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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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Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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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.
Lay's Auctioneers: Rare Books and Works on Paper, 110625, Cornwall
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 06, 2025 - November 06, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | Jessie M. King designs | Album von Berlin |
Berlin | 1903 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 50 | Jessie M. King designs | Werke Alter Meister, Konigl. Museum Berlin |
Berlin | 1902 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 51 | Jessie M. King designs | Album von Frankfurt am Main |
Berlin | 1899 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 52 | Jessie M. King designs | Die Denkmaler der Sieges-Allee |
Berlin | [1899] | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 53 | Jessie M. King designs | Album von Dresden und Sachsische Schweiz |
Berlin | [1899] | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 54 | Arran Inlet (c.1933) | Jessie Marion KING (1875-1949) |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | ||
| 55 | (Jessie M. King's own Copy) Algernon blackwood A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote) |
London | 1914 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 56 | John Milton and Jessie M. King (illustrations) | Comus. A Masque |
London | 1906 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 57 | Jessie M. King | Vera L. Holme bookplate |
London | [c.1941] | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 58 | (Jessie M. King) | Nine works |
Glasgow | 1949 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 59 | Jessie M. King | Good King Wenceslas. A Carol |
[London] | [circa 1920] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 60 | J. Alexander Kennedy (trans), Walter Crane(frontis) and Jessie M. King (designs) | Paolo Mantegazza, The Legend of Flowers: Or "Tis Love That Makes The World Go Round" |
Edinburgh and London | 1908 and 1909 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 61 | Jessie M. King | The Little White Town of Never Weary |
London | [1917] | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 62 | Jessie M. King designs | Nineteen works published by George Routledge |
London | [c.1904] | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 63 | Ivan Turgenev and Constance Garnett (trans) | The Novels of Ivan Turgenev |
London | 1894-1902 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 64 | Arthur Rackham illustrations | Ten works |
London & New York | 1926 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 65 | (Signed Limited Edition) Joseph Urban Theatres |
New York | 1929 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 66 | Gordon Bottomley King | (Signed with Marginalia) Lear's Wife and Other Plays |
London | 1922 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 67 | Kate Douglas Wiggin | (Signed Authors Presentation Copy) The Old Peabody Pew. A Christmas Romance of a Country Church |
Boston and New York | 1890 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 68 | Charles E. Brock illustrations | (Signed Original Sketches) Penelope's English Experience |
Boston and New York | 1901 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 69 | Kate Douglas Wiggin | (Author's Own Copy with inscriptions and signatures) Penelope's Experiences... |
Boston and New York | 1901, 1901 and 1902 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 70 | Kate Douglas Wiggin | (Signed and Inscribed) A Cathedral Courtship |
Boston and New York | 1901 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 71 | Jane Austen and Hugh Thomson illustrations | (Peacock Binding) Pride and Prejudice |
London | 1984 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 72 | Eric Gill and David Jones | (Signed) Christianity and Art |
Abergavenny | 1927 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 73 | Stephane Mallarme and Henri-Matisse | Poesies de Stephane Mallarme |
Geneva | 1970 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |