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168 SAN FRANCISCO. Panoramic photograph of the 1906 earthquake and fire, [1906] An early printed panoramic photograph of San Francisco ablaze during the fire that swept the city following the 1906 earthquake, produced by the Dunlop rubber company, with “Compliments of the Dunlop Rubber Co. of Aus. Ltd” at bottom left. The photograph shows their building safe and sound while the rest of the city burns, and was perhaps meant to imply the resilience of their products. The original photograph was taken on the 18 April, the day of the earthquake, captured from the St Francis Hotel by Arthur Clarence Pillsbury (1870- 1946). Pillsbury had worked for the San Francisco Examiner as a photojournalist from 1903 to March 1906, and, though at the time of the earthquake he had left to establish the Pillsbury Picture Company in Oakland, he still had his press pass. Using this pass and his personal contacts with policeman, Pillsbury was able to access parts of the city which were off limits to civilians while the authorities tried to control the blaze, resulting in unparalleled documentary evidence of the destruction. Panoramic photograph, printed in colour (added to original photograph in production), in original dark grey card mount, (88 cm × 22 cm). In dark brown oak frame with conservation acrylic (92 × 26 cm). Mount a little worn at edges, a few trivial scratches to image; in good condition. £750 [153452]
Octavo. Original brown boards, title label to front cover, edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Short split to head of front joint, remains firm, light bumping and slight wear to tips, contents clean and free from marks. A very good copy, in the dust jacket, somewhat chipped, torn, and rubbed, still a very good example of the fragile jacket. ¶ Keynes A19a. £2,250 [150529] 170 SASSOON, Siegfried. The Memoirs of George Sherston. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937 An elegy for a way of life gone for ever First US omnibus edition, inscribed by the author on the preliminary blank: “Beryl and Eileen [Hunter] for their collection of S[iegfried] S[assoon] editions”. Sassoon has additionally inscribed the prefatory note, “(for this Americanism in book production!)”, relating to his US publisher’s request for a preface, not found in the UK edition published earlier the same year. The sisters Beryl and Eileen Hunter, upon meeting Sassoon, informed him that they were collectors of his works, and consequently received this and other inscribed copies from him. Beryl and Eileen worked as gardeners in the Wilsford home of Stephen Tennant, Sassoon’s partner in the 1920s and 1930s. This volume collects the three works of the Sherston trilogy. “In the late 1920s Sassoon turned to prose, drawing on his pre-war diaries and those for the
Siegfried. Show. Cambridge: Printed for the author by J. B. Pearce at the University Press, 1919 INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR Picture First edition, inscribed by the author on the colophon, “(Typography by Bruce Rogers.) Siegfried Sassoon”, and retaining the scarce dust jacket. This privately printed selection of war poems, of which 200 copies were printed, includes the first appearance of the stirring Armistice poem “Everyone Sang” (p. 34); fittingly, it is the final poem of the volume. A notable American typographer and book designer, Bruce Rogers (1870–1957) “was appreciated in his lifetime. In addition to several honorary degrees, in 1948 he was awarded a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in the graphic arts. Over decades of accomplishment in which he designed approximately 500 books . . . Rogers literally defined the profession of book designing in the United States” ( ANB ).
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