Fine Books & Manuscripts
Sale #2683
This fall’s sale promises to tempt with bibliographic rarities from before the invention of movable type through the twentieth century. Fine, limited edition art books will be featured alongside early printed books, fine illustrated and children’s books, and modern firsts.
We are pleased to offer three original letters written by Louisa May Alcott to a friend of her deceased youngest sister, May, about May’s daughter Lulu, updating her on the little girl’s growth. The auction will also feature a final section of material from Ken Rapoport’s collection, with a strong showing of early printed Spanish literature and the chivalric tales and picaresque roots that inspired Cervantes. A new collection strong in early English literature includes a second folio of Shakespeare, and early works of Milton, Chaucer, Drayton and Donne, among others.
Modern literature fans will have the chance to purchase a first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time. We are also proud to present an exciting find: a photo album compiled by a fellow Red Cross volunteer who served in the Ambulance Service with Hemingway during WWI. It contains unpublished images of Hemingway and his fellow volunteers from the time they shipped overseas, through their service in Italy, and includes an image of the injured Papa in his Milan hospital bed.
10:30am
Exhibition Hours:
Sat, Oct 19th 12pm - 5pm
Mon, Oct 21st 12pm - 5pm
Tue, Oct 22nd 12pm - 5pm
Wed, Oct 23rd 12pm - 5pm
Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY
40.741269963679, -73.98506015
Swann Auction Galleries
