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Corps Perdu

"MA FACE PERDUE TA FACE ÉPERDUE / ENSEMBLE FONDU INTIMES CONFONDUES…"

PICASSO, Pablo and CESAIRE, Aime. Corps Perdu. Paris, 1950.

Striking first edition of this powerful celebration of black pride, number 42 of only 177 copies (out of a total edition of 219 copies) on Velin de Montval and signed by poet Aime Cesaire and artist Pablo Picasso, featuring poetry by Cesaire and 32 beautiful illustrations by Picasso (one etching, one etching and rupoint, 10 aquatints, and 20 engravings with burin). $24,000.

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Works

“INSTINCT WITH THE VERY SOIL OF ENGLAND”

HARDY, Thomas. Works. London, 1919-20. Thirty-seven volumes.

Handsome “Mellstock Edition” of Hardy’s prose and poetry, one of only 500 sets signed by the author in Volume I, very handsomely bound by Bayntun, with an autograph letter signed by Hardy tipped into Volume I. $22,000.

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Poets of America

THE POETS OF AMERICA, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH MATERIAL BOUND IN, INCLUDING AN INSCRIBED WHITMAN ENVELOPE

STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence. Poets of America. Cambridge, 1885. Two volumes extended to six.

First edition, number 84 of 150 large paper copies, extra-illustrated with many engraved portraits and an extraordinary collection of autograph material from 54 different authors bound in. Very handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by the Monastery Hill Bindery. $19,000.

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Autograph poem signed ["Before Tea"]

“SILLIES, I WENT AND SAW THE QUEEN. SHE SAYS MY HANDS ARE PURFICKLY CLEAN!”

MILNE, A. A. Autograph poem signed ["Before Tea"]. No place, 1925.

Autograph poem, titled "Before Tea," written entirely in Milne's hand, signed by him, and dated "May '25"; this poem was originally published the year before in When We Were Very Young, the first book of the Winnie-the-Pooh series. A fine autograph piece, handsomely framed. $18,500.

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Duineser Elegien

“WHO, IF I CRIED OUT, WOULD HEAR ME AMONG THE ANGELS’ HIERARCHIES?”

RILKE, Rainer Maria. Duineser Elegien. Leipzig, 1923.

Deluxe limited large-paper first edition of one of the greatest volumes of poetry of the 20th century, number 83 of only 300 copies, this copy one of the first 100 copies specially bound in full green gilt-decorated morocco at the Wiener Werkstadt. $12,000.

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Primo Canto dell' Iliade d'Omero

WITH ARMORIAL COAT OF ARMS OF FREDERICK LOUIS, PRINCE OF WALES

(FREDERICK LOUIS, PRINCE OF WALES) HOMER. Primo Canto dell' Iliade d'Omero. London, 1736.

1736 copy of the first two books of Homer's Iliad in Italian, from the library of the book's dedicatee, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales—son of George II and father of George III—with the Prince's gilt-embossed armorial coat of arms on both covers, and dedication to "Federico… principe di Wales," issued and bound by Brindley, official bookbinder to the Prince and Queen Caroline. $9500.

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Map of Love

“AS I WAS, OR MIGHT HAVE BEEN”

THOMAS, Dylan. Map of Love. London, 1939. First edition in book form, twice inscribed by Thomas, once beneath the frontispiece portrait by Augustus John: “As I was, or might have been, to Norman Unger from [line pointing at name beneath portrait],” and a second time on the front free endpaper: “ Norman Unger. Dylan Thomas 1950.” $8800.

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Complete Writings

HANDSOMELY BOUND AND FINELY ILLUSTRATED SET OF LONGFELLOW'S COMPLETE WORKS, WITH ORIGINAL LETTER TIPPED IN

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. Complete Writings. Boston and New York / London, 1904, 1886. Together, thirteen volumes.

“Edition de Luxe” of the writings of Longfellow, number 728 of only 750 copies, with original autograph letter signed tipped in, frontispieces portrait in each volume, and 76 illustrations (three by Frederic Remington). $8500.

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Works

"FOREMOST AMONG WRITERS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE"

CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works. London, 1687.

Third Speght edition of Chaucer's works—chief among them his incomparable Canterbury Tales—the last edition to be set in Gothic type, with engraved frontispiece "Progeny of Chaucer," incorporating a full-length portrait of the author and an image of his tomb. $8500.

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