2026 Ephemera and Comics Auction

11 Dick Hodgins (American 20th Century), Original Editorial Cartoons
Eleven original pen and ink editorial cartoons on illustration board, dated circa 1968–1974, addressing Vietnam War negotiations, U.S.–China relations, SALT II and arms reduction talks, the Columbia unrest, Middle East cease-fire tensions, and Cold War diplomacy. Titles include examples such as “The Mouths That Roared,” “Cease It — In Time!,” “Shored Up,” “Elusive,” “Slippery Footing,” “A Deadly Refrain,” “Noodles Won’t And See…,” “Uncle Sucker?,” and “Big Break In The Wall.” Each signed “Dick Hodgins” within the image. Pencil titles, publication dates, and printer’s slug notes appear to margins.
Largest sheet approximately 15″ x 20″.

Estimate: $800 - $1200

7 Dick Hodgins (American 20th Century), Original Editorial Cartoons
Seven original pen and ink editorial cartoons on illustration board, dated circa 1976, including works titled “Don’t Pass The Torch” and “Political Wreckers,” together with examples addressing space exploration and Cold War–era political themes. Subjects include research leadership, the Olympics, international competition, and global power dynamics. Each signed “Dick Hodgins” within the image, with pencil titles, publication dates, and printer’s slug notes to the margins.
Largest sheet approximately 15″ x 20″.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

9 Dick Hodgins (American 20th Century), Original Editorial Cartoons
Nine original pen and ink editorial cartoons on illustration board, variously titled in pencil along the upper margins and dated between 1969 and 1977, including examples such as “time for the ultimate censor,” “up the down staircase,” “snug-a-life line,” and others addressing topics of violence, education, child abuse legislation, school lunch programs, media influence, and black market adoption. Each signed “Dick Hodgins” within the image. Editorial notations, publication dates, and layout markings in pencil to margins.
Largest sheet approximately 15″ x 20″.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

5 Dick Hodgins (American 20th Century), Original Editorial Cartoons
Five original pen and ink editorial cartoons on illustration board, variously titled and dated between 1969 and 1975, including examples such as “Red Eyes On The Island,” “This Is Detente?,” “The Convertible Castro,” and two additional political caricatures addressing Cold War tensions and international diplomacy. Each signed “Dick Hodgins” within the image. Pencil titles, publication dates, and layout instructions to the margins, including printer’s slug notes.
Largest sheet approximately 15″ x 20″.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

9 Dick Hodgins (American 20th Century), Original Editorial Cartoons
Nine original pen and ink editorial cartoons on illustration board, variously titled and dated between 1969 and 1976, addressing Cold War tensions, NATO policy, Vietnam and Laos, Cambodia, CIA controversy, internal strife, and U.S.–Soviet relations. Examples include works referencing Dr. Kissinger, NATO defenses, bombing pauses, and international diplomacy. Each signed “Dick Hodgins” within the image, with pencil titles, publication dates, and printer’s slug notes to the margins.
Largest sheet approximately 15″ x 20″.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

8 Dick Hodgins (American 20th Century), Original Editorial Cartoons
Eight original pen and ink editorial cartoons on illustration board, variously titled and dated between 1968 and 1977, including examples addressing Vietnam War MIA disclosures, Hanoi negotiations, Cambodia, CIA controversy, Cold War diplomacy, and international political relations. Titles include works such as “Hanoi’s Water Torture,” “Cheap Power Play,” “Twin Guitars,” “Gleeful Vigil,” and others. Each signed “Dick Hodgins” within the image. Pencil titles, publication dates, and printer’s slug notes to the margins.
Largest sheet approximately 15″ x 20″.

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Four Piece Decorative Art Lot
to include a miniature watercolor painting of a gentleman, a miniature watercolor painting of a women in a pink dress, and two silhouette paintings of one woman and one child
largest 5 1/2″ x 6 1/2″, smallest 4 3/4″ x 5 3/4″

Estimate: $200 - $300

Two Piece Henry Ward Beecher (American 1813 – 887) Lot to include
Framed American Folk Art Portrait
depicting Henry Ward Beecher (American 1813 -1887) the prominent American abolitionist and clergyman
oil on canvas now laid oncribbed board
11″ x 7 1/2″
along with daguerreotype portrait of Beecher over his signed autograph, signature dated 1879

Estimate: $100 - $300

Framed Queen Victoria (British 1819–1901) Autograph Cut Signature
display featuring ink signature on paper of Queen Victoria mounted below a portrait engraving of the monarch. Accompanied by a James Spence Authentication Letter of Authenticity identifying the signature as genuine.
Sight size of signature approximately 1″ x 5″, frame 14″ x 11”
Provenance: Accompanied by James Spence Authentication Letter of Authenticity, Certification No. XX86801.

Estimate: $100 - $300

Five Harper’s Weekly Civil War Histories and Americana Books Group
including Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War in three parts, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War, and bound Harper’s Weekly / Harper’s New Monthly Magazine volumes (1871–1872). Illustrated throughout with engravings, battle scenes, military portraits, and period historical content.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Group of Presidential Books
Including Theodore Roosevelt titles The Wilderness Hunter, An Autobiography, The Foes of Our Own Household, The Many-Sided Roosevelt, and related volume, together with three John F. Kennedy titles including Profiles in Courage, To Seek a Newer World, and Just Friends and Brave Enemies, along with a Collier’s Illustrated Weekly issue dated December 14, 1901 featuring Roosevelt portrait.

Estimate: $100 - $300

Two Volumes of Jack London (American, 1876–1916)
Including Martin Eden, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1909; and Children of the Frost, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1902, illustrated by Raphael M. Reay. Both early editions.

Estimate: $100 - $300

Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot (American/British, 1888–1965)
Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1943. First edition.
Hardcover with original dust jacket, the jacket showing wear, losses, and toning; cloth binding beneath.

Estimate: $100 - $300

The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway (American, 1899-1961)
First edition, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1952, with Scribner’s “A” and publisher’s device to copyright page, in original cloth binding with pictorial dust jacket.

Estimate: $200 - $400

Mark Twain (American, 1835-1910), Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
1889 edition, published by Charles L. Webster and Company, New York, in green pictorial cloth binding, the title page dated 1889 and copyright page dated 1884, together with inked autograph note by possible book illustrator E.W. Kemble.

Estimate: $200 - $400

Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (American 1835,1910)
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.
Illustrated cloth-bound volume with pictorial gilt and black stamped cover, titled Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, “Illustrated.” Title page dated 1883, noting “With more than 300 illustrations” and “Sold by Subscription Only.” Copyright page dated 1874, 1875 (H.O. Houghton & Co.) and 1883 by Samuel L. Clemens. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

Estimate: $100 - $300

Two Piece Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American, 1807–1882) Group
to include The Song of Hiawatha, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. “Thirteenth Thousand”
Hardcover, blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped title and decorative blind tooling, along with a framed albumen portrait photograph of Longfellow and an autograph inscription reading “Yours truly, Henry W. Longfellow, 1875.”

Estimate: $100 - $300

Two Volumes of F. Scott Fitzgerald (American, 1896–1940)
to include This Side of Paradise; and Tender Is the Night
This Side of Paradise, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920, first edition, early printing (April 1920 with subsequent printings noted); together with Tender Is the Night, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934, first edition.

Estimate: $100 - $300

Lot of Late 19th / Early 20th Century World Silver Coins
countries include France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Belgium, silver contains 83.5%
total weight 5.1 troy oz

Estimate: $150 - $350

Group of 18th / 19th Century Country World Coins
to include silver coins (silver content range from 40 – 92.5%), countries include Mexico, Nicaragua, Canada, Peru, Britain, Sweden, Norway, Cuba and the Netherlands, also included are Napoleon III copper, along with silverplate box
total silver weight 5.7 troy oz.

Estimate: $300 - $600

Collection of Approximately 150 Christmas and Family-Themed Postcards
Group of antique and vintage postcards depicting Christmas and family scenes including children, holiday gatherings, winter landscapes, Santa figures, and festive greetings such as “Christmas Greetings” and “Best of Christmas Wishes.” Includes chromolithographic and embossed examples, many with decorative borders and period holiday imagery; some with writing or postal use to verso, circa 1900,1960. 3 1/2 in. x 5 1/4 in.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Two: Omar Lama (American 1942-2022)
“Portrait of Malcolm X”
Pen and ink on paper depicting a frontal portrait of Malcolm X rendered in the artist’s distinctive geometric linear style, the composition formed from an intricate network of interlocking shapes.
Signed lower left Omar Lama
12″ x 9 1/2″
Side Profile Portrait
Pen and ink depicting a stylized profile portrait with elongated coiffure, rendered through dense stippling and pointillism
Signed lower left Omar
12 1/2″ x 10″

Estimate: $300 - $500

Geoffrey Grigson and Handasyde Buchanan “Thornton’s Temple of Flora”, London, 1951
Limited edition facsimile of Robert John Thornton’s celebrated botanical work, with twelve color plates faithfully reproduced from the original engravings and twenty-four monochrome collotype plates. Described by Geoffrey Grigson with bibliographical notes by Handasyde Buchanan.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Seven British Legal and Political Documents, 18th–19th Century
including several Lords and Earls, along with an English Vellum Indenture Deed dated April 4, 1786, documenting a property conveyance between Henry and Mary Corbett and Thomas Rivers. Largest 24″ x 28″.

Estimate: $300 - $600

Charles M. Schwab (American, 1862–1939 Signed Letter
signed 1928 subscription agreement pledging $4,000 to the building and endowment fund of the Museum of the City of New York, together with related correspondence regarding the contribution, including a signed letter on Schwab letterhead. 8 1/2″ x 11″.

Estimate: $100 - $300