Archives & Manuscripts #14 - International League of Antiquarian ...

Autograph Manuscript Quotation
ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris. Framed Manuscript
Signed, 1p., July 13, 1964. Holograph in ink
on paper, matted and housed in a wood and
glass frame measuring approximately 8½" x
6½". Fine. Artzybasheff’s testament in three
succinct sentences, written one year before his
death (quoted in full above).
II. Books
Selected items include:
ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris. Aesop’s Fables. New
York: The Viking Press 1947. Fifth printing.
Near fine, without dustwrapper. Inscribed.
ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris. Poor Shaydullah. New
York: Macmillan Company 1931. First edition.
Fading to the spine and edges, near fine in good
dustwrapper with a few short tears. Signed.
ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris. Seven Simeons.
London: Cassell and Company Limited 1947.
Second edition. Light soiling to the boards,
toning to the endpapers, very good in very
good price-clipped dustwrapper. Inscribed.
ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris. Seven Simeons. New
York: The Viking Press (1961). New edition.
Very good in near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed.
AUSLANDER, Joseph. Riders at the Gate: A
Volume of Verse. New York: The Macmillan
Company 1938. First edition. Inscribed by the
author to the actor Jean Hersholt (for whom
the Oscars’ Hersholt Humanitarian Award
is named), with Hersholt’s Signed bookplate
on the front pastedown. Ex-library copy with
ink stamps and gift plate tipped-in at the top
edge only of the front free endpaper above
the inscription. A printed Christmas poem by
Joseph Auslander is laid-in.
COLUM, Padraic. Creatures. New York: The
Macmillan Company 1927. First edition. Copy
no. 164 of 300. Signed by the author and
Artzybasheff. A fine copy in very good slipcase.
DOREY, Jacques. Three and the Moon:
Legendary Stories of Old Brittany, Normandy
and Provence. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
1929. First edition. Copy no. 53 of 260.
Signed by Artzybasheff. A near fine, unopened
copy in good dustwrapper, and good slipcase.
—. another copy. Copy no. 54 of 260. Signed
and Inscribed by Artzybasheff to Nicholas
F. Brady, with Brady’s engraved bookplate.
Very good, lacking dustwrapper, in good only
slipcase.
FINNEY, Charles G. The Circus of Dr.
Lao. New York: The Viking Press 1935.
First edition. Jacket, endpapers, and plates
illustrated by Artzybasheff. Paper spine label
chipped, very good or better in very good
toned dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on
the half-title, with magazine and newspaper
reviews (including a printed photo of the
author) tipped in on the front endleaves. Laid
in is a playbill for a theatrical production
starring Burgess Meredith as Dr. Lao.
MUKERJI, Dhan Gopal. Gay-Neck: The Story
of a Pigeon. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.
(1927). First edition. Bookseller’s ticket on
the rear pastedown. Near fine in very good
dustwrapper. The true first edition, printed
before the book won the John Newbery Medal
on May 29, 1928.
MUKERJI, Dhan Gopal. Gay-Neck: The Story
of a Pigeon. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.
(1927). Library Convention edition. One
of 1000 copies Signed by the author and
artist. Color lithographic endpapers, plates,
and in-text vignettes by Artzybasheff. Light
toning to the board edges, near fine, without
dustwrapper as issued.
III. Magazines
Time magazine, 1941-1965.
New York: Time Inc. 216 complete issues in
wrappers. 210 with an Artzybasheff illustrated
cover, six with Artzybasheff related material,
with several of those issues containing
additional advertisements designed by
Artzybasheff. Overall very good or better. A full