Beschreibung:

Beaton (Cecil). The Face of the World, an international scrapbook of people and places, 1st edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1957, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations, mostly after photographs, original pale blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed and slightly frayed dustwrapper (more heavily to top and bottom edges and front fore-edge), 4to, together with Ardizzone (Edward). Baggage to the Enemy, 1st edition, London: John Murray 1941, monochrome illustrations to text, including some full-page, signed by Adizzone to front endpaper, ownership signature of D. K. Thick dated 1942 to front pastedown and later gift inscription dated 1981, plus small ownership label of F. & M. Turland, Poole Dorset at foot, original blue cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Golden Cockerell Press. The Tail of the Golden Cockrel by Pushkin, 1936, several illustrations, including title printed in gold, original red cloth in dustwrapper, minor fraying to head of spine, 12mo, and other various wood engraving and illustration and similar, including John Farleigh Graven Image, an autobiographical textbook, 1940, The Wood Engravings of Joan Hassall with an introduction by Ruari McLean, 1960, Almanach Henri Boutet 1901, Un Siecle de Parisiennes, Texte par Hippolyte Dedillers, Paris: Librairie Nelet, 1901, hand-colored illustration, contemporary quarter calf, with original printed wrappers bound in, rubbed and scuffed to spine, 12mo, limited edition 67/1050, a Japanese woodblock printed specimen book, circa 1960s, Alphabet and Image, no. 1 & 3, 1946, and no. 1, 1949, etc.