RR Auction: Marvels of Modern Music, 744, Amherst
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 18, 2026 - June 18, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7240 | Pink Floyd 1975 Pittsburgh Concert Poster (17.25E x 22E) |
1975 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 446.00 | ||
| 7241 | Mercury Freddie;May Brian;Deacon John;Taylor Roger | Queen Signed 1979 'Jazz World Tour' Concert Program |
1979 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 7243 | Mercury Freddie;May Brian;Deacon John | Queen Signed 1980 'The Game Tour' Program (Mercury, May, and Deacon) |
1980 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 1,998.00 | |
| 7244 | Mercury Freddie | Freddie Mercury Signed Magazine Centerfold Photograph |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,713.00 | |
| 7245 | Queen Original 1980 Candid Photograph from the 'Play the Game' Music Video Shoot |
1980 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 7246 | Gershwin George | George Gershwin Typed Letter Signed on Porgy and Bess: "I have finished the music for the opera and also the orchestrations of the first act" |
1935 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 7,155.00 | |
| 7247 | Holiday Billie;D'Amico Hank;Cole Cozy;Guarnieri John;Haggart Bob | Billie Holiday Signed Onyx Club Postcard |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,069.00 | |
| 7248 | Parker Charlie | Charlie Parker Signed Photograph |
New York | N/A | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 4,661.00 |
| 7250 | Garrett Danny | Muddy Waters 1979 Antone's Concert Poster and Handbill (11.5E x 17.5E) |
Austin | 1979 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 1,078.00 |
| 7251 | Presley Elvis | Elvis Presley Document Signed on the Day He Recorded 'Heartbreak Hotel' |
Nashville | 1956 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 14,546.00 |
| 7252 | Presley Elvis | Elvis Presley Twice-Signed Postcard Photograph |
Germany | N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,625.00 |
| 7253 | Presley Elvis;Parker Tom | Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Twice-Signed Document - William Morris Agency Contract |
1956 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 19,456.00 | |
| 7254 | Presley Elvis | Elvis Presley Signed Postcard Photograph |
Germany | 1957 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 3,033.00 |
| 7256 | Cooke Sam | Sam Cooke Document Signed - William Morris Agency Contract |
1963 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 2,540.00 | |
| 7257 | Freed Alan | Allan Freed Signature |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 368.00 | |
| 7258 | Williams Hank;Foley Red;Copas Kathy;Atkins Chet;Robbins Marty;Hill Eddie;Dickens Jimmy;Carlisle Bill;Pearl Minnie;Allen Rex;Tubb Ernest;Byrd Billy | Hank Williams, Chet Atkins, and Grand Ole Opry Stars Signed Autograph Book |
1952 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,870.00 | |
| 7259 | Seeger Pete | Pete Seeger (3) Signed Items - Letter and Lyric Sheets |
2002 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 656.00 | |
| 7260 | Ham Pete | Badfinger: Pete Ham Original Handwritten Lyrics for 'Matted Spam' |
1974 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,251.00 | |
| 7261 | Beck Jeff | Jeff Beck Collection of (6) Autograph Letters Signed to a Secret Romantic Correspondent - "My mail is also being monitored" |
1995-1996 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 7262 | McGuinn Roger;Crosby David;Clark Gene;Clarke Michael;Hillman Chris | The Byrds Signed Photograph |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 7263 | Joplin Janis | Janis Joplin Autograph Letter Signed on Family, Football, and Motherhood - a€œI just wish I could be having childrena€ |
1965 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 7265 | The Animals; The Honeycombs; King Ben E.; Poole Brian; The Tremeloes; Fame Georgie; The Blue Flames; Freddie; The Dreamers; The Searchers; Small Faces; Roy C; The Swinging Blue Jeans; The Zombies | 1960s Rock and Roll (11) Band Signatures |
1960s | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 541.00 | |
| 7267 | Clapton Eric | Eric Clapton Signature |
circa 1960s | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 491.00 | |
| 7268 | Crosby David | David Crosby Autograph Letter Signed on Buying a Boat: "Not pretty or fancy or a yacht" |
circa September 1967 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 963.00 | |
| 7269 | Crosby David; Stills Stephen; Nash Graham | Crosby, Stills, and Nash Signed Photograph |
N/A | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 723.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’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. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, 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 -
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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