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New England Book Auctions: A Fine Summer Miscellany

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Auction Name A Fine Summer Miscellany Total Sales (USD) 42,924.00
Auction Date August 26, 2025 - August 26, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #542 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 198
Sold Lots 177 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 89.39% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 21 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
130 Barr, Alfred, Jr.

Matisse His Art and His Public.

1951 Not Available USD 2,280.00
50 Jewel, John.

Jewel, John. Workes.

1611? Not Available USD 2,160.00
18 Beers, F. W

Atlas of Long Island New York.

1873 Not Available USD 1,800.00
19 Beers, F. W

Atlas of New York and Vicinity [Including parts of Conn.].

1867 Not Available USD 1,560.00
99 Hobbes, Thomas

Hobbes, Thomas. The Moral and Political Works.

1750 Not Available USD 1,200.00
70

Group of 3 manuscript leaves on vellum, as listed below.

15th-century Not Available USD 900.00
88

Gay Sunshine Press. Group of 7 volumes, as listed below.

vd Not Available USD 840.00
87

Gay Photography. Group of over 150 male nude and gay erotic photographs inserted into 2 albums.

1950s-60s Not Available USD 780.00
105 Okubo, Mine.

Citizen 13660.

1946 Not Available USD 780.00
113

Ladies' Home Journal. Over 120 issues.

1890s-1902 Not Available USD 780.00
41 Depue & Co.

The Illustrated Atlas and History of Yolo County, Cal.

1879 Not Available USD 660.00
138 Mitchell, Margaret

Gone With the Wind.

1936 Not Available USD 660.00
20 Bemelmans, Ludwig

Madeline.

1939 Not Available USD 570.00
108 Jones, Rev. David

A Journal of Two Visits Made to Some Nations of Indians on the West Side of the River Ohio, in the Years 1772 and 1773.

1865 Not Available USD 570.00
188 Twain, Mark

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

1889 Not Available USD 570.00
28

Book of Hours. Group of 4 manuscript leaves

15th-century Not Available USD 540.00
13 Atlases

Atlases. Group of 5 volumes, as listed below.

vd Not Available USD 510.00
76

Marriage-Love and Woman Amongst the Arabs otherwise entitled The Book of Exposition. (Kitab al-Izah fi'Ilm al-Nikah b-it-Tamam w-al-Kamal).

1896 Not Available USD 510.00
23 Biggers, Earl Derr

Keeper of the Keys.

1932 Not Available USD 450.00
44 Carnegie, Andrew

The Gospel of Wealth.

1901 Not Available USD 450.00
49 (Chagall, Marc) Leymarie, Jean.

The Jerusalem Windows.

1962 Not Available USD 450.00
106 Okada, John.

No-No Boy.

1957 Not Available USD 450.00
96

Esther Scroll (Megillah) in Hebrew.

19th-century Not Available USD 420.00
123 Williamson, Mary E.

The Story of Annabelle Ant.

1930s Not Available USD 420.00
124

Devanagari Indian hand-written manuscript of the Bhagavad Gita.

19th-century Not Available USD 420.00
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    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
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