J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, first London paperback edition, London, 1997. Sold in April for $10,000; and Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, first edition, signed & inscribed, the Brown Family copy, Philadelphia & New York, 1960. Sold in October for $42,500.
(left) Frank Miller, The Blind Leading the Blind, comic book page appearing in the Spectacular Spider-Man, the fist time the prolific Daredevil wrtier/artist worked with the Character, 1979. From the collection of Jules Feiffer. Sold in June for $60,000; (right) Joseph Francis Kernan, Dog Bath, cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, 1935. Sold in December for $52,500.
(left) Dr. Lora Genevieve Dyer, a large archive including journals, letters, photographs and more, 1899-1903. Sold in May for $32,500; (right) Judith Rothschild, Untitled, collage, gouache and ink on paper, circa 1945. Sold in May for $3,750.
LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History
(left) Roman Bust of A Youth once owned by Tennessee Williams and then gifted to Gore Vidal. Sold in August for $68,750; (right) Hugh Steers, Self-Portrait, oil on board, circa 1980s. Sold in August for $41,600.
(left) Pablo Picasso, Fleurs, color crayons, 1959. Sold in March for $81,250; (right) Maurits C. Escher, Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell), woodcut, 1960. Sold in April for $93,750.
Andy Warhol, Life Savers, color screenprint, 1985. Sold in June for $87,500.
American Art
Letta Crapo-Smith, Home of Madame H, oil on canvas, circa 1909. Sold in September for $42,500.
(left) Benny Andrews, Time for Church, oil with painted canvas, lace collage and staples, 1999. Sold in April 4 for $203,000; (right) Suzanne Jackson, There is Something Between Us, acrylic wash on cotton canvas, 1972. Sold in October for $281,000.
Modern & Post-War Art
(left) Fritz Koenig, Quadriga, from an edition of six, bronze, 1959. Sold in May for $81,250; (right) Lynne Drexler, Blue Vision, oil on canvas, 1962. Sold in November for $70,000.