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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 09, 2025 - October 09, 2025
Page Size: 533 items in 22 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
476 Ginsberg, Allen

Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts & Bibliography

New York [1986] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
477 Ginsberg, Allen

Howl: Original draft facsimile, transcript, and variant version... [with] Selected Poems: 1947-1995

New York [1986]; [1996] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
478 Ginsberg, Allen

Plutonian Ode: Poems 1977-1980

San Francisco [1982] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 175.00
479 Hawes, Hampton & Don Asher

Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes

New York [1974] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
480 Hirschman, Jack

The Baseball Poem

2013 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
481

''The Only Correspondence Dinner'' at the Cafe LaMamelle in San Francisco, 1984

San Francisco 1984 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
482 Kaigh, Frederick

Witchcraft and Magic of Africa

[London] [1947] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
483

Bob Kaufman Centennial poster

San Francisco 2025 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
484 Ginsberg, Allen

Allen Ginsberg photograph [with] Jazz Poetry Trio reproduction flyer

c. 1990s USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
485

Seven Beat items, several with appearances by Jack Kerouac

Various places Various dates USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
486

The Subterraneans Movie Poster and Lobby Cards

1960 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
487 Kerouac, Jack

Eight volumes by Jack Kerouac

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
488 Kerouac, Jack

Excerpts from Visions of Cody

[New York] [1960] USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,375.00
489 Kerouac, Jack

Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses)

New York 1959 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 750.00
490 Kerouac, Jack

On the Road

New York 1957 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 468.75
491 Kerouac, Jack

On the Road

New York 1957 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,750.00
492 Kerouac, Jack

On the Road

New York 1957 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 9,375.00
493 Kerouac, Jack

Self Portrait - original drawing

No place [1956] USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 34,375.00
494 Kerouac, Jack

The Subterraneans

[London] [1960] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 687.50
495 Kerouac, Jack

Ten paperbacks from Jack Kerouac

New York and elsewhere 1982 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
496 Kerouac, John

The Town and the City

New York [1950] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
497 Kesey, Ken

Kesey's Garage Sale

New York [1973] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
498 McDarrah, Fred W.

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, David Amram at Art Opening, 1959

New York 1959 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
499 Miller, Henry

Insomnia, or the Devil at Large

Albuquerque, NM 1970 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
500 Miller, Henry

Order and Chaos chez Hans Reichel

[Tucson] [1966] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.