Nov 20, 2014 - Sale 2367

Sale 2367 - Lot 281

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY ("O. HENRY"). Group of 4 Autograph Manuscripts, unsigned, in pencil, each an unrelated fragment from a short story, comic dialogue, or other work, including a page from his story, "Law and Order." Together 4 pages, 4to, written on rectos only; marked toning and brittling overall, complete separation at horizontal folds, some chipping at edges. sold as is. Np, nd

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The "Law and Order" fragment, marked page 34: ". . . 'One day there passes through Bildad a bunch of these money investors from the East, and they stopped off there, Bildad being the dinner station on the I. & G.N. They was just coming back from Mexico looking after mines and such. . . .'"