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Doyle New York: Stage and Screen

Auction Reports

Auction Name Stage and Screen Total Sales (USD) 128,484.65
Auction Date June 05, 2025 - June 05, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 80,300.00
Sale Number #9065 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 125,050.00
Total Lots 127
Sold Lots 106 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 107,550.00
% of Lots Sold 83.46% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 166,100.00
Unsold Lots 21 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 77.35%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
560 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

An extraordinary copy of Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

1944 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 11,970.00
574 STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Stephen Sondheim quotation manuscript for Passion

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,650.00
538

Four Costume Bibles from Mame including Angela Lansbury

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,987.50
545 BARBARA MATERA

Costume Bible for the original Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera

1986 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,990.00
566 GYPSY ROSE LEE [born Rose Louise Hovick] and JUNE HAVOC

Gypsy Rose Lee writes her sister June Havoc regarding her character in the musical Gypsy

USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 3,990.00
614 JOHN WAYNE

A collection of material on John Wayne and his yacht Wild Goose

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,990.00
568 ARTHUR LAURENTS.

An excellent 1960 letter from Arthur Laurents about Ethel Merman's performance in Gypsy

USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 3,657.50
593

An extensive collection of silent film era lobby cards dating from 1917 to 1919

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,657.50
562 JO SWERLING and ABE BURROWS

Jo Mielziner's copy of "Guys and Dolls"

1950 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,325.00
544 BARBARA MATERA

Costume bible for La Cage aux Folles, designed by Theoni Aldredge

1983 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,992.50
599 DEEMS TAYLOR.

Signed by Walt Disney

1940 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,992.50
600 [HOLLYWOOD - WALT DISNEY and OTHERS]

An autograph album with signatures from the Golden Age of Hollywood

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,992.50
583 AL HIRSCHFELD

Tony Roberts and the cast of Arsenic and Old Lace

1986 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,660.00
623 JOHN LENNON

John Lennon erotic lithograph from the Bag One portfolio

1970 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,660.00
649 GEORGE GERSHWIN

A signed photograph of George Gershwin

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,660.00
571 SONDHEIM, STEPHEN and JAMES GOLDMAN (book)

A preproduction script for Sondheim's "The Girls Upstairs," later "Follies"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,394.00
604 POLO LOUNGE (DIPTYCH)

LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012)

1989 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,394.00
557 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

F. Scott Fitzgerald's scarce first published work

1914 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,261.00
570 STEPHEN SONDHEIM and ARTHUR LAURENTS (book)

Stephen Sondheim's Side Show, later called Anyone Can Whistle

1963 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,128.00
522

The Broadway Stage Used Poster for "Hannibal" from The Phantom of the Opera

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,995.00
569 STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Stephen Sondheim writes David Merrick about A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1961 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,995.00
573 STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Signed by Stephen Sondheim

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,862.00
620 DISCO

A Fantastic Collection of Studio 54 and other New York Disco Ephemera

1981 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,729.00
609 BERT STERN

The only Last Sitting image to show Bert Stern with Marilyn Monroe

1962 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,596.00
567 BARBARA MATERA

The exhaustive costume bible for A Little Night Music

1963 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,463.00
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