University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 61726, Wilton
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 17, 2026 - June 17, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 363 | Harrity Richard; Martin Ralph G.; Churchill Randolph; Wiesel Elie | Literary Dealer's Lot of (3) SBs Owned by Photographer Yousuf Karsh: E. Wiesel, R. Churchill. Ex. Karsh Estate |
Garden City; London; New York | 1957; 1962; 1990 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 364 | Camus Albert; Updike John; Caldwell Erskine; Forsee Aylesa; Singer Isaac Bashevis | Literary Dealer's Lot of (5) SBs Inscribed to Photographer Yousuf Karsh: Camus, Updike, Caldwell & More! Ex. Karsh Estate |
Egypt; New York | 1964; 1965; 1976; 1978; 1984 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 640.00 |
| 365 | Walters Barbara; Safer Morley | [Journalism] Barbara Walters & Morley Safer (2) SBs Inscribed to Photographer Yousuf Karsh, Ex. Karsh Estate |
New York | 1970; 1990 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 87.50 |
| 366 | Galbraith John Kenneth; Samuelson Paul A.; Fuller R. Buckminster; Marks Robert | Architecture & Economics Dealer's Lot of (7) SBs Gifted to Yousuf Karsh: B. Fuller, J. K. Galbraith & More! Ex. Karsh Estate |
Boston; New York; Garden City | 1961; 1967; 1970; 1973; 1978; 1982 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 367 | Edgar Allan Poe Commemorative Postal Covers & Handwritten Biography |
Richmond | 1949 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 300.00 | |
| 368 | Rand Ayn | Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Original Manuscript Page With Corrections, 80 Words in Her Hand! |
1952 | USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 40,625.00 | |
| 369 | Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953) | (2) Marjorie Rawlings TLSs incl. April 1952: "My new book will probably be published in the fall" |
Hawthorne; St. Augustine | 1952 | USD 600.00 - 700.00 | USD 468.75 |
| 370 | Reed Myrtle (1874-1911) | Myrtle Reed TLS re: "Lavender & Old Lace" and Collections of Love Letters |
Chicago | 1904 | USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 371 | Sendak Maurice | Maurice Sendak Original Sketch of Rosie For 1975 Animated Special |
ca. 1974 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 372 | Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950 | G.B. Shaw on Home Rule Crisis: "…they want me to take the field against Carson in Ulster as a Protestant" |
Toulouse, France | ca. 1913 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 896.00 |
| 373 | Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr | A. Solzhenitsyn Signed & Inscribed "Red Wheel. Knot 1: August 1914" |
Moscow | 1993 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 350.00 |
| 374 | Tenniel John 1820-1914 | "Alice in Wonderland" Illustrator John Tenniel Lot of 3 ALS, Fantastic Art Content! |
London | 1852-1882 | USD 600.00 - 700.00 | USD 704.00 |
| 375 | Tolkien J.R.R. | Tolkien ALS Refuting Allegory in His Trilogy: "To ask if the Orcs 'are' Communists is to me as sensible as asking if Communists are Orcs" |
Oxford | 1957 | USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | USD 31,250.00 |
| 376 | Clemens Samuel L. 1835-1910 | S.L. Clemens Fantastic Lengthy Letter, Excellent Provenance, Ex-Christie's |
New York | ca. 1895 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 377 | Clemens Samuel L. 1835-1910 | Mark Twain, Who Has Said, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." ALS on his Death & Cremation! Ex-Sotheby's, Ex-Christie's |
Hartford, Connecticut | 1887 | USD 3,500.00 - 5,500.00 | USD 13,750.00 |
| 378 | Whitman Walt 1819-1892 | Walt Whitman Lengthy ALS: "my book business, + a little writing" Re: 1876 "Leaves of Grass" Orders Plus Fellow Poet Joaquin Miller! |
Camden, New Jersey | 1876 | USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 11,250.00 |
| 379 | Whitman Walt 1819-1892 | Walt Whitman ALS Re: Leaves of Grass "royalty due on sales of my book" |
Camden, New Jersey | 1890 | USD 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 6,250.00 |
| 380 | Williams Tennessee 1911-1983 | Tennessee Williams Signed "Baby Doll" Screenplay, German Translation |
Frankfurt/Main, West Germany | 1967 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 230.40 |
| 381 | Wilson Gahan (1930-2019) | Gahan Wilson Signed & Sketched 1st Ed. "Everyone's Favorite Duck" |
New York | 1988 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 250.00 |
| 383 | Brandeis Louis D. | Louis D. Brandeis ALS Months Before His Death |
Washington, DC | 1939 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 500.00 |
| 385 | Douglas Stephen A.;Shields James;Carpenter Milton | Stephen A. Douglas Endorses Warrant for His Pay as Illinois Secretary of State |
Springfield, Illinois | 1841 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 350.00 |
| 386 | Douglas Stephen A. | Stephen Douglas Re: Marines |
Washington, DC | 1845 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 437.50 |
| 387 | Frankfurter Felix | Felix Frankfurter ALS to Son of Archibald MacLeish: "hostile witnesses" |
Charlemont, Massachusetts | 1953 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 388 | Ginsburg Ruth Bader | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Photo Famously Signed "RBG" at White House Swearing-In |
1993 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 750.00 | |
| 389 | Jay John | John Jay ALS Recommends Health Over Studies to Son at Columbia, Also French Rev. Content, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court! |
Philadelphia | 1794 | USD 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
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Sotheby’s Geek Week
14-15 JulySotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000. -
Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000