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222. SEARLE, Ronald and Geoffrey WILLIAMS. How to be Topp. Max Parrish, 1954.
£78
8vo, original boards, in price-clipped dust-jacket; cartoons by Searle; a nice fresh copy.
First edition.
223. SEARLE, Ronald (illustrator). Geoffrey WILLANS (author). Whizz for Atomms. London, Max Parrish. 1956.
£78
8vo. Original black cloth gilt, preserved in red pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [iv], 5-104; illustrated throughout in line; an unusually good copy with very light foxing to free endpapers and a contemporary ink inscription, protected by an equally bright, unclipped, dustwrapper (9/6) with one tiny closed tear (10mm) to top edge of upper panel.
First edition. “A guide to survival in the 20th century for felow[sic] pupils, their doting maters, pompous paters and any others who are interested.”
224. SEARLE, Ronald. Ah Yes, I Remember it Well… Paris 1961- 1975. Salem House Publishers, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1988. £48
8vo, original glazed pictorial boards; black and white cartoons; fine. First US edition.
225. SEARLE, Ronald (illustrator). Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs. Mole. London; Artists’ Choice Editions. 2011.
£198
4to. Finely bound in Continental style in half warm beige morocco-backed terracotta coloured faux-moleskin, flat spine handsomely lettered in gilt with neat onlaid leather lettering label to upper board finely blocked in gilt, pictorial endpapers, preserved in a beige cloth-covered slipcase with paper panels to sides; pp. [viii] + 47 numbered plates + [x]; with full colour frontispiece, pictorial prelims and other vignettes and a total of 47 fine full colour plates after Searle’s original watercolours, printed throughout on rectos; a new copy.
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First edition, issued as a “Special” edition, limited to only 156 numbered copies of which this is copy 43. Signed by both Ronald Searle and Monica, his wife. This beautifully produced book is typeset in Garamond by Charles Hall, printed by Adrian Lack at Senecio on Lambeth Cartridge and bound by Ludlow Bookbinders
This work features 47 previously unseen watercolours by the popular artist Ronald Searle. These constitute a collection of personal paintings which Searle produced over five years as gifts for his wife Monica who was undergoing gruelling treatment for cancer back in the early 1970s. At the time Searle was desperate to provide some form of support to Monica and so, with only his talent for drawing to rely upon, he proceeded to work upon a romantic, and inspiring, series of pictures showing his wife depicted as the character Mrs. Mole, living out her dream existence in a tiny French country village – an aspiration which was eventually to become a reality for the both as Monica battled, and eventually overcame, the disease.
226. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. HAIMSOHN, George. The Portable Hamlet. Adapted for the Modern Reader by George Haimsohn. New York. Coward-McCann. 1951.
£48
Portrait 8vo., original stiff card wrappers. Illustrated throughout by the author. A fine copy.
First edition. A humorous cartoon parady of Hamlet. “The pictorial story of Hamlet as portrayed by a young man whose pen is as uninhibited as was poor Ophelia’s mind after Hamlet got tired of her.”
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BESIDES ALL THAT ROME ITSELF AFFORDS [...] TO THE EYE AND IMAGINATION, I REVISIT IT AS THE BOURNE OF A PIOUS PILGRIMAGE. THE TREASURES OF MY YOUTH LIE BURIED HERE’
227. SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843. London: Bradbury and Evans for Edward Moxon, 1844.
£1,495
8vo in 12s (194 x 120mm), 2 volumes. Late 19th-/early 20th-century half chestnut crushed morocco gilt over cloth boards by Wood, London with their inkstamps on front free endpapers, the spines gilt in compartments, lettered directly in 2 and dated at the foot, others panelled in gilt and with gilt leaf-tool cornerpieces, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers; pp. I: xx, 280; II: vii, [1 (blank)], 296; extremities very lightly rubbed, small bump at the head of one spine, slightly marked on upper board of one vol., some light browning and occasional light spotting, nonetheless a very good set retaining both half-titles in a handsome binding.
First edition. Mary Shelley’s last book, Rambles in Germany and Italy was based upon two journeys which she undertook with her son Percy Florence Shelley in 1840 and 1842-1843. The first journey in 1840 was to the north of Italy, and marked her return to a country which she had last seen in 1823, when she had left it as a desolate and penniless widow with her infant son Percy, having lost her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and children Clara and William Shelley in the preceding years; the work opens, ‘Can it, indeed, be true, that I am about to revisit Italy? How many years are gone since I quitted that country! There I left the mortal remains of those beloved — my husband and my children, whose loss changed my whole existence, substituting, for happy peace and the interchange of deep-rooted affections, years of desolate solitude, and a hard struggle with the world; which only now, as my son is growing up, is brightening into a better day. The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables. The hope of seeing it again recalls vividly to my memory that time, when misfortune seemed an empty word, and my habitation on earth a secure abode, which no evil
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