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Auction Info

Auction Name
Early Spring Miscellany Catalogue
Auction Date
04/29/2025 - 04/29/2025
Sale Number
#539
Total Lots
233
Sold Lots
215
Lots Sold
92.27%
Unsold Lots
18
Total Sales (USD)
58,488.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
47 Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol.

1843 Not Available USD 3,300.00
214 Whitman, Walt

Complete Poems & Prose...1855...1888.

1888] Not Available USD 2,400.00
208 Van Vliet, Claire

Greed.

2013) Not Available USD 2,040.00
148a (Moser, Barry) Baum, L. Frank.

The Wizard of Oz.

1985 Not Available USD 1,800.00
215 Wilde, Oscar

Salome.

1893 Not Available USD 1,560.00
217 Wilde, Oscar

The Importance of Being Ernest.

1899 Not Available USD 1,560.00
95 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Gentle Boy: A Thrice Told Tale.

1839 Not Available USD 1,440.00
50 Doyle, Conan

The Hound of the Baskervilles.

1902 Not Available USD 1,320.00
128 Lockwood, Ingersoll

Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and his Wonderful Dog Bulger.

1890 Not Available USD 960.00
103 Gramatky, Hardie.

Group of 6 ORIGINAL watercolor illustrations from Gramatky's Little Toot.

1930s Not Available USD 900.00
164

Album of 60 original albumen photographs of nude men and women.

Late 19th-century Not Available USD 840.00
139 [Mason, George Henry]

The Punishments of China.

1801 Not Available USD 780.00
167 (Poe, Edgar Allan)

Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book.

1844-45 Not Available USD 720.00
1 Parker, Theodore.

The Great Battle between Slavery and Freedom.

1856 Not Available USD 660.00
56

Benedictus Arias Montanus, Humanae salutis monumenta [and others].

vd Not Available USD 600.00
136

Righte Merrie and Eventfulle Historie of Ye Gallante & Moughtie Sir Lancelot Knighte of Ye Anciente and Noble Order of Ye Cocke & Ye Bulle.

19th-century Not Available USD 600.00
78 (Garis, Howard R.) Rache, Elmer.

Original pen and ink drawing for the dust jacket of "Uncle Wiggily's Automobile." 16-1/2 x 14 inches, neatly matted, in glass-fronted frame.

1930s Not Available USD 570.00
22 Hall, John.

A New and Concise Method of Hand-Railing, upon Correct Principles; Simplified to the Capacity of Every Practical Carpenter.

1840 Not Available USD 570.00
98 Hunter, Dard

The Life and Work of Dard Hunter.

1981] Not Available USD 570.00
169 Prescott, William H

[Works].

1877 Not Available USD 540.00

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