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Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. 1988. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. some dog wared pages and prices realized in ink, also an inserted booklet with the prices. Includes illustrations. .

Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 1st and 2nd February, 1988. Boards, gilt, large 8vo, 31 cm,. 320, [6] pp, plates (some colour) ;. Lots 183 to 1010 Highlights of the sale included a fragment of 8 leaves from a Gutenberg bible broken up by Gabriel Wells; a substantial (56 lot) section on Mark Twain including the autograph manuscript of an unpublished Twain 'sketch' and a presentation copy, to the author's wife, of Huckleberry Finn 1885; and 118 lots of fore-edge paintings. Top edge of text block stained (not affecting open pages), otherwise a Very Good clean copy. List of prices realized and buyers loosely inserted,.

New York: Christie, Manson, & Woods International Inc. . First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. From the Edward Lawrence Doheny Memorial Library St. John's Seminary, Camarillo, California, Sold on behalf of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles spanning 1987-1989. Complete set of sterling condition hardcover copies with unbruised tips, tight bindings, and clean internals, showing almost no shelf- or edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in red cloth over boards with gilt lettering and insignia to front covers, gilt titles to spines. Part I, Fifteenth Century Books including the Gutenberg Bible. Black-and-white photograph of Countess Doheny depicting the Gutenberg Bible at frontis, full-color, full-page, and fold-out images of illuminated manuscripts and books from the Middle Ages from Germany, Spain, France, and England. 302 pp. Part II, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Black-and-white and full-color images of… Read More