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Tokyo: Japan Modern Decorative Arts Association, 1967. Soft cover. Near Fine. pp72 Exhibition catalogue of Japanese decorative arts, fully illustrated in monochrome and beautifully produced with attention to design details such as the section titles on textured tissue paper and the red card end papers. Near fine in glossy card wrappers, a previous owner has inscribed the title in pen along the spine. Near Fine 1967

Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, 2000. Soft cover. Near Fine. pp128 The first paperback edition of Yorkshire born artist John Yardley's exploration of the appeal, materials and techniques of painting in watercolour. Part of the Atelier series of insights into the work of contemporary artists. A very attractive volume fully illustrated with a gallery of superb watercolour reproductions. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Near Fine 2000

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1936. pp 131 From the authors of '1066 And All That' comes a humorous look at British gardening and gardeners, illustrated with cartoons by Stephen Dowling. First edition 1936, very good in green cloth, covers dented, rubbed and water marked to one corner, a few spots and stains to the pages. Ownership inscription of Mary Eyre Wallis. This book comes from the collection of the scientist and pioneer birth-control campaigner Marie Stopes (1880-1958) which was inherited by her son the philosopher Harry Stopes Roe (1924-2014) and sold following the death of his widow Mary Stopes Roe in May of this year. Mary was herself an academic and author, the daughter of the engineer and inventor of the bouncing bomb, Sir Barnes Wallis. Stephen Dowling 1936

London: The Fountain Library, Methuen & Co Ltd, 1936. pp 116 Twenty-third edition (Fountain Library) of this classic comic history of Britain, illustrated by John Reynolds. Good plus in green cloth, brown spots and sunned to spine where the cloth is starting to tear, occasional spotting throughout. Inscribed "To Harry, Ded: H O Meeres". This book comes from the collection of the scientist and pioneer birth-control campaigner Marie Stopes (1880-1958) which was inherited by her son the philosopher Harry Stopes Roe (1924-2014) and sold following the death of his widow Mary Stopes Roe in May of this year. Mary was herself an academic and author, the daughter of the engineer and inventor of the bouncing bomb, Sir Barnes Wallis. John Reynolds 1936

New York: Caedmon Records, 1966. No Binding. Near Fine. Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Babi Yar and other poems read in Russian by the author and in English by Alan Bates. LP Caedmon TC 1153, New York. Viny:l near fine, dusty with a couple of scratches. Sleeve: very good, rubbed to edges and lightly marked. Provenance: from the sale by Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes of 'my personal family items' at Bonhams, London (21 March, 2018) which she described in the catalogue as 'redolent of my parents' joint history... the books and the pamphlets and the poems signed by my mother and father, represented important aspects of their literary lives and were evidence of their powerful partnership.' Most of these items contain the Bonhams sale bookmark and can be accompanied by a signed guarantee of the item's authenticity from modernfirsteditions. Near Fine 1966

London: Michael Joseph, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. Inscribed second impression of a novel almost never found signed because it was repudiated on political grounds by its Nobel Prize winning author. In dark ink on the first free endpaper is written: 'X/ To the Youth/ Doris Lessing'. Who is the youth and what was his relationship with Lessing? Answers came there none. The book is near fine in black cloth, a second impression from two months after the first. The jacket is not price-clipped, bright with just a little rubbing to top and tail of the spine and browning to the lower printed panel. Set in austere post-war London this novel, a much better effort is claimed by its detractors, tells the story of an affair between Julia and a Czech emigre communist, Jan Brod. Lessing later rejected the novel and refused to have it reprinted because she had chosen to end the novel with Brod's loyal return to communist Eastern Europe which she came to judge as the wrong call in the light of the invasion of… Read More