2019 Rare Signed Book - Affairs Of The Heart by Charles van SandwykAuthor: Charles van Sandwyk. Title: Affairs Of The Heart According to Peaceable Creatures. Language: Text in English. Publisher: North Vancouver, B. C., Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2019. Third printing following the first of 2003 and the second of 2007. Signed by Charles van Sandwyk on the title page. Size: Oblong 8. 5" X 10". Pages: Unpaginated (25 pages). Binding: Fine and attractive original pictorial covers with hand stitched binding (hinges

Molesworth (Mary Louisa Molesworth

and delightful pictorial cover exemplify the exuberant design aesthetic of 1920s American children’s publishing

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including those replicating the style of medieval illuminations

Gösta Berling's Saga

brought to life through van Sandwyk’s delicate illustrations and distinctive

Gilt edges and marbled endpapers (hinges fine

these timeless stories explore themes of love

with corner repairs carried out by a previous owner

Spine titled in brown ((hinges fine

capturing both the perilous physical world of the novel and its growing sense of the uncanny

The story expands in The Subtle Knife and reaches its ambitious conclusion in The Amber Spyglass