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Books & Manuscripts
03 June 2014 • New York
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174 lots
  • 136. Puccini, Giacomo
    Remarkable photograph of the Composer, showing him lighting a cigarette, his face and hands illuminated by the match, signed and inscribed on the mount, to his friend Sybil Seligman
    Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 137. Pynchon, Thomas
    Slow Learner. Early Stories. Boston: Little Brown, 1984
    Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 138. Remarque, Erich Maria
    A fine group of poetic and passionate love letters, a postcard, and a manuscript fragment, to Marlene Dietrich, mostly undated but late 1930s to 1960s, as listed below:
    Estimate: 10,000 – 20,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 139. Roberts, David
    The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia. London: F. G. Moon, 1842–1849
    Estimate: 30,000 – 45,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 140. Shackleton, Ernest
    The Heart of the Antarctic. London: Heinemann, 1909
    Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 141. Shelley, Percy Bysshe
    Autograph letter signed ("Percy B. Shelley"), to William Laing
    Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 142. Smith, Adam
    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776
    Estimate: 70,000 – 100,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 143. Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Co., 1883
    Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 144. Stowe, Harriet Beecher
    Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston: John B. Jewett & Company, 1852
    Estimate: 6,000 – 8,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 145. Autograph manuscript of the poem "Sweet and Low," signed ("A. Tennyson")
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 146. Thackeray, William Makepeace
    Autograph manuscript fragment from "On Screens in Dining Rooms," from "Roundabout Papers no. 6," published in Cornhill Magazine, volume 2 (July - December 1860), p. 253
    Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 147. Thoreau, Henry David
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 USD
    BIDDING IS CLOSED