Modern literature, children's books, art & design
Collection of works
£1,008
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Huxley, Aldous. Along the Road. Notes and Essays of a Tourist. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. Large-paper edition, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, 8vo, original half japon;
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. London: Gibbings and Company Limited, 1897. 8vo, original green cloth decorated with Art Nouveau design, top edge, others untrimmed, 7 plates;
Lang, Andrew. The Yellow Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First edition, contemporary citron morocco lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 24 plates including frontispiece;
‘B. B.’ Ben the Bullfinch. Illustrated by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957. First edition, 8vo, original yellow boards, dust jacket;
Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Irish Fairy Tales. By James Stephens, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1920. First edition, trade issue, 4to, original cloth, colour plates, ‘presentation copy' blind stamp to title-page;
Beaton, Cecil. Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook. London: B. T. Batsford, 1937. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (chipped);
[Morris, Talwin, designer]. Queen Victoria, her Life and Reign. By Thomas Archer and Amelia Hutchison Stirling. London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1901. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, original red cloth with elaborate Art Nouveau design by Talwin Morris in gilt and green, all edges gilt;
Beardsley, Aubrey, & others. The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-6. Volumes 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 only, 4to, original yellow cloth;
and 8 others similar (24)