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An interesting set of six wood blocks for printing textiles, possibly Indian, mid-20th Century, each with Arabesque designs, approx. 23 x 15cm (6)
A Chinese calligraphy by Jiang Yi (1903-1977), signed by Jiang Yi with three seals of the artist, ink on paper, framed and glazed, 57.5 x 32cm
A Chinese scroll, 20th Century, ink on paper, dedicated to an 80 years old friend and signed 'FU HUA'
Sackville-West (Vita) Poems of East & West, frontispiece, 1917 ; The Dragon in Shallow Waters, little spotting, Roger Senhouse name on paste-down, 1921; Orchard and Vineyard, 1921; Seducers in Ecuador, paper spine label chipped, 1924; Solitude, dust-jacket frayed, spine browned, 1938, FIRST EDITIONS, original cloth or cloth-backed boards, and 10 others by the same author (15) *** Roger Senhouse (1899-1970) English translator & publisher, member of the Bloomsbury Group.
Welsh (Irvine) Ecstacy, 1996; Filth, 1998; Glue, 2001; Porno, 2002, FIRST EDITIONS, original boards with dust-jackets, excellent condition, 8vo; and 4 others by the same author, including some paperback duplicates (8)
Wodehouse (P.G.) Laughing Gas, FIRST EDITION, signed by author on title, publishers cloth, embossed with author signature, lacking dust jacket, slight staining, 8vo, 1959; Uncle Dynamite, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, foxing restricted to prelimina ries, title and last text leaf, publisher's orange cloth, spine slightly bleached, dust jacket, lacking half of spine, severe tear across centre front without loss, chipping, tear to bottom verso with loss, staining, 8vo, 1948; Spring Fever, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, ownership note on flyleaf, publishers orange cloth, lacking dust jacket, spine bleached, boards stained and rubbed, slight shelf lean, 8vo, 1948; Mating Season, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, ownership note on flyleaf, publisher's orange cloth, lacking dust jacket, spine bleached, slight shelf lean, 1949; The Old Reliable, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, ownership note on flyleaf, publishers red cloth, spine head and tale frayed, 8vo, 1950; Barmy in Wonderland, FIRST EDITION, ownership not on flyleaf, publishers red cloth, lacking dust jacket 8vo, 1952 and 9 other first editions by the same author (15)
Wyndham (John) The Day of the Triffids, FIRST EDITION, original cloth, dust jacket, price clipped, rubbed at extremities with some loss, paper tape repairs to interior of jacket at head and tail of spine, small ink booksellers stamp to front paste-d own, 8vo, Michael Joseph, 1951.
Collection of silk 'handkerchiefs' 3 handkerchiefs with images after Kathleen Ainslee of Sarah Jane Golfing, Weg and Golliwog Fighting, Meg and Weg another 6 after Kate Greenaway with another 5 comical 'black' cartoons, together with 12 images of vi ew of Japan, most fringed at edges, some slight staining, various sizes, 100 x 700 mm to 140 x 140 mm, n.p., n.d. (26)
***WITHDRAWN***Derrière Le Miroir N° 60-61 Kandinsky, FIRST EDITION, 2 original colour lithographs only of 5; n. 110 Kelly, 6 original colour lithographs, two on double page; with other 6 issues of the same magazine, comprising Miró, Pallut, Bé othy, Villeri, Peyrissac, illustrations with accompanying text, light browning, leaves loose as issued, original paper wrapper, 4to, Paris, Maeght Éditeur, (1948-58) (8) ***WITHDRAWN***
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)
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)
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.
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)