Peter Howard - first auction of his stock
- by Bruce E. McKinney
Vanity Fair in Parts
At this time five other auctions are contemplated:
Books, Furniture Period Art & Design May 2012
Modern Art Made in California May 2012
Photography Fine Photography May 2012
Fine Books Fine Books & Manuscripts June 2012
Screenplays Entertainment Memorabilia June 2012
For the sale on the 12th the material betrays a fiction dealer’s preference for the imagined and imaginary while including sufficient evidence of the real world to keep all parties, whatever their preferences, focused. Here are the primary categories in this, the first, sale.
General Antiquarian Books Lots 1001-1023
Fine Press, Art & Photography Lots 1024-1049
Modern Literature & Poetry Lots 1050-1159
John Steinbeck Lots 1160-1238
Americana Lots 1239-1256
Baseball Lots 1257-1271
Antiquarian books both the early and the infrequently seen. Several examples are Vanity Fair in its original parts and Strabo’s Rerum geographicarum [1571 and 1557]. Lots 1001-1023
Fine Press, Art & Photography. Twenty-six lots of illustrations and photography that will do well. Lots 1024-1049