Source : Connecticut Book Auctions

Source Title Connecticut Book Auctions
Description

The Book Auction Rooms have been a mainstay for the book dealer & collector for centuries. Dealers often refer to landmark sales, Doheny, Hoe, Jones, & Streeter, to name but a handful, the prices realized often seem modest by today’s standards. Occasionally copies of books that sold in those sales resurface to excitement and a flurry of competition, their values enhanced; to own the “Streeter copy” of a benchmark work in Americana is indeed a prize. Connecticut Book Auctions brings that respect for what has gone before with an eye to the future and hopes you will make some new memories of your own at our sales. We select material for auction based on a number of criteria; scarcity, condition, provenance, & whimsey, all with the goal of building a well rounded and interesting sale. We subscribe to the tenet that the hammer price is the price, with never a buyer’s premium. Our principals are proud of thirty plus years’ experience in all aspects of the scarce, rare, and out of print book trade and we pledge a commitment to forthright business practices and a customer friendly environment. 

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Total Records in AED 175
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    These are the Times that Try Men's Souls. Paine, Thomas. Sold for US$152,900.
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    The First Printed Work on Political Economy. Sold for US$127,000.
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    Signed Lincoln Photograph with Son Tad. Sold for US$76,700.
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    First Expanded Edition of Common Sense. Paine, Thomas. Sold for US$76,700.
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    Presentation Copy of Hemmingway's First Book. Sold for US$70,350.
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    St. John's Gospel on Vellum, A Fragment in Greek, 5th Century. Sold for US$70,350.
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    Only A Handful of Surviving Copies. Joyce, James. Ulysses. Sold for US$58,880.
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    A Pivotal Step in Einstein's Development of General Relativity. Sold for US$51,200.
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    A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sold for US$56,320.
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    Joyce's Annotated Typescript Draft for Finnegan's Wake. Sold for US$48,640.
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    One of 30 Pre-Publication Copies, Inscribed by Hemingway to Spencer Tracy, Who Played "The Old Man". Sold for US$83,050.
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  • Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD