University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books - Just In Time For The Holidays!, 121124, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024

Page Size: 518 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
427	Maxim Gorky Handwritten Letter Canceling Publishing Contract	n.d.	USD 600.00 - 1,000.00	USD 750.00
428	Maxim Gorky Signed & Inscribed Portrait Photo, ca. 1932	1932-10-27	USD 2,800.00 - 3,500.00	USD 2,560.00
429	Joseph Heller Signed Letter Mentioning "Catch-22", Vonnegut and Roth	1972-01-28	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 250.00
430	Kipling on a Hockey Game: "It was glorious. Plain, straight, hammer & tong, hell for leather hockey..."	2011-01-14	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,375.00
431	Boris Pasternak Signed Book of Poems, Only 1 of 15-25 Printed, with 1st Appearance of Poems from Doctor Zhivago!	ca. 1958	USD 16,000.00 - 20,000.00	Not Sold
432	Ayn Rand 11pp Handwritten Draft on Political Elections in 1962, For Her Column in the Los Angeles Times	1962-11-10	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 21,250.00
433	Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky ALS: "All your children, Mother...protect them!"	2025-12-16	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 225.00
434	George Bernard Shaw ANS on Meeting with Harley Granville-Barker	2001-06-14	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 500.00
435	Harriet Beecher Stowe Signed Cabinet Card, Fantastic!	n.d.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,500.00
436	Rare Ivan Turgenev Signed & Inscribed Cabinet Card, ca. 1877	ca. 1877	USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00	Not Sold
437	Ivan Turgenev ALS To Valentine Delessert, "trust in my unwavering affection"	February 2, 1871	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,062.50
438	Ivan Turgenev ALS Declining a Biography: "my 'portrait' would be of no interest to anyone"	March 23, 1881	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,125.00
439	Judge Roy Bean DS Protecting a Witness to Another Jurisdiction	ca. 1880s	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,187.50
440	CA Gold Rush Document Signed by Anne Augusta Slauson Merritt, Self-Proclaimed Last Living Witness To 1st CA Gold Deposit at U.S. Mint, Philadelphia	2013-08-04	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 125.00
441	Buffalo Bill Cody Signed Hand-Colored Equestrian Photo, Previously Unseen!	n.d.	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 937.50
442	Pat Garrett Re: Billy the Kid, Lew Wallace, and His Future Appointment	2001-12-09	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,375.00
443	"Wild Bill Hickok's Monument" Cabinet Card	n.d.	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 250.00
444	Annie Oakley Letter Re: Trial in 1906	2006-03-14	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,750.00
445	Unusual Annie Oakley Signed Photo Postcard Dating From Days as Hotel Shooting Performer & Instructor	ca. August 1919	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,125.00
446	G. W. "Pawnee Bill" Lillie ALS Hiring Someone to Do the "Monkey Drill" Act	2007-02-04	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 875.00
447	"Texas Jack" Omohundro Dual Autograph Dating From Wild West Show Days With Cody & Hickok!	June 2, 1874	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 406.25
448	Frederic Remington Signed 1st Edition Copy of Book "John Ermine of the Yellowstone"	ca. 1902	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,000.00
449	American Politics Large 25+ pc. Grouping: Senators, Vice Presidents, & More, 1870s-1970s	ca. 1870s-1970s	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 937.50
450	J. Armstrong Scarce Signed Louisiana Purchase Bill of Exchange	ca. June [1805]	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,250.00
451	Nicholas Biddle Signed Bill of Exchange, 1832	January 14, 1832	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 87.50

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD

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