item X/236 on the artist’s archive database. The drawing is accompanied by a typed letter signed by Blake thanking the recipient for additional information about the charity. He notes “I ought to have got back to you before this but there seems to have been a great deal to do here since then”. Blake suggests that if the drawing “doesn’t look as though it is going to each a reasonable reserve price”, he could also his dealer to sell it. He also sends a cheque “to help with the roof or whatever seems appropriate”. Original drawing (70 × 120 mm) on card (90 × 139 mm), ink and watercolour, signed upper right (“Quentin Blake”), mounted, framed and glazed. Together with a typed letter signed from Quentin Blake, 1 leaf (296 × 210 mm), artist’s letterhead. A bright and vibrant drawing; fine condition. Minor staple holes to typed letter. £2,750 [159257] 14 BLAKE, William (illus.); GRAY, Thomas. Water-Colour Designs for the Poems. London: The Trianon Press, For the William Blake Trust, 1972 signed by geoffrey keynes First edition thus, number 93 of 352 copies, from an edition of 518, all printed on Arches pure rag paper made specially to match that used by Blake; signed by Blake’s bibliographer Geoffrey Keynes on the colophon. Keynes was the chairman of the William Blake Trust, and contributes the introduction to the books. In this extravagant tour de force Blake used Gray’s poems as the jumping-off point for characteristically epic and imaginative watercolours. The Trianon Press reproductions are recognized as the finest facsimiles – each leaf is hand-coloured through stencils, working from the originals in Paul Mellon’s collection. This copy includes the original prospectuses and another for Blake’s Night Thoughts .
3 volumes, folio. Original brown quarter morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbled sides. Housed in original leather- entry marbled slipcases. A fine set. £2,250 [145354] 15 BLIXEN, Karen, as Isak Dinesen. Out of Africa. New York: Random House, 1938 First US edition, originally published in Great Britain the previous year. In 1985 the book was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Octavo. Original black cloth-backed orange boards, spine and front board lettered and blocked in gilt, top edge green. With dust jacket. A near-fine copy, minor offsetting to endpapers, bright and clean, in very good dust jacket, unclipped, spine panel toned, light rubbing and nicks to extremities. £950 [155409]
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12 BISHOP, Elizabeth. Geography III. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976
First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, with her ownership inscription on the front free endpaper and the publisher’s compliments slip, sending the book at the author’s request. Geography III was Bishop’s last work and won the Book Critics’ Circle Award for 1977. “This volume of nine beautifully crafted poems returns to themes of North and South but with greater intimacy and immediacy” ( ANB ). Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, tan endpapers. With dust jacket. Small rust mark from paper clip to first two leaves, a near-fine copy in like jacket, small mark to front panel, two short closed tears, bright and sharp. £1,000 [155731]
13 BLAKE, Quentin. Cockatoo. [2010]
One of the artist’s distinctive and colourful original drawings of a cockatoo. Quentin Blake has become closely associated with his characteristic bird drawings. Books include his Cockatoos (1992) and John Yeoman’s Up with Birds! (1998). This drawing was executed for the “Education Gambia” charity auction in 2010. It is recorded as
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