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Lot 90
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$384
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Lot Description
[Black Sun Press] MacLeish, Archibald. Group of 2 Titles
Einstein
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First separate edition, #34/50 numbered copies on Japan Vellum (from a total of 150), signed by MacLeish on half-title. 4to. Title-page and text printed in black and in red. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of MacLiesh, after Paul Emile Becat. Publisher's stiff printed wrappers; in original glassine; in original gold paper-covered slip case, worn, bottom edge perished. Minkoff A-23
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New Found Land
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition, #90/100 numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder paper (from a total of 135). 8vo. Title-page and text printed in red and in black. Publisher's stiff printed wrappers; in original glassine, some loss along spine; book-plate of Dorothy and Paul Thompson on inner front wrapper; ownership signature on front free endpaper ("Lucy Staples"); offsetting from book-plate on front free endpaper; in original silver paper-covered slip case, worn and with tape repairs. Minkoff A-36



