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

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
176	Lot of 11 fiction books. Includes works by John Steinbeck, Hugh Lofting, Gene Stratton Porter, and John Updike. Includes a First Edition "Grapes of Wrath", First Edition "Rabbit is Rich", and First Trade Edition "The ...	N/A	Not Available	USD 200.00
177	Lot of 19 biographies; includes biographies about E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Scott Walker, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 31.25
178	Lot of 12 books; includes works by Ira Levin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, N.C. Wyeth, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 37.50
179	Lot of 13 non-fiction books; includes works by Gary Snyder, Gertrude Stein, Glenn Watkins, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 12.50
180	Lot of 5 volumes of "The Works of Edgar Allen Poe" Centenary Edition; includes volumes 1, 2, 3, 5, 7	N/A	Not Available	USD 150.00
181	Lot of 24 books on psychology and spirituality. Titles like "The Point of Existence" by A.H. Almaas, "Spiritual Beings" by Steiner and more.	N/A	Not Available	USD 281.25
182	Lot of 11 books, titles like "High Fidelity" and "The Infinities"	N/A	Not Available	USD 50.00
183	Lot of 12 fiction books, titles like "The Hummingbird's Daughter" by Luis Alberto Urrea, "Dead Eye Dick" by Kurt Vonnegut, and more.	N/A	Not Available	USD 87.50
184	Lot of 11 books. Authors like Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Richard Bausch and more.	N/A	Not Available	USD 75.00
185	Lot of 11 books, titles like Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien, Shroud by John Banville and more. All in fair condition	N/A	Not Available	USD 75.00
186	Lot of 12 fiction books, titles like "His Illegal Self" by Peter Carey, "The Death of Bunny Munro" by Nick Cave, and more	N/A	Not Available	USD 31.25
187	Lot of ten books, titles like "Drinking Lightning" by Rubinov Jacobson, "The Shining Paths" by Delores Ashcrost-Nowicki and more. All in good condition	N/A	Not Available	USD 12.50
188	Lot of 13 books on Mysticism and Christianity. Titles like "School of Kabbalah" by Halevi, "Chronicle of the Living Christ" by Robert A. Powell, and more. All in good condition	N/A	Not Available	USD 43.75
189	Lot of 11 books. Titles like "Dominion" by C.J. Sansom, "Europe Central" by William T. Vollmann, and more.	N/A	Not Available	USD 50.00
190	Lot of 13 books, titles like "That Distant Land" by Wendell Berry and "Joy, Inspiration and Hope" by Verena Kast, and more. All in good conditions	N/A	Not Available	USD 12.50
191	Lot of 13 books on Psychology, titles like "People Who Do Things to Eachother" by Hubback, "The Way of Woman by Helen M. Luke and more. All in fair condition	N/A	Not Available	USD 343.75
192	Lot of 12 books on psychology and christianity. Titles like "Theosophy" by Rudolf Steiner, "Self Remembering" by Burton, and more. All in fair condition	N/A	Not Available	USD 343.75
193	Lot of 12 books on love and healing. Titles like "Creators on Creating" by Barron, Montouri ann Barron, "How Starbucks Saved my Life" by Michael Gates Gill, and more.	N/A	Not Available	USD 12.50
194	Lot of 12 books, titles like "The Buried Giant" by Kazuo Ishiguro, "Willard and his Bowling Trophies" by Richard Brautigan and more.	N/A	Not Available	USD 25.00
195	Lot of 10 art books. The Unicorn Tapestries, Tetrascroll, and more. Some have corner wear, but otherwise in good condition	N/A	Not Available	USD 18.75

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1153 Gerhard Mercator u. Jodocus Hondius. Atlas sive cosmographicae. Amsterdam, Hondius, 1606.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1378 Martin Höhlig, Collection of 100 photographs Berlin im Licht, 1928.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 192. Fragment of a late medieval liturgical music manuscript. 14th century

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1394 Auguste Salzmann. Jérusalem. 40 salt paper prints. Paris, Baudry, 1856.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1143 Deluxe edition of Prince Waldemar of Prussia's travelogue about Sri Lanka, India and Nepal. Berlin, 1853.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1225. Koch-Gruenberg. Indianertypen (Indiantypesin the Amazon). Berlin 1906.

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 862. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. Viro Amplissimo Nobilissimo. Amsterdam 1765.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 549. Francisco de Goya. Los desastres de la guerra. 80 Etchings. Madrid, 1923.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1033. Rösel von Rosenhof. Natural History of Frogs. Nuremberg, 1815.

Jeschke Jádi
Rare Book Auction 159
Saturday April 25

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 13 Pomponius Mela. Cosmographi. Venice, Renner 1478.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 526 William Shakespeare. Hamlet. Cranach Press, 1928.

Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 25: Lot 1022. Eugen Johann Christoph Esper. Butterflies Leipzig, 1829-1839.
Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: Thomas Heywood. An Apology for Actors. London: Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1612. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, Apr. 23: Illuminated Islamic Devotional Manuscript. 19th century. Approx. 90 leaves with gilt-decorated title and 2 full page miniatures of Mecca and Medina. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 23: Antiphonal in Latin. Manuscript on Parchment. Cologne, early 16th century. $7,000 to $9,000.

Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: Mohammed ibn Jafir Albategnius. De Scientia Stellarum Liber. Bologna: Victor Benati, 1645. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, Apr. 23: Frank Herbert. Dune. Fine First Edition. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. $5,000 to $7,000.

Swann, Apr. 23: William Shakespeare. Five Plays from the Second Folio. London: Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot, 1632. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First edition, first issue. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 23: Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities. With an A.L.S. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition, first issue. $1,200 to $1,800.

Swann, Apr. 23: Ursula K. LeGuin. The Left Hand of Darkness. Inscribed First Edition. New York: Walker and Company, 1969. $800 to $1,200.

Swann
Fine Books Featuring Focus on Women
April 23, 2026

Swann, Apr. 23: L. Frank Baum & Ruth Plumly Thompson. Five First Canadian editions including Ozma of Oz; The Emerald City of Oz; Glinda of Oz; [and others]. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann, Apr. 23: Corita Kent. Different Drummer. 1967. Color screenprint; signed "Corita" in pencil on the lower edge. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann, Apr. 23: Bible in English. Tyndale-Taverner Translation. The Bugge Bible. The Holye Bible. London: Imprinted by John Daye and Willyam Seres, 1549. $1,500 to $2,000.
Sotheby’s
Précieuses reliures d’une bibliophile
Collection Georgette J. Salles
Open for bidding 8-29 April

Apr. 8-29: Delaunay, Sonia — Blaise Cendrars. La Prose du Transsibérien. 1913. €120,000 to €180,000.

Apr. 8-29: Picasso, Pablo — Georges Hugnet. La Chèvre-feuille. 1943. €80,000 to €120,000.

Apr. 8-29: Schmied, François-Louis ─ Joseph-Charles Mardrus. Cantique des cantiques. 1925. €30,000 to €50,000.

Apr. 8-29: Bonnard, Pierre — Paul Verlaine. Parallèlement. 1900. €30,000 to €50,000.

Apr. 8-29: Derain, André — Guillaume Apollinaire. L’Enchanteur pourrissant. 1909. €20,000 to €30,000.
Heritage, May 13: Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. The dedication copy, inscribed to John W. Campbell, Jr.

Heritage, May 13: Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. A fine copy, in a brilliant dust jacket.

Heritage, May 13: Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author.

Heritage, May 13: Robert A. Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land. A fine copy, signed by the author.

Heritage, May 13: Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Exceedingly rare true first American edition, first issue.
Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 16. Blaeu's world map on a polar projection in contemporary color (1695) Est. $5,500 - $7,000

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 55. Illuminated lunar globe produced in East Germany (1977) Est. $750 - $900

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 594. Rare and decorative De Jode map of Africa (1593) Est. $7,500 - $9,000

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 127. The first printed map to focus on New England and New France (1565) Est. $4,500 - $5,500

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 298. Rare Texas oilfield map (1920) Est. $3,000 - $3,750

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 656. Bible leaf with hand-colored image of Adoration of the Magi (1450) Est. $1,800 - $2,100

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 9. Blaeu's magnificent carte-a-figures world map (1641) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 214. Rare edition of view of the world from Silicon Valley (1984) Est. $600 - $750

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 34. Fascinating Japanese satirical map published just prior to WWII (1938) Est. $1,400 - $1,700

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 181. German edition of Catesby's scarce and important map of the Southeastern US (1755) Est. $3,750 - $4,500

Old World Auctions (April 22): Lot 625. Complete set of Covarrubias's "Pageant of the Pacific" (1940-39) Est. $1,200 - $1,500