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Bloomsbury Auctions : Modern Illustrated Books, Private Press & Limited Editions, Typography. Children's Books, Performing Arts and Original Artwork: Thursday 9th November 2006: Sale 589

London: Bloomsbury Auctions, 2006

Auction catalogue, near fine condition, glossy pictorial card covers, 148 pages - light crease to first page, 908 lots, illustrated in colour and b/w, -----------Sale catalogue for Bloomsbury Auctions, Bloomsbury House, 24 Maddox Street, London W1S 1PP, on Thursday 9th November 2006-------------- " There are numerous highlights beginning with a fantastic collection of Private Press – Ashendene, Doves, Essex House, Fleece, Gregynog & Gwas Gregynog, Kelmscott, Nonesuch, St. Dominics, Vale and Whittington are just some of examples featured. From the Doves Press is Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus: The Life & Opinions of Herr Teufelsdroeckh, one of 15 copies printed on vellum in 1907 estimated at £3000-4000 and, from the Trianon Press, a small collection of William Blake facsimiles that include Illustrations of the Book of Job from 1987 estimated to realise £1000-1500. The Typography and Design section include The Russian Revolutionary Poster by Viacheslav Polonskii, one of 3000 first edition copies it is an important work on revolutionary posters featuring work by Moor, Deni, Majakowsky and Tcheremnich and is expected to realise £700-900. A fine collection of Children’s Books includes first editions of Richard Adams’ Watership Down estimated at £1000-1500 and a number of works by Beatrix Potter (including a first of Peter Rabbit at £10,000-15,000), Cecil Aldin, Hans Christian Andersen and Edmund Dulac. Highlights include a first edition The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham bound in green goatskin by Trevor Hickman estimated to achieve £1000-1500. An unusual and rare A.A. Milne second edition of When We Were Very Young signed by A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard and Christopher Robin Milne (as Billy Moon), is inscribed by all three of the main “protagonists”. “Billy Moon” was Milne’s nickname for his son Christopher Robin, and here Milne has endorsed the signature thus “The above autograph was written by Christopher Robin Milne (aged 4 years and 3 months) this day, December 2nd, 1924”. A strong collection of books illustrated by Arthur Rackham includes The Peter Pan Portfolio number 278 of 500 copies from 1912 estimated at £4000 - 5000. Collectors of Maurice Sendak will be delighted to see two original pencil drawings of Wild Thing. One image was a study for Metreon in San Francisco, the Sony flagship store which featured a Sendakland amusement area in San Francisco and Tokyo. The Sony artists used this image to make larger-than-lifesize designs either as cut-outs or as wall murals."

Bloomsbury Auctions : Modern Illustrated Books, Private Press & Limited Editions, Typography. Children's Books, Performing Arts and Original Artwork: Thursday 9th November 2006: Sale 589

London: Bloomsbury Auctions, 2006

Auction catalogue, near fine condition, glossy pictorial card covers, 148 pages - light crease to first page, 908 lots, illustrated in colour and b/w, -----------Sale catalogue for Bloomsbury Auctions, Bloomsbury House, 24 Maddox Street, London W1S 1PP, on Thursday 9th November 2006-------------- " There are numerous highlights beginning with a fantastic collection of Private Press – Ashendene, Doves, Essex House, Fleece, Gregynog & Gwas Gregynog, Kelmscott, Nonesuch, St. Dominics, Vale and Whittington are just some of examples featured. From the Doves Press is Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus: The Life & Opinions of Herr Teufelsdroeckh, one of 15 copies printed on vellum in 1907 estimated at £3000-4000 and, from the Trianon Press, a small collection of William Blake facsimiles that include Illustrations of the Book of Job from 1987 estimated to realise £1000-1500. The Typography and Design section include The Russian Revolutionary Poster by Viacheslav Polonskii, one of 3000 first edition copies it is an important work on revolutionary posters featuring work by Moor, Deni, Majakowsky and Tcheremnich and is expected to realise £700-900. A fine collection of Children’s Books includes first editions of Richard Adams’ Watership Down estimated at £1000-1500 and a number of works by Beatrix Potter (including a first of Peter Rabbit at £10,000-15,000), Cecil Aldin, Hans Christian Andersen and Edmund Dulac. Highlights include a first edition The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham bound in green goatskin by Trevor Hickman estimated to achieve £1000-1500. An unusual and rare A.A. Milne second edition of When We Were Very Young signed by A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard and Christopher Robin Milne (as Billy Moon), is inscribed by all three of the main “protagonists”. “Billy Moon” was Milne’s nickname for his son Christopher Robin, and here Milne has endorsed the signature thus “The above autograph was written by Christopher Robin Milne (aged 4 years and 3 months) this day, December 2nd, 1924”. A strong collection of books illustrated by Arthur Rackham includes The Peter Pan Portfolio number 278 of 500 copies from 1912 estimated at £4000 - 5000. Collectors of Maurice Sendak will be delighted to see two original pencil drawings of Wild Thing. One image was a study for Metreon in San Francisco, the Sony flagship store which featured a Sendakland amusement area in San Francisco and Tokyo. The Sony artists used this image to make larger-than-lifesize designs either as cut-outs or as wall murals."

Bloomsbury Auctions : Modern Illustrated Books, Private Press & Limited Editions, Typography. Children's Books, Performing Arts and Original Artwork: Thursday 9th November 2006: Sale 589

London: Bloomsbury Auctions, 2006

Auction catalogue, near fine condition, glossy pictorial card covers, 148 pages, 908 lots, illustrated in colour and b/w, -----------Sale catalogue for Bloomsbury Auctions, Bloomsbury House, 24 Maddox Street, London W1S 1PP, on Thursday 9th November 2006-------------- " There are numerous highlights beginning with a fantastic collection of Private Press – Ashendene, Doves, Essex House, Fleece, Gregynog & Gwas Gregynog, Kelmscott, Nonesuch, St. Dominics, Vale and Whittington are just some of examples featured. From the Doves Press is Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus: The Life & Opinions of Herr Teufelsdroeckh, one of 15 copies printed on vellum in 1907 estimated at £3000-4000 and, from the Trianon Press, a small collection of William Blake facsimiles that include Illustrations of the Book of Job from 1987 estimated to realise £1000-1500. The Typography and Design section include The Russian Revolutionary Poster by Viacheslav Polonskii, one of 3000 first edition copies it is an important work on revolutionary posters featuring work by Moor, Deni, Majakowsky and Tcheremnich and is expected to realise £700-900. A fine collection of Children’s Books includes first editions of Richard Adams’ Watership Down estimated at £1000-1500 and a number of works by Beatrix Potter (including a first of Peter Rabbit at £10,000-15,000), Cecil Aldin, Hans Christian Andersen and Edmund Dulac. Highlights include a first edition The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham bound in green goatskin by Trevor Hickman estimated to achieve £1000-1500. An unusual and rare A.A. Milne second edition of When We Were Very Young signed by A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard and Christopher Robin Milne (as Billy Moon), is inscribed by all three of the main “protagonists”. “Billy Moon” was Milne’s nickname for his son Christopher Robin, and here Milne has endorsed the signature thus “The above autograph was written by Christopher Robin Milne (aged 4 years and 3 months) this day, December 2nd, 1924”. A strong collection of books illustrated by Arthur Rackham includes The Peter Pan Portfolio number 278 of 500 copies from 1912 estimated at £4000 - 5000. Collectors of Maurice Sendak will be delighted to see two original pencil drawings of Wild Thing. One image was a study for Metreon in San Francisco, the Sony flagship store which featured a Sendakland amusement area in San Francisco and Tokyo. The Sony artists used this image to make larger-than-lifesize designs either as cut-outs or as wall murals."

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