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Middlesbrough: Hoods Fine Printers, on behalf of the author, 1930. Collection of 16 bound lithographs. Hardcover, 41cm x 28cm. Cream and orange cloth binding, with title and South Durham Cargo Fleet Steel stamped on the covers. Cards are slightly marked. Each titled on the tissue-guard. Titled tissue-guards are present for all 16 lithographs. Some of the tissue guards have very light folds, and the lithographs themselves are in near fine condition. Viva Talbot's importance as an industrial artist of great talent has largely been forgotten, but her unprecedented access to the British steel industry, primarily through her family connections, enabled her to achieve a degree of accuracy and depth that provides valuable historical, industrial, and artistic insight. Her recent small popularity has largely been empowered by the rediscovery of her talent and ability by Dr. Joan Heggie of Teesside University. Scarce.

[New York]: Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, 2004. First edition. One of 200 copies. Six folded leaves, housed in a card portfolio. Each folded leaf has a holograph poem reproduced upon it in with an illustration of the poet, and an inserted glassine leaf with the poem printed out in plain. Essentially six illustrated greetings card style presentations of the poems with inserted sheets. The introduction is by Tanning, who at that time would have been 94 years old, and describes the emotional and artistic impact of seeing a poem in the author's own hand. The poems contributed are from Adrienne Rich, Richard Wilbur, W.S. Merwin, Richard Howard, A.R. Ammons, and Anthony Hecht. Although she had produced many poems and prose pieces throughout her long, important and vibrant career, Dorothea Tanning didn't publish a book of poetry until 2004. Difficult to describe, simple to appreciate. A satisfying object in every way!

1973. Loads of lovely ads including a full page for "Sweeney Todd Hair Beautists to Guys and Dolls". December cover photo of the Christmas Grotto at Selfridges featuring Alice Meets the Caterpillar. Gift, fashion and make-up suggestions, and calendar of shopping events of the month, shop opening hours.August: Softcover, stapled binding. 24 x 18 cm. xvi pages. A few small pencil notes within, prices. In very good condition, year written in ink on cover.September: Softcover, stapled binding. 24 x 18 cm. xvi pages. In very good condition, year written in ink on cover. December: Softcover, stapled binding. 24 x 18 cm. xxxvi pages. In very good condition, year written in ink on cover.

Harper & Row, 1970. It's not Eloise! It's Miss Pooky Peckinpaugh's boyfriend slam book in verse, arranged by alphabet. "P/PETER is POMPOUS/he is so pompous I could perish he's so pompous/he is possessed/with this purple portfolio/of/PICTURES of PETER…" Riff on a young woman's little black book by Kay Thompson, the author of Eloise Lives at the Plaza. A fantastically fun book.
First edition. Hardback. 28.5 x 20 cm. White cards have slight bumping, almost fine. Dust jacket has creases on top margin and intact tear. Small chip on bottom margin. Very good book in very good jacket.

Dover Publications, 1983. A set of four books of beautifully designed cut out paper dolls in full colour, including haute couture designs by Channel, Dior, Balenciaga and many others. Wraps have marginal slight wear and the interiors are intact.

Miriam Tlali was the first Black South African woman to publish a novel in English in South Africa. Muriel at the Metropolitan is a devastating portrayal of life of a Black woman working a clerical job at a white business called 'Metropolitan' in Johannesburg under Apartheid. According to Dr. Barbara Boswell, 45 different editions of the novel were published and translated into several languages between 1975 and 2005, including this Polish edition.
Muriel w Metropolitan [Muriel at the Metropolitan] Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1989. 20.5 x 14.5 x 1.5. 183 pages. First Polish Edition. Translated by Maryla Topczewska-Metelska.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1967. The poems, carols, stories, and recipes in Take Joy! were edited and illustrated in full colour by Tasha Tudor, the famous American children's book artist. With a love of nature and animals and an emotional warmth to her work, Tudor is known both for illustrating her own picture books and classics such as Mother Goose. A lovely Christmas collection. First UK, printed 1966 in the USA. Hardback. 28 x 21.5 cm. 157 pages including index. Blue cloth with dark blue title to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket has 3 intact tears and tape repair to the inside of back. Very good book in good jacket.