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
251 Vincent Bourne

Poematia, Latine partim reddita, 1743 [Original poems and translations all in Latin]

London 1743 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
252 Westminster School; James Hook; W. Ginger (ed.)

The Trifler, a Periodical Paper, nos. 1-30 (1817)

London 1817 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
253 Thomas Whittaker

Essays and Notices, Philosophical and Psychological, 1895

London 1895 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
254 Dabney Stuart

Sheaf of 9 ballads, each signed, with friendly letter (1971)

USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
255 John Carlsson (photos)

Orrefors Glass Works, 1937 (Paris Exposition)

Stockholm, 1937 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
256 Robert Doisneau;

Brassai. Air France Revue, 1948

Paris 1948 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
257 F. Edward Hulme

Flower Painting in Water Colours, Ca. 1890, 20 mounted color plates

London Ca. 1890 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 56.00
258 Scenes along the routes

Lowell & Suburban Street Railway Co., Lowell, Mass. 1896; rare viewbook

Lowell 1896 USD 80.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
259 William Everson

The Residual Years, Poems; 1948 1st ed. inscribed to noted hippie/self-help guru

New York 1948 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
260 David Gray

Gallops & Gallops 2 (1898-1903), Equestrian & Fox Hunting fiction

NY 1898 & 1903 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 112.00
261 Blaise Pascal

Provincial Letters, 1866

NY 1866 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
262 George Mecklenburg

The Last of the Old West, 1927, signed. Pioneering preachers in Montana!

Washington 1927 USD 40.00 - 80.00 USD 22.40
263 Leo Tolstoy

The Forged Note, Father Sergii, and Other Stories, 1928. First in dust jacket, RARE!

NY 1928 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
264 Gomme, ed.

Dialect, Proverbs and Word-Lore, 1886, quarter leather, part of The Gentleman's

published in Boston ca1886 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
265

Memorial book for Henry J. Heinz, 1844-1919, with menu for 50th Anniversary of HJ Heinz Co. banquet

Pittsburgh 1919 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
266 Michael Drayton

Endimion & Phoebe. Shakespeare Head Press, 1925. One of 100 numbered copies.

Stratford-upon-Avon, 1925 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
267 Harriet Beecher Stowe, et al.

The Museum of Religious Knowledge, 1839, with "The Drunkard

Philadelphia 1839 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
268 Kant

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (in German), 1878, in half vellum

Leipzig 1878 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
269 (Blue Sky Press, Chicago) Elia Peattie

How Jacques Came into the Forest of Arden, 1901, limited ed.

Chicago 1901 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
270 Dylan Thomas

A Child's Christmas in Wales, 1954, First Edition in Dust Jacket

NY 1954 USD 80.00 - 175.00 USD 44.80
271 Captain Marryat

The Mission

NY & Philadelphia 1849 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
272 John Farrar

Elementary Treatise on Mechanics...the Doctrine of Equilibrium & Motion, 1834, 10

Boston 1834 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
273

King Lion and Reynard the Fox (1920), Jo Mora illustrations, retold by John L. Forrest

Chicago 1920 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
274 F. Marion Crawford

Greifenstein. London, 1889, first edition, 3 vols. bound in one.

London 1889 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
275 W. M. Thackeray

Ballads (1856) first printing

London 1856 USD 125.00 - 250.00 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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