Clars Auction Gallery: November Gallery Auction, 112125, Oakland

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 21, 2025 - November 21, 2025

Page Size: 173 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
4039	Henry Miller	A Henry Miller signed postcard to Campiglios Art Gallery in Monterey, CA.		USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 26.20
4040		A nine piece Count Basie collection comprising photos, marketing material and albums,		USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 458.50
4041		An original Festival Presentations typed list of expenses for the Music of Night People Jazz concert, featuring Billie Holiday, Barbara Lee and the Modern Jazz Quartet.		USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
4042	Samuel Stiefel	A signed letter from Samuel Stiefel to jazz artist Bennie Moten, dated June 20, 1921.	1921	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
4043		A seventeen piece collection of Louis Armstrong photos, programs and albums, comprising (1) The Birth of the Blues - Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, Symphony Hall, April 18, 1947 program;	1947	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 294.75
4044		A collection of jazz flyers comprising Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck, Josephine Baker, Thelonious Monk and his Orchestra, ...		USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 1,965.00
4045		Three Cotton Club programs/menus for the Cotton Club Parade, featuring Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters and others.		USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 425.75
4046		A fourteen piece Duke Ellington collection comprising (1) Duke Ellington program from Carnegie Hall. November 13, 1948; ...		USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
4048		A collection of forty-five restaurant and club menus and souvenirs from the 1940's,	1940's	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 458.50
4049		A collection of early photos, many marked as being extended family members of Count Basie.		USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 393.00
4050		An original Paramount Presents 'St. Louis Blues film poster, starring Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald,, Mahalia Jackson with Ruby Dee and Juana Hernandez	1958	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 98.25
4051		Three binders of jazz ephemera, comprising signed press photos such as Guy Lombardo, Hazel Scott, Leroy Jones, Tony Bennett; ...		USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 1,113.50
4052		A collection of books on jazz, with auction catalogs related to sports memorabilia and CD's [approx. 50 total]		USD 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
4053		Approximately two hundred copies of Downbeat Magazine, late 1930's - 50's.	1930's - 50's.	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 262.00
4054		A collection of jazz ephemera comprising programs for the Philadelphia Music Festival;...		USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 163.75
4055		A group of jazz ephemera comprising publications such as Jazz Reports, Jazz Quarterly, The Record Changer, Jazz Monthly, Jazz Music, with Decca Records flyers; ...		USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 327.50
4056		A collection of jazz ephemera comprising Metronome magazine; Jazz Americana, Platter Chatter, Jazz Journal, Pick-up, Good Diggin, Birdland Stars,...		USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 327.50
4057		A collection of approximately fifty jazz albums and sets including Eddy Duchin, Less Brown, Harry James, Glen Gray, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Carle, Gene Krupa,...		USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
4058		A collection of approx seventy five jazz albums comprising a signed Paul Quinchette Sequel, Zoots Sims, Charlie Parker, Cab Colloway, ...		USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
4059		A collection of approximately fifty jazz albums, comprising Charles Mingus, Judy Garland, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Ray Charles and others		USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
4060		A collection of approximately fifty jazz albums comprising Benny Goodman, Lester Young and Count Basie, Ray Charles, Nancy Wilson, Frank Sinatra, with Giants of Jazz compilations.	albums	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
4225	Roy De Forest (American, 1930-2007)	Birdland	1994,	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,179.00
4226	James Rosenquist (American, 1933-2017)	Spokes	1977	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 524.00
4227	Max Hayslette (Amercan, 1929-2024),	Untitled,		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 262.00
4228	Eyvind Earle (American, 1916-2000)	The Wave	1990,	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 786.00

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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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.