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(GEISEL, THEODORE.) Dr. Seuss.
The Seven Lady Godivas.
Illustrated
throughout, many full page. 8vo, original peach
cloth boards with brown stamped spine and
front cover, mild dampstaining to fore-edge
margins on approximately last ten leaves, original
dust jacket, 3-inch waterstain to rear panel onto
rear flap not affecting images or text, rubbing to
folds; pictorial endpapers.
FIRST EDITION OF THE
FIRST BOOK BY DR
.
SEUSS FOR ADULTS
.
NewYork, (1939)
[200/300]
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KUROSAWA, AKIRA.
Complete Drawings.
Profusely illustrated, printed in colors.Text in
Japanese and English. Folio, original full red cloth, stamped in gilt and black, lettered slipcase, light shelfwear;
housed in publisher’s box with printed paper label. Lacking the three laid in color reproductions.
(Japan), 1999
[300/400]
A beautifully produced compendium of the great director’s storyboard paintings containing some 2,000
illustrations along with a thumbnail catalog raisonné addendum. Many of the subject studies are redolent
of some of Kurosawa’s most famous film characters.A bright, attractive copy.
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