HEMINGWAY. ERNEST. -- MICHAEL FOREMAN ILLUSTRATES.

THE FAITHFUL BULL.

Hamish Hamilton. London. 1980. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11.3 x 9.2 inches). Limited edition. One of 100 copies, numbered and signed by Michael Foreman on the title page and with a numbered and signed original etching loosely inserted. This copy number 1 of the book and etching. Illustrated in full colour throughout with the text confined to the margins. Hemingway's children's short story, a loose parody of Ferdinand the Bull, was originally published in Holiday magazine in 1951. This is the first printing with these illustrations. A fine copy in publishers laminated boards with full colour illustration to the front board. Colour illustrated endpapers. Etching image measures 3.9 x 3 inches on a sheet of untrimmed hand made paper measuring 9.5 x 7.5 inches, and has a loose tissue guard to protect it. The book is housed in a plain brown paper covered slip case.

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Book number: 8971

HEMINGWAY. ERNEST.

A MOVEABLE FEAST.

Jonathan Cape. London. 1964. FIRST U. K EDITION. 8vo. Fine copy in a near fine, price clipped full colour dustwrapper. Publishers beige patterned endpapers. Top edge stained yellow. Wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall.

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Book number: 10217

HEMINGWAY. ERNEST.

WINNER TAKE NOTHING.

Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1933. FIRST EDITION. Publishers A on reverse of title page, as called for. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.5 Inches). Fine copy recently rebound in full black morocco. Spine with raised bands. Compartments with ruled lines, decorations and lettering, all in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A Fine copy.

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Book number: 9150

HEMNGWAY.ERNEST.

A FAREWELL TO ARMS.

Charles Scribner's sons.New York.,1929. FIRST EDITION,first issue with publishers seal on copyright page and no disclaimer.Fine copy in recent full black morocco,raised bands,gilt.Single gilt ruled border on boards.Top edge gilt,others untrimmed.Marbled endpapers.:

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Book number: 3489

HENDERSON. W. A.

THE HOUSEKEEPER'S INSTRUCTOR. Or universal Family Cook. Being a full and clear display of the Art of Cookery in all its branches.... To which is added, The Complete Art of Carving, Illustrated with engravings.

J. Stratford. London. 1807. FOURTEENTH EDITION, corrected, revised and considerably improved by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie. 8vo. (8.3 x 5.6 inches). 12 copper engravings, including two fold outs that are a bit rubbed and creased but complete. Pages generally clean and free from marks. Contemporary tree calf boards with new tan calf spine. Raised bands, the compartments double ruled in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards but overall a very good copy of this famous work.

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Book number: 10886

HENLEY. F. A. H.

THE BOYS' BOOK OF CRICKET. With a foreword by P. F. warner. .

G. Bell and Sons. Ltd. London. 1936. Reprint of title originally published in 1924. 8vo. (7.4 x 5 inches). Illustrated with 24 mono photographic plates. A bright and clean copy bound, by G. F. Laurence binders of london, in early half burgundy calf. Spine with five raised band. Compartments ruled in blind and lettered and decorated in gilt. Red cloth on boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Gilt stamped school coat of arms of Owen's School Islington to the front board. Prize label, dated 1939, on the front inner board. A very good, attractive copy.

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Book number: 11003

NICHOLSON. WILLIAM. Illustrates. ; HENLEY. W. E.

LONDON TYPES. -- Inscribed by Nicholson. Quatorzains by W. E. Henley.

William Heniemann. London. 1898. FIRST EDITION. Large 4to. (13.4 x 11.5 inches). Inscribed on the front paste down endpaper by Nicholson to the Daughter, and her second Husband, of his Mistress and house keeper Marie Laquelle; "For Georgette and Norman Holder with love from W. N. who did the pictures. London. Xmas. 1916". Decorative colour printed front board, lettered and showing the illustration for The Bus Driver, plus twelve full page colour lithographs after the original woodblocks. Brown paper covered boards, printed in colour litho. Plain tan cloth spine. Some minor foxing to endpapers and the edges of the boards are rubbed and bumped. Spine cloth is frayed and split,with boards still firmly attached, but overall a very good copy of this beautiful book with an interesting association. Housed in a felt-lined clam-shell box. Marbled paper on boards and a black calf spine, lettered in gilt. ---- 'From about 1910 until he remarried in 1919, Nicholson's housekeeper Marie Laquelle, whose real name was Adèle Marie Schwarz, née Schiestel, was also his mistress. Nicholson painted her several times, first as Carlina in 1909; he also painted her daughter Georgette and her second husband Norman Holder'. (Colin Campbell, Merlin James, Patricia Reed and Sanford Schwartz. The Art of William Nicholson. Published by The Royal Academy of Arts, London. 2004).

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Book number: 10939

FIELDING. HENRY.

THE NOVELS. Tom Jones. - Amelia. - Joseph Andrews. - Jonathan Wild.

Basil Blackwell/The Shakespeare Head Press. Oxford. 1926. LIMITED EDITION. TEN VOLUMES. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.4 inches). One of 1030 sets printed, of which 1000 are for sale. Fine clean books which have been finely bound in recent half red morocco leather, spines with raised bands, the compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edges gilt. Red cloth on boards. A little uniform fading to the spines but still overall a near fine set.

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Book number: 10887

HERBERT. THE HONORABLE WILLIAM.

HELGA. A Poem. In seven cantos.

John Murray. London.,1815. FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(8.5 x 5.6 inches). Lovely clean, wide margined copy in contemporary full red straight grained morocco. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and corners of boards, within a triple ruled border. Centre ruled panel in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Blue coated endpapers. All edges gilt. Spine a bit darkened and rubbed. Boards with areas of darkening to top(where the book has sat on a shelf between shorter books). Overall a very good copy in a very good, highly attractive early binding. Herbert's great Scandinavian poem appears to have only been printed twice in his life-time, This first edition and a second printing of 1816.:

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Book number: 7008

HERBERT.IVOR.

RED RUM. Full and extraordinary story of a horse of courage.

William Luscombe Publisher Limited.London.,1974. FIRST EDITION.Large 8vo.(10.2 x 7.4 inches).Fully illustrated throughout with photographs,some in colour.Finely bound in recent leather binding of full red morocco.Spine with raised bands,ruled and lettered in gilt.Single ruled gilt border on boards.Top edge gilt.A lovely copy of this classic book.:

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Book number: 6103

HERMES. FRANZ.

KATER MURR. Verse von Franz Hermes. Bilder von Jos. Doppelfeld.

Buchgewerbeklasse der gewerblichen Berutsfchule Hamborn. Germany. Christmas 1938. LIMITED EDITION. One of 50 copies printed. (9.5 x 6.9 inches). Illustrated with hand coloured lettering and illustration to the title page and 24 hand coloured lino cut illustrations, each one above two verses of printed text. On the blank pages opposite somebody has written out in a neat early hand the English translation of the first 15 sets of verse. Possibly inscribed by the author, in English, on the blank leaf opposite the title page 'To Muriel with much love and best wishes! Christmas 1938. Franz and Elizabeth'. Original oatmeal coloured paper covered boards with title printed in outline and hand coloured, to the front panel. Spine of the outer wrapper is split, a little chipped and edges rubbed but overall a very good copy of this charming and rare book. No copies listed on Copac or Worldcat.

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Book number: 9092

HESBURGH.THEODORE M.

THE HUMAN IMPERATIVE. A challenge for the year 2000.Preface by Kingman Brewster,Jr.

Yale University Press,New Haven & London.,1974. FIRST EDITION.INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.---To Jane Engelhard,with all best wishes and prayers-Ever devotedly in Notre Dame Father Ted Hesburgh.---A very good copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper.Housed in a blue cloth chemise and blue morocco spined slipcase with raised bands.Compartments with dark blue box designs and lettered in gilt.Cloth on boards.A very good copy with a warm inscription from Hesburgh,a constant and powerful figure in the civil rights movement for over 50 years.:wph.

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Book number: 5891

HOME. GORDON.; MEMPES. MORTIMER. ILLUSTRATES.

FRANCE.

A. & C. Black, Ltd., London.,1919. FIRST TWENTY SHILLING EDITION. Book is incorrectly dated 1918. Based on the 1914 edition which had 32 colour plates but improved and enlarged to 64 full colour plates. 4to. (9.1 x 6.7 inches). Some offsetting to the endpapers and a couple of spots to the first and last couple of pages otherwise a near fine, bright, clean copy in the original red cloth boards which are illustrated with Fleur de Lys in white among black vertical lines to the spine and front board. Gilt lettering to the spine and black to the front board. Untrimmed fore and bottom edges. One of only 3000 copies published. A very attractive book. Inman 29.:

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Book number: 7827

HOUSMAN. A. E.

A SHROPSHIRE LAD.

Printed by The Riccardi Press for Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society. London. 1914. LIMITED EDITION. Small 4to. (9.1 x 6.6 inches). One of 1000 copies, this number 855, printed eleven point Riccardi fount, on handmade Riccardi paper. A fine and clean copy in a fine recent leather binding of full navy blue Morocco. Spine with two raised bands, the compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine copy of this well printed volume in the Riccardi Press booklets series.

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Book number: 10599

MACDIARMID. HUGH.

IN MEMORIAM JAMES JOYCE. From a Vision of World Language. With decorations by John Duncan Fergusson.

Published on behalf of the subscribers by William MacLellan. Glasgow. 1955. FIRST EDITION, first impression. 4to. (11.2 x 8.9 inches). Illustrated with several full page and smaller illustrations by Fergusson, one in green ink, the others all in black. Publishers green cloth with gilt decoration to the front board and spine lettered in gilt. Some faded spots to the spine cloth and some spotting and offsetting to the blank endpapers otherwise a very good bright copy in the original dustwrapper which is decorated and lettered in white on green paper. Some very minor rubbing to the extremities but overall a very good book in a better than very good dustwrapper. First impression, one of about 140 to 150 copies printed and issued to subscribers. A trade issue was published the following year. There is a list of the 135 subscribers printed at the rear of the book. --- A note from Fergusson on the decorations appears before the main text. "The Ogam alphabet was an indigenous script of old Ireland named after Ogma, the Celtic God of Literature and Eloquence. The decorations are composed of Joyce's initials in Ogam and other characters together with other symbols that convey Joyce's concern with music, creation, feeling and his native Ireland. -- J. D. F. 7th November 1954."

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Book number: 10888