Rare Books &c. at Auction This Week

A quiet auction week, with just one sale to preview:

On Thursday, September 6, PBA Galleries sells Literature with Books in All Fields, in 607 lots. The top-estimated lot is a copy of Herbert Childs' biography of American physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence, An American Genius (1968). Inscribed by the author and signed by more than forty scientists (among them ten Nobel laureates) and Lawrence family members, the volume is estimated at $10,000-15,000.  

An early American edition of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, with the publisher's printed dust-jacket, is estimated at $3,000-5,000, while an inscribed first edition of Stephen King's Carrie could fetch $1,500-2,000. The rare final section of Richard Wright's autobiography, Black Boy, is estimated at $1,000-1,500, as is the first printing of Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" (in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations). The original typescript of Lawrence Block's Ariel, with the author's set of galley proofs, rates the same estimate; there are two other Block manuscripts and typescripts on offer as well.

A first edition of Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912) is estimated at $600-900, and an inscribed copy of Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) is rated at $400-600. 

Lots 367-607 are being sold without reserve.

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