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128107
ONON, URGUNGE; Translated by. BRADBURY, SUE; Revised by.

Chinggis Khan: The Golden History of The Mongols.
First Folio Society Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xx, 188; endpaper maps, coloured portrait frontispiece, text with 11 coloured plates, 1 text map, bound in original white cloth, title lettered in black on spine and upper board, housed in original black card slipcase, good copy.
London; The Folio Society;1993. Click here to Order
AUD$35

128323
OVID.

The Art of Love. (Ars Amatoria). Translated by J. A. Meagher.
Limited Edition; Post 4to; pp. [ii],16, 25, 23, 26,25;marbled endpapers, bound in scarlet half-morocco by Bayntum Riviere of Bath, title label on spine, title lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, Harry Chaplin's copy with his Lindsay bookplate on the front fixed endpaper, inscribed and signed by Meagher on the title page, tipped in is an a.l.s from Meagher to Chaplin, a copy of Chaplin's two page letter approaching Lindsay to illustrate the verses, and a typescript copy of Lindsay's letter declining, loosely inserted is a Christmas card from Meagher 1956 (printed and signed by Walter Stone), the book was later in the collection of Dr. Geoffrey Cains, then Charles Stitz, together with the September 2020 issue of Biblionews that features Charles Stitz article titled " James Maegher and his remarkable translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria", and a description of this copy of the work, Fine copy.
Sydney; James A. Meagher; 1953.
Never commercially published after Lindsay refused to do the illustrations Meagher settled for producing a few copies for his friends. Click here to Order
AUD$750

128324
WARNER, SYLVIA TOWNSEND.

Elinor Barley. With illustrations in dry point by I. R. Hadkins.
First Limited Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. viii, 107, with additional 7 loose illustrations in folder on back cover; frontispiece, title vignette plus four full page text illustrations, original full pictorial vellum (slightly bowed), title lettered in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, signed by Warner , number 11 of 30 copies, With the extra 7 plates each signed by Hodgkins; a very good copy.
London; The Cresset Press Limited; 1930. Click here to Order
AUD$1250