Common Crow Books: Rare Books & Ephemera, 393976, Pittsburgh

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 03, 2025 - December 03, 2025

Page Size: 306 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	W. H. Auden	Secondary Worlds (1968) drunkenly inscribed 4x to one of his editors	New York	c.1968	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 358.40
102	Richard Avenarius	Philosophie als Denken der Welt (1876) inscribed first edition	Leipzig	1876	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
103	Isaac Bashevis Singer & Ira Moskowitz	Satan in Goray 1981 1/50 signed, ink drawings, etchings	New York	1981	USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
104	Bendixen	Perceptive Illustrations of the Bible (1850 folio of 40 colored lithographs)	London	Ca.1850	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
105	Georges Bernanos	Lettre Aux Anglais - One of 32 signed copies (1942) Anti-Hitler Anti-Nazi	Rio de Janeiro	1942	USD 400.00 - 850.00	Not Sold
106	John Brand	The History of Newcastle upon Tyne (1789) quarto, 32 plates	London	1789	USD 450.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
107	E. Wallis Budge	The Alexander Book in Ethiopia (1933) 1st ed., very rare in dj.	London	1933	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
108	1936-40 binder on opening Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh	letters, docs, ephemera, etc.			USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
109	Byne & Stapley	Decorated Wooden Ceilings of Spain (1920) folio, 56 plates	New York	C.1920	USD 600.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
110	Susannah Carter	The Frugal Housewife (Philadelphia, 1802)	Philadelphia	1802	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
111	Raymond Chandler	The High Window (1942 first edition in dust jacket)	New York	1942	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	USD 268.80
112	G. Woolworth Colton	New York City, Jersey City, Hoboken, Brooklyn, Etc. Map and Guide (1873)	New York	1873	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
113	William Combe & Thomas Rowlandson	Dr. Syntax, 3 Tours (1855), 80 colored plates, finely bound.	London	-1855	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
114	Cramer et al. Henry Moore	Catalogue of Graphic Work, Volume III, 1976-1979, SIGNED by Moore!	Geneva		USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
115	De Amicis	My Last Friend, Dog Dick - inscribed to Sidney Lanier Jr. by translators & Enrico Caruso!	Boston	C.1916	USD 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
116	Caswall	Sketches of Young Ladies (1837) --- attributed to Charles Dickens	London	1837	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
117	Dispatch News Service	1939 Bound volume of 75 original 13x11 photos of newsworthy pictures		1939	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
118	Austin Dobson	Poems on Several Occasions (1895) #11/50 signed by author, William Strang, Lalauze	New York	1895	USD 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
119	Du Choul	Discorso Sopra La Castrametatione...(1556), 44 woodcut plates, military camps &	Lyons	1556	USD 400.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
120		(Fayette County, PA) 1833-36 Providence Iron Works Ledger, Day Book & Account Book, Brownsville	Brownsville PA	1833-1836	USD 450.00 - 850.00	Not Sold
121	Rene Gasnier	Villes Americaines (1909) inscribed to French aviator Paul Tissandier:	Angers	1909	USD 450.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
122	1548 First printed map of Indian subcontinent	Giacomo Gastaldi, Calecut Nova Tabula	(Venice	1548	USD 450.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
123		Der Koran...1828 in handsome dark green morocco gilt. Qur'an in German.	Halle	1828	USD 150.00 - 300.00	USD 89.60
124	Paul B. Goddard	Plates of the Cerebro-Spinal Nerves (1837) -- Plates of the Arteries (1839)	Philadelphia	1837-1839	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
125	Edmond & Jules de Goncourt	Renee Mauperin, 1864 -- with tipped in letter from Edmond	Paris	1864	USD 600.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold

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.