Beschreibung:

i) Aubrey Beardsley. A Book of Fifty Drawings. London:Leonard Smithers, 1897, 4to, original red pictorial cloth; ii) Aubrey Beardsley. A second book of fifty drawings. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899, 4to, one of 1,000 copies on “art paper”, original red pictorial cloth, collector’s bookplate on front endpaper; iii) Paul Lafond. Degas. Paris: H. Floury, 1918, 4to, one of 60 copies, ownership inscription of Hester Holman on a preliminary blank, full navy morocco; iv) Jean Cassou. Picasso. Paris: Editions Hyperion, 1940, folio, presentation copy inscribed to Vivien and Larry (“For | Vivien and Larry | with much love from | John + Margaret B | Christmas 1947”) on the front free endpaper, original grey boards; v) Arnold Palmer. More Than Shadows. A Biography of W. Ruseell Flint. London:The Studio, 1943, 8vo, reprint, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE SUBJECT (“This copy is for | Vivien Leigh | with admiration and gratitude | from W Russell Flint | 12.1.45”) on the front free endpaper, original blue cloth; vi) [The Faber Gallery]. Florentine Paintings. London: Faber and Faber, 1945, 4to, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY KENNETH CLARK (“To Vivien, with love & best wishes for Christmas 1945 | from K”) on the half-title, original printed wrappers; vii) [Goya]. Goya. Drawings from the Prado. London: Horizon, 1947, 4to, one of 3200 copies, with Laon Maybanke’s business card, inscribed “Miss Vivien Leigh”, loosely inserted, original wrappers, glassine jacket, glassine slightly browned; viii) Claude Roger-Marx. L’Oeuvre Gravé de Vuillard. Monte-Carlo: André Sauret, 1948, 4to, number 370 of 2500 copies, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY KENNETH CLARK (“To dear Vivien | with love | from K. | after Antigone, March 1949”) on the front free endpaper, original grey cloth, dust-jacket; ix) André Malraux. Saturne. [Paris?]: La Galerie de la Pléiade, 1950, 4to, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO VIVIEN LEIGH (“For V*O* | from | O*W* | with L* and K*”) on the front free endpaper, original wrappers, glassine jacket, glassine worn with loss; x) Pompeo Bora. Piero della Francesca. Milan: Istituto Editoriale Italiano, 1950, folio, presentation copy inscribed to Vivien and Larry (“from us to you herwith | because: | You’re wonderful - | and (heaven knows) | A gayer day | there never was, | Than the W’s had | Sunday with | the O’s”) on the front free endpaper, with a small pencil sketch, original red cloth; xi) Laurence Binyon. Art of the Far East. London: B.T. Batsford, 1952, folio, presentation copy inscribed to Vivien Leigh (“To Vivian | on her | birthday | David & Betty”) on the front free endpaper, original wrappers, glassine jacket, some soiling to upper cover from contact with paperclip; xii) Kenneth Clark Moments of Vision. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1954, 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (“Larry & Vivien | with love from K”) on the title page, original printed wrappers, wrappers a little soiled; xiii) Jacques Lassaigne. Dufy. New York: Skira, [c.1954], square 8vo, with a small card loosely inserted presenting the book to Larry as a birthday gift, original cream buckram, dust-jacket, occasional soiling; xiv) Dimitrie Berea Berea. London: Jacques O'Hana, 1954, 8vo, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST ("Pour | Lady Olivier | avec mon | affectueux | hommage | Dimitrie Berea | XXX 1954") on the front free endpaper, original blue cloth, dust-jacket; xv) Marian King. A Gallery of Children. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1955, 4to, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (“For | Vivien Leigh | with sincere respect | Marian King | 1960”) on the front free endpaper, typed letter signed loosely inserted (“I do hope you will enjoy this – this is one of the few books I have done…”), original teal cloth, dust-jacket; xiv) [Augustus John]. Augustus John Fifty-Two Drawings. London: George Rainbird, 1957, folio, number 85 of 150 copies signed by the Augustus John and David Cecil, vellum backed brown boards by Zaehnsdorf, publisher’s sli