Catalogue of modern first editions, presentation copies, autograph letters and literary manuscripts. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 11-12 March, 1968 ].

Sotheby & Co.

Verlag: Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th and 12th March, 1968, 1968

Green printed wrappers, 8vo, 167 pp, 6 plates. 851 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Lawrence's The white peacock, 1911, presentation copy; Robert Frost's North of Boston, 1914, presentation copy; Noctes binaniae, 1939, and first editions and presentation copies of Auden, Beerbohm, Belloc, Betjeman, Blunden, Bridges, Churchill, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, Hardy, Hemingway, Joyce, Kipling, Ezra Pound, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf and Yeats; drawings of Beerbohm, Dulac, Furniss, Raven Hill, D.H. Lawrence, Donald McGill, E.H. Shepard, Thurber and Denton Welch; two nonsense alphabets of Edward Lear; a sculpture portrait of R.L. Stevenson; autograph manuscripts of Arnold manuscripts of Arnold Bennett's Accident, Wilkie Collin's The Guilty river, Conan Doyle's The great shadow, William Morris's The roots of the mountains and Well's The man who could work miracles; the printer's copy for The Diary of a nobody, 1892; letters and manuscripts of Belloc, Blunden, Bridges, Chesterton, Churchill, Gordon Craig, Dowson, T.S. Eliot, Rider Haggard, Hardy, Bret Harte, Aldous-Huxley, Jerome K. Jerome, T.E. Lawrence, Andrew Lang, Pinero, Quiller-Couch, Charles Reade, Swinburne, Ellen Terry, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse and Yeats; an important collection of letters of Rudyard Kipling. The copy of the Head of Sotheby's Book Department A R A Hobson with numerous lot numbers bought for him noted on the front wrapper, a leaf of notes listing 7 lot numbers and prices laid in, also laid in a saleroom notice with notes of several lots listed under the names "Dusty" and "Rota", most having coded prices but 5 marked simply 'Buy' (however Hobson seems to have been failed to win any of these, most of them being recorded as sold to "House of Books"). Otherwise Near Very Good, List of prices realized and buyers' names laid in. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-58787

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Titel: Catalogue of modern first editions, ...
Verlag: Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th and 12th March, 1968
Erscheinungsdatum: 1968
Einband: Softcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage