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MILLER, Henry. The Angel is my Watermark.Fullerton, CA : 1944
Signed limited edition, number 8 of a small number of copies signed by Henry Miller and enclosing one of Miller's original watercolours. The number of copies is estimated by Porter as 15, by Riley as 15 or 16, and at any rate a very small number, each unique with a different water colour. Alongside the original watercolour, the publication contains... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 136512
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LAWRENCE, D. H. Women In Love.New York, [but issued in London : 1920
First edition, UK issue, being one of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Martin Secker bought 50 sets of sheets from the 1,250 copies printed for the true first American edition, and bound them very much in the Secker style, though the publisher's name does not appear anywhere in the book. This is the first signed limited issue, as the US copies... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 124407
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(DULAC, Edmund.) STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.London : 1927
First Dulac edition, signed limited issue, number 49 of 50 copies signed by the illustrator, bound in vellum and printed on handmade paper, and notably rare due to the unusually small limitation. Hughey describes Dulac's watercolour illustration for Treasure Island as his "most careful and superb painting", and Dulac himself considered them... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131651
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(RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest.London : 1926
First Rackham edition. With a signed presentation inscription from the author and his wife to the half-title "To May from Edyth and Arthur Rackham Christmas 1926" alongside an original ink drawing of Ariel by the artist. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 130882
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FAULKNER, William. Pylon.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, limited issue. One of 310 numbered copies of which this is number 310, signed by the author. One of Faulkner's smallest limitations. Learn More£1,925.00Stock Code: 26303
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(NIELSEN, Kay.) East of the Sun West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North.London : [1914]
Signed limited edition, number 83 of 500 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 114031
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[DETMOLD, Edward] AESOP. The Fables of Æsop.London : 1909
Signed limited edition, number 88 of 750 numbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 115164
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.London : 1906
Signed limited edition, number 381 of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist. Barrie asked Rackham to illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained unpublished until 1928) but make a new book from those chapters from The Little White Bird (1902) that had first introduced the character. Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 117385
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(DETMOLD, E. J.) The Arabian Nights.London : [1924]
Signed limited edition, number 99 of 100 copies only signed by the artist. "On the strength of The Arabian Nights, Detmold could have become one of the greatest illustrators of fantasy and fairy stories" (Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, pp. 98). Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 30661
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(NIELSEN, Kay.) QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur. In Powder and Crinoline.London : [1913]
Signed limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 45, signed by the artist. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 117368
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MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner.London : 1928
Signed limited edition, large paper copy, number 85 of 350 copies signed by both the author and the illustrator. The House at Pooh Corner, the final Pooh book, was received by critics with a delight tinged by sadness. "The Times Literary Supplement congratulated Milne on avoiding 'the temptation to repeat his successful formula mechanically',... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 131996
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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage.New York : 1936
First illustrated edition, signed limited issue, number 203 of 751 numbered copies signed by the artist and the author. Maugham wrote a new foreword for this edition of his autobiographical masterpiece. Of Human Bondage was first published in 1915. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 114279
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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet.London : 1962
Signed limited edition, number 56 of 500 numbered copies. Durrell's enduring masterpiece. Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 76495
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(SHEPARD, Ernest H.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1931
Signed limited edition, number 115 of 200 large paper copies signed by both Grahame and Shepard. Wind in the Willows was first published in 1908 with only a frontispiece for illustration, and Shepard, well-known by then for his illustrations of A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh series, was asked to illustrate a new edition, following on from Milne's popular... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 135649
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler.1931
Limited edition of 775 copies, signed by Rackham. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 47610
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GREENE, Graham. The Bear Fell Free.1935
First Edition, First Impression. Signed Limited Edition of 250 copies of which this is number 171. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 36910
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, one of 1030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 48431
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FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service.London : 1963
First edition, signed limited issue. One of 35 unnumbered "presentation" copies signed by the author; a further 250 numbered copies were also released. This was Fleming's only signed limited edition; it was published simultaneously with the first trade edition on 1 April 1963. Over time, the vellum has shown a tendency to yellow, and copies in such... Learn More£13,500.00Stock Code: 131688
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) AESOP. Aesop's Fables.London : 1912
First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, and first edition of this translation; number 1,071 of 1,450 copies signed by the artist. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful... Learn More£2,950.00Stock Code: 115168
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FAULKNER, William. Absalom, Absalom!New York : 1936
First edition, first printing, limited issue. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 91991
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales.London : 1920
Signed limited edition of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 135277
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 166 of 1,030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 61468
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.New York : 1940
Signed limited edition, number 1077 of 2,020 numbered copies signed by the designer Bruce Rogers. Rackham had been asked to illustrate the first edition of 1908 but was unable to accept the commission. He deeply regretted the decision, but just before his death he was able to illustrate this Limited Editions Club edition. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 122097
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest.London : [1926]
Signed limited edition, number 118 of 520 numbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 110585
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ROBINSON, W. Heath. Bill The Minder.London : 1912
Signed limited edition, one of 380 copies, of which this number 167 signed by the artist. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 18290
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
Signed limited edition, one of 575 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 20927
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 305 of 500 copies. This is the one-hundredth edition of Grahame's timeless classic, which was originally published in 1908, with just a frontispiece, by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club edition of 1940, and it was the last work he illustrated. "During his last illness... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 107331
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRIMM, [Jacob & Wilhelm]. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.London : 1909
Signed limited edition, number 302 of 750 copies signed by the artist. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the work originally published in 1900 with some new illustrations, as well as others redrawn and coloured. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 115169
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JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach.Paris : 1932
First English edition (printed in France), number 13 of 25 copies signed by the author, which, together with 6 hors de commerce copies, not for sale and inscribed by Joyce with the name of the recipient, comprised the total edition; this is one of a handful of copies still in private hands. Joyce's daughter designed the illuminations as artistic therapy.
Pomes... Learn More£95,000.00Stock Code: 139014
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) LA MOTTE-FOUQUÉ, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de. Undine.London : 1909
Signed limited edition, number 464 of 1000 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 101815
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WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest.London : 1899
First edition, signed limited issue, number 46 of 100 large paper copies signed by the author.
Wilde's last and greatest play opened to huge acclaim on Valentine's Day 1895 but was withdrawn after Wilde's failed libel suit against Lord Queensbury led to his arrest. The subsequent "utter social destruction of Wilde" (ODNB) meant that the play... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 132907
