Thurber (James) Fables for Our Time..., illustrations, Blackwell booklabel to front pastedown, a little foxing and soiling, 1940 § Whistler (Laurence) Rex Whistler 1905-1944..., frontispiece and illustrations, signed presentation copy from Sir John Maud to David Hardman, 1948 § Whistler (Laurence) Pictures on Glass, unnumbered from a limited edition, frontispiece and illustrations, Suffolk, The Cupid Press, 1972 § Lee (Brian North) The Bookplate Designs of Rex Whistler, one of 350 copies with frontispiece tipped-in, plates, Middlesex, Private Libraries Association, 1973 § Sitwell (Sacheverell) Valse des Fleurs..., unnumbered from an edition of 400, wood-engraved devices by Reynolds Stone, endpapers and slip-case to designs by Henry Moore, York, The Fairfax Press, 1980, first two first editions, first original printed boards, others original cloth or quarter cloth, second and third gilt, first two dust-jackets, nicks, tears, soiling, third, fourth, and fifth slip-case; and 12 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (17)
⁂Sir John Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud (1906-1982) British civil servant and diplomat, attendee at the Third General Conference of Unesco in 1948; David Hardman (1901-1989) MP for Darlington 1945-51, also an attendee.
The inscription: "For David Hardman | in grateful memory of the Unesco Conference in Beirut | Christmas 1948 | from John Maud".
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