May 25, 2006 - Sale 2081

Sale 2081 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 4,370
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CHARMING HANDMADE WORK (CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Endres, Ernest. Sam Swift and the Twelve Gnomes: A Strange Story for Boys and Girls. By the Author of A Day with the Gnomes [title subscript]. Entirely hand-printed mock-up for publication. Contains ink-and-watercolor endpapers, frontispiece, additional title, 23 plates (including one double-page). 12mo, cloth-backed boards with hand-colored cover; text is typed and mounted to left-facing pages, a few corrections in Endres's hand, along with his property note and his own review slip with home address. New York, early 20th century
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A very charming and beautifully illustrated book, though no publication record exists. His book, A Day with the Gnomes, was published in London by Nister in 1910.