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Lot 88
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$1,408
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Lot Description
[Black Sun Press] Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition thus, #1 of only 15 special copies on Japanese vellum, and including one of the fifteen original ink drawings by the illustrator, Polia Chentoff, bound in at rear, and signed by her (from a total of 400). 8vo. Title-page and text printed in brown and in green. Illustrated with five plates and head- and tail-pieces by Chentoff. Publisher's stiff printed wrappers; in original glassine, spine darkened; in original silver-lined felt-covered slip case. Minkoff A-22
A near-fine copy.
According to RBH, this is the first copy of the special edition on Japanese vellum with a signed original drawing by Chentoff to come to auction since about 1972.



