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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 04, 2025 - December 04, 2025
Page Size: 471 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 Thomas, Dylan

Deaths and Entrances

London 1946 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
177 Thoreau, Henry David

Cape Cod

Boston 1865 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 500.00
178 Thoreau, Henry David

Early Spring in Massachusetts [Summer. Winter. Autumn.] from the Journals of H.D. Thoreau

Boston 1881-1892 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
179 Thoreau, Henry David

Excursions

Boston 1863 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 625.00
180 Thoreau, Henry David

Letters to Various Persons

Boston 1865 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
181 Thoreau, Henry David

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Boston 1868 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
182 Thoreau, Henry David

A Yankee in Canada, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers

Boston 1866 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
183 Traven, B.

The Death Ship: The Story of an American Sailor

New York 1934 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
184 Traven, B.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

New York 1935 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
185 Travers, P.L.

Mary Poppins

New York [1934] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 593.75
186 Walker, Alice

The Color Purple

New York and London [1982] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,875.00
187 Wallace, Lew

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

New York [1880] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
188 Waterhouse, Keith

Good Grief

London 1997 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
189 Wells, H.G.

The Outline of History

London [1919-20] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
190 West, Nathanael

Miss Lonelyhearts

New York [1933] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
191 White, E.B.

Stuart Little

New York [1945] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,375.00
192 [Whitman, Walt]

Leaves of Grass

New York 1867 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 625.00
193 Woolf, Virginia

Monday or Tuesday

New York 1921 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 200.00
194 Woolf, Virginia

The Voyage Out

London 1915 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
195 Wouk, Herman

Marjorie Morningstar

Garden City, NY 1955 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 375.00
196 Adams, Douglas

Four signed titles from the Hitchhiker's Guide series

New York 1980-1992 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,000.00
197 Adams, Douglas

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

New York [1980] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,125.00
198 Reed, Eliot

Tender to Danger

New York [1951] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 437.50
199 Ambler, Eric

The Ability to Kill - Signed proofs

London [1962] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
200 Ambler, Eric

Intrigue

New York 1943 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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