Mar 07, 2024 - Sale 2661

Sale 2661 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
BUCK, PEARL S. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, working draft of her short story, "Enough for a Lifetime," with numerous corrections in ink or pencil throughout, first published in the January 1935 issue of Woman's Home Companion. Together 49 pages, 8vo, ruled loose-leaf notebook paper with three holes punched in left margin, bound together with string, written mostly on recto and verso of each sheet; paper clip stains at upper edges of first and terminal pages, faint toning at edges throughout. (SFC) Np, circa 1935

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"Miss Willey hesitated a moment before she opened the door into the courtyard. She dreaded more sharply each autumn these winter mornings of cold yellow sandy winds. . . ."