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Auction Name: Music, Continental Books and Manuscripts
Auction Date: 12/07/2015 - 12/07/2015
Sale Number: #L15406
Total Lots: 260
Sold Lots: 118
Lots Sold: 45.38%
Unsold Lots: 142

Total Sales (GBP): 1,676,189.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 980,500.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 1,330,100.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 1,634,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 2,259,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 74.18%

Top twenty by sale price

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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