RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1330568
Published by William Heinemann. 1919. Slightly better than good condition.

Frontis and 50 superb colour plates, tissue-guarded and mounted on green card at rear of book. 62 text pages. Green cloth, green titles and vignette to front cover. Spine bumped, worn and browned with small splits to the cloth. Top corners badly bumped with top rear corner almost split. Bumping to bottom corners. Bottom board edges bumped and rubbed. Covers a little grubby. Book plate to front pastedown. Browning to front endpapers and some of the mounts for the plates. Inscription in ink to half title page. Some hinges are cracked. Some fingering. Creasing to a couple of plates. Top of book is bowed.

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THE NATURALIST OF THE SEA-SHORE: THE LIFE OF PHILIP HENRY GOSSE
Written by Edmund Gosse.
Stock no. 1208941
Published by William Heinemann. 1st thus 1896. Almost very good condition.

Great Lives & Events series. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w portraiture frontis. viii and 387 pages including index. Spine faded and browned, top & tail lightly shelf-worn. Board edges rubbed. Boards a little scuffed. 'Ex Libris' and signature in red ink to front pastedown. Joints starting to crack. Endpapers and text block browned. Preface is present but detached from the binding (1 page). One or two minor marks to contents else clean.

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THE GREAT WAR OF 189-: A FORECAST
Written by P. Colomb; Archibald Forbes; Charles Lowe; Christie Murray; F. Scudamore; J.F. Maurice; F.N. Maude. Illustrated by F. Villiers.
Stock no. 1828050
Published by William Heinemann. 2nd 1895. Almost very good condition.

Second Edition. This work originally appeared in the pages of Black and White, the work being the outcome of consultations between some of the most eminent authorities upon modern warfare and international politics. The story has been carefully revised and reprinted. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, black & brown title to front. Lower and vertical text block untrimmed. B/w illustrations. 308 pages. Spine browned and lightly worn at top & tail. Damp stain to rear board. Cloth worn to vertical edge of boards, possible nibbled at. Bookplate to front pastedown. Some foxing present.

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THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE
Written by Algernon C. Swinburne. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1325864
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1918. Very good condition.

Limited Deluxe edition of 765 numbered, signed copies. Vellum-style boards and vellum spine. Gilt titles and vignette. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 133 pages. 11.5 x 9.25". 9 tipped-in colour plates mounted on heavy brown paper with captioned tissue-guards. 52 drawings. Pictorial endpapers. Contains extra colour plate not in trade edition. SIGNED by the artist, this is copy no. 573. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers slightly grubby and marked. Endpapers lightly browned. Plates all present. Tiny corner crease to one plate else otherwise fine.

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SIEGFRIED AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
Written by Richard Wagner. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1325071
Published by William Heinemann. Circa 1940. Very good condition.

The second of the two volumes making up the trilogy of The Ring Of The Niblung. Very scarce publisher's leather edition. Gilt titles and vignettes to front cover and spine. 30 magnificent tipped-in colour plates which display the Germanic inspiration evident in Rip and Midsummer Night's Dream and continuing through Undine and the Wagner books. Orange and cream pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. 182 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Light browning to endpapers. One plate has a light corner crease, all others are present and in fine condition. Some light foxing to contents and textblock. Title list to prelims list mostly titles published before 1911 but also lists The Ring of the Niblung (published in 1939).

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FLORA
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Pamela Bianco.
Stock no. 1323932
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1919. Almost very good condition.

"This volume grew out of an exhibition of the picture of Pamela Bianco (aged 12) which was held in 1919, they are accompanied by exquisite poems that De La Mare was inspired by them to write". Beautiful colour and b/w pictures. Large format. White boards with grey titles and illustration to front cover. This edition has the small image to page 43. 43 pages. Heavy bumping to spine and corners. Spine bumped and some browning to edges. Endpapers browned. Foxing to contents.

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FLORA
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Pamela Bianco.
Stock no. 1323730
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company; William Heinemann. 1st 1919. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

"This volume grew out of an exhibition of the picture of Pamela Bianco (aged 12) which was held in 1919, they are accompanied by exquisite poems that De La Mare was inspired by them to write". Beautiful colour and b/w pictures. Large format. White boards with grey titles and illustration to front cover. This edition has the small image to page 43. 45 pages. Spine and corners bumped, small dents to lower edges. Some browning to cover edges. Heavy foxing and some browning to contents. Some top edges remain untrimmed from the binding process. Dustwrapper is very worn (as usual) with some loss. Spine is browned and torn with white sticky paper reinforcements to verso.

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PETER PAN'S POSTBAG
No author listed. Illustrated by Albert Rothenstein.
Stock no. 1323259
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1909. Good condition.

Letters to Pauline Chase when she was playing the part of Peter Pan. Brown pictorial cloth with white titles. Fold-out map of Never Never Land to rear of book. Colour frontis. Spine is browned and title to spine has rubbed away. Covers a bit grubby. Name and date in ink to front pastedown. SIGNED by Pauline Chase to lower margin of frontis. Frontis has been removed from original position and taped in between title-page and introduction page (old tape marks to margins of these pages and to margin of frontis). Foxspots to contents. Biro annotation marks to the last letter (page 63 & 64) and map at rear is creased and torn with old tape marks. Booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. A few small, light marks to page margins and one hinge is cracked showing webbing beneath.

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PORTRAIT OF A VILLAGE
Written by Francis Brett Young. Illustrated by Joan Hassall.
Stock no. 2136008
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1937. Very good condition.

Black cloth, gilt titles and vignette. B/w wood engravings. Story of Monks Norton in Worcestershire. Some fading to spine; a few marks to covers. Bumping to corners. Foxing and browning; mostly to endpapers and outer page edges.

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THE LONDON VENTURE
Written by Michael Arlen.
Stock no. 2133858
Published by William Heinemann. 1924. Almost very good condition.

A novel. The author's first published book. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Rough cut edges to text-block. 141 pages. Spine slightly sunned and worn at top and tail. Corners bumped, lower front corner worn. Small bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. 4 marks on front endpaper where label has been removed. Some tiny spots to prelims and last few pages. Contents lightly browned.

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BACHELORS AND A BACHELOR'S CONFESSIONS
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1319354
Published by William Heinemann. 1909. Good condition.

Small format. Grey boards, colour pictorial onlay to front. 3 tipped-in colour plates. B/w illustrations. Rebacked with matching cloth, new cream endpapers. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Plates fine. Some browning and foxing but contents generally clean.

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BACHELORS AND A BACHELOR'S CONFESSIONS
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1318755
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1909. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Grey boards, colour pictorial onlay to front. 3 tipped-in colour plates. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped. Covers slightly rubbed. Some surface paper loss to the pictorial onlay to front cover. Front joint cracked. Foxing to contents.

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