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
607 Stendhal

Stendhal Autograph Letter Signed on the French King's Giraffe

1827 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,849.00
608 Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Signed Photograph

1886 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
609 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin. Later printing.

Boston and New York 1889 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,038.00
610 Jules Verne

Jules Verne Autograph Letter Signed on His Novel, The Purchase of the North Pole

1893 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,069.00
611 Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Signed 'Leaves of Grass' Title Page

1876 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,250.00
612 Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray.

London, New York and Melbourne 1891 USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
613 Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Signed Check to Her Husband, Leonard Woolf, with Booklet of 25 Annotated Check Stubs

1927 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,161.00
619 Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott Autograph Letter Signed: "I am in my winter den I don't expect to do much but doze & keep warm till spring"

[no year] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,059.00
620 Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott Signature

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 418.00
621 Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott Autograph Note Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,500.00
622 Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott Partial Autograph Note Signed on "Pilgrim's Progress"

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 368.00
623 James Baldwin

James Baldwin Document Signed

1945 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
624 James M. Barrie

James M. Barrie Autograph Letter Signed - Author of Peter Pan

1930 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 413.00
625 Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot. Later printing.

NY 1977 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 491.00
626 Jacinto Benavente

Jacinto Benavente Oversized Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 334.00
627 Peter Benchley

Peter Benchley 'Jaws' Sketch with Handwritten Note

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 963.00
628 Earl Derr Biggers

Earl Derr Biggers (7) Signed Items - Photograph and (6) Letters

1923-1932 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 446.00
629 Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury Signed 'The 1st Ray Bradbury Theatre Festival' Ceramic Plaque (Ltd. Ed. #15/15)

2007 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
630 Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury Signed 'The 1st Ray Bradbury Theatre Festival' Ceramic Plaque

2007 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
631 Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury Ceramic Plaque for 'The 1st Ray Bradbury Theatre Festival'

2007 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
632 Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Original Doodled Sketch

1975 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
633 Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett (3) Signed Items - Autograph Quote and (2) Autograph Letters

1879 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
634 Frances Hodgson Burnett:

Queen Silver-Bell by Frances Hodgson Burnett with illustrations by Harrison Cady. First edition.

NY 1906 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
635 Frances Hodgson Burnett:

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Later printing.

NY 1911 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
636 Truman Capote

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote.

NY 1965 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,168.00
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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.
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    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.
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    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.