Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 35

Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

Authors

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 25		Wright, Orville (1871-1948) Built with his brother Wilbur and piloted the first motor-powered plane to successfully fly. Typed Letter Signed on personal letterhead, 1p, 10½x7¼", Dayton, Ohio, 20 Dec. 1933. Fine. To Charles Whittelsey in Hartford, Connecticut, thanking him for his letter and some clippings. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $720
Lot 26		Baum, Frank & Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Four books from the "Oz" series, all post 1935, with original cloth covers, all published by The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, and illustrated by John R. Neill. Three by L. Frank Baum: Tik-Tok of Oz and The Magic of Oz, and The Royal Book of Oz, the latter being "Enlarged and Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson." With The Yellow Knight of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Volumes have been "loved" by a young girl whose name (and other notes in one) appears in three; some loosening at spine, edge wear and rubbing; light toning to inside pages. Covers are vivid. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $115
Lot 27		Buck, Pearl S (1892-1973) American novelist; Nobel and Pulitzer prize winner. Typed Letter Signed on "The East and West Association" letterhead, 1p, 10¾x8½", New York, 3 Dec. 1943. Fine except recipient's name is crossed out. A thank-you letter for supporting the association. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 28		Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) British novelist, of Polish origin. Lord Jim (1900) and Heart of Darkness (1902) are among his more famous works. Autograph Letter Signed "J. Conrad," 2 pp. on ruled paper, 10x8", Someries. Luton, 4 November (19)08. Very good; one contemporary ink smear and some fold wear. With an engraving. To Albert E. Tebb, who was the doctor for Conrad's family and friends. Excellent content. In part: "…Yes my dear Tebb. Life is a damnable thing for some of us….I only wish I knew a lot of cripples to send to you for healing. But the only cripple I know (morally and physically) is myself just now. My brain may be all right but as I have an unconquerable impression that it is going to pieces, the look out is not cheery. A sort of horrible disillusion that everything has mastered me or all but. I am still struggling feebly but I feel the net is over me, and the spear is not very far.…". Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,100
Lot 29		Crisp, Quentin (1908-99) Writer, actor, raconteur; he became a gay icon in the 1970s after publishing his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant. An archive of items, all signed and most inscribed by Crisp to Luther Foulk and his wife Nancy during the 1980s and 90s. Ten Letters, 9 typed and one handwritten, all with nice large "Quentin Crisp" signatures, and all with handwritten envelopes, nine of which are signed "Q. Crisp" in the return address. Much of the content is personal, regarding Crisp's travels, health, social engagements, an occasional acting role, and a foreword he is writing for Foulk's book. On 10 Dec. '84, he writes, "Now I'm resting and behaving nicely until the wild parties begin….I continue to write movie reviews but have quite abandoned the writing of books; I simply do not any longer have the powers of concentration….Old age is making me lazy…." On 7 Nov. '95, he says, "…am engaged in making a number of…'show-string' movies….They are sold straight to Video Stores where they sink without trace….have seen the much reviled SHOW GIRLS….They said it demeaned women, I though it empowered them….You are the only married couple who seem content with their fate…." Accompanied by the original typed, signed foreword Crisp worte for Foulk's book (with a typescript of the book, The Guide to Picayune Physical Fitness); it contains Crisp's thoughts on wit and humor--excellent content; also: a signed, inscribed T-shirt printed, "I spent an Evening with Quentin Crisp," a VHS tape of "The Naked Civil Servant" (Crisp's autobiography--the movie starred John Hurt), two cassettes of Crisp reading his autobiography, and four books, all signed and inscribed--The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp, Chog (by Crisp, 2 copies), and Conversations With My Elders, foreword by Crisp. Overall fine condition. A wonderful archive. Estimated Value $900 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 30		D'Annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938) Italian poet, novelist, and dramatist. Photgraph Inscribed and Signed in Italian to Martino Huzupp, "who has shared with me the infallible ear. Gabriele d'Annunzio / Il Vittoriale: ottobre 1929," 15x10¼" (the photo is 9½x7"). The inscription is on the lower border of the photo; the signature, place and date are on the mount. Fine. A right-profile portrait of the writer, seated at his desk. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $360
Lot 31		Defoe, Daniel. The Life And Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. A magnificent early set of this classic tale, 2 Vols., London, printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1790, 9x5½", 389 and 456pp. Fine; minor toning and small border loss on page nine, Vol I, not affecting text. With 17 copper-plate intaglio engravings. Original period leather boards; spines expertly rebound, with gold stamped titles and remarque stampings between the gold bands. Tom Hanks recently starred in the movie "Castaway," a modern version of the mariner who was abandoned on an island for close to a decade. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $690
Lot 32		Dickens, Charles (1812-70) British novelist. Autograph Letter Signed "CD," 1 p., 7¼x4½, Devonshire Terrace, March 1841. Very good; light soiling and one small hole below "Hill's". To Dickens' close personal friend, actor William Charles Macready: "How are you disposed this morning? Will you walk down to Evans? I want to leave word about the books I have bought of poor Tom Hill's, and shall be glad of your company if you will go. A word in answer…." Dickens bought books at auction from the estate of bibliophile and patron of literature Tom Hill. Estimated Value $650 - 850. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 33		Durant, Will (1885-1981) American historian. Typed Letter Signed on personal letterhead, 1p, 8½x6¼", Los Angeles, 10 Mar. 1979. Fine. Responding to a question regarding L. Ron Hubbard's dedication of his book Dianetics to Durant., Durant replies that the dedication was done without his knowledge or permission. "I knew nothing of Hubbard or his ideas. I asked him to discontinue use of my name; he ignored the request. I am too busy to take any action against him." Accompanied by the letter to which Durant is responding. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 34		Frost, Robert (1874-1963) American poet; winner of four Pulitzer awards. Original four-line Poem Signed and Inscribed "For Gilman Paul," 6½x4½", n.p., n.d. Fine. Titled "The Pasture," the poem reads: "I'm going out to clean the pasture spring. / I'll only stop to rake the leaves away / (And wait to watch the water clear I may.) / I shan't be gone long. You come too. Robert Frost." Matted with an 11x8" photo by Karsh and framed to 20x24½". Ready for display. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,610
Lot 35		Ginsberg, Allen (1926-97) Beat poet; social activist. Autograph Letter Signed "Allen," 4 pp., 10½x7¼"on "The Morris Inn" stationery, Notre Dame, Indiana, 20 March 1979. Fine. To Gregory Corso, regarding setting up some readings together. In part, "…You're a great poet & it will be honor to read with you & once more renew my inspiration from your giant calm mind energy…." Nice content. With transmittal envelpope. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $604
Lot 36		Grisham, John. First Edition of The Chamber Signed on the half title page, n.p., n.d., 9½x6½". Published in 1994 by Doubleday, New York. Mint condition. Estimated Value $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 37		Hemingway, Ernest (1899-19610 American novelist and short-story writer; winner of 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. LIFE Magazine Cover signed and dated, "Ernest Hemingway 2/11/53." The magazine is the September 1, 1952 issue of LIFE, which contained the first appearance of Hemingway's novella, The Old Man And The Sea, all 26,500 words of it, on pages 35-54. Within two days, all 5.3 million copies of the issue sold out. The novella was significant in Hemingway's selection for the Nobel Prize. Light toning and wear; very good condition. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,070
Lot 38		Keller, Helen (1880-1968) Blind, deaf, mute author. Typed Letter Signed on American Foundation For the Blind, Inc. letterhead, 1p, 11x8½", New York, 4 June 1948. Very good; edge toning and overall wrinkling. Thanking Mrs. Tozzer for her charter support; "…it confirms my faith in the unfailing goodness of the human heart." A strong signature. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $345
Lot 39		Kerouac, Jack (1922-69) American author; leading chronicler of the beat generation. Typed Letter Signed on a postcard, 3¼x5½", n.p., 2 Feb. 1961. Fine. Excellent content letter to Miss Cheryl Smith, a teacher in Brooklyn NY: "In answer to your classroom questions for your assignment:- (A) My advice to teenagers who want to become writers, is, read a lot, educate yourself by private readings of books: a recent survey showed that today's successful writers all educated themselves in literature by private reading (outside the classroom)…read anything you like. I used to read Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, Feodr Dostoievsky, Shakespeare, Jack London etc. (B) It took me 3 years to write my first novel The Town and The City (it took me 3 nights to write The Subterraneans) (C) I was born in Lowell, Mass., 25 miles orth of Boston. I have no photos of myself to send you but here's a drawing of what I look like. Jack Kerouac" At the lower right corner, he draws a head in left profile with a long line representing his body across the length of the postcard, ending in a foot. The sketch and signature are in blue ink. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,415
Lot 40		Lawrence, D.H (1885-1930) British novelist and poet; best known for Lady Chatterly's Lover. Small Photograph of the author as a young man Signed "Yrs. Sincerely / D.H. Lawrence," in blue ink at the lower edge of the photo. Photographer's blind stamp is on the lower mount, "W. Baker & Co. Nottingham," and his imprint on the verso. Very good. Nottingham, England was Lawrence's hometown. Estimated Value $1,100 - 1,300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,415
Lot 41		Lawrence, D.H. Autograph Letter Signed, 1 p., 8x5", Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico), 18 Oct. 1923. To Mr. Tracy, regretting that he had missed meeting Tracy while in Los Angeles. "…Now it will have to be some other time & place. And anyhow Murry will send me the Adelphi, so I shall see your Exits. 'They have their exits & their entrances.' The exits come first, apparently. We're all filing out of the show…." Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,150
Lot 42		Longfellow, Henry W (1807-82) American poet; Harvard professor. Letter closing and Signature, "Yours truly / Henry W. Longfellow" on a 1¼x3¼" piece of paper, n.p., n.d. Very good; boldly penned; some foxing. Matted with an image of Longfellow to 11½x6¾". Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 43		Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-82) American poet, educator, and linguist. Autograph Poem Signed "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated, "October 28, 1858," 3½pp (2pp front and back), 9x7". Very good; light toning and the ink is somewhat faded. All nine stanzas of the famous poem, "A Psalm of Life. What the Heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist." In full: Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream; For the Soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow Is our destined end or way, But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle, Be a hero in the strife! Trust no Future howe'er pleasant, Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present, Heart within and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing shall take heart again. Let us then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Estimated Value $6,500 - 8,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $7,475
Lot 44		Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer (1831-91) Diplomat and poet, better known under the pen-name of "Owen Meredith"; 1st Earl of Lytton; viceroy of India. Very good; uneven toning and old paper remnants at top. Autograph Letter Signed "B. Lytton," 1p, 8¼x5¼". "La Tour London Eng." is at lower left. Lytton regrets that he must decline a dinner invitation. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 45		Malamud, Bernard (1914-86) American novelist; 1966 Pulitzer prize winner; one of the foremost chroniclers of Jewish life, as well as author of The Natural. Autograph Letter Signed, 1 p, 11x8½", Corvallis, Oregon, 1 Mar. 1950. Fine. To Fred B. Millett, Chairman of the English Department at Wesleyan University, sending a magazine (not present) containing a short story by Malamud and saying that he is teaching composition and writing short stories "which my agent keeps peddling." Holograph envelope signed "B. Malamud" in the return address. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $357
Lot 46		Mann, Thomas (1875-1955) German novelist; 1929 recipient of the Nobel prize for literature. Typed Letter Signed on "The Library of Congress Washington/ The Consultant in Germanic Literature" letterhead, in German, 1 p, 11x8½", Pacific Palisades, CA, 21 Mar. 1945. Fine. To Dr. Konstantin Reichhardt at the University of Minnesota: "…Again and again one makes a new start to do things right, succeeds perhaps once to do the right thing - and then again the wrong one…." He thinks Reichardt will like a lecture, "Deutschland und die Deutschen," that he is going to give in Washington, and adds: "Naturally I also do not consider a return to Germany. Our kind of Germany is now most fittingly preserved in the cosmopolitan universe which is called America, but I would very gladly feel the ancient soil of Europe once again under my feet." With holograph envelope signed "Mann" on the flap. Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,150
Lot 47		Miller, Henry (1891-1980) American author. Autograph Letter Signed, 1 p, 11x8½" (Big Sur, California), 2 June 1949. Fine. Sending E.E. Schmidt "a copy of the Paris 'Capricorn', signed…." He suggests where Schmidt might find "Hamlet" and tells him "The Rosy Crucifixion (vol. I.) is due out in August…If you ever know any reliable folks…who want the banned books, do let me know." Miller's novels were banned in the U.S. until 1964. With transmittal envelope. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 48		Miller, Henry. Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pp, 11x8½" (Pacific Palisades, CA), 9 Sept. 1965. Fine. To a friend in pain, saying "Death is not the terrible thing, but dying. The waiting. I think death is just a transition to another life….Death is meaningless in itself." He mentions the poet Kenneth Patchen, quotes a line from Siddhartha and the Russian writer Rosanov on life, and adds a quote from the French writer Celine, who said, "I piss on it all from a considerable height!" Good content. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $288
Lot 49		Miller, Henry. Autograph Letter Signed, 1 p, 11x8½" (Pacific Palisades, CA), 6 Mar. 1966. Fine. To "Dear friend," on writing and painting: "…I always wanted to write, yes, but it took ages to get confidence that I could. I only began at 33! As for painting, I never had any talent for it. Suddenly one day I got the urge (in 1927) and began. I tell all about this in 'To Paint is to Love Again.' This month I will have a show of 50 water colors locally. Have done about 500 in last 3 years. No teaching, just constant effort. Only way to learn anything, I feel…." Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 50		Miller, Joaquin (1837?-1913) Lawyer and poet; born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller; called "the poet of the Sierras." Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pp, 10x8", New York, 3 July 1882. Very good; uneven toning to first page. To Frank Pixley, sending two "California plays" (not present) and developing a war plan to press action against a man who falsely claimed authorship. Estimated Value $125 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173
Lot 51		Paton, Alan (1903-88) South African writer and political activist; best known for Cry, the Beloved Country. Typed Letter Signed on personal letterhead, 1p, 11x8½", Kloof, May 1960. Fine. An appeal for "generosity on behalf of those South Africans of all races who are suffering as a result of the policies of Apartheid…." Estimated Value $125 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $150
Lot 52		Rexroth, Kenneth (1905-82) Poet and critic, associated with the Beat movement. Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pp (1p front and back), 11x8½", San Francisco, 8 Dec. 1953. Fine; light toning and a couple of notes at top. To "Gentlemen," critiquing Chester Himes' novel, The Third Generation before its publication in 1954. In. part: "…it is a splendid book and a real landmark & milestone in the evolution of Negro literature in the USA….the equal of any Negro novel thus far…." He makes suggestions for the ending and sends his "respects & congratulations to Chester Himes." Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $184
Lot 53		Sade, Marquis de [Donatien Alphonse François de Sade] (1740-1814) French writer best known for his erotic works; the word "sadism" is derived from his name. Autograph Letter Signed "Sade," 1 p., in French, 7¾x6", n.p. (the asylum at Charenton), c. 1812. To Armand-Marie Corbin, in part: "I am honored to send my regards to Mr. Corbin and to ask him to explain the first twelve lines of this letter. I am told that Mr. Corbin would kindly agree to help me secure a couple of objects…." He mentions "the one relative to the 150 for this month" and "a quarter of wood" and says, "I shall wait for an answer to write to my son…." With holograph integral address leaf. De Sade wrote many of his works during the 29 years he spent in prison and in the asylum at Charenton. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,725
Lot 54		Saroyan, William. Two letters: An ALS "William Saroyan," 1p, 11x8½", New York City, 3 May 1935, to "Jake," saying "No go…All the same I'm glad I met you & I wish your Press much good fortune"; and a TLS "Bill Saroyan", 2pp, 11x8½", San Francisco, 27 Jan. 1938, to Jake with many details about a book he wants to write, with numerous holograph corrections and a holograph P.S., "I'd want the book copywrited in my name." Overall toning. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 55		Saroyan, William (1908 -) American short-story writer, novelist, and playwright. Typed Letter Signed "Bill Saroyan," 1 p, 11x8½", Malibu, California, 5 Apr. 1958. Fine. To his publisher, discussing publication of three novelettes, a novel, and a "book of pieces," as well as suitable art work for the novel. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $86
Lot 56		Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Scottish novelist and poet. Autograph Note Signed "Walter Scott," 2¼x6¼", Edinburgh, 18 Nov. 1829. Very good; minor soiling. Attesting to the character and qualities of a gentlemen and recommending his petition "to the consideration of the honourable Trustees." Estimated Value $150 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 57		Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) Expatriate American writer whose home in Paris was a salon for leaders and artists of the day. Two Books: First edition of How To Write inscribed and signed to art critic Henry McBridem "To my dearest Henry with lots of affection as always Gertrude," along with a copy of Stein's Things As They Are, published posthumously by Alice B. Toklas, also from McBride's library (copy #62 of 490 copies printed), typeset by hand by poet and renowned typesetter Claude Fredericks, as the last book printed by The Banyan Press. Toned covers; the latter book has a damaged spine. Estimated Value $600 - 900. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $661
Lot 58		Steinbeck, John (1902-68) American writer; winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. Autograph Letter Signed "John," 1½ pp on yellow legal paper, n.p., n.d. ("St. Patrick's Day", 1950 or later). Very good; toning; one small edge tear and chipping at lower left corners. To "Bill," in part: "…I seem to be chained to this drafting table. The portrait keeps growing on me. What a fine piece of work it is….I am taking the boys to Nantucket for a week…may be I'll get to know them a little. You can only do that alone. Elaine is going to Texas to see her people….I have all of these nice power tools and welding outfit…How about helping me set up a shop [in the basement] and then using the shop when you want to. It would be a fine place to make frames….I've got my first act of Cannery Row and now go into the second act…." Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 59		Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) British novelist and vicar. Copy of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Signed on the first page "L. Sterne," published in Longon: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehont, in the Strand, 1765. Bookplate from J. Beardmore. Leather covers; rear cover disbound. Estimated Value $200 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $431
Lot 60		Stirling, George (1869-1926) American poet; called "the last classic bohemian." Three items sent to "Mr. Blodgett": (1)An Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pp, 8x5", Bohemian Club, San Francisco, 18 May 1926. Very Fine. He refers to being "scratched by the lady-cat you mention" and states "I am not 'in the fashion,' nor care to be" (2) An Autograph Poem Signed, titled "Peace"; and (3) a Typed Poem Signed, titled "To Louis Untermeyer," beginning, "O diligent small Jew!" Six months later, Stirling committed suicide. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $213
Lot 61		Strachey, Lytton (1880-1932) English biographer and critic; a leading member of the Bloomsbury Group. Autograph Letter Signed, 1½ pp (1 p front and back), 51, Gordon Square, W.C. 1, 14 April 1921. Fine. Replying to [J.O.P.] Bland, the writer on Chinese affairs, who had advised Strachey not to allow his play, "The Son of Heaven" to be produced. He thanks Bland for his "frank criticism," and adds, "No doubt you are right as to the incorrectness of the detail - but….my idea was to give a transposition of values, which would produce something of the real effect upon a popular audience in England…." Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $201
Lot 62		Styron, William (1925 -) American novelist; best known for the Pulitzer-prize winning The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie's Choice (1979). Autograph Quotation Signed, on personal stationery, 1 p, 10½x7¼", Vineyard Haven, Mass., n.d. Fine. Beginning "I wiped the blood from my neck…." the quotation is from Styron's fictitious memoirs of Nat Turner, the slave who led an uprising in Virginia in 1831. At the bottom of the page, Styron writes, "With Congratulations to Dr. & Mrs. Britton." Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $115
Lot 63		(Three Poets) Riley, Mansfield, and Porter. Autograph Poem Signed by James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), the "Hoosier Poet," on a 3x4¾" card, Indianapolis, Ind., 1891; it begins, "What tribute may we pay to her…." Very good; light staining. Typed Poem ("Enchanted") Signed "Katherine Ann Porter" (1890-1980) with holograph note, "Written in 1921, Published in New York, First Poem published…" Fine. ALS signed by John Masefield, on Burcote Brook letterhead, 4½x7", 19 Mar. n.y. Asking Mrs. O'Connor to make copies for him. Fine; two ink smears. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $322
Lot 64		White, E. B (1899-1985) American essayist, author, and noted prose stylist; most famous for children's books: Stuart Little (1945) and Charlotte's Web (1952), and for a writer's style guide. Typed Letter Signed on The New Yorker letterhead, 1p, 10¼x7", New York City, 3 Nov. 1946. Fine; three holograph corrections. To a Mr. Wells, defending his use of the word "Chinaman" in "The Wild Flag." About the derogatory connotation, he writes, "I think the odor will disappear from the word when the mist rises from our state of mind…." Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $518
Lot 65		Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist; most famous for Leaves of Grass. Autograph Letter Signed, 2pp, 10x8", Camden, New Jersey, 18 March (18)86. Holograph envelope addressed to naturalist John Burroughs (1837-1921) has stamped return address at lower left. In great part: "Dear friend I send…the three Vols. of your Emerson so long detained…dont know that I have anything to tell you of any account. I am not writing any thing. Have a small screed of three or four pages to appear, in A T Rice's forthcoming Reminiscences of Lincoln, but I consider it unworthy the theme. James Redpath [Scottish journalist and abolitionist] who manages things for ATR has been very good to me…and it is to his urgency I have responded. Have not yet finished Army Hospital article for the Century….Had a violent spell of illness ab't a week ago….I am enjoying the sunshine, sitting here by the window….Have read my Death of Abraham Lincoln paper twice this spring…got along with it rather slowly, but didnt break down, & seems to have given a sort of satisfaction--Want to scoop up what I have (poems and prose) of the last MSS since 1881 and '2, & put in probably 200 page book (or somewhat less) to be called perhaps November Boughs--I am getting along comfortably enough here - spirits generally good - my old horse has quite given out - we have a canary bird, dog, & parrot - all great friends of mine (& teachers). Best love to you & 'Sula - not forgetting the little boy. Walt Whitman. November Boughs was published in 1888. Death of Abraham Lincoln was first delivered as a lecture in New York City on the fourteenth anniversary of Lincoln's death in 1879. Whitman gave this lecture nine times in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Camden. Whitman influenced twentieth century poetry with his flowing free-verse rhythms, and with his celebration of self awareness and the union of the body and nature. He considered himself the great poet of democracy. Estimated Value $8,000 - 10,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $11,700
Lot 66		Wilder, Thornton (1897-1975) Playwright and novelist; winner of three Pulitzer prizes. Autograph Letter Signed on personal stationery, 2pp (1 p front and back), 7x6", Hamden, Connecticut, 16 Nov. 1961. Fine; one small spot below the signature. To Carlton Wells, a professor at the University of Michigan. In part: "…I haven't read my interview. Gertrude Stein taught us to shut ourselves off, as far as possible, from what 'they' say about us. …How right Gertrude was! As to 'ain't' and double negatives and 'hell' and 'damn', I have to use 'em, and precisely when I'm in earnest. The words at our disposal for grave matters have been so abused by preachers and editorial writers and platform moralizers that one must find one's accents elsewhere…." More excellent content. With transmittal envelope. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $368
Lot 67		Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) American poet and physician; posthumous winner (1963) of the Pulitzer prize for poetry. Autograph Letter Signed "Bill" on personal stationery, 4 pp, 10½x7¼", Rutherford, New Jersey, 16 March 1948. Fine. While recovering from an angina pectoris attack, he writes to critic and editor Eric Bentley, expressing admiration for Bentley's recently-published book Bernard Shaw and for Bentley himself. In part: " I don't know when I have been so entertainingly enlightened upon a literary subject of equal pith….I was particularly taken by the…philosophic warmth of your mind….Your book while scholarly…is human in a way unfamiliar to me in the occasional theses I read from the pens of American scholars whom I largely detest--the didactic asses…[T]his book [is] to me the best treatise on contemporary manners I think I have ever read…." Estimated Value $800 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $978
Lot 68		Wodehouse, Pelham G (1881-1975) English-born American novelist, playwright and playwright, best know for his creation of the hapless young gentleman, Bertie Wooster, and his efficient butler, Jeeves. Fine. Autograph Note Signed "P.G. Wodehouse" on a personalized note card, 3½x5½", Remsenburg, N.Y., 22 Feb 1967. To Howard Steinmetz: "…I am so glad you like my stuff. Good luck to the fan club!" With holograph transmittal envelope. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 69		Zola, Emile (1840-1902) French writer, head of the school of naturalism, and fervent supporter of Alfred Dreyfus. Autograph Letter Signed on Librairie de L. Hachette (where he worked from 1862-66) stationery, 1¼pp, in French, 8¼x5¼", Paris, 5 April (18)64. Fine. Sending to a gentleman four years' issues of the Tour du Monde and the first issues of the fifth year, and assuring him that he will receive them on a regular basis in the future. Estimated Value $300 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $414