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Autographs - Americana
NEW JERSEY JOINS THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR SENDING ITS FIRST TWO BATTALIONS
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(american revolution.) hancock, john.
Letter Signed, “I am Gentlemen / Your most obed[ien]thum[bl]eServ[an]t / John Hancock / Pres[ident],”
Philadelphia, 12 October 1775
to the members of the Convention of New Jersey, alerting them to the necessity of raising battalions, explaining that the men would be furnished with a shirt and blanket when available and, in a postscript: “By order of Congress I forward you Forty eight Commissions for the Captains & Subaltern Officers in the New Jersey Battalions.” 1 page, tall 4to, with integral blank; silked on verso of letter and blank, horizontal folds with minor loss to few letters of signature, few holes at fold ends expertly repaired with paper, few characters recently inscribed in unknown hand on blank, faint scattered soiling, docketing on blank.
In full: “Some late intelligence laid before Congress seems to render it absolutely necessary for the protection of our liberties & safety of our lives to raise several new battalions, & therefore the Congress have come [to] the enclosed resolutions, which I am ordered to transmit to you. The Congress have the firmest confidence, that from your experienced zeal in this great cause you will exert your utmost endeavours to carry the said resolutions into execution with all possible expedition.
“The Congress have agreed to furnish the men with a hunting shirt not exceeding the value of one dollar & one third of a dollar and a blanket provided these can be procured, but these are not to be made part of the terms of enlistment.”
Published in Extracts from the Journal of Proceedings of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey (Woodbury, NJ, reprinted by order, Sailer, 1835), 53.
In response to the request of Congress, William Alexander (“Lord Stirling”) was commissioned to command the battalion raised in East Jersey (in northeast of colony), and William Maxwell was given command of the West Jersey battalion. Both battalions were ordered to the Hudson River (in preparation for supporting the Canadian campaign) and mustered into the Continental Army in December of 1775.
Estimate
$15,000 – $25,000
SIGNED BY TWO OF MOST IMPORTANT FINANCIERS OF REVOLUTION
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(american revolution.) morris, robert; and haym salomon.
Partly-printed Document Signed, a bill of exchange signed by Morris, “Rob’tMorris, / S[uper]I[ntendent] of Finance,” and with Signature by Haym transferring payee on verso.
Philadelphia, 11 July 1782
The document, in French, requesting that Mr. Grande at the Bank of Paris pay 4,500 livres tournois to Salomon Haym in 60 days. Three other payment transfers signed on verso, including Samuel Inglis, who made the final transfer to Messrs. Bingham, Inglis & Gilmer. 4x10¼ inches; some chipping at edges with minor loss to extreme end of Morris’s holograph title, minor staining at side and lower edges, folds.
When Robert Morris became the first and only U.S. Superintendent of Finance in 1781, the government was nearing bankruptcy and public credit was on the verge of collapse. The Bank of North America, which Morris had helped establish in part to finance the closing chapter of the Revolutionary War, depended upon Morris’s own private fortune and loans from abroad. Haym Salomon (1740-1785), a Jewish Polish-American businessman who had joined the Sons of Liberty in NY and served as paymaster for the French forces in North America during the Revolution, was contracted by Morris to sell the bills of exchange he issued beginning in 1781. By July 12, 1782, Salomon was advertising his services on behalf of the U.S. as “Broker to the Office of Finance,” designating the work he continued until 1784. Although the nation’s economy would not recover for many years, the Bank of North America and other financial reforms Morris had set in motion enabled the fledgling country to endure.
Estimate
$10,000 – $20,000
BADGE OF MERIT FOR SERVICE IN 2ND NEW YORK REGIMENT
3
(american revolution.) washington, george.
Partly-printed Document Signed, “G:Washington,” as Commander-in-Chief,
“Head-Quarters,” 7 June 1783 [from verso]
military discharge of “Henry Post in the Second NYork Regiment, having faithfully served the United States one Year . . . . has been honored with the Badge of Merit . . . .” Countersigned by Washington’s aide-de-camp Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., additionally signed by Colonel Philip van Cortlandt. On verso is written a deed transferring Henry Post’s 600 acres to Daniel Hudson & Co. dated April 12, 1784, signed by two witnesses, and certified by Ulster County Court of Common Pleas Judge Patrick Baber. 1½ pages, tall 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; silked on recto and verso, tiny contemporary ink stain touching “G” of Washington’s signature, moderate scattered soiling on recto and verso, chipping at all edges and few small holes at folds expertly repaired with paper, date on recto is faded or unaccomplished, docketing written vertically at upper left recto.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
INCLUDES GENERAL ARTEMAS WARD
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(american revolution.)
Partly-printed Document Signed, by 15 members of the Council of Massachusetts Bay, military commission appointing Samuel Brown First Lieutenant in the militia.
Boston, 10 June 1779
Countersigned by Deputy Secretary James Avery. 12¼x12 inches; mounted to board trimmed to size, brittling and marked even toning overall, complete separations with minor loss, seal mostly intact. Sold as Is
Jeremiah Powell • Artemas Ward • Caleb Cushing • Thomas Cushing • B[enjamin?] White • H[enry?] Gardner • Fra[ncis] Dana • Samuel Danielson • N[athaniel?] Cushing • Josiah Stone • A[braham?] Fuller • Samuel Niles • Joseph Simpson • Aaron Wood • John Pitts.
Estimate
$250 – $350
"YOU MUST BE EITHER DAWDLING . . . OR MORALLY OR PHYSICALLY DEAD"
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Burr, aaron.
Autograph Letter Signed, “A. Burr,” to James Martin,
Albany, 13 January 1799
requesting more frequent communications from him, suggesting a recently vacated house [to investigate the possibility of renting], requesting a draft of a case, discussing the possibility of submitting an application for writ of ne exeat, and reminding him not to consult the brother of one of the parties to the case, with a postscript: “The papers in Ward & Pell are said to be in the hands of R. Livingston.” 1½ pages, 4to, written on recto and verso of sheet with integral address leaf; moderate staining at center, folds.
“You must be either dawdling . . . or morally or physically dead: in any other event I should have heard frequently from you. I venture however a second time to attempt to awaken you from your lethargy or to attract you to town.
“The business of the house . . . –that which Sam Jones used to occupy in Nassau St & one next Door to (South of) Alderman Furman’s in Broad Way deserve your attention.
“With all possible dispatch, prepare and send me a Draft of Bill, John S. Robertson vs Ja’s Scott Smith. You have the agreement & my letter to Dr Robertson of the 28th Ult. . . . Mr. R. seems apprehensive that Smith will elope–if these apprehensions should appear to be well founded, application must be made for a Ne exeat. P.R. Livingston, the Reg’r will tell you our mode . . . . You need not be warned against consulting Tho’s Smith, the brother, on this business.”
In a letter to James Martin dated January 4, 1799, Burr requested that Martin seek out on his own behalf a house in Manhattan that would be suitable for him.
Later that year, Burr founded the Manhattan Company, ostensibly with the purpose of providing water for Manhattan, but operating increasingly over the years as a bank. The company later became the Bank of Manhattan Company, which, in 1955, merged with the Chase National Bank, to form the Chase Manhattan Bank.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
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Burr, aaron.
Autograph Document Signed, “A. Burr,” promissory note,
New York, 18 March 1800
agreeing to pay [U.S. Supreme Court Justice Henry] Brockholst Livingston $137.50 within 60 days. Additionally signed by Livingston and two others on verso. 1 page, 4½x7¼ inches; cancellation slices and ink cross marks affecting text (without loss), faint toning along left edge, folds, docketing on verso, 30-cent NY embossed revenue stamp at upper left.
Estimate
$600 – $900
7
(civil war.) buckner, simon bolivar.
Document Signed, “S.B. Buckner / Maj Gen’l Com’dg,” certifying an abstract of provisions sold in November, 1863.
Np, circa 1863
The document, listing the items and quantities sold by Captain Isaac Shelby Jr to officers of Buckner’s division, Army of Tennessee, including soap, bacon, flour, and other foodstuffs. Additionally signed by Shelby and countersigned by Assistant Inspector General Major W.K. Mastin. 1 page, 4to, ruled paper; horizontal folds, docketing on verso.
Estimate
$250 – $350
DISCHARGING PRIVATE
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(civil war.) corcoran, michael.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Michael Corcoran / Colonel Commanding,” to an unnamed recipient (lacking salutation),
“Georgetown Heights” [Washington], 15 May 1861
discharging the bearer, private Denis Healy. Additionally signed and with holograph endorsement by Joseph Rodman Drake De Kay, as Aide-de-Camp of General Joseph K. Mansfield, on verso. ½ page, 4to, “National Cadets” stationery; folds, moderate scattered soiling, ink received stamp on verso touching endorsement.
“The Bearer hereof Denis Healy a private of B Company having been declared unfit for further Service by Asst. Surgeon J.P. Smith is hereby discharged, he has done duty with the Regiment since the 23rd day of April last up to this date, and his character has been exemplary.”
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
9
(civil war.) porter, david dixon.
Partly-printed Document Signed, appointing William E. Jelley Acting Master’s Mate of the U.S. Mississippi Squadron.
Np, 17 March 1864
1 page, 4to, with integral blank; short closed separations at folds repaired verso with tissue.
Estimate
$250 – $350
THREE GENERALS WHO FOUGHT IN BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
10
(civil war–generals–union.)
Three Endorsements Signed, on a sheet attached to a letter applying to U.S. Signal Corps: James Clay Rice * James S. Wadsworth * Gouverneur K. Warren.
“Head Quarters,” 13-19 April 1864
The letter, from O.S. Pine of NY State Militia to Chief Signal Officer W.F. Merrill, requesting an examination to join the U.S. Signal Corps. With undated endorsement signed by Merrill at lower edge. 1 page, 8vo, ruled paper; attached to verso of separate endorsement sheet at upper edge verso. “H’d Q’rs,” 13 April 1864. The endorsements, “J.C. Rice,” “GKWarren,” or “Ja’s.S. Wadsworth,” the last with holograph endorsement: “app’d provided the Signal Corps requires more force.” Additionally signed by 6 others. 1½ pages, oblong 4to, written on recto and verso of single sheet; short closed separations at vertical folds, “Army of the Potomac” ink stamps at upper and lower left recto.
Estimate
$350 – $500
11
(civil war–generals–union.)
Group of 4 items, each Signed, including two Civil War dated: John Aaron Rawlins * Henry Jackson Hunt * Hiram Berdan * David Hunter.
Vp, vd
Format and condition vary.
Rawlins. Partly-printed Document Signed, “JnoARawlins,” Special Order No. 180, discharging a blacksmith. 1 page, 4to; unevenly toned, small holes at fold intersections. “Near Vicksburg,” MS, 4 July 1863 • Hunt. Autograph Letter Signed, “Henry J. Hunt / BrigGenl U.S.Vol / Chief of Artillery,” to Thomas Hillhouse, concerning officers in the reserves whose applications for commissions were submitted by a battalion commander killed in the Battle of Antietam. 2¼ pages, 4to, folded sheet. “Camp near Falmouth Va.,” 8 December 1862 • Berdan. Franking Signature and rank, “H. Berdan / Col Com’dg 1st Reg’t / U.S. Sharpshooters,” on envelope. 5x3 inches. Np, nd • Hunter. Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “Compliments of / D:Hunter / U.S. Army,” on verso of cabinet card, half-length portrait showing him in uniform. 6½x4¼ inches. Np, nd.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
FRANKLIN ORDERS PAYMENT OF £15K IN PAPER MONEY TO LOAN OFFICE
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Franklin, benjamin.
Document Signed, “BFranklin / Presid’t,” as President of the Executive Council of PA, ordering Treasurer David Rittenhouse to pay £15,000
Philadelphia, 6 December 1785
“of the new Emission of paper money” to the Trustees of the General Loan Office. Countersigned by Comptroller General John Nicholson. 6x7½ inches; paper repairs to upper and lower and left edges with minor loss to text at upper edge, faint dampstaining at lower edge, receipt signatures verso, folds.
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
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Hamilton, alexander.
Letter Signed, “AHamilton,” as Secretary of the Treasury, to PA Commissioner of Loans Thomas Smith,
[Philadelphia], 10 September 1792
circular letter, sending a copy of the U.S. Senate’s order of May 7, 1792 [not present], and requesting a statement of his salary, emoluments, and official disbursements and expenses for year ending October 1, 1792. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; address leaf inlaid, faint scattered soiling, folds.
“Agreeably to an order of the Senate of the United States, dated the 7th day of May last . . . I have to request that you will furnish me . . . with Statements of your Salary and emoluments, and of your Official disbursements and expenditures . . . .”
On May 7, 1792, the U.S. Senate ordered that the Secretary of the Treasury produce a report describing “the salaries, fees, and emoluments, for one year, ending the first day of October next . . . of every person holding any civil office or employment under the United States . . . together with the actual disbursements and expenses in the discharge of their respective offices . . . ; and that he do report the name of every person who shall neglect or refuse to give satisfactory information . . . .” On February 27, 1793, Hamilton submitted his report to the Senate, beginning with the Department of State and ending with the Keepers of Lighthouses, including the original letters transmitting the information to him, and the list of names of those from whom no information was received. Interestingly, the list excludes judges, members of Congress, the vice president, and the president.
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
U.S. TREASURY CHANGING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BANK OF NEW YORK
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Hamilton, alexander.
Letter Signed, as Secretary of the Treasury, to the President and Directors of the Bank of New York,
“Treasury Department” [Philadelphia], 15 April 1793
informing them that the collectors at three major ports have been ordered to refuse notes issued by the Bank of New York. 1 page, 4to; small tear at left edge repaired with cello tape verso, folds, docketing verso.
“The Collectors of New York, Sag-Harbour and Perth Amboy having been instructed to discontinue after the 1st of June next, to receive, and exchange for Specie, the cash notes and Post notes of the Bank of New York, I have thought it proper to communicate this arrangement for your information.”
When Hamilton assumed the office of Treasury Secretary in 1789, he turned to two of the nation’s largest banks–the Bank of New York and the Bank of North America–for short term loans to help pay the government’s debts. Partly to service the loans, and partly to control the amount of gold and silver coin (“specie”) available for use by the government, Hamilton occasionally ordered the collectors of duties at the nation’s various ports to accept as payment the notes issued by these and other state banks. The Treasury then took the collectors’ notes to the same banks and received specie in exchange. On April 15, 1793, when Hamilton’s efforts to balance credit and specie had helped bring the financial crash of 1792 under control, the collectors were instructed by Hamilton to cease accepting notes issued by the Bank of New York, thereby clearing the way for the Bank of the United States to play a larger role in the national economy and to provide an increasingly stable national currency.
Published in The Papers of Alexander Hamilton Digital Edition, ed. Harold C. Syrett (Charlottesville: U of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2011), 319.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
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Hamilton, alexander.
Letter Signed, as Secretary of the Treasury, to MA Commissioner of Loans Nathaniel Appleton,
[Philadelphia], 8 February 1794
reporting that he can expect payment for pensions that are due to Invalids of the United States [veterans of the Revolutionary War and others disabled in the line of duty]. With holograph free frank but unsigned (“Free Sec’y of the Treas’ry”) on address panel. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; faint scattered soiling, folds.
“I have directed the Treasurer of the United States to furnish you with a draught on the Office of Discount and Deposit at Boston for six hundred and sixty eight dollars and thirty three cents to enable you to discharge the pensions due to sundry Invalids of the United States in the Year 1790 and which were not paid by Benjamin Lincoln the late Agent.”
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
16
Penn, william.
Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, “WmPenn,”
3 April 1695
granting 1500 acres of land “clear of Indian Incumbrances in [PA] . . . between the Rivers of Sasquehanah and Delaware” to Thomas Church. Additionally signed by two witnesses: William Springett and Francis Harding. 8½x9¾ inches; minor worming near signature, faint scattered foxing, folds, docketing on verso, wax seal and revenue stamp intact.
Estimate
$3,500 – $5,000
GOVERNOR AND AMATEUR METEOROLOGIST
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Wolcott, oliver; jr.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Oliv: Wolcott,” as Governor, to “My dear Sir,”
Litchfield, CT, 23 January 1822
apologizing for not having replied sooner to his letters, reporting that he has planted the barilla seeds, asking whether the wheat should be planted in the spring, and discussing at length his views on wind currents and the effect of deforestation on climate, especially temperature. 2¼ pages, tall 4to, written on a folded sheet; most of second leaf torn away with loss to address panel (not affecting signature or letter text), second leaf nearly detached, short closed separations at folds, small holes at fold intersections with loss of a few letters of text, minor loss to first leaf at lower corners and small area at one edge with loss of few words of text, docketed on terminal page.
”. . . I made a fair experiment with the Barilla Seed, but it wholly failed; the climate on these mountains being too cold and wet. The place most suitable, I conjecture, would be in Tennessee on the South line of the Cumberland Mountains.
“The . . . Wheat came too late to be sowed last Fall; I will try a part of it next Spring, if as I hope it is a Summer Grain, of which please to inform me; otherwise I shall keep it carefully till next autumn.
“I observe your Meteorological notices with much pleasure: Though we cannot govern the winds, we may ascertain the laws by which they are governed, and by this knowledge we may usefully regulate our conduct. I have thought it probable, that by the destruction of our Forests & the settlement of the Country, the different parts of the United States will be reduced much nearer an equality of temperature, than they . . . are at present. That the Southern States are becoming cooler in Winter is I think certain. The cultivated Tracts are now protected by Forests from eighty to one hundred feet in height; when they are destroyed the currents of Wind will sweep the surface of the Earth. These currents travel at the rate of from sixty to one hundred miles an hour. I observe that when our cold is at zero, with a wind from North to North West, the observations at Washington exhibit the same degree on the same day. This morning . . . the cold was 12° below zero, with the wind at North West. If the wind had been due North I should feel almost certain, that the same degree prevailed at Washington. The general cause of the state of our Climate depends as I apprehend on this. The tropical current from East to West is arrested by the Cordilleras & the great Western Chain, ending in the Rocky Mountains & directed Northward: the recoil of this Current is up the Mississippi & eastward, by our great Rivers to the Lakes & down the St. Lawrence. That part of this Current which flows up the Ohio and its Branches is warm & mild and is the cause of their mild Winters, but when the current is down, from the Lakes & especially when it is from Lower Canada, the Southern States soon feel the extremes of Cold, which will become more perceptible and affect their cultivation as their Forests are reduced. We perceive this effect in Connecticut, where vegetation is not so early as it was formerly & not more early than in Vermont. The difference between Connecticut & Pennsylvania on open Grounds is much less considerable than is commonly supposed and less than it was formerly. Evaporation is a power[ful] cause of cold & at a distance from the [Great?] Lakes serves to equalize the temperature . . . .”
Estimate
$250 – $350
Autographs - General (including a run of Lenny Bruce items, World Leaders, etc.)
HIS VISITING CARD
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Amundsen, roald.
Signature, on verso of his printed visiting card.
Np, nd
1½x3 inches; remnants of mounting at upper corners recto.
Estimate
$300 – $400
19
Astor, john jacob.
Autograph Letter Signed, as President of the NY branch of the Bank of the United States (BUS), to BUS Director John Savage,
New York, 4 January 1818
sending a power of attorney [likely enabling Savage to make certain decisions concerning the BUS on his behalf; not present], instructing him to keep the papers until meeting or send them or store them at the bank, recommending a director for the proposed Albany branch and warning against another candidate. 2 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf (now detached), addressed in holograph; short closed tear at right edge verso repaired with glue, folds.
“Yesterday I sent you by mail my letter of Att[orne]y to voat [sic] for me & others at the election. I now enclose you an other power which you will also make use of by attaching it to my power with those already sent to you, the whole of these papers you will either keep for me till I will have the pleasure of seeing you or have them all put up & sent to me by Mr. Bolton or put them in the Bank for me. Should there be a Branch established at Albany, I would recommend William Dure[?] Esq’e as one of the directors, he is a very Respectable man & of fine talents–A Mr. Gilbert Stewart I understand is on the list of candidates. I am informed that he is a very Improper Character, this in confidence.”
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
20
(astronauts–apollo 9.) schweickart, russell l.
Color Photograph Signed,
Np, nd
¾-length group portrait by NASA, showing the prime crew members of Apollo 9 in their space suits without helmets. Signed in the image at upper right. 8x10 inches; biography printed on verso.
With–An unsigned copy of the same photograph, showing the Apollo 9 crew. 8x10 inches.
Estimate
$300 – $400
21
(astronauts.) armstrong, neil.
Color Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “To Charles Johnson, Jr– / Best of Luck,” 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; small crease at lower left corner, biography printed on verso.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
22
(baseball.) ruth, babe; and tyrus raymond cobb (“ty”).
Signature by each, on separate slips of paper.
Np, nd
Ruth. Written beside the vertically typed name and address of New York clothing manufacturer Irving Geist (1900-1970). 8x3½ inches; vertical fold touching extreme end of signature (without loss), another street address written on verso in unknown hand. Cobb. Additionally inscribed, “To Kenneth / From his / Friend / Ty Cobb.” Below Cobb’s signature is a signed inscription by WA Governor Monrad Charles Wallgren, and on verso is a signed inscription by actor Pat O’Brien. 6x2½ inches; horizontal fold.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
SENDING DAD A LOCK OF HIS NEW WIFE'S HAIR
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Bruce, lenny.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Love Lenny,” to his father (“Dear Father”), with lock of hair from his wife Honey, in pencil,
Detroit, 24 November 1951 [from postmark]
thanking for photographs, mentioning Thanksgiving dinner, promising to send photographs of the turkey, reporting that his mother has been kind since his marriage, sending Honey’s hair and, in a postscript: “Have you any more pic–please send, she gets such a kick out of them. We didn’t get the sweets yet.” The hair, attached to page three with cello tape. 3 pages, 4¾x4 inches, written on a folded sheet; faint staining from cello tape affecting pages two and four. With the original envelope.
“Thanks for the pics. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. No, mother doesn’t know what to do for me, since we have been married she has been so good to me you can imagine.
“This is a piece of Honey’s hair–is about 25 in long–she always wears it long [lock of hair].
“I took some pic of the turkey. I’ll send them soon.”
With–Honey (“Harlow”) Bruce. Archive of 12 items Signed, or Inscribed and Signed, “Honey Harlow,” “Honey,” or “Honey B.,” to a fan (“Ernest” or “Ernie”), including letters, greeting cards, and two index cards each bearing the lipstick impression of her kiss, mostly concerning the sale of her photographs. Together 15 pages, 4to or smaller; generally good condition. Vp, 1993-94.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
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Bruce, lenny.
Two Documents Signed, each a contract for a series of performances in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, 14 November 1958; 9, 15 May 1963
The first, typed agreement with Herb Cohen concerning three months of performances of A Wonderfully Sick Evening at the Attic Theatre. Additionally signed by Cohen. The second, signed thrice, typed and partly-printed agreement with Oscar Ostroff concerning performances held in May at the LeGrand Theatre, including a typed rider on a slip of paper attached with staples, and a separate typed sheet describing payment details. Additionally signed thrice by Ostroff. Together 8 pages, folio or 4to or oblong 12mo, the first agreement on rectos of separate sheets stapled along upper edge; folds.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
25
Bruce, lenny.
Group of 5 letters, each Signed, to various recipients, including three Autograph Letters and two Typed Letters.
Vp, 1959-62
Each 1 page, 4to or 8vo, two on hotel stationery; faint dampstaining or minor loss to corner of 1959 letters.
5 May 1959, TLS, “Love Lenny Bruce,” to “Dear Mr. [Louis] Sobol”: “You’ve got a helluva nerve using my name in that Shmata [Schmatte] that has accomplished nil, except to perhaps swell the coffers of San Simeon [CA, home of Hearst Castle], and provide a place for the insalubrious writings of that mutation of Earl Browder, and Father Coughlin, Jack O’Brien.
“But I forgive you, because I am grateful to you, for two mentions in two days!! However I couldn’t bring myself to opening a thank you note with, ‘…..and no matter how big I get, Mr. Sobol, you gave me my first break….,’ and blah, blah, blah. . . .”
11 June 1959, TLS, “Love Lenny,” to “Dear Vic[tor Lownes, Playboy Promotions Manager?]”: Here is a piece I have written about show biz. Maybe you can use it in the magazine at some future date. Here’s hoping.”
Nd, ALS, to Playboy editor Ray Russell: “Thank you for your interest in me. Should I thank you? Maybe you[re] not interested in me. Maybe the real Ray Russell never heard of me! Maybe the stationery was forged. It’s a big commie trick!!
“Ray the main thing to remember is that if we all pull together we can get Hugh Heffner to wear black socks.” With a postscript: “The spelling is LENNY.”
Circa 24 January 1962, ALS, “Love Lenny” twice, to talent manager Ron Singer, written on the verso of Singer’s letter to him: “Yeah! But dig, after you have the brochure who do you sell it to, how–what I need is someone to sell the shares of what ever some one who believes that there is an untapped market shot: The picture about a junkie prostitute that has made $$$ would have made mucho . . . if a junkie prostitute made the film. You have to dig it to dig it. You dig?” With a postscript: “No yes for a review . . . . Dock Sobel is got me [arrow pointing to small drawing of man being chased by an axe]. But the movie I wish you would help me.”
Nd, ALS, “Love Lenny,” to Singer: “I have to wait till I fly home Feb 10th or 12 to send you the short. I’m the only one who knows where it is. So the 12 [small drawing of man climbing a ladder waving a flag].”
With–Three items, unsigned: Partly-printed letter from Bruce to Margot Chapman returning payment for Confessions of a Dirty Talking Dope Fiend because “Production of this record has come to a halt due to my present difficulties with the obscenity law.” ¾ page, 4to. Np, 24 April 1964 • Two retained copies of typed letters from Ron Singer to Bruce, inquiring about interest in appearing in a Broadway show, or suggesting that he produce a brochure for a proposed film project. Each 1 page, 4to. Np, 24 January 1962.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
ON "ROGUE" MAGAZINE: "YOU GUYS REALLY CRACK ME UP . . . IT'S REALLY VERY GOOD"
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Bruce, lenny.
Group of 4 letters to Rogue magazine editors Frank M. Robinson or Harlan Ellison, including a brief AL, a TLS, a TL, and a TL containing 8 holograph lines,
Vp, circa 1960
mostly relating to his articles. Each 1 page, 4to or small 4to, 1960 letter on Rogue stationery; most with staple holes at upper left, most with moderate toning, one with doodles and notes in unknown hand, one with punch holes in left margin, folds. One with original envelope, addressed in holograph.
17 November 1960, AL, written in blank spaces on Robinson’s letter to him: “Is it possible for you to come to NY about 15th for a day to listen to a proposition . . . .” With two postscripts: “Write me special delivery c/o [arrow pointing to his address in Robinson’s letter]”; “Maybe if you can come to N.Y. [arrow pointing to Robinson’s question whether Bruce would continue writing his column].”
Nd, LS: “Rec’d check thanks. I told Harlan Ellison a week ago to send me the material that wasn’t printed yet. Since I hadn’t seen it for a while I could probably punch it up with some more humor. I also requested about 40 copies of ‘Rouge’ [sic] to send to my friends (a mailing list that rambles from Dorothy Killgallen and Pat Brown the Gov. of Calif. to Mickey Cohen and Tony Yuterio the head of the mob in RIO DE etc.[)] He yes yessed me and nada. . . . I explained to Harlan under the article I wanted a small box inside would be the motion picture that pleased me and the album . . . . [H]e agreed to this but I didn’t see them. I’m earning $4000.00 a week now plus my album, the reason I mention this is to make sure you don’t think these are bread and butter plugs. I want it in there I can make it funny and interesting. . . .”
Nd, TL: “Don’t send any more copies of Rouge to anyone till I tell you. Let them buy them.
”. . . Could you come in and be my guest bring your date wife whatever . . . . Don’t bring any body from the magazine please. Just you and a lady. I have some interesting plans.
“When Hammel leaned over the table in his square fuckin tartan plaid urbane bachelor and said to Renfrew the Canadian distributor, ‘We get into places that Playboy isn’t allowed. Do [you] know they are banned in most of New England’ I almost had an attack a stroke or something. I see now why the girls look like that. . . .”
Nd, TL, to Ellison: “. . . You guys really crack me up with the magazine. It’s really very good. . . .
“You did an excellent job on . . . ‘The Money I’m Stealing.’ So get to work on this material. You can probably get about five or six bits out of it. . . . I want you to leave the names in, ‘cause they are friends of mine. No payola I just like them. . . .” With holograph postscript written in upper margin and verso: “Most important Harlan please send immediately at least one copy of each story I’ve done for Rouge so far. I need them within a week also. Can you send me to this address above Sir[?] 6 real early issue of Rouge. I want to do a bit on the magazine for the stage.”
With–A Western Union telegram from Bruce to Rogue and an archive of 20 retained copies of Robinson’s letters to Bruce or his friend Dave Richards. The telegram, unsigned, requesting images. 1 page, oblong 8vo, “Western Union” form. Philadelphia, 18 April 1960. The archive of letters, sending checks or galleys or photographs [not present]. Together 24 pages, 4to, carbon copies. [Chicago], 1959-61.
On December 5, 1962, Bruce performed at the Gate of Horn in Chicago, which included a bit involving his showing the audience a copy of Rogue, a men’s magazine for which he wrote a column between 1959 and 1961; this performance was interrupted by police, who then arrested Bruce on an obscenity charge and detained some insubordinate audience members, including George Carlin.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
27
Bruce, lenny.
Two checks accomplished and Signed.
[Los Angeles], 4 January; 6 November 1962
The first, to Wilcox Apartments in the amount of $200 drawn on the Security First National Bank. The second, to “Cash” in the amount of $34 drawn on the Bank of America. 3¼x8 or 2¾x6 inches; slight fading to first signature (but still legible), cancellation ink stamps touching signatures.
Estimate
$600 – $900
28
Bruce, lenny.
Two letters, each Signed, to Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet (“Dear Kup”), including an Autograph Letter and a Typed Letter.
Np, nd
The first, explaining that he had no press agent and expressing appreciation. The second, “Lenny,” in red ink, explaining that his vulgarity is due to having sold his soul to a sorcerer and to problems with understanding vernacular, thanking for the press but suggesting that next time he should write a good review. Each ¾ page, 8vo; folds.
ALS: “If I had a press agent they wouldn’t have brought more people down. I guess you know I appreciate all the warmth you and your wife have given me, and that’s no Sophie Tucker Bullshit.”
TLS: “Now that I am leaving I can tell you the truth. Do you think that I like to be ob[s]cene, vulgar and shocking?
“No! A pox upon those pagans.
“Years ago at the foxglove inn a sorcerer who charmed me with tales of riches and fine slaves bought my soul.
“That merlin was Herb Lyons. I have struggled with sat[a]n’s scribe alas to no avail.
“The sword of Damascus hangs on a thin thread at the trad[e]winds. I start out thinking clean, I pour lysol on my putz and think clean and his dybuk [dybbuk] sits leering in the back in human form. Benny Dunnes mother. She keeps signaling in Jewish, ‘Comon boychick . . . let’s hear a Sophie Tucker number. Let’s hear some schmutz!!’
“My problem is idiom . . . .
”. . . PUTZ. That’s the sound a motorboat makes. My question is . . . does Benny Dunnes mother wear a toupee.
“Seriously thanks for the press you gave me why don’t you surprise me next time and give me a good review.”
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
29
Byrd, richard e.
Two books, each Signed, “REByrd,” on a front blank: Skyward * Alone.
New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928; 1938; inscriptions: New York, 21 August 1928; Np, nd
The first, additionally inscribed with an Autograph Note: “To Edward S. Shea with deep gratitude for the things he has done for our antarctic expedition and with warm regards,” on the signed front blank. Additionally signed by maritime historian Frank O. Braynard on the dedication page. 359 pages. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, edges rubbed, faint scattered soiling; abrasion at lower right corner of signature page (without affecting text), newspaper clippings pasted to verso of front and recto of rear free endpapers; lacking dust jacket. The second, 296 pages. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, some fading to spine, minor chipping at head of spine; hinges starting, faint scattered foxing to preliminaries and subsidiaries, faint soiling to lower edge of text block; lacking dust jacket.
With–Photograph, unsigned, showing Byrd in uniform reclining in a deckchair with the ocean visible in the distance. 2¾x4½ inches. Np, nd.
Estimate
$250 – $350
30
Chaplin, charlie.
Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “Your Truly / Chas Chaplin,”
Np, nd
half-length portrait by Witzel showing him as a young man. Inscribed in the image, lower right. Small label from Essanay Film Manufacturing Company on verso. 9½x7½ inches; slight discoloration along edges, remnants of hinging at upper edge verso, otherwise uncommonly good condition.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
31
Chavez, cesar.
Time magazine cover Signed, “Cesar E. Chavez,”
Np, nd
at lower center. The cover, from the July 4, 1969 issue featuring a reproduction of a bust portrait of him. Includes cover only. 4to; minor abrasions along left edge.
Estimate
$400 – $600
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
$350 – $500
"THERE IS NO ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN BROWN"
33
Douglass, frederick.
Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient (“Dear Sir”),
Washington, 9 November 1882
stating that absence explains his delay in replying, remarking that [James] Redpath’s biography of John Brown is adequate for providing the main facts [The Public Life of Capt. John Brown (1860)], and suggesting that he write a Boston bookseller to obtain it. 1 page, 8vo, ruled paper; horizontal folds, uncommonly good condition.
”. . . There is no entirely satisfactory Biography of John Brown. There is one written by Mr. Redpath of Boston which in a rough and hasty way give the main facts of Brown’s life; but I fear you may not be able to find even that at this late day. You might write to some Boston Bookseller and possibly pick one up.”
Although the friendship between Douglass and John Brown was not always close, the two were together at one of the most formative moments in both their lives. In 1858, Brown shared Douglass’s home in Rochester, NY, as he worked out the details for his raid on Harper’s Ferry. Although Brown encouraged Douglass to join him at Harper’s Ferry, Douglass declined. After the raid, and the Civil War that followed it, Douglass delivered a speech at Harper’s Ferry that acknowledged the importance of Brown to history and to the cause of justice, a cause to which Brown and Douglass shared the same level of devotion: “If John Brown did not end the war that ended slavery, he did, at least, begin the war that ended slavery.”
Estimate
$10,000 – $20,000
34
Douglass, frederick.
Date and Signature, “Yours truly / Fred’k Douglass,” as U.S. Marshal, on a slip of paper.
Np, 1880
2½x4½ inches; slight toning at upper and right edges.
Estimate
$600 – $900
35
Douglass, frederick.
Partly-printed endorsement Signed, “Fred’k Douglass,” as Recorder of Deeds, certifying a deed
[Washington], 2 April 1886
transferring a plot in Washington, DC, from Andrew B. Duvall and John N. Walker to Annie E. Clayton. Endorsement and docketing on terminal page. 1½ pages, folio; remnants of mounting on blank panel to right of endorsement, folds.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
36
Earhart, amelia.
Signature, on a small card.
Np, nd
2¼x3¼ inches; minor abrasions on verso.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
37
Earhart, amelia.
The Fun of It. Signed and Inscribed,
New York, (1932); inscription: Np, nd
“To / The Lenox Library Association,” on the front free endpaper. Small phonograph record of Earhart’s May 22, 1932, broadcast sealed in pocket on rear pastedown. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, minor bumping to corners; dust jacket chipped at edges. Fifth printing.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
38
(entertainers.) wayne, john; and liza minnelli.
Two Time magazine covers, each Signed and Inscribed by Wayne or Minnelli,
Np, nd
at lower right. Wayne. “Good Luck,” on the August 8, 1969 issue featuring a statue of him riding a horse. Minnelli. “To Karl / Thank You / Love,” on the February 28, 1972 issue featuring an image of her in costume as Sally in the film Cabaret. Includes covers only. Each 4to; few closed tears in left edge of Wayne cover.
Estimate
$600 – $900
39
(entertainers.)
Three items, each Signed: Humphrey Bogart * Alec Guinness (2).
Np, nd; “Wyndham’s Theatre” [London], 10 December 1968
Bogart. Signature, in pencil, on a slip of paper. 4x6 inches. Guinness. Inscribed color Photograph and brief Autograph Letter. The photograph, “For John and Suzanne / with great appreciation / AlecG.,” in purple ink, half-length portrait showing him seated and looking into the camera. Inscribed in the blank lower margin. 11x11 inches; minor smudge to paraph. The letter, to “Dear Mr. Geist,” expressing interest in his offer of performing in a television adaptation of Exit the King. 1 page, oblong 12mo, correspondence card.
Estimate
$600 – $900
40
Friedman, milton.
Time magazine cover dated and Signed.
Np, 14 April 1970
The cover, from the December 19, 1969 issue featuring the headline “Will There Be a Recession?” above a bust portrait of him over which is superimposed a graph. Signed at middle right. Includes cover only. 4to; minor abrations along left edge.
Estimate
$250 – $350
WITH UPSIDE-DOWN THOMAS JEFFERSON POSTAGE STAMP
41
Malcolm x.
Autograph Note Signed, “Bro Malcolm,” to Roy Munford, on a postcard:
Battle Creek, 12 May 1955 [from postmark]
“As Salaam Alaikum, Greetings from Battle Creek. This Teaching is fast-spreading everywhere.” On verso is a photograph showing the entrance to the Youth Building in the Irving Park neighborhood of Battle Creek, MI. 1 page, 12mo; minor scattered soiling, with cancelled 2-cent postage stamp featuring bust of Thomas Jefferson (inverted, presumably in protest).
On January 24, 1965, just weeks before being murdered, Malcolm X delivered a speech in Harlem in which he encouraged a critical review of the narrative surrounding America’s “founding fathers,” picking out Thomas Jefferson as being especially worthy of condemnation by pointing out that his believing in the words he authored–“all men are created equal”–while owning slaves, implied that he did not intend those words to apply to the enslaved. Because of this hypocrisy, Malcolm X said, African-Americans should look upon Jefferson with the same contempt he showed them. Malcolm X on Afro-American History (1965).
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
MASTERS AND JOHNSON
42
Masters, william h; and virginia e. johnson.
Time magazine cover Signed, by both, at upper or lower right.
Np, nd
The cover, from the May 25, 1970 issue featuring photographs of each beside a banner: “Sex Education for Adults.” Includes cover only. 4to.
Estimate
$200 – $300
43
Philip; duke of edinburgh.
Large Photograph dated and Signed, “Philip,”
Np, 1953
half-length portrait by Baron, showing him in lieutenant commander’s Royal Navy uniform with hand on sword hilt and looking into the camera. Signed in the blank lower margin. 22½x17 inches; mounted to board trimmed to size, slight fading to signature, minor abrasions at upper right (not affecting portrait), faint scattered soiling.
Estimate
$250 – $350
44
Robinson, bill (“bojangles”).
Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “To E[lias?] B[rown?] Holloway / Wishing you the best / of everything. Your pal, / Bo,”
Np, nd
bust portrait by Kriegsmann showing him wearing a fedora and looking into the camera. Inscribed in the image, upper center. 10x8 inches; faint dampstaining at side and lower edges, short closed tears in upper and right edges.
Estimate
$200 – $300
"EINSTEIN WANTED TO MAKE THE DANGERS OF ATOMIC WEAPONS CLEAR TO THE WORLD"
45
Schweitzer, albert.
Archive of 12 letters and notes, to aphorist Hans Margolius (“Dear Friend” or “Dear Mr. Margolius”), in German,
Vp, 1926-65
including 7 ALsS, two ANsS, an AL, an AN, and a NS, discussing his aphorisms, remarking that he is working on the philosophy of Reverence for Life, complaining that he has insufficient time for letters of friendship, granting permission for him to use his remarks on Margolius’s aphorisms, discussing his work against nuclear weapons and mentioning that it began with his friendship with Albert Einstein, observing that nuclear weapons are a violation of human rights, remarking that there are some 40 Albert-Schweitzer-Schools in Germany, stating that his hospital was intended to have 50 beds but it now has 600, mentioning recent work on Jewish thought, etc. Some of the notes or letters are written on the same sheet as letters or notes by one of his secretaries, Mathilde Kottmann or Emma Haussknecht, each also to Margolius. Together 16 pages, 4to or smaller, some on onionskin paper, one on postcard, some with address in Africa or Europe stamped in ink at upper right; 1947 letter with separations at folds repaired with cello tape affecting several words and lower edge chipped with loss to most of line including signature, some with punch holes in left margin with loss to few words of text, few with faint scattered foxing.
25 December 1959, ALS: “. . . I took up this work [campaigning against nuclear weapons] as a friend of Einstein. We knew each other since his time in Berlin. It was a very intense friendship. In his last years, Einstein wanted to make the dangers of atomic weapons clear to the world, but no one listened to him. He suffered terribly as a result. He died in a state of despair. . . .”
7 February 1965, ALS: “. . . Only by being attentive to and involved in creation do we truly become human. . . . I could not bear the fact that European philosophy does not deal with the problem of our relationship to creation. . . .
”. . . . Friendship is something deep and beautiful. In the quiet of Lambaréné, animal friendships flourish. Three hippopotamuses spend some nights on the bank by our hospital because they know that no one will harm them there. . . .”
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
"WHAT YOU TELL ME ABOUT THE NESTING OF BIRDS IS NEW TO ME"
46
(scientists.) darwin, charles.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Ch Darwin,” to “My dear Sir,”
Beckenham, 14 February no year
declining his invitation and remarking that the observation about bird nesting is new to him. 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery, with integral blank; horizontal folds, faint toning to edges, faint offsetting, paper clip impression at upper right.
“I find by dearly bought experience that such an exertion as going to Crystal Palace knocks me for several days, and therefore I cannot accept your kind offer.
“What you tell me about the nesting of birds is new to me.”
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
REACTING TO SCANDAL: "I CONFESS TO THE UTTER CONTEMPT OF PUBLIC OPINION"
47
(scientists.) freud, sigmund.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Freud,” to American psychoanalyst Thaddeus Hoyt Ames (“Dear Dr. Ames”), in English,
Vienna, 9 October 1921
asserting that Freud did not provide moral advice to his own patient despite what the media claim [the result of Freud’s analysis of Mr. Frink suggested that Frink’s divorce and pursuit of a married woman (Mrs. B.) would improve his health], explaining that it was necessary to advocate on behalf of Frink’s repressed desires because of his condition, stating that humans have a right to pursue sexual gratification and tender love, expressing concern about the letter Freud received from the husband of Mrs. B., expressing contempt for–especially American–public opinion, expecting Americans to conclude that psychoanalysis is responsible for ruining American morals, committing to stand against American public opinion in this matter but sympathizing with Ames’s need to maintain his business there, reminding Ames of his obligation as an analyst to live as a moral example and help improve the standards of society, apologizing for the errors due to having written in English and, in a postscript: “I am sending back all the letters enclosed in yours [not present].” 3½ pages, 4to, “Prof. Dr. Freud” stationery, written on two sheets; short closed separations at folds, paper clip stains at upper edge throughout.
”. . . I found your letter . . . and thinking it over for about a week I first of all have to thank you for your kind consideration in submitting the matter to me before it becomes public. I then see I have to give you account on two points, the first of which is my real part in the affair, the second my relation to the dangers you proclaim as imminent. . . .
”. . . As you are an analyst yourself I may trust you will not have thought it likely that I had acted as an advise-giver to Frink or Mrs B. You know it is not the passion of analysts to give out advise and to direct people in the line of our own preference. It is one of the distinguishing traits from the Jungians that we avoid doing so either in favour of ethics or in opposition to it. I simply had to read my patients mind and so I found out that he loved Mrs B., wanted her ardently and lacked the courage to confess it to himself. He struggled against a great many resistances, all of them . . . of an internal subjective psychological order. External difficulties did not come into consideration . . . .
“I had to explain to Frink what his internal difficulties were and did not deny that I thought it the good right of every human being to strive for sexual gratification and tender love if he saw a way to attain them, both of which he had not found with his wife. When he grew uncertain of his mind I had to take the side of his repressed desires and in this way became the advocate of his wish for divorce and marriage with Mrs B. In a conversation with the latter I felt entitled to guarantee the intensity and truthfulness of Frink’s affection for her. I found her mind wavering too, but love for her husband played no part in the dilemma. She only doubted if Frink loved her really or deeply enough. So for me it was a case of honourable serious love versus convention, there my interest ended and the situation has not changed for me since then.
“Now I am quite aware that the public would not be able to grasp the difference between my real behaviour and my alleged advising both to divorce and to marry each other. But I hope you see it. From your letter I learn that the situation has changed indeed owing to a turn in Mr B’s behaviour as his silly letter to me shows. I have no hold on this new practical side of the matter and have even less advise to offer than before . . . .
“The second point is my relation to the dangers threatening from Mr B’s action against analysis. I confess to the utter contempt of public opinion and public opinion in America especially, where life seems to be more governed by hypocrisy and sham morality than even here. I have no doubt that the public will behave as if divorce was unknown in America before psychoanalysis ruined American morals and as if adultery never had occurred there except when people were analyzed. I for my part would take my stand against this tyranny of public lie and you may remember I did so in my former life on some important points paying [for] my obstinacy by 15 years complete isolation. Yet I suspect you in America might be more dependent on public opinion which with you is more unrelenting and kills a man more thoroughly than on the continent. So I see the expediency of any measures apt to avoid scandal . . . .
“I too live by my patients, yet it should be remembered that analysis is not only a way of earning his living but implies the obligation of fighting prejudice, leading up to a higher degree of personal freedom and modifying by teachings as well as by example the standards of present society. If Frink decides to have his way in regard to the woman he claims to be married with I think the analysis of New York ought to stand by his side and make it as easy for him as possible without being afraid of a passing tempest in a corrupted and vile press. . . .”
Horace Westlake Frink (1883-1936) was an American psychoanalyst and physician who co-founded the New York Psychoanalytic Society and who became Freud’s professional representative in America until mental illness and scandal ended his career. Beginning in 1921, Frink struggled increasingly to maintain his mental health even as he practiced as an analyst, seeking treatment in sessions with Freud. Frink had fallen in love with one of his own patients, a married woman, Angelika Bijur, at a time when he himself was married. Frink’s wife recognized that her husband’s mental health was suffering and agreed to divorce him, expecting that marriage to Mrs. Bijur would help him. When Mr. Bijur learned of what had happened, he threatened Frink with a lawsuit for having violated the professionalism expected of an analyst. Because of Frink’s connection to Freud, when the newspapers made the matter public, the scandal affected Freud’s own reputation and his hopes for American psychoanalysis.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
48
(scientists.) freud, sigmund.
Brief Autograph Letter Signed, “Freud,” to “Dear Doctor,” in German:
Vienna, 24 April 1928
“Thank you for the valuable delivery. Our enthusiastic friend Dr. [Oskar] Pfister has obviously made a commendable effort.” 1 page, 3½x5¼ inches, “Prof. Dr. Freud” stationery, correspondence card; two minor abrasions on verso.
Oskar Pfister (1873-1956) was a Swiss Lutheran minister and psychoanalyst who founded the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis in 1919.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
DNA PIONEERS
49
(scientists–nobel laureates.)
Photograph Signed by Francis Crick, James D. Watson, Maurice Wilkins (“M H F Wilkins”), Max Ferdinand Perutz (“M F Perutz”) and John Kendrew.
Np, nd
The photo, half-length group portrait by Svenskt Pressfoto showing, from left to right, Wilkins, Perutz, Crick, author John Steinbeck, Watson, and Kendrew, in tuxedos after the 1962 Nobel ceremony in Stockholm. Signed in the image, each above the relevant portrait. 7x9½ inches; Svensket Pressfoto rights information printed on verso, ScanPix Sverige label on verso.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
50
Sinatra, frank.
Signature, on a slip of paper: “Best Wishes / Frank Sinatra.”
Np, nd
7¾x8¼ inches, ruled paper; folds, faint soiling at upper right.
Estimate
$350 – $500
51
(supreme court.) brandeis, louis d.
Photograph Signed, bust portrait by Clinedinst,
Np, nd
showing him in judicial robes. Signed on the original Clinedinst mount below the image. 9x7½ inches (image), 12x9 inches overall; some brittling to mount edges, few small holes to mount at upper right.
Estimate
$250 – $350
TO NIECE OF AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST EMMA LAZARUS
52
(supreme court.) cardozo, benjamin n.
Archive of 16 Autograph Letters Signed, “Benjamin N Cardozo” or “B.N.C.,” to Adah Marks, mostly on personal topics.
Vp, 1932-37
Together 37 pages. Each 8vo, personal stationery, most on folded sheet; horizontal fold.
26 February 1932, as nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court: “I am grateful for your congratulations and condolences–especially the condolences. . . .”
21 February 1934: “. . . I never heard that I was ‘relentless’ till I read it in the Times, but I rather like the word, don’t you? I suppose because in my case it is so far removed from reality. . . .”
17 March 1934: “Oh, dear me! It isn’t permissible for a judge to give advice to anyone.
“I’m not disagreeable; I just can’t help it. . . .”
24 May 1934: “The pangs of a birthday anniversary are eased a little by the thought that you are my senior by a day.
“Somehow you wear your years more peacefully. You must be a good child and tell me the secret. . . .”
24 May 1935: “. . . Next time you call on me I’ll tell you what Learned Hand said about you last summer.”
5 October 1935: “Your letter is most exciting, though also a bit mysterious. Apparently you have started out upon the war path. What your garb and weapons are to be, there is nothing to inform me; but I feel sure that there will be all the fire of intense conviction . . . . More power to your elbow, even though I have no idea of the nature of your quarrel!
”. . . [I]t was a sad disappointment to be unable to see you. Tyrants rule a good part of the world today, and the medical tyrants had me in their cruel grasp. . . .”
23 January 1936: “Congratulations, my valiant child, on having scotched the cruel dragon!
“Was I ever scared in a court room? Alas, I am scared every where. Receptions and dinners are as terrible as trials.
”. . . The President’s reception to the judges and his dinner next week to the court will represent the sum total of my adventures in the social life this winter. . . .”
24 May 1936: “. . . I have lived another year, which is really an achievement when one considers the tumultuous sort of year it has been. . . .”
29 June 1936, giving directions to his Westchester house: “Take Central Avenue, route #100, to Hartsdale, turn right into Fennimore Street to Post Road . . . . The house is on the right of a traffic danger signal. Clear as the Constitution!”
9 December 1936: “. . . Oh dear, Oh dear, haven’t I enough troubles of my own without being expected to talk about the constitutional rights of the British Crown? Isn’t it bad enough that I can hardly think of anything else? . . .”
Estimate
$3,500 – $5,000
53
(supreme court.) rehnquist, william h.
Time magazine cover Signed.
Np, nd
The cover, from the November 1, 1971 issue featuring a gavel with headshots of the justices at each end. Additionally signed by Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Each signed below the relevant portrait. Includes cover only. 4to; minor crease at center.
Estimate
$250 – $350
"NATIONAL VELVET" WARDROBE TEST ON NOVEMBER 8, 1943
54
Taylor, elizabeth.
Large Photograph Signed and Inscribed, “To Patrick / Love and thanks,”
Np, 1990s
full-length wardrobe test still by MGM Studios, showing her at 11 years in costume as Velvet Brown in National Velvet. Inscribed in the image at center. 60x40 inches; mounted to foam board, few minor scattered abrasions, bumping to corners.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
55
Taylor, elizabeth.
Polish movie poster for Cleopatra Signed and Inscribed, “Hi!,”
Np, 1990s
at upper right. The poster, designed by Eryk Lipinski, 1968. 32¾x22¾ inches; mounted to linen, small hole at lower left with minor loss to Centrala Wynajmu Filmów logo.
Estimate
$600 – $900
56
(watergate.) ervin, sam; and howard baker.
Two partly-printed Documents Signed, each a subpoena commanding representatives of Statler Hilton Hotel to appear before the Senate, each signed by Ervin or Baker.
[Washington], 22; 26 June 1973
The first, “Sam J. Ervin, Jr.,” additionally ordering to “produce all records for the period from May 1, 1970 to the present time of the registration of France M. Raine, Jr. of Los Angeles . . . .” The second, “Howard HBaker,” additionally ordering to “produce all records from June 1, 1972 to July 1, 1972, of the registration of Herbert W. Kalmbach . . . .” Each 1 page, 4to; faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, staple holes at upper left.
Herbert Warren Kalmbach (1921-2017) was an American attorney whose license to practice law was revoked for a time after being convicted for his involvement in a number of illegal Nixon campaign-related activities as well as raising “hush-money” for the Watergate burglars.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
57
(watergate.) ervin, sam.
Two Time magazine covers Signed, “Sam J. Ervin, Jr., U.S.S.” or “Sam J. Ervin, Jr. / U.S. Sen. N.C.,”
Np, nd
each at lower right. The first, from the April 16, 1973 issue featuring a reproduction of a portrait of him beside the headline, “Watergate Prober Sam Ervin.” The second, from the July 30, 1973 issue featuring photographs of him and Nixon between which is the headline, “The Nixon Tapes: Playback Wanted.” Includes covers only. 4to; signature of first cover in black ink against dark background.
With–A printed note from Ervin bearing printed signature, lacking salutation: “Because of your interest, I am pleased to send to you the enclosed.” 1 page, 12mo. Washington, nd.
Estimate
$250 – $350
58
(world leaders.)
Group of 4 Time magazine covers, each Signed: Moshe Dayan * Edward Kennedy (2) * Anwar Sadat.
Np, nd; 1971; nd; circa 1975
Dayan. “M. Dayan,” at lower center, on June 16, 1967 issue. Kennedy. “Ted Kennedy / 1971” or “Ted Kennedy,” at lower center or lower right, on 29 November 29, 1971 or January 10, 1969 issue. Sadat. In Arabic, at upper left, on the June 24, 1974 issue. Includes covers only. Each 4to; folds and ink scribble on Sadat cover at lower right in unknown hand.
With–Two typed letters, in English, each sending a signed TIME magazine cover: the first, from Dayan’s secretary; the second from Sadat’s Director of Public Relations. Each 1 page, 8vo, stationery. Tel Aviv, 14 August 1967; Cairo, January 1975.
Estimate
$600 – $900
INCLUDES HIS FLIGHT LOGS USED DURING NUCLEAR TESTING AT BIKINI ATOLL
59
(world war ii–enola gay.) van kirk, theodore j.
Archive of 4 holograph flight logs, 12 aeronautical charts, two weather forecasts, and three other items, each inscribed with his holograph service number and Signed, in pencil,
Np, 1945-46
each issued by U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF) to Van Kirk during Operation Crossroads and at neighboring times, likely signed at much later date. Format and condition vary.
The flight logs, each on a “Navigator’s Log” form printed by the AAF with spaces for various information including takeoff and landing times, and a table of columns for recording flight information including position, time, course, altitude, air speed, etc. One log records the flight of “Plane No. 292” [Enola Gay, serial no. 44-86292] on July 1, 1946, from Kwajalein at 7:50 UTC, arriving at Honolulu at 18:11 UTC; another dated May 11 and two undated logs each record a flight from Kwajalein to Bikini Atoll and back. Each 4 or 8 pages, oblong 4to, each a sheet folded once to form 4 pages or twice to form 8. Vp, 1946.
The aeronautical charts, each marked “Restricted” or “Confidential,” for plotting courses in the Pacific Ocean or showing radio towers and restricted airspace in various areas of the U.S. including Estacado Plain, NM; Great Salt Lake, UT; San Francisco Bay, CA; St. Johns River, FL; Chesapeake Bay, DE; Wichita Mountains, TX; and elsewhere. Each 30x40 inches or smaller.
The weather forecasts, each undated, one for flight between Kwajalein and Bikini, written and signed by forecaster K.C. Winslow, in blue and green pencil, on verso of 1944 aeronautical chart; the other, for flight between Kwajalein and Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, written by forecaster Kauper, in blue and red pencil, on AAF Weather Service Flight Forecast form. Each 11x20½ or 11x17 inches.
The remaining items: copy of a typed notice printed on a “Confidential Notice to Airmen” form dated June 29, 1946, concerning status of various direction-finding stations, areas to avoid due to danger of anti-aircraft fire, etc. 1 page, 4to • Combined Aircraft Weather Report Code form, unaccomplished. 16x21 inches • Weather Flight Folder, Signed and Inscribed on front cover: “Dutch Van Kirk / Navigator – Enola Gay / 6 Aug 1945,” in pencil. Attached to rear cover is an unaccomplished weather report form. Folio, folded sheet.
After dropping its payload on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and serving as weather plane for Bockscar’s flight to Nagasaki three days later, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay flew on April 29, 1946 to Kwajalein Island in order to take part in Operation Crossroads during which a Mark III nuclear bomb was dropped on Bikini Atoll to test its power on marine vessels. Although the Enola Gay was initially expected to make the drop after a competition was held to find the ideal crew, command announced that the drop would be made by Woodrow Swancutt’s crew in another B-29, Dave’s Dream. Feeling snubbed, commander Paul W. Tibbets, navigator Theodore J. Van Kirk, and the rest of the Enola Gay crew remained at Kwajalein as consultants. On the day of the drop, Tibbets and Van Kirk reviewed weather reports and noted that the calculations produced by the crew of Dave’s Dream would result in the bomb missing its target by over 1,000 feet, which information they offered to the Dave’s Dream crew. Tibbets’s advice was ignored, and when the bomb was dropped on June 30 at 21:00 UTC, it missed the target, just as Tibbets and Van Kirk anticipated. One of the logs in the present lot dated July 1 records Enola Gay’s flight from Kwajalein to Honolulu the following morning. On July 24, the Enola Gay was flown to Davis-Monthan Army Airfield in AZ, where it was put into storage.
Provenance: Theodore J. Van Kirk, thence by gift to present owner.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
60
(world war ii–enola gay.) van kirk, theodore j.
Autograph Manuscript Signed, “Dutch Van Kirk / Navigator–Enola Gay / Hiroshima / 6 Aug 1945,” souvenir diagram showing the escape plan for the Enola Gay
Np, nd
bombing run over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, featuring holograph notations indicating shock waves and the routes of both Enola Gay and the instrument plane, The Great Artiste. 1 page, holograph 4to.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
61
(world war ii–enola gay–bockscar.)
Color photograph Signed and Inscribed by 5 crew members from Enola Gay and three from Bockscar.
Vp, [1997-99]
The photograph, showing the nose of Enola Gay on an airfield with a full view of Bockscar’s flank in the distance. Inscribed in the image, along left and lower edges. 8x12 inches; minor dings at lower right.
Enola Gay crew: Paul Tibbets (“Paul Tibbets, Pilot / To Hiroshima, / 6 Aug, 1945”) • Thomas Ferebee (“Tom Ferebee. Bombadier. Enola Gay / 6 Aug. 1945”) • Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk (“Dutch Van Kirk / Navigation. Enola Gay / 6 Aug 1945”) • Richard Nelson (“Richard Nelson / Radio / Enola Gay / Hiroshima 6. Aug 1945”) • Morris Jeppson (“Morris R. Jeppson / Weapon Test Office / Enola Gay Mission / 6 Aug. 1945”).
Bockscar crew: Charles Sweeney (“Major Charles Sweeney / A/C Bock’s Car 9 Aug 45”) • Charles Albury (“Capt. C.D. Albury Co-Pilot / Bockscar / Aug. 9, 1945”) • Frederick Ashworth (“Frederick L. Ashworth / Commander US Navy / Weaponeer Bockscar / 9 Aug. 45”).
Provenance: Theodore J. Van Kirk, thence by gift to present owner.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
Autographs - Presidents
62
Adams, john.
Partly-printed Document Signed, as President,
[Washington], 19 February 1799
4-language ship’s papers for the snow Ann & Mary. Countersigned by Secretary of State Timothy Pickering. 16¼x19 inches; few scattered small holes and complete separations at folds expertly repaired verso with tissue including vertical fold through Adams signature (without loss), chipping at upper and right edges with minor loss, few scattered tears repaired verso with cello tape, docketing on verso, two paper seals mostly intact.
Estimate
$3,500 – $5,000
INCLUDES THE GENERAL'S OWN HANDKERCHIEF
63
Eisenhower, dwight d.
Three items, each Signed, as Military Governor: Photograph * Typed Letter * His handkerchief.
[Frankfurt, 23 October 1945]
The photograph, half-length portrait showing him in 5-star general’s uniform and looking into the camera. Signed in the blank lower margin. 8x6 inches; some loss to lower left corner (not affecting signature or portrait). The letter, to Mary Deveney, explaining that by sending his handkerchief he has made an exception to his rule not to send pieces of his personal uniform or equipment, and sending also a signed photograph [both present]. 1 page, 8vo, “Office of the Commanding General” stationery; faint uneven toning overall, some loss to lower left corner (not affecting signature or text), pinholes at upper corners. The handkerchief, signed diagonally at one corner, in pencil. 18x18 inches, white fabric, folded 4 times into small square.
“While I have had to make it a policy to decline to send items of personal uniform and equipment to individuals requesting such things from me, a handkerchief seems such a small thing, and the purpose of your organization seems so definitely good, that I am violating my practice in this case.
“You will find enclosed a handkerchief, on which I have written my name as legibly as possible, together with the autographed photograph you requested.”
With–Newspaper clippings concerning the charity auction organized by The Good Neighbors of Holmes Presbyterian Church in Holmes, PA, and held on a Saturday in late 1945, at which the Eisenhower hankie achieved one of the top prices of $20.
Estimate
$600 – $900
64
Ford, gerald r.
Three items, each Signed or Inscribed and Signed, “Jerry Ford” or “Gerald R. Ford,” as President, to maritime historian Frank O. Braynard: The American Adventure: The Bicentennial Messages of Gerald R. Ford * Two Typed Letters.
[Publisher unknown, 1976]; inscription: [Washington, 1976]; Washington, 2; 13 August 1976
The book, inscribed twice: “To Frank O. Braynard, in / appreciation and very best wishes” on front free endpaper, and “To Frank O. Braynard, with / best wishes” on verso of frontispiece. 29 pages. 8vo, publisher’s cloth. The letters, thanking for his help with Operation Sail, thanking for supervising vessels during the International Naval Review in New York Harbor [on July 4, 1976], and sending a book as a gift [present]. Each 1 page, small 4to, White House stationery.
2 August 1976: “Mrs. Ford, Susan and I were delighted to meet you when we visited the USS NASHVILLE on July 4. It certainly was a privilege to be among those viewing the magnificent tall ships and naval vessels that participated in Operation Sail and the International Naval Review that day. . . .”
Operation Sail is a recurring celebration of sailing vessels held in the Hudson River or New York Harbor which began in 1964. One such event was part of the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration that took place in New York Harbor on Independence Day; it included 16 “tall ships”–19th-century sailing vessels such as schooners or brigs–in a Grand Parade.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
65
Garfield, james a.
Signature and (illegible) date, possibly as President, on a small leaf removed from an album.
Np, 29 March 18[81?]
2¾x4 inches; the penultimate digit in the date has been struck out and rewritten possibly by Garfield.
Estimate
$600 – $900
SIGNED AS SECRETARY OF WAR AD INTERIM AFTER JOHNSON'S DISMISSAL OF STANTON
66
Grant, ulysses s.
Partly-printed Letter Signed, “U.S. Grant,” as Acting Secretary of War, to Watson B. Smith,
Washington, 10 October 1867
informing him of his appointment as Colonel of Volunteers by brevet. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; last portion of Grant’s signature retraced likely by himself, one-inch horizontal strip at lower edge cut away and reattached with paper repair on verso affecting paraph of Grant’s signature (without loss), detached blank reattached at left edge recto with paper, two small closed holes in left margin, folds, faint stain at lower right.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
67
Harrison, william henry.
Document Signed, “Wm. H. Harrison,” as Commandant of Fort Washington,
[Cincinnati], circa May 1797
ordering the quartermaster to issue the listed articles of sergeant’s clothing. Additionally signed by Sergeant F. Rogues. 1 page, square 8vo; folds, docketing on verso.
“A Return for Hat One Coat Ore West [sic] Two Shirts one pair of Shoes one Stock & Clasp two pair of Linnen Oweralls and one Blankett for a Serjeant Inlisted by Capt Wm Harrison, aid de Camp to the Commander in Chief . . . .”
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
68
Harrison, william henry.
Check accomplished and Signed, “WH & J.S. Harrison,”
Cincinnati, 21 March 1834
to “Self,” in the amount of $20 drawn on the Bank of the United States at Cincinnati. Signed on behalf of himself and “J[ohn] S[cott, his son]. 2¼x5¼ inches; mounted to a larger sheet, cancellation punch hole at center (not affecting text), faint bleedthrough from docketing on verso.
In 1836, two years after the writing of this check, the Second Bank of the United States became a private corporation; the Bank ceased payments in 1841, and surrendered its state charter in 1852.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
69
Jackson, andrew.
Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President,
Washington, 2 April 1829
granting 160 acres of land in Crawfordsville, IN to Charles Dawson. Countersigned by Commissioner of the General Land Office George Graham. 9¾x15¾ inches; slight fading to text (but still legible and signature relatively bold), remnants of hinging at upper edge recto, folds, docketing on verso, paper seal mostly intact.
Estimate
$600 – $900
70
Jackson, andrew.
Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President,
Washington, 2 March 1831
land deed granting 160 acres near Shawneetown, IL, to Thomas Coleman. Countersigned by Commissioner of the General Land Office Elijah Hayward. 9x14 inches; soft folds, closed tear affecting paper seal.
Estimate
$600 – $900
PAYING IMPORT DUTIES FOR HIS CLOCK
71
Jeffeerson, thomas.
Document Signed, “Th:Jefferson,”
[Philadelphia], circa 17 October 1791
certifying the accuracy of the invoice [not present] which lists the cost of, and therefore duty paid for, a clock imported by Thomas Jefferson. Additionally signed by Deputy Collector John Graff and Deputy Naval Officer Archibald Engle. 1 page, folio; complete separation at horizontal fold repaired verso with cello tape, few scattered fold reinforcements on verso with cello tape, some chipping at edges, colored pencil arrows at upper left and lower right recto, vertical fold through Jefferson signature (without loss), docketing on verso.
“Imported in the Ship Minerva, Wood, from Havre, by Thomas Jefferson, a Box cont’g a Clock, Value 360 . . . . I [faded or blank] do solemnly swear to the best of my Knowledge & belief that the above entry is Just & true & contains as therein specified the whole of the Goods, Wares, & Merchandize Imported by, or to [faded or blank] consigned and that the Invoice produced is the true original one & contains the nett prime cost thereof & that if I shall hereafter discover or Know of any other Goods Wares or Merchandize belonging to or to [faded or blank] consigned I will forthwith make Known the same to the Collectors of the District of Pennsylvania for the time being in order to the due entry thereof and the paying or securing the duties thereupon.”
On July 4, 1789, “An Act for laying a Duty on Goods, Wares and Merchandise Imported into the United States” was approved, becoming the first U.S. tariff act and only the second law passed under the new Constitution. The revenue generated was intended for, among other things, “the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures,” the most significant debt being that incurred from the Revolutionary War. A collector and Naval officer were appointed and stationed at what was deemed the nation’s sole port of entry, Philadelphia. The highest duties were imposed on luxury goods, up to 15 percent for items such as carriages, and 10 percent for items such as the clock that Jefferson imported in the present document.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
JEFFERSON AND MADISON
72
Jefferson, thomas.
Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, “Th:Jefferson,” as President,
Washington, 3 February 1807
granting land in Chillicothe, OH, to Samuel and Zebulon Lee. Countersigned by Secretary of State James Madison. 8½x15¼ inches; some fading to Jefferson signature (but still legible; Madison’s comparatively bold), faint foxing to edges and folds, docketing verso, paper seal mostly intact.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
73
Jefferson, thomas.
Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, “Th:Jefferson,” as President,
Washington, 22 December 1808
granting land in Chillicothe, OH, to Christian Hollougher. Countersigned by Secretary of State James Madison. 8½x15¼ inches; marked fading to text and Madison signature (but Jefferson’s comparatively bold), moderate scattered staining, deep folds, docketing verso, paper seal intact.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
COMMISSIONING SON OF SECRETARY OF THE NAVY GIDEON WELLES
74
Lincoln, abraham.
Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, military commission appointing Thomas Glastonbury Welles Aide-de-Camp
Washington, 13 March 1865
with the rank of captain. Countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. 19½x15¾ inches; fold through signature (without loss), faint scattered foxing, docketing written vertically in red ink at upper left, minor loss to seal.
Thomas Glastonbury Welles (1846-1892), son of Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, entered the Naval Academy in 1862, joined the Civil War as a volunteer in the 1st CT Regiment (initially as lieutenant, later promoted to captain), and, after having served as aide-de-camp to Generals McCook, Grant, and Ord, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, settling in Hartford after the War.
Provenance: from the collection of Thomas Welles Brainard, great-grandson of Thomas Glastonbury Welles.
Estimate
$6,000 – $9,000
75
(lincoln, abraham.) mary todd lincoln.
Autograph Note, unsigned, to Mrs. Gideon Welles, on Mrs. Lincoln’s printed visiting card.
[Washington], 20 November [1864]
1¼ pages, 2½x4 inches, written on recto and verso of card; minimal wear. With the original mourning stationery envelope bearing her monogram on flap, addressed in holograph.
“My dear Mrs. Welles, quite a number of tickets, for the Sacred concert, this evening have been sent me & I take the liberty of enclosing you three of them.” On recto, “Sincerely yours, / Nov. 20th.”
The concert mentioned is likely the “Grand Sacred Concert in Aid of the Home for Friendless Women,” which was to be held on November 20, 1864, according to an advertisement in the November 19 issue of National Republican from that year.
Provenance: from the collection of Thomas Welles Brainard, great-great-grandson of Gideon Welles.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
MADISON AND MONROE
76
Madison, james.
Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President,
Washington, 20 February 1812
granting land in Chillicoth, OH, to Jacob Alspach, Jr. Countersigned by Secretary of State James Monroe. 9½x15¼ inches; folds, moderate scattered foxing, docketing on verso, paper seal intact.
Estimate
$600 – $900
77
Madison, james.
Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President,
Washington, 1 January 1817
appointing Oscar Bullus midshipman in the U.S. Navy. Countersigned by Benjamin W. Crowninshield. 7¼x11 inches; soft folds, faint scattered foxing, docketing on verso.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
APPOINTING ELECTION COMMISSIONERS
78
Monroe, james.
Partly-printed Document Signed, “Ja’s Monroe,” as Governor,
Richmond, 29 July 1800
appointing three election commissioners for Augusta County. 1 page, 4to; short closed separations at folds, moderate scattered staining, small piece of cello tape at upper edge recto, remnants of prior mounting at upper corners verso, paper seal intact.
” To John Coulter, W’m McPheters, Sen’r., & Sam’l Miller . . . in pursuance of . . . ‘. . . an act for appointing Electors to choose a President and Vice-President of the United States,’ I do hereby . . . appoint and commission you . . . commissioners for the County of Augusta for the purpose of executing the said act . . . .”
Estimate
$600 – $900
79
Monroe, james.
Autograph Document Signed, “Ja’s Monroe,” as Secretary of State,
Washington, 18 August 1814
ordering the cashier of the Bank of the Metropolis Alexander Kerr to “Be so good as to pay to the union[?] bank to my acct. the sum of one hundred & ten dol’rs & four cents.” Additionally signed by Kerr. 4¼x7½ inches; cancellation slices touching text (without loss), horizontal tear near upper edge repaired verso with cello tape, folds.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
GRANTING POWER TO NEGOTIATE WITH SPAIN [POSSIBLY FOR POSSESSION OF CUBA]
80
Pierce, franklin.
Partly-printed Document Signed, as President,
Washington, 28 March 1854
authorizing the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to “a Full Power to Mr. Soule to negotiate a Treaty between the United States and Her Catholic Majesty [Queen Isabella II of Spain].” 1 page, 4to, pale blue paper, with integral blank; horizontal fold through signature (without loss), faint scattered soiling.
Pierre Soulé (1801-1870) was an attorney and U.S. Senator from LA who, in 1853, became U.S. Minister to Spain and, in 1854, principal author of the Ostend Manifesto. This document–secret until four months later when its exposure caused an international scandal–outlined a proposal partly intending to satisfy supporters of the expansion of slavery by making Cuba a slave-friendly U.S. territory after purchasing it from Spain or, if they decline to sell, winning it as a prize of war.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
81
Polk, james k.
Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President,
Washington, 8 July 1846
military commission appointing Oscar F. Winship Assistant Adjutant General. Countersigned by Secretary of War William L. Marcy. 17½x13½ inches; folds, faint scattered staining, docketing at upper left recto, paper seal intact, bold signatures.
Oscar Fingal Winship (1817-1855) served in the Mexican-American War as Assistant Adjutant-General in the brigades of Generals Pillow and Pierce having fought in the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca-de-la-Palma, and Contreras. Winship continued to serve after the War but died from the effects of an illness that developed rapidly after participating in the Sioux Expedition under General Harney.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
MEETING A GENERAL IN PARIS, LIKELY DURING WORLD WAR I
82
Roosevelt, franklin d.
Autograph Note Signed, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in pencil, on his printed visiting card:
Np, [1913-20]
“My dear General / I’m so sorry not to / have seen you, but I / hope we may meet / in Paris when I am / going next week / Franklin Roosevelt.” 2 pages, 1½x3 inches, written on the recto and verso of the card; inlaid in a 4to sheet, faint scattered soiling to verso.
Estimate
$350 – $500
83
Roosevelt, theodore.
Signature, as President, on a White House card.
Np, [1901-09]
2¾x4 inches; remnants of prior mounting along upper edge verso, bold signature.
Estimate
$600 – $900
84
Roosevelt, theodore.
Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President,
Washington, 26 December 1908
military commission appointing Walter Clifford Chidester First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Army. Countersigned by Acting Secretary of War Robert Shaw Oliver. 20x14¾ inches; mounted, docketing at upper left recto, faint scattered soiling, paper seal mostly intact.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
WEEKS BEFORE WAR OF 1812: "I SHALL LEAVE. . .TOMORROW MORNING FOR FORT HARRISON"
85
Taylor, zachary.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Z Taylor Capt / 7th Reg’t U.S. Inf’t,” to War Department accountant William Simmons,
Louisville, 13 April 1812
sending documentation for transportation expenses from Washington to Louisville [not present], requesting that the delayed order [appointment document] be sent to him, requesting instructions regarding the unspent money given to him for recruitment services, reporting that he is leaving tomorrow for Fort Harrison, and giving the name of a Louisville merchant who is to care for any mail. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; nearly-complete separations at folds repaired verso with tissue, some chipping at edges, some contemporary smudging to few words
“I have enclosed duplicate accounts for my transportation from the City of Washington to this place. When I was at the city in November 1811 I was ordered by the Secretary of War to this place to car[r]y on the recruiting service & from the hurry of business the order could not be made out . . . . I will thank you to inform me in what manner I am to dispose of the funds which was furnished me to carry on the recruiting service as they are not all expended & I shall leave this [place] tomorrow morning for Fort Harrison . . . .”
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
86
Tyler, john.
Partly-printed Document Signed, as President,
Washington, 16 February 1844
ordering the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to “a Power authorizing Waddy Thompson or in his absence, B.E. Green, to exchange the ratifications of and to sign additional articles to the Convention with the Mexican Republic of the 20th November.” 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; horizontal folds, bold signature.
The unratified treaty of November 20, 1843, signed by Mexico’s foreign relations and finance ministers and the U.S.’s minister to Mexico Waddy Thompson, attempted to resolve the growing claims against Mexico for damage to the property and dignity of settlers in Texas. Tensions continued to heighten until the U.S. annexed Texas in 1845, helping to precipitate in the following year the Mexican-American War.
Estimate
$600 – $900
87
Van buren, martin.
Partly-printed Document Signed, “MvanBuren,” as President,
Washington, 8 May 1840
ordering the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to “Exequaturs for Luigi Mossi as Consul general of Sardinia for New York, and for Antonio Michoud as Consul for the same Kingdom at New Orleans.” 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; horizontal folds, faint soiling at upper center, bold signature.
Estimate
$600 – $900
19-YEAR OLD WASHINGTON THE SURVEYOR
88
Washington, george.
Autograph Document Signed, “GWashington,” with two manuscript plat maps in holograph,
Np, 6 April 1751
describing his survey of two tracts of land [on Evitts Run] in Frederick County, VA, for Gersham Keyes together containing 209 acres, including one adjoining a tract belonging to his half-brother Lawrence Washington. First two lines at upper left describe conveyance by deed of smaller tract from Lawrence Washington to Keyes, in unknown hand. 1 page, tall 4to; inlaid, two areas of loss from seal tear expertly repaired with paper affecting few words of text, complete separations at horizontal folds repaired verso with tissue, faint dampstaining along edges, docketing on verso including two lines in holograph with repair affecting first letter (“[G]ersham Keyes’s / Plats for two tracts”).
”. . . 1st Tract
“Beginning at three red Oaks on the No. side his patent Nath[aniel] Thomas’s corner and extended with his said Patent Line No. 72 W 92 poles to a large red Oak his c[orne]r also c[orner]r to Major Law[renc]e Washington thence with the said Washington’s Line No. 107 E[as]t 2070 po[les] . . . by a road Washington’s c[orne]r in Nath[anie]l Thomas Line thence with his Lines West 51 poles to a red Oak and white Oak finally South 240 poles to the Beginning containing One hund[re]d Acres . . . .”
Estimate
$40,000 – $60,000
WASHINGTON THE LANDLORD
89
Washington, george.
Autograph Letter Signed, “G:Washington,” to his rental agent Battaile Muse (“Sir”),
Mount Vernon, 5 February 1785
acknowledging receipt of his recent letters, requesting that he hold the bonds of Henry Whiting [tenant on his lot in Berkely County, WV], promising to arrange a rental [for Muse’s use], requesting that he not compel Whiting to pay taxes on the lot unless his lease requires it, and, in a postscript: “Mrs. Washington begs you would get from some of my Tenants, or others, 10 or a doz’n lbs of good hackled Flax for her.” 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf (inlaid within same sheet as letter leaf, back-to-back); holes from seal tears and fold intersections expertly repaired with paper, faint scattered soiling.
”. . . The Bonds which you have taken from Mr Whiting had better remain in your hands until they are discharged and by the time you propose to be at Belvoir in April I will endeavor to prepare a proper rental for you if it shall be in my power from the pressure of other matters.
”. . . [T]he Tenants should pay the taxes of their own Lotts but if the Leases neither expresses nor implies it I do not suppose there is anything else to compel them–consequently Mr Whiting must be allowed such sums as he has actually paid–look however at his Lease & judge yourself of the fact as I speak more from what ought to be perhaps than what really is, and do not want to enter into an improper litigation of the matter.”
Published in The Writings of George Washington, Vol 28, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick (Washington, 1938), 62.
Estimate
$25,000 – $35,000
"I WISH YOU WOULD ENQUIRE IF A GOOD SHE-ASS COULD BE HAD"
90
Washington, george.
Autograph Letter Signed, “G:Washington,” to his nephew George Augustine Washington (“Dear George”),
Mount Vernon, 24 December 1785
forwarding letters addressed to him [not present], offering his own jackass for breeding and remarking upon the usefulness of donkeys [to any newly-married couple], reporting that all at home are well and wishing well to him, his family, and friends. ½ page, tall 4to; silked on verso, complete separations at folds expertly repaired with tissue verso, faint scattered soiling.
”. . . I wish you would enquire if a good She-Ass could be had upon purchase from any one below, and upon what terms; If not to be obtained upon purchase, whether the possessor of one would send her to my Jack, & breed upon the Shares–and what. It might be a private & public convenience, & advantage to get Asses bred from my Jack & the best females. . . .”
George Augustine Washington (1759-1793) was the first child of General Washington’s brother, Charles. In the Spring of 1785, after serving in the Continental Army and as aide-de-camp to both Washington and Lafayette, George Augustine married Frances “Fanny” Bassett at Mount Vernon, where the couple lived as part of George and Martha Washington’s household. Occasionally, George Augustine visited his in-laws in New Kent County, VA, “below,” or to the south of, Mount Vernon. After George Augustine’s death, the surviving family moved to the house in Alexandria, VA, which General Washington gifted to them.
Estimate
$25,000 – $35,000
Autographs - Musicians
TO NIECE OF AUTHOR OF STATUE OF LIBERTY'S "THE NEW COLOSSUS"
91
Berlin, irving.
Typed Letter Signed, to the niece of Emma Lazarus, Adah Marks, inviting her to attend his show [Miss Liberty] featuring part of her aunt’s sonnet.
Np, 26 July 1949
1 page, 4to, personal stationery; horizontal folds.
“I have your letter and was very much interested in hearing from the niece of Emma Lazarus.
”. . . I would like you to see the show as my guest, and I think you will like the way we have used your aunt’s great poem. Also, I hope you will like the musical setting I composed for it. I’m very proud of this and hope it becomes popular. . . .”
With–Typed letter from Irvin Berlin’s secretary to Adah Marks sending tickets to the September 24, 1949 performance of Miss Liberty [not present]. 1 page, oblong small 4to, “Irving Berlin Music Corporation” stationery. New York, 21 September 1949. With the original envelope.
In 1883, Emma Lazarus wrote “The New Colossus” to raise money to build the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. The final lines became widely known when they appeared in Irving Berlin’s Broadway musical Miss Liberty in the song “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor.”
Estimate
$600 – $900
92
Brahms, johannes.
Autograph Note Signed, “J.B.,” to writer Max Kalbeck, in German, on a postcard,
Vienna, 1 March 1886 [from postmark]
informing him that Dr. [Theodor] Billroth has agreed to read the piece, and requesting that he not miss the next performance. 1 page, 12mo; remnants of prior mounting at upper edge verso, faint scattered soiling.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
93
Debussy, claude.
Autograph Letter Signed, to author and founder of La Revue wagnérienne Édouard Dujardin (“My dear Dujardin”), in French,
Np, 1 July 1917
explaining that he could not meet because of a disagreeable trip, expecting to leave tomorrow, and giving the address of a hotel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. 1 page, square 12mo; horizontal fold.
“At this moment I am an unfortunate man going on a trip. My fellow passengers and the government are doing their utmost to make this operation even more disagreeable! And that’s why you missed me yesterday.
“Leaving tomorrow, dare I give you an appointment? In any case, I will gladly do what you ask me at the address below, Villa Habas, in St. Jean de Luz (Basses-Pyrénées). . . .”
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
94
Fleta, miguel.
Photograph postcard Signed and Inscribed, “To Mr. / Alejandro Zorrilla / of San Martin / with sympathy / MFleta,” in Spanish, in purple ink,
Buenos Aires, 19 May 1922
written vertically in the blank space beside a half-length portrait of him. Verso blank but with two cancelled 5-centavo “Primer Congresso Postal Panamericano” postage stamps. Oblong 12mo; remnants of mounting on verso.
Estimate
$150 – $250
95
Furtwängler, wilhelm.
Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dear Friends,” in German,
Clarens [Switzerland], 3 May 1945
explaining that he had been unable to reach him by calling [Edward J. de?] Coppet, reporting that he had gone to Zürich but had to return Wednesday staying with the Briners, and stating that he would not be able to travel soon. 1 page, 4to; minor loss to lower left corner, folds, faint scattered soiling.
Estimate
$200 – $300
"FUNNY FACE"
96
Gershwin, george.
Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, “Sincerely,” sketch of the opening 30 bars of “Funny Face” from the musical of the same name, in pencil.
[Atlantic City, October 1927]
The music, notated on 5 printed staves. Title and description written in upper margin are in unknown hand. On verso are 17 bars from draft of a work entitled “3rd St and Sardinia[?]” for violin and viola notated in unknown hand. 6¾x10½ inches, faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, remnants of cello tape mounting at all edges verso.
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
97
George gershwin.
George Gershwin’s Song-Book.
New York, 1932; inscription: Np, [1932]
Small folio, publisher’s morocco, joints starting, minor fading to spine, minor rubbing to all edges; minor scattered soiling to printed music for Gershwin’s “Mischa, Yascha, Toscha, Sascha” as issued in pocket on rear pastedown; marked wear to original slipcase. First signed limited edition. Number 155 of 300 copies Signed by Gershwin and Alajalov.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
98
The band.
Time magazine cover Signed, by the 5 original members,
Np, nd
each near the relevant portrait. The cover, from the January 12, 1970 issue featuring a reproduction of an artwork depicting the members by Bob Peak. Includes cover only. 4to; signature of Hudson in black ink against dark background.
Rick Danko • Garth Hudson • Richard Manuel • Robbie Robertson • Levon Helm.
Estimate
$400 – $600
SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE
99
Wagner, richard.
Envelope Signed, with holograph address:
Np, nd
“Herrn Richard Wagner. / Canale Grande, Palazzo Giustiniani, / Campiello Squillini / No: 3228. / in / Venedig.” Wagner’s initials are decoratively embossed on the flap. 3x5½ inches; red ink cataloguing number at lower left verso, remnants of mounting at edges verso, faint scattered foxing.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Autographs - Writers
100
Asimov, isaac.
Autograph Quotation Signed, a couplet,
Np, 2 August 1983
written on the verso of an unaccomplished “Tracer” form [likely used by a library patron to initiate investigation into a book missing from the stacks]. 1 page, 3x5 inches, pale blue paper; faint discoloration along left edge affecting few words.
In full: “Exclaimed Richard Shull, ‘I am sorry
“But for some drinks my eyes become starry.
“I find it disturbin
“That some guys drink bourbon
“For me, it’s a slug of campari.’”
Estimate
$200 – $300
101
Buber, martin.
Two Autograph Letters Signed, in full or “Buber,” to aphorist Hans Margolius, in German,
New York, 21 November 1951; Jerusalem, 7 June 1953
expressing appreciation for–but distancing himself from–Margolius’s ethical views, explaining that his own ideas about evil are elucidated in his forthcoming book [Bilder von Gut und Böse (1952)], and thanking for birthday greetings. Together 2½ pages, 4to or smaller, on “Hotel Marcy” stationery or aerogram; folds.
Estimate
$600 – $900
102
Carossa, hans.
Two Autograph Letters Signed, to aphorist Hans Margolius, in German,
Rittsteig, 17 September 1953; 5 August 1954
explaining that he has been struggling to write the final volume of his “Jugendgeschichte” [Tagebuch eines jungen Arztes (1955)], offering to send a copy of Das Jahr der schönen Täuschungen (1941) and some other works, thanking for sending his collection of aphorisms, explaining that he has read Maximen zur Ethik, agreeing with its sentiments, and closing with “‘The wise ones of all ages wave to each other’–I do not remember from which of Goethe’s works this dictum stems, but may you take some comfort in it at any rate.” Together 4 pages, 4to or 8vo, written on three sheets, one on onionskin paper; small hole at fold intersections of first with minor loss to text.
Estimate
$400 – $600
103
Dickens, charles.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Ch,” to John Hollingshead,
London, 20 September 1861
recommending that his submission be held for the Christmas issue [of Household Words or All the Year Round] and encouraging him to try something else. 1 page, small 12mo, “Office of the All the Year Round” stationery, with integral blank; moderate marginal discoloration from prior matting, horizontal fold, faint offsetting.
“I think on the whole it will be best to reserve the wonderful characters for the Xmas No. But don’t let this prevent from trying your hand at something else for the same No., if anything should occur to you.”
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
PURCHASE OF ESTATE THAT BECAME HOME OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
104
Emerson, ralph waldo.
Autograph Letter Signed, “R.W. Emerson,” to abolitionist Samuel Edmund Sewall,
Concord, 13 January 1845
sending a letter from Emerson addressed to Mr. [Samuel Joseph] May concerning Emerson’s purchase of the Cogswell estate [not present], explaining that it was necessary to borrow money for the purpose, and hoping to repay it the following week. 1 page, 4to; faint scattered foxing, few short closed separations at folds, minor bleedthrough from address panel on verso, docketing on verso.
“Enclosed I send an open letter to Mr. May giving an account of the transaction in relation to the Cogswell estate, as far as I am informed. If you please, you shall read it before sending it. I hoped Mr Cogswell would have given you your deed; but he brought it to me. I therefore borrowed the money 850.00 of the Concord Bank for a few days saying to the President that probably on Thursday next, as I shall be in Boston on that day, I might be enabled to pay him. I will call on you on Wednesday or Thursday, in relation to it.”
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) was a teacher, philosopher, and father of Louisa May Alcott. In 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson recognized that his friend Alcott had fallen upon especially hard times, so he arranged–together with Alcott’s brother-in-law Samuel Joseph May, and Samuel Edmund Sewall, who was executor of the estate of Mrs. Alcott’s father–to acquire a house for the Alcott family. In 1845, Emerson purchased Mr. Cogswell’s pig farm in Concord, Emerson’s partners reimbursed him for their portion of the payment, and the Alcott family took possession of the estate, turning it into “The Hillside,” where several scenes in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women took place, and where Nathaniel Hawthorne later moved, renaming it “The Wayside.”
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
105
Heller, joseph.
Two items: photocopy of the complete original typescript draft of his Something Happened Signed and dated * Autograph Note Signed, describing the photocopy.
Np, 21 April 1976
The photocopy, “Joseph Heller / 4/21/76 / New York City,” on the title-page. There are numerous differences throughout between the texts of the present draft and the published novel. 812 pages, 4to, printed on rectos of separate sheets; faint uneven toning to title page; custom cloth clamshell box with title in gilt on cover, moderate wear. The note, to an unnamed recipient (lacking salutation), stating that the present copy is the one (of 8) used as a reference when he produced the true first draft, of which he doubts a copy exists. 1 page, 12mo, personal stationery.
The note, in full: “This was the first ‘edited’ draft of the submitted manuscript. I think 8 xeroxed copies were made, for submission to book clubs, some magazines, and readings by other people at Knopf. In the meanwhile, my editor and I were doing the real editing from this manuscript, and this accounts for the considerable differences between this and the published manuscript. Thus, there was a typed or xeroxed submitted copy that constituted the true first draft. It was about 950 pages & I doubt that any copies are around.”
Estimate
$600 – $900
106
Hughes, langston.
Two books, each Signed and Inscribed on the front free endpaper: Fields of Wonder * First Book of Rhythms.
New York, 1947; (1954); inscriptions: [Atlanta], 5 March 1947; New York, May 1954
The first, “For Dorothy– / with a big / Hello from / Georgia.” The second, “Especially for Toni Geyelin.” Each 8vo or square 8vo, publisher’s cloth, faint staining to spine of first, some rubbing and dampstaining to edges of second; marked wear to dust jackets. Each First edition, first printing.
Estimate
$600 – $900
"RACHEL [FÉLIX] . . . THE GREATEST TRAGIC ACTRESS THAT EVER LIVED"
107
James, henry.
Autograph Letter Signed, to the sister of author and activist Emma Lazarus, Josephine (“Dear Miss Lazarus”),
Rye, 11 December 1903
defending his quotation of a letter concerning the actress Rachel Félix. 2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet, personal stationery; complete separations at folds inexpertly repaired on second page with cello tape, few small holes with minor loss to text. With the original envelope, addressed in holograph and with three cancelled postage stamps featuring the profile of King Edward VII, two one penny and a half penny.
”. . . I much regret that you should have received pain from the passage you incriminate in Story’s letter, &, frankly, let me say, I think you attach too much importance to it. It is not a responsible or pondered utterance, but a scrap of a familiar letter . . . , which I reproduced exactly for the tone of the hour & the occasion. These are the very things that make letters valuable . . . . That such & such is the way people were talking at a given moment in a given place. That is the way they were talking (some of them, & stupidly enough, no doubt) about Rachel in Boston, when Story wrote. It was an echo, it seemed to me, . . . & I never dreamed of its wounding any sensibility. I don’t think it can have wounded any others, dear Miss Lazarus, at all accustomed to tread these highways or the byways of literature. These are flea bites which, in one way or another, we all as members of any race, guild or faith, sooner or later come in for. I fully believe Rachel to have been the greatest tragic actress that ever lived. . . .”
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
108
Longfellow, henry wadsworth.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Henry W. Longfellow,” to Mrs. A.L.P. Skillings,
Cambridge, 8 July 1879
apologizing for the delayed reply, thanking her for sending an illuminated motto as a birthday present, and complaining that he hardly has time for anything. 2½ pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; horizontal fold. With the original envelope.
”. . . Ah me! the time flies so fast, the days, the weeks crowd each other so, there are so many interruptions of all kinds, that one hardly finds time for anything.
”. . . Your birth-day gift is very artistic and beautiful. I value it highly, and thank you for it . . . .”
Estimate
$250 – $350
109
Masefield, john.
Group of 7 items, each Inscribed and Signed, to maritime historian Frank O. Braynard: 6 Autograph Letters * Typescript of a poem.
Abingdon, 1963-64; Np, 2 April 1964
The letters, agreeing to compose a poem for the occasion of a parade of sailing vessels, sending a draft of the poem [present], thanking for gifts and offering congratulations for the successful event. Together 12 pages, 8vo or oblong 8vo, pale blue airletter or personal stationery; folds. Two with the original envelope. The typescript, draft of “On the Finish of the Sailing Ship Race,” with 6 holograph lines and a holograph correction. 2 pages, small 4to, typed verses on slips of paper mounted to two larger sheets of ruled paper; some cello tape in margins of second sheet.
17 July [1963]: “. . . A famous English writer said that there was nothing much nicer ‘than messing about with boats,’ but surely seeing & going over, & reading about, ships, is nicer, though I will not say ‘much nicer.’ I had the luck to see quite a good many of your famous ships, and one cannot but remember them with delight; and it is good to read about them. . . .”
18 July [1963]: “. . . [I]f the decision has been made, please try to let me know if the real pageant will be up the Hudson, or in New York Bay.
“What a setting, in either case, for a show so splendid.”
19 November [1964]: “I thank you for . . . the enclosure from the publication Look.
“I am touched that the lines should have been quoted there.
“You must have had some thrilling moments, and unforgettable sights with your Operation Sail. . . .”
With–Small group of printed ephemera relating to Operation Sail and Masefield’s poem, including newspaper articles relating to the event, and copies of correspondence to and from Masefield. 1963-64.
Operation Sail is a recurring celebration of sailing vessels held in the Hudson River or New York Harbor which began in 1964. Masefield’s poem, and the first Operation Sail, were dedicated to John F. Kennedy, a longtime sailing enthusiast, who was assassinated the previous year.
Estimate
$600 – $900
110
Mell, max.
Group of 5 Autograph Letters Signed, to aphorist Hans Margolius or an unnamed recipient, in German,
Vp, 1953-61
granting permission for him to use anything in the collection published by Dworczak Abraham, thanking for his praise of Das Apostelspiel (1924), praising Margolius’s aphorisms, sending excerpts of works by Adolf Pichler [not present], praising and thanking for sending his book Schopenhauer Jahrbuch (1960), recommending a minor change to the text of a booklet, explaining that his delay in replying is due to work on a speech, remarking that he has brought his aphorism books to Styria for inspiration, promising to send some epigrams, stating that he has no knowledge of Edwin Hartl [Austrian essayist (1906-1998)], and recommending Margolius’s Maximen zur Ethik to an unnamed recipient. Together 7 pages, 4to or smaller, two on postcards; some chipping to edges, few small holes at fold intersections, punch holes in left margin of one.
29 May no year: “. . . These ‘epigrams’ are the equivalent of your aphorisms. They come from a highly educated man, the ministerial advisor Waldstein, who is doing a great deal of good for artistic endeavors in the ministry of education in Vienna, and who has brought together his essays on music and poesy in a recently published volume entitled ‘Art and Ethics.’ . . .”
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
111
Millay, edna st. vincent.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Vincent,” to Max [Eastman?] (“Sweet Max”), in pencil,
Np, nd
missing him and hoping that he would return. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; horizontal folds.
“Just a wee note between two business appointments to tell you that I think of you very often. But feel too far away . . . . My thoughts of you bring you very near. And whenever you can come back, it could be the same as if you never had gone at all.”
Estimate
$600 – $900
112
Millay, edna st. vincent.
Photograph Signed, bust portrait,
Np, nd
showing her in ¾ view. Signed in the image, lower center. 10x8 inches; edges chipped with some loss to upper corners (not affecting portrait), brittling to all edges, some silvering surrounding signature, signed in black ink over dark area, faint uneven toning, remnants of mounting at upper edge verso.
Estimate
$250 – $350
"ON RE-READING [YOUR POEMS] I FELT . . . JOY ABOUT THEIR . . . EXISTENCE"
113
Rilke, rainer maria.
Autograph Letter Signed, to poet Alfred Wolfenstein (“Most valued Mr. Wolfenstein”), in German,
Paris, 13 June 1914
recalling their meeting at the Fischer’s and pointing out that Rilke is not alone in the responsibility for introducing Wolfenstein’s poetry to the book market, and expressing a continuing interest in his work. Written in right margin of second page is the name “Robert Musil” with an arrow pointing to the line concerning responsibility, in unknown hand, in pencil. 2 pages, 8vo, with integral blank; tiny stain affecting one letter of signature, horizontal fold.
”. . . I gave the book the most attentive reception when it came to me in so kindly a way . . . . It will give me the most lively pleasure to trace . . . my way over the familiar passages to its meaning.
“You are referring in your letter to the evening at the Fischer’s which I . . . remember as my first contact with your poetry and yourself; our small circle had the tension and attention of a very beautiful mutuality. However, you exaggerate if you tend to credit me primarily with the existence of your verses in the book market. Your excellent friend had introduced to us your poems so well, he proved to us . . . their real poetry; on re-reading them I felt . . . more deeply . . . joy about their . . . existence. . . .”
In 1914, Alfred Wolfenstein’s first book of poems, Die gottlosen Jahre was published by Samuel Fischer after the urging and support of Rilke and Robert Musil.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
"GENIUS IN A FAMILY IS A NUISANCE"
114
Shaw, george bernard.
Autograph Note Signed, “GBS,” to Alfred Feuer Jr., on a postcard, discussing children and the transmissibility of genius.
Welwyn, 11 March 1947
1 page, 12mo; slight creasing to lower right corner, addressed in holograph on verso.
“The fathers and sons of geniuses are mostly nobodies. Human stock, like agricultural, needs fallow as well as foison.
“Adopted children are always available; and they are the best loved and cared for.
“My works are my children. I should be too much occupied with them to look after the commonplace sort properly.
“Genius in a family is a nuisance.”
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
115
Stein, gertrude.
Two items, each Signed, to paper manufacturer Keith Baker: Autograph Letter * Autograph Note.
[Belley], 20 April 1941 [from postmark]
The letter, sending a signed statement to paste into his copy of Ida: A Novel. The note: “For Keith Baker’s copy of Ida. Written over a period of three years and finished last year in Belignin par Belley, Ain.” Together 2 pages, 4to or 7x3½ inches, quad ruled paper, the letter with “Bilignin par Belley (Ais)” stamped in ink at upper edge; folds. With the original envelope, addressed in holograph, with cancelled 2.50 franc postage-stamp in blue featuring the head of Ceres in profile.
“I have just had your letter and I would gladly inscribe your books, but sending them . . . at this moment is a good deal of a risk so I am sending you in this paper inscriptions that you can paste into your edition and so avoid all possibility of losing your books.”
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
TWAIN'S COPY
116
Twain, mark.
Eliza Lynn Linton. The True History of Joshua Davidson, Communist. Signed and dated, “SL Clemens / Hartford1882,” on a front blank.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1873; inscription: Hartford, 1882
Anderson Auction Company’s label [from auction held on February 7, 1911] on front pastedown signed by Twain’s literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, and another label indicating cataloguing from subsequent auction pasted below it. 279 pages. Small 8vo, publisher’s cloth, slightly cocked, minor chipping to spine ends, minor rubbing to edges, faint scattered soiling; moderate uneven toning to signed blank, front free endpaper starting.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
117
Wells, h.g.
Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dear Mr. Jastrow,”
New York, 22 October 1937
explaining plans for his trip to Philadelphia on October 27, 1937, and mentioning that he would be free for lunch. 1½ pages, 8vo, “The Hangar” stationery; few minor scattered stains to verso (not affecting signature), horizontal fold.
“My visit to Philadelphia is to be a very simple one. I shall arrive about 11 in the morning of the 27th & depart for N.Y.C by the train that night after the lecture. I shall be in conference with the newspaper hounds at the Bellevue Hotel from midday until about 1pm. I shall be resting there in the afternoon. So unless you . . . carry me off for lunch on Wednesday it will be difficult to meet.”
Estimate
$600 – $900
118
Whittier, john greenleaf.
Autograph Manuscript dated and Signed, “John G. Whittier,” a stanza slightly modified from the one published in his “My Psalm” (1859).
Boston, 24 February 1883
1 page, 12mo; minor staining along right edge, horizontal fold.
“Our life is but the covered way / That opens into light / Wherein no blinded child can stray / Beyond The Father’s sight.”
With–Celia Thaxter. Signature on a small card on which is printed a Happy New Year greeting. 2¼x3½ inches. [Boston, circa 1883].
Estimate
$200 – $300
"JOYCE'S NEW NOVEL [FINNEGANS WAKE] IS A GREAT WORK"
119
Wilder, thornton.
Autograph Letter Signed, to Mrs. Harrison Davis, on a postcard,
Cohasset, 12 July 1939
complaining of continuous work, wishing he were able to visit, mentioning having seen Rebekah Higginson, inviting her to see the show and, in a postscript: “Joyce’s new novel is a great work.” 1 page, oblong 12mo, personal stationery; addressed in holograph on verso, with cancelled 1-cent postage stamp featuring profile of Benjamin Franklin.
“Golly. I’m working like a nigger baby and shall be for six weeks–after the last performance here I must . . . start work at once on rehearsals . . . . But the picture of a weekend with you and the Hartmans and the babies (I’m a big baby-judge and adore ‘em as only a bachelor can) is more . . . attractive. But I’m in a profession now that has no let-up. Work, work, work. Absorbing but exacting. I’ve been seeing Rebekah Higginson from time to time and memories of Tucson are as pleasurable as ever. If you are coming to see our racket, do stop around afterwards, but rain or shine. . . .”
In mid-July, 1939, the South Shore Players performed Wilder’s Our Town in Cohasset, MA.
Estimate
$400 – $600
"'TO THE LIGHTHOUSE' IS A NOVEL . . . ONE OF MY BEST"
120
Woolf, virginia.
Typed Letter Signed, to “Dear Mr. Bason,”
Lewes, 25 August 1928
arranging to have the catalogue of Hogarth Press sent, pointing out that To the Lighthouse is a novel, that it can be obtained from Mudie’s or any library [the lending library of Charles Edward Mudie], sending an autograph [not present], and, in a holograph postscript: “One of my best.” 1 page, small 8vo, pale blue paper; fading to text (but still legible and signature relatively bold), horizontal fold, remnants of hinging at upper edge verso.
”. . . ‘To the Lighthouse’ is a novel, and I think you would find it at any library, such as Mudies.
“I enclose an autograph, to save you the trouble of sending Orlando.”
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
121
Zola, émile.
Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient (“dear sir”), in French,
Paris, 5 February 1897
granting permission for him to use his name, but declining to enter into a collaboration, noting that any such effort requires the approval of the Society of People of Letters of France, and adding that he had left journalism to concentrate upon his novel writing. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; faint scattered foxing, folds.
“Alas! dear sir, I gladly give you the support of my name, but my effective collaboration is impossible. I’m way too busy. Draw whatever you please from my published works, and even then you must first make a treaty with the Société des Gens de Lettres. I left the press, I locked myself in my novels, and in the evening I’m too tired to get back to other work.”
Despite his claim about leaving journalism, Zola could not keep away from the newspapers since, less than a year later, he expressed his outrage at the Dreyfuss affair in an open letter to France’s president–“J’Accuse…!”–published in the Paris daily L’Aurore to sensational effect.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
122
(writers.)
Group of three Time magazine covers, each Signed by one: Timothy Leary * Günter Grass * Carlos Castañeda.
Np, nd
Leary. [“TIM” of printed magazine title outlined and colored in holograph] “Leary,” in red ink, at upper left, on the July 7, 1967 issue featuring a psychedelic portrait of him. Grass. At lower center, on the April 13, 1970 issue featuring a reproduction of a painted portrait of him by Isadore Seltzer. Castañeda. “To Karl Peterson / with best wishes,” at upper right, on the March 5, 1973 issue featuring a reproduction of a painted portrait of him by Stan Zagorski. Includes covers only. Each 4to; portions of inscription by Castañeda in black ink against dark background.
Estimate
$600 – $900
123
(writers.)
Group of 6 items Signed or Signed and Inscribed, mostly postcards and letters to various recipients: Truman Capote * Paul Bowles * Alfred Chester * Norman Douglas (2) * Ronald Firbank.
Vp, 1916-65
Format and condition vary.
Capote. ANS, to Peggy Guggenheim: “Peggy dear–we had such a good time in Venice, and this is to remind you that you are expected here in Taormina. . . .” Verso features photograph of Veduta Panoramica in Taormina. 1 page, 12mo. Taormina, 13 October 1950 [from postmark] • Bowles. ANS, to LeRoi Jones: “I don’t know who is sending me the bear, but someone is, and I appreciate it. I thought maybe it might be you. Or perhaps Edwin Denby. . . .” Verso features a photograph of the ramparts of Marrakesh. 1 page, 12mo. Tangier, 1 August 1961 [from postmark] • Chester. ANS, “Alfred,” to “Ira & Rosalind”: “Car accident yesterday, but OK. Going London train tomorrow. Can’t write or think. . . .” Verso features photograph of statue of the Holy Virgin. Biarritz, 25 June 1965 • Douglas (2). ANS, to Frank Harris, reporting his return to Florence on June 30; ALS, to Harold Cooper, thanking for information about Poe. Together 2 pages, 12mo or 4to on “Hotel Post” stationery. [Bludesch: from postmark], 3 June 1926; Florence, 1 September 1936 • Firbank. ALS, to “Dear Mr. Wiggins,” requesting that “one shilling” appear in place of “one shilling net” [on the cover of Odette: A Fairy Tale for Weary People (1916)]. 2 pages, 8vo, folded sheet. “66 High St,” 14 November 1916.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
124
(writers.)
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 set 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
$600 – $900
Autographs - Artists
SIGNED BY PAINTER AND HIS SUBJECT
125
Bellows, george.
Signature, “Geo. Bellows,” on a photograph by William McKillop, showing his painting, Portrait of Elizabeth Alexander Heermann.
Np, nd
Signed on the original McKillop mount, lower right. Additionally signed and inscribed by Heermann, on the mount below Bellows’s signature. 9x7¼ inches (image), 14x11 inches overall; moderate silvering in dark areas.
Estimate
$300 – $400
126
Breton, andré.
Brief Autograph Letter Signed, to a young woman working at the shop of the NY book dealer Pierre Berès (“Chère Mademoiselle”), in French:
New York, 26 March 1945
“I apologize for having been late in paying you. Please find attached a check for $18.50 with my sincere thanks and respects.” 1 page, 8vo, onionskin paper; folds. With the original envelope, addressed in holograph and additionally signed in the return address written on the flap.
Estimate
$600 – $900
127
Canova, antonio.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Canova,” to his friend Count Tiberio Roberti, in Italian,
Np, nd
promising to please him concerning two models, suggesting that he disregard the claims of his aunt, recommending that he send Giuseppe to Venice to confirm what he says, approving of a donation of 1000 lire in alms, and sending greetings to his family and mutual friends. 1 page, 4to; small hole from seal tear at middle left with minor loss to text, faint scattered foxing, folds, address panel on verso.
“I shall try to please you for the two models. And I shall try with the greatest solicitude possible.
“As regards the claims of my aunt, you must know that she is . . . blind and therefore the least credence should be given to what she says. I will agree with you that the work will be somewhat strenuous but not too much and that Giuseppe . . . if he comes to Venice, I shall give him every help . . . I am saying the truth.
“I am glad 1000 lire was given for charity. I don’t know a greater pleasure than giving bread to these good people. . . .”
Estimate
$600 – $900
128
Degas, edgar.
Autograph Letter Signed, “Degas,” to the wife of painter Louis Braquaval (“Madame Braquaval”), in French,
Paris, 16 March 1905 [from postmark]
agreeing that much time had passed since leaving, reporting that influenza has returned so he missed Sunday’s party. 1 page, square 12mo, letter card, addressed in holograph on verso; horizontal fold.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
129
Delacroix, eugène.
Autograph Letter Signed, “EugDelacroix,” to “My dear friend,” in French,
Np, 8 April no year
thanking for sending the package, expressing happiness at again seeing the contents, and looking forward to discussing them. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank, embossed personal stationery; horizontal fold.
”. . . I was familiar with most of these pieces and appreciated them, as you well sense. . . .”
Estimate
$600 – $900
130
Indiana, robert.
His 1944 war ration book and 9 membership cards to museums and elsewhere, each Signed, “RIndiana,” “Robert E. Clark,” or “Robert Indiana.”
[Indianapolis, 1944]; Vp, vd
The book, War Ration Book Four, with blanks for name and address accomplished in holograph, “Robert E. Clark / 1535 Spann Ave. / Indianapolis, Indiana,” on front cover. Contains 5 sheets of partly-used stamps for coffee and other rationed goods. 12mo, printed wrappers; moderate wear, deep vertical fold. The cards: Museum of Modern Art (2), [1957; 60]; Indianapolis Museum of Art, circa 1981; American Federation of Arts, circa 1969; Whitney Museum of Art, [1967]; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, circa 1969; The Jewish Museum, [1968]; Smithsonian Associates, circa 1971; Jack La Lanne Health Spa, circa 1977. Each 2½x4 inches or smaller; moderate wear to older cards.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$600 – $900
131
Indiana, robert.
Group of 11 postcards and greeting cards, each Inscribed and Signed, “R Indiana” or “bob,” to various recipients, each on a reproduction of one of his artworks featuring the word “LOVE” or “NOEL.”
Vp, 1968-2016
Three with 8-cent “LOVE” postage stamp cancelled on first day of issue, January 26, 1973. Each 6½x6½ inches or smaller, most on folded sheet forming four pages.
“18. XII. ‘68 / For / Michael & Patricia Scott / Greetings / from / the / Bowery,” on card featuring NOEL (1968). [New York], 18 December 1968 • “Mr & Mrs. Love– / Wonder if your mailbox / has survived all those hard / Indiana winters,” on postcard featuring Imperial Love (1966). Vinalhaven, 18 March 1986 • “Star of Hope / Vinalhaven / 2006 / LO / VE / bob,” on card featuring photograph of Santa standing beside snow-covered blue “LOVE” sculpture. Vinalhaven, 2006 • “2009 / A happy New Year / & / A full alphabet / LO / VE . . . bob,” on card featuring Classic Earth LOVE (1996) and with a mounted photograph showing him at home standing before his alphabet sculpture with letters rearranged. Np, 2009 • “Dear Jim / My first / monumental LO / VE sculp- / ture in my old home- / town. Don’t get back / often. I lived in 21 / different houses there. / It is about 1 mile from / John Dillinger’s grave,” on postcard showing his 1970 LOVE sculpture at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Vinalhaven, 16 September 2010 • “NOEL / bob,” on New Year card featuring BABY LOVE (1996) and with a mounted photograph showing Indiana Obelisk (2002) at the Indiana State Museum. Np, 2010 • “LO / VE,” on postcard featuring Monumental LOVE (1970). Np, April 2016 • “LO / VE,” on card featuring LOVE (1965). Np, 2016 • “Star [asterisk] of Hope / Vinalhaven / LO / VE,” on card featuring NOEL (1968). Vinalhaven, 2016 • “[Asterisk] The / Star / of / Hope / Vinalhaven / LO / VE,” on a postcard featuring LOVE (1966). Vinalhaven, 2016 • “LO / VE,” on a postcard featuring LOVE (1966). Np, nd.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
132
Indiana, robert.
Group of 14 items Signed, or Inscribed and Signed, “RIndiana,” “Robert E. Clark,” “Robert Clark,” or “bob,” some on reproductions of his artworks.
Vp, vd
Format and condition vary.
Indiana’s copy of the 1947 Year Book for the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, NY, “1948 / Fort Richardson, Alaska.” Inscribed on front inside cover. 36 pages, small 4to, printed wrappers, stapled binding. Fort Richardson, 1948 • Partly-printed Document Signed, twice, a receipt, additionally accomplished in holograph, in pencil, acknowledging receipt of $1.00 for “Bazaar Fee.” 1 page, 3x5½ inches. Np, 28 November 1951 • Paul Klee: Sixty-Six Unknown Drawings, catalogue for exhibition at Curt Valentin Gallery in NY beginning April 11, 1955: “Alone when loneliness should not have been. This in the temporary absence of love, which I must hope is temporary, and not the beginning . . . ; intolerable and deadly. April must not be the month for death.” Inscribed on front inside cover. Unpaginated. 12mo, printed wrappers, stapled binding. Np, 11 April 1955 • Greeting card by William Katz, “For Ben Coffman,” with a reproduction of Indiana’s juvenile drawing from 1936 showing figures in a landscape. Inscribed on page below the reproduction. 4 pages, oblong small 4to, folded sheet. Np, circa 1969 • First Day Cover, commemorating the issuing of the U.S. Love postage stamp on January 26, 1973. Signed at lower right. The cache, an embossed outline of the letters “LO / VE.” With 8-cent “LOVE” postage stamp, cancelled in Philadelphia on date of issue. 4x7½ inches. Np, nd • Sheet of 50 8-cent “LOVE” postage stamps, “For Roger R Indiana V/H 1995,” vertically in right margin. Plate Nos. 33933, 33932, 33931, Scott #1475. 10¼x9 inches; mint never-hinged. Vinalhaven, 1995 • Printed check for $19.70 from Allstate Indemnity Company to him, endorsed twice, “Robert E. Clark / RIndiana,” on verso. 3½x8½ inches. Np, 7 May 1996 [from date of issue] • New Year’s card showing reproduction of his 1978 oil on canvas, Auto Portrait 1961: “Jack & Nina Jo.” Inscribed on third page. 4 pages, oblong small 4to, folded sheet. Np, circa 2003 • Two identical reproductions of his lithographic poster produced for the opening of the Vivian Beaumont Theater, 1965. Signed on verso, one additionally inscribed, “The Star of Hope / Vinalhaven / 1 - I - 14,” on verso. Each 15¾x11 inches. Np, circa 2014; Vinalhaven, 1 January 2014 • The Philadelphia LOVE, folio containing reproduction of the original serigraph of the same name commissioned by the Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1975, “LO / VE / RIndiana ‘17.” Inscribed below reproduction. Unpaginated, folio, wrappers, two folded sheets. Np, 2017 • Small poster announcing cancellation of the “LOVE” exhibition at Grant Palais beginning November 21, 2012, “LO / VE / RIndiana / ‘17,” on verso. 11x7¾ inches. Np, 2017 • Signature on small envelope, “Robert E. Clark.” 3x4 inches. Np, nd • 12-page booklet postcard depicting the building of his COR-TEN steel outdoor sculpture LOVE (1970). Signed on flap. 6x7½ inches. Np, nd
With–Three printed items, unsigned: “Vinalhaven.” Reproduction of photographs showing views of Vinalhaven * Two invitations to Indiana’s exhibitions: “One through Zero,” at Paul Kasmin; and “Letters, Words and Number / Recent Paintings,” at C&M and Paul Kasmin. Each Oblong 4to. 2002; 03.
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
133
Lawrence, jacob.
Catalogue for exhibition beginning January 12, 1995, at Midtown Payson Galleries entitled An Overview: Paintings from 1936-1994, Signed on page 5
New York: Midtown Payson Galleries, [1995]; inscription: Np, nd
below a reproduction of his painting Pool Parlor (1942). 26 pages. 4to, printed wrappers, perfect binding.
Estimate
$300 – $400
134
Mendieta, ana.
Group of 5 Autograph Notes, including 3 Signed, “Ana,” on postcards, to Donna Thurman,
Vp, 1975-1980s [from postmarks]
in red or green or purple or black ink, mostly giving travel plans, inviting to an exhibition, mentioning mutual friends, etc. Together 5 pages, each 12mo; some smudging to first (but still legible), minor scattered soiling, postmarks touching text.
15 December 1975: “[Quoting Octavio Paz:] ‘Our cult of death is also a cult of life, in the same way that love is a hunger for life and a longing for death. Our fondness for self-destruction derives not only from our masochistic tendencies but also from a certain variety of religious emotion.’“
29 [April?] 1976: “. . . We have done performances in Germany, Belgium & England so far. Tomorrow we leave for Yugoslavia. I like Europe but I think the U.S. is were [sic] its at. By the way this site was fantastic. We took a bus to see it.” [On verso is a photograph of Stonehenge.]
30 September [1983?]: “. . . Rocky is leaving this week. Hope everything goes well for the festival. How do you like yourself? I’ll write more soon.”
With–Small group of mostly printed ephemera including newspaper articles relating to Mendieta’s death, Mendieta exhibition invitations, or correspondence from art gallery representatives to Thurman. Vp, 1980s.
Estimate
$300 – $400
THANKING FOR HELP GIVEN TO ARTISTS DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION OF FRANCE
135
Miró, joan.
Group of 4 reproductions from his Série I Signed and Inscribed,
Np, 26 November 1964
“For Varian Fry, in tribute to everything he did for / artists during the occupation / Miró / 26/XI/64,” in French, in blank lower margin. The reproductions, removed from a book. 12½x41 inches, folded thrice to form four numbered pages on recto and four blanks on verso; faint dampstaining at lower edge touching date in inscription, remnants of hinging verso, short closed separations at center vertical fold.
With–Joan Miró. Lithograph entitled L’Astre Patagon dated and Signed, “Miró,” at lower left. The lithograph, removed from copy of Derrière le Miroir No. 119. 15x22 inches. Paris (Maeght Editeur), 1960; inscription: Np, 22 November 1964.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
136
Motherwell, robert.
Greeting card featuring reproduction of his Black for Mozart (1991) Signed, “R. Motherwell,” on cover at lower right.
Np, nd
7x5 inches, folded sheet forming four pages; interior pages blank.
Estimate
$250 – $350
"QUALITY IS . . . THE CHIEF FEATURE IN DETERMINING THE VALUE OF A PICTURE"
137
Parrish, maxfield.
Typed Letter Signed, to J.J. DeMario,
Windsor, 8 June 1937
offering to notify him when his painting Twilight again becomes available, explaining that determining how to price a painting is not an easy matter and stating that quality is the main factor to consider. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; hole at center with loss to three words of text, mounted to sheet trimmed to size, moderate brittling overall due to acidic backing, folds. Sold as is.
”. . . Should the painting TWILIGHT be again on the market I shall be very glad to let you know.
“As to what constitutes a ‘fair’ price for such a painting, Heaven only knows. Its wicked to ask as much as I do, but people seem to overlook the crime, and in most states there seems to be no law compelling them to buy.
”. . . [I]n a little exhibition I had in New [Yo]rk over a year ago the prices ranged all the way from 1000 [fo]r small paintings up to the price of this one. Paintings of this size, 24 x 30 are priced all the way from 2000. to 4000. according to their quality, rather an arbitrary method, but quality is a hit or miss affair, generally a miss, and it is the chief feature in determining the value of a picture.”
Estimate
$400 – $600
"WHEN PICASSO'S DOVE TOOK FLIGHT"
138
Picasso, pablo.
Hélène Parmelin. Matricule 2078. Signed, “Picasso,” with a small ink drawing, on the half-title.
Paris: Les Editeurs Français Réunis, (1953); inscriptions: [Nice, 9 January 1954]
The drawing, a dove bearing an olive branch in its beak. 3x3 inches. The book, additionally signed by Paul Picasso on blank facing half-title, and signed and inscribed, to the wife of a painter referred to as “Aunt Pouponella,” “Auntie,” or “Pouponella,” in French or Italian, by Hélène Parmelin, Laurent Casanova (in Italian), Jean Fréville, or an unidentified artist (who signed his sketch of a goat head with illegible signature), on the half-title or its facing blank. 422 pages. 8vo, rebound in cloth, original wrappers bound in; faint scattered foxing to inscribed pages and original front cover, blind stamp to front blank and ink stamp to rear blank both indicating ex-libris of Bernard Lown.
Fréville’s incription: “In memory of an evening when Picasso’s dove took flight with the winged words of Laurent Casanova.”
Pablo Picasso joined the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1944 and remained a loyal member. Through his involvement with the PCF, he met Hélène Parmelin and Laurent Casanova. Parmelin (1915-1998) was an editor at L’humanité, the PCF newspaper, and Casanova (1906-1972) was a resistance fighter and Communist deputy. Through their shared political interests, they both became life-long friends with Picasso.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
139
Warhol, andy.
Leaf removed from Interview magazine advertising the publication of his Reigning Queens portfolio Signed,
Np, nd
at lower left. The leaf, extracted from the September, 1985 issue, pages 85-86. 17x10¾ inches; faint toning at edges.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
140
Warhol, andy.
Andy Warhol’s Exposures. Signed and Inscribed, “to tom,” on the half-title.
New York, (1979); inscription: Np, nd
With two small ink drawings Signed, “AW,” soup can and broken heart at lower edge of half-title. 249 pages. 4to, publisher’s cloth; dust jacket, minor wear, some chipping to spine panel ends. First edition.
Estimate
$600 – $900
ARTISTS IN EXILE, INCLUDING MAX ERNST, ANDRÉ BRETON, AND YVES TANGUY
141
(artists–surrealists.)
Portion of catalogue for exhibition entitled “Artists in Exile” held at Pierre Matisse Gallery beginning March 3, 1942, Signed by 13 of the participating artists
[New York: Pierre Matisse, 1942]; inscriptions: New York, 3 March 1942
and Pierre Matisse, on notes page to left of group portrait showing participating artists. A dated note at lower edge of signed page indicates that the catalogue was signed for American journalist and anti-Nazi activist Varian Fry and his wife, in unknown hand. 9x18 inches, unfolded presenting three pages mounted to board trimmed to size; slight fading to signatures by Chagall and Breton and Ernst and Tchelitchew and Ozenfant, staple holes at vertical fold, faint soiling at right edge.
Marc Chagall • Fernand Léger (“FLeger”) • Ossip Zadkine (“O. Zadkine”) • Kurt Seligmann (“K Seligmann”) • André Breton • Max Ernst • André Masson • Jacques Lipchitz (“Lipchitz”) • Piet Mondrian • Amédée Ozenfant (“A. Ozenfant”) • Roberto Matta (“RSA[?] Matta”) • Pavel Tchelitchew (P. Tchelitchew”) • Yves Tanguy • Pierre Matisse.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
142
(artists.)
Group of three books, each Signed and Inscribed: Fernando Botero. Drawings and Watercolors *
New York, (1993); (1994); (New York, 1994); inscriptions: Np, nd; 1996 and 22 February 1995; 1994
James Rosenquist and Leo Castelli. The Big Paintings: Thirty Years * LeRoy Neiman. An American in Paris. The first, “To Denite / Botero 93,” under reproduction of his Still Life with Bowl (1980) on page 8. 183 pages. Large 4to, publisher’s cloth; moderate scattered rubbing and soiling to dust jacket. The second, “best regards” by Rosenquist, and “With best wishes” by Castelli, each on the half-title and additionally dated by both. Unpaginated. Oblong folio, printed wrappers, minor bumping to edges, faint scattered soiling. The third, “To De de Dede / with love,” in red ink, on the half-title, additionally dated. 153 pages. Folio, publisher’s cloth, small hole in backstrip; dust jacket with small hole in spine panel, minor closed tears at edges, faint scattered soiling.
Estimate
$600 – $900
143
(artists.)
10 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by various artists, to Robert Indiana: Larry Rivers * Roy Lichtenstein * Claes Oldenburg * Christo * James Rosenquist * Agnes Martin.
Vp, vd
Format and condition vary.
Rivers and Lichtenstein. Group of 5 First Day Covers, each Signed by both. Each with cachet and postage stamp featuring an American artist, cancelled on dates between 1967 and 1981. Each 3¾x6½ inches. Np, nd • Lichtenstein. Autograph Letter Signed, “Roy,” recalling the old days and hoping to meet in New York City, written across interior pages of greeting card featuring reproduction of his Brushstroke with Spatter, 1966. 5½x6 inches, folded sheet. Np, 10 June 1970 • Oldenburg. Postcard Signed and Inscribed, “Dear Bob, thanks for the photos, Claes.” Verso shows photograph of his Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, 1969. 4x5¾ inches. Np, nd • Christo. Christo. Signed and Inscribed on front free endpaper: “To Bob Indiana / amitiés / Christo / june 1966.” Indiana’s blind stamp beside inscription. Square 8vo, printed wrappers over boards. Edizioni Apollinaire: Milan, [1964]; inscription: 1966 • Rosenquist. Greeting card Signed and Inscribed, “Circles of confusion / Happy Holiday / Jim Mary Lou & John / Rosenquist,” on interior page, featuring reproduction of a version of his Circles of Confusion, 1965. 6x6½ inches, folded sheet. Np, nd • Martin. Invitation for her exhibition, Paintings, Inscribed and Signed, “Agnes,” on interior page, inviting him to the opening and to an afterparty at the home of Annie Laurie Witzel. The exhibition, held at Section Eleven of Betty Parsons Gallery in New York beginning December 29, 1959. 8¾x6 inches, folded sheet. Np, [1959].
Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift the current owner.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
19th & 20th Century Literature
144
Bach, richard.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
(New York): Macmillan, (1970)
Photo illustrations by Russell Munson. 8vo, publisher’s full blue cloth, narrow sliver of toning to bottom of front boards; unclipped dust jacket, some occasional mild rubbing to extremities. First edition, presentation copy, signed and inscribed in the year of publication, most likely to Russell Munson, the book’s illustrator: “For Russ! / Who knows what this / book is all about. / Very best wishes, / Dick Bach / Autumn, 1970” and with an Autograph Note signed, to the same, on the author’s printed card stapled to the facing free endpaper. Additionally, laid in loose, and stapled together are the following: 1) 1-page, recto only, Typed Letter Signed by Bach with manuscript additions, 3 March [19]69, “Dear Mrs. Keller,” containing thoughtful musings on Seagull’s commercial appeal as well as the book’s genesis; 2) 1-page typed reply letter, 16 April 1969, by the reipient of the previous [Doris Keller]; 3) 1-page Typed Letter signed, 21 April [196]9, by Bach on his letterhead, “Dear Bari”; 4) 2-page Typed Letter to Bach, 23 April 1969, manuscript note in unknown hand attributing it to Don Keller; 5) 1-page Typed Letter Signed by Bach, 14 May [196]9, on his letterhead, “Dear Doris”; 6) 1-page Typed Letter, 19 May 1969, unattributed, “Dear Dick”; 7) 1-page Typed Letter Signed by Bach on his letterhead, 27 May [196]9, “Dear Doris,” stating that the Jonathan Livingston Seagull manuscript was rejected by Morrow, as well as a mention of a recent boat trip with actor/director Tony Bill; with original mailing envelope.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
145
Bernstein, carl and woodward, bob.
All the President’s Men.
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1974)
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth; dust jacket, abrasion to spine panel and front panel (with sticker residue), few small chips to top and bottom edges. First edition, signed by both Woodward and Bernstein in blue ink on the title.
Estimate
$400 – $600
146
Black sun press. crosby, harry.
Shadows of the Sun (First and Second Series).
Paris, 1928-29
2 volumes bound in 1. Printed in red and black. Tall 8vo, contemporary ½ straight-grain brown morocco and marbled boards, spine titles gilt, light rubbing to extremities, scuff to rear board; original printed wrappers to each volume bound in. First editions of two of the three separately published volumes of Harry Crosby’s diaries, each one of 44 copies. Minkoff A11.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
147
Capote, truman.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
New York: Random House, (1958)
8vo, publisher’s yellow cloth, covers mottled; unclipped dust jacket ($3.50 price) with “10/58” date code on front flap, spine panel and flap folds darkened, light wear to spine panel tips and fold corners. First edition, first printing, signed by Capote in black ink on the front free endpaper.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
148
Capote, truman.
A Christmas Memory.
New York: Random House, (1956)
8vo, publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt; acetate dust jacket; original numbered board slipcase with photographic onlay. Number 340 of 600 copies signed by the author, presentation copy to Robert Wilson. Nice association, gifted to Wilson, proprietor of the long-running Phoenix Book Shop in NYC as well as bibliographer of Gertrude Stein and Denise Levertov. Fine copy.
Estimate
$600 – $800
149
(children’s literature.) carroll, lewis.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland * Through The Looking Glass.
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869; 1872
Together, 2 volumes. Illustrated by John Tenniel. 8vo, original green pebbled cloth gilt, (first title all edges gilt), rebacked with the original spines laid-down, corners rubbed with some exposure; first title with light to moderate staining throughout, second title with wear to front and end matter, ownership signature; individual coth clamshell boxes within matching slipcase. First American editions (Looking Glass with “wade” for “wabe” on p. 21).
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
150
(children’s literature.) carroll, lewis.
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.
London: Macmillan Co., 1893
Illustrated by Harry Furniss. 8vo, original gilt stamped red cloth, all edges gilt, spine lightly faded with slight lean; light spotting to half title, frontispiece and title, front hinge tender, 1-page advertisement leaf tipped to half title verso; cloth chemise and ¼ morocco slipcase. First edition, presenation copy, inscribed to half title: “Mrs Richards, with the Author’s sincere regards, Dec. 28, 1893.” On 13 December 1881 Carroll wrote to Mrs. F.W. Richards concerning ‘Child Friends’, Ethel Barclay and Marion Richards and a proposed trip to the pantomime at Brighton. Letters are recorded to Marion Richards on 26 October 1881 and 8 February 1886. On 6 August 1881 Carroll had become reacquainted with Marion Richards and four others including Edith and May Miller. (Letters, p. 1034).
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
151
(children’s literature.) humphrey, maud.
Group of 4 First editions.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1888; 1893; 1897; 1900
Comprising: Babes of the Year; The Book of Pets; Old Youngsters; Children of the Revolution. Illustrated by Maud Humphrey and with verses variously by Edith M. Thomas, Elizabeth S. Tucker, and Mabel Humphrey. 4to, publisher’s ¼ cloth and pictorial boards, edges abraded, scattered soiling to spine and covers; contents with intermittent staining, heaviest to front and end matter, ownership inscriptions, occasional tears. Four first editions from the suffragette, commercial illustrator and the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart. (4)
Estimate
$400 – $600
152
Churchill, winston s.
The Second World War.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948-1953
6 volumes, comprising: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; and Triumph and Tragedy. Illustrated with maps and diagrams. 8vo, publisher’s cloth; unclipped pictorial dust jackets. Occasional spine fade to cloth; jackets with light to moderate edgewear with tape repair to verso on a few vols. First American editions, final volume a presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper “From Winston S. Churchill, 1954.” (6)
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
153
Conrad, joseph.
Tales of Unrest.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898
8vo, publisher’s green cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, corners lightly bumped, spine tips softly creased; pictorial bookplate and bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, ownership signature to half-title, intermittent minor foxing, publisher’s catalogue at end; custom cloth chemise and ¼ morocco slipcase. First English edition. Cagle A4c(1).
Estimate
$600 – $800
154
Cooper, anna julia.
A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South.
Xenia, OH: The Aldine Printing House, 1892
Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, original two-toned maroon and tan cloth, front cover and spine titles gilt, top edges gilt, few faint blemishes to covers, mild wear to extremities; front hinge starting but holding firm; board slipcase. First edition of the author’s first book. Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964) was born into slavery, spent her early years in Raleigh, NC, graduated from Oberlin College in 1884, and earned a master’s degree in mathematics there four years later; one of the first two Black women in America to earn the M.A. She moved to Washington, where she helped found the Colored Women’s League. Cooper received her doctorate degree from the Sorbonne in Paris in 1924, at the age of 66, and lived for another four decades. Afro-Americana 2699; Blockson 4288.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
155
[crane, stephen.]
Maggie. A Girl of the Streets. (A Story of New York).
[New York, 1893]
By Johnston Smith. 8vo, original yellow wrappers, black lettering and red rules on front cover, covers detached with chipping to edges and closed tears (not touching letters), soiling; first three pages stained, else contetns generally clean, intermittent tears to blank margins; ¼ morocco slipcase (spine defective); typed note laid in assigning previous ownership to art critic Henry McBride (his sticker on slipcase), thence to M.H. Miltzlaff (his note), thence to present owner. First edition of the author’s first book. Maggie was published at the author’s own expense in an edition of 1,100 copies, but he destroyed most of them when they failed to sell. Rare. BAL 4068.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
156
Davenport, guy.
Wo Es War, Soll Ich Werden.
Champaign, IL: Finial Press, 2004
8vo, publisher’s turquoise cloth over boards; acetate dust jacket; with Circumspectus (sewn pamplet) and Cadenza (folded leaflet) laid in loose, as issued. Deluxe edition, number 43 of 100 copies signed by the author on Frankfurt paper. Scarce; fully subscribed before publication. Fine.
Estimate
$500 – $750
157
Dickens, charles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837
Lacking half-title. 43 engraved plates by R. Seymour, Robert William Buss and Hablot K. Browne [“Phiz”]. 8vo, contemporary ½ calf and marbled boards, spine in compartments with lettering label, rubbed and scuffed with some exposure; ownership signature; contents with intermittent spotting and toning, heaviest to plate margins. First edition in book form. Early issue with the following points noted: page 43, second paragraph below Chapter V, line 1 reads “ruined wall” in the singular; signature “E” present on p. 25; second state state of the title-page with “Weller” for “Veller.” Grolier English 78; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88; Smith I:3.
Estimate
$400 – $600
158
Dickens, charles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1836-1837
20 parts in 19. Illustrated by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne [“Phiz”]. 8vo, original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, several backstrips repaired, occasional staining and creasing; plates with intermittent light to moderate toning and spotting, chiefly to blank margins; custom cloth chemise and matching slipcase. First edition in original parts, mixed state. Later wrappers on Nos. I-IX, XI, and XIII. Adverts partly or fully lacking in nos. I, III-XIV, XVIII-XX; second state of text in about half the parts; mixed first, second and third state of the plates. Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 3-88.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
159
Dickens, charles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837
Half-title. Illustrated by R. Seymour and Hablot K. Browne [“Phiz”]. 8vo, contemporary ½ straight-grained brown morocco and marbled boards, extremities worn, abrading, boards scuffed; plates foxed throughout, moderate to heavy, scattered staining, bookplate. First edition in book form.Mixed state: page 43, second paragraph below Chapter V, line 1 reads “ruined wall” in the singular; signature “E” present on p. 25; second state of the title-page with “Weller” for “Veller”; and corrected text (“holding”) on p. 260 line 29. Grolier English 78; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88; Smith I:3.
Estimate
$400 – $600
160
Douglas, norman.
Group of 3 First editions.
Vp, vd
Unprofessional Tales. 8vo, publisher’s decorated cloth, spine darkened, soiling; front hinge starting; cloth chemise and ¼ morocco slipcase. Douglas’ first book, co-written with his wife, Elsa FitzGibbon. London, 1901 * Siren Land. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher’s decorated green cloth, spine tips and corners rubbed, light soiling; ex-collection Frederic Prokosch with his bookplate. Literary association copy, signed and inscribed to novelist Frederic Prokosch. London, 1911 * Old Calabria. Illustrated. Large 8vo, publisher’s gilt-decorated green cloth; ex-collection H. Bradley Martin with his bookplate; cloth chemise and ¼ morocco slipcase. First edition of the English issue in the binding variant (ii) with plain endleaves and inserted publisher’s catalogue. London, (1915). Woolf A16. (3)
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
161
Doyle, arthur conan.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [and] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
London: George Newnes, 1892; 1894
Together, 2 volumes. Half-titles and numerous illustrations by Sidney Paget. Final blank leaf in first title, frontispiece in second. Large 8vo, original light and dark blue cloth, respectively, beveled boards, all edges gilt, some occasional mottling/soiling to boards, second title leaning slightly; hinges tightened, contents with intermittent spotting, and tidemark to last few leaves of first volume. First editions, first issues, the first title with the street sign blank on the front cover, and first state uncorrected text with “cucaine” for “cocaine” on page 133, and the misprint Miss “Violent” Hunter on page 317. De Waal 529; 596; Green and Gibson, A10a; A14a. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones. (2)
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
162
Dumas, alexander.
The Count of Monte-Cristo.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1846
2 volumes. 20 wood-engraved plates after Henry Valentin. 8vo, contemporary ½ navy morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt in compartments, joints and spine tips heavily rubbed, corners exposed, top edges gilt; lacking endleaves and advertisements, occasional staining or spotting to contents, chiefly marginal, front hinge of vol. I starting. First edition in English in book form.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
163
(economics.) lefèvre, edwin.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.
New York: George H. Doran, (1923)
8vo, original tan cloth, spine gilt-lettered, blind-stamped front cover, minor finger soiling, spine tips pushed, corners bumped; front hinge partly cracked, effaced ownership inscription on front flyleaf, tiny ink spot to fore-edge. First edition. 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. The classic fictionalized biography of the great Boston and New York stock trader Jesse Livermore.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
164
(economics.) popper, k.r.
The Open Society and its Enemies.
London: George Routledge & Sons LTD, (1945)
2 volumes. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth, spine titles gilt; unclipped dust jackets, spine panels lightly tanned with minor rubbing to tips, few smudges; faded ownership stamp to front free endpapers in both volumes. First edition of the author’s first book. Comprises Vol. I The Age of Plato; Vol II The High Tide of Prophecy Hegel and Marx. An excellent survival, uncommon as such. (2)
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
165
Eliot, t.s.
The Waste Land.
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922)
8vo, publisher’s stiff black gilt-lettered cloth; second state salmon dust-jacket (lacking period after last sentence in the boxed announcement on front panel), closed tears along folds with rear panel detached, spine panel with small chip to foot, else mostly torn free but retained in three (brittle) fragments, uneven toning; Henry McBride booklabel to front pastedown. Limited edition, number 588 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
$1,800 – $2,500
166
Eluard, paul.
Le Devoir et l’inquiétude, poèmes, suivis de le Rire d’un autre.
Paris: A. J. Gonon, 1917
Frontispiece engraving by André Deslignères. 12mo, publisher’s gilt-lettered marbled wrappers; glassine overwrap with light edgewear. Limited edition, one of 200 copies, signed by the publisher, on d’Arches. Unopened copy.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
167
Faulkner, william.
As I Lay Dying.
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1930)
8vo, publisher’s beige cloth lettered in brown, spine darkened with some spotting; unclipped dust jacket, panels separated, tape mends on verso, additional horizontal tear to sunned spine panel, abrasion to front panel. First edition, first issue with dropped “I” in first line of page 11. Petersen A7e.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
168
Firbank, ronald.
Letters to Grant Richards.
Vp, vd
Small 4to, custom bound in contemporary blue buckram, gilt-lettered front cover, top edges gilt, sunning to spine and board edges, two small paint marks to rear cover; offsetting to front and end matter. An ostensibly unique bound volume containing typed copies of 33 letters from Firbank to his publisher Grant Richards, sequentially dated from 26 December 1914 to 18 August 1917, around the period that his first two novels, Vainglory and Inclinations, were published. Also with 5 of the original Autograph Letters Signed, of those included in the book, one mounted and the 4 others laid in within two envelopes (each bearing the typed legend “Spring List: Item 105”). The reason for this typewritten volume’s production is not entirely clear; it’s appearance would seem to pre-date Richard’s death in 1948 and it is not unlikely that it was produced for Richards himself. [Np, nd]. [With:] Odette; A Fairy Tale for Weary People. 4 illustrations by Albert Buhrer. Thin 8vo, pictorial wrappers, extremities darkened, few small edge chips. First edition. London: Grant Richards, 1916. Benkovitz A4. (2)
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
169
Fitzgerald, f. scott.
All the Sad Young Men.
New York: Scribner’s, 1926
8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered dark green cloth; unclipped early printing of the pictorial dust jacket by Cleonike as indicated by full, unbattered lips on cover figure, spine panel perished, flaps detached, two tape repairs on verso, chipping; stain to front pastedown, rear hinge cracked; cloth clamshell box. First edition, with Scribner’s seal on the copyright page. Bruccoli A12.I.a.
Estimate
$600 – $900
170
Flaubert, gustave.
Madame Bovary.
Vp, vd
Translated by John Stirling. 8vo, original blue cloth stamped in gilt and black, dampstain to bottom of front and rear boards, slightly rubbed extremities; “J. Geo Hintz’s Circulating L’brary” bookplate to front pastedown, front hinge cracked but holding, 1-page ad on verso of title, 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end. Elusive early American edition. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, (1881). [With:] Stevenson, Robert Louis. Island Nights’ Entertainments. Illustrated. 8vo, original gilt-decorated blue/green cloth, slightly rubbed extremities; ownership label to front pastedown, publisher’s ads at end. First edition, with hand-corrected price list facing half-title page. London: Cassell and Company, 1893. (2)
Estimate
$600 – $800
171
H.d. [hilda doolittle].
Sea Garden.
London: Constable and Company, 1916
Small 4to, original green paper covered boards, front cover stamped in dark green; light offsetting to endpapers, small bookseller’s ticket at rear pastedown. First edition of the poet’s first book of original verse. Variant binding. The regular edition appeared in red stiff wrappers over boards; the bibliographer records three institutional copies that conforms to this binding (Temple, Yale and Columbia) with the copy at the Beinecke Library catalogued as a “trial binding.” Near fine. Boughn A2.a.i.
Estimate
$350 – $500
172
Haley, alex.
Roots.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976
Thick 8vo, publisher’s brown leatherette, spine titles and top edges gilt; original card slipcase. First limited edition. Number 215 of 500 copies signed by Haley. As new.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
173
Hamsun, knut.
Pan.
Copenhagen: P. G. Philipsens, 1894; Gyldendalske Boghandels, 1884
Half-title. 12mo, later ¾ green morocco and marbled boards, spine titles gilt in compartments, spine uniformly browned. First edition. [With:] Ibsen, Henrik. Vildanden: skuespil i dem akter [The Wild Duck]. 12mo, original pale yellow cloth, spine and front cover decorated in black and gold, all edges gilt, spine tanned, spine tips and corners lightly bumped. First edition. (2)
Estimate
$600 – $800
174
Heinlein, robert.
Space Cadet.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948
Illustrated by Clifford N. Geary. 8vo, publisher’s decorated dark blue cloth, few trivial blemishes to front board; first printing dust jacket priced $2.50, closed tear to top of rear panel and at front/spine panel fold, shallow chipping to head of spine panel, short closed tears with associated creasing at top of front panel. First edition, with publisher’s “A” on the copyright page.
Estimate
$600 – $800
175
Heller, joseph.
Catch-22.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in white, slight toning to top and bottom edges; dust jacket, unclipped, chipping to edges and foot of spine panel with three tape repairs on verso mending closed tears with associated creasing; bookplate on front endpaper. First edition, with “First Printing” indication.
Estimate
$400 – $600
176
Hemingway, ernest.
Green Hills of Africa.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953
8vo, publisher’s green cloth; dust jacket, spine panel tanned, rear panel torn with approximately one-half lost and with long tear. Later edition, inscribed by Hemingway: “To Clara who has seen and been in Africa / this attempt to do the same / with love / Papa.” Also includes laid in Autograph Postcard Signed by Mary Hemingway (7 February 1962, postmarked Nairobi) to George Brown, Esq. that mentions a successful lion hunt there in which Clara [Spiegel] participated, and conveys “Papa’s greetings.” Clara Gatzert Spiegel was a longtime friend of Hemingway. Her husband (of mail-order catalogue fame) was in the Italian Ambulance Corps with Ernest in 1918. When they divorced, she moved to Ketchum, Idaho near the Hemingways. She herself was a hunter, sportswoman, and author; she helped Hemingway type and edit For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
177
Hemingway, ernest.
The Old Man and the Sea.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Son, (1952)
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, spine leaning slightly with some faint mottling and some of the silver-stamping flecked, later dust jacket with the Pulitzer Prize indication on the front flap (top corner torn), printed wraparound band with the 1954 Nobel Prize award indication; endpapers moderately discolored with Havana bookstore/rental library bookplate to front pastedown. First edition, later printing, signed and inscribed: “For Martin Naughton Esq / with all best wishes / always / Ernest Hemingway / La Vigia / San Francisco de Paula / 1955.” Included is an unrestored first issue dust jacket with $3.00 price. Hanneman A24.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
178
Hemingway, ernest.
The Sun Also Rises.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, (1926)
8vo, publisher’s black cloth with gold paper title labels; unclipped later issue dust jacket priced at $2.00 with “In Our Time” correctly titled on bottom of front panel, and spine panel listing first (October, 1926) through ninth printing (November, 1929), several tissue paper repairs on verso mending closed tears, spine panel tanned with chipping to head and foot and hard horizontal crease, abrading to flap folds with a few small punctures, dust soiling; front hinge cracked. First edition, second issue, with “stoppped” corrected to “stopped” on p. 181. Hanneman A6.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
179
Hickok, frances.
An Eye for an Eye.
Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, (1929)
8vo, publisher’s black cloth lettered in yellow, small dent to rear board, unclipped dust jacket priced $2.00, spine panel faded with shallow chipping to head and foot, few small nicks and closed tears; contents clean. First edition. Elusive mystery in the seldom seen dust jacket. Hubin, vol. 1, p. 399, 1994.
Estimate
$500 – $750
180
Huxley, aldous.
Point Counter Point.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928
8vo, publisher’s green buckram over bevelled boards, top edges gilt, spine darkened, minor rubbing to head and foot of spine; joints starting but holding firm. First edition, one of 256 copies signed by Huxley.
Estimate
$300 – $400
181
Jacobs, jane.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
(New York): Random House, (1961)
Tall 8vo, publisher’s cloth, light rubbing to spine tips, bump to top of front boards; price-clipped dust jacket, unevenly tanned, dampstain and spotting to front panel, dust soiling; offsetting to a few pages from laid in clippings, front hinge cracked with partial separation, Doris Diether ownership stamp to front free endpaper. First edition, second printing, presention copy affectionately inscribed: “Warmest regards to Jack Diether, a valued friend and an admirable fighter for Greenwich Village and New York City. Sincerely, Jane Jacobs. Jan. 1962.” Inscribed to the husband of Doris Diether, the latter a well-known Greenwich Village preservationist who was among the leaders who opposed Robert Moses’ controversial plans to reshape the city. “Her challenge to Moses was her introduction to civic engagement. It led to collaborations in the late 1950s with the visionary urbanist Jane Jacobs and others who resisted Moses proposals” (New York Times, 24 September 2021 obituary).
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
182
Joyce, james.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt, spine tips, joints and corners rubbed, gilt dulled; mostly light spotting to front and end matter, narrow tidemark to fore-edge of approximately final 30 pages; cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. First edition; preceding the English edition, issued from the American sheets, by two months. Slocum & Cahoon 11; Connolly, The Modern Movement 26.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
183
Joyce, james.
Exiles: A Play in Three Acts.
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918
8vo, publisher’s ¼ green cloth over blind-stamped boards, spine titles gilt, corners and rear board bumped; yellow printed dust-jacket; some chipping, fraying, and one tape repair on verso; custom ¼ morocco folding case. First American edition, published simultaneously with the London edition issued by Grant Richards. Uncommon in jacket. Slocum & Cahoon A15.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
184
Joyce, james.
Ulysses.
New York: Random House, 1934
8vo, publisher’s cloth lettered in red and black over bevelled boards, light soiling to rear board; unclipped dust jacket, spine panel tanned with short closed tears at head, one paper mend on verso of front panel; felt-lined folding box. First authorized American edition in the first issue dust jacket with the Reichl credit on the front panel. Slocum and Cahoon A21.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
185
Kafka, franz.
In der Strafkolonie.
Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1919
Printed in blue and black. 8vo, publisher’s black ½ calf over marbled boards, spine titles gilt, areas of repair wth some rubbing to extremities, top edges gilt, corners bumped. First edition, one of 1000 unnumbered copies.
Estimate
$600 – $900
186
Kees, weldon.
Collected Poems.
Vp, vd
4to, publisher’s leather backed aqua paper boards, gilt lettering along spine, fore- and bottom-edges uncut. Limited edition, number 59 of 180 copies printed on Rives Light, from a total edition of 200. Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1960. [With:] The Fall of the Magicians. Small 8vo, publisher’s pale green cloth; unclipped dust jacket, fading to spine panel and portion of front panel, mild edge wear. First edition, signed by the author. NY: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1947). Uncommon. Handsome copy of Kees’s second book of verse. (2)
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
187
Kees, weldon.
Poems 1947-1954.
San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1954
8vo, publisher’s ¼ brown cloth and patterned paper covered boards, printed paper spine label, corners lightly bumped; wraparound printed band (spine tanned). Deluxe issue, an unnumbered copy from the edition of 25 containing an original signed ink drawing by Kees. Rare; not in Gillane and Niemi (A.I.3 for the regular edition). Rare Book Hub records one previous example at auction. Near fine copy.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
188
King, stephen.
Carrie.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1974
8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered maroon cloth, front board with slight bow; unclipped dust jacket, short closed tears with associated creasing, pinhole to bottom edge; internally clean. First edition. With the code “P6” in gutter of page 199.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
189
Leroux, gaston.
Le Fantôme de l’Opéra.
Paris: Pierre Lafitte et Cie., [1910]
Half-title. Small 8vo, contemporary ¼ pebbled green cloth and marbled boards, spine label gilt; contents slightly browned as usual, age-toning to front and end matter; original wrappers bound in. First book edition, retaining the fragile wrappers. Preceded only by a popular tabloid edition. The source material for numerous films, as well as the enormously successful stage production.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
190
Lewis, wyndham.
One-Way Song.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1933)
Title border and part-title vignettes after Lewis. 8vo, publisher’s full yapp-edged vellum, gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, faint stain to rear cover. First edition, number 17 of 40 copies signed by the author. Satirical verse divided into five sections: ‘Engine Fight-Talk’; ‘The Song of the Militant Romance’; ‘If So the Man You Are’; ‘One-Way Song’; and ‘Envoi’. Morrow and Lafourcade A21a.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
191
Lewis, wyndham.
The Ideal Giant. The Code of a Herdsman. Cantelman’s Spring-Mate.
London: Privately printed for the London Office of the Little Review, [1917]
8vo (215 x 140 mm), publisher’s printed stapled self-wrappers string-tied into original cloth-backed pictorial board folder, cover illustration after design by Lewis, boards with dust soiling, chipped corners, and scattered staining; staples rusted. First edition of Lewis’s first separate literary book, (preceded by Timon of Athens, a portfolio of illustrations). Printed in an edition of approximately 200 copies, though Pound and Grover speculate that perhaps only 50 copies of the folder were produced but that more copies of the pamphlet were printed. Rare; according to Rare Book Hub, the first copy at auction in nearly two decades. Morrow and Lafourcade A2; Pound and Grover A1.
Estimate
$600 – $900
192
Lippard, george.
Group of 3 Signed works.
Vp, vd
Comprising: Blanche of Brandywine; or, September the Eleventh, 1777. 8vo, later ½ morocco, spine titles gilt in compartments; occasional, mostly marginal foxing, faint tidemark; cloth chemise and ¼ morocco slipcase. Early reprint, presentation copy, signed and inscribed to Horace P. Dunbar. According to Blanck this was first published by G.B. Zieber in a wrappered edition also in 1846. BAL 11777. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, (1846) * Washington and His Generals: or, Legends of the Revolution. 8vo, contemporary ½ morocco, spine titles and rules in gilt in compartments, extremities scuffed with some exposure; endpapers discolored, occasional light staining or foxing. Early reprint, presentation copy, signed and inscribed to Horace P. Dunbar. Bibliographically complex with each of the citations somewhat vague; the publisher’s misspelled “Chesnut Street” indicates a period from 1848 to 1851. BAL 11778; Howes L-369; Sabin 41399. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, (1847 [but later]) * New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million. 8vo, original full blue cloth, spine gilt, blind-stamped covers, scattered soiling, spine darkened, corners bumped; intermittent foxing, ex-collection Robert E. Weigley with his bookplate and inscription, 10 pp. adverts at end. First edition, signed by Lippard. BAL 11796. Cincinnati: H.M. Rullison, 1853. George Lippard (1822-1854) was a close friend of Poe and founder of the Brotherhood of the Union, an early labor union. His popular fiction, which “represented the wildly subversive underside of the antebellum literary scene” (ANB) is often divided between the “city mysteries” (The Quaker City), and mythologized retellings of American history (Washington and his Generals). He died of tuberculosis at 31. Signed copies of any of his books are very scarce. (3)
Estimate
$1,800 – $2,500
193
London, jack.
The Call of the Wild.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903
Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s pictorial green cloth, top edges gilt, spine tips pushed slightly effecting a few letters, corners bumped; ownership stamps to pastedowns and endleaves; custom clamshell box with leather labels. First edition, first issue, with the July 1903 date on the copyright page and two pages of publisher’s adverstisements at end. Includes a clipped signed author’s inscription laid in: “Jack London, Sura, Fiji, June 5, 1908.”
Estimate
$600 – $900
194
Mackay, charles.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions.
London: Richard Bentley, 1841
3 volumes. Each volume lacking half-titles and publisher’s adverts. Illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece in each volume, and two engraved portrait plates in third volume (Paracelsus and Dr. Dee). 8vo, bound in ½ green morocco, top edges gilt, spines tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments (uniformly browned). First edition of this classic work on crowd psychology by the Scottish journalist, still in print under the title Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
195
Maugham, somerset.
The Razor’s Edge.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944
8vo, publisher’s black cloth, corners and spine tips rubbed, spine gilt rubbed free; dust jacket, tape repairs to verso, moderate rubbing, rear panel toned, few abrasions to front flap fold; rear hinge cracked; cloth slipcase. First trade edition, with the author’s signature laid down to front free endpaper.
Estimate
$500 – $700
196
Mccarthy, cormac.
The Stonemason. A Play in Five Acts.
(Hopewell, NJ): The Ecco Press, (1994)
8vo, publisher’s printed wrappers. Advance copy, one of only 41 advance reading copies printed according to the publisher. Fine.
Estimate
$300 – $400
197
Milton, john.
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.
London: Printed by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, 1688
[Bound with:] Paradise Regain’d [and] Samson Agonistes. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Milton by William Faithorne signed R. White, 12 engraved plates, 6 pp. subscriber’s list. Folio, 19th century full calf, front cover detached, corner repaired, few scuffs, covers ruled in blind with grape leaf ornaments at the corners, morocco lettering piece; two ownership signatures to title-page. The first illustrated edition and the first in folio of Milton’s great work; one of three variants published in the same year. Pforzheimer 720; Wing M2147.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
198
(modern literature.)
Group of 3 works.
Vp, vd
Comprising: APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME. Cortège Priapique. Title in red and black. 8vo, contents loose as issued in original printed wrappers, uneven toning; contents clean; card slipcase (split). Number 73 of 125 copies on Japon. La Havane: Au Cabinet des Muses, 1925 * MILLER, HENRY. Black Spring. Half-title. 8vo, rebound in black leatherette, spine titles gilt; original pictorial front wrapper bound in. First edition, association copy, ex-collection G. Legman with his signature on blank prelim. Erotica scholar G. Legman arranged for Miller and Anais Nin, previous to their literary fame, to write privately commissioned erotic manuscripts for Roy M. Johnson, the Oklahoma oil tycoon and smut afficionado. Paris: Obelisk Press, (1936) * KOSINSKY, JERZY. Der Bemalte Vogel. 8vo, publisher’s patterned cloth; dust jacket, separated along front/spine panel fold, short closed tears, folds rubbed. First edition in German. Dedication copy, warmly inscribed to his wife Mary below the printed dedication, dated in the year of publication. Bern: Scherz, (1965). (3)
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
199
(modern literature.)
Group of 6 Signed and/or Limited edition works.
Vp, vd
Comprising: GRAVES, ROBERT. The Shout. Thin 8vo, publisher’s paper-covered boards, spine tanned with small chip to head; dust jacket, tape repair to spine panel verso, uneven toning. Signed, limited edition, one of 500 copies. London, 1929 * BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON. Full Circle. Thin 8vo, publisher’s paper-covered boards; dust jacket, neatly split along front/spine panel fold; bookplate. Signed, limited edition, one of 500 copies. London, 1929 * BOYLE, KAY. Wedding Day and Other Stories. 8vo, publisher’s ¼ cloth and patterned boards, spine darkened with cloth split at rear joint; dust jacket, spine panel and top edges sunned; hinges cracked. First American edition of the author’s first trade book, Signed and Inscribed. NY, (1930) * YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. Pages From a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. Woodcut of Giraldus on title-page. Thin 8vo, publisher’s ¼ cloth; front hinge cracked with cloth separated from textblock, bookplate. Limited edition, one of 250 copies. Dublin, 1944 * UPDIKE, JOHN. The Carpentered Hen. 8vo, publisher’s ¼ cloth, spine foot bumped; dust jacket, folds rubbed, shallow chipping to head and foot of spine panel; faded inked inscription on front flyleaf. First edition, Signed by the author. NY, (1958) * WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. Grand. Small 8vo, publisher’s yellow cloth; lacking glassine. Limited edition, one of 300 copies Signed by the author. NY, 1964. (6)
Estimate
$500 – $750
200
Moore, clement c.
A Visit From St. Nicholas.
New York: Spalding & Shepard, 1849
Illustrated in color with 5 woodcut engravings, one initial, and vignette at end by [T.C.] Boyd. 6½ x 5 inches. [14] pp. Supplied plain front and rear wrappers (ownership signatures dated 1852 to front), later stitching with torn cloth backstrip, browned and spotted with some water staining, paper repairs throughout, edge chips and tears with loss to last eight leaves, effecting some letters.Rare second fully-illustrated book-length edition of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas following the Henry M. Onderdonk edition (New York, 1848), also known by only a few copies. A facsimile of the present edition was published by the New York Public Library in 1967 and records thus: “This is a happy re-creation of the 1849 illustrated edition of which only two copies are known to exist. That from which this facsimile was reproduced remains behind locked doors in New York’s Fifth Avenue Library.” No other examples of this edition located in ABPC or Rare Book Hub.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
201
(moore, clement c.) keene, john; editor.
“A Visit from St. Nicholas” [in] The Poets of America.
NY, 1840; 1849
Frontispiece, tinted additional title-page, and numerous illustrations by John Gadsby Chapman. 8vo, publisher’s full green morocoo stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, edges and joints worn with exposure, joints rubbed, spine tips chipped; ownership inscriptions, scattered light to moderate foxing throughout. Scarce American gift book and the first illustrated appearance of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” in book form (pp. [102]-104). Keene was a well-known New York bookseller who edited another important annual, The Opal. Marshall 20. New York: S. Colman, 1840. [With:] The Evergreen, or Church Offering for all Seasons. Vol VI. 8vo, contemporary ½ morocco, soiling, extremities worn; scattered foxing and staining. Later appearance of “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” (pp. [353]-357) with vignette illustrations. NY, 1849. (2)
Estimate
$500 – $700
202
(mystery and detective fiction.)
Group of 11 First editions by Women.
Vp, vd
8vo, publisher’s cloth; original dust jackets; condition very good or better (excepting first title). Comprising: WELLS, CAROLYN. Prillilgirl. Jacket with several tape repairs on verso, large chips to head and foot of spine panel, dust soiling, $2.00 price intact. Philadelphia, 1924 * WELLS, CAROLYN. The Master Murderer. Spine panel of jacket faded with small nicks and creasing touching letters, two tape repairs on verso, few other small chips, dust soiling; inkstamp to front flyleaf. Philadelphia, 1933 * HANSON, VIRGINIA. Casual Slaughters. Jacket with small chips, short tears with associated creasing, particularly along top edges and head of spine panel. NY, 1939 * WELLS, CAROLYN. Murder at the Casino. Small bump to front board; jacket folds rubbed, short closed tears and corner nicks. Philadelphia, 1941 * REILLY, HELEN. Mourned on Sunday. Joints age-toned; jacket with rubbing to folds, spine panel faded with wear to ends, corners nicked. NY, 1941 * HUGHES, DOROTHY B. The Fallen Sparrow. Spine tips with light fraying, faint stains to endleaves; extensive tape and paper repairs to jacket, abrading with loss of paper, spine panel ends chipped with letters lost. NY, 1942 * McCLOY, HELEN. The One That Got Away. Top of rear flap of jacket clipped with loss of letters, few nicks and short closed tears. NY, 1945 * HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. A Game for the Living. Spine lean; jacket with spine panel faded and price sticker on rear panel. NY, 1958 * CLARK, MARY HIGGINS. A Stranger is Watching. Two tape repairs on jacket verso. NY, 1977 * HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. The Black House. Inkstamp to front flyleaf; jacket spine panel faded. Signed and inscribed by the author. London, 1981 * HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. Postmortem. Light fade to jacket spine panel. NY, 1990. (11)
Estimate
$600 – $900
203
(mystery and detective fiction.)
Group of 8 Golden Age works.
Vp, vd
8vo, publisher’s cloth; original dust jackets; condition very good or better. Comprising: HARVEY, ALEXANDER. The Toe and Other Tales. Jacket spine panel with price neatly excised and small chip to foot, closed tears with associated creasing to bottom of front panel and at bottom of rear flap fold. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author. NY, 1913 * LEVEL, MAURICE. Those Who Return (L’Ombre). Jacket, entirely rebacked, portion of spine panel supplied in facsimile. First American edition. NY, 1923 * COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY. The May Day Mystery. Corner-clipped jacket, one tape mend on verso. First edition. NY, 1929 * PATRICK, Q. [Richard Wilson Webb and Martha Mott Kelley]. Cottage Sinister. Jacket with tape repairs to verso, small nicks to fold corners and spine ends; ownership signature. First edition of the author’s first mystery novel. Philadelphia, 1931 * JACOBS, T.C.H. The Kestrel House Mystery. Light finger soiling to cloth, slight lean; unclipped jacket, spine panel faded. First edition. NY, 1933 * BLAKE, NICHOLAS. The Summer Camp Mystery. Jacket with corners narrowly clipped retaining $2.00 price, several tape remnants on recto and verso, chipping to spine panel ends and fold corners. First American edition. NY, 1940 * HEARD, H.F. A Taste for Honey. Jacket spine panel faded, few chips, short closed tears. First edition. NY, 1941 * PETERSEN, HERMAN. The D.A.’s Daughter. Jacket corners narrowly clipped retaining $2.00 price, spine panel faded, corners nicked. First edition. (8)
Estimate
$600 – $800
204
Nabokov, vladimir.
Lolita.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, (1955) [i.e. 1958]
8vo, publisher’s cloth over patterned boards; unclipped sixteenth printing dust jacket, spine sunned, light wear to spine panel tips. Sixteenth impression of the first American edition, signed and dated by the author: “Vladimir Nabokov / July 24, 1959” in blue ink on half title.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
205
Nabokov, vladimir.
Lolita.
Paris: The Olympia Press, (1955)
2 volumes. 8vo, publisher’s green, white, and black printed wrappers, light wear to spine tips and corners, faint finger soiling to rear wraps, one corner crease. First edition, second issue, with the stickers (chipped on vol. 2) altering the price to “1200 Francs” affixed to the rear covers. Handsome copy. Kearney 16; Juliar A28.1.1.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
206
Orwell, george.
Animal Farm.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1945
8vo, publisher’s green cloth; dust jacket with 6s price to front flap with “Searchlight Books—each 2s net” and train engine printed in red on verso, folds rubbed, few small nicks to corners and spine panel tips, light dust soiling; ex-collection Jack Diether (see lot 181) with his stamp and ownership signature. First edition, with “First Published May 1945” on copyright. A clean, square copy in unrestored jacket.
Estimate
$3,500 – $4,500
207
Orwell, george.
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949
8vo, bound in modern full tan leather by Exeter Bookbinders, styled as man’s jacket, raised metal skeletons as buttons, within the folded lapels is a genuine onlayed prosthetic or “fake” eye with tan calf eyelids, front and rear covers lettered in white, blind rules; pastedowns and free endpapers with patterned collage of the author’s eyes, with two secret panels on the front pastedown concealing a Ten Shilling Bank Note of England displaying HM Queen Elizabeth’s II’s face and a one dollar bill displaying George Washington; binder’s gilt leather label mounted to rear pastedown designating this as Number 82 of 100 copies. First edition in an evocative binding.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
208
Orwell, george.
Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript.
Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1984
Edited by Peter Davison. Title printed in blue and black. Large folio, bound in full royal blue Niger with black onlays tooled and lettered in gilt by Gray Parrot of Easthampton, Massachusetts; prospectus laid in; original ¼ morocco folding case. Deluxe issue, number 53 of 55 copies. Fine.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
209
Planche, j.r.
The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles.
A Romantic Melo-Drama, in Two Acts: Preceded by an Introductory Vision. As Performed at the Theatre Royal English Opera House, August 9th, 1820. 8vo, later ¼ red morocco and marbled boards, spine titles gilt, mild wear to extremities; title-page unevenly toned, ownership signature, blank portion excised with paper mend. First edition of an adaptation of Charles Nodier’s “Le Vampire” (which itself was a dramatization of John Polidori’s novel “The Vampyre”).
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
210
Poe, edgar allan.
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
New York/London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, [1902]
Edited and Chronologically Arranged on the Basis of the Standard Text, with Certain Additional Material and with a Critical Introduction by Charles F. Richardson. Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn, lettered tissue guards. 10 volumes. Titles and additional vignette titles printed in red and black. Tall 8vo, ¾ red morocco and marbled boards, top edges gilt, spines tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, occasional light wear to spine tips and corners; pictorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Number 20 of 300 sets of the Tamerlane Edition, printed on Ruisdael handmade paper.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
211
Pound, ezra
Group of 3 works.
Vp, vd
Canzoni. 12mo, publisher’s full grey cloth, gilt-lettered, spine tanned with rubbing to head and foot. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed and initialed by Pound’s wife Dorothy Shakespear in the year of publication. London, 1911. Gallup A7a * Poems 1918-21 Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos. 8vo, publisher’s ¼ parchment and blue paper-covered boards, spine tips bumped; dust jacket, front/spine panels separated, head and foot of spine panel with small chips. First edition. NY, (1921). Gallup A21 * If This Be Treason. 8vo, publisher’s stapled printed wrappers, portion faded; publisher’s slip laid in. Reprint edition (originally published 1948, Gallup A59), signed and inscribed by Olga Rudge. Venice, 1983. (3)
Estimate
$600 – $800
212
Pound, ezra.
Cathay. Translations … for the most part from the Chinese of Rihaku,
London: Elkin Mathews, 1915
from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, and the decipherings of the professors Mori and Ariga. 8vo, original printed wrappers, a few small spots along fore-edges. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Superb copy. Gallup A9.
Estimate
$600 – $800
213
Pound, ezra.
Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII.
London/Iowa City: Faber & Faber/The Stone Wall Press, (1969)
Folio, publisher’s brick red cloth with paper spine label, top-edges rough cut, others untrimmed; errata slip laid in; original card slipcase with printed paper label, unevenly faded. One of 310 copies signed by Pound, this copy designated out-of-series. Printed by K.K. Merker at The Stone Wall Press, Iowa City. A near fine copy of the English issue. Gallup A91d.
Estimate
$600 – $900
214
Pound, ezra.
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.
London: The Ovid Press, 1920
Initials after designs by Edward Wadsworth. Tall 8vo, original tan linen-backed brown boards, printed paper cover label, uncut and unopened; pale toning on title. A superb copy of the first edition, number 194 of 165 unsigned copies from a stated total edition of 200. Although the colophon asserts that 200 copies were produced, both Gallup and Ransom note that fewer copies were in fact issued and that a few out-of-series copies and sets of unbound sheets are known to exist. Gallup A19; Ransom 373.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
215
Rhys, jean.
The Left Bank and Other Stories.
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, [1927]
Preface by Ford Madox Ford. 8vo, publisher’s full blue cloth, printed paper spine label; unclipped dust jacket, spine panel lightly sunned with shallow chip at head, neatly detached along front/spine panel fold; age-toning to front and end matter. First edition of the author’s first book. [With:] Voyage in the Dark. 8vo, publisher’s cloth; unclipped dust jacket. Signed and inscribed second edition. Presentation copy to fellow novelist Olivia Manning, dated 1971. Fine. (2)
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
216
Rhys, jean.
Wide Sargasso Sea.
(London): Andre Deutsch, (1966)
8vo, publisher’s red-orange cloth, slight lean, spine titles gilt; unclipped dust jacket, trace of rubbing to top edges, printed W.H. Smith Literary Award wraparound banner. First edition. Clean, crisp copy.
Estimate
$600 – $800
217
Rolfe, f.r. [baron corvo].
Hadrian the Seventh. A Romance.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1904
8vo, original purple cloth, title and pictorial decoration in white to front board, spine gilt-lettered, very slightly rubbed at extremities; discreet bookseller’s label to front pastedown, 32 page publisher’s catalogue at end. First edition, first impression with cover decoration in white. Exceptional copy, very uncommon as such.
Estimate
$600 – $800
218
Roussel, raymond.
Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique suivies de L’Ame de Victor Hugo.
Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 1932
With 59 illustrations by Henri-Achille Zo. 16 pp. “La Critique et Raymond Roussel” inserted before the title. 8vo, publisher’s printed wrappers; glassine overwrap; unopened but for preliminaries. First edition. One of an unspecified number on Japon. Beautifully preserved copy, in fully intact glassine.
Estimate
$600 – $800
219
[salinger, j.d.] hamilton, ian.
A Writing Life.
New York: Random House, 1986
8vo, original yellow wrappers printed in black, backstrip faded slightly, few small scratches and spots to back wrapper, publisher’s printed announcement cellotaped to front wrapper. First edition, first state of the uncorrected proofs with all suppressed content extant. The front wrapper and title-page with the misspelling of the author’s name (“Hamiton”). The publication was halted by Salinger who objected to Hamilton’s use of many of his unpublished letters: “Salinger received a set of the galley proofs of this version (the ‘May galleys’) and learned from the galleys and the footnote citations to his letters that the letters had been donated to university libraries. In response, he took two actions. First, he registered 79 of his unpublished letters for copyright protection. Second, he instructed his counsel to object to publication of the biography until all of Salinger’s unpublished materials were deleted” (http://www.law.cornel.edu/copyright/cases/811_F2D_90.htm). The text was then revised by omitting or closely paraphrasing much of the quoted material and a second set of proofs was released later the same year (the “October galleys”) but did nothing to placate Salinger, who instituted legal proceedings to halt publication. The suit ultimately reached the Supreme Court, who ruled in Salinger’s favor. A scarce Salinger item, containing the only appearance in print of some of his significant correspondence, largely sourced from the Harvard, Princeton and University of Texas libraries.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
220
Salinger, j.d.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1951
8vo, publisher’s black cloth, spine titles gilt, slight lean, few small stains to boards; unclipped dust jacket, toning to spine panel and top edges, folds gently creased, spine panel tips and fold corners with small nicks and minor rubbing; contents clean. Completely unrestored copy of the first edition in 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
$3,500 – $4,000
221
(science fiction.)
Group of 10 works.
Vp, vd
8vo, publisher’s cloth or wrappers; dust jackets as issued. Comprising: Merritt, A. The Moon Pool. Jacket chipped with tears, including portion of rear panel with loss. First edition, second printing. NY, 1919 * Kline, Otis Adelbert. Maza of the Moon. Jacket with shallow chipping, folds rubbed. First edition. Chicago, 1930 * Capek, Karel. War With the Newts. Spine unevenly faded; unclipped jacket with spine panel sunned, top edges and flaps nicked along top edges. First American edition. NY, (1937) * Smith, Edward E. Galactic Patrol. Printed wrappers, finger soiling. Trade paperback edition. Reading, PA, 1950 * Heinlein, Robert. Universe. Stapled wrappers; cloth chemise. First paperback original, a “Dell 10 cent book.” NY, 1951 * Heinlein, Robert. The Man Who Sold the Moon. Printed wrappers, spine rubbed. Advance proof copy of the first English edition. London, 1953 * Clarke, Arthur C. The Other Side of the Sky. Dust jacket torn with some letters lost. First edition, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication. NY, (1958) * Zelazny, Roger. A Rhapsody in Amber. Patterned jacket over plain, sewn wrappers; original slipcase. Deluxe issue, letter “H”, of 52 copies signed by the author. New Castle, VA, 1981 * Dick, Philip K. Ubik the Screenplay. Trial dust jacket over printed wrappers. Advance review copy. Minneapolis, 1985 * Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood Ends. Fine copy in like dust jacket; slipcase. One of 85 copies signed by the author. Rochester, MI, 1996. (10)
Estimate
$600 – $900
222
Stein, gertrude.
An Acquaintance with Description.
London, 1929; New York, 1914
Title page vignette by Len Lye. Thin 8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered white buckram; endleaves age-toned. First edition, number 215 of 225 copies, signed by Stein on the colophon slip tipped to verso of half-title, as issued. Wilson A13. London: The Seizin Press, 1929 [With:] Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms. Small 8vo, publisher’s yellow boards, title label to front board, spine mostly perished, boards soiled. First edition. Wilson A3a. New York: Claire Marie, 1914. (2)
Estimate
$600 – $900
223
Stein, gertrude.
Four Saints in Three Acts.
New York: Random House, 1934; 1936
8vo, publisher’s black cloth; unclipped dust jacket, spine panel tanned with shallow chips to head and foot, short closed tears. First edition, signed with short inscription by the author. Wilson A21a. [With:] The Geographical History of America or The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind. Introduction by Thornton Wilder. 8vo, publisher’s flexible cloth; unclipped dust jacket, folds rubbed with corners nicked, mild soiling and fading. First edition. “1,000 copies published…[but] less than 200 copies were sold and it is believed that the remaining copies were pulped, which would account for the uncommon scarcity of such a comparatively recent book” (Wilson A26). (2)
Estimate
$600 – $800
224
Stein, gertrude.
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia.
(Firenze: [Privately published, printed by] Tip. Galileiana [1912])
8vo, original hand-made floral Florentine wallpaper wrappers, light rubbing to spine fold, small chip to top of rear wrapper, printed paper label on front cover, few small spots; minor blemishes to page [1] and reverse of rear wrap. First edition, one of 300 unnumbered copies. This copy with the printer’s imprint at the foot of page [12]. Wilson notes that “copies exist both with and without printer’s imprint … most copies examined lack the imprint” (Wilson A2).
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
225
Stein, gertrude.
The World is Round.
New York: William R. Scott, (1939)
Illustrated by Clement Hurd. 4to, publisher’s gilt lettered white boards, few spots of toning; glassine dust jacket with some uneven toning and two small nicks; contents printed on rose-pink paper with blue type and blue and white illustrations; publisher’s card slipcase, spine tips with splits and small repair, corners rubbed. First edition, one of 350 copies signed by Stein and Hurd on the tipped-in flyleaf as issued. Wilson A32b.
Estimate
$600 – $800
226
Stein, gertrude.
What Are Masterpieces.
Los Angeles: The Conference Press, (1940)
Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket, 5mm closed tear at bottom of front panel, light shelf wear to rear panel; Gotham Book Mart ticket to rear pastedown; publisher’s prospectus laid in; housed in ¼ morocco folding case. Number 42 of 50 copies signed by Stein on a special inserted limitation leaf. Printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Beautifully preserved copy. Wilson A35b.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
227
Steinbeck, john.
East of Eden.
New York: The Viking Press, 1952
4to, publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth; all edges trimmed and dyed pink, some flaking to spine stamping; glassine replaced with clear acetate jacket; lacking slipcase. First edition, limited issue. One of 1500 copies signed by Steinbeck. Goldstone & Payne A32.a.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
228
Steinbeck, john.
The Grapes of Wrath.
New York: Viking, (1939)
8vo, publisher’s pictorial tan cloth, few light spots to spine and front joint; unrestored dust jacket, priced $2.75, spine panel darkened with shallow chips to head and foot including loss of a few letters in title, short closed tears and small nicks at fold corners, folds rubbed; ownership stamp to front pastedown and flyleaf; custom felt-lined folding box. First edition, with Steinbeck’s signature on plain clipped card laid in. Goldstone & Payne A12.a.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
229
[sterne, laurence.]
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
London: for R. & J. Dodsley; for T. Becket & P.A. Dehondt, 1760-1767
9 volumes. Half-titles present in volumes IV, V, VI, and IX. Small 8vo, contemporary full brown calf, rebacked, spines gilt in compartments with morocco lettering piece; new endpapers, some offsetting of frontispieces to titles of vols. I and III, worm track in fore-edge margin of gatherings L and M in vol. I, frontispiece closely trimmed in vol. III.; cloth slipcase. Mixed edition, volumes V, VII, and IX signed by the author, “L. Sterne,” at the head of the opening chapter. First edition of volumes III-IX; stated second edition of volumes I and II. Rothschild 1970; Tinker 1973.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
230
Stevens, wallace.
Harmonium.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931
8vo, publisher’s ¼ cloth-backed grey patterned boards, printed paper spine label; dust jacket, spine panel sunned, split along spine/rear panel fold, three tape repairs on verso; later ownership inscription on front pastedown; custom cloth chemise and ¼ morocco slipcase. Second edition, first binding, presentation inscription by Stevens to Filipino-American artist Alfonso Ossario: “To the Painter from the Poet,” below which is Ossario’s own inscription “Gift of Dunstan Thompson / Cambridge Mass. ‘34” and with the artist’s monogram below. Also with Ossario’s stylized and enlarged monogram in red and black ink on the half-title. Edelstein A1.b. [With:] Description Without Place. 8vo, stapled wrappers. 1945.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
231
[swift, jonathan.]
Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind,
London: John Nutt, 1704
To which is added, An Account of a Battel Between the Antient and the Modern Books in St James Library. 8vo, full speckled calf, front and rear cover paneled in the Cambridge style, spine in compartments, joints cracked but holding; ownership signature beneath bookplate, bottom corner torn from preliminary blank. First edition, with uncorrected text on p. 320, line 10. Teerink-Scouten 218.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
232
Twain, mark.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885
Frontispiece and text illustrations by E.W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1). 4to, publisher’s green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, slightly shaken, corners rubbed with light exposure, joints rubbed and slight fraying to spine tips, few small scratches to rear board; ownership inscription, A. Edward Newton and Kenneth Rapoport bookplates to front pastedown; custom cloth chemise and ¼ morocco slipcase. First American edition, with the following first issue points: page [9] with “Decided”; page [13] illustration caption incorrect; and p. 57 (“with the was”); the title-page and p. 283 are cancels. The other known points “are of no significance in determining the sequence of the printing of the sheets. All of these occur at random in relation to each other within copies of the first printing, a strong indicator of the use of multiple plates, and possibly mixed sheets within the collating process” (MacDonnell, Firsts, vol. 8, no. 7/8, 1998, p. 31). BAL 3415.
Estimate
$1,800 – $2,500
233
Twain, mark.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885
Frontispiece and text illustrations by E.W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 2). 4to, publisher’s green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, extremities rubbed with light exposure, bottom corners damp stained; ownership stamp to front flyleaf, some foxing and toning, heaviest to front and end matter; custom clamshell box. First American edition, with plain card signed and inscribed by the author laid in: “Truly yours Mark Twain [underline flourish].” With the following first issue points: page [9] with “Decided”; page [13] illustration caption incorrect; and p. 57 (“with the was”); the title-page and p. 283 are cancels. The other known points “are of no significance in determining the sequence of the printing of the sheets. All of these occur at random in relation to each other within copies of the first printing, a strong indicator of the use of multiple plates, and possibly mixed sheets within the collating process” (MacDonnell, Firsts, vol. 8, no. 7/8, 1998, p. 31). BAL 3415.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
234
Villiers de l’isle-adam, auguste, comte de.
L’Eve Future.
Paris: de Brunhoff, 1886
Half-title. Small 8vo, bound in later full red morocco, spine gilt in one compartment, top edges and turn-ins gilt, original printed wrappers in red and black bound in (front wrapper trimmed with loss of author’s name along top edges, and small paper repair to bottom corner), 1-page publisher’s advertisement on verso of half-title, 3 pp. table of contents at end. First edition in book form (first published serially in La Vie Moderne, 18 July 1885 - 27 March 1886). “A remarkable work that deserves more attention than it has received. Although it has had little influence in the English-speaking world, it is undoubtedly to be ranked in quality and thought-provoking power with Frankenstein, Erewhon, and We.” Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2259.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
235
Von harbou, thea.
Metropolis.
Berlin: August Scherl, (1926)
8vo, publisher’s gilt-decorated green cloth, all edges stained yellow, few faint smudges to front board; facsimile dust jacket; ownership signature dated 1927, 5-page publisher’s advertisements at end. First edition, later printing, with 17 to 21 thousand indication on title. A tight, square copy, exceedingly well preserved. Anatomy of Wonder III, 2-123; Bleiler (1990), 1040.
Estimate
$400 – $600
236
Wallace, david foster.
Infinite Jest.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996
Thick 8vo, publisher’s printed wrappers, one corner trifle bumped, publisher sticker on front wrap; erratum slip laid in. Uncorrected advance proof, signed by Wallace on front flyleaf. Special galley edition.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
237
Walser, robert.
Der Gehülfe.
Vp, vd
8vo, original pictorial cloth after a design by Karl Walser, top edges gilt, others uncut, scattered faint discoloration to front and rear boards; contents clean and unmarked; cloth clamshell box with printed spine label. First edition of the author’s second novel. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, [1908]. [With:] Kleine Prosa. 8vo, original decorated printed paper-covered boards, leaning slightly, faint soiling to front cover. First edition. Bern: A. Francke, 1917. Greatly admired by Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and Robert Musil, Walser’s work fell into almost total neglect from the 1920s until the 1960s. (2)
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
238
Woolf, virginia.
Beau Brummell.
New York: Rimington & Hooper, 1930
Illustrated with two plates by W.A. Dwiggins. 4to, publisher’s ¼ cloth-backed boards, spine gilt, paper pictorial cover label; publisher’s slipcase with paper pictorial label, soiled but intact. Number 224 of 500 copies signed by Woolf.
Estimate
$600 – $900
239
Zelazny, roger.
Lord of Light.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1967
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, spine silver-lettered; unclipped dust jacket, trace of rubbing to spine panel tips. First edition, in a pleasingly bright jacket. Winner of the 1968 Hugo award for best novel and a 1967 Nebula nominee. Currey, p. 571.
Estimate
$600 – $800
240
Zukofsky, louis.
80 Flowers.
Vp, vd
Oblong 8vo, publisher’s cloth, mottling; contents clean. Limited edition, one of 80 copies, this out-of-series. Elusive Zukovsky title. (Lunenberg, VT: Stinehour Press, 1978). [With:] Anew. 12mo, publisher’s orange cloth stamped in black; pictorial dust jacket, soiling, spine panel tips chipped, fold corners with tears, edges toned. First edition, presentation copy, signed and inscribed “To Paul [Dechar], Helene, and Sylvie from Louis Zukovsky, May 11/46.” Prairie City, IL: Press of James A. Decker, (1946). (2)
Estimate
$600 – $800
241
Zukofsky, louis.
Some Time.
Stuttgart: Jonathan Williams, 1956
Narrow 4to, publisher’s printed wrappers with musical notation design by Celia Thaw, side-stitched on Japanese hand-made paper; acetate dust jacket; original slipcase. Limited edition, number 25 of 50 copies, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to Meyer Shapiro. Designed and published by Jonathan Williams and issued as Jargon 15, his literary periodical. Fine copy with virtually no evidence of handling.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Art, Press & Illustrated Books
242
(ashendene press.)
The Wisdom of Jesus The Son or Sirach Commonly Called Ecclesiasticus.
(Chelsea, 1932)
Printed in red and black, with 178 initials hand-colored in green and blue by Graily Hewitt and his assistants. 4to, deep orange vellum with gilt-lettered spine and cloth ties; publisher’s marbled board slipcase. Fine, unfaded copy. One of 328 unnumbered copies on Batchelor hand-made paper. Hornby XXXVIII.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
243
(baskin, leonard / gehenna press.) skelton, john.
A Poem Called The Tunning of Elynour Rummynge: The Famous Ale-Wife of England.
Worcester: Gehenna Press, 1953
Printed in red, black, teal, tan, and green. 13 woodcuts by Leonard Baskin printed in various colors. Tall 4to, publisher’s boards with printed cover and spine labels; laid in are the prospectus (creased) and a printed 1963 New Year’s greeting from the Baskins in an envelope addressed to Wheeler. Number 28 of 118 copies. Signed by Leonard and Esther Baskin, the 5th book of the press, and the first to incorporate both text and illustration on the same page–Gehenna 5. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-donor Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications, The Museum of Modern Art, with his bookplate.
Estimate
$500 – $750
244
(beckmann, max.) edschmid, kasimir.
Die Fürstin.
Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1918
6 drypoint etchings by Beckmann (Hofmaier 111-116; Jentsch 37), printed by Carl Sabo, Berlin. 4to, publisher’s full white pigskin by Otto Dorfner with cover design by Else von Guita, discoloration along board edges, light rubbing to extremities; contents clean. Deluxe edition, number 8 of 35 copies, each etching signed in pencil by Beckmann lower right; from a total edition of 500.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
245
Berman, wallace.
Radio/Aether Series 1966/1974.
Complete set of thirteen offset lithographs printed on Starwhite cover paper and mounted on Gemini ragboard (310 x 335 mm; 12¼ x 13½ inches), bottom left corners blindstamped; original printed cloth covered wooden slipcase (few minor scuffs). One of 50 copies with title page signed and numbered by the artist.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
246
(bindings - gruel.)
Heures du Moyen Age.
Paris: Gruel & Engelmann, 1887
Illustrations by Ed. Moreau, executed in lithography by A. Pralon. 193 chromolithograph pages. 8 ornamented souvenirs de famille pages to record family births, marriages, deaths, and other genealogical information. 8vo, bound in full black morocco with elaborate interlaced gilt design on front and rear boards by Gruel, gilt fleurons tooled within six spine compartments, minor rubbing to joints and extremities, all edges gilt; navy silk moire endpapers with gilt dentelles; contents clean and bright. Richly illustrated replication of a medieval Book of Hours in a sumptuous binding.
Estimate
$600 – $800
247
(book arts.)
The Book-Lover’s Almanac for the Year 1893.
New York: Duprat & Co., 1893
Chromolithographed title-page and 12 book-related illustrations for each month of the calendar year, by Henriot, some with hand coloring applied. Small 8vo, stiff card wrappers retaining most of rose and gold floral-patterned silk over-wrapper on front cover, rear cover replaced. Printed by The De Vinne Press. Nice association copy owned by Eugene Field and signed by printer Theodore Low DeVinne; number 118 of 200 copies on japan. Field, who contributed the story “Dibdin’s Ghost” to this Grolier Club-dedicated volume has also penciled the following verse on the front endpaper: “If in this book some good you find, pray note it - I’ll bet my boots some woolly western fellow wrote it. E.F. 1893.” A cut signature of Henriot is mounted above DeVinne’s signature on the front endpaper. This first of five volumes in the complete series contains an article on Jean Grolier by William Loring Andrews, an article on The Avery Architectural Library, “On an extra-illustrated copy of Nell Gwynne” by Beverly Chew, and “Bibliophiles et Biblioscopes” by Octave Uzanne among other works.
Estimate
$600 – $800
248
(chinese art.)
Three Hundred Masterpieces of Chinese Painting in the Palace Museum.
Taiwan, Taichung: National Palace Museum and National Central Museum 1959
6 volumes in 2 portfolios. Chinese and English text. Hundreds of tipped-in color plates and printed collotypes from the former Imperial Palace of the Ch’ing Dynasty. 437 x 317 mm; 17¼ x 12½ inches, original Chinese sewn brocade silk wrappers; housed in two navy cloth folding cases with faux bone clasps, very mild foxing and rubbing; internally near fine but for some very gentle occasional foxing to fore edges. Signed and inscribed by one of the editors, Wang Shih-chieh, to State Department Secretary of the Chinese Embassy, Walter S. Robertson, in Volume 1, dated in the year of publication. First edition of a lavish set selected and compiled by an editorial committee of Joint Board of Directors of the National Palace Museum and the National Central Museum.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
249
Dali, salvador. gérard, max.
Dali.
New York: Abrams, (1968)
Translated by Eleanor R. Morse. Illustrated throughout. 4to, publisher’s pictorial cloth, light rubbing to spine tips and joints; dust jacket, few superficial scratches and soft creasing; contents clean. First edition, signed and inscribed by Dali in blue pen.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
250
Dali, salvador.
Salvador Dali: 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship.
New York: The Dial Press, 1948
Illustrated throughout in black and white. 4to, publisher’s gilt-stamped black cloth, abrading to corners, spine tips and bottom extremities, water staining to covers into contents (chiefly along top blank margins); dust jacket chipped with loss and associated water staining, dust soiling. First trade edition, with an ink drawing by Dali on the half-title, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by him “A Monsieur a Madame Byron Troy. Hommage tres amicale de Salvador Dali, 1949.”
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
251
(dalziel brothers / publisher’s bindings.)
Home Thoughts and Home Scenes * Wayside Posies: Original Poems of the Country Life.
London: Routledge, 1865; 1867
Together, 2 volumes. Wood-engraved plates by the brothers Dalziel. 4to, elaborately decorated publisher’s bindings by Bone & Son, and Leighton, spine ends repaired on Home Thoughts and hinges reinforced; all edges trimmed and gilt, scattered foxing throughout; first title with slipcase. Handsome publisher’s bindings. That on Wayside Posies is listed as #47 in The Art of Publishers’ Bookbinding 1815-1915 (Morris, E; Levin, E, Los Angeles, 2000). (2)
Estimate
$600 – $900
252
Dalziel brothers.
Dalziel’s Bible Gallery.
New York: Scribner and Welford, 1881
62 wood engraved plates printed on India paper and mounted on card; half title, title, introductory leaf, contents, and final leaf with the Dalziel Brothers’ plate. Folio, 420x355 mm, publisher’s ½ calf over lettered boards, spine defective with portion of backstrip missing.
Estimate
$600 – $900
253
(derain, andre.) petronius arbiter, t.
Le Satyricon.
Paris, 1951
The complete set of 36 engravings and 43 woodcuts as chapter headings (all after Derain), in- and hors-texte, title, text in French, and justification. Folio (470 x 356 mm), loose as issued in printed wrappers; ¼ vellum chemise and board slipcase (defective); contents with offsetting on adjacent pages, occasional foxing and staining, otherwise in good condition. One of 46 copies aside from the total edition of 280, this copy out-of-series, with an extra suite of the engravings on wove, and two pen and ink drawings, for the chapter heading ornaments, this copy printed for M. et. Mmme Georges Heilbrun.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
254
Fairey, shepard.
VOTE! This Call to Action Provided by Obey.
Los Angeles: Obey Giant, 2008
Screenprint in colors (915 x 610 mm; 36 x 24 inches, sheet), on wove paper, unframed. One of 350 signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Clean, bright example. Limited edition poster, increasingly scarce for such recent vintage, both in commerce and at auction.
Estimate
$1,800 – $2,500
255
[gilliam, sam.]
Three Decades of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection.
New York and Manchester: Hudson Hills Press, (2004)
Numerous black-and-white and color illustrations by various artists. 4to, publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in silver; matching cloth slipcase; COA signed by publisher laid in. Limited edition, one of 396 copies, with 3 original lithographs by Gilliam initialed, numbered (27/396) and dated (‘05) by him laid in loose at front.
Estimate
$600 – $900
256
(golden cockerel press.) ovid.
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso.
London, 1958
11 illustrations by J. Yunge Bateman with additional suite of plates loose as issued. Folio, brown morocco with gilt-pictorial burgundy calf insets on covers, faintly but unevenly faded; suite in separate red cloth sleeve that matches slipcase. Number 16 of 75 specially bound copies with the additional suite of plates, including 3 plates not printed in the book. From a total edition of 200. Cock-a-Hoop 209.
Estimate
$500 – $750
257
Golikova, g.v. and laing, gerald.
DMT 42.
Stuttgart: Edition Domberger, 1969
23 screenprints in colors by Golikova illuminated by Laing. Folio, publisher’s plain wrappers, printed dust jacket; contents clean and bright; housed in original decorated cloth chemise with colophon/limitation on rear pastedown (dampstain to cloth) within matching slipcase (with similar dampstaining). Number 93 of 210 copies, this copy signed by Golikova and Laing and with an additional presentation inscription: “For Robert Indiana, affectionately, Gerald and Galina, Dec 1970” in pencil on front free endpaper.
Estimate
$500 – $700
258
(grolier club.) morison, stanley.
Fra Luca de Pacioli of Borgos Sepolcro.
New York, 1933
Printed in red and black. Illustrated with Pacioli’s alphabet, photo-engraved frontispiece portrait by Emery Walker. Small folio, ¼ gilt-lettered vellum over bird pattern paste-paper boards, few spots of light natural discoloration; Theodore Besterman bookplate; original board slipcase, tanned, corners rubbed, but intact. First edition, one of 390 unnumbered copies.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
259
Gropius, walter, editor.
Dammerstock Katalog: Austellung Karlsruhe Dammerstock-Siedlung die Gebrauchswohnung. 23 Typen. 228 Wohnungen.
Berlin, 1929
63 pages containing numerous architectural renderings for 20 projects. Oblong 8vo, original red wrappers (and internal design) by Kurt Schwitters, unevenly faded, stamp in upper right corner, inked note in German across front cover. Scarce catalogue on functional housing project managed by gropius. The Dammerstock-Siedlung was created between 1928-29 to make quality affordable modern dwellings for lower income residents that also provided modern function and style.
Estimate
$600 – $900
260
Indiana, robert.
Numbers.
Stuttgart: Edition Domberger/Düsseldorf: Galerie Schmela, 1968
Poems by Robert Creeley. Title, text and limitation pages (2 separate folded sheets, one signed by Indiana out-of-series, and one unsigned with “XXXVIII” indication), original paper folder for each of the prints (25½ x 19¾ inches; 645 x 500 mm, sheets), mylar sheet for each, and each with a poem by Creeley in English and German, on Schoeller Parole white wove paper, printed by Domberger KG, laid in loose, as issued; original oatmeal cloth portfolio (few faint spots). The complete set of 10 color screenprints, each signed, dated and numbered XXVIII/XXXV in pencil, also numbered on the limitation. One of 35 artist’s proofs from a total edition of 160. Beautifully preserved example. Sheehan 46-55.
Estimate
$30,000 – $40,000
261
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, 2014, Love, R Indiana” with his star doodle at top, (upside down) on rear free endpaper.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
262
Indiana, robert.
The Book of Love: Art & Poetry.
New York: American Image Publishing, 1996
Illustrated. 12mo (6 x 4 ¼ inches), publisher’s printed wrappers; original printed linen bag with string tie. Limited edition, number 8 of 15 copies, with a color photoprint signed by Indiana laid in. Provenance: Robert Indiana; thence by gift to current owner.
Estimate
$300 – $400
263
Indiana, robert.
Trilove. 3 Poems.
New York/Stuttgart: Bouwerie Editions/Edition Domberger, (1969)
Illustrated with the silkscreen of his famous LOVE image in green, blue, and white; sheet size: 8 x 8 inches; 205 x 205 mm. Thin 8vo, blindstamped white wrappers with tri-fold overwrap. Printed by Bouwerie Editions. Deluxe issue, copy A39, one of 50 author’s copies, signed by him (from a total edition of 210). Provenance: ex-collection Robert Indiana; thence by gift to current owner.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
264
Indiana, robert; andy warhol, et al.
Stamped Indelibly.
New York: William Katz/Indianakatz, 1967
Complete with mounted rubber-stamped title, contents leaves, colophon and 15 prints in colors on wove paper, each signed in pencil except Grooms/Koch, Malanga and Warhol, as usual. 4to, publisher’s burlap covered boards. Limited edition, number 142 of 225 total copies, signed in pencil on the justification by William Katz. Provenance: ex-collection Robert Indiana, with his blindstamp on front free endpaper. Includes works by: Robert Creeley; Tom Wesselmann; Red Grooms and Kenneth Koch; Marisol; Robert Indiana (2); Josef Levi; Gerard Malanga; Allen Jones; Andy Warhol; Peter Saul; Claes Oldenburg (2); Allen Ginsberg; and John Willenbecher. Unsophisticated copy, with all prints intact. Fine.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
265
Kafka, franz.
L’invité des Morts. Dans notre Synagogue. L’Épée. Lampes neuves.
Paris: Du Livres Francais, [1948]
4 drypoint etchings by Wols. Translated by Marthe Robert. 8vo, original wrappers decorated by Wols, some toning to edges and on remaining portions of glassine dust jacket. Number 24 of 120 copies on papier de montval from a total edition of 250.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
266
Kelly, ellsworth.
Plant Drawings.
(New York): Matthew Marks Gallery, (1992)
Essay by John Ashbery. Reproductions of Kelly’s botanical drawings. 4to, white cloth lettered in black; original printed dust jacket. Deluxe issue, number 58 of 100 specially bound copies numbered and signed by Kelly and Ashbery, from a total edition of 2000.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
267
(kelmscott press.) chaucer, geoffrey.
The Works [with] a Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson.
London: Basilisk Press, 1974-1975
2 volumes. First volume is a facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer. Woodcut title-page, 87 woodcut illustrations after Sir Edward Burne-Jones, text in double columns. Companion volume contains 85 tipped-in plates from pencil drawings by Burne-Jones; prospectus laid in. Folio, uniform burgundy and tan floral Larkspur pattern cloth designed by Morris, original printed blue paper spine labels (replacement labels tipped to rear of each volume); uncut, bright and fresh internally. Number 285 of 515 sets of the beautiful facsimile of the Kelmscott Press’s masterwork. Printed by The John Roberts Press in Clerkenwell for the Basilisk Press under the direction of Peter Guy. The plates were created from blocks made by John Swain and Son, all printed on specially made paper by St. Cuthbert’s Mill at Wells, and the sumptuous cloth bindings printed by Liberty of London. (2)
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
268
(limited editions club.) clemente, francesco and pound, ezra.
Cathay: Poems After Li Po.
New York, 1992
7 color woodcuts by Clemente. Printed on handmade Ogawashi paper. 4to, publisher’s full light blue silk, blind stamped front cover; matching slipcase (portion lightly faded). Number 15 of 300 copies signed by Clemente.
Estimate
$600 – $800
269
(limited editions club.) kelly, ellsworth.
Un Coup de Dés n’Abolira Jamais le Hasard. [A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance.]
New York, 1992
Poem by Stéphane Mallarmé. Lithographs by Ellsworth Kelly. Folio (17 x 12½ inches; 435 x 320 mm), bound in full black Nigerian goatskin, spine titles gilt; prospectus and booklet laid in; original fleece-lined clamshell box. Fine copy. Number 41 of 300 copies printed to Velin BFK Rives paper signed by Kelly. Castleman 202.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
270
(limited editions club.) saar, betye.
Bookmarks in the Pages of Life.
New York, 2000
By Zora Neale Hurston. 6 serigraphs by Saar. Folio, publisher’s ½ morocco and handmade paper-covered boards; prospectus laid in; original cloth case. Number 188 of 300 copies signed by Saar. Fine.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
271
Louys, pierre. calbet, antoine.
Aphrodite. Moeurs antiques.
Paris: Librairie Borel, 1896
Illustrated with vignette title, frontispiece, and numerous others by Calbet. Small 8vo, contemporary ½ morocco over marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, slight lean; intermittent to moderate foxing. First illustrated edition, one of 73 on Japon; from a total edition of 98 copies.
Estimate
$400 – $600
272
Matisse, henri.
The Last Works of Henri Matisse 1950-1954. Verve 9, number 35/36.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1958)
English text by Pierre Reverdy and Georges Duthuit. Comprising 40 lithographs, some folding, in colors after Matisse printed by Mourlot, with text in English. Folio, publisher’s decorated paper-covered boards, light rubbing to head and foot of spine and bottom of front board; dust jacket, short closed years, few small nicks and serrations, mostly along top edge; bookplate to front free endpaper, some spotting/offsetting to front and end matter and extreme outer blank margins of contents, plates generally clean with colors bright, one folding plate (La Piscine) with narrow crease to one edge. First American edition.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
273
Mucha, alphonse. france, anatole.
Clio.
Paris: Calmann Levy, 1900
Lithographed color plates and text illustrations by Mucha. 8vo, contemporary ½ brown morocco, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, spine faded; bookplate on front pastedown, contents clean. Limited edition, one of 100 copies on Japon, from a total edition of 150.
Estimate
$300 – $400
274
Pechstein, max. osborn, max.
Max Pechstein.
Berlin: Propyläen, (1922)
Complete with the original color lithograph frontispiece “Walk”; the two etchings “Beim Haaraufsteck” and “Netzhaulen”; the woodcut “Zwei Kopfe” as well as numerous illustrations throughout. 4to, original full pigskin, spine tooled in gilt, top edges gilt, joints cracked and repaired, extremities rubbed with some abrading; foxing to front flyleaf, illustrations clean (soft creasing to bottom left corner of frontis litho). Deluxe issue, number 34 of 50 copies, with the aforementioned lithograph, woodcut and etchings signed by Pechstein, in pencil, lower margin. Very scarce.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,500
275
[prayer.]
The Book of Common Prayer.
New York: Printed for the Committee, 1893
And Administration of the Sacraments And other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David. Printed in black and red. Folio, original vellum over bevelled boards, front cover and spine decorated in gilt, some faint, natural discoloration, brass fore-clasps and catch plates, top edges gilt, others deckled; foliated borders, ex-collection Washington Cathedral Library with their bookplate to front pastedown; with laid in pamphlet: “On the Decorations of the Limited Edition of the Standard Prayer Book of 1892”, by D. B. Updike, printed at the De Vinne Press. Large paper copy, one of 500 unnumbered copies on American hand-made paper at the de Vinne Press for the Committee. D. B. Updike designed the plan of symbolism and method of decoration of the total edition, of which the complementary and subscription copies have foliated borders. The official copies are printed with plain margins, and the complimentary and subscription copies have the foliated borders designed by Updike.
Estimate
$700 – $1,000
276
(print portfolio.) erb, christopher.
Dead Birds.
Np: Vital Signs, 1988
24 broadsides containing a hand-printed and signed print by various artists including Will Barnet, Robert Blackburn, Joe Lee, George Nama, and others, accompanying a poem by Erb. Verona typeface hand set and printed by Elena Laza. Folio, 381x533 mm; 15x21 inches, sheets, full margins. Folio, contents loose as issued in silver-stamped textured board clamshell box. Number 11 of 36 copies signed by Erb and each of the artists.
Estimate
$500 – $750
277
(rackham, arthur.) evans, c. s.
The Sleeping Beauty.
Vp, vd
One tipped-in color plate, 19 full-page silhouette plates by Rackham (three double-page), many with some color, and 41 in-text silhouette illustrations. 4to, original vellum-backed gilt-stamped boards, corners rubbed, vertical abrasion to front board; top edges trimmed and gilt, others uncut, some usual light offsetting. First deluxe limited edition. Number 550 of 625 copies signed by Rackham with an extra plate not contained in the trade edition. London/Philadelphia, (1920). Latimore & Haskell 51. [With:] Gooden, Stephen. Aesop’s Fables Translated by Sir Roger L’Estrange. 13 engraved plates plates and decorations by Gooden including title-page and end-piece vignette. Large 8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped vellum, top edges gilt, spine sunned, usual discoloration to boards. Number 186 of 525 copies, signed by Gooden. London, 1936. (2)
Estimate
$600 – $900
278
Ruscha, edward.
Twentysix Gasoline Stations.
(Alhambra, California): self-published, “A National Excelsior Publication,” 1963
Illustrated with reproductions of Ruscha’s photographs of West Coast and Southwest gas stations. 8vo, publisher’s wrappers printed in red, some age-toning/spotting, mainly to top and bottom of front wrap; original glassine dust jacket with spine panel sunned and shallow chipping to head and foot, few other small chips along top edges; few other mild spots to blank margins of preliminaries. Number 209 from the first edition of 400 copies printed by The Cunningham Press. Hasselblad 198.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
279
(russian constructivism.)
Mena vsekh. Konstructivisty poety [Exchange of All Constructivist Poets].
Moscow: Konstruktivisty Poety, 1924
Essays by Aleksei Chicherin, Il’ia Selvinskii and Kornelli Zelinskii. Illustrations by A. Chicherin and others, including some typographic designs. 8vo, original printed wrappers designed by Nikolai Nikolaevich Kupreyanov, tissue paper repair to backstrip, mild spotting to rear wrap; gatherings separated. First edition. With concrete poetry by Chicherin and Boris Zemenkov. One of 1500. The Russian Avant-Garde Book 567.
Estimate
$600 – $800
280
(russian modernism.)
Imazhinisty [The Imaginists].
Moscow: Izdanie Avtorov, 1925
Photomontage cover by Giorgi and Vladimir Stenberg. Square 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, uneven tanning, clean splits along backstrip, mild edgewear; glassine jacket. First edition. Cover shows montage of contributors Anatoly Marienhof, Rurik Ivnev (pseud. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kovalyov), Vadim Shershenevich, and Matvey Royzman, from photos by Moisei Nappelbaum. Uncommonly well preserved example. Rowell and Wye 622.
Estimate
$600 – $800
281
(satz, matthew.) mcwhinnie, john.
How to Shoot at One Who Outdrew You.
East Hampton: Horowitz, 2005
Volume of color photographic plates showing artworks by Satz, with an introductory essay by McWhinnie; accompanied by three original paintings, 182x131 mm each, signed and dated by Satz on verso, and an original oil-based enamel on waxed linen thread, 229 mm long. Oblong 4to, original dove grey cloth lettered in blue; laid into matching cloth clamshell case with insets to house paintings and thread; inscribed by Satz to collector on title-page. One of only 35 deluxe limited editions with the signed artworks; from a total edition of 785.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
282
[various artists.]
Ten Works by Ten Painters.
Hartford, Connecticut: The Wadsworth Atheneum, 1964
Title, contents list, and limitation pages, complete set of 10 color screenprints (24 x 20¼ inches; 610 x 510 mm, sheets) each in printed paper folders on Mohawk Superfine Cover, each with the blindstamp of the printer, (Ives Sillman, New Haven), laid in loose, as issued; contents fine; original cloth covered portfolio (scattered moderate spotting); publisher’s shipping carton; ex-collection Robert Indiana (carton with mailing label addressed to him). The artists included in the portfolio are Stuart Davis, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Larry Poons, George Ortman, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Deluxe issue, Copy A-26 of 50 (from a total edition of 500).
Estimate
$25,000 – $35,000
283
Verve. vol. viii, nos 29 et 30.
Suite de 180 dessins de Picasso.
Paris: Éditions de la revue Verve, (1954)
With 16 lithographs in colors, numerous reproductions. Folio, publisher’s decorative boards, few chips and splits along joints, spine repairs to head and foot; acetate dust jacket; contents quite clean. French language edition.
Estimate
$600 – $900
284
Walker, kara.
Freedom, a Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times.
Santa Monica: Peter Norton Family Foundation, 1997
Illustrated with offset lithographs and 5 laser-cut, pop-up silhouettes on wove paper. 4to, publisher’s blind-stamped red leatherette; original parchment wrapper (few small chips), publisher’s promotional card laid in. One of 4000 printed.