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Description	Reiss and Sohn was formed in 1970 in Mainz, Germany. In 1989, the firm moved to Konigsburg, near Frankfurt. Reiss and Sohn describes its specialty as being rare and valuable books, whole libraries and collections, illustrated books, atlases, manuscripts, incunabula, early printing, science, medicine, mathematics, botanical and zoological works, travel and geography, topography, literature, law and statesmanship, press books, rare maps and views of all parts of the world, and decorative prints. The firm holds two book auctions per year, in the spring and fall. These tend to be enormous auctions, particularly by American standards, with many thousands of items being offered.
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Total Records in AED	59367

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, In Two Parts, limited Saint Dunstan edition, Oxford University Press, 1901. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Benjamin Graham & David L. Dodd, Security Analysis, first edition, inscribed by Graham to a Wall Street trader, NY, 1934. $18,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Ian Fleming, Goldfinger, first edition, inscribed to Sir Henry Cotton, MBE, London, 1959. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Ian Fleming, The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, first state with the dust jacket, London, 1965. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, first American edition of the author’s first book, in rare dust jacket, NY, 1920. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, Buenos Aires, 1967. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Mary Mapes Dodge, Along the Way, first edition, author’s copy, annotated in her hand, NY, 1879. $1,800 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: The Dial: A Monthly Magazine for Literature, Philosophy and Religion, first edition, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s copy, Cincinnati, 1860. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera, first American edition, first printing, New York, 1911. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 14: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, signed, Camden, 1876. $4,000 to $6,000.
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Bonhams, Jun 11: Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape, [1929]. First edition in dust jacket. $10,000 to $15,000

Bonhams, Jun 11: Trautz-Bauzonnet bindery. Shakespeare, William. Sonnets. 1901. 2 volumes. Printed on vellum and illuminated by Ross Turner. $12,000 to $18,000

Bonhams, Jun 11: Thompson, Kay. Eloise at Christmastime. New York: Random House, [1958]. First edition. In custom binding by Asprey. $2,000 to $3,000

<center>Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts New York | June 11, 2019

Bonhams, Jun 11: Beardsley, Aubrey. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. 1893-94. 2 volumes. Contemporary painted vellum gilt by Chivers. $2,000 to $3,000

Bonhams, Jun 11: Assisi, St. Francis. The Canticle of Brother Sun. Illuminated on vellum, for the Grolier Society. $6,000 to $9,000

Bonhams, Jun 11: Taylor, Deems. Walt Disney’s Fantasia. New York: 1940. In custom binding by Asprey. $2,500 to $3,500

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