Aldine Lucian, first Batgirl comic, Oxford Cookery manuscript: Auction preview

This is what I will be looking at this week:

On Tuesday, July 16, the Freeman’s | Hindman Summer Reading auction ends with 230 lots. A first edition of Jack Kerouac’s On the way (1957) with a dust jacket in original condition is sold 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 bring $1,000-1,500. A first edition of Hemingway’s Streams of Spring (1926) is valued in the same range. Stephen King collectors will also find something interesting here.

New England Book Auctions’ sale of beautiful books and ephemera also ends Tuesday: The 226 lots include an entire bookshelf of Folio Society publications and a wide selection of ephemera lots.

At Bellmans on Wednesday 17 July, 226 lots of printed books, maps and manuscripts, including a cookery manuscript from the 1720s compiled by the head cook of New College, Oxford (£2,000-3,000) and a group of 27 letters from Hans von Bülow to Carl Gille (£3,000-5,000).

Forum Auctions will be auctioning 312 lots of beautiful books, manuscripts and works on paper on Thursday, July 18. A first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone The highest estimate is £40,000-£60,000. The first Aldine edition of Lucian from 1516, 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 evaluates the same estimation range.

In the PBA Galleries on Thursday: Marvel, Atlas and more in 350 lots. The highest estimate of $6,000-9,000 is shared by Fantastic Four #5 (July 1962) and Detective Comics No. 359 (January 1967), in the latter Batgirl appeared for the first time. Journey into Mystery #83 (August 1962), featuring the first appearance of Thor, is estimated at $5,000-8,000.