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“YOU HAVE ALWAYS LOVED YOUR SON AND THINGS WITH US ALWAYS WILL BE WELL…”
LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. New York and London, 1903. First edition, first printing, of one of the most desirable copies in American literature, inscribed from Jack London to his mother within four days of publication, one of the earliest known inscriptions: “Dear Mother, You have always loved your son, and things with us always will be well. Jack. July 22, 1903,” in scarce original dust jacket. $125,000.
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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. $79,000.
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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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“I AM ELOISE. I AM SIX” : UNIQUE ARCHIVE INCLUDING AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFTS FOR KAY THOMPSON’S CLASSIC, ELOISE
THOMPSON, Kay; KNIGHT, Hilary. Eloise manuscript archive and four books inscribed. New York, 1955-59. Archive plus four books. Extraordinary archive collection of manuscripts and typescripts for Kay Thompson’s famous first Eloise book, with materials from the collection of Eloise songwriter Robert Wells, along wonderful inscribed first editions of the four Eloise titles published in Thompson’s lifetime: Eloise, Eloise at Christmastime, and Eloise in Moscow each inscribed by Thompson, and Eloise in Paris signed by Thompson and Knight. The extensive archive includes 26 pages in Thompson’s large distinctive hand and many other pages with her handwritten notes. The only known manuscript draft for Eloise, containing in Thompson’s hand the immortal lines, “I am Eloise. I am six.” $75,000.
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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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INSCRIBED BY J.D. SALINGER
SALINGER, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, 1952. First edition, early issue, of Salinger’s first book—“a 20th-century classic”—an exceedingly rare copy inscribed and dated by him within months of publication, “New York, N.Y. March 15, 1952 With best wishes, J.D. Salinger.” $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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“DE LA BIBLIOTEQUE [SIC] DE MON FRERE L’EMPEREUR NAPOLEON”
(MARIE ANTOINETTE) (NAPOLEON BONAPARTE) GONDI, Jean François Paul de, Cardinal de Retz. Memoires du Cardinal de Retz. Geneve, 1777. Six volumes altogether. Rare 1777-79 editions of the four-volume Mémoires of Cardinal de Retz and the 1771 two-volume Mémoires de Guy Joli and Madame la Duchesse de Nemours, possessing an exceedingly rare provenance in association with two of the most legendary figures in French history—Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte. Five volumes (I, III-VI) are from the library of Marie-Antoinette, bound in contemporary calf gilt and displaying her distinctive gilt-tooled armorial coat of arms on the boards, along with her gilt-stamped crowned cipher “CT” on the spines. Volume II, bound in contemporary mottled calf gilt, contains a lengthy gift inscription on the front free endpaper by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte—“de la biblioteque [sic] de mon frere l’ Empereur Napoleon” (from the library of my brother the Emperor Napoleon)—to Baron Claude Francois Méneval, Napoleon’s trusted private secretary and his “only really close friend and confidant.” $55,000.
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“ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT OF ALL BOOKS RELATING TO MONTANA”: INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, ONE OF ONLY 15 COPIES
FRANCIS, Charles Spencer. Sport Among the Rockies. Troy, New York, 1889. Limited first edition, one of only 15 copies issued for private distribution, a collection of 25 letters authored by newspaper publisher Charles Francis, this presentation copy inscribed by him in the year of publication to “Mr. L. L. Warren, with the compliments of Charles S. Francis, Aug. 15, 1889,” featuring 48 vintage albumen prints (each five by eight inches and mounted on heavy card stock) displaying exceptional images of 19th-century Western America. This extremely scarce copy from the library of photographer and musician Graham Nash, with his signed bookplate. $55,000.
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“THE LADY-BEARER OF THIS—A QUAKERESS—WISHES TO DO SOME ACTS OF HUMANITY FOR SECESSION PRISONERS…”
(LINCOLN, Abraham). Autograph album. Washington, circa 1844. Stirring and very unusual autograph note signed by Lincoln from 1863 authorizing the bearer, a “Quakeress,” to tend to Confederate prisoners of war, whom he here describes as “secession prisoners.” The recipient tipped this note into her original mid-19th-century autograph album that contains more than 250 original historic signatures, including those of Presidents Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and John Quincy Adams, as well as many other figures important in politics leading up to and during the Civil War, both in the Union and in the Confederacy, most signed during the years 1843-1845. Also with a warm letter from the owner’s cousin, Dolley Madison, tipped in. $55,000.
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