Doyle Auctions - ONLINE ONLY

Monday, April 6th, 2020 - Wednesday, April 15th, 2020

Fine Literature featuring a Collection of Rudyard Kipling

In an online-only auction, Doyle will offer over 100 lots of fine literature, including signed first editions, letters from literary figures, collector quality books in their original dust jackets, and a privately assembled collection of Rudyard Kipling. Bidding will end with a soft close on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 beginning at 10am EDT.

A selection of eight books by William Faullkner includes a particularly fine copy in dust jacket of his 1932 novel Light in August (lot 14) as well as the earlier work As I Lay Dying (lot 12). Signed limited editions by Faulkner include: The Unvanquished (lot 15), A Fable (lot 16), The Town (lot 17), The Mansion (lot 18) and The Reivers (lot 19).

The art of fine binding is represented by the first edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (lot 21) in a binding of dark blue morocco inlaid with a scarlet “A” at the center of the cover. Also offered are a selection of several finely bound library sets.

Scientific literature includes the 1913 first edition in English of Sigmund Freud’s landmark The Interpretation of Dreams (lot 24).

Literary autographs abound including a 1925 typed letter signed by the poet T.S. Eliot on the stationery of The Criterion, the journal he founded in 1922, and regards his high opinion of a poetry critic (lot 9).

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau includes four manuscript pages in the hand of the great naturalist (lot 55). A group of manuscript fair copies of poems in fine bindings (prepared over 100 years ago) includes Robert Louis Stevenson’s circa 1886 To Will H. Low (lot 54) and others by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (lot 40) and James Russell Lowell (lot 42).  A very rare offering are early London and New York issues of Count Leon Tolstoy’s War and Peace (lot 57), the American edition in original wrappers (lot 58).

Books made into popular films include a signed copy of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (lot 47) and a group lot featuring the classics The Miracle on 34th Street, Fiddler on the Roof, Maxwell Anderson’s Key Largo and W.R. Burnett’s High Sierra (lot 20). The selection of general literature closes with several volumes inscribed by Emile Zola including his collection of essays on the Dreyfus Affair La Verite en Marche (lot 67) and a set of his novels Les Trois Villes, rarely encountered with all three volumes inscribed (lot 65).

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