Some mild foxing; cloth VG; jacket with light rubbing, some wear to head of spine.
Illustrations.
£75 Original price was: £75.£60Current price is: £60.
Translated from the French by Herbert b. Grimsditch
London, The Studio, 1924.
First edition. Small 4to. Original blind-tooled cloth stamped in gilt. Dust-jacket.
The special ‘Winter Number’ of art periodical The Studio, uncommon in the original dust-jacket.
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Some mild foxing; cloth VG; jacket with light rubbing, some wear to head of spine.
Illustrations.
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Flight (Claude) The Art and Craft of Lino Cutting and Printing
London, B.T. Batsford, [1934].
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards.
An attractive edition of this work by a pioneer of linocut technique in printmaking.
Detective Fiction
First edition, London, Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.Rare London Knopf imprint, in the remarkable striking dust-jacket designed by Shaw.
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London, J.M. Dent, 1902-3.'The Temple Classics' edition, 5th edition. 4 vols. Small 8vo. Original dark blue cloth, spines gilt, upper cover blind-stamped.An attractive multi-volume edition of Malory's Arthurian classic; Dent of course were the publishers of Beardsley's famous 1890s edition.
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A Novel in Black and White [London], Denis Archer, 1933.First edition. 8vo. Original terracotta cloth lettered in black. Glassine dust-jacket priced fifteen shillings net.An excellent example of this work derived from a lecture given by Egan in 1933 on the subject of drawing, and featuring drawings by the 20th century master of pen & ink himself. What truly sets this copy apart is the presence of the original glassine dust-jacket, extremely uncommon.
Detective Fiction
(A Detective-Inspector McCarthy Yarn).First Edition. Wright & Brown, n.d. [c.1941].