightly chipped. Vols. I-III: spines lightly faded to brown with very minor wear at ex-
tremities and slight blistering of cloth; boards a bit rubbed with a few minor spots or soiling; corners and some board edges lightly bumped. Front
pastedowns with slight evidence of bookplate removal. Overall, a ne set, with hinges sound in all three volumes and with plates and text uniformly
bright and free of foxing or osetting.
References: Carter, p. 107; Eckel, p. 59-60; Gimbel A27; Smith I: 4.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $6,000
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45020 Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
8vo. Half-title and verso of title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, hand-colored etched frontispiece and three hand-colored plates
by John Leech; four wood-engravings in the text by W. J. Linton after Leech. and 4 woodcuts in the text by John Leech; 2pp. of publisher’s advertise-
ments at the end. Original cinnamon-brown ne-ribbed cloth, covers with decorative blind border surrounding central gilt cartouche and lettering
on upper cover, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the correction of “Stave I” to “Stave One” on the rst page of text, (balance of text uncorrected), red and blue title-
page dated 1843, yellow endpapers. The binding appears to be in Todd’s second state: the closest interval between blind decorative border on the
left and the left extremity of the gilt cartouche measuring 13 mm, but the “D” of Dickens unbroken.
Condition: Spine a bit leaned; very minor fading to spine with minor wear at ends, with a few tiny splits; minor fading or soiling to covers; front hinge
paper very slightly cracked, but holding. Some scattered spotting, otherwise internally clean. Overall, a ne and bright copy.
References: Eckel pp 110-115; Smith II:4.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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45021 Charles Dickens. A complete set of the ve First Editions of The Christmas Books, with two additional later issues. London: 1843-1848.
Dickens. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. 8vo. Half-title and verso of title printed in blue,
red and blue title-page, engraved frontispiece, 3 hand-colored plates and 4 woodcuts in the text by John Leech; 2 pp. of advertisements at the end.
Publisher’s vertically ribbed cinnamon cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, green endpapers, all edges gilt; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE,
with title-page dated 1843 and printed in red and blue, the text uncorrected, “Stave I” on p. [1] and light green endpapers. Todd’s rst issue binding
with 14-15 mm between closest points of blind-stamping and gold wreath of upper cover, the “D” of “Dickens” unbroken. Condition: Spine repaired
(or rebacked) preserving most of original spine; worn and darkened, with some staining and rubbing. Title-page bound before the half-title; mostly
marginal staining, browning and spotting, a few leaves creased. References: Eckel, pp.110-115; Smith II:4.
Dickens. The Chimes: A Goblin Story. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845 [1844]. 8vo. 13 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Maclise,
Doyle, Leech and Staneld; advertisement for tenth edition of A Christmas Carol at the beginning. Original red vertically ribbed cloth, upper cover
stamped in blind and pictorially gilt with design of seven goblins above six chimes, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers, all
edges gilt. FIRST EDITION, First State of the additional title, with “Chapman & Hall” printed within the cloud. Condition: Spine a bit leaned and worn at
ends with some fraying; a little rubbing and soiling; hinges cracked; minor spotting to frontispiece and additional title. References: Eckel pp. 116-118;
Smith II:5.
Another copy. FIRST EDITION, second state. This copy has the vignette title page in the second (usual) state, lacks the colon after “London” on the title
verso, and does have page 39 so paginated (priority uncertain). Condition: Very minor wear to extremities; hinges cracked; overall, a bright copy.
References: Smith II:5; Gimbel A86 (none of his eleven copies has this particular combination of vignette title, title verso, and p. 39).
Dickens. The Cricket on the Hearth. London: Printed and published for the author by Bradbury and Evans, 1846 [1845]. 8vo. Half-title, engraved fron-
tispiece and title-page vignette after Maclise, illustrations throughout text, 2 pp. of advertisements at end (rst state). Original deep red horizontally
ribbed cloth, stamped in blind and pictorially gilt with hearth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. FIRST EDITION,
rst state of the advertisements at end. Condition: Spine slightly leaned; minor wear to extremities; a little soiling; text block cracked at center; minor
marginal toning. Bookplates of R. K. Burstall and Frederic Coleman Hunter. References: Eckel, pp. 119-20; Smith II:6.
Another copy. FIRST EDITION, second state of the advertisements at end. Condition: Spine slightly leaned; very minor wear to extremities; light soiling,
otherwise a bright and ne copy.
Dickens. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and title-vignette after Maclise (Todd’s E1,
Eckel’s fourth state), illustrations throughout, 2pp. of advertisements at end. Original deep red vertically ribbed cloth stamped in blind and pictorially
gilt with fairy motif, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. FIRST EDITION. Condition: Spine slightly leaned; minor
soiling, otherwise ne and bright. References: Eckel, pp. 121-23; Smith II:8.
Dickens. The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. 8vo. Advertisement leaf, frontispiece, vignette title-page and
15 illustrations by John Leech, Clarkson Staneld, John Tenniel and Frank Stone. Original deep red vertically ribbed cloth, covers stamped in blind and
pictorially gilt with wreath and mistletoe, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. FIRST EDITION, with rst numeral of
the page number on p. 166 damaged; though priority is uncertain, Podeschi suggests this represents a later state. Condition: Spine slightly leaned;
light bumping to corners; some light foxing to prelims (frontispiece verso and title). Otherwise, a ne and bright copy. Provenance: George Darwell
(signature on front free endpaper dated 1849). References: Smith II 66-70; Podeschi 119.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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45022 Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844.
8vo. Half-title; additional vignette title, frontispiece, and 38 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne. Publisher’s blue cloth, covers panelled in blind with
central oval cartouche, spine lettered in gilt and panelled in blind, yellow-coated endpapers, edges plain. Housed in a custom full morocco slipcase
with cloth chemise.
THE VERY FINE MANNEY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Errata leaf has 14 lines; vignette title page in second of the three simultaneous
states (£100 on signpost, 6 studs along trunk). FINE COPIES IN CLOTH ARE SCARCE: “The cloth cases provided for [Dickens’s] usually ample volumes
were of poor quality, so that the collector may nd Martin Chuzzlewit ... as dicult... to secure in ne original cloth [as] in the parts” (Carter, Taste &
Technique in Book-Collecting, 1949, p. 162). Martin Chuzzlewit was not the commercial success that Dickens’s other novels had been, leading to a bitter
break with Chapman and Hall. After the bound volumes of Chuzzlewit came out in July 1844, Dickens would have no further dealings with his former
publisher until 1859.
Condition: Extremities lightly rubbed; two tiny splits to cloth at foot of spine; very minor soiling; hinges skillfully repaired. Text block cracked (but
holding) following list of plates at front; vignette title and a few plates foxed or oset, but text very clean throughout; plate facing page 88 is inserted
on later guard; plate facing page 288 (and following text leaf) just becoming loose at bottom. Overall, A REMARKABLY FINE AND BRIGHT COPY.
References: Eckel 71; Gimbel/Podeschi A72; Sadleir 692; Smith 1:7; Wol 1803.
Provenance: Mr. Hooke (pencil note on verso of title: “26/ cloth / Mr. Hooke”); Richard Manney (bookplate; his sale, Sotheby’s New York, 11 October
1991, lot 89). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $3,000
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45023 Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, October
1846 - April 1848.
20 parts in 19, 8vo. Etched frontispiece, vignette title, and 38 etched or lithographic
plates by and after Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”). Original blue-green pictorial printed
wrappers, uncut; housed in a limp cloth chemise and full calf slipcase.
FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, early issue, with the 12-line errata in
part V, the earliest 2-line errata in Part 19/20, and uncorrected text with “Delight” twice
mentioned instead of “Joy” on p. 284 in Part 9, “Capatin” for “Captain” on p. 324 (last
line) in Part 11, “if” lacking on p. 426 (line 9) in Part 14, but with the later “431” pagina-
tion present in Part 14. Additionally, this set has the textual error not mentioned in
Hatton and Cleaver in the dedication at the end of Part 19/20 which here reads “The
Marchioness of Normanby” rather than “Normandy.” Two parts in this set are without
any ads (Parts 2 and 4) and it would seem this is how they were issued; all other parts
conform to the ads described by Hatton & Cleaver. Part 2 wrapper is completely blank,
except for the front; Hatton & Cleaver describe this feature as evidence of a later print-
ing.
Condition: A few chips and tears/splits to the spines of Part 1 and 19/20; some other
minor chips or spot to spines; some covers with corners folded or slightly curled; occa-
sional light rubbing or soiling; Part 18 stitching is very loose. Plates are generally quite
clean, with only occasional spotting, with these exceptions: Part 1 plates darkened
from previous inserts; Part 2 plates slightly foxed; Part 19/20 rst plate slightly foxed.
Overall, an exceptional set in very ne original unrestored condition without signi-
cant soiling, wear, or blemishes.
References: Eckel, pp. 74-76; Hatton & Cleaver 227-250; Yale/Gimbel A102.
Provenance: Faint pencil ownership name in upper margin of four parts (“Capt. Fuller R.N. Bear Hill”), but no other ownership markings. The Library of
a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,250
45024 [Charles Dickens]. Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”). Original steel plate engraved
by Hablot K. Browne for Dickens’ Dombey and Son entitled “Polly rescues the Charitable
Grinder.” [c.1846].
206 x 127 mm. Housed in the original plum-colored buckram folding-case with the
Nonesuch Dickens label on spine, the plate set in a removable felt-lined inset panel as
originally issued to accompany a “Nonesuch Dickens” set.
The illustration from the plate originally appeared as plate 4 in Part III of Dombey
and Son opposite page 50. The reverse of the plate is numbered “9577” and stamped
“Northamptons / Islington / London”. Browne produced 40 etchings for the novel,
which were rst published in monthly parts between 1846 and 1848.
Condition: Two corners of plate damaged (polished layer chipped o, not aecting im-
age). Folding case a bit worn and with some pale spotting.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45025 Charles Dickens. The Personal History of David Coppereld. London: Bradbury & Evans, May 1849-November 1850.
20 parts in 19, 8vo. Half-title. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”). Original blue-
green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut; cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, with the “Coppereld Advertiser” in each part, the “Letts’s Diaries” advertisement in Part 8, and most
of the other inserted advertisements and announcement slips noted in Hatton & Cleaver. This set contains a few single-leaf inserts not mentioned
by Hatton & Cleaver, and lacks only a few that are noted: Part 6 has two extra ad leaves, one for “Journal of Design” and one for “Practical Treatise on
Musical Composition”; Part 7 lacks the “Punch’s Pocket Book” slip that sometimes follows the plates; Part 8 has four pages of ads on green paper rather
than the two pages specied by Hatton & Cleaver; and the nal part lacks the preliminary “Punch’s Pocket Book” and “Douglas Jerrold” slips, and the
“Lewis Arundel” leaf at the rear. This set contains the scarce “Letts’s Diaries” advertisement in Part 8 with the accompanying six specimen diary leaves
(one folding).
David Coppereld was Dickens’s eighth novel, written at the midpoint of Dickens’s career and very much drawn from the author’s own life; it is consid-
ered to be the novel that divides Dickens’s early works from his later. The novel is scarce in parts. As Eckel notes, the printing was comparatively small,
the parts were “much read and roughly handled,” and “ne, clean and unrepaired copies” were “dicult to procure” even in 1932.
Condition: A remarkably ne set with wrappers clean and bright; all of the spines are original and with minimal wear or nicks at ends; only a few
spines with tiny repairs; wear is limited to a few nicks or short tears to a few wrapper edges (most apparent on the rear cover of Part 19/20), and
with a minimal amount of toning, soiling or rubbing. Several of the forty Phiz plates have minor foxing or osetting (notably those in Parts 8 and
18), but much less than usual; approximately half of the plates are clean and bright; two covers bear the tiny ticket of a contemporary bookseller in
Shrewsbury (Shropshire). Overall, an exceptional set.
References: Carr B220; Eckel pp 77-78; Hatton & Cleaver pp 253-272; Podeschi/Gimbel A121.
Provenance: Marie Luise Hinrichs (bookplate on box). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $5,000
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45026 Charles Dickens. [The Christmas Numbers from Household Words and All the Year Round.] London: Bradbury and Evans; C. Whiting; and
Chapman and Hall, 21 December 1850 -Christmas 1867.
18 parts, 8vo. Printed in two columns. Household Words numbers sewn in self-wrappers as issued, All the Year Round numbers in original blue printed
wrappers (last ve issues); preserved in green cloth chemise and green half morocco pull-o case.
FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THE SPECIAL CHRISTMAS NUMBERS DICKENS ISSUED FROM HIS TWO PERIODICALS, including many well-known and well-
loved stories such as The Haunted House, A Message from the Sea, Tom Tiddler’s Ground, Somebody’s Luggage, Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgings, Mrs. Lirriper’s
Legacy, Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions, Mugby Junction, No Thoroughfare (with Wilkie Collins), and others. Additionally, these numbers contain rst
printings of some classic Victorian ghost stories, including Elizabeth Gaskell’s much-anthologized “The Old Nurse’s Story,” Amelia B. Edwards’ “The
Phantom Coach,” and Dickens’ own “The Signal-Man.”
Accompanied by 10 additional Christmas numbers of All the Year Round published after Dickens’s death (1871-77, 1879-80, and 1885).
Condition: Some of the Household Words numbers disbound; the rst number with some marginal chipping to rst page; some other wear at spines
or edges of self-wrappers; some toning or soiling to self-wrappers; occasional creases; All the Year Round wrappers ne. Overall, a ne set.
References: Gimbel E11-21, E113-118.
Provenance: Jock Elliott (his sale, The Christmas Collection of Jock Elliott, Sotheby’s New York, 12 December 2006, lot 93). The Library of a Minnesota
Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45027 Charles Dickens. Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, March 1852- September 1853.
20 parts in 19, 8vo. Half-title. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title and 38 engraved plates by
Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”). Original blue pictorial printed wrappers, uncut; cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, with the following rst issue points: with “elgble” on p. 19
of part 1 (line 6); “chair” on p. 209 of part 7 (line 23); “counsinship” on p. 275 of part 9 (line 22). With the
“Bleak House Advertiser” in each part and most of the other inserted advertisements and slips noted
in Hatton & Cleaver except for two in Part I (“Mott” and “Norton”) and one in Part XVI (“Grace Aguilar”),
while there is an extra ad in Part II (“The Assurance Magazine”). Atypically, all of the proper preliminary
slips, mostly advertising Household Words, are present.
Duplicate plates present in this copy are as follows: Plate 24 (Johanssen B), Plate 26 (B), Plate 28 (A), Plate 29 (B), Plate 32 (A), Plate 34 (B), Plate 36 (B),
Plate 37 (A), Plate 38 (A), and Frontispiece (B).
Condition: Very minor wear to spine ends with very few nicks or chips; approximately six parts with minor repairs to spines (no rebacking); some mi-
nor discoloration to spines; rear wrapper of Part 19/20 with a very small hole and lower edge reinforced repairing a few short tears; a couple of front
wrappers with small bookseller’s sticker (C & E Layton, 150 Fleet Street), and one with a contemporary owner’s signature on the upper margin; very
minor soiling or edgewear. Very minor spotting or darkening to any plates throughout; light osetting from plates as usual. Overall, an exceptional
set in very ne condition.
References: Eckel, pp. 79-81; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 275-304; Yale/Gimbel A102.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45028 Charles Dickens. Hard Times. For These Times. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854.
8vo. Original green moiré cloth, ruled in blind on covers, gilt-lettered on spine; red quarter morocco slipcase.
THE BURDETT-COUTTS COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, IN THE FIRST BINDING. Hard Times was Dickens’s tenth novel, rst serialized in
Household Words, 1 April-12 August 1854. It is the shortest of Dickens’s novels and is the only novel besides Great Expectations that was published
without illustrations. Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts was the daughter of radical politician and reformer Francis Burdett. She met Dickens
in 1838 or 1839, and they became intimate friends. Dickens worked with her closely on her many philanthropic projects, including Ragged Schools,
Urania College and the rehabilitation of low-income housing in Bethnal Green. Baroness Coutts knew of Dickens’s marital diculties and tried unsuc-
cessfully to reconcile the author and his wife.
Condition: Touch of wear to extremities; spine just toned; a few tiny scus and stains on covers; front hinge starting and rear hinge cracked; other-
wise very ne and bright.
Provenance: Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), lifelong friend of Dickens (pencil signature on rst text leaf; bookplate); Kenyon
Starling (bookplate); William E. Self (his sale, Part I, 2 April 2008, lot 149). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45029 Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, December 1855-June 1857.
20 parts in 19, 8vo. Etched frontispiece, additional pictorial title-page, and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”). Original blue-green picto-
rial printed wrappers; housed in two quarter morocco clamshell cases with folding cloth chemises.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, FIRST ISSUE, with “Rigaud” for “Blandois” on pp. 469, 470, 472, and 473 in Part 15 (and the subsequent
correction slip in Part 16). Complete with all slips and advertisements as called for in Hatton & Cleaver, except lacking the eight-page rear advertise-
ment for “The London Stereoscopic Company” in Part 6.
Condition: Wrappers are overall quite well-preserved, except for those of Parts 1 and 19/20, which show more soiling and edgewear; minor chips or
repairs to some spines (but spines largely intact); light wear at edges; minor spotting or toning to spines or wrapper edges; four parts were appar-
ently folded vertically, with minimal soft creasing. Plates remarkably clean and bright. A few spots to text. Overall, a near-ne set.
References: Eckel (1972), pp. 82-85; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 307-330.
Provenance: Jane Seller Meier (bookplates on boxes); H. Stanton (bookplates on boxes). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45030 Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859.
8vo. Etched frontispiece, title and 14 plates by Hablot K. Browne [“Phiz”]. Original olive-green cloth, blindstamped on covers and spine, gilt-lettered
on spine.
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, in the much scarcer secondary binding, second issue with p.213 correctly numbered. This copy is bound without the
publisher’s catalogue, which is found in some copies. Smith notes that this binding must come after the red cloth binding, since the signature mark
“b” is not on the List of Plates and p.213 is correctly numbered. Eckel notes copies bound in green cloth are “very scarce.” This copy with title variant not
noted in Smith, with the single rules above and below “With Illustrations by H. K. Browne” longer than that shown in Smith (here extending from the
front of the “R” to the front of the “H”), and in this copy there is a comma in the imprint after “Wellington Street.”
Condition: Spine lightly sunned with ends repaired; some minor wear at corners; a little rubbing to covers; hint of fading at board edges; hinges
repaired (with some glue discoloration at endpaper gutters). Light foxing to frontispiece and engraved title; light soiling and a few pale spots; other-
wise very clean, with crisp and dark plate impressions.
References: Eckel, p. 90; Smith I:13.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45031 Charles Dickens. Great Expectations. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861.
3 volumes, 8vo. Publisher’s moderate purple wavy-grained cloth, covers decoratively blindstamped on sides, spines stamped in gilt, yellow endpa-
pers, uncut edges (the primary binding); cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION, fth impression (“Fifth Edition” on each title) of one of Dickens’s most celebrated works. Apparently a mixed issue, with text containing
most of the aws detailed in Smith, except in Vol. III: without the aws thought to be unique to the Sadleir copy, as well as the “S” not spaced apart on
headline on p. 91, the apostrophe in “there’s” on p. 173, a hyphen present after “be[tween]” on p. 228, the full stop after the headline on p. 236, and
“shackled” correctly spelled on p. 262. Vols. I and II match Margaret Cardwell’s Oxford Appendix D notations for the rst issue; Vol. III matches that for
the fth issue. Bound without advertisements at end of Vol. III, regarding which Smith notes “some copies of all the rst ve issues... did not contain
catalogue.”
The title-pages of Vol. I and Vol. II (“Vol. III” on spine) each have an erasure after the last “I” of their volume numbers (possibly as an attempt to disguise
Vol. III titles as Vol. I and II, respectively or to make the misbound volume correspond with its binding in error). Vol. III (Vol. II on spine) has the correct
Vol. III title page, with no erasures or alterations.
Condition: Bindings apparently recased and repaired (or reinforced) at ends, endpapers skillfully renewed with coated yellow endpapers (at the time
of which Vol. II was misbound in Vol. III casing); spines dulled and darkened; covers rubbed and darkened at edges. Title-page Vol. I along with its con-
jugate appears to have been reinserted (or replaced) and slightly adhered to front free endpaper verso; volume numbers in Vols. I and II defaced as
described above. Occasional minor browning or spotting to text throughout (more apparent in Vol. III).
References: Davis, p. 153; Eckel, p. 91-95; Sadleir 688; Smith I:14; see Clarendon edition of Great Expectations (1993, Appendix D, list C and D).
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45032 Charles Dickens. All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. London: 1859-1861.
5 volumes (Vols. I-V), 8vo. Five octavo volumes comprising the rst 126 numbers of Dickens’ weekly periodical. Publisher’s red cloth elaborately
stamped in blind, upper covers and spine lettered and elaborately stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, Bone & Son binder’s ticket on rear pastedown of Vol.
I.
THE FIRST FIVE VOLUMES OF CHARLES DICKENS WEEKLY JOURNAL, IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Contains the rst published appearances of two of
Dickens’ greatest works: A Tale of Two Cities (Vol. I, April 30, 1859 to Vol. II, November 26, 1859), and Great Expectations (Vol. IV, December 1, 1860 to Vol.
V, August 3, 1861), as well as Wilkie Collins’ important early work of detective ction, The Woman in White (Vol. II, November 26, 1859 to Vol. III, August
25, 1860).
Condition: Spines lightly sunned with some wear and fraying at ends; minor rubbing and soiling to covers; corners bumped; hinges a bit shaken (a
few cracked). Occasional very slight marginal foxing or toning, but generally quite clean. A handsome set.
References: See Smith I:13 (note 3), and I:14 (note 3).
Provenance: Lilian Jowith (ownership signature on front pastedown of Vol. I, dated 1864). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45033 Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1864-November 1865.
20 parts in 19, 8vo. Half-titles, frontispiece and 39 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W. T. Green. Original green pictorial print-
ed wrappers; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS of Dickens’ nal completed novel. First issue of Part 1 without the printer’s imprint on front wrapper
and with slip addressed to the reader. With the “Our Mutual Friend Advertiser” in each part, and containing all but one of the ads and slips noted in
Hatton & Cleaver, except lacking the rare “Economic Life Assurance Society” advertisement after the plates in Part 14 (but does contain the November
“Economic Life” ad following rst leaf of text for Part 19/20 as called for).
Condition: Some chipping and wear to spines, most with small repairs or restorations; covers of Parts 1 and 19/20 with some chipping and fraying at
edges (Part 1 with upper corner price lost, and original front cover replacement laid in); other parts with occasional wear, minor chipping and soiling;
most parts having belonged to the same contemporary owner with her name written neatly in ink or pencil on upper margins (“Miss Grey”). Plates
generally clean, and internally ne.
References: Eckel, pp. 94-95; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 343-370; Yale/Gimbel A149.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45034 Charles Dickens. Autograph letter signed (“Charles Dickens”), to his bankers Messrs. Banton and Mackrell. London, 4 May 1869.
One page, 8vo (201 x 125 mm). Written in blue ink, on All the Year Round letterhead; docketed on verso with record of receipt and reply.
Dickens writes his bankers to inquire about the extent his son Sydney has drawn against his account:
“Dear Sirs / I have received a letter from my son Lt Sydney Smith Dickens R.N. under date ‘Vancouver’s Island, Friday / March 19th’ in which he informs
me that he has fallen into debt and ‘drawn very / heavily’ on you. He gives me no idea of the extent to which he has drawn on you. Will you be so
obliging as to let me know. / Faithfully Yours / Charles Dickens.”
The bankers replied the same day informing Dickens that Sydney was in their debt for “about £49.” On 14 March, Sydney Dickens had written his father
desperately asking him to honor the bills he had drawn: “You can’t understand how ashamed I am to appeal to you again... You know what American
people are... you know their habits of drinking—that has run me into debt... It is with shame and regret I inscribe myself your Son...”
Condition: Some light stains at top and bottom of page (presumably bleeding from letterhead); a couple of tiny holes in blank lower part of sheet;
some soiling; edges slightly brittle where previously mounted at edges on verso, with a few tiny splits or nicks (one repaired); soiled on verso along
fold; some mounting remnants and thinning of paper at edges on verso.
References: See Pilgrim Letters, Vol. 12, pp. 349-50.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45035 Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman & Hall, April-September 1870.
6 parts [complete], 8vo. Engraved portrait, title and 12 wood-engraved plates by Luke Fildes. Original blue-green printed wrappers, uncut; folding
cloth case.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS of Dickens’ last unnished story. Complete with the “Edwin Drood Advertiser” in each part and all the
other inserted advertisements noted in Hatton & Cleaver, including the “cork” ad in Part 2 (portion of corner of this ad torn away). With the earliest is-
sue of Part 6, with small label “[Price Eighteenpence.” axed to upper right corner.
Condition: Some repairs to spines and edges of wrappers of Parts 1 and 2; minor edgewear; some soiling and toning; early owner’s signature (“J. W.
Hornblower”) on front wrapper Part 4. Quite clean internally, with some minor brown spots on portrait plate in Part 6.
References: Eckel, pp. 96-98; Gimbel A154; Hatton & Cleaver pp. 373-84.
Provenance: Stuart W. Jackson (bookplate); Douglas C. Ewing (sold, Christie’s New York, 7 April 1978, lot 81). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45036 Charles Dickens. Group of 4 First Editions.
Charles Dickens. Master Humphrey’s Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. 3 volumes, large 8vo. Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot
K. Browne. Publisher’s purplish-brown cloth, boards decoratively paneled in blind, front boards with gilt central clock whose time is set to the number
of the volume, spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Master Humphrey’s Clock was
originally serialized in weekly parts which appeared from April 1840 to December 1841. The work includes short stories and the rst appearance of
two novels, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. This set contains an additional plate bound in facing p. 264 in Vol. I by Thomas Sibson. Spines
slightly faded and frayed a bit at ends; a little wear to extremities; corners bumped; covers with minor rubbing and soiling. Some occasional spotting
or soiling. Smith I:6.
Charles Dickens. American Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. 2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles. With single ad leaf at front of
Vol. I, and 6 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end of Vol. II. Later half calf and marbled boards, black leather lettering-pieces on spines, top edge gilt.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, published without Dickens’ preface. Touch of rubbing to binding extremities; text block outer and lower edges a little
roughly trimmed. Occasional minor soiling, otherwise internally ne. John Calswell (pencil signature on each title-page). Smith II:3.
Charles Dickens. Pictures from Italy. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 8vo. With vignette illustrations on wood by Samuel Palmer. With 2 pp. ad leaf at
front and 2 pp. ad leaf at end. Publisher’s blindstamped blue vertically-ribbed cloth. FIRST EDITION. Front cover with nish/color damage and board
weakened (with slight damage through to pastedown); touch of rubbing to extremities. Gimbel A98; Smith II:7.
Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. 8vo. 40 plates by Hablot K. Browne, including frontispiece and vignette title. Errata
slip tipped-in at p. 480. Later half black calf and marbled boards. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, with “Rigaud” for “Blandois” in Chapter 15,
pp. 467-74. Some foxing to plates; occasional minor soiling or spotting to text. References: Smith I:12.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45037 John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author’s Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
4to (196 x 142mm). Woodcut initials; uncancelled state of Nn1. Contemporary speckled calf, blind and gilt llets on sides, at spine gilt with red mo-
rocco label; full morocco pull-o case by Riviere & Son.
FIRST EDITION of John Donne’s collected poems, in a rare contemporary binding. The principal collection of Donne’s poetical works, issued two years
after his death, and the editio princeps for virtually all of Donne’s poems. This edition was based on manuscripts derived from the author’s archives
and provided the best seventeenth-century text of Donne’s poems, although six further editions would appear by 1669. The volume is also notable
for containing the rst appearance of several celebrated elegies on Donne, that by Izaak Walton (“Is Donne, great Donne deceas’d?...”), and Thomas
Carew’s famous elegy commencing “Can we not force from widdowed Poetry, Now thou art dead (Great Donne) one Elegie To crowne thy Hearse?...”
which concludes with the famous epitaph “Here lies a King, that rul’d as hee thought t / The universal monarchy of wit...”
John Donne’s enduring appeal as a poet is attributed to his distinctive wit and innovative approach to poetry. His works address themes such as in-
timacy, grief, science, and religion, and continue to resonate with readers across generations. This copy with “The Printer to the Understanders” and
“Hexastichon Bibliopolae” bound after the rst quire. A beautiful and exceptionally tall copy. According to online auction records, the present copy is
the tallest copy to have appeared at auction.
Condition: Spine with some wear at ends including a small chip at foot of spine; corners on rear board repaired; some rubbing and wear to joints and
extremities; front free endpaper replaced in the 18th century. Lacking initial blank [A1]. Internally very ne and crisp.
References: Grolier, Donne 81; Keynes 78; Pforzheimer 296; STC (2nd ed.) 7045.
Provenance: Thomas Fenwick, Earsdon (c.1749-c.1777; bookplate and shelfmark on inserted endpaper); Halsted B. Vander Poel (his sale, Christie’s, 3
March 2004, lot 26); purchased at Christie’s New York, 4 December 2018, lot 89. The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $20,000
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45038 A. Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902.
8vo. 16 tipped-in plates by Sidney Paget, including frontispiece. Original full scarlet cloth blocked in elaborate gilt on upper cover and spine, with
black silhouette of the Hound stamped on upper cover, designed by Alfred Garth Jones; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with “you” for “your” in line 3 on page 13. The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes tales, based on an English fable told to
Doyle by a journalist friend, Fletcher Robinson, while on holiday.
Condition: A very sound and square binding with only a touch of rubbing to extremities; hint of toning to front endpapers; a few very minor spots
to a few fore-margins; small bookseller’s ticket of “A. & R. Milne, Aberdeen” on front pastedown. Overall, an exceptional copy, with both gilt and cloth
extremely well-preserved and without the usual foxing found in most copies.
References: De Waal 87; Green & Gibson A26a.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $3,000
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45039 Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca. London: Victor Gollancz, 1938.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine; original yellow dust jacket, printed in lavender and black.
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page. Du Maurier’s most important work, this haunting thriller won the National Book Award
for ction in 1938. The book served as the source material for a number of adaptations to lm, television, radio, theatre, opera, and similar works, but
perhaps is best remembered for the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock classic, his rst American lm project. The lm starred Laurence Olivier as the mysterious
Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as the second Mrs. de Winter and released to major critical and commercial success. The lm garnered an incred-
ible eleven Academy Award nominations, of which it won Best Picture (the only Hitchcock lm to do so) and Best Cinematography. The lm was se-
lected in 2018 for preservation by the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
Condition: Cloth with a touch of dust-soiling at edges; some light foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Some very slight marginal toning. Dust
jacket with 8/6 price on spine, with spine panel and ap folds very slightly toned; very minor soiling. A very good copy in a ne unchipped dust jacket
with less toning and edgewear than usually found.
References: A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
Provenance: Mabel Anderson Burghard (bookplate). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $6,000
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45040 Daphne du Maurier. My Cousin Rachel. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1951.
8vo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black; dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY DU MAURIER on the front free endpaper: “Ernest Crompton / with best wishes / yours sincerely
/ Daphne du Maurier.” Like Rebecca, du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel blends mystery and romance in a complex plot set on a Cornish estate. The novel
was adapted into lms in 1952 and 2017, starring Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland, and Rachel Weisz and Sam Clain, respectively.
Condition: Very light rubbing to extremities; slight pale stain on upper cover. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “12/6 net”), with very minor wear to head
of spine panel and extremities; front panel with vertical crease; very slight soiling.
[With:]
Daphne du Maurier. My Cousin Rachel. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. 8vo, original greenish-tan cloth, lettered in green; pictorial
dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$3.50”), with some chipping and wear at edges, some soiling to rear panel.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45041 Daphne du Maurier. Group of 7 First Editions.
Daphne du Maurier. The du Mauriers. 1937.
Du Maurier. Frenchman’s Creek. 1941.
Du Maurier. Hungry Hill. 1943.
Du Maurier. The King’s General. 1946.
Du Maurier. The Parasites. 1949.
Du Maurier. Mary Anne. London, 1954. FIRST ENGLISH
EDITION.
Du Maurier. The Scapegoat. London, 1957. FIRST
ENGLISH EDITION.
Together, 7 FIRST EDITIONS or FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS,
all London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., each in original bind-
ings and dust jackets. Occasional rubbing and very mi-
nor wear to bindings, occasional spotting to endpapers
or text block edges; each in unclipped dust jackets with occasional minor edgewear, including minor small chips or short tears (rst title with a few
tape repairs on verso), soiling, toning, etc., but overall very good to very ne condition.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45042 Daphne du Maurier. Group of 8 First Editions or First English Editions, including one
Limited Signed Edition, plus an autograph postcard signed. Comprising:
Daphne du Maurier. The Apple Tree. London, 1952.
Du Maurier. The Breaking Point. London, 1959.
Du Maurier; and Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Castle Dor. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., [1962].
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preceded by the American edition of 1961.
Du Maurier. The Glass-Blowers. London, 1963. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.
Du Maurier. The Flight of the Falcon. London, 1965.
Du Maurier. The House on the Strand. London, 1969. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. With an autograph
photographic postcard of the author’s house in Cornwall laid in, inscribed by du Maurier: “June 23
1971 / Dear Mr. Cook - I am sure the safest thing to do is to paste the enclosed into your copy of
The House on the Strand, alongside this photograph of Kilmarth.”
Du Maurier. Not After Midnight. London, 1971. Includes the rst appearance of “Don’t Look Now,”
basis for the Nicholas Roeg lm starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. Very ne.
Du Maurier. Classics of the Macabre. 1987. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. LIMITED EDITION, num-
ber 168 of 250 copies SIGNED BY DU MAURIER and the illustrator. Publisher’s cloth slipcase.
Together, 8 FIRST EDITIONS or FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, all London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. (except as
noted), each in original bindings and dust jackets (except as noted on limited edition). Occasional
rubbing and very minor wear to bindings, occasional spotting to endpapers or text block edges;
each in unclipped dust jackets with occasional minor edgewear, including minor small chips or
short tears, minor soiling, toning, etc., but overall very good to very ne condition.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45043 Umberto Eco. The Name of the Rose. Translated from the
Italian by William Weaver. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
[1983].
8vo. Publisher’s white cloth-backed salmon-colored boards, front
board and spine stamped in rose gold; original color pictorial dust
jacket.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with code on copyright
“B C D E.” INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, INCLUDING
THE LAST LINES FROM THE BOOK on title-page: “stat rosa pristina
nomine, nomina nuda tenemus / Umberto Eco.” These concluding
Latin lines are from the 12th-century monk Bernard of Cluny, and
translate: “The rose of old remains only in its name; we possess
naked names.” The reference addresses the temporary nature of
physical beauty and the longevity of memory, noting that even
notable or attractive things eventually remain only as names or
concepts after their disappearance.
Condition: Book is very ne. Dust jacket unclipped (priced
“$15.95”), with minor wear at edges with a few short closed tears
and creases.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45044 George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]. Scenes of Clerical Life. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858.
2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, 4 divisional-titles. Original dark maroon cloth, covers and spines blocked in blind, spines gilt-lettered, chocolate-brown
endpapers, binder’s ticket of Edmonds & Remnants in Vol. I.
FIRST EDITION of Eliot’s rst work of ction. At the age of 36, after having established a modest career as a translator of theological works, Eliot wrote
this collection of three novellas, Scenes of Clerical Life. Drawing on her own childhood in Warwickshire, the stories touch on the themes of religious
and social reform, including alcoholism, poverty and domestic violence. First published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1857, the stories were generally
well-received, distinguishing Eliot’s talents and paving the way for her success as a novelist.
Condition: Some light wear to spine ends and extremities; joints rubbed; slight fading to spines; a few small scus or abrasions; corners bumped;
front hinge Vol. I possibly tightened. Front free endpaper in Vol. I a little ragged along fore-edge; signature G in Vol. I slightly sprung; a very few occa-
sions of spotting or soiling, otherwise very clean internally.
References: Baker & Ross A3.3; Parrish 7; Sadleir 818; Wol 2062.
Provenance: Malton Book Society (printed circulation slip [with manuscript subscriptions and entries] on front pastedown and front endpaper in Vol.
I). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $7,500
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45045 George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]. Adam Bede. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859.
3 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles; 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements at the end of Vol. III. Original cinnamon cloth covers decorated in blind, spines lettered
and decorated in gilt, untrimmed, with binder’s ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear pastedown of Vol. I.
FIRST EDITION of Eliot’s rst full-length novel. By 1859, Eliot was already a respected editor, essayist, and reviewer, but noted: “it had always been a
vague dream of mine that some time or other I might write a novel,” but feared she was “decient in dramatic power.” When it was published, Adam
Bede became an instant success, and there was great public pressure to reveal the pseudonymity. Because of her controversial relationship with
George Lewes, Eliot (Evans) was concerned she would come under scrutiny, hurting both her private life, as well as sales of the book. The binding
variant of this set is without a period following “London” at foot of spine (Baker & Ross’s variant B), but with yellow endpapers here (instead of yellow-
green described for this variant).
Condition: Spines a bit leaned; minor wear to extremities; faint rectangular discoloration to front covers (presumably from where library labels
were previously removed); some light rubbing and soiling; corners a little bumped. Some light marginal stains on pp. 177-81 in Vol. I; text block just
cracked at center in Vol. I (between pp. 128 and 129).
References: Baker & Ross A4.1 (Binding B); Parrish 12; Sadleir 812; Wol 2056.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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45046 George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]. The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.
3 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles; with inserted preliminary advertisement in Vol. I, and 16 pp. advertisements (undated) at end of Vol. III. Original cinnamon-
colored cloth, blocked in blind, spines gilt-lettered, uncut, binder’s ticket of Edmonds & Remnants at rear endpaper of Vol. I; cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION, Carter’s Binding B, and with ad leaf in rst volume in second state (advertising Scenes of Clerical Life 3rd edition, and Adam Bede 8th
edition) which indicates second state according to Carter (but “B” binding not necessarily later than “A”, according to Lake and Nassau).
Condition: Spines slightly leaned and with light blistering of cloth; a touch of wear to extremities, very minor soiling; corners lightly bumped. Hinges
of Vol. I cracked (and previously re-glued at front, light apparent glue staining to title gutter); Vol. III pastedowns show trace adhesive remnants where
bookplate (or circulation form?) removed, and with slight ink transfer to front free endpaper (from a facing signature or document), similar trace of
signature oset on front free endpaper in Vol. II, but no adhesive evidence; a few quires slightly sprung. Half-title in Vol. I with small repair near gutter
at top. Internally very clean. Overall, a near ne set in a bright binding.
References: Baker & Ross A5.1.a2; Carter, Binding Variants, p. 110; Lake and Nassau item #22; Sadleir 216a; Wol 2060.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45047 George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.
8vo. Half-title; 20 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Original cinnamon cloth, blindstamped on covers, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine
(Carter’s binding A), cream endpapers, unopened, with Burn binder’s ticket on lower pastedown; cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Eliot’s third novel, which presents an apparently straightforward narrative while exploring signicant themes such
as Victorian moral values, sexuality, concepts of time and temporality, Darwinian theory, and the philosophical ideas of William Wordsworth. This
copy with Baker & Ross’s (b) placement of the bound-in advertisements, with eight leaves plus two leaves at rear, with the Carlyle Autobiography ads
following the catalogue.
Condition: Touch of rubbing and bumping to extremities, with the slightest hint of soiling, otherwise very ne and bright. Half title and fore edge
slightly foxed (a few spots); a few mostly marginal stray fox marks; top edge slightly dust-soiled. Overall, an extremely fresh copy in a very ne and
bright binding.
References: Baker & Ross A6.1.a; Sadleir 819.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45048 George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]. Romola. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863.
3 volumes, 8vo. 2 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end of Vol. II. Publisher’s green cloth, sides stamped in blind, gilt-decorated on spines.
FIRST EDITION. WILLIAM HALE WHITE’S COPY. Romola was originally published in fourteen parts in Cornhill Magazine from July 1862 to August 1863.
A strict departure from Eliot’s earlier works, the novel was an historical romance set in the 15th-century and focused on the intellectual, artistic, and
social points of view of Renaissance Florence. It proved the toughest for Eliot to write; she would later remark, “I began it as a young woman, – and
nished it an old woman.” (Cross, Life, II, 352).
This copy belonged to William Hale White (1831-1913), a novelist, journalist, and early advocate for women’s rights. He worked with George Eliot at
The Westminster Review and both lived at 142 Strand, London, owned by its publisher John Chapman. White described his friendship with Eliot in a
1902 article for The Bookman entitled “George Eliot as I knew her”. Writing under the pen name Mark Rutherford, White apparently referenced Eliot in
his partially-ctionalized autobiography, The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford: Dissenting Minister (1881), where he depicts a romantic gure named
Theresa who appears to be modelled after George Eliot. A SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATION COPY.
Condition: Spines slightly leaned; minor wear to spine ends (with a few tiny breaks in cloth at tips) and corners; minor rubbing to edges. A few hing-
es cracked or tender; Vol. I text block cracked at center. Slight evidence of removed letter(?) and deleted brief inscription on front free endpaper; a few
scattered spots, or mild marginal toning. Overall, a very good set with spine gilt still retaining much of its brightness.
References: Baker & Ross A7.2.
Provenance: W. Hale White, Carshalton (signatures on each front free endpaper). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45049 Eliot, George [Mary Ann Evans]. Felix Holt. The Radical. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1863.
3 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles; with 24 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end of volume III. Publisher’s dark red-brown cloth (Carter’s “C” binding), spines
decorated in gilt, dark green endpapers; cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHER’S PRESENTATION COPY, with oval ink stamp below title in Vol. I: “Presented by the Publishers.” Eliot’s social novel explores
political tensions in a small English town during the 1832 Reform Act, featuring Felix Holt and Radical nobleman Harold Transome as central gures.
The advertisements in the present copy are in the fth state, version 2 according to Baker & Ross.
Condition: Spines leaned; very minor wear and bumping to extremities; some slight blistering to cloth on Vol. I; some hinges tender; bookplate re-
moved from pastedown of Vol. I. Minor light foxing to half-title and last pages in Vol. I, and heavier on last few leaves of ads in Vol. III; chip on edge of
front free endpaper in Vol. II. Overall, a bright near ne set.
References: Baker and Ross, A8.1; Carter, Binding Variants, pp. 111-12; Parrish 20; Sadleir 814; Woolf 2058.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45050 George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]. Autograph letter signed (“ME Lewes”) to Oscar Browning. Regents Park, 21 November 1867.
4 pages, 12mo (153 x 99 mm), on a bifolium. Written in dark brown ink on printed stationery of The Priory, 21 North Bank, Regents Park. Docketed in
an unknown contemporary hand “Lewes” inverted on lower margin of nal page.
A very good letter to her eventual biographer, Oscar Browning, discussing the philosophy of education and acknowledging receipt of an unidentied
volume of poetry which “came last night... I have already dipped into [the poems] with pleasant result. ‘Mimnermus in Church’ [by William Johnson
Cory] I like especially. If Time were more elastic, or if I were strong enough to stretch it more, I should like to write you a long letter... But I must just
emphasize my hatred, in common with yours, of negative destructive teaching given to the young. Superstition, of almost any sort, is better, & has
more moral truth in it, than an attitude of contemptuous superiority to the hard-earned experience of other generations. The moral atmosphere, as
you imply, is the rst second and third requisite—yet I cannot help thinking that higher beliefs may be gradually infused... I am sure that your practice
has taught you more than I know of such matters...” Not in Letters, ed. by Gordon S. Haight (New Haven, 1955).
Oscar Browning, was a writer and educational reformer, and at that time a master at Eton College. He edited an edition of Milton’s Tractate on
Education, and was also the author of numerous studies on education theory, including An Introduction to the History of Educational Theories (1882),
and Aspects of Education: A Study in the History of Pedagogy (1888). Browing had a long friendship with Eliot and wrote an extensive and well-received
biography of her, published in 1890.
Condition: Folds, some light toning on letterhead on rst page, folds on nal page lightly soiled.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45051 ELIOT, George [Mary Ann Evans]. Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, December
1871- December 1872.
8 parts, 8vo (177 x 125 mm). Title-page of rst volume in Part 1; errata slip in Part 4; half-titles and contents to all volumes and title-pages for Parts 2-4
bound at end of Part 8. Original green printed wrappers, pictorial vignette in center of front wrappers; housed together in a custom green quarter
morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS OF ELIOT’S GREATEST NOVEL AND ONE OF THE MASTERPIECES OF VICTORIAN FICTION. Collates complete, includ-
ing errata slip in Part 4, and all inserted slips and advertisements called for. Due to the scope of her novel, Eliot and her companion George Lewes
suggested to her publisher, John Blackwood, that the novel be published in eight parts priced at ve shillings each and issued every two months
starting in December 1871. While each part gave the reader more of the story than the traditional monthly serial publications, the more expensive
price and the wait of two months for the next part meant Eliot needed to ensure her plots kept the public interested enough to purchase the next in-
stallment. Although Eliot found writing for serialization to be an enormously dicult task, Middlemarch proved to be a modestly popular success and
cemented Eliot’s reputation, selling 5,000 copies of the edition in parts and 3,000 additional copies of the four-volume bound edition. EXTREMELY
SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS.
This copy conforms to the Parrish copy. The William E. Self copy which sold at Christie’s in December, 2009 for $68,500 had slightly better spines, but a
previous owner had written the part number on each spine in black ink. In addition, the back cover to Self’s Part 1 did not conform to Parrish.
Condition: Part 1 front wrapper partially detached and with small ink stain; some wear to spine ends with some minor chips or short splits; some mi-
nor rubbing and toning to spines; occasional other light edgewear to wrappers with minor creases or nicks; minor soiling; some spines a little leaned.
Overall, an excellent unsophisticated set.
References: Baker & Ross A10.1.a1; Parrish 29-31.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $30,000
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45052 George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]. Daniel Deronda. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, February-September 1876.
4 volumes in 8 parts, 8vo. Half-titles. Publisher’s printed greenish-gray wrappers, cover text within single-rule border printed in red; housed in two
custom quarter morocco folding cases.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS of Eliot’s last completed novel, and the only one set in the Victorian society of her day. The work’s mixture of social
satire and moral searching, along with its sympathetic rendering of proto-Zionist ideas, has made it a controversial nal statement from one of the
most renowned Victorian novelists. Complete with the errata slips and all advertisements and announcements called for in Baker & Ross. SCARCE IN
ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Condition: Spines a bit toned (a few with slight paper cracks to backstrips); spine of Part 1 repaired with some letters of title in skillful pen facsimile;
some minor repairs to spine ends on a few other parts; occasional minor chipping at edges (more apparent on Parts 1, 5 and 7); covers with a little
rubbing, toning or soiling. Interiors very clean and bright, including ads; overall very good copy of a fragile set.
References: Baker & Ross A11.1.a.1; Sadleir 813; Parrish, pp. 37-38.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45053 Ian Fleming. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, [1961].
8vo. Original dark brown cloth-textured boards, upper cover blindstamped with skeletal hand design, gilt-stamped on spine (Gilbert’s binding A);
pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, of Fleming’s ninth Bond book, and his eighth full-length Bond novel. It was the rst Bond novel to be based
on a screenplay, written by Fleming, Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham: the credit was shared between the three co-writers after McClory and
Whittingham took Fleming to court, shortly before his publication of the novel.
Condition: Slightest rubbing to extremities. A few small stains on fore-edge and bottom edge of text block. Dust jacket aps with Cape’s decorative
clip with price intact (“15s. net”), very light wear to ends of spine panel and corners; tiny loss at foot of rear ap fold; folds very slightly rubbed and
toned; minor stain on rear panel.
References: Gilbert A9a (1.1).
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45054 Robert Frost. New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923.
8vo. Illustrated with four full-page woodcuts and vignette woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. Publisher’s black cloth over beveled boards, upper cover and
spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 18 of 350 copies SIGNED BY FROST. Includes the rst book appearance of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening.”
Condition: Spine very slightly faded, touch of rubbing to extremities. Text block over-opened at pp. 70-71, otherwise very good. Lacking the original
white paper-covered board box.
References: Crane A6 (Limited Edition).
Provenance: E. Hubert Litcheld (bookplate). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45055 Erle Stanley Gardner. The Case of the Negligent Nymph. New York: William Morrow & Company, [1950].
8vo. Original blue boards, upper cover and spine lettered in black; pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GARDNER on the front free endpaper: “To Louise / The ‘house mother’ of the girls in the ction fac-
tory and my companion on many an adventure. With much love / Yours / Erle / Earle Stanley Gardner / Dec 1949.”
Condition: Some very pale spotting to endpapers. Dust jacket price clipped on front ap, but with price on rear ap intact (priced “$2.50”), some very
minor soft creasing and soiling on rear panel, otherwise very ne.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45056 Robert Graves. Fairies and Fusiliers. London: William Heinemann, [1917].
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; publishers green dust jacket printed in black; cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GRAVES TO DOROTHEA CONYERS on the front free endpaper: “Dorothea Conyers / from / Robert
Graves / Jan. 1918.” Dorothea Conyers (1869-1949) was an Irish novelist whose rst husband, Lt. Col. Charles Conyers, was killed in the Great War in
May, 1915. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies. A VERY FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, in the very rare fragile dust jacket.
Condition: Spine with slight fading and tiny chip at foot; corners lightly bumped; a little dust-soiling to top edge; a little diagonal blistering/creasing
to cloth on upper cover. Two small staple or pin holes below inscription on front free endpaper (with a tiny rust spot on following leaf); some oc-
casional very minor pale spotting to text block edges and some margins. Dust jacket priced “3/6 net” on spine panel; spine panel toned and chipped
at head (without loss of lettering); 2-inch split/tear along lower joint fold at bottom; some toning and creasing along folds; some minor spotting or
soiling.
References: Higginson & Williams A3.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45057 Robert Graves. Good-Bye To All That. London: Jonathan Cape, [1929].
8vo. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Graves and illustrations. Publisher’s salmon-pink cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, sheets partially unopened on
lower edges; original pictorial dust jacket illustrated with a photograph of the author by Arthur Cracknell; cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, including passages on p. 290 and pp. 341-343 that were suppressed at Siegfried Sassoon’s insistence in later issues. The
unexpurgated text includes a description of Sassoon’s mother’s attempts to communicate with her dead son Hamo, and the text of a verse letter from
Sassoon to Graves, published without his permission. With original 4 pp. order form entitled “War” laid in, advertising six Cape books, including this
and another Graves title, as well as Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and E. E. Cummings’ The Enormous Room.
Condition: Binding extremely ne and bright. Dust jacket ap corners with Cape’s decorative clip not aecting price on upper ap (“10s. 6d. net.”);
light toning to spine panel and ap folds; pale soiling to jacket; just a touch of very slight wear at extreme top edge of spine panel and ap corners;
small internal tear (4 mm.) near rear joint fold at lower center. Overall, a remarkably ne copy in an extremely well-preserved jacket.
References: Higginson & Williams A32a.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45058 Robert Graves. I, Claudius. From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius. [With:] Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina. London: Arthur
Barker, 1934.
Together, 2 volumes, 8vo. Folding table in each volume. Publisher’s black cloth; original pictorial dust-jackets by John Aldridge; each housed in a half
morocco slipcase.
First editions of Robert Graves’s widely acclaimed historical novels set in ancient Rome. PRESENTATION COPIES, EACH VOLUME INSCRIBED BY THE
AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: The rst volume: “Atmore Beach / Yours very sincerely [ink light] / Robert Graves / Detroit / Feb 11 / 1958.” The
second inscribed: “Robert Graves / Feb 11 / 1958.” Graves was in Detroit that day to give a reading sponsored jointly by the Detroit Public Library and
Wayne State University. With invitation to the reading laid in.
Written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius, I, Claudius tells the history of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the early
years of the Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 BC to Caligula’s assassination in AD 41. The “autobiography” continues in a sequel,
Claudius the God, which covers the period from Claudius’ accession to his death in AD 54.
Condition: Minor rubbing to binding of rst title, with corners lightly bumped. Very minor occasional foxing. Dust jackets price-clipped, some wear
to extremities, with some chips or short tears; some tape repairs and toning on verso of I, Claudius; some light creasing and soiling.
References: Higginson A42a, A43a.
Provenance: Atmore Beach (inscriptions by Graves and morocco gilt bookplates); Paul Peralta-Ramos (red ink Chinese ownership stamp on front free
endpaper of each volume; his sale, Sotheby’s New York, 18 June 2004, lot 190). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $3,000
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45059 Robert Herrick. Hesperides: or, The Works both Humane & Divine. London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Egleseld, 1648.
2 parts in one volume, 8vo (171 x 106 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait by William Marshall (on verso of [A1]), woodcut device of a crown on title,
with the scarce errata leaf, three cancelled leaves (C7, N8, O8), and separate title page to His Noble Numbers dated 1647. 18th-century full dark blue (or
black) goatskin, the covers tooled with double gilt-ruled border, inner gilt corner-pieces surrounding a decorative gilt centerpiece, smooth spine with
double gilt-ruled border with gilt ornaments at both ends and center, red leather spine label double-ruled and lettered in gilt, edges gilt.
FIRST EDITION of the work Herrick himself considered his “denitive life’s work”(ODNB), and the only printed record of his collected poetry published
in his lifetime. The printer is unknown, but he is excoriated by Herrick in a quatrain above the errata: “For these Transgressions which thou here dost
see, / Condemne the Printer, Reader, and not me; / Who gave him forth good Grain though he mistook / The Seed; so sow’d these Tares throughout
my Book.” The printer’s errors were so numerous on three leaves they required cancels.
A REMARKABLE COPY, ENRICHED WITH A VARIETY OF MANUSCRIPT NOTES AND WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE FROM THE IMPORTANT
LIBRARIES OF FARMER, CALDECOTT, BINDLEY, DANIEL AND HUTH. Rev. Richard Farmer has transcribed Herrick’s biographical details from Wood’s ac-
count, Athenae Oxonienses (1721), on a leaf inserted at the front of this copy (subscribed below by later owner George Daniel: “The above account
of Herrick is in the handwriting of Dr. Farmer to whom this very beautiful copy in old blue morocco belonged...”). Following Farmer’s ownership, the
book became part of James Bindley’s notable library of Elizabethan and Stuart works, on which he spent almost his entire income. The volume was
later owned by Thomas Caldecott who has added his manuscript notes and commentary on approximately 50 pages as well as additional underlin-
ing of words and passages—a practice he also applied to his annotated editions of Milton’s Poems on Several Occasions and Reid’s 1813 edition of
Shakespeare, both now held by the British Library. Subsequent provenance includes the Daniel and Huth Libraries. The ownership chain of this distin-
guished copy represents some of the most eminent collectors of the past 250 years.
Condition: Binding repaired at head of spine and along upper edge of front board, with repairs along upper edge; upper joint worn but holding;
spine and joints rubbed; some minor wear at edges; lacking two original ties. Tiny paper reinforcement at upper corner on verso of portrait; occa-
sional minor spotting or marginal toning.
References: Grolier, English 29; Grolier, Wither to Prior 441; Hayward 95; Pforzheimer 468; Wing H1596, H1597.
Provenance: R. Philips (early inscription on frontispiece verso: “ex dono H. Aubrey Junioris”); Rev. Richard Farmer (1735-1797), Master of Emmanuel
College, Cambridge (inscription on inserted leaf at front; his library, sold by Mr. King at King Street, Covent Garden, 6 June 1798, lot 6303); James
Bindley (1737-1818), incurable bibliomaniac (his sale of the second part of his library, sold by Mr Evans at 26, Pall Mall, 13 January 1819, lot 448);
Thomas Caldecott (1744-1833), barrister and literary editor (inscription; his sale, Sotheby’s London, 11 December 1833, lot 583); George Daniel (1789
-1864), editor of several Shakespeare plays, satirical poet and bibliophile (inscription; his sale, Sotheby’s London, 22 July 1864, lot 801); Henry Huth
(1815-1878), by descent to Alfred H. Huth (bookplate; his sale of the third part of his library, Sotheby’s London, 11 June 1913, lot 3627); John Whipple
Frothingham, bookplate; purchased at Sotheby’s, 15 December 2015, lot 28. The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $10,000
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45060 [Washington Irving]. Salmagundi; or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langsta, Esq. and others. New York: Printed and Published
by D. Longworth, 1807-08.
2 volumes, 12mo. Woodcut portrait in No. 8. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt dot border, gilt-ruled and lettered on spines,
board edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers.
FIRST EDITIONS of Parts 3 to 20, mixed states. Without the wrappers, but apparently bound from the 20 parts as evinced by stab holes in the inner
margins of the sheets. The rst two parts, while later editions, were issued in the same year as the rst editions. In this copy No. 1 is a third edition, No.
2 is second edition, and all others are rst editions. Of numbers of the rst editions where BAL gives distinguishing states or printings, this set may
be summarized: No. 3, rst printing; No. 4, rst printing, 2nd state; No. 5, mixed states; No. 7, 2nd state; No. 8, intermediate, mixed states; No.10, pre-
sumed 2nd state; No. 11, 1st printing, 1st state; No. 15, 1st state; No. 16, intermediate; No.17, 2nd state; No.18, intermediate. The other parts (Nos. 6, 9,
12-14, 19) have no distinguishable states in the rst edition. The portrait frontispiece to No. 8 reads “Launcelot Langsta, esq.” (Langfeld & Blackburn’s
state 5 of 6, BAL’s form 2 of 7). Parts in Vol. 2 have only signature letters A and B, indicating these were indeed bound from parts (see Langfeld &
Blackburn, p. 9).
Condition: Spines slightly darkened with a little wear at ends; a little wear to joints with some small chipping along joints; a few scus or nicks; cor-
ners a bit bumped. Occasional minor toning.
References: BAL 10097; Langfeld & Blackburn pp. 5-11.
Provenance: Elizabeth Cabot (pencil signature on each general title-page). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45061 [Washington Irving]. A History of New York, From the
Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty ... by Diedrich
Knickerbocker. New York and Philadelphia: Inskeep & Bradford; Boston:
William M’Ilhenney, and others, 1809.
2 volumes, 12mo (178 x 105 mm). Folding engraved frontispiece plate
of New Amsterdam in Vol. I. Contemporary tree sheep, spines gilt-
ruled and numbered, red leather spine labels lettered in gilt; quarter
morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION of Irving’s literary parody on the early history of
New York City. Originally published under the pseudonym Diedrich
Knickerbocker, later editions that acknowledged Irving’s authorship
were printed as Knickerbocker’s History of New York. It is considered
“the rst completely original American non-scholarly book” (Grolier).
Condition: Spines rebacked to match preserving original spine labels
(and portions of original spine on Vol. II); some neat repairs to corners
and edges; minor edgewear. Faint osetting to title-page in Vol. I;
some minor browning, osetting and spotting, but otherwise very
good. Folding engraved frontispiece in ne condition, with only a
slight (1/4”) tear at bottom of left fold.
References: BAL 10098; Grolier, American 28; Langfeld and Blackburn,
pp. 11-12.
Provenance: William M. Fitzhugh, Jr. (bookplates). The Library of a
Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45062 [Washington Irving]. The Sketch Book of Georey Crayon, Gent. No. I [-VII]. New York: Printed by C. S. Van Winkle, 1819-20.
7 parts bound in 2 volumes, 8vo. Extra-illustrated with three inserted plates in second volume. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards.
FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST PRINTINGS of Nos. I, VI and VII (i.e., rst printing throughout where such a distinction has been made by BAL). Published serially
throughout 1819 and 1820, The Sketch Book includes two of Irving’s best known works, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” It also
marks Irving’s rst use of “Georey Crayon”, which he would continue to employ throughout his literary career. The Sketch Book was the rst widely
read work of American literature in Britain and Europe and helped advance the reputation of American writers with an international audience. The
added three plates are inserted in Nos. V-VII and are from a London edition published in 1824.
Condition: Bindings somewhat tight; bound without the original wrappers, but including all title pages; edges trimmed; occasional light osetting
and spotting (mostly to inserted plates).
References: BAL 10106; Langfeld & Blackburn pp. 15-23.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45063 [Washington Irving]. The Sketch Book of Georey Crayon, Gent. London: John Miller, 1820 [Vol. I]; and John Murray, 1820 [Vol. II].
2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles. Nineteenth century half brown calf and marbled boards, olive-green leather lettering-pieces double-ruled and lettered in
gilt.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Vol. I, with the title-page imprint of John Miller; Second Edition of Vol. II published by Murray (dated the same year as
the rst). Copies of Vol. I with the John Miller imprint are rare: Miller began publishing volume I of this work, and his company failed during its pro-
duction. Murray took over printing the remainder of the rst volume, as well as the second volume. Murray also published the second edition of both
volumes the same year, being the rst English edition under one publisher.
Condition: Some scung and wear to spines and edges; boards rubbed; hinges tender; free endpapers in both volumes slightly trimmed. Occasional
minor soiling; very minor marginal dampstaining or spotting on last few leaves in Vol. II; small catalogue description axed to front pastedown of Vol.
II.
References: BAL 10107 [Vol. I]; Langfeld & Blackburn, p. 23.
Provenance: Roy X. Tuttle (bookplate in Vol. I). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45064 [Washington Irving]. Tales of a Traveller. By Georey Crayon, Gent. London: John Murray, 1824.
2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles. Contemporary green calf gilt, covers gilt-ruled, spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title of each volume: “To Mrs. Sarah P. Storrow / from her friend /
Washington Irving / Auteuil, Septr 28th, 1824.” Additionally, the author has added a single-word manuscript correction to the text on p. 393 in Vol. II.
In his journal for September 28th, Irving notes: “Get a set of ‘Tales of a Traveller’ sent by Miller to the Galignanis—had not come to hand before—walk
out to Auteuil—pass the ev[e] at Mr. Storrow’s—give set of ‘Tales of a Traveller’ to Mrs. Storrow....” Irving was in Europe when the book was published
in London, and he made frequent visits to the Storrow home during his sojourn. This is likely one of the earliest copies to reach him after publication.
Sarah P. Storrow is Sally Phipps Brown Storrow (1783-1837), wife of Thomas Wentworth Storrow, a close friend of the American author Washington
Irving, who lived in Paris and was a correspondent of Irving’s. Irving’s letters to the Storrow family, particularly to Thomas Wentworth Storrow, are a
signicant collection that reveals details about his time in Europe, his struggle with illness, and his working methods while writing some of his most
famous works. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY.
The English edition of Tales of a Traveller precedes the American edition, and contains ve pieces not included in the Philadelphia edition. This copy is
in BAL’s state B (no priority), with the printed notice on p. [395] in Vol. II
Condition: Spines a bit darkened, with head of Vol. II worn; some rubbing to joints and extremities; a few scus. Some minor scattered foxing, occa-
sional minor spotting; there are a few small marginal paper aws, but overall a very good set.
References: BAL 10115.
[With:]
Stanley T. Williams, ed. Washington Irving and the Storrows. Letters from England and the Continent, 1821-1828. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1933. 8vo, original red cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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45065 [Washington Irving]. The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832.
2 volumes, 12mo. Original purple muslin-backed tan boards, printed paper spine labels, uncut; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. After publishing his History of the Life and Voyages of Columbus in 1828, Irving visited Granada, which he described as “a
most picturesque and beautiful city, situated in one of the loveliest landscapes that I have ever seen.” During his time there, he was granted access to
The Alhambra palace and fortress complex, an experience that served as the inspiration for this work. The present copy is in BAL’s Binding Variant A,
with leaves 21.3-4 present as blanks at end of Vol. II.
Condition: Spines faded with labels chipped at edges and heavily rubbed; some staining and spotting to boards; a little wear to corners. Front free
endpaper and yleaf in Vol. II with lower portions excised; a few tears to front yleaves in Vol. I; occasional toning and spotting.
References: BAL 10136; Langfeld & Blackburn, p. 32; Wright 1373.
Provenance: Thomas P. Hawley (ink signature on each title dated 1844). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45066 [Washington Irving]. George S. Hellman, editor. The Letters of Washington Irving to Henry Brevoort. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1915. 2
volumes. [With:] The Letters of Henry Brevoort to Washington Irving. New York: G. P. Putnam’s, 1915. 2 volumes.
Together 4 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece portrait in each volume and one facsimile. Original blue boards, gilt-stamped on covers, black leather spine
labels, uncut; original dust jackets printed in dark blue.
FIRST EDITIONS, LARGE-PAPER ISSUES, number 80 (Irving’s Letters Vol. I) and number 89 (Irving’s Letters Vol. II) of 255 copies and number 115 of 310
copies, respectively. THE EDITOR’S COPIES, inscribed by Hellman on the front free endpaper of Vol. I of each set: “Ex libris / George Hellman.”
WITH AN UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM IRVING TO BREVOORT tipped-in at the rear of Vol. II of Irving’s Letters, dated London, 14
November 1829, 2 pages with integral address leaf, 4to. Irving informs Brevoort that he is sending “a part of the rst volume of [Thomas] Moore’s life
of Byron” and a copy of a new work by William Godwin [probably Cloudesley] with the view of placing them “to the best advantage with the American
publishers...” Also laid-in is a later 7-page typescript of an unpublished letter from Irving to Brevoort, dated New York, May 15th, 1811.
Condition: Front endpapers toned from typescript laid in Vol. I of Irving’s Letters. Bindings very ne; dust jacket spines very slightly toned; spine
panel of Vol. I of Irving’s Letters with pale stain, minor stain on front panel of Vol. II (Irving’s Letters), otherwise an extremely ne set. The letter with a
little separation at outer fold along fore-edge of text block, repair to seal hole on address leaf.
References: BAL 10205; Langfeld & Blackburn, pp. 47-48.
Provenance: George Hellman, editor (inscriptions in each set). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45067 M. R. James. Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary. London: Edward Arnold, 1904.
8vo. 16 pp. advertisements at end dated November 1904. Frontispiece and 3 plates by James McBryde. Publisher’s coarse beige cloth, ruled in red and
lettered in black, yapp edges.
FIRST EDITION of M. R. James’ rst collection of ghost stories, “generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural ction. In the
opinion of many the foremost modern writer of supernatural ction” (Bleiler).
Condition: Spine slightly toned and with a little whitening at foot; minor rubbing and toning to board edges; very light toning or spotting to endpa-
pers. Title-page a bit toned from facing tissue guard; some very light marginal toning.
References: Bleiler, Checklist, p. 108; Bleiler, Supernatural 911; Currey, p. [261]; Reginald 07817; Tymn, Horror Literature 3-125.
Provenance: Stuart A. Donaldson (1854-1915), Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge and Vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge (book-
plate; ownership signature on front free endpaper, dated Christmas 1904). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45068 M. R. James. A Thin Ghost and Others. London: Edward Arnold, 1919.
8vo. Publisher’s pictorial gray cloth stamped with a cobweb design in light blue-gray on upper cover; original pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of M. R. James’ third collection of ghost stories, containing ve tales, including “The Diary of Mr Poynter” and “The Story of a
Disappearance and an Appearance.” The dust jacket on this copy appears to be in a dierent state than those in the Munson collection sold at
Heritage Auctions. This copy has only the publisher’s name “Arnold” at foot of spine panel, while the Munson copies had Arnold’s publisher device
at foot and statement “Cash Price in the United Kingdom” above the price. The rear panel of the present copy contains reviews for the new editions
of James’s earlier two books, while the Munson copies only contained publication details. The front ap contains an ad for eight titles published by
Arnold, while the Munson copies were blank. IN THE VERY RARE FRAGILE DUST JACKET.
Condition: Minor rubbing to extremities; a little spotting to text block edges; previous owner’s gift inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1925.
Dust jacket priced “4/6 Net” on spine, rear ap blank; spine panel toned and chipped at ends; splitting along lower fold; other edgewear with some
splitting and chipping near folds; some staining, toning and soiling.
References: Bleiler, Supernatural 913; Currey, p. [261]; Tymn, Horror 3-127.
Provenance: Purchased from L. W. Currey. The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45069 M. R. James. A Thin Ghost and Others. London: Edward Arnold, 1919.
8vo. Publisher’s pictorial gray cloth stamped with a cobweb design in light blue-
gray on upper cover.
FIRST EDITION. PUBLISHER’S FILE COPY, with label “File Copy” axed to bottom
of upper cover. M. R. James’ third collection of ghost stories, containing ve tales,
including “The Diary of Mr Poynter” and “The Story of a Disappearance and an
Appearance.”
Condition: Very slight rubbing to spine ends and corners; hint of toning to end-
papers, otherwise very ne.
References: Bleiler, Supernatural 913; Currey, p. [261]; Tymn, Horror 3-127.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45070 M. R. James. A Warning to the Curious and other Ghost Stories. London:
Edward Arnold & Co., 1925.
8vo. Publisher’s beige cloth lettered in brown; with illustrated front panel of the
original dust jacket mounted on front pastedown.
FIRST EDITION of the fourth and nal collection of ghost stories by M. R.
James, including “The Haunted Doll’s House,” “The Uncommon Prayer Book,” “A
Neighbour’s Landmark,” “A View From a Hill,” “A Warning to the Curious,” and “An
Evening’s Entertainment.”
Condition: Spine slightly leaned; touch of wear to lower spine corners; very mi-
nor soiling. A very ne copy, containing the macabre front panel of the original
dust jacket.
References: Bleiler, Checklist (1978), p. 109; Bleiler, Supernatural 915; Currey, p.
[261].
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45071 M. R. James. Wailing Well. Stanford Dingley: The Mill House Press, 1928.
4to. Engraved title-vignette and headpiece. Original two-toned cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; supplied glassine dust jacket (not issued with one); cloth
folding case.
LIMITED EDITION, number 122 of 150 copies (an additional seven were issued with the title-page printed in blue and black and signed by James).
Condition: Spine sunned; some minor soiling; otherwise very ne.
References: Bleiler, Supernatural 916; Currey, p. 261, issue B.
Provenance: John W. Hancock (bookplate; pencil gift inscription from “E. R.” on front free endpaper); Richard M. Lackritz, MD (his sale, Christie’s New
York, 17 April 2002, lot 105). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45072 M. R. James. The Collected Ghost Stories. London: Edward Arnold & Co., [1931].
8vo. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; pictorial dust jacket printed in green and red on mottled beige paper, with original wrap-around band
“Recommended by The Book Society.”
FIRST EDITION of James’s omnibus collection of ghost stories, all previously appearing except for the Preface, and four previously uncollected stories:
“There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard,” “Rats,” “After Dark in the Playing Fields,” and “Stories I Have Tried to Write.” Very scarce in a ne dust jacket,
designed by John Case, and even scarcer with the seldom seen original wrap-around band.
Condition: Binding very ne and bright. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “8/6 net”), with spine panel only very slightly toned; minor edgewear with a
few tiny nicks; light rubbing to extremities; touch of soiling. An exceptional copy.
References: Bleiler, Supernatural 917; Currey p.261; Tymn, Horror 3-124.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45073 M. R. James. A group of three First Editions.
M. R. James. More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. London: Edward Arnold, 1911. 8vo. 2 pp. advertisement on nal leaf (19[2]) and 24 pp. publisher’s
advertisement at end, dated September 1911. Original pictorial gray cloth stamped in black, top edge trimmed, others uncut. FIRST EDITION. This
copy with publisher’s catalogue at end dated “September 1911,” not “Autumn 1911,” as noted in Currey and found in some copies. Minor wear to spine
extremities; minor rubbing to joints; front board with two tiny abrasions and small white stain; some light foxing to endpapers; minor toning or spot-
ting to uncut fore-edges. Provenance: Benedict Wood (signature on front free endpaper). Bleiler, Supernatural 912; Currey, p. [261].
M. R. James. The Five Jars. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. 8vo, illustrated with seven plates by Gilbert James, original orange cloth lettered in
black. FIRST EDITION. Touch of wear to extremities, otherwise bright; some foxing to text block edges; occasional foxing to text. Bleiler, Supernatural,
914.
M. R. James. The Collected Ghost Stories. London: Edward Arnold & Co., [1931]. 8vo, original black cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION. Spine
slightly leaned; slight rubbing or wear to extremities, otherwise ne and bright. Bookplate of Nigel S. S. Warren. Bleiler, Supernatural 917.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45074 Stephen King. Salem’s Lot. Garden City: Doubleday &
Company, Inc., 1975.
8vo. Original black cloth-backed red boards; dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of the author’s second novel and his rst bestseller. In
the usual second state dust jacket with “Father Cody” misprint and
“$7.95” price stamped on the front ap below where clipped. With Q37
code at gutter of p. 439. King’s vampire novel set in a sleepy Maine
town. The book was adapted twice as television lms.
Condition: Spine slightly leaned, with some light wear at ends includ-
ing two small splits at head; touch of wear to board edges. Dust jacket
with light wear to ends of spine panel with slight loss and creasing;
closed tear and crease to rear panel; some other light edgewear to ex-
tremities with a few tiny nicks or closed tears.
References: Barron, Horror Literature 4-172.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45075 Stephen King. The Shining. Garden City, New York: Doubleday &
Company, Inc., 1977.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth-backed tan boards, spine stamped in gilt; picto-
rial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of the author’s third book.
Condition: Touch of rubbing to spine extremities. Dust jacket unclipped
(priced “$8.95”), with slight rubbing and creasing to spine extremities, minor
crease along top edge on rear panel, otherwise ne.
References: Barron, Horror Literature 4-173; Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The
Hundred Best Novels 64; Tymn, Horror Literature 4-134.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45076 Andrew Lang. 2 First Editions of his Fairy Books.
Andrew Lang. The Grey Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. 8vo. 8 color plates and numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. Original
pictorial gilt gray cloth, edges gilt. FIRST EDITION. Spine slightly leaned; front hinge cracked; previous owner’s signature on frontispiece recto and
bookplate.
Andrew Lang. The Crimson Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. 8vo. Numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. Original pictorial gilt crim-
son cloth, edges gilt. FIRST EDITION. Spine slightly leaned; minor wear to extremities; early gift inscription on half-title and recipient’s ink stamp on
blank verso of frontispiece.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45077 D. H. Lawrence. The Rainbow. London: Methuen, 1915.
8vo. With 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Original blue-green cloth, lettered in blind on upper cover, gilt-decorated on spine; housed in a full
morocco pull-o case with watered-silk chemise.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title-page. Widely considered one of Lawrence’s greatest works, The Rainbow was banned
in England shortly after its 1915 publication due to its explicit portrayals of sexual desire and relationships, which British authorities classied as ob-
scene. More than 1,000 copies were conscated and destroyed under the Obscene Publications Act of 1857. The ban in England lasted for 11 years,
while editions continued to be distributed in the United States.
Condition: Lower fore-corners bumped and very slightly darkened; front hinge starting before title; text block cracked at center, but holding. Circular
library stamp neatly washed from imprint on title page. A very bright ne copy.
References: Roberts A7.
[Laid-in:]
D. H. Lawrence. Autograph letter signed (“D. H. Lawrence”), to his literary agent J. B. Pinker. Hampstead N. W., 14 December 1915. 2 pages (recto and
verso), 8vo.
Lawrence writes his literary agent discussing the title for Twilight in Italy, his upcoming travels, and publication of The Rainbow:
“My dear Pinker / I don’t know what to call the book: something plain: Studies of Restless Italy - An Italian Winter - Uneasy Italy - Studies of Italian
Restlessness. I can’t think of anything - I like the last title best...” He goes on to discuss his upcoming travels and the publication of The Rainbow: “I hear
Huebsch is sailing on the Peace Ship: is Doran too? When are they publishing The Rainbow, do you know. [undecipherable] wrote me that the Editor
of the Metropolitan Magazine was praising the book enthusiastically – heaven knows why. Yours / D. H. Lawrence.”
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $4,000
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45078 D. H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley’s Lover. [Florence]: Privately printed [by the Tipograa Giuntina], 1928.
8vo. Original mulberry boards, with phoenix printed in black on cover, printed paper spine label, uncut and unopened; original pale yellow dust
jacket; custom cloth clamshell case.
FIRST EDITION, number 833 of 1,000 copies SIGNED BY LAWRENCE. Lawrence’s most famous work but also one of the most controversial books
of the twentieth century. It was rejected by both British and American publishers on the grounds of obscenity, forcing Lawrence to seek the help
of Florentine bookseller Giuseppe Orioli, who arranged for the book to be set by hand by Italian printers and issued by subscription in an edition
of 1000 copies. Despite being banned in Britain and America, with several illicit consignments seized in police raids, the edition sold out within six
months. AN EXTREMELY FINE COPY IN THE SCARCE DUST JACKET.
Condition: Slight bump at foot of spine with very slight damage along extreme edge; 2 small foxmarks on spine label; some minor spotting to uncut
deckle edges and some internal gutters. Dust jacket with some light toning along edges and ap folds; 1 ¼-inch closed tear on upper panel along
spine fold at foot; a few tiny nicks along lower edge of jacket; a bit of foxing along upper ap fold.
References: Connolly, The Modern Movement 57; Roberts A42; Gertzman 7 (corresponding with the measurements of his 1.1.a).
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $7,500
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45079 J. Sheridan Le Fanu. In a Glass Darkly. London: R.
Bentley & Son, 1872.
3 volumes, 8vo. Original maroon cloth, covers stamped in
blind, spines gilt-lettered and ruled.
FIRST EDITION. “In a Glass Darkly, a collection published
a year before Le Fanu’s death, features the author at the
height of his powers - which is to say that it features the
most masterful and multilayered ghost stories found
anywhere” (Tymn). Includes the classics “Green Tea” and
“Carmilla,” the latter anticipating Dracula’s erotic undertones
by a quarter of a century. Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla is widely
regarded as a key precursor to Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897),
inuencing its setting, themes, and characters.
Very rare, even more so in original cloth: “First editions of
other seminal contributions to vampire literature, such as
James Malcolm Rhymer’s Varney the Vampire (1847) and J.
Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla (rst collected in In a
45080 J. Sheridan Le Fanu. In a Glass Darkly...A New Edition. London: Richard
Bentley & Son, 1884.
8vo. Half-title. Original dark greenish-blue cloth, covers decorated in blind, spine
stamped in gilt.
Second edition, and rst single-volume edition, of Le Fanu’s important collec-
tion of ghost stories, following the 1872 rst edition in three volumes.
Condition: Minor wear to spine ends with a few tiny splits to cloth at tips; spine
slightly leaned; joints and extremities a little rubbed, but overall bright. Hinges
cracked with rst two quires becoming loose; a few pale spots to text.
References: Sadleir 1380a.
Provenance: R. Couch (early signature on half-title). The Library of a Minnesota
Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
Glass Darkly, 1872) are virtually nonexistent in the book trade” (Boyd White, Firsts Magazine, Sep/Oct 2018).
Condition: Spines rebacked with original spines laid down; some toning to original spines; corners worn; boards rubbed; slight evidence of labels
removed from upper covers. Occasional foxing throughout, mostly aecting text block edges, prelims and margins; minor marginal toning or soiling;
a few leaves creased.
References: Bleiler, Supernatural, 995; Crawford 107; Sadleir 1380; Tymn 3-139 (First Purchase title); Wol 4017.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $4,000
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45081 H. P. Lovecraft. Autograph letter signed (“E’ch-Pi-El”) to Clark Ashton Smith (“Klarkash-ton”). Providence, RI, 23 August 1931.
2 pages (recto and verso), 8vo (227 x 140 mm). Written in dark blue ink. With original envelope addressed in holograph and signed (“H. P. Lovecraft”)
with his return address written on ap.
A wonderful letter from Lovecraft to his close friend and fellow-science ction and fantasy writer, Clark Ashton Smith, discussing numerous authors
and stories, including his own (“The Music of Erich Zann”) and others to be included in Dashiell Hammett’s Modern Tales of Horror (published 1932),
Clark’s “The Maker of Gargoyles” (published in Weird Tales, August, 1932), and Clark’s two “Singing Flame” stories (published in Wonder Stories, July and
November, 1931).
For his address at the top right of the letter, Lovecraft references Smith’s own story, “The City of the Singing Flame,” about a trans-dimensional alien
city: “Vortex of Slth-Kgnr on the liquid planet Nrun in the central galaxy of the sixth dimension beyond the City of Singing Flame. Moment of the up-
surge to meet the rising of the black satellite.” In the letters to his closest friends, Lovecraft’s address was usually a weird, psychedelic realm of ultra-
dimensional entity.
The letter begins:
“Dear Klarkash-Ton!—
Still trying fountain pens... Thanks for the nameless heads – which I shall see in a many a malign dream. Your opinion of Wandrei’s tale is more in-
telligent & analytical than the one I expressed; & I agree that a single haunting horror, repeatedly coming up in dierent lives & nally confronted
through retracting, would give the tale more unity & dramatic interest than it now has.
No - I shan’t let your gargoyle tale cut mine o any more than I shall let Whitehead’s ‘Cassius’ suppress my future tale of the amputated Siamese twin.
Yours is certainly a winner, & I hope it may nd ready & appreciative placement.
Yes, indeed – I have now read ‘Beyond the Singing Flame’ with the most poignant admiration... which reminds me that I re-read the original ‘Singing
Flame’ in print with undiminished pleasure. That tale is a marvellous piece of genius—the sequel is a worthy continuation of it.”
He continues discussing other stories (mentioning seeing the “new Strange Tales” for the rst time), and authors, including Dashiell Hammett: “I think
I mentioned on a card that the forthcoming Dashiell Hammet anthology is going to use my ‘Erich Zann.’ Belknap now infamous one that his ‘Visitor
from Egypt’ is likewise to appear...” He lists other stories he wishes would be included and continues about being “swamped with revision.” Lovecraft
concludes the letter and signs: “Yes for the infra-red rite of Nephren-Ka- / E’ch-Pi-El.” He adds an amusing earthy postscript at the head of page one:
“P.S. Saw an interesting black snake in the woods today – amount 2 ½ ft. long, very slim, & with a brilliant orange or yellow band across his head or
neck.”
Condition: Minor toning; creased at folds; envelope torn and chipped at two edges from opening (holograph not aected).
References: Published in: David E. Schultz and S.T. Joshi (editors), Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill, The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith: 1922-
1932 (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2020), 157.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45082 [H. P. Lovecraft, his copy]. Shudders. A Collection of Uneasy Tales. Edited by Charles Lloyd Birkin. London: Philip Allan, [1932].
8vo. Publisher’s tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black; publisher’s color pictorial dust jacket illustrated by A. T. Long.
FIRST EDITION. FROM THE LIBRARY OF H. P. LOVECRAFT, SIGNED BY HIM on the front free endpaper: “H. P. Lovecraft / Providence, R. I.” and with his
bookplate on front pastedown. The second book of the “Creeps” series. Collects eleven stories, several original to this collection, by H. R. Wakeeld,
Tod Robbins, Elliott O’Donnell, Birkin (as “Charles Lloyd”), Philip Murray and Mrs. Everett.
Condition: Binding very good. Text paper pulpy with some toning to margins. Dust jacket priced on spine “2/6 net”, with spine panel chipped at ends
(aecting 2 letters at head); other edgewear with closed tears and chips with some losses; some separations along folds; small tape repairs and rem-
nants at folds and extremities. Overall, a ne copy in a scarce jacket, rarely found in any condition.
References: S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft’s Library: A Catalogue, Revised & Enlarged (2002) 802; Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-23; Bleiler, The Guide to
Supernatural Fiction 1475; Bleiler (1978), p. 8; Reginald 13049.
Provenance: H. P. Lovecraft (signature and bookplate); purchased from L. W. Currey. The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,250
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45083 John P. Marquand. The Late George Apley. A Novel in the Form of a Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1937.
8vo. Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine ruled and lettered in gilt; dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of this 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner. FIRST PRINTING, with “Lovely Pearl” at the top of page 19. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free
endpaper. Every several pages throughout the book the paper shows a light brown discoloration, allegedly due to over-greasing of the printing
plates, and present in virtually every copy of this title. There was reportedly a problem with the press, and this title and at least one C. S. Forester title
were aected.
Condition: Spine cloth a bit dulled with minor wear at ends; some rubbing to joints and edges; covers a bit rubbed and soiled with some minor loss
to some gold stamping; some light spotting to text block edges. Some leaves of text with the discoloration mentioned above. Dust jacket unclipped
(priced “$2.50”), some fading to spine panel with light wear at ends; a few short closed tears at edges. Based on condition of binding and jacket, it ap-
pears the jacket was supplied from another copy.
Provenance: Arthur H. Shaw (pencil signature on pastedown); W. & M. Howard (pencil inscription on front pastedown). The Library of a Minnesota
Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45084 Herman Melville. Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence Among the
Natives of a Valley of The Marquesas Islands; or a Peep at Polynesian Life. London:
John Murray, 1846.
8vo. Half-title; engraved map; 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end, dated
March 1846. Original red cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; quarter morocco
folding case.
FIRST EDITION, second issue of Melville’s rst book. BAL’s binding variant B, with
“Colonial and Home Library” on spine. Published in February 1846, it appeared
the following month in America, under the title Typee.
Condition: Minor wear to joints and extremities; slight splitting to cloth along
joints in a few places; minor soiling; over-opened at center, but holding. A few
minor spots on preliminaries, otherwise very clean. A very good copy, with red
cloth still bright.
References: BAL 13652.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45085 Herman Melville. Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
8vo. 6 pp. publisher’s advertisement at end. Original blue-green cloth, blind-stamped with the publisher’s circular device at center within heavy rule
frame on each cover, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, brown-orange coated endpapers, two yleaves at front and three at end.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, rst binding, following the English edition by a month and containing some thirty-ve passages not present in the English
edition. Melville’s masterpiece has been described as containing “the sounds and scents, the very avor, of the maritime life of our whaling ancestors”
(Grolier). Bound in the preferred blue-green colored cloth.
Condition: Spine darkened and rubbed with some wear and fraying at ends; corners worn with boards slightly exposed; covers soiled and rubbed;
minor blistering to cloth on front cover; front hinge repaired after endpaper; rear pastedown with repairs. Some browning and foxing throughout (as
usual); over-opened at center.
References: BAL 13664; Grolier, American 60; Johnson, High Spots 57.
Provenance: Sold, Christie’s New York, 3 December 2010, lot 498. The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $7,500
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45086 Thomas Merton. The Seven Storey Mountain. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1948].
8vo. Original beige cloth, spine lettered in black; dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION in the rst issue binding of white cloth with black lettering on spine, and in the rare rst state dust jacket with photo caption “Author
is second from the left” on rear panel (later issues correct this to “Author on the left”). Thomas Merton’s autobiography, written ve years after joining
Gethsemani Abbey in 1941, covers his conversion to Catholicism and his commitment to monastic life.
Condition: Binding and text clean. Dust jacket ap corners with decorative clip with price intact (“$3.00”), spine panel with some chipping and wear
at ends; some other edgewear with creasing and a few small chips.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45087 Wilfred Owen. Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920.
4to. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Publisher’s red cloth, printed paper title label on the spine.
FIRST EDITION of the author’s rare rst collection of poetry, posthumously published, and with an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. “This book is not
about heroes. English Poetry is not yet t to speak of them... Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry. The subject of it is War, and the pity of
War. The Poetry is in the pity” (from the Preface found among Wilfred Owen’s papers).
Condition: Spine faded with some wear with a little fraying at ends, label a bit faded with a little wear at edges; some light fading to sides near spine;
light soiling; minor blistering; front free endpapers a little discolored and with short split at top; a few pages over-opened. Portrait frontispiece a little
foxed at edges; tissue guard age-toned with light osetting onto title; some pale osetting in two places in text where newspaper cuttings had been
previously laid in.
References: Connolly, The Modern Movement 36; Keynes B2.
Provenance: F. Mary C. Nichols (signature on front free endpaper dated “Nov. 7. 1920” at foot). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45088 [Edgar Allan Poe, contributor]. “The Fall of the
House of Usher.” In: Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. V.
Edited by William E. Burton and Edgar A. Poe. Philadelphia:
Published by William E. Burton, July-December,1839.
6 issues bound in one volume, 8vo. Plates. Contemporary plain
green cloth, with contemporary Philadelphia bookseller’s
ticket on front pastedown.
THE FIRST PRINTED APPEARANCE OF POE’S ‘THE FALL OF THE
HOUSE OF USHER,’ which appears in the September issue on
pp. 145-152. Also includes the rst printed appearance of Poe’s
“The Man That Was Used Up” (p. 66), and “To Ianthe in Heaven”
(p. 49), and other items by Poe and contemporaries. It contains
a reprinting of “William Wilson” (p. 205), one month following
its rst appearance in The Gift for 1840.
Condition: Cloth worn and spotted; joints worn and starting;
hinges broken with contents loose or detached; some foxing
and marginal stains; short marginal tear on the rst page of
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (not aecting text); lacking the
engraved emblematical frontispiece at the beginning of the
volume.
References: Heartman & Canny, p. 51
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45089 [Edgar Allan Poe, contributor].
“The Masque of the Red Death.” In: Graham’s
Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. XX.
Philadelphia: George R. Graham, January-
June, 1842.
6 issues bound in one volume, 8vo. 25 en-
graved plates and 8 engraved fashion plates.
Publisher’s blindstamped green cloth, mo-
rocco lettering-piece on spine.
THE FIRST PRINTED APPEARANCE OF POE’S
‘THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH,’ which
appears in the May issue on pp. [257]-259
(“Masque” is spelled “Mask” in the title). Also
includes other contributions by Poe and his
contemporaries.
Condition: Spine a bit faded; front joint split
in a few places; corners bumped and worn;
front hinge cracked. Some light toning; the
occasional stain or minor spot. Overall pages
and boards clean.
References: Heartman & Caney, p. 208.
Provenance: Mary W. Russell (gilt-lettered
red leather label mounted on front cover at
center). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45090 [Edgar Allan Poe, contributor]. The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science. New York: Wiley and Putnam,
1845-1846.
3 volumes, 8vo. Numerous engraved plates by T. Doney. Contemporary half green roan and marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTED APPEARANCE OF ‘THE RAVEN,’ ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED POEMS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. “The Raven” appears
on pp. 143-45 and was published under the pseudonym “Quarles.” The poem brought Poe instant literary fame, and it quickly became one of the
most discussed and recited poems in the country. The appearance in the American Review is the accepted rst edition - the publication in the New
York Mirror on January 29, 1845 was printed from advance sheets of the American Review. Volume I also includes Poe’s short story “Some Words with
a Mummy” (pp. 363-370), and his poems “The Valley of Unrest” and “The City in the Sea” (pp. 392-393). Other volumes include the rst appearance
of Poe’s “Eulalie,” “Facts of M. Valdemar’s Case,” and a review of the book Poe’s Tales. Also included in Vol. III is Charles Wintereld’s “Adventures on the
Frontier of Texas and Mexico,” in six parts, apparently not otherwise printed.
Condition: Minor wear to spine ends and corners; a little rubbing to joints, but the volumes rm and sound. Contents mostly bright with light toning
or spotting to the preliminary and terminal pages. A ne set.
References: Heartman & Canny, pp. 97-108.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45091 Jane Porter. The Scottish Chiefs, A Romance. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810.
5 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles present in Vols. II-IV; errata leaf at end of Vol. I. Contemporary half green roan and marbled boards, smooth spines pan-
elled and decorated in gilt.
FIRST EDITION of Porter’s great historical novel, a romanticized account of William Wallace and the First War of Scottish Independence. In her Preface,
dated Dec. 1809, Porter is at pains to underscore the historical accuracy of her narrative, and the extensive research she conducted: “I have spared no
pains in consulting almost every writing extant which treats of the sister kingdom during the period of my narrative.” It was reprinted many times, but
scarce in the rst edition.
Condition: Minor rubbing to spine ends and extremities; a few joints a little worn with a few nicks.; boards a little rubbed; hinges tender. Lacking
half-titles in Vols. I and VI; some occasional light spotting throughout. Overall, an attractive set.
References: Sadleir 1971; Wol 5607.
Provenance: Marquess of Winchester (bookplates); David Laing Philips (bookplates); George Cosmatos (his sale, Sotheby’s, 23 March 2005, lot 140).
The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45092 Ann Radclie. The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry. London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794.
4 volumes, 12mo (171 x 98 mm). Half-titles (lacking the half-title in vol. III). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, black morocco lettering
pieces; housed in 2 cloth folding cases.
FIRST EDITION of Radclie’s landmark of Gothic literature. “The seminal terror Gothic romance and the premier maiden-centered Gothic of the eigh-
teenth century” (Tymn). Radclie’s third book was immensely popular with young women of the period and famously satirized by Jane Austen in
Northanger Abbey. Radclie’s greatest literary gifts are evidenced in how she sets a mood of horror and provides realistic depictions of macabre land-
scapes.
Condition: Calf worn and a bit dried; some wear to joints with a few short splits; spines and boards rubbed; some hinges tender or starting. Lacking
half-title in Vol. III; some occasional spotting or light soiling.
References: Barron, Horror 1-83 (First Purchase title); Bleiler, Supernatural 1370; Block, p. 193; Rothschild 1701; Summers, pp. 135 and 443; Tymn 1-316
(First Purchase title).
Provenance: Richard M. Lackritz, MD (his sale, Christie’s New York, 17 April 2002, lot 160). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45093 J. K. Rowling. A very ne complete set of First Deluxe Editions of the Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. 8vo. Publisher’s full red cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, color picto-
rial cover label, all edges gilt, original ribbon bookmark. FIRST DELUXE EDITION, rst printing. Errington A1(d).
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. 8vo. Publisher’s full blue cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, color pic-
torial cover label, all edges gilt, original ribbon bookmark. FIRST DELUXE EDITION, rst printing. Errington A2(e).
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. 8vo. Publisher’s full green cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, color
pictorial cover label, all edges gilt, original ribbon bookmark. FIRST DELUXE EDITION, rst printing. Issued simultaneously with the rst trade edition.
Errington A7(c).
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. 8vo. Publisher’s full purple cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, color pictorial
cover label, all edges gilt, original ribbon bookmark. FIRST DELUXE EDITION, rst printing (by this point in the deluxe series, Bloomsbury had aban-
doned the number line delineating the rst printing, only using a number line for later printings). Errington A9(b).
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Bloomsbury, 2003. 8vo. Publisher’s full burgundy cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, color picto-
rial cover label, all edges gilt, original ribbon bookmark. FIRST DELUXE EDITION, rst printing. Errington A12(c).
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Bloomsbury, 2005. 8vo. Publisher’s full dark blue cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, color pictorial
cover label, all edges gilt, original ribbon bookmark. FIRST DELUXE EDITION, rst printing. Errington A13(b).
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bloomsbury, 2007. 8vo. Publisher’s full black cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, color pictorial cover
label, all edges gilt, original ribbon bookmark. FIRST DELUXE EDITION, rst printing. Errington A14(aaa).
Together, 7 volumes, all in original bindings, all in very ne condition. A beautiful set.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45094 Siegfried Sassoon. The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919.
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, printed paper label on upper cover and spine, fore-edge and lower edge untrimmed; original dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of Sassoon’s most complete comment on the war, including the rst trade appearance of 12 poems, alongside 64 more of Sassoon’s
most powerful poems from previous works.
Condition: Spine faded and bumped at foot; some foxing to untrimmed edges (occasionally migrating to margin extremes) and some leaves at ends.
Dust jacket priced “3/6 net” on spine panel, with only a hint of fading to spine panel and ap folds; creased at folds, but exceptionally ne.
References: Keynes A20.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45095 Siegfried Sassoon. The Sherston Trilogy, comprising: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man; Memoirs of an Infantry Ocer; and Sherston’s Progress.
London: Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1928 (Vol. I); Faber & Faber, 1930 and 1936 (Vols. II-III).
Together, 3 volumes, 8vo. Original blue buckram, spines gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, others uncut.
FIRST EDITIONS, LIMITED ISSUES, number 189 of 260 copies; number 230 of 750 copies; and number 121 of 300 copies, respectively, EACH SIGNED BY
THE AUTHOR.
Condition: Spine of the second volume a bit sunned and leaned, with a little fading to upper board near top; the rst title with spine slightly faded;
very minor rubbing to extremities; some discoloration to endpapers of rst title (as often).
References: Keynes A30b, A33b, and A40b.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45096 Sir Walter Scott. Autograph letter signed (“Walter Scott”), to his friend Lady Louisa [Stuart]. Edinburgh, 3 January 1813.
2 pages, 4to (229 x 191 mm).
A ne letter written to his friend and condante Lady Louisa [Stuart] (1757-1851), daughter of the Earl of Bute, sending her a copy of the recently pub-
lished poem Rokeby:
“Dear Lady Louisa,
Receive a copy of Rokeby—I trust you will think I have brought out your old acquaintance Bertram pretty well and brought him to a dashing conclu-
sion...” Referring to “the Vision of Triermain” (actually his own The Bridal of Triermain, which he was publishing anonymously), a poem written in rivalry
to himself, he continues: “They talk here a good deal of a new poem in professed imitation of no less a person than your Ladyships humble servant
called the Vision of Triermain and many people wish to make me very jealous of it. I heard from second hand Mr Jerey pronounces it superior to me
in my own line... it is said it will be out immediately. If you are curious I will tell the publisher to send you a copy ...”. He also mentions telling her that
he is going to Abbotsford to see his trees (“... none of the little dears are much higher than your Ladyships fan not to say parapluie...”).
At the end of the letter is an autograph note by Lady Louisa: “What he says of the Bridal of Triermain is in joke, for he had read me a part of it in the
preceding autumn, and I knew it was to be published anonymously in hopes of taking in the Edinburgh Reviewers—.” Lady Louisa was the only wom-
an admitted in her own right to the secret of the authorship of the Waverley Novels.
Rokeby was published on January 10th, 1813 (“Joyfully Scott showered gift copies far & wide” [see Johnson vol I pp. 407-10, also note 11, p. xlii and
notes 24 and 25 on p. xliii]), and one referred to in this letter to his old friend Lady Louisa Stuart, the daughter of the Earl of Bute and granddaughter
of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
The text of this letter, with minor variations, is published in the Collected Letters from the Abbotsford copy book. Triermain was published a month
after Rokeby; the Quarterly reviewed it in July 1813 as “‘a serious imitation of the most popular living poet ...’.”
Condition: Ink slightly smudged in date at end; tiny nick on top edge of sheet, right edge rough from where detached from an integral leaf; folds.
Provenance: Sotheby’s, 23 July 1979, lot 270. The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45097 [Sir Walter Scott]. Waverley; or, ‘Tis Sixty Years Since. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co., for Archibald Constable and Co., 1814.
3 volumes, 12mo (190 x 114 mm). Half-titles; nal leaf in each volume bearing printer’s imprint; F12 (p. 143) in Vol. III a cancellans with reading “mau-
dit”. Original publisher’s cream paper-backed blue-grey boards, uncut. Housed together in a quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT’S FIRST NOVEL IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. “The rst of the forty or so ‘Waverley Novels’ was the progenitor and has
become the archetype of the historical novel throughout the world. At one blow Scott had established a new literary form” (PMM).
This copy agrees with all the signicant points listed by Worthington, except that there is a hyphen between the words “trot” and “cosy” on p. 112, line
13, in Vol. II. According to Todd and Bowden the binding is found with or without printed labels. In this case there are no labels.
VERY RARE IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, particularly in such ne condition. Van Antwerp tracing only 11 copies in original boards, apparently not including
the present copy (p. 79).
Condition: Spines somewhat soiled or toned; several hinges with discreet repairs or reinforcements; a little wear to board corners; boards with some
soiling and minor stains. Occasional pale spotting, light browning or soiling; minor dust-soiling to deckle edges.
References: PMM 273; Todd and Bowden 77Aa; Van Antwerp, pp. 79-87; Worthington 1.
Provenance: Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge (armorial stamps on title pages); L. F. Baum (signature in each volume—but seemingly not the
Oz author); “Bought Quaritch July 30th 1902” (pencil note in Vol. I); Sotheby’s sale, 29 March 1906, lot 576, sold to Alderman Scott for £102 (receipt
loosely inserted); The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part 1, Sotheby’s, 28 October 2010, lot 113). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $6,000
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45098 Sir Walter Scott. The Antiquary. Edinburgh: Printed for James
Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. [et al], 1816.
3 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles. Original blue boards, with darker blue paper back-
strips, printed paper labels, uncut.
FIRST EDITION. Volume I with press gure “10” present on p. vii, and cancel
leaves with reading “juvenile” on p. 28, and “proprietor” and “Jonathan’s” on p. 29.
Condition: Some discreet repairs to spines; some light dampstaining to boards;
label on Vol. I split vertically, and with some other small chips to label edges;
minor wear to corners. Minor burn mark on fore-margin of a few leaves in Vol. III,
and the occasional minor spot, otherwise very clean.
References: Todd & Bowden 94Aa.
Provenance: Allman’s Hanover Square, London (bookseller’s ticket on front
pastedown Vol. I).
[With:]
Sir Walter Scott. Tales of My Landlord, Second Series. Edinburgh: Printed for
Archibald Constable and Company, 1818.
4 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles. With 12 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end of Vol. IV dated June, 1818. Original drab boards, printed paper spine la-
bels, uncut.
FIRST EDITION. The rst volume in this copy with the added direction on p. 1: “Vol. I” and signature “A.” This set constitutes one of Scott’s most popular
works, “The Heart of Mid-Lothian,” which features the beloved character, Jeanie Deans.
Condition: Spine ends of Vols. I and IV expertly repaired; minor wear to spine ends and extremities; a few horizontal breaks in paper across spine
cords; spine labels a little rubbed and discolored with some chips at edges (occasionally aecting letters). Some occasional light spotting.
References: Todd & Bowden 122Aa.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
45099 Sir Walter Scott. Rob Roy. Edinburgh: Printed by James
Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable, [et al], 1818.
3 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles. Original bluish-gray boards with tan
paper backstrips, printed paper spine labels, uncut.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with signature H2 mis-signed “2H” on p.
177 in Vol. I.
Condition: Spines of Vol. I and III chipped at bottom; some other
wear and splitting to joints; front joint and hinge glue-repaired on
Vol. III; some other tears or separations repaired on spines; corners
a little bumped and worn. Occasional pale spotting; minor dust-
soiling to deckle edges.
References: Todd & Bowden 112Aa; Worthington, pp. 74-77.
Provenance: Mrs. Craigie Farlayer (early signature on front past-
edowns, and address on upper margin of title in Vol. I). The Library of
a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45100 [Sir Walter Scott]. Ivanhoe; a Romance. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1820.
3 volumes, 8vo (198 x 121 mm). Half-titles, Author’s Advertisement leaf in Vol. I, and 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end of Vol. III. Original drab
boards, uncut. Housed in separate full blue morocco folding cases.
THE GREENHILL-MARTIN COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR OF ALL HISTORICAL NOVELS. This copy with points of the rst state as listed by Worthington with
one exception. The points in vol. I: pagination ends on p. 298; forme-mark on p. [iii] is 9; “Peter” is rst word on p. iv, line 6; p. v, line 12 the second and
fourth words are “which,” not the third as noted in Worthington, but with the 6 forme-mark; “observed” is rst word on p. vi, line 14; without commas
on p. ix, line 1 or p. xii, line 5 after “fought” or “people” respectively; “toilsome” reading on p. xv, line 3; no forme-marks on pp. xvi, xix, or xxiv, forme-
marks of “9” and “12” on pp. xxviii and xxx respectively; a comma after “paste” on p. xxix.
Scott began writing Ivanhoe in July 1819, and had nished by 10 November of that same year. When nally published on 18 December after a series
of delays, the novel proved to be a spectacular success. Francis Jerey wrote in the Edinburgh Review, that it showed “... at least as much genius as any
of those with which it must now be numbered,” and in less than two weeks, the entire rst printing of 12,000 copies had been sold out.
Condition: Spines repaired (apparently rebacked retaining portions of original backstrips) with labels replaced; endpapers renewed; some joints now
split or starting; some wear to board edges and corners; some soiling and stains to boards; stitching loose and repaired at end of Vol. III; text block
cracked between quires E and F in Vol. II; a few other quires becoming loose (quire H in Vol. I, and quires X to Z in Vol. III). Some minor spotting to end-
papers; occasional light browning or spotting, but internally quite clean.
References: Grolier, English 71; Van Antwerp 9; Worthington 8.
Provenance: Thomas Ward (early signatures on each half-title); Harold Greenhill (bookplates); H. Bradley Martin (bookplate in folding case Vol. I; his
sale, Sotheby’s New York, 1 May 1990, lot 3167); George Cosmatos (his sale, Sotheby’s London, Part 1, Lot 147). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45101 [Sir Walter Scott]. The Monastery. Edinburgh: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.
3 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles. With advertisement slip and 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements inserted between endpapers at front of Vol. I dated January
1820. Original tan paper-backed blue boards, printed paper spine labels, uncut.
FIRST EDITION, rst state with misprint “attentoin” on p. 226 of Vol. I.
Condition: Minor bumping to spine ends; small split along lower joint near head; corners bumped; a few small minor stains to boards. Overall, a very
ne and fresh copy.
References: Todd & Bowden 144Aa.
[With:]
[Sir Walter Scott]. The Abbot. Edinburgh: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.
3 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles. With one page advertisement leaf and nal blank at end of Vol. III. Original green muslin-backed blue boards, printed
paper spine labels, uncut; housed together in quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, rst state of title-page. This Waverley novel is a sequel to The Monastery, and takes place in 1567 and 1568. It reaches its climax in the
escape of Mary, Queen of Scots from Lochleven Castle leading to her defeat at the Battle of Langside and her nal departure from Scotland.
Condition: Minor wear to spine ends and joints; spines a little rubbed and darkened; corners bumped and worn; covers slightly rubbed with some
light discoloration; minor soiling; spine labels a little discolored but intact. Internally very clean and fresh. Occasional minor spot, but overall a ne
copy.
References: Todd & Bowden 146Aa; Van Antwerp, p. 114; Worthington 10.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45102 [Sir Walter Scott]. The Pirate. Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Co., Hurst Robinson, and Co., 1822.
3 volumes, 8vo. Half–titles; 7pp. of ads in Vol. I dated 1 November 1821. Publisher’s original drab paper-backed blue boards, printed paper spine labels,
uncut; each with a cloth chemise and housed in a quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, second state of Vol. II with B1 a cancel and with the corrected last word “there” on p. 17, line 20. Comparison with the notes in the
Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels (pp. 416-18) indicates this is an Edinburgh-printed copy with press gure “2” on p. iv in Vol. I. In addition, this
copy has “senior” and “sights” as described on pp. 416-17.
The Pirate is a Waverley novel loosely based on the life of John Gow, who appears as Captain Cleveland in the narrative. The story takes place at the
southern tip of Shetland’s main island, a location visited by Scott in 1814. The principal events are set near the close of the seventeenth century, with
1689 identied as the probable year in which they occur.
Condition: Vol. III creased along spine with a short split where over-opened at center of text block; some minor wear to spine ends and corners; cor-
ners bumped on Vol. II; very minor toning to spine labels with a few tiny nicks, but otherwise ne and intact. Some very minor spotting to endpapers,
but very clean internally. Overall, a very ne set.
References: Todd & Bowden 156Aa.
Provenance: Mariana Thompson (signatures on half-titles dated 1828). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45103 Sir Walter Scott. A group of 3 First Editions, including one contribution.
[Sir Walter Scott]. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads... Kelso: Printed by James Ballantyne, For T. Cadell Jun.
and W. Davies, 1802. 2 volumes bound in one, 8vo. Contemporary half sheep gilt and brown boards. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, of Scott’s rst
major work, a collection of 53 ballads, printed in an edition of 750 copies. A second edition appeared in 1803, expanded to three volumes, and the
third volume of that set is sometimes oered together with the rst edition in the mistaken notion that the rst edition comprised three volumes as
well. By the time the fth edition appeared in 1812, the number of ballads included had nearly doubled. Condition: Spine ends a little worn; front
joint repaired; some other wear to joints and corners; boards a little rubbed with a few minor stains. Lacking engraved frontispiece and half-title to
Vol. I; errata leaf removed at end of each volume (but errata slips mounted at foot of p. 258 and 392, respectively); occasional very minor spotting
or toning; one short marginal tear. Overall, an attractive copy in a contemporary binding. References: Todd & Bowden 8Aa. Provenance: William B.
Todd, Scott bibliographer (Todd-Bowden Collection bookplate).
[Sir Walter Scott, contributor]. The Keepsake for MDCCCXXIX. Edited by Frederic Mansel Reynolds. London: Published for the Proprietor, by Hurst,
Chance, and Co., and R. Jennings, [1829]. 8vo, engraved additional title and plates, original watered red silk, gilt-lettered on spine, edges gilt. FIRST
EDITION. Includes two contributions from Mary Shelley, two from Percy Bysshe Shelley, ve each from Wordsworth and Coleridge, and two by Sir
Walter Scott; contains the rst appearance of Scott’s “The Tapestried Chamber.” Condition: Silk worn along spine ends, joints and edges. Some minor
spotting to plates, otherwise internally ne. References: Todd-Bowden 219A. Provenance: Anne and F. G. Renier (bookplate); William B. Todd, Scott
bibliographer (bookplate).
Sir Walter Scott. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq. London: John Murray, 1830. 16mo. Engraved frontispiece after
J. Skene, by W. H. Lizars. Original printed tan muslin cloth. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, with 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements at front dated
September 1830. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft was issued as Volume XVI of Murray’s “Family Library” series, and one of Scott’s nal works.
It was written in the form of a series of letters to his friend, later son-in-law and biographer J. G. Lockhart, about witchcraft and trials, demonology,
fairies and elves, astrology, ghosts, and magicians. H. P. Lovecraft described the work once as one of the best compendiums on European witchcraft.
Publisher John Murray launched the Family Library series in 1829 with the aim of making modern non-ction works more accessible to a wider
circle of readers. The series started with John Gibson Lockhart’s condensed version of Sir Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon with illustrations by George
Cruikshank. Condition: Rebacked with original spine laid down; spine ends worn; some darkening and pale staining to covers; front hinge cracked;
small tear in frontispiece leaf, not aecting engraving; some separation in gutter between title and frontispiece. References: Todd & Bowden 241Aa.
Provenance: William B. Todd, Scott bibliographer (bookplate).
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45104 Sir Walter Scott. Group of 5 First Editions of poetry.
Sir Walter Scott. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. A Poem. London, 1805. 4to, half-title, rebound in modern calf, edges gilt. FIRST EDITION. Some browning
and spotting. Todd & Bowden14Ab. – Scott. Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh, 1808. 4to, half-title, contemporary half calf. FIRST EDITION.
Joints and hinges cracked, extremities worn; some minor toning or occasional spot. Castlecraig Library (book label). Todd & Bowden 28Aa. – Scott.
The Lady of the Lake; a Poem. Edinburgh, 1810. 4to, frontispiece portrait, contemporary diced calf gilt. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, second state
of p. 288. Rebacked preserving original spine, minor wear with a few stains to covers; lacking half-title, occasional light foxing or marginal toning,
otherwise very good. Todd & Bowden 47Aa. – Scott. The Vision of Don Roderick; a Poem. Edinburgh, 1811. 4to, half-title, original tan paper-backed
blue boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, state 2 (preceded by a private issue of 50 copies). Spine mostly perished, hinges cracked, some
staining and wear to boards; some spotting and light toning. From the library of Scott bibliographer William B. Todd (bookplate). Todd & Bowden
59Ab. – Scott. Rokeby; a Poem. Edinburgh, 1813. 4to, original gray-green boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Rebacked with cloth tape,
corners worn; some spotting and light toning. Edward S. Marsh (bookplate); from the library of Scott bibliographer William B. Todd (bookplate). Todd
& Bowden 64Aa.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45105 Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
8vo. Half-title, nal blank leaf present (pp. [391-92]). Publisher’s yellow cloth, ruled and lettered in red, top edge rough trimmed, others untrimmed.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without the “Shoulder of Shasta” advertisement on page [392], and the main body of text printed on uncoated wove
paper. “The world’s most inuential and enduring supernatural novel of vampirism, starring the most celebrated and evocative character in macabre
literature” (Dalby).
Condition: Spine slightly toned and leaned; some minor darkening at board edges; some minor rubbing or bumping to extremities; some soiling to
covers; fore-margins of text block with a few minor spots; several leaves with slightly rough fore-margin. Front free endpaper expertly replaced with
laid paper (front pastedown and both rear endpapers original); a few quires over-opened. Overall, a very good copy, internally very clean, and with
binding lettering largely retaining its brightness, and with less darkening to yellow cloth than typically found (on unrestored or cleaned copies).
References: Barron, Horror, 3-186 (First Purchase Title); Bleiler, Supernatural, 1546; Dalby 10(a); Wol 6581.
Provenance: Purchased from Peter L. Stern & Company. The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $15,000
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45106 [Jonathan Swift]. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver... London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726.
Four parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (197 x 121 mm). Engraved portrait of Gulliver (Teerink second state), 6 plates (5 maps and one table), wood-engraved
head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary English speckled calf, ruled and stamped in gilt.
Third octavo edition of “Gulliver’s Travels” (Teerink’s B edition), published in December 1726, two months after the rst edition. The engraved fron-
tispiece portrait of Lemuel Gulliver by John Sturt after Robert Sheppard, is in the second state, printed on paper with vertical chain lines, with the
inscription engraved around the oval frame (“Captain Lemuel Gulliver of Redri. Ætat. suæ LVIII.”), and the tablet bearing a Latin inscription below.
“Gulliver’s Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame... All those who had been fascinated by the realism and vivid detail of
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe were captivated again, even though they knew that Gulliver must be ction. The brilliance and thoroughness with which his
logic and invention work out the piquancies of scale involved by the giant human among the Lilliputians, and then by a minikin Gulliver among the
Brobdingnagians, ran away with the author’s original intention. Gulliver’s Travels has achieved the nal apotheosis of a satirical fable, but it has also
become a tale for children” (Printing and the Mind of Man).
Condition: Vol. I with joints and spine ends repaired (possibly rebacked with original spine laid down); Vol II with upper joint cracked but cords hold-
ing; a few minor abrasions; minor wear to corners. Some osetting from frontispiece on title in Vol. I; occasional minor browning; occasional stray
spots or minor stains.
References: Teerink 291; Grolier, English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2108.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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45107 Alfred Lord Tennyson. In Memoriam. London: Edward Moxon, 1850.
8vo. With 8 pp. publisher’s advertisements bound at front, dated February 1850. Original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; cloth fold-
ing case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with misprints on page 2 (“the” for “thee”) and page 198 (“baseness” for “bareness”). Mounted on front pastedown is a
contemporary transcript of Henry Hallam’s letter to the author on receipt of his copy of this book.
Condition: Spine faded as usually found; very slight wear to extremities; minor rubbing to covers; internally very clean; early gift inscription on upper
margin of title-page. A ne copy.
References: Hayward 246; Wise 37.
[With:]
Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Princess; A Medley. London: Edward Moxon, 1847.
8vo. Original blindstamped green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION, without the preliminary publisher’s advertisements at front, as often found.
Condition: Spine faded to brown; minor bumping to corners; front hinge starting; “Drawing Room” inked in small letters on front pastedown; previ-
ous owner’s inked presentation slip mounted at head of half-title; occasional light foxing to a few (mainly early) leaves; over-opened with some light
foxing and soiling at famous “Tears, idle tears” passage on pp. 66-67.
References: Wise 24; Colbeck, p. 836.
Provenance: Mrs. Rogers (presentation slip from E. M. Cope on small slip mounted at head of half-title). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45108 J. R. R. Tolkien. Autograph manuscript, headed “Further correction desired,” being a late revision to The Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter
VI (“Many Partings”). N.p. [Spring 1955].
One page, 194 x 122 mm. Written in brown ink in Tolkien’s distinctive calligraphic hand; with copy editors’ markings in blue and red ink at upper right
and bottom, respectively.
The manuscript reads in full:
“Further correction desired.
Vol III Return of the King, bk. Six.
Ch. VI (Many Partings).
For:
...said Eowyn, ‘] and in the deeps
of time it was made for our fore-
fathers by the dwarves, and [Eorl
the Young...
Substitute:
...said Eowyn]. ‘It was made by
the Dwarves, and came from the
hoard of Scatha the Worm. [
Eorl the Young...”
The sheet is annotated at upper right in another hand in blue ink: “p 256/ line / 25” [this actually occurs at line 26]; and in another hand in red ink on
the lower half of the page beside a red check mark: in red ink “Corrected / J[not legible] / 11-6-55.” The “J” may stand for Jarrold & Sons, the printers.
The fragment contains revisions for text in the third volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It is a correction to the text which appears on page 256,
line 26 of the rst edition of The Return of the King. In Christopher Tolkien’s Sauron Defeated he mentions that this correction “entered on the galley
Proof” (p. 68). The specic passage concerned is the change from “and in the deeps of time it was made for our forefathers by the dwarves” to “It was
made by the Dwarves, and came from the hoard of Scatha the Worm.”
In a letter from Charles B. Elston, archivist at Marquette University, responding to the consignor of the present lot, he writes: “I have reviewed our
manuscript holdings for the text in question contained in Chapter VI, “Many Partings,” of Book Six of The Lord of the Rings. The correction, as men-
tioned by Christopher Tolkien, appears only on the galley sheets for Book Six. Both a holograph manuscript and typescript manuscript of “Many
Partings” contain only the early version of the text (“and in the deeps of time it was made for our forefathers by the dwarves”).
Tolkien was still working on the ending and the complicated appendices to Lord of the Rings after The Return of the King was already typeset. The
changes present were written just a few months before publication and after the main body of manuscript had already been returned to Tolkien. That
main manuscript and the manuscripts for Tolkien’s other literary works were purchased by the far-seeing librarian at Marquette University in 1957.
Tolkien manuscripts outside of Marquette are therefore extremely rare. In 2018 a very similar manuscript sheet with corrections to The Return of the
King (making six corrections to the chapter, “The Land of Shadow” in which Sam Gamgee and Frodo Baggins traverse the wastes of Mordor), with
similar printers’ marks, was sold at Christie’s for $81,250. It had previously been sold at Sotheby’s on 21 July 1992 along with a set of annotated proofs,
and the present sheet was likely also part of that same lot. The Christie’s sheet had more text than this one, but until now these were the only manu-
scripts for the original edition of The Lord of the Rings to appear at auction. The present leaf is therefore ONE OF THE LAST FEW OBTAINABLE ‘LORD OF
THE RINGS’ MANUSCRIPTS STILL IN PRIVATE HANDS.
Condition: Right edge of sheet rough where presumably separated from a larger sheet, some creases, light soiling, two tiny pinholes at upper left
(presumably where axed to a galley or proof); a few faint pencil notations (most erased).
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $15,000
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45109 J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings: comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. London: George Allen
& Unwin Ltd., 1954-1955.
3 volumes, 8vo. In-text illustration by Tolkien in Fellowship (“The Doors of Durin”); folding map by the author’s son, Christopher Tolkien, tipped-in at
rear of each volume. Publisher’s red cloth, spines stamped in gilt, top edges red; original illustrated dust jackets. Housed together in a custom quarter
morocco slipcase, decorated in gilt, spines with onlaid “Ring and Eye” designs, and one, two, or three rings, by R. Patron, Hollywood CA.
A SUPERLATIVE SET IN VERY FINE UNRESTORED CONDITION.
FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS. The Fellowship of the Ring, rst edition, rst impression, in the rst state dust jacket; The Two Towers, rst edition,
rst impression, in the rst state dust jacket; The Return of the King, rst edition, rst impression, variant 3 of p. 49 with sagging text and signature
mark “4” present, variant 2 of p. 281 with the gap in “Men” closed, in a second state dust jacket with reviews of the rst two books on rear ap (no pri-
ority of issue).
Condition: Fellowship with some light bumping to spine ends and at foot of front board near joint, and a few very minor soil or ink marks near top of
both boards; very slight discoloration to front free endpapers at gutter of Fellowship, otherwise the bindings are extremely ne, endpapers without
typical toning or discoloration, or any signs of foxing. Dust jackets unclipped (all priced “21s net”), Return has one tiny closed tear at bottom of spine,
one tiny chip at head of rear ap fold, and a few ne scratches on rear, the remainder with only the slightest hints of soiling, with virtually no defects
beyond some very slight wrinkling/rubbing at spine extremities, and creasing along ap folds. Overall, an extraordinary set in pristine condition,
without any signs of restoration.
References: Hammond & Anderson A5a.i, ii, and iii; Hammond, “Addenda and Corrigenda,” The Tolkien Collector, Vol. 11 (1995) and Vol. 23 (2000).
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $50,000
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45110 J. R. R. Tolkien. The Silmarillion. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. [London]: Harper Collins, [1998].
8vo. Illustrated with 18 color plates by Ted Nasmith. Publisher’s quarter leather and russet cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, color pictorial
endpapers showing the map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North, edges gilt; original matching russet cloth slipcase with the Tolkien monogram
stamped in gilt on one side.
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 177 of 500 specially bound and slipcased copies signed by editor, Christopher Tolkien, and illus-
trator, Ted Nasmith.
Condition: Extremely ne and fresh.
References: Hammond & Scull, The Tolkien Collector, No. 20, p.10 (1999).
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45111 Mark Twain. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.
8vo. Wood-engraved frontispiece, plates and numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text. Publisher’s brown decorated cloth, front cover and spine
blocked in black and gold; cloth slipcase.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST STATE, published ve days after Chatto & Windus’s London edition. Twain’s anecdotal travel narrative, containing an
autobiographical account of Clemens’s childhood experiences, including his reminiscences of his days as a steamboat pilot, as well as a history of the
river. BAL’s rst state, with the tail-piece on p. 441 depicting an urn, ames and the head of Twain, and the caption on p. 443 reading “The St. Louis
Hotel.’’
Chapter 31 contains the rst use of ngerprints to solve a crime in ction, described by Colin Wilson as “a remarkable anticipation of a scientic dis-
covery that was then known to less than half a dozen men.” See the illustration on p. 346 for an illustration of the thumbprints used to solve the crime.
See Queen’s Quorum, p.45 (note).
Condition: Only the slightest rubbing to extremities, otherwise particularly ne and bright; hinges tender; internally ne and fresh. A REMARKABLY
FINE AND BRIGHT COPY.
References: BAL 3411; Johnson, pp. 41-43.
Provenance: Purchased from Sumner & Stillman (from the Collection of William Wortham Collins). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45112 Mark Twain. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889.
8vo. 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous illustrations in text by Dan Beard; 2 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Original olive-green pictorial
cloth stamped in blue/gray, black and gilt, spine gilt, yellow-green oral patterned endpapers; cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of p. [59] (with the “S” ornament in caption), page 72 has broken type in the last two lines (priority unknown), no half-title
printed on the recto of the frontispiece (priority unknown). This copy has yellow-green-on-white patterned endpapers, and is blank on p. 1 (no prece-
dence known for these two aspects).
Condition: Very slight rubbing to extremities; rear free endpaper with small mounted stamp of Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Protective Ass’n #B3638
(New York). Overall, a particularly ne and bright copy.
References: BAL 3429.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45113 Mark Twain. A group of 3 First Editions.
Mark Twain. Roughing It. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872. 8vo. Numerous wood-engravings. Original black cloth stamped in gilt (ex-
tremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Sam Scott, Esq. (ownership signature with small drawing of the American ag). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with
lines 20-21 on p. 242 reading “premises—said he / was occupying his /”, the earlier readings at pp. 156 and 330, and the ad present at p. 592. Twain’s
follow-up to his initial travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, details his journeys from Missouri to Nevada, and onward from California to Hawaii, span-
ning a period of seven years. Spine moderately frayed at ends; corners a bit worn; some minor rubbing to side; hinges sound. Occasional minor spot,
otherwise internally quite clean. A very good unsophisticated copy. BAL 3337; Howes C-481; Zamorano Eighty 18.
Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young People of All Ages. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. 8vo. Wood-engraved frontis-
piece, numerous illustrations throughout. Original gilt pictorial green cloth, stamped in black. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the author’s rst historical
novel, FIRST ISSUE, with the Franklin Press imprint on the copyright page. BAL’s binding state B, with leaves [26]7-8 present as blanks, and the rosette
on spine 1/16” below the llet. Minor wear to spine ends and corners; minor shelfwear to board edges; minor rubbing with a few scratches to rear
cover. Contemporary owner’s gift inscription on front free endpaper. Overall, a very good, bright copy. BAL 3402; Johnson, pp. 39-41.
Mark Twain. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 8vo. Illustrated. Original pictorial brown cloth, stamped in gilt and
black; cloth slipcase. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, second state, with the caption on p. 443 reading “The St. Charles Hotel” and without the tailpiece de-
picting an urn, ames and the head of Mark Twain on p. 441. Some wear to spine ends, corners and edges; hinges cracked; early ownership signature
on front pastedown. Some very light marginal toning, but internally fairly clean. BAL 3411.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45114 Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Boston: George M. Smith & Co., 1873.
8vo. Wood engraved plates throughout. Original pictorial green cloth, stamped and lettered in black and gilt, front cover with gilt vignette of Captain
Nemo using a sextant, spine with gilt vignette of Nemo manning the wheel of the ship, edges gilt.
Second American Edition, lacking the words “The End” on p. 303, which Myers surmises was not present in most copies because the type was dam-
aged, and those with the statement are “among the earliest produced of this edition.” As most copies of the rst American edition published by James
R. Osgood are believed to have been destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 9 November 1872, this is virtually the earliest obtainable American edition.
The classic tale of Captain Nemo and his submarine the Nautilus by the “father of Science Fiction.” First published in France in parts from 1869 to 1870,
the book was published by James R. Osgood of Boston in the same month as the rst British edition, but for some reason only a small number of
copies were printed. It is understood that George M. Smith took over the publishing with a much larger print run and with a similar binding, except
Osgood’s binding has a jellysh vignette on the front cover and the Smith issue has a vignette of Captain Nemo. Also, the title in the Osgood edition
reads “...Under the Sea,” but this Smith issue reads “...Under the Seas.”
Condition: Slightest rubbing to extremities; text block over-opened at pp. 120-121; a few stray foxmarks to endpapers and one on upper margin of
frontispiece; small bookseller’s ticket of “Lockwood / 812 Broadway, N.Y.” on front pastedown. Overall, an exceptional copy, with both gilt and cloth
remarkably clean and bright, and extremely fresh internally (both text and plates).
References: Myers 56.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45115 Jules Verne. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., [1874].
8vo. With 52 wood-engraved illustrations by Edouard Riou. Original brick-red pictorial cloth over beveled boards, stamped in gilt and black on upper
cover and spine.
FIRST AMERICAN DELUXE EDITION, rst state with “Scribner, Armstrong & Co.” on the bottom of the spine instead of just “Scribners.” “The most beauti-
ful of the early American editions of this title” (Smiley). The First French Edition, Voyage au Centre de la Terre, was published in Paris in 1864. The First
English edition appeared in London in 1872. Scribner Armstrong’s rst American edition was published in November 1873 (but was dated 1874). In
late 1874, Scribner Armstrong published this deluxe edition on heavier paper stock, sold by subscription only. “The pictorial cloths have dierent
scenes, there are three more plates in the undated edition and the type has been completely reset” (Myers).
Condition: Some wear to spine ends (with a little fraying) and corners; hinges sound; hint of marginal toning. Overall, a very good copy of this very
rare and desirable edition.
References: Myers 35; Taves & Michaluk V002. See Robin H. Smiley, “Looking at the Centre of the Earth,” in: Firsts Magazine, Summer 1996, pp. 50-55.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45116 Jules Verne. To the Sun? [With:] O on a Comet!. A Journey Through Planetary Space. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haelnger, 1878.
Together, 2 volumes. Illustrated. 8vo. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth, stamped in black and gilt.
FIRST AMERICAN HARDCOVER EDITION. Together these two pirated volumes of what would be published authoritatively as Hector Servadac. This tale
was rst published in America by George Munro in his wrapper-bound “Seaside Library,” in September 1877. During the following month, this edition
of To the Sun? was published; a month after that the authorized edition of Hector Servadac was published on both sides of the Atlantic by Samson
Low and Scribner Armstrong. It was not until May 1878 that Claxton, Remsen & Haelnger published the second half of the tale, as O on a Comet!,
in a similar but distinctive elaborate binding.
Condition: Spine ends a little worn and slightly frayed; minor wear to extremities; light rubbing and soiling to rear covers; hinges cracked with some
chipping or damage to endpapers. Some light toning or soiling to text. Overall, a very good set, rarely found together in bindings matching their
brightness.
References: Myers 33; Taves & Michaluk V016.
Provenance: John R. McFee (Loyola College prize bookplate in rst title); F. L. Harris (ownership inscription in second title); together from the Jerry
Weist Collection (sold, Heritage Auctions, 12 September 2011, lot 30507). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45117 Jules Verne. Hector Servadac. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878.
8vo. With 96 inserted plates with illustrations by Paul Philippoteaux. Original brick-red pictorial cloth over beveled boards, stamped in gilt and black
on upper cover and spine.
FIRST ILLUSTRATED (and rst complete) AMERICAN EDITION. This authorized edition was printed from the same plates as the British 1878 Sampson
Low edition and both editions were published in November 1877. Two editions of the rst part of Hector Servadac were published in America prior to
Scribner, Armstrong’s complete edition.
One of Verne’s interplanetary novels, in which the Earth collides with a comet and the inhabitants of the earth’s surface from Gibraltar to Malta are
carried into space on a fragment. In a beautiful binding with a marvelous gilt cover showing stars and planets whirling through the heavens, while an
earthbound astronomer peers through a telescope. Published in London in 1877, with the same collation as this American edition, then by George
Munro in New York, without illustration, copyright 1877 (but not received at Library of Congress until 1880).
Condition: Spine ends very slightly repaired at ends; hinges sound and internally very clean. Overall, a very ne, bright copy.
References: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1181; Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2235; Myers 33; Taves & Michaluk V016.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45118 Jules Verne. 2 First Editions.
Jules Verne. The Tour of the World in Eighty Days. Translated by George M. Towle. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873.
16mo. Original green blindstamped cloth, front cover stamped and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, state with translator’s credit on title-page (priority unknown). Issued simultaneously with the octavo edition by Osgood,
made up of sheets imported from England, and with the title, Around the World in Eighty Days. Myers states the octavo edition might possibly precede
the 16mo edition “although Osgood may have intended two printings, one smaller and cheaper with a dierent title to promote greater sales.”
Condition: Spine leaned (as usual); minor wear to extremities; small paper loss to p. 289, not aecting text.
References: Myers 54.
[With:]
Jules Verne. Dr. Ox’s Experiment, and Other Stories. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874.
8vo. Illustrated. Original purple pictorial cloth, upper cover and spines stamped in gilt and black, all edges gilt.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Collects the novella “Dr. Ox’s Experiment,” and four other stories: “Master Zacharius,” “A Drama in the Air,” “A Winter Amid the
Ice,” and “Ascent of Mont Blanc.” In a rare purple cloth variant binding.
Condition: Head of spine repaired; minor wear to extremities; very minor rubbing and soiling; hinges cracked; text block cracked at center. Minor
light foxing to rst and last few leaves.
References: Myers 16.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45119 Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1945.
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; original dust jacket, printed in red and gray.
FIRST EDITION of Waugh’s most popular novel, his exploration of the demise of the English country house and Catholic identity. It was adapted for
television by John Mortimer, and famously broadcast as a series in 1981, starring Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews and John Gielgud.
Condition: Spine slightly faded and leaned; extremities lightly bumped; ownership signature on front free endpaper. Dust jacket unclipped (priced
“10s. 6d. net.”), with tear at head of rear spine fold causing a triangular ap (less toned from previous folding back); some wear and fraying at extremi-
ties with some short tears and minor losses; some minor toning and soiling; stray ballpoint mark on upper panel. Overall a ne copy in a very good
unsophisticated jacket, better than normally encountered.
References: Davis 19.
Provenance: George Cosmatos (his sale, Sotheby’s, 23 March 2005, lot 421). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45120 Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911.
8vo. With 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, others uncut.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with unbattered type in the word “wearily” in the penultimate line on p. 135. Of the 6000 copies in the rst printing,
2,500 were issued with a gilt top edge, and 3,500 with a plain top edge; “wearily” became battered during the rst printing run.
Condition: Spine slightly faded and leaned; over-opened between pages 122 and 123 with some pale spotting. Otherwise, a ne and bright copy.
References: Garrison A19.1.a.
Provenance: D. M. Tyler (signature in blue crayon on front pastedown); from the William Wortham Collins Collection; purchased from Sumner &
Stillman.
[With:]
Edith Wharton. Xingu and Other Stories. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1916. 8vo, original plum cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. FIRST
EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (English Issue), Garrison’s third issue, with title printed in black letters only and title verso blank. Spine leaned, some rubbing
to extremities; covers lightly rubbed; some minor blistering to cloth; hinges shaken. Garrison A24.1.a3.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45121 Edith Wharton. Summer. A Novel. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1917.
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; original dust jacket printed in purple.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with “(1)” at end of text on p. [291]. IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET.
Condition: Gilt on spine a little oxidized/dulled; minor rubbing to extremities; some minor spotting to endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped (priced on
spine panel), with spine panel toned, some edgewear with some small chips or short tears, front panel rubbed, rear panel a little soiled.
References: Garrison A26.1.a.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $600
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45122 Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920.
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; original pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with “(1)” below text on p. [365]. FIRST STATE DUST JACKET, without mention of the Columbia (Pulitzer) prize on spine
panel. VERY RARE IN DUST JACKET.
Condition: Spine a bit faded with a little wear at ends including a few tiny splits; some mottling to covers; minor soiling and pale stains; covers slight-
ly bowed; some light toning to free endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.00 net”) with spine panel, joints and margins restored (with imprint
and a few other letters supplied in manuscript facsimile); some rubbing and soiling.
References: Davis 21; Garrison A30.1.a.
Provenance: “M. G. F.” (initials on front free endpaper dated “‘20”); purchased at Christie’s, New York, 3 December 2007, lot 575). The Library of a
Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $5,000
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45123 Edith Wharton. Ghosts. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1937.
8vo. Original blue cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt; publisher’s dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, with publisher’s “(1)” code on page 406. Featuring eleven ghost
stories collected together for the rst time, “a landmark volume in supernatural
ction” (Bleiler).
Condition: Binding very ne and bright; a few small stains or spots on fore-
edge of text block; hinges a little discolored at gutter. Dust jacket price-clipped
on front ap, spine panel a bit faded and with a chip at head extending to front
panel; a few other small chips at extremities; rear panel a little stained and
soiled.
References: Bleiler, Supernatural 1688; Garrison AA4.
Provenance: Edward Grith (pencil signature on front free endpaper dated “Jan
6, 1938”). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
45124 T. H. White. The Sword in the Stone. London: Collins, 1938.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in white. Original illustrated dust
jacket.
FIRST EDITION. Though initially published as a stand-alone novel, T. H. White fol-
lowed the success of this rst book based on Arthurian legend with two more
novels: The Witch in the Wood (1939) and The Ill-Made Knight (1940). These novels
were collected and published with additional material in The Once and Future
King (1958). In 2014, The Sword in the Stone was awarded the 1939 Retro-Hugo
Award for the Best Novel.
Condition: Spine lettering very bright; cloth with just a few spots of rubbing;
very slight toning on front free endpaper near gutter. Dust jacket unclipped
(priced “8s. 6d. net”), spine panel with a few chips at ends; two other closed tears
at head near both spine folds; a few other small tears or nicks; but a bright un-
toned example.
References: Currey, p. 534; Reginald, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 15254.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45125 T. H. White. The Once and Future King. London: Collins, 1958.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; original dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page in ink above his original line drawing of a knight’s helmet in prole at cen-
ter. In a rst state dust jacket, with advertisement on rear panel for King Arthur’s Avalon by Georey Ashe.
The rst collected edition of White’s Arthurian saga, comprising: The Sword in the Stone (with two new chapters), The Queen of Air and Darkness (re-
vised and retitled version of The Witch in the Wood), The Ill-Made Knight (revised), and the rst book appearance of The Candle in the Wind. VERY RARE
SIGNED.
Condition: Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and rubbed; minor soiling or rubbing to covers; very slight discoloration to endpapers. A very few
light spots of foxing on prelims. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “25s. net”), with minor rubbing and soiling. Very ne.
References: Currey, p. [533].
Provenance: Jeanne Heaton (bookplate on front free endpaper). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45126 Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward, Lock and Co., [1891].
8vo. With 8 pp. publisher’s advertisements (undated) bound at end. Publisher’s parchment-backed gray paper over beveled boards, front cover and
spine with gilt decorations and lettering, designed by Charles Ricketts, uncut. Housed in a custom cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, with “Ward Lock and Co” on title, and “nd” for “and” on page 208, line 8 from bottom. The novel was rst
published in Philadelphia’s Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in July 1890 (which in England was published by Ward, Lock & Co.). This rst edition in
book form was then published in April 1891, with many additions and variations; the large-paper issue was not issued until July of that year. Charles
Ricketts designed the highly unusual binding, with all the spine lettering and decoration compressed into the bottom inch of space, as well as the
distinctive lettering design on the four preliminary leaves. Mason mentions neither the eight plates of Ward, Lock & Co. ads nor the publisher’s im-
print on the verso of the nal (otherwise blank) leaf, but these have been seen in other copies.
Condition: Spine very lightly toned; very minor rubbing and wear to extreme spine ends and corners; a hint of toning to board edges; minor dust-
soiling to uncut edges. Small bookseller’s label on front pastedown; small clipping containing Wilde’s comments on Dorian Gray printed from a letter
mounted on front free endpaper. AN UNUSUALLY WELL-PRESERVED COPY, ner than most copies encountered of this notoriously fragile volume.
References: Mason 328.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $4,000
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45127 [Harry Clarke, illustrator]. Edgar Allan Poe. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. New York: Brentano’s, [1923].
4to. Illustrated with 32 plates, of which eight are in color and tipped-in (including frontispiece). Original black cloth, upper cover with pictorial title
label printed in gold and black, spine gilt-lettered and decorated; original pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION illustrated by Clarke.
Condition: Very slight rubbing to extremities; tiny hole on upper joint. Dust jacket with a few tiny closed tears and very slight wear to extremities,
light toning on verso. Minor corner crease on frontispiece plate. Overall, a very ne and bright copy in the scarce dust jacket.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45128 [Walter Crane, illustrator]. Edmund Spenser. Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Edited
by Thomas J. Wise. London: George Allen, 1895-97.
6 volumes, 4to. Illustrations and decorations by Walter Crane. Publisher’s cream cloth, pictori-
ally stamped in gilt and lettered in red on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine, original
pink pictorial wrappers bound-in (as issued), top edges gilt, others uncut; housed in the origi-
nal dark blue cloth box with folding lid.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 1000 copies on handmade paper printed by Charles Whittingham &
Co. at the Chiswick Press. A very ne copy of Walter Crane’s lavishly illustrated edition of The
Faerie Queene.
Condition: Slight bumping at foot to a few spine ends; some very light spotting to endpa-
pers, some speckling to leaves at ends in Vols. II and III, but otherwise very fresh. Publisher’s
box reinforced at edges. Overall, a very ne and fresh copy in the rare original publisher’s box.
Provenance: Josephine Porter Boardman Crane (1873-1972), prominent American socialite
and patron of the arts, and wife of Winthrop Murray Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and
U.S. Senator (small ownership label in each volume). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,500
Session One, Auction #6323 | Monday, December 15, 2025 | 10:00 AM CT 139
45129 [Edmund Dulac, illustrator]. Hans Christian Andersen. Stories from Hans Andersen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911].
4to. 28 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac. Original brown pigskin, decoratively gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, decorated
endpapers; housed in a morocco-edged eece-lined slipcase.
EXTRA-LIMITED SIGNED ISSUE, number 2 of 100 copies on Japanese vellum and specially bound SIGNED BY DULAC. Hughey records an issue of 100
copies, an issue of 750 copies and the standard trade issue, all published in October 1911. The extra-limited issue was printed on Japanese vellum
and bound in pigskin by J. May. It sold for more than twice the publication price of the 750 copy issue. The publishers originally advertised the book
as “a great illustrator’s greatest success.”
Condition: Spine ends lightly rubbed, touch of wear to upper fore-corner (others less so), otherwise very ne.
References: Hughey 27.
Provenance: The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part IV, Sotheby’s, 4 June 2015, lot 40. The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45130 Peter Henry Emerson. Wild Life on a Tidal Water. The Adventures of a House-Boat and her Crew... Illustrated with Thirty Photo-Etchings, P. H.
Emerson and T. F. Goodall. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, Ltd., 1890.
4to. 30 photogravures with titled tissue guards; folding plan of Breydon. Publisher’s original morocco-backed pictorial parchment over boards.
RARE DELUXE ISSUE, number 49 of 100 copies of the “Édition de Luxe.” These naturalistic photo-etchings depict scenes from the time the photog-
rapher spent living aboard a houseboat with his friend T. F. Goodall. Emerson opposed photographic manipulation, including retouching and other
alterations.
Condition: Covers rubbed with some wear and staining or soiling to the vellum; small area of damage at lower corner of front cover; some rubbing to
joints and spine ends. Some scattered marginal toning or spotting.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45131 [Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. William Shakespeare. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London and New York: William Heinemann and
Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908.
4to. 40 color-printed plates tipped to mounts and numerous illustrations by Rackham. Original pictorial gilt vellum gilt over boards, top edge gilt, oth-
ers uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 386 of 1,000 copies, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. Rackham’s imagery for this edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream “became the
standard by which subsequent illustrations of Shakespeare’s play have been judged” (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 204).
Condition: Upper cover and spine with a few dark surface blemishes; a little soiled; lacking one silk tie (the other laid in loose). Endpapers a little dis-
colored. Light osetting from mounting sheets aecting text as usual; minor light foxing (mostly to captioned guards); a few leaves lightly toned.
References: Latimore & Haskell, p. 32; Riall p. 87.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45132 [Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Undine. London: William Heinemann, 1909.
4to (291 x 232 mm). 15 tipped-in color plates. Publisher’s pictorial gilt vellum over boards, top edge gilt, others uncut, original cloth ties.
DELUXE EDITION, number 491 of 1,000 copies for Great Britain, Ireland and Colonies, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. This German Romantic fairy tale inspired
Hans Christian Andersen’s even more famous The Little Mermaid, “... a masterpiece of sympathetic understanding” (Hudson, p 80).
Condition: Slight bump at head of spine; slightest soiling, otherwise extremely ne and bright.
References: Latimore & Haskell, p 34; Riall, p 93.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45133 [Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Richard Wagner. The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie. London and New York, 1910.
4to. 34 full-page mounted color plates by Rackham, including frontispiece. Rebound in contemporary half vellum and brown boards, gilt-lettered
leather spine labels, top edge gilt.
LIMITED EDITION, number 1,068 of 1,150 copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM.
Condition: Spine labels a little rubbed and worn; some light edgewear; edges trimmed slightly at the time of rebinding but some deckle edges pre-
served; internally ne.
References: Latimore & Haskell, p. 37.
[With:]
[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Richard Wagner. Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. London and New York, 1911.
4to. 30 full-page mounted color plates by Rackham, including frontispiece. Original pictorial vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 120 of 1,150 copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM.
Condition: A little soiling and wear to vellum; lacking silk ties; hinges cracked; endpapers a little discolored and spotted. Minor light spotting to blank
prelims; one plate with mount and tissue guard detached (Brünnhilde on the pyre, facing p. 180); some light toning from plate mounts to adjacent
text; a little toning to some uncut deckle edges along fore-margin.
References: Latimore & Haskell, pp. 37-38.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $500
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45134 [Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Grimm Brothers. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm. London: Constable & Co.,
Ltd., [1917].
4to. 13 tipped-in colored plates (including frontispiece) and numerous illustrations in text. Original light gray cloth with white cloth panel on front
cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, spine decoratively stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut; custom cloth slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, number 512 of 525 copies, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. Accompanied by the scarce additional mounted color plate SIGNED BY
RACKHAM, in original publisher’s envelope.
Condition: Very light rubbing to extremities; front hinge neatly repaired. A little minor foxing, mainly to endpapers. Overall, a very ne copy.
References: Latimore & Haskell, 46-47; Riall, p.129.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45135 [N. C. Wyeth, illustrator]. Homer. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by George Herbert Palmer. Cambridge: Houghton Miin Company / The
Riverside Press, 1929.
4to. Illustrated with 16 tipped-in color illustrations, with captioned tissue guards. Original quarter pigskin and turquoise cloth, cover pictorial gilt
cover stamp, gilt-lettered brown morocco lettering-piece on spine, edges uncut and many unopened; two-part box with cover label.
LIMITED EDITION, number 175 of 550 copies SIGNED BY WYETH and the translator, and accompanied by an extra full suite of the sixteen plates (lack-
ing original envelope).
Condition: Tiny blemish (retouched?) to pigskin on spine; morocco lettering-piece slightly faded. Publisher’s box restored preserving original paper
covers on outside top and bottom.
References: Allen and Allen, p. 213; Dykes 253.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
Starting Bid: $750
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45136 [Johannes Balbus]. Single leaf from the Catholicon. [Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg?, 1460 (not before 1469)].
Single folio leaf measuring 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches; 367 x 284 mm. Text printed in two columns on both recto and verso, 66 lines each, with rubricated
initials (one nine-line, the remaining one-line) and rubricated section markers.
FIRST EDITION of the rst known etymological dictionary ever printed, Second Issue, printed on Galliziani paper watermarked with Needham’s D.i.mR
or D.ii.mL (but presumed D.ii.mL). According to ISTC, “Three issues can be distinguished in spite of identical typesetting: a) printed on vellum or Bull’s
head paper; b) on Galliziani paper; c) on Tower & Crown paper. This has given rise to the theory that issue a) was printed in 1460, issue b) in 1469 and
issue c) about 1472.” Another theory exists that all issues were printed concurrently by multiple printers in 1469.
Condition: Paper lightly toned, especially at edges; some spotting and thumbsoiling; a few light chips at edges, some where leaf was disbound not
aecting text.
References: GW 03182; Hain 2254; ISTC ib00020000; Paul Needham, Johann Gutenberg and the Catholicon Press, PBSA, Vol. 76, Fourth Quarter, 1982,
pp. 395-456; USTC 743192.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45137 Bible, in English. The Holy Bible, Containing the Bookes of the Old & New Testament. Cambridge: John Field, 1660-59.
Folio (420 x 280 mm). Engraved general title showing Solomon on his throne by Lombart after Diepenbeck; ruled in red throughout; bound without
the plates. Bound in a contemporary English Restoration binding of black goatskin over heavy oak boards, covers richly gilt with a double roll border,
the inner border with a repeated pattern incorporating oral and crown tools surrounding a large central quatrefoil-shaped ornament built up of in-
dividual tools as in the inner border on covers with the same crown device at top and bottom, spine richly gilt in seven compartments with six raised
bands, gilt-lettered in one, the remaining panels decorated in alternating designs built up of individual tools used on the covers, spine bands, board
edges and turn-ins gilt, edges gilt; engraved silver clasps and corner-pieces.
An attractive copy in a contemporary restoration binding of Ogilby’s 1660 reissue of Field’s 1659 Bible (Herbert 666), updated to reect the restora-
tion of King Charles II to the throne, with a new nely engraved title-page that celebrated divinely appointed monarchy by depicting Solomon en-
throned.
Originally published in 1659 by John Field, printer for Cambridge University Press, this work was designed to be a lectern Bible for churches and
libraries. In 1660, John Ogilby acquired the edition and reissued it with illustrations, including a new engraved title-page depicting King Solomon on
the throne, targeting the private market. The Bible has been referred to as “Ogilby’s Bible” and “The Restoration Bible.” Ogilby presented a copy to King
Charles II in 1660, when the monarch visited the Royal Chapel in Whitehall following his restoration.
This Bible was issued in two volumes, containing the Prayer Book preceded by a full-page engraving of the royal arms and dedication of the whole
volume to King Charles II. The present copy is a single volume containing the Old Testament, the Apocrypha and the New Testament (with letterpress
title-page dated 1659); colophon dated 1659. It is bound without Ogilby’s chorographical plates and engravings by Cornelis Visscher and others,
and does not include the prayer book, with engraved plate of royal arms and all other plates. When found in two volumes the Apocrypha and New
Testament are sometimes bound following the Book of Common Prayer in the second volume.
Condition: Volume rebacked in calf at an early date preserving original spine, upper cover has since become detached; some rubbing with a few
scratches to covers; minor edgewear; silver hardware a bit tarnished. Endpapers with a little wear to corners; some minor marginal soiling or toning;
leaf Aa3 trimmed along blank fore-margin (approx. 1 inch); blank leaf before NT with a few short tears and with mounted family records (see prov-
enance); occasional minor marginal aws.
References: Darlow & Moule 525; Herbert 668; Wing B2258.
Provenance: Robert Hillman family, of Amesbury and Andover, England (blank leaf Aa3 before NT with manuscript family records from the late18th-
19th century, some other related notes including a family tree mounted to blank leaf or laid in); St. Paul’s Church, Worthing, West Sussex (donation
note).
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45138 Andreas Vesalius. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, [1555 (colophon)].
Folio. Collation: a-z6 A-V6 X2 (includes fold-out diagram) Y-Z6 aa6 bb8 ( 6+ fold-out diagram) cc-zz6, Aa8, Bb-Dd6 E5. Woodcut title page of Vesalius’
lab, full-page portrait, two fold-out diagrams of the circulatory and nervous systems and in-text illustrations throughout, some full-page. Half vellum
over marbled boards, all edges gilt, gilt-lettered spine.
Second folio edition, printed on heavier paper with the author’s additions and corrections.
Condition: Fold-out diagrams each with fold-out tear repaired, 18mm to rst and 17.5mm to second; lacking nal leaf E6, blank save publisher’s
device on the verso; marginal dampstaining heaviest at beginning and end; early text deletion resulting in ink burn and loss of text to title page, pub-
lisher’s name removed from title page and colophon and small stamp removed from the title page. Front joint split but holding; scratches and some
edgewear to boards.
References: Garrison-Morton 377; Norman 2139.
Provenance: Paul B. Hoeber Medical Books (bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown); Christie’s New York, 9 June 1999, lot 69.
Starting Bid: $7,500
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45139 [Georges Braque, illustrator]. [Paul Bonet, binder]. Guillaume Apollinaire. Si je mourais
là-bas. Paris: Printed by Féquet and Baudier for Louis Broder, 1962.
Folio (18 3/4 x 15 ½ inches). The complete portfolio, comprising 18 woodcuts, 12 printed in colors,
en- and hors-texte. With title, text in French, table of contents and justication. Full dark burgundy
morocco decorated to an abstract design with irregularly shaped calf and morocco inlays of eight
dierent colors (scarlet, ochre, orange, cream, turquoise, and three shades of grey), the same pat-
tern on both covers but with opposite orientation, spine gilt-lettered, burgundy suede doublures
and endleaves bordered with calf, gilt edges, by Paul Bonet (stamp-signed on lower turn-in of front
board). Chemise and slipcase by Bonet.
LIMITED EDITION, number 30 of 180 copies on handmade Chion wove paper, pencil signed by
Braque, with the additional suite of 19 woodcuts on japon nacré, each signed in pencil and num-
bered 30/40. Bound in a very ne Paul Bonet binding.
Condition: Small touch of wear at extreme foot of spine; light rubbing to corner extremities. Slipcase
lightly rubbed with a few scratches, one minor abrasion on rear board.
References: Vallier 181.
Provenance: Property from the Ehrlich Collection.
Starting Bid: $10,000
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45140 [Salvador Dalí, illustrator]. Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York: Random House, 1969.
Folio. With twelve illustrations of original woodcuts and an original etching as frontispiece by Salvador Dalí. Loose gatherings in portfolio as issued,
portfolio with Dalí’s name stamped in gilt, housed in publisher’s leather backed linen clamshell with leather and bone clasps.
Limited edition, number 1,295 of 2,500, SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR on the title page.
Condition: Light thumbsoiling to gatherings; touch of soiling to portfolio; clamshell soiled and stained around edges; some wear and with front joint
starting; leather clasps worn and frayed, one split and broken but present.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $2,500
45141 [Pablo Picasso, illustrator]. Aristophanes.
Lysistrata. A new version by Gilbert Seldes with a spe-
cial introduction by Mr. Seldes. New York: The Limited
Editions Club, 1934.
4to. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso. Publisher’s picto-
rial boards printed in blue and red. Original glassine.
Publisher’s blue-gray paper-covered chemise and
slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION. Number 1,322 of 1,500 copies,
SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR.
Condition: Light edgewear to original glassine.
Chemise spine lightly sunned, slipcase with a few short
splits at joints.
Provenance: Carl I. Wheat, known for his bibliographies
and research on the American West, particularly the
invaluable reference set, Mapping the Transmississippi
West, 1540–1861 (booklabel).
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45142 [Arthur Szyk, illustrator]. The Haggadah. Executed by Arthur Szyk. Edited by Cecil Roth. London: Beaconseld Press, Ltd., [1940].
4to. Text in Hebrew and English, PRINTED ON VELLUM in variously colored inks; 14 full-page and numerous smaller color halftone reproductions of
Szyk’s drawings including decorative initials, vignettes and border decorations. Original blue crushed levant morocco, covers ruled in gilt enclosing
a large design after Szyk of a seated Hebrew prophet, spine gilt-ruled in compartments, gilt-lettered in two, a gilt emblem in the others, turn-ins gilt,
by Sangorski & Sutclie, silk doublures printed with a monochromatic illustration of Moses supporting the Ten Commandments. Housed in original
velvet-lined three-quarter morocco folding case gilt, by Sangorski & Sutclie.
LIMITED EDITION, number 11 of 125 deluxe copies SIGNED BY SZYK AND ROTH for sale in the United States of America. Szyk’s masterpiece, and the
greatest Haggadah of the 20th century, juxtaposes the traditional Passover narrative with the anti-Semitism of the Nazi era. The entire edition of the
celebrated Szyk Haggadah was nely printed in color on vellum in an edition of 250 copies (125 for sale in Great Britain).
Condition: A few minor dark spots to covers; else, volume very ne.
Provenance: Property from the Ehrlich Collection.
Starting Bid: $10,000
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45143 Aaron Arrowsmith. Hydrographical Chart of the World: According to Wrights, or Mercators Projection Delineated by A. Arrowsmith. [London]:
1819.
4 ft. 10 in. x 8 ft. 2 in. visible (framed to an overall size of 5 ft. 11 in. x 9 ft. 2 in.).
Large engraved wall map of the world, featuring a decorative monolith title cartouche, showing the most recent discoveries of Lewis and Clark and a
note on Greenland stating “Discovered in 983 See Egede p 8.”
Condition: Water-damage along the extremities; puckering to sheet, with a few repaired tears; lightly toned and with some scattered soiling, particu-
larly where sheets have been joined.
Special shipping arrangements will apply.
Starting Bid: $4,000
45144 Carolus Allard. America Septentrionalis et
Meridionalis. [Amsterdam: circa 1700].
500 x 590 mm to the platemark (525 x 61 mm full sheet).
Double-page engraved map with hand-coloring of North
and South America, featuring California as an island, a mythi-
cal large strait called “Terra Esonis,” joining Japan to North
America; large decorative cartouche at the bottom left depict-
ing Native Americans in traditional costume, sugar cane and
indigenous animals, as well as an inset map of New Zealand.
Key features include Lac des Puans placed correctly in Green
Bay, the previous location correctly renamed Lac Illinois, with
this, and Lake Superior, enclosed to the west. The present
state (after Burden state II) includes a more detailed depic-
tion of the Mississippi Valley, per Hennepin’s Carte d’un tres
grand pays, published in 1697, as well as a detailed coastline of
Australia, lower left, showing Quiri Regio, present day Gulf of
Carpenteria.
Condition: Backed with tissue and strengthened along the
center fold, with a few small tears repaired bottom left; small
area of loss to the right center; a few light spots.
References: Tooley, Mapping of America, 65.
Starting Bid: $500
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45145 Charles Blaskowitz. A Plan of the Town of Newport in Rhode Island. Surveyed by Charles Blaskowitz; engraved and published by William Faden.
London: September 1777.
345 x 370 mm to the platemark (535 x 385 mm sheet). Engraved plan of the town of Newport published in William Faden’s North American Atlas,
featuring Goat Island, being the location of Fort George; named streets, quays, buildings and farmlands; a legend naming 19 key sites of interest, in-
cluding Trinity Church and the meeting houses of various Protestant congregations, Touro Synagogue, being the oldest Jewish temple in the United
States, built in 1759, the Redwoods Library, the Goal [sic], the estate of Nathan Kay, which had been donated to the Assistant Minister of Trinity
Church and was used for the schooling of “Ten poor boys,” the Court House, Alms and Works House, Town School House, and Rope Walks.
ONE OF THE MOST ACCURATE AND DETAILED AMERICAN TOWN PLANS TO DATE, based on the 1774 pre-revolutionary war plan of Newport com-
posed to exact trigonometric measures by Charles Blaskowitz, a member of the survey team overseen by Col. Samuel Holland to perform a scientic
mapping of the colonies in anticipation of the French & Indian War in 1763, and engraved and published in 1777 by William Faden in his American
Atlas, following the British recapture of the port.
RARE. We can trace only two other copies having appeared at auction in the last ten years.
References: Clark, Maps of the American Revolution, p. 29 [09030]; Nebenzahl, Battle Plans, p. 23 [35].
Condition: Bottom edge trimmed unevenly; lightly toned in the margins.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45146 Phillipe Buache. Carte de la Louisiane
et du Cours du Mississipi Dressee sur un Grand
Nombre de Memoires Entrautres sur ceux de Mr. le
Maire. [Paris]: 1745.
495 x 655 mm to the platemark (545 x 700mm
sheet).
Engraved double-page map of North America
hand-colored in outline. After DeLisle’s 1718
original, but with the inclusion of the settlement
of New Orleans, founded the same year.
Condition: A few pressed creases; a few stains
along the top margin; center reinforced on the
verso.
References: Tooley, Mapping of America, 45.
Starting Bid: $500
45147 Joannis Janssonius. America
Septentrionalis. Amstelodami: [circa 1640].
470 x 555 mm to the platemark (505 x 585mm
sheet).
Double-page engraved map of North and Central
America hand-colored in outline, featuring a
decorative cartouche of Native Americans in tra-
ditional costume; California is shown as an island.
Text in French to the verso.
Condition: Toned along the edges; a few small
closed tears repaired on the verso; a few pale
spots.
References: Tooley, The Mapping of America, p.
113.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45149 John James Audubon. The Bird of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. New York: J. J. Audubon and
Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844.
7 volumes, royal 8vo. With 494 (of 500) plates with tissue guards after Audubon (lacking plates nos. 86-90 and text pp. 45-56 in vol. 2, and plate no.
471 in vol. 7), lithographed, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia, except 10 of those in vol. 3, which were lithographed and printed by
Endicott, of New York. Three-quarter red straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, spines with ve raised bands creating six compartments, four
decorated in gilt, two lettered with title and author/volume respectively.
FIRST OCTAVO EDITION. “First and most desirable edition of this work published during the author’s lifetime” (Sabin).
Condition: Edgewear to extremities and a few plates; corners lightly bumped; foxing to preliminaries and title page, extending lightly into a few
text pages, and in the margins of plates in a few volumes. Lacking six plates (nos. 86-90 and text pp. 45-56 in vol. 2, and plate no. 471 in vol. 7); hand-
colored plates largely bright and clean.
References: Ayers/Zimmer, p. 22; Church 1352; Reese, Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books, 35; Sabin 316.
Provenance: Sold Christie’s, New York, 9 June 1999, lot 72.
Starting Bid: $7,500
45148 John Senex. A Map of Louisiana and of the River
Mississippi. [London: 1721].
490 x 575 mm to the platemark (520 x 610 mm sheet).
Double-page engraved map of North America, hand-colored
in outline, featuring the Mississippi River Valley, extending
north to the Great Lakes and south to the Gulf of Mexico, the
Rocky Mountains to the West and the Chesapeake Bay to the
East. After Delisle’s 1718 map, Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours
du Mississippi, but with the inclusion of a decorative cartouche,
featuring a river god, two putti performing agrarian tasks, and
two anking a winged goddess.
Condition: A few areas of foxing; two small tears repaired on
the verso at the top center and bottom left, remargined at the
corners and strengthened along the centerfold; dampstain
along the top margin.
References: Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps, 182.
Starting Bid: $750
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45150 [Colonial America]. Nicholas Bayard and Jacob Wendell Documents Signed, with Additional Plymouth Colony Documents. An early
group of New York and Plymouth Colony documents signed by prominent colonial gures Nicholas Bayard, Jacob Wendell, Josiah Cotton, and others.
Includes:
Nicholas Bayard Document Signed. One page, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, New York; May 5, 1692. An order addressed to Captain Theunis Dekey, instruct-
ing him to detach men from his company of fusiliers for service in New York: “Pursuant to an Act of Assembly, Instituted an act for raising of two hun-
dred men &c...you are hereby required forthwith to detach from men out of the Company of fuseleers under your Command, 100 that you may have
them reddy here at New York...” Signed, “N Bayard.” With a period provenance note attached (with adhesive) to the verso, identifying Dekey: “Theunis
Dekey Esq the within gentleman had his rst commission from S. Edmund...Gov’r of New York on April 10 1680. He was Father to my Grandmother
Wendell whose maiden name was Catherine Dekey of New York. Attested John Wendell aged 72 / Dece’r 12 / 1803.”
Jacob Wendell Document Signed. One page, 8 1/4 x 13 inches, Boston; June 5, 1710. Written in English and Dutch, this letter from merchant Jacob
Wendell informs his brother, John, that he has drawn a bill in his name: “Dear Brother, This Serves to advice you that, I this day have Drawn, a bill on
you, payable to James Smith’s Order, which I pray You to honour...” Signed (in Dutch), “Geneege Broeder & Dient” [Your Dear Brother and Servant],
“Jacob Wendell.”
William Bradford and John Nelson Document Signed. One page, 7 1/2 x 12 inches, Plymouth; April 13, 1693. A record noting payment received by
John Nelson from Francis Cook for a “parcell of meadow.” In part: “I John Nelson of Plymouth in new England, for & in Consideration of fourty shillings
silver mony to me in hand paid by Francis Cooke of Plymouth aforesaid, with which said John Nelson am fully satised.” Signed, “John Nelson” and
“William Bradford.”
Josiah Cotton Partial Document Signed. One page, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, Plymouth; August 12, 1693. The bottom portion of a document from
Justice Josiah Cotton, an Indian missionary and Register of Deeds for Plymouth Colony. He signs at the bottom right, “Josiah Cotton Reg’r.”
John Rickard Document Signed. One page, 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches, Plymouth; February 11, 1697. Records payment to Rickard by Francis Cook for his
share of a shallop in Plymouth Harbor: “Know Yee: that I the sd John Rickard for & in Consideration of the just sum of twenty nine pounds::six shillings
Eight pence...all ready paid by Francis Cook of this Town.” Signed “John Rickard.” Additionally signed by John Sturtevant and Nathaniel Clarke as wit-
nesses.
James Warren Document Signed. One page, 7 3/4 x 12 inches, Plymouth; May 14, 1699. An order to “Frances Cooke Constable of Plimouth” to collect
taxes for construction of a house for Ephraim Little: “In his Maj’ty name you are Required forthwith Levy and collect of the persons named in the list
herewith committed unto you...the sums total of such list being a tax or assessment granted and agreed upon by the Inhabitance of the said town of
Plimouth...for the payment of money to Mr Ephraim Little towards building his house in Plimouth.” Signed, “James Warren” and “William Shurtlef,” as-
sessors.
Condition: All documents age-toned with some edgewear; attened folds with separations thereat, occasionally aecting text. Wendell document
with dampstaining at left edge; minor loss near top left edge, aecting a single word. Bradford document with remnants of sealing wax at bottom
right; pencil annotations on verso. Josiah Cotton document just holding at folds. Rickard document fully separated at bottom fold.
Starting Bid: $500
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45151 [Colonial America]. Bridgewater Massachusetts Burial Record. Twenty-four pages bound in contemporary calfskin, measuring approxi-
mately 5 x 8 inches. A paper label axed to the upper cover reads: “Record of the Interments in the South Precinct Burying Ground Made by Lieut. John
Washburn from 1739 to 1797.”
Lieutenant John Washburn III, who maintained this record, served in the Revolutionary War in Captain Andrew Sampson’s Company from Plymouth.
Stationed at Gurnet Fort in 1777, he was promoted to sergeant and appointed commander of the garrison in 1781 before being discharged on April
1, 1782.
Spanning nearly six decades, Washburn’s manuscript lists the names of those buried in the South Precinct Burying Ground at Bridgewater,
Massachusetts, from 1739 through 1797. Each entry records the deceased’s name and often includes identiers such as “wife,” “child,” or “negro.” The
nal entry, written in another hand, notes Washburn’s own death on June 3, 1797. The closing page includes a separate list titled “Peopel that ware not
buered in this place.”
Bridgewater, incorporated in 1656 as the rst inland town of the Plymouth Colony, was an early agricultural settlement that later became a center of
education and industry. It is notable for the founding of Bridgewater State University in 1840 and for the Keith House (built 1662), believed to be the
oldest extant parsonage in the United States.
Together with a manuscript document dated May 30, 1803, addressed to Jonah Benson, “one of the surveyors of High ways and Town ways in the
town of Bridgewater.” The document outlines the budget for “amending and repairing” the town’s roads and highways, including a ledger of residents
who contributed funds toward the work. Signed by Solomon Hayward, Abel Kingman, and Daniel Howard as assessors and selectmen of Bridgewater.
Condition: Some wear to calfskin binding including cockling and minor chips or scus; paper label on front cover creased at edges. Inner pages just
holding with moderate wear, including scattered staining, foxing, and long separations, occasionally aecting legibility of text. Ink erosion due to
spilled ink on nal page and rear cover, resulting in some loss aecting text. Document somewhat age-toned and creased at folds, with a few small
separations thereat; some foxing and staining throughout.
Starting Bid: $500
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45152 Alexander Hamilton. Observations on Certain Documents Contained in No. V &
VI of “The History of the United States for the Year 1796,” in which the Charge of Speculation
against Alexander Hamilton, Late Secretary of the Treasury, is Fully Refuted. Written by Himself.
Philadelphia: Printed for John Fenno, by John Bioren, 1797.
Small 4to. Unbound and uncut; sewn, as issued. Housed in a quarter morocco folding case.
The present work, universally known as the “Reynolds Pamphlet,” lies at the heart of one
of the earliest great political scandals of the new Republic. The present title constitutes
Alexander Hamilton’s extraordinary attempt to defend his public reputation in the face of ac-
cusations of nancial corruption, or, as Sabin notes, “Hamilton explains his public conduct at
the expense of his private character.” In James Callender’s partisan history, The History of the
United States for 1796, Hamilton was charged with speculation and misuse of Treasury funds;
in response, Hamilton issued this pamphlet, candidly acknowledging his illicit relationship
with Maria Reynolds and the ensuing blackmail by her husband, James Reynolds, while
strenuously denying any impropriety in his ocial capacity as Secretary of the Treasury. The
publication shocked contemporaries, and Hamilton’s family made every eort to suppress
it, thus its present rarity. As Henry Stevens observed, “truth never appeared so naked as in
these confessions of Alexander Hamilton.” Howes reminds us, “the reprints of 1800 were
published by his enemies.”
Uncommon, we can trace no other unbound copies at auction in the past thirty years.
Condition: Unbound wrappers sewn with original thread; pale spotting to wrappers and
throughout; rear wrapper with some dampstaining; last few leaves with some staining, pri-
marily conned to the margins; some edgewear; a few creases; a few penciled annotations
in the margins.
References: Church 1276; Evans 32222; Ford, Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana, 64; Howes H-120; Reese, The Federal One Hundred, 68; Sabin 29969; Stevens,
Bibliotheca Historica (1870), 846; Stevens, Bibliotheca Geographica & Historica (1872), 1306.
Starting Bid: $4,000
45153 Martin Luther King, Jr. Stride Toward Freedom.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958.
8vo. Publisher’s black coated cloth and blue coated
paper-covered boards, spine and front board stamped
in silver; original pictorial dust jacket featuring a photo-
graph of Dr. King.
FIRST EDITION second printing, with publisher’s code
“I-H” on copyright page. INCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on
the front free endpaper: “Best Wishes / Martin L. King Jr.”
Includes a letter of authenticity from PSA.
Condition: Light edgewear to boards; some light
foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped (priced
“$2.95”), with red portion on the upper panel bleeding
slightly into the top section, some edgewear with a
touch of loss to the corners and spine ends, 3mm tear,
some soiling, small tear and a few creases to the rear
panel.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45154 [Caspar Plautius]. Honorius Philoponus. Nova Typis Transacta Navigatio. Novi Orbis Indiae Occidentalis. [Lintz], 1621.
4to. Engraved title page and 18 numbered plates, also with engraved head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials. 18th-century mottled calf, spine
gilt, gilt red leather lettering-piece.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with 3 preliminary leaves (Sabin calls for 4 preliminary pages, which make up the Dedication, as here). The second issue,
with the same title and date, contains additional preliminary and supplementary leaves, and an extra plate depicting an owl (Sabin). Only the rst
numbered plate is signed by the engraver, Wolf. Kilian, in the plate; the remaining 17 plates are unsigned, though similar in style and theme to the
rst, and it is likely they were also executed by Kilian.
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST ISSUE. The second issue is far more common; only two copies of the rst issue have appeared at auction since 1960.
“This is one of the impudentest books known. The author’s real name was Caspar Plautus, a monk at Lintz in Austria. In the most fulsome style, under
his assumed name of Philoponus, he inscribed the work to himself in a long and highly complimentary Dedication. He accuses the DeBrys, in their
great collection of Voyages, of telling outrageous lies, forgetting apparently his own wackers” (Stevens).
Condition: Joints starting and some loss at spine heads; rear hinge starting; a few minor wormholes in spine; some edgewear. Title page trimmed
and mounted on inserted sheet; a few minor wormholes conned to margins, not aecting text or plates; a few marginalia throughout; staining to
A3v; text lightly browned; minor thumbsoiling; a few paper aws with minor losses, all conned to margins and not aecting text; 18th-century own-
ership signature to y-leaf.
References: Alden-Landis 621/100; JCB II, pp. 156-157 (noting 7 unnumbered preliminary leaves in the rst edition, and 4 unnumbered preliminary
leaves in the second edition); Palau VI (rst edition), p. 107; Sabin 63367; Stevens, Biblioteca Historica, 1549.
Starting Bid: $4,000
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45155 Ronald Reagan. Speaking My Mind. New York, etc.: Simon and Schuster,
[1989].
Large 8vo. Publisher’s navy blue morocco gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Includes two loose Easton Press bookplates.
LIMITED EDITION number 429 of 5,000 copies. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the limita-
tion page: “Ronald Reagan.”
Condition: Fine.
Starting Bid: $500
45156 Norman Rockwell. Poor Richard’s Almanack. Paris: Raymond &
Raymond, Inc. in Association with Circle Gallery Ltd., 1973. Pulled in Paris at
Atelier Mourlot.
Seven colored lithographs measuring 25.5 x 19.5 inches (64.8 x 49.5 cm) (sheet),
housed in an oversized portfolio folding case, stamped in gilt. The lithographs
include: “Ye Olde Print Shoppe,” “Ben’s Belles,” “The Village Smithy,” “The Royal
Crown,” “Ben Franklin’s Philadelphia,” “The Drunkard,” and “The Golden Age.”
Full suite of 7 colored lithographs, LIMITED EDITION, one of 60 copies reserved
for the publisher, numbered “A/P” and SIGNED by the artist in pencil “Norman
Rockwell.”
Condition: Minor edgewear to portfolio, a few small stains.
Starting Bid: $500
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45157 [Theodore Roosevelt]. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, n.d. [c. 1905].
4 volumes (of 14), 8vo. Inserted plates. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt, spine and boards blind stamped.
Later printing. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ROOSEVELT AS PRESIDENT in volume one: “To Frederick Boyd Stevenson Esq / with the regards of /
Theodore Roosevelt / May 14th 1906.”
Frederick Boyd Stevenson (1859-1938) was an inuential newspaper columnist and editor who served on the sta of The Cleveland Herald, as city edi-
tor of The Chicago Daily News, as Sunday editor of The Chicago Tribune, and as the Sunday editor of The Sunday Eagle in Brooklyn, NY.
Condition: Gilt rubbed on spines; light wear to board edges and spine ends; a few minor scus. Light osetting to title pages from frontispieces;
front hinge of vol. I starting; tear in the margin on p. 425 in vol. II, not aecting text; title page in vol. III detached but present, tear to frontispiece tis-
sue guard.
Starting Bid: $750
45158 [Benjamin Rush]. An Enquiry into the Eects of Public Punishment Upon Criminals, and
Upon Society. Read in the Society for Promoting Political Enquiries, Convened at the House of His
Excellency Benjamin Franklin, Esquire, in Philadelphia, March 9th, 1787. Philadelphia: Joseph James,
1787.
8vo (in fours). 18 pages. Modern mustard yellow cloth.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE PRINTER on the title page: “To James
Hamton from Jos. Jam[es].” Sabin notes this pamphlet has also been attributed to James Ramsay,
though a similarly titled pamphlet, authored by Rush, was published in New York in 1816. RARE,
we can trace no other copies at auction.
James Hamton (1764-1792) was a Quaker and educator, living in and around Philadelphia for his
short life. Joseph James (1755-1830) was a printer working in Philadelphia, and, like Hamton, was
also a Quaker. It appears that his father, Abel James, was a wealthy merchant, Quaker leader, mem-
ber of the American Philosophical Society, and personal friend of Benjamin Franklin. It is likely
through this connection that his son Joseph James came to print the present pamphlet.
Condition: Fore-margin apparently trimmed, aecting part of the inscription; top margin seem-
ingly closely shaved as well. Pale staining to title page; a few pale spots throughout.
References: Evans 20689; Sabin 67712 (Ramsay); Sabin 74215 (Rush). Not in Howes.
Provenance: James Hamton (presentation inscription).
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45159 Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant’s Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in
the United States, Together with the Most Popular British, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish Recipes, Embracing Punches, Juleps, Cobblers, etc.,
etc., etc., in Endless Variety. To Which is Appended a Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, Fancy Syrups, &c., &c.... Illustrated with Description
Engravings. The Whole Containing Over 600 Valuable Recipes. By Christian Shultz. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, 1862.
12mo. Illustrations throughout, including an illustration on the Preface leaf signed “Avery.” 8 pp. of publisher’s catalog at rear, including an ad for this
work with the title The Bar-Tender’s Guide and Bon-Vivant’s Companion (price listed $1.50), additional publisher’s ads as endpapers. Publisher’s green
ribbed cloth, decoratively stamped in blind, spine and front board stamped in gilt and front board decoratively stamped in gilt with an image of a
man raising a cocktail glass and smoking a cigar.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of the rst book on mixology and drink-making ever published in the United States, with the publication date “1862” pres-
ent on the title page, and the stereographer and printer noted on the copyright page. In the First State binding priced “$1.50” and with the gilt illus-
tration. Later states have the price raised to $2.00, then $2.50, and with various, usually less elaborate, designs.
The rst issue appears to have been simultaneously published under two titles: “The Bar-tender’s Guide, a complete cyclopaedia of Plain and Fancy
Drinks” and the present title, “How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant’s Companion.” RARE in any state, particularly in the desirable rst-issue binding with
the gilt man raising a glass and priced “$1.50.”
Jeremiah “Jerry” Thomas (1830–1885) was an American bartender regarded as the “father of American mixology.” Larger than life and often adorned
with jewels, his signature drink was the Blue Blazer — a mixture of whiskey and water ignited and passed between two glasses so that, “if well done
this will have the appearance of a continued stream of liquid re.” Thomas lived and worked throughout the United States, continually learning and
rening his craft. He became a nationwide sensation; his New York Times obituary noted that he was “at one time better known to club men and
men about town than any other bartender in this city, and he was popular among all classes.” The introduction to the present volume characterizes
Thomas, “his very name is synonymous, in the lexicon of mixed drinks, with all that is rare and original.” That reputation endures today, more than a
century after this guide rst appeared in print.
Condition: Abrasion to front board with a few minor stains; abrasion to spine head with a small loss of cloth; corners pushed and lightly rubbed;
spine ends a bit pushed. Dampstaining aecting lower right corner of cloth and text (almost assuredly from mixing drinks and reading recipes at the
same time); pencil drawings on prelims; lightly browned and with a few spots.
References: Noling, p. 403; see also Biting, p. 459 (later editions) and Simon (1913), p. 10. See also Michael Inman, Susan Jae Tane Curator of Rare
Books, January 16, 2024, “New to the Rare Book Division: The First Modern Cocktail Manual.”
Starting Bid: $5,000
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45160 [Benjamin Disraeli]. Henrietta Temple, A Love Story. By the author of “Vivian Grey.” London: Henry Colburn, 1837.
3 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles. Single leaf of advertisements at the end of vol. II. Publisher’s original boards, printed paper spine labels, fore-edges un-
trimmed; quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION IN THE PUBLISHER’S ORIGINAL BOARDS. Rare. Sadleir ranks this title as rst in comparative scarcities of Disraeli novels; Wol also notes
this title’s scarcity, having seen only one other set of the rst edition besides his own.
Condition: Ink ownership to front board of each volume, staining and edgewear to all three volumes; vol. I spine perished and lacking label, a few
remnants remaining, front hinge starting, rear board detached but present; vol. II joints starting but holding; vol. III spine perished at head, joints
starting, front hinge detached, rear hinge only just holding. Glue stains from bookplate in each volume and some light osetting; scattered spotting
and soiling; a few minor areas of paper loss to y leaves; dampstain to y leaf and half-title in vol. I
References: Sadleir 714; Wol 1837.
Provenance: “Tyringham” [?] (ink ownership to front board of each volume); Maurice Rosenfeld (bookplates).
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45161 A. Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. [And:] The Memoirs
of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1892 and 1894.
2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles in both volumes; illustrations by Sidney Paget.
Publisher’s cloth bindings of light blue and dark blue, respectively, both
stamped in gilt and black; housed together in a single chemise and slipcase.
FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE of Adventures, with the misprint
Miss “Violent” Hunter for “Violet” in the nal sentence of “The Copper Beeches” (p.
317). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the rst collection of Holmes stories to
be published, was released shortly after the success of the series in The Strand
Magazine.
Condition: Adventures with some edgewear and soiling; abrasion to spine
with splits in cloth aecting the imprint; hinges split but holding; spine leaned;
ink ownership stamp on rst page of text; pale spotting to text throughout.
Memoirs with spine sunned and scattered soiling; edgewear with some splits in
spine ends; hinges starting; ink ownership on front free endpaper recto; pale
spotting to text and some thumbsoiling; closed tear on pp. 1/2 just touching the
last two lines of text.
References: De Waal 520 and 596; Green & Gibson A10a & A14a; both titles
are Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones; Queen’s Quorum 16 (Adventures, “one of the
world’s masterworks”).
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $3,000
45162 A. Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes,
Limited, 1892.
8vo. Half-title; illustrations by Sidney Paget. Publisher’s light blue cloth stamped in gilt and
black.
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE with the misprint Miss “Violent” Hunter for “Violet”
in the nal sentence of “The Copper Beeches” (p. 317).
Condition: Edgewear to binding with spine ends pushed; light staining to cloth; both hinges
cracked but holding; pale spotting to text throughout; contemporary ownership signature to
front free endpaper recto.
References: De Waal 520; Green & Gibson A10; a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone; Queen’s
Quorum 16 (“one of the world’s masterworks”).
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45163 Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900.
8vo. Publisher’s dark red cloth lettered and ruled in black. Housed in a custom slipcase and matching chemise.
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Eugene Katz, a writer for the New York Times: “For /
Eugene Katz / from / Theodore Dreiser / N.Y. March – 1931.”
The publication history of Sister Carrie is notable, colored by the moral outrage provoked by its scandalous subject matter. After being accepted by
Doubleday, Page & Co. and a contract duly signed, Mrs. Doubleday — “an ardent social worker and active in movements of a highly moral order”
(Orton) — objected to its publication, prompting the rm to attempt withdrawal. Dreiser insisted the rm honor their contract, and the book was
issued, though with minimal promotion and poor sales. In total, Doubleday, Page & Co. records that 1,008 copies of the rst edition were printed, of
which 129 were sent out for review and 423 were remaindered (Orton). Fellow author Frank Norris — the Doubleday reader who had rst champi-
oned the manuscript — is said to have secured roughly 100 copies for distribution to reviewers. The present copy may well be among those sent out
at Norris’s behest.
A rare presentation of a scarce book.
Condition: Cloth somewhat rubbed and worn; bookplate to front pastedown with some glue stains and light osetting, not aecting inscription;
Katz ownership to early y leaf with some staining to leaf; half-title creased; scattered soiling to title page and throughout, generally conned to the
margins.
References: Johnson, High Spots (1929), p. 29; Johnson, American First Editions, p. 61; McDonald 1; Orton, Dreiserana, pp. 14-19.
Provenance: Eugene Katz (bookplate, ownership inscription dated “March 1903,” and presentation inscription dated 1931).
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45164 Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter, a Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields,
1850.
8vo. Title page printed in red and black. 4 pp. of publisher’s advertisements dated “March 1, 1850”
bound-in at rear. Beautifully rebound in full black crushed morocco, scarlet leather onlay “A” out-
lined in gilt, boards with triple gilt-llet borders, spine with ve raised bands, single- and double-
gilt-llet ruled spine compartments lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and inner dentelles elabo-
rately gilt by P.B. Sanford. Original cloth bound-in at rear. Slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. The present copy contains Clark’s State x2 of pp. 321-322, and State a1 of copyright
notice (no priority determined since the settings were machined simultaneously).
Condition: Minor wear at rebound corners; small abrasion to top-edge of front board; a few pale
spots to title page; other pale scattered soiling, primarily in margins; tear in the margin of pp.
243/244 with loss, not aecting text.
References: BAL 7600; Clark A16.1; Grolier, American, 59; Grolier, English, 90.
Starting Bid: $500
45165 [Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and
Company, 1859.
12mo. Half-title, title page printed in red and black, inserted plates. BAL’s binding A (B?) of pebbled rust-
colored cloth stamped in blind, spine gilt, all edges gilt; quarter morocco slipcase.
LARGE PAPER ISSUE, BAL’s state A with illustrations retained. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE
AUTHOR on an early yleaf: “James H. Wilder / from his friend and classmate / O W Holmes.” BAL suggests
that the copies of the book with illustrations preceded those without illustrations. Though Currier sug-
gested the opposite, Tilton concurs with BAL, writing: “When he [Holmes] came to present copies of his
book to his classmates, he was obliged to give them illustrated copies... The inference is that the large-
paper issue appeared rst with illustrations and that the rare copies without illustrations were specially
and reluctantly prepared for Holmes.”
James Humphrey Wilder and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. were members of the Harvard University Class of
1829. The present copy is undoubtedly one of the large-paper copies of this title Holmes inscribed to a
number of his fellow Harvard graduates of the Class of 1829.
Condition: Light edgewear and a few minor scus. Small stains to endpapers, one just touching the in-
scription; glue stains to yleaves at front. A few pale spots throughout.
References: BAL 9093; Currier-Tilton, pp. 69-74; Grolier American 69.
Provenance: Maurice Rosenfeld (bookplate).
Starting Bid: $500
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45166 Franz Kafka. Der Heizer. Ein Fragment. Leipzig: Kurt Wol Verlag, 1913.
8vo. Frontispiece illustration titled “Im hafen von New York.” Publisher’s cream parchment-backed blue paper
boards stamped in black; slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. Der Heizer (The Stoker) was rst published in 1913 as a novella, issued by Kurt Wol as part of
the series Der Jüngste Tag (Vol. 3). It later became the opening chapter of Kafka’s unnished novel Amerika,
published posthumously in 1927. The rst of Kafka’s works to appear under the Kurt Wol imprint.
Condition: Light edgewear to boards; a few marks and stains; light soiling to boards; a spot or two of soiling
to text.
References: Flores, p. 4.
Provenance: Richard Leukroth (bookplate); Ketterer Kunst, 27 November 2023, lot 604.
Starting Bid: $1,500
45167 Franz Kafka. Die Verwandlung. Leipzig: Kurt Wol Verlag, [1915].
8vo. Publisher’s illustrated outer paper wrappers by Ottomar Starke.
FIRST EDITION, wrappers issue. First Issue, without the censor stamp. Die
Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) was written in 1912 and issued by Kurt
Wol as part of the series Der Jüngste Tag (Vol. 22/23) in 1915. Kafka’s most
famous story, it stands among the central works of twentieth-century
literature and is a landmark of supernatural ction, blending elements of
psychological horror and modernist allegory.
The pictorial outer wrappers are dated “1916” as issued. The book was
printed in late 1915 and released publicly in early 1916, with both the
wrappers issue and the casebound issue dated “1916” on the front panel.
Both the casebound and wrappers issue were issued simultaneously, both
with the same illustration by Ottomar Starke featured on the front panel.
Condition: Wrappers rebacked, preserving original backstrip; text block
not reattached to wrappers, causing quires to be loose, but quires sewn
and attached to original chords; rear wrapper ap skillfully reattached and
with loss at top fold repaired; wrappers chipped with a few short tears re-
paired with tape on verso; a few pale stains to rear wrapper ap and panel;
text over-opened at a few gatherings; staining to pp. 8-9; a few pale spots
to text.
References: Flores, p. 4.
Starting Bid: $4,000
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45168 Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis. Translated by A.L. Lloyd. [London]: The Parton Press, 1937.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth-backed black paper boards, blue paper printed paper label, spine stamped in black;
original glassine dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Kafka’s landmark story. The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) was rst published
in 1915 by Kurt Wol in Leipzig, and appears here for the rst time in English. Issued by The Parton Bookshop in
1937, this edition introduced Kafka’s most famous story to the English-speaking world, more than twenty years
after its original publication. The rst French translation, by Eugène Jolas, appeared in Transition (Nos. 25–27, Fall
1936 to April–May 1938), the inuential bilingual literary review he edited in Paris; a subsequent translation by
Alexandre Vialatte was published in book form by Gallimard later in 1938.
Condition: Spine leaned; light edgewear to boards and corners bumped. Publisher’s original glassine chipped
and torn with some losses.
References: Flores, p. 20.
Provenance: Boris Ford (contemporary ownership inscription dated “1937”).
Starting Bid: $1,000
45169 Franz Kafka. Metamorphosis. Translated by A.L. Lloyd. [New York]: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1946].
8vo. Illustrations by Leslie Sherman. Publisher’s black boards stamped in light brown; original illustrated dust
jacket.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Originally published in 1915 as Die Verwandlung in Germany and rst issued in English
in London in 1937, this edition marks the story’s rst appearance in the United States. The translation is also by A.
L. Lloyd, who was responsible for the original English translation.
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.75”); paper loss at head of spine; rear panel lightly browned and
soiled; light wear at folds.
References: Flores, p. 20.
Starting Bid: $750
45170 Franz Kafka. Das Urteil. Eine Geschichte. Leipzig: Kurt Wol Verlag, 1916.
8vo. Publisher’s black wrappers, blue paper label printed in black to front wrapper, stapled as issued.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Written in a single night in 1912, Das Urteil (The Judgment) rst appeared in the
journal Arkadia in 1913. The present slim volume constitutes its rst publication in book form, issued in
1916 as part of the series Der Jüngste Tag (Vol. 34).
Condition: Wrappers with very slight edgewear and just a few small wrinkles; a few pale spots to text.
References: Flores, p. 5.
Starting Bid: $500
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45171 Franz Kafka. In Der Strafkolonie. Leipzig: Kurt Wol Verlag, 1919.
8vo. Title printed in blue and black. Publisher’s half-calf with green and brown marbled boards, spine gilt.
Also issued in wrappers.
FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies. Written in 1914 and publicly read by Kafka in Munich in 1916 — one
of the few occasions on which he read his work aloud — In der Strafkolonie (In the Penal Colony) was re-
portedly met with uneasy silence. Publication was delayed until 1919 due to wartime shortages.
Condition: Scratches and scus to calf; edges worn and with a few bumps; pale spots to text.
References: Flores, p. 5.
Starting Bid: $750
45172 Franz Kafka. Two copies of Ein Landarzt.
Ein Landarzt. Kleine Erzählungen. [Munich and Leipzig]: Kurt Wol Verlag, [1919].
8vo. Modern marbled leather, spine stamped in black, blue ribbon marker.
FIRST EDITION. Ein Landarzt. Kleine Erzählungen (A Country Doctor. Short Stories) collects fourteen pieces
written between 1914 and 1918. The title story rst appeared in Der Jude, vol. 2 (September 1918), a
German-language cultural and literary journal published in Prague and later in Berlin between 1916 and
1928. Seven of the stories had previously appeared in literary periodicals, while the remaining seven are
published here for the rst time.
Condition: Boards slightly warped. A few spots to text; small expert repair to p. 21/22 in the margin, not
aecting text; otherwise, clean and bright.
[Together with]: Another, tall copy on inferior browned paper with deckle edges. Bound in modern black
boards, printed paper label to front board. Contemporary ownership signature of “Lotte Heinrich” on pre-
liminary leaf.
References: Flores, p. 6.
Starting Bid: $750
45173 Franz Kafka. Ein Hungerkünstler. Vier Geschichten. Berlin: Verlag Die Schmiede, 1924.
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, red and blue printed paper labels to spine and front board.
FIRST EDITION. This volume collects four stories: “Erstes Leid” (“First Sorrow”), “Eine kleine Frau” (“A Little Woman”),
“Ein Hungerkünstler” (“A Hunger Artist”), and “Josene, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse” (“Josephine the Singer,
or the Mouse Folk”). Published in 1924, Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist) appeared shortly after Kafka’s death from
tuberculosis, having been prepared for publication during his nal months.
Condition: Spine sunned; a few light scratches to boards.
References: Flores, p. 6.
Starting Bid: $500
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45174 Franz Kafka. Der Prozess. Berlin: Verlag Die Schmiede, 1925.
8vo. Publisher’s printed paper boards, red and blue printed paper labels to spine and front
board.
FIRST EDITION, in the uncommon brown printed paper variant with blue topstain; this
edition was also issued in cloth. One of three posthumously published works prepared for
publication by Kafka’s close friend and literary executor Max Brod. Written between 1914
and 1915, Der Prozess (The Trial) was left incomplete at the time of Kafka’s death. The text
was assembled and edited from the author’s manuscripts and notes by Brod, who provided
the chapter order and title.
Condition: Edgeworn and with other scus and wear; spine label sunned; rear hinge
cracked with splits; front hinge just starting; pale stain to half-title.
References: Flores, p. 6.
Starting Bid: $1,500
45175 Franz Kafka. Two editions in English of The Trial.
The Trial. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd,
1937. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine stamped in blue. FIRST EDITION IN
ENGLISH. Condition: Spine sunned; pale lightening to boards at edges; a
few bumps; some minor over-opening throughout; pale spotting to text,
generally conned to preliminaries or margins.
The Trial. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. 8vo. Illustrated by Georg Salter. Publisher’s orange
cloth, pictorially stamped in gray and black; original illustrated dust jack-
et. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Condition: Spine leaned; light edgewear.
Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.50 net”); spine sunned; light toning;
edgewear with some chips and short tears; a few spots.
References: Flores, p. 22.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45176 Franz Kafka. Das Schloss. Munich: Kurt Wol Verlag, [1926].
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, red and white printed paper labels to spine and front board.
FIRST EDITION of Kafka’s posthumously published novel. Written in 1922, Das Schloss (The Castle) remained
unpublished at the time of the author’s death in 1924. The manuscript, along with those of his other unn-
ished works, was entrusted to Max Brod, Kafka’s close friend and literary executor, who famously disregarded
the author’s instructions to destroy them. Acting as editor, Brod prepared the text for publication, which ap-
peared in 1926, issued by Kurt Wol Verlag.
Condition: Spine lightly sunned and spine label lightly soiled; spine a bit leaned; text lightly browned with
scattered pale soiling.
References: Flores, p. 7.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45177 Franz Kafka. Two copies of The Castle. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir.
London: Martin Secker, 1930.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt.
FIRST UK EDITION. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. The Castle (Das Schloss) was
rst published posthumously in 1926 in Germany, edited by the author’s close friend and literary
executor Max Brod from Kafka’s unnished manuscript. The present edition, issued in London by
Martin Secker in 1930 and published simultaneously in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, marks
the rst appearance of the work in English.
[Together with]: Another copy of the above.
Condition: Spines sunned; both copies with staining to boards; one copy with boards more light-
ened and corners bumped, also with scattered pale spotting to text; edgewear to both.
References: Flores, p. 15 (incorrectly giving the publisher as “Secker & Warburg” rather than Martin Secker; the rm did not merge with Fredric
Warburg to form Secker & Warburg until 1935).
Starting Bid: $500
45178 Franz Kafka. The Castle. Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1930.
8vo. Publisher’s gray cloth, spine stamped in blue and black, front board stamped in black; original illustrated
dust jacket.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION and the rst translated into English, published simultaneously with the rst UK edi-
tion by Martin Secker. The work was rst published in Munich in 1926 by Kurt Wol Verlag as Das Schloss, two
years after the author’s death in 1924.
Condition: Cloth spine sunned and with pale spotting. Dust jacket price clipped; spine lightly sunned; mild
edgewear and a few scus; uncommon at auction, the present dust jacket is unusually ne.
References: Flores, p. 15.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45179 Franz Kafka. Amerika. Munich: Kurt Wol Verlag, [1927].
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, blue and white printed paper labels to spine and front board.
FIRST EDITION. One of three posthumously published works prepared for publication by Kafka’s close
friend and literary executor Max Brod. The opening chapter, “Der Heizer” (The Stoker), was rst pub-
lished as a novella in 1913, issued by Kurt Wol as part of the series Der Jüngste Tag (Vol. 3).
Condition: Spine sunned and paper label toned; text block lightly and evenly toned with a few pale
spots to text.
References: Flores, p. 7.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45180 Franz Kafka. Two editions of Amerika translated into English.
Amerika. Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir. London: George Routledge & Sons,
Ltd., [1938]. 8vo. 4 pages of publisher’s ads at rear. Publisher’s red boards, spine gilt; original dust
jacket. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Condition: Light edgewear to boards; spine somewhat toned;
pale spotting to text, more signicant on preliminaries and textblock edges. Dust jacket clipped, af-
fecting text on front ap; spine sunned and chipped at spine head, not aecting text; some staining
and pale spotting; other edgewear with small chips and short tears.
Amerika. Translated by Edwin Muir. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, [1940]. 8vo. Illustrations by Emlen
Etting. Title page printed in blue and black. Publisher’s blue boards; printed paper spine label. FIRST
AMERICAN EDITION. Condition: Light edgewear and some staining to boards; a few pale spots to
text; illustration of Kafka by K.S. Woerner glued to rear pastedown with toning from glue stains. Dust
jacket decoratively clipped as issued, price retained (priced “$2.50”); spine sunned; some staining
and pale spotting; light edgewear with a few chips and short tears.
References: Flores, p. 14.
Starting Bid: $500
45181 Franz Kafka. Gesammlete Schriften. [Vols. I-IV] Berlin: Schocken, 1935
and [Vols. V-VI] Prague: Henry Mercy Sohn, 1936-1937.
6 volumes, 8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, spines stamped in black and gilt, front
boards with Kafka’s facsimile signature stamped in gilt.
The collected works of Franz Kafka, as edited by his friend and literary executor
Max Brod, with the assistance of Heinz Politzer.
[Uniform with]: Max Brod. Eine Biographie (Erinnerungen und Dokumente), trans-
lated to A Biography (Memoirs and Documents).
Condition: Spines sunned; light edgewear; contemporary ownership signatures
on front free endpaper rectos, dated 1937-1938; a few volumes with small book-
seller’s tickets to front pastedowns.
References: Flores, p. 12.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45182 Franz Kafka. A group of 12 titles. Comprising:
Beim Bau der Chinesichen Mauer. Ungedruckte Erzählungen und Prosa aus dem Nachlaß. (During the Construction of the Chinese Wall. Unpublished Stories
and Prose from the Estate). Edited by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps. [Berlin]: Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1931. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Publisher’s blue
cloth, spine stamped in red and gilt, front board stamped in gilt; spine sunned. Flores, p. 7.
The Great Wall of China and Other Pieces. London: Martin Secker, 1933. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Publisher’s cloth and clipped dust jacket; cloth spine
sunned and stained; jacket spine sunned and chipped with losses; jacket with pale spots. Flores, p. 17.
Vor Dem Gesetz. (Before the Law). Berlin: Schocken Verlag, 1934. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. 8vo. Publisher’s boards, printed paper labels to spine
and front board; pale spotting to boards. Flores, pp. 7-8.
Beschreibung Eines Kampfes. Novellen, Skizzen, Aphorismen aus dem Nachlass. (Description of a Struggle. Stories, Sketches, and Aphorisms from the Literary
Estate.) New York: Schocken Books, [1946]. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth and unclipped dust jacket (no price listed as issued).
Flores, p. 8.
Parables in German and English. New York: Schocken Books, [1947]. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth and unclipped dust jacket (priced “$1.50”); spine sunned and
lightly chipped.
The Penal Colony. Stories and Short Pieces. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. New York: Schocken Books, [1948]. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8vo.
Publisher’s cloth and unclipped dust jacket (priced “$3.00”); jacket with moderate tears and chips with paper losses on spine and front panels, and
folds; spine sunned. Flores, p. 22.
The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913. Edited by Max Brod. New York: Schocken Books, [1948]. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth and unclipped dust jacket (priced
“$3.75”).
The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923. Edited by Max Brod. New York: Schocken Books, [1949]. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth and unclipped dust jacket (priced
“$3.75”); jacket with losses to front panel; some splits at folds; moderately scued.
The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reections. New York: Schocken Books, [1960]. Fourth printing. Publisher’s cloth and unclipped dust jacket (priced
“$4.50”); spine panel sunned; edgeworn; bookplate of Gary L. Adlestein. See Flores, pp. 17-18.
Description of a Struggle and The Great Wall of China. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir and Tania and James Stern. London: Secker & Warburg, 1960.
2 copies, 8vo. Publisher’s boards and unclipped dust jackets (priced “25s. net”); jacket spines sunned and with pale spotting. Flores, p. 16.
Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories. Edited by Nahum N. Glatzer. New York: Schocken Books, [1975]. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth and unclipped dust jacket
(priced “$12.50”), spine sunned; tears to jacket rear panel.
Condition: Generally very good unless otherwise noted above, with occasional edgewear, some spotting and soiling, occasional chips to jackets.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45183 [Laurence Sterne]. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick. London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1768.
2 volumes, small 8vo. Half-titles in both volumes, list of subscribers in volume I, Sterne’s engraved coat-of-arms on leaf D3v in volume II. Lacking ad-
vertisement leaf. Later speckled calf, gilt lettering pieces, by Atelier Bindery, all edges gilt; quarter morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, ordinary paper issue. Rothschild’s variant 2 of vol. I, p. 150 with “vous” and Rothschild variant 1 of vol. II, p. 133 with “whho ave.”
Condition: Joints rubbed and hinges cracked; light scung and other edgewear; some glue stains to bookplates. Scattered soiling and pale spotting
to text.
References: Grolier, English, 54; Lowndes 2509; Rothschild 1971; Tinker 1978.
Provenance: Charles E. Keene (bookplate); Edward P. Borden (booklabel); Maurice Rosenfeld (bookplates).
Starting Bid: $500
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“If anybody had ever saId to me that I should sell tom down south to one of those rascally traders,
I should have saId ‘Is my servant a dog to do thIs thIng?’”
45184 Harriet Beecher Stowe. Autograph manuscript early draft (“rst draught”) of a portion of Chapter 1 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. [Brunswick, ME,
February-April 1851].
2 pages, folio (10 ¾ x 6 7/8 inches; 274 x 175 mm.). Written in dark brown ink on recto and verso of a single sheet of ruled paper. With stenciled dona-
tion statement on a slip of plain wove paper mounted at head of recto of leaf (covering ve lines of holograph text).
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER OF ‘UNCLE TOM’S CABIN,’ ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY.
The present leaf was previously unrecorded, and it is the only early draft leaf from Chapter One now in private hands. It becomes the tenth surviving
fragment of Stowe’s landmark work, adding to the previous nine fragments known to scholars (only two others in private hands).
Three other leaves of the early draft of chapter 1 are known to be extant. In The Building of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1977) scholar E. Bruce Kirkham desig-
nated two of them “A” and “B.” The third known leaf from the chapter, not known to Kirkham, is in the Collection of Mary C. Schlosser. The text of this
newly rediscovered leaf is immediately antecedent to the leaf in Schlosser’s collection, according to the transcription reported on the Uncle Tom’s
Cabin & American Culture site at the University of Virginia.
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The present manuscript draft leaf is apparently among those which remained in Stowe’s possession, for a quarter-century later she would contact
publisher James R. Osgood about plans for what became the New Edition (1879). On March 10, 1878, she inquired: “I have the autograph of one of
the earlier chapters would it be a good plan to introduce that a specimen of that?” Although the plan to reproduce a manuscript leaf in facsimile was
not realized for Houghton, Osgood, and Co.’s New Edition, a leaf from chapter 4, which describes the “cabin of Uncle Tom,” is reproduced in her son
Charles Edward Stowe’s family biography, Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: compiled from her letters and journals (1889). What became of the original
leaf for the heliotype facsimile is unknown (see leaf opposite p. 160). Kirkham designated the Life facsimile image Leaf C in Building (p. 214-15). In
short, the present leaf is among the “earlier chapters” that remained in Stowe’s possession, likely until passed to her son and biographer Charles E.
Stowe. He is the named presenter in the stencil presentation slip to the Bridgewater, MA, Town Library, although how many leaves remained in his
possession, how many were distributed to other family members, and what became of other draft fragments (if any still extant) are details unknown
to scholars.
This manuscript comprises 44 lines visible (plus 5 lines below presentation slip) in Stowe’s hand, comprising an early draft of the rst chapter of the
novel, with several minor corrections to dialect style and wording. A large doubled cross marks the entire leaf as canceled, presumably to keep it
separate from the latest draft, likely the one that served as the serial setting copy. Kirkham’s Leaf A at NYPL, labeled “rst draught,” is similarly can-
celed. In this chapter, we are introduced to the slave owner from Kentucky, Arthur Shelby, who is forced by debt to sell two of his slaves, Uncle Tom,
the leading hand on his place, and Harry, the son of his wife’s maid Eliza. Although he and his wife are portrayed as relatively kind masters, excess
spending on plantation luxuries and nancial mismanagement leads him to sell them to Mr. Haley to answer a promissory note that has come due.
His dialogue with Haley drives the plot, as Eliza overhears the plan and ees with Harry. Although Uncle Tom has the opportunity to escape as well,
he declines it in the belief that helping to retire Shelby’s debt oers better security to his wife and children. After Shelby agrees to sell Tom, the novel’s
protagonist begins his southward journey with Haley.
The text passages on the present leaf continue from shortly after the text of Kirkham’s Leaf B (University of Virginia), with approximately one interven-
ing leaf that is no longer extant, and concern Shelby’s negotiation with Haley. The former struggles with the consequences of his predicament. The
visible text begins below the mounted slip (in italics here) on recto: “[Mr Shelby replied to this expose only by a shrug of his shoulders. Both had sat
silently picking their nuts a few minutes ‘I’ll think the matter over, and talk with my wife,’ said Mr. Shelby. ‘Meantime, Haley, if you want] the matter car-
ried on in the quiet way you speak of you’d best not let your business in this neighbourhood be known. It’l get out among my boys, & it will not be a
particularly quiet business getting away any of my hands if they know it, I’ll warrant you.”
After Haley departs, Shelby expresses his inner anger at the slave-trader (and himself for the dilemma he created): “I’d like to have been able to kick
the fellow down the steps said he to himself as he saw the door fairly closed ‘with his impudent assurance, but he knows how much he has me at ad-
vantage! If any body had ever said to me that I should sell Tom down south to one of these rascally traders, I should have said Is my servant a dog to
do this thing & now it must come for aught I see. And Elisé’s child too! I know that I shall have some fuss with wife about that. So much for mining[?]
[or, messing?] in debt—heigho the fellow knows his advantage & means to push it.”
The manuscript text concludes with the narrator’s opening remark on Kentucky’s as the “mildest form of the system of slavery,” the rst of Stowe’s di-
rect addresses to her readers, her gloss upon the evils of slavery that she has just dramatized.
Although an earlier draft, the text of this leaf corresponds closely both to the June 5, 1851, installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the National Era, near
the top of column c, and to volume 1, pages 22-23, in publisher John P. Jewett’s rst American edition, released March 20, 1852. When writing out
the nal manuscript draft, Stowe made several notable alterations, between this earlier and the published texts. In this manuscript draft, the trader
Haley is in a “deuce of a hurry,” in the published texts a “devil of a hurry.” In the present draft, Shelby refers to “getting any of my hands away,” in the
published texts to “getting away any of my fellows.” In this draft, her narrator compares Kentucky agriculture to “the sugar & cotton business” in the
Southern regions, but in the published texts does not name specic crops. According to this draft, the socially elevated Kentucky planter class bal-
ances the pursuit of wealth against the “interest & welfare of” the “helpless and unprotected” but only the “interests” of the same in the published
texts. Notably, in the published forms, Shelby expects his wife to make “some fuss” not only about the sale of Eliza’s child but “about Tom too.” Perhaps
the early draft original of Mr. Shelby expected his wife only to have an interest in the household servants—not eld laborers. Among consequences
of Stowe’s manuscript revisions is to alter subtly the portrait not only of the relationship between Shelby the gentleman planter and his wife but how
he interacts with Haley the trader. In this early manuscript draft, Shelby exhibits greater haughtiness, for he stands on his higher social status to put
o the decision to which his debt appears to compel him, by asking the hurried trader Haley to return in three days.
Condition: Paper stock brittle; light even toning to sheet; creased at folds, with slight splitting or separations; stenciled donation statement on slip of
plain wove paper inadvertently mounted at head of recto side (and covering the rst ve lines of the manuscript text).
Provenance: Charles Edward Stowe; Bridgewater Town Library, MA (stenciled donation statement on a slip mounted at the head of the rst leaf: “A
fragment of the original MSS of Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe / Presented to the Bridgewater Town Library by
her Son / Charles Edward Stowe Nov. 22 1906.” Acquired in the 1970s by the late owner; by descent to present consignor.
Heritage Auctions gratefully acknowledges Prof. Wesley Raabe, Associate Professor of English at Kent State University and a leading expert in the textual
history of Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, for his valuable research assistance in establishing the proper contextual signicance and chronological placement of
the present manuscript leaf among the surviving draft leaves of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Prof. Raabe is volume editor for Uncle Tom’s Cabin and a series editor for
Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Oxford University Press.
Starting Bid: $75,000
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45185 [Algernon Charles Swinburne, his copy]. Alfred Tennyson. Maud, and Other Poems. London:
Edward Moxon, 1855.
8vo. Original purple-brown calf gilt, edges marbled.
FIRST EDITION. Algernon Charles Swinburne’s copy with his booklabel and a gift inscription from his moth-
er, Jane Henrietta Swinburne, on an early yleaf: “Algernon C. Swinburne / from JHS / Janry 15th 1856.”
Condition: Spine chipped at head; spine label lacking; chipped, scued, and other edgewear; front hinge
repaired; rear hinge starting. Glue residue to front free endpaper verso where Smith bookplate was at-
tached. Final two leaves of text (L4 and M1) and advertising leaf (M2) excised, including “The Charge of the
Light Brigade” which appears on pages 151-154 (L4 and M1). Light thumbsoiling and a few scattered spots;
a few short marginal tears; large fold on page with gift inscription, not touching inscription.
References: Wise 58.
Provenance: Algernon Charles Swinburne (gift inscription, bookplate); Harry Bache Smith, lyricist and
composer (bookplate laid-in); sold Parke Bernet, 20 February 1950, lot 503; Maurice Rosenfeld (bookplate).
Starting Bid: $500
45186 William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. London: Bradbury and Evans,
1848.
Large 8vo. With 40 steel engravings on inserted sheets, including the frontispiece and vignette title
page, also with numerous woodcut illustrations all by the author. Full green morocco elaborately gilt by
Bayntun in the Cosway-style with a miniature portrait of Thackeray inset on the front cover, green ribbon
marker, green silk moiré endpapers, all edges gilt; slipcase.
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE. Conforming to Van Duzer’s rst issue points with the heading
on p. 1 in rustic, the suppressed woodcut of the “Marquis of Steyne” on p. 336, and “Mr. Pitt” for “Sir Pitt”
on p. 453.
Condition: Spine sunned; some wear to joints and front joint starting; front hinge starting; ribbon marker
frayed and separating but present. Scattered, pale spotting to text and plates.
References: Van Duzer 231; Wol 6699.
Provenance: Maurice Rosenfeld (bookplate).
Starting Bid: $1,000
45187 Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace. A Historical Novel. By Léon Tolstoï. Translated
into French by a Russian Lady and from the French by Clara Bell. New York:
William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, 1887.
6 volumes, 8vo. Advertisements in both volumes of “Before Tilsit,” volume II
of “The Invasion,” and volume I of “Borodino, the French at Moscow, Epilogue.”
Publisher’s decorated brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, later issue. The 1886 edition from the same publisher
was the rst edition of War and Peace in English, translated from the French by
Clara Bell from a French version prepared by “a Russian lady.” This 1887 issue was
printed from the same setting of type.
Condition: Spines slightly leaned and spine ends pushed; vol. II of “The Invasion” with boards slightly warped and bent, and some wrinkling to cloth;
other minor edgewear and a few corners bumped; a few scattered stains and light scung; a few hinges tender; ink ownerships in a few volumes
with quotes.
Starting Bid: $3,000
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45188 Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade).
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
8vo. With inserted frontispiece and wood-engraved text illustrations by E. W.
Kemble, inserted frontispiece portrait with the “Heliotype Printing Co.” imprint
and the tablecloth visible (BAL rst state). Publisher’s original pictorial blue cloth,
front board and spine stamped in black and gilt. Housed in a black cloth slipcase.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, early mixed state. Title-leaf is a cancel (BAL second
state), page [9] with “Decided” (rst state), page [13] with illustration listed on
page 88 (BAL rst state), page 57 reads “with the was” (BAL rst state), page 283
is a cancel (BAL third state).
Kevin MacDonnell notes, “...the prospectus warned customers that those who
wanted a blue cloth copy had to specify their preference or else a green copy
would be sent... blue cloth copies are at least 20 times as rare as green cloth cop-
ies.”
Condition: Color corrections to cloth in blue ink; some wear to spine ends and a
bit frayed; spine just toned; corners bumped and rubbed. Ink gift inscription to
front free endpaper recto; front hinge starting. Minor thumbsoiling to textblock;
upper corner of p. 57 torn o, not aecting text.
References: BAL 3415; MacDonnell, FIRSTS Magazine, July/August 1998 (Vol. 8,
No. 7/8), pp. 47-48; MacDonnell, FIRSTS Magazine, September 1998 (Vol. 8, No. 9),
pp. 29-35.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45189 William Wordsworth. The Excursion; A Poem. London: Edward Moxon,
1836.
8vo, early possibly original cloth-backed drab boards.
RARE SEPARATE EDITION, after the more common collective edition; Healey notes
only one other known copy at Yale. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to his cousin,
Richard’s, wife, Elizabeth Wordsworth, on the half-title: “To / Elizabeth Wordsworth /
from / her aectionate cousin / Wm. Wordsworth / Rydal Mount / 5th June / 1840.”
Condition: Light soiling to boards; front hinge cracked and rear hinge starting;
edgewear to spine ends and corners; endpapers toned; dampstain to lower fore
edge; stain to pages 104-105; intermittent foxing and soiling; article (“Wordsworth
& the Women Who Loved Him,” by Holbrook Jackson, from T. P.’s Weekly, March 11,
1916) laid in.
References: Healey/Cornell 104; Reed A56.
Starting Bid: $500
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45190 Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot. Translated from the original French by the author. London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1956].
8vo. Publisher’s yellow cloth, spine stamped in red. Original photographic dust jacket.
FIRST UK EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page: “for Jeremy / from Sam.” With the publisher’s note tipped in,
stating that a small number of textual deletions were made when the play was transferred from the Arts Theatre to the Criterion Theatre, and the
present text is that used in the Criterion Theatre production.
Condition: A few minor bumps to cloth edges. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “9s 6d net”); some wear along edges and folds, particularly top edge; a
few scus; a few pale stains.
Provenance: “Jeremy” (presentation inscription).
Starting Bid: $4,000
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45191 [Samuel Beckett]. Two issues of The Evergreen Review. Including:
Vol. 1, No. 1. [New York: Grove Press, 1957]. Publisher’s printed wrappers.
Includes Beckett’s short story “Dante and the Lobster,” INSCRIBED BY THE
AUTHOR on the rst page of the story: “for Jeremy / from Sam.” This issue
also contains the rst publication of Beckett’s poem “Echo’s Bones.”
Vol. 4, No. 14. [New York: Grove Press, 1957]. Publisher’s printed wrappers.
Includes Beckett’s short prose, “From an Unabandoned Work,” INSCRIBED
BY THE AUTHOR on the rst page of the prose piece: “for Jeremy / from
Sam.” One leaf of subscription postcards intact and present.
Condition: Wrappers of both issues a bit worn and rubbed; no. 1 with
some pale spotting; no. 14 lightly soiled.
Provenance: “Jeremy” (presentation inscription).
Starting Bid: $1,000
45192 Samuel Beckett. Malone Dies. Translated from the original
French by the author. London: John Calder, [1958].
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth gilt. Original dust jacket.
FIRST UK EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
on the title page: “for Jeremy / from Sam.”
Condition: Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Dust jacket un-
clipped (priced “10s. 6d. net”); jacket moderately worn along edges
and folds, a few chips and other tears, three reinforced on verso with
tape; somewhat scued and rubbed; pale spotting.
Provenance: “Jeremy” (presentation inscription).
Starting Bid: $750
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45193 Samuel Beckett. Poems in English. London:
John Calder, [1961].
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt. Original dust
jacket.
FIRST TRADE EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY,
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page: “for
Jeremy / from Sam.” This text also contains a small
number of poems in the original French and transla-
tions into English by the author.
Condition: Light edgewear to cloth; pale staining
from stitching. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “13s.
6d.”); spine lightly sunned; some light edgewear.
Provenance: “Jeremy” (presentation inscription).
Starting Bid: $500
45194 Samuel Beckett. Mercier and Camier.
Translated from the original French by the author.
New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1974].
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt. Original dust
jacket.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on
the title page: “for Jeremy / from Sam.”
Condition: Cloth a little sunned and lightly soiled
at edges; other light soiling to cloth; a few minor
bumps to spine ends; some scattered staining
throughout, generally conned to tops and fore-
edges. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$6.95”); light
edgewear and mild staining.
Provenance: “Jeremy” (presentation inscription).
Starting Bid: $500
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45195 John Berryman. A group of 6 First Editions, including one limited
signed issue and an uncorrected proof.
John Berryman. Short Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1967]. 8vo,
original brown cloth-backed yellow boards; dust jacket (unclipped). FIRST
EDITION. Fine. Stefanik A15. – Berryman. Love & Fame. New York: Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 1970. 8vo, original magenta cloth-backed cream cloth
over boards, spine stamped in black and gilt; publisher’s cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITON, LIMITED ISSUE, number 147 of 250 copies SIGNED BY THE
POET. Fine. Stefanik A20.1.a. – Berryman. Delusions, Etc. New York: Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, [1972]. 8vo, original black cloth; dust jacket (unclipped).
FIRST EDITION. Dust jacket with a tiny tear or rubbed spot along top edge,
rear panel a little soiled, else ne. Stefanik A22.1.a. – Berryman. Recovery.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1973]. 8vo, original orange-red cloth;
dust jacket (unclipped). FIRST EDITION. Fine. Stefanik A24.1.a. – Berryman.
Henry’s Fate & Other Poems, 1967-72. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976.
8vo, original printed red wrappers, with publisher’s label on upper wrapper.
ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF FOR THE FIRST EDITION. Very minor curl-
ing along fore-edge of front wrapper from acetate jacket, label with small
closed tear, otherwise ne. – Berryman. Henry’s Fate & Other Poems, 1967-
72. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. 8vo, original black cloth; dust
jacket (unclipped). FIRST EDITION. Fine.
Provenance: From the William A. Strutz Library.
Starting Bid: $500
45196 Erskine Caldwell. Tobacco Road. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936.
8vo. Publisher’s brick-red cloth, spine stamped in gilt, front board stamped in gilt and
blind; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION.
Condition: Cloth spine lightly sunned; a few spots and a few light stains and a few dark
stains; light edgewear. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2,50”); spine with very pale sun-
ning; “S” in “Scribners” on spine a bit smudged; light edgewear; bookseller’s ticket to
rear pastedown.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45197 Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October. Annapolis,
Maryland: Naval Institute Press, [1984].
Tall 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine stamped in silver, front
board stamped in blind; original dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with no mention of other
printings on the copyright page. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on
the half-title: “First Edition / Tom Clancy.” In the First Issue dust
jacket with six reviews on the rear panel, and no price listed.
Condition: Lower spine end of boards just pushed. Dust jack-
et unclipped (no price listed as issued); pale toning at jacket
edges on recto, a few pale spots on verso; almost impercep-
tible pale stain to head of spine panel; very mild edgewear.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45198 Tom Clancy. Group of 12 Signed First Edition Titles. Comprising:
Red Storm Rising. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1986]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
Patriot Games. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1987]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1988]. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED. Text somewhat toned.
Clear and Present Danger. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1989]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
The Sum of All Fears. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1991]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
Without Remorse. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1993]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
Debt of Honor. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1994]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
Executive Orders. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1996]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
Rainbow Six. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1998]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
The Bear and the Dragon. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2000]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
Red Rabbit. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2002]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
The Teeth of the Tiger. New York. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2003]. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
Condition: Generally near ne unless otherwise noted, with some light wear to jackets and a few instances of light rubbing.
Starting Bid: $500
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45199 Walt Disney Studio. The Adventures of Mickey Mouse. Book I. Philadelphia:
David McKay Company, [1931].
8vo. Illustrated throughout by the sta of Walt Disney Studio, including illustrated
endpapers. Publisher’s red cloth with large pictorial cover label.
FIRST EDITION, cloth-bound issue. The rst appearance of Mickey Mouse in book
form — and the rst appearance of Minnie Mouse. This title was also issued in
fragile pictorial boards.
Condition: Mild staining or soiling to boards; boards lightly bowed; a few pale
spots to text; one small tear to a single leaf, not aecting text or illustrations.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45200 Walt Disney Studio. The Pop-Up Mickey Mouse. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, [1933].
Large oblong 8vo. Illustrated with three color pop-ups and numerous black and white illustrations in-text. Publisher’s pictorial boards.
FIRST EDITION.
Condition: Boards lightly soiled; spine-ends bumped with some edgewear.
[Together with]: Another later edition of the same title, sealed in (publisher’s?) shrink-wrap.
Starting Bid: $500
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45201 Umberto Eco. Il Nome della Rosa. [Milan]:
Bompiani, [1980].
8vo. Illustrated map endpapers. Red cloth, spine
gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. With the with
the Societa Italiana degli Autori ed Editori [Italian
Society of Authors and Publishers] sticker on
copyright page.
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the
title page: “Umberto Eco.”
Condition: A few mild white stains to spine and
front board; light soiling to fore-edge, not aect-
ing text. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “L. 10.000 /
IVA compresa”); spine sunned; a few spots.
Starting Bid: $750
45202 Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man.
New York: Random House, [1952].
8vo. Publisher’s duel linen and black
cloth with stamped illustration on
spine extending to both boards, spine
stamped in white; original illustrated
dust jacket with rare wrap-around
band stating this was the National Book
Award Winner for 1953; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
on the title page: “Ralph Ellison.” First
edition with “A.B.” on copyright page and
“First Printing” stated.
Condition: White stamping on cloth
spine rubbed. Dust jacket unclipped
(priced “$3.50”); jacket with a few scus
and chips, other edgewear. Wrap-around
band scued and worn; separation to
front spine panel fold, just holding.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45203 William Faulkner. Mosquitoes. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927.
8vo. Title printed in blue and black. Publisher’s blue cloth, front board and spine
stamped in yellow; original illustrated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING without any mention of other printings on the copy-
right page. In the First Issue dust jacket of red on green featuring a mosquito design.
Issued simultaneously with an alternate dust jacket in red, blue, and black with a car-
toon representation of four card players aboard a yacht (no priority).
Condition: Light edgewear to cloth, primarily to spine ends. Dust jacket unclipped
(priced “$2.50”); chips with loss to lower spine panel (aecting imprint); separation in
spine panel rear fold (approximately 62 mm); spine panel toned; other minor edgewear
and occasional soiling.
References: Petersen A4b.
Starting Bid: $2,000
45204 F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.
8vo. Custom binding of green crushed morocco, boards double-ruled in gilt and ruled
in black, with gilt-stamped devices in each of the four corners, spine with ve raised
bands, gilt-ruled spine compartments with two gilt-stamped with title and author, the
other four with matching devices to boards, other designs in gilt, all edges gilt, inner
dentelles elaborately gilt and with green marbled endpapers, by Asprey.
FIRST EDITION, second printing with corrected text: “echolalia” on p. 60, “southern” on p.
119, “its” and “away.” on p. 165, “sickantired” on p. 205, and “Union Station” on p. 211.
Condition: Text lightly toned; else, ne.
References: Bruccoli A11.1.b.
Starting Bid: $500
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45205 F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934.
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt; original color pictorial dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with the Scribner “A” and Scribner seal on copyright page. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the
front free endpaper: “Dear Curtis – you’ve been so appreciative of my books in the past that I thought this might amuse you – Scott Fitzgerald.”
The inscription to “Curtis” is almost certainly to Kent Curtis (1890–1957), American novelist, World War I aviator, and member of the “Lost Generation.”
Curtis lived in Paris intermittently during the 1920s, where he and Fitzgerald became friends. The University of Virginia holds four letters from
Fitzgerald to Curtis (1925–1928), which reference their friendship in Paris and include Fitzgerald’s praise for Curtis’s novels. Curtis authored adventure
stories for boys, notably The Blushing Camel (1922) and The Tired Captains (1927). A superb “Lost Generation” and literary association.
Condition: Soiling to cloth; light edgewear; newspaper clipping, bookseller’s label, and bookseller’s stamp to front pastedown with light osetting
to inscription; small staple holes to free endpaper, not aecting inscription; small ticket to rear free endpaper recto with light staining to verso. Dust
jacket unclipped (priced “$2.50”); restorations to jacket edges on verso, including spine panel ends and ap folds; a few old tape repairs; color correc-
tion to spine panel ends; front ap beginning to separate at fold, but holding; jacket lightly toned; a few chips and short tears. Still, a bright example
of this rare jacket.
References: Bruccoli A14.1.a; Connolly, The Modern Movement, 79 (“The break-down of a marriage... is described with ashes of genius...”).
Provenance: Kent “Curtis” (presentation inscription); Sotheby’s 25 February 1976, lot 63; Christie’s 02 December 2005, lot 165.
Starting Bid: $10,000
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45206 Graham Greene. Brighton Rock. An Entertainment.
New York: Viking Press, 1938.
8vo. Publishers dual rose-colored and black cloth, ruled
and stamped in silver; original illustrated dust jacket; clam-
shell.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE
AUTHOR on the title page: “For Paul Daniels / with all good
wishes / from Graham Greene.”
Condition: Spine sunned and lightly soiled; a few spots
to cloth. Dust jacket decoratively clipped as issued (priced
“$2.50”); tape reinforcements at head and tail of spine
panel verso; spine sunned and jacket lightly toned; slight
edgewear.
References: Miller 17a; a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone.
Provenance: Paul Daniels (presentation inscription).
Starting Bid: $2,000
45207 Graham Greene. Our Man in Havana.
An Entertainment. London: Heinemann, [1958].
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt; original il-
lustrated dust jacket; slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on
the title page: “Good wishes, / Graham Greene.”
Condition: Slightest edgewear to cloth; owner-
ship signature to front free endpaper recto; text
browned as usually found and with some pale
spotting, mostly in the margins. Dust jacket
unclipped (priced “15s net”); spine sunned; rear
panel lightly toned and with a few scus; vertical
crease through spine panel.
References: Miller 37a.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45208 Joseph Heller. Catch-22. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1961.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine stamped in white; original illus-
trated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
on the front free endpaper: “To Lee Milazzo — / With sincere good
wishes and gratitude to someone who esteems this book so highly. /
Joseph Heller / 4/3/79 / Dallas.”
Lee Milazzo was a professor of history at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas; he also edited Dallas journalist and histo-
rian Sam Acheson’s book Dallas Yesterday.
Condition: Pale toning to cloth edges. Dust jacket unclipped (priced
“$5.95”); some edgewear with a few chips and short tears; lightly
scued and rubbed.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45209 Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris: Contact Publishing Company, 1923].
8vo. Publisher’s printed grayish-blue wrappers printed in black, uncut; chemise and clamshell.
FIRST EDITION of Hemingway’s rst book, one of 300 copies printed. Contains the stories “Up in Michigan,” “Out of Season,” and “My Old Man,” in addi-
tion to ten poems. Six of the poems had previously appeared in the magazine Poetry in January 1923; the remaining four poems and all three stories
appear here for the rst time. Published by Robert McAlmon at his Contact Publishing Co., the book was printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere, the
same printer Sylvia Beach used for Ulysses the previous year.
It was intended that Three Stories & Ten Poems would precede in our time as Hemingway’s rst published book. According to Hemingway’s inscription
to Dr. Guey, his family doctor, in a copy of in our time, William Bird had that manuscript “long before” Robert McAlmon had Three Stories & Ten Poems
set up. Because in our time was sixth in a series, it did not appear until 1924 (Hanneman).
The front blank contains the handwritten address in ink of “9 rue Falguière, Studio 33,” and below, in another hand, a name possibly beginning with
“Florence” followed by the address, “35 rue de Fleurus / c/o Madame Hutchins.” Hemingway’s rst wife, Hadley, the book’s dedicatee, lived at 35 rue de
Fleurus following the couple’s separation in 1926.
With interesting literary provenance, including the ownership inscription of Michael Meyer, noted translator specializing in Scandinavian literature;
also in Meyer’s hand are notes of ex libris for both Sidney Keyes and Powys Mathers. Keyes was a noted poet, killed in WWII while serving in North
Africa. Mathers, like Meyer, was a translator and, like Keyes, was also a poet. Mathers was also renowned for his complex literary crosswords in The
Observer, published under the pseudonym Torquemada.
Condition: Front wrapper split completely along joint; spine and edges lightly toned with a few chips; title written on spine in ink and with a small
ink mark on front wrapper; lacking blank leaf following colophon (remnants remain); light marginal toning to text pages.
References: Grissom A.1.1.a; Hanneman A1a.
Provenance: Powys Mathers; Sidney Keynes; Michael Meyer (inked ex-libris for all three previous owners written in Meyer’s hand: “Michael Meyer,
1945 / ex libris Sidney Keyes / ex libris Powys Mathers”); Christie’s 13 November 2008, lot 196.
Starting Bid: $7,500
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45210 Ernest Hemingway. in our time. Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924.
4to. Woodcut portrait frontispiece of the author by Henry Strater. Publisher’s printed paper boards; chemise and clamshell.
FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION of Hemingway’s second book. Number 56 of only 170 copies. While 300 copies of this rst edition were printed, only 170
perfect copies survived the run; the remaining 130 copies were damaged by the imposition of the watermark against the frontispiece (Grissom). The
rst six of the eighteen vignettes appeared earlier in the Spring 1923 “Exiles Number” of the Little Review under the collective title “In Our Time.” They
were subsequently included in the “Inquest into the State of Contemporary English Prose,” a series edited by Ezra Pound and published by Bill Bird.
Bird, of the Three Mountains Press, then issued the present work, with Hemingway’s now expanded eighteen vignettes, under the title in our time.
Of in our time, contemporary critic Edmund Wilson remarked, “he is rather strikingly original, and in the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time
[sic] has almost invented a form of his own...”
Condition: Board edges dampstained; spine chipped at ends, with losses to lower spine; rear joint and hinge cracked but holding; front joint and
hinge starting; bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown; text lightly toned; endpapers slightly discolored, as usually found.
References: Grissom A.2.1.a; Hanneman A2a.
Provenance: Osmond Kessler Fraenkel (bookplate), noted attorney who served, amongst other roles, as general counsel for the American Civil
Liberties Union.
Starting Bid: $7,500
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45211 Ernest Hemingway. In Our Time. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth with gilt lettering within a geometric design on upper cover and gilt lettering to the spine; original light gray dust jacket
printed in dark blue and brown including quotations from contemporary authors praising Hemingway’s work on the upper cover.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with publisher’s device on the copyright page. Hemingway’s second book, and his rst to be published
in the US. This edition was preceded only by the limited edition of 170 copies printed in Paris in 1924. Uncommon in the scarce dust jacket, this rst
printing was limited to only 1,335 copies.
Condition: Light edgewear to spine ends with some fading at the head of the spine. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.00”) reinforced on the verso at
the spine and folds.
References: Hanneman A3a.
Starting Bid: $5,000
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45212 Ernest Hemingway. The Torrents of Spring. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.
8vo. Publisher’s dark green cloth stamped in red on upper cover and spine; original pictorial dust jacket
featuring a drawing by “M. F.” in orange, black and tan, depicting a scene at a lunch counter on the upper
panel. Housed in a custom quarter black morocco clamshell case by Asprey.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Hemingway’s rst novel, with printer’s device and no other publication
dates on the copyright page.
Condition: Slight edgewear to cloth; bookseller’s ticket tipped to rear pastedown and faint inventory
stamp to verso rear endpaper. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$1.50”) toned, with spine ends chipped and
some loss, with a small water spot to rear cover.
References: Hanneman A4a.
Starting Bid: $500
45213 Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth with gold paper labels, lettered and ruled in black, on the upper cover
and spine; original pictorial dust jacket featuring design by “Cleon” on the front panel and portrait of
Hemingway drawn by John Blomshield on the real panel.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with typographical error “stoppped” on p. 181, line 26. Later issue
dust jacket, with IN OUR TIME corrected on the front panel and drawing on the rear dated 1925 with
Hemingway’s signature beneath it.
Condition: Hinges slightly shaken, some loss to gilt on the covers, minor edgewear to boards and
some fading to cloth. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.00”) with a few tears repaired with Japanese
tissue on the verso; loss at the edges and a 5.5mm loss to lower corner of the back cover.
References: Hanneman A6a.
Starting Bid: $4,000
45214 Ernest Hemingway. Men Without Women. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth with gold paper labels, lettered and ruled in black, on the upper cover and spine,
top edge stained red; original dust jacket with three orange bands and a central cartouche silhouette of a
bull.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with Scribner’s seal on the copyright page and a perfect numeral “3” in the
pagination on p. 3. First state jacket without the reviews in the orange bands on the upper cover, and two
errors present on the front ap [“thirteen” stories, for fourteen, and “six” unpublished, instead of the correct
four].
Condition: Spine ends bumped with minimal edgewear. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.00”) with a few
small chips and a bit of loss at the spine ends.
References: Hanneman A7a.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45215 Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth with gold paper labels, lettered and ruled in black, on the upper cover and
spine; original pictorial dust jacket featuring an illustration by “Cleon” on the front panel, and the front
ap blurb with the name of the heroine, Catherine Barkley, misspelled “Katharine Barclay;” chemise and
slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with printer’s device and no other publication dates to copyright page
and the dedication “To G. A. Pfeier” without the legal disclaimer on the verso.
Condition: A few very slight bumps to cloth; booklabel to rear pastedown. Dust jacket unclipped (priced
“$2.50”); some edgewear with a few chips and short tears; spine lightly sunned; some scung and rub-
bing.
References: Hanneman A8a.
Provenance: Charles Edward Willock, junior (bookplate).
Starting Bid: $1,000
45216 Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth with gold paper labels, lettered and ruled in black, on the upper cover and
spine; original pictorial dust jacket featuring an illustration by “Cleon” on the front panel, and the front ap
blurb with the name of the heroine, Catherine Barkley, misspelled “Katharine Barclay.”
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with printer’s device and no other publication dates to copyright page and
the dedication “To G. A. Pfeier” without the legal disclaimer on the verso.
Condition: Some light edgewear to cloth with bottom edge slightly frayed at corners; rear hinge appar-
ently strengthened with an archival glue; bookplates tipped to both sides of the front free end paper with
light osettting to the front pastedown. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.50”), a bit toned with a few
pressed creases, with restoration to the spine and edges retouched.
References: Hanneman A8a.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45217 Ernest Hemingway. In Our Time. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1930.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth with gold paper labels, lettered and ruled in black, on the upper cover and
spine; original pictorial dust jacket featuring design by “Cleonike” to the front panel.
Second American edition with printer’s device to the copyright page.
Condition: Scrape and small abrasion on the gilt lettering piece on the cloth spine; hinges slightly shaken.
Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.50”), chipped, darkened and with a small hole over the title on the spine,
mirroring the abrasion to the cloth.
References: Hanneman A3b.
Starting Bid: $500
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45218 Ernest Hemingway. Death In the Afternoon. New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932.
8vo. Color lithograph frontispiece featuring The Bull Fighter by Juan Gris, with captioned tissue guard, and
plates from photographs of bull ghts in Madrid. Publisher’s black cloth with author’s facsimile signature
stamped in gilt on the upper cover, gilt-lettered spine; original pictorial dust jacket featuring the painting
Toros by Roberto Domingo on the upper cover.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with Scribner’s “A” and printer’s device to the copyright page.
Condition: Minimal edgewear to boards, rear y leaves creased. Dust jacket unclipped (priced $3.50), re-
backed with paper and restored with upper and lower edges retouched, color correction and some work in
facsimile.
References: Hanneman A8a.
Starting Bid: $500
45219 Ernest Hemingway. Winner Take Nothing. New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth with gold paper labels, lettered and ruled in black, on the upper cover and
spine, top edge stained red; original dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with Scribner’s “A” on the copyright page, list of books by Hemingway on
p. [iv] and missing the “t” in “two hundred twenty-ve pounds” on p. 159. First state dust jacket with an ex-
cerpt from a review of Death in the Afternoon, by Laurence Stallings, on the rear panel.
Condition: Small hole to page 49; cloth slightly worn at extremities with spine end lightly bumped; book-
seller’s penciled notations to endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.00”), with some light edgewear
and faint osetting to the verso from gold labels.
References: Hanneman A12a.
Starting Bid: $500
45220 Ernest Hemingway. To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth with author’s facsimile signature stamped in gilt to the upper board, spine
stamped in gilt and green; original dust jacket designed by “Neely” on the front panel and black and
white photograph of Hemingway on the rear panel “taken at the front in Spain,” by Joris Ivens.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with Scribner’s “A” on the copyright page.
Condition: Light edgewear to corners of cloth; spine ends bumped; a few faint water spots to upper
board; penned manuscript ex-libris to the front free endpaper; backstrip lightly shaken with some ton-
ing to inner hinges. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.50”), rebacked and laid down, with retouching at
the folds and some loss to photograph’s credit on the back.
References: Hanneman A14a.
Starting Bid: $500
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45221 Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1940.
8vo. Publisher’s beige cloth with author’s facsimile signature stamped in black on upper
cover; original pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a black custom smooth leather velvet-
lined clamshell case featuring a silhouette of the dust jacket portrait of Hemingway at
his desk.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with Scribner’s “A” to the copyright page. First state dust
jacket with photograph of Hemingway at his typewriter on the back without the pho-
tographer’s credit.
Condition: Spine ends lightly bumped; endpapers slightly toned. Dust jacket un-
clipped (priced “$2.75”), rebacked and laid down, retouched and repainted, with some
osetting to the verso from the spine.
References: Hanneman A18a.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45222 Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1952.
8vo. Publisher’s light blue cloth, with author’s facsimile signature stamped in blind on the
upper cover and lettered in silver on the spine; original pictorial dust jacket lettered in black
and white with a drawing by “A” in blue and brown on the front panel and a photograph of
Hemingway, by Lee Samuels, on the rear panel.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with Scribner’s “A” on the copyright page. First state dust
jacket with no mention of Hemingway’s Nobel Prize win to the rear ap and photograph on
the rear panel in blue tones.
Condition: Spine lightly sunned and ends bumped slightly. Dust jacket unclipped (priced
“$3.00”); spine panel lightly sunned; rear panel faded and lightly toned.
References: Hanneman A3a.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45223 Ernest Hemingway. A group of 9 titles, comprising:
The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth with gold paper labels, lettered and ruled in black, on the up-
per cover and spine; facsimile dust jacket. Later edition.
Torrents of Spring. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1930. 8vo, publisher’s dark green cloth lettered in red on upper cover and spine; facsimile dust
jacket. Later edition.
Winner Take Nothing. New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth with gold paper labels, lettered and ruled in
black, on the upper cover and spine; facsimile dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with Scribner’s “A” on the copyright page. Wear to cloth at
the spine ends and light rubbing to the corners. Hanneman A12a.
Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. 8vo, publisher’s green cloth with author’s facsimile signature in gilt to upper board and
stamped in gilt and black on the spine; dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.75”) on inside ap. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with Scribner’s “A” on the
copyright page. Some edgewear to cloth and spine ends, lightly faded; dust jacket edgeworn with some loss to spine ends and corners, a few creases.
Hanneman A13a.
To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth with author’s signature in gold on the upper cover, lettered
in gilt over green on the spine; facsimile dust jacket. Later edition.
Across the River and Into the Trees. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth with author’s facsimile signature stamped in gilt
on the upper cover and lettered in gilt on the spine; dust jacket unclipped (priced “$3.00”). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with Scribner’s “A” on the
copyright page. Edgewear with some loss to the dust jacket concentrated at the corners and spine ends, some loss to photographer’s credit on the
rear panel. Hanneman A23a.
The Dangerous Summer. Introduction by James Michener. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1985]. 8vo, blue quarter linen cloth over matching
boards, author’s facsimile signature to upper board in gilt, gilt-lettered spine; dust jacket.
The Garden of Eden. A Novel. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1986. 8vo, publisher’s quarter linen over tan boards, author’s name stamped in blind to
upper board, title lettered in black to the spine; dust jacket.
True at First Light. A Fictional Memoir. Introduction by Patrick Hemingway. [New York]: Scribner, [1999]. 8vo, publisher’s black and green boards, gilt-
lettered spine; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
Condition: All together, generally in good condition unless otherwise noted.
Starting Bid: $500
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45224 Jack Kerouac. On the Road. New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, lettered in white, top edge stained red; original pictorial dust jacket; chemise
and slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. In the First State dust jacket priced “$3.95” price and with red and blue stripes on
rear panel.
Condition: Spine ends just pushed; front free endpaper recto lightly stamped “6C 3.71.” Dust jacket un-
clipped (priced “$3.95”); some edgewear with a few chips; jacket unevenly toned; small abrasion to rear
panel; panels somewhat rubbed.
References: Charters A2a.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45225 Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. New York:
The Viking Press, [1962].
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, spine stamped in yellow; original illus-
trated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET.
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper “Ken Kesey”
with a small doodle. First issue with “fool Red Cross woman” on p.
9. First issue dust jacket priced $4.95 and with the ve-word quote
from Jack Kerouac on the front ap.
Condition: Spine ends just pushed; bookseller’s ticket to front
pastedown with a little osetting and a small red stain to free end-
paper. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$4.95”); some edgewear with
a few chips; small hole in the “e” in “One” on the front panel; spine
lightly sunned; some light rubbing.
Starting Bid: $2,000
45226 John Knowles. A Separate Peace. London: Secker & Warburg, 1959.
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, spine stamped in silver; original illustrated dust jacket; slipcase and chemise.
FIRST UK EDITION.
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced “15s. net”); minor edgewear and some pale spotting.
Starting Bid: $500
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45227 John Le Carré. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1963.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt; original dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with no mention of later impressions. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page: “John Le Carré.”
Condition: A bump or two to board edges; edges just lightened. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “18/- net”); spine sunned; some edgewear and a few
short tears; light soiling, particularly to rear panel.
References: Hubin, Crime Fiction, II.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45228 John Le Carré. Group of 21 Mostly Signed First Edition Novels, including his rare rst book, Call for the Dead. See extended description on-
line for a complete list of titles in this lot.
Starting Bid: $500
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45229 Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1960].
8vo. Publisher’s brown paper-covered boards backed in green cloth, spine stamped in brown; original illus-
trated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION of the author’s rst book, in the rst issue dust jacket with front ap priced “$3.95,” the Capote
quote in green, and bottom left corner without mention of further printings. This copy has the preferred
Daniels blurb on the rear ap, generally considered to be associated with the rst issue jacket.
Condition: Board edges just lightened and spine ends just pushed; small ink stain to front board. Dust
jacket unclipped (priced “$3.95”); some edgewear and wear at folds; a small closed tear on rear panel; rear
panel lightly scued or rubbed.
Starting Bid: $2,500
45230 Robert Ludlum. Group of 7 Signed First Edition Titles. Comprising:
The Rhinemann Exchange. New York: The Dial Press, 1974. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED.
The Chancellor Manuscript. New York: The Dial Press, 1977. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED.
The Holcroft Covenant. New York: Ricard Marek Publishers, [1978]. FIRST EDITION.
INSCRIBED.
The Matarese Circle. New York: Ricard Marek Publishers, [1979]. FIRST EDITION.
INSCRIBED.
The Bourne Identity. New York: Ricard Marek Publishers, [1980]. FIRST EDITION.
INSCRIBED.
The Bourne Supremacy. New York: Random House, [1986]. US FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED.
The Bourne Supremacy. London: Grafton Books, [1986]. UK FIRST EDITION. SIGNED.
Condition: Fine.
Starting Bid: $500
45231 Norman Mailer. The Naked and the Dead. New
York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1948].
Large 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine stamped in
white; original illustrated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION of the author’s rst book. SIGNED BY THE
AUTHOR on the title page: “Norman Mailer.” First Issue,
with the Rinehart logo on the copyright page, in First
Issue jacket without the New York Herald Tribune quote.
Condition: Light edgewear to cloth; tail ends a bit
pushed. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$4.00”); jacket
edgeworn and with some chips; spine sunned; light rub-
bing to rear panel.
Starting Bid: $500
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45232 A.A. Milne. The King’s Breakfast. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. No
place, no date.
Single printed sheet (19 ¾ x 15 3/8; 502 x 392 mm).
LIMITED EDITION PRINTED SHEET, number 16 of 20 copies, SIGNED BY THE
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR in pencil at the bottom of the sheet. Numbered
in pencil at the bottom right. Additionally signed by the illustrator in the plate.
The poem “The King’s Breakfast” was rst published in the rst Winnie-the-Pooh
book, When We Were Very Young, published by Methuen & Co. in 1924.
Condition: Sheet laid down on cardstock; lightly toned; a few pale spots; pin-
sized hole above rst stanza.
Starting Bid: $500
45233 A.A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1926].
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, front board with gilt vignette
decoration of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh, illustrated map endpapers of the “100
Aker Wood.”
FIRST EDITION.
Condition: Minor wear to spine ends and corners; light soiling; pale circular mark on rear
board; a few gutters a bit over-opened; bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown.
Starting Bid: $500
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45234 A.A. Milne. The House at Pooh Corner.
With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New
York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1928].
8vo. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard throughout,
including pictorial endpapers. Publisher’s
salmon-colored cloth, decorated and stamped
in gilt.
FIRST US EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 2
of 250 copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND
ILLUSTRATOR.
Condition: Some edgewear to cloth, particu-
larly at spine ends; corners rubbed. Short tears
in half-title and title page gutter at bottom
edge, not aecting text.
Starting Bid: $750
45235 A.A. Milne. The House at Pooh Corner.
With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New York:
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1928].
8vo. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard throughout, in-
cluding pictorial endpapers. Publisher’s salmon-
colored cloth, decorated and stamped in gilt.
FIRST US EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 92
of 250 copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND
ILLUSTRATOR.
Condition: Light edgewear to cloth; corners
rubbed.
Starting Bid: $750
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45236 Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936.
8vo. Publisher’s gray cloth stamped in blue; original illustrated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with “Published May, 1936” on the copyright page and no mention of
other printings. In the First Issue dust jacket with Gone with the Wind listed as the second title in the
second column on the back panel.
Condition: Almost imperceptible wear to cloth. Dust jacket clipped at upper front ap as issued, not
aecting price (priced “$3.00”); very slight edgewear; a pale spot or two; an unusually ne dust jacket.
Starting Bid: $2,500
45237 Toni Morrison. The Bluest Eye. New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, [1970].
8vo. Publisher’s tan-gray paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth,
spine stamped in silver; original dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page: “Toni
Morrison.” Dust jacket with publisher’s code “1070” on front ap.
Condition: Spine sunned; silver a bit rubbed; light edgewear; small
spot to early leaves and title page. Dust jacket unclipped (priced
“$5.95”); jacket somewhat yellowed as usually found; some uneven pale
discoloration; one short closed tear at top edge of front panel; minor
stain at foot of front ap fold.
Starting Bid: $6,000
45238 Haruki Murakami. 1Q84. [London]: Harvill Secker, 2011.
3 volumes, large 8vo. Publisher’s color-printed covers, housed in a perspex case with “1Q84” in black
on both covers; wrapped in publisher’s linen net stitched in red, not examined out of net; publisher’s
original cardboard box printed with the author’s name, the title of the book, ISBN, and limitation, with
this copy number written in black ink. Publisher’s certicate of authenticity with limitation number
included in netting.
LIMITED EDITION. Number 58 of only 111 copies. Rare, we can trace no other copies at auction.
Condition: Books and perspex case presumed ne, not examined out of original red-stitched linen net-
ting. Publisher’s box with a few corners bumped; a few short tears; other mild wear.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45239 George Orwell. Animal Farm. A Fairy Story. London: Secker & Warburg, 1945.
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, spine stamped in white; original dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION with “First Published May 1945” on copyright page and with no mention of other printings.
Actually published on 17 August 1945 in an edition of 4,500 copies. The publication was delayed after the
“May” imprint due to wartime paper shortages.
Condition: Minor edgewear to cloth; small abrasion to front pastedown. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “6s.”);
some edgewear and wear along folds; a few chips including an abrasion to rear panel with a chip; rear panel
rubbed and scued; a few pale spots.
References: Fenwick A.10a.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45240 George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949.
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, spine stamped in red; original dust jacket, green variant; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE.
Condition: Board ends and spine a little lightened. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “10s. net”); some
edgewear with a few chips and short tears, some loss to tail end of spine panel; lightly rubbed with a few
scus; not generally found this bright.
References: Fenwick A.12a.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45241 George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1949].
8vo. Publisher’s gray cloth stamped in black and red; original dust jacket.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. In the more desirable red variant dust jacket, though Fenwick describes only the
blue variant.
Condition: Corners just bumped; a few pale spots to textblock, conned to margins. Dust jacket decora-
tively clipped as issued, price retained (priced “$3.00”); touch of soiling and very minor edgewear; a remark-
ably bright example of a jacket easily prone to fading.
References: Fenwick A.12b.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45242 Mario Puzo. The Godfather. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1969].
8vo. Publisher’s white cloth backed in black, spine and front board stamped in gilt; original illustrated
dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION.
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$6.95”); minor edgewear and a few short tears, primarily to
spine ends.
Starting Bid: $500
45243 Thomas Pynchon. The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1966].
8vo. Publisher’s gray paper-covered boards backed in yellow cloth, spine stamped in black, front board
stamped in blind; original dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION without any mention of other printings on copyright page.
Condition: Board edges a bit bumped with some lightening to top edge; a few scattered stains. Dust jacket
unclipped (priced “$3.95”); light edgewear; a few pale spots to aps.
References: Mead A2a.
Starting Bid: $500
45244 Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front. London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [1929].
8vo. Publisher’s tan buckram, spine and front board stamped in green; original dust jacket; chemise
and slipcase.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Translated from the German by A. W. Wheen, the English edition preceded
the American edition by three months.
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced “7s. 6d. net”); very minor edgewear with a few small chips
and short tears; small closed tear to rear panel; uncommonly bright.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45245 H.A. Rey. Curious George Gets a Medal. Boston: Houghton Miin Company, [1957].
Large 8vo. Publisher’s yellow cloth stamped in red.
FIRST EDITION, second printing. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A DRAWING of Curious
George picking owers facing the title page: “Hi! / To Joan with best wishes / H.A. Rey /
Waterville Valley, August 7, 1958.” Includes a letter of authenticity from PSA.
Condition: Cloth moderately soiled and dampstained on rear board; spine perishing with loss-
es at head and tail; corners rubbed; small tear in front free endpaper recto repaired with tape;
tears to multiple gutters repaired with tape; tears in pp. 5/6, pp. 9/10 and rear free endpaper
repaired with tape; scattered pale soiling to text. An apparently well-loved children’s book.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45246 J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone. [London]: Bloomsbury, [c. 1998].
8vo. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.
First edition, twenty-second printing. PRESENTATION
COPY, INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication
page: “for HARRY! / best wishes / JK Rowling.” Includes
a letter of authenticity from PSA.
Condition: Touch of wear to wrappers; 1997 Smarties
Gold Award Winner sticker to front wrapper; some
mild creasing to rear wrapper. Text lightly toned as
usually found.
References: See Errington A1(aa) (for rst printing).
Starting Bid: $1,000
45247 J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets. [London]: Bloomsbury,
[1998 (but 1999)].
8vo. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by the
author: “for Harry / (again!) / JK Rowling.”
Includes a letter of authenticity from PSA.
Condition: Touch of wear to wrappers; 1998
Smarties Gold Award Winner sticker to front
wrapper. Text lightly toned as usually found.
References: Errington A2(b).
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45248 J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Chamber
of Secrets. [New York]: Arthur A. Levine Books, [1999].
Large 8vo. Illustrations by Mary GrandPré.
Publisher’s purple boards, green cloth-backed spine
stamped in silver; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED
BY THE AUTHOR on the title page: “J.K. Rowling.” In
the rst state dust jacket with “Year 2” omitted from
the spine and dust jacket priced at $17.95. Includes
a letter of authenticity from PSA.
Condition: Spine tail just pushed; else, ne. Dust
jacket unclipped (priced “$17.95”).
References: Errington A2(c).
Starting Bid: $500
45249 J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
[London]: Bloomsbury, [2000].
Thick 8vo. Publisher’s color pictorial boards. Original
color pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-
title: “J.K. Rowling.” Includes a letter of authenticity from
PSA.
Condition: Small nick to spine tail; else, ne. Dust jacket
unclipped (priced “£14.99”); touch of near-impercepti-
ble edgewear.
References: Errington A9(a).
Starting Bid: $500
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45250 J. D. Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine gilt; original illustrated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, IN AN UNRESTORED FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET. First issue dust jacket with the top of Salinger’s head just cut o on the rear panel and
the dollar sign over the shoulder in the “R” on the front ap.
Condition: Spine leaned; gilt on spine slightly rubbed; minor rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$3.00”); slightest soiling on front
and spine panels; touch of wear to extremities. A FINE JACKET, rarely found unrestored in this remarkable condition.
References: Sublette A.1.1.
Provenance: The Personal Book Shop, Boston (bookseller’s ticket).
Starting Bid: $20,000
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45251 Dr. Seuss. Scrambled Eggs Super! New York: Random House, (1953).
4to. Illustrated by the author. Publisher’s pictorial boards. Original matching pictorial dust jacket. Housed
in a custom white board slipcase with pastedown illustration of the cover to the upper board.
FIRST EDITION.
Condition: Light edgewear to boards with some loss at spine ends and corners. Dust jacket price-clipped,
dampstained along the spine and center; 7mm and 6mm tears to the rear panel and a few small tears
along the top edge.
Starting Bid: $500
45252 Dr. Seuss. The Cat in the Hat. [New York]: Random House, [1957].
Tall 8vo. Illustrated by the author. Publisher’s color pictorial boards.
Later edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR opposite the title page (on the verso
of the front free endpaper): “With Best Wishes / to Dan Pope / Dr. Seuss.” Includes
a letter of authenticity from PSA.
Condition: Light edgewear to boards with some loss at corners and spine ends;
bookseller’s sticker to spine of glassine wrap.
Starting Bid: $500
45253 Dr. Seuss. The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. New York: Beginner Books, Distributed by Random
House, 1958.
4to. Publisher’s pictorial boards. Original pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION.
Condition: Edgewear to the boards, with some loss to the spine ends and corners; some soiling to boards;
hinges slightly tender. A few small tears to the dust jacket, with loss to the head of the spine at the letter
“T,” lightly soiled with a couple minor creases.
Starting Bid: $500
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45254 John Steinbeck. Cup of Gold. A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer. With Occasional Reference to
History. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929.
8vo. Publisher’s bright gold cloth, spine and front board lettered in black, top edge stained blue; origi-
nal illustrated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Steinbeck’s rst book. McBride printed 2,476 copes of the rst edition,
though 939 were remaindered and became the second issue, produced by Covici Friede. Only 1,537
copies of the rst issue were thus produced.
Condition: Very light edgewear to boards; minor wear along joints; bookseller’s ticket to rear paste-
down. Dust jacket decoratively clipped as issued, retaining price (priced “$2.50”); some edgewear with
a few chips; spine panel sunned; light rubbing; pale spotting.
References: Goldstone and Payne A1a.
Starting Bid: $2,000
45255 John Steinbeck. To a God Unknown. New York: Robert O. Ballou,
[1933].
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge stained
black; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of the author’s scarce third book, FIRST ISSUE. Though 1,498
copies were printed, only 598 were bound and sold.
Condition: Light dampstaining to cloth; edges just lightened. Dust jacket
unclipped (priced “$2.00”); backed in linen, repairing dampstaining and
resulting splits in folds; color correction to ap folds (recto and verso); some
edgewear with a few chips; some rubbing to rear panel; other mild soiling.
References: Goldstone and Payne A3a.
Starting Bid: $2,250
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45256 John Steinbeck. In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, [1936].
8vo. Publisher’s yellow cloth with four red rules, spine stamped in black; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, trade issue.
Condition: Rear board slightly curved; a spot or two to cloth. Dust jacket decoratively clipped as issued, retaining
price (priced “$2.50”); rear ap fold separating and just holding; remnants of an old tape repair to verso of spine
panel at top; front ap fold starting; mild stains to rear panel and with a few pencil notations; some edgewear with a
few chips and short tears.
References: Goldstone and Payne A5b.
Starting Bid: $500
45257 John Steinbeck. Saint Katy the Virgin. [Mount Vernon, NY: The Golden Eagle Press for Covici-
Friede, 1936].
12mo. Publisher’s cloth-backed decorated paper-over boards, spine stamped in red.
FIRST EDITION. Number 37 of 199 copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This limited printing was the only
edition produced, as a gift for friends of the Covici-Friede publishing rm. This copy without the rare
publisher’s slip laid-in announcing the February publication of Of Mice and Men.
Condition: Mild edgewear to boards; light thumbsoiling and a few spots to text.
References: Goldstone and Payne A6a.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45258 John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men.
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, [1937].
8vo. Publisher’s beige cloth stamped in black
and terracotta, top edge stained blue; original
illustrated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with “and only
moved because the heavy hands were pen-
dula” and the bullet between the eights of the
page numbers on p. 88. PRESENTATION COPY,
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS SISTER AND
BROTHER-IN-LAW on the front free endpaper:
“For Beth and Gene / with love / John.”
Condition: Some light soiling to cloth; light
foxing to text block edges and endpapers.
Dust jacket decoratively clipped as issue, re-
taining price (priced “$2.00”); pale spotting;
mild edgewear and a few short tears.
References: Goldstone and Payne A7a.
Provenance: Beth and Gene Ainsworth
(presentation inscription and bookplate of
Elizabeth S. Ainsworth); Bonhams 18 February
2007, lot 311.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45259 John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, [1939].
8vo. Publisher’s beige cloth pictorially stamped in brown, spine stamped in brown, endpapers printed
with a portion of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic;” original illustrated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with “First Published in April 1939” and no mention of other printings.
Condition: Light soiling to cloth. Dust jacket decoratively clipped as issued, retaining price (priced
“$2.75”) and “First Edition” on lower corner of front ap; light toning; mild edgewear and a few short
tears.
References: Goldstone and Payne A12a.
Starting Bid: $2,000
45260 John Steinbeck. The Log from the Sea of Cortez. New York: The Viking Press, 1951.
8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth gilt; original illustrated dust jacket.
Second edition, with a new title. First published as The Sea of Cortez in 1941, this is the rst separate issue
of the “Log”, and the rst appearance of “About Ed Ricketts,” a great friend of Steinbeck who was killed
when a train hit his car in 1948.
Condition: Dust jacket price clipped; spine sunned; small paper loss on spine panel, not aecting text.
References: Goldstone and Payne A15c.
Starting Bid: $500
45261 John Steinbeck. East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952.
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in black on a brown background, front board lettered in
dark green; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, trade issue. In the First Issue dust jacket with portrait on real panel and without re-
views.
Condition: Cloth worn at spine ends and joints; spine a little sunned; other edgewear; text over-
opened in a few places; some small tears and folds in the gutter, not aecting text. Dust jacket
unclipped (priced “$4.50”); repaired at spine ends, fold edges, and top edge of front panel; color cor-
rection head of spine panel, ap folds, and a few minor spots on front panel; some toning and a few
spots; lightly scued; mild edgewear.
References: Goldstone and Payne A32b.
Starting Bid: $500
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45262 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade. A Duty-Dance with Death. [New
York]: A Seymour Lawrence Book/Delacorte Press, [1969].
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, red, and black, front board stamped in gilt; original dust
jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with his trademark self-portrait caricature on
the half-title. In the rst issue dust jacket with code “0369” on the rear panel.
Condition: Board ends just lightened. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$5.95”); dampstaining to lower
edges, particularly to rear panel and spine, also dampstaining to front panel and front ap; lightly toned;
light edgewear.
References: Currey, p. 504; Pieratt, Human-Klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AH1.
Starting Bid: $1,500
45263 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday! [New
York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1973].
8vo. Publisher’s orange boards, spine stamped in gilt and blue, front board stamped in
gilt; original dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with his trademark self-portrait
caricature across the half-title and facing page.
Condition: A touch of pale soiling to cloth. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$7.95”); spine
lightly sunned; very minor edgewear; a few pale spots.
References: Currey, p. 503; Pieratt, Human-Klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AK1.
Starting Bid: $750
45264 David Foster Wallace. Innite Jest. A Novel. Boston: Little,
Brown and Company, [1996].
8vo. Publisher’s blue paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth,
spine stamped in silver, front board stamped in blind; original dust
jacket; slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the
title page: “David Foster Wallace.” In the First Issue dust jacket with
“William T. Vollmann” misspelled as “Vollman” on the rear panel.
Condition: Minor soiling to top edge. Dust jacket unclipped
(priced “$29.95 / $40.00 in Canada); spine panel lightly creased; a
touch of wear at folds.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45265 Evelyn Waugh. Vile Bodies. [London]: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1930.
8vo. Illustrated title page printed in red and black. 2 pages of publisher’s adver-
tisements at rear, titled “Some Press Opinions of ‘Decline and Fall.’” Publisher’s
red and black marbled boards, spine gilt; original illustrated dust jacket; clam-
shell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION with no mention of other printings. In the
bold First Issue dust jacket, priced “7/6 net” on spine and the rear panel book list
ending with Second Choice, rarely found in such excellent condition.
Dedicated to Bryan and Diana Guinness (née Mitford), who—along with Diana’s
sister Nancy and Waugh himself—were key gures among Britain’s Bright Young
Things, the post-WWI aristocratic socialites famed for their wild parties and scan-
dalous excess, so vividly satirized in Vile Bodies.
Condition: Spine slightly leaned; mild edgewear to cloth; a few scattered pale
spots to text. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “7/6 net” on spine); spine lightly
toned; a few chips and short tears; small paper loss on upper spine, not aecting
text; small paper loss on rear panel, just touching “Bride” in the title “Giving the
Bride Away”; lightly rubbed.
References: Davis, Doyle, et. al, V.
Starting Bid: $2,500
45266 Evelyn Waugh. Scoop. A Novel about Journalists. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., [1938].
8vo. Publisher’s red and black marbled boards, spine gilt; original illustrated dust jacket; clam-
shell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with indistinct “8” in the publication date on copyright page and
the misprint “a” for “as” in the last line of p. 88. In the First Issue dust jacket with the “Daily Beast”
masthead.
Condition: Almost imperceptible edgewear to boards. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “7s. 6d.
net”); some chipping and edgewear, particularly to spine panel ends and folds, and with a few
short tears; spine lightly sunned; rear ap clipped (as issued?); some light rubbing or soiling.
References: Davis, Doyle, et. al, XV.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45267 Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. New York: Gnome
Press, Inc., [1950].
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth stamped in black; original
illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST PUBLISHED
BOOK, in the First Issue binding. PRESENTATION
COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR THE DAY AFTER
PUBLICATION on the front free endpaper recto: “For:
Alex Oshero / who would have bought it anyway -
a true blue guy / 12/3/50 Isaac Asimov.”
Alex Oshero (1923–1980) was an early science-c-
tion fan and editor who, alongside Sam Moskowitz,
co-edited the fanzine Helios (June 1937) and later
compiled The Fantasy Anthology Index (c. 1946), an
early bibliographic guide that included antholo-
gies containing Isaac Asimov’s work. Both operated
within the same New York–Newark science-ction
fandom of the 1930s and 1940s, situating Oshero
within the formative circle that included Asimov,
Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and L. Sprague
de Camp.
Condition: Small separation in cloth spine; light
soiling to boards and spine; minor edgewear. Dust
jacket unclipped (priced “$2.50”); scattered, light
staining to jacket; some pale spotting or soiling to
panel edges, particularly to rear panel; mild scung
and light edgewear.
References: Currey, p. 17 (binding A).
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $3,000
Henry Morrison began collecting comics as a 7-year-old, at the onset of the Golden Age, and never stopped. An avid reader
from an early age, he moved from comics onto collecting pulp magazines and science fiction.
At the age of 19, Henry went to work for a renowned literary agency whose clients included Alex Schomburg, Arthur C. Clarke,
and Philip K. Dick. Shortly thereafter Henry went on to start his own agency, where he represented many best-selling authors,
including Robert Ludlum, Dean Koontz, Eric Van Lustbader, and esteemed Science Fiction authors Samuel R. Delany, Lin
Carter, Richard R. Lupoff and Roger Zelazny. Other notable clients included award winning authors Lawrence Block, Donald
Westlake, David Morrell (First Blood), Brian Garfield (Death Wish), Justin Scott, and Paul Garrison (co-author of many Clive
Cussler novels). Additionally, Henry was the Executive Producer of the “Jason Bourne” film franchises.
Books from the Henry Morrison Collection appear throughout this catalog, in categories including Modern First Editions,
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror & Supernatural, and others. Items from this wide-ranging collection are indicated as “From
the Henry Morrison Collection.”
The Henry Morrison Collection
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45268 Isaac Asimov. Pebble in the Sky. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1950.
8vo. Publisher’s beige cloth, spine stamped in orange; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of Asimov’s rst published novel, preceded only by I, Robot, a collection of
short stories.
Condition: Dust jacket decoratively clipped as issued, with price retained (“$2.50”); some
edgewear with a few chips and short tears; slight wear to folds; soiling and spotting, par-
ticularly to rear panel and fold; some scung.
References: Currey, p. 19.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45269 Isaac Asimov. First editions of The Foundation Trilogy, in the
rst state bindings and rst issue dust jackets. Comprising: Foundation,
Foundations and Empire, and Second Foundation.
Foundation. New York: Gnome Press, [1951]. 8vo. Publisher’s navy cloth
stamped in red; original illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, IN THE
FIRST STATE BINDING with sheets measuring 20.3 x 12.5 cm and sheets
bulk 1.9 cm across the top. Light soiling to boards. Dust jacket unclipped
(priced “$2.75”); some staining and spotting to rear panel; other light soil-
ing; minor edgewear. Currey, p. 17 (binding A).
Foundation and Empire. New York: Gnome Press, [1952]. Publisher’s red
cloth stamped in black; original illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION,
IN THE FIRST STATE BINDING with red boards and publisher’s imprint on
spine measuring 2.2 cm across, and FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET printed
in four colors and with 26 titles listed on the rear panel. Cloth ne. Dust
jacket unclipped (priced “$2.75”); minor edgewear with a few short tears;
lightly scued and some pale spotting. Currey, p. 17 (binding A, dust
jacket A).
Second Foundation. [New York]: Gnome Press, [1953]. Publisher’s blue
boards lettered in brown; original illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION,
IN THE FIRST BINDING of blue boards lettered in brown. Light edgewear
to boards. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.75”) though with this price crossed out in green ink and replaced with “1.39.” Pale spotting to jacket, par-
ticularly rear panel, and with a small abrasion; some scung; minor edgewear. Currey, p. 19 (binding A).
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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45270 Ray Bradbury. Dark Carnival. Sauk City, Wis.: Arkham House, 1947.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine gilt; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of the author’s rst book.
Condition: Cloth lightly soiled and stained. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$3.00”);
some edgewear with a few chips and short tears; rear panel lightly scued and soiled;
some pale spotting.
References: Currey, p. 55.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45271 Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday &
Company, Inc., 1950.
8vo. Publisher’s pale green cloth stamped in maroon; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION.
Condition: Spine sunned and with pale staining to boards; light edgewear; ink nota-
tion to front pastedown. Dust jacket decoratively clipped as issued, priced retained
(priced “$2.50”); spine sunned and chipped ends with some losses; a bit scued and
soiled; some edgewear.
References: Currey, p. 56-57.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45272 Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books,
Inc., [1953].
8vo. Publisher’s binding of Johns-Manville Quinterra, “an asbestos
material with exceptional resistance to pyrolysis,” stamped in red.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 40 of 200 copies, SIGNED BY
THE AUTHOR.
Condition: Front joint starting at top, rear joint with a small chip;
spine ends pushed; binding soiled, as usually found.
References: Currey, pp. 55-56 (binding E).
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $3,000
45273 Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange. London: Heinemann, [1962].
8vo. Publisher’s cloth, spine gilt; original illustrated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with wide aps and priced “16s net.”
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced “16s net”); spine mildly sunned; a few light chips
and scus to rear panel; light foxing to verso.
References: Anatomy of Wonder III, 3-82; Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, 36.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45274 Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1914.
8vo. Illustrated title page by Fred J. Arting. Publisher’s dark red cloth, front board stamped in blind and gilt, spine stamped in gilt. Original illustrated
dust jacket, also by Fred J. Arting.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, IN THE RARE DUST JACKET. First state binding of dark red cloth without the acorn device on the spine.
Condition: Spine lightly sunned; touch of rubbing to spine gilt; pale sunning to upper portion of both boards; a few bumps and light edgewear; text-
block over-opened at pp. 214-215. Dust jacket decoratively clipped as issued, priced “$1.30 net” on spine; some small color corrections to spine panel;
spine panel lightly rubbed; light osetting from old tape to rear spine fold; expert repair to horizontal tear on spine verso; a few small tape repairs,
primarily to spine panel folds; front ap separating; a few chips and other mild edgewear; light foxing. Despite minor aws, a very nice example of a
rare jacket.
References: Zeuschner (1996), 696; Zeuschner (2016), pp. 424-425.
Provenance: From the collection of B.J. Lukes, noted collector and bibliographer of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting Bid: $15,000
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45275 [Edgar Rice Burroughs]. Frank A. Munsey Company Signed Contract and Endorsed Check for the serial rights to “The Mucker.” One par-
tially printed page, 8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches; New York; February 18th, 1914. Frank A. Munsey Company check no. 20472 made out to Burroughs. Endorsed
on verso in Burroughs hand. Check attached to contract which reads “Received from The Frank A. Munsey Company, FOURTEEN HUNDRED FIFTY
DOLLARS——in payment for one serial entitled “The Mucker.” Signed “E. R. Burroughs.”
“The Mucker” was published as a 4-part serial in All-Story Cavalier Weekly (October 24 – November 14, 1914).
Condition: Lightly toned, small pinhole to left of check. Fold creases to contract, pinholes to top edge. Cancellation aecting text, but not signature.
Provenance: From the collection of B.J. Lukes, noted collector and bibliographer of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting Bid: $500
45276 [Edgar Rice Burroughs]. Frank A. Munsey Company Check for the serial rights to “The Beasts of Tarzan.” 8 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches; New York; March
4, 1914. Check no. M14 made out to Edgar Rice Burroughs for $2,500.
Endorsement reads, “one serial entitled ‘The Beasts of Tarzan.’” Inscribed by Burroughs, “pay to Illinois Trust & savings Bank, Edgar Rice Burroughs.”
“The Beasts of Tarzan” was published as a 5-part serial in All-Story Cavalier Weekly (May 16 – June 13, 1914).
Condition: Lightly toned, fold creases. Cancellation aecting text, but not signature.
Provenance: From the collection of B.J. Lukes, noted collector and bibliographer of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting Bid: $500
45277 [Edgar Rice Burroughs]. Frank A. Munsey Company Check for the serial rights to “Out There Somewhere.” 8 ¼ x 3 3/8 inches; New York;
March 29, 1916. Frank A. Munsey Company check no. 31541 made out to Edgar Rice Burroughs for $1,725.
Endorsement reads “One serial entitled ‘Out There Somewhere’ which the payee sells to the drawer with rst serial rights only thereto, with warranty
of authorship and ownership, and with authority to copyright said rights.” Signed “Edgar Rice Burroughs.”
“Out There Somewhere” was published as a 5-part serial in All-Story Weekly (June 17 – July 15, 1916) under the title “The Return of the Mucker”.
Condition: Lightly toned, fold creases. Cancellation aecting text, but not signature.
Provenance: From the collection of B.J. Lukes, noted collector and bibliographer of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting Bid: $500
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45278 Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan the “Untamed.” Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1920.
8vo. Illustrated with 9 inserted plates, including frontispiece, by J. Allen St. John. Publisher’s olive-green cloth
stamped in brown. Original illustrated dust jacket by J. Allen St. John.
FIRST EDITION.
Condition: Mild edgewear, primarily to spine ends; spine a bit leaned; small blue stamp to front free endpa-
per recto; small dampstain to top edge, not aecting interior text or margins. Dust jacket unclipped (no price
listed as issued); chips and tears, including loss to front/spine panels (approx. 10 x 15 mm); tear to rear spine
panel fold extending into rear panel (approx. 137 mm), repaired with two pieces of cello tape on verso; sepa-
ration at rear ap fold also repaired with cello tape on verso; other separations along folds and short tears;
rear panel a bit rubbed.
References: Heins TU-1; Zeuschner (1996), 768; Zeuschner (2016) pp. 478-479.
Provenance: From the collection of B.J. Lukes, noted collector and bibliographer of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting Bid: $500
45279 Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Mucker. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.,
1922.
8vo. Illustrated with 5 inserted plates, including frontispiece, by J. Allen St.
John. Publisher’s pale green cloth stamped in red. Original dust jacket, also
illustrated by J. Allen St. John.
FIRST EDITION, second printing with “1922” present on title page.
Condition: Cloth soiled a bit; spine slightly sunned; mild edgewear; stain-
ing to boards; front hinge starting, rear hinge a little tender; mild stains to
textblock edges. Dust jacket unclipped, price listed on rear panel as issued
($1.90); jacket somewhat brittle with folds and edges reinforced on verso
with old and brittle tape; jacket heavily chipped; losses to head and tail of
spine including loss of text on front panel; spine sunned and spine folds
split; two tape repairs on spine panel; other soiling.
References: Heins M-2; Zeuschner (1996), 360; Zeuschner (2016), p. 216.
Provenance: From the collection of B.J. Lukes, noted collector and bibliogra-
pher of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting Bid: $500
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45280 Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Chessmen of Mars. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.,
1922.
8vo. Illustrated with 8 inserted plates, including frontispiece, by J. Allen St. John.
Publisher’s red cloth stamped in black. Original dust jacket, also illustrated by J. Allen
St. John.
FIRST EDITION. Contains three-page appendix (pp. 373-375) entitled: “Jetan, or
Martian Chess.”
Condition: Touch of wear to spine ends. Dust jacket unclipped, price on rear as is-
sued ($1.90); front ap fold split but holding, somewhat rubbed and scued, some
chipping and spotting with a few minor stains; spine panel sunned with moder-
ate loss including most of imprint, the “B” in Burroughs and touching the “C” in
Chessmen.
References: Heins CM-1; Zeuschner (1996), 92; Zeuschner (2016), p. 61.
Provenance: From the collection of B.J. Lukes, noted collector and bibliographer of
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting Bid: $500
45281 [Edgar Rice Burroughs]. Frank A. Munsey Company
Check for the serial rights to “Tarzan and the Forbidden City.” 8
½ x 3 3/8 inches; New York; December 16, 1937. Check no. 9707
made out to Edgar Rice Burroughs for $3,000.
Endorsement reads “One serial entitled ‘Tarzan and the
Forbidden City’, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which the payees
sell to the drawer with rst American and Canadian magazine
rights...” Stamped “Pay to the order of Citizens National Trust &
Savings Bank... Los Angeles... Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.”
“Tarzan and the Forbidden City” was published as a 6-part serial
in Argosy Weekly (March 19, 1938 - April 23, 1938) under the
title “The Red Star of Tarzan”.
Condition: Lightly toned to edges, middle fold crease.
Cancelation aecting text.
Provenance: From the collection of B.J. Lukes, noted collector and
bibliographer of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting Bid: $500
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45282 Arthur C. Clarke. Childhood’s End. New York: Ballantine Books, [1953].
8vo. Publisher’s red cloth stamped in black; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, issue in cloth (no priority).
Condition: Very light edgewear to cloth. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$2.00”) and price with an orange
wax check mark across it; rear panel toned and soiled, and with a few scus; scattered spotting or soiling to
front panel; spine panel lightly sunned; minor edgewear with a few short tears.
References: Currey, p. 113 (binding A).
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45283 Lester Del Rey. Nerves. New York: Ballantine Books, [1956].
8vo. Publisher’s lime green cloth stamped in blue; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, cloth issue (no priority). Del Rey’s wife, a prominent science ction editor at Ballantine, later
founded Del Rey Books, Ballantine’s fantasy and science ction imprint.
Condition: Some staining to cloth; text toned as a result of poor paper quality. Dust jacket decoratively
clipped as issue, price retained (priced “$2.00”); scattered spotting and soiling to all panels, particularly rear
panel.
References: Currey, p. 143 (binding A).
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45284 Philip K. Dick. The Man in the High Castle. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1962].
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine and front board stamped in red; original illustrated dust jacket; slipcase.
FIRST EDITION with code “D36” at the base of p. 239, the nal page of text.
Condition: Front free endpaper recto abraded where it appears a sticker was removed. Dust jacket un-
clipped (priced “$3.95”); mild wear and a few scus; aps lightly foxed; minor edgewear.
References: Currey, p.157.
Starting Bid: $1,250
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45285 William Gibson. Neuromancer. London.
Victor Gollancz LTD., 1984.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt;
original dust jacket. Housed in tray case.
FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on
title page.
The cornerstone of cyberpunk ction, Gibson’s de-
but novel stands alone in history as the only novel
to capture the “triple-crown” of Science Fiction
awards: the 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novel;
the 1985 Hugo Award for Best Novel; and the 1985
Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel.
Condition: Board edges slightly rubbed, spine
just pushed, minor scu at spine base; dust jacket
unclipped (priced “£8.95”), front and rear panel fold
corners bumped, front and rear cover slight creas-
ing.
Starting Bid: $1,500
45286 William Gibson. Neuromancer.
West Bloomeld, Michigan: Phantasia
Press, 1986.
8vo. Publisher’s cream speckled cloth,
front and spine stamped in bronze;
original illustrated dust jacket by Barclay
Shaw. Housed in matching cloth slipcase.
FIRST PHANTASIA PRESS EDITION.
Number 317 out of 350 copies SIGNED
BY AUTHOR.
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped
(priced “Trade edition: $18.00 / Special
edition: $45.00”). Fine.
Starting Bid: $500
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45287 Robert A. Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons,
[1961].
8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, spine gilt; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with top edge stained green and code “C22” at foot of
p. 408. In the First Issue dust jacket, priced “$4.50” and with date code “0761” on front
ap, and with blurbs for Starship Troopers on rear panel. Heinlein’s masterpiece was the
winner of the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and would have a lasting impact on the
science ction genre.
Condition: Light soiling to boards; corners just bumped. Dust jacket unclipped (priced
“$4.50”); spine lightly sunned as usually found; jacket scued and soiled, particularly to
rear panel; minor paper loss to front spine fold; scattered spotting; mild edgewear.
References: Currey, p. 234.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,500
45288 Frank Herbert. Dune. Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965].
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine stamped in white; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of the rst novel in the Dune series. In the FIRST ISSUE
color pictorial illustrated dust jacket by John Schoenherr, with the price $5.95 at the up-
per right corner of the front ap and the publisher’s imprint in four lines at the bottom of
the rear ap.
Condition: Minor soiling to cloth; some lightening at edges; old tape (?) stains to past-
edowns with loss of endpaper on rear pastedown; half-title with gold sticker to cover up
an old ownership signature. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$5.95”); spine lightly sunned;
light edgewear with a few scattered stains.
References: Barron, Anatomy of Wonder (1987), 4-268; Currey, p. 238; Pringle, Science
Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, 48.
Provenance: Bruce Tepper (bookplate); The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45289 Robert E. Howard (and others). 7 First Editions in book form from the Conan stories. Includes:
Conan the Conqueror. The Hyborean Age. New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1950]. 8vo. Illustrated map endpapers; publisher’s brick red boards stamped in
black; original illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING stated. Soiling and staining to lower right corner of both boards. Dust jacket un-
clipped (priced “$2.75”); spine and part of front panel sunned; horizontal abrasion to front board; light edgewear and a few scus. Currey, p. 249.
The Sword of Conan. The Hyborean Age. New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1952]. 8vo. Illustrated map endpapers; publisher’s brick red boards stamped in
black; original illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING stated. Soiling and staining to lower right corner of front board. Dust jacket un-
clipped (priced “2.75”); short tear in front panel starting at front ap fold; light edgewear; light soiling to rear panel. Currey, p. 252.
The Coming of Conan. New York: Gnome Press, Inc. [1953]. 8vo. Publisher’s red boards stamped in black; original illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION,
FIRST PRINTING stated. Front hinge started and early pages starting in the gutter, with moderate creasing. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$3.00”); a
few chips and short tears; scus to rear panel and with some light edgewear. Currey, p. 248.
King Conan. The Hyborean Age. New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1953]. Illustrated map endpapers; publisher’s red-orange cloth stamped in black; origi-
nal illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING stated. Boards dampstained or otherwise soiled, not aecting text. Dust jacket unclipped
(priced “$3.00”); rear panel with some pale spotting and scus; light edgewear. Currey, p. 250.
Conan the Barbarian. New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1954]. 8vo. Publisher’s red boards stamped in black; original illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION
stated. Text toned as a result of poor paper quality. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$3.00”); somewhat foxed, particularly to yellow spine and front pan-
els; abrasion to front panel; a few scus to rear panel; light edgewear. Currey, p. 249.
Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp. Tales of Conan. New York: Gnome Press Inc., [1955]. 8vo. Publisher’s red boards stamped in black (Currey
binding A, rst issue); illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION stated. Text toned as a result of poor paper quality. Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$3.00);
spine sunned; scattered pale spotting; light edgewear. Currey, p. 252.
Björn Nyberg with the collaboration of L. Sprague de Camp. The Return of Conan. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1957. 8vo. Publisher’s red boards
stamped in black; original illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING stated. Text toned as a result of poor paper quality. Dust jacket un-
clipped (priced “$3.00”); a few pale spots; some chipping and short tears, other edgewear. Currey, p. 134.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45290 Edward E. “Doc” Smith, Ph.D. Typescript for the third volume in the Lensman series, Galactic Patrol, with revisions throughout in the au-
thor’s hand. [No place, no date (but c. 1937)].
Large 4to (280 x 215 mm). Typescript, ribbon copy on yellow (1-98) and blue (99-331) paper, (title-page on thinner paper) and 332 pages (numbered
1-192, 192-a, 193-331); double-spaced on rectos only (approximately 100,000 words); with hundreds of corrections, additions, and deletions in ink
and pencil; several pages with additions and revisions on the verso in ink and pencil (one typed); chemise and clamshell.
Title inscribed in pencil in upper right corner: “Original manuscript / First vol. in Lensman Series.” The word “Lensmen” appears for the rst time on
page 1 in holograph (ink) above the crossed-out word “Patrolmen.” Page 14 contains calculations (in pencil) of the number of words per page. Page 58
contains a holograph note in red pencil: “Part I About a thousand words too long, but can’t cut out much more. Can’t add technical details of drive cut
out (see pag. 21). Will have to bring most essential parts in bit by bit in future chapters.” The verso of page 129 contains a diagram in purple pencil of
special coordinates, probably constructed to assist the author’s visualization of a scene in deep space.
Galactic Patrol was rst published in Astounding Stories, August 1937-February 1938. The rst book edition, with illustrations by Ric Binkley, was pub-
lished in 1950 by Fantasy Press, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Condition: First and last leaves a bit worn, two small stains to corners on verso of page 25, small piece torn from outer blank margin of page 114,
two tiny tears to outer blank margin of page 115, some areas of slight discoloration to pages 310 and 311 (mostly on verso), nal page (331) slightly
browned on the verso, with some edgewear, a small piece torn from lower left corner, and a few small chips and tears. An excellent example, and a
wonderful opportunity to see the novel evolve in the margins and on the versos as the author conducts a dialogue with himself, posing questions in
colored pencil, answering in another color, and making the nal revisions in ink.
References: see Chalker and Owings, The Science-Fantasy Publishers, p. 160 and Currey, p. 456 (for the rst edition in book form).
[Together with:] Typed Letter Signed by Edward E. Smith to Roy [A. Squires], dated Aug. 19, 1937, on Edward E. Smith, Ph.D., 313 Homecrest Road,
Jackson, Michigan letterhead. One quarto page (11 x 8.5 inches). “Here’s the rough draft... I would, however, really appreciate your criticism of this yarn
as soon as you have had time to give it a thoughtful reading. I would particularly like to know which parts, or spots, you think the best, and which
the worst, and why. This, of course, is to act as a check on my own opinions, and those of others, in future work... In regards to book publication of
the Skylarks – William Crawford, of Everett, Pennsylvania, who operates variously as the Visionary Publishing Co., the Fantasy Publishing Co., Unusual
Stories, Marvel Tales, and the Lord knows what else, has the MS of the Skylark of Space, and fully intends to bring it out as a book some day.”
[And:] Typed Letter Signed by W. Lawler to Roy A. Squires, dated September 17, 1937, on Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 79 7th Avenue, New York,
Art Department letterhead: “We have your letter of August 16 and are forwarding to you under separate cover a couple of illustrations of Dr. Smith’s
‘Galactic Patrol.’” One 4to page (11 x 8.5 inches).
[And:] Typed Letter Signed by Barry R. Levin, dated “10/17/80,” on Barry R. Levin, Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, 2253 Westwood Blvd., Los
Angeles, Calif. 90064 letterhead, appraising a collection of six items relating to Galactic Patrol, including the original typescript and the two Typed
Letters Signed. One 4to page (11 x 8.5 inches). In the original envelope.
[And:] Roy A Squires Catalog 9: A Fantasy and Science Fiction Panmixia.
Provenance: Roy A. Squires (Science Fiction and Fantasy collector, book dealer, and small press publisher); The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45291 Edward E. “Doc” Smith, Ph.D. Printer’s page proofs for the rst edition
in book form of Galactic Patrol. Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1950.
8vo. Illustrated by Ric Binkley. Unbound page proof sheets, printed on rectos
only, with four yellow sheets inserted in the preliminaries for blank pages iii, viii,
x, and xii. Chemise and slipcase.
FIRST EDITION UNBOUND PAGE PROOF SHEETS. PRESENTATION COPY,
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page: “To William J. Clark / at the Desean
(1963) / To quote VanBuskirk – ‘Ain’t we got fun?’” / Edward E. Smith Ph.D.”
Galactic Patrol is the rst appearance of the popular Lieutenant Peter VanBuskirk.
With pencil corrections and notations by the printer throughout.
Condition: Half-title browned at edges; light toning and scattered pale soiling; a
few preliminaries lightly creased; nal leaf a bit browned and wrinkled and with
a few short tears at edges.
References: see Chalker and Owings, The Science-Fantasy Publishers, p. 160,
and Currey, p. 456 (for the rst edition in book form).
Provenance: William J. Clark (presentation inscription); The Bob and Diane
Yaspan Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45292 [Edward E. “Doc” Smith, Ph.D.]. Typescript for the fth volume in the
Lensman series, Second Stage Lensman, with revisions throughout in the au-
thor’s hand. No place, no date [but c. 1941].
Large 4to (275 x 215 mm). Original typescript (ribbon copy) on yellow paper,
[370] pages (numbered irregularly 1-373), double-spaced on rectos only; with
numerous corrections, additions, and deletions in pencil, colored pencil (red,
blue, and green), and ink; additions typed on the verso of page 178, and written
in pencil on the verso of page 369; pencil note at foot of page 293: “To Battle
Creek / May 2, 1941.” Bound in full gray buckram, ruled and lettered in red on
front cover and spine; slipcase.
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in pencil at the head of p. 1: “6/5/41 To my old and
very critical friend – the Chief / Communications ocer of Galactic Roamers,
with / thanks for his assistance – from / Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.”
Mounted on the front pastedown is a color illustration of “Skylark” Smith – the
cover gure from the October 1939 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction, which in-
troduced Gray Lensman by E.E. “Doc” Smith. The serialization was published from
October 1939 to January 1940.
Second Stage Lensmen was rst published serially in Astounding Science-Fiction
from November 1941 to February 1942. The rst edition in book form, illustrated
by Ric Binkley, was published in 1953 by Fantasy Press in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Condition: Binding lightly rubbed, more so on spine; tape residue at edges of
front pastedown; some minor browning at text edges; occasional soiling.
References: see Chalker and Owings, The Science-Fantasy Publishers, p. 161,
and Currey, p. 457 (for the rst edition in book form).
Provenance: The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45293 [Edward E. “Doc” Smith, Ph.D.]. Holograph manuscript for the sixth and nal volume in the Lensman series, Children of the Lens, with revi-
sions throughout in the author’s hand. No place, no date [but c. 1947].
Large 4to (280 x 215 mm). 228, [14] numbered pages, written in pencil primarily on rectos only on yellow paper (pages 221-228 are written in ink);
pages 59-60 are typescript (ribbon copy), pages 78-88 are written in pencil on smaller ruled paper, and the nal fourteen pages (“CHAPTER XXVII, The
Power of Love”) are typescript (ribbon copy) on yellow paper with three holes punched in the left margin, and are lettered “a”-”n”; chemise and clam-
shell.
Children of the Lens, the sixth and concluding volume of the Lensman series, was rst published serially in Astounding Science-Fiction, from
November 1947 to February 1948. The rst edition in book form, with illustrations by Ric Binkley, was published in 1954 by Fantasy Press in Reading,
Pennsylvania.
Condition: Light soiling throughout; pencil occasionally smudged, not aecting legibility; a few minor creases; a few minor chips in margins, not af-
fecting text, and most notable on the nal leaf.
References: see Chalker and Owings, The Science-Fantasy Publishers, pp. 161-162, and Currey, p. 456 (for the rst edition in book form).
Provenance: The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45294 Edward “Doc” E. Smith, Ph.D. The History of Civilization. The complete Lensman series, comprising: Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic
Patrol, Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensmen, Children of the Lens. Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, Inc., 1955.
Six volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece in each volume, other in-text illustrations. Publisher’s red leather-backed cloth boards, spines gilt; publisher’s red card-
board box.
LIMITED EDITION, number 37 of 75 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the limitation page in volume 1: “To Two Veree nice
people / Roy and DeeDee Lavender / With heavenly thanks for your appreciation and in hope that we will be able to review our friendship (or would
“chields” be a better word?) at least twice a year from now on — and with my best personal regards — Doc / (Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.).” Additionally
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on limitation pages in each of the other ve volumes.
“A legend in specialty publishing and ne bookmaking. A collector’s dream — or nightmare — since sets have been oered for upwards of $5,000.
One of those specialty press productions that causes awe for many contemporary collectors” (Chalker and Owings).
In 1991, Chalker gave the current location of this set, inscribed to Roy Lavender, as part of his personal collection (third edition, 1991).
[Together with]: A small archive of typed letters (some signed, some original, some carbon copies) from the publisher of Fantasy Press, Inc., Lloyd
Eshbach, to one William D. Grant, an early investor in the press (1954-1958). In a letter dated 8 March 1956, Eschbach adds a postscript: “I still have 24
of the Smith sets to sell. I cut the order to 75 from 100. The sets would have cost entirely too much if I had run only 50 – the number of advance orders
I had received. Maybe you know some other fan who might want a set.” He writes on 10 July 1955, “I never got around to letting you know that I’ve
reserved #42 of the deluxe Smith sets for you. I still don’t have enough orders to go ahead with the binding, by the way...” The letters, which began
cordially, quickly devolve as Grant seeks to reclaim his investment in 1957 and goes without acknowledgement or return from Eshbach. The press
was facing signicant nancial diculties by this time, and had, essentially, already folded in 1956, before Grant sought to reclaim his funds. The last
letter, dated 21 July 1958, includes the line from Eshbach, “The S-F book eld is dead.” We leave you to draw your own conclusions as to the veracity of
this statement today.
Condition: Spines lightly sunned. Publisher’s box lid lacking as usually found (Chalker and Owings: “only one set with a lid in tact is known”); worn
and scued; some joints split or starting.
References: Chalker and Owings, The Science-Fantasy Publishers, pp. 162-163; Currey, p. 456.
Provenance: Roy and DeeDee Lavender (presentation inscription); The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45295 [Edward E. “Doc” Smith, Ph.D.]. Mimeograph typescript for The
Skylark of Space, with revisions throughout in the author’s hand. No place, no
date [but c. 1958].
Large 4to (280 x 215 mm). Mimeograph typescript with holograph corrections
in red and blue ink and in pencil; title-page and 244 numbered pages, double-
spaced on rectos only; pages 1-141 are on cream-colored paper (now browned)
and pages 142-244 are on yellow paper; title page with mimeographed copy-
right statement: “COPYRIGHTS / 1928: Experimenter Publishing Company. /
1946: Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. / 1947: Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. / 1950: Edward E.
Smith, Ph.D.” Above the copyright statement is typed: “The Skylark of Space.
Completely revised by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.”; chemise and clamshell.
The Skylark of Space was the rst volume in Smith’s “Skylark” space opera series.
It was rst published serially in Amazing Stories, from August to October 1928.
The rst edition in book form was published by The Bualo Book Co., Providence,
Rhode Island, in 1946. A revised edition was published by Pyramid Books, New
York, in 1958. This “completely revised” mimeograph typescript was likely made
for the 1958 Pyramid Books revised edition.
The book “is still highly regarded and is a landmark in magazine science ction,
as the rst major story of interstellar ight,” (Tuck).
Condition: Cream-colored pages now browned; some chipping to edges, no
loss to text; a few leaves with minor creases at old folds.
References: see Currey, p. 457 (rst edition in book form); Tuck, The Encyclopedia
of Science Fiction and Fantasy II, p. 398.
Provenance: The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45296 Neal Stephenson. Snow Crash.
New York: Bantam Books, [1992].
Large 8vo. Publisher’s brick-red paper-
covered boards backed in blue cloth, spine
stamped in silver; original illustrated dust
jacket; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on
the title page: “Neal Stephenson.”
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced
“$22.00”); touch of very minor edgewear;
very small abrasion in front panel; else, ne.
Starting Bid: $1,000
Long before I began to assemble this collection, I was hooked on H. G. Wells. At age
eleven, I was reading Wells’s most famous novels: The Time Machine, The Invisible Man,
The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, and The Island of Doctor Moreau, all
of which were adapted into movies. Through my teen years, I also enjoyed reading some of his
lesser-known fiction, including short stories, most of which had a sci-fi, fantasy, or supernatural
theme. As the prolific English writer who has been called “The Father of Science Fiction,” Wells
captured my imagination in a way that would never leave me.
Fast-forward half a century. As a seasoned collector of literary first editions and letters, colonial
manuscripts, photographs, prints, maps, and millennia-old antiquities, I found myself still
enamored of Wells, occasionally reading his fiction and always interested in viewing cinematic
adaptations (Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds” was a favorite). It happens, though, that I’d never
collected Wells. This, undoubtedly, had to do with Wells’s relative modernity, for I’ve always
collected very old and ancient material. Ultimately, I decided to build a collection. That was five years ago, and it has been
thoroughly enjoyable. But now is the time to move on to another area of collecting (which I won’t divulge at this time). A few
words, though, about Wells’s output, and then on to the scope of this collection . . .
While mostly considered a science-fiction writer, Wells was a polymath. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short
stories, and he made numerous and significant contributions in the genres of politics, history, social commentary, popular
science, futurism, satire, romance, biography, and autobiography. The first English and first American editions and manuscript
material in this collection are reflective of Wells’s extraordinary talents in all these areas.
For fans of Wells’s science fiction, virtually everything is here—the major and minor novels and collections of short stories, most
in both first English and first American editions. Especially noteworthy is a first edition of The Time Machine, warmly inscribed
by Ray Bradbury: “H. G. Wells was my love!” Wells was the writer who most influenced Bradbury.
Other signed and inscribed books include a first edition of The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, presented by Wells to Rebecca West,
with whom he had a decade-long love affair; a first edition of The Man Who Could Work Miracles, inscribed to Anthony P. West,
son of Wells and Rebecca West; and a first American edition of The Fate of Man, signed by Wells.
Additional highlights include an exceedingly early two-page Autograph Letter Signed, June 3, 1889, in which, four years before
his first published book, Wells writes to his classmate, H. E. “Hadley”; a three-page Autograph Letter Signed by Wells to Henry
D. Davray (March 4, 1900), his chief translator of the time, in which he references The First Men in the Moon and When the
Sleeper Wakes; a six-page Typed Manuscript Signed, “The Need for Strength and Clearness at Home,” published in The Nation
on Sept. 5, 1914; and a framed, signed original drawing by Wells.
Other offerings include some of Wells’s largely forgotten works—books and pamphlets with titles such as The Future of America,
The New Machiavelli, Social Forces in England and America, The War that Will End War, War and the Future, The Salvaging
of Civilization, After Democracy, The New World Order, and Mind at the End of Its Tether. Wells scholar Bill Cooke reminds us
that such books earned Wells a place on Hitler’s wanted list: “When the Nazis took over and started burning books, prominent
among them were the works of H. G. Wells, who was on their list of people to eradicate once their conquest of England was
completed. The fascists were right to be angry. Wells had been a consistent critic of fascism and Nazism from the beginning.”
[“Why Bother with H. G. Wells in the Twenty-First Century?” in Liverpool Blog].
Wells, whether in fiction or nonfiction, has maintained his relevance, and his novels and short stories are entertaining and often
prophetic. My hope is that there is something for every Wells enthusiast among these lots.
Happy bidding!
Victor Gulotta
The Victor Gulotta Collection
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45297 H. G. Wells. Autographed letter signed (“Wells”) to his classmate, H. E. “Hadley.” 2 pages on a bifolium achieved entirely in pen, 8 x 13 inches
(unfolded, visible), 46 Fitzroy Rd NW (Primrose Hill, London); June 3, 1889.
H. E. Hadley was likely a classmate of Wells while he was a student at the Normal School of Science in South Kensington (now Imperial College
London). Wells writes: “Dear old Hadley / Are you or are you not going to the / Art Schools Swaray or Sworay ? because if you / are, If you have no seri-
ous luggage, you have / got to come and go with me who have much / need the aid of a friend ... / (This - in condence) / There are; rst those two
ladies whom you / already esteem I admire and who (This - in strict / condence) consider you the takest-about young / man they have ever met;
secondly, a lady / who requisitioned me in an imperious manner / to escort her, her maiden aunt, and a counsiness [sic] / after the rst Engagement
was made; thirdly, / certain friends of my cousin who may or / may not bring a he - attendant - they are / three in number, three, witty and beautiful - /
and who may therefore be considered as the / sixth, seventh, and eighth of my responsibilities. Now / I am weakly, shy, and devoid of entertaining /
converse, and unless I am relieved from this / impossible [illeg.] (N.B. Scientic Joke) I shall / die. Come up, / yours / Wells.”
Condition: Framed and matted with a black and white portrait of Wells at his desk; creased along old folds and some light toning to sheet; not exam-
ined out of frame.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45298 H. G. Wells. Two works in three volumes.
Text-Book of Biology. With an Introduction by G. B. Howes. London: W. B. Clive, n.d.
Two volumes. 8vo. 47 folding plates illustrated by Wells tipped in throughout the
two volumes (24 to vol. 1; 23 to vol. 2). 32-page publisher’s catalogue at the rear of
both volumes (vol. 2 catalogue dated “December, 1894”). Publisher’s dark green
cloth, boards double-ruled in blind, spines lettered and stamped in gilt.
FIRST EDITION OF WELLS’ FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, written and with plates
drawn during his two-year period (1890-2) as a lecturer at the University
Correspondence College, where biology was his chief subject. (Wells, 1968, pp.
1-2)
Condition: Extremities worn, with spine ends and corner’s bumped; light fading
to edges of endpapers; light intermittent foxing to interior and textblock edges.
References: Hammond E1; Wells 1.
Provenance: S. R. Stack, Eneld, 1895 (mss ex-libri).
[With:]
H. G. Wells and R. A. Gregory. Honours Physiography. London: Joseph Hughes &
Co., 1893.
Thin Crown 8vo (19cm). Profusely illustrated in-text. 4-page publisher’s catalogue
at the rear. Publisher’s yellowish-brown cloth, lettering and designs in dark brown
with title and briar-leaf pattern on the front board, repeated on the spine panel,
and publisher’s information on the rear board.
FIRST EDITION.
Condition: Spine faded; light edge-wear to spine ends and corners, with some
loss; endpapers toned.
References: Hammond E2; Wells 2.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45299 H. G. Wells. The Time Machine: An Invention. London:
William Heinemann, 1895.
8vo. Publisher’s whitish-gray cloth, lettered in brown to the
front cover and spine panel, with sphinx design to front cover
and imprint, stamped in brown, to the rear cover.
THE EARLIEST KNOWN WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION TO BE
BASED ON THE IDEA OF TIME TRAVEL, having rst appeared in
serial form in 1888 as ‘The Chronic Argonauts,’ in The Science
Schools Journal, a college magazine founded by Wells. (Wells
Society, p. 2, no. 4) FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, later issue,
with publisher’s catalogue omitted. Second issue binding,
with boards stamped in brown and “Heinemann” imprint to
foot of spine. INSCRIBED BY RAY BRADBURY, to the front free
endpaper: “H. G. / Wells / was my / love! / Ray Bradbury.”
Condition: Light edgewear and minor soiling to cloth; hinges
a touch tender, expertly reinforced at the rear inner hinge
with archival glue; evidence of bookplate removal to the front
pastedown; margins lightly but evenly toned.
Reference: Hammond B1; Wells 3.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $4,000
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45300 H. G. Wells. The Time Machine: An Invention. London: William Heinemann, 1895.
8vo. Publisher’s whitish-gray cloth, lettered in brown to the upper cover and spine panel, with sphinx design to
upper cover and imprint, stamped in brown, to the rear cover.
THE EARLIEST KNOWN WORK OF SCIENCE FICTION TO BE BASED ON THE IDEA OF TIME TRAVEL, having rst
appeared in serial form in 1888 as ‘The Chronic Argonauts,’ in The Science Schools Journal, a college magazine
founded by Wells. (Wells Society, p. 2, no. 4) FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, later issue, with publisher’s catalogue
omitted. Second issue binding, with boards stamped in brown and “Heinemann” imprint to foot of spine.
Condition: Light edgewear to boards, with spine ends and corners bumped and some loss; mss ex-libris to front
free endpapers; preliminaries slightly loosened from hinges; very light foxing to margins.
Reference: Hammond B1; Wells 3.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45301 H. G. Wells. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents. London:
Metheun & Co., 1895.
8vo. Publisher’s dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and Art Nouveau design on the spine and front cover.
FIRST EDITION, of Wells’ rst published collection of fantasy and Science Fiction stories, all written and printed
in magazines between 1893 and 1895, with no statement of printing on the copyright page page, but without
the publisher’s catalogue inserted at the rear.
Condition: Edgewear to boards, with spine ends and corners bumped; foxing to preliminary leaves.
References: Hammond C1; Wells 6.
Provenance: J. F. Cullis (bookplate). The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45302 H. G. Wells. The Island of Doctor Moreau. London: William Heinemann, 1896.
8vo. Frontispiece engraving. One-sheet advertisement for The Time Machine and 32-page publisher’s cat-
alogue inserted at the rear. Publisher’s pictorial brown cloth, lettered across the back in black, and across
the front cover, with a design, in black and red, of the island.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. FIRST ISSUE BINDING, with publisher’s monogram stamped in blind on the
rear cover.
Condition: Boards lightly soiled with some damp spots and manuscript notation (“1289”) to front cover;
a few scratches to the spine panel; corners bumped; small stains to the back panel.
References: Hammond B3; Wells 7.
Provenance: Richard Morgan (stamp).
[With]:
The Island of Doctor Moreau. A Possibility. New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896.
Title page printed in red and black. Publisher’s black cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on the front and rear
covers and spine panel, top edge gilt, others deckled. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Condition: Spine lightly soiled and gilt rubbed; lower spine end starting to fray; corners turned; a few pale spots to text.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45303 H. G. Wells. “The War of the Worlds,” in Pearson’s Magazine. London:
January 1896-December 1898.
6 volumes (Vols. I-VI), 4to. Profusely illustrated with black and white plates and
in-text engravings. Publisher’s pictorial boards featuring decorative oral onlay,
in brown, green and gold, and lettering stamped in brown on gold, with the
same design featured on the spine panel.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, which was serialized in vol-
umes II and IV of the present work; two other short stories by Wells, “The Rajah’s
Treasure” and “In the Abyss,” where included, also for the rst time, in vol. II.
Condition: Boards soiled with wear to the spine ends and some loss to the gilt
and gold; text block shifted slightly; a few interior pages toned.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $750
45304 H. G. Wells. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897.
8vo. Title printed in red and black. Half-title with publisher’s ad-
vertisements to the verso and 2 pp. publisher’s catalogue at the
rear. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to front board and spine
panel, black image of the invisible man stamped to front board.
FIRST EDITION. “A commentary on the misuse of science for
selsh ends.” (Wells Society) SIGNED BY WELLS, on a bookplate
tipped to the half-title
Condition: Spine toned; edges rubbed and spine end and cor-
ners bumped; hinges starting, with tape repair to rear hinge;
endpapers toned.
References: Hammond B4; Wells 11.
Provenance: H. Alex Freidenberg (signed bookplate). The Victor
Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45305 H. G. Wells. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance. New York and London: Edward Arnold, 1897.
8vo. Original yellow cloth, ruled in red with black lettering to front boards and spine.
First American Edition, with textual variations from the rst edition, including a short Epilogue in which Thomas
Marvell, who has retained the paper of the dead man, is presented as the proprietor of an inn, “The Invisible
Man.” (Wells Society, p. 10)
Condition: Cover stained with a few spots; wear to edges, including head of spine; mss ex-libris to front free
endpaper.
References: Hammond B4; Wells 11.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45306 H. G. Wells. Thirty Strange Stories. New York: Edward Arnold, 1897.
8vo. Publisher’s light green cloth, lettered across back and front cover in black, with design by F. R. K. in
black on back, and in black, green and gold on front cover, edges uncut.
FIRST EDITION, unissued in Britain, containing three new stories.
Condition: Edgewear concentrated at the spine ends and corners with spine panel toned; hinges slightly
tender, with backstrip starting; bookplate tipped to front pastedown, oset to the front free endpaper.
References: Hammond C3; Wells 13.
Provenance: Samuel Edelman (bookplate designed by Edward Caswell). The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45307 H. G. Wells. The War of the Worlds. London: William Heinemann, 1898.
8vo. Publisher’s 32-page catalogue, partially uncut and undated, at the rear. Publisher’s gray cloth, let-
tered in black across the spine and front covers, with publisher’s mark in black on the back cover.
FIRST EDITION, without any printer’s statement on the copyright page and state B catalogue, with
page [1] headed ILLUMINATION.
Condition: Spine panel slightly toned and spine-ends bumped, lightly faded at the hinges; endpapers
foxed; a few stains to the preliminaries.
References: Hammond B5; Wells 14.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,500
45308 H. G. Wells. The War of the Worlds. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898.
8vo. Illustrated frontispiece and numerous black and white plates throughout. Publisher’s green cloth ruled
in black and lettered in gilt with central foliate cartouche in green and black; gilt-lettered spine.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Condition: Spine lightly sunned and minor edgewear to spine ends.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45309 H. G. Wells. When the Sleeper Wakes. A Story
of the Years to Come. London and New York: Harper
& Brothers, 1899.
8vo. Illustrated frontispiece and black and white
plates throughout. Publisher’s red cloth with gilt let-
tering to the front cover and spine.
FIRST BOOK EDITION, rst printed serially in The
Graphic (1898-99). LARRY MCMURTRY’S COPY, with
his personal bookplate with a sole image of a
horseshoe-shaped brand - the cattle brand used by
his father and grandfather on their ranch, tipped to
the front pastedown.
Condition: Spine sunned; light edgewear to spine
ends and corners; some minor soiling; textblock
slightly shifted with preliminaries loosened.
References: Hammond B6; Wells 15.
Provenance: Larry McMurtry (bookplate). The Victor
Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45310 H. G. Wells. Tales of Space and Time. London: Harper & Brothers, 1900 [1899].
8vo. Two-page publisher’s catalogue inserted at the rear. Publisher’s light brown cloth,
lettered across the back in brown and the front cover in gilt and black, with device and
lines in brown on the front cover.
FIRST EDITION, containing ve short stories: “The Crystal Egg,” “The Star,” “A Story of the
Stone Age,” “A Story of the Days to Come,” and “The Man Who Could Work Miracles.”
Condition: Wear to spine ends and corners; spine panel and front cover rubbed and
lightly soiled; ownership inscription on front free endpaper.
References: Hammond C4; Wells 16.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45311 H. G. Wells. The First Men in the Moon. London: George Newnes,
Limited, 1901.
8vo. Illustrated frontispiece and black and white plates throughout by Claude
Shepperson. Publisher’s dark blue cloth, lettered across spine and front cover in
gilt, with gilt central decorative cartouche; black endpapers.
FIRST EDITION, rst printed serially in The Strand Magazine (Dec. 1900 - Aug.
1901). “The story anticipates the hopes and fears of the space age, and is also a
thinly-veiled satire on over-specialization” (Wells Society).
Condition: Edgewear to spine ends and corners; blue mark to lower front joint;
text-block shifted; foxing to preliminaries; stamped ex-libris to half-title.
References: Hammond B7; Wells, 18.
Provenance: Kevin Ransom (bookseller); Lilly Haller (stamp).
[With]:
The First Men in the Moon. Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1901.
8vo. Illustrated frontispiece. Publisher’s dark blue cloth, lettered across the spine
and front cover in gilt, with gilt central cartouche of a moon.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Condition: Spine rubbed and a bit worn; hinges and backstrip starting; edge-
wear to boards and spine ends; dampstain to the frontispiece illustration.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45312 H. G. Wells. The Food of the Gods: And How It Came to Earth. London:
Macmillan and Co., 1904.
8vo. 18-page publisher’s catalogue inserted at the rear dated 20.7.04. Publisher’s
sage green cloth, lettered in gilt across the spine and front cover with fruit pat-
tern stamped in blind to the front cover; gilt-lettered spine panel.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING IN BOOK FORM, having been printed serially in
Pearson’s Magazine (Dec. 1903 - June 1904).
Condition: Edgewear to boards, including spine ends and corners; spine a bit
toned and rubbed; text-block and fore-edge slightly tender; intermittent foxing
to the interior and fore edges.
References: Hammond B9; Wells 24.
[With:]
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1904.
8vo. Publisher’s sage green cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Condition: Rubbing to boards, with spine ends and corners bumped; manu-
script ex-libris to front free end paper; preliminaries slightly loosened.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45313 H. G. Wells. Les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune.
Translated by Henry Davray. Paris: Societe du Mercure de
France, 1905.
8vo. Contemporary quarter imitation vellum and pat-
terned boards, with original publisher’s yellow printed
wrappers bound in.
Fifth French edition.
[Laid in]:
Autographed letter signed (“H. G. Wells”), 3pp, on a bifo-
lium, on Arnold House Sandgate Kent letterhead, March 4,
1900. To Davray, with mention of The First Men in the Moon
and When the Sleeper Wakes.
Condition: Book with margins lightly toned; edgewear to
boards. Letter with attened center fold; else, ne.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $750
45314 H. G. Wells. The First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life.
London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908.
8vo. 1-page publisher’s catalogue on the verso of the nal leaf, blank on the recto.
Publisher’s blue-gray cloth, lettered across the front cover in black within black dou-
ble border lines; gilt-lettered spine; uncut, with some pages unopened.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. JULIAN HUXLEY COPY, SIGNED BY HIM, on the front
free end paper, with marginal pencil lines, possibly in his hand. The brother of Aldous
Huxley, Julian was an evolutionary biologist who collaborated with Wells on The
Science of Life. (1930)
Condition: Wear to cloth concentrated at the edges and corners; intermittent foxing.
References: Hammond E8; Wells 36.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45315 H. G. Wells. Original drawing by the author signed (“H. G. Wells”).
8 x 6 1/2 inches, framed and matted with a black and white portrait, no place, no
date (circa 1920s).
Featuring a seated man at a desk and a woman looking out a window and cap-
tioned: “Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Wells.”
Condition: Some light foxing; creased from folding with a bit of soiling along the
crease. Not examined out of frame.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,000
45316 H. G. Wells. Photographic print signed (“H. G. Wells”).
9 1/2 x 6 inches (visible), signed in the lower margin, no place, no date (circa 1920s); framed.
Condition: A few pale spots. Not examined out of frame.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45317 H. G. Wells. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His
Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World. London:
William Heinemann, Ltd., (1930).
8vo. Illustrated with black and white plates throughout.
Publisher’s red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Original picto-
rial dust jacket by LOW featuring two aristocratic men
seated at a table.
Later edition. INSCRIBED BY WELLS TO REBECCA WEST,
on the half-title: “To Rebecca / all good wishes / H. G.”
An interesting association - their decade-long aair
produced a son, Anthony West, later a writer in his own
right.
Condition: Edgewear to boards; hinges and backstrip
starting; some rubbing to cloth with loss at the extremi-
ties. Dust jacket married from another copy, with light
soiling and minor marginal toning.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45318 H. G. Wells. After Democracy: Addresses
and Papers on the Present World Situation.
London: Watts & Co., (1932).
8vo. Publisher’s purple cloth, lettered in gilt on
front cover and spine.
FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY H. G. WELLS, on
the half-title: “To / Lord Melchett / the only half
Socialist Peer / H. G. Wells.”
Condition: Fading to cloth, some edgewear
concentrated at the spine ends and corners;
textblock starting; crease to the front free end
paper.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45319 H. G. Wells. The Man Who Could Work
Miracles. A Film Story Based on the Material
Contained in His Short Story “Man Who Could
Work Miracles.” London: The Cresset Press, 1936.
Thin 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt
on black background across the spine and front
cover; original pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, being the lm scenario of
the short story originally included in Tales of
Space and Time and in The Country of the Blind.
INSCRIBED BY WELLS TO HIS SON, ANTHONY
WEST, on the half-title: “A. P. W. / from H. G. W. /
Bless you both.”
Condition: Spine panel lightly toned and faded;
spine ends bumped and slightly frayed, as are
the corners. 2-inch tear to rear panel of the dust
jacket, and a few chips to the spine ends aect-
ing the text; some light toning to jacket and a
few creases; osetting from spine panel to verso
of dust jacket.
References: Hammond B19. Wells 127.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45320 H. G. Wells. Typed manuscript “The Need for Strength and
Clearness at Home.” 6 legalized watermarked pages, 13 x 8 inches, no
place, no date, with penned manuscript corrections throughout in Wells’
hand.
ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT. SIGNED BY WELLS, on the last
page with an extended manuscript prologue.
Condition: Secured with a brass brad at top left; creased from folding
in ve sections; a few small stains on the last page; bottom left corner of
last page folded.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,500
45321 H. G. Wells. Group of 8 works, mostly First American Editions.
Wells. Tales of Space and Time. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. 8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth
stamped in blind. First American edition. Small spot of wear to top edge of the back cover; some stain-
ing to spine.
Wells. The Sea Lady. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902. 8vo. Illustrated frontispiece. Publisher’s
light green pictorial cloth with black lettering on gold lobster design against an ornate design by RR in
sea green and black, spine stamped in black and gilt. First American edition. Some soiling to spine. Dr.
Donald O. Clendaniel, Sr. (bookplate).
Wells. In the Days of the Comet. New York: The Century Co., 1906. 8vo. Publisher’s dark blue pictorial cloth decorated and lettered in light blue, light
blue lettering and design to spine panel. First American edition. Spine ends frayed. Mary E. Bamford (mss ex-libris).
Wells. The War In the Air. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908. 8vo. Illustrated frontispiece and black and white plates throughout. 5-page pub-
lisher’s catalogue at the back. Publisher’s olive green pictorial cloth lettered in black and orange, and featuring an orange and black image of an air-
craft over a city. First American edition. Boards faded with some loss at the spine panel; text-block starting. Hunter Carson White (bookplate).
Wells. The World Set Free. A Story of Mankind. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1914). 8vo. 1-page publisher’s catalogue at the back, verso blank.
Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt. First American edition. Spine ends slightly bumped.
Wells. The Shape of Things to Come. The Ultimate Revolution. London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1933. 8vo. 12-page publisher’s catalogue at the back.
Publisher’s dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine panel. FIRST EDITION. Small spot of wear to the lower edge of the front board; spine ends
slightly bumped; front free endpaper toned. Hammond B6; Wells 119. H. Penfold (mss ex-libris).
Wells. The Wonderful Visit. New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 8vo. 4-page publisher’s catalogue at the end. Publisher’s green cloth or-
nately decorated in white and lettered in gilt, with design repeated on the spine panel. First American edition. Spine ends and corners bumped; text-
block starting; inner hinge slightly cracked.
Wells. When the Sleeper Wakes. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 8vo. Illustrated frontispiece and black and white plates throughout.
6-page publisher’s catalogue at the back. Publisher’s light green pictorial cloth lettered in gilt and featuring a space craft stamped in black set against
a blue and white sky, gilt-lettered spine. First American edition. Edgewear to boards; spine faded; evidence of penciled manuscript ex-libris removal
to front free endpaper.
Condition: Generally very good, unless noted above, with some minor more edgewear and light soiling.
Provenance: The Victor Gulotta Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45322 James Dickey. Deliverance. Boston: Houghton
Miin Company, 1970.
8vo. Publisher’s cream-colored cloth, spine and front board
stamped in green; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE
AUTHOR on the title page: “To Hale - / from / James Dickey.”
Condition: Cloth spine soiled, also some soiling to front
board, a few other stray spots. Dust jacket unclipped (priced
“$5.95”); some edgewear and a few small chips; small hole in
rear ap fold; light soiling to jacket verso.
Provenance: “Hale” (presentation inscription).
Starting Bid: $500
45323 Michael Egremont. The Bride of Frankenstein (Sequel to Frankenstein). London: The Queensway Press, [1936].
8vo. Publisher’s black boards, spine stamped in green; original illustrated dust jacket; clamshell.
FIRST PHOTOPLAY EDITION, IN THE RARE DUST JACKET. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ‘THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN’ AND SCI-FI GREAT
FORREST ACKERMAN. Inscribed by Forrest Ackerman in his distinctive handwriting on the front free endpaper recto: “Phil - Aunt Beeze is Fine and
Here’s The Bride of Frankenstein / What else? / Forry / at 59.” And inscribed by Elsa Lanchester, who played The Bride of Frankenstein in the 1935 mov-
ie, on the half-title: “To Phil. From THE Bride of Frankenstein! Elsa Lanchester. With all my very best wishes.”
Based on the James Whale lm, “The Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), staring Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karlo. This edition was produced for the library
trade and is considered “ultra-rare” in the dust jacket, which features Elsa Lanchester in character on the front panel (Davis).
Condition: Light soiling to cloth; spine ends pushed with a split or two; pale spotting throughout, particularly to prelims. Dust jacket unclipped
(priced “2/6 net” on spine as issued); expert repairs to edges on verso; color corrections to recto.
References: David, Photoplay Editions, p. 28 (1).
Provenance: R.C.H. Lovelace (ownership inscription dated “July. 1938.”); “Phil” (presentation inscriptions).
Starting Bid: $2,500
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45324 William Hope Hodgson. The House on the Borderland. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1908.
8vo. 4 pages of publisher’s ads at rear. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in blind; clamshell.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, blind-stamped as such on the title page.
H.P. Lovecraft, master of the horror, supernatural, and weird ction, considered this title, “perhaps the greatest of all
Mr. Hodgson’s works...” (Lovecraft, p. 82). Barron writes, “it denitely strikes what its admirer H.P. Lovecraft sought to
dene as ‘the true note of cosmic horror’” (Horror Literature). Bleiler calls it, “one of the classics of supernatural ction.”
With the bookplate of Adrian Homer Goldstone (1897-1977), noted bibliophile and bibliographer, especially known
for his bibliographies of Arthur Machen and John Steinbeck.
Condition: Spine sunned and spine ends pushed; minor edgewear and a few bumps; minor abrasion to front free
endpaper.
References: Barron, Fantasy and Horror, 4-70; Barron, Horror Literature, 3-92; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction,
815; Currey, p. 243; Locke I, p. 114; Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, pp. 82-83; Tuck, The Encyclopedia of
Science Fiction and Fantasy, p. 225.
Provenance: Adrian Homer Goldstone (bookplate); The Ventura Collection (Heritage Auctions, 17 April 2007, lot 26229); The Gary Munson Collection
(Heritage Auctions, 8 June 2023, lot 45101).
Starting Bid: $1,000
45325 William Hope Hodgson. The Ghost Pirates. London: Stanley Paul & Co.,
1909.
8vo. Inserted illustrated frontispiece by Sidney H. Sime; 12 page publisher’s cata-
logue at rear. Publisher’s red cloth gilt.
FIRST EDITION, IN THE FIRST STATE BINDING. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY
THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper recto: “Frances G. Knowles-Foster / from
/ William Hope Hodgson - / Dec: 29th -/10 / “And the foam swings round, & sings, /
And the great seas chaunt, / and the whitened hills are falling.”
Barron calls this title, “one of the great weird novels.”
Frances G. Knowles-Foster was an author and literary critic, active in London in
the early 20th century.
Condition: Spine somewhat leaned; spine ends pushed; light osetting to half-
title from inscription; light edgewear and a few bumps; minor stains.
References: Barron, Fantasy and Horror, 4-69; Barron, Horror Literature, 3-91; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 816 (“...This is one of the great
sea novels”); Currey, p. 243 (binding A); Locke I, p. 114; Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, p. 225.
Provenance: Frances G. Knowles-Foster (presentation); the Glynn and Suzanne Crain Collection (Heritage Auctions, 13 August 2019, lot 98137).
Starting Bid: $1,500
45326 William Hope Hodgson. The Night Land. A Love Tale. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912.
8vo. 16 pages of publisher’s ads at rear. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in blind.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION ISSUE BINDING, “perhaps a special binding for the author” (Currey).
Lovecraft wrote, “it is yet one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written.”
Condition: Binding slightly leaned; printed photograph of Hodgson pasted to front pastedown; pale spotting to text
and textblock edges, generally conned to prelims; three pages of descriptions of the book and author (seemingly from
a bibliography) pasted to the rst three pages of ads at rear.
References: Barron, Fantasy and Horror, 4-71; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 817; Currey, p. 243 (binding A);
Locke I, p. 115; Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 83; Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, p.
225.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45327 Stephen King. Cujo. New York: The Mysterious Press, [1981].
8vo. Publisher’s burgundy boards, elaborately stamped in gilt; publisher’s matching burgundy slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 29 of 750 copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Condition: Book ne. Publisher’s slipcase stained and soiled.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45328 Stephen King. Cujo. New York. The Mysterious Press,
[1981].
8vo. Publisher’s burgundy cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt.
House in publisher’s matching slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 549 out of 750 SIGNED
BY AUTHOR.
Condition: Minor scratch on front board going through ‘K’ in
“King”; spine rubbed.
Starting Bid: $500
45329 Stephen King. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. [West
Kingston, Rhode Island]: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc., [1982].
8vo. Illustrated by Michael Whelan. Publisher’s tan buckram stamped
in brown; original illustrated dust jacket; publisher’s gray buckram
slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Lettered “AJ” of 52 lettered copies,
presumably from a total edition of 552, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND
ARTIST. This is the rst volume in King’s popular Dark Tower series.
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced “Trade $20.00 / Limited
$60.00”); touch of edgewear to jacket; else, ne.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45330 Stephen King. Christine. West Kingston, R.I.: Donald M. Grant, Publisher Inc., [1983].
8vo. Illustrated by Stephen Gervais. Original coated red cloth, spine and front board stamped in silver; original il-
lustrated dust jacket by Gervais; publisher’s red slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 35 of 1,000 copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST.
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$65.00”); minor edgewear to jacket with some chips and a few short
tears.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
45331 Stephen King. Christine. West Kingston, R.I.: Donald M. Grant, Publisher Inc., [1983].
8vo. Illustrated by Stephen Gervais. Publisher’s red cloth, spine and front board stamped in silver; original illus-
trated dust jacket by Gervais. Publisher’s red cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 405 out of 1,000 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$65.00”); slight edgewear, sunned.
Starting Bid: $500
45332 Stephen King. The Eyes of the Dragon. Bangor, Maine. Philtrum Press, 1984.
Folio. Illustrated by Kenneth R. Linkhaüser. Title page printed in red and black. Publisher’s marbled red paper-
covered boards backed in black cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Housed in publisher matching slipcase.
Named after his local street in Bangor, Philtrum Press was King’s own private imprint. This is the only novel
written by King to be printed from Philtrum and precedes the Viking edition by three years.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Number 103 of 1,000 copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, from a total edition of
1,250.
Condition: Corners rubbed, else Fine.
Starting Bid: $500
45333 Stephen King and Peter Straub. The Talisman. West Kingston and Boston: Donald M. Grant,
Publisher, Incorporated, 1984.
2 volumes, 8vo. Publisher’s beige cloth stamped in blind, spine and front board stamped in gilt and
blind, with mounted pictorial label on front board; publisher’s matching slipcase of beige cloth, mount-
ed pictorial label to front board.
FIRST EDITION, SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED ISSUE. Number 419 of 1,200 copies SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS.
Condition: Light scung to mounted pictorial label on front board of volume two; minor bump or two
to publisher’s slipcase.
Provenance: From the Henry Morrison Collection.
Starting Bid: $500
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45334 Stephen King. Group of 7 titles from The Dark Tower series and related works. Donald M. Grant,
Publisher, Inc., [1987-2012]. Comprising:
FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION OF 6 TITLES OF THE DARK TOWER SERIES, each numbered 436 signed by the
author Stephen King and each book’s respective illustrator. 6 titles in 8 volumes:
The Drawing of the Three. [West Kingston, Rhode Island]: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [1987]. 8vo. Illustrated by Phil Hale. Original dust jacket, slip-
case. #436/850. Fine.
Wolves of the Calla. Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 2003. Two volumes, 8vo. Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson. Original
dust jackets, slipcase. #436/1,350 Fine.
Song of Susannah. Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 2004. 8vo. Illustrated by Darrel Anderson. Original dust jacket, slip-
case. #436/1,400. Fine.
The Dark Tower. Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 2004. Two volumes, 8vo. Illustrated by Michael Whelan. Original dust
jackets, slipcase. #436/1,500. Corners slightly rubbed, else Fine.
The Little Sisters of Eluria. Hampton Falls, N.H.: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [2008]. 8vo. Illustrated by Michael Whelan. Original dust jacket, pub-
lisher’s folding case. #436/1,250. Fine.
The Wind Through the Keyhole. Hampton Falls, N.H.: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [2012]. 8vo. Illustrated by Jae Lee. Original dust jacket, publisher’s
folding case. #436/800. Fine.
[Together with:] Robin Furth. Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance. Baltimore. Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009.
Large 4to. Publishers black leather, front and spine stamped in silver; original illustrated dust jack by Alan M. Clark. Blue ribbon marker. Housed in
publisher matching tray case.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Labeled “W” of 52 lettered copies, SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped ($75.00). Fine.
Starting Bid: $1,250
45335 Stephen King. Group of 6 titles from The Dark Tower series and related works. Comprising:
The Gunslinger. [Hampton Falls, New Hampshire]: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc., [1998]. 8vo. Illustrated by
Michael Whelan. Publisher’s red cloth, spine stamped in black; original illustrated dust jacket. Third Printing.
Fine.
The Drawing of the Three. [Hampton Falls, New Hampshire]: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc., [1998]. 8vo.
Illustrated by Phil Hale. Publisher’s red cloth, spine stamped in black; original pictorial dust jacket. Second Printing. Fine.
The Waste Lands. Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc., [1991]. 8vo. Illustrated by Ned Dameron. Publisher’s red cloth, spine
stamped in black; original illustrated dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else Fine.
The Wolves of Calla. New York. Scribner, [2003]. 8vo. Publishers black cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket by Bernie Wrightson.
First Trade Edition. Enclosed in publisher’s shrink-wrap, not examined out of plastic. Fine.
The Wolves of Calla. Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 2003. 8vo. Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson. Publishers’ black cloth,
spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. ARTIST EDITION. One of 3,500 SIGNED BY ARTIST. Enclosed in shrink-wrap, not examined out of
plastic. Fine.
The Song of Susannah. Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 2004. 8vo. Illustrated by Darrel Anderson. Publishers’ black
cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. ARTIST EDITION. One of 3,500 copies SIGNED BY ARTIST. Enclosed in shrink-wrap, not ex-
amined out of plastic. Fine.
The Song of Susannah. New York. Scribner, [2004]. 8vo. Publishers black cloth, spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket by Darrel Anderson.
First Trade Edition. Enclosed in shrink-wrap, not examined out of plastic. Fine.
The Dark Tower. Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 2004. 8vo. Illustrated by Michael Whelan. Publishers’ black cloth,
spine stamped in gilt; original illustrated dust jacket. ARTIST EDITION. One of 5,000 copies SIGNED BY ARTIST. Enclosed in shrink-wrap, not examined
out of plastic. Fine.
Robin Furth. Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance. Baltimore. Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009. Large 4to. Publishers navy
cloth, spine stamped in silver; original illustrated dust jack by Alan M. Clark. Housed in black cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Number 599 out of 2,000
SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped ($75.00). Fine.
Starting Bid: $500
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45336 Stephen King. The Colorado Kid. [Hornsea, UK]: PS Publishing, 2007.
3 volumes, 8vo. Each in publisher’s textured colored paper covered-boards with matching colored ribbon markers, each spine stamped (blue boards
and ribbon marker, spine stamped in white; orange boards and ribbon marker, spine stamped in black; brown boards and ribbon marker, spine
stamped in yellow). Original illustrated dust jackets. Each copy illustrated respectively by Glenn Chadbourne, Edward Miller, and J.K. Potter. Housed
together in publisher’s green paper-covered slipcase, spine stamped in gilt.
FIRST HARDCOVER AND LIMITED EDITION, SLIPCASE STATE. Letter “T” of 26 lettered copies, from a total state of 150 copies, from a total edition of 516.
EACH BOOK WITH A CUSTOM ILLUSTRATION BY THE BOOK’S RESPECTIVE ARTIST, NUMBERED AND SIGNED.
Condition: Dust jackets unclipped (no price listed as issued), touch of edgewear; else, ne.
Starting Bid: $600
45337 Stephen King. It. Baltimore. Cemetery Dance Publications, 2011.
Large 4to. Illustrated by Alan M. Clark and Erin Wells. Original illustrated dust jacket by Glen Orbik. Publisher’s black leather, front and spine stamped
in silver and red, black ribbon marker; original illustrated dust jacket. Housed in publisher matching tray case, felt lined.
25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, DELUXE TRAYCASED SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Number 708 of 750 copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, DUST JACKET
ILLUSTRATOR, AND ARTIST.
Condition: Dust jacket unclipped (priced “$475”). Fine.
Starting Bid: $750
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45338 H. P. Lovecraft. Autograph letter signed (“Tomeron the Decayed”) to Clark Ashton Smith (“CAS”). 10 Barnes St., Providence, RI, 2 Feby. 1930.
2 pages (recto and verso), 8vo (280 x 215 mm). Written in black ink, with “Fungi from Yuggoth” in pencil at head (presumably in the hand of Clark
Ashton Smith). Together with a 12-page typescript on carbon paper (280 x 215 mm), apparently typed by Lovecraft himself, of a poem “Fungi from
Yuggoth” with penciled annotations by Smith.
An excellent letter from the master of the “weird tale” to his close friend and fellow author, Clark Ashton Smith. Although Lovecraft and Smith cor-
responded extensively over many years, the two never met in person. Their surviving letters reveal a rich exchange of ideas—on literature, mutual
friends and colleagues, and their shared philosophies concerning the craft of the “weird tale.”
The letter opens with characteristic warmth and admiration, and includes mention of another frequent subject of Lovecraft’s correspondence—their
mutual idol, Edgar Allan Poe. Reecting the pair’s habit of reviewing each other’s work, Lovecraft writes: “Dear CAS: - Your recent envelope contained
some rare treats, & I can’t say how attered I feel by the dedication of ‘The Epiphany of Death’! That is the most haunting & fascinating thing I have
read anywhere in aeons—& the style is full of grave, stately music which makes me think of Poe as he rst impressed me long decades ago... ‘The
Epiphany of Death’ comes the closest to realizing that ideal of anything so far—& to have it inscribed to me heightens the pleasure of the perusal...
‘The Resurrection of a Rattlesnake’ is haunting, too. You manage to ll the atmosphere with a certain dark portentousness as the end approaches,
& the climax ts on very neatly—even though it is an adopted suggestion. Truly, I am profoundly grateful for the literary feats I have just enjoyed!”
Smith wrote both “The Epiphany of Death” and “The Resurrection of a Rattlesnake” early in his career, though both remained unpublished during his
lifetime.
Lovecraft continues in anticipation of further tales: “I shall look for your future tales with the keenest interest—the titles alone are enough to send
one’s fancy on long & bizarre voyages! The hints you give of their themes are highly alluring—ugh!!... The black rays, & the corpse-eating globe......! I can
well understand your having more ideas than you can catch up with; that is the way I am—I have a commonplace-book full of weird ideas & jottings
which would take more than a lifetime to develop in ctional form. I dier from you, though, in never devising a title till I have nished a story.”
The two frequently exchanged manuscripts for mutual revision and review. Here, Lovecraft encloses his poem sequence “Fungi from Yuggoth”—here
titled “Yuggoth of Fungi”—and asks Smith’s opinion, elaborating at length on his creative process: “Oh—here are my Yuggothian Fungi, to be re-
turned at leisure. Nothing notable about them—but they at least embody certain moods & images. Some of the themes are really more adapted to
ction—so that I shall probably make stories of them whenever I get that constantly-deferred creative opportunity I am always hoping for. You will
see something of my scenic or landscape-architectural tendency in these verses—especially suggestions of unplaceable or half-forgotten scenes.
These vague, elusive pseudo-memories have haunted me ever since I was an infant, & are quite a typical ingredient of my psychology & aesthetic at-
titude. They are surely somewhat akin to the landscapes which you mention as evoked by certain moods...”
Lovecraft goes on to mention other masters of the macabre—Ambrose Bierce, Lord Dunsany, and Arthur Machen—as well as a contemporary and
fellow correspondent, Frank Belknap Long. He closes with typical humor and aection: He closes: “Again thanking you for the tales, & hoping my en-
closed stu won’t disappoint you, I remain yrs in Tsathoggua’s name, Tomeron the Decayed [a character in ‘The Epiphany of Death’].”
Lovecraft composed his thirty-six-sonnet sequence Fungi from Yuggoth (here containing thirty-three sonnets) in late 1929 and early 1930, though it
was not published in its entirety until after his death, appearing rst in the collected work, Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Arkham House, 1943).
Condition: Letter lightly creased along old folds. Typescript with mild folds and a few scattered spots; nal page of typescript worn along fold and
elsewhere with losses, not aecting text or annotations.
References: David E. Schultz and S.T. Joshi (editors), Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill, The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith: 1922-1932 (New
York: Hippocampus Press, 2020), 106; and see Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House, 4.
Provenance: Clark Ashton Smith (recipient); Roy A. Squires (Science Fiction and Fantasy collector, book dealer, and small press publisher), apparently
sold in or around 1976 (with two typed letters from Squires about the sale of the present letter and typescript).
Starting Bid: $2,000
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45339 H.P. Lovecraft. The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Everett, Pennsylvania: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936.
Small 8vo. Illustrations by Frank A. Utpatel. Publisher’s black cloth stamped in silver; original illustrated dust jacket lettered in silver and with the illus-
tration in green.
FIRST EDITION OF LOVECRAFT’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK. A PUBLISHER’S DUMMY with the title on the front cover stamped in all-capitals (only the ini-
tial letters were capitalized in the regular state). With the errata leaf laid in. Also with a postcard from the publisher, dated 7 May 1936, stating, “due to
an unreasonable delay on the part of the printer, this book will not be ready for mailing for almost a month yet...” In fact, the book was not distributed
until the end of the year, and Lovecraft did not receive his copy until November 1936 (Joshi).
According to the publisher, 400 copies of the book were printed, though only about 200 were bound and the remainder destroyed. Both Currey and
Joshi note that the book was distributed without a dust jacket, which was later printed and sent to most who had previously purchased it. After the
initial publication of the book, the errata slip (present here) was prepared and circulated.
Condition: Cloth somewhat soiled with a few stains; spine ends pushed; lower edge of front board chipped; errata leaf toned and with a small stain,
creased along old fold. Dust jacket unclipped (no priced listed as issued); jacket somewhat soiled and with pale spots and mild dampstaining; ap-
proximate 90 mm tear in rear ap fold; spine panel chipped with losses at head; some edgewear with other chips and short tears.
References: Currey, p. 324 (dust jacket variant 2); Joshi I-A-11.
Provenance: Richard G. Paxton Jr. (ownership signature, and with a postcard from the publisher laid-in addressed to him); The Bob and Diane Yaspan
Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45340 H.P. Lovecraft. The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Everett, Pennsylvania: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936.
Small 8vo. Illustrations by Frank A. Utpatel. Publisher’s black cloth stamped in silver; original illustrated dust jacket lettered in silver.
FIRST EDITION OF LOVECRAFT’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK. With the errata leaf laid in. In the uncommon dust jacket variant of white paper lettered
in silver, without the frontispiece illustration repeated on the front panel; this variant unrecorded by Currey. Also with a small ad, printed on orange
paper and laid in, announcing Visionary Publishing Company’s publication of The Titan, written by P. Schuyler Miller. The ad bears a postmark dated
12 December 1939 and includes an advertisement for a rst edition of The Shadow Over Innsmouth and notes “only four hundred copies have been
printed and most are already distributed.” The Titan, advertised as “in the process of publication,” was never published by Visionary; the rst appear-
ance in book form would not be until Fantasy Press published the title in 1952.
According to the publisher, 400 copies of the book were printed, though only about 200 were bound and the remainder destroyed. Both Currey and
Joshi note that the book was distributed without a dust jacket, which was later printed and sent to most who had previously purchased it. After the
initial publication of the book, the errata slip (present here) was prepared and circulated.
Condition: Spine ends just pushed; text unusually bright; errata leaf with a touch of wrinkling. Dust jacket unclipped (no price listed as issued); small
stains to rear ap fold; otherwise jacket is unusually bright.
References: Currey, p. 324 (this dust jacket variant not recorded); Joshi I-A-11.
Provenance: The Bob and Diane Yaspan Collection.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45341 [Robert S. Mulliken]. Nobel Prize Medal in Chemistry for his development of Molecular Orbital Theory. 1966.
23 carat gold, 66 mm diameter. Prole bust of Alfred Nobel facing left on obverse, with “ALFR. NOBEL” at left and his dates in Roman numerals at right,
signed along lower left edge (incuse) “E. LINDBERG 1902”, reverse with allegorical vignette showing the gure of Science unveiling Nature, signed at
right “ERIK. LINDBERG”, legend “INVENTAS VITAM IUVAT EX COLUISSE PER ARTES” around edge, “R. S. MULLIKEN / MCMLXVI” engraved below on plaque,
with caption “REG. ACAD. - SCIENT. SUEC.” on either side of the plaque; rim marked “MJV GULD 1966.” Housed in original red morocco gilt case, interior
lined in gold-colored suede and yellow satin, and with “R. S. Mulliken” lettered in gilt on upper cover.
Accompanying the medal is Mulliken’s original check from the Nobel Institute, dated December 10, 1966, made out to “Professor Robert S. Mulliken”
for 300,000 kronor (approximately $32,000 USD today), endorsed in blue ballpoint on the verso, “Robert S. Mulliken.”
Robert Sanderson Mulliken (1896–1986), nicknamed by his students “Mr. Molecule,” was one of the foremost theoretical chemists of the 20th century.
Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to a family of chemists, he earned his B.S. in chemistry from MIT in 1917 before serving in the Army’s Chemical
Warfare Service during World War I. After sustaining injuries in a laboratory accident, he
completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, where his early research on isotope sepa-
ration helped lay the groundwork for later nuclear chemistry.
In 1927, while a professor of physics at New York University, Mulliken traveled to Europe,
where he collaborated with leading quantum theorists including Erwin Schrödinger,
Werner Heisenberg, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, and Friedrich Hund. Working with Hund
that same year, Mulliken developed the molecular orbital theory, which revolutionized the
understanding of chemical bonding by describing how electrons occupy orbitals that ex-
tend across an entire molecule rather than being conned to individual atoms. This frame-
work bridged the gap between physics and chemistry, allowing scientists to predict mo-
lecular behavior using quantum mechanics. By 1933, Mulliken’s theory had gained wide
acceptance and became the foundation of modern molecular physics and computational
chemistry. Mulliken’s research profoundly inuenced elds ranging from spectroscopy and
chemical kinetics to solid-state physics. His methods remain central to molecular orbital
calculations still in use today. The 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognized this achieve-
ment as “one of the most important advances in the understanding of molecular structure
and chemical bonding.”
Beyond his Nobel-winning work, Mulliken contributed to the U.S. Manhattan Project during World War II, applying his research in isotope separation
to plutonium research. He later returned to academia, continuing to rene quantum theory and molecular spectroscopy. A member of the National
Academy of Sciences (admitted in 1936 as its youngest member), Mulliken was also a Fulbright Scholar, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and
a founding member of the World Cultural Council. He earned numerous other awards for his contributions to science, many of which are oered in
this auction, including the Priestley Medal, the Willard Gibbs Award, the Gilbert Newton Lewis Medal, the John Gamble Kirkwood Award, and the
Theodore William Richards Medal. Mulliken died on October 31, 1986, at the age of 90.
Universally recognized as the highest international honor, the Nobel Prize had been awarded for more than eighty years before any Laureate’s gold
medal ever reached the auction block. The rst recorded public sale occurred in 1985, when the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to William Cremer
was oered at auction. Over the next three decades, fewer than a dozen additional medals appeared for sale—including the rst to exceed one
million dollars, Francis Crick’s 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which realized $2,270,500 at Heritage Auctions in 2013. The following
year, Crick’s co-recipient, James Watson, sold his medal at Christie’s for $4,757,000. In 2016, Dr. Kary Mullis’s 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry brought
$665,000 at Bonhams. All of these results were eclipsed in 2022, when Russian newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov’s Nobel Peace Prize was sold philan-
thropically for more than $103 million, with proceeds beneting displaced Ukrainian children.
This lot includes an extensive archive of provenance materials related to Mulliken’s Nobel Prize. Items include an 18 x 12.5 cm black-and-white pho-
tograph of Mulliken receiving the award; signed letters from leading physicists and chemists, including Edward and Mici Teller, Enrico Fermi, and
James Franck; correspondence with Nobel Institute ocials concerning his nomination, acceptance, and travel arrangements; and printed programs
and booklets from the 1966 ceremony in Stockholm. The correspondence spans 1965 to 1979 and includes later invitations for Mulliken to advise on
Nobel nominations and attend subsequent ceremonies.
Condition: Medal ne. Minor fraying to inner hinge of case, with a touch of soiling to the suede lining. Condition of provenance materials is generally
good, with occasional toning, staining, or age-related wear throughout.
Reference: “Robert S. Mulliken.” NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach 2025.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $100,000
The 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Robert Sanderson Mulliken
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45342 [Robert S. Mulliken]. Priestley Medal for Distinguished Services to Chemistry. 1983.
Gold medal measuring 50 mm in diameter. Prole bust of Joseph Priestley facing right on obverse, with “JOSEPH PRIESTLEY” along the edges, signed
“ADAM PIETZ SC.” on the lower left. Reverse with an image of laboratory equipment surrounded by a laurel wreath; inscription at top reads: “FOR
DISTINGUISHED SERVICES TO CHEMISTRY / AWARDED BY THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY / ROBERT S. MULLIKEN / 1983.” Housed in original dark
blue leather gilt case, interior lined in dark blue velvet and satin, measuring 9.5 x 9.5 cm.
Robert S. Mulliken received the Priestley Medal, the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society (ACS), in 1983, recognizing his life-
time of achievement in chemistry. Named for Joseph Priestley, one of the discoverers of oxygen, the Priestley Medal is regarded as one of the most
prestigious awards in the eld, following the Wolf and Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
After receiving his 1966 Nobel Prize for developing molecular orbital theory, Mulliken continued to advance the understanding of quantum chem-
istry, spectroscopy, and atomic structure. When he accepted this award at age eighty-six, Mulliken was living in Hyde Park, Chicago. Concerned that
his neuropathy might prevent him from attending the ceremony, he told a reporter for Chemical & Engineering News, “I guess you can accept a medal,
even if you’re not feeling so good.” Mulliken passed just three years later, in 1986, making this the last award that he received during his lifetime.
Accompanying provenance materials include correspondence with the American Chemical Society regarding Mulliken’s nomination and acceptance
of the award; The Joseph Priestley Celebration program dated April 13, 1983; a booklet containing a USPS First-Day-of-Issue Joseph Priestley stamp;
seven drafts of Mulliken’s acceptance speech with holographic corrections; letters of congratulations from colleagues; three copies of Chemical &
Engineering News (June 11 and August 30, 1982); and one copy of Foote Prints magazine, Vol. 46, No. 1, featuring an article on Joseph Priestley.
Condition: Medal ne. Case with minor wear to edges, including a few very light scus. Condition of provenance material generally good, with occa-
sional age-related wear, toning, or staining.
Reference: Chemical & Engineering News, Vol. 43, No. 20. Washington: American Chemical Society, 1965.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $10,000
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45343 [Robert S. Mulliken]. Willard Gibbs Medal. 1965.
Gold medal measuring 55 mm in diameter. Prole bust of Josiah Willard Gibbs fac-
ing left on obverse. Reverse with laurel wreath at bottom edge and inscription:
“THE WILLARD GIBBS MEDAL / FOUNDED BY WILLIAM A. CONVERSE / AWARDED TO
ROBERT SANDERSON MILLIKEN / 1965 / BY THE CHICAGO SECTION OF THE AMERICAN
CHEMICAL SOCIETY.” Housed in original dark blue leather case lined in velvet and
satin, measuring 8.5 x 8.5 cm.
The Willard Gibbs Medal, named for the pioneering American physicist and chemist
J. Willard Gibbs, was awarded to Mulliken in 1965 “in recognition of his pioneering
research on the application of quantum mechanics to the electronic structure and
reactivity of molecules, notably, the development of the molecular orbital theory and
the interpretation of the spectra of molecules.” This same body of research would earn
him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry the following year, solidifying his reputation as one
of the foremost theoretical chemists of the twentieth century. Mulliken was the fty-
fourth recipient of the Willard Gibbs Medal, joining a list that now includes more than
one hundred laureates, among them twenty-eight Nobel Prize winners.
Accompanying provenance materials include correspondence between Mulliken
and several of his contemporaries, among them Nobel Laureates John Hasbrouck
Van Vleck, Kenichi Fukui, and William F. Libby, as well as noted chemists Rudolph
Pariser, Charles C. Price, Mary Warga, John Archibald Wheeler, Paul Doughty, and Saul Winstein. Also included is correspondence with the American
Chemical Society concerning Mulliken’s nomination and acceptance of the award; three copies of The Chemical Bulletin and four copies of Chemical &
Engineering News containing articles about Mulliken; and his award ceremony nametag.
Condition: Medal ne in ne case. Condition of provenance material generally good, with occasional age-related wear, toning, or staining.
Reference: The Chemical Bulletin, Vol. 52, No. 5. Chicago: Schaar Scientic Company, 1965.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $5,000
45344 [Robert S. Mulliken]. Gilbert Newton Lewis Medal. 1960.
Gold medal measuring 45 mm in diameter. Prole bust of Gilbert Newton Lewis
facing left on obverse, anked by his dates, with inscription: “GILBERT NEWTON
LEWIS MEDAL FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN THE THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF CHEMISTRY.”
Reverse with vignette of sun rising on the horizon and inscription: “AWARDED
TO R. S. MULLIKEN / 1960 / BY THE CALIFORNIA SECTION / AMERICAN CHEMICAL
SOCIETY.” Housed in original dark red velvet drawstring bag.
The Gilbert Newton Lewis Medal, named for the inuential University of
California, Berkeley physical chemist who revolutionized theories of chemical
bonding, was awarded to Robert S. Mulliken in 1960 by the California Section
of the American Chemical Society. Mulliken traveled to California to accept
the medal and deliver a series of lectures on molecular bonding and quantum
theory. At sixty-four, he was already one of the leading theoretical chemists
of his generation, having established molecular orbital theory and advanced
research in the eld of spectroscopy. His work had redened the relationship be-
tween chemistry and physics, paving the way for the emerging eld of quantum
chemistry.
Accompanying provenance materials include correspondence with the American Chemical Society regarding Mulliken’s nomination and acceptance
of the award; documents related to his travel to California for the ceremony; a brief diary kept by Mulliken during visits to Los Angeles, Pasadena, La
Jolla, and Palo Alto; a copy of The Vortex, Vol. XXXI, No. 5, publishing his acceptance speech; a copy of Linus Pauling’s Gilbert Newton Lewis Award ac-
ceptance speech with holograph annotations by Mulliken; and additional correspondence with colleagues concerning the award.
Condition: Two very light scratches to obverse of medal. Condition of provenance material generally good, with occasional age-related wear, toning,
or staining.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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45345 [Robert S. Mulliken]. John Gamble Kirkwood Medal for Outstanding
Achievement in Science. 1964.
Gold medal measuring 50 mm in diameter. Prole bust of John Gamble Kirkwood facing left
on obverse, with his dates at bottom, and inscription: “JOHN GAMBLE KIRKWOOD MEDAL” at
top. Reverse with inscription: “AWARDED FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SCIENCE BY
YALE UNIVERSITY AND THE NEW HAVEN SECTION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY TO
ROBERT S. MULLIKEN / 1964.” Housed in original wooden case lined in blue velvet and satin,
measuring 14.5 x 14.5 cm.
Presented biennially by Yale University’s Department of Chemistry and the New Haven
Section of the American Chemical Society, the John Gamble Kirkwood Medal recognizes
“outstanding research contributions, theoretical or experimental, in the physical sciences.” In
1964, Robert S. Mulliken became only the third recipient of the award, joining a distinguished
group of scientists whose achievements shaped twentieth-century chemistry and physics.
The two previous recipients, Manfred Eigen and Lars Onsager, would each go on to win Nobel
Prizes in 1967 and 1968, respectively. Of the twenty-two scientists who have since received
the Kirkwood Medal, seven have shared that same distinction, underscoring the award’s reputation for honoring pioneers of global signicance.
Mulliken’s recognition by Yale placed him among the foundational gures associated with the Kirkwood Medal and armed his continuing scientic
impact.
Accompanying provenance materials include correspondence with the Yale Department of Chemistry regarding Mulliken’s nomination and ac-
ceptance; handwritten notes and an outline for a lecture delivered at Yale; a rough draft of his acceptance speech and printed presentation slides; a
typed list of publications by John G. Kirkwood; newspaper clippings and a clipped magazine article covering the award; a copy of Nuclear News, Vol. 7,
No. 12, featuring an article on Mulliken; and Chemical & Engineering News, November 16, 1964, with additional coverage of the event.
Condition: Medal ne in ne case. Condition of provenance material generally good, with occasional age-related wear, toning, or staining.
Reference: “John Gamble Kirkwood Award.” Department of Chemistry, Yale University.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $2,500
45346 [Robert S. Mulliken]. Theodore
William Richards Gold and Silver Medals for
Conspicuous Achievement in Chemistry. 1960.
Gold medal with silver copy, each measuring 50
mm in diameter. Each with a bust of Theodore
William Richards facing left on obverse, with his
dates at bottom, and inscription: “THEODORE
WILLIAM RICHARDS MEDAL”; signed “Dallin” (in-
cuse) below bust. Reverse with laurel wreath
around edges and inscription: “AWARDED FOR
CONSPICUOUS ACHIEVEMENT IN CHEMISTRY BY
THE NORTHEASTERN SECTION OF THE AMERICAN
CHEMICAL SOCIETY INC. TO ROBERT SANDERSON
MULLIKEN / MAY 12, 1960.”
The Theodore William Richards Medal, presented by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, honors outstanding achievement
in chemistry and commemorates Theodore W. Richards, the rst American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Established in 1928, the medal
is awarded biennially and traditionally presented in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Robert S. Mulliken received the award in 1960, recognized as the six-
teenth honoree for his groundbreaking work in theoretical and physical chemistry. His research on molecular orbital theory and quantum mechanics
had already established him as one of the foremost chemists of his time. Of the forty-seven scientists who have received the award, eleven—includ-
ing Mulliken—are also Nobel Laureates.
Accompanying provenance materials include correspondence with Nobel Laureate Melvin Calvin and noted chemists Raymond Stevens and Charles
D. Coryell; letters from the chemistry departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Indiana University regarding Mulliken’s nomina-
tion and acceptance; four typed drafts of Mulliken’s acceptance speech with typed and holographic corrections; and two copies of The Nucleus (Vol.
XXXV, No. 9 and Vol. XXXVII, No. 8) featuring articles on the award.
Condition: Silver medal moderately tarnished and with a few light scus to obverse; gold medal ne. Condition of provenance material generally
good, with occasional age-related wear, toning, or staining.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $3,750
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45347 [Robert S. Mulliken]. Archive of Awards. Includes:
1948 University of Liege Honorary Medal. Bronze medal measuring 60 mm in diameter. Obverse with image of Athena holding Nike, with inscrip-
tion at top: “UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE.” Reverse with scrollwork bordering edges and inscription at center: “L’Universite de Liege à Mr R. S. Mulliken / Avril
1948.”
1965 Baskerville Memorial Prize. Gold-bonded medal measuring 40 mm in diameter. Obverse with inscription: BASKERVILLE MEMORIAL PRIZE /
CCCAA / 1965.” Reverse with incuse inscription: “ROBERT S. MULLIKEN.” Housed in red leather case measuring 6.5 x 9 cm, with inscription in Russian
Cyrillic, reading, in translation: “Insignia of the Order of St. Anna / 3rd Class” (Insignia of the Order of St. Anna not present).
1966 National Library of Medicine Sesquicentennial Award. Gold-plated bronze medal measuring 75 mm in diameter on tricolor ribbon. Obverse
with image of eagle perched atop shield bearing stars and stripes, with inscription: “SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMEMORATIVE AWARD / NATIONAL
LIBRARY OF MEDICINE / 1836 – 1986.” Reverse with inscription: “NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE / SERVICE TO MANKIND / HONOR TO AMERICA /
ROBERT S. MULLIKEN / NOBEL LAUREATE / 1966.”
1975 Twenty-fth Anniversary Lindau Meeting Medals (2). Two commemorative bronze medals from the twenty-fth anniversary Lindau Meeting
of Nobel Laureates. Each measuring 125 mm in diameter. Obverse with three female gures holding shields bearing an atom, a caduceus, and a book,
with inscription in German at edges: “ TAGUNG DER NOBELPREISTRÄGER LINDAU 1975.” In translation: “CONFERENCE OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
LINDAU 1975.” On the reverse, a landscape view of Lindau with mountains in the background. Each medal housed in a black leather case, measuring
18 x 18 cm.
1983 American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award. Bronze medal measuring 60 mm in diameter on 30cm tricolor ribbon. Obverse
features an image of a woman in a circle, surrounded by various gures, with inscription around edges: “GATHERING OF THE GREATS.” Reverse with
image of crown and eagle with inscription: “AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT BANQUET OF THE GOLDEN PLATE.”
1984 2nd Class Order of the Rising Sun. Awarded to Mulliken by the Japanese Government in November 1984. Includes eight-point badge, measur-
ing 50 mm in diameter, bearing a central red enameled sun disc, suspended from three paulownia leaves on a 24 cm white ribbon with red border
stripes; gold and silver eight-point star, measuring 95 mm, with red enamel central emblem; and rosette, measuring 11 mm. Housed in original hard
black case lined with violet velvet and satin, measuring 11.5 x 23 cm. Accompanied by provenance documentation including an autograph letter
signed from Nobel Laureate Yoichiro Nambu; a typed letter signed from Nobel Laureate Kenichi Fukui; and four additional pages of correspondence
related to Mulliken receiving the award.
Copernicus Society Pin. Pin measuring 20 mm in diameter, featuring a bust of Copernicus facing right, with inscription: “NICOLAUS COPERNICUS.”
Pinned to original “Copernicus Society of America” cardstock backing. Cardstock very creased.
Together with two additional folders of materials documenting Mulliken’s receipt of the 1952-1953 Fulbright Award and the 1963 Peter Debye Award,
including extensive correspondence, travel documentation, and award programs.
Condition: Generally very good. Baskerville Memorial Prize case quite worn, front clasp broken. Lindau Meeting Medal cases with several light scus
and chips at the edges. Documents with occasional age-related wear, toning, or staining.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $2,500
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45348 [Robert S. Mulliken]. Archive of Atomic Bomb and Wartime Ephemera. Includes:
Copy of “A Bill to prevent proteering in time of war and to equalize the burdens of war and thus provide for national defense, and promote
peace.” Five pages, 19 x 27.5 cm, Washington; 1937. Introduced by Senator Morris Sheppard and Representative Lister Hill during the rst session of
the 75th Congress. Known as the “Sheppard-Hill Bill,” it aimed to limit wartime proteering by granting the President power to cap the prots of arms
manufacturers. The bill was part of a growing national eort to reform industrial mobilization after World War I but ultimately failed to pass.
H. D. Smyth. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United
States Government, 1940-1945. [Washington]: [United States Government Printing Oce], 1945. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. 182 pp. FIRST
PRINTED EDITION of the rst unclassied account of the Manhattan Project and the scientic and administrative history behind the development of
the atomic bomb. It was released to the public on August 12, 1945, just days after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Atomic Scientists of Chicago. The Atomic Bomb. Chicago: Atomic Scientists of Chicago, Inc., [1946]. 8vo. Staple-bound with original printed
paper wrappers. A collection of essays presented by the Atomic Scientists of Chicago, a group of Manhattan Project scientists who, after the atomic
bomb’s development, worked to educate the public and government about the dangers of nuclear energy and advocated for international control of
nuclear weapons. Covers detached.
Robert S. Mulliken’s Argonne National Pass. 4.5 x 6.5 cm, dated July 1, 1948, with an expiration date of June 30, 1949. Identication card featur-
ing Mulliken’s photograph on recto and his signature, “R. S. Mulliken,” on verso. This pass allowed Mulliken entry into “all guarded areas” at Argonne
National Laboratory in Illinois, a nuclear energy research facility founded in 1942.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Transcript of Hearing before Personnel Security Board. Washington:
United States Government Printing Oce, 1954. 8vo. Original printed paper covers. 993 pp. FIRST EDITION of the ocial transcript from the 1954
Atomic Energy Commission hearing that led to Oppenheimer’s loss of security clearance. “R. Oppenheimer” written in black ballpoint on the spine.
Signed by Mulliken at the top edge of the front cover, “R S Mulliken.” With one page of notes in Mulliken’s hand laid-in at pages 170-171.
Condition: Generally good. Covers of all print material toned with foxing or staining and occasional edge wear. The Atomic Bomb with detached cov-
ers and moderate toning to textblock. Argonne National pass with light soiling and minor buckling. Sheppard-Hill Bill creased at folds.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $1,500
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45349 [Robert S. Mulliken]. Archive of Heads of State Ephemera. Comprising:
Invitation from Lord Chamberlain on Behalf of Queen Elizabeth. One partially printed page on Queen Elizabeth II stationery, 6 3/4 x 4 3/4
inches (sight), framed to an overall size of 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. The invitation reads, in full: “The Lord Chamberlain is commanded by Her Majesty to
invite Dr and Mrs Robert S. Mulliken to an Evening Party at Buckingham Palace on Thursday 3rd November 1955, at 9.30 o’clock p.m. Evening Dress,
Decorations.”
Dwight Eisenhower Typed Letter Signed. One page, 7 x 9 inches, Washington, D.C.; November 9, 1956. Signed, “Dwight D. Eisenhower.” The letter
reads, in part: “Your support and encouragement as a member of the Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Eisenhower has been the source of great
satisfaction to me during these past weeks...with the active and continuing interest of citizens like yourself, our government can continue to move
forward in attaining and preserving freedom and opportunity, justice and peace for all peoples.” With original transmittal cover.
Dwight Eisenhower Honorary Inauguration Invitation. One page, 9 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches, Washington, D.C.; 1957. Accompanied by a transmittal let-
ter dated January 22, 1957, from M. Robert Rogers, the executive director of the Committee of Arts and Sciences for the Eisenhower Administration.
The letter reads, in part: “This honorary invitation to the Inauguration is being sent as a souvenir to a selected list of those whose support and eorts
were so welcome to the President...” Signed, “M. Robert Rogers.” With original transmittal envelope.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Memorial Certicate. One page, 8 x 10 inches, [Washington, D.C.]; [circa 1986]. A memorial certicate from President
Reagan, signed, “Ronald Reagan.” It reads, in full: “The United States of America honors the memory of Robert S. Malliken [sic]. This certicate is award-
ed by a grateful nation in recognition of devoted and seless consecration to the service of our country in the Armed Forces of the United States.”
Together with an additional Presidential Memorial Certicate from Jimmy Carter for “Samuel G. Mulliken.” Signed, “Jimmy Carter” as President.
Condition: All documents lightly aged-toned. Lord Chamberlain invitation not examined outside of frame; ink at Mulliken’s name somewhat faded;
some wear to back of frame, not aecting document. Eisenhower TLS with two holes punched at top edge and creased at center fold.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $500
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45350 [Robert S. Mulliken]. Scientic Archive of Textbooks and
Ephemera.
An extensive archive of textbooks, coursework, correspondence, jour-
nals, and personal documents tracing the arc of Robert S. Mulliken’s
scientic life, from his early education and rst experiments to his
groundbreaking later career. The material spans his elementary and
high school years through his graduate studies and early professional
work, documenting the development of one of the 20th-century’s
most inuential chemists.
The earliest documents include Mulliken’s report cards from the
Newburyport Jackson Grammar School and Newburyport High School,
dated 1903 to 1913. They show him to be an exceptional student; his
few “B” grades were, ttingly, in math, chemistry, and physics. Mulliken
graduated as valedictorian in 1913, delivering a commencement
speech titled The Electron. The text, printed in the included graduation
booklet The High School Record 1913, shows a remarkable early grasp
of atomic theory and imagination for its future possibilities: “As for the
human beings of the future, why may they not learn to use the stupen-
dous energy hidden in the atoms, and keep the whole earth always alive and warm, or even migrate to another planet? Perhaps life is a characteristic
of matter, and man is an agent whose part in a cycle of the universe is to help break up old worlds and make them into new.” His elementary and high
school graduation diplomas are also present.
Mulliken then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his undergraduate degree, majoring in chemistry. Included is an acceptance
letter from the Wheelright Scientic School dated August 27, 1913, a scholarship fund that provides educational grants to science majors from
Newburyport. Mulliken excelled at his coursework; there are more than 150 pages of coursework, exams, and lab notes taken by Mulliken throughout
his undergraduate career, 1913-1917. This includes a 1915 booklet made for a biology course he took, with full illustrations and descriptions of animal
and plant organs in Mulliken’s hand. There are also more than seventy pages of handwritten notes from Mulliken’s chemistry lab work, illustrated with
hand-drawn diagrams. A copy of his graduation certicate from MIT is included, stating that he graduated on June 12, 1917.
At the time of his graduation, the United States had entered World War I. Mulliken briey left academia to work in chemical weapons research with
the Army’s Chemical Warfare Service before enrolling in the University of Chicago’s Ph.D. program in 1919. His doctoral research focused on separat-
ing isotopes of mercury by evaporation, an early step toward understanding atomic structure. Included here is a typescript and handwritten lecture
titled Science and Life: Talk Delivered to the Inter-Science Club (January 1920), in which he explores the relationship between science and philosophy,
and a ninety-three-page handwritten report on thermodynamics completed in spring 1920.
In a May 1, 1921 letter to his mother from Chicago, Mulliken writes that he hopes to see an upcoming lecture by Einstein, despite the lecture being
in German: “Einstein is to give some lectures here next week, in German, about Relativity – we all want to go just to see him, not expecting to under-
stand.”
After earning his Ph.D., Mulliken quickly gained recognition in the scientic community for his research on isotope separation, which provided the
groundwork for his later contributions to quantum chemistry, as well as his work on the Manhattan Project some two decades later. A December 28,
1922 letter to Mulliken’s mother from Emma B. Moore congratulates the family on his growing reputation, accompanying a front-page article in the
Boston Evening Transcript (December 27, 1922) reporting on his work at the University of Chicago: “Dr. Robert S. Mulliken, national research fellow in
physical chemistry at the University of Chicago, told members of the chemical section of partial and incomplete success in the eort being made in
the Chicago laboratories to separate chlorine, mercury, and other elements into the dierent ingredients of which present-day chemistry believes
them to be composed.”
Accompanying his documents are 42 scientic texts and pamphlets from Mulliken’s personal library, in English and German, many related to his
coursework at MIT and the University of Chicago. A brief sample of titles is as follows:
Robert Andrews Millikan. Mechanics, Molecular Physics and Heat: A Twelve Weeks’ College Course. Boston: Ginn and Company, [1902]. 8vo.
Original green cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in black. Later edition. Handwritten notes by Mulliken dated November 22, 1920 laid-in. – Linus
Pauling and Samuel Goudsmit. The Structure of Line Spectra. London: McGraw-Hill, 1930. 8vo. Original pebbled green cloth, spine stamped in
black and gilt, covers stamped in blind. First edition, signed by Mulliken on the front free endpaper, “Robert S. Mulliken.” – A. Hunter Dupree. Science
in the Federal Government. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. 8vo, original brown cloth binding, spine and upper cover stamped in gilt;
original pictorial dust jacket. First edition, inscribed by Mulliken on the front free endpaper, “Robert S. Mulliken / 3/8/57 / from J. W. Joyce, Head of NSF
IGY Oce.” – Robert C. Weast. Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Ohio: The Chemical Rubber Co., 1969. 50th Edition in commemorative binding,
copy numbered “21.” Signed by Mulliken on the upper cover and the front free endpaper, “R S Mulliken.” – Robert S. Mulliken. Life of a Scientist. New
York: Springer-Verlag, [1989]. 8vo. Original printed paper binding. First edition, advanced copy, received by Mulliken in April, 1989.
Also includes 11 of Mulliken’s personal diaries and school notebooks, dated from 1908 to 1918.
Condition: Condition of books and documents generally good; age-related wear, including staining, toning, creasing, minor chips or separations
throughout.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $1,000
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45351 [Robert S. Mulliken]. Group Lot of 53 Books from His Family Library. Comprising:
[Edward Langworthy]. Memoirs of the Life of the Late Charles Lee, Esq. Lieutenant Colonel of the Forty Fourth Regiment, Colonel in the Portuguese
Service, Major General, and Aid Du Camp to the King Of Poland, and Second in Command in the Service of the United States of America during the
Revolution. New York: T. Allen, 1792. 8vo. Contemporary leather, spine stamped in black and gilt. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Inscribed by Samuel
Mulliken on the front free endpaper, “Sam Mulliken’s Book.” Reference: Howes L85.
[George Washington]. Ocial Letters to the Honourable American Congress, Written During the War between the United Colonies and Great
Britain, by His Excellency George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, Now President of the United States. Boston:
Manning & Loring, 1796. First volume only. 8vo. Contemporary leather binding stamped in red and gilt. Second Boston edition. Previous owner’s sig-
nature scratched away on front pastedown, with “March 1797” written in ink.
[Susannah Harrison]. Songs in the Night by a Young Woman under Heavy Aiction. Exeter: Henry Ranlet, 1802. 8vo. Contemporary leather, spine
stamped in red and gilt. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Signed several times by Lucia Parsons, a relative of Robert Mulliken’s mother, on the front free end-
paper, with a hand-drawn image of a woman in a dress and bonnet. Additionally signed, “Sam Mulliken 1826” on the rear pastedown.
C. F. L’Homond. De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romae, A Romulo ad Augustum, Ad Usum Sextae Scholae. Philadelphia: John F. Watson: 1813. Small 8vo.
Contemporary leather, spine stamped in red and gilt. Second American edition. Signed on the “Recommendations” page, “N Mulliken,” and on the rear
pastedown (in pencil), “Nathaniel Mulliken.”
Thomas P. Jones. New Conversations on Chemistry Adapted to the Present State of that Science wherein Its Elements are Clearly and Familiarly
Explained. Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1834. 8vo. Contemporary leather binding, spine stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated. Later edition. With annota-
tions in pencil and ink on the front and rear endpapers.
Friedrich Nietzche. Thus Spake Zarathustra. New York: Boni and Liveright, [1917]. 8vo. Original brown leatherette, spine and upper cover stamped
in gilt. First Modern Library edition, later printing with “The Modern Library Recent Publications” listing thirty-ve titles. Inscribed by Robert Mulliken
on the front free endpaper, “Robert S. Mulliken / 10 Harris St, Newburyport, Mass.”
With 47 additional volumes of other assorted titles, publication dates ranging from the late 18th to early 20th centuries.
Condition: Most volumes exhibit moderate to heavy wear, including scued and chipped bindings, hinges cracked or starting, some boards de-
tached; ownership marks and foxing or staining to inner pages. Dampstaining and some mold damage present on several volumes.
Provenance: From the personal collection of the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Robert S. Mulliken; thence by descent.
Starting Bid: $500
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All group lots are therefore being sold with all faults and sold not subject to return.
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$100 - $199 ...................................................... $10 $50,000 - $99,999 ...................................... $5,000
$200 - $499 ...................................................... $20 $100,000 - $199,999 ................................ $10,000
$500 - $999 ...................................................... $50 $200,000 - $499,999 ................................ $20,000
$1,000 - $1,999 .............................................. $100 $500,000 - $999,999 ................................ $25,000
$2,000 - $4,999 .............................................. $200 $1,000,000 - $1,999,999 .......................... $50,000
$5,000 - $9,999 .............................................. $500 $2,000,000 - $9,999,999 ........................ $100,000
$10,000 - $19,999 ....................................... $1,000 ≥ $10,000,000 ........................................ $200,000
Note: Half-increment bidding is available prior to the live auction session.
12. If Auctioneer calls for a full increment, Bidder may request Auctioneer to accept a Cut Bid only once per lot.
After offering a Cut Bid, Bidder may continue to bid on lot only at full increments. Off-increment bids may be
accepted by the Auctioneer at Signature® Auctions. Bids solicited by Auctioneer at other than the expected
increment will not be considered Cut Bids.
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13. Notice of the consignor’s liberty to place bids on his lots in the Auction is hereby made in accordance with
Article 2 of the Texas Business and Commercial Code. A “Minimum Bid” is an amount below which the lot
will not sell. THE CONSIGNOR OF PROPERTY MAY PLACE WRITTEN “Minimum Bids” ON HIS LOTS IN
ADVANCE OF THE AUCTION; ON SUCH LOTS, IF THE HAMMER PRICE DOES NOT MEET THE
“Minimum Bid”, THE CONSIGNOR MAY PAY A REDUCED COMMISSION ON THOSE LOTS. “Minimum
Bids” are generally posted online several days prior to the Auction closing. Any successful bid placed by a
consignor on his property on the Auction floor, by any means during the live session, or after the “Minimum
Bid” for an Auction have been posted, will require the consignor to pay full Buyer’s Premium and Seller’s
Commissions on such lot. Auctioneer or its affiliates expressly reserve the right to modify any such bids at any
time prior to the hammer based upon data made known to the Auctioneer or its affiliates.
14. The highest qualified Bidder recognized by the Auctioneer shall be the Buyer. In the event of a tie bid, the
earliest bid received or recognized wins. In the event of any dispute between any Bidders at an Auction,
Auctioneer may at his sole discretion reoffer the lot. Auctioneer’s decision and declaration of the winning
Bidder shall be final and binding upon all Bidders. Bids properly offered, whether by floor Bidder or other
means of bidding, may on occasion be missed or go unrecognized; in such cases, the Auctioneer may declare
the recognized bid accepted as the winning bid, regardless of whether a competing bid may have been higher.
Auctioneer reserves the right after the hammer fall to accept bids and reopen bidding for bids placed through
the Internet or otherwise. Regardless of placed bids, Auctioneer reserves the right to withdraw any lot, or any
part of a lot, from Auction at any time prior to the opening of any such lot by the auctioneer (crier), or in the
case of Internet-only auctions when the bid opens for either live Internet bidding or the beginning of any
extended period.
15. Auctioneer reserves the right to refuse to honor any bid or to limit the amount of any bid, in its sole discretion.
A bid is considered not made in “Good Faith” when made by an insolvent or irresponsible person, a person
under the age of eighteen, or is not supported by satisfactory credit, references, or otherwise. Regardless of the
disclosure of his identity, any bid by a consignor or his agent on a lot consigned by him is deemed to be made
in “Good Faith.” Any person apparently appearing on the OFAC list is not eligible to bid.
16. Nominal Bids. The Auctioneer in its sole discretion may reject nominal bids, small opening bids, or very
nominal advances.
17. Lots bearing bidding estimates shall open at Auctioneer’s discretion (generally 40%-60% of the low estimate).
In the event that no bid meets or exceeds that opening amount, the lot shall pass as unsold or the Auctioneer
may place a protective bid on behalf of the consignor.
18. All items are to be purchased per lot as numerically indicated and no lots will be broken.
19. Auctioneer reserves the right to rescind the sale in the event of nonpayment, breach of a warranty, disputed
ownership, auctioneer’s clerical error or omission in exercising bids and reserves, or for any other reason and
in Auctioneer’s sole discretion.
20. Auctioneer occasionally experiences Internet and/or Server service outages, and Auctioneer periodically
schedules system downtime for maintenance and other purposes, during which Bidders cannot participate or
place bids. If such outages occur, bidding may be extended at Auctioneer’s discretion. Bidders unable to place
their bids through the Internet are directed to contact Client Services at 877-HERITAGE (437-4824).
21. From time to time, the Auctioneer, its affiliates, or their employees may consign items to be sold in the
Auction.
22. From time to time, the Auctioneer, its affiliates, or their employees may place bids on lots in the Auction.
23. The Auctioneer may extend advances, guarantees, or loans to certain consignors.
24. The Auctioneer has the right to sell certain unsold items after the close of the Auction. Such lots shall be
considered sold during the Auction and all these Terms and Conditions shall apply to such sales including but
not limited to the Buyer’s Premium, return rights, and disclaimers.
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25. All sales are strictly for cash in United States dollars (including U.S. currency, bank wire, cashier checks,
travelers checks, eChecks, and bank money orders, and are subject to all reporting requirements). All
deliveries are subject to good funds; funds being received in Auctioneer’s account before delivery of the
merchandise; and all payments are subject to a clearing period. Auctioneer reserves the right to determine if
a check constitutes “good funds”: checks drawn on a U.S. bank are subject to a ten business day hold, thirty
days when drawn on an international bank. Clients with pre-arranged credit may receive immediate credit
for payments via eCheck, personal, or corporate checks. All others will be subject to a hold of 5 business days,
or more, for the funds to clear prior to releasing merchandise. (Ref. T&C item 7 Credit for additional
information.) Payments can be made 24-48 hours post auction from the My Orders page of the HA.com
website. Payment via card (Visa, Mastercard, and Discover) will be accepted upon prior
approval by Auctioneer. All payments by card will incur a surcharge of 2.9%. Payment
by eCheck, wire transfer, or check will not incur a surcharge. This fee only applies to
credit transactions, and does not exceed Auctioneer’s cost of processing.
26. Payment is due upon closing of the Auction session, or upon presentment of an invoice. Auctioneer reserves
the right to void an invoice if payment in full is not received within 7 days after Auction close. In cases of
nonpayment, Auctioneer’s election to void a sale does not relieve the Bidder from their obligation to pay
Auctioneer its fees (seller’s and buyer’s premium) on the lot and any other damages pertaining to the lot or
Auctioneer. Alternatively, Auctioneer at its sole option, may charge a twenty (20%) fee based on the amount
of the purchase. In either case the Auctioneer may offset amount of its claim against any monies owing to the
Bidder or secure its claim against any of the Bidder’s properties held by the Auctioneer.
27. Purchased lots may be subject to taxes or fees imposed by various U.S. or foreign taxing agencies. Buyer is
responsible for paying all taxes and charges whether sales and use taxes, VAT, GST, tariffs, etc. prior to delivery
unless other arrangements are made in writing. Lots delivered to Buyer, or Buyer’s representative are subject
to all applicable state and local taxes, unless appropriate permits are on file with Auctioneer. Should state sales
or use tax become applicable in the state for delivery prior to delivery of the property on the invoice, Buyer
agrees to pay same as required by the delivery state as of the shipping date. Buyer agrees to pay Auctioneer
the actual amount of tax due plus any interest or penalties required by the taxing authority in the event that
sales or use tax is not properly collected due to: 1) an expired, inaccurate, or inappropriate tax certificate or
declaration, 2) an incorrect interpretation of the applicable statute, 3) or any other reason. The appropriate
form or certificate must be on file at and verified by Auctioneer five days prior to Auction, or tax must be paid;
only if such form or certificate is received by Auctioneer within 4 days after Auction can a refund of tax paid
be made. Lots from different Auctions may not be aggregated for sales tax purposes.
28. In the event that Buyer’s payment is dishonored upon presentment(s), Buyer shall pay the maximum statutory
processing fee set by applicable state law. If Buyer attempts to pay via eCheck and Buyer’s financial institution
denies this bank account, or the payment cannot be completed using the selected funding source, Buyer agrees
to complete payment using your card on file (subject to the surcharge detailed in paragraph 25).
29. If any Auction invoice submitted by Auctioneer is not paid in full when due, the unpaid balance will bear
interest at the highest rate permitted by law from the date of invoice until paid. Any invoice not paid when
due will bear a three percent (3%) late fee on the invoice amount. If the Auctioneer refers any invoice to an
attorney for collection, Buyer agrees to pay attorney’s fees, court costs, and other collection costs incurred by
Auctioneer. If Auctioneer assigns collection to its in-house legal staff, such attorney’s time expended on the
matter shall be compensated at a rate comparable to the hourly rate of independent attorneys.
30. In the event Buyer fails to pay any amounts due, Buyer authorizes Auctioneer to charge the Buyer’s card on
file with Auctioneer in the amount required to pay the invoice in full or sell the lot(s) securing the invoice to
any underbidders in the Auction that the lot(s) appeared, or at subsequent private or public sale, or relist the
lot(s) in a future auction conducted by Auctioneer. A defaulting Buyer agrees to pay for the reasonable costs
of resale (including a 15% seller’s commission, if consigned to an auction conducted by Auctioneer). The
defaulting Buyer is liable to pay any difference between his total original invoice for the lot(s), plus any
applicable interest, and the net proceeds for the lot(s) if sold at private sale or the subsequent hammer price
of the lot(s) less the 15% seller’s commissions, if sold at an Auctioneer’s auction.
31. Title shall not pass to Buyer until all invoices are paid in full. Auctioneer shall have a lien against the
merchandise purchased by Buyer to secure payment of any and all outstanding Auction invoices. Auctioneer
is further granted a lien and the right to retain possession of any other property of Buyer then held by
Auctioneer or its affiliates to secure payment of any Auction invoice or any other amounts due Auctioneer or
affiliates from Buyer. With respect to these lien rights, Auctioneer shall have all the rights of a secured creditor
under Article 9 of the Texas Uniform Commercial Code, including but not limited to the right of sale
(including a 15% seller’s commission, if consigned to an auction conducted by Auctioneer). Any Heritage
foreclosure auction venue is deemed a reasonably commercial sale. In addition, with respect to payment of
the Auction invoice(s), Buyer waives any and all rights of offset he might otherwise have against Auctioneer
and the consignor of the merchandise included on the invoice. If Buyer owes Auctioneer or its affiliates on
any account, Auctioneer and its affiliates shall have the right to offset such unpaid account by any credit
balance due Buyer, and it may secure by possessory lien any unpaid amount by any of the Buyer’s property in
their possession.
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32. Buyer is liable for all shipping, handling, registration, and renewal fees, if any. Auctioneer is unable to combine
purchases from other auctions or affiliates into one package for shipping purposes. Merchandise will be
shipped in a commercially reasonable time after payment in good funds for the merchandise and the shipping
fees is received or credit extended, except when third-party shipment occurs. Buyer on lots designated for
third-party shipment must designate the common carrier, accept risk of loss, and prepay shipping costs. Buyer
agrees that Service and Handling charges related to shipping items which are not pre-paid may be charged to
the card on file with Auctioneer (subject to the surcharge detailed in paragraph 25).
33. Successful international Bidders shall provide written shipping instructions, including specified customs
declarations, to Auctioneer for any lots to be delivered outside of the United States. NOTE: Declaration value
shall be the item’(s) hammer price together with its buyer’s premium and Auctioneer shall use the correct
World Customs Organization harmonized code for the lot.
34. On all shipments in which Auctioneer charges the Delivery, Handling, and Transit Fee
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during shipment will be borne by Auctioneer until the common carrier’s confirmation of delivery to the
address of record in Auctioneer’s file, this is the “Secure Location”. A common carrier’s confirmation is
conclusive to prove delivery to Buyer; if the client has a Signature release on file or redirects with the carrier,
the package is considered delivered without Signature. Auctioneer shall arrange, select, and engage common
carriers and other transportation vendors on your behalf. Transit services are subject to the following terms
and conditions:
a. Scope of Transit Services: Merchandise for transit will be insured under one or more insurance policies
issued by an authorized broker to Auctioneer. The merchandise will be insured for the invoice price of the
properties (hammer price plus Buyer’s Premium) (“Insured Value”). For each shipment, Buyer will
provide a Secure Location to which the items will be delivered. NOTICE: A
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of 1% of the Insured Value, plus packaging and handling fees and fees for the common carrier (collectively,
“Delivery, Handling, and Transit Fee”). Buyer agrees to pay Delivery, Handling, and Transit Fee and
comply with all terms of payment as set forth herein.
c. Auctioneer’s Limitation of Liability for Transit Services: Buyer understands and agrees that Auctioneer’s
liability for loss of or damage to the items, if any, ends when the items have been delivered to the Secure
Location, and Auctioneer has received evidence of delivery. Any claim that property has sustained loss or
damage during transit must be reported to Auctioneer within seventy-two (72) hours of the delivery date.
Any recovery for loss of or damage to any merchandise is limited to the lesser of actual cash value of the
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Merchandise will be subject to storage and moving charges, including a $100 administration fee plus $10 daily
storage for larger items and $5 daily for smaller items (storage fee per item) after 35 days. In the event the
merchandise is not removed within ninety days, the merchandise may be offered for sale to recover any past
due storage or moving fees, including a 25% Seller’s Commission.
36. A. IMPORTATION RESTRICTIONS AND COMPLIANCE: Please be aware that local laws as to ownership
and/or import restrictions may apply on any item auctioned by Auctioneer. It is the Buyer’s responsibility to
ensure compliance with all applicable regulations and verify that the item may be legally imported and owned
by Buyer. While Auctioneer makes a good faith attempt to include in its descriptions any specifications that
may affect local laws on ownership and/or import restrictions, Auctioneer makes no representation as to the
rights of anyone to own or import any item into any state or country and is not liable if any such restrictions
apply to the Buyer. By placing a bid, the bidder acknowledges that he or she is aware of any restriction in their
country or place of residence and takes responsibility for: 1) obtaining all information on such restricted items
for both export and import; 2) obtaining all such licenses and/or permits; and 3) providing Auctioneer with a
shipping address at which it is legal for Auctioneer to deliver the item. The Buyer shall indemnify Auctioneer
against any costs incurred, including but not limited to tariffs, penalties, monetary judgments and attorney’s
fees, should the shipping instructions provided to Auctioneer be contrary to local laws or import restrictions.
Delay, failure, or incapacity to complete delivery due to local laws or import restrictions do not relieve the
buyer of timely payment or afford them the capacity to void their purchase or payment.
36. B. The purchase of items made from protected species: Any property made of or incorporating endangered or
protected species or wildlife may have import and/or export restrictions, including but not limited to those
established by the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
in various countries and domestically. Plant and animal properties include (but are not limited to) items made
of (or including) Brazilian rosewood, ivory, whalebone, turtle shell, coral, crocodile, alligator, lizard, wild bird
eggs, or other wildlife. These items may not be available to ship internationally or, in some cases, domestically.
Auctioneer makes no representation as to the rights of anyone to import any item into any state or country
that restricts the importation of items made from protected species. Delay, failure, or incapacity to obtain any
such license or permit does not relieve the buyer of timely payment or afford them the capacity to void their
purchase or payment. Lots containing potentially regulated wildlife material are noted in the description as a
convenience to our clients, to the extent of Heritage’s knowledge. Heritage Auctions does not accept liability
for errors or failure to mark lots containing protected or regulated species. Domestic bans and restrictions
exist in these states: 1) California state law prohibits the importation of any product containing Python skin
into the State of California, thus no lot containing Python skin will be shipped to or invoiced to a person or
company in California. 2) Fossil Ivory is currently banned or restricted in 5 U.S. states: New York, New Jersey,
California, Hawaii, and New Mexico. For further assistance, please contact client services at 1-800-872-6467.
36. C. California State law prohibits the importation of any product containing Python skin into the State of
California. No merchandise containing Python skin will be shipped to or invoiced to a person or company in
California.
36. D. Auctioneer shall not be liable for any loss caused by or resulting from:
a. Seizure or destruction under quarantine or Customs regulation, or confiscation by order of any
Government or public authority, or risks of contraband or illegal transportation of trade, or
b. Breakage of statuary, marble, glassware, bric-a-brac, porcelains, jewelry, and similar fragile articles.
37. Any request for shipping verification for undelivered packages must be made within 30 days of shipment by
Auctioneer.
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38. NO WARRANTY, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, IS MADE WITH RESPECT TO ANY
DESCRIPTION CONTAINED IN THIS AUCTION OR ANY SECOND OPINE. Any description of
merchandise or second opine contained in this Auction is for the sole purpose of identifying merchandise for
those Bidders who do not have the opportunity to view merchandise prior to bidding, and no description of
merchandise has been made part of the basis of the bargain or has created any express warranty that
merchandise would conform to any description made by Auctioneer. Color variations can be expected in any
electronic or printed imaging, and are not grounds for the return of any lot. NOTE: Auctioneer, in specified
auction venues, e.g. Fine Art, may have express written warranties and Bidder is referred to those specific
terms and conditions.
39. Auctioneer is selling only such right or title to merchandise being sold as Auctioneer may have by virtue of
consignment agreements on the date of auction and disclaims any warranty of title to the merchandise.
Auctioneer disclaims any warranty of merchantability or fitness for any particular purposes. All images,
descriptions, sales data, and archival records are the exclusive property of Auctioneer, and may be used by
Auctioneer for advertising, promotion, archival records, and any other uses deemed appropriate.
40. Translations of foreign language documents may be provided as a convenience to interested parties.
Auctioneer makes no representation as to the accuracy of those translations and will not be held responsible
for errors in bidding arising from inaccuracies in translation.
41. Auctioneer disclaims all liability for damages, consequential or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with
the sale of any merchandise by Auctioneer to Bidder. No third party may rely on any benefit of these Terms
and Conditions and any rights, if any, established hereunder are personal to Bidder and may not be assigned.
Any statement made by the Auctioneer is an opinion and does not constitute a warranty or representation.
No employee of Auctioneer may alter these Terms and Conditions, and, unless signed by a principal of
Auctioneer, any such alteration is null and void.
42. Auctioneer shall not be liable for damage to frames, frame glass, cases, holders, or third-party grading
encapsulations that do not affect the condition of the merchandise presented for auction. Such defects shall
not be a basis for return, repair, or reduction in purchase price.
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43. In consideration of participation in Auction and the placing of a bid, Bidder expressly releases Auctioneer, its
officers, directors and employees, its affiliates, and its outside experts that provide second opines, from any
and all claims, cause of action, chose of action, whether at law or equity or any arbitration or mediation rights
existing under the rules of any professional society or affiliation based upon the assigned description, or a
derivative theory, breach of warranty express or implied, representation or other matter set forth within these
Terms and Conditions of Auction or otherwise. In the event of a claim, Bidder agrees that such rights and
privileges conferred therein are strictly construed as specifically declared herein, and are the exclusive remedy.
Bidder, by non-compliance to these express terms of a granted remedy, shall waive any claim against
Auctioneer.
44. Notice: Some merchandise sold by Auctioneer is inherently dangerous e.g. firearms, cannons, and small items
that may be swallowed or ingested or may have latent defects all of which may cause harm to a person. Buyer
accepts all risk of loss or damage from its purchase of these items and Auctioneer disclaims any liability
whether under contract or tort for damages and losses, direct or inconsequential, and expressly disclaims any
warranty as to safety or usage of any lot sold.
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and specifically agrees to the dispute resolution provided herein.
45. Exclusive Dispute Resolution Process: All claims, disputes, or controversies in connection with, relating to,
and/or arising out of Bidder’s participation in Auction or purchase of any lot, any interpretation of the Terms
and Conditions of Sale or any amendments thereto, any description of any lot or condition report, any damage
to any lot, any alleged verbal modification of any term of sale or condition report or description, and/or any
purported settlement whether asserted in contract, tort, under Federal or State statute or regulation, or any
claim made by Bidder of a lot or Bidder’s participation in Auction involving the auction or a specific lot
involving a warranty or representation of a consignor or other person or entity including Auctioneer {which
claim Bidder consents to be made a party} (collectively, “Claim”) shall be exclusively heard by, and the
claimant (or respondent) and Auctioneer each consent to the Claim being presented in a confidential binding
arbitration before a single arbitrator administrated by and conducted under the rules of, the American
Arbitration Association. The locale for all such arbitrations shall be Dallas, Texas. The arbitrator’s award may
be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction. In the event that any Claim needs to be litigated, including
actions to compel arbitration, construe the agreement, actions in aid of arbitration, or otherwise, such
litigation shall be exclusively in the Courts of the State of Texas, in Dallas County, Texas, and if necessary the
corresponding appellate courts. If a Claim involves a consumer, exclusive subject matter jurisdiction for the
Claim is in the State District Courts of Dallas County, Texas and the consumer consents to subject matter and
in personam jurisdiction; further CONSUMER EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY. A
consumer may elect arbitration as specified above. Any claim involving the purchase or sale of numismatic or
related items may be submitted through binding PNG arbitration. A Claim is not subject to class certification.
46. Choice of Law: Agreement and any Claim shall be determined and construed under Texas law. For auctions
conducted by Heritage Auctions (HK) Limited, any Agreement and any Claim shall be determined and
construed under Hong Kong law.
47. Fees and Costs: The prevailing party (a party that is awarded substantial and material relief on its damage
claim based on damages sought versus awarded or the successful defense of a Claim based on damages sought
versus awarded) may be awarded reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs.
48. Remedies: Any Claim must be brought within two (2) years of the alleged breach, default or misrepresentation
or the Claim is waived. After one (1) year has elapsed, Auctioneer’s maximum liability shall be limited to any
commissions and fees Auctioneer earned on that lot. Auctioneer in no event shall be responsible for
consequential damages, incidental damages, compensatory damages, or any other damages arising or claimed
to be arising from the auction of any lot. Exemplary or punitive damages are not permitted and are waived. In
the event that Auctioneer cannot deliver the lot or subsequently it is established that the lot lacks title, or other
transfer or condition issue is claimed, in such cases the sole remedy shall be limited to rescission of sale and
refund of the amount paid by Buyer; in no case shall Auctioneer’s maximum liability exceed the high bid on
that lot, which bid shall be deemed for all purposes the value of the lot. In the event of an attribution error,
Auctioneer may at its sole discretion, correct the error on the Internet, or, if discovered at a later date, refund
Buyer’s purchase price without further obligation. Nothing herein shall be construed to extend the time of
return or conditions and restrictions for return.
49. These Terms & Conditions provide specific remedies for occurrences in the auction and delivery process.
Where such remedies are afforded, they shall be interpreted strictly. Bidder agrees that any claim shall utilize
such remedies; Bidder making a claim in excess of those remedies provided in these Terms and Conditions
agrees that in no case whatsoever shall Auctioneer’s maximum liability exceed the high bid on that lot, which
bid shall be deemed for all purposes the value of the lot.
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50. Agreements between Bidders and consignors to effectuate a non-sale of an item at Auction, inhibit bidding
on a consigned item to enter into a private sale agreement for said item, or to utilize Auctioneer’s Auction to
obtain sales for non-selling consigned items subsequent to Auction, are strictly prohibited. If a subsequent
sale of a previously consigned item occurs in violation of this provision, Auctioneer reserves the right to charge
Bidder the applicable Buyer’s Premium and consignor a Seller’s Commission as determined for each auction
venue and by the terms of the seller’s agreement.
51. Acceptance of these Terms and Conditions qualifies Bidder as a client who has consented to be contacted by
Heritage in the future. In conformity with “do-not-call” regulations promulgated by the Federal or State
regulatory agencies, participation by Bidder is affirmative consent to being contacted at the phone number
shown in his application and this consent shall remain in effect until it is revoked in writing. Heritage may
from time to time contact Bidder concerning sale, purchase, and auction opportunities available through
Heritage and its affiliates and subsidiaries.
52. Rules of Construction: Auctioneer presents properties in a number of collectible fields, and as such, specific
venues have promulgated supplemental Terms and Conditions. Nothing herein shall be construed to waive
the general Terms and Conditions of Auction by these additional rules and shall be construed to give force
and effect to the rules in their entirety.
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Notice as to an Auction in California. Auctioneer has in compliance with Title 2.95 of the California Civil Code as
amended October 11, 1993 Sec. 1812.600, posted with the California Secretary of State its bonds for it and its
employees, and the auction is being conducted in compliance with Sec. 2338 of the Commercial Code and Sec.
535 of the Penal Code.
Notice as to an Auction in Texas. Notice is hereby given that the auctioneer is licensed by the Texas Department
of Professional Licensing and Regulation, and any concerns may be addressed to Department at P. O. Box 12157,
Austin, TX 78711, (512) 463-6599, or https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/.
Rev. 4-8-2025
Additional Terms & Conditions:
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL AUCTIONS
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM A: Auctions of Autographs, Sports Collectibles, Music,
Entertainment, Political, Americana, Vintage Movie Posters and Pop Culture memorabilia are not on
approval. When the lot is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (or its equivalent) from a third-
party authentication provider, buyer has no right of return. On lots not accompanied by third-party
authentication or under extremely limited circumstances not including authenticity (e.g. gross
cataloging error), a purchaser who did not bid from the floor may request Auctioneer to evaluate
voiding a sale; such request must be made in writing detailing the alleged gross error, and submission
of the lot to Auctioneer must be pre-approved by Auctioneer. A Bidder must notify the appropriate
department head (check the inside front cover of the catalog or our website for a listing of department
heads) in writing of the Bidder’s request within three (3) days of the non-floor bidder’s receipt of the
lot. Any lot that is to be evaluated for return must be received in our offices within 35 days after
Auction. AFTER THAT 35 DAY PERIOD, NO LOT MAY BE RETURNED FOR ANY REASONS. ANY
LOTS PRESENTED “Sold As Is, No Return Lot,” MAY NOT BE RETURNED FOR ANY REASON,
INCLUDING AUTHENTICITY. Lots returned must be in the same condition as when sold and must
include any Certificate of Authenticity. No lots purchased by floor bidders (including those bidders
acting as agents for others) may be returned. Late remittance for purchases may be considered just
cause to revoke all return privileges.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM B: On any lot presented with a Letter of Authenticity (“LOA”)
issued by Auctioneer or its Heritage affiliates, that warranty inures only to the original purchaser (as
shown in Auctioneer’s records) “Purchaser”. Purchaser may not transfer the rights afforded under
the LOA and it is null and void when Purchaser transfers or attempts to transfer the lot. The LOA
warranty is valid from date of the auction in which Purchaser was awarded the lot to four (4) years
after its purchase. The LOA warranty is valid as to its attribution to the person or entity described or
to the lot’s usage, e.g. game worn. Claim procedure: Purchaser must contact the Auctioneer prior to
submission of the lot as to his intent to make a claim and arrange secure shipment. If a lot’s
authenticity is questioned by Purchaser within the warranty period, Purchaser must present with the
claim, authoritative written evidence that the lot is not authentic as determined by a known expert in
the sports field. If Auctioneer concurs that the lot is not as represented, Purchaser shall be refunded
their purchase price. If the Auctioneer denies the claim, the Purchaser may file the dispute with the
American Arbitration Association with locale in Dallas, Texas, before a single arbitrator under
expedited rules. The LOA does not provide for incidental or consequential damages or other indirect
damages. Any lot sold with a certificate of authenticity or other warranty from an entity other than
Auctioneer or Heritage’s affiliates is subject to such issuing entity’s rules and such conditions are the
sole remedy afforded to purchaser.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM C: As authenticity and provenance are not warranted, if a Bidder
intends to challenge, authenticity or provenance of a lot he must notify Auctioneer in writing within
thirty-five (35) days of the Auction’s conclusion. Any claim as to provenance or authenticity must be
first transmitted to Auctioneer by credible and definitive evidence or the opine of a qualified third-
party expert and there is no assurance after such presentment that Auctioneer will validate the claim.
Authentication is not an exact science and contrary opinions may not be recognized by Auctioneer.
Even if Auctioneer agrees with the contrary opinion of such authentication and validates the claim,
Auctioneer’s liability for reimbursement for any opine by Bidder’s expert shall not exceed $500.
Acceptance of a claim under this provision shall be limited to rescission of the sale and refund of
purchase price; in no case shall Auctioneer’s maximum liability exceed the high bid on that lot, which
bid shall be deemed for all purposes the value of the lot. While every effort is made to determine
provenance and authenticity, it is the responsibility of the Bidder to arrive at their own conclusion
prior to bidding.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM D: In the event Auctioneer cannot deliver the lot or
subsequently it is established that the lot lacks title, or other transfer or condition issue is claimed,
Auctioneer’s liability shall be limited to rescission of sale and refund of purchase price; in no case shall
Auctioneer’s maximum liability exceed the high bid on that lot, which bid shall be deemed for all
purposes the value of the lot. After one year has elapsed from the close of the Auction, Auctioneer’s
maximum liability shall be limited to any commissions and fees Auctioneer earned on that lot.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM E: Material sold referencing a third-party grading service are
sold “as is” without our grading opinion and without any express or implied warranty. No returns of
IGS-certified, VHSDNA-certified, or Beckett-certified material will be accepted for any reason.
Auctioneer shall not be liable for any patent or latent defect or controversy pertaining to or arising
from any encapsulated material. Certain warranties may be available from the grading services and
Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be against the service grading the material. Purchaser is referred to
relevant grading service for further details: Investment Grading Services (IGS), 4221 Wilshire Blvd,
#322, Los Angeles, 90010; VHSDNA/Beckett Collectibles, 2700 Summit Ave, Ste. 100, Plano, TX
75074. Even with optimal shipping methods, holders may occasionally incur chipping and cracking
during transit. Auctioneer will ensure the integrity of the encapsulated merchandise but cannot
guarantee the condition of the holders upon delivery and will not accept returns for holder damage
unless it affects the graded condition of the merchandise. If damage to the holder compromises the
integrity of the holder or the merchandise’s condition, Auctioneer will facilitate reholdering at its
expense or reimburse anticipated reholder fees.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM F: Due to the unique nature of boxes of sports, non-sports
trading card, and collectible card game materials, any such lot that is sold without third-party grading
or authentication is sold as-is, without any warranty expressed or implied. Any Bidder or Purchaser
who intends to challenge authenticity or provenance of a box lot must notify Auctioneer in writing
within thirty (30) days of the Auction’s conclusion or, in the event of private sale, within thirty (30)
days of the date of invoice. In the event it is established that the lot lacks title, provenance, authenticity,
or other transfer or condition issue is claimed within the thirty-day period, Auctioneer’s liability shall
be limited to rescission of sale and refund of purchase price; in no case shall Auctioneer’s maximum
liability exceed the high bid or purchase price on that lot, which bid shall be deemed for all purposes
the value of the lot. After the thirty-day period has elapsed, a box lot is deemed a final sale and the
right of return, objection, or claim arising from a challenge to the authenticity, provenance, or other
transfer or condition issue is extinguished and void. For avoidance of doubt, after the thirty-day
period has elapsed, in no event shall Auctioneer’s maximum liability exceed the commissions and fees
Auctioneer earned on that lot.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM G: On the fall of Auctioneer’s hammer, buyer assumes full risk
and responsibility for lot, including shipment by common carrier, and must provide their own
insurance coverage for shipments.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM H: Auctioneer complies with all Federal and State rules and
regulations relating to the purchasing, registration and shipping of firearms. A purchaser is required
to provide appropriate documents and the payment of associated fees, if any. Purchaser is responsible
for providing a shipping address that is suitable for the receipt of a firearm.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM I: Firearms. All firearms, antique, modern, or collectible, are
sold “AS IS”. Auctioneer has not inspected the lot for damage or defect patent or latent that may affect
the firing or attempted firing of the lot. Purchaser assumes the obligation to inspect the lot before an
attempted firing. Auctioneer suggests that each lot be thoroughly inspected by a professional
gunsmith. Heritage specifically disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or any
warranty express or implied or otherwise stated. Auctioneer disclaims any liability pertaining to the
lot. Purchaser assumes all RISK of LOSS in the handling of the firearm.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM J: Screen Shot. Screen shots included in the catalog or on the
Heritage Internet are provided for reference only. Important Notice: Many identical versions of props
and costumes are created for film and television productions in the normal course of a production.
Heritage does not warrant or represent that the screen shots referenced are exact images of the offered
item (unless specifically noted in the written description). Use of a screen shot does not constitute a
warranty or representation of authenticity or provenance. There is not a right of return or refund
based upon a claim arising out of or pertaining to any reference to a screen shot.
SPECIAL TERM K: GUITARS: Bidders are urged to make a personal inspection of any guitar that they
intend to bid on as there is a limited right of return. Heritage makes a visual inspection of the guitars
to determine whether there are patent defects and whether the date and manufacturer corresponds
to the description. Returns are not accepted for latent defects, structural issues, or mechanical and
sound reproduction issues. It should be assumed that set up, adjustments and normal maintenance
are necessary.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM L: Financing. Auctioneer offers various extended payment
options to qualified pre-approved persons and companies. The options include Extended Payment
Programs (EPP) Flexible Payment Program (FPP) and Dealer Terms. Each program has its specific
terms and conditions and such terms and conditions are strictly enforced. Each program has to be
executed by the purchaser. Auctioneer reserves the right to alter or deny credit and in such case these
auction terms shall control.
MEMORABILIA & HISTORICAL TERM M: Arms and Armament – Firearms. Various lots are presented
and sold subject to written opinions of recognized experts in the field. The opinions are based upon
the expert’s research and inspection of the lot prior to auction and is believed to be accurate. However,
opinions may differ and historical information may be subsequently developed that could influence
the written opinion of the expert or may alter a lot’s provenance or authenticity. Lots accompanied by
or referencing an expert’s opinion are sold subject to that opinion and may not be returned for any
reason except as permitted in Memorabilia & Historical Term C above which term shall be strictly
enforced.
Heritage Auctions provides as much information as possible but strongly encourages in-person
inspection. Condition statements are offered as general guidance only, not as complete representations
of fact, and do not constitute a warranty or assumption of liability by Heritage. Some condition issues
may not be noted but may be visible in the photos, which are considered part of the condition report. Lots
estimated at $1,000 or less are not de-framed for inspection, and we may be unable to provide additional
details for lots valued under $500. Heritage does not guarantee the condition of frames and is not liable
for damage to frames, glass/acrylic coverings, original boxes, display accessories, or artwork that has
shifted in the frame. All lots are sold "AS IS" under our Terms & Conditions of Auction.
For wiring instructions, call the Credit department at 877-HERITAGE (437-4824) or email:
CreditDept@HA.com.
Rev. 6-2-2025
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SALE OF AUTOGRAPHED COLLECTIBLES:
AS REQUIRED BY LAW, A DEALER WHO
SELLS TO A CONSUMER ANY
COLLECTIBLE DESCRIBED AS BEING
AUTOGRAPHED MUST PROVIDE A
WRITTEN EXPRESS WARRANTY AT THE
TIME OF SALE. THIS DEALER MAY BE
SURETY BONDED OR OTHERWISE
INSURED TO ENSURE THE
AUTHENTICITY OF ANY AUTOGRAPHED
COLLECTIBLE SOLD BY THIS DEALER.
Paul R. Minshull #16591. BP 25%; seeHA.com 90376
Weird Tales #2 April 1923 (Rural)
CGC VF 8.0 White pages
Inquiries:
Sasha Fraze | Consignment Director
214.409.1886 | SashaF@HA.com
View the Lot and Bid at HA.com/7444
THE DR. RICHARD MELI COLLECTION PULPS
Signature® Auction | December 4 - 6
LIBERTY & LEGACY: 250 YEARS OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT
Signature® Auction | June 25
Seeking exceptional material relating to the founding of our great nation
and significant American achievements
Deadline April 27
90612
Inquiries:
Joe Maddelena | JMaddalena@HA.com | 214-409-1511
Sandra Palomino | SandraP@HA.com | 212-486-3662
Francis Wahlgren | FrancisW@HA.com | 212-486-3738
The Extremely Rare First Broadside Edition
of the [Declaration of Independence]
Printed in Massachusetts
Sold For: $2,895,000
64515
Romanee Conti 2017
Domaine de la Romanee Conti
Bottle (1)
Sold For: $20,295
“
The best parts
of working with Heritage are
the simplicity of drop-off of my
wine, and the price realized!”
INQUIRIES
Frank Martell | 310.492.8616 | FrankM@HA.com
Ty Methfessel | 310.492.8650 | TyM@HA.com
Michael Madrigale | 212.486.3687 | MMadrigale@HA.com
Erin McGrath | 415.374.9553 | Erinm@HA@HA.com
ALWAYS ACCEPTING QUALITY CONSIGNMENTS
– S.H. | California
Category Specialists
Comics & Comic Art – HA.com/Comics
Lon Allen, 214-409-1261 • LonA@HA.com
Todd Hignite, 214-409-1790 • ToddH@HA.com1
Joe Mannarino, 214-409-1921 • JoeM@HA.com
Barry Sandoval, 214-409-1377 • BarryS@HA.com
Rick Akers, 214-409-1665 • RickA@HA.com
Aaron White, 214-409-1763 • AaronW@HA.com
International Comic Art
Olivier Delflas • OlivierD@HA.com
Joe Mannarino, 214-409-1921 • JoeM@HA.com
Nadia Mannarino, 214-409-1937 • NadiaM@HA.com
Animation Art – HA.com/Animation
Jim Lentz, 214-409-1991 • JimL@HA.com
Bill King, 214-409-1602 • BKing@HA.com5
Joe Maddalena, 214-409-1511 • JM@HA.com
Entertainment & Pop Culture
Action Figures – HA.com/Entertainment
Justin Caravoulias, 214-409-1644 • JustinX@ha.com
Hollywood/Entertainment – HA.com/Entertainment
Joe Maddalena, 214-409-1511 • JM@HA.com
Charles Epting, 214-409-1298 • CharlesE@HA.com
Brian Chanes, 214-409-1338 • BChanes@HA.com2
Music & Concert Posters – HA.com/Entertainment
Pete Howard, 214-409-1756 • PeteH@HA.com
Jon Steffens, 214-409-1527 • JonS@HA.com
Trading Card Games
Jesus Garcia, 214-409-1827 • JesusG@HA.com
Arya Salemi, 214-409-1104 • AryaS@HA.com
Brian Nocenti, 214-409-1876 • BNocenti@HA.com
Trading Card Games (Non Sport)
Jeremy Allen, 214-409-1148 • JeremyA@HA.com
Type 1 Photographs
Christopher Belport, 214-409-1243 • ChristopherB@HA.com
Jeremy Allen, 214-409-1148 • JeremyA@HA.com
Video Games – HA.com/VideoGames
Evan Masingill, 214-409-1977 • EvanM@HA.com
Brian Nocenti, 214-409-1876 • BNocenti@HA.com
Vintage Guitars & Musical Instruments – HA.com/Guitar
Aaron Piscopo, 214-409-1273 • AaronP@HA.com
Joe Maddalena, 214-409-1511 • JM@HA.com
Brian Chanes, 214-409-1338 • BChanes@HA.com2
Vintage Posters – HA.com/Posters
Zach Pogemiller, 214-409-1184 • ZachP@HA.com
Bruce Carteron, 214-409-1551 • BruceC@HA.com
Charles Epting, 214-409-1298 • CharlesE@HA.com
Joe Maddalena, 214-409-1511 • JM@HA.com
Daniel Strebin, 214-409-3220 • DanielS@HA.com
Fine & Decorative Arts
American Art – HA.com/FineArt
Aviva Lehmann, 214-409-1519 • AvivaL@HA.com1
Liz Goodridge, 214-409-3223 • LizG@HA.com
Alissa Ford, 214-409-1926 • AlissaF@HA.com
Asian Art – HA.com/AsianArt
Charlene Wang, 214-409-3042 • CharleneW@HA.com1
Decorative Arts – HA.com/Decorative
Karen Rigdon, 214-409-1723 • KarenR@HA.com
Carolyn Mani, 214-409-1677 • CarolynM@HA.com2
Sebastian Clarke, 214-409-1296 • SebastianC@HA.com4
Design – HA.com/Design
Samantha Robinson, 214-409-1784 • SamanthaR@HA.com5
Nicholas Dawes, 214-409-1605 • NickD@HA.com1
Christianne Teague, 214-409-1932 • ChristianneT@HA.com
Ethnographic Art – HA.com/EthnographicArt
Delia E. Sullivan, 214-409-1343 • DeliaS@HA.com
European Art – HA.com/FineArt
Marianne Berardi, Ph.D., 214-409-1506 • MarianneB@HA.com
Seth Armitage, 214-409-3054 • SethA@HA.com1
Peyton Lambert, 214-409-1877 • PeytonL@HA.com
Illustration Art – HA.com/Illustration
Sarahjane Blum, 214-409-1549 • SarahjaneB@HA.com1
Todd Hignite, 214-409-1790 • ToddH@HA.com
Meagen McMillan, 214-409-1546 • MeagenM@HA.com
Modern & Contemporary Art – HA.com/Modern
(Including Prints & Multiples)
Frank Hettig, 214-409-1157 • FrankH@HA.com
Taylor Curry, 214-409-1304 • TaylorC@HA.com1
Rebecca Lax, 214-409-3031 • BeckyL@HA.com1
Taylor Gattinella, 214-409-1389 • TaylorG@HA.com1
Desiree Pakravan, 214-409-3214 • DesireeP@HA.com2
Holly Sherratt, 214-409-1505 • HollyS@HA.com
Sara Balbi • SaraB@HA.com6
Photographs – HA.com/Photographs
Nigel Russell, 214-409-1231 • NigelR@HA.com1
Holly Sherratt, 214-409-1505 • HollyS@HA.com
Laura Paterson, 214-409-3034 • Laurap@ha.com1
Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu – HA.com/Silver
Karen Rigdon, 214-409-1723 • KarenR@HA.com
Russian Art
Nick Nicholson, 214-409-3014 • NickN@HA.com1
Texas Art – HA.com/TexasArt
Frank Hettig, 214-409-1157 • FrankH@HA.com
Urban Art & Streetwear
Taylor Curry, 214-409-1304 • TaylorC@HA.com1
Walter Ramirez, 214-409 -1564 • WalterR@HA.com1
Arman Salemi, 214-409-1436 • ArmanS@HA.com
Handbags & Luxury Accessories
HA.com/Luxury
Diane D’Amato, 214-409-1901 • DianeD@HA.com1
Historical
Americana & Political – HA.com/Historical
Don Ackerman, 214-409-1884 • DonA@HA.com
Brian Chanes, 214-409-1338 • BChanes@HA.com2
Curtis Lindner, 214-409-1352 • CurtisL@HA.com
Ray Farina, 214-409-1135 • RayF@HA.com
Joe Maddalena, 214-409-1511 • JM@HA.com
Tom Slater, 214-409-1441 • TSlater@HA.com
Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria
HA.com/Arms | HA.com/CivilWar
David Carde, 214-409-1881 • DavidC@HA.com
Jason Watson, 214-409-1630 • JasonW@HA.com
Joe Maddalena, 214-409-1511 • JM@HA.com
Brian Chanes, 214-409-1338 • BChanes@HA.com2
Historical Manuscripts – HA.com/Manuscripts
Francis Wahlgren, 214-409-3018 • FrancisW@HA.com
Sandra Palomino, 214-409-1107 • SandraP@HA.com1
Joe Maddalena, 214-409-1511 • JM@HA.com
Brian Chanes, 214-409-1338 • BChanes@HA.com2
Rare Books – HA.com/Books
Francis Wahlgren, 214-409-3018 • FrancisW@HA.com
Samantha Sisler, 214-409-1385 • SSisler@HA.com
Brian Chanes, 214-409-1338 • BChanes@HA.com2
Space Exploration – HA.com/Space
Brad Palmer, 214-409-1185 • BradP@HA.com
Michael Riley, 214-409-1467 • MichaelR@HA.com
Texana – HA.com/Texana
Sandra Palomino, 214-409-1107 • SandraP@HA.com1
Jewelry – HA.com/Jewelry
Jill Burgum, 214-409-1697 • JillB@HA.com
Gina D’Onofrio, 214-409-1339 • GinaD@HA.com2
Jessica DuBroc, 214-409-1978 • JessicaD@HA.com1
Jamie Henderson, 214-409-3432 • JamieH@HA.com5
Vera Prather, 214-409-3021 • VeraP@HA.com1
Katherine van Dell, 214-409-1297 • KatherineV@HA.com4
Ana Wroblaski, 214-409-1154 • AnaW@HA.com2
Tomoko Mizutani • TomokoM@HA.com9
Kristian Spofforth • KristianS@HA.com6
Nature & Science – HA.com/NatureAndScience
Craig Kissick, 214-409-1995 • CraigK@HA.com
Jenny Milani, 214-409-1617 • JennyM@HA.com
Minerals
Nic Valenzula, 214-409-1206 • NicV@HA.com
Numismatics
U.S. Coins – HA.com/Coins
David Mayfield, 214-409-1277 • David@HA.com
Mark Borckardt, 214-409-1345 • MarkB@HA.com5
Win Callender, 214-409-1415 • WinC@HA.com
Cass Christenson, 214-409-1316 • CassC@HA.com
Mark Feld, 214-409-1321 • MFeld@HA.com
Sam Foose, 214-409-1227 • Sam@HA.com
Jason Friedman, 214-409-1582 • JasonF@HA.com
Kyle Kavanaugh, 214-409-1768 • KyleK@HA.com
Bob Marino, 214-409-1374 • BobMarino@HA.com
Sarah Miller, 214-409-1597 • SarahM@HA.com1
Al Pinkall, 214-409-1835 • AlP@HA.com
U.S. Currency & World Paper Money
HA.com/Currency
Dustin Johnston, 214-409-1302 • Dustin@HA.com
Len Glazer, 214-409-1390 • Len@HA.com
Allen Mincho, 214-409-1327 • AllenM@HA.com
Craig Eustace, 214-409-1924 • CraigE@HA.com
Marcel Frissen • MarcelF@HA.com
Raiden Honaker, 214-409-1922 • Jhonaker@HA.com
Marilyn Pace, 214-409-1344 • MarilynP@HA.com
Falk Quiess • FalkQ@HA.com8
Kenneth Yung • KennethY@HA.com3
World & Ancient Coins – HA.com/WorldCoins
Cristiano Bierrenbach, 214-40 9 -1661 • CrisB@HA.com
Zach Beasley, 214-409-1741 • ZachB@HA.com
Madisen Caster, 214-409-1918 • MadisenC@HA.com
Kyle Johnson, 214-409-1490 • KyleJ@HA.com
Huib Pelzer • HuibP@HA.com7
Thomas Ribeiro, 214-409-1239 • ThomasR@HA.com
Jacco Scheper • JaccoS@HA.com7
Jan Schoten • JanS@HA.com
Idsard Septer • IdsardS@HA.com7
Sam Spiegel, 214-409-1524 • SamS@HA.com
Pia Talja, 214-409-1349 • PiaT@HA.com
Warren Tucker, 214-409-1287 • Warren@HA.com
Roxana Uskali, 214-409-1282 • RoxanaU@HA.com5
Tim Poelman • TimP@HA.com8
Kenneth Yung • KennethY@HA.com3
Sports Collectibles – HA.com/Sports
Chris Ivy, 214-409-1319 • Chris@HA.com
Pete Calderon, 214-409-1789 • PeterC@HA.com
Jon Fuld, 214-409-3405 • JonathanF@HA.com5
Tony Giese, 214-409-1997 • TonyG@HA.com
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10-27-2025
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HA.com/Consign | 214-409-4824 | Visit HA.com/auctions for the most current schedule. All dates are subject to change.
NUMISMATICS LOCATION AUCTION DATES CONSIGNMENT DEADLINES
HKINF World Paper Money Kowloon December 5-9, 2025 CLOSED
HKINF World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session Hong Kong December 6-9, 2025 CLOSED
U.S. Coins Signature Auction - FUN Orlando January 8, 2026 CLOSED
NYINC World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session
New York January 12, 2026 CLOSED
FUN U.S. Coins Dallas January 14-18, 2026 December 1, 2025
FUN U.S. Currency Dallas January 14-16, 2026 November 24, 2025
NYINC Physical Cryptocurrency Dallas January 19, 2026 November 10, 2025
U.S. Coins Dallas February 19-21, 2026 January 6, 2026
U.S. Coins Dallas March 16-18, 2026 January 30, 2026
FINE & DECORATIVE ARTS LOCATION AUCTION DATES CONSIGNMENT DEADLINES
Southern California Collector - Nature & Science Dallas December 2, 2025 CLOSED
Decorative Art Dallas December 3, 2025 CLOSED
Works of Art from the Collection of A La Vieille Russie Dallas December 16, 2025 CLOSED
Imperial Fabergé & Russian Works of Art Dallas December 17, 2025 CLOSED
Fine Minerals Dallas March 14, 2026 January 16, 2026
Urban Art Dallas March 19, 2026 January 15, 2026
HISTORICAL COLLECTIBLES LOCATION AUCTION DATES CONSIGNMENT DEADLINES
Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria Dallas December 8, 2025 CLOSED
Space Exploration Dallas December 11-12, 2025 CLOSED
Rare Books Dallas December 15, 2025 CLOSED
Americana & Political Dallas February 13, 2026 CLOSED
Historical Manuscripts Dallas February 26, 2026 December 29, 2025
The Dan Madsen Collection - Americana & Political Dallas March 18, 2026 January 16, 2026
LUXURY LIFESTYLE LOCATION AUCTION DATES CONSIGNMENT DEADLINES
Holiday Fine Jewelry Dallas December 3, 2025 CLOSED
Winter Luxury Accessories Dallas December 4, 2025 CLOSED
Wine Beverly Hills December 12, 2025 CLOSED
Wine Beverly Hills March 6, 2026 January 26, 2026
POP CULTURE COLLECTIBLES LOCATION AUCTION DATES CONSIGNMENT DEADLINES
The Actors Auction - Hollywood/Entertainment Dallas December 1, 2025 CLOSED
The Dr. Richard Meli Collection Pulps Dallas December 4-6, 2025 CLOSED
Rolling Stones Treasures from the Ali Zayeri Collection Dallas December 4, 2025 CLOSED
Vintage Guitars and Musical Instruments Dallas December 5, 2025 CLOSED
Star Wars Movie Posters: The Doug Hott Collection Dallas December 6-7, 2025 CLOSED
Doug Hott Star Wars Collection Action Figures & Toys Dallas December 7, 2025 CLOSED
Marilyn Monroe: The Last Sitting Dallas December 8, 2025 CLOSED
Hollywood/Entertainment Dallas December 9-10, 2025 CLOSED
The Art of Disney Dallas December 12-15, 2025 CLOSED
Trading Card Games Dallas December 12-13, 2025 CLOSED
Winter Sports Catalog Auction Dallas December 12-14, 2025 CLOSED
Winter Sports Card Catalog Auction Dallas January 23-24, 2026 December 2, 2025
Yakob Zentner Hollywood/Entertainment Dallas February 11-12, 2026 CLOSED
Video Games Dallas February 20-21, 2026 December 31, 2025
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