HEATH, Ambrose; BAWDEN, Edward, 1903-1989 (Illustrates)

Good Food. Month by Month Recipes

London, Faber and Faber, 1939. First Edition [from 1932]. Hardcover. Third Impression of this first in a series (and arguably the finest) of cookery titles the two men collaborated on. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): 279,[1]pp, with title-page vignette within ornamental border and 19 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's beige cloth, spine lettered in sky blue, top edge stained grey-green; beige dust jacket, illustrated by Bawden and printed in sage green, wine-red, and black and priced 7s/6d. Tightly bound and virtually pristine (lightly read, if at all). Bliss, p. 181. Much of the contents appeared originally in the Manchester Guardian, the Morning Post, and the News-Chronicle. Heath wrote more than 100 cookery books, many of which featured the word "good" in their titles, and a host of those were decorated by Bawden, including Good Food, More Good Food, Good Food for the Aga, Good Drinks, and Good Food Without Meat. Bawden's illustration here for the month of May depicts four figures enjoying a picnic lunch; the four are, in fact, Bawden, Eric and Tizah Ravilious, and Tom Hennell, on the lawn at Brick House, which they rented at Great Bardfield Essex. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine-.

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HEWITT, Girart

Minnesota, Its Advantages to Settlers. Being a Brief Synopsis of Its History and Progress, Climate, Soil, Agricultural and Manufacturing Facilities, Commercial Capacities, and Social Status; Its Lakes, Rivers and Railroads; Homestead and Exemption Laws; Embracing a Concise Treatise on Its Climatology, in a Hygienic and Sanitary Point of View; Its Unparalleled Salubrity, Growth and Productiveness, As Compared with the Older States; and the Elements of Its Future Greatness and Prosperity

St. Paul, [Published by the state] for gratuitous circulation, by Girart Hewitt, 1869. Wrappers. Third Edition (originally published in 1867) of this guidebook intended to attract settlers to the state. "Notice. This pamphlet, published in January of each year, (this being its third year) is designed to keep up with the progress of the state, and present its status to date." (front cover verso) Slim demy 8vo (220 x 141mm): 41,[7]pp. Original yellow wrappers, upper cover printed in black with state seal. Bright, clean copy, about Fine (single pinpoint puncture to rear wrapper). Howes H-455. Sabin VIII, p. 259. Astor Library II, p. 1735. Dunbar (Travel in America), p. 1460. With its population nearly quadrupling in the 1860s and 1870s, Minnesota sought to attract even more settlers to the state. This pamphlet includes a synopsis of the history and progress of the Minnesota, as well as descriptions of the climate, agricultural and manufacturing facilities, commerce and transportation network. Homestead and exemption laws are explained. Included are advertisements from Winona & St. Peter Railroad, selling "250,000 acres of the finest farming lands in the northwest"; Hastins & Dakota Railway, offering "Actual Settlers Only" portions of a 1,280,000-acre land grant; Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway, "best route to the northwest, and with a fine line of steamers;" Minnesota Valley Rail Road Company; North Western Union Packet Co. "with splendid steamers on the Upper Mississippi"; Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad, offering lands to Immigrants and Settlers; Minnesota Central Railway, serving tourists, and Southern Minnesota Rail Road Company, offering 40,000 acres of land at $3 to $8 per acre. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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[HINDE, John, 1916-1997]; PARR, Martin (Introduces)

[Photobook] Our True Intent Is All for Your Delight. The John Hinde Butlin's Photographs

London, Boot, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of this compilation of Hinde's postcard images of Butlin's holiday parks, a chain of seaside resorts providing affordable holidays for "ordinary" British families, with photography by Elmar Ludwig, Edmund Nägle, and David Noble. Royal oblong 8vo (239 x 297mm): 127,[1]pp, chiefly color illustrations. Publisher's scarlet cloth-effect paper-covered boards, spine and front cover lettered in white, photo-illustrated dust jacket priced 24.905/$39.95. An excellent example (corners bumped), tightly bound and clean throughout. Hinde was a pioneer in color photography and by the 1960s was operating one of the world's most successful postcard publishers. These photographs, featuring saturated colors and elaborate staging, were taken for his firm during the holiday camp's heyday, the 1960s and 1970s. They show holiday makers enjoying the chalets and swimming pools, monorails and boating lakes, ballrooms and theme bars of Butlin's parks. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine.

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[HOOKE, Robert, 1635-1703]

[Juvenile] the Wonders of the Microscope; or, an Explanation of the Wisdom of the Creator, in Objects Comparatively Minute. Adopted to the Understanding of Young Persons

London, Printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge-Street, 1811. Quarter-Sheep. Scarce early edition of this beautifully illustrated children's book, featuring the startlingly magnified images of a flea, louse, blue bottle, and mites in cheese. Long 12mo (174 x 100mm): xii,118,[2]pp, with engraved folding frontispiece and four further plates (three folding). Original red quarter-skiver, spine lettered longitudinally in gilt, marbled paper-covered boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf: "Miss Martin, Harley Place"; recent book label of Stanley Scott, Chard, Somerset, to rear paste-down. Professionally refurbished and now presenting attractively: browned in places (particularly plates) but a well-preserved, largely unsophisticated copy of a scarce item. Keynes (Hooke) 12. Paul, Children's Book Business: Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century. First issued by Benjamin Tabart in 1806; this is apparently the second edition. Four of the plates "were either copied from those in Hooke's Micrographia [1665] or were printed from the original plates after they had been clumsily worked over. the text contains references to the work of Leeuwenhoek and Hooke, but there is no acknowledgment of the source of the plates" (Keynes). Recommended by the educator Eliza Fenwick in her Visits to the Juvenile Library, where it is described, on a visit to Tabart's bookshop, as "two [The Wonders of the Telescope is the second] of the most popular books in the shop." (cited in Paul, p. 91). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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HOWELL, James (1594?-1666)

S.P. Q.V. A Survay of the Signorie of Venice, of Her Admired Policy, and Method of Government, &C. With a Cohortation to All Christian Princes to Resent Her Dangerous Condition at Present

London, printed for Richard Lowndes at the VVhite Lion in S. Pauls Churchyard, neer the west end, 1651. Full Calf. Scarce first edition of Howell's appeal (in the guise of a plea to aid Venice) to the Rump parliament. Crown folio (270mm x 180mm): [8],55,[3],57-165,168-184,183-198,175-210,[8]pp, with two engraved full-page plates (an allegory and a portrait of the Doge), both by Robert Vaughan. "Of the princes, and dukes of Venice" has separate divisional title page; paginated erratically, but text continuous and complete. Full contemporary calf, covers paneled in blind, spine rebacked to style in six compartments preserving original end papers, red leather lettering piece gilt, title page printed in red and black with woodcut vignette of lion of St. Mark. Engraved armorial book plate of Sir Edward William Watkin (1819-1901), railway magnate and Member of Parliament, to front paste-down; more recent book plate (Christopher Rowe, collector of antiquarian books and specialist on seventeenth-century printing) to fly-leaf. Many quires toned and embrowned (several markedly so), few early minor marginalia, but an excellent example, tightly bound in contemporary boards. Pforzheimer 517. Wing H3112. Pine-Coffin 618. Lowndes II, 1129. Howell regarded the imprisonment, trial, and execution of Charles I as acts of an arbitrary and tyrannical government, driven by a base mob. This history of Venice, largely extracted from earlier authorities, is dedicated to the Rump regime, partly to obtain its lenient consideration but also "to impress the 'most noble senators' of England, the Rump MPs, by drawing parallels between the two republics. 'England hath reson to affect Venice more than any other, for in point of security ther is much resemblance between them, being both seated in the sea, who is their best protector.' The book casts further light on Howell's belief that a reassertion of aristocratic influence, of the kind that characterized Venetian government, would be necessary in the new Commonwealth if its descent into the chaos of a popular state was to be arrested." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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HOWELLS, W. D. (William Dean, 1837-1920); Fratelli Alinari (Photographs)

[Florence] [Binding] Tuscan Cities [Extra-Illustrated]

Leipzig, Heinemann and Balestier, 1900. Vellum. Later edition of Howells's guide to Florence and Pisa enriched with literary portraits of their most illustrious citizens. Crown 8vo (150 x 109mm): 264pp, with 27 tipped-in full page albumen prints, many by the Florence firm Fratelli Alinari. Full decorated vellum over beveled boards, spine and covers richly gilt, brown leather lettering piece gilt, all edges stained red, decorative end papers, red silk ribbon page marker. Book plate of Jessie Heys and ticket of Florence bookseller Libreria R. Paggie (via Tornabuoni, 15) to front paste down. A superb copy, occasional light spotting to pages, but very securely bound and generally clean throughout. See Stevenson, "With William Dean Howells to Florence," The Critical Flame (accessible online). BAL 9620 (for first edition). First published in Boston, in 1886 (but copyrighted 1885). Visitors to Florence, a requisite stop on Italian sojourns, often purchased a compact memento sold by local booksellers, who had sumptuously bound various American and English literary works associated with the city (we also have on offer a similarly bound grangerised edition of Hawthorne's Marble Faun) in attractive souvenir bindings with albumen photographs of architectural attractions inserted. "Few companions to Florence are more engaging than William Dean Howells. who first went to Italy in 1861 as an American diplomat stationed in Venice. Howells became fluent in Italian and fell in love with the fractured country that recently had unified. {He] returned to Tuscany in 1883, to recharge his batteries after many years at the Atlantic [Monthly, which he edited] and as the high judge of American letters. What sets Howells apart from the majority of his American contemporaries—except for Mark Twain and his Innocents Abroad—is that he uses his travel books as rough drafts for his novels, and spends as much time examining character (as would Tolstoy, another of his favorites) as he does the cathedrals. In Tuscan Cities, Howells includes wonderfully evocative sketches of Dante, Cosimo the Elder, Lorenzo the Magnificent, and Savonarola, who come alive on his walks across Florence, known then to only a handful of travelers. The theme that elevates Tuscan Cities from a simple guide book to something more serious is the compassion that Howells shows for the death of the Florentine republic, a political experiment that he finds as uplifting as Jefferson's America." (Stevenson) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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HUDSON, W. H. [William Henry], 1841-1922

The Land's End : A Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo: viii,323,4(advertisements)pp, with 8 (including frontispiece) full-page plates on calendered paper tipped in and 41 pen-and-ink text vignettes by A. L. Collins. Publisher's navy-blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover stamped in gilt with mermaid device within a single rule border, top edge gilt. A superior copy, all but pristine. Payne A26a. By the author of Green Mansions, Hudson's best known novel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Keywords: Land's End (England). Cornwall (England : County)—Description and travel. England—Cornwall (County). England—Land's End.

HUXLEY, Gervas (1894-1971)

[Food & Beverage] Tea in Porcelain. A Study of English Tea Drinking and English Porcelain Tea Ware, 1750-1800

[London], The Tea Centre, 1952. First Printing. Stiff Wrappers. Scarce booklet, with decorations (vignettes) by Elizabeth Corsellis, on the history of the British relationship with tea. Crown 8vo (183 x 122mm): [2],29,[1], with two leaves of plates (color photographs of the author's tea-related collection of Derby, Worcester, and Chelsea porcelain). Stapled (as issued) in stiff printed wrappers, upper cover printed in blue, red, and gold with title within elaborate cartouche, back cover priced 5s. About Fine (cream-colored back cover lightly dust-soiled and marginally toned). Gervas Huxley, husband of author Elsbeth Huxley, was a British Army officer and a founder of the Ministry of Information. He wrote a more extensive homage to tea in 1956, titled "Talking of Tea," from cultivation of the plant to brewing and drinking of the beverage. by N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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Keywords: Porcelain, English. Tea making paraphernalia -- England. Teapots -- England. Porcelain, English. Tea making paraphernalia. Teapots.

JAMES, Henry (1843-1916)

The Europeans. A Sketch

Boston, Houghton, Osgood, 1879. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition, published less than one month after the London edition, one of only 1500 copies. 8vo: [2],281,[1]pp. Publisher's dark green finely woven dotted-line-grain cloth (Kelly green and terra-cotta were also used, no priority known) over beveled boards, spine stamped in gilt, covers framed in blind, chocolate-brown coated end papers. An exceptionally Fine example, square, tight, and probably unread. BAL10537. Edel & Laurence A7b. Supino 7.6.0. The Europeans first appeared as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly for July-October 1878, after which James made numerous minor revisions for the first book publication. "The Europeans is the last work of Henry James's early period. [showcasing] the cultural differences and engagements between the Old World, as it was fading into eventual democracies, and the New World, as it was poised to take a prime spot on the world stage. The Europeans received (and still receives) mixed reviews as to its quality compared to the rest of James's works. He himself called it "shallow," in response to his brother, William's, judgment. Yet many critics and readers view it as the finest of his works, showing the interweaving of cultural themes" that predominate his later writings. (enotes) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine .

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JAMES, HENRY (1843-1916)

In the Cage

Chicago & New York, Herbert S. Stone, 1898. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of this novella centering on an unnamed London telegraphist, who deciphers clues to her clients's personal lives from the often cryptic telegrams they submit to her as she sits in the "cage" at the post office. Crown 8vo: [4],229,[3]pp. Publisher's dark olive-green linen-grain cloth, covers identically paneled in blind with lettering and florets in gilt; spine ruled, lettered, and ornamented in gilt; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; title page in black and orange. Book plates of essayist Robert Palfrey Utter to front paste-down and verso of front fly-leaf. (After varied experiences, including editorial work on the Youth's Companion, reporting for the New York Evening Post, ranching in Mexico, and graduate study at Harvard, Utter became, in 1906, associate professor of English at Amherst, then, beginning in 1920, held the same position at the University of California.) An excellent copy, about Fine, with very slight spine lean. BAL 10630. Edel A51b. Kramer 159. Supino 51.1.0. Bibliographers disagree as to priority of the American and English editions (see Kramer, p. 281). The telegraph girl's "powers of observation and communication appear to open up possibilities of love and escape from the cage of her working routine. But much of what she sees and hopes for turns out on trial to be nothing at all. Like many of James's mature works, therefore, In the Cage is not so much about what happens as about how it is perceived and felt by his characters. This novella deliberately draws attention to the way in which language, especially the mechanised and commodified language of the telegraph, can distort and disrupt the human attempt to communicate." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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JOHN, W. D.; Warren Baker

Old English Lustre Pottery

Newport Mon, R. H. Johns Ltd, 1951. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of this history of nineteenth century English pottery with metallic glazes. Royal 8vo (313 x 241mm): xx,132pp, with color frontispiece and 545 illustrations, of which 44 are in color. Publisher's pale yellow cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gold with central pottery device, top edge stained rose pink, bottom edge rough-trimmed. An exceptional example of this richly illustrated treatise, tightly bound and clean throughout. First Trade Edition, preceded by a limited edition of only 35 copies, including a substantial account of American historical pottery as well as pottery produced by Spode, Wedgwood, Wood & Caldwell, Staffordshire, Leeds, Swansea, Sunderland, Newcastle & Stockton, among other makers. The metallic glazes of English lustreware impart to pottery the effect of iridescence, simulating the appearance of silver, gold, or copper. John Hancock of Hanley, Staffordshire, began applying the new metal platinum to pottery at the Spode manufactory in about 1800, creating for the middle class tea services almost identical to those of silver. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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[Johnstone, Johnson ] JOHNSTON, Charles (1719?-1800?)

[Color Plate] Chrysal, or, the Adventures of a Guinea: Wherein Are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes : With Interesting Anecdotes of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life Through Whose Hands It Has Passed, by an Adept [3 Vols. ]

London, Printed for Samuel Richards and Co. 3, Grocers'-Hall Court, Poultry; and T. Mason & Sons, 2, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury, 1822. Paper-Covered Boards. The "best scandalous chronicle of the day," complete in three volumes. (Tooley) 12mo: viii,319; 321; 326pp, with 12 hand-colored plates engraved by Maddocks, E. F. Burney, and W. Read. Uniformly rebound to style by Fitterer, with period marbled paper-covered boards and modern paper labels, top edges gilt, end papers renewed with laid paper. Bindings pristine; some gatherings foxed in volume I, otherwise a very good or better set with only sporadic foxing and offsetting from the plates, which are generally fresh and bright. Tooley 283 (for 1821 octavo edition). Originally published pseudonymously, in 1760, in two volumes. This, Johnston's chief work (spelled variously Johnston, Johnson and Johnstone), "appeared in four volumes between 1760 and 1765. The first and second volumes were written during a visit to the earl of Mount-Edgcumbe in Devon and had already gone through three editions before Johnstone was prevailed on to write the concluding two, and the whole work was frequently reprinted during the eighteenth century (and translated into French). An excoriating satire that won Johnstone respect as a wit but few friends, the novel is set roughly during the period of the Seven Years' War (1757-63) and pretends to reveal political secrets, and to expose the private profligacy of many of the well-known—and highly colourful—public characters of the time." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Very Good + .

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KING, John R. (John Rufus, 1842-1936)

[Confederate] My Experience in the Confederate Army and in Northern Prisons, Written from Memory

Clarksburg, W. Va, Stonewall Jackson Chapter, No. 1333, United Daughters of Confederacy, 1917. Card Covers. First Edition of this reminiscence by and infantryman who served under Robert E. Lee. Demy 8vo (227 x 143): 52pp, with frontispiece portrait of the author. Original speckled mid-brown card covers printed in black with pictorial onlay of Confederate flags. Very faint vertical crease to middle of upper cover, light spotting to several page margins, but about Fine, tightly bound and clean throughout. Nevins I, p.196 ("The short, general reminiscence of an enlisted man"). Dornbusch II, 1421. King served in the Upshur Gray Company, or Company B, of the 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, under General Robert E. Lee. He fought at Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and in 1864, at the battles of Wilderness and Spotsylvania, where he was taken prisoner and sent to Point Lookout, then Elmira prisons. After the Confederacy collapsed, King was released with a two-day food ration. His Civil War ended after he walked from Grafton railhead to Buckhannon, W. Va. (about 50 miles), and on to his family farm near Hyer's Mill. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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Keywords: Prisoners of war. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons. Personal narratives Confederate. 1861-1865

KING, Jessie M. (1875-1949)

Kirkcudbright : A Royal Burgh. A Book of Drawings with Letterpress

London & Glasgow, Gowans and Gray Limited, 1934. Pictorial Wrappers. Publisher's pictorial Japon wrappers illustrated in color, original glassine jacket. 8vo (221 x 140mm): [40]pp, including engraved titled page and 18 full-page plates. Inscription to blank verso of front cover, else near fine or better. White B210. Although the title page implied otherwise (Book 1), there was no second volume. King was one of the Glasgow Girls and an important member of the Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony, which thrived between about 1850, with the emergence of the Faed family of artists in Gatehouse of Fleet, and ended with the death, in 1949, of King, who, with her husband E. A. Taylor, had settled in Kirkcudbright in 1920. The town, within Dumfries and Galloway, attracted many of Scotland's leading artists, among them E. A. Hornel, William Mouncey, William Stewart MacGeorge, Charles Oppenheimer, and S. J. Peploe. many of whom were fictionalized in Little Esson, a 1907 novel by S. R. Crockett. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936)

Under the Deodars [Indian Railway Library, No. 4]

Allahabad / London, Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co. / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ld. St. Dunstan's House Fetter Lane [from 1888], 1890. Pictorial Wrappers. First English Edition (third overall) of this collection of short stories. Indian Railway Library Number 4. Demy 8vo (214 x 135mm): 96pp, with Indian title page. Publisher's grey-green illustrated paper wrappers (design re-engraved from the first Indian edition, with carriage umbrella tipped to left and several other modifications) printed in black, "Price One Shilling" top of front cover, back cover with vignette of lady's face partially covered by fan. Pages occasionally spotted, but a collectible copy of this fragile production, tightly bound in original wrappers and generally clean throughout. Richards A37. Stewart 48. Martindell 31 (misdated 1889). Livingston 39. Grolier 91. First published in 1888, in Allahabad, collecting six stories, which originally appeared earlier that year in The Week's News. This edition published shortly thereafter and in the same graphic format, but, according to Stewart, with text revised. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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