Estimated Price:

£700 - £1,000

Realised Price:

£9,000 ($16,364)

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A COLLECTION OF 415 VOLUMES BY VARIOUS PUBLISHERS, INCLUDING:

the obelisk press, including works by Eric Ward (Uncharted Seas, 1937, first edition), Henry Miller (The Rosy Crucifixion, 1949, 2 volumes, limited to 3,000 copies, an out of series copy, rebound in cloth; Black Spring, n.d.; Max and the White Pagocytes, n.d.; Tropic of Capricorn, n.d.; Tropic of Cancer, n.d.), "Sheila Cousins" (To beg I am ashamed, 1938), Lawrence Durrell (The Black Book, 1938, first edition), James Hanley (Boy, 1946), D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1936); the olympia press, including works by Henry Miller (Quiet Days in Clichy, 1956, first edition, photographs by Brassai), Plexus, n.d., limited to 2,000 copies), Paul Ableman (I Hear Voices, 1958, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket), Lawrence Durrell (The Black Book, n.d.), Samuel Beckett (Molly. Malone Dies. The Unnameable, 1959; three copies), Thomas Peachum (The Watcher and the Watched), D.A. F. de Sade (Justine, 1959; The 120 Days of Sodom, n.d.; The Bedroom Philosophers, n.d.), Robert Desmond (Heaven, Hell and the Whore, n.d.), Piere Angelique (A Tale of Satisfied Desire, n.d.); and various other presses and publishers, including The Perfumed Garden, Librairie "Astra", n.d.; Docteur Henri Drouin. Amours Bizarres et Singulières, M.A.P.E., n.d.; Helen Tucker. A Diary of the `Senses', Oceanic Press, n.d.; chiefly later issues or reprints, some first editions, chieflly original wrappers; 8vo (c.415)