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The Land of Heart’s Desire

William Butler Yeats. T.Fisher Unwin, 1894.

First edition, title illustration by Aubrey Beardsley.

Lewis Carroll - illustrated Hunting of The Snark 

Peter Pauper Press New York, Undated (c1950), Book and slipcase as shown.

Stories from the Arabian Nights
Illustrated by Edmund Dulac
Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co. c. 1930.

Special edition published by Hodder & Stoughton for the Boots Pure Drug Co. Scarce in jacket.

Aubrey Beardsley ~ Book Cover ~ Under the Hill and Other Essays ~ via

BEARDSLEY, AUBREY: Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse. London: John Lane 1904. Illustrations with tissue guards. 4to. 70, [4, ads] pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, with gilt design by Beardsley.

Nouveaux Voyages en Zigzag a la Grande Chartreuse, Autour du Mont Blanc…
Rodolphe Töpffer, 1854.

B-A Note: Additional Info on the author:

Töpffer is credited with being the “father of comics”. Excerpt from Britannica: “The heir to the experiments of the English caricaturists and the father of the comic strip in its modern sense was Rodolphe Töpffer, a schoolmaster of Geneva who was active in the 1830s and ’40s. Largely exempt from the preoccupations of the English caricaturists, Töpffer created a species of absurdist antiheroes who struggled desperately, fruitlessly, and farcically against the…”

Voyages chronicles the adventures of a Swiss schoolteacher and his students. According to Bibliomaven, they were translated and republished in the late 1800’s for an English-speaking market.

Dagon & Other Macabre Tales
H.P. Lovecraft. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1965.

First edition, first printing. Limited to 3500 copies. Original black cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped spine. Gray endpapers. Unclipped dustjacket illustrated by Lee Brown Coye.

At the Mountains of Madness
H.P. Lovecraft. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1964

First edition, first printing. Limited to 3000 copies. Original black cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped spine. Gray endpapers. Unclipped dustjacket illustrated by Lee Brown Coye.