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<b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26:</b> Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, wallpaper sample book, circa 1919. $15,000 to $25,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26:</b> Archive from a late office of the Breuer & Smith architectural team, New York, 1960-70s. $3,500 to $5,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26:</b> William Morris, <i>The Story of the Glittering Plain or the Land of Living Men,</i> illustrated by Walter Crane, Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1894. $2,500 to $3,500.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26:</b> Gustave Doré, <i>La Sainte Bible selon la Vulgate,</i> Tours, 1866. $15,000 to $25,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26:</b> Gustav Klimt & Max Eisler, <i>Eine Nachlese,</i> complete set, Vienna, 1931. $15,000 to $25,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26:</b><br>Eric Allatini & Gerda Wegener, <i>Sur Talons Rouges,</i> with original watercolor by Wegener, Paris, 1929. $5,000 to $7,500.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26:</b><br>C.P. Cavafy, <i>Fourteen Poems,</i> illustrated & signed by David Hockney, London, 1966. $5,000 to $7,500.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26:</b> Jean Midolle, <i>Spécimen des Écritures Modernes...</i>, Strasbourg, 1834-35. $3,000 to $4,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Apr 26:</b><br>E.A. Seguy, <i>Floréal: Dessins & Coloris Nouveaux,</i> Paris, 1925. $3,000 to $4,000.
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<b>Bonhams: Results from Fine Books and Manuscripts on March 9, 2018</b><b>Bonhams, Mar. 9:</b> BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN. Autograph Manuscript sketch-leaf part of the score of the Scottish Songs, "Sunset" Op. 108 no 2. [Vienna, February 1818]. Inscribed by Alexander Wheelock Thayer. SOLD for $131,250<b>Bonhams, Mar. 9:</b> Violin belonging to Albert Einstein, presented to him by Oscar H. Steger, 1933. SOLD for $516,500<b>Bonhams, Mar. 9:</b> EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Autograph Letter Signed ("Papa") to his son Hans Albert, discussing his involvement with the atomic bomb, September 2, 1945. SOLD for $106,250<b>Bonhams: Results from Fine Books and Manuscripts on March 9, 2018</b><b>Bonhams, Mar. 9:</b> HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. Autograph Letter Signed, to Baron von Steuben, with extensive notes of Von Steuben's aide Benjamin Walker, June 12, 1780. SOLD for $16,250<b>Bonhams, Mar. 9:</b> NEWTON, ISAAC. Autograph Manuscript in Latin, being detailed instructions on making the philosopher's stone. 8 pp. 1790s. SOLD for $275,000<b>Bonhams, Mar. 9:</b> 1869 Inauguration Bible of President Ulysses S. Grant. SOLD for $118,750
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<b>Doyle, April 25:</b> E.H. SHEPARD, Original drawing for A.A. Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner.<br>$40,000-60,000<b>Doyle, April 25:</b> BERNARD RATZER, Plan of the City of New York in North America, surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767. $80,000-100,000<b>Doyle, April 25:</b> THOMAS JEFFERSON, Autograph letter signed comparing Logan, Tecumseh, and Little Turtle to the Spartans. Monticello: 15 February 1821. $14,000-18,000<b>Doyle, April 25:</b> JOHN C. FREMONT, Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in the Year 1842.. Abridged edition, the only one containing the folding map From the Sporting Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson. $3,000-5,000<b>Doyle, April 25:</b> ZANE GREY, Album containing 94 large format photographs of Grey and party at Catalina Island, Arizona, and fishing in the Pacific. From the Sporting Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson. $5,000-$8,000<b>Doyle, April 25:</b> WILLIAM COMBE, A History of Madeira ... illustrative of the Costumes, Manners, and Occupations of the Inhabitants. produced by Ackermann in 1821; From the Sporting Library of Jake Johnson. $2,000-$3,000<b>Doyle, April 25:</b> ERIC TAVERNER, Salmon Fishing... One of 275 copies signed by Taverner, published in 1931,From the Sporting Library of Jake Johnson. $2,000-$3,000<b>Doyle, April 25:</b> JOHN WHITEHEAD, Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo. Whitehead reached the high point of Kinabalu in 1888. Part of a major group of travel books from the Sporting Library of Jake Johnson. $2,000-$3,000<b>Doyle, April 25:</b> JOHN LONG, Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader, describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians... The first edition of 1791. $3,000-$5,000<b>Doyle, April 25:</b> SAMUEL BECKETT, Stirrings Still. This, Beckett’s last work of fiction with original lithographs by Le Brocquy, limited to 200 copies signed by the author and the artist. From the Estate of Howard Kaminsky.. $1,500-$2,500
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Rare Book Monthly
Articles - November - 2008 Issue
Opening a New Bookstore with Tim Lohraff
By Karen Wright
I looked up "meta" in the dictionary and it can mean "among" or "with" or "change." I love being 'among books' and so does Tim Lohraff. While studying my brains out at the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar in August, I met Tim, who is 47 years-old, and who is opening Meta Books, a general used book store in Tacoma, Washington, in November 2008.
It may seem like opening a bookstore is a gutsy thing to do in this economic climate, but Tim is no dummy. He has done a lot of research and he has a little edge that will mean he can probably make a success of Meta Books in spite of the trashed economy. Meta Books will be located on the University of Washington campus in Tacoma and the campus is his landlord. It is a brand new building, the store has 1200 square feet, and besides the school, there are two excellent museums on his street as well as a yummy Pan Asian Restaurant called Indochine next door to the bookstore.
We asked him why he picked Tacoma instead of Seattle. "Seattle is oversaturated with bookstores and rents are very expensive. Tacoma is up and coming. U-Washington was formerly a two-year school, but now it offers fully accredited four-year degrees in a number of subjects. The students will be a great audience."
It is always fascinating to me how people get into the book business, and Tim is a perfect example. He was, until last month, a defense attorney. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and got his law degree at University of Illinois at Champaign. I asked him about his background and how he evolved from being a defense attorney to being a bookseller.
"Three major factors," he replied. "First, when I was in sixth grade, I read Attorney for the Damned by Irving Stone. From then on, Clarence Darrow was my hero growing up. He was not only a great defense attorney, but a progressive and a social activist. He was anti-death penalty and he was based in Chicago, near where I lived. Second, when I was a senior at the University of Michigan, I worked for a semester as an intern at the public defender's office. I enjoyed seeing the work they were doing and the camaraderie. It seemed to me to be socially useful work. Third, when I was a senior at U-Michigan, I was looking into either law school or English Lit for my PhD. I did some research and found that English majors had a tough time finding jobs, and I opted for Law. I wanted to do some kind of social activist law - environmental, criminal, or ACLU-type stuff. After I left school, I took a job at the Cook County Public Defender's Office, beginning with misdemeanors and working my way up to every sort of felony from battery, to rape, to murder. After seven years of that, I pretty well burned out and was hired into a friend's private practice doing civil rights litigation such as suing police for unlawful and excessive force. It was the People's Law Office. They are quite famous. They started small, defending one of the Chicago Black Panthers and went on to represent people on death row and to do Rodney King-type cases. I eventually became a partner there. One client in particular was a wrongfully-convicted Hispanic man, placed on death row. We took on his case, got him exonerated after eleven years in jail, and he was released."