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Second Story Books: Presidents and Leaders: Signed Books and First Editions

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Auction Name Presidents and Leaders: Signed Books and First Editions Total Sales (USD) 34,164.00
Auction Date January 30, 2021 - January 30, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 31,525.00
Sale Number #13021 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 45,400.00
Total Lots 121
Sold Lots 82 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 59,875.00
% of Lots Sold 67.77% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 85,150.00
Unsold Lots 39 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 40.12%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
99 William O. Douglas.

We the Judges.

1956 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,200.00
75 Ronald Reagan.

Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches.

1989 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,140.00
10 Albert J. Beveridge.

Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858.

1928 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,020.00
55 Henry Kissinger.

White House Years and Years of Upheaval.

1979/1982. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,020.00
42 Herbert Hoover.

The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover.

1952 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 960.00
54 Henry Kissinger.

White House Years.

1979 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 960.00
92 Gerald R. Ford.

President John F. Kennedy: Assassination Report of the Warren Commission.

2004 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 960.00
93 The Warren Commission [Warren, Chief Justice Earl [Chairman]; Rankin, J. Lee [General Counsel]; Ford, Gerald R. ; Dulles, Allen W. ; Specter, Arlen [et al].]

Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1964 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 960.00
110 James Monroe.

Washington: 1824. One partially-printed page, 16" x 9.75",

1824 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
25 Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney.

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir.

2011 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 900.00
32 President Hoover and Ex-President Coolidge.

Campaign Speeches of 1932.

1933 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 840.00
70 Barack Obama.

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.

2006 USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 USD 840.00
39 Mikhail Gorbachev.

Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World.

1987 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 780.00
43 Herbert Hoover.

The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson.

1958 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 780.00
77 Cameron Rogers.

The Legend of Calvin Coolidge.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 780.00
27 Bill Clinton.

My Life.

2004 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 720.00
40 Mikhail Gorbachev.

Memoirs.

1996 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 720.00
51 Robert F. Kennedy.

To Seek a Newer World.

1967 USD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 USD 720.00
16 Zbigniew Brezinski.

Out of Control.

1993 USD 250.00 - 400.00 USD 600.00
23 Jimmy Carter.

Beyond the White House .

2007 USD 250.00 - 400.00 USD 600.00
68 Richard Nixon.

RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon.

1978 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 600.00
89 Harry S. Truman.

Memoirs.

1955, 1956 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 600.00
65 Richard Nixon.

RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon.

1978 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 540.00
97 Woodrow Wilson.

A History of the American People.

1902 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 540.00
11 Albert J. Beveridge.

The Life of John Marshall.

1919 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 510.00
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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