Blackwell Auctions: May Exceptional Estates Auction, 50926, Clearwater

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 09, 2026 - May 09, 2026
Page Size: 68 items in 3 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6

Mickey Mantle #82

1953 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,212.00
7 James K. Polk

Autograph Letter Signed by U.S. President James K. Polk

1845 USD 6,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 4,095.00
23 LeRoy Neiman

Four Jockeys

1921-2012 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 468.00
55 Karel Appel

Avant-Garde CoBrA Mvmt.

1974 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
56 Karel Appel

Avant-Garde CoBrA Mvmt.

1974 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 585.00
57 Karel Appel

Avant-Garde CoBrA Mvmt.

1974 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 585.00
58 Karel Appel

Avant-Garde CoBrA Mvmt.

1974 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
59 Karel Appel

Avant-Garde CoBrA Mvmt.

1974 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
75 James Montgomery Flagg

Original charcoal and gouache by James Montgomery Flagg

1924 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
97 Courtney Cox; Matt LeBlanc; Matthew Perry; David Schwimmer; Lisa Kudrow; Jennifer Aniston

Friends Cast Hand-Signed Television Script

1998 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 263.25
98 Stan Laurel

Black and white printed photograph of Laurel and Hardy

1963 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 117.00
99 John Lennon

Animation cel from the animated Yellow Submarine movie

1968 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 585.00
100 John Lennon; Paul McCartney; George Harrison; Ringo Starr

Early signatures of all four Beatles

1964 USD 8,000.00 - 16,000.00 Not Sold
108 Georges Bloch

Pablo Picasso Volume I Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1904-1967 and Volume II Catalogue of the Printed Graphic Work 1966-1969

1971 USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
109 Ralf Michler; Lutz W. Lopsinger

Salvador Dali Catalogue Raisonne of Etching and Mixed-Media Prints 1924-1980

1994 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 175.50
110 Joan Miro

Joan Miro Lithographies catalogue raisonne

1972; 1975; 1977; 1981; 1992 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 585.00
111 Jacques Dupin

Catalogue raisonne of Joan Miro

New York N/A USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 263.25
121

Amazing Fantasy #15

1971 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 175.50
122 Joe Namath; Gale Sayers; Dick Butkus; Bart Starr; Brian Piccolo; Larry Csonka

Complete 1969 Topps Football set

1969 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,223.00
123 Nolan Ryan; Johnny Bench; Mickey Mantle; Roberto Clemente; Willie Mays; Hank Aaron

1968 Topps baseball card complete set

1968 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,605.00
124 James Rizzi

Nagano Winter Olympics 3D Construction Relief Mixed Media

1998 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 526.50
125 James Rizzi

The Olympic Spirit

1997 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,111.50
126 James Rizzi

The World Will Be Watching

1998 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 702.00
138 William Faulkner; Boyd Saunders

Spotted Horses

1998 USD 300.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
139 Salvator Rosa

Four early etchings from the Figurine series

Late 17th century USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.
    Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.