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
460 Ludwig Bemelmans

Ludwig Bemelmans Twice-Signed Typed Letter: "I find biographies of authors ever so tiresome. Please make it a rule never to have them on any of my books...wrap me in Mystery"

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
461 William Peter

William Peter Blatty Autograph Quotation Signed from The Exorcist: "Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
462 Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (5) Signed Books, with The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
463 Ray Bradbury

Farenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The illustrated Man

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
464 Ray Bradbury

The Golden Apples of the Sun

Burton, MI 2008 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
465 Robert Browning

Robert Browning Autograph Quotation Signed

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
466 Charles Bukowski

Screams From the Balcony (Ltd. Ed. #57/300)

Santa Rosa, CA 1993 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
467 Thornton Burgess

Thornton Burgess Autograph Quotation Signed from Peter Rabbit

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
468 Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs Typed Letter Signed: "I have not as yet completed the Tarzan story that I am working on"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
469 Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs Signed Check

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
470 Willa Cather

Willa Cather Signature

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
471 Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler Typed Letter Signed: "When I was writing for the pulps, I wrote with a camel's-hair brush"

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
472 Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler Document Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
473 Agatha Christie's

Agatha Christie's Handwritten Address Book, Fountain Pens, Inkwell, and Greenway House Stationery

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
474 Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie Typed Letter Signed: "I trust my play wasn't responsible for the death of the man in the stalls!"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
475 Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie Signature

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
476 [Agatha Christie]:

[Agatha Christie]: Marple: Twelve New Stories Signed by (12) Authors

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
477 Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl Typed Letter Signed

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
478 Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet Autograph Letter Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
479 Norman Douglas

Norman Douglas Typed Letter Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
480 Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle Autograph Letter Signed

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
481 Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle Typed Letter Signed on Spiritualism

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
482 Theodore Dreiser

My City (Ltd. Ed. #85/275)

NY 1929 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
483 Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser Autograph Letter Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
484 William Faulkner

William Faulkner Signed Movie Contract for Gungha Din

USD 600.00 - 800.00 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
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    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