Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 52

Manuscript, Collectibles and Aerospace Auction

Authors

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 162		Albee, Edward (1928 -) American playwright; Pulitzer Prize winner for drama in 1967, 1975, and 1994; best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Rare first edition hardcover book, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with dustjacket, signed and dated on the title page, "Edward Albee 2006." Published by Atheneum, 1962. Wear and staining to dustjacket, else choice. Estimated Value $750 - 950. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 163		Barrie, Sir James M. - ANS (1860-1937) Scottish playwright and novelist; best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. Autograph note signed ("J.M. Barrie"), 1p, 3¾ x 4¼", n.p., n.d. To the Surveyor of Taxes, Guildford, saying "I presume you want nothing further of me." Matted with a 3¾ x 3½ in. image of Barrie and framed to an overall size of 11½ x 15½ in. Fine. Estimated Value $125 - 175. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $81
Lot 164		Bryant, William Cullen - AQS (1794-1878) Poet, journalist, and editor. Autograph quotation signed, 4¼ x 4½", n.p., Apr. 5, 1877. The third stanza of the poem "The Planting of the Apple-Tree," beginning "What plant we with the Apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs…." Fine. Matted with a small portrait of Bryant and framed to an overall size of 19½ x 15½ in. With a COA from the late autograph dealer Charles Hamilton on the verso. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 165		Field, Eugene (1850-1895) American writer, best remembered for children's poetry such as Wynken, Blynken and Nod, and humorous essays. Autograph letter signed, 1p, 5½ x 5¼", South Kensington, Aug. 12, 1890. To Low's Exchange, regarding his mail, and a needed address, with the comment, "My health has much improved by a visit to Germany…." He died five years later at the age of 45. Matted with a color image and framed to an overall size of 18 x 12¼ in. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 166		Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) American poet and a leading figure of the Beat Generation. His books include Howl (1956) and Kaddish)1961. A unique collection of five items: three credit cards, Social Society card and Brooklyn College Faculty card belonging, each belonging to Ginsburg and each signed "Allen Ginsburg." Offered at auction for the first time. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $368
Lot 167		Ernest Hemingway Inscribes A Book To Alejo Carpentier 1/11/59 (1899-1961) American novelist and short-story writer; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old man and The Sea and the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway's personal copy of The Count of Monte Cristo, VolumeTwo (New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1904) inscribed and signed on the first leaf: "Dear: Alejo Carpentier Best to you alway [sic] and un abrazo de tu amigo Ernest Hemingway. 1/11/59". The book itself is not in great condition and needs restoration; the cover is almost totally discolored, the title page and first page of the Table of Contents are separated, and there is some faint to moderate dampstaining to top and upper right margin from the frontispiece through page 20, not affecting the text. The signature page, however, only has some toning. Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (1904-1980) was a Cuban (his mother was Russian and his father French) novelist, musicologist, essayist,and playwright, who is considered one of the fathers of modern Latin American literature. He was the first to use the technique of "lo real maravilloso" (magical realism). Among those he influenced were Gabriel García Marquez and Carlos Fuentes. In 1928 Carpentier fled Machado's repressive regime in Cuba and lived in Paris until 1939. He returned to Cuba until 1945, when he left for Caracas, but returned to Cuba in 1959 when Castro's revolutionary forces took over. From the mid '60s until his death, he served as a Cuban diplomat in Paris. Hemingway owned a home, Finca Vigía, 12 miles outside of Havana, where he lived for 22 years. He remained in Cuba for a year after Castro came to power, leaving in 1960. Amazingly, this book was signed and inscribed by the great American author to the great Cuban author just as Castro was taking power in Cuba. Estimated Value $3,000 - 5,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 168		Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) American novelist and short-story writer; winner of the 1954 Nobel prize for literature. Bold signature in black ink on 1¼x3¼" piece of paper, n.p., n.d. Fine condition. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $368
Lot 169		Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. - ALS (1809-1894) Physician and writer; one of the most popular American poets of the 19th century. Autograph letter signed ("O W Holmes"), 1p, 7 x, Boston, Dec. 7, 1886. To an unnamed man, explaining, "The lines in question are to be found in 'Poetry: A Metrical Essay' published in the first and all subsequent editions of my poetical writings." Fine. Matted with a portrait of Holmes and framed to an overall size of 13½ x 16½ in. Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $144
Lot 170		Huxley, Aldous (1893-1963) British writer, best known for Brave New World. Scarce autograph letter signed twice, 11x8½", n.d. Responding to an autograph request. In part: "…I am sending you two autographs - but no photograph as I don't have one…." Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 171		Jones, James - TLS (1921-77) American author; best known for From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. Typed letter signed, 1p, 11 x 8½", King's Cottage, Ft. Myers Beach, Fla., Apr. 30, 1952. To Leonard Lyons of the New York Post, regarding writing a guest column about "the two most important days in a first novelist's first publication: 1/the first time he actually sees one of his bound books, and 2/the first time he see the window display on it…." Fine. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $230
Lot 172		Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) English author and poet. Signature on a 1 x 3¾". slip of paper, cut from a document, n.p., n.d. Very good; signature is on the light side but legible. Matted with an image and framed to an overall size of 14 x 10". Some nicks to frame. Estimated Value $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $138
Lot 173		Lawrence, D. H. - ALS From New Mexico (1885-1930) British novelist; his novels analyzed the ills of modern industrial society and the role of sex in human conduct. Autograph letter signed, 1p, 6¾ x 5", Del Monte Ranch, Questa, New Mexico, July 15 1925. To "Seltzer," saying, "We expect to be in New York in the autumn, coming through on our way to England. I shall be able to see you then, and have a talk." Matted with a small color drawing of Lawrence and framed to an overall size of 13¼ x 17"; some nicks to frame. With a COA from the late autograph dealer Charles Hamilton on the verso. Thomas Seltzer was an influential small publisher in New York who published the first U.S. editions of many of Lawrence's works. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 174		Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891) Poet, critic, essayist, editor, and diplomat. Autograph poem signed ("J.R.L."), 1p, 4 x 3½", Elmwood, Dec. 30, 1863. The 12- line poem begins "This is my picture Improved on by Rowse, The sole one my victor Allows in her house…." Matted with a closing and signature cut from a letter, "truly yours J.R. Lowell," 1½ x 2¼ in. and an image of Lowell, all framed to an overall size of 18½ x 10½ in. Fine. A COA from the late autograph dealer Charles Hamilton is on the verso. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 175		Beatrix Potter Signed Greeting Card (1866-1943) English author, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist, best known for her children's books featuring animal characters, such as Peter Rabbit. She published a total of 23 children's books, the proceeds of which allowed her to become independent of her parents and to buy land in the Lake District. In 1913 she married William Heelis, a local solicitor. She left 14 farms and 4000 acres of land to the National Trust, preserving that beautiful area for future generations. Greeting card signed on the front, "Beatrix Potter" under a holiday illustration featuring rabbits and inside: "Wm. & Beatrix Heelis" to "Mary and Hetty with best wishes for Christmas & New Year, Dec. 17, 1938." At left is an illustration, signed in print, of three rabbits reading a greeting card. Printed above is "Here comes Peter with the Post-bag! -- "Is this the right rabbit hole, please?" A printed insert notes that "By the request of Lady Baldwin and 'Peter Rabbit's Committee' (I.C.A.A.) the Publishers will devote the profits from the sale of this Greeting Card (after the original drawings by Beatrix Potter) to the Invalid Children's Aid Association…." Very fine. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 176		1st Ed. "Trending Into Maine" Signed by Roberts & Wyeth. First Edition, published May 1938 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company). With Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, Signed by Roberts and N.C. Wyeth, who on the limited page, No. 502 of 1,075 copies. Arundel Edition, 384 pages plus index. Internally tight and clean; many pages uncut. Spine darkened and bumped. Case is worn and chipped. Accompanied by an extra suite of 14 Wyeth plates. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 177		Shaw, George Bernard - ALS (1856-1950) Irish playwright and literary critic; the only person to win both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938). Autograph letter signed with initials ("GBS"), on his printed postcard, 5½ x 3½", Ayot Saint Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts, Feb. 18, 1948. Responding to a request (present) to say something nice about Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Shaw writes, "C-B was not up my street. I never met him, and have no excuse for pretending to write about him." Fine. Matted with a photo and the letter Shaw is answering and framed to an overall size of 16½ x 15¼". Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 178		Southey, Robert & Leon Uris. English poet laureate Southey (1774-1843) pens two lines from Ecclesiastes 32:22 and signs, "Robert Southey, Keswick 28th March 1837" on a 2¾ x 4½" piece of paper. Leon Uris (1924-2003) signs a typed excerpt from his most famous novel, Exodus, on blue card stock, 8 x 6", n.p., n.d. Both fine. Estimated Value $150 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 179		Whittier, John Greenleaf - Autograph Poem Signed (1807-92) Quaker poet and abolitionist. Autograph poem signed ("John G. Whittier"), 1p, 7 x 4½", with an autograph letter signed on the verso of the poem, both written in purple ink. The letter to Miss Proctor, datelined Danvers, 12th Mo[nth] 1886, says, "I am glad to comply with thy request and am truly thy fr[ien]d." The five-stanza poem is titled "S.T.J." and was written in 1885 by Whittier upon the death of Samuel J. Tilden, the New York politician who ran for president in 1876 and won the popular vote but lost the electoral college to Rutherford B. Hayes. The first stanza says, "Once more, O all-adjusting Death! The Nation's Pantheon opens wide; Once more a common sorrow saith A strong, wise man has died." Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $173