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Lot 409

Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$300 - 500
Price Realized
$2,080
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Lot Description

[Private Press] Group of 13 Titles


1. [Cummington Press] Five Prose Pieces by Rainer Maria Rilke. Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, 1947. Limited edition, #141/203 numbered copies (from a total of 271). 4to. Illustrated with woodcuts by Wightman Williams. Publisher's boards. 

2. [Eden Hill Press] Ten Proverbs. (Connecticut): Eden Hill Press, 1959. First and limited edition #104/350 numbered copies, signed by Joseph Low. 4to. Color prints by Low. Sheets loose as issued in publisher's black paper wrappers; in original slip case. 

3. [Gaberbocchus Press] Aesop. The Eagle & The Fox The Fox & The Eagle. London: Gaberbocchus Press Limited, (1949). Limited edition, #264/400 numbered copies signed by the illustrator Franciszka Themerson. 8vo. Illustrated by Themerson. Publisher's wrappers. 

4. [Gehenna Press] Crane, Hart. Voyages. (Northampton, Massachusetts: The Gehenna Press for) New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1957. First and limited edition, #390/975 numbered copies (from a total of 1,000). Oblong 8vo. Engravings by Leonard Baskin. Publisher's wrappers; in original chemise. 

5. [Gehenna Press] Skelton, John. A Poem Called the Tunning of Elynour Rummynge the Famous Ale-Wife of England. Worcester: The Gehenna Press, 1953. Limited edition, #90/118 numbered copies. Engravings by Leonard Baskin. Publisher's boards. 

6. [Grabhorn Press] Goll, Yvan. Landless John. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1944. First and limited edition, one of 175 unnumbered copies. Folio. Illustrated by Eugene Berman. Publisher's boards. 

7. [Haymarket Press] Judith. London: Haymarket Press, 1928. First and limited edition thus, #39/100 numbered copies signed by the illustrator W. Russell Flint. 8vo. Illustrations by Flint. Publisher's limp vellum, yapp edges, ties intact. Envelope with four extra plates laid in. 

8. [Janus Press] Kafka, Franz. A Country Doctor. Philadelphia: The Janus Press, 1962. First and limited edition thus, #70/250 numbered copies signed by the illustrator Claire Van Vliet. Illustrations by Vliet. Publisher's boards; in slip case. 

9. [Janus Press] Kafka, Franz. Franz Kafka: Parables and Paradoxes. Philadelphia: The Janus Press, (1963). First and limited edition thus, #40/50 numbered copies signed by Claire Van Vliet. Lithographs by Van Vliet. Publisher's wrappers; in slip case. 

10. [Janus Press] Lorca, Federico Garcia. Romance de la Guardia Civil Espanola The Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard. Philadelphia: The Janus Press, (1963). First and limited edition thus, #40/45 numbered copies (from a total of 52), signed by the illustrator Jerome Kaplan. Woodcuts by Kaplan. Publisher's wrappers. 

11. [Pickering Press] Some Trees and Bushes. (Maple Shade, New Jersey: The Pickering Press, 1959). First and limited edition, #38/125 numbered copies signed by the illustrator Claire Van Vliet. Woodcuts by Vliet. Publisher's boards. 

12. [Riccardi Press] The Book of Genesis... London: (The Riccardi Press for) Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society, 1914. Limited edition, #18/500 numbered copies (from a total of 512). 8vo. Illustrations after F. Cayley Robinson. Publisher's boards. 

13. [Saturday Night & Sunday Press] They Came to Bethlehem. Philadelphia: The Saturday Night & Sunday Press, 1966. First edition, artist's proof R (outside of the edition of 200), signed and numbered by the illustrator Edward Porter. Wood engravings by Porter. Publisher's wrappers. 

Condition varies, but generally near-fine. Scattered library stamps and labels. Sold with all faults and not subject to return. 

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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