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Jonathan Cape, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Lacks dust wrapper, boards slightly rubbed and soiled, title to spine slightly damaged, spine slightly darkened. Previous owners name to free front end paper no other inscriptions, illustrated, page edges rough cut. Clean internally with little wear although there is some slight spotting to end papers. Heavy book which will require additional postage outside the UK.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1923 pp 76 Internally very good subject to moderate tanning to the endpapers, binding firm , cover a little rubbed - no labels.Pics available

London: Jonathan Cape, 1923 8vo. original beige cloth, spine label, uncut (slightly rubbed & bumped, some offsetting to flyleaves, a few marks, else clean & bright; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 76, with illustrations. A very good copy. Ex-libris Jocelyn Britten, wife of Journalist and Military historian Gavin Merrick Long, with her ownership signature dated Dec. 7. 1924 to FFE.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket. Illus. by Stephen Bone.

1928. First edition. The Medici Society, London. 1928. Grey cloth, gilt type to spine and upper board. Colour frontis; colour vignette to title-page. 58 pages. Ills. throughout, some in colour. V. sl. wear to extremities; a nice copy.

The Gregynog Press, Newtown, Montgomeryshire., 1928. First edition. Arranged by Edward Garnett. Foreword by the author. Frontispiece engraving of the author by R.A. Maynard from a portrait by Augustus John. Royal octavo. pp viii, 91. Black Cockerell marbled paper boards with black buckram backstrip and black buckram fore-edge strip. One of 310 numbered copies. On the front free endpaper is the pencilled ownership signature of the film critic and travel writer Dilys Powell.Some light rubbing to edges of covers. Very good indeed.

Newtown: The Gregynog Press, 1928. No. 284 of 310 copies. Portrait frontispiece wood by R.A. Maynard after Augustus John. Printed in Baskervile type on Japanese vellum in with yellow title vignette and borders on every page. 8vo., original black buckram and marbled paper covered boards, largely unopened. With some mild rubbing to cloth, otherwise very good.||Simply but beautifully printed edition of the work of the Welsh poet W.H. Davies, known as the ‘tramp poet’. Rather engagingly, Davies writes a foreword which declares that most of the poems were written from his own life experience: “’The Sleepers’ was written after a night out on the London Embankment, when I was penniless...It will be seen from reading some of these poems that I have known the discomforts of a homeless life...however, even my experience of hunger has not left me bitter: for I believe my mind became stronger and better fed because of an occasional spell of fasting...Gluttony has starved more brains than… Read More