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4 December | Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Auction date Wednesday 4 December 2024 14:00 - 17:00 GMT

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Wednesday 4th December

501-608 Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts | 2pm

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Wednesday 11th December   9am – 4.30pm

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Total lots: 109

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
501 ALDIN, Cecil (1870-1935, illustrator). Old Inns, London, 1921, 4to, 16 mounted coloured plates by Cecil Aldin, illustrations, original vellum-backed boards (lightly stained, corners rubbed). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 166 OF 380 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. £70 - £100 £30 View
502 Atlante dell' America Contenente le Migliori Carte Geografiche, e Topografiche delle Principali Città, Laghi, Fiumi, e Fortezze del Nuovo Mondo, Livorno, 1777, folio, frontispiece, 43 etched plates (some staining at centrefolds), contemporary full vellum. £1,000 - £1,500 £800 View
503 [BARRIE, J. M. (1860-1937)] - R. L. STEVENSON (1850-94). Memories, London, [1912], 25 plates, original wrappers by JESSIE M. KING. ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed, "J. M. Barrie from his friend W. B. M. Ballantyne, Xmas 1912", and SIGNED BY J. M. BARRIE. £200 - £300 £100 View
504 BERLESE, Abbé Laurent (1784-1863). Iconographie du Genre Caméllia, Paris, 1843, vol. III only (of 3), folio, 74 hand-coloured plates only (of 100, some spotting and browning), calf-backed boards. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. £700 - £1,000 £600 View
505 BINDING - A. A. MILNE (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh, London, 1967, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, attractively bound in full green pictorial morocco gilt by Bayntun-Rivière. £300 - £500 £700 View
506 BINDING - André FRÉNAUD (1907-93). Soleil Irréductible, Neuchatel, 1946. 4to, FINELY BOUND BY DANIEL KNODERER in abstract multi-coloured free-form boards in bold relief (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 463 OF 1,057 COPIES. £500 - £800 £400 View
507 BINDING - Liturgia, London, 1670, 8vo, engraved portrait of Charles II and 47 engraved illustrations, rubricated throughout, attractively bound in contemporary black calf elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, gauffered edges. £300 - £500 £550 View
508 BINDING - Petites Fleurs de Saint François d' Assise, Paris, 1920, 4to, printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, initials and ornaments by Jacques Beltrand after Maurice Denis, FINELY BOUND BY RENÉ AUSSOURD after a design by René Gimpel, slipcase. £200 - £300 £550 View
509 BINDING - Willi KURTH (b.1881, editor). The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, New York, 1963, 4to, illustrations, FINELY BOUND BY DON ETHERINGTON in full cream pigskin, box. £200 - £300 £220 View
510 BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959). An important correspondence comprising c.120 autograph and typed letters, signed ("Ernest Bloch"), to Ernest Chapman, many with his replies, 1933-58. £2,000 - £3,000 £850 View
511 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) & Al PURDY (1918-2000). The Bukowski Purdy Letters. 1964-1974. The Paget Press, 1983, 8vo, boards. FIRST EDITION. COPY "D" OF 26 SIGNED BY BOTH POETS, WITH AN ORIGINAL PASTEL BY BUKOWSKI AND HOLOGRAPH POEM BY PURDY. RARE. £2,000 - £3,000 - View
512 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) & Michael MONTFORT (1940-2008, photographer). 24 Photographs 1977-1987, Santa Barbara, 1987, 4to, boards. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 496 COPIES, THIS ONE OF 26 SIGNED BY BUKOWSKI WITH AN ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. RARE. £500 - £700 - View
513 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94), and others - Seamus COONEY (b.1933). A Checklist of the First One Hundred Publications of the Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971, 8vo, boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY 28 CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PRESS. RARE. £300 - £500 - View
514 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). "Old". The original file copy of the poem in the form of a computer print-out, 47 lines on 2 sheets of A4, SIGNED "Charles Bukowski, 12-29-91"; with another similar. Please see the full description below. £300 - £500 £250 View
515 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). 2 poems, Los Angeles, Philip Klein for the Black Sparrow Press, April 1967, 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 26 OF 99 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. RARE. £700 - £1,000 - View
516 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Bring Me Your Love, Santa Barbara, 1983, 4to, illustrations by R. Crumb, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 346 OF 376 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Krumhansl 79b. £300 - £500 £200 View
517 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Crucifix in a Deathhand, New York, 1965, 4to, 4 etched plates by Noel Rockmore, original wrappers with fold-ins. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 3,100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN PINK INK AND DATED BY HIM "3-19-65." £400 - £600 - View
518 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Epos. A Quarterly of Poetry. Poems and Drawings by Charles Bukowski, Crescent City, Florida, 1962, 8vo, illustrations by the author, wrappers. FIRST EDITION. No limitation stated but probably ONE OF ABOUT 500 COPIES. RARE. £400 - £600 - View
519 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Hot Water Music, Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1983, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 97 OF 126 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH AN ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING INSERTED AT THE FRONT SIGNED "BUK." £2,000 - £3,000 - View
520 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). It Catches my Heart in its Hands, New Orleans, Loujon Press, 1963, 8vo, printed on multi-coloured paper, original boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 777 COPIES, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN SILVER INK. Krumhansl 12. £700 - £1,000 - View
521 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Run with the Hunted, Chicago, Midwest Poetry Chapbooks, 1962, 8vo, original red wrappers. FIRST EDITION of the author's third chapbook, and fourth published book. ONE OF ABOUT 300 COPIES. VERY RARE. £800 - £1,200 - View
522 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Santa Rosa, 1992, large 8vo, original boards. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 251 COPIES (LETTERED 'Y') SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH AN ORIGINAL COLOURED SILKSCREEN PRINT BY THE AUTHOR SIGNED "BUK". £700 - £1,000 - View
523 BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1986, 8vo, boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 66 OF 126 COPIES SIGNED WITH A SELF-PORTRAIT BY THE AUTHOR AND AN ORIGINAL COLOURED PRINT, SIGNED. £400 - £600 £400 View
524 CHEVREUL, M. E. (1786-1889). The Laws of Contrast of Colour, London, 1859, 8vo, 17 plates, all but one printed in colours by Edmund Evans (some spotting), original coloured decorated cloth (neatly rebacked). New Edition. £100 - £150 £20 View

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