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Lot 137
Maeterlinck (Maurice) La Sargesse et la Destinee, number 3 of 30 copies, 1898 [&] La Vie des Abeilles, number 4 of 25 copies, 1901, both first editions, signed presentation copies from the author to Alfred Sutro and from Sutro to John Drinkwater, manuscripts. from Sutro to Drinkwater laid down in each vol., gilt morocco booktickets of Drinkwater on front pastedowns, contemporary polished morocco, gilt spines, slightly dulled and rubbed, first mentioned covers detached, t.e.g., others uncut, by Zaehnsdorf, (2).
Estimate: £500 - 700
Description
Maeterlinck (Maurice, Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist, 1862-1949) La Sargesse et la Destinee, number 3 of 30 copies, 1898 [&] La Vie des Abeilles, number 4 of 25 copies, 1901, both first editions, signed presentation copies from the author to Alfred Sutro and from Sutro to John Drinkwater, manuscript inscriptions by Drinkwater recording Sutro's bequeathing them to Drinkwater in his will and an APcs from Sutro to Drinkwater laid down in each vol., gilt morocco booktickets of Drinkwater on front pastedowns, contemporary polished morocco, gilt spines, slightly dulled and rubbed, first mentioned covers detached, t.e.g., others uncut, by Zaehnsdorf, 8vo (2).
⁂ Alfred Sutro (1863-1933), playwright and translator; translated Maeterlinck's Life of the Bee, for Detmold's illustrations in 1911.
Description
Maeterlinck (Maurice, Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist, 1862-1949) La Sargesse et la Destinee, number 3 of 30 copies, 1898 [&] La Vie des Abeilles, number 4 of 25 copies, 1901, both first editions, signed presentation copies from the author to Alfred Sutro and from Sutro to John Drinkwater, manuscript inscriptions by Drinkwater recording Sutro's bequeathing them to Drinkwater in his will and an APcs from Sutro to Drinkwater laid down in each vol., gilt morocco booktickets of Drinkwater on front pastedowns, contemporary polished morocco, gilt spines, slightly dulled and rubbed, first mentioned covers detached, t.e.g., others uncut, by Zaehnsdorf, 8vo (2).
⁂ Alfred Sutro (1863-1933), playwright and translator; translated Maeterlinck's Life of the Bee, for Detmold's illustrations in 1911.
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