Japanese-style erotica
'The Pillow Book. Nob + Non' [spine-title]
£504
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
14 original sketches probably by a late-20th century British hand, pen-and-ink, wash and watercolour, approximate dimensions 40 x 30cm, pencilled captions in English on versos, each tipped to mount comprising two craft-paper leaves stitched together along edges, the mounts glued into stiffened cloth backstrip and laid into white silk portfolio with embroidered titles and erotic decoration to spine and front cover. Together with 3 further art portfolios:
Golikova, G. V. DMT 42, Stuttgart: Edition Domberger, 1969. First edition, one of 130 'unsigned' copies from the edition of 210, but this copy signed by Golikova and illuminator Gerald Laing in pencil on the limitation leaf, folio, original white card wrappers, black dust jacket, title-page with additional silkscreen colour, 23 colour silkscreen prints, colophon leaf, pink cloth portfolio and matching slipcase, portfolio and slipcase damp-stained, integral plastic support in portfolio detached;
Picasso, Pablo. Picasso 347. New York: Random House/Maecenas Press, 1970. First edition, 2 volumes, oblong folio, original quarter cloth, in original box (somewhat distressed);
Jamieson, Wendell. New York by New York. New York: Assouline, 2018. First edition, 4to, original orange cloth, slipcase, retaining protective cardboard packing case