Sale 666: The Book Fair Century: One Hundred Fine Books - Plus Books Sold to Benefit the ABAA Benevolent Fund (at Oakland)

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!

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	1	Facsimile Edition of Desert Solitaire Typed Manuscript	Abbey, Edward		Facsimile Edition of Desert Solitaire Typed Manuscript	2018	$200 - $300	Sold For: $270	CLOSED!
	2	Details of Elizabethan Architecture		(Architecture)	Details of Elizabethan architecture		$200 - $300	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	3	Dim Sum. Vol. 1 July 1991 No. 3. Vol. 1 November 1991 No. 4.		(Art Magazine)	Magazine With Original Art on Every Page Signed and Numbered by the Artist	1991	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	4	Oltre la fine del Mondo (Beyond the End of the World)	Beard, Peter		Italian edition of Peter Beard's solo exhibition catalogue	1997	$300 - $500	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	5	Proofs of a Conspiracy, Against Christianity, and the Government of the United States; Exhibited in Several Views of the Union of Church and State in New England	Bishop, Abraham		Proofs of a Conspiracy Against Christianity and the US Government	1802	$200 - $300	Sold For: $132	CLOSED!
	6	Four Volumes by William Blake by Trianon Press	Blake, William		Four Trianon Press volumes by William Blake	1971-77	$500 - $800	Sold For: $300	CLOSED!
	7	The Gates of Paradise. For Children. For the Sexes.	Blake, William		William Blake The Gates of Paradise from Trianon Press	1968	$1,000 - $1,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	8	Two Finely Printed Books on Books		(Books on Books)	Two finely printed books on paper and printing	1993-2007	$200 - $300	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	9	The Life of Samuel Johnson	Boswell, James		Boswell's Life of Johnson, 4 volumes in contemporary half red calf	1822	$300 - $500	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	10	The Pied Piper of Hamelin	Browning, Robert		The Pied Piper illustrated by Arthurs Rackham	1934	$700 - $1,000	Sold For: $600	CLOSED!
	11	Domestic Medicine; or, The Family Physician: Being an Attempt to Render the Medical Art More Generally Useful, by Shewing People What is in Their Own Power Both with Respect to the Prevention and Cure of Diseases. . .	Buchan, William		1778 Medical advice	1778	$300 - $500	Sold For: $204	CLOSED!
	12	Aurora Teardrops	Budd, Harold		Heavenly Monkey Edition of Harold Budd's Aurora Teardrops	2016	$200 - $300	Sold For: $228	CLOSED!
	13	Bone Songs	Burke, Clifford		Janus Press Edition of Clifford Burke's Bone Songs	1992	$300 - $500	Sold For: $300	CLOSED!
	14	WITHDRAWN - Handwritten letter by Willa Cather	Cather, Willa		Letter from Willa Cather to literary editor	November 10, 1929	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	15	California History Nugget: Devoted to the Story of the Golden West (Volumes 1 - 7)	Coy, Owen, C., editor		California History Nugget	1924-1940	$200 - $300	Sold For: $120	CLOSED!
	16	Olde Tayles Newly Relayted	Crawhall, Joseph		Crawhall, Olde Tayles Newly Relayted 1883	1883	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	17	The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities by Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert a Beckett, the Brothers Mayhew	Cruikshank, George		With many hundreds of illustrations by Cruikshank and others	1889	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	18	Charlie & the Chocolate Factory	Dahl, Roald		Third state Charlie & the Chocolate Factory	1964	$200 - $300	Sold For: $120	CLOSED!
	19	The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex	Darwin, Charles		Darwin's The Descent of Man	1881	$200 - $300	Sold For: $330	CLOSED!
	20	Traite de nomographie. Théorie des abaques.	d’Ocagne, Maurice		Theories by the creator of normography	1899	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	21	The Flavor of Texas	Dobie, J. Frank		J. Frank Dobie's The Flavor of Texas	1936	$400 - $600	Sold For: $360	CLOSED!
	22	Mr. Dooley In Peace And In War	Dunne, Finley Peter		Dunne's Mr. Dooley In Peace & in War	1898	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	23	The Parlement of Pratlers: A Series of Elizabethan Dialogues on Monologues Illustrating Daily Life and the Conduct of a Gentleman on the Grand Tour Extracted from Ortho-Epia Gallica, a Book on the Correct Pronounciation of the French Language written by John Eliot and published in the year 1593	Eliot, John; Jack Lindsay, editor		Daily Life and Conduct of an Elizabethan Gentleman	1928	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	24	Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, Including Part of the Arkansas, del Norte, and Gila Rivers	Emory, William Hemsley		Notes of a Military Reconnoissance 1848	1848	$200 - $300	Sold For: $144	CLOSED!
	25	Beauty	Fairchild, B.H.		Blackbird Press edition of B. H. Fairchild's Beauty	2010	$500 - $800	Sold For: $450	CLOSED!
	26	Three Finely Printed Books		(Fine Press Books)	Books by Anvil & Clinker Presses and the Porpoise Bookshop	1955-2010	$300 - $500	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	27	The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants	Loudon, Mrs. [Jane Webb]	(Flower Gardens)	The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants	[c.1841]	$1,500 - $2,000	Sold For: $900	CLOSED!
	28	Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical	Foote, Wiliam Henry		Foote's Sketches of Virginia	1850	$200 - $300	Sold For: $192	CLOSED!
	29	Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange (with Defoe's Anatomy of Exchange Alley as an Appendix)	Francis, John and Daniel Defoe		1850 Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange	1850	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	30	L'Expedition de la Jeannette au Pole Nord racontee par tous les membres de l'expedition ouvrage compose des documents rec us par le New-York Herald de 1878 a 1882	Geslin, Jules		Reports from NY Herald translated into French about the USS Jeannette	ca. 1893	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	31	Zamorano Celebrates 90: Honoring the Contributions of Women to Books & Book Collecting in Southern California	Gillingwators, Jean, Jen Johnson, Romy Wyllie, et al.		The Zamorano Club celebrates 90	2018	$200 - $300	Sold For: $360	CLOSED!
	32	Four works by Dana Gioia	Gioia, Dana		Four works by Dana Gioia	1999-2018	$200 - $300	Sold For: $132	CLOSED!
	33	Waterscapes, Landscapes	Gornick, April and Kurt Vonnegut		1 of 100 Waterscapes, Landscapes signed by Vonnegut and others	1999	$300 - $500	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	34	Jane at Pigall's	Hall, Donald		Donald Hall's first broadside poem	1973	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	35	Biographical Sketches, 1868-1884	Hart, Charles Henry		Beautifully bound by Pawson & Nicholson	1868-1884	$300 - $500	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	36	The Marble Faun, or, The Romance of Monte Beni	Hawthorne, Nathaniel		First printing of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun	1860	$200 - $300	Sold For: $720	CLOSED!
	37	Physics and Beyond Encounters and Conversations	Heisenberg, Werner		Autobiography of Werner Heisenberg, world renowned atomic scientist.	1971	$200 - $300	Sold For: $156	CLOSED!
	38	One Hundred and Eleven Poems	Herrick, Robert		Herrick's One Hundred and Eleven Poems from Golden Cockerel Press.	1955	$300 - $500	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	39	Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science. An Introductory Lecture	Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.		Harvard Medical lecture by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	1862	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	40	Elsie Venner: A Romance Of Destiny	Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.		First Edition of Oliver Wendell Holmes' first novel	1861	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	41	A Complete Set of the Encyclopedia of Exploration	Howgego, Raymond John		Complete set of The Encyclopedia of Exploration	2003-2013	$300 - $500	Sold For: $600	CLOSED!
	42	The Most Agreeable Vice	Huxley, Aldous		Huxley rarity The Most Agreeable Vice & A Garland for Jake Zeitlin	1938	$200 - $300	Sold For: $132	CLOSED!
	43	Lions and Shadows An Education in the Twenties	Isherwood, Christopher		Christopher Isherwood's Lions and Shadows	1938	$200 - $300	Sold For: $228	CLOSED!
	44	A History of the Valley of Virginia	Kercheval, Samuel		A History of the Valley of Virginia	1833	$300 - $500	Sold For: $300	CLOSED!
	45	The Lost Mine of the Mono A Tale of the Sierra Nevada	Klette, C[harles] H[erman] B[runo]		A Tale of the Sierra Nevada	1909	$200 - $300	Sold For: $120	CLOSED!
	46	Typed Letter Signed By Dean Koontz	Koontz, Dean		Type Letter Signed from novelist Dean Koontz	21 August 2017	$200 - $300	Sold For: $120	CLOSED!
	47	Men in Print, Essays in Literary Criticism	Lawrence,T.E.		T. E. Lawrence's Men in Print by Golden Cockerel Press	1940	$300 - $500	Sold For: $450	CLOSED!
	48	One Hundred Years, 1796-1896	MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Foundry		MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Foundry	n.d.	$200 - $300	Sold For: $120	CLOSED!
	49	Cruise Of The Revenue Steamer Corwin In Alaska And The N. W. Arctic Ocean In 1881	Muir, John, Irving C. Rosse, et al.		The USS Corwin searching for the lost Jeanette	1883	$200 - $300	Sold For: $192	CLOSED!
	50	Recollections of a Zouave Before Sebastopol	Mynard, Felix (editor)		Memoir of Zouave trumpeter in the Crimean War	1856	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	51	Bel-Air Bay: A Country Place by the Sea	O'Day, Edward F.		Includes poems by George Sterling, Robinson Jeffers	1927	$400 - $600	Sold For: $240	CLOSED!
	52	El Triunfo de los Jesuitas en Francia	Pidal y Mon, Alejandro		Spanish edition of Jesuits in France, 1880	1880	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	53	Mirror of Olden Time Border Life; Embracing a History of the Discovery of America Also . . . History of Virginia . . .also History of the Early Settlement of Pennsylvania . . .	Pritts, Joseph (compiler)		Mirror of Olden Time Border Life; a History of the Discovery of America	1849	$200 - $300	Sold For: $270	CLOSED!
	54	The History of the American Revolution	Ramsay, David		Ramsey's The History of the American Revolution 1815	1815	$400 - $600	Sold For: $240	CLOSED!
	55	Posters from Whittington, 1996 - 2013	Randle, John (editor)		Posters from Whittington, 1996 - 2013	2013	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For: $900	CLOSED!
	56	The Free Enquirer. Vol. 5, #1 - 52	Robinson, H. D., editor	(Religion)	Scarce Volume 5 of The Free Enquirer	1832-33	$300 - $500	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	57	Initium S. Evangelii Secundum S. Joannem	Rivers, Elizabeth		The Beginning of the Gospel of Saint John illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers	1953	$500 - $800	Sold For: $300	CLOSED!
	58	Italy, A Poem and Poems	Rogers, Samuel		Engraved vignettes after work by J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Stothard	1830-1834	$700 - $1,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	59	Volumen locupletius quam antehac. Continet enim præter posteriores tres libros Codicis, Nouellas & Feuda, multa alia pagina sequenti declarata		(Roman Law)	Roman law, 1575	1575	$300 - $500	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	60	The Adventures of Doctor Comicus or the Frolicks of Fortune	Rowlandson, Thomas		The Adventures of Doctor Comicus of the Frolicks of Fortune	1815	$200 - $300	Sold For: $120	CLOSED!
	61	Coverts & Casts and Currents & Eddies	Schaldach, William J.		Two volumes by William Shaldach	1970	$200 - $300	Sold For: $120	CLOSED!
	62	Ruminations	Students of Scripps College	(Scripps College Press)	Scripps College Students' Ruminations 2011	2011	$200 - $300	Sold For: $144	CLOSED!
	63	Sloan's Homestead Architecture Containing Forty Designs for Villas, Cottages, and Farmhouses, with Essays on Style, Construction, Landscape Gardening, Furniture, etc. etc	Sloan, Samuel		Sloan's Homestead Architecture	1861	$200 - $300	Sold For: $204	CLOSED!
	64	Códice Azoyú: El Reino de Tlachinollan	Sosa, Constanza Vega		Facsimile of the Azoyú Codex	1991	$200 - $300	Sold For: $120	CLOSED!
	65	Ballads about Authors	Spofford, Harriet (Elizabeth) Prescott		Collection of poetic homages to Goldsmith, Milton, Shakespeare, etc.	1887	$500 - $800	Unsold	CLOSED!
	66	Journal Of The Texian Expedition Against Mier	Green, Thomas	(Texas)	Important account of the Mier Expedition	1845	$700 - $1,000	Sold For: $420	CLOSED!
	67	The Devil in the Book	Trumbo, Dalton		Trumbo's analysis of the conviction of 14 Smith Act defendants	1956	$200 - $300	Sold For: $120	CLOSED!
	68	How to Tell a Story	Twain, Mark		Mark Twain first edition & scholarly writings	1897	$300 - $500	Sold For: $180	CLOSED!
	69	Printing Types: Their History, Forms, And Use: A Study In Survivals	Updike, Daniel Berkeley		Daniel Berkeley Updike's Printing Types Inscribed	1937	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	70	The Principles of Political Economy	Vethake, Henry		Vethake's The Principles of Political Economy	1838	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	71	The Friends of Voltaire	Tallentyre, S.G	(Voltaire)	The Friends of Voltaire. Extra-illustrated with an original ms page by Voltaire.	1906	$1,500 - $2,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	72	Nine titles on Western Americana and Exploration		(Western Americana)	Nine titles on Western Americana and Exploration	Various dates	$200 - $300	Sold For: $240	CLOSED!
	73	Catalogue of the Library of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco	Whitaker, A.E.		1874 Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of San Francisco	1874	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	74	Matrix 23 Winter 2003 A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles	Randle, John	(Whittington Press)	Whittington Press' Matrix 23	2003	$700 - $1,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	75	Walter Sickert: A Conversation	Woolf, Virginia		Virginia Woolf's Walter Sickert	1934	$200 - $300	Sold For: $192	CLOSED!
	76	Constitution of the United States Published for the Bicentennial of its Adoption in 1787		(Arion Press)	Arion Press US Constitution	1987	$1,500 - $2,500	Sold For: $1,080	CLOSED!
	77	Pale Fire	Nabokov, Vladimir	(Arion Press)	Arion Press, Nabokov's Pale Fire	1994	$1,500 - $2,500	Sold For: $960	CLOSED!
	78	Cane	Toomer, Jean	(Arion Press)	Arion Press, Cane signed by Martin Puryear	2000	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For: $960	CLOSED!
	79	Poems of W.B. Yeats	Yeats, William Butler	(Arion Press)	Poems of Yeats, signed by Diebenkorn	[1990]	$1,500 - $2,500	Sold For: $1,080	CLOSED!
	80	Aristotles Politiques, or, Discourses of Government. Translated out of Greeke into French, with Expositions taken out of the best Authours, specially out of Aristotle himselfe, and out of Plato ... by Loys Le Roy, called Regius. Translated out French into English	Aristotle		English edition of Aristotle's Politics 1598	1598	$20,000 - $30,000	Sold For: $14,400	CLOSED!
	81	Sentences: Words Spoken in Prison to an Artist	Thielen, Beth	(Artists Books)	Beth Thielen, Unique artist's book pop-up	1990	$1,500 - $2,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	82	[History of the Peloponnesian War]	Thucydides	(Ashendene Press)	Ashendene Press edition of Thucydides 1930	1930	$4,000 - $6,000	Sold For: $2,160	CLOSED!
	83	Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphosis oder Ovidii des Poeten Wunderliche Verenderung verschidener Gestalden.	Ovid	(Baur, Johann Wilhelm, illustrator)	Ovid's Metamorphoses w/150 copper plates by Baur 1681	1681	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For: $780	CLOSED!
	84	The Four Gospels in the Original Greek		(Bible in Greek)	Four Gospels in Greek from Clarendon Press	1932	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For: $1,020	CLOSED!
	85	Le Decameron de Jean Boccace	Boccaccio, Giovanni		French Boccaccio with 20 added erotic plates	1757-1761	$4,000 - $7,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	86	Florilegium Harlemense. Gekleurde afbeeldingen met beschrijving van Bol- en Knolgewassen... / Colored plates with descriptions of bulbous and tuberous rooted plants		(Botany)	With 60 chromolithographed botanical plates	1901-[1902]	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For: $1,200	CLOSED!
	87	The New American Practical Navigator; Being an Epitome of Navigation; Containing all the Tables Necessary to be used with the Nautical Almanac, in Determining the Latitude; and the Longitude by Lunar Observations; and Keeping a Complete Reckoning at Sea; Illustrating by Proper Rules and Examples; the Whole Exemplified in a Journal, Kept from Boston to Madeira, in Which all the Rules of Navigation are Introduced....	Bowditch, Nathaniel		The New American Practical Navigator w/map and plates 1807	May, 1807	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For: $1,080	CLOSED!
	88	Free City	[Free City Collective]	(Brautigan, Richard)	Brautigan, Free City, 1967	[1967-68]	$1,000 - $1,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	89	The Galilee Hitch-Hiker	Brautigan, Richard		Richard Brautigan Galilee Hitch-Hiker 1st Edition	[1958]	$1,500 - $2,500	Sold For: $1,440	CLOSED!
	90	Trout Fishing in America - review copy	Brautigan, Richard		Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America - review copy	1967	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For: $1,320	CLOSED!
	91	Factotum	Bukowski, Charles		Charles Bukowski Factotum w/painting 1/75	[1962]	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For: $3,000	CLOSED!
	92	Placer County, California. Its Resources and Advantages		(California - Placer County)	Placer County promo with rare map	[c.1886]	$1,000 - $1,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	93	Six facsimile sheet music scores signed by the composer	Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario		Sheet music signed by Castelnuovo-Tedesco	1956-67	$1,000 - $1,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	94	Voyage pittoresque de la Grece	Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel F. A., Comte de		Spectacular illustrated tour of Greece, 1776-1822	1782, 1809, 1822	$10,000 - $15,000	Sold For: $10,800	CLOSED!
	95	Let Us Compare Mythologies	Cohen, Leonard		Leonard Cohen's first book inscribed	[1956]	$10,000 - $15,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	96	Coleridge's Works, 20 volumes	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor		Coleridge's Works in 20 volumes.	1834-1853	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For: $600	CLOSED!
	97	Antonina; or The Fall of Rome. A Romance of the Fifth Century	Collins, Wilkie		Wilkie Collins' First Novel	1850	$1,500 - $2,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	98	The Navigator, containing directions for navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers; with an ample account of these much admired waters, from the head of the former to the mouth of the latter...	Cramer, Zadock		Navigating Ohio & Mississippi Rivers 1818	1818	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For: $600	CLOSED!
	99	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life	Darwin, Charles		Superb Origin of Species, 3rd edition	1861	$8,000 - $12,000	Sold For: $7,200	CLOSED!
	100	Walt Disney's African Lion - inscribed	Algar, James	(Disney, Walt)	Disney's African Lion - inscribed	[1956]	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For: $1,320	CLOSED!