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Previous|1|Next Lot 953 MONTY Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, black and white photograph with nice pen signature lower left "Montgomery Of Alamein, Field Marshal", image size 19 x 24cm, frame 30 x 35cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 954 TITO Josip Broz (Yugoslav revolutionary and President of Yugoslavia from 1945-1980), black and white photograph of Tito with an English officer, signed below his tunic pocket (badly faded), 29 x 34cm, 45 x 48cm overall View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 955 1920s-2000s VOCALISTS - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: mostly hardbound selection with Sophie Tucker "Some of These Days" autobiography (1945) signed on front end paper by Tucker, plus 1930 "The Gallery First Nighters' Club" dinner menu in honour of Tucker signed by Tucker and opera singer Violet Essex and unsigned book "I Am Sophie Tucker" by Susan & Lloyd Ecker (2014), also Julio Iglesias "The Unsung Story (1997) with signature on piece, Celine Dion "For Keeps" by Jenna Glatzer (2005) View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 956 AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTERS & POLITICS: signatures of Edmund Barton, Joseph Cook, Billy Hughes, George Reid, Earle Page, James Scullin & Arthur Fadden (as Acting Prime Minister) on separate pieces affixed to end page of hardbound edition of "The Great Jubilee Book" by Jules Feldmann (Melbourne, 1951). View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 957 SHOW BUSINESS SELECTION: with signatures on piece, accompanied by Wikipedia biographies, for Perry Como (singer), Peter Noone (musician, ex Herman's Hermits), Ruth & Anita Pointer (Pointer Sisters, R&B group), John Williams (film score composer), Patsy Anne "Trisha" Noble (Australian singer & actress), Lana Cantrell (musician & entertainment industry lawyer), plus Johnny Mathis (American pop & soul singer) signature on large black & white photo (25 x 20cm); View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 958 BRITISH 1920s-70s SINGERS/ACTORS - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: comprising Gracie Fields hardbound "Sing As We Go" (1960) 1st and 2nd editions, the former with signature on piece, the latter with small image of Fields signed "Best Wishes Grace Fields", plus photograph of first husband Archie Pitt signed by Pitt, and a 1976 postcard signed "Gracie" & "Boris" (third husband Boris Alperovici), also "Gracie Fields - Her Life on Pictures" (1989) with facsimile signature on image of Fields; View details Estimate$140 - $180StatusCLOSED! Lot 959 AMERICAN "CROONER" & EASY LISTENING PERFORMERS - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: selection with hardbound Pat Boone "A New Song" (1970) with autograph on black & white photo and wife Shirley Boone''s signature on front end paper, Tony Bennett "The Good Life" (1998) unsigned and "Tony Bennett - In The Studio" (2007) with large black & white photo (25 x 20cm) signed by Bennett, Doris Day "The Illustrated Biography" (2001) with signature on piece, View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 960 AMERICAN JAZZ & MUSICAL THEATRE SINGERS - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: hardbound group comprising Pearl Bailey "Talking To Myself" (1971) signed by Bailey on front end paper, with two additional dedications signed "Pearl", Lena Horne "The Hornes - The Story of Lena Horne and her Family" (1987) and "Stormy Weather" (2009) each with Horne's autograph on card, "Paul Robeson" by Martin Duberman (1989) with signatures on card of Robeson and former lover Dame Peggy Ashcroft, View details Estimate$180 - $240Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 961 DAVID ATTENBOROUGH - NATURAL HISTORIAN & BROADCASTER: signed photograph (17 x 12cm) plus additional signatures on 17 Australian first day covers, about half of which are fauna related; one 1983 Australian Antarctic Territory cover is additionally signed by Dr Phillip Law (Antarctic explorer) and Ray Honisett (stamp designer); all neatly presented in seven display folders. (1 photo + 17 covers) View details Estimate$160 - $200Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 962 AMERICAN ACTORS: James Stewart autograph on large black & white photograph (25 x 20cm) with personal message to correspondent "To Eric Anderson/With my thanks and best wishes/James Stewart", a second signature on 1977 USA first day cover; ERNEST BORGNINE and GLENN FORD autographs on separate first day covers signed "To Eric/many thanks/Ernest Borgnine" or "To Eric/best wishes/Glenn Ford"; also DANNY KAYE signatures on 8 first day covers, View details Estimate$160 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 963 MARGARET THATCHER - FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: signed black & white photo (16.5 x 11cm) plus another signature on Australian 1981 Commonwealth Heads of Government first day cover, additionally signed by stamp designer Bruce Wetherhead; neatly presented in display folder. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 964 EMINENT SURGEONS: Heart transplant surgeon CHRISTIAAN BARNARD signatures on two Australian 1982-83 first day covers plus leading Australian Eye Surgeon PAUL ROSEN signatures on sixteen philatelic covers including 1976 Pakistan "World Health Day - Prevention of Blindness" first day cover; all tidily presented in five display folders. (18 items) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 965 AMERICAN ROCK, POP OR FOLK MUSIC ARTISTS - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: mostly female artists with hardbound Donna Summer "An Unauthorised Biography" (1983) with signature on piece, hardbound Joan Baez "And a Voice to Sing With" (1988) with signature on concert flyer, hardbound Tina Turner "My Life Story" (1986, unsigned) and "I Tina - My Love Story" (softbound, 2018) with signature on publicity photograph, Ike Turner "Takin' Back My Name" (1999) with signature on piece, View details Estimate$160 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 966 INDIRA GANDHI: autograph on black & white photograph (19.5 x 15cm) signed "Indira Gandhi 1983", another signature on 1973 Gandhi and Nehru (Indira Gandhi's father) commemorative first day cover, plus Rajiv Gandhi (Indira's son and successor) signature on first day cover; all neatly presented in display folder. (3 items) View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 967 INDIRA GANDHI: signatures on first day covers for 1964 Nehru Commemoration, 1969 Gandhi Centenary & 1981 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, plus facsimile autograph on photograph, also Rajiv Gandhi (Indira's son and successor) signatures on five first day covers, all dated "10.10.90", three of the signatures unusually in Sanskrit; all neatly presented in four display folders. (9 items) View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 968 MOTHER THERESA: 1980 illustrated first day cover, issued in honour of Mother Theresa, with commemorative postmark tying the stamp, SIGNED BY MOTHER TERESA beneath, also signed by Sir Frank Bishop, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne (1974-1996); neatly presented in display folder. Ex Eric Anderson. [Vendor's pencil annotations on the back of the folder, state that the cover was sent to him by former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi prior to her assassination in 1984, and was signed View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 969 KENNETH WILLIAMS - ACTOR & RACONTEUR: autograph on small publicity photograph (15 x 10cm) for publication "Back Drops" (1983), plus second signature on 1983 first day cover signed "To Eric/Kenneth Williams"; both items neatly presented in display folder. (2 items) View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! Lot 970 AMERICAN "COUNTRY" MUSIC - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: comprising hardbound large format "Country - The Music and the Musicians" (Country Music Foundation, 1988) with Dolly Parton large signed colour photo (20 x 25cm), Rita Coolidge large signed black & white photo (25 x 20cm), Kris Kristofferson signature on piece and Emmylou Harris signature on philatelic cover; also hardbound "Dolly Parton - My Life" (1984) with signed large colour photograph (25 x 20cm) View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 971 JIMMY CARTER - 39th PRESIDENT OF USA: autograph on large colour photograph (25 x 20cm) signed "Best Wishes, Jimmy Carter", plus another signature on 1955 Australian first day cover celebrating Australian-American Friendship. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 972 BRITISH 1960s-2000s "POP/ROCK STAR" BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOGRAPHS: with hardbound Bob Geldof "Is That It" (1986) dedicated to Paula Yates with Geldof's signature on piece, Paula Yates (Geldof's wife) "The Autobiography" (1995) signed on title page "love Paula Yates xxx", plus Opportunity Knocks host Hughie Green's signature on piece (revealed to be Yates's father after his death), Annie Lennox "The Biography" by Bryony Sutherland & Lucy Ellis (2001) View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusCLOSED! Lot 973 AMERICAN "ROCK 'N' ROLL" SINGERS - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: comprising hardbound "Blue Monday - Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'N' Roll (2006) with 1978 philatelic cover signed "Luck Always, Fats Domino", "Bo Diddley - Rock & Roll All-Star" (2010) with large signed black & white photo of Diddley (25.5 x 20cm), softbound "Jerry Lee Lewis - His Own Story" by Rick Bragg (2014) with large signed black & photo of Lewis (25 x 20cm); View details Estimate$160 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 974 LUMINARIES OF BRITISH MUSICAL THEATRE - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: with hardbound Ivor Novello "Ivor" by Sandy Wilson (1975) with signed small photo of Novello, signed letter from author Wilson and signature of Jeremy Northam (who played Novello in movie "Gosford Park'), Sandy Wilson "I Could Be Happy" (1975) with small signed photo of Wilson (best known for his musical "The Boyfriend"), "Bart" (Lionel Bart) by David Roper (1994) View details Estimate$220 - $260Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 975 AUSTRALIAN POP STARS - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: comprising hardbound "Kamahl - An Impossible Dream" (1995) with dedication and signature on front end paper, softbound Chrissy Amphlett "Pleasure and Pain - My Life" (2005) with signature on title page, hardbound Helen Reddy "The Woman I Am - A Memoir" (2006) with signature on piece, hardbound Jason Donovan "Between the Lines - My Story Uncut" (2007) with signature on front end paper, View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 976 AMERICAN ROCK & POP ICONS - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: with hardbound Courtney Love "The Real Story" by Poppy Bright (1997) signed by Bright on title page plus signed colour photo (25x20mm) of Love, Gene Simmons "Sex Money Kiss" (2003) signed on title page by Simmons, Donny Osmond "Life Is Just What You Make It" (2005) signed on title page by Donny, plus concert promotion card with signatures of three other Osmond brothers View details Estimate$180 - $220StatusCLOSED! Lot 977 AMERICAN COMPOSERS & MUSICAL THEATRE LUMINARIES - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 978 AUSTRALIAN POP MUSIC - MINOGUE SISTERS - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: comprising Kylie Minogue hardbound "Kylie" (1999) large format pictorial book signed on front of the slipcase, softbound "Kylie Naked" (2002) with signature on piece, Danni Minogue "My Story" (2010) with signature on compact disc cover. (3) View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 979 BRITISH 1960s-2000s "POP" BANDS OR BAND MEMBERS - BOOK AND AUTOGRAPHS: comprising The Corrs "Corner to Corner" by Paul Gaster (1999) with signed colour photo (30 x 20cm) of Andrea Corr, Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones) "Blue Odyssey" (2001) signed by Wyman on front end paper, Bee Gees "Treasures of the Bee Gees" by Brian Southall (2011) with colour photo (12 x 19cm) signed by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb, plus unsigned softbound "Bee Gees Complete Vol.1" & "Vol. 2" (1992) View details Estimate$160 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 980 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER - "THE TERMINATOR" - Display featuring six images from the the iconic 1984 film, the central image (24 x 19.5cm) signed by Schwarzenegger, commemorative plaque beneath celebrating his career highlights; "Superstars & Legend" CofA, framed & glazed, overall 67.5 x 67.5cm. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 981 AMERICAN "ROCK 'N' ROLL" MUSIC - BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS: comprising hardbound "The Rock N Roll Age", a Reader's Digest publication (2007), with signatures on piece at the appropriate pages for Neil Sedaka, Gene Pitney, Bobby Vee, Pat Boone, Bobby Rydell & Tommy Steele, plus a signed colour photo of Marty Wilde (25 x 20cm), "Sam Phillips - The Man Who Invented Rock 'N' Roll" by Pete Guralnick (2015) with signed dedication "God Bless You, Your Friend, Carl Perkins" View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 982 ED SHEERAN: signature on "ED SHEERAN 1991" T-shirt (tad soiled), plus ticket for 2015 performance at Rod Laver Arena. View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 983 WINSTON CHURCHILL - 1908 ELECTION CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPH: Original photograph (24 x 35.5cm) taken on the 4th May 1908 showing Winston Churchill (front centre) following his speech at Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, during the campaign to elect him as MP for Dundee; framed & glazed, overall 52 x 62cm. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 984 BRITISH MINISTER'S DESPATCH BOX: belonging to Sir Anthony Bevir (private secretary to Winston Churchill 1940-45 & 1951-55 and permanent secretary to Clement Attlee 1947), manufactured in pine by John Peck & Son for His Majesty's Stationery Office, sheathed in black leather with royal cypher in gilt, (30.5x46x15cm). The black leather covering, rather than the usual red, indicates the box was likely used in a private capacity by Bevir, View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot 985 WINSTON & CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL: c.1950s-60s unsigned Christmas Cards (10) each bearing colour reproductions of various Churchill paintings, all with the printed greeting "With Christmas Thoughts and Wishes/from/Winston and Clementine Churchill"; condition variable. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusCLOSED! Lot 986 WINSTON SPENCER-CHURCHILL patinated ceramic bust, circa 1940, signed "Jessica Bothwick, July 1940, Copyright, Made In England", 26.5cm high View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 987 WINSTON CHURCHILL - DOCUMENTS, JOURNALS & EPHEMERA: WWII newspapers incl. Daily Mirror 1939 (Sep.4) "Churchill is New Navy Chief", Daily Express 1939 (Nov.9) headlines "Hitler Escapes Explosion in Beer Cellar", Feb.1965 editions of "Life" & "Illustrated London News" covering Churchill's funeral; also framed print of 1983 watercolour showing Churchill statue at Parliament Square, LP records (2), few stamps & covers noting Hong Kong 1965 illustrated FDC; View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 988 "BIGGLES" BY CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS - FIRST EDITIONS: Selection, mostly with d/js, comprising Australian 1st editions "Biggles Flies South" (1946, without d/j) and "Biggles in the Jungle" (1947); UK 1st editions "Biggles Delivers the Goods" (1946), "Biggles Hunts Big Game" (1948), "Biggles Breaks Silence" (1949), "Biggles Works It Out" (1951), "Biggles Takes The Case (1952), "Biggles Follows On" (1952), "Biggles and the Black Raider" (1953), "Biggles in the Gobi" View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 989 "BIGGLES" BY CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS - UK FIRST EDITIONS: selection with dust jackets comprising "Biggles of the Interpol" (1957), "Biggles Presses On" (1958), "Biggles in Mexico" (1959), "Biggles and the Leopards of Zinn" (1960), "Orchids for Biggles" (1962), "Biggles Flies to Work" (1963), "Biggles' Special Case" (1963), "Biggles in the Terai" (1966, very scarce), "The Boy Biggles" (1968), "Biggles of the Royal Flying Corps (1978, the only edition); also without d/js "Biggles - Secret Agent" (1946) View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 990 "BIGGLES" BY CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS - SCARCER UK EDITIONS: selection with dust jackets comprising "Biggles Charter Pilot" (1951 Reprint, Burnet #27.11), "Biggles Delivers the Goods" (1949, 3rd impression #31.4), "Biggles' Second Case" (1950, 3rd impression #33.3), "Biggles Air Detective" (1952, 3rd impression, #37.4), "Biggles Works it Out" (1952, 2nd impression #41.2), "Biggles Cuts it Fine" (1959, 3rd impression, #48.3), "Biggles of 266" (undated, Dean & Co,#54.2), View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 991 "BIGGLES" BY CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS - REISSUES OF TITLES ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1932-1935: mostly hardbound comprising "Biggles in the Cruise of the Condor" (10) incl. 1955 Thames Publishing Co (Burnet #2.7) & 1956 Dean & Co (#2.8) reissues; "Biggles of the Camel Squadron" (12, plus 1 softbound); "Biggles Flies Again" (13); "Biggles Learns to Fly" (2) both the 1955 Brockampton Press reissues (#5.20), one with d/j & very scarce thus; View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot 992 "BIGGLES" BY CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS - MOSTLY REISSUES OF TITLES ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1936-1968: predominantly hardbound including "Biggles Works It Out" (1951) "Biggles Takes The Case" (1952) both 1st editions without d/js, "Biggles of the Interpol" (1958) 1st edition with d/j (missing frontispiece illustration), "Biggles Flies To Work" (1963) 1st edition with d/j; 30 titles represented with duplication of the reissues throughout. (63) View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 993 THE ART-UNION, VOLUMES I - X (1839-1848), VOLUME VIII WITH FOX TALBOT CALOTYPE PHOTOGRAPH. [Hodgson & Graves, London, 1839-1848]. In ten quarto (290 x 230mm) volumes, the first five volumes with in-text woodcut illustrations, the sixth to tenth with out-of-text illustrations in the form of lithographs and steel engravings, the key June 1846 issue with original talbotype (calotype) photograph of a table set for tea (86 x 168mm) by William Henry Fox Talbot, View details Estimate$2,400 - $3,200StatusCLOSED! Lot 994 J.M.W. TURNER R.A. - "Turner's Rivers of France" (Liber Fluviorum) [Henry George Bohn, London, 1853]. Depicted in sixty-one line engraving from drawings by Turner, with descriptive letter-press by Leitch Ritchie; octavo, rebacked gilt-decorated cloth preserving original spine, new end papers, edges in gilt, 336pp. First edition in single volume format, and includes an important biographical sketch of the artist by Alaric Alexander Watts. View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 995 The Human Eye And Its Auxiliary Organs, Anatomically Represented, With Explanatory Text By Dr. H. Renow [Lon. 1896], brown boards with red spine View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 996 Five assorted books on silver, pianos etc View details Quantity5Estimate$40 - $60Price Realized$30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 997 "THE SKETCH MAGAZINE" (AUSTRALASIAN EDITION): 1901 weekly theatrical publication, incomplete run of issues (9), between Oct.2 and Dec.25; also "Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper" 1855 Jun.23 & Jul.28 editions and a 1910 edition of "Fancy Needlework" (12 items) View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 998 JOHN RUSKIN - The Works. [Merrill & Baker, New York, c.1920]. Finely bound set of the writings of John Ruskin in twenty-six octavo volumes, each volume bound in contemporary half tan calf over marbled paper boards, gilt-lettered contrasting morocco title labels to spines, top edges in gilt. A handsome set. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 999 "THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENVENUTO CELLINI" - SIGNED BY DALI: [Doubleday & Co, New York, 1946]. The reflective and personal writings of the great Italian old master. Translated by John Addington Symonds, illustrated by Salvador Dali. Octavo, gilt-illustrated blue cloth boards (lacking slipcase), colour frontispiece by Salvador Dali, 15 colour plates plus black & white vignette illustrations by Dali. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1000 J. PAUL GETTY/ETHEL LE VANE: "Collector's Choice:The Chronicle of an Artistic Odyssey through Europe". [W.H.Allen, London, first edition, 1955]. Inscribed (in Le Vane's hand) on title page "To Michael Pochna (Getty employee), with the best wishes of Ethel Le Vane" and also SIGNED BY GETTY "J. Paul Getty, Dec. 1955"; 360pp hardbound with red cloth boards, photographic illustrations within. Rare presentation copy of this book by the enigmatic tycoon and collector. View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusCLOSED! Lot 1001 MARC CHAGALL: "Ausstellung 1959 - Hamburg, Munich, Paris" Catalogue of the 1959 travelling exhibition of Chagall's work:- Hamburg, Feb. 6 - Mar. 22, Munich, Apr.7 - May 31 and Paris, Jun.14 - Sep. 30; SIGNED BY CHAGALL in full in graphite on title page; square octavo with 109 leaves of black & white or colour plates of artwork featured in the exhibition. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot 1002 OSKAR KOKOSCHKA - Marlborough-Gerson Gallery (New York), Exhibition Catalogue. Illustrated stiff card covers with Kokoschka's 1966 self-portrait on the front cover with KOKOSCHKA'S INSCRIPTION "Oskar Kokoschka, 23.X.66, New York" alongside, profusely illustrated with colour and black & white plates, catalogue essay by E.H. Gombrich; small quarto, 133pp. Rare catalogue, inscribed by the great Austrian expressionist and master of modernism. View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusCLOSED! Lot 1003 VICTOR VASARELY - Four Volume Presentation Set [Galerie du Griffon, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1969, 1971, 1974 & 1979]. Magnificent set of books on the Optical Art master of the 20th century. Volume 3 three inscribed "To Dean Allen Austill in appreciation for your kind invitation - Vasarely" plus a loosely enclosed 1984 press release for Vaserely to deliver a lecture at the New School for Social Research, New York, View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1004 "ART OF THE SIXTIES" (Kunst Der Sechziger Jahre) - PETER LUDWIG, ANDY WARHOL, et al. [Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Koln, 4th edition, 1970]. Bilingual publication comprising 170 leaves each interleaved with glassine transparencies, and with tipped-in colour plates, featuring some of the greatest pop and modern artists of the period. Quarto, flexible plastic binding with metal rivets. View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusCLOSED! Lot 1005 RUGS & CARPETS: selection with hardbound titles comprising "Oriental Carpets" by Schurmann, "World Rugs & Carpets - Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Provenance and Buying of Carpets" edited by David Black, "Oriental Carpets in the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin" by Spuhler, "Caucasian Rugs of Yesterday" by Fokker; also softbound "Rugs & Carpets from Central Asia - the Russian Collections" by Tzareva. (5 items). View details Quantity5Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1006 ANDY WARHOL - "Films and Paintings". [Peter Gidal, Studio Vista, 1971] Octavo, pictorial dustjacket, illustrated, 160pp. The very scarce hardbound edition. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1007 "HENRY MOORE IN AMERICA" - Artist signed. [Henry Seldis, Praeger Publishers, New York in association with Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973]. First edition with gilt lettered black cloth boards and illustrated dust jacket, SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY HENRY MOORE, black & white illustrations; quarto 283pp, hardbound. View details Estimate$120 - $160Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1008 HENRY MILLER - "Grandeur Nature". [Gallimard Publishers, Paris,1975]. Illustrated dust jacket, showing portrait of Miller by esteemed photographer Brassai, SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY BRASSAI on the half title page - "Pour Baby et Marion Sulzberger, bien amicalement, Brassai. Paris, le 29 dec 1975", features 16 crisp photogravure illustrations of people and places from Miller's life in Paris; octavo 264pp, softbound with stiff card covers. LIMITED EDITION OF 25 COPIES. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusCLOSED! Lot 1009 GROSS, Chaim (1909-1991) "A Retrospective", [Lowe Art Museum, New York, 1977]. Featuring tapestries, watercolours, drawings and lithographs. Signed and inscribed on the title page "To Bob Raphael - best wishes Chaim Gross", with small SELF PORTRAIT in pencil; quarto, 46pp, softbound. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 1010 ANDY WARHOL - "Portrait of the 70s". [Random House, editor David Whitney, first edition, 1979]. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Nov. 20, 1979 to Jan.27, 1980), SIGNED BY WARHOL on title page, illustrated in colour with reproductions of the painted photographs of celebrities for which Warhol is best known; with an essay by Robert Rosenblum; square quarto, illustrated stiff card covers, 141pp. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1011 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG WERKE - "STAATLICHE KUNSTHALLE, BERLIN" (1980) Substantial exhibition calatalogue, boldly SIGNED BY RAUSCHENBERG in black marker on inside front cover, extensively illustrated; 379pp softbound. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusCLOSED! Lot 1012 BRUCE WEBER - "O RIO DE JANEIRO" (Photographic Journal). [Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1986]. Fully illustrated photo-book with several fold-out plates, folio format. One of the great photo-books of the twentieth century featuring voyeuristic images of the fashionable youth of Rio set against the sun kissed backdrop of the tropical metropolis. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$450StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1013 RITA GALLE - "CORIANDOLI" Oblong folio housed in slip case, with eight watercolour reproductions, plus original SIGNED ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR BY GALLE, poems by Lorenzo Perrone, numbered #89 of limited edition of 125 copies, signed by artist and poet. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 1014 BLAIS,Jean-Charles "De Memoire", [Franck Bordas, Paris, 1995]. Artist's book consisting of seven lithographed folding sheets by Blais, octavo (21 x 16cm), housed within folder and slipcase; limited edition of 125 copies, signed and numbered on the colophon. View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusCLOSED! Lot 1015 "THE VANISHING BORDER: A Retrospective of China and Hong Kong through Maps" published by Credit Lyonnais Securities (Asia) Ltd. [Hong Kong, 1997], limited edition of 3000 copies, embossed yellow cloth boards with gilt lettering and blue thread binding, in original slip case, inscribed and endorsed by Jodie Allison (Project Manager) View details Estimate$60 - $80Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1016 DAMIEN HIRST/GORDON BURN: "On the Way to Work". [Faber & Faber, first edition, 2001] hardbound with original silver papered boards showing geometric design to upper board, in original protected dust jacket, SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY HIRST; fully illustrated in colour and black & white, 232pp. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1017 CLINTON, Bill. My Life [New York; Alfred A. Knopf, 2004], First edition, octavo, gilt-lettered boards in original dustjacket. With photographs. Signed by Bill Clinton to the title page. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 1018 ED RUSCHA - "Make New History". Objet d'art designed by Ruscha to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, consisting of approximately 600 plain white leaves with block text "MAKE", "NEW" & "HISTORY" on the three sides of the sheet edges, hardbound with grey cloth boards, SIGNED BY RUSCHA on the colophon page. Limited edition of 1,000 copies, only distributed to attendees at the anniversary gala; includes the original custom printed cardboard box. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next