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Auction Name Roycroft Press Collection - Fine Bindings - Illustrated & Children's Books Total Sales (USD) 154,902.00
Auction Date July 17, 2014 - July 17, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 157,160.00
Sale Number #537 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 242,380.00
Total Lots 518
Sold Lots 376 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 238,150.00
% of Lots Sold 72.59% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 365,850.00
Unsold Lots 142 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 42.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
440 McCallister, A. Bruce, editor

The Needle: A Periodical with a Point

 1914-1926 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,800.00
346

The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal or Deuterocanonical Books

 2000 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 4,500.00
30 Hubbard, Elbert

The Man of Sorrows. Being a Little Journey to the Home of Jesus of Nazareth - One of 100 copies printed on Japan vellum

 1905 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,200.00
288 Sendak, Maurice

Where the Wild Things Are

 [1963] USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 4,200.00
242

Verve: Revue Artistique et Litteraire. Vol. IX, Nos. 35 et 36

 [1958] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,600.00
148 Ame, Emile

Les Carrelages Emailles du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance... - Finely bound by Marius Michel

 1859 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,000.00
197 Chagall, Marc

Dessins pour la Bible

 [1960] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,400.00
247 [Asbjornsen, P.C. and J.I. Moe]

East of the Sun and West of the Moon

 [1914] USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,400.00
308 Seuss, Dr.

Original ink drawing of the Grinch and his dog Max, signed

 No date USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,400.00
401 Galilei, Galileo

Dialogo di Galileo Galilei, Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano...

 1744 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
182 Bemelmans, Ludwig

Madeline

 1939 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,800.00
312 Seuss, Dr.

Three original drawings by Dr. Seuss, each signed

 No date USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
29 Hubbard, Elbert

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators, Ingersoll

 1903 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,560.00
68 Stevenson, Robert Louis

Virginibus Puerisque, An Essay in Four Parts

 1903 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,560.00
80 Grabau, John F.

Catalog of an Exhibition of Bookbinding, Representing the Work of Twenty-five Years

 December, 1930 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
237 Kipling, Rudyard

The Jungle Book [&] The Second Jungle Book

 1894 & 1895 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
449 Orilia, Francesco.

Il Zodiaco over idea di perfettione de prencipi, formata dall'heroiche virtu dell'Illustriss. Et Eccellentiss. Signore D. Antonio Alvarez di Toledo Duca d'Alba Vicere Di Napoli. Rapresentata come un trionfo dal fidelissimo popolo Napoletano

 1630 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,560.00
165 Reau, Louis, Denis Roche, V. Svietlov & A. Tessier

Inedited Works of Bakst

 1927 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,440.00
220 Gleason, J. Duncan

Windjammers: Pictures & Decorations Etched by J. Duncan Gleason

 1922 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,440.00
283 Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

 [1999] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,320.00
287 Sendak, Maurice

Two original signed drawings of Max from Where the Wild Things Are

 No date USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
89

Several works on Bookbinding by John F. Grabau, and three of his binding tools

 Various dates USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,140.00
271 Grimm, Brothers

Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm

 [1917] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,140.00
52 Reedy, Wm. Marion

The Law of Love, Being Fantasies of Science and Sentiment Inked Into English to Cheer Up the Gloomsters

 [1905] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,080.00
171 Malory, Sir Thomas

The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Nobel Knight of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of this World of Them All

 1927 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,080.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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