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Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories. $60,000 to $80,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: RAND, AYN. Single page from Ayn Rand’s handwritten first draft of her influential final novel Atlas Shrugged. $30,000 to $50,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: Ernest Hemingway’s first book with interesting provenance. Three Stories & Ten Poems. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: Hemingway’s second book, one of 170 copies. In Our Time. $15,000 to $25,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: A finely colored example of Visscher’s double hemisphere world map, with a figured border. $12,000 to $18,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 Typewriter. $10,000 to $20,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: Antonio Ordóñez's “Suit of Lights” owned by Ernest Hemingway. $10,000 to $20,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: A remarkable Truman archive featuring an inscribed beam from the White House construction. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: The fourth edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: The original typed manuscript for Chandler’s only opera. The Princess and the Pedlar: An Entirely Original Comic Opera. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: A splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization. $7,000 to $10,000.Doyle, Dec. 6: A superb copy of Claude Lorrain’s Liber Veritatis from Longleat House. $5,000 to $8,000. -
High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Book Press 10 1/2× 15 1/4" Platen , 2 1/2" Daylight.High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: The Tubbs Mfg Co. wooden-type cabinet 27” w by 37” h by 22” deep.High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: G.P.Gordon printing press 7” by 11” with treadle. Needs rollers, trucks, and grippers. Missing roller spring.High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: D & C Ventris curved wood type 2” tall 5/8” wide.High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wood Type 1 1/4” tall.High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Triangles.High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Page & Co wood type 1 1/4” tall 1/4” wide.High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Awt 578 type hi gauge.High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Cents and Pound Signs.High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wooden type cabinet 27” w by 19” d by 38” h. -
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USDSotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USDSotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USDSotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USDSotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD -
Doyle, Dec. 5: Minas Avetisian (1928-1975). Rest, 1973. $8,000 to $12,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973). Yawning Tiger, conceived 1917. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert M. Kulicke (1924-2007). Full-Blown Red and White Roses in a Glass Vase, 1982. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). L’ATELIER DE CANNES (Bloch 794; Mourlot 279). The cover for Ces Peintres Nos Amis, vol. II. $1,000 to $1,500.Doyle, Dec. 5: LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012). THE BEACH AT CANNES, 1979. $1,200 to $1,800.Doyle, Dec. 5: Richard Avendon, the suite of eleven signed portraits from the Avedon/Paris portfolio. $150,000 to $250,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Flowers in Vase, 1985. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Nude, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Juniper, High Sierra, 1937.Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven J. Levn (b. 1964). Plumage II, 2011. $6,000 to $8,000.Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven Meisel (b. 1954). Madonna, Miami, (from Sex), 1992. $6,000 to $9,000.
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Chorley's: Modern Art and Design, Prints and Multiples
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Modern Art and Design, Prints and Multiples | Total Sales (GBP) | 21,947.84 |
| Auction Date | November 19, 2024 - November 19, 2024 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 9,640.00 |
| Sale Number | #111924 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 14,520.00 |
| Total Lots | 65 | ||
| Sold Lots | 47 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 12,450.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 72.31% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 18,770.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 18 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 116.93% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 562 | Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976) | The Cart |
GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 7,051.00 | |
| 907 | Tattoo ephemera, early 20th Century, collected by Robert Andrew Scott MacFie |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | GBP 5,128.00 | ||
| 571 | Garrett (Frank, binder): Carroll (Lewis) [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, |
1932 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 2,307.60 |
| 570 | Garrett (Frank, binder): Carroll (Lewis) [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] | Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there, |
1928 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,666.60 |
| 558 | Pierre Alechinsky (born 1927) | Retour aux sources (1976) |
1976 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 538.44 |
| 559 | Pierre Alechinsky (born 1927) | Aalborg (1974) |
1974 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 487.16 |
| 548 | Walter Richard Sickert RA RBA (1860-1942) | You'd Be Surprised |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 448.70 | |
| 888 | Dickens (Charles) | Dickens (Charles) Works to include: Bleak House, |
1853 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 358.96 |
| 451 | Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) | Three Figures in a Garden |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 320.50 | |
| 906 | Pankhurst (Sylvia, 1882-1960) | Pankhurst (Sylvia, 1882-1960) Typed autograph letter signed 'E. Sylvia Pankhurst', New Times and Ethiopia News letterhead, 23 October 1936 |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 282.04 | |
| 560 | Allen Jones (born 1937) | Realism... |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 230.76 | |
| 886 | A collection of trade catalogues and ephemera relating to Gothic metalwork and Church furniture |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 205.12 | ||
| 882 | Napier (Major-General Sir W F P) | History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, |
1853 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 192.30 |
| 891 | 20th Century Literature to include: Maran (Rene) Batouala, |
1922 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 179.48 | |
| 894 | Bible, Greek: Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex Versione Septuaginta Interpretum, juxta Exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum, |
1653 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 179.48 | |
| 541 | John Buckland Wright (1897-1954) | Two Scenes from Keats's Endymion |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 166.66 | |
| 551 | After Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) | Reitermotiv in Ovaler Form |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 166.66 | |
| 881 | Dulac (Edmund) | Stories from Hans [Christian] Andersen, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, |
1911 | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | GBP 153.84 |
| 885 | Blei (Davide) & Bottoni (Luciano) | The Dunhill Petrol Lighter: A Unique Story, |
2004 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 141.02 |
| 552 | After Felix Topolski (1907-1989) | This England |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 128.20 | |
| 832 | Thomas Sutherland (c.1785-1838) | Set of Five Marine Scenes |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 128.20 | |
| 880 | Lee (Laurie) | As I walked out one Midsummer Morning, |
1969 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 128.20 |
| 890 | Coward (Sir Noel) | Post-Mortem: A Play in Eight Scenes, |
1931 | GBP 70.00 - 100.00 | GBP 128.20 |
| 540 | John Buckland Wright (1897-1954) | Scene from Keats's Endymion |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 115.38 | |
| 557 | A folio of modernist artworks in different media, to include a woodcut by John Farleigh, a pen and ink drawing by John Partridge, an etching of Edinburgh by Alexander Bryson Gillespie, among other artworks by a range of artists (1 folio) |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 102.56 |
![<b>Dominic Winter, Dec. 12:</b> Bible [English]. <i>[The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe,</i> 1568]. £3,000 to £5,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/73871a8f-7c5e-4b80-933d-0d0161d4363c.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Dec. 12:</b> Bible [English]. <i>[The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe,</i> 1568]. £3,000 to £5,000.")
![<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] <i>Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…,</i> 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/2bfa5105-2bf9-4a52-8ab5-45f3ef7b1eb4.jpg "<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] <i>Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…,</i> 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.")
![<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Heaney (Seamus). <i>Eleven Poems,</i> Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d8cd5291-2e7d-4a24-8d22-f316554ec8f8.jpg "<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Heaney (Seamus). <i>Eleven Poems,</i> Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.")