Lot 47
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji - Norman Peterkin - Owen Hamilton - Leigh Vaughan Henry
Literary ephemera
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji. Mi Contra Fa. The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician. London: The Porcupine Press, 1947. 8vo, inscribed: ‘To Norman’ in Sorabji's hand, original cloth gilt, dust-jacket;
Henry, Leigh Vaughan, after him. Manuscript notebook entitled ‘Poems and Plays’, with Henry's monogram to the upper cover, comprising 40 neat manuscript leaves of text, a fine copy without corrections, possibly written out by Marie Peterkin;
Manuscript notebook in the same hand with the later signature of Marie Peterkin to the endpaper, featuring poems by Fiona MacLeod, and others;
Hamilton, Owen. The Old Shepherd and Other Poems. London: Elkin Matthews and Marrot, 1931. 8vo, dust-jacket, with numerous loosely inserted letters and handwritten notes from Norman Peterkin, thanking the booksellers for selling him the work and then commenting on the work;
Ibid. Poems 1930-1936. London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1937. 8vo, dust-jacket price-clipped, with 4pp. of handwritten notes by Norman Peterkin, writing: ‘What makes this book intensely interesting to me are the pencilled in poems on pages 36-37; 40-41; 42-43; 88; I am certain that these are further new poems by Owen Hamilton: for they all have his marks and style.’
Peterkin, Norman. His address book featuring the addresses of both Sorabji and Henry;
Ibid. Folder of loose papers from the effects of Norman Peterkin;
A Book of Instructions about Printing intended to define the style of the House of Henderson & Spalding Limited…, 1926, Norman Peterkin's copy (8)
Provenance
All from the collection of Norman Peterkin, later part of the stock of John Updike booksellers