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Auction Details

Auction Date: December 10, 1981 - December 10, 1981

Page Size: 506 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
401	WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL	Mr. Whistler's "Ten O'Clock";	Chicago	1905	USD 30.00 - 40.00	50.00
402	WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL; Marchant, William, & Co.	A Reply to an Attack made by one of Whistler's Biographers on a Pupil of Whistler	London	1911	USD 40.00 - 60.00	50.00
403	WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL	The Works.	New York	1907	USD 50.00 - 75.00	80.00
404	WHISTLER, JAMES McNEILL	Writings by & about Whistler	Edinburgh	1910	USD 50.00 - 75.00	80.00
405	A.E.G.	WHISTLER NOTES AND FOOTNOTES, and other Memoranda, Notes on Some Rare Portraits of Whistler	New York	1907, 1916	USD 50.00 - 75.00	90.00
406	Mortimer Menpes	WHISTLER AS I KNEW HIM:	London	1904	USD 150.00 - 200.00	190.00
407	E. R. &. J. Pennell	WHISTLER JOURNAL	Philadelphia	1921	USD 70.00 - 100.00	100.00
408	WHITE, JOHN	The American Drawings	London	1577-1590, 1964	USD 400.00 - 600.00	200.00
409	WINCKELMANN, J. J.	Histoire de l'Art chez les Anciens.	Paris	1794-1803	USD 150.00 - 250.00	160.00
410	Herbert Furst	WOODCUT, THE: an Annual	London	1928	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
411	Bury, J. B. M.	Modeles de Menuiserie, choisis parmi ce que Paris offre de plus Nouveau, de plus Remarquable et de Meilleur Gout.	Paris	1825	USD 100.00 - 150.00	140.00
412	WREN, SIR CHRISTOPHER	Bicentenary Memorial Volume, published under the Auspices of the R.I.B.A. Profusely illustrated.	London	1923	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
413	Richard Meryman	WYETH, ANDREW, Heavily illustrated with color reproduc tions of Wyeth's paintings.	Boston	1968	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
414	WYETH, ANDREW	At Kuerners.	Boston	1976	USD 60.00 - 90.00	19.00
415	ZATTA, ANTONIO	L'Augusta Ducale Basilica dell' Evangelista San Marco nell' inclita dominante di Venezia, colle Notizie.	Np	nd	USD 60.00 - 90.00	20.00
416	ZERVOS, CHRISTIAN	La Civilisation de la Sardaigne, du Debut de l'Eneolithique a la Fin de la Periode Nouragique.	Paris	1954	USD 40.00 - 60.00	90.00
417	ZERVOS, CHRISTIAN	L'Art de la Crete Neolithique et Minoenne.	Paris	1956	USD 50.00 - 75.00	110.00
418		ZORN'S ENGRAVED WORK	Stockholm	1921-1922	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	375.00
419	ABDY, ROWENA MEEKS	Old California.	San Francisco	1924	USD 60.00 - 90.00	30.00
420	ADAMS, KENNETH M.	Portfolio of Lithographs.	Albuquerque	1950	USD 35.00 - 50.00	25.00
421	Helen H. Blish	A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux.	Lincoln	1967	USD 40.00 - 60.00	35.00
422	Guy and Doris Monthan	ART AND INDIAN INDIVIDUALISTS: the Art of Seventeen Contemporary South western Artists and Craftsmen	Flagstaff, Arizona	1975	USD 80.00 - 120.00	90.00
423	BEELER, JOE	Cowboys and Indians; Characters in Oil and Bronze.		1967	USD 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
424	BEELER, JOE	Sketchbook.		1974	USD 300.00 - 400.00	325.00
425	CAPLES, ROBERT	People of the Silent Land; a Portfolio of Nevada Indians.	Reno	1972	USD 35.00 - 50.00	30.00
426	CARROLL, JOHN M.	Buffalo Soldiers West.	Fort Collins, Colorado	1971	USD 100.00 - 150.00	30.00
427	CATLIN, GEORGE	The Old Frontier.	New York	1959	USD 200.00 - 300.00	260.00
428	CLYMER, JOHN	An Artist's Rendezvous with the Frontier West.	Flagstaff, Ariz	1976	USD 35.00 - 50.00	25.00
429		COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA, Annual Exhibitions;	Flagstaff, Ariz.	1972-1978, 1980, 1972-1980	USD 200.00 - 300.00	130.00
430	DAY, RICHARD	The Lithographs	New York	1932	USD 70.00 - 100.00	40.00
431	DEAKIN, EDWIN	The Twenty-One Missions of California.	Berkeley	1901	USD 35.00 - 50.00	22.50
432	DE GRAZIA, TED	Ah Ha Toro, The Rose and the Robe	Flagstaff, Ariz	1967, 1968	USD 60.00 - 90.00	40.00
433	DE GRAZIA, TED	De Grazia Paints the Yaqui Easter, De Grazia Paints Cabeza de Vaca, the First Non-Indian in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona	Tucson	1527-1536, 1968, 1973	USD 40.00 - 60.00	30.00
434	DE GRAZIA, TED	Father Junipero Serra; Sketches of his Life in California.	Los Angeles	1969	USD 50.00 - 75.00	45.00
435	DE GRAZIA, TED	The Irreverent Angel	San Diego	1971	USD 100.00 - 150.00	30.00
436	DE GRAZIA, TED	and His Mountain, the Superstition.	Tucson	1972	USD 40.00 - 60.00	30.00
437	DRIGGS, HOWARD; AND JACKSON, WILLIAM	Westward America.	New York	1942	USD 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
438	EGGENHOFER, NICK	The Pulp Years	Fort Collins, Colo.	1975	USD 70.00 - 100.00	40.00
439	FECHIN, NICOLAI	The Charcoal Drawings.		1978	USD 35.00 - 50.00	40.00
440	Mary N. Balcomb	FECHIN, NICOLAI	Flagstaff, Ariz.	1975	USD 35.00 - 50.00	100.00
441	GERITZ, FRANZ	Spanish Conquerors of the Pacific West.		1933	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
442	GORMAN, R. C.	The Posters.	Flagstaff, Ariz.	1980	USD 100.00 - 150.00	120.00
443	GRANDEE, JOE RUIZ	The West Still Lives; a Book Based on the Paintings and Sculpture of Grandee.	Dallas	1970	USD 70.00 - 100.00	40.00
444	GUILLOU, CHARLES F. B.	Oregon and California Drawings, 1841 and 1847.	San Francisco	1961	USD 100.00 - 150.00	45.00
445	HAMIL, JAMES R. AND HAROLD	Farmland USA.	Kansas City	1975	USD 80.00 - 120.00	25.00
446	HARMAN, FRED	The Great West in Paintings.	Chicago	1969	USD 150.00 - 200.00	80.00
447	HULINGS, CLARK	A Collection of Oil Paintings.	Kansas City	1976	USD 70.00 - 100.00	30.00
448	HURD, PETER	The Lithographs.	Lubbock, Texas	1968	USD 100.00 - 150.00	130.00
449	HURD, PETER	Sketch Book.	Chicago	1971	USD 100.00 - 150.00	140.00
450	HURLEY, WILSON	An Exhibition of Oil Paintings.	Kansas City	1977	USD 70.00 - 100.00	30.00
451	Tanner; Dunn; R. Brownell McGrew; Brody; Perceval; Petersen	Southwest Indian Painting, Amer ican Indian Painting, of the Southwest and Plains Areas, Laguna Beach Museum of Art., Highwater. Song from the Earth; American Indian Painting, Indian Painters & White Patrons, A Navajo Sketch Book, Howling Wolf; a Cheyenne	Vp	1968-1978	USD 150.00 - 200.00	160.00
453	JACKSON, HARRY	Monograph-Catalogue	New York	1969	USD 70.00 - 100.00	90.00
454	JACOB, NED	Sacred Paint;	Santa Fe	1979	USD 30.00 - 40.00	22.50
455	JAMES, WILL; Lone Cowboy	Cow Country, My Life Story, The Three Mustangeers, In the Saddle with Uncle Bill, Scorpion, a Good Bad Horse, Horses I Have Known, The American Cowboy.	New York	1927-1942	USD 150.00 - 200.00	160.00
456	LEA, TOM	A Portfolio of Six Paintings.	Austin	1953	USD 30.00 - 40.00	60.00
457	LEA, TOM	A Picture Gallery: Paintings and Drawings.	Boston	1968	USD 35.00 - 50.00	35.00
458	LEA, TOM	87 Paintings & Drawings.	El Paso	1971	USD 40.00 - 60.00	90.00
459	LEA, TOM	A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from the Nineteen-Sixties.	San Antonio	1969	USD 40.00 - 60.00	80.00
460	LEA, TOM	A Bibliography of Writings and Illustrations	El Paso	1971	USD 50.00 - 75.00	80.00
461	MAHAFFEY, MERRILL	Monumental Landscapes.	Flagstaff, Arizona	1979	USD 100.00 - 150.00	50.00
462	MEIGS, JOHN; EDITOR	The Cowboy in American Prints.	Chicago	1972	USD 100.00 - 150.00	140.00
463	MILLER, ALFRED JACOB	The West of ... From the Notes and Water Colors in the Walters Art Gallery	Norman, Okla	1951	USD 35.00 - 50.00	45.00
464	Bjorklund; Davis, Lew; Frary; Hagner	Faces of the Frontier, Twenty-Five Years of Painting in Arizona, Impressions of the Big Thicket, Touring Texas through the Eyes of an Artist, Al Nestler's Southwest;	Vp		USD 60.00 - 90.00	40.00
465	Krakel; Gohs; Scriver; Ralston; Phippen; Forrest	Tom Ryan; a Painter in Four Sixes Country, Ed Quigley; Western Artist, An Honest Try, Look. Harold Bryant; Colorado's Maverick with a Paint Brush, Rhymes of a Cowboy, Stefan Kramar's Panhandle Portrait, Gus Shafer's West, The Life of a Cowboy, Bill Gollin	Vp	1962-1979	USD 150.00 - 200.00	60.00
466	Wilder; Annette Scott; Horgan; Krakel; Bliss; George Kovach; Klitgaard	Old Ranches of the Texas Plains, Howard Bobbs, New Mexico Watercolors, And Where Goes the Parade; the Thoughts, Feelings, and Memories of Ancel E. Nunn, Cruising and Sketching Baja, Peter Hurd: a Portrait Sketch from Life, James Boren; a Study in Discipli	Vp	1858-1877, 1941-1980	USD 150.00 - 200.00	60.00
467	O'Keeffe	O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA	New York	1976	USD 500.00 - 750.00	800.00
468	PHILLIPS, TOM	The Sketches.	Kansas City	1971	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
469	PHILLIPS, TOM	Group of 4 fine reproductions of his drawings, 17 x 20 inches.	Np	nd	USD 40.00 - 60.00	40.00
470	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Drawings.	New York	1898	USD 50.00 - 75.00	80.00
471	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Crooked Trails.	New York	1898	USD 80.00 - 120.00	100.00
472	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Sundown Leflare.	New York	1899	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
473	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Men with the Bark On.	New York	1900	USD 80.00 - 120.00	80.00
474	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	John Ermine of the Yellowstone.	New York	1902	USD 40.00 - 60.00	50.00
475	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Done In the Open: Drawings.	New York	1902	USD 150.00 - 250.00	150.00
476	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Done in the Open.	New York	1903	USD 40.00 - 60.00	60.00
477	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Done in the Open.	New York	1903	USD 35.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
478	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	The Way of an Indian.	New York	1906	USD 40.00 - 60.00	20.00
479	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Frederic Remington's Own West.	New York	1960	USD 150.00 - 200.00	275.00
480	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Frederic Remington: and the Spanish-American War	New York	1971	USD 50.00 - 75.00	110.00
481	REMINGTON, FREDERIC; Longfellow, H. W.	The Song of Hiawatha.	Boston	1911	USD 60.00 - 90.00	90.00
482	RHOADS, FRED	Rhoads' West.	Flagstaff, Arizona	1972	USD 60.00 - 90.00	40.00
483	RUSSELL, CHARLES M.	More Rawhides.	Great Falls	1925	USD 150.00 - 200.00	70.00
484	RUSSELL, CHARLES M.	Trails Plowed Under.	Garden City	1927	USD 70.00 - 100.00	60.00
485	RUSSELL, CHARLES M.	Good Medicine: the Illustrated Letters.	Garden City	1930	USD 30.00 - 40.00	40.00
486	RUSSELL, CHARLES M.	Good Medicine; the Illustrated Letters.	Garden City	1930	USD 70.00 - 100.00	40.00
487	RUSSELL, CHARLES M.	Rawhide Rawlins Rides Again; or Behind the Swinging Doors; a Collection of Charlie Russell's Favorite Stories.	Pasadena	1948	USD 60.00 - 90.00	80.00
488	RUSSELL, CHARLES M.; Charles M. Russell	Boyhood Sketchbook	Bozeman, Montana	1972	USD 50.00 - 75.00	30.00
489	RUSSELL, CHARLES M.	The CMR Book	Seattle	1970	USD 40.00 - 60.00	25.00
490	RUSSELL, CHARLES M.; Charles M. Russell	The Cowboy Artist, a Bibliography.	Pasadena	1948	USD 60.00 - 90.00	35.00
491	RUSSELL, CHARLES M.; McCracken, Harold	The Charles M. Russell Book; the Life and Work of the Cowboy Artist.	Garden City	1957	USD 50.00 - 75.00	35.00
492	SALINAS, PORFIRIO	Bluebonnets and Cactus; an Album of Southwestern Paintings.	Austin	1967	USD 70.00 - 100.00	60.00
493	Ruth Goddard	SALINAS, PORFIRIO	Austin	1975	USD 70.00 - 100.00	35.00
494	SCHIWETZ, E. M.	Six Spanish Missions in Texas.	Austin	1968	USD 40.00 - 60.00	35.00
495	SCHIWETZ, E. M.	Texas' Buck Schiwetz;	San Antonio	1971	USD 70.00 - 100.00	70.00
496	SCHIWETZ, E. M.	"Buck." The Schiwetz Legacy; an Artist's Tribute to Texas	Austin	1910-1971, 1972	USD 100.00 - 150.00	70.00
497	SCHOLDER, FRITZ	Indians.	Flagstaff, Arizona	1972	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
498	SCHWIERING, CONRAD. Wakefield, Robert	Schwiering and the West.	Aberdeen, S.D.	1973	USD 100.00 - 150.00	40.00
499	SELTZER, O. C. Cole, Philip G.	Montana in Miniature; the Pictorial History of Montana from Early Exploration to Early Statehood.		1966	USD 100.00 - 150.00	50.00
500	SHEPPARD, CRAIG	Landmarks on the Emigrant Trail.	Reno	1971	USD 60.00 - 90.00	40.00
501	SPRUCE, EVERETT	A Portfolio of Eight Paintings.	Austin	1958	USD 35.00 - 50.00	20.00

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.
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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.

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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.