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3

Amateur Literature (spine titles)

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(Amateur Literature)
Headline
Amateur fiction from the late 19th century
Publisher
Various publishers
Date Published
c. 1880-1900

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

4

Dark Laughter [with] The Untold Lie, and Other Stories

Author
Anderson, Sherwood
Headline
Dark Laughter and The Untold Lie by Anderson
Date Published
1919; 1925

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

6

November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three

Author
Berry, Wendell
Headline
Wendell Berry November Twenty Six
Publisher
George Braziller,
Date Published
[1964]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

7

Fifteen signed Deluxe Editions from Black Sparrow Press

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(Black Sparrow Press)
Headline
15 signed Deluxe Black Sparrow Press titles
Publisher
Black Sparrow Press
Date Published
Various dates

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$343.75

StatusSold

Bidding history(14 bids)

8

Fourteen signed Deluxe Editions from Black Sparrow Press

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(Black Sparrow Press)
Headline
14 Deluxe Black Sparrow Press titles
Publisher
Black Sparrow Press
Date Published
Various dates

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$281.25

StatusSold

Bidding history(10 bids)

9

Things Gone and Things Still Here

Author
Bowles, Paul
Headline
Signed by Paul Bowles
Publisher
Black Sparrow Press
Date Published
1977

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$175

StatusSold

Bidding history(11 bids)

11

A Graveyard for Lunatics

Author
Bradbury, Ray
Headline
Signed by Ray Bradbury
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published
1990

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$75

StatusSold

13

A New Library of Poetry and Song

Author
Bryant, William Cullen, editor
Headline
Bryant's New Library of Poetry and Song 1876
Publisher
J.B. Ford and Company; Crocker & Stickney
Date Published
[1876]

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$50

StatusSold

14

A Bukowski Sampler

Heading
(Bukowski, Charles)
Author
Blazek, Douglas, editor
Headline
A Bukowski Sampler
Date Published
[1969 or later]

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

15

Eleven Issues of Open City and the Los Angeles Free Press - with contributions from Charles Bukowski

Heading
(Bukowski, Charles)
Headline
Open City & LA Free Press w/Buk
Date Published
1967-73

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$112.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(8 bids)

16

The Killers: A Story of the Buried Life - original screenplay plus ephemera

Heading
(Bukowski, Charles)
Author
Roth, Patrick
Headline
Bukowski Killers screenplay plus photos
Publisher
Mythograph Films
Date Published
1980

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

17

Five Edgar Rice Burroughs volumes printed by Grosset & Dunlap

Author
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Headline
Five Burroughs volumes printed by Grosset & Dunlap
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Date Published
1919-1926

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

18

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Author
Capote, Truman
Headline
Other Voices, Other Rooms 20th anniversary
Publisher
Random House
Date Published
1968

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$150

StatusSold

Bidding history(13 bids)

20

Playback

Author
Chandler, Raymond
Headline
Chandler's Playback, 1st British Edition
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Date Published
[1958]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

StatusSold

Bidding history(5 bids)

22

A White Paper

Author
Cocteau, Jean
Headline
Jean Cocteau's autobiographical novel
Publisher
Olympia Press
Date Published
[1957]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

24

Notes on Joseph Conrad with some Unpublished Letters

Heading
(Conrad, Joseph)
Author
Symons, Arthur
Headline
Signed by Symons w/ 2 ALS Symons & Jessie
Publisher
Myers & Co.
Date Published
1926

Estimate$300 - $500

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

26

Dombey and Son

Author
Dickens, Charles
Headline
Dickens, Domeby & Sons 1st ed.
Publisher
Bradbury & Evans
Date Published
1848

Estimate$300 - $500

Sold for$212.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(12 bids)

28

Seven Gothic Tales

Author
Dinesen, Isak
Headline
Dinesen's first English language book
Publisher
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas
Date Published
1934

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

32

John Fante: Selected Letters, 1932 to 1981

Author
Fante, John
Headline
John Fante Selected Letters signed
Publisher
Black Sparrow
Date Published
1991

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

33

The Magus - two editions

Author
Fowles, John
Headline
Fowles The Magus - 2 editions
Date Published
1978

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

34

Two books signed by Jonathan Franzen

Author
Franzen, Jonathan
Headline
Jonathan Franzen signed novel and essays
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published
2001-2002

Estimate$300 - $500

Sold for$25

StatusSold

36

The Shepherd of Guadaloupe

Author
Grey, Zane
Headline
Inscribed by Zane Grey to his wife Dolly
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Date Published
[1930]

Estimate$300 - $500

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

37

Three titles by William Hart

Author
Hart, William and Mary
Headline
Three by actor Bill Hart, one signed
Date Published
1919-1940

Estimate$300 - $500

Sold for$25

StatusSold

38

The Scarlet Letter

Author
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Headline
The Scarlet Letter illust. by Valenti Angelo
Publisher
Random House
Date Published
1928

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$100

StatusSold

Bidding history(7 bids)

39

The Story of the American Red Cross in Italy

Heading
(Hemingway, Ernest)
Author
Bakewell, Charles M.
Headline
American Red Cross in Italy w/Hemingway mention
Publisher
Macmillan Company
Date Published
1920

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

StatusSold

40

The Garden of Eden

Author
Hemingway, Ernest
Headline
Hemingway The Garden of Eden
Publisher
Scribner's
Date Published
1986

Estimate$10 - $100

StatusUnsold

41

Islands in the Stream

Author
Hemingway, Ernest
Headline
Hemingway's Islands in the Stream
Publisher
Scribner's
Date Published
[1970]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

StatusSold

42

Men Without Women

Author
Hemingway, Ernest
Headline
Men Without Women, Hemingway 1st Edition
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published
1927

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

43

Visits to Ireland: Travel-Diaries of Una Jeffers

Author
Jeffers, Una
Headline
Una Jeffers in Ireland
Publisher
Ward Ritchie Press
Date Published
1954

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$281.25

StatusSold

Bidding history(20 bids)

45

Intensity

Author
Koontz, Dean
Headline
Koontz Intensity Proof signed
Publisher
Knopf
Date Published
1995

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

47

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

Author
London, Jack
Headline
Mutiny of the Elsinore in dust jacket
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers
Date Published
1914

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

48

The People of the Abyss

Author
London, Jack
Headline
Inscribed and signed by Bess "Becky" London
Publisher
Isbister and Company Limited
Date Published
1904

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$50

StatusSold

49

Think Fast, Mr. Moto

Author
Marquand, John P.
Headline
Marquand Think Fast, Mr. Moto, 1st ed.w/ facsimile jacket
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Date Published
1937

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

50

Two Inspector Hanaud mysteries and one other

Author
Mason, A.E.W.
Headline
3 mysteries by the author of The Four Feathers
Publisher
Hodder and Stoughton
Date Published
1910-1924

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

StatusSold

51

The Road

Author
McCarthy, Cormac
Headline
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published
2006

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

53

Shelf of mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction

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(Mysteries)
Headline
6 mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction
Date Published
1925-1940

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$750

StatusSold

Bidding history(13 bids)

54

Dynamo

Author
O'Neill, Eugene
Headline
O'Neill's Dynamo, 1/775 signed
Publisher
Horace Liveright
Date Published
1929

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

55

Marco Millions

Author
O'Neill, Eugene
Headline
Limited Edition signed by Eugene O'Neill
Publisher
Boni and Liveright
Date Published
1927

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$75

StatusSold

56

Miracle Play

Author
Oates, Joyce Carol
Headline
Miracle Play, signed 1st Edition 1/350
Publisher
Black Sparrow Press
Date Published
1974

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

57

Five first American editions from the Harry Potter series

Author
Rowling, J.K.
Headline
Five first American editions of Harry Potter
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press
Date Published
2000-07

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$87.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(7 bids)

60

The Moon is Down

Author
Steinbeck, John
Headline
First issue of The Moon is Down
Publisher
The Viking Press
Date Published
1942

Estimate$300 - $500

Sold for$375

StatusSold

Bidding history(24 bids)

61

Sweet Thursday

Author
Steinbeck, John
Headline
First British Edition, in an unclipped jacket
Publisher
William Heinemann Ltd.
Date Published
1954

Estimate$300 - $500

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

63

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

Author
Thompson, Hunter S.
Headline
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson on the Campaign Trail
Publisher
Straight Arrow Books
Date Published
[1973]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

68

Meanwhile (The Picture of a Lady)

Author
Wells, H.G.
Headline
H.G. Wells Meanwhile 1927
Publisher
George H. Doran Company
Date Published
1927

Estimate$10 - $100

StatusUnsold

69

Two titles by H.G. Wells

Author
Wells, H.G.
Headline
Two titles by H.G. Wells
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
Date Published
Various dates

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

128

A Travers L'Exposition Promenades de Deux Enfants au Champ-de-Mars et a l'Esplanade des Invalides

Author
Lamarque, E.
Headline
Exposition Universelle 1889 color souvenir book
Publisher
Émile Guérin, Éditeur
Date Published
[1889]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$112.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(12 bids)

135

Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope

Author
Muir, John, editor
Headline
Picturesque California Volume II edited by Muir
Publisher
J. Dewing Co.
Date Published
[1888]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$281.25

StatusSold

Bidding history(23 bids)

151

Glimpses of the Yangtze Gorges

Author
Plant, Cornell
Headline
Glimpses of the Yangtze Gorges
Publisher
Kelly & Walsh, Ltd.
Date Published
1921

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$125

StatusSold

222

Jack Sheppard: A Romance

Heading
(Bayntun)
Author
Ainsworth, William Harrison
Headline
Illustrated by Cruikshank, bound by Bayntun
Publisher
Richard Bentley
Date Published
1839

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

StatusSold

226

The First Printer's Early Days

Heading
(Children's Books)
Headline
The life of Gutenberg as told for young adults
Publisher
Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier
Date Published
[1884]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

227

Three illustrated Boys' Books on trade and industry

Heading
(Children's Books)
Headline
Illustrated Boys books on trade and industry
Publisher
Various publishers

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

228

Festus A Poem

Heading
(Chromolithographs)
Author
Bailey, Philip James
Headline
Two copies with chromolithograph title pages
Publisher
Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.
Date Published
1850-1851

Estimate$10 - $100

StatusUnsold

229

Gray's Elegy

Heading
(Chromolithography - Owen Jones)
Author
Gray, Thomas
Headline
Owen Jones illumination papier-mache binding
Publisher
Longman & Co.
Date Published
1846

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$75

StatusSold

230

Des Kindes Märchenwelt.

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(Chromolithography)
Headline
With six color plates from fairy tales
Publisher
Wilh. Effenberger
Date Published
[c. 1880]

Estimate$30,010 - $100

Sold for$75

StatusSold

243

The Traveling Bears in New York: Their Travels and Adventures

Author
Eaton, Seymour
Headline
Traveling Bears in NY w/jacket 1915
Publisher
Barse & Hopkins
Date Published
1915

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

252

The New Casket

Heading
(Gift Books)
Headline
With 4 hand-colored lithographs
Publisher
Religious Tract Society
Date Published
[1850]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

254

Batman: Son of the Demon

Heading
(Graphic novel)
Author
Barr, Mike W and Jerry Bingham
Headline
Gaphic novel Batman: Son of the Demon
Publisher
D.C. Comics
Date Published
1987

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

255

American Flagg! Hard Times

Heading
(Graphic novel)
Author
Chaykin, Howard
Headline
Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!
Publisher
[Fist Publishing, Inc]
Date Published
[1985]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

256

Night and the Enemy

Heading
(Graphic novel)
Author
Ellison, Harlan and Ken Steacy
Headline
Night and the Enemy, a graphic novel
Publisher
[Comico the Comic Company]
Date Published
[1987]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

257

Cotton Woods: The Comic Strip Adventures of a Baseball Natural

Heading
(Graphic novel)
Author
Gotto, Ray
Headline
Graphic novel adventures of a baseball natural
Publisher
[Kitchen Sink Press]
Date Published
[1991]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

258

Dr. Watchstop

Heading
(Graphic novel)
Author
Macklin, Ken
Headline
Ken Macklin's Dr. Watchstop
Publisher
Eclipse Books
Date Published
1987

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

259

The Mercenary: The Trials, The Sacrifice

Heading
(Graphic novel)
Author
Segrelles, V.
Headline
Segrelles' graphic novel The Mercenary trials and sacrifice
Publisher
Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine
Date Published
[1988]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

260

The Wilderness Parfleche

Heading
(Graphic novel)
Author
Truman, Timothy
Headline
Timothy Truman's Wilderness, 2 volumes
Publisher
[4Winds Publishing Group]
Date Published
[1990]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

261

The Horns of Elfland

Heading
(Graphic novel)
Author
Vess, C.
Headline
Special edition of the Horns of Elfland
Publisher
Archival Press Inc.
Date Published
[1979]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$75

StatusSold

Bidding history(5 bids)

262

The Holkham Bible Picture Book

Author
Hassall, W. O.
Headline
The Holkham Bible Picture Book
Publisher
The Dropmore Press
Date Published
[1954]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

StatusSold

268

Make Way for Ducklings

Author
McCloskey, Robert
Headline
The 1942 Caldecott Medal winner
Publisher
The Viking Press
Date Published
1944

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

269

Sunbonnets and Overalls

Heading
(Melcher, Bertha Corbett, illustrator)
Author
Hogate, Etta Craven and Eulalie Osgood Grover
Headline
Color illustrated Operetta for children, 1914
Publisher
Rand McNally & Company
Date Published
[1914]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

271

Petits Contes en Prose

Author
Moreau, Hégésippe
Headline
Moreau's Petits Contes bound by Raparlier
Publisher
Librairie Rouquette
Date Published
1892

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$162.50

StatusSold

273

Our Big Red Story Book

Author
Ousley, Odille and David H. Russell
Headline
A mammoth children's book with color plates
Publisher
Ginn and Company
Date Published
1948

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

StatusSold

275

The Little Engine That Could

Author
Piper, Watty
Headline
Little Engine That Could w/rare jacket
Publisher
Platt & Munk Co.
Date Published
[1930]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$237.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(19 bids)

276

Willy Pogány's Mother Goose

Author
Pogány, Willy
Headline
Willy Pogány's Mother Goose 1st ed
Publisher
Thomas Nelson & Sons
Date Published
[1928]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$75

StatusSold

Bidding history(5 bids)

280

The Example of Christ

Heading
(Religion)
Headline
Illuminated lithograph devotional leaves
Publisher
Lahr (Baden)

Estimate$10 - $100

StatusUnsold

282

Le Petit Prince

Author
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Headline
Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher
Reynal & Hitchcock
Date Published
[1943]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$112.50

StatusSold

284

Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose

Author
Seuss, Dr.
Headline
Thidwick by Dr. Seuss, in dust jacket
Publisher
Random House
Date Published
[1948]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

285

Haggadah for Passover Copied and Illustrated by Ben Shahn

Author
Shahn, Ben
Headline
Ben Shahn's Haggadah for Passover
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Date Published
1965

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

286

The Jingle of a Jap

Author
Thurston, Clara Bell
Headline
Color illustrated book with small doll and box
Publisher
H.M. Calfwell Co.
Date Published
[1906]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

StatusSold

287

The True Church

Author
Tilton, Theodore
Headline
With eight chromolithograph plates
Publisher
J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Date Published
1867

Estimate$10 - $100

StatusUnsold

289

Three children's books illustrated by Milo Winter

Heading
(Winter, Milo, illustrator)
Headline
Three books illustrated in color by Milo Winter
Publisher
Merrill Publishing Co.

Estimate$10 - $100

StatusUnsold

323

A Streetcar Named Desire

Heading
(Limited Editions Club)
Author
Williams, Tennessee
Headline
Streetcar Named Desire from LEC
Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Date Published
1982

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$112.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(10 bids)

332

Pilate: A Passion Play

Author
[Pepler, H.D.C.]
Headline
Pilate: A Passion Play
Publisher
St. Dominic's Press
Date Published
1929

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

335

The Nightingale

Heading
(Updike, D.B. - Merrymount Press)
Author
Andersen, Hans Christian
Headline
Merrymount Press edition of H.C. Andersen
Publisher
Berkeley Updike, The Merrymount Press
Date Published
1896

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

377

Prière Pour Les Déshérités

Author
Martial D'Auvergne
Headline
With five aquatints by André Fougeron
Publisher
[Raoul Mortier]
Date Published
[1944]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

418

Humours of Golf

Author
Robinson, W. Heath
Headline
W. Heath Robinson's Humours of Golf
Publisher
Dodd, Mead, and Company
Date Published
1923

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

StatusSold