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LotNum Title Description Condition LowEst HighEst 1 Red Badge of Courage 1st Edition The Red Badge of Courage. An Episode of the Civil War. NY: VG 600 800 Appleton, 1895. 1st ed., 1st printing, with top edge stained yellow. Printed on laid paper. Ads on p. [235] read "Gilbert Parker's Best Books." Covers lightly spotted, a few tape residue (?) stains on coated free endpapers. From the esteemed Estelle Doheny Collection, with bookplate (sold at Christie's NYC, 12/14/01). 2 The Black Riders by Stephen Crane 1st Ed The Black Riders and Other Lines. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. G+ 200 300 12mo. 1st trade edition. Spine a bit darkened and chipped. From the Estelle Doheny Collection, with bookplate (sold at Christie's NYC, 12/14/01). 3 War is Kind by Stephen Crane 1st Ed War is Kind. NY: Fred. Stokes, 1899. Illust. By Will Bradley. 1st ed. VG 300 500 Grey pictorial boards printed in black, paper spine label. Light wear, light sunning to edges and top of back cover, o/w VG. "A monument of American Art Nouveau bookmaking" (Thompson, Amer. Book Design and William Morris, p. 116). From the Estelle Doheny Collection, with bookplate, also bookplate of Fred. W. Skiff. (sold at Christie's NYC, 12/14/01). 4 Rare James Whitcomb Riley Old Swimmin' Hole 1st The Old Swimmin'-Hole, and 'Leven More Poems, by Benj. F. Fair/Good 200 400 Ed Johnson, of Boone. Indianapolis: Geo. C. Hitt, 1883. 1st ed., 1st printing. 12mo. Tan paper covers, disbound, title handwritten on front cover, with early owner inscription. Front free endpaper with "Tho. H. Benton Esq Care U.S. Pension Bureau Washington D.C.". Title page printed in red. News clippings on front end papers, verso of title and page opposite. 1st edition of James Whitcomb Riley's first book. Fragile, laid in chemise and slipcase. From the Doheny Collection with bookplate, also Fred. W. Skiff bookplate (sold at Christie's NYC 12/14/01). 5 James Whitcomb Riley's A Child-World 1st UK Ed A Child-World. London: Longmans, 1897 (but 1896). 1st UK ed., VG 100 200 small 8vo, blue cloth, leather spine, paper spine label. SIGNED by Riley on front free endpaper. From the Doheny and Skiff collections, with both bookplates (sold at Christie's NYC 12/14/01). 6 James W. Riley with Autograph Verse 1897 A Child-World. Indianapolis, 1897. 1st US ed., later issue. Inscribed VG 200 300 by Riley on front free endpaper, dated 1897, with two-line autograph verse from "The Hired Man": "When women gits to braggin' on their bread -- I'm 'spicious 'bout their pie -- as Danty said." From the Doheny and Skiff colledtions, with bookplates (sold at Christie's NYC 12/14/01). LotNum Title Description Condition LowEst HighEst 7 James Whitcomb Riley Three Books Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury. Indianapolis, 1889. 1st printing. // VG 50 100 Neghborly Poems on Friendship, Grief and Farm-Life. Indianapolis, 1891. Later printing. // Armazindy. Indianapolis, 1894. 1st ed. All are from the Doheny Collection with bookplates. (sold at Christie's NYC 12/14/01). 8 Riley's Complete Works with Autograph Letter The Complete Works. Collected and Edited by Edmund Henry Eitel. G+ 300 500 Indianapolis, 1913. Six volumes. Half leather, some wear. With autograph letter signed by Riley to Henry Irving of the Lyceum Theatre, London 1891, thanking Irving for his praise and asking if he might come for a visit, tipped to front endpaper of volume I. From the Doheny Collection (sold at Christie's NYC 12/14/01). 9 Upton Sinclair's The Jungle + Boston A Novel The Jungle. NY: Doubleday, 1906. 1st ed., 2nd issue. Very clean G+ 50 75 copy. // Boston: A Novel. NY: Boni, 1928. 2nd printing. 2 volumes, original slipcase (worn). 10 Henry Fielding's Tom Jones in Riviere Binding The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling. London: Riviere & Son, n.d. VG 25 50 (ca. 1920). 2 vols. Small 8vo. Bound by Riviere in half red calf, light wear. Slipcase. 11 John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath 1st ed in DJ The Grapes of Wrath. NY: Viking, 1939. 1st ed. of Steinbeck's VG 300 500 Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Price and "First Edition" clipped from corners of dj flap, numerous repaired tears to dj edges, spine lightly soiled, otherwise VG. 12 Steinbeck's East of Eden 1st Ed in DJ East of Eden. NY: Viking, 1952. 1st ed. Cloth stained, dj has wear G+ 200 400 and repaired tears. 13 Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men 1st + Other Of Mice and Men. NY: Covici, 1937. Edition not stated but G+ 50 75 presumed first, later issue. DJ has edge wear, otherwise VG. // Steinbeck. The Winter of Our Discontent. Book club edition, 1961. 14 James Agee's A Death in the Family 2nd Ed A Death in the Family. NY: McDowell, 1957. Stated Second Printing. VG 25 50 In good dj. 15 William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness 1st Ed Lie Down in Darkness. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. Stated VG 50 75 First Edition. Spine sunned, tape stains on flaps of dj, otherwise very good. 16 Styron's Lie Down in Darkness Inscribed Lie Down in Darkness. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. Stated G+ 200 400 First Edition. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper "For Flora Wildner, with best wishes Bill Styron." Light wear to dj and a few tears and old tape stains on verso. Cloth a bit sunned, light stains on rear cover. 17 William Faulkner's A Fable 1st Trade Ed + Other A Fable. NY: Random House, 1954. Stated First Printing (preceded VG 75 100 by a signed, limited ed.). VG in VG dj. // Faulkner's County. London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. 1st ed. Light wear to dj, o/w VG. LotNum Title Description Condition LowEst HighEst 18 Faulkner's The Town 1st Ed The Town. NY: Random House, 1957. Stated First Printing, with VG 75 100 misprint on pg. 327. Orange cloth. Dj. 19 Faulkner's The Town 1st Ed + 2 Other The Town. NY: Random House, 1957. Stated First Printing, with VG 100 200 misprint on pg. 327. Red cloth. Dj. // The Mansion. NY: Random House, 1959. Stated First Printing. Dj. // The Hamlet. NY: Random House, 1940. Stated First Printing. VG in facsimile dj. All 3 volumes in a later paper slipcase. 20 Faulkner's Sartoris 1st Ed Sartoris. NY: Harcourt, 1929. 1st ed. Black cloth stamped in red, top VG 200 300 edge stained red. Light wear, otherwise VG. 21 Faulkner's The Unvanquished Review Copy The Unvanquished. NY: Random House, 1938. Stated First Printing. VG 400 600 Review copy slip laid in, dated Feb. 15, 1938. VG in lightly sunned dj. 22 To Kill a Mockingbird Book Club Ed with DJ Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Phila. & NY: Lippincott, 1960. VG 25 50 Book Club edition in Dj. Dj has some wear, otherwise VG. 23 F Scott Fitzgerald's Beautiful & Damned 1st Ed The Beautiful and the Damned. NY: Scribner's, 1922. 1st ed., 1st VG 300 500 state, without Scribner seal on the copyright page and no ads at the back. Light wear. 24 Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age 1st Ed Tales of the Jazz Age. NY: Scribner's, 1922. 1st ed., later issue, with VG 50 100 "an" corrected to "and" on pg. 232, line 6. 25 All Quiet on the Western Front 1st Ed in DJ Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Boston: VG 500 700 Little, Brown, 1929. Stated First Printing. Pictorial dj has closed tears & wear, otherwise VG. Scarce in jacket. June, 1929 owner's signature on front endpaper (which is the date of publication). 26 John Updike's Rabbit is Rich Review Copy Rabbit is Rich. NY: Knopf, 1981. Review copy, with photo and flyer VG 40 60 laid in. 27 Moby Dick - Rockwell Kent Edition Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. NY: VG 100 200 Random House, 1930. Printed by Lakeside Press. One volume edition. Black cloth with silver printing and design. VG in facsimile dust jacket. 28 Truman Capote's In Cold Blood 1st Ed In Cold Blood. NY: Random House, 1965. Stated First Printing. VG 25 50 Owner's name on top edge, cloth a bit dusty, otherwise VG in VG dj. 29 Valuable Book on Stock Market Investing Graham, Benjamin and David L. Dodd. Security Analysis: Principles VG 800 1200 and Technique. NY & London: McGraw-Hill, 1934. First ed., Fourth Impression. Dark red cloth. Early impression of the first edition of one of the most influential books on investing ever published. 30 NY Fish Commissioners 1896 Color Plates First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and VG 200 300 Forests of the State of New York. Albany, 1896. 4to. 16 color plates (14 of fish) after Denton. 1 page torn. LotNum Title Description Condition LowEst HighEst 31 Sheridan's Memoirs Civil War 1888 Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan. NY: Webster, 1888. 1st ed. Two VG 50 75 vols. Folding maps. Illust. Covers with Sheridan on a horse. 32 Sherman's Memoirs Civil War 1891 Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, written by Himself. NY: Webster, VG 50 75 1891. 4th ed. Two vols. Folding maps. Green cloth. 33 Joseph Conrad's The Rescue + 2 Other The Rescue, a Romance of the Shallows. London: Dent, 1920. 1st G+ 75 125 British trade ed. Splitting inside front & partially at back, backstrip pulling away, otherwise very clean. With chemise & slipcase. // Some Reminiscences. London: E. Nash, 1912. 1st ed. Frontis portrait. Scuffed and worn clue cloth.