The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions

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ADAMS, Douglas (1952-2001). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.   New York: Harmony Books, 1980.  8vo. Half-title. Original purple cloth-backed ...

ADDAMS, Jane (1860-1935).  Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. New York: Macmillan Company, 1910.  8vo. Photographic frontispi...

[AESOP (ca 620-560 B. C.)]. L'ESTRANGE, Roger, Sir (1616-1704).  Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists. London: for R. Sare and others, 1...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. ARMSTRONG, Louis (1901-1971). Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1954.8vo. Photographic plates. ...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA - SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol. I, for 1835. New York: R.G. Williams, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. BALDWIN. Go Tell it on the Mountain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.  8vo. Original orange cloth gilt, top edge stained blue...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. BALDWIN (1924-1987). Notes of a Native Son. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955.8vo. Original red cloth; pictorial dust jacket sma...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963). Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 19...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. HUGHES, Langston (1901-1967). Not Without Laughter. New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.8vo. Original pink and white s...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. HUGHES, Langston (1901-1967).  Shakespeare in Harlem. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.  8vo. Illustrations by E. McKnight Kau...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. KING, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968). Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York: Harper & Row, 1967.8vo. Half-ti...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. MORRISON, Toni (1931-2019). The Bluest Eye. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.  8vo. Origina...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. MORRISON, Toni (1931-2019). Sula. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.  8vo. Original orange cloth gilt-lettered; in unrestored a...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA - SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin. Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, ...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. WALKER, Alice (b. 1944). The Color Purple. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.  8vo. Original purple cloth-...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. WALKER, Alice (b. 1944). A group of three works, comprising:  In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. 1983. -- Hor...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. WRIGHT, Richard (1908-1960). Native Son. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1940.  8vo. Half-title. Original dark blue c...

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. A group of signed works by Maya Angelou and Alex Haley, comprising:  ANGELOU, Maya (1928-2014). Gather Together in My Name. N...

ALBEE, Edward (1928-2016). Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New York: Atheneum, 1962.8vo. Original black cloth gilt, top edge stained red (spine ve...

  ALBEE, Edward (1928-2016). A group of 20 works, including:The American Dream. NY, 1961. -- The Play The Ballad of Sad Cafe. Boston et al, 1963. ...

ALGER, Horatio (1832-1899). Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf. Boston: Brown, Bazin, & Co., 1856.  8vo. Half-title; wood-engraved frontis...

ALGREN, Nelson (1909-1981). A group of 6 works by or about Algren, comprising:  The Man with the Golden Arm. Garden City, NY, 1949. -- Chicago: C...

ANDERSON, Sherwood (1876-1941). Winesburg, Ohio. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1919.8vo. Half-title. Original mustard cloth, printed label on spine, top...

[ARTISTS]. CALDER, Alexander A. (1898-1976). Autograph letter signed ("Sandy Calder"), to Mumford. N.p., 13 February 1956.  1 page, 4to.  Calder w...

[ARTISTS]. FOUJITA, Tsugouharu (1886-1968). Autograph letter signed ("Foujita"), to Jean Avalon. 23 rue Campagne-premiere, Paris, n.d.1 page, 8vo,...

[ARTIST'S BOOK]. GIACOMETTI, Alberto (1906-1966), illustrator. LELY, Gilbert (1904-1985). La Folie Tristan. Paris: Jean Hughes, 1959.  12mo (147 m...

[ARTIST'S BOOK] -- MIRO, Joan (1893-1974). Joan Miro Litografo. Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1972, 1975, 1977.3 volumes (of 4 comprising vols. ...

[ARTIST'S BOOK]. REMINGTON, Frederic (1869-1909). Remington's Frontier Sketches. Chicago, Akron, OH and New York: The Werner Company, 1898.Oblong ...

[ARTIST'S BOOK]. WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987). The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanov...

[ARTIST'S BOOK]. WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987). Andy Warhol's Exposures. New York: Andy Warhol Books/ Grosset & Dunlap, 1979.4to. Numerous photographic...

[ARTIST'S BOOKS]. WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987). A group of 4 works, comprising:a; A Novel. NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1968. -- The Philosophy of Andy Warh...

[AVIATION]. BYRD, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957).   Two works, comprising:  Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic.... New York & London,...

[AVIATION]. EARHART, Amelia (1897-1937). The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932.  8vo. With origi...

[AVIATION]. LINDBERGH, Charles A., (1902-1974).  Two works, comprising:  Of Flight and Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. 8vo. Origina...

BEAUVOIR, Simone de (1908-1986). Le Deuxieme Sexe. Paris: Gallimard, 1949.2 volumes, 8vo. Titles printed in red and black. Original black cloth de...

BEAUVOIR, Simone de (1908-1986). The Mandarins. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1956.  8vo. Blue and red cloth boards letter...

BEAUVOIR, Simone de (1908-1986). A group of 4 works in French, including vols.II-IV of her autobiography, comprising:  L'Amerique au jour le jour....

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Whoroscope. Paris: The Hours Press, 1930.8vo. (A few tiny pale spots.) Original printed red wrappers, stapled as issu...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates. Paris: Europa Press, 1935.  8vo. Original printed buff wrappers with flaps over ...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Molloy. --Malone meurt. --L'Innommable. Paris: ̉ۡditions de Minuit, 1951, 1951, 1953.3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo. (Some...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989).  Watt. Paris: Collected Merlin, Olympia Press, 1953.  8vo. Original printed plum wrappers (a few soft creases to cove...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). En attendant Godot. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1952.  8vo. Original wrappers printed in blue and black, uncut (a few ...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989).  Waiting for Godot. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1956.  8vo. Publisher's note tipped in. Original mustard cloth l...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Comment c'est. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1961.    8vo. Original wrappers printed in black and blue, uncut and unope...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989).  Poems in English. London: John Calder, 1961.  8vo. Original teal cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; in unrestored unclip...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Come and Go. Dramaticule. London: Calder & Boyars, 1967.  8vo. Photographic illustrations. Original gilt-lettered buc...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989).  No's Knife. London: Calder and Boyars, 1967.  8vo. Half-title. Original cream gilt-lettered calf, edges gilt; origin...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). More Pricks than Kicks. London: Calder & Boyars, 1970.  8vo. Original calf-backed cloth, gilt-lettered on cover and s...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). The Lost Ones. London: Calder & Boyars, 1971.  8vo. Original calf-backed buckram, gilt-lettered (spine slightly brown...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989).  Ill Seen Ill Said. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982.  8vo. Designed and printed in blue and black by Henry Morr...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). -- GOREY, Edward (1925-2000), illustrator. Beginning to End. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1988.  8vo. Illustrated. Ori...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). A group of 36 works by or about Beckett, including signed copies and French editions, including:Murphy. Paris: Bordas...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). A group of 27 works published by Grove Press, including:Proust. 1931. -- Waiting for Godot. 1954. -- Molloy. 1955. (C...

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). A group of 22 Limited and English editions, including:Endgame. Faber and Faber, 1958. -- From an Abandoned Work. Fabe...

BELLOW, Saul (1915-2005). Dangling Man. New York: Vanguard, 1944.8vo. Original green-gray cloth; in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, some li...

BLOCH, ROBERT (1917-1994) Psycho. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.8vo. (Some light overall browning as usual.) Original cloth-backed boards; in...

BURROUGHS, William (1914-1997). The Naked Lunch. Paris: Olympia Press, 1959.  8vo. Publisher's green printed wrappers ("New Price NF 18" stamped o...

CAIN, James Mallahan (1892-1977). The Postman Always Rings Twice. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.8vo. Original orange cloth, top edge stained blu...

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987). Tobacco Road. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.8vo. Half-title. Original russet cloth decorated in gilt and ...

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987). God's Little Acre. New York: The Viking Press, 1933.8vo. Half-title; title printed in brown and black. Original clo...

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