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The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Nobel Knight of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of this World of Them All |
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Malory, Sir Thomas |
(Beardsley, Aubrey, illustrator) |
Le Morte d'Arthur with Aubrey Beardsley illustrations |
1909 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,280 |
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7 |
Album of Thomas Bewick vignettes or 'tale-pieces', presented to Richard Arkwright |
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(Bewick, Thomas, illustrator) |
Thomas Bewick vignettes inscribed by the artist |
[1824] |
$7,000 - $10,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,200 |
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14 |
A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night... [with] Supplemental Nights |
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Burton, Sir Richard F., translator |
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Burton's Arabian Nights finely bound |
1885-1888 |
$5,000 - $8,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,600 |
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17 |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
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Carroll, Lewis |
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Alice in Wonderland, first edition, second issue |
1866 [1865] |
$7,000 - $10,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,100 |
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23 |
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea |
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[Dana, Richard Henry] |
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First issue of Two Years Before the Mast finely bound |
1840 |
$3,000 - $5,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,300 |
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25 |
La Divina Commedia |
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Dante Alighieri |
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One of the most coveted miniature books ever produced |
1878 |
$5,000 - $8,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $5,400 |
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27 |
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by "Boz." |
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Dickens, Charles |
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First American Edition, preceding British book edition |
1836-37 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $4,500 |
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35 |
Essays |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays First Edition 1841 |
1841 |
$3,000 - $5,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,600 |
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36 |
Essays |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
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Emerson's Essays, 1841 1st edition in original cloth |
1841 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,320 |
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37 |
Le Morte DArthur: The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table |
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Malory, Thomas |
(Flint, William Russell, illustrator) |
Le Morte DArthur, full vellum |
1910-11 |
$4,000 - $6,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,300 |
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38 |
The History of Little Goody Twoshoes; otherwise called Mrs. Margery Twoshoes |
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(Goody Two-shoes) |
First Worcester Edition of Little Goody Twoshoes 1787 |
1787 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,680 |
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39 |
Les Fleurs Animées [bound with] Botanique des Dames [and] Culture des Fleurs: Horticulture des Dames |
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Delord, Taxile |
(Grandville, J.J.) |
Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées 1847 |
1847 |
$8,000 - $12,000 |
Unsold |
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40 |
Scenes de la vie Privee et Publique des Animaux |
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Grandville, [J.J.] |
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An anthropomorphic classic by Grandville, 1842 |
1842 |
$5,000 - $8,000 |
Unsold |
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42 |
Amor und Psyche. Eine Dichtung in Sechs Gesängen |
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Hamerling, Robert |
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In a lovely German publisher's binding, 1882 |
[1882] |
$1,500 - $2,500 |
Unsold |
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50 |
The Jungle Book / The Second Jungle Book |
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Kipling, Rudyard |
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Kipling's First and Second Jungle Books |
1894, 1895 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,040 |
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55 |
Set of twenty-four first editions by Andrew Lang, including all of his Fairy Books |
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Lang, Andrew |
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24 Andrew Lang First Editions Finely Bound |
1889-1912 |
$5,000 - $8,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $7,200 |
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63 |
The House at Pooh Corner [with] autograph letter signed by illustrator Ernest H. Shepard and addressed to an American admirer |
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Milne, A.A. |
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Signed by A.A. Milne, with Ernest H. Shepard ALS |
[1929] |
$4,000 - $6,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $7,200 |
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68 |
Fairy Tales |
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Andersen, Hans Christian |
(Nielsen, Kay, illustrator) |
Signed by Kay Nielsen, 1/500 |
[1924] |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,280 |
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69 |
East of the Sun and West of the Moon |
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[Asbjornsen, P.C. and J.I. Moe] |
(Nielsen, Kay, illustrator) |
Kay Nielsen's East of the Sun & West of the Moon |
[1914] |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,920 |
|
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80 |
Aesop's Fables [with] original ink drawing by Arthur Rackham |
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Aesop |
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) |
Signed by Rackham with an original ink drawing laid in |
1912 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,700 |
|
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81 |
The Sleeping Beauty |
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Evans, C.S. |
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) |
Signed by Arthur Rackham, 1/625 |
[1920] |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $1,080 |
|
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82 |
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm |
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Grimm Brothers |
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) |
Signed by Arthur Rackham, 1/750 |
1909 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $3,000 |
|
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83 |
The Ingoldsby Legends |
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Ingoldsby, Thomas [pseud. of Richard Barham] |
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) |
Signed by Rackham, large paper edition, 1/560 |
1907 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $780 |
|
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84 |
A Midsummer-Night's Dream |
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Shakespeare, William |
(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator) |
Midsummer-Night's Dream with Rackham illustrations |
1908 |
$1,000 - $1,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $960 |
|
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89 |
Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Being a reproduction in facsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623 from the Chatsworth copy in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. |
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Shakespeare, William |
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Facsimile of Shakespeare 1623 First Folio |
1902 |
$2,000 - $3,000 |
Unsold |
|
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105 |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) |
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Twain, Mark |
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Huckleberry Finn, near fine first edition |
1885 |
$2,500 - $3,500 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $9,600 |
|
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110 |
Elements of Bacchus: or, Toasts and Sentiments, given by Distinguished Characters. Illustrated with forty portraits in aqua tinta, of the most celebrated bon vivants in Great Britain. With a variety of anecdotes and remarkable traits, prefixed to each portrait. Written and designed by George Murgatroyd [sic] Woodward |
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Woodward, George Moutard |
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Colored aquatint plates of inebriated Britons, 1792 |
1792 |
$30,000 - $50,000 |
Unsold |
|
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111 |
Poems in Two Volumes |
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Wordsworth, William |
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Wordsworth Poems in Two Volumes, first edition |
1807 |
$3,000 - $5,000 |
Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium): $2,040 |
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