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
431 A. A. Milne Autograph

A. A. Milne Autograph Letter Signed on Winnie the Pooh: "Of course I should like to go on for ever, but Pooh says he wants to go to sleep for a bit"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
432 Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell Typed Letter Signed on Gone With the Wind, Three Months After Its Publication

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
433 Frank Norris

Frank Norris Argonaut Manuscript Edition of His Collected Works (Ltd. Ed. #106/245)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
434 Baroness Emma

Baroness Emma Orczy Handwritten Manuscript Page from The Scarlet Pimpernel

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
435 Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Hand-Annotated Pages (3) from Her Screenplay for 'The Fountainhead'

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
437 Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Hand-Annotated Essay - 'The Psycho-Epistemology of Art' in The Objectivist Newsletter

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
439 J. K. Rowling: First

J. K. Rowling: First Edition, First Printing of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Hardcover)

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Unknown
440 J. K. Rowling: First

J. K. Rowling: First Edition, First Printing of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Softcover)

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
441 J. K. Rowling: First

J. K. Rowling: First Edition, First Printing of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Leatherbound)

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
442 Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

NY 1990 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
443 Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss Original Sketch of The Cat in the Hat

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
444 George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Handwritten Manuscript Draft for the Preface to T. E. Lawrence's 'Revolt in the Desert'

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
445 William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray Original Illustration and Handwritten Manuscript Page from Vanity Fair

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
446 Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Document Signed for His Unfinished Autobiographical Novel, "Adventures in the Skin Trade"

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
447 J. R. R. Tolkien

The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle

London 1968 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 Unknown
448 J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien Autograph Letter Signed on Publishing the Final Volume of The Lord of the Rings

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Unknown
449 Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine Autograph Manuscript Signed - Draft of a Poem for 'Bonheur'

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
450 Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Autograph Letter Signed: "My photo & autograph are sold by the Camden Children's Home"

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
451 Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Autograph Quotation Signed - 'The Garden of Eros'

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 Unknown
452 Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Extraordinary Autograph Letter Signed: "Writing books often seems a useless occupation"

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
453 John Wyndham

The Day of the Triffids

London, England 1958 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
454 Jack Kerouac

Excerpts from Visions of Cody (Ltd. Ed. #709/750)

NY 1959 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
455 Jack Kerouac:

The Subterraneans (First Edition)

NY 1958 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
456 Richard Brautigan:

Trout Fishing in America (First Edition)

San Francisco, California 1967 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
459 Updike, Mailer, and Singer

American Authors (10) Signed Books - Franklin Library Limited Editions, with Updike, Mailer, and Singer

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
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    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”.
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    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
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    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.
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
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  • 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
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    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