• Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 43. Mercator's Map of the North Pole - the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1606) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950
  • University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 308 - Bob Dylan Handwritten & Signed Lyrics to "Just Like a Woman" With Jeff Rosen & JSA Authentication
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 455 - Isaac Newton Admiration For Judaism & Moral Continuity With Christianity! 350+ Words in his Hand - Extraordinary Content!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 219 - 371g Moon Meteorite, Incredible Find - Laâyoune 002
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 448 - Scarce Einstein AM on Unified Field Theory, 180+ Words & 11 Equations in His Hand! From His Published Article, "A Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation"
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 159 - Woodrow Wilson Baseball Signed for WWI Red Cross Fundraiser, Ex. Forbes & PSA Authentic - Finest Known!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 84 - Lee Harvey Oswald ALS to Brother, Trying Desperately to Get out of Russia! Highly Important
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 152 - George Washington Signed Discharge for MA Solider Whose Regiment Was at Bunker Hill!
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 88 - Abraham Lincoln Fully Signed Military Appointment for Mexican War Vet & Respected Cavalryman
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 188 - Apollo XI Astronauts & Their Wives Signed Photo, Plus Crew Signed Cover, From Apollo XI Presidential Goodwill Tour Era, Pre-Cert Zarelli
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books
    Now through Nov. 19
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 265 - Martin Luther King, Jr. TLS Re: "Stride Toward Freedom" Film Rights To Literary Agent Marie Rodell
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 324 - John Lennon Signed Apple Records Check, PSA GEM MT 10! Possibly Finest Known
    University Archives, Nov. 19:
    Lot 79 - John & Jacqueline Kennedy Signed WH 1963 Christmas Gift Inscribed to Close Friend Joan Braden, PSA Authentic
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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.

Grant Zahajko Auctions: Books: First Editions, Signed & Antiquarian, 100825, DAVENPORT

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025
Page Size: 400 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251

Treasury Department IRS Form 713 March 1939. Inventory of Opium, Coca Leaves, Marihuana, Etc.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
252 Minette Walters

Three (3) Minette Walters signed first editions 1) The Ice-House. 1992 1st US. St. Martin's Press. 2) Sculptress. 1993 1st US. St. Martin's Press. 3) The Shape of Snakes. 2001. G. P. Putnam.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 6.35
253 Minette Walters

Four (4) Minette Walters signed first editions : 1) Fox Evil. 2002 Macmillan. 2) The Scold's Bridle. 1994 St. Martin's Press. 3) The Dark Room. 1996 G. P. Putnam's. 4) The Echo. 1997 G. P. Putnam's.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 6.35
254 Thomas Mann.

Two (2) editions of The Magic Mountain

USD 40.00 - 75.00 USD 6.35
255 Minette Walters.

The Shape of Snakes

2000 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
256 Minette Walters

Two (2) Minette Walters books signed. Both with unclipped dust jackets. 1) Acid Row. 2002 G. P. Putnam. Cover does not lay flat. 2) The Cellar. 2015 Hammer.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
257 Minette Walters

Two (2) Minette Walters books signed. Both with unclipped dust jackets. 1) The Chameleon's Shadow . 2007 Macmillan. 2) Acid Row. 2001 Macmillan.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
258 Minette Walters

Two (2) Minette Walters books signed. Both with unclipped dust jackets. 1) Disordered Minds. 2003 Macmillan. 2) The Devil's Feather. 2005 Macmillan.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
259 James Elroy

Three (3) signed James Elroy books. Both with unclipped dust jackets. 1) White Jazz. 1992 1st American. Alfred A. Knopf. 2) The Big Nowhere. 1988 1st. The Mysterious Press. 3) L. A. Noir. 1998 The Mysterious Press.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 50.80
260 Loren D. Estleman

Six (6) Loren D. Estleman signed 1st edition books. All with unclipped dust jackets. Titles include: General Murders; Edsel; Peeper; Every Brilliant Eye; Stress; Motown.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 6.35
261 Elizabeth George

Ten (10) Elizabeth George signed and or inscribed 1st editions: A Place of Hiding; (2) Payment in Blood; Well-Schooled Murder; A Great Deliverance; Deception on His Mind; For the Sake of Elena; I, Richard; ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
262 Graham Joyce

Four (4) Graham Joyce signed first editions. 1) The Limits of Enchantment. 2005 Gollancz. 2) Indigo. 2000 Pocket Books. 3) The Limits of Enchantment. 2005 Gollancz. ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.50
263 Graham Joyce / Collin Dexter

Five (5) first editions all with unclipped dust jackets. 1) The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter. 1981 St. Martin's Press. 2) The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter. 1999 Crown. 3) ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 50.80
264 Ben Bova

Three (3) Ben Bova signed books. 1) The Return. 2009 TOR. 2) Millennium. 1976 Random House. 3) Flight of Exiles. 1972. E. P. Dutton.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
265 Colin Dexter

Two (2) Colin Dexter signed editions 1) The Way Through the Woods. 1992 Macmillan. 2) The Wench is Dead. 1989 Macmillan.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
266 Graham Joyce

Two (2) Graham Joyce 1st editions 1) House of Lost Dreams. SIGNED 1993 Headline. 2) Smoking Poppy. 2002 Pocket Books.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
267 Elizabeth George

Eight (8) Elizabeth George signed first editions. Titles include: Playing for Ashes; Write Away; In the Presence of the Enemy; Missing Joseph; A Great Deliverance; ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
268

Three (3) Limited Editions Club books with slipcases. 1) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 95.25
269

Three (3) Limited Editions Club books with slipcases. 1) Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.50
270 James Joyce.

1) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 50.80
271

Seven (7) books on book collecting. Authors include: Allen and Patricia Ahearn; Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone; Robert Henderson; Nicholas A. Basbanes ; Edward N. Zempel and Linda A. Verkler; Henry Peroski.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.50
272

Nine (9) author signed 1st edition books, those with dust jackets are unclipped. 1) Tony Hillerman - The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries. 2) (Softcover) Graham Joyce - The Storm Watcher....

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
273 [Isaac Asimov; Stephen Hawking]

1) Isaac Asimov - Chronology of the World. 1st 1991. Harper Collins. 2) Stephen Hawking - Brief History of Time; The Universe in a Nutshell. 2007 Bantam. 3) Isaac Asimov - Beginnings. 1987. ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 25.40
274

Five (5) signed books, 1) Crossing Open Ground by Gary Lopez. 1988 Charles Scribner's. 2) Damascus Gate by Robert Stone. 1998 Houghton Mifflin. 3) Whores for Gloria by William T. Vollmann. 1991 Pantheon. ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.50
275

Six (6) assorted topic books, 1) The Storyteller, Robert Dahl by Donald Sturrock. 2010 Simon and Schuster 1st. 2) Plum and Jaggers by Susan Richards Shreve. 2000 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1st. ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 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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  • 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.