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Penrose (Roland) The Road is Wider than Long, NUMBER 474 OF 510 COPIES, signed and inscribed by author (reads: "To John Buckland Wright. I should have to write another book to express my affection"), text in red and black, text photographs, foxing o n preliminaries, original wood boards, title on boards, 8vo, Gallery Editions, [1939].
Petronius Arbiter (Titus) The Satyricon, NUMBER 17 OF 250 COPIES signed by the artist and publisher, frontispiece and 199 full-page illustrations by Norman Lindsay, later half tan morocco, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, Privately Printed by Ralph Straus , 1910.
Poems for Shakespeare 2, edited by Graham Fawcett, NUMBER 25 OF 100 COPIES, signed by all the (living) contributors, inscribed on front freeendpaper by Sam Wannamaker to Admiral Sandy Woodward, July 1988, original calf-backed cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, g.e., bound by A.M.Lumsden, cloth slip-case, 8vo, Globe Playhouse Trust Publications, 1973. ***Contributors include: Ted Hughes, D.J.Enright, Wole Soyinka and Michael Hamburger. Seamus Heaney contributes 'A Flourish for the Prince of Denmark'. Admiral Sir John ('Sandy') Woodwardcommanded the carrier battle group Task Force 317.8 during the Falklands conflict, 1982.
Prinner [Anton] La Femme Tondue, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, NUMBER ONE OF 1000 COPIES, signed and inscribed by the author, 8 signed etchings, marginal browning, text leaves becoming loose, original paper wrapper, slightly browned, light staining, s mall creases, 8vo, Paris, April [1946].
Private Press Editions.- Simon (Elizabeth & Robert) A Collection of Curwen Pattern Papers, ONE OF 6 COPIES, presentation copy, signed and inscribed by author, reads “It was a pleasure making this for you Carol – Robert Simon”, 10 original papers , original cloth backed decorative boards designed by Robert Simon, 4to, 1998; Boyd (William) Cork, NUMBER 192 OF 236, signed by author and artist, original cloth-backed decorative boards, 8vo, 1994; Rogerson (Ian) Barnett Freedman: The Graphic Art, ONE OF 500 COPIES, lithograph prints, original cloth, 4to, 2006; Hall (Colin) Gassington Manor, NUMBER 33 OF 50 COPIES, signed by artist, 21 lino prints, original cloth-backed boards, boards hand-coloured, 4to, 1988 with prospectus and order form; with 7 other private press books (11)
Private Press Editions.- [Shakespeare (William)] The Passionate Pilgrim and the Songs in Shakepeare's Plays, LIMITED EDITION, woodcut designs by Charles Ricketts, original boards, printed paper labels, slightly soiled and worn, Ballantyne Press, 189 6; De Musset (Alfred) Fantasio, NUMBER 135 OF 550 copies, illustrations by Fernand Giauque, 10 lithographs and 2 hand coloured, original cloth, spine faded, bookplates, Pleiad Press, Haarlem, 1929; Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Songs Before Sunrise, NUMBER 128 OF 650 COPIES, original limp vellum, silk ties, Florence Press, 1909; Marlowe (Christopher) The Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus, NUMBER 51 (a) OF 250 COPIES, engravings by Blair Hughes Stanton, green buckram, gilt, t.e.g., The Golden Hours Press, 1932; together with 4 titles from the Beaumont Press, and 7 titles from the Black Manikin Press, and a quantity of other press books, v.s. (27)
Rego (Paula) The Children’s Crusade, with an Introduction by Blake Morrison, NUMBER 41 OF 75 DELUXE COPIES, with an original etching ‘Bait’, signed by Rego and Morrison, from an edition limited to 175, tipped-in illustrations after Rego, original cloth with colour illustration mounted on upper cover, uncut, original etching numbered and signed in pencil, loose as issued in folder, together in original cloth slipcase, folio, Enitharmon Press, 1999; Jane Eyre, NUMBER 206 OF 325 COPIES, signed by author and artist, colour and black & white illustrations, cloth-backed illustrated boards, folio, 2003 (2)
ARRRichards (Ceri) & Watkins (Vernon) Elegiac Sonnet, NUMBERED 21, comprising two aquatints printed in colours, on wove paper, with title-page and text, loose as issued within original boards, with the original yellow slipcase, 395 x 300 mm (15 1 /2 x 11 7/8in), very light soiling, Milan, M’Arte Edizioni, 1970.
Rilke (Rainer Maria) Duineser Elegien. Elegies from the Castle of Duino, translated from the German by Vita Sackville-West and Edward Sackville-West, NUMBER 174 OF 230 COPIES, signed by the translators, title in red and black, book designed by Co unt Harry Kessler, woodcut initials by Eric Gill, type designed by Edward Johnston, text in German and English, original vellum-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered, spine very slightly marked, plain dust jacket. spine browned, very slightly frayed, card slipcase, browned and scuffed, 8vo, printed at the Cranach Press for the Hogarth Press, 1931.
The Black Sun Press.- Letters of Henry James to Walter Berry, NUMBER 70 OF 100 COPIES on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen, original printed limp paper wrappers, original glassine rubbed at extremities, bookplate to inside cover, Paris, 1928; Crosby (Harry) Mad Queen Tirades, NUMBER 65 OF 100 COPIES on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen, original printed limp paper wrappers, original glassine, frontispiece by Caresse Crosby, Paris, 1929; Sterne (Lawrence) A Sentimental Journey, NUMBER 162 OF 400 COPIES, original printed limp paper wrappers, original glassine rubbed at spine and extremities, Paris, 1929; 47 Lettres Inédites de Marcel Proust a Walter Berry, NUMBER 65 OF 250 COPIES, contemporary half light tan morocco, letter lettering label, gilt, t.e.g., Paris, 1930; and 2 others from the Black Sun Press, v.s. (6)
Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri de).- Clemenceau (Georges) Au Pied de Sinai, NUMBER 104 OF 355 COPIES, with the suite of 10 lithographs by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 2 states, printed in black on Velin and in monochrome on Chine, 6 smaller lithograph t ext-illustrations, pages unopened and untrimmed. bookplates on both sides of front free endpaper, original wrappers with colour printed lithograph by Toulouse Lautrec, slightly frayed glassine wrapper, original folder of marbled boards, cloth spine with gilt title label, in matching slipcase, slightly rubbed, [The Artist and the Book no. 2302; Delteil XI, nos 235-249, 320], 4to, Paris, Henri Floury, [1898]. ***"This is the one substantial book illustrated by Lautrec. The text by Georges Clemenceau, the journalist and statesman, consists of sketches of Jewish life and character from the millionaire Baron Moise de Goldschlammbach to dwellers in Polish ghettoes"(Gordon N. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1982).
Vonnegut (Kurt) Deadeye Dick, NUMBER 121 OF 350 COPIES 1982; Galapagos, NUMBER 2 OF 500 COPIES, 1985, signed by the author, original cloth, slip-cases, very slightly scuffed, 8vo, N.Y., Delcorte Press / Seymour Lawrence (2)
White (John).- Hulton (Paul) & Quinn (David Beers) The American Drawings of John White, 1577-1590, 2 vol., NUMBER 'UK 1' OF 600 COPIES, colour and monochrome plates, dark red morocco, gilt, arms on front covers, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf, cloth slipc ase, rubbed, one panel all but loose, folio, British Museum / North Carolina University Press, 1964.
Whitman (Walt) & Siskind (Aaron) Song of the Open Road, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 459 OF 550 COPIES, numbered and signed on colophon page in pencil by Siskind, including a laid-in four-page booklet, hardcover, fine green cloth with spine and half b lack goatskin with embossed title, black linen-covered slipcase, folio, New York, Limited Edition Club, 1990; Rothenberg (Jerome) & Tyson (Ian) Sightings I-IX & Red Easy A Color, NUMBER 110 OF 125 COPIES, signed and inscribed by author and artist, 10 colour screen prints by Ian Tyson, original leather-backed cord boards, black cloth slipcase, folio, Circle Books, 1967 (2)