Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 76

Manuscript Sale

Photography

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 390		Adams, Ansel. Six signed books, three hard and three soft cover. Hard covers published by New York Graphic Society, Boston: Photographs of the Southwest (1976, stated 1st printing); The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (1977, 3rd printing); Ansel Adams. Polaroid Land Photography (1978, first published in 1963). Soft covers: Ansel Adams. Recollected Moments inscribed "For Dick" and dated "10-30-72" (An Exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art; Ansel Adams. Singular Images (Dobbs Ferry, New York: Morgan Press,1974); and The Tetons and the Yellowstone (Redwood City, CA, 5 Associates, 1970). Good to very good; each book has an old auction sticker at top left of cover. Estimated Value $600 - 800 Superior Galleries, 1993. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $780
Lot 391		Adams, Ansel. Castle Rock, Summit Road. Edition Number: 240/258. Print size: 9½" x 7". Mount size: 18" x 14". Print date: 1963. Full signature in ink below lower right edge. Gelatin silver print from Portfolio IV, What Majestic Word, dedicated to the memory of Russell Varian, a scientist and inventor. Plate 9. The slipsheet for this prints reads: "Once you have entered the mountains, you will look forward to each successive return, as one looks forward to a return home, for you are returning to the clean, simple world in which the race was born and which your remote ancestors grew to fit and came to love." R H V. Bookplate on mount verso: Portfolio Four, What Majestic Word / Ansel Adams / set #240." Matted to 22" x 18". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $4,500 - 5,500 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 392		Adams, Ansel. Cloud and Mountain. Print size: 6" x 8". Mount size: 10" x 12". Print date: 1927. Signed "A. E. Adams" in pencil at lower right. Vintage gelatin silver print from the portfolio Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras [sic], 1927. This portfolio was important in Adams' life as its successful publication gave him confidence that photography might provide him a living and career. Printed on Kodak Vitava Athena Grade "T: parchment paper with individual slip folders. Title is typeset on parchment recto, centered in margin beneath image, ½" from bottom edge. Matted to 14" x 18". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,000
Lot 393		Adams, Ansel. Kaweah Peaks From Sky Parlor Meadow. Print size: 5¾" x 7¾". Mount size: 8" x 10". Unsigned. Print date: c. 1927. Vintage gelatin silver print made from a glass plate negative (2-GP-105) taken on a Sierra Club outing into the Kern-Kaweah/ Mt. Whitney region of the Sierra Nevada in the summer of 1927. Unsigned. Adams' negative numbering system indicates that the negative was 6½" x 8½", and that this may have been a contact print. This is probably a sample print Adams made from which to generate orders from club members who were on the outing. Matted to 13" x 15". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 394		Adams, Ansel. Mount Whitney. Print size: 5¾" x 7¾". Mount size: 8" x 10". Unsigned. Vintage gelatin silver print made from a glass plate negative (2-GP-105) taken on a Sierra Club outing into the Kern-Kaweah/ Mt. Whitney region of the Sierra Nevada in the summer of 1927. This print was discovered with a group of photographs verifiably made on this trip, on which reaching the summit of Mount Whitney was a prime objective. This is probably a sample print Adams made from which to generate orders from club members who were on the outing. Matted to 13" x 15". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 395		Adams, Ansel. Sally Keyes Lake. Print size: 7½" x 5½". Mount size: 12" x 9¾". Print date: c. 1929. Signed "Ansel E. Adams" in pencil at lower right. Vintage gelatin silver print made on a Sierra Club outing in 1929 that trekked from Huntington Lake up the San Joaquin River along the John Muir Trail ending at Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. Sally Keyes Lake is on a tributary to the San Joaquin River southwest of Humphey Basin. The inclusion of bathers in the image is generally unusual for Adams, but here contribute to the sense of an idyllic mountain experience. Matted to 14" x 11". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,120
Lot 396		Adams, Ansel. Sky Parlor Meadow. Print size: 5¾" x 7¾". Mount size: 8" x 10". Unsigned. Print date: c. 1927. Vintage gelatin silver print made from a glass plate negative taken on a Sierra Club outing into the Kern-Kaweah/ Mt. Whitney region of the Sierra Nevada in the summer of 1927. Unsigned. This print was discovered with a group of photographs verifiably made on this trip. This is probably a sample print Adams made from which to generate orders from club members who were on the outing. Matted to 13" x 15". With COA from The Ansel Adams Gallery. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000 View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 397		Bernhard, Ruth. Portfolio One: Nudes. Limited edition, 12/200. Six vintage half-tone prints enclosed in pictorial folder. Cover and one print signed. Published by The Print Mint, Berkeley, California, 1968. Some wear to cover; prints are very fine. Estimated Value $50 - 75 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $78
Lot 398		Maurice Seymour. Sally Rand. Four 8 x 10 in. photos of burlesque dancer and actress Sally Rand performing a balloon bubble dance. All have "Maurice Seymour Chicago" in the plate and large stamp on the back; one is cropped for newspaper use and has glue remnants on back. With a fifth Paramount publicity phto of Miss Rand performing a fan dance. Overall very good. "Maurice Seymour" was actually two brothers: Maurice (1900-93) and Seymour (1902-95) Zeldman, who came to Chicago from Russia in 1920. They opened a photography studio and specialized in film, theatre, and radio stars, international ballet stars (including the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), and others. Estimated Value $100 - 150 View details and enlarged photo	Realized $61