Oct 22, 2015 - Sale 2394

Sale 2394 - Lot 323

Price Realized: $ 325
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
DREISER, THEODORE. Photograph Signed, bust portrait, showing him in profile and looking upward. Signed in the blank lower margin. 9x7 inches (image), 9 3/4x7 3/4 inches overall; minor scattered dings, minor creases at upper edge. (MRS) [New York, circa 29 November 1932]

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with--Letter from his secretary, Evelyn Light, sending the photograph to Rev. Delos W. O'Brien, and warning him that a former Rabbi had been sent a similar signed photograph, and "[w]hen the picture was discovered by his superiors, he was at once ejected from his rabbinate." 1/2 page, 4to, "Theodore Dreiser" stationery. New York, 29 November 1932.