Nursery Rhymes of London Town by Eleanor Farjeon, published by Duckworth, London 1916. A 1st edition. In cloth-covered boards, size 20 by 15 cm. 64 pages. Title gold-stamped to front board. Contains 55 poems, many illustrated with charming woodcuts by Macdonald Gill, who was also responsible for the single colour plate. Original owner's name and address (a rather grand one!) to front endpaper, but otherwise Good condition. £20

 The Croucher, a biography of Gilbert Jessup, by Gerald Brodribb, published by Constable, London 1985. In stiff cloth-covered boards, size 25 by 20 cm. 240 pages. Illustrated. VG condition in original VG dust-wrapper. £15

 Complete set of 6 slim copies of The Book, published by the National Book League, London 1955. All with decorated card wraps, size 20.5 by 14 cm. and 16 pages of text. They comprise Book Typography, a handbook for book designers by Hugh Williamson; The Literature of Bookbinding by ARA Hobson; paper for Book Production by John Overton; A Bibliography of Book Illustration by David Bland; Publishing from Manuscript to Bookshop by Philip Unwin, and The Technique of Bibliography by David Foxon. The occasional minor wrinkle to a cover but otherwise all in VG condition. £45

The Bond Affair edited by Oreste del Buono and Umberto Eco, published by Macdonald, London 1966. 1st English edition. In stiff brown cloth-covered boards, size 20 by 14 cm. In original unclipped dust-wrapper. 173 pages. Eco’s own lengthy  contribution is on Fleming’s narratives. VG condition in Good dustwrapper, faded a little and well handled. £50

 The Glass Tower, poems 1936-43, by Nicholas Moore, published by Nicholson and Watson, London 1944. A 1st edition. With drawings by Lucien Freud. In stiff boards size 22 by 14.5 cm. 128 pages. Front and back boards have a Freud illustration and there another 16 to the text (seven full-page and nine half-page) plus an illustrated title page. Some in colour. The first book to which Freud contributed. The dust-wrapper has been sympathetically restored but small parts of the two top corners of the front wrapper and several sections of the wrapper’s spine are new. Original owner’s signature in ink to front endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers. Text, binding and artwork all VG  with faults as described this is overall in Good condition. £225


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