Lot 176
Poetic and artistic ephemera
£250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT
Description
MacBeth, George The Castle, The Last Will, Bats, The Heir, A Ritual, 3 typed copies of poems, each signed by author at head Lucie-Smith, Edward 2 typed copies of poems, one inscribed at head "One of 24, No. Edward Lucie-Smith"; Gawsworth, John watercolour on board showing wooded track, with inscription to verso: Given to me by Nina Hamnett, 7/1/1954 (see Laughing Tonso p.19 [14?]) John Gawsworth, signed NH to lower left and H.Hamnett to lower right corners; and other items relating to John Gawsworth; Dickins, Anthony, editor Poetry [no.1], February 1939; [Idem] Poetry [no. 2], April 1939; David Tindle RA (British, 1932) Pen and ink wash sketch on paper showing a house in moorland, signed and inscribed; Brecht, Berthold Caviar. 6 leaves typescript, allegedly translated into English by Ernst Schoen, in the presence of Brecht, unpublished; [attached to] a poem by Rilke, Die fischer von le lavandou, with a contemporary typed note stating that the poem is completely unknown; Heath-Stubbs, John [attributed to] typed leaf with the second half of C.S. Calverley's translation of The Death of Daphnis covered with illustrations in blue ink, attributed to John Heath Stubbs (for John Gawsworth) in pencil note to verso; Sackville, Lady Margaret A rhymed sequence. Edinburgh: The Porpoise Press, 1924. Small 4to, number 33 of 50 copies; and various other items (25)
