Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Chandler discovers the poodle in Palm Springs
Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
CHANDLER, RAYMOND
Two typed poems. Two typed poems, a longer one titled “More Poems About Practically Nothing. Number One: Unmentality” (30 lines, with annotation) and a short poem titled “A Sad Incident” (5 lines), the longer initialed and dated from Palm Springs in December 1957, the second presumed the same, typed in blue ink on yellow half sheets, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (21.5 x 14 cm). Staple holds, the shorter poem with a stain at head; Together with two typed non-fiction works, the first titled "The Bus Line Problem," a three-page typed manuscript, basically a math word problem possibly prepared for Sybil or Vincent); the second titled “Making a Gold Inlay,” a six-page typed manuscript on technical aspects of jewelry making, with a few pencil annotations. These two on similar half sheets of paper. Fine overall.
At the time of his death in March 1959, Raymond Chandler had finished four chapters of a final novel under the working title The Poodle Springs Story. Poodle Springs was a loosely veiled reference to Palm Springs where Chandler visited at the end of 1957. In the unfinished story, detective Philip Marlowe has married and relocated his agency to Poodle Springs. The longer poem here, written from Palm Springs while on that trip, is about a poodle, perhaps inspiring the story. The other pieces are good examples of Chandler's technical writing although for what use these were intended if not as educational tools for Jean Fracasse's children, is unknown.
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Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
CHANDLER, RAYMOND
Two typed poems. Two typed poems, a longer one titled “More Poems About Practically Nothing. Number One: Unmentality” (30 lines, with annotation) and a short poem titled “A Sad Incident” (5 lines), the longer initialed and dated from Palm Springs in December 1957, the second presumed the same, typed in blue ink on yellow half sheets, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (21.5 x 14 cm). Staple holds, the shorter poem with a stain at head; Together with two typed non-fiction works, the first titled "The Bus Line Problem," a three-page typed manuscript, basically a math word problem possibly prepared for Sybil or Vincent); the second titled “Making a Gold Inlay,” a six-page typed manuscript on technical aspects of jewelry making, with a few pencil annotations. These two on similar half sheets of paper. Fine overall.
At the time of his death in March 1959, Raymond Chandler had finished four chapters of a final novel under the working title The Poodle Springs Story. Poodle Springs was a loosely veiled reference to Palm Springs where Chandler visited at the end of 1957. In the unfinished story, detective Philip Marlowe has married and relocated his agency to Poodle Springs. The longer poem here, written from Palm Springs while on that trip, is about a poodle, perhaps inspiring the story. The other pieces are good examples of Chandler's technical writing although for what use these were intended if not as educational tools for Jean Fracasse's children, is unknown.
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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