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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Fleming (Ian). Dr. No, 1958; You Only Live Twice, 1964, 1st editions, presentation copies. £20,000-30,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Sign of Four, 1st edition, 1890. £5,000-8,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Stenbock (Eric Stanislaus). The Shadow of Death, 1st edition, 1893. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Tolkien (J. R. R.). The Lord of the Rings, 1st one volume edition, signed, 1968. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Orwell (George). Animal Farm, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Cunard (Nancy, editor). Negro, Anthology made by Nancy Cunard, 1st edition, 1934. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Table Game. [The Little Artist Magic Painter, Austria], circa 1775. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Kirnig (Paul, 1891-1955). Austria, Vienna: Christophe Reisser's Söhne, c. 1930. £700-1,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: A collection of letters including from T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley et al, from the Lady Ottoline Morrell collection. £700-1,000.Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: The Gentleman's Magazine, or Monthly Intelligencer. 175 volumes, 1731-1844. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Mont Blanc peepshow. Mr Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc in Miniature, 1854. £1,500-2,000 -
Bonhams: FREDERICK DOUGLASS RETURNS TO AMERICA A FREE MAN. Sold for $353,175.Bonhams: TORTILLA FLAT INSCRIBED TO STEINBECK'S LITTLE SISTER, MARY. Sold for $57,600.Bonhams: A FRAGMENT OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF OF MICE AND MEN, EATEN BY THE DOG. Sold for $12,800.Bonhams: KEPLER INVESTIGATES PLANETARY MOTION. Sold for $1,008,375.Bonhams: AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFT LEAF FROM DARWIN'S DESCENT OF MAN, SIGNED BY DARWIN AT THE FOOT. Sold for $239,775.Bonhams: AUDOBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. Sold for $32,000.Bonhams: FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (1706-1790). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Sold for $38,175.Bonhams: MILNE, A.A. (1882-1956). BOXED SET OF 4 CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Sold for $20,480. -
Sotheby’s
Important Modern Literature from the Library of an American Filmmaker
8 December 2023Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Kerouac, Jack. Typescript scroll of The Dharma Bums. Typed by Kerouac in Orlando, Florida, 1957, published by Viking in 1958. 300,000 - 500,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Hemingway, Ernest. The autograph manuscript of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." [Key West, finished April 1936]. 300,000 - 500,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Miller, Henry. Typescript of The Last Book, a working title for Tropic of Cancer, written circa 1931–1932. 100,000 - 150,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Ruscha, Ed. Twentysix Gasoline Stations, with a lengthy inscription to Joe Goode. 40,000 - 60,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Hemingway, Ernest. in our time, first edition of Hemingway’s second book. 30,000 - 50,000 USD -
Forum Auctions
Online Sale
Books and Works on Paper
Ending 13th December 2023Forum, Dec. 13: Ackermann (Rudolph) [Views of Country Seats...], 146 hand-coloured aquatints from 'Repository of Arts’. £1,000 to £1,500.Forum, Dec. 13: Campbell (Colen) & others. Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect..., 5 vol., [1751-1819]. £7,000 to £10,000.Forum, Dec. 13: Austen (Jane). The Novels, 12 vol., Edinburgh, John Grant, 1911. £1,500 to £2,000.Forum, Dec. 13: Murder broadside.- Horrid and barbarous murder of a female by cutting off her head, arms, and legs,… £200 to £300.
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - May - 2007 Issue
Autographs from the Arts, Science, Politics, etc. From David Schulson
Houdini on the cover of David Schulson's latest catalogue.
By Michael Stillman
Recently discovered in our mailbox was Catalogue 133 from David Schulson Autographs. Schulson offers a nice mix of autographed documents, letters, and photographs, from both Europe and America. There is a particularly large concentration from persons in the arts - musicians, writers, artists, and actors. However, those who collect signatures of political leaders, scientists, inventors, or even a woman "known by her husbands and lovers" (Alma Mahler) will find items of interest. Here are a few samples of what we found in this most recent Schulson catalogue.
Item 47 is pictured on the cover of this catalogue. It is a young-looking Harry Houdini (birth name Erich Weiss), a Hungarian born American immigrant who became the greatest escape artist of all time. His ability to escape from chains, shackles, and all other sorts of restraints is still legendary, though he has been gone for over 80 years. Offered is a postcard of the magician with arms and legs shackled together. It is signed, "Best wishes, Houdini." It is believed to have been printed around 1905, when Houdini was approximately 30. Priced at $3,500.
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy fascinated and charmed a nation as its first lady, but once upon a time, she too was a giddy high school girl. At some point in the mid-1940s, when she was between the ages of 15 and 17, she penned this letter to "Woodley," a friend at Miss Porter's School in Connecticut. In a perhaps startling joke for the time, she writes, "At that cocktail party Nicky said you were a wonderful girl & I agreed so heartily I'm sure he thought I was a Lesbian!" The rest of the time, Miss Bouvier notes, they talked about French Vichy leader Petain. "I tried to look intelligent & nod at the right intervals -- I know I'm no authority on anything -- but he sounded like a little boy who's just read a big book & is having a lovely time expounding it all to a little country urchin without really knowing what it was all about..." She then says she is going to a football game with John (presumably not Kennedy), but that Buddy will be there without a girl. She admits to being ashamed she likes Buddy: "Its all physical -- but no one else can see it at all & looks at me as though I'm insane or have queer glands & I'm beginning to think so myself!" She concludes, "Neither of them have kissed me - I'd upchuck if John did - & love it if Buddy did except I wouldn't let him the 1st time." I'll bet John had a wonderful time at that football game. Item 50. $3,850.
Johannes Brahms was one of the greatest composers, but music isn't all he wrote. Here he writes a letter to music critic and biographer Max Kalbeck, who wrote an eight-volume biography of him. Brahms states (in German) that he was looking forward to welcoming in the winter's festivities with "Mr. K.," "but the ghastly weather and dampness make it impossible for me to attend..." The letter is undated, but would have been late 19th century. Item 11. $3,400.
