Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

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The Manuscripts, Collectibles and Space Auction

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Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 121		Keller, Helen. Midstream: My Latter Life. Inscribed, signed and dated boldly in pencil by Keller and repeated in braille on the front free endpaper; " Christmas 1929, The Lord be praised for raised letters the blind can read, Sincerely Yours, Helen Keller." The signed area has been superbly guarded, the braille letters exhibiting very minor softening. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1929. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket.9¼" x 6¼ " Illustrated with black-and-white photos. Frontispiece photo of Ms. Keller with her great dane, Sieglinde. Includes index. Handling wear, lightly tanned, fading to original gilt title on exterior binding, no missing pages, binding secure. Very good. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 122		[Authors] Vonnegut, Seuss, Haley & Others. Seven items,signed cards, on 2 x 3½" business or blank cards, signed by authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Dean Koontz (inscribed "To Harry--Boo…3/27/01"); Dr. Seuss, Alex Haley (2 cards each dated " Oct 30 1977"), Norman Mailer and Erich Segal. Fine. Estimated Value $150-UP. Jerry Berg Card Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $228
Lot 123		Cain, James M. Autograph letter signed ("James M. Cain"), one page, on personal letterhead, 11 x 8 3/8 in., Hyattsville, Md., December 22, 1965, to Mr. Bean regarding quotations from Cain's works. He mentions his only quotation in Mencken's book "A guitar has moonlight in it," from Serenade, and the most quoted line: "They threw me off the hay truck about noon," from The Postman Always Rings Twice, "as illustrating the feat, in a few words, of starting the action & giving a complete bio sketch of the leading character, all in one fell swoop…." Together with a typed letter signed, one page, 9½ x 6 in., on letterhead of The Shoreham, Los Angeles, June 19,1946. To Ted Robinson of The Cleveland Plain Dealer, thanking him for a review and discussing how some of the New York critics have "torn into me" and have decided that he has been "eaten alive by the movies….If you were to choose a dozen picture producers out here at random…I think they would all tell you that my main defect, from their point of view, is that I will NOT concede a point here and there, and write books that they can make, without an endless headache over censorship…." Estimated Value $400 - 500. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 124		Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881) Scottish philosopher, essayist, historian and social critic. Autograph nonsense verse signed ("T. Carlyle"), one page, 7¼ x 4½ in., London, April 5, 1851. The verse reads: "Simon Brodie had a cow, / He lost his cow and he could not find her. / When he had done what man could do, / The cow came home and her tail behind her." With a carte-de-visite photograph by W. Jeffrey, Bloomsbury, London, showing a full-length portrait of Carlyle seated and holding his cane; tips of mount trimmed and mounting remnants on verso. Estimated Value $400 - 500. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $246
Lot 125		Dumas, Alexandre (1802-1870) French writer whose numerous works have been translated into nearly 100 languages. Dumas is one of the most widely read French authors. Autograph letter signed twice ("A. Dumas"), in French, one page, 6 x 5 in., brown ink, n.p., November 13, 1849. Letter of agreement between Dumas and Martinet. Translation in full: " My Dear Martinet / I am giving you for fifteen hundred francs as agreed upon between us, the play of Comte Herman. / I am revising the preface consisting of a feuilleton and epilogue. / Yours, / Alexandre Dumas / 13 Novembre 1849/ Received five hundred francs on account. / A. Dumas." Age toning. Attractively matted with a printed bust portrait of Dumas.Beautifully framed to an overall size of 16½ x 14 in. Very good condition. Estimated Value $500 - 700. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $517
Lot 126		Farrell, James T. Autograph commentary on his own trilogy, Studs Lonigan, signed ("James T. Farrell") at top right and initialed ("J.T.F.") at the bottom, 1 page, on yellow, lined paper, 8 x 5 in., no place, no date. Farrell sneers at self-serving critics, in part: This work remains a challenge to those who interpret American literature. Few have analyzed Studs Lonigan and some of its admirers attacked or ignored it, until I had author[ed] additional works. Thus, those people originally hostile to Studs L. began to say or to imply that they liked this work so that they could punch off later books. This kind of dishonesty is…in the literary world." Farrell (1904-1979) wrote from his own experience growing up in a lower-middle-class Irish American family in Chicago. His writing reflected his conviction that destinies are shaped by environment. Norman Mailer was one of the writers who claimed Farrell as an inspiration. The Studs Lonigan trilogy, Farrell's best-remembered work, was made into a film in 1960 and a television series in 1979. Estimated Value $200 - 300. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $123
Lot 127		Hammett, Dashiell (1894-1961) Author of hard-boiled detective fiction. Typed letter signed ("SDH"), 1 page, 10½ x 8 in., Aleutians, April 3, 1945. An affectionate letter to Prudence Whitfield, who was married to Hammett's friend and hard-boiled writing colleague, Raoul Whitfield. With pencil and pen marks in the margin. Hammett writes: "A small shower of four letters from you makes me feel very opulent today and also as if God does indeed reward those who live right." He remarks about his injured foot and his fear that he could have "a touch of rheumatism or arthritis or one of the other curses of age which I was hoping to avoid till I was, say, a hundred and four or five years old…. " He writes about the novel he's planning: "Since the novel--if I stay here and do it instead of flitting off elsewhere--will deal with a painter in Alaska I'm filling my spare time with whatever books on painters and painting I can scrape up, which are not as few as you'd think, probably because there are a great many hopeful artists in the army. Anyhow I'm having a good time … with [Robert] Henri's THE ART SPIRIT. He was a dialectical materialist at heart….I must find out if his book has ever been translated into Russian. They'd like it. Did I tell you our cartoonists are bring (sic) out a booklet of reprints from the paper worked up a little with wash?… I'm writing a foreword and will send the ensemble on as soon as it's printed and bound and shipped." Hammett (1894-1961) had served in World War I in the Motor Ambulance Corps until he contacted Spanish influenza. When World War II broke out, he enlisted in the Army, even though he was in his late 40s. He wound up on Adak, editing the camp newspaper, The Adakian. Not in Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, ed. Layman. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 128		Hemingway, Ernest. Autograph letter signed ("Ernest Hemingway"), one page, 10½ x 7¼ in., Key West, February 12, 1935. To Mr. Meyers: "I would be very glad to sign the book if you send it here. If, however, there should be any delay in it being returned to you do not be worried as, if I were not here when it arrived it would not be sent on after me but would wait here to be signed. Yours very truly, Ernest Hemingway." Written very neatly, unlike the hurried scrawl Hemingway used when writing to friends. Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection, Manuscripts and Autographs, June 27, 2015, lot 423 (sold for $2250.00 but not paid). View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,784
Lot 129		Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist; a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. Typed letter signed ("Langston"), 1 page, 11 x 8½ in., New York, September 12, 1950. Page browned along the bottom edge. To Prentiss Taylor, the artist, and Hughes' sometime collaborator: "My new opera, THE BARRIER, starring Lawrence Tibbett and Muriel Rahn, is opening at the Gayety Theater in Washington on September 26. I shall be in town for the remainder of that week and certainly hope to have a chance to see you….I found your ART AS PSYCHOTHERAPY most interesting reading and would certainly like to hear more about your work. This has been a terrifically busy summer for me, as I have had THREE shows on my hand all at once!…. At the moment I have to rush off to a BARRIER rehearsal…." Estimated Value $400 - 500. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $246
Lot 130		Hughes, Langston. Sheet music inscribed and signed "For the Melodaires--Sincerely--Langston Hughes," on the cover, 12 x 9 in., no place, no date. Music and lyrics for "On the Dusty Road," a song from Series II of Hall Johnson Songs With Piano Accompaniment, published by Carl Fischer, Inc. Cooper Square, New York. Boldly penned and signed in black ink. Estimated Value $200 - 250. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 131		Lawrence, D.H. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, on recto of a lettersheet, 9 x 6½ in., Zell-am-See bei Salzburg Austria, July 30 (c. 1921). To J.C. Squire at The London Mercury: I had your cable the other day - unintelligible. Curtis Brown is doing my agenting - ask him for things. He has Ms [manuscript] of a Sardinia travel book: & might be able to get you plates from America of the very interesting color-illustrations thereto, done by Jan Juta: a real hit. So ask him - 6 Henrietta St. Hope you had the answer to your cable. Fools in Taomina - your letter just forwarded from there." Address is written on verso of the lettersheet, which was folded over and sealed. Accompanied by a First English Edition of Lawrence's book Sea and Sardinia, published by Martin Secker, London, 1923. Housed in a brown slipcase gilt-stamped "SEA AND SARFINIA / D.H. LAWRENCE / AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED / LONDON 1923." Two desirable D.H. Lawrence literary items, with a postcard portrait. Estimated Value $750 - 1,000. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection, R.M. Smythe, June 4, 1998, lot 181. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $467
Lot 132		Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891) American poet, critic, essayist, editor, and diplomat. Manuscript poem signed ("J.R. Lowell"), 1 page, 8 x 5 in., Cambridge, July 7, 1859. On his embossed stationery, an eight-line poem, beginning "Sincere & genuine autographs / Are written unawares. Like those gigantic claw-toe-graphs / Our Hampshire sandstone bears…." Twice folded for mailing, otherwise fine. Estimated Value $150 - 200. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection, Provenance: Anne Lynch Botta, collection sold at the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, 1864; Frederick Gebhard, sale Anderson Auction Company, February 16, 1906; Smythe, Dec. 4, 1995, lot 220. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $92
Lot 133		Miller, Arthur (1915-2005) American playwright and essayist; among his plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and After the Fall. Typed fair copy of an excerpt from "After the Fall," signed in pencil, 1¼ pages, no place, no date. Headed "from AFTER THE FALL," the excerpt begins, "He cries up to her. The woman hopes! She stand unperturbed, resolute…." and ends with "The darkness takes them all." "After the Fall," opened in New York City on January 23, 1964. It was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Barbara Loden and Jason Robards. Small tape remnant at upper left corner of page 1; two "thin" places on page 2, where tape was removed from verso. Estimated Value $200 - 250. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $123
Lot 134		Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916) American writer and poet, called "The Hoosier Poet." Autograph letter signed ("J.W. Riley") on personal, engraved note paper, 4 x 4¾", St. Paul, Minnesota, January 13, 1893. To S.H. Freidlander regarding a screen which has arrived safely at Riley's home in Indianapolis, but without any record of the cost, which Riley insists on receiving. "…I'm thus simply forced to bother you again. Address me, name in full, Indianapolis, where just one week from coming Saturday I'll be once more…." Neatly penned in tiny script. Light toning, else fine. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $48
Lot 135		Two 19th Century Engravings, Literary Giants of the Time. Large steel engraving entitled "Washington Irving And His Literary Friends at Sunnyside". Engraving by Thomas Oldham Barlow (1824-1889), made from photographs by Mathew B. Brady (1823-1896.). The engraving features Washington Irving in the center of the picture, among his "literary friends" including, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Fenimore Cooper. "Entered According to an Act of Congress in the Year 1864 by the Irving Publishing Company. The handsome print measures 23 x 32½ inches. A few minor background scratches. Overall very good condition. The second engraving is a stunning lithograph bust portrait of Emerson by Leopold Grozelier, printed by J.H. Bufford's, 1859. Image measures: 23 x 17½ inches, full mounted image measures: 26½ x 18½ inches. "Entered According to an Act of Congress in the year 1859 by L. Grozelier." "Published by Goupil & Co., Paris / New York, M. Knoedler, 366 Broadway / London, Goupil & Co." Grozelier captures a striking likeness of Emerson. Light toning. Slight paper creasing at bottom left corner. Overall fine. Estimated Value $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 136		Wells, H. G (1866-1946) English Author, creator of classic science-fiction tales such as The Time Machine (1895) and War of the Worlds (1898). Autograph manuscript signed ("H.G. Wells"), on personal Easton Glebe, Dunmow stationery, one page, 8½ x 7", London, c. 1920. Wells expresses his thoughts and insults on the state of the institutions of higher learning and the students who attend them: "For the ordinary type of student the four years of college are wasted. The time must come when Oxford & Cambridge, Yale & Harvard, will stand empty & clean for the amateur (?) detective & the sight seeing tourist. The place for learning to do a thing is the place where the thing is done. The place for a general education under modern conditions is everywhere". Light age toning, Two horizontal folds. Overall very good condition. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $357
Lot 137		Woollcott, Alexander (1887-1943) American critic and writer for The New Yorker; member of the Algonquin Round Table. Typed letter signed ("Alexander Woollcott"), 3 pages, 7¾ x 5¾ in., New York, September 26, 1932 expressing his opinion regarding the frivilous nature of a lawsuit involving George S. Kaufman by poet Walter Lowenfels. Together with an autograph letter signed ("A. Woollcott"), on personal stationery, one page, 7¾ x 5¾ in., November 2, no year, to Mr. Freisner, informing him that Woolcott "shall not be doing another series of broadcasts before next year." Estimated Value $200 - 300. Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 138		Amelia Earhart Signed Unmailed Cover (1897-1937) American aviation pioneer, fondly known as "Lady Lindy.", signs on plain, unmailed cover, "6666 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Calif."is engraved on the envelope back flap is the address of Vendome Café, which opened in 1933. Perhaps, while dining a patron asked Earhart for her autograph Strong bold signature. Age toned. Fine. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $449
Lot 139		Lindbergh, Charles (1902-1974) American aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Autographed ("C.A. Lindbergh") Unmailed Cover, 3½ x 6½ in., St. Louis, Mo., May 15, 1934. Lindbergh has signed the envelope on the upper left corner. The envelope has been annotated in an unknown hand "11:30 am / May 15th 1934 / at Police Hdqts. / St. Louis Mo." on the lower right border. Strong bold signature. Age toned. Fine. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 140		Lindbergh, Charles A. (Signed Map, Overland and Overseas Flight) (1902-1974) American aviator and the first mass media super star. Lindbergh is remembered for flying The Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic in May of 1927. Lindbergh took off on May 20. After 33 hours in the air, flying solo, without sleeping, and coping with adverse weather conditions, he touched down at an airfield outside Paris.His feat astounded and delighted the world and secured his position as one of the most important figures in aeronautical history. Signed (on the lower right portion just above the image of Ferdinand Magellan's Ship) vintage map "MAP SHOWING THE OVERLAND AND OVERSEAS FLIGHTS OF CHARLES A. LINDBERGH", 48 x 26½ in., framed to an overall size of 51½ x 31½ in., color-process lithograph mounted on board, designed by Ernest Clegg (best known for his pictorial maps that combined precise illustrations with historical facts and accuracy (this map is his most renowned), published by The John Day Company, N.Y. (as a wall map on rollers or folding), printed by American Lithographic Co., Inc., N.Y., 1928. Decorative wall map outlining the important flights of Lindbergh, notably his famous and epic transatlantic flight from New York across the Atlantic Ocean from Roosevelt Field Long Island to Paris in a plane dubbed The Spirit of St. Louis, from May 20-21, 1927. The map has an index and text for the following additional flights by Lindbergh: first flight; flight after receiving pilot's wings; as air mail pilot; from San Diego, St. Louis to New York; National Tour; Mexico, Central and South America and the West Indies; and Canadian flights. The map has an elaborate cartouche with an American eagle and portrait of Lindbergh and includes some biographical information. Illustrations include the U.S. Cruiser Memphis Bringing Captain Lindbergh Home, Columbus' Ship the Santa Maria, and Ferdinand Magellan's Ship. Age toned, faint vertical creases from original folds. Attached to the back of the item is a vintage Underwood photo of Lindbergh and the woman for whom he signed the map, 5½ x 3½ in., black & white. Overall in very good condition. RARE. Estimated Value $5,000 - 7,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,075
Lot 141		[Aviation] Colletion of WW II Military Airman, Military Officers, and AVG Flying Tigers. Impressive collection of 140 items, majority of the collection consists of 2 x 3½" signed calling and business cards. Includes: Jimmy Doolittle, Joe Rosbert (AVG), Robert F. Layher (AVG), Robert Keeton (AVG), Peter Wright (AVG), Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Gen. Wesley Clark, Gen. Curtis LeMay, John Bolt, Capt. James Verinis ("Memphis Belle"), Robert Morgan ("Memphis Belle"), Harold P. Lock ("Memphis Belle"), Richard Knobloch, Robert McClurg ("Blacksheep" wingman), Bruce Matheson ("Blacksheep"), Chase Nielsen (Doolittle Raider), Florence Miller Watson (WAFS-WASP), Betty Stagg Turner (WAFS-WASP), Jacob Beser (" Enola Gay"), Charles W. Lindberg (Iwo Jima), James Bond Stockdale, Edith M. Hinton, Lt. Col. Harry C. McCool, Gen. Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Admiral Arleigh Burke, and Maxwell D. Taylor. With a First Day Cover signed by Col. Joe W. Kittinger, Jr, commemorating "America's First Step Into Space - Highest Parachute Jump / In History 102,800 faint."; Signed 5 x 4" picture of Northrop Test Pilot Bruce J. Hinds.; Autograph of WW I War Hero R.L. Bullard, on a 2 x 5½ slip of paper.; and a Limited Edition of a Commemorative cartoon/drawing of the The Rutan Model 76 "Voyager" flying over "The Spirit of St. Louis", entitled "WELL DONE!", signed by: Dick Rutan, Bert Rutan, Jeana Yeager and Clyde Wells (editorial cartoonist for The Augusta Chronicle); numbered 355/1000. The Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling. A very special memento, celebrating the nine day around-the-world flight of the one-of-a-kind Voyager aircraft. Collection contained in a sleeved three ring binder. Overall fine. Estimated Value $350-UP. Jerry Berg Card Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $300
Lot 142		[Aviators] Collection of Five Autographs: Wally Schirra (Astronaut), on the verso of his "Johns-Mansville Corporation Business card which lists him as "Director of Technology Purchase."; Scott Carpenter (Astronaut), on a white 3 x 5" card, n.p.,n.d.; Rusty Schweickart (Astronaut), on a white 3 x 5" card, n.p., n.d.; Paul Tibbets (Pilot of the Enola Gay), on a white 3 x 5" card, n.p., n.d. The card is stamped "Pilot Of The Enola Gay / Hiroshima, Japan 6 Aug. 1945" below the signature.; Harry Richman (Entertainer and co-pilot in 1936, with famed flyer Henry Tindall "Dick" Merrill, of the first round-trip transatlantic flight), on a small clipped piece of paper, 3 x 4", n.p., n.d. All items in fine condition. Estimated Value $250-UP. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold