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

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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
351 Paul Auster.

1) Oracle Night

2004 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
352 Paul Auster

1) Oracle Night

2003 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
353 Thackery T. Lambshead

Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases signed.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 25.40
354 Sharon Bolton.

Three (3) signed books by Sharon Bolton. Dead Scared 2012; Dead Woman Walking 2017; The Craftsman 2018.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 6.35
355 Farrar, Straus, Giroux

Three (3) Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1st editions 1) Autobiographical Writings 1972 2) Rosshalde 1970. 3) Beneath the Wheel 1968

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 127.00
356 Farrar, Straus, Giroux

Three (3) Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1st editions and or printings 1) Knulp. 1971 1st printing. 2) Peter Camenzind. 1969 first printing. 3) Poems. 1970 1st edition.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 127.00
357

Six (6) books all with unclipped dust jackets. 1) The Best of Montana's Short Fiction edited by William Kittredge SIGNED. 2004....

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
358 Archer Mayor

Archer Mayor eight (8) 1st editions; 5 SIGNED. 1) SIGNED include: Bellows Falls; Borderlines; Occam's Razor; The Marble Mask; The Ragman's Memory. 2) Unsigned include: Th Second Mouse; Chat; Tag Man.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
359 Karen Slaughter

Five (5) Karen Slaughter 1st editions. 1) Faithless SIGNED 2005. 2) Trip Tych SIGNED 2006. 3) Broken 2010. 4) A Faint Cold Fear 2003. 5) Indelible 2004.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
360

Four (4) signed first editions1) Field of Blood. 2005. 2) Garnethill. 1998. 3) Slip of the Knife. 2007. 4) Resolution. 2001.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
361 Tony Hillerman, The Swan Thieves

Includes Finding Moon

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 63.50
362 [Doherty, Boyd, Friedman]

Includes Greenwich Killing Time, When The Cat's Away, Kill Two Birds and Get Stones, Steppin' On A Rainbow, Meanwhile Back At The Ranch, ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
363 Lindsey Davis

Includes Saturnalia (signed), A Body in the Bathhouse (signed), Three Hands in the Fountain (signed), Ode To A Banker (1st U.S., 1st U.K.), See Delphi And Die (signed), and Jupiter Myth.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 63.50
364

Includes Australian Short Stories by Michael Wilding, Seven Deadly Sins A Collection of New Fiction, The Other Side of Heaven Edited by Wayne Karlin, ...

USD 75.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
365

Mostly hardcovers with five softcovers. Includes Across The Bridge by Mavis Gallant, A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live by Louis Phillips,...

USD 75.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
366 [Bohjalian, Dubus III]

Includes The Night Strangers, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, The Buffalo Soldier, The Light in the Ruins and Trans-sister Radio ...

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 12.70
367 Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden FIRST EDITIONS -(1) SIGNED. Includes Mezcal (signed), BOWDEN, Charles. DESIERTO: MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE. New York: W. W. Norton, (1991).

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
368 Sophie Hannah

Includes Closed Casket (signed Specially Bound), Closed Casket (signed), Kind of Cruel, A Room Swept White (signed), A Game For The Family, Kind of Cruel (1st UK, signed).

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
369 Whitney Otto

Includes How To Make An American Quilt, The Passion Dream Book, A Collection of Beauties and Now You See Her.

USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 50.80
370 Orson Scott Card

Includes Unaccompanied Sonata, Wyrms, Hart's Hope and Treasure Box.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 63.50
371 P.D. James

Includes Talking about Detective Fiction (signed on title page), Trilogy of Death, The Maul and The Pear Tree (signed on half-title page), A Certain Justice, The Children of Men...

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 63.50
372

Includes signed First Editions, also includes Book Club Editions, see breakdown.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 127.00
373 Connie Willis & Cynthia Felice

Connie Willis & Cynthia Felice 1st Ed's Includes Promised Land, Water Witch (paperback), Nonstop to Portales

USD 125.00 - 175.00 USD 38.10
374 Roberton Davies

Includes World of Wonders, A Mixture of Frailties, Conversations with Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, The Lyre of Orpheus, Happy Alchemy, The Merry Heart, ...

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
375 Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker First Editions (4)

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 95.25
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