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17. (Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner) 51 printing blocks from Zoeth Eldredge’s books. 51 printing blocks of various sizes ranging from 2½x2½” to 14¾14¾” including maps, portraits, facsimiles, etc. No Place: [c. 1912-15] Original printing blocks for illustrations from Eldredge’s “Beginnings of San Francisco” (1912) and “History of California (1915). Most still wrapped in craft paper with a printed example of the block enclosed within, as returned from the printer. Near fine to fine. (1000/1500) 18. (Everest) hunT, John. Our Everest Adventure: The Pictorial History from Kathmandu to the Summit. Profusely illustrated from photographs. 9½x7¼, cloth, jacket. First Edition. Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1954 Lot 18 Lot 17 Page 10 Signed on the front free endpaper by expedition members John Hunt, who was the leader, Ed[mund] Hillary, George Lowe, Alfred Gregory, Michael Westmacott, George Band, Charles Wylie and Michael Ward, by the Times correspondent James (Jan) Morris, and team reserve J.H. Emlyn Jones. Pictorial account of the first successful ascent to the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Light shelf wear, jacket price clipped, else very good. (1000/1500)
RARE FIRST EDITION OF WARWICK WOODLANDS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS 19. foresTer, frAnk [pseuD. of henry WilliAm herBerT]. The Warwick Woodlands or Things As They Were There, Ten Years Ago. 168 pp. 7½x4¾, original buff printed wrappers. First Edition. Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber, 1845 Lot 19 Page 11 The exceedingly rare first edition, in the original buff wrappers. This was the H. Bradley Martin/Jeffrey Norton copy, with book label of the former laid in, and that of the latter mounted on the chemise. It was sold at auction at Sotheby’s in 1990, and at PBA Galleries in 2002. The 1940 Van Winkle sale included a “slightly defective” copy, lacking the back wrapper, with the notation “one of only two copies recorded in the wrappers.” It has not been determined whether the copy being offered here is the other one referred to, or another, unrecorded copy. In custommade half morocco slipcase and chemise. Van Winkle pp.13-14. Minor staining and wear to wrappers, old ink notation (“Sell 1/6 b/o”) to top of front wrapper, rear wrapper with old but neat reattachment along lower inside gutter, else near fine, quite possibly the best copy in existence. (3000/5000) 20. frAnce, AnATole. The Works of Anatole France. 30 volumes. Gravure frontispiece. 8¾x5½, half gilt-ruled blue levant morocco & cloth, spines decoratively tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. No. 410 of 1075 sets. Autograph Edition. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1924 Signed by Anatole France on the limitation-page in Vol. I. Handsome set of the works of the Nobel Prize-winning French author. Some minor scuffing to spine ribs, near fine to fine. (800/1200) 21. frosT, roBerT. The Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949. xxi, 666 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Frost from a photograph by Clara E. Sipprell. 8¼x5½, blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Sixth Printing. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1956] Signed “Robert Frost Placéd ‘57” inked on the front free endpaper. Faint rubbing to spine ends, top corners a bit bumped, about fine. (600/900) You can bid absentee directly from the item description in the online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com. Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder.
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