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Auction archive: Lot number 80

CONNOLLY, Cyril Collection of short autograph manuscripts, c...

Estimate
£600 - £900
ca. US$933 - US$1,400
Price realised:
£1,750
ca. US$2,722
Auction archive: Lot number 80

CONNOLLY, Cyril Collection of short autograph manuscripts, c...

Estimate
£600 - £900
ca. US$933 - US$1,400
Price realised:
£1,750
ca. US$2,722
Beschreibung:

CONNOLLY, Cyril. Collection of short autograph manuscripts, chiefly reviews, brief essays and letters, 1940s-1970, comprising autograph manuscript reviews all tipped into their respective 1962 printed editions for: Aldous Huxley’s lsland , 4 pages , 4 °; Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire , 5 pages , small 4 °; Osbert Sitwell’s Tales my Father Taught Me , 6 pages , 8 °; autograph manuscript review of a biography of Michael Faraday, 7 pages , 4 °; autograph manuscript, introduction to Isherwood’s All the Conspirators , 1½ pages , slim folio ; autograph manuscript signed, August 1961, an article entitled Sotheby’s as an Education , autograph emendations, inscribed to Hobson, 5 pages , 8 °, with related material; autograph manuscript, Whitsbury, 28 March 1970, introduction to a T.V. programme on poetry, 2 pages , 8 °; and autograph letters signed from his period at Horizon to Osbert Sitwell [1 item, 1943]; John Davenport [1 item]; and Nancy Cunard [2 items, c.1943, one remarking on her poems: ‘I think they are very good in parts … but too literary], and a typed letter signed to Cunard, 1945; [also with:] ‘Art and Literature; an international quarterly’, Spring 1967, accompanied by the autograph manuscript for Brummell at Calais , Connolly's memoir of Brian Howard, which appears in it.
CONNOLLY, Cyril. Collection of short autograph manuscripts, chiefly reviews, brief essays and letters, 1940s-1970, comprising autograph manuscript reviews all tipped into their respective 1962 printed editions for: Aldous Huxley’s lsland , 4 pages , 4 °; Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire , 5 pages , small 4 °; Osbert Sitwell’s Tales my Father Taught Me , 6 pages , 8 °; autograph manuscript review of a biography of Michael Faraday, 7 pages , 4 °; autograph manuscript, introduction to Isherwood’s All the Conspirators , 1½ pages , slim folio ; autograph manuscript signed, August 1961, an article entitled Sotheby’s as an Education , autograph emendations, inscribed to Hobson, 5 pages , 8 °, with related material; autograph manuscript, Whitsbury, 28 March 1970, introduction to a T.V. programme on poetry, 2 pages , 8 °; and autograph letters signed from his period at Horizon to Osbert Sitwell [1 item, 1943]; John Davenport [1 item]; and Nancy Cunard [2 items, c.1943, one remarking on her poems: ‘I think they are very good in parts … but too literary], and a typed letter signed to Cunard, 1945; [also with:] ‘Art and Literature; an international quarterly’, Spring 1967, accompanied by the autograph manuscript for Brummell at Calais , Connolly's memoir of Brian Howard, which appears in it.

Auction archive: Lot number 80
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jun 2015
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

CONNOLLY, Cyril. Collection of short autograph manuscripts, chiefly reviews, brief essays and letters, 1940s-1970, comprising autograph manuscript reviews all tipped into their respective 1962 printed editions for: Aldous Huxley’s lsland , 4 pages , 4 °; Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire , 5 pages , small 4 °; Osbert Sitwell’s Tales my Father Taught Me , 6 pages , 8 °; autograph manuscript review of a biography of Michael Faraday, 7 pages , 4 °; autograph manuscript, introduction to Isherwood’s All the Conspirators , 1½ pages , slim folio ; autograph manuscript signed, August 1961, an article entitled Sotheby’s as an Education , autograph emendations, inscribed to Hobson, 5 pages , 8 °, with related material; autograph manuscript, Whitsbury, 28 March 1970, introduction to a T.V. programme on poetry, 2 pages , 8 °; and autograph letters signed from his period at Horizon to Osbert Sitwell [1 item, 1943]; John Davenport [1 item]; and Nancy Cunard [2 items, c.1943, one remarking on her poems: ‘I think they are very good in parts … but too literary], and a typed letter signed to Cunard, 1945; [also with:] ‘Art and Literature; an international quarterly’, Spring 1967, accompanied by the autograph manuscript for Brummell at Calais , Connolly's memoir of Brian Howard, which appears in it.
CONNOLLY, Cyril. Collection of short autograph manuscripts, chiefly reviews, brief essays and letters, 1940s-1970, comprising autograph manuscript reviews all tipped into their respective 1962 printed editions for: Aldous Huxley’s lsland , 4 pages , 4 °; Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire , 5 pages , small 4 °; Osbert Sitwell’s Tales my Father Taught Me , 6 pages , 8 °; autograph manuscript review of a biography of Michael Faraday, 7 pages , 4 °; autograph manuscript, introduction to Isherwood’s All the Conspirators , 1½ pages , slim folio ; autograph manuscript signed, August 1961, an article entitled Sotheby’s as an Education , autograph emendations, inscribed to Hobson, 5 pages , 8 °, with related material; autograph manuscript, Whitsbury, 28 March 1970, introduction to a T.V. programme on poetry, 2 pages , 8 °; and autograph letters signed from his period at Horizon to Osbert Sitwell [1 item, 1943]; John Davenport [1 item]; and Nancy Cunard [2 items, c.1943, one remarking on her poems: ‘I think they are very good in parts … but too literary], and a typed letter signed to Cunard, 1945; [also with:] ‘Art and Literature; an international quarterly’, Spring 1967, accompanied by the autograph manuscript for Brummell at Calais , Connolly's memoir of Brian Howard, which appears in it.

Auction archive: Lot number 80
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jun 2015
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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