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17. [alPHaBet]. BinGHam, Kate (author). luke martineaU (illustrator). every girl’s alphabet. [London]; Artists’ Choice Editions. 2010.
£198
large square 8vo. original red leather-backed pictorial boards, lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial endpapers, together with an original signed linocut within a cream card folder, all housed within the original cream board slipcase; pp. [64]; with coloured illustrations throughout on double-page spreads; a mint copy.
First edition de luxe, limited to only 56 special copies bound in hardback with the accompanying signed linocut. the book is signed by both the artist luke Martineau and the versifier Kate Bingham. a very handsome private press edition, printed on fine Mohawk paper and bound by ludlow Bookbinders. the linocut is a version of the cover illustration but differs from it considerably in its detail. a glorious celebration of all aspects of girlhood.
18. [ameliaranne]. HeWard, Constance (author). susan Beatrice Pearse (illustrator). ameliaranne and the green umbrella. London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1920.
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8vo. original bluish-grey paper-covered boards with large onlaid pictorial plate to upper cover, pictorial endpapers; pp. [64]; illustrated throughout in very pretty, and delicately, printed in colour, with text on every other leaf decorated with monochrome illustrations; an unusually attractive copy of an elusive book, both internally and externally clean with some light rubbing to borders of pictorial plate on upper cover; internally very fresh and clean with no signs of use; the rear pictorial endpaper printed slightly out-of-register otherwise all plates in fine state.
First edition of the first and best-loved of the ameliaranne series, published considerably earlier than the bulk of the books, and much scarcer, being issued in a smaller, and more fragile, format.
19. amis, martin. the rachel Papers. Jonathan Cape. 1973. £998
8vo. original cloth, with dust-jacket; pp. 224; dust jacket slightly sunned on spine and very slightly rubbed on edges, a little occasional foxing, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition of the author’s first novel, signed by amis on the title page and with several manuscript correction by amis in the margins. generally the corrections are minor, changing an odd word or two but there is one more substantive insertion on p. 130 where he adds the phrase “the kinky ease with which i might be distinguished from the female tribe”. none of the corrections and insertions appear in later editions.
20 20. amis, martin. success. Jonathan Cape. 1978.
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper; a near fine copy. First edition.
£198
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