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Second Story Books: Presidents and Leaders: Signed Books and First Editions

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Auction Name Presidents and Leaders: Signed Books and First Editions Total Sales (USD) 34,164.00
Auction Date January 30, 2021 - January 30, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 31,525.00
Sale Number #13021 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 45,400.00
Total Lots 121
Sold Lots 82 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 59,875.00
% of Lots Sold 67.77% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 85,150.00
Unsold Lots 39 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 40.12%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
99 William O. Douglas.

We the Judges.

1956 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,200.00
75 Ronald Reagan.

Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches.

1989 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,140.00
10 Albert J. Beveridge.

Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858.

1928 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,020.00
55 Henry Kissinger.

White House Years and Years of Upheaval.

1979/1982. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,020.00
42 Herbert Hoover.

The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover.

1952 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 960.00
54 Henry Kissinger.

White House Years.

1979 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 960.00
92 Gerald R. Ford.

President John F. Kennedy: Assassination Report of the Warren Commission.

2004 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 960.00
93 The Warren Commission [Warren, Chief Justice Earl [Chairman]; Rankin, J. Lee [General Counsel]; Ford, Gerald R. ; Dulles, Allen W. ; Specter, Arlen [et al].]

Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1964 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 960.00
110 James Monroe.

Washington: 1824. One partially-printed page, 16" x 9.75",

1824 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
25 Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney.

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir.

2011 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 900.00
32 President Hoover and Ex-President Coolidge.

Campaign Speeches of 1932.

1933 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 840.00
70 Barack Obama.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.

2006 USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 USD 840.00
39 Mikhail Gorbachev.

Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World.

1987 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 780.00
43 Herbert Hoover.

The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson.

1958 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 780.00
77 Cameron Rogers.

The Legend of Calvin Coolidge.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 780.00
27 Bill Clinton.

My Life.

2004 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 720.00
40 Mikhail Gorbachev.

Memoirs.

1996 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 720.00
51 Robert F. Kennedy.

To Seek a Newer World.

1967 USD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 USD 720.00
16 Zbigniew Brezinski.

Out of Control.

1993 USD 250.00 - 400.00 USD 600.00
23 Jimmy Carter.

Beyond the White House .

2007 USD 250.00 - 400.00 USD 600.00
68 Richard Nixon.

RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon.

1978 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 600.00
89 Harry S. Truman.

Memoirs.

1955, 1956 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 600.00
65 Richard Nixon.

RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon.

1978 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 540.00
97 Woodrow Wilson.

A History of the American People.

1902 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 540.00
11 Albert J. Beveridge.

The Life of John Marshall.

1919 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 510.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
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