Fine Art from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Black ink and red pencil on thick card paper, signed and dated (Feb 7. 1979) at bottom, 6 1/2 x 5 inches. Acquired Swann Galleries, 1996.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Binding worn, some leaves lightly creased. 15 pages, folio (13 x 8 inches), written in pencil on rectos only, in at least three numbered sections, being a combination of rough notes and more formal correspondence to Russell Doubleday; with four large pencil drawings and one plan by Tarkington. Bound in limp brown sheep.… Read more

Pen-and-ink drawing, 11 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches, on verso of printed sheet (possibly a printer's proof), inscribed at head to his attorney "Pour Miguel Angelo St[star]," undated but circa 1970s. Dali made a number of drawings of Saint George and the dragon, with the present executed in his characteristic loose and fluid style. A fine drawing with impeccable… Read more

North Andover, Mass: Kat Ran Press, 1997. In fine condition. 4to (11 x 8 inches). [24] leaves including initial and terminal blanks. Seven original "smoke" drawings by Gohde. Red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover; matching red cloth clamshell case. Number 35 of 50 copies (an additional 15 were not for sale). Printed on Arches by Michael and Katherine… Read more

Orlando, Florida: Flying Horse Editions / Hoopsnake Press, 1998. A fine set. A complete copy, comprising: Sixteen 10.5 x 12 inch etchings by William T. Wiley and sixteen poems by Michael Hannon. Sheets unbound, and with tissue guards, laid loose as issued in two green cloth clamshell portfolios with recessed, tipped-in etching. ONE OF 20 COPIES, this is… Read more

Winterthur, 1922. Small folio (12 x 8 inches). 254, [2] pp. Plates and large folding table on rear pastedown. Original quarter vellum, marbled boards. A very good copy, slight foxing to spine. Provenance: Hedwig Corti (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies. Laid-in: 3-page carbon genealogy of the Reinhart family and a photo of three members of the family.… Read more

London, early 19th century. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. Pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor, signed "T. Rowlandson." 325mm tondo. A fine finished watercolor drawing by Rowlandson, showing three men in grim concentration around a table throwing dice.

[France, mid-18th century]. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. Red and black chalk, stumping, watermark device. Sheet: 332 x 210 mm. Framed. Provenance: E. Calando (2nd half 19th century) (Lugt 837); purchased from Emil Hirsch & Co., 1959. A charming drawing, presumably by a close follower of Jacques André Portail. Little is known of Portail's training… Read more