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Lot 1
Two leaves from 15th-century Books of Hours

Property of a Private Mid-Atlantic Collection

Sold for $704
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 2
The first Lyonnaise printing of the Ship of Fools

Sold for $1,664
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 3
A Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf

Sold for $192
Estimated at $150 - $250

Lot 5
A forged Sienese Tavolette di Biccherna, possibly by Joni

Sold for $1,920
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 6
An antiquarian miscellany

Sold for $480
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 7
Robert Speed The Counter-Scuffle

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 10
Approximately twenty British Acts of Parliament 1728-1740

The Property of a New England Family

Sold for $160
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 11
Two works with fine plates by Moreau le Jeune

Sold for $320
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 12
An early set of Gibbon's Roman Empire

Sold for $832
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 18
MAYNARD, GEORGE HENRY

Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 20
Autograph letter by Barry O'Meara, Napoleon's physician on St. Helena

The Property of a New England Family

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 21
A New Year's Lottery Rebus

Sold for $416
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 21a
A diverse and charming collection of chapbooks

Sold for $704
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 24
A large collection of illustrated Cruikshank titles

Sold for $1,408
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 25
Two copies of the New York State Cabinet of Natural History

The Property of a New England Family

Sold for $102
Estimated at $80 - $120

Lot 29
Five titles on humor, jesting, and amusement

Sold for $192
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 30
Pasteur on Beer

Sold for $192
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 32
A scarce first issue set of Little Women

Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 37
A young person's amusing homemade book

Sold for $38
Estimated at $60 - $90

Lot 38
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 39
Peter Newell's The Hole Book

Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 42
Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories in dust jacket

Sold for $160
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 43
Inscribed by Maurice Sendak

Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 44
First editions of Eloise and Eloise in Paris

Sold for $608
Estimated at $200 - $400

Lot 45
A nice set of Eloise sequels

The Estate of LeGrand Mellon

Sold for $128
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 46
The scarce first Canadian edition of Tom Sawyer

Sold for $256
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 49
A vintage Moose Hunt board game

Sold for $256
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 53
First edition of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 55
A signed first edition of John Barth's first novel

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 58
A First Edition of Thomas Berger's Little Big Man

Sold for $128
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 59
A fine copy of Paul Bowles' The Spider's House

Sold for $128
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 60
Eight Richard Brautigan First Editions, one signed

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 63
A fine copy of Truman Capote's first book

Sold for $192
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 65
The Red Badge of Courage and The Call of the Wild

Sold for $1,088
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 66
An advance copy of Jurassic Park

Sold for $77
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 68
Ten works inscribed by Elspeth Huxley

Sold for $384
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 69
An autograph note signed by Isak Dinesen

Collection of Chester Page

Sold for $288
Estimated at $200 - $400

Lot 70
First edition of Donleavy's The Ginger Man

Sold for $288
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 71
The facsimile of Eliot's The Waste Land

Sold for $77
Estimated at $40 - $60

Lot 72
The first edition of Faulkner's The Unvanquished

Sold for $224
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 73
Ian Fleming's Thrilling Cities

Sold for $90
Estimated at $80 - $120

Lot 74
Ian Fleming's The Man With The Golden Gun

Sold for $128
Estimated at $40 - $60

Lot 76
Six early editions by Henry Green

Sold for $320
Estimated at $50 - $80

Lot 78
Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous

Sold for $544
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 82
First edition of John Masefield's first book

Sold for $64
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 84
McMurtry's The Last Picture Show

Sold for $256
Estimated at $100 - $200

Lot 85
A nice first edition of Pynchon's debut novel, V.

Sold for $480
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 86
An attractive copy of Gravity's Rainbow

Sold for $192
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 87
First edition of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

Sold for $1,408
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 88
A nice first edition of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

The Estate of LeGrand Mellon

Sold for $1,024
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 89
Vonnegut depicts his most famous character Kilgore Trout

The Estate of LeGrand Mellon

Sold for $1,216
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 90
A large Kurt Vonnegut signed self portrait

The Estate of LeGrand Mellon

Sold for $896
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 91
Kurt Vonnegut signed "Birdcage" artwork

The Estate of LeGrand Mellon

Sold for $704
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 92
Eleven Kurt Vonnegut first editions

The Estate of LeGrand Mellon

Sold for $896
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 93
A postcard from Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell

Collection of Chester Page

Sold for $704
Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 94
Autograph letter signed by Virginia Woolf

Collection of Chester Page

Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500