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Lot 412

Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$400 - 600
Price Realized
$780
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Lot Description

[LITERATURE]. A group of 15 titles, MOST FIRST EDITIONS, SEVERAL SIGNED, comprising:


1) BEST, Alfred. The Demolished Man. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1953. In supplied dust jacket.

2) BURROUGHS, William S. [The Red Night Trilogy:] The Cities of the Red Night. 1981. -- The Place of Dead Roads. 1984. -- The Western Lands. 1987. All New York: Viking. 3 volumes.

3) CAPOTE, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965. Book Club Edition.

4) CARROLL, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. In rare dust jacket.

5) CARROLL. Another copy. Without dust jacket

6) CLARKE, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. New York: The New American Library, 1968.

7) FAULKNER, William. A Fable. New York: Random House, 1954.

8) FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Last Tycoon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. In a facsimile dust jacket.

9) GIPSON, Fred. Old Yeller. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.

10) HELLER, Joseph. Good as Gold. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. INSCRIBED BY HELLER.

11) HUXLEY, Aldous. Proper Studies. London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. INSCRIBED BY HUXLEY.

12) KENT, Rockwell. N by E. New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. SIGNED BY KENT.

13) REMARQUE, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. In a second printing dust jacket.

14) WILDER, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. SIGNED BY WILDER. In a later dust jacket.

15) WISTER, Owen. The Virginian. New York: Macmillan Company, 1902.

Together, 15 works in 17 volumes, all 8vo, all in original bindings, ALL FIRST EDITIONS (unless otherwise noted), condition generally very good.


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