Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

 
  Lot 718
 

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Trifari bracelets gifted from Ray to Sybil and Jean

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

CHANDLER, RAYMOND

Two Trifari Gilt-Metal and Rhinestone Bracelets gifted from Raymond Chandler to Sybil and Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis]. Two gilt-metal bracelets signed Trifari, each with round light iridescent rhinestones and oval iridescent rhinestones. Length 7 inches; widths 1 inch and 7/8 inch. Nicely articulated links. Several rhinestones missing. Tarnishing and wear to gilt-plating on metal.

Trifari bracelets gifted from Raymond Chandler to Jean Fracasse and her daughter, Sybil, the latter gifted on her birthday. In a copy of a photograph from the date of the gift, Sybil can be seen with Ray wearing the bracelet (the photograph not included in the lot).

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Estimated at $800 - $1,200

 

Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler

CHANDLER, RAYMOND

Two Trifari Gilt-Metal and Rhinestone Bracelets gifted from Raymond Chandler to Sybil and Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis]. Two gilt-metal bracelets signed Trifari, each with round light iridescent rhinestones and oval iridescent rhinestones. Length 7 inches; widths 1 inch and 7/8 inch. Nicely articulated links. Several rhinestones missing. Tarnishing and wear to gilt-plating on metal.

Trifari bracelets gifted from Raymond Chandler to Jean Fracasse and her daughter, Sybil, the latter gifted on her birthday. In a copy of a photograph from the date of the gift, Sybil can be seen with Ray wearing the bracelet (the photograph not included in the lot).

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Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024

  • Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024

  • Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions

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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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