Source : Australian Book Auctions

Source Title Australian Book Auctions
Description

Australian Book Auctions was founded in 1999 as Australia's first and only specialist auction house for books and related material. A decade later, it held the record for the top prices paid at auction for printed Australiana, as well as selling the most important Australian collection in private hands, the Davidson collection, which took in over A$13 million. Among the subjects of the books, manuscripts and related material the firm sells are travel, voyage art, modern first editions, children's books, art and illustrated books, private press, literary and historical manuscripts, historical and topographical art, militaria, Australiana, and sport. Their location is in Armdale, Victoria.

Scope of Text
Total Records in AED 30436
  • Heritage, Nov. 18: Orson Welles. Signed Third Revised Final Draft for Citizen Kane (RKO, 1941). July 16, 1940.
    Heritage, Nov. 18: Bob Dylan. Autograph manuscript working lyrics to "Man on the Street."
    Heritage, Nov. 18: Ernest Hemingway. Death in the Afternoon. Inscribed by the author to the daughter of the Spanish Ambassador.
    Heritage, Nov. 18: Jack London. The Call of the Wild. Inscribed by the author.
    Heritage, Nov. 18: John Steinbeck. East of Eden. Inscribed by 27 members of the movie cast and crew, including James Dean and Elia Kazan.