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"We . . . Had A View Of . . . The Battle With The Merrimack & Monitor"
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(civil war–business.) corning, erastus.
Autograph Letter Signed, to his wife Harriet Weld (“My dear Wife”),
Washington, 4 June 1862
describing his trip to VA and back to Washington with military escort, including details about the war-torn scenes he witnessed. 7 pages, 4to, written on two folded sheets; complete separations at several folds resulting in 8 loose parts, moderate dampstaining affecting each page (but still very legible), docketed on terminal page. Sold as is.
“I returned from our trip South yesterday and I assure you we had a pleasant time, barring what we have seen of the horrors of war.
”. . . Gen’l Wool . . . concluded to remain on Board the Steamer and go with us to Norfolk. We . . . had a view of the situation of our Navy at the Battle with the Merrimack & Monitor and the wreck of the Merrimack, and the deferent Rebel Batteries on the river, we reached Norfolk . . . and called on Gen Vide who has the command at Norfolk . . . . [W]e visited various parts of the City and found every thing quiet . . .–the Citizens kept within doors . . . . [E]very thing bore the appearance of the desolation of the War. While there I met Gen [John] Millson who has been for a long time a Member of Congress and a most worthy and Loyal man. The Gen’l went out of Congress when his State went out of the Union. I said to him that I hoped we should soon meet at Washington. In answer he said No, never.
”. . . We, on leaving the City, went up to the Navy Yard, where a seen [sic] of desolation presented its self. When the rebels left Norfolk they Burnt the Buildings and every thing that was combustible attached to the Navy Yard. . . . We reached the White House . . . on Sunday and there found the Largest fleet of Shipping I have ever seen congregated at any one place . . . . There was a large number of wounded officers and soldiers on board of the Hospital Steamers, which had reached there on Sunday Morning from the Battle which was fought before Richmond on Saturday . . . . It was a disturbing sight to witness their transfer from the Cars to the Boats. They were wounded in all possible places. There were men who walked from the Cars to the boats who had their arm shot of[f]. Many of them had had no attention from the Surgeons . . . .
”. . . We left the White House . . . on Monday Morning and went to York Town . . . . [W]e went over the ground which was occupied by the defences built by the rebels . . . . We then went over part of the works thrown up by Gen’l McClellan . . . .
“Lieu’t Pease of our City . . . was our escort . . . . We visited the House in which the Articles of Capitulation was signed between Washington & Cornwallis for the surrender of the British Army in the [R]evolution. . . .”
Estimate
$200 – $300
Includes Some Civil War-Dated Items
2
(generals and admirals–union.)
Group of 28 items, each Signed by a Civil War general or admiral, mostly brevet generals.
Vp, vd
Format and condition varies.
Admiral Daniel Ammen (6). Group of 6 LsS, to Commodore Johnston Blakeley Creighton, concerning vacancies, discharges, extending service, etc. Together 7 pages, 4to, “Navy Department” stationery. Washington, 1870s • Simon Forrester Barstow (6). Two LsS to the Chief Quartermaster, three partly-printed DsS, and an endorsement Signed: reports, returns, and rolls. The letters, each 1 page, 4to. Vp, 1870s • Judson David Bingham. LS, concerning “one horse dropped on your Return.” 1¼ pages, 4to, “War Department” stationery. Washington, 6 June 1876 • James Jackson Dana (2). Two LsS to C.W. Folsom, approving recommendation for cemetery at Mobile, or acknowledging reports on cemeteries in AL. Each 1 page, 4to, “Quartermaster General’s Office” stationery. Washington, 15; 20 May 1867 • John A. Dix. ALS, to John Austin Stevens, declining an invitation. 2 pages, 8vo, “Headquarters Department of the East” stationery. New York, 20 October 1864 • James A. Ekin (5). Two LsS to the Chief Quartermaster, and 3 documents with endorsements Signed: ordering clothing, sending blank forms, requisition extracts. The letters, each 1 page, 4to, “Jeffersonville Depot” stationery. Vp, 1870s • Henry Martyn Hoyt. DS, concerning inspection of food for the soldiers. Oblong 8vo. Morris Island, 25 November 1863 • Alexander James Perry. Partly-printed DS, Quartermaster’s Stores return receipt. 3¼x8½ inches. Washington, 4 January 1883 • Horace Porter. TLS to Hermann Oelrichs, declining to attend a dinner honoring De Lancey Nicoll. 1½ pages, 8vo. New York, 6 December 1893 • Charles Greene Sawtelle (2). Two LsS to the Chief Quartermaster, endorsing copies of a circular to deliver letters by steamer, or requesting a report of all on duty. 2 pages, 4to, “Headquarters Division of West Mississippi” or “Chief Quartermaster” stationery; cello tape repairs. Vicksburg, 10 June; New Orleans, 19 September 1864 • Ezra T. Sprague. ALS to F.S. Kidd, informing of new command and listing names of staffing detail. 1 page, 4to, “Head-Quarters Post of Cairo.” Cairo, IL, 24 September 1864 • Daniel Tyler. ALS, discussing the views of “The Commodore” regarding “amalgamators.” 2 pages, 4to, pale blue paper. Norwich, 17 December 1851.
Estimate
$500 – $750
Co-Founder Of Independent Chile
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(south america.) o’higgins, bernardo.
Partly-printed Document Signed, as Supreme Director, in Spanish,
Santiago, 7 January 1823
military commission appointing Martin Prast Sergeant Major. Countersigned by Minister of War and Navy José Antonio Rodríguez Aldea. 1 page, 4to; folds, endorsements by various officials on verso, paper seal intact; matted with portrait and framed.
Estimate
$300 – $400
Written During Second Seminole War In Wake Of Black Hawk War
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Taylor, zachary.
Group of 4 items, each Signed, “Z. Taylor”: Three Letters * Partly-printed Document.
Vp, 1832-38; “Fort Crawford,” 21 November 1836
The letters, each to Adjutant General of the Army Roger Jones, requesting the authority and resources to move companies between posts to equalize the quality of garrisons, reporting on efforts to stop various abuses, complaining of the substandard recruits sent to Fort Crawford, describing various depredations on “inhabitants” by hostile Indians and promising to protect the former even at the expense of his campaign. Together 12 pages, 4to, each one or more folded sheets; the third with small cello tape repairs to fold intersections. The document, as Acting U.S. Indian Agent, certifying a requisition for paper and writing instruments for use by the Indian Agency. Countersigned by Acting Assistant Quartermaster George Wilson. 1 page, 4to; few closed separations at folds repaired with tissue verso, minor scattered soiling and offsetting.
“Fort Crawford,” 23 August 1832: “. . . Experience has proved that the oftener troops are moved even from one station to another the more efficient they are, as it has the effect in a great measure of preventing that accumulation of large quantities of baggage . . . when they are permitted to remain for several years at the same station, particularly if it is a frontier one. Frequent movements . . . along the upper Mississippi and the rivers emptying into it through the Indian Country, would not only have the effect of making them respect, but fear us & as a matter of course, would be the means of keeping them quiet. Such movements not only invigorate the officers & men, but at the same time would serve to instruct the former in the important duties of moving & encamping troops; in what ought to be considered an enemy’s country. . . .
“I should not have hesitated on my arrival here from the campaign, in relieving one of the companies at Fort Snelling with one from this post . . . had not Gen’l Atkinson, who was present at the time, advised or directed me not to do so until I referred the matter to the Gen’l-in-Chief . . . . In the present state of affairs, should the Indians in the vicinity of Forts Snelling & Armstrong become at any time dissatisfied & threaten hostilities toward the whites, I would not feel myself authorized to reinforce either of those garrisons . . . without an order to that effect from higher authority, let the emergency be what it might. . . .”
“Fort Frank Brooke,” 21 December 1838: “. . . I found at Fort Fanning two companies of the 2nd Inf’y which had reached that place a few days before from the North and having learned on my arrival that the Indians had stopped a train of four wagons belonging to citizens near Waccasassa and robbed the drivers (Negroes) of their clothing and wagon covers, . . . I determined to proceed to this place with the Infantry and Dragoons . . . and have the country between the Suwannee and Tallahassee completely scoured and the enemy driven from it before I left it . . . . Several reconnoitering parties had been sent out by Major Noel . . . one of whom fell in with and captured an Indian, who afterward however made his escape. Many recent signs of them were found indicating that they were in considerable force . . . . [I]t is hoped that the enemy will be driven from Middle Florida, and entire security given to the inhabitants in a very short time. . . .
”. . . Col. Twiggs reports that some outbuildings within three miles of Black Creek were burnt by the hostiles (where there were from three to four hundred troops) who also fired on the house, in which was a woman and six or seven children . . . . The Indians, if Indians they were, ran off; he also states that a cart accompanied by two men was robbed by the hostiles . . . and a man was fired at and shot through the arm between Fort Heilman and Jacksonville–all of which from reports appears to have been committed by a few Indians and one Negro. . . . I am constantly informed of murders committed on our citizens, house burned and other depredations on their property, in situations where they are ten times more numerous than the enemy who they say committed them. I shall however do all in my power to give protection to the inhabitants even should I be compelled to abandon a part of my original plan of campaign.”
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Supporting Continued Protection Of Choctaws And Chickasaws
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Taylor, zachary; and winfield scott.
Letter Signed by Taylor, “Z. Taylor.B[reve]t.B[rigadie]r.Gen[era]l / U.S.A Com[man]d[in]g,” with a lengthy Autograph Endorsement Signed by Scott.
Fort Smith, 12 April; Np, 11 May 1843
The letter, to the Adjutant General [Roger Jones], sending a letter from Choctaw Agent Captain Armstrong [present] and endorsing the view expressed in it concerning whether to continue work on an outpost on the “False” Washita River. The endorsement, 30 lines written vertically on the blank, recommending that Taylor be instructed to continue work on the outpost. Additionally endorsed by Secretary of War James Madison Porter (“approved”) and by another. 1 page, 4to, ruled paper, with integral blank; folds.
Scott’s endorsement, 11 May 1843: “For the information of the Secretary of War, I beg leave to say–the post of Fort Washita was originally established at the instance of Mr. Secretary Bell, on considerations such as are set forth within, & also strongly urged by Brig. Gen’l Taylor in his letter of March 29, 1843 . . .–that on the 3d of Feb. 1843, Gen’l Taylor was instructed by the Secretary of War to suspend the further progress of the new work until further orders, & that on that direction, I inserted the provision in Gen’l Orders No. 21 (March 8, 1843) in which it is said the commander of the 2d Department (Gen’l Taylor) will take ‘care to break up no established post, unless it be that on the Fake Washita, without leave’ &c.
“Being now of the opinion that the post should be continued & completed, I propose, with the sanction of the Secretary, to give Gen’l Taylor instructions to that effect.”
With–William Armstrong. Letter Signed, “Wm Armstrong / Act[ing] Sup[erintenden]t W[estern] T[erritory],” to Zachary Taylor, reminding him that the government is obligated under a treaty to protect the Choctaws and Chickasaws and that abandoning Fort Washita would leave them defenseless. 1¼ pages, 4to, with integral blank. “Choctaw Agency,” 8 April 1843.
The government’s inability to protect the Choctaws and Chickasaws from the predations of the Plains tribes contributed to the ease with which they were recruited as allies by the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Second Governor Of The Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Winthrop, john.
Autograph Endorsement Signed, “Jo: Winthrop: Gov’r,” certifying a document making an insane woman the ward of a Boston citizen
Np, 21 May 1646
by order of the Massachusetts General Court: “The magistrate’s consent with the / Brethren the Dep’tys herein,” written in the lower margin of the document. Countersigned by Deputy Edward Rawson and additionally signed by Robert Keayne. 1 page, 5¼x5¾ inches; marked bands of staining across middle and also at upper and right edges affecting Keayne signature (but still legible), minor loss to lower right corner (not affecting text); matted with a portrait and framed.
”. . . Robert Keayne & William Parke are & were directed by the Hono’ed Generall Court for the placing out of one Sarah Thorne who at present is distracted & craisey braynd . . . we . . . have placed her unto Alexander Beck of Boston with him to live & hee to finde her meate drink & cloathing upon consideration thereof he is to have five pounds per anno payd him quarterly by the treasurer . . . .”
Captain Robert Keayne (1595-1656) was a Boston merchant who arrived in New England from London in 1635; he commanded the first artillery company in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
General Autographs: Astronauts, World Leaders, Royals, Entertainers, Inventors, etc.
Includes Cards Signed By Tesla, Edison, And Roosevelt
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(album.)
Autograph album containing over 30 autographs by mostly early 20th-century notables,
Vp, 1870-1952
many Signatures on small cards, most mounted or written three to a page on recto and verso. Last half of leaves blank. Kept by Jessica Bruce of Syracuse, NY, sister-in-law of Andrew Dickson White’s son, Frederick Davies White (1859-1901). Small 4to, morocco, moderately worn; all edges gilt.
Nikola Tesla. Signature on a visiting card, mounted to page. 2x3 inches • Thomas A. Edison. Signature on a visiting card, mounted to page. 2x3 inches • Andrew Carnegie. ANS, written alone on a page with blank verso: “The best wish I can wish you my boy is that you may prove such a man as your grand, grandfather, a man whom I esteem myself most happy that I can call my counsellor and friend.” New York, 15 November 1901 • J.P. Morgan. Signature and date, written at upper edge of page: “J.PierpontMorgan / Aix les Bains / May 10 1902” • Julia Ward Howe. AQS: “‘Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming / of the Lord,’” on a slip of paper mounted alone on a page. ½ page, oblong 8vo. Np, November 1903 • Theodore Roosevelt. Signature, as President, on a White House card, mounted to page. 2¾x4¼ inches • William McKinley. Signature, as President, on a White House card, mounted to page. 2¾x4¼ inches • Grover Cleveland. Signature on a small card, mounted to page. 2½x3½ inches • Alexander Graham Bell. Clipped Signature, mounted to page. ¾x4 inches • Ernest Rutherford. Signature, “E Rutherford,” on a small card, mounted to page. 2¼x3 inches • Robert Louis Stevenson. Clipped Signature, mounted to a page. ¾x3¼ inches • Samuel Pierpont Langley. Signature, “SPLangley,” on a small card, mounted to page. 2x3 inches • Alexander Agassiz. Signature, “A. Agassiz,” on a small card, mounted to page. 2x3 inches • Albert Bierstadt. Signature, “ABierstadt,” on a small card, mounted to page. 2x3¼ inches • Adelina Patti. AQS: “A beautiful voice is / the gift of God. / Adelina Patti / Baroness Lederström,” written alone on a page. Rome, 19 February 1902 • Horace Greeley. ALS, to D.H. Ronce, promising to lecture on temperance. 1 page, 8vo; mounted to page. New York, 31 December 1870 • John A. Dix. ALS, to D.H. Ronce, thanking for the gift of a coin. 2 pages, 8vo; hinged to page. New York, 15 April 1875 • Booker T. Washington. Clipped portion of a TLS, including only closing, mounted to page. 1½x5¼ inches. [1902?] • Daniel Webster. Clipped Signature, “Dan’lWebster / U.S. Senate,” on a slip of paper, mounted to page. 1x3¼ inches • Winston Churchill (American novelist, 1871-1947) • others.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
8
(album.)
Autograph album containing over 50 items Signed by notables, mostly figures relating to radio or television broadcasting in New York during the 1940s,
[New York], circa 1944
mostly autograph inscriptions Signed, most wishing American music critic Deems Taylor (1885-1966) a Happy Birthday, most written alone on a page on recto or verso, many share page with mounted newspaper clippings or photographs. Folio, morocco, detached and markedly rubbed covers, perished backstrip; many leaves stained from adhesive.
Leopole Stokowski. AMQS and Inscribed, “To Deems–his / achievement–and his / still greater achievement / of the future / Stoki,” 8 notes notated on a hand-drawn stave • Clifton Webb. “Happy Birthday to Baby Deems / From his aged friend, admirer” • Mary Martin. “Dear Deems / Here’s a ‘little touch of Venus’ / to wish you happiness always” • Lillian Gish. TLS, to “Miss Taberna,” declining an invitation. 1 page, square 8vo; mounted to page. Beverly Hills, 27 February 1945 • Richard Rodgers. AMQS, “Dick Rodgers,” three bars from the traditional “Happy Birthday” song notated on a hand-written stave, with 4 lines of holograph lyrics wishing Deems a happy birthday. 1 page, oblong 8vo; mounted to page • James Montgomery Flagg. Graphite drawing Signed, bust portrait of “Carol” who inscribed drawing to Taylor. 11½x8½ inches; mounted to page • Lloyd Lozes Goff. Watercolor on paper, a landscape, Signed at lower left and Inscribed at lower right: “To Deems Taylor.” 8¾x12½ inches; mounted to page. Np, 22 December 1944 • Cornelia Otis Skinner. “Happy birthday to Deems Dream-man Taylor and may / we again get plastered together in Chicago–which is / as compromising a statement as you choose to make / it–anywhere–anytime!” • Grace Moore. “To Deems Taylor–In remembrance of / that ‘Chesterfield Milestone’ up the ladder & to your always unfailing comradeship” • Lawrence Tibbett. “God bless you Deems! I’m proud and happy / to have created two beautiful parts you wrote” • Walter Damrosch. “To dear Deems / ‘His years are young but his / experience old / His head unmellowed but his / judgment ripe’” • Hildegarde Loretta Sell (2). Each Signed, “Hildegarde”: Photograph mounted to page, additionally inscribed. 10x8 inches; inscription written on page • Gloria Vanderbilt. “To Deems–Happy Birthday! / I agree with / Carol! / Gloria DeCicco” • Elsa Maxwell • Jack Kriendler [co-proprietor of 21 Club] • George S. Kaufman • Rouben Mamoulian • José Iturbi • Margaret Sullavan • Fredric March • Ronald Colman. Inscription on personal stationery. ½ page, 4to; tipped to page • Nicholas Kostrukoff. In Cyrillic script • Judith Anderson • Helen Menken • Miriam Battista • Russell Maloney • others.
Estimate
$600 – $900
Proof Of The Pudding Restaurant Guest Book
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(album.)
Guest book of The Proof of the Pudding restaurant, containing over 200 signatures, drawings, etc., by politicians, celebrities, athletes, and others.
New York, 1971-78
Most include short inscriptions and date, written 2-3 to a page on both recto and verso. Large 4to, leatherette, covers worn; many pages loose and dog-eared. should be examined.
Ed Sullivan • Henny Youngman • Gene Wilder • Jack Paar • Diane Keaton • Rocky Graziano • Alvin Toffler • Margaret Whiting • Arthur Ashe • Scott Carpenter • Jason Robards • Mario Puzo • Billy Crystal • others.
Proof of the Pudding restaurant thrived on First Avenue and 64th Street in New York City from the 1960s until 1981.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
10
Alexander i; emperor of russia.
Partly-printed Document Signed, “Alexander,” in Cyrillic script, as Emperor,
Saint Petersburg, “7” [19] August 1810
appointing Vladimir Knorring Staff-Captain of the royal guard. Countersigned by Minister of War Prince Barclay de Tolly. 1 page, 9½x15 inches; staining from cello tape repairs along vertical fold recto, faint paperclip stains at lower left and right, paper seal intact.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
11
Arafat, yasser.
Color Photograph Signed, “Y. Arafat,”
Np, nd.
bust portrait of Arafat mounted to the second page of a folded sheet with embossed PLO emblem on first page. Signed on the third page, facing portrait. 4 pages, small 4to.
With–Yasser Arafat. Typed letter to Bannet Fely, likely signed by a secretary in Arafat’s name, sending a signed photograph [present], adding: “. . . We hope your interest includes knowing about the cause of the Palestinian People and the injustices inflicted on them by the racist expansionist Zionist state of ‘Israel’. We shall keep on fighting until our inalienable rights are restored to us.” 1 page, 4to, “President’s Office” stationery. Np, 9 July 1978.
Estimate
$400 – $600
12
(astronauts–apollo 9.) schweickart, russell l.
Color Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “To Leonard–Best of Luck / Rusty Schweickart,”
Np, nd
¾-length group portrait, showing the prime crew members of Apollo 9 in their space suits without helmets. Inscribed in the image at upper edge. 8x10 inches; remnants of mounting on verso at corners and center, NASA biography printed on verso.
With–Group of 5 items: Edward G. Gibson. Color Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “To Leonard– / Best Wishes / Ed Gibson / Skylab III,” half-length portrait showing him holding a model of Skylab. Inscribed in the image at middle left. 10x8 inches. Np, nd • (Russell L. Schweickart.) Group of 4 photographs, unsigned, snapshots showing him at dinners, in space suit during an EVA, or emerging from a plane’s cockpit. Each 4x5 inches. Nd.
Estimate
$300 – $400
13
(astronauts–apollo 14.) roosa, stuart.
Color Photograph Signed, “StuartA Roosa,” bust portrait showing him with Apollo 14 emblem in background.
Np, nd
Signed in the image at lower left. 8x10 inches; remnants of hinging at lower edge verso, NASA biography printed on verso.
Estimate
$600 – $900
14
(astronauts–apollo 14.) roosa, stuart.
First Day Cover Signed, “StuartA Roosa,” commemorating the Apollo 14 mission.
Np, nd
Signed at lower edge. The cache, showing the Apollo 14 mission emblem above facsimile signatures of the prime crew members. Cancelled at the Kennedy Space Center on the mission launch date, January 31, 1971. 3¾x6½ inches; collector address typed at lower right, cancelled 10-cent “First Man on the Moon” postage stamp at upper right, remnants of hinging on verso.
Estimate
$200 – $300
Mercury Seven
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(astronauts–project mercury.)
First Day Cover commemorating the first American orbital spaceflight Signed by the Mercury Seven.
Np, nd
Cancelled in Cape Canaveral on February 20, 1962, the date of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. 3¾x6½ inches; 4-cent cancelled Project Mercury stamp at upper right.
Scott Carpenter • Gordon Cooper • John Glenn • V.I. Grissom • Wally Schirra • Alan B. Shepard, Jr. • D.K. Slayton.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Uncommon Magazine Cover Printed Days After First Moon Walk
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(astronauts.) armstrong, neil.
Time magazine cover Signed, diagonally at center.
Cincinnati, 28 October 1976 [from postmark]
The cover, from the July 25, 1969 issue featuring a full-length portrait of the Apollo 11 prime crew. 4to; folds. With the envelope used to send cover to collector.
The cover of the more common edition of the July 25, 1969 issue features the headline “Man on the Moon” and an illustration showing an astronaut on the Moon’s surface carrying an American flag.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
17
(astronauts.) armstrong, neil.
Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “To Ken Havelock,” half-length portrait by NASA,
Np, 1980s
showing him in space suit holding helmet with Moon in background. Signed diagonally in the image, lower right. 10x8 inches; paperclip impression at upper left, biography printed on verso.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
18
(astronauts.) gagarin, yuri.
Time magazine cover Signed, “Gagarin,” in Cyrillic script, diagonally at lower left.
Moscow, 25 September 1961 [from postmark]
The cover, from the April 21, 1961 issue featuring a bust portrait of cosmonaut Gagarin in his space suit. Latin America Edition. 4to; folds. With the envelope used to send cover to collector.
With–Yuri Gagarin. Signature, “Gagarin,” in Cyrillic script, on a slip of paper. 3x4¾ inches. Np, nd.
Estimate
$600 – $900
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(astronauts.) mccandless ii, bruce.
Two color Photographs Signed and Inscribed, each half-length portraits by NASA showing him in profile in the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
Np, nd
The first, “For Ed – / With appreciation & / best wishes / Bruce McCandless II / S.T.S. - 41B.” The second, “For Judith – / With best wishes / Bruce McCandless II / STS - 11/41-B.” Each signed diagonally in the image at lower left. Each 10x8 inches; remnants of prior mounting at corners verso of first, NASA information printed on verso.
With–Group of 5 items, unsigned, each featuring the MMU: A Nice Flying Machine. Martin Marietta publicity booklet with color illustrations featuring the MMU, unsigned. 28 pages. 4to, embossed stiff wrappers, staple binding. Martin Marietta, 1985 • Photograph, showing McCandless manipulating the hand controllers of the MMU #2 at Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) near Denver, CO. 1980s • Tie pin • Brass belt buckle o Brass two-sided medal.
Estimate
$300 – $400
"Our Supremacy At Sea . . . Naturally Excites Some Jealousy"
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Balfour, arthur james.
Two items, each Signed: Photograph * Typed Letter.
Np, nd; [London], 16 December 1918
The photograph, a postcard showing bust portrait of him. Signed in the blank lower margin. Correspondence side blank. 5½x3½ inches. The letter, to “Dr Carl[?] Alexander,” claiming that there is little justification for suspecting that Great Britain would expand maritime power in a way that is contrary to the interests of the League of Nations, and suggesting that those who harbor suspicions are jealous of British power. 1 page, small 4to, personal stationery; short closed separation at horizontal fold.
”. . . I presume that those who wish to curtail the maritime power of Great Britain do so on the ground that she may use that power not as a mandatory of the League of Nations, but for selfish ends. Historically, there seems little justification for the suspicion; and you and I know that it is without foundation. But our supremacy at sea, which this war has forced upon the attention of all mankind, naturally excites some jealousy.”
Estimate
$300 – $400
First President Of Zimbabwe
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Banana, canaan.
Photograph Signed,
Np, nd
bust portrait showing him looking into the camera. Signed in the blank lower margin. 5½x3½ inches; remnants of mounting at corners verso.
With–Printed note, unsigned, from Zimbabwe’s Government House conveying thanks for congratulations on Zimbabwe’s Independence Day. 1 page, 4x5 inches. Salisbury, nd.
Estimate
$150 – $250
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Bara, theda.
Two items: Photograph Signed and Inscribed * Autograph Letter Signed, “Theo Goodman.”
Np, 1933; Rochester, [July 28 1905]
The photograph, “À Marcel / Avec mes Souhaites les plus / de sincères,” bust portrait showing her wearing a pearl necklace and looking into the camera. Inscribed in the image at lower right. Additionally signed by the photographer at lower left, (“Maxwell[?]”), in pencil. 9½x7¾ inches; mounted to a larger board. The letter, to “Dear Twin-Sister” or “dear Gertie” [a friend, presumably with the same birthday], sharing a “grim satisfaction” at turning twenty, and congratulating her on her engagement. Additionally signed, “Theodosia Goodman,” in the third person within the text. 3 pages, 8vo, folded sheet, end of letter written vertically across pages 2 and 3; horizontal fold with minor loss to text, faint soiling to terminal page.
“You see I have not forgotten the compact made in the stall of old W.C. several months ago though you perhaps have forgotten the very existence of me, Theodosia Goodman. . . .
“Tomorrow we both take the leap out of our ‘teens’ together. ‘Misery doth love company,’ & it certainly is a sort of grim satisfaction to feel that somebody is growing old with you. Accept my heartiest congratulations dear Gertie . . . .
“If you really are engaged Gertie, . . . there is really nothing left for me to wish you on your natal day, for you surely have all the happiness that is allotted to one person. I can add though that I wish you a continuation of this happiness through your sister’s life’s course.
”. . . I would like you to give me one little thought tomorrow when I should so love to be in my own house with all my friends.”
For a short period beginning in 1905, Bara lived at 168 Harvard Street in Rochester, NY.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Founder Of Walter R. Benjamin Autographs
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Benjamin, walter romeyn.
Autograph Letter Signed, “WRBenjamin,”
New York, 26 May 1906
to “Dear Sir,” concerning his opinion of the value of a pair of signatures. 1 page, 8vo, The Collector letterhead; minor smudging to signature.
Benjamin (1854-1943) founded one of America’s oldest autograph dealerships in 1887, Walter R. Benjamin Autographs.
Estimate
$100 – $200
24
Bismarck, otto von; and moltke, helmuth von.
Signatures by each, on two leaves removed from a guestbook,
Berlin, 24 January 1883
likely related to the funeral service held in Berlin’s Domkirche on January 24, 1883, for Prince Charles of Prussia, who died three days earlier. Additionally signed by over 30 others, mostly European diplomats, soldiers, and other dignitaries. 3½ pages, tall 4to, folded sheet; short closed separations at horizontal fold, faint staining at right edge of first page.
Otto von Bismarck (“Fürst Bismarck Reichskanzler”) • Helmuth von Moltke (“Gr[af] Moltke Feldmarschall”) • Viktor I, Duke of Ratibor (“HerzogvRatibor”) • Rudolf von Oppeln-Bronikowski (“General Major v[on] Oppeln Bronikowski Commendant von Berlin”) • Karl Emich Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg (“KEGraf zu LeiningenWesterburg”) • Alexander von Schleinitz (“Graf von Schleinitz Minister des Königlichen Hauses”) • Edoardo de Launay (“Le Comte de Launay Ambassadeur d’Italie”) • others.
Estimate
$200 – $300
25
Bojaxhiu, agnes gonxha (“mother teresa”).
Time magazine cover Signed and Inscribed, “God bless you / M Teresa MC,” diagonally at lower right.
Bronx, 3 April 1986 [from postmark]
The cover, from the December 29, 1975 issue featuring a bust portrait by Bob Peak, showing her looking up and to one side. 10¾x8 inches; abrasion from removed address label at lower left, Venezuelan Ministry of Communication ink stamp at upper edge, folds. With the envelope used to send cover to collector, showing printed “Missionaries of Charity” return address.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
Salvation Army Founder
26
Booth, william.
Autograph Note Signed:
London, 9 December 1904
“Yours faithfully for the Service of God and the helping of man.” 1 page, square 12mo, “International Headquarters” stationery; remnants of mounting covering right half verso, folds.
Estimate
$200 – $300
27
Cagney, james.
Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dear Mrs. Zimet,”
Stanfordville, NY, 27 November 1967
explaining that her invitation was received too late to accept, complaining of an illness picked up during his return from Toronto, stating that he enjoyed his time there, promising to contact her if he attends the Fair next year [Toronto’s annual Royal Agricultural Winter Fair?], and sending regards. 1½ pages, 8vo, “Verney Farm” stationery, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; horizontal fold.
”. . . It had been a hectic week, as you might guess. Mrs. C & I picked up a bug somewhere along the way and we’ve both been bedded since getting home . . . .
“‘Twas a great show and a great week. Toronto really does the job. We enjoyed the people as much as the show–despite the pressures.
“I’ll hold onto your note and will holler in your direction should we make the ‘Fair’ next year. . . .”
Estimate
$250 – $350
28
Castro, fidel.
Autograph Letter Signed, to “Duyos” [engineer Oscar Duyos Durruthy?], in Spanish, in red ink,
La Maya, 1 October 1966
requesting that he quickly develop a plan to fertilize coffee plants with 12,000 tons of ammonium nitrate using 20,000 soldiers. 1 page, 12mo; loss to small portion of upper edge affecting two letters of text, faint scattered soiling, folds.
“I am going to the Cauto area. As a task for you and the group that came, I would like you to help Saiz for a few days, in order to organize a plan to use twelve thousand tons of ammonium nitrate on the coffee plants with 20,000 men of the army. Meet with him immediately and start to work.”
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Raising Money To Support Unionist Movement Opposing Irish Nationalism
29
Chamberlain, neville.
Signature on a program for a Unionist association fund raiser.
[Birmingham, February 1938]
Additionally signed by his wife, Anne. Signed diagonally at upper edge of first page. The program, printed for the Annual Dance and Whist Drive held at the Palais de Danse in Birmingham, England, on February 18th, 1938, featuring Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain as special guests. 4 pages, 12mo, folded sheet; short closed edge tears, scattered creases, minor scattered soiling.
Estimate
$250 – $350
30
Chiang kai-shek.
Photograph Signed, in Chinese, bust portrait by Hu Chung Hsien showing him smiling at the camera.
Np, [1961]
Signed in the image, lower left. 5¾x3¾ inches; few scattered minor creases.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
31
(chiang kai-shek.) soong mei-ling.
Partly-printed Document Signed, “MayLing Soong Chiang,” certificate of recognition
Np, 1940s
to Lois N. Cope for “humanitarian effort on behalf of the people of China.” Signed at bottom edge below red ink chop mark. 1 page, 4to.
Founded in 1940, the China Relief Legion, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt and the organization’s donating “members,” provided medical aid to Chinese who were suffering from bubonic plague, cholera, and malaria.
Estimate
$250 – $350
32
Child, julia.
Two Typed Letters Signed, “Julia,” to Richard Scott Mowrer, each with holograph postscript.
Cambridge, MA, 13 July 1987; [30 June 1994: from postmark]
The first, sending a filmstrip containing two photographs of his father [not present] and requesting its return, briefly describing the circumstances surrounding the photos, inviting him to visit, and, in the postscript: “Such nostalgia–addressing you at Quondam Farm. We have most happy memories of that place.” The second, thanking for condolences [upon the death of her husband], and, in the postscript: “He was so fond of your Paul!” With the original envelope. Each ½ page, 4to or 8vo, personal stationery; slight fading to signature and postscript of first, horizontal folds.
13 July 1987: “. . . [We] find your letter requesting photos of your father. . . . I have located two, taken in New Hampshire . . . , 1950 or something.
“My Paul . . . used to have wonderful records, but now is pretty vague about such things. . . .
“The one with two chaps is of your Paul M. and our French friend, Jean Ache, when he came . . . to visit Paul and Hadley [Richardson]. The other is solo Paul M.
”. . . [I]f you come down our way, come in for a drink or a meal–we’ll be here through Thanksgiving.”
With–Noel Riley Fitch. TLS, to Richard Scott Mowrer, thanking him for sending photographs of, and letters from, Julia Child and her husband, requesting permission to copy some of the photos, promising to give a nod to his mother when in Paris [where Mowrer’s mother met his father after divorcing Ernest Hemingway], and, in a postscript, thanking for a damaged photo of Child’s husband that shows details of the Childs’ Paris apartment. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery. Los Angeles, 30 April 1995.
Richard Scott Mowrer (1922-2022) was a journalist and son of Pulitzer-prize-winning Paul Scott Mowrer, who was editor and correspondent at the Chicago Daily News.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
"Owing. . .To The. . .Air-Raids, . . .My Hot-Water. . .Was Knocked For Six"
33
Coward, noël.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Noël,” to Basil Rathbone (“My Dear Basil”),
Northampton, 1 May 1943
expressing pleasure in learning that Rathbone liked his film In Which We Serve, noting that it was of supreme importance that the Navy approved of the film, reporting that he is performing three plays and concerts in troop hospitals and factories, expressing excitement that interest in the theater is awakening all over England, remarking that his water system was destroyed in a recent air raid, adding that Joyce [Carey] is sunbathing with him and sends her love, expressing gladness that Rathbone is also doing work for the war effort, noting that prospects concerning the war are looking better, and sending love to Onida [Rathbone’s wife] and Ronnie [Colman?]. 2 pages, 4to, personal stationery; folds.
“I was . . . so tremendously glad you liked ‘In Which We Serve.’ It was hard work at the time but I must say I feel the result was worth it–chiefly because the Navy themselves have found it good & that, to me, is of supreme importance.
“At the moment I am . . . more than half way through a long provincial tan. This is my 20th week & we have eight more to go. I am doing a repertory of 3 plays & am also doing troop, hospital & factory concerts in all the various towns. Pretty strenuous but interesting & the awakening interest in the theatre all over England is really exciting.
”. . . [O]wing I suppose to the uncanny way I attract air-raids, we had a real lively smasher on my first night at home & all my hot-water system was knocked for six. . . .
“I am glad you are all working away for The Cause.
“I must say things seem to be looking better now-a days, thank God. . . .”
Estimate
$400 – $600
34
Coward, noël.
Three items: Photograph Signed * Two copies of Playbill Signed, each featuring 1957 production of Nude With Violin.
Np, circa 1957
The photograph, half-length portrait by Ida Kar, showing him reflected in mirrors while seated in the Oliver Messel Suite of the Dorchester Hotel in London. Signed in the blank lower margin. 9x6¾ inches; minor crease at lower right. The playbills, each complete, printed for week of November 11, 1957. One copy additionally signed by the other three principal members of the cast: Morris Carnovsky, Joyce Carey, and Luba Malina. Each signed on the front cover. Each 8vo, staple binding; faint scattered soiling. [New York], 1957.
With–Noël Coward. Three Signatures, each on a small card, one dated 1938, another in red ink. Each 3x5 inches. Np, vd.
Estimate
$400 – $600
35
Dalai lama; 14th.
Two Color Photographs, each Signed, in Tibetan.
Np, circa 1995
The photographs, ½- or ¾-length snapshot, each showing him seated behind a microphone. Each signed in the image, at lower edge. Each 7¼x5 inches; few scattered dings.
Estimate
$400 – $600
"I Really Made The Picture ['The Ten Commandments'] For Young People"
36
Demille, cecil b.
Typed Letter Signed, to Flora Shirah,
Hollywood, 18 March 1957
remarking that he made The Ten Commandments for young people, explaining that the young will soon be making historically important decisions about good and evil, thanking for film topic suggestions, pointing out that some films have already been released on those topics, and noting that he produced The Crusades in 1935. 1 page, 4to, “Paramount Pictures” stationery; remnants of hinging at upper edge verso, horizontal folds.
”. . . I was very interested to hear that you would like to have your Sunday School children see THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. I really made the picture for young people. In their hands will lie decisions for good and evil of a magnitude that no other generation has ever been called upon to make. Only if these decisions are based upon the eternal principles of morality–written once upon tablets of stone, and embedded by our Founding Fathers into the American way of life–can freedom under God, as we know it in our land, survive in the world. . . .”
Estimate
$300 – $400
37
Diana and charles; princess and prince of wales.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Diana” and “Charles,”
Np, [1985?]
including a color photograph mounted to an inside page showing full-length group portrait of the two standing on either side of a miniature horse being ridden by their children, Princes William and Harry. Signed on page facing portrait, additionally inscribed by Charles to “Jim.” First page embossed with gilt emblems of Diana’s coat of arms and the Prince of Wales’s feathers. 4 pages, 7¼x5 inches, folded sheet.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
38
Diana and charles; princess and prince of wales.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Diana” and “Charles,”
Np, [1987]
including a color photograph mounted to an inside page showing ¾-length portrait of the Princess and Prince seated on the couch with their children, Princes William and Harry. Signed on page facing portrait. First page embossed with gilt emblems of Diana’s coat of arms and the Prince of Wales’s feathers. 4 pages, oblong 8vo, folded sheet. With the original envelope, addressed to Diana’s personal secretary Jane Parsons.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
39
Diana and charles; princess and prince of wales.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Diana” and “Charles,”
Np, [1990]
including a color photograph mounted to an inside page showing half-length group portrait of the Princess and Prince standing behind a raised bench on which are seated their children, Princes William and Harry. Signed on page facing portrait, additionally inscribed by Charles, “To you both.” First page embossed with gilt emblems of Diana’s coat of arms and the Prince of Wales’s feathers. 4 pages, oblong 8vo, folded sheet; faint foxing to first page.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Experimenting In Vacuum Tube Amplification
40
Edison, thomas a.
Two graphite drawings, unsigned, on a single sheet, each a schematic diagram showing a vacuum tube amplifier in a device for monitoring sound,
Np, [3 May 1927?]
each with holograph caption (“Single take” and “2 Lamp take”), and holograph labels (e.g., “phone” indicating a speaker). The first diagram shows a circuit with a single vacuum tube, the second, positioned below the first, shows the same circuit with two tubes. 1 page, 4to, ruled paper; moderate toning overall, minor staining affecting first diagram, two punch holes in left margin, faint scattered soiling, folds.
Estimate
$3,500 – $5,000
41
Edison, thomas a.
Photograph Signed, “Thos AEdison,”
Np, nd
bust portrait by Shinn, showing him wearing bow tie and looking into camera. Signed in the blank lower margin. 9x7 inches; faint scattered foxing (including a spot on cheek), few scattered creases (without loss).
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
42
Edison, thomas a.
Two Autograph Notes Signed, “E,” to Sherwood Troop Moore (“[Dear] Moore”), in pencil.
Np, [12 November 1921?]; nd
The first, instructing him to change how he is to process a special set of 12 blanks [likely blank disc records or phonograph cylinders] and explaining that these blanks can be used to evaluate “Scratch.” The second, remarking that test results seemed to indicate a problem, inquiring whether the same mold was used [likely for making blanks], and requesting that [Frederick George] Blinne process the surface again. Together 3 pages, 8vo, ruled paper, written on three sheets; moderately toned overall, minor chipping to right edge, remnants of hinging at upper edges verso of first, folds.
12 November 1921?: “These are Dalley[?] blanks; Run . . . 12 blanks using the 1st set of polished Moulds from new polisher–
“Schedule should be 850 lbs. & not 1000 as on Reg[ular] blank–
“Keep the other 12 for further use. With these Dalley[?] blanks we can tell the dif[f]erence in Scratch–Print the whole 12 of 1st lot.”
Nd: “Something wrong on this test.
“All Blinne’s test[s] made over a period of 18 months shows 6 coats better than 4 coats.
“Were these made with the same working mould.
“You know that first playing once over is much louder surface than the next playing over. Have Blinne play them over again.”
Estimate
$600 – $900
43
Einstein, albert.
Typed Letter Signed, “A. Einstein,” to Rudolf Wittenberg, in German, explaining that he was unable to attend his play.
Princeton, 9 May 1935
½ page, 4to; two punch holes in left margin, tiny holes at fold intersections, minor scattered toning.
“Thank you very much for your kind invitation. Unfortunately, I was obliged to do something else on all the days you specified. When I’m in New York for a few days, I’ll try to see your play.”
Wittenberg authored a pro-labor play entitled Ostriches, which was performed in 1935 by the People’s Theatre of Cleveland, OH.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
44
Elizabeth ii; queen of the uk; and philip; duke of edinburgh.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Elizabeth R” and “Philip,”
Np, [1952]
including a photograph mounted to an inside page showing full-length portrait of the Queen and kilted Prince standing between their children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Signed on page facing portrait. First page embossed with gilt emblem of the royal crown. 4 pages, small 4to, folded sheet; faint scattered soiling.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
45
Elizabeth ii; queen of the uk; and philip; duke of edinburgh.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Elizabeth R” and “Philip,”
Np, 1954
including reproduction of a photograph on an inside page showing half-length portrait of the Queen and Prince standing on a balcony of Buckingham Palace beside their children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Signed in the blank margin below the image, additionally dated by the Queen. First page embossed with gilt emblem of the royal crown. 4 pages, small oblong 4to, folded sheet; faint scattered foxing to first page.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
46
Elizabeth ii; queen of the uk; and philip; duke of edinburgh.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Elizabeth R” and “Philip,”
Np, 1956
including reproduction of a photograph on an inside page showing full-length group portrait of the Queen and Prince aboard the Britannia standing between their children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Signed in the blank margin below the image, additionally dated by the Queen. First page embossed with gilt emblem of the royal crown. 4 pages, small 4to, folded sheet; faint scattered soiling and foxing.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
47
Elizabeth ii; queen of the uk; and philip; duke of edinburgh.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Elizabeth R” and “Philip,”
Np, 1957
including reproduction of a color photograph on an inside page showing full-length portrait of the Queen and Prince standing outdoors with their children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne and two Welsh corgis. Signed in the blank margin below the image, additionally dated by the Queen. First page embossed with gilt emblem of the royal crown. 4 pages, small 4to, folded sheet; faint scattered foxing to interior pages.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
48
Elizabeth ii; queen of the uk; and philip; duke of edinburgh.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Elizabeth R” and “Philip,”
Np, [1958]
including reproduction of Sebastiano Ricci’s painting The Holy Family mounted to an inside page. Signed on the page facing the image. First page embossed with gilt emblem of the royal crown. 4 pages, small 4to, folded sheet; faint offsetting to signed page.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
49
Elizabeth ii; queen of the uk; and philip; duke of edinburgh.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Elizabeth R” and “Philip,”
Np, 1959
including reproduction of a photograph on an inside page showing full-length portrait of the Queen and Prince standing between their children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, with the east terrace garden at Windsor Castle behind them. Signed in the blank margin below the image, additionally dated by the Queen. First page embossed with gilt ciphers of the Queen and the Prince. 4 pages, small 4to, folded sheet; faint scattered foxing to upper edge of first page.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
50
Elizabeth ii; queen of the uk; and philip; duke of edinburgh.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Elizabeth R” and “Philip,”
Np, 1960
including reproduction of a photograph on an inside page showing group portrait of the family seated on a blanket outside Balmoral Castle, the Queen and Prince on either side of the infant Prince Andrew, surrounded by Prince Charles, Princess Anne, and a Welsh corgi. Signed in the blank margin below the image, additionally dated by the Queen. First page embossed with gilt royal cyphers of the Queen and Prince. 4 pages, small 4to, folded sheet; faint scattered foxing.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
51
Elizabeth ii; queen of the uk; and philip; duke of edinburgh.
Christmas card Signed by both, “Lilibet” and “Philip,”
Np, 1982
including reproductions of color photographs on first and terminal pages showing group portraits of the Queen and Prince standing aboard the HMS Invincible on either side of their son, Prince Andrew. Signed on the third page, additionally inscribed (“David . . . / 1982”) by the Queen. 4 pages, small oblong 4to, folded sheet; faint scattered soiling.
Estimate
$400 – $600
52
(entertainers–hollywood squares.)
Daily call sheet for the television game show Hollywood Squares Signed by 10 stars including the host.
Np, circa 1980
The sheet, printed for the March 1, 1980 taping of shows to be aired between April 4 and 10, showing nine boxes with one or more names printed in each indicating the performers who are to appear in the corresponding square on stage. 1 page, 4to, pale green paper; remnants of mounting at corners verso, moderate abrasion at center verso.
Peter Marshall (“Pete Marshall”) • Carol Spinney (“Oscar” and “Big Bird”), with small ink drawing of Big Bird • Wayland Flowers (“Kisses, / ‘Madame’ / + / Wayland”), with a small ink drawing of Madame [possibly by Spinney] • Tom Poston (“Have a Heart! / Tom Poston”) • Phyllis Davis • Tim Reid (“Keep Loving / Tim Reid”) • Elke Sommer (“Love / Elke Sommer”) • George Gobel • Sydney Goldsmith (“Sydney / Goldsmith / Love”) • Jim Davis (“Hi / Jim Davis / Dallas”).
Estimate
$250 – $350
53
(entertainers.)
Group of 5 items, each Signed, including an ALS, three TLsS, and a typed DS.
Vp, vd
Format and condition vary.
Vivien Leigh. ALS, “Vivien,” to “Darling Anita,” thanking for flowers, promising to call to arrange a meeting, and remarking that the “play went beautifully last night, & through all the previews, so the Times this morning was a bit of a blow!” 1½ pages, 8vo, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet, personal stationery. New York, “Wednesday” • Katharine Hepburn. Brief TLS, to “Dear June Mendoza,” declining to send a photograph. ½ page, small 8vo, personal stationery. Np, 18 June 1985 • Greer Garson. TLS, “Fondly, / Greer,” to Guy Bolton, thanking for suggestion of adapting Julia character to TV, and recalling the “Miniver days.” 1 page, small 4to, personal stationery, pale blue paper. Np, 10 November 1967 • Eddie Cantor. TLS, “Eddie,” to Leon Roos, sending condolences upon the death of his father, and hoping he has recovered from an auto accident. 1 page, small 4to, personal stationery. Np, 29 June 1935 • Fredric March. Typed DS, agreeing to conditions on the loan of a 16mm print of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde including that he “pay all costs related to making said print available to you.” Additionally signed by MGM vice president G. Clark Ramsay. 1 page, 4to, “Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc” stationery. Culver City, 27 April 1971.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
54
Essex, robert devereux; 2d earl of.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Essex,” to Richard Bagott, accepting the offer of some money.
Np, 17 June 1585
1 page, folio, with integral address leaf, addressed in his hand; faint scattered foxing, folds.
“Mr Bagott your sonne tellinge me of your good and kinde offer I was glad to take occasion at this time to use the same, els to disadvantage my self by by [sic] promisinge some thinge w’ch is requested at my handes w’ch by no meanes I will . . . yeald unto I pray you therfore by this levey send me 4.0.1 and, as in all thinges els so in this I shall finde you most frendly thus w’th harty comendaciones, I bid now farewell Coome this XVIIth of June 1585.”
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
55
Farouk; king of egypt.
Signature (“Farouk R”), on a holiday card, at lower right.
Rome, 1936-52
The card, showing a version of his royal monogram above a printed message sending best wishes for Christmas and the New Year in French, English, and Italian. 1 page, 12mo.
Estimate
$350 – $500
Developer Of The Automobile And Developer Of The Tractor
56
Ford, henry.
Photograph Signed, half-length portrait showing him seated across from British inventor Harry Ferguson at a table on which sits a model tractor.
Np, nd
Signed in the image at lower left, additionally signed by Ferguson in the image at lower right. 11x14 inches; remnants of mounting along upper edge verso.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
57
Hammarskjold, dag.
Two Typed Letters Signed, as United Nations Secretary General, to opera singer Bidu Sayão or Meet the Press program founder Lawrence E. Spivak,
[New York], 31 August 1955; 16 May 1956
inviting to a reception or declining to give a speech [likely relating to the events culminating in the Suez Crisis]. Each 1 page, 4to, "Secretary General" stationery; staple holes at upper left of second, horizontal folds.
”. . . I appreciate very much your suggestion to go before your audience. My feeling is, however, that it would not be wise for me to make, at the present moment, further public reports on the situation in the Middle East.”
Estimate
$400 – $600
58
Havilland, olivia de.
Two items: Autograph Letter Signed, to playwright Clifford Odets * Photograph Signed and Inscribed.
New York, 16 October 1950; Np, nd
The first, thanking for congratulations on her [radio drama] Romeo and Juliet and wishing success to his [theatrical drama] The Country Girl. 1 page, small 4to, “Stanhope Hotel” stationery; horizontal folds. With the original envelope. The second, “Every good wish,” bust portrait showing her in costume as Melanie Hamilton from Gone with the Wind. Inscribed in the image, upper right corner. 10x8 inches.
Estimate
$300 – $400
Role Of Gigi In The Film: "A Younger Person Than I Should Play It"
59
Hepburn, audrey.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Audrey,” to Gigi playwright Anita Loos (“Darling Anita”), in green ink,
Paris, 30 December 1955
thanking for the gift of a date book and asking if Sarah Bernhardt is depicted on the cover, apologizing about the delayed answer to her letter about Gigi, explaining that she and Kurt [Frings, her agent] fought [with Paramount to convince them to purchase film rights to the play for Hepburn] but that MGM ended up buying [the rights] for Leslie [Caron], and confessing that, although she loved the play, someone younger than herself should perform the role. Last line and signature written vertically in right margin of terminal page. 4 pages, small 8vo, hotel “Raphael” stationery, written on two sheets; horizontal fold.
“First thank you so much for sending me such a lovely date book with I do believe Sarah Bernhard[t] on the cover! (am I right). You are dear to spoil me and I love my gift.
“I am sorry I did not answer your long letter, about Gigi, to me before. The reason was that things were really popping at the time, and I wanted to write when I knew more. Well I am afraid it is not to be. No one could have put up a stiffer fight than Kurt and I did over this last year and over this last month. Paramount first never bought it because of the censor problem. Nevertheless I have continuously mentioned the property. Metro have now bought it since it is solved from the censorship point of view. They naturally bought it for Leslie (who would be perfect for it) and it being her studio she has the right to it. Metro were willing to have me do it but no deal was worked out between them and Paramount which I possibly could make, as you know. In these situations the actor is the one who gives everything in order to play a part he or she wants.
“I am sorry as I loved the play. I now console myself that maybe I have grown up too much and a younger person than I should play it. I certainly hope they will produce it with all the love and care it deserves.
“We had a divine Xmas, hope yours too was as happy, lots of love and kisses.”
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
60
Hepburn, audrey.
Time magazine cover Signed and Inscribed, “Sincerely,” at lower right.
Los Angeles, 2 October 1959 [from postmark]
The cover, from the September 7, 1953 issue featuring a bust portrait of Hepburn and an ice cream cone similar to the one her character licked in Roman Holiday. Latin America Edition. 4to; short closed separation at fold repaired with paper at upper edge verso, faint scattered foxing and soiling. With the envelope used to send cover to collector.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
61
Ho chi minh.
Photograph Signed and Inscribed, in English, “Best love from / Oncle HochiMinh,”
Np, nd
half-length snapshot showing him with a cigarette in his mouth and tying a handkerchief around the neck of a girl. Inscribed in the blank lower margin. 6½x4¾ inches; faint toning at lower edge.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
62
Hussein; king of jordan.
Photograph postcard dated and Signed, “Hussein I,”
Np, 18 January 1956
bust portrait showing him as a young man in ¾ view. Signed diagonally in the image at center. Correspondence side blank. 5½x3½ inches.
With–A half-dinar banknote from Jordan, featuring a portrait of King Hussein and, on verso, the fortress Qusayr ‘Amra, unsigned. 1995.
Estimate
$200 – $300
America'S Risk Taker Signs His Name Without Capitalization
63
Jobs, steven.
Time magazine cover Signed, “steve / jobs,”
Cupertino, 17 March 1982 [from postmark]
vertically at lower left. The cover, from the February 15, 1982 issue featuring the headline, “Striking it Rich,” showing a bust portrait of Jobs and his Apple II computer. 4to; folds (not affecting signature). With the envelope used to send cover to collector.
Estimate
$15,000 – $25,000
"The Neurotic Problem Cannot Be Solved Through Reduction To Sexuality"
64
Jung, carl gustav.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Dr. Jung,” to French-American psychoanalyst André Tridon, in English, in ink and pencil,
Küsnacht, 5 September 1919
giving page numbers [in pencil] in Collected Papers where one can read his critique of the viewpoint held by Freud and Adler, remarking that he is finishing a work on types of attitude [Psychological Types (1921)], explaining that his critique applies to much of the work done in America and Europe, and noting that his own theory has been adopted by [Herbert] Silberer. 1½ pages, 8vo, “Dr. med. C.G. Jung LL.D” stationery, written on recto and verso of a single sheet, few tiny scattered holes repaired with tissue (minor loss to text), horizontal folds, encapsuled (but removable). With the address panel from the original envelope.
“You [can] find my views concerning Freud’s and Adler’s School expressed in my Collected Papers . . . .
“I am about to finish a book about the problem of attitude and the types of attitude. . . .
“I consider the work actually done in America as well as in Europe along the lines mentioned above, as based upon too narrow an hypothesis. The neurotic problem cannot be solved through reduction to sexuality. It only suits a certain kind of mentality. It is a striking argument against the Sex-hypothesis, that Freud’s first pupil, Adler had to invent an absolutely different theory, that suits many people much better than Freud’s view, as the effect shows.
“I try to reconcile the contradictory views through a theory of attitude and a different appreciation of symbolism. The latter viewpoint has been taken up by Silberer too, as you know.”
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
65
King, jr., martin luther.
Time magazine cover Signed and Inscribed, “Best Wishes,” at lower right.
Montgomery, 8 October 1959 [from postmark]
The cover, from the February 18, 1957 issue featuring a bust portrait of him positioned above a city bus representing the bus boycott he helped organize the previous year. Latin American Edition. 4to, small areas of loss at upper edge and lower left corner, folds (touching signature but without loss). With the envelope used to send cover to collector.
With–Typed letter from King’s secretary Maude L.W. Ballou sending the signed Time cover. ½ page, 4to, “Dexter Avenue Baptist Church” stationery. Montgomery, 8 October 1959.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
"I Am Not Yet A Hollywood Fan"
66
Laughton, charles.
Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dear Gilbert,”
Hollywood, [May 1932?]
expressing enthusiasm for the script [Don Buonaparte?], describing his acquaintance with a man like the character of Padre Pantaleone, suggesting Osbert Sitwell to provide an improved translation, remarking that James Whale has read and might direct the play, mentioning plays by Dumas and Eleanor Farjeon, hoping to begin with a London production in autumn, and complaining about life in Hollywood. 4 pages, 4to, written on four sheets; small hole at upper left, folds.
“I think that the priest play is one of the most charming things I have read and, as you say, it would be a most welcome change for me (and I hope for audiences) to play someone ‘good’.
“As it happens I know very well just such a man as Padre Pantaleone who lives in the hills south of Naples at Ravello. We gave him money to support his miraculous effigy of Santo Cosmo and were showered with oranges, figs, local liqueurs and garlic cake till the day we left.
“I think the construction of the play is perfection, but the translation is perhaps not all it might be. I have a hunch that the one person to translate the play, direct from what I surmise is the original Italian, is Osbert Sitwell. He . . . has an intimate knowledge of and love for these Italian vineyard people and his English is probably the prettiest written.
“It would need, also, the most delicate direction. I took the liberty of persuading Jimmy Whale to read it. He shares my opinions and seemed quite inclined to want to direct it himself. . . . I cannot think of another director with the requisite sympathy for the necessary romantic colour, and can he design scenery (Americanism)?
“I had already read the Dumas play. Ye-e-e-s but there is a better one written by Eleanor Farjeon . . . .
“Are you considering as a possibility a London autumn production of Don Bonaparte with possibly a New York follow up if successful? . . .
“I am not yet a Hollywood fan. No rehearsals, just banged in front of a camera, in a minute the scene is ‘in the can’, no redress. In the future I shall feel more sympathetic towards bad performances on the screen. Everybody is very nice but one feels that at any moment one might find oneself on the wrong side of the street door; however we are asked to Ben Schulberg’s to dinner tomorrow night. Elsa is bored stiff and very restive to work.”
Estimate
$300 – $400
67
Le corbusier.
Time magazine cover dated and Signed, at middle right.
Paris, 1 September 1961 [from postmark]
The cover, from the May 5, 1961 issue featuring a bust portrait of him. Latin America Edition. 4to, folds. With the envelope used to send cover to collector.
With–Typed letter, unsigned, from Corbusier or his secretary sending the signed Time cover. ½ page, 8vo, personal stationery, onionskin paper. Paris, 1 September 1961.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Writing Day After His 78Th Birthday
68
Macarthur, douglas.
Brief Typed Letter Signed, to Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank, thanking for flowers and birthday wishes.
New York, 27 January 1958
½ page, 4to, personal stationery; horizontal folds. With the original envelope.
Estimate
$200 – $300
69
Mandela, nelson.
Color Photograph dated and Signed, “NMandela,”
Np, 28 November 1995
bust portrait showing him looking into the camera. Signed on the mount below the image. 7¼x5 inches (image), 9½x7½ inches overall; faint soiling to mount at upper left.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
70
Masaryk, tomáš garrigue.
Autograph Letter Signed, to Die Zeit founder Heinrich Kanner (“Very esteemed Doctor Kanner”), in German,
Np, 13 June 1898
explaining that an illness delayed the article one day, hoping it will not affect Die Zeit, predicting that he would receive the first half on Tuesday morning and the second half on Wednesday morning, requesting that revisions be sent back early Thursday so that corrections could be submitted on Friday morning. ½ page, 8vo; brief note in unknown hand in blue pencil at upper edge, horizontal fold.
Estimate
$500 – $750
71
Mussolini, benito; and vittorio emanuele iii; king of italy.
Partly-printed Document Signed, by both (“Mussolini,” as Premier, and “Vittorio Emanuele R,” as King of Italy),
Rome, 29 July 1938
authorizing a leave of absence for Lieutenant Colonel Silicani Abramo, in Italian. 1 page, 14½x9½ inches; staple holes along left margin, ink stamp docketing at upper left, Minister of War ink stamp endorsement verso, horizontal fold.
Estimate
$300 – $400
72
Pavlova, anna.
Large Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “To my dear Mrs Smalley / My first and never / to be forgotten teacher / in the fascinating / art of the cinema,”
Np, circa 1916
in white ink, showing her on a dark stage during her performance of “The Dying Swan.” Inscribed diagonally in the image at upper right. 13¼x10½ inches; creasing to upper right edge, moderate silvering at all edges, few scattered dings, hinged to a larger board.
In 1916, Pavlova appeared in the silent film, The Dumb Girl of Portici, co-directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife, Lois Weber. She never performed again in a feature film.
Estimate
$600 – $900
Future Prime Minister Of British South Africa
73
Rhodes, cecil.
Autograph Letter Signed, “C.J. Rhodes,” as Deputy Commissioner for Bechuanaland, to State Attorney for the Transvaal Willem Johannes Leyds,
Vryburg, 2 February 1885
arranging a meeting to address a cattle theft problem. 2 pages, 8vo, with integral blank; faint scattered offsetting and bleedthrough, vertical folds.
Estimate
$350 – $500
74
Robinson, jackie.
Time magazine cover Signed and Inscribed, “To Randall / with / best wishes,” at lower left.
New York, 23 November 1960 [from postmark]
The cover, from the September 22, 1947 issue featuring a bust portrait by Ernest Hamlin Baker, showing him surrounded by oversized baseballs and wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball cap. 10¾x8 inches; faint scattered foxing, three punch holes at left edge, folds. With the envelope used to send cover to collector, showing printed “Chock Full o’ Nuts” return address.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
75
Sadat, anwar.
Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “Steven / Best Wishes / ASadat,” in English and again in Arabic,
Np, 17 July 1978
half-length portrait showing him in ¾ view. 9½x7 inches; few paperclip impressions along upper edge, closed tear at upper right repaired verso with cello tape (not affecting portrait), some creasing and cockling along right edge.
Estimate
$300 – $400
Stand-Up Routine From "Seinfeld"
76
Seinfeld, jerry.
Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, draft of his 19-line stand-up routine from the closing of the “The Mom & Pop Store” episode of the Seinfeld television series,
Np, circa 1994
with a holograph title (“Parade”), a couple of deletions, and a holograph insertion. ½ page, tall 4to, pale yellow ruled paper; horizontal folds.
“The marching band is certainly a great example of taking something bad and making it difficult, too. Why does the band have to march? We’re not moving. . . .”
With–(Jerry Seinfeld.) Photograph, full-length portrait of him seated with hands clasped and fingers against his lips, bearing Seinfeld’s signature written diagonally across the image, likely secretarial. 10x8 inches. Np, nd.
Estimate
$600 – $900
77
Smuts, jan christiaan.
Autograph Letter Signed, “JCSmuts,” as Prime Minister, to “Dear Mrs. Gray,”
Pretoria, 24 October 1944
thanking for condolences upon the death of a friend. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank, South Africa coat of arms stationery; horizontal fold.
“Thank you for your kind message of sympathy in this loss of my dear friend. To my wife and me he was like a son. . . .”
With–Isie Krige Smuts [wife of Smuts]. Autograph Letter Signed, “Isie K. Smuts (Ouma),” to “Miss Vickey Steyn,” in Afrikaans, sending an autograph by her husband and apologizing that she has none from an earlier date. 1 page, 8vo, “Doornkloof” stationery. Irene, 16 February 1952.
Estimate
$300 – $400
78
Stalin, joseph.
Typed Document Signed, “J. Stalin,” as Commissar of Nationalities and of Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection, in Russian, in red ink,
[Moscow], 10 February 1922
appointing I.L Dzevyaltovsky Deputy Regional Plenipotentiary of the People’s Commissariat for Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection (PCWPI) for South-East Russia. Countersigned by another official. 1 page, folio; text faded (but still legible and Stalin’s signature bold), even toning overall, few small holes at fold intersections, People’s Commissariat ink stamp at upper left.
”. . . Comrade I.L. Dzevyaltovsky is entrusted with the duties of the Deputy Regional Plenipotentiary of the PCWPI . . . with all local . . . bodies, civilian, military and special, being subordinate to him . . . . Comrade Dzevyaltovsky is granted the right to:
“1. Issue orders and instructions on behalf of the PCWPI . . . .
“2. Enjoy all auditing rights . . . .
“3. Participate . . . in and give lectures to all local government bodies . . . .
“4. Use PCWPI’s train cars, travel freely . . . [have] access to long-distance telephones . . . .”
Estimate
$3,500 – $5,000
"Expecting To Start Work Soon On A New Film. . .Called 'It'S A Wonderful Life'"
79
Stewart, james.
Typed Letter Signed, “Jimmy Stewart,” to “Dear Mary Pemberton,”
Beverly Hills, [from postmark: 16 January 1946]
acknowledging receipt of her letter, reporting that he is to begin work on It’s a Wonderful Life, and wishing luck to her family. ½ page, 8vo, personal stationery; horizontal folds. With the original envelope.
”. . . Am expecting to start work soon on a new film, a comedy called ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ which Frank Capra will direct. It is also a fantasy. . . .”
Estimate
$350 – $500
80
Stewart, james.
Small archive of 15 items, each Signed or Signed and Inscribed, to James Stewart Fan Club member Mary Trenor,
Vp, 1938-40
including a PS and Inscribed, 6 TLsS, ANS, 3 TNsS, and 4 graphite drawings by Trenor Signed or Inscribed and Signed. Format and condition vary.
The photograph: “To Mary Trenor / Sincere good wishes / Jimmy Stewart,” half length portrait showing him wearing a hat and with hands in pockets as he leans against the propeller of a single engine airplane. Inscribed in the image, lower right. 10x8 inches; signature slightly faded. Np, nd.
The letters: mostly mentioning films he anticipates or is currently performing in or has completed, including Shopworn Angel (1938), You Can’t Take it With You (1938), Destry Rides Again (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), The Mortal Storm (1940), Philadelphia Story (1940), and others. Each 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery; one trimmed at lower edge, minor scattered soiling. Np, 1938-40. Two with the original envelope.
The notes: three postcards thanking for her letter; and a message on a scrap of paper, concerning her drawings: “What’s all this about Rembrandt? Keep up the good work–it’s swell.” Each ¾ page, 3¼x5½ inches or 9x9 inches. Vp, 1939-40.
The drawings: each showing a portrait of Stewart, three additionally inscribed with brief sentiments. Each inscribed in the image. Each 8x6 inches or smaller; mounted to larger sheet. Np, circa 1939.
With–(James Stewart.) Large group of items, unsigned, relating to the James Stewart Fan Club: 4 postcards from Stewart to Trenor with printed New Year greetings. Each 1 page, 3¼x5½ inches. 1938-41 • Typed letter from Stewart’s secretary to Trenor sending a snapshot of Stewart in soldier’s uniform [present]. 1 page, 8vo, “James Stewart” stationery. Np, 6 August 1941 • Group of 8 small photographs, each a snapshot showing Stewart alone or with others, including half-length portrait showing him in US Army corporal’s uniform. 2¾x4½ inches or smaller. Nd • Three issues of the James Stewart Fan Club newsletter entitled The Stewart Spotlite, featuring news about him, reproductions of fan art depicting him, and excerpts from his letters. Each approximately 12 pages, 4to, staple binding. 1939-41 • Group of 16 graphite drawings by Trenor, mostly portraits of Stewart. 8x6½ inches or smaller. Nd • Group of over 60 newspaper clippings, mostly photographs, mostly showing or concerning Stewart. 11x8 inches or smaller. Vd.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
After His Own Mother'S Death, A Message For Cecil B. Demille
81
Stewart, james.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Jimmy,” to Cecil B. DeMille (“Dear Mr. DeMille”),
Np, [13 August 1953]
thanking for the condolences he sent [upon the death of Stewart’s mother]. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; staple holes at upper left, faint uneven toning at upper and left edges, horizontal folds, ink received stamp at upper right.
“You were very kind and thoughtful to send me your expressions of sympathy. Your beautiful wire was a great comfort to me. And when I showed it to my father he asked if he could keep it and he put it in a sort of special pocket in his coat. I know that he will look at that wire many times from now on. I am very grateful to you.”
Estimate
$500 – $750
82
Thant, u.
Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “To / Mr. Leon Leonidoff / With my best wishes / MaungThant,”
Np, 31 January 1972
bust portrait showing him looking into the camera. Inscribed in the image, upper left. 10x8 inches; minor soiling and creasing at all edges.
Estimate
$200 – $300
83
Thatcher, margaret.
Photograph Signed, full-length group portrait showing her and the other leaders of the 1981 G7 Summit in Ottawa standing in a line, side-by-side.
Np, nd
Signed in the blank lower margin. 5x7 inches; collector’s inscription on verso.
Estimate
$200 – $300
84
Trotsky, leon.
Typed Letter Signed, “L. Trotsky,” to publisher Charles Boni (“Dear esteemed Mr. Boni”), in German,
Büyükada, 25 December 1930
complaining that the German edition of his History of the Russian Revolution is delayed [because Boni failed to send the manuscript to the German publisher], enclosing a copy of Trotsky’s letter to the German publisher [not present], pointing out that the letter shows that the deadline for delivery of the second volume [of German edition] is fixed, and requesting that he send responses to Trotsky and the German publisher as soon as possible. 1 page, 4to; slight even toning overall, folds.
“My friend Max Eastman writes me about the postponement of the German edition of the first volume of the History of the Revolution. There is hardly anything to be done. I must politely remind you, that it was your publishing house which energetically insisted that I send the original text of my book to New York, despite the consequent inconveniences, chapter by chapter, so that, as stated in your letter, the house has the opportunity to translate the book chapter at a time and to place it in the American press. At the very last moment, I learned that nothing of the sort has happened. I can only regret this. Although my interests are thereby obviously encroached upon, to my regret, I cannot demand that Mr. Fischer sacrifice his interests for my sake. In any case, I have written to him about your proposition, and have enclosed a copy of my letter to the Fischer publishing house with this letter.
“From the copy you will gather than it contains an important question on fixing the deadline for delivery of the second volume. I request that you inform me and Mr. Fischer as soon as possible.”
In 1931, Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution was published in German by Samuel von Fischer. The English version was published the same year–through a deal brokered by Charles Boni–as a series of six articles entitled The Russian Revolution in The Saturday Evening Post between April 25th and May 30th.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
"Nixon Aided And Abetted His Aides In Hiding The Truth About Watergate"
85
(watergate.) ervin, sam.
Typed Letter Signed, “Sam J. Ervin, Jr.,” to J.F. Fallon,
Morganton, NC, 29 October 1982
summarizing the crimes of President Nixon relating to the Watergate affair and remarking that much of the evidence is to be found in Nixon’s own secret recordings. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; horizontal folds.
”. . . Any claim that President Nixon was not involved in wrong-doing in the Watergate affair is shown to be false by the words imprinted by his own voice on his own secret tapes.
“Tapes made by him and Haldeman six days after the burglarers [sic] were caught in the Watergate reveal that on June 23, 1972, he and Haldeman both knew that the break-in was an enterprise of the committee which he set up to promote his reelection; that the break-in had been financed by his campaign funds; that the FBI was about to discover the source of the particular funds which were used to finance the burglary; and that Nixon and Haldeman on that day conspired to induce the CIA to persuade the FBI to stop its investigation as to the source of the funds.
“The words on tapes . . . show that at all times President Nixon aided and abetted his aides in hiding the truth about Watergate from the American people, the courts, and congressional committees, and that at no time did he ever make any honest effort to have the truth about Watergate revealed. . . . [T]he ten Republican Congressmen who had voted [a]gainst his impeachment to the last stated that these tapes showed he was guilty of obstructing justice . . . [T]hey said it had been claimed in the past and would undoubtedly be claimed in the future that Nixon was driven from office by political enemies and a hostile press. They stated that this was not true, but on the contrary, Nixon’s misfortune was self-inflicted . . . .”
Estimate
$100 – $200
86
Wellington, arthur wellesley; duke of.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Wellington,”
London, 11 March 1824
to “My dear Sir,” expressing regret upon hearing of the death of Colonel Colebrooke, and responding to a request to assist in securing, for an unnamed person, the position of successor to Sir Edward Paget. 7 pages, small 8vo, written on two folded sheets.
”. . . I believe it is true that in two or three years Sir Edward Paget will return from India, and I have already had no less than three applications that I will use my influence to have a successor appointed to him. . . . I cannot press the views of Sir Henry[?] Campbell, for instance, upon this situation of Commander-in-Chief in succession to Sir Edward Paget, without adverting to the views of others. . . . In short, without being the disposer of the patronage of the government, I am obliged to weigh the claims of different individuals to its favour. . . .”
Estimate
$300 – $400
Holocaust Survivor And Nazi Hunter
87
Wiesenthal, simon.
Two items, each Signed, “Wiesenthal”: Invitation to “An Evening with Simon Wiesenthal” * Signature on verso of his printed visiting card.
[Indianapolis, April 1979]; Np, nd
The invitation, for the presentation he delivered on April 30, 1979, at the Broadmoor Country Club in Indianapolis concerning a proposed Mobile Holocaust Educational Exhibition. Signed below his printed portrait on the first page, in green ink. 4 pages, 8vo, folded sheet. The visiting card, printed with his name and the address in Vienna of the Jewish Documentation Center. 1¾x4 inches.
Estimate
$200 – $300
88
Windsor, edward; duke of; and wallis; duchess of.
Signature by each on a monogrammed correspondence card:
Np, nd
“Edward / Duke of Windsor” and “Wallis / Wllis Windsor.” 3½x5¼ inches; remnants of cello tape mounting at corners recto, minor staining along lower edge.
Estimate
$200 – $300
Presidential Autographs
"Speculation Has Nearly Ceased Here As To Who Shall Compose The New Cabinet"
89
Buchanan, james.
Autograph Letter Signed, as Senator, to James A. Caldwell,
Washington, 7 February 1837
stating that he cannot offer a loan because others have not fulfilled their obligations to him, remarking that there are no clues as to who shall receive appointments in President Martin Van Buren’s cabinet, and commenting on the health of their mutual friend [Gardner?] Furniss. 1 page, 4to; small cello tape reinforcements at fold intersections verso, vertical folds through signature (without loss), faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, remnants of hinging at upper edge verso.
”. . . Speculation has nearly ceased here as to who shall compose the new Cabinet. On this subject Mr. Van Buren keeps his own counsel. . . .”
Estimate
$600 – $900
Includes Appointment Signed By Lincoln And Three Letters Addressed To Him
90
(lincoln, abraham–album.)
Album containing 12 letters or notes, 7 documents, and two clipped signatures, bound into a volume, each Signed
Vp, vd
by a figure relating to John G. Nicolay and John Hay’s Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln (1905) [not present], for which the present volume was intended to provide extra illustrations. Additionally containing 11 printed portraits or illustrations, 4 photographs, and 4 documents, unsigned. Most items mounted to a stub or inlaid, many folded to fit. 8vo, brown morocco, covers with gilt decorations, spine tooled in gilt in compartments; morocco doublures with front inset with oval reproduction of watercolor miniature portrait painting showing Lincoln’s log cabin, gilt turn-ins, silk moiré free endpapers; some items with complete or nearly complete separations at folds, some trimmed to fit.
Autographs: Abraham Lincoln. Partly-printed DS, as President, appointing George M. Woodbridge Assessor for a district in OH. Countersigned by Secretary of the Treasury William P. Fessenden. 12x16¾ inches; nearly complete separations at vertical and horizontal folds (not affecting signature). Washington, 20 October 1864 • James Monroe. Partly-printed DS, “Ja’s Monroe,” as Governor, appointing James Acres Lieutenant in the VA militia. Countersigned by Assistant Clerk Samuel Coleman. 12x7½ inches. Richmond, 17 June 1801 • LeRoy Fitch. ALS, to Admiral David D. Porter, reporting the replacement of the W.W. Park with Acting Assistant Surgeon Leaman on USS Reindeer and requesting authorization to order a Medical Examining Board to fill other vacancies. 1 page, 4to, ruled paper. Cincinnati, 10 August 1863 • Elisha W. Davis. ALS, “EWDavis,” as Speaker of PA House of Representatives, to Lincoln, recommending Allegheny County marshal candidate N.P. Sawyer. 1 page, 4to, ruled paper, with integral address leaf. Harrisburg, 6 March 1861 • (Abraham Lincoln.) LS by 8 MN representatives, to Lincoln, recommending MN state marshal candidate Cornelius F. Buck. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank. St. Paul, 7 January 1861 • (Abraham Lincoln.) LS by 6 members of the bar of Putnam County, IN, to Lincoln, recommending U.S. Supreme Court Justice candidate Samuel B. Gookins.1 page, 4to, ruled paper. Np, 15 April 1861 • William H. Seward. Brief ALS, as Secretary of State, to “Dear Sir,” acknowledging receipt of letter. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank. With the original wax seal, mounted at lower left. Washington, 22 April 1866 • John Adams Dix. ALS, “John A. Dix,” to “Mr. Holdredge,” requesting that the manuscript be sent with the proof and that the type be set up in galleys after corrections are made, and, in a postscript, requesting a slight pause to allow time for some books he ordered to arrive. 1 page, square 8vo. Np, nd • Fitz John Porter. Partly-printed DS, as NYC Commissioner of Public Works, certifying employment of a foreman. 1 page, 3½x4½ inches; mounted. New York, 6 April 1875 • Richard Mentor Johnson. ALS, “Rh. M. Johnson” twice, as Representative, to President of the Second Bank of the U.S. Nicholas Biddle, recommending that a loan be made to Mr. Penn. 1½ pages, 4to, with integral blank, ruled paper. Np, 3 May 1832 • Nelson Dingley, Jr. ALS, to Secretary of the Treasury William P. Fessenden, requesting his intentions upon Lincoln’s re-election with regard to his service in the Senate and as Treasurer. 2½ pages, 8vo, “Lewiston Daily” stationery, folded sheet. Lewiston, 10 October 1864 • Isham G. Harris. Partly-printed DS, as Governor, appointing a Justice of the Peace. Countersigned by Secretary of State J.E.R. Ray. 1 page, 4to. Nashville, 23 June 1860 • William G. Brownlow. Partly-printed DS, “W.G. Brownlow,” as Governor, commissioning an elected Justice of the Peace. Countersigned by Secretary of State A.J. Fletcher. 1 page, 4to. Nashville, 27 December 1866 • Roger Atkinson Pryor. ALS, “Roger A. Pryor,” to “Dear Burwell,” planning a trip with him to Washington. 1 page, 8vo, ruled paper; mounted. Richmond, 18 November 1857 • Morrison Waite. ANS, in the third person within the text, to an unnamed recipient: “Chief Justice Waite regrets that his official arrangements will prevent him accepting the invitation . . . to be present at the welcome to be given General Grant . . . on December 20th.” 1 page, 8vo; inlaid. Washington, 13 December 1879 • Simeon B. Chittenden. ALS, “S.B. Chittenden,” as Representative, to “Dear Sir,” assuring him that he sent the report concerning March 4th. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank. Brooklyn, 21 March 1877 • William Buel Franklin. Clipped Signature, “WB. Franklin / MajGenUsVol’s.” 1x3½ inches; inlaid. Np, nd • Edward D. Townsend. Clipped Signature, “E.D. Townsend.” 1x2¼ inches, vellum; inlaid. Np, nd • Alexander Slidell. ALS, to Henry Lee, praising his biography, The Life of Emperor Napoleon (1834). 3¼ pages, 4to, written on a folded sheet. London, 15 January 1835 • John G. Stricklan. Partly-printed DS, Confederate pay account form acknowledging receipt of $80.00 for service as 2nd Lieutenant during first month of 1864. 1 page, oblong 8vo, pale blue paper. Np, 18 July 1864 • John M. Jackson. Partly-printed DS, “J.M. Jackson,” Confederate certification of the discharge of Josephus Riden. 1 page, 4to. Dalton, 12 April 1864.
Printed portraits or illustrations, unsigned: Andrew Johnson • James Monroe • John Tyler • Martin Van Buren • James K. Polk • David D. Porter • “The President’s Reception Room During the War”, inlaid • Abraham Lincoln (2), inlaid • “Funeral Obsequies of Pres’t Lincoln at the Presidential Mansion” • William H. Emory.
Photographs, unsigned: Lincoln and son, inlaid • North portico of White House, from stereograph, inlaid • White House interior, from stereograph, inlaid • U.S. Capitol Building, from stereograph, inlaid.
With–Four presidential documents: (Andrew Johnson.) Document pardoning Fulwar Skipwith for “taking part in the late rebellion against the Government,” bearing Johnson’s signature stamped in ink. Signed by Secretary of State William H. Seward. 2 pages, 16x10½ inches, folded sheet. Washington, 25 July 1865 • (John Tyler.) Document appointing six Justices of the Peace for Fluranna County, bearing Tyler’s secretarial signature. 7½x9½ inches, some loss to seal, docketing verso. Richmond, 18 November 1826 • (Martin Van Buren.) Vellum document granting to Henry and Joel Robinson 160 acres in Washington, AR, bearing Van Buren’s secretarial signature. Signed by Secretary to the President Abraham Van Buren. 10x16 inches. Washington, 10 August 1837 • (James K. Polk.) Vellum document granting to Daniel Brown 80 acres in Clinton, MO, bearing Polk’s secretarial signature. Signed by Assistant Secretary J.K. Stephens. 10x15 inches. Washington, 1 July 1848.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
Ford'S Pardon Of Nixon, Signed By Both
91
Nixon, richard m.; and ford, gerald r.
Souvenir typescript of the last two paragraphs of Ford’s 1974 Proclamation of Pardon, Signed by both,
Np, nd; 5 November 1979
additionally dated by Ford. 1 page, small 8vo, tan paper.
This typescript was likely produced by a collector, who first removed the front free endpaper of one of the first edition copies of Ford’s 1979 autobiography, A Time to Heal, a number of which are known to have been signed by Ford for friends or publicity purposes. The collector then persuaded Nixon to sign the leaf, either before or after typing the text of the pardon above Ford’s signature.
With–Gerald Ford. Two Photographs Signed, each a seated half-length portrait. The first, in color, showing him looking into the camera. The second, showing him in ¾ view, holding a tobacco pipe. Signed in the image at middle left, or in the blank lower margin. Each 10x8 inches. Np, nd.
Estimate
$600 – $900
First Presidential Library
92
Roosevelt, franklin d.
Document Signed, as President,
Washington, 19 December 1938
retained copy of the document authorizing the use of his name “in the membership corporation, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Inc.” With a certification attached at bottom left: “I, Charles E. Stewart, Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia . . . do hereby certify that Frank K. Sanderson . . . was at the time of signing [the present document] a notary public . . . .” 1 page, tall 4to; blind stamps for notary and district court.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
93
Roosevelt, theodore.
Document Signed, as President, appointing Henry Percival Dodge Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to El Salvador.
Washington, 18 September 1907
Countersigned by Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon. 1 pages, folio, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; moderate foxing along right edge recto, folds.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Musician, Writer & Artist Autographs
94
Bloch, ernest.
Typed Letter Signed, to Paul H. Little,
Agate Beach, OR, 22 September 1951
expressing satisfaction that he is to hold a lecture-concert on Bloch’s music at the Temple Isaiah Israel, suggesting that recordings be used of his Piano Quintet [No. 1], Schelomo, and Avodath-Hakodesh, expressing hope for the future through a change in spiritual values, and quoting Walt Whitman: “As he sees the farthest, he has the most faith.” 1 page, 4to; short closed tears at upper edge, faint scattered dampstaining, folds.
”. . . I am very gratified to hear that you are giving a lecture-concert on my music at the Temple Isaiah Israel. . . . I remember with emotion the moving reception they gave me in November of last year, and I can see no better place where my music may be performed. I really hope that you can have a long-playing record of my Avodath-Hakodesh, Schelomo, Piano Quintet, because . . . the listeners would hear my own voice when I conducted them, and I hope that my music will, better than any words, bring to them my message of brotherhood and hopes for a better future. . . . Any true progress must first start in the individuals themselves, and in a change of heart. This is why spiritual values are more important than ever . . . .”
Estimate
$100 – $200
95
Caruso, enrico.
Autograph Letter Signed, to James O’Connell, in Italian,
New York, 6 November 1912
expressing delight at the plan to meet on Monday, thanking him for his help, and conveying regards to his uncle the Cardinal. 2 pages, 8vo, “Hotel Knickerbocker” stationery; two punch holes at upper edge with loss to couple letters of text, moderate even toning overall, some brittling to edges, folds. With the address panel from the original envelope.
”. . . I ask you to present to his Eminence the Cardinal your uncle my respectful regards . . . .”
The Cardinal mentioned is likely William Henry O’Connell (1859-1944), who was scandalized when it was discovered that his nephew, Reverend James P. O’Connell, violated his vows and secretly married a year after Caruso’s letter.
Estimate
$200 – $300
96
Jackson, michael.
Time magazine cover Signed, at lower right.
Np, nd
The cover, from the March 19, 1984 issue featuring a reproduction of Andy Warhol’s bust portrait of him. 4to; remnants of address label at lower left.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
97
Krenek, ernst.
Autograph Musical Manuscript dated and Signed, 4 bars from the first movement of his Piano Sonata No. 3 [Op. 92],
Saint Paul, MN, 15 September 1946
notated on two printed two-stave systems, with holograph title, tempo directive, and copyright notice. 1 page, 4x6 inches.
Estimate
$300 – $400
98
Poulenc, francis.
Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, to paleontologist Wesley Wehr, three bars from an arrangement of “O Magnum Mysterium,”
Np, May 1953
notated on a system of four printed staves for voice and three instruments, with holograph title, lyrics, and staff labels. The inscription, “à monsieur Wesley Wehr / trés cordialement,” at lower right. 1 page, 5½x9 inches; faint toning at lower edge.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Signed By Rossini, Cherubini, And Others
99
(musicians–19th century.)
Letter Signed by the committee organizing the performance of a funeral mass for Vincenzo Bellini, to the artists of the Opéra-Comique orchestra, in French,
Np, [1835]
requesting help in executing their duty. The signers are Gioachino Rossini, Ferdinando Paer, Luigi Cherubini, Giovanni Battista Rubini, François Habeneck, Adolphe Nourrit, Auguste Mathieu Panseron, Michele Carafa, Eugène-Théodore Troupenas, Fromental Halévy, Jean-Baptiste Chollet, and two others. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; moderate marginal discoloration from prior matting, few short closed tears at edges including one repaired with linen at lower edge verso, remnants of mounting at upper left recto, folds.
“The author of The Pirate and the Puritans has just been taken away from the arts, far from his family and his homeland; honoring his memory belongs to the country to which his last accents were devoted.
“We here request the help of your talents in performing a musical mass which will be celebrated on Friday, October 2nd, at the Chapel of the Hôtel des Invalides. We dare to hope that you will answer our call and prove that artists from all countries are members of the same family.”
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
100
(musicians–20th century.)
Group of 8 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed.
Vp, vd
Format and condition vary.
Darius Milhaud (2). Autograph Musical Quotation Signed and Inscribed, “Best wishes from / Milhaud,” one bar from his Symphony No. 3 (1946), notated on a hand-written stave, with holograph title. ¾ page, 4x5½ inches; Typescript Signed, “Milhaud,” chapter 33 (“The War”) from his autobiography, Notes Without Music, concerning his experiences during the first World War. Signed at end of text. 8¼ pages, 4to, onionskin paper, written on rectos of separate sheets. Np, nd; “Mills College” [Oakland], 1946 • Wanda Landowska. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “To Dr. Raymond Brillouet / and his dear Janisse / in remembrance of dear hours of / music and ‘auntie’,” in French, half-length portrait showing her seated at a piano. Inscribed on the mount below the image. 4x6¼ inches (image), 15x9½ inches overall. Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, 15 June 1935 • Fritz Kreisler. Photograph dated and Signed, ¾-length portrait showing him beside his open violin case. Signed diagonally in the image at lower right. 6¼x4½ inches. Np, 1915 • Paul Hindemith (2). Two slips of paper, each dated and Signed. Each 1 page, 4x5½ inches. October 1945; May 1946 • Charles Ives. Signature, “Chas. E. Ives,” on a slip of paper. Inscription above signature (“With kind regards”) in another hand. 1 page, 4x5½ inches. Np, nd • Virgil Thomson. Typescript Signed, chapter entitled “Mozart, One Musician’s Best Friend,” from his self-titled autobiography (1966), concerning his experiences during the second World War. Signed at end of text. 13¼ pages, 4to, onionskin paper, written on rectos of separate sheets. Np, nd.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Early Poem
101
Browning, elizabeth barrett.
Autograph Manuscript Signed, “EBB,” fair copy of her early poem entitled, “Fortune Telling,”
Np, 1825?
in sixteen lines. 1 page, 4to; some scattered and likely contemporary ink stains (not affecting legibility of text), faint scattered foxing, few lines of likely contemporary scribbled text in unknown hand on verso.
“Whose Fancy would turn Trappist, and go slave / At digging her own grave–Who would not cope / At hide and seek with Hope . . . .
”. . . I fondly guess / That thy words of tenderness, and actions mild / And goodness undefil’d, and gentle eyes / Tell us thy destinys–to be belov’d!”
Unpublished in her lifetime, but appears in The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. Sandra Donaldson et al., vol. 5 (London, 2010), 449.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
102
Bukowski, charles.
Typescript dated and Signed, with two holograph corrections, his poem entitled “One of the Hottest Ever,”
Np, 7 February 1975
beginning, “She wore a tall white wig / and her face was rouged and powdered . . . .” 1 page, 4to; evenly toned overall, moderate brittling to edges, horizontal folds.
Estimate
$400 – $600
"Charles Bukowski: 86'D"
103
Bukowski, charles.
Illustrated broadside Signed, advertising the launch of poetry magazine Nitty-Gritty [published by Goldenmood Rainbow Press in 1975].
Np, circa 1975
16½x10½ inches, pale brown paper; horizontal fold.
Estimate
$150 – $250
104
Bukowski, charles.
Prospectus for Horsemeat Signed,
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, [1982]; inscription: Np, [1982]
on page 3. Color photograph mounted to page 1 as issued. 8vo, folded sheet, tan paper.
Estimate
$150 – $250
105
Bukowski, charles.
Pig in a Pamphlet 12. Signed, with a small ink drawing, on the front free endpaper.
[Pittsburgh: Pig in a Poke Press, 1985]; inscription: Np, circa 1985
5½x4¼ inches, original printed wrappers, staple binding; front cover bears facsimile signature and drawing.
Estimate
$150 – $250
106
Bukowski, charles.
Three printed poems, each Signed: “What They Want” * “Playing it Out” * “The Cage.”
[Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977]; Dallas: Toothpaste, 1983; (Boise): Limberlost, 1987; inscriptions: Np, nd
The first, printed for opening of Maurice F. Neville Rare Books in Santa Barbara on August 14, 1977. One of 75 copies, signed on terminal page. The second, signed at lower edge. The third, a postcard, correspondence side blank, signed on verso. Each 8x5½ inches or smaller, the first a folded sheet, the second on dark green paper.
With–Charles Bukowski. Printed poem, bearing likely secretarial signature, in white ink: “Night Work.” 6½x4½ inches, black paper. [Dallas]: (Toothpaste, 1981).
Estimate
$250 – $350
Jfk "Will Make A Wonderful President, And Jackie Is A[N] . . . Angelic Girl"
107
Capote, truman.
Autograph Letter Signed, “T,” to Edna Marie Faulk Rudisill (“Darling Tiny”),
Verbier [from envelope], 14 November 1960
complaining about tax troubles, promising to send money to Seabon [Jackson Faulk, her brother] and Joe [Ray?, her uncle], expecting the new book next year [The Innocents (1961)], expressing delight at the election of John F. Kennedy, mentioning a recent visit with the Kennedys in Palm Beach, describing the resort in Verbier, mentioning that his friends are nearby including Charlie Chaplin and Noël Coward, noting that the film adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany’s is nearly complete, complaining about carrying his pets all over Europe, expressing concern about her young relatives, and promising to visit. 4 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet, yellow paper, second text page written inverted on terminal page, last two text pages written vertically across pages 2 and 3. With the original envelope.
“Poor Seabon! I do feel most awfully sad for him. But sadder still on your account. Well, and how does it go?–as if it could go any way but one. And what about Seaby–where is he deposited? There is really nothing I can do; I am having back-tax trouble–which is one reason I’m living in Switzerland; and it will be another year before my new book is finished; however, I will try to send S. a Christmas check. But then I must send one to Joe, too–who is, as usual, in the direst straits. . . .
“I was delighted over the elections–the Kennedys are old and great friends; I stayed with them last winter in Palm Beach, and love them both. I think he will make a wonderful President, and Jackie is a brilliant, angelic girl.
“Verbier is a small winter resort high in the Alps and deep in snow. Jack loves skiing; I don’t, particularly, but it is a wonderful climate, very dry and snowy and sunny, and it is a quiet place, a good place to work. Also, I have several friends–living not too far away: Charlie and Oona Chaplin, and Noel Coward all live with[in] an hour’s drive.
“They have almost finished the movie of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ and I’m told it is very good, and that Audrey Hepburn is excellent.
“Have all the animals here: the cat, Bunky and Kelly. What a chore it is lugging them all over Europe! Dear Kelly is pretty old now, and blind. . . .”
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
From "The Water Witch"
108
Cooper, james fenimore.
Autograph Manuscript, unsigned,
Sorrento, 1828
a fragment of his working draft of The Water Witch. 2 pages, 3¼x8 inches, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; a few small holes affecting text repaired with tissue, minor scattered foxing and soiling. With Susan Fenimore Cooper’s autograph attestation written on a separate card: “From the ‘Water-Witch,’ written at the ‘Casa Tasso,’ Sorrento, in 1828. . . . Aug. 1889.”
With–Group of three brief letters, each Signed by an American writer, each to an unnamed admirer: Mary Eleanor Wilkins. Autograph Letter Signed, “Mary E. Wilkins”: “Yours, with pleasant remembrances.” 1 page, 12mo, personal stationery; mounted. Randolph, August 1896 • Thomas Dixon, Jr. Typed Letter Signed, sending his autograph. 1 page, square 8vo, “Elmington Manor” stationery. Dixondale, 20 July 1903 • Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Autograph Letter Signed: “With warm regards of the author.” With an Autograph Postscript: “After a Nice Chicken!” 1 page, square 12mo. Np, 26 Jan[uary] 1919.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Two Fragments From "The Headsman"
109
Cooper, james fenimore.
Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, two full-page fragments from chapter XXVIII of the working draft of his novel The Headsman,
Np, circa 1833
including over 30 holograph lines. 2 pages, 3½x9½ inches, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; short closed separation at vertical fold, horizontal fold.
The first page begins: “was distinctly given, and it was in perfect accordance with the private information that had already been gleaned by the authorities. . . .”
The second page begins: “‘Signore,’ said the smuggler, changing colour, but endeavouring to speak lightly of a discovery which all the others present evidently considered to be grave, . . .”
With–Paul Fenimore Cooper. Autograph Letter Signed, “Paul F. Cooper,” to Grace Lawrence, describing the manuscript: “. . . The two sides are not continuous, coming from a half-sheet written over in the ordinary way beginning at the top of each page. . . . The book was written in Europe and on very large half sheets of paper, more than 14 inches by 9 . . . .” 1½ pages, 8vo, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet. Albany, 30 July 1886. With the original envelope.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Hand-Made By Him For Bread Loaf School Director Reginald Cook ("Doc")
110
Frost, robert.
Autograph Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, “A Preview / for Nita and Doc / from / R.F. / After a good Bread Loaf / 1946,” fair copy of 8 poems sewn by him into a pamphlet.
Np, 1946
16 pages, 8vo, side-stitched, wrappers.
“To an Ancient” • “Something to Hope For” [“Something for Hope”] • “One Step Backward Taken” • “Why Wait for Science” • “But He Meant It” [“The Broken Drought”] • “The Courage to Be New” • “A Mood Apart” • “Bravado”.
Some of these poems were published the following year in his Steeple Bush.
Reginald Lansing Cook (1903-1984), led the Middlebury College department of American Literature, served as director of the Bread Loaf School of English from 1946 to1964, and wrote Robert Frost: A Living Voice (1974).
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
The Copy He Read To The American Academy Of Arts And Letters
111
Frost, robert.
Typescript Signed and Inscribed, “For Reginald Cook,” with holograph note and a correction,
Np, [1951]
reading copy of his poem, “How Hard It Is to Keep from Being King When It’s in You and in the Situation.” At upper edge of first page is the holograph note: “As read at the American Academy,” followed by a holograph revision of the title from “Hard Not to Be King” to “Hard to Keep from Being King.” Signed at end of text. 13 pages, 4to, written on rectos of separate sheets, stapled together at upper left; faint stain at right edge of last few pages, horizontal fold.
“The King said to his son: ‘Enough of this! The kingdom’s yours to finish as you please. I’m getting out tonight. Here. Take the crown.’ . . .”
Published in 1951, first as “How Hard It Is to Keep from Being King When It’s in You and in the Situation,” in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, then as “Hard Not to Be King” by House of Books in a limited edition of 300. The version that appears in the 1962 collection, In the Clearing, differs in several places, containing alterations to a few words, as well as the addition of a line.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
His Christmas Poem For 1952
112
Frost, robert.
Autograph Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, “Robert / to Fred” [bibliophile Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.],
Np, [November 1952]
fair copy of his poem entitled, “Does No One but Me at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least.” Inscribed at end of text, after which are footnotes in four holograph lines: “By Canute and Lord Byron among others [concerning ‘The ocean had been spoken to before’] / At this writing it is pretty generally accepted / that an addition of rivers only makes / the sea saltier [concerning ‘‘Till you have lost the savor of your salt’].” 2 pages, 8vo, written on separate sheets; three punch holes in left margin, horizontal fold.
“O ocean sea for all your being vast / Your separation of us from the Old / That was to make the New World newly great / Would only disappoint us at the last . . . .”
First published in 1952 as “Does No One but Me at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least” in pamphlet form as one of Frost’s Christmas poems. When it appeared in his 1962 collection, In the Clearing, Frost’s poem bears the slightly shorter title, “Does No One at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least,” and there are a number of other minor changes to the text.
With–(Robert Frost.) Does No One but Me at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least. Printed for Marguerite & Fred Melcher. 12mo, printed wrappers, staple binding. First edition, one of 475. Crane B24. New York: Spiral Press, [1952].
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
From "Christopher Columbus"
113
Irving, washington.
Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, working draft of the last 14 lines from chapter XVII of his Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus,
Np, [1830]
abridged version, with several holograph emendations. ½ page, 8vo; moderate brittling overall, nearly complete horizontal tear affecting second line of text (without loss), faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, remnants of prior mounting at upper and lower edges verso.
In full: “given the name of Rio del Oro. Here, as the seamen were ranging the shore, they found the bodies of three men and a boy, one of whom had a rope of Spanish grass about his neck, & another, from having a beard, was evidently a European. The bodies were in a state of decay, but bore the marks of violence. This spectacle gave rise to many gloomy forebodings, and Columbus hastened forward to La Navidad, full of apprehensions that some disaster had befallen Diego de Arana and his companions.”
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
"She Opened Her Eyes, And Green"
114
Lawrence, d.h.
Autograph Manuscript Signed, fair copy of his poem, “Green,”
Np, 10 February 1920
on a leaf removed from an autograph album. 1 page, small 8vo; faint scattered foxing, signature of Italo Tavolato at lower edge verso.
“The dawn was apple-green
“The sky was green wine held up
“in the sun
“The moon was a golden petal
“between.
“She opened her eyes, and green
“Her eyes shone, clear like flowers
“undone
“For the first time, now for the first
“time seen.”
Lawrence met Emma Maria Frieda Johanna Freiin von Richthofen in 1912 when she was married to a professor at University College Nottingham. After her divorce, Lawrence married Frieda, whose eyes were green, in 1915.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
The Writer'S Life: "A Life Where Nothing Ever Happens . . . Except Inside You"
115
Miller, arthur.
Three items, each Signed: Typed Letter * Flyer for a production of Death of a Salesman * Photograph Signed.
Np, 9 April 1979; nd; nd
The letter, to “Dear Mr. Norbutt,” responding to his questions about what gives a piece of writing lasting importance and the nature of the writer’s life. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery. The flyer, advertising the 1974 revival production at the Walnut theater in Philadelphia, featuring a reproduction of a drawing by Zipin showing Miller’s head. Signed diagonally at lower right. 8x5¼ inches. The photograph, half-length seated portrait by AMW showing miller looking into the camera [on his 79th birthday]. Signed diagonally at lower right. 8½x6½ inches.
”. . . I was in China . . . and on returning spent all my time writing a book which is at last finished and at the printers. (‘Chinese Encounters’.) I don’t know if you are still working in Bed-Stuy with addicts, but if you are and if your question still holds I’ll try to answer it.
“The question was, what gives a work ‘lasting’ importance; (plus another–‘is being blessed with a writers creativity a blessing or a lonely life?’)
“The question is hard to answer mainly because there are so many different kinds of writing that have lasted. Shakespeare lasts, probably, because of the beauty of his language more than anything else, but a writer translated from another language, like Tolstoy, is forever new because of his stories and characters. A book like Robinson Crusoe, on the other hand, probably lasts so long because of the idea behind the story, one which reflects something we have all imagined at one time or another–being cut off from the whole world. A writer like Mark Twain probably lasts because of both his humor and the nostalgia his tales evoke in us for a simpler America.
“So I don’t know of any single reason that would explain them all. . . .
”. . . [W]riting lasts when it conveys a clear and vivid impression of itself, while at the same time it is complex enough to bear re-reading and study. The clarity of the expression seems most important. In short, whatever it is, it is just that most sharply and clearly so that it imbeds itself in the readers’ minds.
“As for the writer’s life–the best of it is that you are independent of others, but it is a very lonely life and you have to be built for it to endure. It’s a life where nothing ever happens–nothing that really matters–except inside you, a life where very few times are you satisfied. But I wouldn’t trade it for any other.”
Estimate
$500 – $750
116
Mourning dove (christine quintasket; hum-ishu-ma).
Coyote Stories. Signed, on the half-title.
Caldwell: Caxton Printers, 1933; inscription: [Cashmere, WA, 1934?]
8vo, publisher’s cloth, rubbing to edges and spine ends; owner’s inscription below signature, minor soiling to front pastedown and to pp. 42-43; white first edition dust jacket with some staining to edges, additional red later edition dust jacket with scattered staining and moderate wear, both unclipped. First edition, first printing.
Estimate
$350 – $500
"There Should Be A Good Killing In Every High Calibre Literary Novel"
117
O’connor, flannery.
Two Typed Letters Signed, “Flannery,” to Robie Macauley (“Dear Robie”).
“Yaddo” [Saratoga Springs, NY], 17 October 1948; 25 January 1949
The first, joking about birds in literature including thoughts of having her character Hazel Wickers [from Wise Blood (1952)] slaughter some swans, conveying news about writer Henry Messick, joking about Iowan writer Paul Engle and Iowa politics, expressing interest in [teaching at] Bard College, looking forward to reading his new stories, joking about Enoch Emery [also from Wise Blood], relating that Engle invited her to send the novel [Wise Blood] so that he could pitch it to Random House, and mentioning the possibility of a Guggenheim fellowship [for which she was recommended by Engle; it was not awarded to her]. Together 2¼ pages, 4to, written on three sheets; folds.”
17 October 1948: “I can easily see why you killed the swans and let me say that when they get you for it, no one will come more quickly to your defence than I. In fact, I am now thinking about having Hazel Wickers kill some swans. I believe there should be a good killing in every high calibre literary novel and ever since his business with the owl, he has been shaky on birds. I had a party in the book but I took it out because I thought Edith Wharton and John O’Hara might want things to themselves, but I see no reason why I shouldn’t have some swans. When I get to be an Assistant Professor, I will give a course in the Swan Novel, which will include all novels with swans in them; if the class is small, I can . . . include novels with ducks, geese, or gulls. But if you are writing your novel and want to be taught in this class, you had better put a swan in it, because I expect the class will be large.
”. . . When [Iowa] Governor Blue asked you where the ladies’ room was, you told him and thereby committed yourself to a certain interest in Iowa politics. Also, knowing Paul Engle you are well acquainted with the Iowa Farmer. You could make up what you lack in love, with earnestness.
“I had decided myself that the Iowa Farmer was out of his head by a postcard he sent me. He is recommending me for a Guggenheim, which gesture I appreciate. The postcard . . . also said, in soggy pentameter, how for three years I had lived on Iowa corn and look how I had grown. If I didn’t appreciate his occasional spurts of energy in my behalf, I could hit him with several ugly images. I don’t think I will ever be back at Iowa.
”. . . My Parent as you may imagine took a grim view of my return to Yaddo. Old ladies who have watered in Saratoga have brought back pieces of information which she has collected and pieced together into a picture representing the evils which surround me. The picture was very pale and I kindly colored it for her, which was a grave mistake. . . .
”. . . Yaddo is much pleasanter in the fall than summer. Pretty soon there will only be three of us here besides Elizabeth. Keep me informed about the stuff there on which I grew for three years. I think I am going to dedicate my book to Purina Scratch Feed.”
25 January 1949: “This is to wish you and Anne some graciousness for the season. I suppose I mean the Lenten season. I didn’t go home for Christmas. I stayed here. This was my first Christmas away from the birds and the kin and the flowers and I liked it fine. . . .
“I had a letter from Engle before Christmas suggesting I send him my novel if Rinehart didn’t want it and let him send it to Random House with a bunch of others for some vague deal or other he is trying to cook up with them (tone my own). Do you know anything about this, such as, is there any money in it? I can’t complain about his behaviour anymore as he wrote me a nice exaggerated letter for Mr. Moe of the Guggenheim Thing. I understand it takes ten years to get a Guggenheim so I am starting while a child. . . . Anyway, I have declined to be more trusting in the Lord and not apply for any teaching job next year. I hanker in my prayers for Grace and either an advance from the Brothers Rinehart or an extension from the Executive Director of this place; but I may just get the Grace. . . .”
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
"I'M Tired Of The Goddamn Godfather"
118
Puzo, mario.
Brief Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dear Gene”:
Np, circa 1969
“Sorry I can’t make the interview, but I really get uncomfortable and I’m tired of the Goddamn Godfather.” 1 page, 4to, pale yellow ruled paper; horizontal fold.
Estimate
$3,500 – $5,000
119
Rowling, j.k.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Signed on the title-page.
(New York): Scholastic, 1998; inscription: circa 1998
8vo, publisher’s red cloth-backed purple embossed boards; dust jacket, clean and crisp. First American edition, later printing.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
No Need To Worry "If You Should Be Shocked . . . By Details In The Manuscripts"
120
Sacher-masoch, leopold von.
Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed editor of Westermann’s Illustrated German Monthly (“Dear Sir”), in German,
Graz, 24 January 1873
reporting that he has received and returned the [corrected] manuscript of his short story, “Wedding in the Ice Palace,” expressing pleasure that the story was accepted, showing admiration for the magazine, hoping that it would accept his story, “The Aesthetics of Ugliness” [“Die Ästhetik des Hässlichen,” 1874], granting permission to make editorial changes, and, in a postscript: “The exorcism in ‘Die Ästhetik des Hässlichen’ is based on actual events. The man–Father Gaßner–is today a professor of theology in Salzburg and the author of a book on exorcism, the publication of which has had . . . only a comic effect.” 3½ pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; faint scattered foxing, folds, docketing on terminal page in unknown hand.
“By receiving the proofs of my short story, ‘Die Hochzeit im Eispalast,’ which I return to you under cover, I see that you have also accepted the story, which makes me particularly happy, because there is no magazine in Germany that I appreciate as much as the ‘Monatshefte.’ My admiration is also explained by your having helped begin my career as a Latin writer with my ‘Don Juan von Colomair.’
“I should be very lucky if my longer work, ‘Die Ästhetik des Hässlichen,’ which I sent you some time ago, should be appreciated by you and, consequently, would be published in the ‘Monatshefte.’ If you should be shocked here and there by details in the manuscripts that I send you, I give you once and for all and without reservation the right to make changes, because with a censor like you, knowing your good taste, I have everything to gain.”
Sacher-Masoch’s story, Die Hochzeit im Eispalast: Eine russische Hofgeschichte, was published in the April 1873 issue of Westermann’s Illustrierte Deutsche Monatshefte.
Estimate
$400 – $600
121
Sexton, anne.
Two copies of her To Bedlam and Part Way Back, each Signed and Inscribed, on the half-title.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1960); inscriptions: Np, nd
The first, “For Snook in her / lovely red dress– / with love.” The second, “With best wishes.” Each 8vo, publisher’s ¼ cloth; dust jacket, second with short closed tears at upper edge of front and rear panels, each price clipped. Each later printing.
With–Anne Sexton. Two items: small scrap of paper Signed and Inscribed: “Snook, / you are / beautiful. / Anne / Sexton.” 1½x2½ inches. Np, nd • 5 leaves removed from a copy of the Spring 1965 issue of The Hudson Review containing 5 poems, unsigned: “To Lose the Earth,” “Menstruation at Forty,” “Crossing the Atlantic,” “Imitations of Drowning,” and “Two Sons.” 10 pages, 8vo, stapled binding. [1965].
Estimate
$200 – $300
"A Profound Interchange Of Arts & Ideas All Over The World Is Our Only Hope"
122
Thomas, dylan.
Autograph Letter Signed, to an editor of Merkur magazine Kurt H. Hanson,
Witney, 30 December 1947
thanking for the translations of Thomas’s poems, expressing wonder that Germans take an interest in English poetry, expecting salvation from our self-destructive world only through the exchange of art and ideas, granting permission to publish the translations, noting his birthplace and brief bibliography, hoping he would read his recent poem in the Atlantic [“In Country Sleep” in the December issue], hoping that his own writing is as clear as Hanson’s English, and inviting him to make contact when visiting England. 2 pages, small 8vo, written on recto and verso of single sheet; two punch holes in margin (not affecting text), faint scattered foxing, minor bleedthrough, folds. With the original envelope.
”. . . I have been away from home, and no letters were forwarded to me. I am glad, and proud, that you and Hans Egon Holthusen and the editors of ‘Merkur’ have read some of my poetry, and that you have translated it. I’m afraid I know no German at all; but I have some friends at Oxford whom I very much want to see the translations . . . . It is wonderful to think that, in Hamburg now, writers such as yourself and Holthusen can be so occupied with and influenced by English poetry. I’m sure that a profound interchange of arts & ideas all over the world is our only hope; and a slender hope, at that. We are all so cut off from one another in this death-wishing world we have made for ourselves.
”. . . I was born in Wales in 1914, and have published here four books of verse and two of prose. . . . [I]n America, the firm of New Directions has published a large collection of my poems and stories called ‘The World I Breathe,’ and also a volume of ‘Selected Writings,’ which appeared last year. . . . My long, latest poem was printed in the ‘Atlantic’ for this month . . . and I am sure the Editor, Edward A. Weeks, . . . would . . . send you a copy . . . . I should very much like you to see it. . . .”
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Cape Cod: "A Sleigh Is Never Seen, At Least It'S A Great Novelty, On The Cape"
123
Thoreau, henry david.
Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, a 30-line fragment from the working draft of chapter 10 of his Cape Cod (1865),
Np, circa 1849
in ink, including several deletions and holograph insertions, in pencil. 1 page, 4to, faintly ruled paper; expertly reinforced with tissue at all edges verso, short closed separation at horizontal fold expertly repaired with tissue verso.
”’. . . the ocean much better than land carriage, on seeing a man driving a wagon in the street, expressed his surprise at his being able to drive so straight without the assistance of a rudder.’ A sleigh is never seen, at least it’s a great novelty, on the Cape, the snow being either absorbed by the sand or blown into drifts. Yet we counted half a dozen 3 large meeting houses and 4 school houses nearly as large on this street, though some of these had a tight board fence about them to preserve the plot within level and hard. These fences even within a foot of many of these houses gave the town a less cheerful & hospitable appearance. They told us that on the whole, the sand had made no progress for the last ten years. The cows are no longer permitted to go at large, and every means is taken to stop the sandy tide.
“The Harbor of Provincetown, which, as well as the greater part of the Bay, and an indefinite expanse of ocean, we overlooked from our perch, is deservedly famous.”
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
On Bad Habits
124
Twain, mark.
Autograph Quotation Signed and Inscribed, “Very Truly Yours,”
Riverdale, 21 November 1901
on a leaf removed from an autograph album: “Habit is habit: & not to be flung out of the window at one’s pleasure, but coaxed down stairs a step at a time.” ½ page, 8vo; faint offsetting on verso.
Estimate
$3,500 – $5,000
Explains Ending Of "The Bridge Of San Luis Rey" By Quoting Chekhov
125
Wilder, thornton.
Autograph Letter Signed, to “My dear Mr. Clough,”
Lawrenceville, 15 May 1928
explaining that his duties as teacher prevent him from answering in detail, describing The Bridge as “unresolved,” and justifying this by [loosely] quoting Anton Chekhov. 1 page, square 8vo, with integral blank, personal stationery; faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, horizontal fold.
“Your words on the Bridge seem admirable. Were I not a busy teacher myself with both class and dormitory duties I should go into details over it . . . . Let me say only that many people (and myself) find it a harder book than you suggest; some even call it ‘an anatomy of despair’ and regard the ‘comfort’ at the close as insufficient to quiet the mind after the anguish or desolation in the previous Books. Also, I regard the book as ‘unresolved’; both solutions still hang suspended in mid-air at the close. Tchekov said: ‘The business of literature is to ask questions plainly, not to answer them.’”
Estimate
$300 – $400
126
Williams, tennessee.
Three items, each Signed and Inscribed, to American actress Sylvia Miles (“Dear Sylvia”): Two brief ALsS * Williams. Memoirs.
London; Np, nd; 1979
The letters, “Tenn.” or “10,” explaining that he was so disturbed that he missed lunch and is now weak with hunger and needs a cocktail, or noting some possible changes to the scenes involving the Mrs. Flora Goforth character [in his play The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore]. Together 3 pages, 8vo, “The Savoy London” stationery or ruled paper; horizontal fold. The book, “To my darling / Sylvia, / love always / Tennessee / ‘79,” on the front free endpaper. 8vo, ¼ cloth over boards, moderate staining to front cover, rubbing to edges; dust jacket moderately worn with cello tape repairs.
Np, nd: “Spent morning studying Goforth–come to conclusion too much good material cut. I think the ‘court musicians’ and that ‘birthday serenade’ should come just before or after ‘a paper rose.’ Hope you and Robert will drop by for dinner . . . . Rose will be back from Miami . . . . We can check up the ‘Tarantella death dance’.”
With–11 items: Three telegrams from Williams to Miles or director Keith Hack, unsigned, sending thanks or giving travel plans. Each ½ page, 4to. 1973; 78; nd • Four small cards from Tennessee, including two Signed “Tennessee,” to Miles, sending greetings and flowers [not present]. Np, nd • Typed letter from Kate Moldawer to Miles inviting her to the opening of the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center in Key West, FL. 1 page, 4to. Houston, 29 November 1979 • Two photographs, unsigned, snapshots by Malanga showing Tennessee and Miles at Gotham Book Mart. Each 4¾x7 inches. Nd • Flyer for the 1978 production of Vieux Carré at Piccadilly Theatre. 8x5 inches.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Complete Deck Of Playing Cards Signed
127
(writers–20th century.)
Group of over 60 playing cards, each Signed by a writer, entertainer, or musician,
Np, 1970s-80s
on the face side of card. The cards, Bicycle brand bearing blue “Rider Back” design. Each 3½x2½ inches; slight fading or smudging to a few signatures including James Baldwin, Richard Condon, Rumer Godden, James Herriot, Richard Llewellyn, Alison Lurie, Neil Simon, and Gore Vidal.
Woody Allen (10 of diamonds) • James Baldwin (jack of diamonds) • Art Buchwald (8 of hearts) • James Clavell (5 of diamonds) • Richard Condon (2 of spades) • Michael Crichton (3 of clubs) • James Dickey (4 of clubs) • Paul Gallico (8 of spades) • Allen Ginsberg (king of diamonds) • Rumer Godden (4 of diamonds) • Ruth Gordon; and Garson Kanin (3 of diamonds) • James Herriot (6 of diamonds) • Joseph Heller (6 of hearts) • Edmund Hillary (ace of hearts) • Ira Levin (8 of diamonds) • Richard Llewellyn (king of hearts) • Alison Lurie (5 of spades) • Daphne du Maurier (2 of hearts) • James A. Michener (8 of clubs) • Arthur Miller (ace of diamonds) • Katherine Anne Porter (queen of hearts) • Richard Rodgers (jack of clubs) • Sidney Sheldon (2 of diamonds) • Neil Simon (joker) • John Updike (3 of spades) • Gore Vidal (4 of spades) • Morris West (5 of hearts) • Thornton Wilder (ace of clubs) • Herman Wouk (10 of hearts) • others.
Complete list available upon request.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
128
(writers–20th century.)
Small archive of 18 letters and notes, each Signed, to Lelia di Benedetto, including 6 ALsS, 9 TLsS and 3 ANsS,
Vp, 1975
concerning Benedetto’s project of building a collection of signed playing cards for her niece. Together 18 pages, 4to or smaller; condition generally good. Few with the original envelope.
Allen Ginsberg. ALS: “I can’t sign ex libris cards which are not in my own library–it confuses things. I signed the card. Other books are easy to order or locate from City Lights Publisher . . . .” 1 page, 8vo, written on verso of Benedetto’s letter to him. [San Francisco, September] • Joseph Heller. TLS: “What a lovely idea you have in the autographed deck of cards! I’ve done my best . . . .” ½ page, 12mo, personal stationery. Np, nd • Thornton Wilder. ALS: “Enclosed please find the card and the bookplate. Please don’t show this to your friends for a while, because I am old and of deteriorating eyesight . . . .” 1 page, small 8vo, personal stationery. Hamden, 15 June • James Clavell. ANS, “JamesC,” in the blank space at bottom of Benedetto’s letter: “Spread the Word–IF you enjoy it! [concerning his book Tai-Pan]. 4 lines, 4to. Np, [July] • Katherine Ann Porter (2). Brief ALS: “I love this darling cat. I am an . . . admirer of the entire feline race. Where can I find this for my own books?”; TLS: “. . . I am not just a cat lover but a cat worshipper. I have had a long life of the most beautiful friends of my favorite race of all creatures . . . . I put my name and then I put Remembering Skipper or Lucifer or Jupiter or Sweet William and on and on through the ages of my whole life . . . .” Each 1 page, oblong 16mo or 8vo. Np; College Park, 9; 17 June • Thomas Tryon. TLS: “. . . At the moment I’m hard at work on an exciting new book, but I don’t want to give away anything yet. . . .” ½ page, 4to, personal stationery. New York, 19 June • William E. Barrett. TLS, “WBarrett”: “. . . THE LEFT HAND OF GOD has been, through all the years, my most popular book. . . .” 1 page, 4to, personal stationery. [Washington], 14 July • Paul W. Gallico. Brief TLS. ¼ page, 4to, personal stationery. Antibes, 20 June • Victoria Holt. TLS, expressing pleasure at having signed the Queen of Spades. ½ page, small 4to, personal stationery. London, 26 June • James Kirkwood. TLS, giving performance schedule for Your Cat is Dead. ¼ page, 4to. Np, nd • Ira Levin. ANS: “. . . The deck of cards is a fine idea.” 1 page, oblong 16mo. Np, nd • Helen MacInnes. ALS, explaining that her brief reply is due to demands of her new novel. 1 page, small 8vo, personal stationery. East Hampton, 18 July • John McPhee. ANS: “Thank you.” ½ page, 12mo, “New Yorker” stationery. New York, nd • Mary Renault. TLS, complaining of when autograph seekers seem not to have read her books. 1 page, 4to. [Cape Town], 7 August • Sidney Sheldon. TLS, hoping Benedetto’s niece enjoys the signed playing card and book plate. ½ page, 4to, personal stationery. Np, 28 May • Mary Stewart. ALS, hoping niece will enjoy completed pack of cards and for another suspense story. 1 page, 4to. Edinburgh, 31 July • Joseph Wambaugh. ANS: “Best regards,” written on verso of bookmark. 1 page, 2½x7½ inches. [San Marino], September.
With–Small group of correspondence relating to Benedetto’s collection, including a retained copy of Benedetto’s letter to P.G. Wodehouse, and several letters to Benedetto from secretaries or spouses of unavailable authors. Together 8 pages, 4to or smaller. Vp, 1975-81.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
129
(writers–20th century.)
Group of over 40 uniform bookplates, each Signed.
Np, nd
The bookplates, each printed with the words “Ex Libris” and showing a black cat standing on a stack of three books. Each 4x3 inches; condition generally good.
Herman Wouk • Woody Allen • Joseph Heller • Edmund Hillary • James Clavell • James A. Michener • Katherine Ann Porter • John Updike • Helen MacInnes • Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin • Richard Adams • William E. Barrett • Peter Benchley • Jim Bishop • William Peter Blatty • Art Buchwald • Abe Burrows • Richard Condon • James Dickey • Allen Drury • Frederick Forsyth • John Fowles • Paul Gallico • Rumer Godden • William Golding • Arthur Hailey • Thor Heyerdahl • MacKinlay Kantor • Fletcher Knebel • Ira Levin • Richard Llewellyn • Alison Laurie • John Dann MacDonald • William Manchester • John McPhee • Robin Moore • Walker Percy • Herman Raucher • Mary Renault • Judith Rossner • Neil Simon • Frank G. Slaughter • Irving Stone • Louis Untermeyer • Leon Uris • Joseph Wambaugh • Morris West • Theodore H. White.
Estimate
$600 – $900
130
(writers–20th century.)
Group of 5 items, each Signed, including three ALsS, a PS, and a TLS.
Vp, vd
Format and condition vary.
James A. Michener. TLS, to “Dear Dr. Umphlett,” sending for correction pages of Michener’s manuscript [not present] which cite Umphlett’s critical essay. ½ page, 4to, onionskin paper. Np, 14 April 1975 • Herman Wouk (2). ALS, to “Dear Dr. Glenn,” thanking for his note about The Caine Mutiny and remarking that the secret to his own success is writing from an “old-fashioned and naive viewpoint.” 2 pages, 8vo, written on two sheets, onionskin paper; Photograph Signed, bust portrait by Editta Sherman showing him holding a tobacco pipe. Signed in the image. 10x8 inches. “Mexico,” 16 July 1951; Np, nd • Henry Miller. ALS, to “Dear Ed Hauley,” thanking for a check and for investigating the value of a [Fernand?] Léger book. ¾ page, 4to. Np, 13 March 1959 • Robert Graves. ALS, to “Dear Mr. Friedman,” declining to write an article for a fee that would put him “out of pocket,” and declaring that “science ceased to be what it pretends to be sometime in the XIIIth century.” 1 page, 4to, personal stationery, onionskin paper. Deià, 13 January 1969.
With–Group of 5 items: James A. Michener (4). ANsS, “J. Michener” or “Jim Michener,” to “Joe,” in pencil or ink, requesting that he look through the “Iberia book index,” noting that a certain character is “patterned after ‘Butch’, my ex,” remarking that he “couldn’t have done Caribbean without my trip to Cuba,” or planning to write a book about the Caribbean. Each 2½x5½ inches or smaller, clipped from a larger sheet; most laminated. Vp, vd • Henry Miller. Program for his 1958 “Exhibition of Water Colors” at the Jerusalem Artists House, unsigned, in English and Hebrew, including a separate slip of paper with 3-line holograph inscription, “and he did / it–in / Hebrew!!,” written beside the printed exhibition introduction credit to Albert B. Franklin. 8vo or 4x5½ inches, each a folded sheet. Np, circa 1958.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
131
Cocteau, jean.
La voix humaine. Signed and Inscribed, with a small ink drawing, “A André Geskis / avec / l’hommage / fidèle / de / Jean Cocteau,”
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1930
on the half-title. The drawing, a sketch showing a face in profile. 16mo, printed wrappers; binding slightly shaken, moderate uneven toning to endpapers, unopened. Later edition.
Estimate
$150 – $250
132
Cruikshank, george.
Two items: Graphite drawing Signed * Autograph Manuscript, with a small ink and watercolor drawing Signed.
Np, circa 1853; nd
The first drawing, signed in ink at lower left, study for the front cover of the January 1853 issue of John Cassell’s Illustrated Magazine of Art. 10x7 inches; inlaid, faint scattered soiling. The manuscript, first portion of a draft for an award acceptance speech. The accompanying drawing, “G.C’k,” a bust of a man with sideburns in profile, possibly a self-portrait, drawn after the text on verso. 1¼ pages, 8vo, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; horizontal folds, minor scattered staining, few scattered holograph notes.
“There are many, very many persons of the present day who may very naturally ask what has this artist done to deserve such a mark of honor . . . .
“Some [of] his drawings, some when a boy of 8 or 9, were dated back as far as the last century and it was thought that some . . . were published in the early part of this century.
“But it is not the length of time that he has been before the public, but what he may have done to amuse–in an honest & purehearted way . . . .”
Estimate
$300 – $400
133
Dubuffet, jean.
Archive of 17 letters and notes, each Signed, in full or “Jean,” to the family of art collector Maurice Culberg, in French or English,
Vp, 1955-79
mentioning the “violent” opposition by some to his work, giving the dates and locations of his various exhibitions, describing the building and use of his studios in Vence, mentioning the names of some other buyers of his work including Charles Zadok, and discussing his Monument with Standing Beast public sculpture in Chicago, including 9 ALsS, 6 TLsS, an ANS, and a TNS. Together 20 pages, 4to or smaller, couple on personal stationery, most on onionskin paper; condition generally good. Some with the original envelope.
21 February 1952, to Maurice, in English: “. . . I hope we’ll see you in New York in a week, as you had said. . . . I started again to paint quietly, every day, the whole time. The exhibition, I think, is not without any success, some people are strongly interested. The[re] were articles in several newspapers, the most violently against. It does not matter at all. One must expect, when he proposes a change in any field, there will not go without outcries and fury. . . .”
18 October [1954], to “My very dear Maury,” in English: “. . . Did you hear that Mr. Zadok bought also several pictures of mine . . . ?
“There will be a big show of my pictures, done from 1942 to 1954, in Paris, at the Cercle Volney, from March 15th to April 15th.
“These days I am busy with lithographs, and small pictures with gouache. . . .”
26 October 1955, to the Culbergs’ daughter Franka, writing from Vence: “. . . I do not feel perfectly at ease . . ., but a little like an exile in a foreign land. . . . However, I have good working conditions here: very good light, several workshops (I’m getting ready to build new ones). I’m working a lot, endlessly. . . . The very strong friendship that tied me to [her father, Maurice] leads me to feel tied to you by family and I feel a bit like your brother, or your uncle. What a precious good it would be for me if he were now alive! But, well, he is dead. He remains a brilliant star in the sky of my life. . . .”
18 December 1966, to “good little Frankie”: “I’ve been extremely busy for two months with my paintings; and the work site for my Chinese ink ‘collections’ (in the little studio that is reserved for them and which your mother knows) is a bit abandoned. . . .”
7 January 1956, to Mrs. Ruth Culberg: “. . . My painting still occupies me a great deal constantly. The new buildings I had constructed in Vence, and which comprise several very bright large studios, now provide me with places there [that are] well adapted to my needs and where I am very happy. . . .”
11 October 1957, to “Dear friend Ruth,” in English: “. . . In July we drived [sic] to Switzerland and Germany . . . but it was very bad for Lili, she was very tired and nervous; I see she cannot make such trips, it is too tiring for her . . . . I was very pleased with the exhibition of Leverkusen, I met there several people very enthusiastic, and important and interessant [sic] articles in newspapers. . . .”
1 August 1958, to “My dear little Franka”: “. . . I am very busy [in Vence], because I work a lot. I suffer a bit from the heat that is raging these weeks and does no good for my business . . . .”
29 March 1959, to “Dear friend Franka”: “. . . An exposition of my paintings should open in Paris, at the Daniel Cordier Gallery, April 28th. This exposition is titled, ‘Celebration of the soil.’ It will include some very difficult canvases with a particular spirit, some called, ‘Topographies,’ others, ‘Texturologies.’ They are very austere paintings in which no people at all appear.
“Daniel Cordier is now (since two years) my art dealer in Paris. He is a very educated and cultivated man, very intelligent and knowing painting extremely well. . . . He’s in New York right now. . . . He hopes that he will find there some possibilities for purchasing my paintings. . . . He asked me to give him a few addresses of people who own my paintings and who would be likely, either to sell some to him, or to give him information to help him find others that he might eventually buy. This is why I’ve given him your address. . . .
“These last months I’ve been very busy making a very large series of lithographs (several hundred); that has led me to establish veritable print shops in Paris and Vence; I employ two workers. Because of this, I haven’t made many paintings, but I have nevertheless made a few.”
31 January 1979, to “Dear Franka,” in English: “. . . I keep a very nice remember [sic] of our meeting . . . And I also very often think of your dear father. I keep a great affection for his memory. His meeting is amongst the most important events of my life. . . .”
2 December 1982, to “Dear Franka”: “. . . Regarding the eventual monument in Chicago . . . . Pace Gallery (with which I have an exclusive agreement for the U.S.A.) has right now in New York some large painted sculptures (3 and 4 meters high). It is possible to build, on order, more important monuments. But I’m afraid that it would be inopportune to suggest, at least for the time being, a second monument in Chicago. . . .”
With–Small group of ephemera and letters to Franka Culberg from museums, galleries, and others relating to her art collection, including manuscript notes in unknown hand, a purchase agreement, a telegram, etc. 1956-86.
Provenance: Ruth Culberg; thence by descent to Franka Culberg Vlack; thence by descent to the present owner.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
Exhibition Catalog With Drawing
134
Hundertwasser, friedensreich.
10 October 1973 Aberbach Fine Art 988 Madison Ave New York. Signed and Inscribed to curator Richard Teller-Hirsch (“To Teller / Hirsch”), with a small drawing,
(Glarus: Gruener Janura, 1973); inscription: Np, nd
in white pencil, on front free endpaper. The drawing, colored pencil sketch showing an abstracted house with trees. 12mo, publisher’s cloth, moderate foxing overall.
Estimate
$250 – $350
"Coenties Slip Dinner"
135
Indiana, robert.
Menu for a dinner held at Tribeca Grill on January 16, 1993, Signed and Inscribed, “For Dan / RIndiana,” at lower edge.
[New York, 1993]
Additionally signed by Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Jack Youngerman, and Fred Mitchell. 8½x11 inches; slight fading to Indiana signature.
The Coenties Slip is a street in New York City’s Financial District which, before 1835, was a channel dug to the East River in order to allow ships to load and unload.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$600 – $900
136
Indiana, robert.
Sheet of 50 8-cent “LOVE” stamps dated and Signed, “V[inal]h[aven] RIndiana 2013,”
Vinalhaven, 2013
vertically in right margin. The stamps, each a reproduction of his oil on canvas painting LOVE (1965). Plate No. 33935, Scott #1475. 10¼x9 inches; mint never-hinged.
In 1972, the US Postal Service commissioned Robert Indiana, together with art director Bradbury Thompson, to create a postage stamp utilizing the design of Indiana’s 1965 LOVE painting, entitling the stamp, “A Special Stamp for Someone Special.”
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$200 – $300
137
Indiana, robert.
Two items, each Inscribed and Signed, “LO / VE / RIndiana”: “LOVE” greeting card * “69 Skid Row” poster.
Vinalhaven, 2016; Np, 2013
The card, showing a reproduction of his oil on canvas painting LOVE (1965) on cover. Inscribed on the third page, additionally inscribed, “[small ink drawing of star] / Star of Hope / Vinalhaven.” 4 pages, 6½x6½ inches, folded sheet; faint soiling to cover. With the original envelope. The poster, reproduction of his lithograph 69 Skid Row (1973). Inscribed in the blank lower margin. 14x10½ inches.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$200 – $300
138
Indiana, robert.
Three exhibition catalogues, each Signed and Inscribed: “Star of Hope / Vinalhaven / LO / VE / RIndiana.”
(Philadelphia: Falcon Press, 1968); (Dowagiac: Dowagiac Commercial Press), [1969]; [New York]: (Galerie Denise René), [1972]; inscriptions: 2016; 2016; 13 June 2015
The first, “Robert Indiana,” at the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia beginning April 17, 1968. Inscribed on the front free endpaper. Square 4to, wrappers; faint foxing, edges rubbed, Indiana’s Vinalhaven blind stamp at upper right of title-page. The second, “Robert Indiana Graphics,” at the Department of Art of Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame beginning June 12, 1969. Inscribed on the half-title. Square 4to, wrappers. The third, “Robert Indiana,” at the Galerie Denise René in New York beginning November 1972. Inscribed on the title-page. 4to, wrappers, staple binding. With the original mailing envelope.
With–Robert Indiana. Menu for a dinner given in his honor Signed and Inscribed, “Star / of / Hope / Vinalhaven / LO / VE / RIndiana ‘17,” on the verso. The menu, listing items including “Salad Indiana” for the dinner held on November 21, 1972 at Gage and Tollner in Brooklyn upon the opening of his exhibition at Galerie Denise René in New York. 10½x6½ inches; “W[illia]m Katz” ink stamp at lower edge verso. [1972]; inscription: Np, 2017.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$400 – $600
139
Indiana, robert.
Druckgraphik und Plakate: 1961-1971. Signed and Inscribed:
Stuttgart: Edition Domberger, (1971); inscrption: 2016
“[Small ink drawing of star] / The / Star / of / Hope / Vinalhaven / LO / VE / RobertIndiana ‘16,” on the front free endpaper. Text in German and English. Square 4to, wrappers, front hinge starting; faint offsetting to title-page.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$100 – $200
140
Indiana, robert.
Group of three items, each bearing an 8-cent “LOVE” stamp cancelled on the first day of issue, each Signed and Inscribed, “LO / VE / RIndiana,”
Np, 2016 or nd
including two additionally dated. The first, undated, first day cover with cache showing a reproduction of his colored pencil drawing incorporating the letters “LOVE.” 4x7½ inches. The second, postcard showing a reproduction of his oil on canvas painting LOVE (1965). Inscribed vertically on the blank correspondence side. 6½x4¾ inches. The third, a 12-page booklet postcard depicting the building of his COR-TEN steel outdoor sculpture LOVE (1970). Inscribed on the first page below stamp in space intended for address. 6x7½ inches. Each stamp cancelled in Philadelphia on January 26, 1973.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$600 – $900
141
Indiana, robert.
Group of 6 exhibition invitations, each Signed and Inscribed, “Star of Hope / Vinalhaven / LO / VE” or “LO / VE,”
Vp, 2016
on verso. Format and condition vary.
“Forakis / Indiana / Painted Sculpture and Paintings,” at David Anderson Gallery in New York beginning April 1 [1961]. 8½x13½ inches; faint vertical stripe of red ink from offsetting affecting inscription. 3 April • “Paintings by / Robert Indiana / and / Robert Natkin,” at Stubing and Greenfield Gallery in Mamaroneck beginning March 24, 1962. 4¾x10½ inches; red label at lower left recto • “Stock Up for the Holidays,” at the Pace Gallery in Boston beginning December 10 [1962]. 11x20 inches; Pace Gallery ink stamp on verso (not affecting inscription) • “American Tapestries,” at Stephen Radich Gallery in New York beginning October 23 [1968]. 9½x11 inches; faint bleedthrough from inscription • “Indiana Graphics / Robert Indiana / Komplette Graphik,” for opening at the Galerie de Gestlo in Hamburg on February 12, 1971. 11½x8¼ inches. 3 April • “Robert Indiana / Druckgraphik und Plakate 1961-1971,” for opening at the Amerika Haus Berlin in Berlin on December 7, 1971. 8x8 inches; horizontal fold.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
142
Lawrence, jacob.
Ellen Harkins Wheat. Jacob Lawrence: American Painter. Signed and Inscribed, “To: / Valerie / and / Bernard Beal,”
Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1987]; inscription: Np, 3 October 1987
on the front free endpaper. 4to, publisher’s cloth, faint offsetting from dust jacket to both covers; faint toning to all edges throughout; minor scattered abrasions and soiling to dust jacket. First edition.
Estimate
$300 – $400
143
Lawrence, jacob.
Harriet and the Promised Land. Signed and dated, on the half-title.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993); inscription: Np, 15 August 1993
4to, publisher’s pictorial boards; minor wear to front panel of dust jacket. First edition.
Estimate
$200 – $300
144
O’keeffe, georgia.
Greeting card dated and Signed,
Np, 17 August 1975
sending season’s greetings in English and four other languages, featuring reproduction of her 1946 painting Black Bird with Snow-Covered Hills on the first page. Signed at lower edge of third page. 4 pages, 8vo, sheet folded horizontally.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$200 – $300
145
Picasso, pablo.
Time magazine cover dated and Signed, “Picasso,” at upper edge of portrait.
Np, 14 September 1965
The cover, from the February 13, 1939 issue featuring a half-length portrait by Dora Maar, showing him in ¾ view. 10¾x8 inches; faint scattered soiling, folds. With the envelope used to send cover to collector, addressed in holograph, with two 0.3-franc “Republique Française / Paris” postage stamps cancelled in Alpes-Maritimes on September 15.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Sylvia Miles'S Copy: Contains Eleven Soup Can Drawings
146
Warhol, andy.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. Signed ten times (“AW” or “Andy Warhol”), and Inscribed twice, to American actress Sylvia Miles, with 11 small ink drawings.
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1975); inscription: December 1975
Inscribed on the half-title: “To Sylvia my / darling / [soup can drawing with label: ‘Campbells / creme [sic] of / chicken / soup’] / with love my love / Andy Warhol / Dec 1975,” and again on title-page: “To Sylvia Miles / [soup can drawing] / AW / Andy Warhol.” The drawings, sketches of Campbell’s soup cans, most signed with initials, on half-title, title-page, and pages 1, 3, 17, 65, 81, 107, 123, 177 (with label: “FUCK”), and verso of 241. 8vo, publisher’s cloth over boards; dust jacket, faint scattered soiling, minor scattered abrasions. Later printing.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
147
Warhol, andy.
Warhol and Hackett. POPism. Signed and Inscribed, thrice, to American actress Sylvia Miles.
New York and London, (1980); inscription: Np, nd
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Sylvia / $ / love / AndyWarhol,” also on the half-title and again on the front advertisement page, each in the same way: “$ / Andy.” 8vo, publisher’s cloth, minor rubbing to edges; some staining to text block edges and page 75; dust jacket, spine panel and edges faded with cello tape repairs to closed tears in rear panel and at lower edge. Later edition.
With–Printed invitation to the memorial mass held for Warhol at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on April 1, 1987, addressed to Miles. With the original envelope. 16 March 1987 [from postmark].
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
148
(warhol, andy.)
Group of 5 first edition, mixed printing, books by various authors, each Signed and Inscribed by the author, to American actress Sylvia Miles.
Vp, vd; inscriptions: Np, vd
Each 8vo, publisher’s ¼ cloth or cloth, generally good condition; dust jacket, generally good condition.
Paul Alexander. Death and Disaster: The Rise of the Warhol Empire and the Race for Andy’s Millions. “To Sylvia– / From a fan of Andy / to a friend of / Andy! / Paul / Nov 18 1994,” on front free endpaper. New York: Villard Books, 1994 • Victor Bockris. The Life and Death of Andy Warhol. “To Sylvia / with everlasting devotion / Victor Bockris / N.Y.C. / March 1 / 1990 / [small ink drawing of running man],” on title-page. New York: Bantam, (1989) • Bob Colacello. Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. “To Sylvia / My first star / friend, with / much love, / Bob,” on front free endpaper. (New York): HarperCollins, (1990) • Isabelle Collin Dufresne (“Ultra Violet”). Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol. “To / Sylvia / with / love / from midnight cowboy / to . . . what a trip / Ultra / Violet,” in purple pencil, on half-title. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Javanovich, (1988) • Mary Woronov. Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory. “To Sylvia / I love / you / MaryWoronov,” on title-page. Boston: Journey Editions, (1995).
Estimate
$500 – $600
149
(artists–20th century.)
Group of 8 items, each Signed, including mostly greeting cards or other ephemera, some additionally Inscribed to Robert Indiana.
Vp, vd
Format and condition vary.
Louise Nevelson. Cloth napkin Signed and Inscribed: “Beautiful (work) / Great (work).” Additionally signed and inscribed to Indiana by 10 artists, actors and others who attended the American Friends of the Israel Museum Beaux-Arts Ball in 1971. 20x20 inches. [New York, 1971] • Walasse Ting. Green Banana. Signed and numbered, “No. 415 / ting / 1971,” on the front inside cover and title-page, in green crayon. One of 800. Folio, printed wrappers. New York: Lefebre Gallery, 1971. Inscription: Np, 1971 • Arman (2). Two greeting cards, each Signed, “Arman.” The first, additionally inscribed, “Happy New / Year, Bonne Année / 1987,” on page 3, in gold ink. The second, signed both on front cover and on card mounted to third page, in white or black ink. Each additionally signed by his wife Corice. 11x9 inches or 12x8¼ inches, folded sheet, die cut paper or board. Np, [1987; 2003] • James Rosenquist. ANS: “I.O.U. / $30.00 / JIM ROSENQUIST,” in pencil. 7x9¼ inches. Np, nd • Günther Uecker. Signature, in green ink, on invitation for the exhibition of works by Uecker and Joseph Beuys opening January 16, [1971], at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. 4x5¾ inches. Np, [1971] • James Harvey. ANS, “Jim,” on an invitation for his exhibition of paintings opening November 3, 1964 at Graham Gallery in New York: “See you at the opening?” 11¾x8¾ inches. Np, [1964] • Kurt Kranz. Signature on invitation for a preview of his exhibition on November 12, 1974, at the Goethe House in New York. Oblong 8vo, sheet folded twice horizontally to form 6 pages. Np, [1974].
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$600 – $900
19th & 20th Century Literature
150
Austen, jane.
Pride and Prejudice.
London: George Allen, 1895
Frontispiece, title, illustrations, head- and tail-pieces, initials and decorations by Hugh Thomson. 8vo, publisher’s pictorial dark green cloth gilt with Peacock design, all edges gilt, cloth lifting slightly on portions of rear cover; inked ownership inscription to half-title. Reprint edition; “March, 1895” indication on copyright.
Estimate
$500 – $750
151
Baldwin, james.
The Fire Next Time.
New York: The Dial Press, 1963
12 x 7 inches. Bolt-bound at top over blue cloth tape, stiff front and rear boards, inkstamped (faded), publisher’s printed and typed label to front cover (loose, glue and tape stains to front cover, tape remnants to verso of label); printed on rectos only, unpaginated, uneven tanning to first and last few leaves, else contents quite clean. Long uncorrected galleys. One of an undoubtedly small number, produced for in-house use only and not to be confused with the rather common wrappered advance uncorrected proof.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
152
(binding.) more, thomas.
Utopia.
London: for Jones and Bumford, 1808
Engraved frontispiece portrait after Holbein. Small 8vo, later full teal morocco, tooled in geometric pattern on front and rear cover [by D.H. Bell?], spine ruled and lettered in compartments, bottom of rear board abraded due to undersized slipcase. First edition thus.
Estimate
$200 – $300
153
Bukowski, charles.
All the Assholes in the World and Mine.
Bensenville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1966
8vo, publisher’s saddle stitched pictorial tan wrappers printed in black, uneven discoloration, light rubbing to extremities; mimeographed text. First edition, excellent association copy, signed and inscribed to Neeli Cherkovski and with an original drawing. “For Neeli Cherry - Nothing brilliant. Fuck You. Love, Charles Bukowski.” Long-time San Francisco cultural fixture Cherkovksi (née Nelson Cherry) was a close friend, fellow poet, Bukowski’s biographer, and co-edited the literary journal Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns with him from 1969 to 1971. Krumhansl 23.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
154
Capek, karel.
Krakatit.
Praha: Aventinum, 1924
Title printed in red and black. 8vo, original printed wrappers with design by Joseph Capek, toned, spine leaning, joints rubbed. First edition, with the fragile wrappers intact. “[A] rich and wildly imagined work, unusual in its almost orgiastic baroque exploration of power, sexuality, and guilt” (Bleiler, Science-Fiction 360).
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
155
Capek, karel.
Loupeznik.
Praha: Aventinum, 1920
Illustrations by Josef Capek. 8vo, original pictorial green wrappers printed in black, toning to spine and wrapper edges, small nicks and short closed tears at head and foot of spine, minor soiling; ownership signature to front flyleaf, first signature neatly detached, contents clean. First edition. Very scarce, first copy in the fragile wrappers recorded by Rare Book Hub or ABPC.
Estimate
$400 – $600
156
Capek, karel.
R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots.
Prague: Aventinum, 1920
8vo, original printed wrappers, professional paper restorations to portion of spine and wrapper edges, faint ownership signature on front wrapper and front flyleaf, else contents clean. First edition of the book which coined the word ‘Robot.’ According to Rare Book Hub and ABPC the first copy to appear at auction in a decade. Excellent survival.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
157
Capek, karel.
Tovarna na Absolutno.
(Brno: Polygrafie v Brne, 1922)
Illustrated by Josef Capek. Title page printed in blue and black. 8vo, ½ red cloth over patterned boards, spine gilt; retaining original front pictorial wrapper printed in blue and orange. First edition. Published in English in 1927 as The Absolute at Large.
Estimate
$400 – $600
158
Capek, karel.
Valka S Mloky. [War With the Newts].
Praha: Nakladatel Fr. Borovy, 1936
Title printed in red and black. 8vo, publisher’s grey cloth stamped in red and black, few faint stains; contents clean. First edition. Capek’s last novel, published in English in 1937 as War With the Newts. Scarce.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
159
(children’s literature.) baum, l. frank.
The Navy Alphabet.
Chicago: George M. Hill Company, 1900
Pictures by Harry Kennedy. Folio, original brown cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed, particularly to extremities with slight paper loss to fore-edge of rear board; hinges tender, three plates with closed tears and tape repairs on verso, one loose, occasional smudging and small chips along edges. First edition. Bienvenue & Schmidt (p. 182).
Estimate
$200 – $300
160
(children’s literature.) carroll, lewis.
The Hunting of the Snark.
London: Macmillan, 1876
9 illustrations by Henry Holiday. 8vo, publisher’s pictorial boards, all edges gilt, cocked, age-toning; foxing to front and end matter, three ownership inscriptions to blank prelim. First edition, first printing, with “Baker” for “Banker” on page 83; publisher’s advertisement at end.
Estimate
$200 – $300
161
(children’s literature.) grahame, kenneth.
The Wind in the Willows.
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, (1931)
Illustrations by E. H. Shepard. Folding map and duplicate spine label at rear. 4to, publisher’s cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label; corner clipped dust jacket, spine panel and folds darkened, one closed tear and one puncture, small chips to fold corners and foot of spine panel, scattered soiling; contents clean. Limited edition, number 63 of 200 copies signed by Grahame and Shepard.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
162
(children’s literature.) milne, a.a.
Now We Are Six.
London: Methuen & Co., (1927)
Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth, slightly mottled; dust jacket, spine panel, folds, and upper edges tanned, head of spine panel nicked; age-toning to portion of half-title and terminal leaf as often seen. First trade edition.
Estimate
$400 – $600
163
(children’s literature.) milne, a.a.
The House At Pooh Corner.
London: Methuen & Co., (1928)
Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-pictorial pink cloth, top edges gilt; dust jacket, few small chips not touching letters, short closed tears, spine panel tanned; endpapers discolored. First trade edition of the last book in the Pooh series.
Estimate
$400 – $600
164
(children’s literature.) o’brien, robert c.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
New York: Atheneum, 1971
Illustrated by Zena Bernstein. 8vo, publisher’s grey cloth stamped in purple, tiny ink mark to top of front board; unclipped dust jacket, Newbury Award sticker to front panel, flaps creased, spine panel faded with minor wear to head, scattered light soiling; ownership signature to front flyleaf, else contents clean. First edition.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
165
Cornwell, patricia.
Postmortem.
New York: Scribner’s, (1990)
8vo, publisher’s ¼ black cloth over red paper-covered boards, spine stamped in silver; dust jacket. First edition, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author on the title. Fine copy in like jacket.
Estimate
$300 – $400
166
Dickens, charles.
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress.
London: Richard Bentley, 1838
3 volumes. 8vo, 19th century ½ brown calf over marbled boards, spines ruled in gilt in compartments, morocco lettering piece to each, boards and joints rubbed; armorial bookplates. First edition, mixed issue, with later plate facing page 313 in third volume; and “Boz” credited as author on volume I title-page. Cohn 239; Eckel p. 59; Gimble A27; Smith I:4.</i>
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
167
Dostoevsky, fyodor.
White Nights and Other Stories.
New York: The Macmillian Company, 1918
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, covers blind-ruled; bookplate of S. Ashley Gibson to front pastedown, ownership signatures on front endpaper, else contents clean. First American edition, advance review copy with publisher’s perforated stamp on title page. Volume X of Dostoevsky’s novels translated by Constance Garnett.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
168
Dreiser, theodore.
My City.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929; 1930
8 color plates by Max Pollak. Folio, cloth-backed lettered wooden boards, lightly soiled, edges rubbed; uncut and unopened. One of 275 numbered copies signed by Dreiser. [With:] The Symbolic Drawings of Hubert Davis for An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. Folio, ¼ cloth over metallic boards; board slipcase (corners worn). One of 525 numbered copies signed by Dreiser and Davis.
Estimate
$400 – $600
169
(economics.) graham, benjamin and dodd, david l.
Security Analysis.
New York: Whittlesey House, (1934)
8vo, publisher’s black cloth, front cover ruled in blind, spine gilt-ruled and lettered, some superficial scratches to front board, light rubbing to bottom extremities; contents with occasional neat pencil underlining and marginal annotations; nice, square copy with gilt bright. Signed presentation copy from Dodd to James Bonbright: “To James C. Bonbright / with the admiration, affection / and gratitude / of / David L. Dodd.” The rare first edition, first printing of this Wall Street high spot. James C. Bonbright was a professor of Finance at Columbia University from 1919 to 1960, and the second Chairman of the New York State Power Authority, serving in that capacity from 1937 to 1946. According to ABPC and Rare Book Hub, just the second copy signed by Dodd recorded (the other, also inscribed by him, sold in these rooms; Swann, 17 June 2015, lot 127, $19,000). The most influential book on investing ever written, continuously in print since the day of its publication.
Estimate
$20,000 – $25,000
170
(economics.) lefèvre, edwin.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.
New York: George H. Doran, (1923)
8vo, original tan cloth, spine gilt-lettered (dulled), front cover stamped in blind, scattered minor soiling, light rubbing to spine tips, top-edges with faint ownership initials; ex-collection Joseph Goodman, signed and inscribed by him on both the front flyleaf and blank preliminary in blue and black ink, respectively. First edition, nice association copy. Joseph Goodman had a seat on the NYSE, ran his own trading firm, was a well-regarded columnist for Forbes for 30 years, and notably penned the following famous pieces of Wall Street advice in his column still remembered today: “A bull makes money, a bear makes money, but a hog makes nothing. The market always does what it should do, but not always when.” Meets the following first printing points: tan/light brown cloth (as opposed to green), blind stamped front cover, George H. Doran logo/emblem and the roman numeral “I” on the copyright page.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,000
171
Eliot, george.
Daniel Deronda.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, February-September 1876
8 volumes in the original 8 parts. 8vo, publisher’s printed blue-green wrappers, spines tanned and variously worn with some loss of paper and printing, scattered soiling, owner’s signature on front covers; intermittent foxing, bookseller’s blindstamps; cloth folding case. First edition in original parts, literary association copy, ex-collection English poet and critic John Addington Symonds with his signature on 5 of the volumes in pen or pencil (“J.A. Symonds”). Errata in Books 3 and 6, all advertisements and announcements of following volumes present (but for vols. 6 and 7). Sadleir 813; Parrish, p. 37-38.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
172
Eliot, t.s.
Four Quartets.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1943)
8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth; dust jacket, tanned, corners clipped retaining price, several small tape repairs along top edges of verso mending short closed tears; ownership signature to front flyleaf. First edition, first impression with “first American edition” on the verso of the title-page. Preceeds the first English edition. This first issue was suppressed due to incorrect margin spacing and is one of 788 remaining copies (of 4165 printed, 3377 were destroyed). In the first issue dust-jacket priced at $2.00 and listing 9 titles on the rear panel. Connolly, The Modern Movement 92; Gallup A43a.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
173
Eliot, t.s.
Prufrock and Other Observations.
London: The Egoist Ltd., 1917
12mo, original buff wrappers printed in black, only faint tanning; supplied glassine dust jacket; custom cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition of Eliot’s first book. One of only 500 copies. Exceptional copy. “Something quite new in English verse” (Connolly). Gallup A1; Connolly, The Modern Movement 30a; Hayward 33.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
174
Eliot, t.s.
The Journey of the Magi.
(London: Faber & Gwyer, 1927)
Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. 12mo, original printed boards; glassine dust jacket, small nick at spine fold. First edition, one of 350 numbered copies. Number 8 of the Ariel Poems printed by the Curwen Press. Fine copy.
Estimate
$400 – $600
175
Eliot, t.s.
The Waste Land.
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922)
8vo, publisher’s stiff black gilt-lettered cloth, small chip to spine head and top of rear joint, light soiling; endpapers tanned; lacks dust jacket. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies of the “second edition” (i.e., First Edition, Second Impression), retaining the misspelling of “mount in” on page 41, and colophon number 2mm high. Gallup A6b.
Estimate
$500 – $750
176
Faulkner, william.
Idyll in the Desert.
New York: Random House, 1931
8vo, publisher’s marbled paper boards, printed paper label on front cover, spine rubbed with some abrading; acetate dust jacket over tanned glassine wrapper with a few small chips and short closed tears; bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown, unopened copy. First limited edition, number 22 of 400 copies signed by Faulkner. Additionally inscribed by him on the title: “William Faulkner / Los Angeles, CA / 23 April, 1936.” Petersen A10.1.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
177
Faulkner, william.
Pylon.
New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1935
8vo, original ½ cloth over pictorial silver boards, top edges silver, spine faded, endpapers discolored from old binder’s glue. Number 266 of 310 limited edition copies signed by Faulkner. Petersen A17.1b.
Estimate
$400 – $600
178
Faulkner, william.
These Thirteen.
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931
8vo, original red-brown and beige cloth, spine lettered in silver, some light staining and toning to board edges and foot of spine. Limited edition, number 11 of 299, signed by Faulkner. Petersen A9.1.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
179
Frost, robert.
A Boy’s Will.
London: David Nutt, 1913
8vo, publisher’s binding D in cream wrappers stamped in black without borders and with cover flower containing 4 petals (8 on earlier issues), dampstaining to covers and contents at upper blank margins and effecting text in places, scattered light spotting; no endpapers as issued. First edition, second issue with “Printed in Great Britain” stamped on title verso. Crane A2.
Estimate
$400 – $600
180
Frost, robert.
A Boy’s Will.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915
8vo, publisher’s blue linen cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped, light wear to head and foot of spine; contents clean. First American edition, first issue, with “Aind” misprint on last line of page 14. One of 750 copies. APG 2f.
Estimate
$300 – $400
181
Glossop, reginald.
The Orphan of Space: A Tale of Downfall.
London: G. MacDonald & Company Limited, 1926
8vo, publisher’s orange cloth stamped in green; original dust jacket, dust soiling, chipping to fold corners and head of spine panel not touching letters; ownership signature and bookseller’s ticket, minor foxing to fore-edges, else contents clean. First edition, in unrestored seldom seen dust jacket, and rare as such. “The sort of novel M. P. Shiel might have written had he forgotten how to write … imaginative, but amateurish and slightly eccentric” (Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 896).
Estimate
$600 – $900
182
Greene, graham.
Journey Without Maps.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1936)
24 half-tone illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s full yellow cloth stamped in red, spine and outer boards darkened at edges, mild exposure to bottom corners; unclipped dust jacket, spine panel, folds, and upper portion of front and rear panels age-toned, tiny corner nicks, shallow chips to head and foot of spine panel not touching letters, original printed Book Society wrap around band; contents clean and unmarked aside from some mild toning to the pictorial endpapers. First edition of Greene’s first travel book, very scarce in unrestored, fully intact jacket, the wrap around band also exceedingly uncommon.
Estimate
$3,500 – $5,000
183
Hawthorne, nathaniel.
The Scarlet Letter.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850
Title in red and black. 8vo, modern tan buckram, portion of original spine titled in gilt laid down; ownership signature dated year of publication on front endpaper, 4 pp. publisher’s adverts follow (tidemarks to corners) dated March 1, 1850, else contents with very occasional light staining to blank margins; retaining terminal blank. First edition, first printing (with “reduplicate” for “repudiate” on page 21). One of 2500 copies printed. BAL 7600; Grolier 90.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
184
Herbert, frank.
Dune.
Philadelphia: (Chilton Book Company, 1972)
8vo, publisher’s full red cloth, scattered staining to covers and spine; unclipped dust jacket with $7.95 price sticker, vertical crease through length of spine panel, short closed tears, one corner nicked; minor foxing to top- and fore-edges. First edition, fourth printing, signed by the author in blue ink on front flyleaf.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
185
Hunter, evan.
The Blackboard Jungle.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954
8vo, publisher’s grey cloth and red paper boards, light rubbing to lower extremities; unclipped dust jacket, verso with three tape repairs on rear panel with associated creasing and abrasion near head of spine panel, small nicks to fold corners and spine panel ends, short closed tears. First edition, signed by the author. Basis for the 1955 Sidney Poitier film.
Estimate
$250 – $350
186
Huxley, aldous.
Words and Their Meanings.
Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, (1940)
Decorations by Alvin Lustig. 8vo, publisher’s pictorial boards, faint toning; dust jacket, short closed tears, small chips to head and foot of spine panel, scattered minor soiling. One of 100 copies specially printed for the publisher, signed by Huxley; additionally signed by Zeitlin with short presentation inscription to James Blake.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
187
James, g.p.r.
The Castle of Ehrenstein; its Lords, Spiritual and Temporal; its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847
3 volumes. Half-titles. Titles in red and black. 8vo, original ¼ brown cloth over plain boards, printed paper spine labels, spines uniformly faded, corners and spine tips bumped with slight fraying and exposure, small tear to head of third vol.; foxing to endpaper gutters and fore-edges. First edition, tall, uncut copy. 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue followed by one page advert at end of vol. I; one page ad at end of third volume.
Estimate
$300 – $400
188
Joyce, james.
Finnegans Wake.
New York: Viking, 1939
Tall 8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth; dust jacket priced at $5.00, short closed tears, flap fold corners nicked, light dust soiling First American edition, trade issue, in unrestored jacket. One of 6000 copies printed offset from advance proofs of the English edition. Slocum & Cahoon A48.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
189
Kerouac, jack.
On the Road.
New York: Viking Press, 1957
8vo, publisher’s black cloth lettered in white; unclipped second printing dust jacket, mild rubbing to spine panel ends; endleaves age-toned, ownership inscription in pencil on front pastedown. First edition, second printing. Bright and clean copy. Charters A2.
Estimate
$300 – $400
190
King, stephen.
Danse Macabre.
New York: Everest House, (1981)
Illustrated, including frontispiece portrait. 8vo, publisher’s full black cloth stamped in gilt and red; glassine dust jacket, uneven tanning, split along spine panel with minor wear along edges; original board slipcase. Limited edition, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Crisp, unread copy.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
191
Kipling, rudyard.
Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897
Illustrated with plates after I.W. Taber. 2 pages publisher’s advertisement at end. 8vo, publisher’s pictorially gilt-stamped and lettered blue cloth, all edges gilt, cocked, light rubbing to spine ends and joints; ownership signature on half-title, scattered faint foxing. First English edition. Preceded by the American edition by about one month. Richards A103.
Estimate
$400 – $600
192
Kipling, rudyard.
The Jungle Book * The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894; 1895
Together, 2 volumes. Illustrated, the second title with 2 pages of advertisements at end. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-decorated blue cloth, all edges gilt, spines leaning, corners and spine tips bumped; bookplate to each; hinges strengthened, scattered minor foxing, pencil marks on last 3 pages of second volume. First English editions. Richards A76; A85.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
193
Lee, harper.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
Philadelphia & New York: Lippincott, (1960) [but c. 1962]
8vo, publisher’s light green ¼ cloth-backed grey paper boards, spine tips lightly faded; price-clipped dust jacket, twenty-second printing, spotting to flaps, folds and corners rubbed, scattered creasing; custom clamshell box. Twenty-third impression, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by both Lee and Horton Foote to Margaret MacDonnell, a long-time production assistant with Universal Pictures, who worked with both writers on the film adaptation. On the front free endpaper it reads “To Margaret: / With my love and / best wishes, / Harper Lee”; the rear endpaper: “For Margaret / with gratitude & / thanks for her / patience - / Horton Foote.” Lee and Foote famously worked closely together on the film’s script and enjoyed a long friendship aside from this famous and enormously successfull collaboration. The film was released in 1962 and this later impression closely corresponds with the timing of the film. It won three Academy Awards, including Foote garnering the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Certainly among the finest association copies of this iconic title.
Estimate
$9,000 – $12,000
194
Lem, stanislaw.
Astronauci.
(Warszawa:) “Czytelnik” Spó dzielnia Wydawnicza O wiatowa, 1951
Illustrated. 8vo, publisher’s decorated blue wrappers, slight lean, mild rubbing to joints, light soiling to rear wrap; contents clean. First edition.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
195
(literary periodical.)
The Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly. Part Five.
New York, 1931
Printed by various printers, on different types of paper, using various typefaces, illustrations, etc. 4to, publisher’s printed paper-covered boards, spine sunned, light smudging; publisher’s advert laid in loose. First edition, complete with “Hilltop: A drypoint in two colors” illustration by David B. Milne, signed by him in pencil. One of 3000 unnumbered copies.
Estimate
$300 – $400
196
Mallarmé, stéphane.
Poésies.
Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1913
Frontispiece portrait by Nadar. Title printed in red and black. 8vo, publisher’s printed wrappers; glassine dust jacket, faintly tanned; custom cloth box. First complete collected edition, number 33 of 55 copies on verge d’Arches. Excellent survival.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
197
Marryat, captain [frederick].
The Phantom Ship; or, the Flying Dutchman.
New York: W.H. Colyer, 1839
8vo, original drab boards, rebacked to style with supplied spine label; owner’s blindstamp to title, foxing, heaviest to front and end matter, one corner of front flyleaf and terminal blank repaired; card slipcase. First American edition. Uncommon, and as Wolff notes, Marryat was in America around the time of publication, so that the American edition might have priority (the English edition published the same year); further, this title “…marks the first appearance of many standard werewolf motifs” (Bleiler, Supernatural, 1110). Wolff 453.
Estimate
$400 – $600
198
(music / the beatles). taylor, derek; and george harrison.
Fifty Years Adrift.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, (1984)
Edited and with a foreword by Harrison. Color frontispiece, photographic plates and facsimiles of concert posters, tickets, photographs, contracts, letters, handbills etc., printed in color and black and white. 8vo, original ½ brown calf over cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and red, all edges trimmed and gilt; board slipcase. First limited edition by the Beatles’ press agent and friend. Number 393 of 2000 copies signed by Taylor and Harrison.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
199
(mystery and crime fiction.)
Group of 10 Golden Age First Editions.
Vp, vd
8vo, publisher’s cloth; dust jackets. Comprising: Straus, Ralph. Pengard Awake. Moderate dust soiling to jacket. NY, 1920 * Small, Austin J. The Man They Couldn’t Arrest. Chipping to top edges of jacket. NY, 1925 * Scott, R.T.M. Aurelius Smith Detective. Two short closed tears. NY, 1927 * Dane, Clemence and Simpson, Helen. Enter Sir John. Jacket with tape repairs on verso, spine panel faded. NY, 1928 * Jackson, Wallace. Diamonds of Death. Scattered abrasions to jacket. NY, 1937 * Cobb, Irvin S. Judge Priest Turns Detective. Tape repairs to jacket verso. Indianapolis, 1937 * Drake, Drexel. The Falcon Meets A Lady. Top edges of jacket worn. Philadelphia, 1938 * Adams, Cleve F. Sabotage. Jacket with short closed tears. NY, 1940 * Fair, A.A. Turn On the Heat. Tape repairs to jacket verso, chipped. NY, 1940 * Abbot, Anthony. The Shudders. Tape repairs to jacket verso, spine panel chipped and faded. NY, 1943.
Estimate
$600 – $900
200
Nabokov, vladimir.
Lolita.
Paris: The Olympia Press, (1955)
2 volumes. 8vo, publisher’s green, white, and black printed wrappers, spines leaning, joints and spine tips rubbed, vol. 1 with tape mend at top corner of front wrapper on recto and verso and lacking front flyleaf, vol. 2 rear wrapper with hard crease and small abrasion, ownership signature on front flyleaf. First edition, first issue, with unobscured printed price of 900 Francs on each volume. Kearney 16; Juliar A28.1.1.</i>
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
201
Nye, bill [nye, edgar wilson].
Baled Hay. A Drier Book Than Walt Whitman’s “Leaves o’ Grass.”
New York and Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1884
Illustrated by F. Opper. 16mo, original pictorial brown wrappers, small chips to head and foot of backstrip; cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition, rare wrappered edition, signed by the author. Noted journalist and humorist, Nye was the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang. Wright 4002.
Estimate
$200 – $300
202
O’flaherty, liam.
The Informer.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., (1925)
8vo, publisher’s full green cloth, spine gilt-lettered and ruled, slight lean; dust jacket priced “7s. 6d. net,” panels dust-soiled, fold corners nicked, spine panel foot with shallow chipping, spine panel head torn with loss of title and author, supplied in facsimile, with additional crude tape repairs on verso, still largely intact; bookplate to front pastedown. First edition. [With:] The Assassin.</i> 8vo, publisher’s cloth; dust jacket. Fine copy in nearly fine jacket. First trade edition. London, 1928. [And:] Skerrett.</i> 8vo, publisher’s cloth; dust jacket, spine panel darkened with small chips to head and foot. First edition, signed and inscribed by the author. London, 1932.
Estimate
$400 – $600
203
O’hara, john.
Butterfield 8.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Co., (1935)
8vo, publisher’s black cloth, small dent near spine foot; dust jacket, spine panel faded with light rubbing to head and foot and one small puncture, tiny fold corner nicks, light toning. First edition.
Estimate
$300 – $400
204
Powell, dawn.
Whither.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, (1925)
8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped navy cloth, front cover blocked in blind, clean and square; unrestored pictorial dust jacket with design by Harold Cue, corners clipped, few short closed tears, small corner nicks, shallow chipping to head of spine panel not touching lettering, rear panel with a few spots of soiling; contents clean with no markings. First edition of Powell’s first book. “Powell disavowed the book almost immediately, well before her second novel, She Walks in Beauty, was promoted as her debut in 1928. Thereafter, she refused even to acknowledge Whither in her biography or in lists of her publications” (Page, Dawn Powell: A Biography, 1998). Decidedly rare in the jacket with no copies recorded by Rare Book Hub or ABPC.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
205
(pulp fiction.) hammett, dashiell and chandler, raymond, et al.
Group of 47 paperbacks.
Vp, vd
Mass market paperback collection including works by Dashiell Hammett (17); Raymond Chandler (8); David Goodis (6); Philip K. Dick (5). Further titles include Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan (1959); H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror (1945); Horace McCoy, They Shoot Horses Don’t They (1948), etc. Condition generally very good or better.
Estimate
$500 – $750
206
Salinger, j.d.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1951
8vo, publisher’s black cloth, spine titles gilt, light rubbing to head and foot of spine; unclipped dust jacket, tear at head of spine panel effecting letters, toning, corners nicked, folds rubbed, short closed tears; endpapers discolored, ownership signature to front flyleaf. First edition, in the first issue dust jacket with portrait photograph of Salinger by Lotte Jacobi on rear panel of jacket, and the dollar sign above the shoulder of the letter “R” in “Catcher” on front flap.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
207
Salinger, j.d.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1951
8vo, publisher’s black cloth, spine titles gilt; unclipped dust jacket, just faint tanning to spine panel, folds, and narrow sliver along top of flaps; contents clean; cloth chemise and ¼ morocco slipcase, spine gilt lettered in compartments with onlay of Holden’s red hunting hat. Superb copy of the first edition in the first issue dust jacket with portrait photograph of Salinger by Lotte Jacobi on rear panel of jacket, and the dollar sign above the shoulder of the letter “R” in “Catcher” on front flap. Square, bright and fresh copy in crisp unrestored jacket.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
208
Schjeldahl, peter.
Dreams.
New York: Angel Hair Books, 1973
Cover design by James Rosenquist. 4to, publisher’s saddle stitched wrappers. First edition, number 5 of 50 copies, signed by the author and the artist. Fine.
Estimate
$300 – $400
209
Tolkien, j.r.r.
[The Lord of the Rings.] The Fellowship of the Ring * The Two Towers * The Return of the King.
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1966
3 volumes. 8vo, full maroon crushed morocco by The Chelsea Bindery (unsigned), front covers and spines gilt-decorated, all edges gilt; folding map printed in red and black at rear of each volume; matching slipcase. The first printing of the second, revised, edition (with “Second Edition 1966” on the copyright page with no further printings listed), handsomely bound. Fine.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
210
Warren, robert penn.
All the King’s Men.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1946)
8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered burgundy cloth; dust jacket, corners clipped with price intact, rubbing to flap folds and spine panel ends, small abrasions to the latter. First edition in first issue jacket with the Sinclair Lewis blurb on the back panel. The basis for the film that won the Best Picture Oscar for 1949, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Warren was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979 and remains the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
Estimate
$600 – $900
211
Wells, h.g.
The Invisible Man.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1897
8vo, publisher’s red cloth, decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt, spine sunned, minor rubbing to spine tips and corners; front hinge tender, endpapers toned and spotted. First edition, first printing, the first page numbered with 2 figure as called for in Wells; 2-pages publisher’s ads at rear. Currey, p. 520; Wells 11.
Estimate
$600 – $900
212
West, nathanael.
The Dream Life of Balso Snell.
Paris/New York: Contact Editions, (1931)
Title-page printed in green and black. 8vo, publisher’s printed wrappers over stiff paper covers; glassine overwrap, shallow chip to foot of spine; custom buckram clamshell box. First edition, limited issue, number 134 of 500 copies. The author’s first book in an excellent state of preservation.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
213
Wolfe, tom.
The Right Stuff.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1979)
8vo, publisher’s cloth, faint, scattered mottling; dust jacket, crease to front panel with associated closed tears neatly mended on verso; textblock edges foxed; ownership stamp on front flyleaf. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to the distinguised physicist: “For Rae Carpenter with a salute to The Science Museum from Tom Wolfe.”
Estimate
$300 – $400
214
Yates, richard.
Revolutionary Road.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1961)
8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered ¼ red cloth over black paper covered boards, top edges dust soiled; unclipped dust jacket, tiny nicks to bottom of flap fold corners. First edition. Author’s first book.
Estimate
$300 – $400
Art, Press & Illustrated Books
215
Albers, joseph.
Formulation: Articulation. I and II.
New York: Harry S. Abrams/New Haven: Ives-Sillman, (1972)
Double portfolio (20¾ x 15½ inches; 525 x 400 mm, overall), with text by the artist, complete set of 127 screenprints in colors, on 66 numbered sheets of wove paper (33 in each), folded (as issued), each with full margins, laid in loose in the two original grey linen-covered portfolios and slipcases. Number 620 of 1000 copies, signed by Albers on the title in black ink. Printed on Mohawk Superfine Bristol by Sirocco Screenprinters, New Haven. Contents fine. Danilowitz Appendix C.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
216
(austen, john.) shakespeare, william.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
London: Selwyn & Blount, [1922]
Illustrated with plates and vignettes by John Austen. 4to, rebound in full black morocco with gilt sword decoration on cover and lettering along spine, by Asprey; top edges gilt; inner dentelles, moiré silk endpapers, original (repaired) dust wrapper bound in rear. First trade edition. Signed by Austen and dated 1924, on half-title.
Estimate
$400 – $600
217
Baldessari, john.
Scenes from the Cutting-Room Floor.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2017
Screenplays by William Bentley. Illustrated with die-cut prints by Baldessari. Bound in decorated leatherette 3-ring binder with cover photograph of the author and the artist laid down. Number 109 of 300 copies, signed by Bentley and initialed by Baldessari.
Estimate
$300 – $400
218
(barbier, george.) verlaine, paul.
Fetes Galantes.
Paris: H. Piazza, 1928
20 hors texte pochoir colored plates, pochoir vignettes to both covers and title page. 4to, publisher’s decorative wrappers; glassine overwrap with a few chips to spine; few signatures separating, plates bright and clean; original board slipcase. Limited edition, number 515 of 800 copies on velin de Rives (of 1200 total). Carteret IV, 393.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
219
Baselitz, georg.
Le Théâtre de Séraphin.
Paris: éditions du Solstice, 2003
By Antonin Artaud. 8 full-page engravings by Baselitz, printed in red-orange by Atelier AD, facsimile of autograph musical composition by Wolfgang Rihm. Unbound bifolium (17 x 11¾ inches; 432 x 298 mm, sheets), publisher’s plain white wrappers; housed in red-lettered black cloth-covered chemise and slipcase by Atelier Bernard Duval. Number 46 of 90 copies, signed by Baselitz and Rihm (from a total edition of 115) in pencil on the colophon.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
220
Baumgarten, lothar.
Carbon.
Los Angeles: MOCA, 1991
Oblong 4to, publisher’s cloth; pictorial dust jacket; with accompanying stitched booklets (“Carbon”) and duplicate copy in variant wrappers with alternate title (“Sidetracks”), the latter signed by the author. One of 1750 copies.
Estimate
$400 – $600
221
Bedoya, alfred benavidez.
The Firebird’s Nest.
Las Vegas: Rainmaker Press, 2005
By Salman Rushdie. Illustrated with four original linocuts by Argentinean artist Bedoya; text and linocuts letterpress printed on Somerset Velvet paper. Tall 8vo, publisher’s ¼ leather-backed paper-covered blind stamped boards; original matching black Japanese cloth clamshell case. Deluxe issue, copy Q of 26 lettered copies, signed by Rushdie, Bedoya and Victoria Hindley, Creative Director of the printer, Red Butte Press. From a total edition of 99 copies, as well as 15 hors de commerce.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
222
Bourgeois, louise.
Ode à la Bièvre
New York: Zucker Art Books, 2007
Illustrated throughout. Oblong folio, publisher’s brown Japanese linen lettered in blue; original blind stamped slipcase.Special edition, number 5 of 95 copies, signed by the artist and with two photographs initialed by her of the Bièvre River, with letterpress printed titles, laid into pocket at end, as issued. Also 25 artist proof copies and a regular edition of 1800 copies issued.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
223
Brodsky, joseph.
Watermark.
Venice: Editions Koch, 2006
Illustrated by Robert Morgan with 14 photogravures from his original photographs. Folio, publisher’s Venetian-red wrappers hand made by Cave Papers, printed paper spine label; publisher’s announcement laid in; original ¼ morocco folding case. Number 3 of 30 copies, signed by the photographer and the publisher in pencil at the colophon, from a total edition of 50. Fine.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
224
Bunn, david.
It was a Dark and Stormy Night.
Los Angeles: David Bunn, 2000
7 volumes, complete (variously titled It Was A Dark and Stormy Night, Needles and Pins, Heart of a Child, Double Monster, Heart Laid Open, Key to the Bedroom, and Appendix). Photo-illustrated by Bunn with images from discarded library card catalogs interspersed with poems; medical illustrations by Madena Asbell. Oblong 4to, publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth; housed together in original cloth slipcase. Number 18 of 100 copies, each volume signed and numbered by the artist.
Estimate
$600 – $900
225
Bunn, david.
Love Among the Artists.
Los Angeles: David Bunn, 1996
3 volumes, complete (titled Discipline and Bayonets, Love Among the Artists, and Guide for the Perplexed). Photo-illustrated by Bunn with images from discarded library card catalogs interspersed with poems. Oblong 4to, publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth; housed together in original cloth slipcase. Number 45 of 100 copies, each volume signed and numbered by the artist.
Estimate
$300 – $400
226
Bunn, david.
Subliminal Messages.
Cologne: Walther Konig, 2003
Illustrated throughout with photo reproductions of examples from the discarded card catalogue of the Los Angeles Central Library. Oblong 4to, publisher’s full mauve cloth lettered in white; matching slipcase. Special edition, number 10 of 20 copies signed by the artist and with an original print (“Hypnotism”) signed and numbered 10/20, laid in loose in original cloth chemise, slipcased with the book.
Estimate
$500 – $750
227
Bunn, david.
The Sea is a Magic Carpet.
Los Angeles: David Bunn, 1997
4 volumes, complete. Photo-illustrated by Bunn with images from discarded library card catalogs interspersed with poems. Oblong 4to, publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth; housed together in original cloth slipcase. Number 44 of 100 copies, each volume signed and numbered by the artist.
Estimate
$300 – $400
228
Burden, chris.
Coyote Stories.
Santa Monica, CA: Edition Jacob Samuel, 2012
Title page, colophon, 25 digital prints, and the complete set of 10 etchings (15 x 12½ inches; 380 x 318 mm, sheets), with printed text on Kozo-backed Gampi for the etchings, and Magami Pescia for both, full margins, with the publisher’s blindstamp; housed in the original wooden box with lid. Each print signed in pencil and numbered 11/18 by Burden.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,000
229
Carpentier, alejo.
The Kingdom of This World.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1987
Introduction by John Hersey. 7 etchings by Roberto Juarez. Folio, black ½ morocco and red Japanese cloth; black linen slipcase, tail bumped. Number 524 of 750 copies signed by Hersey and Juarez.
Estimate
$100 – $200
230
Carzou, jean and audiberti, jacques.
Lagune Hérissée.
Paris: Societe des Cent Une, 1958
166, [10] pp. Illustrated with 20 original lithographs by Jean Carzou, 16 of which are hors-texte including the one for the front wrapper, mostly in colors. Extra suite of 21 lithographs (including one “refusee”) printed hors-texte in black. Folio, bound in full white morocco extra with linear design stamped in black and gilt and with blue and brown morocco inlay, by Simone Fontanes, light tanning to spine; suede doublures, original color lithographed upper wrapper bound in, Jean Jacobs bookplate; half morocco chemise and matching morocco-edged slipcase. Deluxe issue in a unique binding, signed by the artist and two representatives of the publisher on the justification page, number 44 of 44 collaborator’s copies from a total edition of 145. The extra suite is number 8 of 8 suites with additional signature by Carzou and printed on velin d’Arches in black from a total number of 58 suites. Monod 625; Strachan, p. 327.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
231
(chimot, edouard.) baudelaire, charles.
Le Spleen de Paris. Petits poèmes en prose.
Paris: Editions de l’Intermédiaire du Bibliophile, (1926)
10 etchings by Chimot in three states (uncolored, colored, and with remarques) and typographical decorations by Paul de Pidoll. 4to, specially bound by Cordonnier in navy morocco with geometric patterns on covers and spine, detailed with red calf triangles and gilt-stamped patterns, doublures with similar pattern; red moire silk endleaves, gold-speckled blanks, text leaves of varying size, original wrappers bound in; custom morocco-edged slipcase of red and blue textured paint (rubbing to extremities). Marked “GG” as one of only ten copies on vélin de hollande reserved for bibliophile friends of the publisher. From a total edition of 750.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
232
Deese, rupert.
Surf Music.
Richmond: Manneken Press, 2000
9 poems by R. Sam Deese. 10 silkscreen images by Deese. 4to, publisher’s cloth; matching folding case. 200 of 200 copies signed by the artist and the author, with an additional plate numbered one of eight and initialed by the artist laid in loose.
Estimate
$300 – $400
233
Deese, rupert.
The Center of the Lake.
Richmond: Manneken Press, 2000
9 poems by Todd Young. 10 silkscreen images by Deese (one double-page). Oblong 4to, publisher’s flexible cloth; matching folding case. 183 of 200 copies signed by the artist and the author, with an additional plate numbered one of eight and initialed by the artist laid in loose.
Estimate
$300 – $400
234
Desnos, robert and picasso, pablo.
Contrèe.
Paris: Robert J. Godet, 1944
Illustrated by Picasso including a full-page etching. Half-title. Title in green and black. 4to, full tan calf by J. Anthoine Legrain decorated in gilt, white and black, light rubbing to spine tips with a few minor scuffs, top edges gilt; original wrappers bound in; morocco-edged slipcase (edges scuffed). Number 95 of 200 copies on Lafuma.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
235
Dion, mark.
Fragment of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure.
Paris: Christophe Daviet-Thery/Xn Éditions, 2007
Contains numerous off-set printed lithographs and digital prints, variously sized and edge mounted, the majority with his studio stamp on versos, occasional manuscript pencil annotations; folding chemise mounted to rear pastedown contains loosely inserted colophon, two digital prints, four lithographs, two pop-up maps in full buffalo leather, and an original drawing (“The Stump”) signed by the artist (in envelope). 4to, publisher’s ½ buffalo leather over paper covered boards, printed cover label titled in manuscript; pictorial cloth chemise stamped in black and gilt; matching cloth slipcase. Deluxe issue of Dion’s first book, number 1 of 6 copies with a unique signed drawing in colored pencil, “enhanced with original drawings and annotated by the artist,” additionally signed by him on the colophon. The edition consisted of 36 numbered copies (only the first 6 issued with original drawings, as here) and 9 artist’s proofs.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
236
Dunham, carroll.
Mr. Nobody.
New York: Grenfell Press, 2001
55 photo-engraved facsimile drawings (3½ x 4½ inches; 90 x 113 mm). Oblong 4to, contents laid in loose within folded sheets string bound in thick card tan boards, front cover printed in black; with paper folder affixed at rear. Number 2 of just 9 copies, signed by the artist in pencil at the colophon on the folder, dated and numbered.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
237
(dutch advertising.) the royal united carpet factories.
Propaganda en Andere Plannen voor de Toekomst K.V.T.
Rotterdam, 1944
48 typescript pages, interleaved with numerous photo-montages, drawings, collages, tipped on stiff cardboard, 2 pop-ups. 4to, publisher’s stiff decorative boards; first signature neatly detached from textblock, contents clean. First edition, no other examples located by Rare Book Hub or ABPC as having come to auction. An attractive and curious compendium, redolent of Heartfield and the Russian Constructivists, compiled for K.V.T. in Holland. Established in 1797, their headquarters was based in Rotterdam and was bombed during the war. This work sets out their blueprint for re-establishing themselves in the international market through advertising as the war neared it conclusion.
Estimate
$600 – $900
238
Gerstner, karl.
Couleurs Intimes.
[Self-published, Switzerland], 1977
[17] pp. 14½ x 10¼ inches; 370 x 260 mm. Original plain card wrappers, ink stamp to front wrapper dated “28.3.77”, numbered “C 64/21” and signed by the artist in red ink (within the stamp), covers with minor smudging. Each page hand painted, rectos only, association copy, signed and inscribed: “For Elaine + Arthur with friendship - Karl, N.Y. 5-9-79.” Warmly inscribed to graphic designer Elaine Lustig Cohen and her husband, author and critic Arthur Cohen. No other copies traced at auction.
Estimate
$600 – $900
239
Gilbert and george.
Dark Shadow.
London: Art for All, 1974
Photographic illustrations throughout. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped decorated cloth, trace of rippling to cloth on rear cover. Number 1235 of 2000 copies, signed by the the artists.
Estimate
$300 – $400
240
Gillick, liam.
Malaga.
Paris: TwoStarBooks, 2006
Designed by M/M, Paris. Printed in letterpress and multiple silkscreens, in groups of 17 folders. 4to, 14¼ x 10½ inches; 360 x 270 mm, publisher’s plain thin card wrappers, sewn; decorative green linen dust jacket; author photo portrait tipped to rear wrapper recto; housed in laser-cut black aluminum bolted slipcase designed by the artist; original cardboard box; with 6 sheets of publisher’s promotional material laid in. Number 52 of 125 copies signed by Gillick and M/M (Paris). “AC/DC meets Kelmscott Press meets Ed Ruscha in the 21st century.”
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
241
Graham, robert.
Lie, Sit, Stand, Be Still.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995
52 unbound leaves, including half-title, title, introduction by Michael McClure and colophon. 24 lithographs by Graham on Somerset Satin paper, English mouldmade from all cotton fiber, interleaved with the text by McClure. Folio (15 x 11 inches; 380 x 280 mm), laid in loose, as issued, to cloth clamshell case with inlaid red cloth border and inset bronze cast bas-relief on front cover by the artist. Limited edition, number 14 of 50 copies, each lithograph signed and numbered by Graham, and signed by McClure at the poem’s end. Lithographs printed by Ed Hamilton.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
242
Graves, nancy.
Tango.
New York: Iris Editions, 1991
By Pedro Cuperman. Illustrated title, text leaves, and complete suite of 8 etchings (35½ x 26½ inches; 910 x 665 mm) by Graves; original cloth portfolio (occasional smudging and staining, some faint uneven fading, not effecting contents). Number 18 of 26 copies, each plate signed and dated by the artist, final text leaf signed by the author.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
243
Hamilton, william.
Tartuffe.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2004
By Molière. Illustrations by Hamilton. Translated by Richard Wilbur. Folio, publisher’s gilt lettered red moiré satin cloth; acetate dust jacket. Number 137 of 300 copies, signed by Hamilton and Wilbur.
Estimate
$200 – $300
244
Hammer, jonathan.
1830.
North Promfret, Vermont: Elysium Press, 1996
By René Crevel. Illustrated with two hand-colored soft ground etchings by Jonathan Hammer on Somerset. Portrait of Crevel by George Platt Lynes. 4to, loose sheets laid into printed wrappers; glassine overwrap; original silk-covered clamshell case. Limited edition, number 10 of 30 copies signed by Hammer.
Estimate
$500 – $700
245
Helm, robert.
Lost Cowboys (but not forgotten).
New York: Whitney Museum, 1992
By William Kittredge. Illustrated with 4 mezzotints by Robert Ecker after paintings by Robert Helm. 4to, publisher’s ¼ morocco backed tan linen. Number 9 of 70 copies signed by Helm and Kittredge. Printed by hand on heavy Twinrocker hand-made paper by Leslie Miller at The Grenfell Press. The third book in the Artists and Writers: American Journals series, published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Fine.
Estimate
$400 – $600
246
(high tide press.) jonnes, lloyd.
Birds of Manhattan.
East Hampton, 1998
Designed, illustrated, and printed by John Ross, with lettering in wood type. 4to, publisher’s full grey cloth, front cover with bevelled inset with carved resin cardinal; original matching slipcase. Number 23 of 40 copies signed by Ross. This copy additionally inscribed by him. Attractive press book with collograph images of birds in their New York City environments.
Estimate
$400 – $600
247
Hinkefuss, carl ernst.
Mein Vogel-Paradies.
Berlin: Internatio, GmbH, 1929
Printed in colors on black paper. 4to, original Japanese style sewn pictorial wrappers, string broken, partly disbound, few small chips to edges; bookseller’s ticket and inked annotation to verso of front wrapper. First edition, one of 1500 unnumbered copies. Hinkefuss published the journal Qualitat; he was a friend of Walter Gropius and responsible for various Bauhaus publications. This work was intended to encourage children to create their own pictures or models of birds.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
248
Holland, tom.
A Delicate Balance.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011
A play by Edward Albee. With mounted watercolor illustrations by Holland. 8vo, publisher’s ¼ morocco over lavender cloth with pictorial inset on front cover. Number 127 of 300 copies from a total edition of 326. Signed by Albee and Holland at colophon, as issued.
Estimate
$300 – $400
249
Hoyem, andrew.
Flatland.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1980
Text by Edwin A. Abbott. 14 line drawings and 10 diecuts by Andrew Hoyem. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Initials by Gill Shadow. Tall 8vo, 56 accordion-folded pages in an aluminum binding that sits in a metal frame with latch at top. Number 241 of 275 signed by Bradbury and Hoyem. One of the most unusual books printed by the press. The color and grey background that appear on some plates were applied by hand; some diagrams were photo-engraved, the letterpress printing and die cutting were executed on a hand-fed press, and the binding was crafted from aluminum by Q-Rolo Sheet Metal Products. The whole can be opened to a form 30-foot plane (like the plane-geometrical citizens of Flatland).
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
250
Hudson, judy.
The Flying Dutchman.
Oaxaca: Carpe Diem Press, 2007
Text by Richard Price. Original watercolor frontispiece, signed on the verso; and covers and endleaves decorated by Hudson. 4to, publisher’s sewn wrappers; housed in original hand painted cloth chemise; contents preserved in publisher’s aluminum tray-case. Number 15 of 35 copies, signed by the artist and author.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
251
(icart, louis.) castel, thérèse.
Destin de Femme
Paris: Editions Egix, 1945
21 color intaglio prints with hand coloring in gouache (325 x 250 mm; 12 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches, sheets). 4to, publisher’s wrappers, glassine overwrap (tanned), full margins, loose as issued; original thin card portfolio. Limited edition, number 80 of 125 copies on velin B.F.K. de Rives.
Estimate
$250 – $350
252
Indiana, robert and creeley, robert.
Numbers.
Stuttgart: Edition Domberger, (1968)
Illustrated with ten original silkscreen prints by Indiana preceded by Creeley’s number poems with text in English and German on separate leaves. 4to, publisher’s printed wrappers; printed card slipcase. First trade edition, signed and inscribed by Indiana “Star of Hope, Vinalhaven, Love, R Indiana ‘16” with his star doodle at top, on blank prelim in black ink. Fine copy in like slipcase.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
253
Indiana, robert.
The American Dream.
El Segundo: Marco Fine Arts Studio, 1997
Poems by Robert Creeley, and photographic illustrations. Portfolio with complete text and 30 color screenprints, including 6 color screenprints tipped-in and signed and numbered in pencil, on hand pulled Coventry paper. 555 x 430 mm; 21½ x 16½ inches (sheets), full margins. Folio, publisher’s Smyth sewn full black leather stamped in red (small dent to front board); original printed cardboard box; cotton gloves, publisher’s brochure and COA laid in loose. Number 10 of 30 numbered artist’s proofs, aside from the edition of 395 numbered copies. Inscribed “AP 10/30” in pencil on the title page. Each of the 6 color screenprints signed and inscribed “AP 10/30” in pencil, lower margin. Contents fine, with no evidence of handling.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
254
Indiana, robert.
The Book of Love: A Portfolio of 12 Original Poems & 12 Original Prints.
New York: American Image Editions, 1997
Poems by Robert Creeley. Title/limitation on parchment signed by the publisher Michael McKenzie (wrinkles to upper left corner); text pages and the complete set of 12 color screenprints (24 x 20 inches; 610 x 510 mm, sheets), each signed, numbered, and dated ‘96’ in pencil, on A.N.W. Crestwood Museum Edition Paper; laid in loose, as issued, in the original black-lettered stiff card ¼ cloth-backed portfolio (with ‘AP 9/15’ in manuscript in black ink on front board) with cloth ties. Artist’s proof set, numbered ‘AP 9/15’ (the edition was 200), each poem initialed by Creeley and each print signed by Indiana. Exceedingly scarce, according to ABPC and Rare Book Hub, only the second AP copy to appear at auction; impeccably preserved, with little to no evidence of handling.
Estimate
$75,000 – $90,000
255
Indiana, robert.
The Book of Love: Art & Poetry.
New York: American Image Publishing, 1996
6 x 4½ inches. Illustrated. 12mo, publisher’s printed wrappers; original printed linen bag with string enclosure. Deluxe edition, AP copy, number 9 of 15, indicated on title/limitation. Fine.
Estimate
$300 – $400
256
Jensen, bill.
Postcards from Trakl.
West Islip, NY: Univeral Limited Art Editions,1994
22 poems by John Yau. 12 intaglios on Lana Gravure paper and one woodcut on T.H. Saunders by Jensen. Large 4to, publisher’s sewn wrappers; decorated dust jacket; original cloth folding case. Number 13 of 75 copies, signed by the artist and the poet. 10 artist’s proofs and 5 printer’s proofs also issued.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
257
Jonas, joan.
Masks, Dolls and Baskets.
Oaxaca: Carpe Diem Press, 2012
Self-portrait frontispiece printed in four-color offset. 19 silver gelatin photographs (4 x 6 inches; 102 x 152 mm) mounted, taken by the artist in 2008-9, with Ilford black and white disposable cameras. Oblong 4to, publisher’s bolt-bound printed paper-covered boards, title page, text and colophon printed with hand-set typography in black ink. Number 10 of 20 copies, signed by the artist (plus 3 Artist’s Proofs, 1 Printer’s Proof, 3 Carpe Diem Proofs).
Estimate
$1,800 – $2,500
258
Kendrick, mel.
Kora in Hell: Improvisations.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1998
By William Carlos Williams. 21 prints by Mel Kendrick. Introduction by Lawrence Kart. 4to, publisher’s ¼ black morocco over carved wooden panels set over cloth. Number 116 of 300 copies signed by Kendrick.
Estimate
$150 – $250
259
(kent, rockwell.) melville, herman.
Moby Dick, or, The Whale.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930
Illustrated profusely by Kent. 3 volumes. Large 4to, publisher’s silver-stamped black cloth; light discoloration to front pastedown in first two vols., usual offsetting from illustrations to facing page; original acetate dust jackets; original aluminum slipcase, few scuffs. One of 1000 unnumbered sets, a fine copy of Kent’s magnum opus, and one of the finest illustrated books of the last century. The Artist and the Book 140.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
260
Kitaj, r.b.
The Waste Land.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2007
By T.S. Eliot. Illustrated by Kitaj. Essay on the poem by Helen Vendler. Essay on the painting by Marco Livingstone. 4to, publisher’s grey cloth. Number 139 of 300 copies.
Estimate
$400 – $600
261
Kuitca, guillermo.
Pintura Sin Muros (Painting Without Walls).
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2016
Illustrated throughout. Folio, 16½ x 11½ inches; 420 x 295 mm, publisher’s full grey decorated cloth, spine lettered in silver; matching cloth slipcase; publisher’s cardboard box. Limited edition, number 85 of 200 copies signed by the artist.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
262
Long, richard.
Six Walks.
Ravenna: Edizioni Essegi, 2006
6 color photo-illustrations of walks across Dartmoor (undertaken from 1979 to 2004 according to captions). Folio, 18¾ x 12½ inches; 475 x 310 mm, publisher’s tan linen, front cover lettered in olive green. Number 44 of 70 copies signed by the artist, with a further 20 Roman numeral copies reserved for the artist.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
263
Mapplethorpe, robert.
A Season in Hell.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1986
By Arthur Rimbaud. Translated by Paul Schmidt. 8 photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe hand-pulled by Jon Goodman. 4to, publisher’s red morocco stamped in black; cloth slipcase. Number 981 of 1000 copies signed by Mapplethorpe and Schmidt.
Estimate
$600 – $900
264
Marclay, christian.
Ephemera. A Musical Score.
Brussels: Michelle Didier, 2009
Bifolium, 28 printed photographic plates in colors (15¾ x 11¾ inches; 400 x 300 mm), laid in loose to printed board slipcase. Number 22 of 100 copies signed by Marclay on the slipcase’s printed colophon (the total edition includes 10 AP copies of the 100 produced).
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
265
(martin, john.) milton, john.
The Paradise Lost of Milton.
London: Septimus Prowett, 1827
2 volumes bound in 1. Half-title and title to each. 24 mezzotint plates engraved by Martin. Large 4to (15 x 10½ inches; 380 x 270 mm), contemporary full burgundy morocco gilt-extra, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, all edges and turn ins gilt; offsetting from plates, occasional light foxing, chiefly to margins. Imperial Quarto edition.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
266
Mccleary, dan.
Untitled.
Oaxaca: Carpe Diem Press, 2004
Poem by Nora Cain. Translation by Lourdes Argüelles. Illustrated by McCleary with frontispiece etching and 7 intaglio prints tipped to thin pink paper sheets tipped in at gutters. Folio, publisher’s full Mexican manta cloth. Number 18 of 20 copies signed by the artist and poet.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
267
Mcclelland, suzanne.
Flee Advice.
Paris: Collectif Generation, 1991
Text by John Yau. Illustrated by McClelland; letter-press, lithograph, acrylic, etc. on paper. Accordion-fold style book (5¼ x 5¾ inches; 130 x 150 mm, folded). One of a scant few produced, each differing slightly from the other, and all created on the night of November 4/5. Signed by the artist and author at the colophon.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
268
(mexico - stained glass designs.) pellandini, c.
Catalogo Ilustrado.
Guadalajara, ca. 1905
116 pps, illustrated throughout, many in color, index. Oblong folio (10 x 13 inches), publisher’s ¼ cloth over pictorial front board, extremities worn; shaken with text block/hinges loose. Mexican stained glass catalog, includes many color plates of examples of Pellandini Company’s work. Catalog list shows some of the buildings and churches the company have made stained glass windows for; tools used in stain glass and frosting also shown. No other example located at auction or in commerce.
Estimate
$400 – $600
269
Michener, diana.
Orlando.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005
By Virginia Woolf. Photographs by Michener. Small folio, publisher’s cloth with photgraphic onlay; prospectus laid in; matching slipcase. Limited edition, number 107 of 400 copies signed by Michener (also 26 lettered examples).
Estimate
$400 – $600
270
Moore, george mead.
The Husband of Cuba.
Oaxaca: Carpe Diem Press, 2002
Text by Francisco Goldman. 13 blueprints including frontispiece printed from drawings by Moore. Oblong folio, (13¼ x 18½ inches; 240 x 465 mm), publisher’s white bond paper printed in blue over boards; endpapers white Kimberly Ledger, text printed on white Mexican Opalina. Number 2 of 20 copies, signed by the artist and writer. Bright and clean copy.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
271
Moore, henry.
Heads, Figures and Ideas.
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1958
Numerous reproductions. Folio, original ½ morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine a bit toned; slipcase, edges rubbed. One of 150 numbered copies of the limited first edition, with signed color auto-lithograph by Moore tipped in. Cramer 41.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
272
Moser, jill.
The Introvert.
Paris: Collectif Generation, 2010
Poems by Charles Bernstein. Hand-painted by Moser with gouache and acrylic on Rives BFK. Bifolium (13 x 9½ inches; 325 x 245, sheets), laid in loose to printed and handpainted wrapper; contents housed in orange cloth chemise and matching slipcase. Number 7 of 12 unique variants, signed by the artist and the poet on the colophon.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
273
Multiple artists.
AH Allen.
New York: A/C Editions, 1998
Edited by Anna Condo. Illustrated throughout with lithographs, silkscreens, photographs, etc. as well as various poems and texts dedicated to the life and poetry of Allen Ginsberg. Folio, publisher’s patterned cloth, silver-lettered leather backstrip laid down; glassine dust jacket; contents and errata slip laid in; original slipcase. Limited edition, number 59 of 200 copies, signed by the majority of the contributors across two pages. Contributors include William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac (facsimile autographs), Edward Albee, Robert Frank, Yoko Ono, Amiri Baraka, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, Gus Van Sant, Robert Lavigne, Czeslaw Milosz, Richard Serra, Quincy Troupe, Joe Strummer, et al. Fine.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
274
Penone, giuseppe.
16 Pagine.
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2011
Accordion-style book bound in full cream cloth (12 x 12 inches; 305 x 305 mm), Photogravures with collage elements in 16 panels designed as one long panorama, text, and colophon; matching cloth slipcase. Number 14 of 108 copies signed by the artist.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
275
Pierson, jack.
Don’t Look Back.
Oaxaca: Carpe Diem, 2007
Text by Max Blagg. Photogravures printed on white Mexican Couché, title pages printed on white acid free newsprint, and the remaining book uses buff vintage laid (a few small minor blemishes to one facing blank page). Folio (19 x 12½ inches; 485 x 320 mm), bound in full Mexican plaid blend cloth; endpapers of red and yellow Japanese Chiyogami. Number 27 of 27 copies, signed by the artist and author.
Estimate
$4,500 – $6,000
276
(pop art).
One Cent Life.
Berne: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964
Text by Walasse Ting; edited by Sam Francis. Comprising 62 lithographs by 28 artists mostly printed in colors. Folio (overall size 16½ x 12 inches; 418 x 300 mm), publisher’s pictorial cloth portfolio; laminated dust jacket (lifting slightly along folds), fold corners and spine panel tips rubbed slightly, short closed tears to spine panel foot; contents laid in loose, as issued, plates clean; cloth slipcase. One of 2000 copies of the regular edition, this copy out-of-series.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
277
(pop art.)
One Cent Life.
Berne: E.W. Kornfeld, 1964
Text by Walasse Ting; edited by Sam Francis. Comprising 62 lithographs by 28 artists mostly printed in colors, each signed or initialed in pencil (except the Rauschenberg and Indiana bearing artist’s stamps only per usual), with title-page and justification. Folio (overall size 16½ x 11¾ inches; 418 x 295 mm), publisher’s plain white wrappers, front cover with blind stamped title, linen dust jacket with scattered foxing; contents laid in loose, as issued, intermittent, minor foxing, chiefly to text leaves and blank margins; blue cloth folding case, unevenly faded. The portfolio contains work by the following artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, James Rosenquist, Robert Indiana (artist’s blind stamp), Jim Dine, Karel Appel, Robert Rauschenberg (stamped initials), Pierre Alechinsky and others. This copy stamp numbered 85 from the special edition of 100, and is one of 40 copies reserved for the artists and the collaborators. Printed by Maurice Beaudet, Paris (also 2000 numbered copies of the regular edition issued). Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1994, pp. 208-209.
Estimate
$20,000 – $30,000
278
Price, ken.
Heat Wave.
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Graphic Arts, 1995
Poems by Charles Bukowski. Comprising 15 screenprints, 14 in colors, 4 sheets signed in pencil, dated, numbered 17/170, on Arches wove paper, loose (as issued). Folio, 14¾ x 12½ inches; 375 x 315 mm, publisher’s decorated cloth; CD of Bukowski reading his poetry mounted to front pastedown in printed paper sleeve; original Plexiglas slipcase. Number 17 of 170 copies, signed by the artist on the colophon (also 26 lettered examples).
Estimate
$4,500 – $6,000
279
Prince, richard.
Human Nature (dub version).
Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2001
Illustrations by Prince. Poems by Glenn O’Brien. 8vo, publisher’s black-stamped full blue cloth, fine; thick card slipcase with Prince design on front and back panels (few superficial blemishes). Limited edition, one of 750 unnumbered copies.
Estimate
$150 – $250
280
(rackham, arthur.) dickens, charles.
A Christmas Carol.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., (1915)
12 tipped-in color plates by Rackham with lettered tissue guards; numerous black-and-white and silhouette illustrations throughout the text. Large 4to, publisher’s gilt-pictorial vellum, boards slightly bowed per usual, scatttered discoloration including some mottling to board edges; ties lacking; top edges trimmed and gilt, others uncut; endpapers with occasional foxing. Number 10 of only 100 copies of the American edition signed by Rackham. “He [Rackham] is not usually remembered as an illustrator of Dickens, but A Christmas Carol (1915) was decidedly successful, for he contrived to adapt the tradition of ‘Phiz’ and Cruikshank to his own characteristic style in the pictures of Victorian London and at the same time found scope for his fantasy in the ghost scenes. We also find him here developing his special talent for silhouette, rare among illustrators”–Derek Hudson. Arthur Rackham, page 106. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 44-45. Riall, pp. 124-125.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,000
281
(rackham, arthur.) la motte-fouque, friedrich h.c. de.
Undine.
London/New York: William Heinemann/Doubleday, Page & Co.,1909
Illustrated by Rackham, including 15 tipped-in color plates on brown paper. Translated from German by W.L. Courtney. 4to, ¼ tan calf over boards, front cover and spine gilt; lettered tissue guards. Number 101 of 250 copies for sale in America. Signed by Rackham at the limitation statement, as issued. Latimore & Haskell, p.34.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
282
(rackham, arthur.) wagner, richard.
Rhinegold and the Valkyrie * Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods.
London/New York: William Heinemann/Doubleday, Page & Co. 1910; 1911
Together, 2 Limited Signed Editions. 34 and 30 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham with lettered tissue guards, respectively. 4to, original gilt-pictorial vellum, minimal discoloration with boards unbowed; tie broken on first volume, second volume with remnants laid in; top edges trimmed and gilt, others uncut, scattered usual offsetting and light to moderate foxing. First limited editions, each one of 1150 copies, signed by Rackham at the limitation. Lattimore & Haskell, pp 37-38.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
283
Rhoades, jason.
1724. Birth of the Cunt.
Zürich: Hauser & Wirth/New York: David Zwirner, 2004
Introduction by Gianfranco Sanguinetti. 56 pages printed in relief, with 10 pages of German translation by Jürgen Schneider. Original string-tied folded sheets in printed wrappers, as issued, on Dossier Bulle paper, laid into publisher’s gilt-decorated lambskin portfolio; original cloth slipcase. Number 33 of 172 copies, signed by Rhoades.
Estimate
$500 – $750
284
Rifka, judy.
Opera of the Worms.
New York: Fawbush Editions/Solo Press, 1984
Text by Rene Ricard. Portfolio with complete handset letterpress text and color lithography on Dieu Donne paper. 4to (12 x 18 inches; 305 x 460 mm, folded sheets), publisher’s printed wrappers, contents loose as issued; decorated linen chemise; housed in original matching slipcase. One of 100 copies signed in pencil by Rifka and Ricard, this copy out-of-series.
Estimate
$600 – $900
285
Rothenberg, susan.
Kin.
New York: Granary Books, 1997
Text by Anne Waldman. 8 illustrations by Rothenberg after drawings. 8vo, publisher’s full black cloth, printed paper spine label; few minor, narrow creases to margin of folding leaves. Number 55 of 150 copies signed by the artist and author.
Estimate
$300 – $400
286
(rubáiyát.) omar khayyám.
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1884
English translation by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Elihu Vedder. Folio, publisher’s gilt-pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, spine and joints reinforced, with cloth repairs to spine ends; hinges reinforced, early owner’s ink signature on front free endpaper, image of Vedder mounted to verso. First trade edition with the Vedder illustrations.
Estimate
$500 – $750
287
Ruppersberg, allen.
Chapter VI.
Brussels: mfc-michèle didier, 2009
Numerous illustrations. 4to, publisher’s pictorial wrappers; dust jacket; original cardboard box with publisher’s printed sheets with certificate signed and numbered. Limited edition, number 71 of 128 copies, signed by the artist on the laid in certificate. Includes an original poster (91.8 x 73.8 cm) issued in tandem with the book.
Estimate
$600 – $800
288
Ruppersberg, allen.
The Novel That Writes Itself.
Brussels: mfc-michèle didier with the author, 2014
468 hole-punched sheets (12 x 9¾ inches; 302 x 247), printed in colors, recto only, as issued; 7 page text “The Torn-Apart Book” by Jan Tumlir, serving as introduction. Original stiff board metal clip binder with color pictorial front cover (few smudges to rear cover); foam core panel mounted to inner rear cover; sheets loose in binder. Consists of posters produced by the artist at the Colby Poster Printing Company, Los Angeles, up until its closing down in 2013, the posters Colby had produced that the artist had collected, and several photographs of past installations of The Novel That Writes Itself. Number 10 of 24 copies, signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
289
Ruscha, edward.
Sayings From Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson.
San Francisco: Greve/Hine & Limestone Press, 1995
[32] pp. 10 color lithographs, 1 letterpress colophon and title page. Folio (19¼ x 15 inches; 490 x 385 mm), original ½ black morocco over reddish brown cloth, deckled edges, front cover with stencil-bleached letter “S” designed by the artist. Number 21 of 50 copies signed and dated by the artist (a further 10 proof copies also issued).
Estimate
$4,500 – $6,000
290
(russian constructivism.) el lissitzky and telingater, solomon.
Vsesoyaznaya Poligraficheskaya Vystavka
Moscow, 1927
[The All-Union Polygraphic Exhibition].</i> Illustrations, typography by Telingater under the overall direction of El Lissitsky. 8vo, publisher’s printed wrappers, spine titled in manuscript, toned, soiling to rear cover, folding flap rubbed along top edge. First edition.
Estimate
$600 – $900
291
(russian constructivism.) lavinskii, anton; and brik, osip.
Ne Poputchitsa [Not a Fellow Traveller].
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izd-vo, 1923
8vo, color photomontage wrappers designed by Anton Lavinskii from a preliminary design by Mayakovsky, wrappers faded slightly and neatly detached from signatures, mild age-toning. First edition. Osip Brik was an important figure in Russian Futurism, and the subject for Rodchenko’s iconic photograph that showed the bespectacled Brik with the reflected acronym of the magazine LEF, which he helped co-found. Hellyer 57.
Estimate
$400 – $600
292
(russian modernism.) esenin, sergei and kamensky, vasily.
Yav. Stikhi [Reality: Poems].
[Moscow: “Yav”], 1919
8vo (265 x 175 mm), original lithographed wrappers with design by Aristarkh Lentulov, rebacked with covers laid down, dampstaining to top corners of front wrap, small tissue paper mends to top of front and rear wraps, some soiling and discoloration to rear wrap with small chips along bottom edge. Lentulov was part of the Knave of Diamonds group and was also connected with the Hylaean Futurists. Hellyer 143; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 228.
Estimate
$300 – $400
293
Shea, judith.
Haibun.
Paris: Collectif Generation, 1990
Poem by John Ashbery (extracted from A Wave). 7 soft ground etchings on BFK Rives. 4to (13 x 10 inches; 330 x 255 mm), contents laid in loose in printed wrappers; cloth chemise and slipcase. Number 22 of 30 copies signed by Shea.
Estimate
$600 – $900
294
Siena, james.
Spring.
New York: Didymus Press, 2005
By Kenneth Goldsmith. 5 wood engravings by Siena. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, printed paper label; fine. Number 10 of 300 copies signed by the artist and author (also 30 HC copies issued).
Estimate
$300 – $400
295
Simmons, laurie.
Mrs. Bridge
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2009
By Evan S. Connell. Photographs by Simmons. 4to, publisher’s yellow cloth with photographs mounted on covers. Number 24 of 300 copies signed by Connell and Simmons.
Estimate
$300 – $400
296
Smith, jack.
The Beautiful Book.
New York: Dead Language Press, 1962
With 19 original photographs featuring several of Warhol’s ‘Superstars’ and other avant-garde performers including Marian Zazeela; the final print is a portrait of Smith under the Brooklyn Bridge by Ken Jacobs. Silver prints, each mounted, the images measuring 2¼ inches; 56 mm, square. 4to, original stiff wrappers with the rare variant yellow silkscreen and lettering cover design by Zazeela, front wrap with penciled price, some faint scattered soiling to wrappers, fore-edges with soft creasing. First edition, one of a planned edition of 200 copies, of which perhaps only 60 were produced.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
297
Smith, kiki.
I Love My Love.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2009
A Ballad by Helen Adam. 16 tritone prints by Kiki Smith. 16 page concertina (14 x 14 inches; 355 x 355 mm), bound in gilt-lettered iridescent Japanese cloth; original matching cloth traycase with printed paper label mounted to lid. Number 7 of 75 copies signed by Smith (also 26 lettered copies). Pristine copy.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
298
Smith, kiki.
Still Life.
New York and Paris: Coromandel Press, 2001
Text in English and French by Lynne Tillman. 24 color photographs mounted separately on stiff card (6¼ x 7 inches; 160 x 175 mm, full card) with accompanying text; title, complete text, and colophon on one card each; contents laid in loose to original case of molded olive-green plastic with wrought metal clasp designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Number 13 of 60 copies, signed by Smith and Tillman and the designers on the limitation.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,000
299
Smith, kiki.
The Blue Feet.
Oaxaca: Carpe Diem Press, 2003
Verses by Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz. Title page and colophon. Etching and drypoint on pale blue Japanese Moriki paper, cut and folded, as issued (19 ½ x 25 ¼ inches; 470 x 640 mm, unfolded), laid in loose to original floral patterned cloth-covered boards. Number 31 of 35 copies signed by the artist.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,000
300
Smith, kiki.
The Vitreous Body.
Tampa: Graphicstudio, 2001
Text by Parmenides of Elea, translated by David Gallop. With 18 woodblock prints, 6 leaves with cut-outs. 4to, publisher’s cream wrappers printed in black; tissue paper dust jacket. Number 44 of 120 copies from a total edition of 140. Signed by the artist on the colophon.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
301
Smith, kiki.
Touch.
New York: Harlan & Weaver, 2006
Complete group of 7 archivally framed items. Comprising 6 prints (aquatint, etching and drypoint), signed by Smith (30 x 22 inches; 760 x 555 mm, full sheets) on Hahnemühle bright white paper; and a letterpress poem written and signed by Henri Cole. Number 23 of 33 copies. Unexamined out of frames. From the publisher: “Touch, a set of color etchings by Kiki Smith. Each of the six prints in the set depicts a unique composition of flowers, from the elongated stems of lilies and gladiolas to an impressionistic rendering of a decaying hyacinth. The images are drawn on variously sized plates, enforcing the flowers’ arrangement and physical scale. Accompanied by a poem written by the American poet Henri Cole […] The techniques used for the prints include line etch, drypoint, aquatint, and burnishing. Each print is a four-plate color etching comprised of a red, blue, yellow and black plate.”
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
302
Steir, pat.
Cry Stall Gaze.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Brodsky Center, 2012
Poem by Anne Waldman. Accordion-style book with silkscreen and photogravure over printed text laid down to stitched sheets (15 X 34 ¼ inches, folded; 216 inches long, unfolded); original cloth folding box. Printed by Randy Hemminghaus; binding designed and fabricated by Alexis Myre. Deluxe issue, this copy designated “B.CI 1/4” and signed by the artist and poet on the colophon. Published in an edition of 11 copies (plus 6 additional proofs).
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,000
303
Tamayo, rufino.
Tamayo.
(Mexico City: Galeria de Arte Misrichi, 1967)
Introduction by Juan Garcia Ponce. English and Spanish text. Full-page color plates. Folio, hand-painted Spanish calf, top edges gilt and gauffered, covers moderately scuffed and rubbed; lacks the original signed drawing. First edition. One of 100 specially bound copies signed by Tamayo, the binder, the printer, and the editor.</i> Additionally signed by Tamayo on title page.
Estimate
$400 – $600
304
Therrien, robert.
Dream Hospital.
Santa Monica: Jacob Samuel, 1995
Text by John Yau. 8 photogravures by Therrien. 4to, publisher’s two-toned cloth with photogravure illustration; original cloth slipcase. Number 30 of 30 copies, only 12 of which were bound (the other 18 in portfolios). Signed by the author and initialed by the artist on the colophon.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
305
Thomson, john and beach, william r.
Visit of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., K.T., G.C.M.G., to Hong Kong in 1869.
Hong Kong: Noronha and Sons, Government Printers, 1869
Portrait frontispiece and 6 albumen prints by John Thomson (one folding) on original card mounts with printed titles below. 4to (12 x 9 inches; 300 x 230 mm), original ½ red morocco over red cloth gilt, bevelled edges, crude repairs to corners and spine tips, spine chipped with loss of gilt lettering, corners bumped, all edges gilt; bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, intermittent toning and foxing, chiefly marginal; cloth clamshell case. Rare first edition of “The first photographically-illustrated book published in China” (Richard Ovenden, John Thomson, 1997, p.16). The photographer’s identity is given in the preface: “The photographs are by Mr. J. Thomson, F.R.G.S., and will, it is believed, form one of the chief attractions of the work, the expense of which, has of course been very considerably increased by their insertion.” The photographs are a portrait of the Duke, Government House (double page panorama), Queen’s Road (prepared for illumination), Chinese Street (prepared for illumination), HongKong Facing the Harbour, the Race Course and Happy Valley, and The City Hall. According to ABPC and Rare Book Hub, the first copy at auction since 1994.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
306
Tuttle, richard.
Early Auden.
San Francisco: Hine Editions, 1990
10 accordion-folded panels of color copper plate aquatints by Tuttle, printed by Karen Tossavainen, with insets containing excerpts of Auden’s early works, printed by Richard Urban. Plates and title-page/colophon bound into gilt-stamped ¼ suede over parchment covered boards by Klaus Rötzscher. Number 16 of 80 copies signed by Tuttle. Early Auden was used as the cover illustration for The American Livre de Peintre exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York, 1993.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
307
Tuttle, richard.
L’Excès: Cette Mesure.
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2004
Poems by Anne-Marie Albiach. Drawings by Tuttle. 4to, (12¾ x 10 inches; 325 x 255 mm), bound in publishers gold-stamped white parchment, ½ brown faux-suede, spine with decorative string ties; blind-stamped doublures; black felt-covered slipcase. Number 12 of 108 copies signed by Albiach and Tuttle.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
308
Tuttle, richard.
Lonesome Cowboy Styrofoam.
New York: Blue Helman Gallery, 1990
Consists of a booklet stitched into a 2-part black and gray stiff handmade paper cover/case (14 x 13 x 4 cm); containing colored illustrations of various sculptures (2 folded sheets), colophon/prospectus (folded sheet), exhibition announcement card, film positive of the cover design, installation diagram, grass specimens in a glassine envelope, letterpress artist’s statement (6 cards), balloon on foam core, sample of earth pigment and an exhibition poster in puzzle form; enclosures wrapped in 2 groups in archival handmade paper; enclosed in printed and stapled styrofoam case with silk ribbon. Number 43 of 200 copies, signed by the artist. “The book is based on the exhibition ‘Lonesome Cowboy Styrofoam,’ Gallery Casa Sin Nombre, June 1989, Santa Fe, New Mexico” (colophon).
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
309
Tuttle, richard.
Octavo for Annemarie.
Zurich: Annemarie Verna, 1990
Small string-tied hand made booklet (4 x 3½ inches; 100 x 80 mm), on cotton and abaca cotton paper, letterpress text cut as strips and embedded in the paper and with hand painting in colors on each of the 8 rectos; housed in the original maple box titled in black on the hinged lid. Number 2 of 4 artist’s proofs signed in full by Tuttle and designated as such on the inner lid of the box in pencil; there were another 5 produced that were also signed and numbered, and one hors de commerce example. Auction surveys locate one other copy (also an AP) as having come to auction (Christie’s NY, 21 July 2011), that was sold with a duplicate booklet (likely an extra); i.e., the present conforms to another example found in commerce and constitutes a complete copy.
Estimate
$3,500 – $5,000
310
Tuttle, richard.
One Voice in Four Parts.
Poeskill, New York: Kaldewey Press, 1999
Poem by Anne Waldman. With eight colored serigraphs, silkscreen printing on Chinese paper, mounted as a fold-out collection of pictures, alternating with letterpress printed text. Laid in loose to oblong card portfolio (12 x 17½ inches; 305 x 445 mm), printed sheet laid down to verso of front board; housed in matching slipcase. One of 55 unnumbered copies signed by Tuttle, Waldman, Kaldewey and Chen Shi-zeng.
Estimate
$600 – $800
311
Tuttle, richard.
The Missing Portrait.
Brunswick, NJ: Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, 2008
Text by John Yau. Approximately 18 x 15 x 9 inches; 45 x 38 x 23 cm. [30] pp. Square folio, high-relief front and rear covers with lizard and its young designed and fabricated by Lisa Switalski in hand cast cotton fiber with handprinted Gampi tissue collé, silkscreen and letterpress printing on Hanamuhle Copperplate Warm White, endpapers handmade Mitsumata. Number 3 of 10 handmade copies signed by Tuttle and Yau in pencil beneath a hand numbered tissue overlay, the elaborate production utilizing a variety of paper pulp and fabric and metal inclusions augmented with overlays and collage elements in tissue and vellum, including colored paper, colored string, cheesecloth, metal rods, and sculptural colored additions in pulped paper and fabric. Finely preserved copy of a fragile item with no evidence of handling.
Estimate
$12,000 – $18,000
312
Tuttle, richard.
White Sails. 1999-2000.
Zurich: Annemarie Verna, 2001
A small-scale interlocking edition featuring three stacked square mini-trays covered in blue, green, and orange cloth in descending sizes (3 x 3 inches; 78 x 78 mm, at largest). With 11 numbered loose reproductions of works by Tuttle in the largest, the second tray holds an accordion fold publication with colophon information and the poem “Und wie Wind” by Ilma Rakusa printed on both sides. Number 63 of 250 examples, signed by the artist and the poet. Published in conjunction with the March 30 - May 20, 2000 exhibition.
Estimate
$400 – $600
313
Von heyl, charline.
Sabotage.
Paris: Xn éditions Aurélie Geslin/Christophe Daviet-Thery, 2008
Accordion style, 46 pages interleaved with 23 loose mylar pages (14 x 11¼ inches; 355 x 285 mm), laid in to printed pictorial wrappers; mylar dust jacket; original folder with contents transparency and colophon; original slipcase. Number 4 of 100 copies signed by the artist. Also 27 artist’s proofs issued.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
314
Warhol, andy.
Exposures.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1979
4to, publisher’s full black morocco, gold-stamped on the front cover with facsimile Warhol signature, gilt edges; silk endpapers; original black cardboard box (abrasion from sticker). Signed by Warhol twice, on the limitation page, and on the half title page. Number 192 of 1000 copies.
Estimate
$600 – $900
315
Warhol, andy.
Reigning Queens.
Amsterdam: George Mulder, (1985)
Color plates of various queens including Beatrix of The Netherlands, Margrethe of Denmark, and Ntombi of Swaziland. Thin oblong 4to, publisher’s white wrappers, faint soiling to covers, internally clean. number 695 of 5000 copies.
Estimate
$500 – $750
316
Weber, max.
Essays on Art.
(New York: Printed by Rudge, 1916)
Two vignettes, decorated initials. 8vo, original wrappers with woodcut illustration by Weber on front cover, yapp edges creased and chipped. First edition, presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author “To Helaine with love eternal from Max.” Helaine Blum was a protege of Weber’s, and the two remained close, life-long friends and correspondents.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
317
Wegner, paul.
American Types.
San Francisco: Peter Wegner/Hosfelt Gallery, 1995
2 volumes, complete. Illustrated by Wegner with 8 silkcreen prints and blind emboss on French-folded pages in each. 4to and small 8vo, publisher’s matching red cloth lettered in black. Number 120 of 200 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist.
Estimate
$300 – $400
318
Wegner, peter.
A,N,S,W,E,R,S, & Q,U,E,S,T,I,O,N,S,.
Santa Monica: W.L. Griffin Editions, 2004
Text by Wittgenstein, Goethe and Albers. Concept and design by Wegner. 4to, publisher’s full black cloth. Number 7 of 100 copies, signed by Wegner in pencil on the rear pastedown. A book within a book consisting of a larger volume containing selections of color theory by Wittgenstein, Goethe and Albers and a plexiglas box containing numerous leaves of variously colored paper. The center of the text block is cut out and inserted in the space is the plexiglas slipcase with the colored paper. “Published in conjunction with ‘Peter Wegner: Complete and final color theory superseding all previous theories & pre-empting all future theories with add’l thoughts on the poetry of commerce, the cruelty of systems & the banality of the grid, accompanied by a footnote re: Architecture,’ Bohen Foundation, New York, New York, February - May 2004” (colophon).
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
319
Wegner, peter.
The Blue Books.
San Francisco: Hosfely Gallery, 1998
2 volumes, complete. Hand printed by Jeff Ryan at 21st Steps in Santa Fe. Designed by Todd Waterbury and Wegner. Oblong 4to, publisher’s full cloth; housed in original slipcase. Number 28 of 100 copies, each volume signed by the artist.
Estimate
$200 – $300
320
Wiley, william t.
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit.
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2001
By Elias Canetti. 6 etched plates in red and black tipped to leaves by Wiley, one of them signed by him; numerous photographs by Karl Bissinger, including color frontispiece. 4to, publisher’s ¼ cloth over pictorial boards, paper spine label; original paper sleeve with flap and mounted etching by Wiley. Number 127 of 350 copies.
Estimate
$300 – $400
321
Wilson, amy.
Fair Trade.
New York: Diane Vilani Editions, 2006
Accordion folded; digital print illustrated by Wilson with hand-embellishing. Contains selections of text from “Anarchy in Action” by Colin Ward, (Freedom Press, London), “Owning the Weather: The Ugly Politics of the Pathetic Fallacy” by Ando Arike, (Harper’s Jan. 2006), and various writings by the artist. 4to, publisher’s decorated cloth covers. Number 1 of 10 copies, signed and numbered by Wilson. Also four artist’s proofs and one printer’s proof issued.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
322
Wilson, robert.
Notes for a Conversation on Dante.
Amsterdam: Picaron Editions, 1993
By Ossip Mandelstam. With 15 double-page lithographs printed at Atelier Franck Bordas in Paris. Folio (20½ x 14 inches; 520 x 360 mm, folded sheets), laid in loose to black paper-covered board portfolio (two horizontal scratches), as issued; housed in original wooden slipcase (small cellotape piece adhered to one board). Number 10 of 90 copies. Signed by the artist on each print and on the colophon (also 10 artist proofs and 4 printers proofs).
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
323
Winters, terry.
Fourteen Drawings. Fourteen Etchings.
Munich: Galerie Fred Jahn, 1990
Text by David Shapiro in German and English. With an original aquatint frontispiece. 4to, publisher’s black cloth; matching slipcase. Number IX of XX copies with the original print, signed by the artist.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
324
Wong, paul.
The Eclipse of the Moon.
New York: Kuboaa, 1998
By Lu T’ung. Translated by A.C. Graham. Illustrated by Wong. Accordion style (app. 10½ x 9½ inches; 265 x 245 mm), Chinese scroll paper; contents laid into unique hand-painted paper chemise by Wong; original cloth portfolio case. Number 7 of 60 copies signed by the artist including 10 proofs.
Estimate
$400 – $600
325
Wynne, rob.
A Beautiful Sound Is Not Enough.
Oaxaca: Carpe Diem Press, 2004
Pictorial endpapers and images printed on Frankfurt White; title page and colophon printed on Somerset Book; text printed on Interleaving. Folio (18½ x 13½ inches; 470 x 345 mm), publisher’s full black felt with embroidered decoration to front cover. Number 37 of 40 copies numbered and signed by the artist.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
326
Wynne, rob.
Selected Words.
Oaxaca: Carpe Diem Press, 2002
Marbled endpapers, title page and colophon printed on Somerset Book; text printed on Interleaving. Folio (18½ x 13½ inches; 470 x 345 mm), publisher’s full black felt with embroidered titling to front cover (variant copies bound in orange, blue, and yellow). Number 23 of 40 copies numbered and signed by the artist.