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Best.-Nr. 23841London: Jonathan Cape 1983. First edition first printing. published by Jonathan Cape in London 1983. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper has some mild wear to the top and tail of the spine with some slight tearing to the top. There is slight rubbing at the edges. It has not been price clipped. The text blocks are toned and a little foxed at the side and top edges. Accompanied by one of a limited edition of 360 this being 21 published by the Roald Dahl Story Company of Dahl's manuscript for his alternate ending to the book. Designed by Laura Coppolaro the very good folder is a little stained and much of the string is missing. This is exceptionally scarce The "alternate ending" for Roald Dahl's The Witches exists in a special 360-copy edition of the book containing a version where the hero stays a mouse and he and his grandmother become witch hunters. In this version after the witches are defeated he and his grandmother use the Grand High Witch's machine to find and eliminate witches world-wide accepting his short mouse life-span to continue the fight. This is a variation of the book's original darker ending which differs from the happier conclusion of the 1990 movie adaptation. Jonathan Cape unknown
1938Best.-Nr. 51427London: Collins Crime Club 1938. 1938. First U.S. edition. Original fine bright orange cloth is tight and square in a bright fresh dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends. The book is divided into three parts. The first section deals with the death of Martie a young boy killed by a hit-and-run driver. The father grieves and blames himself for having sent the boy out at dusk. At the same time he plans to kill the driver if and when he learns the identity. The second section deals with the father coming to grips with his son's death and devotes his energies to tracking down his son's killer. As he searches for the killer he develops a profile of the killer and looks for the right person to fill the bill as driver and killer. He decides upon a man named George Rattery whose life fits the bill of the father's mental picture of the killer. He decides to kill Rattery in a boating accident. Section three reveals that George Rattery is dead by poisoning the father's diary comes to light and the police accuse him of murdering Rattery. He calls in Nigel Strangeways to clear his name. After much investigation Strangeways brings the case to a stunning conclusion. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title. Highly recommended and an exceptional copy. Housed in a clamshell case with titles stamped in silver on the spine. Collins Crime Club, [1938]. hardcover
1805Best.-Nr. 76378Chichester and London:: J. Seagrave; for Richard Phillips 1805. First edition. old full straight-grain morocco; gilt spine; all edges gilt. Some inoffensive very slight tanning to a couple of leaves; contents almost entirely clean and fine. Some scuffing to the spine and extremities of the leather but tight sound and attractive. . 12mo. With Prints Designed and Engraved by William Blake. The five plates are in the first state. Keynes 74. There are two old pencil notes of provenance: one that this copy was in the "Hy. White sale" and the other a 1902 ownership signature. J. Seagrave; for Richard Phillips, hardcover
Best.-Nr. 140945486New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First American Edition. Near Fine. Deluxe limited first American edition number 20 of 300 copies signed by the Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake. Bound in publuisher's original red cloth stamped in gilt housed in grey cloth-covered slipcase. Near Fine with a bump to one corner of the slipcase with a corresponding bump to the top corner of the covers of the book itself else Fine. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown
Best.-Nr. 140945486New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1982. First American Edition. Near Fine. Deluxe limited first American edition number 20 of 300 copies signed by the Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake. Bound in publuisher's original red cloth stamped in gilt housed in grey cloth-covered slipcase. Near Fine with a bump to one corner of the slipcase with a corresponding bump to the top corner of the covers of the book itself else Fine. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 1270581967. London: Bodley Head 1967. Small 8vo 24 pp. with 9 sepia illustrations to the text by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated card wrappers slight age-toning damage to lower cover repaired. § First and only edition limited to 275 copies printed as a gift from the publishers. One of Sendak's rarest and most sought-after books. Bentley BBS p.161. During a promotional tour for the British publication of Where the Wild Things Are in 1967 Sendak suffered a major heart attack. He attributed his survival to the quick reactions of those around him in particular his editor Judy Taylor. In thanks he prepared the drawings for this little book and had it privately printed at the Stellar Press and Bodley Head for distribution among friends. None were offered for sale. unknown
1967Best.-Nr. 1270581967. London: Bodley Head 1967. Small 8vo 24 pp. with 9 sepia illustrations to the text by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated card wrappers slight age-toning damage to lower cover repaired. § First and only edition limited to 275 copies printed as a gift from the publishers. One of Sendak's rarest and most sought-after books. Bentley BBS p.161. During a promotional tour for the British publication of Where the Wild Things Are in 1967 Sendak suffered a major heart attack. He attributed his survival to the quick reactions of those around him in particular his editor Judy Taylor. In thanks he prepared the drawings for this little book and had it privately printed at the Stellar Press and Bodley Head for distribution among friends. None were offered for sale. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 143009London: Jonathan Cape 1988. First British edition of Dahl’s popular story of a young girl her genius and her indifferent parents. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Presentation copy boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Andrew Love Roald Dahl." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. "Dahl seems to have made an art form of the rediscovery that children tend to warm to the sorts of horror that make lesser mortals adults squirm with displeasure He is undeniably special" Connolly 104. Basis for the 1996 Danny DeVito directed film starring Mara Wilson DeVito Rhea Perlman Embeth Davidtz and Pam Ferris. Jonathan Cape hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. C86297Centre / Yale University Press. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Corresponds to ISBN: 0300025505. TWO 2 VOLUME SET. Volume 1: Text 668 pages; Volume 2: Illustrations1193 plates. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Paintings & Drawings -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1981. 0300025505 . Centre / Yale University Press hardcover
1813Best.-Nr. 018448London: J. Johnson 1813. Second Edition. Hardcover. Occasional light small stain but very clean overall. Near Fine with minor wear. Two quarto 8-1/2" x 10-1/2" volumes bound in early calf-backed marbled boards with calf corners contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels marbled endpapers top edges gilt rebacked. A graphic account of the slave rebellion in Dutch Guiana 1772- 1777 illustrated with 81 engravings including 3 folding maps after drawings by the author by William Blake 13 with an additional 3 attributed to him Bartolozzi Benedetti Barlow and others. Sabin 91075 called this "one of the richest contemporary accounts of a plantation society in the Americas." According to the DNB Stedman's narrative is "one of the most vivid indictments of slavery that have been penned." Stedman also depicts the social and natural history of the area in detail and many of the engravings illuminate his writings on these subjects. Blake's work among the finest that he did for hire are primarily powerful portraits of slaves. J. Johnson hardcover
1825Best.-Nr. 122290London: William Blake for John Linnell 1825. Fine. London William Blake for John Linnell 'Published as the Act directs March 8: 1825' in fact 1826. An original engraving printed surface 195 × 148 mm plus the credits paper size 377 × 271 mm matted with archival board and behind glass in a simple but apposite polished wooden frame visible image size 237 × 187 mm external dimensions 540 × 448 mm. Paper lightly cockled with a tiny closed tear to the bottom margin of the sheet well clear of the printed surface; essentially in fine condition. 'William Blake's "Illustrations of the Book of Job" primarily refers to a series of twenty-two engraved prints published 1826 by Blake illustrating the biblical Book of Job. It also refers to two earlier sets of watercolours by Blake on the same subject 1806 and 1821. The engraved "Illustrations" are considered to be Blake's greatest masterpieces in the medium of engraving and were also a rare commercial and critical success for Blake' Wikipedia. Plate 13 quotes Job 38:1-2 and 28 'Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind / Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge . Hath the Rain a Father & Who hath begotten the Drops of the Dew' and Psalms 104:3 'Who maketh the Clouds his Chariot & walketh on the Wings of the Wind'. The Blake authority G.E. Bentley Jr 'Blake Books. Annotated Catalogues of William Blake's Writings in Illuminated Printing .' Clarendon Press 1977 records that 'According to Linnell's "Job" accounts 150 "Proof" sets on India paper watermarked J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1825 and 65 on French paper watermarked J WHATMAN 1825 were printed by Lahee in March 1826. Then the word "Proof" was removed from the plates though it is still faintly visible on the copperplates and in some pulls and 100 sets were printed on drawing paper'. The example we have for sale is one of the latter group printed after the word 'Proof' was removed from the original copperplate. William Blake [for John Linnell] unknown
1805Best.-Nr. 46810WILLIAM BLAKE ILLUSTRATED first edition 8vo. 2 blank 8 title leaf preface leaf a blank leaf half or sub-title 212 2 contents and colophon 2 blankpp. 5 plates by Blake untrimmed and clearly exhibiting the plate mark near contemporary maroon roan backed boards marbled paper over boards edges untrimmed as issued paper title label on spine lettered in faded ink manuscript plain later endpapers light water stain at the lower gutter side of the last 2 leaves mainly evident on the terminal blank leaf with very light marks at the same point on neighbouring leaves including the last plate leaves A4-A5 a trifle creased and dusty some light dustiness mainly at the untrimmed edges some plates with light foxing and some lightly toned at the untrimmed edges last plate The Horse with small patch of light surface abrasion at lower corner outside the image but inside the plate mark occasional other minor dusty smudges generally a very good and pleasing copy. Armorial bookplate of James Balfour slightly damaged. Bentley Blake Books 465 The plates are signed below the images "Blake inv & sc' and have the imprint 'Pubd. or Pub'd june 18 1805 by R. Phillips No6 Bridge Street Black Friers".Plates 1 to 3 inclusive are in the second more extensively worked state. Plates 4 and 5 are in the first and only state. This copy has a comma rather than a full stop after 'BLAKE' on the title page as in the copy at Princeton with plates 1 and 2 in the second state. This book is possibly a copy in the original boards that have at some later point in the nineteenth century been backed with maroon roan and the boards covered with cloth and then with marbled paper and supplied with new endpapers possibly by an amateur. The bookplate looks as if it may have been lifted from an earlier setting and relaid. Printed by J. Seagrave; for Richard Phillips .. hardcover
1893Best.-Nr. 1271871893. London: Quaritch 1893. 3 vols. roy. 8vo I xvi 420 portrait frontispiece and a folding table at p.280; printed errata to all three volumes loosely inserted in vol. 1 II vi 435 frontispiece life cast of Blake's head folding table at p.8; III ix 99 frontispiece portrait "Blake by his wife"; followed by facsimiles. Original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers. A very good copy restored by Coriander Reisbord. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance" Bentley 369 who cautions that the scholarly value of the work is at best uneven. unknown
1893Best.-Nr. 375973London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Original grass green cloth heavily stamped in gilt t.e.g brown endpapers. Light rubbing to edges of binding. A VERY FINE COPY. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Bentley 369: "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance." Wade Yeats Bibliography 218 quoting a letter from Yeats: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." Bentley 369; Wade Yeats Bibliography 218. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux bookplate in each vol. Bernard Quaritch unknown
1893Best.-Nr. 1271871893. London: Quaritch 1893. 3 vols. roy. 8vo I xvi 420 portrait frontispiece and a folding table at p.280; printed errata to all three volumes loosely inserted in vol. 1 II vi 435 frontispiece life cast of Blake's head folding table at p.8; III ix 99 frontispiece portrait "Blake by his wife"; followed by facsimiles. Original green cloth with extensive gilt stampings of Blake designs to covers. A very good copy restored by Coriander Reisbord. § First edition of one of the most influential works on Blake. "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance" Bentley 369 who cautions that the scholarly value of the work is at best uneven. unknown books
1893Best.-Nr. 375973London: Bernard Quaritch 1893. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Original grass green cloth heavily stamped in gilt t.e.g brown endpapers. Light rubbing to edges of binding. A VERY FINE COPY. First Edition limited to 500 copies. There was a large paper edition One of 150 bound in leather but the regular edition as here is more desirable on account of the lavish gilt publisher's binding. 3 portraits 2 folding charts approx. 312 reproductions from the illuminated books. xiv 420; viii 436; x 100 2; 176 pp. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Bentley 369: "The enthusiasm and comprehensiveness of this work are of considerable historical importance." Wade Yeats Bibliography 218 quoting a letter from Yeats: "The writing of this book is mainly Ellis's the thinking is as much mine as his. The biography is by him. He re-wrote and trebled in size a biography of mine. The greater part of the 'symbolic system' is my writing; the rest of the book was written by Ellis working over short accounts of the books by me except in the case of the 'literary period' the account of the minor poems & the account of Blake's art theories which are all his own except in so far as we discussed everything together." Bentley 369; Wade Yeats Bibliography 218. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux bookplate in each vol. Bernard Quaritch unknown books
Best.-Nr. 140946459New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1984. Signed Limited First Edition. Fine. First American edition first printing. Number 188 of a limited 200 copies signed by Roald Dahl. vi 160 pp. Bound in original brown cloth boards with upper board decorated in blind and spine stamped in gilt. Fine in a slipcase with light rubbing and sticker price sticker remnants on front board. A sharp copy of Roald Dahl's autobiography illustrated by Quentin Blake. Farrar Straus Giroux unknown
Best.-Nr. 140946459New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1984. Signed Limited First Edition. Fine. First American edition first printing. Number 188 of a limited 200 copies signed by Roald Dahl. vi 160 pp. Bound in original brown cloth boards with upper board decorated in blind and spine stamped in gilt. Fine in a slipcase with light rubbing and sticker price sticker remnants on front board. A sharp copy of Roald Dahl's autobiography illustrated by Quentin Blake. Farrar Straus Giroux unknown books
1919Best.-Nr. 140947788Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour 1919. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. vi 2 7-314 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with light wear to extremities light toning and several stains to covers. Dust-soiling to upper edge of textblock minimal foxing to lower edge thumbing to first two leaves. Bertram Cope's Year is the first mainstream American novel to depict a homosexual relationship. The established writer Henry Blake Fuller tried several commercial publishers before resorting to a friend with a small press to get his comic novel in print. Despite the discretion with which Fuller handled his theme the book was received uneasily by reviewers and sold poorly. The disappointed author burned the manuscript and unsold copies and first editions are consequently scarce. Ralph Fletcher Seymour unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 140947788Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour 1919. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. vi 2 7-314 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with light wear to extremities light toning and several stains to covers. Dust-soiling to upper edge of textblock minimal foxing to lower edge thumbing to first two leaves. Bertram Cope's Year is the first mainstream American novel to depict a homosexual relationship. The established writer Henry Blake Fuller tried several commercial publishers before resorting to a friend with a small press to get his comic novel in print. Despite the discretion with which Fuller handled his theme the book was received uneasily by reviewers and sold poorly. The disappointed author burned the manuscript and unsold copies and first editions are consequently scarce. Ralph Fletcher Seymour unknown books
1798Best.-Nr. 7427London: Printed for John Murray 1798. First edition in English. Near Fine. Three folio volumes bound in five 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches; 327 x 260 mm. ii half-title verso blank ii vignette title-page verso blank ii translator's preface vi advertisement iv contents x list of subscribers ii dedication vi author's preface ii French translators' preface 3-280; iii-xii; 1-3 4-238; 1 half title vol II. part II verso blank 239-444; iii-iv title-page verso blank v-xii contents 1-252; 2 half title vol III. part III 253-437 1 blank 1-xi index 1 blank pp. Complete with 174 engraved plates after Rubens Fuseli Bartlozzi and Blake. Bound ca. 1830 in full dark green diced calf covers with double ruled gilt line and decorative corner-pieces in gilt. Spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead on front paste-down of each volume. Some light foxing and offsetting throughout but still an incredible set of this landmark work. Near Fine. Johann Caspar Lavater 1741 - 1801 "was the last and most influential of the descriptive physiognomists a class of pseudo-scientists who attempted to ascertain character on the basis of physical features.Von der Physiognomik 1772 an unillustrated two-volume book was Lavater's first work on the subject; this was later expanded with the help of Goethe into the four-volume Physiognomische Fragmente 1775 - 1778 and further perfected in a French translation Essais sur la physiognomie 1781.supervised by Lavater himself. Lavater's physiognomy differed from those of his predecessors in that he paid special attention to the structure of the head particularly the forehead - a form of psychological indexing that exerted some influence on the development of phrenology and brain localization theories in the early nineteenth century. Lavater's work also influenced artists of the period both in the overall creation of portraits and in the use of his physiognomical theories to construct individual faces in historical paintings" Norman Library. Among the portraits included in Essays on Physiognomy are those of Descartes Locke Milton Newton Vesalius Voltaire and George Washington. Osler 3178. Near Fine. Printed for John Murray unknown
1798Best.-Nr. 7427London: Printed for John Murray 1798. First edition in English. Near Fine. Three folio volumes bound in five 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches; 327 x 260 mm. ii half-title verso blank ii vignette title-page verso blank ii translator's preface vi advertisement iv contents x list of subscribers ii dedication vi author's preface ii French translators' preface 3-280; iii-xii; 1-3 4-238; 1 half title vol II. part II verso blank 239-444; iii-iv title-page verso blank v-xii contents 1-252; 2 half title vol III. part III 253-437 1 blank 1-xi index 1 blank pp. Complete with 174 engraved plates after Rubens Fuseli Bartlozzi and Blake. Bound ca. 1830 in full dark green diced calf covers with double ruled gilt line and decorative corner-pieces in gilt. Spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead on front paste-down of each volume. Some light foxing and offsetting throughout but still an incredible set of this landmark work. Near Fine. Johann Caspar Lavater 1741 - 1801 "was the last and most influential of the descriptive physiognomists a class of pseudo-scientists who attempted to ascertain character on the basis of physical features.Von der Physiognomik 1772 an unillustrated two-volume book was Lavater's first work on the subject; this was later expanded with the help of Goethe into the four-volume Physiognomische Fragmente 1775 - 1778 and further perfected in a French translation Essais sur la physiognomie 1781.supervised by Lavater himself. Lavater's physiognomy differed from those of his predecessors in that he paid special attention to the structure of the head particularly the forehead - a form of psychological indexing that exerted some influence on the development of phrenology and brain localization theories in the early nineteenth century. Lavater's work also influenced artists of the period both in the overall creation of portraits and in the use of his physiognomical theories to construct individual faces in historical paintings" Norman Library. Among the portraits included in Essays on Physiognomy are those of Descartes Locke Milton Newton Vesalius Voltaire and George Washington. Osler 3178. Near Fine. Printed for John Murray unknown books
Best.-Nr. 97634London: Creatively Recycled Empire Limited 2010. Edition of 25. Signed in marker pen lower right by Blake numbered lower left. 10 spot colour lithograph on 56% recycled tinplate. Sheet size: 81 x 62 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black box frame with UV conservation glass. unknown
Best.-Nr. 111844London: Creatively Recycled Empire Limited 2010. Edition of 25. Signed in marker pen lower right by Blake numbered lower left. 10 spot colour lithograph on 56% recycled tinplate. Sheet size: 81 x 62 cm. Framed size: 86.3 x 67.5 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in a black box frame with UV conservation glass. unknown
1784Best.-Nr. 1046721784. London: Harrison and Co. 1784-1785. 2 vols. in one 8vo 1-9 10-485 1; 1-5 6-193 1 pp. With a folding frontispiece second version and numerous folding engraved plates of which 5 are engraved by Blake one after Stothard and four after Samuel Collings. Contemporary marbled boards modern-calf backstrip and tips a very good set with good margins around the plates: rare. § Only edition. "These are the only caricature prints engraved by Blake. The graphic style is appropriately broad and rugged particularly in the barnyard scene. 'Fun I love but too much fun is of all things most loathsom' Blake to Trusler 1799. Blake may have felt that the great rage for caricature prints in the 1790s was a hindrance to the sale of his own original graphic works." Essick CBE p. 37. Bentley Blake Books 513. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XVI. unknown
