KC Auction Company: Book, Autograph and Ephemera Auction, 678075, Kansas City

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 29, 2025 - September 29, 2025

Page Size: 117 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2	Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover & More	1930 Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover & More Autos	1930	Not Available	USD 531.00
2a	William F. Vilas	1886 Arkansas Postmaster Signed William F. Vilas	1886	Not Available	USD 11.80
3	Harry & Bess Truman	Signed Harry & Bess Truman First Lady Cookbook		Not Available	USD 236.00
4	Harry S Truman	Signed Harry S Truman "Year of Decisions"		Not Available	USD 324.50
4a	Harry Truman	Harry Truman Invitation Benton Mural		Not Available	USD 59.00
5		Pickwick Greyhound Bus Archive, A. F. Baldus	1920s-40s	Not Available	USD 472.00
6	Gordon Parks	Gordon Parks "The Learning Tree" Signed 1st Ed		Not Available	USD 177.00
7	Gordon Parks	Gordon Parks "A Choice of Weapons" Signed		Not Available	USD 129.80
9	Carl Sandburg	Carl Sandburg "Abraham Lincoln" Biography Signed		Not Available	USD 35.40
11	Maryln Schwartz	Maryln Schwartz "New Times" Signed 1st Ed		Not Available	USD 5.90
12	Ezra Tipple	Ezra Tipple "Some Famous Country Parishes" Signed		Not Available	USD 5.90
13	AL Alexander	AL Alexander "Poems..." Signed	1948	Not Available	USD 5.90
14		"Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill" Signed		Not Available	USD 17.70
15		2 Copies "In a Chinese Garden" Signed		Not Available	USD 5.90
16	Saul Bellow	Saul Bellow "Herzog" Signed 1st Edition		Not Available	USD 82.60
17	Dean Elder	Dean Elder "Pianists at Play" Signed		Not Available	USD 11.80
18		1929 "How The World Weds" Signed	1929	Not Available	USD 5.90
19	Leonard Slater	Leonard Slater "The Pledge" Signed		Not Available	USD 11.80
20	Bennett Cerf	Bennett Cerf "Laughter Incorporated", Signed		Not Available	USD 11.80
21	Bennett Cerf	Bennett Cerf "Shake Well Before Using" Signed		Not Available	USD 11.80
22	Saul Kleiman	Saul Kleiman "Book Of The Past And Present" Signed		Not Available	USD 5.90
23	Ira Hirschmann	Ira Hirschmann "'Caution to the Wind" Signed		Not Available	Not Sold
24	Drew Middleton	Drew Middleton "The Atlantic Community" Signed		Not Available	USD 5.90
25	Robert St John	Robert St John 'Roll Jordan Roll" Signed 1st Ed	1965	Not Available	USD 5.90
26	Samuel Rosenman	Samuel Rosenman "Working with Roosevelt" Sgnd 1st		Not Available	USD 29.50

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.