Lots 101 - 110
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Lot #101: (AUTOGRAPH LETTER) KENT, ROCKWELL. "VOYAGING SOUTHWARD FROM THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN"
New York & London, G.P. Putnam, 1924. First edition, 4TO. Illustrated by the author, Rockwell Kent. Pictorial mustard cloth binding. Pictoral dust jacket; closed tear and minor chip. Tipped is an autograph letter by Kent. The letter describes the Alaskan Wilderness and what it means to him as an artist and a man. Provides great insight into a complicated mind.
Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 600.00 Sold at $200 |
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Lot #102: (ROCKWELL KENT) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. "WORKS"
Garden City, 1936. 4TO, 2 volumes. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Publisher's blue cloth in slipcase. 1 of 750 signed by Kent.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 500.00 Sold at $150 |
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Lot #103: KENT, ROCKWELL, ANDRE DERAIN AND THOMAS HART BENTON: THREE TITLES
(1) Pushkin, Alexander. "Gabriel, A Poem in One Song." New York, Covici-Friede, 1929. Illustrated with 4 woodcuts by Rockwell Kent. 1 of 750 copies bound in sheepskin parchment. (2) Wilde, Oscar. "Salome." Paris, Limited Edition Club, 1938. 1 of 1500 copies illustrated with Pochoir plates and signed by Andre Derain. (3) Riggs, Lynn. "Green Grow the Lilacs." Norman, Limited Edition Club, 1954. 1 of 1500 copies illustrated and signed by Thomas Hart Benton. Note: Both the LEC titles are publisher's copies inscribed by George Marc to Oscar Serlin.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $100 |
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Lot #104: DE LACLOS, CHODERLOS. "LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES"
Paris, Black Sun Press, 1929. 14 color plates by Alastair. Original printed wraps and glassine. 1 of 1000 copies.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 750.00 |
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Lot #105: (1 OF 50) LARAN, JEAN. "L'OEUVRE GRAVE D'EUGENE BEJOT"
Paris, Bibliotheques Nationales de France, 1937. 4TO. Photogravure frontis, 3 original etchings and reproductions of Bejot's etchings and other prints. One-quarter vellum over marbled paper. Leather title labels on front board and spine. 1 of 50 copies, this number XXXV. Presentation on front free endpaper from Jean Laran to Hermann Webster.
Estimate: $ 600.00 - $ 800.00 |
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Lot #106: NO LOT |
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Lot #107: PICASSO, PABLO - SEVEN SCARCE BOOKS ON HIS ART
(1) (2 copies) "Verve" - Vol. 7, Nos. 25 & 26, devoted to Picasso's art. Both copies with spine perished. In French. (2) "Picasso à Antibes," Paris, 1948. Fine copy in wraps. (3) "Sculpture of Picasso," London, 1949. Fine copy. (4) Zervos. "Dessins de Picasso," Paris (Cahiers D'Art), 1949. (5) "Posters of Picasso," New York, 1957. (6) "Homage to Picasso on His 70th Birthday," London, 1951.
Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 600.00 |
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Lot #108: (1 OF 250) RANSOME, ARTHUR. "ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP"
London, Nisbet, 1919. Large 4TO. Illustrated by Thomas Mackenzie with 12 tipped in color plates, silhouette endpaper and black and white illustration. Gilt pictorial white cloth. Spine faded; two corners bumped. Top and bottom of spine frayed. Still a very attractive copy. 1 of 250 copies signed by Mackenzie.
Estimate: $ 1000.00 - $ 1500.00 Sold at $1500 |
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Lot #109: (LAUTREC) ROGER-MARX, CLAUDE. "YVETTE GUILBERT VUE PAR TOULOUSE - LAUTREC"
Paris, Au Port Des Arts, 1950. First edition, Folio. 62 loose plates, 31 are an extra suite in a seperate envelope and 2 original lithographs of "Columbia a Pierrot." Fine copy in original color pictorial wraps and slipcase. 1 of 150 copies with the two original lithographs and an extra suite of plates.
Estimate: $ 750.00 - $ 1000.00 Sold at $350 |
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Lot #110: (SIGNED) SZYK, ARTHUR. "VISUAL HISTORY OF NATIONS SERIES" - EIGHT SIGNED PIECES
Winnipeg, K. Bilaski, 1940's. 11 1/2 x 10 in. Eight heliochrome lithographs: History of Flight, Canada, China, France, Britain, Israel, Switzerland, U.S.S.R. All signed lower right. Intended as title pages and frontispieces for international stamp albums.
Estimate: $ 800.00 - $ 1000.00 Sold at $450 |
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