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GREENE (Graham) BOWRA (Sir Maurice) The Heritage of Symbolism

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:09:26 +0000

GREENE (Graham) BOWRA (Sir Maurice) The Heritage of Symbolism. (Reprinted). (1943). Ownership signature of Graham Greene dated Oct. 1945 in biro on front pastedown.
Bought by GG secondhand from Parker’s in Broad Street, Oxford, for 9/-. He has crossed through the previous owner’s stamp (Kenneth Smith, Wadham College, Oxford) and has marked two quotations from Paul Valery (’Le Pas’ and ‘Le Cimetiere Marin’) with lines in the margins. From the library of Vivien Greene.
£125.00

WHISTLER (Laurence) Scenes and Signs on Glass

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:44:57 +0000

WHISTLER (Laurence) Scenes and Signs on Glass. (Woodbridge, Suffolk): Cupid Press, 1985. Folio. Edition limited to 1200 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Fine in d.w. Frontispiece and 82 plates. Artist’s presentation inscription: ‘For Rachel [Trickett] / with my love & gratitude / for so much / Laurie / March 1985′ and loosely inserted ALS dated 10 March 1985: ‘Darling Rachel, It is such a pleasure to send you this… Here is a merry, daring, tentative first sketch for the gates: two swans reflectant… ‘
LW designed the gates for St Hugh’s College; the sketch is not included here.
£125.00

JOYCE (James) [Finnegans Wake]

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:41:43 +0000

JOYCE (James) [Finnegans Wake]. TRANSITION Number 26. (N.Y.), 1937. Wrappers somewhat creased and dustmarked, worn at extremities, 2 plates loose. Cover illustration by Marcel Duchamp. Ownership signature of Steven Spurrier, R.A.
Contributors include James Joyce ‘Work in Progress. Opening pages, Part II, Section III’, Franz Kafka ‘Metamorphosis’ (part) and Raymond Queneau ‘Chene et Chien’. Illustrations by Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy and Mondrian, among others.
Slocum & Cahoon C70.
£195.00

GREENE (Graham) DICKINSON (George) English Papier-Mache

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:38:54 +0000

GREENE (Graham) DICKINSON (George) English Papier-Mache: its origin, development and decline. Courier Press, [1925]. Shaken, first gathering springing. 31 plates, some coloured. Vivien Greene’s ownership signature on bookplate and notes on rear endpapers including drawings and a list of her own collection. Presentation inscription to her on front free endpaper from her husband Graham: ‘FOR Pussina / on Aug. 1. 1932 [her 28th birthday], / with more love, tenderness & passion / than on any previous birthday.’
£225.00

GREENE (Graham) Yes and No and For Whom the Bell Chimes

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:36:04 +0000

GREENE (Graham) Yes and No and For Whom the Bell Chimes. [Two Plays]. 1983. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies, signed by the author, this being no. 17. Top edges a little dusty, otherwise fine in glassene wrapper.
From the library of Vivien Greene.
£250.00

DEXTER (Colin) The Way through the Woods

admin — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:33:48 +0000

DEXTER (Colin) The Way through the Woods. (1992). Fine in d.w. Signed by author on title-page and with his presentation inscription in Latin to the fiancee of his long-term next-door neighbour in North Oxford: ‘Elizabethae – / auctore felicitates ei / optimes volente / Robertus dedit / Colin Dexter’ with Robert Rivington’s inscription beneath: ‘et amplissimo corde / eandem donor amans / Robert / Christi Natale mcmxcii’. Loosely inserted Rivington’s printed permit issued by the Universtiy to walk in Wytham Woods (valid until June 1994) with map and list of rules for permit holders.
Both Colin Dexter and Robert Rivington taught classics early in their careers. Robert (who was shop manager at Waterfield’s 1977-1987) married Elizabeth Neilson in 1993 at the age of seventy.
£150.00