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a novel in drama reconstructing Genesis 38, 11-26
London, Ghetto Press, 1931.
First edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in green. Dust-jacket, 6/-.
A dramatic reworking of the biblical Genesis 38 narrative. Goller, a rabbi who served congregations in Manchester, London and finally Liverpool's Hope Place Synagogue - from which his outspoken social views got him dismissed in 1926 - was a significant Anglo-Jewish poet and playwright of the interwar years, his verse denouncing pogrom violence against Eastern European Jews and his plays, including this one and the better-known Cohen & Son, staged in London in the early 1930s. A signed copy, from a small specialist press (Ghetto Press) aimed at an Anglo-Jewish readership.
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a book on babies for older children
London, Peter Davies, 1939.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author, with accompanying autograph letter signed by the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Signed first edition of this lighthearted guide to babies aimed at older siblings, with related autograph letter loosely inserted. Illustrator James Fitton was a significant figure in British graphic art, a founder member of the Artists' International Association, wartime designer for the Ministries of Food and Information, and later a Royal Academician. Author Hutchison is a minor but genuinely interesting figure in his own right: he later became well known in transport-publicity circles as the London Underground official who dismissed Harry Beck, designer of the iconic Tube map, and who went on to commission poster work from Edward Bawden, David Gentleman, Abram Games and Enid Marx.
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Paris, The Olympia Press, 1956.
First edition with the images in the first state. 8vo. Original soft wraps with stiff self-wrappers designed by T. Tajiri and printed in black, grey & yellow.
Black & white photographs printed in gravure and laminated, as opposed to the matte second state. Rare.
A short, largely autobiographical novel recounting Miller's impoverished, sexually adventurous bohemian life in Clichy, Paris, in the early 1930s. The text originated around 1940 as one of two commissioned pieces written for a private American collector of erotica, the manuscripts subsequently going missing for over a decade before resurfacing, and Miller rewrote both at Big Sur in 1956 for this edition. The book is illustrated with photogravure plates by Brassaï (pseud. Gyula Halász), whom Miller had already celebrated in The Wisdom of the Heart (1941) and on whom he partly based a character in Tropic of Cancer; the wrapper design is by the sculptor T. Shinkichi Tajiri.
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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.
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A Fantasy
London, George G. Harrap, [1923].
First UK edition. 4to. Original parchment-backed grey paper covered boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt.
One of 2,000 copies printed in Britain, from which 250 of which were sent to America. This is Timlin's only published work, but the quality of the illustrations rivals those of Dulac, Pogany, Nielsen & Rackham.
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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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London, Philip Allan, 1935.
8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
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London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1951.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original terracotta cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
Part of Warner's broader engagement with classical themes, reflecting his background as a classicist.
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...A new and genuine edition from the original text (London, 1749)
London, Published for Bibliophiles, 1900.
Large 8vo. Bound in contemporary blue half morocco over marbled boards, lettered in gilt spine within raised bands.
A handsome edition of Cleland's famous erotic work, originally published in the 18th century.
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London, The Decoy Press, 1919.
Vol.II only (of 2 published, from a projected series of 12). 8vo. Title printed in red & black. Original quarter linen with paper boards, gilt spine titling.
Change was a brief socialist, illustrated periodical released in the year following the Great War, embodying post-war aspiration. Though twelve issues were intended, only two volumes saw publication. These editions showcased woodcuts and illustrations from artists like Lovat Fraser, Robert Gibbings and Eric Gill among others, both standalone and accompanying the mix of prose, verse, and a detective story, 'The Private Papers of the Oubliette Club.'
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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.
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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.