Auction Guide Autumn 2020 | Fine Books & Collections

Auction Guide Autumn 2020

Auction Guide Autumn 2020

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Once Upon a Time

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Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Rare Books

Part of the first page of the manuscript for A Long Fatal Love Chase

Unpublished Louisa May Alcott Letters and Manuscript Acquired by Concord Free Public Library

Only Obtainable Winnie-the-Pooh Book Manuscripts Come to The Winter Show

Almanacks and Calendars: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photographs

Jaeden Yoshikawa

Collector Jaeden Yoshikawa on Real Photo Post Cards and Lovers' Locations

New Exhibition Celebrates Photography in Children's Books

New York Melting Pot Photographs Go On Display

Exhibitions

Mozart's Haffner Symphony No. 35 in D Major, autograph manuscript, 1782

New Mozart Exhibit Features Handwritten Opera Manuscripts and Concert Ticket

Rare Lewis Carroll Volume and Turkish Manuscripts in New Exhibition About Pets

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Releases 2026 Exhibition Schedule

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Americana

Signed George Washington autograph letter, estimate $250,000–$350,000

George Washington Pre-Inauguration Letter Headlines Freeman’s Americana Auction

$1.5m Washington Letter to Franklin Leads Sotheby's 'Visions of America' Auction Series

Rufus King Constitution Draft Tops Christie's 'We the People: America at 250' Sale

Auctions

Andrew Marvell's first edition The first anniversary of the government under His Highness the Lord Protector pamphlet (London, Thomas Newcomb, 1655)

Andrew Marvell, NASA Photo, and Rembrandt Etching: The Week in Rare Books

Rare Franz Schubert Manuscript Sells for $156,658

Robert Hoe, Accused Lincoln Conspirator Letter, and The Replacement's Album Art: The Week in Rare Books

Book People

Olivia de Havilland’s shooting script for A Midsummer Night’s Dream with her handwritten annotations, ca. 1935

Olivia de Havilland Literary Archive Acquired by Harry Ransom Center

Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Winner Alexandra E. LaGrand on Shakespearean Breeches Actresses

Literary Archive of Television's Tom Verlaine Acquired By The New York Public Library

Maps

WWII Operation Bigot map

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Visual Art

America's Answer! Production (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942)

War Posters: Five Rare Posters for Collectors

Yuletide at Winterthur Offers Literature-Inspired Festive Experiences

Original Works by Charlie Mackesy to Auction