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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20Dominic Winter, June 19: Lot 70 - Warner (Robert). The Orchid Album, 11 volumes, 1882-1897. £5,000 to £8,000Dominic Winter, June 19: Lot 151 - United States. Melish (John), Map of the United States with..., British & Spanish Possessions, 1816. £40,000 to £60,000Dominic Winter, June 19: Lot 159 - World. Speed (John), A New and Accurat Map of the World, 1676. £4,000 to £6,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 503 - American Civil War playing cards. Union Cards, New York: American Card Co., 1862. £500 to £800Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 573 - Shepard (Ernest Howard), 'The Hour is Come’, original watercolour, [1959]. £10,000 to £15,000Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 922 - Wilde (Oscar). An Ideal Husband, large paper limited issue, 1899. £4,000 to £6,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 744 - Disney (Walt). “Sketch Book” [of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs], 1938. £700 to £1,000Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 771 - Auden (Wystan Hugh). Portrait of the head of W. H. Auden, 1970. £1,000 to £1,500Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 822 - Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st edition, signed by the author, 1959. £6,000 to £8,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 895 - Rowling (J. K.). A complete inscribed set of Harry Potter books plus ephemera. £8,000 to £12,0000Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 883 - Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. £3,000 to £5,000Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 700 - Ashendene Press. T. Lucreti Cari De Rerium Natura Libri Sex, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1913. £4,000 to £6,000 -
Heritage Auctions, June 27
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925Heritage Auctions, June 27
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818Heritage Auctions, June 27
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937Heritage Auctions, June 27
Jane Austen
Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice," &c. &c.
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816Heritage Auctions, June 27
Robert Louis Stevenson
An Inland Voyage
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878Heritage Auctions, June 27
Ernest Hemingway
Three Stories & Ten Poems
Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923Heritage Auctions, June 27
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark
Philadelphia, 1814Heritage Auctions, June 27
Emily Dickinson
Autograph letter signed ("Emily and Vinnie"), to Mary Adelaide Hills
Amherst, MA, Late April, 1880Heritage Auctions, June 27
John Keats
Autograph letter signed ("John Keats"), to Mrs. Jeffrey
Honiton 4 or 5 May 1818Heritage Auctions, June 27
Samuel Johnson
A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are deduced from their Originals…
London, 1765Heritage Auctions, June 27
H. P. Lovecraft
Small archive of nine lengthy autograph letters signed variously over a period of six years to J. Vernon Shea.
Various places, 1931-1937Heritage Auctions, June 27
Izaak Walton
The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation…
London: T. homas Maxey for Rich. ard Marriot, 1653 -
Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Keats, John] Spenser, Edmund: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. $50,000 - $80,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: (Walton, Izaak): The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. $30,000 - $50,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Thomas, Gabriel: An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. $25,000 - $35,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Carroll, Lewis]: The Game of Alice in Wonderland. $2,000 - $3,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Athias, Joseph, et al.: Biblia Hebraica. $7,000 - $10,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Warhol, Andy, and Jens Quistgaard] Dansk Designs Salesman's Presentation Catalogue. $2,500 - $3,500. -
Sotheby’s, June 26: Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane — the most poignant rarity in American literature. 400,000 - 600,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: The Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." 2,500,000 - 5,000,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: William Blake. “Poems with very wild and interesting pictures” 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Thomas Taylor [artist]. The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
Rare Book Monthly
Articles - October - 2006 Issue
Shows: A Thousand Uneasy Pieces
The show at Santa Monica was quiet.
By Bruce McKinney
In Southern California, over the weekend of September 9th and 10th, The Santa Monica Book, Print, Photo & Paper Fair sought to welcome, under a single banner, collectors of various persuasions. Books of all types, ephemera, images and manuscripts were on display. The following weekend, the Thirteenth Annual Antiquarian Book Fair was staged in Sacramento. This month the 2006 Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair & Book Arts Show will be held on the 1962 Seattle World's Fair grounds on the 14th and 15th. The fall west coast show season is underway. Shows are an integral and important aspect of the book business and their performance mirrors the changes and upheaval in the world of collectibles.
In Santa Monica the show, with 82 participants, was promoted by Bustamante Enterprises who have successfully staged collector events for years and as recently as June staged a successful Antiques fair at Pasadena. This effort however fell short of many participating dealers' expectations for sales and traffic. Reasons are difficult to gauge. The venue was good and the parking plentiful. Even to out-of-towners the site was easy to find.
Many dealers, even if disappointed, have a sanguine view as shows are hardly the only sales channel that has been increasingly difficult in recent years. Every aspect of the business, from finding attractive material to connecting with motivated buyers, has become more challenging. Ken Karmiole, an experienced generalist who exhibited successfully, explained it this way. "At shows I hope to meet new customers but I expect to make most of my sales to other dealers whose clients will want my material." John Howell, a new comer, had a tougher time and explained it this way. "I've worked for other dealers and worked their booths in past years. This year I'm on my own. Saturday was quiet so on Sunday I adjusted my prices and closed enough deals with dealers to pay the tuition on my ongoing dealer education."
In Sacramento the following Saturday Bill Ewald staged The Thirteenth Annual Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair as a one day event September 16th. This show had a much more upbeat feel. Fifty dealers, selling material of every description, found happiness while making show visitors genuinely pleased. The show had a more blue collar feel than Santa Monica but the material and prices offered was a good fit with the receptive audience. Four hundred and ninety-four admissions were recorded.
At this fair AE conducted an exit survey of 30 random buyers who agreed to spend a few minutes talking about this show, their motivation for attending, and their approach to collecting. What we learned is worth discussing.
If dealers are frustrated in their efforts to find buyers they are not alone. Collectors feel exactly the same way. More than half those surveyed said they attended prior incarnations of this fair and indicated they were prompted about this year's fair by the promoter's postcard mailing. About 25% said they learned of the fair in the Sacramento Bee, the local daily newspaper. A few said they saw an advertisement that day and came over for a look.
