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...lined up to see the dazzling array of wares laid out by 67 American dealers. Among the treasures were English Chippendale chairs, Queen Anne silver, Shaker cabinets and a handsome pair of Gilbert Stuart portraits. A few blocks away an enthusiastic crowd milled through the showrooms of Sotheby Parke Bernet to preview a 1,400-lot collection of Americana that went on the block last week...
...appliances of art." Reluctantly, Lewis Carroll expunged the episode of the wasp from his manuscript of Through the Looking Glass. For more than a century even scholars assumed that the chapter was lost or destroyed -until 1974, when an inconspicuous entry appeared in the London catalogue of Sotheby Parke Bernet: "Dodgson (C.L.) 'Lewis Carroll.' Galley proofs for a suppressed portion of 'Through the Looking Glass...
...Scott Fitzgerald's royalties amounted to $81.18. Late last month, a signed first edition of The Great Gatsby was auctioned at Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York City for $4,250. Critic Malcolm Cowley's copy of Gatsby was knocked down at $1,000, and his copy of Tender Is the Night, inscribed by the author, went for $3,200. Dozens of other major and minor writers of the 1920s were similarly appreciated. William Faulkner's The Marble Faun-well preserved and signed -brought $6,250; William Carlos Williams' scarce first book Poems went...
...Louis Quatorze. Along with genuinely useful "urban survival" features, it gives the insecure a superior feeling of being inside, offering them a blend of fact and fantasy. It portrays an unreal stream-of-consumption world whose Gucci'd, Pucci'd denizens glide between Parke-Bernet (the t is not silent) and La Grenouille (the maitre d's name is Jean), send their children to the Dalton School, winter in St. Maarten or Gstaad, summer in the Hamptons, patronize the priciest boutiques but also thriftshop, and know exactly where to find the best buys in catered canap...
...Fifty years ago, the appearance on the auction block of a sheet by one of the great father figures of 15th and 16th century drawing-Dürer, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo-was not uncommon. Today one would hardly be more surprised if a live dodo waddled into the Parke-Bernet auction room. Drawings also are not a young man's hobby; they demand a degree of patient connoisseurship (tinged with philatelic mania) that only the old usually have. But late last month a remarkable disproof of the rule went on show at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library...