Heritage Auctions announces that bidding is now open on the Jerry Weist Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy Art and Books Auction (sale #6069). The in-person auction will be held at Heritage’s Beverly Hills, California, gallery on 12-13 September 2011. Internet Absentee Bidding ends at 10PM CT the night before the floor session of any particular lot.
The four separate sessions will be held at:
1. 12 noon Central Time on Monday 12 September for Lots 30001-30184
2. 3PM CT on Monday 12 September for Lots 30185-30541
3. 7PM CT on Monday 12 September for Lots 30542-31045
4. 6PM CT on Tuesday 13 September for Lots 31046-31536
The entire catalog is available for viewing online from a link on this page.
Featured items in the sale include:
Lot 30285: a 1920 first edition of Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, inscribed and signed by Burroughs (current bid: $1500; estimated sale price: $3000-5000)
Lot 30423: a 1936 first edition of The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft (opening bid: $2000; estimated sale price: $4000-6000)
Lot 30468: set number 37 of 75 of the six-volume E.E. “Doc” Smith The History of Civilization collection (opening bid: $1500; estimated sale price: $3000-4000)
Lot 30028: the Frank Frazetta painting for the cover of the 1966 book Tomorrow Midnight by Ray Bradbury (current bid: $28,000; estimated sale price: $40,000-60,000)
Lot 30052: the Frank R. Paul painting for the cover of the September 1929 issue of Science Wonder Stories (current bid: $7500; estimated sale price: $15,000-20,000)
Lot 30076: Wally Wood’s 8-page, never-published story of The Spawn of Venus, scheduled to appear in the never-published third volume of EC’s 3-D Comics in 1954 (current bid: $14,000; estimated sale price: $20,000-30,000)
Lot 30085: the October 1912 issue of All-Story magazine in GD/VG condition. This issue includes the first appearance of Tarzan in print (current bid: $8000; estimated sale price: $8000-12,000)
Lot 30077: issues 1-5 of Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster’s The Advance Guard of Future Civilization. The third issue includes the story “The Reign of the Superman”, appearing five years before Superman’s debut in Action Comics #1 (current bid: $3500; estimated sale price: $5000-10,000)
Lot 30143: a copy of the October 1933 issue of Weird Tales graded FN, featuring a Conan story by Robert E. Howard, an H.P. Lovecraft reprint, and stories by Clark Ashton Smith and Seabury Quinn (opening bid: $350; estimated sale price: $700-900)
Lot 30167: a one-sheet movie poster for the 1957 film Invasion of the Saucer-Men (opening bid: $2200; estimated sale price: $4500-6500)
Lot 30175: a movie poster for the 1953 film The Man from Planet X (opening bid: $1000; estimated sale price: $2000-4000)
Lot 30183: a movie poster for the 1953 film The War of the Worlds (current bid: $655; estimated sale price: $1200-2200)
Related articles previously published on SFScope:
Heritage Auctions begins auctioning off Jerry Weist’s estate (20 June 2011)
Comics expert Jerry Weist dies (7 January 2011)