Christine von der Linn Discusses Highlights of the October 16 Auction of MODERN LITERATURE: FEATURING AMERICANS IN PARIS AND AFTER.
The Auction features the "Lost Generation" of American writers who went to Paris during the 1920s and 30s after WWI. The sale includes books written in Paris and throughout their careers, as well as uncommon related material.
Among highlights are an inscribed and signed first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men, 1926; a large section of Hemingway titles, such as a first limited edition of In Our Time, 1924, and a full run of the scarce Lost Generation Journal, 1973-83. There is also a first edition of Transition Stories, a collection of the best pieces from the first year of the journal, signed by editors Eugene Jolas and Robert Sage, 1929. This section of the sale also includes Kay Boyle, Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Glenway Wescott, and Edmund Wilson.
A choice selection of general modern literature includes a bright first edition of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Garden City, 1950. Also of note are four lots of signed material by Saul Bellow including a 32-page typed manuscript of A Silver Dish, heavily annotated by the author, 1979, and an edited proof copy of Herzog, 1964.
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