Rare Book Monthly Reviews - November - 2013 Issue

Americana Including an Extraordinary Mormon Collection from Michael Vinson

Americana Including an Extraordinary Mormon Collection from Michael Vinson

Michael Vinson Americana has issued a catalogue of Americana Including the First Part of an Extraordinary Mormon Collection. The Salt Lake City bookseller offers a selection of fascinating items in the field of Americana, though it is the Mormon works that are truly spectacular. There are some very rare and important pieces from the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Earlier this year, Vinson acquired most of what may have been the greatest privately held Mormon collection anywhere. It had been pieced together over a lifetime, dating back to the 1950s, by Salt La...

Marc Selvaggio is In Search of Ephemera

Marc Selvaggio is In Search of Ephemera

Marc Selvaggio, Books & Ephemera has issued their Catalogue 140. In Search of Ephemera! They have found it - over 400 items. These may not be memorable literary works. Great writers and illustr...

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A Miscellany from Forest Books

A Miscellany from Forest Books

Forest Books has released a catalogue titled Miscellany Seven. That's the short, cover title. The long title, which will save us from trying to describe what can be found within, is A Catalogue of ...

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Important Historic Documents from the Raab Collection

Important Historic Documents from the Raab Collection

The Raab Collection recently issued Catalog 76. The Raab Collection specializes in important historical documents, providing detailed explanations of how they fit in with the events which surrounde...

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Recent Acquisitions in Americana from the William Reese Company

Recent Acquisitions in Americana from the William Reese Company

The William Reese Company has added to their long line of catalogues with 305 Recent Acquisitions in Americana. The items are within Reese's primary specialty – Americana – but it is al...

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James Cummins Bookseller Offers Fall Arrivals

James Cummins Bookseller Offers Fall Arrivals

James Cummins Bookseller has issued Catalogue 120 Fall Arrivals. Each time we receive a new catalogue from Cummins, we struggle to come up with a description of the material inside. It is always vi...

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Prints, Rare Books, and Drawings from August Laube

Prints, Rare Books, and Drawings from August Laube

This month we received a catalogue from August Laube of Zurich, Switzerland. It is their Spezialkatalog 2013. The firm specializes in “Buch und Kunstantiquariat,” or Books and Visual Ar...

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An Artistic Gallery from Peter Harrington

An Artistic Gallery from Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington has issued a catalogue entitled Gallery Christmas 2013. While Harrington is primarily a bookseller, this catalogue is focused on art. Most items are various forms of printings of a...

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Rare Book Monthly

  • 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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