Ernest Hemingway, in our time, limited Paris first edition, Three Mountains Press, 1924. $25,000 to $35,000.
Led by a limited Paris first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s in our time, 1924, highlights from the first part of the twentieth century feature remarkable firsts in unrestored dust jackets of Barnaby Ross’s The Tragedy of X, 1932, The Virginian, 1902, by Owen Wister, and The Front Page, 1928, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. David Foster Wallace titles include two auction premiers: the scuttled Penguin edition of Girl With Curious Hair, 1989, which would only appear as uncorrected proofs, and the equally rare two-volume manuscript edition of Infinite Jest with considerable textual differences from the published version.
Nineteenth-century material includes Charles Dickens, with original serial parts issues and first editions in the original cloth. Children’s literature showcases several Tasha Tudor picture books, including a complete group of the Calico series featuring her first title, Pumpkin Moonshine, 1938.
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Fiction
Henry Green, Blindness, first edition of the author’s first book, in original dust jacket, London & Toronto, 1926. $4,000 to $6,000.
Toni Morrison, Sula, first edition, signed, New York, 1974. $700 to $1,000.
Owen Wister, The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains, first edition in rare dust jacket, New York, 1902. $5,000 to $7,500.
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, first edition of the author’s first book, signed, Toronto, 1969. $350 to $500.
Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exist to Brooklyn, carbon typescript, early draft, as submitted to Grove Press, New York, 1964. $3,000 to $4,000.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade, advance proof copy of the first English edition in the trial jacket, London, 1970. $800 to $1,200.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, three first editions with folding maps in rear of each volume, London, 1954-55. $5,000 to $7,500.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, first edition, twelfth printing, signed and inscribed to John Diebold of information & technology firm The Diebold Group, New York, 1957. $1,000 to $1,500.
Nonfiction
Evelyn Waugh, When the Going was Good, presentation copy, signed & inscribed to Andrea Cowdin, London, 1946. $3,000 to $4,000.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, first edition, signed, New York, 1929. $1,500 to $2,000.
Poetry
Charles Bukowski, The Genius of the Crowd, first edition, illustrated with five linoleum cuts by Paula Marie Savarino, 7 Flowers Press, Cleveland, 1966. $5,000 to $7,500.
Wallace Stevens, Harmonium, signed and inscribed: “The basis of poetry is response,” New York, 1931. $3,000 to $4,000.
Children’s Literature
Tasha Tudor, group of five first editions, New York, 1938-45. $3,000 to $4,000.
