Catalogue of the closing stock and reference library of G.F. Sims, (rare books) . [ Bloomsbury Book Auctions, auction catalogue, sale date: 2 July 1987].

Bloomsbury Book Auctions.

Verlag: Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 2nd July 1987, 1987

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 67 pp,ills. 424 lots. The catalogue lists highlights as "Including J.M. Barrie's Scotland's Lament, [1895], one of 12 copies; Coppard's The higgler, 1930, one of 39 copies; Douglas's Avifauna of Baden, 1894, On the herpetology. of Baden, 1894, both inscribed, Disiecta membra 1915, Experiments, 1925, and other works, many signed; proof engravings by Stephen Gooden; Henry Green's Blindness, 1926, the author's first book, C. Day Lewis's copy; Pinter's The French lieutenant's woman, a screenplay, 1981, one of 10 copies signed by Pinter and John Fowles; Osbert Sitwell's Autobiography, 5 vol., with a series of autograph letters; Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray, one of 250 copies, signed by the author; Yeats's The king's threshold, New York, 1904, one of 100 copies privately printed; autograph letters of Betjeman, Frances Cornford, Norman Douglas, Sydney Horler, Swinburne and Oscar Wilde; first or limited editions of Aldington, Auden, H.E. Bates, Betjeman, Blunden, De La Mare, Roy Fuller, Galsworthy, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, D.H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Liam O'Flaherty, Sylvia Plath, Evelyn Waugh and Henry Williamson." The first-named item, lot 76, is in fact a Thomas James Wise piracy (rather than a forgery as stated in the catalogue) - a full-page illustration of it is provided in the catalogue. Scribbled notes on front wrapper and title-page and to several lots, evidently by a bookseller, otherwise Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-51020

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Titel: Catalogue of the closing stock and reference...
Verlag: Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 2nd July 1987
Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
Einband: Softcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage