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14 Georges Braque
(Descente aux Enfers, Page 9 - Two White Birds), 1961. Colour lithograph, 22.5 x 17.2cm.
Published in Descente aux Enfers (Descent into Hell) by Marcel Jouhandeau, with 4 original (untitled) lithographs by Georges Braque, published by Nouveau Cercle Parisien du Livre, 1961. Vallier #171. Mourlot #77.

$1,100
15 Georges Braque
(Descente aux Enfers, Page 59 - Three Red Birds), 1961. Colour lithograph, 25.5 x 18.5cm.
Published in Descente aux Enfers (Descent into Hell) by Marcel Jouhandeau, with 4 original (untitled) lithographs by Georges Braque, published by Nouveau Cercle Parisien du Livre, 1961. Vallier #171. Mourlot #79.

$1,900
16 Georges Braque
(Descente aux Enfers, Page 77 - Souvenirs), 1961. Colour lithograph, 27 x 20cm.
Published in Descente aux Enfers (Descent into Hell) by Marcel Jouhandeau, with 4 original (untitled) lithographs by Georges Braque, published by Nouveau Cercle Parisien du Livre, 1961. Vallier #171. Mourlot #80.

$1,900
17 Adrian Feint
[Bookplate] Barbara Jane Mullins, c.1950s. Woodcut, hand-coloured, 6 x 5.5cm.

$490
18 Adrian Feint
[Bookplate] Ex Libris Thelma Cecily Clune, c.1930. Etching, signed in the plate, 10.5 x 7.6cm.

$330
19 Hal Gye
Rough Sketch for The Stror at Coot in The Sentimental Bloke, c.1918. Pencil drawing, titled and signed lower right, 15 x 12.5cm.
Illustration for the book, The Sentimental Bloke, by C.J. Dennis.

$1,650
20 Sydney Long
[Bookplate] Ex Libris Sydney Long, c.1920. Etching, numbered 59/110 and signed in margin below right, 14.2 x 8.5cm.

$1,650
21 Ron Meadows
(Two Figures with Challice and Candle), c.1932. Linocut, 14 x 12.9cm.
Published in Manuscripts, No. 1.

$550
22 Pixie O'Harris
Illustrations for Pixie O'Harris Nursery Rhyme Book, 1960s. Watercolour, signed lower right, 31 x 43cm. Framed.
$390
23 Margaret Preston
The Bad Lady Puppet [and] The usurer puppet, 1934. Two woodblock prints on one page, each monogrammed in the block, edition of 1200, each 14.7 x 8.8cm (image), 25.3 x 19cm (the paper).
Published in Manuscripts No 12, 20 February 1935, illustrating her article "The Puppet Show of Osaka, Japan" (pp.15-16).
$590