Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Philip Marlowe moves to television
Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
[CHANDLER, RAYMOND]
Telegram to Raymond Chandler regarding the Philip Marlowe television show. A Western Union telegram from literary agent Armitage Watkins dated 6 November 1958 to Raymond Chandler informing him "With Helga's help we are negotiating package television deal for Philip Marlowe including all Marlowe properties." Present with the original telegram is the carbon copy of the text with Chandler's original ink annotation at foot "Copy sent to Helga Nov. 6. '58." Light handling wear; Together with related items, including a bank deposit slip paying Chandler royalties on "Episode #2 of PHILIP MARLOWE ('Temple of Love')"; a bank deposit slip paying Chandler for the use of his story "Trouble is my Business" by the Audio Book Company; and on of Chandler's blank checks issued by the La Jolla branch of Bank of America.
Estate / Collection: The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
[CHANDLER, RAYMOND]
Telegram to Raymond Chandler regarding the Philip Marlowe television show. A Western Union telegram from literary agent Armitage Watkins dated 6 November 1958 to Raymond Chandler informing him "With Helga's help we are negotiating package television deal for Philip Marlowe including all Marlowe properties." Present with the original telegram is the carbon copy of the text with Chandler's original ink annotation at foot "Copy sent to Helga Nov. 6. '58." Light handling wear; Together with related items, including a bank deposit slip paying Chandler royalties on "Episode #2 of PHILIP MARLOWE ('Temple of Love')"; a bank deposit slip paying Chandler for the use of his story "Trouble is my Business" by the Audio Book Company; and on of Chandler's blank checks issued by the La Jolla branch of Bank of America.
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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