Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 43

Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

Authors

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 161		Andersen, Hans Christian (1807-1875) Danish author of novels, short stories, fairy tales, and poems; best known for his fairy tales, such as "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Princess and the Pea," and "The Ugly Duckling." AMsS ("H.C. Andersen") being an original, unpublished poem in the hand of Hans Christian Andersen and signed by him, written on the verso of the decorative title page of the first volume of the 1853 German edition of Andersen's Collected Works (Leipzig: Verlag Von Carl B. Lorck), 6½" x 4", n.p., December 1853. Fine; overall toning; one tiny, archival edge repair; lightly affixed to board at top and bottom of left margin and matted to 11" x 8". Accompanied by a letter in Danish from Hans Christian Andersen Museum confirming to Branners Bibliofile Antikvariat in Copenhagen that the poem is, indeed, in Andersen's hand, and explaining the first line of the manuscript, "Med 'Sämliche Werke' 8 Bind." (the poem appears in the first volume and Andersen gave all eight volumes of the "Collected Works" to the Children's Hospital and inscribed them in the first volume). The English translation reads: "My poetry scattered seeds in the world, found friends also abroad, here it is at home again, dressed in a foreign way, but its heart will always remain Danish. H.C. Andersen Given by the author to 'the doctors of the Children's Hospital, December 1853." Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,480
Lot 162		Caldwell, Erskine (1903-1986) American author, most famous for Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933). TMsS, 4¼pp, 11" x 8½", n.p., n.d. Very fine. A short story entitled "It Happened Like This" begins: "For five year before I put on long pants we lived just far enough away from the Mississippi River to be above flood level." Boldly signed at the end in black ink. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 163		Caldwell, Erskine. TMsS, 5¼pp, 11" x 8½", n.p., n.d. Very fine. A short story entitled "A Very Late Spring" begins: "Mary Jane knew Dave was up to some kind of mischief, but to save her soul she could not find out what it was." Fine. Boldly signed in black ink on the last page. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 164		Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Menu signed by Clemens ("S.L. Clemens") and by General William Tecumseh Sherman, Edwin Booth, John Drew, Joseph F. Daly, A.M. Palmer, Thomas B. Aldrich, Brander Matthews, James Lewis, Laurence Hutton, Lawrence Barrett, Stephen H. Olin, William Bispham, Augustin Daly, and one other man whose name is not clear, 6"x4", identified on the reverse, menu side, "Mr. Daly's Lunch, Friday, Jan. 6, 1888". All of the men listed were founding members of The Players club in New York City. Fine; double-framed to show the manuscript menu, which has a few scattered brown spots, on the back, and with a portrait of Twain. Overall size is 10¾"x13½". In May 1888, Edwin Booth bought a townhouse at 16 Grammercy Park in New York City, and on December 31, 1888, The Players officially opened before a group of men from the theatre, fine arts and letters, journalism, and commerce. Booth was the The Players' first president and J.F. Daly was the first vice president. Booth deeded the townhouse and its contents to the club, which still exists in the same townhouse. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,360
Lot 165		Faulkner, William (1897-1962) American author; winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. First Edition copy of The Hamlet Signed, being number 9 of 250 numbered and signed copies, New York: Random House, 1940, 8vo., 421pp, with color title page. 3/4 dark green cloth gilt. Minimal age toning. A fine example of this classic first volume of the Snopes trilogy; it would be followed by The Town in 1957 and The Mansion in 1959. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,450
Lot 166		Ferber, Edna (1887-1968) American novelist; she won the Pulitzer prize in 1924 for So Big; several movies and Broadway plays were made from her novels (Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant, etc.). AN ("Ferb."), 1p, 3¾" x 5", 730 Park Avenue (New York), 1961 Sept. 30. To Maggie, sending "…some nourishment for the 5 o'clock drinking set. It's good for you, too. Build you up…." Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $60
Lot 167		Frost, Robert (1874-1963) American poet; winner of four Pulitzer awards. An original 52-line poem titled "An Unstamped Letter In Our Rural Letter Box," written as a Christmas present in 1944 for some of Frost's friends, signed and inscribed "To Dave Stevens from Robert Frost" in blue ink on the second front fly leaf. Extremely fine. The 5¼" x 4" booklet containing the poem was printed at The Spiral Press and has a woodcut of a rural letter box by Thomas W. Nason. The poem begins, "Last night your watch dog barked all night / So once you rose and lit the light. / It wasn't someone at your locks. / No, in your rural letter box / I leave this note without a stamp / To tell you it was just a tramp / Who used your pasture for a camp…." Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $575
Lot 168		Harte, Bret (1836-1902) American author and poet. AMsS of the poem, "Por El Rey (Northern Mexico) 1640," n.p., n.d., 13pp, 8¼" x 6½". Written in purple ink on rectos only, bound by Riviere and Son in bright green crushed leather morocco gilt, turn-ins richly gilt. With a frontispiece photo of Bret Harte. The 177-line poem is probably a fair copy, although Harte has changed "three hundred" to "two hundred" on pages 3 and 10.The poem recounts a tale of love between a young bride and the King's Viceroy of Monterey, who is invited to enjoy the "droit de Seigneur." "'…Por el Rey,' well, the King is gone, Ages ago, and the Hapsburg one Shot. But the rock of the Church lives on. 'Por el Rey,' What matters, indeed, If King or President succeed To a country haggard with sloth and greed…." Estimated Value $7,500 - 10,000. Originally from the Doheny Libray. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $4,560
Lot 169		Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. An extensive archive consisting of approximately eighty letters from family, friends, his first wife, and acquaintances from his early years (1914-1928), with a few other letters, including one from his third wife, up to 1941. Hemingway kept this group of letters with him until his death. The letters are housed in two loose-leaf notebooks; the condition is generally very good to fine. Included in the collection are fourteen letters from Hemingway's mother, Grace Hall Hemingway and father, Clarence Hemingway (he committed suicide in 1928), with references to Ernest's World War I war injuries and his recovery in a hospital in Italy in 1918. One ANS "G.H.H." addressed to "Lieut. Ernest Miller Hemingway, Section 4 Italian Ambulance Service, American Red Cross…." says, "…Write me all about your dear Red Cross nurse. Dougherty tells me you were quite devoted to one another…." Agnes von Kurowsky was Ernest's first love and their romance served as the basis of the love story in A Farewell to Arms, the most important novel to come out of World War I. In 1919, Clarence sends Ernest, among other things, "a new Underwood 'Black Ribbon'"; Ernest kept this typewriter with him his entire life. Two letters, from The Saturday Evening Post and The Green Book Magazine, are rejections of E.H.'s earliest attempts at short-story writing, one letter offering specific criticisms to improve his work. There are five letters written by E.H.'s first wife, Elizabeth Richarson "Hadley" Hemingway, between Dec. 28, 1921 and Mar. 20, 1925 to E.H.'s parents. In 1922 she writes, "..It's so wonderful being married but you're only half of twice as big a personality!…I certainly love this child of yours and mine…." In Sept. 1923, she reports her pregnancy [their son John was born Oct. 10, 1923], and in April 1924 she writes that Gertrude Stein and Alice Toclaz are the baby's godparents: "[they] are wonderful godparents - over here every few days to see his progress and make the right suggestions at the right moments….Ernie…is making a great name for himself among literary people everywhere. Ford Maddox Ford, editor of the Transatlantic Review, the man who taught Joseph Conrad to write English, said to him yesterday…'Monsieur, you will have a great name in no time at all!. In March 1925, she reports the news that "Boni and Livwright had taken Ernest's book of short stories, In Our Time….He has a big fishing story, The Big Two-Hearted River coming out in the opening number of This Quarter, an American & English magazine that promises to do well over here. It is on sale in the states too. Also a story,The Undefeated (Bullfighter's tale) in Der Gruschnitt March or April number…." Martha Gelhorn, E.H.'s third wife, wrote his mother from Cuba in 1941, referring to their trip to China and noting that "Ernest is…getting the first real rest now since he finished his book…." The book is probably Hemingway's 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Estimated Value $25,000 - 35,000. Ex Collection of Jonathan Goodwin. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $28,750
Lot 170		Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. 91809-1894) Poet and physician. ALS on stationery engraved "296, Beacon Street", 1p, 6½" x 4¼" (Boston), 1892 March 16. To an unknown correspondent, in part: "I feel honored by your Clan's devoting an hour to the study of my writings. I sincerely hope they will find enough in them to repay them for the honor they propose doing me…." Fine; toned overall; small damp stain at lower right corner. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 171		Melville, Herman (1819-1891) American novelist, essayist, and poet. ALS ("H Melville"), 1p, 7½" x 5", Pittsfield (Massachusetts), n.y. May 9 (Melville lived in Pittsfield between 1850-1863). Very fine. To G. P. Putnam, his publisher: "Dear Sir--As it is short, and in time for you June number, Therefore--in case it suits you to publish--you may as well send me your check for it at once, at the rate of $5 per printed page. If it dont suit, I must beg you to trouble yourself so far, as to despatch it back to me, thro my brother, Allan Melville, No 14 Wall Street. Yours H Melville" The letter is, in effect, signed twice because Melville writes his brother's name. An internal note from the publishing house, initialed "B", is at the top of Melville's letter. It says in part, "Melville wants the Ms. sent to his brother Allan. I have written to him, and I think you had better write to him….It will be the best one for the public and the Maga." Melville's early novels (such as Typee and Omoo) brought him success. Most were based on his sea-faring experiences, and some were serialized before being printed as books. Moby Dick, now considered his masterpiece and one of the greatest literary works of all time, was not appreciated until after his death, and Billy Budd was not even published until 1924. Melville gave lectures to earn money and spent 19 years as customs inspector for the City of New York. Estimated Value $9,500 - 11,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $18,975
Lot 172		Mencken, H.L (1880-1956) American journalist, satirist, and social critic. TLS, on personal letterhead, 5½" x 8½", Baltimore, 1943 Dec. 16. Tongue-in-cheek letter hoping "Spivak" has recovered from the flu and reminding him that "cholera, bubonic plague and typhus" sometimes follow. Very good; a few old pencil marks and edge blemishes. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $180
Lot 173		Milne, A.A (1882-1956) English author, playwright, and poet; best known for his Winnie-the-Pooh books. ALS, 2pp, 7¾" x 5", Cotchfort Farm, Hartfield, Sussex, 1943 Dec. 2. Fine. Good wartime content. To "Burrel," in brief: "the real danger in Anglo-Russian friendship is the fanatical Russophiles…the ineffable Pritts and their kind, who were entirely against the war until it was war…against their own country then it was just and…they were as ready to patch it up as any Fascist; or preferably use it for their own purpose of a Communist Revolution….These people…are the danger…to Anglo-Russian friendship, because their extravagant worship of Stalin…is making Russophobes by the thousands….How much good will for and admiration of Russia has come from Churchill and the admiring Englishmen! How little has come from Stalin and the admiring Russians in return!" Much more interesting content, with a full transcription of Milne's tiny script. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $630
Lot 174		O'Faolain, Sean (1900-1991) Irish writer. ALS, 2pp, 8¾" x 7", Dublin, n.y. Aug. 29. Fine. To an unnamed American publisher (Sam) regarding a foreword O'Faolain has written and which he wants John V. Kelleher to see before he sends the finished product. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $161
Lot 175		Salinger, J.D (1919 -) Reclusive American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Envelope signed and inscribed, "To Tom / J.D.S. / 6/3/02," in black marker, n.p., but a note in the upper right corner says "Dartmouth Bookstore, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3, 2002." The envelope is the clear type used to hold stamps. Any signature by Salinger is rare. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $449
Lot 176		Shaw, George Bernard (1856- 1950) Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist; he was awarded a Nobel Prize (1925) for his contribution to literature and an Oscar (1938) for Pygmalion. He was also a great wit. ISP, "To Mr. Harry Saltzman, collector of signed portraits: a pestilential habit. From G. Bernard Shaw / Ayot Saint Lawrence / 6th March 1949," in blue ink on the verso of a 5 1/8" x 3 1/8" 3/4 portrait of Shaw outdoors, wearing a cape. Fine; one faint crease in the photo. With holograph envelope. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $360
Lot 177		Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1918 -) Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. He brought the world's attention to the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system. Paperback copy of One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich signed on the title page in Cyrillic script in black ink; another hand added "for Ronald Bustin," n.p., n.d. Fine. Mr. Bustin taught an advanced honors Russian class in New York. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold