Bloomsbury Auctions

536. Grabhorn Press.- Partridge (Eric) an or i g i n a l iSSue
o f “th e Sp e C t at o r ”..., one of 455 copies, with an original leaf
No.CCXXXVI tipped in, 1939 § Mark Twain’s Letter to William
Bowen, Buffalo, February Sixth, 1870, one of 400 copies,
illustrations, 1938 § Small (H.A., editor) Adventures of Joseph-
Alexandre de Chabrier de Peloubet at the Time of the French
Revolution..., one of 185 copies, plates, 1953 § Burgess (Gelett)
Behind the Scenes: Glimpses of Fin de Siècle San Francisco, one
of 400 copies, illustrations, decorations in red and green, 1968,
all original cloth-backed printed or decorated boards, most uncut,
v.s., San Francisco, printed by the Grabhorn Press, all but the third
for the Book Club of California (4) £100 - £150
537. Hockney (David) th e bl u e gu i ta r, pictorial title and fullpage
colour illustrations by David Hockney, original boards with
paper label on upper cover, dust-jacket, abraded patch on rear
panel where label removed, otherwise a very good copy, small 4to,
Petersburg Press, 1977. £80 - £120
*** Reproducing Hockney’s etchings inspired by Wallace Stevens’s
poem The Man with the Blue Guitar, itself inspired by Picasso’s
painting of The Old Guitarist of 1903.
538. Kelmscott Press.- Shelley (P.B.) th e po e t i C a l wo r K S, 3
proof gatherings from Queen Mab (signatures d,f and g) of 8ff.,
signature g lacking g3 (pp.85/86), slight stain to lower edge, uncut,
[c.f. Peterson A29], 8vo, Kelmscott Press, [1894-95]. £100 - £150
Lot 539
539. Levinson (André, editor) l’oe u v r e d e lé o n ba K S t p o u r
la be l l e a u bo i S do r m a n t, firSt e d i t i o n, number 462 of 500
copies signed by Bakst, lithographed portrait of Bakst by Picasso,
54 colour plates and 2 illustrations by Bakst, all mounted, plates
with captioned tissue guards, very occasional spotting, original
wrappers printed in gold, uncut, glacine wrapper (a few small
tears and defects, most to lower panel, tears repaired), preserved
in modern board slip-case, a good copy, folio, Paris, 1922.
£1,500 - £2,000
*** Based on Perrault’s classic fairy tale the ballet La Belle au
Bois Dormant premiered in the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg,
on 15th January, 1890 with choreography by Marius Petipa.
Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes performed the work as The Sleeping
Beauty during the 1921 season.
540. Levinson (André) Se r g e li fa r: de S t i n d’u n da n S e u r, limited
edition, frontispiece by Picasso (with marginal foxing), original
wrappers, uncut, glacine wrapper (a little soiled and stained,
torn), Bernard Grasset, 1934 § Lifar (Serge) Le Manifeste du
Choreographe, firSt e d i t i o n, original pictorial wrappers, uncut,
1935 § Ballets de Monte-Carlo, text printed in red, colour plates,
illustrations, original pictorial wrappers with design by Matisse on
upper cover, 1937, all with plates and illustrations, a little rubbed
and soiled, Paris; and 2 theatre programmes (Russian Opera and
Ballet at Covent Garden, 1914 and Revue des Folies Bergère,
Second Album 1924-25), 4to & 8vo (5) £200 - £300
541. Matisse (Henri) deSSinS, tipped-in plates, loose as issued
in original wrapper portfolio (soiled), Paris, Cahiers d’Art, 1936
§ Stein (Gertrude) Picasso, firSt e d i t i o n, Paris, Floury, 1938 §
Eluard (Paul) A Pablo Picasso, 1947 § Paulhan (Jean) Braque le
Patron, Geneva & Paris, 1946, plates and illustrations, all but the
first original printed wrappers, a little rubbed and soiled, the last
with glacine wrapper (slightly frayed); and 3 others, 4to & 8vo (7)
£150 - £200
Lot542
542. Nicholson (William) an al p h a b e t, colour device on title,
26 lithographed plates by Nicholson printed in colours, tipped-in
advertisement for his ‘Almanac of Twelve Sports’ at end, endpapers
foxed, otherwise a good copy internally, original pictorial boards,
boards a little rubbed and browned, mostly at edges, spine worn
and slightly defective, 4to, 1898. £400 - £600
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