Pariser Maurice (10 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Paperback Edition. fine in softcover; a solid copy; ALL ORDERS SHIPPED WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION; Size: 6 x 9".

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Edition. London: Sotheby & Co, 1967. Near Fine condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Faint paper clip impression to front wrap. A necessary tool for the collector of T. J. Wise and his circle. 522 lots. A few llustrations. Prices realized booklet laid in. Auction catalog. Dec 4 & 5, 1967. Sotheby & Co. Bound in the original green wraps, stamped in black. Title continues: "Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Wiseiana formed by Sir Maurice Pariser, Together with Properties of John Carter, Graham Pollard, and Mrs R W Chapman. An almost complete run of the notorious forgeries, including the "Reading Sonnets," Tennyson MORTE D'ARTHUR 1842 and one of three known copies of the counterfeit edition of Matthew Arnold ALARIC AT ROME 1840. A massive assemblage of Thomas J. Wise's private printings, including many proof copies; with a high percentage of presentation copies, often of special association interest. The only recorded copy of the first issue of the first edition of Wise's VERSES, 1882, presented to his closest friend. A virtually complete collection, with many presentation copies, of Wise's extensive output of bibliographies and catalogues, including manuscript material, corrected proofs, etc. A substantial section of printed books, autograph letters and other material, documenting the exposure of the forgeries, 1932-1965. An extraordinary collection of letters to and from Wise, and other correspondence - H. Buxton Forman, Edmund Gosse, C. Fairfax Murray, Richard Garnett, Richard Curle, C. H. Wilkinson, R. W. Chapman, Wilfred Partington, Herbert Gorfin - illustrating Wise's activities as book-collector, book-dealer, editor, publisher, propagandist, pirate and forger." . First Edition. Softcover (stapled wraps). Near Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 140pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustrator). …

1st edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 139 p.: ill.; 25 cm. Notes: On spine: Wiseiana. Days of Sale: Monday, 4th. December, Tuesday, 5th December 1967 at eleven o'clock precisely. "Price list": [3] p., inserted.Contents: Catalogue of a sale held at Sotheby's London, Monday 4th December & Tuesday 5th December 1967. Subjects: Wise, Thomas James 1859-1937 Bibliography; Catalogues. Rare books; Catalogues. Book auctions England London; Catalogs.Genre: Biography. 1 Kg.…

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies of which numbers 51 to 500 were for sale. Printed wrappers, small 4to, 20 cm, xii, 86 pp. A very detailed and informative catalogue of a splendid exhibition which celebrated the 30th anniversary of the publication of Carter & Pollard's classic unmasking of Thomas James Wise as a forger. Carter contributes a short foreword and Alderman Pariser, from whose collection the majority of the exhibits were drawn, provides a short introduction. The numerous exhibits cover all aspects of Wise's activities: his bibliographies and catalogues; the forgeries themselves; Wise's private printings; the exposure by Carter & Pollard; and "Wiseiana" including material on Wise's establishment, marketing and defence of the forgeries; Wise as a Bookseller, as a Benefactor; and other relevant exhibition catalogues. The catalogue concludes with an index to the Wise correspondence - some 700 items - in Sir Maurice Pariser's remarkable collection.Catalogue entries are detailed and frequently annotated. Carter notes in his introduction that many of the items in the exhibition had belonged to friends or associates of Wise, including Harry Buxton Forman, Herbert Gorfin, Edmund Gosse, and Walter Brindley Slater, 'perhaps Wise's oldest and closest friend'. Wrappers slightly faded at edges, otherwise Good.…

1st edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 139 p.: ill.; 25 cm. Notes: On spine: Wiseiana. Days of Sale: Monday, 4th. December, Tuesday, 5th December 1967 at eleven o'clock precisely. "Price list": [3] p., inserted.Contents: Catalogue of a sale held at Sotheby's London, Monday 4th December & Tuesday 5th December 1967. Subjects: Wise, Thomas James 1859-1937 Bibliography; Catalogues. Rare books; Catalogues. Book auctions England London; Catalogs.Genre: Biography. 1 Kg.…

8vo, 139pp. A near fine paperback copy. Price list loosely inserted. The sale of a near complete collection of forgeries by T. J. Wise together with many presentation copies, proof copies, manuscript material, letters and other material that illustrate Wise's activities as a book-seller, forger, and collector.…

1 Plate, facsimiles, list of prices and buyers names, orig. printed wrappers, a nice copy, 522 lots.

Contained in The Private Library, Vol. 2, No. 6, October 1959. Pp. [xii](title & contents pages, loose), plus pp. 85-92; demy 8vo; paper wrappers printed on both sides, stapled, the fore-corners slightly creased; Private Libraries Association, North Harrow, Middlesex, 1959. *Sir Maurice Pariser's article about his Wise collection is on pages 86-88. The collection was later sold at auction by Sotheby & Co., in 1967.…

together with properties of John Carter, Esq., C.B.E., Graham Pollard, Esq. and Mrs. R. W. Chapman. Pp. 140(last colophon)+[8](list of prices and buyers' names, corrigenda and addenda), one portrait plate, text illustrations (some full page); med. 8vo; printed stiff green paper wrappers, slightly creased at head of backstrip; a couple of faint spots of foxing; Sotheby & Co., London, 1967. *One of a few copies of this catalogue available on application after the sale, being thread-sewn in stiffened covers and with the price list bound in. An important sale including all but three of the Wise forgeries then identified, plus manuscript Wiseiana, some of the forger's letters, and a virtually complete run of his bibliographies and catalogues.…

*** VOLLSTÄNDIGE GROSSFORMATIGE ORIGINALAUSGABE, in Original-Innenflügelmappe aus kräftigem grauen Archivkarton mit blauem Leinenrücken, Titelschild und breiten schwarzen Schließbändern; Folio (ca. 32 x 25 cm); Fotos: Atelier Margotow, Wahlershausen (alle rückseitig unten links betitelt, mit Copyrightvermerk und unten rechts mit Editionsnummer); Mappe: Christian Zwang, Hamburg. - Linke Blattränder der Fotokartons minimal gewellt, ansonsten neuwertiges Exemplar aus renommierter Privatsammlung. --- 1938 fand in der Pariser 'Galerie des Beaux-Arts' die 3. Internationale Surrealismus-Ausstellung statt. Denise Bellon war von André Breton mit der Dokumentation beauftragt worden, fotografierte mit einer Rolleiflex und legte großen Wert auf den perfekten Bildausschnitt. Die in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Nachlassverwalter der Fotografin Éric Le Roy edierte Griffelkunst-Serie widmet sich dem >Les plus belles rues de Paris< genannten Gang zum Hauptausstellungsraum, der von 16 ''Mannequins'' flankiert wurde; Schaufensterpuppen, die für die Ausstellung von verschiedene Künstlern gestaltet worden waren.…