?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(WRITERS.) Group of 6 items Signed or Signed and Inscribed, mostly postcards and letters to various recipients: Truman Capote * Paul Bowles * Alfred Chester * Norman Douglas (2) * Ronald Firbank. Format and condition vary. Vp, 1916-65
Capote. ANS, to Peggy Guggenheim: "Peggy dear--we had such a good time in Venice, and this is to remind you that you are expected here in Taormina. . . ." Verso features photograph of Veduta Panoramica in Taormina. 1 page, 12mo. Taormina, 13 October 1950 [from postmark] • Bowles. ANS, to LeRoi Jones: "I don't know who is sending me the bear, but someone is, and I appreciate it. I thought maybe it might be you. Or perhaps Edwin Denby. . . ." Verso features a photograph of the ramparts of Marrakesh. 1 page, 12mo. Tangier, 1 August 1961 [from postmark] • Chester. ANS, "Alfred," to "Ira & Rosalind": "Car accident yesterday, but OK. Going London train tomorrow. Can't write or think. . . ." Verso features photograph of statue of the Holy Virgin. Biarritz, 25 June 1965 • Douglas (2). ANS, to Frank Harris, reporting his return to Florence on June 30; ALS, to Harold Cooper, thanking for information about Poe. Together 2 pages, 12mo or 4to on "Hotel Post" stationery. [Bludesch: from postmark], 3 June 1926; Florence, 1 September 1936 • Firbank. ALS, to "Dear Mr. Wiggins," requesting that "one shilling" appear in place of "one shilling net" [on the cover of Odette: A Fairy Tale for Weary People (1916)]. 2 pages, 8vo, folded sheet. "66 High St," 14 November 1916.
