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122. [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. Consequences. A Complete Story in the Manner of the Old Parlour Game in Nine Chapters each by a Different Author.Waltham St Lawrence. Golden Cockerel Press. 1932
£650
8vo. Original morocco-backed patterned paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine; pp. [viii] + 66 + [iii]; with engraved frontispiece by Eric Ravilious; spine a touch dulled, otherwise a very good, fresh, copy.
First edition, limited to 1200 copies, of which this is one of only 200 printed on handmade paper, signed by each of the nine authors and Eric Ravilious. A curious and fascinating collaborative work based on the formula of the parlour game “Consequences” in which 9 authors contribute a chapter of the unfolding story. The authors are John van Druten, G.B. Stern, A.E. Coppard, Sean O’Faolain, Norah Hoult, Hamish Maclaren, Elizabeth Bowen, Ronald Fraser, and Malachi Whitaker. (Dawson. Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 85).
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123. [HANDCOLOURED NATIONAL COSTUME]. [VENNING, Mary Anne] (author). A Geographical Present; Being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World with Representations of the Various Inhabitants in their Respective Costumes, Beautifully Coloured. London: Printed for Darton, Harvey And Darton, Gracechurch-Street. 1817.
£1,850
12mo. Original red roan-backed green marbled boards, flat spine horizontally ruled and lettered direct in gilt, specked edges; pp. [ix], 2-120; finely illustrated with a total of 60 individual, and exquisite, copper-engraved plates with original handcolouring; an uncommonly fine copy; externally very good and clean with minor rolling to spine ends and light rubbing to edges of boards; internally crisp, clean, and fresh throughout with just very mild age-toning to stock and a neat contemporary copperplate inscription “Theodosia Ashcombe from her sincere friend Emma Blandford” to front free endpaper; scarce in first edition in this condition, and complete.
First edition. A beautiful and important costume book featuring 60 handcoloured costume plates of the various nations of the world, accompanied by a fascinating two or three page descriptive essay of each including Cochin China; Corea [sic]; the Islands of Japan; the Island of Nio; Russia; Lapland; Palestine; Negroland &c.
124. [KEYNES, J.M.]. HARROD, R.F. The Life of John Maynard Keynes. Macmillan & Co., 1951.
£68
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper; pp.xvi + 674, 11 illustration; previous owner’s pencil signature to ffep, very slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
First edition.
125. HART-DAVIS, Rupert. Halfway to Heaven. Concluding Memoirs of a Literary Life. Sutton Publishing. 1998.
£48 8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; fine.
First edition. Covers the post-war establishment of Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. and his sale of manuscripts to help save the London Library. With a copy of Rupert Hart-Davis’s bookplate tipped in.
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