Sothebys: Illustrated and Private Press Books Conjuring and Circus Children's Books and Juvenilia Related Drawing, GRAIL,

Auction Details

Auction Date: June 17, 1987 - June 17, 1987

Page Size: 867 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Albert Decaris---Claudel (Paul)	Le Livre de Christophe Colomb	Paris	1956	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
102	Albert Decaris	Plutarque	Paris	1967	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
103	Albert Decaris---De Gaulle (Charles)	Le Fil De L'Epee	Paris		USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
104	Marc Dautry	Le Livre de Job	Nice	1961	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
105	Andre Derain---Rabelais (Francois)	Les Horribles et Espovantables Faictz et Prouesses du Tres Renomme Pantagruel	Paris	1943	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	6,380.00
106	Raoul Dufy	La Fee Electricitee	Paris	1953	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
107	Raoul Dufy and others---Hervieu (Louise)	L'Ame du Cirque	Paris	1924	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	462.00
108	Andre Dussarthou---Froissart (Jean)	Chroniques	Paris	1972	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	286.00
109	Andre Dussarthou---Joinville (Jean Sieur de)	Histoire de Saint Louis	Paris	1970	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
110	Hans Erni---Peyre (Joseph)	Sang et LumiEres	Paris	1962	GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	1,100.00
111	Serge Fiorio---Giono (Jean)	La Belle Hotesse	Paris	1973	USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	Not Sold
112	D. Charles Fouqueray---Thomazi (Commandant)	La Peche en Mer	Paris	1962	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
113	Jean Gradassi and Arnaud Ansaldi---Ferrieres (Henry de)	Le Livre du Roy	Nice	1963	GBP 1,750.00 - 2,000.00	1,650.00
114	Jean Gradassi---Shakespeare (William)	Les Chefs-d'Oeuvre	Nice	1969-1974	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
115	Andre Hambourg---Montherlant (Henry de)	La Rose de Sable	Paris	1967	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
116	E. Hedouin---Rousseau (J.-J.)	Les Confessions	Paris		GBP 300.00 - 350.00	286.00
117	Paul Hobi-Vialar	La Grande Meute	Paris	1971	GBP 500.00 - 750.00	385.00
118	C. P. Josso---Genevoix (Maurice)	Routes de l'Aventure		1963	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
119	Paul G. Klein---De Coster (Charles)	La Legende		1965	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
120	Gustav Klimt	Ver Sacrum	Vienna	1898	GBP 250.00 - 300.00	506.00
121	Oskar Kokoschka	Hiob	Berlin	1917	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	968.00
122	Gilbert L'Heritier---Hoffmann (E.T.A.)	Contes Fantastiques	Paris	1973	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
123	Alfred Lalauze	Illustrations pour les Oeuvres de Alfred Musset	Paris		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
124	Lobel-Riche---Verlaine (Paul)	Parallelement	Paris		USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
125	Maariette Lydis---Baudelaire (Charles)	Les Paradis Artificiels	Paris	1955	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
126	Andre Masson and others---Camus (albert)	Oeuvres Completes	Paris	1962-1965	GBP 500.00 - 750.00	440.00
127	Andre Masson---Bataille (Georges)	Le Mort	Paris	1964	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	660.00
128	Henri Matisse and others	Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans du Demi-Siecle	Paris	1950-1951	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
129	Genia MiNACHE	La Fayette (Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de)	Paris	1972	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
130	Joan Miro---Prevert (J.) and G. Ribemont	Dessaignes	Monte Carlo		GBP 300.00 - 350.00	352.00
131	Alphonse Mucha---Flers (Robert de)	Ilsee Princesse de Tripoli	Paris	1897	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
132	Alphonse Mucha	Documents Decoratifs	Paris	1902	USD 350.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
133	Tavy Notton---Buffon (Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de)	Les Chants de la Foret	Geneva	1968	GBP 1,500.00 - 1,750.00	1,430.00
134	Camille Pissarro---Pissarro (Ludovic-Rodo) and Lionello Venturi	Camille Pissarro	Paris	1939	GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	2,420.00
135	Pierre-Auguste Renoir---Andre (M. Albert) and Marc Elder	L'Atelier de Renoir	Paris	1931	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,520.00
136		Officina Serpentis---Aesop	[Berlin]	1929	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
137		Officina Serpentis---Urvaeter	[Berlin]		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,520.00
138	Pablo Picasso and others	Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans Etrangers	Paris	1955-1957	GBP 250.00 - 350.00	286.00
139		Picasso (Pablo) and others---Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans du XIX Siecle	Paris	1952-1954	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
140	Pablo Picasso---Zervos (Christian)	Pablo Picasso	Paris	1942-1974	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	13,200.00
141	Gabor Peterdi	Black Bull	Paris	1939	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	638.00
142		Ray (Man) Mr. and Mrs. Woodman		1970	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,650.00
143	G. Ribemont-Dessaignes---Picabia (Francis)	Jesus-Christ Rastaquouere	Paris		GBP 300.00 - 350.00	220.00
144	A. Roedel	Fantasiee sur les Mois	Paris	1895	USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
145	Marcel Roche and others---Michelet (Jules)	Jules Romains and Andre Suares. Presentation de la France	Paris		USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
146	Felicien Rops---Barbey d'Aurevilly (J.)	Les Diaboliques	Paris	1874	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	352.00
147	Felicien Rops---Gautier (Theophile)	Les Jeunes-France	Brussels		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
148	Charles Samson---Feitin (S E. le Cardinal)	Notre-Dame de Paris	Paris	1968	USD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
149		Selection	Anvers	1928-1933	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	484.00
150	Fernand Simeon---France (Anatole)	La Revotle des Anges			USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
151	Henri Somm---Morin (Louis)	Les Cousettes: Physiologie des Couturieres de Paris	Paris	1895	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,620.00
152	Walter Spitzer---Malraux (Andre)	Oeuvre Romanesque	Paris	1960-1962	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
153	Walter Spitzer---Sartre (Jean-Paul)	Oeuvre Romanesque	Paris	1964-1965	GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00	550.00
154	Roger SoMviLLE---Careme (Maurice)	Une Vie	Brussels	1972	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
155		Surrealisme en 1947 (Le)	Paris	1947	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
156	Aime D. Steinlen---Verhaeren (Emile)	Les Flamandes	Paris	1962	USD 500.00 - 750.00	Not Sold
157	T. A. Steinlen---Moinaux (Jules)	Les Gaietes Bourgeoises	Paris		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
158	R. E. Thomas---Regnier (Henri de) and others	Venise Eternelle	Paris	1969	USD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
159	Pierre Yves Tremois and others---Montherlant (Henri de)	Oeuvre Romanesque	Paris	1963-1964	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
160	Pierre Tremois and others	Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans d'Amour	Paris	1957-1958	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
161	Pierre Yves Tremois and others	Histoire de la France	Paris	1963	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
162	Pierre Yves Tremois	Ovide. Metamorphoses	Paris	1968	USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00	Not Sold
163	Pierre Yves Tremois---Tournier (Michel)	Mythologie		1971	USD 10,000.00 - 12,500.00	Not Sold
164	Pierre Yves Tremois---Rostand (Jean)	Les Limites de L'Humain		1971	USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00	Not Sold
165	Constantin Terechkovitch---Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle)	La Treille Muscate	Paris	1961	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
166	Pierre Tremois---Claudel (Paul)	L'Annonce faite a Marie	Paris	1951	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
167	Serge Vandercam---Meuris (Jacques)	Ethnographies	Brussels	1971	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	2,220.00
168	Emile Volti---Verhaeren	Belle Chair	Paris	1964	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
169	Maximilian Vox---Rousseau (Jean-Jacques)	Les Reveries d'un Promeneur Solitaire	Paris		USD 300.00 - 350.00	Not Sold
170		Vertes---Longus	Paris		USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
171		Vertes---Longus	Paris		USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
172	Ignasi Vidal---Rabelais (Francois)	Gargantua	Nice	1965-1966	GBP 1,250.00 - 1,500.00	1,100.00
173	N. Aseev	Oi Konin dan Okein	St.Petersburg		GBP 350.00 - 500.00	275.00
174	Ivan Bilibin	Illustration to "The Frog Princess" depicting the prince with bow in hand			GBP 300.00 - 350.00	286.00
175	Moshe Broderson	Sihat Holin [An Unholy Story, or the Legend of Prague]	Moscow	1917	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
176	Natalia Goncharova	Misticheskie Obrazy Voiny [Mystical Images of War]	Moscow	1914	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
177	Natalia Goncharova	Six lithographed illustrations for Valentin Parnak's "Slovodi [Mot Dinamo]''	Paris	1930	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
178		Futuristy	Moscow	1914	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
179	V. Ivanov	Mladenchestvo [Infancy]	Moscow		GBP 400.00 - 600.00	990.00
180	V. Kandinsky	V.V. Kandinskii	Moscow	1918	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
181	Velemir Khlebnikov	Izbornik Stikhov 1907-1914 A Selection of Poems 1907-1914]	Petersburg	1915	GBP 350.00 - 500.00	550.00
182	Leo Klin	A collection of about 900 caricature portraits			GBP 300.00 - 350.00	330.00
183	Otton Krasnopol'sky	Abstraktivism v Iskusstve Novbatorov [Abstractivism in Innovatory Art]	Leningrad		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
184	A. Kruchenykh and V. Khlebnikov	Igra V Adu [A Game in Hell]	Petersburg	1914	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	770.00
185	A. Kruchenykh and V. Khlebnikov	Igra v Adu [A Game in Hell]	Petersburg	1914	GBP 300.00 - 350.00	462.00
186	A. Kruchenykh and V. Khlebnikov	Mirskontsa [Worldbackwards]	Moscow	[1912]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,100.00
187	Aleksei Kruchenykh	Chort i Rechetvortsy [The Devil and the Poets]	St. Petersburg		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
188	Aleksei Kruchenykh	500 Novykh Ostrot i Kalamburov Pushkina [500 New Jokes and Puns of Pushkin]	Moscow		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
189	V. Mayakovsky	Dlya Golosa [For the Voice]	Berlin	1923	USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	Not Sold
190	Vladimir Mayakovsky	Prostoye kak Mychanie [Simple as Mooing]	Petrograd		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	374.00
191	V. Mayakovsky	Parizh [Paris]	Moscow		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	352.00
192	N. Punin	Pamiatnik III Internatsionala: Proekt V.E. Tatlina [Monument to the Third International: a Project by V.E. Tatlin	Petersburg		GBP 300.00 - 350.00	374.00
193	A. S. Pushkin	Riuslan i Lyudmila	Moscow		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	286.00
194	D. A. Rovinsky	Russika Narodniya Kartinki [Russian Pictorial Broadsides]	St. Petersburg	1900	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
195		Russian Royal Family		[1892]	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
196		Russian Royal Family		[1903]	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	2,310.00
197	A. Schevchenko	Neo-primitivizm	[St. Petersburg]		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
198	V. Shershenevich	Vesenniya Protalinki [Spring-thaw Patches]	Moscow		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00
199		Vesennee Kontragentstvo Muz [The Vernal Forwarding Agency of the Muse]	Moscow		USD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
200	Alaksandr Tufanov	K Zaumi: Fonicheskaya Musika i Funktsy Soglasnikh Fonem [Towards Transrational Language: Phonic Music and Phonematic Function of Consonants]	Petersburg	1924	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	275.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.