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Stonetrough Books, Yorkshire, 2009. First edition; 144pp; brown cloth, gilt title, illustrated dust wrapper; the very moving account of Mark and Charlotte Cheverton, founders of the Leith Art School who met at Marlborough College where Mark was under Art Master and Lottie his pupil. Three years after founding the art school they were tragically killed in a car crash. This handsome book is a memorial to them as well as a discussion of their style of teaching, their art and illustrating some of their own wor... more information

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The Whittington Press, Andersford, Winter 1986. Limited edition of 950 copies of which this is number 410; set in 12-point Monotype Caslon and printed on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers; book near fine, printed green paper wraps over stiff covers; woodcut frontispiece by Lettice Sandford; articles by Robert Gibbings, Tanya Schmoller, Ruari McLean among others and two poems by Phillip Gallo; a map of the Castle Press folded in; advertisements for Matrix 7 and" Wallpapers Printed at the Cur... more information

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The Whittington Press, Andersford, Winter 1994. Limited edition of 975 copies; set in Caslon, Centaur and Cochin types and printed on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall mould-made and Americana papers; book fine, printed light brown paper wraps over card boards with a linocut by Margaret Wells; frontispiece photograph; articles on Edward Craig, Sydney Cockerell and the Kelmscott Press, Patterned Papers in the Insel-Bucherei among other subjects; 4to.... more information

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The High House Press, Bristol, 1937. Limited edition of 115 copies, this beng no.92; 15pp; patterned paper wraps, pages uncut, title vignette; 12mo.... more information

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London, Faber and Faber, 1934, First edition. First edition. Book VG., green cloth, gilt spine lettering and decoration, no DW., neat owner's name; both EPs browned, slight lean, spine bumped at spine and rear, otherwise a clean copy, wood engraved titl eand throughout; farming in Wiltshire and Canada, 8vo.... more information

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The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence,1929. ..together with a copious and explicit report of Smith's subsequent trial at the Old Bailey; limited edition of 500 copies, this being no. 61; 156pp; quarter buckram over red boards, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, others uncut; engraved frontispiece, eight further illustrations within text and to chapter headings; the original text was written in 1831; front end paper slightly browned and light spotting to the uncut edges otherwise a very good c... more information

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The Golden Hours Press, London, 1933. Limited edition of 200 copies of which number a balance remains and these have been taken over by Hollis and Carter who offer the original text in a less elaborate binding; they are numbered 1(a), this copy being no. 9a; a notice to this effect tipped in; 86pp; green buckram, gilt title to spine and upper board, t.e.g. others uncut; spine and outside edge of upper board lightly faded; 4to.... more information

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The Pierpoint Morgan Library & Oxford Universty Press, 1976. First edition, book with mylar protected decorated boards fine, no DW, introduction by Charles Ryskamp, colour frontispiece,100 full B&W plates and nearly 200 illustrations within text. 4to. Very heavy book, please contact me direct.... more information

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National Museum of American Art, Washington, 1988. Book near fine, burgundy cloth, gilt and blind-stamped titles, small tear to top edge of DW; colour frontispiece, photograph on title, essays, 25 colour plates, over 200 B&W, heavy book, please contact me direct.... more information

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Printed for the author, 1757. First edition; x; 451pp; full crushed morocco, raised bands to spine, faded gilt title; 12mo.... more information

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London, an Alison Press Book, Secker and Warburg, 1973. First edition, book fine, DW NF.... more information

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London, Secker and Warburg, 1990. First edition, book and DW Fine., presentation inscription on FEP; 8vo.... more information

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London, the Folio Society, 1993. Reprint. Book in slipcase fine, green cloth, gilt spine lettering on dark green ground, design stamped on top cover, green EPs decorated with maps, illustrated with woodcuts.... more information

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PL Editions Poetry, London, nd. [1949?] First edition. 48pp; mottled blue boards, black lettering to spine, dust wrapper; inscribed by the author and dated 1949; 48 poems including eight which are reprinted from his first book "The Natural Need"; 8vo.... more information

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Heinemann, London, 1957. First edition. Book very good, blue boards faded at top edge, gilt title to spine, illustrated dust wrapper; SIGNED by the artist; with child's very neat dedication inscription in ink; line drawings on every page; 8vo.... more information

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Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1976. In two volumes; xii; 167pp including index; vol 2: black and white plates; blue boards, gilt titles to spines; sun-faded, price-clipped dust wrappers; small folios.... more information

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La Renaissance du Livre, Paris, 1920. Limited edition of 750 copies, this is no. 287printed on Shidzuoka paper; 239pp; brown and silver-striped wraps over card, title label to upper board, pages uncut, some unopened; red and black title, decorations above chapter titles, nineteen full page colour illustrations, one within text; two short stories, "La femme de marbre", and "La courte vie de Balthazar Aldramin venitien";12mo.... more information

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Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, 2002. First edition, book and illustrated DW as new, 144pp. catalogue of exhibition held at Boca Raton Nov. 2002-Jan.2003 and which will be travelling to the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge in 2005, interview with the artist by Alanna Heiss, over 80 full page colour plates; 4to.... more information

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Editions Hyperion, Paris, 1939. First edition. 167pp; full blue morocco by Joseph Taupin, gilt title and raised bands to spine, t.e.g; illustrated with 90 monochrome, 20 tipped in colour and 130 black and white photographs; this work was prepared with the full assistance of Maillol and several of his works are published here for the first time; text in German; owner's name and address stamped on to front end paper; a handsome book; 4to... more information

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London, Faber and Faber, 2003, uncorrected proof. Book fine, no DW as issued, yellow paper wraps; 8vo.... more information

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