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Auction archive: Lot number 168

DUNSANY, EDWARD PLUNKETT, Lord. Time and the Gods. 1905. Small 4to, cloth-backed boards, pictorial paper label on front cover, unopened, offset on front endpaper from newsclipping, IN THE RARE DUST JACKET (plain grayish-green, lettered in dark blue o...

Auction 15.10.1997
15 Oct 1997
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,150
Auction archive: Lot number 168

DUNSANY, EDWARD PLUNKETT, Lord. Time and the Gods. 1905. Small 4to, cloth-backed boards, pictorial paper label on front cover, unopened, offset on front endpaper from newsclipping, IN THE RARE DUST JACKET (plain grayish-green, lettered in dark blue o...

Auction 15.10.1997
15 Oct 1997
Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,150
Beschreibung:

DUNSANY, EDWARD PLUNKETT, Lord. Time and the Gods. 1905. Small 4to, cloth-backed boards, pictorial paper label on front cover, unopened, offset on front endpaper from newsclipping, IN THE RARE DUST JACKET (plain grayish-green, lettered in dark blue on spine), the jacket frayed at ends of spine and fore-corners. 10 full-page black and white plates by S.H. Sime -- The Chronicles of Rodriguez. [1922]. 4to, half vellum and cloth, leather spine label, t.e.g., uncut. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by Sime on his frontispiece -- The King of Elfland's Daughter. [1924]. 4to, same style of binding as preceding volume; dust jacket; half morocco slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by Sime on his frontispiece; with the six-line poem "The Call" boldly written out and signed and dated (in 1924) by Dunsany on the front free endpaper. A particularly fine copy -- Tales of War. Dublin and London, 1918. Cloth-backed boards -- And 4 other volumes, 1921-1931, cloth , and 1 issue of The English Review , April 1912, wrappers, half morocco slipcase, containing "The Lonely Idol" by Dunsany. All London, except as noted. Together 9 vols., 8vo-4to, original bindings. FIRST EDITIONS. (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 168
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
Beschreibung:

DUNSANY, EDWARD PLUNKETT, Lord. Time and the Gods. 1905. Small 4to, cloth-backed boards, pictorial paper label on front cover, unopened, offset on front endpaper from newsclipping, IN THE RARE DUST JACKET (plain grayish-green, lettered in dark blue on spine), the jacket frayed at ends of spine and fore-corners. 10 full-page black and white plates by S.H. Sime -- The Chronicles of Rodriguez. [1922]. 4to, half vellum and cloth, leather spine label, t.e.g., uncut. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by Sime on his frontispiece -- The King of Elfland's Daughter. [1924]. 4to, same style of binding as preceding volume; dust jacket; half morocco slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by Sime on his frontispiece; with the six-line poem "The Call" boldly written out and signed and dated (in 1924) by Dunsany on the front free endpaper. A particularly fine copy -- Tales of War. Dublin and London, 1918. Cloth-backed boards -- And 4 other volumes, 1921-1931, cloth , and 1 issue of The English Review , April 1912, wrappers, half morocco slipcase, containing "The Lonely Idol" by Dunsany. All London, except as noted. Together 9 vols., 8vo-4to, original bindings. FIRST EDITIONS. (9)

Auction archive: Lot number 168
Auction:
Datum:
15 Oct 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, East
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