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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD.

Vote! Vote!! Vote!!! Fabian Leaflet No. 43.

Printed leaflet, recto only. 215x140 mm. Light edge creasing; housed in folding cloth port-

folio.

INK INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR ABOVE TITLE

. “I drafted this leaflet, Heaven forgive

me! G.B.S. 19/6/31.”

London: Fabian Society, [1892]

[100/200]

235

235

SHELLEY, MARY WOLL-

STONECRAFT.

Frankens te in.

6

illustrations from the James Whale film,

and frontispiece featuring Boris Karloff as

the Monster. 8vo, publisher’s red cloth

with titles stamped in black, top edge

stained green; dust jacket, some age-ton-

ing, spine panel and folds with small chips

at edges, two closed tears along upper

front panel folds, but illustration still

bright and appealing; ownership inscrip-

tion to front free endpaper, else

unmarked.

NewYork: Grosset & Dunlap, [1931]

[1,000/1,500]

FIRST PHOTOPLAY EDITION

and one of the

most sought-after in the series. Scarce in origi-

nal dust jacket.

232

SAYERS, DOROTHY L.

Gaudy

Night.

8vo, publisher’s black cloth let-

tered in blue, few bumps to board edges;

dust jacket, rubbing to folds, chipping to

spine panel tips and corners, short closed

tears, fading, price intact; unobtrusive

booklabel to rear pastedown.

FIRST AMER

-

ICAN EDITION

.

NewYork: Harcourt, Brace, (1936)

[500/750]

233

[SCIENCE-FICTION.]

[DeMILLE, JAMES.]

A Strange

Manuscript Found in a Copper

Cylinder.

Illustrated by Gilbert Paul. 8vo,

original blue cloth lettered and decorated

in gilt and silver, few small light stains;

ownership signature on front pastedown,

light occasional foxing to front and end

blanks.

FIRST EDITION

. “One of the better

early lost-race stories, written with some

thought and care.” Bleiler; Science Fiction,

The EarlyYears, #562.

NewYork: Harper & Brothers, 1888

[200/300]