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147 TESTINO, Mario. Private View. Cologne: Taschen, 2012 Limited Collector’s Edition, number 589 of 1,500 copies, each signed by Testino. This bilingual publication in English and Chinese was issued by Taschen in tandem with Testino’s first-ever exhibition in China in 2011, at the Today Art Museum of Beijing. Folio. Original pink silk boards, lenticular portrait of Lady Gaga pasted to front cover, title to spine in black. Housed in original injection-moulded plastic box, altogether contained in the publisher’s cardboard box with title to lid. With original packaging box. Photographs throughout. Couple of small indentations to publisher’s cardboard box, otherwise a fine copy. £1,250 [156729] 148 THATCHER, Margaret. The Path to Power. London: Harper Collins, 1995 signed by the iron lady Signed limited edition, number 198 of 500 copies signed by Margaret Thatcher on the title page. Octavo. Original blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, blue endpapers, gilt edges, blue silk bookmarker. Housed in the original blue cloth slipcase. A couple of specks to rear cover, else a fine copy. £1,250 [157798]
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equivalent to a précis of Clausewitz – and infinitely more interesting”. Octavo. Original moderate green cloth, title gilt to spine and also to front board with red decorative panel and central “wheel” device. Very lightly rubbed, head and tail of spine a
touch crumpled, text-block slightly toned with occasional foxing, a very good copy. ¶ Dobson, “Lieutenant-Colonel Everard Ferguson Calthrop (1876–1915)” in Cortazzi, ed., Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits VII , pp. 85–101; Ion, “Something new under the Sun: Calthrop and the art of war” in Japan Forum , 2:1, 1990, pp. 29–41. £6,500 [141036] 146 TARTT, Donna. The Secret History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 “it’s a very greek idea, and a very profound one. beauty is terror” First edition, signed by the author on the title page. The Secret History was Tartt’s debut novel, which proved an immediate success, quickly establishing her reputation. Octavo. Original pictorial boards, white printed paper label to spine. With printed glassine jacket. A near-fine copy, the slightest bumping to ends and corners. £1,250 [156811]
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