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Auction Name Children's Literature - Rare & Antiquarian Total Sales (USD) 122,575.00
Auction Date July 25, 2024 - July 25, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 126,200.00
Sale Number #818 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 192,800.00
Total Lots 426
Sold Lots 257 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 220,500.00
% of Lots Sold 60.33% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 340,500.00
Unsold Lots 169 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 36.00%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
240 [Bronte, Charlotte]

Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell

1847 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,875.00
394 Shakespeare, William

Original Leaf from the First Folio edition of The First Part of King Henry the Fourth

[1623] USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,937.50
151 Sendak, Maurice

Where the Wild Things Are

1963 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 4,375.00
92 Milne, A.A.

The House at Pooh Corner

[1928] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,437.50
268 Rentz, Michael Heinrich

Geistliche Todts-gedancken bey allerhand Gemahlden und Schildereyen in Vorbildung unter-schiedlichen Geschlechts, Alters, Standes, und Wurdens-persohnen...

[1753] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,500.00
272

Ivanhoe: A Grove Play by Charles G. Norris. Music by Harry I. Wiel

1936 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,500.00
230

Bohemian Grove Plays - a nearly complete run

1908-2013 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,125.00
404 Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh Edition

1895-1898 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
194

Five framed autographs of notable musicians

20th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,875.00
351 Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [with] Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson

1974 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,750.00
345 Mascagni, Paolo

Anatomia per Uso degli Studiosi di Scultura e Pittura: Opera Postuma di Paolo Mascagni

1816 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,625.00
354 Morris, William

The Story of Cupid and Psyche

1974 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,500.00
250 Burton, Richard F.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [with] Supplemental Nights

c.1900-1903 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,375.00
332 Schedel, Hartman

Leaf with The Dance of Death from the German Nuremburg Chronicle

1493 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,375.00
353 Morris, William

The Roots of the Mountains Wherein is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale Their Friends Their Neighbours Their Foeman and Their Fellows in Arms

1890 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,375.00
422 Vesalius

Original printed leaf from the first edition of De humani corporis fabrica, with full-page anatomical woodcut

1543 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,062.50
401 Spratt, George

Obstetric Tables: Comprising Graphic Illustrations, with Descriptions and Practical Remarks; Exhibiting on Dissected Plates many Important subjects in Midwifery

1838 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
51 GrandPre, Mary

The Seven Images of Harry Potter

2005 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 937.50
94 Milne, A.A.

Winnie-the-Pooh

[1926] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 937.50
129 Sabuda, Robert

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

[2000] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 937.50
214 Blake, William

The Book of Urizen

[1958] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
413 Evans-Wentz, W.Y., editor

The Tibetan Book of the Dead; or the After-Death Experience on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

1927 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
105 Poe, Edgar Allan

Poe's Tales of Mystery [with salesman's dummy]

1935 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 875.00
223 Ellis, Edwin John and William Butler Yeats

The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Edited with Lithographs of the Illustrated "Prophetic Books," and a Memoir and Interpretation

1893 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 875.00
93 Milne, A.A.

The House at Pooh Corner

[1928] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 812.50
  • Leland Little, Jan. 22: The First Issue of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will, In Extremely Scarce Binding.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Knight's An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Locke's Important Treatise Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: The Richly Illustrated First French Edition of Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Scarce First Issue of An Account of the Province of Carolina in America, Finely Bound and With Celebrated John Speed Map.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Humphrey's An Historical Account, Complete with Scarce Folding Maps.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Chamberlain's Scarce Civil War Memoir The Passing of the Armies.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: A Rare Photograph of David Bruce Brown and #48 Fiat.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: George Cruikshank (England, 1792-1878), Archive of Sketches, Notes, and Letters.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Extremely Scarce Copy of Die Samländische Ode (The Samland Ode), Signed by Max Pechstein.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Andy Warhol's The Thirteen Most Wanted Men Exhibition Catalogue.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Edward Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
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