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TOMLINSON,H[enry] M[ajor]: : THE SEA AND THE JUNGLE - With a new Foreword by the Author

LONDON.DUCKWORTH,1930.

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st illustrated edn,1st thus.[First and originally published 1912, unillustrated and author's first book and published work.There is also a Ltd.,/No'd edition from same publisher and in same year (1930),also illustrated by Clare Leighton.] No owner inscrptn but a previous bookseller's bookshop+address inked stamp,to lower edge of front bd - nearly,but not quite,hidden by front inner dw/dj flap and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Blue/green background dw/dj with a black ink printed, scenic illustrated woodcut to top edge and above title,author,illustrator lettering printed to front panel of dw/dj.Dw/dj with shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - all four corners with rubbing+ chipping and some minimal loss; concomitant rubbing to bd's corners too. Fading/sunning shadows to both panels of dw/dj due to previous presence of smaller 8vo books when book was stored on a shelf/ bookcase.Spine/backstrip faded and darkened,vertical water(?) stain to same; nicks+chipping with small loss to both head+foot of same too.Top edges trimmed, olivine,fore-edges untrimmed and aged/ tanned with sporadic foxing/spotting; contents though,generally bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.Apart from pastedowns and free endpapers and the full-page woodcut ilustrations - all other pages are chain-laid paper.Bright,clean paper-covered bds with green fern fronds(?) design to a white/cream background,dark green cloth blind spine with bright,crisp,stamped gilt lettering, white eps with off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st illustrated edn,1st thus; 9-343pp [paginated] includes author's new 11-page foreword,chapters I-VI,7 full-page b/w woodcut illustrations and 6 each of b/w chapter head+tail piece woodcuts (all called for,but with the last chapter's [Chapter VI] head piece is not noted on the illustrations list/table) - all by Clare Leighton,plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w woodcut frntis,title page, dedication,and an illustrations list/ table. Being the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer CAPELLA from Swansea to Santa Maria de Belen do Grao Para in the Brazils,and thence,2,000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers to the San Antonio Falls; afterwards returning to Barbados for orders,and going by way of Jamaica to Tampa in Florida, where she loaded for home.Done in the years 1909 and 1910. Clare Veronica Hope Leighton (sometimes Clara Ellaline Hope Leighton) b.1898 - d.1989.Works as Clare Leighton.Studied at Brighton School of Art,the Slade School of Fine Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts where she learned wood engraving under Noel Rooke.During the late 1920s and 1930s,she became a noted wood engraver,winning first prize at the International Engraver's Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago (1930).She emigrated to the USA in 1939 and became an American citizen in 1946.She lectured for two years at Duke University and settled in a house of her own design in Connecticut.She designed stained glass windows (including 37 for St Paul's Cathedral,Worcester,Massachusetts) and also worked in mosaic. As a book illustrator,she worked mainly for commercial rather than private presses,and her engravings are,at their best,vigorous and striking.Her figures, with pronounced tonal contrasts are often effectively offset by closely textured backgrounds of delicate grey; in this,as well as in her preference for for rural figure subjects,her work is reminiscent of the mid-Victorian illustrator G.J.Pinwell. Whilst at Duke University she met Professor Frank C. Brown and joined his effort to collect North Carolina folklore. The project eventually grew to seven published volumes,all illustrated by Leighton.Author of 'Wood Engravings of the 1930s' (Studio,1936).Other illustrated works include 'The Farmer's Year'(1933), 'The Wood That Came Back'(1934),'Four Hedges'(1935),'The Musical Box'(1936), 'Country Matters'(1937),'Where Land Meets Sea'(1954).Elected SWE (1928),ARE (1930), RE (1934); former Vice-President of the Society of American Graphic Art and Fellow of the National Academy of Design,New York. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in 2016 too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.

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