Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[FORE?EDGE PAINTING]. ?? [FROST, Martin, fore?edge painter]. ?? SALUST (b. 86 BCE). Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant. London: J. Brindley, 1744. 12mo (127 x 70 mm). Contemporary full burgundy levant gilt, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt?lettering and small tools gilt, all edges gilt, concealing a FORE?EDGE PAINTING BY MARTIN FROST of a Rococo design (pencil note dated 1986). (Tiny losses near head). Provenance: Presented by Gladys McKenney Molony to the Saint Mary?of?the?Woods College Library (inscription dated 11 November 1986 on front flyleaf), collector of fore?edge paintings; sold at the Robert Brown Auction in 2007 at the Saint?Mary?of?the?Woods College Library sale.