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Auction archive: Lot number 189

LITERATURE, A LARGE COLLECTION OF LITERATURE, MOSTLY 20TH CENTURY (QTY.)

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,857 - US$6,429
Price realised:
£3,500
ca. US$4,500
Auction archive: Lot number 189

LITERATURE, A LARGE COLLECTION OF LITERATURE, MOSTLY 20TH CENTURY (QTY.)

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,857 - US$6,429
Price realised:
£3,500
ca. US$4,500
Beschreibung:

Literature A LARGE COLLECTION, COMPRISING: i) Ricketts, C. 12 volumes, comprising: Warren, J.L. Poems Dramatic and Lyrical. 1893, one of 100 copies, original vellum gilt--Ricketts, C. Pages on Art. 1913, original cloth, dust-jacket--Shakespeare, W. Macbeth. 1923, number 83 of 100 copies, signed by Granville-Barker, Ricketts and Rutherston, original morocco gilt--Raymond, J.P. and C. Ricketts. Oscar Wilde. 1932, number 722 of 800 copies, original cloth gilt--Ricketts, C. Unrecorded Histories. 1933, one of 950 copies, original buckram with design in red, dust-jacket; Ricketts, C. Unrecorded Histories. 1933, one of 950 copies, original buckram with design in gilt--together with 6 others; all 8vo or 4to, original bindings ii) Wilde, O. Ravenna Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original printed grey-green wrappers bound in, rebound for Hatchards in three-quarter green morocco gilt with new blank leaves after the text, green cloth covers, matching endpapers, [Mason 301] c) Whistler, J. 6 works, chiefly relating to the famous libel suit the artist took out against John Ruskin The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. New York: Frederick Stokes, 1890, pirated edition, original wrappers; The Gentle Art of Making Enemies...William Heinemann, 1899, first edition, original ochre boards gilt with butterfly decoration on upper cover; Mr. Whistler's Ten O'clock. 1888 [bound with:] Whistler v Ruskin...sixth edition. d.; Wilde versus Whistler. 1906, privately printed, one of 500 copies; these 3 in original wrappers bound together in later brown boards; Eden versus Whistler. The Baronet & the Butterfly...Paris: Louis-Henry May, [1899], first American edition, ONE OF 250 COPIES, original cloth-backed boards gilt, in case with In Memoriam pamphlet; Eden versus Whistler. The Baronet & the Butterfly... New York, 1899, first American edition, original boards gilt d) Dropmore Press. 7 volumes, 1946-1951, comprising: Shanks, E. The Universal War... 1946, number 76 of 550 copies, presentation copy inscribed by the author, dust-jacket--Bryant, A. Historian's Holiday. 1946, number 427 of 550 copies--Sandeman, C. Thyme and Bergamot. 1947, number 159 of 550 copies, dust-jacket--De Quincey, T. Revolt of the Tartars. 1948, number 45 of 450 copies of which this is one of 50 specially bound--Landor, W.S. The Sculptured Garland. 1948, number 43 of 300 copies, dust-jacket--Cooper, D. Translations and Verses. 1949, number 503 of 600 copies--Snagg, T. Recollections of Occurrences. 1951, number 41 of 300 copies--all 8vo or small 4to, original bindings, some occasional wear, occasional spotting e) Ishiguro, K. 11 volumes, comprising: A Pale View of Hills. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1982, first US edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page, original blue cloth backed white boards, dust-jacket, unobtrusive “P” stamp in black on lower edge, small tear to lower left corner of upper panel of dust-jacket; The Remains of the Day. 1989, first edition, original black cloth boards, dust-jacket, together with an advance proof copy and a signed copy of the first US edition; iii) Never Let Me Go. Faber and Faber, 2005, NUMBER 438 of 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, original green boards, dust-jacket, publisher’s slipcase; together with 6 others, all 8vo f) Literature. 10 volumes, comprising: Maugham, W.S. Cakes and Ale, [1954], number 272 of 1000 copies signed by the author and artist--Priestley, J.B. The Town Major of Miraucourt, 1930, number 421 of 525 copies signed by the author--together with 8 others by W.H. Auden, A.E. Coppard, Ian Cox, T.W.H. Crosland, Carlton Lake, Walt Mason and Wilson MacDonald; mostly 8vo, original bindings, occasional spotting and browning g) Pynchon, T. Gravity's Rainbow. New York: The Viking Press, 1973, 8vo, FIRST EDITION (stating "First published in 1973" on colophon), original blood orange boards decorated in blind with arc, top edge blood orange, DUST-JACKET (with code "0

Auction archive: Lot number 189
Beschreibung:

Literature A LARGE COLLECTION, COMPRISING: i) Ricketts, C. 12 volumes, comprising: Warren, J.L. Poems Dramatic and Lyrical. 1893, one of 100 copies, original vellum gilt--Ricketts, C. Pages on Art. 1913, original cloth, dust-jacket--Shakespeare, W. Macbeth. 1923, number 83 of 100 copies, signed by Granville-Barker, Ricketts and Rutherston, original morocco gilt--Raymond, J.P. and C. Ricketts. Oscar Wilde. 1932, number 722 of 800 copies, original cloth gilt--Ricketts, C. Unrecorded Histories. 1933, one of 950 copies, original buckram with design in red, dust-jacket; Ricketts, C. Unrecorded Histories. 1933, one of 950 copies, original buckram with design in gilt--together with 6 others; all 8vo or 4to, original bindings ii) Wilde, O. Ravenna Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original printed grey-green wrappers bound in, rebound for Hatchards in three-quarter green morocco gilt with new blank leaves after the text, green cloth covers, matching endpapers, [Mason 301] c) Whistler, J. 6 works, chiefly relating to the famous libel suit the artist took out against John Ruskin The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. New York: Frederick Stokes, 1890, pirated edition, original wrappers; The Gentle Art of Making Enemies...William Heinemann, 1899, first edition, original ochre boards gilt with butterfly decoration on upper cover; Mr. Whistler's Ten O'clock. 1888 [bound with:] Whistler v Ruskin...sixth edition. d.; Wilde versus Whistler. 1906, privately printed, one of 500 copies; these 3 in original wrappers bound together in later brown boards; Eden versus Whistler. The Baronet & the Butterfly...Paris: Louis-Henry May, [1899], first American edition, ONE OF 250 COPIES, original cloth-backed boards gilt, in case with In Memoriam pamphlet; Eden versus Whistler. The Baronet & the Butterfly... New York, 1899, first American edition, original boards gilt d) Dropmore Press. 7 volumes, 1946-1951, comprising: Shanks, E. The Universal War... 1946, number 76 of 550 copies, presentation copy inscribed by the author, dust-jacket--Bryant, A. Historian's Holiday. 1946, number 427 of 550 copies--Sandeman, C. Thyme and Bergamot. 1947, number 159 of 550 copies, dust-jacket--De Quincey, T. Revolt of the Tartars. 1948, number 45 of 450 copies of which this is one of 50 specially bound--Landor, W.S. The Sculptured Garland. 1948, number 43 of 300 copies, dust-jacket--Cooper, D. Translations and Verses. 1949, number 503 of 600 copies--Snagg, T. Recollections of Occurrences. 1951, number 41 of 300 copies--all 8vo or small 4to, original bindings, some occasional wear, occasional spotting e) Ishiguro, K. 11 volumes, comprising: A Pale View of Hills. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1982, first US edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page, original blue cloth backed white boards, dust-jacket, unobtrusive “P” stamp in black on lower edge, small tear to lower left corner of upper panel of dust-jacket; The Remains of the Day. 1989, first edition, original black cloth boards, dust-jacket, together with an advance proof copy and a signed copy of the first US edition; iii) Never Let Me Go. Faber and Faber, 2005, NUMBER 438 of 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, original green boards, dust-jacket, publisher’s slipcase; together with 6 others, all 8vo f) Literature. 10 volumes, comprising: Maugham, W.S. Cakes and Ale, [1954], number 272 of 1000 copies signed by the author and artist--Priestley, J.B. The Town Major of Miraucourt, 1930, number 421 of 525 copies signed by the author--together with 8 others by W.H. Auden, A.E. Coppard, Ian Cox, T.W.H. Crosland, Carlton Lake, Walt Mason and Wilson MacDonald; mostly 8vo, original bindings, occasional spotting and browning g) Pynchon, T. Gravity's Rainbow. New York: The Viking Press, 1973, 8vo, FIRST EDITION (stating "First published in 1973" on colophon), original blood orange boards decorated in blind with arc, top edge blood orange, DUST-JACKET (with code "0

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