RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts - bidstart 10/28, 708, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 08, 2025 - January 08, 2025
Page Size: 804 items in 33 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
406 Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury Signed Original 'Release Script' for Moby Dick, with Signed Book and DVD

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
407 Kelmscott Chaucer:

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Kelmscott Press (1896)

Hammersmith 1896 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Unknown
408 Samuel L. Clemens

Samuel L. Clemens Signed Photograph as "Mark Twain" - PSA NM-MT 8

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
409 Samuel L. Clemens

Samuel L. Clemens Signed Photograph - PSA NM-MT 8

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
410 Samuel L. Clemens and "Mark Twain"

Samuel L. Clemens and "Mark Twain" Double Signature

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
411 James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper Lengthy Autograph Letter Signed on The Battle of Long Island

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
412 Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis Autograph Manuscript Signed - Draft for 'The Boy Scout'

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
413 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed on A Christmas Carol: "I am very glad you think so highly of the Carol. It interested me, exceedingly"

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
414 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
415 Charles L. Dodgson

Charles L. Dodgson Autograph Letter Signed: "In one way I'm like the Old Woman that lives in a shoeaEU"that is, I've got so many picture-books, I don't know what to do!"

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
416 Arthur Conan Doyle:

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (First Edition)

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
417 Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Autograph Letter Signed on Writing Madame Bovary: "I am in despair. All my work this week has to be redone"

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
418 Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert Autograph Letter Signed on Writing with Bouilhet: "He had an idea that I dare to describe as Dantesque"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
419 John Gardner

John Gardner Signed Book - Icebreaker, with Original Artwork by Bill Botten

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
420 Zane Grey

Zane Grey Handwritten Manuscript for 'Loose Bridles'

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
421 Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy Document Signed for Tess of the d'Urbervilles

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
422 Bret Harte

Bret Harte Autograph Manuscript Signed for The Youngest Prospector in Calaveras

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
423 Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed on His Mail and the Great Depression: "We've all lost money in A.D. 1929-30aEU"and may lose more in 31"

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
424 Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Signed Photograph

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
425 Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Autograph Letter Signed, Recommending a Russian Translator to the Publisher of Les MisA(c)rables

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
426 Washington Irving

Washington Irving Handwritten Manuscript for "Legend of the House of Omeya"

USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 Unknown
427 Washington Irving

Washington Irving Handwritten Notebook on Politics in Spain, Where He Served as United States Ambassador

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
428 Stephen King

Stephen King Autograph Quotation Signed from The Shining: "Whatever Redrum was, it was here"

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
429 H. P. Lovecraft Content-Rich

H. P. Lovecraft Content-Rich Autograph Letter Signed on Writing Weird Fiction: "The short tale is the best form for fantasy"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
430 Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant Handwritten Poem - 'Promenade A seize ans'

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
  • 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