May 23, 2024 - Sale 2670

Sale 2670 - Lot 101

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
Heller, Helen West (1872-1955)
Migratory Urge. Wood-Cut Poems. Limited Edition, Inscribed Presentation Copy.

Chicago: Franklin J. Meine [at the Hogarth Press], 1928.

Octavo, copy number 20 of 109 printed, with lengthy inscription to Harold Jones on front free endleaf, "We will not forget the old days in the corner basement studio - when the grate fire crackled and the leaves fell on the park drive. HRH"; all contents printed from woodblocks, illustrations and text; deckle edges throughout; all sheets joined at top edge, as intended, to prevent the strongly inked images from competing with one another by showing through the paper (front cover detached and chipped with loss of one corner and marginal losses and chips, contents good); 7 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.