Aldine Lucian, First Batgirl Comic, Oxford Cookery Manuscript: Auction Preview
Cookery manuscript compiled by Ralph Ayres, head cook of New College, Oxford in the 1720s, offered at Bellmans this week.
Here's what I'll be watching this week:
Ending on Tuesday, July 16, the Freeman's | Hindman Summer Reading sale, in 230 lots. A first issue copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) in a first state dust jacket is expected to sell for $1,200–1,800, while a copy of the second American (and first revised) edition of Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time (1930) could fetch $1,000–1,500. A first edition of Hemingway's Torrents of Spring (1926) is estimated at the same range. There will be much of interest here for the Stephen King collector as well.
New England Book Auctions' Fine Books & Ephemera sale also ends on Tuesday: the 226 lots include a full bookshelf of Folio Society publications and a wide variety of ephemera lots.
At Bellmans on Wednesday, July 17, 226 lots of Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, including a 1720s cookery manuscript compiled by the head cook of New College, Oxford (£2,000–3,000) and a group of 27 Hans von Bülow letters to Carl Gille (£3,000–5,000).
Forum Auctions sells 312 lots of Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper on Thursday, July 18. A first printing copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone rates the top estimate at £40,000–60,000. The 1516 first Aldine edition of Lucian, edited by Erasmus and in a contemporary binding by Andrea di Lorenzo is expected to sell for £15,000–20,000. A presentation copy of the third edition of Darwin's Origin rates the same estimate range.
At PBA Galleries on Thursday, Marvel, Atlas, and More, in 350 lots. Sharing the top estimate of $6,000–9,000 are Fantastic Four #5 (July 1962) and Detective Comics #359 (January 1967), the latter featuring the first appearance of Batgirl. Journey Into Mystery #83 (August 1962), with the first appearance of Thor, is estimated at $5,000–8,000.
