All proceeds from the donated rare books, art, dinner dates with your favorite author, and original manuscripts will support the Aura Estrada Prize.
Host a private dinner at home or in a restaurant of your choice with your favorite writer(s).
Winners arrange the date with the writer(s). All auction proceeds go to the Aura Estrada Prize.
The minimum price for one of these dates is $1,000. In your email, let us know which writer or writers you would like to invite for dinner. If you intend to raise more than $1,000 with your dinner, please let us know.
Submit your offer via email to auraestradaprize@gmail.com. Please be sure to write "DINNER DATE" in the subject line of your email. (Also, please include a second choice, if you have one.)
Susan Choi and Jhumpa Lahiri SOLD
Gary Shteyngart SOLD
Colm Toibin SOLD
Jon Lee Anderson
Junot Díaz
Rivka Galchen and Heidi Julavits (they will come to your dinner together)
All dinners with famous writers have a minimum price of $1,000.
Personal documents and manuscripts for collectors.
Submit your interest for any of the following items via email to auraestradaprize@gmail.com. Please be sure to write “AUCTION ITEM” in the subject line of your email.
Paul Auster, three hand-written rough draft pages of the Op-Ed piece Auster wrote for the Times about Colombia in 1968 (Published April 23, 2008)
Don DeLillo, two typed pages with hand-written notes from the first draft of Falling Man, written in early November 2004
Joan Didion, type-written 1-page notes/outline for Democracy with handwritten notes
Tom Stoppard, original hand-written single page from Rock 'n' Roll
Seamus Heaney, poem 'The Strand' hand-written with hand-drawn image of stick-figure man on beach; also from Seamus Heaney, hand-written stanza from poem 'Digging'
All of the above items have a minimum price of $500.
The Following items are individually priced
The Oaxaca-based artist Francisco Toledo, probably Mexico’s most renowned contemporary artist, is producing a special once-only design of 15 signed and numbered works of his “Papalote” series just for the Aura Estrada Prize.
Contact us at auraestradaprize@gmail.com to inquire about a Francisco Toledo paplote.
An exceptionally beautiful, oversized, special Blacamán hand-printed edition of Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s memoir, Vivir para Contarla –– with original art by Jan Hendrix and designed by Gonzalo Gárcia Barcha. Only 250 were printed. Signed by the author, this is number 230.
$2,500.
Umberto Eco -- 8 pages of hand-written notes for a forthcoming book to be published by Harvard University Press titled (in Italian) Dall'Albero al Labirinto.
Contact us at auraestradaprize@gmail.com to inquire about Eco's notes.
A Personal Anthology, Jorge Luis Borges. Grove Press, 1967. First edition, signed by the author. $1,500
A special collector’s edition of Colm Toibin’s The Master – signed by the author, number 52 of a limited edition of 55. (Bound by Kenny’s Bindery LTD, Galway, in Quarter Goatskin, with Raised Bands, Hand Tooled Spine, Top Edge Gilt, Marble Boards with Matching Slipcase.) $1,500
One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera – by Gabriel Gárcia Márquez. Modern Library editions signed by the author. $500 each
The Nightmare Notebook by Henry Miller. New Directions, 1975, number 338 of a limited edition of 750. Signed by the author. $250
Sunstone by Octavio Paz. New Directions, 1991, number 26 of a limited edition of 150. Signed by the author. $250
Ideogrammes in China by Henri Michaux. New Directions, 1984, unnumbered, an extra copy of a limited edition run of 150 copies. Signed by the author. $200
Samba by Alma Guillermo Prieto. First Edition signed by author. $100
A beautiful photograph by Jean-Marie Simon from her acclaimed book, Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny $400
Grove Atlantic will donate these books:
Jim Harrison signed limited editions of the following works: Off to the Side; True North; Returning to Earth; The Beast God Forgot to Invent; The Road Home.
Offered as a set: minimum price $500.
Charles Frazier, signed limited edition Cold Mountain—this edition was never offered for sale. It was distributed by Grove Atlantic as a gift to booksellers, reviewers and friends.
Minimum price $250.
The Aura Estrada Prize is co-sponsored and supported by the Mexican Cultural Institute (New York, NY), Fundación Eje 7 (Mexico City), and Editorial Almadía, Librería Proveedora Escolar y El Fondo Editorial Ventura A.C. (Oaxaca, Mexico). The prize has tax exempt 501 (c) (3) status.