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Johnson (Samuel) Rasselas, large-paper copy, half-title, head-piece and 4 plates, engraved by A. Raimbach after R.Smirke, W. Miller, 1805 bound with Proofs and Etchings, from Pictures, painted by Robert Smirke, R.A. and engraved by A Raimbach...from the Rasselas, head-piece and 4 plates, each in two states, on India paper, Savage & Easingwood, 1805, in one vol., some spotting and light offsetting, contemporary red half morocco, gilt, rubbed and marked, t.e.g., others uncut, large 4to. *** Rare large-paper copy, together with the extra suites of the illustrations issued in the same year. The 'Advertisment' is attributed to Sir Walter Scott.
Le Guin (Ursula K) & Robbins (Ruth, Illustrator) A Wizard of Earth Sea, FIRST EDITION, first issue, ex-library, stock number on bottom of dedication and p. 51, paper residue, stamps and book plate on paste down and flyleaf, publisher's green clo th, lettered and stamped in black, original dust-jacket, location sticker on spine, spine bleached, slight chipping and small stain on spine tail, corner clipped from front flap, reads “Library Edition $3.90”, 8vo, California, Parnassus Press, 1968; with two other copies of the same work, FIRST EDITIONS, second and third printing, respectively, also ex-library (3)
Milne (A. A.).- A Complete Set of Winnie the Pooh Books When We Were Young. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shephard, FIRST EDITION, second issue, bookplate, original blue cloth with Shepard illustrations stamped in gilt to both boards, single fillet border to upper board, spine lettered in gilt, with slight bumping, t.e.g, some browning to endpapers, dust jacket lightly soiled with minor chipping and creasing to spine, 1924; Winnie the Pooh. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shephard, FIRST EDITION, original dark green cloth, bookplate, upper board stamped in gilt with Shephard's vignette and single fillet border, spine gilt, t.e.g., endpapers map by E. H. Shephard, dust jacket a little creased at head of spine, with the publisher’s original prospectus for the book, a single folded sheet printed in black and red, loosely inserted, 1926; Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shephard, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, original burgundy cloth with Shephard's vignettes stamped in gilt, t.e.g., pink illustrated endpapers, dust jacket with slight toning of spine, 1927; and The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shephard, FIRST EDITION, bookplate, occasional spotting, original pink cloth with Shepard's vignette in gilt, t.e.g., pink illustrated endpapers with a little browning, dust jacket with some chipping at corners and spine ends, minor water stain and soiling, 1928, 8vo, Methuen (4)
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, limited to 250 copies, colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations, some light ink staining, occasional added watercolour to some illustrations, original boards, rec ased and rebacked, professional restoration to hinge and frontispiece re-inserted, ownership signature dated 'Xmas 1901', 16mo [Privately printed, 1901]; The Tale of Peter Rabbit, FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, half-title, colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout, crease to one leaf, original board, recased and rebacked, signature dated '1908', 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1902 (2) ***Having experienced rejection from at least six publishers, Potter decided to issue 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' herself in 1901 and ordered 250 copies. These were ready during December 1901 and success was so great that Potter ordered a further 200 copies in February 1902. The publisher Frederick Warne then expresses interest and commercial publication followed in October 1902.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, FIRST EDITION, first or second printing, 27 full-page colour illustrations by the author, original dark blue boards, circular inlaid colour illustration, some fading to spine, pictorial endpapers with in scription dated 'Xmas 1903', 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1903.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Two Bad Mice, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, ownership inscription to half title, 27 colour full-page illustrations, original red boards with colour illustration inlaid, pictorial endpapers, small scattering of ink spots , corners slightly worn, 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1904.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, FIRST EDITION (the first two impressions are identical, with the word 'muffetees' on page 15 incorrectly spelt 'muffatees'), 26 full-page colour illustrations by the author, original boards with oval illu stration inlaid, minor soiling, pictorial endpapers with inscription dated 'Xmas 1904', 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1904.
Potter (Beatrix) The Pie and the Patty-Pan, FIRST EDITION, bookplates, half-title, 10 full-page colour illustrations and numerous others throughout, stitching strained, some overall foxing, original maroon boards, small circular colour printed label inlaid, mottled lavender endpapers with some browning, cracks in joints and spine a little defective at foot, corners a little worn, 8vo, Frederick Warne, 1905; Ginger & Pickles, FIRST EDITION, half-title with inscription, 10 full page colour illustrations and numerous black and white line drawings throughout, original green boards, some wear, small 4to, Frederick Warne, 1909 (2)
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher, FIRST EDITION, gift inscription to half title, 27 colour full-page illustrations, original green boards with colour illustration inlaid, light foxing to top edge, corners slightly worn, pictorial endpa pers, 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1906.
Potter (Beatrix) The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, pages mounted on linen and folded concertina-style, occasional creasing, mounted within folding green cloth wallet with silver tab, some rubbing, mottled lilac endpape rs, 32mo, Frederick Warne, 1906. ***A nice copy of a rather fragile book, with the often missing tab present.
Potter (Beatrix) The Story of Miss Moppet, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, pages mounted on linen and folded concertina-style, occasional creasing, mounted within folding light blue cloth wallet with silver tab, slot-flap missing, some rubbing to ext remities, mottled lilac end papers, 32mo, Frederick Warne, 1906.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Tom Kitten, FIRST EDITION, (the first three impressions are identical), half title, 26 colour full-page illustrations and a title vignette by the author, original grey-green boards with colour illustration inlaid, light foxing to edges, corners slightly worn, pictorial endpapers, original printed tissue dust-jacket a little frayed and with 1cm chip at head, 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1907.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck, FIRST EDITION, vignette to title page, colour frontispiece and 26 further colour illustrations all by the author, original green boards with onlaid colour printed illustration, spine 1cm defective at head, minor wear, 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1908.
Potter (Beatrix) The Roly-Poly Pudding, FIRST EDITION, second issue, colour printed title page and frontispiece, with 17 full-page colour printed illustrations, light toning, original red cloth with square illustration, inscription to flyleaf, 8vo, Frederick Warne, 1908.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, FIRST EDITION, half title, 27 colour full-page illustrations, very light creasing, original green boards with colour illustration inlaid, spine faded, pictorial endpapers, 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1909 .
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, inscription to half title, 27 colour full-page illustrations, stitching a bit weak, original blue boards with colour illustration inlaid, some fading to spine, pictorial en dpapers, 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1910. ***The half title is inscribed by the author's father "Harriette A. Simpson from Rupert Potter, Sep. 1, 1910".
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, FIRST EDITION, 27 full -page colour printed illustrations and a title-vignette, original green boards with inlaid colour illustration, pictorial endpapers, short split at top of lower joint, 16mo, Frederi ck Warne, 1911.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mr Tod, FIRST EDITION, first or second printing, 15 full -page colour printed illustrations and numerous black and white line drawings throughout, original gray boards with inlaid colour illustration, pictorial endpap ers, spine slightly tanned, 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1912.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 17 colour illustrations, original red boards with inlaid colour illustration, lettering to spine a bit rubbed, illustrated endpapers, 16mo, Freder ick Warne [1926]; The Tale of Pigling Bland, FIRST EDITION, half title, 15 full-page illustrations in colour and black and white line drawings throughout, some overall spotting, original dark pink boards with inlaid illustration, some fading, pictorial endpapers, 16mo, Frederick Warne, 1913 (2)
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, ownership inscription to half title, colour illustrations throughout, original light green boards with inlaid colour illustration, pictorial endpapers, some fading, with cli pped signature of the author ('Beatrix Heelis') loosely inserted, 16mo, Frederick Warne, [1918].
Potter (Beatrix) Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 15 colour illustrations by the author author, light soiling throughout, original red boards with colour illustration inlaid, fading to spine, light dust soiling to top edge , pictorial endpapers, 16mo, Frederick Warne, [1922]; The Fairy Caravan, FIRST EDITION, 6 colour illustrations and numerous others, occasional light handling marks, original green cloth, minor rubbing, cracking to front hinge, 8vo, Philadelphia, David McKay, 1929 (2)
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece, 5 colour plates and 22 further full-page illustrations, original blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, later issue dust-jacket with pictorial onlay, 8vo, Frederick W arne, 1930.
Pushkin (Alexander) & Schiffrin (J., Translator) Boris Godounov. Illustrations by Vassili Choukhaeff, NO 236 OF 430 COPIES on Rives by Blanchet Frères et Klèber, signed by the publisher, half title, 18 colour plates, including frontispiece, vividly stencilled with small gouache or gold highlights, tissue guards, light foxing, original publisher’s pictorial paper wrappers, leaves uncut, bound in red morocco, front cover with relief decorations, in the matching half morocco slipcase, 4to, Paris, The Pléiade, 1925. *** Pushkin's first play, finely printed and illustrated by Choukhaeff, is of interest in the history of Russian art (Fekula, Catalog, vol.II, p.110).
Rackham (Arthur, Illustrator) Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, FIRST TRADE EDITION, 50 colour plates mounted on card by Arthur Rackham, original russet cloth, git decorated, worn at extremities, bookplate to front paste-down, Hodder & Stoughton, 1906; Lear (Edward) More Nonsense, Pictures Rhymes, Botany, etc. FIRST EDITION, 138 lithographic plates, slight foxing,original cloth-backed decorated paper boards, light rubbing and some chipping to edges, small damp stain upper edge of lower board, foxing to endpaper, bookplate to front free endpaper, R. J. Bush, 1872; [Greenaway (Kate)] Browning (Robert) The Pied Piper, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, illustrations by Kate Greenaway, original pictorial boards, slightly rubbed, inscription to title-page, bookplate to front paste-down, George Routledge and Sons, [1888]; [Hardy (Florence) Ills.] Bigham (Clifton) Magic Moments, FIRST EDITION, 7 movable chromolithograph illustrations, some slight wear, original pictorial covers, rubbed at edges, London & New York, E. P. Nister, [c.1900], v.s. (4)
Rackham (Arthur, Illustrator) Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 50 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, text illustrations, little spotting, original decorated cloth, gilt, little rubbed, front hinge cracked, n.d.; Stevenso n (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, 12 colour plates, text-illustrations by Edmund Dulac, original cloth, faded and little rubbed, Ernest Benn, 1927; Stawell (Mrs Rodolph) & Detmold (E. J., Illustrator) Fabre's Book of Insects, 12 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, original decorated cloth, gilt, New York, Tudor Publishing Company, 1936, 4to (3)
Sansom (William) & Freud (Lucian, Illustrator) The Equilibriad, one of 750 copies, 5 plates by Lucian Freud, title in red and black, cloth backed marbled boards, 8vo, The Hogarth Press, 1948; Sackville-West (Edward) Moore (Henry, Illustrator) Th e Rescue, number 658 of 850 copies, 6 plates by Henry Moore, library stamps on front free end-paper and title, publisher's blue cloth, original dust jacket, tear with loss to spine, rubbed and stained, 8vo, Martin Secker & Warburg, 1945; Baudelaire (Charles) & Rodin (Auguste, Illustrator) Les Fleurs du Mal, limited edition, 6 plates and several text illustrations by Rodin, original dust jacket, royal 8vo, France, Paris, The Limited Editions Club, 1940; Armstrong (Martin) & Ravilious (Eric, Illustrator) Desert, A Legend, lino-cut frontispiece, text illustrations (3 full page), publisher's red cloth, woodcut dust jackets, minor surface dirt, 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1926; Dickinson (Patric) & Scott (William, Illustrator) Soldiers’ Verse, FIRST EDITION, 12 lithograph plates, original printed boards, original printed dust jacket, slight browning and staining, 8vo, 1945; Orlan (Pierre Mac) & Pascin (Illustrator) Aux Lumières de Paris, limited edition, 6 plates by Pascin, original dust jacket, 8vo, Paris, Georges Crès & Cie, 1925; O’Connor (John) Canals, Barges and People, text illustrations, 22 full page chromolithograph illustrations, publisher's cloth, 8vo, 1950; with 25 others (32)
Wells (H. G.) War of the Worlds, original Danish manuscript, the text written out in block script ink, with over 620 original drawings in ink and watercolour on mounted rectangular panels (mostly sequentially numbered), watercolour title-page, portr ait of H G Wells in ink, and additional decorative watercolours by an anonymous artist, oblong 4to, [83] ff.; brown half-calf with marbled board covers, possibly early 20th century.
Abercrombie (Lascelles) The Sale of Saint Thomas, NUMBER 150 OF 480 COPIES, signed by the author, also signed by Walter de la Mare on limitation page, original cloth, spine faded, 4to, Martin Secker, 1930; Masefield (John) The Taking of Helen, NUM BER 489 OF 780 COPIES, signed by the author, original publisher’s quarter vellum gilt, scattered soiling, yellowing, 4to, William Heinemann, 1923 (2)
Artists' Choice Editions.- Hall (Charles) Illustrating Alice: An international Selection of Illustrated Editions…, NUMBER 65 OF 68 COPIES numerous colour text illustrations, leather backed boards, with 4 signed prints, cloth slipcase, 4to, 2013; Lo rd (John Vernon) and Goodacre (Selwyn) Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, NUMBER 10 OF 98 COPIES, signed by author, full colour text illustrations, original black morocco, white chess board illustration with silver embossed pawn, folio; with 4 signed prints and Lords List by John Vernon Lord, together, in black cloth box; Legrove (Judith, editor) A Musical Eye: The Visual World of Britten and Pears, NUMBER 110 OF 650 COPIES, text illustrations, original cloth, folio, 2012, with 1 duplicate (4)
Ashendene Press.- The Minor Poems of Edmund Spenser, ONE OF 200 COPIES, printed in red, blue and black, bookplate, original calf-backed vellum, spine with seven raised bands, gilt, uncut, rubbing to joints and splitting to upper parts, prospectus lo osely laid in, slipcase, folio, 1925.
Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron...translated by John Payne, 2 vol., NUMBER 115 OF 174 COPIES, titles in red and black, plates by Louis Chalon, tissue guards, pencil ownership inscriptions on end-papers, original gilt-lettered cloth, gilt ornament s on front covers, heads of front joints little damaged, folio, Lawrence & Bullen, 1893.
Bodoni.- Rochefoucauld (François, Duc de la) Maximes et Réflexions Morales, half title, 8 leaves of index, some spotting throughout, light marginal dampstaining at end, contemporary green morocco, gilt and blindstamped, covers with elaborate design of concentric borders, central panel with red and brown morocco onlays in corners, spine gilt with lettering pieces, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, spine and covers rubbed and scuffed, head of spine damaged, 4to, Parma, Bodoni, 1812.
Burton (Sir Richard Francis, translator) Il Pentamerone; or the Tale of Tales, 2 vol., NUMBER 9 OF 165 COPIES, half title, occasional light staining and spotting, 2 outline sketches, 1 drawing and 1 watercolour illustration by John Buckland Wright i n margin of vol. 2, publisher's black cloth, gold title on boards, slightly bumped and rubbed, pages uncut, royal 8vo, Henry and Co., 1893 (2) *** Published by Lady Burton after Richard Burton's death. It was issued in an edition of 1500 copies available to subscribers only, with an additional 165 copies on large paper of which this is the latter.
Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) Don Quixote de La Mancha, 2 vol., NUMBER 934 OF 1475 COPIES, pochoir colour plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, original brown morocco, slightly scuffed & darkened,t.e.g., others uncut, 1930; Pindar. Pythian Odes, NUMBE R 68 OF 1050 COPIES, engraved title, head and tail piece by Stephen Godden, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, 1928; The Greek Portrait, NUMBER 119 OF 425 COPIES, text in Greek and English, 3 plates by Mariette Lydis (covered with cellophane), occasional spotting, original cloth, lettered and decorated in blue, little knocked and marked, t.e.g., others uncut, 1934, 8vo, Nonesuch Press (4)
Chambers (David) Lucien Pissarro Notes on a Selection of Wood-blocks Held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, NUMBER 138 OF 175 PRINTED SETS, 29 woodcut plates printed from the original blocks by the artist, together loosely inserted in original cloth fold-over box, 4to, Oxford, 1980.
Corvinus Press.- Findlay (Richard) Honour, NUMBER 32 OF 70 COPIES, signed by the author, original vellum-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly hand soiled, bookplate, 1936; Verlaine (Paul) Fetes Galantes, NUMBER 19 OF 30 COPIES on papier Go ldflake, original half blue calf, gilt, spine slightly faded, bookplate, 1944, 8vo (2)
Craig (John) Venice, NUMBER 7 OF 60 COPIES signed by the author and artist of a limited edition of 285, with a separate portfolio of prints by John Craig, original half morocco over pictorial paper boards, cloth portfolio, within original publish er's slipcase, Whittington Press, 2015; MacDiarmid (Hugh) The Kind of Poetry I Want, NUMBER 5 OF 300 COPIES signed by the author, original vellum over patterned paper boards, t.e.g., card slipcase, Officina Bodoni, 1961; Pastonchi: A Specimen of a New Letter for use on the 'Monotype', ONE OF 200 COPIES, specimens mounted on stubs, some foxing, original half vellum, uncut, Officina Bodoni, 1928, folio (3)
Delaunay (Sonia).- Tzara (Tristan) Juste Present, NUMBER 63 OF 90 COPIES on grand Velin de Rives and signed by Delauny and Tzara, from an edition limited to 140, 8 colour etchings with aquatint by Sonia Delaunay, minor foxing to tissue guards, loose as issued in Japan nacre' folder, uncut, original board folder and slip-case, both illustrated with pochoir design by Delaunay, slip-case slightly rubbed, folio, [Paris], 1961.
Douglas (Norman) In The Beginning, LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 188 OF 700, numbered and signed by author, original patterned boards, black morocco label on spine, corners bumped, 8vo, Florence, [privately printed at the Tipografia Giuntina], 1927; Gill ( Eric) Art-Nonsense and Other Essays, LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 34 OF 100 COPIES, signed by author, woodcut device on title, original maroon cloth, t.e.g., front free end paper browned, 8vo, Cassell & Co., 1929 (2)
Doves Press.- Ruskin (John) Unto This Last, Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy, ONE OF 300 COPIES, inscribed on free end-paper before title "ToTheodore Fawkes/with all good wishes on the/most interesting occasion of her life/fr om Emery Walker/September 12th 1911’", bound by Katherine Adams in gilt decorated green morocco, a.e.g., spine faded and toning to edges, 1907; The City Planned, c. 300 copies, 2pp. loosely laid into original brown printed wrappers, 1911, 4to (2)
Dropmore Press.- Cubbin (Thomas) The Wreck of the Serica: A Narrative of 1868, Foreword by H.M.Tomlinson, NUMBER 21 OF 30 SPECIALLY-BOUND COPIES signed by Tomlinson and the artist, from an edition limited to 300, wood-engraved illustrations by John Worsley and printed in colours, original dark blue morocco, gilt, t.e.g., 1950; De Quincey (Thomas) Revolt of the Tartars, NUMBER 13 OF 50 SPECIALLY-BOUND FROM AN EDITION OF 450 COPIES, signed by the illustrator Stuart Boyle, original maroon morocco, gilt, t.e.g., slight rub to bottom edge, 1948, 4to (2)
Dubuffet (Jean) Parade Funebre pour Charles Estienne, ONE OF 250 COPIES, illustrated half title, illustrated title, unopened, bookplate, original boards, original dust jacket, slight toning, 4to, in black box, [Paris, Jeanne Bucher], January 1967 ; Max Loreus Cerceaux ‘Sorcellent', 18 screen prints, bookplate, original boards, original dust-jacket, 8vo, Paris: Éditions Beyeler à Bale, 1967; and some others (small quantity)
Fashion.- Hilfiger (Tommy) Tommy Hilfiger, FIRST EDITION, half title, 70 tipped in chromolithograph plates with facsimile hand written captions, several colour photos and illustrations, tartan endpapers, publishers printed cloth, pristine condition, custom case in cream linen embellished with an embroidered rectangle in black, cream and red panels with gold thread detail, 'Assouline' blind stamp on rear, a little foxed and rust stained, folio, New York, Assouline Publishing, 2010.
Fashion.- Roberts (Michael) M.r. The Snippy World of New Yorker Fashion Artist Michael Roberts, FIRST EDITION, front flyleaf signed by the the author, colour illustrated frontispiece and title, mostly double page full colour illustrations with accom panying text, published printed cloth, no dust-jacket as issued, original pictorial slipcase, folio, Paris, 7L Publishers, 2005.
Golden Cockerel Press. - Henry VIII (King of England, France & Ireland) & Macnamara (Francis, Editor) Miscellaneous Writings, NUMBER 14 OF 365 COPIES, signed by editor and artist, woodcut frontispiece (slightly offset) and illustrations by R obert Gibbings, printed in red and black, bookplate of Norman Bruce, original burgundy morocco, gilt, spine and front cover little scuffed, lower corner of front cover little damaged, without slipcase, 4to, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1924.
Golden Cockerel Press.- [Swift (Jonathan)] Travels into several Remote Nations of the World...by Lemuel Gulliver, 2 vol., NUMBER 225 OF 480 COPIES, wood-engraved maps, illustrations and initials by David Jones, some hand-coloured, half cream buckram , covers little scuffed, slight marking, 1925; Jowett (Benjamin, Translator) Plato, The Phaedo, NUMBER 486 OF 500 COPIES, wood-engraved ornaments and initials by Eric Gill printed in red, original cloth, gilt ornament on cover, red morocco spine-label, slightly knocked and faded, 1930; Ghose (Sudhin N.) Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India, NUMBER 351 OF 500 COPIES, wood-engraved plates, vignettes in black, white and brown by Shrimati E. Carlile, original cloth, gilt, slightly knocked, 1961, folio, Waltham St Lawrence or London (4)
Golden Cockerel Press.- Mathers (Powys) Love Night. A Laotian Gallantry, NUMBER 68 OF 75 SPECIALLY-BOUND COPIES ON VELLUM copies on vellum-paper, lacking the extra suite of plates, from an edition limited to 200, engravings throughout by Buckland Wr ight, original green-stained vellum, t.e.g., others uncut, covers scuffed and marked, extremities rubbed, bookplate to front paste-down, 1936; Xenophon of Ephesus. The Ephesian Story, NUMBER 257 OF 300 COPIES, illustrations by Eric Fraser, original quarter green morocco over cloth, t.e.g., 1957; Miller (Patrick) The Green Ship, NUMBER 93 OF 200 COPIES, woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill, original quarter green morocco over marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly faded, bookplate to front paste-down, 1936; and 3 other titles by the same press, v.s. (6)
Gregnog Press.- Llyfr y Pregeth-wr, NUMBER 162 OF 248 COPIES, wood-engraved title vignette and frontispiece by David Jones, printed in red and black, original blue cloth, faded spine and at extremities, fore-edge of upper cover at top right hand c orner and first 3pp with rodent damage, Newtown, 1927; Milton (John) Four Poems, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Lycidas, NUMBER 213 OF 250 COPIES on Japanese vellum, illustrations by Blair Hughes-Stanton, original red calf blind stamped on upper cover, by the Greynog Bindery, uncut, slightly rubbed, Newtown, 1933; Morgan (William) Psalmau Dafydd, NUMBER 139 OF 200 COPIES, title-page in red and black, initials in red and blue, original orange quarter morocco over red patterned boards, spine rubbed, Newtown, 1929; Davis (W.H.) Selected Poems, NUMBER 253 OF 310 COPIES, woodcut frontispiece, original cloth spine and fore-edges with marbled boards, edges untrimmed, Newtown, 1928; The Elphin Lloyd Jones Memorial Fund, original orange buckram, faded, soiled and slightly bubbled, [Newtown], 1930, v.s. (5)
Hockeny (David) Hockney's Alphabet, FIRST EDITION, intermediate issue, signed by the artist and the editor Stephen Spender, with title-page, text and reproductions, printed by Westerham Press, Kent, published by Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, London, bound as issued in yellow buckram, 1991, with one duplicate; Off the Wall, FIRST EDITION, dust-jacket, Pavillion Books, 1994; A Rake's Progress, Lion and Unicorn Press, 1962 (4)
Hours Press.- Moore (George) Peronnick the Fool, NUMBER 67 OF 200 COPIES signed by the author, Presentation copy from Lady Cunard signed on front free endpaper, original cloth, slightly foxed, Chapelle-Réanville, 1928; Lowenfels (Walter) Apollinai re An Elegy, NUMBER 31 OF 150 COPIES, signed by the author, morocco backed boards, bookplate to inside cover, Paris, 1930; Ellis (Havelock) The Revalation of Obscenity, NUMBER 45 OF 200 COPIES, original half morocco, gilt, spine faded, slightly rubbed, Paris, 1931; Moore (George) The Talking Pine, NUMBER 85 OF 500 COPIES, original printed paper wrappers, bookplate,slightly foxed and worn, Paris, 1931; and 4 others by the Hours Press, v.s. (8)
Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, 2 vol., [ONE OF 600 COPIES], printed in black Chaucer type with red printed marginalia and chapter headings, elaborate wood-engraved title and border to first page, woodcut initials, errata tipped-in at end of vol.1, internally very good, original cloth, lacking part of spine label in vol. 1, slightly rubbed, an attractive pair, [Peterson A35], 1895; Halliday Sparling (H.) The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman, frontispiece, original holland-backed boards, pages uncut, 1924, 16mo & 8vo (2)
Kent (Rockwell).- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales ...Together with a Version in Modern English Verse by William Van Wyck., 2 vol., NUMBER 403 OF 999 COPIES signed by the artist, Middle English and Modern English texts in double column, plat es and illustrations by Rockwell Kent, original gilt-lettered cloth, spines little rubbed and sunned, t.e.g., others uncut, folio, New York, Covici-Friede, 1930.
Keough (Pat and Rosemarie) Antarctica, NUMBER 484 OF 950 COPIES, signed by the authors, thoroughly illustrated, dark grey morocco, lettered and decorated in blind, with prospectus, housed in original cloth box, blind-stamped morocco panel on front cover, oblong folio, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Nahanni Productions, 2002.
Limited Editions.- Apuleius (Lucius) The Golden Asse...translated by William Adlington, NUMBER 874 OF 3000 COPIES, colour and black and white plates & text-illustrations by Jean de Bosschère, colour plates with tissue guards, slight spotting at beginning and end, original cloth, gilt, little knocked, t.e.g., others uncut, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923; Plato's Symposium or Supper, translated by Francis Birrell & Shane Leslie, NUMBER 167 OF 175 COPIES, signed by Shane Leslie, slight spotting to fore-edge, original vellum, gilt lettering and rules, little spotted, covers bowed, The Fortune Press, [1925]; Hawthorne (Nathaniel) The Scarlet Letter, NUMBER 822 OF 980 COPIES, colour wood-engraved illustrations by Valenti Angelo, original morocco-backed cloth, ends of spine scuffed, New York, Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for Random House, 1928, 8vo (3)
Limited editions.- Malory (Sir Thomas) The Noble & Joyous Boke Entytled Le Morte Darthur, vol. 1 only, of 2, NUMBER 140 OF 370 COPIES, printed in red and black, Staunton Hill bookplate, partly torn, red half morocco, gilt-lettered, t.e.g., Oxfor d, Shakespeare Head Press, 1933; La Fontane (Jean de) The Fables, translated by Edward Marsh, copper engravings by Stephen Godden, NUMBER 64 OF 5525 COPIES, signed by translator and artist, original vellum, William Heinemann, 1931; Defoe (Daniel) The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, NUMBER 297 oOF 535 COPIES, hand coloured pochoir plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, original cloth, little sunned, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1929; Boccaccio (Giovanni) Amorous Fiammetta, translated by Bartholomew Young, NUMBER 11 OF 550 COPIES, colour plates by M. Leone, original limp vellum, gilt ornament on cover, faded and marked, little creased, The Mandrake Press, 1929; Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, introduction by Edmund Blunden, NUMBER 623 OF 1200 copies, colour illustrations by Charles Tomlinson, original decorated boards, worn, spine damaged, front hinge cracked, New York, Cheshire House, 1931; Poe (Edgar Allen) Poems, introduction by Howard Mumford Jones, 417 OF 585 COPIES, original red calf-backed boards, rubbed, New York, Spiral Press, 1929; Irving (Washington) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, NUMBER 623 OF 1200 COPIES, etched plates by Bernhardt Wall, original buckram, card slip-case, worn, New York, Cheshire House, 1931, 4to or folio (7)
Maugham (W. Somerset) & Sutherland (Graham, Illustrator) Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard, "Eightieth Birthday" Edition, NUMBER 163 OF 1000 COPIES, signed by author and artist, half-title, original frontispiece lithograph and deco rations by Graham Sutherland, title in black and red, facsimile reproduction of the first and last two pages of the original manuscript, some offsetting on free endpapers, leaves uncut, contemporary half white calf, navy blue calf boards, divided by gold rule, author's symbol blocked in blind on front, spine black label titled in gilt, t. e.g., slightly rubbed, black slipcase, 8vo, William Heinemann, 1954. ***Published for Maugham’s 80th Birthday.
Moore (Henry) Henry Moore: Prints & Portfolios, 2 vol., DELUXE LIMITED EDITIONS, NUMBER 32 OF 50, including two original prints signed and numbered by the artist (etching CGM 'Composition for a Poem by Herbert Read', 349 x 276 mm, 1946 and the l itograph CGM 719 'Two Seated Women on Beach', 314 x 464 mm, 1946), 4to & folio, Geneva, Patrick Cramer, 2010; Heads, Figures and Ideas, FIRST EDITION, illustrated with original lithograph by Henry Moore on handmade paper, reproductions throughout, hardback, folio, New York Graphic Society, London and New York, 1958 (2)
Nonesuch Press.- [Dante Alighieri] La Divina Commedia or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English, NUMBER 868 OF 1475 COPIES, text in Italian and English, double-page plates after drawings by Botticelli, original vellum stained or ange, gilt, t.e.g., very slightly rubbed and marked, covers slightly bowed, but spine without the usual fading, folio, Nonesuch Press, 1928.
Nonesuch Press.- Donne (John), Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Hayward, NUMBER 122 OF 675 COPIES, printed on Pannekoek paper, original blue morocco, gilt lettering, t.e.g., others rough trimmed, fading to spine, 8vo, 1929; Keynes (Geoffrey) Jane Austen. A Bibliography, NUMBER 87 OF 875 copies, frontispiece and 3 other plates, half-title, errata leaf loosely inserted, original quarter pink boards with blue sides, edges untrimmed with some foxing, dust jacket and tissue jacket, some creasing, 8vo, 1931 (2)
Pasmore (Victor) Burning Waters Visual and Poetic Images, ONE of 50 DELUXE COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL COLOUR LITHOGRAPH, from an edition limited to 250, plates and illustrations by Pasmore, some colour, lithograph numbered, initialled and dated in pe ncil and loosely inserted, original cloth, slipcase, 4to, printed by the Progress Press of Malta, 1988.