Sale 21FL01 | Catalogue

Fine Literature

Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10am EDT | New York

Fine Literature | Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 10am EDT

Lot image - [AMERICAN AUTHORS] Collection of 19th and 20th century American literature.

Lot 1

[AMERICAN AUTHORS] Collection of 19th and 20th century American literature. Thirteen titles in fifteen volumes, all first ed...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

Sold for $882 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [AUTHORS-LETTERS] Collection of signed correspondence items from 20th century writers.

Lot 2

[AUTHORS-LETTERS] Collection of signed correspondence items from 20th century writers. Comprising: GREENE, GRAHAM. Typed...

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $630 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [AUTHORS] Baseball signed by approximately twenty 20th century authors.

Lot 3

[AUTHORS] Baseball signed by approximately twenty 20th century authors. A Rawlings Official National League baseball signed...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [AUTHORS] Baseball signed by approximately fifteen 20th century authors.

Lot 4

[AUTHORS] Baseball signed by approximately fifteen 20th century authors. A Rawlings Official National League baseball signed...

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [AUTHORS] Baseball signed by approximately eight 20th century authors.

Lot 5

[AUTHORS] Baseball signed by approximately eight 20th century authors. A Rawlings Official National League baseball signed b...

Estimate: $100 - $200

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Lot image - [AUTHORS] Baseball signed by approximately seven 20th century authors.

Lot 6

[AUTHORS] Baseball signed by approximately seven 20th century authors. A Rawlings Official American League baseball signed b...

Estimate: $100 - $200

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Lot 7

[AMERICAN AGRICULTURE] DEANE, SAMUEL. The New-England farmer; or, Georgical dictionary: containing a compendious account of the ways...

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $346 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - BANKHEAD, TALLULAH Tallulah: My Autobiography.

Lot 8

BANKHEAD, TALLULAH Tallulah: My Autobiography. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. First edition, inscribed on the front blan...

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BEACH, REX Original annotated typed manuscript and first edition of The Silver Horde.

Lot 9

BEACH, REX Original annotated typed manuscript and first edition of The Silver Horde. New York: 1909. With a title leaf unde...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $504 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BECKETT, SAMUEL Mercier and Camier.

Lot 10

BECKETT, SAMUEL Mercier and Camier. New York: Grove Press, [1974]. First American edition, an association copy inscribed fro...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $504 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [BIBLE-BRUCE ROGERS] The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments.

Lot 11

[BIBLE-BRUCE ROGERS] The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1949. F...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $409 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [BINDINGS] Approximately 60 well-bound volumes.

Lot 12

[BINDINGS] Approximately 60 well-bound volumes. Includes William Roscoe on Lorenzo de Medici, 1799, two volumes in full vell...

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $1,134 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 13

[BINDINGS] Approximately 60 well-bound volumes, 19th and 20th century, mostly sets and part-sets.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $756 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [BINDINGS-NAPOLEON] Group of well-bound works on Napoleon.

Lot 14

[BINDINGS-NAPOLEON] Group of well-bound works on Napoleon. Includes OMEARA, B.E. and GOURGAUD and MONTHOLON, Generals....

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BLACKMORE, RICHARD, DODDRIDGE Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor.

Lot 15

BLACKMORE, RICHARD, DODDRIDGE Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. London: Sampson Low, 1869. First editions. Three volumes. Co...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [BLACK SPARROW PRESS-JESS] MORGENSTERN, CHRISTIAN. Gallowsongs. Galgenlieder.

Lot 16

[BLACK SPARROW PRESS-JESS] MORGENSTERN, CHRISTIAN. Gallowsongs. Galgenlieder. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970. First editi...

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $100 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 17

[BLACK SPARROW PRESS] A large collection of the books of the Black Sparrow Press.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,764 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [BLACK SUN PRESS] STERNE, LAURENCE. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

Lot 18

[BLACK SUN PRESS] STERNE, LAURENCE. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Paris: The Black Sun Press/Editions Narc...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $500 - $800

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Lot image - [BOOKS ON WORDS, REFERENCE etc.] Approximately 16 dictionaries and reference works from the collection of William Safire.

Lot 19

[BOOKS ON WORDS, REFERENCE etc.] Approximately 16 dictionaries and reference works from the collection of William Safire. I...

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $756 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 20

BOWLES, PAUL In Touch. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1994]. Stated first printing, number 211 of 250 copies signed b...

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $88 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [BROADSIDES] Group of nine finely printed and signed literary broadsides.

Lot 21

[BROADSIDES] Group of nine finely printed and signed literary broadsides. Comprising: three signed copies of Edward Albees...

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $220 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BROWNING, ROBERT The Ring and the Book.

Lot 22

BROWNING, ROBERT The Ring and the Book. London: Smith, Elder, 1868-69. First edition. Four volumes. Publishers cloth gilt l...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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Lot image - BUKOWSKI, CHARLES Crucifix in a Deathhand. Charles Bukowski: New Poems 1963 - 1965.

Lot 23

BUKOWSKI, CHARLES Crucifix in a Deathhand. Charles Bukowski: New Poems 1963 - 1965. New Orleans/New York: Loujon Press/Lyle...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 24

[BURGH, JAMES] The art of speaking. Containing, I. An essay; in which are given rules for expressing properly the principal passions...

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $315 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [BURNEY, FRANCES] Evelina, Or, A Young Ladys Entrance into the World.

Lot 25

[BURNEY, FRANCES] Evelina, Or, A Young Ladys Entrance into the World. London: T. Lowndes, 1778. First edition. Three volum...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $630 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - BURNEY, FRANCES Camilla: Or a Picture of Youth.

Lot 26

BURNEY, FRANCES Camilla: Or a Picture of Youth. London: T. Payne; T. Cadell; W. Davies, 1796. First edition. Five volumes. C...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $1,638 (includes buyer's premium)

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Lot image - BURROUGHS, WILLIAM The Naked Lunch.

Lot 27

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM The Naked Lunch. Paris: The Olympia Press, [1959]. First Edition, first issue with a green border on titl...

Estimate: $600 - $900

Sold for $472 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BUSH, GEORGE Man of Integrity.

Lot 28

BUSH, GEORGE Man of Integrity. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, [1988]. Stated first printing, signed by Bush on the front blank a...

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $283 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Hours of Idleness.

Lot 29

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Hours of Idleness. Newark: S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, second issue with p. 171 mi...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $630 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Childe Harolds Pilgrimage. A Romanaut.

Lot 30

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Childe Harolds Pilgrimage. A Romanaut. London: John Murray, 1812-1818. First editions, mixe...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $2,835 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Hebrew Melodies.

Lot 31

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Hebrew Melodies. London: John Murray, 1815. First edition. Full polished calf by Riviere, th...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Don Juan.

Lot 32

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Don Juan. London: the Thomas Davison; John Hunt; John and H.L. Hunt, 1819-24. First edition....

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000

Sold for $5,985 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Werner, a Tragedy.

Lot 33

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Werner, a Tragedy. London: John Murray, 1823. First edition, second issue with The End on...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $200 - $400

Sold for $126 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Childe Harolds Pilgrimage. Canto the Third.

Lot 34

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD Childe Harolds Pilgrimage. Canto the Third. London: 1816. London: for John Murray, 1816. F...

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $63 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CALDWELL, ERSKINE Tobacco Road.

Lot 35

CALDWELL, ERSKINE Tobacco Road. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1932. First edition with the Scribners seal and A to c...

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $1,890 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CAPOTE, TRUMAN In Cold Blood

Lot 36

CAPOTE, TRUMAN In Cold Blood. New York: [1965]. First trade edition signed by Capote on the front blank, stated first printi...

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $756 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 37

[CARICATURE] [WRIGHT, THOMAS, ed.]. The Works of James Gillray, The Caricaturist, with the History of His Life and Times.

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CARROLL, LEWIS (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) Sylvie and Bruno [And:] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.

Lot 38

CARROLL, LEWIS (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) Sylvie and Bruno [And:] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. Two volumes, both in publisher...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

Sold for $1,008 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CARROLL, LEWIS (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) The Nursery Alice.

Lot 39

CARROLL, LEWIS (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) The Nursery Alice. London: MacMillan, 1890. Second (first published) edition, on...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $7,000 - $10,000

Sold for $4,725 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CARROLL, LEWIS (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) The first French, German, and Italian editions of Alices Adventures in Wonderland.

Lot 40

CARROLL, LEWIS (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) The first French, German, and Italian editions of Alices Adventures in Wonderland.D...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $2,142 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CARROLL, LEWIS (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) The Hunting of the Snark.

Lot 41

CARROLL, LEWIS (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) The Hunting of the Snark. London: MacMillan, 1876. First edition, first printing,...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $756 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 42

CAVE, WILLIAM Apostolici: or, The history of the lives, acts, death, and martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or imm...

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $189 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 43

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY and OTHERS The Works... Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Collected Edition of 1532 from the Cop...

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $50 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. My Early Life. A Roving Commission.

Lot 44

CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. My Early Life. A Roving Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930. First edition, first issue wi...

C From the Collection of the late William Safire

Estimate: $200 - $300

Sold for $409 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CONRAD, JOSEPH Almayers Folly. The Story of an Eastern River.

Lot 45

CONRAD, JOSEPH Almayers Folly. The Story of an Eastern River. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First English edition, first s...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,197 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 46

CONRAD, JOSEPH Almayers Folly. The Story of an Eastern River. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First English edition, first s...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Sold for $441 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CONRAD, JOSEPH The Children of the Sea.

Lot 47

CONRAD, JOSEPH The Children of the Sea. New York: Dodd Mead, 1897. First edition. Original cloth. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches; 217...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CONRAD, JOSEPH Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories.

Lot 48

CONRAD, JOSEPH Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1902. First edition, first state,...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for $1,071 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CONRAD, JOSEPH The Secret Agent. A Drama in Three Acts.

Lot 49

CONRAD, JOSEPH The Secret Agent. A Drama in Three Acts. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1923. First edition, number 382 of 1000 co...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $378 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 50

CONRAD, JOSEPH Suspense. London: Dent 1925. First English edition. Publishers cloth, in original dust jacket, slipcase. 7 1...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $200 - $300

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Lot 51

[COLOR PLATE] Four works. Comprising: EGAN, PIERCE. Real Life in London. London: Jones, 1821-24. Two volumes. Full ta...

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CRANE, STEPHEN The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War.

Lot 52

CRANE, STEPHEN The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Firs...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

Sold for $3,465 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - CRANE, STEPHEN The Black Riders and Other Lines.

Lot 53

CRANE, STEPHEN The Black Riders and Other Lines. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition, the deluxe issue, one of 50...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $1,890 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot 54

CRANE, STEPHEN The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Firs...

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Sold for $3,150 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [CRESSET PRESS] BUNYAN, JOHN. The Pilgrims Progress.

Lot 55

[CRESSET PRESS] BUNYAN, JOHN. The Pilgrims Progress. London: Cresset Press, 1928. Number 132 of 195 copies. Two volumes. Pu...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $400 - $600

Sold for $283 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - DANA, RICHARD HENRY, Jr. Two Years Before the Mast.

Lot 56

DANA, RICHARD HENRY, Jr. Two Years Before the Mast. New York, 1840. First edition with an autograph letter signed by Dana la...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500

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Lot image - DICKENS, CHARLES Bound group of The Extra Christmas Numbers of All The Year Round, 1859-1867.

Lot 57

DICKENS, CHARLES Bound group of The Extra Christmas Numbers of All The Year Round, 1859-1867. [London: Published at the Offi...

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sold for $252 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - DICKENS, CHARLES Group of titles.

Lot 58

DICKENS, CHARLES Group of titles. Comprising: The Story of Little Dombey. London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. Three quarter...

Estimate: $80 - $120

Sold for $88 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - [DICKINSON, EMILY] A Masque of Poets

Lot 59

[DICKINSON, EMILY] A Masque of Poets. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878. First edition. Publishers cloth, cloth slipcase. 6 1/...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $150 - $250

Sold for $283 (includes buyer's premium)

Lot image - DICKINSON, EMILY The Single Hound. Poems of a Lifetime.

Lot 60

DICKINSON, EMILY The Single Hound. Poems of a Lifetime. Boston: Little, Brown, 1914. First edition, one of 595 copies printe...

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library

Estimate: $500 - $800

Sold for $1,512 (includes buyer's premium)