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Los Angeles Estate Auction: Comic Art Paintings LP and Collectibles

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Auction Name	Comic Art Paintings LP and Collectibles	Total Sales (USD)	33,820.10
Auction Date	February 26, 2025 - February 26, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	66,600.00
Sale Number	#363609	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	145,200.00
Total Lots	451
Sold Lots	306	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	93,200.00
% of Lots Sold	67.85%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	208,500.00
Unsold Lots	145	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	16.22%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
222	Oil Painting on Plywood Board By Purvis Young signed and dated 48" x 17"	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 6,350.00
221	Oil on Canvas Painting by Gustavo Ramos Rivera -- Orilla Del Invierno (1982) Signed & Dated	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 1,270.00
1	EERIE The Killer Slime Original Storyboard Production Comic Art	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 1,111.25
223	Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas By Janet Lippincott	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 952.50
309	Vintage Disney Goofy Pencil Drawing Animation Art Signed Walt Disney	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 571.50
225	Leo Valledor Liberty Rock, 1980 Silkscreen Edition 2/75	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 546.10
3	EERIE The Killer Slime Original Storyboard Production Comic Art	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 533.40
5	EERIE The Killer Slime Original Storyboard Production Comic Art	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 520.70
310	Vintage Disney Snow White Dwarf Pencil Drawing Animation Art Signed Walt Disney	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 508.00
311	Vintage Disney Donald Duck Golf Pencil Drawing -- Signed Walt Disney (8" x 9")	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 469.90
192	Rare Pre-Production Art Photo Color Negative -- Shaggy & Scooby-Doo and Bugs Bunny (8" x 10")	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 381.00
146	Louisville Slugger Mickey Mantle Signed Baseball Bat -- Rare Collectible	USD 700.00 - 1,200.00	USD 342.90
424	DC Forgotten Realms #6 Original Storyboard Production Comic Art	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 304.80
4	EERIE The Killer Slime Original Storyboard Production Comic Art	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 292.10
6	EERIE The Killer Slime Original Storyboard Production Comic Art	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 279.40
397	Vintage Golden Age Comic Book Collection Lot	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 279.40
219	Roger Herman Figure oil on Acrylic Painting	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 266.70
421	Forgotten Realms DC Original Storyboard Production Comic Art Signed by Dave Simons	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 266.70
2	EERIE The Killer Slime Original Storyboard Production Comic Art	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 254.00
30	DC Forgotten Realms Original Storyboard Production Comic Art Signed by Dave Simons	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 254.00
407	DC Comics Original Storyboard Production Comic Art Signed by Dave Simons	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 254.00
430	Marvel Silver Sable #16 Original Storyboard Production Comic Art	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 254.00
432	German WWII SS Paratrooper Folding Knife -- Rare Military Collectible	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 254.00
433	Vintage Vinyl Record Michael Jackson -- Thriller Signed	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 254.00
40	DC Forgotten Realms Original Storyboard Production Comic Art Signed by Dave Simons	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 241.30

Fonsie Mealy’s
Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale
April 30th & May 1st

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (A.) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777. Lond. & Dublin 1778. €500 to €750.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Messingham (Thos.) Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum seu Vitae et Acta Sanctorum Hibernia, Paris 1624. €350 to €500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus). The Haw Lantern, L. (Faber & Faber) 1987, First Edn., Signed and dated. €225 to €350.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Valencey (Lt. Col. Chas.) Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Vols. I-IV, 4 vols. Dublin 1786. €400 to €600.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Powerscourt (Viscount). A Description and History of Powerscourt, Lond. 1903. €350 to €500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Moryson (Fynes). An Itinerary ... Containing His Ten Yeeres Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohermerland, Sweitzerland…, Lond. (John Beale) 1617. €700 to €1,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: After Buffon, Birds of Europe, c. 1820. Approx. 120 fine hd. cold. plts., mor. backed boards. €125 to €250.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Dunlevy (Andrew). An Teagasg Criosduidhe De Reir Ceasda agus Freagartha... The Catechism or Christian Doctrine by Way of Question and Answer, Paris (James Guerin) 1742. €400 to €700.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteen-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin, 5 vols. Complete, Dublin 1909-1913. €500 to €750.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Scale (Bernard). An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, L. (Robert Sayer & John Bennet) 1776. €625 to €850.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: [Johnson (Rev. Samuel)]. Julian the Apostate Being a Short Account of his Life, together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism,L. (Langley Curtis) 1682. €300 to €400.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Nichlson (Wm.) Illustrator. An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Lond. 1898. €300 to €400.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) trans. The Light of the Leaves, 2 vols., Mexico (Imprenta de los Tropicos/Bunholt) 1999. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Fleming (Ian). Moonraker, L. (Jonathan Cape) 1955. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) & Egan (Felim) artist. Squarings, Twelve Poems, D. (Hieroglyph Editions Ltd.) 1991. €1,750 to €2,250.
Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN'S EXTREMELY RARE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. "Scene af: Røverne i Vissenberg i Fyen." in Harpen, 1822.

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST THREE FAIRY TALE PAMPHLETS, WITH ALL INDICES AND TITLE PAGES. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED CARTE DE VISITE OF ANDERSEN AS FRONTIS. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: KARL LAGERFELD. Original pastel and ink drawing in gold, red and black for Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes (1992), "La cassette de l'Empereur."

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SIXTH PAMPHLET FOR PETER KOCH. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn, Second Series, Third Pamphlet. 1841. Publisher's wrappers, complete with all pre- and post-matter.

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN RARE AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED IN ENGLISH from "The Ugly Duckling," c.1860s.

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HEINRICH LEFLER, ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOR ANDERSEN'S SNOW QUEEN, "Die Schneekönigin," 1910.

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. Wonderful Stories for Children. London, 1846.

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN ON MEETING CHARLES DICKENS. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in English to William Jerdan, July 20, 1847.

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR EDGAR COLLIN. Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Raekke. 1861.

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, DECORATED WITH FANTASTICAL CUT-OUTS, for the children of Jonna Stampe (née Drewsen), his godchildren.

Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR GEORG BRANDES. Dryaden. Et Eventyr fra Udstillingstiden i Paris 1867. 1868.
Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 155
Saturday April 26, 2025

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 962. Baird. United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia 1858.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 772. Edith Holland Norton. Brazilian Flowers. Coombe Croft 1893.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 49. Petrarca. Das Gluecksbuch, Augsburg 1536.

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 155
Saturday April 26, 2025

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 1496. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 8. Augustinus. De moribus ecclesie. Cologne 1480.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 17. Heures a lusaige de Noyon. Paris 1504.

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 155
Saturday April 26, 2025

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 13. Schedel. Buch der Chronicken. Nürnberg 1493.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 957. Donovan. Insects of China. London 1798.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 123. A holy martyr. Tuscany, Florence, mid-14th century.

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 155
Saturday April 26, 2025

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 438. Dante. La Divine Comédie. Paris 1963.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 602. Firdausi. Histoire de Minoutchehr. Paris 1919

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 994. Westwood. Oriental Entomology. London 1848.
Sotheby's
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Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR

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