?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
COMPLETE DECK OF PLAYING CARDS SIGNED (WRITERS--20TH CENTURY.) Group of over 60 playing cards, each Signed by a writer, entertainer, or musician, on the face side of card. The cards, Bicycle brand bearing blue "Rider Back" design. Each 3 1/2x2 1/2 inches; slight fading or smudging to a few signatures including James Baldwin, Richard Condon, Rumer Godden, James Herriot, Richard Llewellyn, Alison Lurie, Neil Simon, and Gore Vidal. Np, 1970s-80s
Woody Allen (10 of diamonds) • James Baldwin (jack of diamonds) • Art Buchwald (8 of hearts) • James Clavell (5 of diamonds) • Richard Condon (2 of spades) • Michael Crichton (3 of clubs) • James Dickey (4 of clubs) • Paul Gallico (8 of spades) • Allen Ginsberg (king of diamonds) • Rumer Godden (4 of diamonds) • Ruth Gordon; and Garson Kanin (3 of diamonds) • James Herriot (6 of diamonds) • Joseph Heller (6 of hearts) • Edmund Hillary (ace of hearts) • Ira Levin (8 of diamonds) • Richard Llewellyn (king of hearts) • Alison Lurie (5 of spades) • Daphne du Maurier (2 of hearts) • James A. Michener (8 of clubs) • Arthur Miller (ace of diamonds) • Katherine Anne Porter (queen of hearts) • Richard Rodgers (jack of clubs) • Sidney Sheldon (2 of diamonds) • Neil Simon (joker) • John Updike (3 of spades) • Gore Vidal (4 of spades) • Morris West (5 of hearts) • Thornton Wilder (ace of clubs) • Herman Wouk (10 of hearts) • others. Complete list available upon request.
