Sale 705: Fine & Rare Books

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	3	The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce	Bierce, Ambrose		Ambrose Bierce Collected Works	1909-11	$700 - $1,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,900	CLOSED!
	4	A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake, Poet, Printer, Prophet	Keynes, Geoffrey	(Blake, William)	Study of Illuminated Books of William Blake	1964	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $390	CLOSED!
	5	The Life of Samuel Johnson, and The Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. Illustrated with Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds.	Boswell, James		Life of Samuel Johnson finely bound 1/500	1885	$700 - $1,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,920	CLOSED!
	6	Aventures d'un Gamin a Travers L'Océanie	Boussenard, Louis Henri		Adventures of a Kid Across Oceania	[c. 1890]	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	11	Autograph letter to Mrs. Rhys Davids	Cather, Willa		Willa Cather and Catherine Rhys Davids	September 5 [1930]	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,080	CLOSED!
	12	The Works of Joseph Conrad	Conrad, Joseph		The Works of Joseph Conrad finely bound 1/780	[1980]	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,080	CLOSED!
	13	The Battle of Life: A Love Story	Dickens, Charles	(Dickens, Charles - Christmas Books)	Dickens' fourth Christmas Book	1846	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $120	CLOSED!
	14	The Battle of Life: A Love Story	Dickens, Charles	(Dickens, Charles - Christmas Books)	Dickens' fourth Christmas book	1846	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $240	CLOSED!
	15	The Chimes: A Goblin Story	Dickens, Charles	(Dickens, Charles - Christmas Books)	Dickens' second Christmas book	1845	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $270	CLOSED!
	16	The Cricket on the Hearth	Dickens, Charles	(Dickens, Charles - Christmas Books)	Dickens' third Christmas book	1846	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $120	CLOSED!
	17	The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time	Dickens, Charles	(Dickens, Charles - Christmas Books)	Dickens' fifth Christmas book	1848	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $192	CLOSED!
	18	Christmas Books [with] Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"	Dickens, Charles	(Dickens, Charles - Christmas)	Two Dickens volumes of Christmas material	1852; no date	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $270	CLOSED!
	19	The Christmas Numbers from Household Words (1855-56) and All the Year Round (1860-67)	Dickens, Charles	(Dickens, Charles - Christmas)	Dickens' Christmas Numbers 7 parts	1855-67	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	20	Illustrations of Master Humphrey's Clock in Seventy Plates	Sibson, Tomas	(Dickens, Charles - Thomas Sibson, illustrator)	Sibson's steel etchings for Dickens	1842	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $270	CLOSED!
	21	Portrait of Charles Dickens	Bicknell, William Henry Warren, artist	(Dickens, Charles)	Portrait of Dickens, etched by W.H.W. Bicknell	1907	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $120	CLOSED!
	22	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi [with] Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi: A New Edition	"Boz," editor	(Dickens, Charles)	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, 1st issue	1838; 1846	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $240	CLOSED!
	23	The Life of Charles Dickens	Forster, John	(Dickens, Charles)	Forster's Life of Dickens, finely bound	1872-1874	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $240	CLOSED!
	24	Portrait of Charles Dickens		(Dickens, Charles)	Engraved portrait of Charles Dickens, framed	No date	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180	CLOSED!
	25	Seven booklets by or relating to Charles Dickens		(Dickens, Charles)	Booklets relating to Charles Dickens	various dates	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	26	Small archive relating to illustrations in Dickens' works		(Dickens, Charles)	Drawing & letters from Dickens illustrators	19th century	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $360	CLOSED!
	27	Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth [with] seven other works of Dickensiana	Smith, Walter E.	(Dickens, Charles)	Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth with other volumes	Various dates	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	29	American Notes for General Circulation	Dickens, Charles		American edition of Dickens' American Notes	1842	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	30	Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens declining a fundraising subscription for the Saint Martin's Library framed with lithograph portrait of the author	Dickens, Charles		Charles Dickens autograph letter w/ litho	1841	$1,500 - $2,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,200	CLOSED!
	31	A Child's Dream of a Star	Dickens, Charles		A Child's Dream of a Star, 1871	1871	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	32	Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son	Dickens, Charles		Dombey and Son first ed. in book form	1848	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180	CLOSED!
	33	[Great Expectations] as published in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal	Dickens, Charles		Great Expectations 1st Edition in parts	1860-61	$3,000 - $5,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $6,600	CLOSED!
	34	Hard Times. For These Times	Dickens, Charles		Hard Times, first book edition	1854	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $360	CLOSED!
	35	The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit	Dickens, Charles		The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 1st	1844	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $120	CLOSED!
	36	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Dickens, Charles		Nicholas Nickleby 1st ed. in book form	1839	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $330	CLOSED!
	37	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby [with] signed card by Hablot K. Browne in receipt of payment for his illustrations for Nicholas Nickleby	Dickens, Charles		With Phiz receipt in payment for Nickleby sketches	1838-1839	$4,000 - $6,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,900	CLOSED!
	38	Little Dorrit	Dickens, Charles		Little Dorrit, first book edition, first issue	1857	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $330	CLOSED!
	39	Master Humphrey's Clock	Dickens, Charles		Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock 1840-41	1840-41	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $270	CLOSED!
	40	Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, Conducted by Charles Dickens, for Christmas, 1864	Dickens, Charles		Dickens in All the Year Around	1864	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	41	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Dickens, Charles		Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1870	1870	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	42	The Mystery of Edwin Drood - in 6 monthly parts	Dickens, Charles		Dickens, Mystery of Edwin Drood in 6 parts, 1870	1870	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $390	CLOSED!
	43	Our Mutual Friend	Dickens, Charles		Our Mutual Friend, first ed. in book form	1865	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $270	CLOSED!
	44	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Dickens, Charles		Illustrated David Copperfield bound by Bayntun	[1927]	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $120	CLOSED!
	45	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Dickens, Charles		David Copperfield in first book edition	1850	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $510	CLOSED!
	46	Pictures from Italy	Dickens, Charles		Dickens Pictures from Italy 1st Edition 1846	1846	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $156	CLOSED!
	47	The Poor Traveler: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs. Gamp	Dickens, Charles		Charles Dickens The Poor Traveller 1864	1864	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	48	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club	Dickens, Charles		Dickens Posthumous Papers of Pickwick Club book	1837	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $204	CLOSED!
	50	Rejection letter from Charles Dickens declining a submission for publication in Household Words	Dickens, Charles		Rejected by Charles Dickens	1856	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,140	CLOSED!
	51	Sketches by Boz [with] American Notes for General Circulation and Pictures from Italy - two volumes from the large paper works of Dickens	Dickens, Charles		Two volumes from the large paper Dickens Works	No date	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180	CLOSED!
	52	Sketches of Young Gentlemen	[Dickens, Charles]		Dickens' Sketches of Young Gentlemen, 1838	1838	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $132	CLOSED!
	54	Buried Alive, or Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia	Dostoevsky, Fyodor		First publication of Dostoevsky in English, 1881	1881	$4,000 - $6,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,700	CLOSED!
	55	Unprofessional Tales	Normyx [pseudonym of Norman Douglas]	(Douglas, Norman)	Norman Douglas' first book 1901 scarce	1901	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $270	CLOSED!
	57	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Doyle, Arthur Conan		Hound of the Baskervilles 1st Canadian Edition	1902	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $570	CLOSED!
	58	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Doyle, Arthur Conan		Hound of the Baskervilles w/photoplay jacket.	[c.1930s]	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $192	CLOSED!
	59	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Doyle, Arthur Conan		Hound of the Baskervilles 1st ed	1902	$700 - $1,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,560	CLOSED!
	60	The Lost World: Being an Account of the Recent Amazing Adventures of Professor George E. Challenger...	Doyle, Arthur Conan		A.C. Doyle The Lost World 1912	[1912]	$600 - $900	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $900	CLOSED!
	61	The Return of Sherlock Holmes	Doyle, Arthur Conan		The Return of Sherlock Holmes 1st American ed.	1905	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180	CLOSED!
	62	The Speckled Band: An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.	Doyle, Arthur Conan		Doyle's The Speckled Band - Samuel French ed.	1912 [but 1929]	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	63	A Study in Scarlet	Doyle, Arthur Conan		A Study in Scarlet 1892	1892	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $300	CLOSED!
	64	A Study in Scarlet	Doyle, Arthur Conan		American piracy of first Sherlock Holmes book	c.1895	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $120	CLOSED!
	65	The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan		Valley of Fear: Sherlock Holmes 1st Ed.	[1914]	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180	CLOSED!
	72	The Works of Ellen Glasgow	Glasgow, Ellen		12 Volumes by Ellen Glasgow, signed	1938	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $300	CLOSED!
	73	The Beautiful Wedding	Wood, Charles Erskine Scott & Sara Bard Field	(Grabhorn Press)	The Beautiful Wedding, inscribed to the bride and groom	[1929]	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180	CLOSED!
	79	The Jungle Book	Kipling, Rudyard		Signed & inscribed with verse by Kipling	1899	$6,000 - $9,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,100	CLOSED!
	80	Ivan Nikitenko, Le Conteur Russe. Fables, Historiettes et Légendes	Krylov, Ivan Andreyevich; Sumarokov, Alexander; Kheraskov, Mikhail, et al.		Russian fables and folktales in verse 1842 scarce	1842	$800 - $1,200	Unsold	CLOSED!
	88	The Making of a Saint	Maugham, William Somerset		Maugham, The Making of a Saint 1st UK Ed. 1898	1898	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $240	CLOSED!
	103	Shakespeares Venus and Adonis... Lucrece... The Passionate Pilgrim... Sonnets... Pericles... - Facsimiles of the original printings	Shakespeare, William		Facsimiles of early Shakespeare printings	1905	$200 - $300	Unsold	CLOSED!
	109	A Child's Garden of Verses	Stevenson, Robert Louis		A Child's Garden of Verses - inscribed by RLS's mother	1885	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,800	CLOSED!
	110	Voyages de Gulliver	Swift, Jonathan		Gulliver's Travels	1911	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	111	The Writings of Mark Twain, Definitive Edition	Twain, Mark		The Innocents Abroad, signed by Mark Twain	1922	$1,500 - $2,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,140	CLOSED!
	115	Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth	Verne, Jules		Verne's Land of the Behemoth 1874	1874	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	116	Cæsar Cascabel	Verne, Jules		Verne's Caesar Cascabel 1890 1st Am. edition	[1890]	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	117	Dick Sand; or, A Captain at Fifteen	Verne, Jules		Pirated true first of Verne's Dick Sand, 1878	1878	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	118	A Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Verne, Jules		A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 1874	[1874]	$700 - $1,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	119	The Mysterious Island: Wrecked in the Air	Verne, Jules		U.S. of 1st part of Verne's Mysterious Island	1875	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	120	Texar's Revenge or North Against South; A Tale of the American Civil War	Verne, Jules		Jules Verne tale of American Civil War	1888	$700 - $1,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $420	CLOSED!
	121	Ticket No. "9672."	Verne, Jules		Jules Verne's Ticket No. 9672	N.d. [c.1900]	$700 - $1,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	122	"Topsy-Turvy."	Verne, Jules		Jules Verne Topsy Turvy First Edition	[1890]	$1,200 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $840	CLOSED!
	126	A Masque of Love	Wood, Charles Erskine Scott		A Masque of Love, with two inscriptions	1904	$300 - $500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $180	CLOSED!
	128	Jorrocks's Jaunts And Jollities; Being The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating. Eccentric And Extravagant Exploits Of That Renowned Sporting Citizen, Mr. John Jorrocks, Etc.	Alken, Henry, illustrator		15 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Alken finely bound 1843	1843	$700 - $1,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $510	CLOSED!
	129	Du Dandysme et de G. Brummell	Barbey D'Aurevilly, Jules-Amédée		Barbey D'Aurevilly on Dandyism Rare 1845	1845	$2,000 - $3,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	142	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	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de		Illustrated edition of Don Quixote 1687	1687	$8,000 - $12,000	Unsold	CLOSED!
	143	The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Others. Being a reproduction in facsimile of the first collected edition of 1532 from a copy in the British Museum	Chaucer, Geoffrey		Facsimile of 1532 folio Chaucer	1905	$400 - $600	Unsold	CLOSED!
	147	The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de	(Cruikshank, George)	Cruikshank's illustrated Don Quixote, 1833	1833	$400 - $600	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $600	CLOSED!
	154	L'ortografe Françoise: Ou, L'unique Metode Contenant Les Regles Qu'il Est Necessaire De Savoir Pour Écrire Correctement	De Blegny, Etienne		Etienne de Blégny L'ortografe Françoise 1667	1667	$500 - $800	Unsold	CLOSED!
	167	Poems	Cowper, William	(Fine Bindings)	William Cowper's Poems finely bound	1821	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $100	CLOSED!
	168	Le Cabaret De La Belle Femme	Dorgeles, Roland	(Fine Bindings)	Finely bound by Vermorel	[1929]	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $600	CLOSED!
	169	South Wind	Douglas, Norman	(Fine Bindings)	South Wind with original drawing, finely bound	1929	$1,000 - $1,500	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $960	CLOSED!
	170	The Vicar of Wakefield	Goldsmith, Oliver	(Fine Bindings)	Vicar of Wakefield, finely bound	1843	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $420	CLOSED!
	171	[Works, i.e.] The Complete Works of John Ruskin	Ruskin, John	(Fine Bindings)	The Complete Works of John Ruskin, beautiful!	1903-1912	$2,000 - $3,000	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,680	CLOSED!
	172	Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue	Shaw, George Bernard	(Fine Bindings)	G.B. Shaw Saint Joan Finely Bound 1/750	[1924]	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $540	CLOSED!
	201	Bentivolio and Urania	Ingelo, Nathanael		Bentivolio and Urania, 1682	1682	$200 - $300	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $120	CLOSED!
	202	The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. First [Second, Third] Series	Ingoldsby, Thomas [Pseud. Richard Harris Barham]		Ingoldsby Legends first edition finely bound.	1840, 42, 47	$300 - $500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	211	A History of English Furniture. The Age of Oak; The Age of Walnut; The Age of Mahogany; The Age of Satinwood.	MacQuoid, Percy		MacQuoid's History of English Furniture	1904-08	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $510	CLOSED!
	212	Journal d'une Femme de Cinquante Ans 1778-1815.	Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin Gouvernet, Henriette-Lucie Dillon		Journal d'une Femme de Cinquante An 1913	1913	$1,000 - $1,500	Unsold	CLOSED!
	236	The Vicar of Wakefield	Goldsmith, [Oliver]	(Rowlandson, Thomas, illustrator)	Twenty-four hand-colored plates	1817	$500 - $800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $420	CLOSED!
	238	The Tragedy of Cymbeline - 15 leaves from the second folio	Shakespeare, William		Shakespeare's Cymbeline from second folio 1632	[1632]	$1,200 - $1,800	Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,320	CLOSED!
	240	Works of Paul De Kock - Memorial Edition	De Kock, Charles Paul	(Sloan, John, artist)	With original etchings by John Sloan et al.	1902-08	$1,200 - $1,800	Unsold	CLOSED!