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Auction Name: 19th & 20th CENTURY LITERATURE
Auction Date: 10/01/2009 - 10/01/2009
Sale Number: #2188
Total Lots: 299
Sold Lots: 260
Lots Sold: 86.96%
Unsold Lots: 39

Total Sales (USD): 394,188.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 303,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 441,150.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 336,600.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 490,600.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 80.35%

Top twenty by sale price

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Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. Presentation Copy. Sold for $500,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Darwin, Charles. Autograph Letter Signed, 3 pp, negotiating the 2nd American edition with Appleton. Sold for $21,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Hemingway, Ernest. Autograph Letter Signed, 8 pp, Paris, 1924, to his father discussing Bullfighting, Stories, and his new baby. Sold for $25,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Shakespeare, William. Corialanus. London, 1623. 1st printing [Extracted from the First Folio]. Sold for $50,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. London, 1726. 1st edition, Teerink's A edition, fine, large copy. Sold for $21,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Fitzroy, Robert. Autograph Letter Signed to agent Thomas Stilwell, informing him of the progress of H.M.S. Beagle. Sold for $17,575.

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Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Shakespeare, William. Sonnets. 1901. 2 volumes. Printed on vellum and illuminated by Ross Turner, bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Sold for $13,825.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Beardsley, Aubrey. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. 1893-94. 2 volumes. Contemporary painted vellum gilt by Chivers. Sold for $5,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Assisi, St. Francis. The Canticle of Brother Sun. Illuminated on vellum, for the Grolier Society. Sold for $7,575.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Rackham, Arthur. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. 1/500 copies signed by Rackham. Sold for $4,825.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Proust, Marcel. Du coté de chez Swann. 1st edition, 1st issue. Inscribed by Proust. Sold for $8,825.
Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Sergio Trujillo Magnenat, Bogotá 1938 / IV Centenario / Juegos Deportivos Bolivarianos, 1938. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: McQueen Drives Porsche, designer unknown, 1970. $800 to $1,200.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Joe Bridge, Bignan / A Des Ailes, 1921. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Graham Simmons, The Army Isn’t All Work, 1919. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Leonetto Cappiello, Je ne fume que le nil, 1912. $800 to $1,200.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Attack of the 50 ft. Woman, designer unknown, 1958. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Raymond Tooby, Festival Guiness / Have You Tried One Yet?, 1952. $600 to $900.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: Francisco Tamagno, Terrot & Co. / Dijon / Cycles Motorettes, 1909. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: A. Hori, Oakland / General Motors, circa 1925. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 7: James Montgomery Flagg, Travel? Adventure? Answer – Join the Marines!, circa 1918. $4,000 to $6,000.
Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Roberts, David. Twenty Lithographs of the Holy Land, 19th Century. $2,000 to $4,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Declaration by the Reps. of the United Colonies of N.A. 1775. $8,000 to $12,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Composer Jerome Kern personal Letters, Albums and Other. $15,000 to $25,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Paine, Thomas. Common Sense, London 1776. $8,000 to $12,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Cleveland 1852. $4,000 to $6,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, 3rd edition, London 1651. $2,000 to $3,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Anno Regni Georgii III. Intolerable Acts and other Bills, 1774. $15,000 to $20,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Wilberforce, William. An Abstract of the Evidence, 5 Letters, and two books. $6,000 to $9,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing and Signed Letters, ca. 1860 $4,000 to $6,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Tolstov, Leo. War and Peace, 5 volumes, 1886. $3,000 to $5,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Dickinson, John. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, 1768. $1,500 to $2,500.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer, 1877 [and] Huckleberry Finn, 1885. $4,000 to $6,000.

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