University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 111925, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 19, 2025 - November 19, 2025
Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
399 Edward & Wallis, Duke & Duchess of Windsor

Edward & Wallis, Duke & Duchess of Windsor Signed Royal Card

n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 768.00
400 Edward, Duke of Windsor

Edward, Duke of Windsor PSA GEM MT 10 Signed Abdication Radio Address, Souvenir Typescript

n.d. USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 937.50
401 Plays

13 Plays by English Playwright J. Dryden with Additional Plays and Essays

ca. 17th-19th Centuries USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
402 Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen, "Out of Africa" Author, TLS & (2) ALS on Photographs

ca. 1950-1962 USD 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
403 William Burroughs & Ferlinghetti & McClure

Pair of Books Signed by William Burroughs & Fellow Beat Writers Ferlinghetti & McClure

n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 179.20
404 Willa Cather

Willa Cather Signed 1st Ed. "Lucy Gayheart"

ca. 1935 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 175.00
405 Willa Cather

Willa Cather ALS to Catholic Priest: "You made me more homesick for the West than I have been..."

n.d. USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,408.00
406 Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Illustrators: (4) Original Drawings & (1) ALS by Artists of 'Huckleberry Finn', 'Life on the Mississippi', & More!

ca. 1881-1883, 1896 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
407 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens 1848 ALS Slamming The American Literary Scene PSA Encapsulated NM 7 Including Original Transmittal Envelope

September 19, 1848 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,687.50
408 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, "The Battle of Life. A Love Story," Harper & Brothers 1847 1st American Ed.

ca. 1847 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
409 Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss Boldly Signed Copy of "Green Eggs and Ham"

n.d. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,062.50
410 Washington Irving

Washington Irving Letter of Introduction for Colonel Childs, Ex-Charles Hamilton

September 20, 1831 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 480.00
411 Shirley Jackson

Super Scarce Shirley Jackson TLS With Great Literary Content: Page-Turning Reading, Overflowing Library & "next bookhunters [sic] convention in Westport"

"Friday" USD 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,000.00
412 Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac Personally Owned & Annotated "Grecourt Review" ft. Corso & Haikus

ca. 1950s USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
413 Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey Elaborately Signed Copy of "Sailor Song"

n.d. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 87.50
414 C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis ALS A Year Before His Death, With Original Envelope

1962-02-20 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,500.00
415 J.R. Lowell

J.R. Lowell Poet & Diplomat Fine Check & Signed Letter With Envelope

ca. 1870-1885 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 87.50
416 Edna St. Vincent

Edna St. Vincent Millay TLS on Interpretation of Her Sonnet 'Euclid' to Future Bestselling Author!

1939-02-10 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,875.00
417 Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell TLS Re: "North Georgia people... with Irish and Scotch names" - A Character Type Deeply Explored In GWTW

1940-08-02 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 593.75
418 Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe CDV by Brady, Incredibly Rare, Possibly Unique in Format!

ca. 1861 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 20,000.00
419 Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Signed Sought-After Ltd. Ed. of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

ca. 1966 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,560.00
420 William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration Bronze Bust, 11" High

ca. 1864 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 480.00
421 George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Corrects Errors in English Edition of "Saint Joan" & Sends Manuscript for US Publication

2024-05-28 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 531.25
422 George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw ANS to New York Times "American presidents used to be lawyers and are now anarchists"

2009-10-28 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 937.50
423 Robert Southey

Robert Southey 6pp Manuscript Notes on Unfinished History of Portugal

n.d. USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 687.50
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000