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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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November 25Doyle
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November 25Doyle
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November 25Doyle
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November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
November 25Doyle
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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![<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cc3f4f98-f195-4049-aca6-329c27fdd27c.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.")
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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.
Purcell Auctioneers: Auction, Comprising a Portion of the Library of the Late Kenneth Nicholls (Historian and Irish Academic at UCC) From Templemartin, Co. Cork) and Other Clients, 100825, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 399 | Blake family records, 1300 to 1600; a chronological catalogue with copious notes and genealogies of many branches of the Blake family |
1902 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | EUR 600.00 | ||
| 400 | Margaret Franklin | History of the White Family first written by John Davis White re-issued with much additional information |
EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | EUR 93.75 | ||
| 401 | compiled by Robert Hallam Studdert | The Studdert family : notes and records |
1960 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 200.00 | |
| 402 | Edgar Lambert. | Leaves From a Family Tree |
1902 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 450.00 | |
| 403 | Complied by Edith Somerville | Records of the Somerville Family of Castlehaven and Drishane from 1174 to 1940 |
EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | EUR 475.00 | ||
| 404 | J Stirling Coyne | Irish Coffee Table Books: The Scenery and Antiquities of ireland |
2003 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 405 | Harold G Leask | Irish Interest: Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings Vol 1-2 |
1955/1966 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 106.25 | |
| 406 | Maurice Jephson | An Anglo-Irish Miscellany - Records of the Jephson family of Mallow |
1964 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 275.00 | |
| 407 | Corpus Ivris Canonici Emendatvmet Notis Illv Stratvm Gregorii XIII Pont Max iuffueditum indicibvs variis et novis |
1622 | EUR 150.00 - 250.00 | EUR 112.50 | ||
| 408 | Boz Mugabe, 2004-2014, Divine Turbulence, oblong quarto, pic cover |
Stanford | 2012 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 409 | Cookery: The Tailtean Cookery Book |
1935 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 112.50 | ||
| 410 | Christian Literature in Moslem Lands |
NY | 1923 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 411 | Edna O'Brien | The Little Red Chairs |
EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 87.50 | ||
| 412 | Edna O'Brien | The Country Girls Trilogy |
2017 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 87.50 | |
| 413 | Anne Enright | The Portable Virgin |
1991 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 414 | Anne Enright | (Five Anne Enright Editions, First Prints) The Wig My Father Wore |
1995 | EUR 50.00 - 70.00 | EUR 100.00 | |
| 415 | Kevin Barry | BEATLEBONE |
2015 | EUR 50.00 - 70.00 | EUR 56.25 | |
| 416 | Anne Enright | The Wren, The Wren |
2023 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 50.00 | |
| 417 | J.M. Coetzee | Boyhood, Youth & Summertime |
Published between 1997 and 2009 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 418 | Maurice Walsh | Green Rushes |
-1935 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 275.00 | |
| 419 | The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway |
New York | 1952 | EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | EUR 212.50 | |
| 420 | Raymond Chandler | Playback |
1958 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 75.00 | |
| 421 | Praeger, Robert Lloyd | Beyond Soundings |
Dublin & Cork | 1930 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | EUR 150.00 |
| 422 | Bram Stoker | DRACULA -- (Introduction Colm Toibin ) |
2012 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 423 | Brendan Behan | BORSTAL BOY |
1957 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 75.00 |
![<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b69c37e7-f18c-4417-b08b-f00e9b97a413.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Nov. 5:</b> Aquinas (Thomas). <i>[Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte,</i> Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.")
