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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.
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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, one of 150 copies only; large 8vo (268 x 175 mm.); 5 plates by Charles Ricketts, internally very good; original burgundy morocco, elaborately ruled & blocked in gilt to a design by Ricketts, with his monogram to the foot of upper & lower panel, a little rubbed at spine-ends, but really an exceptional copy, top edge gilt, others uncut.
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2 vols, one of 600 copies & 550 copies respectively; 8vo; titles printed in red & black, vol. I with 5 etched plates by Charles Ricketts, 1 engraved bookplate design by William Bell Scott, tissue guards; vol. II with 16pp. advertisements at end; both in publisher's gilt-patterned green cloth, an attractive, clean pair.
£200 -
Number 773 of 800 copies; tall 8vo (260 x 155 mm.); title with vignette printed in red; original near-white cloth gilt, designed by Ricketts, top edge gilt, others uncut, an excellently bright & sharp copy.
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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 trade edition, signed presentation copy from the author; small 4to (220 x 170 mm.); inscribed by the author to head of half-title, toning to free endpapers, overall internally fine; publisher's green cloth with symmetrical Venetian architectural interior design by Ricketts to upper cover, lettered in gilt to spine, very slight sunning to spine, otherwise a very good copy.
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First edition; 4to; 65 plates, pictorial endpapers by Charles Ricketts; publisher's blue cloth, printed dust-jacket, partly toned, overall a very good copy; with an offprint retrospective on Charles Ricketts by the poet Gordon Bottomley, initialled presentation copy from Bottomley to 'L.B.' [possibly Laurence Binyon(ý)], in original printed wrappers, some browning; with another work on Ricketts by Sturge Moore.
£75