Lot 161: TIMLIN, WILLIAM M. 1892-1943. The Ship That Sailed to Mars, A Fantasy. London: George G. Harrap, [c.1923].

TIMLIN, WILLIAM M. 1892-1943.
The Ship That Sailed to Mars, A Fantasy. London: George G. Harrap, [c.1923]. 4to. 48 calligraphic text sheets, and 48 illustrated color plates, all mounted to gray cardstock. Modern blue morocco gilt with pictorial inlay of a ship at sail upon a cloud in tan, brown and red morocco on top cover, spine with 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers. Plates re-tipped to new card stock, leaves slightly warped, minor spotting.FIRST EDITION of Timlin's masterpiece. Only 2,000 copies were printed, and most of those were remaindered, and then destroyed in London in 1941. "The most original and beautiful children's book of the 1920s...." (Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration.)