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Show 3 K The Salt Tribune, Sunday, September 30. 193 ' Arthur Conan Doyle original brings $51,000 in record book auction Chicago Daily News Writer Two rare book dealers CHICAGO paid $51 ,000 for the original autograph manuscript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's at a novel "The Sign Of The Four auction of literary and historical materials at the Han .el Galleries here last week record-breakin- records for All world book and auto- graph sales at a single session fell as bidders from London to San Francisco met m head-ocompetition for prizes from the library 01 the late David Gage Joyce, Chicago lumber magnate. They rang up an astonishing (unaudited) cash register total of $K47,795 for 178 lots at far sale the first session of a two-datotals outstripping even the of the celebrated Thomas W. Streetei . sale in New York in Totals ultimately reached $S96,205. The llanull & Barker purchases, which ran to well oer $309,000, included Lord Byron's farewell letter to his wife. $17,600; the original manuscript of James Fcnimore Cooper's "The Pathfinder," $34,000 (one of the sale's real bargains); the autograph manuscript of Shelley's poem "Prince Athanase," $30,000; the of Thomas autograph manuscript Hardy s The Distracted Young Preach n y single-sessio- n ltlofi-liS- the autograph manuscript of Anthony Trollopes novel The Way We chances in I860. He also bought 40 I' S. Grant letters for $12,000. a manuscript of Live Now, The Brothers" (believed Wordsworth's to be in Dorothy Wordsworths hand), $12,250, and the autognpn manuscript of Dickens The Best Authority," $13,500. Feldman provided the top bid of $37,000 for a George Washington letter to Gov. Patrick Henry cf Virginia in which the first piesident declined to accept pecuniary reward for his services to his country. This was a record price for a Washington letter. Mary Benjamin, a veteran New York autograph dealer, paid $25,000 for a Washington letter to Robert Morris concerning the American alliance with France and $13,500 for another Washington letter. Ralph Newman of Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Bookshop paid $15,000 for a Lincoln letter commenting on his election Jack Bartfield, New York dealer in fine bindings and prints, paid $19,000 for 10 original watercolor drawings of birds by John Woodhouse Audubon. er. Frances llanull and Chicagoans Margery Barker, who made the Sal. 000 deal, also bought for $.10,000 the manuscript of Conan Doyle's The White each of their Doyle Company" purchases setting records. Their principal rival was Lew David Feldman, New York bookseller and a Doyle specialist. Ills consolation prize was a first edition of Edgar Allan loes Murders In The Hue Morgue for $20,000. Farewell Letter By Van Allen Bradley $19,000; Shakespeare at $8,250. Even the photographic collectors mandaA aged to get into the act. handsome Poe Allan of Edgar guerreotype portrait went for $9,250 again a world record to George Rinhart, a New York The previous record for at public sale was a daguerreotype - dealer-collecto- Surprise Entry $2,000. A surprise entry into ranks for many in the audience was a Second day top sales included $1,630 set of for a of the United Bancrofts History George bought b;. Mary Benjamin of States, New York. Chtcagoan Kenneth Nebenzahl paid e set of Charles $900 for the Narrative of the Surveying Darwin's and Adventure Voyages of H.M.S. Beagle. Jacob Zeitlin of Los Angeles paid $1,100 for a Rudyard Kipling inscribed Quartet, pulbished in India in mysterious "Mr. .Anthony, a representa-- . tive of the Marshall Field & Co.'s rare book section. His purchases, more than $90,000. included a jeweled copy of the famous pigskin binding of the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucers Works again a new world record. extra-illustrat- Hammond, a London dealer who underbidder on the Chaucer, did to obtain William Morris' copy Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, at $9,500 and a second folio edition of John was the manage of the 1S85. A 10,000 edition Dispassionate examination New Deal history looks at FDR DaVinci notebook i D. Franklin Roosevelt: Launching The New Deal, by Frank Freidel; Little, Brown, ready for press : $15- - Forty years after Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned the course of American social history in the tumultuous 100 days of 1933, the perspective of dispassionate history finally is being brought to bear on l the foundations of the By Eric Pacp New York Times Writer A homemade mirror scrapbook full of handwriting is slated to go into publication this winter at a price of $10,000, which makes it perhaps the world's most ex-- ; pensive new set of books The man who did the mirror writing was the eccentric. Illegitimate son of a clerk in a vi'lage in central Italy named Vinci. The author was Leonardo da Vinci and the s 'apbook is what is known as the Codex Allanticus, a huge collection of I drawings and notes that has helped enhance Leonardo's repu-; tation as the 15th Centurys universal genius. I To Enhance Value ! Publishers of the pnnted edition say its value will be I enhanced over the years by the law of supply and demand, Since they are printing only 990 sets of the work, in 12 volumes. Until Jan. 1, it will be priced at a bargain $6,900 Its a kind of cultural heirloom,' said William Jovanovtch, chairman of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. the publishing house. A Harcourt subsidiary, Johnson Reprint Depressing account of Corp., is publishing the book jointly with Centro Editorials GiunU, an Italian concern. You can leave it to your children confident that its going to be worth a heck of a lot "Through Russian Eyes: more than you paid for it, he 1,636 President Kennedy's observed. A. Anatolii Days," by LiInternational Giomyko; High Cost Reason brary, 231 pp $9.93. Why the high price? The the is You can spend years in and larg"probably project est single work published in on Russia wondering whether modem times," Jovanovich the handful of people who costs count there really believe that said, with to the publishers of $2.5 crazy stuff their press spouts volmillion. The 18 about us stuff about umes are to have 3V0 pages "imperialism," '.'monopoly such. The apiece, with ISO color plates capital" and temptation is great to conusing up to seven colors a volume for a total of 4,320 clude in hope that in Rie Kremlin back rooms, after pages w ith 2,160 plates. hours when the secretaries Volumes are to be bound in hard-to-rea- d ! I - The torrent of intimate and inside Roosevelt histories durthe years that have ing intervened since his death 28 years ago has been marked almost without exclusion parte approaches. Now the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Hanard. Frank Freidel, is reaching the definitive stages of his most ambitious account of the Rex. a sevelt phenomenon and scholarly dispassionate examination of the man from by-e- New-Dea- 1 . A Franklin D. Roosevelt Penny Swimming Pool A generation inclined to believe that events beyond 30 years ago were chronicled by lleroditus might well be surprised to discover that a giiiNp of the social upheaval of 1933 is useful and perhaps necessary for understanding the problems torturing the Nixons and McGoverns of Hyde 1973. U.S. 'Russian Eyes: Blurred vision ", ' leather and printed on special- ly made paper. In addition, the purchaser gets a little booklet free, explaining what the codex is about. "' The publisher's most expen-sivproject to date has been e a big reprint edi- tion of John James Audubons niasterwork. The Birds of e four-volum- 1 Codex Contents includes The Codex 'Leonardo's designs for . ; Milt akc (Mnmc priced at $6,960. America, . fljf j. submarines and diving gear; ; studies of cannon and battleships; researches on light and gravity: and observations on the movement of the earth Its first volume is to come out next month, ami a copy will - be displayed at the Frankfurt f International Book Fair. The See Page E-- Column 1 Book Reviews 3, Scribners, 5 $8,95. When Joseph Wilcox 1967 Mt. McKinley Expedition was over, it had made the record bocks. Never in the 60 years of climb.ng North Americas have so liighest mountain been killed. many people Twelve climbers went up, only five came down alive. was a Howard Snyder member of the Wilcox Expedition, the leader of the three-ma- n Colorado group that team joined Wilcox mne-maat the last minute. "Climbers who reach a summit and return safely despite mishaps or misjudg-ment- s are hailed for their heroic perseverance Snyder wntes, "whereas those who persevere only to be trapped by a worsening turn of events are dismissed as foolhardy How it alters our viewpoint, that intangible called success. Myron Beckenstein, News. Chicago What is the value of founcc battery or the cost v delay ,3-no- a of The introduction is actually a kind of personal greeting to Richard Nixon' The outlines of realism and a positive approach to Sov relations have become increasingly evident in American foreign policy, which is now guided by Richard Nixon . . ." It is a timely greeting, too, since even as the book is published here. 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Utah 84. 12 1B51 58,-67- The University of Utah Press j anamanMafaMWMnaMaanaai ' HA ivw v- 1X5 -- 9 Freidel does not pander to s with any exploration of the now largely disclosed Roosevelt relationship with Lucy Mercer. lie disposes of that shadowy section of his life in a single paragraph. along with a reminder that, whatever the merits of the Mercer affair, Lucy there was no touch of the gothic or of Edith Wharton in relathe daily husband-wif- e tionships of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.'' sensation-hunter- v vN This I The Curse Shadowy Section v See thi unique hem ot 1900 SOUTH STATt (in th parking let at th World Motor Hotel) His story is doubly gripping. The challenging of nature and mans abilities is always gripping when veil told. And the reader is aware that seven of the expedition are going to die but has no idea who, when or how, wrong moves, the illnesses, the little things that suddenly meant the difference between in retrospect life and death It might be thought that Gromyko wrote iiis book for a Russian audience and that he would have enough understanding of the United States not to offer it to an American audience. But no. He has writto the ten a introduction American edition betraying no or sign of embarrassment apology for the material in the book. s' tx to have Freidel recall how things were accomplished for the President just 40 years ago. As most Amt - cans recall. Roosevelt was paralyzed below the hipc and swimming was his last avenue of exercise and constructive therapy. He badly needed a swimming pool and procured one. It was accomplished through a campaign launched by the New York Daily News, later to become the nation's most virulent Roosevelt detractor, in which school children contributed $10,000 in pennies for construction of a pool abutting the executive office. The pool remains in use to this day. and it entailed expenditure of not one cent of government funds. Thomas F. Reynolds, Chicago Daily News. Social n Snyder discusses vividly the mistakes of judgment, the English-languag- talist groupings are less interested in the arms race than the Wall Street monopolists." e McKinley climb suspense doubly gripping in story The Hall Of The Mountain King," by Howard H. Snyder; Iuie gime home, the top men drop the jargon and talk about us straight. That is why it is so to read Through Russian President Eyes. Kennedys 1.036 das, the e new translation of a book first published in Russian in 1968, by Anatolii A. Gromyko. Not Dismissed For, as Hans Morgentliau says in an epilogue, "The author cannot be dismissed as just another who is to be propagandist and to distort expected musjudge reality in a kind of dogmatic reflex action "After all, the author is the son of the man who has been Soviet foreign minister since 1957. and he is the head of the foreign policy section of the of the Institute American Soviet Academy of Sciences. If a man who is in so privileged position la see the reality of America can write such a book, one shudders to visualize what the common run of Soviet officials and the man in the street of the Soviet think about Union might America. Anatolii Gromyko believes, m brief, that John Kennedy was the child of a creature called monopoly capital" and that on only a few occasions, notably the partial test ban of 1963, could he shake free and fall in with the "pea-'loving policy that the Soviet Union had been pursuing unswervingly all along Pari. Can Be Enlightening For moderns watching Richard Nixon agonize through successive devaluations of the dollar and the Nixonian struggle towar1 some degree of international currency stabilization, the account of Roosevelt taking America off the gold standard in April, 1933, .can be enlightening. The late Lewis Douglas exlaimed: Well, this is the end of western civilization when Roosevelt enjoined private possession of gold in the United States and was granted powers by Congress to fight off the crashing Hoover deflation by manipulation of the dollar against the pound and the franc. 1 v dK , gp. JkJ T d nvjn |