Cawthron Mark Owen (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. 287, [1]. Variant binding of turquoise cloth, spine lettered in gilt inside gilt-stamped oval frame. Gentle pushing to spine ends, a few dints and marks to bottom board. Toned, Mark Owen Cawthron's striking corvid-themed ex libris, designed by R. J. Lloyd, to front pastedown. Else, pleasingly clean and tight. In the muted Lynton Lamb-designed dust jacket: price-clipped, gentle edgewear, two short closed tears. Near fine/ near fine A really lovely copy of the less common British first edition of STW's final novel, a complex family saga set in a Norfolk fishing town in the 1840s, in the variant turquoise cloth binding and dressed in Lynton Lamb's illustrated dust jacket; from the collection of Mark Owen Cawthron and featuring his 'Old Corbie' illustrated ex libris (1986), designed by the Devon-based semi-surrealist artist R. J. Lloyd. Self-taught, Lloyd worked across various mediums and also collaborated with his friend Ted Hughes, illustrating a number of children's poetry books, as well as (aptly for us) a series of silkscreen prints of Hughes' Crow poems. With printed dedication to the American novelist Anne Parrish, who STW first met in 1929 on a visit to the US. Of the variant binding, Russell writes: "No priority established, but probably a later binding." Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 24b.…