Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts - Part 2, N11830, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 26, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Page Size: 88 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1026 Austen, Jane

Mansfield Park: A Novel.

1814 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,560.00
1027 Austen, Jane

Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice", &C. &C.

London 1816 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 15,240.00
1028 Bemelmans, Ludwig

An extensively illustrated, wide-ranging archive of letters to Elizabeth Weicker and Theodore Weicker, Jr.

circa 1960-1962 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 22,860.00
1030 Blake, William

Edward Young. The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts.

London 1797 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,890.00
1031 Blake, William

Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented & Engraved by William Blake.

London 1825 i.e., 1874 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
1032 Dickens, Charles

Bleak House.

London 1853 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 24,130.00
1033 Dickens, Charles

A Tale of Two Cities.

London 1859 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,065.00
1034 Dickens, Charles

A Tale of Two Cities.

London 1859 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,160.00
1035 William Shakespeare

The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke.

Hammersmith 1909 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,397.00
1036 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Autograph psychical casebook, containing spiritualist notes and commentary penned by Doyle

England circa 1919-1921 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
1037 Eliot, T.S. --- Gerard de Nerval

Les Filles du Feu.

Paris n.d., circa 1904? USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,334.00
1038 Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby.

New York 1925 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 Not Sold
1039 Fleming, Ian

Live and Let Die.

London 1954 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,064.00
1040 Hammett, Dashiell

The Maltese Falcon.

New York 1930 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
1041 Hemingway, Ernest

The Sun Also Rises.

New York 1926 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 33,020.00
1042 Hemingway, Ernest --- Leonard Brown

Typescript draft introduction, biographic note and prefaces to a proposed collected works of Hemingway, with Hemingway's autograph revisions,

circa 1952 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 Not Sold
1043 Joyce, James --- Robert Motherwell

Ulysses.

San Francisco 1988 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,525.00
1044 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume.

Paris 1829 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 21,590.00
1045 Kent, Rockwell illustrator --- Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire

Candide.

New York 1928 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,302.00
1046 Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.

New York /London 1851 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
1047 Rackham, Arthur --- Richard Wagner

Alberich and Mime fighting over the body of Fafnir, original ink and watercolor drawing, from Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, 1911

1911 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,700.00
1048 Rand, Ayn

Ayn Rand's first lecture at the Ford Hall Forum: autograph manuscript of "The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age"

New York 1961) USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 Not Sold
1049 Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

London 1997 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 22,860.00
1050 Swift, Jonathan

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

London 1726-1727 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,826.00
1051 Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson

Maud and Other Poems.

London 1855 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 88,900.00
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