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6

A Child's Dream of a Star

Author
Dickens, Charles
Headline
A Child's Dream of a Star, 1871
Publisher
Fields, Osgood & Co.
Date Published
1871

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$50

StatusSold

15

Amelia

Author
Fielding, Henry
Headline
Henry Fielding, Amelia, 1882
Publisher
White and Stokes
Date Published
1882

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

21

The Poetical Works

Author
Keats, John
Headline
The Poetical Works of Keats, finely bound
Publisher
Edward Moxon
Date Published
1851

Sold for$25

StatusSold

23

Pilgrims: A One Act Play

Author
Metcalfe, Stephen
Headline
Pilgrims: A One Act Play, fine press with woodcuts
Publisher
Brighton Press
Date Published
[1992]

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

25

Sesame and Lilies

Author
Ruskin, John
Headline
Sesame and Lilies, three lectures
Publisher
George Allen
Date Published
1876

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

28

Voyages de Gulliver

Author
Swift, Jonathan
Headline
Gulliver's Travels
Publisher
Émile Guérin
Date Published
1911

Estimate$300 - $500

StatusUnsold

33

Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire

Author
Ainsworth, William Harrison
Headline
Ainsworth, Old Saint Paul's, 1847
Publisher
Parry, Blenkarn & Co.
Date Published
1847

Sold for$112.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(9 bids)

35

The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke

Heading
(Arion Press)
Author
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Headline
The Lay of the Love, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arion
Publisher
Arion Press
Date Published
1983

Sold for$200

StatusSold

Bidding history(8 bids)

37

Red, Yellow, Blue

Heading
(Artists' Books)
Author
Austin, Alice
Headline
Artist's book by Alice Austin 1/500
Date Published
2000

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

43

Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet

Author
Beerbohm, Max
Headline
Beerbohm Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet 1/900
Publisher
Leadlay
Date Published
1931

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

45

Finely bound blank book in clamshell box

Heading
(Blank Books)
Headline
An artfully crafted blank book
Date Published
No date

Sold for$75

StatusSold

47

Vignettes of early California: childhood reminiscences of Juan Batista Alvarado

Heading
(Book Club of California)
Author
Alvarado, Juan Bautista
Headline
Alvarado, Vignettes of early California
Publisher
Book Club of California
Date Published
1982

Sold for$50

StatusSold

48

Charles & Kathleen Norris: The Courtship Year

Heading
(Book Club of California)
Author
Davison, Richard Allan
Headline
Charles & Kathleen Norris: The Courtship Year
Publisher
The Book Club of California
Date Published
1993

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

49

A Voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands, and Around the World in the Years 1826-1829

Heading
(Book Club of California)
Author
Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste Bernard
Headline
Duhaut-Cilly, A Voyage to California
Publisher
The Book Club of California
Date Published
1997

Sold for$87.50

StatusSold

50

An Artist Records the California Missions

Heading
(Book Club of California)
Author
Ford, Henry Chapman
Headline
An Artist Records the California Missions, Henry Chapman Ford
Publisher
Book Club of California
Date Published
1989

Sold for$87.50

StatusSold

51

The Book Club of California at One Hundred [with] The Founding Years of The Book Club of California

Heading
(Book Club of California)
Author
Kurutz, Gary
Headline
100th book of Book Club of California
Publisher
Book Club of California
Date Published
2012; 1996

Sold for$25

StatusSold

52

Six Years Experience As a Book Agent in California

Heading
(Book Club of California)
Author
Likins, Mrs. J. W.
Headline
Book canvasser for H. H. Bancroft and Anton Roman
Publisher
The Book Club of California
Date Published
1992

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

53

Collected Letters

Heading
(Book Club of California)
Author
Norris, Frank
Headline
BCC's Collected Letters of Frank Norris
Publisher
The Book Club of California
Date Published
1986

Sold for$25

StatusSold

54

Raymond Duncan: Printer...Expatriate...Eccentric Artist

Heading
(Book Club of California)
Author
Roatcap, Adela Spindler
Headline
Raymond Duncan: Printer, Expatriate, Eccentric Artist
Publisher
Book Club of California
Date Published
1991

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

55

Edward Vischer's Drawings of the California Missions, 1861-1878. With a Biography of the Artist by Jeanne Van Nostrand

Heading
(Book Club of California)
Author
Van Nostrand, Jeanne
Headline
Edward Vischer's Drawings of California Missions
Publisher
Book Club of California
Date Published
1982

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

59

Don Quichotte

Author
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Headline
Don Quixote in French illustrated by Dubout
Publisher
Editionsw Michele Trickvel
Date Published
1978

Sold for$75

StatusSold

60

Don Quixote de la Mancha

Author
Cervantes, Miguel de
Headline
Don Quixote, 1847, illustrated
Publisher
Henry G. Bohn
Date Published
1847

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

64

The Comic Almanack for 1845: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest

Heading
(Cruikshank, George - Illustrator)
Author
Funnidos, Rigdum
Headline
Comic Almanack, illus. by Cruikshank
Publisher
David Bogue
Date Published
[1844]

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

65

The Inundation: or Pardon and Peace

Heading
(Cruikshank, George - Illustrator)
Author
Gore, Mrs.
Headline
The Inundation, illustrated by Cruikshank
Publisher
Willoughby & Co.
Date Published
No date

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

66

George Cruikshank: The Artist, the Humourist, and the Man. With Some Account of His Brother Robert. A Critico-Bibliographical Essay

Heading
(Cruikshank, George, illustrator)
Author
Bates, William
Headline
George Cruikshank by Bates large paper edition
Publisher
Houghton and Hammond
Date Published
1878

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

70

The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak

Heading
(Dunlap, Hope, illustrator)
Author
Mulock, Miss
Headline
Little Lame Prince illus. by Hope Dunlap
Publisher
Rand McNally & Co.
Date Published
[1909]

StatusUnsold

71

Psalterium Davidis - emblem book with copper-engraved scenes from Genesis and the New Testament

Heading
(Emblem Books)
Headline
Emblem book with engraved Biblical scenes
Date Published
No date

Estimate$600 - $900

Sold for$312.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(19 bids)

72

A Troubled Paradise: William Blake's Virgil Wood Engravings

Author
Essick, Robert N.
Headline
With a John Windle afterword on collecting Blake
Publisher
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller
Date Published
1999

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

74

Sir William Russell Flint: A Precis of Appreciations During Half a Century

Heading
(Flint, William Russell)
Headline
Sir William Russell Flint 1/750
Publisher
Charles Skilton Ltd.
Date Published
1963

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

76

Letters from the Sandwich Islands, Written for the Sacramento Union

Heading
(Grabhorn Press)
Author
Twain, Mark
Headline
Grabhorn Press Letters from the Sandwich Islands
Publisher
Grabhorn Press
Date Published
1937

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

78

Fine Printing: The San Francisco Tradition [with] Fine Printing: The Los Angeles Tradition

Author
Hart, James D.; Ward Ritchie
Headline
Fine Printing, SF and LA volumes together
Publisher
Library of Congress
Date Published
1985; 1987

Sold for$87.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(8 bids)

84

The Book of Noble Thoughts

Heading
(Kent, Rockwell, artist)
Author
Untermeyer, Louis, ed.
Headline
Book of Noble Thoughts Rockwell Kent
Publisher
American Artists Group
Date Published
[1946]

Sold for$25

StatusSold

85

José Guadalupe Posada and the Taller de Gráfica Popular: Mexican Popular Prints

Heading
(Koch, Peter Rutledge, printer)
Headline
Posada catalog printed by Peter Koch 1/300
Publisher
The Stanford University Libraries
Date Published
2002

Sold for$75

StatusSold

86

The Comic History of Rome

Heading
(Leech, John)
Author
A'Beckett, Gilbert A.
Headline
A'Beckett's Comic History of Rome
Publisher
Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.
Date Published
[c. 1900]

Estimate$200 - $300

StatusUnsold

87

Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Writing Of Diedrich Knickerbocker

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Irving, Washington
Headline
Rip Van Winkle signed by Frederic Goudy
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1930

Sold for$75

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88

Vathek: An Arabian Tale

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Beckford, William
Headline
Vathek: An Arabian Tale, LEC
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1945

Sold for$50

StatusSold

89

Bhagavad Gita: The Song Celestial

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Headline
Bhagavad Gita: The Song Celestial
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1964

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

90

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Burton, Richard F., translator
Headline
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, LEC
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1934

Sold for$137.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(11 bids)

91

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu el-Yezdi

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Burton, Richard
Headline
The Rubaiyat illustrated by Valenti Angelo
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1937

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

92

Sartor Resartus: The Life And Opinions Of Herr Teufelsdroch

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Carlyle, Thomas
Headline
Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1931

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

93

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1725-1798

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Casanova [Jacques Casanova de Seingalt]
Headline
Memoirs of Casanova Limited Editions Club
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1940

Sold for$25

StatusSold

94

The Analects of Confucius

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Confucius
Headline
Analects of Confucius Limted Editions Club
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1970

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

95

Tartarin of Tarascon

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Daudet, Alphonse
Headline
Tartarin of Tarascon
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1930

Sold for$25

StatusSold

96

Great Expectations

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Dickens, Charles
Headline
Limited Editions Club's Great Expectations
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1937

Sold for$162.50

StatusSold

97

The Four Gospels. The Gospel According to St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke and St. John

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Headline
The Four Gospels Limited Editions Club
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1932

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

98

Poor Richard: the Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
[Franklin, Benjamin]
Headline
Poor Richard's Almanac signed by Norman Rockwell
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1964

Sold for$175

StatusSold

Bidding history(14 bids)

99

Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Gray, Thomas
Headline
Gray's Elegy decorated with wood engravings
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1939

Sold for$125

StatusSold

Bidding history(12 bids)

100

Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Hudson, William Henry
Headline
Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1943

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

101

The King James Version of The Holy Bible

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Headline
Nice set of The King James Version of The Holy Bible
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1935

Sold for$112.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(9 bids)

102

Aucassin and Nicolette

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Lang, Andrew (translator)
Headline
Aucassin & Nicolette, copy 170
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1931

Sold for$25

StatusSold

103

Billy Budd [and] Beníto Cereno

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Melville, Herman
Headline
Two by Melville - Billy Budd and Benito Cereno
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1965

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

104

The Travels of Baron Munchausen

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Raspe, Rudolph Erich
Headline
The Travels of Baron Munchausen
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1929

Sold for$150

StatusSold

Bidding history(12 bids)

105

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Smollett, Tobias
Headline
Smollett's Peregrine Pickle
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1936

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

106

The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Sterne, Laurence
Headline
Tristram Shandy designed and illustrated by T. M. Cleland
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1935

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

107

The Master of Ballantræ

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Headline
Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae
Publisher
The Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1965

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

110

Lays of Ancient Rome, with Ivry and the Armada

Author
Macaulay, Lord
Headline
Lays of Ancient Rome, 1882
Publisher
Longmans, Green, and Co.
Date Published
1882

Sold for$25

StatusSold

119

Lot of 3 Children's Books by the Peary Family

Heading
(Peary, Robert)
Headline
3 arctic works by the Peary family
Date Published
Various dates

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$25

StatusSold

120

Picasso. Documents Iconographiques.

Heading
(Picasso, Pablo)
Author
Sabartes, James
Headline
Picasso. Documents Iconographiques.
Publisher
Pierre Cailler
Date Published
1954

Sold for$37.50

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121

The Frenzied Prince. Being Heroic Stories of Ancient Ireland.

Heading
(Pogany, Willy, illustrator)
Author
Colum, Padraic
Headline
The Frenzied Prince illustrated by Pogany
Publisher
David Mckay Company
Date Published
[1943]

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

123

The King of the Golden River

Heading
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)
Author
Ruskin, John
Headline
Rackham King of Golden River
Publisher
J.B. Lippincott Co
Date Published
[1932]

Sold for$25

StatusSold

124

The Wedgwood Medallion of Samuel Johnson: A Study in Iconography

Heading
(Rogers, Bruce, designer)
Author
Tinker, Chauncy Brewster
Headline
Designed by Bruce Rogers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Date Published
1926

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

125

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

Heading
(Rowlandson, Thomas)
Author
[Collier, Jane]
Headline
With hand-colored illustrations by Rowlandson/Woodward
Publisher
Thomas Tegg
Date Published
1809

Sold for$187.50

StatusSold

126

Three Private Presses: Saint Dominic's Press, The Press of Edward Walters, Saint Albert's Press

Author
Sewell, Brocard
Headline
Three Private Presses, 1/250
Publisher
Christopher Skelton
Date Published
1979

Sold for$25

StatusSold

127

Luz Plegada

Author
Sicilia, Jose Maria
Headline
The final book in the Luz Plegada series
Publisher
Michael Woolworth
Date Published
1994

Estimate$600 - $900

Sold for$25

StatusSold

131

“Ask Mamma;” or, The Richest Commoner in England

Author
[Surtees, Robert Smith]
Headline
Twelve hand-colored steel engravings by Leech
Publisher
Bradbury, Agnew and Company
Date Published
[1890's]

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

132

Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds

Author
[Surtees, Robert Smith]
Headline
Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, 1st book ed.
Publisher
Bradbury and Evans
Date Published
1865

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

133

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

Author
[Surtees, Robert Smith]
Headline
With thirteen hand-colored steel engravings by Leech
Publisher
Bradbury and Evans
Date Published
1853

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$87.50

StatusSold

135

The Vanity Fair Album: A Show of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day; with biographical and critical notices: by Jehu Junior

Heading
(Vanity Fair)
Headline
Color caricatures from Vanity Fair, 1870
Publisher
"Vanithy Fair" Office
Date Published
[1870]

Sold for$162.50

StatusSold

136

Ampelographie: Traité Générale de Viticulture

Heading
(Viticulture)
Author
Viala, Pierre and Victor Vermorel, editors
Headline
Facsimile edition of Ampelographie Viala/Vermorel
Publisher
Jeanne Laffitte
Date Published
1991

Estimate$600 - $900

Sold for$343.75

StatusSold

Bidding history(10 bids)

138

The Ward Ritchie Press and Anderson

Heading
(Ward Ritchie Press)
Headline
Bibliography of the Ward Ritchie Press
Publisher
Anderson, Ritchie & Simmon
Date Published
[1961]

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

141

Between Cattails

Author
Williams, Terry Tempest
Headline
Terry Tempest Williams Between Cattails
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published
1985

Estimate$200 - $300

StatusUnsold

160

The Unique: or Biography of Many Distinguished Characters: with Fine Portraits

Heading
(Biography)
Headline
The Unique, with engraved portraits
Publisher
C. & E.B. Gill
Date Published
1834

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

171

A Journey to California with Observations about the Country, Climate and the route to this Country by John Bidwell...

Heading
(California)
Author
Bidwell, John
Headline
Bidwell's A Journey ot California
Publisher
printed by J. H. Nash
Date Published
1937

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

216

Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca: His Relation of the Journey from Florida to the Pacific 1528-1536

Heading
(Peccary Press)
Author
Long, Haniel
Headline
Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca 1/250
Publisher
The Peccary Press
Date Published
[1985]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$20

StatusUnsold

249

Veiled Horizons: Stories of Big Game Fish of the Sea

Heading
(Sporting Books - Angling)
Author
Bandini, Ralph
Headline
Veiled Horizons, Derrydale Press angling book
Publisher
Derrydale Press
Date Published
[1939]

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$50

StatusSold

309

Forster vs. Pico - The Struggle for the Rancho Santa Margarita

Author
Gray, Paul Bryan
Headline
The Struggle for the Rancho Santa Margarita
Publisher
Arthur H. Clark
Date Published
1998

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold