University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books - Just In Time For The Holidays!, 121124, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024

Page Size: 518 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
402	Elizabeth II & Philip Signed Honorary OBE Awarded to West German Diplomat	1978-05-22	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 768.00
403	Queen Victoria Military Commission Boldly Signed at Scottish Deer Stalking Lodge - Beautiful Presentation - With JSA	August 19, 1847	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 358.40
404	First Edition "Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert", A Defense of George IV's Secret Wife	ca. 1856	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 125.00
405	Francisco Franco Pair of Signed Photographs, ca. 1949	ca. 1949	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 375.00
406	European Delegation Visits Israel in 1962 To Explore Potential Partnerships - Massive French-Language Archive, 150+pp, Including Original Speech Notes of Lead Delegate Alain Poher	ca. 1960-1962	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 200.00
407	Mikhail Gorbachev Commanding Signed Photo	n.d.	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 275.00
408	[Judaica] Lot of 4 Signed Books: Wiesel, Westheimer, Dershowitz; Plus Bonus 1st Ed. Novel	ca. 1981-2005	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 87.50
409	Bernard Law Montgomery Signed Book, With Details about El Alamein Campaign	n.d.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 687.50
410	Lord Mountbatten Signed "Time" Magazine Cover Celebrating His Fearsome Commandos	n.d.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 87.50
411	Elena Rzhevskaya, Russian Spy, Confirmed Hitler's Death After Reichs Chancellory Attack - Rare Signed Book!	ca. 1979	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 406.25
412	Pair of Viscount Palmerston ALS on Troops in Portugal and Disease Outbreak	August 9, 1833 and April 4, 1844	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 275.00
413	Otto von Bismarck PSA GEM MT 10 Dashing Pilartz Cabinet Card	May [?] 21, 1895	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 875.00
414	20th Century Writers Collection of 14 Letters Signed, 1959-1984: Forester, Nash, O'Hara & More!	ca. 1959-1984	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 750.00
415	[Dealer's Lot] Collection of 8 Books from 1828-1934, All But One 1st Editions	ca. 1937 to 1990	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 350.00
416	[Dealer's Lot] Collection of 7 Books from 1828-1934, Three Signed	ca.1828 to 1934	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 275.00
417	William Cullen Bryant's "A Mother's Hymn", Beautifully Penned and Signed	April 7, 1864	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 175.00
418	Pearl Buck Hand-Annotated Speech On U.S. Relations With Asia	n.d.	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 225.00
419	Mark Twain on Drinking "Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it."	ca. December 1905	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 6,250.00
420	Samuel Clemens Signed Vol. I of "The Letters of Samuel Johnson", Taken from his Library	ca. 1892	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,750.00
421	James Fenimore Cooper, Orig. MS from The Oak Openings: "...I took his scalp..."	n.d.	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
422	Capt. Jack Crawford Signed & Inscribed Poem Tipped into Copy of His Book of Poems	2012-03-24	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 125.00
423	Charles Dickens ALS on His Efforts to Reform the Royal Literary Fund	May 1, 1855	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,750.00
424	Alexandre Dumas Handwritten Signed Manuscript on Prison Reform in Italy	ca. 1862-1863	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,250.00
425	T.S. Eliot Signed 1949 Christmas Card Featuring Barnett Freedman Lithographs, With PSA/DNA LOA	ca. 1949	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 406.25
426	Shaw, Thackeray and 30+ Letters, Signed Covers & More from English Poets + Bonus Americans	various	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 1,375.00

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