Item 1502 is a lengthy (6 page) letter by Bartolomeo Vanzetti, from the Norfolk County (Massachusetts) jail on May 22, 1927. He was executed three months later. Vanzetti and Ferdinando Sacco were convicted of killing a security guard in a robbery. To this day, the debate rages as to whether they were guilty, with some now saying Sacco was but Vanzetti was not. Regardless of whether they were, their conviction was at least partly influenced by prejudice against Italian immigrants and Sacco and Vanzetti's anarchist political views. Their conviction was a major cause all over the world, but despite appeals to overturn the conviction and to grant them clemency, the two were sent to the electric chair. In this letter to supporter Lilly Sarnoff, Vanzetti writes about his situation, the support he received, including a large demonstration in protest of their conviction. Speaking to a question of what the attitude toward them would be if they were fascists instead, Vanzetti writes, “I wanted to write that we would not even have been indicted if instead to be anarchists we would have been blackguards...” $14,750.
Item 2375 is a signed photograph of the crew of the Apollo 11 space mission. The three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and “Buzz” Aldrin, have each signed their names on the image of their white uniforms. The photograph is dated 1974 on the verso. The Apollo 11 mission of 1969 was the first manned landing on the moon, “one small step for a man...” $8,000.
Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.
Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.
Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.
Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.
Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.
Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.
Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.
Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.
Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.
Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000.
Sotheby's Fine Books, Manuscripts & More Available for Immediate Purchase
Sotheby's Fine Books, Manuscripts & More Available for Immediate Purchase
Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.
Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.
Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.
Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.
Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.
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Forum Auctions The Library of John and Suzanne Bonhams 30th October 2025
Forum Auctions The Library of John and Suzanne Bonhams 30th October 2025
Forum, Oct. 30: Bligh (William). A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies ..., first edition, 1792. £3,000 to £4,000.
Forum, Oct. 30: Coryate (Thomas). Coryats Crudities: Hastily gobled up in five months travells, first edition, [William Stansby for the Author], 1611. £5,000 to £7,000.
Forum, Oct. 30: Krusenstern (Captain Adam Johnson von). Voyage Round the World ... by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, 2 vol. in 1, first edition in English, 1813. £5,000 to £7,000.
Forum, Oct. 30: Mayer (Attributed to Auguste Etienne Francois). Astrolable, the French ship under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), caught in pack ice in Antarctica, watercolour, [c. 1838]. £1,500 to £2,000.
Forum, Oct. 30: Oxley (John). Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, first edition, 1820. £5,000 to £7,000.
Forum Auctions The Library of John and Suzanne Bonhams 30th October 2025
Forum, Oct. 30: Richardson (John) & others. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America, 4 vol., first edition, 1829-37. £20,000 to £25,000.
Forum, Oct. 30: Shackleton (Ernest H.) The South Polar Times, 4 vol., vols 1 & 2 numbered 30 of 350 copies, vol. 3 no. 23 of 350 copies, vol. 4 no. 30 of 500 copies, 1907-2010. £10,000 to £15,000.
Forum, Oct. 30: Shipley (Lt. Conway). Sketches in the Pacific: The South Sea Islands, first edition, 1851. £12,000 to £18,000.
Forum, Oct. 30: Webb (Rev. Arthur J.) The History of Fiji,, first edition, 1885. £2,500 to £3,500.
Forum, Oct. 30: Weddell (James).- Open face chronometer pocket watch, owned by James Weddell, Grant, Fleet Street, 1811. £15,000 to £20,000.
![Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/cc3f4f98-f195-4049-aca6-329c27fdd27c.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.")
![Forum, Oct. 30: Coryate (Thomas). Coryats Crudities: Hastily gobled up in five months travells, first edition, [William Stansby for the Author], 1611. £5,000 to £7,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/28d53e3e-21f2-4aed-9422-e0fcd955bb3c.png "<b>Forum, Oct. 30:</b> Coryate (Thomas). <i>Coryats Crudities: Hastily gobled up in five months travells,</i> first edition, [William Stansby for the Author], 1611. £5,000 to £7,000.")
![Forum, Oct. 30: Mayer (Attributed to Auguste Etienne Francois). Astrolable, the French ship under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), caught in pack ice in Antarctica, watercolour, [c. 1838]. £1,500 to £2,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/12489d2d-552a-4bb8-8169-891afba37a9f.png "<b>Forum, Oct. 30:</b> Mayer (Attributed to Auguste Etienne Francois). Astrolable, the French ship under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), caught in pack ice in Antarctica, watercolour, [c. 1838]. £1,500 to £2,000.")
