Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
636
Inscribed by J.K. Rowling
Estate / Collection: From a Private New York Collector
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. [New York:] Arthur A. Levine Books/An Imprint of Scholastic Press, [1998]. First American edition, 2nd printing, inscribed "To James/with best wishes/JK Rowling" on the blank opposite the title. This is the second printing with the number line on the copyright reading "3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 8 9/9 0/0 01 02 / Printed in the U.S.A 23 / First American edition, October 1998." Publisher's red cloth backed backed purple boards with diamond pattern, the cloth spine with "J.K. Rowling" at the head, in the first state dust jacket with raised gold lettering to the spine, "J.K. Rowling" at the head, the price on the inside flap present at $16.96, the rear panel with the quote from The Guardian and the cream box with two bar codes and the code 51695 above the smaller bar code. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm); 309 pp. A very fine copy.
A fine copy of the first American edition of the first book in the Harry Potter series, inscribed in the year of publication. The present volume was inscribed for the recipient at a signing alongside Lynne Reid Banks at Books of Wonder in New York City in 1998.
Sold for $2,880
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: From a Private New York Collector
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. [New York:] Arthur A. Levine Books/An Imprint of Scholastic Press, [1998]. First American edition, 2nd printing, inscribed "To James/with best wishes/JK Rowling" on the blank opposite the title. This is the second printing with the number line on the copyright reading "3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 8 9/9 0/0 01 02 / Printed in the U.S.A 23 / First American edition, October 1998." Publisher's red cloth backed backed purple boards with diamond pattern, the cloth spine with "J.K. Rowling" at the head, in the first state dust jacket with raised gold lettering to the spine, "J.K. Rowling" at the head, the price on the inside flap present at $16.96, the rear panel with the quote from The Guardian and the cream box with two bar codes and the code 51695 above the smaller bar code. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm); 309 pp. A very fine copy.
A fine copy of the first American edition of the first book in the Harry Potter series, inscribed in the year of publication. The present volume was inscribed for the recipient at a signing alongside Lynne Reid Banks at Books of Wonder in New York City in 1998.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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