Lot 116
Publishers -- Group of 20, Including Hearst, Forbes, Luce, Ross. Group of items signed by 20 famous publishers: John Bartlett (of Bartlett's Quotations), signature; R. G. Dun (of Dun and Bradstreet), partial document signed in 1886; John Murray (publisher of Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, etc.), ALS to Baron Pollack; Charles Scribner, cut closing and signature; James Loeb (Loeb Classical Library), cut closing and signature; S.S. McClure (published muckrakers in McClure's Magazine), 1917 TLS; Adolph S. Ochs (New York Times), ISP; Frank Gannett (Gannett Newspapers), 1939 TLS; William Randolph Hearst, signed envelope; Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune), large signature; B.C. Forbes (founder of "The Capitalist Tool"), signature; Malcomb Forbes (Forbes Magazine), ISP; Steve Forbes, 1984 TLS; Henry R. Luce (Time Magazine), 1930 TLS; DeWitt Wallace (Reader's Digest), 1942 TLS; Harold Ross (founding editor of The New Yorker), 1922 TLS; Alfred A. Knopf, signature; Bennett Cerf (Random House), sentiment and signature; Cass Canfield (Harper & Row), 1979 TLS; Hugh Hefner (Playboy), signature; Nigel Nicolson (Weidenfeld and Nicolson--published Lolita), signed loose title page; and Ted Turner, signature. Overall fine condition. Housed in a black leather album and matching case. Estimate Value $250 - UP
The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection.
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