Sale 256: Fine Books from the Private Collection of Bela Blau (#256) 01/30/2003 1:00 PM PST Closed Starts Ending 01/30/2003 1:00 PM PST Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)RelevanceAuthorProvenancePublisherDate PublishedConditionCode Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above ConditionCodeConditionCode-Select-finenear finevery goodgoodfairpoor sold as is Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 207. Previous|123|Next Lot #1 The Legend of Te Tuna AuthorAdams, RichardPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1982 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #2 By Horse, Stage & Packet: The Far West Letters of Joseph Pratt Allyn Heading(Allyn, Joseph Pratt)AuthorNicolson, John and David K. Strate, eds.PublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1988 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #3 Arabian Nights Heading(Arabian Nights)AuthorHawthorne, Hildegarde, ed.PublisherPenn Publishing Co.Date Published[1928] View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #4 Fuenff geistreiche Buecher vom wahren Christenthum AuthorArndt, JohannPublisherJohann Samuel HeisiusDate Published1727 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #5 Apparitions: Poems by John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, L.M. Rosenberg, Dave Smith AuthorAshbery, John, et al.PublisherLord John PressDate Published1981 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #6 [The first 51 volumes in] The Baja California Travels Series Heading(Baja California Travel Series)AuthorCarpenter, Edwin & Glen Dawson, eds.PublisherDawson's Book Shop / Natural History MuseumDate Published1965-1992 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #7 The Art of Lyle V. Ball AuthorBall, Lyle V.PublisherNative Nevadan PublicationsDate Published1984 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #8 Don't Count on It: A Note on the Number of The 1001 Nights AuthorBarth, JohnPublisherLord John PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #9 The Literature of Exhaustion and The Literature of Replenishment AuthorBarth, JohnPublisherLord John PressDate Published1982 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #10 Todd Andrews to the Author: A Letter from Letters AuthorBarth, JohnPublisherLord John PressDate Published1979 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$118.75StatusSold Lot #11 The Emerald AuthorBarthelme, DonaldPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1980 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #12 Ill Seen: Ill Said AuthorBeckett, SamuelPublisherLord John PressDate Published1982 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #13 The Jack Benny Program Broadcast on Radio: Sunday January 24, 1954 to Sunday June 6, 1954 AuthorBenny, JackDate PublishedAugust 13, 1992 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #14 Granted Wishes: Three Stories AuthorBerger, ThomasPublisherLord John PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #15 A Bibliophile's Los Angeles: Essays for the International Association of Bibliophiles on the Occasion of its XIVth Congress, 30 September - 11 October 1985 AuthorBidwell, John and Carol R. Briggs, eds.Publisher[The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library]Date Published1985 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #16 When in Disgrace AuthorBoetticher, BuddPublisherNevilleDate Published1989 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #17 When in Disgrace AuthorBoetticher, BuddPublisherNevilleDate Published1989 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #18 The Undead: The Book Sail 16th Anniversary Catalogue Heading(Book Sail)Author**PublisherMcLaughlin PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #19 Lot of 19 books Heading(Books About Books & Fine Press Books)Author**Date PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #20 In the Red Room AuthorBowles, PaulPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1981 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #21 Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me AuthorBradbury, RayPublisherLord John PressDate Published1987 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #22 Witness and Celebrate AuthorBradbury, RayPublisherWitness and CelebrateDate Published2000 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #23 Texas City, 1947 AuthorBurke, James LeePublisherLord John PressDate Published1992 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #24 Hebrew Melodies AuthorByron, [George Gordon Noel], LordPublisherHebrew MelodiesDate Published1815 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #25 If It Please You AuthorCarver, RaymondPublisherLord John PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #26 If It Please You AuthorCarver, RaymondPublisherLord John PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #27 Lot of 7 titles Heading(Castle Press)Author**PublisherThe Castle PressDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #28 Letters: Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox AuthorChandler, Raymond and James M. FoxPublisherNeville + YellinDate Published1978 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #29 Picture Book II AuthorCharlot, JeanPublisherZeitlin & Ver BruggeDate Published1973 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #30 The Leaves, The Lion-Fish, and The Bear AuthorCheever, JohnPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1980 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #31 The National Pastime AuthorCheever, JohnPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1982 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #32 Madonna at Ringside AuthorCrews, HarryPublisherLord John PressDate Published1991 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #33 Madonna at Ringside AuthorCrews, HarryPublisherLord John PressDate Published1991 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$112.50StatusSold Lot #34 2 By Crews AuthorCrews, HarryPublisherLord John PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #35 The Muddy Fork: A Work in Progress AuthorCrumley, JamesPublisherLord John PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #36 The Pigeon Shoot AuthorCrumley, JamesPublisherNevilleDate Published1987 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #37 Dickinson: Lyric and Legend AuthorCunningham, J. V.PublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1980 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #38 Hassan's Tower AuthorDrabble, MargaretPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1980 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$137.50StatusSold Lot #39 A Voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands, & Around the World in the Years 1826-1829 AuthorDuhaut-Cilly, AugustePublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1997 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #40 The High Embrace AuthorEverson, WilliamPublisherDawson's Book ShopDate Published1986 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #41 Out of the West: Poems by William Everson, Gary Snyder, Philip Levine, Clayton Eshleman & Jerome Rothenberg AuthorEverson, William et al.PublisherLord John PressDate Published1979 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #42 Renegade Christmas AuthorEverson, WilliamPublisherLord John PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #43 Lot of 8 books in the Famous California Trials series Heading(Famous California Trials)Author**PublisherDawson's Book ShopDate Published1963-1975 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #44 Lot of 19 titles Heading(Fine Press Literature)Author**Date PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #45 Home Cooking: An excerpt from a letter to Eleanor Friede, December, 1970 AuthorFisher, M. F. K.PublisherVance Gerry : The Weather Bird PressDate Published2000 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #46 The Standing and the Waiting AuthorFisher, M. F. K.PublisherThe Weatherbird PressDate Published1985 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #47 A Vision for America AuthorFord, Gerald R.PublisherLord John PressDate Published1980 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #48 An Artist Records the California Missions AuthorFord, Henry ChapmanPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate Published1989 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #49 Vlemk, The Box-Painter AuthorGardner, JohnPublisherLord John PressDate Published1979 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$87.50StatusSold Lot #50 The First Winter of My Married Life AuthorGass, William H.PublisherLord John PressDate Published1979 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #51 L.A. Type: A Concise History of Los Angeles Type Founders, Inc. AuthorGerry, Vance, comp.PublisherThe Weather Bird PressDate Published2000 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #52 Months AuthorGerry, VancePublisherWeather Bird PressDate Published1998 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #53 San Pasqual Press AuthorGerry, VancePublisherThe Weather Bird PressDate Published1986 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #54 Riding Out the Tropical Depression - SIGNED BINDER'S COPY AuthorGilchrist, EllenPublisherFaust PublishingDate Published1986 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #55 Farewell to Dreams AuthorGoodrich, Diane & Sharon RichPublisherJeanette MacDonald / Nelson Eddy Friendship Club, Inc.Date Published[1979] View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #56 Town and Country Lovers AuthorGordimer, NadinePublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1980 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #57 A Walk In and About the City of Canterbury, with Many Observations not to be found in any Description hitherto published AuthorGostling, WilliamPublisherPrinted by Simmons and KirkbyDate Published1777 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$100StatusSold Lot #58 How Father Quixote Became a Monsignor AuthorGreene, GrahamPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1980 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #59 A Quick Look Behind: Footnotes to an Autobiography AuthorGreene, GrahamPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1983 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #60 A Quick Look Behind: Footnotes to an Autobiography AuthorGreene, GrahamPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1983 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #61 Zane Grey in the South Seas Heading(Grey, Zane)AuthorMorhardt, AimPublisherGeorge HouléDate Published[1986] View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #62 A Message From Wanda Gág: A Biographical Letter to Her Fans, Circa 1940 AuthorGág, WandaPublisherWeather Bird PressDate Published1999 View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #63 Maps and Surveys of the Pueblo Lands of Los Angeles AuthorHarlow, NealPublisherDawson's Book ShopDate Published1976 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #64 An Abstract of all the Statutes Made Concerning Aliens Trading in England from the first year of K. Henry the VII. Also, Of All the Laws made for Securing our Plantation Trade to our Selves... AuthorHayne, SamuelPublisherPrinted by N.T. for the AuthorDate Published1685 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #65 Tales & Fables AuthorHjortsberg, WilliamPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1985 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #66 A Gathering of Types AuthorHoffman, Richard J.PublisherRichard J. HoffmanDate Published1979-1989 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #67 Jubilee, 1925-1975: Panegyrics and motley digressions with regard to Printers and Printing gathered from divers sources and privately printed for friends of Richard J. Hoffman Heading(Hoffman, Richard J.)Author**Date Published[1975] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #68 When A Printer Plays: A showing of printer's flowers and typographic fleurons arranged in arabesque patterns... AuthorHoffman, Richard J.PublisherRichard J. HoffmanDate Published1987 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #69 Lot of 21 titles Heading(Hoffman, Richard J., printer)Author**PublisherRichard J. HoffmanDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #70 Burton Holmes Travelogues AuthorHolmes, BurtonPublisherThe Travelogue BureauDate Published1917-1918 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #71 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians AuthorHubbard, ElbertPublisherRoycroftersDate Published1901 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #72 Ridin' With Ray and The Old Game AuthorJackson, Jon A.PublisherNeville BooksDate Published1995 View details Estimate$120 - $180StatusUnsold Lot #73 Songs and Heroes AuthorJeffers, RobinsonPublisherArundel PressDate Published1988 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$237.50StatusSold Lot #74 A Book of Gaelic Airs for Una's Melodeon AuthorJeffers, UnaPublisherThe Book Club of CaliforniaDate Published1989 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$106.25StatusSold Lot #75 Tecumseh and the Prophet of the West, An Historical Israel-Indian Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Historical Notes; Original Letters, &c. [and] The Life and History of General Harrison, Late President of the United States, Inclusive to the Treaty of Washington, of August 9th, 1842. With Original Letters, &c. And the First Oration Upon the Life, Character, and Genius of Shakspeare AuthorJones, GeorgePublisherLongman, Brown, Green, & LongmansDate Published1844 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #76 A Tale of Lexington: A National Comedy, Founded on the Opening of the Revolution. In Three Acts AuthorJudah, Samuel B. H.PublisherDramatic RepositoryDate Published1823 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$118.75StatusSold Lot #77 Dolan's Cadillac AuthorKing, StephenPublisherLord John PressDate Published1989 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #78 The Nominating of a President: The three nominations of Ronald Reagan as Republican candidate for the presidency AuthorLaxalt, PaulPublisherNative Nevadan PublicationsDate Published1985 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #79 Opera Medica, Tam hactenus inedita, quám variis locis & formis edita... Editio Nova, Cui accedunt Casus Medicinales Annor. 1659. 60. & 61. ex ore Cl. Cylvii calamo excepit Joachimus Merian... AuthorLe Boe, Sylvius Franciscus dePublisherGuillelmum van de WaterDate Published1695 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #80 Gwilan's Harp AuthorLe Guin, Ursula K.PublisherLord John PressDate Published1981 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #81 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat AuthorLear, EdwardPublisherArundel PressDate Published1988 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #82 Lord John Ten: A Celebration Heading(Lord John Press)AuthorEtchison, Dennis, ed.PublisherLord John PressDate Published1988 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #83 Lord John Signatures Heading(Lord John Press)AuthorKing, Stephen, intro.PublisherLord John PressDate Published1991 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #84 Lot of 11 titles Heading(Lord John Press)Author**PublisherLord John PressDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #85 Lot of 17 Los Angeles Miscellany series titles Heading(Los Angeles Miscellany)Author**PublisherDawson's Book ShopDate Published1972-1985 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #86 A Collection of Reviews AuthorMacDonald, RossPublisherLord John PressDate Published1979 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #87 How the Wimp Won the War AuthorMailer, NormanPublisherLord John PressDate Published1992 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #88 A Collection of Reviews AuthorManDonald, RossPublisherLord John PressDate Published1979 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #89 The Letters of William Somerset Maugham to Lady Juliet Duff AuthorMaugham, William SomersetPublisherRasselas PressDate Published1982 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$75StatusSold Lot #90 Venezianische Gondellieder AuthorMendelssohn-Bartholdy, FelixPublisherHorodisch & MarxDate Published1925 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #91 Samos AuthorMerrill, JamesPublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1980 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #92 The Ashendene Press Edition of Horace's Carmina Sapphica Heading(Miniature Book)AuthorHoracePublisherAnne & David BromerDate Published1983 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #93 Collection of approximately 1100 miniature books gathered by Bela Blau Heading(Miniature Books)AuthorVarious authorsDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$35,000 - $45,000StatusUnsold Lot #94 The Night Before Christmas, Or: Account of a Visit From St. Nicholas AuthorMoore, Clement C.PublisherArundel PressDate Published1984 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #95 Rambles of a Botanist Among the Plants and Climates of California AuthorMuir, JohnPublisherRocking K PressDate Published1974 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #96 A Congo Diary AuthorNaipaul, V. S.PublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published1980 View details Estimate$120 - $180Sold for$150StatusSold Lot #97 Northwest Coast of America & California: 1832, Letters from Fort Ross, Monterey, San Pedro, and Santa Barbara, by an Intelligent Bostonian Heading(Northwest Coast...)Author**PublisherPrinted for Glen DawsonDate Published1959 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #98 James and Nora: Portrait of Joyce's Marriage AuthorO'Brien, EdnaPublisherLord John PressDate Published1981 View details Estimate$100 - $150Sold for$62.50StatusSold Lot #99 Queen of the Night AuthorOates, Joyce CarolPublisherLord John PressDate Published1979 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #100 The Time Traveler AuthorOates, Joyce CarolPublisherLord John PressDate Published1987 View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$237.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|123|Next Previous 123 Next Previous 123 Next