Antiquarian Book News from Ibbokcollector

PBA Galleries – September 11 – 11.00am

Sale 541

Fine Literature – with Charles Bukowski from the Estate of Photographer Michael Montfort.

Among the highlights:

• Poems by T.S. Eliot. A first edition of his very rare third book; an early work from the Hogarth Press. Estimate: $10,000/15,000. 

• Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. His first book and the introduction of Philip Marlowe, Private Eye. Estimate: $7000/10,000 

• Rare novelization of the 1933 classic film, King Kong. With the fabulous pictorial dust jacket. Estimate: $5,000/8,000. 

• A large collection of photographs of Rock and Roll icons by Michael Montfort. Part of the extensive photo archive from the Estate of Michael Montfort offered in this sale. Estimate: $3,000/5,000. 

• Bukowski: Photographs 1977-1991. The photographers own copy, inscribed by Charles Bukowski. One of many Bukowski items from the estate of Michael Montfort offered in this sale. Estimate: $3,000/5,000. 

• Bukowski's Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window. A special copy, with an original oil painting by Bukowski and inscribed to photographer Michael Montfort. Estimate $3,000/5,000. 

• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. First edition of the author's first young-adult novel, written when she was a teenager herself. Estimate $1,000/1,500. 

• The Plain of Smokes by Harvey Mudd. With 20 serigraph prints by Ken Price. One of 150 copies. Estimate: $500/800. 

• First edition of Ray Bradbury's classic tale of censorship and anti-intellectualism, Fahrenheit 451. The first trade edition, signed by the author. Estimate: $2,500/4,000.

Each lot illustrated in the online version of the catalogue.
Bid directly from the site. Now available in the Bid Live Now section

Please visit our website to view over 400 lots featuring works by Charles Bukowski from the estate of photographer Michael Montfort, including Montfort's own copies of their several collaborative publications. Many of the books are inscribed by Bukowski to Montfort, including trade editions, limited editions, foreign language editions and more. Also offered is a large archive of photographs by Montfort including jazz and rock musicians, movie stars, scenes of social unrest in the 1960s, travels in Africa, South America, and more. The Fine Literature section includes works by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, Robinson Jeffers, Jack London, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and much, much more.

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Canterbury Tales goes digital

A revised, updated, and corrected edition of Daniel W. Mosser’s A Digital Catalogue of the pre-1500 Manuscripts and Incunables of the Canterbury Tales contains descriptions of the eighty-four fifteenth-century manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales and of the individual copies of the four incunabula editions. Accompanying articles discuss lost manuscripts and individual scribes.

This edition omits the hundreds of images published on the Scholarly Digital Editions’ 2010 publication on CD-ROM, making it possible to provide the Catalogue free of charge on the Web. Verse items are hyperlinked to records in the Digital Index of Middle English Verse and, where images are available for watermarks to the Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive.

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