Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 257

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
Various Authors.
Group Lot of 12 Miscellaneous Octavo Volumes.

1) Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) Under the Window, London: Edmund Evans, [n.d. ca. 1879], cloth-backed pictorial boards; forged author's signature on the half-title.

3) Greenaway's Little Ann. London: George Routledge, [1880s] gilt-stamped flexible cloth, spine abraded.

3) Greenaway & Bret Harte (1836-1902) The Queen of the Pirate Isle, London: Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887, gilt-stamped pictorial boards.

4) Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) & Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947) The Wrong Box, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889, first American edition, publisher's cloth.

5) Stevenson's Some College Memories. Edinburgh: Printed for Members of the University Union Committee, 1886 [i.e. 1897] first separate printing, a Wise forgery, printed wrappers; blue cloth portfolio.

6) Guy Boothby (1867-1905) Dr. Nikola's Experiment, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1899, first edition, gilt-stamped pictorial cloth.

7) William Wallace Cook (1867-1933), et alia The Argosy, number 4, vols. XLIII-XLIV, 1903-04.

8) Anita Loos (1889-1981) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925, first edition, first issue, dust jacket torn with loss.

9) Another copy of the same title, first photoplay edition, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926, seventeenth printing, dust jacket with small corner chips.

10) Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) Une Tenebreuse Affaire, Paris: A la Cite des Livres, 1928, contemporary half morocco; original wrappers bound in; limited edition, number 281 of 1000 copies.

11) Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959)Key Largo, Washington, DC: Anderson House, 1939, first edition, with jacket; numerous pencil annotations, summary notes typed and clipped to pages throughout.

12) William Faulkner (1897-1962) The Sound and the Fury, New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931, first edition, second printing, with facsimile dust jacket.

[Together with] Dust jackets only from Ian Fleming's For Your Eyes Only [and] You Only Live Twice.