Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 79

Authors

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 225		[American Authors] Julia Ward Howe, Pearl S. Buck, Harper Lee. Group of four items: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), autograph letter signed, 4¾ x 7¾", 2pp., n.d., on personal stationery; with printed sheet music for Battle Hymn of the Republic, which Howe authored; Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) autograph letter signed, 2 pp., 9¼ x 6", November 9, 1928, on Hotel Lenox, Newark, New Jersey letterhead. Ms. Buck sends compliments to another writer, "I am doing something I never have done before in writing appreciation to anyone."; Harper Lee (1926-) autograph printed pamphlet regarding To Kill a Mockingbird, 5 x 7½", c. 1990, 7 pp. front & back, signed in blue ink on the lower center margin of cover. All items in fine condition. Estimated Value $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $590
Lot 226		*[Beach, Sylvia] Shakespeare and Company.* First edition, Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1959. 8vo, 230 pages. Cloth covers, dust jacket present. Light wear. In 1919 American Sylvia Beach opened her bookstore on the Left Bank, where writers such as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Paul Valéry, André Gide, and other famous and soon-to-be famous writers gathered throughout the 20's. In 1922, under the imprint of Shakespeare and Company, Beach became the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, then banned in every English-speaking country. Fascinating reading! Estimated Value $100 - 150. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Realized $62
Lot 227		Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824) Legendary British poet who was instrumental in creating the Romantic Movement; he died fighting for Greek independence. Autograph manuscript, being four lines from his first major poem "Oscar of Alva," reading: "And Mora's eyes could Allen move/She bade his wounded pride rebel/Alas! that eyes which beamed with love/Should urge the soul to deeds of hell." Fine, with an interesting history, and two corrections, showing that this was his actual working manuscript. He originally began the second line with "Love," changing it to "She," and the next to last word in that line he changed to "Pride" from an indistinguishable original word. The piece is mounted to a larger sheet on which is written, "The above is Lord Byron's writing and is the 74th verse of the poem entitled 'Oscar of Alva,' published in his 'Hours of Idleness,' written when he was at Southwell and is a part of the Original M.S." This is in the hand of Elizabeth Pigot, a longtime friend whose house Southwell was virtually Byron's adopted home, and with whom he exchanged verses and books. When he left her, they parted on close terms and continued to correspond. He gave her the manuscript of "Oscar of Alva" to transcribe for publication, and she later cut it up to give out. Only 14 of these cut slips of verses from this poem are known to exist, and many of them are in institutions. Manuscripts of Byron are of the greatest rarity. At the bottom of the page, Elizabeth has written out and signed her own poem in praise of Byron, beginning "Byron! I knew thee in thy early day, When yet thy Sun had scarcely shown a ray…." Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. The Arden Family Holdings of Beverly Hills. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,880
Lot 228		Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) American novelist; best remembered for the Leatherstocking Tales and The Last of the Mohicans. Check Engrossed and Signed ("J. Fennimore Cooper"), 2¼ x 6", Cooperstown (NY), May 23, 1840. Written on the Otsego County Bank and paid to "my note" for $501.66. A circular, light red cancellation stamp lightly affects the "J" in the signature but does not detract from the aesthetic value. Check is laid to cardstock. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 229		Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) English novelist and one of the most popular writers in the history of literature. He combined masterly storytelling, humor, pathos, and irony, with sharp social criticism and acute observation of people and places, both real and imagined. Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and David Copperfield are among his most famours works. Autograph letter signed, 2pp, 7 x 4½", Devonshire Terrace, Oct. 12, 1845, to James Edwards. In part, "…my visit to Manchester was so very hurried, that I have declined Mr. Heywood's extremely kind invitation. I regret the cause very much, but it is really a relief to me. " He writes further, "…we shall leave on the morning after the Soiree. Please do not think of having anyone in waiting at the Railway, as we shall drive straight to our Hotel…." Some show-through from ink on verso of first page, else fine. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250. The Arden Family Holdings of Beverly Hills. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,520
Lot 230		Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941) British anthropologist, folklorist, and classical scholar, best remembered as the author of The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion. In this wide-ranging study of mythology and religion, Frazer treated religion as a cultural phenomenon rather than from a theological perspective. The Golden Bough was a major influence on the field of anthropology, as well as on modern European literature. It was first published in two volumes in 1890; in three volumes in 1900; the third edition, published 1906�15, comprised twelve volumes. Autograph letter signed ("J.G. Frazer"), 2pp, Trinity College, Cambridge, Nov. 8, 1891. Overall light toning and a smudge under the signature; later ink notation in blank upper right corner. Superb content related to a mistranlation made by Frazer in the first edition of The Golden Bough. Headed "A correction." Frazer writes in part: "An Oxford friend…has courteously pointed out to me that in my book The Golden Bough I have seriously misunderstood and mistranslated a passage in Pliny. As the passage so misunderstood and mistranslated is one on which I built a considerable structure of hypothesis, I hope that in justice to the readers of The Golden Bough you will allow me to correct my mistake in your pages and to indicate in a few words the consequences to the main argument of my book. The passage in question is part of the famous one in which Pliny describes the cutting of the mistletoe by the Druids…." Frazer quotes Pliny (in Latin) and explains that he (Frazer) had totally misunderstood "sexta luna," taking it to mean "the sixth month, i.e. June" instead of the correct meaning, "the sixth day of the moon…it is still a rule of folk-lore that mistletoe and other magic plants should be culled on Midsummer Eve (June 23d), I inferred that the Druids also gathered the mistletoe on Midsummer Eve. In point of fact Pliny, rightly understood, asserts no more than that the Druids cut the mistletoe by preference on the sixth day of the moon….There is thus no ancient evidence whatever to shew that the Druids cut the mistletoe at Midsummer, and as the supposition that they did so, combined with their human sacrifices, which there are some grounds for believing to have taken place at Midsummer, supplied the main link in the connexion which I sought to establish between the Balder myth and the rule of the Arician priesthood, it is clear that the discovery of my mistake leaves a serious breach in this part of my argument." Estimated Value $600 - 800. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963), purchased c. 1920, from Stewart Kidd booksellers, Cincinnati. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $336
Lot 231		Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) English novelist and playwright; one of the most popular English novelists and dramatists of the early 20th century. Autograph letter signed, 2pp, 8 x 5", Bury House, Bury, nr. Pulborough, Sussex, Mar. 29, 1927. Galsworthy thanks an unidentified man for the letter that he "…just received on my return from South Africa. It gave me much pleasure to read of your appreciation. I know the firm of Alfred Knopf in New York very well, and shall be very interested to read his edition of Frank Thiess's work…." In a postscript, he thanks the writer for having his letter translated, since Galsworthy does not read German. Fine. Estimated Value $150 - 200. The Arden Family Holdings of Beverly Hills. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $126
Lot 232		Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) German poet, dramatist, and novelist; a giant in world literature. He led the "Weimar Classicism" movement with Friedrich Schiller; his best known work is "Faust", which he published in two parts (1808/1832). Besides his literary work, he contributed many interesting theories to science, making him Germany's leading polymath of the period. Printed poem, "The Ceremony of the seventh November 1825 grateful reply" signed ("Goethe") with the place, "Weimar" also in the poet's hand, 1p, in German, 7½ x 6". Poem has a decorative border. Fine condition and a nice example for framing. Autographs of Goethe are rare. 1825 was the 50th anniversary of Goethe's arrival in Weimar. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. The Arden Family Holdings of Beverly Hills. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,880
Lot 233		Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) American author and journalist whose simple, direct writing style greatly influenced 20th-century fiction and whose macho lifestyle influenced generations. Photograph from the cover of the September 1952 issue of LIFE magazine signed in black ink, n.p., n.d. Hemingway's short masterpiece, The Old Man and the Sea, was first published, in its entirety, in this issue of LIFE. The 1954 Nobel prize for literature was awarded to Hemingway "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style." The great photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, sent to Cuba to photograph Hemingway for LIFE, later declared him "the most difficult person I ever photographed." He managed nonetheless to take this riveting photograph. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $870
Lot 234		Irving, Washington (1783-1859) Author of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; considered the first great American man of letters. Autograph letter signed, 1p, 7¼ x 4½", Argyle Street (London), May 3, n.y. "I am extremely sorry that an engagement for Friday prevents my having the pleasure of availing myself of your kind invitation…." Irving was Secretary of the U.S. Legation in London from 1929-32, so this letter dates from that period. Fine. Estimated Value $250 - 350. The Arden Family Holdings of Beverly Hills. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $192
Lot 235		[Joyce, James] Finnegan's Wake. First U.S. Edition, Viking Press, 1939, published simultaneously with the English edition. Hardcover, 628 pages, black cloth with gilt lettering. Owner's name, Sauerwein Jr., on front pastedown. Original dust jacket is lightly soiled, with numerous small edge tears and chips; moisture stain at lower right edge does not affect book. "First Regular Edition" and original $5 price are printed on front flap of dust jacket. A very good copy. Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 236		*[Joyce, James] First Edition of Ulysses* in German.** Translated into German by Georg Goyert, Basel: Rhein-Verlag, Privatdruck, 1927, 3 volumes, octavo. Original quarter brown calf, marbled paper boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Spine and tips slightly rubbed; still an excellent set. First German edition and the first publication of Ulysses in translation. No. 839 of a total edition of 1000 numbered copies. Slocum & Cahoon D45/2. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 237		*[Joyce, James] French Edition of Ulysses.* Traduction Française Intégrale de M. Auguste Morel, assisté par M. Stuart Gilbert entièrement revue par M. Valéry Larbaud avec la collaboration de l'Auteur. Nouvelle édition. Adrienne Monnieer, J.-O. Fourcade, Paris, 1930. Soft cover, large 8vo, 870 pages. Small edge tears to spine of wrapper and top of spine of cover. Pages toned throughout, darker toning to lower right edges. Estimated Value $200 - 300. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 238		[Joyce, James] Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. First edition in book form, first printing. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916, 8vo, 299 pages. Original blue linen, titles to front board in blind and to spine in gilt. Owner's name and 1917 date on first end page, penciled notes on back pastedown. Covers worn, hinges loose, tears to cloth on either side of lower spine. Pages lightly toned with two pencil marks on first page of text. Estimated Value $200 - 300. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Realized $185
Lot 239		[Joyce, James] Ulysse and Stephen le Héros (1) Ulysse: Gallimard, Paris, 1948. Hard cover, 8vo, No. 1753 of 3040 copies (exemplaire sur plumex), 710 pages. Traduction intégrale par Auguste Morel et Stuart Gilbert entièrement revue par Valéry Larbaud et L'Auteur. Light soiling to covers. With (2) Stephen le Héros. Fragment de la Première Partie de Dedalus, traduit de l'anglais par Ludmila Savitsky. Gallimard, Paris, 1948. Hard covers, 8vo, 238 pages, good condition; and (3) Letters of James Joyce edited by Stuart Gilbert, The Viking, New York, 1957, 4to, 437 pages; dust jacket lightly toned with small tears at lower edge of spine. (3 books). Estimated Value $250 - 300. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 240		*[Joyce, James] Ulysse, First French Edition of Ulysses.* Traduit de l'anglais par M. Auguste Morel, assisté par M. Stuart Gilbert. Traduction entièrement revue par M. Valéry Larbaud avec la collaboration de l'Auteur. La Maison des Amis des Livres, Paris, 1929. Soft cover. First French edition of Ulysses and the only translation on which Joyce himself cooperated. Large 4to, 870 pages, untrimmed, partially unopened, 1000 copies printed, this being number 38 of 100 printed on Arches paper. Tears to wrapper at top and bottom of spine and on back, not affecting covers. A very good copy. Estimated Value $900 - 1,200. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 241		*[Joyce, James] Ulysses* First and Second German Editions.** Privatdruck [private printing], Basel, Rhein-Verlag, 1927. No. 89 of 1100 copies. Hard cover, 3 volumes, 8vo, leather spines and corners, marbled boards. Vom Verfasser Geprüfte Deutsche Ausgabe von Georg Goyert. Light wear to covers; one penciled note on Vol. I pastedown. Very good. Goyert's translation was the first translation into any foreign language. Joyce, who was fluent in German, Italian, and French, was not happy with this translation and Goyert revised it for the 1930 second edition, which is included here. Published in Zürich, Im Rhein-Verlag, 1930, 2 volumes, 8vo, leather spines and corners and marbled boards. Bookplate from earlier owner on front pastedown. Very good. (5 volumes). Estimated Value $600 - 800. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 242		*[Joyce, James] Ulysses* First Hungarian Edition.** Nova Irodalmi Intézet, Budapest, 1947. No. 325 of 100 copies. Hard cover, 2 volumes, 4to. Text in Hungarian. Inscription on half title page of Vol. I. Covers somewhat faded and worn and hinges cracked, but a rare first Hungarian edition. Estimated Value $300 - 500. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 243		*[Joyce, James] Ulysses* Paperback Edition in English, 1932.** 12th printing in English and first thus edition in paperback, published by The Odyssey Press: Paris, Hamburg, Bologna, 1932. 2 volumes., 8vo. Statement on page with list of printings: "The present edition may be regarded as the definitive standard edition, as it has been specially revised, at the author's request, by Stuart Gilbert." Light soiling to covers; a tight copy, in good condition. Estimated Value $150 - 200. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 244		*[Joyce, James] Ulysses, Egoist Press, London and John Rodker, Paris, 1922.* First UK Edition, No. 697 of 2000 copies on handmade paper. Large 4to, 732 pages plus page with printer's information at the rear. Lacks 8 page errata insert. Original blue wraps present but separated from text, with numerous small tears and edge chips and one small area of paper loss at top left. This is an unrestored, original copy. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,080
Lot 245		*[Joyce, James] Ulysses, Published by Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1928.* 10th printing, November 1928, listed behind title page. Hard covers, rebound earlier in quarter leather, lightly rubbed, and marbled boards, one with a scrape at lower edge. Pages lightly toned; one page (519) with numerous small tears where it protrudes from uneven cut. A good copy. Estimated Value $400 - 600. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 246		*[Joyce, James] Ulysses, Published by Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 1927.* 9th printing, hard cover, large 8vo, 735 pages. Three lines of notes and scratched-out notes on front pastedown; tears to pages 734 and 735, both pages and back end page loosening; pages toned; covers rubbed and worn. Estimated Value $200 - 300. Estate of Helene Wurlitzer (1875-1963). View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 247		Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-82) American poet, educator, and linguist. Autograph Poem Signed "Henry W. Longfellow" and dated, "October 28, 1858," 3½pp (2pp front and back), 9x7". Very good; light toning and the ink is somewhat faded. All nine stanzas of the famous poem, "A Psalm of Life. What the Heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist." In full: Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream; For the Soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow Is our destined end or way, But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle, Be a hero in the strife! Trust no Future howe'er pleasant, Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present, Heart within and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing shall take heart again. Let us then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Estimated Value $6,500 - 8,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 248		Mann, Thomas (1875-1955) German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, and essayist; winner of the 1929 Nobel prize for literature. Mann emigrated to the United States in 1939, where he taught at Princeton University, then in 1942, he moved to Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles), California, where some of Europe's most celebrated artists and intellectuals passed the war years. Mann became an American citizen in 1944; he returned to Europe in 1952 but never lived in Germany again. Typed letter signed, 1p, Pacific Palisades, California, Dec. 1, 1945. To American George Marek, thanking him for an early Christmas present, "…I once possessed this work by Berger, but lost it together with the greater part of my library….The publication of the London edition of 'The Tables of the Law' is planned for the near future; only the agreement of Mr. Robinson is still outstanding, who always remains silent as long as possible in such cases. What I want to tell you is that I have succeeded in having your translation used for the English edition, and not the one by Mrs. Lowe-Porter…." Estimated Value $700 - 900. The Arden Family Holdings of Beverly Hills. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 249		Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. Autograph letter signed in German on both sides of a 3½ x 5¼" note card, Venice, Palazzo Valmarana, 19 June 1912. Fine. Translation: "Dear Sir, There exists a translation of the 'Sonnets' of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning done by me; I neither translated nor published her correspondence; perhaps what is meant is Ellen Key's essay on Mrs. Browning which discusses these letters. So far as I remember, it is to be found in one of the volumes of Ellen Key's Essays…" Princess Marie von Thrn und Taxis had placed her luxurious apartment in the Palazzo Valmarano at Rilke's disposal. His translation of E. Barrett-Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" appeared in 1908. Ellen Key was a prominent Swedish feminist writer who encouraged the young Rilke. Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 250		Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905-1980) French intellectual, writer and philosopher, the leading proponent of existentialism. He refused the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964. Autograph manuscript unsigned, 4pp, 10½ x 8½", n.p., n.d. An interesting but difficult to read manuscript; it seems to be a combination of outline and some dialogue. Slight age toning, else fine. Estimated Value $400 - 600. The Arden Family Holdings of Beverly Hills. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $930
Lot 251		Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich (1918-2008) Russian novelist, historian, and critic of Soviet totalitarianism; he helped raise global awareness of the gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system; winner of Nobel Prize for Literature (1970). Paperback copy of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich signed in black ink on the title page. Inscribed in another hand. In German, published by Knaur Verlad, 144pp. Age toning else fine. Estimated Value $200 - 300. The Arden Family Holdings of Beverly Hills. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 252		Staêl, Baron Augustus de. Son of Swiss author Anne Louise Germaine de Staêl-Holstein (1766-1817), known as Madame de Staêl, who influenced both the intellectual and political life of her time. Her son edited her complete works in 17 volumes. Autograph letter signed ("A. Staêl), 2pp, Broglie, 15 Dec. 1825. Minor repairs, else fine. A detailed financial letter to the investment bankers LeRoy Bayard, New York, concerning his investments and those of his sister, the Duchess de Broglie. He cites sums and percentage returns. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $62
Lot 253		Hughes, Howard (1905-76) Pioneer aviator, businessman, and movie producer. Receipt from the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas, one page, 8¼ x 6¾". The receipt, which belonged to Jerome Kearby, is stamped "Paid" on April 5, 1947. General wear, light soiling and remnants from earlier pastings at top edge and on verso do not affect Hughes' signature, which is signed in pencil on the front. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $615
Lot 254		Yeager, Chuck. First Day Cover commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first supersonic flight, made by Chuck Yeager on Oct. 14, 1947, signed in pencil above the cachet showing him standing by the "Glamorous Glennis," the plane he flew to break the sound barrier. Also signed by two members of the Bell X-1 team: Lt. Bob Hoover (X-1 backup pilot and chase pilot), and Maj Bob Cardenas (the officer-in-charge and B-29 drop pilot). Cover was cancelled at Edwards AFD, CA, Oct. 14, 1997 and bears a 32¢ stamp honoring the "First Supersonic Flight 1947. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120