• 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.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’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, 2025
    Dominic 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, 2025
    Dominic 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, 2025
    Dominic 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, 2025
    Dominic 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.
  • Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 93: Autograph album containing 29 autograph letters signed by each president from Washington to Coolidge, 1785-1945.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 166: Franz Schubert, Autograph Musical Manuscript, fragment from Die Taucher, 1813.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 111: Thomas Jefferson, holograph plat drawing: map of field near Monticello, 1790s.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 208: George Sand, Autograph Manuscript Signed, draft of her one-act play, Francia, ca. 1872.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 218: Walt Whitman, Manuscript Signed, draft of three complete poems from Leaves of Grass, 1891.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 8: James Dean, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, still from Giant, 1955.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 20: John Lennon, Typescript Signed, interview discussing Paul, Linda, and Yoko, 1971.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 215: Mark Twain, engraved portrait Signed, "Mark Twain / SL. Clemens," 1890s.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 81: Vaslav Nijinsky, reproduction of an artwork by Léon Bakst Inscribed and Signed, 1916.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 73: Malcolm X, The Harvard Crimson Signed and Inscribed: his street address and phone number, 1961.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 11: Lou Gehrig, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, ca. 1939.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 153: George Gershwin, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, portrait by Renato Toppo.

Nate D. Sanders Auctions: September 2025 Auction, 92525, Los Angeles

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 25, 2025 - September 25, 2025
Page Size: 94 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Elaine Steinbeck

Elaine Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...John [Steinbeck] gave David a Knights' suit of armour, complete with a plumed helmet...''

Not Available Not Sold
27 Elaine Steinbeck

Elaine Steinbeck Autograph Letter Signed from England Where John Steinbeck Was Writing ''The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights'' -- ''The cottage is filled with charm & character & ghosts"

1959 Not Available Not Sold
28 Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson's First Book of Poetry, ''Poems by Two Brothers'' -- First Edition from 1827

London 1827 Not Available Not Sold
29 Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Letter From 1962 -- ''...Writing a novel is the shittiest thing a man can undertake...''

1962 Not Available Not Sold
30 Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Letter -- ''...like a beast of hell, the sun flashing on my stained teeth and my lips curled back with thirst for whiskey...Rum Diary progressing viciously...''

1961 Not Available Not Sold
31 Hunter Thompson

Hunter Thompson Postcard From Big Sur in 1961 -- ''...you might think it odd that I have not asked what your book 'is about'...''

1961 Not Available Not Sold
32 Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Card Featuring His Favorite Jackdaw Bird

1961 Not Available Not Sold
33 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1802 Third Edition of ''Lyrical Ballads'' -- The Important Two Volume Set of Poetry that Sparked the English Romantic Movement

London 1802 Not Available Not Sold
34 Jacques Bainville

'Napoleon'' by Jacques Bainville -- 1951 French-Language First Edition -- Compelling Overview by Founding Editor of the Royalist Daily ''Action Francaise''

Paris 1951 Not Available Not Sold
35 ohn Richard Green

'A Short History of the English People'' by John Richard Green --1902 -- Rare Four Volume Illustrated Edition

London 1902 Not Available Not Sold
36 Edward Gibbons

Edward Gibbons Six-Volume Set of ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' -- Most First Editions, Complete with Three Maps

London 1776-1789 Not Available Not Sold
37

Complete Set of ''Harper's Weekly'' Newspapers from 1858 -- With Coverage of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, a Congressional Brawl, ''Bleeding Kansas'' and More

1858 Not Available Not Sold
38

Complete Set of ''Harper's Weekly'' Newspapers from 1864 -- With Civil War Coverage and Illustrations by Thomas Nast

Not Available Not Sold
39

Complete Set of ''Harper's Weekly'' Newspapers from 1865 -- With Coverage of the Civil War, President Lincoln's Assassination and Illustrations by Thomas Nast

Not Available Not Sold
40

''The Daily Graphic'' Illustrated Newspaper From 1873

1873 Not Available Not Sold
41 Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche First U.S. Edition of ''Thus Spake Zarathustra'' -- Volume VIII of ''The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche'' Where He Discusses Superman and the Death of God

New York 1896 Not Available Not Sold
42 Mary Clemmer Ames.

1876 Edition of ''Ten Years in Washington; Life and Scenes in The National Capital As a Woman Sees Them''

Hartford 1876 Not Available Not Sold
44 Montgomery Blair

Montgomery Blair Autograph Note Signed -- Blair Served in Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet as Postmaster General

1878 Not Available USD 187.50
46 George W. Bush

George W. Bush Letter Boldly Signed as President -- Dated 25 November 2002 Regarding the Republican Eagles

2002 Not Available Not Sold
47 Simon Cameron

Simon Cameron Letter Signed as U.S. Senator -- Cameron Served as Lincoln's Secretary of War

1869 Not Available Not Sold
49 Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton Signed First Edition of Her Memoir as Secretary of State, ''Hard Choices''

New York Not Available Not Sold
50 William Ralston Balch.

'The Life & Public Services of James A. Garfield'' -- 1881 First Edition

Philadelphia Not Available Not Sold
53 Cecil W. Stoughton

Cecil W. Stoughton's Personal, Unpublished 10'' x 8'' Photo of LBJ's Inauguration Aboard Air Force One -- Johnson Prepares to Take the Oath of Office

Not Available Not Sold
54

Photo Album of the Kennedy Family, With 16 Photos of Their Last Trip to Atoka, Virginia in November 1963 -- Housed in White House Photographer Cecil Stoughton's Personal Red Leather Binder

Not Available Not Sold
67

Revolutionary War Newspaper from November 1777 Describing the ''Political Character of the Americans''

Not Available USD 125.00
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    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Endymion in Original Boards. Keats, John. $8,000-
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Association Copy of the Privately Printed Edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
  • Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 43. Mercator's Map of the North Pole - the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1606) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950