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226. POSTGATE, Oliver and Peter FIRMIN (author and illustrator). [noggin The nog. The complete set of Edmund Ward “Starting to Read” Books]: noggin The King; noggin The Whale; noggin The Dragon; nogbad comes Back!; noggin and the moon mouse; nogbad and the Elephants. London; Edmund Ward. 1965- 1967.
£650
8vo.; 8 volumes; each volume bound in coloured cloth lettered in white to spine, coloured pictorial endpapers, preserved in the original pictorial dustwrapper; each volume 48pp.; each volume illustrated throughout on every page with drawings heightened in two colours, used alternately; a fine, complete, and numbered set; externally and internally immaculate and unread; the unclipped dustwrappers (9s 6d) in equally fine condition with insignificant signs of use and slight fading to the spine of the final two volumes; very scarce as a run in this condition.
First editions. The complete set of the noggin titles in the series of Edmund Ward’s “Starting to Read” Books.
227. PRESTON, Chloe (illustrator). Peek-a-Boo Tommy. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton. 1914.
£188
Shaped book (95 x 235mm) bound in thick pictorial boards in the shape of the badminton-playing Tommy, with front and rear views; pp. 16; illustrated throughout with red tinted drawings; a little superficial abrasion to spine fold and a trace of light soiling, but a very nice copy of a scarce book.
First edition. A collection of nursery rhymes.
228. RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). Washington IRVING (author). Rip van Winkle. London: William Heinemann. 1905.£498
4to. original green pictorial cloth stamped pictorially in gilt to upper cover, green edges and endpapers; pp. [viii] + 61 + [ii] + plates; 51 mounted coloured plates behind captioned guards; a lovey copy; externally bright and clean, with slight rubbing to joints and spine ends; internally also uncommonly good with only a few minor speckles to prelims, browning to half-title, a spray of foxing to top margin of Postscript, and a few fox-spots beneath the green fore-edge stain; with the handsome armorial bookplate of millicent J. Balfour Paul to front pastedown; all plates in fine state, some guards with very pale spotting and crinkling.
First edition, second impression, issued two months after the first. This book was Rackham’s first major commission as a book illustrator and is regarded as one of his finest achievements.
229. RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). Oliver GOLDSMITH (author). The vicar of Wakefield. London, George G. Harrap & Company Limited. 1929.
£298
4t. original greyish-blue cloth prettily blocked and lettered in gilt, pictorial silhouette endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, preserved in white dustwrapper with full-size plate to upper panel; pp. [iv] 5-231; with 12 fine coloured plates and a total of 22 line drawings; a fine and pristine copy both externally and internally; the unclipped dustwrapper (15/-) with some light general dusting (more evident on lower panel) and a couple of tiny closed edge tears.
First edition illustrated by Rackham. 230
230. RAULET, Sylvie. Art Deco Jewelry. Thames and Hudson. 1985.
£98
Folio, original cloth with dust wrapper. With 792 illustrations, 261 in colour. A near fine copy.
First UK edition.
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