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Illustrated Books

Austen (Jane) Mansfield Park

£175



London, Macmillan, 1897.

Illustrated edition. 8vo. Original gilt decorative cloth.

An attractive illustrated edition of Austen's most underrated work, with an introduction by Austin Dobson.

£100

First edition. London, The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1930. One of the wonderful BBC Handbooks, in attractive dust-jacket.

£100

First edition. London, The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1931. One of the wonderful BBC Handbooks, in attractive dust-jacket.

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Egan (Beresford) Pollen.

£295

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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Grist (Paul) Short Stories.

£125


One
Sheffield, Dancing Elephant Enterprises, June 1986.

Large 8vo. Comic-book format. Original pictorial wrappers.

An early publication by Grist, who would garner fame as the creator of hard-boiled police series 'Kane' and his unorthodox superhero series 'Jack Staff', published under his own imprint Dancing Elephant Enterprises.

£75


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.

£395



London, George G. Harrap, 1919.

First Clarke edition. 4to. Plates and illustrations. Original sage cloth, decorated in black.

Harry Clarke's superb black & white images provide the perfect counterpoint to Poe's dark tales. A decent copy, if anything enhanced by the Shrewsbury School's gilt coat-of-arms to upper cover.