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SELF-LIFE-DEATH
Written by Nobuyoshi Araki; Akiko Miki; Yoshiko Isshiki; Tomoko Sato. Illustrated by Nobuyoshi Araki.
Stock no. 1824155
Published by Phaidon Press. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

Nobuyoshi Araki is on eof Japan't most celebrated photographers both at home and abroad. His photographs are highly controversial and often regarded as enigmatic. They incorporate a wide range of images: scenes from his own honeymoon, including sexual acts; enlarged photographs of genitalia and flowers; bondage scenes of trussed up women hanging from the ceiling; Tokyo street scenes and more. Special luxury edition limited to 3,000 numbered copies. Textured soft white leather, blind titles. Colour & b/w photos throughout. Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery 6 October 2005 - 22 January 2006. ISBN: 0714845760. This is copy 0862 of 3,000.White leather boards just a little grubby. Contents are clean. Original clear plastic dustwrapper is torn to top front edge. Contained in original publisher's card slip jacket which is a little grubby and is split to one edge. Very heavy.

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PEACOCK PIE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Claude Lovat Fraser.
Stock no. 1323526
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1924. Almost very good condition.

Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies. Cloth spine with gilt title, grey boards. 127 pages, top edge gilt and others untrimmed. 16 colour plates. SIGNED by the artist to limitation page, this is copy no. 212. Endpapers are partly browned else contents are clean. Spine is darkened and worn at top with a small split to front edge. Corners are slightly bumped and worn.

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THE PIGEON ACE
Written by Enid Marx. Illustrated by Enid Marx.
Stock no. 1323524
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1943. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Light foxing to covers. Foxing to contents. One page has a large tear and crease, two others have small tears. Still a nice copy of a scarce book.

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NATURE SERIES 1-9
No author listed. Illustrated by Littlewood-Moore.
Stock no. 1323523
Published by Blandford Press Ltd.. 1958. Very good condition.

Nine volumes: Bird Painting Book, A Painting Book of Flowers, A Painting Book of British Butterflies, A Painting Book of Tropical Fish, Birds of Lake & Stream Painting Book, The Painting Book of Garden Flowers, Tropical Birds Painting Book, Birds of Hill and Forest Painting book, The Painting Book of Birds of the Aviary. Each book is bound in cardwraps and has beautiful colour illustrations with a b/w version opposite to be painting. Some light browning to covers and rubbing to spines. Contents are unused and clean. A nice set.

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DINARBAS; A TALE: BEING A CONTINUATION OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA
Written by Ellis Cornelia Knight.
Stock no. 1824154
Published by C. Dilly, In The Poultry. 1st 1790. Very good condition.

The anonymous coninuation by Ellis Cornelia Knight of Samuel Johnson's Rasselas (1759). Re-bound in three quarter tan calf leather, raised bands to spine, red title label with gilt title to spine. Marbled paper boards. Vertical and lower edge of text block untrimmed. xii and 356 pages. Modern binding is beautifully clean, bright and tight. New endpapers. Some minor foxing to the contents. Browning to text block and page edges. Overall a decent copy for a text of 240+ years old.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1944 (FACSIMILE) - RUPERT IN MORE ADVENTURES
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1323515
Published by Pedigree Books Limited. 1996. Nearly fine condition.

Collectors Limited Edition. Reproduction of the 1944 Rupert annual. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 1874507694. This is copy no. 4252. Spine faded. Slipcase is sunned at edges.

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ALADDIN'S PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1323510
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1876. Almost very good condition.

Containing Aladdin, The Yellow Dwarf, Princess Belle-Etoile and The Hind in the Wood. Blue cloth with white titles and illustrations. 24 full-page colour plates. Possibly the rarest of Walter Crane's works. Spine and corners bumped and worn, some very slight loss of cloth to top of spine. Small dent to top edge of front cover. Cover edges slightly darkened. Heavy foxing to contents and some grubby fingermarks to page margins. A couple of small closed margin tears. A very decent copy of a scarce book.

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ALMANACK FOR 1884
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323507
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1884. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour frontis and decorated title page. A colour picture every page, printed by Edmund Evans. Post Office regulations at end. A sweet little book. Covers are grubby and rubbed at edges. Light foxing to contents.

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ALMANACK FOR 1928
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323504
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1928. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Very small, slime format. Peach and cream pictorial boards, brown cloth spine. Colour illustrations. Minimal rubbing at corners. Endpapers have been professionally replaced (I think). Contents fine. Tissue-paper dustwrapper is slightly edge chipped. Very scarce in wrapper.

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ALMANACK FOR 1926
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323503
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1926. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Very small format. Black cloth spine, pictorial boards. Pretty colour illustrations. Minimal rubbing at corners. Contents fine. Tissue-paper wrapper is very slightly edge chipped and creased. Scarce in wrapper.

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ALMANACK FOR 1925
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323502
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1925. Very good condition.

Very small oblong format. Yellow cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations (originally appearing in the 1887 Almanack). Some slight browning/discolouration to covers. Endpapers lightly browned. Some small marks to page margins but generally contents clean.

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ALMANACK FOR 1894
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323500
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1894. Very good condition.

Orange cloth spine, pictorial boards. Blue endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout, some full-page. 4 x 3 inches. Spine is a tiny bit rubbed at top and bottom. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents are clean.

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