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The Golden Book of Tagore [along with a Signed Letter by Tagore] - Ramananda  Chatterjee - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Ramananda Chatterjee (1865 - 1943)

The Golden Book of Tagore [along with a Signed Letter by Tagore]

Ramananda Chatterjee, The Golden Book of Tagore: A Homage to Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday, Calcutta: Golden Book Committee, 1931

xx, (2), pp. 374, (2), 30 plates including 1 Frontispiece [Photogravure portrait of Tagore, after a photograph by Martin Vos], 29 plates, many of them tipped-in colour plates [with tissue guards carrying title and artist's name] by Abanindra Nath Tagore, Nanda Lal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, A D Thomas, Gogonendra Nath Tagore, Samarendra Nath Gupta, Abdur Rahman Chughtai and Ramendra Nath Chakravarti. Others are reproductions of works by a Chinese and a Japanese artist, portraits of Tagore done by eminent Indian and Western artists and early photographs of Tagore; original full leather with a gilted roundel of the vegetal design on the front board and gilt leather title ticket pasted on the spine, most pages remain uncut along the top edge, new end papers
11.75 x 9 x 2 in (30 x 23 x 5 cm)

This copy is numbered 31 out of a limited-edition of 1500 copies.

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Indian Round Table Conference - Emery  Kelen - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Emery Kelen (1896 - 1978)

Indian Round Table Conference

Emery Kelen, Indian Round Table Conference, London: Emery Kelen, 1930-32

Unpaginated; publisher's title page with 85 loose plates further housed in a customised solander box measuring 16 x 12 x 1.5 in (40.5 x 31 x 4 cm)

The album was printed and hand-colored in a limited edition of 200 copies. 50 copies of this edition were on hand-made paper and contained in a leather portfolio and numbered 1 to 50. 150 copies were on high-class paper contained in an Art-cloth portfolio and numbered 51 to 200. This lot has loose plates and are further housed in a customised solander box.

This copy is an unnumbered copy unlike the other copies which were numbered and signed by the artist.

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The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling [35 volumes, Limited Edition Complete Set, Signed by the Author in Volume One] - Rudyard  Kipling - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling [35 volumes, Limited Edition Complete Set, Signed by the Author in Volume One]

Rudyard Kipling, The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, London: Macmillan and Company, Sussex Edition, 1937-39

The Sussex Edition. Number 78 of 525 sets, signed by the author in volume one; hardbound in full crimson Niger morocco, bound by James Burn & Co. Ltd., with raised bands in six compartments, gilt, and double gilt fillet borders to upper and lower boards. Top edges gilt on rough, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Titles handsomely printed by R.& R. Clark Ltd. of Edinburgh on hand-made rag-paper by Messrs. Portals Ltd. in white on chestnut panels, printed on handmade paper with a watermark of Ganesha (each).
9.75 x 6.75 in (25 x 17.5 cm) (each)

The Sussex edition is universally considered as unquestionably the definitive and most desirable edition of Kipling's collected works. It is also one of the most splendid and extravagantly produced of all literary sets.

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The Crescent Moon: Child Poems [Signed by Rabindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose] - Rabindranath  Tagore - Signed, First and Limited Edition Books
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)

The Crescent Moon: Child Poems [Signed by Rabindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose]

Rabindranath Tagore, The Crescent Moon: Child Poems, New York: Macmillan, 1914

xii, ii, 82 pages including 8 coloured plates by Nandalal Bose; bound in light blue cloth, retaining the original upper cover with designs in gilt by T Sturge Moore
7.25 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (18.8 x 14 x 1.2 cm)

Signed by Rabindranath Tagore on the front end paper, and signed by Nandalal Bose beneath the plate "The Home" (after a painting by Nandalal Bose himself) facing page number 1.

An extremely rare book signed both by Rabindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose, a unique book one of its own kind in the world.

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