Ripley Auctions: Timed Estates Book Collection Blowout - Reference Books, Fiction, Nonfiction & More!, 22626, Indianapolis

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 26, 2026 - February 26, 2026

Page Size: 195 items in 8 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	Lot of 22 books on spirituality; includes works by Edward Hirsch, J.G. Bennett, Jung Young Lee, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 281.25
102	Lot of 15 books; includes works by Patti Smith, Robert Girardi, Philip Pullman, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 75.00
103	Lot of 20 non-fiction book, including authors like Per Petterson, Dave Eggers, James Salter and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 37.50
104	Lot of 19 books; includes works by Neal Stephenson, Kate Atkinson, Joanne Harris, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 75.00
105	Box lot of 20 non-fiction books, authors like Laurie Sheck, Rachel Pollack, Jennifer Egen and more.	N/A	Not Available	USD 112.50
106	Lot of 20 books; includes works by Susanna Clarke, Thomas Harris, Paul Harding, and more,	N/A	Not Available	USD 125.00
107	Lot of 18 books; includes works by Timothy McSweeney, Dave Eggers, Jay Anson, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 56.25
108	Lot of 18 books; includes works by Ocean Vuong, James Salter, J.M. Coetzee, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 43.75
109	Lot of 20 books; includes works by Jack London, Nick Hornby, Jeanne DuPrau, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 62.50
110	Lot of 18 books; includes works by David Foster Wallace, Ake Edwardson, Ken Kesey, and others	N/A	Not Available	USD 100.00
111	Lot of 7 books; includes works by Henry James and William Faulkner	N/A	Not Available	USD 25.00
112	Lot of 11 books by Walt Kelly (9 First Printing)	N/A	Not Available	USD 31.25
113	Lot of 17 books; includes works by Ray Bradbury, Henry James, W.G. Sebald, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 100.00
114	Lot of 15 books; includes works by Clayton Eshleman, Brian Marley, Anne Carson, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 18.75
115	9 books on art; "New American Paintings Vol. 74, 81, 87" Steven T. Zevitas; "Dard Hunter: The Graphic Works" Lawrence Kreisman; "In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art" Mary McWilliams; "Titia...	N/A	Not Available	USD 25.00
116	Lot of 14 books on spirituality and psychology; includes works by R.J. Stewart, John P. Conger, H.L. Philp, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 312.50
117	7 books on various art mediums; "Kiki Smith" Hatje Cantz; "Recent Forgeries" Viggo Mortensen; "Roberto Rossellini: Magician of the Real" David Forgacs; "Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg,...	N/A	Not Available	USD 12.50
118	7 books on music; "The Joshua Tree U2"; "Three Chords and the Truth: U2" Niall Stokes; "A Hard Day's Write" Steve Turner; "Woodstock Vision: The Spirit of a Generation" Elliott Landy; "U2: Into the Heart" Niall Stokes...	N/A	Not Available	USD 87.50
119	4 books on art; "Gift from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait" William W. Fitzhugh; "The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin" John L. Tancock; "Maya" Peter Schmidt; "The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership" Michael ...	N/A	Not Available	USD 25.00
120	Lot of 8 books (1 First Edition Copy and 5 First American Edition Copies), and 3 calendars (1986, 1987, 2003) by Glen Baxter (2 written in)	N/A	Not Available	USD 87.50
121	5 books on art; "Noa Noa: Paul Gauguin" Jonathan Griffin; "Michael Parkes" John Russell Taylor; "Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence" Nancy E. Green; "The Art of Richard Diebenkorn" Jane Livingston; "Seance: ...	N/A	Not Available	USD 50.00
122	Lot of 5 books on art; "Light from Within" Linda McCartney; "Illuminations" Joyce Tenneson; "Things I've Heard" Christian Marclay; "Paul Jenkins" Albert Elsen; "Plant Kingdoms: The Photographs of Charles Jones" Sean...	N/A	Not Available	USD 12.50
123	Lot of 7 Vort periodicals on poetry and 5 Black Clock magazines on English literature	N/A	Not Available	USD 37.50
124	Lot of 5 books on art; "Anselm Kiefer: After the Catastrophe" Rafael Lopez-Pedraza; "Georgie O'Keefe & Alfred Stieglitz: Two Lives" Alexandra Arrowsmith; "Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence" Nancy E. Green; ...	N/A	Not Available	USD 12.50
125	Lot of 6 books; "Eugene Ionesco: Story Number 1" Joel Naprstek; "Eugene Ionesco: Story Number 2" Gerard Failly; "Blackboard, Blackboard on the Wall, Who is the Fairest One of All?" Albert Cullum; "The Sandman: The Dre...	N/A	Not Available	USD 75.00

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.