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soon...”. The pirate twins set off to sea for more adventures, but every year they come home for Mary’s birthday.
NIELSEN’S MOST HIGHLY ACCLAIMED WORK NIELSEN, Kay EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON Old Tales from the North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen Hodder & Stoughton, [1914] [46675] First edition. Large 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and de- sign.1350 Pictorial endpapers with striking black and white design. Twenty-five stunning colour plates mounted under cap - tioned tissue guards. There are also many line drawings and chapter heading designs. A near fine, bright copy. $4,250 This work is Nielsen’s most highly acclaimed. Illustrating the fairy tales of his native Scandinavia. His images are vivd and striking, with clear Nordic influence.
Rowson, the paper-maker. This is a magnificent production half bound by Zaehnsdorf in white vellum over “seaweed boards”. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Housed in the original slip- case. Original advertising leaflet from Arcadia Press, explaining that the publication was timed to coincide with the 200th An - niversary of Coleridge’s birth, loosely inserted. The paper used is hand-made paper specially designed with a seaweed motif. There are ten magnificent tipped in colour plates, which measure 30 cm x 21 cm., in Le Cain’s vibrant early style, reminiscent of some of the great golden age illustrators, such as Nielsen and Clarke. A fine bright copy, in a fine slipcase. $3,500 A spectacular and beautiful production, manufactured entirely by hand, from the ‘seaweed paper’ created by The Wookey Hole Mill for the covers and the text, the hand printing of the calligraphic text by Wood Westworth and the half vellum binding hand-crafted by the Zaehnsdorf bindery. ONE OF 60 SIGNED COPIES NICHOLSON, William THE PIRATE TWINS Faber & Faber, [1929] [45875] First edition. Number 56 of only 60 copies signed by William Nicholson in green pencil on the front pastedown. Oblong 8vo. Paper covered pictorial boards, with colour illustrations by Nich - olson on both upper and lower covers. Pictorial pastedowns and 26 illustrations by Nicholson, with calligraphic text below. A fine copy, with very slight bumping to the bottom outside corners of the boards, and faint printing marks to the margin of page 14. $5,250 This is the second of Nicholson’s books for children. A little girl finds two small, black dolls on the beach. Mary takes the dolls home and cares for them until one day they leave a note “... Gone for ever. Don’t worry; Back
SPECIALLY BOUND WITH ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR RACKHAM, Arthur THE COMPLEAT ANGLER by Izaak Wal - ton Or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. being a discourse of rivers, fishponds, fish and fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers. With an introduction by Henry Williamson. Harrap, 1931 [40329] First edition. 4to. Special edition, number two of approximately 10 copies specially bound with an original watercolour by Rack -
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