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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WALL, Bernhardt T., illustrator (1872?1956). ?? GLEASON, Dorothy and J. Duncan. Windjammers. New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1922. 4to. 28 etched leaves of text by Wall with numerous illustrations and decorations by J. Duncan Gleason in various colors, under tissue as issued. Original publisher?s quarter cloth, paper over boards with etching cover illustration, uncut. Provenance: Henry Brevoort Kane (book label with penciled gift inscription laid in); Grenville Kane (bookplate). The Brevoort Kane family was one of the richest in Manhattan. LIMITED EDITION, number 91 of 325 copies SIGNED BY BOTH GLEASON?S AND BERNHARDT WALL on limitation. A superb collaboration between landscape and marine artist J. Duncan Gleason, his wife Dorothy, and historian, illustrator and etcher Bernhardt Wall. We are unable to locate any copies institutionally.