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Lot 243 · Evening & Day Editions

And the days are not full enough / And the nights are not full enough; Empty are the ways of this land; Fortitude as never before.... / Frankness as never before; You stand about the streets / You loiter at the corners and bus-stops / You do next to nothing at all; The thought of what America would be like / If the classics had a wide circulation; and I had laid out just the right books / I had almost turned down the pages

Dexter Dalwood

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Estimate
£2,000–£3,000 hammer ≈ $2,820–$4,230
Result
Performance
Sale
Phillips — Evening & Day Editions, London · 14 June 2021
Record ID
TB-2026-210784
Record
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Dexter Dalwood, And the days are not full enough / And the nights are not full enough; Empty are the ways of this land; Fortitude as never before.... / Frankness as never before; You stand about the streets / You loiter at the corners and bus-stops / You do next to nothing at all; The thought of what America would be like / If the classics had a wide circulation; and I had laid out just the right books / I had almost turned down the pages. Phillips, 14 Jun 2021, lot 243. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-210784.

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Dexter Dalwood, And the days are not full enough / And the nights are not full enough; Empty are the ways of this land; Fortitude as never before.... / Frankness as never before; You stand about the streets / You loiter at the corners and bus-stops / You do next to nothing at all; The thought of what America would be like / If the classics had a wide circulation; and I had laid out just the right books / I had almost turned down the pages. Phillips, 14 Jun 2021, lot 243. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-210784.

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