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Important Modern Literature from the Library of an American Filmmaker
22 November - 8 December 2023 • New York
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1. Baldwin, James | Go Tell It On the Mountain, inscribed to Ed Parone, with two letters

2. Baldwin, James | Giovanni's Room, inscribed to William Cole

3. Bellow, Saul | Seize the Day, the author's first work of fiction, signed

4. Bellow, Saul | Mr. Sammler's Planet, inscribed to Robert Penn Warren

5. Burroughs, William S. | The Soft Machine, inscribed by Allen Ginsberg

6. Carver, Raymond | What We Talk About When We Talk About love, inscribed to Phyllis Barber

7. Carver, Raymond | Cathedral, inscribed to Andre Dubus

8. Carver, Raymond | Ultramarine, inscribed to Jay McInerney

9. Cheever, John | Two works, inscribed to John and Harriet Weaver

10. Cheever, John | The final, corrected typescript of his 1977 novel Falconer

11. Cheever, John | The Stories of John Cheever, inscribed to his daughter, with three letters

12. Eliot, T.S. | A collection of four works

13. Faulkner, William | The Wild Palms, signed limited edition

14. Fleming, Ian | Diamonds Are Forever, first edition

15. Hemingway, Ernest | Autograph letter signed to to his sister Marcelline, one of Hemingway's earliest letters

16. Hemingway, Ernest | Autograph letter signed to Marcelline, describing a hiking and fishing trip in northern Michigan

17. Hemingway, Ernest | Autograph letter signed to Marcelline, as a cub reporter

18. Hemingway, Ernest | Autograph letter signed to Marcelline and Madelaine Hemingway; when Ernest met Agnes

19. Hemingway, Ernest | Typed letter to Marcelline, announcing the birth of his first son and the publication of his first book

20. Hemingway, Ernest | in our time, first edition of Hemingway’s second book

21. Hemingway, Ernest | Autograph letter signed to John Herrmann, giving advice on writing

22. Hemingway, Ernest | Autograph letter draft, about the principles of good writing; "I wrote a book called The Sun Also Rises in six weeks"

23. Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms, first edition

24. Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms, signed limited edition

25. Hemingway, Ernest | Death in the Afternoon, with a reluctant inscription

26. Hemingway, Ernest | Autograph letter signed to Arnold Gingrich, following their chance first meeting

27. Hemingway, Ernest | Typed letter signed to Arnold Gingrich, a blunt appraisal of Joyce, Pound, Stein, and others

28. Hemingway, Ernest | Typed letter signed to Arnold Gingrich, a lengthy criticism of Gertrude Stein

29. Hemingway, Ernest | Autograph letter signed to Arnold Gingrich; “I’ve written 3 books of stories now and there are 2 unsuccessful ones in the 3 books”

30. Hemingway, Ernest | Typed letter signed to Arnold Gingrich, on writing and publishing novels

31. Hemingway, Ernest | Green Hills of Africa, first edition
![Hemingway, Ernest | The autograph manuscript of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." [Key West, finished April 1936]](https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b2e802c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x2000+0+0/resize/150x150!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fce%2F6d%2F08abc3d146e3ac9407b783195b23%2Fn11241-c8qpk-t1-04.jpg)
32. Hemingway, Ernest | The autograph manuscript of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." [Key West, finished April 1936]

33. Hemingway, Ernest | Typed letter signed to Marcelline, forbidding her the use of Windermere

34. Hemingway, Ernest | For Whom The Bell Tolls, inscribed

35. Hemingway, Ernest | The Old Man and the Sea, first edition

36. Hemingway, Ernest | Typed letter signed to Robert J. Carino; "Every book that I’ve written is as good as I could write at that time "

37. Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World, signed limited edition

38. Kerouac, Jack | Autograph letter to Allen Ginsberg; "There was much drinking and much charming madness"

39. Kerouac, Jack | Autograph letter signed to William Burroughs, alluding to his heroin addiction

40. Kerouac, Jack | Typed letter to Allen Ginsberg, offering advice on poetry, and Neal Cassady

41. Kerouac, Jack | Typed letter to Allen Ginsberg, a blunt letter addressing a rift in their friendship

42. Kerouac, Jack | Autograph manuscript of “Golden Jack,” an early manuscript with connections to On The Road

43. Kerouac, Jack | Autograph letter signed to Ed White; "Well, boy, guess what? I sold my novel"

44. Kerouac, Jack | Autograph letter signed to Alan Harrington; "I start to work.. on my 2nd novel this week. 'On the Road.' I think"

45. Kerouac, Jack | Typed letter signed to Ed White; "at night, till dawn, I'm writing the second novel, On the Road"

46. Kerouac, Jack | Typed letter signed to Ed White, with an an excerpt from On the Road

47. Kerouac, Jack | Typed letter signed to Ed White; "From now on every word I write counts, and the lesser the better"

48. Kerouac, Jack | Typed postcard signed to Ed White; selling stories to buy to buy "500 beers for everybody"