Part II of the Maurice F. Neville Collection of Modern Literature auction will take place at Sotheby’s tomorrow. It includes 146 lots with many first editions inscribed by the authors and the best collection of Ernest Hemingway material in private hands, as well as a notably vest section of detective and mystery fiction featuring such giants as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ian Fleming.

“It’s very rare to get all those authors with everything inscribed,” said Sotheby’s literature consultant for the Neville Collection, Bart Auerbach. “Every book in the Neville sale is inscribed. That’s what makes it unusual.” The sale includes an autographed manuscript of “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist,” a Sherlock Holmes story from “the Return” (estimated $200,000-$300,000).

Mr. Neville acquired much of this collection at auction in the late 1970s through the 1980s and early 1990s, and picked up a good deal of it at a Sotheby’s auction of the Jonathan Goodwin Collection in 1977. From that sale comes one of the most prized lots of this one: 43 unpublished letters from Hemingway to the critic Malcolm Cowley, mostly from Cuba between 1940 and 1952 (estimated $250,000 -$350,000). In them, Hemingway signs alternatively as “Ernie,” “Papa,” and “Mister Papa,” and writes of Faulkner, “I always tell everyone that he is the greatest writer in America and much better writer than me (a lie) because I want to help him because he is potentially the best;” and of F. Scott Fitzgerald, “As you know only a few of the short stories are good. ‘Gatsby’ is good and ‘Tender is the Night’ is mixed up but absolutely excellent. ‘The Last Tycoon’ is very good,” and in another letter, “As you know Scott was one of the worst writers who ever wrote prose.” Of Thomas Wolfe Hemingway says he “was educated far beyond his mental capacity.”

Though the bulk of what will be sold tomorrow is of well-known American writers like William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, and J.D. Salinger, there are some Europeans in there, too. No library is complete without signed copies of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” (estimated $30,000-$40,000) and “Finnegan’s Wake” (est. $8,000-$12,000), and there is also Malcolm Lowry’s “Under the Volcano” ($10,000-$15,000) with an inscription to his mother-in-law, Emily Bonner, that reads “On Mother’s Day to Mother, this cheery little volume, with devotion from her son, Malcolm. May 11/1951.” By calling his book “cheery” he must have assumed she would never get around to reading it. Two volumes of Jean-Paul Sartre, “Les Mouches” (est. $1,000-$1,500) and “Huis clos” (est. $1,000-$1,500), will be sold, as will one of Lawrence Durrell’s “the Alexandria Quartet” (est. $600-$800).

About Hemingway Mr. Auerbach said, “Hemingway has been available. He wrote a lot of letters and inscribed a lot of books. He’s collectible and you can get meaningful material… He writes meaningful letters that are very absorbing, very chatty.” The first half of the Neville collection (April 13, 2004) brought in $5,215,460 and Sotheby’s is hoping that tomorrow will be just as successful.