[FINE PRESS BOOKS]. A group of 5 works, comprising:
CERVANTES, Miguel de The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Jean de Bosschère, illustrator. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1922. FIRST EDITION. -- SWIFT, Jonathan. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. 2 volumes. Provenance: A. H. Spencer (bookseller's label). LIMITED EDITION, number 70 of 480 copies. -- SKOTNES, Cecil and Stephen GRAY. The Assassination of Shaka. Johannesburg: McGraw-Hill, 1974. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 70 of 250 copies SIGNED BY SKOTNES AND GRAY. -- MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick, or the Whale. Mount Vernon, NY: The Artist's Limited Edition, 1975. 13 plates. (Lacking serigraph frontispiece.) LIMITED EDIITON, number 888 of 1,500 copies. -- WILDE, Oscar and William FOGG. The Harlot's House. Fullerton, CA: Greybeard Press, 2004. 6 tipped-in illustrations by Fogg. [Laid in:] Original black and white print SIGNED BY FOGG in ink lower margin, matted. Publisher's prospectus. LIMITED EDITION, number 8 of 50 copies SIGNED BY FOGG. -- Together, 5 works in 6 volumes, all folio or 4to, all in original publisher's bindings, ALL FIRST EDITIONS OR LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated, condition generally fine.
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