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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Hemingway's second book, one of 170 copies
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
In Our Time. Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. First edition, number 56 of 170 copies. Original tan boards printed with a newspaper design in red and the text in black, housed in a morocco backed clamshell case. 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (26 x 17 cm); woodcut frontispiece after Henry Strater, 30 [1] pp. Old dampstaining to board extremities (primarily lower corners), short split to upper joint, small losses and toning to spine, offset to endpapers, page extremities lightly toned but clean within, bookplate of Osmond Kessler Fraenkel.
The first limited edition of Ernest Hemingway's second book, issued in just 170 copies. In Our Time was the seventh, and final, installment of "The Inquest into the State of Contemporary English Prose," a series of short works all edited by Ezra Pound including authors such as Ford Maddox Ford and William Carlos Williams. Grissom describes how 300 copies of the edition were printed but only 170 "perfect" copies were issued, the balance having been damaged “by the imposition of the watermark against the frontispiece” and were used for review copies. In his October 1924 review in The Dial, Edmund Wilson wrote "In the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time, [he] has almost invented a form of his own ... I am inclined to think that this little book has more artistic dignity than any other book that has been written by an American about the period of the war." Osmond Kessler Fraenkel (1888-1983) was an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union whose papers are held by Harvard University. Hanneman A2a; Grissom A.2.1.a.
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST
In Our Time. Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. First edition, number 56 of 170 copies. Original tan boards printed with a newspaper design in red and the text in black, housed in a morocco backed clamshell case. 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (26 x 17 cm); woodcut frontispiece after Henry Strater, 30 [1] pp. Old dampstaining to board extremities (primarily lower corners), short split to upper joint, small losses and toning to spine, offset to endpapers, page extremities lightly toned but clean within, bookplate of Osmond Kessler Fraenkel.
The first limited edition of Ernest Hemingway's second book, issued in just 170 copies. In Our Time was the seventh, and final, installment of "The Inquest into the State of Contemporary English Prose," a series of short works all edited by Ezra Pound including authors such as Ford Maddox Ford and William Carlos Williams. Grissom describes how 300 copies of the edition were printed but only 170 "perfect" copies were issued, the balance having been damaged “by the imposition of the watermark against the frontispiece” and were used for review copies. In his October 1924 review in The Dial, Edmund Wilson wrote "In the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time, [he] has almost invented a form of his own ... I am inclined to think that this little book has more artistic dignity than any other book that has been written by an American about the period of the war." Osmond Kessler Fraenkel (1888-1983) was an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union whose papers are held by Harvard University. Hanneman A2a; Grissom A.2.1.a.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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