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The Keepsake Press, Richmond., 1974. First edition. Octavo. 12 pages. Sewn wrappers. One of 125 copies. A 7 page poem with a page of notes entitled The Context.Covers a bit creased at the edges. Very good indeed.

Babel, Schondorf am Ammersee., 1983. First edition (unlimited). Octavo. 72 pages. Wrappers. The special R.S. Thomas issue, containing poems selected from ten of the author's books, with translations of them into German by Kevin Perryman. Also contains a Checklist of the author's publications.Fine.

Babel, Schondorf am Ammersee., 1983. First edition. Octavo. 72 pages. The special R.S. Thomas issue, containing poems selected from ten of the author's books, with translations of them into German by Kevin Perryman. Also contains a Checklist of the author's publications.One of 40 numbered copies, bound in cloth, signed by R.S. Thomas on p.52 beneath his contribution "4004 B.C."Fine.

Harrison of Paris., 1930. First edition. Octavo. 46 pages. Designed by J. van Krimpen, printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem. A story.One of 375 numbered copies signed by the author.Free endpapers a little tanned. Near fine in rubbed slipcase.

Joseph Cundall, London., 1849. First edition. Folio. 10 steel engraved plates, with paper guards, by John Brandard (after the Marchioness of Waterford), this being the very rare Large Paper hand-coloured issue. Original red paper boards lettered in gilt and rebacked with red cloth.Joseph Cundall wrote under the pseudonym of "Stephen Percy", was a pioneer photographer, and a publisher of children's books for which he commissioned some of the best artists of the day. The present title was the most ambitious of Cundall's books, printed in the year he went bankrupt. The sheets were properly hand-coloured as opposed to stencilled. Cover edges stained and quite rubbed at the edges but the text, bar a little marginal marking and creasing, is very good. A superb example of a Victorian gift book.

Frederick Warne, London., [1878]. First edition. Square octavo. 56 pages. Illustrations by Walter Crane engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Cloth-backed pictorial paper boards.Cover edges rubbed particularly at corners. Very good.

James Cahill, Huntington Beach., 1993. First edition. Octavo. 22 pages. Cloth decorated in gilt. A story which first appeared in The New Yorker.Number 73 of 100 copies copies signed by the author.Fine in original shrinkwrap.

George Routledge, London., 1887. First edition. Square octavo. 56 pages. Illustrations by Walter Crane engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Errata and Addenda slip tipped in. Cloth-backed pictorial boards.The only foxing is on the Errata and Addenda slip. Very small ink ownership stamp on front free endpaper. Cover edges rubbed. Very good. Scarce.

Macmillan, London., 1960. First edition. Octavo. pp [vi], 241. The author's fifth novel.Bottom corners of covers very slightly bumped. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper, designed by Reinganum, a bit rubbed at the edges. A bright copy.

John Murray, London., 1991. First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 234. Illustrated. A biography of the man who transformed Chatsworth House and who was one of the great book and sculpture collectors of his day.Signed by the author on the title-page.Head and tail of spine a bit pushed. Very good indeed in fine dustwrapper.

Constable, London., 1921. First U.K. edition (preceded by the U.S. edition). Octavo. pp xcii, 267. Small gift inscription on front pastedown (under the dustwrapper flap). Edges slightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good, slightly chipped and nicked dustwrapper with a tear along the fold of the front flap repaired on the reverse.

Constable, London., 1921. First U.K. edition (preceded by the U.S. edition). Octavo. pp xcii, 267. Later binding for Hatchards of three quarter red morocco with raised bands, gilt rules, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt.Fine.

The Limited Editions Club, New York., 1939. First edition thus: illustrated by John Farleigh. Royal octavo. pp lvi, [ii], 260. A play with a preface by the author.One of 1500 copies numbered and signed by the artist.Spine slightly faded. Very near fine in the original card slipcase which is faded at the backstrip and edges.

The Hogarth Press, London., 1940. First edition. Octavo. 266 pages. The author's first novel.Contemporary (1940) ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Endpapers partially tanned, otherwise fine in very good indeed dustwrapper a little rubbed at edges.

The Hogarth Press, London., 1940. First edition. Octavo. 266 pages. The author's first novel.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''To Wilfrid & Marjorie Cowley with many thanks for my visit May 29-31 1940 - Stephen Spender''. Wilfrid Cowley was a friend of C. Day Lewis from Oxford days and there is a further, if slightly more tenuous, Macspaunday connection in that he was senior English master at Bryanston School where Auden had at one time been intending to teach.Free endpapers tanned. Spine slightly darkened. Very good. No dustwrapper.

Tate Liverpool., 2006. First edition. Quarto. 151 pages. Numerous illustrations. Cloth-backed boards. The book of an exhibition. Essays by Christoph Grunenberg, Christopher Turner, Tanya Barson, Dave Beech and Clarrie Wallis.Fine. Not issued in dustwrapper.

Ernest Benn, London., 1926. First edition. 12mo. 43 pages. Stapled wrappers. One of 265 copies signed by the author.Edges and prelims slightly spotted. Staples starting to rust. Very good.

C. Arthur Pearson, London., 1960. 32nd edition. Octavo. 328 pages. Illustrated.Near fine in very good, slightly dusty dustwrapper.

John Murray, London., 1939. First edition. Octavo. pp xxxii, 550. Well illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps. The author spent six years among this small aboriginal tribe in the Satpura Mountains of central India. As well as the anthropological discussions of race, language, economics, sexuality, magic etc, there are autobiographies of several tribesmen and full translations of legends, songs, riddles and folk-tales.Fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper. Uncommon.

Faber and Faber, London., 1958. First U.K. edition. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Octavo. 112 pages. A play.Spine a little marked. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper with a short enclosed tear at head of spine.