Doyle New York: Rare Books, Autographs and Maps, 9117, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 25, 2025 - November 25, 2025
Page Size: 342 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 EINSTEIN, ALBERT

Typed letter signed

 Caputh, near Potsdam 1931-10-10 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
52

GANDHI, MAHATMA. An album containing an early photograph of Gandhi with his signature inset, as well as the signature of Rajendra Prasad and a short text about Indian festivals

 Kolkata 1922 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,992.50
53 LINDBERGH, CHARLES

We. The Famous Flier's Own Story of His Life and His Transatlantic Flight

 New York 1927 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 598.50
54 [CHURCHILL, WINSTON]

Five envelopes and one note addressed to Winston Churchill by various notables

 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 997.50
55

WORLD WAR II[Continental Central Enclosure No. 19 - 1944/45.] An album of typescripts, watercolors, charcoal, pencil, and ink drawings, maps, and diagrams by German prisoners-of-war

 Foucarville, France 1945 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,527.00
56 ACHEBE, CHINUA

Things Fall Apart: The Story of a Strong Man

 New York 1959 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 565.25
57 AGEE, JAMES

A Death in the Family

 New York 1957 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 232.75
58 BARTH, JOHN

The Floating Opera

 New York 1956 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
59 BARTH, JOHN

An attractive copy of John Barth's third novel, The Sot-Weed Factor

 New York 1960 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 199.50
60 BARTHELME, DONALD

Two first edition short story collections by Donald Barthelme, one signed

 Boston 1964 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 166.25
61 BECKETT, SAMUEL

Proust

 London 1931 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,657.50
62 BECKETT, SAMUEL

Echo's Bones, and other Precipitates

 Paris 1935 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,992.50
63 BECKETT, SAMUEL

Endgame

 New York 1958 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,330.00
64 BECKETT, SAMUEL

Watt

 New York 1959 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 532.00
65 BECKETT, SAMUEL

Murphy

 New York 1959 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,130.50
66 BECKETT, SAMUEL

Collected Works

 New York 1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,128.00
67 BECKETT, SAMUEL

Ill Seen Ill Said

 Northridge, California 1982 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 532.00
68 BECKETT, SAMUEL

Five Samuel Beckett titles, three in the original French, each inscribed

 Paris 1958 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,261.00
69 SAMUEL BECKETT

Six works inscribed to Alan Schneider in the 1970s-80s

 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 3,325.00
70 BECKETT, SAMUEL and DELLAS HENKE, illustrator

Company

 Iowa City 1983 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,992.50
71 BRONTE, EMILY

Wuthering Heights

 New York 1931 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 665.00
72 [BURROUGHS, WILLIAM] LEE, WILLIAM (pseudonym)

Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict

 New York 1953 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 365.75
73 BURROUGHS, WILLIAM

Naked Lunch

 Paris 1959 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 864.50
74 BURROUGHS, WILLIAM

The Soft Machine

 New York [1966] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 199.50
75 CAMUS, ALBERT

Four Albert Camus first American editions

 New York 1946 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,330.00
  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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