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Auction Name
Rare Books Signature Auction
Auction Date
05/08/2025 - 05/09/2025
Sale Number
#6319
Total Lots
366
Sold Lots
349
Lots Sold
95.36%
Unsold Lots
17
Total Sales (USD)
1,455,070.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
870,320.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
1,308,480.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,140,240.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
1,713,360.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
84.92%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
45030 Lansford W. Hastings.

The Emigrants' Guide, to Oregon and California, Containing Scenes and Incidents of a Party of Oregon Emigrants;

1845 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 93,750.00
45167 Frank Herbert.

Dune.

[1965]. USD 9,600.00 - 14,400.00 USD 75,000.00
45050 [Jane Austen].

Sense and Sensibility: A Novel in Three Volumes. By a Lady.

1811 USD 64,000.00 - 96,000.00 USD 68,750.00
45174 J. R. R. Tolkien.

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

1954-1955. USD 64,000.00 - 96,000.00 USD 68,750.00
45019

[Declaration of Independence]. The Pennsylvania Ledger: Or the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New-Jersey Weekly Advertiser.

13 July 1776. USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 62,500.00
45006 William Shakespeare.

Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, SEVEN PLAYS, Never before Printed in Folio.

1685 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 62,500.00
45058 Charles Dickens.

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.

1843 USD 48,000.00 - 72,000.00 USD 45,000.00
45078 [Alberto Sangorski, calligrapher and illuminator]. Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Morte d'Arthur.

c.1910]. USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 USD 42,500.00
45123 Thomas Pynchon.

The Crying of Lot 49.

[1966]. USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 27,500.00
45049 Louisa M. Alcott.

Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy; [and] Part Second.

1868, 1869 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 27,500.00
45177 Jules Verne.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.

1873 [but 1872]. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 27,500.00
45059 Charles Dickens.

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.

1843 USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 USD 25,000.00
45152 Isaac Asimov.

A very fine presentation set of the Foundation Trilogy.

[1951-53]. USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 21,875.00
45079 Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion Etc.

1821 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,000.00
45168 Aldous Huxley.

Brave New World.

1932 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 19,375.00
45148 Isaac Asimov.

I, Robot.

[1950]. USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 18,750.00
45089 Oscar Wilde.

The Picture of Dorian Gray.

1891 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 16,250.00
45009

Processus contra Templarios. Exemplaria Praetiosa III.

[2007]. USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 15,625.00
45121 Toni Morrison.

The Bluest Eye.

[1970]. USD 9,600.00 - 14,400.00 USD 15,000.00
45136 J. D. Salinger.

The Catcher in the Rye.

1951 USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 USD 14,375.00

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