• Koller Auctions
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    20 March 2024
    Koller, Mar. 20: DADA - Der Zeltweg. Redaktion: Flake, Serner, Tzara. Zürich, 1919. CHF 5,000 – 8,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Jespers, Floris - Peeters, Jan. Kinderlust. Antwerpen, J. F. Bogaerts & R. R. Dodson, [1923]. CHF 2,000 – 3,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: FARBENLEHRE - Chevreul, M. E. De la Loi du contraste simultané des couleurs et de l'assortiment des objets colorés. Paris, 1839. CHF 4,000 – 5,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: BOTANIK - Schrank, Franz de Paula von. Flora Monacensis, seu plantae sponte circa Monachium nascentes. München, 1811-1818. CHF 20,000 – 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: French Bible manuscript. Latin manuscript on parchment. With 81 illuminated, ornamental and figurative initials. Paris, c. 1250. CHF 90,000 – 120,000
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    Koller, Mar. 20: Gradual for the use of a Dominican convent. Latin manuscript on parchment, with Flemish rubrics in black and red. Mecheln (?), c. 1520. CHF 25,000 – 40,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Calendar. French manuscript on parchment. With 12 large colored thorn leaf initials on a gold background. Paris, c. 1380/1390. CHF 40,000 – 60,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Freud, Sigmund. Collection of 23 handwritten letters to Alphonse Maeder in Zurich. In addition to 4 letter drafts from Maeder to Freud. 2 February 1910 - 21 September 1913. CHF 50,000 – 80,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Jung, Carl Gustav. Collection of 26 autograph and 3 typescript letters and a postcard to Alphonse Maeder. 1911-1918. CHF 20,000 – 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Nietzsche, Friedrich, philosopher. Handwritten letter signed to Richard Wagner. Basel, September 27, 1876. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
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  • Forum Auctions
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.

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Book Catalogue Reviews - February - 2021 Issue

Children's Books from Type Punch Matrix

Children's books from Type Punch Matrix.

Type Punch Matrix has issued a catalogue of Children's Books. The appeal is too easy. Everyone loves children's books. We were all children once, even if our interests have branched out since we became adults. You may be unfamiliar with books in other categories, but we all know the books in this catalogue and they bring back memories. This catalogue is filled with the favorites we grew up with, and now they are here to take us back. These are few of the selections you will find.

 

We begin with a story that every child's parents must read to them as an inspiration to push yourself to do your best. Even if the task seems impossible, just repeat the mantra, “I think I can. I think I can.” This is, of course, The Little Engine that Could. The story had been retold many times so as to become a folk tale without a clear author. However, the version we all learned was first published in 1930 by The Platt & Munk Co. The author is listed as “Watty Piper,” but there is no such person. Rather, it was a name used by the publisher, the retelling coming from Arnold Munk. He also brought in famed author and illustrator Lois Lenski, early in her career, to provide the illustrations. There is no need to retell the story as you already know it, but the little blue engine teaches us that you can do near anything if you really try your best. Item 69. Priced at $1,500.

 

Next we have another author/illustrator of children's books at the beginning of what would become an illustrious career. Type Punch Matrix describes it as “A holy grail copy: the touchstone of any Tudor collection.” That would be Tasha Tudor, and this is her first book, published in 1938, in a career that would take her into the 21st century. The title is Pumpkin Moonshine, but being her first book does not make it a “holy grail.” This copy is inscribed to her niece. It reads, in part, “A wee story for a very sweet wee person called Sylvie Ann, with just no end of love from her Aunt.” It was specifically for her niece Sylvie Ann that Tudor wrote this first book. It comes with two letters. One is from Sylvie Ann's mother effusive with praise for Tudor's book. The second is from Tudor to Sylvie Ann four years later for her birthday. Item 1. $12,500.

 

This is not the typical children's book, but it is a groundbreaking one. The title is I am Pueblo Indian Girl. The author was E-yeh-Shure (Blue Corn), also known as Louise Abeita. She was 13 years old when her book was published in 1939. She was a member of the Isleta Pueblo of New Mexico. Her father, Diego Abeita, was so impressed with his daughter's writing that he decided to publish this book. It contains her poetry and prose. As her father was a founder of the National Gallery of the American Indian, he was able to gather the work of artists from several tribes to illustrate her work. It has been called “the first truly Indian Book,” and the first to attempt to present Pueblo art and culture to non-Indian viewers. This is a limited first edition, #46 of 500 copies, signed by the author. Item 12. $1,000.

 

Item 77 is an inscribed copy of the rhymes Kermit's Garden of Verses, published in 1982. This is the Kermit who is generally known by his species identification. And yes, the inscription is from the “author.” You may be wondering how he grabs a pen with those webbed feet. I am too. The inscription reads “...from Kermit the Frog & Jim.” Perhaps Jim helped Kermit sign the inscription since their handwriting looks similar. “Jim” would, of course, be Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets. $2,000.

 

Here is a representative of the species precocious child. The title is Pippi Langstrump, better known in the English-speaking world as Pippi Longstocking. This is the first edition of the tale of the adventurous young lady in the original Swedish. It was published in 1945, five years before the first English translation. Author Astrid Lindgren created the tale after her nine-year-old daughter asked her mother for a story. Item 43. $2,000.

 

This is a book you may not know, unless you are Australian, in which case you almost certainly do. It is likely the most popular Australian children's book ever written. The title is The Magic Pudding: Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. The author and illustrator was Norman Lindsay, otherwise an artist and sculptor, rather than a writer. It came about after a debate between Lindsay and a friend as to what type of book is most popular with children. Lindsay said books about food, and whether he was right or wrong at the time, he is right now about Australian children, thanks to his book. The book is a very strange tale. It is about this pudding with arms and legs, a crotchety personality, and a desire only to be eaten. If that sounds like a death wish, the answer is no. He simply regrows the eaten parts. Obviously, this is not a typical book about food. The plot revolves around attempts by pudding thieves to steal the pudding, the possession of Bunyip Bluegum, a koala, Bill Barnacle, a sailor, and Sam Sawnoff, a penguin. This is a 1918 first edition, first issue of a book that has been republished many times in Australia but not so much elsewhere. Item 90. $6,000.

 

Type Punch Matrix may be reached at 301-589-0798 or info@typepunchmatrix.com. Their website is www.typepunchmatrix.com.

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    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Alken (Henry). Sporting Notions, first edition, T.McLean, 1832-33. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Bardi (Lorenzo). Nuova Raccolta delle piu interessanti Vedute della Citta di Firenze…, Florence, Lorenzo Bardi, [c.1840]. £1,500 to £2,000.
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    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Dawe (George, engraver). The Life of a Nobleman, first edition, Geo. Henderson, [c.1825]. £1,000 to £1,500.
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    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Geissler (J.G.G.) and Friedrich Hempel. Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebrauche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tartarischen…, 4 parts in 1, Leipzig and Paris, [1804]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Hunt (Charles). Portraits of Winning Horses...of the Derby, Oaks, & St. Leger, from the Year 1842 to 1849…, Rock Brothers & Payne, 1849. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Kunike (Adolf Friedrich). Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes…, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. £3,000 to £5,000.
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    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Lasinio (Carlo). [Matrimony], Florence, 1790. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Reinhardt (Joseph). A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, second English edition, James Goodwin, [1828]. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Wengen (Gottfried Durst von). Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833…, Bamberg, [1833]. £2,000 to £3,000.

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