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...cost from $3,500 to $20,000 including everything except furniture. Sears, Roebuck sells that too. Stock designs are kept for milk houses, stables, silos, summer camp bungalows. The company will alter its plans to suit, or even build to order. A prize customer was Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach (paid $77,000 for the Alice-in-Wonderland manuscript) who has a Sears, Roebuck summer home at Ocean Beach...
...portraits arrived in custody of astute Gabriel Wells, who vies for newspaper space with Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach as premier U. S. rare-book seller. One was a self-portrait, one was of Mrs. Sarah E. Shelton, traditionally Poe's inspiration for "Annabel Lee." The third was of his tragic child-wife, Virginia Clemm, who died in a garret of misery and malnutrition, with a purring cat on her stomach to keep her warm. All three were signed, but Poe who wrote with the careful legible hand of a pre-typewriter newspaper man, had one of the easiest...
...then valued them-and so did other experts-at $3,000,000. He sold 400 duplicates to the late Henry E. Huntington for $1,250,000. The last Gutenberg Bible sold (by Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach to Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness) brought the thumping price...
There are genteel murmurs, Jewish gestures. The murmurs ask: "How much is this book worth?" The gestures tell how much it is worth to famed Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, Harry Marks, Gabriel Wells or some other gentleman who collects books for profit or passion. Dr. Rosenbach (Alice In Wonderland inan) raised his hand vertically many times at the Kern sale* but three times he kept it in his pocket. Three times he refused to go on with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley...
This is an opportune time for such an exhibition with all bibliophile stirred up with the recent sale of the manuscript of "Alice's Adventures Underground" by Doctor Rosenbach for $150,000. There is a very excellent facsimile of the manuscript for which this astounding price was paid on exhibition in the Memorial Room...