Lucina sine Cuncubitu A Letter Humbly address'd to the Royal Society In Which Is proved by most Incontestable Evidence, drawn from Reason and Practice, that a Woman may conceive and be brought to Bed without any Commerce with Man by Sainsbury, Hester (Illustrator) - 1930

Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012-05-12. Paperback. Good.

London: John Rodker, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. From a limited edition of 1000. xiii+ 127 pages. Black boards backed with rose-colored leather. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Leather worn at top & bottom of spine. Text is very clean and has no foxing, stains etc. Binding is tight. Volume 4 only. 0.0

Kensington: The Cayme Press / Philip Sainsbury, 1927. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 1/350. Quarto, cloth hardbound, 68 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, owner's inscription on the front pastedown, light foxing/soil/discoloration to some pages of the text, some discoloration to the covers too (including sun-struck spine), a bit of rubbing or wear to the tips of the covers, no dust jacket. Limited edition, for some reason our copy does not appear to be numbered.

London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarter natural buckram gilt with decorated paper-covered boards, tall 8vo., 215 pages, 16 full-page drawings, including title-page, by Hester Sainsbury, colored by hand. The Haslewood Books. One of 535 numbered copies printed on all-rag paper. Additional title-page leaf, with quite different hand coloring, is loosely inserted. Inscription at flyleaf, spine and board margins quite toned, edgewear, still a near very good copy in archival mylar.

Kensington: Philip Sainsbury at The Cayme Press, 1927. limited to 350 numbered copies, this being copy #32; 68 pp., original blue cloth & white backstrip, previous owner's brief inscription inked to the front free endpaper, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

London: The Cresset Press, 1928. Limited Editio. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in quarter brown buckram over tan cloth, titling to the spine in gilt; [2], [i]-xxiv, [1]-349, [1] pages.~~"Of this edition 375 copies have been printed on special mould-made paper of which 350 are for sale, numbered 1-350, and 30 copies on hand-made paper, numbered i-xxx. This copy is number 185."~~A nice copy of a handsome edition. Very Good binding.

London: Golden Cockerel, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. quarter bound parchment and decorated boards. Teg. Near fine. Sainsbury, Hester. 41 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Limited edition. copy 101 of 500 on English hand-made paper. Printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings. Printed from the edition of 1750. CHANTICLEER 70. Spine slightly darkened.

Berkshire: The Giolden Cockerel Press, 1930. No. 319 of 500 copies. Fine. No. 319 of 500 copies. 12m0. (iv), 41p. Illustrated by Hester Sainsbury with three copper engravings. Bound in gilt-titled quarter parchment over pattern paper boards, t.e.g. Golden Cockerel Bibliography, No. 70.

Alfred A.Knopf, London, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First English edition. 8vo. 175pp. Quarter cloth with marbled paper sides, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's dark top edge stain. With a small title page decoration in red, six full-page woodcuts and one chapter header decoration, all by Hester Sainsbury. Several text leaves uncut. Free endpapers lightly and partially browned and with just a hint of wear to the corner tips. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. With ten instances of light pencilled marginalia, and two more in ink. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, nicked at the upper edge with several tiny fractions of loss and with some careful internal repair. Both wrapper flaps have been neatly severed from the main body of the wrapper, and each reattached with a single tiny piece of tape. A series of travel essays from the noted Modernist and Imagist (and later Nazi collaborator), originally… Read More

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927. . Limited edition, no. 28 of 375 copies, tall 8vo., pp.32, quarter orange buckram, gilt, orange paper-covered boards, coloured frontispiece and 4 further hand-coloured plates; toning and some foxing to endpapers, light foxing within, spine just lightly sunned, with light surface soil to boards and wear to paper covering at lower corners of boards, overall a very good copy, in good(+) unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, partially toned, with closed tears and light loss to upper margin.