Sansom Freud (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 10.75x11.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Freud, Lucian (illustrator). The sole UK printing published by The Hogarth Press, London in 1948. Number '510' of only 700 copies printed for sale. Signed by the author to the limitation page. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. Original brown quarter buckram, spine lettered in gilt, marbled sides, bevelled edges. Vey slight markings to the buckram. Title page printed in red and black. Some offsetting to the blank end-papers with a hint of spotting in places. Very light toning and spotting to the text-block. The novella 'The Equilibriad' features early illustrations by Lucian Freud with 5 B/W striking plates by the artist. The original publisher's printed glassine wrapper is present bearing the book title, author and price of '£1 1s net' to the front flap. Though creased in places, it is amazingly complete except for a largish chip at the upper front panel. The wrapper is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. A handsome production and now very elusive with the glassine. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

8vo. (224 x 148 mm). [24 leaves + 5 inserted leaves of plates on different paper; pp. 45, (i)]. Half-title, leaf with justification, printed title in red and black, copyright verso, leaf with Sansom's dedication to Osbert Sitwell and Sansom's text with three-line opening initial in red and illustrated with 5 full page monochrome illustrations, all recto only after Freud's original drawings, final leaf with printer's credit verso. Original publisher's black buckram-backed marbled paper-covered boards, title gilt to spine. Lucian Freud's illustrations for William Sansom's Kafka-esque novella. From the edition limited to 750 copies, signed and numbered by Sansom in turquoise ink. Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) provided illustrations for Nicholas Moore's 'The Glass Tower' (1944) before illustrating the present work. The illustrations after Freud's original drawings are instantly recognisable as his work. Freud provided no further illustration for any subsequent books.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Lucian Freud (illustrator). First edition. A signed limited edition copy of William Sansom's 1948 novella, illustrated by Lucian Freud, and signed by Sansom. A Limited Edition work, limited to seven-hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered three-hundred and five, and signed by author William Sansom to the limitation page.This unusual novella has been identified as owing 'a little too much to Kafka', sharing in his same strangeness. The hero awakes to find himself able to walk only at a 45-degree angle, having completely lost his body's equilibrium.Illustrated with five plates from prominent twentieth century portrait artist Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Collated, complete.With bookplates from Bristol Public Libraries to the front pastedown and front free endpaper, and their stamps to the title page. No further library markings. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, fine. Library bookplates to front pastedown and front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Library stamps to title page. Pages otherwise exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. The Hogarth Press, 1948. Signed limited edition of 750 copies. Hand numbered and signed by William Sansom. Buckram-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gold at spine. Illustrated with five full-page plates after drawings by Lucian Freud. Toning to endpapers, minimal wear. An excellent copy in a nice example of the rare glassine dust jacket. ----- INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY LUCIAN FREUD: 'For Robert / Collis from / Lucian Christmas / 1954'. Dr Robert Collis was an internationally renowned writer, paediatrician and a pioneer in the treatment of tuberculosis and cerebral palsy. Collis had established a clinic for cerebral palsy patients in Dublin and Christy Brown was his first patient at this clinic. Collis mentored and proofread Brown's first attempt at an autobiography. My Left Foot was published in 1954 and Collis wrote the foreword. ----- Robert Collis was the younger brother of the writer and critic Maurice Collis. After a group exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery in 1946, Maurice Collis wrote of Freud: 'the youngest of the young men here, shows remarkable skill. He may turn out the most gifted'. Lucian Freud was a regular visitor to Dublin between 1948 and 1956, and for a time shared a studio with the artist Patrick Swift in Hatch Street. ----- Freud's inscription is on the rear endpaper - upside down, as though mistakingly opened from the rear. The plain dust jacket giving no clue to the books correct orientation. ----- Copies of this book signed by Freud are rare. Another copy inscribed to Boris Kochno, with a self-portrait drawing by Freud, sold at Sotheby's in 2010 for £265k. ----- Provenance: Robert Collis, Private Collection, Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, Ireland. ----- Please confirm availability BEFORE ordering. More info and photos available on request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Signed limited edition of Sansom's early novella about a man who wakes one morning to discover himself physically and psychologically aslant, illustrated with five superb full-page plates after drawings by Lucian Freud. Number 479 of 750 copies signed by Sansom on limitation page. 8vo: 45,[1]pp. Publisher's buckram-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gold, beveled edges, fore-edge uncut, title page printed in black and red. Ownership signature to front free endpapers of New York figurative painter Sigmund Abeles, whose paintings are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Whitney, among many other institutions. Initials "A. B." inked to rear paste-down. Without the scarce original glassine dust jacket. Embrowning to endpapers, spine tips very lightly rubbed, else Fine. The great figurative artist Lucian Freud made numerous drawings throughout his twenties, before switching predominantly to oil painting. The originals of several of the pencil and conté crayon drawings done for this work were shown for the first time the year after Freud's death, in 2011, at a retrospective of his works on paper at Acquavella Galleries in New York. One is a youthful self-portrait that appears here as a stand-in for Sansom's protagonist. "William Sansom was once described as London's closest equivalent to Franz Kafka. He wrote in hallucinatory detail, bringing every image into pin-sharp focus. . . . He fell from favour, but now there is a movement to rediscover his finest works." (The Independent) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

First edition. Octavo. 45 pages. Five full-page plates by Lucian Freud. Buckram-backed marbled boards.Number 136 of 750 copies signed by William Sansom.Free endpapers partially tanned. Near fine in original tissue dustwrapper, printed only on the front flap, which is chipped and creased at the edges. The dustwrapper is rare.

Condition: Very good. Limited Edition. 8vo, 8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in (220 x 140 mm); pp. 46 + 5 full-page BW plates FROM DRAWINGS by LUCIAN FREUD; title and initials in red ink; buckram-backed marbled boards, gilt titling; bumping on the edges and the tail of the spine, binding firm; toning to end papers, some foxing but not affecting the illustrations which are printed on finer paper; without the scarce original glassine wrapper but protected in a removable mylar archival cover. Copy no 80 of 750 copies, NUMBERED and SIGNED by SANSOM on limitation page. Early in his career Lucian Freud (1922 ? 2011) was deeply influenced by the Surrealists and produced many drawings, while later he moved predominantly to oil painting and became famous for his stark and alienated realist portraits. A 2011 retrospective of Freud's works-on-paper at Acquavella Galleries in New York featured original drawings that he made to illustrate Sansom's novella, notably a self-portrait of the young Lucian Freud that represents the book's protagonist. Written by William Sansom (1912 ? 1976), a British novelist and short story writer known for his descriptive prose, 'The Equilibriad' is a novella about a man who wakes up one morning to discover himself physically and psychologically aslant, able to walk only at a 45-degree angle. "William Sansom was once described as London's closest equivalent to Franz Kafka. He wrote in hallucinatory detail, bringing every image into pin-sharp focus." [The Independent, 23 Oct. 2011] The Hogarth Press was a British publishing house founded in 1917 by Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond where they began hand-printing books. During the interwar period the Hogarth Press grew from a hobby to a business and they used commercial printers. In 1938 Virginia Woolf relinquished her interest in the business to John Lehmnan. It was sold to Chatto & Windus in 1946. The Press published 527 titles between 1917 and 1946, including the works of the members of the Bloomsbury group, works on psychoanalysis, and translations of foreign works, especially from Russian. Signed.