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Lot 65

Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022 5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Wright, John Buckland] Dansdorf, Chrysilla von (Christopher Sandford) Heart's Desire

Paris: Privately printed (actually London, text printed by the Tintern Press, plates by A. Alexander & Sons), (1939). First and limited edition, #11/70 numbered copies. 4to. 43 pp. Illustrated with seven engraved plates plus frontispiece, by Wright. One of 30 copies bound in quarter vellum over linen-covered boards; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. The word "less" supplied in pencil MS. on bottom of final leaf of text. Lot includes two additional works about Wright. Reid A30c

Chrysilla von Dansdorf was a pseudonym for Wright's close friend and collaborator Christopher Sandford who ran the Golden Cockerel Press from 1933-1959 where Wright was a frequent contributor.

From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).

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