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Lot 92
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$500 -
800
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$1,216
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Lot Description
[Black Sun Press] Brown, Bob. 1450-1950, With An Autograph and Illustrated Letter
(Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929). First and limited edition, one of 150 unnumbered copies. Presentation copy, inscribed by Bob Brown on title-page, and opposite on "Free Copies" page, to novelist and critic Ludwig Lewishohn, dated Paris Dec. 31, 1929. 8vo. Publisher's stiff printed wrappers; in original glassine, small loss at foot of spine; illustrated book-plate of Elizabeth Clark; inscribed by Clark on front free endpaper: "Elizabeth Clark Paris June 28, 1934 N.B.- I found this in the book stalls beside the Seine." Minkoff A-25
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Brown, Bob
Autograph and Illustrated Letter, signed
N.V. Oranje Hotel, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, November 18, 1929. One sheet, 11 x 8 3/4 in. (279 x 222 mm). One-page autograph and illustrated letter, on "N.V. Oranje Hotel" stationery, signed by Brown ("Me") to "Bobrose & Mrs Brown Red". With a full-page pen and ink drawing on verso.



