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William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals: Fine and Decorative Arts Quarterly

Auction Reports

Auction Name Fine and Decorative Arts Quarterly Total Sales (USD) 74,537.50
Auction Date March 26, 2024 - March 26, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 49,900.00
Sale Number #32624 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 92,500.00
Total Lots 61
Sold Lots 60 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 50,900.00
% of Lots Sold 98.36% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 94,500.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 78.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
10758

Inscribed Moon Landing Photos (3) total

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 11,875.00
10763 Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth Signed Autobiography, 1948

1948 USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,875.00
10768 Christy Mathewson

PSA 5 T206 Christy Mathewson - Portrait

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,312.50
10673 Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and Freedom

1855 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,375.00
10760 Willie Park

Art of Putting - 1920

1920 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,250.00
10762 Jackie Robinson

First Edition Signed Jackie Robinson Biography

1960 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,750.00
10773 Jack Johnson

Signed Jack Johnson / Ali 1st Ed. In the Ring & Out

75 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 2,750.00
10580 Alexander Calder

"The Way to the World"

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,625.00
10756 Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush; Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, & RIchard Nixon.

Signed by Five Presidents Reagan, Bush, Carter ..

USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 2,625.00
10669

A first edition of A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,875.00
10595 Charles Bartlett

"Taj Mahal, Twilight"

USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 1,750.00
10774 Muhammad Ali; Joe Frazier, and photographer Neil Leifer

Photograph Signed by Ali & Frazier & Photographer

1996, 2005 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,750.00
10761 Bobby Jones

Rights & Wrongs Golf

1935 USD 1,000.00 - 1,600.00 USD 1,500.00
10757 Obama

President Obama signed and written Golf Scorecard

USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 1,375.00
10755

Supreme Court Signed Photographic Portrait

Circa 1971 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,250.00
10674 Winston Churchill

The World Crisis

1923-31 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,062.50
10596 Peter Max

"Homage to Picasso"

1981 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,000.00
10671 Langston Hughes

The First Book of Jazz, Langston Hughes (signed)

1955 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,000.00
10588 David Hockney

Etching "Madame Frau"

USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 937.50
10668 Lyndon Johnson

The Vantage Point. Lyndon Johnson's book, signed for Geo. Romney

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 875.00
10783 Honus Wagner

Honus Wagner Signed Postcard

1951 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 875.00
10585 Bo Bartlett

Etching "Sunday Afternoon"

1984 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 812.50
10589 Miriam Shapiro

"Freda and Me"

1990 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 812.50
10775 Cassius Clay

Framed Cassius Clay signed 1964 Magazine +

1964 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 812.50
10722

(6) Civil War Tintypes and Daguerreotype

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 750.00
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    10 September 2024
    The Shem Tov Bible
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
    September 25-27
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    75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair
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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
  • Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HAMILTON, Sir William - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: 1779. € 50,000 - 80,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KIRCHER, Athanasius - Turris Babel. Amsterdam: 1679. € 3,000 - 5,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: EDWARDS, George.London - Gleanings of Natural History. Londra: 1758-1764. € 7,000 - 10,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Cometographia. Danzica: 1668. € 20,000 - 30,000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 24-25: KUPKA, Frantisek - Quatre histoires de blanc et noir. Parigi: 1926. € 10,000 - 15,000
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