Heritage - A sale for Bibliophiles

- by Bruce E. McKinney

Richard Avedon, a signed autobiography

Ernest Hemingway. 36116

Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923. First (and only) edition of Hemingway's first book, one of only 300 copies printed, this copy with a warm inscription from the author to the editors of The Little Review, the "little magazine" in Paris that had published his first mature prose work the same year: "For j.h. and Margaret Anderson with love from Hemingway" ("j.h." being Jane Heap).

Starting bid:  $55,000.  Estimate $75,000 up

Edgar Allan Poe. 36137

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First edition, one of 750 printed, with the following points:

Starting bid:  $15,000.  Estimate $17,500 up

Michael Shaara. 36374

The Killer Angels. New York: David McKay, [1974]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 374 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. General rubbing and light wear with fold lines and tiny tears to jacket. Overall very good.

Starting bid:  $300.  Estimate $600 up

E. B. White. 36420

Charlotte's Web. Pictures by Garth Williams. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1952]. First edition, with "I-B" on the copyright page.

Starting bid:  $300.  Estimate $600 up

[Joseph Priestly's copy]. 36561

Sammelband of Eighteenth Century Religious Texts. London: 1793. Twelvemo. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards. Rubbing and abrading to extremities with splitting joints. Inscriptions. Good.

Starting bid:  $300.  Estimate $600 up.

[Brooklyn and Elizabeth, N. J.:  C.P.R. News Service and Kolb Brothers, 1911] 36685

Two Hand-Colored Photo Albums, including: Scenes through the Canadian Rockies. [and:] The Grand Canyon of Arizona. [Brooklyn and Elizabeth, N. J.: C. P. R. News Service and Kolb Brothers, 1911]. Oblong folio albums with hand-colored mounted photographic reproductions: Canadian Rockies has twelve (and three loose additional photos), and Grand Canyon has eighteen. Both complete. Publishers' string-tied wraps. Some wear. Very good.

Starting bid:  $300.  Estimate $600 up.

Here are links to the entire as shown both on Heritage and AE.