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Lot 15
Beerbohm (Max) Things New and Old, number 99 of 350 copies signed by the author/artist and with an additional signed print in pocket at end, 1923; Rossetti and his Circle, number 122 of 380 copies signed by the author, [1922]; A Peep into the Past, one of 300 copies on Japanese vellum, printed on rectos only, hand-coloured illustrations, small gilt-stamped book-label of Alva B.Gimbel, original cloth-backed boards, paper labels, glacine wrapper torn and defective, privately printed, 1923; The Works, vol.1 only (of 10), limited edition signed by the author, 1922, the first two with mounted plates, some colour, all but the third original cloth, the last with faded spine; and 2 others, Beerbohm, 4to & 8vo (6)
Lot 372
Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) From a London Suburb: Poems, number 21 of 24 copies signed by the author/artist, with colophon and duplicates of the title and one plate at end, printed in blue and black on Japanese paper, double-page title with reverse-offset print from lace, four reverse/direct offset prints from cut-out card, a feather, threads etc. printed in colours on coloured papers, 1975; Young Legs Eleven, number 21 of 25 copies signed by the author/artist, with an extra suite of the prints at end, printed on Japanese hand-made paper, 4 double-page reverse/direct offset prints from linocuts by Cox (repeated at end), 1976, both original dark green silk, the second in variant binding (usually dark blue and gold striped silk], [Chambers 25 & 27], Gogmagog Press (2)⁂ Both printed for friends, not for sale. Chambers describes the first as "the most sad and disenchanted group of his poems".
Lot 370
Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) An Abstract of Nature, loose sheets of double-page pictorial title and 10 double-pages of prints, with 'Note' printed on yellow Japanese Mingei paper but without imprint & colophon sheets, double-page offset print title and direct prints, all from gesso, loose with prospectus in morocco-backed cloth portfolio, [Chambers 20], 1967 [1968]; with the 31 original lino & gesso blocks, each 143 x 93mm., loose in morocco-backed cloth-back box, Gogmagog Press (2)
Lot 475
Uecker (Gunther).- Zum Schweigen der Schrift oder die Sprachlosigkeit, 23 loose sheets (each 460 x 460mm.) comprising: an original print by Uecker, signed by the artists and numbered one of 100, 3 sheets with facsimile of manuscript text, sheet of text by Eugen Gomringer, 17 offset lithographs after photographs by L. Wolleh of which 15 have been hand-embellished with white paint by screenprint, all signed by Uecker in pencil on verso and numbered one of 920, except for colophon sheet which is signed in pencil by Uecker and Gomringer on recto, housed in original plywood slip-case with a wooden drawer, folio, Lage/Lippe, Haberbeck and St.Gallen, Erker-Verlag, 1979.
Lot 50
Cranach Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, edited by J.Dover Wilson, number 207 of 300 copies on Maillol hand-made paper, from an edition limited to 322, type designed by Edward Johnston after the Mainz Psalter of 1457, title cut by Eric Gill, printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations designed and cut by Edward Gordon Craig, 'Notes on The Tragedie of Hamlet...' by J.Dover Wilson in original wrappers in pocket at end, Janet Leeper's copy signed by Edward Gordon Craig in 1948 on front free endpaper and with additional signed print of Hamlet descending stairs reading loosely inserted at beginning (on Japon, initialled 'EGC', dated 1930 and with note "Only 13 copies printed, Copy 6" in pencil at foot), front free endpaper lightly browned, original linen-backed boards, paper label on spine, uncut, corners slightly bumped and worn as usual but a very good clean copy, preserved in modern cloth-backed drop-back box, folio, Weimar, Cranach Press, 1930.⁂ One of the outstanding pieces of book art of the 20th century, with an excellent association.Janet Leeper was an author on English ballet and wrote Edward Gordon Craig: Designs for the Theatre, published as a King Penguin in 1948.
Lot 332
Corbijn (Anton) The Rolling Stones, Art Edition, one of 75 (no.376-450), this copy number 394, copiously illustrated, original snakeskin boards, dust-jacket, snakeskin clamshell box, photographic print 'Like a Rolling Stone' signed by Corbijn, housed in a snakeskin portfolio, wrapped in original tissue paper, with original polystyrene and cardboard packaging, elephant folio, Taschen, 2014.Saleroom notice: This item is signed by the members of the Rolling Stones.⁂ This was available in a total of 6 Art editions (no. 1-450) and as a signed Collector's edition (no. 451-1600).
Lot 111
Golden Cockerel Press.- Pervigilium Veneris: The Vigil of Venus, translated by F.L.Lucas, number 3 of 100 copies, double-page pictorial title in Latin and English (with 4 engravings) and 12 head-pieces & 2 tail-pieces by John Buckland Wright, all copper engravings with aquatint, text in Latin and English on facing pages, original citron morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with frieze of cockerel running along top and bottom of boards in brown, uncut, spine very slightly browned, buckram slip-case (stained), [Pertelote 141; Reid A33a], 4to, Golden Cockerel Press, 1939.⁂ "The very fine engravings, by a process revived for the first time in our generation and which took two years to produce, were inspired by the Roman sarcophagi in the Louvre." Christopher Sandford in Pertelote. "This is what I call a perfect print. The tone is sufficient and not too even. The lines have their full value and have slight tone or aureal round them, which will go on improving with age. It is of course greatly helped by the type of paper used, the ink, and the slight 'burr' left on the lines...This plate was printed cold, rag-wiped but not retroussé, and went once through the press..." John Buckland Wright quoted in Pertelote.
Lot 308
Wood Lea Press.- Greenwood (Jeremy) The Wood-Engravings of Paul Nash, number 56 of 60 special copies with an additional wood-engraving, from an edition limited to 550, with illustrated Addendum sheet printed in 2000 (one of 375 copies) loosely inserted, original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, with mounted additional print in original cloth drop-back box, 1997; Omega Cuts, number 33 of 105 special copies with additional booklet 'Original Woodcuts by Three Artists', from an edition limited to 555, original morocco-backed patterned-paper boards, with booklet in original wrappers in original cloth drop-back box, 1998; Margaret Bruce Wells: The Complete Wood-engravings and Linocuts, one of 300 copies, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, slip-case, 2000, plates and illustrations, 4to, Woodbridge, Wood Lea Press (3)
Lot 361
Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) The Whirligig and other poems, first edition, original red boards, dust-jacket designed by Cox, spine a little faded, light spotting to lower cover, 1954; another edition, re-issued as Selected Early Poems, number 15 of 35 copies with an original print signed by the artist, double-page embossed offset colour print tipped in, bookplate of Trevor Hickman, 1970; Forty-five Untitled Poems, 1969 § Poems 1970-1971, 1972, the last two each one of 50 copies signed by the author/artist, printed in black and colours on Japanese handmade paper, with reverse/direct offset prints from leaves, stalks, gesso etc. printed in colours, those in the first double-page, the last three all with prospectus loosely inserted, original boards, transparent wrappers, the second with slightly faded spine, [Chambers d, 21 & 22], 8vo, Gogmagog Press (4).⁂ The first is the author's scarce first published book, and the only one to be published commercially.
Lot 366
Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) Mummers' Fool, number 24 of 60 copies signed by the author/artist, printed in black and colours on hand-made paper, hand-coloured offset print frontispiece and 6 double-page reverse/direct offset prints, book-label of Colin Smythe, original cloth-backed colour-printed boards with paper disc moon and dried grasses mounted on covers beneath tissue paper, transparent wrappers, [Chambers 13], 8vo, Gogmagog Press, 1965.⁂ "The binding is perhaps his masterpiece in this kind." Chambers
Lot 365
Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) A Web of Nature, number 21 of 50 copies on Hosho paper, emobssed reverse/direct offset prints printed in colours, original vellum-backed printed boards, slip-case, 1964; An Abstract of Nature, number 2 of 26 copies on Barcham Green Curfew hand-made paper, text on Japanese yellow "Mingei" paper, double-page offset print title and direct prints, all from gesso, original black & white striped cloth, 1967 [1968], both signed by the artist, prospectuses loosely inserted, [Chambers 12 & 20], 8vo, Gogmagog Press (2)⁂ The first is a masterpiece of nature printing and one of the most desirable of Gogmagog titles; as Chambers notes, "this was perhaps the nearest he came to explaining the Gogmagog Press".
Lot 367
Gogmagog Press.- Cox (Morris) Mummers' Fool, loose sheets of title and text (several duplicates), printed in black and colours on hand-made paper, hand-coloured offset print frontispiece and reverse/direct offset prints, with sheet for upper cover (paper disc moon and dried grass mounted on coloured paper beneath tissue), loose in morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, 1965; Conversation Pieces, loose sheets of title, text, illustrations, colophon, press-mark etc. (several duplicates), printed on Japanese paper, some colophon leaves signed by the artist and numbered one of 11 out-of series copies, reverse/direct offset prints, loose in morocco-backed cloth portfolio, 1962; and similar collections of loose sheets for 9 Poems from Nature, 1959, War in a Cock's Egg, 1960, A Mediaeval Dream Book, 1963, The Lost Fisherman, 1963, Magogmagog, 2 files, 1973 and From a London Suburb, 1975, [Chambers 13, 8 and 4, 6, 9, 10, 23 & 25], 4to & 8vo, Gogmagog Press (9)
Lot 288
After George Romney Mezzotint. The print entitled 'Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante', approx 20 x 25 cms, framed and glazed, published by Frost and Reed 1913, blind stamp nr A31 together with another print after Reynolds entitled 'The Right Honorable Lady Elizabeth Lee daughter of Simon Earl Harcourt', approx 35 x 48 cms framed and glazed. (2)
Lot 292
Richard Holmes Laurie Engraving. The coloured engraving entitled Highgate Archway from the Turnpike Gate at Holloway, depicting a viaduct designed by John Nash, approx 35 x 44 cms, framed and glazed together with a Japanese woodblock print depicting Geisha, approx 38 x 17 cms framed and glazed. (2)
Lot 321
Horse Racing Limited Edition Prints. The first print depicting "Phar Lap", nr 152/300, the inscription below reads "Phar Lap - Limited Edition Signature Series. Personally autographed by Jack Baker, the first jockey to ride "The Red Terror" to victory in the Maiden Handicap at Rosehill on 27th April, 1929, 1/300", approx 50 x 39 cms, glazed and framed. The second print by Maxine Cox entitled "Desert Orchid-Gold" nr 1327/2500, approx 48 x 36 cms, signed in pencil lower right, glazed and framed. (2)
Lot 322
Neil Cawthorne Limited Edition Print. The print entitled 'Red Rum - In The Stable Yard'. Signed in the margin Brian Fletcher approx 39 x 33 cms, glazed and framed. Published by Marlborough Prints, 46 Churchgate, Loughborough together with a limited edition print by S.L Crawford entitled 'Runnings Face' a portrait of Red Rum, nr 441 signed in the margin by the artist, approx 29 x 25 cms, framed and glazed. (2)
Lot 324
Frank Wooton Signed Limited Edition Print. The print entitled 'First of the Few Spitfire'. The print signed by Artist Frank Wootton PGAvA, Sir Stanley Hooker CBE FRS, Arthur A Rubbra FI MechE FRAaeS, AN Clifton MBE, C.Eng FRAes and Jeffrey Kindersley Quill OBE, AFC, 68 x 82 cms, framed with certificate, nr 545/850, published by Blaze Fine Arts.
Lot 220
*Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). A group of thirty-nine good quality gelatin silver print photographs of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill and their family home at Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, [1951], all taken by Harold David John Cole, FRPS, and former president of the Royal Photographic Society, eight images showing Sir Winston and Lady Churchill seated on an outdoor swing chair with their grandchildren, one of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill alone, five further photographs of Sir Winston Churchill including two of him seated in his library with a book, four more family related photographs, two of cat on a window-sill, and seventy mostly exterior shots of Chartwell without people, though one showing two gardeners hoeing next to a wheelbarrow with the initials W.S.C., plus five duplicate photos from the same series, all with the photographer's copyright stamp and address to versos, images approximately 18 x 19 cm and similar Full copyright to these images will transfer to the buyer of this lot with relevant paperwork supplied. The negatives have been lost but will be forwarded to the new owner of the copyright should they ever come to light. (44)
Lot 205
*Payne (Charles Johnson, "Snaffles"). The Season 1930 - 40, colour photolithographic print laid on printed backing card (as published), printed remarque of an army officer taking a jump in the hunting field, signed in pencil by artist, with crossed snaffle bits blindstamp, slight spotting to backing card, overall size 500 x 730 mm, framed and glazed (1)
Lot 4
Australia. Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations. Material and Photographs relating to the "Landing" of Captain Arthur Phillip, R.N., at Park Cove, Sydney, on 26th January 1938, 58 mimeographed typescript leaves including title page, one with full-page mimeographed sketch plan, 2 reproduction watercolour folding plans, mounted original brochure, tipped-in sample certificate, 27 silver gelatin print photographs and numbered typescript captions mounted to stiff card leaves, title page inscribed 'To Frank Harvey Esq. (Captain Arthur Phillip R.N.), from G D Williams (Captain John Hunter RN), with compliments and plesant memories of 26th January 1938, 23-8-38', post-bound in original cloth-covered boards, front board lettered in gilt, sunned and marked, folio (33.6 x 19 cm), together with original copper-alloy commemoration medal (5.7 cm diameter) Souvenir album produced to commemorate the 150th anniversary reenactment of the landing of the First Fleet. This copy was presented to the actor Frank Harvey (1885-1965), who played Phillip in the 1935 film Heritage, and in the reenactment itself. (1)
Lot 371
Bowden (Bertram Vivian). Faster Than Thought. A symposium on digital computing machines, 1st edition, Pitman, 1953, illustrations and plates, two folding tables tipped-in, original cloth in dust jacket, slightly browned and soiled, minor edgewear and rubbing, 8vo 'Begun as a sales brochure, this work became the most widely read early English introduction to electronic computing, remaining in print without changes as late as 1968'. Among the 24 computer experts who contributed was Alan Turing, "Digital computers applied to games". Origins of Cyberspace 504. (1)
Lot 509
Gruen (Bob). The Clash, 2015, limited edition 515/1250, loose original black and white signed print to front, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original wrappers in slipcase, large 8vo, together with O'Neill (Terry), Terry O'Neill: The A to Z of Fame, 1st edition, 2013, loose photo of Twiggy signed by Terry O'Neill to the bottom margin, also multiple signatures to the front endpaper, title page and rear publication page, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and Christie's Park Avenue (publisher), Dresses from the Collection of Diana, Princess of Wales, 1997, numerous colour illustrations, uniform original wrappers, 8vo, plus other modern photography reference and related, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (3 cartons)
Lot 215
Doyle (Arthur Conan, & others, contributors). The Strand Magazine, an Illustrated Monthly edited by George Newnes, volumes 1-62, 1st editions in book-form, George Newnes, Ltd, 1891-1921, wood-engraved and half-tone illustrations, colour illustrations in later volumes, volumes 1-26 with surface-paper endpapers, volumes 27-62 with spotting and browning to endpapers and occasionally to initial text leaves, original light blue cloth decorated in gilt and black, spines rubbed and faded, headcaps frayed, hinges or joints of most volumes cracked or tender (less so in later volumes), volume 12 front joint crudely repaired, some mottling or marking to sides, 8vo Cf. Green & Gibson pp. 404-14. An extensive run of the Strand Magazine, containing the first appearances in print of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-2) and the stories subsequently collected as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-2) and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1892-3), as well as many of Conan Doyle's stories outside the Sherlock Holmes canon. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. (62)
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