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London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. First edition. Octavo. Plum and black cloth, paper spine label.  T.e.g. Wood-engraved tile page vignette, dust jacket, and text illustrations by R. A. Garnett, the author's first wife. Very good, off-setting to endsheets, the book label of collector William Beekman, whose stunning Hogarth Press / Virginia Woolf collection forms part of the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library;  the printed and decorated dust jacket is darkened on the spine, insignificant chips at head and toe of spine, small rumple at bank panel lower edge. A list of the "Recent Important Publications" of the publisher appears on the rear panel. First edition, later impression. A Man in the Zoo invites readers to reflect on the boundaries of identity, the sacrifices made for love, and the impact of societal expectations on individual lives. Withal, a charming book.   .

London: Chatto & Windus, 1935. Octavo. Plum pebble cloth, gilt spine lettering. First edition. 119 pp. Spots along fore-edge, else very good in a very good dust jacket with spine lightly sunned. From the library of noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman with his elegant bookplate affixed to the front pastedown.  .

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First American edition. Octavo. Green cloth and decorated boards. 188 pp. Dust jacket design by Enrico Arno. From the collection of the noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman. Very good in very good, price-clipped dust jacket.  First American edition. Aspects of Love centers on the complicated love triangle of a young soldier named Alexis Golightly, his uncle George Dillingham, and the beautiful French actress Rose Vibert from whom neither man could escape. In 1989 this book served as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's eponymous musical..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Octavo. Red embossed cloth, gilt and embossed spine. viii,[4],303,xiv pp. First American edition. Frontispiece color portrait, and 16 b&w photographs. Notations on front free endpaper advising edition precedence, and that the book is "from the library of artist Alphonso Ossorio," with the artist's signature in ink, and "East Hampton." Ossorio was a Filipino American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916. Very good plus, in a good dust jacket with what appears to be a coffee stain. More recently from the library of the noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman whose bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown..

Hackney, London: The Stourton Press, 1988. Fine. Tall, thin octavo. Red cloth, gilt stamped spine. Frontispiece photograph of Rylands tipped-in. Privately printed for Lord Rothschild, limited edition № 32 of two hundred. Signed by Lord Rothschild on the photograph "Victor Rothschild," in black ink, and signed below in red ink by George Rylands. Further, Rylands has made spelling corrections on pages 29 and 34, and on the several copies of prospectuses that are laid in, in the same red ink plus two in blue ink. Prospectus does not conform to colophon as this copy is one of two hundred copies -- prospectus lists only thirty being doubly signed and those were the deluxe editions. In an acetate dust jacket, as issued. Fine, with manuscript corrections.  "Dadie (everyone calls him by his nickname) Rylands was born in 1902. He was a Scholar at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, where he read classics and English literature. After graduation he worked for a few months at the Hogarth Press with… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition. Octavo. Coffee-brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; publisher's device of a bowl with monogram in blind on lower board. First edition, first impression. Introduction by Virginia Woolf, pages 9-16, published here in the year her A Room of One's Own was published. Top and fore edges trimmed, bottom partially trimmed, endpapers slightly offset from dust jacket; a lover's contemporary inscription [quoting Gissing's unfinished novel Veranilda] on front free endpaper, with an additional loose inscription laid in, very good or better. Saxe-blue dust jacket dust jacket printed in orange-yellow, spine lightly sunned, small closed tear at spine top of rear panel, price intact, very good or better.  . KIRKPATRICK & CLARKE B9a.

Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart / A Mario Sartori Book, 1987. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards, copper stamped on spine. First edition. Frontispiece illustration. 119,[65] pp. First edition. A biography with 106 illustrations on 64 black & white plates. Author's preface, foreword by the Duke of Devonshire, epilogue by Sir Kenneth Clark. Appendix, bibliography, and index. Fine, in a near fine dust jacket with slight flaring at top and bottom and a closed tear at the lower panel's top edge.

New York: Creative Age Press, 1945. Near Fine/Good. Gilt cloth. Frontis and endsheet maps. First US edition, and first edition under this title. Blue sprinkled edges faintly dusty, else about fine in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a few nicks and tears. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A57b.

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Laraçuen, Aemilia:. Small quarto. Black cloth and charcoal grey cloth over boards. Very good, in good dust jacket with tanning at edges and damp stains at lower corners that have not transferred to book. One of the 30 unsigned out-of-print series copies reserved for review and editorial purposes. Scarce. First edition. Thirty-three poems published in celebration of the poet's seventieth birthday. The poems, and much of the preliminary matter, were handwritten by the author for this book, and, together with the illuminations by Aemilia Laraçuen, have been reproduced lithographically. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A113a.

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Gilt cloth. First edition. Publisher's editorial copy stamp on front free endsheet. Near fine in good, bright dust jacket. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A101a.

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Gilt cloth. First edition, trade issue. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short, closed tear. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A107a.

Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926. Soft cover. Good. Decorated stiff wraps, design by Vanessa Bell. First edition, issued as Hogarth Essays, First Series #18. One of one thousand copies printed, of which four hundred were pulped according to Woolmer 92. Foxed, wraps soiled and scraped, crown of spine bruised and split. A good copy, suitable for Hogarth Press collectors.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Second impression, printed photo-offset from the 1940 edition because the type had to be melted during the second world war, which prevented them from making corrections or adding footnotes - as noted in a long "Note to the Second Edition" by the authors. Endsheets a trifle foxed but a very good copy, nonetheless, in a lightly worn dust jacket.

London: Hutchinson, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Large octavo. Cloth textured boards. First edition. Photographs. Edited, with a commentary, by Paul O'Prey. Fine, in a near fine dust jacket with some sunning along the top edges.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Bright green cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine very faintly sunned, gilt bright, some fox marks along top edge, but a very good copy, without dust jacket. Laid in is a publisher's prospectus for two novels by E. Arnot Robertson, THREE CAME UNARMED (1929), and CULLUM (1928). First edition, the less common second state, with leaf 157/8 a cancel, without reference to "the child she bare," which is present in the first state. Graves, in his foreword, indicates that "this book must be read rather as a appendix than as a progressive sequel to my recent autobiography." HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A35b.

New York: Knopf, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Orange boards, printed with red cobbled pattern. First edition. Rebacked with the original backstrip, the printed variant rather than the paper label; boards a bit soiled and marked, faint early tidemark, else internally a very good reading copy. Leaves 93/4, 97/8, 125/6, and 133/4 are cancels on tipped-in stubs, as usual.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. First American edition. Very good./Very good.. ARDIZZONE, Edward:. Small quarto. Green cloth boards, white lettering. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. First American edition, trade binding. Twenty-three of Graves' best poems for and about children. A very nice copy in price-clipped, faintly edgeworn, beautifully decorated dust jacket. .

London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957. Black cloth, gilt spine. Twenty-three illustrations in the text. Faint offsetting to endsheets, otherwise fine, in a very good dust jacket with some little scattered foxing. First edition. The British surgeon Dr. William Palmer was accused in 1856 of murdering fourteen people by means of poison. A Victorian true crime novel told from the shifting perspectives of those who came into contact with the notorious doctor. His mother's lament at the outcome of his trial for poisoning his friend forms the title for this historical fiction account - a genre at which Graves is an acknowledged master.

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Gilt cloth. First edition. A very good or better copy in lightly soiled dust jacket with one small nick on rear top edge. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A75a.

London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1960. Very good./Very good.. ARDIZZONE, Edward:. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.  First edition.  Upper fore-corners lightly bumped, otherwise a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket with a few marks on the back panel and a trace of darkening near a few edges. Ownership signature of Malcolm Lowry's biographer, Douglas Day on free endsheet, and, presumably, his penciled notations on the Contents page. HIGGINSON & WILLIAMS A92. .