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Auction Name
Fine Literature with the Counterculture & the Residents
Auction Date
12/04/2025 - 12/04/2025
Sale Number
#852
Total Lots
471
Sold Lots
319.0
Lots Sold
67.73%
Unsold Lots
152
Total Sales (USD)
238,438.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
175,400.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
273,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
258,900.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
402,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
59.21%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
280 Lewis, C.S.

The Chronicles of Narnia

 [1950-56] USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 37,500.00
270 Herbert, Frank

Dune

 [1965] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 15,000.00
126 Melville, Herman

Moby Dick or the Whale

 1930 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,750.00
123 McCarthy, Cormac

Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West

 1985 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,125.00
80 Hemingway, Ernest

The Fifth Column - original working script

 [c.1940] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,125.00
145 Orwell, George

Nineteen Eighty-Four

 1949 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 6,250.00
310 Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Lord of the Rings

 1955-1956 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,000.00
276 Jordan, Robert

The Eye of the World

 [1990] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,062.50
172 Stoddard, Charles Warren

For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told

 1903 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,812.50
102 Livermore, Elizabeth

Zoe; or the Quadroon's Triumph. A Tale for the Times

 1855 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 2,375.00
139 Orwell, George

Down and Out in Paris and London

 1933 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,375.00
241 Crichton, Michael

Jurassic Park

 1990 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,375.00
197 Adams, Douglas

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 [1980] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,125.00
196 Adams, Douglas

Four signed titles from the Hitchhiker's Guide series

 1980-1992 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,000.00
186 Walker, Alice

The Color Purple

 [1982] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,875.00
94 Johnson, Crockett

Harold and the Purple Crayon

 1955 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,875.00
83 Hemingway, Ernest

The Old Man and the Sea

 1952 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,750.00
8 Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice

 [1895] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
251 Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Hound of the Baskervilles

 1902 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,750.00
215 Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Tarzan of the Apes

 1914 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,750.00
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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.