Sale 790: Fine Printing with Illustrated & Antiquarian Books: Selections from the Phil Lenna Collection (with additions) (#790) 06/15/2023 11:00 AM PDT


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1 The Private Journals of Stendhal 1811-1817 Carmody, Francis, editor (Allen Press) Allen Press Stendhal journals, M. Dean woodcuts 1954 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
2 The Noble Knight Paris & The Fair Vienne Caxton, William, translator (Allen Press) Caxton's Noble Knight Paris, from Allen Press 1956 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
3 Youth Conrad, Joseph (Allen Press) Color wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton [1959] $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $250
(1 bid)
4 The Beast in the Jungle: A Psychological Novel James, Henry (Allen Press) Allen Press, James' Beast in the Jungle 1 of 130 1963 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
5 The Brothers Terence (Allen Press) Allen Press edition of Terence's The Brothers 1968 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
6 A South Italian Journey Strutt, Arthur John (Allix, Susan) South Italian Journey, bound & ill. Susan Allix 1985 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
Current absentee: $500
(1 bid)
7 The Newe Testamente: The Gospells of S. Mathew, S. Marke, S. Luke, and S. John (Anvil Press) The Gospels according to Victor Hammer, 1954-55 [1954-55] $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
8 Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions Abbott, Edwin A. (Arion Press) Flatland, Arion Press 1980 $2,000 - $3,000
Starting bid:
$1,000
Current absentee: $1,000
(1 bid)
9 A Delicate Balance Albee, Edward (Arion Press) Albee's A Delicate Balance Arion Press 2011 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
10 Sense & Sensibility Austen, Jane (Arion Press) Arion Press Sense & Sensibility 2017 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
11 The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme (Arion Press) Physiology of Taste, signed by Wayne Thiebaud 1994 $5,000 - $8,000
Starting bid:
$2,500
12 Constitution of the United States Published for the Bicentennial of its Adoption in 1787 (Arion Press) Constitution of the USA, Arion Press 1987 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
Current absentee: $750
(1 bid)
13 Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines & Buried Treasures of the Southwest Dobie, J. Frank (Arion Press) Coronado's Children, Arion Press for Neiman Marcus 1980 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
14 A Moral Fable-Talk Golding, Arthur (Arion Press) Moral Fable-Talk from The Arion Press 1987 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
15 The Typefoundry in Silhouette: How printing type is developed at Klingspor Bros. in Offenbach on the river Main Koch, Rudolf (Arion Press) Rudolf Koch Typefoundry in Silhouette Arion Press 1982 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
16 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Melville, Herman (Arion Press) Arion Press Moby Dick 1 of 265 copies 1979 $8,000 - $12,000
Starting bid:
$4,000
Current absentee: $4,250
(2 bids)
17 The Psalms of David and Others, as rendered into English by Arthur Golding (Arion Press) Arion Press Psalm of David and Others 1977 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
18 The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke Rilke, Rainer Maria (Arion Press) The Lay of the Love, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arion 1983 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
19 The World Is Round... with companion volume The World is Not Flat by Edith Thacher Hurd Stein, Gertrude (Arion Press) World Is Round Gertrude Stein, Arion Press 1986 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
20 Poems Stevens, Wallace (Arion Press) Signed by Jasper Johns, Wallace Stevens Poems 1985 $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
21 Shaped Poetry: A Suite of 30 Typographic Prints Chronicling this Literary Form from 300BC to the Present Todd, Glenn and Andrew Hoyem (Arion Press) Shaped Poetry from The Arion Press 1981 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
22 The XI. Books of the Golden Asse Contaaining the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius Interlaced with Sundry Pleasant and Delectable Tales: With an Excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyches... Apuleius, Lucius (Ashendene Press) Lucius Apuleius from the Ashendene Press [1924] $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
Current absentee: $400
(3 bids)
23 The First [-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha. Translated out of Spanish by Thomas Shelton, MDCXII. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (Ashendene Press) Ashendene Press Don Quixote, 1927-1928 1927-1928 $3,000 - $5,000
Starting bid:
$1,500
Current absentee: $4,000
(3 bids)
24 A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press, 1895-1935 (Ashendene Press) Bibliography of the Ashendene Press, signed 1935 $4,000 - $6,000
Starting bid:
$2,000
Current absentee: $2,000
(2 bids)
25 The Ashendene Press Franklin, Colin (Ashendene Press) The Ashendene Press, signed by Colin Franklin 1986 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
26 The Noble and Joyous Book Entytled Le Morte DArthur... Malory, Thomas (Ashendene Press) Ashendene Morte DArthur, 1913 [1913] $5,000 - $8,000
Starting bid:
$2,500
Current absentee: $3,750
(4 bids)
27 [Utopia, i.e.:] A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the New Yle Called Utopia... More, Thomas (Ashendene Press) Ashendene Press Utopia, finely bound 1906 $4,000 - $6,000
Starting bid:
$2,000
Current absentee: $4,250
(3 bids)
28 The Faerie Queene Spenser, Edmund (Ashendene Press) Ashendene Press The Faerie Queene, 1923 1923 $3,000 - $5,000
Starting bid:
$1,500
Current absentee: $1,500
(2 bids)
29 Spenser's Minor Poems Spenser, Edmund (Ashendene Press) Spenser's Minor Poems Ashendene Press, 1925 1925 $3,000 - $5,000
Starting bid:
$1,500
Current absentee: $1,500
(2 bids)
30 The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach, commonly called Ecclesiasticus (Ashendene Press) The Ashendene Press Ecclesiasticus 1932 $2,000 - $3,000
Starting bid:
$1,000
Current absentee: $1,000
(1 bid)
31 The Rowley Poems of Thomas Chatterton Chatterton, T. (Ballantyne Press) The Rowley Poems printed by Ballantyne Press [1898] $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $300
(2 bids)
32 Ecclesiastes; Or, The Preacher, And The Song Of Solomon (Ballantyne Press) Ballantyne Press Ecclesiastes [1902] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $180
(2 bids)
33 Dard Hunter & Son Hunter, Dard, II & III with Henry Morris (Bird & Bull Press) Dard Hunter & Son, Bird & Bull Press, 1998 1998 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
34 A Long Walk Downtown: Photographs of Los Angeles & Southern California, 1936-1991 Reagh, William (Book Club of California) William Reagh's Long Walk Downtown 2012 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
35 WPA Federal Art Project - Printmaking in California 1935-1943 Seaton, Elizabeth (Book Club of California) WPA Printmaking in California 1935-1943 2005 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(2 bids)
36 Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle, in the Collection of Lt. Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham Boswell, James Private Papers J. Boswell, Isham Ed. complete [1928-1934] $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
Current absentee: $500
(1 bid)
37 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (Chilmark Press) Signed by David Jones w/ 15 extra engravings 1964 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $425
(2 bids)
38 Atalanta in Calydon Swinburne, Algernon Charles (Chiswick Press) Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon on vellum 1923 $2,000 - $3,000
Starting bid:
$1,000
39 The Essayes or Counsels Civil and Morall of Francis Lord Verulam Viscount St Alban [Bacon, Francis] (Cresset Press) Bacon's Essays Cresset Press Edition 1928 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
40 The Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan, John (Cresset Press) Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress from Cresset Press 1928 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
41 Poisonous Plants: Deadly, Dangerous and Suspect Nash, John and W. Dallimore (Curwen Press) Illustrated with wood engravings by John Nash 1927 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $160
(2 bids)
42 Dramatis Personae Browning, Robert (Doves Press) Doves Press, Robert Browning Dramatis Personae 1910 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $400
(2 bids)
43 Sartor Resartus: The Life & Opinions of Herr Teufelsdroeckh Carlyle, Thomas (Doves Press) Carlyle's Sartor Resartus from the Doves Press [1907] $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $200
(1 bid)
44 Areopagitica: Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England. Milton, John (Doves Press) Doves Press Areopagitica 1907 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $275
(2 bids)
45 Book of Common Prayer (Essex House Press) Essex House Press Book of Common Prayer 1903 $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
46 Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims, Relating to the Conduct of Human Life Penn, William (Essex House Press) Essex House Press, Fruits of Solitude 1901 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
47 Women in Parliament Aristophanes (Fanfrolico Press) Fanfrolico Press, Women in Parliament [1929] $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $200
(1 bid)
48 The Complete Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (Fanfrolico Press) The Works of Beddoes from Fanfrolico Press [1928] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
49 The Parlement of Pratlers: A Series of Elizabethan Dialogues on Monologues Illustrating Daily Life and the Conduct of a Gentleman on the Grand Tour Extracted from Ortho-Epia Gallica, a Book on the Correct Pronunciation of the French Language... Eliot, John (Fanfrolico Press) Conduct of Gentlemen from Fanfrolico Press 1928 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
50 The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh - limited edition with the casebound variant Poole, Monica (Farleigh, John) With an original wood engraving by Farleigh [1985] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
51 These Things Also are Spring's Thomas, Edward (Folio Press) The Poetry of Edward Thomas from Folio Press 1988 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
52 The Book of Jonah: Taken from the Authorized Version of King James I., with Engravings on Wood by David Jones. Jones, David (Folio Society) Book of Jonah illustrated by David Jones [2017] $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
53 Epithalamion Graves, Ida (Gemini Press) First publication from the Gemini Press [1934] $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
54 Troilus & Criseyde Chaucer, Geoffrey (Gill, Eric) Folio Society facsimile of Gill's Troilus & Criseyde [2011] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
55 The Engravings of Eric Gill Skelton, Christopher (Gill, Eric) Catalogue raisonné of Eric Gill's engravings 1983 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
56 The Fables of Aesop Aesop (Golden Cockerel Press) The Golden Cockerel Aesop, 1926 1926 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(1 bid)
57 The Travels & Sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf Among the Hurons of Canada as Described by Himself Brébeuf, Jean de (Golden Cockerel Press) Golden Cockerel Travels Sufferings Fr. de Brebeuf 1938 $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $200
(1 bid)
58 Chanticleer: A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press (Golden Cockerel Press) Chanticleer, limited edition signed by the Partners [1936] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
59 Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex of Nantucket Which Was Destroyed by a Whale in the Pacific Ocean in the Year 1819 Told by Owen Chase First Mate Thomas Chappel Second Mate and George Pollard Captain of the Said Vessel Chase, Owen; Thomas Chappel and George Pollard (Golden Cockerel Press) Golden Cockerel Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex 1935 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $160
(2 bids)
60 The Canterbury Tales...With Wood Engravings by Eric Gill Chaucer, Geoffrey (Golden Cockerel Press) Golden Cockerel Canterbury Tales Eric Gill 1929 $8,000 - $12,000
Starting bid:
$4,000
Current absentee: $4,000
(1 bid)
61 The Chester Play of the Deluge (Golden Cockerel Press) Golden Cockerel Chester Play, David Jones engravings 1927 $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
62 Cock-A-Hoop: A Sequel to Chanticleer, Pertelote, and Cockalorum (Golden Cockerel Press) Golden Cockerel bibliography, volume 4 [1962] $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
63 Ecclesiastes or The Preacher (Golden Cockerel Press) Golden Cockerel Ecclesiastes, 1934 1934 $600 - $900
Starting bid:
$300
Current absentee: $300
(1 bid)
64 The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (Golden Cockerel Press) Eric Gill's masterpiece, The Four Gospels 1931 $10,000 - $15,000
Starting bid:
$5,000
Current absentee: $5,000
(1 bid)
65 The Book of Jonah Taken from the Authorized Version of King James I Jones, David, illustrator (Golden Cockerel Press) Golden Cockerel Book of Jonah, 1926 1926 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
66 The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion. A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest Jones, Gwyn and Thomas Jones, translators (Golden Cockerel Press) Golden Cockerel Mabinogion illus. by Braby 1948 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $325
(2 bids)
67 Endymion: A Poetic Romance Keats, John (Golden Cockerel Press) Golden Cockerel Endymion, in full vellum [1947] $3,000 - $5,000
Starting bid:
$1,500
68 The True Historie of Lucian The Samosatenian Lucian of Samosata (Golden Cockerel Press) The Golden Cockerel Lucian 1927 $700 - $1,000
Starting bid:
$350
Current absentee: $550
(2 bids)
69 Pertelote: A Sequel to Chanticleer (Golden Cockerel Press) Bibliography of Golden Cockerel after Chanticleer [1943] $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
70 Cockalorum: A Sequel to Chanticleer and Pertelote Being a Bibliography of The Golden Cockerel Press Sandford, Christopher (Golden Cockerel Press) Bibliography, Golden Cockerel Press, vol. 3 1948 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
71 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World...by Lemuel Gulliver [Swift, Jonathan] Gulliver, Lemuel (Golden Cockerel Press) Golden Cockerel Gulliver's Travels, 1925 1925 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
72 Typologia: Studies in Type Designs & Type Making with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility and Fine Printing. Goudy, Frederic W. Signed by Goudy at the colophon 1940 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
73 The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope Aesop (Grabhorn Press) Grabhorn Aesop, illustrated by Valenti Angelo 1930 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $550
(3 bids)
74 Diseños of California Ranchos Maps of thirty-seven Land Grants [1822-1846], from the Records of the United States District Court, San Francisco Becker, Robert H. (Grabhorn Press) Early California Land Grants - one of 400 copies 1964 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
75 The Book of Ruth (Grabhorn Press) Grabhorn Press illuminated Book of Ruth 1927 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
76 The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen (Grabhorn Press) Grabhorn Press printing for Random House [1931] $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
77 Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (Grabhorn Press) Two Years Before the Mast, Grabhorn Press 1936 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(1 bid)
78 A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode and His Meiny Gutch, John Mathew, editor (Grabhorn Press) Robin Hood from The Grabhorn Press 1/280 1932 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $100
(1 bid)
79 Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1957-1966 & Grabhorn-Hoyem 1966-1973 Harlan, Robert D., editor (Grabhorn Press) Grabhorn Press Bibliography 1957-73 1977 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
80 Bibliography of The Grabhorn Press: 1915-1940 Heller, Elinor Raas & Magee, David (Grabhorn Press) Bibliography of The Grabhorn Press: 1915-1940 1940 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $250
(1 bid)
81 Landscape Prints of Old Japan from the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century Hillier, Jack (Grabhorn Press) Landscape Prints of Old Japan Grabhorn Press 1960 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
82 Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1940-1956 [With a Check-List 1916-1940] Magee, David and Dorothy (Grabhorn Press) Second volume of the Grabhorn Bibliography 1957 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $150
(1 bid)
83 The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile Kt. which Treateth of the Way to Jerusalem and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Ilands and Countryes Mandeville, Sir John (Grabhorn Press) Grabhorn brothers edition of Mandeville's "Travels" 1928 $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
Current absentee: $750
(2 bids)
84 The Santa Fé Trail to California, 1849-1852: The Journal and Drawings of H.M.T. Powell Powell, H.M.T. (Grabhorn Press) Santa Fé Trail to California, Grabhorn Press [1931] $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
Current absentee: $425
(3 bids)
85 The Tempest Shakespeare, William (Grabhorn Press) Grabhorn Tempest, signed by Mary Grabhorn 1951 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
86 The Tragedie of Julius Caesar Shakespeare, William (Grabhorn Press) Grabhorn Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 1954 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
87 The Tragedie of Macbeth Shakespeare, William (Grabhorn Press) Grabhorn Macbeth, inscribed by Ed Grabhorn [1952] $400 - $600
Starting bid:
$200
88 Ukiyo-e: "The Floating World" [with] Figure Prints of Old Japan: A Pictorial Pageant of Actors & Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century reproduced from the Prints in the Collection of Marjorie & Edwin Grabhorn (Grabhorn Press) Two Grabhorn Press works on Japanese prints 1962; 1959 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
89 Twelve Wood-Block Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro illustrating the Process of Silk Culture Utamaro, Kitagawa (Grabhorn Press) Kitagawa Utamaro - Grabhorn Press 1965 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
90 Leaves of Grass. Comprising all the Poems written by Walt Whitman following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2 Whitman, Walt (Grabhorn Press) Grabhorn Press masterpiece, Leaves of Grass 1930 $3,000 - $5,000
Starting bid:
$1,500
Current absentee: $1,500
(1 bid)
91 California's Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1849-1869 Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr. (Grabhorn-Hoyem) Signed by Baird and by Robert & Jane Grabhorn 1967 $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
92 California as an Island Leighly, John (Grabhorn-Hoyem) California as an Island, w/ 25 map plates 1972 $800 - $1,200
Starting bid:
$400
93 The Autobiography of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury Herbert, Edward (Gregynog Press) First folio produced at Gregynog Press, 1928 1928 $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
94 Comus: A Mask By John Milton Milton, John (Gregynog Press) Gregynog edition of Milton's Comus, 1931 1931 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $120
(2 bids)
95 The Revelation of Saint John (Gregynog Press) The Revelation of Saint John from Gregynog [1932] $500 - $800
Starting bid:
$250
Current absentee: $275
(2 bids)
96 Poems Vaughan, Henry (Gregynog Press) Second book from Gregynog Press 1924 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
Current absentee: $110
(2 bids)
97 Woodcuts Grieshaber, Hap Woodcuts by Hap Grieshaber, 1964 1964 $200 - $300
Starting bid:
$100
98 The Engravings of David Jones Cleverdon, Douglas (Jones, David) The Engravings of David Jones from Clover Hill 1981 $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
Current absentee: $750
(2 bids)
99 Frontispiece woodcut from Kelmscott Press Love is Enough, or, The Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality Burne-Jones, Edward (Kelmscott Press) Frontispiece woodcut to Morris' Love is Enough [1897] $300 - $500
Starting bid:
$150
Current absentee: $550
(3 bids)
100 The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York Cavendish, George (Kelmscott Press) Kelmscott Press, Life of Thomas Wolsey [1893] $1,500 - $2,500
Starting bid:
$750
Current absentee: $1,000
(3 bids)