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Previous|1|Next Lot #11 Cane View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Heading(Arion Press)AuthorToomer, JeanHeadlineArion Press, Cane signed by Martin PuryearPublisherArion PressDate Published2000 Lot #16 The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte DArthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of the World of them All View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineBeardsley illustrates King Arthur, 1/1500 copiesPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.Date Published1893-94 Lot #18 The Grave, a Poem View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Heading(Blake, William)AuthorBlair, RobertHeadlineWilliam Blake engravings for Blair's Grave 1808PublisherPrinted by T. Bensley... for the Proprietor, R.H. CromekDate Published1808 Lot #19 Illustrations to the Book of Job. The Engravings and related material with Essays, Catalogue of States and printings, Commentary on the Plates and Documentary Record by David Bindman, Barbara Bryant, Robert Essick, Geoffrey Keynes and Bo Lindberg. Edited by David Bindman View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineBlake's Book of Job, 1 of 250 copies fom the Trianon PressPublisherWilliam Blake TrustDate Published1987 [printed c.1974] Lot #20 Fahrenheit 451 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorBradbury, RayHeadlineWith Ray Bradbury inscription and sketch for Herb YellinPublisherRupert Hart-DavisDate Published1954 Lot #21 The Illustrated Man View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,625StatusSold AuthorBradbury, RayHeadlineBradbury's Illustrated Man inscribed to Herb YellinPublisherDoubleday & Company IncDate Published1951 Lot #22 The October Country View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorBradbury, RayHeadlineSigned by Bradbury and Mugnaini, inscribed to YellinPublisherBallantine BooksDate Published[1955] Lot #23 Harlequin Vol. 2, No. 1 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Heading(Bukowski, Charles)AuthorFry, Barbara and W.R. Lasater, editorsHeadlineHarlequin Vol. 2 No. 1, 1957 - Rare BukowskiDate Published1957 Lot #29 The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now Made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language. And Adorned with several Copper Plates View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineIllustrated edition of Don Quixote 1687PublisherPrinted by Thomas Hodgkin, and sold by William WhitwoodDate Published1687 Lot #35 The Botanic Garden. A Poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Author[Darwin, Erasmus]HeadlineDarwin's Botanic Garden with Blake plates, 1791PublisherPrinted for J. JohnsonDate Published1791 Lot #36 Pantagruel: Les Horribles et Espovantables Faictz et Prouesses du Très Renommé Roy des Dipsodes Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold Heading(Derain, André, artist)AuthorRabelais, FrançoisHeadlineAndré Derain artist book 1/15 with original paintingPublisherAlbert SkiraDate Published[1943] Lot #38 Sister Carrie View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold AuthorDreiser, TheodoreHeadlineSister Carrie 1st ed. inscribed by Theodore DreiserPublisherDoubleday, Page & Co.Date Published1900 Lot #41 The Waste Land View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold AuthorEliot, T. S.HeadlineT.S. Eliot's niece's copy of The Waste LandPublisherBoni and LiverightDate Published1922 Lot #51 A Farewell to Arms View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold AuthorHemingway, ErnestHeadlineA Farewell to Arms, First EditionPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1929 Lot #63 Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de Mexico, dezima musa, poetisa Americana, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, religiosa professa en el Convento de San Geronimo de la imperial ciudad de Mexico View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold AuthorJuana Inés de la Cruz, SisterHeadlinePoems by Mexican philosopher-nun, 1714PublisherImprenta de Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes, a costa de Francisco LasoDate Published1714 Lot #64 News from Nowhere: Or, an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMorris, WilliamHeadlineMorris Utopian novel from Kelmscott PressPublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1993 Lot #67 The Human Drift View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorLondon, JackHeadlineLondon's The Human Drift in jacketPublisherMacmillan Co.Date Published1917 Lot #68 Le Morte Darthur by Syr Thomas Malory. The Original Edition of William Caxton now Reprinted and Edited with an Introduction and Glossary by H. Oskar Sommers, Ph.D. With an Essay on Malory's Prose Style by Andrew Lang, M.A. View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineLe Morte Darthur finely bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherDavid NuttDate Published1889 Lot #71 The Paradise Lost of Milton with illustrations, designed and engraved by John Martin View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineJohn Martin mezzotints in Paradise Lost 1827PublisherSeptimus ProwettDate Published1827 Lot #88 The Club, or a Dialogue between Father and Son View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold AuthorPuckle, JamesHeadlineOne of 18 copies on Chinese paper, bound by RivierePublisherPrinted for the Proprietor by John JohnsonDate Published1817 Lot #89 The Tempest View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThe Tempest Arthur Rackham Signed with jacketPublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd.Date Published[1926] Lot #92 The Donkey and the Darling View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold AuthorRivers, Larry and Terry SouthernHeadlineLarry Rivers and Terry Southern artists' bookPublisherLimited Arts EditionsDate Published1968-77 Lot #94 Eight autograph letters signed by John Ruskin addressed to Sir William Lawrence Pullar View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold AuthorRuskin, JohnHeadlineEight John Ruskin ALS to William Lawrence PullarDate Published[c. 1873-77] Lot #96 Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold AuthorSteinbeck, John & Edward F. RickettsHeadlineA handsome copy of Sea of CortezPublisherViking PressDate Published1941 Lot #97 Grapes of Wrath View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSigned with inscription by John SteinbeckPublisherViking PressDate Published[1939] Lot #98 The Long Valley View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineLovely copy of Steinbeck's The Long ValleyPublisherVikingDate Published1938 Lot #99 Of Mice and Men View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,375StatusSold AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineOf Mice and Men, a handsome first editionPublisherCovici FriedeDate Published[1937] Lot #102 The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, by the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold Author[Wilde, Oscar]HeadlineWilde's Importance of Being Earnest, 1/100 signed copiesPublisherLeonard Smithers and Co.Date Published1899 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next