Leslie Hindman Auctioneers: Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller, 2107, New York

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 05, 2024 - December 05, 2024
Page Size: 261 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 (Swildens, J.H.).

Vaderlandsch A-B Boek... First Edition, Presentation Copy

Amsterdam 1781 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
2 Douglas, Emory.

Panther Mother and Child. Rare Poster

San Francisco 1967 USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,778.00
3

[African-Americana] Group of Black Panther Party-Related Material

Locations vary, ca.1968-70 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 508.00
4

[African-Americana] [Fifteenth Amendment] The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment... Hand-Colored Lithograph

Baltimore 1870 USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,398.00
5 (Garrison, William Lloyd)

The Liberator. 180 Issues, ca. 1859-65

Boston ca.1859-65 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,810.00
6

[King, Martin Luther, Jr.] Photograph Album Documenting the National Conference for New Politics

Chicago 1967 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,270.00
7 Lee, George L.

Dreams Come True!... First Edition

New York and Memphis no date ca.late 1940s USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 64.00
8 Gellert, Hugo.

Portrait of Paul Robeson. Lithograph

No place, no date USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 635.00
9 Bingham, Howard.

[Ali, Muhammad] Bingham, Howard. Group of 2 Signed Photographs

(Cologne 2004 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 572.00
10

Chicago Illustrated. First Edition, Complete in 13 Parts

Chicago January 1866-January 1867 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 24,130.00
11

[Americana] Wanted Poster for the Kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.

New Jersey 1932 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,032.00
12 Fremaux, Leon J.

New Orleans Characters. Presentation Copy

(New Orleans) 1876 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
13 Livingston, Montgomery.

Views from the Hudson

No place, no date presumed New York,ca.early 1840s USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
14 Mason, George Champlin.

Newport and its Environs. First Edition

Newport 1848 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
15

[Monroe, Marilyn]. Monroe Scent Try it Today! An Alluring Fragrance For Car and Home

New Castle, Pennsylvania 1954 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,016.00
16

Americana Eight Cocktail Napkins Hand Blocked with Recipes and the Histories of Eight Famous Drinks

No place, no date ca.1925 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,445.00
17 Clap, Thomas.

The Annals or History of Yale-College... First Edition

New-Haven 1766 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,207.00
18 Edward Ardizzone

Original Dust-Jacket Design for "Complete Poems for Children"

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,413.00
19 Ernst, Max, and Piet Mondrian, and Marc Chagall, and Andre Breton, et al.

Artists in Exile. Signed Exhibition Catalogue

New York 1942 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,763.00
20 [Ayrton, Michael] Verlaine, Paul.

Femmes/Hombres. Signed Limited Edition

London 1972 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 762.00
21 Baden-Powell, R(obert).

S.S. Sketches in Mafeking and East Africa. Presentation Copy

London 1907 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 953.00
22 Leonard Baskin

Head of William Blake (After Life Mask)

Bronze USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,493.00
23 [Baskin, Leonard]. Blake, William.

Auguries of Innocence. Presentation Copy

(Northhampton, Massachusetts) 1959 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 508.00
24 Baum, L. Frank.

Baum, L. Frank. Manuscript Letter, signed, to Ruth Plumley Thompson

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,033.00
25 Ludwig Bemelmans

And Dragged Her Safe from a Watery Grave, 1953

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 57,150.00
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
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