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Starkie.Don Gypsy,1st,inscr.,ill.Rackham,1936+

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first edition, signed and inscribed by the author "To dearest Emily and Cecil Harmsworth in memory of many pleasant hours - and in the hope that Gypsy luck may come this way..." and with a short notated musical stave in ink on front free endpaper and accompanying A.L.s. tipped in, frontispiece and title-vignette by Arthur Rackham, plates, lightly foxed, original cloth, gilt, dust-jacket soiled, torn and frayed, 1936 ? Browne (E.G.) A Year amongst the Persians, reprint, frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket soiled and frayed, Cambridge, 1927 ? Henley (W.E.) A Song of Speed, dedicated to Alfred Harmsworth and initialled by the author on dedication, original wrappers, uncut and unopened, soiled, 1903; and a quantity of others, mostly ephemera, much of it relating to the Harmsworth family (particularly Cecil and Desmond) including some books published by Desmond, v.s.(3 boxes)

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