Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 33

Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

Authors

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 76		Ade, George (1866-1944) American writer, columnist and playwright. Typed Letter Signed regarding censorship, 1p, 11'x8½", Brook, Indiana, 1923 May 6. Very good; some age toning, one holograph correction. To the Editor of Literary Digest. In small part, "…The censors are political appointees and…they are below the average of intelligence, discrimination and taste…." Great content. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 77		Authors, Journalists, Cartoonists, Etc. A collection of approximately 25 signatures, notes, and letters, most on self-addressed postcards sent by an autograph collector during the 1960s. They include Drew Pearson, Lowell Thomas, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Calkin Banning, Stuart Closte, David Senter, Merriman Smith, Roscoe Drummond, Theodore Reik, Gladys Hasty Carroll, Cobina Wright, William E. Barrett, Mary O'Hara, Cornelius Ryan, Kathleen Winsor, and others. Fine overall. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 78		Barrie, James M (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist, best known for creating the character of Peter Pan. Autograph Letter Signed "J.M. Barrie," on "Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, W." stationery, 1p, 5½"x3¾", 1906 Jan. 27. To an unidentified woman, in part, "In answer to your letter, I am asking Mrs. Bright…who looks after all my affairs.…". Estimated Value $150 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 79		Beach, Rex (1877-1949) Popular author who wrote tales of adventure set in the wilds of Alaska, often with the Klondike Gold Rush as their subject. Vintage presentation Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "With all best wishes / Rex Beach / To Prof. Virgil Y. Russell," 9"x7¼", n.p., n.d. Fine. With embossed stamp of photographer Campbell Studin. Matted to 14"x11½"/. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 80		Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931) English novelish and dramatist. Typed Letter Signed, 1p, 9"x7" (London), 1912 Oct. 31. Fine. To Hamilton F. Armstrong in Princeton, N.J., regarding the artist St. Gaudens, "…his great talent is indisputable, but…he has not impressed himself to any extent on the continent of Europe." Estimated Value $100 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 81		Browning, Robert (1812-1889) British poet. Last two lines of a letter with closing and Signature, "of course, have been affected by this misfortune. Ever affectionately yours Robert Brownng," on a 2"x4½" piece of paper laid to a slightly larger piece, n.p., n.d. Fine; uneven top margin affects a few letters. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 82		Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) American poet. Autograph Letter Signed, "W.C. Bryant," 1½pp, 8"x5", Roslyn, Long Island, N.Y., 1874 Nov. 26. Fine. To Elisha Bassett, answering questions about Nathan Sears, who had been a student of his father's 60 years ago. He describes Sears physically and adds, "He had a sailor-like gate and…was somewhat of a wag…was not averse to brandy and water…his temper was amiable." Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $345
Lot 83		Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel (1788-1824) English poet. Autograph Note in the form of a Check Signed "Byron," 1 p., 3¼"x7¾", Newstead Abbey, Nottingham, 1812 Jan. 10. Very good; some toning and show-through from notations on verso. To Byron's agent and attorney, "J. Hanson Esqre 6. Chancery Lane, London." Byron writes, "Please to pay to Mr. Mealey or bearer the sum of fifty pounds for your very obdt. Servt. Byron." Owen Mealey was Byron's Newstead steward and lived in the gatehouse. Embossed revenue stamp at upper left. Byron's signature is very bold. Two months to the day after he wrote this check, Byron's book Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was published. He said, "I awoke one morning and found myself famous." Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 84		(Byron, Lord) Teresa Guiccioli (1800-1873) Italian noblewoman known for her liaison with Lord Byron. Autograph Letter Signed "T Guiccioli," in French, 3pp, 7¼"x4½", 1837 Oct. 29. To Baron Alibert, asking for his help with "Justine" who is very sick. Estimated Value $150 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 85		Chayefsky, Paddy (1923 -) Author of plays, tv dramas, and screenplays. Typed Document Signed, 1½pp, n.p., 1950 May 1. Fine. An agreement between George Hall and Cheyefsky regarding "the special material written by me, entitled 'Leopold The Claw'…." Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $90
Lot 86		Clemens, Samuel L (1835-1910) Pseudonym: Mark Twain. American humorist, journalist, and author, best known for his humorous stories of American frontier life in the 19th century. Double Signature in blue ink on a 2"x6½" piece of white paper, n.p., n.d. "Saml. L. Clemens" is written straight across and "Mark Twain" is written diagonally, touching part of the "C-l" in "Clemens. Fine. Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $978
Lot 87		Clemens, Samuel Langhorn. Autograph Letter Signed "S.L. Clemens" on black-bordered, mourning stationery (for the death of his daughter Susy on Aug. 18, 1896), 2 pp. (pp 1 & 4 of 2 conjoined sheets), n.p. (Vienna, Austria), n.d. (1897). Very good; wear to horizontal fold and overall toning, which is darker at lower edge of p. 1. Written to Mrs. Wirth. (From another letter to Mrs. Wirth dated Oct. 28, 1897, it is known that Samuel Clemens was at the Metropole Hotel in Vienna at that time). In full: Tuesday Evening / Dear Mrs. Wirth: Mrs. Clemens corrects me. She says 'My Grandfather's Old Ram' is in print. She says it is in a book of mine whose American title is 'Roughing It' - but the English & Tauchnitz editions bear another name - a name which we are not acquainted with. She also thinks that the 'Negro Ghost Story' is also in one of my books, but she doesn't know the name of that book, & neither do I. The truth is, I am not very well acquainted with my books. The 'Gold und Silberland' book is made up of parts of 'Roughing It' but they left the Old Ram out. Thank you in advance, & very much, for the Reichsrath ticket. I am sorry, for your sake, that I know so little about my literature. Sincerely yours / S.L. Clemens." Estimated Value $4,500 - 6,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,105
Lot 88		Coward, Sir Noel (1899-1973) Playwright, actor, producer. Autograph Letter Signed, 1½pp (1 sheet), 10"x8" (London), 1941 July 27. Fine; light toning. To Robert Bishop, in part: "I had a miniature theatre when I was younger than you & I have never forgotten all the pleasure it gave me. I think…it is a good plan to go to a training school…it is so much easier to get an opening through a school…." With three letters from Mr. Coward's secretary. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $180
Lot 89		Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) British novelist. Autograph Letter Signed, 2pp (1 sheet), 7¼"x4½", Twickenham Park, Thursday night (c. 1838). Very good; tape repairs at two folds, not affecting signature. To J.P. Harley, the popular comic actor for whom the lead role of Tom Grig in "The Lamplighter" was written by Dickens, and who had roles in Dickens' first three plays. In part: "…I have a small box with a spare bed in it down here and shall be glad to see you….Forster [noted biographer, critic and close friend of Dickens] is coming, and offers to pilot you, with which hospitable view he intends sounding you at the Theater to-night. We shall be quite alone with this exception, and Missis hopes to see you…." Estimated Value $1,600 - 1,900. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,415
Lot 90		Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930) British novelist; created "Sherlock Holmes." Autograph Letter Signed, "A. Conan Doyle" on paper with an original pencil sketch of Doyle by British artist Louis Ollier, 1p, 4¾"x4½", n.p., n.d. (after 1902 when he was knighted). Fine; slightly trimmed, small tape remnants on verso. To "My dear Burgin," with a seating request, likely for the theatre. "Seddon being on my right I should like to have my mother on my left. On her left I should like to have two places for a gentleman and a lady. I think those are all my modest requirements." Estimated Value $900 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,500
Lot 91		Dr. Seuss (Theodore Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991). Hand-drawn, Original Drawing of The Grinch, Signed "Dr. Seuss," 11"x7¾", n.p., n.d. Excellent condition. Colored in green and red pencil, matted and framed to an overall size of 18¼"x15¼". The Grinch was the main character in "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas," a much-loved story published by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) in 1957. An animated film was made in 1966 by Chuck Jones and in 2000, a movie starring Jim Carrey as The Grinch was released. This is one of the finest original drawings of The Grinch. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,990
Lot 92		Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) British poet and critic; one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century; 1948 winner of the Nobel prize in literature. Typed Letter Signed "T.S. Eliot" as a director of the publishing house, Faber and Faber Ltd., on their letterhead, 1p, 8"x6¾", London, 1963 Oct. 16. Fine. To Miss M. Elizabeth Barber, The League of Dramatists, informing her that he has changed legal representatives, from Messrs. Bird and Bird to Mr. A.R. Jabez-Smith of the firm of Messrs. Herbert, Oppenheimer, Nathan and Vandyk. Signed in blue ink. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 93		Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849) English poet; the "Corn Law" poet. Autograph Verse Signed, 1p, 7 ¼"x7 ¼", Argott Hill nr. Barnesley, 1847 Mar. 8. Fine. Four lines titled "Epitaph For A Monument To Major Cartwright," ending "For good men's lives are holier than their graves". Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 94		Ferber, Edna (1887-1968) American novelist; winner of 1924 Pulitzer prize for So Big and Giant. Typed Letter Signed in green ink on letterhead engraved with her address "791 Park Avenue" in New York, 1p, 7½"x5¾", 1939 Feb. 13. Declining an invitation to speak to a group of English teachers, "…I am doing no public speaking." With envelope. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 95		Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940) American writer; the premier novelist of the Jazz Age. Autograph Letter Signed "Scott" 1p, written in pencil, 9½"x8", n.p. (1936). Good; scattered toning and foxing, uneven lower edge. To "Dear Harold," most likely Fitzgerald's longtime literary agent, Harold Ober. "Outside the House" is penciled at upper right corner. The date of receipt is stamped "MAR 12 1936." The letter reads: "Here's the revision [not present] covering all your points & some others. It's much better. It'll have to be retyped. Scott." The work being revised was almost certainly Fitgerald's autobiographical essay, "The Crack Up," which was published by Esquire in three parts that year. The other two parts were titled "Pasting It Together" and "Handle With Care." The key theme in this series is emotional bankruptcy--using up one's capacity for emotion and having nothing left to offer. There was strong negative reaction to Fitzgerald's brutal honesty; even friends such as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos were dismayed by his confessions. The essays did revive interest in Fitzgerald's work, however, and remain a compelling psychological portrait. Estimated Value $4,500 - 6,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $4,830
Lot 96		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 97		Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) Beat poet; social activist. Photocopy of a typed copy of Ginsberg's poem, "Please Master" Signed in black ink at the end; with holograph corrections. The poem is a graphic description of homosexual intercourse. With a typed letter signed in print to Michael (probably Mikhail Itkin), 1 p., 11"x8½", n.p. (19)71 Aug. 15. Giving instructions for publishing the poem and warning, "Please don't print if it means legal trouble for you as I will have no TIME or energy this year to help, at All…." With image of Ginsberg. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $192
Lot 98		Hammett, Dashiell (1864-19610 American writer; creator of the "hard-boiled" school of detective fiction in novels such as The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man. Typed Letter Signed "SDH" (Samuell Dashiell Hammett) in pencil, 1p, 10½"x8", Aleutians, 1945 April 3. Fine; a few red pencil and blue ink marks in margins. Good content letter to Sue Whitfield, addressed as "Pru darling." He speaks of his aches and pains: "…It's not the pain…but the idea of being victimized by a mere half-century," and mentions a potential novel, "… the novel--if I stay here and do it…will deal with a painter in Alaska….our cartoonists are bring [sic] out a booklet of reprints from the paper….I'm writing a foreword….This is the week that's supposed to bring me news of what next…." Estimated Value $400 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $920
Lot 99		Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer; best known for The Scarlet Letter. Partly-printed Document Signed "Nath Hawthorne" as U.S. Consul at the Port of Liverpool, 1p (both sides), 13¼"x8", Liverpool, 1857 May 14. Fine; old tape repairs at lower edge of verso. Hawthorne certifies that the facts set forth in the certificate regarding the ship "Caravan" of New York are true. Blue paper seal is to the left of Hawthorne's signature. He was appointed Consul in 1853 by his friend, President Franklin Pierce. He resigned in 1857 to travel in France and Italy before returning to the States in 1860. Estimated Value $750 - 850. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $810
Lot 100		Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) American novelist and short-story writer; winner of 1954 Nobel prize for literature. Autograph Letter Signed "Ernest Hemingway," "EH" once in the text, and a long postscript Signed "EH", on printed Finca Vigia (crossed out) stationery, 1p, 11"x8½", Ketchum, Idaho, 1958 Nov. 27. To Mr. Palmer, in part: "Could you please send me by air parcel post Beloved Infidel - Sheilah Graham - and by regular post John O'Hara's new novel and three more each of Green Hills of Africa [Hemingway's book published in 1935] and collected stories of EH….Harry Braque has given me the word on the African stuff and it will be coming along. Have one book already and the Rowland Ward catalogue…." Sheilah Graham's book told of her affair with F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was a friend of Hemingway's. O'Hara's new novel was From the Terrace, and Rowland Ward was a publisher about wildlife and hunting, both major interests of Hemingway's. Mr. Palmer made a check-mark by each request and penciled the date "11/30/58." Estimated Value $3,500 - 4,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 101		Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr (1809-1894) Physician and poet; father of the eponymous Supreme Court justice. Autograph Verse written on unevenly toned 4½"x6" paper Signed and dated: "The Dutch have taken Holland - so the schoolboys used to say / The Dutch have taken Harvard -- no doubt of that today! / For the Wendells were low Dutchmen, and all their vrows were Vans, / And the Breitmanns are high Dutchmen, and here is honest Hans. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, March 14th 1882." This is the first verse of a poem Holmes wrote in 1881 for the 250 anniversary of the founding of Harvard College. Estimated Value $450 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $403
Lot 102		Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915) Author and publisher; established Roycroft Press and edited Philistine magazine. Autograph Letter Signed on daffodil-colored "The Roycraft Fraternity" letterhead, 1p, 10¾"x6", East Aurora, New York, 1910 Oct. 6. To Miss Lewis, thanking her for a letter and suggestion. "Please note…that I am true to the Golden West…." Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $115
Lot 103		Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) African American poet, short story writer. Paperback Book of Poems with Signature affixed to foreword page. The very large signature is on a 5"x1½" piece of ruled paper and was signed at the People's Forum, 2/25/1940; a former owner's name is at the top of the page. The book of poetry is A New Song, published by International Workers Order, New York, 1928, 8vo, 31 pp. Signature is fine; book is very good. Estimated Value $225 - 275. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 104		Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Spokesman for the "beat movement"; most of his writings are autobiographical. Typed Letter Signed twice: "Jack" at the end of the first page, and "Jack Kerouac" at the end of the second, 2pp. 11"x8½", n.p. (Northport, N.Y.), n.d. (1960 Nov. 22). Very fine; minor toning only. With typed, addressed envelope and photo of Kerouac. To Granville H. Jones, who had written a thesis entitled "Walt Whitman, Thomas Wolfe and Jack Kerouac: Common Origins and Common Aims" for his Master's Degree at Columbia University. James Benenson gave a copy to Kerouac, who responded enthusiastically to Jones. In part: "It [the thesis] is the only thing…that has made me happy in three years, since the publication of On the Road and the subsequent sickeningness of 'being famous' (being used by everybody and his uncle) and of course the nausea of phoney criticisms based on the wrong reasons (as for instance those who 'admire' for being so 'wild & irresponsible' etc.) What you've written about me has restored my faith in my own writing….I was becoming terribly discouraged by the scandalous lack of critical fairness….the vision of America is being destroyed now by the beatnik movement which is not the 'beat generation' I proposed any more, but a big move-in from intellectual dissident wrecks of all kinds and now even anti-American….What you've written about let's say is the work of Kerouac the Younger. What comes now, after this, is that of Kerouac the Elder. It will be quite different, harsher, bitterer at times….I'm middle aged now and no longer an enthusiastic college boy lyrically feeling America…." He ends the first page "Later Jack." The second page adds some bibliographical information and a final thanks, "…you've made me feel grand and now a little vain but that's okay, I was always an egocentric anyway…." He ends, "A Dios Jack Kerouac." A superb letter. Jones' thesis is present. Estimated Value $4,000 - 6,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $4,600
Lot 105		Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) English short-story writer, novelist, and poet; born in India; the first Englishman to receive the Nobel prize for literature (1907). Typed Letter Signed with holograph note in blue ink, on stationery engraved "Burwash Etchingham" at top left and "Bateman's Burwash Sussex" at top right, 1 p. 10½"x8", 1922 Jan. 30. Very good; overall toning and several folds, not affecting signature or note. To M. Forbes Tweedie in Chelsea, regarding two of Kipling's stories: "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes" and "Mrs. Bathurst." In part, ". I cannot be sure of the exact intention of the measurements of the quicksands in "The Strange Ride", but I should think that it was wholly inaccurate and as wild as the semi-madness of Gunga Dass…." Kipling adds a holograph note: "But how did he know Mrs. Bathursts name?" The consignor has owned this letter since 1975. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $420
Lot 106		London, Jack (1876-1916) American novelist and adventurer. Photograph Signed and Inscribed "Faithfully yours, Jack London" on the verso. Fine. The photo shows a young London, seated with a cigarette in his left hand. Fine. Notes with the photo say, "Irving Stone reproduces this as Jack at 19 and a student at Oakland High School"; another notes states that the photo was shown in the 1936 Jack London exhibit and was from Charles W. Stoddard's album. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $510
Lot 107		Mailer, Norman (1923 -) American author. Typed Letter Signed in blue ink on personal stationery, 2 pp, 11"x7¼", n.p., 1979 Dec 19. Fine. To the Editor of the Hollywood Reporter, taking issue with a review that noted feminist Germaine Greer had written about Mailer's book The Executioner's Song, the story of Gary Gilmore, who committed two murders in Utah in 1976 and was executed by firing squad (his choice) in 1977. The letter has corrections for publication by the magazine; a note at top says, "Mailer prefers in full, or not at all." The letter was printed in full in the Jan. 3, 1980 issue. A copy of the article is enclosed, as is Greer's original, corrected typescript for her article. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $184
Lot 108		Mann, Thomas (1875-1955) German novelist; 1929 recipient of Nobel prize for literature. Autograph Letter Signed, 4 pp., 8¾"x5½", Munich, 1924 Apr. 24. Very fine; a couple of minor spots. In German (with translation) to German publisher Mr. (Samuel) Fischer, regarding the "Holitscher Affair." Arthur Holitscher, an Austrian author and friend of Mann's from his younger days, accused Mann of portraying him in a novella and using their friendship for professional expediency. Mann was known to depict people he knew, which often upset them. In part: "…Holitscher is completely in error….I applied all the literary art of my 26 years to the letter which Herr Spinell writes to the representative of 'Life'…this figure is thoroughly typical and non-intimate…the figure could not be more than an ideal stuffed and intensified mask, but no indiscrete portrait of a soul….only his vanity could be wounded….How could he have sent you 'Buddenbrooks' when I lay in the hospital, since you had the sole existing manuscript directly from me….What does the white-haired socialist and world traveler of today still have to do with that Tristan figure…." More content. The consignor has owned this letter since 1973. Estimated Value $900 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,668
Lot 109		McCullers, Carson (1917-1967) American novelist. Two Letters Signed "Carson," one typed and one written by a secretary, total of 6 pp on personal stationery, 7¾"x5¾", Nyack-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1961 Oct. 30 and Nov. 9. To Paul Bigelow, a close friend of McCullers and Tenessee Williams. Interesting personal letters with some comments about C.P. Snow and Edith Sitwell, and mentioning the illness of Baroness Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). With transmittal envelopes. McCullers was partially paralyzed, thus the difficulty in writing her name. With photo of McCullers by Richard Avedon. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $489
Lot 110		Melville, Herman (1819-1891) American novelist, essayist, and poet; Moby Dick is considered his masterpiece. Autograph Letter Signed "H Melville," 2pp (single sheet), 9¾"x7¾", Pittsfield (Mass.), 1854 July 7. Fine. To his publisher, George P. Putnam. In part: "I send you…some sixty and odd pages of M.S.S. The first M.S. is a short article…the "Lightning-Rod-Man"….The second M.S. is part of a story called "Israel Potter"….when finished will embrace some 300 or more M.S. pages. I propose to publish it in your magazine at the rate of five dollars per printed page, the copyright to be retained by me….$100 to be remitted to me as an advance…the price of the subsequent numbers to be remitted to me upon each issue of the magazine as long as the story lasts….I engage that the story shall contain nothing of any sort to shock the fastidious. There will be very little reflective writing it it; nothing weighty. It is Adventure. As for its interest, I shall try to maintain that as well as I can…." "Lightning-Rod-Man" was first published in 1856, five years after Moby Dick, as one of six stories in The Piazza Tales. Israel Potter was Melville's only historical novel, based on the eponymous Revolutionary War figure, and featured characters such as Benjamin Franklin and Ethan Allen. Melville promised his publisher not to "shock the fastidious" with this work because his previous novel, Pierre, had shocked readers and brought much criticism upon the author. Estimated Value $9,500 - 11,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $17,400
Lot 111		Miller, Henry. Autograph Letter Signed, 1 p., 11"x8½" (Pacific Palisades, California), 1965 Oct. 12. Extremely fine. To "Dear friend." In part: "Nobody knows anything about death. I like to believe that we do come back again and again until we have nothing more to learn. But I have no proof that this is the case. The fear of death is more the fear of dying, I think….We are afraid of the unknown. Yet we came from the unknown. All is mystery - and the best we can do is to accept it…." Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $316
Lot 112		Miller, Henry (1891-1980) American author noted for sexually-candid autobiographical novels. Autograph Quotation Signed with black, felt-tip pen on 12"x9" light card stock, n.p., n.d. Extremely fine. Titled "From a letter to Alfred Perlès," Miller explains how he came to write: "What I needed most desperately was a voice with which to express my grief and abandonment. That is how I came to write. My thought was simple and direct. My prayer, I should say, for it virtually took that form. 'Give me, O God' is what I was saying, 'the power to express this anguish which afflicts me. Let me tell it to the world, for I can't bear to keep it locked up in my own breast.' Henry Miller". Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 113		O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953) First American playwright to win the Nobel prize (1936); he won Pulitzer prizes for "Beyond the Horizon" (1920), "Anna Christie" (1922), "Strange Interlude" (1928), and "Long Day's Journey into Night" (1956). Autograph Letter Signed on a letter card engraved "Le Plessis / Saint-Antoine du Rocher / Indre-et-Loire" (France), 4"x5¾", 1930 July 27. Fine; lightly toned. Written on both sides in tiny script to writer Hiram (Kelly) Motherwell at Theatre Guild Magazine in New York City. With holograph envelope signed in the return address, missing "E-u" and the top of the "g". O'Neill apologizes for not having photos and information about productions of his plays. He names European cities where productions of "Interlude," "Desire Under the Elms," and "The First Man" have taken place and is thankful that he was not at the premiers. He adds, "…I know of nothing less important than a European production. My plays have had some success over here - but they weren't successes to me after I heard the horrible details of what damn fool directors had done to them. A theatre in which a director produces his parlor tricks and uses plays and actors as vehicles for his ego - that imbecility merely bores me and it seems to be all Europe has to offer at present. It's time they began to come to the U.S. - to relearn what the theatre means! I accept [except?] Russia, of course. Tairov I like. He has imagination and produces plays and actors not himself…." The consignor has owned this letter since 1974. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $4,600
Lot 114		O'Neill, Eugene. Signature with closing, "with all sincerest respects / Eugene O'Neill" cut from a letter, 1¼"x4", n.p., n.d. Fine. Matted with an image of O'Neill and handsomely framed to an overall size of 16"x11½". Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $115
Lot 115		Rice, Elmer (1892-1967) American playwright; won 1929 Pulitzer prize for "Street Scene." Two Autograph Letters Signed "Elmer" and "Elmer Rice," total of 7pp, both to social activist Peggy Tucker. Both fine. On Oct. 26, 1926, he wrote, in part: "…The Germans…don't know how to live, as the French do…the widely heralded 'kunst' [art] isn't much…back in Paris…I can pick my stimulants…." Sept. 20, 1930, in part: "…I've just put on Street Scene in London, where it has been most enthusiastically received…." Estimated Value $250 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 116		Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) American poet and biographer. Autograph Note Signed, 1 p. 6"x4", n.p., n.d. (1962). This note was returned with a book to Tony van Renterghem, who was working with Sandberg in 1962 on the research for a motion picture on the life of Christ (The Greatest Story Ever Told). Written in red ink. Fine; one closed tear; three blue ink marks affect last part of "Sandburg." In full: "I swear before god / I did not desecrate / pages herein with / foul lead pencil / evidence of some / dirty stinker. Carl Sandburg." The story of van Renterghem's association with Sandburg is typed on the verso of the note. With image of Sandburg. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 117		Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Expatriate American portrait painter. Autograph Letter Signed "John S. Sargent," on letterhead engraved "33, Tite Street, Chelsea. S.W.," 2pp, 6¾"x4" (London), Sunday. Matted with an image of Sargent and framed to an overall size of 20"x16". Fine. To Virginia (?), in part: "I have not a mortal thing to send to the portrait exhibition….I missed you twice - much to my regret…." Singer painted more than 500 portraits, as well as murals, watercolors, and landscapes. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $334
Lot 118		Shaw, George Bernard. Typed Letter Signed, "G. Bernard Shaw," 1p, 10"x8", London, 1915 Feb. 9. Fine; with several holograph corrections. To Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Principal at Manchester College, Oxford, and founder of The Hibbert Journal . In part: "…Unless I can publish simultaneously in America I lose my copyright and a substantial payment into the bargain….I am at present engaged in rehearsals at the theatre….You need never have any delicacy about terms with a successful playwright. Everything that he writes except for the theatre he necessarily writes at a loss…consequently any journalism that he does has to be done more or less for its own sake." Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $604
Lot 119		Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) American writer of social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labor; winner of 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. Autograph Letter Signed "John," 4 pp. in blue ink on 12½"x8" yellow, ruled paper, Sag Harbor, New York, 1960 May 24. To William Benton, who was chairman and publisher of Enclopaedia Britannica Inc., a former Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Steinbeck launches an attack against President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon and expresses his hope that Adlai Stevenson will run again in the 1960 presidential race. He mentions Henry Luce, publisher of Time Magazine: "I hate the son of a bitch." Eisenhower, he claims, "has taken more payola and plugola than a thousand Dick Clarks," and continues in some detail. About Nixon, he says, "A psycho-analyst in New York goes three times a week to Washington to put Dickie on the couch….It is pleasant to know that Poor Richard is not happy." He then relays his preparations for a trip throughout the country that would be the basis of Travels With Charley, his final full-length book, published in 1962. His plan was to buy "a truck with a coach on it, kind of like the cabin of a small boat - bunk, stove, ice box, desk, typewriter….I'll be self contained and I'm going alone. [He took his dog Charley]…I want to hear speech, taste and smell and feel and listen…I will not be known…I plan to take about three months to do this. And when I get back I should have some sense of what the country is like, what it wants and how it has changed…I'm staying out here at Sag Harbor working on a book which I hope to have done in August…." The book was The Winter of Our Discontent; it was finished in mid July and published in 1961. Much more excellent content. Estimated Value $6,000 - 8,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $6,900
Lot 120		Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) Welsh poet and prose writer. Autograph Letter Signed, 1 p. 8"x6½", Villa del Beccaro, Florence, Italy, 1947 June 25. Fine; minor spotting in left margin; light creasing. To Mr. Vince, critiquing a manuscript. In part: "Many of the poems I liked, finding them fresh and sincere….I would suggest, though that you concentrate far harder on each individual poem. It is far better to write too little than too much. At the moment, your poetry is a thing of spurts…I am sure you would be well advised to try to work hard, line by line, on each poem; rather than flowing on from one poem to another. Your true lyrical indignation deserves more laborious concentration than you give it.…." It was in Florence that Thomas composed what many feel is his greatest work, In Country Sleep, and completed Over St. John's Hill and In the White Giant's Thigh. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,990
Lot 121		Verne, Jules (1828-1905) French novelist; originator of modern science fiction, works such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. Autograph Letter Signed, 1p, in French, Amiens, 1903 Jan. 1. Written two years before Verne's death, to his nephew Raymond: In part: "Here's one more year upon our old heads! Honorine [Mrs. Jules Verne] and I thank you for your good letter and we send our best wishes for you and your whole family. You mustn't be discouraged if things don't always go either as well or as fast as you'd like. My sight is still in the same state, bad, as you can tell by my handwriting. but I won't decide to undergo the operation until it becomes absolutely necessary….Your old affectionate uncle Jules Verne." Despite what he says, Verne's handwriting is dark and legible, including his signature. Estimated Value $900 - 1,100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 122		Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, and dramatist. Attractive Signature and Date, "Oscar Wilde / Feby. 27. 87" on his "16. Tite Street. Chelsea. S.W." letterhead, 5"x4¼". Fine. Estimated Value $500 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $920