RATCLIFFE, Dorothy Una.. Nightlights.. London, John Lane/The Bodley Head [1929]., 1929.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. 8vo. Over 90 b/w illustrations (some double-page), title vignette and upper cover illustration by Cecile Walton. Full white cloth, gilt stamped spine and pictorial upper cover, t.e.g., uncut and partly unopened. Very good. 33 poems for children, many with nautical themes, wonderfully illustrated. Number 40 of 100 copies, signed by Ratcliffe on limitation page. Printed by Richard Clay

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

WALTON, Cecile (illustrator). Dorothy Una RATCLIFFE (poet).. Nightlights.. , 1929.

Price: US$199.02 + shipping

Description: London, John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd. 1929. 8vo. Original white cloth prettily blocked in gilt with a vignette of a young pipe-playing girl against a seme of shooting stars, top edges gilt, others uncut; pp. viii, [ix-x], 11-99, printed on fine laid paper; strikingly illustrated in dense black, and line, to almost every page; externally clean and sharp save a very pale semi-circular mark to upper cover, internally very good and clean throughout, and uninscribed. First edition de luxe of this collection of children's verse, limited to only 100 numbered copies signed by the author; this an out-of-series presentation copy inscribed by Ratcliffe in ink to Betty Blair. Cecile Walton was a Scottish painter and illustrator. She and her husband Eric Harald Macbeth Robertson were leading lights in the Edinburgh chapter of the Symbolist movement.

Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom