Lot 369 , Bindings: Tagore, Rabindranath - Gitanjali (Song Offerings): a collection of prose translations....from the original Bengali. With an introduction by W.B. Yeats. port. frontis.; mid 20th cent. blind decorated and lettere

° Bindings: Tagore, Rabindranath - Gitanjali (Song Offerings): a collection of prose translations....from the original Bengali. With an introduction by W.B. Yeats. port. frontis.; mid 20th cent. blind decorated and lettered chestnut morocco with panelled spine. reprinted, 1913; Gill, Eric - Beauty Looks After Herself: essays....Ist Edition. contemp. blind decorated and lettered tan morocco, upper cover with onlaid design in black and red. 1933; (Calligraphic volume) - 7 ms. leaves of art and craft quotations in black and green ink (with a few decorative flourishes); contemp vellum with a green calf band down each cover (blind lettered on upper and sm. decorative pieces onlaid adjacent to and over spine (see illus.), leather ties (damaged), remaining blank leaves in the book are unopened.(mid 20th cent.) sold with another binding and a clothbound book (5)
£60-100

Condition:
Tagore - good copy, dec. e/ps., XXII, 101pp. and advetr leaf; ownership black stamped on turn-ins (Jean M. Lawson, 1936) and later dec. bklabel of David Peace; Gill - spine faded and rubbed, dec. e/ps.; 253pp (incl. half title); sm, slip loosely inserted. Calligraphic - good copy, yapp edges; other binding - The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature, mid 20th Cent. morocco backed oak boards, panelled (unlettered) spine, leather thong clasps, inner hinges with leather strengthening; M.S. Langridge note loosely inserted (containing the binding); cloth bound - Turks Tunis (?1950s)

Sold for £170