BIOGRAPHY from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. Biography of Rex Whistler the artist and illustrator written by his brother Laurence the poet and glass engraver. 8vo, blue cloth covers with silver title on spine and color dj, 321 pp includes 8 pp index, with 16 pp color and 16 pp bw illustrations. Dj sunned on spine, interior clean,… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1935. Hardcover. Very good overall. Translated by June Head. 8vo, 434pp. Half black calf and marbled boards, title in gilt at spine. Boards quite rubbed, some traces of sticky tape repairs at edges of boards. Internally, a sticky tape repair to verso of plate at p176. The bookplate of Compagnie Generale Transatlantique inside front board.

London: J. Dodsley, 1776. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. Susanna Dobson's first work, an abridgment of J. F. A. de Sade's Mémoires pour la vie de François Pétrarque. Two volumes. 8vo, frontispiece, xxx, 544pp, Index; 556pp, Index. Contemporary calf with gilt decorated spine, compartments and raised bands. Burgundy spine label, quite rubbed on Volume I, so that title… Read more about this item

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Hardcover. 4to, b&w frontis, xxiii, 495pp, b&w illus throughout. Yellow cloth covers, title in black at spine. Covers bright and fresh, very good. Internally like new.

London: George Rutledge & Sons. Very good in good plus dj. 8vo, 300 pp, b&w frontis, b&w illus. In English; translated by Lucy Crump, Broadway Translations. Bright blue cloth cover with title in black on paper label on spine. Spine very slightly rubbed at top and base, o/w very good plus. Original yellow dj, chipped at foredge. Owner's… Read more about this item