Sale 666: The Book Fair Century: One Hundred Fine Books - Plus Books Sold to Benefit the ABAA Benevolent Fund (at Oakland) (#666) 02/07/2019 10:00 AM PST Closed Starts Ending 02/07/2019 10:00 AM PST Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#TitleNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViewsAuthorProvenancePublisherDate 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 101-175 of 175. Previous|12|Next Lot #101 Walt Disney's Living Desert - inscribed Heading(Disney, Walt)AuthorAyme, Marcel, Albert Camus et al.HeadlineDisney's Living Desert - inscribedPublisherSimon & SchusterDate Published[c.1954] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #102 Walt Disney's Beaver Valley - inscribed Heading(Disney, Walt)AuthorBlond, GeorgesHeadlineDisney's Beaver Valley - inscribedPublisherSimon and SchusterDate Published[c.1950] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #103 Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie - inscribed Heading(Disney, Walt)AuthorBromfield, LouisHeadlineDisney's Vanishing Prairie - inscribedPublisherSimon & SchusterDate Published[c.1951] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #104 Paradise Lost Heading(Doves Press)AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineDoves Press Milton, Paradise LostPublisherThe Doves PressDate Published1902 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #105 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineTwo first editions by Conan Doyle finely boundPublisherGeorge Newnes,Date Published1892, 1894 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,000StatusSold Lot #106 A Study in Scarlet AuthorDoyle, Arthur ConanHeadlineConan Doyle A Study in Scarlet 1st American ed.PublisherLippincottDate Published1890 View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot #107 The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and Women in Aviation AuthorEarhart, AmeliaHeadlineAmelia Earhart signed first editionPublisherBrewer, Warren & PutnamDate Published1932 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #108 British Hounds and Gun-Dogs: Twenty-Four Photogravures of the Finest Quality After Original Paintings by Maud Earl AuthorEarl, MaudHeadlineBritish Hounds and Gun Dogs, Maud EarlPublisherBerlin Photographic Co.Date Published[1902] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #109 A Description of England and Wales. Containing a Particular Account of each County, with its Antiquities, Curiosities, Situation . . . Palaces, Markets, Fairs . . Heading(English Topography & Antiquities)HeadlineHandsome engraved plates of English views and buildingsPublisherNewberry and CarnanDate Published1769-70 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #110 Dago Red AuthorFante, JohnHeadlineLovely first edition of Fante's Dago RedPublisherThe Viking PressDate Published1940 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #111 The Alta California, Pacific Coast and Trans-Continental Rail-Road Guide...a minutely detailed Account of every City, Town, Railroad Station, Mining District, Mountain, Valley, Lake, River, Hunting and Fishing Ground along the Great Trans-Continental Rail AuthorFergusson, J.C., editorHeadlinePacific Coast and Trans-Continental RR Guide, 1871PublisherFred MacCrellish & Co.Date Published[1871] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #112 The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier Heading(Fine Bindings)AuthorWhittier, John GreenleafHeadlineWhittier's Works in full morocco, 9 volumesPublisherHoughton, Mifflin and CompanyDate Published[1892] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #113 The Great Gatsby AuthorFitzgerald, F. ScottHeadlineThe Great Gatsby finely boundPublisherCharles Scribner's SonsDate Published1925 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #114 Leichtfassliche Darstellung der Theorie des Gehirn- und Schädelbaues und der daraus entspringenden physiognomischen und psychologischen Folgerungen des Herrn Dr. Gall in Wien Heading(Gall, Franz Josef)AuthorMartens, Franz HeinrichHeadlineExposition of phrenology, hand-colored aquatintsPublisherFriedrich August LeoDate Published1803 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #115 Archive of photographs, letters, ephemera, and related items by, of, or about Judy Garland Heading(Garland, Judy)HeadlineJudy Garland archiveDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #116 Typescript draft with ink manuscripts corrections and emendations of an autobiographical article written for Ladies Home Journal AuthorGarland, JudyHeadlineDraft of Judy Garland autobiographyDate Publishedc.1967 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #117 Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Gesammelt Durch die Brüder Grimm AuthorGrimm, Jacob and WilhelmHeadlineGrimm's Fairy Tales, 3 volumes, 1819-1822PublisherGedruckt und verlegt bei G. ReimeDate Published1819-1822 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$9,375StatusSold Lot #118 Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans L'Amerique Centrale... Geologie. Description des Anciennes Possessions Mexicaines du Nord... (wrapper title). AuthorGuillemin-Tarayre, EdmondHeadlineMineralogy & geology of California, 1871, with mapsPublisherImprimerie NationaleDate Published1871 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #119 Creeps By Night AuthorHammett, Dashiell, editorHeadlineHammett edits Creeps by Night in rare jacketPublisherThe John Day CompanyDate Published[1931] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #120 Red Harvest - inscribed AuthorHammett, DashiellHeadlineDashiell Hammett's first book - inscribedPublisherAlfred A. KnopfDate Published1929 View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Sold for$18,750StatusSold Lot #121 The Highlands of Aethiopia AuthorHarris, William CornwallisHeadlineDiplomatic mission to Ethiopia, 1841-43PublisherLongman, Brown, Green, and LongmansDate Published1844 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #122 The Talented Mr. Ripley AuthorHighsmith, PatriciaHeadlineP. Highsmith The Talented Mr. Ripley 1st EditionPublisherCoward-McCannDate Published[1955] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #123 The Rhinoceros. A Monograph Heading(Hillier, Matthew)AuthorNardelli, FrancescoHeadlineBasilisk Press The Rhinoceros with original drawingPublisherThe Basilisk PressDate Published1988 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #124 Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill AuthorHobbes, ThomasHeadlineFirst edition of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, 1651PublisherPrinted for Andrew CrookeDate Published1651 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #125 A Rake's Progress AuthorHogarth, WilliamHeadlineA Rake's Progress - full set of engravingsDate Published1735 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #126 Horn's Overland Guide, from the U.S. Indian Sub-Agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California AuthorHorn, Hosea BHeadlineHorn's Overland Guide from Council Bluffs to SacramentoPublisherJ. H. ColtonDate Published1852 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #127 Outlines of U.S.A. Chronology in "The Time of the End" of the End Time of the Gentiles AuthorJack, ButlerHeadlineRare chronological timeline of U.S. historyDate Published1920 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #128 "Das Alpine America" - portfolio of 19 original albumen photographs AuthorJackson, William HenryHeadlinePortfolio of original photos by W.H. JacksonDate Publishedc.1885 View details Estimate$4,000 - $7,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #129 Israel: A Personal History Heading(Judaica)AuthorBen-Gurion, DavidHeadlineBen-Gurion, Israel: A Personal History 1/2000 signedPublisherFunk & Wagnalls / SabraDate Published[1971] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #130 Archive of manuscript writings of Jacob Mordecai, including sermons, discussion of religious topics etc. Heading(Judaica)AuthorMordecai, JacobHeadlineManuscript writings of Jewish-American educatorDate PublishedEarly 19th century View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #131 Collection of music ephemera and sheet music related to Jewish composers in America Heading(Judaica)HeadlineEphemera and sheet music related to Jewish Composers in AmericaDate PublishedVarious dates View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #132 The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorCavendish, GeorgeHeadlineKelmscott Press - The Life of Thomas WolseyPublisher[Kelmscott Press]Date Published[1893] View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #133 Hand & Soul Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorRossetti, Dante GabrielHeadlineKelmscott printing bound by RivierePublisherKelmscott PressDate Published[1895] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #134 The Nature of Gothic Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorRuskin, JohnHeadlineKelmscott Press Nature of GothicPublisherGeorge AllenDate Published1892 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #135 Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt. Unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818 auf Kosten Sr. Erlaucht des Herrn Reichs-Kanzlers Grafen Rumanzoff auf dem Schiffe Rurick unter dem Befehle des Lieutenants der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Marine, Otto von Kotzebue AuthorKotzebue, Otto vonHeadlineKotzebue's voyage to the Pacific with Louis Choris Zamorano 80PublisherVerlegt von den Gebrudern HoffmannDate Published1821 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #136 A Wrinkle In Time AuthorL'Engle, MadeleineHeadlineL'Engle A Wrinkle in Time 1st ed in djPublisherAriel Books / Farrar, Straus and CudahyDate Published[1962] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #137 Lady Chatterley's Lover AuthorLawrence, D.H.HeadlineD.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover Signed 1/1000PublisherPrivately printedDate Published1928 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #138 A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; Comprehending All the Branches of Sciences... By a Society of Gentlemen Heading(Lewis & Clark Expedition)HeadlineEdition of Encyclopedia used by Lewis & ClarkPublisherPrinted for W. OwenDate Published1754-1755 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #139 History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1804-5-6 by Order of the Government of the United States AuthorLewis, Meriwether & William ClarkHeadlineFirst edition of Lewis & Clark 1814PublisherBradford & InskeepDate Published1814 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #140 De imitatione Iesu patientis; sive, De morte et vita in Christo Iesu patiente abscondita, in carne vero nostra mortali ad similitudinem eius exprimenda libri VII AuthorLyere, Adriaan vanHeadlineLyere on the suffering of Christ, 1655PublisherIacobum MeursiumDate Published1655 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #141 Of Human Bondage AuthorMaugham, W. SomersetHeadlineOf Human BondagePublisherGeorge H. Doran CompanyDate Published[1915] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #142 A Selection of the most interesting of Sir Robert Ainslie's Celebrated Collection of Views... AuthorMayer, LuigiHeadlineAinslie's Views of the Middle East with 56 colored platesPublisherPrinted for R. Bowyer by T. BensleyDate Published1811 & 1812 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #143 Ueber den feineren Bau und die Formen der krankhaften Geschwuelste Heading(Medical)AuthorMüller, JohannesHeadlineJohannes Müller's early treatise on cancer, 1838PublisherG. ReimerDate Published1838 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #144 Paulou Aiginetou aristou, Biblia hepta = Pavli Aeginetae medici optimi, libri septem ... Heading(Medical)AuthorPaulus, AeginetaHeadlineMedical treatise of Paul of Aegina printed by AldusPublisherAldus ManutiusDate Published1528 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #145 Icones Anatomicae Heading(Medical)AuthorVesalius, AndreasHeadlineVesalius Icones Antatomicae, Bremer PressPublisher[Bremer Press]Date Published1934 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000StatusUnsold Lot #146 Bibliotheca chirurgica: in qua res omnes ad chirurgiam pertinentes ordine alphabetico, ipsi vero scriptores, quotquot ad annum usque MDCCLXXIX innotuerunt, ad singulas materias ordine chronologico exhibentur, adjecto ad libri calcem auctorum indice Heading(Medical)AuthorVigiliis von Creutzenfeld, Stephan Hieronymus deHeadlineVigiliis von Creutzenfeld, Bibliotheca Chirurgica 1781.PublisherTypis et sumtibus Joannis Thomæ nobilis de TrattnernDate Published1781 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #147 Los gobernantes de México: galería de biografías y retratos de los vireyes, emperadores, presidentes y otros gobernantes que ha tenido México, desde don Hernando Cortes hasta el c. Benito Juarez Heading(Mexican History)AuthorRivera Cambas, ManuelHeadlineLos Gobernantes de México, 1876PublisherJ.M. Aguilar OrtizDate Published1872 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #148 The Mother Goose Collection of Six Limited Edition Prints Heading(Mother Goose)AuthorSendak, Maurice, Chris Van Allsburg, Barry Moser, et al.HeadlinePrints by Sendak, Moser, Van AllsburgPublisherSerigrafia, LimitedDate Published[1990] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #149 Miners and Travelers' Guide to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. Via the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. Accompanied by a General Map of the Mineral Region of the Northern Sections of the Rocky Mountains AuthorMullan, JohnHeadlineMullan's Miners Guide with map 1865PublisherW.M. FranklinDate Published1865 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #150 Archive relating to Nabokov’s research on the Lepidoptera Lycaenidae, including a lengthy handwritten letter to a noted lepidopterist; inscribed offprints of articles by Nabokov; original sketches; and more AuthorNabokov, VladimirHeadlineNabokov butterfly archive with letter & drawingsDate Published1944-1949 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$16,250StatusSold Lot #151 WITHDRAWN - Missouri Gazette Heading(Newspaper)HeadlineRare early St. Louis newspaper 1808PublisherPrinted by Joseph CharlessDate PublishedJuly 26, 1808 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #152 Album with 160 silver photographs of New York City and the metropolitan area, including aerial views Heading(Photograph Album - New York City)HeadlineAerial photographs of New York, 1919Date Publishedc.1919 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #153 Six ephemeral items relating to the Atlantic-Pacific Railway Tunnel Company efforts to drill a tunnel through the continental divide in Colorado, and the sale of stock for the financing Heading(Railroads)HeadlineDrilling a tunnel through Continental DivideDate Publishedc.1892-1894 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800StatusUnsold Lot #154 Album de Redouté. With Twenty-Five Facsimile Colour Plates from the Edition of 1825 and a New Redouté Bibliography Heading(Redouté, Pierre Joseph)AuthorSitwell, Sacheveral & Roger MadolHeadlineAlbum de Redouté 1/25 with original colored platePublisherCollinsDate Published1954 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #155 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches Heading(Roosevelt, Theodore)AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineTeddy Roosevelt's copy of Mark Twain's first bookPublisherC.H. WebbDate Published1869 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #156 Traveling Around the World with General Nelson A. Miles: Extracts from Home Letters of Henry Clark Rouse, Esq. October 1st 1902 to February 15th, 1903 AuthorRouse, Henry ClarkHeadlineAround the World with General Nelson A. Miles w/174 photographsPublisherPrivately printed for the authorDate Published1904 View details Estimate$7,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold Lot #157 Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9; with the Author’s Experience at the Mines. Illustrated by Twenty-Three Drawings, Taken on the Spot AuthorRyan, William RedmondHeadlineRyan's California 1850PublisherWilliam Shoberl, PublisherDate Published1850 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #158 Specimens of English Prose Style from Malory to Macaulay AuthorSaintsbury, GeolrgeHeadlineEnglish Prose from Chiswick Press, 1/50 large paper copiesPublisherKegan Paul, Tranch & Co.Date Published1885 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #159 The Golden Gate. Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco Heading(San Francisco Bay)AuthorAyres, T.A.HeadlineEarly view of SF Bay, hand-colored lithographPublisherJ.M. HutchingsDate Published1855 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #160 Eight original gouache paintings and three posters - variant trial versions of a theater poster for Oscar Serlin's play based on John Steinbeck's The Moon is Down Heading(Steinbeck, John)HeadlineOriginal art from Steinbeck Moon is DownDate Publishedc. 1942 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold Lot #161 The Short Reign of Pippin IV AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSteinbeck signed first editionPublisherThe Viking PressDate Published1957 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #162 The Maine Woods AuthorThoreau, Henry DavidHeadlineHenry David Thoreau Maine Woods 1st EditionPublisherTicknor and FieldsDate Published1864 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,750StatusSold Lot #163 Barchester Towers AuthorTrollope, AnthonyHeadlineTrollope Barchester Towers First EditionPublisherLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & RobertsDate Published1857 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #164 The Bertrams: A Novel AuthorTrollope, AnthonyHeadlineOne of Trollope's scarcest first editions in original clothPublisherChapman & HallDate Published1859 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$2,500StatusSold Lot #165 Can You Forgive Her? AuthorTrollope, AnthonyHeadlineAnthony Trollope Can You Forgive Her - original monthly partsPublisherChapman and Hall,Date Published1864-65 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #166 the Face of Modern Greece AuthorTsarouchis, YannisHeadlineTsarouchis tribute signed by 25PublisherSylvester & OrphanosDate Published2004 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #167 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer AuthorTwain, MarkHeadlineMark Twain Tom Sawyer First English Edition 1876PublisherChatto and WindusDate Published1876 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #168 Zebra Noise with a flatted 7th AuthorWagener, RichardHeadlineRichard Wagener's Zebra Noise, One of 70PublisherPeter KochDate Published1998 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #169 Following Abraham Lincoln AuthorWall, BernhardtHeadlineBernhardt Wall's Following Abraham Lincoln, 85 volumes, 1/100PublisherEtched and Printed by Bernhardt WallDate Published1931-1942 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$8,750StatusSold Lot #170 The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth . . . With an Account of the Emperor's Life after his Abdication Heading(Wharton, Edith)AuthorRobertson, William and William Hickling PrescottHeadline1st American Edition of The History of Charles the FifthPublisherPhillips, SampsonDate Published1857 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #171 A Streetcar Named Desire - signed by Marlon Brando and other cast members AuthorWilliams, TennesseeHeadlineA Streetcar Named Desire - signed by Brando and othersPublisherNew DirectionsDate Published[1947] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #172 A Thomas Wise forgery of a work by Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with his spurious bibliography of Swinburne's works Heading(Wise, Thomas J.)HeadlineThomas Wise forgery & bibliography of SwinburneDate Published1887 [but c.1890] & 1897 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #173 China As She Is - A Comprehensive Album AuthorWu, L.T., et alHeadlineChina As She Is w/maps, etc. 1934PublisherThe Liang You Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd.Date Published1934 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #174 The Bread of Days. El Pan de los Dias. Heading(Yolla Bolly Press)AuthorBeckett, Samuel, translator and Enrique Chagoya, artistHeadlineWith portfolio of unbound etchings by ChagoyaPublisherYolla Bolly PressDate Published[1994] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold Lot #175 Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman AuthorZweig, StefanHeadlineCosway-style binding of Stefan ZweigPublisherCassell and CompanyDate Published[1933] View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next