19th & 20th Century Literature: Hemingway, Morrison & Tolkien—Fall 2019

Fine Books & Manuscripts

At Auction October 10

Upcoming Highlights

Ernest Hemingway, in our time, limited Paris first edition, Three Mountains Press, 1924. — Lot 196: Ernest Hemingway, *in our time*, limited Paris first edition, Three Mountains Press, 1924. $25,000 to $35,000.

Led by a limited Paris first edition of Ernest Hemingway’s in our time, 1924, highlights from the first part of the twentieth century feature remarkable firsts in unrestored dust jackets of Barnaby Ross’s The Tragedy of X, 1932, The Virginian, 1902, by Owen Wister, and The Front Page, 1928, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. David Foster Wallace titles include two auction premiers: the scuttled Penguin edition of Girl With Curious Hair, 1989, which would only appear as uncorrected proofs, and the equally rare two-volume manuscript edition of Infinite Jest with considerable textual differences from the published version.

Nineteenth-century material includes Charles Dickens, with original serial parts issues and first editions in the original cloth. Children’s literature showcases several Tasha Tudor picture books, including a complete group of the Calico series featuring her first title, Pumpkin Moonshine, 1938.