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[ILLUSTRATED MISCELLANY] Three Illustrated Titles. Comprising: CLARKE, HARRY and POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1933. First Tudor edition. Publisher's cloth with pictorial title label, in dust jacket and original two-part box with pictorial label. 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (26.5 x 20 cm); 8 colored tipped in plates (including frontispiece), 24 black-and-white plates, vignette title page, half-title. Jacket toned with short marginal tears, box a bit worn with a few stains and one panel detached but present, interior clean and bright, uncommon in original condition; NASH, JOHN and SPENSER, EDMUND. The Shepheardes Calender. Conteyning Twelve Aelogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes. London: The Cresset Press, 1930. Number 312 of 350 copies. Publisher's vellum-backed silk-covered boards, top edge gilt, preserved in original slipcase. 12 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches (32.75 x 20 cm); 133, [1] pp.; additional pictorial title page and 12 illustrations, all hand-colored in pochoir. Silk a bit rubbed at edges, slipcase worn with portion of spine not present, interior fine; and TIMLIN, WILLIAM M. The Ship that Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy. London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, [1923]. First edition. Publisher's vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket laid in. 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 23 cm); 48 text leaves printed in blue, green, and black and 48 color plates, each mounted on gray card. Spine darkened and nicked, corners worn and boards rubbed with a short tear to paper of lower board, dust jacket present but torn with old tape repairs and stains, endpapers stained with contemporary ownership signature, foxing to first three text leaves. Three sumptuously illustrated classics. (3) C Property of a Maine Collector