Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(NONESUCH PRESS.) Genesis. Printed by the Curwen Press in Neuland type. 12 woodcut plates by Paul Nash. 4to, original gilt-stamped black paper-covered boards, a few surface scuffs, some mild staining to rear board; front fly-leaf toned, unopened; later dust jacket. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. (London), 1924
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number 338 of 375 copies. Nash's Cubist-inspired illustrations were at first considered somewhat experimental for the Nonesuch readership, particularly due to the subject matter. But subsequently his woodcuts have acquired a reputation as among the best the press commissioned. A History of the Nonesuch Press, p. 148.