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if appropriate, in leather bindings customised by us. We also carry an extensive range of modern editions
of classic titles and reference books, all leather–bound by Asprey. These can be personalised with names,
initials, crests, dates, and dedications here on the premises and usually within a couple of days. In addition
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to all of this, we offer a personal book search service as well as a full conservation and binding service.
We have many years experience of binding all manner of things from family bibles, travel diaries, retirement
books, periodicals and journals, Doctorate theses and much more. Our specialists will advise on
the best treatments and materials, and if required, submit designs and samples; you can even commission
it mounted on a binding in the 'Cosway' style. The options and resources for such a creative process
are limitless and we endeavour to meet any challenge.
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Christie, Agatha.
HERCULE POIROT’S CHRISTMAS.
The Crime Club, London, 1939. First edition. Bound by Asprey in full black morocco, the front cover
inlaid with a leather mosaic of a sprig of red–berried holly dripping a pool of blood, covers panelled
and lettered in maroon, with Japanese endpapers and all edges stained dark red. £2,500
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Christie, Agatha.
N or M?
London, 1941. First edition. Original binding of orange boards with terracotta dust–jacket printed in
black. Dulled spine, all else very good. £850
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Christie, Agatha.
DEATH COMES AS THE END…
London, 1945. First edition. Original binding of scarlet cloth with illustrated dust–jacket in blue, white,
yellow and grey. Slight age discolouration, all else very good. £780
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Dickens, Charles.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
London, 1843. First edition, first issue. Hand–coloured etched frontispiece and three plates by John
Leech. Original binding of gilt embossed pink/brown cloth, spine a little faded, extremities rubbed,
otherwise very good indeed. Rare. £18,500
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Dickens, Charles.
THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. 38 Vols.
London, 1897 – 1903. The Gadshill Edition. Printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by
the Author in 1867 and 1868. With the original illustrations. Introductions and Notes by Andrew Lang,
and including John Foster’s ‘The Life of Charles Dickens’ in two volumes. Bound by Asprey in full
chestnut morocco with gilded spines, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. A very fine set. £17,000
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Doyle, Arthur Conan.
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.
Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
London, 1902. First edition. With 16 plates by Sidney Paget. Publisher’s binding of gilt–decorated
crimson cloth, with a silhouette of the hound. Slight wear to covers and bumping to spine ends but
very sound, all else very good. Now preserved in a blue slip-case. Rare. £3,300
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THE VALLEY OF FEAR.
New York, 1914. *First edition. Seven plates by Arthur I. Keller. Bound by Asprey in full
gilt–decorated navy blue morocco with Japanese endpapers and all edges gilt. £1,600
*The first British edition in book form was published the following year.
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Fleming, Ian.
MOONRAKER.
London, 1955. First edition, first issue with ‘Shoo’ misprint for shoot on P10. Original binding of
black cloth with distinctive orange and yellow dust-jacket, printed in black. Small ink name on front
free endpaper, a few minor marks on back panel of dust–jacket with marginal rubbing to extremities,
otherwise a very good example of this extremely rare title. This is the third title in the series of 14 and
considered by many to be the best of the Bond books. It was made into a film starring Roger Moore,
in 1979. Now preserved in a cloth slip–case. £8,500
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Fleming, Ian.
FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE.
London, 1957. First edition. Publisher’s binding of black cloth embossed with a silver gun and red
rose on the front cover and similarly illustrated dust–jacket by Richard Chopping. Extremely minor
wear to head of spine, otherwise in unusually good condition. Rare. £3,300
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Fleming, Ian.
GOLDFINGER.
London, 1959. First edition. *Signed by Shirley Eaton and Tania Mallet on the front free endpaper.
Original binding of black cloth with a skull that also features on the dust–jacket. All in very good
condition indeed. £1,300
*Signed by the actresses who played Jill & Tilly Masterson respectively in the 1964 film, identifying their characters.
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Fleming, Ian.
GOLDFINGER.
London, 1959. First edition. Bound by Asprey in full gilt–decorated black morocco with Japanese
endpapers and all edges gilt. Goldfinger, the man who loved gold... who planned
the ‘Crime de la Crime’. £1,700
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Jones, Captain W. E.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN.
BIGGLES IN THE JUNGLE.
London, 1965. First edition. Original binding of black cloth with illustrated dust–jacket, in very good
London, 1942. First edition. Bound by Asprey in full terracotta morocco with horizontal gilt zigzags
condition. £980
running across the boards, those on the front cover interspersed with a bi–plane motif, with Japanese
endpapers and all edges gilt. £1,200
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Fleming, Ian.
OCTOPUSSY AND THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.
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Kerouac, Jack.
London, 1966. First edition. Publisher’s binding of silver embossed black cloth with and illustrated
ON THE ROAD.
dust–jacket by Richard Chopping. The condition is extremely good. £480
The Viking Press, New York, 1957. First edition but with new facsimile dust–jacket. Original binding of
black cloth boards (some surface damage but sound). Internally very good save for a couple of
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marks to margins. We would not normally sell a book such as this without the original dust–jacket
A PASSAGE TO INDIA.
but it is an extremely rare title to find and if the dust–jacket were original the price would be in the
Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1924. Limited edition #175 / 200. Signed by the Author (Published
regionof £7,000 – £8,000.
the same year as the first edition). Later binding of full gilt–decorated crimson morocco with chestnut
Possibly Kerouac’s best known book, it is semi–autobiographical and describes the wanderings
lettering pieces, with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Some very slight wear
across America, casual friendship, labours, and affairs of Sal Paradise, a young writer, and his friend
to binding, else very good indeed. £2,500
and hero, Dean Moriarty. Episodic, fast–moving, unstructured, it produced a mythology of its own and
many imitators. £750
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Greene, Graham.
THE END OF THE AFFAIR.
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Kerouac, Jack.
London, 1951. First edition. Bound for Asprey in half moss green morocco over light green cloth
THE DHARMA BUMS.
with marbled endpapers and top edge gilt.
The Viking Press, New York, 1958. First edition. Original binding of black cloth boards with green
Greene’s semi-autobiographical novel of the affair between a writer and a woman who discovers
lettering, black dust–jacket with a window illustration to the front and a photograph of the Author
physical love outside her frigid marriage, only to have it shattered by ‘divine intervention.’ £625
to the back.
The sequel to ‘On The Road’ this is a semi–autobiographical account of Kerouac’s spiritual growth
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and friendship with the poet Gary Snyder. The Principles are two ebullient young men engaged in a
THE DIARY OF A NOBODY.
passionate search for Dharma, or Truth — a search that involves them, together and separately, in
Bristol, 1892. First edition in book form, with illustrations by Weedon Grossmith. Bound for Asprey
a series of free–wheeling explorations, both sacred and profane. £1,600
in full gilt–decorated crimson morocco with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt and the original cloth
covers bound in at the back.
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Lamb, Charles.
An imaginary journal of domestic life in Holloway, London, it records the doings of the amiable,
THE WORKS OF CHARLES LAMB. 4 Vols.
pompous city clerk Mr. Pooter, striving to better himself culturally and socially but who, unwittingly,
Edward Moxon, London, 1850. First edition thus. Includes his letters and, ‘A Sketch of His Life’ by Sir
becomes the butt of numerous jokes he fails to understand. £1,100
Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L., one of his executors’. Engraved frontispiece portrait to Volume One.
Attractive later bindings of full dark blue, gilt–panelled calf with crimson lettering pieces, extensive gilt
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Huxley, Aldous.
tooling to spines, marbled endpapers and matching marbled edges.
BRAVE NEW WORLD.
Charles Lamb (1775 – 1834) was an English/Welsh essayist, best known for his ‘Essays of Elia’
London, 1932. First edition. Bound in full gilt–decorated navy blue morocco with Japanese endpapers
(included here, of course) and the children’s book ‘Tales from Shakespeare’ that he produced with his
and all edges gilt. Some random discolouration to title and half–title pages, else very fine. £1,400
sister, Mary Lamb. His principal biographer, E. V. Lucas referred to him as the most lovable figure in
English literature, and his influence on the English essay form surely cannot be overestimated. £750
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Lawrence, D. H.
THE ESCAPED COCK.
Paris, The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition, #214 / 500. 8vo. Colour frontispiece and illustrations
by the Author. Original binding of printed cream wrappers, with glacine cover and all edges
untrimmed. Fine condition.
This novella tells the story of a man who, on his resurrection from the dead, sees a rooster straining
at its leash. The bird’s lust for freedom is a symbol of life, the man represents both Jesus and the
Egyptian god Osiris, and on emerging from his tomb, he is seduced by a worshipper of the goddess
Isis. This encounter explores Lawrence’s understanding of full body resurrection, an idea which leads
to the reconsideration of good and evil. £1,500
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Mansfield, Katherine.
THE GARDEN PARTY.
And Other Stories.
London, 1922. First edition. 8vo. Original binding of blue cloth lettered in ochre with printed dark
salmon dust–jacket in exceptionally good condition save for minor repairs to extremities. Rare in such
a good state.
"Feminine writing at its best…A born short story writer, observant, economical and astringent…"
Cyril Connolly, The Modern Movement. £4,200
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Mitchell, Margaret.
GONE WITH THE WIND.
Macmillan, New York, 1936. First edition, first issue with May 1936 publishing date. Thick 8vo.
Original binding of grey/blue cloth boards with illustrated dust–jacket. Preserved in a later brown cloth
slip–case. The *dust–jacket is extensively restored and rebacked but now presentable. £3,300
*This is reflected in the price.
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Nabokov, Vladimir.
LOLITA.
London, 1959. First English edition. Bound for Asprey in full black morocco with Japanese endpapers
and all edges gilt. £875
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Poe, Edgar Allan.
TALES OF MYSTERY & IMAGINATION.
London, 1935. Limited edition #186 / 460. Signed by the Artist. 4to. Twelve colour plates and other
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illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Publisher’s binding of gilt–decorated vellum with illustrated endpapers,
top edge gilt and others untrimmed. One corner slightly rubbed else very good indeed. Preserved in a later
slip–case of half green morocco over matching cloth with dark tan lettering pieces; a little worn on extremities
but not affecting the spine. Comprising 25 stories including ‘The Fall of The House of Usher’. £2,700
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Sassoon, Siegfried.
SHERSTON’S PROGRESS.
London, 1936. First edition. Bound by Asprey in full gilt–decorated navy blue morocco with marbled
endpapers, all edges gilt and the original cloth covers bound in at the back. £1,000
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Trollope, Anthony.
BARCHESTER TOWERS. 3 Vols.
London, 1857. First edition. Original bindings of blind embossed light brown cloth with gilt titles.
Endpapers sympathetically replaced at a later date. Now preserved in a purple cloth slip–case.
Anthony Trollope’s first novels, ‘The Macdermots of Ballycloran’ (1847) and ‘The Kellys and the
O’Kellys’ (1848), were not successful, but with ‘The Warden’ (1855), the first of the Barchester novels,
came an inkling of his genius. It is the story of the struggle over Harding’s Hospital, and introduced
into English fiction some of its most durable and memorable characters – Mr. Harding, who recurs
throughout the Barchester series, Archdeacon Grantly, and Bishop Proudie who with his redoubtable
wife dominates Barchester Towers. Interconnected by character and unified by their West Country
setting in the imaginary town of Barset, the novels are distinguished by their quiet comedy, pace and
piquant detail. £7,700
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Wells, H. G.
THE HISTORY OF MR. POLLY.
London, 1910. First edition. Pictorial frontispiece in colour. Bound in full gilt–decorated chestnut
morocco with crimson lettering piece, Japanese endpapers, all edges gilt and housed in a matching
leather–entry cloth slip–case. £1,100
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Wodehouse, P. G.
SUMMER MOONSHINE.
London, 1938. First edition. Bound for Asprey in full navy blue morocco with a polychrome pictorial
inlay design after the original jacket design of three of the characters from the novel on the front
cover, a crescent moon emerging from a leafy bower on the spine and running across the top of the
back cover, blue speckled endpapers and all edges gilt; preserved in a matching leather entry and
cloth slip–case. Most beautifully and amusingly bound. £1,900
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Woolf, Virginia.
FLUSH.
A Biography.
The Hogarth Press, 1933. First edition. With four original drawings by Vanessa Bell and six other
illustrations. Original binding of peach cloth boards (age discoloured) with pictorial cream dust–jacket
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A ‘biography’ of E. B. Browning’s spaniel. A light, amusing read. £850
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Greenaway, Kate.
FAIRY TALES.
A COLLECTION OF THREE SMALL ILLLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S BOOKS.
London, 1924. Limited edition #306 / 500. Illustrated and signed by Kay Nielsen. 4to. Twelve
1) Language of Flowers. First edition, (1884)
mounted exquisite colour plates with captioned tissue guards, additional black & white illustrations
2) Kate Greenaway’s Alphabet. First edition, circa 1885.
and decorations. Sixteen stories including The Snow Queen and The Real Princess. Original binding
3) Almanack for 1889 by Kate Greenaway.
of full vellum with extensive gilt decoration, top edge gilt and others untrimmed, together with the
All exquisitely illustrated by Greenaway and all in their original bindings with pictorial boards in fine
exceptionally rare red dust–jacket. A near fine example. £8,900
condition. Now preserved in a green cloth solander box. Rare. £1,200
Bricusse, Leslie.
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Lewis, C. S.
CHRISTMAS 1993 OR SANTA’S LAST RIDE.
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE.
An Absolutely Amazing Christmas Story.
London, 1950. First edition. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Bound by Asprey in full ochre morocco
Faber & Faber, London, 1987. 4to. De Luxe Limited edition #53 / 100. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain
with a unique wraparound pictorial onlay in claret, orange and aubergine leathers of several of the
with 12 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, further black & white illustrations. Signed
characters including the Lion, Edmund and the Queen of Narnia; with aubergine endpapers and all
by the Author and the Artist. Original binding by Zaehnsdorf of full ochre morocco with flamboyant
edges gilt. The first and most popular story of the Narnia series, and the most rare. £2,700
gilt titles to spine and front cover, moiré silt and navy blue morocco doublures, all edges gilt and a
complementary leather entry slip–case.
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Milne, A. A.
A very entertaining and amusing story of the mishaps and problems that the modern world presents
WINNIE–THE–POOH.
to Father Christmas. £800
London, 1926. First edition. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Original binding of gilt–decorated green
cloth with illustrated endpapers and cream dust–jacket illustrated and printed in navy blue. Some
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rubbing and slight soiling to dust–jacket, else very good indeed. Rare.
THE GAME OF LOGIC.
‘Bother!’ said Pooh, as he got his nose inside the jar. ‘A Heffalump has been eating it!’ And then
London, 1887. Second (first published) edition. 8vo. Illustrated by various diagrams and with printed
he thought a little and said, ‘Oh, no I did. I forgot.’ £5,000
envelope containing coloured counters and a printed card. Original binding of scarlet cloth with gilt
lettering and black endpapers.
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This book is certainly what it purports to be; full of brain teasers to amuse and instruct. £1,200
Milne, A. A.
WINNIE–THE–POOH.
London, 1926. First edition. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Bound by Asprey in full green morocco
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with extensive gilt tooling, Japanese endpapers and all edges gilt.
BABAR EN FAMILLE.
‘Bother!’ said Pooh, as he got his nose inside the jar. ‘A Heffalump has been eating it!’ And then
Paris, 1938. First edition. 4to. Illustrated throughout in colour. Bound by Asprey in full scarlet
he thought a little and said, ‘Oh, no I did. I forgot.’ £2,300
morocco with an onlaid picture in various coloured leathers of Queen Celeste seated in a chair
reading a book to her three children settled around her on the floor, with King Babar looking on;
with exquisite Japanese endpapers and all edges gilt. £4,000
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Potter, Beatrix.
THE TALE OF JEMIMA PUDDLE–DUCK.
London, 1908. First edition. Small 12mo. Illustrated in colour throughout by the Author. Original
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binding of pale green boards, the front cover mounted with a colour illustration and illustrated
LE PETIT PRINCE.
endpapers and contemporary ownership inscription to half–title page, else very good indeed.
New York, 1943. First edition. Text in French. Lge. 8vo. Illustrated in both colour and in black & white
A particularly rare title within the Beatrix Potter collection. £1,600
by the Author. Original binding of beige cloth boards with illustrated dust–jacket, which has slight age
discolouration and minimal rubbing to corners and spine ends; internally fine. £2,100
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THE TALE OF TIMMY TIPTOES.
London, 1911. First edition. Small 12mo. Illustrated in colour by the Author. Original binding of brown
boards ruled and lettered in white with coloured paste–down of Timmy Tiptoes on the front cover,
original coloured pictorial end-papers. £1,200
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Potter, Beatrix.
THE TALE OF MR. TOD.
London, 1912. First edition. Small 12mo. Illustrated in colour by the Author. Original binding of buff
boards with applied colour illustration of Mr. Tod the fox, and illustrated endpapers. Contemporary
ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Rebacked, else very good condition. £1,100
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Potter, Beatrix.
CECILY PARSLEY’S NURSERY RHYMES.
London, 1922. First edition. Small 12mo. Illustrated in colour by the author. Original binding of pink
boards ruled and lettered in white with coloured paste–down on the front cover of Cecily Parsley
pushing a wheelbarrow into a rabbit hole; original coloured pictorial end–papers. £1,100
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Pratchett, Terry.
THE CARPET PEOPLE.
Colin Smythe, 1971. First edition. Original binding of dark green boards with illustrated dust–jacket.
Fine condition. This rare first work was written when the Author was 23. £950
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AESOP’S FABLES.
A New Translation by V. S. Vernon–Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton.
William Heinemann, London, 1912. Limited edition #1,220 / 1,450. 4to. Signed by the illustrator.
Over a dozen tipped–in colour plates and numerous line drawings. Original binding of full cream cloth
gilt blocked to front cover and spine, with top edge gilt and others untrimmed; now preserved in a
light blue cloth slip–case, by Asprey, with gilt block to front mirroring that on the front cover. In near
mint condition. Rare in such a good state. £3,200
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GRIMMS FAIRY TALES.
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
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Constable & Company Ltd., London, 1909. Limited edition #264 / 750. Signed by Arthur Rackham.
Thick 4to. Forty tipped–in colour plates and other black & white illustrations within the text, all by
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Profusely colour illustrated throughout; starring ‘The Cat In The Hat’. Original binding of illustrated
Rackham. Original binding of full cream vellum, the front and spine gilt blocked, top edge gilt and
boards, no dust–jacket as issued. Slight rubbing to boards, else very good indeed. £600
others untrimmed, with (replaced) amber coloured ties and now preserved in an amber coloured cloth
slip–case, by Asprey, with gilt block to front. A stunning collection of sixty fairy stories including all the
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classics such as ‘Hansel and Grethel’, ‘Rapunzel’, ‘The Frog Prince’, ‘The Golden Goose’, etc.
BLACK BEAUTY.
In exceptionally good condition. £7,850
Jarrolds Publishers, London, 1915. Thick 4to. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin with 18 colour plates. Bound
by Asprey in full moss green morocco with a gilt block to the front cover, taken after one of the
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illustrations, of Black Beauty with his mother in ‘a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water
THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE.
in it.’ With Japanese endpapers and all edges gilt. £1,700
Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
London, 1918. Limited edition #405 / 765. Signed by Arthur Rackham. 4to. Nine tipped–in colour
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plates and other black & white illustrations within the text, all by Rackham. Original binding of
ELOISE IN PARIS.
quarter cream vellum over cream boards, the front and spine gilt blocked, top edge gilt and others
London, 1958. First U.K. edition. 4to. Drawings by Hilary Knight. Original binding of gilt–titled light
untrimmed. Corners of boards a little rubbed and some browning to front free endpaper, else a fine
blue cloth boards with illustrated endpapers and the dust-jacket depicting Eloise leaning on a wrought
copy now preserved in an orange cloth slip-case, by Asprey, with gilt block to front mirroring that on
iron balcony, watching a firework display. Very slight wear to jacket, else very good indeed. £750
the front cover. £2,100
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Tourtel, Mary.
HUMPTY DUMPTY BOOK.
UNDINE.
Nursery Rhymes Told in Pictures.
By De La Motte Fouqué. Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney.
Anthony Treherne, 1901. 32mo (2 ¾ x 3 1⁄ 8 ins. or 72 x 78 mm). Illustrated with twenty full–page colour
William Heinemann, London, 1909. Limited edition of 1,000 copies (this one not numbered).
illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, now preserved in a green cloth slip–case. £985
4to. Signed by the illustrator. Fifteen tipped–in colour plates and numerous line drawings.
Bound by Asprey in full cream vellum with gilt block of Undine to the front cover, cream coloured ties,
Japanese endpapers, top edge gilt and others untrimmed.
By the mid–nineteenth century this was one of the most popular fairy stories in Europe and tells the
story of a water-sprite who marries a prince on condition that he shall never see her on a Saturday
when she resumes her mermaid form. This story has been adapted for the stage in many forms
including Hoffmann’s opera premiered in 1814. £2,100
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Rowling, J. K.
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS.
London, 1998. First edition, *first impression. Publisher’s binding of pictorial boards and matching
dust–jacket, in mint condition. The second book in the Harry Potter series. Very rare. £2,700
*First impression denoted by ‘First published in Great Britain in 1998’ and the number 10987654321
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I CAN LICK 30 TIGERS TODAY!
And Other Stories.
Random House, New York, 1969. First edition, first issue (no ISBN number on rear panel).
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Baker, Sir Richard.
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Chatwin, Bruce.
A CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND.
IN PATAGONIA.
From the Time of the Romans Government Unto the Raigne of Our Soveraigne Lord King Charles.
London, 1977. First edition, first issue (with map endpapers). Publisher’s binding of blue boards
Containing All Passages of State & Church, with All Other Observations Proper for a Chronicle.
with pictorial dust–jacket. The Author’s first work, illustrated with black & white photographs.
Faithfully Collected Out of Authours Ancient and Moderne; & Digested into a New Method. By Sir
What he found there was indeed an outpost, a last refuge of forlorn desolation and breathtaking
R. Baker, Knight.
beauty where people loiter, fixed in their time, while the rest of the world moves on. £950
London, 1643. First edition. Folio. Engraved title and frontispiece. Binding of late 17th / early 18th
century brown calf boards, gilt stamp of crest (a cock standing on a trumpet) and motto on both
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Cunard, Nancy. (Editor)
covers ‘Vigilantibus’ (Acheson or Gosford families), corners bumped, spine rebacked and endpapers
NEGRO.
replaced. £2,600
Anthology.
The Ballantyne Press and The Utopia Press for Nancy Cunard, 1934. First edition, first issue (brown
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cloth), upper board and spine lettered in red, lower board with map of North America printed in red,
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D.
top edge coloured brown. One folding colour–printed map and numerous black & white illustrations.
And the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. 5 Vols.
Now preserved in a crimson cloth slip–case. Rare.
London, 1885. Limited edition #90 / 500. Illustrated with black & white portraits by Sir Joshua
Cunard’s monumental anthology of commentaries and articles on many aspects of black life, culture
Reynolds. Near contemporary binding of gilt–decorated half light tan calf over marbled boards with
and politics, with contributions by George Antheil, René Crevel, Henry W. Crowder, Cunard, Norman
matching endpapers and edges. A very handsome set. £1,985
Douglas, Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, William Plomer, William Carlos Williams, Samuel
Beckett, and others. £5,800
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Catlin, George.
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
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Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written during Eight Years’
LIBERALISM AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM.
Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832 – 1839. 2 Vols.
London, 1909. First edition. Bound in full crimson morocco with extensive, decorative gilt tooling,
John Grant, Edinburgh, 1926. First edition thus. Small 4to. This is a later edition of Catlin’s
marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Speeches by the young Churchill as a reforming Liberal M.P.
monumental history of the North American Indian, illustrated by him with 309 chromolithographs on
One of the scarcest of his titles. £2,400
180 plates. Original bindings of maroon cloth boards handsomely illustrated in black and gilt on the
front covers and spines; with top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Now preserved in a maroon cloth
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covered slip–case.
MARLBOROUGH.
George Catlin (1796 – 1872). Following a brief career as a lawyer, Catlin began his journey in 1830
His Life and Times. 4 Vols.
when he accompanied General William Clark on a diplomatic mission up the Mississippi River into
London, 1933 – 38. First edition. With illustrations and maps. Signed presentation copy from the
Native American territory. St. Louis became Catlin’s base of operations for five trips he took between
publisher, George Harrap. Bound in full crimson morocco gilt–decorated with Churchillian devices,
1830 and 1836, eventually visiting fifty tribes. Two years later, he travelled along the Missouri River
marbled endpapers and all edges gilt.
to Fort Union, where he spent several weeks among the indigenous people still relatively untouched
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of, (1650 – 1722). His first post was as a page to the Duke of
by European civilisation. He visited eighteen tribes, including the Pawnee, Omaha, and Ponca in the
York (the future James VII and II). The patronage of Barbara Villiers (Duchess of Cleveland) enriched
south and the Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, Crow, Assiniboine, and Blackfeet to the north. There,
him, and brought him an ensigncy in the Guards (1667). Service in Tangier and the Netherlands,
at the edge of the frontier, he produced the most vivid and penetrating portraits of his career. Later
combined with the influence of his sister, Arabella, mistress of the Duke of York, brought him
trips along the Arkansas, Red and Mississippi rivers as well as visits to Florida and the Great Lakes
promotion to colonel. His prospects were further enhanced by his secret marriage in 1677, to Sarah
resulted in over 500 paintings and a substantial collection of artefacts. £1,600
Jennings, an attendant to, and close friend of, the Princess, later Queen Anne. In 1678 his discreet
handling of a confidential mission to William of Orange (William III) led to his ennoblement as Baron
Churchill of Eyemouth (1682), and his wife was made Lady of the Bedchamber to Anne. In 1685, he
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crushed the rebellion led by the Duke of Monmouth, and was rewarded with an English barony. When
William landed, Churchill pledged his support to his cause, which was recognised by his elevation to
the earldom of Marlborough. Yet by 1692, despite his brilliant service in William’s Irish campaign, the
suspicion that he was still sympathetic to the Jacobites brought him into temporary disfavour, though
Sarah maintained her close friendship with Anne, who succeeded as queen in 1702. In the War of the
Spanish Succession (1701 – 14), Marlborough was given supreme command of the British and Dutch
forces. His march to the Danube brought him the vital co-operation of Prince Eugène of Savoy, and
ended in the victory of Donauworth and triumph of Blenheim (1704), which earned him a palatial
residence at Woodstock. In later years, his career faltered as a result of royal and political intrigues,
and for two years (1712 – 1714) he lived abroad until the accession of George I when he was restored
to his honours, his advice being sought at the time of the Jacobite rebellion in 1715. £5,200
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Davies, Hunter.
THE BEATLES.
The Authorised Biography.
London, 1968. First edition. 8vo. With numerous black and white photographic illustrations. Bound
by Asprey in full morocco, the spine in purple and the boards in orange with the original cover design
blocked in silver on the front cover; Japanese endpapers, with all edges gilded with silver stars.
Preserved in an orange cloth slip–case with purple pull-ribbon. £1,600
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THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1914 – 1918. 6 Vols.
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1916 – 1919. First editions. 8vo. Illustrated with maps and plans.
Original binding of navy blue cloth with worn and chipped dust-jackets and two of the jackets with
pieces missing to upper front edges. Each jacket now melinex protected. Internally very good. Even
with the damaged dust–jackets this is still a very good set. £1,400
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Hall, S. C.
THE BARONIAL HALLS.
And Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England. From drawings by J. D. Harding, G. Cattermole,
S. Prout, W. Müller, J. Holland, and Other Eminent Artists. Executed in Coloured Lithotints.
Embellished with Numerous Engravings on Wood. 2 Vols.
Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1881. Large paper edition with seventy–one coloured lithotints.
Large folio. Contemporary bindings by Zaehnsdorf of full brown morocco with extensive gilt tooling
to spines and boards, decorative brown and beige endpapers and all edges gilt. Some natural aging
to bindings and some random, minor paper discolouration, else very good.
This impressive work by the critic and journalist Samuel Carter Hall (who established the Art Journal)
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Irving, Washington.
features over sixty stately homes such as Hardwick Hall, Knole, and Audley End, with charming
THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
illustrations of the period. £1,700
Together with the Voyages of His Companions. 3 Vols.
John Murray, London, 1849. A New and Revised edition. Contemporary binding of full chestnut
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Henry VIII, King.
tree calf with extensive gilt tooling to spines, foliate gilt panels to covers, marbled endpapers
MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF HENRY THE EIGHTH.
with matching edges. A handsome set.
King of England, France & Ireland: In Which Are Included Assertion of the Seven Sacraments; Love
Washington Irving, 1783 – 1859, American author essayist, biographer and historian; one of the most
Letters to Anne Boleyn; Songs; Letter to the Emperor; Two Proclamations; Will.
successful writers of his day and a pioneer of copyright legislation. Today he is best known for his
Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. Limited edition #11 / 365. 4to. Edited and with a preface by Francis
short stories, ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’. In addition to this work, his other
Macnamara. Decorations, taken from contemporary portraits, engraved by Robert Gibbings. Signed
great historical writings include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and
by both Editor and Artist. Original binding of quarter red morocco over red marbled boards and all
Muhammad. £385
edges untrimmed; with original slip–case. Some minor wear to slip–case, book fine. £1,200
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Knox–Johnston, Robin.
Hillary, Edmund.
A WORLD OF MY OWN.
HIGH ADVENTURE.
The Single–Handed, Non–Stop Circumnavigation of the World in Suhaili.
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1955. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the Author on the front free
Cassell, London, 1969. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the Author. Illustrated with drawings, maps and
endpaper. With maps by A. Spark and sketches by George Djurkouic. Colour frontispiece portrait
colour photographs. Original binding of dark blue cloth with illustrated dust-jacket.
of Hillary and further black & white photographs. Original binding of blue cloth boards with illustrated
Robin Knox–Johnston was the first man to sail round the world non-stop, single–handed. £45
dust–jacket.
‘The climbing Autobiography of Edmund Hillary with Everest 1953 as its climax — an engaging
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personal record of his own part in expeditions since he scrambled to the summit of his first small peak
CRUSADER CASTLES. 2 Vols.
and knew that for him mountaineering was the one adventure.’ £750
Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. 4to. Limited edition #548 / 1,000. Comprising Volume One The Thesis
and Volume Two The Letters. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles; pouch with two folding
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maps bound in. Contemporary Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding of half red gilt–stamped morocco over
A JOURNEY THROUGHOUT IRELAND.
cream linen-covered boards, the top edge gilt and all others untrimmed. Faint discolouration to cloth
During the Spring, Summer, and Autumn of 1834. 2 Vols.
boards and edges. Otherwise very good indeed. Preserved in a later crimson cloth slip–case.
Whittaker & Co., London, 1834. First edition. With folding map of Ireland to Volume One and folding
This was originally written in 1910 as part of Lawrence’s final examination in History at Oxford.
chart of the River Shannon to Volume Two. Contemporary binding of half black calf over marbled
In order to write the thesis, he had visited nearly all the important castles in England and Wales,
boards. Some rubbing and age discolouration to boards, else very good.
France, Syria and northern Palestine. This is the first printing of the thesis. £2,800
Henry Inglis was a Scottish travel writer and social commentator and although this was not a year of
famine in Ireland when he was there, he writes of the extreme poverty he witnessed in many areas
of the country. It was his last work and considered one of the most important early 19th century
commentaries of Ireland. £1,200
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Lichtenstein, Henry.
TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.
In the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, by Henry Lichtenstein, Doctor In Medicine and
Philosophy, and Professor of Natural History in the University of Berlin; Member of Several Learned
Societies; and formerly in the Dutch Service at the Cape of Good Hope. 2 Vols.
London, 1812 & 1815. First English edition. Translated from the original German by Anne Plumptre.
Engraved portrait, folding map, eight engraved plates. Original binding of green and buff boards with
paper labels and all edges untrimmed. Extremities worn but stable, professionally rebacked; internally
very good. Very rare, especially in such an original state. Now preserved in a green cloth slip–case.
Henry Lichtenstein arrived in Table Bay on 23rd December, 1802, employed as a tutor to the son of
the new Governor of the Cape Colony, General Janssens. The present work includes an account of
Janssens’ travels to Kaffaria, and of subsequent journeys to the western and northern parts of the
colony, with much information on natural history, and a narrative of the capture of the colony by
the British. £4,500
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Merigot, James.
A SELECT COLLECTION OF VIEWS AND RUINS IN ROME.
And Its Vicinity; Executed from Drawings Made upon the Spot in the Year 1791.
London, 1819. Large Paper Edition. 4to. Illustrated with an engraved Frontispiece and 61 plates, all
hand–coloured. Later binding of half chestnut morocco over marbled boards with top edge gilt. An
enchanting and skilled collection of views that include the Coliseum in its then verdant setting. £4,200
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Milligan, Spike.
‘ROMMEL?’ ‘GUNNER WHO?’
A Confrontation in the Desert.
Michael Joseph, London, 1974. First edition. Inscribed by Milligan: “To Grumbo – Happy Xmas and
birthday from Tony and Barbara and Spike Milligan.” Illustrated throughout with sketches, engravings
and photographs, many annotated by the Author. Original binding of black cloth with illustrated
dust–jacket.
This volume covers Spike’s march to war in the desert: a tragic–comic saga of bawdy farce mixed with
introspection and day–to–day reportage of the fears and fun of a group of gunners… The confusion
of war for the private is conveyed in a touching and characteristically Milligan manner. £250
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Parks, Fanny.
WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM, IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE, DURING FOUR–AND–
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TWENTY YEARS IN THE EAST.
With Revelations of Life in the Zenana. 2 Vols.
London, 1850. First edition. Illustrated with 49 plates (20 chromolithographed or coloured by hand),
folding lithographed panorama of the Himalayas in pocket at end of Volume Two. Bound by Asprey in
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A lavishly produced volume issued to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
full scarlet morocco with extensive gilt decoration, with Japanese endpapers and all edges gilt.
Together with a collection of ephemera related to publication, many inscribed by the collaborators,
Born in 1794, Fanny Archer married Charles Parks, a clerk with the East Indian Company, in March
inserted in a pocket inside the box. £2,400
1822 and arrived in Calcutta in November 1822. Unlike other British wives, many of whom found
the heat oppressive and the way of life uncongenial, Fanny thoroughly immersed herself in all things
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Indian and Hindu, becoming an avid and knowledgeable student of Hindu life and history.
THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCES.
She speaks of ‘us Indians’ and was appalled at the idea of having to return to England in 1845.
Of Windsor Castle, St. James’s Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court,
She travelled extensively, often solo, and declared ‘Roaming about with a good tent and a good
Buckingham House, and Frogmore. Illustrated by One Hundred Highly Finished and Coloured
Arab, one might be happy for ever in India.’ £5,750
Engravings, Fac–similies (sic) of Original Drawings by the Most Eminent Artists. 3 Vols.
W.H. Dry, London, 1819. First edition, large paper copy. Eight parts in three large quarto volumes.
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Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph.
Stunningly illustrated with one hundred hand–coloured aquatint plates by Sutherland, Bennett, Reeve,
A HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN MUMMIES.
Buily & Howell after Samuel, Stephanoff, Cattermole, Wild & Westall. Near contemporary binding of
And an Account of the Worship and Embalming of the Sacred Animals by the Egyptians; with
half red morocco over marbled boards with matching endpapers, top edge gilt and others untrimmed.
Remarks on the Funeral Ceremonies of Different Nations. And Observations on the Mummies of the
Rare. Tipped–in to the front of volume one is a letter written by Pyne to an unknown recipient,
Canary Islands, of the Ancient Peruvians, Burman Priests, & C.
enclosing an invitation to supper for February 23rd, 1834. £10,500
London, 1834. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with 13 etched or lithographed plates, four hand–
coloured, two heightened with gold. Contemporary binding of half dark calf, rebacked.Some random
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discolouration and offsetting, but otherwise good. Ten of the 13 plates are by George Cruikshank and
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF FONTHILL ABBEY.
the one of beetles by J. O. Westwood.
Published by the Author, Shaftesbury, 1823. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with ten engraved plates
Pettigrew was a professor of anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital, London, as well as a writer and
and three hand–coloured aquatint plates (including frontispiece and additional title, complete), wood
antiquary, and one of the founding members of the British Archaeological Society. This book is
engraved armorial to letterpress title, folding plan, hand–coloured wood engraved vignettes, and
described by Dawson, Bibliography of Works Relating to Mummification in Egypt (1929), 97, as:
double-page pedigree. Near contemporary binding of half gilt–decorated, light calf over marbled
‘One of the most valuable works on the subject extant. It is a monument of exact observation, and
boards with cockerel endpapers. Slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good. £1,600
considering the state of archaeological knowledge at the time, it is in every way admirable.’ £1,700
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Shackleton, Ernest.
Pierce, Michael. John. Golley & others. (Battle of Britain, Royal Air Force)
A STUDIO PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF ERNEST SHACKLETON.
…SO FEW.
By Speaight Ltd. (Photographers).
A Folio Dedicated to All Who Fought And Won the Battle of Britain 10th July – 31st October 1940.
Inscribed by Shackleton “To Frank Houlder with Ernest Shackleton’s Kindest Regards. August 1914.”
Royles of London for The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990. Limited edition #340 / 401. fully
On the card mount. Mounted image size 12 15⁄ 16 x 9 7⁄ 8 ins. (32.9 x 25.1 cm). Mounted and framed in
authenticated (signed) by the members of the creative team. Large, thick folio.Foreword by H.R.H.
silvered, moulded wood 13 x 16 ½ ins. (33 x 42 cm).
The Duke of Kent and a postscript by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire V.C. A chapter by Sir Frank
Provenance: Frank Houlder, and given by his widow to Tom P. Jones, Rio Secco, and thence by
Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, entitled ‘What if…?’ Twenty–five colour portrait silhouettes of
descent to his daughter. Frank Houlder was a Buenos Aires shipping magnate and very generous
surviving aircraft crew by Michael Pierce, signed by the sitters and artist in pencil, other illustrations,
benefactor of Shackleton’s ill-fated Imperial Transatlantic Expedition of 1914–1916. £9,500
some colour. Original binding of full R.A.F. blue morocco, gilt decoration, the upper cover
incorporating a pair of King George pattern R.A.F. Wings, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt.
Original blue cloth solander box lined in moiré silk.
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Strachey, Lytton.
THE WORLD IN MINIATURE: AFRICA.
BOOKS AND CHARACTERS.
Containing a Description of the Manners and Customs, with Some Historical Particulars of the
French & English.
Moors of the Zahara, and of the Negro Nations Between the Rivers Senegal and Gambia. 4 Vols.
London, 1922. First edition. Subjects include ‘Shakespeare’s Final Period’, ‘Voltaire And England’
R. Ackermann, London, 1821. 12mo (5 ¾ x 3 ¾ ins. or 14 x 9.5 cm). Illustrated with two maps
‘The Poetry of Blake’, etc. Bound by Asprey in full dark green morocco with chestnut lettering pieces,
and forty–five hand-coloured aquatint plates. Attractive later binding of half green calf over marbled
top edge gilt and others untrimmed. £985
boards, matching endpapers, all edges gilt, and with red lettering pieces and little gilt red flowers
to the spines. Some rubbing to marbled boards otherwise a delightful set. £900
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Strawberry Hill Press.
AN ACCOUNT OF RUSSIA AS IT WAS IN THE YEAR 1710.
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By Charles (Lord) Whitworth.
THE WORLD IN MINIATURE: PERSIA.
Printed at Strawberry – Hill, Twickenham, 1758. First edition. 8vo. Early 19th century binding by
Containing a Brief Description of the Country; and an Account of Its Government, Laws, and Religion,
C. Hering, of full gilt and blind embossed tan calf with all edges gilt. £980
and of the Character, Manners and Customs, Arts, Amusements, & C. of its Inhabitants. 3 Vols.
R. Ackermann, London, 1822. 12mo (6 ¼ x 4 1⁄ 8 ins. or 16 x 10 cm). Illustrated with thirty
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hand–coloured aquatint plates. Later binding of half tan calf over marbled boards with a chestnut
LETTERS TO THE COUNTESS OF OSSORY. 3 Vols.
lettering piece to each spine, gilt titles and gilt fleur–de–lys in remaining spine panels; all edges
Arthur L. Humphreys, London, 1903. First edition thus. 8vo. Titles printed in red and black.
untrimmed. Occasional off–setting from plates, as to be expected, otherwise very good indeed. £800
Contemporary binding by Zaehnsdorf, of half brown morocco over marbled boards with matching
endpapers and all edges untrimmed. Monogram bookplate of *Jack Churchill to the front free
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endpaper. A few light spots internally and boards a bit rubbed but otherwise good.
THE WORLD IN MINIATURE: AUSTRIA.
Horace (Horatio) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1717 – 1797, the youngest son of the British Prime
Containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character, and Costumes of the People
Minister Robert Walpole, cousin of Lord Nelson; was an art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and
of That Empire. 2 Vols.
politician. Today, much of his literary reputation rests on his Gothic novel, ‘The Castle of Otranto’ and
R. Ackermann, London, 1823. 12mo (5 ¾ x 3 ¾ ins. or 14 x 9.5 cm). Illustrated with
his letters, which are of significant social and political interest. He is also remembered for Strawberry
thirty–two hand–coloured aquatint plates. Attractive later binding of half green calf over marbled
Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, London.
boards, matching endpapers, all edges gilt, and with red lettering pieces and little gilt red flowers to
Anne, Countess of Ossory was one of several married women with whom Walpole engaged in a close,
the spines. Frontispiece illustration a little foxed and some rubbing to marbled boards otherwise very
occasionally flirtatious but platonic relationship. His letters to her are regarded as some of his best
good indeed. £450
and most interesting. £550
*Provenance: From the library of Major John Strange ‘Jack’ Spencer Churchill (1880 – 1947) brother of Sir Winston Churchill.
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EDINBURGH.
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Watts, W. (Engraver)
And Its Story.
THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY.
J. M. Dent & Co., London, 1904. Limited edition #73 / 250. 4to. Copious illustrations both in colour
In a Collection of the Most Interesting & Picturesque Views, Engraved by W. Watts from Drawings
and in black & white. Original binding of cream vellum, the front cover and spine handsomely blocked
by the Most Eminent Artists. With Descriptions of Each View.
with a repeated gilt thistle motif in the style of William Morris; with top edge gilt and others
John & Josiah Boydell, London, 1779 – 86. Eight–four plates after Sandby and others. Nineteenth
untrimmed. £880
century binding of straight–grain green morocco ruled and stamped in gilt and blind with central
gateway in gilt, spine gilt, with plain brown endpapers and all edges gilt.
A charming volume. £1,800
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Chaucer, Geoffrey.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. 6 Vols.
Aldine edition of British Poets, 1852. Second issue. Small 8vo. Engraved portrait of the Author to
volume one. Contemporary bindings of full polished tan calf with crimson lettering pieces, extensive
gilt tooling to spines and panelled covers, with marbled endpapers and matching edges. £1,300
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(Combe, William) ‘Dr. Syntax.’
THE DANCE OF LIFE.
A Poem.
By The Author of ‘Doctor Syntax;’ Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, by Thomas Rowlandson
R. Ackermann, 1817. First edition. Hand–coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional vignette title and
24 plates, all hand–coloured. Contemporary binding of half brown calf rebacked with gilt spine and
black morocco label, over marbled boards. Occasional light soiling to preliminary pages,
else very good. £1,200
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Gill, Eric.
CLOTHING WITHOUT CLOTH.
An Essay on the Nude.
Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Limited edition #190 / 500. Slim 8vo. Illustrated with wood engravings
by the Author. Original binding of red buckram over boards, gilt monogram, top edge gilt and others
uncut. £700
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Heaney, Seamus.
SEEING THINGS.
Faber, 1991. First edition, #90 / 2,500. Signed by the Poet. 8vo. Original binding of quarter black
cloth over rust boards, red lettered spine; with matching slip–case. £650
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Homer.
THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER.
Rendered into English Prose by S. H. Butcher & Andrew Lang.
The Medici Society, London, 1930. First edition thus. Thick 4to. Illustrated with twenty full–page
colour plates after drawings by William Russell Flint, A.R.A. Bound in full azure blue morocco with a
one–line gilt panelled back, gilt dentelles, marble endpapers and all edges gilt.
Homer occupied in the culture of ancient Greece a position even more central than Shakespeare’s in
England, since his works provided everyone’s elementary education. No one in antiquity questioned
his claim to be the greatest of poets, and his reputation has survived thus far. £1,250
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A SHROPSHIRE LAD.
The Riccardi Press, London, 1914. Limited edition #410 / 1,000, on handmade paper. Lge 8vo.
Bound by Asprey in full cream vellum with a gilt laurel to front cover, blue ribbon ties, top edge gilt
and others untrimmed. £1,300
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Hughes, Ted.
TALES FROM OVID.
Faber & Faber, 1998. Limited edition #54 / 300, signed by the Author. 8vo. Bound by Smith Settle,
Otley, West Yorkshire in quarter light green cloth over mid-green cloth with terracotta paper label to
spine, matching terracotta coloured endpapers and housed in a matching green coloured slip–case.
Fine as issued. £1,500
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Marlowe, Christopher & George Chapman.
HERO AND LEANDER.
The Ballantyne Press, 1894. One of 220 copies. Wood engraved illustrations and decorations
by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon. Original binding of gilt–decorated vellum designed by
Ricketts, with all edges untrimmed.
Hero and Leander is a Greek myth, relating the story of Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in
a tower in Sestos, at the edge of the Hellespont, and Leander, a young man from Abydos on the other
side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont
to be with her. Hero would light a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way. Succumbing to
Leander’s soft words, and to his argument that Aphrodite, as goddess of love, would scorn the
worship of a virgin, Hero allowed him to make love to her. This routine lasted through the warm
summer until one stormy night; the waves tossed Leander in the sea the breezes blew out Hero’s
light. Leander lost his way and drowned. Hero threw herself from the tower in grief
and died as well. £950
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Shakespeare, William.
THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE. 12 Vols.
J. M. Dent & Co, London, 1899. The Larger Temple Edition limited to 175 copies on hand–made
paper, of which this is number 39. Edited by Israel Collancz. With many illustrations, Antiquarian and
Topographical (black & white with some colour tinting to the full–page portraits). Original binding of
full cream vellum with very ornate gilt decoration to spine and Shakespeare’s crest to front cover, top
edge gilt and others untrimmed. Some natural, even age discolouration to vellum otherwise
very good indeed. £3,900
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THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 6 Vols.
From the Corrected Text of Johnson and Steevens. Embellished with Plates.
John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London, 1807. First edition thus. Thick 4to. Twenty–two engraved plates
by J. Heath and painted by J. Stothard R.A. Volume One bears a note inscribed ‘Duke of York’s copy’
mounted on front pastedown. Contemporary binding of full brown calf, gilt, rather beautifully worn with
age, but sound, marbled endpapers and matching edges. Some occasional, light, marginal foxing to
plates (that has been treated) otherwise very good for its age. £8,250
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SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS.
The Folio Society, London, 1972. First edition thus. Beautifully printed on light grey paper, the number
of each sonnet at the top within a crimson foliate panel. Bound in full gilt–decorated crimson morocco
with marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. £700
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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.
The Vale Shakespeare, London, 1902. First edition thus. With decorations by Charles Ricketts.
Bound in full green morocco with extensive gilt decoration after the original, with marbled endpapers
and top edge gilt. £625
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Spender, Stephen.
TRIAL OF A JUDGE.
A Tragedy in Five Acts.
London, 1938. First edition. Inscribed by the Author. Bound in quarter gilt–decorated crimson
morocco over red cloth with all edges gilt. £365
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Suckling, Sir John.
A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING.
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Limited edition, #294 / 375. Slim 8vo. Wood engraved illustrations
by Eric Ravilious. Original binding of buckram–backed batik boards, with cream dust–jacket, titled and
illustrated in black with all edges untrimmed. £1,200
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Wilde, Oscar.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST.
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan.
London, 1899. First edition limited to 1,000 copies, this unnumbered. Contemporary ink name
‘Cottenham/ 11.3.99’ on front pastedown. Original binding of gilt–decorated salmon cloth with all
edges untrimmed. Some bumping and discolouration to spine, and some slight wear to boards but
otherwise very good. Now preserved in a gilt–decorated purple cloth slip–case. An increasingly
difficult title to find in the original state. £3,100
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Wilde, Oscar.
AN IDEAL HUSBAND.
London, 1899. First edition, #43 / 100 numbered large papers copies on Van Gelder handmade
paper, signed by the Author. Original brown–red linen boards designed by Charles Shannon, with all
edges untrimmed, as published. Now preserved in a gilt–decorated purple slip–case. Some fading to
binding, internally very good indeed.
The play was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre on 3rd January, 1895 and this first edition was
printed four years later. £15,250
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(Angling) Walton, Izaak.
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(Art) Cook, Beryl.
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER,
BERYL COOK.
Or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Rivers Fishponds Fish and Fishing
The Works.
Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers.
John Murray, London, 1978. First edition. 4to. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original binding of
London, 1931. Limited edition #618 / 775. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with numerous black
white cloth with illustrated dust–jacket. £30
& white vignettes and a dozen full–page colour illustrations. Signed by the illustrator. Publisher’s
binding of cream vellum with illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Front upper
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(Art) Japanese – Various. Edited by Sadao Kikuchi & Others.
corner of cover bumped, otherwise in very good condition indeed. With the original cardboard
UKIYO–E TAIKEI. 17 Vols.
slip–case. £1,300
(Survey of Japanese Prints.)
Tokyo, Shueisha, 1974 – 76. A complete set of the first and only edition. Japanese text, illustrations,
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(Antique Furniture) Cescinsky, Herbert. & Ernest R. Gribble.
many in colour. Original bindings of white cloth boards with illustrated dust–jackets, the designs of
EARLY ENGLISH FURNITURE & WOODWORK. 2 Vols.
which are mirrored in the slip–cases. These cases have taken some wear leaving the books and dust-
London, 1922. First edition. Early Tudor to the mid 18th century. Numerous black & white illustrations,
jackets in very good condition.
mostly photographic. Original bindings of gilt-decorated blue and black cloth boards. Now preserved
A detailed and extensive study of the Ukiyo–e (Floating World) style of Japanese art. It includes works
in a crimson cloth slip–case. £850
by Harunobu, Utamaro, Hiroshge & Hokusai (including Hokusai’s views of Mount Fuji). £2,000
(Architecture) Chambers, William.
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Spender, Stephen. & David Hockney.
PLANS, ELEVATIONS, SECTIONS, AND PERSPECTIVE VIEWS OF THE GARDENS
CHINA DIARY.
AND BUILDINGS AT KEW IN SURRY (sic).
London, 1982. Limited edition #530 / 1,000 world–wide. Small 4to. Text by Spender, with 158
The Seat of Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.
water–colours, drawings and photographs, 84 in colour, by Hockney. Signed by both Author and
London, 1763. First edition. Illustrated with 43 engraved plates and plans, three double–page.
Artist, with an original five-colour lithograph by David Hockney: ‘Red Square and the Forbidden City’,
Contemporary binding of marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in tan calf. Title page with
numbered and signed by the artist (this has been simply framed and mounted by a previous owner
marginal tear (repaired) and some foxing, but all treated to prevent deterioration. Rare.
and easily removed if required). Publisher’s binding of full gilt–decorated red cloth, with separate red
William Chambers (1716 – 96) made several voyages to China between 1740 and 1749, where he
card folder to take the lithograph currently in the fame. Fine copy in very slightly used white box with
studied Chinese architecture and decoration before returning to Europe where he studied architecture
red printed label. Rare. £1,750
in Paris (with J. F. Blondel) and Italy. In 1755, he established an architectural practice in London,
where he soon became architectural tutor to the Prince of Wales, later George III, and appointed joint
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(Aviation) Lindbergh, Charles A.
Architect of the King’s Works with Robert Adam.
‘WE’
Apart from the Chinese Pagoda in Kew Gardens (illustrated in this book), another of Chambers’ great
The Famous Flier’s Own Story of His Life and Transatlantic Flight, Together with His Views on the
works is Somerset House, London. £7,500
Future of Aviation.
New York, 1927. First Trade Edition. Introduction by Myron T. Herrick, U.S. Ambassador to France.
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(Architecture) Poley, Arthur F. E.
Fully illustrated in black & white. Bound by Asprey in full navy blue morocco with a gilt block to the
ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL.
front cover of the title and an aeroplane, after the original; with Japanese endpapers and
Measured, Drawn and Described…
all edges gilt. £1,700
London, 1927. First edition. Folio. Title in red and black, frontispiece and 31 plates, some with tissue
guards. Contemporary binding of half brown morocco over cloth with a very fine gilt block of the
cathedral on the front cover, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Top spine panel
expertly replaced by Asprey. £1,750
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(Botany) Sowerby, John E. (Illustrator) & C. Pierpoint Johnson. (Author)
BRITISH WILD FLOWERS.
John E. Sowerby, London, 1860. Lithographed frontispiece by J. De C. Sowerby, and 82 plates by
John E. Sowerby, all but two coloured by hand. Bound by Asprey in full dark green morocco with
extensive gilt decoration, floral Japanese endpapers and all edges gilt. £1,800
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(Botany) Thornton, Robert John, M.D.
NEW ILLUSTRATION OF THE SEXUAL SYSTEM OF CAROLUS VON LINNAEUS.
Comprehending an Elucidation of the Several Parts of the Fructification; a Prize Dissertation on
the Sexes of Plants; a Full Explanation of the Classes, and Orders, of the Sexual System; and the
Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature, Being Picturesque, Botanical, Coloured Plates, of Select
Plants, Illustrative of the Same, with Descriptions.
London, 1807 – 1812. First edition with mixed edition plates (as is usual). With engraved title–pages
and dedications, six plates (five being portraits), and 31 plates printed in colours and finished by
hand (three allegorical, twenty–eight flower), atlas folio. Twentieth century binding of full dark brown
morocco with extensive gilt decoration, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Binding showing wear
at joints (that have been reinforced at some point) but internally very good.
Coloured plates: Flora dispensing Her Favours on the Earth; Aesculapius, Flora, Ceres and Cupid
honouring the Bust of Linnaeus; Cupid inspiring Plants with Love; Snowdrop; Persian Cyclamen;
Hyacinths; Roses; Group of Carnations; Group of (two) Auriculas; Tulips; Queen Flower;
American Aloe; Nodding Renealmia; Night Blowing Cereus; Oblique–Leaved Begonia; Large
Flowering Sensitive Plant; Blue Passion Flower; Winged Passion Flower; Quadrangula Passion
Flower; White Lily; Superb Lily; Dragon Arum; Maggot–Bearing Stapelia; American Bog Plants;
Pontic Rhododendron; American Cowslip; Narrow Leaved Kalmia; China Limodorun; Indian Reed;
Sacred Egyptian Bean; Blue Egyptian Water Lily.
Regarded as the most beautiful set of flower plates ever to be printed in England and one of the
loveliest in the world. It was Dr. Thornton’s dream to see his mammoth achievement published,
but in doing so it bankrupted him and he was forced to return to practice. £95,000
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(Cocktails) Craddock, Harry.
THE SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOK.
London, 1930. First edition. 8vo. Colour decorations throughout. Rare original binding Art–Doc
designed boards in green and black with gold metallic foil and illustrated endpapers, all very much of
the period and in very good condition. Now preserved in a light green slip–case. £1,300
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(Costume) Martin, Charles.
THE CIVIL COSTUME OF ENGLAND.
From the Conquest to the Present Time. Drawn from Tapestries, Monumental Effigies, Illuminated
Manuscripts, Portraits, Etc.
London, 1842. First edition. 4to. Additional engraved title with hand–coloured pictorial border,
sixty hand-coloured engraved plates, many heightened with gold, some with gum Arabic. Original
binding of embossed terracotta cloth with gilt Order of the Garter Arms and title to front cover, yellow
endpapers and all edges gilt. Some offsetting to front endpapers and some minor rubbing to cloth,
else in very good condition. £2,700
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(Domestic Guidance) Anonymous.
THE FEMALE INSTRUCTOR.
Or Young Woman’s Companion, and Guide to Domestic Happiness; Being an Epitome of All the
Acquirements Necessary to Form the Female Character in Every Class of Life, with Examples of
Illustrious Women.
London, 1824. First edition thus. Engraved frontispiece and six plates. Contemporary binding of full
polished tree calf, one line gilt–panelled back and marbled edges. Replaced cream endpapers and
some occasional light foxing. £750
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(Eton College Songbook) Ainger, Arthur Campbell.
ETON SONGS.
Written by Arthur Campbell Ainger, set to music by Joseph Barnby…
London, 1891 – 92. First edition. 4to. Black & white illustrations by Herbert Marshall. Hand–written
letter from a master to a former pupil on Eton College headed paper tipped–in at front, together with a
typed poem about the college. Original binding of dark tan calf with extensive gilt decoration, marble
endpapers and all edges gilt. £650
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(Football) World Cup Programme.
SOUVENIR PROGRAMME FOR THE WORLD CUP FINAL.
England v West Germany, Saturday, July 30, 1966. Empire Stadium Wembley.
Brightly coloured illustrated paper wrapper containing 64 pages of photographs, commentaries, news
and views, as well as the respective team lists for the final completed by hand of those selected to
play on the day from the 22 members of each team illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of The Football
Association’s patron, Her Majesty The Queen. Size: 9 x 7 ins. (23 x 18 cm). Now preserved in a blue
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‘This book has strong claims to being unique. It is not, like so much of the golfing literature of the
A COLLECTION OF SIX ASSORTED BOOKS ABOUT CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB.
day, technical or ghosted, but the unadulterated work of those whose good fortune it is to watch and
Comprising:
write about the game regularly.’ Editor’s Note. £1,100
THE BRIDGE. The History of Stamford Bridge. By Colin Benson, 1987. First edition.
THE STAMFORD BRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA. An A.Z of Chelsea F.C. By Paul Harrison, 1995. First edition.
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(Humour) Heath Robinson, W. & K. R. G. Browne.
RHAPSODY IN BLUE. The Chelsea Dream Team. By Rick Glanvill, 1996. First edition.
LET’S LAUGH!
MATTHEW HARDING. Pursing the Dream. By Alyson Rudd, 1997. First edition.
A Book of Humorous Inventions. Contrived by Heath Robinson.
FROM SAVE THE BRIDGE TO WEMBERLEE. A decade of writing in the Chelsea Independent.
London, 1943. First edition. With a Foreword by K. R. G. Browne. Illustrated throughout in black and
Compiled and edited by Mark Meehan, 1998. First edition.
white. Bound in full bright yellow morocco with black lettering and an image of a uniformed maid
KEN BATES. My Chelsea Dream. By Brian Woolnough, 1998. First edition.
dropping a tray of food and crockery, after an original illustration; with Art–Deco design Japanese
All variously illustrated and in very good condition. £195
endpapers and all edges gilt. An amusing satire of life in general, from the tennis court to building a
bungalow, illustrated by the irrepressible Heath Robinson with witty commentary by Browne. £1,100
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(Gardening/Architecture) Repton, Humphry.
FRAGMENTS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING.
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(Humour) Soulby, W. H.
Including Some Remarks on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, Collected from Various Manuscripts,
THE HOAX ART ALBUM.
in the Possession of the Different Noblemen and Gentlemen, for Whose Use They Were Originally
A New Book Containing over One Hundred Amusing and Interesting Picture Puns.
Written; the Whole Tending to Establish Fixed Principles in the Respective Arts.
Cartwright & Rattray Limited, London, 1897. 4to. Colour illustrated title–page followed by, bizarrely,
London, 1816. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with 43 plates and plans, 24 of which are hand–coloured,
‘Ten Points in a Good Wife’, then 22 pages mounted on card, all printed in blue and gold, each
14 with overslips, plates watermarked ‘J. Whatman 1812’, numerous aquatint or woodcut illustrations
containing five or seven flaps, each opening to reveal a visual or verbal pun relating to the text on
and vignettes in text, two with overslips, plate list (including errata) at end. Discrete library blindstamp
the flap recto, and a further ‘key’ flap at the centre of each page that helps to explain the puns
to title, dedication and margin of a few plates, some offsetting and light spotting to margins but
and also explains the riddle at the top of each page, 110 flaps in total; the rear page bearing ‘The
otherwise an extremely handsome volume. Early 20th century binding, in the Antique style, of half
Young Ladies’ Alphabet’ to verso and an illustration of gibbons (with very long tails) entitled; ‘A Tale
gilt–decorated grey morocco over marbled boards, with chestnut lettering piece and all edges gilt.
Piece’. Original binding of textured ochre cloth with embossed, decorative title to front cover. A rarity,
Humphry Repton, 1752 – 1818, succeeded in his determination to emulate Capability Brown as
especially in such good condition. £1,100
England’s pre–eminent landscape gardener and indeed, went beyond the scope of Brown, to include
a vision of the house itself and its place in the landscape that surrounded it. Repton is credited with
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(Hunting) Lydekker, R.
coining the term ‘landscape garden’ to describe the natural style of gardening that he felt required
GREAT AND SMALL GAME OF EUROPE WESTERN & NORTHERN ASIA AND AMERICA.
‘the united powers of the landscape painter and the practical gardener.’
Their Distribution, Habits, and Structure.
Repton introduced gravel walks and re–introduced separate flower gardens, replacing the earlier
London, Rowland Ward, Ltd., 1901. Limited edition #59 / 250. Signed by the Publisher. 4to. Eight
classical ornaments with romantic structures such as grottoes and fake ruins. He read widely, and
exquisite hand–coloured lithographs and further black & white illustrations and photographs. Later
demonstrated his gardening theories with precise mathematical diagrams, as well as dabbling in
binding of half blue morocco over light blue cloth, with marbled endpapers and top edge gilt. Binding
architecture. The most successful of his projects is Sheringham Hall, Norfolk, the county of his final
little worn but sound, front and rear endpapers browned but the actual book is in very good condition.
resting place, at Aylsham. £12,200
Rare. £6,750
(Golf) Batsford. (Publisher)
THE GOLFER’S BEDSIDE BOOK.
Batsford, London, 1965. First edition. Edited by Donald Steel. Black & white illustrations and
photographs throughout. Twenty–nine chapters, mostly by different authors such as Henry Cotton,
Bernard Darwin and Henry Longhurst.
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(Judaica)
KING GEORGE VI.
Coronation Sermon by the Chief Rabbi (Dr. J. H. Hertz).*Great Synagogue 9th May, 1937 – 5697.
London: Office of the Chief Rabbi, 1937. Printed blue card wrappers containing 12 pages of text,
in English. £65
*The Great Synagogue, in Duke’s Place, and was the principal Ashkenazi (German and Polish Jews) synagogue founded in 1690 and
destroyed in a bombing raid in 1941.
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(Judaica)
A SPECIAL SERVICE ON THE OCCASION OF THE CORONATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES KING
GEORGE & QUEEN ELIZABETH.
To Be Held in the Synagogues of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews on Sunday, the 9th of
May 1937.
Printed buff card wrappers containing 32 pages of text in parallel Hebrew and English. The Spanish
and Portuguese community, the earliest community in London after the re-admission of the Jews to
England in 1656, has its main synagogue at Bevis Marks (City of London) and is the oldest synagogue
in the U.K. in continuous use. It was built in 1700. £150
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(Judaica)
PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING FOR THE CORONATION OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH.
To Be Recited in All Synagogues on Sabbath, 30th May, 1953 / 5713 or on the Day of the
Coronation, Tuesday, 2nd June, 1953 / 5713.
London: Office of the Chief Rabbi, 1953. Printed cream paper comprising 12 pages of text in parallel
Hebrew and English, including the National Anthem. £150
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(London) Barton, Rose. (Artist)
FAMILIAR LONDON.
Painted by Rose Barton.
Adam & Charles Black, London, 1904. Thick 4to. De Luxe edition #65 / 300. Signed by the Artist.
Illustrated with 61 colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Bound by Asprey in full crimson
morocco, the front cover with a stylised floral block in gilt, after an original design, with Japanese
endpapers, top edge gilt and others untrimmed. A scenic tour of London with narrative text.
Rose Barton (1856 – 1929), Irish townscape painter, exhibited widely both in Ireland and England,
including the Royal Academy in London. Once critic noted how Barton had a consummate skill for
reproducing the clammy atmosphere of London in the fog, the glimmer of its street lamps and shiny
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wet streets. For us today, her work has the added fascination of London life before the two world wars
that were to change it irrevocably. £1,800
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(Nursing) Nightingale, Florence.
Florey and Chain, his collaborators in the development of penicillin. It was later ranked as the most
NOTES ON NURSING.
important discovery of the millennium. £1,250
What It Is, and What It’s Not.
London, 1859. First edition. Slim 8vo. Original binding of embossed black cloth with gilt title to front
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(Opera) Puccini, Giacomo.
cover, advertisements to front and rear endpapers. Rebacked and light stain affecting foot of margin
A FINE AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION FROM LA BOHÈME.
of front endpaper, otherwise a very good example. £900
Signed by the composer ‘Giacomo Puccini London 22.10.04’, comprising the beginning of the melody
for ‘Mi chiamano Mimi’, with autograph superscription ‘La Bohème’, written in grey ink on a single
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(Map) Blaeu, Willem.
hand-drawn stave. One page, portrait, 6 ¼ x 5 ins. (15.5 x 12.6 cm), printed stationery of the Savoy
AMERICAE NOVA TABULA.
Hotel, London, 22 October 1904. Framed by Asprey in a plain burnished silvered wood frame with
Double–page engraved map with finely hand–coloured, Amsterdam, C1635. Latin text. Cartouche
white mount. Overall size: 15 ¼ x 14 ¼ ins. (38.5 x 36 cm), Very rare. £8,000
incorporating the title and Blaeu’s name, various ships and sea monsters, bird’s–eye–views of
important cities in upper border, including Havana, Rio and Havana, with national costumed figures
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(Opera) Wagner, Richard. & Arthur Rackham.
(some semi–naked!) in both side borders. Most attractive. 16 ½ x 22 ins. (42 x 56 cm). Mounted and
THE RING OF THE NIBLUNG. 2 Vols.
framed in moulded giltwood, 25 ½ x 30 ½ ins. (65 x 77.5 cm).
Vol. I. The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie. London, 1910. Limited edition #1,021 / 1,150. Thirty–four
Willem Blaeu (1571 – 1638), Dutch engraver and publisher responsible for producing some of the
coloured plates. Vol. II. Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods. London, 1911. Limited edition #763/
finest maps of the period. The quality of his engravings and sense of design in both World and
1150. Thirty coloured plates. 4to. Both illustrated and signed by Arthur Rackham. Later bindings
local maps has rarely been surpassed. £6,750
by Bayntun, in full, extensively gilt – decorated maroon (Vol. 1) and dark green (Vol. 2) morocco,
with marbled endpapers and top edges gilt. Preserved together in a cloth covered slip–case. A
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(Map) Blaeu, Willem & Johannes.
handsomely bound set of this exquisitely illustrated work. Some very minor, superficial wear to later
BRITANNIA PROUT DIVISA FUIT TEMPORIBUS ANGLO–SAXONUM PREAESERTIM DURANTE
slip–case, else a fine set. £6,500 The Set.
ILLORUM HEPTARCHIA.
Engraved map, with outline hand–colouring, of the British Isles with part of Ireland; with decorative
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(Optical Curiosity) Triple Portrait.
title cartouche of putti and crown, with side borders comprising seven cartouches each, depicting
A VERY UNUSUAL TRIPLE ‘OPTICAL’ PORTRAIT.
kings of the Anglo–Saxon heptarchy, all hand–coloured. Dutch text on verso. Amsterdam, circa 1645.
German, circa 1871. Comprising three hand–coloured lithographs, the first of Emperor Wilhelm I and
21 ½ x 17 ins. (53.5 x 43 cm). Mounted and framed in moulded giltwood, Map 24 x 29 ½ ins.
his Empress, Augusta. This was produced for their coronation as the first Emperor and Empress of
(61 x 75 cm). 29 ½ x 25 ½ ins. (75 x 65 cm).
the unified Germany. Set in front of this, at right angles, is a series of slats through which the double
Willem Blaeu was a Dutch engraver and publisher responsible for producing some of the finest maps
portrait is visible. However, if one stands to the left a similar portrait of their son, Friederich Wilhelm
of the period. The quality of his engravings and sense of design in both World and local maps has
appears; and then if one moves to the right another portrait appears of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
rarely been surpassed. Johannes or Johan was one of his two sons. £3,900
Handsomely mounted in a modern frame of reeded mahogany. Size: 21 x 16 ½ ins. (53.5 x 42 cm).
Wilhelm I (1797 – 1888) was the seventh King of Prussia and the first German Emperor or Kaiser. He
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(Medicine) Fleming, Alexander.
was instrumental, with the assistance of the Iron Chancellor, Count von Bismark, and other advisors
PENICILLIN.
in founding the German state in the modern sense, uniting a great diversity of principalities under
Its Practical Application.
the martial leadership of Prussia. Wilhelm married Princess Marie Louise Augusta of Saxe–Weimar in
London, 1946. First edition. Bound by Asprey in full crimson morocco with black lettering pieces
1829. Friederich Wilhelm was born in 1831 and died in 1888, only outliving his father by three months.
to spine, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt.
King Ludwig II of Bavaria was born in 1845 and is more commonly known today as ‘Mad Ludwig’
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 – 1955), Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, world renowned for his
builder of the fantastic Castle Neuschwanstein. He drowned under mysterious circumstances
discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and isolation of the antibiotic substance penicillin from
in 1886. £1,950
the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 with
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(Philosophy) Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius.
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(Photography) Weber, Bruce.
THE THOUGHTS OF THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.
BRANDED YOUTH.
In the Translation of George Long: Illustrated After the Water–colour Drawings by W. Russell Flint.
And Other Stories.
The Medici Society Ltd., London, 1909. Limited edition #287 / 500. 4to. Illustrated with twelve tipped–
Little, Brown and Company, 1997. First edition. 4to. Published to coincide with a large retrospective
in colour plates. Original binding of limp vellum with gilt titles and green silk ties, top edge gilt and
exhibition of Weber’s work at the National Gallery, London. Original photo–illustrated boards without
others untrimmed. Monogram bookplate of *Jack Churchill to the front free endpaper. The usual,
dust–jacket, as issued. £200
gentle, age–discolouration to the vellum, otherwise very good.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman Emperor AD 161 – 80 and Stoic philosopher, was the author of
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(Priapus) Knight, Richard Payne & John Davenport. 2 Vols.
twelve books of ‘Meditations.’ His work has been highly valued by many, including Matthew Arnold. £880
A DISCOURSE ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS,
*Provenance: From the library of Major John Strange ‘Jack’ Spencer Churchill (1880 – 1947) brother of Sir Winston Churchill.
And Its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. (A New Edition). To Which Is Added
an Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe.
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(Photography) Claxton, William.
London, Privately Printed, 1865.
JAZZ.
(and)
Twelvetree Press, Pasadena, 1987. First edition: the rare deluxe issue, #83 / 100. Signed by Claxton.
APHRODISIACS AND ANTI – APHRODISIACS.
4to. Seventy–six black and white photographs, many of them double–page. Original binding of blue
Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction: with Some Account of the Judicial ‘Congress’ as
cloth boards, spine and front cover lettered in black, with printed white on black dust–jacket and blue
Practised in France during the Seventeenth Century.
cloth slip–case bearing title in black on the spine.
London, Privately Printed, 1869. Both volumes illustrated with black and white diagrams. Uniformly
William Claxton 1927 – 2008, was most noted for his photography of jazz musicians including Chet
bound in quarter green morocco over maroon papered boards, gilt titles, marbled endpapers, top
Baker, but also published a book of Steve McQueen, with whom he shared a passion for fast cars.
edge gilt and others untrimmed. Paper on boards and edges very rubbed but sound, corners bumped;
Claxton’s love of Jazz grew from a young age, as Leonard Feather writes in the Introduction to this
internally very good.
book: ‘with a mother who was a semi–professional singer and an elder brother played boogie-woogie
Priapus – An ancient fertility god, the protector of gardens, vines, bees and flocks, who was
piano, he was seven when, fascinated by a musical short featuring Cab Calloway and Lena Horne, he
worshipped in Greece and Italy. His most notable feature was his enormous genitals. In antiquity
assembled a scrapbook devoted to them. While in his early teens, he was exposed to live jazz on a
his image often took the form of a HERM, that is, the head and torso of the god, with a phallus, set on
memorable scale, hearing Albert Ammons, Pet Johnson, Art Tatum and Fats Waller in a single matinee
top of a rectangular pillar. £1,000
at the Streets of Paris in Hollywood.
The term, the art of jazz photography, is a misnomer; a better phrase would be “photography devoted
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to jazz musicians, by photographers who lover and understand jazz.” That, of course, is one of
THE KORAN.
several ways in which one can characterize William Claxton. £1,400
Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed,Translated into English Immediately from the Original
Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, Taken from the Most Approved Commentators.
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London, 1734. First edition translated into English from the original Arabic. 4to. Folding map of
LONDRES DE NUIT.
Arabia and a further four plates, three folding. Later binding of mid–tan, polished sheep, with maroon
(London At Night).
lettering piece to spine, otherwise plain. £3,700
Paris, 1938. First edition. 4to. Black & white photographs. Text in English and French. Bound by
Asprey in full black morocco with the a vertical white band to the left of the front cover bearing the title
inlaid in black silver lettering to spine and all edges silvered. Very rare. £2,800
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marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Binding very marginally faded and one corner lightly bumped,
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.
otherwise in exceptionally good condition. £1,300
And Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According
the Use of The Church of England: Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as
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(Royalty) Lorne, The Marquis of.
They Are to Be Sung or Said in Churches: and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and
V.R.I. HER LIFE AND EMPIRE.
Consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons.
By the Marquis of Lorne, K.T. Now His Grace the Duke of Argyll.
Collins…London, circa 1920. 16mo. Illustrated with colour plates depicting significant events in the
Printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode, His Majesty’s Printers.
life of Jesus. Contemporary binding of gilt–decorated dark tan morocco spine, the covers mounted
Marmsworth Bros. Ltd., London, circa 1901. Large 4to. Colour frontispiece portrait of Queen Victoria,
with intricate mother–of–pearl parquetry panels including a filigree border backed with red foil; with all
with colour title–page highlighted in gilt and a profusion of black & white photographs and other
edges gilt. Approximately 4 5⁄ 8 x 3 1⁄ 8 ins. (12 x 8 cm). £275
illustrations throughout. A near contemporary, exceptional binding in full lizard skin with a fine gold
metal monogram of VR intertwined with a ribbon engraved with the dates of her reign, with a royal
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crown above; with silk moiré linings and all edges gilt. With trade label of ‘George Gregory, Bookseller
NOUVEAU MISSEL* ROMAIN. (French)
to H.M. Queen Alexandra, 5, Argyle St. Bath’ inside rear cover the front silk linings are a little frayed
Marc Barbou, Limoges, circa 1910. 12mo. Illustrated black & white frontispiece and engraved green
to the fore–edge and the binding has been reinforced at the spine inside front and rear; otherwise a
printed borders depicting the Madonna and Child. Original, unusual binding of dark green morocco
most unusual and handsome volume. £650
the boards with serpentine edges on three sides with gilt line and all edges gilt.
Approximately 5 ½ x 4 ¼ ins. (14 x 11 cm). £275
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(Royalty) Signed Photograph.
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II.
*A missal is a liturgical book containing all instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year.
A black & white photograph of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Dorothy Wilding. Three–quarter
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length, seated wearing a satin court dress with Royal Garter and the George IV state diadem, and
AIDS TO INNER LIFE.
holding a closed fan. Signed and dated 1953. Mounted on cream board with moulded silvered–wood
Five miniature volumes entitled: 1) ‘The Christian Year’, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and Holidays
frame. Photograph size including signature and date below: 13 x 9 ½ ins. (33 x 24 cm). Framed size:
throughout the year. 2) ‘The Hidden Life of the Soul’. 3) ‘Of The Imitation of Christ’. 4) ‘Introduction To
20 ¾ x 17 ins. (52.5 x 43 cm).
The Devout Life’. 5) ‘Spiritual Combat’, together with the ‘Supplement and the Path of Paradise’.
Dorothy Wilding began her photographic career as an apprentice to the Bond Street photographer
Published by Henry Frowde, etc., London, circa 1900. 16 mo. 4 ½ x 2 ¾ ins. (11 x 7 cm). Bound in
Marian Neilson. Wilding was the first woman to be appointed as Official Royal Photographer for the
full cream vellum with crimson lettering pieces, matching vellum slip–case with ownership initials
1937 Coronation and opened a second studio in New York in the same year. She is best known for
embossed to one side. All in very good condition. £275
her brightly lit linear compositions photographed in high key lighting against a white background. Her
autobiography In Pursuit of Perfection was published in 1958. Her surviving archives were presented
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to the National Portrait Gallery by her sister Mrs. Susan Morton in1976 and formed the basis of a
THE CORONATION ALBUM.
major NPG retrospective exhibition and catalogue in 1991, “The Pursuit of Perfection”. £1,800
The Collector’s Book Club, 1953. Limited edition #209 / 252. All copies are introduced and signed
by the Most Hon. The Marquess of Aberdeen H.M.L., K. St J., whose family and person have enjoyed
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a long association with the throne. Landscape 4to. This is an entirely original, stunning photograph
EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON. 2 vols.
album commemorating our present Queen’s coronation in 1953. All the plates are mounted on the
New York, 1926. First edition. Photographic illustrations by Kermit Roosevelt. Original binding of blue
pages (with captions and commentary), the majority being black & white with the occasional colour
cloth with gilt cameo to front cover. This account, by the sons of President Roosevelt, of their hunting
one (with tissue guard) of the various crown jewels. Attached inside the rear cover is a slip–case
expedition from vice–regal India into the Himalayas, traversing Turkestan, the Steppes and ending in
containing a full set of commemorative coins and the ‘Approved Souvenir Programme’, both mounted
Kashmir, makes truly remarkable journey.
on marbled paper–covered board. Original binding of full, gilt–decorated, dark blue morocco, the front
cover inlaid with ‘ER 1953’ below a stylised crown, in red, white and gilt against the blue ground; with
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(and)
THE PUNISHMENTS OF CHINA.
TRAILING THE PANDA.
Illustrated by Twenty–Two Engravings: with Explanations in English and French.
New York, 1929. First edition. With a frontispiece from a painting by Carl Rungius and illustrations
William Miller, London, 1808. Folio. French and English text, hand–coloured, stipple engraved plates.
from photographs by Suydam Cutting and Kermit Roosevelt. Original binding of blue cloth with gilt
Bound by Asprey in quarter mid–night blue, lightly gilt–decorated calf over navy blue cloth, with all
cameo to front cover. Both volumes housed together in a crimson cloth slip–case.
edges untrimmed.
The Roosevelt brothers set out to be the first Westerners to trail and shoot this mysterious and remote
Certainly a very unusual title with very handsome plates depicting various ‘persuasive’ tactics from
bear as part of a contest, in which both men claim to have shot the same bear! £1,400
‘Twisting A Man’s Ears’ to ‘Burning A Man’s Eyes With Lime’. £2,700
(Shooting) Stockley, Colonel. V. M.
BIG GAME SHOOTING IN INDIA, BRUMA, AND SOMALILAND.
London, 1913. First edition. Various photographic plates and illustrations. Original binding of dark
bottle green cloth embossed to simulate crocodile skin, gilt titles and foliate endpapers. £1,100
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(Theatre) Doran, John.
THEIR MAJESTIES’ SERVANTS.
Annals of the English Stage. 4 volumes in 5.
London, 1864. Extra–illustrated with approximately 450 portraits and plates, most engraved, many cut
and mounted. Occasional spotting. Later bindings of half gilt–decorated red morocco with marbled
endpapers and all edges gilt. £2,200
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(Theatre) Egan, Pierce.
THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR.
London, 1825. First edition. Illustrated with 27 hand–coloured engravings by Theodore Lane, with
additional engraved vignettes. Contemporary binding of diced calf, rebacked, with all edges speckled.
Binding worn with age, but sound. Internally very good.
A detailed account of the trials and tribulations of an actor’s life amusingly and poignantly illustrated
by Lane. This is regarded as the artist’s best work, completed three years before his untimely death
at the age of 28. £950
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(Theatre) Guinness, Alec.
BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE.
London, 1985. First edition. With bookplate signed and dated by the Author, mounted to half–title
page. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Original binding of red cloth with illustrated
dust–jacket in very good condition. A witty collection of memoirs by one of the most distinguished
English actors of the 20th century. £125
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Donleavy, J. P.
THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.
THE GINGER MAN.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885. First edition thus. Translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby.
Paris, The Olympia Press, 1955. First edition. Original green wrappers. Traveller’s Companion
In four volumes. Bound in full orange goatskin with decorative gilt tooling, hand–made decorated
Series No. 7. Correct first edition price of Francs: 1500. Enclosed in a green quarter calf
endpapers, all edges gilt. $4,995
solander box. $1,850
Conrad, Joseph.
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Faulkner, William.
LORD JIM.
LIGHT IN AUGUST.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. First American edition, first state. Bound in its original
New York, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. First Edition. Bound in full navy blue niger
covers and enclosed in a green quarter morocco solander box with decorative gilt tooling.
goatskin with decorative gilt tooling, hand–made decorated endpapers, all edges gilt, original
A great association copy—from the Doubleday family library and so docketed on the front free
covers–stamped in orange and blue–bound in at rear. $1,995
endpaper. At the time of publication, Doubleday & McClure was dividing into two entities —
Doubleday, Page & Co. and McClure, Phillips & Co.—with uncertainty as to which firm would retain
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the rights to Lord Jim. Although McClure, Phillips would publish the next few Conrad titles, Lord Jim
SHOW BOAT.
stayed with Doubleday. $3,500
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. First trade edition. Bound in full green crushed levant
with decorative gilt tooling, hand–made marbled endpapers. $1,500
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Conrad, Joseph.
YOUTH.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. First edition. Collection of three
novellas. Contains the first appearance of the masterpiece Heart of Darkness. Original green boards.
Enclosed in a full morocco green solander box with tooling replicating the front cover and spine
of the book. $4,000
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Cooper, James Fenimore.
THE PATHFINDER: OR, THE INLAND SEA.
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchards, 1840. First American edition, first or second state. In two volumes.
Bound in original green cloth binding with paper spine labels. Enclosed in a brown quarter morocco
slipcase and chemise with decorative tooling in blind and gilt. $2,500
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Defoe, Daniel.
THE LIFE AND SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER.
London: Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831. In two volumes. Bound in tan three quarter levant
with decorative gilt tooling, top edge gilt. The whole enclosed in a black cloth slip–case. Engraved
portrait frontispiece in first volume and 16 engraved plates through both volumes by Jacob George
Strutt. $1,995
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Fielding, Henry.
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Huxley, Aldous.
THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING.
BRAVE NEW WORLD.
London, Macmillan and Co., Limited. 1924. In two volumes. From Macmillan’s Library of English
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1932. First and Limited American Edition– #6 / 250.
Classics series. Bound in full red straight–grain calf with decorative gilt tooling, green and blue
Signed by Huxley. Unique Asprey binding of full orange niger goatskin with black and crimson niger
morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1,350
onlay, black and crimson niger doublures, navy blue silk linings, all edges gilt. Original covers bound
in at rear. $6,500
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Goldsmith, Oliver.
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.
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Jackson, Shirley.
London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1929. First English trade edition. Illustrated by
THE LOTTERY.
Arthur Rackham. Bound in full blue crushed morocco leather decorated in blind and in gilt, marbled
New York, Farrar, Straus and Company. 1949. First Edition. Bound in full black calf with decorative
endpapers, all edges gilt. $1,725
tooling in blind and in gilt with hand–made endpapers, all edges gilt. $2,700
Grey, Zane.
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James, Henry.
TAPPAN’S BURRO AND OTHER STORIES.
THE TWO MAGICS.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1923. First edition. Illustrated by Charles S. Chapman and Frank
London, William Heinemann. 1898. First edition. 32pp. of ads. One of only 1500 copies printed of the
Street. Original covers and dustjacket. Enclosed in a black slip–case. $1,050
first edition. Bound in full green niger goatskin with decorative gilt tooling, handmade endpapers, all
edges gilt.Includes the classic The Turn of the Screw and also Covering End. $3,750
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Hammett, Dashiell.
RED HARVEST, THE DAIN CURSE, THE MALTESE FALCON, THE GLASS KEY, THE THIN MAN.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934. First editions. Five volumes of classic
detective tales. Each volume bound in matching black morocco with gilt tooling on spine and covers.
Original covers bound in at rear. $17,500
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Hardy, Thomas.
TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926. First trade edition thus. One of 1500 copies printed.
Illustrated by Vivien Gribble. Bound in full navy blue morocco with decorative gilt tooling, hand–made
decorated endpapers, all edges gilt. $1,595
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Hardy, Thomas.
JUDE THE OBSCURE.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896. First edition. Bound in full green chieftain with decorative
gilt tooling, hand–made marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. $1,695
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Hemingway, Ernest.
A FAREWELL TO ARMS.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. First trade edition, first issue. Bound in full brown
morocco, all edges gilt, original covers bound in at rear. $2,000
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Lewis, Sinclair.
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Welty, Eudora.
DODSWORTH.
DELTA WEDDING.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First Edition. Bound in its original covers and
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1946. First edition. Inscribed by Welty on title–page.
dust–jacket. Enclosed in a navy blue quarter morocco solander box with decorative tooling. $1,850
Original covers and dust–jacket enclosed in a navy blue quarter morocco solander box with
decorative gilt tooling. $2,275
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London, Jack.
THE CALL OF THE WILD.
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West, Nathaniel.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First edition. Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles
A COOL MILLION.
Livingston Bull. Bound in full dark green chieftain with decorative gilt tooling, all edges gilt. Original
New York: Covici Friede, 1934. First edition. Bound in scarlet morocco leather with gilt borders
covers bound in at rear. $2,500
and raised bands, all edges gilt. Hand–made endpapers. $2,200
Lowry, Malcolm.
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West, Nathaniel.
UNDER THE VOLCANO.
MISS LONELYHEARTS.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First edition. Bound in dove–grey morocco. All edges gilt.
New York: Liveright, 1933. First edition. Bound in scarlet morocco with gilt borders and raised bands,
Handmade endpapers, original covers bound in at rear. $2,100
hand–made endpapers. All edges gilt. $2,750
Maugham, Somerset.
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Wharton, Edith.
OF HUMAN BONDAGE.
THE FRUIT OF THE TREE.
London: William Heinemann, 1915. First edition. Bound in dark green morocco, gilt borders on cover
New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1907. First Edition. Illustrated by Alonzo Kimball. Bound in full
and gilt on spine. All edges gilt, with hand–made endpapers. Original covers bound
green chieftan with decorative gilt tooling, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1,450
in at rear. $2,500
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Wharton, Edith.
Steinbeck, John.
XINGU AND OTHER STORIES.
EAST OF EDEN.
New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1916. First Edition. Bound in full crimson chieftan with decorative
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First trade edition. Bound in its original covers and dust–jacket
gilt tooling, marbled endpaper, all edges gilt. $1,450
and enclosed in a quarter morocco solander box. $2000
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Steinbeck, John.
THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON.
THE RED PONY.
New York. D. Appleton and Company. 1922. First edition. Bound in full blue niger with decorative gilt
New York: Covici–Friede Publishers, 1937. First and limited edition #232 / 699. Signed
tooling, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1,500
by Steinbeck. Bound in its original covers, glassine dust jacket and paper-covered slip–case
(with matching number) and enclosed in a quarter morocco slip–case and chemise. $3,500
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Wharton, Edith.
THE CHILDREN.
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Wells, H. G.
New York. D. Appleton and Company. 1928. First edition. Bound in full black chieftan with decorative
THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU.
gilt tooling, handmade endpapers, all edges gilt. $1,500
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. First American edition. Bound in full black morocco, elaborately
gilt, hand–made decorated endpapers, all edges gilt, original covers bound in at rear. The Times in
its review of 17 June, 1896 said of it ‘…the book should be kept out of the way of young people and
avoided by all who have good taste, good feeling or feeble nerves.’ $2,600
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Tudor, Tasha.
FAIRY TALES.
CORGIVILLE FAIR.
London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1913. First trade edition. Illustrated in colour and in black and white
New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell Company, 1971. First edition. Original covers and dust–jacket
by W. Heath Robinson. Bound in full vellum, elaborately gilt, hand–made endpapers, all edges gilt.
enclosed in a tan quarter morocco solander box with decorative gilt tooling. $1,400
Original covers bound in at rear, enclosed in an alum–tawed entry slip–case. $4,995
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Wiggin, Kate Douglas.
Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM.
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
Boston and New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1903. First edition, third issue. Publisher’s
London: Macmillan & Co., 1872, 1873. Both titles are early printings. Illustrated by John Tenniel.
green pictorial cloth covers enclosed in a matching slipcase. $675
Bound in full red goatskin with decorative gilt tooling, hand–made marbled endpapers, all edges gilt,
original cloth covers bound in rear of each volume, enclosed in a slip–case. $4,100
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Wilde, Oscar.
A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES.
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Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1891. First Edition. Designed and decorated by Charles
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
S. Ricketts and C. H. Shannon. Bound in burgundy morocco with decorative tooling, hand–marbled
New York: Three Sirens Press, circa 1932 (no date). One volume. Black and white illustrations by
endpapers, all edges gilt. The second of Wilde’s collection of fairy tales. $4,500
John Tenniel. Bound in blue three–quarter morocco with decorative gilt tooling, marbled endpapers,
top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. $1,725
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Kipling, Rudyard.
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS.
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1897. First edition. Illustrated by I.W. Taber. Bound in full blue
chieftain goatskin, all edges gilt, original covers bound in at rear. $2,500
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Salten, Felix.
BAMBI: A LIFE IN THE WOODS.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928. First American edition. Translated from the German
by Whittaker Chambers. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Foreword by John Galsworthy. Bound in full green
chieftain goatskin with decorative gilt tooling, multi–colour leather onlay, hand–made decorated
endpapers, all edges gilt, original covers and endpapers bound in at rear. $2,400
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Stevenson, Robert Lewis.
KIDNAPPED.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913. First edition thus. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. Bound in full
navy blue morocco with decorative gilt tooling, hand–made decorated endpapers, all edges gilt,
original covers and endpapers bound in at rear. $2,950
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano.
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.
INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980. First printing. Signed by author on recto of front free endpaper.
Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office. #3 / 100. Inscribed by President Roosevelt on the
Bound in its original covers and dust–jacket and enclosed in a full navy blue morocco solander box,
front free endpaper, dated Christmas 1943. Texts of the first three inaugural addresses.
elaborately gilt. The book on which the film was based. $2,500
Original marbled paper boards. Calf label on spine. $45,000
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of.
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CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS.
LETTERS WRITTEN BY THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE…
Mt. Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1946. #1 / 2,375 laid on Ticonderoga paper, bound in
Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq.
red leather with gilt title and lines on raised bands, all edges gilt. Titles in charter printed
London: J. Dodsley, 1774. First edition. In two volumes. Contemporary binding of full sprinkled calf,
in orange–red ink. $1,250
morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. $2,500
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Herodotus.
THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS OF HALICARNASSUS.
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press. 1935. #112 / 675. Translated by G. Rawlinson, revised and
annotated by A. W. Lawrence. Illustrated with wood engravings by V. Le Campion and a series of new
maps by T. Poulton. Publisher’s binding of blue quarter vellum with decorative gilt tooling, top edge
gilt, other edges untrimmed. $1,895
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Kohl, Helmut.
PARTNERSHIP IN LIBERTY.
West Stockbridge, Mass.: Thornwillow Press, 1990. Limited edition #255 / 500 (from a total
edition of 2000). Bound in full crimson morocco, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.
Enclosed in publisher’s black linen–covered fall–down–back–box, and signed by the publisher,
Luke Ives Pontifell. $1,500
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Paine, Thomas.
THE AGE OF REASON.
Trilogy of pamphlets in green blue wraps. Part 1: The Age of Reason: An investigation of true
theology, by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress during the Revolutionary War, and author
of such works entitled Common Sense, Rights of Man, etc. Printed by Barrois, London. Sold by D. J.
Eaton in 1794. Part 2: The Age of Reason, Second Part. London, printed for H. D. Symonds in 1795.
Part 3: The Age of Reason, Third Part. London, printed, published and sold by Daniel Isaac Eaton,
1811. All three parts housed in a half–leather and cloth box, specially designed to accommodate the
slightly smaller size of parts 1 and 2. $6,000
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Blake, William.
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WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BLAKE.
THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT.
London, Nonesuch Press, 1935. #XXXI / LXXV on Oxford India paper. Three volumes bound in brown
Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler, 1891. Kipling’s writings on Calcutta, #14 of The Indian Railway Library
morocco with decorative gilt tooling. Top edge gilt. $1,750
Collection. Original soft cover text bound in lime green niger goatskin with elaborate gilt work showing
paisley in red and gold, flora, fish and fowl in gold. Complete with original advertising and reviews of
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Kipling’s works. $4,250
THE CANTERBURY TALES.
London: Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd., 1928. First one–volume edition. Illustrated in
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colour and in black & white by W. Russell Flint. Bound in full vellum, elaborately gilt, hand-made
LE MORTE D’ARTHUR.
decorated endpapers, all edges gilt, original covers bound in at rear, enclosed in an alum–tawed–
Oxford, Shakespeare Head Press. 1934. Limited edition #255 / 370. Two volumes. Bound in full
entry matching slip–case. $3,995
crimson morocco. From the unique copy of the edition printed by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster,
1498 now in the John Rylands Library at Manchester. $2,500
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
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Shaw, Bernard.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash for the Limited Editions Club, 1934. #286 / 1,500, signed
SAINT JOAN.
by Nash. Binding copy bound in navy blue leather, handmade end papers, gilt trim front and
London: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1924. First edition. Bound in full navy blue morocco,
back covers. $2,400
elaborately gilt, moiré silk linings and doublures, all edges gilt. $3,600
Homer.
THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER.
Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1930,1931. Limited Edition #382 / 450. Five volumes of
the works of Homer translated by Chapman. Woodcuts by John Fairleigh. Half crushed red
morocco over cream buckram boards. $4,500
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Kerouac, Jack.
TO THE SOVIET UNION ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEATH OF R. KENNEDY AND ALSO
IN REPLY TO YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO’S POEM ABOUT “SHOOT”.
Unpublished, 1968. An angry poem written shortly after RFK’s assassination and signed by Kerouac
with a few autograph corrections. Single leaf, recto, creased. $20,000
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Kipling, Rudyard.
LETTERS OF MARQUE.
Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler, 1891. First edition. Author’s writings on travels throughout India. Bound in
lime green morocco with elaborate gilt work showing paisley in red and gold, with flora, fish and fowl
in gold. Original covers bound in at rear. $3,000
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(Angling) Walton, Izaak.
new york list
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(Hemingway)
THE COMPLETE ANGLER.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY CHRISTMAS CARD TO GEORGE BROWN, CIRCA 1950.
London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, Limited, 1893. Tercentenary Edition. Two volumes. Original green
A printed Christmas Card with a photograph of Hemingway’s Boat, “Pilar”, reproduced on the cover
boards with vellum spine. Decorative gilt decoration on front and spine. Original (clipped) green paper
and the printed inscription “Merry Christmas – Happy New Year/Mary and Ernest Hemingway / Fincia
dust–jackets. $1,200
Vigia / San Francisco de Paul / Cuba” on the inside. It is inscribed first by Mary: “A Hug from / Papa,
and a X from/M” and below that by Hemingway: “Hug, hell / Watch yourself, Brown / Best from both
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(Art) Sendak, Maurice.
of us. / Ernesto (206). George Brown was among, other things, a friend, sparring partner and personal
NIKOLENKA'S CHILDHOOD.
trainer to Hemingway. The “206” refers to Hemingway’s weight. $3,000
Pen and ink drawing, 3 3⁄ 8 x 4 ins. (8.5 x 10 cm) of workers in a field with farm buildings, hay bales,
horses and trees in the background. Tipped to board, matted and framed, signed lower right.Illustra-
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tion from “Nikolenka’s Childhood” by Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910), illustrated by Sendak. $17,500
(Roosevelt)
AUTOGRAPHED PORTRAIT OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT.
A silver print 8” x 10” early sepia–toned portrait of FDR probably taken when he was Governor of
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(Art) Sendak, Maurice.
New York. Signed by FDR in the bottom margin. $1,200
SCHOOLMASTER WHACKWELL'S WONDERFUL SONS.
Pen and ink drawing, 3 ½ x4 ¼ ins. (9 x 11 cm) of three figures in two rowboats, on a turbulent sea.
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(Sculpture)
From “Schoolmaster Wackwell’s Wonderful Son’s”, published in 1962. Tipped to board, matted
HENRY KIRKE BROWN.
and framed. $14,000
Ulysses S. Grant bust signed ‘H. K. Bush Brown / Copyright 1885 / The Henry–Bonnard Bronze Co.
NY.’ A heroic bust of General Grant as commander of the Union forces in the uniform of a
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(Fable) Shepard, Odell.
four–star general. $5,500
THE LORE OF THE UNICORN.
London: Unwin Brothers, 1930. Bound in crimson morocco goatskin with elaborate gilt on front and
back covers, all edges gilt, moiré linings. $2,995
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(Watercolour)
“PATRIOTS OF 1861”
A watercolour cartouche of an American Eagle, Flags, and Cannon at top signed by Abraham Lincoln
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(Fore-edge Painting) Goldsmith, Oliver.
and every significant character at the beginning of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, his entire Cabinet,
THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
and others; a total of 53 signatures, penned on a document titled “Patriots of 1861” within a brown wash
London, no date (owner inscription dated 1870). Lovely triple fore–edge painting of golfing scenes.
watercolour cartouche shield surrounded by an American Eagle, flags and cannons at top centre, with
Contemporary binding of full green morocco with decorative gilt tooling, marbled endpapers,
crossed decorations at bottom. One page, approximately 11 ¼” x 20”, circa September– October 1861.
all edges gilt. $2,500
In the centre of three columns of signatures are those of Abraham Lincoln and his entire cabinet, with
each name over a hand written title such as William H. Seward, Secretary of State; Simon Cameron, Sec-
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(Golf) Wodehouse, P. G.
retary of War; S.P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, as well as a number of other top level posts (Agricul-
THE GOLF OMNIBUS.
ture Bureau, Comptroller of the Treasury, Commissioner of Customs, Auditor of Treasury, Commissioner
New York, 1973, First Edition. Bound in green morocco. Decorative gilt tooling front, back and spine.
of Patents, etc), civic leaders, and many Union Military officers, all simulating printing. At the top right
Original boards bound in rear. Collection of 31 stories on golf over half a century. $1,800
column are the two military ranks, Major General U.S.A., John A. Dix, and Quartermaster General. U.S.A.,
M. C. Meigs. At the top centre, just beneath the title is Lincoln’s large signature, “A. Lincoln”. $50,000
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Abagnale, Frank W., Jr.
Conrad, Joseph.
Grey, Zane.
Kohl, Helmut.
Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph.
Shoberl, Frederic.
Wilde, Oscar.
Aberdeen, Marquis of.
Cook, Beryl.
Grossmith, G & W.
Lamb, Charles.
Pierce, Michael, John Golley and others.
(Battle of Britain, Royal Air Force)
Smeaton, Oliphant.
Wodehouse, P. G.
Ainger, Arthur Campbell.
Cooper, James Fenimore.
Guinness, Alec.
Lawrence, D. H.
Poe, Edgar Allan.
Soulby, W. H.
Woolf, Virginia.
Andersen, Hans Christian.
Craddock, Harry.
Hall, S. C.
Lawrence, T. E.
Poley, Arthur F. E.
Sowerby, John E. (Illustrator) &
C. Pierpoint Johnson. (Author)
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius.
Cunard, Nancy. (Editor)
Hammett, Dashiell.
Lewis, C. S.
Potter, Beatrix.
Spender, Stephen.
Baker, Sir Richard.
Davies, Hunter.
Hardy, Thomas.
Lewis, Sinclair.
Pratchett, Terry.
Steinbeck, John.
Barton, Rose. (Artist)
De Brunhoff, Jean.
Heaney, Seamus
Lichtenstein, Henry.
Puccini, Giacomo.
Stevenson, Robert Lewis.
Batsford. (Publisher)
De Saint–Exupéry, Antoine.
Heath Robinson, W. &
K. R. G. Browne.
Lincoln, Abraham.
Pyne, W. H.
Stockley, Colonel. V. M.
Blaeu, Willem.
Defoe, Daniel.
Hemingway, Ernest.
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Strachey, Lytton.
Blake, William.
Dickens, Charles.
Henry VIII, King.
London, Jack.
Repton, Humphry.
Strawberry Hill Press.
Boswell, James.
Donleavy, J. P.
Herodotus.
Lorne, The Marquis of.
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano.
Suckling, Sir John.
Brandt, Bill.
Doran John.
Hillary, Edmund.
Lowry, Malcolm.
Roosevelt, Theodore and Kermit.
Thomas, Dylan.
Bricusse, Leslie.
Hockney, David
Lydekker, R.
Rowling, J. K.
Thompson, Kay.
Brown, Henry Kirke.
Egan, Pierce.
Homer.
Malory, Sir Thomas.
Rutter, John.
Thornton, Robert John, M. D.
Carroll, Lewis.
(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
Housman, A. E.
Mansfield, Katherine.
Sadao Kikuchi. (Editor)
Tourtel, Mary.
Catlin, George.
Faulkner, William.
Hughes, Ted.
Marlowe, Christopher. &
George Chapman.
Sale, George. (Translator)
Tudor, Tasha.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.
Ferber, Edna.
Huxley, Aldous.
Martin, Charles.
Salinger, J. D.
Wagner, Richard.
Cescinsky, Herbert. &
Ernest R. Gribble.
Filelding, Henry.
Inglis, Henry D.
Mason, G. H.
Salten, Felix.
Walpole, Horace.
Chambers, William.
Fleming, Alexander.
Irving, Washington.
Maugham, Somerset W.
Sassoon, Siegfried.
Walton, Izaak.
Chatwin, Bruce.
Fleming, Ian.
Jackson, Shirley.
Merigot, James.
Sendak, Maurice.
Watts, W. (Engraver)
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Fore–edge Painting.
James, Henry.
Milligan, Spike.
Seuss, Dr.
Weber, Bruce.
Chesterfield, Earl of.
Forster, E. M.
Jones, Captain W. E.
Milne, A. A.
Sewell, Anna.
Wells, H. G.
Christie, Agatha.
Gill, Eric.
Judaica.
Mitchell, Margaret.
Shackleton, Ernest.
Welty, Eudora.
Churchill, Winston.
Goldsmith, Oliver.
Kerouac, Jack.
Nabokov, Vladimir.
West, Nathaniel.
Claxton, William.
Greenaway, Kate.
Kipling, Rudyard.
Paine, Thomas.
Shaw, George Bernard.
Wharton, Edith.
(Combe, William) ‘Dr. Syntax.’
Greene, Graham.
Knight, Richard Payne. &
John Davenport.
Parks, Fanny.
Shepard, Odell.
Wiggin, Kate.
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