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Heritage Auctions: The Gary Munson Collection of Horror and Fantasy Rare Books

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Auction Name The Gary Munson Collection of Horror and Fantasy Rare Books Total Sales (USD) 1,339,027.75
Auction Date October 14, 2021 - October 14, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 339,200.00
Sale Number #31172 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 508,800.00
Total Lots 125
Sold Lots 125 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 339,200.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 508,800.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 263.17%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
71090 [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley].

Frankenstein. Or, The Modern Prometheus.

1818 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 162,500.00
71008 Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Tarzan of the Apes. In The All-Story, Volume XXIV, Number 2, October 1912.

1912 USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 USD 68,750.00
71009 Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Tarzan of the Apes.

1914 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 60,000.00
71066 H. P. Lovecraft.

Autographed Manuscript Signed for the short story, Pickman's Model.

Circa mid-1926. USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 55,000.00
71111 J. R. R. Tolkien.

The Hobbit. Or, There and Back Again.

1937 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 47,500.00
71015 Wilkie Collins.

The Woman in White.

1860 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 45,000.00
71064 [Jane (Webb) Loudon].

The Mummy! A tale of the twenty-second century.

1827 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 37,500.00
71112 J. R. R. Tolkien.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

1954-1955. USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 34,750.00
71080 Raymond A. Palmer; Ralph Milne Farley; David H. Keller; et al.

Cosmos.

1933-1935. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 30,000.00
71091 Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley.

Frankenstein. Or, The Modern Prometheus.

1823 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 30,000.00
71107 Bram Stoker.

Dracula.

1897 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 28,750.00
71040 William Hope Hodgson.

The Night Land. A Love Tale.

1912 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 25,000.00
71089 [Anonymous; James Malcolm Rymer, presumed].

Varney, the Vampyre: Or, The Feast of Blood. A Romance.

1847 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 25,000.00
71054 [Karl Friedrich Kahlert], Lawrence Flammenberg, pseudonym; Peter Teuthold, translator.

The Necromancer: or, The Tale of the Black Forest.

1794 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 22,500.00
71101 Eric Stanislaus, Count Stenbock.

Studies of Death. Romantic tales by Eric, Count Stenbock.

1894 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 22,500.00
71056 J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

The House by the Churchyard.

1863 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 21,250.00
71082 Edgar Allan Poe.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.

1840 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 20,625.00
71023 [Anonymous]; [Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, compiler and translator].

Fantasmagoriana.

1812 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 20,000.00
71047 M. R. James.

Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary.

1904 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 18,750.00
71061 David Lindsay.

A Voyage to Arcturus.

1920 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 18,750.00
71051 Franz Kafka.

Die Verwandlung [Metamorphosis].

1915 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 17,500.00
71060 [Matthew Gregory Lewis].

The Monk. A Romance.

1796 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 14,375.00
71007 Ray Bradbury.

Fahrenheit 451.

1953 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 13,750.00
71021 Guy Endore.

The Werewolf of Paris.

no date but circa 1933. USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 13,750.00
71125 Dennis Wheatley.

The Devil Rides Out.

no date but 1935. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 13,750.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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
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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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