Grant Zahajko Auctions: Books: First Editions, Signed & Antiquarian, 100825, DAVENPORT

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025
Page Size: 400 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251

Treasury Department IRS Form 713 March 1939. Inventory of Opium, Coca Leaves, Marihuana, Etc.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
252 Minette Walters

Three (3) Minette Walters signed first editions 1) The Ice-House. 1992 1st US. St. Martin's Press. 2) Sculptress. 1993 1st US. St. Martin's Press. 3) The Shape of Snakes. 2001. G. P. Putnam.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 6.35
253 Minette Walters

Four (4) Minette Walters signed first editions : 1) Fox Evil. 2002 Macmillan. 2) The Scold's Bridle. 1994 St. Martin's Press. 3) The Dark Room. 1996 G. P. Putnam's. 4) The Echo. 1997 G. P. Putnam's.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 6.35
254 Thomas Mann.

Two (2) editions of The Magic Mountain

USD 40.00 - 75.00 USD 6.35
255 Minette Walters.

The Shape of Snakes

2000 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
256 Minette Walters

Two (2) Minette Walters books signed. Both with unclipped dust jackets. 1) Acid Row. 2002 G. P. Putnam. Cover does not lay flat. 2) The Cellar. 2015 Hammer.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
257 Minette Walters

Two (2) Minette Walters books signed. Both with unclipped dust jackets. 1) The Chameleon's Shadow . 2007 Macmillan. 2) Acid Row. 2001 Macmillan.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
258 Minette Walters

Two (2) Minette Walters books signed. Both with unclipped dust jackets. 1) Disordered Minds. 2003 Macmillan. 2) The Devil's Feather. 2005 Macmillan.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
259 James Elroy

Three (3) signed James Elroy books. Both with unclipped dust jackets. 1) White Jazz. 1992 1st American. Alfred A. Knopf. 2) The Big Nowhere. 1988 1st. The Mysterious Press. 3) L. A. Noir. 1998 The Mysterious Press.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 50.80
260 Loren D. Estleman

Six (6) Loren D. Estleman signed 1st edition books. All with unclipped dust jackets. Titles include: General Murders; Edsel; Peeper; Every Brilliant Eye; Stress; Motown.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 6.35
261 Elizabeth George

Ten (10) Elizabeth George signed and or inscribed 1st editions: A Place of Hiding; (2) Payment in Blood; Well-Schooled Murder; A Great Deliverance; Deception on His Mind; For the Sake of Elena; I, Richard; ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
262 Graham Joyce

Four (4) Graham Joyce signed first editions. 1) The Limits of Enchantment. 2005 Gollancz. 2) Indigo. 2000 Pocket Books. 3) The Limits of Enchantment. 2005 Gollancz. ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.50
263 Graham Joyce / Collin Dexter

Five (5) first editions all with unclipped dust jackets. 1) The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter. 1981 St. Martin's Press. 2) The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter. 1999 Crown. 3) ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 50.80
264 Ben Bova

Three (3) Ben Bova signed books. 1) The Return. 2009 TOR. 2) Millennium. 1976 Random House. 3) Flight of Exiles. 1972. E. P. Dutton.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
265 Colin Dexter

Two (2) Colin Dexter signed editions 1) The Way Through the Woods. 1992 Macmillan. 2) The Wench is Dead. 1989 Macmillan.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
266 Graham Joyce

Two (2) Graham Joyce 1st editions 1) House of Lost Dreams. SIGNED 1993 Headline. 2) Smoking Poppy. 2002 Pocket Books.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
267 Elizabeth George

Eight (8) Elizabeth George signed first editions. Titles include: Playing for Ashes; Write Away; In the Presence of the Enemy; Missing Joseph; A Great Deliverance; ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
268

Three (3) Limited Editions Club books with slipcases. 1) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 95.25
269

Three (3) Limited Editions Club books with slipcases. 1) Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.50
270 James Joyce.

1) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 50.80
271

Seven (7) books on book collecting. Authors include: Allen and Patricia Ahearn; Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone; Robert Henderson; Nicholas A. Basbanes ; Edward N. Zempel and Linda A. Verkler; Henry Peroski.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.50
272

Nine (9) author signed 1st edition books, those with dust jackets are unclipped. 1) Tony Hillerman - The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries. 2) (Softcover) Graham Joyce - The Storm Watcher....

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
273 [Isaac Asimov; Stephen Hawking]

1) Isaac Asimov - Chronology of the World. 1st 1991. Harper Collins. 2) Stephen Hawking - Brief History of Time; The Universe in a Nutshell. 2007 Bantam. 3) Isaac Asimov - Beginnings. 1987. ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 25.40
274

Five (5) signed books, 1) Crossing Open Ground by Gary Lopez. 1988 Charles Scribner's. 2) Damascus Gate by Robert Stone. 1998 Houghton Mifflin. 3) Whores for Gloria by William T. Vollmann. 1991 Pantheon. ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.50
275

Six (6) assorted topic books, 1) The Storyteller, Robert Dahl by Donald Sturrock. 2010 Simon and Schuster 1st. 2) Plum and Jaggers by Susan Richards Shreve. 2000 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1st. ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
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    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
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    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
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