Bonhams: Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana , 31200, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025
Page Size: 261 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251 WAGNER, RICHARD. 1813-1883.

Autograph Manuscript in German, 7 1/2 pages,

1874-1875, USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 40,960.00
252 LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 1902-1974.

We.

New York and London 1927 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 704.00
253 EARHART, AMELIA 1897-1937

20 hrs. 10 min. Our Flight in the Friendship

NY 1928 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 7,040.00
254 EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 1879-1955.

Autograph letter signed ("Albert") to Hans Albert Einstein, Berlin, 21 January 1928. On physics and relativity.

Berlin, 21 January 1928 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 19,200.00
255 CHURCHILL, WINSTON. 1874-1965.

Typed Letter Signed ("Winston S. Churchill") to John Davies on his help in the further reduction of the National Debt,

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,408.00
256 CHURCHILL, WINSTON. 1874-1965.

Typed Letter Signed ("Winston S. Churchill") to his Swedish publisher Bertil Sterner as "Steiner" on Triumph and Tragedy and his History of the English Speaking Peoples,

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,432.00
257 CHURCHILL, WINSTON. 1874-1965.

Typed Letter Signed ("Winston S. Churchill") to John E. Harvey,

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,048.00
258 DODGE, MARY MAPES. 1831-1905.

HANS BRINKER OR, THE SILVER SKATES.

Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto 1925 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
259 MEREDITH, GEORGE. 1828-1909.

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.

New York 1927 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
260 KENNEDY, JOHN F. 1917-1963.

The Burden and the Glory.

New York 1964 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,432.00
261 UT, NICK; or NGUYEN THANH NGHE; or HUYNH CONG PHUC.

The Terror of War. Photograph Signed ("Nick Ut"),

Vietnam 1972, printed 2012 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
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