TOMLINSON, H.M. – Clare LEIGHTON (illustrator). The Sea & The Jungle. London: Duckworth, 1930. Limited edition, this being number 25 of 515 copies signed by H.M. Tomlinson and a loosely inserted slip with Clare Leighton’s ink signature, 8vo (228 x 137mm.) 7 woodcut plates by Leighton and numerous decorations, a 7-line hand-written card by Leighton tipped-in. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (minor loss and tear at base of spine, creasing to upper panel), slipcase (sunned to margins). Note: the card reads: ‘Dear Dan Banner, Here is the Sea and Jungle signature- I’m glad you have this book. Forgive a scribble- some weeks ago I stupidly had an accident and broke my hip. I am recovering well, but it is a horrid nuisance and interruption. Cordially, Clare Leighton’. – And a further eight volumes related to Clare Leighton (including a copy of Bertha Damon’s ‘Sense of Humus’, signed by the author and a mounted signature by Clare Leighton, 1943, 8vo, and Elinor Parker’s ‘I was Just Thinking- A Book of Essays’ with a  mounted signature by Clare Leighton, 1959, 8vo, and ‘Imagination’s Other Place’ edited Helen Plotz, signed by Clare Leighton, 1955, 8vo, and Thomas Hardy’s ‘Under a Greenwood Tree’, 1940, 8vo, and Clare Leighton’s ‘The Wood that Came Back’, 1935, oblong 4to) (9).