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	AZIMI, IFTIKHAR [ TRANSLATED BY ] ILLUSTRATED BY RICHARD KENNEDY The Garden of the Night - a Selection of 26 Sufi Poems . The Whittington Press , 1979, approximately 70 unnumbered pages illustrated with numerous line drawings Limited Edition of 240 copies of which this is number XXVI of the 35 copies full bound in Nigerian goatskin by Weatherby Woolnough, with Whittington marbled endpapers. Accompanied by a loosely inserted signed etchicng by Richard Kennedy. The eddition is signed by Kennedy and Azimi. Hand-set in 24-point Caslon and printed at the press by John and Rosaliond Randle and Miriam Macgregor on B.F.K. mouldmade paper. The calligraphy is drawn by Noor Shafiqi and Faizal Hasan Deobandi, and the calligraphy and illustrations printed at the Senecio press. The front board has a Kennedy design embossed and the spsine has the title in gilt lettering. A splendid book, the leather of the spine slightly discoloured and the edges of the loose etching a bit browned. In slip-case. Now very rare. GBP 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 388.25 US$ 581.35 \| JP¥ 51360] Book number: F0030 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	BLISH A Case of Conscience . With, pictorial endpapers, coloured frontispiece , introduction Walter E. Meyers, 2 colour plates by Ellen Sull Farley, with Gilt pages edges all around, Easton Press, 1989. An Easton Press Limited Edition, bound in full black leather with gold embossed gilt pattern to the front and rear boards and gilt titling to spine. with silk placemarker. a fine copy. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39 US$ 58.14 \| JP¥ 5136] Book number: F1051 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	CLARKE, ARTHUR C., Rendezvous with Rama . ( Masterpieces of Science Fiction ) Introduction by George Zebrowski , Double frontispiece Illustration by Bob Eggelton. Easton Press 1993, Limited Edition. First Printing. Full gilt-embossed leather binding. Collector's edition with four raised bands and gilt lettering on spine spine, t.e.g. and satin bookmarker. Rendezvous with Rama is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1972. Set in the 22nd century, the story involves a thirty-mile-long cylindrical alien starship that passes through Earth's solar system. The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers, who intercept the ship in an attempt to unlock its mysteries. [ Shop presents ]. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50 US$ 74.75 \| JP¥ 6603] Book number: F0229 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	IRELAND, JOHN, Hogarth Illustrated, from His Own Manuscripts Compiled and Arranged from the Originals;. 3 Volumes. . The third edition corrected. J.N. Boydell and G. and W. Nicoll, 1806-1812, Introduction, index to the plates volume I, CXXII,237; Index to plates volume II, 379; volume 3: XIV, 370pp. profusely illustrated with plates, in full rebacked polished calf leather , decorated spine with 5 raised bands, inside hinges re-inforced with linen strips, boards sl. worn/scratched, stains to plates in volume 2, mostly to the tops or top corners. silk page markers. GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 138.75 US$ 207.63 \| JP¥ 18343] Book number: F0274 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	MURDOCH , IRIS, Joanna Joanna a Play in Two Acts . Colophon press with Old Town books 1994,93pp.the edition consisted of 125 copies bound in cloth, 12 copies numberd I - XII and 6 copies marked A - F for private distribution. This is number XI of the edition of 12 copies bound in full Nigerian goatskin, signed by the author and it includes a holograph quotation from the text. In a marbled paper covered slipcase. T.e.g. A splendid copy [ DR-1]. (ISBN: 187412213X) . GBP 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 277.5 US$ 415.25 \| JP¥ 36686] Book number: F1179 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Sonnets . Illustrated with wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. in three-quarter red morocco. The Acorn Press, 1982 One of an edition of 350 copies printed at the Whittington Press. Each sonnet is preceded by one of Weissenborn's fine coloured wood engravings. Weissenborn, a German-born artist, immigrated to England in 1939 and illustrated fifteen books for the Whittington Press. An exquisite edition The press printed this volume on loose sheets for the Acorn pressand these were bound into full red leather by special order only. At least that's how we obtained one of the last copies years ago. GBP 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 499.25 US$ 747.45 \| JP¥ 66034] Book number: F0034 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM. Observations Upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. The Seventh Edition, Corrected and Augmented. . By Sir William Temple of Shene in the County of Surrey, Baronet, Ambassador at the Hague and at Aixla-Chapelle, in the Year 1668 London, Printed for Jacob Tonson .. and Awnsham and John Churchill .. 1705. [16], 279pp. original panelled calf boards rebound into new calf, title label on spine, 7th edition corrected and Augmented, but following the definitive text of the second edition of 1673. Title and imprint within double line border. some marginal wormholing to initial 35 pp. not affecting the text. ¶ Temple arranged the marriage of the Prince of Orange and Princess Mary of England and negotiated the Triple Alliance of 1668 [DR 1 ]. GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.25 US$ 124.58 \| JP¥ 11006] Book number: F1050 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.

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	AZIMI, IFTIKHAR [ TRANSLATED BY ] ILLUSTRATED BY RICHARD KENNEDY The Garden of the Night - a Selection of 26 Sufi Poems . The Whittington Press , 1979, approximately 70 unnumbered pages illustrated with numerous line drawings Limited Edition of 240 copies of which this is number XXVI of the 35 copies full bound in Nigerian goatskin by Weatherby Woolnough, with Whittington marbled endpapers. Accompanied by a loosely inserted signed etchicng by Richard Kennedy. The eddition is signed by Kennedy and Azimi. Hand-set in 24-point Caslon and printed at the press by John and Rosaliond Randle and Miriam Macgregor on B.F.K. mouldmade paper. The calligraphy is drawn by Noor Shafiqi and Faizal Hasan Deobandi, and the calligraphy and illustrations printed at the Senecio press. The front board has a Kennedy design embossed and the spsine has the title in gilt lettering. A splendid book, the leather of the spine slightly discoloured and the edges of the loose etching a bit browned. In slip-case. Now very rare. GBP 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 388.25 US$ 581.35 \| JP¥ 51360] Book number: F0030 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	BLISH A Case of Conscience . With, pictorial endpapers, coloured frontispiece , introduction Walter E. Meyers, 2 colour plates by Ellen Sull Farley, with Gilt pages edges all around, Easton Press, 1989. An Easton Press Limited Edition, bound in full black leather with gold embossed gilt pattern to the front and rear boards and gilt titling to spine. with silk placemarker. a fine copy. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39 US$ 58.14 \| JP¥ 5136] Book number: F1051 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	CLARKE, ARTHUR C., Rendezvous with Rama . ( Masterpieces of Science Fiction ) Introduction by George Zebrowski , Double frontispiece Illustration by Bob Eggelton. Easton Press 1993, Limited Edition. First Printing. Full gilt-embossed leather binding. Collector's edition with four raised bands and gilt lettering on spine spine, t.e.g. and satin bookmarker. Rendezvous with Rama is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1972. Set in the 22nd century, the story involves a thirty-mile-long cylindrical alien starship that passes through Earth's solar system. The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers, who intercept the ship in an attempt to unlock its mysteries. [ Shop presents ]. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50 US$ 74.75 \| JP¥ 6603] Book number: F0229 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	IRELAND, JOHN, Hogarth Illustrated, from His Own Manuscripts Compiled and Arranged from the Originals;. 3 Volumes. . The third edition corrected. J.N. Boydell and G. and W. Nicoll, 1806-1812, Introduction, index to the plates volume I, CXXII,237; Index to plates volume II, 379; volume 3: XIV, 370pp. profusely illustrated with plates, in full rebacked polished calf leather , decorated spine with 5 raised bands, inside hinges re-inforced with linen strips, boards sl. worn/scratched, stains to plates in volume 2, mostly to the tops or top corners. silk page markers. GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 138.75 US$ 207.63 \| JP¥ 18343] Book number: F0274 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	MURDOCH , IRIS, Joanna Joanna a Play in Two Acts . Colophon press with Old Town books 1994,93pp.the edition consisted of 125 copies bound in cloth, 12 copies numberd I - XII and 6 copies marked A - F for private distribution. This is number XI of the edition of 12 copies bound in full Nigerian goatskin, signed by the author and it includes a holograph quotation from the text. In a marbled paper covered slipcase. T.e.g. A splendid copy [ DR-1]. (ISBN: 187412213X) . GBP 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 277.5 US$ 415.25 \| JP¥ 36686] Book number: F1179 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM Sonnets . Illustrated with wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. in three-quarter red morocco. The Acorn Press, 1982 One of an edition of 350 copies printed at the Whittington Press. Each sonnet is preceded by one of Weissenborn's fine coloured wood engravings. Weissenborn, a German-born artist, immigrated to England in 1939 and illustrated fifteen books for the Whittington Press. An exquisite edition The press printed this volume on loose sheets for the Acorn pressand these were bound into full red leather by special order only. At least that's how we obtained one of the last copies years ago. GBP 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 499.25 US$ 747.45 \| JP¥ 66034] Book number: F0034 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.
	TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM. Observations Upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. The Seventh Edition, Corrected and Augmented. . By Sir William Temple of Shene in the County of Surrey, Baronet, Ambassador at the Hague and at Aixla-Chapelle, in the Year 1668 London, Printed for Jacob Tonson .. and Awnsham and John Churchill .. 1705. [16], 279pp. original panelled calf boards rebound into new calf, title label on spine, 7th edition corrected and Augmented, but following the definitive text of the second edition of 1673. Title and imprint within double line border. some marginal wormholing to initial 35 pp. not affecting the text. ¶ Temple arranged the marriage of the Prince of Orange and Princess Mary of England and negotiated the Triple Alliance of 1668 [DR 1 ]. GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.25 US$ 124.58 \| JP¥ 11006] Book number: F1050 Click here to order or inquire at Thornton's Bookshop.