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Nosbüsch & Stucke: Modern Literature, Photobooks, Erotica and Posters

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Auction Name	Modern Literature, Photobooks, Erotica and Posters	Total Sales (EUR)	399,309.75
Auction Date	May 10, 2024 - May 10, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	265,630.00
Sale Number	#25c	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	265,630.00
Total Lots	534
Sold Lots	316	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	459,950.00
% of Lots Sold	59.18%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	459,950.00
Unsold Lots	218	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	86.82%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1243	Brus, Gunter	Die Schastrommel (ab Band 13 unter dem Titel "Die Drossel) Nr. 1-8 (Heft 4 als Vorzugsausgabe, 8 in 2 Varianten),...	1969-1975	EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 27,000.00
1277		55 Original-Stoffmuster mit originalen, handschriftlich ausgefullten Etiketten in Blaudruck.	um1910	EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 21,600.00
1237	Brus, Gunter	Patent merde. Oswald Wiener gewidmet.	1969	EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 16,200.00
965	Laforgue, Jules	Some poems of Jules Laforgue with images by Patrick Caulfield.	1973	EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 14,850.00
1241	Brus, Gunter	Sammlung von 63 Gelegenheitszeichnungen. Meist Kugelschreiber, teils Bleistift auf Kellnerblock-Papier (60) mit Werbedruck (meist verso) und Karton (3) Berlin, um 1970.	um 1970	EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 12,825.00
1236	Brus, Gunter	Mauersegler. Buntstiftzeichnung auf Papier. Signiert und datiert rechts unten. Links unten betitelt.	1983	EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 11,475.00
1137	Zervos, Christian	Pablo Picasso. Oeuvres 1895-1972. 33 in 34 Banden (komplett).	1932-1978	EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00	EUR 8,775.00
1230	Brus, Gunter	Der blaue Wald.	1974	EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00	EUR 8,775.00
1134	Cocteau, Jean	Picasso de 1916 a 1961. Textband und 2 Mappen.	1962	EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 7,425.00
935	Dieckmann, Erich	Teilnachlass des Bauhaus-Lehrers mit insgesamt ca. 260 Stucken,	Ca.1920-1944.	EUR 7,500.00 - 7,500.00	EUR 6,750.00
1207	Valie Export	Aktionshose: Genitalpanik. Siebdruck auf dunnem Karton.	1969	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 6,750.00
923		Obshchestvo hudozhnikov "Souyz Molodezhi". (Die Kunstlergesellschaft "Union der Jugend").	1912-1913	EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,400.00
1208	Valie Export	Aktionshose: Genitalpanik. Siebdruck auf dunnem Karton.	1969	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 5,400.00
1279		UHU. Das neue Ullstein-Magazin. (Spater: Das Monats-Magazin u.a.). 10 Jahrgange in 120 Heften (alles Erschienene).	1924-1934	EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 5,400.00
898	Piano, Renzo	Fruhes Bebauungsmodell des Potsdamer Platzes. Buchenholz und Samenkugeln, auf gesagte Buchenholzplatte geleimt.	um1992	EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,455.00
998		Neuer Vorwarts. Sozialdemokratisches Wochenblatt. Nr. 1, 18. Juni 1933 - Nr. 357, 5. Mai 1940. In 3 Halbleinwandbanden und 16 losen Nummern (Nr. 342-357).	1935-1937 und Paris	EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 4,050.00
1049	Grosz, George	Gedichte und Gesange (1916-1917).	1932	EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 4,050.00
1255		Edition Hundertmark. 100. Karton.	1986	EUR 3,600.00 - 3,600.00	EUR 4,050.00
902	Arp, Jean	Le voilier dans la foret.	1957	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 3,780.00
1330	Renger-Patzsch, Albert	Die Welt ist schon.	1928	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 3,780.00
1245	Brus, Gunter	Die Schastrommel Nr. 10. Das Licht ist der Schutz der Sonne. Hg. von Gunter Brus.	1973	EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00	EUR 3,510.00
1321	Newton, Helmut	Sumo. Edited by June Newton.	1999	EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,510.00
910		Shochikuza News. 33 Hefte.	um1925	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 3,240.00
942		Staatliches Bauhaus	1919-1923	EUR 3,600.00 - 3,600.00	EUR 3,240.00
888		Sammlung von 9 Publikationen sowie 2 Flugblattern von und zur RAF.	ca. 1968-1986.	EUR 360.00 - 360.00	EUR 2,970.00

Sotheby’s
Modern First Editions
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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

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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
Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection
London auction, 11 June
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Christie’s, Explore now: The Holkham Hebrew Bible. In Hebrew, decorated manuscript on vellum [Toledo, 2nd quarter 13th century]. £1,500,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Crosby-Schøyen Codex. In Coptic, manuscript on papyrus [Upper Egypt, middle 3rd century / 4th century]. £2,000,000–3,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The Geraardsbergen Bible. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Southern Netherlands, late 12th century]. £700,000–1,000,000

Christie’s, Explore now : Jean de Courcy (fl. 1420). The Chronique de la Bouquechardiere. In French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1480]. £200,000–300,000

Christie’s, Explore now: The ‘Catherine de Medici’ Hours. In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Paris, c.1485]. £120,000–180,000
Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
30th May 2024

Forum, May 30: Potter (Beatrix). Complete set of four original illustrations for the nursery rhyme, 'This pig went to market', 1890s. £60,000 to £80,000.

Forum, May 30: Dante Alighieri.- Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus). Opera, second edition, Rome, 1468. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum, May 30: Distilling.- Brunschwig (Hieronymus). Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, first edition of the so-called 'Grosses Destillierbuch', Strassburg, 1512. £22,000 to £28,000.

Forum, May 30: Eliot (T.S.), W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, & others. A Personal Anthology for Eric Walter White, 60 autograph poems. £20,000 to £30,000.

Forum, May 30: Cornerstone of French Enlightenment Philosophy.- Helvetius (Claude Adrien). De l'Esprit, true first issue "A" of the suppressed first edition, Paris, 1758. £20,000 to £30,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
30th May 2024

Forum, May 30: Szyk (Arthur). The Haggadah, one of 125 copies, this out-of-series, Beaconsfield Press, 1940. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, May 30: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, 1953. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, May 30: Japan.- Ryusui (Katsuma). Umi no Sachi [Wealth of the Sea], 2 vol., Tokyo, 1762. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, May 30: Computing.- Operating and maintenance manual for the BINAC binary automatic computer built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation 1949, Philadelphia, 1949. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, May 30: Burmese School (probably circa 1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c.1870s]. £8,000 to £12,000.

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