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Auction Name Online Book Auction Total Sales (USD) 130,173.00
Auction Date July 21, 2022 - July 21, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 83,280.00
Sale Number #1137 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 135,310.00
Total Lots 492
Sold Lots 452 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 90,240.00
% of Lots Sold 91.87% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 146,700.00
Unsold Lots 40 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 88.73%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
54 MILLAR, Ken (“Ross MacDonald”) (1915–1983).

A group of 87 volumes, including: Archer at Large; The Goodbye Look; The Instant Other; Sleeping Beauty; and others;

USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,640.00
144 [ARABIAN NIGHTS]. GALLAND, Antoine (1646–1715), translator.

Arabian Nights Entertainments: Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories…

1753–59. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 2,040.00
56

[MYSTERY]. A group of 119 volumes, including works by: Bruce Buckingham, George Harmon Coxe, William Campbell Gault, Anthony Gilbert, Chester Himes, and others.

USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,000.00
235 CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (1835–1910) (“Mark Twain”).

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

1885 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,800.00
133 [ANGLING]. WALTON, Izaak and Charles Cotton.

The Complete Angler.

1837 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,560.00
273 [EXPLORATION]. STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841–1904)

In Darkest Africa; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria.

1890 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
223 CAMUS, Albert (1913–1960).

A group of 3 titles, including: The Stranger.

1946 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 1,440.00
238 CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835–1910).

The Writings of Mark Twain.

1923–1925. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,440.00
137 [HUNTING]. BRYDEN, H.A., editor.

Great and Small Game of Africa.

1899 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,375.00
24

[DETECTIVE & MYSTERY]. A group of 44 titles by Laurence Block, Leslie Charters, James Cain, and Rex Stout, including: CAIN. Galatea.

1953 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 1,140.00
369 MATHER, Cotton (1663–1728).

Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New–England, from its First Planting in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord 1698.

USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 1,125.00
246 CREWS, Harry (1935–2012).

A group of 12 volumes, including: Car.

1972 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 1,080.00
360

[LITERATURE]. A library of over 120 titles, including: RYDER, Arthur W. Twenty–Two Goblins.

1917 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,080.00
142 [SPORTING]. HOWLETT, Robert.

The School of Recreation; or, the Gentleman’s Tutor…

1710 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 1,020.00
69 WILLEFORD, Charles (1919–1988).

A group of 50 volumes, including: A Guide for the Undehemorrhoided self-published book with Willeford’s blindstamp on front free endpaper; The Way We Die Now; and others.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 900.00
348

[LITERATURE]. A large library of paperback and hardcover volumes.

1950s–2000s. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 900.00
234 CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835–1910).

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

1885 USD 900.00 - 1,100.00 USD 840.00
357

[LITERATURE]. A group of 30 modern titles, many signed, including: VIDAL, Gore. Creation.

1981 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 840.00
15 CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890–1976).

A group of 11 works, including: The Secret of Chimneys (1925); The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926, sixth printing); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1927); …

USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 812.50
23

[DETECTIVE & MYSTERY]. A group of 23 titles by S.S. Van Dine, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald and others, including: VAN DINE. The Garden Murder Case.

1935 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 812.50
314 HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

A group of 5 first editions, including: Men Without Women.

1928 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 812.50
324

[HORROR – GHOSTS]. A group of 39 titles regarding ghosts, spiritualism and the supernatural, including: PHELPS, Elizabeth Stuart. Men, Women, and Ghosts.

1869 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 812.50
453

STEADMAN, Ralph. A group of 8 signed titles, including: The Grapes of Ralph.

1992 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 812.50
269

[EXPLORATION]. A group of 18 works related to Africa, including: BRYDEN, H. Anderson. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa.

1893 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 780.00
252

[DESIGN]. A group of 4 works on design and ornaments, including: PUGIN, A. Welby. Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume.

1868 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 750.00
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    DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000
    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
    DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600
    DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800
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    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.