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260. searle, ronald. More scraps in no Particular order. unpublished scrapbooks of ronald searle [and] Watteau revisited. Church Hanborough. Inky Parrot Press. 2008.
£998
8vo., 2 volumes in original morocco backed decorative paper covered boards, lettered in gilt on spines. a fine copy in slipcase.
First edition, limited editions of 246 copies, each one of 42 specials signed by searle in one volume “as searle is getting a little old for so much signing this signature covers the copyright of both titles”, with a suite of 6 prints (3 from each volume) fully hand-coloured under the artist’s supervision by annie newnham in a card folder. all of the 6 extra plates are signed by both searle and annie newnham. With original prospectus.
261. seddon, John P. autograph letter signed to h. Buxton Forman about the memorial fountain to Dante gabriel rossetti. January 1886.
£98 8vo., one page, signed of earlier folding otherwise in very good condition.
John seddon who designed the memorial drinking fountain to Dante gabriel rossetti on cheyne Walk, tells Buxton Forman of the donation by fellow artist and philanthropist harold rathbone of £1.1.0. he goes on to mention that Ford Madox Brown who was making the bronze bust “has just completed the bust and promises it me in 2 or 3 weeks, when i will summon subscribers and push the matter to completion. if you happen to have received any subscriptions since you wrote last kindly advise me, Yours very truly John seddon”.
the monument in cheyne Walk near to where rossetti lived, was funded by subscriptions from the poet’s friends and admirers.
260 262. sendaK, maurice (author and illustrator). Where the Wild things are. New York; Harper & Row, Publishers. 1963. £7,500
landscape 4to. original dark greyish-green cloth-backed pictorial boards, decorated endpapers, preserved in original dustwrapper; pp. [40]; with double-page pictorial title and coloured plates throughout including several dramatic double-page spreads; a fine, immaculate, and unread copy protected by an equally fine, unclipped, dustwrapper ($3.50), with just a touch of browning; remarkably scarce in this condition.
First edition, first issue, as published in the u.s., complete with the correct dustwrapper which makes no mention of the Caldecott Medal award. this work is, indisputably, one of the most important american children’s books of the last century.
Maurice sendak, born 1928, has contributed to more than 70 books which have sold in their tens of millions across several continents, however this was his breakthrough work, a true masterpiece, and the first picture book he created for which he both wrote the text and drew the pictures. Max, in his famous wolfsuit, has rightly taken a permanent place in american popular culture, and the mythology of childhood worldwide, as he fights to control his anger by escaping into a fantasy world where he is in full control of the things that scare him. this book won the Caldecott Medal for the most outstanding picture book of the year in 1964. in accepting the award the author explained the inspiration for the book: “From their earliest years, children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions. they continually cope with disruption as best they can, and it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. it is the best means they have for taming Wild things”. he also admitted that the Wild Things owe more than a little to the memory of his old Jewish relatives who used to visit the sendak household: “they’d lean way over with their bad teeth and hairy noses, and say something threatening like ‘You’re so cute i could eat you up’. and i knew that if mother didn’t hurry up with the cooking they probably would.” (silvey. Children’s Books & Their Creators).
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