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A handmade 13.5cm paper doll in the style of a 1930s movie star such as Bette Davis, Myrna Loy, or Joan Crawford with her 13 detailed handmade costumes resembling Adrian's Hollywood designs. Done in ink and watercolour, with careful styling to accomodate the doll's pose with one arm raised. While the doll is almost as a Hollywood pinup, the dresses, suits, and pyjamas are delicately painted and carefully detailed by a talented hand.

[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!

London: Rich & Cowan Ltd., 1934. Inscribed "To Christine [sic] Foyle with happy memories of pleasant meetings" by Betty Ross along with signatures and notes from Sophie Tucker and others. Ross, a Jewish-American journalist in the United Kingdom, conducted a range of celebrity interviews in her lifetime, some compiled in this volume. Ross recounts meetings with Josephine Baker, Marie Stopes, Elinor Glyn, and Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. An association copy between career women, as Christina Foyle was the force behind London bookshop Foyle's. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket with one small hole and several intact tears. xxii, 300, 32 adverts. pages. 19 x 13 cm. Very good book in very good jacket.

London: Gaberbocchus Press [Printed by Moll-Winter in Lubeck], 1949. First Edition. 8vo. 112pp. Publisher's grey cloth titled in dark red to the spine. Slight soiling and discolouration of the cloth, otherwise a very clean, sharp copy. Internally clean, although the poor paper stock has resulted in some uniform toning. One of the scarcest Gaberbocchus publications, and a fine collaboration from the wildly creative Kavan, one of the few authors to have constructed a nom-de-plume, and then adopted that pseudonym as their real name, amongst numerous other achievements, of course.

Play scripts and press album from the first half of the twentieth century.Plays: Three original individual copies of Alma Mater by Kathleen Collison-Morley. A school-house comedy set in the aftermath of the Blitz in World War II. Unpublished, but likely performed, as suggested by multiple copies.One original script of A House Divided, 3-act play; a comedy of domestic star-crossed lovers from rival families who are sharing a house.A prolific 20th century author, Kathleen Collison-Morley began her career penning poetry for local newspapers. Her observant prose appears in Punch in the late '20s, The Cape Times consistently from 1930, as well as The Times, The Manchester Guardian, and The Morning Post.Album: Decades worth of press cuttings of the works of Kathleen Collison-Morley, beginning early in her career with snippets of 'letters to the editor' alongside short poetry, culminating in full page vignettes, short fictions and stories. Through the course of the decade recorded in the album, her writing… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935. First edition. 8vo. 127pp. Publisher's pale cream cloth titled and decorated in green to spine and front board, in a very good, clean, example of the illustrated dustwrapper from the artist Nora S. Unwin, some minor wear to the extremities, and a small triangle of loss to the head of the spine panel. A handsome copy. Internally clean. A charming and frothy collection of essays and musings on the importance and joy of gardens and gardening. Scarce, especially pretty.

New York: Viking, 1996. First edition of McMillan's hugely successful novel, a mix of escapism and self-reflection set in California and Jamaica. The 1998 film adaptation starred Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, and Regina King.
Hardcover. Ivory and black cloth boards, with bright dustjacket. 23.5 x 16cm. 368 pages. First edition. In near fine condition.

New York: Pelligrini & Cudahy, 1952. First edition. Blue cloth boards with navy lettering. Dust jacket with pattern illustrations in grey, blue and black shows foxing at edges, shading and a few very small tears to edge. Near fine book in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. 31 x 23 cm. 63 pages.Mariska Karasz was a fashion designer and an expressionist needlework artist who was born in Hungary and emigrated to New York in 1912. Examples of her fashions are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In mid-life Karasz turned to designing children's clothes and writing and designing sewing books. How To Make Growing Clothes focuses on distinctive patterns for baby and toddler items. Karasz is undoubtedly one of those overlooked modern designers, she emigrated to the United States at the age of 14, taught herself requisite skills, and moved into the world of fashion design. Known and credited at the time for her bold and skillful use of colour, and her inclusion of Hungarian folk elements into her clothing… Read More