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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.
  • Doyle
    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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    Doyle
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    November 25
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    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
    November 25
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    November 25
  • 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.

RR Auction: Space Exploration, 728, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 16, 2025 - October 16, 2025
Page Size: 435 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8414 Gene Cernan

Gene Cernan Signed Book - The Last Man on the Moon

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
8415 Gene Cernan

Gene Cernan Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
8416 Gene Cernan

Gene Cernan Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
8417 Dinah Shore

Gene Cernan: Dinah Shore Signed Photograph - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
8418 Gene Cernan

Gene Cernan Signed RAM Aircraft Poster - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 125.00
8419

Gene Cernan's 'U.S. Navy VFA-83 Rampagers' Presentation Display - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
8420

Gene Cernan's (2) Reno Air Race Association 'Grand Marshal' Presentation Displays - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
8421 Gene Cernan

Gene Cernan Original NASA Portrait Photograph - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
8422 Ron Evans

Ron Evans Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
8423 Ron Evans

Ron Evans Signed Photograph

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,283.00
8424 Apollo Astronauts

Apollo Astronauts (18) Signed Photograph with (8) Moonwalkers

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
8425 Apollo Astronauts

Apollo Astronauts (11) Signed Books

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
8426

Astronauts Signed 'Sieger' Stamp Collection (20) with Neil Armstrong

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,336.00
8428

Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle Pins and Buttons Collection (250+)

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 405.00
8429 Moonwalkers

Moonwalkers (12) Signed Photographs - Sought-After Uninscribed Complete Set

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
8430 Moonwalkers

Moonwalkers (10) Signed Lithograph by Ron Lewis (Ltd. Ed. #187/1000)

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,138.00
8431 Lindbergh, Aldrin, Collins, Irwin, Cernan, Sagan, and Roddenberry

National Air and Space Museum Signed Guestbook with Lindbergh, Aldrin, Collins, Irwin, Cernan, Sagan, and Roddenberry

USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 25,000.00
8432 Apollo Astronauts

Apollo Astronauts (20) Multi-Signed Print by Alan Bean - 'In the Beginning' (Ltd. Ed. #223/1000)

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
8433 Apollo Astronauts

Apollo Astronauts (6) Signed Books - The NASA Mission Reports, with Aldrin, Lovell, and Cernan

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 723.00
8435 The Astronauts

The Astronaut's Library (6) Signed Books

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 965.00
8436 Astronauts

Astronauts (24) Multi-Signed Print by Alan Bean - 'Reaching for the Stars' (Ltd. Ed. #82/1500)

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 795.00
8437 Astronauts

Astronauts (7) Signed Books with Aldrin, Mitchell, and Carpenter

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 963.00
8438 Apollo and Skylab Astronauts

Apollo and Skylab Astronauts (9) Signed Print - 16" x 12"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 303.00
8439 Astronauts Signed

Astronauts Signed Book - The Greatest Adventure (Ltd. Ed. #158/2000), with Carpenter, Conrad, and Bean

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
8440 Astronauts and Cosmonauts

Astronauts and Cosmonauts 7th Planetary Congress Cards with (55) Signatures

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
  • 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.
  • Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Presentation Copy of a Whitman "Holy Grail." Whitman, Walt. $10,000-$15,000.
    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
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    November 25
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    November 25
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    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
    November 25
    Doyle
    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
    November 25
    Doyle
    Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
    November 25
  • 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.