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1929 MACHINERY ABSTRACTION BY PHOTOGRAPHER MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE ACHIEVES A RECORD $58,000 AT DOYLE NEW YORK'S AUCTION OF RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ON NOVEMBER 6, 2007 First Edition of Ulysses by James Joyce Sells for $23,750 On November 6, 2007, Doyle New York held an auction of Rare Books, Autographs and Photographs. The sale comprised 134 lots and offered a wide range of material from a number of prominent collections and estates. With very strong bidding from bidderson particiapting in the salesroom, on the telephones, and via the Internet, the auction totaled $161,906, well over the pre-sale estimate of $80,100-119,725, with 83% sold by lot and 95% sold by value.The highest-selling lot was an early Margaret Bourke-White photograph, "Machinery Abstraction," circa 1929. With impeccable provenance and strong visual appeal, it achieved $58,000. This was a record for this image, and it was the fourth-highest price ever realized at auction for one of her photos. This result confirms the continuing strength of first-rate photographic imagery at auction. Among the autographs, a sheet from the studio guest-book of the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt did very well. Inscribed by John F. and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on one side, the other bore an inscription by Richard Milhous Nixon, an intriguing juxtaposition. This made a solid $5,000. Some of Eisenstaedt's photographs were also in the sale. A fine silver print by the photographer, of Central Park after a 1959 snowstorm, reached $3,750. The book portion of the sale was strong in major 19th and 20th century literature, with authors as diverse as Tennyson and Joyce represented. A copy of "Ulysses," one of 150 on Verge d'Arches paper, sold for $23,750. Tennyson's great requiem "In Memoriam," the first edition bound in an exquisite mosaic binding by Rivière & Son, fetched $4,062. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," first edition, first state, reached a respectable $4,688.50, and the first edition of Stevenson's great tale of pirates and villainy, "Treasure Island" attained $2,500. The sale had a good group of European illustrated books, mostly of the 18th century and earlier. These made a strong showing. Zatta's Venetian printing of Dante sold for $2,500, and Scriverius's remarkable folio Dutch portrait book of 1650 achieved $1,250. NEXT RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPHS AUCTION CATALOGUE CONSIGNMENTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ACCEPTED MEDIA
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