Sale 709: PBA Platinum: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Art (#709) 09/10/2020 11:00 AM PDT Closed Starts Ending 09/10/2020 11:00 AM PDT 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 1-40 of 40. Previous|1|Next Lot #6 Collection of 24 cards with picaresque images of Mexican types, each representing a letter of the alphabet Heading(Alphabet Cards - Mexico)HeadlineRare Mexican caricature alphabet cardsDate Publishedc.1840 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #8 E. Borderel & Roberts, Ferronnerie d’Art Heading(Architecture - Art Deco Ironwork)AuthorSubes, RaymondHeadlineFinely printed images of French art deco ironwork, 1928PublisherBorderel & RobertsDate Published[1928] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #11 Cane Heading(Arion Press)AuthorToomer, JeanHeadlineArion Press, Cane signed by Martin PuryearPublisherArion PressDate Published2000 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #15 Taglioni dans "La Sylphide" Heading(Ballet)HeadlineLIthograph of ballerina Marie TaglioniDate Publishedc.1850 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #16 The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights 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 the World of them All Heading(Beardsley, Aubrey)AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineBeardsley illustrates King Arthur, 1/1500 copiesPublisherJ.M. Dent & Co.Date Published1893-94 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,000StatusSold Lot #17 Relais: Quinze Planches Donnant Quarante-Deux Motifs Décoratifs AuthorBenedictus, EdouardHeadlineEdouard Benedictus Relais, complete pochoir suitePublisherÉditions Vincent Fréal, et CieDate Published1930 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #18 The Grave, a Poem Heading(Blake, William)AuthorBlair, RobertHeadlineWilliam Blake engravings for Blair's Grave 1808PublisherPrinted by T. Bensley... for the Proprietor, R.H. CromekDate Published1808 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold Lot #19 Illustrations to the Book of Job. The Engravings and related material with Essays, Catalogue of States and printings, Commentary on the Plates and Documentary Record by David Bindman, Barbara Bryant, Robert Essick, Geoffrey Keynes and Bo Lindberg. Edited by David Bindman AuthorBlake, WilliamHeadlineBlake's Book of Job, 1 of 250 copies fom the Trianon PressPublisherWilliam Blake TrustDate Published1987 [printed c.1974] View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000StatusUnsold Lot #20 Fahrenheit 451 AuthorBradbury, RayHeadlineWith Ray Bradbury inscription and sketch for Herb YellinPublisherRupert Hart-DavisDate Published1954 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold Lot #21 The Illustrated Man AuthorBradbury, RayHeadlineBradbury's Illustrated Man inscribed to Herb YellinPublisherDoubleday & Company IncDate Published1951 View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,800Sold for$1,625StatusSold Lot #22 The October Country AuthorBradbury, RayHeadlineSigned by Bradbury and Mugnaini, inscribed to YellinPublisherBallantine BooksDate Published[1955] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #25 Two manuscript documents pertaining to a bet between Samuel Brannan and H.C. Downing on the outcome of the 1868 Presidential election, one of them signed by Brannan Heading(California - Samuel Brannan)HeadlineSam Brannan bets on U.S. Grant, signed documentDate PublishedOct. 12 & Dec. 4, 1868 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #27 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [&] Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There AuthorCarroll, LewisHeadlineBoth copies signed by the Original AlicePublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1932 & 1935 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #28 Pagliacci (Punchinello): Drama in Two Acts Heading(Caruso, Enrico)AuthorLeoncavallo, RuggeroHeadlineInscribed by Leoncavallo with signed card by CarusoPublisherG. SchirmerDate Published[1906] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #29 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 AuthorCervantes Saavedra, Miguel deHeadlineIllustrated edition of Don Quixote 1687PublisherPrinted by Thomas Hodgkin, and sold by William WhitwoodDate Published1687 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$8,125StatusSold Lot #32 Step by Step, 1936-1939 - inscribed to the Duke of Windsor AuthorChurchill, Winston S.HeadlineInscribed by Winston Churchill to Duke of WindsorPublisherThornton Butterworth, Ltd.Date Published[1939] View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$34,375StatusSold Lot #33 Letter signed by Cuban poet and revolutionary José Marti, regarding funds for the ongoing Cuban struggle for independence from Spain Heading(Cuba)AuthorMartí Perez, José JulíanHeadlineALS from Cuban revolutionary José MartiDate Published14 March 1893 View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #35 The Botanic Garden. A Poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes Author[Darwin, Erasmus]HeadlineDarwin's Botanic Garden with Blake plates, 1791PublisherPrinted for J. JohnsonDate Published1791 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$625StatusSold Lot #36 Pantagruel: Les Horribles et Espovantables Faictz et Prouesses du Très Renommé Roy des Dipsodes Fils du Grand Géant Gargantua Heading(Derain, André, artist)AuthorRabelais, FrançoisHeadlineAndré Derain artist book 1/15 with original paintingPublisherAlbert SkiraDate Published[1943] View details Estimate$30,000 - $50,000Sold for$25,000StatusSold Lot #38 Sister Carrie AuthorDreiser, TheodoreHeadlineSister Carrie 1st ed. inscribed by Theodore DreiserPublisherDoubleday, Page & Co.Date Published1900 View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Sold for$6,250StatusSold Lot #42 Mr. Knife Miss Fork - One of 50 signed copies Heading(Ernst, Max)AuthorCrevel, RenéHeadlineMr. Knife Miss Fork - One of 50 signed copiesPublisherBlack Sun PressDate Published1931 View details Estimate$12,000 - $18,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #62 Ulysses AuthorJoyce, JamesHeadlineUlysses 1 of 250 signed by Joyce & Matisse L.E.C.PublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1935 View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Sold for$15,000StatusSold Lot #63 Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de Mexico, dezima musa, poetisa Americana, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, religiosa professa en el Convento de San Geronimo de la imperial ciudad de Mexico AuthorJuana Inés de la Cruz, SisterHeadlinePoems by Mexican philosopher-nun, 1714PublisherImprenta de Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes, a costa de Francisco LasoDate Published1714 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #64 News from Nowhere: Or, an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance Heading(Kelmscott Press)AuthorMorris, WilliamHeadlineMorris Utopian novel from Kelmscott PressPublisherKelmscott PressDate Published1993 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$4,687.50StatusSold Lot #68 Le Morte Darthur by Syr Thomas Malory. The Original Edition of William Caxton now Reprinted and Edited with an Introduction and Glossary by H. Oskar Sommers, Ph.D. With an Essay on Malory's Prose Style by Andrew Lang, M.A. AuthorMalory, ThomasHeadlineLe Morte Darthur finely bound by ZaehnsdorfPublisherDavid NuttDate Published1889 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #71 The Paradise Lost of Milton with illustrations, designed and engraved by John Martin AuthorMilton, JohnHeadlineJohn Martin mezzotints in Paradise Lost 1827PublisherSeptimus ProwettDate Published1827 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #72 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Heading(Moser, Barry, illustrator)AuthorBaum, L. FrankHeadlineWith a signed pencil drawing and additional signed printPublisherPennyroyal PressDate Published1985 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$2,250StatusSold Lot #78 O.D. a Hippie. Legalize Heroin. Ban Hippies. (and New Yorkers) AuthorPettibon, RaymondHeadlineO.D. a Hippie. Signed by Raymond PettibonPublisherSST RecordsDate Published1982 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,125StatusSold Lot #82 Lysistrata: A New Version by Gilbert Seldes Heading(Picasso, Pablo)AuthorAristophanesHeadlinePicasso's Lysistrata from the Limited Editions ClubPublisherLimited Editions ClubDate Published1934 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,375StatusSold Lot #83 Pablo Picasso - catalogue raisonné Heading(Picasso, Pablo)AuthorZervos, Christian, editorHeadline20 volumes of Zervos' Picasso Catalogue RaisonnéPublisherCahiers d'ArtDate Published1976- View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #84 Reflexion du Peintre sur la Vie AuthorPicasso, PabloHeadlineReflexion du Peintre sur la Vie, Picasso etchingPublisherGalerie Louise LeirisDate Published1967 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #85 Trois Hommes se Disputant une Femme Devant un Émir AuthorPicasso, PabloHeadlinePicasso etching, Bloch #1426PublisherGalerie Louise LeirisDate Published1966 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #88 The Club, or a Dialogue between Father and Son AuthorPuckle, JamesHeadlineOne of 18 copies on Chinese paper, bound by RivierePublisherPrinted for the Proprietor by John JohnsonDate Published1817 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #89 The Tempest Heading(Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)AuthorShakespeare, WilliamHeadlineThe Tempest Arthur Rackham Signed with jacketPublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd.Date Published[1926] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #91 Original watercolor design for cover of Fortune Magazine, March issue 1932 AuthorRivera, DiegoHeadlineWatercolor by Diego Rivera gifted to founders of Communist Party USAPublisherFortune MagazineDate Published1932 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$12,500StatusSold Lot #92 The Donkey and the Darling AuthorRivers, Larry and Terry SouthernHeadlineLarry Rivers and Terry Southern artists' bookPublisherLimited Arts EditionsDate Published1968-77 View details Estimate$6,000 - $9,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Lot #94 Eight autograph letters signed by John Ruskin addressed to Sir William Lawrence Pullar AuthorRuskin, JohnHeadlineEight John Ruskin ALS to William Lawrence PullarDate Published[c. 1873-77] View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$3,437.50StatusSold Lot #97 Grapes of Wrath AuthorSteinbeck, JohnHeadlineSigned with inscription by John SteinbeckPublisherViking PressDate Published[1939] View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$5,625StatusSold Lot #102 The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, by the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan Author[Wilde, Oscar]HeadlineWilde's Importance of Being Earnest, 1/100 signed copiesPublisherLeonard Smithers and Co.Date Published1899 View details Estimate$20,000 - $30,000Sold for$31,250StatusSold Lot #103 Sull’Adriatico. Litografie di guerra del Capitano Aldo Carpi. Venti tavole a colori Heading(World War I)AuthorCarpi, AldoHeadlineSull’Adriatico, 1/200PublisherAlfieri & LacroixDate Published1919 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next