RR Auction: Art, Literature, and Classical Music - online 5/24, 682, Amherst
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 20, 2024 - June 20, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6137 | Jean-Paul Sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre Autograph Letter Signed |
1937 | USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | USD 4,813.00 | |
| 6138 | Maurice Sendak | Maurice Sendak Signed Ltd. Ed. Print - 'Magic Flute (Three Boys)' |
02." First illustrated by Sendak in 1980 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 1,409.00 | |
| 6139 | Maurice Sendak | Maurice Sendak (4) Signed Prints from 'Where the Wild Things Are' |
1971 publication of these prints marked the first time these classic illustrations were printed on single sheets of paper for the collector market; over the years | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 | |
| 6143 | Dr. Seuss | Dr. Seuss Signed Book - The Cat in the Hat |
NY | 1967 | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 541.00 |
| 6144 | John Steinbeck | John Steinbeck Incredible, Intimate Archive to His Typist: (7) Signed Books and (26) Letters |
USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 6145 | John Steinbeck | John Steinbeck Signed Contract and Typed Letter Signed for 'The Winter of Our Discontent' |
1961 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 6146 | Stendhal | Stendhal Autograph Letter Signed on Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, and Opium |
1830 | USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 6147 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson Autograph Manuscript Signed for the Publication of Kidnapped, with Original Drawings |
USD 25,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 6148 | Bram Stoker | Bram Stoker Autograph Letter Signed |
1899 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,221.00 | |
| 6149 | Rabindranath Tagore | Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photograph |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 6150 | William Makepeace Thackeray | William Makepeace Thackeray Handwritten Manuscript for 'The Newcombes' |
circa early 1850s | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 6152 | J. R. R. Tolkien | J. R. R. Tolkien Autograph Letter Signed on The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings |
1961 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 38,750.00 | |
| 6153 | J. R. R. Tolkien's | J. R. R. Tolkien's Personal 'Introduction to Philosophy' Book and Handwritten Notes for Royal Navy and Air Force Cadet Courses |
London, England | 1942 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 12,500.00 |
| 6154 | Jules Verne | Jules Verne Autograph Letter Signed on Around the World in Eighty Days: "The Christian name of our friend Fogg is Phileas and not Phineas" |
1890 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,378.00 | |
| 6155 | H. G. Wells | H. G. Wells Handwritten Letter on His "Best Book," Commenting on The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and Dr. Moreau |
no date | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 6156 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Laura Ingalls Wilder Autograph Letter Signed on Her "Little House" Series |
1954 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 1,165.00 | |
| 6157 | Thornton Wilder | Thornton Wilder Autograph Letter Signed on Our Town, The Cabala, and The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
1947 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 6158 | Tennessee Williams | Tennessee Williams Handwritten Working Draft for 'Ten Blocks on the Camino Real' |
circa1946 | USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 6159 | J. M. Barrie Autograph | J. M. Barrie Autograph Letter Signed |
1900 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 795.00 | |
| 6160 | Brendan Behan | Brendan Behan Signed Book - Brendan Behan's Island |
NY | 1962 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 344.00 |
| 6161 | Robert Browning | Robert Browning Signature |
USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 281.00 | ||
| 6162 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Edgar Rice Burroughs (2) Signed Checks |
1939 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 6163 | George Washington | George Washington Cable Signed Book - The Grandissimes |
NY | 1899 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 6164 | James M. Cain | James M. Cain Typed Letter Signed |
1953 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 6165 | Erskine Caldwell | Erskine Caldwell Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed |
1957 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
![<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/29dc9a36-584c-476d-bc08-834bc3d3902d.png "<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> Bell, Thomas. A Monograph of the Testudinata. London [1836-1842]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000.")
![<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> Gould, John. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds [and] Supplement completed after the authors death…, London [1849-]1861 and [1880-]1887. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d1c7f9bc-1bd9-43a2-9cd9-fa2e0a89d50f.png "<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> Gould, John. A monograph of the Trochilidae, or family of humming-birds [and] Supplement completed after the authors death…, London [1849-]1861 and [1880-]1887. CHF 50,000 to 80,000.")
![<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> Levaillant, François. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus. Paris [1801-]1806. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dcac6725-5a79-4a9a-8172-9a5e10ccb75b.png "<b>Koller, Sep. 18:</b> Levaillant, François. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus. Paris [1801-]1806. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.")
