Apr 22, 2010 - Sale 2211

Sale 2211 - Lot 210

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(PUBLISHING--20TH CENTURY.) Collection of over 100 letters regarding various aspects of ongoing publication projects, mostly to editor Ray Roberts, from writers, editors, celebrities, etc. Includes Autograph and Typed Letters Signed, Autograph Postcards Signed, greeting cards Signed and Inscribed. With unsigned related photographs, programs, brochures, etc. Many with the original envelope, some include both sides of the correspondence; condition varies. should be examined. Vp, [1940s-2000]

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Don De Lillo Andre Maurois Kay Boyle Duncan Grant Seamus Heaney Jane Goodall Christopher Isherwood James Merrill Dirk Bogarde Willie Moon Alicia Markova Bob Kane Joseph Heller Aaron Copland Lillian Hellman Arthur Miller Harry Truman C.S. Lewis Shirley Hazzard Walter Lipmann Gian Carlo Menotti Joan Crawford Gloria Swanson Michael Greer Julia Child George Cukor others.
Roberts (1939-2009) was an editor whose career spanned Macmillan, Doubleday, Little Brown, Henry Holt and Viking.