83 inscriBeD BY thoMas to his Mother-in-laW’s lesBian loVer 288. tHomas, dylan. 18 Poems. The Sunday Referee and the Parton Bookshop. 1934. £6,500
8vo. original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the second issue binding with rounded spine, with dust wrapper. Wrapper stained on lower panel with just a very little chipping, and darkening to spine, otherwise a very good copy preserved in black morocco backed cloth fall-down- back box lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, second issue. the author’s first book, of which 500 copies were printed, though initially only 250 were bound up (with flat spines) and issued in December 1934. the remaining 250 copies were bound up, as offered here, with round-backed spine about a year later and published in February 1936.
this copy is isncribed by thomas to the photographer and painter nora summers: “to nora from Dylan. March 1938”. an interesting asssociation copy. nora summers was Yvonne Macnamara, thomas’s mother-in-law’s, lover. after caitlin’s father had abandoned the family, nora would visit with her young son whom she would leave to play with caitlin while she conducted her affair with Yvonne. caitlin had a complex and ambiguous relationship with nora, to whom she referred as “the black woman of my childhood”. notwithstanding she often posed naked for nora’s photographs.
Rolph B1a.
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289. tHomPson, Kay (author). Hilary KniGHt (illustrator). eloise in Paris. London; Max Reinhardt. 1958.
£198
tall 4to. original blue boards lettered in gilt, pictorial red endpapers, preserved in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [64]; gloriously and finely illustrated on every page in line highlighted in pink, blue and red; a fine and, apparently, unread copy; externally and internally extremely clean and bright; the unclipped dustwrapper (12s 6d) preserved in equally fine condition.
First u.K. edition of this delightful book in the famous series of stories about the young american girl, eloise, and her beloved nanny; published in the same year as the first u.s. edition. here they travel from their penthouse apartment in new York’s Plaza hotel to a quaint “relais” in Paris, and (in true “eloise” style) find the whole experience “rawther extraordinaire”.
290. tHomPson, Kay (author). Hilary KniGHt (illustrator). eloise in Moscow. London; Max Reinhardt Ltd. 1960.
£198
tall 4to. original green cloth lettered in black to spine, pictorial endpapers, preserved in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [70]; illustrated throughout with extravagant drawings on every page tinted in yellow, with one fine fold- out panorama of Moscow printed in full colour; a fine copy with the panoramic fold-out plate unusually uncreased, preserved in a remarkably fine, fresh, price-clipped dustwrapper.
First u.K. edition, issued one year after the first u.s. edition, with a new dustwrapper design.
original Pencil sKetch BYarchiBalD thorBurn.
291. tHorBUrn, archibald. Fieldfare’s nest, sketched in norway. [n.d.]
£500
8.5 x 4.75 inches, original pencil sketch in wooden frame, signed with initials ‘a.t.’ and inscribed, very good. Provenance: from thorburn’s sketchbooks formerly held by the glenbow Museum, calgary, sold at holland & holland auction in april 1996.
a charming and delicate image of an unoccupied fieldfare’s nest, showing intricate and vigorous pencilwork.
292. tHornBUry, Walter and edward WalFord. old and new london. a narrative of its history, its People, and its Places. illustrated with engravings from the most authentic sources. Cassell, Petter & Galpin. [c.1880].
£425
royal 8vo. six vols. original decorative cloth; xii + 576, xii +576, xii +576, xii + 576, xii + 576, xii + 636, profusely illustrated throughout with wood-engravings; a very nice set.
a popular and well-illustrated work on the history and topography of london. Volumes i and ii by Walter thornbury, iii to Vi by edward Walford, the volumes comprise the city in Vol i & ii, Westminster & the Western suburbs in Vol iii & iV, the Western & northern suburbs in Vol V, and the southern suburbs in Vol Vi.
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