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Numero Special de ‘La Revue Musicale’: LES BALLETS RUSSES DE SERGE DE DIAGHILEW. No.110 - Décembre 1930.
Paris, 1930. Large 8vo., pp.112, printed paper wrappers, 4 colour plates, numerous b/w plates; light toning to page margins, foxing to wrappers, otherwise an unusually fine copy.
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OASIS.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. First edition, 8vo., pp.69, uncut, quarter green cloth with printed paper label to spine, cream paper-covered boards, woodcut illustrations; partial toning to free endpapers, foxing to edges, slight wrinkle to paper label, else very good indeed, in vg complete dust-jacket, which has two small closed tears to upper edge, and light surface soil to pale paper, with light stain to spine/rear inner margin (now in a protective cover).
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OBOLI, BOBOLI AND LITTLE JOBOLI.
London: Country Life Limited, 1938. First edition, large 8vo., pp.79, grey cloth lettered in black, colour frontispiece, b/w pictorial title, colour plates and b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, with tears and areas of loss to edges, most notably at headband and at front lower corner.
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OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST. In Four Books.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. Ltd, 1898. Limited edition of 660 copies, 8vo., pp.xii,324 in full vellum wrappers, gilt, b/w frontispiece, decorative title page, 3 further b/w plates with tissue-guards, illuminated letters and tailpieces, titles printed in red; foxing to plate at p.111, with toning to adjacent text, superficial split to vellum at foot of spine, a near-fine copy of this scarce volume.
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ONE LUMP OR TWO. Tea, Twinings and Edward Bawden.
Sparham, Norwich: The Mainstone Press, 2010. Tall 8vo., pp.47, paperback, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy, in dust-jacket.
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ORLANDO AND THE THREE GRACES.
London: John Murray, 1965. First edition, oblong 8vo., pp.30, pictorial paper-covered boards, alternating colour and b/w illustrations throughout; light foxing to fore-edges, rubbing to extremities, very slight bowing to front board, overall a very good copy indeed.
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OTTO IN AFRICA.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1962. First UK edition, tall 8vo., pp.(xxxvii), textured yellow pictorial paper-covered boards, lettered and stamped in red, pictorial endpapers, double-page title in colour, double-page colour plates with accompanying text throughout; a couple of tiny nicks to top edges of boards, a very good copy indeed, in very good(+) pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket, which has 1cm closed tear to foot of spine, slight rubbing to extremities, and slight surface soil, as well as a little partial darkening - now in a protective cover.
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PEACOCK PIE. A BOOK OF RHYMES.
London: Constable & Company Ltd. First edition thus, tall 8vo., pp.ix,128, pictorial blue cloth, gilt; colour frontispiece, 15 coloured plates; toning and foxing to endpapers, rubbing to edges, tiny neat black mark to front board, o/w a good copy.
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PEGGY’S TRAVELS.
London, Blackie & Son Limited. 4to.,pp.98, pictorial paper covered boards, red cloth spine, illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers; rubbed to extremities, with some wear to spine and corners, paper covered boards lightly soiled, occasional light soiling to pages, neat ownership inscription to front-free endpaper, very good copy.
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PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906. First edition, 4to.,pp. xii,125, 50 colour plates to rear, colour frontispiece, with protective tissue guards, pictorial endpapers; heavily foxed to half title, title and dedication pages, with light foxing to margins of text, toning to edges of text block, lightly rubbed to extremities, very lightly toned to spine with a small stain mark, otherwise a very good copy.
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PHILIPS’ HANDY ATLAS OF THE COUNTIES OF IRELAND.
London: George Philip & Son, Ltd, 1882. 12mo., unpaginated, 41 (Index), green cloth, decorative gilt, 33 double-page maps in colour; ownership bookplate sticker to front paste-down, light foxing to prelims and endpapers, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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PROCREANT HYMN.
The Golden Cockerel Press. Limited edition, no. 197 of 200 copies, 8vo., pp.20,(i)colophon, cream cloth, gilt, t.e.g., deckle-edged paper, engraved frontispiece by Eric Gill, 4 further engravings by Gill; slight toning to spine and margins of the cloth boards, a very good copy indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine and margins, with partial loss to spine (12mms loss at tailband, and apx. 20mms loss at headband), with light loss and small closed tears to other extremities, good+ and now in protective cover.
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PUCK AND PEASEBLOSSOM IN LONDON.
London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1858. Tall 8vo., pp.(viii), pictorial paper wrappers, 8 hand-coloured wood-engravings by Edmund Evans; edgeworn, (occasionally extensive) horizontal closed tears from fore-edges, with archival tape repairs, a good+ copy of this extremely scarce illustrated chapbook.
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PUSHKIN THE POLAR BEAR.
London: Quartet/Visual Arts Books, 1983. Oblong 4to., pp.61, glazed pictorial boards, colour plates throughout; signed by author and artist to title page, slight mark to lower margin of front free endpaper, slight toning to edges, a very good copy.
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PUSHKIN’S FAIRY TALES.
London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1978. First edition thus, 4to., pp.94, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w lithographic illustrations plates; slight perfumed odour, else very good indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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QUENTIN BLAKE’S THE SEVEN VOYAGES OF SINBAD THE SAILOR
London: Pavilion, 1996. 4to., pp. 117, pictorial hardcover, colour pictorial endpapers, b/w and colour illustrations; light rubbing to extremities, with slight bubbling to laminate coating at margins of boards, else very good indeed. No dust-jacket.
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RAINSFORD VILLA, OR JUVENILE INDEPENDENCE, A Tale.
London: J. Harris and Son, 1823. 12mo., pp.139, quarter leather, gilt, marbled boards; contemporary ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper, pencilled notes to rear endpapers, toning and foxing to prelims,foxing to rear endpapers, boards rubbed, with wear to edges, and a feww mms loss to headband, a good+ copy of this scarce title.
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RAVILIOUS ENGRAVINGS
Woodbridge: The Wood Lea Press, 2008. Limited edition, one of 800 copies, folio, pp.287, grey buckram lettered in silver, colour and b/w illustrations; a mint copy, in near-fine slipcase, which has just slight scuffs to lower section.
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RED FOX.
The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and of His Final Triumph over the Enemies of His Kind.
London: Duckworth and Company, 1945. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.xv,340, uncut, pictorial green cloth, pictorial spine, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with caption-sheet, pictorial half title and title, 48 b/w plates, 11 further vignettes, pictorial endpapers; light foxing to reverse of frontispiece, light toning to free endpapers, rubbing to extremities, with slight wear at headband, a very good, fairly bright copy, which is internally clean.
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ROUND THE WORLD TO WYMPLAND.
London/New York: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1901. First edition, 8vo., pp.235, pictorial green cloth stamped in yellow and white, pictorial title, 8 b/w plates, all edges green; pencilled ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, tiny tear and crease to foot of p.97, light foxing and fingermarking to prelims, light surface soil to cloth, light rubbing to extremities, a good copy of a scarce title.
More details Price: £175.00