University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 111925, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025
Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
399 Edward & Wallis, Duke & Duchess of Windsor

Edward & Wallis, Duke & Duchess of Windsor Signed Royal Card

 n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 768.00
400 Edward, Duke of Windsor

Edward, Duke of Windsor PSA GEM MT 10 Signed Abdication Radio Address, Souvenir Typescript

 n.d. USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 937.50
401 Plays

13 Plays by English Playwright J. Dryden with Additional Plays and Essays

 ca. 17th-19th Centuries USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
402 Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen, "Out of Africa" Author, TLS & (2) ALS on Photographs

 ca. 1950-1962 USD 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
403 William Burroughs & Ferlinghetti & McClure

Pair of Books Signed by William Burroughs & Fellow Beat Writers Ferlinghetti & McClure

 n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 179.20
404 Willa Cather

Willa Cather Signed 1st Ed. "Lucy Gayheart"

 ca. 1935 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 175.00
405 Willa Cather

Willa Cather ALS to Catholic Priest: "You made me more homesick for the West than I have been..."

 n.d. USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,408.00
406 Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Illustrators: (4) Original Drawings & (1) ALS by Artists of 'Huckleberry Finn', 'Life on the Mississippi', & More!

 ca. 1881-1883, 1896 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
407 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens 1848 ALS Slamming The American Literary Scene PSA Encapsulated NM 7 Including Original Transmittal Envelope

 September 19, 1848 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,687.50
408 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, "The Battle of Life. A Love Story," Harper & Brothers 1847 1st American Ed.

 ca. 1847 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
409 Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss Boldly Signed Copy of "Green Eggs and Ham"

 n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,062.50
410 Washington Irving

Washington Irving Letter of Introduction for Colonel Childs, Ex-Charles Hamilton

 September 20, 1831 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 480.00
411 Shirley Jackson

Super Scarce Shirley Jackson TLS With Great Literary Content: Page-Turning Reading, Overflowing Library & "next bookhunters [sic] convention in Westport"

 "Friday" USD 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,000.00
412 Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac Personally Owned & Annotated "Grecourt Review" ft. Corso & Haikus

 ca. 1950s USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
413 Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey Elaborately Signed Copy of "Sailor Song"

 n.d. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 87.50
414 C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis ALS A Year Before His Death, With Original Envelope

 1962-02-20 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,500.00
415 J.R. Lowell

J.R. Lowell Poet & Diplomat Fine Check & Signed Letter With Envelope

 ca. 1870-1885 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 87.50
416 Edna St. Vincent

Edna St. Vincent Millay TLS on Interpretation of Her Sonnet 'Euclid' to Future Bestselling Author!

 1939-02-10 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,875.00
417 Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell TLS Re: "North Georgia people... with Irish and Scotch names" - A Character Type Deeply Explored In GWTW

 1940-08-02 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 593.75
418 Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe CDV by Brady, Incredibly Rare, Possibly Unique in Format!

 ca. 1861 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 20,000.00
419 Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Signed Sought-After Ltd. Ed. of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

 ca. 1966 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,560.00
420 William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration Bronze Bust, 11" High

 ca. 1864 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 480.00
421 George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Corrects Errors in English Edition of "Saint Joan" & Sends Manuscript for US Publication

 2024-05-28 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 531.25
422 George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw ANS to New York Times "American presidents used to be lawyers and are now anarchists"

 2009-10-28 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 937.50
423 Robert Southey

Robert Southey 6pp Manuscript Notes on Unfinished History of Portugal

 n.d. USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 687.50
  • <b><center>Sotheby’s<br>Year in Review</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD <b>Sotheby’s Year in Review:</b> Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.