RR Auction: Marvels of Modern Music, 732, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025
Page Size: 461 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3351

Queen (3) Business Checks Signed by Each Band Member

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,504.00
3353

Queen Signed 'A Night at the Opera' Tour Program

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,973.00
3355

Queen Signed 1980 'The Game Tour' Program (Mercury, May, and Deacon)

1980 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,880.00
3356

Queen Collection of (19) Concert Color Negatives from the Houston Summit - August 20, 1982

1982 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,880.00
3357

Freddie Mercury Signed Magazine Centerfold Photograph

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,719.00
3358

Freddie Mercury Oversized Photograph by Laurens Van Houten - 'Daffodil' (Ltd. Ed. #6/50)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
3359

Freddie Mercury Original Christmas Card (ca. 1980s)

1980s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
3360

Queen Oversized Photograph by Tony Brainsby - 'Bicycle Race' (Ltd. Ed. #8/30)

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 250.00
3361

Queen (2) EMI Publicity Photographs from 1979/1980

1979/1980 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
3364

George and Ira Gershwin Signed Contract with RKO Studios (1936)

1936 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,875.00
3365

Pearl Bailey Document Signed

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 125.00
3366

Count Basie Document Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
3367

Sidney Bechet Signed Contract with Columbia Records

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 138.00
3368

Bix Beiderbecke Signed Photograph

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,505.00
3369

Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop Sheet Music Posters and Flexi-Disc Record

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
3370

Nat King Cole Trio, Duke Ellington, and Sarah Vaughan 1951 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium Concert Poster (22" x 28")

1951 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
3371

Miles Davis 1988 Pantages Theatre Concert Poster (15" x 22")

1988 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 368.00
3372

Duke Ellington Signed Program

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
3373

George Gershwin Signed Check to Publisher Alfred A. Knopf

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
3374

Benny Goodman and Norman Granz Document Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
3375

Earl 'Fatha' Hines Typed Letter Signed

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
3376

Billie Holiday Document Signed

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 795.00
3377

Skip James Oversized Photograph by Jim Marshall

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 875.00
3378

Jazz Greats Signatures with Louis Armstrong, Cozy Cole, and Earl 'Fatha' Hines

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
3379

Jerome Kern Signed Photograph

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.