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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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DULAC, Edmund (illus.); 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 his best... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131651
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SPENDER, Stephen; John Buckland-Wright & others (illus.) Fraternity.Paris & New York : 1939
First edition, first printing. Limited to 101 numbered copies plus 12 hors-commerce signed by Spender, Aragon and each of the nine artists: John Buckland-Wright; Stanley William Hayter; Josef Hecht; Dalla Husband; Wassily Kandinsky; Roderick Mean; Joan Miró; Dolf Rieser; and Luis Vargas. Compiled to protest against the rise of fascism in Europe. The... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 91467
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MATISSE, Henri - VILLIER, Franz. La vie et la mort de Richard Winslow.Paris : 1947
First edition, first printing. No. 33 of 35 copies on Velin teinte Malacca paper with the frontispiece signed in pencil by Matisse. Franz Thomassin who wrote under the pseudonym Franz Villiers, was a neighbour of Matisse in Vence. Text in French.
Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 146792
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DETMOLD, E. J. (illus.) 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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FAULKNER, William. Pylon.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, limited issue. Number 310 of 310 copies only signed by the author; one of Faulkner's smallest limitations. Learn More£1,925.00Stock Code: 26303
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MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six.London : 1927
First edition, signed extra limited issue, one of 20 large-paper copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author and illustrator, out of series presentation copy inscribed to E. H. Shepard. This is the most luxurious and exclusive format in which Milne's Pooh books were issued. Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 138153
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[POTTER, Beatrix.] HEELIS, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan.Philadelphia : 1929
Signed limited edition, number 48 of 100 copies signed by the author. The bibliographic story of this book is strangely charming and endearingly amateurish. Potter considered this story of a miniature animal-run travelling circus as "too personal and autobiographical" for her comfortably to allow publication in England. She arranged for the Philadelphia... Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 105980
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler.1931
Signed limited edition, one of 775 copies of which this is number 662 signed by Rackham. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 47610
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM Brothers. Grimm's Fairy Tales.New York : 1909
Large paper copy, signed by the artist to the verso of the half-title. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 124151
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WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest.London : 1899
First edition, signed limited issue, number 19 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£40,000.00Stock Code: 142975
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DETMOLD, E. J. (illus.); AESOP. The Fables of Aesop.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 (illus.); GRIMM, [Jacob & Wilhelm]. Little Brother & Little Sister and other tales.London : 1917
Signed limited edition, number 340 of 525 copies signed by the artist, with the extra plate that is often missing ("He Hurried Away with Long Strides") also signed by the artist bound in at the back. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 102175
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EINSTEIN, Albert. Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist.Evanston, IL : 1949
First edition, signed limited issue, number 132 of 760 copies signed and dated '49 by Einstein. This is the only Einstein signed limited edition, a handsome volume produced on the occasion of Einstein's 70th birthday.
The collection contains laudatory essays by many of Einstein's contemporaries including Max Born, Wolfgang Pauli, and Niels Bohr,... Learn More£13,750.00Stock Code: 145463
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.); 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', though... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 131996
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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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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
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 890 of 1,030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 94954
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KANDINSKY, Wassily. Klänge.Munich : (1913)
First edition, first printing, one of 300 numbered copies signed in pencil by Kandinsky (there was also 45 hors commerce). Klänge (Sounds) consists of 38 prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and 56 woodcuts he began in 1907. Kandinsky described Klänge as a "musical album". The woodcuts were not merely illustrative, nor were the poems purely... Learn More£80,000.00Stock Code: 142954
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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 (illus.); 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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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£1,200.00Stock Code: 18290
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NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) 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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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); 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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GRAHAME, Kenneth; SHEPARD, Ernest H. (illus.) The Wind in the Willows.London : 1931
First Shepard edition, signed limited issue, number 170 of 200 large paper copies signed by both author and artist. This edition - also issued unsigned in a cloth binding - was the first edition to be illustrated by Shepard, whose classic illustrations of anthropomorphized animals render this the most popular version of the book even today.
Wind... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 145516
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); 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 (illus.); 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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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales.London : 1920
Limited edition of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 115171
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt.London : 1936
Deluxe edition, number 6 of ten "special copies" reserved by the publisher, presented in a specially commissioned luxury binding and including a delightful full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Rackham (signed "Arthur Rackham 36"), showing Peer Gynt being swarmed by the trolls and surrounded by anthropomorphic trees. Describing his... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 135675
