19th & 20th Century Literature: Hemingway, Morrison & Tolkien—Fall 2019 Fine Books & Manuscripts At Auction October 10 Upcoming Highlights Lot 196: Ernest Hemingway, in our time, limited Paris first edition, Three Mountains Press, 1924. $25,000 to $35,000. Led by a limited Paris first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s in our time, 1924, highlights from the first part of the twentieth century feature remarkable firsts in unrestored dust jackets of Barnaby Ross’s The Tragedy of X, 1932, The Virginian, 1902, by Owen Wister, and The Front Page, 1928, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. David Foster Wallace titles include two auction premiers: the scuttled Penguin edition of Girl With Curious Hair, 1989, which would only appear as uncorrected proofs, and the equally rare two-volume manuscript edition of Infinite Jest with considerable textual differences from the published version. Nineteenth-century material includes Charles Dickens, with original serial parts issues and first editions in the original cloth. Children’s literature showcases several Tasha Tudor picture books, including a complete group of the Calico series featuring her first title, Pumpkin Moonshine, 1938. Fall 2019 Fine Books & Manuscripts Catalogue Fiction Lot 285: Henry Green, Blindness, first edition of the author’s first book, in original dust jacket, London & Toronto, 1926. $4,000 to $6,000. Lot 327: Toni Morrison, Sula, first edition, signed, New York, 1974. $700 to $1,000. Lot 380: Owen Wister, The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains, first edition in rare dust jacket, New York, 1902. $5,000 to $7,500. Lot 211: Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, first edition of the author’s first book, signed, Toronto, 1969. $350 to $500. Lot 346: Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exist to Brooklyn, carbon typescript, early draft, as submitted to Grove Press, New York, 1964. $3,000 to $4,000. Science Fiction & Fantasy Lot 363: Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade, advance proof copy of the first English edition in the trial jacket, London, 1970. $800 to $1,200. Lot 356: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, three first editions with folding maps in rear of each volume, London, 1954-55. $5,000 to $7,500. Lot 337: Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, first edition, twelfth printing, signed and inscribed to John Diebold of information & technology firm The Diebold Group, New York, 1957. $1,000 to $1,500. Nonfiction Lot 375: Evelyn Waugh, When the Going was Good, presentation copy, signed & inscribed to Andrea Cowdin, London, 1946. $3,000 to $4,000. Lot 381: Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, first edition, signed, New York, 1929. $1,500 to $2,000. Poetry Lot 218: Charles Bukowski, The Genius of the Crowd, first edition, illustrated with five linoleum cuts by Paula Marie Savarino, 7 Flowers Press, Cleveland, 1966. $5,000 to $7,500. Lot 353: Wallace Stevens, Harmonium, signed and inscribed: “The basis of poetry is response,” New York, 1931. $3,000 to $4,000. Children’s Literature Lot 241: Tasha Tudor, group of five first editions, New York, 1938-45. $3,000 to $4,000. Fine Books & Manuscripts: Fall 2019 Autographs Art, Press & Illustrated Books The Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry Sign up for Auction Updates to get email notifications about new catalogues, or download our Live Bidding App and enable push alerts. How to Bid at Auction How to Consign with Swann Complete Auction Schedule Share Facebook Twitter August 27, 2019Author: Swann CommunicationsCategory: Books & Manuscripts Tags: Ayn Rand Bernadette Mayer Charles Bukowski Ernest Hemingway Evelyn Waugh Fall 2019 Auctions Henry Green Hubert Selby Jr. J.R.R. Tolkien James Joyce Kurt Vonnegut literature Margaret Atwood Owen Wister Toni Morrison Virginia Woolf Vito Acconci Wallace Stevens Previous Autographs: Davy Crockett, Greta Garbo, Annie Oakley & Herman Melville—Fall 2019 Next Fall 2019: Classic & Contemporary Photographs Recommended Posts A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Literature Books & Manuscripts April 10, 2018 New Auction Record for Frederick Douglass Autograph Set in Winter 2021 Sale of Fine Books & Autographs Fine Books & Manuscripts March 2, 2021 “Love – PFC. Kurt Vonnegut, Infantry” Autographs October 26, 2018