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139. JAMES, M.R. More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. New York: Longmans, Green & Co.. 1911.
£750
8vo. Original oatmeal canvas, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; a very nice copy.
First US edition.
140. [JAPANESE CRÊPE BOOK]. HEARN, Lafcadio (author). [Yasu KOMIYA] (illustrator). The Boy Who Drew Cats; Japanese Fairy Tales Series No. 23. Tokyo; T. Hasegawa, circa 1930.
£198
8vo. Original pictorial Japanese crêpe-paper covers, prettily printed in woodblock colours, with 2 silk stitches to spine; pp. 18 + [4], including wrappers; printed throughout on folded crêped leaves; colour illustrated throughout; an attractive copy with slight edge rubbing and one short, and almost unnoticeable, tear to center of upper cover (4mm).
Early edition, first published by the same publisher in 1898. This edition is undated but was issued after June 1911, when T. Hasegawa moved to the Kami-Negishi address. These Japanese fairy tale books were hand- printed from wood blocks on Masa paper (paper made in Iyo, Ehime prefecture) in both a standard, and a crêped, edition. The crêping process took place after printing.
141. JENKINS, Roy. Hugh Gaitskell. A Political Memoir. In Encounter Magazine. February 1974.
£48 8vo., original wrappers. A fine copy.
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Jenkins’s article on Gaitskell appears on pp. 3 - 10 of this issue of Encountermagazine. This issue also includes Kingsley Amis’s article On leaving Cambridge.
Hugh Gaitskell was one of Roy Jenkins’s political heroes. In a later Guardian article, the last he wrote before his death, Jenkins commented, “He was the one politician over the past 50 years whom I have loved. He was a standing contradiction to the view that only those with cold hearts and twisted tongues can succeed in politics. He could still be an inspiration to our poor battered parliamentary system. I therefore have no hesitation in marking the 40th anniversary of his death as an occasion for commemoration and contemplating what might have been.”
142. JOHN PLAYER & SONS The Coronation of H.M. George VI and H.M. Queen Elizabeth 1937. John Player & Sons, 1937.
£78
8vo, original wrappers; with numerous full colour cigarette cards; very good. An album of cigarette cards celebrating the Coronation 1937.
143. JOHNS, Rev. C.A. Flowers of the Fields. Revised throughout and edited by Clarence Elliott. George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. [n.d., c. 1910].
£50
8vo. Original green cloth with gilt vignette to upper, gilt lettering to spine; pp. xx + 378, 96 colour plates and numerous text illsuteations; very good indeed.
Thirteenth impression. A revised edition of Johns’s classic guide to wild flowers, first published in 1853.
144. JOHNSON, Theophilus. Zoological Sketches. Third Series. [No publisher, published by the author]. 1889.
£9,500
Folio. Original quarter burnt sienna morocco, burnt sienna boards; 25 original watercoloursmounted at large, each with leaf of text by Johnson; binding rubbed, starting at lower hinges but sound, a little spotting not affecting plates, very good.
Unique collection of watercolours. Very little is known about Theophilus Johnson (1836 - 1919) except that he was born in Tottenham, settled in Dartford, had his own business as a letterpress printer and was obsessively energetic in his production of one-off natural history books, illustrated with his own watercolour paintings. He had an attachment to London Zoo; all of these pictures are of animals in the Zoo’s collection. It is not known how many of these extraordinary books he completed, but the Natural History Museum has 29, the Zoological Society of London four and Royal Entomological Society one. Apart from one sale at Sotheby’s in 1992 when nine volumes came under the hammer, the books very rarely appear at auction. The pictures themselves are highly distinctive, full of dramatic incident and compositional quirks that do not detract from Johnson’s eye for colour and character.
Radclyffe, Howard (1995) ‘Theophilus Johnson: amateur naturalist, artist and publisher extraordinaire’ in Archives of Natural History, Volume 22, Page 183-190.
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