RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts, 723, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
August 13, 2025 - August 13, 2025
Page Size: 816 items in 33 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
580 Samuel L. Clemens

Samuel L. Clemens Double Signature - "S. L. Clemens, Mark Twain"

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,500.00
581 Richard Harding

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

1914 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
584 Charles L. Dodgson

Charles L. Dodgson Autograph Letter Signed, Arranging an Outing to "the Vernon Gallery, & the rest of the South Kensington Museum"

1892 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,928.00
585 F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Autograph Letter Signed - Two Weeks Before the Release of The Beautiful and Damned

1922 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,208.00
586 Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming Typed Letter Signed with TWO Rare Full "James Bond" Mentions (Uncommon 'Old Mitre Court' Letterhead)

1963 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
587 William Golding:

Lord of the Flies by William Golding. First American edition, first printing.

NY 1955 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
588 Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy Document Signed for Tess of the d'Urbervilles

1925 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
589 Bret Harte

Bret Harte Autograph Manuscript Signed for The Youngest Prospector in Calaveras

1896 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
590 Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed on Injuries Sustained in African Plane Crashes: "Major concussion, rupture one kidney, damage liver, collapse of intestines"

1954 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,353.00
591 Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed on Writing..."I haven't written a line since last August"...and Boxing: "My brains have never been quite the same"

1943 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 14,616.00
592 Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Document Signed for Motion Picture Rights to The Sun Also Rises

1932 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,249.00
593 Ernest Hemingway:

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. First edition, first printing.

NY 1929 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
594 Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed from Santiago de Campostella, Spain: "This is a long way the best town in Europe"

1927 and USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,311.00
595 Washington Irving

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

1827 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
596 Washington Irving

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

1842-3 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 11,251.00
597 James Joyce

Ulysses by James Joyce

London 1936 USD 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 29,958.00
598 Jack London

Jack London Autograph Letter Signed on Police Judges: "The trouble is that they are very small and insignificant cogs in a large and powerful machine"

1910 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
599 Guy de Maupassant

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

no date. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,251.00
600 Ayn Rand

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

1993 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
601 Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Typed Letter Signed on the Film Adaptation of The Fountainhead: "It was rejected by all the studios on the basis of the synopses"

1948 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
602 Ayn Rand

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

1965 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
603 J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Deluxe UK edition, fourth printing.

London 1999 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,104.00
604 J. D. Salinger:

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. First edition, first printing.

Boston 1951 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,505.00
605 John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck Archive of (9) Autograph Letters Signed to Actress Ann Sothern, Commenting on Writing, Family, and Hollywood Gossip: "How I do run on. And darn it...this is the way I make my living. Oh! Well...its better than cleaning cesspools"

1949 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
606 John Steinbeck:

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. First edition, first printing.

NY 1939 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
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  • Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
  • Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.