Two (2) European First Edition Racing Books, including AUTOMOBILES VOISIN 1919-1958 by Pascal Courteault andERA: THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH RACING AUTOMOBILES LIMITED by David Weguelin. 1st item: AUTOMOBILES VOISIN 1919-1958, First and Limited Edition, numbered 0312/2000, by Pascal Courteault, published byWhite Mouse Editions, London, 1991. Landscape quarto, 312 pages of French text including photograph illustrations, […]
Lot 779: Truman Capote Signed Copy, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote signed 3rd edition "Breakfast at Tiffany's: A short novel and three stories by Truman Capote". Signed in red marker on the title page. Yellow cloth binding with partial black spine. Published 1958 by Random House. Retains the original dust cover protected by a mylar sleeve. Front endpaper with inscription reading "Budd Skolnick, Jan. […]
Lot 778: T. S. Eliot Signed Book, Collected Poems
Author Signed, COLLECTED POEMS 1909-1935, by Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot, published by Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1936. Octavo, 191 red top edged pages, hardbound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Signed "T.S. Eliot," title page below crossed out printed name. Does not retain dust jacket. 9" H x 5 3/4" W x […]
Lot 776: Ayn Rand Signed First Edition THE FOUNTAINHEAD, 1943
Author signed and inscribed THE FOUNTAINHEAD, stated First Edition, by Ayn Rand, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, New York, 1943. Octavo, 754 red top edged, side deckle edged pages, hardbound in red cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, includes original pictorial dust jacket. Signed and inscribed “To Gertrude Lynneberg–with my best […]
Lot 777: Ayn Rand Signed WE THE LIVING, 1940, 2 items
Two (2) author signed and inscribed Ayn Rand related books, including one (1) Rand signed WE THE LIVING, London 1940 edition. 1st item: Author signed and inscribed WE THE LIVING, by Ayn Rand, published by Cassell and Company, London, 1940. Octavo, 553 pages, hardbound in navy blue cloth with red lettering to spine, includes original […]
Lot 775: Fore Edge Painted WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, 1857
THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, Third Edition, edited by the ReverendH. F. Cary, M.A., illustrated by John Gilbert, published by George Routledge and Company, London, 1857. 18mo, 485 gilt edged pages with watercolor fore-edge painting depicting Pope's villa in Twickenham, then a village west of London in Middlesex. Hardbound in black leather with gilt […]
Lot 773: Persian Miniature Illuminated Manuscript, Noblemen Playing Polo
Persian miniature illuminated gouache and watercolor manuscript with a painting depicting three noblemen on horsebackplaying polo, with two servants holding mallets in a brown field, against two structures and a hilly landscape below a dark blue sky. Painting borderedon three sides by diagonally written black nastaliq script and a foliate border with gilt accents. Housed […]
Lot 774: Watercolor of Islamic Palace or Temple
English School, late 19th century, Orientalist watercolor painting depicting the ornate doorway of an Islamic or Moorish palace or temple, with architectural features rendered in fine detail. Illegibly signed lower right. Housed under glass in a hand carved stained wood frame. Sight – 8 3/4" H x 6" W. Framed – 15 1/2" H x […]
Lot 771: John Cannon Sewanee Communion Set & 3 Books
Circa 1900 traveling sterling silver communion set and other items belonging to John B. Cannon (1874-1915), chaplain of the University of the South, rector of Trinity Church, Clarksville, and great grandson of Tennessee's first Whig Governor, Newton Cannon. Fitted leather case contains silver paten, chalice, and round wafer box, all marked sterling, together with an […]
Lot 772: 5 Stained Glass Window Studies, Munich Studios Chicago
Five (5) watercolor designs for ecclesiastical stained glass church windows, attr. Munich Studios, Chicago, possibly by Max Guler. All windows portray Biblical imagery including one (1) depicting Jesus engaged in carpentry work with his earthly father Joseph; one (1) large tripartite window showing Christ preaching to a crowd (the Sermon on the Mount, with beatitude […]