Sale 2497 - Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics, January 29, 2019

32 c   (THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB.) Joyce, James. Dubliners. Introduction by Thomas Flanagan. Illustrated with photogravures by Robert Ballagh. Folio, 1 / 4 gilt-lettered green leather; publisher’s linen slipcase; prospectus laid in. number 860 of 1000 copies signed by ballagh and flanagan . (New York, 1986)   [400/600] 33 c   (THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB.) Pasternak, Boris. My Sister-Life. Translated by Mark Rudman. Etchings by Yuri Kuper. Large folio, 19 1 / 4 x16 1 / 2 inches, 1 / 4 grey leather over homemade paper-covered boards, spine faded and title-stamped in Russian; linen slipcase, some uneven fading. number 243 of 250 copies signed by kuper . (New York, 1991)   [500/750] 34 c   (BECKETT, SAMUEL; KLABUNDE, CHARLES; NEWOVERBROOK PRESS). The Lost Ones. 7 etchings by Klabunde, 546x385 mm; 21 1 / 2 x15 1 / 4 inches each titled, numbered, and signed by him. Printed in Gill Sans typeface onRives BFKmouldmade paper. Folio, contents loose as issued in publisher’s linen clamshell box, scattered staining; contents fine. Stamford: The New Overbrook Press, 1984 [1,200/1,800] number 233 of 250 copies signed by beckett and published a year after he received the 1969 Nobel Prize. Additionally Inscribed and Signed by Klabunde as a wedding gift to friends. The existential story, about characters trapped in a cylinder and planning their escape, was the inaugural work of the New Overbrook Press, a rebirth of Charles Altschul’s Overbrook Press, founded in 1934 and which continued through 1969. Klabunde’s grotesque, surreal images perfectly reflect Beckett’s text, which he translated from the original French version, Le Dépeupleur, in 1972 for Grove Press. 34 32 33