Literature from Hugh Anson-Cartwright Fine Books, ABAC/ILAB

London: Putnam & Co. Ltd., 1952. Pp. [v], 282. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering, in price-clipped dust jacket designed by Klaus Meyer. Dust jacket darkened with minor nicks to spine ends and tips. "Der Tinker" was written in code in September 1944 while Fallada was in prison on a charge of attempted murder. His German publisher knew of its existence,… Read more

Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1911. Pp. xviii, [224], handwritten musical score on the front free endpaper, inscribed and signed by the eminent Canadian composer and organist, Healey Willan: "To Vera Feb. 14. 1915. With all good wishes", recipient's signature, Vera [N. Livingston] to front pastedown. Original green ribbed cloth, title framed in gilt on front cover, ornate gilt spine. "The… Read more

Toronto: Anson-Cartwright Editions, 1984. 8vo., pp. 101, illus. including two wood engravings by David Jones, cloth, gilt spine, dust jacket. Mint. Designed and typset by Glenn Goluska at The Nightshade Press, Toronto. The typefaces are Linotype Pilgrim and Monotype Gill Sans, both designed by Eric Gill. One thousand copies were printed on Zephyr Antique Laid at The Coach House Press,… Read more

Paris: Verve, January-March, 1939. Folio (36 x 27 cm.), pp. 140, profusely illustrated with heliogravure in colour, illuminations with heliogravure in colour and gold, colour lithographs, including a double-page colour lithograph "The Dance by Henri Matisse. Colour plates by Rouault, Matisse, Vulliard, Derain, Miro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Courbet, Rousseau, Masson, &c. Illuminated 15-C 'Grandes Heures', engravings; heliogravure photo reproductions by Barna,… Read more

London / New York: The Blackamore Press / Random House, 1930. The first English edition consists of 400 copies, this being #148. Pp. [128], with 8 plates (includes frontispiece portrait), all drawn by Baudelaire. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Rear cover very lightly soiled, spine slightly sunned, a couple of light pencil notes to rear… Read more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921. Pp. 63, orange paper boards with green wrap around paper label, price-intact dust jacket. Nicks to spine ends, else clean, bright copy. A6(b). First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.. 16 mo..

Washington: W.F. Roberts. The Perfect Press, n.d. [1898] 4 leaves printed one-side only, title-page printed in red and black, and with black & white header ornamentation, tissue-guarded frontispiece in black & white reproducting the painting, The Vampire, by Kipling's cousin Philip Burne-Jones (1861-1926). On title-page: "Written for a picture by Philip Burne-Jones exhibited at the New Gallery in London, 1897."… Read more

London: Papermac, a division of Macmillan Publishers, 1990. Pp. xxx, 398, 4 leaves printed both sides containing black & white reproductions. Illustrated card covers. Faint spine creases, else very good, clean copy. Considered the second edition with some changes to the text and added information, the author has written a new foreword responding to the barrage of comments his book… Read more

London: J.M. Dent, 1939. Pp. vii, 207, frontispiece portrait, illustrated with 8 plates, indigo blue cloth, blind-stamp. Two previous owner signatures to front free endpaper, else very good, tight, clean copy. Original, tanned, price-clipped dust jacket, lacking spinestrip, many old and yellowed cello tape repairs, now protected in a plastic book cover with liner to offer protection of the book… Read more

London.Melbourne.Toronto / New York: Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 1967. Pp. x, 250. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering. Near fine copy in a near fine, price-intact dust jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1894; 1895 JUNGLE BOOK: Pp. [vii], 212. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard + 18 full-page illustrations included in the pagination, 17 text illustrations and 6 headpieces. Original publisher's blue cloth, with gilt stamped illustration of three elephants to cover, and a snake and mongoose to spine, all edges gilt, dark olive green/black coated endpapers. Slightly scuffed,… Read more

London, New York, Toronto: Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co., 1951. Pp. 55. Sepia-toned frontispiece portrait from a drawing by William Strang. Printed paper wrappers, stapled binding. "Revised Price" sticker to both upper and lower covers, else a very good plus, clean, bright copy.`. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus..… Read more

Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler & Co. 7 issues bound in 2 volumes. Half green calf and green cloth boards, flat back with gilt rules, gilt title direct to spine. VOLUME 1: containing the first 4 volumes of the Indian Railway Library (IRL). The covers were designed at the Mayo School of Art, Lahore, where Kipling's father, J. Lockwood Kipling, was the… Read more

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. Pp. xii, 178, profusely illustrated throughout in black & white with several in colour. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped vignette to front cover and gilt spine lettering, patterned endpapers. In a dust jacket designed by Wendell Minor. Dust jacket curling slightly at head, with one 3 cm vertical tear and chipping at head of spine,… Read more

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1955; 1952; 1955 3 volumes, uniformly bound by Harrods Ltd. in half green morocco and green cloth, 5 gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt titles direct to spine in panels mechanically faded to brown, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uniform title-pages ruled in red. JUNGLE BOOK (1955): Pp. [vii], 277. Slightly rubbed with some fading to spine… Read more

London: Methuen and Co., 1892. Pp. xix, 208, 16-page publ. catalogue. From the library of Julius H. Griffith (1865-1936), friend of Kipling and fellow student at United Services College (U.S.C.) in Westward Ho!, England. He is the father of Canadian artist Julius Griffith, with ink inscription to the front blank dated June, 1892. Firebrick buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge… Read more

New York / Cambridge: Edgar H. Wells and Company / Harvard University Press, 1927, 1938 2 Volumes: BIBLIOGRAPHY: 21.7 cm x 15.5 cm. Pp. xviii, 523, brown cloth, gilt spine lettering, illustrated with facsimile wrappers, title-pages, and handwritten letters. Very good copy; SUPPLEMENT: Limited to 55 copies on large paper, unnumbered. 23.5 cm x 16.3 cm. Pp. xv, 333. Unopened… Read more

London: [1894, 1899, 1900, 1902] Four handwritten letters addressed to JULIUS H. GRIFFITH. Griffith was born 2 October 1866 in Bombay, India, and was a friend of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). He also attended the United Services College (USC), (No. 419), located at Westward Ho! in North Devon. Like Kipling, Griffith kept regular correspondence with Cormell Price, the Headmaster of the… Read more

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1899. Pp. [iv], 84. Blue pictorial cloth, with illustration and lettering in black. From the library of Julius H. Griffith (1865-1936), friend of Kipling and fellow student at United Services College (U.S.C.) in Westward Ho!, England. He is the father of Canadian artist Julius Griffith. With his pencilled signature and date of Feb/99 to front… Read more

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Pp. xii, 204. Unopened copy. Illustrated with 45 black & white photo reproductions on 36 plates. Quarter beige buckram over beige paper boards, black lettering within an illustrated cartouche to front cover, black lettering direct to spine, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Covers dust soiled, small dot of an abrasion at center fore-edge… Read more