Your Own Sylvia: Sylvia Plath’s letters to Ted Hughes and other items, property of Frieda Hughes

Sylvia Plath | Three household objects formerly belonging to her

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July 21, 02:46 PM GMT

Estimate

200 - 300 GBP

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Sylvia Plath--Household objects

Three items:

i) Staved teak serving tray, 610 x 285mm, Jens Quistaard stamp on underside, Denmark, [c.1960s], paint stains and other marks, splitting, some loss to underside

ii) Cloisonné tray patterned with sprays of foliage in silver and bronze on a black background, 310 x 235mm, stained and worn

iii) Commemorative enamel mug, for the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, incorporating a portrait and a depiction of Windsor Castle, 100 x 87mm, 1897, design faded, extensively chipped

The enamel cup (iii) was used by Plath to keep pens and was kept on her desk at Court Green in Devon.

Matière et mémoire. 1945. Rare premier livre de Dubuffet. 34 lithographies. Tirage limité à 60 exemplaires sur papier d’Auvergne.

Estimate:12,000 - 20,000 EUR

Voyage au bout de la nuit. Denoel et Steele,1932. Un des 10 exemplaire HC sur Arches. Envoi à Gaston Cherau, l’un des critiques qui refusa à Céline le Prix Goncourt.

Estimate:40,000 - 60,000 EUR

Anouaiaje par in ninbesil avec de zimaje. Paris, 1950. Un des 3 exemplaires de tête avec suite. Exemplaire d’Alfonso Ossorio, avec envoi.

Estimate:10,000 - 15,000 EUR

Labonfam abeber. 1950. Broché. Un des 50 exemplaires sur papier d'Indochine.

Estimate:8,000 - 12,000 EUR

Machine Learning Kiss

Estimate:5,000 - 7,000 USD

Liz

Estimate:25,000 - 35,000 USD

Casse-pipe. 1936-1937. Très important manuscrit autographe de 646 pages. Ayant servi à l’édition originale de 1949. Avec fragments qui ne furent publiés qu’en 1988.

Estimate:80,000 - 120,000 EUR

Complex

Estimate:15,000 - 17,000 USD