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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 16, 2024 - May 16, 2024
Page Size: 468 items in 19 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Adams, Leonie

Those Not Elect

New York 1925 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
2 Du Bois, W.E.B.

The Souls of Black Folk, Essays and Sketches

New York 1953 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 687.50
3 Agee, James

Permit Me Voyage

New Haven 1934 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
4 Appleton, Victor

Tom Swift - Nearly complete first series

New York [c.1924-1941] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
5 Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid's Tale

Boston 1986 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
6 Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid's Tale

Toronto [1985] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
7 Atwood, Margaret

The Journals of Susanna Moodie

Toronto 1970 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
8 Baldwin, James

If Beale Street Could Talk

New York 1974 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,062.50
9 Baldwin, James

Nobody Knows My Name

New York 1961 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
10 [Barnitz, David]

The Book of Jade

London 1998 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
11 Baudelaire, Charles

Poesies completes de Ch. Baudelaire

Paris 1922 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
12 Bishop, Elizabeth

North & South

Boston 1946 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
13 Domecq, H. Buston [i.e. Bustos; pseud. for Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares]

The Twelve Figures of the World

Austin, Texas 1960 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
14 Bowles, Paul

The Sheltering Sky

London 1949 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,500.00
15 Caldwell, Erskine

Three titles by Erskine Caldwell

New York 1935-1943 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
16 Calvino, Italo

The Silent Mr. Palomar

New York 1981 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 687.50
17 Campbell, Joseph

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

New York [1949] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,875.00
18 Capote, Truman

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

New York [1965] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 468.75
19 Capote, Truman

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

Random House 1965 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
20 Carson, Rachel

Silent Spring

Boston 1962 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,750.00
21 Catullus

Catullus (Gai Valeri Catulli Veronensis Liber)

London 1969 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
22 Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich [as 'Antosha Chekhonte']

Skazki Mel'pomeny. Shest' razskazov [The Tales of Melpomene. Six Short Stories]

Moscow 1884 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
23 Chester, George Randolph

The Wonderful Adventures of Little Prince Toofat

New York 1922 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
24 Conrad, Joseph

The Rover [with] Tales of Hearsay

Garden City, New York 1923-1925 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 175.00
25 Crane, Hart

The Collected Poems of Hart Crane

New York [1933] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
  • Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Keats, John] Spenser, Edmund: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. $50,000 - $80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: (Walton, Izaak): The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Thomas, Gabriel: An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. $25,000 - $35,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Carroll, Lewis]: The Game of Alice in Wonderland. $2,000 - $3,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Athias, Joseph, et al.: Biblia Hebraica. $7,000 - $10,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Warhol, Andy, and Jens Quistgaard] Dansk Designs Salesman's Presentation Catalogue. $2,500 - $3,500.
  • Sotheby’s, June 26: Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane — the most poignant rarity in American literature. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: The Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." 2,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: William Blake. “Poems with very wild and interesting pictures” 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Thomas Taylor [artist]. The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
  • Bonhams, June 15-25: 18th Century American Sea Captain's Journals of Voyages to Hawaii, China, and South America. $35,000 - $45,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Autograph Diary from Bolling Advance Base, Winter 1934. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Cellarius, Andreas. Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Nobelist George Stigler's Copy of Ricardo's Classic on the Science of Economics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris: F. L. Schmied, 1927. $15,000 - $20,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Fine Copy of Walras's Classic on the Theory of Marginal Utility. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Arion Press Moby Dick. Melville, Herman. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Venegas, Miguel. Noticia de la California, y desu conquista temporal, y espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. $7,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Carelton Watkins, Yosemite and the West. Portfolio of 21 imperial albumen prints. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: An Unpublished Archive of Thornton Wilder Correspondence to F.J. O'Neil. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Vesalius, Andreas. 1514-1564. Suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome. $100,000 - $150,000
  • Bonhams, June 25: Vesalius, Andreas. 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. $200,000 - $300,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Gersdorff, Hans Von. 1455-1529. Feldtbuch der wundartzney. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Pare, Ambroise. C.1509-1590. La Methode Curative des Playes, et Fractures de la Teste humaine. Avec les pourtraits des Instruments necessaires pour la curation d'icelles. $25,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Reisch, Gregor. 1470-1525. Margarita Philosophica. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bright, Richard. 1789-1858. Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Berengario da Carpi, Giacomo. C. 1460-1530. Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Vicq D'Azyr, Felix. 1748-1794. Traite d'antomie et de physiologie. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Croce, Giovanni Andrea Della. 1509?-1775. Chirurgia libri septem... $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bruno Da Longburgo. 1200-1286. La cyrogia di Maistro Bruno: Expertissimo in quella. Tradutta in vulgare. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Schwann, Theodor. 1810-1882. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die Ubereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Cowper, William. 1666-1709. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn after the Life… $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bidloo, Govard. 1649-1713. Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis. $6,000 - $9,000
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