Various private presses
17 volumes, comprising
£550
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Osborne, Charles Swansong. Shenval Press, 1968, limited to 500 copies, copy no. 56 and signed by Osborne and Sidney Nolan, black backed brown cloth; Manning, Hugo The Secret Sea. Trigram Press, 1968, one of 500 copies, inscribed to Alan Anderson from the author, original cloth, dustwrapper; Mardersteig, Giovanni The Officina Bodni. Verona, 1980, 4to, cloth, slipcase; Carter, Will Carter's Caps. Rampant Lion Press, 1982. Oblong 4to, original wrappers; Schroder, John Collecting Rupert Brooke. Rampant Lions Press, 1992, one of 250 copies, original decorated boards; Emery, Jack The Putney Debates. The Rampant Lions Press, 1983, number 173 of 500 copies, original quarter cloth, slipcase; Causley, Charles Twenty-one Poems. The Celandine Press, 1986, number 156 of 300 copies, original quarter cloth and marbled boards; Pope, Alexander Imitations of English Poets. Libanus Press, 1987, number 132 of 300 copies, original quarter cloth; Bryant, Arthur Historian's Holiday. The Dropmore Press, 1946, number 364 of 550 copies, original blue cloth; Hobson, Harold Recollections of Occurrences. The Dropmore Press, 1951, 8vo, original cloth, dustwrapper; Themerson, Stefan Jankel Adler. Gaberbocchus Press, 1948, 4to, number 63 of 400 copies, signed by Adler and Themerson, original wrappers spotted, contents lightly discoloured; Chamberlain, Brenda Alus Lewis & the Making of the Caseg Broadsheets. Enitharmon Press, 1970, number 205 of 300 copies signed by the author, dustwrapper; Crossley-Holland, Kevin Oenone in January. The Old Stile Press, 1988, number 84 of 350 copies signed by author and illustrator, John Lawrence, original boards, slipcase; Cary, Joyce The Old Strife at Plant's. Oxford: New Bodleian, 1956, number 95 of 100 copies signed by author and Herbert Davis, original boards lightly discoloured; Cary, Joyce Illustrations by Joyce Cary for The Old Strife at Plant's. number 11 and unnumbered copy of 100 copies signed by Cary, original grey wrappers (17)