• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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
351 Paul Auster.

1) Oracle Night

2004 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
352 Paul Auster

1) Oracle Night

2003 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
353 Thackery T. Lambshead

Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases signed.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 25.40
354 Sharon Bolton.

Three (3) signed books by Sharon Bolton. Dead Scared 2012; Dead Woman Walking 2017; The Craftsman 2018.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 6.35
355 Farrar, Straus, Giroux

Three (3) Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1st editions 1) Autobiographical Writings 1972 2) Rosshalde 1970. 3) Beneath the Wheel 1968

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 127.00
356 Farrar, Straus, Giroux

Three (3) Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1st editions and or printings 1) Knulp. 1971 1st printing. 2) Peter Camenzind. 1969 first printing. 3) Poems. 1970 1st edition.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 127.00
357

Six (6) books all with unclipped dust jackets. 1) The Best of Montana's Short Fiction edited by William Kittredge SIGNED. 2004....

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
358 Archer Mayor

Archer Mayor eight (8) 1st editions; 5 SIGNED. 1) SIGNED include: Bellows Falls; Borderlines; Occam's Razor; The Marble Mask; The Ragman's Memory. 2) Unsigned include: Th Second Mouse; Chat; Tag Man.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
359 Karen Slaughter

Five (5) Karen Slaughter 1st editions. 1) Faithless SIGNED 2005. 2) Trip Tych SIGNED 2006. 3) Broken 2010. 4) A Faint Cold Fear 2003. 5) Indelible 2004.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
360

Four (4) signed first editions1) Field of Blood. 2005. 2) Garnethill. 1998. 3) Slip of the Knife. 2007. 4) Resolution. 2001.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
361 Tony Hillerman, The Swan Thieves

Includes Finding Moon

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 63.50
362 [Doherty, Boyd, Friedman]

Includes Greenwich Killing Time, When The Cat's Away, Kill Two Birds and Get Stones, Steppin' On A Rainbow, Meanwhile Back At The Ranch, ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
363 Lindsey Davis

Includes Saturnalia (signed), A Body in the Bathhouse (signed), Three Hands in the Fountain (signed), Ode To A Banker (1st U.S., 1st U.K.), See Delphi And Die (signed), and Jupiter Myth.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 63.50
364

Includes Australian Short Stories by Michael Wilding, Seven Deadly Sins A Collection of New Fiction, The Other Side of Heaven Edited by Wayne Karlin, ...

USD 75.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
365

Mostly hardcovers with five softcovers. Includes Across The Bridge by Mavis Gallant, A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live by Louis Phillips,...

USD 75.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
366 [Bohjalian, Dubus III]

Includes The Night Strangers, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, The Buffalo Soldier, The Light in the Ruins and Trans-sister Radio ...

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 12.70
367 Charles Bowden

Charles Bowden FIRST EDITIONS -(1) SIGNED. Includes Mezcal (signed), BOWDEN, Charles. DESIERTO: MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE. New York: W. W. Norton, (1991).

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
368 Sophie Hannah

Includes Closed Casket (signed Specially Bound), Closed Casket (signed), Kind of Cruel, A Room Swept White (signed), A Game For The Family, Kind of Cruel (1st UK, signed).

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
369 Whitney Otto

Includes How To Make An American Quilt, The Passion Dream Book, A Collection of Beauties and Now You See Her.

USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 50.80
370 Orson Scott Card

Includes Unaccompanied Sonata, Wyrms, Hart's Hope and Treasure Box.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 63.50
371 P.D. James

Includes Talking about Detective Fiction (signed on title page), Trilogy of Death, The Maul and The Pear Tree (signed on half-title page), A Certain Justice, The Children of Men...

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 63.50
372

Includes signed First Editions, also includes Book Club Editions, see breakdown.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 127.00
373 Connie Willis & Cynthia Felice

Connie Willis & Cynthia Felice 1st Ed's Includes Promised Land, Water Witch (paperback), Nonstop to Portales

USD 125.00 - 175.00 USD 38.10
374 Roberton Davies

Includes World of Wonders, A Mixture of Frailties, Conversations with Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, The Lyre of Orpheus, Happy Alchemy, The Merry Heart, ...

USD 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
375 Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker First Editions (4)

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 95.25
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  • 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
  • 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