A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals: Antiquities, Books and Curiosities, 102925, Toronto

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 29, 2025 - October 29, 2025

Page Size: 139 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1167	William Faulkner.	The Town	New York	1957	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
1168	Truman Capote.	In Cold Blood. Selected Writings of Truman Capote	New York; London	1965; 1963	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
1169	Virginia Woolf.	A Writer's Diary	London	1953	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 127.00
1170	William Shakespeare, Henry Irving and Frank A. Marshall (editors).	The Works of William Shakespeare	Toronto\| London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin	1888-9	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 539.75
1171	William Makepeace Thackeray.	The Virginians	London	1857-59	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 317.50
1172	Henrik Ibsen.	Hedda Gabler	New York	1891	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 317.50
1173	Edgar Allan Poe.	The Poetrical Works of Edgar Allan Poe. With Original Memoir	London	1858	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 381.00
1174	T.S. Eliot.	Four Quartets: East Coker, Burnt Norton, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding		1940-42.	USD 700.00 - 900.00	USD 698.50
1175	John Keats.	Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agnes & Other Poems By John Keats, With Engravings by Robert Gibbings	Berkshire	1928	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
1176	Robert Smith Surtees.	Ask Mama	Lond	1857-58	USD 250.00 - 350.00	USD 190.50
1177	James Herriot.	The Best of James Herriot: Favorite Memories of a Country Vet	New York	1982	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 222.25
1178	William Shakespeare.	The Tempest	London	1908	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
1179		Aesop's Fables: A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones, With and Introduction by G.K. Chesterton	London\| New York	1912	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 444.50
1180		Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures, With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch	London	1913	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 508.00
1181	Alfred W. Pollard.	The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Abridged from Malory's More d'Arthur	London	1917	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 603.25
1182	Edward FItzgerald.	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	London	1909	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 571.50
1183		Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhyme	London	1913	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 603.25
1184	Algernon Charles Swinburne.	The Springtide of Life	London	1918	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
1185		Undine, by De La Motte Foque, Adapted From the German by W.L. Courtney	London \| New York	1909	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 412.75
1186	Nathaniel Hawthorne.	A Wonder Book	London, New York, & Toronto	1922	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 508.00
1187	Thomas Ingoldsby.	The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels	London \| New York	1907	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 412.75
1188	Arthur Quiller-Couch.	The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales, From the Old French	London	1910	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 317.50
1189	Lewis Carroll.	Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There	New York	1902	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
1190	J.R.R. Tolkien.	THE SILMARILLION		1977	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 349.25
1191	McLoughlin Brothers	The Little Showman's Series No. 2. Includes Summer and Autumn		1884	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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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