[Auction Catalogues]. Wyatt Earp, Tombstone, & The West: From the Collections of John Gilchriese.
Item #7523
Volumes I [Sale 1] & III [Sale 2], Volume II, a fixed price catalogue of the collection is sold out; 88 & 74 pp.; 4to; pictorial wrappers; illustrated with photos & reproductions; prices realized laid in; 20" x 15.5" fold out street map of Tombstone c. 1881-82 listing names of businesses, also laid in;. San Francisco: Johns' Western Gallery, 2004 & 2005. VOLUME I: Auction Catalogue for the first Gilchriese Auction, held in San Francisco on June 25, 2004; featuring 117 choice items relating to Wyatt Earp, Tombstone, Arizona Territory including Earp's drawings of the infamous street fight near the OK Corral, with related books and ephemera from this legendary collection. Includes separate fold out street map of Tombstone published by John Gilchriese in 1971. VOLUME III: Auction Catalogue, issued in January 2005 for the 2nd Gilchriese Auction to be held in San Francisco, February 18, 2005. Approximately 200 items, more exclusively Earpiana, including a pencil diagram by Wyatt Earp indicating positions of the Earps & Doc Holliday just prior to the gunfight; C. S. Fly photograph of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp; group image of the Tombstone Volunteer Fire Dept.; Josephine Earp letters to John Flood; John Flood's correspondence to and for the Earps, including a typescript of Flood's Earp biography, and much more. As New. |
