20TH CENTURY BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Catalogue Information: 95 lots | 78 with images
Lot 1: BECKETT, Samuel Barclay (1906-1989) and Louis LE BROCQUY (b.1916, artist). Stirrings Still. New York and London: Pierre Chave for Blue Moon Books and John Calder, 1988.
2o (342 x 226mm). Lithographic plate printed in 2 tones, 7 lithographic plates and one lithographic illustration by and after Le Brocquy printed by Chave. Original vellum-backed boards by 쳌tablissements Dermont-Duval, the upper cover with design afte [...more]
Lot 2: COCTEAU, Jean (1889-1963). L'Ode … Picasso po‰me 1917. Paris: Fran‡ois Bernouard for La Belle Edition, 1919.
8o (230 x 133mm). Woodcut publisher's device on title, divisional titles printed in open-face types filled by hand in red ink. The text printed within printed red borders. (Light browning at extremes of margins, occasional slight marking.) Later red [...more]
Lot 3: COCTEAU, Jean. Autograph manuscript signed, a review, ' Le moine de M.G. Lewis racont‚ par Antonin Artaud', n.d. [1931?], 51/2 pages, 4to (occasional annotations in a different hand, presumably an editor).
AN INTERESTING PIECE, DISCUSSING ARTAUD'S ADAPTATION OF A TRANSLATION OF MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS'S GOTHIC NOVEL, suggesting that translations are done in periods of sterility. 'Mr Artaud sait [...] quelles atroces p‚riodes on traverse aprŠs s'ˆtre d‚ba [...more]
Lot 4: COCTEAU, Jean. Typescript signed, an article entitled 'Pr‚face a quoi?', including approximately 35 autograph amendments (words and phrases), Santo-Sospir, St Jean Cap-Ferrat, 1957, 8 pages, 4to.
'Pr‚face a quoi? Il serait h‚las plus sage de faire ma valise et de pr‚parer aux adieux'. A meditation, opening on a somewhat valedictory note, on the changing role and nature of the artist and writer, the futility of fame, and referring particularly [...more]
Lot 5: FLEMING, Ian Lancaster (1908-1964). From Russia, With Love. London: The Alden Press for Jonathan Cape, 1957.
8o (187 x 123mm). (Lower corners of leaves lightly creased.) Original boards by A.W. Bain & Co. Ltd. blocked with red and silver revolver and rose design on the upper cover, the spine lettered in red and silver, dust-jacket with trompe-l'oeil revolve [...more]
