Mark Twain Collection of Nick Karanovich
Catalogue Information: 246 lots | 101 with images
Date: 2003
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
USA
Lot 1: (AMERICAN HUMORISTS)
N/A Albumen print photograph of Petroleum V. Nasby, Mark Twain and Josh Billings, (8? x 6? in.; 206 x 159 mm), Boston: Geo. M. Baker, [1869], on card captioned "The American Humorists," identifying the three sitters, and with the Baker imprint; minim [...more]
Lot 2: (AUTHORS CLUB)
N/A Rossiter Johnson; John Denison Champlin; and George Cary Eggleston, editors. Liber Scriptorum. The First Book of the Authors Club. New York: by the Authors Club, 1893 In 4s (12? x 8€ in.; 317 x 222 mm, uncut ). Title-page printed in re [...more]
Lot 3: BANNING, KENDALL
N/A Bronze casting of Samuel L. Clemens's right hand, cast on a bronze base (11 x 6? in.; 279 x 162 mm) inscribed "Mark Twain MCMVIII" and "Kendall Banning." The Master's hand cast in bronze, one of only three copies. Kendall Banning made two separat [...more]
Lot 4: (BOOK AND MAGAZINE COVERS AND RELATED EPHEMERA)
N/A A fine group of original art and ephemera (various sizes), various places, various dates. All but one of the items matted, framed and glazed. Original gouache drawing signed "Garside" for the cover of the Wayfarers' Library edition of Innocents [...more]
Lot 5: (CABINET PHOTOGRAPH)
N/A Cabinet-size photograph of Samuel L. Clemens as a young man in California (5€ x 4 in.; 146 x 102 mm), mounted on a card with the imprint of Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco, inscribed and signed on photograph [ ca. 1865 ]; some soiling and [...more]
