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Auction archive: Lot number 235

SYMONS, AJ A Emin The Governor of Equatoria London: The Fleu...

Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$466 - US$622
Price realised:
£1,125
ca. US$1,750
Auction archive: Lot number 235

SYMONS, AJ A Emin The Governor of Equatoria London: The Fleu...

Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$466 - US$622
Price realised:
£1,125
ca. US$1,750
Beschreibung:

SYMONS, A.J. A. Emin. The Governor of Equatoria . London: The Fleuron, 1928. 4°. Half title. Original cloth-backed decorated boards, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance : Dominican Fathers, Edinburgh (stamp on front free endpaper ). NUMBER 231 OF 300 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY , inscribed on the front free endpaper, “for Father Gray with respect & gratitude for his poetry from A.J.A. Symons.” With 6 other books by or relating to the same author, namely Tradition and Experiment in Present-Day Literature … second impression (London, 1929 , INSCRIBED BY A.J.A. Symons to Geoffrey Hobson), An Episode in the Life of the Queen of Sheba (“Privately printed Christmas 1929”, ONE OF 150 COPIES , inscribed by the author on the limitation leaf and an inscribed card from him loosely-inserted), One Hundred Dutch Books exhibited by The First Edition Club (London, 1930, bookplate of A.J.A. Symons), A.J.A. Symons' H.M. Stanley … Great Lives (London, 1933, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to G. D. Hobson), The Epicure’s Anthology … with an Essay on The Epicure and the Epicurean by A.J.A. Symons ([London], The Golden Cockerel Press, [1936], INSCRIBED BY A.J.A. Symons to “Desmond and Margaret”) and Julian Symons’ A.J.A. Symons. His Life and Speculations (London, [1950], with 3 autograph letters from Julian Symons to John Davenport loosely-inserted), all bound in original boards, cloth or wrappers.
SYMONS, A.J. A. Emin. The Governor of Equatoria . London: The Fleuron, 1928. 4°. Half title. Original cloth-backed decorated boards, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance : Dominican Fathers, Edinburgh (stamp on front free endpaper ). NUMBER 231 OF 300 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY , inscribed on the front free endpaper, “for Father Gray with respect & gratitude for his poetry from A.J.A. Symons.” With 6 other books by or relating to the same author, namely Tradition and Experiment in Present-Day Literature … second impression (London, 1929 , INSCRIBED BY A.J.A. Symons to Geoffrey Hobson), An Episode in the Life of the Queen of Sheba (“Privately printed Christmas 1929”, ONE OF 150 COPIES , inscribed by the author on the limitation leaf and an inscribed card from him loosely-inserted), One Hundred Dutch Books exhibited by The First Edition Club (London, 1930, bookplate of A.J.A. Symons), A.J.A. Symons' H.M. Stanley … Great Lives (London, 1933, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to G. D. Hobson), The Epicure’s Anthology … with an Essay on The Epicure and the Epicurean by A.J.A. Symons ([London], The Golden Cockerel Press, [1936], INSCRIBED BY A.J.A. Symons to “Desmond and Margaret”) and Julian Symons’ A.J.A. Symons. His Life and Speculations (London, [1950], with 3 autograph letters from Julian Symons to John Davenport loosely-inserted), all bound in original boards, cloth or wrappers.

Auction archive: Lot number 235
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jun 2015
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

SYMONS, A.J. A. Emin. The Governor of Equatoria . London: The Fleuron, 1928. 4°. Half title. Original cloth-backed decorated boards, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance : Dominican Fathers, Edinburgh (stamp on front free endpaper ). NUMBER 231 OF 300 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY , inscribed on the front free endpaper, “for Father Gray with respect & gratitude for his poetry from A.J.A. Symons.” With 6 other books by or relating to the same author, namely Tradition and Experiment in Present-Day Literature … second impression (London, 1929 , INSCRIBED BY A.J.A. Symons to Geoffrey Hobson), An Episode in the Life of the Queen of Sheba (“Privately printed Christmas 1929”, ONE OF 150 COPIES , inscribed by the author on the limitation leaf and an inscribed card from him loosely-inserted), One Hundred Dutch Books exhibited by The First Edition Club (London, 1930, bookplate of A.J.A. Symons), A.J.A. Symons' H.M. Stanley … Great Lives (London, 1933, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to G. D. Hobson), The Epicure’s Anthology … with an Essay on The Epicure and the Epicurean by A.J.A. Symons ([London], The Golden Cockerel Press, [1936], INSCRIBED BY A.J.A. Symons to “Desmond and Margaret”) and Julian Symons’ A.J.A. Symons. His Life and Speculations (London, [1950], with 3 autograph letters from Julian Symons to John Davenport loosely-inserted), all bound in original boards, cloth or wrappers.
SYMONS, A.J. A. Emin. The Governor of Equatoria . London: The Fleuron, 1928. 4°. Half title. Original cloth-backed decorated boards, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance : Dominican Fathers, Edinburgh (stamp on front free endpaper ). NUMBER 231 OF 300 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY , inscribed on the front free endpaper, “for Father Gray with respect & gratitude for his poetry from A.J.A. Symons.” With 6 other books by or relating to the same author, namely Tradition and Experiment in Present-Day Literature … second impression (London, 1929 , INSCRIBED BY A.J.A. Symons to Geoffrey Hobson), An Episode in the Life of the Queen of Sheba (“Privately printed Christmas 1929”, ONE OF 150 COPIES , inscribed by the author on the limitation leaf and an inscribed card from him loosely-inserted), One Hundred Dutch Books exhibited by The First Edition Club (London, 1930, bookplate of A.J.A. Symons), A.J.A. Symons' H.M. Stanley … Great Lives (London, 1933, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to G. D. Hobson), The Epicure’s Anthology … with an Essay on The Epicure and the Epicurean by A.J.A. Symons ([London], The Golden Cockerel Press, [1936], INSCRIBED BY A.J.A. Symons to “Desmond and Margaret”) and Julian Symons’ A.J.A. Symons. His Life and Speculations (London, [1950], with 3 autograph letters from Julian Symons to John Davenport loosely-inserted), all bound in original boards, cloth or wrappers.

Auction archive: Lot number 235
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jun 2015
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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