Trifecta in Beverly Hills

- by Bruce E. McKinney

James Joyce: Ulysses

37076  Garth Williams. Original painting and preliminary sketches for the dust jacket design of The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, 1960. Original painting in ink and watercolor/gouache on stiff paper, measuring approximately 10.875 x 6.875 inches.

 

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37080  Aesop. Vita et Fabellae Aesopi...Gabriae Fabellae...Collectio Proverbiorum Tarrhaei &c.[Venice]: Aldus Manutius, [1505]. First Aldine edition, in Greek only.

 

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37087  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha. Written in Spanish by Michael Cervantes: and now Translated into English.London: Edward Blount, 1620. First volume, second edition; second volume, first edition.

 

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37088  Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition, first printing, of the author's first book.

 

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37105  Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper: "For Popsie and Frankie / Steinhart [Hemingway's neighbors in Havana] from their friend / and neighbor this copy of the 15 / original edition copies of this book / Best always / Ernest Hemingway."

 

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37133  William Shakespeare. Poems Written by Wil. Shakespeare. Gent. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by John Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard, 1640. First edition.

 

These auctions, with images, are searchable in AE’s upcoming auctions as well as on the Heritage website:  www.ha.com