Grant Zahajko Auctions: Books: Signed & 1st Editions, Rocket Mail + Historical Items, 364201, DAVENPORT

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 19, 2025 - March 19, 2025

Page Size: 855 items in 35 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
175	Dorothy M. Johnson	Indian Country		1953	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 158.75
176	Len Deighton	The IPCRESS File		1963	USD 75.00 - 150.00	USD 50.80
177	Katherine Dunn	Geek Love	NY	1989	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 571.50
178	James Crumley	The Muddy Fork	Northridge, CA	1984	USD 75.00 - 150.00	USD 63.50
179	Yousuf Karsh	Faces of Destiny		1946	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 127.00
180	Italo Calvino	Path to the Nest of Spiders	Boston	1957	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 95.25
181	Arnold Lobel	Fables		1982	USD 75.00 - 150.00	USD 127.00
182	Ivan Doig	Three (3) Ivan Doig /inscribed novels 1) Winter Brothers		1980	USD 75.00 - 125.00	USD 38.10
183	Ivan Doig	Four (4) Ivan Doig /inscribed novels Includes: 1) Mountain Time		1999	USD 75.00 - 150.00	USD 38.10
184	by Kermit Roosevelt	Three (3) vintage books include: 1) The Long Trail		1921	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 38.10
185	James Crumley	Two (2) First Edition / inscribed novels 1) The Dancing Bear		1983	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 50.80
186	Joseph Heller	Two novels include: 1) We Bombed in New Haven		1968	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 63.50
187	Ray Bradbury	Two (2) Ray Bradbury books.			USD 75.00 - 125.00	USD 127.00
188	Budd Schulberg	Two (2) books include: 1) Sanctuary V		1969	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 25.40
189	Tobian Wolff.	Three (3) first editions with unclipped dust jackets. 1) The Barracks Thief		1984	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 63.50
190	Brian Selznick.	Two (2) first editions with unclipped dust jackets. 1) The Invention of Hugo Cabret		2007	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 38.10
191	Lorenzo Carcaterra	Two (2) first edition books both with unclipped dust jackets. 1) Sleepers		1995	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 25.40
192	Ann Patchett. Signed.	Six (6) first edition books with unclipped dust jackets unless noted. 1) Bel Canto		2001	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 158.75
193	Zane Grey et al	Eleven (11) western novels all with unclipped dust jackets unless stated otherwise. 1) Six (6) Zane Grey books			USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 95.25
194	William Inge.	Five (5) and/or Inscribed books all with unclipped price on dust jackets. 1) Come Back Little Sheba		1950	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 222.25
195	Margaret Mitchell.	Six (6) vintage books. 1) Gone With the Wind		1937	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 50.80
196	John Updike	Five (5) John Updike inscribed and first editions all with unclipped dust jackets.			USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 38.10
197	Shirley Nelson	Four (4) assorted topic books all with unclipped dust jackets. 1) The Last Year of the War		1978	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 12.70
198	Flann O'Brien.	Four (4) assorted topic books. Those with dust jackets are unclipped. 1) At Swim Two Birds		1939 [circa 1951]	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 95.25
199	David McCullough	1776		2005	USD 50.00 - 75.00	USD 158.75

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000

Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000

Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000

Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000

Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000

Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000

Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000

Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000

Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.

Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.

Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.

Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.

Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.

Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.

Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.

Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.

Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.

Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.

Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.

Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

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

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

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
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

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€
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 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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