Mar 21, 2019 - Sale 2502

Sale 2502 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 88
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
SPOCK, BENJAMIN. Two items, each Signed "Ben Spock": Photograph * Typed Letter. The photograph, bust portrait showing him in 3/4-view and laughing. Signed in the image, lower right. 5x7 inches; minor scattered dings. The letter, to László Magyar, sending his books and other printed matter [not present], and describing his current work. 1/2 page, 4to, personal stationery; minor creases at upper edge. Np, nd; New York, 26 April 1974

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". . . I have written a number of books for parents, one book for adolescents, a book on the war in Vietnam. I write monthly for a women's magazine. . . .
"My professional papers have been concentrated in the area of emotional development in children. . . .
". . . I've divided my time between sailing a boat in the Virgin Island or the state of Maine, and speaking on war, American imperialism and the need for a socialist government here. I am no longer involved in medical teaching or research."