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Lot 170
[BOGART, HUMPHREY] Six yachting books from Bogart's yacht, Santana.
Six volumes uniformly bound in green leather, the spines titled in gilt, the covers each stamped in gilt Santana. Comprising: Harold Vanderbilt's On the Wind's Highway, 1939; J.H. Illingworth's Offshore, 1949; and four by Uffa Fox being Sail and Power, 1937; Uffa Fox's Second Book, 1935; Racing, Cruising and Design, 1938; and Thoughts on Yachts and Yachting, 1948. Each 11 x 8 1/2 inches (28 x 21.5 cm). Some edgewear, spotting within, generally clean copies.
Provenance: The Lauren Bacall Collection, Bonhams, 31 March 2015, lot 163
Humphrey Bogart purchased Santana in 1945 from fellow actor Dick Powell and these books were specially bound for the shipboard library. That same year Bogart married 19 year old beauty Lauren Bacall and the couple would spend much time on Santana during their marriage. Bogart named his production company Santana and the boat in Key Largo, in which he starred with Bacall in 1948, is also named as such. Bogart died at 57 in 1957 and these volumes remained with Bacall and were sold as part of her estate in 2015.
C Estate of Richard Schilling
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