Prints & Lithographs Art Auctions - Live and Online Sales

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Ottsville Auction Items from Alfred & Rolly Bester Estates Online Auction - Bidding Now Open Closing May 14, 2024 starting at 6:30 PM Furniture -- Georgian Style Chest on Chest Highboy; George III Style Figured Mahogany Slant Front Desk; Georgian Style 4 drawer Bachelor Chest; Federal Mahogany Carved Sofa; Jacobean Trestle Style Flip Storage Top Work Stand / Side End Table; Pine Blind Door Corner Cupboard; Live Edge Plank top trestle table, 73" long; Oldtowne Cherry double gateleg extension table; Dropleaf table with tiger maple top; pine Welsh cupboard; folding military table; pine hutch table; antique cider press; rockers; chairs, tables & more. Hundreds of Books - Alfred Bester's Science Fiction novels in English & many foreign languages including Tiger Tiger; The Demolished Man; The Stars My Destination graphic novel signed & numbered; Computer Connection in braille, The Rat Race and many many others; and Rolly Bester scrapbook; Hundreds of Other Books -- 1795 Edition of Chambers Dictionary - Cyclopaedia; 1875 - The Works of Lord Macaulay 8 vols; Ten Years of Holiday 1956 including his article Inside TV; Easton Press Masterpieces of Science Fiction - 63 titles including Demolished Man; Charles Reade 12 volumes; Encyclopedia Britannica editions 11th & 14th editions; Rudyard Kipling 26 vols; Charles Dickens 34 vols; J. M. Barrie 11 vols; Poe 10 vols; Diary of Samuel Pepys 11 vols; OED 12 vols & 3 supp; Harvard Classics 51 vols; Socialist Party items including application & songbooks; Signed books (some inscribed to the Besters) by Robert Heinlein, Ogden Nash, Eve Curie, Red Smith, S. J. Perelman, Robert Gallagher, Charles Platt, Alexei Panshin, Jeff Smith, Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldis, Vincent Price, Nancy Mitford, Cleveland Amory, Vivian Mercier & David Greene, Stewart Holbrook, Max Wilk, Barbara Bova, Clemence Dane, Koichi Yamamo, Rolly Bester monogrammed jewelry box; Alfie Bester's Royal typewriters & stands; Alfie & Rolly monogrammed sterling napkin rings; Alfred Bester's embossing stamps; Artwork - Charcoals by L. Lupas & M. Davis; Whitney Darrow Jr. original cartoon autographed to the Besters; Prints by Eric Sloan, Verlag v. C. Muller, Serapion Grab, B. Kliban, Joseph M. W. Turner, Albert Carman, Annie LaPoint, William Whiteside, Nora DeBolt, Andre Derain, Margaret Layton, R. Rucker, Piero del Pollaiuolo & Michel Delacroix; Caricature by Hewison; Painting by Deanna Suder; Hirshfeld illustration for Sid Perelman's piece in Holiday magazine; Campbell's Kid illustration; Illustration by Andre Francois; 5 French copperplate engravings; Wildlife print by Irene V. Bowers, signed & numbered; paintings by Paul Pollaro; autographed photo of Sid Perelman to Alfie Bester; Cincinnati Science Fiction Festival Poster; Oliver Twist cards; Adv poster for Revue Negre - 100 Posters of Paul Colin book; woodblock prints by Will Barnet, Keisai Eisen and Toyokuni Utagawa and others; painting on silk by Tang Yin; V. Rasines Owl; and more. Vintage 4' x 5" Telescope overall length 56" with mount & microscopes Antique Hobart Coffee Grinder & metal butter churn Leaded stained glass light domes Sterling silver items - flatware, napkin rings & more Wedgewood, Adams, Queens Bone China, Stangl, Portmeirion, Ironstone, inkwells, Jim Shore, cigarette lighters Rugs, Clocks & Lamps; Official Boy Scout bugle Duke #6 Bear Trap & Wild Turkey in flight mount Stereo Equipment & Hundreds of Records And many other items.

Beautiful Whitehills location in East lansing that is filled with beautiful Furniture, Books, Civil War items, Jewelry, Artwork, Nautical Maps, Display Cases, Bookshelves, and wonderful Home Goods! We have been asked to assist in getting these great items out of the home so that the home can be sold soon. Pickup is one day only on Saturday, May 18. Some furniture items are in the basement or the 2nd floor. Most of the books are located in the basement. Bookshelf buyers must pickup their shelves at the end of the day Saturday as the books are still on the book shelves. PLEASE BRING ASSISTANCE TO CARRY AND LOAD HEAVY ITEMS AND FURNITURE! Bidding will soft close at 7pm, Wednesday, May 15.