Rare Book Monthly

Articles - August - 2011 Issue

A Whale of a Sale

- by Bruce E. McKinney

Whaling Journal [lower right] sold in 40 seconds

The C. H. Booth Library Fair has done it again. A great spirit, plenty of volunteers, an energetic audience and voila you have a success. The mystery is in the elbow grease and good thinking.

In the run-up to the fair the promotional committee put out the word that a great book would be available for a great price to the first person coming through the door who called out “I’ll take it.” So how long did it take to sell this book? Forty seconds or thereabouts.

The Book? A whaling journal – dating to 1833-1836 kept by Second Mate William E. Percival offered for $3,500.

To be first in you had to be first in line. To be first in line you needed to line up the night before. Congratulations to the buyer and congratulations to the C. H. Booth Library Fair Committee.

The future of books is debated but so long as imagination is employed they who love books will materialize, even at 1:00 am to be first in line to buy books and manuscripts. For millions of people books are magic.

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<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.

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

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.
<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf
<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.

<center>The Collectors’ Sale March 3, 2021

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.

<center>The Collectors’ Sale March 3, 2021

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.

<center>The Collectors’ Sale March 3, 2021

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 Mar 11: Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (horizontal), silver print, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Group of 32 WWII-era identification badges for manufacturing & military-related companies, 1940-50s. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, albumen print, 1869. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Arnold Genthe, Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, silver print, circa 1908. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Edward Curtis, Oasis in the Badlands, toned platinum print, 1905. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Francis Frith, three volumes, approximately 140 photographs, 1860-70s. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Eugène Atget, 20 Photographs, gold-toned silver prints by Berenice Abbott, 1898-1927. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Neil Leifer, Muhammad Ali, chromogenic print, 1965. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: A group of approximately 50 Photomatic selfies of the same man taken over a period of time, 1940s. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500.

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