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Description	Keys Auctions was formed in 1953 by Geoffrey Key, and its history is different from most firms which sell books and art. Key started by opening a livestock market in the town of Aylsham, County of Norfolk, in the East Anglia region of the U.K. He quickly began selling from estates and soon found a large market for art. By 1960, a separate department had been formed for fine art. Keys has become a major estate agency in its region, dealing in commercial and investment property and offering professional services such as surveying. Meanwhile, the art and estate auction business has continued to grow with books now becoming a large part of the items sold.
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Total Records in AED	86824

<center>The Collectors’ Sale March 3, 2021

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Verlag, Luzern, Publishers: The Book of Kells, the most precious illuminated manuscript of the early Middle Ages, now reproduced, the FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE FINE ART FACSIMILE EDITION. €5,000 to €6,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1997, First Deluxe Edn., Signed by the Author on title page. €4,000 to €5,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Gilbert (John T.) Account of Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Ireland, from the earliest extant specimens to A.D. 719. €2,000 to €3,000.

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Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin [-Ireland], 5 vols. lg. 4to D. 1909 - 1913. Limited Editions. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols., roy 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949, Limited Edn., No. 185 (of 375 copies). Signed. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Crone (John S.)ed. The Irish Book Lover, A Monthly Review of Irish Literature and Bibliography. Vol. I No 1 August 1909 - Vol. XXXII No. 6, September 1957. €1,250 to €2,000.

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Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Yeats (John Butler) An original self-portrait Sketch, Signed and dated April 1919, N[ew] York. €1,200 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Photograph Album. Entitled ''A Souvenir of the Visit to Jeypore Samasthanam of His Excellency the Right Hon'ble Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst… 14th December 1927''. €1,000 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Pistolesi (Erasmo) Il Vaticano, 8vols. large atlas, folio Rome (Tipografia della Societa..) 1829. €500 to €600.

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Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Chagall (Marc)illus., Legmarie (Jean) comp., The Jerusalem Windows, folio N.Y. (George Braziller) 1962. €400 to €500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Bullitt (Thos. W.) My Life at Oxmoor, Life on a Farm in Kentucky before the War. Roy 8vo Louisville, Kentucky, 1911. Privately Printed No. 86 of 100 Copies Only. €300 to €400.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Popish Plot: Oates (Titus) The Popes Whore House or The Merchandise of The Whore of Rome, folio L. 1679. First Edn. €100 to €150.
Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Frederick Douglass, ALS recruiting help for his paper after schism with Garrison, Rochester, 1851. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: James Dean, photograph by Sanford H. Roth, signed & inscribed by Dean. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Richard Wagner, ALS requesting confirmation that the Grand Duke received his letter, 1863. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Benjamin Rush, ALS, doctor’s note for a Revolutionary soldier, 1780. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Lord Byron, ALS to Cambridge classmate, “your friendship is of more account to me than all these absurd vanities,” c. 1812. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Ernest Hemingway, Three Stories & Ten Poems, first edition of the author’s first book, Paris, 1923. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, first English edition of the author’s first novel, signed, London, 1953. $1,800 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Margery Lawrence, The Madonna of Seven Moons, first edition in unrestored dust jacket, Indianapolis, 1933. $800 to $1,200.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Joseph Albers, Interaction of Color, 80 color screenprints, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1963. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Albert Einstein, autograph manuscript, unsigned, likely a draft discarded while working toward a unified field theory. $10,000 to $20,000.
<center>Hindman Auctions Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection March 19, 2021

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). The Pastures of Heaven. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. $10,000 to $15,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Tender is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. $6,000 to $8,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: STOKER, Bram (1847-1912). Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. $5,000 to $7,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection March 19, 2021

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: GOLDING, William (1911-1993). Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. $4,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. $4,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Torrents of Spring. New York: Scribner's, 1926. $3,000 to $4,000.

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Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. $3,000 to $4,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine, an Invention. New York: Henry Holt, 1895. $3,000 to $4,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: DAHL, Roald (1916-1990). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. $2,000 to $3,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection March 19, 2021

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: HERBERT, Frank (1920-1986). Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. $2,000 to $3,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: KESEY, Ken (1935-2001). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: The Viking Press, 1962. $2,000 to $3,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr. (1922-2007). Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade. New York: Seymour Lawrence Delacorte Press, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.

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