Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries will raise the curtain on Part VII of the Gene Andrewski Collection of Cinema and Rare Books on Sunday, Sept. 26, at 2 p.m. Eastern, The auction will include movie posters, lobby cards, autographs and photographs by the Hollywood celebrity photographers including Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Otto Dyar, Willinger and Anita Harriet Louise. LiveAuctioneers will provide Internet live bidding.
Featured in the sale is an original MGM Wizard of Oz dialogue script ($800-$1000) and a four-page handwritten love letter from Judy Garland to Frank Sinatra on Garland embossed stationery, circa 1949 ($1,000-$2,000).
A collection of rare books from the Andrewski library will be auctioned first at 2 p.m.
Gene Andrewski was introduced to classic literature at age 7 by his mother. He would become the first managing editor of The Paris Review working alongside George Plimpton and others. A first edition of Dashiell Hammett’s Thin Man, New York, 1934, with dust jacket will be one of the highlights. It has a $200-$300 estimate.
Preview will be the day of the sale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the auction site, 179 Temple Hill Road, New Windsor, N.Y., Suite 100B.
For details visit www.midhudsongalleries.com or call 914 882 7356.
This article originally appeared in Auction Central News.
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