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
126	Lot of 6 books on art; "The Hollow of the Hand" PJ Harvey & Seamus Murphy; "Raw View #08"; "Bertolucci Images" Marcello Garofalo; "Frank Films: The Film and Video Work of Robert Frank" Stefan Grissemann; "Brion Gysin:...	N/A	Not Available	USD 25.00
127	Lot of 7 fantagraphic books; "Greetings from Hellville" Thomas Ott; "Dead End" Thomas Ott; "Krazy and Ignatz" George Herriman (Volumes: 1925-1926, 1931-1932, 1933-1934, 1941-1942, 1943-1944)	N/A	Not Available	USD 75.00
128	Lot of 5 books on art; "The Autobiography of Gustave Baumann" Martin Krause; "Francesco Clemente"; "Balthus" Claude Roy; "Michael Parkes" John Russell Taylor ; "Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence" Nancy E....	N/A	Not Available	USD 75.00
129	Lot of 5 books on art; "John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891" Elisabeth Hodermarsky; "The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured" Susan A. Hobbs; "The Naked Nude" Frances Bor...	N/A	Not Available	USD 31.25
130	Lot of 4 books on comics; "Comix: The Underground Revolution" Dez Skinn; "The Best American Comics, 2007" Chris Ware; "Masters of American Comics" John Carlin; "The R-Crumb Coffee Table Art Book" Peter Poplaski	N/A	Not Available	USD 50.00
131	Lot of 4 books on art; "20th Century Art & Design" Treadway & Toomey; "Head, Heart and Hand: Elbert Hubbard and The Roycrofters" Marie Via & Marjorie B. Searl; "The World of Carl Larsson" Hans-Curt Koster; "The Aesthe...	N/A	Not Available	USD 12.50
132	Lot of 5 books on art; "The Unspeakable Confessions of Salvador Dali" Harold J. Salemson; "A Study of Vermeer" Edward Snow; "Van Eyck: The Ghent Altarpiece" Elisabeth Dhanens; "Sketchbooks of Paolo Soleri"; "Netherlan...	N/A	Not Available	USD 43.75
133	Lot of music books, Jimi Hendrix, Babenzele, Cape Breton Aire	N/A	Not Available	USD 50.00
134	Lot of 8 books on music; "Blue Note" Graham Marsh & Glyn Callingham; "But Beautiful" Geoff Dyer; "It Came From Memphis" Robert Gordon; "Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra" John F. Szwed; "Bill Evans: Ho...	N/A	Not Available	USD 50.00
135	Lot of 6 books on William Blake; "The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake" Morton Paley; "The Book of Urizen" William Blake; "William Blake in the Desolate Market" G. E. Bentley Jr.; "The Illumin...	N/A	Not Available	USD 37.50
136	Lot of 10 books about Bob Dylan. Titles like "Tarantula" by Bob Dylan, "Bob Dylan" by Clinton Heylin and more. Hardbacks in good condition	N/A	Not Available	USD 100.00
137	Lot of 6 books on music; "Just Kids" Patti Smith; "Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play" Ben Watson; "Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic" John "Drumbo" French; "Words Without Music" Philip Glass; "The...	N/A	Not Available	USD 56.25
138	Lot of 12 Music Books, "Just Kids" Patti Smith, "Conversations with Tom Petty" and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 62.50
139	Lot of 5 books on art; "Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts" Thomas Kren; "Michael Parkes" John Russell Taylor; "Hans Namuth Portraits" Carolyn Kinder Carr; "Gerhard Richter Paintings" Roald Nasgaard; "Adam Fuss" Euge...	N/A	Not Available	USD 31.25
140	Lot of 8 books on art, "Sound Zero" Andy Warhol, Lucian Frued Drawing, and more. Hardback books in good condition	N/A	Not Available	USD 43.75
141	Lot of 3 books on Picasso; "Picasso: Painter and Sculptor in Clay" Marilyn McCully; "Picasso: Erotique" Jean Clair; "Je Suis Le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso" Arnold Glimcher & Marc Glimcher	N/A	Not Available	USD 31.25
142	Lot of 6 books about the Beatles and the Grateful Dead. The Beatles Unseen Archives, Grateful Dead Lyrics, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 37.50
143	Lot of 9 issues of The Believer Magazine; includes issues: March 2003, May 2003, February 2006 (2), March 2007, February 2008, March 2008 (2), March 2012	N/A	Not Available	USD 12.50
144	Lot of 17 books on spirituality; includes works by J.G. Bennett, Deng Ming-Dao, Thomas Merton, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 87.50
145	Lot of 17 books; includes works by Philip K. Dick, Raymond Carver, Nicholas A. Basbanes, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 125.00
146	Lot of 18 books; includes works by Philip Pullman, Doris Lessing, Brian Selznick, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 100.00
147	Lot of 21 books on poetry; includes works by Kenneth Rexroth, Ronald Johnson, E.E. Cummings, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 43.75
148	Lot of 6 books on art; "Harry Callahan" Sherman Paul; "Very Similar" Frank Horvat; "Sun Prints" Linda McCartney; "Flamingo" Robert Frank; "Glenn Gould: A Life in Pictures" Yo-Yo Ma & Tim Page; "Flesh and Spirit: The J...	N/A	Not Available	USD 12.50
149	Lot of 13 books on art; "Tapies" Maria Jose Duvaux; "The Season Splendid" Lee Hall; "Jan Burssens: Venice Biennial 1980"; "Jim Dine: Recent Figure Drawings: 1978-1980"; "Jim Dine: The Summers Collection"; "Suzanne Blo...	N/A	Not Available	USD 87.50
150	Lot of 7 books on art; "David Salle" Michael Kruger; "Dard Hunter: The Graphic Works" Lawrence Kreisman; "Folon's Folons"; "Claes Oldenburg Drawings" Janie C. Lee; "Sigmar Polke"; "Gauguin: Noa Noa" Jonathan Griffin;...	N/A	Not Available	USD 25.00

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.