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 1-35 of 35. Previous|1|Next Lot #10 The Pied Piper of Hamelin AuthorBrowning, RobertHeadlineThe Pied Piper illustrated by Arthurs RackhamPublisherGeorge G. HarrapDate Published1934 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #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. . . AuthorBuchan, WilliamHeadline1778 Medical advicePublisherPrinted by John Trumbull for Robert HodgeDate Published1778 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Lot #19 The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's The Descent of ManPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1881 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #20 Traite de nomographie. Théorie des abaques. Authord’Ocagne, MauriceHeadlineTheories by the creator of normographyPublisherGauthier-VillarsDate Published1899 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #27 The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants Heading(Flower Gardens)AuthorLoudon, Mrs. [Jane Webb]HeadlineThe Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous PlantsPublisherWilliam S. Orr & Co.Date Published[c.1841] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #37 Physics and Beyond Encounters and Conversations AuthorHeisenberg, WernerHeadlineAutobiography of Werner Heisenberg, world renowned atomic scientist.PublisherHarper & RowDate Published1971 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #46 Typed Letter Signed By Dean Koontz AuthorKoontz, DeanHeadlineType Letter Signed from novelist Dean KoontzDate Published21 August 2017 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #67 The Devil in the Book AuthorTrumbo, DaltonHeadlineTrumbo's analysis of the conviction of 14 Smith Act defendantsPublisherCalifornia Emergency Defense CommitteeDate Published1956 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #75 Walter Sickert: A Conversation AuthorWoolf, VirginiaHeadlineVirginia Woolf's Walter SickertPublisherLeonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth PressDate Published1934 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #88 Free City Heading(Brautigan, Richard)Author[Free City Collective]HeadlineBrautigan, Free City, 1967Publisher[Free City Collective]Date Published[1967-68] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #89 The Galilee Hitch-Hiker AuthorBrautigan, RichardHeadlineRichard Brautigan Galilee Hitch-Hiker 1st EditionPublisher[White Rabbit Press]Date Published[1958] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #90 Trout Fishing in America - review copy AuthorBrautigan, RichardHeadlineRichard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America - review copyPublisherFour Seasons FoundationDate Published1967 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #91 Factotum AuthorBukowski, CharlesHeadlineCharles Bukowski Factotum w/painting 1/75PublisherBlack SparrowDate Published1975 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #95 Let Us Compare Mythologies AuthorCohen, LeonardHeadlineLeonard Cohen's first book inscribedPublisherMcGill Poetry SeriesDate Published[1956] View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000StatusUnsold Lot #99 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineSuperb Origin of Species, 3rd editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1861 View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Sold for$7,500StatusSold Lot #110 Dago Red AuthorFante, JohnHeadlineLovely first edition of Fante's Dago RedPublisherThe Viking PressDate Published1940 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next