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National Book Auctions: Books and Ephemera – Mockingbird, Uncle Tom, Frost, Americana, etc.

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Auction Name Books and Ephemera – Mockingbird, Uncle Tom, Frost, Americana, etc. Total Sales (USD) 39,421.25
Auction Date May 05, 2018 - May 05, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 51,400.00
Sale Number #50518 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 87,875.00
Total Lots 231
Sold Lots 231 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 51,400.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 87,875.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 44.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2201 Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,637.50
2184 Charles Cotton

The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation

1866 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,997.50
2063 Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie

1910 USD 1,000.00 - 1,100.00 USD 1,175.00
2116 Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,057.50
2002 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly

1852 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 940.00
2039 Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1886 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 822.50
2173 William Shakespeare

The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare

1795-1796 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 763.75
2094 Hermann Corning

De Sanguinis Generatione, et Motu Naturali

1646 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 705.00
2219 Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

1922 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 705.00
2053 James Joyce

Ulysses

1930 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 558.13
2058 Winthrop Sargent

The Life and Career of Major John Andre, Adjutant-General of the British Army in America

1861 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 528.75
2083 Edgar Allan Poe

Tales of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour

1853 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 470.00
2009 Illustrated by John Thompson

The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare

1826 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 411.25
2037 Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs

1833-1837 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 411.25
2065 Antonio de Solis

The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

1727 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 411.25
2203 Uncredited

Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilzation, 1862

1863 USD 500.00 - 775.00 USD 411.25
2136 James Stanislaus Bell

Journal of a Residence in Circassia During the Years 1837, 1838 and 1839

1840 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 381.88
2008 Robert Frost

Robert Frost Collected Poems

1930 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 352.50
2052 Henry Noel Humphreys

The Miracles of Our Lord

1848 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 352.50
2127 L. Frank Baum

The Army Alphabet

1900 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 352.50
2188 Joseph Mallord William Turner

Turner's Picturesque Views in England and Wales Reproduced in Permanent Photography with Descriptive and Historical Illustrations

1873 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 352.50
2135 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha

1855 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 323.13
2156 Dante Alighieri

The Vision of Hell and The Vision of Purgatory and Paradise

c.1890 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 323.13
2034 Alfred H. Guernsey

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War

1866-1868 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 293.75
2068 Winston Spencer Churchill

Ian Hamilton's March

1900 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 293.75
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
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    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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