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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)
Lot 159
CORNARIUS (JANUS)De conviviorum veterum Græcorum, & hoc tempore Germanorum ritibus, moribus ac sermonibus, italic type, woodcut historiated initials, final leaf with colophon, a little light browning, early inscriptions on title (partially crossed through), modern panelled calf gilt [Adams C2637; Bitting 99; Vicaire 211], Basel, [colophon: Joannes Oporinus], 1548--ATHENAEUS OF NAUCRATIS. Dipnosophistarum sive coenae sapientum libri XV, title with large woodcut printer's device, some dampstaining (title frayed and repaired, last leaf repaired with loss), modern calf-backed boards [Oberlé 8-10], folio, Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1572--RABELAIS (FRANCOIS) Les oeuvres, 4 vol., frontispiece with portrait of Rabelais by De Launay after Sarabat, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines gilt with paper shelf labels and one or two chips, 12mo, Geneva, [Cazin], 1782--GIOVIO (PAOLO) De Romanis piscibus libellus, doctus, copiosus & elegans, iam recens æditus, full-page woodcut device on last page, lacking preliminary leaves a4-5, nineteenth century calf-backed boards, decorative gilt spine, 8vo, Antwerp, Jean Graphaeus, 1528--[MARTIN (LOUIS)] L'eschole de Salerne en vers burlesques. Et Poema macaronicum, de bello Huguenotic, third edition, title and 2 following leaves repaired with slight loss, lacking frontispiece, later vellum [Vicaire 334], 4to, Paris, Jean Henault, 1650--RAPIN (RENE) Hortorum libri 4 editio altera, fine engraved title, privilege leaf at end, contemporary calf, 12mo, Paris, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1666; and works by Juvenal (1608), Ovid and Virgil (12)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
Lot 169
RECIPE BOOKDiana Astry's recipe book, comprising over 350 numbered recipes, mostly culinary, beginning with 'To Make Clear Crystoiell Jelly – Lady Drake', 'To Bake Ealls – S: Gr:', 'To Make a Carryway Pudding – S: Gr:', 'To Make a Very good Plum Cake – Mrs Ayres', 'To Make Pancakes the Lady Churchells way', 'To Make a Love Pye – Lady Rawlegh', 'To Preserve Green Wallnuts... – Mrs Ayres', 'To Make Dutch Beef – Mrs Ayres', 'To Make Cucumber Sawce – Lady Rawleigh', 'To Make Butter Sack – J:B:', 'To Make a Carritt Pudding – S: Gr;', 'To Make a Almond Foole – S: Gr:', 'To Make a Lemon Creame – E: A:', etc.; with a few recipes added at the end in a later eighteenth century hand; a few medical recipes reversed at the end; with contents list-cum-index at the beginning in Diana Astry's hand; inscribed on the front fly-leaf: 'an Old Receipt Book of Lady Rolt's – of Sacomb Park above an Hundred Years ago [rule] now 1790', some 350 pages, some blank leaves cut out towards the end, first leaf of contents split where ink has perished, original vellum, old shelf number on spine, 4to, [c.1700] (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
Lot 86
Shaw, George Bernard Four autograph letters and one typed, signed variously 'G.B.S.' or 'G. Bernard Shaw', 4 Whitehall Court, dated 1930-37 to The Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company, relating to the bindings of his works, one (1934) with original envelope. Two show Shaw's hands-on concern with the appearance of his Collected Works (which initially consisted of 30 works published in 1932). He pushes for a specific green dye for the cloth (as it remains fast even at the Equator) and advocates against the 'holland back' because he wants a decorative element to the presentation on a shelf. One (1930) is interesting bibliographically: Shaw requests they run a copy of one work up from waste in order to secure an interim American copyright. There is also a letter from Leighton-Straker in 1939 requesting the right to act on Shaw's behalf in securing War Risks insurance. Shaw's MSS reply at the foot displays a sanguine attitude to government actions. Finally there is a slip (from R.M.S. Empress of Britain, Haifa, 24/12/32) sending his compliments to an unnamed party. With two other letters from Dan H Lawrence (editor of the Collected Letters and Literary and Dramatic Advisor to the GBS estate) relating to these letters. [9]
Lot 279
An Edwardian rosewood and marquetry purdonium, shaped superstructure with mirror back above a marble top and fall front coal receptacle, inlaid with scrolling foliage, 92cm high; A George III mahogany 'bachelors' chest, oversailing crossbanded rectangular top above four long graduated drawers, bracket feet, 82cm wide; A George/William IV rosewood open bookcase, the upper shelf flanked by a pair of corolla capped elliptical cylindrical columns, plinth base, 120cm wide, c.1830; a floor standing bookcase; a wall mounted bookcase.
Lot 207
A Japanese lacquer box, of rectangular form, with rounded ends, profusely decorated with flowers with gilt highlights, 8cm H, 31cm W, 12cm D, a corner folding shelf decorated with flowers and a 19thC white metal on tortoiseshell box, of shaped form with figures to one side and deer to the other.
Lot 1838
Georgian mahogany shelf/mantel clock with Thos. Cosher, Tottenham to the painted Roman dial, the arch-topped inlaid case with reeded quarter columns inset with brass and with brass capitols over, the sides with brass-bound panels surmounted with lion mask decoration, the unsigned double fusee movement striking on a bell, the whole raised on brass bun feet, 41cm tall
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