The Rowan Gibbs Book Collection
Thursday, 16 November - Thursday, 14 December 2023
Sargeson Frank - Conversation with My Uncle
Estimate $250 - $350
Realised: $150 plus premium
Lot Details
and Other Sketches (With Other), Unicorn Press, Auckland, 1937. His first book. 250 copies were printed and sold at 1s, 29pp small 8vo wrappers. Denis Glover’s well-read copy with front cover detached: inscribed “For Denis Glover / Frank Sargeson / 15th June 1936”. Bagnall S173. Glover’s most personal comments on Sargeson are in ‘Frank Sargeson at 75’ (Islands 21) and Glover’s own copy of that issue accompanies this. Varying conditions.
