Catalogue of nineteenth century and modern first editions, presentation copies, autograph letters and literary manuscripts ... which will be sold by auction by Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA ... ; days of sale: Monday, 4th December, 1972 ... lots 1-367; Tuesday, 5th December, 1972 ..., lots 651-906.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

143 pages, 2 leaves of plates : facsimiles ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : sotheby & Co., 1972.

Notes:

906 lots.

Sale code: WOODSTOCK

Place of sale: London.

Including Bridge's Poems written in the year MCMXIII, inscribed to Sir Henry Newbolt; Eliot's Prufrock, 1917, signed by the author; Graves's Goliath and David, 1916, inscribed to Newbolt and other works inscribed to Graves's mother; a collection of works of Graham Greene, inscribed to Dorothy Glover; Yeats's A packet for Ezra Pound, 1929, inscribed by the author to Edith Sitwell and with corrections in his hand; first editions and presentation copies of Beckett, Beerbohm, Samuel Butler, Churchill, Aleister Crowley, Nancy Cunard, De la Mare, Darrell, Eliot, Housman, Henry James, Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Henry Miller, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, Michael Sadleir, Siegfried Sassoon, Shaw, Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, Dylan Thomas, Wells and Virginia Woolf, good collections of Roy Campbell and John Masefield; letters and manuscripts of Daisy Ashford, Beckett, Blunden, Roy Campbell, Churchill, Edward Gordon Craig, C. Day Lewis, Alfred Douglas, Edward Dowden, Eliot, Roy Fuller, Housman, Ronald Knox, Somerset Maugham, William Plower, Ruskin, Evelyn Waugh, Arnold Wesker, Wilde and Yeats; a collection of autograph manuscripts of Drummond Allison; important series of letters of Gandhi and Robert Graves; the extensive correspondence between Sir Edward Marsh and Ivor Novello;

Shaw's Cashel Bryon's profession, very extensively revised by the author for the "new edition"; autograph drafts of the novels of Mrs. Humphrey Ward.

OCLC:

171658409