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35 31 31. BanKs, iain. the Wasp Factory. Macmillan. 1984.
8vo. original brown boards; a fine copy in the dust-jacket. First edition signed by Banks on the title-page.
32. BanKs, lynne reid. the l-shaped room. Chatto & Windus. 1960.
£248
8vo. original green cloth and pictorial dust-jacket; spine of jacket very slightly sunned, otherwise a very nice copy.
First edition. the author’s first novel. Bryan Forbes wrote and directed the 1962 film featuring leslie caron as a young and pregnant French woman in a london boarding house, also with anthony Booth, tom Bell and Bernard lee.
33. BanVille, John. the sea. Picador, 2005.
8vo., original cloth in dust wrapper. a fine copy. First edition signed by the author. Booker Prize winner for 2005.
34. BarKer, Cicely mary (author and illustrator). [a complete set of the “Flower Fairy” books]. London, Blackie And Son Limited. [circa 1950].
£598
small 8vo. 7 volumes. original decorated boards with onlaid pictorial labels, all preserved in pictorial yellow dustwrappers, pictorial blue endpapers; each pp. [76]; with a total of 168 fine coloured plates; a remarkably fine set protected by equally fine, unclipped, dustwrappers (all priced at 2/6); scarce as a complete, and uniform, set in this condition.
£148 32 £248 33
all early editions. a complete set of the flower fairy titles by this important illustrator, comprising: A Flower Fairy Alphabet; Fairies of the Trees; Flower Fairies Of The Spring; Flower Fairies of the Wayside; Flower Fairies of the Autumn; Flower Fairies of the Summer and Flower Fairies of the Garden. cicely Mary Barker was the foremost twentieth- century Flower Fairy artist. the idea of portraying botanical subjects as fairies began with grandville’s Les Fleurs Animées (1847) but cicely Mary Barker became the illustrator most closely associated with this genre. each child fairy is dressed to suggest the petals or berries of the subject and is surrounded by background foliage drawn in accurate detail.
35. BarKer, Cicely mary (author and illustrator). Fairies of the Flowers and trees. London, Blackie & Son Limited. [1950].
£298
8vo. original green cloth gilt with neat gilt vignette of a flower fairy centred on upper board, lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, top edge green, pictorial peach endpapers; pp. [x], 11-92; illustrated with 72 fine coloured plates; externally a lovely bright copy, without the dustwrapper; internally very clean indeed, with just a little offset browning to half-title, as usual.
First edition thus. this is the combined edition of the three individual
volumes Flower Fairies of the Wayside; Flower Fairies of the Garden and Fairies of the Trees and is considerably scarcer than its companion volume The Book of the Flower Fairies.
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