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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 19, 2026 - February 19, 2026
Page Size: 501 items in 21 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Beier, Ulli, ed.

20 issues of Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature

Ibadan, Nigeria 1957-1966 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 11,875.00
2 Cullen, Countee, editor

Caroling Dusk. An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets

New York & London 1927 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 468.75
3 Anderson, Sherwood

Dark Laughter

New York 1925 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 200.00
4 Auster, Paul

Collected Poems [with] Here and Now

London [2004; 2013] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
5 Ballantyne, Robert Michael

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

London 1858 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
6 Boccaccio, Giovanni

The Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio, the First Refiner of Italian Prose: Containing a Hundred Curious Novels, by Seven Honorable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen, Framed in Ten Days

London 1684 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
8 Bowles, Paul

The Sheltering Sky

London 1949 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
9 Brunton, Mary

Emmeline. With Some Other Pieces.

Edinburgh 1819 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
10 Cameron, James

Titanic: A Screenplay

No place 1996 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,750.00
11 Camus, Albert

The Plague

New York 1948 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.25
12 Capote, Truman

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

New York [1965] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 175.00
13 Capote, Truman

A Tree of Night and Other Stories

New York [1949] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
14 Cather, Willa Sibert

My Antonia

Boston and New York 1918 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.25
15 Cather, Willa Sibert

O Pioneers!

Boston & New York 1913 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
16 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The Friend: A Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper, Excluding Personal and Party Politics, and the Events of the Day.

Penrith 1809 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
17 Conrad, Joseph & Ford M. Hueffer

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story

London; New York 1901 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
18 Conrad, Joseph

Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River

London 1895 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
19 Conrad, Joseph

Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

London 1914 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
20 Conrad, Joseph

The End of the Tether [in] Blackwood's Magazine

Edinburgh & London 1902 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 562.50
21 Conrad, Joseph

Lord Jim. A Tale.

Edinburgh & London 1900 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 531.25
22 Conrad, Joseph

The Mirror of the Sea

London [1906] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
23 Conrad, Joseph

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

London 1904 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
24 Conrad, Joseph

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

New York 1904 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
25 Conrad, Joseph

The Point of Honor: A Military Tale

New York 1908 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
26 Conrad, Joseph

The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows

London 1920 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.