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Sotheby’s
Important Modern Literature from the Library of an American Filmmaker
8 December 2023Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Kerouac, Jack. Typescript scroll of The Dharma Bums. Typed by Kerouac in Orlando, Florida, 1957, published by Viking in 1958. 300,000 - 500,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Hemingway, Ernest. The autograph manuscript of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." [Key West, finished April 1936]. 300,000 - 500,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Miller, Henry. Typescript of The Last Book, a working title for Tropic of Cancer, written circa 1931–1932. 100,000 - 150,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Ruscha, Ed. Twentysix Gasoline Stations, with a lengthy inscription to Joe Goode. 40,000 - 60,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Hemingway, Ernest. in our time, first edition of Hemingway’s second book. 30,000 - 50,000 USD -
Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 2:
John Ford Clymer, U.S. Troops' Triumphant Return to New York Harbor, oil on canvas, circa 1944.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 44:
Edward Gorey, Illustration of cover and spine for Fonthill, a Comedy by Aubrey Menen, pen and ink, 1973.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 50:
Harrison Cady, frontispiece for Buster Bear's Twins by Thornton W. Burgess, watercolor and ink, 1921.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 54:
Ludwig Bemelmans, Pepito, portrait of Pepito from the Madeline book series, mixed media.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 79:
Gluyas Williams, Fellow Citizens Observation Platform, pen and ink, cartoon published in The New Yorker, March 11, 1933.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 86:
Thomas Nast, Victory, – for the moment, political cartoon, pen and ink, 1884.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 91:
Mischa Richter, Lot of 10 cartoons for Field Publications, ink and pencil, circa 1940.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 111:
Arthur Getz, Sledding In Central Park, casein tempera on canvas, cover of The New Yorker, February 26, 1955.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 124:
Richard Erdoes, Map of Boston, illustration for unknown children's magazine, gouache on board, circa 1960.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 155:
Robert Fawcett, The old man looked him over carefully, gouache on board, published in The Saturday Evening Post, June 9, 1945.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 170:
Violet Oakley, Portrait of Woodrow Wilson, charcoal and pastel, circa 1918.Swannm Dec. 14: Lot 188:
Robert J. Wildhack, Scribner's for March, 1907, mixed media. -
Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Roberts (David) & Croly (George). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumae, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. Lond. 1842 - 1843 [-49]. First Edn. €10,000 to €15,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Incunabula: O'Fihily (Maurice). Duns Scotus Joannes: O'Fihely, Maurice Abp… Venice, 20th November 1497. €8,000 to €12,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: An important file of documents with provenance to G.A. Newsom, manager of the Jacob’s Factory in Dublin, occupied by insurgents during Easter Week 1916. €6,000 to €9,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: WILDE (Oscar), 1854-1900, playwright, aesthete and wit. A lock of Wilde’s Hair, presented by his son to the distinguished Irish actor Mícheál MacLiammóir. €6,000 to €8,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Heaney (Seamus). Bog Poems, London, 1975. Special Limited Edition, No. 33 of 150 Copies, Signed by Author. Illus. by Barrie Cooke. €4,000 to €6,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Binding: Burke, Thomas O.P. (de Burgo). Hibernia Dominicana, Sive Historia Provinciae Hiberniae Ordinis Praedicatorum, ... 1762. First Edition. €4,000 to €6,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: COLLINS, Michael. An important TL, 29 July 1922, addressed to GOVERNMENT on ‘suggested Proclamation warning all concerned that troops have orders to shoot prisoners found sniping, ambushing etc.’. €3,000 to €4,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Scott Fitzgerald (F.) The Great Gatsby, New York (Charles Scribner's Sons) 1925, First Edn. €2,000 to €3,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Limited Edition, No. 46 of 375 Copies Only, Signed by W.B. Yeats. €1,500 to €2,000.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of the Russian Empire, Description in English and French, Lg. folio London (S. Gosnell) 1803. First Edn. €1,000 to €1,500.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of Turkey, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings. Lg. folio Lond.(T. Bensley) 1802. First Edn. €800 to €1,200.Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 12-13: Mason (Geo. Henry). The Costume of China, Illustrated with Sixty Engravings. Lg. folio London (for W. Miller) 1800. First Edn. €1,400 to €1,800 -
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Fleming (Ian). Dr. No, 1958; You Only Live Twice, 1964, 1st editions, presentation copies. £20,000-30,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Sign of Four, 1st edition, 1890. £5,000-8,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Stenbock (Eric Stanislaus). The Shadow of Death, 1st edition, 1893. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Tolkien (J. R. R.). The Lord of the Rings, 1st one volume edition, signed, 1968. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Orwell (George). Animal Farm, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Cunard (Nancy, editor). Negro, Anthology made by Nancy Cunard, 1st edition, 1934. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Table Game. [The Little Artist Magic Painter, Austria], circa 1775. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Kirnig (Paul, 1891-1955). Austria, Vienna: Christophe Reisser's Söhne, c. 1930. £700-1,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: A collection of letters including from T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley et al, from the Lady Ottoline Morrell collection. £700-1,000.Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: The Gentleman's Magazine, or Monthly Intelligencer. 175 volumes, 1731-1844. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Mont Blanc peepshow. Mr Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc in Miniature, 1854. £1,500-2,000
Swann Galleries: Early Printed Books, 2648, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 12, 2023 - October 12, 2023
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agricola, Georgius (1494-1555) | De Re Metallica. [and] De Animantibus Subterraneis Liber. |
Basel | 1556. March 1556. | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 11,250.00 |
| 2 | Army of Bohemia, Manuscript on Paper. |
Paris | 1 September 1746. | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 750.00 | |
| 3 | Gottschlich, Carolus (1703-1770) | Viator Per Fidem Ambulans seu Quaestiones ac Resolutiones Dogmaticae. |
Prague | 1751 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 4 | Illuminated Czech Prayer Book. |
[Czech Republic | c.1830 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 875.00 | |
| 5 | Redeln, Carl Adolph (fl. circa 1710) | Das Sehenswürdige Prag. |
Frankfurt and Leipzig | 1710 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 500.00 |
| 6 | Typotius, Jacobus (1540-1604) | Symbola Divina & Humana Pontificum Imperatorum Regum. |
Arnheim | 1666 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 7 | Castillo, Hernando del (fl. 1510) | Cancionero General |
Antwerp | 1573 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 8 | Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) | Don Quixote |
Paris | 1618 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 4,160.00 |
| 9 | Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) | Les Travaux de Persiles et de Sigismonde. Sous les Noms de Periandre & d'Auristele. |
Paris | 1626 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 10 | Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) | Los Trabaios de Persiles y Sigismunda, Historia Setentrional. |
Lisbon | 1617 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 4,750.00 |
| 11 | Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) | Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha. |
Brussels, [i.e. Lyon] | 1671 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,210.00 |
| 12 | Cervantes, Miguel de (1574-1616) | Parte Primera y Segunda del Ingenioso Hidalgo D. Quixote de la Mancha. |
Madrid | 1662 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 5,460.00 |
| 13 | Corbet, Richard (1582-1635) | Poems. |
London | 1672 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 344.00 |
| 14 | Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619) | Essays |
London | 1623 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,750.00 |
| 15 | Donne, John (1572-1631) | Letters to Severall Persons of Honour. |
London | 1654 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,188.00 |
| 16 | Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) | Poems. |
London | 1605 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 17 | Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) | Poems. |
London | 1637 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 406.00 |
| 18 | Espinosa, Pedro de (1578-1650) | Primera Parte de las Flores de Poetas Ilustres de España, Dividida en los Libros. |
Valladolid | 1605 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 19 | Ford, Emanuel (fl. circa 1607) | The Most Famous, Delectable and Pleasant History of Parismus, the Most Renowned Prince of Bohemia. |
London | 1689 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,063.00 |
| 20 | Gomersall, Robert (1602-1646?) | The Levites Revenge |
London | 1633 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
| 21 | Paria |
London: | 1648 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 750.00 | |
| 22 | Lyly, John (1554?-1606) | Sixe Court Comedies. Often Presented and Acted before Queene Elizabeth. |
London | 1632 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,900.00 |
| 23 | Marston, John (1575?-1634) | The Workes of Mr. John Marston, Being Tragedies and Comedies, Collected into one Volume. |
London | 1633 | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 6,500.00 |
| 24 | Marston, John (1575?-1634) | The Dutch Courtezan |
London | 1633 | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 5,750.00 |
| 25 | Meres, Francis (1565-1647) | Wits Common Wealth. The Second Part |
London | 1636 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,750.00 |
