Sale 785: Rare & Antiquarian: Fine Press, Fine Bindings, Illustrated Books, Science, Medicine & More (#785) 04/06/2023 11:00 AM PDT


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1 Two Limited Editions from the Archetype Press (Archetype Press) Two works from students at the Archetype Press 2006-2007 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
2 A Delicate Balance Albee, Edward (Arion Press) Albee's A Delicate Balance Arion Press 2011 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $160
(2 bids)
3 The Big Sleep Chandler, Raymond (Arion Press) Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep Arion Press 1986 $700 - $1,000
Starting bid:
$350
Current absentee: $400
(3 bids)
4 Mrs. Bridge Connell, Evan S. (Arion Press) Arion Press, Mrs. Bridge by Connell 2009 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
5 Captivity Narrative of Hannah Duston, related by Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau, four versions of events in 1697 Duston, Hannah (Arion Press) Signed by Richard Bosman 1987 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
6 A Moral Fable-Talk Golding, Arthur (Arion Press) Moral Fable-Talk from The Arion Press 1987 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
7 What the End is For: A Selection of Poems, 1977-2011 Graham, Jorie (Arion Press) Signed by Graham and Lethbridge 2014 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
8 The Maltese Falcon Hammett, Dashiell (Arion Press) The Maltese Falcon from The Arion Press 1983 $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
Current absentee: $425
(2 bids)
9 Stone from Delphi Heaney, Seamus (Arion Press) Signed, the last book by Seamus Heaney 2012 $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
10 Porgy & Bess Heyward, DuBose (Arion Press) Kara Walker's Artist Book from Arion, signed 2013 $1,500 - $2,000
Starting bid:
$750
11 What If: Poems, 1969-1987 Hoyem, Andrew (Arion Press) What If by Andrew Hoyem from Arion Press 1987 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
12 The Sundial Jackson, Shirley (Arion Press) Arion Press, Sundial signed by Myles Hyman 2011 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $200
(1 bid)
13 The Boobus and the Bunnyduck McClure, Michael and Jess Collins (Arion Press) Arion Press The Boobus and the Bunnyduck 2007 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
14 Moby Dick; or, The Whale. Melville, Herman (Arion Press) Facsimile of the Moser-illustrated Arion edition [1981] $1,200 - $1,800
Starting bid:
$600
15 The Nachman Stories Michaels, Leonard (Arion Press) The Nachman Stories from Arion Press 2009 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
16 Arcadia: A Play Stoppard, Tom (Arion Press) Arion Press Arcadia signed by Tom Stoppard 2001 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
17 Questions Volumes I-XII Neruda, Pablo (Bailey, Alicia) The poetry of Neruda, bound by Alicia Bailey 2014-2020 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
18 Gordon Craig's Paris Diary 1932-1933 Craig, Gordon (Bird & Bull Press) Gordon Craig's Paris Diary by Bird & Bull Press 1982 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
19 NO LOT
Unsold
CLOSED!
20 Three Early French Essays on Paper Marbling, 1642-1765 Wolf, Richard J., editor (Bird & Bull Press) Essays on Paper Marbling from Bird & Bull Press 1987 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
21 Four Lectures [with] The Allen Press Bibliography [and] five assorted fine press works Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.; Lewis and Dorothy Allen (Book Club of California) Three works from Book Club of CA with 4 others 1974; 1985 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
22 Nine hand-colored broadsides by William Butler Yeats (Cuala Press) 9 hand-colored broadsides by W.B. Yeats [c.1972?] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
23 Old Wine, Fine Wine? Brady, Roy (D'Ambrosio, Joseph) Signed by the author, designer and printer 1900 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
24 "A Leaf from The First of May" - A Fairy Masque: With An Essay on Walter Crane Johnson, Carolyn (D'Ambrosio, Joseph) Signed by the author, colorist and printer 1988 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
25 The Mookse and the Gripes. From Two Tales of Shem and Shaun. Joyce, James (D'Ambrosio, Joseph) Joe D'Ambrosio's Mookse and the Gripes 1977 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
26 Birds in Paradise, Or, Life Upon a Japanese Screen D'Ambrosio, Joseph Wally Dawes' copy of Birds of Paradise 1984 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
27 Literary Figures D'Ambrosio, Joseph Literary Figures, signed by D'Ambrosio 1978 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
28 Trapeze D'Ambrosio, Joseph Trapeze by D'Ambrosio, 1 of 50 copies 1976 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
29 A fine press miscellany (Fine Press) A Miscellany of 11 fine press works Various dates $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(1 bid)
30 Seven works from Fine Presses (Fine Press) Seven works from Fine Presses Various dates $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
31 Collection of fine press items related to Vance Gerry (Gerry, Vance) Fine press designed by Vance Gerry with bio 1986-2014 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
32 The Standing and the Waiting Fisher, M. F. K. (Gerry, Vance) M.F.K. Fisher story illustrated by Vance Gerry 1985 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
33 The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch. As related in William Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer Blight, William & John Fryer (Golden Cockerel Press) Voyage of the Bounty's Launch Golden Cockerel 1934 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
34 The Pearl. Newly translated by John F. Crawford with Andrew Hoyem including the middle English text printed interlinearly from the British Museum manuscript Cotton Nero A.x... (Grabhorn-Hoyem) The Pearl from Grabhorn-Hoyem 1967 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
35 The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare (Gregynog Press) The Stealing of the Mare Gregynog Press 1930 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
36 Marbling at the Heyeck Press Heyeck, Robin (Heyeck Press) Robin Heyeck's paper marbling journey 1986 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
37 Two fine press books on typography Hoffman, Richard 2 typographic books by Richard Hoffman 1980-1985 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
38 The Loving Shepherdess Jeffers, Robinson Signed by Robinson Jeffers and Jean Kellogg 1956 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
39 The Martian Chronicles Bradbury, Ray (Limited Editions Club) Signed by Ray Bradbury 1974 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $200
(1 bid)
40 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments Burton, Richard F., translator (Limited Editions Club) Illustrated by Valenti Angelo 1934 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
41 Two fine press editions of Dostoevsky Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Limited Editions Club) Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg 1956; 1959 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
42 Four major works of modern literature (Limited Editions Club) Proust, Galsworthy, James and Lawrence 1964-1975 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
43 Four volumes of Science Fiction from the Limited Editions Club (Limited Editions Club) Limited Editions Club Verne, Huxley, Wells 1964-1974 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
44 Two by Thomas Mann Mann, Thomas (Limited Editions Club) Two novels from Thomas Mann 1962-1972 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $160
(2 bids)
45 Three volumes of fine press English Literature (Limited Editions Club) Three volumes of Fine Press English Literature Various dates $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $160
(2 bids)
46 Three works about Outsiders (Limited Editions Club) Limited Editions Club Camus, Kafka and Hesse 1971-1977 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
47 War & Peace Tolstoy, Leo (Limited Editions Club) War & Peace illustrated by Barnett Freedman 1938 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
48 Twelve titles from the Lord John Press (Lord John Press) 12 Lord John Press, incl. Bradbury & Everson 1978-2000 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $350
(2 bids)
49 Double-Headed Creature Features Yau, John, Max Gimblett, and Tobin Hines (Makeshift Press) Artists' book by Yau, Gimblett, and Hines 2001 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
50 Five volumes printed by or about John Henry Nash (Nash, John Henry) Five volumes printed by or about John Henry Nash 1912-1948 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
51 In Japan Young, Gary (Ninja Press) Ninja Press, In Japan, Gary Young 2017 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
52 At Low Water: An Intertidal Memoir Chamlee, Rebecca (Pie in the Sky Press) Letter A of 5 deluxe copies, At Low Water 2017 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
53 A Bag of Possibles Koss, Jim (Piece of Moon Press) Signed by Jim Koss, w/ additional illustration 1979 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
54 Three Fine Press works of Poetry (Private Press Poetry) Fine Press: Browning, Tennyson and Swinburne Various dates $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
55 Three Fine Press editions of Early English Literature (Private Press) Three Poetic works from Fine Presses Various dates $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
56 Carmina Anglica: Latene Reddidit - 4 copies Richardson, Leon Josia Leon Josia Richardson's Latin translations 1899 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
57 The Wedgwood Medallion of Samuel Johnson: A Study in Iconograpby [with] A New Portrait of James Boswell Tinker, Chauncey Brewster; Chauncey Brewster Tinker and Frederick Albert Pottle (Rogers, Bruce - Harvard University Press) Two works designed by Bruce Rogers 1926; 1927 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(1 bid)
58 Ancient Books and Modern Discoveries Kenyon, Frederic G. (Rogers, Bruce) Printed by Bruce Rogers for the Caxton Club 1927 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
59 The Rounce & Coffin Club 1931-1981 (Rounce & Coffin Club) Rounce & Coffin Golden Jubilee keepsakes [1981] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
60 Farmers: Wood Engravings—Interviews [with] Farmers Progressive Proofs Schanilec, Gaylord Farmers by Schanilec with progressive proofs [1989]; 1992 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
61 A Tree Sequence Norris, Leslie (Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill) Signed by Leslie Norris and Gretchen Daiber 1984 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
62 Large collection of works printed by Tommy Tommasini (Tommasini, A.R. "Tommy") Thirty-two volumes from A.R. "Tommy" Tommasini 1948-1982 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
63 Historie of the Life and Death of Sir William Kirkaldy of Grange, Knight Murdoch, Harold (Updike, D.B. - Merrymount Press) Life of Sir William Kirkaldy printed by Updike 1906 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(1 bid)
64 Twelve works of literature printed and/or designed by D.B. Updike (Updike, D.B. - Merrymount Press) Twelve literary works from Merrymount Press Various dates $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
65 Pius XI on Christian Marriage, in the Original Latin with English Translation Pius XI, Pope (Updike, D.B.) Two editions printed by D.B. Updike 1931 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
66 Trailing the Pioneers [with] West from Fort Bridger Delafosse, Peter H. et al, editors. (Utah State University Press) Utah Pioneer stories, signed by contributors 1994 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
67 Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel & Research Steinbeck, John & Edward F. Ricketts (Wagener, Richard - Arion Press) Arion Press Deluxe Sea of Cortez 2020 $4,000 - $6,000
Starting bid:
$2,000
Current absentee: $2,000
(1 bid)
68 The Sierra Nevada Suite: Thirty-One Wood Engravings by Richard Wagener Wagener, Richard (Wagener, Richard - BCC) Wagener's Sierra Suite, one of only 10 such 2013 $2,000 - $3,000
Starting bid:
$1,000
69 The Fragments of Parmenides - deluxe copy with suite of 10 additional wood engravings signed by Richard Wagener Parmenides (Wagener, Richard - Editions Koch) Parmenides deluxe copy with Wagener suite 2003 $10,000 - $15,000
Starting bid:
$5,000
70 Teapots & Tympani Chernoff, Maxine and Richard Wagener (Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions) Teapots & Tympany one of 3 "in sheets' copies 2019 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
71 Cracked Sidewalks Wagener, Richard (Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions) Cracked Sidewalks signed by R. Wagener 2006 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
72 Cracked Sidewalks Wagener, Richard (Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions) Signed deluxe edition with extra suite of prints 2006 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
Current absentee: $750
(1 bid)
73 From Here and There Wagener, Richard (Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions) Deluxe copy with 6 additional signed engravings 2022 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
74 Mountains & Religion Wagener, Richard (Wagener, Richard - Mixolydian Editions) Mountains & Religion signed by R. Wagener 2011 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
75 Hourglass in the Mojave Sherry, Ruth Forbes (Wagon & Star) Hourglass in the Mojave by Ruth Forbes Sherry [1941] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
76 Sierra Nevada Sequence Walker, Ardis M. Ardis Walker's poetry with Kirk Martin's art, signed [1968] $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $250
(1 bid)
77 Shotgun on my Chest: Memoirs of a Lewis and Clark Book Collector Wendlick, Roger Memoirs of Lewis & Clark Book Collector, 2 copies 2009 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
Current absentee: $300
(1 bid)
78 The Garden of the Night Azmi, Iftikhar, translator (The Whittington Press) Signed by the artist and translator [1979] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
79 The Song of Songs (The Whittington Press) The Song of Songs from The Whittington Press 1976 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
80 Three works illustrated by Richard Kennedy (The Whittington Press) Three illustrated and signed by Richard Kennedy $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
81 T.E. Lawrence Letters to E.T. Leeds with a commentary by E.T. Leeds Wilson, J.M., editor (The Whittington Press) T.E. Lawrence Letters to E.T. Leeds [1988] $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
82 The Work & Play of Adrian Wilson: A Bibliography with Commentary Wilson, Joyce Lancaster, editor (Wilson, Adrian) The Work & Play of Adrian Wilson 1963 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
83 Two Limited Editions from the Windowpane Press (Windowpane Press) Two works from Windowpane Press 2010, 2013 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
84 Splendide Californie! Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists, 1786 to 1900 Chalmers, Claudine (Yolla Bolly Press) Splendide Californie! Book Club of California rarity 2001 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
85 Collection of Zamorano Club keepsake volumes (Zamorano Club) 22 Zamorano Club keepsakes 1934-2018 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
86 La Divina Commedia Alighieri, Dante Dante in hand-painted vellum bindings 1896; 1909 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $200
(1 bid)
87 La Comédie Humaine Balzac, HonorĂ© de Balzac's Human Comedy, 40 vols. 1895-1898 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
88 The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane Le Sage, [Alain Rene] (Bayntun) Bound by Bayntun with hand-colored plates 1819 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$750
Current absentee: $750
(1 bid)
89 Charles II Airy, Osmund (Bickers & Son) Charles II by Airy, bound by Bickers 1901 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
90 Il Decamerone di m. Giovanni Boccaccio Boccaccio, Giovanni 1757 Boccaccio finely bound with engraved plates 1757-[1761] $2,000 - $3,000
Starting bid:
$1,000
91 The Military Souvenir: A Portrait Gallery of Our Military and Naval Heroes Bramhall, Frank J. With 75 steel-engraved Civil War portraits [1863] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
92 The Works of George Borrow Borrow, George Henry (Bumpus) Beautifully bound by Bumpus 1923-1924 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
93 The Works of Walter Pater Pater, Walter (Bumpus) Complete set, nicely bound by Bumpus 1900-1901 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $250
(1 bid)
94 The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Bumpus) Tennyson's Works, nicely bound by Bumpus 1906 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
95 The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha Cervantes, Miguel De Don Quixote 6th Edition 1733 1733 $2,000 - $3,000
Starting bid:
$1,000
96 Marlborough: His Life and Times Churchill, Winston S. Churchill's Life of Marlborough Finely Bound [1933-38] $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
Current absentee: $400
(1 bid)
97 Beaux & Belles of England: Nell Gwyn Cunningham, Peter, editor Nell Gwyn, Royal Mistress, handsomely bound n.d. $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
98 The Works of Charles Dickens Dickens, Charles Dickens' Works handsomely bound by Asprey 1897-1899 $2,000 - $3,000
Starting bid:
$1,000
99 Ten Works of George Eliot Eliot, George Ten works by George Eliot, bound by Ratchards Undated $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
100 The Arabian Nights Forster, Edward, translator Forster's Arabian Nights, nicely bound 1802 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300