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Blacksparrow Auctions: their first sale - By Bruce McKinney Images of interesting lots Fong Sam of Los Angeles has organized Blacksparrow Auctions to sell collectibles within the categories of pop culture, posters, entertainment memorabilia, 20^th century, contemporary and historical memorabilia. His first sale, on February 10^th, is The Arthur Ronnie Collection: Books & Autographs, and in a uncommon departure from auction house custom, will be fully unreserved. It begins at 11:00 am PST. “The material is very appealing and every item will be sold.” This will not be Mr. Sam’s first experience in the rooms. For the past 14 years he’s been involved in all aspects of the auction trade working for and working his way up at Profiles in History. Public viewing is from February 4^th to the 9^th at the James Gray Gallery in the Bergamot Station Art Center, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building D4, Santa Monica, California 90904. The sale will also be conducted here. The following description of the material is taken from a news release prepared by the firm. This is an unprecedented selection of over 200 lots assembled by an individual collector who personally interviewed many of the authors and obtained autographs for over 70 years throughout his career as a newspaper reporter and as a publicist in the entertainment field. The collection features presidents, explorers, aviation, and Hollywood entertainment. A few of the many highlights include: · Under the North Pole: The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition, Lincoln Ellsworth’s copy · 20 hrs. 40 min. Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story, Amelia Earhart’s personal copy with piece of fabric from the Friendship · The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation, Amelia Earhart’s copy with her bookplate and signature, as well as the signatures of other early aviatrixes · The Spirit of St. Louis, Presentation Edition signed by Charles A. Lindbergh, T. Claude Ryan, Otto W. Timm, and Bud Gurney · WE. The Famous Flier’s Own Story of his Life and his Transatlantic flight, together with his views on the future of Aviation, Signed Limited Edition, additionally signed by T. Claude Ryan, Otto W. Timm, and Bud Gurney · Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, both volumes inscribed · The White House Years: Waging Peace, 1956-1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Signed Limited Edition · Listen! The Wind and North to the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, each book signed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh
Blacksparrow Auctions: their first sale - By Bruce McKinney Images of interesting lots Complementing the signed books is a group of signed color lithographs, including a who’s who of early and pioneer aviators such as Charles Taylor, Grover Loening, Douglas Campbell, William Bishop, Gianni Caproni, Richard E. Byrd, A.V. Roe, Ruth Law, Ernest Hall, Jacqueline Cochran, Charles Lindbergh, Katherine Stinson, Henri Farman, and many more. The featured item of the sale is a 2-volume set of The Lafayette Flying Corps (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920, First Edition). A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by James N. Hall and Charles Bernard Nordhoff to Dr. Edmund Gros, “For Doctor Gros, with warm regards, James N. Hall, Chas. Nordhoff, Tahiti, Oct. 14, 1927.” It is additionally signed by five surviving members of the Corps who signed on their respective biographical pages: Henry Batchelor (page 113), Edward Hinkle (page 267), Charles Kinsolving (page 301), William Wellman (movie director, page 483), and Herman Whitmore (page 487). Slipcase and dust jackets intact. Dr. Gros was an American doctor in Paris who was instrumental in organizing the Lafayette Escadrille. Young men from neutral America during World War I were recruited to come to France and fly in the Escadrille in combat against the Germans. When America entered the war, the Lafayette Escadrille became the Lafayette Flying Corps. This is a cornerstone of any serious aviation collection. It is rare to find the books in such fine condition, and especially desirable with the signatures of Hall, Nordhoff, and Flying Corps members. The sums of the low and high estimates are $70,400 and $110,100. A printed catalogue is available and an electronic version online at BlacksparrowAuctions.com. Bidders will be able to bid live in-person, by phone, via absentee, and on the Internet as facilitated by iCollector. Here is a link to them. Later this year the company is planning a countrywide tour and auction of the screen-worn costumes from the hit blockbuster, The Hunger Games Mr. Fong can be reached by phone and email: Telephone: 323 250-3980 eMail: blacksparrow@haxbee.com

Blacksparrow Auctions: their first sale

- By Bruce McKinney

Images of interesting lots

Fong Sam of Los Angeles has organized Blacksparrow Auctions to sell collectibles within the categories of pop culture, posters, entertainment memorabilia, 20^th century, contemporary and historical memorabilia. His first sale, on February 10^th, is The Arthur Ronnie Collection: Books & Autographs, and in a uncommon departure from auction house custom, will be fully unreserved. It begins at 11:00 am PST. “The material is very appealing and every item will be sold.” This will not be Mr. Sam’s first experience in the rooms. For the past 14 years he’s been involved in all aspects of the auction trade working for and working his way up at Profiles in History.

Public viewing is from February 4^th to the 9^th at the James Gray Gallery in the Bergamot Station Art Center, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building D4, Santa Monica, California 90904. The sale will also be conducted here.

The following description of the material is taken from a news release prepared by the firm.

This is an unprecedented selection of over 200 lots assembled by an individual collector who personally interviewed many of the authors and obtained autographs for over 70 years throughout his career as a newspaper reporter and as a publicist in the entertainment field. The collection features presidents, explorers, aviation, and Hollywood entertainment. A few of the many highlights include:

· Under the North Pole: The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition, Lincoln Ellsworth’s copy

· 20 hrs. 40 min. Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story, Amelia Earhart’s personal copy with piece of fabric from the Friendship

· The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation, Amelia Earhart’s copy with her bookplate and signature, as well as the signatures of other early aviatrixes

· The Spirit of St. Louis, Presentation Edition signed by Charles A. Lindbergh, T. Claude Ryan, Otto W. Timm, and Bud Gurney

· WE. The Famous Flier’s Own Story of his Life and his Transatlantic flight, together with his views on the future of Aviation, Signed Limited Edition, additionally signed by T. Claude Ryan, Otto W. Timm, and Bud Gurney

· Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, both volumes inscribed

· The White House Years: Waging Peace, 1956-1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Signed Limited Edition

· Listen! The Wind and North to the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, each book signed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh

Blacksparrow Auctions: their first sale

- By Bruce McKinney

Images of interesting lots

Complementing the signed books is a group of signed color lithographs, including a who’s who of early and pioneer aviators such as Charles Taylor, Grover Loening, Douglas Campbell, William Bishop, Gianni Caproni, Richard E. Byrd, A.V. Roe, Ruth Law, Ernest Hall, Jacqueline Cochran, Charles Lindbergh, Katherine Stinson, Henri Farman, and many more.

The featured item of the sale is a 2-volume set of The Lafayette Flying Corps (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920, First Edition). A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by James N. Hall and Charles Bernard Nordhoff to Dr. Edmund Gros, “For Doctor Gros, with warm regards, James N. Hall, Chas. Nordhoff, Tahiti, Oct. 14, 1927.” It is additionally signed by five surviving members of the Corps who signed on their respective biographical pages: Henry Batchelor (page 113), Edward Hinkle (page 267), Charles Kinsolving (page 301), William Wellman (movie director, page 483), and Herman Whitmore (page 487). Slipcase and dust jackets intact.

Dr. Gros was an American doctor in Paris who was instrumental in organizing the Lafayette Escadrille. Young men from neutral America during World War I were recruited to come to France and fly in the Escadrille in combat against the Germans. When America entered the war, the Lafayette Escadrille became the Lafayette Flying Corps. This is a cornerstone of any serious aviation collection. It is rare to find the books in such fine condition, and especially desirable with the signatures of Hall, Nordhoff, and Flying Corps members.

The sums of the low and high estimates are $70,400 and $110,100.

A printed catalogue is available and an electronic version online at BlacksparrowAuctions.com.

Bidders will be able to bid live in-person, by phone, via absentee, and on the Internet as facilitated by iCollector. Here is a link to them.

Later this year the company is planning a countrywide tour and auction of the screen-worn costumes from the hit blockbuster, The Hunger Games

Mr. Fong can be reached by phone and email:

Telephone: 323 250-3980

eMail: blacksparrow@haxbee.com