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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 17, 2025 - July 17, 2025
Page Size: 536 items in 22 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
301 Sayers, Dorothy L. and M. St. Clare Byrne

Busman's Honeymoon: A Detective Comedy in Three Acts

London 1937 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
302

Five science fiction and fantasy novels from English authors

1974-2005 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
303 Simmons, Dan

The Rise of Endymion

New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland [1997] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
304 Stout, Rex

Nine mysteries by Rex Stout

1935-1962 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 562.50
305 Stout, Rex

Nine mystery novels by Rex Stout

New York 1929-1964 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,062.50
306 Taylor, Phoebe Atwood

Murder at the New York World's Fair [with] The Deadly Sunshade

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 375.00
307 Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Boston; Cambridge 1966-1967 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
308

Four volumes featuring vampires

1980-1998 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
309 Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

Slaughterhouse-Five; or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

[New York] [1969] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 687.50
310 Weber, David

Thirteen Honor Harrington novels

[Riverdale, NY] 2013-2019 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
311 Woolrich, Cornell

Black Alibi

New York 1941 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,750.00
312 Woolrich, Cornell

The Black Angel

Garden City, New York 1943 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
313 [Woolrich, Cornell] Irish, William

Somebody on the Phone

Philadelphia and New York [1950] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
314 Woolrich, Cornel

Typed Letter, signed by Cornell Woolrich to literary agent H. N. Swanson

New York 1944 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
315 Woolrich, Cornel

Typed Letter, signed by Cornell Woolrich to literary agent H. N. Swanson

New York 1944 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
316 Woolrich, Cornel

Typed Letter, signed by Cornell Woolrich to publisher Kenneth White

New York 1944 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
317 Yarros. Rebecca

Fourth Wing [with] Iron Flame

[Shrewsbury] [2023] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 437.50
318 Cooney, Seamus

A Checklist of the First One Hundred Publications of the Black Sparrow Press

Los Angeles 1971 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
319 Bukowski, Charles & Al Purdy

The Bukowski / Purdy Letters: 1964-1974, A Decade of Dialogue

Sutton West & Santa Barbara [1983] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
320 Bukowski, Charles & Neeli Cherry, editors

Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns

Los Angeles 1969 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 162.50
321 Bukowski, Charles

Original acrylic painting by Charles Bukowski

No place No date USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
322 Barker, David

Charles Bukowski Spit in My Face - two editions

Salem, Oregon Various dates USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
323 Bryan, John, editor

Fifty-two issues of Open City

Los Angeles 1967-69 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
324 Bukowski, Charles, et al

Portfolio III [with] prospectus

[Washington, D.C.] Spring, 1946 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
325 Bukowski, Charles

Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip

No place 1983 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 162.50
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