- Peter Harrington

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- Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington
london
Christmas 2014
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Front cover illustration adapted from Robert Indiana’s Robert
Indiana Introduction by John W. McCoubrey, item 159
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This extremely popular animal story was initially turned
down by all major publishing houses. When finally issued by Rex Collings in 1972 sales were over 100,000 in
the first year and Adams was awarded both the Carnegie
Medal and the Guardian Award for children’s fiction.
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(ACKERMANN, Rudolph, publ.) Historical
Sketch of Moscow: illustrated by twelve views of
different parts of that imperial city, the Kremlin,
etc. London: R. Ackermann, 1813
Quarto (360 × 295 mm). Skilfully rebound to style in calfbacked onionskin paper boards, vellum tips, spine compartments decorated in gilt and with longitudinal red morocco
label, original printed paper label pasted on front board,
edges untrimmed. 12 hand-coloured aquatints on Whatman
wove paper watermarked 1812. A little minor spotting and
toning, but a very good copy, retaining several uncut edges.
first edition, with picturesque hand-coloured
plates, showing landmarks like the Great Square and
the Kremlin, but also rarer views like the Petrovskiy
Palace and the Old Wood Theatre. Some plates include scenes of everyday life, like the “View of the
Ice Hills, during the Carnival, at Moscow”. The work
was published the year after Napoleon’s disastrous retreat from Moscow at a time when public interest was
aroused by Russia, its historical capital and people.
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The 27-page introduction sarcastically applauds Napoleon for his soldier-like conduct and magnanimity. The book was originally offered for sale in both
coloured and uncoloured state; coloured copies are
naturally greatly preferred in the market.
Abbey Travel 224; Prideaux pp. 227, 340, 374; Tooley 262.
£7,500
[91231]
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ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. Illustrated
by John Lawrence. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books
& Kestrel Books, 1976
Octavo (230 × 152 mm). Original dark green crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt, compartments with raised bands and gilt motifs, rabbit vignette to
front board in gilt, edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. Numerous illustrations in colour and black and white;
a coloured folding map tipped-in at the rear. A fine copy.
first illustrated edition, no. 118 of 250 specially bound and signed copies of Adams’s first novel.
£2,950
[94379]
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ARDIZZONE, Edward (illus.), & Maurice
Gorham. The Local. London: Cassell & Co, Ltd,
1939
Octavo. Original grey boards printed in red and black. With
15 four-colour lithographic plates, including one doublepage. Small chip to head of toned spine, a couple of short
superficial tears to spine and joints. An excellent copy.
first edition. “Ardizonne’s illustrations are generally concerned with contemporary life untouched by
political, religious or ideological conflicts. His approach is not satiric or moralistic but autobiographical, and his drawings are representational and humourous and demonstrate his affection for people”
(The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators).
The book’s scarcity has long been anecdotally attributed within the book trade to the bomb damage
inflicted on Cassell’s warehouses during the Blitz.
Whether this is true or not, it remains a scarce book,
especially in this condition.
£1,250
[92668]
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[AUSTEN, Jane.] Sense and Sensibility. In
Three Volumes. The Second Edition. London:
Printed for the author by C. Roworth, and published
by T. Egerton, 1813
[AUSTEN, Jane.] Northanger Abbey: and
Persuasion. By the Author of “Pride and
Prejudice,” “Mansfield Park,” &c. With a
biographical notice of the author. London: John
Murray, 1818
3 volumes, duodecimo (191 × 113 mm). Contemporary
brown half calf rebacked with the original spines laid down,
spines gilt in compartments, black morocco labels, marbled
sides. Housed in a tan morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Corners and ends of spines renewed, bindings a little
rubbed, spotting to contents. A very good set.
second edition. An attractive copy in an uncommon contemporary binding. Sense and Sensibility was
first published in late 1811, and the first edition was
sold out by July 1813. This second edition (with the
text significantly revised by Austen and the substitution of “By the author of Pride and Prejudice” for “By
a Lady” on the title page) appeared in October 1813.
Austen received her copy on 6 November, and wrote
to her sister Cassandra, “My 2nd Edit. has stared me
in the face… I cannot help hoping that many will feel
themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it”
(Gilson, p. 16).
Gilson A2.
£12,500
[88406]
4 volumes, duodecimo (183 × 104 mm). Skilfully rebound to
style in dark blue half calf, smooth spines lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled sides. Half-titles present. Ownership
inscriptions of Julia P. Tudor to first three title pages. First
title with closed tear at upper inner corner not affecting text,
repaired on verso; occasional spotting, a good tall copy, preserving some deckle edges at foot.
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Chapman. With notes indexes and illustrations
from contemporary sources. Oxford: The
Clarendon Press, 1923
7 volumes, octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, centre tool
to spines with crimson morocco labels, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With colour frontispieces and further black and white illustrations
throughout. An excellent set handsomely bound.
first clarendon press edition. One of a limited
edition of 1,000 sets on large paper with the letters in
two volumes.
£3,750
[80199]
first edition of Jane Austen’s final published work,
pairing her last completed novel with the light-spirited satire which was probably the first full-length
novel she wrote. Her brother Henry’s biographical
notice, dated 13 December 1817, though generally
reckoned to be too lavish with unqualified praise, is
the first acknowledgement in print of Jane Austen as
the author of her six novels.
Gilson A9.
£7,500
[87792]
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. The text based on
early collation of the early editions by R. W.
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AWDRY, Wilbert Vere. Tank Engine Thomas
Again. Leicester: Edmund Ward, [1949]
Duodecimo. Original blue boards, titles and illustration to
front cover gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by C. Reginald Dalby. Contents a little shaken, endpapers partially
tanned, extremities slightly rubbed with some surface loss,
a couple of minor marks to boards. A very good copy in a
slightly chipped jacket with one closed tear to rear flap.
first edition of the fourth book in Reverend Awdry’s Railway Series. The Three Railway Engines was the
first book in the series, introducing Edward, Gordon,
and Henry. Thomas the Tank Engine appeared a year
later in 1947 and Again in 1949, and has become synonymous with the whole series.
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first edition, inscribed by the artist on the
front free endpaper “For Isabel with love and best
wishes Francis.” David Sylvester first met Bacon in
London during the Second World War. He became
a close friend and one of Bacon’s most powerful and
perceptive champions. This book, distilled from
more than ten years of interviews, was probably Sylvester’s best-known and most influential work.
£2,000
[47118]
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(BAKER, Josephine.) Spectacular doubleweight
signed photograph of Baker in the bath. Vienna:
Eduard Weil & Co., c.1927
[91065]
Original large vintage promotional photograph (218 × 282
mm), cropped wet-stamp of the Viennese film distributors
Eduard Weil & Co. verso. Very good. Gilt ebonised wood
frame.
(BACON, Francis.) David Sylvester. Interviews
with Francis Bacon. London: Thames and Hudson,
1975
A signed film-still from the 1927 film La Sirène des
Tropiques (The Siren of the Tropics/Das Mädchen aus den Tropen). A fabulous image from Baker’s first movie vehicle, with her elegantly flourished autograph inscription, “Souvenir de Josephine Baker”. Cashing in on
her success in the Revue Nègre, La Sirène is a ludicrous
confection set in large part in the Antilles, but filmed
entirely at Fontainebleau. Baker plays Papitou, a Car-
£1,000
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Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, titles to front cover
and spine in white. With 94 illustrations. Head and foot of
spine rubbed, corners a little creased, white lower panel age
toned.
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ibbean stowaway who teaches tout Paris to love the
Charleston, allegedly the Antillean national dance.
The scene shown here follows a broad slapstick sequence where Baker avoids capture while crossing the
Atlantic, first by “blacking up” in the liner’s coal-bunker, then by going “white face” in the galley flour-bin,
before sluicing it all away in this rather risqué bath
scene. “What might have seemed a relatively conventional slapstick routine blurs the boundaries established by the colour of skin, and functions to parody
the sophistication of white westerners. Papitou overdetermines her blackness by rolling in coal, only to
whiten herself with flour in a reversal of black-face
before emerging from her bath like Botticelli’s Venus.
The sequence also engages with a central paradox:
the crowd seek her, but, as the captain’s averted gaze
suggests when Papitou emerges naked from the bath,
they do not want to see her … What began as a simplistic binary between nature and culture therefore
turns into a more complex set of relations as a result
of this transitional transatlantic sequence” (Powrie &
Rebillard, “Josephine Baker and Pierre Batcheff in La
Sirène des tropiques” in Studies in French Cinema, 8 (3), pp.
245–264).
With a screenplay by the novelist Maurice Dekobra,
with input from “Count” Giuseppe “Pepito” Abatino,
Baker’s current “husband” and manager, produced
and directed by Mario Nalpas, with the assistance
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BANKSY. Wall and Piece. London: Century, 2005
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of a young Spanish film-school graduate, Luis Buñuel, the film was a popular success, although most
of the those involved considered it a joke. However,
“For Baker, it was worse than a joke. She was humiliated by it. She had no dignity in this part” (Rose, Jazz
Cleopatra, p. 120), and it precipitated her decision to
change entirely the nature of her performances, departing from France and touring the world, refining
her act and becoming the sophisticated entertainer
of world renown. “The Charleston, the bananas,
finished. Understand? I have to be worthy of Paris. I
want to become an artist” (quoted p. 140).
A sequence of similar promotional images from the film is
held by the Theatermuseum, Vienna.
£2,000
[93923]
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BALLARD, J. G. The Drowned World. London:
Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1962 [1963]
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. A fine copy in a superbly bright jacket.
first uk edition. Ballard’s catastrophe novel first
appeared as a novella in Science Fiction Adventures 4:24,
published in January 1962; the expanded book form
was published later the same year by Berkley, New
York. Though the imprint of the UK edition states
1962, it was actually published in January 1963.
£1,500
Quarto. Original illustrated boards, titles to front cover and
spine in black. With the dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket
lightly creased to foot of spine.
first edition. According to the publishers, only a
very few copies were issued with a dust jacket.
£950
[93722]
[92654]
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BALLARD, J. G. The Atrocity Exhibition.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge
red. With the dust jacket. Tiny dampstain to fore edge of text
block. An excellent copy in a very lightly toned jacket.
first uk edition. Originally published in the US
the same year.
£500
[94240]
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BARRIE, J. M. The Little White Bird or
Adventures in Kensington Gardens. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration
to spine and front board gilt, top edge gilt. Contemporary
ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Cloth a
little rubbed at extremities, top corner of boards bumped
slightly affecting corners of contents, rear hinge cracked. A
very good copy.
first american edition, signed copy, of the
first appearance in print of the character Peter Pan;
inscribed by the author on the front blank, “Yours
sincerely, J. M. Barrie. January 1921”. The Little White
Bird was originally published in London the same
year. Extracts from the book, with illustrations by
Arthur Rackham, would form the basis of Peter Pan in
Kensington Gardens (1906), while the character of Peter
Pan found theatrical expression in Barrie’s successful
stage play of that name (1904).
£4,500
[88011]
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(BAUM, L. Frank.) THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly.
The Royal Book Of Oz. Illustrated by John R.
Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1921
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Octavo. Original grey cloth, pictorial title panel to covers,
titles to spine black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. 12 colour plates by John R. Neill. Spine gently rolled, else
a very good copy in the price clipped dust jacket with chipping to ends of spine, shallow chipping and wear to extremities, flap folds with heavy creasing, chip to lower rear edge,
colours still remarkably bright, a very good copy.
first edition, with all the points indicative of first issue. The first Ruth Plumly Thompson title after taking
over as the new “Royal Historian” after Baum’s death.
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“Deutschland” (1936). However, as more of Bayer’s
colleagues emigrated and the artist found himself
featured in the 1937 “Entartete Kunst” exhibition,
Bayer left Germany in 1938. With a printed leaflet laid
in concerning cultural events taking place in Berlin in
May and June 1934.
£1,500
[90296]
Bienvenue & Schmidt pp. 102.
£1,000
[93030]
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(BAYER, Herbert.) Deutsches Volk—Deutsche
Arbeit. Berlin: Anzeigen-Aktiengesellschaft, 1934
Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers. With black and white
photographic illustrations throughout. An excellent copy in
lightly foxed wrappers with a few nicks and tears to extremities, two tape repairs to verso of front wrapper.
first edition of the exhibition catalogue for the
state-sponsored exhibition “Deutsches Volk—
Deutsche Arbeit”, held in Berlin between 21 April
and 3 June 1934. The catalogue and poster for this
exhibition were both designed by the graphic artist
Herbert Bayer. The former Bauhaus artist designed
three catalogues for propagandistic exhibitions, the
other two being “Das Wunder des Lebens” (1935) and
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(THE BEATLES.) EPSTEIN, Brian. A Cellarful
of Noise. London: Souvenir Press, 1964
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Illustrated with 24 black and white photographic plates. very faint partial tanning to free endpapers. An
excellent copy in a lightly toned jacket with one tiny closed
tear at head of spine panel.
first edition. The autobiography of the Beatles’
legendary manager, published after the group had
conquered the United States.
£375
[90182]
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(THE BEATLES.) STARR, Ringo. Postcards
from the Boys. Guildford: Genesis Publications
Limited, 2003
Quarto. Original full red leather, postcard of Ringo with titles in yellow tipped to front cover, titles to spine gilt. Three
postcards of Ringo in a black envelope and a sheet of stamps
loosely laid in. All housed in a red aluminium solander box
fashioned as a post box. With the original cardboard packing box. Reproduction of 53 postcards sent by members of the
Beatles to Ringo tipped in showing both sides. A fine copy.
first edition, deluxe signed issue. From an
edition of 2,500 copies, this is one of 350 deluxe cop-
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ies signed by Ringo Starr with an additional large format postcard signed by him housed in a printed and
stamped black envelope.
£2,500
[93187]
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BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot.
Tragicomedy in two acts. New York: Grove Press,
1954
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver and gilt
and to boards in blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket.
4 plates from photos of the author and a stage production.
Modern bookplate to front pastedown. An excellent copy in
the slightly toned jacket with some minor chipping to the
top edge of the rear panel.
first english language edition. Inscribed on
the front free endpaper by Marshall Lee, the designer
of the book and its dust jacket: “For my good friend
Margaret, from Marshall Lee”. The original French
language text, En attendant Godot, was first published
in France in 1952. The printed version of the English
text preceded the English language premiere of the
play, which was on 3 August 1955 at the Arts Theatre,
London, directed by the 24-year-old Peter Hall.
£1,500
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BELLOW, Saul. The Victim. New York: The
Vanguard Press Inc., 1947
Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in blue, top edge
blue. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the jacket that has
a chip to the foot of the rear panel and a few nicks to the
extremities.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by
the author on the front free endpaper: “For Max, affectionately Saul”, and with Max M. Kampelman’s monogram embossed on the front free endpaper. A superb
association: Kampelman (1920–2013) was an American lawyer and diplomat. During the war Kampelman
had been a conscientious objector. As alternative service, he chose to participate in a study of human survival, a programme of starvation rations that had left
him so thin that he looked like a concentration camp
survivor when Bellow rented him a room in his Minneapolis house at the time he was writing this book.
£975
[92575]
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BERNAYS, Edward L. Propaganda. New York:
Horace Liveright, 1928
Octavo. Original black cloth title gilt-blocked to front board
and spine. Lightly rubbed, spine slightly tanned, light toning, otherwise very good.
first edition. “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of
the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism
of society constitute an invisible government which is
the true ruling power of our country” (Chapter I). An
important early study of the “benign” uses of propaganda by Freud’s nephew, “The Father of Public Relations”, this is an uncommon title.
£1,250
[94120]
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BLIGH, William. A Narrative of the Mutiny
on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty; and the
Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the
Ship’s Boat, From Tofoa, one of the Friendly
Islands, To Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the
East Indies. London: George Nicol, 1790
Quarto (288 × 231 mm). Recent lightly sprinkled half calf, old
boards, to style, red morocco label, single gilt rules enclosing the bands and to the spine and corner edges. With fold-
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ing engraved plan “A Copy of the Draught from which the
Bounty’s Launch was built” by Mackenzie, and 3 engraved
charts by J. Walker after W. Harrison, 2 of them folding. The
folding plates somewhat creased from old misfolds, some
minor splitting and chipping, the “Draught” with a small
scraped puncture, some offsetting from the plates as usual,
light browning and some marginal finger-soiling, some later red pencil marginalia relating to the distance from Tofoa
to Timor, overall a very good copy.
first edition of Bligh’s personal account of “one of
the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history”, published two years before his full official version in an effort to influence opinion in his
favour, absolving him “from any blame that might be
levelled against him because of the incident” (Hill).
The story of Fletcher Christian’s mutinous commandeering of the Bounty, and the setting adrift of Bligh
and his 18 loyal crewmen on a 23-foot launch is a tale
known to all, but “what is not so well known is that
in the course of this hazardous journey Bligh took the
opportunity to chart and name parts of the unknown
north-east coast of New Holland as he passed along
it—an extraordinary feat of seamanship” (Wantrup).
Despite the film-fuelled condescension of posterity,
it should be remembered that Bligh’s skill as a navigator, perhaps second only to Cook of his time, and his
courage as a seaman, ensured his continued employment by the Admiralty, led to his election to the Royal
Society, and to his appointment as governor of New
South Wales.
Ferguson 71; Hill 132; Kroepelien 87; O’Reilly-Reitman 543;
Parks 7; Sabin 5908a; Wantrup 61.
£8,500
[92286]
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BLOCH, Robert. Psycho. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1959
Octavo (195 × 125 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery
in full black morocco with titles in white to spine and front
board, black endpapers, top edge black. Pages evenly toned
as is often the case with this title, an excellent copy attractively bound.
first edition, in a fine leather binding reproducing
the design of the original dust jacket.
£1,500
[87984]
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BOLAN, Marc. The Warlock of Love. London:
Lupus Music, 1969
BOUCHETTE, Joseph. The British Dominions
in North America; or, a Topographical and
Statistical Description of the Provinces of Lower
and Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
the Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward,
and Cape Breton. Including Considerations
on Land-Granting and Emigration. To which
are annexed, Statistical Tables and Tables of
Distances, &c. [A Topographical Dictionary of
the Province of Lower Canada.] London: Longman,
Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1832
Octavo. Original photographic boards in the dust jacket.
Endpapers somewhat marked but a very good copy in the
rather scruffy dust jacket.
first edition, signed by Bolan on the title page and
with his poetical presentation inscription to the preceding leaf: “‘your coat is made of stars | O conjuror of
light | your hair is like a Druid’s wand | my Morgana of
the night’ * love, Marc Bolan june ’70”. Books inscribed
by Bolan are exceedingly uncommon and examples
with such lyrical inscriptions as this copy are rare.
£5,750
[90598]
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Together 2 works in 3 volumes, quarto (275 × 217 mm). Near
contemporary dark green half calf, raised bands to spines,
titles and pine cone patterns to compartments gilt, geometric pattern to cloth in blind, marbled edges, dark green
endpapers. Frontispiece and lithographic half-title to both
Volumes I and II, 16 plates, one of which is folding, 3 tables
on 4 plates, 10 plans, and one folding map. Modern bookseller’s ticket to front pastedowns, near contemporary ownership inscription of William Griffith to verso of front free
endpapers. Extremities slightly bumped and a touch worn
in places, boards slightly soiled, dampstain along bottom
edge of rear board of Volume II, inner hinges gently cracked
but firm, mild offsetting from ownership inscription and
some plates, light browning and occasional dampstaining
to margins of plates, small chips to margins of some plates,
pale foxing throughout Volumes II and III, mainly to margins. Otherwise a very good set.
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first edition of this major early work on the history and development of Canada, complete with the
supplementary topographical dictionary. Joseph Bouchette (1774–1841) was a Canadian militia officer and
loyalist who qualified as a surveyor in early 1791. He
initially gained fame in 1815 by publishing an extensive
map and catalogue of Canada, an early synthesis of information on the region for which Bouchette received
a gold medal from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. The
present work, Bouchette’s second publication, is far
more detailed and comprehensive and was the result
of several years’ research in the late 1820s.
Sabin I 6848 & 6851.
£1,250
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BOWLES, Paul. The Sheltering Sky. London: John
Lehmann, 1949
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of asbestos. The binding material, fire-resistant in
keeping with the theme of the book, sadly has almost
no other redeeming qualities that make it suitable for
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt on a blue
ground. With the pictorial dust jacket. Faint ghosting
through the jacket at the spine as usual, but an excellent
copy in the jacket with some light rub at tips and a little
more at top of spine panel, small tissue repair to top of the
spine panel. Very nice.
first edition of the author’s first novel, a key title
in the development of Beat literature.
£2,750
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book binding. As a consequence, copies in as remarkable a state of preservation as the present example are
deeply uncommon.
£9,750
[94674]
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pieces, top edge gilt the others uncut, blue patterned endpapers with repeated design of the crescent-form Arabian
Qur’anic amulet illustrated facing p.78. With the dust jacket.
Tissue-guarded colour frontispiece and three other similar
plates, roundel in blue to the title page of Buraq, “the mythical horse of Mahomet”, 44 black and white plates, 2 maps,
one double-, one full-page. Slight crumpling at the tail of
the spine, else very good, unopened, in similarly very good
jacket, very slightly crumpled and dusty at the top edge.
first edition, presentation copy, one of 750
copies of the standard issue on Aureian, this copy
inscribed on the first blank, “To William B. Shelton
with best regards W. R. Browne”. An authoritative
account of the the Arab horse by the founder of the
Maynesboro Stud, established with the purchase of
Abu Zeyd from the Blunts’ Crabbet Stud in 1912, and
long-time president of the Arabian Horse Club of
America.
BRADBURY, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York:
Ballantine Books, Inc., 1953
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Frazier B-19-D; Macro 596; Siegel 25.
Octavo. Original white Johns-Manville Quinterra boards,
titles to spine and front board in red. Not issued in dust
jacket. Illustrations by Joe Mugnaini. Apart from a few trivial marks to the binding, an absolutely exceptional copy of a
distinctly vulnerable production.
BROWN, William Robinson. The Horse of the
Desert. With an Introduction by Major General
James G. Harbord and Henry Fairfield Osborn.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929
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first edition, signed limited issue, being one
of 200 numbered copies signed by Bradbury and
specially bound in Johns-Manville Quinterra, a form
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Quarto. Original blue vertically ribbed cloth, title gilt to the
spine framed by small horse and rider devices, and to the
front board within a panel with large horse-head corner-
£2,850
[92522]
BURNETT, W. R. Little Caesar. New York: The
Dial Press, 1929
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to front board and spine
in yellow, insignia to front board in blind. With the dust
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jacket. Extremities lightly chipped, single bump to fore edge
of rear board and to bottom corners of boards, small tape
repair to upper corner of front free endpaper, light foxing to
endpapers and endleaves. An excellent copy in a creased and
chipped jacket with visible repair to tail of spine panel and
several tape repairs to the verso.
first edition of the author’s landmark first book.
With the book label on the front free endpaper of
novelist and playwright Derek Marlowe who wrote
the best-selling novel A Dandy in Aspic (1966). Scarce
in dust jacket.
£2,250
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and his additional note on the first blank, “June 12,
1980. Signed.”
BURROUGHS, William S. Ali’s Smile. Naked
Scientology. Bonn: Expanded Media Editions, 1978
Small octavo. Original illustrated wrappers. Two-page black
and white portrait frontispiece. Rubbing to extremities, but
otherwise a very good copy indeed.
first collected edition, presentation copy
to allen ginsberg, inscribed by the author on the
title page, “For Allen, love William S. Burroughs”,
and with Ginsberg’s ownership inscription to the
first blank, “Allen Ginsberg Aug 30 1979, City Lights”
spirited, sardonic resistance to all forms of authority.
Burroughs had written to Ginsberg as early as 1959
urging him to join the cult, so the association here is
particularly appropriate and ironic.
£3,750
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Burroughs was introduced to Scientology by his
friend Brion Gysin in the late 1950s. He was interested in its promise to free the mind by cleansing it
of traumatic experiences, and his “cut-up” technique
was influenced by Hubbard’s theories in Dianetics
about the epistemological liberation of fracturing
consciousness. He eventually became disenchanted
with the organisation’s secretive, authoritarian nature and was expelled in 1970. As Burroughs’s biographer Ted Morgan has noted, he “had hoped to
find a method of personal emancipation and had
found instead another control system.” The bulk of
the pieces reprinted here, with text in German and
English, date from the months and years immediately following his expulsion, and give full rein to his
BUTLER, Ellis Parker. Philo Gubb. Corres
pondence-School Detective. With illustrations.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The
Riverside Press, 1918
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles and pictorial decoration
to spine and front board blocked in black. With the dust
jacket. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 19 plates. An exceptionally fresh copy in excellent condition in a toned and
slightly chipped jacket with 2 small tape repairs to the verso.
first edition.
£2,750
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(CAPEK, Karel.) BERGER, Oscar. Pencil
caricature portrait, signed by both sitter and
artist. 1925
Original pencil caricature (290 × 173 mm). Window mounted
and framed in an ebonized wood Czech Cubist-style frame,
UV-resistant glass. Shows signs of having been somewhat
crumpled at some point, old soft creases, slight soiling and
occasional scuffing of the surface, a few short edge-splits at
the top, but overall very good.
A wonderful portrait from life of the great Czechoslovakian writer by that nation’s finest caricaturist. Commonly characterised as a writer of science fiction—his
most famous work is probably The War with the Newts,
described by influential critic Darko Suvin as “the pioneer of all anti-fascist and anti-militarist SF” (Smith,
Twentieth-century Science Fiction Writers)—Capek’s writing is ill-served by such pigeonholing. Arthur Miller,
a youthful enthusiast for his work, attempted to sum
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up Capek’s unique appeal: “There was no writer like
him … prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic
humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination … he is a joy to read” (Foreword to Smith, Toward a Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader). Following the
cession of the Sudetenland to Germany in September
1938, Capek, although identified by the Gestapo as an
enemy of the Nazi state, refused to go into exile; suffering from depression, he succumbed to pneumonia
just a couple of months later. His artist brother, Josef,
with whom he had collaborated on a number of projects, was arrested soon after the Nazi invasion and
sent to the camps. He died in Bergen-Belsen shortly
before the end of the war. The artist Oscar Bergen was
trained at the Berlin School of Art and began his career
on Germany, but he fled when Hitler came to power,
settling in London where he worked for a number of
newspapers and magazines including the Daily Telegraph, the News of the World, and Lilliput. After the war
he emigrated to America where he became noted for
his “kindly rather than critical” caricatures.
£1,500
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CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New
York: Random House, 1958
Octavo, (205 × 137 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery
in pink morocco, black morocco title label, title to spine silver, black leather onlay silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as Holly
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Golightly with real diamond jewellery, black plain endpapers,
twin rule to turn-ins silver, all edges silver. Housed in a custom made black velvet, drawstring bag. A fine copy.
first edition of Capote’s classic novella, the basis
for the much-loved film, here in the Chelsea Bindery’s most popular design, with the front cover onlaid
with a silhouette of Audrey Hepburn in that iconic
Givenchy little black dress and foot long cigarette
holder, decorated with real diamond jewellery, all
presented in a black velvet drawstring bag.
£2,750
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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The Life
and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don
Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the
Original Spanish by Charles Jarvis. London: J. and
R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1749
2 volumes, octavo (200 × 120 mm). Contemporary brown
calf skilfully rebacked to style, twin red and green morocco
labels, raised bands, compartments gilt with central device,
double gilt fillet and rolls in black to sides, all edges red.
Illustrated with 24 engraved plates, including frontispiece
and a portrait of Cervantes, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Boards rubbed and with some minor surface loss,
labels a little scuffed, joints slightly worn, contents lightly
browned, but overall an excellent set in attractive bindings.
second jarvis edition. Charles Jarvis (also known
as Jervas) pointed out the inaccuracies of previous
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English versions of the novel; his translation, first
published in 1742, proved to be the most popular of
the 18th century.
£1,200
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Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board lettered
in green. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket that has a toned and slightly soiled rear panel, with some
rubbing to the extremities.
first edition.
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£7,500
(CHAGALL, Marc.) CAIN, Julien. The
Lithographs of Chagall. Introduction by Marc
Chagall. Notes and catalogue by Fernand
Mourlot, Charles Sorlier. New York & Boston:
George Braziller, Inc., Crown Publisher’s Inc., Boston
Book and Art Shop, Inc. 1960–86
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6 volumes, folio. Original tan cloth, titles to front covers and
spines in black. With the pictorial dust jackets. Profusely illustrated throughout and with 28 original lithographs by
Chagall (21 in colour). An excellent set, volume V with a
small stain to the foot of the boards, minimally rubbed dust
jackets, volume III with tape strengthening to head of spine,
volumes V and VI nicked to corners,
first editions. The complete catalogue raisonné of
Chagall’s lithographic work, a monumental feat of publishing which took more than two decades to complete.
£5,500
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CHANDLER, Raymond. The Lady in the Lake.
New York: Knopf, 1943
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CHILDISH, Billy. I am Here to Build Jurrusolom.
London: The Aquarium, 2004
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inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Occasional
spotting to pages, an excellent copy.
first edition.
£1,750
[89361]
Tall quarto (357 × 210 mm). Original buff linen, front board
with hand print in dark blue oil paint on a ground of white
and dark red-brown oil paint, cream endpapers, top edge
trimmed, others untrimmed. Colour reproductions of 5 of
Childish’s paintings, one black and white photograph, and
one black and white line drawing. A fine copy.
signed limited edition, number 36 of 100 copies signed and numbered by Billy Childish. With an
original pencil self-portrait by the artist on the front
free endpaper.
£850
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CHRISTIE, Agatha. Death on the Nile. London:
Collins, 1937
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue
morocco, titles and decoration to spine, rule to boards gilt,
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CHURCHILL, Winston Leonard Spencer. The
Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of
Frontier War ... With maps, plans, etc. London,
New York & Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Savrola. A Tale of the
Revolution in Laurania. London: Longmans, Green
& Co., 1900
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Ian Hamilton’s
March. Together with extracts from the diary
of Lieutenant H. Frankland a prisoner of war at
Pretoria. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900
Octavo, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with panel in blind lettered gilt, black endpapers. Frontispiece portrait and 6 maps, 4 of them folding and coloured,
4 full-page. A couple of tiny spots to cloth, hinge cracked at
half title, a little faint toning of contents. An excellent copy.
first edition, home issue, first state of
Churchill’s first book, this copy without the errata
slip at p. 1, the catalogue dated 12/97. The book relates his exploits with the Malakand field force, led by
Sir Bindon Blood, on the North West Frontier of India
in 1897, based on Churchill’s despatches to the Daily
Telegraph and the Pioneer Mail. As Churchill was still in
India when the book was published, the final editing
was undertaken by his uncle Moreton Frewen, husband of Clara Jerome, Jennie’s elder sister, resulting
in numerous small errors which were corrected the
following year in the Silver Library edition.
Cohen A1.1.b; Woods A1a.
£7,500
[88423]
Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine and to front
board with “signature” block, black surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed, lightly restored on the joints and
hinges, pale toning and a scatter of foxing, about very good.
first uk edition, signed copy, inscribed by the
author on the half-title, “from Winston S. Churchill,
16.2.28”. Churchill’s only novel, and his “first book,
in the sense that it was well started before the Malakand Campaign got under way” (Woods, Artillery of
Words, p. 56). Summoned north by Sir Bindon Blood,
Churchill declared the novel “indefinitely shelved”.
A melodramatic tale of a liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state, “the novel is at once
a political testament and a writing-out of a stage of
personal development” (p.60). The UK edition was
delayed by the serialization of the story in Macmillan’s
Magazine between May and December 1899, so the
US edition of November 1899 was actually published
first. This copy is the second state with the title page a
cancel without copyright details on the verso.
Cohen A3.2.b; Woods A3(b).
£10,000
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Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, black coated endpapers. Frontispiece portrait,
9 maps and plans in text, partially coloured folding map.
Ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Spine faded, remnant of bookseller’s ticket to the front pastedown,
tips bumped, dent to the front board, some occasional minor foxing to contents. A good copy.
first edition. Publisher’s records indicate that
5,003 copies were printed. “The volume consists of 17
letters to the Morning Post, beginning with that of 31
March 1900 and concluding with that of 14 June …in
contrast to London to Ladysmith, the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised
and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form” (Cohen, pp. 103–4).
Cohen A8.1.a
£850
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. My African Journey.
With Sixty-One Illustrations from Photographs
by the Author and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon
Wilson, and Three Maps. London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1908
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles and
pictorial decoration to front board in black, blue, and grey.
16 pages of advertisements. Photographic frontispiece, 50
photographic plates, and 3 maps of which one is folding.
Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine
a touch sunned with small nick to head, some typical but
light spotting to edges of text block, mild browning to endpapers, light foxing to prelims, endmatter, and margins of
text block. An excellent copy with the striking pictorial front
board design still fresh and bright.
first edition. Describing his journey down the
Nile River from Lake Victoria to Cairo in late 1907,
My African Journey was the first book to derive purely
from Churchill’s journalism. Before embarking on
this expedition, he signed an extremely lucrative contract for the publication of a series of articles in The
Strand and for later publication in book form. What
Churchill was offered is impressive testimony to his
perceived drawing power: at £750 for five contributions he was receiving “more than Kipling, whom
The Strand were paying £90 for his short stories; more
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than W. W. Jacobs, whose rate at the time was £110 for
a story” (Pound, The Strand Magazine).
Cohen A27; Czech p.37; Woods A12.
£1,250
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Liberalism and the
Social Problem. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909
Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, facsimile
of author’s signature to the front board in gilt. Ownership
signature to the front free endpaper. Some minor foxing to
the extremities, tips bumped; a very good copy.
first edition of this uncommon title which collects speeches by the young Churchill during his Liberal phase, addressing such then-pressing issues as
the conciliation of South Africa, imperial preference,
labour exchanges, and unemployment insurance.
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(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) THOMAS, Walter.
Portrait photograph. London: Walter Thomas,
[c.1915]
Gelatine silver print on card, mounted on card. Image size:
14.3 × 19.4 cm. Sheet size: 20 × 25.3 cm. Mount lightly toned,
the print in excellent condition. Provenance: the estate of
Horace Kilian Heiligers, Baddow Park, Chelmsford, Essex.
signed in pencil lower right by thomas and
in pen by churchill, and with the Walter Thomas
studio label to verso. Churchill, aged 41, as First Lord
of the Admiralty, seated at his ministerial desk reading
a letter. It is interesting to note that the “golf ball” stick
telephone receiver has been replaced upside down.
£4,500
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Woods A15.
£750
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Sterling was also a noted book and art collector. The
American volumes of Marlborough were all published
the same year as the first British.
Cohen A97.4(I).a—(VI).a, volume V is A97.4(V).b, the “second state,” distinguished by the insertion of an errata slip at
p.19; Woods A40(b).
£9,500
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Great Contempor
aries. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1937
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine and front
board, top edge blue, publisher’s device in blind to the bottom fore-corners of both boards. 21 photographic plates.
Spine very lightly sunned, top edge slightly faded, endpapers lightly tanned. An excellent copy.
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. India. Speeches and
an Introduction. London: Thornton Butterworth,
Ltd., 1931
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Marlborough, His
Life and Times. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1933–8
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front cover
in black, rule in blind to top and bottom of boards, publisher’s device in blind to bottom of fore edge corner. Blue ink
stamp of F. C. B. Fleetwood-Hesketh, Lieutenant-Colonel
with the Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry to front free
endpaper; occasional light pencil underlining. Cloth a
touch soiled, endpapers lightly tanned, text block slightly
strained in places but still firm. Otherwise an excellent copy.
6 volumes, octavo (224 × 150 mm). Contemporary red morocco presentation binding by Bumpus, title gilt direct to
the spine, flat bands with dotted rule with fleurons, single fillet panels to the compartments and to the boards,
large gilt central tool of the Marlborough arms to the front
boards, single fillet edge-roll, all edges gilt, double rules to
the turn-ins. Some corners slightly bumped, pale tan-burn
from the turn-ins, but overall an extremely handsomely presented set.
first edition, hardback issue (the book was issued simultaneously as a paperback). Although the
print run is unknown for both issues, the hardback
is by far the scarcer. The 1930s are characterized as
Churchill’s wilderness years, with his unrelenting opposition to Hitler being seen as main cause for his
ostracism. However “another, and earlier reason lay
in his bitter opposition to Baldwin’s India policy …
Churchill had always hit hard; not for him a round of
gentlemanly sparring between friends. His fight to
maintain full control of India employed not just the
clenched fist but the bludgeon” (Woods, Artillery of
Words).
Woods A38.
£2,500
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first american editions, presentation set,
inscribed in the first volume on the binder’s blank,
“To Louis Sterling from Winston S. Churchill 1947,”
and signed by Churchill in the same place in each
of the subsequent five volumes. Sir Louis Sterling
(1879–1958) was a New York-born industrialist and
a pioneer in the phonographic and music industry.
He was one of the original directors of EMI, a leading philanthropist, and, especially during the 1930s,
a tireless worker in the effort to provide asylum for
Jewish refugees. In Sterling’s obituary in The Gramophone, Compton Mackenzie remarked: “Few men
have been as well loved as Louis Sterling and one may
speculate whether any businessman has ever been
as much loved as that most remarkable little man.”
first edition of this collection of keenly observed
biographical sketches of Victorian statesmen, Great
War notables, and key political figures of the 1930s,
including T. E. Lawrence, Trotsky, and Hitler. “We
cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will
once again let loose upon the world another war
in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or
whether he will go down in history as the man who
restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation and brought it back serene, helpful
and strong, to the forefront of the European family
circle.” On receiving his advance copy, Neville Chamberlain wrote to Churchill immediately: “How you
can go on throwing off these sparkling sketches with
such apparent ease & such sustained brilliance, in
the midst of all your other occupations is a constant
source of wonder to me.”
Cohen A105.1.a; Woods A43(a).
£350
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Arms and the
Covenant. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1938
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt within triple fillet gilt, double fillet panel in blind to the front board.
Frontispiece portrait. Spine faded, some foxing to the edges
and endpapers, tips bumped, occasional minor foxing to the
contents, front endpaper neatly replaced. An excellent copy.
first edition. An important collection of Churchill’s speeches, 1928–38, warning of the dangers of a
re-armed Germany. A contemporary review in the
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journal of the Royal Institute for International Affairs
remarked that, “apart from their literary graces”,
Churchill’s speeches were remarkable because of “the
restraint of their language” in view of the “blunders
and inaccuracies” of the Government and for his
technical mastery: “There seems to be nothing from
Naval Strategy to the jigs and tools in an aircraft factory ... on which Mr. Churchill is not an expert.”
Cohen A107; Woods 44a.
£375
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Beating the Invader.
A message from the Prime Minister. London:
Issued by the Ministry of Information in co-operation
with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security,
1941
Quarto single-sheet flyer (280 × 210 mm), text both sides.
Glazed both sides and framed. A little browned, light creases from old folds, overall very good.
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first edition, first issue, Woods noting a later
version with red overprinting. “If the invasion comes
everyone—young or old, men and women—will be
eager to play their part worthily … When the attack
begins, it will be too late to go … for all of you then
the order and the duty will be: ‘stand firm’ … where
there is no fighting going on and no close cannon fire
or rifle fire can be heard, everyone will govern his
conduct by the second great order and duty, namely
‘carry on’.” Churchill’s inspirational message is followed by detailed instructions on just how to stand
firm and carry on. Print-run details show that over
14 million copies were printed: “The huge print run
might leave one with the impression that the leaflet
would be commonly found today. It was, however,
only a leaflet anticipating an event that never came
to pass. In the event very few copies have survived”
(Cohen).
Cohen B76; Woods A69.
£850
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. [War Speeches & PostWar Speeches:] Into Battle; The Unrelenting
Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to
Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret
Session Speeches. The Sinews of Peace; Europe
Unite; In The Balance; Stemming The Tide;
The Unwritten Alliance. Edited by Randolph
S. Churchill. London, Toronto, Melbourne, Sydney,
Wellington: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1941–61
12 volumes octavo. Original blue, brown, green, maroon
and red cloth, titles to spines in gilt or silver. With the dust
jackets. Boards lightly rubbed and bumped to edges, dust
jackets lightly rubbed and nicked to corners, white back
panels lightly toned, End of the beginning with tape to verso
of front panel and head of spine.
first editions throughout.
Cohen, The War Speeches: A142; 172; 183; 194; 214; 223; 227.
Post-War: A241; 246; 255; 264; 273.
£2,500
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(CLARKE, Harry.) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang
von. Faust. Translated by John Fluster. New York:
Dingwall Rock Limited, 1927
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards
gilt, twin rule to turn-ins, black endpapers, top edge gilt,
others untrimmed. 20 colour plates. An excellent copy.
signed limited edition, limited to 1,000 copies
for the United States and 1,000 copies for England
signed by the artist. This is copy 335 of the American
limited edition.
£2,000
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COLLINS, Suzanne. The Hunger Games;
Catching Fire; Mocking Jay. New York: Scholastic
Press, 2008–10
Together 3 works, octavo. Original publisher’s pictorial
cloth, titles to spine and covers gilt. With the dust jackets.
An excellent set, The Hunger Games with a Hunger Games
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sticker to front pastedown, Hunger Games and Catching Fire
with light bumping and wear to corners and ends of spine,
internally bright and clean set, in bright dust jackets.
first editions, signed copies: the first two works
signed by the author on the half-title; the final volume
of the trilogy, Mocking Jay, with the author’s book tour
signature stamp to the half-title, inscribed above,
“may the odds be ever in your favour, Love Suzanne
Collins”. An excellent signed set of this popular series,
the basis for the films starring Jennifer Lawrence.
£1,500
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CONRAD, Joseph. Youth: A Narrative and Two
Other Stories [“Heart of Darkness” and “The
End of the Tether”]. Edinburgh: William Blackwood
and Sons, 1902
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles and
floral decorations to front board in black. Bookplate to front
pastedown. Spine very lightly toned, extremities a little
rubbed, spine ends and corners a bit bumped, mild spotting
to edges, free endpapers lightly tanned, text block slightly
strained between pp. 240-1. Otherwise an excellent copy.
first edition, first issue with the earliest 32page catalogue at the rear dated 10/02. This volume
collects three novellas by Conrad, all of which had
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previously been serialised in Blackwood’s Magazine
in 1898, 1899, and 1902 respectively. Conrad wrote:
“‘Youth’ and ‘Heart of Darkness’ are the first short
stories of mine which attracted attention to my work
in a wider sphere. Most critics dismissed ‘The End of
the Tether’” either with contempt or with a few cursory remarks’ (Wise).
Wise 10.
£4,000
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CONRAD, Joseph. Victory. An Island Tale.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1915
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust
jacket. A very good copy in the jacket, only a little chipped
and with no loss to the front panel.
first edition, first state with a comma after
“Essex Street” on the title page imprint. A striking
copy in the jacket.
£4,750
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent. London:
Methuen, 1920
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(COSWAY-STYLE BINDING.) OMAN, Carola.
Nelson. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1947
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Octavo. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. A very
good copy indeed with minor wear to the spine ends and
some cracking to the front hinge.
author’s presentation copy of the tenth edition, inscribed on the front endpaper, “Catherine
Willard from her friend Joseph Conrad 1st Jan 1921”.
Catherine Willard (1898–1954) was a noted screen
actress and leading lady. She met Conrad in about
1920 through her mother Grace, who was an interior designer helping the Conrads furnish their new
home, Oswalds, in Bishopsbourne, Kent. Catherine
was establishing herself as an actress and was about
the same age as the Conrads’ son, Borys; the latter
suspected his parents of attempting to line her up
as future daughter-in-law. Conrad was writing his
dramatic adaptation of The Secret Agent at the time
and had Willard in mind for the heroine. He sent
the finished manuscript of the play to her shortly
before his death in 1924; it is probable that he gave
her this copy to familiarize herself with the novel,
in the hope that she would take the part in the play.
The Secret Agent has long been regarded as one of Conrad’s finest and most enduring novels and a key influence on both Graham Greene and Eric Ambler. It is
notably rare in a presentation state, even as a reprint.
“The Secret Agent depicts the atmosphere of Edwardian London in a psychological thriller of the anarchist
underworld. Conrad’s wit and chivalrous magnanimity are at their airiest in this novel” (Connolly).
£3,750
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Octavo (235 × 148 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere
for Asprey’s of London in near-contemporary dark blue
crushed morocco, raised bands to spine, titles to spine gilt,
ship devices and abstract wave frame to compartments,
boards, and turn-ins, all gilt, with inset hand-painted miniature portrait of Nelson to front board, gilt edges, and pale
cream watered silk liners. Housed in a light blue cloth slipcase. Frontispiece and 12 black-and-white plates, 6 maps,
and one genealogical folding chart. A fine copy.
first edition of Carola Oman’s (1897–1978) key
work. Her prize-winning biography of Nelson “still
stands as the benchmark against which modern biographies of Nelson may be judged” (ODNB). She had
access to previously unpublished primary sources,
including the collection of Lady Nelson’s papers assembled by Lady Llangattock, founder of the Nelson
Museum in Monmouth. “Although Oman was criticized for being insufficiently selective in her choice of
material, and for her reluctance to make judgements,
she was also widely praised for discarding prevalent myths, and for presenting Nelson in the round,
through a stylish, accessible narrative.”
Cowey 187.
£3,000
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COWARD, Noel. Cavalcade. London: William
Heinemann Ltd, 1932
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, multi-coloured lettering to
spine and boards (black, red and blue). With the acetate
jacket. Frontispiece and 22 black and white plates. Ownership signature to the front pastedown and the front free
endpaper. Some extremely minor foxing, overall an excellent, bright, copy in the jacket that has the paper flaps intact, as issued, with some small chips to the extremities,
and some wrinkling as usual.
first edition, in the scarce acetate jacket. The basis for the classic 1933 film, which won three Academy Awards.
£1,250
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COWARD, Noël. Spangled Unicorn. An
Anthology. A selection from the works of Albrecht
Drausler, Serge Lliavanov, Janet Urdler, Elihu
Dunn, Ada Johnston, Jane Southerby Danks,
Tao Lang Pee, E. A. I. Maunders, Crispin Pither,
Juana Mandragágita (translated by Lawnton
Drift). London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, [1932]
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Octavo. Original cloth-backed pink boards, titles to spine
in silver. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with 11 black and
white photographic plates. Bookplate to front pastedown.
Very light foxing to endpapers, top and bottom edges of
boards a little faded. An excellent copy in a faintly rubbed
jacket with a few tiny chips.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed
by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Maja
Gluckstein, Noël Coward, 1932”. Coward’s mock anthology, a satire of modernist poetry, was written
by him under ten pseudonyms and comes complete
with fictional biographies and photographic portraits. A scarce title, especially inscribed.
£500
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COWARD, Noël. Peace In Our Time. Garden City,
NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
Octavo. Original red cloth backed grey boards, titles to
spine in black. With the dust jacket. With bookplate to front
pastedown. Spine ends slightly bumped, top edge lightly
foxed. An excellent copy in a very good jacket with toned
spine, a split along top half of front joint, head of spine
lightly chipped, and slightly nicked and rubbed extremities.
first us edition, presentation copy inscribed
by the author on the front free endpaper: “For Sue
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from Noël”. The play was originally published the
previous year by Heinemann, London.
£1,250
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CROMWELL, Oliver. Document signed (as
Lord Protector, “Oliver P”), appointing judges
for the summer circuit. [Whitehall:] 1 June 1657
Bifolium folded once to folio (328 × 228 mm). Written in a
secretarial hand in italic with some secretary forms on one
side of the paper only, signed by Cromwell at head, docketed
on verso. Creased where folded, some small holes at crease,
some browning, overall very good.
Cromwell as his role as Lord Protector appoints the
judges for the coming summer circuit, among them
some of the most famous names in 17th-century
English legal history: Edward Askyn, Unton Crooke,
Erasmus Earle, John Glynne, Mathew Hale, Roger
Hill, Richard Newdigate, Robert Nicholas, John Parker, Oliver St John, Peter Warburton, and Hugh Wyndham. The most renowned of them all, Mathew Hale,
survived the Restoration, was knighted, and “left a
place in national memory as the type of the virtuous
lawyer and the incorruptible judge” (ODNB).
£8,000
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CUNARD, Nancy, ed. Negro Anthology. 1931–
1933. London: Wishart & Co, 1934
Quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front board
in red, top edge brown. Illustrations throughout. A little
rubbed at extremities, head of spine creased, spotting and
toning to contents, insect damage to front pastedown and
title page. A good copy.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed by
the author on the verso of the front blank, “To Josephine Herbst, Comradely, Nancy Cunard”; in the first
issue binding of rough brown cloth. Herbst was an
American writer and journalist, and an active member
of the Communist Party. She contributed a piece to
the Anthology, “Lynching in the Quiet Manner”, on the
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Scottsboro Boys’ case. Laid in this copy is a typed letter
signed from Cunard to Herbst reading, “Dear Collaborator, I am glad to be able to send you your copy of the
Anthology you helped to make. As you see it is a very
large volume and has, consequently, been very expensive to produce. It is therefore my hope that each collaborator will endeavour to secure an order for the sale
of one copy, ordered direct from Messrs. Wishart, 9
John Street, Adelphi, London, or the usual booksellers.
And, if possible, out of justice to our subject, to arouse
interest in the press and reviews. Yours for the freeing
of the innocent Scottsboro boys and the true emancipation of Negro peoples, Nancy Cunard”. Loosely inserted is a mimeographed document, “Some Facts on
the Scottsboro Case” by Milton Howard.
£15,000
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DAHL, Roald. The Gremlins. From the Walt
Disney Production. New York: Random House, 1943
DAHL, Roald. James and the Giant Peach, A
Children’s Story. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm
Burkert. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, titles to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, block to
front board gilt with multi-coloured morocco onlay of seven
cavorting gremlins, twin rule to turn-ins, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout in colour and black
and white. A fine copy.
first edition. Roald Dahl’s first book and his only
collaboration with Walt Disney, The Gremlins was
written as a promotional device for a feature-length
Disney animation that was never produced, partly
because the studio could not establish firm copyright
in the “gremlin” characters (Dahl claimed to have invented them, though they had been common currency in the RAF and had appeared in print at least once
before) and partly because the British Air Ministry
wanted final approval of the script and production. It
was eventually agreed that royalties would be split between the RAF Benevolent Fund and Dahl. The book
is still described on the title and the front cover as
being “From the Walt Disney Production”, although
the Disney studio had written to Dahl in August 1943
cancelling any further preproduction work.
£2,500
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Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, front cover
with design copied from the frontispiece blocked in blind,
apple green endpapers. With the printed colour dust jacket.
Colour frontispiece, 5 full-page plates, 4 in full colour, the
other coloured in one tint;19 illustrations in the text, of
which 10 are coloured with one tint. Mild fading to cloth at
upper edges else a very attractive copy in bright dust jacket,
with just a touch of shelf wear to top edges, mild crease to
spine, and tiny pin mark under the “D” of Dahl on front
panel, small strips of paper archival tape to verso of jacket at
top edges and lower spine end, an exceptionally pretty copy
with the spine colours being very vivid.
first edition, first printing with the five-line colophon on the last page.
£2,500
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dark green endpapers, edges gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by Joseph Schindelman. A fine copy.
first edition, preceding the English edition by
three years. This copy is bound in dark purple morocco by the Chelsea Bindery, a chocolate bar design
inlaid to the front cover with a fateful Golden Ticket
peeking out from the silver foil wrapping.
£3,000
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DAHL, Roald. Switch Bitch. London: Michael
Joseph, 1974
Octavo. Original dark blue boards, titles to spine in silver.
With the dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked, very light foxing
to endpapers. An excellent copy in a bright jacket.
first edition, signed by the author on the
front free endpaper.
£750
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DAHL, Roald. Charlie and The Chocolate
Factory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964
DAHL, Roald. The Wonderful Story of Henry
Sugar and Six More. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in purple morocco, spine lettered in gilt, decorative multi-coloured title
and chocolate bar inlay to front board, twin rule to turn-ins,
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt, beige endpapers. With the dust jacket. Two pages of photographic illustrations. Spine bumped, dust jacket very slightly faded to
spine with minor creasing to edges.
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front free endpaper, “Love Roald Dahl”.
£1,500
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DAHL, Roald. The Witches. Illustrations by
Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983
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Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in pale blue
morocco, titles to spine and front board onlaid in bright
blue and blocked in black, pictorial onlay wrapped around
front and back board copied from the dust jacket, twin rule
to turn-ins in black, plain black endpapers, gilt edges. With
black and white illustrations. A fine copy.
DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by
Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation
of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Third Edition, with Additions and Corrections
(Seventh Thousand.) London: John Murray, 1861
first edition.
£2,750
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DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrations by Quentin
Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Ownership signature to front free endpaper, dust jacket with very
light fading, a very good copy.
first edition. The basis for both the film and popular musical.
£375
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Octavo. Original green diagonal-wave-grain cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt,
brown coated endpapers. Folding chart. Binder’s ticket
to rear pastedown. Binding lightly rubbed, spine rolled, a
few small marks to boards, corners bumped, contents very
lightly toned. A very good copy.
third edition, issued in April 1861, 2,000 copies
printed. The text was extensively altered, and a table
is given of differences between it and the second edition, a feature that occurs in each subsequent Murray edition. The third is also notable for the addition
of the historical sketch in which Darwin considers
his predecessors in the general theory of evolution,
which had already appeared in shorter form in the
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first German edition, as well as in the fourth American printing, both in 1860.
Freeman 381.
£3,750
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DARWIN, Charles, assisted by Francis Darwin.
The Power of Movement in Plants. London: John
Murray, 1880
Octavo. Uncut and unopened in original green cloth, blindpanelled covers, spine gilt with imprint at foot, brown endpapers. Illustrated with 196 text woodcuts. A near fine copy,
the cloth bright and fresh. Rare in this condition.
first edition, first issue, with 32pp inserted adverts dated May 1878 and with two lines of errata at the
foot of page x. “This was an extension of the work on
climbing plants to show that the same mechanisms
hold good for flowering plants in general” (Freeman).
Freeman 1325.
£3,750
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DAVER, Manek. Jazz Album Covers: The Rare
and the Beautiful. Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing
Co., Ltd, 1993
Quarto. Original red boards, lettered in black on boards and
spine. With the dust jacket. Illustrated in colour throughout; text in English and Japanese. The jacket slightly rubbed,
with the flaps a little toned. An excellent copy.
private signed limited edition, one of 150 copies published in Tokyo, 19 July 1993, signed by Manek
Daver, Gil Mellé, Kobo Abé, Pierre Merlin, Frank
Gauna, and Herman Leonard. This copy is additionally inscribed by the author on p. 16, “For my own Rare
and Beautiful Roxana and Tannaz, Manek Daver.” A
superbly produced collection of the album covers from
the great designers—David Stone Martin, Herman
Leonard, Andy Warhol, K. Abé, and Gil Mellé—and
the great labels—Blue Note, Debut, Southland.
£2,250
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DAVIES, Jonathan Ceredig. Life, Travels and
Reminiscences of [the] Author of “Folk lore of
West and Mid. Wales,” and many other works.
Llanddewi Brefi: Privately Printed, 1927
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Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges sprinkled red. With 9 pages of text in manuscript, and other manuscript notes and corrections to plates and text. The parcel post
wrapper is tipped-in to the front free endpaper, press reviews
of the book mounted to the rear blank and rear free endpaper, and customs form and 3 autograph letters are loosely
inserted. Portrait frontispiece, 16 plates and illustrations in
text. Boards a little soiled, spine and front board faded, lower
tips bumped, lower fore edge dented. A good copy.
presentation copy, one of 70 copies only printed
by the author at his own printing-press for private
circulation. This copy is inscribed “yours sincerely,
J. Ceredig Davies” on the frontispiece, and was sent
to Davies’s cousin, the Hon. Dan W. Williams, who
is mentioned (though misnamed, as Williams comments in the margin) on page 5 as part of the global
diaspora of Davies’s Welsh family. Davies was an
observant traveller, and here he gives an interesting
and well-written account of his lifetime of travels,
beginning with a voyage to Patagonia in 1875 as a
boy of 16, attracted by the Welsh colony established
in the Chubut Valley in 1865, and also to Australia.
Begun during the Great War, it took him the better
part of a decade to print, as “his press was only a toy”
(according to the letter to the book’s recipient from
Mrs D. D. Evans, a mutual cousin). The printing is
accordingly unsophisticated but charming—he ran
out of sheets and so nine pages are supplied in ink
manuscript, with occasional corrections and passages added in manuscript.
Largely self-taught, Davies’s most important work
was Folk Lore of West and Mid-Wales (1911); he also wrote
Western Australia: Its History and Progress (1902), Adventures in the Land of Giants: a Patagonian Tale (1892), and
Patagonia: A Description of the Country and Manner of Living
at Chubut Colony (1892). His final work—also privately
printed—was Welsh and Oriental Languages (1927), a 44page offprint taken from the present text. Somewhat
eccentric, he was 70 years old at the time of sending
the book and living hermit-like in Mill Street, “quite
dirty and poor” (D. D Evans’s letter). The press review
mounted at the rear states: “It is difficult to classify
Jonathan Ceredig Davies … He is certainly an interesting psychological study, for there is no one like
him on this side of the Unknown” (Western Mail).
Laid in are three autograph letters: one from the
author to the recipient; another from a mutual relation of the author and cousin; and another from a
further relation of the cousin. Williams has summarised the letters in manuscript to the front pastedown. The author writes that he sent Williams
“the only copy I could spare … The only other copy
of my book is to be found in the Congress Library.”
Copac lists six copies (three in Wales and none outside the United Kingdom), and OCLC adds one copy
at the University of Toronto. The book is notably unrepresented in Australia itself, where much of the action takes place.
£2,250
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of
the Pickwick Club. With forty-three illustrations,
by R. Seymour and Phiz. London: Chapman and
Hall, 1837
Octavo (212 × 133 mm). Original purple pebble-grain morocco, boards blind stamped, spine lettered in gilt, edges
gilt, yellow coated endpapers. 43 engraved plates. Boards
rubbed, spine faded, a short closed tear to the half title,
edges darkened, endpapers spotted and stained, plates oxidised. A very good copy.
first edition in book form, publisher’s deluxe binding. The contemporary leather-bound
editions of Dickens are not described in detail by bibliographers, though copies such as the present are occasionally seen in trade, variously described as either
publisher’s presentation or deluxe bindings. There is
evidence from contemporary records (see Robert L.
Patten, Charles Dickens and his Publishers, p. 101) that the
early novels were available in full morocco at a higher
price than the cloth bindings; in the absence of a publisher’s presentation inscription, it seems prudent to
claim no more than that this is a deluxe binding.
That it is a publisher’s binding, rather than a bespoke
period binding, is indicated by the complex blindstamping to the boards, which is identical to that found
on the cloth case of the third edition of Sketches by Boz
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published by Chapman and Hall at the same time. The
grain of the leather is the same pebbled finish seen in
other deluxe publisher’s bindings on the early Dickens
titles and the yellow-coated endpapers are identical to
those found in many of the original cloth cases.
Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens’s first novel, transformed the obscure journalist into England’s most famous author in a matter of months. The first monthly
instalment was issued in an edition of 1,000 copies in
April 1836. The book became a publishing sensation
after the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10,
the fourth instalment, issued in July 1836, after which
the publishers reprinted the earlier instalments so
that readers could catch up. For that reason, even in
parts, copies are almost impossible to find in uniform first state. By the time the book was issued in
November 1837, many textual corrections had been
made. Booksellers often list numerous (and confusing) text points that might conceivably apply to a per-
fect set of Pickwick Papers as originally issued in parts,
but all these points could never be found together in
the issues in book form.
The serial was originally intended to be primarily a
vehicle for the cartoons of Robert Seymour, until he
committed suicide after the first number was published. Robert William Buss then took over, but he
was inexperienced in steel engraving and had to be
fired. The final choice, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz),
was to be Dickens’s chosen collaborator for the next
two decades. Phiz illustrated parts IV–XX, re-engraved the Seymour plates and entirely replaced the
Buss plates for later issues. The later issue plates, as
here, do not contain page locations; they are signed,
titled, and have the small engraved Chapman and
Hall imprint below the caption.
Hatton & Cleaver pp. 1–88; Smith I, 3.
£3,500
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[DICKENS, Charles.] Oliver Twist; or, the Parish
Boy’s Progress. By “Boz.” In three volumes.
London: Richard Bentley, 1838
3 volumes, octavo (189 × 117 mm). Early 20th-century red
half calf, green morocco labels, 4 raised bands, red speckled
edges. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Frontispiece to each
volume and 21 plates by George Cruikshank. All half-titles
present; bound without terminal advert leaf in vol. I. 2 bookplates to each volume. Spine faded, bindings a little rubbed
and scuffed, spotting and toning to title page and occasionally to contents.
first edition, first issue, with Boz title-pages
and the Fireside plate. Bentley decided to publish
Oliver Twist in book form before serialization was
complete, and Cruikshank had to complete the last
few plates in a hurry. Dickens did not see them until the eve of publication and disliked the final Fireside plate. Cruikshank designed a replacement, the
Church plate, but early copies went out without it.
Dickens had also decided that he would no longer be
known as “Boz”; again this decision was too late for
the earliest copies, those published between 9 and 16
November.
£3,750
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DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver
Twist or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. With
Twenty-Four Illustrations on Steel, by George
Cruikshank. A new Edition, revised and
Corrected. London: for the author, by Bradbury &
Evans, 1846
Octavo (208 × 132 mm). Early 20th-century tan calf by Morrell, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red and green
morocco labels, blue endpapers, French fillets, turn-ins,
and all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece and 23 plates by
George Cruikshank. Dampstain to bottom of cover extending across spine and partially affecting lower cover, a little
toning and offsetting of contents. A very good copy.
first one-volume edition. This edition was first
with the text revised by Dickens himself, who had
bought back his copyright from Richard Bentley and
took the opportunity to substantially revise the text,
many of his revisions, as Ackroyd points out, made
to achieve a more dramatic rendering of the text in
light of Dickens’s experience of public reading. Dickens was as passionate about his public readings of his
own novels as were the British public, and it was his
passion for Oliver Twist in particular that drove him to
nervous collapse in April 1869 when performing, to a
rapt crowd, that “physically and emotionally exhausting” scene where Sikes violently murders Nancy. The
event caused him to cease any further public recitals,
and the strain arguably contributed to his death in
June the following year.
£750
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DICKENS, Charles. [The Christmas books:] A
Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on
the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted
Man. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843–8
Together 5 works, small octavo (161 × 100 mm). Uniformly
bound about the turn of the century in pale tan polished
calf, dark red morocco labels, spines gilt, sides with triple
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gilt fillet outer borders, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
Christmas Carol with hand-coloured frontispiece, 3 full-page
hand-coloured plates, illustrations within the text; other
titles with frontispiece and engraved title, illustrations in
the text. Christmas Carol bound without the half-title. Spines
slightly rubbed and darkened, a few marks to sides, a very
good set.
first editions of Dickens’s famous sequence of
annual Christmas books. A Christmas Carol has the
1843 title page printed in blue and red, the title verso
printed in blue, and the heading on page [1] in the
first state, reading Stave I.
ins, and all edges gilt. Housed in a marbled slipcase. Frontispiece, engraved title, and 38 plates. Errata leaf tipped-in
at the preface. Ownership signature partially removed from
title. Only occasional spotting. An excellent, fresh copy.
first edition.
£500
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DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. With
Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Bradbury
& Evans, 1848
Octavo (210 × 130 mm). Early 20th-century tan calf by Morrell, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red and black
morocco labels, blue endpapers, French fillets, floral turnins, and all edges gilt. Housed in a marbled slipcase. Frontispiece, engraved title, and 38 plates. Small pale spot to
either side of the spine. An excellent, fresh copy without the
darkening that often affects the plates.
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Octavo (209 × 130 mm). Early 20th-century tan calf by Morrell, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red and black
morocco labels, blue endpapers, French fillets, floral turn-
first edition.
£950
Octavo (220 × 140 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, raised bands, titles to spine gilt,
single rule to covers gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, gilt
blocked image of Bleak House to front board, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. H. K. Browne black and white engravings
throughout.
first edition.
£1,250
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DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of
David Copperfield. With Illustrations by H. K.
Browne. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850
£5,750
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. London:
Bradbury & Evans, 1853
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DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. With
Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Bradbury
and Evans, 1857
Octavo, bound from the original parts (223 × 120 mm).
Recent brown half calf, marbled sides, red morocco spine
label, raised bands,cream endpapers, marbled edges. black
and white illustrations throughout. Occasional spotting to
pages, an excellent copy.
first edition, bound from the original parts with
front cover of wrapper XVIII bound in as well as errata
slip on page 467.
£500
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DICKENS, Charles. Great Expectations. London:
Chapman and Hall, 1861
3 volumes, octavo (174 × 113 mm). Early 20th-century polished tan calf by Zaehnsdorf for E. P. Dutton, New York, top
edges gilt, skilfully rebacked to style. Bound without adverts. Some leaves, only sporadically but spread throughout
the three volumes, lightly browned and with water stains in
the upper outer corner, a good copy with the requisite first
impression points.
first edition, first impression, published on 6
July 1861, one of 1,000 copies thus. The first edition
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was divided into five impressions, with distinct title
pages labelling them as five editions, perhaps to imply rapid sales. The modern bibliographical authority
is generally agreed to be the table given in Appendix
D to the Clarendon edition, 1993, based on lineby-line collation of six 1861 copies, with additional
spot checks from other copies, in which Margaret
Caldwell agrees with the traditional conclusion that
the same setting of type was used for all five impressions: “there is no warrant for treating the five impressions as distinct editions” (p. 491). However, she
deduces that the impressions were sequential and
that minor corrections and gradual deterioration of
type can be shown across the five impressions. This
copy has all Caldwell’s points for the first impression,
except at vol. III, 192.11–12, where the reading is the
second state “himself very / carefully.” The third volume often shows one or two secondary text states,
even when in original cloth, suggesting that Caldwell’s points may be too prescriptive in this regard.
The first impression of Great Expectations is a famously
rare book. Robert L. Patten, Charles Dickens and His Publishers (Clarendon 1978) states that 1,000 copies of the
first impression and 750 of the second were printed
and that probably most of the first and more than half
of the second (1,400 copies in all) were published by
Mudie’s Select Library, where as circulating library
copies they inevitably suffered a high rate of attrition.
Smith I, 14.
£10,000
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DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin
Drood. With Twelve Illustrations by S. L. Fildes
and a Portrait. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870
Octavo (209 × 134 mm). Early 20th-century tan calf by Morrell,
spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red and black morocco
labels, blue endpapers, French fillets, floral turn-ins, and all
edges gilt. Housed in a marbled slipcase. Portrait frontispiece,
vignette title, and 12 plates. An excellent, fresh copy.
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first edition. Dickens’s final novel was published
posthumously in its unfinished state.
£600
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DICKINSON, Emily. Poems (Second Series).
Edited by two of her friends Mabel Loomis Todd
and T. W. Higginson. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and decoration to spine
and front board gilt, bevelled edges, top edge gilt. Spine
gently rolled, extremities rubbed, one middle hinge cracked
but still holding firm, light spotting to endpapers. An excellent copy, scarce in this condition.
first edition, second printing, of Dickinson’s
second book, which was originally published in 1891.
Dickinson’s poetry was first published in 1890, four
years after her death, thanks to the continuous efforts of Mabel Loomis Todd, a friend of Dickinson
and her brother’s lover. This is the second volume of
poems, published for Todd and her co-editor T. W.
Higginson following the success of the first volume.
Buckingham 3.52 (first printing).
£2,250
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DISNEY, Walt. Walt Disney’s Forest Friends
From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. New
York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1938
(DISNEY, Walt.) PALMER, H. Marion. Walt
Disney’s Surprise Package. Adapted versions
of Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows, Alice
in Wonderland, Peter and the Wolf and Eight
Other Stories. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944
Octavo. Pictorial paper boards, black cloth spine, pictorial
endpapers, with the dust jacket. Walt Disney Studio colour
illustrations throughout. An excllent copy with just a hint
of rubbing at extremities in a bright dust jacket with short
closed tear to front top edge.
first edition. A picture book featuring all the animals from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
£200
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DISNEY, Walt. Pinocchio. Based on the story by
Collodi. Illustrated with scenes from the Walt
Disney motion picture. New York: Random House,
1939
Large quarto. Pictorial boards, patterened endpapers, with
the dust jacket. Housed in a pink quarter morocco solander
box by the Chelsea Bindery. Walt Disney Studio colour illustrations throughout. An excllent copy with just a hint of
rubbing at extremities in a bright dust jacket.
first edition, inscribed on the verso of the front
free endpaper in crayon to “Mimi Bonesteel, Happy
Easter, Walt Disney.”
£5,000
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Quarto. Original printed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout
by the Walt Disney Studio. Ownership inscription to the title page which extends into the title text, an excellent copy
in bright jacket with light wear to extremities and shallow
chipping to top end of spine.
first edition.
£300
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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] CARROLL,
Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New
York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866
Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
[Through the Looking Glass] With Forty-Two
[Fifty] Illustrations by John Tenniel. Boston: Lee
and Shepard 1869–72
(DOISNEAU, Robert.) DELARUE, Jacques, &
Robert Giraud. Les Tatouages du «milieu»: avec
82 photographies hors texte & 80 dessins de
tatouages par Jacques Delarue. Paris: La Roulotte,
1950
2 works, octavo. Original green and blue cloth, titles to
spines and roundels to boards gilt, brown coated endpapers, all edges of volume I gilt. Engraved frontispiece to
volume I, illustrations throughout each volume by John Tenniel. Cloth rubbed and marked, some wear to corners and
spine ends, spines tanned, some spotting and toning to
contents. A very good set.
Octavo. Original tan paper boards printed in black. With the
pictorial dust jacket. With 80 black and white photographs,
10 by Robert Doisneau, and diagrams in the text. Joints split
at head, some light spotting to boards, front and rear inner
hinges starting, endpapers and text leaves slightly tanned.
A very good copy in a chipped, rubbed and lightly creased
jacket with tape repairs to verso, especially to split spine
panel.
Octavo. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf in recent burgundy full morocco, title and decorations to spine
gilt, triple line rule and centre block to boards gilt, inner
dentelles gilt, green endpapers, all edges gilt, original front
cover bound in at the back. With frontispiece and 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. Ownership name to half-title, bookplate to front pastedown. A very good clean copy.
first edition, second issue: the so-called Appleton Alice. This is the first obtainable issue of the
original first impression sheets. Macmillan printed
around 2,000 copies of the book in 1865, but Dodgson heard that Tenniel was unhappy with the printing
quality and ordered the book to be entirely reprinted.
Only two dozen or so copies of the 1865 first issue
survive: Macmillan sold the bulk of the sheets to Appleton in New York who used them for this American
edition with a cancel title page.
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first american editions, that is, the first editions
entirely printed in America; the earlier Appleton edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland had used imported English sheets.
£2,250
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first trade edition of this mesmerising anthropological study of tattoos in late 1940s Paris. The
book’s author, the poet, novelist and journalist Robert Giraud (1921–1997), introduced his friend Robert Doisneau to the Parisian underworld as early as
1947. “With him I met people on the edges of society.
People who were complete outlaws. Bob loved listening to prostitutes and pimps; I thought they were all
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rather stupid. Whores telling dirty stories, it wasn’t
really my thing. But the pseudo distinction of working for Vogue wasn’t either, I’d had enough of that job.
All things considered, I was actually getting over my
depression as a high society photographer with the
energetic help of my friend Giraud!” (Robert Doisneau). The first trade edition was preceded by the
numbered limited edition of 50 copies.
£875
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the
Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock
Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902
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Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and pictorial decoration
to spine and front board in gilt and black. Black and white
frontispiece and 15 plates. With contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine slightly faded, corners
lightly bumped, endpapers and edges lightly foxed, text
block internally strained in a few places but binding firm,
plate on page 118 partially loose, plates on pages 24 and 160
have been loose but have been skilfully reattached. A very
good copy.
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Memoirs of
Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1894
Large octavo. Original dark blue cloth, pictorial decoration
and titles to front board and spine in gilt and black, bevelled
boards, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by
Sidney Paget. Several small chips to fore edge of rear board,
extremities slightly rubbed, small chip to foot of spine,
Light foxing throughout, spine rolled, minor scratches and
marks to boards, front and rear inner hinges cracked but
still holding firm. A very good copy.
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Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.
£1,500
first edition. The second of the two primary collections of Holmes stories, containing material published 1892–1893 in The Strand, including the climactic
“The Adventure of the Final Problem”, in which Holmes meets his doom at the Reichenbach Falls.
first edition.
Green A26a.
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from the original, twin rule to turn-ins, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. With 20 tipped in colour plates, tissue
guards. Occasional spotting to pages, an excellent copy in
a fine binding.
first dulac edition.
£1,750
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DULAC, Edmund. Edmund Dulac’s Fairy Book.
Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations. London: Hodder
& Stoughton, [1916]
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DUCHAMP, Marcel. From the Green Box.
Translated and with a preface by George Heard
Hamilton. New Haven: The Readymade Press, 1957
Octavo. Original black and white boards. With the photographic dust jacket. A fine copy in jacket with a few small
closed tears to rear cover and slight chipping to front cover.
the author to the translator and art historian George
Heard Hamilton and his wife Polly Wiggin on the title page: “Polly George, merci and mercy! et très affectueusement, Marcel 1957.” One of 400 copies only,
this is the companion book to the edition of 20 green
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Bride published by Duchamp in 1934. From those
documents, the Readymade Press selected 25 items
to be published in English for the first time.
£4,500
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(DULAC, Edmund.) OMAR KHAYYÁM;
Edward Fitzgerald (trans.) Rubáiyát of Omar
Khayyám. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in terracotta
morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, pictorial block to the front board taken
Quarto. Rebound in red half morocco, red cloth, boards
ruled in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised
bands, compartments decorated in gilt, top edge gilt,
marbled metallic endpapers. Frontispiece and 15 mounted
plates all in colour and with paper guards. Spine very slightly faded, some light foxing to first few pages, otherwise an
excellent, bright copy in a handsome deluxe binding.
first edition. Written and illustrated by Dulac,
these tales were drawn from the folklore of Russia,
England, Flanders, Belgium, Italy, France, Ireland,
Serbia, and Japan.
£750
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DURANT, Margery. My Father. New York: London:
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929
Octavo. Original blue full morocco, titles gilt to spine, facsimile signature gilt to front board, turn-ins elaborately
gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.
Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece and 14 other plates,
one of them a double-folding image of the Buick plant in
1911. Corners nicked, front inner hinge skilfully repaired,
internally clean and fresh, a highly attractive copy in excellent condition.
deluxe signed limited edition, copy number 1
(the author’s own) from 50 signed and numbered copies printed on Perry rag laid paper, specially bound in
blue full morocco. This copy was retained by Durant
until 1957. Her presentation inscription on the limitation page reads: “To my dear Noela, with best love
from Margery Durant, Greece, Oct 20th, 1957”. The
title in any iteration is extremely uncommon, with
just nine copies on OCLC and no copy in the Library
of Congress. Those institutional copies are from the
larger limitation of 250 copies; this, the author’s own
copy from the smallest issue, has primacy. No trade
edition was produced.
W. C. (“Billy”) Durant can be considered the father of
the American automobile industry; he founded General Motors and Chevrolet; built and lost several for-
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tunes; and was finally wiped out, as the “King of the
Bulls”, attempting to fight the Crash of 1929. His one
time associate Frederick L. Smith considered that “It
would be a poorly posted analyst who failed to list W.
C. Durant as the most picturesque, spectacular, and
aggressive figure in the chronicles of American automobiledom. He certainly made some capital mistakes, a fact as to which we often violently disagreed,
but the man who makes no mistakes rarely makes anything at all on a large scale” (Motoring Down a Quarter
of a Century, p. 38). This book is one of the key sources
for Durant’s life: DAB remarks that “Biographical material on Durant is limited”, while John B. Rae characterizes this as one of the “fullest accounts of Durant’s
early life” (“The Fabulous Billy Durant” in The Business
History Review, 32;3, autumn 1958).
His daughter, Margery, is an interesting character
in her own right. Four times married, she eventually
settled with Commander Fitzhugh Green, who had
served on Donald B. MacMillan’s Crocker Land Expedition. They were introduced to each other by Amelia
Earhart; under her influence Margery became a longdistance aviatrix, making flights across Europe, Africa and the Middle East in an effort to popularize private air travel, and serving on the Foreign Relations
Committee of the National Aeronautical Association,
the first woman to do so.
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EAMES, Charles & Ray. A Computer
Perspective. Edited by Glen Fleck. Produced
by Robert Staples. Introduction by I. Bernard
Cohen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1973
Quarto. Original half black cloth, titles to spine in silver,
cream cloth sides, blue-gray endpapers. With the dust
jacket. Illustrations throughout. Just a little toning of the
endpapers. An excellent, fresh copy in the dust jacket that
is toned along the spine panel with a few nicks and short
closed tears.
Charles Eames on the front free endpaper, “To Ben
and Lois, with great admiration from Charles and
Ray [additionally signed by Ray Eames], Jan – 1973”.
In addition to their well-known furniture and architectural designs, the Eameses also had an interest in
industrial design. The present volume, which traces
the development of information technology from
Babbage’s Analytical Engine to the commercial computers of the 1970s, was the companion book to an
exhibition of the same title which the couple curated
for IBM in 1971.
£1,375
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EGGLESTON, George Cary. American War
Ballads and Lyrics. A collection of the songs and
ballads of the Colonial Wars, the Revolution,
the War of 1812–15, the War with Mexico and the
Civil War. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889
EINSTEIN, A. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen
Relativitätstheorie. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann
Ambrosius Barth, 1916
EINSTEIN, Albert. Relativity. The Special
& General Theory. A Popular Exposition.
Authorised Translation by Robert W. Lawson.
With Five Diagrams and a Portrait of the Author.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920
2 volumes in one, small octavo. Contemporary light brown
half calf, raised bands to spine, titles gilt on light brown morocco label, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt,
white bound silk bookmark. With frontispiece, numerous
black and white illustrations and decorations throughout.
Small crack to top of rear joint, light rubbing to extremities
and corners very slightly worn, bookmark torn. With armorial bookplate and later owner signature to front pastedown.
An excellent copy.
first edition, presented by eleanor
roosevelt to her friend Marjorie Bennett, with her
gift inscription on the front free endpaper: “Merry
Xmas Bennett dear, Happy New Year to you! from
your ever devoted Totty, December 25th 1902.” Totty
was Roosevelt’s childhood nickname. Between 1899
and 1902 she studied at Allenswood Academy in London, where Bennett was her roommate.
£975
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Octavo. Original vertical-ribbed buff card wrappers printed
in black. Neat contemporary ownership signature to title
page, occasional small marginal mark in pencil. Faint finger mark to fore edge of front wrapper, short closed tears to
head and tail of backstrip. An excellent copy.
first separate edition, first issue with the following points: the imprint “Druck von Metzger &
Wittig in Leipzig. 314” on the verso of the title page;
the last title listed in the publisher’s advertisement
on the rear wrapper being Theodor Ziehen’s Die Psychologie; and the imprint “Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig”
on the rear wrapper. Die Grundlage was originally published in Annalen der Physik, Volume 49, pp. 769–822,
in the same year. Einstein produced an introduction
especially for the separate edition, which is “described now as ‘the original edition’ of this classic
paper” (Weil).
Printing and the Mind of Man 408; Weil 80a.
£2,500
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Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt and to front
board in blind. Portrait frontispiece and diagrams in the
text. Small ownership signature to front free endpaper.
Spine faded, gilt dulled, free endpapers lightly tanned, prelims a little foxed. A very good copy.
first uk edition of Einstein’s popular treatment of
relativity, with the addition of an appendix on “The
Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory
of Relativity” written especially for this edition. The
English translation was first published in New York
by Henry Holt and Co. the same year.
£875
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EINSTEIN, Albert. Sidelights on Relativity. I.
Ether and Relativity. II. Geometry and Experience.
Translated by G. B. Jeffery, D.Sc., and W. Perrett,
Ph.D. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1922
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Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt and to front
board in blind, two-line gilt rules at head and tail of spine,
blind rule to boards. In the original printed dust jacket.
Diagrams on pages 49 and 51. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Faint ownership signature
to fore edge of text block. Spine a little rubbed and faded at
ends, light sporadic foxing to contents. An excellent copy
in a slightly edge-chipped jacket with two neat archival tape
repairs to spine folds.
first uk edition, in the presumed first issue blue
cloth with gilt lettering, and eight pages of Methuen
adverts at the end. Sidelights on Relativity is the translation of two lectures given by Einstein. The first,
“Ether and the Theory of Relativity”, was given at the
University of Leyden on 5 May 1920, the second, “Geometry and Experience”, at the Prussian Academy of
Sciences on 27 January 1921, and is transcribed here
in expanded form. Originally published in Germany
in 1920 under the title Aether und Relativitaetstheorie, the
English translation was first published in New York
by E. P. Dutton and Company the same year.
Weil 111c.
£1,200
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EINSTEIN, Albert. Mein Weltbild. Amsterdam:
Querido, 1934
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Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth folding
case. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Light
partial tanning to free endpapers. An excellent, sharp copy
in the jacket which is rubbed and creased with toned spine
panel, chips, closed tears, and a faint spot of dampstain to
the front panel.
first edition, inscribed by the author on the
title page, “Gesammelte Länder [Collected Countries], Albert Einstein” under the printed title which
has been struck through. Einstein’s inscription seems
to refer to the German title, which means approximately “My World View”. This volume is rare signed
and contains five essays by Einstein on science, religion, politics, and philosophy: “The World As I See
It”, “Of Politics and Pacifism”, “Germany 1933”, “Judaism”, and “Science”. Since his childhood in Prussia
Einstein had been opposed to militant nationalism
and enforced conformity, even renouncing his German citizenship for that of Switzerland as a teenager.
As he grew in stature as a physicist he began using his
celebrity to promote his philosophical ideals—internationalism, pacifism, and Zionism—earning him
much vitriol from the far-right but endearing him to
millions of others around the world. This edition is
entirely in German; the first English language edition
was published in the US in 1949.
£8,000
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EINSTEIN, Albert. Postcard inscribed to his
research assistant, Peter Bergmann. New York:
Graphic Post Card Co., 1945
Printed postcard (140 × 87 mm) with a portrait of Einstein by
Morris J. Kallem. Slightly rubbed on verso.
inscribed by einstein below his portrait “Herrn
Bergmann, herzliche Grüsse, Ihr A. Einstein 45.” The
postcard was no. 105 in a series of world figures drawn
by Morris J. Kallem for the Graphic Post Card Co.,
first issued in 1943. Einstein inscribed the card for the
German-American physicist Peter Gabriel Bergmann
(1915–2002). After obtaining his PhD at the German
University in Prague in 1936 under the direction of
Philipp Frank, Bergmann worked with Einstein as his
research assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study
between 1936 and 1941. His Introduction to the Theory of
Relativity (1942), the first textbook on general relativity, had a foreword by Einstein. After leaving Prince36
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1947 to 1982 and at New York University.
£3,000
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(EINSTEIN, Albert.) FRANK, Philipp. Einstein.
His Life and Times. Translated from the
German Manuscript by George Rosen. Edited
and Revised by Shuichi Kusaka. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1947
Large octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front
board gilt. With the dust jacket. Lightly rubbed and a little
dulled at extremities, small spot of dampstain to rear board,
partial tanning to endpapers, contents faintly toned. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some nicks and
short splits and tape repairs on the verso.
first edition, inscribed by einstein on the
front free endpaper, “For Mrs. Lazarus[?], A. Einstein
1947 (without responsibility for the content)”. Philipp
Frank (1884–1966) was a life-long friend of Einstein’s
and an important physicist and philosopher in his
own right. Einstein thought highly enough of Frank
that in 1912 he recommended him as his replacement
at the Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague, a position that Frank held until 1938 when he moved to the
United States and joined the faculty at Harvard.
£6,875
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EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Portrait photograph
inscribed to General Sir Miles Dempsey,
commander of the Allied Second Army in the
invasion of Europe 1944–5. 1948
Original photographic bust portrait (260 × 198 mm) in a contemporary brown morocco-textured leather standing frame
by Jarrolds, Walter Jones of Sloane Street. Light scuffing of
the frame, but overall very good.
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fight the next war. Let those who are, come rising up,
and have the say in shaping the Army correctly for it.
Those who have been at the top in this last war think
of the present (and the past)” (see Rostron, Dempsey,
pp. 182–3). A superb memento of the admiration of
a great American leader for an unsung British hero.
£4,500
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warmly inscribed in the plain lower margin:
“For Bimbo Dempsey—brilliant army commander
of World War II—from his friend Dwight D. Eisenhower”. Dempsey is without doubt one of the great
forgotten heroes of the Second World War. His counter-attack at Arras in 1940 was vital in buying time for
the eventual evacuation at Dunkirk; in the Western
Desert and invasion of Italy he was “the ideal subordinate to Montgomery: never seeking the limelight, nor
able (from the nature of Montgomery’s directives) to
indulge in bold strokes of initiative, he always fully
understood what Montgomery’s purpose was, and
quietly and steadily got on with it” (ODNB). His command of the Second Army on D-Day and in the drive
across Europe was “a model of how to conduct operations soundly and successfully … He would spend
much of his time visiting his subordinate commanders and their troops, assessing the situation, listening
to their problems, and giving instructions clearly and
succinctly. He had profound understanding of the
soldiers under his command and firm control over
operations, so he inspired both subordinates and
superior commanders with confidence in his judgement and leadership. Yet he remained relatively unknown to the public”.
This official portrait was taken by Fabian Bachrach in
February 1948, when Eisenhower was US Army Chiefof-Staff. Coincidentally Dempsey had just been offered the equivalent post in the British Army, Chief
of the Imperial General Staff, in succession to Montgomery, but had insisted on retiring from the army.
Mountbatten sought to dissuade Dempsey: “It boils
down to this, who is going to succeed Monty as the
next CIGS? The whole Army, I go further, all the fighting services, and all intelligent people in the country
looked upon you as not only the logical successor, but
as the only candidate of the right calibre immediately
available”. To which Dempsey countered, with typical
sound sense and modesty: “I regard command of an
Army in war as being the top. Do you really want me
to go on sitting there for another 3 years or so. And
do you really think it would be good for the Army? I
am certain it would not. Further, I am not going to
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ELIOT, George. Middlemarch a study of
provincial life. Edinburgh and London: William
Blackwood and Sons, 1871–2
4 volumes, octavo (175 × 120 mm). Tan calf binding by
Riviere, executed about the turn of the century, red and
green spine labels, double rule gilt to boards, gilt decorations to compartments, top edge gilt, blue endpapers. Occasional spotting to pages, bindings a little rubbed at corners and ends of spine, mild wear to leather at spine compartments, Volume 1 with faint staining to rear board, minimal expert repair to front hinge of volume 1, a very good set.
first edition in book form of George Eliot’s sixth
and greatest novel, the title-pages showing the line
“The Right of Translation is Reserved” at foot. In its
slow gestation, the book grew too long for the traditional three-decker format. It was Lewes who suggested to Blackwood that, on the model of Victor
Hugo’s Les Misérables, it should be serialised in eight
parts at two-monthly intervals, and published in
book form in four volumes.
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ELIOT, T. S. Selected Essays. 1917–1932. London:
Faber and Faber Limited, 1932
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt, fore and
bottom edges untrimmed. With the dust jacket. A fine copy.
first edition of the author’s anthology of prose selected by him and containing many of his landmark essays on literature, among them his studies of Lancelot
Andrewes, Dante, John Dryden, and William Blake.
Gallup A21a.
£650
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ELIOT, T. S. The Family Reunion. A Play. London:
Faber and Faber, 1939
Octavo. Original blue-grey cloth, spine title in red, fore and
bottom edges untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Extremities lightly chipped, spine a little toned, front free endpaper
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faintly foxed, contents toned. A very good copy in a slightly
edge-chipped jacket with a tanned spine panel.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed on
the front free endpaper by the author on the night
of the play’s premiere to the actress who played the
character of Denman, a parlourmaid: “To Miss Pamela Keily (Denman) with the author’s compliments, 21
March 1939”. The play, starring a young Michael Redgrave, was first performed at the Westminster Theatre in London.
Gallup A33a.
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ELIOT, T. S., & George Hoellering. The Film of
Murder in the Cathedral. London: Faber and Faber
Limited, 1952
Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in silver and
purple on blue, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece, 5 colour plates, 48 monochrome plates. Ownership
signature to the front free endpaper and bookseller’s ticket
to the front pastedown. Occasional minor foxing to contents, endpapers browned. A very good copy in the foxed
jacket that has some nicks to the extremities.
first edition, signed by eliot on the title page.
Eliot’s verse drama was first performed on 15 June
1935 in the Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral. It
was made into a film by the Austrian director George
Hoellering with music by the Hungarian composer
Laszlo Lajtha and won the Grand Prix at the Venice
Film Festival in 1951. It was released in the UK in 1952.
Gallup A29i.
£375
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ELIOT, T. S. Geoffrey Faber 1889–1961. London:
privately printed, 1961
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to front board and
spine gilt, brown endpapers, printed on one side only of
rice paper. With the original plain cellophane dust jacket.
Spine a little faded, light spotting to top and fore edges. An
excellent copy.
first edition, in the first issue cellophane jacket.
Number 37 of a limited edition of 100 copies printed
for private distribution on the occasion of Sir Geoffrey Faber’s memorial service at St Giles-in-theFields, Holborn, 10 May 1961.
Gallup A71.
£1,250
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ELLINGTON, Duke. “Black Beauty/Swampy
River” [signed early piano recording]. New York:
OKeh Phonograph Coroporation, 1928
Original 10-inch single. Playing surface just lightly scuffed,
with no significant scratches, certainly very good.
Early and important solo stride piano recording,
OKeh Record #8636, signed on the label in white ink
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by Ellington, and highly unusual thus. Recorded on
1 October 1928, these works display an “adventurous approach to tonality, unusual in jazz or popular
music at the time … Majestically, imperiously, Ellington made progressive composition and popular
music share the same stage. Duke’s approach to the
piano amplified this anomalous vision of the future
of jazz. On top of a fairly traditional stride style he
would add flourished and asides of the most amazing
sort, bursts of dissonant chords, whole-tone scales,
unexpected percussive attacks, or querulous arpeggios” (Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz, p. 120). David
Schiff further deconstructs the complexity of this
early showcase: “‘Black Beauty’ begins with the same
harmonies as the opening piano solo in the Gersh-
win [Rhapsody in Blue]; it’s even in the same key
… ‘Swampy River,’ which Ellington recorded at the
same piano solo session as ‘Black Beauty,’ began with
an even more explicit allusion to Rhapsody in Blue
… Gershwin returned the compliment, because the
bridge of ‘I Got Rhythm,’ written two years later, recalls the second strain of ‘Black Beauty.’ Tipping his
hat to Gershwin, Ellington flaunted his compositional and pianistic chops. Both pieces are complex multistrain piano compositions in the manner of James
P. Johnson. But the main melody in ‘Black Beauty’’
is neither Gerswhinesque nor Johnsonesque, and it
does not display the creamy chromaticism of many
Ellington tunes” (The Ellington Century, p. 275).
£2,000
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ESCOFFIER, Auguste. A Guide to Modern
Cookery. London: William Heinemann, 1907
Large octavo (235 × 140 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea
Bindery in full green morocco, titles and decoration to
spine gilt, raised bands, single fillet edge-roll, twin rule to
turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers. An excellent copy in a
fine binding. Photographic frontispiece portrait with tissueguard. Prelims slightly foxed, occasional light spot of foxing
to the margins. An excellent copy.
first edition, presentation copy, with the author’s signed inscription on the first blank leaf, “A
Madame Cunard, hommage respecteux, A. Escoffier,
London 14 May 1907”. The recipient was most probably Lady Cunard, the society hostess, wife of the Cunard shipping line heir, and mother of Nancy Cunard.
Bitting p. 146; Cagle 666.
£1,800
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(ESTES, Richard.) MEISEL, Louis. K. Richard
Estes: The Complete Paintings 1966–1985.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1986; ARTHUR,
John. Richard Estes: Paintings and Prints. San
Francisco: Pomegranate Art Books, 1993
Together 2 works, oblong quarto. Complete Paintings: original
purple cloth, titles to spine in black. Paintings and Prints: original
grey cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jackets. Both vol-
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umes profusely illustrated with mainly colour reproductions.
Complete Paintings with board edges and spine tips sunned, light
dampstain to fore-edge of text block and fore margin of endleaves, fore edge of one folding illustration creased, the jacket a
little toned. Excellent copies in the jackets.
first editions, presentation copies from the
artist, inscribed by him on the half-titles: “For Helen and Mason, Richard Estes” and “For Helen and
Mason with affection, Richard”. With loosely inserted newspaper clippings, exhibition invitations and
two invitation cards to a buffet dinner and a cocktail
party held at Stoneledge, Estes’s house on the coast of
Maine, by Estes and his partner José Saenz and handwritten by the latter. These two monographs feature
Estes’s photorealistic urban landscapes as well as his
lesser-known figurative paintings.
£1,250
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EVELYN, John. Sylva: or, a Discourse of ForestTrees, and the Propagation of Timber in His
Majesty’s Dominions: as it was delivered in the
Royal Society on the 15th Day of October, 1662,
Upon Occasion of certain Quaeries propounded
to that illustrious Assembly, by the Honourable
the Principal Officers and Commissioners of
the Navy. Together With An Historical Account
of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves.
With Notes by A Hunter M.D. F.R.S. York: by
A. Ward, for J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, J. Robson, and T.
Durham, in London, and W. Creech and J. Balfour,
Edinburgh, 1776
Large quarto (315 × 240 mm). Half calf to style, edges entirely uncut. With the original subscriber’s ticket signed by
Hunter, and with the original prepublication advertisement
leaf loosely inserted. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 40 engraved plates of which 1 folding, folding letterpress table.
Some light foxing and offsetting, a few inserted botanical
specimens, an excellent copy.
first hunter edition, complete with the original
advertisement leaf and subscriber’s ticket as receipt.
First published in 1664 and famously the first book
to be printed by order of the Royal Society, Sylva was
his most important work to be published during Evelyn’s lifetime (his famous diary not being published
until 1818). During the 1640s and 1650s production
of glass and iron in Britain increased rapidly and the
wood used to fire the furnaces and factories was not
being replaced by fresh planting. This led to a serious shortage of wood from which the Navy could
construct ships. Evelyn appealed to the king for a
concerted campaign of reforestation and claimed in
his preface that he had induced landowners to plant
many millions of trees. In his own preface, Hunter
remarks that “soon after the publication of the Sylva
... the Spirit for Planting increased to a high degree;
and there is reason to believe that many of our ships,
in the last war... were constructed from Oaks planted
at that time.”
£2,500
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FARRELL, James. Studs Lonigan a Trilogy.
Featuring Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood
of Studs Lonigan and Judgement Day. New York:
The Vanguard Press, 1935
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in brown morocco, raised bands, gilt rule to compartments and covers,
gilt edges. An excellent copy.
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first edition, inscribed by the author on
front free endpaper “To Sam & Lillian, affectionately
Jimmy Farrell.”
£1,500
[90254]
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FAULKNER, William. Light in August. New
York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932
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Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in blue and to
front board in orange, top edge dyed orange, fore-edge uncut. With the dust jacket and glassine wrapper. An excellent
copy with some extremely minor foxing, in the bright jacket
that has nicks to the extremities, a short closed tear to the
front panel, rear panel cockled, and the glassine wrapper
that is creased with a large closed tear to the rear panel, a
short closed tear to the front panel, and some nicks to the
extremities. With a contemporary newspaper review pasted
to the verso of the dust jacket.
first edition.
£4,750
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(FEIFFER, Jules.) JUSTER, Norton. The
Phantom Tollbooth. New York: Epstein and Carroll,
1961
Octavo. Original blue cloth with titles to spine white, illustration to front board in white, map endpapers, in dust
jacket. Mild bumping to corners and ends of spine, inscription to the half title page, in bright dust jacket with just a
hint of wear to edges.
first edition, signed by the illustrator on the
title page. This copy is of the first printing, with Epstein and Carroll’s name printed on the dust jacket and
stated on the title page (later editions have Random
House as publisher). True first printings of this title
are very uncommon and signed copies even more so.
£2,250
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FERGUSSON, James. Tree and Serpent
Worship: or Illustrations of Mythology and Art
in India in the First and Fourth Centuries after
Christ. From the Sculptures of the Buddhist
Topes at Sanchi and Amravati. Prepared under
the Authority of the Secretary of State for India
in Council. London: India Museum, W. H. Allen and
Co., 1868
Folio (334 × 240 mm). Publisher’s red half hard-grain morocco, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down,
title gilt to spine, green sand-grain cloth sides, large Naga
Raja disk gilt to the front board, top edge gilt, marbled
endpapers. Lithographic decorative title after a drawing of
the northern gateway at Sanchi by Lieut--Col. Maisey and
40 other similar plates after Maisey, 57 mounted albumen
prints by W. Griggs and Lieut. Waterhouse, 2 of them across
two pages, a double-page coloured plan, a full-page tinted
map, and numerous wood-engravings to the text. Joints and
spine ends professionally repaired. Mild mottling to boards,
text block occasionally lightly browned, some spotting and
marginal finger-soiling, some of the albumen prints a little
pale as often, but overall about very good.
first edition, edward burne-jones’s copy,
with his bookplate and that of his former schoolfriend, Wilfred Lucas Heeley of the Indian Civil Service. While Burne-James seems not to have been in42
fluenced by Indian art, a serpentine theme certainly
can be detected running through his work, famously
in The Doom Fulfilled (Perseus slaying the Sea Serpent); in
the windows of St Margaret’s, Rottingdean; and in
his “portrait” of Sidonia von Bork with her robe patterned with “branching and knotted snakes, black
upon the golden stuff ”. Most suggestively of all, the
pencil sketch Serpent Women around Globe at the Art Institute of Chicago (the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial
Collection, 1922.1121) seems to reference the various
serpent discs discussed in the present work.
Although the book has been described as “fanciful”
(David Boyd Haycock in ODNB), it remains an important record, and is a superb example of an early
photographically illustrated book involving three of
the key players in the development of the form. James
Fergusson (1808–1886) was one of Victorian Britain’s
most prominent architectural historians, respected
by Ruskin, and the dedicatee of Schliemann’s great
work Tiryns, as “the historian of architecture, eminent alike for his knowledge of art and for the original
genius which he has applied to the solution of some
of its most difficult problems”. He had no university
education and began his career working for the family firm of Fairlie, Fergusson & Co. in Calcutta, before
going into business as an indigo planter. He quickly
made his fortune, “was able to retire, and as ‘an expert draughtsman with a camera-lucida’ he explored
India ‘chiefly on a camel’s back, from end to end and
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from side to side’ exploring the rock-cut temples of
Ajanta, Ellora, and elsewhere” (ODNB). In 1866, he
was preparing a display on Indian architecture for the
1867 Paris Exhibition, and was looking for sculptures,
or architectural fragments, to cast “to draw attention
… [and] give some character” to his exhibition of
photographs. He was “not a little astonished” to discover that “a large collection of marbles” from Amravanti Tope—a site that he had “thought it well worth
[making] a voyage to India specially for the purpose
of exploring”—were stored for their preservation in
the coach-house of the India Museum at Leadenhall
Street (Preface). He set to work on a monograph describing the site, and to this end the pieces were photographed by William Griggs, the Museum photographer, and inventor of the photolithographic process
by which many of the plates in the present work were
produced. In the course of his researches on the subject, Fergusson then uncovered “a beautiful series of
drawings” of Sanchi Tope in the Indian Office library,
at the same time receiving “ a set of photographs”
of the same monument from Lieutenant James Waterhouse, which lead him to reconsider the form of
the book, expanding it to combine the accounts of
the two monuments. Waterhouse, whose images of
Sanchi Tope arrived so serendipitously, went on to
become President of the Royal Photographic Society 1905–6, having been awarded the Society’s Progress Medal in 1891 for his work on dye sensitising.
Griggs’s pioneering work in chromophotolithogra-
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phy and with the half-tone and collotype processes
led to him being obituarized by the Printer’s Register
as “that venerable craft father of ours”.
Gernsheim, Incunabula, 419
£3,000
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FERRIS, Walter. Death Takes a Holiday. New
York: Samuel French, 1930
Octavo. Original black cloth-backed yellow cloth boards,
titles to spine gilt, top edge orange. With the pictorial dust
jacket. Spine ends and edges of boards a bit rubbed, top
edge slightly faded, minor foxing to other edges. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with a couple of light dampstains
to the gently toned spine panel, mildly rubbed and nicked
extremities, and a few small chips to head of spine and lower corner of rear panel.
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played by Bobby Fischer against Boris Spassky.
[Reykjavík:] Litbrá Offset, 1972
“Giant” postcard (221 × 147 mm) featuring both players and
views of Iceland. A couple of very faint waterstains to verso,
light creases to top half. Overall excellent.
signed by bobby fischer on the recto. The 1972
chess world championship final was the culmination
of Fischer’s quite brilliant career as a chess grandmaster—aged 13 he had already won the “Game of
the Century”. He would now be able to add world
champion to his numerous titles. Playing out Cold
War tensions, the game between Fischer from the US
and Boris Spassky from Soviet Russia generated public interest on a scale not seen before or since. Twenty
years after his 1972 victory Fischer played an unofficial rematch against Spassky and won again.
£975
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first edition of Ferris’s play, adapted from the Italian play La morte in vacanza (1924) by Alberto Casella.
Ferris’s play in turn formed the basis for Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman’s script for the critically
acclaimed 1934 film of the same name, directed by
Mitchell Leisen and starring Fredric March and Evelyn Venable.
£1,500
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New
York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925
Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt and to
front board in blind, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Spine
slightly cocked, spine ends gently bumped, a couple of minor marks to rear board, endpapers browned, prelims lightly foxed, occasional pale spotting to margins of text block.
An excellent copy.
first edition, first state. The copy is the correct
first printing, with “chatter” on p. 60, line 16, “northern” on p. 119, line 22, “it’s” on p. 165, line 16, “away”
on p. 165, line 29, “sick in tired” on p. 205, lines 9–10,
and “Union Street station” on p. 211, lines 7–8.
Bruccoli A11.I.a.
£3,750
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962
Octavo (195 × 135 mm). Contemporary red half morocco,
spine gilt in compartments, red cloth sides ruled in gilt, top
edge gilt. Binding a little rubbed at extremities, one small
chip to foot of spine, margins of contents very faintly toned.
An excellent copy.
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(FISCHER, Robert J.) Signed souvenir postcard
for the 1972 World Chess Championship match
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A handsomely bound copy of Fitzgerald’s classic novel, which was originally published in 1933.
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£375
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FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary.
Provincial Manners. Translation from the
French Édition définitive by Eleanor MarxAveling. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886
Octavo. Publisher’s blue-green diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth,
front cover with gilt scroll borders enclosing medallion at
top and bottom and with title in gilt on blue panel surrounded by larger panel of gilt putti and floral sprays at centre,
spine lettered and decorated in gilt, back cover blocked in
blind with outer 3-line rule and publisher’s device at centre,
black coated endpapers, edges untrimmed. Frontispiece
and 5 plates. Spine rolled, cloth very lightly rubbed at extremities, lower corner bumped, page 296 with a production
fault resulting in a short closed edge tear. An excellent copy.
first edition in english of Flaubert’s masterpiece,
one of the best titles in the famous sequence of English
translations of French and Russian novels published by
Henry Vizetelly in this decade, many of which affronted Victorian notions of propriety. The translator was
Karl Marx’s daughter, then living openly with Edward
Bibbens Aveling, a married man whose name she used
in conjunction with her own. Flaubert’s debut novel,
this was five years in the making, and originally serialised in the Revue de Paris. It provoked charges of obscenity and immorality from the French government,
resulting in a trial at which Flaubert was acquitted. The
ensuing publicity also ensured that, upon publication,
the book became a bestseller. The heroine of the novel,
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Emma Bovary, eventually commits suicide by swallowing arsenic—a fate which also befell her translator, Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
£4,500
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FLEMING, Ian. Diamonds are Forever. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1956
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and diamond
design to front board in silver, lattice pattern to front board
in blind. With the dust jacket. Toning to endpapers and light
foxing to edges, dust jacket lightly rubbed to corners and
lightly rubbed to white back panel, price clipped.
first edition.
£3,000
FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. Five Secret
Occasions in the Life of James Bond. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1960
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, eye motif
on front board in white. With the pictorial dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Slight spotting to
top edge, free endpapers a touch tanned. An excellent copy
in a price-clipped, lightly tanned jacket with slightly darkened spine panel, and a few minor nicks and chips to the
mildly rubbed extremities.
first edition. The eighth book in the Bond series.
Gilbert A8a (1.1).
£575
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FLEMING, Ian. Dr. No. London: Jonathan Cape,
1958
Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in silver. With
the dust jacket. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Spine rolled, internally fine; an excellent copy in the
jacket that has some annotations to the rear panel.
first edition, first issue binding.
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FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1961
Octavo. Original dark grey boards, spine lettered in gilt,
skeletal hand motif on front board blocked in blind. With
the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket that is a little
rubbed at the spine ends.
first edition.
Gilbert A9a (1.1).
Gilbert A6a (1.1).
£875
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£750
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FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1962
Octavo. Original dark grey boards, titles to spine in silver,
dagger design to front board in silver and blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine very gently cocked, top
edge slightly foxed. Otherwise an excellent copy in a bright
jacket with mildly toned spine and lightly rubbed rear panel.
first edition. The tenth James Bond book. In many
ways this is one of the most ambitious of Fleming’s
Bond books. It purports to be the first hand testimony
of a 23 year old Canadian woman with whom Bond has
an ill-fated affair. In time-honoured literary tradition
Fleming claims to have been sent Michel’s manuscript
account of which he is merely the editor. Michel therefore gets a spurious credit as co-author on the title
page. This novel is the only Bond book to be written in
the first person. Not common in such nice condition.
Gilbert A10a (1.1).
£700
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FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and gun design to front board gilt, green and white endpapers. With
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the dust jacket. Owner’s name and price to front free endpaper, spine bumped, a few small marks and scuffs to boards,
a couple of marks to edges of text block, dust jacket in excellent condition.
first edition, first issue with the gilt gun design
to the front board.
Gilbert A13a (1.1).
£10,000
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FORSTER, E. M. A Passage to India. London:
Edward Arnold & Co., 1924
Octavo (187 × 127mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery
in burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt,
raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins,
plain dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Light occasional
spotting to pages, an excellent copy.
first edition.
FLEMING, Ian. [The James Bond novels:] Casino
Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds
are Forever; From Russia With Love; Dr No;
Goldfinger; For Your Eyes Only; Thunderball;
The Spy Who Loved Me; On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service; You Only Live Twice; The Man With
the Golden Gun; Octopussy and The Living
Daylights. Shelton: The First Edition Library, 1981–93
14 volumes. Octavo. Original black boards, illustrations to
front boards in silver white or gilt, titles to spines in silver,
red or gilt. With the dust jackets and printed slipcases. A
fine set.
facsimile edition, reproducing the original design and dust jacket artwork of all Fleming’s James
Bond titles in their first editions.
£2,250
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£1,375
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FORT, Charles. Lo! London: Victor Gollancz Ltd,
1931
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Dampstain to top edge of rear board, spotting
to edges, light partial tanning to free endpapers. A very
good copy in the jacket with tanned spine panel and lightly
chipped edges.
first uk edition of the author’s best known book,
in which he proposes a cosmic alternative to astronomy and develops a theory of teleportation, a term
with which he is widely credited having coined in this
book. Originally published in the US the same year,
the title is rare in dust jacket.
£975
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GABO, Naum. Gabo. Constructions, Sculpture,
Paintings, Drawings, Engravings. With
introductory essays by Herbert Read and Leslie
Martin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1957
Quarto. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine in
red. With the dust jacket. Original stereoscopic glasses inserted in rear pastedown. Illustrated throughout with over
100 plates, 16 in colour and 10 in colour 3D. Spine bumped,
edges very lightly toned, dust jacket rubbed and torn to edges with a larger chip to head of front panel, text underlined
throughout with pencil and red crayon.
first edition, inscribed by the artist on the
front free endpaper, “For Francine & Clive [sic] Gray,
in friendship, N. Gabo, Jan 6th 1962.” The first comprehensive review of Gabo’s work including the original Russian text and English translation of the “Realist Manifesto” of which the main principles of constructivism was explained. Francine du Plessix Gray
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was a writer and literary critic; her husband Cleve
Gray was an artist and writer, and contributed “Naum
Gabo Talks About Constructivism” to the magazine
Art in America, Nov.–Dec. 1966, pp. 48–55.
£3,000
[88462]
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GINSBERG, Allen. Howl and other poems. San
Francisco: The Pocket Poets Series, Number Four, City
Lights, 1956
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Duodecimo. Original black and white wrappers. Wrappers
slightly foxed otherwise an excellent copy.
GAG, Wanda. Tales From Grimm. New York:
Coward-McCann, 1936
first published edition of the author’s first book,
preceded only by the privately-produced mimeographed
printing of the title poem. One of about 1,500 copies
printed, the book is uncommon in this condition.
Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, titles dark blue on front
board and spine, with the dust jacket. Illustrated by the author. An excellent copy in jacket with light chipping to front
top edge and ends of spine, mild soiling to panels, a very
good copy.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed on
the front free endpaper verso, “ For Byrdie Bless,
Wanda Gag”.
£975
[92752]
£3,250
[93943]
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GISH, Lillian, & Ann Pinchot. The Movies, Mr.
Griffith and Me. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
1969
Octavo. Original blue-green cloth backing beige cloth
boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated
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throughout with black and white photographic plates. An
excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket.
Lillian Gish to Otto Preminger on the half-title: “This,
dear Otto Preminger, with deepest thanks for your
kindness to my beloved sister. And fondest wishes to
you and your family. Lillian Gish”. Preminger directed Lillian Gish’s sister Dorothy in the 1946 musical
Centennial Summer.
£1,500
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Together 2 works, octavo (215 × 138mm). Finely bound by
the Chelsea Bindery in full terracotta morocco, titles to
spines gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turn ins, dark green
endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
first editions. The basis of the enduring television
dramatisation and the author’s best-known works.
£1,750
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GREENE, Graham. The Third Man and The
Fallen Idol. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1950
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver, publisher’s device to rear cover in blind. With the photographic
dust jacket. A fine copy in an excellent jacket with lightly
rubbed and nicked extremities.
first uk edition.
[88156]
£1,250
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GOLDING, William. Lord of the Flies. London:
GREENE, Graham. The Quiet American.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1955
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in white. With the
dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked one or two light spots but
a very nice copy indeed in the very lightly nicked dust jacket
with a short tear at one fold and some mild tongin and a few
spots to the verso. A superior copy.
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top
edge blue. With the dust jacket and the original wraparound
band. Spine ends very lightly rubbed, top edge somewhat
faded. An excellent copy in a fine, bright jacket and wraparound band with slightly faded spine.
first edition. Golding’s first and best known novel.
£4,750
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first uk edition, having been first published in
Sweden, translated from Greene’s manuscript, as Den
stillsamme Amerikanen (Stockholm: Norstedt, 1955).
[94480]
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Miller 35a.
£475
GRAVES, Robert. I Claudius; Claudius the God.
London: Arthur Barker, 1934
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GREENE, Graham. Our Man in Havana. An
Entertainment. London: Heinemann, 1958
GREENE, Graham. Our Man in Havana. London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1958
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s
device to rear board in blind. With the dust jacket. Contemporary Parisian bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown.
Small waterstains to pp. 24, 75–6 and 233–6, spotting to
edges of text block. An excellent copy in a rubbed and lightly
chipped jacket with a couple of minor creases and splits.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the
jacket. Contents toned, a little darkening to the cloth edges;
an excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket that has some
toning to the spine and edges.
the author, “For Gerald Hornstein, from Graham
Greene”. In the rare first state dust jacket with the
early setting to the blurb and rear panel. Presentation
copies of this title are of surprising scarcity.
Brennan 35; Miller 37a.
£3,750
[93184]
first edition.
£275
[93910]
HAGGARD, H. Rider. The Works. New York:
McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, [c.1899]–1916
20 volumes, octavo (195 × 130 mm). Recent full tan morocco,
red and green morocco spine labels, raised bands, gilt design to compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt top edge.
Black and white illustrated frontispiece to each volume. An
excellent set.
A scarce collected edition of Haggard’s complete works.
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HAMILTON, Ernest. The Four Tragedies of
Memworth. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1928
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Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the
dust jacket. Minor foxing to the endpapers and edges, spine
rolled; a very good copy in the slightly soiled jacket, that has
a couple of nicks to the extremities.
first edition, the publisher’s retained copy
with their stamp to the title page. With the scarce illustrated jacket by E. McKnight Kauffer, from the era
before the publishers adopted their signature yellow
jackets.
£875
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HAMILTON, Richard; Eduardo Paolozzi; Victor
Pasmore; &others. This Is Tomorrow. Edited
by Theo Crosby. Designed by Edward Wright.
London: The Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1956
Square octavo. Original ring-bound wrappers, titles to front
cover in brown and white on blue background. Wrappers
faintly toned, light creasing to bottom corner of rear wrapper. An excellent copy, exceptionally bright.
first edition. One of 1,300 copies published of the
catalogue of the “This Is Tomorrow” exhibition at the
Whitechapel Art Gallery, 9 August–9 September 1956.
The driving force behind the exhibition was Theo
Crosby; there was no curator as such. Bryan Robertson was Director of the Whitechapel at the time. The
organisers allotted gallery space to 12 groups of three
to four architects, artists, designers and theorists
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to collaborate, asking each group to produce work
on the theme of modern life. This iconic show preempted the emergence of Pop Art.
£975
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HAMMETT, Dashiell. [A set of 12 works of
Hammet’s collected short fiction:] $106,000
Blood Money; The Adventures of Sam Spade;
The Continental Op; Return of the Continental
Op; Hammett Homicides; Dead Yellow Women;
Nightmare Town; The Big Knock-Over; They
Can Only Hang You Once; Creeping Siamese;
Women in the Dark; A Man Named Thin. New
York: Lawrence E. Spivak; Joseph W. Ferman, 1943–62
12 works, octavo. Original coloured wrappers. Housed in a
blue slipcase edged with black morocco. Contents toned, a
little rubbing to the extremities and some very minor wear
to the spine ends; an excellent set in the bright wrappers.
first editions, together with the reissues of the first
two volumes in the series: The Big Knock-Over (reissue of
$106,000 Blood Money), and They Can Only Hang You Once
(reissue of The Adventures of Sam Spade). A lovely set of
Hammett’s first twelve books of collected short fiction.
£3,250
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HARDY, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. London:
Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896
HARROD, Sir Roy. The Life of John Maynard
Keynes. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1951
Octavo ( 200 × 135 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco,titles to spine gilt, raised bands,
single rule to boards, gilt dentelles, burgundy endpapers,
gilt edges. With an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn. A fine
copy.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge
red. Portrait frontispiece and 7 black and white plates. Bookplate to the front pastedown. An excellent copy in the bright
jacket that has a sunned spine, edges a little darkened, and
slightly soiled rear panel.
first edition.
first edition. A lovely copy of Harrod’s best known
work, with six autograph and typed letters signed,
from Harrop to C. Sharp (and two retained carbon
copies of typed letters signed from Sharp to Harrod),
discussing the dollar, laid in.
£1,375
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HARRISON, George, I, Me, Mine. Guildford,
Surrey: Genesis Publications Ltd 1980
£1,500
[92246]
Tall octavo. Original dark green half morocco, dark green
boards, raised bands to spine, red morocco label, compartments gilt-stamped with Om, Star of David, dharmacakra,
and cross tools, guitar motif to centre of front board in red
morocco and gilt, facsimile signature to rear board, all edges gilt, sheet music endpapers, dark green bound silk bookmark. Housed in a dark green cloth slipcase with printed label to front panel. Illustrated throughout with photographs
and photographic facsimiles of his songs A fine copy.
signed limited edition, one of 2,000 copies numbered and signed by George Harrison.
£3,750
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HARTLEY, Dorothy. Food in England. London:
Macdonald, 1954
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
A Romance Literally Reprinted from the
First Edition. With fifteen original colored
illustrations by A. Robaudi and C. Graham. New
York: privately printed, 1904
Octavo. original orange cloth, titles in gilt. With the illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. Spine ends and
board edges slightly rubbed, mild foxing to edges. Otherwise an excellent copy in a price-clipped, lightly foxed jacket
with somewhat toned spine and a few nicks and minor chips
to extremities.
first edition. Signed by the British historian Lucy
Worsley on the half-title (Worsley presented a BBC4
documentary on Hartley in 2012). Food in England is
widely regarded as the definitive history of English
food and cooking techniques, and it remains unchallenged in its ambition and scope, an exuberant mix
of oral history, anthropology, and traditional recipes.
Copies in the illustrated dust jacket are uncommon.
£2,500
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Large octavo (259 × 176 mm). Contemporary binding by
Zaehnsdorf for Brentano’s (New York) of brown crushed
morocco with red onlay, covers with central panel in gilt
infilled with stylized flower and leaf tools, spine lettered
gilt with flower ornaments in compartments, brown silk
endpapers, gilt ruled edges, inner dentelles and top edge
gilt, other edges uncut. Frontispiece and 14 plates all in
two states, coloured and uncoloured, with printed tissue
guards; 30 plates in all. Spine a little rubbed; an excellent
copy, internally fine.
special limited edition, one of 125 copies printed on Japanese imperial paper (one copy was printed on vellum).
£975
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HAYEK, Friedrich A. von. The Road to Serfdom.
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., [1944].
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Octavo (217 × 135 mm). Original black cloth, spine lettered
in gilt. Gift inscription in ink to the front pastedown dated
Feb. Xmas 1947. Head of spine neatly reinforced. A clean,
bright copy.
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first edition of Hayek’s classic polemic against
centralization and collectivism, among the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism and libertarianism.
£1,500
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HEANEY, Seamus. Holly. [Loughcrew:] Privately
printed by Peter Fallon for the author, 1981
Octavo. Original green paper wrappers, title to front wrapper
in black, single sheet sewn in with red thread. A fine copy.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed
by the author on the initial blank: “For Philip and
Valerie, with good wishes for Christmas, Seamus,
23rd December 1981, in Booterstown”. One of 121
copies printed for use by Heaney as his Christmas
card for 1981.
£1,500
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HENRY, O. The Complete Writings. Garden City.
NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1917
14 volumes, large octavo (227 × 150 mm). Contemporary red
half morocco by Stikeman, spines gilt in compartments,
grey endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Extraillustrated with two versions of each plate. A superb, fresh
set, handsomely bound.
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deluxe limited edition, the Memorial Edition,
number 64 of 1,075 copies signed by the publisher
on the half-title and extra-illustrated with two versions of each plate, including a colour version of
each frontispiece.
£3,000
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HERR, Michael. Dispatches. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1977
Octavo. Original brown cloth-backed orange paper boards,
titles to spine gilt and to front board in brown. With the dust
jacket. Housed in a brick-red cloth slipcase, with chemise. A
stunningly fresh copy in a slightly toned and rubbed jacket.
Herr.” The Cafe Cafard gang also included the author
of The Short-Timers (1979), Gus Hasford, who wrote his
novel’s screenplay adaptation with Michael Herr and
Stanley Kubrick. Their collaboration was rewarded
with the Best Screenplay Award at the 1988 Academy Awards. The film’s title was Full Metal Jacket. Described by John Le Carré as one of “the best book I
have ever read on men and war in our time”, Herr’s
account of the Vietnam War as a journalist for Esquire
featured on the 2011 Guardian list of the 100 greatest
non-fiction books.
£3,750
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HIGHSMITH, Patricia. The Talented Mr Ripley.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1955
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in green. With a
supplied dust jacket. A fairly poor copy, worn, dust soiled,
tanned edges and somewhat spotted endpapers, the supplied jacket rubbed, spine-faded with a few tears and small
chips.
first edition, the author’s own copy, inscribed by her on the front free endpaper, “This copy
is mine. Pat Highsmith. November 1955”. Inscribed
copies of this classic thriller are genuinely rare.
£5,000
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the author to Rolling Stone journalist Grover Lewis
(1934–1995) and his wife Rae on the title page: “London—16 May ‘85. For Grover and Rae Lewis and for
all the gang down at the Cafe Cafard. Best—Michael
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HUBBLE, Edwin. Distribution of Luminosity
in Elliptical Nebulae. Contributions from
the Mount Wilson Observatory, No. 398.
Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, reprinted from
the Astrophysical Journal, Vol. LXXI, 1930
HUGHES, Ted. The Iron Man. A Story in Five
Nights. Illustrated by George Adamson. London:
Octavo. Original light greenish-blue wrappers printed in
black. Single plate; illustrations and diagrams throughout the
text. Punctures to rear wrappers also affecting second half of
the text leaves, wrappers slightly toned. A very good copy.
first separate edition. This article builds on
Hubble’s work at Mount Wilson in 1923 and 1924, in
which he discovered that the Milky Way was not, as
previously believed, the extent of the universe, but
just one galaxy among many. Hubble had shown that
many “nebulae” were in fact galaxies filled with stars,
but at the time this paper was published it was not
clear whether the elliptical variety were true nebulae
(clouds of gas and dust), or larger galaxies. Here he
discusses the use of luminosity measurements in
classifying and understanding these elliptical nebulae, but refrains from taking sides in the debate.
£1,250
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Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. A bright copy with just a hint of rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. An excellent copy in
the in the jacket with a little sunning to the spine panel and
the top edge of the front panel.
first edition. Although 6,000 copies were printed
according to Sagar & Tabor, the majority we have
seen have come from school libraries and this title is
probably the scarcest of Hughes’s trade editions.
Sagar & Tabor A17.
£1,250
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HUGHES, Ted. Under the North Star. Drawings
by Leonard Baskin. London: Faber & Faber, 1981
Tall quarto. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, green
endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations by
Leonard Baskin. Jacket slightly creased at extremities. An
excellent copy.
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first uk edition, presentation copy, inscribed
by the author on the half-title, “For Steven, a book of
cold beasts, with my best wishes, from Ted Hughes.
15th November 1984.”
Sagar & Tabor A74a.2.
£525
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HUGHES, Ted. The First Publications of The
Morrigu Press. Single Unpublished Poems by
Ted Hughes. [North Tawton, Devon:] The Morrigu
Press, [1979]
Title leaf and 3 leaves, all loose within a handmade patterned
paper folder with a white paper title label. A few small stains
to the lower portion of the folder and a very slight crease
to the lower edge of two leaves. Excellent condition overall.
first edition of this attractive folder containing
three poems which constitute the first publications
of the Morrigu Press (founded by Ted Hughes’s son
Nicholas, when he received from Hughes’s sister
Olwyn her Albion hand press and a large fount of
Monotype Centaur); published in a limited edition of
only 30 numbered copies (these number 20) hand set
in Centaur type on Italian paper, each signed by Ted
Hughes. The poems are “Night Arrival of Sea Trout”,
“The Iron Wolf ”, and “Puma”. This copy is also in-
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folder flap, “Martin Booth, May.29.79, a gift from, Olwyn”. OCLC lists two locations only.
£1,250
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INDIANA, Robert. Robert Indiana Introduction
by John W. McCoubrey. Philadelphia: Institute of
Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1968
Square quarto. Original wrappers, titles to covers and spine
in white on a black background. Illustrated throughout on
Mohawk Superfine paper. Edges a little rubbed, small stain
to back cover, internally bright and clean.
the artist in blue felt tip on the front free endpaper:
“*Vinalhaven*, for, Elin, on her island, love, for sharing it, Bob, 12 VIII 69”. Indiana has also drawn round
his hand on the colophon page and inscribed: “For,
Elin, too, for, the sea, the sun, a season on her island, love, B In, 12 VIII 69”. Indiana first visited Vinalhaven, a small island off the coast of Maine, in 1969.
He rented a studio in a lodge each summer from his
friend and photographer, Eliot Elisofon. When Eliot
died in 1973, he bought the lodge from his estate and
in 1978 moved to Vinalhaven permanently. Elin is the
daughter of Eliot and was born in 1952. The book was
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published in an edition of 2,500 copies to coincide
with an exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, 17
April–27 May 1968; Marion Kooglar McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 1 July–15 August; and Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1–29 September.
£2,250
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(ISHERWOOD, Christopher (trans.); ELIOT,
T. S. (intro.)) BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Intimate
Journals. London: The Blackamore Press, 1930
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to front board and spine
gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a blue paper slipcase. Black and white frontispiece from a self-portrait lithograph by Baudelaire. Spine lightly faded, a couple
of small faint marks to front board, free endpapers a little
tanned. An excellent copy.
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Baudelaire in The Condemned Playground (1946), Previous
Convictions (1963) and The Golden Horizon (1953).
Gallup B14a.
£2,250
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JOHNSON, Crockett. Harold and the Purple
Crayon. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955
Small square quarto. Original black cloth-backed printed pictorial boards, spine lettered in white. With the colour printed
dust jacket. Housed in a purple quarter morocco solander box
by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated with purple detailing on
each page by the author. Contemporary inscription to front
free endpaper, an excellent copy in price-clipped dust jacket
with light wear to top of spine and rear flap fold.
first edition of the first book in the series.
£4,000
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limited edition, number 125 of 400 copies,
presentation copy inscribed by Christopher Isherwood to Cyril Connolly on the front free endpaper, “Cyril Connolly, from Christopher Isherwood”.
Writer and literary critic Connolly founded the literary journal Horizon in 1940, and wrote extensively on
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane The
Bodley Head, 1936
Quarto (260 × 195 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, block design of the bow first designed
by Eric Gill gilt to front board, raised bands, titles to spine
gilt, gilt roll to turn ins, cream coloured endpapers, gilt top
edge others untrimmed. An excellent copy.
first uk edition. From a total printing of 1,000
numbered copies, this is one of 900 on handmade
paper. This issue of the Bodley Head Ulysses is one
of the triumphs of 20th-century book production. It
established the text for the succeeding 25 years and
printed as appendices the International Letter of Protest against Samuel Roth’s piracy and the famous legal judgement by John M. Woolsey lifting the ban in
America on the publishing of the book.
£3,575
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JOYCE, James. Dubliners. Introduction by
Thomas Flanagan. Photogravures by Robert
Ballagh. [New York:] The Limited Editions Club, 1986
Quarto. Original dark blue quarter morocco by the Jovonis
Bindery, titles to spine gilt, cream cloth boards. Housed in
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the publishers grey cloth slipcase. Photogravure frontispiece and 5 plates by Robert Ballagh. A fine copy.
number 227 of 1,000 copies signed by artist
Robert Ballagh and the author of the introduction,
Thomas Flanagan, on the limitation leaf. Flanagan
was a professor English at Berkeley and a specialist in
Irish literature. A beautiful copy of this handsomely
produced volume, with the publisher’s prospectus
loosely inserted.
£675
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(KAUFFER, E. McKnight.) DEFOE, Daniel.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures
of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner. London:
Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1929
Octavo (260 × 197 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in
terracotta morocco, titles and decoration to spine, two raised
bands to spine, twin rule to turn-ins, dark green endpapers,
top edge gilt. With 7 hand coloured illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, using the pochoir process. An excellent copy.
limited edition, number 273 of 535 numbered copies. Kauffer was born in the United States but settled
in England in 1914. He was a member of both Wyndham Lewis’s Group X and the Cumberland Market
Group. A good painter, Kauffer’s real genius was in
advertising art: he produced seminal posters for the
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London Transport Board, Shell, and the Great Western Railway, as well as book jackets and illustrations.
£1,375
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works. London:
Macmillan and Company, 1937
35 volumes, large octavo (250 × 167 mm). Original full brown
niger, titles to spines gilt, raised bands, double line rule
to boards gilt, top edges rough gilt, other edges, uncut as
issued. Internally nice and clean, a modicum of the usual
entirely organic variation in colour and slight fading to
the spines and some minor wear to a few board edges and
spines. An excellent set.
the sussex edition, the definitive edition of Kipling’s works; one of a limited edition of 525 numbered
sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf. During
the last years of his life, Kipling was engaged in a complete revision of his works, with a view to having them
published in Britain (as here) and in America (the Burwash edition). In both cases, he signed sheets for the
editions before his death and the editions appeared
posthumously. Although 525 sets of sheets for the Sussex edition were prepared, far fewer were bound and
many were lost to enemy action as they lay in the publisher’s warehouse. This set is in particularly nice condition in the publisher’s original binding.
£12,500
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KOESTLER, Arthur. Darkness At Noon.
Translated by Daphne Hardy. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1940
in tan morocco, raised bands, gilt to compartments, single
rule to boards, twin rule to turn ins, green endpapers, gilt
edges. An excellent copy.
first edition.
£2,250
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[LAMB, Charles.] Beauty and The Beast Or A
Rough Outside with Gentle Heart A Poetical
Version of an Ancient Tale illustrated with a
series of elegant engravings … London: by B.
McMillan, for M. J. Godwin, [c.1811]
Sextodecimo (115 x 96 mm), pp. 32. Brown crushed morocco
gilt extra by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (signed on lower rear
turn-in), gilt edges; original blue printed pictorial stiff wrappers bound in, engraved vignette on back cover. Housed in
a brown rounded spine splicase with chemise. 8 hand-coloured plates. Without printed title-page and engraved sheet
of music as often. Wrappers a little soiled, a very good copy.
title and folding sheet of music, suggesting that some
copies were so issued. “Very rare in any condition”
(Roff/Livingston pp. 113ff ).
Gumuchian 3589.
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£12,500
first edition, the “surprize” issue (page 7, line 11).
The title is printed on the front wrapper; the back
wrapper has the cut depicting a scene from Homer,
with the printed quotation beneath it.
“There seems to be no positive proof that Lamb was
the author of this little book ... [but] as we know that
Lamb was familiar with all the circumstances, and as
he had written successful books for Godwin, and was
not above such work, there seems ground for believing that Lamb was the actual author” (Roff ).
At least four copies of the “surprize” issue (including that in the British Library) are known without the
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LARKIN, Philip. The Fantasy Poets Number
Twenty-One. Eynsham: Fantasy Press, 1954
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first edition. Laid in is a proof pull of “Water”
with a single important variant reading, “liturgy” instead of “litany”.
£750
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Single quire, wire-stitched, printed in black and red.
Housed in a black cloth slipcase. Light vertical crease, staples slightly rusty. Excellent.
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first edition, presentation copy to john
wain, a major association, with the author’s
signed presentation inscription to the last page,
“For John Wain a small token of his huge kindness—
Philip”. Wain was one of Larkin’s closest university
friends, a fellow Midlander, poet, novelist, and critic
with whom Larkin remained intimate throughout his
adult life. Presentation copies of this scarce publication (printed in an edition of about 300 copies) are
rare.
Octavo. Original buff boards, spine and front board lettered
in blue. With the dust jacket. Some minor foxing to contents
and boards; a very good copy in the foxed jacket that has a
toned spine, a short closed tear to the front panel and nicks
to the extremities.
£3,750
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(LARKIN, Philip.) AUDEN, W. H. Some Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1940
first edition, philip larkin’s copy, with his
ownership signature to the front free endpaper, dated
1940. A fascinating association copy.
£2,750
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to the spine, all edges gilt, single fillet panel to the turn-ins,
endpapers of a Japanese washi paper with pronounced cedar
bark fibres. Housed in a white satin-lined, white buckram
slipcase. Numerous plates in colour and black and white,
4 folding maps. Slipcase a little rubbed and finger-soiled,
green onlay to the spine slightly sunned, and the spine a
touch toned, but overall a splendidly-presented copy.
first edition of the uk trade edition,
O’Brien’s “Third English Edition,” following the almost-unobtainable Oxford Times edition of 1922 and
the highly-limited Cranwell of 1926. Alan Winstanley
trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, before working for Sydney Cockerell in Letchworth. In
1959 he took over Harry Bailey’s bindery in Salisbury
at Bailey’s invitation, producing superb binding and
conservation work from there until his retirement in
2000.
O’Brien A042.
£2,000
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LARKIN, Philip. The Whitsun Weddings.
Poems. London: Faber and Faber, 1964
LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A
Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935
LEAF, Munro. The Story of Ferdinand. New York:
The Viking Press, 1936
Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. An excellent copy in a jacket with a lightly toned
spine and one tiny closed tear to rear panel.
Quarto (246 × 182 mm). Late 20th-century designer binding
by Alan Winstanley—his gilt stamp, dated 1973, to the rear
turn-in—of alum-tawed pigskin with gilt-tooled geometric
onlays of green, black and red morocco to both boards and
Quarto. Original pink paper covered boards, grey cloth
spine, lettering to spine in pink, pictorial endpapers, with
the dust jacket. Housed in a pink quarter morocco solander
box by the Chelsea Bindery. Black and white illustrations
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throughout by Robert Lawson. An excellent copy in dust
jacket with light rubbing to ends of spine and a bit of light
soiling to top edges and flap folds.
first edition. Published just months before the
outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, many saw it as a
pacifist title and it was banned in several countries,
including Spain. Hitler ordered the title to be burned,
while Stalin allowed it to be the only non communist children’s title allowed in Poland, and Mahatma
Gandhi proclaimed it his favourite book. This title
was also the basis for the 1938 Walt Disney animated
short which won the Academy Award that year in the
best short film category.
£7,500
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thy Leary” and with a loosely inserted card signed
by Preminger, “Otto Preminger, New York 1945”. In
the late 1960s Otto Preminger enlisted the help of
Timothy Leary to try LSD. The result of the great Hollywood director’s experiment was the 1968 comedy
Skidoo, in which Groucho Marx made his last appearance as “God”. Preminger also resorted to Leary’s
expertise for the trailer, in which the latter features
prominently.
£2,250
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Publications Limited in association with the estate of
John Lennon, 1995
Folio. Original silkscreened aluminium boards with black
leather spine, titles to spine in silver, all edges silver.
Housed in a silkscreened solander box with metal title-plate
to the lid. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Bob
Gruen on 200gsm matt art paper with trace overlays. A fine
copy, lid of box split to one corner.
first edition. Limited to 3,500 copies, this is one
of the first 2,500 signed by Ono and Gruen.
£1,000
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LENNON, John; Yoko Ono; Bob Gruen.
Sometime in New York City. Guildford: Genesis
LEARY, Timothy. The Politics of Ecstasy. New
York: G. P. Putman’s Sons, 1968
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LESSING, Doris. The Golden Notebook. London:
Michael Joseph, 1962
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Free endpapers partially tanned, top edge a little
spotted, one faint finger mark to front pastedown, contents
just a little toned as always. An excellent copy in a slightly
chipped and toned jacket with a few short closed tears.
Octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spine and flower design to front board in pink and green, pictorial endpapers,
top edge pink. With the dust jacket. Top edge lightly faded. A bright copy in excellent condition in a slightly edgerubbed price-clipped jacket with some faint creasing at head
and tail of spine panel.
the author to Otto Preminger on the half-title, “Hope
is charity... Otto is faith... Please continue... Timo-
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first edition of the Nobel laureate’s masterpiece.
£875
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LEWIS, C. S. [The Chronicles of Narnia:] The
Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince
Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader;
The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The
Magician’s Nephew; The Last Battle. London:
Geoffrey Bles/The Bodley Head, 1950–56
LEWIS, Wyndham. Fifteen Drawings. London:
The Ovid Press, [1920]
7 volumes, octavo. Original varicoloured boards, titles to
spine in silver, map front endpapers to titles 2-5. With the
dust jackets. Housed in a dark blue cloth slipcase with ribbon made by the Chelsea Bindery. Frontispiece and illustrations in the text by Pauline Baynes. Spines rolled and with
some fading, mild spotting to endpapers and scattered pages, previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper
of The Magician’s Nephew, but a very good set in the jackets,
somewhat dust-soiled, with mild wear to extremities, The
Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe with large chip to top of spine
end, closed tear to lower front edge of The Silver Chair, foxing
to rear panel of The Magician’s Nephew, mild toning to spines,
a very attractive set.
first editions throughout, a complete set of
the Chronicles of Narnia.
£9,750
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15 unnumbered plates printed in various colours and mounted on grey, textured card. Contained within a vellum-imitation board portfolio, titles in black and with a Lewis design
pasted to the front cover, publisher’s device designed by Edward Wadsworth to rear cover in black. Portfolio tanned and
rubbed along extremities, slight loss to fore wing flap and
bottom of spine panel, a couple of small closed tears to top
and bottom wing folds. Occasional light spots to plates. In
excellent condition.
sole edition, number 16 of 250 numbered copies.
Rodker’s Ovid Press was an interesting if short-lived
affair which, despite only lasting between 1919 and
1921, produced a number of important and deeply influential publications: the present title, Pound’s Mauberley, and Eliot’s Ara Vos Prec. Fifteen Drawings is the
second of Lewis’s three non-literary publication, preceded by Timon of Athens (1913) and followed by Thirty
Personalities and a Self-Portrait (1932); it is the scarcest
of his portfolios to find complete. Apart from titles,
the plates are unaccompanied by text and have no apparent thematic unity, covering a variety of subject
matter and ranging in date from 1913 to 1919. The
drawings are Blue Nudes, Post-Jazz, Reading Room
British Museum, Timon of Athens I, Timon of Athens
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II, Group, Pole-Jump, Ezra Pound Esq., Head I, Head
II, Nude I, Nude II, Nude III, Nude IV, and Seraglio.
Morrow & Lafourcade A5.
£7,500
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LEWIS, Wyndham. Enemy of the Stars. London:
Desmond Harmsworth, 1932
Tall quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front
board in dark blue. With the illustrated dust jacket. Edges
foxed, light browning to free endpapers, occasional spotting to margins. An excellent copy in a slightly stained jacket
with a few small chips to the bottom of front and rear panels, a short split to head of spine.
first edition of Lewis’s modernist drama.
Morrow & Lafourcade A17(3).
£250
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LINDBERGH, Charles A. Original photograph
signed twice. Paris: [c.1927]
Original silver gelatine print (172 × 123 mm). Windowmounted in a dark wood frame, glazed both sides to show
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both signatures. A couple of small ink spots, but overall
very good.
A nice early half-length portrait of a smiling Lindbergh, almost certainly showing him on 23 May 1927
at the reception at the Aero Club de France following
his transatlantic flight, signed in black ink both front
and back.
£1,000
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LORAC, E. C. R. The Sixteenth Stair. London:
Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1942
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With
the dust jacket. Small production flaw p. 93 affecting three
or four words. Spine very faintly faded. An excellent copy
in a lightly rubbed jacket with a few minor nicks and chips.
first edition.
£1,500
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LYELL, Sir Charles. Travels in North America;
with Geological Observations on the United
States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. London: John
Murray, 1845; —— A Second Visit to the United
States of North America. London: John Murray,
1849
4 volumes octavo (197 × 122 mm). The first in red half morocco, charcoal grey boards, matching endpapers, title gilt
direct to the spine, top edges gilt, others uncut; the second
in similar style dark brown morocco, moss green boards
and endpapers, silk page-markers to all. Both by sometime
Roycroft binder John Grabau with his blind stamps. Travels
with large hand-coloured folding engraved birds-eye view of
Niagara Falls as frontispiece in volume I, and a large folding hand-coloured map in volume II, together with a colour
map of Niagara district, 3 folding lithographic plates, and
one engraved plate, diagrams and illustrations to the text;
Second Visit with half-titles bound in. A little rubbed, light
browning, but overall very good.
first editions, presentation copy to richard owen, inscribed on the half-title of the first
volume, “R. Owen Esq. from the author, June 2nd
1849”. The recipient Richard Owen (1804–1892) was
the noted English biologist, comparative anatomist, and palaeontologist, who coined the term
“dinosaur,” and before the 1859 publication of the
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Origin of Species was a friend to Lyell and Darwin, although opposed to their theories of evolution and
uniformitarianism. The book contains records of
Lyell’s visits to North America in 1841–2, and 1845–6
to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. While
there Lyell travelled widely throughout the United
States east of the Mississippi and much of Canada,
seeing all of the important geological sites, including Niagara Falls, spectacularly represented in the
frontispiece to Travels. He studied the fossil deposits
and posited that the Great Lakes were the remnant
of a vast prehistoric sea, and travelled extensively
through the South, observing the social classes and
commenting upon slavery. These volumes followed
his groundbreaking work, the Principles of Geology
(1830–33), an important influence on Darwin in developing his theory of evolution.
Howes, L574, L575; Sabin 42762, 42763.
£1,750
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MALTHUS, T. R. Principles of Political
Economy Considered with a view to their
practical application. London: John Murray, 1820
consume” (DSB). “The Principles had only a limited
impact at the time, and was severely criticized by J. R.
McCulloch and Ricardo; the latter prepared extensive critical notes. But more recently it has received
greater recognition, largely as a result of the comments by J. M. Keynes in the 1930s. Keynes argued
that Malthus’s theory of effective demand provided
a scientific explanation of unemployment, and that
the hundred-year domination of Ricardo over Malthus had been a disaster for the progress of economics. Keynes believed that if economics had followed
Malthus instead of being constrained by Ricardo in
an artificial groove, the world would be a much wiser
and richer place” (ODNB).
Octavo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt
in compartments, titles and fleurons to spine gilt, edges
sprinkled red. Without the final advert leaf. Spine and
boards lightly rubbed, slight wear to edges of boards, top
edge dusty, very light foxing throughout. An excellent copy.
Goldsmiths’ 22767; Kress C.577.
first edition. The book was conceived as a series
of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic
treatise, though Malthus published it to establish his
own position against that of Ricardo, with whom he
had been having an ongoing debate about the nature
of labour, demand and profit. “In his ‘Principles of
Political Economy’, Malthus was proposing investment in public work and private luxury as a means
of increasing effective demand, and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation, he thought,
must balance the power to produce and the will to
MANDELA, Nelson. A Dictionary of South
African English on Historical Principles. Oxford:
Oxford University Press in Association with The
Dictionary Unit for South African English, 1996
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£2,250
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Octavo. Original full dark blue morocco, titles to front
board and spine gilt, 3 bands to spine, marbled endpapers.
With the blue and grey cloth slipcase. A fine copy in the fine
slipcase.
184
signed limited edition, number 92 of 100 copies
signed on the title page by Mandela in his capacity
as Founder and Chairperson of the Nelson Mandela’s
Children’s Fund. First edition of this culmination of
over three decades’ work towards a thoroughly historical dictionary of South African English, published
by the Oxford University Press.
£3,000
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(MANET, Edouard.) DURET, Theodore. Manet
and the French Impressionists. Pisarro, Claude
Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne,
Guillaumin. Translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch.
Illustrated with Four Etchings, Four Wood
Engravings, and Thirty-Two reproductions in
Half-Tone. London: Grant Richards; J. B. Lippincott
Company, Philadelphia, 1910
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt,
top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 31 reproductions in half-tone, 2 etchings by Renoir and one each by Morisot and Manet, 2 wood engravings after Manet and one each
after Degas and Camille Pissaro. Cloth lightly rubbed to edges,
light stain to spine, lightly foxing to preliminaries.
first uk edition of the first work to describe the
development of Impressionism, with a chapter on
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each of the major painters and numerous illustrations.
Theodore Duret (1838–1927) was one of the earliest and
most vocal supporters of the movement. He first met
Manet in 1865 and the two became good friends, with
the artist painting the connoisseur three times. During the 1870s Duret began writing articles championing the new movement, and this, his most important
work, was published in 1878 to accompany the fourth
Impressionist exhibition in Paris. Duret also collected
and promoted the work of the pre-Raphaelites, was an
early devotee of Asian art, particularly Japanese prints,
and coined the term avant-garde. A nice copy of this
book that “remains a primary account of Impressionism and contemporary reception” (Dictionary of Art Historians, Duke University).
£2,500
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MANNING, Frederic. Scenes & Portraits.
London: John Murray, 1909
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated
in gilt, pattern to front board in gilt. Spine rolled, top edge
dusty, minor foxing to the endleaves, inner hinge cracked
but holding, front free endpaper loose. A good copy.
the author on the front free endpaper to Eva Fowler,
to whom he had been introduced the previous year:
“To Mrs Alfred Fowler, from the author. 17.5.1909” and
with the bookplate of the recipient’s husband to both
front pastedown and front free endpaper. Eva Fowler
(1872–1921) was a minor Edwardian patron of the arts,
who the same year as this introduced Manning to Ezra
Pound, with whom he became friendly. Pound said later that “Fred”, whom he always highly esteemed, had
been his first literary companion in England.
£1,750
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MANNING, Olivia. [The Balkan trilogy:] The
Great Fortune; The Spoilt City; Friends and
Heroes. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1960–62–
65.
3 volumes, octavo. Original light blue boards, titles to spines
in blue (Great Fortune) and gilt. With the dust jackets. Spines
gently rolled. An excellent set in lightly rubbed jackets with
over-price stickers to front flaps except for Friends and Heroes;
one small closed tear to rear flap fold of Spoilt City’s jacket.
first editions, presentation copies all inscribed by the author to the same recipient, “To Ivy
Hobday of my favourite bookshop—from Olivia Manning” (The Great Fortune; the other copies bear similar
inscriptions). All three title pages are additionally
signed by Manning.
£1,250
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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Summing Up.
New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc, 1938
Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, decoration to front board in gilt, top edge red, others untrimmed.
With the dust jacket. Armorial bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks to the front pastedown. Spine rolled, otherwise an excellent copy in the bright jacket that has a spotted rear panel
and some nicks to the extremities.
first american edition, presentation copy
to douglas fairbanks, inscribed by the author
on the front free endpaper: “For Douglas Fairbanks
Sr. from almost one of his authors. W. Somerset
Maugham. May 20th 1938.” The American edition was
published on 25 March 1938, after the London edition
on 6 January. Although during Maugham’s lifetime he
had more works adapted for film than any writer in
the language, he never mastered the knack of screenwriting. His time in Hollywood in the 1920s was not a
professional success. “I look back on my connection
with the cinema world with horror mitigated only by
the fifteen thousand dollars”, he told his friend Eddie
Knoblock, who worked on an adaptation of The Three
Musketeers for Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.
Loren & Frances Rothschild V 215; Stott A53b.
£975
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MAUPASSANT, Henri René Guy de. Works.
Embracing Romance, Travel, Comedy & Verse.
For the First Time Complete in English. With a
Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French
Academy and an Introduction by Robert Arnot,
M.A. New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1903
17 volumes, octavo (226 × 150 mm). Original dark blue morocco, raised bands to spine, titles to spine gilt, double
frames to boards gilt, diamond and fleur-de-lis pattern
along spine and within board frames in red, dark beige,
and gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, yellow morocco
insets with gilt and coloured floral patterns to inside covers, gold and cream floral patterned silk liners, pale blue
and beige watered silk liners. Text printed on japon vellum.
Gilt and coloured half-titles, 68 hand-coloured lithographs
and 69 black-and-white or sepia lithographs, all with captioned tissue guards, hand-coloured vignette headpieces
throughout. Spines a bit darkened, edges of boards very
gently rubbed, edges tanned, mild offsetting from turn-ins,
occasional spotting to margins. Volume I title page loose; 2
plates loose in Volume VII. Otherwise an excellent set.
deluxe limited edition, one of 26 lettered
sets of the luxuriously bound Edition Suprème, of
which this is Letter F.
189
Octavo. Original red boards, spine and front board lettered
and decorated in yellow. With the dust jacket. Contents
toned; an excellent copy in the rubbed jacket that has a
toned spine and some nicks and chips to the extremities.
first edition.
£1,500
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first edition.
MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1924
£2,500
Octavo. Original blue cloth, rule and stamped illustrations
to front and back boards gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge
gilt. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Spine very slightly
faded; a fine copy.
first edition, second state as usual with the page
number ix present in the preliminaries. In copies of
the first state the contents leaf (ix-x) is unnumbered.
This is the first and the scarcest of the four Winniethe-Pooh books, with an initial print run of 4,500
copies.
£1,500
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MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. With
Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926
METCALFE, John. Judas and Other Stories.
London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1931
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine, pictorial decoration and single frame to front cover, and top edge gilt,
map endpapers. With pictorial dust jacket. With black and
£6,000
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[92501]
white line drawings throughout. Spine slightly cocked, minor loss to head, tail slightly worn, very minor wear to corners of boards, edges tanned. A very good copy in excellent
dust jacket with slightly dusty spine, a few nicks, and a small
closed tear to tail.
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MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. With Decorations
by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co, 1927
Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe red morocco, titles to spine gilt,
pictorial decoration to spine and front board gilt, all edges
gilt, pink pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Spine a little rubbed, some minor scuffing
to boards, pastedowns lightly foxed. An excellent copy.
first edition, deluxe issue, one of 1,500 copies
bound in red leather by Ship Binding Company.
John R. Payne, “Four Children’s Books by A. A. Milne”, Studies in Bibliography, University of Virginia Press, vol. 23 (1970),
pp. 127–39.
£675
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MILNE, A. A. The House At Pooh Corner. With
Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1928
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190, 191, 192, 193, 194
Octavo (190 × 125 mm). Recent pink morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout by Ernest
H. Shepard. An excellent copy in a handsome binding.
first edition of the fourth and last book in the series.
£500
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MILNE, A. A. The Christopher Robin Verses.
Being When We Were Very Young and Now We
Are Six with a Preface for Parents. With Twelve
Plates in Colour and Text Decorations by Ernest
H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1932
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and pictorial design to front board gilt, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket.
Colour frontispiece and 11 plates, line drawings throughout
by E. H. Shepard. Cloth fresh, just a little spotting to contents. A lovely copy in the jacket that is very lightly rubbed
at the extremities with a few minor nicks and a little dulling
of the spine panel.
first combined edition of the verse collections
When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, with new
illustrations in colour by E. H. Shepard.
£675
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MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone With The Wind.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936
NAPIER, William Francis Patrick. History of the
War in the Peninsula and in the South of France,
from the year 1807 to the Year 1814 … London: John
Murray; Thomas & William Boone, 1828–40
Octavo. Recent full grey morocco. Raised bands, titles to
spine gilt, gilt compartment decorations, single rule to
boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A handsomely
bound copy.
first edition, first printing (with the May 1936 copyright date). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis for
the famous film.
£2,250
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MORPURGO, Michael. War Horse. Kingswood:
Kaye & Ward, 1982
Octavo. Original laminated pictorial boards, titles to front
cover and spine in red and black. No dust jacket issued. Cover design by Victor Ambrus. A fine copy.
first edition, signed by the author and the
cover designer Victor Ambrus on the title page.
This celebrated novel was adapted into a hugely successful play and a Steven Spielberg film. Laid in is a
publisher’s letter to Ambrus dated 22 October 1982
informing him of the book’s publication.
£2,500
[93139]
6 volumes, octavo (216 × 134 mm). Contemporary dark
green half skiver, matching sand-grained cloth, title gilt
direct to the spine, attractively panelled compartments,
single gilt rule to spine and corner edges, edges and endpapers marbled. 55 engraved battle plans. A little rubbed at
the extremities, front joint of the first volume just started at
the head, light browning, some foxing to the plans as usual,
overall an attractive and well-preserved set.
first editions of the first and last two volumes, II–IV are seconds. The first volume was published by John Murray, who did not exercise his option
on the next three having made a loss; Napier therefore
published the rest of the history through Boone, having raised the money by subscriptions. The work certainly divided opinion: “Soult considered it ‘perfect’,
Sir Robert Peel ‘eloquent and faithful’, the Spanish
general Alava felt it too pro-French, and a British officer in India demanded satisfaction on his return for
a ‘most unfounded calumny’ about his conduct at Barossa” (ODNB). As a result most volumes are prefixed
with “justificatory pieces” in answer to Napier’s critics;
his controversy with Beresford over Albuera was particularly rancourous. Perhaps judgement is best left to
the acknowledged master chronicler of the conflict, Sir
Charles Oman, who described Napier’s work as “magnificent (if somewhat prejudiced and biased)”.
£1,250
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NERUDA, Pablo. Obras Completas. Buenos Aires:
Editorial Losada, 1956
Octavo. Original limp red morocco, spine lettered in gilt,
fish design to front board blocked in gilt, red endpapers
lettered in white, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece and 23
monochrome plates. Extremities rubbed, front inner hinge
cracked but holding, glue remnants to the endpapers, one
leaf (p. 25/6) neatly reattached, a good copy of this vulnerable production.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed
by the author to the Colombian writer Adel Gómez
on the verso of the frontispiece: “Para Adel Lopez
Gomez, un abrazo de su compañero. Pablo Neruda.
Manizales 1968” (“For Adel Lopez Gomez, a hug from
his friend…”). With a second gift inscription on the
half title.
£3,250
[94408]
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NEWTON, Helmut. Sumo. London: Taschen, 1999
Folio. Original pictorial cloth, bevelled boards, titles to
spine and front board in blue, blue endpapers. With the
pictorial dust jacket. Also with the original metal stand designed by Philippe Starck and shipping packaging. 450 photographs in color and black-and-white. Tail of spine slightly
bumped, minor scuff mark to front board. An excellent copy
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in an excellent jacket with minor scuff marks, a few light
creases and bumps to front panel.
first edition, signed and numbered by the
photographer, from an edition of 10,000. A book so
large that it comes with its own metal folding stand,
engraved with the author’s name.
£8,500
[94659]
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NORTON, Mary. The Magic Bed-Knob.
Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. London: J.
M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1945
Octavo. Original white cloth with title and colour pictorial
design to spine and front board. With the dust jacket. Colour
frontispiece and illustrations in the text throughout, some
full page and in colour. Covers rubbed and marked, but entirely sound, a very good copy in the faintly marked jacket.
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first uk edition, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author under the printed dedication to
Robin and Chick, “with more love than she can tell
you, from Mary”. First published in America in 1943
under the title The Magic Bed-Knob, or How to Become a
Witch in Ten Easy Lessons, the book was the basis for the
1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
£2,250
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NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers. London: Dent,
1952
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in red, illustration
to front board and spine in red. With the dust jacket. Illustrated
by Diana Stanley. An excellent copy, with likewise dust jacket
with just a hint of spotting to the rear panel and verso.
by the author on the front of the frontispiece, “Miss
Rhodes, wishing you a happy Christmas and in appreciation of your interest, Mary Norton.” Also laid in
is a letter from the publisher addressed to Miss Rhodes of Hatchards, thanking her for her support of the
title, dated the same year as publication. Winner of
the Carnegie Medal in 1952, on the 70th anniversary
celebration of the medal in 2007, The Borrowers was
named one of the top ten Medal-winning works.
£2,750
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[O’BRIAN, Patrick.] RUSS, Richard Patrick.
Caesar. The Life Story of a Panda Leopard.
Illustrations by Harry Rountree. London: G. P.
Putnam’s Sons, 1930
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and marking at the binding extremities. Complete with the
very good light rubbed, nicked and dusty dustwrapper. Not
price-clipped.
first hardcover edition, signed on the front
free endpaper in black ink by Yoko Ono and in blue
ink by John Lennon.
£4,500
[88097]
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board
in black. With the second issue dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 13 black and white plates. Spine gently rolled, free
endpapers partially tanned, some spotting to contents and
edges of text block. A very good copy in a lightly chipped and
tanned jacket with four tape repairs to the verso.
first edition. Patrick O’Brian’s story of a pandaleopard born in the Tibetan forests is his first book,
written when he was 15 years old and before he
changed his name from Richard Patrick Russ. “I did
it mostly in my bedroom and a little when I should
have been doing homework” (jacket blurb).
£875
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ONO, Yoko, & John Lennon. Grapefruit.
Introduction and drawings by John Lennon.
London: Peter Owen Limited. 1970
Original white cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy with only light rubbing
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ORWELL, George. The Road To Wigan Pier.
London: Gollancz, 1937
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in yellow. With
the dust jacket. 32 photographic plates. An excellent copy
in the nicked and sunned dust jacket, somewhat dusty and
with minor loss at the top of the spine panel and a couple
of light ring marks to the front panel. Exceedingly scarce in
the dust jacket.
first edition, the preferred trade issue, one
of 1,000 published in this format; a review copy with
the publisher’s slip laid in. The other versions are in
the familiar limp orange cloth of the Left Book Club.
Copies of this seminal work of reportage in this state
and condition are deeply uncommon.
£15,000
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first edition. Two versions of the dust jacket were
issued, one green and one red, but there is no priority
between them.
£4,750
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3 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt.
With the Peake designed dust jackets. Vol. I: Ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Vol. II: Bookseller’s ticket
to the front free endpaper. An excellent set in the jackets
with toned spines and some nicks to the extremities.
first editions throughout of Peake’s classic trilogy.
£2,500
ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. A
Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949
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pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece,
5 colour illustrations, and 21 black and white illustrations
by the author. Contemporary gift inscription to half-title.
Spine very lightly faded, light foxing to endpapers. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with gently toned spine and
rear panel.
PEAKE, Mervyn. [The Gormenghast trilogy:]
Titus Groan, Gormenghast; Titus Alone.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1946–59
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Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge
red. With the green dust jacket. Small bookseller’s ticket to
the front pastedown. Spine gently rolled, fading to the spine
and edges; a very good copy in the price-clipped jacket that
has some nicks and chips to the extremities.
[94091]
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Little Pig
Robinson. London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd.
1930
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and pictorial pig motif to
front board in maroon and gilt, titles to spine in maroon,
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first edition of this tale in which Potter “supplies what might today be called the ‘back story’ to
Lear’s poem [The Owl and the Pussycat]”, explaining
how the pig ended up on the island in Lear’s poem,
“and thereby enriches both Pig Robinson’s story and
Lear’s” (Kutzer, Beatrix Potter, p. 164).
the story she decided to hold it for their 20th anniversary number where it was first published in May
1944. Potter never saw the story in print as she passed
away the previous December. A very nice copy of this
very scarce (especially so with the jacket) Beatrix Potter title.
Linder p. 430; Quinby 30.
£1,500
£875
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POTTER, Beatrix. Wag-by-Wall. London & New
York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1944
Small quarto. Original green cloth, spine and front cover
lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Tiny nicks to corners
and very minor spotting to endpapers, still a superb copy
in excellent condition, in the dust jacket with light spotting
and tiny chips to corners.
first edition in book form, number 23 of 100 copies only. Beatrix Potter wrote this Christmas story
in 1909 as “The Little Black Kettle” and put it aside.
She picked up the story again in 1929 and rewrote it
as part of Fairy Caravan but it was eventually removed
and never published in that form. In 1940, the editor Bertha Mahony Miller asked for a story to print
in The Horn Book Magazine and Potter set to re-writing
the story yet again. Mrs Miller was so pleased with
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PYNCHON, Thomas. V. A Novel. Philadelphia: J.
B. Lippincott Company, 1963
Octavo. Original pale purple cloth, titles to spine in silver,
V design to front board in blind, dark yellow endpapers,
top edge black. With the dust jacket. Spine ends and edges
of boards a little faded, a small stain to top corner of front
board. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed but bright jacket
with mildly sunned spine, a few nicks and small creases to
extremities, and tape repair to top of rear joint.
Octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt, publisher’s device to rear board, green endpapers. With
the pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy.
front flyleaf: “10/86, To Michael Urban, Happy birthday! Best, Thomas Pynchon”. Laid in is the photocopy
of a typed letter signed by Pynchon to the mother of
the recipient, dated 21 August 1986, in which Pynchon warmly accepts to sign books for the recipient,
who suffers from lymphoma, and provides as contact
the address of his agent, Melanie Jackson, whom he
married in 1990. This collection of six short stories
is introduced by the only autobiographical text ever
written by Pynchon.
£7,500
[94267]
first edition, first issue dust jacket without reviews on the rear panel.
£475
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PYNCHON, Thomas. Slow Learner. Early
Stories. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) IRVING, Washington.
Rip Van Winkle. London: William Heinemann, 1905
Quarto (250 × 183 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery
in full dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine
gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial title
block to front board gilt, inner dentelles gilt, burgundy endpapers, all edges gilt. With 51 tipped in colour plates, captioned tissues, bound in at the back. Occasional foxing to
pages, an excellent copy finely bound.
first rackham edition.
£2,250
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(RACKHAM, Arthur) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan
in Kensington Gardens. From “The Little White
Bird.” London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in terracotta
morocco, titles and decoration to spine, pictorial title block
to front board, roll to turn-ins, marbled endapers, gilt edges. With 50 tipped in colour plates, captioned tissues bound
in at the back. Occasional spotting, else a very good copy
handsomely bound.
first rackham edition. Barrie asked Rackham
to illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained
unpublished until 1928) but make a new book from
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those chapters from The Little White Bird (1902) that
had first introduced the character.
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partments, inset onlay of Little Red Riding Hood and The
Wolf to front cover, gilt rule and design to boards, brown
silk endpages, top edge gilt other untrimmed. Housed in a
matching tan cloth slipcase. With 40 tipped in colour illustrations, captioned tissues and numerous black and white
illustrations throughout. A beautiful copy.
(RACKHAM,
Arthur.)
SHAKESPEARE,
William. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London,
William Heinemann, 1908
signed limited edition, one of 750 numbered copies signed by the artist. This is a revised edition of the
work originally published in 1900 with some new illustrations and others redrawn and coloured, here in an
attractive onlay binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
£1,750
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Quarto. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in brown morocco,
titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, pictorial title
block to front board, roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers,
top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated with 39 mounted colour plates and other monochrome illustrations by Arthur Rackham. An excellent copy in a fine binding.
signed limited edition, number 532 of 1,000
numbered copies signed by Rackham.
£2,500
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(RACKHAM, Arthur) GRIMM, The Brothers.
The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. London: Constable
& Co. Ltd., 1909
Quarto, ( 390 × 235 mm). Finely bound in tan full morocco by
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, raised bands with gilt design to com-
£6,750
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) SWIFT, Jonathan.
Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations
of the World. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt, gilt pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed,
red silk page-marker, brown ribbon ties. Frontispiece with
tissue guard and 12 other full-page colour mounted plates,
full-page black and white illustrations in the text, chapter
headings and tailpieces by Arthur Rackham. Spine lightly
darkened, some minor marks to boards and endpapers, tissue guard slightly foxed, fore and bottom edges of text block
a little toned. An excellent copy with ties still intact.
signed limited edition, number 638 of 750 copies signed by Rackham. Rackham’s Gulliver’s Travels
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was originally published in 1900; this is a revised
edition, with additional illustrations and others redrawn and coloured.
Hudson p. 168.
£1,500
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) WAGNER, Richard. The
Rhinegold & the Valkyrie; Siegfried and the
Twighlight of the Gods. Translated into English
by Margaret Armour. London: William Heinemann,
1910–11
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) DICKENS, Charles. A
Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Co., New
York, 1915
Large quarto. Original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board and top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers, silk ribbon ties. Housed in a
dark blue cloth slipcase by the Chelsea Bindery. Tipped-in
colour frontispiece and 11 plates on grey paper with printed
[90352]
signed limited edition, additionally a presentation copy, number 449 of 525 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, this copy also inscribed
by Rackham on the half-title to American author and
illustrator Oliver Herford, “To Oliver Herford, Arthur
Rackham, 1927”, underneath Rackham’s original ink
drawing of two birds dressed as Victorian men and
singing Christmas carols from a sheet of music held
between them.
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Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full purple
morocco, decorative block to spine and front board gilt,
twin rule to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, with 12 colour prints and 18 in
black and white. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent
copy finely bound.
signed limited editions, both volumes being one
of 1,150 numbered copies signed by Arthur Rackham,
these number 90 and number 954 respectively.
£2,750
tissue-guards, illustrations throughout in black and white.
Boards a little toned, bottom corner of lightly bowed front
board slightly bumped, faint partial tanning to endpapers.
An excellent with the original silk ribbon ties, which are often missing.
£10,000
2 volumes, quarto. Original vellum, titles and decorations
to spines and front boards gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With 64 tipped-in colour plates with printed tissue-guards and 23 black and white line drawings. Volume
I with contemporary bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown
and contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper.
Boards very lightly marked, front board of Volume II a little bowed, free endpapers tanned, title of Volume II faintly
tanned, some minor offsetting to texts, front ribbon ties
lacking except for one which is detached and loosely inserted. An excellent set.
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£1,375
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Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann Ltd,
1962
Octavo (195 × 142 mm). Contemporary red polished calf by
Bayntun-Riviere, blue and green morocco labels, spine lettered in gilt, gilt motifs to compartments, boards double
ruled in gilt, board edges and inner dentelles gilt, marbled
endpapers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece, decorated title
page, 11 colour plates, numerous vignette illustrations in
black and white. Boards slightly bowed; an excellent copy.
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An attractively bound copy of A Christmas Carol as illustrated by Arthur Rackham, originally published
in 1915.
£600
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Original watercolour
illustration from Little Brother and Little Sister
entitled “The Old Witch in the Wood”. London:
[c.1917]
Watercolour on board. Image size: 12.5 × 18.5 cm. Excellent
condition. Presented in a dark brown wooden frame.
Although titled “The Old Witch in the Wood” on the
verso of the original frame, it appears as a black and
white illustration on page 49 of the first and subsequent editions of Little Brother & Little Sister as “The Old
Woman in the Wood”.
£12,500
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(RACKHAM, Arthur) GRIMM, The Brothers.
Little Brother and Little Sister and Other Tales.
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Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Constable
& Co Ltd., 1917
Large quarto. Original light grey cloth, titles to spine gilt,
pictorial gilt titles on a white ground to front board, pictorial
endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the original glassine wrapper. Colour frontispiece and 12 plates, 43 illustrations within the text. With the an extra plate signed by
Rackham housed in the publisher’s printed envelope. Tiny split
to front hinge, rear endpaper faintly toned, otherwise a truly
superb copy in the somewhat tanned and creased glassine.
signed limited edition, one of 525 numbered
copies signed by the artist on the limitation page
with an additional loose plate signed by Rackham
and housed in the publisher’s envelope.
Latimore & Haskell p. 46.
£3,750
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) EVANS, C. S. Cinderella.
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William
Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1919
Quarto. Original quarter japon, white paper boards, titles
and mouse design to spine gilt, titles and silhouette design
to front board gilt, green and white pictorial endpapers,
top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and silhouette illustrations throughout the text. Book-
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plate of Annie Cowdray to front pastedown. Boards gently
rubbed, minor cockling to front board. An excellent copy.
deluxe signed limited edition, number 178
of 325 numbered copies printed on Japanese vellum
signed by the artist from a total edition of 850 copies.
£1,500
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) ANDERSEN, Hans
Christian. Fairy Tales. London: George G. Harrap &
Co., Ltd. 1932
Quarto (245 × 185 mm). Blue half morocco, blue cloth
boards, raised bands, gilt titles to spine, single gilt rule to
boards, pattern endpapers, gilt top edge. With 12 illustrations in colour, and many others in black and white throughout the text. Rubbing to leather at corners and spine, spine
gently sunned, a very good copy.
first trade edition.
£500
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth.
The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction
by A. A. Milne & Illustrations by Arthur
Rackham. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single
rule to boards, pictorial title block to front, inner dentelles,
floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16
colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A fine copy.
limited edition, one of 2,020 copies. Rackham had
been asked to illustrate the first edition of 1908 but was
unable to accept the commission. He deeply regretted
the decision, but just before his death he was able to
illustrate this Limited Editions Club edition.
£2,250
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RAND, Ayn. The Fountainhead. New York: The
Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943
Octavo (219 × 145 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt,
raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins,
dark green endpapers, gilt edges. An excellent copy.
first edition.
£4,000
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RICHTER, Hans. Dada Profile. Mit Zeichnungen
Photos Dokumenten. Zürich: Verlag Die Arche, 1961
Small square octavo. Original cream cloth, titles to spine and
decoration to front board in black. With the dust jacket. Text
in German. Black and white illustrations throughout. Faint
spotting to boards, light finger mark to front free endpaper,
one leaf loose. A very good copy in a jacket with one small
stain to rear panel and minor rippling to acetate at folds.
the author to his daughter and her husband Standish
Lawder on the front free endpaper: “To Ursi + Stan,
with love, Hans. Sept. 15. 61”.
£1,250
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Amy, Sy, Jenny, and Sue, next time I am here the whole
family will be here please! Much Love Mary (Rodgers) Nov. 4, 1983.” and Summer Switch inscribed as follows, “For Amy and Sy and absent Jenny and Sue, with
much love Mary (Rodgers), Nov. 3, 1983” Kellman sat
on many committees for the coveted Newbery Award.
Freaky Friday was the basis for two Walt Disney films,
the 1976 version, which introduced Jodie Foster, and
the 2003 remake starring Lindsey Lohan.
£2,000
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone; … Chamber of Secrets; …
Prisoner of Azkaban; … Goblet of Fire; … Order
of the Phoenix; … Half-Blood Prince; … Deathly
Hallows. London: Bloomsbury, 1998–2007
7 works. Octavo. Original pictorial paper covered boards.
With the dust jackets. A fine set.
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RODGERS, Mary. Freaky Friday; A Billion for
Boris; Summer Switch. New York: Harper and Row,
1972–82
Octavo. Original laminated boards with dust jackets. Edward Gorey dust jacket art. A very good set.
first editions, inscribed by the author, the
first and last title inscribed on the front free endpaper
to children’s librarian Amy Kellman and family, “dear
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signed copies of all the harry potter novels; first editions, first impressions of the
last three titles, reprints of the first four titles in the
series. Each volume is signed on the title page by
Rowling, Deathly Hallows is additionally inscribed “To
Nathan”. The first six volumes are accompanied by
a Meningitis Research Foundation letter, confirming that the books were originally purchased at their
charity auction in 2006. Deathly Hallows, which was
published a year later, was purchased at the Midnight
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Signing at the Natural History museum and is accompanied by the original invitation.
£9,750
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RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s
Children.
Octavo. Original quarter burgundy cloth, light purple
boards, titles to spine and front board in silver, fore edge
untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedownAugust 11th 1981” inscribed in purple ink on front free
endpaper. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with
two tiny chips to flap folds.
first edition, the London issue taken from the
American sheets. Midnight’s Children won the 1981
Booker Prize, as well as the 1993 “Booker of Bookers”
celebrating the best book in the history of the prize.
£975
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SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Capitalism,
Socialism, and Democracy. New York: Harper &
Brothers, [1942]
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Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With
the dust jacket. In a black solander box. An excellent copy in
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the bright jacket that has a few tiny nicks to the extremities,
spine a little sunned, and some loss to the spine ends.
first edition, extremely scarce with the dust jacket. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy was Schumpeter’s most important and controversial book, a philosophical analysis of economics and history in which
he coined the term “creative destruction”. Blaug, who
calls this his masterpiece, notes that in this work,
Schumpeter “paradoxically rejected the Marxian diagnosis of the imminent breakdown of capitalism
and, at the same time, predicted the almost inevitable arrival of socialism as a result of the betrayal of
capitalist values by the intellectuals of the western
world” (Great Economists Before Keynes, p. 216.)
Swedberg S.011.
£7,500
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SEUSS, Dr. If I Ran The Circus. New York: Random
House, 1956
Quarto. Original glazed paper covered boards. With the dust
jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author. Edges lightly
rubbed, dust jacket lightly rubbed to edges and nicked to
corners, spine lightly faded, a very good copy.
first edition.
£500
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SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat. New York: Random
House, Inc., 1957
SEUSS, Dr. The Cat In The Hat Beginner Book
Dictionary In French. New York: Random House, 1964
SEUSS, Dr. The Lorax. New York: Random House, 1971
Octavo. Original pictorial blue boards, pictorial endpapers.
With the dust jacket. A little rubbed to extremities, an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with wear to the ends of
the spine, light creasing to front panell edges.
Quarto. Publisher’s pictorial glossy paper boards, pictorial
endpapers, complete with dust jacket. Illustrated throughout the text by P. D. Eastman An excellent copy in the price
clipped dust jacket.
first edition, first issue, with the price listed on
the dust jacket as 200/200 and the boards not laminated as in later issues.
first edition.
£2,750
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SEUSS, Dr. How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
New York: Random House, 1957
Tall quarto. Original laminated pictorial boards, illustrated endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated
throughout by the author. Bookplate of Gareth M. Gordon
to front free endpaper. Extremities gently rubbed. Otherwise a fine copy in an excellent jacket with sunned spine
panel and a few small nick to extremities.
first edition, in the first issue dust jacket
with the advertisement for The Cat in the Hat on the back
and the list of 14 books by the author on the rear flap.
£1,750
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Younger and Hirsch 35.
£375
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Quarto. Original pictorial covered boards. No dust jacket
issued. Illustrated throughout by the author. Uncommonly
bright copy with ownership signture to front free endpaper
and front pastedown with offsetting to title page, rear cover
with light toning which is often the case with this title.
first edition, first issue with the three lines of
copyright and highlighted yellow panel to back cover.
Seuss’s environmental masterpiece.
£1,000
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SEUSS, Dr. Fox In Socks. New York: Random
House, 1965
SEUSS, Dr. You’re Only Old Once! New York:
Random House, 1986
Octavo. Original pictorial paper covered boards, titles to
spine and front board in grey and red, pictorial endpapers.
With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Dr. Seuss. A
bright copy with small bookplate to front free endpaper, gift
inscription to verso of front free endpaper, dust jacket price
clipped with short closed tears and light creasing to front
panel lower edge.
first edition, with the correct list of titles to the
rear panel of the dust jacket.
£450
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Quarto. Original green boards with brown cloth spine, titles
to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in
slightly spine faded dust jacket.
front free endpaper verso, “For Sir Richard and Lady
Doll with kindest regards Dr. Seuss.” Sir Richard Doll
(1912–2005) was a British physiologist, the foremost
epidemilogist of the 20th century.
£600
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SHACKLETON, Ernest H. South. The Story of
Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914–1917. London:
SHUTE, Nevil. A Town Like Alice. London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1950
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front board
lettered in silver, large block of Endurance stuck in the ice
to front board in silver, publisher’s device to rear board in
blind, top edge dark blue. With a small collection of articles
relating to Shackleton, and a photographic postcard loosely
inserted. Colour frontispiece and 87 half-tone plates, folding map at the rear. Some rubbing to the tips and spine
ends, small square of paper pasted to the front free endpaper below inscription, occasional very minor foxing. An
excellent copy.
first edition, fourth impression, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by
Shackleton: “To G. W. A. Hutchison with grateful
thanks for kindnesses. From Ernest Shackleton. January 1921.” By the time the fourth impression came
out, four months after the first, Shackleton was on
the lecture circuit, and planning what would eventually become the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, on
which he met his untimely death barely a year later.
The leaflet for his memorial fund is loosely laid in.
Books on Ice 7.8; Conrad p. 224; Spence 1107; Taurus 105.
£6,000
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Miss Card [?], from Nevil Shute Norway [the author’s
full name, which he used in his profession as an aeronautical engineer]”.
£475
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Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board
lettered in blind, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Spine
faded, contents toned. An excellent copy in the chipped
jacket, with a small closed tear to the head of the rear panel.
first edition, presentation copy, signed by the
author on the title page and inscribed by him on the
front free endpaper: “For A. M. Fox, from Nevil Shute
Norway. June 1950.”
£2,500
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SHUTE, Nevil. On the Beach. London: Heinemann,
1957
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Reference number inked to front free endpaper. Contents faintly toned. An excellent copy in the lightly
rubbed jacket with the remains of a star-shaped sticker and
a tiny nick to the centre of the spine panel.
first edition, inscribed by the author on a
bookplate pasted onto the front free endpaper: “For
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature
and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In
Three Volumes. Dublin: for Messrs. Whitestone,
Chamberlaine, W. Watson [& 17 others], 1776
3 volumes, octavo (120 × 205 mm). Contemporary sprinkled
calf, spines ruled gilt in compartments, red morocco labels,
sprinkled edges. Repair front joint, top edge dusty, occasional minor foxing. An excellent set.
first dublin edition of “the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (PMM), published
in the same year as the first London edition. In his
Wealth of Nations, Smith “begins with the thought that
labour is the source from which a nation derives what
is necessary to it. The improvement of the division
of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies
the human propensity to barter and exchange … The
Wealth of Nations ends with a history of economic development, a definitive onslaught on the mercantile system, and some prophetic speculations on the limits of
economic control” (PMM). “The Wealth of Nations had
no rival in scope or depth when published and is still
one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic
status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading, critical and adulatory, long after the circumstances which prompted it have become
the object of historical enquiry” (ODNB).
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The British Copyright Act of 1709 did not apply to
Ireland, and for the whole of the 18th century Irish
printers were free to reprint any book first published
in England, Scotland, or Wales without paying royalties. Dublin booksellers also undercut the market by
producing books in smaller format, thus reducing
the selling price. This is the first of three 18th-century
Dublin editions of the Wealth of Nations, published in
1776, 1785, and 1793 respectively. In this instance the
three-volume octavo format anticipated the format of
all London editions after the second.
Goldsmiths’ 11393; Tribe 10; Vanderblue, p. 20.
£5,500
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SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One
Dalmatians. London: Heinemann, 1956
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in white morocco with black onlay patches (imitating a Dalmatian’s
colouring), title to spine gilt, cream endpapers with original
pictorial endpapers at front and back, gilt edges. Illustrated
throughout by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. A fine
copy.
first edition.
£1,500
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SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One
Dalmatians. Illustrated by Janet and Anne
Grahame-Johnstone. London: Heinemann, 1956;
& —— The Starlight Barking. More about
The Hundred and One Dalmatians. London:
Heinemann, 1967
Two works, octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jackets. Housed in a black cloth solander
box by the Chelsea Bindery with a Dalmatian to front cover
and wraparound paw print design in white. Illustrations
throughout. Hundred and One Dalmatians with light rubbing
to corners, light fading to ends of spine, a very good copy
in price clipped dust jacket with the commonly found fading to spine, moderate chipping to ends of spine and mild
creasing to edges with just a touch of sunning to extremities. Starlight Barking is an excellent copy in like dust jacket.
first editions of both books, presentation
copies, the first title inscribed by the author to the
first blank, “To Madge and Gerald, with love from
Dodie. Finchingfield, Essex. November 1956”; the sequel inscribed by Smith on the first blank, “To Madge,
with love from Dodie 1967.” An exceptional double
presentation of this charming children’s tale which
was the basis for the popular Disney animated film.
The recipients were Madge Compton (1893–1970),
the first book also to her second husband Gerald Lawrence (1873–1957); both were actors. Madge Compton
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was a long-term friend of Smith’s, having played a
part in her comedy Dear Octopus, which opened at the
Queen’s Theatre, London on 15 September 1938.
£4,500
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SNOW, C. P. Time of Hope. London: Faber and
Faber 194
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Pages lightly toned, in bright dust jacket with
the Book Society wraparound band, light spotting to spine,
a very good copy.
front free endpaper, “This book was written in Hyde
Park Place, except for a chapter in part 1 (Cambridge),
and Part 3 and 4 (St. Ives) It was begun in the spring
of 1948 , Part 5–7 in autumn of 1948. The Book was
published on Sept 23, 1949. CP Snow March/50.” Also
laid in is a short signed type letter. The third novel in
Snow’s Strangers and Brothers sequence.
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Octavo. Original self wrappers. With the original board
chemise, lacking the slipcase. Housed in a green moroccobacked clamshell box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated
with 9 loose engravings on full-sheet Montval handmade
paper with deckle-edges preserved. Each signed in pencil
lower right by the artist. With the original tissue guards.
Text in English and French. Wrappers and contents in excellent condition, chemise split to spine.
first and signed limited edition, one of 101
copies thus (there were also 12 hors-commerce)
signed by Spender, Aragon and each of the nine artists: John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter,
Josef Hecht, Dalla Husband, Wassily Kandinsky, Roderick Mean, Joan Miro, Dolf Rieser, and Luis Vargas.
The work was a compilation to protest against the
rise of fascism in Europe. The engravings were printed by Atelier 17 and Henri Hecht.
Cramer Miro 81.
£15,000
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STAPLEDON, Olaf. Star Maker. London: Methuen
& Co. Ltd, 1937
SPENDER, Stephen. Fraternity. Translation by
Louis Aragon. Paris & New York: 1939
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in red. With the
Bip Pares dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket. Extremely faint
fading to spine, very minor rubbing to corners, faint partial toning to endpapers, a few to edges and to the margins
of the first two leaves, still a very good copy indeed, in the
priceclipped dust jacket, spine-tanned with light rubbing
£1,350
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along extremities and a small 1×3 cm chip from foot of
spine panel.
first edition, first issue binding and dust jacket,
an advance review copy with the publisher’s review
slip. Stapledon’s masterpiece and widely regarded as
one of the seminal works of science fiction. The first
issue was 2,513 copies.
£2,750
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STAPLEDON, Olaf. Sirius. A Fantasy of Love
and Discord. London: Secker & Warburg, 1944
Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine in brown. With the
pictorial dust jacket. Head of spine slightly frayed, bottom
corner of front board a little bumped, faint tape ghosting to
endpapers and verso of jacket. An excellent copy in a lightly
edge-rubbed but bright jacket that is slightly shorter than
the book.
first edition of one of the author’s major works of
science fiction, a parable of a dog raised as a human.
£650
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STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. New York:
Covici Friede, 1937
STEINBECK, John. The Long Valley. New York:
Viking Press, 1938
STEINBECK, John. Bombs Away. The Story of
a Bomber Team. New York: The Viking Press, 1942
Octavo. Original buff cloth, spine and front board lettered
in brown and black, top edge blue. With the dust jacket.
Housed in a tan solander box. Spine gently rolled, a small
dent to the head of the rear board and bookseller’s ticket to
the rear pastedown; an exceptional copy in the bright jacket
that has a toned spine and some nicks to the extremities.
Octavo. Original buff cloth backing orange cloth, spine
lettered in brown, top edge brown. With the pictorial dust
jacket. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Spine toned, circular stain to the front board; an exceptional copy in the
bright jacket that has a toned spine, some nicks to the extremities, and scuffing to the spine and rear panel.
Octavo. Original blue cloth with decoration to front board,
and titles to spine in black and white, top edge blue. With
the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated from photographs by
John Swope. A superb copy in the bright jacket that has
some nicks to the extremities.
first edition, first issue, with the words “and
only moved because the heavy hands were pendula”
line 20-1 p.9; and the bullet to the pagination of p.88.
first edition. A lovely copy of this collection of 12
short stories.
£3,750
[95403]
STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. A Play in
Three Acts. New York: Covici Friede, 1937
Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and front board lettered
in black with brown foliate decoration. With the dust jacket.
Spine toned, with a dark stain in the gutter, otherwise an
exceptional copy in the jacket that has a toned spine, some
nicks to the extremities and a short closed tear to the head
of the rear panel.
first edition.
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STEINBECK, John. The Forgotten Village. With
136 Photographs from the Film of the Same
Name by Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander
Hackensmid. New York: The Viking Press, 1941
Quarto. Original speckled buff cloth, spine lettered in
green, design to front board in green. With the dust jacket.
136 illustrations from film stills. An exceptional copy in the
bright jacket that has a toned spine and rear panel.
first edition.
£475
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£625
first edition. Attractive fundraiser for the Air
Forces Society Trust Fund.
[95349]
STEINBECK, John. The Moon Is Down. A
Novel. New York: The Viking Press, 1942
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, front
board in blind, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Spine
rolled; an exceptional copy in the bright jacket that has a
toned spine.
first edition.
£675
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STEINBECK, John. The Wayward Bus. New York:
STEINBECK, John. Sweet Thursday. New York:
STEINBECK, John. Once There Was A War. New
York: The Viking Press, 1958
Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, vignette blind stamped to front board, top
edge green. With the dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the
jacket that has some nicks to the extremities.
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles and bird decoration to
spine and front board in red and blue, top edge red. With the
dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the bright jacket.
Octavo. Original green cloth, backing brown marbled
boards, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. A superb
copy in the bright jacket.
first edition.
first edition. A series of Steinbeck’s dispatches
filed in 1943 while he was a war correspondent for the
New York Herald Tribune.
first edition, in the first issue binding.
£575
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STEINBECK, John. The Log from the Sea of
Cortez. The narrative portion of the book, Sea
of Cortez, by John Steinbeck and E. F. Ricketts,
1941, here reissued with a profile “About Ed
Ricketts”. New York: The Viking Press, 1951
Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge red, red map endpapers. With the
dust jacket. 2 portrait frontispieces. An exceptional copy in
the bright, price-clipped jacket that has some nicks to the
extremities.
first edition.
£575
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£575
STEINBECK, John. Un Americain à New York et
à Paris. Traduit de l’americain par Jean-Francois
Rozan. Paris: Rene Julliard, 1956
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Octavo. Original yellow wrappers, spine and front wrapper lettered in red and black. Extremities rubbed, contents
slightly toned; an exceptional copy in the bright wrappers.
first edition, first trade issue. While residing
in Paris in the summer of 1954, Steinbeck produced
weekly newspaper articles, which were translated
into French and published in the weekend literary
supplement of Le Figaro. These articles were collected and published here in this single volume.
£250
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STEINBECK, John. The Winter of Our
Discontent. New York: The Viking Press, 1961
Octavo. Original navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt on
black, facsimile signature to front board in gilt, yellow endpapers, top edge yellow. With the dust jacket and the original publisher’s acetate. An exceptional copy in the bright
jacket.
first edition of Steinbeck’s last full-length novel
and the book that clinched his Nobel Prize win. One
of 500 copies.
£1,500
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(STEICHEN, Edward.) SANDBERG, Carl.
Steichen The Photographer. New York: Harcourt
Brace and Company, 1929
Folio. Original black cloth, titles and rules to front cover and
spine. No dust jacket was produced for this edition. Numerous full page photogravure illustrations by Steichen. Stain
to fore edge of front cover, large gift inscription from Perry
Molstad to Pat Feeney on front free endpaper, and with Molstad’s bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent to pastedown.
first and signed limited edition, one of 925
numbered copies signed by Sandberg and Steichen.
One of the great photographic books of its era reproducing with brilliant quality some of Steichen’s very
best work.
£1,750
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TAYLOR-WOOD, Sam. Crying Men. Göttingen:
Steidl, 2004
Quarto. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in white, black endpapers. With the slipcase and a
signed and dated photograph of Dustin Hoffman. 22 colour
and 6 black and white original photographs tipped-in. A superb copy.
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signed limited edition, number 238 of 250
signed and specially printed copies. A series of 28
original photographs of famous actors. Robin Williams, Sean Penn, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Craig,
Ryan Gosling, and Robert Downey, Jr. are among the
group who participated in the project. Together with
a photograph of Dustin Hoffman, signed and dated
by Taylor-Wood.
£1,000
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair.
A Novel without a Hero. With Illustrations on
Steel and Wood by the Author. London: Bradbury
& Evans, 1847–8
20 original parts in 19 monthly volumes, octavo. Original
printed yellow wrappers. Housed in a red levant morocco
book-form pull-off case with cloth wrapper which bears the
engraved bookplate and red morocco book label of American book collectors W. K. Bixby and Paul Francis Webster.
40 engraved plates, without tissue guards, wood-engraved
illustrations after the author. Backstrips and edges of front
wrappers of 3 volumes expertly repaired, minor chips to
part 1 wrapper, split to lower half of backstrip of part 19–20,
most plates lightly offset, 6 plates oxidised, pull-off case
very faintly scuffed and with tiny chip at head of spine panel.
Overall an excellent, fresh set. With early 20th century auc-
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tion records and hand-written notes on issue points loosely
inserted and pasted to the protective cloth wrapper.
first edition in the original parts; all parts
first issues from standing type. Copies of the first
issues from standing type can be recognised by the
standard line-length of 97 mm or more, where later
issues from the stereotyped plates exhibit a linelength of 96 mm or less. Sets of Vanity Fair in which
all parts are demonstrably of the true first printing are of exceptional rarity, and copies so distinguished using the traditional issue points (enumerated by Van Duzer) have often been shown to be
mixed printings. Since stereotyped copies appeared
almost immediately after the first printings of each
successive part and were often distributed by the
publisher before stocks of the first printings had
been exhausted, complete or even partially complete sets of the true first printing are truly rare.
Vanity Fair is of one of the most popular and enduring of mid-century Victorian fictions. With the first
parts coming out in the same year as Brontë’s Jane Eyre
and the last in the year of Dickens’s Dombey and Son,
Thackeray’s novel was aimed squarely at a voracious
public appetite for periodical novels and for the satirical novel.
Van Duzer 230; see Peter L. Shillingsburg in Virginia Studies in
Bibliography, 34, 1981.
£15,000
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(THOMSON, Hugh.) AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and
Prejudice. With a Preface by George Saintsbury
and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London:
George Allen, 1894
in full green morocco, titles and floral decoration to spine
gilt, raised bands, decorative panelling to boards gilt, inner
dentelles gilt, green silk endpapers, top edge gilt, others
untrimmed. With numerous black and white illustrations
throughout. Light toning to page edges, an excellent copy.
first thomson edition, large paper copy,
one of 250 copies for Britain, with another 25 done
for America. Thomson’s “light touch and feeling for
period manners provide a charming and accessible
gloss to the author’s work” (ODNB).
£6,000
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(THOMSON, Hugh.) AUSTEN, Jane. Pride &
Prejudice. London: George Allen, 1894
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board elaborately gilt blocked with peacock design, titles to spine and
front board gilt, all edges gilt, green coated endpapers.
Frontispiece (complete with tissue-guard) and illustrations
throughout by Hugh Thomson. Bookplate. Spine a little
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rolled, very slight rubbing to corners, two mild spots to the
title page tissue guard but otherwise internally clean, an excellent copy with the lovely gilt-illustrated covers still bright.
first thomson edition, trade issue in the distinctive peacock cloth case. With a colour postcard of
Austen’s House at Chawton, Hampshire, laid down
to the rear pastedown and a gilt-illustrated souvenir
bookmark bought from Chawton laid in.
£1,450
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(THOMSON, Hugh.) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. She
Stoops to Conquer. The Mistakes of a Night.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [c.1912]
Quarto (307 × 255 mm). Recent burgundy morocco, raised
bands, titles to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 25
tipped-in colour plates and several pen and ink illustrations
by Thomson. Mild toning to page edges, a very good copy.
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Kipling, April 19, 1913.” Number 185 of 350 copies
signed by the illustrator.
£875
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit. London: George
Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single
rule to boards, edges gilt. With an elaborate onlay to both
the front and back boards. With 13 illustrations by J. R. R.
Tolkien including the endpapers of maps and scenes from
the book, of which 4 are in colour. Both onlays are in full colour, on the front the onlay imitates the scene of the frontispiece, Hobbiton-across-the-Water. On the back Bilbo floats
on his barrel towards the huts of the Raft elves. The occasional spotting to pages, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
first edition.
£11,000
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from rudyard kipling, inscribed on the title page,
“With every good wish, from Caroline and Rudyard
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. Farmer Giles of Ham. [Black
letter:] Aegidii Ahenobarbi Julii Agricole de
Hammo Domini de Domito Aule Draconarie
Comitis Regni Minimi Regis et Basilea mira
facinora et mirabilis exortus [roman:] in
the vulgar tongue The Rise and Wonderful
Adventures of Farmer Giles, Lord of Tame,
Count of Worminghall and King of the Little
Kingdom. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd.,
1949
TOLKIEN, J. R. R. [The Lord of the Rings
trilogy:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two
Towers; The Return of the King. London: George
Allen and Unwin, 1954–5
[TROCCHI, Alexander; as] Frances Lengel.
Young Adam. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1954
3 volumes, octavo (225 × 145mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, titles and decoration to
spines gilt, “Eye of Sauron” to front boards gilt, marbled
endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a matching leather entry slip case. Each volume has a map illustrated by the Author. An excellent set.
first edition, from the library of trocchi’s
close friend alex neish and with the latter’s pencil signature on the half-title. As editor of the Scottish magazine Jabberwock (he would later be the editor
of Sidewalk) Alex Neish published the first chapter of
William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch in 1959, after Allen Ginsberg sent him the manuscript without Burroughs’s approval. Although Neish never published
Trocchi he was an early champion of his work and
convinced John Calder to publish him. After Trocchi
jumped bail in the US—where he had been prosecuted for selling heroin to a minor—and made his way
back to Scotland Neish provided him with a room at
his flat in Edinburgh until Trocchi hit the drugs again
and went to London. Neish is also known as one the
world’s foremost collectors of British pewter. Published one year after the Maurice Girodias founded
the Olympia Press, the first edition of Young Adam is,
at Girodias’s request, a highly “sexed-up” version of
Trocchi’s original text.
Octavo. Original light orange cloth, titles to spine and dragon design to front board in blue, top edge blue, pictorial
endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Black and white
illustrations in text by Pauline Diana Baynes. A few small
dark marks to rear board, top edge faded, minor spotting to
edges, pale tanning to endpapers, margins of text block very
lightly foxed in a few places. An excellent copy in a bright
jacket with slightly rubbed and chipped extremities, and a
few short closed tears.
first edition of Tolkien’s comic mediaeval fable
set in a mythic Great Britain.
Hammond & Anderson A4a.
£575
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first editions. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one
of the most influential literary works of the century.
Its first reception was mixed: favourable and perceptive reviews from C. S. Lewis and from W. H. Auden,
who had attended Tolkien’s Oxford lectures, were
countered by others who were hostile, sometimes
bitterly so. But the trilogy went on to astonishing
sales and forged a major change in public literary
taste. “Heroic fantasy” has since become one of the
most commercially successful literary genres, having a transforming impact upon the entertainment
industry, from electronic games to movies.
£12,500
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Octavo. Original card wrappers printed in orange and black.
Backstrip a little cocked, some very minor soiling to wrappers, light spotting to edges of text block. An excellent copy.
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Kearney 36; Graham Rae, Interview with Alex Neish, Editor
of Jabberwock and Sidewalk.
£975
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VAN DER POST, Laurens. In a Province. London:
Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1934
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black. Spine
and edges faded, inner hinges cracked but holding; a very
good copy.
the author to his father-in-law from his first marriage,
on the front free endpaper: “To Theo Wendt, with
best wishes—from Laurens van der Post. London.
March 1934.” Theo Wendt was the first conductor of
the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra; his daughter,
Marjorie Edith Wendt, married van der Post in 1928.
£1,750
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(VERLAINE, Paul.) AYRTON, Michael. Femmes/
Hombres. London: Douglas Cleverdon, [1972.]
Oblong folio. 15 numbered and signed loose etchings (408 ×
281 mm) on white japon contained within green quarter mo-
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rocco portfolio with green-grey boards and black card flaps,
printed label to front board. A fine set of prints in an excellent portfolio with somewhat rubbed spine ends and board
edges, a few small scuff marks and stains to front board, a
light dampstain to rear board, and splits to head and tail of
fore-edge flap fold.
sole edition. These etchings by Ayrton (1921–1975)
were intended to accompany the first English-language edition of Verlaine’s two companion volumes
of erotic poetry, Femmes (1891) and Hombres (1903;
posthumously). While originally published as separate works, by the two Paris-based publishers Vanier
and A. Messein respectively, they should be seen as
two parts of a larger whole, “both unbridled in their
appeal to the prurient” (Shapiro, One Hundred and One
Poems by Paul Verlaine, p. 147).
£3,750
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VONNEGUT, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions.
Or, Goodbye Blue Monday! With drawings by
the author. [New York:] Delacorte Press/Seymour
Lawrence, 1973
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Spine very gently rolled, a couple of faint spots to edges of
text block. An excellent copy in a price-clipped dust jacket
with light creasing to front flap.
first edition.
£750
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VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five:
or, The Children’s Crusade. A Duty-Dance with
Death. New York: Delacorte Press, 1969
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, red and
black, signature to the front board in gilt, black endpapers.
With the dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Some spotting
to the boards, a couple of small stains to the fore-edge; an
excellent copy in the jacket that has a toned spine with some
minor nicks to the extremities.
first edition of Vonnegut’s best known novel.
£875
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Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in blue and gilt
and front board in gilt, black endpapers, top edge yellow.
With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author.
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WARHOL, Andy. Andy Warhol’s Interview.
December 1977. Vol. VII No. 12. New York:
Interview Enterprises, 1977
Folio. Original wrappers, titles to front wrapper in pink, yellow, turquoise, orange, purple, red and green. Paper lightly
toned, printed on newspaper stock.
first edition, signed by andy warhol on front
cover across a photo of Mick Jagger dressed as Father
Christmas carrying Iman and Paul von Ravenstein in
a sack.
£700
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WAIN, Louis (illus.). Funny Frolics. London: John
F. Shaw & Co, Ltd, [c.1903]
Octavo. Original red cloth-backed drab card wrappers, front
cover with chromolithograph and titles and border in black,
title page printed in red and black and with illustration by
Frank M. Williamson. Tipped-in chromolithographic frontispiece and 3 other colour images, illustrations in the text in
black and white. Title inscribed in pencil to backstrip, wrappers lightly rubbed and with a few minor creases and nicks.
An excellent copy.
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Octavo, (240 × 157mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands,
twin rule to turn ins gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
With engravings on wood by Lynd Ward. A fine copy.
first lynd ward illustrated edition. The successful Universal film of Frankenstein (1931) saw a revival
of interest in Mary Shelley’s novel. The American artist Lynd Ward—best known for his wood engravings,
especially his novels without words in that medium—
was an inspired choice to illustrate this new edition.
£1,375
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(WARHOL, Andy) The Rolling Stones. Original
proofs for the artwork of Love You Live. New York:
Rolling Stones Records, 1977
2 colour-printed proofs (418 × 710 mm each) on thick card
stock. Very good indeed.
Possibly unique proofs of the album cover artwork
commissioned from Andy Warhol for the Rolling
Stones album Love You Live. These proofs, which
were purchased from the late Art Collins, President
of Rolling Stones Records, are almost certainly the
only set surviving that show the design as it was intended by Warhol, without the hand-drawn title and
track-listing with which it was issued. These were a
considerable bone of contention for Warhol, who had
A scarce title in an even scarcer edition. OCLC records two copies published in 1903 by a different
publisher, Ernest Nister, but shows no record of this
particular imprint, nor do Horne and Peppin & Micklethwait. This edition was published at the peak of
Wain’s carreer, in the early 20th century, when he was
producing a staggering 600 drawings of his famous
anthropomorphic cats a year.
Not in Delulio & Ross; Horne pp. 429–32; Peppin & Micklethwait pp. 311–12.
£975
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(WARD, Lynd.) SHELLEY, Mary. Frankenstein.
or The Modern Prometheus. New York: Harrison
Smith and Robert Haas, 1934
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imagined the record label would put the album out
in a transparent sleeve of some sort with the titling
and credits imposed, leaving his artwork—complete
as far as he was concerned—untouched, something
he made abundantly clear to Jerry Hall: “I told Jerry I
thought Mick had ruined the Love You Live cover I did
for them by writing all over it—it’s his handwriting,
and he wrote so big. The kids who buy the album
would have a good piece of art if he hadn’t spoiled
it” (The Andy Warhol Diaries, 5 July 1978). Vincent Fremont, who ran Warhol’s businesses and was the executor of his estate, confirmed that “Andy was very
upset about the text that got added to his original artwork for the cover of Love You Live … that the work on
the cover was conceived by Warhol as an image only
and that he very very upset about the addition of text
to the final printed form”. All of which meant that
Warhol was genuinely loth to sign any copies of the
album presented to him.
£15,000
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WAUGH, Evelyn. Black Mischief. London:
Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1932
Octavo. Original red and black snakeskin cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket and Book Society’s wraparound band. Map frontispiece. Some minor foxing to the
edges, occasional minor foxing to the contents, pages
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slightly cockled; an excellent copy in the slightly soiled jacket that has a toned spine.
first edition.
£2,250
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Octavo. Original light brown linen, titles to spine and front
board in black and light blue, blue and white spider-web patterned endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated
throughout by Garth Williams. Extremities slightly rubbed,
text block a touch strained but still firm, light stains to text
block, mainly to margin but occasionally affecting text. A
very good copy in a price-clipped, gently toned jacket with
a few small nicks.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. The
Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain
Charles Ryder. A Novel. Boston: Little, Brown and
Company, September 1945
first edition, inscribed by the illustrator
on the half-title: “For Debbie with best wishes, sincerely Garth Williams”.
Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, titles gilt to spine, top
edge dyed olive green. With the dust jacket. Very slight fading at board edges, ink stamp to rear free endpaper, an excellent copy in the jacket with tanning to spine and partially
along top edge, and a few very small chips also along top
edge.
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first american edition, from a limited edition of
600 copies, this one of 450 copies for sale. This edition precedes the first American trade edition (1946),
and was published in the same year as the UK first
edition.
£850
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WHITE, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. Pictures by Garth
Williams. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952
£6,500
[94287]
WILDE, Oscar. A House of Pomegranates.
The Design & Decoration of This Book by C.
Ricketts & by C. H. Shannon. London: James R.
Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1891
Quarto. Original green cloth backed tan boards, titles and
decoration to spine and front board in gold and orange, pictorial endpapers. Housed in a blue quarter morocco slipcase
and chemise. Engraved title, 4 plates, illustrations throughout. Boards browned and a little rubbed, some shallow
worming to edges of boards, contents unopened and with
occasional spots, hinges cracked. A very good copy.
first edition of the book that Wilde said was “intended neither for the British child nor the British
public.”
£2,250
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WILDE, Oscar. Salome. A tragedy in one
act, translated from the French. London: Elkin
Mathews & John Lane, 1894
Octavo. Original rough blue canvas boards, titles to spine
and decoration on boards gilt. Housed in a green cloth folding case. With 10 plates by Aubrey Beardsley, printed on
glazed paper from line blocks engraved by Carl Hentschel.
Bookplates and catalogue note to front pastedown. Cloth a
little rubbed and faded, contents tanned. A very good copy.
first edition in english, the regular trade issue,
one of 500 copies. Salome was originally written by
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the English version, translated by Lord Alfred Douglas and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, appeared the
following year.
Mason 350.
£3,250
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WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being
Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.
London: Leonard Smithers, 1899
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WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named
Desire. New York: New Directions, 1947
Octavo. Original purple paper boards, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board in black and white.
With the dust jacket. Extremities a little rubbed, mild fading to spine and front edges of boards, bottom corners of
boards lightly bumped. An excellent copy in a jacket that is
faded to spine and front edges and with some minor chipping and a few short closed tears, two of which neatly repaired on the verso.
first edition.
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Small quarto (197 × 142 mm). Mid 20th-century red half
morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red cloth sides, all edges gilt.
An excellent copy.
£1,500
first edition, one of the regular issue of 1,000 copies. Wilde’s final play, his comic masterpiece, was
written in 1894. Within two weeks of its opening in
February 1895, Wilde began his ill-conceived libel
trial against the Marquis of Queensbury that lead to
Wilde’s trial for homosexuality and subsequent imprisonment. As a consequence, the play was not published until after Wilde’s release in 1898.
WINDSOR, Edward, Duke of. A King’s Story.
The Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor
K.G. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1951.
£2,500
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Octavo (228 × 143 mm). Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
in orange-red full morocco, raised bands to spine, titles to
spine gilt, royal coat of arms to front board gilt, top edge
gilt, others untrimmed, ruling to edges of boards and turnins gilt. Frontispiece and 22 pages of black-and-white photographic plates. A few small dark stains to spine and front
board, slightly offsetting from turn-ins, mild foxing to untrimmed edges. Otherwise an excellent copy.
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signed limited edition, number 155 of 250 copies
signed by the former Edward VIII.
£1,500
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. If I Were You. London:
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1931
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles and ruling to spine and
upper board in black. With the dust jacket. A superb copy
in the frayed and lightly rubbed dust jacket with an internal
repair to a split along half of the lower spine fold.
first uk edition, published 25 September 1931,
and therefore just preceded by the Doubleday, Doran
edition published at New York, 3 September. With
his co-writer Guy Bolton, Wodehouse dramatized the
story as Who’s Who, 1934.
McIlvaine A44b.
£1,750
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Louder and Funnier.
London: Faber & Faber, 1932
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in blue, top
edge red. With the dust jacket designed by Rex Whistler.
Spine slightly faded, boards slightly marked, endpapers
foxed, bookplate on front pastedown. In the unclipped
jacket that has a darkened spine and a few nicks and chips
to extremities. A very good copy. From the library of Ernest
Everard Gates (1903–1984), Conservative MP.
first edition. A collection of humorous pieces, reworked from articles published in Vanity Fair between
1914 and 1923, issued in the wonderful Rex Whistler
dust jacket. In his introduction to the book, Wodehouse explains that he took the title from “the old
story ... of the nervous after-dinner speaker” who is
speaking in a faltering undertone when a voice demands “Louder, please”, to be followed soon after by
another voice requesting, “Louder, please, and funnier”.
McIlvaine A45a.
£2,500
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first edition of this collection of nine short stories, all of which had previously been published in
various magazines.
McIlvaine A57a.
£2,500
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Jeeves and the Feudal
Spirit. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1954
Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in black, publisher’s device to rear board in black. With the dust jacket.
Small bookseller’s ticket to the front pastedown. Some
slight foxing to the edges; an excellent copy in the bright
jacket that has a few nicks to the extremties.
first edition of the seventh of the Jeeves novels.
McIlvaine A77a.
£225
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Lord Emsworth and
Others. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1937
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and publisher’s device to
spine in black, titles to front board in black, top edge red.
With the illustrated dust jacket. Spine gently cocked, top
edge faded, light browning to endpapers. An excellent copy
in a bright jacket with slightly rubbed extremities and a few
negligible chips to spine ends.
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall.
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919
Octavo. Single quire, wire-stitched into original off-white
wrappers printed in black. Small 1940s ownership inscription
to front wrapper verso. Contents spotted as usual, wrappers
fintly soiled and a little creased at corners. A very good copy.
second (first separate) edition, one of 1,000
copies printed. Published in 1917 as one of the Two
Stories printed in the Hogarth Press’s first publication
and reprinted here by itself for the first time and incorporating Virginia Woolf ’s “slight editorial changes” (Willis).
Kirkpatrick A2b; Willis p. 33; Woolmer 8.
£875
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WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando. A Biography. New
York: Crosby Gaige, 1928
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and decoration to spine
gilt, publisher’s device to front board, top edge gilt, others
untrimmed. Frontispiece and seven photographic illustrations, including one of Virginia Woolf as Orlando. Armorial bookplate of Sir Frederick Richmond (1873–1953) to front
pastedown. Spine slightly sunned, edges of boards a touch
rubbed, corners gently bumped. Otherwise an excellent copy.
signed limited edition, number 136 of 861 numbered copies signed by the author on the verso of the
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half-title. This edition preceded the first UK edition
by 9 days.
Kirkpatrick A11.a.
£2,250
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WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando. A Biography.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1928
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine gilt. In a specially made tan cloth solander box. Frontispiece and seven
photographic illustrations including Virginia Woolf as Orlando. Light occasional foxing, endpapers lightly tanned,
spine and edges of boards slightly sunned.
first trade edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to John Maynard Keynes’s wife
Lydia Lopokova on the front free endpaper, “Lydia
from Virginia”. Russian ballet dancer Lopokova became an unlikely member of the Bloomsbury group
after marrying Keynes in 1925. Though the group
initially snubbed Lopokova, Woolf eventually came
to admire her for her charm and vivacity; she was the
model for Septimus’s wife Rezia in Mrs Dalloway. One
of 5,080 copies printed.
Kirkpatrick A11b; Woolmer 185.
£15,000
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WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. New York:
The Fountain Press; London, The Hogarth Press, 1929
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Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. Small contemporary inscription to front pastedown. Spine lightly
faded, extremities a little rubbed, a few spots and marks to
cloth, bumps to top corners and top edges of boards, edges
of text block tanned, one inner hinge cracked but holding
firm. An excellent copy.
signed limited edition, number 414 of 492 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title.
Published on 21 October 1929 in the US and in the
UK on 24 October 1929, simultaneously with the first
trade edition. Loosely inserted is an abridged version
of Woolf ’s essay “The Love of Reading”, published in
the American publication Company of Books in 1931.
Kirkpatrick A12a; Woolmer 215A.
£3,850
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WOOLF, Virginia. Flush. London: The Hogarth
Press, 1933
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Frontispiece and 9 plates. Spine rolled, corners
bumped, small bump to edge of front board, a little mottling to cloth of front board, contents spotted. A very good
copy in the rubbed and spotted jacket with a few nicks at
the edges, abrasions along the spine panel, and a short close
tear repaired with tape on the verso.
first edition.
Woolmer 334.
£475
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ADAIR, A. H. Dinners Long and Short. With
an introduction by X. Marcel Boulestin and
a portrait by Marie Laurencin. London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1928
Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With
the dust jacket. Monochrome frontispiece portrait. Spine
rubbed, endpapers and edges foxed, rear free endpaper
folded. An excellent copy in the jacket that has a few tiny
nicks to the edges.
first edition. The publisher’s retained copy with
their ink stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket
and the front pastedown. With the scarce illustrated
jacket by E. McKnight Kauffer, as issued before Gollancz adopted their signature yellow jackets.
£475
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ADAM, Ronald. Overtures and Beginners.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938
first edition. The publishers’ retained copy with
their ink-stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket,
the front pastedown and the title page. The author
also wrote under the pseudonym “Blake” on his wartime experiences in the RAF.
£225
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AICKMAN, Robert, & Elizabeth Jane Howard.
We Are For the Dark. Six Ghost Stories. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1951
Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in silver. With the
dust jacket. Boards slightly marked, foxed edges and endpapers. A very good copy in the jacket that has a few nicks to the
extremities, a short closed tear at the head of the front panel,
and a short tear to the crease of the rear flap.
first edition. Aickman’s first book, a collaborative
collection with his then-lover, Elizabeth Jane Howard.
£275
[91820]
Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the
dust jacket. A superb copy in the jacket that has the typically
sunned spine.
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Eight Cousins slightly, cracked but firm two quires slightly
pulled. Front inner hinge in both Jack and Jill and Jo’s Boys partially cracked but sound. Overall a very good set.
The collection consists of Alcott’s children’s novels and
a biography of the author edited by Ednah C. Cheney
that leans heavily on Alcott’s letters and journals.
£750
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(ALDIN, Cecil.) SEWELL, Anna. Black Beauty.
The autobiography of a horse. Illustrated by
eighteen plates in colour, specially drawn for
this edition by Cecil Aldin. London: Jarrolds
Publishers Limited, [1912]
Octavo. Recent dark green morocco, titles and decoration
to spine, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers,
gilt edges. With colour illustrations. Some occasional light
foxing, an excellent copy handsomely bound.
first aldin edition.
£375
298
AKHMATOVA, Anna. Forty-Seven Love
Poems. Translated from the Russian by Natalie
Duddington. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut, printed in black and red. With the dust
jacket. Endpapers tanned, contents a little toned. An excellent copy in a faintly soiled, chipped and price-clipped
jacket.
limited edition, number 42 of 300 copies. The poems in this volume were selected by the author and
cover the period from 1912 to 1921.
£750
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ALCOTT, Louisa M. Little Women and Good
Wives. Being Stories for Girls, By the Author of
“An Old Fashioned Girl,” Etc. London: Ward, Lock,
& Tyler, [1878]
Octavo (96 × 149). Contemporary red calf, brown morocco
label, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands,
front board double ruled in gilt, edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Some spotting to the endpapers and first few pages,
boards slightly marked. An excellent copy.
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An attractively bound copy of the first two novels of
the March Family Saga. “Little Women is an outstanding achievement of 19th-century American literature,
and the first children’s novel written in that country
to have become an enduring classic… It has inspired
countless imitations… few of which have approached
its achievement” (Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature).
£200
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ALCOTT, Louisa M. [Complete set of her
children’s novels:] Little Women; OldFashioned Girl; Little Men; Eight Cousins; Rose
in Bloom; Under the Lilacs; Jack and Jill; Jo’s
Boys; Her Life, Letters, Journals. Boston: Roberts
Brothers, 1887-88-91
9 works, octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles and floral
decorations to spine in gold, black, and occasionally red, titles and decorations to front boards either gilt or in black,
pale green or yellow floral endpapers. All works with frontispiece and tissue guard. Boards lightly rubbed, minor wear
to corners, small nicks to ends of spine, edges tanned, slight
foxing throughout. With gift inscription on front flyleaf of
all works but Life, Letters, Journals. Small pink bookseller’s
ticket on rear pastedown of Little Women. Inner hinges of
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AMBLER, Eric. Journey into Fear.
Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles and zigzag pattern to
spine, zigzag pattern to front cover, publisher’s device to
rear cover, all in blue, top edge blue. With the illustrated
dust jacket. Spine gently cocked, spine ends and corners
rubbed, top edge faded, endpapers tanned, residue of
brown paper jacket to pastedowns, library stamps to front
free endpaper. A very good copy in price-clipped jacket with
chipped and rubbed extremities.
first us edition.
£750
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AMBLER, Eric. Double Decker. Two Complete
Spy Novels: Cause for Alarm and Background to
Danger. Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing
Company, 1945
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and spider web
design to front board in green, tope edge green. With the dust
jacket. Spine gently rolled and very lightly creased, extremities rubbed, a couple of minor marks to boards, 2 leaves with
tiny brown specks, rear hinge starting. A very good copy in a
lightly shelf-worn jacket with tiny chips and splits.
first dual edition, inscribed by the author
to his friend the classical historian Mortimer Chambers: “Mort, this sort of digging into the past can do
neither of us any lasting good, can it? Eric Ambler
Dec. 78”. Background to Danger was originally published in the UK in 1937 under the title Uncommon
Danger. Cause for Alarm was first published in 1939,
also in the UK.
£275
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AMBLER, Eric. The Intercom Conspiracy.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1970
Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine in purple, top
edge purple. With the dust jacket. Literary agent Peter Janson-Smith’s compliments slip on the front free endpaper.
Small abraded spot on front board. An excellent copy in a
lightly rubbed jacket.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed on
the half title to the author’s friend the historian Mortimer Chambers, “Mort, with best wishes, from Eric
Ambler”. Loosely inserted are a double-sided autograph letter signed with its envelope and an autograph
postcard signed. In the letter, which is written in a
warm, informal tone, and dated 29 April 74, Ambler
mentions having delivered a new novel “(weight of
typescript: 4 kg.)”, amusingly recalls sliding “some
20 metres downhill on [his] backside” on a mountain
near Freiburg in 1932 and describes in depth how he recycled the first chapter of an abandoned novel into the
short story “The Blood Bargain”, begging his friend to
“keep his guilty secret”.
£325
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AMIS, Kingsley. The Fantasy Poets Number 22.
Swinford, Oxford: Fantasy Press, 1954
Octavo. Wire-stitched pamphlet, paper wrappers printed
in black and brown. Wrappers a little creased and faintly
marked. A very good copy.
first edition, one of 300 copies published. Number 22 in the Fantasy Poets series. The poem “The
Last War” was originally published in the American
magazine Furioso.
£250
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AMIS, Kingsley. What Became of Jane Austen?
And Other Questions. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970
Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the
dust jacket. A small dent at the foot of the front board, a very
good copy in the jacket that has some nicks and chips on
extremities and lightly faded spine.
the author on the front free endpaper, “A feast of fun
for Val and Stuart, Kingsley 1970”. A collection of literary essays. Who could forget his taunt that an evening with Fanny and her clergyman husband “would
not be lightly undertaken”? (p. 14).
£250
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ASTERLEY, H. C. Mortmain. New York: Sears
Publishing Company, Inc., 1932
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board
in black. With the dust jacket. Endpapers toned and a little spotted, contents toned. An excellent copy in the lightly
rubbed and creased jacket with some nicks and short splits
and a small abrasion on the upper panel.
first edition. This tragic romance depicting the
dissipated life of the young during the late 1920s and
early 30s is uncommon in the dust jacket.
£325
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(ATTWELL, Mabel Lucie.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter
Pan and Wendy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1933
Octavo. Publisher’s black cloth, titles to spine gilt, large pictorial paper label to front board. Housed in the original blue
paper box with same label on lid as front board. Colour frontispiece and 8 other colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Neat ownership signature in a child’s hand and contemporary bookplate to front
free endpaper. Extremities lightly rubbed, a few faint white
marks to rear board and bottom edge of front board, bottom
corners of boards a little bumped. An excellent copy in a partially faded box with a couple of minor chips and nicks.
An early US reprint of Peter Pan and Wendy illustrated
by Mabel Lucie Attwell in the uncommon publisher’s box. Barrie adapted his play Peter Pan (1904) into
the novel Peter Pan and Wendy in 1911. The book was
first published with Attwell’s illustrations in the UK
in 1921.
£300
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BACON, Peggy. The True Philosopher and
Other Cat Tales. Boston: The Four Seas Co., 1919
Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, spine lettering in white,
with the dust jacket. Illustrated with 13 black and white
plates from etchings by the author. An excellent copy in the
jacket with chip to top quarter of spine, moderate chipping
to front top edge, shallow chips to corners.
front free endpaper “With a great deal of love, to Alice
Laughlin, from Peggy Bacon.” An amusing collection
of nine short tales featuring cats. This title was the author’s first book written at the age of 24. She would go
on to illustrate over 60 books as well as be featured in 30
solo exhibitions at prominent galleries of the day, such
as Montross Gallery and Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery. The
recipient was presumably Peggy Bacon’s contemporary,
the American artist Alice D Laughlin (1895–1952).
£250
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BAKER, Dorothy. A Young Man with a Horn.
Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938
Octavo. Original pale green and brown cloth, spine and
front board lettered in green. With the dust jacket. Contents
slightly toned; an excellent copy in the bright jacket.
first us edition. Baker’s first book, a jazz novel.
£750
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(BALLET RUSSES.) JOHNSON, A. E. The
Russian Ballet. With Illustrations by René Bull.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913
Quarto. Original cream cloth, titles, triple ruling, and Russian lesser coat of arms to spine; gilt titles, double frame,
and coat of arms to front board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 11 colour
plates, 4 colour headpieces, black and white line drawings
throughout. Boards lightly rubbed, spine dusty with a few
small stains to top and minor wear to ends, fore and bottom
edges tanned, minor loss to fore edge and lower corner of
title page. Otherwise an excellent copy.
first us edition. Originally published the same
year in the UK by Constable & Co. The book gives
descriptions and illustrations of 17 early dances performed by the Ballet Russes, which was founded by
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Diaghilev in 1909 and is considered one the most important dance companies of the 20th century; with
one chapter dedicated to Anna Pavlova. The third
plate has a figurative pencil drawing in the margin.
Small light blue bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown.
£375
[89962]
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BATES, H. E. Spella Ho. A Novel. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1938
Together 3 works, quarto. Original pictorial boards, titles to
spines in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jackets.
Illustrated throughout by Carol Barker. Exceptionally fresh
copies in excellent condition in dust jackets lightly sunned
at the spines.
all three works signed by the author in 1969,
first editions of the second two works in the trilogy, second impression of Achilles the Donkey (first published 1962). Unusually the artwork for this trilogy of
children’s picture books came first. Carol Barker painted the pictures after a visit to Greece, and H. E. Bates
agreed to write the text to accompany them.
[89104]
Octavo. Original turquoise cloth, gilt titles to spine, top
edge dark green. With the illustrated dust jacket. Spine ends
and edges of boards slightly rubbed. An excellent copy in the
lightly rubbed jacket.
£450
first edition. Bates’s text was originally serialised
in the Boston magazine The Atlantic Monthly in August–November 1938.
BAUM, L. Frank. Glinda of Oz. In Which are
related the Exciting Experiences of Princess
Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in the Home of the
Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers,
and how they were rescued from dire peril by
the sorcery of Glinda the Good. Illustrated by
John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Co., 1920
Eads A31a.
£225
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BATES, H. E., & Carol Barker. Achilles the
Donkey; Achilles and Diana; Achilles and the
Twins. London: Dennis Dobson, 1963 & 1964
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Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in black, pictorial
title panel to front board, pictorial endpapers, yellow edges.
Loosely inserted colour map of Oz. Frontispiece, 11 colour
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(BIBLE; English.) The Holy Bible Containing
The Old and New Testament: Translated Out Of
The Original Tongues: And With The Former
Translations Diligently Compared And Revised.
Oxford: University Press, [c.1920]
Octavo (180 × 115 mm). Contemporary blue hard-grain morocco, spine lettered in gilt with gilt raised bands, gilt tooled
compartments, boards double ruled in gilt, ornate gilt design boards, gilt edges, board edges gilt rolled, turn-ins gilt.
11 tinted maps, including one plan. Spine a little faded, otherwise a fine copy handsomely bound.
£300
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BISHOP, Elizabeth. North & South. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946
plates, and numerous illustrations in black and white. Contents toned; an excellent copy.
first edition. Published posthumously, this is the
14th and last book of the original Oz series by Baum
(1856–1919), the series being continued afterwards by
other authors.
Bienvenue and Schmidt pp. 81.
£500
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BEETON, Isabella. The Book of Household
Management. Entirely new edition, revised,
corrected and greatly enlarged, containing new
coloured plates and numerous full-page and other
engravings. London: Ward, Lock & Co, Limited, 1901
Octavo. Original red quarter morocco, green cloth sides, titles and elaborate decorations to spine gilt, ads printed to
endpapers. Folding colour frontispiece and 8 other colour
plates, black and white engravings in the text throughout.
Extremities faintly worn, light spotting to edges of text
block and endleaves, front inner hinge staring, recto of frontispiece slightly tanned. An excellent copy.
Revised and enlarged edition, originally published in
1861. An attractive copy.
£550
[94721]
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in
silver. With the dust jacket. Spine and board edges darkened,
contents slightly toned; a very good copy in the jacket that has
some small loss to the spine ends and creasing to the edges.
316
(BELL, Julian.) John Davenport; Hugh Sykes;
Michael Redgrave (eds.) Cambridge Poetry,
1930. London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf
at the Hogarth Press, 1930
Octavo. Original pink paper boards, titles to spine and titles
and decoration to front board in black. Star-shaped sticker
to front board. Boards a little rubbed and with a few small
ink and wax stains, front board bowed, endpapers faintly
tanned. An excellent copy.
first edition, julian bell’s personal copy with
his signature on the front free endpaper. No. 13 in the
Hogarth Living Poets series, series 1, and the second
Cambridge Poetry volume (the first was published the
preceding year). Julian Bell contributes three poems.
Other contributors include Malcolm Lowry, Michael
Redgrave, Hugh Sykes, and John Lehmann. One of
800 copies printed, 300 of which were later pulped.
Latterly in the library of Julian Bell’s half-sister Angelica Garnett (1918–2012).
Woolmer 219.
£575
[91837]
first edition of the author’s first book, of which
only 1,000 copies were published.
£675
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BLAND, Alexander. The Royal Ballet: The First
50 Years. With a foreword by Dame Ninette de
Valois. London: Threshold Books Limited, 1981
Quarto. Contemporary red half morocco, red boards, red
cloth endpapers, spine lettered in gilt, boards ruled in gilt,
edges gilt. With the original red slipcase. 30 colour and 110
black and white plates. A fine copy in the slipcase.
signed limited edition, no. 69 of 250 specially
bound copies signed by Dame Ninette de Valois.
£250
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BLEW, William A. C. A History of Steeple
Chasing. London: John C. Nimmo, 1901
Octavo (175 × 265). Contemporary red crushed morocco, red
cloth sides, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, boards single
ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece
with tissue guard, 11 hand coloured plates with tissue guards.
Cloth somewhat faded, hinges starting. An excellent copy.
£375
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first edition. Brandt’s first book: “he juxtaposed
images of fur-clad Mayfair gentry with those of servants downstairs. It was a pictorial essay on the gap
between the rich and the poor, but it was also a fond
study of the way people take possession of their environments, presented by a German exile with a faked
English identity and an obsession with what people
look like at home” (Harris, Modern Romantics, p. 247).
Parr & Badger I, 138; Roth, p. 90.
£400
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BRASSAÏ [pseud. of Gyula Halász]. Picasso and
Company. Translated from the French by Francis
Price. Preface by Henry Miller. Introduction
by Rolland Penrose. With photographs by the
author. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966
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BOND, Michael. More About Paddington. With
Drawings by Peggy Fortnum. London: Collins, 1959
BORGES, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths. Selected
Stories & Other Writings. Edited by Donald A.
Yates & James E. Irby. Preface by André Maurois.
New York: New Directions, 1962
Octavo. Original teal cloth, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. Spine rolled and
a little toned, top corner bumped, cloth lightly rubbed at
extremities, partial toning to free endpapers. A very good
copy in the rubbed and partially faded jacket with a chip and
closed tear to the upper panel.
first edition of the second Paddington book.
£750
[88905]
first edition of this collection of 22 short stories,
10 essays, and eight “parables”.
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BORGES, Jorge Luis. Ficciones. Edited and with
an Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. New York:
Grove Press, Inc., 1962
Octavo. Original marbled green and yellow boards, spine
lettered in green, top edge brown. With the dust jacket.
Small dent to the head of the front board, internally very
fresh; an excellent copy, in the slightly rubbed jacket that
has some nicks and creasing to the extremities.
first us edition. First published in Buenos Aires in
1956, with the English translation in the UK the same
year as the US edition.
£325
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Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, marbled blue boards,
black endpapers, top edge yellow, others untrimmed. With the
dust jacket. Black and white photographic portrait of the author. Spine ends slightly bumped, minor wear to corners. An
excellent copy in a price-clipped and gently rubbed jacket with
some small chips and nicks to extremities and front panel.
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£375
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BRANDT, Bill. The English at Home. Introduced
by Raymond Mortimer. London: B. T. Batsford
Ltd., 1936
Quarto. Original glazed photographically illustrated
boards, titles to front board and spine in red. 63 full page
photographs. Rubbing to edges and corners, owner’s name
to front free endpaper, small mark to head of title page, otherwise internally clean and bright.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt, decoration
to front board gilt, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket.
Illustrated with 57 black and white photographs by the author. Small contemporary ownership inscription to front
free endpaper. Spine very lightly faded. An excellent copy
in a slightly edge-chipped jacket with light toning to spine
panel.
first edition in english, inscribed by the author to British cartoonist Ronald Searle and his wife
on the half-title: “Pour Monica et Ronald Searle and
Co… On ne peut plus amicalement, Brassaï, Paris, le
7 oct. 1970”. Originally published in France in 1964 by
Gallimard as Conversations avec Picasso.
£750
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BRUNHOFF, Jean de. Babar the King.
Translated from the French by Merle Hass. New
York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935
Large quarto. Original green cloth-backed pictorial boards,
pictorial endpapers. In the dust jacket. Illustrated in colour
throughout. Spine a little faded, fore margin of first four or
so leaves slightly finger-marked, very faint offsetting. An excellent copy in a chipped and lightly marked jacket.
first us edition. The elephant king’s third adventure was originally published in France in 1933 under
the title Le Roi Babar.
£575
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(BRUNHOFF, Jean de.) BRUNHOFF, Laurent
de. ABC de Babar. New York: Random House, 1995
Octavo. Original glossy printed pictorial boards, decorative
endpapers. Illustrated throughout in colour. An excellent
copy.
first edition thus, signed by the author,
Laurent de Brunhoff, on the title page. A French and
English alphabet and dictionary book for children,
this being a new translation of the 1936 edition.
£275
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BULGAKOV, Mikhail. The Master and
Margarita. Translated from the Russian by
Michael Glenny. London: Collins and Harvill Press,
1967
Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
pictorial dust jacket. Spine very gently cocked, spine ends
lightly bumped, very mild foxing to top edge. An excellent
copy in a bright jacket with slightly faded spine, a few nicks
to head of spine, and a small closed tear to rear panel.
first edition of the English translation by Glenny.
This translation was preceded earlier in 1967 by Mirra
Ginsburg’s translation, as published by Grove, New
York. However, Ginsburg’s copy text was the bowdlerised Soviet version, in which huge portions had
been excised. The Glenny translation used a complete copy text and is generally considered the standard English translation of one of the 20th century’s
literary masterworks.
£475
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BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress from
This World to That Which is to Come; Delivered
under the Similitude of a Dream. New York: The
American Tract Society, [c.1830]
Octavo. Original brown pebble-grained morocco, titles to
spine gilt, boards and spine elaborately decorated in gilt, all
edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, yellow coated endpapers. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, vignette to title page,
6 plates and head- and tailpieces. Gift inscription dated
1851 to front free endpaper. Light rubbing at extremities,
endpapers tanned, endleaves foxed, occasional light foxing
throughout. A very good copy in an attractive binding.
First published in 1678. A charmingly illustrated edition preserving the original shoulder notes.
£375
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BYRON, Lord. The Poetical Works. London:
Henry Frowde, 1904
Octavo (187 × 124 mm). Contemporary quarter vellum, blue
cloth, green morocco label, floral gilt decoration to spine,
boards single ruled in gilt, top edge gilt. Engraved frontispiece. An excellent, bright, copy.
A handsomely bound copy of Byron’s poetry.
£125
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first edition, from a limited edition of 1,500 copies. With 126 black and white photographic plates selected by Callahan.
£675
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CALLAHAN, Harry. Color. 1941–1980. Edited
by Robert Tow and Ricker Winsor. Foreword
by Jonathan Williams. Afterword by A. D.
Coleman. Rhode Island: Matrix Publications, 1980
Folio. Original green cloth, titles to front cover and spine in
yellow, printed on 100 lb Cameo Dull paper. With the original
green cloth slipcase. A couple of small marks to covers, spine
lightly faded. Slipcase lightly faded to entrance.
first edition.
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£250
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CALLAHAN, Harry. Photographs. Number one
in a monograph series. Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo
Gallery, 1964
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board
in silver. With the original slipcase, with titles to front panel
in silver. Free endpapers slightly tanned, endleaves a little
foxed, occasional finger mark. An excellent copy.
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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The People of
Moscow. London: Thames & Hudson, 1955
Quarto. Original cream cloth, titles to spine in blue. With
the photographic dust jacket. 163 pictures in photogravure.
With contemporary owner signature to front free endpaper. Rear inner hinge and top front inner hinge cracked to
gauze lining but firm, rear free endpaper lightly cockled. An
excellent copy in a price-clipped jacket with slightly toned
extremities, lightly rubbed front and rear panels, and a few
chips to front flap and head of spine.
first edition of Cartier-Bresson’s series of everyday photographs of people in Moscow, taken in 1954.
£275
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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Europeans.
Photographs. New York & Paris: Simon and Schuster;
Éditions Verve, 1955
Folio. Original boards with the full wrap-around lithographic decoration and titles after Joan Miró in red, yellow, blue
and black. With the plastic dust jacket with paper flaps and
the captions supplement—in English—loosely inserted
as called for. 144 photographic illustrations by CartierBresson. Small contemporary gift inscription to front free
endpaper. Small neat repair to head of spine, extremities
rubbed. An excellent copy in a chipped, creased and priceclipped jacket with a tear across the rear panel.
first us edition, of one of the legendary photographer’s key books.
£575
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CASATI, Gaetano. Ten Years in Equatoria and
the Return with Emin Pasha. Translated from
the Original Italian Manuscript. London and New
York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1891.
2 volumes, octavo (220 × 137 mm). Bound by Mudie in half
calf, marbled boards, raised bands to spines, dark brown
morocco labels, titles and decorative rolls to spines gilt,
lozenge lattice to compartments in blind, marbled endpapers and edges. Frontispieces to each, 58 plates in all, 104
black and white illustrations in text, and 4 folding maps, of
which 3 are partially coloured. Extremities a touch rubbed,
minor worm damage to bottom of Volume I joints, margins
of text blocks gently tanned. An excellent set, from the library of Thomas Conant (1842–1905), with his ownership
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inscription to front flyleaf: “Tho. Conant. Oshawa, Canada.
13 May 1899.” Conant was the author of two early modern
histories of Canada: Upper Canada Sketches (1898) and Life
in Canada (1903).
first edition in english; Italian, English, German, and French editions were all published in the
same year of the Italian explorer’s account of his adventures in southern Sudan. Casati (1838–1902) set
out for Sudan in 1879 at the request of the Milanese
geographical journal L’Esploratore. An early European
visitor to Azande and Mangbetu lands, Casati greatly
expanded contemporary European geographic and
ethnographic knowledge of equatorial Africa. However, Ten Years in Equatoria also includes Casati’s reflections on various political conflicts, including Emin
Pasha’s battle against Mahdist forces in Lado and
Casati’s own run-in with King Kabarega of Unyoro.
Howgego IV C15.
£375
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CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1977
Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, map
endpapers. With the dust jacket. 4 pages of black and white
photographic plates. Ownership signature to verso of the
front free endpaper. Spine rolled, boards slightly bowed; a
good copy in the jacket that has a slightly faded spine.
first edition of the author’s first book. A landmark
travelogue and Chatwin’s best book.
£500
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CHATWIN, Bruce, & Paul Theroux. Patagonia
Revisited. Illustrated by Kyffin Williams. Wilton,
Salisbury, Wiltshire: Michael Russell, 1985
Octavo. Original red and grey cloth, titles to spine gilt,
horseman design to boards in red, grey endpapers. With
the original glassine jacket. Engravings by Kyffin Williams
throughout. A fine copy in the original glassine jacket.
first and signed limited edition. Number 188
of 250 numbered copies signed by both authors on
the limitation leaf.
£475
[88903]
338
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales.
From the text and with the notes and glossary of
Thomas Tyrwhitt. London: George Routledge. [c.1850]
341
DAVIDSON, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang. Santa Fe:
Twin Palms Publisher, 1998
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles in yellow on spine and
front board, green endpapers. With the photographic dust
jacket. Spine very slightly cocked. Otherwise a very good
copy in excellent dust jacket with one small nick to bottom
corner of rear panel.
first edition. Some of the photographs were initially published in Esquire magazine, but this is the
first exhaustive publishing of this series. Taken by
Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson, the photographs detail the life of a youth gang in Brooklyn in
the summer of 1959. With a short text by the photographer and a longer interview with one of the former
gang members.
£625
[89951]
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Octavo (180 × 120 mm). Contemporary black morocco,
raised bands, ornate gilt design to covers and spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Black and white engravings
throughout by Edward Corbould. Light rubbing at corners
and spine, a very attractive copy.
A very handsomely bound copy of the Canterbury Tales,
in the edition of Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730–1786).
£350
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two protagonists, King Auberon and the provost of Notting Hill] that they ‘are the most living individuals in any
of his novels—just because they are the two lobes of his
brain individualized’ (Ward, 1958 edn, 127). That is to
say, they embody his opposed sides of profound gravity
and exuberant fooling, which often united in a pun or an
arresting paradox” (ODNB).
£275
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340
CHESTERTON, G. K. The Napoleon of Notting
Hill. With seven full-page illustrations by W.
Graham Robertson and a Map of the Seat of
War. London: The Bodley Head, 1904
CHESTERTON, G. K. The Man Who Was
Thursday. A Nightmare. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith;
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company
Limited, London, 1908
Octavo. Original olive-green cloth lettered in black with design in red and black on spine and front board, “John Lane”
at foot of spine, top edge grey, others untrimmed. Extremities a little rubbed and with a couple of minor chips, boards
lightly soiled, endleaves and edges of text block slightly
foxed, endpapers toned. A very good copy.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt and front
board in black. Recent bookplate to front pastedown. A little shaken, spine very lightly sunned and rolled, mild spotting to edges and fore margins of early leaves. A very good
copy.
first edition of the author’s first novel, a fantasy
set in an alternative version of London, which the randomly selected king decides on a whim to divide into
separate boroughs, each with their own customs and
at war against each other, on the model of city states in
Renaissance Italy. “Maisie Ward has said [of the novel’s
£650
DILTZ, Henry. California Dreaming. Memories
& Visions of LA 1966–1975. Forewords by
Graham Nash & Kevin Miller. Guildford: Genesis
Publications Limited, 2007
Quarto. Original full brown leather, titles to front cover
and spine gilt, illustration to back cover gilt, all edges gilt.
Housed in a screenprinted cloth box. All housed in a printed
draw-string cloth bag. Photographs by Henry Diltz and 49
key contributors. An excellent copy.
signed limited edition. From a total edition of
2,000 copies, this is one of 350 deluxe copies signed by
Henry Diltz with three additional photographic prints
each signed by Diltz in a printed sealed envelope and a
compact disc. Together with the original prospectus.
£750
[94062]
first edition, first issue with 2 pp. advertisements at the rear and the “J. W. Arrowsmith / Bristol”
imprint at the base of spine.
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initialled by Drinkwater, with “Proof ” in manuscript
on the front. The remaining two cards have the same
layout as the limited edition, but are printed on ordinary paper, which Drinkwater has noted above his
signature on the front of each card.
£575
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DRYDEN, John. The Poetical Works. Containing
Original Poems, Tales, and Translations; with
notes by the Rev. Joseph Warton; the Rev. John
Warton; and others. London: Edward Moxon, 1851
Octavo (233 × 154 mm). Contemporary green full calf, spine
intricately gilt-tooled in compartments with an orange morocco title label, sides bordered with gilt and blind rules
and gilt fleuron cornerpieces, armorial crest gilt stamped
to centre of both boards, pink silk bookmarker, marbled
endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece and
vignette title page. Light rubbing to extremities and slight
fading to spine, but the gilt undimmed; an excellent and attractive copy.
343
Lewis. The Collected Verse. With illustrations
by John Tenniel, Arthur B. Frost, Henry Holiday,
Harry Furniss and the author. London: Macmillan
and Co., 1932
Octavo (215 × 135 mm). Full blue morocco by Birdsall for
Charles Scribner’s Sons, raised bands, ornate gilt design to
compartments, gilt title to spine, triple rule gilt to covers,
inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt top edge. Black and
white illustrations throughout. Very light rubbing to front
corners and ends of spine, a very attractive copy.
£475
[93035]
344
DOUGLAS, Norman. Siren Land. London: J. M.
Dent & Sons Ltd., 1911
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front
board lettered and decorated in green, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 25 photographic plates. Spine faded and rolled,
rear board a little soiled, some occasional minor foxing to
contents. A very good copy.
by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Hugh
98
Walpole, from Norman Douglas. April 1913.” With
Walpole’s armorial and Brackenburn bookplates to
the front pastedown. Some lightly pencilled annotations and corrections to the text by the hand of a later
owner, a friend of the author who proof-read texts for
Douglas. One of 1,500 copies.
Woolf A13a.
SOLD
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345
DRINKWATER, John, & Alfred Rutherston.
Christmas Greetings: Dialogue at Christmas.
London: Curwen Press, 1925
5 Christmas cards, each of a single folded sheet. Housed
in a green cloth chemise. Each with a colour illustration to
the title page, full page opposite the text and vignette to the
rear. An excellent set, with some mild toning to the edges.
A set of five Christmas cards, featuring three variations on this design, which opens to reveal a rhyming dialogue written by John Drinkwater opposite a
tinted illustration portraying a festive family scene by
Alfred Rutherston. Two of the cards are from the limited edition of 210 copies (of which these are numbers
118 and 119), specially printed on Japanese vellum and
each signed by Drinkwater and Rutherston. Another
card with a slightly different layout of the dialogue is
£225
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347
DU MAURIER, Daphne. Rebecca. A Play in
Three Acts. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1940
Small octavo. Original black cloth, orange paper title label
to spine. With the jacket. Contents toned, very minor foxing
to the endpapers. An excellent copy in superb jacket.
first edition thus. The publishers’ retained copy
with their ink stamp to the title page.
£675
[93606]
348
[DUNCAN,
William
Murdoch;
as]
“MARSHALL, Lovat.” Ladies Can Be
Dangerous. London: Robert Hale Limited, 1964
Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in black.
With the dust jacket. Spine cocked, lower tip on rear board
bumped; a very good copy in the soiled jacket that has a few
nicks to the extremities.
the author on the front free endpaper, “To Geoffrey,
with every good wish—Bill (Lovat Marshall).—21st
February, 1964.” Featuring private eye “Sugar” Kane;
the jacket by Barbara Walton.
£250
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349
(EARLOM, Richard, & Charles Turner.)
Portraits of Characters Illustrious in British
History From the Beginning of the Reign of
Henry the Eighth To the end of the Reign of
James the Second. Engraved in mezzotinto by
Richard Earlom & Charles Turner, from original
pictures, miniatures &c. London: S. Woodburn,
[1815]
Large quarto (330 × 224 mm). Contemporary dark blue full
morocco, spine finely gilt-tooled in compartments, sides
thickly panelled with floral gilt and blind rolls, gilt-rolled
turn-ins, grey endpapers, all edges gilt. 100 mezzotint portrait plates dated 1810-5. Spine very slightly dulled, very light
rubbing to extremities, mid spotting to and offsetting from
occasional plates, but all sound, attractive and in excellent condition. With the bookplate of Lieutenant-General
Christopher Jeaffreson (1760–1824), the third of his name
to reside at Dullingham House, which was landscaped by
Repton.
A very handsome copy, spaciously margined and in
a contemporary binding, of Earlom and Turner’s uncommon illustrated biographical anthology of the
illustrious men and women of British history from
1509 to 1701.
£500
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350
ELLIOTT, R. N. Tea Room and Cafeteria
Management. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company,
1926
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front
board in blue, top edge purple. With the dust jacket. Inscription to half-title and occasional marginal mark in light
pencil. Contents lightly toned. An excellent copy in a lightly
edge-chipped jacket.
first edition of the author’s first book, published
shortly after his appointment as Chief Accountant for
Nicaragua (then under the control of the US Marines)
and before his return to another executive position
in the US. In the late 1920s Ralph Nelson Elliott was
forced to take step back from his distinguished career
by an illness he had contracted in Central America.
It is during his excruciatingly long convalescence
that Elliott, an accountant by training, first became
interested in the stock market, started studying its
patterns very closely, and ultimately developed his
ground-breaking and still much debated theory of
the Wave Principle, published in his 1938 eponymous
book.
£450
[93350]
351
(ENGLISH, Malcolm.) SALTER, Tom. Carnaby
Street. Editor: David Whitehead. Illustrator:
Malcolm English. Walton-on-Thames: Margaret and
Jack Hobbs, 1970
Quarto. Original laminate boards, silver pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in colour,
double-page folding panorama of Carnaby Street. An excellent copy in the jacket with two tiny worn spots, one to the
upper panel and one to the lower, and a small spot to the
upper panel.
first edition, illustrating in vibrant colours the
legendary Carnaby Street, locus classicus of the Swinging Sixties, with a guide to the street’s shops.
£425
[88702]
352
FALCONER, Ian. Olivia. New York: Atheneum,
2000
Quarto. Pictorial laminated boards, pictorial endpapers
with the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by the
author. A very good copy with length previous owner inscription to front free endpaper, in bright dust jacket.
first edition, signed by the author on the title
page. A Caldecott Honor title for 2000. The first title in
the series that was the basis for the animated cartoon.
£250
[92648]
353
FARLEY, Walter. The Black Stallion. New York:
Random House, 1941
Quarto. Original tan cloth, titles to spine black, top edge
red, with the dust jacket. Black and white illustrations
throughout by Keith Ward. An excellent copy with dust jacket with spine lightly faded spine, chipping to ends of spine
and minor creasing to front top edge.
signed by the author on the half-title, this copy
from the 26th printing, the same year as the first.
The novel that inspired the much loved film starring
Mickey Rooney.
£275
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354
FEYNMAN, Richard P. “Surely You’re Joking Mr.
Feynman!” Adventures of a Curious Character.
As told to Ralph Leighton. Edited by Edward
Hutchings. New York and London: W. W. Norton &
Company, 1985
Octavo. Original red boards, red cloth backstrip, titles to
spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Only a little light spotting
to endpapers and edges of text block. Cloth and contents
fresh. A superb copy in a beautiful example of the dust jacket, with only minor creasing at the head of the spine panel
and without the fading commonly seen on the spine panel.
first edition. Feynman’s classic volume of memoirs, including humorous and insightful stories from
his childhood, education at MIT, work on the Manhattan Project, and his teaching and research career.
The title refers to the bafflement of an administrator’s wife at MIT when the inexperienced young Feynman requested both lemon and cream in his tea.
Other memorable stories include his lock-picking
escapades at Los Alamos, his request to see a “map
of the cat”, and the poignant death of his beloved first
wife, Arlene. The New York Times review of this volume
describes him as “a storyteller in the tradition of
Mark Twain” who “proves once again that it is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the
same time” (27 January 1985).
£750
[88440]
355
FIELDING, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling. London: John Lane, 1930
Quarto (250 × 165 mm). Contemporary red half morocco,
red cloth sides, gilt titles to spine, gilt rule and design to
compartments, raised bands, single gilt rule to boards, pictorial endpapers, gilt top edge. Black and white illustrations
throughout by G. Spencer Pryse. Bookplate to front pastedown, light rubbing to corners, a very attractive copy.
£275
[92709]
356
FINK, Larry. Boxing Photographs. Introduction
by Andy Grundberg. Essay by Bert Randolph
Sugar. New York: Powerhouse Books, 1997
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to front board and
spine in white, blue endpapers. Photographic illustrations
100
throughout. Small light mark to half-title, outer edges faintly toned. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed jacket.
first edition, signed by larry fink and dated
the year of publication on the half-title.
£275
[90085]
357
FLEMING, Peter. News From Tartary: A Journey
from Peking to Kashmir. London: Jonathan Cape,
1936
Octavo. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine and front
board gilt, top edge red. With the dust jacket. With frontispiece, 31 pages of photographic plates, and 1 partially
coloured folding map. With contemporary bookplate of Elsie B. Hewett on front free endpaper. Spine cocked, boards
slightly bowed. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed jacket
with toned spine, some minor chipping to spine ends and
corners, a few light creases to rear panel, and a few small
closed tears to flaps and front panel.
first edition. The author, Peter Fleming (1907–
1971), was an editor at The Spectator, as well as a seasoned traveller and sportsman. In August 1934 he
“once again set off for the Far East with a far-ranging
commission from The Times. After a brief shooting
trip with friends in the Caucasus he travelled on to
Harbin in Manchuria, where by chance he met the
Swiss traveller Ella (Kini) Maillart. It transpired that
they both wanted to walk and ride from China to India, and though they both preferred to travel alone,
they agreed to join forces. This epic journey of some
3500 miles on foot or ponies, through the remote
province of Sinkiang (Xinjiang), with many dangers,
hardships, and hold-ups, took them seven months,
from February to September 1935. This, the most arduous of Fleming’s long journeys, he chronicled in
fourteen long articles in The Times” (ODNB).
£275
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358
FLOYD, William. People vs. Wall Street. A Mock
Trial. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1930
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover
in dark green, top edge dark grey. With the illustrated dust
jacket. Spine ends and corners slightly bumped. An excellent copy in worn jacket with nicked extremities, some loss
to spine ends, flaps and front cover, and lightly rubbed
spine.
the author on front free endpaper: “To Albert Levitt, a
Director in the Good Life, from William Floyd.”
£325
[90432]
362
GILLESPIE, Dizzy, with Al Fraser. To be, or
not… to Bop. Memoirs. Garden City, New York:
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979
Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed orange paper-covered
boards in dust jacket. 56 plates. Slightly pulled at the head of
the spine, the jacket unclipped, but with a little crumpling
head and tail of the spine, short closed split at the head of
the spine, and a similar split to the upper panel, however the
spine remains bright-bright red, a very good copy indeed.
first edition, signed and dated in the year of
publication by Gillespie on the half-title verso.
£500
[87989]
363
GORDIMER, Nadine. Face to Face. Short
Stories. Johannesburg: Silver Leaf Books, 1949
359
361
FOWLES, John. The Magus. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1966
Octavo. Original purple boards backing black and white patterned papers, spine lettered in gilt, top edge purple. Ownership signature to the title page. An excellent copy in the
bright jacket that has a small nick to the rear panel.
first edition, inscribed by the author on his
own bookplate, loosely inserted.
£475
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360
FRAZER, James George. The Golden Bough. A
Study in Magic and Religion. Abridged Edition.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1950
Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe red morocco, spine and upper
board elaborately gilt, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt.
Bookplate. Tips rubbed, just a little spotting to edges of text
block and endpapers, occasional faint spotting and toning
of contents. An excellent copy.
A handsome deluxe edition of this ground-breaking
study of comparative religion.
£375
(GEOGRAPHY.) The New London Universal
Gazetteer. Or, Universal Geography: Containing
a Description of the Various Countries,
Kingdoms, States, Cities, Towns, Mountains,
Seas, RIvers, Harbours &c. of The World:
An Account of the Population, Government,
Customs & Religion of the Inhabitants: The
Boundaries & Natural Productions of Each
Country &c. Physical, Political, Statistical &
Commercial. Compiled from the best English
& Foreign modern authorities. Accompanied by
Maps and Views. London: G. Virtue, 1831
Octavo (210 × 131 mm). Contemporary purple straight
grained morocco, spine lettered in gilt with gilt raised
bands and gilt compartments, gilt foliate border to boards,
gilt edges, turn-ins gilt, and green endpapers. Frontispiece,
8 engraved plates, 10 double page folding maps. Spine and
board edges darkened, tips rubbed, occasional minor foxing to the contents. A very good set.
£350
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. Two tiny chips to top edges of boards, contents lightly toned. An excellent copy in a rubbed and faintly
edge-chipped jacket that has been slightly nibbled by mice
along the top edge of the rear panel.
first edition of the author’s first book.
£750
[91257]
364
GRAMATKY, Hardie. Little Toot on the
Thames. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1964
Square octavo. Original blue cloth, title to front board and
spine white, map of the Thames endpapers. With the dust
jacket. Illustrations by the author. An excellent copy, in price
clipped dust jacket with creasing and short closed tears to
edges, small chip to lower front edge, a very attractive copy.
title page, “Best wishes Hardie Gramatky”. The second title in the Little Toot series. Little Toot was featured in several animated shorts, including the 1948
Walt Disney film Melody Time.
£500
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viewed the activist for Playboy, and the present book
was based on a series of over 50 interviews between
1963 and Malcolm X’s assassination in February 1965.
£750
[88051]
368
HANFF, Helene. 84, Charing Cross Road.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1971
Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in dark blue.
With the dust jacket. Boards bowed, edges faded, a dent to
the edge of the rear board and last few pages, some foxing
to contents. A good copy in the toned jacket that has a few
nicks to the extremities, a short closed tear to the head of
the front and rear panels, with a tape repair on the verso of
the front panel.
365
(GRANT, Duncan.) COLERIDGE, Samuel
Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In
Seven Parts. Edinburgh: Allen and Richard Lane, 1945
Octavo. Original blue goatskin, spine lettered in gilt, front
board stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Frontispiece and 4 plates, all in colour. Boards slightly stained,
spine faded, spine ends worn. A very good, bright copy.
one of 700 copies specially bound by Henderson and Bisset. The marginal notes are printed in red
alongside the text of the poem, and the colour illustrations are by Duncan Grant.
£475
[91657]
366
GROSZ, George. Drawings. With an
introduction by the artist. New York: H. Bittner
and Company, 1944
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to front board and spine
gilt. With the dust jacket. 52 reproductions of Grosz’s drawings, 2 coloured and 50 monochromatic. A fine copy in a
lightly rubbed jacket with somewhat toned spine, a couple
of small closed tears to rear panel, and slightly chipped
spine ends.
102
first edition, signed by the artist on the
front free endpaper. Presents drawings from across
Grosz’s production, with an emphasis on his later
work. While the artist is famous as both painter and
draughtsman, drawing appealed to him from early
on: “The sketchbooks from Grosz’s early years …
show him even then … to be an artist with a distinct
propensity to draw” (Drucker, George Grosz, p. 7).
£625
[91896]
367
(HALEY,
Alex.)
MALCOLM
X.
The
Autobiography of Malcolm X. With the
Assistance of Alex Haley. Introduction by M. S.
Handler. Epilogue by Alex Haley. New York: Grove
Press, 1965
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. 16 pages of illustrations from photographs.
Very lightly rubbed at extremities, corner of lower board
bumped, contents faintly toned. An excellent copy in the
lightly rubbed and partially tanned jacket.
first edition of the influential biography that was
Alex Haley’s first book. Haley met Malcolm X in 1960
when he interviewed him for a piece on the Nation
of Islam in the Reader’s Digest, of which Haley was
then senior editor. They met again when Haley inter-
first uk edition. The book was first published the
preceding year in New York. It tells the true story of a
transatlantic epistolary romance between an American bibliophile and a London antiquarian booksellers, Frank Doel of Marks & Co. It was the basis for
the 1974 film starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony
Hopkins.
£225
[91836]
369
HASSAN, Hafiz Ahmed. Pilgrimage to the
Caaba and Charing Cross. London: W. H. Allen &
Co. 1871
Octavo. Original green cloth, bevelled boards, title to
spine, and to the front board within decorative panel, edges
stained red, brown surface-paper endpapers. Mounted photographic portrait frontispiece. A little rubbed, lower forecorner showing mild signs of damp, hinges starting, halftitle browned, else very good.
first edition. The author held a position equivalent to chancellor of the exchequer at the court of the
young Nawab of Tonk, a small Muslim kingdom in
Rajasthan, hedged on all sides by Hindu-ruled states.
After the death of the Thakoor of Lawa, the largest
tributary of Tonk, and a number of his retainers at the
home of the prime minister of Tonk, the local political agent Lieut.-Col. Eden supported Lawa’s claims in
the incident and deposed the Nawab. Hassan was a
key member in a deputation that set out for London
to appeal against the local agent’s findings. He gives
a highly-detailed account of the voyage from Bombay
to Jedda via Aden and Hodyda, and of the journey on
camel-back to Mecca, where they complete the Hajj,
and on to Medina to see the Prophet’s tomb. The
party then returned to Jedda, whence Hassan set out
for London via Suez and Marseilles. Hassan’s appeal
was unsuccessful and the Nawab’s son continued in
his stead.
Not in Macro.
£600
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370
HOCKNEY, David; Stephen Spender (eds.)
Hockney’s Alphabet. London: Faber and Faber for
the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991
Folio. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in blue and gilt,
housed in a grey cloth slipcase. 26 colour drawings, one for
each letter of the alphabet by David Hockney. Written contributions by; Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes,
William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor,
William Golding, Seamus Heaney, David Hockney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Erica Jong, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer,
Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Nigel Nicolsen,
John Julius Norwich, Joyce Carol Oates, V.S. Pritchett, Craig
Raine, Susan Sontag, Stephen Spender, John Updike, Anthony Burgess, Ted Hughes, Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, and
T.S. Eliot. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase with a few small
stains to front panel.
first edition, signed by both hockney and
spender, of this collaborative effort made to raise
money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Spender invited
several British and American writers to contribute
with texts that could accompany Hockney’s specially
drawn alphabet. Writers who contributed include several Faber authors such as William Golding, Seamus
Heaney, Ted Hughes, and Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as
Ian McEwan, Iris Murdoch, and Gore Vidal; Norman
Mailer declined, but his “letter refusing seemed such
a good model for Polite Rejection” that it was nonetheless published as his contribution (Preface).
£500
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371
HILLARY, Edmund. High Adventure. London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1955
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece, 69 black and white
photographs, 14 line drawings by George Djurkouic, and 7
maps by A. Spark. Spine ends slightly bumped, mild spotting
to edges and occasionally to margins of text block, endpapers
lightly tanned, a few small dark stains to half-title and verso
of front free endpaper. An excellent copy in a lightly foxed
jacket with minor chips and nicks to extremities.
half-title and with a compliments slip from the publishers loosely inserted.
Yakushi H188(a); Neate 369.
£375
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HUGHES, William R. A Week’s Tramp in
Dickens-Land. Together With Personal
Reminiscences of the “Inimitable Boz” Therein
Collected. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1891
Octavo (214 × 138 mm). Contemporary binding by Kelly and
Sons with green hard-grain morocco, spine lettered in gilt
with gilt raised bands and gilt compartments with onlaid
flowers, boards with elaborate floral decoration in gilt and
onlaid orange flowers and green hearts, green silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Spine and rear board faded, front hinge
starting. An excellent copy in a deluxe binding.
£350
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373
HUGO, Victor. Notre-Dame de Paris. Brussels:
Louis Hauman et Comp., 1834
3 volumes, duodecimo (154 × 100 mm). Near contemporary
tan half calf, marbled boards, raised bands to spines, red
and black morocco labels, titles and lattice decorations to
compartments gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Stephens Lyne Stephens to front pastedowns. Spine ends and joints very lightly rubbed, corners
slightly bumped and worn, top edges a bit darkened, minor
foxing to flyleaves. Front inner hinge of Volume I and III
gently cracked but holding firm. Otherwise an excellent set.
second edition published by Louis Hauman; the
first edition appeared in 1831.
£650
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KARSH, Yousuf. Karsh Portfolio. Camden &
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1967
Quarto. Original white cloth, illustration to front cover and
titles to spine in grey. With the dust jacket. With 48 full page
black and white portrait reproductions. Bookplate to pastedown otherwise an excellent copy in lightly rubbed and
nicked dust jacket.
first edition, inscribed by the photographer on the front free endpaper, “Inscribed for:
Howard Corklin, with the good wishes of Yousuf
Karsh, 1969”.
£250
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375
KEATS, John. The Poems. Arranged in
chronological order with a preface by Sidney
Colvin. London: Chatto & Windus, at the Florence
Press, 1924
2 volumes, octavo (194 × 144 mm). Near contemporary
binding by Bayntun for Stewart Kidd (Cincinnati), in purple
crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt, compartments with
raised bands and gilt motifs, boards patterned in gilt, board
edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt, metallic marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Spines faded, joints tender; otherwise a
very good set in a handsome binding.
A beautifully bound set of Keats’s poems. Reprinted
from the Colvin edition, first published in 1915.
£450
[94431]
376
KESEY, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
A Novel. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1962
Octavo. Original maroon cloth, titles to spine in silver, pictorial design to spine in blue. With the dust jacket. Spine a
touch rolled. An excellent copy in the spine-tanned and lightly rubbed jacket with short splits and crumpling to head of
spine panel and acetate flaking at ends of spine panel.
first uk edition. Originally published in the US in the
same year. Unlike many copies of this edition the copyright slug on the verso of the title has not been inked-out
but pages 35/36 and 85/86 are cancelled as usual.
£375
[89594]
377
LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Green Fairy Book.
With Numerous Illustrations by H. J. Ford.
London, and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1892
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and pictorial
decoration to upper board, black coated endpapers, all edges
gilt. Engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, 12 full-page
plates, vignette engraved illustrations in the text throughout.
Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper
verso, ink mark to first blank. Spine rolled, slight rubbing to
ends and corners, a few trivial marks to cloth but the colour
vivid and the gilt nicely defined, some mild spotting within. A
attractive copy in excellent condition.
first edition of the third instalment in the Fairy
Book series, beautifully illustrated by H. J. Ford.
104
“These fairy tales are the oldest stories in the world,
and as they were first made by men who were childlike for their own amusement, so they amuse children
still, and also grown-up people who have not forgotten how they once were children” (Lang’s preface).
This collection contains such well-known stories as
the Three Little Pigs and the Story of the Three Bears.
£600
[92917]
378
LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Brown Fairy Book.
With Eight Coloured Plates and Numerous
Illustrations by H. J. Ford. London, New York, and
Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1904
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles and elaborate pictorial decorations to spine and front board gilt, all edges gilt,
brown coated endpapers with illustrations in silver. Colour
frontispiece, vignette engraved title page, 7 colour plates,
22 black and white plates and numerous vignette engraved
illustrations in the text. Gilt only very slightly dulled, with
the cloth nice and fresh, very slight rubbing to ends and
corners, very faint spotting to some preliminaries but internally very clean, an excellent copy.
first edition of the ninth instalment in Lang’s
Fairy Books series, gathering exotic tales from North
America, Brazil, Australia, Africa, Persia, India, Lapland, and the Pacific Islands.
£525
[92919]
379
LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Olive Fairy Book.
With Eight Coloured Plates and Numerous
Illustrations by H. J. Ford. London, New York,
Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907
Octavo. Original olive cloth, titles and pictorial decoration
to spine and upper board gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges
gilt. Colour frontispiece and 7 plates, 20 engraved plates,
vignette engraved illustrations to title page and in the text
throughout. Tiny nicks to tips, near-contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, internally very
clean and fresh, a lovely copy in excellent condition.
first edition of the 11th and penultimate Fairy Book,
hard to find in true collector’s condition, as here.
£600
[92906]
380
LEWIS, Norman. Sand and Sea in Arabia. With
123 illustrations. London: Routledge & Sons, Ltd,
1938
tail, else very good in slightly rubbed jacket, spine sunned,
with some minor chipping and splitting to the edges and a
few short tape repairs verso.
first edition, presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title; “For Ed Connor, In hearty admiration for what the years have
brought you—alert intelligence, and an appreciation
for everything worthwhile as well as a saving sense
of humour, a friend I am proud to know. John A. Lomax, Dallas, Tex., March 16, 1947”. The entertaining
autobiography of the pioneering American folklorist
and musicologist, the man who “discovered” Lead
Belly, from hard-scrabble Texas farm to the Library
of Congress. The book was optioned for a movie to
star Bing Crosby as Lomax and Josh White as Huddie
Ledbetter, but never went into production. An uncommon book inscribed, as Lomax died of a stroke
just 10 months after publication.
£650
[88294]
383
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front board
in black. With 123 black and white photographic illustrations in the text. Spine lightly toned, boards very faintly
soiled, endpapers a little foxed. An excellent copy.
the author on the front free endpaper, “To Trude &
Adolf, N. Lewis, 1940”. Sand and Sea is Lewis’s second book, a photo-essay which originated from a
partly failed spying mission when Lewis was asked
by the British Foreign Office to photograph Yemen.
Although Lewis and his two travelling companions
were denied entry to the country at the port of Hodeida they somehow managed to visit the region,
taking in the cities of Lahej and Aden, and travelling
along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden coastlines aboard
a sambuk and cargo steamer.
£575 [94448]
copy in jacket with slightly rubbed and creased extremities
and a small chip to rear cover.
first edition, first issue, with “Abacadabra” on
p. 11 line 11, and no reviews on the rear flap of the
jacket. An account of the Lindberghs’ flight from
Long Island to Nanking by the Great Circle Route
via Canada, Siberia, and Japan. The trip was made in
Tingmissartoq—Greenland Inuit for “one who flies like
a big bird”—a Lockheed Sirius, a plane originally developed by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee to meet
Charles Linbergh’s requirements for a low-winged,
high-performance monoplane, in this case retrofitted as a float-plane. The book includes an account of
the Lindberghs’ services bringing aid on the Yangtze
to the victims of the Central China Floods of 1931, one
of the deadliest natural disasters of the 20th century.
Tingmissartoq is now in the National Air and Space
Museum in Washington, DC.
381
£250
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. North to the
Orient. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935
382
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and plane
design to front cover, all in silver, top edge dark blue, map
endpapers. With the illustrated dust jacket. With a folding
blue buckram chemise and housed in a black full morocco
pull-off case. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown, inner
hinges cracked to gauze lining but still firm. A very good
[90727]
LOMAX, John A. Adventures of a Ballad Hunter.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947
LONDON, Kurt. Film Music: A Summary of the
Characteristic Features of its History, Aesthetics,
Technique; and Possible Developments.
Translated by Eric S. Besinger. With a foreword
by Constant Lambert. London: Faber & Faber Ltd,
1936
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and front board
in red and blue. With the scarce dust jacket. Illustrated with
26 black and white photographs and 12 musical facsimiles.
Edges of boards lightly, contents a little toned toned. A very
good copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a faint vertical
crease at spine panel.
first edition. The first book written on the subject of musical scores, Film Music was first published
in the UK because Kurt London, a music composer
and film critic who had established a sound recording studio in Germany, had been forced into exile in
1933. Kurt London originated the “idea that music
might initially have been used in silent film to cover
the sound of the projectors”.
Eisler, p. 75.
£375
[89754]
Octavo. Original red cloth, title in blue, guitar device to the
upper board. With the dust jacket. Chapter headers by Ken
Chamberlain. Slight lean, spine a touch crumpled head and
105
plates from photographs by J. Dixon-Scott. Spine ends and
corners a little bumped, light foxing to edges, prelims, and
endmatter, small green stain to rear free endpaper. An excellent copy in a somewhat rubbed but still bright jacket
with slightly toned spine and rear panel, and a few nicks and
minor chips to extremities.
title page: “With love. J.D.H. Well, well, well, and
would have been better if it had Lower Peover, Kersal
Cell, Rilchester & Gawsworth in it. S. P. B. Mais.”
£175
[91934]
388
MALLESON, G. B. Ambushes and Surprises:
Being a Description of the Most Famous
Instances of the Leading into Ambush and the
Surprise of Armies, from the Time of Hannibal
to the Period of the Indian Mutiny. With a
Portrait of General Lord Mark Kerr. London: W.
H. Allen & Co., 1885
384
LOWRY, L. S. Painters of Today: L. S. Lowry.
With an introduction by Mervyn Levy. London:
Studio Books, 1961
first uk edition of the author’s masterpiece, originally published in the US in 1985.
£475
[91732]
386
Oblong octavo. Original cream cloth-backed printed laminated boards, titles to spine gilt. 20 colour plates. A fine
copy with minor soiling to cloth.
McCOY, Horace. They Shoot Horses, Don’t
They? London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1935
first edition, signed by lowry on the title page.
The 20 artworks reproduced in this volume were
chosen by Levy and Lowry; Levy was a British artist
and art writer who published several monographs on
Lowry. This is the first volume in the series Painters
of Today, which was designed to make contemporary
art more available.
Octavo. Original cream cloth, decoration and titles to
boards and spine in red, top edge red. In the dust jacket.
Contemporary signature to front free endpaper. Cloth spotted and faintly soiled, occasional light finger mark to text.
A very good copy in a lightly rubbed and toned jacket with
a few minor instances of silverfish to front panel, one tiny
tear to head of spine panel and discolouration to front flap
from small tape.
£750
[93071]
385
McCARTHY, Cormac. Blood Meridian or The
Evening Redness in The West. London: Picador,
1989
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in white. With
the dust jacket. Edges of text block a little toned and spotted. An excellent copy in a bright jacket.
106
first uk edition, originally published in the US in
the same year.
£575
[92108]
387
MAIS, S. P. B. Round About England. London:
Richards, 1935
Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt, facsimile of author’s signature to front board gilt, top edge
green. With the pictorial dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15
Octavo. Original red calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, green morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges.
Portrait frontispiece, folding map. Very lightly rubbed at extremities, spine toned, a few small spots to frontispiece and
title page. An excellent copy.
first edition. Malleson (1825–1898) was an army
officer and military historian who served in the Bengal native infantry during the 1840s. “On 28 March
1856 he was appointed an assistant military auditorgeneral and was engaged in administrative duties at
Calcutta during the mutiny. He wrote The Mutiny of
the Bengal Army, published anonymously in 1857 and
known as the ‘red pamphlet’. In this he identified
Lord Dalhousie’s administration, and especially the
annexation of Oudh, as mainly responsible for the revolt… After he retired he devoted himself to writing,
mainly military history, especially Indian. He had a
broad grasp, great industry, and a vigorous and picturesque style, but was apt to be a strong partisan. He
did much to draw attention to Russian expansion in
central Asia and its potential threat to British rule in
India” (ODNB).
Riddick p. 290
£250
[89041]
389
MARCU, Valeriu. Lenin. Translated by E. W.
Dickes. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1928
Folio. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the
dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Edges and endpapers
lightly foxed; an excellent copy in the ragged and partially
defective dust jacket.
their ink-stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket,
the front pastedown and the title page.
£475
[93649]
390
MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel García. No One Writes to
the Colonel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1968
Octavo. Original brown boards, spine lettered in gilt. With
the dust jacket. A superb copy in the bright jacket that has
a short closed tear to the head of the front panel and a tape
repair to the verso of the foot of the spine.
first uk edition. First published in Spanish under
the title El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, in 1961.
£375
[94313]
391
MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel García. El Otoño del
Patriarca. Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, S.A., 1975
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and
white. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the bright
jacket that has a slightly faded spine.
first edition of The Autumn of the Patriarch.
£325
[94140]
392
MEIER, Frank. The Artistry of Mixing Drinks.
Paris: Fryam Press, 1936
Octavo. Original cream vellum paper wraps, neatly rebacked
with the original spine laid down, yellow decoration to front
cover, spine and front cover lettered in green. Illustrated
throughout with line drawings and decorative red borders.
Wrappers a little soiled, a very good copy.
cocktail manual written by the legendary barkeeper
of the Ritz, Paris. No trade edition was published.
£475
[94403]
393
MILLER, Arthur, Death of a Salesman. Certain
Private Conversations in two Acts and a
Requiem. New York: Penguin Books, 1999
Octavo. Black boards, front board lettered in gilt, spine
double ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, turn-ins gilt. With
playbill laid in to the rear. 4 photographic plates. Tips a little
rubbed, spine starting, a fine copy.
394
MILTON, John. The Poetical Works. Printed
From The Original Editions, With A Life of the
Author By A. Chalmers. London: Bickers and Sons,
1904
Octavo (215 mm × 139 mm). Contemporary red morocco,
raised bands, title gilt to spine, ornate gilt design to compartments and boards, gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers,
gilt edges. Black and white frontispiece Bookplate to front
pastedown, light rubbing to corners, a very good copy.
£250
[92711]
fiftieth anniversary edition, inscribed by
the author on the title page to stage manager
Philip Cusack, with the 50th anniversary production
playbill laid in, and signed by Brian Dennehey and 11
other cast members.
£750
[93042]
first edition. One of 700 copies on cream vellum
paper from a total edition of 1,000. This was the only
107
395
MORRIS, William. The Earthly Paradise.
London: F. S. Ellis., 1868–70
4 volumes bound as 3, octavo. Contemporary green morocco bindings, raised bands, gilt title and designs to spines,
gilt ruled edge to covers, gilt to turn-ins, gilt top edge. Frontispiece and rear endpaper engraving designed by William
Morris. Occasional spotting to pages, spines and edges to
covers faded to brown, corners lightly bumped, a very good
set.
first edition. A handsomely bound set.
£750
[89091]
396
MOYSE-BARTLETT, H. The King’s African
Rifles. A Study in the Military History of East
and Central Africa, 1890–1945. Aldershot: Gale &
Polden Ltd, 1956
Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to the spine, regimental crest gilt to the upper board. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece, 24 plates, 2 to text, 11 large folding maps, 18 full
page maps, 28 to text. A very good copy in slightly rubbed,
price-clipped jacket with one or two small chips.
first edition. “A tour de force in its field … head
and shoulders above anything else ever written about
East African Soldiers. Very deeply researched, cogently arranged, the narrative contains a mass of
information which reflects the book’s sub-title. The
author does not simply recount the services of the
KAR, he sets them in the larger context of Europe’s
exploration of, and exploitation of, the eastern half
of the African continent … A superb book” (Perkins).
Perkins p. 261.
£225
[89607]
397
NANSEN, Fridtjof. Farthest North Being the
Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship
Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months’ Sleigh
Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with
an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the
Fram. London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897
2 volumes octavo, original green combed cloth, title gilt to
spine and front board, gilt pictorial vignettes “The Fram” to
volume I, and “Northwards through the Drift Snow” to vol-
108
ume II—to front boards. Etched portrait frontispiece to Volume I, photogravure frontispiece to Volume II, 127 plates,
16 of them coloured lithographs, 4 folding coloured maps,
2 at the rear of each volume. Slightly rubbed at the extremities, front board of volume II with a slight crease, endpapers
browned, some foxing front, back and fore-edge, very little
encroachment on the text, overall a very good, sound set,
the hinges uncracked.
398
first edition in english, published in Norwegian in the same year. “Narrative of the First Fram Expedition, 1893–1896, led by Nansen, with the object of
investigating the polar basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the currents northwest from the
New Siberian Islands across or near the Pole” (Arctic
Bibliography). Described by PMM as “A remarkable
achievement in Polar exploration,” recorded here in
an extremely handsome form, illustrated from photographs and from Nansen’s own sketches, for which
he “claims no artistic merit,” but which are nonetheless highly atmospheric and effective.
2 volumes bound as one, octavo (206 × 130 mm). Modern
full tree calf, raised bands to spine, red morocco labels to
spine, all edges gilt, ruling to turn-ins and edges of boards
gilt, marbled endpapers. A fine copy.
Arctic Bibliography 11983; Books on Ice 5.2; Howgego, III, N3;
PMM 384.
£450
[90828]
(NELSON, Horatio.) The Letters of Lord
Nelson to Lady Hamilton; with a Supplement of
Interesting Letters by Distinguished Characters.
London: Thomas Lovewell & Co., 1814
first edition of this collection of letters from Nelson to Lady Emma Hamilton. When first published,
this collection was highly controversial. The Edinburgh Review called the publication “reprehensible”
and barbarous (September 1814, p.398). Meanwhile,
The Quarterly Review was slightly less venomous, but
still failed to find anything in these private letters to
“justify their publication” and went on to claim the
letters to be forgeries (April 1814, p. 73). The latter
review was in fact written anonymously by the secretary to the Admiralty, John Wilson Croker; despite
claims of counterfeiting, when Nelson’s letters were
auctioned in 1817 following Lovewell’s bankruptcy,
Croker quickly purchased “them privately, and kept
the fact hidden, seeing no reason to parade Nelson’s
402
OSBORNE, John. A Bond Honoured. A Play.
From Lope De Vega. London: Faber and Faber, 1966
jacket. Light dampstaining to fore edge of text block. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a couple of tiny
closed tears.
first edition, presentation copy to his
mother, inscribed by the author on the front free
endpaper: “For looking after me in difficult times.
Love, John, August ‘66”. Loosely inserted are the label of the Library of the Hurst at the John Osborne
Arvon Centre in Shropshire and a newspaper review
of the play.
£425
[90793]
403
weakness in public” (Lambert, Nelson: Britannia’s God
of War, p. 5).
NMM II 1008.
£750
[92463]
399
OMAR KHAYYÁM; Edward Fitzgerald (trans.)
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Edited, with an
introduction and Notes by Reynold Alleyne
Nicholson, Litt. D. London: A & C. Black Ltd. 1933
PASTERNAK, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. Translated
from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya
Harari. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1958
400
OSBORNE, John. Look Back in Anger. A Play in
Three Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1957
Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With
the dust jacket. An superb copy in the jacket. Surprisingly
scarce in this condition.
first edition.
£425
[91478]
401
Octavo (180 × 118 mm). Contemporary blue calf, red and
green morocco labels to the spine, spine lettered in gilt, gilt
raised bands with gilt compartments, boards double ruled
in gilt with floral decoration in gilt, edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontipiece with tissue guard and 7 colour plates.
Spine faded, tape remnants to the front endpapers, gift inscription to the flyleaf; a very good copy.
OSBORNE, John. Inadmissible Evidence. A
Play. London Faber and Faber, 1965
second edition, second impression (first published in 1909). A handsomely bound copy, illustrated
by Gilbert James.
first edition, presentation copy to his
mother, inscribed by the author on the front free
endpaper: “22.2.65 Just one rose. With love lots. J.”
and with the label of the Library of the Hurst at the
John Osborne Arvon Centre in Shropshire loosely inserted.
£275
[92528]
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine lightly faded at head and tail, contents a
little toned. An excellent copy in a jacket with a rubbed spine
panel and some dampstaining to rear panel.
£575
jacket. Spine gently cocked, edges tanned, a small light
mark to front cover, bottom corners slightly worn, light
browning to endpapers. Contemporary owner signature to
front free endpaper. An excellent copy in jacket with slightly
rubbed extremities and a few small closed tears.
first edition in english.
£475
[90655]
404
PERELMAN, Sidney Joseph. Baby, It’s Cold
Inside. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970
Octavo. Original red boards, spine and front board lettered
in gilt, orange endpapers, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Loosely inserted newspaper article. A fine copy in the
slightly soiled jacket that has a few nicks to the extremities.
the author on the title page: “For Elise, la plus exguise
(and let’s have no further truck with truculence). Devotedly, Sidney. 4 December, 1970.”
£475
[94236]
[90781]
109
408
QUINN, Marc. Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea.
Michael, Pamela and Thomas. London: White
Cube, 2010
Small quarto. Original illustrated covers, titles to spine
in brown and black. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated
throughout. Very minor rubbing to boards, otherwise an
excellent copy.
first and signed limited edition. One of 50
copies signed, numbered and dated on the half-title
by Quinn and issued with a digital print in colours
with hand colouring in yellow gouache, titled “The
Ecstatic Autogenesis of Pamela”, limited to an edition
of 50, signed in pencil lower right by Quinn, numbered lower left, (sheet size: 22 × 17 cm). Published
to coincide with Quinn’s exhibition at White Cube,
Hoxton, 7 May–26 June 2010.
£750
[91184]
409
405
PLATH, Sylvia. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber, 1965
jacket. Extremities a little rubbed, light spotting to edges of
text block and free endpapers. An excellent copy in a slightly
rubbed jacket with a few small chips and closed tears along
top edge and a toned spine panel.
first edition.
£650
[91072]
406
POE, Edgar Allan. The Works, with a memoir
by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and notices of his
life and genius by N. P. Willis and J. R. Lowell.
London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1857
4 volumes, octavo (190 × 125 mm). Contemporary brown
calf binding by Nutt of Cambridge, brown and green morocco spine labels, raised bands, gilt to compartments, double rule to boards, gilt crest to boards, gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges. Portrait frontispiece to volume
1. Small stain to front board of volume 1, mild rubbing to
corners, occasional spotting to pages, a very good set.
The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe was originally
published in New York by J. S. Redfield, 1850–56,
when it represented the first attempt to compile Poe’s
110
writings. The standard edition of Poe’s works for
over 25 years, this edition also served as the source of
Baudelaire’s popular French translations. This is the
first UK edition, an authorised reprint of Redfield’s
edition, and the earliest multi-volume collection of
Poe’s works published in Great Britain
£625
[92080]
Square quarto. Original silver and white patterned boards,
spine lettered in white. With the publisher’s cardboard box.
A fine copy in the original glassine jacket.
specially bound and signed by the author,
this is number 72 of 110 limited edition copies, of
which 100 were for sale.
£375
407
PRATCHETT, Terry. Strata. Gerrards Cross: Colin
Smythe, 1981
Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Edges of text block a little toned. An excellent
copy in fine jacket.
first edition of Pratchett’s third novel.
£500
(RILEY, Bridget.) DE SAUSMAREZ, Maurice.
Bridget Riley. London: Studio Vista, 1970
[94129]
[92242]
410
ROBINSON, Marilynne. Housekeeping. New
York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980
Octavo. Original blue cloth backed green boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Edges of boards a little
faded, in slightly rubbed dust jacket. An excellent copy.
front free endpaper. Robinson’s classic first novel, for
which she was hailed as one of the defining American
writers of our time, and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. She was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, although that
accolade was subsequently bestowed on her second
novel, Gilead.
£675
[91146]
411
ROSSLYN, Earl of. Sonnets. Edinburgh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1883
Octavo (120 × 119 mm). Contemporary full pink morocco by
Worsfold, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt
titles direct, exquisite floral gilt tooling to spine compartments and the corners of both sides, gilt tooled doublures,
top edge gilt. Tiny nicks to corners, very minor marks to
endpapers, excellent condition.
first edition. A beautifully bound copy, printing the
sonnets of Francis Robert St. Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl
of Rosslyn (1833–1890), who was expected to succeed
Tennyson as poet laureate but died too soon to do so.
The sonnets, well received in their time, include memorial pieces for Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Lytton and
the Queen of Spain, literary pieces on Byron, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, and sonnets
about other poetical subjects such as “Mont Blanc”,
“Wood-Nymphs”, and “Disappointment”.
£375
[89860]
412
RUTTLEDGE, Hugh. Everest 1933. Notes and
Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working
Amateur. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited,
1934
Crown octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles gilt to spine.
With the striking pictorial dust jacket. 59 plates 50 photographic illustrations, 3 diagrams in the text, and 4 maps, 3 of
which are folding. Spine ends a touch bumped, slight spotting to edges, light foxing to prelims, endmatter, and occasionally to margins of text block, short closed tears to folding
map stubs. An excellent copy in a gently rubbed and nicked
jacket with a split to front panel repaired with tape to verso.
first edition of Ruttledge’s account of the British
1933 attempt to climb Mount Everest, which he led.
Nine years had passed since the last expedition, on
which Mallory and Irvine had disappeared. Ruttledge
put together a highly talented group, but the attempt
to establish Camp V on a rare fair day (20 May) was a
crucial failure. In the ensuing acrimony two vital days
were lost and the expedition missed its chance of improving significantly on the height gained by the expedition of 1924. Ruttledge was to make a second attempt in 1936, which was better-spirited but defeated
by an exceptionally early monsoon.
Neate 675.
£475 413
SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems. London:
Small octavo. Original red cloth, printed labels to spine and
front board. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper.
Spine ends and corners slightly bumped, spine sunned, a
few small light stains and some minor cockling to boards.
Otherwise an excellent copy.
first edition of Sassoon’s key poetical statement
on the war. This collection includes many of the author’s war poems as well as 12 previously unpublished
pieces.
Reilly p.286.
£675
[92665]
414
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust
jacket. Boards and spine lightly rubbed at extremities. An excellent copy in the toned, rubbed and edge-chipped jacket.
presentation copy, inscribed by the author
on the front free endpaper: “To Sunny from Dorothy, April 46. As a souvenir of the following parts
you played broadcast from the 8th Army (B4.) Radio
Station, Cesena, Italy. 1st–2nd Zealot and pilgrim in
Play 8, ‘Royal Progress’ broadcast Sunday 25/3/45 and
Wednesday 28/3/45 at 10 pm. Captain of the Temple
Guard in Play 9, ‘The King’s Supper’—broadcast
Thursday 29/3/45 at 10 pm. Shadrach—2nd man in
Play 11, ‘King of Sorrows’—broadcast Good Friday
30/3/45 at 10 pm. Joseph of Arimathaea in Play 12,
‘The King Comes to His Own’—broadcast Easter
Sunday 1/4/45 at 10 pm”. The copy is the 10th edition;
the book was originally published in 1943.
£375
[89259]
SAYERS, Dorothy L. The Man Born to be
King. A Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. Written for Broadcasting
[and] presented by the British Broadcasting
Corporation Dec. 1941–Oct. 1942. Producer: Val
Gielgud. London: Victor Gollancz, 1946
[95129]
111
415
SCHLIEMANN, Henry. Mycenae: A Narrative
of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and
Tiryns. The Preface by W. E. Gladstone. Maps,
Plans, and Other Illustrations. Representing
more than 700 Types of the Objects found in the
Royal Sepulchres of Mycenae and elsewhere in
the Excavations. London: John Murray, 1878
Octavo (227 × 144 mm). Contemporary black morocco on bevelled boards, title gilt direct to spine, low bands, double fillet
panels to the compartments, similar panel to the boards,
large gilt stamp of the Hulme Bequest to the centre of both
boards, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and 24 other plates, 3 of them folding and
4 coloured, 8 plans, 4 of them folding, the text profusely illustrated. A little rubbed at the extremities, light toning, some
foxing at the folding plates, but a very good copy indeed.
first uk edition, first published in German in the
previous year. Following the publication of his findings from the spectacular excavations at Hisarlik, the
Turkish government revoked Schliemann’s permission to dig, and sued him for a share of the trove. He
was therefore obliged to establish a new dig, which
he did at Mycenae in the Peloponnese, and which was
attended by similarly remarkable results culminating
in the uncovering of the famous “Mask of Agamemnon”. A lovely copy of this handsome and historically
important publication.
Blackmer 1498, first US edition.
£625
[89820]
416
SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works.
Complete in one volume. With all his
introduction and notes; also various readings,
and the editor’s notes. Edinburgh: Adam and
Charles Black, 1852
intricately gilt-tooled in compartments with an orange morocco title label, sides bordered with gilt and blind rules and
gilt fleuron cornerpieces, armorial crest gilt stamped to centre of both boards, pink silk bookmarker, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece, vignette
title page, and illustrated plates throughout. Very slight
fading to spine and top edges of boards, minor rubbing to
extremities, a few trivial marks and scratches to leather, still
an excellent and attractive copy.
£250
112
[88823]
417
(SENDAK, Maurice.) LANES, Selma G. The Art
of Maurice Sendak. New York: Harry N. Abrams,
Inc. Publishers, 1980
Oblong quarto. Original pictorial cloth cover with illustration from Where the Wild Things Are printed across both
boards, orange endpapers. With the original plastic dust
jacket with titles in white to spine and front panel. With facsimile of seven of the first 16 pages of the earliest dummy
for Where the Wild Things Are, 94 colour plates, including
3 fold-out plates, 1 pop-up illustration, numerous illustrations and photographs in text. Very slight rubbing to front
pastedown. A fine copy in an excellent, very lightly rubbed
jacket.
first edition, signed and dated by the artist
on the front free endpaper. “This picture biography
covers the work—both published and heretofore unpublished—of Sendak’s career thus far. It is the first
major retrospective of the most important children’s
books illustrator of our time” (Introductory Note).
£750
[89992]
418
SHAKESPEARE, William. Macbeth …; Julius
Caesar …; Othello. A Tragedy Collated [by
Charles Jennens] with the old and modern
editions. London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J.
Nichols and sold by W. Owen, 1773–4
Together 3 plays bound in one volume, octavo (207 × 135
mm). Eighteenth-century mottled calf, red morocco label,
raised bands ruled in gilt. Engraved frontispieces after F.
Hayman. From the Astley family library, with the armorial
bookplate of Sir Jacob Astley, Baronet of Melton Constable.
Extremities a little rubbed and chipped, joints tender but
holding, short crack to head of front joint, endpapers partially tanned, slight crease to bottom corner of initial two
leaves, two frontispieces without tissue-guards and a little
offset. An excellent bound set of these rare editions.
Charles Jennens (1700–1773) published editions of
five Shakespeare plays in the early 1770s; the last one,
Julius Caesar, was published posthumously. His editions were the first provide a complete collation of all
the variants between earlier editions, which he presented in the form of footnotes. Shakespeare scholar
John Velz has described him as “the most careful and
intelligent collator in the century”.
Jaggard pp. 320; 382; 423; Murphy p. 88.
£850
[90552]
423
STEIG, William. The Bad Island. New York:
Windmill Books, 1969
Quarto. Original red cloth with titles to spine in black,
blocked illustrations to front in black. With the dust jacket.
An excellent copy in dust jacket with short closed tear to
front top edge, lower edge of front flap clipped.
first edition. An uncommon Steig title which was
later reprinted as The Rotten Island.
£250
[93250]
424
STEIG, William. Shrek! New York: Farrar Straus
Giroux, 1990
Quarto. Original illustrated laminated boards, titles to
spine in black. An excellent copy.
first edition. The book that inspired the film
which won the Academy Award for Best Animated
Feature.
419
421
£300
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works. Edited,
with scrupulous revision of the text, by Charles
and Mary Cowden Clarke. New York & London: D.
Appleton & Co.; Bickers & Sons, 1866
SMITH, Eleanor. Christmas Tree. London: Victor
Gollancz Ltd, 1933
425
4 volumes, octavo. Contemporary pink half calf, spines lettered in gilt with gilt compartments, green morocco labels,
marbled boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I. Spines faded, boards rubbed and
worn, contemporary gift inscription to the first blank. Internally fine, a very good set.
their ink-stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket
and the front pastedown.
£500
[93058]
420
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works.
Given from his own editions and other authentic
sources. Edited by H. Buxton Forman. London:
Reeves and Turner, 1892
2 volumes, octavo (195 × 130 mm). Contemporary blue half
morocco, blue cloth sides, raised bands, gilt rule to compartments, gilt titles to spine, single gilt rule to covers, marbled endpapers, gilt top edge. A very good set.
£275
[92713]
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in green. With
the pictorial dust jacket. Some foxing to the edges and endpapers; an excellent copy in the slightly foxed jacket.
£450
[93772]
422
SOUTHEY, Robert. The Poetical Works.
Complete in one volume. New edition. London:
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853
intricately gilt-tooled in compartments with an orange morocco title label, sides bordered with gilt and blind rules
and gilt fleuron cornerpieces, armorial crest gilt stamped
to centre of both boards, pink silk bookmarker, marbled
endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece and
vignette title page. Spine very slightly faded, very slight rubbing to corners, a few minor spots to leather, an excellent
and attractive copy.
£200
[88821]
[92637]
SULLIVAN, Louis H. The Autobiography of an
Idea. With a Foreword by Claude Bragdon. New
York: Press of the American Institute of Architects, Inc,
1924
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt. With the dust jacket. Corners of boards lightly bumped,
faint spotting to cloth, light foxing to edges of text block and
endpapers. An excellent copy in a bright with one small discoloured spot and tiny closed tear to front panel.
first edition of the “father of skyscrapers”, American architect Louis Henry Sullivan’s autobiography,
written in the third person when Sullivan was nearing
the end of his life and stopping abruptly at the age
of 38. Sullivan (1856–1924) single-handedly forged an
American style of architecture, designing buildings
such as the Guaranty Building (1894) in Buffalo, New
York, which would become blueprints for following
generations of architects. A true modernist, he was
the first to proclaim that form should follow function
in a poem he wrote in 1896. The Autobiography of an Idea
was initially serialised in the Journal of the American
Architects in 1922–3.
£750
[91843]
113
With Cuts of the Several Kinds of River Fish,
and of the Implements Used in Angling, Views
of the principal scenes described in the Book,
And Notes Historical, Critical and Explanatory.
London: Thomas Hope, 1760
Octavo (180 × 115 mm). Bound in polished brown calf by
Robson and Kerslake, with a red morocco label, spine lettered in gilt with raised gilt bands and gilt compartments,
board edges and turn-ins gilt, all edges yellow and marbled
endpapers. Bookplate to the front pastedown. A fine copy in
a handsome binding.
first edition edited by sir john hawkins
(1719–1789).
£750
[93077]
430
WARNER, Rex. The Kite. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1936
426
428
THOMAS, D. M. The White Hotel. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1981
(VON STROHEIM, Erich.) NOBLE, Peter.
Hollywood Scapegoat. The Biography of Erich
von Stroheim. London: The Fortune Press, 1950
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket with a couple of
minor scuffs and marks.
first edition.
£225
[89555]
427
THOMAS, Dylan. The Map of Love. Verse and
Prose. London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1939
Octavo. Original mauve cloth, titles to front board and
spine gilt, publisher’s name to spine in blind, top edge purple. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait by Augustus
John. Small neat ownership signature to front free endpaper. Blotchy discolouration to spine, boards very lightly
edge-rubbed, prelims, endleaves and rear endpapers a little
foxed. A very good copy in the spotted, price-clipped and
somewhat frayed dust jacket with a tanned spine panel and
one tape repair to the verso.
first edition, first issue binding.
£325
114
[89528]
Octavo. Original black cloth-backed black boards, titles and
decoration to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 44 black and white plates. Spine cocked, edges
of text block and prelims lightly foxed. A very good copy in
the lightly rubbed jacket with a tiny closed tears.
by the author on the front flyleaf: “To Maurice and
Lorenza, with good wishes, from Peter, 1950”. The
biography of one of the greatest directors of the silent
movie era, known for his uncompromising approach
to the art of film.
£325
[91260]
429
WALTON, Izaak; Charles Cotton; Robert
Venables. The Compleat Angler or the
Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a
Discourse of Rivers, and Fish-Ponds, Fish and
Fishing. In Two Parts. … To which are now
prefixed The Lives of the Authors. Illustrated
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With
the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 7 black and white
plates. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Some foxing to edges and endpapers; an excellent copy in the bright
jacket that has short closed tears to the spine ends and some
nicks to the extremities.
first edition. The author’s first novel.
£475
[94010]
431
WARNER, Rex. The Wild Goose Chase. London:
Boriswood Limited, 1937
Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles to spine and front
cover in yellow. With the illustrated dust jacket. Rear cover
lightly curved and spotted, edges, prelims and endpapers
lightly foxed. A very good copy in jacket with light dampstain along spine and lower covers, a small dampstain to top
of rear cover, and archival repairs to chipped spine ends.
the author on front free endpaper: “H. W. Bolt from
Rex Warner.” With loosely inserted autograph letter
signed by the author and addressed to Bolt.
£750
[90799]
432
WHITECHURCH, Victor L. Murder at the
College. London: The Crime Club Ltd, W. Collins Sons
& Co. Ltd, [1932]
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board in
black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine a touch rolled,
pastedowns, occasional light foxing, chiefly to pastedowns,
prelims and edges of text block, cloth bright and fresh. A
very good copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket.
first edition.
£375
[89373]
433
(THE WHO.) HERMAN, Gary. The Who.
London: Studio Vista, 1971
Octavo. Original dark brown boards, spine lettered in silver. With the dust jacket. With photographic illustrations
throughout. An excellent copy, with a very tiny dent to the
rear board edge. In the bright, slightly rubbed jacket that
has some nicks to the spine ends, and is a little sunned.
first edition of the first biography of the rock
band.
435
434
WILSON, Edmund. Axel’s Castle. A Study in the
Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930. New York
and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931
(WIESE, Kurt.) FLACK, Marjorie. The Story
About Ping. London: John Lane The Bodley Head,
1933
Octavo. Original blue cloth, printed paper label to spine.
With the dust jacket. Pencilled notes to rear pastedown. A
little rubbed at extremities, a few faint spots to spine and
boards, contents lightly toned. An excellent copy in the partially tanned jacket with small chips and nicks at the edges.
Square quarto. Original printed pictorial boards. With the
dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout by Kurt
Wiese. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, in the
dust jacket with light wear to ends of spine.
first edition. A selection of eight essays on the
Symbolist Movement, with chapters on W. B. Yeats,
Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Proust, James Joyce, Gertrude
Stein, and Villiers and Rimbaud.
£250
[92267]
first uk edition. The adventures of a duck from
the Yangtze River. First published in the US the same
year. An ALA notable children’s title.
£250
[93126]
Connolly, Modern Movement 71.
£750
[88954]
436
WISE, John. A System of Aeronautics,
concerning its Earliest Investigations, and
Modern Practice and Art. Designed as a History
for the Common Reader, and Guide to the
Student of the Art …With a Brief History of the
Author’s Fifteen Years’ Experience in Aerial
Voyages. Philadelphia: Joseph A. Speel, 1850
Octavo. Original brown combed cloth, title gilt to the spine,
elaborate panelling in blind to the boards. Engraved portrait
frontispiece and 12 lithographic plates. Just a little rubbed,
head and tail of spine slightly crumpled with minor chipping, light browning and a scatter of foxing as usual, but
overall a very good copy.
first edition. Widely recognised as the first American book on aeronautics, written by “the first American aeronaut of any consequence” (DAB). Wise made
his first ascent over Philadelphia in 1835, and disappeared on a flight over Lake Michigan in 1879. Wise’s
claim to primacy is based on such feats as his longest flight of 804 miles—St. Louis, Missouri, to Henderson, New York—a record not broken until 1900;
his performance of the first official air mail flight in
1859; and also on his safety innovations such the rippanel. Wise also made plans for a transatlantic flight
to be achieved by exploiting the Jet Stream; and put
forward “the first definite proposals in aeronautical
tactics” involving the capture of Vera Cruz “by dropping bombs from a balloon attached to a warship by
a five-mile cable”.
£750
[94468]
115
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