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
301 Josef Mikes

Nase Kvetena ve Fotografii (Our Flowers in Photography), Prague 1940, blue-tint photos!

Praze (Prague) 1940 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
302 Freud

Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse (Lectures on Psychoanalysis). 1922

Leipzig - Wien - Zurich 1922 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
303 James Baikie

Egyptian Papyri and Papyrus-Hunting, 1925 first printing, in dust jacket

London 1925 USD 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
304 Ernest Thompson Seton

The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe-Journey of 2000 Miles, 1911 1st ed.

NY 1911 USD 65.00 - 125.00 USD 33.60
305 (Mid-Century Modern) Gilbert Rohde

9 original pencil specs for 1940s furniture for La France

New York Ca1940-1944 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
306 James Grahame

The Sabbath and other Poems (1857) Birket Foster illus.

London 1857 USD 65.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
307 Childe Hassam, illus. Mary E. Blake

Youth in Twelve Centuries, 1886, poems by Mary E. Blake

Boston 1886 USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 44.80
308 F. E. Pitts

A Defence of Armageddon, Or Our Great Country Foretold in the Holy Scriptures, 1857

Baltimore 1859 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
309 William Harrison Ainsworth

The Spendthrift, a Tale, 1857

London 1857 USD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
310

The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, bound volume of 5 pamphlets, 1862-1865

1862-1865 USD 250.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
311 Eugene O'Neill

A God's Chillun Got Wings & Welded, 1924 first printing in dust jacket

NY 1924 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
312 Mayne Reid

The Forest Exiles (1855) & The Young Yagers (1857), 1st eds, handsome leather bindings

London 1855 & 1857 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
313 Walter Damrosch

Framed autographed musical fragment, signed in Pittsburgh in 1903

1903 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
314 Pierre Hamp

La France Traveille---Les Metiers du Fer - 1930 photobook on French iron & steel

Paris nd, ca1930 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
315

1910-20 Keystone Bank of Pittsburgh limp suede account book cover with embossed image of building

1910-20 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
316 Mitchell Conveyor Co., London

"Material Handling" (1930) coal tipplers, conveyors,

London nd (1930) USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
317 Josef Sudek photographs: Vitezslav Nezval:

Prazsky Chodec [Pedestrian Prague], 1981

Prague 1981 USD 60.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
318 Marcel Natkin, photos

Visages d'enfants (1946) signed by Natkin, text by Jaboune.

Paris 1946 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
319 Henry Miller and Elmer Gertz

Henry Miller and Elmer Gertz Selected Letters 1964-1975 (1998) illustrator's own copy, 71/100

Ann Arbor, MI 1998 USD 150.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
320

George Constant (1961). Limited signed book on the artist.

NY 1961 USD 60.00 - 125.00 Not Sold
321

Thomas Otway's Works in 3 volumes, 1813

London 1813 USD 125.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
322

Chaos - Cai Guo Qiang, 1994 exhibition catalog, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo. Important Chinese artist.

Osaka 1994 USD 75.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
323 A. Heckmann & Alb. Schley

Artistic Sugar Work and Ice Sculpturing, 1925, color plates

Nordhausen, Germany 1925 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
324 Peter Barwick

Vita Johannis Barwick, 1721. Life of John Barwick 1612-1664, English churchman

London 1721 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
325 Peter Barwick

The Life of the Reverend Dr. John Barwick, 1724. English language edition.

London 1724 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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