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ANGLO-INDIAN BONE & IVORY-INLAID EBONY CABINET in the form of a palace facade, having three carved onion-domes within deeply floral-carved arched panel, series of six cabinets raised over shelf base with five lower drawers, probably Hoshiarpur, Punjab, circa 1890, 189cms h x 96cms w Provenance: cleared from a Grade II listed historic house, Snowdonia
Lot 4
PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY PIER CABINETS ebony and gilt mounted including caryatids, single glazed door, velvet lined shelves, 89cms wide Provenance: cleared from a Grade II listed historic house, SnowdoniaThe total height is 117cmsThe shelf depth is 30cms The locks work but there is only one key.There are lots of surface scratches and paint spots all over.There is some decoration missing (the leaves) on both cabinets.There is veneer missing at the bottom.The glass looks good on both.
Lot 223
JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941.Exiles. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1918. 8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed slate green paper-covered boards, blind-stamped upper cover, spine gilt lettered, publishers dust jacket. Small nick to edge of upper cover, light darkening and rubbing to edges; dust jacket with skillful restoration to spine and folds.Provenance: The Sunwise Turn, Inc. (bookseller's label on back paste-down, see below); William Pieper (small label at back and morocco bookplate?). FIRST EDITION, American issue published simultaneously with the English edition, featuring the rare dust jacket stating: 'A play in three acts that belongs on the shelf with Ibsen and Hauptmann.' The Sunwise Turn, Inc. 'A Modern Bookshop,' is one of the first women owned bookshops in America. It was a bookstore, gallery space, publisher (briefly considering publishing Ulysses) and gathering place for contemporary authors, founded by Madge Jenison and Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke in 1916 and operated until 1927. Slocum and Cahoon A15; see Madge Jenison, Sunwise Turn, A Human Comedy of Bookselling, New York, 1923; See Huw Osborne, editor, The Rise of the Modern Bookshop, Burlington, 2015, p 32.
Lot 239
KING, STEPHEN. B.1947.Eyes of the Dragon. Bangor, ME: Philtrum Press, 1984. Folio. Publisher's quarter black cloth and red hand-painted paper boards, matching slipcase. Minimal wear. LIMITED EDITION, number 732 of 1,000, numbered in black ink.WITH: Six Stories. Bangor, ME: Philtrum Press, 1997. 8vo. Publisher's plain white wrappers with burgundy printed jacket. Lacking publisher's slipcase, slight shelf wear. LIMITED EDITION, number 712 of 1,100 (but only 900 distributed to 100 copies being damaged in production), signed by the author on the limitation page.
Lot 90
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910.Photograph Initialed ('SLC') and inscribed 'Oh, I could, couldn't, couldn't get a count out of this arrangement!' [month illegible] 7, 1908, gelatin silver print, approximately 11 x 14 inches, tipped to board and matted, depicting Clemens standing at his billiard table, inscription somewhat faint, two words traced over, a few stray marks.Clemens, dapper in his trademark white three-piece suit, studies the three balls on the billiard table, two long rows of books are visible on the shelf behind him. Clemens became obsessed with billiards late in his life when he received a table as a gift before his 71st birthday.
Lot 660
SOWERBY, John Edward (1825-70). English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. Third Edition. London: George Bell & Sons, 1887-92. 13 volumes including "Supplementary" volume, 4to (252 x 175mm). 1,937 wood-engraved plates, almost all hand-coloured (some light mainly marginal staining and browning). Contemporary green half morocco gilt, spines with raised bands, top edges gilt (spines faded, extremities rubbed, some scuffing). Provenance: Public Library, Worthing (bookplate, and library stamps mostly to the blank margins of the plates; bought as "Lot 1844" (pencil note on front free endpapers) at public auction); shelf-marks stamped in gilt at foot of spines. cf. Henrey 1366: "... as an illustrated flora of our country it has never been surpassed"; Hunt 717; Nissen BBI 2225. (13)
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