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46 ROBINSON, Charles (illus.); SHARP, Evelyn. The Child’s Christmas. London: Blackie and Son Limited, [1906]
48 SALINGER, J. D. The Catcher in The Rye. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1951 one of the great works of american fiction First edition, first printing, in a beautiful binding after the eye- catching jacket designed by Michael Mitchell. Octavo. Finely bound in crimson morocco, spine lettered in black and gilt, pictorial title block on front and rear covers in black and gilt against red and white morocco ground, turn-ins ruled in gilt, blue endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. £4,750 [153253] 49 SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919 the author’s best known war poems and previously unpublished work First edition, first impression. “Sassoon's savagely realistic and compassionate war poems had established his stature as a fully fledged poet, and despite all his later prose and verse, and his growing aversion to the label, it was mainly as a war poet that he was regarded for the rest of his life” ( ODNB ). Twelve of the poems included appear in print for the first time here. Small octavo. Finely bound in red morocco, white morocco spine label, and front cover lettered in black, turn-ins ruled in gilt, dark green endpapers,
an old-fashioned christmas season First edition, first impression.
top edge gilt. The occasional spot, an excellent copy in a fine binding. ¶ Keynes A20; Reilly, p. 286. £1,375 [148152]
Quarto. Finely bound in crimson morocco, pictorial title block on spine and front cover in gilt after original design, inner dentelles gilt, decorative holly and berry endpapers with original endpapers bound-in, gilt edges. Ownership inscription on half-title, the occasional minor blemish. An excellent copy. £2,450 [105837] 47 SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. The Little Prince. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943 “the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart” First edition, first printing. The original manuscript was in the author’s native French, but it was both written and published in America, the English and French editions appearing in April 1943, perhaps simultaneously. It was the author’s most successful work, selling an estimated 140 million copies worldwide. Quarto. Finely bound in terracotta morocco, spine lettered in black with two raised bands, covers ruled in black, pictorial onlay of the Little Prince on front cover, turn-ins ruled in black, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout by the author. A fine copy. £4,000 [153260]
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