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Grant Zahajko Auctions: Books: 20th Century Signed, First Editions, Science Fiction & More!
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Books: 20th Century Signed, First Editions, Science Fiction & More! | Total Sales (USD) | 27,833.60 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | April 22, 2026 - April 22, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 28,975.00 |
| Sale Number | #42226 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 54,825.00 |
| Total Lots | 437 | ||
| Sold Lots | 428.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 29,405.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 97.94% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 55,675.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 9 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 49.99% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | Douglas E. Winter; Stephen King; Dan Simmons; George R. R. Martin; Ron and Val Lakey Lindahn | Night Visions 5 [Multi-Signed] 465/850 1988 1st |
1988 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 512.00 |
| 9C | Isaac Asimov | Isaac Asimov - Robots and Empire 1ST SIGNED #558 |
1985 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 416.00 |
| 490 | Ray Bradbury (4) SIGNED 1ST Editions |
2006; 1981; 1977; 1973 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 416.00 | |
| 9A | Arthur C. Clarke | Arthur C. Clarke 2010 Odyssey Two 1ST SIGNED #607 |
1982 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 384.00 |
| 9B | Isaac Asimov | Isaac Asimov - Robots of the Dawn 1ST SIGNED #155 |
1983 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 352.00 |
| 17 | Douglas Adams | Douglas Adams SIGNED Complete Hitchhiker's Guide |
1989 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 320.00 |
| 145 | The Franklin Library Leather Bound Books (9) |
N/A | USD 50.00 - 100.00 | USD 320.00 | |
| 277 | Haruki Murakami | South of the Boarder...Haruki Murakami SIGNED 1st |
1999 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 320.00 |
| 482 | Connie Willis | Connie Willis - Doomsday Book SIGNED |
1992 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 320.00 |
| 4 | Isaac Asimov; Robert Silverberg | Asimov / Silverberg - Nightfall S/N 1990 1st |
1990 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 256.00 |
| 19 | Jim Harrison; Dan Gerber; Joseph Bednarik | The Sumac Reader by Jim Harrison SIGNED 6/100 |
1997 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 256.00 |
| 522 | Jane Smiley; Susan Nees | Jane Smiley - The Life of the Body SIGNED LTD |
1990 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 256.00 |
| 29 | Jim Harrison | Legends of the Fall SIGNED Jim Harrison 1980 UK |
1980 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 224.00 |
| 30 | Jim Harrison (2) The Raw and the Cooked SIGNED |
2001; 1992 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 224.00 | |
| 72 | Dean R. Koontz; Edward Bryant; Robert R. McCammon; Clive Barker; Kevin Davies; F. Paul Wilson; Sheri S. Teffer; Ray Garton; Phil Parks; Thomas Tessier; James Kisner; Rick Hautala | Night Visions 4, 6, 9 [MULTI-SIGNED] LTD |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 224.00 |
| 159 | The Franklin Library Leather Bound Books (13) |
N/A | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 224.00 | |
| 16 | George R. R. Martin; Ramsey Campbell; Lisa Tuttle; Clive Barker; Stephen Gervais | Night Visions 3 [Multi-Signed] 174/400 1986 1st |
1986 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 192.00 |
| 26 | Jim Harrison | Jim Harrison SIGNED Theory & Practice of Rivers |
1986 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 192.00 |
| 59 | Franklin Library Leatherbound Books (14) |
N/A | USD 75.00 - 125.00 | USD 192.00 | |
| 60 | Franklin Library Leatherbound Books (12) |
N/A | USD 75.00 - 125.00 | USD 192.00 | |
| 150 | Joan Didion | Joan Didion - After Henry SIGNED 1st |
1992 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 192.00 |
| 171 | Richard Saunders; Norman Rockwell | Poor Richard: The Almanacks 1733-1758 LTD ED 1964 |
1964 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 192.00 |
| 187 | Author SIGNED First Editions (14) |
N/A | USD 50.00 - 100.00 | USD 192.00 | |
| 514 | Jim Harrison | Locations by Jim Harrison SIGNED 1st 1968 |
1968 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 192.00 |
| 2 | Douglas Adams | Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Agency SIGNED 1987 |
1987 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 160.00 |
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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. -
Forum Auctions
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 -
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.