{"id":903249,"date":"2026-11-02T13:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903249\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T13:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:32:17","slug":"bookman-maurice-f-nevilles-collection-to-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/903249\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookman Maurice F. Neville’s Collection to Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Highlights from the collection of Maurice F. Neville featuring association copies, manuscripts and letters will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions<\/a> on November 18.<\/p>\n

Neville’s love of books and literature began when he was growing up on a farm in Indiana. As an adult, as well as assembling a monumental collection of modern literature of 20th century authors he also collected books, letters and ephemera relating to other areas of popular culture, music, sports, Hollywood and cinema.<\/p>\n

He kick-started his collection when he and his wife Marcia drove to see the collection of former bookshop owner Norman Unger, a 9,000 volume collection from which Neville said he initially wanted about 200. Instead, he bought the entire collection outright, and embarked on a decades-long career as a bookseller and publisher. Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of his shop Maurice F. Neville Rare Books in Gonzales-Ramirez Adobe in Santa Barbara, California.<\/p>\n

A longtime member of the Grolier Club in New York, Neville enjoyed acquiring items on his extensive travels across the country and abroad, dominating the three-part sale of literature from the library of Jonathan Goodwin at Sotheby Parke Bernet in 1977-78 in New York, and kept up until he died in December last year.<\/p>\n

His avid interest in Ernest Hemingway<\/a> also led him into the world of bullfighting, and the sale contains a large section devoted to the sport in posters, broadsides, ephemera and original artwork.<\/p>\n

Highlights include:<\/p>\n

an\u00a0Orson Welles<\/a> signed, third revised final draft for\u00a0Citizen Kane (starting bid: $15,000)a\u00a0Bob Dylan<\/a> autographed manuscript with the working lyrics to\u00a0Man on the Street\u00a0($20,000)a\u00a0Robert Frost<\/a> autographed fair copy signed of\u00a0Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening\u00a0($5,000)The Call of the Wild\u00a0inscribed by Jack London<\/a> ($750)an\u00a0F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/a> autographed letter signed to composer, music critic and author Deems Taylor\u00a0($7,500)Death in the Afternoon, inscribed by Ernest Hemingway\u00a0to the daughter of the Spanish Ambassador ($2,500)Red Harvest\u00a0first edition, inscribed by Dashiell Hammett<\/a>\u00a0to Sam Marx of MGM ($10,000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highlights from the collection of Maurice F. Neville featuring association copies, manuscripts and letters will go under the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":["post-903249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}