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For $50,000, one can get a good photograph by one of the photographic masters or several important images by an up and coming artist. A 5x7 studio portrait cannot be worth this much. Is an Eliot autograph as valauable as this? --- "Rickard A. Parker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A great gift! > > I **MIGHT** be in the bookseller's area tomorrow. > If so I may pop in > and take a look. If you are interested in this drop > me a line off list. > If you are on a Woolf list feel free to forward this > to that list. > > Regards, > Rick Parker > > ---------------------------- > > Eliot, T.S. > > Portrait Photograph of Eliot; Inscribed by the Poet > to Virginia Woolf > > Image approxim ately 5 x 7"; a handsome image of the > young, elegantly > dressed poet, looking every bit a polished man of > the world; mounted > on a mat approximately 9 x 14." Photographer's > imprint on the verso > and signed in pencil underneath the photograph > "Vandyck, London." A > little scraping to the edges of the image; minor > soiling of the > mat. Inscribed in ink at the lower right corner, > "For Virginia Woolf > with the homage of T.S. Eliot. Christmas, 1930." > Eliot met the Woolfs > in 1918, and his Poems was published by them in > 1919, to be followed > by the English edition of The Wasteland. > > Bookseller Inventory #17652 > > Price: US$ 50,000.00 > > Bookseller: > Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc., A.B.A.A., > 55 Temple Place, > Boston, MA, U.S.A., 02111 > > > See: > http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=171015698 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail