The Golden Book of Tagore [along with a Signed Letter by Tagore]
Ramananda Chatterjee, The Golden Book of Tagore: A Homage to Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday , Calcutta: Golden Book Committee, 1931 xx, (2), pp. 374, (2), 30 plates including 1 Frontispiece [Photogravure portrait of Tagore, after a photograph by Martin Vos], 29 plates, many of them tipped-in colour plates [with tissue guards carrying title and artist's name] by Abanindra Nath Tagore, Nanda Lal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, A D Thomas, Gogonendra Nath Tagore, Samarendra Nath Gupta, Abdur Rahman Chughtai and Ramendra Nath Chakravarti. Others are reproductions of works by a Chinese and a Japanese artist, portraits of Tagore done by eminent Indian and Western artists and early photographs of Tagore; original full leather with a gilted roundel of the vegetal design on the front board and gilt leather title ticket pasted on the spine, most pages remain uncut along the top edge, new end papers 11.75 x 9 x 2 in (30 x 23 x 5 cm) This copy is numbered 31 out of a limited-edition of 1500 copies.
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Rs 6,00,000 - 8,00,000
$7,410 - 9,880
Winning bid
Rs 6,00,000 |
$7,407
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Indian Round Table Conference
Emery Kelen, Indian Round Table Conference , London: Emery Kelen, 1930-32 Unpaginated; publisher's title page with 85 loose plates further housed in a customised solander box measuring 16 x 12 x 1.5 in (40.5 x 31 x 4 cm) The album was printed and hand-colored in a limited edition of 200 copies. 50 copies of this edition were on hand-made paper and contained in a leather portfolio and numbered 1 to 50. 150 copies were on high-class paper contained in an Art-cloth portfolio and numbered 51 to 200. This lot has loose plates and are further housed in a customised solander box. This copy is an unnumbered copy unlike the other copies which were numbered and signed by the artist.
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Rs 4,50,000 - 5,00,000
$5,560 - 6,175
Winning bid
Rs 6,60,000 |
$8,148
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The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling [35 volumes, Limited Edition Complete Set, Signed by the Author in Volume One]
Rudyard Kipling, The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling , London: Macmillan and Company, Sussex Edition, 1937-39 The Sussex Edition. Number 78 of 525 sets, signed by the author in volume one; hardbound in full crimson Niger morocco, bound by James Burn & Co. Ltd., with raised bands in six compartments, gilt, and double gilt fillet borders to upper and lower boards. Top edges gilt on rough, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Titles handsomely printed by R.& R. Clark Ltd. of Edinburgh on hand-made rag-paper by Messrs. Portals Ltd. in white on chestnut panels, printed on handmade paper with a watermark of Ganesha (each). 9.75 x 6.75 in (25 x 17.5 cm) (each) The Sussex edition is universally considered as unquestionably the definitive and most desirable edition of Kipling's collected works. It is also one of the most splendid and extravagantly produced of all literary sets.
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Rs 6,00,000 - 7,00,000
$7,410 - 8,645
Winning bid
Rs 6,60,000 |
$8,148
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