?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ON GENERAL CUSTER'S SWORD: "DO NOT SHEATH ME WITHOUT HONOR" CUSTER, ELIZABETH BACON. Group of 4 items, each Signed and Inscribed, to Olive Griffin, in ink or pencil: Two Autograph Letters * Autograph Note * Elizabeth B. Custer. Boots and Saddles. The letters and note, sending the book, postponing a meeting, planning a visit to the Cosmopolitan Club, giving travel plans, and sending her printed visiting card [present]. Together 5 pages, 8vo or smaller, the note written in pencil on a small envelope; generally good condition. Each with the original envelope. The book, "To my friend / Olive Griffin / Elizabeth B. Custer / 1927 / Motto on General Custer's / Spanish sword-- / 'Do not draw me without cause / Do not sheath me without honor'," on the front free endpaper. 8vo, publisher's cloth, marked rubbing to edges, some fraying at backstrip ends; moderate scattered foxing to preliminaries and subsidiaries including signature page, cello tape repairs to verso of frontispiece. Later edition. New York, 1913; inscription: 1927. Vp, 1926-27
