November 2012 |
Titles Inc. Auction


The remaining inventory of Titles Inc. will be sold on-site at 1821 Saint Johns Ave. in Highland Park on December 6-9. Books there will be offered at 40-50% off listed prices.
As the auction proceeds--there are 650 lots in total--buyers can lookout for a first edition Encyclopaedia Britannica (1771). This set was owned by the publisher and advertising executive William Benton, who was president and chairman of Encyclopedia Britannica from 1943-1973. His business card is tipped into each volume. The estimate is $10,000-15,000. An autographed manuscript of Emily Dickinson's poem "If what we could/were what we would;/Criterion be small - It is the Ultimate of talk/the impotence to tell", written circa 1863, and later given as a wedding present to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Mills from Dickinson's niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Nice gift! This week it is estimated to reach $15,000-20,000.
A significant archive from Howard Hughes' around-the-world flight will also come in for a landing, followed by some intriguing aviation prints by Frank Lemon.
Images courtesy of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.
