Auction details
Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries
1:00 PM PT - Oct 22nd, 2009
offered by
PBA Galleries
San Francisco, CA 94108

Auction Description
Auction Terms & Conditions
Buyer's Premium
22.5%
Bid Increments
| From | Increment |
| 0 | 10 |
| 200 | 25 |
| 500 | 50 |
| 1000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 250 |
| 5000 | 500 |
| 10000 | 1000 |
| 20000 | 2500 |
| 50000 | 5000 |
| 100000 | 10000 |
Auction House Preview
Tuesday, October 20, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, October 21, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, October 22, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Other showings by appointment
293 Items
| Lot | Description | Estimates (USD) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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Golden Apples of the Sun, 1st signed with dj |
400 - 600 |
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| 2 |
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Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, 1st ed signed w/dj |
1,500 - 2,000 |
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| 3 |
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Typescript Birth Controlarticle sgnd Pearl Buc |
200 - 300 |
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| 4 |
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Bukowski It Catches My Heart signed limited 1st |
400 - 600 |
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| 5 |
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The Lark, No. 1-signed & The Purple Cow! Burgess |
400 - 600 |
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| 6 |
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Truman Capote In Cold Blood 1st Edn Signed |
1,000 - 1,500 |
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| 7 |
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Cooper's Water Witch 1st Am. ed. 1831 |
200 - 300 |
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| 8 |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1st Ed w/dj |
1,500 - 2,500 |
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| 9 |
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Miracle on 34th Street First Edition |
300 - 500 |
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| 10 |
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Memoirs of a Midget by De la Mare, 1/210 signed |
100 - 150 |
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| 11 |
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Early Printing of Dickens Christmas Carol 1844 |
700 - 1,000 |
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| 12 |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood with Rare Cork Hat ad |
500 - 800 |
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| 13 |
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Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend 1st Edition |
250 - 350 |
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| 14 |
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Dickens Pickwick Papers in the Original Parts |
2,000 - 3,000 |
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| 15 |
|
Isak Dinesen Out of Africa 1st American Edition |
400 - 600 |
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| 16 |
|
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes First Edition |
1,000 - 1,500 |
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| 17 |
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The White Company Signed by A.C. Doyle |
300 - 500 |
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| 18 |
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Three titles by Arthur Conan Doyle |
200 - 300 |
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| 19 |
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The Writings of George Eliot Leather Bound |
400 - 600 |
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| 20 |
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T.S. Eliot Four Quartets First American Edition |
1,500 - 2,500 |
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| 21 |
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In Medias Res by Everson, illus by Tom Killion |
150 - 250 |
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| 22 |
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William Everson War Elegies |
200 - 300 |
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| 23 |
|
letters to Eugene Field requests 4 his writing |
500 - 800 |
|
| 24 |
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archive of letters to Eugene Field -time, talent |
600 - 900 |
|
| 25 |
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Archive of letters written to Eugene Field |
200 - 300 |
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| 26 |
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5 letters offering condolences to Mrs EugeneField |
300 - 500 |
|
| 27 |
|
AL w/orig drawing by Eugene Field to "trotty" |
2,000 - 3,000 |
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| 28 |
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manuscript music for Rockaby poem by Eugene |
200 - 300 |
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| 29 |
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Chicago Newspaper editors letters to Eugene Field |
600 - 900 |
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| 30 |
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collection of 21 letters to Eugene Field, mounted |
300 - 500 |
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| 31 |
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18 letters to Eugene Field friends literary ppl |
800 - 1,200 |
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| 32 |
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Archive of 41 letters to or about Eugene Field |
600 - 900 |
|
| 33 |
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telegrams to Eugene Field 1889-90, 2 in german |
300 - 500 |
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| 34 |
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ALS Eugene Debs to Eugene Field 1893 |
200 - 300 |
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| 35 |
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5 letters from Roswell to brother Eugene Field |
300 - 500 |
|
| 36 |
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4 ALS from Eugene Field to son & daughter 1890s |
2,500 - 3,500 |
|
| 37 |
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signed telegraph by WR Hearst 1918 |
200 - 300 |
|
| 38 |
|
5 ALs from Charles Scribner to Eugene Field |
700 - 1,000 |
|
| 39 |
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7 TLs from Scribner's to Eugene Field 1890s |
500 - 800 |
|
| 40 |
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7 letters to Eugene Field, each insc. by him |
300 - 500 |
|
| 41 |
|
3 ALs from Arthur Stedman-Eugene Field 1888-95 |
200 - 300 |
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| 42 |
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5 ALs from Edmund C Stedman to Eugene Field |
250 - 350 |
|
| 43 |
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2 ANs from Bram Stoker to Eugene Field 1891 |
700 - 1,000 |
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| 44 |
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5 ltrs Melville Stone & son-Eugene Field 1884-95 |
400 - 600 |
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| 45 |
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2 ALs, 1 TLs Slason Thompson to Eugene Field |
200 - 300 |
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| 46 |
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Letters from Francis Wilson to Eugene Field |
600 - 900 |
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| 47 |
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The Great Gatsby First Edition |
1,500 - 2,000 |
|
| 48 |
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Custom drop-back box for Great Gatsby |
800 - 1,200 |
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| 49 |
|
Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age 1st Edition |
200 - 300 |
|
| 50 |
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Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise first edition |
1,000 - 1,500 |



















































