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Manuscript, Collectibles and Aerospace Auction

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Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 132		Bellow, Saul (1915-2005) Jewish-American writer; 1976 Nobel laureate. First edition of Seize the Day, New York: The Viking Press, 1956. Signed on the title page. Octavo. [viii], [1]-211, [5 blank] pp. Publisher's yellow cloth backstrip over black paper boards, front cover and spine lettered in gray, original dust jacket. Jacket spine sunned, some rubbing to edges. A near fine copy of one of Bellow's early works. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 133		[Dickens, Charles] (1812-1870) An original etched copper printing plate for a "Phiz" illustration from the first edition of The Pickwick Papers, London, 1837, 8 5/8 x 6 3/16 in. (220 x 158 mm). The plate is Plate 27, The Trial, which originally appeared in Part XII, facing page 358. The illustrator Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), who used the nickname "Phiz," worked with Dickens for 23 years, illustrating ten of his novels. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,500. Christie's, June 26, 1981, lot 87. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 134		[Dickens, Charles]. The Personal History of David Copperfield. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First edition, first issue points as per Smith. Octavo. [xvi], 624 pp. With 40 plates, including vignette title page and frontispiece. Contemporary half green levant morocco over marbled boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to binding, minor wear to corners, bookplate of S. John Tombs on front pastedown, pp. 17, 482/483 chipped at edges (not affecting text), some plates foxed, some minor intermittent soiling in text. Overall, a very good copy. Smith, Dickens, pp. 76-78. Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 135		[Dickens, Charles]. Little Dorrit. First edition. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. Full dark-green leather binding by Bayntun London with gold toolng. Gold portrait of Dickens on the cover and gold facsimile signature on back cover. Marbled end papers. No white errata slip on p. 481. Title page has closed 1½ in. tear at lower edge and tiny closed tear at top edge. Light horizontal crease from binding on pages prior to preface; otherwise clean with minor toning. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 136		[Dickens, Charles]. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Hodder & Stoughton: London, New York, Toronto, n.d. (c. 1911), hardcover, 4to, 572pp. Illustrated by Frank Reynolds R.T. 20 colored, tipped-in plates with captioned tissue guards. Red cloth boards lettered and stamped in gilt and black with gilt oval medallion stamped with left-profile bust image of the young David Copperfield. Cover are bumped and rubbed with some spotting. No dust jacket, cloth cover spine is 3/4 separated and hinges are loose. Period book plate on inside cover and small pasting remnants on facing page. Interior is lightly toned but otherwise very good. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 137		[Dickens, Charles]. Little Dorrit. First edition, first issue of text of with illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. Octavo. xiv, [1]-625, [1,blank]pp. With forty plates inserted throughout, including vignette title-page and frontispiece. No half-title, as issued. Contemporary half green calf over marbled boards, edged in blind, spine ruled and tooled in gilt and blind, red morocco gilt lettering label. Some very mild rubbing to binding, some light intermittent foxing in text and plates (but plates generally bright). Neat previous owner's gift inscription (dated 1858) on front blank. A near fine copy. Smith, Dickens, pp. 91-93. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 138		[Eliot, John]. First edition of A Biographical Dictionary, Containing A Brief Account of the First Settlers, and Other Eminent Characters Among the Magistrates, Ministers, Literary and Worthy Men, in New-England (Salem: Cushing and Appleton and Boston: Edward Oliver), published in 1809. Leather and marbled-paper binding. Book was disbound and rebound using a now-forgotten technique known as grangerization or extra-illustration. A total of 161 pages of original etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs were added, including portraits by Holbein, Copley, Stuart, Doolittle, and Trumbull. The plates depict various New England scenes and the homes of the more well-known ministers, magistrates, literary figures, and other high-profile citizens of the time. Estimated Value $500 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 139		Haley, Alex (1921-1992) American author. First Edition of Roots Inscribed and Signed, "November 12, 1979 for Everett and Ottilie Laybourne and family. The very warmest wishes to you from me and from the whole ROOTS family of Kunte Kinte! Sincerely, Alex Haley" (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1976). Above Haley's inscription is a gift inscription to Evertt from Dort in blue ink. Dust jacket is present but ragged. Interior is tight and clean. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 140		Harte, Bret. The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle (1836-1902) American author who gained fame for his poems and articles about the American West. Autograph Manuscript Signed at the end of the story, 11 pages, 4to, written in black ink on fine paper watermarked "Savoy Cirencester," with eagle emblem, each sheet consisting of two 8vo sheets neatly pasted together at center (probably by Harte), [England], n.d. [1893 or later].The first nine pages are paginated and bear numerous corrections and revisions; the two additional pages bear lengthy insertions. Fine. Enclosed in the original wrapper with a memorandum written in Harte's hand: "First MSS Ghosts of Stukely Castle" and housed in a blue morocco case with gilt border and lettering; edges are bumped. Attached to the manuscript is the printed version, as the story appeared. This, while substantially the same in theme, shows several changes in arrangement, which accentuate the value of the original manuscript. Bret Harte often visited England and lived there from 1885 until his death in 1902. He befriended the Earl of Compton and visited him at Compton Wynyates, one of the most famous Tudor mansions in England and the inspiration of "The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle." The incidents narrated take place on Christmas Eve and are told through the eyes of a "Western Barbarian" resident in England. Collected in Colonel Starbottle's Client, and Some other People (1892). Estimated Value $6,000 - 8,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 141		Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) American author and sportsman; winner of the Nobel Prize for literature (1954). Typed Letter Signed "Papa," 2pp, 11 x 8½ in, Torcello (Italy), Nov. 12, 1948. Typed by Hemingway on Finca Vigia (Hemingway's home in Cuba) letterhead, to his friend Pete (screenwriter Peter Viertel, 1920-2007). A rambling, expletive-filled letter with stream-of-consciousness comments on current writers (Irwin, Wolfram, Miss Martha), the state of duck hunting in Italy, boxing, and how his being circumsized ("on my father's theory that you got the clap less that way….") hasn't caused anyone to think he was Jewish. He explains how to find his local hangout when Pete comes to Italy ("…someone…will recognize you if you present your one half of the enclosed stamp. The permanent password is Gloria En Excelsis and the answer is In the Pig's A.Hole." Signed vertically in pencil in the lower right margin of the second page, "Best always Papa." Minor toning, else fine. A wonderful letter that really gives the flavor of Hemingway. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,525
Lot 142		[Hesse, Hermann]. First edition, first issue of Der Steppenwolf. Berlin: G. Fischer Verlag. Octavo. 64, 33, 65-289, [1] pp., with the separately paginated Tractat bound in with faux wrappers as required. Original blue cloth ruled and decorated in gilt; covers lightly soiled and worn, some chipping to head and foot of spine as well as a split in cloth; gilt ruling rubbed away at some spots. Without the fragile dust-jacket, the usual browning very light to adjacent pages of faux Tractat wrappers (often quite heavy). German ex-libris stamp to title, front fly-leaf excised. A good copy. Hesse (1877-1962) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His novel Siddhartha and the present work are probably his best known pieces. Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 143		[Irving, Washington]. First edition, third impression of Rip van Winkle. London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907. Bound in full green calf, preserving the original engraved cover design. Drawings are by Arthur Rackham, England's most celebrated children's book artist of the period. The 51 illustrations are on tipped-in color plates. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 144		Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) British author and poet. Book Signed on the Limited Edition page, being No. 127 of 150 copies of Sea and Sussex From Rudyard Kipling's Verse…With an Introductory Poem by Rudyard Kipling, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First American Edition. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell Bound in gray boards with vellum shelback; stamped in gold on spine; 94 pp with 24 coloured etchings, each measuring approximately 5½ x 5½ in., top edge gilt and trimmed. Includes index of first lines. Minor foxing. Publisher's slipcase is toned and rubbed. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $235
Lot 145		Lawrence, D.H (1885-1930). Born David Herbert Lawrence. English novelist, poet, and critic; his most famous work is Lady Chatterly's Lover. Unfinished Autograph Manuscript of The Flying Fish, 40 pages (there are two page 3's), small 4vo, written in March 1925, after Lawrence fell ill in Oaxaca, Mexico. Frieda, his wife, stated that he wrote The Flying Fish while traveling by train from Mexico back to the United States. Lawrence seems to have dictated the first nine pages to Frieda around March 11-19 1925 while he was ill; he wrote the remainder of the fragment himself by March 25. The manuscript was unpublished in Lawrence's lifetime. It was first published in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of DHL, edited by Edward D. McDonald (New York: Viking, 1936). The protagonist of the story, Gethin Day, is a 40-year-old ex-soldier who is returning to England from southern Mexico after the death of his sister. The story recounts Day's thoughts and feelings as he travels back to his homeland. From the ship he observes the porpoises and flying fish cavorting in the Gulf of Mexico and Lawrence's descriptions of them are vivid. Lawrence had made such a journey in November and December of 1923 and like Gethin Day, Lawrence returned to England at the age of 40, never to see America again. Estimated Value $40,000 - 50,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 146		Leroux, Gaston. Rare early edition of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, Pierre Lafitte et Co., Paris, c. 1919-1921 (1st edition was 1910). Original card covers printed in green and black, with a picture of the Phantom. Bound in three-quarter curshed morocco, gilt stamping, scuffed. An extraordinary complete copy, a bit toned and with slight chipping. What makes this volume even more exceptional is Leroux's autograph inscription and signature, in French, on the half title page: "A Maud Pathé, la gentille amie de mon Miki et de ma petite Madeleine, en souvenir joyeux d'une automobile fantôme. Gaston Leroux / Nice 1er janvier 1921" Translated: "To Maud Pathé, the nice friend of my Miki and my small Madeleine, in merry memory of a phantom automobile. Nice [France] January 1, 1921." Maud was the daughter of the great movie magnate and inventor Charles Pathé, a major pioneer and the world leader in motion pictures until 1918. One can only imagine Leroux regaling the children with a lively, imaginary "Phantom" story. It is unlikely that Leroux (1868-1927) signed many of these early editions. The novel was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910 and was not well received. It became famous only in 1925 when Lon Chaney portrayed the masked and facially-deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House. The novel, which was translated into English in 1911, has since been adapted into many film and stage productions, the most famous being Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical."The Phantom of the Opera," which became the longest running Broadway show and musical in history. We find no records of any other inscribed copy of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra in any condition. This is the first appearance on the market of the copy offered here. Estimated Value $10,000 - 15,000. Purchased directly from the Pathé family estate. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 147		London, Charmian & Joan London. Charmian (1871-1955) was the second wife of Jack London Joan (1901-71) was his daughter from his first marriage. Charmian wrote The Book of Jack London (1921), a two volume biography and spent the years after Jack's death in 1916 keeping his memory alive. Archive of 15 letters written between 1906 and 1936. Fourteen letters written by Charmian and one by Joan London. The letters are written to James M. Chandler (2), Paul Eldridge (2), Hunter Kimbrough (8 letters and a Christmas card by Charmian, 1 by Joan), and Buster Creely (1). There are also two photos of Charmian. Overall fine. To Jim Chandler, who had intended to sail around the world with the Londons on the Snark, she writes in April 1906 of their preparations, "The keel is laid, and things are going on smoothly…with the boat-building. All our plans are toward this trip…." On Nov. 17, 1913, she writes to Paul Eldridge from "our small yawl yacht, the ROAMER. Jack is so busy catching cat-fish…that he has asked me to write his letters….Jack wears a Stetson himself, on the ranch….I deeply sympathize with the admirers who haven't the pleasure of his intimate acquaintance…." She also mentions several of London's writings. On Jan 13, 1914, she writes "Our 2 mos. yachting was…broken by a call from N.Y. where Mr. London now is…Today is his birthday…." The other letters are written after London's death (1916). The letters to Hunter Kimbrough (brother-in-law to Upton Sinclair) are datelined from Glen Ellen and Oakland, CA, from Honolulu and Berlin. She describes her many travels, social plans, her relationship with Joan and her attitude toward life, "…I am happy because I intend to be. Which means keeping fit, from scalp to soles!" She also mentions Jack: "I think Jack and I were lucky in knowing absolutely what we wanted, and not caring how many times we repeated like adventures!" (1925) She mentions the filming of THE SEA WOLF and in 1928 writes from Hawaii of completing London's EYES OF ASIA, "…must cut & condense somewhat. And I can improve it much by this, seeing again of the land on which he placed his imaginary plantation." From Berlin in 1929, she is thrilled that "Jack is the idol of Young Germany." Of Joan, she says, "Joan and I find each other congenial…We are both so busy, however, that we get together seldom, though we write back and forth…." She also mention Upton (Sinclair), the "bohemians" (Jack was a member of the Bohemian Club), George (Sterling), and talks of Hunter's past and future visits, including several references to being caught by him when she fell down the stairs ("It was a curious situation for a first embrace!!!My but you are strong!"). To Bunster Creely (1936), she writes, "I haven't an idea where & how my husband came by the name of Bunster! Most likely he picked it up in the South Seas….Glad you've found my biography of Jack London helpful…." Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 148		London, Jack (1876-1916) Autograph Quotation Signed: "To Phyllis--For I am Canim, the Canoe; my trail is all the world and never ends. Jack London August 7, 1904," on a toned 5¾ x 8¾ in. album page, n. p. Left margin is uneven, affecting nothing. The inexact quotation is from a short story London wrote two years earlier called "Li Wan, The Fair," published in Children of the Frost, a collection of Northland tales first published by Macmillan in 1902. Canim was a "large Indian fully six feet in height, deep-chested and heavy-muscled…." who proclaimed, "My trail is like the world; it never ends," and later boasts, "….for I am Canim, the Canoe, made to go here and there to journey and quest up and down the length and breadth of the world." Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 149		O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953) American playwright; he won four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature. Autograph Letter Signed "Gene," 1 page, 11 x 8½ in., Belgrade Lakes, Maine, Friday evening (September 1926). To Richard Madden, O'Neill's literary agent. In part: "Just a line to tell you to inform the Actors bunch, as always with my cuts, I expect my full royalty of 'Brown' to be restored from Sept. 1st on. And don't let McKaig give you any argument on it. Also warn them they are way behind hand on royalties again….We'll hold off the Guild until I get back to town around Oct. 1st and have a talk with them. There's no hurry since they're frank about not wanting to do it this season. I'll also have a personal interview with Miller. Nathan has wanted to bring us together for some time…I can take the opportunity to talk 'Marco' to him too….Kenneth [Macgowan] wired me today that he had a cable from [Max] Reinhardt saying he was enthusiastic about 'Lazarus L[aughed]' asking us to postpone any decision of director for it until his man [Rudolph]Kommer gets here the last of month….I can't wait much longer on their (Actors) raising money to do it, Reinhardt or no R., or I'll be dished out of any production the coming season. As I have pointed out to Kenneth, 'Lazarus L' isn't the type of thing anyone would buy for production after the 1st of Feb. - too expensive…" Fine. Alexander McKaig was business manager of the Greenwich Village Theatre. Gilbert Miller was a prominent producer. George Jean Nathan was a drama critic and O'Neill confidant, as was theatre critic Kenneth Macgowan, who was also associated with O'Neill in the production of his plays. During the time O'Neill stayed in Maine, he met his third wife, Carlotta Monterey. Estimated Value $3,000 - 5,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 150		[Perelman, S.J. ] Groucho Marx. Typed Letter Signed "Groucho," 1 page, 11 x 8½ in., Beverly Hills, CA, Aug. 30, 1966. To humorist and author S.J. Pelelman, advising him, with humor, on how to sell more copies of his book. In part: "…I suggest you go on the Johnny Carson Show, the Merv Griffin Show, the Jack Douglas Show….It's not very pleasant work, revealing yourself publicly…you may become a great actor. With a white wig and a pillow under your vest, there's no reason why you couldn't play King Lear….and remember: this advice hurts me more than it does you. This is what parents state to their children when they're slugging them with a hairbrush." Fine. Estimated Value $700 - 900. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 151		Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) American poet and critic. First edition of Pavannes and Divisions, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1918, Inscribed vertically on the half-title: "I alone am responsible / for the contents. / Ezra Pound." Octavo. [x], [1] -262 pp. This copy apparently bound without the frontispiece portrait (the portrait is absent, but there is no evidence of its ever having been in the book). Publisher's later state full blue cloth, spine lettered in green. Spine worn, expecially at joints and edges, rear joint starting near top, covers somewhat soiled and rubbed, corners somewhat worn, rear hinge just starting (yet still solid), front free endpaper with small tear at fore-edge, and small tape repair to verso. This copy was owned by American novelist Peter de Vries (1910-1993) and has his bookplate on the front pastedown. Overall, a good copy with a great inscription by Pound. Pavannes and Divisions is a collection of essays and two little-known poems that apapeared previously in various literary magazines. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 152		Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916) American writer and poet, called "The Hoosier Poet." Autograph Letter Signed "J.W. Riley" on personal, engraved notepaper, 4 x 4¾ in., St. Paul, Minnesota, Jan. 13, 1893. To S.H. Freidlander regarding a screen which has arrived safely at Riley's home in Indianapolis, but without any record of the cost, which Riley insists on receiving. "…I'm thus simply forced to bother you again. Address me, name in full, Indianapolis, where just one week from coming Saturday I'll be once more…." Neatly penned in tiny script. Light toning, else fine. Estimated Value $300 - 500. Harry Sparks collection. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 153		Salinger, J.D (1919 -) American author, best known for The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Typed Letter Signed, 1½ pp, 11 x 8½ in., Windsor, Vt., July 19, 1957. To English stage producer and director, explaining Salinger's objections to proposed stage and screen adaptations of The Catcher in the Rye. In part: "I'll try to tell you what my attitude is to the stage and screen rights of The Catcher in the Rye….Firstly, it is possible that one day the rights will be sold. Since there's an ever-looming possibility that I won't die rich, I toy very seriously with the idea of leaving the unsold rights to my wife and daughter as a kind of insurance policy….I keep saying this and nobody seems to agree, but The Catcher in the Rye is a very novelistic novel. There are readymade 'scenes' - only a fool would deny that - but, for me, the weight of the book is in the narrator's voice, the non-stop peculiarities of it, his personal, extremely discriminating attitude to his reader-listener, his asides about gasoline rainbows in street puddles, his philosophy or way of looking at cowhide suitcases and empty toothpaste cartons - in a word, his thoughts. He can't legitimately be separated from his own first-person technique. True, if the separation is forcibly made, there is enough material left over for something called an Exciting (or maybe just Interesting) Evening in the Theater. But I find that idea if not odious, at least odious enough to keep me from selling the rights….What he thinks and does so naturally in his solitude in the novel, on the stage could at best only be pseudo-simulated, if there is such a word (and I hope not). Not to mention, God help us all, the immeasurably risky business of using actors….Holden Caulfield…in my undoubtedly super-biassed [sic] opinion, is essentially unactable…." Fine; two professional fold repairs on verso; fold toning lightly affects the signature, which is boldly penned in black ink. Estimated Value $10,000 - 15,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $9,988
Lot 154		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 $250 - 350. View details	Unsold
Lot 155		Saroyan, William (1908 - 1981) American dramatist and author; he won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Two letters to prominent Los Angeles book dealer, Jake Zeitlin: a 1935 Autograph Note Signed "William Saroyan" and a 1938 Typed Letter Signed "Bill Saroyan." The first nixes a deal and wishes Jake's Press "much good fortune." The second is two pages, with numerous holograph corrections and P.S. It discusses in detail Saroyan's thoughts about writing and promoting a book he wants Zeitlin to publish. He mentions how some of his books have been promoted by other publishers. Both fine. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 156		Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) Irish playwright, awarded both the Nobel Prize (1927) and an Oscar (1938). Original charcoal and pastel portrail of Shaw signed, "G. Bernard Shaw / 4th July 1927" at lower left and by J.J. Woolf, the artist, in lower right corner in pencil, 17¼ x 14¾ in. A wonderful likeness on tan artist's paper. Matted, framed and glazed with an Autograph Note Signed "G.B.S.," 1¾ x 5 in., n.p., 2/7/27. Shaw writes humorously about his modeling career: "I now have considerable experience as an artist's model; but my terms--about $3750 an hour--are prohibitive. Also, I shall not be disengaged for at least a year to come." Light toning, else fine. Attractively framed to an overall size of 27¼ x 23 in and ready for display. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,351
Lot 157		Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) American novelist whose books gave expression to the social and economic tensions of the time. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. Autograph Postcard Signed (89 words), Los Gatos (CA), 1937 (probably between Sept. and Dec.). to Jake Zeitlin, a prominent Los Angeles book dealer, about Steinbeck's method for writing Of Mice and Men: "Dear Jake Zeitlin: Thanks for the kind words about M[ice] and M[en]. Do you know that it is written to be played - scened - timed and set to play from the dialogue as it stands using the description for stage direction. It is an experiment in combining the two forms of the novel and the play attempting to give the play ease of reading and greater freedom and to the novel, clear-cut objective presentation. But it is only an experiment. Meanwhile thanks again. Sincerely John Steinbeck." Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,173
Lot 158		Steinbeck, John. Autograph Postcard Signed, 196 words written in tiny script, Pacific Grove, California, Feb. 15, 1935. To Harry Thornton Moore, author of The Novels of John Steinbeck: A First Critical Study (1939). In part: "We are on the last draft of a book and are pounding about ten hours a day. Covici, Friede have taken me under their wing or wings if publishers have such and are bringing out two new books this spring and are reissuing all the others, so apparently my work has found a home. It is comfortable. I'm sick of being kicked around….We plan to go into Mexico very shortly. There to work on a very long and very difficult book. Some small town on the plateau I think. Cheaper to live and I'd like some altitude for a while…." Fine. This letter is one of the earliest mentioning his new publishers Covici, Friede. Steinbeck's plans to go to Mexico were cancelled until September of 1935. The last draft he was working on at the time was In Dubious Battle Tortilla Flat. was finished at this time so it appears that these were the two books coming out; however, In Dubious Battle was published in 1936. The "very long and very difficult book" referred to was The Grapes of Wrath (see Jackson J. Benson's John Steinbeck, Writer, p. 316). With the first English edition of a pamphlet by Harry Thornton Moore, John Steinbeck and His Novels (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1939), and a 1949 letter from The Argus Book Shop in Chicago, offering this and other Steinbeck letters for the first time. Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,350
Lot 159		Thayer, Phineas (Ernest Lawrence). First edition of Casey at the Bat. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912. 8vo. The first hardcover edition devoted solely to the poem. llustrations by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. Green paper over boards with gilt titles and baseball pictorial on front cover. Unpaginated. Light wear to spine ends and tips. Housed in a custom-made green cloth case with black leather labels and gold lettering. The poem was first published in the San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888. It gained fame later in 1888 when it was performed on Broadway by the popular singer-actor-comedian De Wolf Hopper before an audience that included team members of the New York Giants and Chicago White Stockings. A great collectible for lovers of baseball, poetry, or books. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $881
Lot 160		[Twain, Mark]. Life on the Mississippi. With more than 300 illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First edition, issue, with both first issue points as per BAL. Octavo. [2, blank], [1]-624, [2, blank] pp. Publisher's half burgundy pebbled morocco over dark brown pebbled cloth, spine tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endleaves. Professionally rebacked, preserving the original spine, headcap chipped, some rubbing to edges. Overall, a very good copy. Twain considered Life on the Mississippi to be his finest work. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,585
Lot 161		Twain, Mark. First edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. No jacket. 8vo. Bound in original publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth. Page 9: "Decided" is uncorrected; page 13: the illustration "Him and another Man" is listed as on page 88; page 57: the 11th line from the bottom reads "with the was." Copyright notice is dated 1884. Back hinge cracked and spine ends rubbed. Partial bookplate on pastedown; front fly leaves with former owners' names; half title page and title page have penciled "N. 2" in upper right corner. Minor spotting to fly leaves; interior is lightly toned.throughout. Estimated Value $1,500 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,938
Lot 162		Twain, Mark. Signature and paraph in purple ink on a 2¼ x 3¾ in. card, n.p., n.d. Light toning to card, else fine. Estimated Value $500 - 600. Harry Sparks collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $588
Lot 163		Twain, Mark - Clemens, Samuel L (1835-1910) Author and humorist better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. Autograph Letter Signed "Saml. L. Clemens," on 1st and 4th pages of stationery embossed in red with Clemens' initials and address, 7 x 4½ in., Hartford, March 3 (1874). To Mr. (Thomas Bailey) Aldrich: "Howells is to dine with Warner & me in Hartford that day & date, & so I naturally infer that a body can lunch with you & Mr. Sothern at 1 & still catch the 3 PM train for this town--therefore, if my inference is correct, I shall be more than glad, I shall be proud to tackle your sustenance on that occasion…." Fine; minor soiling. Twain was a good friend of author, editor, and critic William Dean Howells, and of poet and novelist Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Twain admired Aldrich's The Story of a Bad Boy (1870) and acknowledged its inspiration for his Huckleberry Finn (1885). Charles Dudley Warner collaborated with Mark Twain on The Gilded Age (1873); Twain was a pallbearer at Warner's funeral. E.A. Sothern was a famous actor of the day. A wonderful association of literary names. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,173
Lot 164		Twain, Mark - Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910) American humorist and author. Autograph Letter Signed with a double signature, "Samuel L. Clemens / Mark Twain," 1 page, 7 x 4½ in., Buffalo, Feb 14, n.y. A charming letter with a play on his pen name, to an unknown correspondent. In full: "Dear Sir: I am only too proud of the chance to help, with this the only Valentine I venture to write this day--for although I am twain in my own person I am only half a person in my matrimonial form, & sometimes my wife shows that she is so much better & nobler than I am, that I seriously question if I am really any more than about a quarter!" Somewhat faded, a few ink smears, and mounting remnants on verso. Rare content. Estimated Value $5,000 - 7,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 165		Whitman, Walt (1819-92) American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Autograph Letter Signed, 1 p, 7¾x 4¾ in., Hotel Waterston, 8 Bulfinch Place, Boston, Sept. 4, ny. Whitman writes: "My dear friends / Would you if convenient send me a package of those numbers of the Critic containing my Notes from time to time past, & the Carlyle?--direct to me here." Boldly penned and signed. Old mounting strips on verso at upper and lower margins, a couple of small holes, a quarter-size triangular tear in text, and one partial fold split. Accompanied by a 4½ x 2¾ in. albumen photo of Whitman, somewhat faded, with a 1906 note on the back from Elizabeth Keller: "Please accept this picture which was given t[o] me by Walt Whitman, and was among the many I [fo]und in his room while [I w]as his nurse." Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,821
Lot 166		Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807 -1892) American Quaker poet. Autograph Quotation Signed "John G. Whittier," 4x6¾", n.p., n.d. Light toning; neatly penned and signed. Whittier quotes another poet, in full: "'Be good, young friend, & let who will be clever, Do noble deeds not dream them all day long / And so make life, death & that vast forever / One grand sweet song.' I cannot do better than to commend the above words of an English poet, Canon Kingsley…." Estimated Value $250 - 300. View details	Unsold
Lot 167		Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) American poet and physician. First Edition of The Wedge [Cumington, Massachusetts]: The Cumington Press, 1944. Presentation copy inscribed "Dexter Purintan [?]/ his book / William Carlos William" on the front free endpaper. One of 380 copies, printed on Dacian Paper. Sixteenmo. [2, blank], [110] pp. With green and red "wedge" device on title page. Original publisher's printed paste-board. This copy rebacked, preserving the original spine. Minor wear to corners, some rubbing to edges, else near fine. This small volume contains some of Williams' most famous poetry, including "Paterson: The Falls" and "To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven." Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 168		Wodehouse, P.G (1881-1975) British novelist, playwright, and lyricist; best known for his "Jeeves" novels. Typed Letter Signed, 1 page, on his wife's engraved letterhead (he marks through "Mrs."), 7¾ x 5¾ in., Remsenburg, Long Island, Jan. 14, 1957. To American humorist and author S.J. Perelman., thanking him for a book ("I don't think you have ever done anything better"), praising many of Pelelman's works (".I laughed myself sick over Premises Being Kaput"), and sending "many congratulations on Around The World In Eighty Days." He also notes that he has made a deal with Jed Harris (who is satirized in Perelman's book) "for the TV rights of all my stories." Fine. Estimated Value $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $353
Lot 169		[Authors - Large Group]. A group of approximately forty items--cards, album pages, letters, etc-- signed by a varied, international group of authors, including Charles A. Dana, Frank McCourt, Arthur Fitger, Lee Knowles, Marion Harland, Elmore Leonard, Sardou, Ray Bradbury, Sylvia Long, Susan Leslie Liebkowitz, Jerrilyn Farmer, William J. Nolan, Patricia Nell Warren, Christian Reid, Bette Y. Cox, Glen Dawson, Temple Bailey, Bob Barner, Jonathan London, Barbara M. Joosse, Calvin Lambert, Hillary Carlip, Francesca Block, Thomas Dunn English, James Elroy, Christian Reid, and others. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 170		[Authors] Durant, Haley, Puzo, Uris, Wiesel, & Others. Group of twelve items signed by the following authors: Will and Ariel Durant (2), Alex Haley, James A. Michener, Elie Wiesel, Mario Puzo, James H. Meredith, Leon Uris, Jared Sparks (2), William F. Buckley. Also includes a card signed by playwright Paddy Chayefsky and a printed, unsigned card "With Bernard Shaw's compliments." Items signed include eight cards, three pieces of paper, and one promotional page from Meredith Publishing. Overall fine. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 171		[Authors] Vonnegut, Ginsberg, Seuss, Haley & Others. Twelve items, ten of them business or blank cards, signed by authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Allen Ginsberg (inscribed "Flattery will get you in the wrong place"); Dean Koontz (inscribed "To Harry--Boo…3/27/01"); Dr. Seuss; Alex Haley (2-both dated Oct 30 1977); Ray Bradbury (dated Dec. 12, '79); Norman Mailer (inscribed "Once a philosopher, twice a pervert. Voltaire."); Harriet S. Adams (Carolyn Keene); Erich Segal Also, signatures on pieces of paper by Kathleen Norris (inscribed "To Ben"); and Erskine Caldwell. Estimated Value $300 - 500. Harry Sparks collection. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 172		[Manuscript Leaf from an Antiphonal of Monumental Size]. Italy or Spain, c. 16th century. The vellum page consists of fourteen lines of text, written in a round gothic hand, and interspersed with illuminated initials -- the first, and largest, being a capital "D" beautifully rendered as foliage on a ground of gilt arabesques and mauve. The remaining eight capitals more simply treated. Verso of page a bit yellowed compared to recto, with a few modest damp stains in the margins. Page overall good to fine condition, with minimal flaking and rubbing to the text. Taken from an extraordinarily large book, and rare thus. In simple frame. Visible page size: 32-1/2" x 22". Estimated Value $300 - 400. The Antiphonal is a collection of Sacred Hymns and music used in church services. Traditionally the verses were written on oversized folio leaves in order to be visible to all members of the choir as they sang. However, pages of this size are rarely encountered. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold