Quinn's Auction Galleries: Political Memorabilia Auction, 21825, Falls Church

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 18, 2025 - February 18, 2025
Page Size: 117 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Thames, George (American, 1919-1994).

The Loneliest Job in the World: John F. Kennedy

1961 Not Available Not Sold
2 Kennedy, John F.

Profiles in Courage.

New York 1956 Not Available Not Sold
3 Truman, Harry S.

Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions; Years of Trial and Hope. 2 volumes.

Garden City, NY 1955-56 Not Available Not Sold
4 Jimmy Carter,

Three works signed and inscribed by Jimmy Carter, two of which include secondary or tertiary signatures, Includes: (1) Carter, Jimmy. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President. Toronto; New York; London and Sydney: Bantam

Not Available Not Sold
5 Johnson, Lyndon Baines.

The Vantage PointL Perspectives of the Presidency

1963-1969 Not Available Not Sold
6 Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Crusade in Europe:

Garden City, NY 1948 Not Available Not Sold
7 Nixon, Richard M.

Six Crises.

Garden City, NY 1962 Not Available Not Sold
8 Ford, Gerald.

A Time to Heal.

New York 1979 Not Available Not Sold
9 Reagan, Ronald.

An American Life: The Autobiography.

New York 1990 Not Available Not Sold
10 Bush, George [H.W.]; Scowcroft, Brent.

A World Transformed.

New York 1998 Not Available Not Sold
11 Clinton, Bill.

My Life.

New York 2004 Not Available Not Sold
12

Framed

1981 Not Available Not Sold
13 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald.

Untitled Sailboat Lithograph.

n.d Not Available Not Sold
15 Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy autographed 8" x 10" color portrait. Inscribed in ink to Melody Miller, then press assistant to RFK during his Presidential campaign. Framed. Frame: 8 3/4" x 10 3/4". Provenance: Estate of Melody Miller.

Not Available Not Sold
16

Three privately printed Kennedy Family Tributes: (1) The Fruitful Bough; (2) That Shining Hour; and (3) Her Grace Above Gold. Limited editions, published

1965, 1969 and 1997 Not Available Not Sold
17 Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline.

Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline. Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) with hand addressed envelope to Melody Miller. Full page letter handwritten in pen on Doubleday letterhead and signed "Jackie." Dated January 24

1985 Not Available Not Sold
19

Two framed photos of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy engaging in their leisurely pastimes of sailing and relaxing on the grass, respectively. Provenance: From the estate of Melody J. Miller.

Not Available Not Sold
20 Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton ANS as president with photograph. Note on White House Letterhead addressed to Kennedy aide Melody Miller. Framed with photograph of Clinton, Miller and her husband in the Oval Office. Provenance: Estate of Melody Miller.

Not Available Not Sold
21

Handsome desktop magnifying glass given to White House staff by President Roosevelt as a Christmas gift in

1943 Not Available Not Sold
22

17 press releases issued by the White Press Secretary Office from November 21-28

1963 Not Available Not Sold
23

One President Ford '76 campaign poster, 22" x 17" in frame; 15 pin back buttons; and one pen with Gerald R. Ford's facsimile signature. Pin-back buttons vary in size; buttons and pen in clear front display box measuring 12" x 16 1/4". Condition: All very

Not Available USD 105.41
24 Kennedy

10 books signed by members of the Kennedy family. Mostly biographies. Includes Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and more.

Not Available USD 108.50
25

11 Iron Wedge Victory Golf Club Owned by George H.W. Bush as President. Engraved "GB" with Presidential Seal on head on club. Measures 36 1/2" in length.

Not Available USD 590.55
26

Size: Frame 15 1/4" x 17 3/4" Condition: Sight: near fine. Some oxidation, slight smudging on K in Kennedy.

Not Available USD 666.75
27

Condition: Previously rolled. Chipping and tears to upper right margin.

Not Available USD 165.10
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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