Minton, John (illustrator) Time was Away A Notebook in Corsica. Written by Alan Ross. London: John Lehmann, 1949. First edition, 4to, original yellow cloth, 8 lithographic plates in colours, dust jacket (a few shallow nicks, closed tear to foot of front panel); Pushkin, Alexander. The Queen of Spades. London: Blackamore Press, Limited, 1928. First edition thus, deluxe issue, one of 25 copies on Japan vellum (there were also 250 copies on Rives, and 35 copies not for sale), 4to, original black boards (dyed japon?), colour-printed wood-engravings by A. Alexeieff throughout, joints partially split, slipcase; and 5 others: Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, Secker & Warburg, 1955-54-6 (first edition in English, second impression of volume 1, first impressions of volumes 2-3, 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets); Malachi Whitaker, Frost in April, Jonathan Cape, 1929 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket). H. S. Ede, Savage Messiah [on Henri Gaudier-Brzeska], William Heinemann Ltd, 1931 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, inscribed by the author); Vivien Gribble (illustrator), Sixe idillia, London: Duckworth & Co, 1922 (one of 380 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, this copy inscribed to Naomi Mitchison by her husband Richard, 1922); Wood Lea Press, The Wood-Engravings of John Nash, 1987 (one of 750 copies, folio, original quarter cloth, slipcase); Fleece Press, Dear Mercia, Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley, 1909-18, 1991 (one of 350 copies, 4to, original quarter cloth, slipcase) (10)

Note: This edition of The Queen of Spades by Pushkin is 'the first to contain a full English version of the original text'; no other copies of this deluxe issue traced in auction records.