TROLLKARLENS HATT (Finn Family Moomintroll) - Signed by Jansson, Tove - 1957

Duffield & Company, 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Jessie Willcox Smith. Generally good shape some damage to binding and soiled pages.

Constable and Company Limited. London. 1915. FIRST HEATH ROBINSON EDITION. Large 8vo. (8.7 x 7.1 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 8 full colour plates and 95 listed line drawings in the text, many full page, plus a few small vignettes, not in the list of illustrations. Finely bound in recent full dark green Morocco leather binding. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Single gilt ruled line border on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original illustrated front board and spine bound in. Some offsetting to the half title and the last text page but generally a very good clean and bright copy throughout in an attractive leather binding.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1934. First US edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. A near fine copy in blue cloth with dark blue titles and designs on spine and front cover Light fading at edges Inscribed by Author to Edith Keay Fowler on ffep No other marks or damage at all Unclipped DJ has some small chips at top edge but is otherwise in excellent condition and is now in a plastic protective wrapper Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (1892 â€" 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer She was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist She published more than a dozen collections of poetry during her lifetime and 13 novels She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf She also had a longstanding column in The Observer (1946â€"1961) and… Read More

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1931. First. Near Fine/Good. A near fine copy in burgundy cloth with paper title label on spine Signed by Pirandello on ffep but no other marks at all Minor darkening to endpapers Unclipped DJ has some edge wear and chipping, but overall good Works signed by this Nobel laureate are exceedingly scarce, particularly in dust jacket From Wikipedia: Luigi Pirandello (1867 â€" 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre" He was an Italian nationalist and supported Fascism in a moderate way, at one point giving his Nobel Prize medal to the Fascist government to be melted down as part of the 1935 Oro alla Patria [it] ("Gold to the Fatherland") campaign during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays,… Read More

Paris: Tolmer, 1924. First Edition. An outstanding French children's book of the 1920s and an unusually bold and daring example of pochoir design. Edy Legrand (1892-1970) was a leading illustrator of the Art Deco era, renowned for challenging traditional notions of children's book design. This folio, celebrating the great French explorers of the Pacific and Americas, was printed using the pochoir method of multiple colour stencilling guards. The resulting images are remarkable for their strong lines and vivid colouration. A prolific artist, Legrand illustrated a wide range of material including Don Quixote, The Three Musketeers and Dante's Inferno. Nonetheless, his children's books - remarkable for their blend of naïveté and confident design - are considered his most enduring productions. Legrand later worked in the United States, and eventually settled in Morocco where he produced oil paintings now considered modern masterpieces. Plates from Voyages et Glorieuses Decouvertes... were included in… Read More

Duffield & Company, 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Jessie Willcox Smith. Generally good shape some damage to binding and soiled pages.

Constable and Company Limited. London. 1915. FIRST HEATH ROBINSON EDITION. Large 8vo. (8.7 x 7.1 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 8 full colour plates and 95 listed line drawings in the text, many full page, plus a few small vignettes, not in the list of illustrations. Finely bound in recent full dark green Morocco leather binding. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Single gilt ruled line border on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original illustrated front board and spine bound in. Some offsetting to the half title and the last text page but generally a very good clean and bright copy throughout in an attractive leather binding.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1934. First US edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. A near fine copy in blue cloth with dark blue titles and designs on spine and front cover Light fading at edges Inscribed by Author to Edith Keay Fowler on ffep No other marks or damage at all Unclipped DJ has some small chips at top edge but is otherwise in excellent condition and is now in a plastic protective wrapper Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (1892 â€" 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer She was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist She published more than a dozen collections of poetry during her lifetime and 13 novels She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf She also had a longstanding column in The Observer (1946â€"1961) and… Read More

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1931. First. Near Fine/Good. A near fine copy in burgundy cloth with paper title label on spine Signed by Pirandello on ffep but no other marks at all Minor darkening to endpapers Unclipped DJ has some edge wear and chipping, but overall good Works signed by this Nobel laureate are exceedingly scarce, particularly in dust jacket From Wikipedia: Luigi Pirandello (1867 â€" 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre" He was an Italian nationalist and supported Fascism in a moderate way, at one point giving his Nobel Prize medal to the Fascist government to be melted down as part of the 1935 Oro alla Patria [it] ("Gold to the Fatherland") campaign during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays,… Read More

Paris: Tolmer, 1924. First Edition. An outstanding French children's book of the 1920s and an unusually bold and daring example of pochoir design. Edy Legrand (1892-1970) was a leading illustrator of the Art Deco era, renowned for challenging traditional notions of children's book design. This folio, celebrating the great French explorers of the Pacific and Americas, was printed using the pochoir method of multiple colour stencilling guards. The resulting images are remarkable for their strong lines and vivid colouration. A prolific artist, Legrand illustrated a wide range of material including Don Quixote, The Three Musketeers and Dante's Inferno. Nonetheless, his children's books - remarkable for their blend of naïveté and confident design - are considered his most enduring productions. Legrand later worked in the United States, and eventually settled in Morocco where he produced oil paintings now considered modern masterpieces. Plates from Voyages et Glorieuses Decouvertes... were included in… Read More