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Common Crow Books

Auction Info

Auction Name
Rare Books & Ephemera
Auction Date
12/03/2025 - 12/03/2025
Sale Number
#393976
Total Lots
306
Sold Lots
55.0
Lots Sold
17.97%
Unsold Lots
251
Total Sales (USD)
5,947.20
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
9,715.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
19,445.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
70,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
138,440.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
4.30%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
139 Ernest Hemingway

A Death in the Afternoon, 1932 1st ed. in dust jacket

 1932 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 392.00
101 W. H. Auden

Secondary Worlds (1968) drunkenly inscribed 4x to one of his editors

 c.1968 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 358.40
132 Robert Ganzo, Jacques Villon

Oeuvre Poetique (1957), 8 etchings by Jacques Villon, signed limited

 1957 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 268.80
193 Guillaume Le Blond

L'Artillerie Raisonnee, 1776, 30 folding plates

 1776 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 268.80
143 Niderndorff

Generalis Geographia Cosmica, Mathematica, Naturalis, Politica...1739, maps &

 1739 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 268.80
111 Raymond Chandler

The High Window (1942 first edition in dust jacket)

 1942 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 268.80
278 Arthur Edward Waite

Elfin Music, An Anthology of English Fairy Poetry, 1888

 1888 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 246.40
157 Willa Cather

Father Junipero's Holy Family -- Anvil Press 1956, Carolyn Hammer's own copy

 1956 USD 350.00 - 700.00 USD 246.40
131 Mark Doty

Fire to Fire, Poems. Sutton Hoo Press, 2004. Edition of 160 signed

 2004 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 224.00
225 Cochrane

A Pedestrian Journey Through Russia And Siberian Tartary, 2 vols. 1829. With folding map.

 1829 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 168.00
398 Capt. G. D. Hamilton

Trout-Fishing and Sport in Maoriland -- signed copy, 1904 1st ed.

 1904 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 145.60
397 Peter Capstick's Africa

A Return To The Long Grass - inscribed to his publisher

 1987 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 134.40
176 Cunningham

The Story of Nell Gwyn, 1903, in full lavender morocco, extra-illustrated

 1903 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 134.40
231 Pond

1885 History of Life-Saving Devices, Military & Naval Constructions invented by Joseph Francis

 1885 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 134.40
367

Vortrag zum pracktischen Cours auf Muldner Hutte (ca. 1865-75) William L. Scaife's copy

 1875 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
151 Cecil Aldin

The Black Puppy Book, 1908, 12 color plates

 ca1908 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
178 Natalie Joan & Susan Beatrice Pearse

Ameliaranne in Town [&] At the Circus, 1930-1931

 1930 & 1931 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
190

1843 Report on the Employment of Women & Children in Agriculture, England.

 1843 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
220 Bostwick

1848 book on Venereal Diseases, [and] of the Genito-Urinary Organs, 1848, 27 color plates

 1848 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
217 A. C. Andros

Pen and Pencil Sketches of a Holiday Scamper in Spain, 1860. 6 colored plates.

 1860 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 112.00
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