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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99 | William Camden Camden's Britannia Abridg'd with improvements and continuations to this present time to which are added exact lists of the present nobility of England, Scotland and Ireland |
1701 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | ||
| 100 | William Camden and Edmund Gibson (additions) | Britannia: Or a Chorological Description of Great Brita |
London | 1722 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 101 | (The Thames) William Tombleson [Eighty Picturesque Views on the Thames and Medway] |
London | [c.1834] | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 102 | (MS dedication from the author) Henry Mayhew London Labour and the London Poor |
London | 1851 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | |
| 103 | Edward Twycross (editor) | The Mansions of England and Wales. County of Cornwall |
London | 1846 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 104 | David Roberts | The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubi |
London | 1855-56 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 105 | Turner (Joseph Mallord William) | Picturesque Views in England and Wales from Drawings |
London | 1838 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 106 | Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel) | Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd; being a Correct Coppy of Mr Ogilby's Actual Survey of all ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England & Wales... |
1720 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 107 | (Atlases) Five works |
London | 1728 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown | |
| 108 | John Cary | (Atlases) Four works |
London | 1793 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 109 | F. O. Morris | (Ornithology) A History of British Birds 1895 1864 |
London | 1864 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 110 | Charles Stonham | (Ornithology) The Birds of the British Islands, illustrated by Lilian M. Medland |
London | 1906 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 111 | William Robinson editor | (Botnay) Flora and Sylva |
London | 1903-1904 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 112 | (Botany and Horticulture) Seven works |
London | 1859 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 113 | John Wright | (Pomology and Horticulture) The Fruit Grower's Guide |
London | [c.1891--1894] | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 114 | (Topography) Two sets |
London, Edinburgh and Glasgow | 1843 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 115 | Seventeen | (Bindings) Seventeen illustrated works |
London | 1811 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 116 | (Children's Literature) Eighteen Works |
1911 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Unknown | ||
| 117 | Charles Devillers | (Georges Levitzky, binder) Les Ghazels de Hafiz |
Paris | [1922] | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 118 | My Strength | (Miniature) A Word for Every Day |
Milwaukee | [n.d. early 20th century] | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Unknown |
| 119 | (Illustrated Juvenile Works) Twenty |
London | n.d | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 120 | Fifteen Illustrated Works |
Dundee | n.d | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 121 | (Victorian Popular Publishing) Cope's Tobacco Plant & A. H. Wheeler & Co's Indian Railway Library (6 vols.) |
Liverpool | 1889 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | Unknown | |
| 122 | A Good Part-Run of The Journal of The Marine Biology Association Fifty-Five Volumes |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |||
| 123 | [William Tombleson] | Five Illustrated Topographical Works |
London | [c.1832] | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |