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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
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"