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The Were-Wolf.
London: The Bodley Head; Chicago: Way and Williams, 1896. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 123; [1]; 16. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Title page lettered in orange, with 6 full page illustrations. This copy is inscribed: 'Mary B. Housman' to front..... More
Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman, illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Illustrated Folk Tales] FIRST DULAC EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[8] 113 [3]. With 10 mounted colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's white cloth with elaborate pale blue and gilt decoration to..... More
Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.136. With 49 colour plates by Dulac, including a frontispiece, mounted on grey card and collected at rear, each with a tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth, titled and decorated in gilt and dark grey to..... More
Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. With drawings by Edmund Dulac. Including Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Story of the Magic Horse and The Fisherman and the Genie.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1907]. [Children's Illustrated] DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with 50 colour plates. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.136 plus plates. Publisher's original russet cloth pictorially stamped in blue and gilt. Original printed brown dust-wrapper with colour plate illustration laid down to upper. Contents clean, no names. Minor toning to..... More
The Blue Moon.
London: John Murray, 1904. [Children's fantasy tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 14cm), pp.210. Nine full-page plates. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in red and gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated dust-jacket. Some trivial dustiness, jacket very lightly worn. An unquestionably fine copy. Scarce thus. More
The Family Honour. A Comedy of Four Acts and an Epilogue.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.128. With a promotional postcard for Cape's magazine 'Now and Then' loose to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket likely illustrated by Hans Tisdall (uncredited). Jacket price-clipped, with some rubbing and minor chipping..... More
Palestine Plays.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1942. [Theological Plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.146; [2], blank. Red publisher's cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dustwrapper with printed price of 6s to front flap. Some spotting to endpapers and to inner boards, toning and spotting to edges of textblock, rolling of..... More
The Faithful Servant [in] Now and Then. A Journal of Books and Personalities Published Occasionally from 30 Bedford Square. Number 95.
London: Jonathan Cape, Autumn 1955. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo pamphlet (25 x 17cm), pp.24. With two double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's pink typographic paper covers, priced at 6d. Heavy oxidation to staples, otherwise near fine. A late-period issue of Cape's occasional literary magazine, which ran from 1921..... More
Now and Then. A Periodical of Books & Personalities Published Occasionally by Jonathan Cape Ltd. Number 56.
London: Jonathan Cape, Spring 1937. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo pamphlet (25 x 17cm). With two double-sided black and white plates. Publisher's grey typographic paper covers, priced at 3d. Light wear to covers, with heavy oxidation to staples. Very good. A mid-period issue of Jonathan Cape's occasional literary magazine, published..... More
Collins' Fairy Folks' Annual.
London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, no date [1924]. [Illustrated Fairy Tales] FIRST THUS. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[4] 160. With numerous engraved illustrations by various artists, including a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and around 30 other illustrations with colour. Publisher's tan quarter cloth with blue titles and decoration to..... More
T.E. Lawrence: Contrast and Conflict [in] Now and Then.
London: Jonathan Cape, Autumn 1937. [Book Reviews] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.40. With two double-sided black and white plates. Also with three associated loose adverts for books. Publisher's printed paper cover, with two large staples to spine. Heavy oxidation to staples, otherwise near fine. A collection of contemporary..... More
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