The May 15 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature is replete with science-fiction cornerstones; of special note in this sale is a run of first editions by Philip K. Dick, including a signed copy of The Man in the High Castle, 1962.
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, first edition, New York, 1968. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
Also available is an inscribed copy of the specially bound author’s edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, 1953, one of just 50 copies, as well as scarce early titles by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein. Signed limited editions include works by William Faulkner, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf and W.B. Yeats, as well as a rare deluxe copy of Dylan Thomas’s Selected Poems 1934-1952, one of 65 signed copies, published in 1952.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, limited author’s edition, presentation copy, signed & inscribed, New York, 1953. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.
Nineteenth-century highlights include the seldom-seen first separate American edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, circa 1870, and the first edition in fragile wrappers of Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep, 1816, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Fore-edge paintings, children’s literature, library sets and bindings are also well represented.
For more information on the sale, contact Specialist John D. Larson in the Books department.
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