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1952. GEORGE VI. illustrated magazine Special memorial issue. illustrated Magazine. 1952.


£28


Folio, original wrappers. A little creasing to wrappers, otherwise a very good copy.


The February 1952 special memorial issue to commemorate the death of King George vi.


1953. BEATON, Cecil and Kenneth TYNAN. Persona Grata. Wingate. 1953.


£148


Royal 8vo. original pale blue cloth, blocked in silver, dust-jacket designed by Beaton; 60 photographic portraits by Beaton; very good copy in used dust-jacket.


First edition. A fine collection of photographs of writers, actors, artists, etc., with text by Kenneth Tynan.


1954. MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. cakes and Ale. William Heinemann. [1954].


£598


8vo. original mushroom and blue lambskin, leather spine label, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; lithographic frontispiece portrait of the author by Graham Sutherland, several decorations by him, four pages of the original manuscript reproduced in facsimile; minor surface rubbing to the spine, but a very good copy in the original card slipcase.


First edition with these illustrations, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, signed by W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Sutherland.With an 8- page preface by the author specially written for this edition.


1955. LISTER, Raymond. Saint George. Privately Printed. 1955. £98


8vo., original printed wrappers with a design of Saint George and the dragon by Lister on upper wrapper. Wrappers a little browned otherwise a fine copy.


First edition, limited edition of 26 lettered copies, this letter “P”, signed with Lister’s monogram and inscribed “For Phyllis chanter”. “This imitation of a mediaeval miracle play was written by Raymond Lister in 1936 at the age of seventeen years. it was produced on march 5th 1940 at houghton hall, cambridge.”


1956.MORRIS, John (Editor). From the Third Programme. A Ten- Years’ Anthology. nonesuch Press, 1956.


£98


8vo, original grey buckram by Leighton-Straker, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, printed on Barcham Green’s rag mould-made paper, in marbled slipcase; with 4 engravings by Biro not present in the standard edition; a very good copy.


First edition, limited to 1300 numbered copies (this one out of series). Published to celebrate the tenth anniversary of broadcasting by the BBc’s Third Programme, and edited by the controller, who writes: “i decided to make a purely personal choice, and to place the emphasis not upon contributions to knowledge but upon pleasure”. included are James Kirkup, William Plomer, v.S. Pritchett, Stevie Smith, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, Bertrand Russell, E.m. Forster, Andre Gide, Edward Sackville-West, Thomas mann and max Beerbohm on meeting W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot on virgil and the christian World.


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