Item #1117 The Golden Octopus. Legends of the South Seas. Blamire YOUNG, Viscount Hastings.
The Golden Octopus. Legends of the South Seas

The Golden Octopus. Legends of the South Seas

London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1928.

YOUNG, Blamire.

First edition, limited to 750 copies. Housed in decorative Batik paper boards and printed on rich cotton rag, with spirited colour plates by Blamire Young. The author, Viscount Hastings, studied under Diego Rivera and was the 16th Earl of Huntingdon.

Item #1117

Quarto, twelve tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece); original decorated papered boards with gilt text to cloth backstrip, some wear to the extremities of the boards, with the small ownership label of Rollo Hammet, light browning to free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy.

Price (AUD): $200.00  other currencies