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177. KIPLING, Rudyard. the Jungle books. Lunenburg Vermont Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club. 1968. £150
4to., original cloth backed marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. With illustrations by david gentleman. A fine copy in original glassine wrapper and slipcase.
limited edition of 1500 copies signed by david gentleman. designed by John dreyfus and printed by the stinehour press. introduction by bonamy dobree.
from kipling’s librAryWith his bookplAte
178. [KIPLING, Rudyard]. ROBINSON, W. the Wild garden, or the naturalization and natural grouping of hardy exotic plants with a chapter on the garden of british Wild flowers. John Murray. 1903.
£498
8vo. original cloth gilt, with illustrations by Alfred parsons. A little rubbed, signs of removed bookplates to front endpapers, a little occasional spotting, otherwise a very good copy.
fifth edition. from the library of rudyard kipling with his 1894 bookplate designed by his father pasted in upside down at the rear of the book.
kipling moved into bateman’s in 1902 and immediately enjoyed the gardens and land around the house. over the years his interest in gardening grew with the result that in 1910 he joined the east sussex natural history society, under whose auspicess he held a flower show at bateman’s. over 1000 people attended and the lawns were so badly scuffed that the event was not repeated.
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179. LARSSON, Stieg. millennium
trilogy.Maclehose Press. 2008 - 9.
£1,995 8vo. 3 vols. publsiher’s original cloth with dustwrappers; fine.
1st uk editions of all three volumes. this copy of vol 1 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo comes complete with the ‘£3 off’ sticker, which shows just how unexpected was larsson’s phenomenal success in this country.
180. LAWRENCE, D.H (author). LAPIDA, Carlo (artist). [lady chatterley’s lover] suite complete de douze figures dessinees par carlo lapida our illustrer le roman d’amour et de passion de d.h. lawrence. Paris. No Publisher. 1932.
£750
8vo. twelve illustrations of a semi- or overtly erotic nature, captioned in french. there are two copies of the first illustration, captioned “frontispice” which raises the possibility that the set was designed to illustrate one of the myriad pirated editions. very good in envelope as issued. not in roberts.
181. LAWRENCE, D.H. the rainbow. Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1915.
£998
8vo. original cloth lettered in gilt on spine and in blind on upper board. spine just the slightest bit mellowed, book slightly cocked, otherwise a very good copy.
first edition. the first printing consisted of approximately 2,500 copies, of which the majority were destroyed as a result of the court action against the book. roberts estimates the number to have survived to have been 821 copies.
in 1989, the novel was adapted into the uk film The Rainbow, directed by ken russell who also directed the 1969 adaptation Women in Love.
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