Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Americana; December 12, 2001; Sale Number N0 7746
by Sotheby's
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lake Huntington, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Sotheby's, 2001. 378 pp., 418 lots, Addendum, 8 pp. Some tiny imperfections, some creasing and soiling to fore edge of addendum. Includes 8 pp. insert Addendum lot 223A, the letters of J. D. Salinger to his Daughter Peggy, estimated at $250-350,000, which did not sell. The letters are described at length with several illustrations. Some highlights: lot 60, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 8 May 1896, one of 425 copies on paper, $46,750; lot 107, Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. By a Lady. London: T. Egerton, 1811, Jerome Kern's copy, $81,250; lot 159, Hemingway, Ernest, Typescript of The Dangerous Summer, 1960, $52,500; lot 385, M'Kenney, Thomas L., and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 3 vols., 1837, 1842-44, $58,250; letters from Jack Kerouac to Neal Cassidy, Carl Solomon, and Lois Sorrells, nicely reproduced here.. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Veery Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000153
- Title
- Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Americana; December 12, 2001; Sale Number N0 7746
- Author
- Sotheby's
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sotheby's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Auction catalog, Books About books, Facsimile, J. D. Salinger to his Daughter Peggy, Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility, Jerome Kern, Hemingway, Ernest, Typescript of The Dangerous Sum
- Bookseller catalogs
- Auction Catalog; Books About Books; Americana;
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About the Seller
Veery Books
Biblio member since 2010
Lake Huntington, New York
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...