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The Monotype Recorder. Vol. XXXVIII No. I.
The Monotype Corporation Ltd., Spring, 1939. Large 4to. pp. 28. Green printed wrappers, with the loose facsimile sheet which is often wanting in this issue. Ardizzone contributes a drawing which he produced for the Curwen press on the front wrapper which shows a type compositor at work.
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The Tale of Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves. Being literally translated from the Arabic into French by J.C. Mardrus> and then translated into English by E. `Powys Mathers.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. 1st Edition. Tall 4to. pp. vii, [3], 50, [2]> coloured illustrations. A variant binding, probably bound for the printers, the Curwen Press, signed in full by the artist at the foot of the illustrated front end paper. Issued in an edition of 2500 copies, this one un-numbered.
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The Quest for Gilgamesh> with an original lithograph by Michael Ayrton.
Rampant Lions Press, 1972. 1st Edition, one of 15 copies from an edition of 125> this number V, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR WITH AN EXTRA SIGNED LITHOGRAPH OF AN UNUSED VARIANT OF THE FRONTISPIECE. Original quarter morocco, cloth boards, marbled endpapers by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, printed on hand-made Pachuco Cadava paper from Amalfi. Some general light spotting but a Fine copy. With the Michael Ayrton designed bookplate of Arnold Haskell to the front pastedown. Loosely inserted are 1. original prospectus for the book, 2. letter from the daughter of Martin Shuttleworth, literary critic, writer and editor regarding the provenance of this copy.
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The Quest for Gilgamesh> with an original lithograph by Michael Ayrton.
Rampant Lions Press, 1972. 1st Edition, one of 110 copies from an edition of 125> this number 80. Fine copy in the ragged remains of the original[?] plain tissue dust wrapper.
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Mother Moth> illustrated by Francesca Bell.
Fountaindale, N.S.W., Australia: Bell, 2011. 1st Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by author and illustrator on the title page. Fine in dust wrapper.
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Lovers and Friends.
T. Fisher Unwin, 1921. 1st Edition. Not a very nice copy, spotted and with the spine panel detached. Somewhat rescued by the presentation inscription from the author "For Lady Sackville from E.F. Benson" with the Knowle bookplate of Lady Sackville and the front panel of the dust wrapper pasted to the end paper.
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A Gaelic Alphabet.
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, August, 1960. Reset and reprinted edition. Original wrappers, very slightly soiled and faded, small closed tear to rear wrapper, otherwise Very Good.
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The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare.
Flansham: Pear Tree Press, 1938. 1st Pear Tree Press Edition. The text set in Perpetua type, the wood cut designs are by James Guthrie, the printing by John Freeman. Number 17 of 200 copies. Presentation copy inscribed "Jack Haines from Gerald Bullett, May 1938. There's no excuse for reprinting the Phoenix - but it's a pretty piece of printing, I think." Very Good in slightly rubbed dust wrapper with a couple of short closed tears.
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The Orient Flight LZ127-Graf Zeppelin.
[Chicago]: Germany Philatelic Society, 1980. Boards, no dust wrapper as issued. Only 1000 copies were printed.
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Springboard, the Barnardo Magazine for Schools, edited by Christopher Fry. Volume 1, numbers 1 - 6.
1935 - 1937. 6 issues, 4to. pp. 208. Wrappers. 1st issue defective, lacking the wrappers and with a couple of excisions within the text. A rare periodical edited by the dramatist Christopher Fry who sourced the contributions from a number of schools, but also included new [and apparently previously unpublished] poems by W.H. Davies [Street Criers, in issue 1], Edmund Blunden [A Town I Knew, in issue 2], Frank Kendon [Blackberries, in issue 3]> plus poems by Robert Gittings. Keith Douglas [1920 - 1944] was one of the leading war poets of the second world war, killed in action during the Normandy invasion. He was educated at Christ's Hospital where his poetic talents were first recognised, several poems being published in 'Outlook', the school's magazine. The poems and illustrations by Douglas here included all seem to have first appeared in Outlook and some show marked differences to the final versions included in the definitive Complete Poems of Keith Douglas, edited by Desmond Graham. 3rd Edition, 1998. They include: The Alchymist [with woodcut] in issue 3, which is not included in Complete Poems..303, in issue 4. Distraction from Classics [with 4 extra lines] in issue 6. Mummers - a Christmas Poem [variant] in issue 6. November [a prose piece] in issue 6.
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Change, The Beginning of a Chapter. Volume II.
The Decoy Press, February 1919. Original cloth backed boards, title label, slight wear to the head of the spine. With woodcuts and other engravings by Robert Gibbings, Vivien Gribble, Millicent Jackson, Philip Hagreen, Paul Woodroffe, Herbert Rooke, Lovat Fraser, etc. A short-lived socialist periodical and although 12 volumes were planned, only the first two appeared.
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ANDREW MARVELL 1621-1678 Tercentenary Tributes.
1922 Very Good in very slightly torn dust wrapper with old tape repairs. Other contributors include Augustine Birrell, Cyril Falls, Edmund Gosse, and H J Massingham.
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Medea. Hippolytus. The Bacchae. Newly translated by Philip Vellacott, illustrated by Michael Ayrton.
Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Curwen Press, 1967. 1st Edition, 1st printing. Cloth backed boards, light mark at the foot of the spine otherwise a Fine copy in the original slip-case. No. 832 of 1,500 copies SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.
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The Mansion.
Chatto & Windus, 1961. !st. U.K. Edition. Very Good in dust wrapper a little chipped at the base of the spine.
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Man's Life is This Meat.
The Parton Press, [1936] 1st Edition. Original paper covered boards a little spotted, complete with the rare original glassine wrapper with the printed price [3/6] on the inner flap. The author's second volume of verse published when he was 20 year's old mostly containing surrealist poems. A notoriously fragile publication, copies in the delicate glassine dust wrapper are of particular scarcity.
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