A few examples of appraisal values for
GALAPAGOS

• 105 FRANKLIN LIBRARY SIGNED 1ST ED BOOKS
  105 FRANKLIN LIBRARY SIGNED 1ST ED BOOKS LEATHER 105 Franklin Library Signed First Edition Leather Bound books, to include: "Memories of the Ford Administration", John Updike, "Toward the End of Time", John Updike, "The Hundred Secret Senses" Amy Tan, "Unto The Sons", Gay Talese, "Personal Injuries" Scott Turow, "Heart of War", Lucian K. Truscott IV, "Kowloon Tong", Paul Theroux, "O-Zone", Paul Theroux, "One Hundred Fairy Tales", The Brothers Grimm, "Gods of War", John Toland, "Lincoln", Gore Vidal, "A God In Ruins", Leon Uris, "Brazil", John Updike, "Original Sin", P.D. James (sealed), "Redemption", Leon Uris, "Damascus Gate", Robert Stone, "Outerbridge Reach", Robert Stone, "Crossing To Safety", Wallace Stegner, "Billy Straight", Jonathan Kellerman, "The Volcano Lover", Susan Sontag, "Black Alley", Mickey Spillane, "The Kitchen God's Wife", Amy Tan, "Journals 1939 - 1983", Stephen Spender, "Depths of Glory", Irving Stone, "Spock on Spock", Benjamin Spock & Mary Morgan, "The Killing Man", Mickey Spillane, "Saint Maybe", Anne Tyler, "Breathing Lessons", Anne Tyler, "Pleading Guilty", Scott Turow, "Ladder of Years", Anne Tyler, "The Burden of Proof", Scott Turow, "TheLaws of Our Fathers", Scott Turow, "Where I'm Calling From", Raymond Carver, "The Songlines", Butch Chatwin, "Recessional", James A. Michener, "Oswald's Tale", Norman Mailer, "Anything Considered", Peter Mayle, "Chasing Cezanne", Peter Mayle, "Hotel Pastis, Peter Mayle, "Tough Guys Don't Dance", Norman Mailer, "The Truth About Lorin Jones", Alison Lurie, "A Dangerous Woman", Mary McGarry Morris, "Hong Kong", Jan Morris, "Timebends", Arthur Miller, "Our Game", John Le Carre, "A Cloak of Light", Wright Morris, "The Bourne Supremacy", Robert Ludlum, "Nine Women", Shirley Ann Grau, "Foreign Affairs", Alison Lurie, "We Are Still Married", Garrison Keillor, "Devices and Desires", P.D. James, "Rabbit At Rest", John Updike, "A Patchwork Planet", Anne Tyler, "The Bonfire of the Vanities", Tom Wolfe, "Roger's Version", John Updike, "The Witches of Eastwick", John Updike, "New and Selected Poems, 1923- 1985", Robert Penn Warren, "In The Beauty of the Lilies", John Updike, "Gertrude And Claudius", John Updike, "A Man In Full", Tom Wolfe, "The Haj", Leon Uris, "Hocus Pocus", Kurt Vonnegut, "The Smithsonian Institution", Gore Vidal, "Bluebeard", Kurt Vonnegut, "Galapagos", Kurt Vonnegut, "The Fifth Son", Elie Wiesel, "Empire", Gore Vidal, "No Safe Place", Richard North Patterson, "The Thanatos Syndrome", Walker Percy, "Celebration", Mary Lee Settle, "A Time Of Change", Harrison E. Salisbury, "Dark Lady", Richard North Patterson, "The Long March", Harrison E. Salisbury, "Three From The Stage", Neil Simon, "The Anatomy Lesson", Philip Roth, "Rose", Martin Cruz Smith, "In America", Susan Sontag, "The Counterlife", Philip Roth, "The Death of Methuselah", Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Penitent", Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Human Stain", Philip Roth, "I Married A Communist", Philip Roth, "The Cycles of American History", Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "A Fanatic Heart", Edna O'Brien, "Polar Star", Martin Cruz Smith, "Operation Shylock", Philip Roth, "Closing Time" Joseph Heller, "Airframe", Michael Crichton, "Travels", Michael Crichton, "Timeline", Michael Crichton, "The Lost World", Michael Crichton, "The Call", John Hersey, "The Centurion", Jan De Hartog, "The Short History of a Prince", Jane Hamilton, "Disclosure" Michael Crichton, "Rising Sun", Michael Crichton, "Now and Then", Joseph Heller, "Playing For Keeps", David Halberstam, "Prizzi's Money", Richard Condon, "Jurassic Park", Michael Crichton, "Gump & Co.", Winston Groom, "The Patient Has The Floor", Alistair Cooke, "The Venerable Bead", Richard Condon, "A Son of The Circus", John Irving, and "The Big Picture", Douglas Kennedy. One of two large groupings in this sale of these books. Condition: All books are like new / as new. Cataloger does not believe that these have ever been read.
• WALTER A. WEBER (1906-1979)Eight Portraits
  WALTER A. WEBER (1906-1979)Eight Portraits of Big Game Animals Vignettes of buffalo, bear, caribou, deer, moose, elk, and big horn sheep each signed "Weber" lower right or left ink, watercolor, and gouache, each 4 by 6 in. Walter Weber was a staff artist for "National Geographic" for many years. In the late 1920s, as a young man, he participated in the Crane Pacific Expedition to the Galapagos and on around the globe as team artist. Weber received the Conservation Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1967 and his artwork was selected for the Federal Duck Stamp in 1944 and 1950.
• THREE SHELVES OF MOSTLY FRANKLIN MINT
  THREE SHELVES OF MOSTLY FRANKLIN MINT LEATHER MOUNTED BOOKS, INCLUDING CLASSICS SUCH AS MADAME BOVARY, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, MOBY DICK... Three shelves of mostly Franklin Mint leather mounted books, including classics such as Madame Bovary, Great Expectations, Moby Dick and Anna Karenina; also a collection of first edition signed books including Maya Angelou, 'All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes'; Anthony Burgess 'The Kingdom of the Wicked'; John Updike 'Roger's Version'; Ray Bradbury 'Death is a Lonley Business'; Irving Stone 'Depths of Glory'; John Irving 'The Cider House Rules'; John Hersey 'The Call'; Shirley Ann Grau 'Nine Women'; John Toland 'Gods of War'; Elie Wiesel 'The Fifth Son; Louis Auchincloss 'Diary of a Yuppie'; Joyce Carol Oates 'Marya'; Paul Theroux 'O-zone'; Robert Penn Warren 'New and Selected Poems 1923-1985'; Kurt Vonnegut 'Galapagos'; Alistair Cooke 'The Patient has the Floor'; Harrison R. Salisbury 'The Long March'; Robert Ludlum 'The Bourne Supremacy', and; Stephen Spender 'Journals 1939-1983', [approximately 58 books]
• EARLY ROYAL DOULTON SUNG FLAMBE TORTOISEGreat
  EARLY ROYAL DOULTON SUNG FLAMBE TORTOISEGreat turtle study with unusual coloring in Flambe. Sharp coloring with orange highlights on a luster glaze with lavender and red undertones. Stamped with Royal Doulton Falmbe mark and inscribed model number 101. #galapagos #seaturtle #nature Artist: Charles Noke Issued: 1920s Dimensions: 4"L x 1.5"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England
• 6 KURT VONNEGUT HARDCOVER BOOKS, INCL.
  6 KURT VONNEGUT HARDCOVER BOOKS, INCL. AUTHOR SIGNED, 1...1st-2nd items: Two (2) Author signed, HOCUS POCUS, First Edition, by Kurt Vonnegut, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1991. Both signed "Kurt Vonnegut" to flyleaf or half-title page, one (1) with self-portrait illustration by Vonnegut to flyleaf. Includes original pictorial dust jacket wrapped in Mylar, not price-clipped. 3rd item: Author signed, PALM SUNDAY, First Edition, Stated First Printing, Numbered 364/500, by Kurt Vonnegut, published by Delacorte Press, New York, 1981. Gilt edge pages, signed "Kurt Vonnegut" with number to limitation page. Housed in a red cloth publisher's slipcase with gilt letting to covers. 4th item: New in Shrink-wrap, author-signed, BLUEBEARD, First Trade Edition, Numbered /500, by Kurt Vonnegut, published by Delacorte Press, New York, 1987. Gilt edge pages, signed "Kurt Vonnegut" with number to limitation page. Housed in a black cloth publisher's slipcase with gilt lettering to cover. 5th item: Author signed, GALAPAGOS, First Trade Edition, Numbered 30/500, by Kurt Vonnegut, published by Delacorte Press, New York, 1985. Gilt edge pages, signed "Kurt Vonnegut" with number to limitation page. Housed in a black cloth publisher's slipcase with gilt lettering to cover. 6th item: SLAPSTICK! OR LONESOME NO MORE!, First Delacorte Printing, by Kurt Vonnegut, published by Delacorte Press, New York, 1976. Includes original pictorial dust jacket, not price-clipped. Ranging in size from 8 1/2" H x 6" W x 1" D to 9 1/2" H x 6 1/8" W x 1 1/4" D. Condition: All items in overall very good condition with light shelf wear, sunning, minute tears to dust jackets. Signatures in good, legible condition. 3rd item: Few areas of staining to slipcase. 4th item: New with Shrink-wrap condition. 5th item: Some shrink-wrap remaining.
• (12) BOOKS: LEATHER & GILT, SOME AUTOGRAPHED(lot
  (12) BOOKS: LEATHER & GILT, SOME AUTOGRAPHED(lot of 12) Books published by Easton Press, Signed First Edition Society, and Franklin Library, some signed, leather binding, several colors, gilt page ends, raised spine bands, many appear unread: (1) "Galapagos," Kurt Vonnegut, signed in ink at first interior page, 295 pages; (1) "New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985," Robert Penn Warren, signed in ink at first interior page, 322 pages; (1) "Decision," Alan Drury, signed in blue marker first interior page, 486 pages; (1) "The Patient Has the Floor," Alstair Cooke, signed at first interior page, 204 pages; (1) "Leila," J.P. Donleavy, signed at first interior page, 379 pages; (1) "The Call," John Hersey, signed at first interior page, 697 pages; (1) "Panzer Leader," General Heinz Guderian, 528 pages; (1) "Decision at Leyte," Stanley L. Falk, 330 pages; (1) "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783," Captain A.T. Mahan, 557 pages; (1) "The Korean War," Max Hastings; (1) "Decision at Trafalgar," Dudley Pope, 381 pages; (1) "Treasure Island," Robert Louis Stevenson, 305 pages; largest book: 9.25"h, 6.25"w, 1.75"d, 26lbs total
• WHALING JOURNAL FROM THE WHALESHIP "SAPPHO"
  WHALING JOURNAL FROM THE WHALESHIP "SAPPHO" 16" X 10.25".WHALING JOURNAL FROM THE WHALESHIP "SAPPHO", Begins July 21, 1848 and ends January 18, 1852. The ship departed New Bedford and traveled around Cape Horn to Chile, the Galapagos, the coast of Colombia and other destinations. Includes accounts of desertions and illness. 250 pages are written on, which is all but several pages at the end of the book. Dimensions: 16" x 10.25". Provenance: Nina Hellman Antiques, Nantucket, Massachusetts. Includes receipt.The Collection of Michael Gill.
• FIVE WORKS OF MODERN FICTIONFive works
  FIVE WORKS OF MODERN FICTIONFive works of modern fiction, Each octavo bound in full leather with gilt lettering and embellishment and gilt page edges Five works: Heller, Joseph. "Catch-22." Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1978 Hardcover book Signed Limited Edition 9.625" H x 6.5" W x 2" D Capote, Truman. "Other Voices, Other Rooms." Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1979 Hardcover book Signed Limited Edition With accompanying pamphlet "Notes from the Editors" 8.875" H x 6" W x 1.25" D Vonnegut, Kurt. "Slaughterhouse-Five." Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1978 Hardcover book Signed Limited Edition With accompanying pamphlet "Notes from the Editors" 9" H x 6.625" W x 1" D Vonnegut, Kurt. "Galapagos." Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1985 Hardcover book Signed First Edition 9.125" H x 6.125" W x 1.5" D Fowles, John. "The Collector." Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1982 Hardcover book Signed Limited Edition 8.875" H x 6.25" W x 1.125" D 5 pieces
• JOURNAL OF A WHALING VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC
  JOURNAL OF A WHALING VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEANON BOARD THE "ELIZA L. B. JENNEY" OF FAIRHAVEN, JOHN CHURCH, MASTER, 1842. THE LOG COVERS FROM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1842 THROUGH MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1846 AND WAS PROBABLY WRITTEN BY HIRUM LUTHER, FIRST MATE. THERE IS NO SIGNATURE BUT THE AUTHOR MENTIONED IT WAS HIS 38TH BIRTHDAY ON OCTOBER 28, 1843. THE SHIP HAD 2 OWNERS W.L.B. GIBBS AND WILLIAM P. JENNEY. THE JOURNAL CONTAINS 131 HAND WRITTEN PAGES. IT HAS A LEATHER SPINE WITH MARBLED BOARDS. 13 1/2" X 8 1/4". IT IS IN OVERALL GOOD CONDITION. IT APPEARS SOME PAGES ARE TORN FROM THE BACK. THE FIRST PART OF THE BOOK DISCUSSES THE JOURNEY FROM FAIRHAVEN TO CAPE HORN. FINBACK WHALES ARE SIGHTED ON MARCH 31ST. MENTION IS MADE SAILING PAST THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS ON APRIL 27TH. ON JUNE 12TH 8 MEN ARE JAILED IN THE FORECASTLE FOR REFUSING TO MAN THE MASTHEAD. ON JUNE 26TH THE MEN ARE PUNISHED WITH A LASHING. TUESDAY JULY 18TH A WHALE IS TAKEN BUT THIS RESULTED IN A STOVE BOAT JULY 20TH, 2 MORE WHALES ARE TAKEN. ENCOUNTERS WITH OTHER WHALESHIPS LIKE THE "GEORGE WASHINGTON" ARE NOTED APRIL 15, 1844. THEY ARE OFF THE COAST OF PERU CRUISING FOR WHALES. APRIL 28, 1844 THEY ARE OFF THE COAST OF PANAMA. OCTOBER 29, 1844 A LARGE WHALE IS TAKEN AND THE LARBOARD BOAT IS BADLY STOVE. MET UP WITH THE ABIGALE OF NEW BEDFORD ON JANUARY 11, 1845. FEBRUARY 28, 1845 WHALES ARE TAKEN OFF THE COAST OF CHILE. THE CUTTING IN IS DESCRIBED. ON NOVEMBER 6, 1845 A LARGE GROUP OF SMALL WHALES ARE SIGHTED AND SEVERAL ARE TAKEN. MARCH 1846 STILL CRUISING OFF THE COAST OF CHILE. JUNE 28, 1846 LAST ENTRY, RETURNING HOME NOW OFF THE EAST END OF LONG ISLAND. 2400 LBS. OF SPERM OIL WAS TAKEN FROM A TOTAL OF 60 WHALES. THIS LOT COMES WITH A WELL DONE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE JOURNAL DONE BY THE THIRD GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF CHRISTIAN THATCH, THE THIRD MATE ON THE VOYAGE. THERE ARE NO WHALE STAMPS IN THIS JOURNAL. PROVENANCE: FAIRHAVEN COLONIAL CLUB.
• 19TH CENTURY SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH
  19TH CENTURY SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH DEPICTINGTURTLE HUNTING ON GALAPAGOS, 1843. 5" LONG.
• 9PC SWAROVSKI ASSORTED ANIMAL FIGURINES
  9PC SWAROVSKI ASSORTED ANIMAL FIGURINES Austria,Circa 2000Lot includes one 0894551 Piggy Pong, one 0887731 Lee Roy, one 622526 Playing Seal, one 0995036 Galapagos Tortoise, one 5302557 Determined Pig, one 0955423 Koalas, 0905776 Calf, one 010022 Owl, and one 0010014 Miniature Owl.
• CYNTHIA LYMAN MODERN BRONZE OSTRICH
  CYNTHIA LYMAN MODERN BRONZE OSTRICH SCULPTURE Massachusetts,d. 2007Animalier statue depicting a running ostrich with wings outstretched. Lyman studied in Paris and later with Boston artists George Demetrios and Peter Abate before travelling the world, making numerous trips to Africa and Asia for inspiration. After the death of her husband, Lyman befriended Dover artist Constance Pach who then traveled with her to the Galapagos and South America for further inspiration and animal research. Best known for her work of St. Francis of Assisi in Prouty Garden at Boston's Children's Hospital surrounded by carefully crafted animals. Other works can be found at the Boston Athenaeum, the Maria Mitchell Association of Nantucket, and the Nantucket Life Saving Museum.
• CAST IRON GALAPAGOS TORTOISE FOUNTAIN
  CAST IRON GALAPAGOS TORTOISE FOUNTAIN h:38 w:46 d:78 in. Other Notes: DHS
• BOOKS eleven pieces: (Franklin Library-signed
  BOOKS eleven pieces: (Franklin Library-signed first editions) Spillane ''The Killing Man''; Miller Arthur ''Timebends''; Huffington ''Picasso''; ''Spock on Spock''; Weisel ''The Fifth Son''; Auchincloss ''Diary of a Yuppie''; Carver ''Where I'm Calling From''; Updike ''Roger's Version; Vonnegut ''Galapagos''. In all 9 volumes each a limited edition signed by author.