RUSSELL BERTRAND Group of 9 items Signed or Signed and Inscr

Sale 2351 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 3,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

RUSSELL, BERTRAND. Group of 9 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, to agents of his publisher Liveright, including two Autograph Letters Signed, 5 Typed Letters Signed, and two Checks Endorsed, mostly relating to publication terms or payment. Format and condition vary. Vp, 1928-56

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11 November 1928: "I . . . offer you my next book after 'Marriage & Morals', on the terms in your letter, viz., £500 on signing the contract, & £500 on publication, as an advance on royalties at 15%; & if the book in prospect is acceptable to you, I will . . . get it finished some time during the summer of 1930. . . ."
9 February 1931: "Thank you for . . . the enclosed proof of an advertisement which I like very much. I am amused to find myself regarded as saying the modern equivalent of St. John's Gospel. . . ."