First editions, press books & fine bindings
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
Other titles: First editions, press books and fine bindings
Notes: Sale code: 2891

Including books printed by the Ashendene, Doves, Black Manikin, Grabhorn and other Presses, Limited Editions Club; first editions of Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Dickens, Tennyson, Thackeray, Stevenson, Wells and others; a large number of books and ephemera by Robert Frost, including a first edition, first issue, of 'North of Boston', with an important inscription; jeweled bindings by Riviere and Sangorski and Sutcliffe, a complete run of the artistic and literary periodical Verve, the Ibarra edition of 'Don Quixote'; fine bindings by Riviere, Zaehnsdorf and others; Queen Elizabeth I's copy of the 'Workes of Josephus'; from various owners.

Date of sale: September 23, 1969.

Price list tipped in.

Place of auction: New York.