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King Duffus and other poems. Silvia Townsend Warner. 1968 Townsend Warner. Silvia. King Duffus and other poems. Somerset, Clare Son and Co. 1968. 8vo. Blue card covers, printed titles to front. Pp20. Covers and pages age toned to edges. Gift inscription from the author dated Christmas 1968 on front free endpaper. Rare.		Click this link for more details
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The Happy Prince. Oscar Wilde. Hand coloured, Printed and Bound by Mikhail Magaril. 1997. Wilde. Oscar, The Happy Prince. Preface by Morris Jacobs, illustrated by Mikhail Magaril. New York, Summer Garden Editions, 1997. 1st Edition, Fifty copies of this book were printed. The edition was hand coloured, bound and signed by the artist & Morris Jacobs. This copy number 32. Narrow Folio approx 430mm x 150mm. Black and pictorial yellow cloth, gilt and black label to spine. PP36, set in Garamond Number 3. 50 copies of this book were printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper by offset lithography. With an additional Drypoint watercolour number 3 of 5 signed by Magaril. All enclosed within a labelled black and grey clamsell box. 1 very light mark to box and bump to corner. Book and illustration in mint condition. Princeton University ref Folio 87794. Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design 2000.		Click this link for more details
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Tale of Tails, Ten Fables by Ronald Duncan, 1975 Duncan, Ronald & Bratby, John. Tale of Tails. Ten Fables by Ronald Duncan, illustrated by John Bratby R.A., Elephant Press, 1975, [but 1976]. tall 8vo. Number 200 of 200 copies, signed by Ronald Duncan and John Bratby. Size approx. 310mm x 180mm. Black morocco, spine lettered in gilt and upper cover blocked in gilt with printers device and a design by Bratby, an uncommon, original binding decoration. Decorative title in red and black, initials in red, pp 151, ten full-page colour illustrations by John Bratby, list of subscribers at rear, colophon, on handmade paper made by Timothy Powell of Sheepstor, Devon. An attractive collaboration from South West England. Very good 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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Leda. Aldous Huxley. 1929. Huxley. Aldous . Leda. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1929. 8vo, Limited Edition number 130 of 361. Cloth boards with label to spine. PP44, colophon. Edges untrimmed. Wood engraved frontis and title vignettes by Eric Gill. Signed by the author. Some light marks to cover, otherwise bright and clean throughout.		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 Plays of John Galsworthy, John Galsworthy, 1929 Galsworthy, John; The Plays of John Galsworthy. London. Duckworth. 1929. 8vo. Limited Edition printed on handmade paper. This No. 1157 of 1250 signed by the author. Green cloth, gilt titles to spine, TEG, other uncut. Armorial book plate front pastedown. PP1150. Free end papers tanned from boards. Binding and all pages in FINE condition.		Click this link for more details
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The Greenwood Hat, J. M. Barrie, 1930 Barrie. J.M., The Greenwood Hat. Privately Printed. 1930. Small 8vo., 170mm x 110mm, Green pigskin faded at spine. Top edge gilt. PP315. Fifty copies privately printed. Inscribed by Barrie "Irvine of St Andrews affectionately from JMB. Christmas 1930" Professor James Irvine was Principal of St Andrews where Barrie was Lord Rector. A unique book, with an excellent association, in very good condition.		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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Army and Navy Drolleries, Major Seccombe, ca.1876 Seccombe. Major, : Army and Navy Drolleries. London, Frederick Warne, ca.1876, 2nd Edition. 4to, 270mm x 230mm. Green cloth with gilt pictorial decoration and titles to front, gilt title to spine, a little bumped at edges. Adverts to front and back endpapers. Hinges becoming loose but holding the firm book block. Bookplate "Tervoe" verso front end paper, Neat ownership inscription of The Lady Emly Xmas 1876. 24 plates, as called for, with alphabetical and illustrations from designs by the author, printed in colour by Kronheim. All plates and pages are guarded, clean and bright. An entertaining book with an interesting provenance. Baron Emly, William Monsell (1812-1894), was elected as a member of Parliament. During his parliamentary tenure he became President of the Board of Trade, Postmaster-General. In 1858, Caleb Powell, appointed him as a Grand Juror. He married his second wife Berthe (the inscriber of this book) in 1857. In 1874 he was created Baron Emly of Tervoe.		Click this link for more details
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A Bibliography of the Writings of W. Somerset Maugham. F.T. Bason, 1931 Bason. T.F., : A Bibliography of the Writings of W. Somerset Maugham. London, Unicorn Press, 1931, 1st Edition, Limited to 950 copies. 8vo, Blue cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Edges and spine a little sunned. Marbled endpapers. Pp78. Top edge gilt, all pages bright and clean. This edition "out of series" written in the hand of the author, together with an inscription to C.S. Evans (Heinemann Press) under the dedication to W. S. Maugham " and lastly to C.S. Evans/one of the gentlemen who stands/between me and success! / With the greetings of the author / and the compliments of The Unicorn Press. / J. Bason 1931." A pencil remark follows "x This is a reference to the fact / that I have found myself unable / to publish Mr Basons novels and stories / C S Evans". There is also a typed letter included dated June 13th 1949, signed by Dwye (Son of C.S. Evans and Director of Heinemann to 1973) to B. F. Oliver Esq of Kingswood. It reads " My dear o., / I thought you might like to / see this copy of the Bason's bibliography / of Maugham. You might like to base / the new book on it. Would you let me/have it back. / Ken McCormick of Doubledays is over here now and would like to have / an estimate for 1000 and 2000 folded / and collated sheets of Maughamiana. / He is seeing Maugham on July 2nd / and would like to have the figures before / then. / Yours/Dwye. (Maughamiana: The Writings of W. Somerset Maugham by Raymond Toole Stott went on to be published by both Heinemann and Doubleday in 1950). This book a very good reference source, with an interesting provenance.		Click this link for more details
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Soames and the Flag, John Galsworthy, 1930 Galsworthy. John, ; Soames and the Flag. London, Heinemann, 1930, Limited edition 1002 of 1025. Signed by Author. 8vo. pp51, Windmill Press imprint. Full vellum binding with gold titles to front and spine. Top edge gilt. Galsworthy's wartime experiences in France during World War 1, working for the Red Cross helping Belgium refugees are reflected through Soames in this work. Galsworthy died 3 years after signing the book. An attractive time piece of this author.		Click this link for more details
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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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Alice Through The Paper-Mill, Arthur Wragg, 1940 Wragg, Arthur: Alice Through The Paper-Mill, Birmingham: C. H. Foyle of Boxfoldia, 1940. Cloth boards approx 245mm x 190mm. Pp 55 with 12 illustrations and one vignette by Arthur Wragg. An Alice In Wonderland inspired satire on war-time paper control regulations. Signed copy by Arthur Wragg. Inscriptions on front free end-papers. Very good condition.		Click this link for more details
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Epitaph, Theodore Dreiser, 1929 Fawcett, Robert [Illust] : Epitaph. A poem by Theodore Dreiser. N.Y. Heron Press Incorporated. 1929. 32pp Uncut, printed on hand made Keijyo Kami. Clean. Limited Edition 900/1100. Large 4to. Signed by Author, frontis signed by the artist. Woodcut illustrations. Spine sunned, recent cloth slip case wholly sympathetic to original, retaining limited edition panel.		Click this link for more details
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The Tall Interpreter. Maurice Carpenter. Circa 1948 Carpenter. Maurice. The Tall interpreter. London, Meridian Books, 1st Edition, 8vo, pp32. Illustrated card covers by Gordon Barker, with price label to front fold in. Signed and dated by Author 3/4/48. In a very good, clean and bright condition.
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A Dweller on Delos Selected Poems and Prose. Edited by Barbara Wall and Douglas Muecke. 1993 JURY, C.R.: A Dweller on Delos Selected Poems and Prose. Edited by Barbara Wall and Douglas Muecke. Adelaide: Published by the Friends of Charles Rischbieth Jury 1893-1958 to mark The Centenary of his Birth: 1993. First limited edition. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, with dustwrapper. No 229 of 250 copies with signatures of both Barbara Wall and Douglas Muecke. pp. viii, 40. Introduction by the Editors. No. 162 of the edition of only 250 copies. Fine in fine dust-jacket.
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