Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Chandler’s story Professor Bingo’s Snuff, serialized in Park East Magazine
Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
CHANDLER, RAYMOND
Professor Bingo’s Snuff serialized in Park East Magazine. [New York: June-August 1951]. Three issues of Park East Magazine, the last cover with Raymond Chandler's ownership stamp, each issue 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29.5 x 22 cm). Generally sound, one rear corner damaged, other light wear and minor stains.
Before 1945, most of Raymond Chandler's professional contributions to magazines were in Black Mask or Dime Detective. After that date, Chandler articles were published in Cosmopolitan, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Saturday Review of Literature. But of the 25 stories published by Chandler, only one, "Professor Bingo’s Snuff" was published after 1941, and appeared in three consecutive issues of the New York society magazine Park East. "Professor Bingo’s Snuff" is not a detective story though - it is one of just three Chandler fantasy stories to find publication (the first was "The Bronze Door" published in Unknown in 1939 and the last was "English Summer: A Gothic Romance," published posthumously). This is the only publication of the story in Chandler's lifetime and is very rare.
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Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
CHANDLER, RAYMOND
Professor Bingo’s Snuff serialized in Park East Magazine. [New York: June-August 1951]. Three issues of Park East Magazine, the last cover with Raymond Chandler's ownership stamp, each issue 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (29.5 x 22 cm). Generally sound, one rear corner damaged, other light wear and minor stains.
Before 1945, most of Raymond Chandler's professional contributions to magazines were in Black Mask or Dime Detective. After that date, Chandler articles were published in Cosmopolitan, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Saturday Review of Literature. But of the 25 stories published by Chandler, only one, "Professor Bingo’s Snuff" was published after 1941, and appeared in three consecutive issues of the New York society magazine Park East. "Professor Bingo’s Snuff" is not a detective story though - it is one of just three Chandler fantasy stories to find publication (the first was "The Bronze Door" published in Unknown in 1939 and the last was "English Summer: A Gothic Romance," published posthumously). This is the only publication of the story in Chandler's lifetime and is very rare.
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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