Lot 225
  • 225

[Jones, David]

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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  • [Jones, David]
  • A collection of forty-five volumes by, illustrated by, or relating to David Jones, comprising:
  • paper
Jones, D. [Seven engravings from Seven Fables of Aesop, [c.1928], unbound in single gathering, Eric Gill bookplate, collector’s box, [cf Cleverdon B51]--Farjeon, E. The Town Child’s Alphabet. Poetry Bookshop, 1924, original boards, Brain Douglas Stilwell bookplate, some browning--[Swift, J.] Travels into several Remote Nations of the World... Golden Cockerel Press, 1925, 2 vol., number 303 of 480 copies, original cloth, together with prospectus, John M. Cameron bookplate, [Cleverdon B27]--[Bible]. The Book of Jonah. Golden Cockerel Press, 1926, number 34 of 175 copies, original cloth [Cleverdon B8]--Coventry, F. The History of Pompey the Little. Golden Cockerel Press, 1926, number 9 of 400 copies, original cloth-backed boards [Cleverdon B46]--Isaacs, J. ed. The Chester Play of the Deluge. Golden Cockerel Press, 1927, number 168 of 275 copies, original cloth, dust-jacket, collector’s box [Cleverdon B18], some slight soiling--Monro, H. The Winter Solstice. Faber & Gwyer, 1928, number 205 of 500 copies signed by the author, original boards--Coleridge, S.T. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Bristol: Cleverdon, 1929, number 147 of 400 copies, original cloth, slipcase [Cleverdon B47]--Campbell, R. The Gum Trees. Faber and Faber, 1930, number 197 of 400 copies signed by the author, original boards, extremities chipped--Jones, D. The Anathemata. Faber and Faber, 1952, original cloth, Enid and David Jeffreys bookplate, dust-jacket, chipped at extremities; Jones, D. The Fatigue. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1965, number 12 of 298 copies, together with a loose proof of page 2 annotated in brown and red ink, original wrappers; Jones, D. The Tribune’s Visitation. Fulcrum, 1969, number 86 of 150 signed by the author, original cloth, dust-jacket; Jones, D. An Introduction to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Clover Hill Editions, 1972, number 103 of 115, signed ‘David Jones’, original parchment-backed cloth, slipcase [Cleverdon B32], slipcase frayed at extremities; Jones, D. The Sleeping Lord. Faber and Faber, 1974, number 82 of 150 copies signed by the author, original cloth, slipcase--Raine, K. David Jones, Solitary perfectionist. Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1974, number 35 of 350 copies signed by the author, original wrappers--Jones, D. Use & Sign. Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1975, number 141 of 350 copies, original wrappers--Levi, P. In memory of David Jones. The Tablet, 1975, inscribed ‘For Mark Boott Christopher Skelton’, original wrappers--Cleverdon, D. The Engravings of David Jones. Clover Hill Editions, 1981, number 159 of 260 copies, original cloth--Gray, N. The painted inscriptions of David Jones. Fraser, 1981, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket--Gray, N. The paintings of David Jones. Taylor and Lund Humphries, 1989, original cloth, dust-jacket--Jones, D. Ten Letters. Agenda Editions, 1996, number 80 of 160 copies, together with a correspondingly numbered wood-engraving by Richard Shirley Smith, signed, original cloth, slipcase--together with 23 others--various sizes, occasional spotting and browning, occasional wear to bindings (46)

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