• 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
  • 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

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
76 John Updike.

Two (2) signed and numbered books Include: 1) Jester's Dozen 2) The Beloved

USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 50.80
77 John Updike

Three (3) signed and numbered books include: 1) People One Knows 2) Talk from the Fifties. 3) Three Illuminations.

USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 63.50
78 Joyce Carol Oates

Seven (7) Joyce Carol Oates signed books. Those with dust jackets are unclipped. 1) The Rise of Life on Earth. 2) The Assignation. 3) The Hostile Sun. 4) George Bellows. ...

USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 95.25
79 John Barth

Three (3) John Barth books. 1) Two (2) copies of Todd Andrews to the Author. 2) The Literature of Exhaustion and The Literature of Replenishment. ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 25.40
80 Robert Stone.

A Hall of Mirrors

1967 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 95.25
81 Dan Simmons.

Hyperion

1993 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 254.00
82 John Le Carre.

Nervous Times

London. 1998 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 63.50
83 Neal Stephenson.

Atmosphaera Incognita

2019 USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 95.25
84 Ian McEwan.

Atonement

London. 2001 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 50.80
85 The Folio Society, London.

The Campaigns of Napoleon 3V set.

2002 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 127.00
86 Ian McEwan

Two (2) copies of Amsterdam

London 1) 1998 2) 1999 USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 50.80
87 Lord Byron.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.50
88 William Ellery Leonard

Beowulf

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 95.25
89 Thornton Wilder

Our Town

1974 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 190.50
90 Joseph Conrad

The Secret Sharer

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 50.80
91 James M. Cain

Six (6) James M. Cain 1st editions, The Baby in the Icebox and other short fiction, 1981....

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
92 Susan Kelly

Five (5) Susan Kelly 1st editions. Include: 1) The Gemini Man. 2) Trail of the Dragon. 3) Out of the Darkness. 4) And Soon I'll Come to Kill You. 5) Until Proven Innocent.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 6.35
93 edited Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

Fantasy and Horror

NY. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 25.40
94 Editors include Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling Grant.

Fantasy and Horror - Year's Best Annual Editions.

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 63.50
95 Olen Steinheauer Peter Spiegelman Holly Hollander

Three signed books all with unclipped dust jackets include: 1) The Nearest Exit 2) Thick as Thieves 3) Pandora

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 38.10
96 Deborah Harkness

1) The Discovery of Witches. 2) The Book of Life.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 158.75
97 [Wolfe/Vinge]

Seven (7) 1st edition books include: 1) Gene Wolf - The Wizard; The Best of Gene Wolf; Innocents Aboard; Pirate Freedom. 2) Joan D. Vinge - Catspaw; Tangled up in Blue; Dreamfall.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.50
98 [Asimov, Williamson]

Six (6) 1st edition books include: 1) Jack Williamson - The Stonehenge Gate; Black Sun. 2) Joan O. Vinge - Fireship, Phoenix in the Ashes. 3) Kim Stanley Robinson - Kehenge. 4) Isaac Asimov - Robots and Empire.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 12.70
99 Sparkle Hayter

Four (4) Sparkle Hayter books, all with unclipped dust jackets include: The Chelsea Girl Murders SIGNED; Nice Girls Finish Last SIGNED; ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
100 John Stanley

Six (6) John Stanley books all with unclipped dust jackets include: The Curious Eat Themselves SIGNED; Death and the Language of Happiness SIGNED; ...

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 6.35
  • 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.
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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.