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First edition thus; 4to (280 x 230 mm); fifty mounted coloured plates with captioned tissue-guards including tipped-in frontispiece (lacking one tissue-guard to illustration opposite p. 38), a further seven black & white plates and 12 black & white illustrations within text, neat gift inscription to blank second front, free endpaper, slight toning to margins of text leaves, else very good; publisher's green cloth gilt, faded and worn, more so to the spine, mild mottling to endpapers, printed dust-jacket, spine darkened, lightly dust-soiled and chipped with losses to spine extremities but otherwise sound.
£1,250 -
Limited edition, number 72 of 1,000 copies signed by Damien Hirst, Robert Sabbag & Howard Marks to title; 8vo (230 x 145 mm): publisher's binding designed by Hirst in silver-backed reinforced mirror boards, endpapers & slipcase printed with collage of hundred dollar bills, all edges argent.
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First edition, signed and numbered 1,305 of 1,500 by the artist on the half-title; oblong 4to (290 x 375 mm); colour and monochrome illustrations; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine lettered in white, gilt edges, original printed box, a couple of spots to box, otherwise a fine copy.
£275 -
First edition second issue, large 4to. pp.334, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, signed by the artist on title page, creases on corners of front end papers; bound in red cloth, corner bumped, original pictorial dust wrapper, a good copy.
£850 -
First edition thus; 4to (245 x 195 mm; 123 colour plates with captioned tissue guards and 25 black & white illustrations by Arthur Rackham; publisher's green cloth, gilt, illustrated endpapers (toned), top edge gilt, a few small marks to cloth, spine ends bumped, otherwise very good and internally fine.
£150 -
First Edition, limited issue; one of 500 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author and Hirst who designed the dust jacket; 8vo; patterned endpapers; publisher's red cloth, with the laminate dust-jacket designed by Damien Hirst, a fine copy.
£575 -
First edition, signed by the artist; 4to; tipped-in 'toxicological report', 2 folding plates, illustrations; publisher's red cloth with gilt flow-chart to upper cover, printed paper sleeve, a near fine example.
£750 -
First edition; 4to; colour illustrations throughout; publisher's patterned wrappers, a fine copy.
£225 -
Large-paper edition, number 40 of 560 copies, signed by Rackham, 4to., xix, (blank), 549, (blank)pp., 24 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards, 12 tinted plates, and 66 black & white drawings within the text, pictorial endpapers, browning to half-title and limitation leaf, otherwise near-fine, publisher's full vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, as published, original silk ties, slight age-toning, otherwise a near-fine copy.
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Limited edition, number 547 of 575 copies, signed by Rackham, 4to., illustrated with 16 tipped-in colour plates vignette line drawings by Rackham, publisher's quarter vellum over pictorial paper boards gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, a age-toning and a few spots to plain endpapers, neat ink ownership to front free one, binding with usual toning, dent to upper edge of upper board, else very-good plus.
£950