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Fall Great Estates Curated Auction
Lot 152:
3 first Tauchnitz edition books. Lord Jim and The Rover, both by Joseph Conrad; A Selection From the Poetry of W.B. Yeats.
Joseph Conrad (Poland / England, 1857-1924). Lord Jim, Tauchnitz edition, 1927, Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, Collection of British and American Authors, Vol. 4802; and The Rover, Tauchnitz edition, 1924, Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, Collection of British Authors, Vol. 4621. Provenance: Lord Jim, David J. Holmes Autographs, Philadelphia, 10/16/1985; both private collection, New York City; thence by descent.
William Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865-1939). A Selection From the Poetry of W.B. Yeats. Tauchnitz Edition, 1913. Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig. Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach, Paris label inside back cover. Provenance: Mac Donnell Rare Books, Austin, TX, 6/23/2003; private collection, New York City; thence by descent.
Wear to paper covers and spines on all, some tearing to edges, The Rover cover page detached (page present), crease to corner of Lord Jim; discoloration and foxing to covers and pages of Yeats, notations in pencil on front cover, inscriptions in ink and pencil on title page.
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