RENOWNED COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, AND MANUSCRIPTS OF RUDYARD KIPLING, FORMED BY THE LATE ELLIS AMES BALLARD, PHILADELPHIA.|THE

Verlag: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1942

Beschreibung

small 4to. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. (x), 110 pages. Auction catalogue for sale of 400 lots from the Ballard collection on January 21/22, 1942, by order of the executors of his estate. The Philadelphia lawyer Ellis A. Ballard (1861-1938), an acquaintance of A. Edward Newton, collected from all stages of Rudyard Kipling's career. Some lesser writings of Kipling actually appeared in book form for the first time in Ballard's 1936 private publication. With 400 items, this catalogue constitutes a kind of Kipling bibliography. Ballard also published his own catalogue of the collection in 1935. One of the purchasers at the sale was the Morgan Library. See Dickinson: Dict. of Am. Book Collectors, pp.26-27. Many entries have annotations, some with illustrations. Spot on front cover. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 50103

Bibliografische Details

Titel: RENOWNED COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS, ...

Verlag: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1942

Einband: sewn, stiff paper wrappers

Illustrator: Kipling, Rudyard