Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Raymond Chandler's copy of a Salinger Collection
Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
SALINGER, J.D.
For Esmé – With Love & Squalor. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First English edition. With Raymond Chandler’s La Jolla ownership stamp dated August 17 1953. Publisher’s cloth, in dust jacket. Some light spotting and toning to title and endpapers.
A fine association between two of the top short story writers of the 1940s and 50s. Possibly acquired on Chandler's 1953 trip to London, this is the uncommon first English edition of For Esmé – With Love & Squalor issued in the United States under the title Nine Stories. Besides the title story, the book includes some of Salinger's best-loved works such as Perfect Day for a Bananafish, a story with a shocking ending worthy of Chandler.
Sold for $1,216
Estimated at $400 - $600
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
SALINGER, J.D.
For Esmé – With Love & Squalor. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First English edition. With Raymond Chandler’s La Jolla ownership stamp dated August 17 1953. Publisher’s cloth, in dust jacket. Some light spotting and toning to title and endpapers.
A fine association between two of the top short story writers of the 1940s and 50s. Possibly acquired on Chandler's 1953 trip to London, this is the uncommon first English edition of For Esmé – With Love & Squalor issued in the United States under the title Nine Stories. Besides the title story, the book includes some of Salinger's best-loved works such as Perfect Day for a Bananafish, a story with a shocking ending worthy of Chandler.
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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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
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We Invite You to Contact Us for a Complimentary Auction Evaluation of Your Books, Autographs & Maps
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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