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Doyle New York: Stage and Screen

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Auction Name Stage and Screen Total Sales (USD) 165,690.00
Auction Date November 05, 2025 - November 05, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 104,700.00
Sale Number #9114 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 165,700.00
Total Lots 156
Sold Lots 122.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 140,480.00
% of Lots Sold 78.21% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 220,820.00
Unsold Lots 34 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 75.03%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
21 ADDAMS, CHARLES

A Charles Adams theater advertisement

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 23,040.00
28 SAMUEL BECKETT

Director Alan Schneider's annotated working copy of Waiting for Godot

USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 19,200.00
44 SAMUEL BECKETT

Samuel Beckett inscribes the typescript of Eh Joe upon completion in June 1965

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,960.00
27 SAMUEL BECKETT

The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett

1952 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,320.00
33 SAMUEL BECKETT

The first edition of Endgame, Beckett's second play, inscribed to its first American director

[1957]. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,760.00
22 AL HIRSCHFELD

A stylish caricature by Al Hirschfeld depicting David Niven in Happy Anniversary

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,120.00
45 SAMUEL BECKETT

Corrected manuscript of "Not I" presented to Barney Miller of the Grove Press

1973 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,800.00
48 SAMUEL BECKETT

Eight works inscribed to Alan Schneider by Samuel Beckett

1970s-80s. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,800.00
29 SAMUEL BECKETT

The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique

1956 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,840.00
57 HARPER LEE

To Kill a Mockingbird signed by Harper Lee, Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, and Phillip Alford

[1995]. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,200.00
34 SAMUEL BECKETT

A presentation copy of Endgame, inscribed by Beckett to his American director

[1958]. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,880.00
46 SAMUEL BECKETT

Inscribed script of Beckett's "Ohio Impromptu" and "Catastrophe"

[n.d.]. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,880.00
104 GERSHWIN, GEORGE

An autographed George Gershwin musical quotation

1928 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,880.00
51 SAMUEL BECKETT

Four works inscribed to Alan Schneider from Samuel Beckett in the 1970s-80s

1970s-80s. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,560.00
17 MIGUEL STARCEVICH

Courtney Love on Sunset Boulevard for Vogue Italia, 2012

2012 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,304.00
30 SAMUEL BECKETT

The rare first English edition of Waiting for Godot, signed

[1956]. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,176.00
55 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The First Edition of The Glass Menagerie Signed by Tennessee Williams

[1945]. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,176.00
35 SAMUEL BECKETT

Endgame inscribed from Samuel Beckett to the play's first American director Alan Schneider

[1957]. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,048.00
126

Three autograph albums loaded with signatures of stars of the 1940s

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,048.00
169 WINSTON CHURCHILL

A signed portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, dated 1941

1941 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,048.00
2 [JAMES DEAN]

James Dean signed high school yearbook

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
36 SAMUEL BECKETT

The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958

1958]. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
129

Autograph album with Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Gloria Swanson, Peter Lorre, and others

about 1941 and later. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
56 ARTHUR MILLER

A signed first printing of Death of a Salesman

1949 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,664.00
63 MARY MARTIN and ETHEL MERMAN

Mary Martin and Ethel Merman signed Big Apple poster

1976 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 1,408.00
  • Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
  • Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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