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The Field. London (1933).. Four square corners, eps spotted, very bright boards, spine a little handled, overall a VG copy. Split rear joint has been professionally repaired. All illustrations present, excellent contents. An attractive, sound, and clean copy.. Tan cloth boards with gilt and black device to front board. 376pp, illustrted with over 75 plates. Errata slip. 1.7kg 4to. Inscribed "With the Author's Compliments" to half-title page (but not so signed). Formerly a Native Commissioner in North-East Rhodesia the Author made both a land and a boat tour around the lake and gives an account of these travels with his experiences of hunting and native life. A very detailed and informative text of life in the colonial Africa of those days.

November 1919.. Binding is sound and clean. Overall G-VG condition.. Original wraps bound in 1/2 decorative leather over paper-covered boards. Hand-made marbled end-papers. Various pochoir plates. 290mm x 200mm x 20mm. 0.9kg. Copy No.283 of 800. Inscribed thus: "Bound by Lilian Webb in Paris 1930". Created under the artistic direction of Umberto Brunelleschi, La Guirlande is one of the rarest of the Art Deco magazines with only 11 issues, each of 800 numbered copies. This art binding is intriguing, well carried out, but perhaps not professional, it nevertheless is 'sympathique' in the style of the contents and the period. The 2nd Fascicule of 11. Artwork by: Brunelleschi, George Barbier, Mahias, Benito, Maurice Taquoi, Joseph Hemard. Articles & stories: PHILI by Abel Hermant, LE TESTAMENT by Paul Bourget, COMPLAINTE by A. de Noailles, LE BON AU THEATRE by Andre Brule, UNE LETTRE DE PARIS by Rip, LA PARISIENNE by Andre de Fouquieres, ELEGANCES PARISIENNES by Juliette Lancret, POUR VOUS, MESDAMES… Read More