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Lot 80
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Lots 1-273
Nov 12, 2020
4:00AM CT
Lots 274-476
Nov 13, 2020
4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$200 -
300
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$163
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Lot Description
[FINE PRESS] -- [WARD RITCHIE PRESS & WARD RITCHIE’S COPIES]. A group of 14 works in 16 volumes, including:
The Book as a Work of Art. An Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts from the Library of Mrs. Edward Laurene Doheny. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. One of 650 copies SIGNED BY ESTELLE DOHENY, WARD RITCHIE and 3 others. -- COWAN, Robert Ernest. Forgotten Characters of Old San Francisco. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1938. 8vo. Original printed boards; original dust jacket. One of 500 copies. -- Ballads of Eldorado. San Francisco: The Ward Ritchie Press for the Book Club of California, 1940. 8vo. Original boards. One of 300 copies. -- CHENEY, William M. Edwin H. CARPENTER, compiler. A Natural History of the Typestickers of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: The Rounce & Coffin Club, 1960. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Provenance: Ward Ritchie (bookplate). -- HYLEN, Arnold. Los Angeles Before the Freeways 1850-1950. Images of an Era. Los Angeles: Castle Press for Dawson’s Book Shop, 1981. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Provenance: Ward Ritchie (bookplate). One of 600 copies. -- And 9 others. Together, 14 works in 16 volumes, LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated, condition generally fine, complete list available on request.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation



