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