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

Auction Details

Auction Report
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
326 (Ethiopia) Mansfield Parkyns

Life in Abyssinia, 2 vols. 1854

New York 1854 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
327

The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, 3 vols. 1764-1769, 1st collected ed.

London 1764-1769 USD 400.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
328

The Plays of Bernard Shaw, 1927, 12 volumes in publisher's cloth box, limp blue leather

London 1927 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
329 W.T. Sherman et al

Supplemental Report of Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 1866, 2 vols.

Washington DC 1866 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
330 Augustin Bernard

Petits Edifices, Quatrieme Serie, Provence: Constructions Rurales, 1927 portfolio

Paris 1927 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
331

Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, Moderniz'd by Mrs. Stanley, 1725 large folio

London 1725 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
332

Robert Clarke & Co., Bibliotheca Americana 1886 & 1893, 2 rare Americana catalogues

Cincinnati 1886 & 1893 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 67.20
333

(Knights Templar) The Conclave through a Camera, Pittsburgh 1898

Pittsburgh 1898 USD 60.00 - 125.00 USD 67.20
334 Katherine Thomson

Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon, 2 vols. 1847, finely bound by Root.

1847 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 89.60
335 Duff & Allen

Psychic Research and Gospel Miracles, 1902

New York 1902 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
336 Harris Nicolas

A Treatise on The Law of Adulterine Bastardy with a Report of the Banbury Case, 1836

London 1836 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
337 F. O. C. Darley

A Selection of War Lyrics, 1864, with tinted full page wood engravings.

New York 1864 USD 60.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
338 Sofu Matsuno

My Life on Noh Stages: Drawings and Paintings (1945, in Japanese)

Tokyo 1945 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
339 John Quincy Adams

Dermot Macmorrogh, or The Conquest of Ireland (1832)

Boston 1832 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
340 Ber Karlinski, ed.

Illustrirte Velt [Illustrated World], 1919-1920 Yiddish Polish Warsaw cultural

Warsaw, Poland 1919-1920 USD 300.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
341 Cody, William F. & Helen Cody Wetmore

Last of the Great Scouts. Chicago, c. 1899

Chicago c.1899 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
342 Walter Pearce

Painting and Decoration, 1907

London 1907 USD 60.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
343 Bland, J. O. & E. Backhouse

China Under the Empress Dowager, 1910

Philadelphia 1910 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
344 Schwartz, Israel Jacob

Yunge Yorn (verse autobiography in Yiddish about life in Lithuania), 1952

Mexico City 1952 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
345 Marah Ellis Ryan

Indian Love Letters, frontispiece by Edward S. Curtis, 1907 1st ed.

Chicago 1907 USD 125.00 - 250.00 USD 67.20
346 Robertson, Patrick (Lord)

Sonnets, Reflective & Descriptive, 1854, inscribed & manuscript poems

Edinburgh 1854 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
347

(Military Medicine) Message Center, a Record of the R.O.T.C. Camp, 1930 Carlisle PA

Carlisle PA 1930 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
348

1916 poster for Pittsburgh's Friends of Irish Freedom for a reception at the William Penn Hotel

Pittsburgh 1916 USD 650.00 - 1,250.00 Not Sold
349 Marie Harrison

Cook and Be Cool: A Book for Hot-Weather Housekeeping, 1928

Boston 1928 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 33.60
350 Jones, Alvin Lincoln; Charles B. Webster

Under Colonial Roofs, 1894, 40 large gravure photos

Boston C.1894 USD 250.00 - 500.00 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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