University Archives: Rare Autographs, Books, Photos & Ephemera , 42325, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 23, 2025 - April 23, 2025

Page Size: 508 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
449	Jean Cocteau	Jean Cocteau "Dessins" With His Original Initialed Drawing, Most Desirable & Scarce!	Paris:	n.d., 1923 [i.e. 1924].	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
450	Jean Cocteau	Jean Cocteau "Dessins" Limited 1st Edition With His Large Original Drawing	Paris:	n.d., 1923 [i.e. 1924].	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,000.00
451	James Fenimore Cooper	James Fenimore Cooper ALS to James de Peyster Ogden Requesting a Loan, Ex-Forbes		April 17, 1839	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 687.50
452	Charles Dickens	Rare Charles Dickens CDV by Thrupp		ca. 1860s	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 225.00
453	Charles Dickens	Charles Dickens Boldly Signed Check Dating Just Before "Great Expectations" Serialization		August 3, 1860	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 1,500.00
454	Charles Dickens	Charles Dickens 2x Signed Letter Addressed to Leading Homeopathic Doctor		Saturday	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 1,187.50
455	R.W. Emerson	R.W. Emerson Signed 1st Ed. Presentation Copy of "May-Day and Other Pieces"	Boston:	May 1, 1867	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 5,937.50
456	R.W. Emerson	R.W. Emerson Signed 1st Ed. Presentation Copy of "Essays: Second Series"	Boston:	October 15, 1844	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 6,250.00
457	Helen Keller	Helen Keller TLS to FDR "bless you for considering the blind in these desperate days"		1938-07-15	USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,250.00
458	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Alfred, Lord Tennyson Signed Check From Isle of Wight Retreat		July 5, 1865	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 250.00
459	Margaret Mitchell	Margaret Mitchell Rare ALS to Her Editor as Epic Film "Gone With the Wind" Gains Heat "Forgive this scrawl. I haven't written a letter in long hand in years and I've almost forgotten how it's done."		1939-04-01	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 8,750.00
460	Margaret Mitchell	Margaret Mitchell TLS Re: Press on Gone With The Wind, "I beg of you...if anyone should ask...where my characters lived...they lived only in my mind"		1939-02-23	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 3,328.00
461	Margaret Mitchell	Margaret Mitchell TLS on Turning Gone With The Wind Into a Movie!		1947-07-23	USD 1,200.00 - 1,400.00	USD 1,062.50
462	Sylvia Plath	A Winter Ship	Edinburgh:	ca. 1960	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 1,750.00
463	Ayn Rand	Ayn Rand 8pp AMS for "Los Angeles Times" Sunday Column "War & Peace" - Copiously Edited, 900+ Words In Her Hand!		1962-06-12	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 15,000.00
464	Adam Smith	Adam Smith ALS While Revising "The Wealth of Nations" - A New Discovery Documenting Meeting with Influential Editor		December 21, 1786	USD 18,000.00 - 24,000.00	USD 15,000.00
465	Alexander Solzhenitsyn	Prussian Nights	Paris:	n.d., 1974	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 625.00
466	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson Hand Written & Signed Check, Year He Wrote "Underwoods" and "Memories and Portraits"		August 16, 1887	USD 700.00 - 900.00	USD 1,250.00
467	H. Beecher Stowe	H. Beecher Stowe Reconnects With Family Member of Actress who Played Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Stage Play		November 3, 1893	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 576.00
468	Samuel Clemens	Samuel Clemens Signed Check - Same Year He Was Writing Tom Sawyer!		June 30, 1875	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	USD 2,000.00
469	Mark Twain	Mark Twain "Christian Science" Signed & Inscribed, "Only a very small minority can properly claim to be sane"		n.d.	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,625.00
470	Mark Twain	Mark Twain Speaks German! Archive: 2 ALSs 4x Signed With Nearly 300 Words, Hartford Oral History, & Framed Photograph, 4 Pcs		ca. 1892-1942	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,000.00
471	Walt Whitman	Walt Whitman Large & Bold Cut Signature, PSA Encapsulated		n.d.	USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,625.00
472	Elie Wiesel	Night	Norwalk:	ca. 1996	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 406.25
473	Tennessee Williams	Tennessee Williams Signed Check To Lover, Year He Wrote "The World of Tennessee Williams"		1978-08-10	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 150.00

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Sotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR

Sotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR