Hollywood Auction 74
All 1,893 lots of Profiles in History: Hollywood Auction 74 (Oct 1, 2015). 1,334 sold, 71% sell-through. Top lot $450,000. Prices and results of every lot.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2015-10-01
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 1,893
Lots
- Lot 1255: James Dean’s switchblade from Rebel Without a Cause
- Lot 1256: James Dean-style promotional movie tie-in blue jeans
- Lot 1257: Rebel Without a Cause television promotion-spot script
- Lot 1258: James Dean (12) vintage original fan-club ephemera collection
- Lot 1259: East of Eden and Giant (10) vintage negatives and (13) contact prints
- Lot 1260: East of Eden final revised bound script with color revisions
- Lot 1261: Giant original script, ex-libris actor Bob Nichols
- Lot 1262: Vintage production bible for Giant
- Lot 1263: James Dean “Jett Rink” prop “Jetexas” Oil Company lease from Giant
- Lot 1264: James Dean (3) vintage original crash-site candid photographs and (19) studio publicity stills
- Lot 1265: George Christy’s (13,000+) personal career archive of celebrity and high-society photographs
- Lot 1266: George Christy’s personal career archive of celebrity correspondence, phone and address books and day-planners
- Lot 1267: Collection of (300+) vintage hardcover works of literature, poetry, and criticism, including (90+) novels signed and inscribed to George Christy
- Lot 1268: Collection of (160+) vintage entertainment books, including (70+) inscribed and signed to George Christy
- Lot 1269: Collection of (40+) vintage photography books
- Lot 1270: Collection of (20+) vintage hardcover novels and non-fiction works by and about Truman Capote, including (4) signed and inscribed by Capote
- Lot 1271: Collection of (16) hardcover books by Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern writer Eudora Welty including (9) signed by Welty
- Lot 1272: Collection of (14) hardcover plays by Tennessee Williams and books about Williams, including (1) first edition of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Lot 1273: Collection of (35+) vintage hardcover books on music and musicians, including The Real Frank Zappa Book inscribed and signed by Frank Zappa
- Lot 1274: Collection of (40+) vintage hardcover mysteries and thrillers, many inscribed and signed to George Christy
- Lot 1275: Collection of (45+) vintage hardcover cookbooks including (5) signed by Julia Child to George Christy
- Lot 1276: A Separate Peace by John Knowles vintage first edition hardcover novel with original dust jacket, inscribed and signed by Knowles
- Lot 1277: Collection of (3) paperback copies of The Elvis Presley Story by James Gregory signed by Elvis Presley
- Lot 1278: Hardcover novels (3) by Thomas Pynchon including first edition of The Crying of Lot 49. Vintage (3) hardcover novels with original dust jackets, including first edition (1) of The Crying of Lot 49 (1966). Also includes (1) third printing of Pynchon’s debut novel, V