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
276	Philipp Rosenthal (1929)	Sein Leben und sein Porzellan [His Life and Porcelain]	Leipzig	1929	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
277	Quiller-Couch	The Splendid Spur, Pictures by James Daugherty, 1927, first edition in dust jacket	NY	1927	USD 65.00 - 125.00	Not Sold
278	Arthur Edward Waite	Elfin Music, An Anthology of English Fairy Poetry, 1888	London	1888	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 246.40
279	John Metschl	The Rudolph J. Nunnemacher Collection of Projectile Arms, 2 vols. (1928) both SIGNED	Milwaukee	1928	USD 150.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
280	O. Henry	Postscripts. 1923 first edition in dust jacket	NY	1923	USD 75.00 - 150.00	USD 44.80
281	Lucinda Lee Orr	Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782. Baltimore, 1871		1871	USD 60.00 - 125.00	Not Sold
282	George Dewar	The South Country Trout Streams, 1899	London	1899	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 33.60
283		1936 German handbook & guide to Africa in 2 volumes, dust jackets, folding maps	Berlin	1936	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
284	E. Phillips Oppenheim	The Zeppelin's Passenger, 1918 first edition in pictorial dust jacket	Boston	1918	USD 125.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
285	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	Leila; or, The Siege of Granada (NY, 1838)	(NY,	1838	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
286	Charles H. Kirk	History of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry...1861-1865 (1906)	Philadelphia	1906	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
287	John Lydgate	The Assemble Goddes, Printed by Wynkyn de Worde (Cambridge, 1906, limited edition)		1906	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
288	(Hernias) William Timbrel	Practical Observations on the Management of Ruptures (Boston, 1809)	Boston	1809	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
289	Abbe Millot	Elements of General History	London	1779	USD 300.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
290	Andre Matthey	Nouvelles Recherches Sur Les Maladies De L'Espirit, 1816 1st printing	Paris and Geneve	1816	USD 250.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
291	John Elias, et al.	4 rare Welsh works on Christianity, missionaries, baptism (1827-1830)	Wales	1827-1830	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
292	Lucien Price	Winged Sandals (1928), 1st ed. in d/j - beautifully inscribed. Celebrated gay novelist	Boston	1928	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
293		Pittsburgh Auto Equipment Co. Catalogue No. 10, 1926	Pittsburgh	1926	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
294	Anthony Trollope	The Last Chronicle of Barset, 1867 1st printing	London	1867	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
295		The War in North Africa, I & II, Operations in Sicily & Italy, 1947-1948, West Point, "	West Point	1947-1948	USD 75.00 - 150.00	USD 78.40
296	J. W. Foster	The Mississippi Valley: Its Physical Geography, 1869	Chicago	1869	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
297	Harry Rockwood	Harry Pinkurten, the King of Detectives, 1882	NY	1882	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
298	J. W. & J. A. Alexander	A Geography of the Bible: Compiled for American Sunday School Union, 1830	Philadelphia	1830	USD 75.00 - 150.00	USD 44.80
299	S. G. Goodrich	The Outcast & other poems, 1836	Boston	1836	USD 75.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
300		Record of the Class of 1845 of Yale College (1881) 63 albumen photographic portraits	New York	1881	USD 500.00 - 1,000.00	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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