- A VICTORIAN ROYAL NAVY SHIP CAPTAIN'S
PAINTED BLACK GRO... PAINTED BLACK GROUND CHEST OF DRAWERS, TITLED "Ships Log, and Charts," 1865, the rectangular top inscribed "Captain B. Wilmot Sitwell," over a hand-painted...
[more like this] - LOUISE NEVELSON "BESIDE THE SEASIDE"
SILKSCREENLouise Nevelson (American, 1899-1988). Screenprint on acetate over serigraph on glossy white wove paper titled "I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside," from the portfolio...
[more like this] - JOHN GOULD (GREENLAND GYRFALCON) FALCO
CANDICANS**First Time At Auction**
John Gould (British, 1804-1881). "(Greenland Gyrfalcon) Falco Candicans" - an original antique hand-colored lithograph of the Greenland...
[more like this] - FINE & SMALL PRESS, (8) VOLS. POETRY,
SOME SIGNED Includes: 1) The Poems of William Blake. At the Florence Press, Chatto & Windus, 1921, vellum binding, initialed "c.g.a.Hill" on front endpaper; 2) Thirty Poems...
[more like this] - (2) LOUISE NEVELSON (AMERICAN, 1899
- 1988) FROM FACADE: AN HOMAGE TO EDITH SITWELL 1966. "Mariner-Man" & "Lullabye for Jumbo" Photo-screenprint collage on wove paper. Unsigned Artist Proof. Drystamp, lower...
[more like this] - SELECTION OF 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE
Including works and biographies of W. H. Auden, Arthur Machen, George Santayana, Logan Pearsall Smith, and Sacheverell Sitwell; comprising about 20 volumes....
[more like this] - GREAT HOUSES & PALACES REFERENCE BOOKS,
11 Eleven great houses and palaces reference books, including: "Great Houses of Europe" by Sacheverell Sitwell, "Westmore and Portland Places: The History and Architecture...
[more like this] - CLASSICISM & PERIOD INTERIOR DESIGN
REFERENCE BOOK Twelve reference books on Classicism and Period Interior Design comprising "Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior 1620-1920" by Peter Thornton, "Eighteenth...
[more like this] - NINE EARLY OR FIRST EDITION INTERNATIONAL
HARDCOVER POETRY VOLUMESNine Early or First Edition International Hardcover Poetry Volumes,, Consisting of: 'The Collected Poems of Hart Crane', Edited by Waldo Frank for...
[more like this] - SIR OSBERT SITWELL, FIVE VOLUMES, PUBLISHED
BY LITTLE, BROWN AND CO., 1951Sir Osbert Sitwell, Five Volumes, Published by Little, Brown and Co., 1951,...
[more like this] - CHARLES HENRI FORD, (26) ISSUES VIEW,
1941-1947 Includes Marcel Duchamp number with fold-out insert, covers and writings by Ernst, Man Ray, Calder, O'Keefe, Leger, Noguchi, Magritte, Joseph Cornell, Wallace Stevens,...
[more like this] - Cecil Beaton
(English/American, 1904
- 1980)
Edith Sitwell at Renishaw c. 1930
silver gelatin print
9 x 7 inches.
Property from a Jupiter Island Estate, Hobe Sound, Florida...
[more like this] - James Purdy (1914-2009) Letters Short
Stories and Books When James Purdy died 13 March 2009 the New York Times referred to his work as ?wayward and unclassifiable.? Playwright poet author of short stories and...
[more like this] - Lot of 11 Books by James Purdy Most
Signed Lot of 10 books by James Purdy plus one book of essays about Purdy. One of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century avant garde Purdy...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Glenway Wescott & Monroe Wheeler:
Wescott, Glenway. The Babe's Bed. Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1930. 1st ed., #346/375 signed by Wescott. Sq. 8vo, orig. red cloth; minor wear, slipcase (edge wear). * _ _....
[more like this] - Lot of 7 Purdy Books Most Foreign Language
In the early years Purdy found more acceptance in Europe than in the United States. He was more than a little cynical about the ''liberal'' New York literati who were offended...
[more like this] - Lot of 6 Novels by James Purdy Some
Signed Called ''an authentic American genius'' by Gore Vidal James Purdy wrote some dozen novels and many more short stories plays and poems many of which were collected into...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Sitwell, Sacheverell; Madol,
Roger. Album de Redoute. (London): Collins, 1954. #129/250 signed by Sitwell & Madol. Tall folio, orig. 1/2 green morocco & marbled bds., spine gilt; very slightly dusty,...
[more like this] - 4 vols. (Curwen Press - The Ariel Poems
Series Titles): Davies, W.H. Moss and Feather. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. #490/500 signed by Davies. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered beige bds.; light edge wear, spine darkened,...
[more like this] - 8 vols. Literature - First Editions:
Eliot, T.S. The Confidential Clerk. London: Faber & Faber, (1954). 1st ed. 8vo, orig. blue cloth; slightly scuffed, d/j (chipped & repaired, price clipped). Gallup A64a. *...
[more like this] - 3 vols. Natural History Reference:
Blunt, Wilfried; Stern, William T. The Art of Botanical Illustration. Antique Collector's Club, 1995. Revised edition. 4to, orig. cloth, d/j. Color plates, other illus. *...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Sitwell, Sacheverell; Blunt,
Wilfrid. Great Flower Books 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record. London: Collins, 1956. #36/295 signed by Sitwell & Blunt. Tall folio, orig. 1/2 green morocco & marbled bds.,...
[more like this] - 1 vol. Sitwell, Sacheverell, et al.
Fine Bird Books, 1700-1900. London: Collins & Van Nostrand, 1953. 1/2000. Tall folio, orig. 1/2 brown cloth & marbled bds.; moderately scuffed. With 38 plates (16 colored...
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