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Auction archive: Lot number 261

Starkie (Walter) - Don Gypsy: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha

Estimate
£60 - £80
ca. US$89 - US$118
Price realised:
£500
ca. US$743
Auction archive: Lot number 261

Starkie (Walter) - Don Gypsy: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha

Estimate
£60 - £80
ca. US$89 - US$118
Price realised:
£500
ca. US$743
Beschreibung:

Don Gypsy: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha
first edition, signed and inscribed by the author “To dearest Emily and Cecil Harmsworth in memory of many pleasant hours - and in the hope that Gypsy luck may come this way...” and with a short notated musical stave in ink on front free endpaper and accompanying A.L.s. tipped in, frontispiece and title-vignette by Arthur Rackham plates, lightly foxed, original cloth, gilt, dust-jacket soiled, torn and frayed, 1936 § Browne (E.G.) A Year amongst the Persians, reprint, frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket soiled and frayed, Cambridge, 1927 § Henley (W.E.) A Song of Speed, dedicated to Alfred Harmsworth and initialled by the author on dedication , original wrappers, uncut and unopened, soiled, 1903; and a quantity of others, mostly ephemera, much of it relating to the Harmsworth family (particularly Cecil and Desmond) including some books published by Desmond, v.s.

Auction archive: Lot number 261
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Don Gypsy: Adventures with a Fiddle in Barbary, Andalusia and La Mancha
first edition, signed and inscribed by the author “To dearest Emily and Cecil Harmsworth in memory of many pleasant hours - and in the hope that Gypsy luck may come this way...” and with a short notated musical stave in ink on front free endpaper and accompanying A.L.s. tipped in, frontispiece and title-vignette by Arthur Rackham plates, lightly foxed, original cloth, gilt, dust-jacket soiled, torn and frayed, 1936 § Browne (E.G.) A Year amongst the Persians, reprint, frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket soiled and frayed, Cambridge, 1927 § Henley (W.E.) A Song of Speed, dedicated to Alfred Harmsworth and initialled by the author on dedication , original wrappers, uncut and unopened, soiled, 1903; and a quantity of others, mostly ephemera, much of it relating to the Harmsworth family (particularly Cecil and Desmond) including some books published by Desmond, v.s.

Auction archive: Lot number 261
Auction:
Datum:
11 Dec 2008
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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