Leland Little Auctions: The Contemporary Art Collection of Francine & Benson Pilloff, Chapel Hill, NC, 209065, Hillsborough, NC

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Auction Report
Auction Date
January 16, 2025 - January 16, 2025
Page Size: 34 items in 2 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2001 John Rosenthal (NC)

Andrew Bellamy, Pine Hill Cemetery

 1990 Not Available USD 1,440.00
2002 John Rosenthal (NC)

Big Apple Circus, NYC

 1998 Not Available USD 1,080.00
2003 John Rosenthal (NC)

Venice, California

 2001 Not Available USD 840.00
2004 Alex Harris (b. 1949)

Calle Sol y Cuba, Havana Vieja, Looking North from Alberto Roja's 1951 Plymouth

 1998 Not Available USD 1,320.00
2005 Alex Harris (NC, b. 1949)

Jose Marti, Calle Benil y Condra, Lawton, Havana, Cuba

 2002, printed 2004 Not Available USD 300.00
2006 Alex Harris (NC, b. 1949)

Wig Shop, Charleston, South Carolina

 1984 Not Available USD 1,200.00
2007 Barbara Abel (b. 1944) (Two Photographs)

Tragic Beauties

 Not Available USD 420.00
2008 Barbara Abel (b. 1944) (Two Photographs)

Tragic Beauties

 Not Available USD 120.00
2009 Ruth Winchester Ware (NC)

Untitled 1

 Not Available USD 120.00
2077 Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)

The Cocktail Party

 1992 Not Available USD 6,600.00
2078 Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946) , with Maquette

Fresh Hybrid

 2008 Not Available USD 5,280.00
2079 Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)

The Green House

 1990 Not Available USD 12,600.00
2080 Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)

Raining Popcorn

 2001 Not Available USD 7,800.00
2081 Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)

Breathing Glass

 2000 Not Available USD 5,040.00
2082 Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)

Walking on Eggshells

 Not Available USD 7,200.00
2083 Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)

Dogs on the Beach

 1992 Not Available USD 2,880.00
2084 Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)

Babies at Paradise Pond

 1995-96 Not Available USD 1,320.00
2085 Arno Rafael Minkkinen (Finnish/American, b. 1945)

Ismo's Stick, Fosters Pond

 1993 Not Available USD 1,800.00
2086 Abe Frajndlich (German, b. 1946)

Cindy Sherman, Tabula Rasa

 1987, printed 1998 Not Available USD 2,400.00
2087 Abe Frajndlich (German, b. 1946)

Cindy Sherman, New York

 1987, printed 2001 Not Available USD 1,800.00
2088 Abe Frajndlich (German, b. 1946)

Cindy Sherman and Mask

 circa 1987 Not Available USD 480.00
2089 Abe Frajndlich (German, b. 1946)

Louise Bourgeois, Brooklyn, New York

 1994 Not Available USD 660.00
2090 Abe Frajndlich (German, b. 1946)

Portrait of Christopher Pekoc and Hand

 2000 Not Available USD 180.00
2091 Abe Frajndlich (German, b. 1946)

Two Photographs of Ground Zero

 2002 Not Available USD 360.00
2092 Abe Frajndlich (German, b. 1946)

Isaac Singer and Umbrella

 1986 Not Available USD 420.00
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    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
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    Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
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    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500
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    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000
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    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers

    April 9
    Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300
    Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
  • Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000. Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.
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