Nov 03, 2011 - Sale 2259

Sale 2259 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 15,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS (ALBUM.) Guestbook for the Isola Bella Restaurant, containing hundreds of items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed: drawings, Autograph Musical Quotations, photographs and Signatures, by artists, writers, musicians, politicians, and others, including a drawing Signed by Léon Bakst and another by Alfred Munnings, an Autograph Poem Signed by W.B. Yeats, Autograph Inscriptions Signed by T.S. Eliot, Theodore Dreiser, and Mary Pickford, and a Signature by Guglielmo Marconi. Most written 10 to a page but some items half- or full page, some items mounted to the page, most drawings graphite or ink but some with watercolor. 2 volumes. Large folio and large 4to, uniform later morocco. should be examined. London, 1919-33

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Léon Bakst. Graphite drawing Signed, "Bakst," sketch of a "Sleeping Princess" in elaborate dress. 11x11 inches; faint scattered staining. 1921 Alfred Munnings. Graphite drawing Signed, "AJMunnings," sketch of man feeding horse seated at dining table. 11x11 inches. 29 October 1919 William Butler Yeats. Autograph Poem Signed, "WB Yeats," four lines beginning, "Because this grisly year was wild." 5 July 1920 T.S. Eliot. Autograph Inscription Signed, "In grateful recognition of a superb time. / T.S. Eliot." Nd Theodore Dreiser. Autograph Inscription Signed, beginning, "Machiavelli himself would have been delighted." 2 February 1925 Mary Pickford. Autograph Inscription Signed, "M. Pickford, beginning, "If this is the goods the Gods give us." 1929 Guglielmo Marconi. Signature Jean du Bosschere. Illustrated Fools Day card, including ink drawings with watercolor, holograph text, in French. Mounted. Nd Edward McKnight Kauffer. Graphite drawing Signed, "E. McKnight Kauffer," sketch of a man in cubist style. 1919 Robert Anning Bell. Ink drawing Signed, "R. An. Bell," showing a gnome or halfling. 6x6 inches; mounted. Nd Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia. Signature and date. 14 January 1920 Muirhead Bone. Small ink drawing Signed, sketch of acid bottle and etching stylus. Nd Stephen Bone. Graphite drawing Signed, portrait of Francesco Barberi. 11x11 inches. 2 October 1920 Arthur Machen. Autograph Inscription Signed, "With the highest praise for the Fritta Mista." 25 June 1928 Stephen Gooden. Small ink drawing Signed, showing a mermaid pouring contents of cornucopia into mouth of dragon. 4 March 1932 others.