University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, and Books, 103024, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 30, 2024 - October 30, 2024

Page Size: 458 items in 19 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
401	Louis XIII	Boy King Louis XIII Signed Doc "By the King The Queen Regent Mother" Paying French Poet	January 7, 1612	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 1,750.00
402		Stunning Photo of Queen Elena of Montenegro, in Heavy Silver Period Frame!	n.d.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 275.00
404	Josip Broz Tito	Josip Broz Tito Signed Photograph	1963-08-06	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 250.00
405	George Francis Train	George Francis Train Signed Newspaper Advertising Speaking Event on Cuba	ca. February 1897	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 87.50
406	French	1930s French Archive Describing European Politics & Rise of Nazism On Cusp of WWII: 200+ Letters, 800+pp, From Important Churchill Ally Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Ex-Forbes	ca. 1931-1939	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,875.00
407	Ernest Hemingway	Ernest Hemingway Signed & Engrossed Check, Endorsed by Hemingway's Cuban Friend & Estate Conservator	March 25, 1851	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	USD 2,750.00
408	Helen Keller	Helen Keller Boldly Autographed Page	n.d.	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 468.75
409	Jack Kerouac	Jack Kerouac Signed Ltd 1st Ed. of "Visions of Cody"	ca. 1959	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,375.00
410	Kerouac	Kerouac's Uncorrected Proofs of "Desolation Angels" Signed by Kenneth Rexroth	ca. 1965	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 750.00
411		20th C. British & American Authors & Journalists, Ex-Forbes	ca. 1927-1984	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 325.00
412	Sylvia Plath	Sylvia Plath 1st Separately Published Work, "A Winter Ship", Personally Owned	ca. 1960	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 1,062.50
413	Ayn Rand	Ayn Rand's Personal Signed "Privilege Card" for Chemical Bank, Now the Largest Bank in the United States! PSA Gem MT 10	July, 1968	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 7,500.00
414	James Whitcomb	James Whitcomb Riley Photo Dated 4 Months Before His Career-Hampering Stroke	2010-03-10	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 175.00
415	George B. Shaw	George B. Shaw Inscribed Tin Type Photo to Nazi-Propagandist Sylvester Viereck	1935-02-14	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 300.00
416	Hunter Thompson	Hunter Thompson Hand Annotated Typed Letter	1961-01-19	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 768.00
417	Hunter Thompson	Hunter Thompson Handwritten Letter to Friend	ca. late-1960	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 704.00
418	Turgenev	Superb Turgenev Quote from His Friend, George Eliot: "Our deeds determine us..."	September, 1881	USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	Not Sold
419	Lew Welch	Poet Lew Welch Signed Ltd Ed of "The Song of Mt. Tamalpais", No. 38/350	ca. 1969	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 275.00
420	Walt Whitman	Walt Whitman Signed 1876 Author's Edition of "Leaves of Grass", 1 of 600 Copies	ca. 1876	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 5,312.50
421	Daniel Boone	Daniel Boone Signature Plus 2 Lines of His Handwriting With JSA LOA	n.d.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 3,750.00
422	Butch Cassidy	Butch Cassidy Dead? 3 Fascinating Docs from 1898 Carbon County, Utah Re: Burial of "Joe Walker and Butch Cassidy"	May 14-24, 1898	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,000.00
423	Tom Mix	Hollywood Cowboy Tom Mix Signed Presentation Photo To Entertainer Ted Lewis	n.d.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 200.00
424		Mormons & the Old West, ca. 1880s-1890s: Fantastic 24 pc. Archive Depicting Temples, Caricatures, & City Scenes	ca. 1880s-1890s	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 416.00
425	G.W. Lillie / Pawnee Bill	Dual Signed G.W. Lillie / Pawnee Bill 79th Birthday Toast	n.d. but ca. February 1940	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 125.00
426	Attorneys General Brewster and Pierrepont	Attorneys General Brewster and Pierrepont Collection of Six Pieces	ca. 1883-1887	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 87.50

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD