Set Reminder2025-01-16 12:00:002025-01-16 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, and the Dornish Collection of Children's Book Art https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-and-the-dornish-collection-of-childrens-book-art-21892 This auction featured rare books, fine bindings and sets, and autographs and manuscripts, one session will be devoted to the vast collection of original children's book artwork and signed books from the legendary collection of Dr. J. Robert and Alice Dornish.
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GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). Babbling April. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925. 8vo. 32 pp. Publisher?s light gray boards, front board and spine stamped in blue, publisher?s unclipped (price not on flap) dust jacket (endleaves a bit offset; jacket toned and mildly worn at edges, a short tear at the upper margin of the front panel of the jacket). Fine. FIRST EDITION OF GREENE?S FIRST BOOK, ONE OF ONLY 302 COPIES BOUND-UP. THE H. BRADLEY MARTIN COPY, WITH HIS BOOKPLATE ON THE FP., AND IN HIS CUSTOM-MADE QUARTER BLACK MOROCCO SLIPCASE AND CHEMISE WITH HIS GILT SYMBOL ON THE FRONT BOARD OF THE SLIPCASE. Exceedingly rare, and with a superb provenance. Greene wrote this poetry collection whilst he was an undergraduate.