Oct 01, 2009 - Sale 2188

Sale 2188 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Group of 12 pieces of Hemingway ephemera including a signature sample sheet. Mostly single or folded sheets, condition generally quite good. Vp, vd

Additional Details

Includes a sample sheet with 8 signatures by Hemingway. Single page (102x203 mm; 4x8 inches), in pencil and ink, four small perforations one affecting "E" in one "Ernest," light and scattered foxing. Ex-collection Juanita Jensen, Hemingway's secretary, prepared for her to type and sign previously dictated letters in his absence. Purchased from Jensen Hemingway collection, Sotheby's New York 18 June 2004 3 Western Union telegrams from the Hemingways to Bill Davis. 1959-1960, one from Sun Valley and two from Havana original statement of royalty account of Hemingway with his English publishers, Jonathan Cape, Ltd. Shows royalties paid on 10 of his book titles with balance due and taxes deducted from the payments. 2 pages. 8vo, on Cape stationery. 1 May 1953. Together with the original envelope, annotated by Hemingway: "Account from Cape with receipt for taxes paid. Received May 18--" Ex-collection A. E. Hotchner. Bastard Note. Inscribed by Marguerite (Margie) Cohn for C. E. Frazer Clark, Jr. Letter M of 93 privately printed facsimile foundry proof copies. Np, December 1931 Ezra Pound at Seventy. New Directions pamphlet containing statements by various authors including Hemingway. New York: Gotham Book Mart, [1955] Gotham Book Mart prospectus for a Hemingway Letter "of exceptional literary importance." 1/100 copies. Nd The Only Nice People in Canada. Pamphlet reproducing a letter from Hemingway to Sylvia Beach. 2 copies: one in English, the other in French. Each one of 500 copies. Toronto, 1969.