Nov 20, 2014 - Sale 2367

Sale 2367 - Lot 308

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
VAN VECHTEN, CARL. Two items, each Signed, "Carlo V.V.," to civil rights leader Arthur B. Spingarn: Brief Autograph Postcard * Typed Letter. The postcard: "You see I've gone western[?] again." The verso is a photograph showing a village of adobe buildings. Oblong 12mo; postage stamp and postal markings on correspondence side (not affecting signature). The letter, asking to give the numbers corresponding to the photographs that his wife selected, speculating that he cannot reach Walter [White?] because he is busy in Washington, and noting that checks are coming in for the "Fund." 1/2 page, 4to, personal stationery; horizontal fold. With the original envelope. Np, 4 January [1927: from postmark]; New York, 13 February [1940: from postmark]