Schilb Antiquarian: Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyers Premium, 395057, Columbia

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 07, 2025 - December 07, 2025
Page Size: 103 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
77 Eugene Field Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

Title: Poems of Childhood

New York, 1904 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 120.00
78 Frank R. Stockton Illustrator(s): Frederick Richardson

Title: The Queens Museum, and Other Fanciful Tales

New York 1906 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 135.00
79 Upton Sinclair

Title: The Jungle

New York 1906 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 110.00
80 Charles Benedict Davenport

Title: Heredity in Relation to Eugenics

New York 1911 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 50.00
81 Marshall Everett

Title: Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic: The Oceans Greatest Disaster

Chicago circa 1912. USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 78.00
82 Thomas Herbert Russell

Title: Life and Work of Theodore Roosevelt, Typical American: Patriot, Orator, Historian, Sportsman, Soldier, Statesman and President

1919 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 160.00
83 Anna Sewell Illustrator: Cecil Aldin

Title: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse

London, Circa 1920 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 76.00
84 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Richard Wagner Contributor(s): Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche (Editor); Caroline V. Kerr (Translator); H. L. Mencken (Introduction)

Title: The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence

(New York) 1921 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 56.00
85 SHACKLETON, Ernest Henry

Mon expe?dition au sud polaire

Tours [ca. 1921]. USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 205.00
86 J.M. Barrie Illustrator(s): Mabel Lucie Attwell

Title: Peter Pan and Wendy

New York, 1923 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 96.00
87 Edgar Allan Poe Illustrator: Harry Clarke

Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

New York circa 1923 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 175.00
88 TWAIN, Mark; PAINE, Albert Bigelow (Contrib.)

Mark Twains Autobiography. In Two Volumes.

New York; London 1924 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 88.00
89 Sir Thomas Malory Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham Contributor(s): Alfred W. Pollard (Editor)

Title: The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

New York 1927 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 125.00
90 Alan Alexander Milne Illustrator: Ernest Howard Shepard

Title: Now We Are Six

London 1927 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 285.00
91 Mary Ries Melendy; Walter J. Hadden Contributor(s): Charles H. Robinson (Editor)

Title: The Science of Eugenics and Sex Life: The Regeneration of the Human Race

New York 1927 . USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 115.00
92 Omar Khayyam Illustrator(s): Willy Pogany Contributor(s): Edward FitzGerald (Translator)

Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ... the first and fourth renderings in English verse

New York [ca. 1935] USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 245.00
93 POE, Edgar Allan; CLARKE, Harry (Illus.)

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by Harry Clarke.

New York 1939 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 210.00
94 HEMINGWAY, Ernest

For Whom the Bell Tolls

New York 1940 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 250.00
95 W.C. Whitfield Illustrator: Tad Shell

Title: Heres How: Mixed Drinks

Asheville, NC 1941 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 42.00
96 George Orwell

Title: Animal Farm

New York, 1946 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 160.00
97 George Orwell

Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four

New York 1949 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 445.00
98 Harper Lee

Title: To Kill a Mockingbird

Philadelphia; New York 1960 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 52.00
99 Ernest Hemingway

Title: A Moveable Feast

London, 1964 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 155.00
100 Ian Fleming

Title: You Only Live Twice

London, 1964 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 315.00
101 J.R.R. Tolkien Illustrator: J.R.R. Tolkien

Title: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

Boston, Cambridge 1966 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 170.00
  • 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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