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PBFA Book Fairs — Edinburgh, Lincoln 20 June
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PBA Galleries – June 25 – 11am
PBA Galleries – June 25 – 11am
Sale
563
Fine Literature
with the Wayne Martin Collection of Jack London, Part One.
Among the highlights:
Fine Literature
with the Wayne Martin Collection of Jack London, Part One.
Among the highlights:
- Manuscript diary kept by Yoshimatsu Nakata, valet to
Jack and Charmian London, on their final voyage to Hawaii aboard the
Matsonia in 1915. Estimate: $8,000-$12,000.
- First edition, first issue of Jack London's most
enduring work, The Call
of the Wild, with the rare pictorial dust jacket. Estimate:
$3,000-$5,000.
- The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London. John Meyers O'Hara's copy, with a
lengthy letter from the author, written "On Board the Snark".
Estimate: $4,000-$6,000.
- Original typescript for Jack London's play "The
Acorn Planter", written for the Bohemian club in 1915. Estimate:
$3,000-$5,000.
- "In Many Wars" with a contribution by Jack
London as a correspondent from the Russo-Japanese War, with his signature
and 40 others. Estimate: $2,500-$3,500.
- Special signed edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves
of Grass," one of only 300 copies. Estimate $2,500-$3,500.
- Signed limited edition of John Steinbeck's "The
Red Pony," one of 699 copies. Estimate $1,500-$2,500.
- "Addams and Evil" with an original watercolor
sketch of Lurch as Santa Claus by Charles Addams. Estimate: $2,000-$3,000.
- Rare first edition of Laurence Sterne's classic "A
Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy," published just three
weeks before his death. Estimate: $2,500/$3,500.
Each lot illustrated in the online version of the catalogue.
Bid directly from the site. Now available in the Bid Live Now section
Bid directly from the site. Now available in the Bid Live Now section
More
than 450 lots of fine literature including Part I of the Wayne Martin
Collection of Jack London. Among the highlights of the collection are first
editions of his major works, some in the rare original dust jackets, many
inscribed to friends, family, and associates; a number of letters from Jack
London, to his wife Charmian and others; manuscripts, rare ephemeral items, and
much more. The second section of the auction includes fine literature from the
18th through 20th centuries, with first editions from John Barth, Charles
Bukowski, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, William Everson, F, Scott Fitzgerald,
Ian Fleming, Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Joyce Carol Oates,
John Steinbeck, Laurence Sterne, Mark Twain, E.B. White, Oscar Wilde, and many,
many more.
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Bach portrait returns home
Bach portrait returns home
The
best-known portrait of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach was returned to
its home city during a ceremony. Thanks to both William Scheide who died in
November at the age of 100 the 1748 work was unveiled in a packed church in
Leipzig. It is now on public view for the first time in centuries.
The ceremony to welcome back the painting featured the local St Thomas boys choir of which Bach was once cantor and kicked off the annual Bachfest, featuring more than 100 concerts until June 21, in the 1,000-year-old city.
The portrait, by painter Elias Gottlob Haussmann, is now valued at $2.5 million (2.2 million euros) and is widely considered the most authentic depiction of the Baroque period composer and appears in many biographies. Its exact whereabouts over many years are uncertain, but it was owned from the early 19th century by the Jewish Jenke family from Breslau, now Wroclaw in western Poland.
The ceremony to welcome back the painting featured the local St Thomas boys choir of which Bach was once cantor and kicked off the annual Bachfest, featuring more than 100 concerts until June 21, in the 1,000-year-old city.
The portrait, by painter Elias Gottlob Haussmann, is now valued at $2.5 million (2.2 million euros) and is widely considered the most authentic depiction of the Baroque period composer and appears in many biographies. Its exact whereabouts over many years are uncertain, but it was owned from the early 19th century by the Jewish Jenke family from Breslau, now Wroclaw in western Poland.
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Personal letters of Harper Lee fail to sell at auction
Personal letters of Harper Lee fail to sell at auction
Although
there was a good deal of press coverage about the private life and private
letters of Harper Lee the letters failed to sell at Christie’s auction last
week. It had been hoped that they would command a figure of around
$250,000(£163,000). The six letters were addressed to Lee’s architect friend,
Harold Caulfield, between 1956 and 1961, which was the period that Lee wrote
her celebrated classic, To
Kill a Mockingbird.
In the letters Harper Lee revealed how difficult she found it to work in her hometown of Monroeville and how she longed to get back to New York. The letters were also signed with comic pseudonyms, including “the prisoner of Zenda.”
In the letters Harper Lee revealed how difficult she found it to work in her hometown of Monroeville and how she longed to get back to New York. The letters were also signed with comic pseudonyms, including “the prisoner of Zenda.”
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