Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

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The Manuscript & Collectibles Auction

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Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 60		Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The British Poet Laureate Under Queen Victoria. (1809-1892) British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland from 1850 until his death in 1892. One of his best-known works is "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Autograph letter signed "A. Tennyson," as Poet Laureate, one page, 7 x 4½", December 27, 1891. Tennyson sends thanks for a poem "& for others which I may not have acknowledged, & to wish you a prosperous 72." With original postmarked envelope addressed to W.C. Bennett, Esqr. in Greenwich. Red wax seal with "AT" at center is intact. Estimate Value $250 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $163
Lot 61		Austin, Mary -- Signed First Edition, 4th Impression of The Land of Little Rain. Inscribed and signed, "To Francis P. Farquhar from Mary Austin," on half title page. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903, Fourth Impression. Hardcover, 4to. Half-title, vignette title-page. Frontispiece and 2 plates, numerous marginal illustrations in the text by E. Boyd Smith. Original publisher's olive pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt. One scratch across back cover. Housed in a custom clamshell case with portraits of Austin and Farquhar. inset on front panel. Farquhar (1887-1974) was a California historian, mountaineer, and environmentalist. The book is a collection of sketches about the Owens Valley region of California, based on Austin's personal observations from solitary sojourns through the deserts and mountains. Estimate Value $500 - UP Michael Hecht Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $375
Lot 62		Carroll, Lewis. Sylvie and Bruno With Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. 2nd Vol Signed. First editions, London, Macmillan, 1889 & London, Macmillan, 1893. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Each with frontispiece and forty five illustrations by Harry Furniss; 3 pages and 5 pages respectively for volumes 1 and 2 of publisher's advertisements at end. Full gilt-stamped red morocco. Second volume inscribed and signed by Carroll on the half-title page: " Angela Barnes with the Author's love Dec. 27 1893" in black ink. Each volume in a custom-made tri-fold case, housed in a joint half-morocco slipcover with raised bands and gilt lettering; spine of slipcover has numerous nicks to leather, not affecting the two volumes. Estimate Value $1,000 - UP Christie's New York, April 25, 1995, Lot 129. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $750
Lot 63		Clemens, Samuel L. [Twain, Mark] -- An Impassioned Letter to His Wife Regarding the Near Death of Their Daughter Jean. (1835-1910) Autograph letter signed "Samuel," 2 pages, 8¾ x 5½", Lyons (France), Wednesday, [September 1891]. With original stamped envelope addressed in his hand, "Mrs. S.L.Clemens, Grand Hotel Beau Rivage, Ouchy (Près Lausanne), Suisse" with "Ouchy 24.IX.91" cancellation. Three-quarters of the first page have a unform sun stain. The author of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Innocents Abroad and many other successful novels and short stories writes to his wife, Olivia: "Congratulations and gratitude my Darling! for Jean's preservation from such frightful peril. It still makes me shudder think[ing] of it. And to think you should have been alone at such a time--it was awful, it was hideous. Two things I can't understand-- how you lifted the wardrobe by yourself, & how Jean escaped maiming or death. I want to go home & talk it over-- but of course that must not be thought of; for my plan is a good one & fruitful & I must stick to it if I can. My telegram sounded stupid, of course; but you see, I was anxious to telegraph immediately--so I grabbed the letters & rushed to the telegraph office & did not wait to open them until after the telegram was gone. But it is no matter, I merely wanted to send a telegram, to let you know I had arrived. Write to Avignon, sweetheart, I don't know how to furnish my other address at present-- you see this weather threatens to bring up my trip if it continues.Your letters were unspeakably welcome & there were two more than I thought you would write-- thanks for them all. I wrote Charley today from the boat on the Rhone, & put it ashore & mailed it at a village. I shall write you every day, my darling. I'm so glad things look right in Berlin. Joseph will mail the Natural receipts as soon as my advance arrives with my baggage. Love and kisses to you all. Samuel." Twain and his family moved to Europe in June 1891 in order to alleviate financial difficulties. While visiting Ouchy, Switzerland, known for its thermal baths, Jean (1880-1909), the youngest of the three daughters of Olivia and Samuel Clemens, suffered an accident when a wardrobe fell on her, and, but for the efforts of her mother, could have been seriously injured. Jean would be diagnosed with epilepsy in 1896. Of the Clemens' four children, Langdon, the only son, died at 19 months; Suzy died at 24 in 1896, and Jean eventually died of an epileptic seizure, drowning in a bathtub in 1909. Only Clara Clemens (1874-1962) outlived Twain. While they were living in Italy in 1904, his beloved wife, Olivia, died of heart failure. Estimate Value $2,500 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,500
Lot 64		Clemens, Samuel L. [Twain, Mark] -- The Finest Known Mark Twain Mathew Brady Cabinet Photo With First Edition First Issue of Roughing It. (1835-1910) American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist. Cabinet photograph, signed FOUR TIMES, twice with his double signature, "Samuel L.Clemens / Mark Twain", once on the front, with "Yrs truly" above the signatures, and once on the back with the additional words, "With great pleasure" above the signatures; tipped onto a flyleaf (detached but present) from a first edition, first issue with all the illustrations, original cloth, plain edges, some chipping at the bottom of the spine of his iconic novel, ROUGHING IT [Hartford, CT, American Publishing Company, 1872] and used as a presentation of the book. The photograph bears the magenta imprint on the verso, "Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Broadway and Tenth St., New York. 627 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C." Taken in 1871, this rare cabinet photograph is probably the finest known of Mark Twain. The book is housed in a blue clam-shell box with half leather trim and title on spine. The book and photograph were originally purchased from Sessler's Book Shop in Philadelphia. Accompanying the ensemble, on Charles Sessler stationery around 1955, is a full typed description of the book listing all the points that make it a first edition, first issue. Estimate Value $5,000 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $5,125
Lot 65		Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) -- ANS complaining of work and stating "my soul is barren of sentiment". (1835-1910) American humorist, riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor, best known for writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Autograph letter with double signature, one page, 7 x 4½", Hartford, Dec. 13 [n.y.]. To an unidentified correspondent, in full: "I am so driven with work that my soul is barren of sentiment. Yrs truly Saml L. Clemens / Mark Twain." Paper is toned, with old mounting remnants; small stains at upper left; the ink is uneven in the double signature, with "Mark Twain" being darker. Estimate Value $600 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,000
Lot 66		Dickens, Charles -- Postally-Used Holograph Envelope Signed. (1812 - 1870) English writer, considered the greatest Victorian novelist. Envelope signed in full, "Charles Dickens" at lower left, in his typical blue aniline dye ink, with a one penny red stamp postmarked at Rochester, August 19, 1859. Addressed in his hand to "W. Charles Kent, Esq. Campden Grove/Kensington London/W." Written in the same year as his most famous historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities. His home address, Gads Hill, has been typed by an old blue typewriter at top over the address. Fine. Estimate Value $500 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $550
Lot 67		[Dickens, Charles]. Four Volumes: The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. Lot consisting of four volumes, all 8vo, all published by Bradbury & Evans, London, all bound in red morocco with gilt trim and lettering: The Chimes: A Goblin Story, 1st issue, 1845. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home,, 1st issue, Printed and Published For the Author, 1846; The Battle of Life, 2nd issue, 1846, front cover and first two end pages separated but present; and The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain, 1st and only issue, 1848. All with bookplates and some resultant ghosting to facing page. Estimate Value $500 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $420
Lot 68		Doyle, A. Conan - Signed First Edition of The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct. Signed on the title page. London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1902. First edition. Rebacked with navy leather covers and gilt title, small 4to. Toned throughout. Text is intact except for Chapter X, which is rough, with numerous old tape repairs, edge tears, and small areas of paper loss to margins. Housed in a navy custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. With siege of Mafeking stamp on a separate sheet of paper. Arthur Conan Doyle received his M.D. in 1885. He worked as a military physician during the Boer War and was knighted in 1902 for his service. Estimate Value $250 - UP Michael Hecht Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $363
Lot 69		Dumas, Alexandre (Fils) -- Autograph Manuscript Signed Titled "Le Duel". (1824-1895) French playwright and novelist; author of La Dame aux Camelias. Autograph manuscript signed "A. Dumas fils," 16 separate pages, 10¾ x 8¼", in French, no place, no date. Written in letter format to Monsieur Eugène Tardieu, responding to a question posed by the journalist/correspondent following the death of his colleague Harry Alis in a duel. Asked whether he was for or against duelling, Dumas weighs the demands of religion and the concept of divine providence against the demands of society and the concept of honor. As an example of circumstances under which a duel would be unavoidable, he imagines Pasteur being insulted in front of two witnesses. An exceptional manuscript bound together in a quarter calf book, over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, and including the full printed text of the letter as it appeared in L'Echo de Paris. Pages are lightly toned but otherwise in fine condition. An opportunity to acquire a full-length holograph manuscript by Dumas fils. Estimate Value $500 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $656
Lot 70		[Fitzgerald, F. Scott]. First Edition, First Issue of The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Hardcover. Octavo. Original dark green linen-grain cloth, titles (faded) to spine gilt, to front board in blind. First edition, first printing with all six textual points: "chatter" on p. 60, line 16, "northern" on p. 119, line 22, "it's" on p. 165, line 16, "away" on p. 165, line 29, "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10, and "Union Street station" on p. 211, lines 7-8. A few minor stains from half title page through page 3, cloth a bit faded with a small scrape, fraying to spine ends and tips, and rear hinge is cracked. Even toning throughout. Tiny penciled number on inside cover; price and "*66425" penciled on first end page, but no writing in text. A good copy. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Brucolli A11.1.a. Estimate Value $1,500 - UP Michael Hecht Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,920
Lot 71		Frost, Robert and Kate Douglas Wiggin -- Signed Books. Steeple Bush signed "Robert Frost / 1948" on first end page, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1947, 62 pages plus Notes. Original cloth-backed boards. Even toning. Dust jacket torn and separated. With The Story of Waitstill Baxter inscribed and signed on first end page, "To Samuel Elliott / The new book with the old friendship. Kate Douglas Wiggin," 9¾" x 7¾", Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, 373 pages. Text body is toned but clean. Green cloth, gilt stamped cover and spinesunning to covers, more to spine. Color frontispiece and three color illus. by H.M. Brett. Estimate Value $250 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $163
Lot 72		Gorky, Maxim -- The Great Russian Novelist Writes an ALS to Another Novelist, Vladimir Krymov. (1868 - 1936) Russian novelist and short-story writer. Autograph letter signed, in Russian, one page, 11 x 8½", Sorrento, Italy, May 8, 1929. With original stamped envelope addressed in Gorky's hand to Krymov, also signed by Gorky. Interesting letter to another Russian writer, Vladimir Krymov (1878-1968), excusing himself for having forgotten Krymov's name ("I have no memory for names") and asking him to send the manuscript to Moscow: "I will certainly send you the preface…As for the fee let us not speak of it…If I can assist in finding readers for a good book, that will be ample fee enough…I like the present Russian reader. He is not cultured, it is true! But I see in his lack of culture the 'immunization' of the healthy man against the debutante sickness of the old culture…" Gorki says he will send Krymov a journal, "Our Progress," from Moscow that he thinks will have some items of interest in it. Fine condition and extremely scarce! Accompanied by a full French translation. Estimate Value $1,500 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,920
Lot 73		Holmes, Oliver Wendell -- Two Autograph Letters Signed, One Saying "You are as faithful to the Muse as I am…". (1841-1935) American poet and physician. Autograph letter signed "O.W. Holmes," one page, 6 x 4¾", Boston, Mar. 10, 1884. To Colin G. Mackenzie, author of "Random Rhymes," thanking him for a copy of the book. "I remember well the old times of the "Oceanic Monthly" when you were working with Messrs. Welch and Bigelow…You are as faithful to the Muse as I am, and find her a pleasant friend…" Fine. With transmittal envelope, which is stamped and postmarked. Together with a second ALS, one page, 6 x 4¾", Boston, May 25, 1892. To an unknown recipient, saying he can't part with any letters of [John Lothrop] Motley. "His letters to me are…too interesting to be sent away as autographs…" Fine. Holmes wrote a memoir of Motley (1814-77), who was an author and diplomat. Estimate Value $300 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $180
Lot 74		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 75		Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. (1807-1882) American poet and educator who wrote poems such as "Paul Revere's Ride," "Evangeline" and "The Song of Hiawatha." His bust is in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. Signature with sentiment and date, "Yours truly / Henry W. Longfellow" / 1876" on a slip of paper, 2 3/8 x 4½" affixed to 3¼ x 5¼" card stock. Ink is light, with toning around edges from previous framing. Accompanied by an image of Longfellow. Estimate Value $150 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 76		Michener, James A. -- Signed First Edition of Hawaii. Random House [1959], New York, 1959. Hardcover. First Edition. Limited to 400 copies of which this is no. 352. 8¾ x 6", 1¾" thick. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, pink topstain, in tan paper-covered slipcase, printed paper labels mounted to both panels and spine. A nice tight copy. Slipcase is worn and soiled, but intact. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Estimate Value $300 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $213
Lot 77		[Muir, John] The Mountains of California, First Edition, First Issue. New York: Century Company, 1894. Hardcover, 8vo. Original tan cloth binding, with decorative gilt and green stamping. With small "1" at the bottom of the first page of text. Stamped name of former owner on first end page. Scattered foxing to contents. The spine is darkened a bit, with a minor bump to the bottom corner of the front board, and a bit of minor soiling, else very good. Muir's first book consists of fifteen previously-published articles which primarily concern the flora, fauna, and geology of the Sierra Nevada. This is Muir's most popular work of natural history, with a frontispiece lithograph from a drawing by Folles, fifty relief halftone illustrations, and two maps. Kimes 189; Zamorano Eighty 56. Estimate Value $500 - UP Michael Hecht Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $400
Lot 78		[Poe, Edgar A.] Poems, First Edition, "Done Into A Printed Book by the Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1901." Octavo, hardcover, cloth and suede. Frontispiece portrait of Poe with original tissue guard. The title page with a decorative border by Samuel Warner, enclosing the title and also a woodcut portrait of Lenore. Foreword by Michael Monahan. Covers soiled, name in red pencil on pastedown, and penciled name on one of front end pages. Volume is tight and pages are unmarked Twenty-four poems are included: The Raven; Lenore; The Bells; Annabel Lee; Ulalume; The Coliseum; To Helen; To My Mother; Hymn; The Haunted Palace; The Conquerer Worm; To One in Paradise; The City in the Sea; The Sleeper; The Valley of Unrest; Dreamland; Eulalie; Israfel; For Annie; Eldorado; A Dream Within a Dream; To Helen; To Zante; To F-----. Roycroft was a community of craft workers and artists founded by Elbert Hubbard in 1895, which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Estimate Value $250 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $200
Lot 79		Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Autograph Quotation Signed. (1850-94) Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, best known for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Autograph quotation signed, " All human poetry is merely declaratory. Robert Louis Stevenson / Vailima.," on 1½ x 3" piece of paper, n.d. Stevenson lived in Vailima, Somoa from 1890 until his death in December 1894. Boldly penned and signed. Matted with a photo of Stevenson, a printed copy of the poem "My Shadow," biographical information, and other items to an overall size of 18 x 22". Ready for display. Estimate Value $400 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $813
Lot 80		[Thackeray, William Makepeace]. The Irish Sketch Book -- First Edition. Chapman and Hall, 1843, two volumes. First edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's "The Irish Sketch-Book" written under the nom de plume of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, "With Numerous Engravings on Wood, Drawn by the Author." Hardcover. Light toning and minor foxing. Small oval bookplates on inside covers from Arthur Wilmer-Lissauer. The green covers are scuffed, bumped at outside corners. Some sunning to spines; gilt lettering is bold. Custom-made tri-fold case with a half-morocco slipcover with gilt lettering. Estimate Value $400 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 81		Authors -- Large Collection of Approximately 50 Signatures, Including H.G. Welles, Rosa Parks, Dr. Seuss, Ray Bradbury, and Many Others. An eclectic collection of aproximately fifty signatures of authors from a variety of areas, many on end pages from their books (many autobiographies) which have been stapled to the dust jacket, with a couple of photos signed, etc. Among the group are Maya Angelou, Rosa Parks, H.G. Wells, Dr. Seuss, Abba Eban, Gore Vidal, Ray Bradbury, Tom Robbins, Gay Talese, Leon Uris, Dale Carnegie, Norman Cousins, José Antonio de Aguirre, Louella Parsons, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Lloyd C. Douglas, Irving Stone, Sidney Sheldon, Jackie Collins, May Swenson, Archibald MacLeish, T. Boone Pickens, Merv Griffin, Joy Adams, Sophie Tucker, Stanley Marcus, Pat Riley. Some duplicates. Also, a limitation page signed by Rafaello Busoni, illustrator of the edition of Stendahl's The Red and the Black made for The Limited Editions Club with over 25 lithographs from the book. Some toning but overall fine. Estimate Value $500 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,020
Lot 82		Album of Stage Actors, Authors, and Others, c. 1890s, Early 1900s. Autograph album with approximately 20 signatures, sentiments, and a couple of letters, primarily of late 19th century and early 20th century stage actors, including Joseph Jefferson, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, Elsie Anderson de Wolfe, Otis Skinner, E.H. Sothern, and Madge Kendal. Also included are authors and historians Edward E. Hale(who was also a minister), and James Grant Wilson (who was also a colonel in the Union Army); Frank Damrosch, conductor and founder of the precursor of the Julliard School of Music; Franklin Carter, president of Williams College; and Ellis Roberts, congressman and 20th treasurer of the U.S. The signatures and sentiments are written on pieces of paper which are affixed to the album pages. Very good to fine. Estimate Value $200 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 83		"The Overland Monthly: Devoted to the Development of the Country," 15 Volume Set, 1868-1875. Bound, hard cover, green except for two brown, 9½ x 6½". The first three volumes were published by A. Roman & Company, San Francisco and the other twelve volumes by John H. Carmany & Company, San Francisco. A few penciled notes, a couple of volumes deaccessioned. Very good condition. The Overland Monthly began publication with the July 1868 issue, and continued until the end of 1875, when it suspended. publication. Many famous writers and editors were published in or associated with the magazine, including Bret Harte, who served as editor the first two years and also published in the magazine, Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather, Jack London, John Muir, and Mark Twain. Estimate Value $750 - UP Michael Hecht Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold