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WALLPAPERS BY EDWARD BAWDEN PRINTED AT THE CURWEN PRESS.
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HOME LIFE WITH CATS.
London: Grafton, imprint of HarperCollins, 1992. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 64, pictorial hardcover, colour illustrations; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a few small indentations along margins of boards, very slight tobacco odour, a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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CHIN-PAO AND THE GIANT PANDAS.
London: Country Life, 1939. First edition, 8vo., pp.83, blue-grey cloth lettered in black, colour frontispiece, 3 further colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations; ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper (covered by flap of dust-jacket), spine lightly rolled, with sunning/toning to spine, a slight surface soil to boards, overall a very good copy, in pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket, which has creasing and tears to edges, with some loss, and apx. 4mms loss to head of spine.
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TWO OLD LADIES, TWO FOOLISH FAIRIES AND A TOM CAT. The Surprising Adventures of Tuppy and Tue. With Coloured Plates and Other Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1897. First edition, 8vo., pp.190,(xviii)publisher’s adverts, pictorial blue cloth, gilt, with blindstamped decoration to rear board, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 3 further colour plates and 19 b/w plates, decorative endpapers; light blindstamp to front free endpaper, finger mark to title verso, light foxing to fore-edges, slight rubbing to extremities, a near-fine copy. The first book to include colour plates by Rackham.
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THE GIRL AND THE FAUN.
London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1916. First edition, 4to., pp.78, pictorial brown cloth stamped in black, small pictorial paper title label to spine, colour frontispiece and 3 further colour plates, all with tissue guards, pictorial title printed in orange, and decorative pictorial borders throughout; light toning to margins, light marking to front board, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, bearing the same design as the front board, which is a little chipped and worn to the extremities, with a few neat paper-reinforcements to reverse of closed tears, but overall very good.
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SPORT IN WAR.
London: Collins, 1936. Signed, limited edition, no. 32 of 75 copies signed by author and artist, folio, pp.98, quarter green leather, gilt, green cloth boards, t.e.g., colour frontispiece, colour and b/w plates, b/w illustrations; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, foxing to fore-edges, rubbing to head and tailbands, with a few further small scuffs to leather, a very good copy. Housed in rather worn card slipcase, with remnants of removed label to side panel.
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VERSAILLES AND THE TRIANONS.
London: William Heinemann, 1906. Signed, limited edition, no. 48 of 100 copies, 4to., pp.viii,305, uncut, full vellum, gilt, t.e.g., tipped-in colour frontispiece and plates with caption sheets; loss to corner of mounted plate at p.163, paper-cracking to front inner hinge, with webbing visible (board firm), surface soil and light wear to edges of endpapers, a very good copy.
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NEW LION AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING FOR THE CROWN.
Dean and Co, 1845. Tall 8vo., pp.8, sewn pictorial wrappers, illustrated with one full-page and 7 half-page hand-coloured wood engravings; light partial water-staining from fore-margins, light surface soil to wrappers, with a little chipping along spine, illustrations bright, a good+ copy of this very scarce pamphlet.
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BLIGHTY PIN-UP AND CARTOON ANNUAL.
London: Blighty, City Magazines Ltd. Small 4to., pp.98, paperback with pictorial colour wrappers, b/w illustrations throughout as well as folding colour plate; light surface soiling to wrappers, internally clean and overall a very good copy.
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IN PURSUIT.
London: The Medici Society Ltd, 1970. Signed, limited edition, no.508 of 1050 copies, numbered and signed by Francis Russell Flint to colophon, folio, pp.264, quarter red morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt, pictorial grey cloth boards, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, colour and b/w plates, pictorial title and vignettes; rubbing to corners of boards, a few small, mostly slight scuffs to spine, a fresh and overall near-fine copy.
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TENNYSON’S MAY QUEEN: THE MAY QUEEN, IN ILLUMINATED BORDERS.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1876. Small 4to., pictorial and decorative bevelled green cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g., full colour plates, each with plain protective leaf; ink ownership inscription, dated 1876, to front free endpaper, toning to protective leaves, toning and foxing to free endpapers, and some foxing to reverse of plates, a little rubbing to extremities, an unusually bright copy, very good indeed.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF 'STUCK-UP' PEOPLE.
London: D. Bogue, 1847. 12mo., pp.112, pictorial paper wrappers, b/w frontispiece and pictorial title, b/w illustrations; partial loss to paper covering of spine (light loss at head of spine, and 3cms loss at tail), surface soil to wrappers, with light creasing/curling to lower corners, a good copy, which is internally very good.
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CAROLS.
London: Alexander Moring Limited, The De La More Press. First edition, small 4to., pp.43, cloth, gilt, a.e.g., 6 double-page colour plates and 6 further colour illlustrations, as well as inlaid colour plate to front board; toning to free endpapers, occasional thumb-marking, only very slight wear to extremities, a very good copy.
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ISABELLA, OR THE POT OF BASIL.
Edinburgh/London: T.N. Foulis, 1908. Slim 8vo., pp.39, grey cloth, gilt, with inlaid colour plate to front board, tipped-in colour plates by Jessie M. King, mounted on grey paper - frontispiece, pictorial title, Contents page, and three further colour plates, small b/w headpiece; neat ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1908, to front free endpaper, small (later) ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, toning to free endpapers and prelim blank, rubbing to extremities, slight marking to rear board, a very good, internally fresh copy.
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THE SONGS OF THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.
London/Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1916. First edition, small 8vo., pp.(ii),152,(iv) adverts, bound in decoratively blindstamped reverse calf wrappers, gilt, t.e.g., untrimmed paper, 6 tipped-in colour illustrations by Jessie M. King (frontispiece, decorative title, one double-page plate and 3 single-page plates, all with tissue-guards); neat ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1916, to foot of front free endpaper, toning to half title and final page of adverts, toning at inner hinges, spine lightly sunned, a very good copy indeed.
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THE AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF CAPTAIN CASTAGNETTE,
Nephew of the ‘Man With the Wooden Head’.
London: S.O. Beeton, 1866. First edition, 4to., pp.68, recased with new endpapers, spine professionally repaired, publisher’s brown leather, front board lettered in gilt, all edges red, 43 b/w illustrations, including full-page plates, by Gustave Dore, parchment tape repair (over text) to p.61 (text remains legible), light wear to corners of plate at p.33 (the image itself is not affected, but there is a small crease and light loss at the fore-corners), light surface soil, fingermarking and light creasing within, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good(+) copy of this scarce title.
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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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A SLENDER REPUTATION.
An Autobiography.
London: Frederick Warne, 1994. First edition, 8vo., pp.288, black hardcover, gilt, 16pp. colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations; a very good copy indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM.
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1920. First edition thus, 4to., cream paper-covered boards, gilt, with inlaid circular colour plate to front board, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 5 further colour plates, 18 tipped-in b/w plates, 14 tipped-in b/w plates with colour accents, and 39 vignettes; small ink ownership inscription (dated 1920) to upper margin of front free endpaper, light toning/foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally fresh and very good indeed (plates are fine and without creasing), toning to spine and margins of boards, small closed tear to headband, light vertical crease to spine, light marking to boards (small water stain to front board, and extensive water-stain to rear board), rubbing and slight wear to extremities, overall a very good copy.
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MAY.
Prague: Artia Graphic Design, 1965. First edition thus, 4to., pp.82, decorative cream cloth blocked in black, ribbon bookmark, 6 b/w plates plus b/w vignettes; light spotting to top edges of cloth, else fine, in mylar wrapper, housed in very good decorative slipcase, which is rubbed to extremities.
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