Rare Book Monthly

Articles - December - 2008 Issue

Hollywood: No Laughing Matter


Jeanette MacDonald

Maurice Chevalier

Lon Chaney

Ronald Coleman

Joan Crawford

Marion Davies

Laraine Day

Delores Del Rio

John Gilbert

Who will show up for this sale? The greedy, the needy, the in-love and out-of-sorts and that's just to bid on the first page. Many fortunes will be made and perhaps a few lost. This auction isn't about facts. It's all about emotion. So plan to inspect ahead of time, register for a paddle, bid online or in the room. Buy yourself a holiday gift. It's something you'll be talking about years from now. Hopefully your story will have a happy ending.

Here is a link to the Collector's Bookstore auction. The material can be inspected in LA at the Collector's Bookstore, 6225 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028. Check the site for days and hours.

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    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
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    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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