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Stratford-upon-Avon with tissue guard. A near-fine copy, fresh and free from signs of reading. ¶ Peter Sutcliffe, The Oxford University Press: An Informal History , 2002. £2,000 [152616]
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The Lorax was the author’s personal favourite work and tells of deforestation and environmental ruin. It was adapted into a computer animated film in 2012, starring the voice work of Danny DeVito, Taylor Swift, Betty White, and Zac Efron. Quarto. Original colour pictorial boards and endpapers. Issued without a dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Dr. Seuss. Removed label from front pastedown. Extremities slightly worn, some mild toning to boards but still a very good and bright copy with clean contents. ¶ Younger & Hirsch 49. £2,750 [153248] 174 SEX PISTOLS – REID, Jamie. Silly Thing / Who Killed Bambi poster. London: Virgin Records, 1979 An original Virgin Records promotional poster for the Sex Pistols’ eighth single, a double-side of “Silly Thing” and “Who Killed Bambi”. Johnny Rotten had by now left the band and the vocals were sung by Paul Cook on “Silly Thing” and on “Who Killed Bambi”, by Edward Tudor-Pole, who also co-wrote the song with Vivienne Westwood.
Offset lithograph in colours on white matt art paper. Sheet size: 69.7 × 100.1 cm. Corners worn with loss otherwise a bright copy. £1,000 [151802] 175 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Complete Works. Oxford: Clarendon Press, [c.1910] A STRIKING EXAMPLE OF AN OXFORD BINDING A finely bound copy, evidencing the “superb British craftsmanship” of the Oxford binding-house in Aldersgate Street, whose ability “to compete with the great continental firms was greatly admired. ‘Happily there are still people in the world who love a good binding’, wrote the Pall Mall Gazette , ‘who feel a strange contentment at seeing their author worthily housed’” (Sutcliffe, p. 110). Octavo (183 × 128 mm). Finely bound in a contemporary “Oxford Binding” of brown morocco in imitation of a 17th- century strapwork binding, with elaborate tooling and onlays to spine and covers, turn-ins framed by gilt fillets and with foliate corner-pieces, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Photogravure frontispiece of Shakespeare’s bust at
William. Twenty-Five Sonnets. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930 An attractively printed copy, bound for Audrey Pleydell- Bouverie (1902–1968), a sparkling socialite and Bright Young Thing who featured in Cecil Beaton’s Book of Beauty (1930). The front blank is inscribed to Pleydell- Bouverie with characteristic pet names of the period: “Beloved Rabbit. From Squirrel. Christmas 1933”. Pleydell-Bouverie charmed many notable bachelors, including the future Edward VIII and Lord Louis Mountbatten, and her tastes in Impressionist art, interior decoration, and husbands (marrying thrice) were commonly reported in the newspapers across the Atlantic. The Shakespeare Head Press first published Twenty-Five Sonnets in 1921. Octavo (188 × 133 mm), pp. 32. Contemporary vellum for Hatchards, titles to spine and front cover in gilt, front cover gilt-lettered “A.M.F.” (Audrey Field), gilt frames to front cover and rules to rear cover, two gilt fillets to turn-ins, white silk bookmarkerer. Titles and initials printed in blue. Vellum a little bowed and soiled, occasional foxing to margins, otherwise clean. A very good copy indeed. £750 [153429]
All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk
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