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Auction Name: Fine Auction - Art and Design - Prints
Auction Date: 09/09/2017 - 09/09/2017
Sale Number: #90917
Total Lots: 17
Sold Lots: 17
Lots Sold: 100.00%
Unsold Lots: 0

Total Sales (USD): 5,398.50
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 3,100.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 5,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 3,100.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 5,900.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 91.50%

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<center>Sotheby's The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection 26 May - 12 June

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: "Cool Hand Luke" | Paul Newman Academy Award® Nomination Plaque. USD$2500 - $3500

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: "Hud" | Bound presentation script incorporating photographic stills. USD$1000 - $1500

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: "The Long, Hot Summer" | Movie Poster. USD$1000 - $1500

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: Joseph Heller | "Catch-22," inscribed to Woodward & Newman by author. USD$500 - $800

<center>Sotheby's The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection 26 May - 12 June

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: George H. W. Bush | Typed Letter Signed, Issuing a "Pardon" to Paul Newman. USD$1500 - $2000

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: William Jefferson Clinton | Inscribed Color Photograph. USD$1000 - $1500

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: Ken Kesey | Typed letter to “Paulnewman,” asking for further compensation for "Sometimes a Great Notion". USD$1000 - $1500

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: "They Might Be Giants" | Costume sketches by Edith Head. USD$1000 - $2000
<center>Swann Auction Galleries Focus On Women: At Auction June 1, 2023

Swann June 1: Sojourner Truth, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, first edition, Boston, 1850. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann June 1: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London, 1817. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann June 1: Cindy Sherman, Secretary, gelatin silver print, 1978; printed 1993. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann June 1: Fanny Stevenson, Archive of Photographs & Letters, 1866-1904. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann June 1: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Forerunner, Volumes I-VII; Family Association Set; Four Volumes Signed or Inscribed by the Author, New York, 1909-16. $3,000 to $5,000.
<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Rare Book & Collectors’ Sale May 30th and 31st, 2023

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: The West Indies, C. 1792, by Sir William Young. Colonial Watercolours, etc. A highly important group of original watercolours now on the market for the first time in approx. 230 years. €10,000 to €15,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vols. lg. atlas folio, Lond. (Taylor & Francis) 1873. First Edition, with 363 hand-coloured plates. €9,000 to €15,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Joyce (James). Ulysses, thick 4to, L. (John Lane, The Bodley Head) 1936, Signed Limited Edition No. 20 (100) Copies. €8,000 to €12,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Rare Book & Collectors’ Sale May 30th and 31st, 2023

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Rackham (Arthur) illus. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Lg. 4to Lond. (Constable & Co.) 1909. Lim. Edition No. 128 of 750 Copies, Signed by Author. €2,000 to €3,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Arctic Travel: Hearne (Samuel). A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson's Bay… Thick 8vo Dublin, 1796. First Dublin Edition. €1,250 to €1,750.

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Hand-Coloured Plates: Maw (George). A Monograph of The Genus Crocus, Lg. 4to Lond. (Culau & Co.) 1886. First Edn. €1,200 to €1,500.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Rare Book & Collectors’ Sale May 30th and 31st, 2023

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Holinshed (Raphael) & Stanyhurst (R.) The Historie of Ireland from the First Inhabitation thereof, unto the Yeare 1509… Folio, London, 1577, First Edn. €1,000 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Fine Hand-Coloured Plates: [Dalvimart (Octavien.)] The Costume of Turkey, ... with Descriptions in English and French, Folio Lond. (for Wm. Miller by Wm. Bulmer) 1804. First Edn. €750 to €1,250.

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Astronomy: Nasmyth (James) & Carpenter (James). The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. Lg. 4to Lond. 1874. First Edn. €700 to €1,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Rare Book & Collectors’ Sale May 30th and 31st, 2023

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Binding: Tennyson - The Works of Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate, 8vo Lond. (Macmillan & Co.) 1900. €700 to €1,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Manuscript: Green (E.) Chronology and Geography by E. Green, Folio manuscript, no date but c. 1800. €400 to €600.

Fonsie Mealy’s, May 30 & 31: Alexander (James Edward). Sketches in Portugal, During The Civil War of 1834. 8vo Lond. (J. Cochrane) 1835. First Edition. €300 to €400.

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