William Morris, News from Nowhere: or, an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance, Kelmscott Press, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
We’re pleased to present illustrated classics by Arthur Rackham, as well as desirable art books by Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, and William Blake—including one of 150 proof sets of his Illustrations for the Book of Job, 1826, with 22 engravings. Before being moved to its permanent home at the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections this spring, a choice selection of works from the Sackner Archive—the most comprehensive collection of concrete and visual poetry—is set to be sold at Swann. Written and visual expressions in graphic media from numerous art movements are represented, with Dante’s Inferno, 1983, and Café Society, 1993, among artist’s books by Tom Phillips; the hieroglyphic mixed-media texts of Timothy Ely, and creative typography works by Emmett Williams, and Arne Wolf.
Complete Catalogue Coming Soon
The Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry
Timothy Ely, Consider Your Phantom Replies, hand-illustrated throughout, New York, 1982. $4,000 to $6,000.
Tom Phillips, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, three volumes, one of ten editions de tête, London, 1983. $15,000 to $25,000.
Artist’s Books & Objects
André Breton & Marcel Duchamp, Le Surréalisme en 1947, with plates by Jean Arp, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró and others, Paris, 1947. $7,000 to $10,000.
John Ashbery, record of the author reading Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, with eight signed prints by various artists, Arion Press, 1984. $3,000 to $4,000.
Jean Cocteau, Picasso de 1916 à 1961, illustrated with 24 lithographs by Picasso, signed by both, Monaco, 1962. $6,000 to $9,000.
Art Deco
Abel Hermant, Phili ou Par-de-la le Bien et le Mal, illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, Paris, 1921. $800 to $1,200.
Croquis Parisienes: Dress Edition for the Spring / Summer Season, one bound volume by the Atelier Bachwitz with 180 lithographic fashion plates with hand-coloring, Paris 1930. $3,500 to $5,000.
Léon Sneyers, group of 15 publicity postcards from l’Interieur, gouache and watercolor over printed background, circa 1910. $3,500 to $5,000.
Picture Books
Arthur Rackham, Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes, first English deluxe limited edition, London, 1913. $1,200 to $1,800.
Saveli Abramovich Sorine, Portraits, 35 lithographs, 1929. $2,000 to $3,000.
Edgard Tjitgat, Le Lendemain de la Saint-Nicolas, signed, Brussels, 1913. $2,000 to $3,000.
Nineteenth Century
William Blake, Illustrations of the Book of Job, complete set of 22 engravings, London, 1826. $40,000 to $60,000.
Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx, illustrated by Charlie Ricketts, first edition, London, 1894. $4,000 to $6,000.
Octave Uzanne, Dictionnaire Bibliophilosophique, first edition, author’s own copy, containing the autograph manuscript of the introduction, signed, Paris, 1896. $2,000 to $3,000.
