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GOUDEKET, Maurice. Close to Colette: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman of Genius. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
First edition. With an Introduction by Harold Nicolson. Dust jacket design by Milton Glaser.
In this beautifully written book, Colette comes wonderfully alive - a woman as fascinating and courageous as any of the heroines of her famous novels. Maurice Goudeket met Colette in 1925, and they remained inseparable until the day of her death, thirty years later.
The appeal of this book is enhanced by the dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser, portraying Colette with her collection of antique paperweights. An unforgettable account of Colette and her wonderful paperweights was provided by Truman Capote, who as a young writer went to visit the Grande Mademoiselle of French letters in 1948. Capote was received by a bedridden Colette, 'her hair a kinky spray', and her catlike kohl-rimmed eyes 'liquid with life, with kindness, with malice'. All around the bedroom were hundreds of marvellous… Read More

STOKER, Bram. Dracula. New York: Random House, n.d. [c. 1944]. Modern Library, 31.
Early reprint of the Modern Library Dracula issued with dust jacket art by Edward McKnight Kauffer, (1890–1954), American artist, and one of Britain's most influential poster artists and graphic designers of his era.
Since its publication in 1897, Dracula has enthralled generation after generation of readers, cinema and television audiences, with the same spellbinding power with which Count Dracula enthrals his victims. Dracula is a classic of Gothic horror, an undying wellspring of modern mythology, and an irresistible entertainment. Based on extensive research of the folklore surrounding vampires, Stoker's novel elevated the nocturnal creature to iconic stature, spawning a genre of stories and movies that flourishes to this day. As his chilling, suave monster stalks his prey from a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania to an insane asylum in England to the bedrooms of his swooning female… Read More

GREENBERG-JEPHCOTT, KELLEIGH. Swan Song. London, Hutchinson, 2018.
Exclusive signed first edition, limited to 250 copies (this is copy #97/250). As new in strikingly stylish white swan dust jacket. Playlist loosely inserted. With original Marella Agnelli bookmark.
Author's debut novel, an entertaining and spellbinding reimagining of one of the most fascinating literary scandals - the epic fall out between Truman Capote and his "swans", a group of high society female friends, which included Babe Paley, Lee Radziwill, Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Marella Agnelli, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill, over the appearance in Esquire magazine in 1975 of "La Cote Basque, 1965", a chapter from his novel-in-progress, Answered Prayers.
(ISBN: 9781786331052). Hardback. 472 pages . 0.8 kg.

SCOTT, Peter; The Wildfowl Trust. The Swans. London: Michael Joseph, 1972.

First edition. Signed by Peter Scott. Swans are fascinating birds, and this book is certainly a must-have on the subject. Chapters include Classification, Distribution and Migration, Family Life, Art, Heraldry and Mythology, Conservation, and more.
Sir Peter Scott (1909-1989) was an artist, writer, ornithologist, naturalist and conservationist. In 1946 he founded The Wildfowl Trust, a nonprofit organization devoted to wildfowl research, conservation, education and recreation. He was the first person ever to be knighted for services to nature conservation. Peter Scott was the son of Antarctic explorer, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who died when returning from the South Pole in 1911.
4to. x, 242. Col frontis, b/w photos, text illustrations. Very good in dust jacket (slight edge wear). The dust jacket, colour frontis, as well as many text illustrations are by Peter Scott. A vintage bookmark designed by Peter Scott loosely inserted.