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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1406359
Published by William Heinemann. 1919. Slightly better than good condition.

Frontis and 50 superb colour plates, tissue-guarded and mounted on green card at rear of book. 62 text pages. Green cloth, green titles and vignette to front cover. Spine bumped, worn and browned with small splits to the cloth. Top corners badly bumped with top rear corner almost split. Bumping to bottom corners. Bottom board edges bumped and rubbed. Covers a little grubby. Book plate to front pastedown. Browning to front endpapers and some of the mounts for the plates. Inscription in ink to half title page. Some hinges are cracked. Some fingering. Creasing to a couple of plates. Top of book is bowed.

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I LEONARDO
Written by Ralph Steadman. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Stock no. 1506771
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1983. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Raucous, anarchic, exquisite and moving... Large oblong format. Green boards with gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0224019163. SIGNED by Steadman with dedication and date. He appears to have torn page with pen when signing so has written oops!! alongside. Contents clean. Dustwrapper ever so slightly edge worn.

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WHAT ELSE DO YOU DO?
Written by Mel Calman. Illustrated by Mel Calman.
Stock no. 1506718
Published by Methuen London Ltd. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Some sketches from a cartoonist's life. Grey boards with gilt titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 105 numbered pages. ISBN: 0413588408. Signed by author, with inscription, on front endpaper. A little fading to base of spine and edges of covers alongside. Faint erased pencil writing to front endpaper otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with a few small marks, very light browning to spine area.

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DARK ESTUARY
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 2122674
Published by Hollis & Carter. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A source of abiding delight to all those who love wildfowl and the lonely firths of Scotland. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. 15 glorious colour plates plus b/w drawings. SIGNED by author to dedication page. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks with a little scuffing to covers. Pale foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is browned to spine, with edge-tears and chips; some repairs; only a little loss. Wrapper also has some grubby marks.

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CAT O' NINE TALES
Written by Jeffrey Archer. Illustrated by Ronald Searle.
Stock no. 1506689
Published by MacMillan. 1st 2006. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The fifth collection of short stories from the master storyteller. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 254 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781405032575. A nice copy.

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THE GREEN LACQUER PAVILION
Written by Helen Beauclerk. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1506638
Published by W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd.. 1st 1926. Very good condition.

Brown cloth. Green title label to spine. Gilt titles, border and vignette. 9 b/w illustrations plus a portrait of the author. 319pp. 8 x 5.5". A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Slight surface paper damage to title block on spine. Some uneven darkening to covers. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Foxing to contents but otherwise very good.

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THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK
Written by Selma G. Lanes. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2122444
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1981. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Large oblong format. Pictorial cloth. "Sendak's Life and Works are explored in affectionate detail, including many colour and b/w illustrations and folding plates, a moveable scene and a facsimile of the tiny mock-up that Sendak first made for the story that would later become Where The Wild Things Are". ISBN: 0370303865. A lovely copy.

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FANTASTIC ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN IN BRITAIN, 1850-1930
Written by Diana L. Johnson.
Stock no. 2122430
Published by Museum Of Art. 1979. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red cloth, gilt titles. Colour plates, b/w photos and illustrations. Limited to 7000 copies. Not only a book on the subject of fantastic illustration, but also the catalogue of an exhibition. Bumping to spine. A few light marks to covers. Wrapper is grubby with edge-creasing and chipping; couple of closed tears.

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WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
Written by William Feaver.
Stock no. 2122410
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1ST 1977. Very good condition.

Two Centuries of Children's Book Illustration. Large format. Yellow pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0500270759. A few grubby marks to covers. Couple of corners are a bit creased.

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CHERRYWOOD CANNON
Written by Dimitri Sidjanski. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Stock no. 1316279
Published by Paddington Press. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. White boards with black silhouette to front cover. Colour illustrations. A Fable of War and Peace. ISBN: 0448229781. SIGNED by the artist to title-page with a small doodle to the cannon illustration. Small nibble patch to base of spine of book. Ink (biro) 2.00 written to top corner of front free-endpaper. Some loss to lower spine corner of front panel of wrapper (where it was nibbled). Dustwrapper is lightly browned, some lifting of laminate at lower edge of front panel.

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THE IBIS JOURNAL 4 PHANTASIES AND DREAMS
Written by Geoffrey Beare. Illustrated by Robert Anning Bell; Arthur Hughes; Florence Mary Anderson.
Stock no. 1812716
Published by The Imaginative Book Illustration Society. 1st 2011. Fine condition.

Introduction by Geoffrey Beare. Articles about illustrations of Robert Anning Bell; Arthur Hughes; and Florence Mary Anderson. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour illustrations. 144 pages. ISBN: 9780953559640. A lovely copy.

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THE IBIS JOURNAL 1 ASPECTS OF ILLUSTRATION
Written by Robin Greer; et al. Illustrated by Willy Pogany; Alice B. Woodward; et al..
Stock no. 1208609
Published by The Imaginative Book Illustration Society. 1st 1999. Fine condition.

White pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. Bibliographies and essays on book illustration. Includes articles on Alice B. Woodward and Willy Pogany. ISBN: 095559602.

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