Nirvana takes the stage: Kurt Cobain-signed Nevermind CD offered at Swann
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Nirvana takes the stage: Kurt Cobain-signed Nevermind CD offered at Swann
Nirvana’s Nevermind compact disc insert signed and inscribed days after release by Kurt Cobain, additionally inscribed by Krist Novoselic, 1991. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000.



NEW YORK, NY.- Fine Books & Autographs are at Swann Galleries Thursday, October 28 with a selection of exceedingly rare material set to hit the auction block. Autographs, literature and art books alike will feature scarce to market offerings ranging from pop culture phenoms and scientists to groundbreaking writers and visual artists.

Leading the autographs portion of the sale is a scarce signature from Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, estimated at $40,000 to $60,000. On offer, in a season marking 30 years since the album’s release, is a signed Nevermind CD, which comes to auction through a former employee of Tower Records who had Cobain sign the CD during Nirvana’s in-store performance at the East 4th Street location in September of 1991.

Items from visual artists include an archive of 15 letters and notes from 1946 to 1969 Marc Chagall to a number of figures, including collector Adolphe A. Juviler ($5,000-7,500); a 1957 letter from Marcel Duchamp listing the artworks by Kandisnky in the collection of Katherine Sophie Dreier ($3,000-4,000); as well as a 1985 postcard announcing an exhibition of works by Keith Haring, signed by him and with an original drawing ($3,000-4,000).

Other autograph highlights include those by popular literary figures, politicians, and scientists. Mark Twain is on offer with a signed receipt for payment of the Mark Twain Public Library Tax—in 1908, after moving to Redding, CT, Twain formed the Mark Twain Library Association, intending to build a public library for the community, humorously imposing a single dollar tax upon his visitors to raise funds for a building ($10,000-15,000). Herman Melville is present with an autograph letter signed in 1888, written to his wife’s cousin, sending her one of his books ($8,000-12,000).

From Simón Bolívar, written as President of Gran Colombia in 1828, is a lengthy letter signed to the first president of Bolivia on war with Peru and Spanish invasion ($10,000-20,000); while American politicians include an archive of 19 typed letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt, some as president to, onetime fellow New York state senator John Godfrey Saxe II, dating from 1920 to 1942 ($8,000-12,000).

Remarkable finds from scientists, feature a 1928 lithographic portrait by Emil Orik of Albert Einstein, signed by both ($5,000-7,500). Also on offer is a group of autograph letters signed by Nikola Tesla, including one from March 1895 thanking for sympathy expressed after his Fifth Avenue laboratory burned to the ground stating, “I am not broken in spirit, quite the contrary” ($8,000-12,000).

The literature portion of the sale includes four books from the personal library of Jorge Luis Borges, with his characteristic notations ($1,500-2,500); a finely bound example of Moliere’s Oeuvres; Nouvelle Édition, 1734 ($1,200-1,800); the first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbournes’s The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and Quartette, 1894, to appear at auction in the exceedingly rare dust jacket; as well as a run of Russian Constructivist works.

Leading the art books portion is a run of desirable works by Robert Indiana: The Book of Love, 1997, one of just 15 Artist’s Proofs produced ($100,000-125,000); Numbers, 1968 ($35,000-50,000); as well as Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964, featuring Indiana, Stuart Davis, Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol and others ($30,000-40,000). Also among art books is Gustav Klimt’s Das Werk, 1918 ($15,000-20,000); and Marc Chagall’s Lithographe I-VI, 1960–86 ($2,500-3,500).










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