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Lot 47
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$250
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Lot Description
[MONASTERY HILL BINDING]. A group of 4 works bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery, comprising:
GILDER, Richard Watson. Poems. Boston and New York, 1908. Half brown morocco gilt. SIGNED BY GILDER. -- SARETT, Lew. Wings Against the Moon. New York, 1931. Half green morocco gilt, upper cover with tan and black morocco onlay silhouette of the moon, a pine tree, and a bird in flight (some minor dampstaining). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY SARETT. [Laid in:] Autograph note signed (“Ernst Hertzberg”). -- Hebraic Literature Translations from the Talmud Midrashim and Kabbala. New York, 1936. Half aqua morocco gilt. -- BEARD, Charles A. American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940. New Haven, Ct., 1946. Half tan calf gilt. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 8vo.
Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery