102. D'Aurevilly, Barbey. Oscar Wilde, translator
What Never Dies; A Romance

NP: Private Press, 1928
Med. Octavo. 438 pp.

Translated from the French by Sebastian Melmoth, aka Oscar Wilde. Purple buckram over gilt ruled purple cloth boards. Gilt design and text to spine. Sun fading to spine and top edge. Deckled pages, teg.

75/150     SOLD: $11.50

103. Warlock, Peter and Jack Lindsay (editors)
The Metamorphosis of Aiax by Sir John Harington

London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927
Royal Octavo. 143 pp.

No. 51 of 450 copies. Full title: [The Metamorphosis of Aiax; A New Discourse of a Stale Subject by Sir John Harington with an Anatomie of the Metamorphosed Aiax] Grey paper over boards with red text and design to spine and covers. Deckle edged handmade paper.
"There is perhaps no work in our language which illustrates so admirably the twin-poles of gleeful fantasy and robust poetry on the one hand and of pragmatic curiousity on the other in the English character as The Metamorphosis of Aiax." [From the Introduction, page ix.]

75/150     SOLD: $51.75

104. Lindsay, Norman
Madam Life's Lovers

London: The Fanfrolico Press, n.d.
Royal Octavo. 189 pp.

Full title: [Madam Life's Lovers; A Human Narrative Embodying a Philosophy of the Artist in Dialogue Form] Red cloth boards with black text to spine. With a gravure by the author. Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) is one of Australia's most prolific artists. He worked in all media - etching, pencil, charcoal, pen and ink and wash drawings, watercolours, oil paintings and sculpture. He is the most widely-known Australian artist and is represented in every major Australian gallery.

75/150     SOLD: $23.00

105. Mathers, E. Powys
Red Wise

Illustrated by Robert Gibbings.
Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926
Med. Octavo. 98 pp.

Red paper over white buckram. Gilt text to spine, deckle edged handmade paper, decorated endpapers. Chapter titles in red. Woodcuts by Gibbings. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Former owner's bookplate. Persian erotica.

75/150     SOLD: $80.50

106. Hayward, John. [editor]
The Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926
Super Royal Octavo. 408 pp.

Brown handmade paper over mottled yellow leather. Limited Edition of 1050 copies. English handmade paper with deckle edges. Gilt text to spine. A poet of the Restoration, the Earl of Rochester was in his lifetime a subject of scandal and admiration.

50/100     SOLD: $92.00

107. Rabelais, Francois
Gargantua and Pantagruel

London: The Fraser Press, 1970
Limited Edition. Royal Octavo. 741 pp.

No. 582 of 1560. Full Title: [Five books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel]. Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux. Brown leather over boards with gilt text to spine, aeg.

50/100     SOLD: $34.50

108. Lindsay, Jack [translator]
Homers Hymns to Aphrodite

London: The Fanfrolico Press, n.d.
Super Royal Octavo. 26 pp.

Black cloth with white embossed design of Aphrodite to cover. Limited edition, 1/500. Deckled pages of handmade paper. Illustrations. Jack Lindsay was the son of artist Norman Lindsay and author of over 150 books. Originally from Australia, he lived most of his life in England.

50/100     SOLD: $23.00

109. Rannit, Aleksis
Cantus Firmus

Illustrated by Eduard Wiiralt.
New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1978
First U. S. Edition. Folio. 47 pp.

Limited to 750 copies. Poems translated by Henry Lyman, prints by Eduard Wiiralt from the private collection of Aleksis Rannit and are reproduced by the owners permission, the deathmask is by Vytautas Kasuba, and is reproduced, here for the first time, by the sculptor's permission. 8 page postscriptuum laid in.
1/4 brown cloth with brown paper boards.

50/100     SOLD: $46.00

110. Caxton, William
The Noble Knight Paris and the Fair Vienne

Illustrated by Mallette Dean, engraver.
Kentfield: Allen Press, 1956
Broad Quarto.

Limited to 130 copies. The typeface is Romanee (in Holland), and was set by hand; the paper is Val de Laga (French mill producing paper by hand since 1326). Printed on an Acorn-Smith handpress. Wood engravings by Mallette Dean and hand-colored by Dorothy Allen. Beige paper boards with medieval character designs.

50/100     SOLD: $138.00

111. Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
The Complete Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Illustrated by Hans Holbein.
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1928
Royal Octavo. 590 pp. Two Volume Set.

1 of 750 copies. Decorated by the Dance of Death of Hans Holbein. Sir Edmund Gosse, editor Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), English poet
1/4 black cloth with decorated paper boards, paper labels to spine. Bookseller stamp, D. Webster on front endpaper.

50/100     SOLD: $57.50