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Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45161 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$843,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$1,328,906 or more
J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
[London]: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition in hardcover, with "1 wand" listed twice on page 53 and without a space between "Taylor and "1997" on the seventh line of the publisher's imprint, as called for.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45062 | Dec 9, 2021
Sold For:
$471,000.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby
. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45062 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$425,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$637,500 or more
[
Petrus Apianus].
Astronomicum Caesareum
.
[Ingolstadt: In aedibus nostris, May 1540]. First edition of the "most spectacular contribution of the book-maker's art to sixteenth-century science" (Owen Gingerich).
Auction 6230
| Lot: 45195 | Oct 15, 2020
Sold For:
$325,000.00
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist:
A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.
New York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, 1788. First edition in book form of the collected essays, one of the scarce "thick paper" copies. This copy
personally gifted by James Madison
to early United States diplomat and overseas consul James Maury. Both volumes with holograph note in Maury's hand at recto of front flyleaf, "James Maury / From Mr Madison / one of the supposed / authors."
Auction 6222
| Lot: 45031 | Mar 4, 2020
Sold For:
$312,500.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45186 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$300,000.00
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$450,000 or more
Henry David Thoreau.
Walden; or Life in the Woods
. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45185 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$275,000.00
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$412,500 or more
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist:
A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution,
as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.[- Vol. II.]. New-York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, 1788. First complete edition in book form of "The Federalist Papers"-"the most famous and influential American political work" (Howes), and "one of the new nation's most important contributions to the theory of government" (
Printing and the Mind of Man
). One of 500 copies printed. (Total: 2)
Auction 6208
| Lot: 45214 | Mar 6, 2019
Sold For:
$187,500.00
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist:
A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.
In Two Volumes. New-York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, 1788. First collected edition of the "Federalist Papers," one of only 500 copies printed. From the library of Samuel Boyd, prominent New York lawyer and one of a powerful group of Federalists, who, led by Alexander Hamilton, would found the
New-York Evening Post
(now
New York Post
) in 1801, with his ink signature on each title-page. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6164
| Lot: 45010 | Sep 15, 2016
Sold For:
$175,000.00
The Beatles
The White Album
No. #0000006 John Lennon's Copy, Top-Loader Stereo UK Pressing LP Vinyl Record with Inserts (Apple, PCS 7067/7068, 1968).
Auction 7321
| Lot: 26096 | Feb 24, 2024
Sold For:
$162,500.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing,
inscribed by the author
on the front-free endpaper: "For Tatnall Brown / from one, who / is flattered at / being remembered / F Scott Fitzgerald / Hollywood, 1939."
Auction 6186
| Lot: 45039 | Mar 7, 2018
Sold For:
$162,500.00
[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley].
Frankenstein.
Or, The Modern Prometheus.
London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818. First edition.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71090 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$162,500.00
Make Offer to Owner
$243,750 or more
Adam Smith.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6289
| Lot: 45015 | Oct 11, 2024
Sold For:
$112,500.00
Jane Austen.
Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice," &c. &c.
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45009 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$112,500.00
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$168,750 or more
Christopher Marlowe.
The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta
. London: J[ohn]. B[eale]. for Nicholas Vavasour, 1633.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45124 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$112,500.00
The Beatles
Yesterday and Today
Sealed Mono "First State" with "Butcher" Cover LP Vinyl Record (Capitol, T-2553) Slabbed and Graded 9.0.
Auction 7321
| Lot: 26091 | Feb 24, 2024
Sold For:
$112,500.00
[Thomas Jefferson, his copy].
The Laws of the United States of America. Vol. VI
[-
VII
].
Auction 6280
| Lot: 47011 | Dec 15, 2023
Sold For:
$112,500.00
J.K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
[London]: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition in hardcover, with all points as called for.
Auction 6275
| Lot: 42085 | Jul 8, 2023
Sold For:
$103,125.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1954-1955. First editions, first impressions, with original illustrated first state dust jackets.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45068 | Dec 9, 2021
Sold For:
$103,125.00
Make Offer to Owner
$154,688 or more
[George Washington, his copy]. Marcus Tullius Cicero.
M. T. Cicero's Cato Major, or his Discourse of Old Age: With Explanatory Notes.
Translation and notes by James Logan. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, 1744.
Auction 6294
| Lot: 42050 | Jul 25, 2024
Sold For:
$100,000.00
James Otto Lewis.
The Aboriginal Port Folio.
Or a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians.
Philadelphia: [Published by the author] J.O. Lewis, [1835]-1838. First edition, complete with ten parts, title page, and advertisement leaves.
One of only three known copies complete with the title page.
Auction 6253
| Lot: 45017 | Jul 27, 2022
Sold For:
$100,000.00
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Great Gatsby.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing with all six textual variants as called for, in the rare dust jacket.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45075 | Dec 9, 2021
Sold For:
$100,000.00
C. S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia.
London: Geoffrey Bles, [1950-1954] [and:] Bodley Head, 1955-1956. First editions, in original, unrestored dust jackets.
Each volume signed by illustrator Pauline Baynes to the title page.
Auction 6241
| Lot: 45053 | Dec 9, 2021
Sold For:
$100,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$150,000 or more
Jean T[héodore] Descourtilz. [
Oiseaux brillans du Brésil.
Paris: 1834]. First edition of the rarest bird book relating to the Americas.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45090 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$100,000.00
John. Thomson.
Foochow and the River Min.
A Series of Photographs.
London: Autotype Fine Art Company, 1873. First edition.
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45117 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$100,000.00
Joseph Smith.
The Book of Mormon:
An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi...
By Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor. Palmyra: Printed by E. B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830. First edition, one of 5,000 copies printed by E. B. Grandin in Palmyra, New York.
Foreman of the press Pomeroy Tucker's copy
, signed by him in pencil on the front free endpaper: "P. Tucker;" and on the front flyleaf: "P. Tucker / Palmyra / N Y;" with his pencil markings and annotations throughout. Additional ink presentation inscription on the front flyleaf: "Dec 12 - 1954 / To Al Fowers / Man of sterling worth / and true and loyal friend / Sydney Tucker Jones / grandson of / Pomeroy Tucker, / in whose print shop / this book was produced."
Auction 6164
| Lot: 45017 | Sep 15, 2016
Sold For:
$100,000.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings
Trilogy, comprising
The Fellowship of the Ring
,
The Two Towers
, and
The Return of the King
. (Total: 3)
Auction 6289
| Lot: 45146 | Oct 11, 2024
Sold For:
$95,000.00
Lansford W. Hastings.
The Emigrants' Guide, to Oregon and California, Containing Scenes and Incidents of a Party of Oregon Emigrants; a Description of Oregon; Scenes and Incidents of a Party of California Emigrants; and a Description of California; with a Description of the Different Routes to those Countries; and All Necessary Information Relative to the Equipment, Supplies, and the Method of Traveling. By
[the]
Leader of the Oregon and California Emigrants of 1842.
Auction 6319
| Lot: 45030 | May 9, 2025
Sold For:
$93,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$140,625 or more
J.K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
. [London]: Bloomsbury, [1997].
Auction 6294
| Lot: 42037 | Jul 25, 2024
Sold For:
$93,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$140,625 or more
John Milton.
Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton For the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, To the Parliament of England
. London, 1644.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45135 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$93,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$140,625 or more
Graham Greene.
Brighton Rock.
A Novel.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1938. First English edition.
Auction 6212
| Lot: 42197 | Sep 5, 2019
Sold For:
$93,750.00
[Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay].
The Federalist: A Collection of Essays.
Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.
In two volumes. New York: Printed and Sold by John Tiebout, 1799. First collected edition of the "Federalist Papers;" reissue, with cancel title-pages, of the 1788 edition printed by John and Archibald M'Lean. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6193
| Lot: 45098 | Sep 13, 2018
Sold For:
$87,500.00
Isaac Watts.
Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children
. London: Printed for M. Lawrence, 1715.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45198 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$81,250.00
Make Offer to Owner
$121,875 or more
Charles Darwin.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,
or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1859. First edition, first printing.
Auction 6232
| Lot: 45344 | Jun 9, 2021
Sold For:
$81,250.00
L. Frank Baum.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
With Pictures by W. W. Denslow. Chicago & New York: Geo. M. Hill, 1900. First edition, first state of plates and text.
Auction 6234
| Lot: 45171 | Dec 16, 2020
Sold For:
$81,250.00
Make Offer to Owner
$121,875 or more
J. K. Rowling.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
London: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition.
Auction 6201
| Lot: 45111 | Sep 14, 2017
Sold For:
$81,250.00
[Ralph Waldo Emerson].
Nature
. Boston: James Munroe, 1836.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45056 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$78,125.00
Make Offer to Owner
$117,188 or more
Frank Herbert.
Dune
. Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965].
Auction 6319
| Lot: 45167 | May 9, 2025
Sold For:
$75,000.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings
Trilogy, comprising
The Fellowship of the Ring
,
The Two Towers
, and
The Return of the King
. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-1955.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45188 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$75,000.00
James Boswell.
The Life of Samuel Johnson
. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilley, 1791.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45015 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$75,000.00
Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall.
History of the Indian Tribes of North America,
with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington.
Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough, 1838 (volume I); Daniel Rice and James G. Clark, 1842 and 1844 (volumes II and III). First edition with volume I the third issue, volume II the second issue, and volume III the third issue. Complete with 120 hand-colored engraved plates, tissue guards, one page of engraved maps, and 17 pages of subscribers' signatures in facsimile. State C of "War Dance" and state F of "Red Jacket." (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6232
| Lot: 45414 | Jun 9, 2021
Sold For:
$75,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$112,500 or more
Dashiell Hammett.
Red Harvest.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition.
Auction 6208
| Lot: 45036 | Mar 6, 2019
Sold For:
$75,000.00
Make Offer to Owner
$112,500 or more
[Jane Austen].
Sense and Sensibility: A Novel in Three Volumes. By a Lady
. London: for the author by C. Roworth and published by T. Egerton, 1811. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6319
| Lot: 45050 | May 9, 2025
Sold For:
$68,750.00
J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Lord of the Rings
Trilogy
,
comprising
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers,
and
The Return of the King.
Auction 6319
| Lot: 45174 | May 9, 2025
Sold For:
$68,750.00
John Milton
.
Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times
. London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at the signe of the Princes Arms in Pauls Church-yard,1645.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45136 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$68,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$103,125 or more
John Milton.
Paradise lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books
. London: Printed [by Samuel Simons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker...Robert Boulter...and Matthias Walker, 1667.
Auction 6295
| Lot: 45137 | Jun 27, 2024
Sold For:
$68,750.00
Make Offer to Owner
$103,125 or more
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan of the Apes.
In
The All-Story
, Volume XXIV, Number 2, October 1912. New York and London: Frank A. Munsey Company, 1912. First edition of the first appearance of Tarzan, containing the entire text of
Tarzan of the Apes
. This first appearance precedes the A. C. McClurg book edition by a year-and-a-half.
Auction 31172
| Lot: 71008 | Oct 14, 2021
Sold For:
$68,750.00
Thomas L McKenney and James Hall.
History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs Embellished With One Hundred and Twenty Portraits.
From the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington.
Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough (volumes I and II) and Daniel Rice & James G. Clark (volume III), 1838 (volumes I and II), 1844 (volume III). First edition. BAL's state A of volumes II and III, state C of volume I. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6201
| Lot: 45289 | Sep 14, 2017
Sold For:
$66,250.00
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