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AN EXTRAORDINARY ASSOCIATION COPY
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. in our time. Paris, 1924. First edition of this beautiful production, number 45 of only 170 copies, inscribed by Hemingway to the underwriter of the book, concert pianist Alma Estelle Lloyd, on the front free endpaper: “It being impossible to write £30 worth of dedication, So ————, with affection to Lloyd from Ernest Hemingway, Paris, April, 1924.” The work was published in March of 1924. $175,000.
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AN EXTRAORDINARY RARITY AND ONE OF THE FINEST OF ALL HEMINGWAY ASSOCIATION COPIES
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Three Stories and Ten Poems. Paris, 1923. A superb association copy of one of the rarest and most desirable Hemingway titles: the first and only edition of the author’s first book, one of an edition of only 300 copies, this copy warmly inscribed by Hemingway to Eric Edward “Chink” Dorman-Smith, Hemingway’s first and closest adult friend: “For Chink with love from Popplethwaite, Paris—August 1923.” $145,000.
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“I DAYDREAM THAT SUDDENLY, BY SOME MIRACLE, I WILL BE ABLE TO COME HOME TO YOU…”
DAYAN, Moshe. Archive of autograph letters signed. Acre, Palestine, 1939-1941. 13 original signed autograph letters by Moshe Dayan, consisting of 47 handwritten pages to his wife, parents, and parents-in-law, in Hebrew and English, written on fragile prison toilet tissue while held prisoner by the British. $96,500.
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“HISTORY STALKS THE LANDSCAPE AT EVERY TURN”
FRIEDLANDER, Lee. American Monument. New York, 1976-77. Rare Deluxe limited first edition, number 39 of only 50 copies bound by Moroquain in two volumes, specially reserved for distribution by the photographer, with Volume I containing 218 halftones and Volume II featuring ten original gelatin silver prints-each photograph made, hand-numbered “XXXIX/L” and signed by Friedlander in black ink beneath the image, with laid-in original 12-page booklet entitled Fourteen American Monuments, featuring select black-and-white photogravures. $85,000.
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EXTRAORDINARILY RARE INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION OF HEMINGWAY’S THE SUN ALSO RISES, IN DUST JACKET
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Sun Also Rises. New York, 1926. First edition of one of Hemingway’s rarest and greatest novels—dubbing him “an immediate symbol of an age,” inscribed, “Best luck, Ernest Hemingway.” $85,000.
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A GREAT RARITY AND ONE OF THE FINEST OF ALL HEMINGWAY ASSOCIATION COPIES
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. In Our Time. New York, 1925. First edition, a superb association copy, of the first of Hemingway’s books published in the United States, one of only 1335 copies. This copy warmly inscribed by Hemingway to Eric Edward “Chink” Dorman-Smith, Hemingway’s hero and first and closest adult friend and the dedicatee of in our time, the earlier collection of short stories that formed the nucleus of In Our Time : “To Chink with Hommages Respectueux from his former A.D.C. [aide-de-camp] and still, with the occasional permission of His Brittanic Majesty, companion—Popplethwaite, Paris, October 1925.” $78,000.
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INSCRIBED BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York, 1922. First edition, first issue, an exceptional presentation copy whimsically inscribed in the year of publication by Fitzgerald, “For Wilbur Judd, Parisien [sic], Critic, Playrite [sic], Bibliophile, Drunkard and Good Egg, From F. Scott Fitzgerald, St. Paul 1922,” in scarce second-issue dust jacket (issued within months of the first-issue jacket). $75,000.
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“I HAVE THE HONOR TO LEAVE FOR YOU… A FEW OF MY STORIES”
POE, Edgar Allan. Autograph Letter Signed. New York, 1845. Autograph letter from Poe to editor Evert Duyckinck of Wiley and Putnam, dated February, 1845, and signed with Poe’s characteristic flourish. $65,000.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S FIRST BOOK, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, INSCRIBED BY HIM ONE DAY AFTER PUBLICATION
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. New York, 1920. First edition, first printing of Fitzgerald’s first novel, inscribed one day after publication, “For Pete Compton, A wild man if there ever was one — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton, NJ, March 27th 1920.” $63,000.
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“ONE OF THE FINEST ORNITHOLOGICAL WORKS EVER PRINTED,” WITH 500 HAND-COLORED PLATES AND AUDUBON’S AUTOGRAPH TIPPED IN
AUDUBON, John James. Birds of America. New York, 1861. Seven volumes. Lockwood Audubon, an early octavo edition, containing 500 superb tinted and hand-colored lithographic plates, with numerous in-text anatomical wood-engravings, with an inscription by Audubon tipped to the front pastedown: “I remain yours truly & sincerely attached, John J. Audubon.” In publisher’s full morocco bindings. $60,000.
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