May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 100
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
CLARKE, ARTHUR C. Two Typed Letters Signed, "Arthur C. Clarke" or "Art," to Jeremy Bernstein, The first, stating that his review in the New Yorker was overly kind, telling him to expect Profiles of the Future next month, and noting that he is working on his first non-science fiction novel. The second, thanking for participating in a kind of surprise party and anticipating the year 2001 with dread. Each 1 page, 4to, personal stationery or air letter; folds. Colombo [Sri Lanka], 10 January 1963; 18 September 2000
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

1963: "It is indeed a unique experience for an author to feel that a reviewer has been a little too kind to him, but I do really think that your piece in the New Yorker erred on the side of generosity. . . ."
2000: ". . . [M]y T.V. producer, Simon Welfare suggested shooting a few minutes in front of the Apollo Module in the Science Museum--and Buzz Aldrin emerged from behind it. Only then did I realize that I had been hijacked for the BBC's This is Your Life. . . ."
with--Greeting card from Clarke and friend Hector Ekanayake, signed by Clarke on front cover, "Arthur." Np, nd.