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Fine Books Auction Guide Spring 2023
Fine Books Auction Guide Spring 2023
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Pinocchio
SPRIN G 2023
HERITAGE AUCTIONS
Four Historic
Through the Eyes Editions of Ulysses at
of Guillermo Heritage Auctions
del Toro HINDMAN AUCTIONS
Polar and Mississippi
Exploration Star
at Hindman
POTTER AUCTIONS
Six Standout Sales
in 2023 at Potter
& Potter
SWANN GALLERIES
Avedon Heads
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• Sherlock Holmes
• Federal Writers’ Project
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• Wittliff Collections EDITOR Editions of Ulysses
• Thomas J. Wise • Darwin’s Notebooks • Women Who Helped
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Collectors
• Black Literature
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• Whitman at 200 • Gotham Book Mart • Eric Carle • Vatican Library • Tom Wolfe • Female Illustrators • Frankenstein at 200 C O N TAC T I N F O R M AT I O N POTTER AUCTIONS
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Heritage Auctions@Auction guide RARE BOOKS
Signature ® Auction | June 8 – 9
SPRING 2023
was banned. Consequently, One Book Called Ulysses (1933) on mould-made paper and Finnegans Wake in jacket,
the honor of publishing that the book was accept- bound in calf vellum with a among many others. l Always Accepting Quality Consignments in 50+ Categories
the first edition fell to Sylvia able as the controversial ele- Homeric bow binding design Alex Johnson Alex Johnson is an Immediate Cash Advances Available
Beach and her Shakespeare ments served an impor- by Eric Gill. Heritage Auctions author and the Online Editor of Fine Paul R. Minshull #16591. BP 15-25%; see HA.com 72145 1.6 Million+ Online Bidder-Members
Books & Collections. His latest book is
and Company bookselling- tant artistic purpose, namely has one of just 100 copies Rooms of Their Own.
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Invitation to
CURRIER and IVES, publishers.
The Great Fire at Chicago, 1871. (G. 2835).
Hindman Auctions@Auction
Estimate: $5,000 -7,000
guide
sell at auction
SPRING 2023
Mississippi west Passage to the Western tury accounts of the upper Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
American Ocean. In Answer Midwest and Great Lakes May 11
tion, and works describing 50 years (estimate: $15,000- expanded map (estimate: in its Cincinnati office on
the exploration of Antarctica. 25,000). $4,500-6,500), the iconic June 15. l
A particular highlight is Also of great interest is a account of their 1804-1806 Alex Johnson Alex Johnson is an
author and the Online Editor of Fine Gretchen Hause | 312.334.4229
A series of eight sketches in first edition of Christopher expedition following the Books & Collections. His latest book is gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com
colour (together with a chart Middleton’s A Vindication Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Rooms of Their Own. HINDMANAUCTIONS.COM
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Potter Auctions@Auction guide
SPRING 2023
of Sherlockiana from Robert and collectibles such as an University of California, wrote and her friends inspired the
Hess’s collection. original metal street sign widely on a variety of drug- famous story. l Conan Doyle. High spots in every category include original illustration art, first editions, signed photos, archives
Items include origi- from Baker Street (est. $1,000- related issues but especially Alex Johnson Alex Johnson is an
of letters from the author and actors that portrayed Holmes, choice movie posters, a Richard Lancelyn Green
author and the Online Editor of Fine
nal illustration art as well $2,000) and a cabinet card on their effects on human
as watercolor by Doyle (est. photograph inscribed by behavior. Indeed, he argued
Books & Collections. His latest book is
Rooms of Their Own.
collection, numerous rare ephemeral items from The Lost World, a selection of items from the Jeremy Brett estate,
and an original Baker Street sign.
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Swann Galleries@Auction guide
SPRING 2023
Sale at Swann
Brooke Shields for Calvin Klein Marilyn, (silver & chromo-
jeans. This sold for $8,000. genic prints, 1962; printed
2007) was sold for $12,000
• Berenice Abbott, Berenice
Work by Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Abbott’s New York IV, a port-
and Diane Arbus under the hammer folio of silver prints, 1935-
38; printed 1979 sold for
$20,000
• Edward S. Curtis’s land-
mark portrait Geronimo
– Apache, plate 2 from The
North American Indian, pho-
togravure, 1905; printed 1907,
finally went for $10,000
• Henri Cartier-
Bresson, Malcolm
X, silver print, 1961;
printed 1980s, made
$5,400
• Diane Arbus, A young
Brooklyn family going
for a Sunday out-
ing, N.Y.C, silver print,
printed pictures from the ses- tunity to offer new and excit- which went for $8,500, his albumen print, 1871 sold for
sion appeared in the January ing material to the market. masterful rendering of the $15,000 l APR 13 Printed & Manuscript Americana
9, 1968 issue of Look, and then Overall, the range of work— rushing water contrasted Alex Johnson Alex Johnson is an
author and the Online Editor of Fine
later in Stern magazine. from a very modern Richard with the textured rocks and Books & Collections. His latest book is Download the App
“I am thrilled to see both Avedon to something much tree canopy being particu- Rooms of Their Own.
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