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Scarthin Books
The Promenade
Cromford
Matlock
Derbyshire
DE4 3QF

01629 823272
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BOOKSHOP

9-6pm Mon-Sat

10-6pm Sun

Closed on XMAS Day & Boxing Day
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CAFE

10-5pm

(12-3pm hot food)

Parking

Don't be put off by the tucked-away location of the bookshop - there are places to park if you know where to find them:

- along the Prom (free)
- Market Place (free)
- Water Lane (free)
- Cromford Mill
- Cromford Canal

No Dogs Policy (new)

Following several unfortunate incidents and an ever-growing canine population in our corridors, we have decided, with some regret, that it is time to revert to the practice of only a few years ago of asking our customers not to bring dogs into the bookshop.

This policy change has been hard for our staff to
agree, but we think it is the right course of action.

Assistance Dogs are, of course, exempt.

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Featured Collection – Ravilious and Co.

SOLD
Eric Ravilious: Landscapes, Letters & Design with a Foreword by Alan Powers
Ullmann Anne, Whittick Christopher & Lawrence Simon
£300

Two volumes. 9.5 X 12 ins. Vol. I 270 pp. Vol II 259 pp. Full cloth bindings.One of only 650 sets. Beautifully designed and set in Miller Display type and printed on PhoeniXmotion Xantur paper. Companion volumes to “Ravilious At War” which took 1939 as its starting point. These books collect Ravilious’s painted work and murals made from childhood to late 1939. Profusely illustrated in colour including folded tipped-in plates. As new in cloth covered slip case. Slip case shows very little wear – one or two fading marks. Also included, the pre-publication leaflet from Fleece Press (1500 copies printed, hand-sewn). Bookseller Inventory # 14812

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SOLD
The St. Bride Notebook.

Incline Press. Ravilious, Eric. Archer, Caroline & Harling, Robert
£90

8vo. New edition of the forty-two wood engravings for the Kynoch Press Notebook of 1933, by Eric Ravilious printed from the original blocks. Also contains two essays by Harling and Archer. Bookseller Inventory # 14816

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In Place of Toothpaste. Three Essays Celebrating the Watercolour Painting of Eric Ravilious.
Incline Press. Ravilious, Eric. Power, Alan. Kitts, Barry and Maddox, Ronald.
£120

pp. viii, 34, 8vo, quarter blue cloth, gilt lettering, blue and white Ravilious-patterned boards, printed front cover label. Pages untrimmed. 154/250 copies. Contains 6 tipped-in colour plates, and a facsimile of a letter from Edward Bawden. Bookseller Inventory # 14817

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Eric Ravilious :The Story of High Street
Powers, Alan and Russell, James.
£425

One of only 750 copies printed. Tim Mainstone has produced a reprint the 24 images and the text of Ravilious’s iconic High Street published 1938 together with essays by Alan Powers and James Russell, and a number of other illustrations. This book sold out on publication and now a highly collectible work in its own right. Book in fine condition, with slipcase slightly marked. Bookseller Inventory # 14818

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SOLD
Ravilious at War. The complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939 – September 1942.
Ullman, Anne; Whittick, Christopher; Lawrence, Simon; Sewell, Brian. [Eric Ravillious]
£450

Oblong 4to. pp.284 + colophon. Blue cloth boards. One of 750 copies of which only 650 for sale. Edited by Ravilious’ daughter Anne Ullmann. A beautiful book with over 200 illustrations of Ravilious’ art and correspondence from 1939 to his death in 1942, including 150 plates. Scarce. Will incur extra overseas postage. Bookseller Inventory # 14819

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The Wood-engravings of Paul Nash
Greenwood, Jeremy, intro by Simon Brett
£400

Quarter grey cloth and patterned paper boards and grey cloth slipcase. 141pp. 108 illustrations. One of 60 special edition with G10 on pg 33 printed from the original block. Fine in fine slipcase. Bookseller Inventory # 14820

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Ravilious Engravings
Greenwood, Jeremy.
£400

Grey cloth boards with silver lettering, 287 pp, One of 800 copies of the standard edition. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Grey card slipcase shows minimal shelf wear. Bookseller Inventory # 14821

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Mr Derrick Harris
Brett, Simon
£170

One of a limited edition of 280 copies on Zerkall mouldmade paper; illustrates the life & work of Derrick Harris, with 50 wood engravings by Harris; plus portfolio contains a set of nine coloured wood engravings for a never-published book ‘Royal Flush’ (text now lost); plus a booklet of three additional b&w engravings. All three as new. Contained in a fitted cream cloth covered clamshell box approx. 16″ x 12.5″. Box shows one or two minor marks. Bookseller Inventory # 14822

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Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand, the Graphic Work of Clare Leighton

Jonathan Stuhlman
£300

Very light wear to cover edges, rear corner bumped. Bookseller Inventory # 14823

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