[Rarebooks] Clemens and Blake - the odd couple

[Norman Kane]

         TWO SMALL COLLECTIONS
[WILLIAM BLAKE LOT - $80.00]
GROLIER CLUB.  CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, ENGRAVINGS, WATER-COLORS &c BY 
WILLIAM BLAKE.  1905.  Orig. wraps, edge-chipped, xvii, [3], 147 pp.

RUSSELL, A.  THE ENGRAVINGS OF WM. BLAKE. N.Y.: 
Blom,  (1968).  Reissue.  Orig. cloth. Illus.  Includes a lengthy catalog.
229 pp.

PHILA. MUSEUM OF ART.  WILLIAM BLAKE 1757-1827. A DESCRIPTIVE 
CATALOGUE.  Phila., 1939.  4to, orig. pictorial wraps, xix, [3], 175 
pages. Illus.

EASSON, R.R.  & ESSICK, R.N.  WILLIAM BLAKE BOOK 
ILLUSTRATOR.   Normal, Ill., 1972.  1st.  4to, orig pictorial wraps, 
profusely illustrated.

[CLEMENS LOT - $70.00]
KARANOVICH, NICK.  A MARK TWAIN COLLECTOR'S LIST.
Ft. Wayne, 1985. Orig wraps, [4], 12 pp. Facsimile-illus.

HOLMES, D.   CHOICE BITS FROM MARK TWAIN: THE JULES L. MERRON 
COLLECTION.  Phila., n.d.  Orig. pictorial wraps, 601 priced items.  Illus.

AMER. ART ASSOC.  CATALOGUE ... OF "MARK TWAIN" ... & OF LAFCADIO 
HEARN, THE PROPERTY OF ... MERLE JOHNSON.  N.Y., Jan. 20, 
1914.  Orig. wraps, chipped. 367
items. Priced in pencil.  Foreword by Johnson, Twain's bibliographer.

AB BOOKMAN'S WEEKLY, AUG. 11, 1980. Orig wraps, writing on 
cover.  (Alan Gribben, "Reconstructing Mark Twain's Library.")

BLISS.  TWAINIANA NOTES ... Hartford, (1950). #11 of 1000 
copies.  Orig cloth, [8], 24 pages.

6 others, in wraps: the Library of Congress Clemens catalog, 1976; 
dealers' catalogs, including Duschnes; &c

(Dealer Discounts Available)

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