Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana , N11899, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 16, 2025 - December 16, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1051 | James Baldwin | Typed letter signed ("Jim Baldwin") to Stewart Wilensky, offering advice on his Harlem movie project. |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 6,096.00 | ||
| 1052 | Baum, L. Frank | A New Wonderland. |
New York | 1900 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 1053 | (Dickens, Charles) --- Habolt K. Brown ("Phiz") | A pair of original pencil and watercolor drawings, |
ca.1848 | USD 1,200.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 762.00 | |
| 1054 | Dickens, Charles | Autograph letter signed, to Lady Talfourd, upon the death of her husband |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,778.00 | ||
| 1055 | Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations |
London | 1861 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 4,826.00 |
| 1056 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott. | This Side of Paradise. |
New York | 1931 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 10,160.00 |
| 1057 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender Is the Night, A Romance. |
New York | 1934 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 21,590.00 |
| 1058 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Autograph manuscript fair copy of Edgar Fawcett's poem "The Other Side of the Moon," in Fitzgerald's hand, |
Summer 1934 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 7,620.00 | |
| 1059 | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Tender is the Night. |
New York | 1934 | USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 53,340.00 |
| 1060 | Hemingway, Ernest | Death in the Afternoon. |
New York | 1932 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 20,320.00 |
| 1061 | Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
London | 1960 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 5,715.00 |
| 1062 | Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita |
Paris | 1955 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,064.00 |
| 1063 | Pound, Ezra | Hugh Selwyn Mauberley |
London | 1920 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 12,065.00 |
| 1064 | Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
London | 1997 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 12,700.00 |
| 1065 | Salinger, J.D. | The Graham Family archive |
1951-1989 | USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 1066 | (Salinger, J.D.) --- Jane Austen | The Complete Novels of Jane Austen. |
New York | 1940 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 1067 | Thoreau, Henry David | A very large autograph manuscript survey, titled "Plan of The Kimball Lot, (so called), Belonging to Charles White Esq.; Haverhill Mass. Surveyed by Henry D. Thoreau. April 1853" |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 16,510.00 | ||
| 1068 | Thoreau, Henry David | The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. |
Boston and New York | 1906 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 9,525.00 |
| 1069 | Whitman, Walt | Autograph letter signed ("Walt Whitman"), to David L. Lezinsky |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,810.00 | ||
| 1070 | Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Clement Greenberg, Richard Diebenkorn, and others | Archive of letters from Abstract Expressionist artists and critics responding to a graduate student's questions about Henri Matisse's influence |
1981-1982 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,397.00 | |
| 1071 | Bemelmans, Ludwig | Illustration of a chef |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 | ||
| 1072 | Julia Evelina Smith, trans. | The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues. |
Hartford, Connecticut | 1876 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 1073 | Commendation of Souls, from a Book of Hours in Latin, manuscript on vellum. |
Northern France, | first half of the 15th century | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 1,270.00 | |
| 1074 | Bunting, Heinrich | Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae Das ist Ein Reisebuch Uber die Gantze Heilige Schrifft. |
Wittenberg; Magdeburg | 1588 (1588) | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 |
| 1075 | Thomson, John | Illustrations of China and its People. A series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptions of the places and people represented |
London | 1874 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold |
