Sale 20FL01 | Catalogue

Fine Literature featuring a Collection of Rudyard Kipling

Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10am EDT | New York

Fine Literature featuring a Collection of Rudyard Kipling | Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10am EDT

Lot 1

ANDERSON, SHERWOOD Winesburg, Ohio.

C From the Personal Collection of Gary Combs

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $312 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - ASHBERY, JOHN Two signed works.

Lot 2

ASHBERY, JOHN Two signed works. Comprising: Sunrise in Suburbia. New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. Limited edit...

Estimate: $300 - $400

Unsold

Lot 3

ASIMOV, ISAAC Chemicals of Life.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $125 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 4

ASIMOV, ISAAC I, Robot.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $406 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BUKOWSKI, CHARLES Shakespeare Never Did This.

Lot 5

BUKOWSKI, CHARLES Shakespeare Never Did This. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Limited edition, number 81 of 326 del...

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $218 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 6

BUKOWSKI, CHARLES Cruelty of Loveless Love.

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $406 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 7

CALDWELL, ERSKINE Georgia Boy.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Unsold

Lot 8

CROSBY, HARRY Sonnets for Caresse.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $218 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 9

ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS Typed letter signed, 1925.

C Property of a Prominent New Jersey Family

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Unsold

Lot 10

ELLISON, RALPH Invisible Man.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $937 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 11

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. The Complete Works.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Unsold

Lot 12

FAULKNER, WILLIAM As I Lay Dying.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $3,750 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 13

FAULKNER, WILLIAM Salmagundi ... and a Poem by Ernest Hemingway.

C From the Personal Collection of Gary Combs

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $125 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 14

FAULKNER, WILLIAM Light In August.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $1,750 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 15

FAULKNER, WILLIAM The Unvanquished.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $562 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 16

FAULKNER, WILLIAM A Fable.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $687 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 17

FAULKNER, WILLIAM The Town.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $531 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 18

FAULKNER, WILLIAM The Mansion.

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $500 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 19

FAULKNER, WILLIAM The Reivers.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $625 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [FILM] Group of first editions of books made into popular films and plays.

Lot 20

[FILM] Group of first editions of books made into popular films and plays. Each a first edition in publishers cloth and or...

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $1,062 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 21

[FINE BINDING] HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The Scarlet Letter.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $4,375 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 22

[FINE BINDING] HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. The House of Seven Gables.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $375 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 23

[FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT] Envelope addressed to Mr. H. A. Phillips in Fitzgeralds hand.

C Property of a Prominent New Jersey Family

Estimate: $200 - $300

Unsold

Lot 24

FREUD, SIGMUND The Interpretation of Dreams.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $2,125 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 25

FREUD, SIGMUND Civilization and its Discontents.

Estimate: $300 - $400

Sold for $375 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 26

FROST, ROBERT A Boys Will.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $875 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 27

[FINE BINDING] GAUTIER, THEOPHILE. Cleopatra.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $562 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 28

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Winner Take Nothing.

Estimate: $500 - $700

Sold for $812 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - HEMINGWAY, ERNEST The Torrents Of Spring.

Lot 29

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST The Torrents Of Spring. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1926. First edition. Publishers cloth, in ori...

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Sold for $3,125 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 30

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST The Torrents Of Spring.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $750 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Audio recording of Hemingway.

Lot 31

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST Audio recording of Hemingway. Circa 1948-1961. Three heavy vinyl LP records by Allied with crayon m...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $250 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 32

JOYCE, JAMES Chamber Music.

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

Sold for $750 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 33

JOYCE, JAMES Chamber Music.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $531 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 34

[LIBRARY SET] CARLYLE, THOMAS. Works.

C Property of a Private Collector, New York

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $593 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 35

[LIBRARY SET-CLASSICS] Multi-volume sets of classic English works from the Percy Society and the Warton Club.

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $500 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 36

[LIBRARY SET] GARNETT, RICHARD. The Universal Anthology...

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Unsold

Lot 37

[LIBRARY SET] PAGE, THOMAS NELSON. Works.

C Property of a Private Collector, New York

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $625 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 38

[LIBRARY SET] TARKINGTON, BOOTH. Works.

C Property of a Private Collector, New York

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $500 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 39

[LIBRARY SET] VAN DYKE, HENRY. Works.

C Property of a Private Collector, New York

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $687 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 40

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH Autograph fair copy signed of Hermes Trismegistus.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $1,250 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 41

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH Note signed.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $187 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL Autograph fair copy signed of A Mystical Ballad.

Lot 42

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL Autograph fair copy signed of A Mystical Ballad. Cambridge, MA: March 9, 1844. Blue-gray crushed m...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $750 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 43

MALANGA, GERARD This Will Kill That.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $125 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 44

MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA One hundred Years of Solitude.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $812 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 45

MAUPASSANT, GUY DE Autograph letter signed.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $375 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 46

MILLER, HENRY Tropic of Cancer.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $437 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - MITCHELL, MARGARET Gone with the Wind.

Lot 47

MITCHELL, MARGARET Gone with the Wind. New York: MacMillan, 1936. First edition, signed by Mitchell on the front blank, fir...

C Property of a Princeton NJ Private Collection

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

Sold for $5,937 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - ORWELL, GEORGE Nineteen Eighty-Four. The facsimile of the extant manuscript.

Lot 48

ORWELL, GEORGE Nineteen Eighty-Four. The facsimile of the extant manuscript. Weston, Massachusetts: M & S Press, 1984. Limi...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Unsold

Lot 49

PYNCHON, THOMAS V.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $343 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Collected Works.

Lot 50

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Collected Works. Stratford-On-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1904-08. Limited edition, number 232 of 10...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $1,125 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [SIGNED BOOKS] A miscellany of signed 20th century literature.

Lot 51

[SIGNED BOOKS] A miscellany of signed 20th century literature. Includes: FERBER, EDNA. Giant, signed on the front bla...

C From the Personal Collection of Gary Combs

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $1,125 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [SIGNED BOOKS] Large group of signed limited editions by 20th century authors.

Lot 52

[SIGNED BOOKS] Large group of signed limited editions by 20th century authors. Various publishers and dates but mostly Rand...

C From the Personal Collection of Gary Combs

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $2,000 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - STEIN, GERTRUDE Geography and Plays.

Lot 53

STEIN, GERTRUDE Geography and Plays. Boston: The Four Seas Company, [1922]. First edition, second state binding, inscribed...

C From the Personal Collection of Gary Combs

Estimate: $400 - $600

Unsold

Lot image - STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Autograph fair copy of his poem To Will H. Low.

Lot 54

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Autograph fair copy of his poem To Will H. Low. Likely prepared for the printer, this first a...

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $3,437 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - THOREAU, HENRY DAVID The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.

Lot 55

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. The Manuscript Edition with tw...

Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000

Sold for $6,875 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 56

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Smith of Wootton Major.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $125 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 57

[TOLSTOY] TOLSTOI, COUNT LEON War and Peace. A Historical Novel.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $4,687 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 58

[TOLSTOY] TOLSTOI, COUNT LEON War and Peace. A Historical Novel. New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1887-88. Six volumes, or...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,062 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 59

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF Autograph letter signed to Lucy Larcom.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $531 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 60

WILDE, OSCAR Intentions.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $531 (includes buyer's premium)