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MADMAN’S DRUM A Novel in Woodcuts by Lynd Ward.
London and Toronto: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, with paper title label to spine. First edition. Few light spots on half-title; else a very good, clean copy.
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Man the Lifeboat!
London & New York: Sockl & Nathan, No date [circa 1895]. [12] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial card covers secured with metal thread as issued. Oblong: 129 x 144 mm. Covers lightly dust-soiled, else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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MY UNCLE SILAS. Stories by H,. E. Bates. Drawings by Edward Ardizzone.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. Hardback in the original pictorial dust-wrapper. 4to. First edition. Wrapper is complete and not price-clipped; few spots on front endpapers; else a very good, clean copy of one of Ardizzone's earliest books.
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OLD-WORLD LOVE STORIES From the Lays of Marie de France & other Mediaeval Romances & legends translated from the French by Eugene Mason. Illustrated and Decorated by Reginal L. Knowles.
London: J. M. Dent, 1913. vii, [1] 282 pages. Illustrated with 8 mounted colour plates and numerous line drawings and decorations. Original elaborately decorated cloth gilt, designed by Knowles. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. Front inner hinge cracked and a little tender; spine slightly faded; some spotting here, mostly caused by the glue used to mount the illustrations; else a very good copy of this scarce book.
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OVID’S ELEGIES translated by Christopher Marlowe, together with the Epigrams of Sir John Davies. With Decorations engraved on Wood by John Nash.
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1925. [ 6], 102, [5] pages. Illustrated with a vignette on title, and eight wood-engravings. Original cloth backed boards. Octavo. Number 529 of six hundred twenty-five numbered copies. Binding a little rubbed and worn, but a very good & clean copy.
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POEMS BY ROBERT BROWNING. With introduction by Richard Garnett LLD and Illustrations by Byam Shaw.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1897. xix, [1 blank], 377, [1] pages. Illustrated in black & white. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in blind, and titled in gilt. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. Neat inscription on half-title; light browning to endpapers; touch of wear to lower corners; else a very good copy of a scarce first edition.
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Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter. Sein Leben in Bildern. Erzählt von Hugo Von Hofmannsthal. 12 original lithographien von Franz Wacik.
Wien [Vienna]: Verlag von Seidel & Sohn, 1915. Unpaged. 12 full-page dramatic colour lithographs. Original pictorial paper-covered boards over cloth. Oblong: 260 x 325 mm. First edition. Spine worn and splitting with loss of paper; small printed name in blank margin of titlepage; edges of boards rubbed; else a very good, clean copy.
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SHADOWS IN ARCADY. The Angelus. The Brass Plate. An Alley in Languedoc. The Devil at La Charité.
London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1965. Number 99 of a limited edition of 500 copies of which 450 are for sale. Original cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Original cellophane dust-wrapper; original slipcase. Slipcase has a small rub; else the book is fine.
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Shakespeare’s Comedy of A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM. With illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.
London: Constable & Co, 1914. xii, [4], 185 pages. Illustrated with 12 mounted coloured plates and 32 black & white drawings. Sometime re-bound in quarter cloth over paper-covered boards with a paper label to the spine. Quarto. 295 x 232 mm. A very nice copy without inscriptions, etc.
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SIX FAIRY TALES from the Brothers Grimm with original etchings by David Hockney.
London: Petersburg Press in association with the Kasmin Gallery, April 1970. Original blue leatherette with silver gilt titling. 108 x 79 mm. First edition in this format. A fine copy.
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SKETCHBOOK DRAWINGS. With a recorded commentary by John Lawrence compiled and edited by Tom Colverson and an Introduction by peter Guy.
Hanborough: Previous Parrot Press, 1991. Number163 of an edition of 170 copies signed by John Lawrence and Peter Guy. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Unopened at the top edge throughout as issued. No jacket. A fine copy.
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SOME ‘FRIGHTFUL’ WAR PICTURES.
London: Duckworth & Co, 1915. [56 pages]. Illustrated with 24 full-page half-tone plates, with captions and a small black & white silhouette on the proceeding pages. Endpapers have double-page silhouette illustrations. Illustration on title, and seven other silhouette vignettes. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Folio. First edition. Lacks the dust-wrapper. Front inner joint cracking. Else a very good copy. Beare 147.
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SOUTHERN HARVEST. Written and Engraved by Clare Leighton.
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1943. 124 pages. Original blue cloth gilt; original decorative dust-wrapper. First edition. Cloth lightly sunned under wrapper; wrapper chipped at head & heel; Light foxing to endpapers and fore-edges; else a very good, clean, copy.
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ST. LUKE’S LIFE OF CHRIST Translated into modern English by J. B. Phillips. With illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.
London: Collins, 1956. Number 141 of a limited edition of 150 copies signed by Phillips and Ardizzone. Original quarter red morocco gilt over grey cloth; pattered paper-covered slipcase. Octavo. First edition thus. A near fine copy.
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STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Retold by Laurence Housman with drawings by Edmund Dulac.
New York… London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921. Unpaged. 20 tipped-in colour plates. Original decorative cloth gilt with a mounted pictorial pastedown to the upper board. 207 x 155 mm. A near fine copy.
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THE BOOK OF RUTH. Pictured and Designed by W.B. MACDOUGALL. With an introduction by Ernest Rhys.
London: J. M. Dent. And Co, 1896. xv, [1], [52] pages. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Original decorative cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Other Fore-edges uncut. 250. X 195 mm. First edition. Slight browning to the margins of the text block; binding rubbed and faded, with a loss of gilt; else a very good.
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The Boy and Heron. A story with wood-engravings by John O’Connor.
Glasgow: Foulis Archive Press, 1977. Number 26 of a limited edition of 100 copies. A hand-made print on Japanese paper of the illustration on page 9 signed by the artist accompanies this edition. The colophon has an added presentation inscription from John O’Connor: ‘Best wishes to Hal and Julius. 1978.’ A fine copy.
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THE DEVIL IN SCOTLAND being four great Scottish stories of diablerie along with an introductory essay and thirty-nine original wood engravings by Douglas Percy Bliss.
London: Alexander Maclehose, 1934. [vi], 107 [108] page. Original black cloth gilt; original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. Dust-wrapper has been repaired from blank side but is chipped and worn. However, this is a very good copy.
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THE ENCHANTED CAPITAL OF SCOTLAND. From a story told by a Merchant of Edinburgh. Retold in words by Isobel K. C. Steele and retold in pictures by Jessie M. King.
Edinburgh: Noel G. Fyfe The Merchant. A Plaid Publication, No date [1945]. 54 pages. 54 pages. Illustrated with four double-page coloured plates, and in black and white. Original blue cloth gilt. Full colour pictorial dust-wrapper. 243 x 166 mm. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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THE END OF ELFINTOWN. By Jane Barlow. Illustrated by Laurence Housman.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1894. [iv], 77, [1] pages. Illustrated in black in black and white. Original elaborately decorated cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 183 x 130 mm. First edition. Spine slightly rubbed and faded, and lightly worn at head & heel; remains of a small bookseller’s catalogue description pasted to front pastedown; else a very good copy.
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