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Auction Info

Auction Name
Rare Book Signature Auction
Auction Date
12/15/2025 - 12/15/2025
Sale Number
#6323
Total Lots
610
Sold Lots
567.0
Lots Sold
92.95%
Unsold Lots
43
Total Sales (USD)
2,105,690.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
1,181,952.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
1,772,928.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,435,550.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
2,153,328.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
97.79%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
45109 J. R. R. Tolkien.

The Lord of the Rings: comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.

1954-1955. USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 250,000.00
45341 [Robert S. Mulliken].

Nobel Prize Medal in Chemistry for his development of Molecular Orbital Theory.

USD 160,000.00 - 240,000.00 USD 200,000.00
45108 J. R. R. Tolkien.

Autograph manuscript, headed "Further correction desired," being a late revision to The Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter VI ("Many Partings").

USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 USD 87,500.00
45051 ELIOT, George [Mary Ann Evans].

Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life.

December 1871- December 1872. USD 48,000.00 - 72,000.00 USD 75,000.00
45105 Bram Stoker.

Dracula.

1897 USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 USD 55,000.00
45274 Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Tarzan of the Apes.

USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 USD 37,500.00
45037 John Donne.

Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.

1633 USD 32,000.00 - 48,000.00 USD 37,500.00
45149 John James Audubon.

The Bird of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories.

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 36,250.00
45205 F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Tender is the Night. A Romance.

USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 27,500.00
45139 [Georges Braque, illustrator]. [Paul Bonet, binder]. Guillaume Apollinaire.

Si je mourais la-bas.

1962 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 27,500.00
45059 Robert Herrick.

Hesperides: or, The Works both Humane & Divine.

1648 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 26,250.00
45250 J. D. Salinger.

The Catcher in the Rye.

USD 32,000.00 - 48,000.00 USD 25,000.00
45258 John Steinbeck.

Of Mice and Men.

USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 23,125.00
45079 J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

In a Glass Darkly.

1872 USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 USD 23,125.00
45030 Charles Dickens.

A Tale of Two Cities.

1859 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 22,500.00
45138 Andreas Vesalius.

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 22,500.00
45039 Daphne du Maurier.

Rebecca.

1938 USD 9,600.00 - 14,400.00 USD 21,250.00
45267 Isaac Asimov.

I, Robot.

USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 USD 20,000.00
45228 John Le Carre.

Group of 21 Mostly Signed First Edition Novels, including his rare first book, Call for the Dead.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 18,750.00
45239 George Orwell.

Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 16,875.00

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