FINE PRESS, ILLUSTRATION AND ANIMATION

Lots 375–425

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375 (ALBONDOCANI PRESS) OATES, JOYCE CAROL A group of two signed works published by the Albondocani Press, comprising Women in Love and Other Poems, New York, 1968, and Cupid & Psyche, New York, 1970.

8vo, decorative wraps. Limited editions, signed by Oates on the limitation pages. Light offsetting from wraps to endpapers; otherwise fine. $100-200

376* (ARION PRESS) STERNE, LAURENCE The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988.

3 vols. 4to, main volume in quarter green leather over marbled boards, the other two in green gilt-lettered boards, slipcase. Illustrated with photo-collages by John Baldessari. Limited edition, one of 400 copies signed by Baldessari in the accordion-bound photocollage volume. Light wear to boards; dampstaining and rubbing to slipcase; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $600-800 377 (CIRCLE PRESS) CHAUCER, GEOFFREY The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Illustrated with original screen images by Ronald King. (Guilford, Surrey): Circle Press, (1978).

Folio, publisher’s blue cloth, silver gilt-lettered spine, matching slipcase. Limited edition, number 80 of 250 copies signed by Ronald King and original screen-print specially produced for this publication housed in folder at the back. Light wear to slipcase; otherwise very fine. $100-200

378 (CRESSET PRESS) HERRICK, ROBERT The Poetical Works. With a preface by Humburt Wolfe and decorations by Albert Rutherston. London: Cresset Press, 1928.

4 vols. 12mo, publisher’s imitation vellum, giltlettered spine, slipcase, t.e.g., others uncut. One of 750 numbered sets. Light toning to spines; some wear to slipcase. $100-200 379* (CUALA PRESS) YEATS, J.B. Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats: Selected by Ezra Pound. Churchtown: Dundrum, Cuala Press, 1917.

8vo, publisher’s linen-backed boards, paper spine label, partially unopened. Limited edition, one of 400 copies. [Together with:] Two works by William Butler Yeats, comprising: Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth. The Wild Swans at Coole. London: Macmillan, 1919. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth gilt. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $100-200

380* (CUALA PRESS) YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER Responsibilities: Poems and a Play. Churchtown: Dundrum, Cuala Press, 1914.

8vo, publisher’s cloth-backed boards, partially unopened. Limited edition, number 152 of 400 copies. Boards lightly soiled; corners and spine ends bumped; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Richard A. Grant, Morris, Minnesota $100-200

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381 (DOVES PRESS) COBDEN-SANDERSON (T. J.) London: A Paper Read at a Meeting of the Art Workers Guild by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, March 6 1891. (S.l.: Doves Press, 1906).

Small 4to, original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, text in red and black by the Doves Press. Light soiling to vellum; otherwise fine. $100-200

382 (FOLIO SOCIETY) LETTERPRESS SHAKESPEARE London: The Folio Society, Macbeth, 2007; Othello, 2007; Julius Caesar, 2008; and Coriolanus, 2008.

4 sets, each title 2 vols. Folio and 8vo, original half morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g., accompanying volume in full cloth, housed in folding clamshell case with gilt-lettered spine labels. Each one of 3750 copies printed by letterpress on mould-made paper. All fine. $600-800

383 (FOLIO SOCIETY) LETTERPRESS SHAKESPEARE London: The Folio Society, King Lear, 2007; Hamlet, 2007; Titus Andronicus, 2008; and Anthony and Cleopatra, 2008.

4 sets, each title 2 vols. Folio and 8vo, original half morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g., accompanying volume in full cloth, housed in folding clamshell case with gilt-lettered spine labels. Each one of 3750 copies printed by letterpress on mould-made paper. All fine. $600-800 387

384 (FOLIO SOCIETY) LETTERPRESS SHAKESPEARE London: The Folio Society, The Tempest, 2008; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2008; As You Like It, 2008; and Twelfth Night, 2008.

4 sets, each title 2 vols. Folio and 8vo, original half morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g., accompanying volume in full cloth, housed in folding clamshell case with gilt-lettered spine labels. Each one of 3750 copies printed by letterpress on mould-made paper. All fine. $600-800

385 (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS) BROWNE, WILLIAM Circe and Ulysses. The Inner Temple Masque. Edited by Gwyn Jones. [London:] Golden Cockerel Press, 1954.

8vo, publisher’s green morocco gilt. Illustrated with seven wood-engravings by Mark Severin. One of 100 specially bound with four extra illustrations. [Together with:] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. A Prose Translation with an Introduction by Gwyn Jones. (London, 1952) Small folio, full imitation vellum, gilt-stamped, decorative slipcase. With six engravings in color by Dorothea Braby. Hero & Leander. Translated from the Greek of Musaeus by F.L. Lucas. (London, 1949) Thin 8vo, publisher’s red and yellow gilt-stamped linen. Limited, one of 500 copies, with engravings by John Buckland-Wright. $200-400

386 (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS) FIELDING, HENRY A Journey From This World to the Next. Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1903.

8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped buckram. Limited edition, number 344 of 500 copies. With six etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier. Light wear to boards; darkening to spine; otherwise fine. $100-200 (GRABHORN PRESS) GINSBERG, ALLEN Howl, for Carl Solomon. New York: Grabhorn Press, 1971.

4to, original decorative tan linen with artwork by Robert La Vigne. One of 275 copies on hand-made paper printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Signed by Ginsberg on the title page. Fine. $400-600

388 (GRAVESEND PRESS) LANG, ANDREW, trans. The Song-Story of Aucassin & Nicolette. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Lexington, KY: Gravesend Press, 1957.

Thin 8vo, publisher’s blue silk-backed boards, giltlettered spine, plain dust jacket. Limited edition, one of 200 copies set by hand in Jessen type and printed on dampened Hayle hand-made paper by Jacob Hammer and signed on the colophon by the artist. Bookplate tipped in front pastedown. Light rubbing to cloth; otherwise fine. $100-200

389 (KELMSCOTT PRESS) BURNE-JONES, EDWARD The Beginning of the World. Twenty-Five Pictures. London: Longmans, Green, 1903.

4to, quarter cloth over green boards, printed dust wrapper. Printed at the Chiswick Press. New edition. With 25 wood engravings made for an illustrated edition of Mr. Mackail’s “Biblia Innocentium,” produced for the Kelmscott Press. Chipping to dust wrapper with some loss to head and tail of spine; boards faded and bumped; endpapers darkened; ephemera tipped in front pastedown; otherwise fine. $500-700

390 (KELMSCOTT PRESS) MORRIS, WILLIAM The Roots of the Mountains. London: Chiswick Press, for Reeves and Turner, 1890.

8vo, publisher’s floral cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Limited to 250 copies printed on Whatman paper, uncut. Boards slightly rubbed and faded; bookplate tipped in front pastedown. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $1,000-2,000

391 (KELMSCOTT PRESS) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM The Poems of William Shakespeare. Printed After the Original Copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593 The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover’s Complaint. (Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893).

8vo, original limp vellum with cloth ties, gilt-lettered spine, title in red and black. Limited edition, one of 500 copies printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, with seven woodcut initials, 3 pp. with woodcut borders. One tie torn; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Literature: Peterson A11 $2,000-4,000

392 (KELMSCOTT PRESS) A group of five books pertaining to or printed by the Kelmscott Press and William Morris. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

393 (LAKESIDE PRESS) MELVILLE, HERMAN Moby Dick; or, The Whale. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1930.

3 vols. 4to, publisher’s black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, lacking slipcase. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, signed by the author and the printer, profusely illustrated by Kent. Light edgewear and some fading to boards; bookplates tipped in front pastedown. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $1,000-2,000

394 (LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of six volumes.

The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser, 1953. 2 vols. Confessions of an English Opium Eater. By Thomas De Quincey. Printed for LEC at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In Fifteen Books. Printed for LEC at the Officina Bodoni in Verona, 1958. Aesop’s Fables. Samuel Croxall’s Translation, 1933. Utopia. By Thomas Moore, 1934 $100-200

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396 395 (NONESUCH PRESS) MONTAIGNE, (MICHAEL EYQUEM DE) Montaigne’s Essays. Translated by John Florio. London: Nonesuch Press, 1931.

2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s tan morocco with vignette to upper board in gilt and green morocco spine labels, t.e.g., others uncut. Limited edition, one of 1375 copies. Spines darkened. $100-200

396 (NONESUCH PRESS) BURTON, ROBERT The Anatomy of Melancholy. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925.

2 vols. 4to, publisher’s vellum-backed decorative boards, uncut. Limited edition, one of 250 copies illustrated by E. Mcnight Kauffer. Slight darkening to spines with ends lightly bumped. $200-400

397 (NONESUCH PRESS) A group of three works.

Ten Sermons. By John Dunne. London, 1923. 4to, publisher’s linen-backed brown boards. One of 725 copies. Chapman. By Havelock Ellis. Bloomsbury, 1934. 8vo, publisher’s full morocco, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. One of 700 copies on Van Gelder paper. The Death of Christopher Marlowe. By J. Leslie Hotson. London: The Nonesuch Press; Cambridge: Harvard Press, 1925. Thin 8vo, brown linen. $100-200

398 (NONESUCH PRESS) MILTON, JOHN and HENRY LAWES The Mask of Comus. Ornamented by M.R.H. Farrar. Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1937.

Folio, publisher’s blind-stamped imitation vellum boards, gilt-lettered spine, board slipcase with decorative pastedown label. Limited edition, number 65 of 950 copies printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Slipcase worn with loss along lower edge. $100-200

399 (OFFICINA BODONI) Officina Bodoni: The Operation of a Hand-Press during the first six years of its work. New York: Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1929.

4to, publisher’s gilt-stamped cream cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Limited edition, number 34 of 500 copies, complete with 12 full-page woodcut illustrations by Frans Masereel and numerous illustrations and specimens tipped in. Text block detached from spine; ex-library with bookplate tipped in front pastedown; first few leaves starting. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

400 (RICCARDI PRESS) FITZGERALD, SCOTT The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: The Riccardi Press, 1913.

8vo, full vellum lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Number 219 of 1,000 copies on handmade paper. Light soiling to boards; bookplate tipped to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. $200-400

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401 (SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS) SPENSER, EDMUND The Works. St. Aldates, Oxford: Basil Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-1932.

8 vols. 4to, publisher’s quarter green calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, uncut. Limited edition, number 190 of 375 copies, 350 of which were printed for sale. With wood engravings throughout by Hilda Quick and initials and headings by Joscelyne Gaskin, hand-colored. Minor wear to boards; otherwise a very fine set. $600-800

402 (ANVIL PRESS) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Shake-speares Sonnets. Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1956.

8vo, publisher’s boards, paper spine label. Number 56 of 240 copies printed after the Praetorius facsimile edition from the copy of the First Quarto (1609) in the British Museum. Layout by Victor Hammer. Printed by Jacob Hammer. [Together with:] The Tempest. Anvil Press, 1993. 8vo, publisher’s cloth-backed illustrated boards. Limited, printed after Edward Capell’s 1768 edition. Type by Victor Hammer. With an original woodcut by Gloria Thomas printed by the Windell Press. As You Like It. With decorations by John Austen. Introduced by G.B. Harrison. London: William Jackson (Books), 1939. 4to, publisher’s red cloth with pastedown label. First edition, with numerous color illustrations. Venus and Adonis. Edited by John Doebler. Tempe, [AZ]: Pyracantha Press, 1984. 4to, 3/4 black leather over cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Limited, one of 120 copies on handmade paper. (4 total) $100-200 403 (BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY) ANDRE (MAJOR JOHN) Andre’s Journal. An Authentic Record of the Movements and Engagements of the British Army in America from June 1777 to November 1778 as Recorded from Day to Day by Major John Andre. Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1903.

2 vols. 4to, full vellum with gilt shield stamped to upper covers, spines lettered in gilt. Limited to 487 copies, one of 467 copies printed on handmade paper for members of the Bibliophile Society. Complete with 2 portraits, 7 facsimiles and 38 maps, some folding, some double page. Soiling to boards; scattered foxing heaviest at title pages; otherwise good. $200-400

404 (CAXTON CLUB) KENYON, FREDERIC Ancient Books and Modern Discoveries. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1927.

Folio, publisher’s vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g, others uncut. Limited edition, one of 350 copies designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Printing house of William Edwin Rudge for the Caxton Club. Lacking slipcase; light soiling to vellum and edgewear to boards. $100-200 405 (CAXTON CLUB) WILLOUGHBY, HAROLD R. The Coverdale Psalter and the Quatrocentenary of the Printed English Bible. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1935.

Folio, publisher’s red cloth gilt, board slipcase, t.e.g., others uncut. Limited edition, one of 225 copies of this facsimile printed at the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, for the Caxton Club. Light wear and soiling to boards and slipcase; otherwise fine. $100-200

406 (CAXTON CLUB) Two limited edition works published by the Caxton Club, Chicago.

An Essay on Colophons. By Alfred W. Pollard. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1905. 8vo, quarter vellum, slipcase. Limited to 225 copies (??). Light foxing to endpapers; otherwise fine. The Trees of the Genealogia Deorum. By Boccaccio. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1923. Folio, 3/4 vellum, slipcase. Limited to 160 copies. Slipcase broken; otherwise fine. $100-200

407* (GROLIER CLUB) EATON, WALTER PRICHARD New York, a Series of Wood Engravings. New York: Grolier Club, 1915.

4to, original cloth-backed blue boards, gilt-lettered spine label, uncut, slipcase. Limited to 250 copies, with 10 full-page color woodblocks. Some light brownspotting to endpapers; wear to slipcase. Property from the Collection of Florence Shay, Titles, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois $300-500

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408 (DULAC, EDMUND) ROSENTHAL, LEONARD The Kingdom of the Pearl. New York: Brentano’s, n.d. [c. 1920]

Folio, publisher’s vellum-backed boards stamped in gilt, giltlettered spine, decorative endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut. Limited edition number 47 of 100 copies printed for sale in the United States, signed by Dulac on the limitation page. Illustrated with 10 tipped-in color plates by Dulac, each with captioned tissue-guard. Light wear and soiling to boards; otherwise fine. $300-500

409 (GREENAWAY, KATE) A group of nine books illustrated by or pertaining to Greenaway. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

410 (KING, JESSIE M.) The High History of the Holy Graal. Illustrated by Jessie M. King. Translated by Sebastien Evans. London: J.M. Dent, 1903.

4to, rebound in crushed white leatherette with original vellum cover design by King pasted down, heightened with gilt, silver-gilt lettered spine, renewed endpapers, partially unopened. First edition, with 24 plates of illustrations by Jessie M. King on India paper with tissue guards. Limited edition, number 7 of 225 large paper copies. Intermittent foxing; otherwise near fine. $1,000-2,000

411 LEECH, JOHN (RUSKIN, JOHN) Original Pencillings. S.l.: s.n., n.d. [1856-1857]

4to, gilt-lettered morocco, a.e.g. With photograph of printed letter from John Ruskin and 12 original pencil sketches for Punch and Beckett’s Comic History of England. Light rubbing to boards at edges; intermittent foxing; otherwise good. $400-600

412 (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) MALORY, THOMAS The Romance of King Arthur. New York: Macmillan, 1917.

4to, gilt-lettered white leather, t.e.g. First American edition. Hinges cracked with soiling to boards and some loss to the head of spine; bookplate tipped in front pastedown. $300-500 413 (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) HOPE, ANTHONY The Dolly Dialogues. London: “Westminster Gazette,” 1894.

8vo, rebound in quarter red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, reprinted from the Westminster Gazette. With original red upper wrapper designed by Arthur Rackham. Light intermittent foxing; original wrapper lightly soiled. $150-250

414 (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) MOORE, CLEMENT C. The Night Before Christmas. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, n.d. [1931]

8vo, publisher’s limp vellum, gilt-lettered, slipcase. Limited edition signed by the artist, number 45 of 275 for sale in America, of a total edition of 550. Presentation inscription to half-title with slight bleedthrough to limitation page; wear to slipcase. $600-800 415 (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) WAGNER, RICHARD The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday-Page, 1910.

4to, publisher’s full vellum lettered in gilt, untrimmed. Limited edition, number 697 of 1,150 signed by Rackham. Illustrated with 34 tipped-in color plates. Light offsetting to title page; inner hinges cracked; vellum darkened; lacks ribbon ties; faint smell of smoke. $400-600

416 (TORY, GEOFROY) BERNARD, AUGUSTE Geofroy Tory. Painter and Engraver. First Royal Printer: Reformer of Orthography and Typography Under Francois I. An Account of His Life and Works. Translated by George B. Ives. (New York): The Riverside Press, 1909.

4to, publisher’s green cloth, gilt. Limited to 370 numbered copies. Spine slightly faded; bookplate tipped in front pastedown. $100-200

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418 417 (WALT DISNEY STUDIOS) PINOCCHIO Honest John the Fox, 1939. Gouache on trimmed celluloid applied to a likely original master background in watercolor, with the “Courvoisier Galleries” sticker to the verso. Fine condition. Framed and matted. 8 1/3 x 13 inches. $2,000-4,000

418 (WALT DISNEY STUDIOS) BAMBI A group of two original production cels, comprising Bambi meeting Thumper and his siblings and Thumper watching birds, 1942.

Bambi meeting Thumper is on a watercolor background, multi-cel set-up with an overlay, evidence of animator’s annotation to bottom corners. A card signed “Walt Disney” was tipped beneath the frame and accompanies this lot. Thumper watching birds is also multi-cel, two overlays, on a watercolor background. Size of largest 9 x 8 1/2 inches. $3,000-5,000

419 (WALT DISNEY STUDIOS) SOCIETY DOG SHOW Original production drawing from The Society Dog Show, (Walt Disney Studios, 1939), graphite and colored pencil on animation paper. Depicting Pluto leaping on the judge. 16 x 17 1/2 inches. $100-200

420 (WALT DISNEY STUDIOS) ALICE IN WONDERLAND Original production drawing from Alice in Wonderland, (Walt Disney Studios, 1951), graphite and colored pencil on animation paper. Depicting the Cheshire Cat. Together with a card signed by Ward Kimball. 16 x 27 inches. $300-500

421 (WALT DISNEY STUDIOS) ALICE IN WONDERLAND Original production cel from Alice in Wonderland, (Walt Disney Studios, 1951), gouache on celluloid, on a reproduction background. Depicting the Mad Hatter. 19 x 21 inches. $400-600

422 (WALT DISNEY STUDIOS) Two production cels of Goofy, the first on plain background showing Goofy driving a car, the second on reproduction background showing Goofy walking. Framed. Size of largest frame 13 x 15 inches. $600-800

423 (WARNER BROS.) JONES, CHUCK Two limited edition sericels from the Sherlock Daffy cartoon, both signed (lower right), and numbered (lower left), both limited to 200. Warner Bros. Inc., 1984. Depicting Sherlock Daffy and Porky Pig. Framed and matted. 19 1/2 x 17 inches each. $500-700

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424 (WARNER BROS.) JONES, CHUCK Limited edition sericel from the Sherlock Daffy cartoon, signed (lower right) and numbered (lower left), limited to 100. Warner Bros. Inc., 1981. Depicting Sherlock Daffy. Framed and matted. 17 x 19 1/2 inches. $300-500

424A* (COMIC ART) BRICKMAN, MORRIE A group of three original Sunday comic strips, each single panel, two inscribed by the artist. Framed and matted. 7 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches each. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $50-100 425* (COMIC ART. DOONESBURY) TRUDEAU, GARRY Original Sunday comic strip art, Universal Press Syndicate, 1978. 8-panel, depicting Mike Doonesbury watching a news broadcast on Cairo. Together with another example, 1977, 4-panel. Both signed and framed. Size of largest 21 x 28 1/2 inches. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $400-600