FIRST EDITION THUS, 17 full-page colour illustrations with decorative borders, pp. xvi, [ii], 616, tall 8vo, publisher's grey-blue cloth, with illustration across both boards of a moated castle, blocked in silver and orange and delineated in black, spine black-lettered with silver turret illustration, blue slipcase with a few marks at lower side, near fine. A charming edition.
FIRST EDITION THUS, 11 full-page colour illustrations, pp. xiv, 431, tall 8vo, publisher's black cloth, illustrated with silhouettes on red and gilt block grounds, spine with black silhouette of hooved hatted figure on gilt ground, gilt-lettered, scarlet slipcase, near fine. Gogol's surreal, macabre tales complemented by Suart's richly coloured, dream-like illustrations.
FIRST EDITION THUS, titles with gold armorial vignettes, 24 full-page colour illustrations by Lawrence, pp. wvii, [iii], 210; [x], 227; [x], 212, tall 8vo, publisher's illustrated boards, spines lettered in black, cream slipcase with gilt armorial vignette, gilt-lettered, one corner slightly bumped, near fine.
FIRST EDITION, frontispiece lithograph by John Piper, pp. xi, 501, crown 8vo, original presentation binding of full vellum, bevelled edges, author's monogram atamped in gilt to upper board, the backstrip lettered in black against a gilt ground, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, slipcase (this slightly toned and marked), the book itself near fine. Inscribed by the author on the initial blank: 'Charles Dodds, from his friend the author, M.J.S., 1.1.47 (one of 25 copies in vellum)'. The recipient was probably the eminent biochemist.
FIRST EDITION, pp. 360, crown 8vo, original yellow boards, backstrip lettered in black, a few faint spots to boards, top edge black, other edges lightly spotted, endpapers spotted with gift inscription to flyleaf, pocket to rear pastedown containing the 'Headopoly' game (this sometimes lacking, see below), dustjacket by Martin Sharp, price-clipped, a little nicked, chipped and rubbed at extremities, the backstrip panel sunned, good. A statement of the 'International Underground' from one of the founders of OZ magazine - 'important for those who consider themselves part of the Movement, essential for those outside it'. The Headopoly game - a spoof of Monopoly in the form of an 'Underground Almanac Poster-Game' - was not present in copies entering Australia, where the game had attracted the attention of the authorities; in these copies, the pocket was sealed with a sticker explaining that a Prohibition Notice had been imposed upon it. The game itself, designed by Jon Goodchild, is not only attractive but a thorough and scholarly record of sixties counter-culture.
FIRST EDITION, 694/1,250 COPIES signed by the author, 24 colourprinted plates laid down on art paper and with captioned tissue-guards, 65 other plates, numerous illustrations in the text and the endpaper illustrations, all by Peter Scott, a couple of plates with a few faint spots to borders, pp. [xii], 119, 4to, original mid-blue buckram, backstrip and upper board lettered and decorated in gilt to a design by Scott, merest hint of fading to backstrip, t.e.g., others untrimmed and a little toned, very good.
FIRST EDITION, pp. 370, [6, ads], crown 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in shades of blut to upper board and backstrip, the latter slightly faded, a few spots to top edge, attractive pictorial dustjacket, a little chipped at extremities, slightly dustosiled (more so at head of rear flap), very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To Richard Jennings, from Susan Ertz'. The novel relates the life of Laura Deverell, from her birth in 1862 in Mecklenburg Square through to her death in the present day as she is struck by a car - the opening 8 lines repeat at the close to indicate that the foregoing narrative is what passes before her eyes at the fatal moment.
FIRST EDITION THUS, 8 colour plates and several monochrome illustrations within the text, genealogy endpapers, pp. xviii, 349, tall 8vo, publisher's green cloth with overall free linear design featuring tendrils, leaves and apples in gilt, spine gilt-blocked 'label' lettered in green, green slipcase, near fine. '[I, Claudius] now seems, sixty years after it was written, to have become a firmly established classic, retaining a delightful freshness and inextinguishable vitality.' (Introduction)