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    Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000.
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Sotheby's 
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000. - 
    
    
    
Dominic Winter 
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, 1st edition, 1844. £4,000 to £6,000.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Rashleigh (Philip). Specimens of British Minerals, 2 parts in 1, 1797 & 1802. £3,000 to £5,000.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Murchison (Roderick Impey). The Silurian System, 1st edition, 1839. £3,000 to £5,000.Dominic Winter 
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 1st edition, 1842. £3,000 to £5,000.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on South America, 1st edition, 1846. £3,000 to £5,000.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Sowerby (James). The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, 6 volumes, 1812-29. £2,000 to £3,000.Dominic Winter 
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Emerson (William). Cyclomathesis: or an Easy Introduction to ... Mathematics, 10 vols. in 9, 1770. £1,500 to £2,000.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Robinson (Thomas). New observations on the Natural History of This World of Matter, 1696. £800 to £1,200.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Aquinas (Thomas). [Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte, Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.Dominic Winter 
Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
5th November, 2025Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Parfit (Cliff). Tesuki Washi. Handmade Papers of Japan, 1981-1988. £400 to £600.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Herbert (Thomas). A Relation of some yeares Travaile... Into Afrique and the greater Asia, 1634. £800 to £1,200.Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Lindbergh (Charles A.). The Spirit of St. Louis, 1955, signed. £200 to £300. 
Forum Auctions: Online: Books and Works on Paper, 1045, London
Auction Details
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| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ravilious (Eric).- Bliss (Douglas Percy) & A.E. Chistopherson, editors. | The Gallimaufry: A New Magazine of the Students of the R.C.A. which will appear for this once only  | 
            1925 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,143.00 | |
| 2 | Ravilious (Eric).- Armstrong (Martin) | Desert  | 
            1926 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 279.40 | |
| 3 | Ravilious (Eric) | Exhibition of Modern Wood Cuts and Book Decoration  | 
            Liverpool | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,270.00 | |
| 4 | Ravilious (Eric).- Fraser (Ronald) | Flower Phantoms, signed by the author  | 
            1926 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,397.00 | |
| 5 | Ravilious (Eric).- Breton (Nicholas) | The Twelve Moneths  | 
            Waltham St. Lawrence | 1927 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 698.50 | 
| 6 | Ravilious (Eric).- Furst (Herbert, editor) | The Woodcut: An Annual  | 
            1927-30. | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,524.00 | |
| 7 | Ravilious (Eric) | Kensington Gardens at night  | 
            1927 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,079.50 | |
| 8 | Ravilious (Eric).- Suckling (Sir John) | A Ballad upon a Wedding  | 
            1927 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 508.00 | |
| 9 | Ravilious (Eric).- Morison (Stanley, editor) | The Fleuron: A Journal of Typography  | 
            Cambridge & New York | 1928 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 482.60 | 
| 10 | Ravilious (Eric) | Apocrypha (The)  | 
            1929 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 355.60 | |
| 11 | Ravilious (Eric) | Doctor Faustus Conjuring Mephostophilis, wood-engraving  | 
            1929 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 406.40 | |
| 12 | Ravilious (Eric) | Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd. Almanack 1929 with Twelve Designs  | 
            [1929]. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 698.50 | |
| 13 | Ravilious (Eric) | Golden Cockerel Press. Spring [List] 1930 3 wood-engravings by Ravilious comprising floral border to upper cover (lettering by Eric Gill)  | 
            1930 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 584.20 | |
| 14 | Ravilious (Eric).- Coppard (A.E.) | Elizabeth Bowen & others. Consequences: A Complete Story in the Manner of the Old Parlour Game in Nine Chapters each by a Different Author  | 
            Waltham St. Lawrence | 1932 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 406.40 | 
| 15 | Ravilious (Eric) | Kynoch Press Note Book 1933  | 
            1932 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,651.00 | |
| 16 | Ravilious (Eric).- Shakespeare (William) | Twelfth Night, or, What You Will  | 
            Waltham Saint Lawrence | 1932 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,270.00 | 
| 17 | Ravilious (Eric).- Marlowe (Christopher) | The Famous Tragedy of the rich Jew of Malta  | 
            1933 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,397.00 | |
| 18 | Ravilious (Eric).- Marlowe (Christopher) | The Famous Tragedy of the rich Jew of Malta  | 
            1933 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 406.40 | |
| 19 | Ravilious (Eric) | Original woodblock of engraving of cockerel  | 
            [1933]; | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | GBP 10,130.00 | |
| 20 | Ravilious (Eric) | 49th Dinner Double Crown Club Cafe Royal  | 
            [1935] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,778.00 | |
| 21 | Ravilious (Eric).- Strong (L.A.G.) | The Hansom Cab and the Pigeons  | 
            1935 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 330.20 | |
| 22 | Ravilious (Eric).- Hennell (Thomas) | Poems  | 
            1936 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,794.00 | |
| 23 | Ravilious (Eric).- Heath (Ambrose) | The Country Life Cookery Book  | 
            1937 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 533.40 | |
| 24 | Ravilious (Eric) | Beautiful Britain. Country Life Calendar 1939  | 
            [1938] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 533.40 | |
| 25 | Ravilious (Eric) | Armagnac Beaune Bordeaux Cognac Jerez Kirkwall Madeira Oporto Reims Worms-am-Rhein  | 
            1938 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 635.00 |