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SPECIAL DIGITAL SUPPLEMENT ISSUE 19.2 // SPRING 2021 FB&C AUCTION guide SPRING 2021 HERITAGE AUCTIONS Significant Signatures HINDMAN AUCTIONS Something for Everyone POTTER & POTTER AUCTIONS A Sale of Literary Importance SWANN GALLERIES Fascinating Finds Order Online at FineBooksMagazine.com/store Missed an issue? That’s OK! JUST $8 SETS STARTING AT Complete your collection of Fine Books & Collections today! PER ISSUE $30 PER YEAR Spring 2021, 19.2 Auction Guide FineBooksMagazine.com EDITORIAL & ADMINISTRATION Contents • Spring 2021 • FineBooksMagazine.com 101 Europa Drive, Suite 150 Chapel Hill, NC 27517 TEL: (800) 662-4834 FAX: (919) 945-0701 HERITAGE AUCTIONS PUBLISHER Webb C. Howell [email protected] 2 ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Kimberly Draper Spring 2012 Summer 2012 Autumn 2012 Winter 2013 Spring 2013 Autumn 2013 Winter 201 [email protected] Significant • Larry McMurtry • Brewster Kahle • Art of Marcellino • Jonathan Lethem • Book Gangs • Basbanes on the • Collecting Kipling EDITOR • Collecting Picasso • Chihuly’s Glass • Bluebacks • Book Props • Ian Fleming Paper Trail • Vintage Hollywood Rebecca Rego Barry • Printer’s Medals • Copernicus in • The Nation’s • Grateful Dead Archives • Hobart Book Village • Billy Ireland Scripts Signatures Cambridge Bookbinder • Gift Guide • Resource Guide [email protected] ART DIRECTOR ns Heritage Auctions to sell Rosie Haller o ucti signed Journals of Congress [email protected] A in June sale. MANAGING EDITOR eritage H Greg Sanders F y o [email protected] urtes COLUMNISTS Co Nicholas Basbanes [email protected] Jeremy Dibbell HINDMAN AUCTIONS [email protected] Spring 201 Summer 201 Autum 201 Winter 2015 Spring 2015 Summer 2015 Autumn 2015 Ian McKay 4 • Antiques Roadshow • Stolen Maps • National Geographic’s • Hemingway • Manhattan’s El Morocco • Marion Wolcott Photos • Collecting Cookbooks [email protected] • Well-Read Women • Top Auction Sales Women Photographers • Famous Children’s • Charting the ocean • Literary Ephemera • 150 years of Alice • Bookish Instanbul • Edward Gorey • Boston’s Literary District Books • Simon Winchester • “Stone Age” Maps • Coastal Art Maps Jeffrey S. Murray • Spy Libraries • Book Arts for Kids [email protected] Something for Joel Silver Everyone [email protected] IT MANAGER ns o Hindman’s 2021 sales kick Jason Purdy ucti [email protected] A off with fascinating finds in PRODUCTION MANAGER every price range. ndman Mitch Avery HI F [email protected] y o CIRCULATION urtes N. Weber Co [email protected] Winter 2016 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Autumn 2016 Winter 2017 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 • Juan Felipe Herrera • Agatha Christie • Wallace Stevens • Vintage Caricatures • Aviation Archive • otto Penzler • Lost Libraries CONTACT INFORMATION POTTER & POTTER • Mapping the West • Mo Willems • Women’s History • Holiday Gift Guide • William Blake • Emily Dickinson • Pop-up Books • Inside Downton Abbey’s • Chip Kidd’s Creative • Brontë’s 200th Birthday • Puzzlemaster Will Shortz • Collecting the • Wycliffi te Bible • Bibliophile Letters Fine Books & Collections (USPS 22753) (ISSN 1551-5001) is AUCTIONS Library Biosphere Vietnam War published quarterly by Journalistic, Inc., 101 Europa Drive, Suite 150, Chapel Hill, NC 27517. Periodicals Postage Paid at Chapel Hill, NC and at additional mailing offices. 6 Domestic subscription rates: US: 1 year, $25; 2 years, $45; 3 years, $60. Canada & Mexico: 1 year, $32; 2 years, $55. 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Suite 150, Chapel Hill, NC 27517 y o Autumn 2017 Winter 2018 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Autumn 2018 Winter 2019 Spring 2019 • Art of Plath • Frankenstein at 200 • Female Illustrators • Tom Wolfe • Vatican Library • Eric Carle • Gotham Book Mart LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Submit letters to the editor and other editorial urtes • Collecting Photobooks • Tales from Shakespeare • Spirit Photography • Steinbeck’s Western Flyer • Tolkien • National Park Libraries • Rare Indian Books Co • First Road Atlas • Bejeweled Bindings • Colonial Maps • Little Blue Books • McCloskey’s Island • Moe’s Books • Casanova’s Memoirs inquiries to: [email protected] WRITER’S GUIDELINES FineBooksMagazine.com/Writing SWANN GALLERIES FINE BOOKS & COLLECTIONS Fine Books & Collections (FB&C) is copyright ©2021 Journalistic, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be reprinted, photocopied, or 8 distributed in any manner without the express written consent of Journalistic, Inc. Printed in the United States. The opinions of the authors appearing in Fine Books Fascinating & Collections do not necessarily reflect those of Journalistic, Inc. Finds . ON THE Swann’s April sale promises a COVER alleries wide selection of items rarely Summer 2019 Autumn 2019 Winter 2020 Spring 2020 Summer 2020 Autumn 2020 Winter 2021 Illustration G • Whitman at 200 • Collecting Horror • Tulsa Music Archives • David Rubenstein • Gentle Madness at 25 • Dora Maar • Collecting & from seen at auction. • Space Travel • George Eliot • Dana Gioia • NyC Museum Libraries • Kevin young • Edith Rockefeller Repatriation wann S • Melville’s abode • Maritime Atlases • Edith Wharton’s Library • Building a Bibliosphere • Shakespeare Society of McCormick • Betye Saar Menagerie F America • Beethoven Collections • Cholera Maps (1906) by y o Benjamin urtes More Issues, Yearly Sets, and Slipcases Available Online at FineBooksMagazine.com/store Rabier. Co SPRING 2021 | 1 FB&C AUCTION ® Heritage Auctions@Auction guide RARE BOOKS SIGNATURE AUCTION SPRING 2021 June 9-10, 2021 | Dallas | Live & Online first mayor of New Haven, Continental Congress from Connecticut, as a Justice Pennsylvania; and Richard of the Superior Court of Rush, the eighth U.S. attorney Consign alongside these fi ne books Connecticut, and as a U.S. general, the eighth Secretary ® Significant representative and senator of the Treasury, running mate being offered in our June Signature auction from Connecticut.” to John Quincey Adams in Signatures The third volume con- 1828, ambassador to Britain tains signatures from John and France, and son of prom- Heritage Auctions to sell signed Langdon, a member of inent founding father, Dr. Journals of Congress in June sale. the second Continental Benjamin Rush. Congress from New The set last sold for $7,500 Hampshire, delegate of the in 1977, but as values and infla- Constitutional Convention tion have risen, bidding for eritage Auctions will Hhold its first Rare Books Signature sale of 2021, June 9–10. Among a wide range of books and works on paper, one of the most significant lots to come to auction dur- ing this sale is the complete 13-volume set of the Journals of Congress, which cover pro- ceedings from 1774 to 1788. “This set covers the first 13 United States congresses, including the two Continental Congresses and the Constitutional Convention,” said James Gannon, Director [Continental Congress]. Journals of Volume III of the Journals of Congress, with the signatures of John Langdon and Gunning Bedford, of Rare Books at Heritage Jr. Bidding begins at $10,000. Congress. Complete series of thirteen Auctions. “It was put together volumes, 1777-1788. With volumes from by someone who was able to year 1776, is signed by emi- from New Hampshire, the the volumes will begin at the libraries of, and with the signatures of, track down volumes from the nent founding statesman first President pro tempore $10,000 in a live and online important early American statesmen John private collections and per- Roger Sherman. of the Senate, governor of auction, though no bidders Sullivan, Roger Sherman, John Langdon, sonal libraries of Founding “Sherman was a mem- New Hampshire, and Senator will be present in the room. Gunning Bedford, Jr., Peter du Ponceau, Fathers and Revolutionary ber of the Committee of from New Hampshire; “To find so many signa- Samuel John Atlee, and Richard Rush. War statesmen.” Five, along with Benjamin and Gunning Bedford, Jr., tures of this caliber in one set The first volume, which Franklin, John Adams, aide to Washington, del- is exceedingly rare,” Gannon begins with the first Robert Livingston and, most egate to the Continental says. “Something like this Continental Congress on famously, Thomas Jefferson, Congress, Attorney General only comes along once every September 5, 1774, is signed tasked by the Second of Delaware, delegate to the three or four decades and it is Consign by April 12, 2021 | View Online Catalog and Bid at HA.com/6232 by General John Sullivan, Continental Congress with Constitutional Convention gratifying to be able to show a member of the New drafting the Declaration of from Delaware, and signer of it to our bidders. It is essential INQUIRIES: 877-HERITAGE (437-4824) Hampshire delegation to that Independence. He was the the Constitution. for them to know that impor- James Gannon | Director, Rare Books | ext. 1609 | [email protected] first Continental Congress. only person to sign all four other volumes include tant primary materials are still Also, a brigadier general dur- founding documents of the signatures from other notable available for