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Clars Auction Gallery: November Gallery Auction

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Auction Name November Gallery Auction Total Sales (USD) 103,385.20
Auction Date November 21, 2025 - November 21, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 63,550.00
Sale Number #112125 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 98,900.00
Total Lots 173
Sold Lots 119.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 84,700.00
% of Lots Sold 68.79% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 132,300.00
Unsold Lots 54 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 78.15%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4282 Terry O'Neill (British, 1938-2019),

Frank Sinatra, Miami Beach

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,515.00
4373 (lot of 16) Torii Kotondo (1900-1976)

Twelve Aspects of Women.

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 7,205.00
4277 Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868--1952)

Flathead Camp on the Jocko River

1910 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,550.00
4006

A Collection of Billie Holiday original orchestral arrangement sheets for 'Lover Man', 'A Love Affair', 'Please Come Home', 'Sleepy Time Down South', ...

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 5,567.50
4011 Billie Holiday

A rare Billie Holiday handwritten letter to a fan at the Taft School in Watertown, CT.

1938 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,912.50
4012 Billie Holiday

A rare Billie Holiday handwritten letter to her last husband, Louie Mackay, signed Lady on Hotel Wilson letterhead.

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,930.00
4279 Elliot Erwitt (French, 1928-2023),

Paris Umbrella and Eiffel Tower

1989 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,930.00
4007 Billie Holiday

A Billie Holiday inscribed and signed first edition of 'Lady Sings the Blues', Billie Holiday with William Duffy,

1956 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 3,275.00
4253 (lot of 2) Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942)

Fruits and Vegetables

1939 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,275.00
4010 Billie Holidays personal assistant, Alice Vrbsky,

A collection of original handwritten journals and notes of Billie Holidays personal assistant, Alice Vrbsky, towards the end of Billie Holidays life.

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,620.00
4016 Charlie Christian

A rare handwritten Charlie Christian one-page sheet music for 'Prisoner of Love' and 'Tea', dating to the mid-late 1930's.

mid-late 1930's. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,965.00
4044

A collection of jazz flyers comprising Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck, Josephine Baker, Thelonious Monk and his Orchestra, ...

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,965.00
4247 Albert Hirschfeld (American, 1903-2003)

Fred and Ginger

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,703.00
4238 LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012)

San Francisco Nocturne

1992 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,310.00
4248 Dorr Bothwell (American, 1902-2000)

Memory of an Emotion

1950 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,310.00
4246 Albert Hirschfeld (American, 1903-2003)

The Algonquin Round Table

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,244.50
4225 Roy De Forest (American, 1930-2007)

Birdland

1994, USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,179.00
4349 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)

Tsuki Hyakushi.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,179.00
4051

Three binders of jazz ephemera, comprising signed press photos such as Guy Lombardo, Hazel Scott, Leroy Jones, Tony Bennett; ...

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,113.50
4234 Harold Joe Waldrum (American, 1934-2003)

Adobe Church

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 982.50
4257 Pedro Friedeberg (Mexican, b. 1936)

Pareja

1992 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 982.50
4314 Toko Shinoda (1913-2021)

Beyond.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 982.50
4285 Jeff Brouws (American, b.1955)

Mobil/Trailer, Inyokern, California

1991 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 851.50
4023

A silver gelatin photo of Billie Holiday, Lester Young and others

1940's. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 786.00
4228 Eyvind Earle (American, 1916-2000)

The Wave

1990, USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 786.00
  • 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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