Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
Hammer price: | £200 |
NOLAN, Sidney (1917-92, illustrator). Swansong ... Poems by Charles Osborne. [London:] Shenval Press, 1968. 4to (277 x 210mm). Full-page illustrations by Sidney Nolan. Original black buckram-backed brown paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 4 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST. With 3 other copies of the same work, all SIGNED by the author and artist, and numbered 32, 35, 87 of 150 copies respectively; together with Kenneth Macpherson's Omnes eodem cogimur. Some Notes Written Following the Death of Norman Douglas 9 February 1952 ([Turin], "Privately Printed," 1953, 4to, photographed plates, original mauve cloth gilt, slipcase, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 215 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 10 OF 15 "PERSONALLY INSCRIBED" COPIES, inscribed by the author on the limitation leaf in turquoise ink, "This is No. 10, for David Low, with all best wishes for the 'Omnibus' of the works of Douglas shortly to appear, Kenneth Macpherson, Anticole Corrada, 26 November 1953", and with 3 textual corrections in his hand on pp.26-27. (5)