Willow Auction House's Fall Great Estates Curated Auction features nearly 200 lots of first edition books, furniture, artwork and ethnographic items.
The sale features a large selection of books from a private New York City collector, including first editions and publications in their original serialized parts by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Bronte, H.G. Wells, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens.
Also up for auction is a variety of mid-century modern, oak and English furniture, including pieces by Tommi Parzinger, Paul Evans, Eames and Harvey Probber.
The sale also includes a large selection of artwork, including paintings by William Merritt Chase, Hermann Herzog, David Burliuk and Alfred Kowalski, as well as an Andy Warhol Cow Screenprint on wallpaper, and a large Franz Bergman cold painted bronze.
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LOT 105:
4 Books Strachey, Sadleir, Shorter & Trollope
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Sold for: $80
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Estimated price :
$100 - $150
Buyer's Premium: 28%
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4 Books Strachey, Sadleir, Shorter & Trollope
4 books on writing, writers and books. Thackeray by Anthony Trollope, Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle by Clement Shorter, Excursions in Victorian Bibliography by Michael Sadleir, Characters and Commentaries by Lytton Strachey.
Anthony Trollope (England, 1815-1882). Thackeray. English Men of Letters, edited by John Morley. 1879. Macmillan and Co., London; Charles Dickens and Evans, Crystal Palace Press. Wear to cover and spine, some fraying to spine, corners bumped, tears at pastedowns.
Clement Shorter (England, 1857-1926). Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle. 1896. Hodder and Stoughton, London; printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh. Corners bumped, some wear to edges and spine.
Michael Sadleir (England, 1888-1957). Excursions in Victorian Bibliography. 1922. Chaundy & Cox., London; printed by Billing and Sons, Limited. With errata slip. Adrian Homer Goldstone bookplate front pastedown. Paper dust jacket torn (some pieces present), corners bumped, some wear to edges and spine.
Lytton Strachey (England, 1880-1832). Characters and Commentaries. 1933. Chatto & Windus, London; printed at The Ballantyne Press, Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. Some wear to covers and spine, notations in pencil on rear pastedown.
Provenance: Sadleir: Swann Galleries Inc., New York sale No. 1264, 07/15/1982; Strachey: Alan Hancox Fine Books, Cheltenham, England, 4/8/1972; all private collection, New York City; thence by descent.
Condition: Notice to bidders: The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition. Photos are considered part of the condition report. Complete condition information is available by request, no later than 24 hours prior to the auction. All lots are offered and sold "as is", and Willow Auctions will not provide refunds based on condition. Timepiece movements, lighting and electrics have not been tested, and art has not been examined out of the frame unless otherwise stated.
