From the Dobo collection.
The first 36 lots in this sale are from the collection of Francis Dobo (1908-1998)
Rockwell KENT (1882-1971) & Carl ZIGROSSER (1891-1975). Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures by R.K. and, by Carl Zigrosser, a Bibliography and List of Prints. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1933. Quarto (10 ½ x 8 inches; 266 x 203 mm). Pp. [i-viii;] 1-64; [1-88]. Colored frontispiece, uncolored title decoration, vignettes and illustrations (many full-page) all after Kent. Original cloth, decorated with a design after Kent, spine lettered in white (spine somewhat soiled and frayed at head and foot). Provenance: ‘Bobbie and Louie’ (friendly inscription by Rockwell Kent, in ink, to the front free endpaper, dated ‘New Year / 1942’).
Author/artist’s presentation copy of this attractive beautifully-produced work. Zigrosser “ an art dealer… and… Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art between 1940 and 1963” (wikipedia). He met Rockwell Kent early in his career whilst he was working for Frederick Keppel, the New York print dealer.
Francis Dobo: the “epitome of a 20th Century intellectual” Hungarian born Francis F. Dobo (1908-1998) was an important figure in the world of publishing, contemporary literature and photography for over half a century. He was lifelong friends with the renowned Hungarian masters of candid photography, Brassaï and André Kertész, first in Hungary and later in Paris in the 1930s. It was in Paris he encountered Henry Miller, Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Raymond Queneau: he corresponded and supported Miller from then on, and subsequently became Queneau’s U.S. agent. Love of books and literature seems to have been a family trait: his uncle was Gabriel Wells (1861-1946), one of the two most important rare book dealers of his generation. The present selection includes a small number of books which belonged to Wells, with the rest being a cross section of the best of the contemporary literature which was such an important part of Francis’ life. William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Koestler, Christopher Isherwood, Norman Mailer, Franz Kafka are all here !
- Sold By: Shadowrock Rare Books
- Contact Person: Adam Langlands
- Country: United States
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 001-860-248-1547
- Preferred Payment Methods: Paypal, US$ checks and wire transfers, major credit cards through paypal
- Trade Associations: AA Approved
