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Tokyo: Kaiseikan., [c.1915-1920].. First edition [?]. Octavo. Publisher's original quarter cloth over decorative paper-covered boards. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and numerous black and white in-text illustrations. 123pp. Contemporary ownership inscription in pencil to the front pastedown: "W M Emery / 4205 Yaguchidai / Yokohama", and the odd contemporary pencil annotation elsewhere. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little toning to the extremities. The contents with a little toning, some faint scattered foxing to the preliminary pages, and a few pages with minor corner creases are otherwise in very good order throughout. An uncommon and rather charming illustrated reader, designed to teach English to Japanese children, comprising 41 "lessons" concerning typically English or American situations, scenarios and occupations. Judging by the inscription, the present copy was quite possibly owned by an English teacher working in Yokohama during the period.WorldCat records… Read More

Paris: Éditions Albin Michel., 1961. First French edition. Octavo. Publisher's original plain white card boards with illustrated colour dustwrapper. Illustrated with 18 colour plates, 86 black and white plates and 15 in-text illustrations. 448pp. Printed card from the author and translator with manuscript ink greeting ("with affectionate greetings from the author and the translator"), plus original envelope addressed to Orovida Pissarro, loosely laid in. A very good copy, the binding square and firm. The contents with some light foxing to the endpapers and edges of the textblock, a small ink spot to the top edge of the textblock, and a minor crease to the blank corner of two text pages, are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. The dustwrapper with some marking, a few small chips and tears to the spine panel and a little wear to the extremities. The first French edition of the American art historian John Reward's (1912-1994) comprehensive history of Post-Impressionism, translated from… Read More

Hobart: Blubber Head Press., 1979. Limited edition, one of 30 copies "signed by the editor and bound in half leather by Peter Thomas of Adelaide", this being number 15. Octavo. Half navy-blue calf over blue cloth boards, ruled in gilt; the spine with five raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, gilt whale device to the bottom compartment, and titles in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece, 21 further black and white illustrations, and three folding maps. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a touch of rubbing to the spine. The contents with some scattered foxing to the edges of the textblock are otherwise in very good order. A collection of early titles relating to New South Wales, comprising reproductions of George Blaxland's 'A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales' (1823); Blaxland's Journal, prefaces to the 1870 and 1904 editions; William Lawson's 'The Journal...' (1813); William Charles Wentworth's 'The… Read More

[c.1813-1820]. Octavo. Contemporary half roan over marbled boards. Blue card endpapers. The contents comprising 21 proof engravings by John Romney after both his own drawings as well as works by other artists including Richard Westall, Henry Corbould, and Thomas Stothard, mounted on tabs and interleaved with thick blank paper leaves. Most of the engravings are captioned in pencil at the foot in a contemporary hand. The binding is somewhat fragile with both boards held by cords only and with wear and rubbing to the boards. The contents with varying scattered foxing (heavy to some plates, with others completely clean) are otherwise in good order. A curious bound collection of proof engravings by the English printmaker John Romney (1785-1863). Born in Chester, Romney spent much of his life in the city, although also lived and worked in London for a period. Amongst his more noted engravings were his 200 or so views produced for Augustus Pugin's 'Paris and its Environs' (1839-31), as well as his… Read More

1944-1961. Original typed letter from Eleanor Roosevelt on headed notepaper dated March 8, 1961, signed in blue ink to the foot, to Adlai Stevenson regarding the visit of the Indian journalist Hitindra Malik to the USA. 18 x 15cm. WITH: A TLS from Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary to President Kennedy, to Malik on White House headed notepaper, dated January 24, 1961, regarding a meeting between the pair; two TLS from Sir George Cunningham, Governor of North West Frontier Province, India, to Malik on headed notepaper, providing a letter of recommendation; an Indian government permit to send messages from government telegraph offices in India to 'Newsweek', New York, with charges paid by the recipient; and a newspaper clipping regarding Malik's marriage to an American woman - Hope Spingarn of Amenia, NY - in Bombay in 1957. The Roosevelt letter with a horizontal mailing crease to the centre and a diagonal crease just below the signature is otherwise in very good order. The other items are similarly in… Read More