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

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 29, 2025 - September 29, 2025
Page Size: 117 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed 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
  • 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.
  • Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
  • 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.