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Being offered for sale by Maggs Bros.
Ltd. of London.
The library of the late Alan Clodd is one of the most celebrated and extensive
private collections of modern literature, assembled over some fifty years
and totalling some 20,000 books, many of the highest quality.
For an appreciation of Clodd's life, please see the Independent
newspaper's obituary of him, and for The
Bookdealer's notice of the first catalogue, which includes a discussion
of his collecting activities. Where individual collections within the
main body of the library achieve or come close to definitive status they
are to offered for sale en bloc, and his James Joyce, A.E. Housman and
1890s holdings have already been placed. Among author collections yet
to be sold are his astonishingly good T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, Christopher
Isherwood, and Siegfried Sassoon. Please contact us for further details
of these.
There will also be a series of individually priced catalogues of books
and manuscripts. The first, Dolmen,
Heaney, Yeats and Others and second, Against
the Grain and its expanded version The
Whole Grain have already been issued. Future catalogues will include
mixed Prose Writers, Poets and Illustrated Books. Although primarily a
book collector Alan had extensive manuscript collections, including Kathleen
Raine, W.S. Graham and David Gascoyne, which will be offered separately.
At the end of the process, we hope to publish a comprehensive catalogue
of the Clodd library, available for purchase as a reference book.
All offerings will initially be by catalogue only, and please write
to Joe McCann at Maggs (joe@maggs.com) to be added to the mailing list.
Shortly after each catalogue's publication, the books will be posted on
the internet, at www.clodd.com, and the usual collaborative booktrade
databases.
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