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Cassell and Co. Ltd, 1891. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG. 1st Edition. 20.5 x 28.5 cm cloth backed paper covered boards. Decorative peach coloured endpapers 40 french-folded pages all with Crane's colour illustrations, with a one page advert for Crane's works and an 8 page publisher's catalogue to the rear. Some light dust staining to the spine and boards with a 2.5 cm split in the cloth on the front shoulder of the spine. The edges are a little rubbed. Internally there is a neat ownership name on the front free endpaper but otherwise the book is very clean. A very nice 1st Edition copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Queen Summer or the Journey of the Lilly & the Rose
by CRANE, Walter
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A Question of Upbringing - PROOF COPY [A Dance to the Music of Time] - housed in a bespoke solander / clamshell box.
by POWELL, Anthony
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Heinemann, 1950. Proof Copy. Softcover. VG++. Ultra rare proof copy. 124 x 185cm, 230pp. Publisher's original buff paper wraps with titles and "PROOF COPY" to the front cover and titles and publisher's windmill device to the spine, 230pp. The wraps have been printed on the verso of an unused illustration from a previous Heinemann book, Dog Days by K F Barker, so that parts of a bull terrier in full colour can be seen on the inside of the covers. The verso of the title page states "First Published 1950 - there is a pencil note on the front cover "Sept 30/[19?]50" - though the First Edition was not published until 22nd January 1951 in an edition of 7,500 copies. It is housed in a bespoke, black cloth solander (clamshell) box with gilt titles and lined with marbled paper. There are a few very light marks on the front cover, a very small 3 x 2mm chip near the top of its fore edge, a 3mm open tear at the top of the upper joint and one of 1cm at the foot of the same. The back cover has a toned…
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