Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FIELD, EUGENE. Autograph Manuscript Signed, in the third person on the title-page, complete printer's draft of his short work, The Symbol and the Saint, with numerous ink illustrations and decorative elements by J.L. Selanders. 11 pages, 12mo, written on rectos of separate sheets; faint scattered soiling throughout, minor scattered creasing, some short closed tears at edges of terminal leaf; custom morocco clamshell box. Np, 1886

Additional Details

The Symbol and the Saint first appeared in the Chicago Daily News in 1886.
with--Eugene Field. Two items: The Symbol and the Saint. Small 8vo, 11 leaves bound together with ribbon; cloth slipcase and chemise with bookplate of William F. Gable. [Chicago], "1886" [1892]. First edition ALS, to General Nelson A. Miles: "This is so excellent a portrait of you that I want to preserve it among other treasures. You can make it much more valuable by putting your autograph signature upon it; will you kindly do so and have your secretary mail it back to me? . . ." 1/2 page, 8vo, with integral blank. Chicago, 27 October 1895.