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Auction Name Vintage Posters - Fall 2024 Total Sales (USD) 64,389.00
Auction Date October 19, 2024 - October 19, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 96,900.00
Sale Number #101924 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 121,700.00
Total Lots 414
Sold Lots 210 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 187,000.00
% of Lots Sold 50.72% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 235,250.00
Unsold Lots 204 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 27.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
206

Original c. 1918 WW I War Fund Bout Jack Dempsey Poster

 c.1918 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 2,794.00
303

Rare Original 1920s Malaysia Railway Travel Poster

 1920s USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 2,159.00
227

Original Vintage 1929 Mather Work Poster Perfect Finish

 1929 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,524.00
294

Original ca. 1920s Ireland Connemara Travel Poster

 1920s USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,397.00
39

Original Vintage 1920s Cappiello Nitrolian Poster

 1920s USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,270.00
297

Original 1920s Polish Rail Travel Poster Boryslaw

 1920s USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,270.00
311

Original 1930s Budapest Hungary Travel Poster

 1930s USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,270.00
308

Original c. 1930s British Southend Travel Poster Pears

 c.1930s USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 1,016.00
209

3 Original Vintage US Yiddish World War I Bonds Posters

 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 952.50
238

Original 1929 Mather Work Incentive Poster Out In Front

 1929 USD 1,700.00 - 2,000.00 USD 952.50
332

Original 1930s Northern Pacific Alaska Travel Poster

 1930s USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 698.50
51

Huge Original 1930s French Quinquina Poster Bellenger

 1930s USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 635.00
234

Original 1920s Mather Work Poster Chicago Diver

 1920s USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 635.00
222

Original 1920s Mather Work Poster RIGHT OF WAY

 1920s USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 603.25
112

Rare Original 1897 Alphonse Mucha Le Fou Figaro Print

 1897 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 571.50
163

Original Vintage 1950s Picasso Art Exhibition Poster

 1950s USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 571.50
232

Original 1929 Mather Work Incentive Poster Mighty Small

 1929 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 571.50
263

Original Vintage 1960 Kennedy for President Poster +1

 1960 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 539.75
339

Original Vintage ca. 1930s Japan Mt. Fuji Travel Poster

 1930s USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 539.75
26

Original French c. 1900s Cycles Clement Bicycle Poster

 c.1900s USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 508.00
90

Original 1970s Bally Shoe Poster Villemot 2 Nudes

 1970s USD 600.00 - 750.00 USD 508.00
106

Original 1890s Steinlen Le Reve Art Nouveau Poster

 1890s USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 508.00
120

Original c. 1900 Jan Styka Martyre des Chretiens Poster

 c.1900 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 508.00
129

Original Vintage 1900s French Opera Poster Griselidis

 1900s USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 508.00
225

Original 1929 Mather Chicago Work Poster Animal Trainer

 1929 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 508.00
  • <b><center>Sotheby's<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts & More<br>Discover Upcoming Auctions</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 9:</b> Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. "Epitome Cosmografica." With the 6 circular celestial and terrestrial charts. 7,000 – 10,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 9:</b> Hurley, Frank. Collection of 69 photographs taken during Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition. 80,000 – 120,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 10:</b> Sendak, Maurice. Original artwork for the inaugural "New York is Book Country" poster, 1979. 300,000 – 600,00 USD <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 10:</b> [Brontë, Emily, and Ann Brontë] — Ellis Bell and Acton Bell. An outstanding survival of the sisters' debut novels Estimate. 90,000 - 130,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Discover Upcoming Auctions
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 9: Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. "Epitome Cosmografica." With the 6 circular celestial and terrestrial charts. 7,000 – 10,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 9: Hurley, Frank. Collection of 69 photographs taken during Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition. 80,000 – 120,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 10: Sendak, Maurice. Original artwork for the inaugural "New York is Book Country" poster, 1979. 300,000 – 600,00 USD
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 10: [Brontë, Emily, and Ann Brontë] — Ellis Bell and Acton Bell. An outstanding survival of the sisters' debut novels Estimate. 90,000 - 130,000 USD
  • <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> A Very Fine Composite Atlas Magnificently Illuminated and Heightened with Gold in a Fine Contemporary Hand Throughout. $300,000 - $500,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Saint-Exupéry's Revised Ending for Wind, Sand and Stars. $40,000 - $60,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Edith Wharton's Gold Medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1924. $20,000 - $30,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Salinger on the Glass Family and on Detachment. $10,000 - $15,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Fanny Burney's Groundbreaking First Novel. Evelina, Or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. $10,000 - $15,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Kafka's Earliest Extant Piece of Writing. Autograph Note Signed ("Franz Kafka"). $10,000 - $15,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Wagner Signed "Ride of the Valkries." $6,000 - $9,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Dickens on the Death of Little Nell. $5,000 - $8,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Sylvia Plath's Copy of Joy of Cooking. $4,000 - $6,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Walt Whitman and Friends: Whitman to James Russell Lowell. $8,000 - $12,000 <B>Bonhams, Dec. 18:</b> Walt Whitman and Friends: The Genesis of his Lincoln Lectures. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: A Very Fine Composite Atlas Magnificently Illuminated and Heightened with Gold in a Fine Contemporary Hand Throughout. $300,000 - $500,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Saint-Exupéry's Revised Ending for Wind, Sand and Stars. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Edith Wharton's Gold Medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1924. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Salinger on the Glass Family and on Detachment. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Fanny Burney's Groundbreaking First Novel. Evelina, Or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Kafka's Earliest Extant Piece of Writing. Autograph Note Signed ("Franz Kafka"). $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Wagner Signed "Ride of the Valkries." $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Dickens on the Death of Little Nell. $5,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Sylvia Plath's Copy of Joy of Cooking. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Walt Whitman and Friends: Whitman to James Russell Lowell. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 18: Walt Whitman and Friends: The Genesis of his Lincoln Lectures. $6,000 - $9,000
  • <b><center>High Bids Win<br>Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction<br>Dec. 4 – 19, 2024</center></b> <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 67. Book Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 68. J. W. Daughaday Printing Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 69. C. & P. Pilot Press <b><center>High Bids Win<br>Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction<br>Dec. 4 – 19, 2024</center></b> <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 73. Vandercook Cylinder Proof Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br> Lot 76. Showcard Proof Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br> Lot 80. C. & P. Printing Press <b><center>High Bids Win<br>Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction<br>Dec. 4 – 19, 2024</center></b> <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 81. C. & P. Printing Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Lot 82. Kelsey Star Printing Press <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br> Lot 83. Pilot Press <b><center>High Bids Win<br>Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction<br>Dec. 4 – 19, 2024</center></b> <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br> Lot 212. Kelsey Letterpress <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br> Wood & Metal Type. Many fonts and faces. <b>High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:</b><br>Print Shop Miscellany including type, tools, and equipment.
    High Bids Win
    Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction
    Dec. 4 – 19, 2024
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 67. Book Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 68. J. W. Daughaday Printing Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 69. C. & P. Pilot Press
    High Bids Win
    Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction
    Dec. 4 – 19, 2024
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 73. Vandercook Cylinder Proof Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 76. Showcard Proof Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 80. C. & P. Printing Press
    High Bids Win
    Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction
    Dec. 4 – 19, 2024
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 81. C. & P. Printing Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 82. Kelsey Star Printing Press
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 83. Pilot Press
    High Bids Win
    Bookbinding & Letterpress & Antiques Auction
    Dec. 4 – 19, 2024
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Lot 212. Kelsey Letterpress
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Wood & Metal Type. Many fonts and faces.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 4 – 19:
    Print Shop Miscellany including type, tools, and equipment.
  • <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €5,500 to €7,000. <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. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Yeats (W.B.) <i>The Poems of W.B. Yeats,</i> 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Signed by author, limited edition. €1,250 to €1,750. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Fishing: <i>Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing,</i> Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in 1492. London (Chiswick Press) 1872. €1,500 to €2,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Fishing: Blacker's - <i>Art of Fly Making, etc.,</i> Comprising Angling & Dying of Colours..., Rewritten & Revised. Lond. 1855. €250 to €350. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Joyce (James). <i>Finnegans Wake,</i>, London (Faber & Faber Ltd.) 1939, Lim. Edn. No. 269 (425) copies, Signed by the Author (in green pen). €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Synge (J.M.) & Yeats (Jack B.) illus. <i>The Aran Islands,</i>, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1907, Signed Limited Edn. €4,000 to €5,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Meyer (Dr. A.B.) <i>Unser Auer -, Rackel-Und Birkwild und Seine Abarten,</i> Wien (Verlag Von Adolph W. Kunast) 1887. €2,500 to €3,500. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Carve (Thomas). <i>Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve Tripperariensis, Sacellani Maioris in Fortisima iuxta…,</i>, Moguntia (Mainz) impriemebat Nicolaus Heyll, 1639. €1,500 to €2,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Grose (Francis). <i>The Antiquities of Ireland,</i> 2 vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. First Edition. €3,000 to €5,000. <b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Heaney (Seamus) & Le Brocquy (Louis) artist. <i>Ugolino,</i> D. (Dolmen Press) 1979, Signed Limited Edition No. 87 (125) Copies. €3,500 to €4,500. <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.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €5,500 to €7,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…, 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Signed by author, limited edition. €1,250 to €1,750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing, Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in 1492. London (Chiswick Press) 1872. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Blacker's - Art of Fly Making, etc., Comprising Angling & Dying of Colours..., Rewritten & Revised. Lond. 1855. €250 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Joyce (James). Finnegans Wake,, London (Faber & Faber Ltd.) 1939, Lim. Edn. No. 269 (425) copies, Signed by the Author (in green pen). €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Synge (J.M.) & Yeats (Jack B.) illus. The Aran Islands,, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1907, Signed Limited Edn. €4,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Meyer (Dr. A.B.) Unser Auer -, Rackel-Und Birkwild und Seine Abarten, Wien (Verlag Von Adolph W. Kunast) 1887. €2,500 to €3,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Carve (Thomas). Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve Tripperariensis, Sacellani Maioris in Fortisima iuxta…,, Moguntia (Mainz) impriemebat Nicolaus Heyll, 1639. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. First Edition. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus) & Le Brocquy (Louis) artist. Ugolino, D. (Dolmen Press) 1979, Signed Limited Edition No. 87 (125) Copies. €3,500 to €4,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems, Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.
  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Kelmscott Chaucer: The Finest Book Since the Gutenberg Bible. $60,000 - $90,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Poems Chosen out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Morris's Original Manuscript Title-Page Design for Rosetti. Ballads and Narrative Poems. $8,000 - $12,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Printed on Vellum: The Founding of the Kelmscott Press. $30,000 - $50,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Voragine, Jacobus De. The Golden Legend. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Lull, Ramon. The Order of Chivalry. $10,000 - $15,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Inscribed by William Morris to Swinburne. Morris, William, translator. Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane. $4,000 - $6,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Printed on Vellum: One of Only 15 Copies. Morris, William, translator. Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile. $15,000 - $25,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> William Morris Association Copy in Fine Binding. Morris, William. Child Christopher and Goldilind at the Fair. $8,000 - $12,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Morris, William. 1834-1896. The Earthly Paradise. $6,000 - $9,000 <b>Bonhams, Dec. 17:</b> Nuremberg Chronicle. Schedel, Hartmann. 1440-1514. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Kelmscott Chaucer: The Finest Book Since the Gutenberg Bible. $60,000 - $90,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Poems Chosen out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Morris's Original Manuscript Title-Page Design for Rosetti. Ballads and Narrative Poems. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Printed on Vellum: The Founding of the Kelmscott Press. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Voragine, Jacobus De. The Golden Legend. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Inscribed by William Morris to Edward Burne-Jones. Lull, Ramon. The Order of Chivalry. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Inscribed by William Morris to Swinburne. Morris, William, translator. Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Printed on Vellum: One of Only 15 Copies. Morris, William, translator. Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: William Morris Association Copy in Fine Binding. Morris, William. Child Christopher and Goldilind at the Fair. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Morris, William. 1834-1896. The Earthly Paradise. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Dec. 17: Nuremberg Chronicle. Schedel, Hartmann. 1440-1514. $30,000 - $50,000
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