Provenance: | The Property of a noblewoman |
Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £550 |
FELLOWES, Daisy (1890-1962). Sunday or a Working Girl's Lament. Monaco: Imprimerie a Chène, 1930. 8vo (245 x 160mm). Text printed in red, black and green on rectos only, 4 coloured illustrations (some light staining, a few words or phrases with small pasted-over correction slips). Original green cloth-backed paper boards with coloured illustration on upper board (edges rubbed and bumped, some staining). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 92 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With 4 other books, namely Dorothy Menpes' Japan. A Record in Colour (London, 1901, 4to, coloured plates by Mortimer Menpes, original cloth, stained, NUMBER 137 OF 600 "EDITION DE LUXE" COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST), J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (London, 1906, 4to, mounted hand-coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, some tissue guards defective or lacking, original pictorial cloth gilt, stained and a little worn, first trade edition), Norman Douglas' Some Limericks. Collected for the use of Students, and ensplendour'd with Introduction, Geographical Index, and with Notes Explanatory and Critical ([No place:] "Privately Printed," 1928, upper inner hinges split, original sunflower hessian lettered in red, uncut, NUMBER 78 OF 110 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and "issued to Subscribers only") and Graham Greene's The Quiet American (London, 1955, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). (5)