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A.H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals: Books and Ephemera Auction

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Auction Name Books and Ephemera Auction Total Sales (USD) 127,743.75
Auction Date June 01, 2022 - June 01, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 84,450.00
Sale Number #60122 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 124,050.00
Total Lots 205
Sold Lots 114 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 156,950.00
% of Lots Sold 55.61% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 227,650.00
Unsold Lots 91 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 56.11%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4021

BEAVER MAP, HERMAN MOLL (DUTCH/BRITISH, 1654-1732)

circa 1733 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,500.00
4081

WOODY ALLEN, AUTUMN PROJECT SCREENPLAY DRAFT

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,500.00
4063

LOT OF 5 TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELS

1939 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 5,000.00
4078

ANDY WARHOL, PORK SCREENPLAY DRAFT

1971 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,000.00
4082

TOMMY SCREENPLAY DRAFT

1974 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,000.00
4110 Lennon, John.

JOHN LENNON, POWER TO THE PEOPLE UNEDITED PROOF

1972 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,000.00
4032 Wells, H.G.

H.G. WELLS, THE TIME MACHINE FIRST UK EDITION

1895 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,500.00
4085

THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG SCREENPLAY THIRD REVISION

1981 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,250.00
4044 Churchill, Winston S.

WINSTON CHURCHILL (2 VOLS)

1941 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 3,000.00
4023 Goad, Charles E.

ATLAS OF THE CITY OF TORONTO SECOND EDITION

1890 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,750.00
4045 Roeder, Bill.

BILL ROEDER, JACKIE ROBINSON SIGNED

1950 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,375.00
4077 Warhol, Andy.

ANDY WARHOL EXPOSURES

1979 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,375.00
4033 Kesey, Ken.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST FIRST EDITION

1962 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,250.00
4035 Lovelace, Delos W., Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper.

KING KONG FIRST PHOTOPLAY

1932 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,250.00
4036 Shelley, Mary W.

FRANKENSTEIN FIRST PHOTOPLAY EDITION

1931 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,125.00
4112 Harrison, George.

SONGS BY GEORGE HARRISON (2 VOLS)

1987 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,125.00
4031 Reagan, Ronald.

RONALD REAGAN, AN AMERICAN LIFE

1990 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,000.00
4056 Shaw, George Bernard.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, ANDROCLES AND THE LION

1916 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,000.00
4076 Warhol, Andy.

ANDY WARHOL EXPOSURES

1979 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,000.00
4141

FANTASIA ANIMATION CONCEPT DRAWING

1940 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,000.00
4162 Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm.

BROTHERS GRIMM, ILLUS. KAY NIELSEN

1925 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,000.00
4034 Steinbeck, John.

OF MICE AND MEN FIRST EDITION

1937 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,750.00
4143

BOB DYLAN NASHVILLE SKYLINE SIGNED

1969, 1980 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
4019

J. BURLINGTON SMITH, BENGAL PHOTO ALBUM

ca. early twentieth century. USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,625.00
4050 Heinlein, Robert A.

ROBERT HEINLEIN, THE ROLLING STONES FIRST EDITION

1952 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,625.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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