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ISSUE 21.2 // SPRING 2023

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SPRIN G 2023

HERITAGE AUCTIONS
Four Historic
Through the Eyes Editions of Ulysses at
of Guillermo Heritage Auctions
del Toro HINDMAN AUCTIONS
Polar and Mississippi
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Heritage Auctions@Auction guide RARE BOOKS
Signature ® Auction | June 8 – 9
SPRING 2023

Joyce’s use of stream of con- signed by the author and in


sciousness. the original publisher’s slip- View All Lots and Bid at HA.com/6268
This paved the way for a case.
Open for Bidding May 16
Four Historic most intriguing edition. In
1935, the Limited Editions Club
Though the publish-
ers claimed this as the “final

Editions of New York brought it out


with illustrations by French
and definitive” edition, Joyce
continued to find errors
James Joyce. Ulysses.
of Ulysses
artist Henri Matisse. Matisse’s and make corrections. This
six etchings are all the more brings us to the fourth edi- James Joyce. Ulysses. New York: Limited
tion in the Heritage Auctions Paris: Shakespeare and Editions Club, 1935.
sale, the monumental 1988 Company, 1922. Illustrations by
Additional firsts and scarce Joyce Arion Press printing, bound Henri Matisse.
works also feature in June sale One of 750 copies on
handmade paper. One of 250 copies
signed by Matisse
and Joyce.
F ew books have endured
such a chequered history
as James Joyce’s Ulysses. As
publishing operation in Paris.
She managed to get it out
on Joyce’s 40th birthday on
Starting Bid: $15,000
Starting Bid: $7,500
we head towards Bloomsday February 2, 1922, and one
on June 16 and the 101st anni- of the 750 copies on hand-
versary of the book’s publi- made paper, in the original
cation, Heritage Auctions will blue wrappers and housed
offer four different editions in a custom clamshell box, James Joyce. Ulysses.
of this iconic text, all in excel- is included in the Heritage James Joyce. Ulysses. San Francisco: Arion
lent condition, at its June 8-9 Auctions sale. London: John Lane, Press, 1988. Illustrations
Rare Books Signature auction. Some copies of this first The Bodley Head, [1936]. by Robert Motherwell.
They represent a potted his- edition made it through First English Edition.
tory of its contentious journey to the US and England, but
Binding designed by One of 150 copies
into print. when detected by customs remarkable since he
Eric Gill. for sale, signed by
Ulysses first partly officers were confiscated and never actually read the book. in white pigskin over white- Motherwell to the
appeared in print in The Little often burnt. It was more than Instead, he went back to flecked blue cloth with etch-
One of 100 copies
signed by the author. limitation page.
the inspirational source and ings by American abstract
provided depictions of the expressionist painter Robert
Cyclops, Nausicaa, Calypso, Motherwell, a Joyce enthu- Starting Bid: $4,000
Ithaca, Aeolus, and Circe inci- siast. Again, it comes in the Starting Bid: $7,500
dents from Homer’s Odyssey. original publisher’s slipcase,
The edition was ultimately one of 150 copies for sale, and
published in a run of 1,000 is signed by Motherwell to
copies. Heritage Auctions will the limitation page.
offer one of only 250 copies In addition to the four
signed by both Matisse and Ulysses editions above, the Always Accepting Quality Consignments
Joyce, in the original publish- auction will also feature a first
er’s slipcase. edition of Dubliners, a pre- Inquiries: 877-HERITAGE (437-4824)
Shortly thereafter, in 1936, sentation copy to Raymonde Hunter Corb | ext. 1215 | HunterC@HA.com
The Bodley Head in London Linossier of Portrait of the
Samantha Sisler | ext. 1385 | SSisler@HA.com
brought out the first autho- Artist as a Young Man, the
Review from 1918-1921 before it a decade before US courts rized English edition, a scarce first edition of Chamber
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was banned. Consequently, One Book Called Ulysses (1933) on mould-made paper and Finnegans Wake in jacket,
the honor of publishing that the book was accept- bound in calf vellum with a among many others. l Always Accepting Quality Consignments in 50+ Categories
the first edition fell to Sylvia able as the controversial ele- Homeric bow binding design Alex Johnson Alex Johnson is an Immediate Cash Advances Available
Beach and her Shakespeare ments served an impor- by Eric Gill. Heritage Auctions author and the Online Editor of Fine Paul R. Minshull #16591. BP 15-25%; see HA.com 72145 1.6 Million+ Online Bidder-Members
Books & Collections. His latest book is
and Company bookselling- tant artistic purpose, namely has one of just 100 copies Rooms of Their Own.

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Invitation to
CURRIER and IVES, publishers.
The Great Fire at Chicago, 1871. (G. 2835).

Hindman Auctions@Auction
Estimate: $5,000 -7,000
guide
sell at auction
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of the Conduct of Captain • A New Discovery of the Vast


Christopher Middleton, in Country in America by Father We are now accepting consignments for our Books & Manuscripts
a Late Voyage on Board His Louis Hennepin (1626– auctions. Contact us to receive a complimentary auction valuation.
Polar and Majesty’s Ship the Furnace,
for Discovering a North-
1704). This was one of the
most important 17th cen-

Mississippi west Passage to the Western tury accounts of the upper Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
American Ocean. In Answer Midwest and Great Lakes May 11

Exploration Star Chicago | Live + Online


to certain Objections and region, and indeed one
Aspersions of Arthur Dobbs, of the first descriptions of
Esq. (London: printed by the North America, originally

at Hindman author, 1743). It was the first


published work in a long
published in French in 1697
and in English the following
series of attacks and rejoin- year (London, 1698, second
May sale also features a selection ders by the merchant Dobbs English edition, estimate:
of intriguing incunabula and Captain Middleton fol- $3,000-4,000). Hennpin, a
lowing their expedition, one Roman Catholic priest who
of only five copies to come to spent eight months among
market in the last 60 years. the Sioux, wrote this hugely
Hindman is also offering popular—and occasionally
a significant portion of the fictitious in places—work
Dudley Bell Priester collection on his return to France in
of Mississippi River books sold 1682 from French Canada.
at Bloomsbury in New York in The sale will also feature a
2009. Priester (1923-2017) was selection of around 30 lots of
born within a block of the incunabula from a private collec-
Mississippi River and spent his tion. These include works by
whole life living within sight Bertholdus, Plutarch, Gerson,
of the river. He compiled a Scotus, Cicero, and Seneca. Of
library of non-fiction works particular interest is the 15th
relating to the Mississippi century Das buch der zwayer
and the books in the col- red mit ainander by Gregorius I
lection relate to the explo- (Augsburg: the Monastery of
ration of the river and the SS. Ulrich and Afra, 1473), the
Trans-Mississippi west. Also first German edition of the
included are works about life Dialogorum libri quatuor by

S tar of the show at


Hindman Auctions’ Fine
Printed Books & Manuscripts,
of the route), by Lieut. S. Gurney
Cresswell, of the voyage of
H.M.S. Investigator (Captain
on the river, including guides
for travelers, and works about
gambling and steamboats.
the influential Pope Gregory I
(540-604). The ambitious but
short-lived press project at
Including Americana on May M’Clure), during the discov- Among the highlights are: the Benedictine monastery of
11 is a collection of books ery of the North-west pas- • Travels to the Source of the SS. Ulrich and Afra was estab-
about the history of polar sage (London: Day and Son, Missouri River, and Across lished alongside its renowned
exploration featuring items 1854). This rare complete set the American Continent scriptorium by its abbot
from the 18th, 19th, and 20th of views of the entrapment to the Pacific Ocean…in Melchior von Stamheim in
centuries. These cover the and abandonment of the the years 1804, 1805, and 1472.
exploration and discovery of Investigator in the Arctic ice 1806 by Meriwether Lewis Looking ahead, Hindman
the Northwest Passage and (pictured above) is one of and William Clark. This is will be holding an auc-
the North Pole, the search for only four complete copies to the second English edi- tion of American Historical
the ill-fated Franklin expedi- appear at auction in the last tion (London, 1817), with an Ephemera and Photography
COURTESY OF HINDMAN AUCTIONS.

tion, and works describing 50 years (estimate: $15,000- expanded map (estimate: in its Cincinnati office on
the exploration of Antarctica. 25,000). $4,500-6,500), the iconic June 15. l
A particular highlight is Also of great interest is a account of their 1804-1806 Alex Johnson Alex Johnson is an
author and the Online Editor of Fine Gretchen Hause | 312.334.4229
A series of eight sketches in first edition of Christopher expedition following the Books & Collections. His latest book is gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com
colour (together with a chart Middleton’s A Vindication Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Rooms of Their Own. HINDMANAUCTIONS.COM

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Doyle ($2,000-$3,000). that human beings are hard-


In addition to archives of wired to enjoy intoxication
letters from the author and and researched the drug and

Six Standout actors that portrayed Holmes,


there will also be items of
alcohol predilections of US
Presidents including Andrew

Sales in 2023 at clothing worn on screen by


Jeremy Brett, arguably the fin-
Johnson, Abraham Lincoln,
and Ulysses S. Grant.

Potter & Potter


est interpreter of the Holmes The summer’s August
character on television and Potter & Potter sale sees
stage. the modern firsts library of
Following this sale, Potter Kathryn and Robin Smiley
Alice in Wonderland collection & Potter will be offering an come to market. The Smileys
rounds off a remarkable year important library of drug and have been running the
counterculture books from popular Firsts Magazine for
more than three decades,

I n 2023 Potter & Potter


Auctions will be hold-
ing an impressive six book
most recently from Tucson,
Arizona, and now bring out
this hugely useful publica-
sales, the most it has ever tion for book collectors on a
recorded in a single year. bimonthly basis.
The series of auctions fol- This is followed in October
lows February’s Fine Books & when polar region special-
Manuscripts Sale which fea- ist Chet Ross’s Nobu Shirase
tured the Kelmscott Chaucer, library will come under the
Mark Twain manuscripts, and hammer. The historically
leaves from Shakespeare’s important but only belatedly
First Folio—this proved to be recognized Japanese pioneer
a tremendous success with a Shirase (1861-1946) was the
95% sell-through rate. first non–European explorer
These future scheduled to reach Antarctica, explor-
sales will mostly be single ing King Edward VII Land and
consignor auctions, start- the Great Ice Barrier in expe-
ing with the next one in ditions between 1910 and 1912.
Original storyboards Material related to this expe-
by Michael Stringer for dition is extremely rare and
the 1983 HBO adapta-
tion of The Hound of the consequently considerable
Baskervilles, $3,000/5,000. interest is anticipated.
Finally, the remarkable
year of Potter & Potter book
sales ends with a huge col-
lection of Alice in Wonderland-
related items including pre- Cabinet card photo inscribed by Doyle
sentation copies of Lewis est. $2,000-3,000
Carroll’s famous work, 191
April, ‘A Study in Sherlock: $800-$1,200), first editions, Ronald K. Siegel (1943 –2019) years after his birth and 161
The Collection of Bob Hess.’ signed photos, movie post- in June. The noted American years since his boat trip up
This will offer the first part ers, numerous rare ephem- psychopharmacologist and Oxford’s Isis river with the
of an impressive collection eral items from The Lost World, research professor at the 10-year-old Alice Liddell
Potter & Potter is pleased to announce the first sale from Robert Hess’s collection of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur
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of Sherlockiana from Robert and collectibles such as an University of California, wrote and her friends inspired the
Hess’s collection. original metal street sign widely on a variety of drug- famous story. l Conan Doyle. High spots in every category include original illustration art, first editions, signed photos, archives
Items include origi- from Baker Street (est. $1,000- related issues but especially Alex Johnson Alex Johnson is an
of letters from the author and actors that portrayed Holmes, choice movie posters, a Richard Lancelyn Green
author and the Online Editor of Fine
nal illustration art as well $2,000) and a cabinet card on their effects on human
as watercolor by Doyle (est. photograph inscribed by behavior. Indeed, he argued
Books & Collections. His latest book is
Rooms of Their Own.
collection, numerous rare ephemeral items from The Lost World, a selection of items from the Jeremy Brett estate,
and an original Baker Street sign.
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Swann Galleries@Auction guide
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lesser known and traditional larly noticeable


in Lena Scott Harris—gives • Featuring the famous
me hope for what’s to come.” movie star on the set of

Avedon Heads There was more success


for Avedon’s work with an
Something’s Gotta Give, a
portfolio of a dozen over-

Strong Winter image from the iconic 1980s


advertising campaign starring
size photographs by
Lawrence Schiller entitled

Sale at Swann
Brooke Shields for Calvin Klein Marilyn, (silver & chromo-
jeans. This sold for $8,000. genic prints, 1962; printed
2007) was sold for $12,000
• Berenice Abbott, Berenice
Work by Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Abbott’s New York IV, a port-
and Diane Arbus under the hammer folio of silver prints, 1935-
38; printed 1979 sold for
$20,000
• Edward S. Curtis’s land-
mark portrait Geronimo
– Apache, plate 2 from The
North American Indian, pho-
togravure, 1905; printed 1907,
finally went for $10,000
• Henri Cartier-
Bresson, Malcolm
X, silver print, 1961;
printed 1980s, made
$5,400
• Diane Arbus, A young
Brooklyn family going
for a Sunday out-
ing, N.Y.C, silver print,

R ichard Avedon’s por-


trait George Harrison,
1967, was one of the lead-
classical and nineteenth-cen-
tury photography perform so
strongly,” said Deborah Rogal,
1966; printed 1972
(estimate $6,000-
$9,000) was sold for
ing success stories at Swann Director of Photographs and $10,000. This photo-
Galleries’ winter 2023 sale of Photobooks at Swann. “Our graph is one of ten
Fine Photographs. With an sale demonstrates that there’s Arbus chose in 1970
estimate range of $15,000- excitement and power in to represent her best Winfred Rembert, Doll’s Head Baseball (detail), dye on carved and tooled leather, circa 2006. Estimate $120,000 to $180,000. At auction April 6.
$20,000, it eventually sold at areas of the market that are Other highlights included: work and illustrates the
$38,000. traditionally seen as out of • Irving Penn’s charming complexity she brought to
Avedon’s variant of his fashion. I am also incredi- Old Friends: Balkin, Beaton, her art—at first glance she Upcoming Auctions
iconic psychedelic por- bly happy to see Richard T. Platt Lynes, Joffe, Horst, presents an ordinary idyllic
trait of Harrison was taken in Rosenthal’s material perform Rawlings, Blumenfeld, Me family, but at the same time MAR 2 Fine Books & Autographs APR 27 Fine Photographs
August 1967 when the twen- so well. He was so well-liked (I.P.), Dorian Leigh (Vogue the disconnected gaze of
tieth-century master shot the within the field, and the sale Photographers, Oyster Bay), each subject conveys a feel- MAR 9 Vintage Posters MAY 4 Early Printed Books
Beatles in a studio at Gray’s became a way to celebrate 1946 which sold for $4,400 ing of isolation. MAR 23 19th & 20th Century Art MAY 11 Old Master Through Modern Prints
Inn Road, London at a time his mode of looking, col- • Ansel Adams, Vernal Fall, • Timothy O’Sullivan, Black
when the band was at the lecting, and considering the Yosemite National Park, silver Cañon, Colorado River, From MAR 30 Printed & Manuscript African Americana MAY 18 Graphic Design
peak of their fame. The first medium, as well as an oppor- print, 1950; printed 1963-70, Camp 8, Looking Above,
APR 6 African American Art MAY 25 Modern & Post-War Art
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printed pictures from the ses- tunity to offer new and excit- which went for $8,500, his albumen print, 1871 sold for
sion appeared in the January ing material to the market. masterful rendering of the $15,000 l APR 13 Printed & Manuscript Americana
9, 1968 issue of Look, and then Overall, the range of work— rushing water contrasted Alex Johnson Alex Johnson is an
author and the Online Editor of Fine
later in Stern magazine. from a very modern Richard with the textured rocks and Books & Collections. His latest book is Download the App
“I am thrilled to see both Avedon to something much tree canopy being particu- Rooms of Their Own.

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