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AUCTION RESULTS: Autographs at Swann Auction Galleries - Anne Frank Book

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PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF SALE 2413, May 5, 2016:

Anne & Margot Frank’s copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Lot 46 Anne Frank Grimms Fairy Tales

Anne and Margot Frank's copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales, signed and inscribed by Anne, with Margot's ink owner stamp, Vienna 1925, inscription Amsterdam, circa 1940. Sold with a letter from Otto Frank, gifting book to previous owner. Sold May 5, 2016 for $62,500. (Pre-sale estimate $20,000 to $30,000)
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296 Oscar Wilde, Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fragmentary notes on four leaves, circa 1886. $20,000 D

Lot 296 Oscar Wilde Mss sm

Oscar Wilde, Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fragmentary notes for a review in which Wilde panned a book on book collecting, circa 1886. Sold May 5, 2016 for $20,000. (Pre-sale estimate $5,000 to $7,500)
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64 Samuel F.B. Morse, Autograph Letter Signed to Treasury Secretary McClintock Young, 29 June 1844. $18,200 C

143 Thomas Jefferson, Letter Signed, as Secretary of State, to Consul at Hispaniola Sylvanus Bourne, 1790. $18,200 C

69 Collection of Letters and Photographs, Signed or Signed and Inscribed by Nobel Laureates, 1970s. $11,875 C

297 Wilde, Autograph Quotation dated and Signed, 13 October 1890. $11,250 C

74 Albert Einstein, group of four Letters Signed to Helmut L. Bradt, concerning Bradt’s emigration 1939-40. $10,625 D

75 Einstein, etched portrait of Albert Einstein by Hermann Struck, signed by both, 1931. $10,625 C

255 John Philip Sousa, Autograph Musical Manuscript dated and Signed, working draft of “The Gliding Girl,” 1912. $7,020 C

183 Theodore Roosevelt, archive of correspondence to Edwin A. Van Valkenberg, 1913-21. $6,500 D

150 Abraham Lincoln, partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, Washington, 26 December 1861. $6,500 D

153 Lincoln, Autograph Endorsement dated and Signed, as President, 13 December 1864. $6,500 C

27 Album commemorating wedding of Russian Cosmonauts Nikolayev and Tereshkova, Signed by both, 1963. $6,250 C

310 Auguste Rodin, Autograph Letter Signed, concerning his pupil Camille Claudel. $6,240 C

3 John Hancock, partly-printed Document Signed, as President of the Continental Congress, 26 February 1776. $6,000 C

276 Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, Signed and Inscribed and an Autograph Note Signed, 1958. $6,000 C

76 Einstein, Typed Letter Signed, written days before the publication of his unified field theory, 29 March 1950. $5,200 C

141 Andrew Jackson, Autograph Document Signed, regarding his adopted son, 31 January 1823. $5,200 I

4 John Hancock, partly-printed Document Signed, as Gov. of Massachusetts, Boston, 6 October 1781. $5,000 C

KEY: C = Collector; D = Dealer; I= Institution

Swann Galleries’ Autographs Specialist Marco Tomaschett said, “The Anne and Margot Frank book is the third, and possibly last, signed piece of Anne Frank memorabilia to come to auction; I was honored to have had the opportunity to help commemorate the lives of Anne and Margot Frank, and am pleased that the public will be able to view their book at the museum of Museum of WWII in Natick, MA.”