Highlights
Each year our exhibitors bring rare, beautiful and unusual items for sale.
As we have not had a fair since 2019 due to the pandemic, our booksellers have curated many lovely and desirable books to exhibit.
Here are just a few of the exhibitors' highlights you can expect to see at the Fair in 2022!
There are a number of pages of highlights. To browse all the highlights - choose a page from the list below.
You can also check the highlights listed under your favourite booksellers in the exhibitor directory
Printed Hours leaf on vellum with many metalcuts. Vostre, Paris, 1512.
$340
Book of Hours leaf printed on vellum, c.1512 by Vostre, Paris. Many metalcuts including Saint Christopher carrying the child Jesus, dragons, grotesques, Saint Sebastian being martyred, the Delphic Sybil and an elephant. Coloured initials added by hand after the printing. Near mint condition, sharply printed on clean vellum.
T.S. ELIOT: 'The Waste Land'
$15000
Richmond, Hogarth Press, 1923.
The first English edition in book form, hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press in an edition of approximately 460 copies. A splendid unopened copy of this seminal work of modern poetry.
[Catalogue of Paintbrushes] Vereinigte Pinsel-Fabriken | 1922 | Catalogue D
$750
[Catalogue of Paintbrushes]
Vereinigte Pinsel-Fabriken | 1922 | Catalogue D
Published in Nuremberg by Vereinigte Pinsel-Fabriken, 1922.
Ernest Nister.
An exhaustive trade catalogue distributed by the Vereinigte Pinsel-Fabriken (United brush factory) in Nuremberg, 1922. 75 illustration plates of the highest quality chromolithographs document all manner of brushes, with a special concentration on paintbrushes and other artists tools. Housed in smart card covers with simple gilt-lettering, this is a stylish publication and a work of art in its own right.
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Those Were The Days by A.A.Milne (signed)
$950
Methuen- London 1929 (Ist Edition). 8vo 884pp. Hardcover slightly marked dust wrapper, in very good condition overall. This is a collection of stories and essays and is a signed limited edition of 250 copies of which this is numbered 249, printed on India paper
BULLER Sir Walter Lawry The Birds of New Zealand
$15000
London: Published for the subscribers by the Author, 1888. Second Edition. Two volumes imperial quarto : pp lxxiv, 250, 6; xv, 359 : 50 plates (48 chromolithographed and hand-finished) by Kuelemans : all edges gilt : original boards with bird designs in gilt to top boards : sympathetically re-backed in green calf with five raised bands :INSCRIBED by Buller in volume one, "Captain Fairchild, with best wishes of the Author, W. Buller, May 24, 1891"...
Limited to 1000 copies for subscribers only, Buller's second edition was larger, revised, and with many more plates than the original...
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The Temple Dances in Bali
$3000
Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) was a Swedish artist, ethnographic researcher, keen theosophist, cosmopolitan woman of the world, and a founding member of Foreningen Svenska Konstnarinnor (The Association of Swedish Women Artists). She spent many years throughout the 1910s and 1920s in Indonesia, studying ceremonial dance, and produced a number of books on dance, theatre, and ritual in Java and Bali, and in 1938 was awarded the Johan August Wahlberg for her work there.
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Alexander Pushkin: A Dama de Espadas
$2500
[Rio de Janeiro], Confraria Bibliófila Brasileira ‘Cattleya Alba’, [1944].
Number 48 of only 200 copies of this deluxe privately printed edition, signed by the illustrator Martha Pawlowna Schidrowitz and translator Álvaro Moreyra.
Entirely printed on undyed silk (unsurprisingly, this is the first such book printed in Brazil!), and bound in padded boards of the same material, with a matching box. The 52 hand-coloured plates, styled on the 52 cards in a deck, feature characters from the book and important Russian landmarks.
The Decorative Art of Leon Bakst
$3500
The major monograph of Russian painter, scene and costume designer, Leon Bakst (1866-1924), the first in English, published alongside a French edition, L’Art Decorative de Leon Bakst, in the same year. Appreciation by Arsene Alexandre. Notes on the ballets by Jean Cocteau, translated from the French by Harry Melvill.
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Digitalis copper engraving, 1696. Munting.
$135
Botanical copperplate engraving of Digitalis (Foxglove) from the first edition of Abraham Munting's opus magnum, 1696. The illustrations are remarkable for their elegance and originality. The plant dominates the foreground, filling the entire page. It is presented in a delightful pastoral scene with a farmhouse and cattle. The latin name is written on an elegantly fluttering banderole.
Excellent condition, sharply printed with a clear plate mark on watermarked paper.
Ink The Other Newspaper.
$60
Richard Neville's London underground newspaper, intended as a weekly newsletter aimed at bridging the gap between the radical counter cultural youth and more traditional leftist factions. We are bringing a number of issues.
Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl and For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
$485
Dahl - Michael Joseph London 1960 (Ist Edition) 8vo, 255pp. Hardcover with price-clipped dustwrapper and minor shelfwear with text in very good condition with a small biro marking on fixed front endpaper. First edition of short stories by the unequalled Roald Dahl. ($285)
Fleming - Jonathan Cape London 1960 (Ist Edition) 8vo. Hardcover, price-clipped dustwrapper from a later edition, slightly marked, text in very good condition with small initials on free front endpaper ($485)