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476 different books from one home circa early 1800s to near present. Most are hardcover, non-fiction, 1st Editions, very good condition. Sizes up to large folios. Many subjects: Disasters, Pirates, Passenger Ships, Construction, Yachting, Canals, Navy, History, Repair, Narratives, Exploration & the like.
A nice group for a reasonable $6,500 + basic shipping costs.
(Entitled "Railroad Stories" before September 1937.) 433 different issues dating 1933--1976. Before 1955, there are only 5 issues lacking. 1933 to 1954 are old style 'pulps' in 7"x10" format, thick, with framable full color art covers. All issues profusely illustrated. Most issues very good condition. All complete issues with all covers. Each contains photos, artwork, fiction, non-fiction, modeling, too.
$5.000.
Large lot of 463 dating mid-1960s only, all in new, clean, un-used condition, representing 35 railroads of U.S., mostly of South, Southwest, West. Inculdes some duplicates. All about 4"x9" closed format. Varying number of pages. Attractive collectibles in wholesale group.
$1,500.
London, 1751. 1st Edition. Spenser, Edmund: "THE FAERIE QUEEN" London: 1751. 3-vol. set, quarto. 1st Engish Edition. Original calf & gilt bindings. 2 covers separated, minor chips; interiors fine, clean, complete. 32 interesting-subject double-page copperplate engravings. A handsome and scarce set.
$12,500. postpaid, insured, properly packed.
In storage for 33 years! Amazing collection of 5,000 different books, published 1940~1972. Many are pristine, like new, with full original shiny covers! All are complete as published with full covers and were privately bought and collected. Mostly men's interest, including: Adult, Mysteries (Jim Thompson, too!), Science Fiction, Lesbianism, Slaves & Masters, Adventure, WWII Horrors, Teen Delinquency, Beat/Hip. The majority are 1st Editions! Many different publishers include: Avon, Gold Medal, Lion, Nightstand, Late Hour, Leisure, Dell, Kozy, Lancer, Playtime, Private, Brandon House, Compass, Graphic, etc. Lots of famous authors using pseudonyms (e.g., Harlan Ellison is well represented). Majority have girl art covers, including Bill Ward. In dry storage, neatly packaged for past 1/3 century! Will fill a van.
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$22,500
"Tom Mix" comic - 'Published exclusively for Ralston Straight Shooters' Book 1, September 1940. Very good, complete condition with original address label on back. Rare. One of the top most desirable Western comics.
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Reasonable $2,500.
Long run of 155, all different, 1975-2004, in fine condition (2 lack front cover only). All are thick, profusely illustrated, quality publications. Also included is Index to Issues 1-78, and 8 original publisher binders for early issues. Monthly & bi-monthly.
$750.
Hardcover. 1st Edition. "Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising A Voyage From St. Louis On the Mississippi, To the Source Of That River, and A Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana.Performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Governor of the United States," Zebulon Pike, Major 6th Regiment, U.S. Infantry. London: 1811 1st English Edition. Includes 2 maps: 'Louisiana & New Mexico' etc. In an early and attractive leather and boards binding. Fine condition throughout. 8 1/2"x11" format, 436 pp complete.
$12,500.
Viking, New York, 1957. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Kerouac, Jack: 2 Books: 1st and 2nd Printings! 1st in very good condition. Key parts of dust jacket present. 2nd is very good. Dust jacket. Nicer than they seem in this description. Rare Pair:
$7,500.
New York, 1928. Hardcover. Woolf, Virginia: 1st Modern Library Edition: (so stated). In very good original cobbled flex covers with gilt. No dust jacket.
$600.
212 different fine early issues dating February 1942 through December 1959 complete except for 3 issues in 1950 -- 1952. the first 12 years are in original publisher's removable binders. All issues fine condition with all covers and ads. No address labels. Beautiful ads and illustrations. Indexes for 1941 -- 1948 included.
$2,600.
New York, 1978.1st softcover edition, oversize. Condition very good & clean. Numerous photographs.
$650.
New York, 1932. Hardcover. New York : (1932). 1st Modern Library Edition, so stated by the publisher. FINE condition, no dj. Original dark green & gilt cloth binding. Small neat rubberstamp "Retailed by Macy's" on title page. Rare.
$2,500.
Roberts Bros., Boston. Hardcover. 1st Edition. "Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cookbook: What To Do & What Not To Do In Cooking." Boston: Roberts Bros.: (1885). by Mrs. D.A. Lincoln (Fanny Farmer was part of the Boston Cooking School at that time). 1st Edition 2nd year of publication. 536 pp with index + ads, illustrations. Original woman owners name and 1885 date. Original dark brown cloth & marbled boards binding. Condition about very good, lightly used.
$1,400.
Also another in original dark green 1888 for $1,200.
Both $2,500.
with Related Folktales
Hardcover. 1st Edition. Los Angeles: Steller-Millar: 1936 by Gene Meany Hodge, Forward by Dr. Frederick Webb Hodge, Director of Southwest Indian Museum, Los Angeles California. 1st Edition. Folio in original brown cloth binding. 18 color plates complete. Condition very good. Rare.
$2,750.
Milan, Italy: various dates in 1820s & 1830s. 21 thick vellumbound beautiful folio volumes with 1,500+ beautiful full & double-page original hand-colored costume and scenic plates. Original bindings mostly very good condition & not much foxing inside. XLibrary; but, no spine or plate marks.
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$87,500.
London, 1890. Hardcover. 1st Edition. * Milner, Henry Ernest: ART AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. Folio 9.5 inches. With 22 Plans & Illustrations. Handmade Paper. Original dark green cloth binding. Condition very good, complete. Scarce.
$1,500.
Hardcover. Incredible Bibliography of over 4,000,000 books! Published 1967--1980 in 37 Quarto Miniprint Volumes includes every word of the some 400 original volumes. The equivalent Library of Congress Catalog only contains about 25% of the items herein described, acquired from the 1700s to 1975. Includes virtually every British publication since the beginning of printing, plus American, etc., all in alphabetical order for easy use. Set fills over 6 feet of shelf; and, has rich appearance in gilt stamped blue matching cloth bindings & quality paper. Un-used condition, as new. Rare opportunity--limited production.
$12,500.
Davies, Joseph E. (American Ambassador (to Russia/Germany, last before WWII). (American Ambassador (to Russia/Germany, last before WWII) COLLECTION OF LETTERS TO VICTOR STAMM: Collection in original album of original letters, etc. by him to Victor Stamm. All in English language circa Sept. 1936 through December 1937. Long letters are usually typed on Ambassador or hotel letterheads, signed. Includes: 36 Letters, 31 Telegrams, 21 Photos, 130 Newspaper articles about him; also few programs, menus, typed articles. One letter traveled on doomed ship Normandie in June 1937. Wonderful Russian Dirigible stamps & others. Letters are about War intrigues, meetings, crimes, disappearances of important people; and, his brokering of sales of Russian art and antiques to America & elsewhere to finance the iminent War with Germany. He wrote famous bestselling book, which became a movie: "Mission To Moscow". 3 different printings of the book included.
$9,500. includes shipping, insurance, good packing.
Smith, Jessie Willcox: Collection of 13 different full-color illstd. children's books dating 1904--1940. Includes 6 1st Editions: "Princess & the Goblin" 1920 with rare orig. dust jacket; "At the Back of the North Wind" 1919; "Child's Book of Famous Stories" 1940; "Child's Book of Old Verses" 1910; "Child's Stamp Book of Old Verses" 1915; "In the Closed Room" 1904. Condition good to fine. Sizes up to folio. Fills 1 1/2 feet of shelf. $2,500. complete includes postage, insurance, careful packing.
Nurse paperback novels: 126 different from 1960s. All like new condition with art covers. Most appear to be 1st Am. Editions. Published by Harlequin Romance / Mills + Boon at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Collection $500.
41 Sandra Brown and 9 Janet Dailey paperback romance novels from 1980s & 1990s. All different, all like new condition.
Collection $250.
111 all different Audio Books on Cassettes. Each has one to twelve Cassettes. Most are full, un-abridged. Includes Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Mailer, LeLavre, etc. All like new in original picture boxes. 10 feet shelf. New cost $3,000.+
All $900
ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED
'With Rules for Compounding Medicine according to the true System of Nature..."
Culpeper, Nicholas: "Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician Enlarged" 'With Rules for Compounding Medicine according to the true System of Nature..' London: Richard Evans: 1815. Rare quarto (8.5" x 11") edition with ALL 40 plates of 400+ original hand-colored herb plants + 402 pp text, index. Beautiful early full leather binding with giltwork. This large edition is rare, especially when complete.
$5,250.
Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculation/Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, Volume One
Harvard University Press, 1946. Important Early Computer Book by Staff of The Computation Laboratory and James Bryant Conant. Harvard University Press: 1946. 8"x11"x2" thick. 561 pp complete with 17 photographic plates & numerous text illustrations. Index + 59-pp bibliography of over 1,000 related works! Highly technical text is a challenge even now! Condition good in original dark blue cloth binding. Rare, only small amount issued.
$12,500. Net includes shipping, insurance, proper packing.
London. Hardcover. SURTEES SPORTING BOOKS 8 of his Fox-Hunting/Chase/Sporting Novels in beautiful matching original gilt pictorial red cloth bindings from the late 1800s mostly. Contained are 87 finely hand-colored Sporting plates + 100s other black/white illustrations by John Leech & J.K. Browne. Published London. All 5 1/2" X 9" & very good condition. Titles include: "Plain or Ringlets", "Mr. Sponges's Sporting Tour", "Mr. Romford's Hounds", "Hawbuck Grange", etc.
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All $1,850. postpaid, insured, properly packed.
Hardcover. Rare 18th Century Falmouth, ME Ledger Manuscript 18th Century Falmouth, Maine Ledger of early manufactory and wholesale/retail business operated by large BERRY family. Original vellum binding of unusual 6 1/2" X 16" format with 1,000s readable ink entries including British Sterling money costs, on 210 pages circa 1767--1803 (mostly 1700s). Manufacture of all kinds of clothing, furniture, stairways, iron, fish, foodstuffs, etc. Services included: gundalowing, tallering, rat collecting, rock hauling, oxen team, sheep shearing, brickmaking, landlord, etc. Quality paper is well preserved. List of many customers, products, services available.
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$15,000. includes proper packing, shipping, insurance.
Soft Cover. Barbara Cartland paperback book collection: 122 different books! All in very good condition, purchased new by one avid collector 1960s--1980s.
$500. Includes shipping, insurance costs.
Birthday Magazines: Give a "Life" Magazine to that special person, in the week & year born for only $35 postpaid. Please order 3 or more weeks in advance. Also possible: "LOOK", "Saturday Evening Post", "Time" as available.
Auto Repair Books Library: Professionals very lightly used collection of 131 manuals for American & imported cars and trucks1981--1998. Included are 73 large, heavy hardcover books that cost $150 or more each new, with up to 2,000 pages per book published for professionals by MoToR etc.(not the kind found in bookstores). The books cover all mechanics & electricals of all popular domestic & foreign cars. Also 41 more on Subaru 1985--1991. Fills 22 feet of shelf.
Original cost over $12,000, but available for $5,500 to close estate.
Set of 40 different hardcover books, all she wrote before year 1998, except one title. Many are 1st editions, & all but one have their original nice dust jackets. All books near new condition!
Price $1500. Includes shipping, insurance, good packing of boxes.
Antiquarian Lawbooks: Important collection of owner-signed lawbooks of famous American historical persons. Group of 191 (circa 1805-- 1865) that were the working books of famous Americans during this period. Some books came down through famous owners, others and have more than one signature (none signed by book authors). There are over 300 good signatures in all. Signature counts include: 60 Rufus Choate, 22 C.P. Huntington (founder Central Pacific Railroad), 163 Charles Levi Woodbury (a few appear to be of his more-famous father Levi Woodbury) plus others. All in original full leather bindings, but while all contents are in very good condition, bindings are mostly bad. Signatures mostly on blank endpapers or inside front covers. Contents are English & American law, on good paper, mostly scarce or rare. 15 cubic feet of books in 10 large full boxes.
$12,775. Includes shipping, insurance in USA.
Country Music Tabloid Magazines: 315 all different scarce issues of 2 titles: "Music City News" & "Country Hot-Line News" dating 1971--1985. All published in Nashville, and all one man's subscription. For hardcore enthusiasts and music professionals. 1000's of pictures and ads of stars, articles. All nice condition.
$2,600. Includes shipping, insurance.
Social Sciences Book Collection: Over 1500 mostly different from past 200 years. Primarily hardcover, many with dust jackets. No school or religion. Includes professional, scholarly, popular works: Sociology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Education, Economics, Politics. Many are 1st/best editions in their fields. All good to new condition. All in English language. Would fill at least 75 feet of shelving. Lots of good surprises to be found.
$9,000 + basic freight.
Music Folios: (Oversize softcover books with more content than sheet music). 1000+ publications from past 175 years from Classical, Broadway Show, Movie, Western and Popular for use in many ways, including violin, piano, other instruments, and voice. Many rare. All good condition and not marked in. Pile over 10 feet tall!
$2,350 includes shipping, insurance.
1st Edition. Duck Decoy & Bird Carving Books: 17 good mostly oversize color illustrated published 1960s to early 1990s. 13 are 1st editions. Includes "American Bird Decoys" signed 1st edition by McKey. All very good condition, most with original very good dust jackets. Signed by Author(s).
$850. Includes shipping, insurance.
Miscellaneous Old Paper, etc. Collectibles: 75+ full boxes accumulated from estates, etc. for years past. Includes items other than books, dating 1700s--near present: trade cards, documents, lot sheet music, stamp collection, framed/rolled/flat prints & original art; old magazines of interest; postcards; gum cards for sports, TV shows; small antiques & odd items of interest and value; record albums; CDs; cassettes; videos; pamphlets; maps; comics; posters; movie & TV celebrity stuff; war & military paper; original photographs; Dick & Jane 1950s teaching items; catalogs; slides; sports stuff; interesting old newspapers; regional and travel paper items; business billheads; presidential campaign buttons & posters;old 8mm family & commercial films; auto sales brochures; etc., etc. Wonderful huge wholesale lot of many 1,000s of individual items.
$11,000 + basic freight.
German Nazi Aviation/Luftwaffe military aeronautics, warplanes, & the like. 12 small folio books circa late 1930s through WWII: factory aircraft design & engineering. Some unique! One with mounted-in original photos. All made in Germany. All good condition in various original bindings.
$1500. Includes shipping, insurance.
Canada Royal Society: Proceedings & Transactions: Published at Ottawa in English language. 20 mostly thick volumes dating between 1901--1923. Many long works inside on remote Canadian exploration, travel, history, literary, scientific, & the like. Much concerns 17th & 18th century exploration. Profusely illustrated with maps and pictures. Quality paper. Small library bookplate inside covers, no other ownership markings. 4 feet of shelf. Generally very good condition.
$600. Includes shipping, insurance.
JAZZ, American Music: 3 rare books 1) "American Jazz Music" by Wilder Hobson, NY 1939. 1st Ed. photos. Condition very good; dust jacket has damp staining on back. 2) "The Real Jazz" by Hugues Panassie, NY 1942. 1st Am. Ed. Condition very good; dust jacket very good, too. 3) "History of Jazz In America" by Barry Ulanov. NY 1952. 1st Edition. Condition very good, no dust jacket.
$2,500 includes shipping, insurance, careful packing.
L'Amour, Louis: Collection of 110 Different Softcover Books All By Him Circa 1950s - 1990s. Includes 44 Different 1st Ppb. Eds. Condition good - mint, all complete as issued. Bonus: autobiography 1st Ed. hardcover. $1,025.00 includes shipping, insurance, careful packing.
Hardcover. Mystery fiction: 312 hardcover books circa late 1800s to 1970s. Collection includes many 1st Editions! Some dust jackets. Readers' copies only due to lesser condition; but, all complete as issued many years ago & are a wonderful resource.
$1,600.
112 different books 1870s--1990s, including 22 Bureau of American Ethnology (B.A.E.) Reports and similar, each with large quantity of illustrations of Indian artwork, photos, crafts; some in color of 1870s--early 1900s. 9 feet of shelf. Many scarce books included. Bonus group of magazines & pamphlets will be included.
$3,650.
Science Fiction: 350 different hardcover SciFi novels from 1970s & 1980s mostly. All in fine condition and most have fine original dust jackets, too. Lots of titles by the most well known authors & others. All are bookclub issued; but, some are 1st Editions. A beautiful collection, carefully preserved.
$2,000. plus basic shipping costs.
Collection of 25 different scarce books by him 1971-1998 (Includes most titles written). Also 5 extras - 30 total books. 17 are 1st Editions, of which 5 are SIGNED and of which 2 are LIMITED SIGNED. ("My Secret History" #57 of 150 and "London Snow" #285 of 450). 25 have original dust jackets. Mostly very good and fine condition; but 2 are xlibrary; and, one is a 1st Ed. paperback ("Fong & the Indians"). Unusual Collection:
$2,100. includes shipping, insurance.
The Electrical Engineer, New York, 1894. 1st Edition. Extremely Rare, possibly UNIQUE signed book: "Inventions, Researches & Writings of Nikola Tesla" by Thomas Commerford Martin. 1894: The Electrical Engineer (Publisher) NY. 1st EDITION. 496 pp with Index & numerous illustrations. Original orange cloth binding. Clearly and neatly signed by Tesla on half-title & corroborating signature below his portrait as frontispiece. The book itself is extremely rare in complete condition; and, no known copies are signed.
$1,000,000 .00.
Collection (possibly world's largest) of 6,000+ all different circa earliest 1800s to near present, including "Fortune", "Playboy", "Esquire", "New Yorker", "Sports Illustrated" and 100s other important seminal issues; all in very good condition and all 100% complete. Does not include comics or men's magazines meant to be one-shots. Some in original mailing envelopes, some have prospectuses, some have dummy issues. Each neatly bagged. Incredible lifelong collection.
$600,000.
Collection of 17 different hard cover books. 1946-60s. 12 are first editions. ALSO, 4 are signed by Snow. All near new condition. All illustrated. Sample titles: True Tales of Buried Treasure, True Tales of Pirates and Their Gold, Secrets of North Atlantic Islands, etc.
$1,500.
"Martin's Natural History" 'Translated From the 35th German Ed. by Sara A. Meyers' New York: Blakeman & Mason: 1862/61. 2-vol. set in early 1/2-leather bdgs. 32 plates complete with 262 original hand-colored illsts. of Birds, Butterflies, Plants, Etc. 5"x7 1/8". Condition overall very good. All clean inside, no foxing.
$1,250.
"Atlas of Lawrence, Methuen, Andover & N. Andover, Mass." Boston: L.J. Richards & Co., Cartographers: 1906. Large folio 16.5" x 22.5" with complete 27 original hand-colored maps properly mounted in approximately twice the size! Beautiful maps with ownership details, mounted on linen cloth to be durable and are like new. Each framable if desired. No tears or markings. Original cloth & leather binding has minor edge wear.
$1,250.00
BRUCE LEE Collection: 67 different magazines with cover and/or content about him, all from 1990s. All clean, nice condition. Pile one foot tall. Includes: specials, one-shots, 1st issues.
$400.
Add 11 different old books about him for $750.00 Total.
Chinese Art Book Collection: 90 different quality art books mostly Chinese; but, some Japanese, Korea.Published throughout past 20th Century. Published in the Orient & USA. Mostly English language. Over half are large, fancy folio coffee table type books for the rich. Would fill 6 feet shelf. Subjects include: prints, paintings, sculpture, jade, Netsuke, caves, ceramics. All clean, nice condition in original bindings.
$5,500.00
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