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66.Carroll, lewis (author). John Vernon lord (illustrator). through the looking-glass and What alice Found there. London; Artists’ Choice Editions. 2011.
£325
tall 4to. Finely bound in olive-green quarter leather-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, spine lettered gilt, pictorially patterned endpapers and contained within a fine sea-green cloth-covered board slipcase along with a handsomely presented folder containing “lord’s list” and a separate folder containing 4 giclée prints, each signed and numbered by Vernon lord (3 in colours and 1 in dramatic black and white); pp. [viii], 9-138 + [vi]; finely, exquisitely and profusely illustrated with pictorial title-page and full-, and half-page, engravings printed in full colour or monochrome alongside initials, marginal vignettes, tailpieces and other visual treats throughout; a fine and new copy.
First edition illustrated thus. an artist’s edition printed on fine quality Mohawk cool-white paper in Plantin by charles hall and bound by ludlow Bookbinders. From a total limitation of 420 this is one of only 98 signed copies which were issued as “specials”, bound in morocco- backed boards with a group of signed prints, printed on card, and a skilfully produced 24-page booklet, illustrated in colour, which is a select bibliography including details of 58 of lord’s publications.
67. Carson, rachel. the sea around us. New York: Oxford University Press.1951
£250
8vo. original cloth and wrapper; pp. viii + 230; a little rubbing to wrapper, small marginal tear not affecting text to p. 155, previous owner’s signature to prelim, very good.
First edition. this was the book that made carson’s name, a million-seller that has been translated into over thirty languages. it was also made into an oscar-winning documentary film. its appeal is easy to see - carson takes a vast subject and makes it approachable, imbuing her analysis of the origins of life in the ocean, the development of the oceans themselves and the complexity of tides with a poetic vision of the beauty of the sea. she used oceanographic research which had not previously been published, making this as important a scientific achievement as it is a literary work.
68. Carson, rachel. the edge of the sea. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1955.
£180
8vo. original green cloth with wrapper; pp. viii + [iv] + 276, illustrated throughout by Bob hines; small chip to lower front edge of dustwrapper, otherwise very good.
First edition. carson’s third book on the sea concentrates on coastal ecosystems, specifically on the us’s eastern seaboard, and examines the way in which these environments are shaped by the forces of the sea. it is at once an introduction to a small,mysterious world and a global vision of vast, connected elements. she also draws connections across time, observing both new and old forms of life coexisting in the rocks, sand and coral.
69. Carson, rachel. silent spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1962.
£450
8vo. original green cloth, dust-jacket; pp. x + [vi] + 368. jacket design and text drawings by lois and louis Darling; chipping toe dges of dustwrapper with slight loss at head and foot of spine, otherwise very
good, internally very bright.
First edition of this highly influential and controversial book, widely credited with launching the environmentalism movement in the West. the book depicted an eerie future america in which all life, from fish to birds to human children, had been silenced by the pollution of the food chain by DDt, which had previously been considered close to miraculous in its protection of crops. her four years of painstaking scientific research, in the face of much apathy from the establishment, made her apocalyptic conclusions unarguable. the book caused an outrage in the agro-chemical industry that mirrored the shock felt by society at large, and was hugely effective; it received the credit when the use of DDt was banned in the united states in 1972. it is, rightly, the book by which rachel carson is now most widely remembered.
70. Castle, Barbara. the castle Diaries 1964-70 and 1974-76. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1980 & 1984.
£148 8vo., 2 volumes, original cloth with dust wrappers. near fine copies.
First editions. “The Castle Diaries 1974-76 established Barbara castle as one of the most vigorous, revealing and accomplished political diarists of the century. this eagerly awaited second volume, which covers her role at the very centre of politics during harold Wilson’s first two administrations confirms her reputation as labour’s most effective historian as well as its outstanding woman politician.”
‘the eXtraorDinarY raPiDitYWith Which this latest ProDuct oF the resPlenDent lanKa has gaineD
uniVersal FaVour is, oF course, Due to is suPerioritY oVer the PeKoes anD souchongs oF other countries’
71. CaVe, Henry William. golden tips. a Description of ceylon and its great tea industry. London: Cassell & Company, Limited for Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1900.
£350
8vo (214 x 139mm). original white buckram over bevelled boards, dense all-over gilt design of foliage, spine lettered in gilt in 2 panels, all edges gilt, olive-green endpapers; pp. xii, 474, [2 (publisher’s advertisement, imprint on verso)]; half-tone portrait frontispiece retaining tissue guard, folding map of ‘ceylon showing Proportion of country under tea cultivation’, hand-coloured in green, 75 half-tone plates, 22 with illustrations
recto-and-verso, and
illustrations in the text, most after photographs by the author, decorative initials; cloth slightly dulled, a few light marks internally, nonetheless a very good, clean copy in the original binding; provenance: pencilled signature on tissue guard.
First edition. henry W. cave (1854- 1913) travelled to ceylon at the age of
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