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Monday, January 1, 2024

Lea and Ira Gershwin's Copy of Carry On, Jeeves! by P. G. Wodehouse

With the new year come new post-holiday sales to torment the insolvent. For any who somehow still have reserves of cash in the bank, though, there are bargains to be had. Peter Harrington of London, for example, offers Lea and Ira Gershwin's lovely copy of Carry On, Jeeves! by P. G. Wodehouse. It has a very desirable full-page inscription made out to one of the author's collaborators and his wife. The price has been significantly discounted but it's still up there.

P. G. Wodehouse
Peter Harrington listing accessed January 1, 2024

https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/carry-on-jeeves-133688.html?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_campaign=2024-01-01+-+Sale+Launch&utm_id=01HJ3DQM9S30AFXHAGX1N8SKF8&_kx=7G1UE88cNRdsEEL8Q3aMQw2YiOU6icgku9wdN1MvciE%3D.TYGexm

The price in U.S. dollars

P. G. Wodehouse
Peter Harrington item description

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Thursday, September 7, 2023

Lee Lorenz's Copy of The Discovery of America by Saul Steinberg

Saul Steinberg's (1914-1999) collection The Discovery of America was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. In January of 1993, Steinberg inscribed a copy to The New Yorker's art editor Lee Lorenz (1932-2022). This copy was sold at auction yesterday by Zikorn Arts & History Objects in New York.

Twenty-five days before the bidding, Zikorn had given the book a presale estimate of $150 to $250.

Saul Steinberg
Zikorn Arts & History Objects listing accessed August 13, 2023

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/158608406_saul-steinberg-inscribed-1st-edition-discovery-of-america-1992?from=alert&utm_source=SavedAlert&utm_campaign=SearchAlert_20230714_A&utm_medium=email&utm_content=item

The book went for $190 plus the 25% buyer's premium.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Hugh Hefner's Copy of Fornicon by Tomi Ungerer

Tomi Ungerer's Fornicon (1969) has not become less disturbing in the fifty years since its unlikely publication. It's precisely-imagined depictions of mechanized genital stimulation may even have gained some new resonance in our own deeply-troubled age saturated in impersonal internet pornography. This is not a book I've ever desired to own, not even in my sexually-curious youth, but if I were going to conceal a copy in my personal library I don't think I could find a more apt one than that belonging to Playboy magazine's founder and publisher Hugh Hefner. It's actually from the limited edition of 500—five-hundred!—signed and numbered, but not personalized. Still, with the link between illustrator and publisher it's quite an association copy. Frankly, it's hard to see from Fornicon how Hefner made use of Ungerer's esthetic in his magazine depicting "the girl next door," but Ungerer was certainly capable of producing a wide variety of images, a great many of which could be safely mass-marketed.

The first eBay photograph is one I could never have imagined: Hugh Hefner's copy of Fornicon displayed atop Senator John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage!