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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 29, 2025 - May 29, 2025
Page Size: 442 items in 18 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Abbey, Edward

The Brave Cowboy. An Old Tale in a New Time

Salt Lake City; Santa Barbara 1993 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
2 Agee, James

A Death in the Family

New York [1957] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
3 Albee, Edward, and e.e. cummings

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf or Edward Albee

Charleston, WV 1980 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
4 Albee, Edward

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Play

New York 1962 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
5 Allen, Woody

Don't Drink the Water

New York 1967 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
6 Allen, Woody

Typed letter signed by Woody Allen

No place 1976 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 406.25
7 Amis, Kingsley

Lucky Jim

Garden City, New York 1954 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 437.50
8 [Amory, Thomas]

The Life of John Buncle, Esq; Containing Various Observations and Reflections, Made in several Parts of the World; and Many extraordinary Relations

London 1756 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
9 Anderson, Sherwood

A Story Teller's Story

New York 1924 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
10 Baldwin, James and Steve Schapiro

The Fire Next Time

[2019] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
11 Barry, Philip

The Philadelphia Story

New York [1939] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 237.50
12 Barrymore, John

Confessions of an Actor

Indianapolis [1926] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
13 Beckett, Samuel

Eh Joe and Other Writings

London [1967] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 375.00
14 Beckett, Samuel

En attendant Godot

[Paris] 1952 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
15 Beckett, Samuel

Ends and Odds, Plays and Sketches

London [1977] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 343.75
16 Beckett, Samuel

Waiting for Godot

London [1956] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 468.75
17 Beckett, Samuel

Waiting for Godot

New York [1954] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
18 Bellow, Saul

Dangling Man

New York [1944] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 212.50
19 Bezzerides, A.I.

There is a Happy Land

New York [1942] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 225.00
20 Bowles, Paul

Let It Come Down

London [1952] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
21 Bowles, Paul

The Sheltering Sky

[New York] [1949] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 625.00
22 Braine, John

Room At The Top

London [1957] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
23 Brickhill, Paul

The Great Escape

New York [1950] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 343.75
24 Bulgakov, Mikhail

The Master and Margarita

New York and Evanston [1967] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 468.75
25 Burnett, W. R.

The Dark Command [with] High Sierra

New York 1938-1940 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
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