Ottsville Auction of Items of Alfred & Rolly Bester Estates
Ottsville Online Estate Auction of items of the Alfred & Rolly Bester Estates - Bidding is now open - Auction closes Tuesday May 14, 2024 starting at 6:30 PM.
Description
Ottsville Online Estate Auction
of items of Alfred (Alfie) & Rolly Bester Estates
Bidding is now Open - Auction closes on Tuesday 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 – copies of Alfred Bester’s Science Fiction novels & other books in 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. Perelan, 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; and much more
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 and painting on silk by Tang Yin and more.
And More –
Vintage 4’ x 5” Telescope with mount & microscopes
Antique Hobart Coffee Grinder
Antique 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 & Lamps; Official Boy Scout bugle
Duke #6 Bear Trap & Wild Turkey in flight mount
Stereo Equipment & Hundreds of Records
Location
Near Ottsville PA
Preview
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