- Peter Harrington

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- Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington
london
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ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. Illustrated
by John Lawrence. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books
& Kestrel Books, 1976
Octavo (230 × 152 mm). Original dark green crushed
morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt,
compartments with raised bands and gilt motifs, rabbit
vignette to front board in gilt, edges and turn-ins gilt,
marbled endpapers. With the marbled slipcase. Numerous illustrations in colour and black and white; a coloured
folding map tipped-in at the rear. Ownership signature to
first blank. A superb copy.
signed limited edition, number 71 of 250 specially bound and signed copies of the first illustrated
edition of Adams’s first novel. This extremely popular
animal story was initially turned down by all major
publishing houses. When finally issued by Rex Collings in 1972, sales exceeded 100,000 in the first year
and Adams was awarded both the Carnegie Medal
and the Guardian Award for children’s fiction.
£2,950
[96032]
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AMIS, Kingsley. Lucky Jim. London: Victor
Gollancz, 1953
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full green
morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, twin rule to
turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
first edition.
£1,500
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[102290]
WITH HAND-COLOURED PLATES
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ANGELO, Domenico. The School of Fencing,
with a General Explanation of the Principal
Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art.
London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1765
Landscape folio (277 × 461 mm). Contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, green morocco label,
marbled sides. Parallel English–French text. 47 engraved
plates after illustrations by James Gwynn, all carefully handcoloured. Board edges and corners worn, inner hinges reinforced with leather, a few minor marks, including small,
light paint spills to a handful of plates, one plate (29)
chipped at foot, text not affected, overall a very good copy.
first edition in english, the second overall, of one
of the most important books on fencing in English, by
fencing-master Domenico Angelo (1716–1802), whose
School of Arms was the first true fencing academy on
British soil. Angelo’s L’École d’armes avec l’explication générale des principales attitudes et positions concernant l’escrime
was first published with French text only in 1763, by the
Dodsleys. It was the most important book to appear on
the subject in England since the treatise of Vincentio
Saviolo; nor was its influence confined to England,
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first edition, possibly jane austen’s first appearance in print. This scarce periodical was written by James and Henry Austen while they were at
Oxford. Some scholars have suggested that in issue
number 9, the letter signed “Sophia Sentiment” was
the work of their sister Jane when she was 14. Although
Gilson does not include this work in his Bibliography,
there is a strong case that the work was written by Jane
Austen. According to the British Library, “critics such
as Paula Byrne have noted that there are various correspondences between the letter and Jane Austen’s juvenilia. Her early, epistolary novel Love and Freindship [sic],
for example, has two heroines quite as shallow as Sophia. But other critics, such as Kathryn Sutherland and
Claire Tomalin, find it unlikely that Austen would have
written a letter so critical of women’s reading choices.
They suggest that Sophia Sentiment’s letter was probably written by one of Austen’s brothers.”
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Diderot incorporating the whole work into the Encyclopédie. The book is dedicated to Princes William Henry
and Henry Frederic (Domenico was fencing instructor to the royal family), the large expense covered by
subscriptions from 236 of Angelo’s wealthy clientele
who attended his School of Arms in Carlisle House,
Soho. It is thought that Angelo was assisted in writing
the text by the famous French-English diplomat, spy,
transvestite and fencing-master, the Chevalier d’Eon
(1728–1810), who shared Angelo’s London house for
several years. Both Angelo and d’Eon had received
their fencing training in Paris from the famous Monsieur Teillagory. The book was reprinted in smaller format with English text only in 1787, and again in 1799,
but this larger format first English–French edition is
generally preferred.
£7,500
label, other compartments gilt with central flower tools.
Contemporary ownership inscription of R. Ekins at head of
front free endpaper. Joints starting, some light chipping and
wear, part-title for No. 2 mounted on a stub, Q1 with small
marginal tear in corner with loss, marginal worming to a
few leaves, a very good copy.
Even if “Sophia Sentiment” cannot be definitively
linked with Jane Austen, the experience her brothers
had in printing this work no doubt had some influence on her. Gilson suggests that it was through the
publication of The Loiterer that she became acquainted
with Egerton of Whitehall (who were the London distributors of this work from the fifth number on) who
later published her Sense and Sensibility.
See Sir Zachary Cope, “Who was Sophia Sentiment? Was
she Jane Austen,” Book Collector 15 (1996) pp. 143–151, A. W.
Litz, “The Loiterer: a reflection of Jane Austen’s early environment”, Review of English Studies 12 (1961) pp. 251–261.
£5,000
[102817]
[103056]
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[AUSTEN, James.] The Loiterer. Oxford: Printed
for the author and sold by C. S. Rann [others in later
parts], 1789–90
Octavo (208 × 125 mm) in 60 parts, with printed part-titles
for each. Contemporary pale tan polished calf, spine divided in 6 compartments by raised bands, red morocco
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AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. A Novel.
In Two Volumes. By the Author of “Sense and
Sensibility,” &c. Third Edition. London: printed for
T. Egerton, 1817
AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels and Letters. With
colored illustrations by C. E. and H. M. Brock.
New York & Philadelphia: Frank S. Holby, 1906
BACCANTI, Alberto. Maometto, legislatore
degli Arabi e fondatore dell’Impero musulmano.
Poema. Casalmaggiore: Fratelli Bizzarri, 1791
12 volumes, octavo. Bound by Macdonald in contemporary
green half morocco, titles to spine gilt with gilt raised bands
and gilt compartments, marbled sides and marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Frontispieces and 57
coloured plates with captioned tissue guards. Spines faded
to brown, some water stains to 4 volumes; a beautifully
bound and illustrated set.
2 volumes in one, quarto (235 × 172 mm). Contemporary
half vellum, marbled sides, twin morocco labels lettered in
gilt and manuscript shelf-mark label to spine, edges speckled blue. 2 engraved portrait frontispieces and 12 similar
numbered plates by Paolo Araldi, vignettes to title pages.
Complete with the half-titles and imprimatur leaf. Boards
slightly rubbed with light wear along fore-edges, labels a
touch chipped to minimal loss of lettering, very sporadic
faint soiling chiefly to margins as usual, isolated portions of
minor damp-staining to head of gutter. An excellent copy,
preserved here in remarkably fresh condition in a pleasing
contemporary binding.
2 volumes, duodecimo (176 × 103 mm). Rebound to style
in brown half calf, morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides. Bound without half-titles; professional repair to title page of Vol. II; contemporary ownership
signature to both front flyleaves. Faint intermittent foxing to
contents. An excellent set.
third edition, the only one of the author’s novels to be published a third time in her lifetime. Pride
and Prejudice was Austen’s second published novel,
the first and second editions both appearing in 1813.
According to Gilson no details of the publishing history of this third edition are known; Jane Austen “was
clearly not consulted (having sold the copyright) and
no allusion to this edition has been traced in her surviving letters; it is not apparent whether [it] was in
fact issued before or after the author’s death.”
Keynes I5; Gilson A5.
£5,500
[102954]
limited edition, number 954 of 1,250 copies. C. E.
Brock (1870–1938) first appeared as an illustrator of Jane
Austen for Macmillan’s 1895–7 series, though he illustrated only Pride and Prejudice, with Hugh Thomson illustrating the other five titles. That series appeared in black
and white, which better suited Thomson’s skilful use of
line. A decade later J. M. Dent, realising Brock’s potential as a colourist, commissioned him to redo the Pride
and Prejudice suite in colour, and also to create colour illustrations for the other five Austen titles. The colourful
costumes and interior decor depicted here are reputedly
accurate to the Regency period, as Charles Brock and
his brother Henry collected antique furniture and clothing so that their friends and relations could model for
the artists in their Cambridge studio.
Gilson E106.
£6,000
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[102182]
first and only edition of this epic poem in Italian recounting the life of the Prophet Muhammad in
12 cantos of ottava rima, each canto illustrated with
a full-page engraved plate, in addition to two frontispiece portraits of the author and of Muhammad
astride a rampant horse, all after original paintings by
Paolo Araldi. Originally from Casalmaggiore, Araldi
(d. 1811) studied at the Academy of Parma, where he
taught Giuseppe Diotti (1779–1816), before returning
to his native city. Alberto Baccanti (1718–1805), also
from Casalmaggiore, studied theology at Cremona
before travelling to Rome in 1741, under the auspices
of the Gonzagas to work in the Vatican as a papal sec-
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retary. He returned to Casalmaggiore in 1755. Tipaldo lists an additional 10 printed and 11 manuscript
works written by Baccanti, chiefly poems, orations,
and exequies in verse.
The 12 plates depict Muhammad in the stages of his
prophecy: ascending with the archangel Gabriel to
heaven (laylat al-mi’raj), preaching to his first followers in Mecca, leading his armies to battle and uniting
the disparate tribes under his leadership. Baccanti
explains in his foreword that he sought to characterise the Prophet as a statesman and general of “rare
talents” who, regardless of the truth of the religion
he founded, succeeded in creating a unified Arabian
caliphate that laid the foundation for the rise of the
Ottoman Empire: a contrast to other European works
portraying him as “an odious impostor and a man
of most dissolute morals”. “Scholars of the Enlightenment particularly struggled with dual impulses
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towards Muhammad’s depiction, aspiring both to
a more historically-based, objective image of the
Prophet, yet also perpetuating the public appetite for
romantic, exotic details” (Shalem, ed., Constructing
the Image of Muhammad in Europe, p. 3); Baccanti’s work
itself perpetrates the common anachronisms of presenting Muhammad in contemporary Turkish dress,
preaching in interiors more redolent of orientalist
fantasy than seventh-century Arabia, and leading his
troops against a conspicuously European-style for-
tress. An unusual and extremely uncommon work,
with only seven copies held by libraries worldwide
(none in the United Kingdom).
Not in Atabey, Blackmer, Burrell or the Arcadian Library.
£8,750
[102633]
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BARRIE, J. M. Peter and Wendy. Illustrated by
F. D. Bedford. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration
to spine and front board in gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated title page, 11 plates.
Charming Art Nouveau bookplate to front pastedown. Edges of boards faintly faded, spine lightly rubbed at tail. An
exceptionally bright copy in a jacket with a few tiny chips.
Excellent.
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BAILEY, David. Box of Pin-Ups. London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1965]
Original card clamshell box (38 × 33 cm), containing 36
loose sheets; each a full page half tone reproduction of a
photographic portrait with biographical details of the sitter
on the verso. With the piece of corrugated cardboard inserted as packing. Blue scuff mark to the lid, corners archivally
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repaired, lacks the loose sheet of plain brown paper. Each
plate in superb condition.
first edition. This seminal collection of portraits
by Bailey is one of the great iconic representations
of the Swinging Sixties in London. The subjects include Mick Jagger, the Beatles, Andy Warhol, Jean
Shrimpton, Cecil Beaton, Terence Stamp, Rudolf
Nureyev, and the Krays.
£8,500
[102269]
first u.s. edition. Peter and Wendy is an expanded
adaptation into novel form of the story first made
popular in the 1904 stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy
Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. It tells the familiar story of the
stage version, with Peter as an older child flying off
with Wendy and the other Darling children to battle Captain Hook and his pirates, but Barrie added a
final chapter to the book in which Peter returns for
Wendy years later, when she is grown with a child of
her own. The stage play itself was not published until
1928. Originally published in the same year in the UK.
£3,750
[102449]
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BEAUMONT, Francis, & John Fletcher. The
Works. Collated with all the former Editions, and
Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory.
By the late Mr. Theobald, Mr. Seward of Eyam in
Derbyshire, and Mr. Sympson of Gainsborough.
London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750
10 volumes, octavo (200 × 120 mm). Contemporary speckled
calf, richly gilt spines, red and green morocco twin labels,
two-line gilt border on sides, red speckled edges. Engraved
portraits of the authors by Vertue, wood-engraved headand tailpieces. Bookplate on front pastedowns of the Earl
of Clanricarde (probably John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl,
1720–1782) and of a slightly later earl on rear pastedowns
(possibly his son, Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, 1743–1797). One or two joints partially split, some
light abrasions to covers, a couple of spines just chipped at
head, some dampstaining in volume IX.
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BAUM, L. Frank. The Road to Oz. Illustrated by
John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1909
Octavo. Original pale green cloth, pictorial image blocked
to covers, spine lettered and stamped in black, pictorial
endpapers. Black-and-white illustrations in the text by John
R. Neill. Occasional spotting to pages, name rubbed out on
the “This Book Belongs To” page, mild rubbing to ends of
spine and corners, rubbing to illustration blocked on spine,
light soiling to covers. A very good copy.
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endmatter lightly tanned and foxed, one silk tie lacking. An
excellent copy.
signed limited edition, one of 350 copies signed
by the artist.
£600
first theobald edition, edited by the great
Shakespearean scholar Lewis Theobald (c.1688–1744),
who “made fundamental contributions to English
scholarship and print culture” (ODNB). A handsomely printed edition in a lovely period binding.
Lowndes I p. 137.
£1,500
[102636]
[102157]
first edition, first state with all issue points as
called for. The fifth title in the Oz series.
Bienvenue p. 41.
£650
[103011]
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(BAUMER, Lewis.) THACKERAY, William
Makepeace. Vanity Fair. London: Hodder and
Stoughton, [1913]
Quarto. Original full vellum, titles to spine and front board
gilt, miniature portrait with gilt decorative frame to front
board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers, green silk ties. Housed in a cream moiré silk solander
box. With 20 tipped-in colour plates by Lewis Baumer with
captioned tissue guards. Boards gently splayed, prelims and
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BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew. A Little Book
of Bourgeois Verse. London: John Murray, 1937
Small quarto. Original dark blue velvet boards, all edges gilt.
With illustrations by Osbert Lancaster, de Cronin Hastings,
Gabriel Pippet and others. Boards a little bowed; an exceptional copy.
first edition, one of three copies specially
bound in blue velvet; a letter from the publisher
John Murray to Michael Sadleir is laid-in, enclosing
the present copy as a “swop” for “the splendid Amandiana”, and clarifying the limitation, noting that there
were only three copies issued in this binding, “one for
the author, one for myself and this one”. From the library of the scholar and auctioneer Anthony Hobson,
with his bookplate to the front pastedown.
Not noted in Peterson.
£3,750
[102445]
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BETJEMAN, John. Selected Poems. Chosen
with a Preface by John Sparrow. London: John
Murray, 1948
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Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine gilt, marbled
endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine a little sunned,
a few marks to boards. An excellent copy, internally fine.
signed limited edition. Number 8 of 18 copies,
specially bound and printed on very fine japon vellum, and signed by the author. From the libraries
of the publisher, bibliographer and novelist Michael
Sadleir (1888–1957) and, latterly, the scholar and
auctioneer Anthony Hobson (1921–2014), with their
bookplates to the front pastedown.
Peterson A15b.
£3,750
[102444]
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BETJEMAN, John. Verses turned in aid of a
public subscription towards the restoration of
the Church of St. Katherine, Chiselhampton,
Oxon. [Oxford?: no publisher identified,] 1952
Octavo, pp. 6. Bound in brown cloth, titles to spine gilt.
Frontispiece by Henry Rushbury. From the library of the
scholar and auctioneer Anthony Hobson, with his bookplate
to the front pastedown. A fine copy.
first edition, specially bound for presentation, signed by betjeman on the verso of the second blank, dated 14 December 1952, and attributing
the unsigned frontispiece to Henry Rushbury. Betje-
man discovered the Georgian church of St Katherine’s as an undergraduate, lying a few miles outside
Oxford. He wrote these verses in aid of its restoration
fund, for repairs between 1952 and 1954; however, the
church was declared redundant in 1977.
Peterson AA3.
£675
[102425]
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BETJEMAN, John. London’s Historic Railway
Stations. Photographed by John Gay. London:
John Murray, 1972
Quarto. Original purple cloth, titles to spine silver. With the
photographic dust jacket. Black and white photographs by
John Gay throughout. Spine slightly rolled, internally fine;
an excellent copy in the jacket with rubbed spine ends and a
few minor nicks to extremities.
first edition, inscribed by the author on the
front free endpaper, “Signed for John H, the railway
barn owl (GNR of I) by John Betjeman, 1972. GWR,
NLR, & LSWR.”
Peterson A39a.
£375
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BETJEMAN, John. Uncollected Poems. With a
foreword by Bevis Hillier. London: John Murray,
1982
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, marbled
endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. 2 wood-engravings
printed in red. From the library of the scholar and auctioneer Anthony Hobson, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. A fine copy.
signed limited edition. Number 35 of 100 specially bound copies, signed by the author (somewhat
shakily – at this point he was extremely ill).
Peterson A50b.
£375
[102443]
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BLACKSTONE, Sir William. Commentaries on
the Laws of England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765
4 volumes, quarto (260 × 200 mm). Bound in contemporary
tree calf, skilfully rebacked to style, titles to spines gilt on
red and green morocco labels, spines decorated gilt, new
endpapers, gilt rules to boards. 2 engraved tables (1 folding)
in Vol. II. Ownership signature to title page of Vol. IV. Corners restored, some light foxing and faint staining to contents. An excellent set, beautifully bound.
first edition of the most influential law book ever
published. “Blackstone’s great work on the laws of
England is the extreme example of justification of
an existing state of affairs by virtue of its history …
Until the Commentaries, the ordinary Englishman had
viewed the law as a vast, unintelligible and unfriendly
machine … Blackstone’s great achievement was to
popularize the law and the traditions which had influenced its formation … He takes a delight in describ-
ing and defending as the essence of the constitution
the often anomalous complexities which had grown
into the laws of England over the centuries. But he
achieves the astonishing feat of communicating this
delight, and this is due to a style which is itself always
lucid and graceful” (PMM).
Grolier English 52; Printing and the Mind of Man 212; Rothschild
407.
£9,750
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BLYTON, Enid. Five Go to Smuggler’s Top.
Another Adventure of the Four Children and
Timmy the Dog. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
BRASSAÏ [Gyula Halász]. The Secret Paris of
the 30’s [sic]. Translated from the French by
Richard Miller. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976
Octavo. Original light blue boards, spine and front cover
lettered in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket.
Colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Eileen
Soper. Spine a little rolled, minor pale mottling to back
cover, touch of foxing to edges, some nicks, chips and short
closed-tears to extremities of jacket. A very good copy.
first edition. The fourth adventure in the Famous
Five series.
£2,000
[102602]
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first u.s. edition, presentation copy inscribed on the title page by the photographer, “Pour mes
chers et vieux pour amis, Simone et John Brown, on
ne peut plus cordialement, Brassaï. New York, le 21
Sept. 1976”. John Brown (1914–2002) was the European representative of Houghton Mifflin as well as
cultural attaché at the American Embassy in Paris after the Second World War, where he was part of the
literary scene and befriended many French artists, including Brassaï. Brown has added his annotations to
the text in red ink. The book was originally published
in French by Gallimard in Paris earlier the same year.
[103187]
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Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt on a blue
ground. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine gently rolled,
foxed, and faded, light foxing to edges of text block; a very
good copy in the unclipped jacket that is slightly toned and
marked, with somewhat ragged edges.
£2,000
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver and
front board black. With the dust jacket. Illustrations from
photos by Brassaï. Spine rolled, a little very minor wear
to tips. An excellent copy in the bright jacket with a short
closed tear to head of front panel, a couple of shallow chips
and some rubbing to extremities.
£475
BOWLES, Paul. The Sheltering Sky. London: John
Lehmann, 1949
first edition of the author’s first novel, and a key
title in the development of Beat literature.
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BULGAKOV, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita.
Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1967
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Octavo. Original green and black boards, titles to spine gilt.
With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled; an excellent, fresh
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copy in the unclipped jacket with very mild toning to edges
and a nick to head of front flap.
first glenny edition. Although the Glenny translation was beaten to the press by Mirra Ginsburg’s
translation earlier the same year, Ginsburg had taken
as her copy text the heavily bowdlerized Soviet version. This version is complete and remains the standard English translation of one of the 20th century’s
literary masterworks. The Russian text was first published, in censored form, in two issues of the journal
Moskva in November 1966 and January 1967; the full
text in Russian was not published until 1969.
£675
[103270]
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CHRISTIE, Agatha. Peril at End House. A
Hercule Poirot Mystery. London: W. Collins Sons &
Co Ltd, 1932
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board
black. Spine rolled and faded, edges and contents lightly
foxed. An excellent copy.
first edition, in the variant red cloth binding.
£750
[102113]
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CHRISTIE, Agatha. The ABC Murders. London:
The Crime Club, 1936
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine black. With
the dust jacket. Spine rolled and faded, edges of text block
lightly foxed; an excellent copy in the unclipped jacket with
sunned spine, minor loss to spine ends, internal tape repairs, and some shallow chips and creases to extremities.
first edition.
£9,750
[103052]
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stituted in December Ballard became director of the
operations division, where he remained until 1914.
Rear-Admiral Troubridge, his new chief, did not
take well to a subordinate with ‘more brains in his
little finger than Troubridge has in his great woolly
head’ … while Churchill likewise soon took against
one who ruthlessly shot down his wilder schemes …
He moved in September 1916 to the responsible but
unglamorous position of admiral superintendent of
Malta Dockyard and retired in June 1921” (ODNB).
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INSCRIBED COPY
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph
Churchill. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1907
Octavo. Near-contemporary brown half morocco, tan cloth
sides; spine in compartments separated by raised bands irregularly enclosed by dark brown double fillets, titles direct
to second and fourth between ropework fillets gilt, year to
foot gilt, geometric roll to head and foot gilt; red and white
endbands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Photogravure
portrait frontispiece, four plates including colour reproduction of Leslie Ward’s cartoon “The Fourth Party” and three
documents in facsimile of which one in colour. Spine faded
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to tan, fore edge lightly toned, minor spotting towards front
of volume. A very good copy.
first one-volume edition, inscribed on the
half-title by Churchill as a conciliatory gesture
on the retirement of an erstwhile protégé: “To Vice
Admiral Ballard from Winston S. Churchill 13 Nov.
1921”. George Alexander Ballard was a noted naval officer and historian who in 1906 was appointed
as head of “a secret committee charged by Sir John
Fisher with reviewing plans for amphibious landings
against Germany – which it dismissed as impossible
… Under Fisher he was used as an unofficial adviser,
and when Winston Churchill took office in October
1911 he pressed for Ballard to be the next director of
naval intelligence … When the naval war staff was in-
Churchill’s biography of his father was first published
in two volumes on 2 January 1906 to “almost universal
acclaim in the Press” (Churchill, Winston S. Churchill II), with the Sunday Times remarking on Churchill’s
“maturity of judgement, levelheadedness and discretion” and The Spectator praising his style: “He has
chosen the grand manner … but the general effect is
of dignity and ease.” Churchill also received plaudits
from a number of well-known political biographers:
J. A. Spender, biographer of Campbell-Bannerman
and Asquith, called it a “brilliant book”, and W. F.
Monypenny, author of the Life of Disraeli, remarked
that “alike in style and architecture and for its spirit,
grasp and insight the book seems to me truly admirable”. The entire edition of 8,000 sold through in four
months, requiring the issue of this condensed edition.
Cohen A17.1; Woods A8 (a).
£3,000
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Collected Essays.
London: Library of Imperial History, 1976
4 volumes, octavo. Original blue quarter rexine, gilt lettered spines, gilt arms of Churchill on front cover, top
edges gilt, marbled endpapers, blue silk page-markers. An
excellent set.
first edition, 3,000 sets printed.
Cohen A286; Langworth p. 355; Woods/ICS A146 (b).
£1,500
[103063]
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(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) CHURCHILL,
Randolph S., & Martin Gilbert. Winston S.
Churchill. London: Heinemann, 1966–94
21 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt.
All with the dust jackets. With black and white photographic
illustrations throughout. Contemporary bookseller publicity material laid in to a few volumes. An excellent set with
very occasional scuffing to extremities of dust jackets.
first editions. A complete set comprising eight
volumes of the Life, plus 13 supplementary volumes,
which form a unique and extensive source of previously unpublished Churchill material.
£4,500
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MASTERPIECE
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[CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.] TWAIN,
Mark. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County, and other Sketches. New York:
C. H. Webb, 1867
Small octavo. Original dark red cloth over bevelled boards,
gilt lettered spine, front cover lettered in gilt with gilt stamp
of jumping frog, brown endpapers; preserved in a red cloth
chemise and red quarter morocco slipcase. Spine and covers dulled, tail of spine chipped, head of spine bumped and
nicked, a little wear to corners, a few leaves showing a little
marginal spotting or signs of handling.
first edition, first issue, of Mark Twain’s first
book; a very good unrestored copy. “Copies were
bound simultaneously in green, terra cotta, dark
brown, lavender, blue deep purple, maroon and red
cloth” (MacDonnell, “The Primary First Editions of
Mark Twain”, in Firsts, Vol. 8, no. 7/8). Some copies
have the gilt stamp of the leaping frog in the centre
of the front cover, but priority of issue has not been
established; our copy has all the points of first issue
as delineated by BAL.
With an interesting provenance, inscribed on a
preliminary blank: “Alice Baldwin, Gibsonton,
Penn[sylvani]a”. This is the mother of the writer
Thomas Beer (1889–1940), to whom the book would
have passed, author of The Mauve Decade: American Life
at the End of the 19th Century (1926), a best-seller that
“ridiculed some of the great figures of the time yet
looked back nostalgically” (DAB).
BAL 3310.
£15,000
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COOPER, Susan. Over Sea, Under Stone.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965
Octavo. Original grey cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, with
the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by Margery Gill.
Dust jacket with a nick to front top corner, mild spotting to
rear panel. A superb copy.
first edition of the first book in the Dark is Rising
series. Cooper’s sequence of stories, which weaves elements of Celtic, Arthurian and Norse mythology and
magic into the lives of ordinary children, won awards
on both sides of the Atlantic, and is an obvious influence on the Harry Potter books. An uncommon title
especially so in this condition.
£1,750
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(CUBA.) DIAZ Y DE COMAS, Vicente. Album
Regio. Havana: Litografia del Progresso, 1855
Folio. Original green cloth, spine gilt lettered and blindstamped, title in gilt on front cover beneath a crown, Spanish royal arms in gilt on back cover, sides with large ornamental blind stamping, Lithograph portrait frontispiece of
the author by Augusto Ferran, tinted lithograph allegorical
title, letterpress dedication to Isabella II of Spain, handcoloured lithograph genealogy of the Bourbons by Landaluze,
75 plates (each with a handcoloured arms of one of the Span-
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ish territories set above a stanza of music, printed within
decorative borders). A little wear to head of spine, one or
two leaves with marginal dampstaining, general peripheral
toning. A very good copy.
first edition, extremely rare: not in Copac and
OCLC records two copies only (BnF, University of Miami). The Biblioteca Nacional de España possesses
only the 1998 reprint. A most attractive publication:
each page of music is decorated with the hand-coloured arms of the territories of the Spanish crown,
from the home regions to Cuba, the Philippines and
the West Indies. The book also includes work by two
notable Cuban artists: Augusto Ferran, who executed
the portrait frontispiece, and Victor Patricio de Landaluze, who designed the genealogy of the Bourbons.
“One of the least known and most interesting works of
our colonial era” (cubamuseo.com).
The timing of publication is significant, as during
1854–5 there was a serious attempt by the United
States to detach Cuba from Spain; this was revealed
when a secret document known as the Ostend Manifesto revealed a plan for the US to purchase Cuba from
Spain: “many factors in the international situation at
that time combined to give unquestioned importance
to the political destiny of Cuba” (C. Stanley Urban,
“The Africanization of Cuba Scarce, 1853–1855”, Hispanic American Historical Review, 37, 1).
Vicente Diaz y de Comas was a Spanish lawyer and
composer, who settled in Havana in the mid-19th
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century. The Album Regio contains musical compositions in styles ranging from polkas to contradanzas,
and includes “a few valses that soon conquered salons
throughout Havana” (Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World, IX, p. 904); there are five waltzes,
eight polkas, fourteen zapateos, and four contradanzas, the latter being an important genre in Cuba as it
was the first written music to be rhythmically based on
an African rhythm pattern and the first Cuban dance
to gain international popularity, the progenitor of the
mambo and the cha cha cha. The compositions in the
Album Regio have been recorded by Cuban pianist Leonel Morales. De Comas “died on a shipwreck on the
way to Spain; he had been travelling to give Queen
Isabella II a ‘royal album’ containing a collection of his
musical pieces dedicated to her” (Helio Orovio, Cuban
Music from A to Z, 2004, p. 69). If the composer was travelling with a boatload of copies then it is interesting to
speculate that the book’s rarity may be accounted for
by the sinking of his ship.
£12,500
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CUNNINGHAM, Joseph Davey. A History
of the Sikhs, from the Origin of the Nation to
the Battles of the Sutlej. Second Edition. With
the Author’s Last Corrections and Additions.
London: John Murray, 1853
Octavo. Original reddish-brown embossed cloth, title gilt to
spine. Map frontispiece, coloured in outline, similar folding
map, folding genealogical table. Slightly rubbed and soiled,
neatly recased with new cream endpapers, contents a little
browned, but a very good copy.
First published in 1849, this edition has the final authorial revisions: a work described by Khurana as the
“high-water mark” of British historiography on the
Sikhs, which “won for Sikhism an assured place in the
history of mankind”. Although a critical and popular
success, this book was to be the cause of the premature
end to a highly successful military career. The author’s
assertion that Lal Singh and Tej Singh had been bribed
during the First Sikh War was challenged by Hardinge
and Sir Henry Lawrence and in 1850 Cunningham was
removed from his agency and returned to regimental
duty. Within a year he had died at Umballa aged only 39.
See Khurana, British Historiography on the Sikh Power in the Punjab, in particular chapter 9, “The Culmination”.
£950
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DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964
DAHL, Roald. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.
Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1985
Octavo. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine gilt, to front
board in blind, dark brown top edge, yellow endpapers. With
the dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. A
fine copy in a price-clipped jacket with a few minor nicks and
creases to extremities and a short closed tear to rear panel.
DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrations by Quentin
Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988
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Octavo. Original red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt.
With the dust jacket. An excellent copy.
DAHL, Roald. The BFG. Illustrations by
Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982
first edition. A very attractive copy of the ever
popular Dahl story, the basis for both the film and
popular stage musical.
Octavo. Original light grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the illustrated dust jacket. With black and white illustrations
throughout the text.Spine very slightly rolled, a couple of
marks to boards, small dent to head of front board, contents
lightly toned. An excellent copy in the bright jacket with a
couple of light creases to spine and faint stain to top edge.
£375
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first edition, first impression.
first edition, with an original ink drawing
signed by the illustrator on the title page. The
drawing is dated November 2014 and depicts the Giraffe, the Monkey and the Pelican, the latter with a
beak full of fish, joyfully interacting with the illustrations on the title page.
£3,250
first edition, with the six-line colophon on the final page which was cut to five in subsequent printings.
The book was not published in Britain until 1967.
£1,750
Quarto. Original illustrated boards, titles to front cover and
spine in black, dark blue endpapers. No dust jacket issued.
Spine tips faintly crumpled, boards with minor scuffing and
light wear to corners. An excellent copy.
£400
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(DALÍ, Salvador, illus.) [DODGSON, Charles
Lutwidge.] CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adven
tures in Wonderland. Twelve Illustrations with
Original Woodcuts and an Original Etching. New
York: Maecenas Press, Random House, 1969
Folio. Publisher’s fall-down-back box of brown straightgrain quarter morocco, cloth sides, leather-and-horn ties,
portfolio of letterpress and illustrations loose in brown
cloth chemise. Complete with shipping carton. Etching
printed in sepia, green and black, plates in colour.
first dalí edition, signed by the artist on the
title page, the German issue, limited to 150 copies
with an additional title page printed in German. “The
artist Salvador Dalí, famous for his surreal images of
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melting clocks and barren landscapes, at first glance
might not seem to have much in common with a retiring Victorian English don who wrote children’s
books. But actually, Dalí and Carroll had much in
common: both men were ardent explorers of dreams
and the imagination, attempting in their art to show
the fertile pathways to the unconscious. This artistic
temperament might explain why, in his sixties, Dalí
created twelve surreal illustrations – one for each
chapter – for Alice in Wonderland. Because he required
a rich, lush palette for his painted drawings, Dalí
turned to the oldest process for reproducing photographic images for printing: heliogravure. Similar to
engraving, the method is time consuming and costly.
Each heliogravure is printed by hand and considered
an original” (Catherine Nichols, Alice’s Wonderland:
a Visual Journey through Lewis Carroll’s Mad, Mad World,
2014, p. 28).
£7,500
signed limited edition, number 63 of 100 specially bound and printed copies. Complete with the
identically-numbered limited edition 20-page booklet, Postface to Hidden Faces Comprising Objective Chance
and Reverie, which was offered exclusively with the
limited edition of this book. It was written in French
in 1943; Haakon Chevalier’s English translation was
first published in 1944.
£1,750
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DALÍ, Salvador. Hidden Faces. Translated by
Haakon Chevalier. London: Peter Owen, 1973
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Octavo. Original vellum-backed marbled boards, titles to
spine and top edge gilt. With the publisher’s red slipcase. 6
plates with illustrations by Dali. A fine copy.
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DARWIN, Charles. [Collection of major works,
uniformly bound.] London: John Murray/Smith,
Elder, & Co., 1888–91
13 works bound in 16 volumes, octavo (183 × 118 mm). Contemporary reddish-brown full calf, decorative gilt spines,
twin black morocco labels, two-line gilt border on sides,
blind roll-tool turn-ins, marbled edges and endpapers.
Plates, maps and diagrams. Contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedowns of Arthur Humbert, co-founder
of the renowned sherry winery Bodegas Williams & Humbert. Scattered foxing, a very attractive set.
The set comprises: The Origin of Species. Sixth Edition …
(34th Thousand). 2 vols., 1890 (this impression not in
Freeman); A Naturalist’s Voyage: Journal of Researches …
New Edition. 1890 (Freeman 58); Geological Observations
on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America … Third
Edition. 1891 (Freeman 282); The Structure and Distribution of Corals Reefs. Third Edition … 1889 (Freeman 277);
The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by
Insects. Second Edition, Revised (Fifth Thousand). 1890
(Freeman 810); The Movements and Habits of Climbing
Plants. Fifth Thousand. 1891 (Freeman 846); The Variation
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of Animals and Plants under Domestication. Second Edition,
revised (Seventh Thousand). 2 vols. 1890 (Freeman 890);
The Descent of Man … Second Edition, Revised and Augmented (22nd Thousand). 2 vols., 1888 (Freeman 965);
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Second
Edition. Edited by Francis Darwin. 1890 (Freeman 1146);
Insectivorous Plants. Second Edition. Revised by Francis Darwin. 1888 (Freeman 1225); The Effects of Cross and Self
Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom. Second Edition. 1888
(Freeman 1254); The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of
the Same Species. Third Edition. 1888 (Freeman 1283); The
Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms
… Eleventh Thousand (Corrected). 1888 (Freeman 1373).
It is most uncommon to find a set of Darwin’s major
works in a handsome uniform period binding.
£6,000
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of
the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837
Octavo (215 × 129 mm). Late 19th century red half morocco
by Tout, decorative gilt spine, marbled sides, top edges gilt,
marbled endpapers. Etched vignette title page, frontispiece,
41 plates by Robert Seymour, R. W. Buss, and H. K. Browne.
Plates a little foxed (more heavily on frontispiece and vignette title).
first edition of Dickens’s first novel, an attractively bound, tall copy. “Pickwick was the greatest publishing sensation since Byron had woken to find himself
famous, as a result of the publication of the first two
cantos of Childe Harold, in 1812 … [and enjoyed] a
phenomenal popularity that transcended barriers of
class, age, and education. Mary Russell Mitford wrote
to an Irish friend, ‘All the boys and girls talk [Dickens’s] fun – the boys in the street; and yet those who
are of the higher taste like it the most … Lord Denman studies Pickwick on the bench while the jury are
deliberating’” (ODNB).
Smith 3.
£950
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DICKENS, Charles. [The Christmas Books:] A
Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on
the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted
Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. London: Chapman
& Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1843–8
5 works, octavo (160 × 99 mm). Near-contemporary red
half morocco by David Chivers of Bath (with his embossed
stamp on front free endpapers), richly gilt spines, marbled
sides, edges and endpapers. Vignette titles, frontispieces
and wood-engraved illustrations in the text after Leech, Maclise, Doyle, Stanfield, and Landseer. Joints rubbed, some
foxing to endleaves, some pencil and ink marginalia in A
Christmas Carol.
A most attractive gathering of Dickens’s famous
Christmas books: A Christmas Carol (1843), second
edition, second state; The Chimes (1845), first edition,
second state of the engraved title; The Cricket on the
Hearth (1846), first edition; The Battle of Life (1846), first
edition, fourth state of the vignette title; The Haunted
Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848), first edition.
With the contemporary armorial bookplate in each
volume of James Watson. It is possible that this may
be the James Watson who treated Dickens’s wife
Catherine at Malvern in March of 1851. “[Dickens]
also explained to a Dr James Watson, a ‘hydropathic
practitioner’ at Malvern under whose care he wished
to place her, that she grew uneasy if she stayed in other people’s houses … Over the next few weeks [Dickens] was to commute between London and Malvern
while she ‘took the waters’” (Peter Ackroyd, Dickens,
1990, p. 621). The Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (vol. XXVI, 1872) show that a Dr James Watson
had been an Ordinary Fellow of the Society since 1853
and was located in Bath. Watson was clearly a Dickens enthusiast and has made lengthy notes on the
endpapers of each volume: quoting from Forster’s
Life of Dickens (first published 1872–4); making reference to seeing “Mrs Keeley” performing in theatrical
productions of The Cricket on the Hearth and The Battle of
Life at the Lyceum, London, in 1846, and noting her
death in 1899.
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DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. With
illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Chapman
and Hall, 1859
Octavo (210 × 136 mm). Bound by Jeremiah Larkins in nearcontemporary red half morocco, marbled sides, titles to
spine gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, half-title, and 14 plates by H. K. Browne. Spine and
rear board sunned, board edges slightly rubbed, light foxing
to contents. An excellent copy.
first edition in book form, second issue, the list
of contents without signature “b” and with page 213
correctly numbered.
Eckel p. 90; Smith I, 13.
£2,000
[102115]
Smith II 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10.
£2,500
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DISNEY, Walt. Pinocchio production cel of a
Dutch milk maid from the Stromboli puppet
sequence. Burbank: Walt Disney Studios, 1940
Original production cel, framed, with a brown 4.25 × 2 inch
card affixed to the mat, the image of a little Dutch milk maid,
featured as one of Stromboli’s puppet sequence from the 1940
Walt Disney Studios film Pinocchio, trimmed and applied to a
detailed airbrush background. With the original Walt Disney
Courvoisier Gallery label to the back of the frame.
an original pinocchio production cel, with
an early inscription, “To Peggy Fox, from Walt
Disney”. After being used for the film, this cel was
prepared by the Disney Studio’s Courvoiser Unit for
presentation, either as VIP gift or for sale through the
Courvoisier Gallery distribution system. For about
ten years during the late 1930s and 1940s the Courvoisier Gallery was the exclusive distributor of Disney
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Studio drawings and cels. At first all Courvoisier cels
were prepared for sale at the Disney Studio. This involved laboriously trimming the cels to the edges of
the characters, hand-creating backgrounds to complement each cel, matting the artwork and labelling it. Roy Disney later decided this was too costly
and the work was moved to Courvoisier’s workshop
where the quality of work suffered with simpler backgrounds and the lamination of cels.
£5,000
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DISNEY, Walt. Signed reproduction cel for Lady
and the Tramp. Burbank: Walt Disney Studios, 1955
Reproduction cel, part of a limited edition, usually done by
the studio to give as special gifts, most done in an issue of
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100 copies. This print measures 10 × 8 ins. Framed to 19 × 18
ins. In very good condition.
signed reproduction cel from the animated
film, with a full “Walt Disney” signature with a flourish, inscribed “To Victoria, with Best Wishes” on the
original studio mat below the illustration depicting
the title characters. One of Disney’s most popular and
successful movies, on its release in 1955 Lady and the
Tramp took in a higher figure than any other Disney
animated feature since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
£4,125
[102775]
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DOBSON, John. Chronological Annals of the
War; from its Beginning to the Present Time. In
Two Parts. Part I. Containing from April 2. 1755,
to the End of 1760. Part II. From the Beginning
of 1761. to the signing of the Preliminaries of
the Peace. With an Introductory Preface to each
Part, a Conclusion, and a General Index to the
Whole. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1763
Octavo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, tan morocco label,
bands framed by gilt dog-tooth rolls, single dog-tooth rolled
panel to the boards, gilt edge-roll, edges sprinkled red.
Folding table of the genealogy of the Russian imperial fam-
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ily. Slightly uneven sunning at the head of the front board,
light toning, overall very good.
first edition of this attractive digest of facts concerning the Seven Years’ War, including ship lists, lists of
killed and wounded, details of negotiations and so forth
in brief form. “The principal Events of this astonishing
War, reduced to a short chronological Series, make the
Subject of the following Pages. They are only design’d to
assist the Memory in the easiest Manner, and to serve
as a copious Index to any larger Work” (Introduction).
Howes D377; Sabin 20415.
£1,500
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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] CARROLL,
Lewis. The Hunting of The Snark. An agony in
eight fits. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876
Octavo. Original buff cloth boards, titles to spine in black,
illustration to front and rear boards blocked in black, black
coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece with tissue
guard and 8 illustrations by Henry Holiday. Contemporary
ownership signature to the half-title. Spine slightly rolled,
spine and board edges lightly toned, tips lightly bumped
and a little worn. An exceptional copy.
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and gilt raised bands to spine, gilt tool to front board depicting the Mad Hatter and to rear board the Red Queen, turnins and edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Black and white illustrations by John Tenniel in the text. Spine a little sunned;
an excellent copy.
A nicely bound copy of the classic books, which were
first published in 1866 and 1872.
£750
[102073]
first edition.
Williams, Madan and Green 115.
Lewis. Phantasmagoria and Other Poems.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1869
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, gilt designs
to front and rear boards, brown coated endpapers, all edges
gilt. Faint ink stamp to front pastedown, bookseller’s ticket
to rear pastedown. A fine copy.
first edition, second issue, with the cancel title
page and page 87 correctly numbered as page 78 in
the Table of Contents.
Williams, Madan and Green 69.
£1,000
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£600
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Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland;
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice
Found There. With Forty-Two Illustrations by
John Tenniel. London: Macmillan, 1968
2 volumes bound in one, octavo (176 × 121 mm). Finely
bound by Bayntun in near-contemporary red polished calf,
titles to spine gilt on blue and green calf labels, gilt motifs
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THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS
NAME
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DOUGLAS, Alfred. Poèmes. Paris: Mercure de
France, 1896
Octavo. Original plain paper wrappers, titles to spine and
front cover in black. Housed in a custom green cloth chemise and marbled solander box. With a two page ALS and
the original envelope pasted to inner rear cover of the chemise. With French and English text. Heliogravure frontispiece with tissue guard by William Strang. Wrappers a little
soiled, spine skilfully repaired with glue and rear wrapper
replaced to style, internally fine. An excellent copy.
first edition of Douglas’s first collection of poetry,
published in France during Wilde’s imprisonment. It
includes the infamous poem “Two Loves” on p. 104,
which was mentioned at Oscar Wilde’s gross indecency trial, ending with the line “I am the Love that
dare not speak its name”. Wilde dissuaded Douglas
from his desire to dedicate the book to him.
together with an autograph letter signed
by the author to Robert North Green-Armytage,
lawyer and book collector, with Green-Armytage’s
bookplate pasted to the inner front cover of the chemise. Douglas maintained a correspondence with
Green-Armytage about his poetry and the Oscar
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Wilde circle; this letter, dated 18 July 1918, discusses
Douglas’s suppression of certain poems, which,
Douglas explains, “were written so much under the
Wilde influence that (although written from a more
spiritual and ideal point of view) they are liable to
have an evil interpretation put on them”. For that
reason, he has always refused permission to have
them reprinted.
Douglas goes on to discuss at some length the recent political volte face of his friend Herbert Moore
Pim (1883–1950). An enthusiastic supporter of Irish
republicanism, in 1916 Pim had founded a Belfast
literary magazine, The Irishman, which published
Douglas’s poetry, and in the same year attempted
to muster Irish Volunteers at for the Easter rising.
But in June 1918 Pim had abruptly resigned from
Sinn Féin, reverted to unionism and advocated conscription. Despite Douglas’s reported utter disgust
at Pim’s abandonment of his principles, the two
men remained friends. In 1919, when Douglas established a weekly paper called Plain English, he appointed Pim assistant editor. “Douglas was gaoled
for libel after accusing Winston Churchill of disreputable dealings with Jewish financiers; Pim wrote
a sonnet on his imprisonment. Douglas and Pim
subsequently quarrelled over their respective merits
as poets; the copy of New Poems and a Preface (1927)
which Pim presented to Queen’s University, Belfast,
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has the sonnet on Douglas crossed out and denunciations of him scribbled on the endpapers” (ODNB).
£750
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DOUGLAS, Alfred. City of the Soul. London:
Grant Richards, 1899
Octavo. Quarter vellum-backed blue boards, titles to spine
gilt. Housed in a custom marbled solander box. Ownership
signature to front pastedown, annotation to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled and a little soiled, internally fine.
An excellent copy.
first edition, with an autograph letter
signed by Douglas tipped-in to the half-title and his
visiting card to the front pastedown. The letter reads:
“My dear Sir, In reply to your letter, I have written out
the sestet of one of my sonnets. ‘My soul is like a flower whose honey bees are pains that sting and suck the
sweets untold; my soul is like an instrument of strings;
I must stretch these to capture harmonies, and to find
songs like buried dust of gold, delve with the nightingale for sorrowful things.’ (Lord) Alfred Douglas, July
15 1899. P.S. I have no kind of connection with the Field
[?], which I have not read.” The quotation is from “A
Triad of the Moon”, included in this book on p. 20.
From the library of Willis Vickery (1857–1932), the dis-
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tinguished Cleveland jurist and bibliophile, with his
bookplate to the front pastedown.
£375
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DOUGLAS, Alfred. Sonnets. London: The
Academy Publishing Company, 1909
Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to front board gilt, top
edge gilt. Housed in a custom grey chemise and slipcase.
Spine toned, endleaves lightly spotted; an excellent copy.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by
the author to Lucy Margaret Lamont on the half-title:
“To Mrs Lamont, from the author. Alfred Douglas.
November, 1910.” With an autograph letter signed by
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the author tipped-in to the front free endpaper: “Dear
Madam, I am much obliged to you for sending me a
copy of your very delightful and well chosen anthology. I am sending you a copy of my sonnets, published
last year, which I hope you will do me the honour of
accepting. Yours truly, Alfred Douglas. Nov. 25, 1910.”
L. M. Lamont, the widow of the artist Thomas Reynolds Lamont (1826–1898), had compiled an anthology of poetry entitled A Coronal, published in 1910.
£1,250
[103215]
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DOUGLAS, Alfred, & Frank Harris. New
Preface to “The Life and Confessions of Oscar
Wilde” [two copies]. London: The Fortune Press,
1925 & 1927
2 copies, octavo. First ed.: original black cloth, printed paper label to front board. Second ed.: original black clothbacked black boards, titles to front board gilt. Housed together in a custom black solander box. Spine ends and tips a
little worn, second edition spine cracked but holding, internally fresh. An excellent set.
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first and second editions, the first inscribed by the author to his son on the front
free endpaper, “Raymond Douglas, from his affect.
father, Xmas, 1925.” In 1925, when Frank Harris was
trying to win over Lord Alfred Douglas so that he
could publish his biography of Oscar Wilde in England, he persuaded Douglas that Robert Ross was to
blame for the passages to which Douglas objected.
Harris and Douglas therefore collaborated on a new
preface to the book, designed to be included in any
future editions of Harris’s biography, and thus satisfy
Douglas that the book was no longer libellous to him.
However, the preliminary version of the preface, of
which Douglas had approved, was then revised by
Harris. Outraged, Douglas had the original preface
published separately here, including Harris’s contributions, without his permission.
£1,250
[103293]
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the
Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock
Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902
Octavo. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in red morocco,
titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to
boards gilt, triple rule to turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers,
gilt edges. Black and white frontispiece and 15 plates. The
occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy.
first edition.
£2,000
[102295]
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works. The
Crowborough Edition. New York: Doubleday,
Doran & Co., 1930
24 volumes, octavo (215 × 146 mm). Bound in contemporary
blue half morocco, blue cloth sides, titles and decoration to
spine gilt with raised bands, gilt rules to boards, marbled
endpapers, top edge gilt. Photogravure frontispiece portrait
with tissue guard by Pirie MacDonald to Volume I. An exceptionally beautiful set, stunningly bound with a striking gilt
footprint design to spines.
first complete collected edition, number
521 of 760 sets signed by the author in volume I, of
which 750 were for sale and ten for presentation. The
Crowborough edition – named after the Sussex town
where Doyle’s home, Windlesham, was located – has
double the number of volumes of the Author’s Edition of 1903. Doyle had already signed sheets for it
but his illness and death on 7 July 1930 prevented him
seeing final publication of the work, so that it belongs
to that select category, the posthumous signed limited edition. The introductions are reprinted from the
Author’s Edition, and the text is set from the existing
editions without any corrections.
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Green & Gibson A61.
£17,500
THE RARE PORTFOLIO ISSUE
[102177]
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DULAC, Edmund. Lyrics Pathetic and
Humorous from A to Z. London: Frederick Warne
and Co, 1908 [1909]
Large quarto. Original light brown cloth box with pictorial
label to front cover, dark green art paper portfolio containing title page, 24 colour plates and the parchment endpapers from the book issue, each mounted on dark green art
paper. Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Box with neat repair
to one corner, extremities lightly rubbed, a few small bumps
to fore edge of front cover, the occasional light crease to corners of mount paper. An excellent copy with crisp plates.
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first edition, portfolio issue. This deluxe edition
is one of about 160 copies and was issued in 1909 (although the imprint states 1908), a year after the trade
edition. It is in a much larger format than the standard edition and is extremely scarce.
£4,500
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(DULAC, Edmund.) ROSENTHAL, Léonard.
The Kingdom of the Pearl. London: Nisbet & Co.
Ltd., [1920]
Quarto. Original quarter vellum and white boards, titles to
spine and cover gilt, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With a maroon cloth solander case. Colour
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frontispiece and 9 tipped-in plates by Edmund Dulac, printed
tissue-guards. Boards tanned, rubbing to corners and fore
edge, light surface marks to rear board. A very good copy.
english signed limited edition (first published
with Dulac illustrations in French as Au Royaume de la
Perle, 1920), number 15 of 100 copies signed by the artist, out of a total edition of 775 copies for sale in the
British Empire (an additional 775 copies were published for the USA by Brentano’s, New York, 1925).
Rosenthal was a famed Parisian jeweller who personally commissioned Dulac’s illustrations to illustrate
his collection of short stories.
£2,250
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(DULAC, Edmund.) CRARY, Mary. The
Daughters of the Stars. London: Hatchard & Co.,
1939
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Quarto. Original quarter vellum, grey cloth boards, dark blue
morocco label to spine. With the dust jacket. Housed in a dark
blue morocco solander box. Two colour plates. Edges of boards
and margins of text block slightly toned. An excellent copy in
a price-clipped dust jacket chipped at head of spine and with
small minor tears on back lower edge. A really lovely copy.
signed limited edition, number 424 of 500 numbered copies signed by both author and illustrator.
“Publication of this book encountered delays and
difficulties because of the outbreak of World War
II. Since paper and workmen were fast being commandeered by the British government, the book
was rushed into print despite the fact that only two
Dulac illustrations were finished” (Hughey). Dulac
designed the entire format of the volume, including
chapter head and tail scroll designs.
Hughey 91.
£1,000
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(FASHION.) Salesman’s catalogue. Chicago:
National Tailoring Co., 1940
Quarto. Original brown cloth, ring-bound, titles and pictorial design to front board gilt, pictorial endpapers. 40 fabric
swatches mounted on printed card. Boards lightly bowed,
minor wear to spine ends, extremities a touch rubbed and
stains to printed labels, minor wear to fold of board, board
edges mildly bumped. Overall in excellent condition.
An English board game similar to Monopoly.
£375
[102645]
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FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. A
Story of Provincial Life. Translated with an
Introduction by J. Lewis May. London: John Lane
The Bodley Head Ltd; Dodd, Mead and Company, New
York, 1928
Tall octavo (228 × 143 mm). Contemporary blue-green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, decorative gilt spine, twoline gilt border on sides, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. 14
monochrome plates, numerous illustrations in the text, by
John Austen. Bookplate of John A. Vietor, Jr., on a preliminary blank. Spine sunned, a handsomely bound copy.
first edition thus, a new translation, which would
become for many years the standard English text, with
illustrations by John Archibald Austen (1886–1948).
£450
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bumped, endpapers tanned, cards lightly toned. Overall in
very good condition.
fine copy in the jacket with sunned spine, small tear to lower
right corner, and a couple of nicks to extremities.
Original salesman’s catalogue for the American National Tailoring Co., showcasing the suit fabrics
available for the 1940 autumn/winter season.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed
by the author on the front free endpaper: “Alfred,
many thanks for your assistance. Best wishes, Welko
Gasich. June, 1991.”
£650
[102585]
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(FERRARI.) GASICH, Welko E. Forty Years of
Ferrari V12 Engines. [Warrendale, PA:] Society of
Automotive Engineers Inc., 1990
Oblong quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine and
front cover silver. With the dust jacket by David Kimble. A
£475
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(FINANCIAL BOARD GAME.) Stockbroker.
The Ideal Family Game for Adults and Children
for from Three to Seven Players. Stoke-on-Trent:
Dimsdale Games, [1936]
Black cloth folding board (350 × 463 mm) with game plan
printed in black, red and orange. 100 game cards (50 Stockbroker Cards; 50 Treasury Bill, Buy and Sell Cards), 70 money tokens, 7 broker tokens, dice and rules; all housed in a
small card box (140 × 163 mm). Light toning and a few minor
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FLEMING, Peter. News From Tartary: A Journey
from Peking to Kashmir. London: Jonathan Cape,
1936
Octavo. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine gilt, Chinese
characters to front board gilt, top edge red. With the dust
jacket. With frontispiece, 31 plates, and a partially coloured
folding map. Sporadic faint foxing to contents; an excellent
copy in the bright, unclipped jacket, with a few nicks and
minor chips to extremities.
first edition. Peter Fleming (1907–1971) was an
editor at The Spectator, as well as a seasoned traveller
and sportsman. In August 1934 he “once again set off
for the Far East with a far-ranging commission from
The Times. After a brief shooting trip with friends in
the Caucasus he travelled on to Harbin in Manchuria, where by chance he met the Swiss traveller Ella
(Kini) Maillart. It transpired that they both wanted
to walk and ride from China to India, and though
they both preferred to travel alone, they agreed to
join forces. This epic journey of some 3500 miles
on foot or ponies, through the remote province of
Sinkiang (Xinjiang), with many dangers, hardships,
and hold-ups, took them seven months, from February to September 1935. This, the most arduous of
Fleming’s long journeys, he chronicled in fourteen
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long articles in The Times and later in his book News
from Tartary (1936)” (ODNB).
£375
[103201]
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FOWLES, John. The Magus. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1966
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in purple morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green
endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
first edition.
£1,375
[102291]
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FULLER, J. F. C. Decisive Battles: Their Influence
upon History and Civilisation. Vol. I. From
Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great. Vol.
II. From Napoleon the First to General Franco.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1939–40
2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spines.
With 53 full-page maps and plans. A little rubbed, some sunning, particularly to the spine of volume II, volume I a touch
cocked, light toning, a very good set.
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first edition, presentation copy, inscribed in
both volumes to Elizabeth Haig (or Hall?), Volume
I inscribed on 9 November 1939 with the name and
date in another hand, Volume II on 28 March 1940 in
the author’s hand throughout, both volumes signed
by Fuller. Extremely uncommon, particularly so
inscribed, as here, each in the year of publication.
The larger part of this edition was destroyed in the
Blitz, which was a stroke of good fortune for Fuller’s
reputation as the text has been described by Anthony
Trythall (Fuller’s first biographer and a far from hostile witness) as “shrill Fascist special pleading”. Fuller
was able to “prune it of Fascist encrustation” (Brian
Holden Reid in ODNB), and expand it in the 1950s, in
the process turning it into “the major work on which
his reputation as a historian must rest … thenceforward he was able to bask in the sunshine of a prophet
restored to honour in his own country” (Michael
Carver in DNB). With a 7-page promotional leaflet
for the work laid in, together with the 4-page order of
service for Fuller’s oddly entirely Christian funeral at
St Margaret, Westminster.
£1,750
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FULLER, J. F. C. Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier,
and Tyrant. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965
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Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine. With the
dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece, numerous line-drawn illustrations, maps and plans to the text. Showing some light
shelf-wear, mild foxing to the fore-edge, else very good in a
slightly rubbed and tired jacket.
first edition, presentation copy of Fuller’s last
book, rarely encountered inscribed. Fuller became
unwell in the summer of 1965, and died just eight
months later. The inscription to the front free endpaper reads: “To Edward H. and Mrs. Sainsbury with
the compliments of J. F. C. Fuller, June 23, ‘65”. As
a one-time member of the BUF, who had attended
Hitler’s 50th birthday party in 1939, and a known opponent of the war with Germany, Fuller was unable to
obtain an official position during World War II – he
was “considered for the position of deputy CIGS [but]
the move was vetoed, not by Leslie Hore-Belisha, the
Jewish secretary of state for war, but by the prime
minister, Neville Chamberlain” – and so supported
himself through journalism. “His newspaper articles
were trenchant, witty, and thoroughly individual.
He published two collections of them, Watchwords
(1944) and Thunderbolts (1946)” (Brian Holden Reid in
ODNB). Following the war, he dedicated the last years
of his life to the writing of military history, his Armament and History (1946) – “which, as a survey of weapons and war in short compass, has yet to be equalled”
– and the present work, which along with his similar
study of Alexander “have not yet been superseded as
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the best military studies available of the two greatest
generals of antiquity”.
£375
[102743]
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GINSBERG, Allen. Howl and other poems. San
Francisco: The Pocket Poets Series, Number Four, City
Lights, 1956
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Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, spine and front cover
lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, untrimmed.
Frontispiece with tissue guard. Spine a little rolled, binding
a little shaken, a touch of wear to extremities, scattered foxing, but a good copy in the original cloth.
first edition of Grahame’s timeless book, “one of
the central classics of children’s fiction” (Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature).
Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature.
£2,500
[102600]
Duodecimo. Original black and white wrappers. An especially fresh copy and distinctly uncommon thus.
first published edition. This landmark collection defined the discontented voice of its epoch for a
generation. It is Ginsberg’s first regularly published
book, preceded only by the privately produced
mimeographed printing of the title poem and the
rather obscure Siesta in Xbalba. Uncommon in this
condition; one of about 1,500 copies printed.
£3,500
[102970]
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GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.
With a frontispiece by Graham Robertson.
London: Methuen and Co., 1908
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GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S.
Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company,
1885–6
GRAVES, Robert. I, Claudius. London: Paradine
Press, 1977
2 volumes, octavo. Publisher’s deluxe brown half morocco,
gilt medallic roundels to boards, spine gilt in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved portrait
frontispiece, one etched plate and one folding facsimile in
each volume, 47 full-page plans, folding map at the rear of
Volume II. Joints and extremities lightly rubbed, small loss
of leather to one corner of volume II, general light paper
toning. A good set.
first edition. The focus of the autobiography is
Grant’s military career – his service in the MexicanAmerican War and the Civil War. Written as Grant
was dying of cancer in 1885, the two-volume set was
published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant’s death.
Twain used a vast army of agents, many of them Civil
War veterans dressed in their old uniforms, to sell
350,000 sets at prices from $3.50 to $12 (depending
on the binding). The facsimile that looks like a handwritten note from Grant himself still has the capacity
to trick the unwary.
£1,000
[102951]
tle (1856–1940) was an author whose books included
South Africa: Men, Manners and Facts (1884). From the
library of Roger Allen, the founder and secretary of
Octavo (210 × 133 mm). Bound in the publisher’s purple morocco, titles to spine with raised gilt bands, Claudian coin
and signature design gilt to front board, key-pattern border gilt to boards, turn-ins and edges gilt, grey endpapers.
Housed in the publisher’s grey card slipcase. With a folding
genealogical table. Spine a touch faded; an excellent copy.
signed limited edition, number 20 of 100 copies
specially bound and signed by the author. The book was
first published in 1934. This edition was issued in response to the huge success of the BBC television series.
£1,250
[102309]
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HAGGARD, H. Rider. Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of
the Fall of Jerusalem. London: Longmans, Green,
and Co., 1903
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt, black coated endpapers. Frontispiece with tissue guard
and 15 plates. Spine gently rolled, a few marks to boards,
tips lightly bumped.
the author on the half-title, “To J. Stanley Little from
H. Rider Haggard, 28 Feb 1903”, and with Little’s
bookplate below the inscription. James Stanley Lit30
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the Rider Haggard Society, with his ownership inscription to the front pastedown.
Whatmore F25.
first edition. From the library of Roger Allen, the
founder and secretary of the Rider Haggard Society,
with his ownership signature to the front pastedown.
£1,250
Whatmore F36.
[102734]
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HAGGARD, H. Rider. A Gardener’s Year.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1905
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt.
With the dust jacket. Frontispiece with tissue guard, 23 plates
and a folding plan. Spine faded slightly, spine ends and tips
rubbed, a few ink stamps to contents. An excellent copy in the
partially defective jacket, heavily creased with loss to foot of
spine and numerous tape repairs, mostly to verso.
first edition, in the exceedingly scarce jacket (not
listed in Whatmore). From the library of Roger Allen,
the founder and secretary of the Rider Haggard Society,
Whatmore NF6.
£1,250
[102739]
£725
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first u.s. edition (first published posthumously
in the UK earlier the same year). From the library of
Roger Allen, the founder and secretary of the Rider
Haggard Society, with his ownership signature to the
front pastedown.
Whatmore F57.6.a.
HAGGARD, H. Rider. Child of Storm. New York:
Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt and front board
blind. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece with tissue guard.
Pencilled ownership signature to front free endpaper. Spine a
little faded, and slightly rolled, spine ends rubbed and lower
front tip lightly worn. An excellent copy in the ragged and
creased jacket, with short closed tears and chips to extremities.
first u.s. edition (first published in the UK earlier
the same year). From the library of Roger Allen, the
£525
in the jacket with toned spine, short closed tear to front flap,
and some minor nicks and chips to edges.
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HAGGARD, H. Rider. Queen Sheba’s Ring.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1910
HAGGARD, H. Rider. Marion Isle. Garden City,
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt.
Frontispiece with tissue guard. Spine gently rolled and a little
faded, tips a little bumped, edges foxed. An exceptional copy.
Octavo. Original pale blue cloth, titles to spine and front
decoration. With the dust jacket designed by Frank Peers.
Spine slightly rolled, edges lightly foxed. An excellent copy
£650
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HAGGARD, H. Rider. Belshazzar. New York:
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board
yellow, top edge yellow, yellow coated endpapers. With the
dust jacket. Spine cracked but holding, spine ends and tips
a little rubbed. A very good copy in the bright jacket with
rubbed and nicked extremities.
first u.s. edition of Haggard’s last novel, finished
in late 1924 but not published until 1930, five years after his death. It was first published in the UK earlier
the same year. From the library of Roger Allen, the
Whatmore F58.6.a.
£450
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HAGUE, Michael. Original watercolour for The
Hobbit. [c.1984]
Watercolour and ink on heavy watercolour board. Board
size: 481 × 598 mm. Image size: 475 × 352 mm. Presented in a
handmade white gold leaf frame with UV glass. In excellent
condition.
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original watercolour by American illustrator
and author Michael Hague and signed by him in the
lower left hand corner. Hague’s watercolour depicts
Bilbo, Gandalf and the 13 dwarves travelling through
the forest; the illustration appears in the edition of
The Hobbit published in 1984 by Houghton Mifflin,
Boston.
£3,750
[102826]
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HAGUE, Michael. Original watercolour, “Water
Babies”. 1992
Watercolour and ink on heavy watercolour board. Board
size: 521 × 456 mm. Image size: 465 × 400 mm. Presented in
a handmade gold leaf frame with UV glass. Edges of board a
touch rubbed and bumped. Otherwise in excellent condition.
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original watercolour by American illustrator and author Michael Hague and signed by him in
the lower left hand corner. Produced for the Land of
Dreams calendar published by AMCAL in 1992, this
water colour, entitled “Water Babies” and used for
November, depicts two human children and several
mer-children playing with bubbles.
£3,500
[102825]
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HALLWRIGHT,
William
Wybrow.
Midshipman’s journal books on board HMSs
Terrible, Niobe, and Hogue, during the Boer War
and Boxer Rebellion. At sea: September 1899–
December 1902
2 volumes, quarto (309 × 200 mm). Black pebble-grained
morocco by Swiss & Co. of Devonport, gilt pallet foot of
the front boards, titled in gilt on the front boards within a
single fillet panel, similar panel to the rear boards, spines
divided by single rules, edges sprinkled red, marbled endpapers, linen hinges. Around 100 pages of daily entries in
each volume; 18 manuscript maps and charts, including a
track chart from Durban to Hong Kong, and another from
Hong Kong to Taku, and Taku to Chifu, detailed plan with
soundings of Hong Kong Harbour, another of Tai Tam Bay;
a watercolour of “Colenso as seen from Chieveley Camp”,
and two pen and ink coastal-profiles; 13 technical drawings,
including a plan of the “4.7 Gun Mounting. Made to Captain. P. Scott’s Design and used in S. Africa”, diagram of a
carbon arc searchlight, and coloured sketches of different
shell types for a 6-inch gun; attractive pen and ink illustrated title page to the second volume; two copies of a 10-page
typescript detailing Hallwright’s services in the Relief of Ladysmith, titled “Experiences of W. W. Hallwright Midn. R.N.
when he landed at Durban from H.M.S. ‘Terrible’ on Active
Service”, one loosely inserted in the first volume, the other
bound in to the second. A little rubbed, some wear at the extremities, chafing at spine ends and corners, light browning
to the text leaves, but overall very good indeed.
A wonderfully well-maintained pair of journal books
kept by Midshipman W. W. Hallwright (1883–1917)
during his services in South Africa, China, escort
duty to the Royal Yacht, and with the Channel Squadron. Often described as log-books, these were in fact
part of a young middie’s training regime, getting to
grips with the process of log-keeping. As such, they
are perhaps not as revealing of the actions of the ship
at command level as are true logs, but they are often
neat, scrupulously filled, and feature attractive and
informative diagrams, drawings, and charts, as in
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this case. A full description is available on our website or on request.
See Crowe, The Commission of HMS Terrible, and Jeans, The Naval Brigades in the South African War.
£5,750
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works. London: Macmillan
and Co., Limited, 1919–20
37 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and
decorated in gilt, gilt roundel to front board. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard by William Strang and a map of
Wessex. Endpapers partially browned otherwise nice and
clean, spines a little faded at foot, spine tips and corners
lightly rubbed, an excellent set.
The Mellstock edition, consisting of 500 unnumbered copies, with the first volume signed by Hardy.
£6,000
[102190]
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HARRIS, Albert W. The Blood of the Arab. The
world’s greatest war horse. With a preface by
Major Henry Leonard. Chicago: Privately printed
for The Arabian Horse Club of America, 1941
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Tall octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, titles and rules to
spine gilt, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers,
top edge gilt. With 113 black and white photographs. Some
occasional light foxing, an excellent copy.
first edition. Harris was a prominent breeder of
Arabian horses and served as the director of the Arabian Horse Registry in America from 1924 to 1949
and president of the Arabian Horse Club of America
from 1939 until 1949. A handsomely bound copy.
£450
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HAYS, Mary. Female Biography; or, Memoirs of
Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all ages
and countries. Alphabetically arranged. London:
printed for Richard Phillips, 1803
6 volumes, octavo (174 × 102 mm). Contemporary red half
calf, spines in compartments with gilt rules and titles direct, marbled sides and endpapers, speckled edges. Bound
without the half titles. Armorial bookplate in each volume.
General light rubbing and scuffing to covers, some very minor toning internally, but overall a very good set indeed, in
sound and attractive condition.
first edition of this scarce early work of feminist
biography by Mary Hays (1759–1843), the Londonbased novelist, radical and friend of Mary Wollstonecraft. Hays was given a copy of Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 and was extremely
moved; she contacted the publishers, and arranged a
meeting with Wollstonecraft, becoming involved in
London’s radical Jacobin circles. Hays received advice
from Godwin on writing her novels, and she tended
Wollstonecraft on her deathbed. In the present work
Hays created a significant biographical dictionary of
294 impressive women through the ages. Her novels
include Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796), The Victim of
Prejudice (1799), Harry Clinton (1804), and Family Annals
(1817).
£2,250
[102129]
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HEANEY, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1966
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. A superb copy in the typically spine-faded dust
jacket.
front free endpaper, “for Roy Davids Dig it! Seamus
January 7th 1981”. Roy Davids is perhaps best known
in his capacity as emeritus head of Sotheby’s in London during one of the golden periods for literature
in that organisation’s history. In this capacity he became a friend of many leading writers amongst whom
Heaney ranks high. Davids built a remarkable collection of poetical manuscripts together with extensive
runs of inscribed volumes of poetry. Heaney’s first
substantial collection preceded only by the little Belfast publication, Eleven Poems.
£2,250
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Octavo, pp. 80. Original wrappers printed in blue, grey,
black and white. A trivial smudge to the upper wrapper but a
stunning copy and exceedingly scarce thus.
first edition, preceding the hardcover edition by
one year.
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HEANEY, Seamus. North. London: Faber and Faber
Ltd, 1975
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust
jacket. Endpapers browned as usual, but a lovely copy in the
dust jacket just a little sunned at the spine and with the very
uncommon W. H. Smith prize wraparound band.
first edition, hardback issue. The pale blue dust
jacket is notoriously prone to fading. This copy is
considerably superior to most.
£750
HEANEY, Seamus. Wintering Out. London: Faber
and Faber, 1972
£675
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HEANEY, Seamus. Field Work. London: Faber and
Faber, 1979
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. A superb copy in the dust jacket typically faded
at the spine.
first edition, inscribed by the author on
the front free endpaper, “Dear Roy – ‘perfection …
or nearness to it … is imagined Not in the aiming
but the opening hand.’ Love Seamus Greyabbey, Co.
Down May 3, 1989”. For the recipient Roy Davids, see
item 82 above.
£750
[102696]
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HEANEY, Seamus. Selected Poems. 1965–1975.
London: Faber and Faber, 1980
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. A superb copy in the dust jacket.
first edition. A fine association copy with the author’s initialled inscription to the front free endpaper,
“Read from at Cheltenham on October 16 1982. Supplied by Roy [Davids], the onlie begetter of the event.
Signed by Mr S.H. October 18 1982 October 30 1983
(Intactus liber)”. Heaney’s cod Jacobean inscription
echoes the famous dedication of the first printing of
Shakespeare’s sonnets, a trope often used by Heaney.
For the recipient Roy Davids, see item 82 above.
£575
[102711]
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HEANEY, Seamus. Changes. [Loughcrew:] Peter
Fallon, 1980
Octavo. Original green paper wrappers, title to front wrapper
in black, single sheet sewn in with red thread. A fine copy.
heaney’s christmas card for 1980, inscribed
by the author to the manuscript collector and
dealer Roy Davids on the initial blank, with a quo-
tation from the poem, and referencing the most famous beach in Irish fiction: “Roy, ‘retrace this path’
– to Sandymount Strand. Seamus, 6th July 1984.” The
poem was first published in London Review of Books earlier the same year (No. 18, Vol. 2, 18 September 1980).
£1,250
[103118]
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HEANEY, Seamus. Holly. [Loughcrew:] Privately
printed by Peter Fallon for the author, 1981
Single sheet folded once, sewn into pink wrappers, titles to
front wrapper in black. A fine copy.
the author on the front free endpaper to the manuscript collector and dealer Roy Davids, “For Roy, with
love and fondest wishes for Christmas, with love
from Seamus, Marie, and the children.” This poem
was printed in an edition of 100 copies as the author’s
Christmas card for 1983.
£1,250
[103100]
Original green paper wrappers, title to front wrapper in
black, single sheet sewn in with red thread. A fine copy.
by the author on the initial blank to the manuscript
collector and dealer Roy Davids: “To Roy, with good
wishes for a Christmas of [?] green splendour.” This
is one of 121 copies printed for use by Heaney as his
Christmas card for 1981.
£1,250
[103117]
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HEANEY, Seamus. A Hazel Stick for Catherine
Ann. [Loughcrew:] privately printed by Peter Fallon for
the author, 1983
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HEYNES, Samuel. A Treatise of Trigonometry,
Plane and Spherical, Theoretical and Practical.
In which the several Cases of Plane and
Spherical Triangles are solved, Instrumentally
and Arithmetically. As likewise a Treatise of
Stereographic and Orthographic Projection
of the Sphere … The Second Edition, carefully
corrected by the Author … London: R. W. Mount,
and T. Page, 1716
Octavo (153 × 100 mm). Contemporary sprinkled sheep,
blind panelling to the boards neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down. 16 engraved plates, all but one folding, 2 engraved diagrams with overlays pasted into the text,
two-part folding table, 5 tables to the text. With a scatter of
informed comments and corrections inked to the text in a
contemporary hand. A little rubbed, particularly at the extremities, front free endpaper renewed, light browning, but
overall very good.
second edition, the first published 1701. An attractive mathematical manual by the former Reader in
Mathematics to His Majesty’s Engineers, who also published A Table of Logarithms in 1701. Uncommon, with just
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nine locations world-wide on OCLC for this edition,
and a similar number for the first; just one copy at auction, the 1723 third edition, in the last 50 years.
In a letter sent to John Flamsteed in 1705, Thomas
Brattle, the colonial American entrepreneur, fellow
of the Royal Society, and an accomplished amateur
mathematician and astronomer in his own right, discussed having “accidentally met with” Heynes’s “little
book”, and remarked that he felt that this “Treatise
alone shows him a very great Man, and enough to
recommend him to the value and esteem you have for
him” (The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, III, p. 134).
Taylor, Tudor & Stuart 538 for the 1701 edition.
£650
[102823]
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(HILL, Rowland, 1st Viscount Hill.) SIDNEY,
Edwin. The Life of Lord Hill, late Commander
of the Forces. London: John Murray, 1845
Folio (390 × 255 mm). Later full pigskin by W. J. Mansell,
red morocco labels, raised bands, spine compartments
and both boards with concentric panels in blind, dotted
edge-roll in blind, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, wide
turn-ins with triple-fillet in blind. The volume contains the
text of Smith’s Life, each leaf window-mounted in larger
folio leaves; the portrait frontispiece as called for, extraillustrated with 31 other additional portrait plates of the major personalities of the period; three leaves with mounted
bookplates and signatures of the Hill and Chambre families
(Lord Hill’s mother was the daughter of Richard Chambre
of Petton, Shropshire); together with 19 original letters and
documents. A little rubbed at the extremities and with some
spotting on the boards, tan-burn from the turn-ins to the
free endpapers, some foxing front, back, and fore-edge,
light toning of the text leaves, but overall very good, and presenting handsomely. Elaborate bookplate of Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall (1841–1921), carpet manufacturer,
and loom innovator, who became known for his collection
of Japanese art, and for his library.
a remarkable extra-illustrated family memorial to Lord Hill, the impressively massive binding containing the official life of Hill in its second
edition (same year as the first, lightly corrected); a
first edition. Hoff ’s first four books appeared under the signature H. S. Hoff; his fifth book, and greatest success, Scenes from Provincial Life (1950), was published pseudonymously as William Cooper, the name
he used thereafter.
£2,250
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HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin. Thirty-Five
Years in the East. Adventures, Discoveries,
Experiments, and Historical Sketches, relating
to the Punjab and Cashmere; in Connection
with Medicine, Botany, Pharmacy, &c. Calcutta:
The “Bangabasi” Office, 1905
Octavo (211 × 125 mm). Modern “native” half-binding of black
sheep, green cloth boards, title gilt direct to the spine, gilt
rolls to the spine and corner edges, original front wrapper
(stained, old repairs) bound in. Portrait frontispiece and 15
other plates, 6 of them folding, and a folding map. Externally
bright, contents browned and with a series of worm-tracks
through the block, but not in any way fragile, about very good.
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portrait gallery of notables; and an archive including
significant documents from various stages of his career, including his famous letter to his mother choosing a career in the Army; his commissions as lieutenant of an independent company, and to the 53rd,
both signed by the king; his letter of appointment to
Wellington’s staff in the Peninsula, and similar documentation relating to his attachment to the Army in
Europe for the Waterloo campaign; together with a
substantial digest of “Private Intelligence” from the
Peninsula relating to the manoeuvres leading to the
battle of Arroyo des Molinos. A fuller description is
available on request and on our website.
£12,500
First published in German in Vienna under the title,
Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse, nebst
naturhistorisch-medizinischen Erfahrungen in 1851, translated into English the following year, this uncommon
Calcutta reprint is apparently the first such. Honigberger (1795–1869), a doctor trained in both conventional and his preferred homeopathic medicine,
was born in Krostadt in Romania, left Transylvania
in 1815 and travelled through the Middle East, Egypt,
Arabia, Persia, and on to India. He arrived in Lahore
in 1829 and, having treated Ranjit Singh’s favourite
horse for an ulcerated leg, gained the confidence of
the Maharaja, becoming court physician, as well as
being put in charge of the gunstock manufactory
and gunpowder mills. A facsimile plate of the document of his appointment to these varied positions is
included. Honigberger gives “his observations about
Ranjit Singh, Maharaja Kharak Signh, Naunihal
Singh, Sher Singh, Dhian Singh, Chand Kaur, Dalip
Singh, Hira Singh, political changes, bloodshed, role
of Akalis, fanaticism of Jallah, Baba Var Singh, battle of Sobraon, rile of Teja Singh, Lehna Singh and
Sikh battles. He also told many interesting day-to-day
happenings of the Sikh State” (Chopra). Honigberger
also provides much on medical practices in West,
South and Central Asia. The plates include a hakim,
or Mohammedan doctor, an attar or druggist, a still,
a “B’hangee, or Hemp-Plant Drinker”, and a “Faqueer
Postee, or Poppy-Head Drinker”, together with portraits of the members of the durbar or ruler’s household, and an interesting map of the railway route
from Bokhara to Orenburg. An unconventional, but
painstaking observer, his account is a highly appealing curiosity amongst the more established account
of the Punjabi court at the time.
Chopra, Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his Times, p. 37; Howgego,
II, G3, entry for Alexander Gardner.
£975
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HOFF, Harry Summerfield [pseud. William
Cooper]. Rhéa. London: William Heinemann Ltd,
1935
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, some spotting to edges
of text block. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed and
chipped jacket.
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Octavo. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine and front
board gilt, bevelled boards, patterned endpapers, six
leaves of advertisements at rear. Frontispiece photographic
portrait, photographs and diagrams throughout. Small
contemporary sticker to foot of spine reading “290”. Extremities gently rubbed, small dent to bottom edge of both
boards, a few minor marks to cloth, the occasional spot or
light finger mark to contents but overall bright and crisp.
An excellent copy.
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PRESENTATION TO E. M. FORSTER
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ISHERWOOD, Christopher. The Last of Mr.
Norris. New York: William Morrow and Company,
1935
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine black on red
ground. Spine rolled, head of spine and rear hinge slightly
worn, boards and edges lightly foxed, sporadic minor foxing
to contents. An excellent copy.
first u.s. edition, presentation copy, inscribed
by the author on the front free endpaper: “E. M. Forster, with love from Christopher Isherwood.” The
two authors were travelling together in Germany
with their respective partners when the book was
published. A superb presentation copy of the novel
first published in England as Mr Norris Changes Trains.
Having been introduced to Isherwood by William
Plomer in 1931, Forster became the younger writer’s
mentor. Forster later entrusted Isherwood with the
manuscript of Maurice (written in 1910–13), with instructions to have it published in the United States
after his death.
£5,000
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THE INVENTOR OF THE FIRST FILM
PROJECTOR TO BE USED IN FRONT OF
AN AUDIENCE
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JENKINS, Charles Francis. Picture Ribbons.
An Exposition of the Methods and Apparatus
Employed in the Manufacture of the Picture
Ribbons used in Projecting Lanterns to Give the
Appearance of Objects in Motion. Washington
DC: C. Francis Jenkins, 1897
£2,500
[102230]
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JENKINS, James. The Naval Achievements of
Great Britain. From the Year 1793 to 1817. London:
printed for J. Jenkins … by L. Harrison, [after 1817]
Folio (346 × 276 mm). Late 19th-century navy blue half morocco, decorative gilt spine, blue cloth sides, all edges gilt.
[102304]
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first edition of the author’s book on chronophotography and proto-film reels. Charles Francis Jenkins (1867–1934) was a prolific inventor (over 400
patents were issued to his name) and an important
pioneer of cinema and television. He devised a “motion picture projecting box”, which, on 6 June 1894,
became the first apparatus to project a film in front
of an audience, an event which took place at Jenkins’s
cousin’s jewellery shop in Richmond, Virginia. That
same year the Lumière brothers shot “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory”, which is generally considered to be the first film ever made but which was not
shown until 28 December 1895. Picture Ribbons is a
surprisingly comprehensive work, considering it was
written at the infancy of film. As well as presenting
Jenkins’s projector, the “Phantoscope”, the book covers all aspects related to film reels, from manufacturing, photographing and developing, to perforating
and splicing. A rare title with exquisite illustrations.
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Engraved title page with hand-coloured vignette. 55 handcoloured aquatint plates by Sutherland, Jeakes and Bailey
after Whitcombe, 2 uncoloured etchings, plans of the Bombardment of Algiers and Battle of Trafalgar.
first edition, with later issue plates. A handsome
copy of this magnificent publication, illustrating the
high-water mark of Britain’s maritime hegemony, and
the apogee of the coloured aquatint. As Roger Quarm,
curator of pictures at the National Maritime Museum
remarked: “As a record of naval events spanning a
period of over twenty years [it] has no precedent.
At no time prior to 1817 had a publisher attempted
such a complete volume of documentary naval prints.
It is the quality of accuracy which makes Jenkins so
valuable” (quoted in the introduction to the 1998 facsimile edition). It was disappointingly slow to sell on
its first issue in 1817, and Jenkins chose to issue copies as demand necessitated. The text in this copy is
preponderantly watermarked “J. Whatman 1811”, the
plates “J. Whatman 1825”. The very earliest issues can
be identified by the title-page vignette remaining uncoloured; otherwise, the key consideration for collectors is the quality of the colouring, which is extremely
good in the present copy.
Abbey, Life 337; NMM, V, 2159; Tooley 282.
£9,750
[102750]
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JOYCE, James. International Protest. Paris: 2
February, 1927
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this protest drawn up, which he revised. More than
167 literary and cultural figures added their names
to the protest, including Wyndham Lewis, E. M.
Forster, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, W. B.
Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot.
It was released to the press on Joyce’s birthday, and
later reprinted in the April 1927 issue of Transition. The
protest turned Roth into a literary pariah but failed
to restrain him from printing more instalments. The
injunction which Joyce won against Roth on 28 December 1928 only managed to put a temporary stop to
his activities: the following year he published a piracy
of the novel under the fictitious imprint of “Shakespeare and Company, Paris 1927”. This unauthorised
edition, effectively the first American edition, was
later used as a template by Random House for their
1934 edition, which remained the standard edition in
the US until 1961.
£4,250
[102364]
Folio, single leaf. A lightly creased, clean sheet.
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French text of the protest against Samuel Roth’s piracy of Ulysses in Two Worlds Monthly. Joyce, frustrated by
the slow-moving legal proceedings against Roth, had
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JOYCE, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere.
Fragment from Work In Progress. Paris/New York:
Henry Barbou and Jack Kahane/The Fountain Press, 1930
Large quarto. Original cream wrappers printed in green and
black. With the original unprinted glassine and green card
slipcase. Light foxing to edges and endpapers. An excellent
copy in the superb glassine that has a shallow chip to spine
ends and short closed tear to head of spine, and slipcase that
is split at head and foot.
first edition, limited issue, number 573 of 500
copies printed on handmade linen. The whole edition comprised 685 copies: 100 copies were printed
on imperial handmade iridescent Japan paper and
signed by Joyce; 75 copies likewise printed on linen,
numbered XI to LXXXV, and 10 copies on imperial
handmade iridescent Japan paper were designated
writer’s copies and numbered in roman numerals.
Slocum & Cahoon A41.
£750
[103282]
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JOYCE, James. The Mime of Mick, Nick and the
Maggies. A fragment from Work in Progress. The
Hague/London: The Servire Press/Faber & Faber, 1934
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Octavo. Original white wrappers, decoration and titles to
front wrapper and spine in blue and silver. With the glassine
jacket and silver card slipcase. Cover design, initial letter and
tailpiece by Lucia Joyce. A fine copy in the delicate glassine,
with small chip to head of front panel and a few shallow chips
to spine. With the slipcase that is split at head and foot.
first edition, number 177 of 1,000 copies; a signed
limited edition of 29 copies was also produced on
Japon paper, numbered in Roman numerals and
signed by James and Lucia Joyce. The design of illuminated letters was one of a number of different
paths Lucia pursued at various times.
£500
[103287]
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane The
Bodley Head, 1936
Crown octavo. Original green buckram, titles to spine gilt,
Homeric bow device designed by Eric Gill to the front board
gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket.
Spine very gently sunned with light fading to tail, a few light
dampstains to pastedowns, mild offsetting to endpapers.
An excellent copy in a jacket with light dampstains to spine,
extremities a touch nicked and creased, a few short closed
tears to rear panel.
first u.k. edition. The entire edition was limited to 1000 copies, of which this is number 228 of
900 copies on japon vellum. The Bodley Head Ulysses
established the text for the succeeding 25 years and
printed as appendices the International Letter of Protest against Samuel Roth’s piracy and the famous legal judgement by John M. Woolsey lifting the ban in
America on the publishing of the book.
Slocum and Cahoon A23.
£4,750
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JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London: Faber
and Faber, 1939
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge yellow.
With the dust jacket. Light foxing to endleaves and top edge;
an excellent copy in the bright, unclipped jacket with shallow
chip to head of rear panel and some nicks to extremities.
first edition.
£3,000
[103273]
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(JOYCE, Lucia.) CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Chaucer
A.B.C. Being a hymn to the Holy Virgin in an
English version by Geoffrey Chaucer from the
French of Guillaume de Deguilleville. Preface by
Louis Gillet. Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1936
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Quarto. Original pale blue wrappers, titles to front cover in
blue. Housed in the publisher’s pale blue and silver chemise
and slipcase, with printed paper label to spine. Wrappers a
little toned to edges, endleaves lightly foxed, slipcase slightly torn with some minor spotting. A superb copy.
first edition, limited issue. Number 80 of 300
copies printed on Arches mould-made vellum paper. A
scarce copy of the alphabet book with illuminated initials by Lucia Joyce (1907–1982). “Joyce arranged without
[Lucia’s] knowledge to have her lettrines published at
his expense in A Chaucer ABC and in his own Pomes Penyeach” (Chester G. Anderson, James Joyce and His World).
The design of illuminated letters was one of a number of
different paths she pursued at various times, probably
in imitation of her father’s life as a creative artist: others
included singing, dancing and writing. During the 1930s
James Joyce consulted with various physicians, including Carl Jung, about her deteriorating mental state; she
was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.
£4,500
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KELLY, John Barrett. Britain and the Persian
Gulf, 1795–1880. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1968
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, title gilt to the spine. With
the dust jacket. 2 folding maps. Ownership inscription of
novelist and playwright Alan Sillitoe to the front free endpaper. A very good copy in slightly used jacket, sunned at the
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spine and with some chipping and splitting at the head and
tail of the spine and corners.
first edition. The book that established Kelly as
“the leading academic authority on the history of
the region” (Telegraph obituary), and which remains
authoritative. The impact of this work ensured that
Kelly was to have considerable influence on Western
policy in respect to the Arab states, “first over British strategy in the Arabian peninsula in the 1950s
and 1960s, and then, after a move to Washington,
over American Middle Eastern policy in the 1980s.”
A handsome book and uncommon in anything approaching collectible condition.
£475
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book; The Second
Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co, 1894–5
2 works, octavo. Original blue cloth, pictorial decoration and
titles to front boards and spines gilt, dark green coated endpapers, gilt edges. The Second Jungle Book with the printed dust
jacket. Housed in a blue cloth folding box. Illustrated in black
and white by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. The
Jungle Book, exceptionally bright and tight, free from the wear
and foxing to which it is usually prone. The Second Jungle Book is
equally bright of cloth with just a little chipping to the dust jacket at the head of the spine and upper corners, but is very clean
and entirely unrepaired. An exceptional set in fine condition.
first editions of both books. We have seen two
copies of the first Jungle Book in unprinted tissue dust
jackets with every appearance of having been issued
thus. In light of this, and the fact that no copy of the
first Jungle Book in printed jacket has ever appeared in
commerce, we are as certain as we can be that Macmillan simply did not produce a printed dust jacket for the
first book.
Stewart 123 & 132.
£12,500
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Rudyard Kipling’s Verse.
Inclusive Edition 1885–1918. London: Hodder &
Stoughton, 1919
3 volumes, octavo. Original vellum, gilt lettered spines,
two-line gilt border on sides, Kipling’s monogram within a
floriate oval in centre of each front cover, top edges gilt, untrimmed. Housed in custom-made red cloth chemises and
red quarter morocco slipcases. Title pages printed in red
and black. A few chemises split at seams. An excellent set.
first u.k. edition, deluxe signed limited issue of 100 sets numbered and signed by Kipling.
This edition “was brought together at [the publisher,
Frank N. Doubleday’s] suggestion after much talk. It
was to be tried out in the USA and if successful republished in England … The idea of the book was born at
Brown’s Hotel in February 1919. [Doubleday] argued
that it must be complete ‘W.D.T.’, [Kipling] said what
do you mean by W.D.T. to which [Doubleday] replied
‘The Whole Damn Thing’. The edition was always
called after that The W.D.T.” (Richards). This London
edition followed the American by one month but includes an extra poem: “Mowgli’s Song”.
Richards A326; Stewart 466.
£2,500
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KITCHIN, C. H. B. Death of His Uncle. London:
Constable & Company Ltd, 1939
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine silver. With the
dust jacket. Spine rolled, some spotting to boards, edges
and contents foxed, a couple of glue spots to rear pastedown. A very good copy in the bright, price-clipped, jacket
strengthened on to verso with a manila envelope, extremities a little creased with a few short closed tears and minor
loss to foot of spine.
first edition. Scarce in the jacket, this is the fourth
book featuring the sleuth Malcolm Warren. With the
name of Professor Richard MacGillivray Dawkins
(1871–1955) and “Exeter College” inscribed on the
verso of the dust jacket; he was Director of the British
School at Athens, the Bywater and Sotheby Professor
of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language at Oxford,
and Fellow of Exeter College, which was previously
attended by Kitchin, where he read classics.
£2,750
[103058]
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KLEIN, William. Tokyo. Paris: Delpire, 1956
Folio. Original black and red laminated boards, black endpapers. Illustrated throughout with monochrome photographic reproductions. A superb copy of a particularly vulnerable publication.
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first edition, presentation copy, French issue
(both the French and Japanese issues were printed
in Japan and issued apparently simultaneously). An
important association copy, with Klein’s contemporary signed presentation inscription to the half-title,
“À Françoise Giroud – mes hommages et admiration, William Klein”. The journalist and politician
Françoise Giroud (1916–2003) was co-founder, with
her married lover Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, of
L’Express, the French news magazine.
£3,500
[102226]
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KOESTLER, Arthur. Darkness at Noon.
Translated by Daphne Hardy. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1940
Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and front covered lettered
in red. Spine toned, binding soiled, top corner of three
leaves creased, some light marginal thumbing.
first edition in english, presentation copy
from the author, inscribed on the half-title: “Anthony
from Arthur”. From the library of the scholar and auctioneer Anthony Hobson, with his book label on the
front pastedown. The book itself is very scarce, as a
large proportion of the first printing was destroyed
during the Blitz; Copac records only the British Library copy in British and Irish institutional libraries,
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and OCLC adds only one (Northern College). Furthermore, the remarkable exhibition of “Connolly’s
100” at the University of Texas in 1971 could only muster a copy of the first American edition (1941). Copies
inscribed by Koestler are rare.
Connelly, Modern Movement, 89.
£3,750
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LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Fables choisies, mises
en vers. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert [ for] Desaint
& Saillant [and] Durand, 1755–9
4 volumes, folio (420 × 280 mm). Contemporary French
cats-paw calf, richly gilt spines, twin red and olive-green
morocco labels, triple blind fillet on sides, red edges, marbled endpapers. Engraved and etched frontispiece by Dupuis and Cochin after Jean-Baptiste Oudry, engraved portrait
of Oudry by Tardieu after L’Argilliere, 275 plates after Oudry,
engraved under Cochin’s direction by Elizabeth Cousinet,
Baquoy, Legrand, Fessart, Lemire, Cochin himself and others, wood-engraved vignette on each title, wood-engraved
head and tailpieces by Papillon and Le Sueur after Bachelier.
The first plate accompanying “Le Singe et le Leopard” (vol.
III, facing p. 112) in the second state, with the banner lettered. Small bookstamps of the Fürstliche Fürsternbergische Hofbibliothek at Donaueschingen on verso of most
plates; a few discreet repairs to bindings, partial fading of
upper part of front covers on volumes I & III, occasional pale
browning to letterpress.
first edition of “one of the most ambitious and
successful of all illustrated books” (Ray). Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s sketches for La Fontaine’s Fables were
executed for his own enjoyment between 1729 and
1735. They were purchased by the publisher Montenault, who asked the finest engraver in France,
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, to take charge
of their transformation into finished prints. Cochin
redrew the original designs, improving the figures
and backgrounds and supplying precise lines for
the engravers. The final result was thus their dual
achievement. Oudry’s images were among the most
influential of all contemporary artistic creations,
inspiring imitations in media as varied as Beauvais
tapestry, porcelain and furniture. A handsome set in
contemporary French calf of one of the glories of rococo book production.
Benezit VI:463; Cohen/de Ricci 548–550; Ray, French, 5; Rochambeau 86; Sander 1065.
£15,000
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LAGERLÖF, Selma. Gösta Berlings saga.
Stockholm: Frithiof Hellbergs förlag, 1891
2 volumes, octavo. Recased in the original black wrappers printed in orange, new endpapers. Extremities lightly
rubbed and chipped, wrappers lightly scuffed and creased,
text blocks strained in a couple of places but firm, margins
lightly toned. A very good set.
first edition, presentation copy of her first
novel, inscribed by Lagerlöf to Ida Falbe-Hansen and
her partner Elisabeth Grundtvig on the front flyleaf
of Volume I: “Frkr Falbe Hansen och Grundtvig med
taeksamhet och tillgifvenhet, från förf ”. Lagerlöf
(1858–1940) was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909), as well as the first woman
to become a member of the Swedish Academy. Gösta
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Berlings saga, “a fascinatingly original retelling of old
Värmland folk legends in an effusive, personal, spontaneously lyric prose”, launched her career (Smith,
Dictionary of Modern European Literature, pp. 463–4). Although the work met with mixed reviews in her native
Sweden, it became popular in Denmark where it was
published by Gyldendalske boghandels forlag in 1892.
commitment to women’s rights and suffrage. FalbeHansen was a member of the Danish Women’s Alliance and the Women’s Reading Circle, as well as one
of the co-founders of the Danish Women’s National
Council, and she regularly campaigned for women’s
rights at meetings across Denmark (Den Store Danske
Encyklopædi). An appealing association copy.
This copy is inscribed by the author to her Danish
translators Falbe-Hansen (1849–1922) and Elisabeth
Grundvig (1856–1945), with their pencil marginalia
throughout. Falbe-Hansen and Grundtvig were essential in popularising Gösta Berlings saga in Denmark
as well as in Europe. In 1891, they presented an extract of the work in Kvinden og Samfundet, the newsletter published by the Danish Women’s Alliance and of
which Falbe-Hansen was one of the editors. When
the complete translation was later published in 1892,
they suggested Lagerlöf meet with Georg Brandes,
the leading Scandinavian critic and literary scholar
of the period, whose positive review of Gösta Berlings
saga in Politiken on 16 January 1893 ensured the work’s
popularity in Denmark. Falbe-Hansen also assisted
Lagerlöf in getting in touch with a German translator,
ensuring a wider European audience for the debut.
Apart from a close working relationship with Lagerlöf, Falbe-Hansen and Grundtvig shared the author’s
£4,500
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LAMB, Charles [& Mary]. Tales from
Shakespear: Designed for the use of young
persons. London: printed for Thomas Hodgkins, at
the Juvenile Library, 1807
2 volumes, duodecimo (172 × 105 mm). Contemporary tan
half calf, spines with numbers and twin rules in black, marbled paper sides, edges speckled black. Housed in a brown
morocco-backed box. Engraved frontispieces and 18 plates
after William Mulready. Expertly rebacked preserving original backstrips, edges of boards lightly worn and with minor chips, faint partial browning to boards and endpapers,
front inner hinges starting but still holding firm, internally
extremely clean and free from any chipping or tears. A very
well preserved set in excellent condition.
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first edition, with the imprint of the printer T.
Davison on the verso of p. 235 in Vol. I, and with the
Hanway Street address in the final adverts. The Juvenile Library was the brainchild of William Godwin at
whose suggestion his friend, Charles Lamb agreed
to adapt the best known of Shakespeare’s plays into
prose, specifically, as Lamb’s preface states, “meant
to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare”. Although not mentioned in the first edition, the work was a joint effort
between Lamb and his sister Mary, who contributed
the Comedies. “Lamb’s Tales”, as it subsequently became known, is one of a select group of books never
to be out of print since initial publication and made
an important contribution to establishing the retelling of classic literature for a younger audience as a
worthy pursuit for serious authors.
Grolier Children’s 24.
£3,750
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Green Fairy Book.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1892
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Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, elaborate
pictorial decorations to spine and front board gilt, all edges
gilt, black endpapers. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford in text. Inked gift inscription to front free
endpaper. Spine rolled, spine ends and tips a little worn,
front hinge starting, rear hinge cracked but holding, contents lightly foxed. A very good copy.
first edition. Andrew Lang (1844–1912), Scottish
poet, scholar and journalist, devoted most of his life
to folklore and the compilation of traditional fairy
stories from around the world. Begun in 1889, “his
‘coloured’ fairy books have been popular with boys
and girls since their first appearance” (Osborne Collection I, pp. 34–36, and II, p. 604).
£550
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LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Olive Fairy Book.
With Eight Coloured Plates and Numerous
Illustrations by H. J. Ford. London: Longmans,
Green, and Co., 1907
Octavo. Original olive cloth, titles and pictorial decoration
to spine and front board gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges
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gilt. Colour frontispiece and 7 plates, 20 engraved plates, illustrations throughout the text. An excellent copy.
first edition.
£700
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LARKIN, Philip. The Whitsun Weddings.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964
Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Faint foxing to endleaves; an excellent copy in
the unclipped jacket with lightly toned spine and some minor nicks to extremities.
the author to Donald Mitchell on the front free endpaper: “To Donald, remembering many kindnesses,
from Philip. 6 Feb. 1864.” Mitchell, a writer for the
Daily Telegraph between 1959 and 1964, commissioned
Larkin to write a monthly column reviewing jazz records. Laid-in is an article by Larkin written for the
Poetry Book Society Bulletin, no. 40, February 1964.
£2,750
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SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY
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WITH D. H. LAWRENCE’S HANDWRITTEN TRANSLATION
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(LAWRENCE, D. H.) BUSCH, Wilhelm. Plisch
und Plum. Munich: Fr. Bassermann, 1922
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to front board in white,
pictorial design of two dogs to front board in black and
white, top edge yellow. Illustrated throughout by the author.
Spine sunned, minor wear to spine ends and bottom corner of front board, extremities slightly bumped, endpapers
lightly foxed, text block cracked in a couple of places but
firm. A very good copy.
d. h. lawrence’s copy, with his holograph
unpublished english translation of the german text written in the margins in pencil throughout, presented by him and Frieda to Arthur and Lilian
Wilkinson, their erstwhile neighbours in Florence in
1926. With Frieda’s gift inscription to the front free
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endpaper: “To the Wilkses [sic] from the Lawrences,
Irschenhausen 12 Sept. 1927”. (The Lawrences were
staying at Else Jaffe’s house, 31 August to 4 October.)
Originally published in 1882, this satirical story of
two young dogs, written and illustrated by the German caricaturist Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), amused
Lawrence greatly. The gift is mentioned twice in his
correspondence. In a letter to Arthur Wilkinson dated
10 September, he writes: “We’ve got a William Busch
book for you – Plisch und Plum – very nice, but we
must translate the verses. You’d better be learning
some German, to get going” (The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, p. 144). In a letter dated 26 September, he further
notes: “I’m glad the Wilhelm Busch arrived – the postman forgot to register it, so I was afraid it would go
lost. By Jove, you’ll be speaking fluent Buschian German when we meet – ‘Also Lorenzo, schön dass Sie
da sind, nicht? – und wie war’s–!’ I can just hear you”
(Letters, p. 157).
£7,500
[102659]
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LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A
Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935
Quarto. Original brown buckram, spine lettered gilt, inscription “the sword also means clean-ness + death” framed
by two scimitars on the front board gilt, top edge brown,
other edges untrimmed. Photogravure frontispiece, 53
plates and 4 folding maps. Cloth a little rubbed, a little faint
scattered foxing to contents. An excellent copy.
first trade edition, inscribed by ronald
storrs (1881–1955) on the front pastedown, “T. E.
Lawrence – even apart from his work, & without his
book, a standard & a touchstone for reality in life.
Ronald Storrs. 6.v.36.” A superb association: diplomat Storrs “was part of the Arab bureau formed in
Cairo in December 1915, to which T. E. Lawrence was
attached in January 1916, and a shared interest in classics led to a lasting friendship between the two men
(Storrs was the principal pallbearer at Lawrence’s
funeral in 1935). On 10 June 1916 Hussein raised the
Arab revolt, but the momentum seemed uncertain
and in October 1916 Storrs secured permission to
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take Lawrence as a companion on a mission to Jiddah
to reorganize it” (ODNB). This is O’Brien’s so-called
“Third English Edition,” following the Oxford Times
edition of 1922 (of which there were eight copies),
and the 1926 Cranwell edition (limited to 211 copies,
with 170 considered complete).
O’Brien A042.
£1,750
[103024]
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LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. London:
Heinemann, 1960
Illustrated with numerous engravings. London:
Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in burgundy
morocco, titles to spine gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark
green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
2 volumes, octavo (125 × 183 mm). Bound by Bayntun in
near-contemporary dark blue half calf, blue cloth sides,
twin labels to spines lettered gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Wood-engraved frontispieces with tissue
guards, vignette half-titles, 116 vignettes in text. Spines
darkened and rubbed, joints cracked at spine ends but text
block tight, front hinge of Vol. II cracked but holding, tips a
little worn, a little light foxing to contents. A very good set.
first u.k. edition.
£1,375
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MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
second edition, and the first thoroughly illustrated one, following Bentley’s 1841 first edition, which
had only four plates spread over its three volumes. An
attractive copy in the original cloth of this important
early work on popular delusions of all types, considering the credulous enthusiasm of mankind for phenomena such as alchemy, witchcraft, relics, the Crusades, urban myths, as well as economic events such
as the tulip bubble. Still in print, Mackay’s book has
had a profound influence on economics and sociology, with many modern economists referring to his
work when analysing the stock market bubbles of our
own age. “Charles Mackay’s passionate erudition and
urbane, unaffected prose style contributed to make
him one of the chief figures in the establishment
of Victorian journalism as a dignified profession”
(ODNB).
£1,750
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MCQUEEN, Alexander. Visionaire 58 – Spirit.
A Tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen. RTW
[Ready to Wear] Edition. New York: Visionaire
Publishing, 2010
Quarto. Loose plates printed on paper embedded with wildflower seeds, housed in the original white silk clamshell
box, decorated with metallic embroidery from the McQueen
Spring/Summer 2010 show. With the original cardboard
packaging. A fine copy.
first edition, limited issue. Number 434 of
1,500 copies. A selection of the most iconic images
of McQueen’s work, from Lamsweerde and Matadin,
Mert and Marcus, Mario Testino, Steven Klein and
Nick Knight. Published to commemorate McQueen’s
life and career, the issue can be planted to transform
into a garden of wildflowers, destroying the book in
the process – a conceit which would have appealed to
McQueen’s interest in the transient nature of life and
the cycle of life and death.
£2,000
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THE STANDARD WORK ON PERSIA FOR
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MALCOLM, Sir John. Ta’rikh-i Iran [The
History of Persia.] Bombay: [no publisher named,]
1287 ah [1870/1 ce]
2 volumes in one, tall quarto (332 × 230 mm); lithographed
throughout. Late-19th-century black straight-grain half
morocco, green pebble-grain cloth sides, double fillet rolls
forming compartments to spine gilt, titles direct to second
and fourth gilt, remaining compartments with central fleuron devices gilt, edges speckled red. Portrait frontispiece,
29 plates with albumen prints mounted within lithographed
foliate borders with captions as issued, large folding lithographic map opening to 650 × 510 mm. Blindstamp of Bath
Public Library to a number of leaves and most plates. A few
pale markings to sides, corners a touch bumped, light toning, sporadic faint spotting as usual, frontispiece tanned,
map slightly foxed with a short closed tear at gutter, minute
spill-burn to f. 5, plate facing vol. I p. 111 torn at corner to no
loss of albumen print, vol. II pp. 112–13 finger-marked, most
plates gently creased to edge of mount with images spared.
Overall a very good copy.
first edition in persian, rare, with some six
complete copies traced in libraries; this copy from
the collection of noted British diplomat and orientalist Colonel Samuel B. Miles (1838–1914), thus marked
by his wife’s presentation plate to Bath Public Library
on the rear pastedown: an excellent association.
Scottish-born diplomat and administrator Malcolm
(1769–1833) originally arrived in Persia in 1800: “Napoleon’s presence in Egypt prompted British efforts
to thwart French designs in India. Malcolm was chosen as envoy … the first person since Elizabeth’s reign
to undertake such a mission. He … embarked from
Bombay at the end of 1799 … but delays occurred at
Bushehr, Shiraz, and Esfahan … and almost a year
passed before his audience with the shah took place
… Treaties were agreed on 28 January 1801 (but, in the
end, never ratified)” (ODNB). Malcolm returned ten
years later and was received with “pomp and cordiality”, developed a trusting relationship with the shah,
and found time to introduce the country to the potato (known locally as “Malcolm’s plum”). “His classic
History of Persia, which appeared in 1815, brought him
an honorary doctorate of laws from Oxford. Translated into French (1821), German (1830), and Persian
(n.d.) [sic], the history was particularly valuable for
contextualizing events surrounding his own time in
Persia, and served as the standard western work for
about a century”.
“The translation of Malcolm’s history was the outcome of a British mission to Iran in the 1860s for the
purpose of establishing a telegraph line connecting
India to Great Britain through Iran. While en route to
India, the head of the mission, Major General Frederic Jon Goldsmid, was the guest of the governor of Kirman, Muhammam Isma’il Khan Vakil al-Mulk” who
in return requested a Persian translation of the History, Malcolm having been a good friend of his father.
Malcolm’s account was critical of the Qajar dynasty,
however, and Goldsmid was only able to commission
one Mirza Isma’il Hayrat to produce a Persian version
once back in India, “where translators were unconstrained by Qajar imperial sensibilities and where the
ruling British had inherited a Persian literary and bureaucratic tradition from their Mughal predecessors”
(Farzin Vejdani, Making History in Iran, pp. 24–5).
Arcadian Library 12281, and p. 85 refers; Diba p. 85; Ghani p.
236; Schwab 360; Wilson p. 134.
£5,000
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the
Principle of Population; or, a View of its Past
and Present Effects on Human Happiness;
with an Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting
the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils
which it Occasions. A New Edition, very much
Enlarged. London: J. Johnson, 1803
Quarto (280 × 220 mm). Contemporary black quarter calf,
marbled boards, smooth spine in compartments separated
by double rules gilt, titles gilt on red ground to second.
first quarto edition and second edition overall;
first published in 1798, but so thoroughly rewritten as
to be considered a new book. “In 1803 Malthus published a greatly expanded second edition of the Essay,
incorporating details of the population checks that
had been in operation in many different countries
and periods. Although nominally a second edition, it
was regarded by Malthus as a substantially new work.
He did not claim originality for the idea that population tends to outrun the food supply. In the preface to
the second edition he stated that in writing the first
edition he had deduced the principle of population
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from the writings of David Hume, Robert Wallace,
Adam Smith, and Richard Price, but that in the intervening period he had become aware that much more
had been published on the subject. He nevertheless
believed that even more remained to be done, especially in describing the means by which populations
are checked and in drawing out the practical implications of the principle of population.
In the second edition, he made clear what was only
implicit in the first, that prudential restraint should,
if humanly possible, be ‘moral restraint’ – that is,
delayed marriage accompanied by strictly moral premarital behaviour, although he admitted that moral
restraint would not be easy and that there would be
occasional failures. Whereas in the first edition he
had said that all the checks to population would involve either misery or vice, in the second edition he
attempted to lighten this ‘melancholy hue’ (Essay
on the Principle of Population, 1st edn, 1798, iv) and ‘to
soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first
essay’ (2nd edn, 1803, vii) by arguing that moral restraint, if supported by an education emphasizing
the immorality of bringing children into the world
without the means of supporting them, would tend
to increase rather than diminish individual happiness” (ODNB).
Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths’ 18640; Kress B4701; Printing and
the Mind of Man 251.
£6,000
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MATTHIESSEN, Peter. The Snow Leopard. New
York: The Viking Press, 1978
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine silver with blue
metallic roundel, map endpapers. With the dust jacket.
Black and white frontispiece. Board edges faded with a few
marks to boards, minor foxing to edges. An excellent copy
in the jacket with sunned spine, lightly rubbed extremities,
and short closed tear to foot of front panel.
the author on the half-title to National Book Awardwinning author Robert Stone and his wife: “For Bob
and Janice, very pleased to have met you at last – Peter. February 13, 1979” and with Matthiessen’s signature to the verso of the front free endpaper.
£1,750
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MAUGHAM, William Somerset. A Man of
Honour. A Play in Four Acts. London: Chapman
and Hall Limited, 1903
Octavo. Original cream wrappers printed in black. Housed
in a green cloth-backed grey board folder. Wrappers neatly
rebacked and with small repair to lower left-hand corner
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of front wrapper, short split to top edge of spine, wrappers
slightly soiled. A very good copy of this fragile publication.
first edition. One of 150 copies printed at the author’s request to be used during rehearsals of the play
and sold at the first performances in February 1903.
This pamphlet is rarely seen in commerce, for reasons
Maugham explained in his preface to Frederick Bason’s
bibliography in 1931: “But there is another little book of
mine which must be scarcer still [than the first edition
of Liza of Lambeth]. It is the paper bound edition of A
Man of Honour, which was issued by Messrs Chapman
and Hall. This was a play published in The Fortnightly
Review by the late W. L. Courtney, who thought well of
it, and at my urgent request the publishers bound up
a few copies of the sheets, two hundred and fifty [recte
150], I think, for sale in the theatre during the two performances which the Stage Society gave it. I am afraid
the venture did not profit them, for I doubt whether
fifty copies were sold, and I suppose the rest have long
been pulped”. Bason describes A Man of Honour as “one
of Maugham’s rarest works and … his scarcest play”.
Bason, pp. 10; 53; Loren & Frances Rothschild Collection,
V 27; Stott A6a.
£4,500
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MEINERTZHAGEN, Richard. Birds of Arabia.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954
Quarto. Original pale tan buckram, top edge brown, spine
lettered in green. With the dust-jacket. 19 colour plates, 9
photographic plates from the author’s photographs, 88 text
figures and maps, large folding regional map in end-pocket.
Endpapers slightly browned, light foxing to the fore-edge,
overall very good in jacket, with some neat professional repairs to minor splitting and chipping along the top edge.
first edition, presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author to “army officer and merchant
banker”, Sir Reginald Lindsay (Rex) Benson, “In
gratitude for 36 years valued friendship”. An excellent
copy of Meinertzhagen’s ornithological magnum opus,
inscribed to another freewheeling soldier, one of
Meinertzhagen’s closest banking and birding friends.
Rex Benson had served with distinction in World War
I: MC, DSO, four times mentioned in despatches; after the armistice he became chief of the British Mission and was attached to the staff of Sir Henry Wilson at the peace conference; military secretary to the
governor of Bombay, Sir George Lloyd; involved in a
Meinertzhagen-esque scheme dreamed up by Lloyd
George to open trade with post-Revolutionary Russia; liaison officer to the French First Army until the
evacuation from Dunkirk, subsequently appointed
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chairman of the inter-allied timber commission in
1940, in 1941 becoming military attaché at the British
embassy in Washington, under Lord Halifax.
The controversy over Meinertzhagen’s manipulations
of the historical and ornithological record has come
to infect opinions of Birds of Arabia, assertions having
been made that he stole the project wholesale from
George Latimer Bates, an American ornithologist
based on the Arabian Peninsula. A detailed study by
Graham Cowles published in the Annals of Natural History in 1997 (“George Latimer Bates 1863–1940: an investigation into the history of his unpublished ‘Birds
of Arabia’ manuscripts”, 24 (2), pp. 213–235) shows
that Meinertzhagen’s appropriations were minimal,
and probably should be considered entirely permissible in the circumstances, even if his acknowledgements thereof left a little to be desired.
£1,850
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MEINERTZHAGEN, Richard. Kenya Diary,
1902–1906. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1957
Octavo. Original brown cloth, title gilt to the spine. With
the dust jacket. 40 plates, maps to the text. Endpapers a little foxed, some foxing to the fore edge, else very good in
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slightly tired, clipped jacket, browned on the lower panel,
some crumpling and chipping head and tail of the spine.
first edition. The first published in Meinertzhagen’s
controversial diary series, covering the author’s time
in East Africa with the King’s African Rifles. This copy
with two one-page typed letters on Meinertzhagen’s 17
Kensington Park Gardens (“KPG”) letterhead to Evelyn John Mardon, late Indian Civil Service who served
in the North-West Provinces and Oudh, and self-published a number of works on big game hunting, Shikar
Memories, Stalks in Three Continents, and Safaris in East Africa. In the first, dated 16 February 1958 and initialled,
Meinertzhagen thanks Mardon for his letter: “glad to
hear my Kenya Diary interested you. I should appreciate seeing your book on Kenya”; and the second, dated
20 February and fully signed, remarks that Mardon’s
book had “brought back all sorts of memories”, continuing “I am only ten years younger than you and still
go to Kenya almost every year for I love the country and
the people both white and coloured … I am glad to see
that you had met Raymond Hook of Nanyuki. I went to
the top of Mount Kenya with him in 1936 … I am too
old to climb the mountain again. It fascinates me”; before concluding with typical hyperbole, “I think it is the
most perfect mountain in the world and I know most
of them including all the highest Himalayan ones”.
Bruce 4762; Czech p. 193.
£750
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wrote the inscription he had good reason to thank
Macrae Jr. and wish him luck as the success of When
We Were Very Young in the US (260,000 copies had been
sold there by 1927) owed a great deal to the “extraordinary enthusiasm of Macrae …, who was then sales
manager and sent copies of the book to anyone he
thought would talk about it” (Thwaite).
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PUBLISHER
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MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1924
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and pictorial designs to boards gilt, top edge gilt. Housed in a mid-20thcentury blue cloth box. Illustrated throughout by E. H.
Shepard. Extremities a little worn, spine faintly darkened,
endpapers lightly tanned, a couple of middle hinges starting but still holding firm. With Macrae’s ownership signa-
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ture dated spring 1930 on the front free endpaper verso. An
excellent copy in a rubbed and toned box fraying at edges.
by the author to Elliott Beach Macrae, who would
become his publisher in the US in 1944 as head of
E. P. Dutton. The inscription, written in verse on the
front free endpaper, reads: “Though Beach Macrae /
Be bald or grey / Or Elliot Beach / Be a little of each
/ Whatever his age, I shall say / ‘Good luck to Elliot
Beach Macrae’. Feb. 17th, 1931. A. A. Milne”. Elliott
Beach Macrae (1900–?) had already proven himself in
a succession of roles at E. P. Dutton when he became
its third president, succeeding his father, who had
himself succeeded the firm’s founder. When Milne
In 1947, while on a visit at Cotchford, Macrae spotted the original soft toy incarnations of Pooh, Piglet,
Tigger, Kanga and Eeyore looking rather worse for
wear in Milne’s living room. Macrae then had the extraordinary idea of sending the five toys on a tour of
America. Milne accepted and produced hand-written
“birth-certificates” for them. Upon arrival in the US
the five toys were insured for the considerable sum of
$50,000. The tour was another big publicity success
for Macrae and lasted several years, the five friends
regularly coming to rest at the Dutton offices and
finally settling down in a glass cabinet at the main
branch of the New York Public Library.
A beautiful copy and a fine association with regard to
the publishing history of the Pooh books. This copy is
the regular trade format (there was also a signed limited edition) in the rare first state, without the page
number on the contents page (p. ix).
Ann Thwaite, A. A. Milne. His Life, pp. 268; 474.
£10,000
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MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. London: Methuen
Children’s Books, 1977
Octavo. Original burgundy morocco, titles and decorations
to spine gilt, pictorial design to front boards gilt, all edges
gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the original slipcase. Illustrated throughout the text by Ernest H. Shepard. An excellent copy.
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Octavo. Original full dark green limp calf, titles and pictorial decoration to spine gilt, double fillet border with floral
cornerpieces and central Christopher Robin and Eeyore
vignette to front board gilt, all edges gilt, pictorial endpapers, green silk bookmark. Illustrated throughout by Ernest
H. Shepard. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper.
Spine rolled and slightly rubbed at head, light bumping
to extremities, a few pale markings and a couple of minor
dents to sides, portions of tanning to free endpapers. A very
good copy, the gilt bright and contents fresh.
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the golden anniversary edition, signed limited edition, number 160 of 300 copies signed by
Christopher [Robin] Milne.
[104546]
£825
SIGNED BY MILNE
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MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928
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first edition, deluxe issue, signed by the author on the title page. The deluxe issue was published in a range of colours but there is no priority
between them.
£3,750
[103032]
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MORRIS, William, & Eiríkr Magnússon (trans.)
The Saga Library. Done into English out of the
Icelandic. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1891–1905
6 volumes, octavo. Original dark green morocco-grained
quarter calf, green cloth sides, titles and decorations to
spines and front boards gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. 14 folding genealogical charts, one large folding map in end-pocket of Volume I. Bookplate of Albert E.
MacColl to front pastedowns. A couple of spines very gently
sunned, slight spotting to edges, prelims and endmatter. An
excellent set.
first editions of the complete set of the Saga Library. The culmination of Morris’s interest in the medieval literature of Iceland, the Saga Library was translated and edited by Morris together with his friend
and scholar Eiríkr Magnússon (1833–1913) and sought
to make the material more accessible to an Englishspeaking public. Morris’s passion for the sagas was
strong enough to bring the untravelled author to
Iceland, to travel by pony across rough often uninhabited terrain. “Morris travelled very little outside
Britain. His two voyages to Iceland, in 1871 and 1873,
must rank with his undergraduate tour of the Gothic
cathedrals of France as the most influential journeys
of his life” (ODNB).
£1,500
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NAIPAUL, V. S. The Middle Passage. Impressions
of Five Societies – British, French and Dutch –
in the West Indies and South America. London:
Andre Deutsch, 1962
NAIPAUL, V. S. Mr Stone and the Knights
Companion. London: Andre Deutsch, 1963
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt, map
endpapers, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Housed in a
custom black solander box. Boards a little spotted, contents
mildly cockled; an excellent copy in the bright jacket with
rubbed edges, some shallow chips and short closed tears
to extremities, short closed tear to fold of front flap, with
heavy tape repairs to verso with faint tape marks appearing
on the panels.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed to
the publisher on the title page: “For André, V. S. Naipaul. London, March 15, 1963.”
£5,750
[102204]
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Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge
brown. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled. An excellent copy in a jacket with a few minor nicks and faint fading
to spine panel.
first edition, inscribed by the author on
the title page, “V. S. Naipaul. For Anthony Hobson,
a rainy day at Whitsbury, 11 Feb 90”. Historian and
auctioneer Anthony Hobson (1921–2014) was a world
expert on Renaissance bindings and an avid collector of modern literature; with Hobson’s bookplate to
the front pastedown. Laid in is the publisher’s review
slip. Presentation copies of Naipaul’s works are uncommon.
£1,500
[102660]
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first edition, signed by the author on the title page. From the library of historian and auctioneer
Anthony Hobson and with his bookplate to the front
pastedown (see previous item).
£875
[102695]
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NAIPAUL, V. S. Finding the Centre. Two
Narratives. London: André Deutsch, 1984
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust
jacket. An excellent copy in a faintly rubbed jacket.
first edition, signed by the author on the
half-title. From the library of historian and auctioneer Anthony Hobson, with his bookplate to the front
pastedown.
£500
[102663]
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NAIPAUL, V. S. The Mimic Men. London: Andre
Deutsch, 1967
NAIPAUL, V. S. A Turn in the South. London:
Viking, 1989
Octavo. Original dark red boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Slight offsetting from dust jacket onto spine,
couple of small stains to top edge. An excellent copy in a
slightly toned jacket with a few minor nicks to extremities.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket.
first edition, inscribed by the author for
the historian and auctioneer Anthony Hobson: “V. S.
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Naipaul, for Anthony Hobson”, and with Hobson’s
bookplate to the front pastedown. Laid-in are five
newspaper and magazine reviews.
£675
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NIELSEN, Kay. East of the Sun and West of the
Moon. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1914]
Quarto (264 × 213 mm). Bound by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey
in modern green morocco, titles to spine and front board
gilt, gilt raised bands to spine, decoration to front board
gilt, replicated from original design, marbled endpapers,
all edges gilt. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 24 colour
plates with captioned tissue guards. A fine copy, handsomely bound.
first nielsen edition. The richness of Nielsen’s
colour images for this lavish illustrated book were
achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many
of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries,
such as Rackham and Dulac, which characteristically
utilized a traditional three-colour process. £2,500
[103068]
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135
PALLADIO, Andrea. I quattro libri dell’
architettura. [Venice: G. B. Pasquali, 1771–80]
Folio (342 × 249 mm). Contemporary Italian vellum over
pasteboards, red morocco spine label. Title and three section titles, each within engraved architectural border, printer’s device on colophon. Numerous engraved illustrations
some full or double-page. With the bookplate of Sir Richard
Biddulph Martin, 1st Baronet (1838–1916), and the ownership inscription of James Grote Vanderpool. Minor dampstaining to lower outer corner of last book, still an excellent
copy.
The superb facsimile of the original 1570 edition of
Palladio, published by Consul Smith after years of
preparation, with copperplate copies of the original
woodcuts. It was a copy of this edition which Goethe was so delighted to acquire in Padua in 1786 that
he made a special visit to Smith’s grave in the Protestant cemetery on the Lido – “To him I owe my copy
of Palladio and I offered up a grateful prayer at his
unconsecrated grave” (Morrison, 53). Joseph Smith
(1673/4?–1770) was appointed British consul in Venice
in 1744, after which he was the Consul Smith whose
name appears in every history of 18th-century British
collecting and art patronage. As art patron, Smith’s
most fruitful association was with Canaletto, whose
whole output he controlled from about 1729 to 1735.
His book collecting resulted in the magnificent library (recorded in the Bibliotheca Smithiana, 1755)
which eventually formed an important part of the
King’s Library, now the centrepiece of the new British
Library. Early in the 1730s Smith set up as publisher
with Giambattista Pasquali as his partner and printer.
Their firm published a wide range of books and by the
mid-century ranked alongside Albrizzi and Zatta as
one of the three great Venetian publishers.
Fowler 232.
£6,500
[102815]
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138, 139, 140
136
(PEAKE, Mervyn, illus.) Ride a Cock-Horse
and Other Nursery Rhymes. London: Chatto and
Windus, 1940
Quarto. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 14 full-page illustrations (10 in colour) by Peake.
Jacket toned and lightly soiled, a few chips, nicks and tears.
bing to extremities, short closed tear and a couple of nicks
to head of spine panel.
first u.s. edition of Plath’s first and only collection of poetry published while she was alive. It was
originally published in the UK in 1960.
£575
[103278]
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(POGÁNY, Willy.) COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. London: George
G. Harrap & Co., [1910]
first edition, first issue (without the dedication
page). This was Mervyn Peake’s first commission as
illustrator and his second illustrated book, following
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939); its success
led to Chatto & Windus commissioning Peake to illustrate their edition of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting
of the Snark (1941). His illustrations for these nursery rhymes have been described as drawing out “the
darkest implications of the stories”.
£575
[103247]
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PLATH, Sylvia. The Colossus & Other Poems.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in dark green,
author’s initials to front board and publisher’s device to rear
board in blind, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. With
the dust jacket. Spine very slightly rolled, an excellent copy
in the unclipped jacket with lightly toned spine, a little rub-
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Quarto. Original brown calf, titles and decoration to spine
and front board gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, tan
silk bookmark. With 20 tipped-in plates, design layout,
lettering, colour and monochrome illustrations by Willy
Pogány. Extremities rubbed and with some slight stripping,
minor wear to corners and spine ends, prelims and endmatter slightly tanned, occasional minor spotting to margins of
text block. A very good copy.
signed by the artist.
£1,500
[102227]
139
(POGÁNY, Willy.) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang
von. Faust. Translated by Abraham Howard.
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1908
Quarto. Original full vellum, titles and decorations to spine
gilt, to front board in gilt and light blue, top edge gilt, others
untrimmed, white patterned endpapers. Colour frontispiece
and 30 plates by Willy Pogány, with printed tissue-guards.
Bookplate of Hastings Lawson to front pastedown. Vellum
scuffed and lightly soiled, minor wear to corners, occasional
mild spotting to margins of text block. A very good copy.
signed limited edition, number 174 of 250 copies signed by the artist and containing the additional
coloured plate “The Witches Revel”.
£750
[102103]
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(POGÁNY, Willy). Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
The First and Fourth Renderings in English by
Edward Fitzgerald. London: George G. Harrap & Co.
Ltd., 1930
Large octavo (260 × 198 mm). Deluxe binding of aquamarine
morocco, gilt lettered spine, circular gilt floriate motif with
coloured onlays on front cover, top edges gilt, untrimmed,
marbled endpapers. Decorative titlepage printed on a pale
ochre background; 12 tipped-in colour plates, designs and
decorations (some tipped-in) by Willy Pogány. A few faint
blemishes to front cover.
signed limited edition, one of 1,250 numbered
copies signed by the artist and with an original etching also signed by him.
£950
[103074]
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POWELL, Anthony. From a View to a Death.
London: Duckworth, 1933
Octavo. Original olive cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine rolled and a little sunned, edges and endleaves lightly foxed; an excellent copy in the toned and spotted jacket with some shallow chips and nicks to extremities.
first edition, inscribed by the author for the
scholar and auctioneer Anthony Hobson and his wife
on the front free endpaper, “Anthony & Tanya, many
years later, Tony”. The author’s scarce third novel,
from the library of Anthony Hobson, with his bookplate to the front pastedown.
£3,250
[103276]
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PRIESTLEY, Raymond E. Antarctic Adventure.
Scott’s Northern Party. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1914
Octavo. Original blue cloth with title and pictorial vignettes in
silver to spine and front board, top edge gilt, the others uncut.
Frontispiece and 97 other plates, three folding maps. Silver
oxidised as usual, free endpapers browned, some foxing, prize
bookplate for The Thomas Morgan Memorial Essay Prize for
1916 to the front pastedown, but remains a very good copy.
first edition. Priestley served with Shackleton
on his 1907–9 expedition, contributing the geologi-
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cal sections to The Heart of the Antarctic, and returning
with Scott to Antarctica as a geologist in 1910–13. “He
joined the northern party under Victor Campbell. After spending 1911 at Cape Adare the six-man party was
landed 200 miles further south for summer fieldwork
with provisions for eight weeks. The ship was stopped
by pack-ice from returning and the epic story of how
the party survived and then sledged 250 miles to the
main party early in the following summer is told [in
the present work]. They survived the fierce winds by
digging a cave in a snowdrift. A line across the middle
of the 12 foot by 9 foot floor separated the wardroom
from the mess deck of three petty officers. By agreement, nothing said on one side of the line could be
‘heard’ or answered by those on the other side. Priestley considered this splendid training for dealing with
unreasonable, irascible professors in later life without
loss of temper. His responsibility for the commissariat
in the ice cave in these circumstances shows an early
reputation for fairness and reliability” (ODNB). Priestley served in the RE Signals Section during the First
World War, and thereafter pursued a career in academic administration in England, Australia and the West
Indies. This is a difficult book to find in collectable
condition: Spence relates that a large part of the printrun was destroyed in a warehouse fire.
Howgego S13 & S20; Spence 939; Taurus 80.
£1,250
[102814]
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145
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145
[PU, Songling.] GILES, Herbert Allen (trans.)
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. London:
T. Werner Laurie, 1916
(RACKHAM, Arthur, illus.) HENTY, G. A.,
& others. Brains and Bravery. London: W. & R.
Chambers, Ltd. 1903
Octavo. Original yellow cloth with titles and decoration to
spine and front board in black. With the dust jacket and
glassine. Partial tanning to free endpapers, light spotting to
fore edge of text block. An excellent copy with bright cloth
in a lightly faded and rubbed jacket.
Third revised edition of Giles’s translation. Pu
Songling’s collection of fantastic stories was originally published in China in 1740, Giles’s translation,
the first in the English language, in 1880.
£425
[102080]
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) HARBOUR, Henry.
Where Flies the Flag. London: Collins’ Clear-Type
Press, [1904]
PUZO, Mario. The Godfather. New York: G. P.
Putnam’s Sons, 1969
Octavo. Original pictorial blue pictorial cloth decorated
in dark blue black, drab and gilt, lettered in red on a gilt
cartouche on the spine, and lettered in gilt in similar style
lettering to the front cover, dark red endpapers. With 6
coloured plates by Arthur Rackham. Spine rolled, corners
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in black morocco, titles to spine gilt, pictorial block to front board gilt,
twin rule to turn-ins gilt, blood red endpapers, gilt edges.
A fine copy.
first edition.
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first edition. A collection of 14 tales in which
young men exhibit “brains and bravery.” The tales are
by Henty, Guy Boothby, L. T. Meade & Prof. Robert K.
Douglas, John Arthur Barry, Katharine Tynan, H. A.
Bryden, W. H. Williamson, Walter Wood, F. B. Forester, Hemingford Grey, and T. R. Threlfall.
£750
[102071]
[102777]
Octavo. Original red cloth, pictorial decoration to front
cover and spine, titles to front cover and spine in red. Illustrated throughout with 8 half-tone plates by Arthur Rackham. Spine lightly sunned, light rubbing and fraying to ends
of spine and corners, front inner hinge cracked, occasional
spotting. A very good copy.
Latimore & Haskell p. 20.
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£1,375
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147
lightly rubbed, light wear to extremities, occasional spotting, small label to front pastedown.
first edition. A very uncommon Rackham title.
Not in Latimore & Haskell.
£600
[102084]
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter
Pan of Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder &
Stoughton, 1906
Large quarto. Original white vellum with gilt lettering and
decoration, top edge gilt and others untrimmed, original
yellow ribbon to front board. Housed in a custom brown
slipcase. Front free endpaper with map of Kensington Gardens, 50 colour plates mounted onto brown art paper with
captioned tissue guards. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Rear board lacking a tie, gilt a little rubbed from
spine; an exceptional copy.
signed limited edition, number 47 of 500 copies signed by the illustrator. The literary character of
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Peter Pan first appeared in the book-within-a-book
London story-collection for adults, The Little White
Bird (1902). After the enormous success of the play
Peter Pan, which opened on 27 December 1904 and
broke all previous theatrical records, in 1906 Barrie
sanctioned this publication, in collaboration with
Rackham as illustrator; the text was extracted from
The Little White Bird with minor revisions, and it was
published specifically as a children’s book. The play
remained unpublished until 1928.
£1,250
£6,000
[103050]
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) [BARHAM, Richard
Harris.] The Ingoldsby Legends. London & New
York: J. M. Dent & Co.; E. P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Large quarto (280 × 221 mm). Bound by Zaehnsdorf for E.
Joseph in contemporary green morocco, titles to spine and
front board gilt, vignette to front board gilt, turn-ins and top
edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece
and 23 plates mounted on green paper with captioned tissue guards, 12 tinted plates, and 66 illustrations in the text.
Sporadic faint foxing to contents; an excellent, bright copy.
signed limited edition, number 234 of 560 largepaper copies signed by the illustrator. This is the first
signed limited edition of Rackham’s illustrated edition of Barham’s Ingoldsby Legends. It was originally
published in 1898 (for which there was no deluxe
signed edition) but for 1907 was revised and largely
redrawn, so that “greater prominence could be given
to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in
colour” (Rackham’s Prefatory Note). A very handsomely bound copy.
[103069]
149
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BROWNE, Maggie. The
Book of Betty Barber. London: Duckworth and Co.,
[1910]
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front board
in black, colour plate inlay to front board, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece, 5 similar plates, and 12 black and white illustrations. Blind stamp to front free endpaper. Extremities
very gently rubbed, minor wear to spine ends, a small nick
to head of spine, endpapers tanned. An excellent copy.
first edition in book form of this story originally
published in Little Folks magazine in 1900.
£600
[102242]
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150, 151, 152, 153
150
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRIMM, The Brothers.
Little Brother & Little Sister and other tales.
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1917
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in bright green
morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, pictorial block to front board, inner dentelles, original endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.
With colour frontispiece and 12 further colour plates in colour, 43 black and white illustrations in text. With the extra
separate plate (“He Hurried Away with Long Strides” facing
page 178) also signed by Rackham that is so often missing.
signed by the illustrator, with the extra plate that is
often missing (“He Hurried Away with Long Strides”)
also signed by Rackham bound in at the back.
£3,750
[102175]
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) SWINBURNE, Algernon
Charles. The Springtide of Life: Poems of
Childhood. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse.
London: Heinemann, 1918
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Quarto. Original quarter vellum, japon boards, titles and
decorations to spine and front board gilt, top edge gilt,
others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Housed in a black
quarter morocco slipcase with grey cloth chemise. Colour
frontispiece tipped in on dark grey card, 8 similar plates,
black and white line illustrations in text. Spine a touch darkened and bumped, boards very gently bowed, endpapers
tanned. An excellent copy.
signed by the illustrator.
£900
[102123]
152
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) EVANS, C. S. The
Sleeping Beauty. London: William Heinemann, 1920
Quarto (274 × 214 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere
in red crushed morocco, titles and elaborate decoration
to spine gilt, raised bands, floral decorative boarders gilt,
marbled endpapers, gilt edges. One mounted colour plate, 3
double-page silhouette drawings with colour, 8 single-page
silhouette drawings in black and white and 41 drawings in
the text by Arthur Rackham. The occasional minor blemish,
spine just a touch faded an excellent copy.
signed limited edition, number 133 of 625 copies signed by the illustrator and printed on English
handmade paper.
Latimore & Haskell p. 51; Riall p. 141.
£1,750
[102169]
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) STEPHENS, James. Irish
Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1920
Quarto. Bound in green morocco, titles and centre tool to
spines gilt, raised bands, pictorial title block gilt to front
board, single rule gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top
edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16 tipped in colour plates
mounted on cream paper, captioned tissues and 21 black
and white illustrations throughout the text. An excellent
copy.
signed limited edition, one of 520 copies signed
by the illustrator.
Hudson, p. 170; Latimore & Haskell p. 52.
£2,250
[102170]
154, 155, 156, 157
154
(RACKHAM,
Arthur.)
William. The Tempest.
Heinemann Ltd., [1926]
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SHAKESPEARE,
London, William
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) MOORE, Clement C.
The Night Before Christmas. London: George G.
Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1931
Tall quarto. Original quarter japon, titles to spine gilt, white
boards, title and mermaid design to front board gilt, top
edge gilt, others untrimmed. 2 tipped-in colour frontispieces, 19 similar plates, and black and white illustrations
in text. Light mottling to spine, boards lightly toned and
with some mild soiling, minor wear to corners. An excellent
copy.
Octavo. Original limp vellum, titles to front cover gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed
in the publisher’s slipcase. Colour frontispiece, 3 similar
plates, and black and white line drawings in the text by
Rackham. Light spotting throughout, slight cockling to
leaves. An excellent copy in a tanned and worn slipcase with
tape repairs along extremities.
signed limited edition, number 130 of 520 numbered copies signed by the illustrator.
signed limited edition of this Christmas classic,
number 2 of 550 copies signed by the illustrator.
£1,200
[102110]
£2,000
[102239]
156
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) RUSKIN, John. The King
of the Golden River. London: George G. Harrap &
Co. Ltd., 1932
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Octavo. Original full limp vellum, titles and decoration to
front cover gilt, top edge gilt. Housed in a cream card slipcase with the original printed labels laid down. Colour frontispiece, 3 similar plates, and black and white illustrations in
the text. Mild soiling to vellum, the usual slight cockling to
vellum and text block, minor foxing to endpapers. An excellent copy.
£1,000
[102241]
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) ROSSETTI, Christina.
Goblin Market. London: George G. Harrap & Co.
Ltd, 1933
Octavo. Original limp vellum, title to front cover in gilt, top
edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Housed
in publisher’s original slipcase. Colour frontispiece, 3 similar plates, and black and white illustrations throughout.
Light cockling to leaves. Otherwise a fine copy in a slightly
soiled slipcase with minor wear to extremities.
£1,000
[102240]
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159
158
160
RANSOME, Arthur. Coot Club. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1934
REMARQUE, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the
Western Front. Translated from the German by
A. W. Wheen. London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to front board blind
stamped, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated
by the author. Ends of spine gently bumped, pages 297–309
corners with fold lines, in the dust jacket with mild toning to
spine, light wear along top edges, a touch of soiling to rear
panel. A very attractive copy.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
pictorial dust jacket. Light creasing along top edges of the
dust jacket, toning to rear panel. An excellent copy.
RANSOME, Arthur. The Picts and The Martyrs:
or, Not Welcome at All. London: Jonathan Cape, 1943
first edition. The fourth book in the author’s popular Inspector Wexford series.
£675
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt and to front
board in blind, map endpapers. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 19 illustrations. Ownership signature to title
page. Spine rolled, tips a little bumped, edges very faintly
foxed with a little creasing. An excellent copy in the jacket
with sunned spine and a few nicks to extremities.
[104167]
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999
first edition, signed by the author on the title
page. The 11th book in Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series.
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[102654]
RENDELL, Ruth. The Best Man to Die. London:
John Long, 1969
[102786]
[102349]
first edition in english, published March 1929;
originally published in Germany in January 1929.
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£800
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in grey morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single
rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
£1,500
first edition.
£2,000
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160
2 proof copies, octavo. First state: original purple and white
wrappers printed in black. Second state: original green and
white wrappers printed in black. Condition fine.
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uncorrected proof copies, in both first and
second state: 150 copies of each state were printed,
though the green proof appears to be scarcer in commerce. The purple proof precedes the green proof,
with editorial work undertaken on the text throughout. Bloomsbury only issued proof copies for the first
three Harry Potter novels: after Prisoner of Azkaban,
sales were so great that they did not want to give subsequent story lines away until publication day.
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of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which were finely bound
and presented to people who had been important in
the publication of the Harry Potter books. This is the
auction catalogue for the seventh manuscript copy,
which was auctioned to raise funds for her charity,
£1,500
[102315]
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RUSCHA, Ed. Every Building on the Sunset
Strip. Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1966
Errington AA4 (a) & (b).
£5,000
the Children’s High Level Group; it broke the record
for the most expensive modern literary manuscript.
Small quarto. Concertina bound in original white wrappers,
titles to front cover in silver. Housed in the original silver
paper covered slipcase. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. Spine lightly toned, faint foxing to endleaves and
edges. An excellent copy.
[103017]
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first edition, first issue (with the Jaguar building
on the small folded flap at the end of the book). One
of 1,000 copies, this is Ruscha’s most important and
influential publication.
ROWLING, J. K. Sotheby’s Auction Catalogue
for The Tales of Beedle the Bard. A Collection
of Wizarding Fairy-Tales. The Property of J. K.
Rowling, sold on behalf of the Children’s Voice.
London, Thursday, 13th December 2007. London:
Sotheby’s, 2007
Parr & Badger II, 142; Roth, p. 182.
£3,250
[103286]
Small octavo. Original white wrappers, titles to spine white
and covers in blue, wrappers decorated in blue. Illustrations
from photographs throughout. A fine copy.
first edition, inscribed by j. k. rowling on
the front free endpaper: “To Claudia, J. K. Rowling.”
Rowling wrote and illustrated six manuscript copies
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(SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita.) RILKE, Rainer
Maria. Duineser Elegien. Elegies from the
Castle of Duino. Translated from the German
by V. Sackville-West and Edward Sackville-West.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1931
Octavo. Original half vellum, tan cloth sides, titles to spine
gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket.
Woodcut initials by Eric Gill. Slight tanning along bottom
edge of boards and spine, very slight spotting to edges and a
few end-leaves, an excellent copy in the jacket that is tanned
and dust soiled, somewhat rubbed and spotted, but still entirely intact.
first edition, presentation copy, number V
of an estimated ten paper copies not for sale (aside
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from a signed limited edition of 238 signed copies,
of which eight were printed on vellum), this printed
for Vita Sackville-West herself, and inscribed on the
front free endpaper, “John Heygate, from V.S.W.”
The writer John Heygate (1903–1976) was one of the
Bright Young Things, notable for his affair with Evelyn Gardener while she was married to Evelyn Waugh.
Heygate married Gardner (after her subsequent divorce) in the year before the publication of this book.
He is portrayed as John Beaver in A Handful of Dust.
The inscription to Heygate of Rilke’s elegies is rendered more appropriate by his close relationship with
Germany: he had travelled to Heidelberg in 1926 for
the Foreign Office, and in the following years wrote
several books about his visits to Germany, as well as
co-writing two films made in Germany and starring
Lilian Harvey – The Only Girl (Ich und die Kaiserin), 1934,
and Black Roses (Schwarze Rosen), 1935 – while working
for the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation in collaboration with the German UFA film company, Babelsberg, near Berlin. He was present at the Nuremberg Rally, 1935, in the company of his friend Henry
Williamson, sitting next to Unity and Diana Mitford.
In spite of his political sympathies he served in the
Royal Artillery during the Second World War.
£5,750
165
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SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. Night Flight;
Southern Mail; Flight to Arras; Wind, Sand and
Stars. New York: various publishers, 1932–43
4 works, octavo. Contemporary brown half morocco, gilt
panelled spines, marbled sides, top edges gilt, marbled
endpapers. Illustrations by Lynd Ward, John O’H. Cosgrave
II, and Bernard Lamotte. Bookplate of John A. Vietor, Jr. on
preliminary blank in each volume spines lightly sunned.
first u.s. editions of Night Flight and Southern Mail;
Wind, Sand and Stars, first US edition, 19th printing;
and Flight to Arras, first US edition, fifth printing. A
handsomely bound collection of Saint-Exupéry’s key
literary works aside from The Little Prince.
Night Flight: Connolly, Modern Movement, 68.
£1,500
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SAUNDERS, Ann. The London County Council
Bomb Damage Maps 1939–1945 With an
Introduction by Robert Woolven. London: London
Topographical Society and London Metropolitan
Archives, 2005
Folio. Original blue cloth lettered in silver. With the dust
jacket. Illustrated throughout with 110 topographical maps
in colour. A hint of sunning at the edges of the jacket, else
a fine copy.
first and only edition. “During the Second
World War the War Damage Section of the Architect’s
Department of the London County Council recorded
the degree of damage due to enemy action to buildings across the 117 square miles of the Administrative
County of London. Using the relevant sheets of the
1:25,000 Ordnance Survey maps, the Architect’s staff
hand-coloured the maps according to the degree of
damage suffered by each building. The sheets also
indicated the impact points of the German V1 flying
bombs and V2 long-range rockets of 1944 and 1945,
together with the extensive devastation that they
caused” (introduction). Collected and reprinted here
they offer “a unique insight into the shaping of modern London”. Uncommon: just seven copies listed on
Copac, all but two of these in London.
£1,375
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SEUSS, Dr. Green Eggs and Ham. New York:
Beginner Books, Inc., 1960
Octavo. Original pictorial orange boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Boards very lightly rubbed and
bumped, spine ends and corners a touch worn. An excellent
copy in a slightly rubbed and toned jacket with lightly nicked
and creased extremities and a few minor chips to spine ends
and corners.
first edition, first issue, with the “50 word vocabulary” sticker to the front panel of the jacket.
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SENDAK, Maurice. Emil the Wild Thing.
[c.1970–90]
£3,000
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Pencil on tracing paper. Sheet size: 27.7 × 21.0 cm. Short
closed tear to left-hand margin. Otherwise in excellent condition. Mounted and presented in lime waxed frame with
conservation glass.
original pencil drawing signed by sendak in
the lower margin, depicting one of the titular creatures from the author’s modern children’s classic and
Caldecott Medal recipient Where the Wild Things Are
(New York: Harper & Row, 1963).
£5,500
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays. London:
William Pickering, 1825
9 volumes, small octavo (80 × 45 mm). Contemporary red
full levant morocco, spines elaborately gilt-tooled in compartments with raised bands and gilt titles direct, twin rules
to boards with floral cornerpieces, inner dentelles gilt, all
edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. This edition was issued either with and without illustrations; this set is without. Armorial bookplates to front
pastedowns. Occasional minor scuffing to spines; slipcase a
little rubbed and with some light dampstaining to one side.
A bright set in excellent condition.
the diamond edition. A lovely set of this celebrated miniature edition.
£1,500
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SHACKLETON, Ernest H. South. The Story of
Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914–1917. London:
William Heinemann, 1919
(SHACKLETON.) WILD, Frank. Shackleton’s
Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest … From the
Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A.
H. Macklin London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and front
board in silver, large block of Endurance stuck in the ice
to front board in silver, publisher’s device to rear board in
blind. Colour frontispiece and 87 half-tone plates, folding
map at the rear. With the ownership stamp of Edwin Mickleburgh to the front pastedown (Mickleburgh was a member
of the British Antarctic Survey from 1968 to 1971, and the
author of Beyond the Frozen Sea, an account of his experiences
and the history of discovery and exploration in Antarctica).
Pencilled signature to front free endpaper. Spine rolled,
spine ends and tips a little worn, hinges cracked but holding, text block remains tight, contents uniformly browned
as usual, short closed tear to folding map stub, as often
seen. A very good copy.
first edition. An attractively though not well produced book of Shackleton’s account of the Imperial
Trans-Antarctic Expedition, the failure of which “to
even reach the Antarctic continent, much less to
cross it via the South Pole, has become the great polar
success story of the 20th century” (Books on Ice).
Books on Ice 7.8; Conrad p. 224; Spence 1107; Taurus 105.
£3,500
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Large octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and rules to spine
gilt and front board black, vignette to front board blocked in
white, black and gilt, cream and blue illustrated endpapers.
Coloured frontispiece, 100 black and white plates from photographs, sketch maps in the text. Contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown. Spine faded, spine ends
and tips a little worn and frayed, hinges cracked but holding, contents slightly foxed. A very good copy.
first edition. Wild had been with Scott on the Discovery, was with Mawson in 1911–14, “and was a close
friend of Shackleton on both the Nimrod expedition of
1907–9 and second-in-command on the Transantarctic Expedition of 1914–17 … Wild joined Shackleton
on his final voyage to the Antarctic in 1921–23 but the
explorer’s death sapped Wild’s desire to continue”
(Howgego). A “handsome publication” reproducing “the last photographs of Shackleton to be taken”
(Taurus). Wild emigrated to South Africa, and drifted
into bankruptcy and alcoholism. He died destitute in
Johannesburg in 1939.
Howgego III, S25; Taurus 112.
£1,250
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SHAW, Bernard. The Adventures of the Black
Girl in Her Search for God. London: Constable &
Company Limited, 1932
Octavo. Original black paper-covered boards, titles to spine
and front board in white, front board illustrated in white,
black and white patterned endpapers. Housed in a custom
black cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Engraved title page and monochrome illustrations throughout
by John Farleigh. Board edges a little rubbed, front joint
starting but text block tight, some annotations in red pencil; an exceptional copy.
first edition, presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title to the female
missionary who inspired the book, nine days after
its publication: “Dear Miss Shaw, on the eve of a voyage round the world on which I am taking your latest
proofsheets to read I send you this story, for which
you are really responsible, as it was you who set me
thinking about the contact of black minds with white
religions in the African forest which your descriptions
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brought so vividly before my imagination. To amuse
myself, and connect the story in my mind with you, I
have introduced a most outrageous caricature of an
episode from real life which seemed to you tragic but
made me laugh heartlessly. I should not have dared
had I not been well out of reach of your knobkerry. So
now what do you think of the work you were guided
to set going? G. Bernard Shaw. 14th Dec. 1932.” Mabel Shaw (1888–1973) was in her time the most renowned female missionary in Africa, founding the
London Missionary Society’s Girls’ Boarding School
in Mbereshi, Northern Rhodesia, and heading it from
1915 to 1940. Shaw began writing this comic fable in
South Africa in February 1932 and completed it in
England that October.
£2,750
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Poems.
London: Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824
Octavo (213 × 130 mm). Finely bound by Riviere & Son in
early 20th century dark blue crushed morocco, titles to
spine gilt with gilt raised bands and gilt decorated compartments, boards ruled gilt, turn-ins and top edge gilt, other
edges uncut, marbled endpapers. Spine faded to brown,
spine ends and tips rubbed, small repair to margin of p. 31,
faint sporadic foxing to contents; an excellent copy, attractively bound.
first edition. Edited by Mary Shelley, this collection contains hitherto unpublished poems, “Julian
and Maddalo” with its evocation of Byron, “The
Witch of Atlas” and “The Triumph of Life” foremost
among the longer works; fragments and translations
from Homer, Eurypides, Calderon, Goethe and Moschus; and Alastor, previously published in 1816. The
collection is prefaced by Mary’s moving account of
her husband’s life and work. Mary had difficulty finding a publisher until Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Bryant
Waller Proctor (“Barry Cornwall”), Thomas Forbes
Kelsall and Nicholas Waller agreed to stand guarantors for 250 copies. After publication, Sir Timothy
Shelley withdrew the allowance he had made to her
son Percy Florence, demanded the volume be withdrawn and the remaining 191 unsold copies be destroyed, and attempted to prohibit her from publishing P. B. Shelley’s works or bringing the Shelley name
to public attention again.
£2,250
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works.
Edited by Mrs. Shelley. London: Edward Moxon, 1839
4 volumes, octavo. Original red pebble-grained cloth, decoration and titles gilt to spines, sides panelled with arabesque
decorations in blind, yellow coated endpapers. Engraved
portrait frontispiece in vol. I, with all the half-titles and advertisements. Spines sunned but the gilt still bright, light
rubbing to ends and corners, with two c.30mm splits to
cloth front head of front joint in vols 1 and 2, some
first edition of Mary Shelley’s collected edition
of her husband’s poetical works, which established
Shelley finally and irreversibly amongst the great poets of the English language. Pirate editions of Shelley’s works had persuaded his father, Sir Timothy,
that all hope of obscurity had passed, and Mary was
allowed to prepare a proper edition provided there
was only a minimum of biographical information.
“Mary Shelley brought Shelley into the mainstream
of the national culture. He was no longer the author
of a notorious banned poem [Queen Mab] only obtainable from shops specializing in blasphemy, sedition
and advice on birth control. He was the prophet of
Prometheus Unbound, one of the most ambitious attempts ever made to uplift life by literature, and of
other works such as the “Ode to the West Wind” …
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ing, adding so immeasurably to the reader’s understanding that nobody would now consider printing
Shelley’s poems without them” (St Clair). An appealing copy in the superior red cloth.
Wise, p. 87; Granniss 88; Dunbar, Shelley Studies 345.
£600
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SHORE, Stephen. Uncommon
Photographs. New York: Aperture, 1982
Places.
Oblong quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front
cover in brown. With the dust jacket. 49 full page plates from
photographs. An excellent copy in a near fine dust jacket.
half-title, “For Harvey, Stephen Shore, 12/17/83”. The
recipient, Harvey Zucker, was the owner of Photographer’s Place in SoHo, New York.
£1,500
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SHUQAYR, Na’um. Ta’rikh Sina al-qadim wa’lhadith wa-jughrafiyatuha. Ma’a khulasat ta’rikh
Misr wa’l-Sham wa’l-’Iraq wa-Jazirat al-’Arab
wa-ma kana baynaha min al-’ala’iq al-tijariyah
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wa’l-harbiyah wa ghayriha ‘an tariq Sina min
awwal ‘ahd al-ta’rikh ila al-yawm [The History
and Geography of Sinai Ancient and Modern,
with a summary of the histories of Egypt, Syria,
Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula with regard to
their commercial and military relations by way
of Sinai, from the beginning of history to the
present day]. Cairo: Matba’at al-Ma’arif, 1916
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 27 similar plates,
some 100 illustrations from photographs to the text; 3 sketch
maps of Sinai quarantine station for returning pilgrims, the
Arabian Peninsula and environs and the Ottoman military
advance through Sinai in 1915; large folding map of Sinai to
rear of volume (1:750,000) opening to approx. 70 × 50 mm
with contour lines in red. Rather worn, some bleeding to
edges from cloth, light toning, rear hinge split. A good copy.
first edition. Three detailed chapters cover the
geography, Bedouin and history of the Sinai Peninsula; in the preface Shuqayr writes that the book was
about to go to press when war was declared in 1914
and he decided to extend the scope of his study with
a “conclusion” (khatimah), not so much a conclusion
as “a history of the Arabs before and after the advent
of Islam, in the Arabian Peninsula and beyond” (p. 6).
Na’um Shuqayr (1863–1922) was born in Choueifat,
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Beirut and studied at the Syrian Protestant College,
now known as the American University of Beirut. On
graduating he moved to Egypt and worked in military
intelligence, initially for the Egyptian Army. He was
then transferred to the Sudan, where he served under
Lord Kitchener and Sir Reginald Wingate, the dedicatee of the present piece, and gathered intelligence
on Mahdist forces – an experience which culminated
in his 1903 study of the Sudan. He was later posted
to Sinai with a brief to maintain peace between the
Bedouin tribes, serving there during the Khedival–
Ottoman border dispute of 1906. The photographs
are mainly derived from other works in French, Arabic and English, including Sutton’s My Camel Ride from
Suez to Mount Sinai (1913), with some original images,
but Shuqayr does not make quite clear which ones
these are (p. 7). The excellent folding map to the rear,
however, is explicitly the author’s own revision of the
most complete map of Sinai then available, originally
produced by the British War Office: overall a work
greatly enriched by the author’s first-hand experience
of the region during the tumultuous build-up to war.
Scarce: Copac locates just two copies in the British
Isles (Oxford and Cambridge) with OCLC adding
seven in the US and four across Israel and Lebanon.
Not in Gay or Macro. For Shuqayr see Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli,
al-A’lam.
£3,500
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SIMONDE DE SISMONDI, Jean Charles L. De
la littérature du midi de l’Europe. Paris: Treuttel &
Würtz; and Strasbourg, 1813
4 volumes, octavo (196 × 124 mm). Contemporary English
diced calf, spines with raised bands, gilt rolls over black,
centre tools in blind and gilt, gilt-lettered direct in second, third, and fourth compartments, sides with two-line
gilt rules, board edges decoratively gilt, brown endpapers,
marbled edges. With half-titles. Ownership inscriptions of
Anna Maria Bethell (d. 1861), of 43 Upper Grosvenor Street.
Lightly rubbed, occasional spotting, a handsome set in an
attractive contemporary binding.
first edition of Sismondi’s survey of Italian, Provençal, Spanish, and Portuguese literature, which
established him among the initiators of French Romanticism.
£750
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SLEEMAN, William Henry. Rambles and
Recollections of an Indian Official. London: J.
Hatchard and Son, 1844
2 volumes, octavo (230 × 147 mm). Late 19th-century green
morocco by Bickers sometime rebacked with the original
spines laid down (hinges strengthened with green cloth),
richly gilt spine, three-line gilt border on sides, richly gilt
turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Chromolithograph portrait
frontispieces, 24 plates of buildings, 6 plates or plants and
ornaments. Spines and extremities of sides sunned.
first edition. Sir William Henry Sleeman (1788–
1856) “was a British soldier and administrator in India [who] joined the Bengal army in 1809. In 1820 he
became assistant to the Governor-General’s Agent in
the Sagar and Narmada territories … [and] is famous
for … his role in the suppression of thagi [thuggee].
He was Resident at Gwalior from 1843 to 1849 and at
Lucknow from 1849 to 1856. He died at sea near Sri
Lanka in 1856. In his book Rambles and Recollections of
an Indian Official he has given a very sympathetic account of India and its people” (Mishra & Mishra, India Through Alien Eyes, Chapter 8). Sleeman’s chapter
on suttee has been described as “one of the longest
suttee texts in Victorian literature” (Margery Sabin,
Dissenters and Mavericks: Writings about India in English,
1765–2000, Oxford 2002, p. 80).
Riddick p. 333; Abbey, Travel, 466.
£750
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SMITH, Dodie. I Capture the Castle. London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1949
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turn-ins
gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. With illustrations in the
text by Ruth Steed from sketches by the author. A fine copy.
first edition.
£1,250
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SPARE, Austin Osman. A Book of Satyrs.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1909]
Folio. Original vellum-backed green paper boards, front cover
lettered and decorated in dark green. Etched frontispiece, 12
plates, title page decorations, 12 vignettes, tail-piece by Spare.
Lenox Library label on front pastedown, embossed blindstamp over imprint on title page, neat shelf mark or accession
numbers at foot of front board, verso of title page and first page
of Introduction; some wear to extremities of binding, back
cover sunned, closed-tear across Introduction plate neatly repaired on verso. All of the above commensurate with being an
ex-library copy but the binding is sound and the plates clean.
second and limited edition, of which 300 copies
were printed, with an additional plate (“Pleasure”) not
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present in the first edition. The Book of Satyrs was first
published in a small edition by the Co-operative Printing Society in 1907 and is one of the most important
publications of Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956). “His
first West End showing at the Bruton Galleries in 1907
was widely condemned as unhealthy, and George Bernard Shaw is alleged to have said that ‘Spare’s medicine is too strong for the average man’ … His early
work is often compared to that of Aubrey Beardsley – a
comparison of limited usefulness – and to that of the
book illustrator E. J. Sullivan. He took something from
both, but he struck an off-key note of the cracked, decayed, and corrupt which was all his own” (ODNB).
£375
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SPENDER, Stephen. Self portrait. 1967
Crayon drawing in colours on wove paper. Sheet size: 25.4
× 35.5 cm. Three edges trimmed, the top edge roughly torn,
probably from a sketch book. Excellent condition. Presented float mounted in a walnut frame with UV protective glass.
inscribed by the poet-artist lower left “To Reynolds, with love from the signed original, just looking
in a looking glass and thinking of his self and his other self, April 30, 1957”. The inscription is to Reynolds
Price, American poet, novelist, dramatist and essayist, a close friend and lover of Spender’s.
£2,250
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(STEICHEN, Edward.) SANDBERG, Carl.
Steichen the Photographer. New York: Harcourt
Brace and Company, 1929
Folio. Original black cloth, titles and rules to front board
and spine in gilt. No dust jacket was produced for this edition. Numerous full-page photogravure illustrations by
Steichen. Spine a little rolled, faint dampstaining to front
board, small ink mark to front pastedown, sporadic light
foxing to contents. An excellent copy.
signed by Carl Sandberg and Edward Steichen. One of
the great photographic books of its era, reproducing
with brilliant quality some of Steichen’s very best work,
including his iconic portraits of Greta Garbo, Charlie
Chaplin and Fred Astaire as well as his still lives.
£2,250
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TALBOT, William Henry Fox. English
Etymologies. London: John Murray, 1847
Octavo. Original pale brown cloth, gilt lettered and blindstamped spine, large ornamental blind stamps on sides,
yellow endpapers. Head and tail of spine chipped, back joint
shaken and a little worn, some foxing (heavier on the first
gathering); complete with the publisher’s terminal 16 page
catalogue (dated July 1846).
first edition of the photographic pioneer’s final
publication. An interesting association copy: with
the armorial bookplate on front pastedown of Joseph
Neeld (1789–1856) MP for Chippenham and DeputyLieutenant of Wiltshire, and inscribed at the head of
the title page: “Library, Grittleton House” (his residence). In 1832 Fox Talbot was elected as the reform
candidate for Chippenham, which had two seats,
both “controlled by Joseph Neeld as patron, Neeld
was a large local landowner who stood for one of
the seats himself ” (H. J. P. Arnold, William Henry Fox
Talbot: Pioneer of Photography and Man of Science, p. 59).
In the election of 1835 Fox Talbot decided not stand,
having “little taste for politics” (ODNB), and Neeld
and Henry Boldero were returned unopposed.
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works. New
York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1901
24 volumes, octavo (202 × 140 mm). Finely bound in contemporary brown full levant morocco by Stikeman & Co,
spines gilt in compartments with central thistle tools titles
gilt direct, boards elaborately panelled in gilt, top edges gilt,
turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, title pages in red
and black. Frontispieces with captioned tissue guards, fourteen plates, folding map and four-page facsimile letter to
Henry James. Edges of free endpapers slightly tanned, very
faint dampstaining affecting the margins and occasionally
text of Volumes 6, 10, 13, 14 and 20, small smudge to fore
margin of one middle leaf in Volume 12. Overall a bright set
in excellent condition.
A handsomely bound set of the Thistle edition, containing the author’s novels, satirical sketches and letters.
£5,000
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English Eymologies received an amusingly scathing review in the Quarterly Review: “In Mr. Fox Talbot’s work
now before us, the first feature that strikes one is
that he discards anything like order or system … He
seems (indeed we have no doubt of the fact) to have
made from time to time in the course of his reading
(we cannot venture to say study) short notes on separate scraps of paper – without any reference to each
other – extracts – conjectures – repetitions – contradictions – and to have thrown them all higgledypiggledy into a basket – whence, as they were thrown
in, so have they been drawn out and sent to the press
and printed in this goodly octavo, with an absolute
defiance of any order of either letters or ideas, or
any other guidance than chance medley.” However,
as Fox Talbot’s biographer Arnold points out: he “at
least had the last laugh over his reviewer adversary for
English Etymologies sold quite well and by the time the
accounts were closed in 1857 well over 80 per cent of
the original print order had been purchased by private subscribers and libraries. It was the most successful by far of his written works” (Fox Talbot, p. 235).
£750
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author. A few faint spots to boards, light sporadic foxing
and a few finger marks to contents, one inner hinge starting
but still holding firm. An excellent copy in a slightly soiled
box with gift inscription to lid and small buff paper repairs
to split corners.
first edition, presentation copy to Peter De
Vries and Katinka Loeser, inscribed by the author
on the front free endpaper verso, “To the Katinkas
from the Thurbers”, and on the lid of the box, more
legibly (probably the hand of his wife), To “Katinka
and Pete from Jim and Helen”. A Thurber Garland – or
“weedy bouquet” as Thurber prefers in the Foreword
– prints 28 cartoons that had previously appeared in
the New Yorker; this was their only book publication.
Peter De Vries (1910–1993) was a friend and colleague
of Thurber’s, a prolific writer and satiric wit who had
joined the New Yorker on Thurber’s insistence.
£975
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(THOMSON, Hugh.) SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. London: William
Heinemann, 1910
Quarto. Publisher’s vellum, titles to front board and spine
gilt, gilt block illustration to front board, top edge gilt, silk
ribbon ties. With 40 mounted colour plates by Hugh Thomson, each with captioned tissue guard. Light soiling to
boards, corners lightly bumped. A very good copy.
TIMLIN, William M. The Ship that Sailed to
Mars. A Fantasy. London: George G. Harrap &
Company, [1923]
Quarto. Original quarter japon, gilt lettered and decorated
spine, grey paper covered boards, title to front board in dark
grey. With the dust jacket. 48 mounted colour plates, and
48 mounted pages of text. Jacket with closed-tear at head of
front panel, head of spine chipped with a little loss, small
hole near foot, otherwise an excellent copy.
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THURBER, James. A Thurber Garland. London:
Hamish Hamilton, 1955
Oblong duodecimo. Original pictorial boards printed in
black, green and orange, illustrated endpapers. With the
original buff card box with white paper label printed in
brown to lid and 5’- price sticker to base. Illustrated by the
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first edition. Born in Northumberland, Timlin
(1892–1943) began his art training in the north east of
England but completed it when his parents emigrated
to South Africa, where he studied art and practised as an
architect. The Ship That Sailed to Mars is his only published
book, a fantastical illustrated gift book that rivalled
those of Rackham, Dulac, Goble and Nielsen. The
book was published in Britain by George Harrap, who
had earlier published Willy Pogány, and they followed a
similar format here, reproducing Timlin’s original calligraphic text mounted, like the plates, on grey matte
paper. “Fantasy with its roots in the fairy tale, describing the building of a space-flying sailing ship, its voyage to Mars and the monsters encountered en route …
This unique book, highly sought-after by collectors of
fantasy, illustrated books and South Africana” (Locke).
The book was produced in Great Britain, and published
simultaneously in Britain and America.
Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, II p. 109.
£3,750
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2 volumes, octavo (210 × 135 mm). Contemporary dark green
half calf, gilt tooled on the raised bands, twin dark red morocco labels, marbled sides and edges, drab olive endpapers.
With 40 wood-engraved plates by the Dalziels after John Everett Millais. Bookplate of C. J. M. Adie, headmaster and writer,
on front pastedowns. Spine of volume I slightly rolled and
front joint shaken, bound without the half-titles, frontispiece
to volume I dampstained, scattered foxing to plates.
first edition of the book that Trollope himself described as his best plotted and his personal favourite.
“Millais was a ‘sixties’-style illustrator, representational and realistic, a style which accorded nicely with
that of Trollope, whose writing was often characterized as ‘photographic’, ‘uncompromisingly realistic’,
and even ‘pre-Raphaelite’ … Millais’s most ambitious
collaboration with Trollope, forty plates, came in Orley Farm. Trollope wrote that he had never known a set
of illustrations ‘as carefully true … to the conception
of the writer of the book illustrated’” (ODNB).
Sadleir, Trollope, 13.
£375
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TROLLOPE, Anthony. Orley Farm. London:
Chapman and Hall, 1862
TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Works. New York:
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920–8
42 volumes, octavo (170 × 118 mm). Finely bound in contemporary dark brown half morocco by Brentano’s, spines gilt
in compartments with gilt titles direct, brown cloth sides
ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, brown endpapers. Small blue
paint stain to fore edge of two volumes, the occasional light
scuff or nick to boards, but overall a bright and fresh set in
excellent condition.
An attractive library set of the principal novels and autobiography of Anthony Trollope, including the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Parliamentary series.
£6,000
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VAIL, Laurence. Murder! Murder! London: Peter
Davies, 1931
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge
black. With the dust jacket designed by Imrie M. Spine
rolled, board edges a little faded, tips bumped, minor foxing
to edges. An excellent copy in the bright jacket with minor
loss to foot of spine, some short closed tears and shallow
chips to extremities, with tape repairs to verso.
first edition of this satire about Vail’s marriage to
Peggy Guggenheim, who had left him and gone to
live with John Holms. Scarce.
£2,500
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VALENTINO, Clemente Ludovico Garavani.
Valentino: Themes and Variations. New York:
Rozzoli, 2008
Quarto. Original red boards, titles to spine white and front
board blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine
copy in the bright, unclipped jacket.
first edition, with an original sketch laid-in,
signed by Valentino.
£1,250
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VIZETELLY, Henry. The Wines of the World
Characterized & Classed: with some particulars
respecting the beers of Europe. London: Ward,
Lock, & Tyler, 1875; [and:] — Facts about
Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines …
Ward, Lock, and Co., 1879
2 works bound in one volume, octavo (175 × 120 mm). Contemporary green half calf, red morocco label, green cloth
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sides and endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Second work
with wood-engraved frontispiece and 39 plates, many illustrations in the text. Extremities lightly rubbed, some pencil
underlining, very good copies.
first editions. The journalist publisher Henry
Vizetelly had made himself an authority on wine during his long residence in France; he produced four
monographs on the subject between 1875 and 1880
and serving as a wine juror at the Vienna Exhibition of
1873 and the Paris Exhibition of 1878. It was in France
too that he read the novels of Emile Zola; it was his
publication of translations of Zola on his return to
England that brought him notoriety and turned him
into a reluctant martyr, one of the early heroes of the
fight against oppressive literary censorship.
£1,500
[102688]
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WAGNER, Richard. The Flying Dutchman.
London: Corvinus Press, 1938
Quarto. Original full vellum, titles to spine gilt, single rule
to boards and publisher’s device to rear board gilt, top
edge gilt, others untrimmed. Text printed in black and red.
Boards lightly splayed, light foxing to prelims and endmatter. An excellent copy.
limited edition, number 44 of 130 numbered copies printed on Barcham Green “Medway” paper. This
copy inscribed by the founder of the Corvinus Press,
Viscount Carlow (1907–1944), on the front free endpaper: “For Herr Eisemann, this token of gratitude
and appreciation for the many fine books he has added to my collection. From Carlow.” With the English
and German text printed side by side throughout.
£450
[102102]
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WATSON, James D., & Francis Crick. Molecular
Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure for
Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid; WILKINS, M. F. H., A.
R. Stokes, & H. R. Wilson: Molecular Structure
of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids; FRANKLIN,
Rosalind E., & R. G. Gosling: Molecular
Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate. In:
Nature, Vol. 171. [London:] Reprinted from Nature,
Vol. 171, p. 737, 25 April, 1953
7 page pamphlet, staple-bound. 2 diagrams (including the
double helix), 2 illustrations from photographs. Very small
light crease at fore-edge.
first edition, the rare offprint of the announcement of the structure of DNA, one of the
most important scientific achievements of the 20th
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century. DNA was discovered by a Swiss physician in
1869, and over the succeeding years many researchers
investigated its structure and function, with some arguing that it might be the molecule of genetic inheritance. By the early 1950s this was one of the most important questions in biology, and a number of teams
were attempting to crack the puzzle. Maurice Wilkins
of King’s College London and his colleague Rosalind
Franklin were both working on DNA, with Franklin
producing X-ray crystallography images of its structure. Wilkins also introduced his friend Francis Crick
to the subject, and Crick and his partner James Watson began their own investigation at Cambridge,
focusing on molecular models. After one failed attempt in which they postulated a triple-helix, they
were banned by their laboratory from spending any
additional time on the subject. But a year later, after
seeing fresh data from King’s, they began work again
and announced that not only had they discovered the
double-helix structure of DNA, but even more importantly, that “the specific pairing we have postulated
immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism
for the genetic material”. The resulting paper was
rushed to press in Nature, along with corresponding
work by Franklin and Wilkins, who were only revealed much later to have been the primary sources
of data for Watson and Crick’s hypothesis. This offprint of these celebrated papers is printed from the
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same type as the journal printing. The articles were
originally set in a single column of monotype, from
which the offprint was produced, while the journal
itself was made in double columns from stereotype
plates taken from the monotype. A superb copy of the
founding document of modern biology.
Garrison–Morton 256.3.
£12,500
[102783]
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196
WAUGH, Evelyn. Scoop. A Novel about
Journalists. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1938
Octavo. Original red and black snakeskin patterned cloth,
titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine a little rolled,
board edges lightly rubbed, very faint foxing to edges of text
block. An excellent copy in the unclipped jacket, with lightly
sunned spine, and some nicks and short closed teats to extremities with repairs to verso.
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first edition, signed limited issue. One of 100
specially bound, numbered copies each signed by
the author. A lovely book which is almost never seen
in this condition – the perilous spine usually gets
rubbed and chips badly. The Whistler illustrations
are fabulous.
£2,000
[102876]
first edition with the second issue dust jacket. A
mighty comic novel of Fleet Street, the jacket initially
appeared with the trompe l’œil front panel, which
reproduces the torn front page of a newspaper, including a clear pastiche of the Daily Express masthead.
Beaverbrook threatened to sue and the jacket was reprinted without the masthead.
£975
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WAUGH, Evelyn. Wine in Peace and War.
London: Saccone & Speed Limited, [1947]
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(WELLINGTON, Arthur, Duke of.) GURWOOD,
John (ed.) The Dispatches of Field Marshal
the Duke of Wellington, during his Various
Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain,
the Low Countries, and France. Compiled
from Official and other Authentic Documents.
London: John Murray, 1852
8 volumes, octavo (233 × 145 mm). Strictly contemporary full
tan “Turkey” morocco by Hayday, red and green morocco
labels, low gilt milled bands, compartments elaborately gilt
with a panel composed of scrolled tools featuring eagle’s
heads, centred on a quatrefoil in black, double fillet gilt
panel to the boards, dog rose corner tools, enclosing a fine
dotted roll in blind, gilt milled edges, marbled edges and
endpapers, turn-ins with a blind milled roll, red morocco label of John Wilson, Shirley [Hall, near Sheffield], dated 1852
to the front pastedowns. Mezzotint portrait frontispiece by
Burgess after Lawrence to Volume I, general title with engraved arms of Wellington to each volume, 6 contemporary
engraved folding maps, 3 of them coloured in outline – uncalled for – in an end-pocket to volume VIII. Some very minor shelf-wear, frontispiece and title page of volume I somewhat browned, but otherwise a truly excellent set.
[103198]
Octavo. Original burgundy sheep, titles and device to front
board gilt, titles to spine gilt. Decorations by Rex Whistler.
Spine just a tough faded but a superb copy of a notoriously
vulnerable piece of book production.
198
197
“New and Enlarged Edition”, much preferred and
genuinely uncommon. A great deal of extra material
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has been added to the coverage of both the Wars in
India and Europe, “extracts from the Instructions for
the movements of the Army, and from the General
Orders, circulated by the Quarter Master General and
Adjutant General, in the Peninsula, France, and the
Low Countries, have also been added to this edition”.
A substantial production, this set very little diminished in the binding having lost just a couple of millimetres in the process, remaining a handsome and
imposing set, without the doubt one of the best that
we have handled.
William Hayday (1796–1872), was one of the foremost
binders of his day, renowned for the beauty, but also
the practicality of his work: “Hayday had long seen
that it was desirable to make printed books open
freely and lie flat … he sewed the books all along
every sheet, and to remedy the extra thickness that
would be caused by sewing with thread, used silk,
and to equalise the thickness rounded the fore edges
more than was customary. To make the back tight he
dispensed with the ordinary backing of paper, and
fastened the leather cover down to the back. Still the
constant opening of the book disfigured the grain
of the leather, and to obviate this he introduced the
cross or pin-headed grain, or what is now termed
Turkey morocco. Works bound by Hayday became
famous, and his name attached to a book raised its
value twenty-five per cent” (ODNB).
£4,500
[102185]
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WHITE, Gilbert. The Natural History and
Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of
Southampton: with Engravings, and an
Appendix. London: B. White and Son, 1789
Quarto (253 × 193 mm). Contemporary marbled calf by
Christian Kalthoeber (with his ticket), skilfully rebacked
with the original decorative gilt spine laid down, three-line
gilt border on sides, yellow edges, gilt roll-tool turn-ins,
marbled endpapers. Engraved vignette title, large folding view of Selborne, 4 plates of views, folding plate of the
Black-winged Stilt, plate of fossilised shell. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown of Lord Gray (probably Francis,
14th Lord Gray, 1765–1842); book label of Nicholas Wall on
rear pastedown. Short closed-tear at inner margin of frontispiece, otherwise a very nice, tall copy, with the errata leaf.
first edition of one of the great English books of
the 18th century. “White’s Natural History of Selborne is
open to everyone, for everyone has observed much
of what it describes. Writer and reader each share the
inheritance of the natural world, and delight in what
is given, so that Selborne becomes an expression of
universal thanksgiving, treasured by all” (ODNB). The
binding is from the shop of Christian Kalthoeber, the
German-born London-based binder, considered the
finest of his day.
Rothschild 2550.
£2,250
[102640]
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Three pages, octavo (185 × 115 mm), docketed on the final
blank leaf “W. Wilberforce Esq. Marden Park 25 Feby; 1822.
Intimating a conditional wish to become Steward”. Inlaid
into an album leaf, 280 × 230 mm. In a very good state of
preservation.
200
200
WHITE, Herbert C. Peking the Beautiful.
Comprising seventy Photographic Studies of
the Celebrated Monuments of China’s Northern
Capital and its Environs Complete with
Descriptive and Historical Notes. Shanghai: The
Commercial Press Limited, 1927
Quarto. Original blue silk padded boards, front board richly
embroidered with a stylised floral frame enclosing the titles
and a design of the Temple of Heaven, fore edges untrimmed.
With the publisher’s pictorial cardboard box and glassine
flaps. Photographic frontispiece reproduced in sepia, 58 similar plates, and 11 coloured plates, all tipped onto card with
printed brown frames. A fine copy in an excellent box with
light wear to extremities, one metal corner repaired and lacking another, glassine a touch creased and chipped.
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first edition of this commercial photobook on Beijing. Published in China, this gift book was aimed at
the European market and presents traditional sights
and monuments of the capital and its surroundings,
including the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City,
the South Sea Palaces, and the Hunting Park Pagoda.
The introduction is by Hu Shih, former Professor of
Philosophy at the National University of Peking. Exceedingly scarce in such a fine condition and with the
publisher’s box.
£5,750
An autograph letter written by William Wilberforce,
the great philanthropist, politician and campaigner
for the abolition of the slave trade, to the secretary
of the Seamen’s Hospital Society (SHS), a charitable foundation that officially came into being on 8
March 1821. The charity’s secretary, Richard Harley,
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WILBERFORCE, William. Autograph letter
signed to Richard Harley, secretary of the
Seaman’s Hospital Society. Marden Park: 25
February 1822
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had written to Wilberforce about plans for the first
annual celebration of Founder’s Day. Wilberforce had
been a central figure in the Society’s foundation, and
had chaired several early meetings, but his health was
now failing, as he spells out in the letter: “I am honoured by the wish that I should be one of the stewards
at the approaching anniversary & will with pleasure
consent if you wish it after hearing that most probably
I shall not be able to have the pleasure of being present – my advancing years & indifferent health compel me to decline attending at public dinners, except
extremely seldom …” He reassures the secretary in a
postscript: “No man is a warmer friend to the Institution than myself.”
£1,500
[103217]
202
WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by
C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898
Octavo. Original cream linen-backed purple cloth boards,
gilt lettered spine, gilt floral motif by Charles Ricketts on
front cover, untrimmed. Book label of Robert Booth, noted
1890s collector, on front pastedown. Spine toned and rolled,
sides lightly soiled, customary offsetting from pastedowns
to endpapers.
signed limited edition, the third overall, limited
to 99 copies numbered in purple ink and signed by
Wilde, who referred to it as the “author’s edition”.
It was issued just one month after the first edition,
and Wilde himself insisted on the new colour for
the binding and Rickett’s design for the front cover.
Wilde used the pseudonym “C.3.3.” as this was his
number in Reading Gaol, indicating that he occupied
Cell 3 on the third landing of Gallery C. “The Ballad
of Reading Gaol was selling as no poem had sold for
years. One shop sold fifty copies on the morning of
publication. Smithers had only risked printing 400
out of a projected 800 copies [of the first edition] in
January, but early in February he ordered 400 more,
and the same month had to print another thousand”
(Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, pp. 525–6).
Mason 374.
£9,750
[102753]
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WILDE, Oscar. [The Works.] London: Methuen &
Co., 1908–22
15 volumes, octavo (207 × 146 mm). Strictly contemporary
green half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, marbled sides, raised
bands, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top
edge gilt, the final volume bound to match by the same firm.
The occasional minor mark, occasional spotting to pages,
spines evenly darkened, some volumes with wear to top
edges of boards, an excellent set.
first collected edition of Wilde’s works, limited to 1,000 sets on handmade paper. The texts were
mostly taken from the last editions to be supervised
by the author. Copyright in The Picture of Dorian Gray
was held by Charles Carrington, so that volume alone
appears with his Paris imprint. In 1922 Methuen announced the discovery of a new play by Wilde, For
Love of the King: a Burmese Masque, and published it as
a pendant volume to the original 14-volume set. The
play was denounced by Wilde’s bibliographer Christopher Millard, and, although Methuen won a court
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case against him, the work is generally accepted to be
a forgery by Mabel Wodehouse Pearse, née Cosgrove.
£5,750
[88135]
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WILSON, Brian, & Peter Blake. That Lucky Old
Sun. Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2009
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to front cover in yellow,
orange and black, all edges red. A set of 12 silkscreen prints
on 410 gsm art paper by Peter Blake wrapped in orange tissue. 3 sheets of facsimile manuscript music titled “Midnight’s Another Day” in a blue envelope. “That Lucky Old
Sun” CD. All housed in a solander box covered in buckram
with a printed illustration to cover with blocked frame in silver and gilt, titles to cover and spine blocked in gilt. All in
excellent condition.
first edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies
signed by Brian Wilson and Peter Blake. Together
with the original prospectus.
£1,000
[102619]
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205
WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Girl in Blue. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1971
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine silver. With the
Osbert Lancaster dust jacket. Spine a little faded, a couple of
marks to boards; an excellent copy in the lightly nicked and
slightly creased jacket.
first u.s. edition, inscribed by the author on
the front free endpaper: “With best wishes, P. G. Wodehouse. March 13, 1971.” It was first published in the
UK the preceding year.
McIlvaine A93b.
£625
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WOLFE, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel.
A Story of the Buried Life. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1929
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and front
board gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a dark red cloth
solander box. Spine a little darkened, bottom corners of
boards a touch bumped. An excellent copy in a faintly
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rubbed and nicked jacket with one short closed tear to rear
panel and light vertical crease to spine panel.
first edition, in the second issue dust jacket.
£2,250
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WOOLF, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. London:
The Hogarth Press, 1927
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge
yellow. Spine gently rolled and slightly faded, edges a little
rubbed, contents slightly foxed, a few leaves lightly creased
at margins. A very good copy.
first edition. One of 3,000 copies printed.
WOOLF, Virginia. Beau Brummel. New York:
Rimington & Hooper, 1930
Quarto. Original red cloth-backed drab paper boards, with
cockerel device pasted onto front board, titles to spine gilt,
top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Designed and embellished
by W. A. Dwiggins, in pink, green, orange and red. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine a little
faded, top corners of boards lightly bumped. An excellent
copy in a rubbed, chipped and slightly soiled slipcase lacking the bottom panel.
signed by the author.
Kirkpatrick A15.
Kirkpatrick A10.
£975
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£1,500
[103269]
208
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YEATS, W. B. A complete set of the Dun Emer
Press books. Dundrum, Dublin: Dun Emer Press,
1903–1907
11 works, octavo. Original linen-backed grey or pale blue
paper boards, except for In the Seven Woods which is in the
original off-white linen. Housed together in a custom made
grey-green cloth slipcase. All colophons and some letterpress
printed in red. Spine labels chipped, endpapers browned (as
usual), light brown mottling to covers of In the Seven Woods.
An attractive complete set of the books issued by the
Dun Emer Press, a private press established by Yeats’s
sisters which played an important part in the Celtic
Revival. The poet acted as literary editor and subsidised its productions; a number of the publications
are Yeats first editions. “In 1902, when [Lily] Yeats and
her sister, Elizabeth, were invited by Evelyn Gleeson
(1855–1944), Gaelic leaguer and suffragist, to help set
up a craft enterprise along the lines of Morris’s utopian
socialist ideals, they moved back to Dublin with their
father. They took a cottage, Gurteen Dhas (‘pretty little meadow’), in Churchtown, Dundrum, near the
house, Dun Emer, in which Gleeson set up a printing
press, carpet and needlework rooms, and other artistic
ventures” (ODNB). Elizabeth Yeats took a short print84
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ing course and oversaw productions. “The Dun Emer
Press was set up using a second-hand Albion handpress that it had acquired through advertising in local
newspapers, and paper that had been manufactured at
the County Dublin Saggart Mills … [the Press] showed
how a specialist press, driven by a combination of the
Gaelic League and the Arts and Crafts Movement,
could work against the grain of imperial drives and directives, and produce small print runs of ideologically
and aesthetically determined rather than economically
driven texts. Ironically, in retracing the glories of the
18th century in its attention to detail and craft perfection, the press also provided imagery and an aesthetics
that would be later grafted onto the new Irish republic
and mass-produced in the 20th century for the Irish
diaspora around the world” (Frank Ferguson in The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. IV, “The Irish Book in
English 1800–1891”, pp. 24–26).
JOHNSON, Lionel. Twenty-One Poems. Selected by W. B.
Yeats. 220 copies. 1905. First and limited edition. Wade 231.
The titles are:
£4,250
YEATS, W. B. In the Seven Woods. 325 copies. 1903. First and
limited edition. Wade 49.
“A.E.” [pseudonym of George William RUSSELL.] The Nuts
of Knowledge. 200 copies. 1903. First and limited edition.
HYDE, Douglas (trans.) The Love Songs of Connacht. Preface by W. B. Yeats. 300 copies. 1904. First and limited edition. Wade 260.
YEATS, W. B. Stories of Red Hanrahan. 500 copies. 1905.
First and limited edition. Wade 59.
EGLINTON, John. Some Essays and Passages. Selected
by W. B. Yeats. 200 copies. 1905. First and limited edition.
Wade 232.
ALLINGHAM, William. Sixteen Poems. Selected by W. B.
GREGORY, Lady. A Book of Saints and Wonders. 200 copies. First and limited edition. 1906.
“A.E.” By Still Waters: Lyrical Poems Old and New. 200 copies. 1906. First and limited edition.
TYNAN, Katherine. Twenty One Poems. Selected by W. B.
YEATS, W. B. Discoveries: a Volume of Essays. 200 copies.
1907. First and limited edition. Wade 72.
Wade Appendix 1.
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YEATS, William Butler. The Collected Works.
London: Chapman & Hall Limited, imprinted at the
Shakespeare Head Press, 1908
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8 volumes, octavo. Bound in the publisher’s quarter vellum,
grey cloth sides, gilt titles to spines and sides, white silk
markers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. 4 photogravure
frontispiece. Bookplates to front free endpapers, except in
Vol. II, with bookplate to front pastedown. Vellum a little
soiled, tips a little bumped, sporadic mild foxing to contents. An exceptional set.
first collected edition, inscribed by the author in volume 2 on the half-title: “W. B. Yeats, Nov.
16. 1916”. This is one of the 250 first issue sets in the
deluxe quarter vellum binding, with the publisher’s
imprint on the spines and title pages, from a total
edition of 1,060 sets printed at the Shakespeare Head
Press. Volume 2 bears the illustrated bookplate of Lady
Violet Leconfield (1892–1952), who married Charles
Henry, 3rd Baron Leconfield (1872–1952) in 1911. Yeats
may have been introduced to Lady Leconfield through
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, who was born at Petworth, or
through Leconfield’s lifelong friend “Ettie” Lady Besborough, who had been attracting Yeats as a party
guest since 1911. As a production, this collected edition
is regarded as a marvellous piece of publishing (Yeats
himself was proud of it, remarking, “I think nobody of
our time has had so fine an edition – I believe it will
greatly strengthen my position”), collecting, with the
poet’s own selection and arrangement, a substantially
complete corpus (poems, plays and prose) of his first
canon of work, before the finding of his later voice.
Wade 75.
£4,500
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(The YELLOW BOOK.) The Yellow Book. An
Illustrated Quarterly. London: Elkin Mathews &
John Lane/John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1894–7
13 volumes, octavo. Original yellow cloth, spines and covers
lettered and illustrated in black. Illustrations throughout.
Bindings lightly rubbed, a few old wax marks to front covers
of volumes VII and VIII, otherwise
first editions. This notorious and epochal periodical includes work by all the great figures of the 1890s,
including Beerbohm, Beardsley, Henry James, Yeats,
Gissing, Kenneth Grahame, Ernest Dowson, Lionel
Johnson, Baron Corvo, and H. G. Wells.
£1,500
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