Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Two postcards from Chandler in Palm Springs
Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
CHANDLER, RAYMOND
Manuscript postcards sent from Raymond Chandler to Jean and Vincent Fracasse. Palm Springs: 21 November 1957. Two large picture postcards of locations in Palm Springs, both written in blue ink in Chandler's hand and signed "Ray." 5 1/2 x 7 inches (13.5 x 18 cm). Vincent's card with some toning and dart indentations.
Raymond Chandler and Vincent Fracasse, Jean's son, bonded over playing darts, and in the postcard Chandler tells Vincent to "have the dartboard ready" and that he'd "like to get you .22 rifle for Christmas." The postcard itself appears to have been used for darts also upon receipt! The other postcard is addressed to "Sweet and lovely Jean" and reports to her that he swam 14 lengths "but it was so cold outside I only did 2 dives." Both of the notes have short postscripts from Chandler's literary agent Helga Greene.
Sold for $832
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
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Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
CHANDLER, RAYMOND
Manuscript postcards sent from Raymond Chandler to Jean and Vincent Fracasse. Palm Springs: 21 November 1957. Two large picture postcards of locations in Palm Springs, both written in blue ink in Chandler's hand and signed "Ray." 5 1/2 x 7 inches (13.5 x 18 cm). Vincent's card with some toning and dart indentations.
Raymond Chandler and Vincent Fracasse, Jean's son, bonded over playing darts, and in the postcard Chandler tells Vincent to "have the dartboard ready" and that he'd "like to get you .22 rifle for Christmas." The postcard itself appears to have been used for darts also upon receipt! The other postcard is addressed to "Sweet and lovely Jean" and reports to her that he swam 14 lengths "but it was so cold outside I only did 2 dives." Both of the notes have short postscripts from Chandler's literary agent Helga Greene.
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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