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London: Faber & Faber, (1954). Edward Bawden. First Edition. wraps. Bloomfield and Mendelson A34. Stitched yellow wraps, 5 pages, illustrated with a color frontispiece and two black-and-white drawings by Edward Bawden.
London: Faber & Faber, (1954). Edward Bawden. First Edition. wraps. Bloomfield and Mendelson A34. Stitched yellow wraps, 5 pages, illustrated with a color frontispiece and two black-and-white drawings by Edward Bawden.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Second impression of author's first book with dustwrapper art by Edward Bawden.
Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First Edition. wraps. Original tan wraps with front cover lettered in black. One of only 250 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and one of Beckett's retained copies. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page to Richard Seaver, chief editor of Grove Press, and.....
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Beckett's first published novel, first published in England in 1938. Copy #22 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound in gilt-stamped brown cloth and tan boards. Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset's copy with the.....
London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. Avigdor Arikha. First Edition. wraps. Folio (11-3/4" x 15") in wraps, loosely housed as issued in a paper folder, cloth chemise, and slipcase. Text printed by Will and Sebastian Carter on paper made by J. Barcham Green. Of a total of 137 numbered copies illustrated with.....
Cambridge: University Press, 1943. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 27 pages. The Rede Lecture for 1943, a critical remembrance of Strachey.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with 51 tipped-in caricature plates.
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1941. John Austen. Hardcover. Two large quarto volumes bound in half green buckram and floral-decorated boards. Preface by the author with an introduction by Frank Swinnerton. Copy #834 of 1500 numbered copies with handsome color plates by John Austen and SIGNED by the illustrator on the.....
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1941. John Austen. Hardcover. Two large quarto volumes bound in half green buckram and floral-decorated boards. Preface by the author with an introduction by Frank Swinnerton. Illustrated with handsome color plates by John Austen. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the.....
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1941. John Austen. Hardcover. Two large quarto volumes bound in half green buckram and floral-decorated boards. Preface by the author with an introduction by Frank Swinnerton. Copy #837 of 1500 numbered copies with handsome color plates by John Austen and SIGNED by the illustrator on the.....
London: Constable & Co. Ltd, (1930). First Edition. Hardcover. An Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to writer Arnold Bennett: "For Mr Arnold Bennett,/with gratitude &/affection from John/Rothenstein./November 1930." With Bennett's bookplate on the front pastedown. The publisher's slip has pencil notes.....
Newcastle: S. Hodgwon et al. 1792. Third Edition. Hardcover. Demi-octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") bound in contemporary calf leather, recently and neatly rebacked; x, 483 pages. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings by Thomas Bewick.
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1973. William Blake. Hardcover. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-5/8") bound in quarter black morocco leather and mulberry-color linen boards with the front board embossed with a portrait of Blake, 340 pages. Selected, edited, and introduced by Aileen Ward; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with twelve designs engraved.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1973. William Blake. Hardcover. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-5/8") bound in quarter black morocco leather and mulberry-color linen boards with the front board embossed with a portrait of Blake, 340 pages. Selected, edited, and introduced by Aileen Ward; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with twelve designs engraved.....
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1973. William Blake. Hardcover. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-5/8") bound in quarter black morocco leather and mulberry-color linen boards with the front board embossed with a portrait of Blake, 340 pages. Selected, edited, and introduced by Aileen Ward; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with twelve designs engraved.....
(London): (Trianon Press for William Blake Trust), [1954]. William Blake. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter tan publisher's calf (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") housed in a slipcase. Copy #823 of 1626 of this color facsimile of Blake's masterpiece, the original donated to the Library of Congress by Lessing Rosenwald who has INSCRIBED this.....
(London): Gaberbocchus, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. A thriller by a British writer and artist who also worked in the film industry about a young black American accused by an African government of a crime.
London: Erskine MacDonald, 1916. First Edition. wraps. Decorated wraps; 36 pages plus ads. The poet's first commercially published volume, issued in the Little Book of Georgian Verse, Second Series, published when the poet was 20 and right at the time he joined the 11th Royal Sussex Regiment and saw active.....
(Avon, CT): Limited Editions Club, 1974. Thomas Rowlandson. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-5/8" x 10") bound in half red morocco and marbled boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Printed at the Sign of the Stone Press. Reprints the Third Edition of 1786 with marginal comments and markings from a copy.....
(Avon, CT): Limited Editions Club, 1974. Thomas Rowlandson. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-5/8" x 10") bound in half red morocco and marbled boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Printed at the Sign of the Stone Press. Reprints the Third Edition of 1786 with marginal comments and markings from a copy.....
London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to.....
London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to.....
London: Faber and Faber, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book, a novel that begins in the basement of Foyle's bookshop. Dustwrapper art by Kenneth Rowell.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Highly acclaimed first book made into a film.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993. Balthus. Hardcover. Folio (12-3/4" x 16-1/2") bound in goatskin leather dyed grey-green to evoke the Yorkshire moors and housed in a cloth slipcase with leather spine label. Illustrated with 15 drawings by the artist Balthus which were begun in 1933 when he was 25.....