Heritage - A sale for Bibliophiles
- by Bruce E. McKinney
Richard Avedon, a signed autobiography
Ernest Hemingway. 36116
Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923. First (and only) edition of Hemingway's first book, one of only 300 copies printed, this copy with a warm inscription from the author to the editors of The Little Review, the "little magazine" in Paris that had published his first mature prose work the same year: "For j.h. and Margaret Anderson with love from Hemingway" ("j.h." being Jane Heap).
Starting bid: $55,000. Estimate $75,000 up
Edgar Allan Poe. 36137
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First edition, one of 750 printed, with the following points:
Starting bid: $15,000. Estimate $17,500 up
Michael Shaara. 36374
The Killer Angels. New York: David McKay, [1974]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 374 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. General rubbing and light wear with fold lines and tiny tears to jacket. Overall very good.
Starting bid: $300. Estimate $600 up
E. B. White. 36420
Charlotte's Web. Pictures by Garth Williams. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1952]. First edition, with "I-B" on the copyright page.
Starting bid: $300. Estimate $600 up
[Joseph Priestly's copy]. 36561
Sammelband of Eighteenth Century Religious Texts. London: 1793. Twelvemo. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and abrading to extremities with splitting joints. Inscriptions. Good.
Starting bid: $300. Estimate $600 up.
[Brooklyn and Elizabeth, N. J.: C.P.R. News Service and Kolb Brothers, 1911] 36685
Two Hand-Colored Photo Albums, including: Scenes through the Canadian Rockies. [and:] The Grand Canyon of Arizona. [Brooklyn and Elizabeth, N. J.: C. P. R. News Service and Kolb Brothers, 1911]. Oblong folio albums with hand-colored mounted photographic reproductions: Canadian Rockies has twelve (and three loose additional photos), and Grand Canyon has eighteen. Both complete. Publishers' string-tied wraps. Some wear. Very good.
Starting bid: $300. Estimate $600 up.
Here are links to the entire as shown both on Heritage and AE.