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Auction archive: Lot number 115

CONRAD'S PROOF COPY OF MAUPASSANT'S YVETTE, ANNOTATED

Estimate
£5,000 - £7,000
ca. US$7,587 - US$10,622
Price realised:
£5,000
ca. US$7,587
Auction archive: Lot number 115

CONRAD'S PROOF COPY OF MAUPASSANT'S YVETTE, ANNOTATED

Estimate
£5,000 - £7,000
ca. US$7,587 - US$10,622
Price realised:
£5,000
ca. US$7,587
Beschreibung:

Conrad, Joseph]--Maupassant, Guy de YVETTE AND OTHER STORIES... TRANSLATED BY A[DA]. G[ALSWORTHY]. WITH A PREFACE BY JOSEPH CONRAD. LONDON: DUCKWORTH & CO., 1904 8vo, corrected page proofs of the first English edition (each quire stamped "Proof | from | Turnbull & Spears | Edinburgh"), half-title, preface by Conrad with his autograph revisions and corrections including the deletion of the last 18 printed lines and their replacement with 34 lines of revised autograph manuscript (on p.xv and blank p.xvi) , further numerous autograph corrections and emendations by Conrad to the subsequent text of the stories, additional marks by the proof-reader, sewn in contemporary wrappers (lettered "YVETTE" on upper wrapper), some leaves stained, somewhat frayed, wrappers torn

Auction archive: Lot number 115
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Conrad, Joseph]--Maupassant, Guy de YVETTE AND OTHER STORIES... TRANSLATED BY A[DA]. G[ALSWORTHY]. WITH A PREFACE BY JOSEPH CONRAD. LONDON: DUCKWORTH & CO., 1904 8vo, corrected page proofs of the first English edition (each quire stamped "Proof | from | Turnbull & Spears | Edinburgh"), half-title, preface by Conrad with his autograph revisions and corrections including the deletion of the last 18 printed lines and their replacement with 34 lines of revised autograph manuscript (on p.xv and blank p.xvi) , further numerous autograph corrections and emendations by Conrad to the subsequent text of the stories, additional marks by the proof-reader, sewn in contemporary wrappers (lettered "YVETTE" on upper wrapper), some leaves stained, somewhat frayed, wrappers torn

Auction archive: Lot number 115
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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