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8. BAXTER, Glen. glen baxter his life. the years of struggle. Thames & Hudson 1983.
£248
8vo. original glossy paper-covered boards, with card slipcase, with prospectus and signed limited edition lithograph; illustrated throughout; fine.
no 29 of 100 copies of the limited edition signed by the author. An entirely fanciful cartoon autobiography.
9. BEATON, Cecil and Kenneth TYNAN. persona grata.Wingate. 1953.
£148
royal 8vo. original pale blue cloth, blocked in silver, dust-jacket designed by beaton; 60 photographic portraits by beaton; very good copy in slightly rubbed and chipped dust-jacket, small mark on fore-edges.
first edition. A fine collection of photographs of writers, actors, artists, etc., with text by kenneth tynan.
10. [BECKFORD, Peter]. thoughts on hunting. in a series of familiar letters to a friend. Sarum [Salisbury]: Printed by E. Easton, sold by P. Elmsly [and others]. 1781.
£650
small 4to. later full tan calf by riviere, triple gilt fillet border to sides, fully gilt spine with a morocco label, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece by bartolozzi after cipriani, 2 other engraved plates; upper joint restored, some light embrowning in the text, but a nice copy.
first edition of this “corner-stone of a huntsman’s library” (gee). Podeschi 64. Gee p. 8.
11. BEDIER, Joseph. le roman de tristan et iseut. renouvele par Joseph bedier. Paris. L’Edition D’Art. [1914].
£1,750
8vo., choicely bound by root in full red morocco, french fillet border to boards, spine richly gilt, rich gilt turn-ins. illustrations by robert engels, text with decorative borders. the slightest rubbing to joints, a lovely copy.
limited edition of 525 copies. in 1900, the french scholar Joseph bedier recreated the early versions of the legend, none of which are complete, in a modern retelling which draws on both the Anglo-norman poems by beroul and thomas and those by the german writers eilhart von oberge and gottfried von strassburg.
robert engels was born in solingen in the ruhr. he studied in düsseldorf and vienna. engels then settled in munich, where he was a professor at the school of Arts and crafts. rober engels was married to the watercolourist gustava engels von veit. robert engels was a contributor to l’estampe moderns and also created
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12. BEERBOHM, Max. Zuleika dobson. Printed for The Limited Editions Club at the Garamond Press Baltimore. 1960.
£148
4to., original decorative cloth with glassine wrapper in slipcase, illustrated by george him. A fine copy.
limited edition of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator.
13. BELL, Vanessa. original design for a carpet for lytton strachey’s play the son of heaven. c. 1924
£5,000
mounted, image 230 mm x 190 mm, 460 mm x 390 mm in frame. gouache on paper.
stamped with studio stamp ‘vb’ (folded over). provenance: d’Offay Gallery, R.A Gekoski Booksellers.
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