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Lot 75
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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200
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$138
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Lot Description
[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. The Book Handbook: An Illustrated Quarterly for Owners and Collectors of Books. Vol. I, Nos. 1-8/9, Vol. II, Nos. 1-4, plus 1947 supplement. London: Vol. I: The Book Centre; Vol. II: The Dropmore Press Limited, 1947-1952. Reginald Horrox, editor. -- [Continued as]: The Book Collector. Vol. I Nos. 1-4. London: The Queen Anne Press Ltd., 1952.
Together 17 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated. (One number lacking a few leaves.) Original printed wrappers (some chipping and soiling).
FIRST EDITIONS, with articles including: "Das Kapital" and Marxism by George Bernard Shaw; English Bookbindings by Howard M. Nixon; Signed Manuscripts in My Collection by Sir Sydney Cockerell; The Rosenbach-Bodmer Shakepeare Collection by John Hayward; and An Address to Members of the London Library by T. S. Eliot.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation