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RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS & MAPS Tuesday, November 13, 2018 NEW YORK RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS & MAPS AUCTION Tuesday, November 13, 2018 at 10am EXHIBITION Saturday, November 10, 10am – 5pm Sunday, November 11, Noon – 5pm Monday, November 12, 10am – 6pm LOCATION Doyle 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com CONTENTS Original Illustration Art 1-11 Original Art by Kahlil Gibran 12-16 Original Art & Artist’s Books 17-34 INCLUDING PROPERTY Autographs 35-59 FROM THE ESTATES OF Aviation & Travel 60-68 Edgar Dannenberg, New York, New York Atlases & Map 69-84 Hilda U. and Rudolph Forchheimer Color Plate & Illustrated Books 85-94 Albert H. Gordon, New York, New York Fine Bindings 95-99 Henry Hives Manuscripts & Early Printing 100-107 Sidney B. Jacques 19th Century Literature & Autographs 108-147 Arnold ‘Jake’ Johnson 20th Century Literature & Autographs 148-238 Lucille and Charles Plotz Printed & Manuscript Americana 239-286 The Collection of Rudolf Serkin Sheldon Tannen SELECTIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF The Wynant D. Vanderpoel Trust ARNOLD “JAKE” JOHNSON Barbara Wainscott Americana 287-327 Angling Books 328-371 Color Plate 372-385 Miscellaneous Hunting, Sporting & INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Derrydale Press 386-396 A Private Collector Travel, Big Game & Sporting Books A Private New Jersey Collection relating to Africa, Asia & India 397-462 A New York Collector A Private New York Collector Glossary I A Southern California Historian Conditions of Sale II Terms of Guarantee IV Information on Sales & Use Tax V Buying at Doyle VI Selling at Doyle VIII Auction Schedule IX Company Directory XI Absentee Bid Form XII Lot 71 Original Illustration Art 1 ADDAMS, CHARLES (1912-1988) Dear Dead Days, 1959. Original drawing for the dust jacket of Dear Dead Days: a family album published New York: Simon & Schuster, (1959). Ink and gouache on Reeve Angel illustration board faced with Whatman paper, signed (l.r.) in drawing, captioned and inscribed at foot “For Margie & Alex [Alexander King] with affection-Chas Addams, New York 1959.” 14 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches (36.5 x 30 cm) on sheet 4 18 1/4 x 14 5/8 inches (46.5 x 38.5 cm), margins with publisher’s notations for spine fold, trim etc. Some light stain from old mat, minor defects to edge of board. This was Charles Addams’s sixth book, a compilation of macabre images. The dust jacket design is a splendid evocation of the eponymous family, and was a gift to the artist, memoirist and raconteur Alexander King. C From the Estate of Alexander King $20,000-30,000 See Illustration 5 3 2 4 ADLER, ELLEN [ANIMATION ART] Untitled [Vase of Flowers] and Untitled [Winter Tree.] Two oil paintings, Disney animation cell for Pinocchio. [Los Angeles]: Walt Disney 1 the largest 24 x 18 inches (46 x 61 cm), the second signed [l.l.], Company, (1940). Gouache on celluloid applied to a Courvoisier the first inscribed on the reverse to a friend. Some flaking of pigment background, framed. Circular window, 8 inches (20 cm) in diameter, in sky on the second work. depicting Pinocchio with sea horses. Old authenticating labels on rear, Two works by Ellen Adler, the daughter of the great acting teacher, including the Courvoisier Galleries label “This is an original painting and an actress herself. on celluloid from the Walt Disney Studios...” and a Kennedy Gallery C From the Estate of Alexander King label. Some staining to the label, but a very attractive example. The artist and author Alexander King he ceased to illustrate, and instead $100-200 Not examined out of frame. (1899-1965) was born in Vienna, as wrote a series of coruscating memoirs C From the Collection of Rudolf Serkin Alexander Koenig. In the 1920s, he was including May This House Be Safe from 3 $1,000-1,500 See Illustration very much in demand as an illustrator. Tigers, Mine Enemy Grows Older, I Should HERRIMAN, GEORGE (1881-1944) Krazy Kat [Ignatz on a Motorcycle]. Seven panel drawing for a He worked extensively for George Macy’s Have Kissed Her More and Is There Life Sunday comic strip dated 2.28, signed Herriman (l.c.). Pen and black 5 Limited Editions Club, for whom he After Birth? Always a raconteur and ink with watercolor washes on illustration board. 22 5/8 x 14 5/8 inches FEIFFER, JULES illustrated their first book, the 1929 something of a bon vivant, in his later (57.5 x 37 cm). Minor surface toning, faint stain at lower edge, Untitled [The recantation show]. Pen and ink with Chinese white on edition of Swift’s The Travels of years he was a frequent guest on the two small paper strips (likely where date and syndicate slugs would thin illustration board, 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (24 x 30 cm), signed (l.r.), Lemuel Gulliver, and many others thereafter. Tonight show, then hosted by Jack Paar, have been, though these are now detached). dated 1959, inscribed “For Margie & Alex [Alexander King] with love, Jules.” Krazy runs to Offisa Pupp to tell him that Ignatz Mouse is “on a motive Some toning, especially to upper margin. Between 1932 and 1933, King published always impeccably dressed and elegant cycle an’ he can’t stop it.” He’s heading straight for the jail at sixty A vintage Feiffer cartoon, parodying McCarthy-era paranoia; a labor the magazine Americana, a short-lived in style and manner, disarmingly miles an hour. Pupp opens the door to trap him, he roars in, and racketeer, communist and atomic spy recants on the Hi Standard show. magazine of satire and humor that recounting his struggles with drug Pupp slams the door behind him “He’s in” says Krazy; “For sixty days” C From the Estate of Alexander King included contributions by George Grosz, addiction, his multiple marriages and his says Pupp. The two wander away, Krazy wondering why Pupp doesn’t $800-1,200 show Ignatz to his room, both unaware that the Coconino County Jail See Illustration S.J. Perlman, Nathanael West, James somewhat racy past. The following lots now has a mouse and motorcycle-shaped hole where Ignatz went Thurber, William Steig, E. E. Cummings come from the King collection: straight through the rear wall and continued his progress. and many of the leading artists and 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 154, 208, 209. C From the Estate of Alexander King writers of the day. Later in his career, $15,000-25,000 See Illustration 6 DOYLE • NOVEMBER 13, 2018 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 KAHLIL GIBRAN Gibran emigrated from Lebanon (in what was then the become Gibran’s hallmarks. Most of his earliest writings Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate) with his parents and were in Arabic; he was an influential member Arab-American siblings, settling in the South End of Boston. The Boston League of the Pen (al-Rabita al-Qalamiyya), a group of publisher and photographer F. Holland Day funded his expatriate writers then active in New York, often referred to education, encouraging him to read Whitman and study as al-Mahjar, issuing numerous newspaper articles, the drawings of Blake. As early as 1898 some of Gilbran’s poems and several books. In 1918, Gilbran published his drawings were published as binding designs; his first art first book in English, The Madman, a collection of seven exhibition was held in 1904 in Day’s studio. In the intervening parables, and this was followed by several English-language years, he had returned to Lebanon and studied at works, some with his illustrations, before The Prophet was al-Hikma, a Maronite-run preparatory school and college published by Alfred Knopf in 1923. 6 9 11 in Beirut, during which time he started a student literary magazine and made a reputation for himself at the school It is this work, a collection of twenty-six prose poetry fables, 6 9 as a poet. He returned to the United States in 1902. which has brought Gibran enduring fame outside the HOKINSON, HELEN ELNA (1993-1949) HOKINSON, HELEN ELNA (1993-1949) “Agnes, I’m not at home to ANYONE” “You’ll never dream what’s in these!” Arab world; it remains one of the most popular works of Original New Yorker drawing by Original New Yorker drawing by Already an accomplished artist, in 1908-1910 he studied poetry of all time. It sold out its first printing in a months, and Helen Hokinson, drawing 10 x 13 1/2 inches Helen Hokinson, drawing 12 1/2 x at the Académie Julian in Paris. At the same time, his literary has sold in vast quantities thereafter, almost entirely by (25 x 34 cm) on larger sheet, rendered in 13 1/2 inches (32 x 34.5 cm) on larger grisaille over pencil outlines on illustration sheet, rendered in grisaille over pencil interests blossomed. He was broadly influenced from word-of-mouth. It has been translated into at least 50 languages, paper, signed (r.c.), the verso with outlines on thin illustration board, the time of his Beirut studies by the writing of the Syrian and somewhere between 50 and a hundred million copies The New Yorker Editorial Department signed (l.r.), the verso with The New Yorker writer Francis Marrash, whose works dealt with many of the have been sold worldwide, by most estimates, making it and other stamps, printing notations in Editorial Department and other stamps, pencil and crayon. Marginal tear at lower printing notations in pencil and crayon. themes of love, freedom and spirituality that were to among the most reprinted works of poetry ever written.