Description
Christie, Manson & Woods International, 1994. Paperback, 141 pp.; 27 cm; sale code VAILIMA-7964; color frontispiece, illustrated with color and black-and-white plates.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Illustrated front cover, plain olive-brown rear cover, white lettering on spine. Small tear at foot of spine, small surface loss at head of rear cover, surface scratches on rear cover, mild bumping and creasing to edges and corners. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Auction catalogue of 220 lots with estimates and full descriptions, from the properties of Mrs. Emily Fowler, Miss Frances H. Jones, Mr. Hank O'Neal, the Estate of Beatrice Bishop Berle and the Collection of Miss Alice Tully. Lot 136, frontispiece, is Jules Verne's autograph manuscript of Voyage au centre de la Terre, 193 pages, estimated at $200,000-250,000 and headed by the cataloguer "The only manuscript of a Jules Verne science-fiction novel likely to become available." Front cover reproduces a detail of lot 54, Reginald B. Birch's drawing for Little Lord Fauntleroy. Other lots include two jeweled Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindings on illuminated vellum manuscripts, Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner (275 jewels) and Longfellow's Selections (746 jewels), both illustrated in color; Trollope's autograph manuscript of North America, the printers' copy, 1,166 pages; Oscar Wilde's autograph manuscript of The Model Millionaire; a 13th-century English Bible from the Chester Beatty collection; Books of Hours; Melville's The Whale (London, 1851); Milton's Areopagitica; the Nuremberg Chronicle; and Hemingway's Three Stories & Ten Poems with the printer's archive for The Spanish Earth. Contents: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts (lots 1-11); Fine Bindings and Private Press Books (lots 12-33); General Printed Books and Manuscripts including Literature (lots 34-142); The Property of Miss Frances H. Jones (lots 143-220).