Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
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Lot 293
[ARTIST?S BOOKS]. SKOTNES, Cecil (South African 1926?2009),...
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
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| $500 | $50 |
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[ARTIST?S BOOKS]. SKOTNES, Cecil (South African 1926?2009), artist. ???EGLINGTON, Charles (1918?1971). In Memoriam. Cape Town and Johannesburg: ABC Press; Egon Guenther, 1975. Portfolio (641 x 483 mm). Limitation leaf, dedication leaf, 10 original woodcuts in four colors by Skotnes, each signed, dated, titled and numbered 17/75; interleaved with 10 poems by Eglington. Original printed cloth portfolio. LIMITED EDITION, number 17 of 75 copies signed by Skotnes on limitation. [FORE?EDGE PAINTING]. MOORE, Thomas (1779?1852). Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance. London: printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826. 8vo (216 x 139 mm). Contemporary tan straight?grain morocco, covers with gilt foliate border, central panel embossed with tools in blind, spine gilt, all edges gilt, concealing a FORE?EDGE PAINTING of Port Constantinople (some rubbing along joints, small marred spot to rear endpaper). Provenance: Gladys McKenney Molony presented to the Saint?Mary?of?the?Woods College Library (dated inscription); sold at the Robert Brown Auction in 2007 at the Saint?Mary?of?the?Woods College Library sale. BROWN, William Robinson (1875?1955). The Horse of the Desert. Foreword by Major General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. New York: The Derrydale Press, [1929].
