University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 21826, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 18, 2026 - February 18, 2026
Page Size: 385 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
359 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Boston 1868 Reading Admission Ticket Mounted In Dickens Bibliographic Resource

 ca. April 3, 1868 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
360 Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss Signed & Inscribed 1st Ed., "I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew"

 ca. 1965 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
361 F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald TLS Requesting Reduced Rent On Apt. Where He Wrote "The Last Tycoon" Less Than 1 Year Before His Death

 2039-12-26 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Unknown
362 Robert Frost

Robert Frost With Wag The Dog, Yousuf Karsh Signed Portrait, Ex. Karsh Estate

 n.d. USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
363 Robert Frost

Robert Frost - Signature on Souvenir Printing of "The Road Not Taken"

 2026-12-28 USD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
364 Graham Greene

Graham Greene Signed Book "A Sort of Life"

 n.d. USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
365 Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway Boldly Signed & Inscribed 1st Ed. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

 ca. 1940 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
366 Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway with Yousuf Karsh in Cuba, Ex. Karsh Estate

 n.d. [ca. 1957] USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
367 Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen ALS - During the Year of His Last Play "When We Dead Awaken" Writes Precautionary Letter "to prevent the intended attack on his interests"

 January 25, 1899 USD 2,600.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
368 Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's "Visions of Cody" Excerpt Featured In April 1961 "Escapade" Magazine, From His Estate

 ca. April 1961 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
369 Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's Copy of Controversial 1959 "Jabberwock" Edinburgh University Review Containing Work By Him, Ginsberg, & Burroughs!

 ca. 1959 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
370 Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac Gifted "Panache" Literary Journal With Original Cover Letter Re: Neal Cassady - Ex-Kerouac Estate

 1968-09-20 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
371 Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's Personal Copy of "A Christmas Carol," With Holiday Card Bookmark, Possibly From Naval Acquaintance

 ca. 1960s USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
372 Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's Copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Airplane Dreams" - From Jack Kerouac Estate

 ca. 1968 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
373 Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac Estate "Truer Words" Scrapbook: 95 Quotes From Dickens, Goethe, Shakespeare, Eliot & Others

 n.d. USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
374 Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's Travel Story, "Tangier to London: A Beatnik Pilgrimage" In Personally Owned Copy of "Holiday" Magazine

 ca. February 1960 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
375 D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence Signed Limited 1st Ed. of "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

 ca. 1928 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
376 Henry Longfellow

Henry Longfellow ALS on Neuralgia with Carte de Visite by Pach Bros.

 May 30, 1875 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
377 W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham Signed 1st Ed. Copy of "The Razor's Edge"

 ca. 1944 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
378 A. A. Milne & E. H. Shepard

A. A. Milne & E. H. Shepard Signed Ltd. Ed. "The Christopher Robin Story Book"

 ca. 1929 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
379 Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill ALS to Silent Film Star Lillian Gish re: "Desire Under the Elms" & "Strange Interlude"

 2027-09-07 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
380 Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell ALS Thanking Editor of "The Dial" for Payment

 2019-10-04 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
381 George B. Shaw

George B. Shaw Pensive Portrait, Yousuf Karsh Signed, Ex. Karsh Estate

 n.d. USD 700.00 - 900.00 Unknown
382 Jared Sparks

Jared Sparks Signed Harvard Certificate of Admission

 July 20, 1849 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
383 Edna St. Vincent

Edna St. Vincent Millay ALS Mentioning "The Harp-Weaver" Just One Year After Winning Pulitzer Prize for It

 2024-01-08 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
  • <b><center>Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts<br>Available for Immediate Purchase</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Balthus, Emily Brontë. <i>Wuthering Heights,</i> New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Charles Dickens. <i>Complete Works,</i> Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Winston Churchill. First edition of <i>War Speeches,</i> Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. <i>Holy Cats</i> First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
    Sotheby's Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Balthus, Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. 6,600 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. Complete Works, Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company & Chapman & Hall, LD, 1850. Limited Edition set of 30 volumes. 7,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Handwritten Letter from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to their Chauffer. 1971. 32,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.
  • <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Online: India<br>Ends 19th February 2026</center></b> <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 40<br>Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). <i>A Digest of the Different Castes of India,</i> 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 50<br>Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. <i>The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan,</i> 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 53<br>Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). <i>An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul,</i> first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 57<br>[Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). <i>Views in the Mysore Country,</i> [1794]. £2,000-3,000 <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Online: India<br>Ends 19th February 2026</center></b> <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 76<br>Bird (James). <i>Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions...,</i> first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 100<br>Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). <i>A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 123<br>D'Oyly (Charles). <i>Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book,</i> lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 139<br>Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000 <b><center>Forum Auctions<br>Online: India<br>Ends 19th February 2026</center></b> <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 140<br>Gantz (John). <i>Indian Microcosm,</i> first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 146<br>Grierson (Sir George Abraham). <i>Linguistic Survey of India,</i> 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 195<br>Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000 <b>Forum, Feb. 19:</b> Lot 205<br>Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. <i>The Monuments of Sanchi,</i> 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40
    Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50
    Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53
    Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57
    [Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76
    Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100
    Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123
    D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139
    Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Online: India
    Ends 19th February 2026
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140
    Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146
    Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195
    Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205
    Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
  • <b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000 <b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000 <b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000 <b>Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26:</b> IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000