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Time and the Gods, Lord Dunsany, 1922 Dunsany, Lord : Time and the Gods. G.P. Putnam. London, 1922. Limited edition, number 189 of 250. Large octavo approx 190mm x 190mm. Quarter vellum over tan cloth. Calf, gilt title piece. Top edge gilt. Marbled end papers, 2 free flyleaves to front and end. Edition details, Half title, other books by Lord Dunsany to verso. Frontis image captioned, tissue guarded signed Sidney H. Sime, Title, The Botolph imprint to verso. Preface dated October 19th 1922 signed by Dunsany in wide nib ink, Contents, pp3-232, containing an additional 9 captioned, tissue guarded images signed by Sidney H Sime, 2 pages blank. Vellum a little age toned. Some light spotting on some text pages, all images are very bright and clean. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was one of the greatest and most influential fantasy writers of modern times. Authors like J.R.R. Tolkien, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft (who said: "his rich language, his cosmic point of view, his remote dream-worlds, and his exquisite sense of the fantastic, all appeal to me more than anything else in modern literature") were greatly influenced by his works. A good deluxe edition of this imaginative work.		Click this link for more details
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The Rape of the Lock, Pope, Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, 1896 Pope, Alexander: The Rape of the Lock, an Heroi-comical poem in five cantos. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Leonard Smithers, Arundel Street, London. 1896. Small quarto approx 250mm x 200mm, pp. [2] blank, (xiv), 47, [1] imprint. Nine engravings by Aubrey Beardsley. Half-morroco, blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. by Hatchards. Very lightly and evenly toned, top and bottom of spine little bumped. Neat ink inscription. Fair condition.		Click this link for more details
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Catulli Carmina The Poems of Catullus, CATULLUS. 1929. Hiley F.C.W. Catulli Carmina The Poems of Catullus with Complete Translations and Notes by F.C.W. Hiley and Illustrations by Vera Willoughby. The Piazza Press, 1929. 8vo. Limited 490 of 500 copies. Full vellum, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, others uncut. pp xvi, [216]. With many full page illustrations by Vera Willoughby. An attractive book in excellent clean and bright condition throughout.		Click this link for more details
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Building the Bridge. Robert Emerson Curtis. 1933 Curtis, Robert Emerson. Building the Bridge. Sydney, Simmons Limited, 1933. Folio. 1st Edition, Limited, no 254 of 400, signed by Robert Emerson Curtis and also inscribed. Cloth backed paper boards decorated in silver and red with an underside view of the bridge in construction. The cloth at spine is showing wear but holding strong. Pp60 including 13 full page lithographs of the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and one coloured showing the completed bridge at night illuminated by both manmade lights and starlight. All pages are bright and clean. Curtis's artistry combines the huge engineering project with the fragility of human involvement. Curtis went on to become a war artist. The colophon shows an inscription in Curtis's hand "To Sir Michael Culme Seymour, Sydney April 15 1945". A very interesting association copy of this attractive book, in excellent order.		Click this link for more details
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Froissart's Modern Chronicles 1903-1906. Sir F Carruthers Gould. 1908 Carruthers Gould. Sir F. Froissart's Modern Chronicles 1903-1906. London. T Fisher Unwin. 1908. Wide 8vo approx 180mm x 245mm. 1st Edition, limited number 4 of 50, signed by author/illustrator. Wheat cloth backed blue boards, paper label to front. Pp115 with 51 illustrations as called for. Boards a little bumped and some shelf wear. Early ownership inscription of 1908 on front pastedown. Binding firm and sound, all pages in fine condition.		Click this link for more details
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The Landscape Painters Calendar. Nan West. 1928 West, Nan. The Landscape Painters Calendar. Written and Illustrated by Nan West. London, Methuen. 1928. 1st Edition, limited to 300. Wide 8vo, approx, 180mm x 220mm. Cloth backed decorative paper boards, with paper label to spine. Edges uncut. With unclipped dustwrapper. Pp126 with 32 tipped in illustrations, all as called for. With extra label and note of apology from the publisher that the book had not been signed due to artist's illness. Binding, pages, illustrations and dustwrapper all in fine condition.		Click this link for more details
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The Coloured Lands. G K Chesterton. 1938 Chesterton, G K. The Coloured Lands. London: Sheed & Ward, 1938. 1st Edition. Large 8vo, approx 190mm x 250mm. Green cloth, red titles to spine. With unclipped dustwrapper in fine condition. Pp238 with 46 full page illustrations, 18 of which in colour and many black and white illustrations within text. 2 small marks on lower edge of front cover, dustwrapper and all pages in fine condition. A very attractive book.		Click this link for more details
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Quia Amore Langueo, edited by H.S.Bennett. Illustrated by Eric Gill. 1937 Quia Amore Langueo, edited by H.S.Bennett. Printed by Hague & Gill of High Wycombe for Faber & Faber Ltd, 1937. 12mo, 155 x 130mm. Ist edition, one of 400 copies. Original cloth, with a little fading, protected blue dustwrapper in very good condition. Top edge gilt, others uncut. PP38 with full page 4 wood-engraved illustrations by Gill, in fine condition.		Click this link for more details
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The Wanderer of Liverpool. John Masefield. 1930 Masefield. John, The Wanderer of Liverpool. London, Heinemann, 1930. Quarto, approx 200mm x 260mm, 1st, large paper, limited edition number 109 of 525, signed by author. Blue cloth with gilt ship motif to front and gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. With bookmarker ribbon. Pp [i-ix], 120 on Navigator mould-made wove paper. Tissue guarded colour frontis, 38 plates within text and 4 plans, 3 of which folding. In excellent condition. A very attractive book completed by Masefield in the year he became Poet Laureate.		Click this link for more details
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Hunting of the Snark An Agony in Eight Fits. Lewis Carroll. 1983. Carroll, Lewis . Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits. The Lewis Carroll Society, University of California Press, 1983. Folio, original card wraps with moulded title to front. Pp42, colophon. Limited edition numbered 232 of 350, signed by the illustrator within an engraving by Barry Moser 5 full page illustrations and 4 title pieces of Mosers wood engravings. Cover wraps show a little light age tone to edges, all pages and illustrations in fine condition.		Click this link for more details
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The Open Road by E.V. Lucas, Illust. by Claude A. Shepperton, 1913 Lucas, E.V. : The Open Road. A Book for Wayfarers. Methuen and Co., London, 1913. 1st Edition in this form. Blue cloth gilt decorated covers. Top edge gilt. Illustrated end papers. 16 tipped in colour plates by Claude A. Shepperton of landscapes. Binding a little bumped at edges. Some occasional light foxing. All plates bright and clean. An interesting illustrated poetry Anthology for travellers with over 200 poems including The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats, Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman, The Sweetness of England by Elizabeth Barratt Browning, She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron, Ode to the Westwind by Shelley, Sussex by Rudyard Kipling, The Anglers Rest by Izaak Watson, To the Evening Star by William Blake and Up Hill by Christina Rossetti. A good collection of some classic works relating to travelling through the countryside and seasons. Very good condition.		Click this link for more details
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The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White, Illus. By George Edwards Collins, 1911 White, Gilbert : The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton. London, Macmillan and Co., London, 1911. Quarto, green cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt motif to front. Pp476 with 24 full page colour illustrations by Edward George Collins. Binding tight, some bumped edges, spine a little sunned. End papers foxed to pastedown however all printed pages and plates in bright and very good condition. An attractive presentation of this classic natural history work.		Click this link for more details
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La Fayette Par La Princesse Lucien Murat. ca.1930 Murat, Princesse Lucien : La Fayette. Illustrated by Alice Halicka. [Paris], France, Fontenay-Aux-Roses. Tall 4to size approx 350mm x 220mm. Stiff wrappers covered with illustrated paper by Alice Halicka. pp20 illustrated throughout by Alice Halicka, a contemporary of Picasso and more famous for her cubism work and that of her husband Louis Marcoussis. Cover papers a little bumped at end with 1cm square loss to edge, not touching illustrated area. Bright and clean throughout. Personal inscription from author across front free endpaper. Scarce.		Click this link for more details
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Memoirs Of An Infantry Officer. Siegfried Sassoon, 1931 Sassoon, Siegfried Memoirs Of An Infantry Officer. London: Faber & Faber, 1931, 8vo, approx 235mm x 160mm, Illustrated cloth boards and spine in very good clean condition. Top edge speckled, others rough cut. Coloured illustrated endpapers, b&w illustrated half title, full page illustration, title page with b&w vignette, imprint to verso, contents list, pp312. 15 full page colour illustrations by Barnett Freedman and many black and white vignettes within text. Freedman's light bright imagery contrast strongly against Sassoon's poignant writing. All pages clean bright and in very good condition. A rare collaboration bringing about a piece of work that touches eye, head and heart.		Click this link for more details
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Collaboration, The Photographs of Paul Cadmus, Margaret French and Jared French, 1992 Cadmus, Paul; French, Margaret; French, Jared : The Photographs of Paul Cadmus, Margaret French and Jared French. Pasadena, California, Twelvetrees Press, 1992. First edition, limited to 4000 copies. Size approx 240mm x 210mm. Black cloth with gilt lettering, dustwrapper. Fine condition.		Click this link for more details
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Paintings, Michael Leonard, 1985 Leonard, Michael : Paintings, foreword by Lincoln Kirsten. Edward Lucie-Smith in conversation with the artist. GMP, London, 1985. Pp105, size approx 210mm x 210mm. Good dust wrapper over mint cloth boards with gilt titles. A little age toning to page edges not affecting 40 beautiful colour images. Very good condition.		Click this link for more details
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Changing II, Drawings by Michael Leonard Leonard, Michael : Changing II, Editions Aubrey Walter, London, 1992. A world-classic collection of erotic black and white drawings of the male figure. Pp112, softcover size approx 250mm x 230mm. Changes II being a revised and updated edition of Changing, first published in 1983. Very good condition.		Click this link for more details
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Paintings & Drawings by Michael Leonard, 1977 Leonard, Michael: Paintings & Drawings by Michael Leonard. Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., London, 1997. Soft covers, size approx 215mm x 170mm. 64pp with 26 colour and b/w illustrations. Signed presentation copy from Michael Leonard with ink inscription. Very good condition but slight mark to lower margin of 1 image, not affecting the image.		Click this link for more details
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Fifty Caricatures, Max Beerbohm, 1913 Beerbohn, Max : Fifty Caricatures. William Heinemann 1913. 8vo 185mm x 225mm. Title, Advert to recto [i,ii Contents], 50 Caricatures, the first 48 tipped in on brown card, 2 full page prints. 1 pp adverts. All clean and bright. Paper thinned area on back end paper. Green cloth with gilt caricature of author, gilt title to spine. A little bumped at edges and a small area of light fading to back cover. Stylish two tone caricatures of notable people and events of the early 20th century. An artistic political pictorial commentary of Bernard Shaw, Lloyd George, Mr Thomas Hardy composing a lyric, Bonar Law and Signor Caruso to name a few. In very good condition.		Click this link for more details
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