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Auction Name Pulp Magazine Select Auction Total Sales (USD) 15,524.10
Auction Date April 05, 2026 - April 05, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #352614 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 56
Sold Lots 56.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
36048 Hugh Cave; G. T. Fleming-Roberts

Terror Tales #1 September 1934 (Popular) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Off-white to white pages.

1934 Not Available USD 1,464.00
36002 H. P. Lovecraft; Modest Stein

All-Story Cavalier Weekly Group of 4 (Munsey, 1914) Condition: Average VG+.

1914 Not Available USD 915.00
36004

All-Story Magazine Group of 4 (Munsey, 1909) Condition: Average VG.

1909 Not Available USD 793.00
36040 Walter B. Gibson

The Shadow #250 July 15, 1942 (Street & Smith) CGC Qualified VG/FN 5.0 Off-white to white pages.

1942 Not Available USD 732.00
36007 Johnston McCulley

All-Story Weekly #396 August 16, 1919 (Munsey) Condition: Apparent VG+.

1919 Not Available USD 610.00
36018

Blue Book Magazine Group of 6 Frank M. Robinson Copies (McCall, 1913) Condition: Average GD/VG.

1913 Not Available USD 561.20
36042 Frank Belknap Long

Startling Stories #26 March 1943 (Standard) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Off-white to white pages.

1943 Not Available USD 536.80
36038 E. Hoffman Price

Romantic Western #5 September 1938 (Culture) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Off-white to white pages.

1938 Not Available USD 512.40
36009 Johnston McCulley; P. J. Monahan

All-Story Weekly #398 August 30, 1919 (Munsey) Condition: Apparent VG.

1919 Not Available USD 414.80
36005 Frank H. Desch; Owen Oliver

All-Story Weekly #238 August 5, 1916 (Munsey) Condition: FN.

1916 Not Available USD 390.40
36017

Blue Book Magazine Group of 5 Frank M. Robinson Copies (McCall, 1913) Condition: Average VG/FN.

1913 Not Available USD 390.40
36008 Johnston McCulley; P. J. Monahan

All-Story Weekly #397 August 23, 1919 (Munsey) Condition: GD/VG.

1919 Not Available USD 366.00
36033 Agatha Christie

Flynn's Weekly #93 June 26, 1926 (Munsey) Condition: VG-.

1926 Not Available USD 366.00
36041 Robert Leslie Bellem; Adolphe Barreaux

Spicy Detective Stories #30 October 1936 (Culture) CGC VG- 3.5 Cream to off-white pages.

1936 Not Available USD 366.00
36032 Agatha Christie

Flynn's Weekly #92 June 19, 1926 (Munsey) Condition: FR.

1926 Not Available USD 341.60
36049 Hugh B. Cave

Terror Tales #14 October 1935 (Popular) CGC GD 2.0 Off-white to white pages.

1935 Not Available USD 335.50
36039 Walter B. Gibson

The Shadow #187 December 1, 1939 (Street & Smith) CGC FN+ 6.5 Off-white pages.

1939 Not Available USD 317.20
36045

Startling Stories #61 March 1950 Trimmed (Standard) CGC VG- 3.5 Off-white to white pages.

1950 Not Available USD 317.20
36011 Modest Stein

All-Story Weekly Group of 4 (Munsey, 1915) Condition: Average VG.

1915 Not Available USD 292.80
36003 John Quincy Adams; Ralph Waldo Emerson

All-Story Magazine Group of 4 (Munsey, 1908) Condition: Average Apparent VG+.

1908 Not Available USD 268.40
36035 Agatha Christie

Flynn's Weekly #95 July 10, 1926 (Munsey) Condition: VG/FN.

1926 Not Available USD 268.40
36034 Agatha Christie

Flynn's Weekly #94 July 3, 1926 (Munsey) Condition: VG/FN.

1926 Not Available USD 256.20
36015 Johnston McCulley

Blue Book Magazine Group of 2 Frank M. Robinson Copies (McCall, 1908) Condition: Average Apparent GD/VG.

1908 Not Available USD 244.00
36050 Jack Williamson; Ray Cummings; Hugh B. Cave

Thrilling Mystery #18 April 1937 (Standard) CGC VG 4.0 Off-white to white pages.

1937 Not Available USD 244.00
36021 Herbert Morton Stoops; Nelson Bond; H. Bedford-Jones

Blue Book Magazine Complete Year 1943 Group of 12 - Frank M. Robinson Copies (McCall) Condition: Average VG+.

1943 Not Available USD 231.80
  • Sotheby's Book Week
    2 June - 9 July
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
  • Leland Little, June 12: The First Illustrated Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
    Leland Little, June 12: John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signed Pennsylvania Land Survey.
    Leland Little, June 12: The Scarce Jansson Edition of a Remarkable Early View of London.
    Leland Little, June 12: Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
    Leland Little, June 12: Faden’s Important and Scarce Map of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.
    Leland Little, June 12: William J. Tate (NC, 1869-1953), Archive of the "Original host to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.”
  • Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935
  • June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.
    Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.
    June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
  • Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950