Sothebys: Illustrated and Private Press Books Conjuring and Circus Children's Books and Juvenilia Related Drawing, GRAIL,

Auction Details

Auction Date
June 17, 1987 - June 17, 1987
Page Size: 867 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Albert Decaris---Claudel (Paul) Le Livre de Christophe Colomb Paris

1956

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
102 Albert Decaris Plutarque Paris

1967

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
103 Albert Decaris---De Gaulle (Charles) Le Fil De L'Epee Paris

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
104 Marc Dautry Le Livre de Job Nice

1961

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
105 Andre Derain---Rabelais (Francois) Les Horribles et Espovantables Faictz et Prouesses du Tres Renomme Pantagruel Paris

1943

GBP 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 6,380.00
106 Raoul Dufy La Fee Electricitee Paris

1953

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
107 Raoul Dufy and others---Hervieu (Louise) L'Ame du Cirque Paris

1924

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 462.00
108 Andre Dussarthou---Froissart (Jean) Chroniques Paris

1972

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 286.00
109 Andre Dussarthou---Joinville (Jean Sieur de) Histoire de Saint Louis Paris

1970

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
110 Hans Erni---Peyre (Joseph) Sang et LumiEres Paris

1962

GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 1,100.00
111 Serge Fiorio---Giono (Jean) La Belle Hotesse Paris

1973

USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 Not Sold
112 D. Charles Fouqueray---Thomazi (Commandant) La Peche en Mer Paris

1962

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
113 Jean Gradassi and Arnaud Ansaldi---Ferrieres (Henry de) Le Livre du Roy Nice

1963

GBP 1,750.00 - 2,000.00 1,650.00
114 Jean Gradassi---Shakespeare (William) Les Chefs-d'Oeuvre Nice

1969-1974

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
115 Andre Hambourg---Montherlant (Henry de) La Rose de Sable Paris

1967

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
116 E. Hedouin---Rousseau (J.-J.) Les Confessions Paris

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 286.00
117 Paul Hobi-Vialar La Grande Meute Paris

1971

GBP 500.00 - 750.00 385.00
118 C. P. Josso---Genevoix (Maurice) Routes de l'Aventure

1963

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
119 Paul G. Klein---De Coster (Charles) La Legende

1965

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
120 Gustav Klimt Ver Sacrum Vienna

1898

GBP 250.00 - 300.00 506.00
121 Oskar Kokoschka Hiob Berlin

1917

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 968.00
122 Gilbert L'Heritier---Hoffmann (E.T.A.) Contes Fantastiques Paris

1973

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
123 Alfred Lalauze Illustrations pour les Oeuvres de Alfred Musset Paris

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
124 Lobel-Riche---Verlaine (Paul) Parallelement Paris

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
125 Maariette Lydis---Baudelaire (Charles) Les Paradis Artificiels Paris

1955

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
126 Andre Masson and others---Camus (albert) Oeuvres Completes Paris

1962-1965

GBP 500.00 - 750.00 440.00
127 Andre Masson---Bataille (Georges) Le Mort Paris

1964

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 660.00
128 Henri Matisse and others Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans du Demi-Siecle Paris

1950-1951

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
129 Genia MiNACHE La Fayette (Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de) Paris

1972

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
130 Joan Miro---Prevert (J.) and G. Ribemont Dessaignes Monte Carlo

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 352.00
131 Alphonse Mucha---Flers (Robert de) Ilsee Princesse de Tripoli Paris

1897

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
132 Alphonse Mucha Documents Decoratifs Paris

1902

USD 350.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
133 Tavy Notton---Buffon (Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de) Les Chants de la Foret Geneva

1968

GBP 1,500.00 - 1,750.00 1,430.00
134 Camille Pissarro---Pissarro (Ludovic-Rodo) and Lionello Venturi Camille Pissarro Paris

1939

GBP 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 2,420.00
135 Pierre-Auguste Renoir---Andre (M. Albert) and Marc Elder L'Atelier de Renoir Paris

1931

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,520.00
136 Officina Serpentis---Aesop [Berlin]

1929

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
137 Officina Serpentis---Urvaeter [Berlin]

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 3,520.00
138 Pablo Picasso and others Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans Etrangers Paris

1955-1957

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 286.00
139 Picasso (Pablo) and others---Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans du XIX Siecle Paris

1952-1954

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
140 Pablo Picasso---Zervos (Christian) Pablo Picasso Paris

1942-1974

GBP 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 13,200.00
141 Gabor Peterdi Black Bull Paris

1939

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 638.00
142 Ray (Man) Mr. and Mrs. Woodman

1970

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 1,650.00
143 G. Ribemont-Dessaignes---Picabia (Francis) Jesus-Christ Rastaquouere Paris

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 220.00
144 A. Roedel Fantasiee sur les Mois Paris

1895

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
145 Marcel Roche and others---Michelet (Jules) Jules Romains and Andre Suares. Presentation de la France Paris

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
146 Felicien Rops---Barbey d'Aurevilly (J.) Les Diaboliques Paris

1874

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 352.00
147 Felicien Rops---Gautier (Theophile) Les Jeunes-France Brussels

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
148 Charles Samson---Feitin (S E. le Cardinal) Notre-Dame de Paris Paris

1968

USD 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
149 Selection Anvers

1928-1933

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 484.00
150 Fernand Simeon---France (Anatole) La Revotle des Anges

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
151 Henri Somm---Morin (Louis) Les Cousettes: Physiologie des Couturieres de Paris Paris

1895

GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 4,620.00
152 Walter Spitzer---Malraux (Andre) Oeuvre Romanesque Paris

1960-1962

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
153 Walter Spitzer---Sartre (Jean-Paul) Oeuvre Romanesque Paris

1964-1965

GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 550.00
154 Roger SoMviLLE---Careme (Maurice) Une Vie Brussels

1972

USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
155 Surrealisme en 1947 (Le) Paris

1947

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
156 Aime D. Steinlen---Verhaeren (Emile) Les Flamandes Paris

1962

USD 500.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
157 T. A. Steinlen---Moinaux (Jules) Les Gaietes Bourgeoises Paris

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
158 R. E. Thomas---Regnier (Henri de) and others Venise Eternelle Paris

1969

USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
159 Pierre Yves Tremois and others---Montherlant (Henri de) Oeuvre Romanesque Paris

1963-1964

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
160 Pierre Tremois and others Grand Prix des Meilleurs Romans d'Amour Paris

1957-1958

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
161 Pierre Yves Tremois and others Histoire de la France Paris

1963

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
162 Pierre Yves Tremois Ovide. Metamorphoses Paris

1968

USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 Not Sold
163 Pierre Yves Tremois---Tournier (Michel) Mythologie

1971

USD 10,000.00 - 12,500.00 Not Sold
164 Pierre Yves Tremois---Rostand (Jean) Les Limites de L'Humain

1971

USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
165 Constantin Terechkovitch---Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle) La Treille Muscate Paris

1961

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
166 Pierre Tremois---Claudel (Paul) L'Annonce faite a Marie Paris

1951

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
167 Serge Vandercam---Meuris (Jacques) Ethnographies Brussels

1971

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 2,220.00
168 Emile Volti---Verhaeren Belle Chair Paris

1964

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
169 Maximilian Vox---Rousseau (Jean-Jacques) Les Reveries d'un Promeneur Solitaire Paris

USD 300.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
170 Vertes---Longus Paris

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
171 Vertes---Longus Paris

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
172 Ignasi Vidal---Rabelais (Francois) Gargantua Nice

1965-1966

GBP 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 1,100.00
173 N. Aseev Oi Konin dan Okein St.Petersburg

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 275.00
174 Ivan Bilibin Illustration to "The Frog Princess" depicting the prince with bow in hand

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 286.00
175 Moshe Broderson Sihat Holin [An Unholy Story, or the Legend of Prague] Moscow

1917

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
176 Natalia Goncharova Misticheskie Obrazy Voiny [Mystical Images of War] Moscow

1914

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
177 Natalia Goncharova Six lithographed illustrations for Valentin Parnak's "Slovodi [Mot Dinamo]'' Paris

1930

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
178 Futuristy Moscow

1914

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
179 V. Ivanov Mladenchestvo [Infancy] Moscow

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 990.00
180 V. Kandinsky V.V. Kandinskii Moscow

1918

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
181 Velemir Khlebnikov Izbornik Stikhov 1907-1914 A Selection of Poems 1907-1914] Petersburg

1915

GBP 350.00 - 500.00 550.00
182 Leo Klin A collection of about 900 caricature portraits

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 330.00
183 Otton Krasnopol'sky Abstraktivism v Iskusstve Novbatorov [Abstractivism in Innovatory Art] Leningrad

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
184 A. Kruchenykh and V. Khlebnikov Igra V Adu [A Game in Hell] Petersburg

1914

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 770.00
185 A. Kruchenykh and V. Khlebnikov Igra v Adu [A Game in Hell] Petersburg

1914

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 462.00
186 A. Kruchenykh and V. Khlebnikov Mirskontsa [Worldbackwards] Moscow

[1912]

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,100.00
187 Aleksei Kruchenykh Chort i Rechetvortsy [The Devil and the Poets] St. Petersburg

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 550.00
188 Aleksei Kruchenykh 500 Novykh Ostrot i Kalamburov Pushkina [500 New Jokes and Puns of Pushkin] Moscow

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
189 V. Mayakovsky Dlya Golosa [For the Voice] Berlin

1923

USD 1,250.00 - 1,750.00 Not Sold
190 Vladimir Mayakovsky Prostoye kak Mychanie [Simple as Mooing] Petrograd

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 374.00
191 V. Mayakovsky Parizh [Paris] Moscow

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 352.00
192 N. Punin Pamiatnik III Internatsionala: Proekt V.E. Tatlina [Monument to the Third International: a Project by V.E. Tatlin Petersburg

GBP 300.00 - 350.00 374.00
193 A. S. Pushkin Riuslan i Lyudmila Moscow

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 286.00
194 D. A. Rovinsky Russika Narodniya Kartinki [Russian Pictorial Broadsides] St. Petersburg

1900

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
195 Russian Royal Family

[1892]

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
196 Russian Royal Family

[1903]

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 2,310.00
197 A. Schevchenko Neo-primitivizm [St. Petersburg]

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
198 V. Shershenevich Vesenniya Protalinki [Spring-thaw Patches] Moscow

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
199 Vesennee Kontragentstvo Muz [The Vernal Forwarding Agency of the Muse] Moscow

USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
200 Alaksandr Tufanov K Zaumi: Fonicheskaya Musika i Funktsy Soglasnikh Fonem [Towards Transrational Language: Phonic Music and Phonematic Function of Consonants] Petersburg

1924

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 275.00
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