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Premier Auction | Session III

Sat, May 18, 2019 09:00AM EDT
Lot 1727

Three Southern Related Books, Verner Letter

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Bid Increments

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$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

Mellowed by Time, by Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, Columbia, South Carolina: Bostick & Thornley, 1941, signed by author on frontispiece, with dust jacket; handwritten letter on personal stationary of "Elizabeth O'Neill Verner / Studio - 38 / Tradd Street / Charleston 1, S. C. / Dial 2-4246" reads in part "...I sent the manuscript to MacMillan Sept 1st and have not heard from them.  My agent said not to come to NY before 21st of Sept. at least so I'm here on a limb...from your devoted, Beth"; Plantations of the Carolina Low Country, by Samuel Gaillard Stoney, Charleston, South Carolina: Carolina Art Association, 1939, with dust jacket; Gateways & Doorways of Charleston South Carolina in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Elizabeth Gibbon Curtis, New York: Bonanza Books, 1926, with dust jacket

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Condition

yellowing to letter with some fading to ink, signatures crisp on book and letter, dust jackets with tears bumps and loss to edges

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