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First edition, number 9 of 100 specially bound copies, from an overall limitation of 750; folio (310 x 190 mm.); printed in dark green throughout, wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette, 6 chapter headings and device, all by John Buckland-Wright, one full-page map of the east coast of Australia; full green morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edge gilt, others uncut, spine very slightly lightened, but otherwise an excellent copy; housed in original cloth slip-case, lightly marked.
£1,650 -
number 493 of 525 copies, this one of the special copies bound in full morocco, inscribed presentation copy from the author/artist; folio; printed in black, red & blue, pictorial half-title, frontispiece, additional pictorial title, letterpress title with vignette device, black & white illustrations throughout, including full-page, gilt pictorial endpapers, bookseller's small sticker to verso of front free endpaper; original full blue morocco, gilt rule edged, gilt silhouette design to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, spine very slightly dulled, but really a fine example, gilt edges, marbled board slip-case.
£500 -
Limited editions, the Apocrypha number 1024 of 1250, the others one of 1,000 unnumbered copies; 5 vols; copper engraved pictorial titles, head and tailpieces by Stephen Gooden, tissue guards, faint spotting to endpapers, otherwise fine; publisher's decorated boards, faint spotting to upper cover (vol. III only), slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, toned, otherwise very good.
£450 -
Number 60 of 150 copies signed by the artist; 8vo; German language printed in black letter, 15 original etchings by Hubert Sommerauer; publisher's black textured leather binding lettered in gilt, original blue board slip-case, an excellent copy.
£400 -
4 vols, presentation dedication from Francis Meynell on front free endpaper of the Comedies; 8vo; woodcut title vignettes, pictorial dedications and part-title devices by Reynolds Stone, Shakespeare portrait by Leonard Beaumont; publisher's buckram-backed marbled boards, a fine set, in the original card slip-case, slightly worn.
£300 -
First edition, number 14 of 350 copies signed by Anthony Kerrigan, Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin and Bernard Childs; large 8vo (245 x 160 mm.); printed in black & brown, 8 illustrations by Bernard Childs; publisher's leather-backed green boards in matching board slip-case with printed title label, a very good copy.
£225 -
Number 78 of 111 signed copies for presentation; small 4to; signed by Hecht on the colophon; original limp vellum by the American Book Bindery, some rippling, overall very good, original slip-case, slightly toned and rubbed; [4], 111, [1] pp.
£425 -
Limited to 300 numbered copies on Batchelor hand-made paper, large 4to., title printed in red and black, marginal notes printed in red, 12 full-page etchings and watermark by Elizabeth Corsellis, original quarter blue morocco over tan cloth by Zaehnsdorf, a tad rubbed on spine and corners, otherwise near-fine.
£600 -
Limited to 215 copies, this copy unnumbered; 4to, (310 x 310 mm); printed on J. Barcham Green's handmade paper, 32 coloured pochoir plates and illustrations by Paul Nash; publisher's vellum from a design by Paul Nash by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with brown morocco onlays and gilt-blocked quincunx on boards, gilt edges, original fleece-lined buckram slipcase.
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First edition; 4to; colour illustrations throughout; publisher's patterned wrappers, a fine copy.
£225