Estimate: | £500 - £800 |
MISCELLANY, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS - Willy POGANY (1882-1955, illustrator). Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales. London: George G. Harrap, [1913]. 4to (240 x 180mm). Half title, 16 mounted coloured plates by Willy Pogany, illustrations, some full-page, decorations. Original coloured pictorial cloth gilt. With c.45 other late-19th-century and 20th-century illustrated books including Edward Fitzgerald's Rubâ'yât of Omar Khayyam with their Original Persian Sources (London, 1899, small folio, frontispiece, original decorated buckram gilt), Harry Graham's Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (London, [c.1899], oblong 12mo, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, "fifth impression"), Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (London, 1902, 4to, illustrations, many leaves detached or loose, original pictorial cloth, FIRST EDITION), The Golden Staircase. Poems and Verses for Children (London, 1906, 4to, coloured plates by M. Dibdin Spooner, original cloth gilt), Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows ... Second Edition (London, 1908, 8vo, frontispiece, original pictorial cloth gilt), Joseph Bédier's The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (London, 1910, 4to, coloured plates by Florence Simmons, original pictorial cloth), William Blake's Songs of Innocence (London, [c.1910], 4to, coloured plates by Honor C. Appleton, original tan buckram gilt), Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women (London, 1912, 4to, coloured plates by Richard Copping, original pictorial cloth gilt), John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River (London, 1932, 8vo, coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, limp boards and wrappers), Lord Berners' The Camel. A Tale (London, 1936, 8vo, illustrations by the author, original cloth gilt, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION) and Hans Andersen's The Nightingale (Leicester, [1945], 4to, coloured illustrations by Rene Cloke, original coloured pictorial boards). Please note that only a part of the lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (c.45)