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Tessier & Sarrou and Associates: Books and Manuscripts

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Auction Name	Books and Manuscripts	Total Sales (EUR)	70,337.00
Auction Date	December 19, 2024 - December 19, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	53,980.00
Sale Number	#157741	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	79,830.00
Total Lots	352
Sold Lots	299	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	64,690.00
% of Lots Sold	84.94%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	95,330.00
Unsold Lots	53	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	73.78%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
110	Abel BONNARD	En Chine. Notebooks of handwritten notes taken in 1920, during his trip with Paul Painleve, which resulted in articles for the Revue des deux mondes and his book En Chine	1920	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,176.00
248	Jonathan SWIFT	Advice to servants.	1921	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,792.00
121	Abel BONNARD	The Jewish question. Set of handwritten notes		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,280.00
95	Marcel AYME	Le mariage de Cesar. Signed and complete manuscript of this short story, which appeared in Marianne	1932	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,152.00
49	Lucie DELARUE-MARDRUS	La figure de proue.	1908	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 1,088.00
278	Lucien REBATET	Les tribus du cinema et du theatre	1941	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 1,088.00
86	Daniel HALEVY	Apologie pour notre passe. Complete autograph manuscript of his text published in Charles Peguy's Cahiers de la Quinzaine	1910	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 960.00
67	Charles PEGUY	Three in-8 manuscript pages, unsigned, of his text intended to accompany a catalog of the first 10 series of Cahiers de la Quinzaine celebrating the tenth anniversary of their founding	1900	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 922.00
147B	Robert BRASILLACH	Writers before the Sorbonne. Autograph manuscript of 4 pages in-4, complete		EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 832.00
308	Philippe CHABANEIX	Poemes inedits 51 poems in a brown in-16 bound notebook,...No publication has been found.	1956	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 794.00
74	Jacques BAINVILLE	Histoire de trois generations. Complete autograph manuscript of this text	1918	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 768.00
290	Gus BOFA<br>	Collection of works by Gus Bofa, assembled by Paul Beauvais, with a full-page autograph letter from Bofa to Paul Beauvais		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 678.00
307	Philippe CHABANEIX	Poemes choisis.	1947	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 666.00
8	Alphonse DAUDET - Frederic MISTRAL	Correspondance	1979	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 640.00
40	Jacques BAINVILLE	Correspondence addressed to Georges Grappe. Set of 35 autographed letters and cards from Jacques Bainville to his friend from the Lycee Henri IV	1896 to 1935	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 640.00
162	[Marc CHAGALL] Marcel ARLAND	Maternity.	1926	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 640.00
288	Maurice BARRES - Charles MAURRAS	The Republic or the King. Unpublished correspondence (1888-1923)	1970	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 640.00
23	Charles MAURRAS	Letter to Rene de Saint-Pons. Long autograph letter signed to "Mon cher Rene" in which he clarifies his thoughts on the Jews		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 576.00
326	Stephane MALLARME	Lettres a Aubanel et Mistral preceded by Mallarme a Tournon by Gabriel Faure.	1924	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 576.00
247	[SURREALISM]<br>	Surrealist books and publications from the Jose Corti bookshop for 1932.	1932	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 550.00
336	Paul VALERY	Lettres a quelques-uns.	1952	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 538.00
97	Jacques BAINVILLE	D'un jour a l'autre. Set of 11 handwritten press articles, each titled and signed, for which we have not been able to find publication details		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 512.00
161	Philippe CHABANEIX	18 unsigned in-8 manuscript pages of poems, one per page. Captioned with an autograph note signed by the author ...		EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 512.00
210	Pierre LOUYS	Catalog in two parts for the sale of letters to his brother.	1937	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 512.00
314	Pierre GAXOTTE	Saint-Simon. Manuscript of 10 pages in-8, complete and signed with the preface to the edition of Morceaux choisis de Saint-Simon	1950	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 512.00

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD

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