SPECIAL DIGITAL SUPPLEMENT ISSUE 17.2 // SPRING 2019 INSIDE HERITAGE AUCTIONS 2 The Mysterious Collection of Otto Penzler LESLIE HINDMAN 4 Pilots and Presidents FORUM 6 Opening Gambit FREEMAN’S 8 French Literature by Way of the Commonwealth SWANN GAllERIES 10 Pride and Place BONHAMS 12 Something for Every Collection FB&C AUCTION guide SPRING 2019 J.R.R. Tolkien Find More & Order Online FineBooksMagazine.com/store Missed an issue? That’s OK! JUST $8 YEARLY SETS STARTING Complete your collection of Fine Books & Collections today! PER ISSUE AT $30 PER YEAR Spring 2019, 17.2 Auction Guide www.finebooksmagazine.com EDITORIAL & ADMINISTRATION 101 Europa Drive, Suite 150 Contents • Spring 2019 • www.finebooksmagazine.com Chapel Hill, NC 27517 TEL: (800) 662-4834 FAX: (919) 945-0701 PUBLISHER Webb C. Howell [email protected] AssOCiaTE PUBLISHER Kimberly Draper . 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AUCTION GUIDE • Autumn 2018 | 1 FB&C AUCTION RARE BOOKS AUCTION Heritage@Auction guide SPRING 2019 March 6, 2019 | New York | Live & Online tion frequently list a dashiell ets of Raymond Chandler’s Hammett or a Raymond The Big Sleep (1939, starting Chandler without distinguish- bid $15,000) and Farewell, Presenting ing that they are myster- My Lovely (1940, starting bid The Mysterious ies, because they are literary $10,000), will also be featured, fiction that just happens to along with what Penzler calls THE OTTO PENZLER COLLECTION Collection of involve a mystery.” a “virtually perfect” copy of With such a massive col- James M. Cain’s The Postman Otto Penzler lection, Heritage is dividing Always Rings Twice with a full- Rare mystery fiction books from this Raymond Chandler. renowned collection will be sold in The Big Sleep. Heritage Auctions’ March sale. New York: 1933. First edition, signed. Starting bid: $15,000 n March 6, Heritage of the items were amassed OAuctions will host a rare through Penzler’s bookstore, book sale in New York fea- The Mysterious Bookshop, For more information about turing items from the mys- founded in 1979 and now in our auction services, please call tery fiction collection ofo tto the Tribeca neighborhood Penzler. “This is the largest, of Manhattan. The shop spe- 877-HERITAGE (437-4824) best, and most comprehen- cializes in new, signed, used, James Gannon | Director, Rare Books sive collection of mystery and and rare books and provided detective fiction to come Penzler with a platform to ext. 1609 | [email protected] on the market,” said James build his collection. Gannon, director of rare “Whenever someone books for Heritage Auctions. brought in rare books, some Full Preview: March 3-5 Penzler, who collected of the better copies went to 445 Park Avenue widely in his early twenties, my personal shelves,” Penzler began specializing in mystery said. “i was violating the basic New York, NY 10022 fiction around age twenty- rule of the field, which is you five. “Several good book sell- don’t compete with your cus- ers convinced me i couldn’t tomers.” View, Bid & Win at HA.com/6208 collect all of literature,” he His obsession with mys- said. “This was more than fifty tery fiction went so far his A first edition copy of Dashiell Hammett's first years ago when the mystery friends said his store was just book, Red Harvest (1929, world was relatively uncol- a front for his collection. “That starting bid $30,000). lected. i didn’t have very was not entirely untrue, but much money, so i was able that’s why the collection got the best of the collection into page inscription (1934, start- to collect mystery without a so big and so ridiculously several smaller sales, with the ing bid $3,200). whole lot of competition in good,” he said. “i upgraded first set to be auctioned in the Three to four more sets those days.” copies year after year.” March sale. of Penzler’s books will be Now, however, mystery Now older, Penzler is part- Highlights include what offered by Heritage in later has grown in prominence ing with his collection, and Penzler calls the world’s best sales, while another large por- among readers and collec- the timing is prime. “Mystery copy of dashiell Hammett’s tion of the collection will be tors alike, and this sale will collectors have been an Red Harvest (1929, starting bid sold in the future by Weiss bring many rare finds to mar- active group for at least $30,000), as well as a copy of Auctions in Long island, New .