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47 ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets. London: printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona, for Faber & Faber, 1960
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45 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. London: John Murray, 1927 IN A NOTABLY BRIGHT EXAMPLE OF THE JACKET First edition in book form, in an attractive copy of the scarce dust jacket. This final collection of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories, all first published in Strand Magazine between 1921 and 1927, is a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, frame blocked in blind on front board. With illustrated dust jacket. Publisher’s green paper advertisement leaf dated Spring 1927 loosely inserted. Contemporary Swedish newspaper review mounted on rear pastedown, captioned in ink, manuscript gift inscription mounted on front free endpaper. Negligible rubbing to board edges, gilt on spine dulled, cloth fresh, offsetting to endpapers, an excellent copy in jacket, not price-clipped, small section of loss at head of spine, 2 closed tears almost the length of spine, nicks to jacket edges, small hole to front flap fold, all subtly
reinforced with archival tissue to verso, presenting well. ¶ Green and Gibson A46a. £9,750 [155056] 46 DULAC, Edmund (illus.); FITZGERALD, Edward. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909] First Dulac trade edition. Edmund Dulac’s illustrations for the Rubáiyát helped to confirm his position as “a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham” ( ODNB ). Quarto. Original cream cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with elaborate design in gilt, patterned endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 19 colour plates mounted on cream paper, captioned tissue-guards, by Edmund Dulac. Spine slightly toned, crease to frontispiece plate, some light foxing; a near-fine and bright copy. ¶ Hughey 21a. £675 [155111]
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