Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN PRESSES.) Group of 10 volumes. Illustrated. Various sizes and bindings. Each a limited edition. GG. Vp, vd

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(Spiral Press). Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. 424/585 copies. Red calf spine rubbed with surface loss. New York, 1929 (John Henry Nash for William Andrews Clark, Jr.). Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude Left Unfinished by Mr. Gray, and Since Completed. Frontispiece after Thomas Rowlandson and facsimile signature of the ode laid into separate folder and numbered 41/200 as is the book's colophon. Chemise and slipcase. San Francisco, 1933 (The Colt Press). Norris. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco. Illustrated by Otis Oldfield. One of 500 unnumbered copies. San Francisco, 1941 (Elston Press). Greene. Pandosto, or The Historie of Dorastus and Fawnia. Printed in red and black; Elston Press prospectus for Aucassin and Nicolette laid in; Pope. The Rape of the Lock, an Heroi-Comical Poem. Printed in red and black. Each one of 160 unnumbered copies. New Rochelle, 1902 (Gehenna Press). Burns. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata. Printed in red and black. Wood-engraved portrait of Burns by Gillian Lewis. Out-of-series copy from an edition of 300; Nathan. The Matchmaker's Lament and Other Astonishments. Printed in red and black. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Joints starting. 121/400 copies. (Northhampton, 1963; 1967) (Gravesend Press). The Three Admirable Accidents of Andrea de Piero From the First Englyshed Edition of the Decameron of John Boccaccio with Woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. 17/200 copies. Lexington, 1954 (Chillmark Press/Rampant Lions Press). Reed. Lessons of The War. Printed in grey and black. 367/420 copies. New York, 1970 (Janus Press). A Fable of Bidpai. Wood block illustrations by Helen Siegl. West Burke, Vt., 1974.