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SHIEL, M.P.
Prince Zaleski.
Title page and cover design by Aubrey
Beardsley. Small 8vo, publisher’s brick-red
cloth, spine gilt-lettered, mild rubbing to
spine tips and joints, few scratches along
bottom of rear board; binding tight, con-
tents clean; later cloth slipcase.
Boston: Roberts Bros., 1895
[300/400]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE
AUTHOR
’
S FIRST BOOK
.
A lovely copy of a
scarce book containing three celebrated mystery
stories: The Race of Orven, The Stone of the
Edmundsbury Monks, and The S. S. “A frank
throwback to Poe’s Dupin trilogy” (20th
Century Detective Stories, Queen, p. 243).
Queen’s Quorum #18.
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[SNEYD, WALTER; and MOR-
LEY, FRANCES PARKER, Countess
of.]
Portraits of the Spruggins Family,
arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin
Spruggins, Esq.
Mounted hand-colored
lithograph bound in as frontispiece; 44
lithographed plates after Sneyd. 4to, con-
temporary
1
/
2
red morocco by Jenkins and
Cecil, spine tooled in compartments in
gilt, joints and corners rubbed with expo-
sure; ownership signature on frontis and
title, bookplate on front pastedown, scat-
tered foxing, chiefly marginal.
[London?]: 1829
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
of a satire ridiculing a fictitious
upper crust family, illustrated with grotesque
portraits and “dedicated to the aristocracy of
Great Britain.” See Bodleian Library Record,
VIII, 3, pp. 163-64.
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STAPLEDON, W. OLAF.
Last and First Men.
8vo, publisher’s purple cloth,
spine faded; dust jacket, spine panel tanned with short chips to head and foot affecting a
few letters, light edgewear, circular stain on rear panel; ownership inscription to front fly-
leaf.
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST PRINTING
. Currey’s A binding.
NewYork: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, (1931)
[200/300]