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209.MCCULLERS, Carson. ballad of the sad cafe. the novels and stories of carson mccullers. Cambridge. The Riverside Press. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company. 1951.
£3,500
8vo., original cloth with price-clipped dust wrapper. small chip at head of spine of wrapper otherwise a very good copy.
first edition of this collection, inscribed by mccullers to the new york fashion designer herbert gallant, “for herbert gallant most sincerely carson mccullers.”
from the library of the film director, actor and writer bryan forbes with his bookplate.
210. McKITTERICK, David. A new specimen book of curwen pattern papers. Andoversford. The Whittington Press. 1987. £298
4to., original buckram backed curwen pattern paper boards. With 32 specimen paper samples. A fine copy in slipcase.
first edition, limited edition of 335 numbered copies. “this book celebrates the co-operation between the curwen press and a group of artists who, between the early 1920s and the 1950s, produced the distinctive - and distinguished - series of pattern papers that have become known generally by the name of the press itself.” the atistst include edward bawden, claud lovat fraser, thomas lowinsky, paul nash, enid marx, eric ravilious and graham sutherland.
211. MCNAUGHTEN, E.J. be introduced Wherein you meet everyday types of Asiatic people drawn in pencil from life. Kuala Lumpur: The Survey Department, Federated Malay States, and Straits Settlements for George Blunn & Co. Ltd., [c. 1934].
£75
4to (368 x 305mm). original printed wrappers; preliminary blank and 15 reproductions of drawings by mcnaughton, each with printed tissue guard bearing captions, loose as issued in covers with later replacement ribbon ties through punched holes in plates and wrappers; wrappers a little marked and chipped or torn at extremities with small losses, occasional light marking or spotting, nonetheless a very good copy; provenance: crayon presentation inscription dated christmas 1934 on preliminary blank.
First and only edition. A portfolio of portraits executed in pencil and depicting character from across Asia. the subjects of the portraits are: ‘siamese farmer’; ‘tulukan or “king islam” (bazaar type muhammadan madras presidency, s. india)’; ‘muhammadan lapidary of distinct Arabian Ancestry. (karikal, french india)’; ‘brahmin (highest hindu caste,
india)’; ‘sinhalese (ceylon)’; ‘tamil Woman (hindu
“untouchable” s. india)’; ‘tamil estate coolie (hindu, marawa caste, s. india)’; ‘sikh Watchman (A plainsman of sikh religion punjab, n.W. india)’; ‘pathan (A hillman muhammadan punjab, n.W. india)’; ‘Japanese Woman’; ‘Javanese estate coolie’; ‘malay Woman’; ‘malay fisherman’; ‘chinese rickshaw coolie (hainan, s. china)’; and ‘chinese sewing Amah (canton, s. china)’. the portfolio appears to have been produced in relatively small numbers, of which few can be found in the british isles; copAc records only one copy of the work in the uk (bl, apparently significantly defective with only 8 plates), to which can be added a copy at cambridge university library (royal commonwealth society library, rcms 107).
212. MEE, Margaret Ursula. uma mulher e a mata atlântica. Aquarelas de margaret mee. [São Paulo]: Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 1992.
£40
4to (295 x 212mm). original printed wrappers reproducing a gouache by mee; pp. 31, [1 (acknowledgements and credits)]; illustration: colour- printed title-vignette after mee and 23 illustrations after mee, 13 full-page, 2 double-page details, double-page portrait frontispiece after claus meyer; very lightly rubbed at edges, otherwise a very good copy; provenance: Greville and Elisabeth Mee.
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First edition. the catalogue of an exhibition of margaret mee’s work at the Art museum of são paulo, between 27 may and 28 June 1992. the exhibition displayed a collection of gouaches of bromeliads by mee, drawn from the collection of the instituto de botânica de são paulo, which were executed by mee in the course of her fifteen expeditions to the Atlantic forest of brazil between 1956 and 1988 (of which eleven are illustrated full-page in the first part of the catalogue). these gouaches were accompanied by a selection of other botanical paintings by mee, drawn from other collections (of which ten are illustrated in the catalogue), and the catalogue is prefaced by a biographical introduction.
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