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Fine Books - Fine Press - Fine Bindings - With a Taste of Golf

PBA Galleries, 1233 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, United States
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Date of the auction: 16.09.2021

Lot number 1
Allen Press Christopher Columbus by Kazantzakis

79 pp. (Folio) original golden wrappers (folded unsewn sheets as issued), drop-back box in turquoise...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$187
Lot number 2
Maynard Dixon's poetry, printed by Hoyem 1977

Introduction by Kevin Starr. Illustrated from drawings by Dixon. 25x16 cm (10x6¼"), buckram-backed...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$250
Lot number 3
Godot, An Imaginary Staging by Willy T. Wiley

Illustrations and Afterword by William T. Wiley; Introduction by David Littlejohn; Program Note and...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$437
Lot number 4
Signed by artist John Newman

Poems of Elizabeth Bishop selected and introduced by Helen Vendler. With 24 3-color relief prints by...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$593
Lot number 5
Arion Press Don Quixote, W. Wiley prints

2 volumes. With 97 illustrations by William T. Wiley. Bound in duotone goatskin with gilt-stamped...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$3,125
Lot number 6
Artist's book by Joel Shapiro in scroll format

Scroll comprised of glued sheets of handmade paper from China's Red Star Paper Company printed by...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,500
Price realised:
US$1,500
Lot number 7
Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and R.B. Kitaj

[48] pp. Artwork by R.B. Kitaj. (Oblong 4to) original hand-sewn in boards with brown cloth spine...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$500
Lot number 8
Arion Press delivers Flaubert

Translated from the French and with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti. With frontispiece and...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$437
Lot number 9
Exit Ghost by Roth, Arion Press edition

(Large 8vo) 24.5x17.7 cm (9¾x7"), gray cloth with front cover inset portrait of Philip Roth by R.B...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$406
Lot number 10
Barbarian Press The Chimes by Charles Dickens

72 pp. Adapted from Dickens' story by Mark Lemon and G. A. A.' Beckett. Introduction by Joel H...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$1,062
Lot number 11
2 titles and talk about Bird & Bull's mythical kingdom

Two volumes comprising: Private Presses of San Serriffe. (8vo) quarter cloth and patterned boards...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$250
Lot number 12
Numismata Typographica with 4 facsimile guild medals

Illustrated. 9x6", cloth. With 4 examples of Dutch printers' bookbinders' & booksellers' guild...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$375
Lot number 13
Ourika translated by John Fowles

65 pp. Translated into English with an introduction and epilogue by John Fowles. (4to) original blue...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$150
Lot number 14
Chinese Handmade Paper Bird & Bull Press

124, [4] pp. 40 paper samples tipped in; facsimile of the South China Morning Post laid in. (4to...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$187
Lot number 15
Recollections. My Life in Bookbinding

Illustrated, including color plates. Foreword by Dr. Marianne Tidcombe. (8vo) morocco-backed boards...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$225
Lot number 16
Bird & Bull Press Bookseller's Tokens

83, [1] pp. Illustrated with facsimiles and from photographs. (8vo) quarter blue morocco and printed...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 17
Bird & Bull - San Serriffe - 3 titles

(8vo) quarter morocco, rust cloth with silver printing and decoration on cover, gilt spine title...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 18
Bird & Bull Japonnica with paper samples 1/250

Many paper specimens tipped or bound in. (8vo) 23x15 cm (9x6"), quarter morocco and block-printed...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$200
Lot number 19
The scarce Bird & Bull Number 13, 1/140

(Oblong 8vo) original quarter parchment and paste-paper boards, gilt spine title. No. 131 of 140...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$187
Lot number 20
Bird & Bull Press, Remarks on Modern Paper Ltd.Ed

120 pp. Introductory Essay by Leonard B. Schlosser. Frontispiece. (8vo) original quarter brown...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$187
Lot number 21
Varieties of Spanish Marbling, with 12 samples

With 12 original marbled samples tipped in. (8vo) cloth-backed marbled boards, leather spine label...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$237
Lot number 22
Papermaking in villages of India and Nepal

With twenty tipped-in paper samples. (8vo) quarter natural beige cloth with red and white...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$212
Lot number 23
Bird and Bull's facsimile of 1853 papermakers meeting

52, [2] pp. Notes and comments by Henry Morris. (4to) wrappers, stringbound; housed in publisher's...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 24
Two essays on paper history, Bird & Bull Press

70, [1] pp. (4to) original morocco-backed boards. No. 20 of about 220 copies. First Edition...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$187
Lot number 25
Chinese Decorated Papers, Bird & Bull Press

77 pp. + plates. Illustrated with 24 tipped-in individual paper samples. (Oblong 4to) 19.5x25 cm...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$212
Lot number 26
A chapter in Italian decorated paper history

Illustrated; 10 paper samples tipped in. (4to) original cloth-backed decorative boards, leather...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$237
Lot number 27
Three Early French Essays on Paper Marbling

106, [1] pp. Intro. by Richard J. Wolfe. Illustrated with 13 original marbled paper samples by...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$212
Lot number 28
The Art of Marbling, 14 original samples, 1980

Translated with introduction by Richard J. Wolfe.14 original marbled specimens by Wolfe. (4to...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$190
Lot number 29
Louis Herman Kinder and Fine Bookbinding

161. Illustrated with photographs. (8vo) original black morocco-backed patterned boards, red morocco...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$125
Lot number 30
The Mysterious Marbler, with original samples

With 11 original marble samples tipped-in. (8vo) 23.5x15.5 cm (9¼x6"), quarter morocco and marbled...

PBA Galleries, 16 Sep 2021
Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$281
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