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Auction archive: Lot number 868

Children's & Illustrated Books

Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$518 - US$777
Price realised:
£520
ca. US$674
Auction archive: Lot number 868

Children's & Illustrated Books

Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$518 - US$777
Price realised:
£520
ca. US$674
Beschreibung:

A Year of Birds. Poems by Iris Murdoch, Compton Press, 1978, 12 wood engravings by Reynolds Stone original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 122/350, signed by Iris Murdoch and Reynolds Stone together with The Good Apprentice, London Limited Editions, 1985, original cloth-backed boards, glassine wrappers, 8vo, signed limited edition 166/250, plus The Existentialist Political Myth, Delos Press, 1989, original wrappers (spine faded), slipcase, 8vo, signed limited edition 34/45, from an overall edition of 225, with four other signed limited editions: Something Special. Four Poems and a Story, Eurographia, Helsinki (39/350), Existentialists and Mystics, Delos Press, 1993 (82/100), Joanna Joanna, Colophon Press, 1994 (9/125) and Existentialists and Mystics, Delos Press, 1993, one of 400 copies, signed, plus four autograph letters, three addressed to a Mrs Patterson from Steeple Aston, Oxford, on various matters including requesting a photocopy of The Transatlantic Review with her poems, the other 2 pp. from Charlbury Road, Oxford to 'Tom' thanking him for a "wonderful book... I was overwhelmed at the time, and again now!" (13)

Auction archive: Lot number 868
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jul 2017
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

A Year of Birds. Poems by Iris Murdoch, Compton Press, 1978, 12 wood engravings by Reynolds Stone original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 122/350, signed by Iris Murdoch and Reynolds Stone together with The Good Apprentice, London Limited Editions, 1985, original cloth-backed boards, glassine wrappers, 8vo, signed limited edition 166/250, plus The Existentialist Political Myth, Delos Press, 1989, original wrappers (spine faded), slipcase, 8vo, signed limited edition 34/45, from an overall edition of 225, with four other signed limited editions: Something Special. Four Poems and a Story, Eurographia, Helsinki (39/350), Existentialists and Mystics, Delos Press, 1993 (82/100), Joanna Joanna, Colophon Press, 1994 (9/125) and Existentialists and Mystics, Delos Press, 1993, one of 400 copies, signed, plus four autograph letters, three addressed to a Mrs Patterson from Steeple Aston, Oxford, on various matters including requesting a photocopy of The Transatlantic Review with her poems, the other 2 pp. from Charlbury Road, Oxford to 'Tom' thanking him for a "wonderful book... I was overwhelmed at the time, and again now!" (13)

Auction archive: Lot number 868
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jul 2017
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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