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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

Heading
(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

Heading
(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

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

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

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

46

Thirty Pieces

Author
Lengyel, Cornel
Headline
C. Lengyel's first poetry book, signed
Publisher
Richard Hoffman
Date Published
1933

Estimate$300 - $500

Sold for$12.50

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

Heading
(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

71

Through the Country of the Comanche Indians in the Fall of the Year 1845: The Journal of a U.S. Army Expedition led by Lieutenant James W. Abert of the Topographical Engineers

Author
Abert, James W.
Headline
Through the Country of the Comanche Indians
Publisher
John Howell Books
Date Published
1970

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$137.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(13 bids)

90

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Compliments of Columbia Steel Company

Heading
(California - San Francisco - Bay Bridge)
Headline
Promoting the Bay Bridge
Publisher
Columbia Steel Company
Date Published
[1935]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

99

The Californian Volume One

Heading
(California)
Headline
Facsimile reproduction of California newspaper
Publisher
John Howell-Books
Date Published
1971

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

104

Ten original photographs of Colorado scenes

Heading
(Colorado)
Headline
Photographs of Colorado c.1910
Date Published
c.1910

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

105

Voyage au Golfe de Californie Grands Courants de a Mer...Description de la Sonora et de ses Richesses Minerales. De la Basse Californie, ses Volcans, ses Produits...

Author
Combier, Cyprien
Headline
Voyage au Golfe de Californie by Combier
Publisher
Arthus Bertrand
Date Published
[1864]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$125

StatusSold

Bidding history(10 bids)

106

Geological Survey of California. Ornithology. Volume I. Land Birds.

Author
Cooper, J.G. and S.F. Baird
Headline
Plethora of illustrations of California land birds
Publisher
[University Press]
Date Published
1870

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$343.75

StatusSold

Bidding history(22 bids)

108

Resources of Dakota. An official publication compiled by the commissioner of immigration, under authority granted by the territorial legislature. Containing descriptive statements and general information relating to the soil, climate, productions...

Heading
(Dakota Territory)
Author
McClure, P. F.
Headline
Resources of Dakota Territory 1887
Publisher
Argus-Leader Co.
Date Published
1887

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

StatusSold

113

The Key to the Goodman Encyclopedia of the California Gold Rush Fleet

Author
Goodman, John Bartlett, III
Headline
The Key to the CA Gold Rush Goodman Encyclopedia
Publisher
Zamorano Club
Date Published
1992

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

114

A California Gold Rush Miscellany, Comprising: The Original Journal of Alexander Barrington, Nine Unpublished Letters from the Gold Mines, Reproductions of Early Maps...

Author
Grabhorn, Jane Bissell
Headline
CA gold rush miscellany 1934 Grabhorn press
Publisher
Grabhorn Press
Date Published
1934

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

StatusSold

122

In the Heart of the Sierras. The Yo Semite Valley both Historical and Descriptive: and Scenes by the Way. Big Tree Groves. The High Sierra...

Author
Hutchings, James Mason
Headline
Hutchings In the Heart of the Sierras
Publisher
Old Cabin / Pacific Press
Date Published
1888

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$343.75

StatusSold

Bidding history(16 bids)

123

Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California. Illustrated by Ninety-Two Well-Executed Engravings... including the Mammoth Trees of Calaveras; Caves and Natural Bridges; the Yo-Semite Valley; the Mammoth Trees of Mariposa and Frezno; Mount Shasta...

Author
Hutchings, James Mason
Headline
Hutchings Scenes of Wonder Curiosity Yosemite
Publisher
Hutchings & Rosenfield
Date Published
[1860]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$187.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(15 bids)

137

Steep Trails

Author
Muir, John
Headline
Muir's Steep Trails, Large Paper Edition
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published
1918

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$225

StatusSold

Bidding history(19 bids)

138

A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

Author
Muir, John
Headline
Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf -Large paper ed.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published
1916

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$200

StatusSold

Bidding history(17 bids)

143

KSAN FM 95:A Metromedia Stereo Station

Author
Orr, Norman
Headline
Signed by Norman Orr
Publisher
KSAN
Date Published
[c. 1969]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

147

Printed and manuscript indenture on vellum from Pennsylvania dated 18 April 1815

Heading
(Pennsylvania)
Headline
Indenture on parchment
Publisher
Land-office of Pennsylvania
Date Published
1815

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

155

Real Peace, A Strategy for the West

Heading
(Presidents, 1969)
Author
Nixon, Richard
Headline
Real Peace, signed by Richard Nixon
Date Published
1983

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

156

My Life

Heading
(Presidents, 1993)
Author
Clinton, Bill
Headline
First edition signed by Bill Clinton
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published
2004

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$75

StatusSold

168

Beyond the Sierras; Or, Observations on the Pacific Coast

Author
Tevis, A.H.
Headline
Beyond the Sierras by AH Tevis 1st ed 1877
Publisher
J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Date Published
1877

Sold for$50

StatusSold

170

Texas Association Stock Certificate

Heading
(Texas - Mercer Colony)
Headline
Mercer colony Stock Certificate, Texas, 1844
Date Published
1844

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$87.50

StatusSold

173

Chasing Villa: The Story Behind the Story of Pershing's Expedition Into Mexico

Author
Tompkins, Col. Frank
Headline
Pershing's pursuit of Pancho Villa
Publisher
The Military Service Publishing Co.
Date Published
1934

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$75

StatusSold

176

Two monographs from the U.S. Geological Survey

Heading
(U.S. Geological Survey)
Headline
Two monographs from the U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher
Government Printing Office
Date Published
1879; 1882

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

StatusSold

214

Part of Central Colorado. Atlas Sheet No. 53(C)

Author
U.S. Wheeler Surveys
Headline
Wheeler Survey map with Denver
Date Published
c.1880

Sold for$100

StatusSold

217

Western States, including California, Oregon, Utah, Washington, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Indian Territory, &c.

Heading
(United States - West)
Headline
Western U.S. in 1856
Publisher
A. & C. Black
Date Published
[c.1856]

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

245

The Traveling Bartenders Guide

Heading
(Food and Drink)
Author
Coverly, Gordon C.
Headline
1960's cocktail manual signed by the author
Publisher
Coverly Publishing
Date Published
1968

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

302

Redwood and Lumbering in California Forests

Heading
(Book Club of California 174)
Author
Palmquist, Peter E
Headline
Redwood and Lumbering in California Forests
Publisher
The Book Club of California
Date Published
[1983]

Estimate$100 - $150

Sold for$75

StatusSold

Bidding history(8 bids)

316

The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837

Heading
(Grabhorn Press)
Author
Edwards, Philip Leget
Headline
Grabhorn's The Great Cattle Drive
Publisher
Grabhorn Press
Date Published
1932

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$75

StatusSold

320

The Spanish Occupation of California: Plan for the Establishment of a Government; Junta or Council Held at San Blas, May 16, 1768; Diario of the Expeditions Made to California

Heading
(Grabhorn Press)
Author
Watson, Douglas S., comp.
Headline
The Spanish Occupation of California
Publisher
Grabhorn Press
Date Published
1934

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

321

George Yount: The Kindly Host of Caymus Rancho

Heading
(Grabhorn Press)
Author
Wood, Ellen Lamont
Headline
George Yount: The Kindly Host of Caymus Rancho
Publisher
Grabhorn Press
Date Published
1941

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$212.50

StatusSold

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)

343

Adobes In The Sun: Portraits of a Tranquil Era

Author
Baer, Morley
Headline
Adobes in the Sun, two signed copies w/ letters
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Date Published
1972

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

StatusSold

344

California Men's Colony, San Luis Obispo, CA

Author
Birk, Sandow
Headline
Signed by Sandow Birk
Date Published
2001

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

345

Old Folsom State Prison - Represa, CA

Author
Birk, Sandow
Headline
Old Folsom State Prison signed by S. Birk
Date Published
2000

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

360

[Young woman in elegant dress]

Author
Domergue, Jean-Gabriel
Headline
Color etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue, signed
Date Published
No date

Estimate$10 - $100

StatusUnsold

369

Early Music

Author
Goines, David Lance
Headline
Goines poster for SF Early Music Society, signed
Publisher
David Lance Goines
Date Published
1993

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$87.50

StatusSold

378

Kirk Martin wood engraving and correspondence

Author
Martin, Kirk
Headline
Kirk Martin wood engraving, letter, sketches
Date Published
1982-1983

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$12.50

StatusSold

385

Passage: A Work Record

Author
Penn, Irving
Headline
Signed with inscription by Irving Penn
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published
1991

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$150

StatusSold

Bidding history(9 bids)

403

Country Joe & the Fish / Moby Grape / Lee Michaels - New Years Eve at Avalon Ballroom

Heading
(Rock Posters - Handbills)
Author
Mouse, Stanley and
Headline
A document of the times signed by Mouse
Publisher
Family Dog
Date Published
1967

Estimate$200 - $300

Sold for$87.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(7 bids)

421

Travers' Golf Book

Author
Travers, Jerome D.
Headline
Travers' Golf Book 1913 signed copy
Publisher
Macmillan Company
Date Published
1913

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$812.50

StatusSold

Bidding history(32 bids)

422

1989 U.S. Open flag, signed by Curtis Strange

Heading
(U.S. Open Signed Flag - 1989)
Headline
1989 U.S. Open flag, signed by Curtis Strange
Publisher
[Oak Hill Country Club]
Date Published
[1989]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$50

StatusSold

423

1990 U.S. Open flag, signed by Hale Irwin

Heading
(U.S. Open Signed Flag - 1990)
Headline
1990 U.S. Open flag, signed by Hale Irwin
Publisher
[Medinah Country Club]
Date Published
[1990]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

424

1993 U.S. Open flag, signed by Lee Janzen

Heading
(U.S. Open Signed Flag - 1993)
Headline
1993 U.S. Open flag, signed by Lee Janzen
Publisher
[Baltusrol Golf Club]
Date Published
[1993]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$62.50

StatusSold

425

2001 U.S. Open flag, signed by Retief Goosen

Heading
(U.S. Open Signed Flag - 2001)
Headline
2001 U.S. Open flag, signed by Retief Goosen
Publisher
[Southern Hills Country Club]
Date Published
[2001]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$37.50

StatusSold

426

2006 U.S. Open flag, signed by Geoff Ogilvy

Heading
(U.S. Open Signed Flag - 2006)
Headline
Geoff Ogilvy signed 2006 U.S. Open flag
Publisher
[Winged Foot Golf Club /USGA]
Date Published
[2006]

Estimate$10 - $100

Sold for$25

StatusSold