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ADAMS,
Richard.
Watership
Down.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books/Kestrel Books, 1976
Large octavo. Original cream boards with brown cloth
spine, titles to spine in gilt and black. With the dust jacket
and slipcase. Illustrated by John Lawrence. Near fine in
dust jacket, with light edge wear, in near fine slipcase.
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first illustrated edition, inscribed by the
author to his editor, “To John Guest, wise friend
and kindly critic, with deep appreciation. Richard
Adams.” Illustrator John Lawrence has also signed
below Adams’s inscription. 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.
£1,750
[90322]
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(ALASTAIR.) WILDE, Oscar. The Birthday of
the Infanta. With illustrations by Alastair. Paris:
The Black Sun Press; Éditions Narcisse, 1928
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Quarto. Original cream card wrappers lettered and ruled in
black and burgundy, all edges uncut, title page in burgundy
and black, pages numbered in burgundy. With the glassine jacket and housed in the original silver paper-covered
chemise and slipcase. Frontispiece and 8 plates, with tissue guards, engraved in black, sepia and red, 2 illustrations
in the text. Slipcase and chemise a little worn, with small
loss to bottom edge of slipcase, free endpapers a touch
finger-marked, frontispiece lightly offset, one tissue guard
slightly creased. A bright copy in excellent condition.
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limited edition, no. 87 of 100 copies on Hollande
Van Gelder Zonen paper from an edition of 113 copies (8 of which, according to George Robert Minkoff,
were probably never printed). This copy differs
slightly from Minkoff ’s description in that it does
not have an errata slip.
Minkoff A13a.
£975
[91747]
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AMBLER, Eric. Cause for Alarm. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1939
Octavo. Original pale green cloth, titles and zigzag pattern
to spine, zigzag pattern to front cover and publisher’s device to rear cover, all in red, top edge red. With the illustrated dust jacket. Very light fading to extremities, endpapers slightly tanned. An excellent copy in dust jacket with
slightly rubbed and nicked extremities.
first us edition of this classic spy thriller set in
fascist Italy. Originally published the previous year
by Hodder and Stoughton in Great Britain.
£475
[90667]
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ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. New
York: Boni & Liverlight, 1925
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board
in yellow, decoration to spine in blind, pictorial endpapers.
With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth slipcase with matching chemise. Contemporary bookplate
to front pastedown, leather book label to front free endpaper verso. Spine gently rolled, rear hinge starting, halftitle partially tanned. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed
jacket with some minor chipping and one short closed tear.
first trade edition, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author to Jane W. Prall, the mother of
his third wife, Elizabeth Prall, on the half-title, “To
Jane W Prall, With Love, Sherwood Anderson”.
£4,500
[91671]
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(ARABIAN NIGHTS.) LANE, Edward
William, trans. The Thousand and One Nights,
Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian
Nights’ Entertainments. A New Translation
from the Arabic, with Copious Notes.
Illustrated by Many Hundred Engravings on
Wood, From Original Designs by William
Harvey. London: Charles Knight and Co, 1839–41
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3 volumes, octavo (246 × 160 mm). Contemporary tan full
calf, spines elaborately gilt in compartments with arabesque tooling and two morocco title labels (one red one
blue), sides panelled in gilt and black with arabesque cornerpieces, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved
half-titles and engraved vignette illustrations in the text
throughout. Spines and board edges superficially rubbed,
a few trivial scratches and minor spots to calf, mild spotting to some end leaves, but on the whole a sound and attractive set in very good condition.
first edition of Lane’s translation, in a handsome
contemporary binding appropriately decorated in
the arabesque style. Lane’s translation “reigned as
the leading English translation of the Nights for decades, and its copious notes are stimulating microessays of enduring value” (ODNB).
£600
[92795]
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(ARABIAN NIGHTS.) BURTON, Richard F.,
trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and
a Night. With introduction explanatory notes
on the manners and customs of Moslem men
and a terminal essay upon The History of The
Nights. London: privately printed by the Burton
Club, [c.1900]
untrimmed. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Mild bumping and wear to
corners, light wear along spine edges, a few volumes with
light fading to spines and cloth sides, a very good set.
limited edition of 1,000 numbered sets. A
complete set of Burton’s translation of the Arabian nights, containing ten volumes of the Arabian
Nights plus the seven supplementary volumes. A
particularly handsome set.
£4,500
[90741]
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ASPDEN, Don. Mike of Company D. With
drawings by Paul Brown. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1939
Ocatvo. Original green boards, spine and front board
lettered and blocked in dark blue. Frontispiece and 31 illustrations. Contents toned, in the jacket that has a few
nicks to the extremities, a slightly toned spine, and a chip
and short closed tear at head of the front flap. An excellent, bright, copy.
first edition. The story of a dog who worked his
way into the affections of a US Army Company during the First World War. Both the author and illustrator were with the AEF.
£650 [91339]
17 volumes, octavo (243 × 162 mm). Contemporary Bayntun binding of brown half morocco, rose cloth sides, titles
and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, single rule
to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others
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ATWATER, Richard & Florence. Mr. Popper’s
Penguins. New York: Harper and Row, 1979
Octavo. Original tan cloth boards with lettering in blue to
spine and front board, with the the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Robert Lawson. Light spotting to front
board, light toning to spine, in dust jacket with toning to
front panel and rear panel flap fold edge, spine darkened,
light chipping to ends of spine and rear panel top edge, a
very good copy.
first edition. From the legendary editor, Margaret K. McElderry’s collection, with a pencil note
on front flap in her hand “M.K.McE. for his Majesty H.L.R.” McElderry was known as the “grande
dame of children’s publishing.” She became the first
publisher to have titles win the Caldecott and Newbery Awards in the same year. Mr. Popper’s Penguins is
a Newbery Honour title, and the basis for the 2011
film starring Jim Carrey.
£1,250
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AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice: a novel.
In two volumes. By the author of “Sense and
Sensibility,” &c. Third edition. London: Printed
for T. Egerton, 1817
2 volumes, duodecimo. Rebound to style in half calf with
marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments with gilt
decorations and titles to red label, sprinkled edges. Bookplates of Sir Archibald Edmonstone (1795-1871), third baronet of Duntreath, Stirlingshire, to front pastedowns. A
fine copy with very light foxing throughout.
third edition, the only one of Austen’s novels
to be published a third time in her lifetime (though
whether it was actually published before or after her
death on 18 July 1817 is unknown).
Gilson A5.
£5,500
[90211]
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. London: Richard
Bentley, 1870
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5 volumes, octavo (180 × 119 mm). Contemporary tan
half calf, brown morocco labels, elaborate decoration to
spines in compartments separated by raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Engraved frontispiece
to each novel. Contemporary inscription to binder’s front
blank in each volume, the occasional minor blemish,
spines a little rubbed, an excellent set.
Richard Bentley first published Jane Austen’s works
in his Standard Novels series in 1833 and he continued to reprint her works for the next half century,
representing the bridge between the original lifetime editions and the later critical and fully illustrated editions.
£2,250
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AUSTEN, Jane. (BROCK, C. E.) Emma. With
twenty-four coloured illustrations by C. E.
Brock. London & New York: J. M. Dent & Co. & E.
P. Dutton, 1909
Octavo. Original full vellum, spine and front boards lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt to spine and front board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour
frontispiece, decorated title-page and 22 other coloured
plates after watercolour drawings by C. E. Brock. A fine,
bright copy, with the boards bowed as usual.
A lovely, fresh copy in the deluxe vellum binding,
published as part of the “Series of English Idylls”
by J. M. Dent & Co. Though sometimes qualified
as “chocolate-box”, Brock’s illustrations showed
a sharp eye for characterisation and the ironic hu-
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BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of
Machinery and Manufactures. London: Charles
Knight, 1832
Octavo (170 × 104 mm). Original purple cloth, rebacked
preserving the original spine. Engraved title page. Original
spine ends worn.
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mour of Jane Austen’s writing. His drawings were
particularly well-researched; he and his brother
Henry collected antique furniture and clothing so
that their friends and relations could model for the
artists in their Cambridge studio.
Gilson E127.
£1,250
[92387]
first edition. On the Economy of Machinery and
Manufactures was Babbage’s most successful lifetime
publication, selling 3,000 copies. Prompted by the
demands for precision in the construction of his first
calculating engine, Babbage had made a conscientious and detailed survey of factories and workshops
both in England and Europe. An encyclopaedic record of craft, manufacturing, and industrial processes, as well as an analysis of the domestic organization of factories, the work demonstrates Babbage’s
remarkable prescience. He proposed many scientific
management techniques for the first time, including
subdivided work, cost accounting, and merit pay systems. He advocated the decimalization of currency,
foresaw the role of tidal power as an energy source,
and predicted the exhaustion of coal reserves.
“The book is at once a hymn to the machine, an
analysis of the development of machine-based production in the factory, and a discussion of social
relations in industry … It was at once translated
into French and German, both translations being
published in 1833. Throughout the world the book
had much effect, becoming the ‘locus classicus’ of
the discussion of machinery and manufacturing”
(Anthony Human, Charles Babbage, Pioneer of the Computer). “Economy was a turning point in economic
writing and firmly established Babbage as a leading
authority of the industrial movement” (ODNB).
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first edition in english, presentation copy
from the artist to R. B. Kitaj praising his earlier work,
inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Ron Kitaj.
Please make concrete the marvelous [sic] images that
are drifting in you as in the first exhibition at Marlborough. Love Francis. London 20/9/83”. Kitaj coined the
phrase “School of London” consisting, at the core, of
himself, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, and Michael Andrews. It was a
fictional notion, a term that then sparked both debate and denial but which now has come to evoke the
works of this select group of artists.
£7,500
[89518]
Kress C.3013; Goldsmiths’ 27346; Einaudi 223; Mattioli 158;
William I, 198.e.
£1,250
[90572]
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(BACON, Francis.) LEIRIS, Michel. Francis
Bacon, Full Face and in Profile. Translated by
John Weightman. Oxford: Phaidon, 1983
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Quarto. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in black. With
the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth clamshell
box. 241 colour illustrations including 12 fold-out triptychs. Original French text printed at end. Book near fine,
spine of dust jacket a little toned.
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BALLARD, J. G. The Drought. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1965
(BARBIE.) LAWRENCE, Cynthia, & Betty Lou
Maybee. Here’s Barbie. Illustrated by Clyde
Smith. New York: Random House, 1962
Octavo. Original brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, top
edge red. With the dust jacket. Spine cocked and faded,
edges faded. In the jacket that has a faded spine and toned
edges. A good copy.
first edition.
£575
[91673]
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BALLARD, J. G. Crash. London: Jonathan Cape,
1973
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Text block very slightly warped, light tanning
to edges and endpapers. Otherwise an excellent copy in
a bright jacket with lightly rubbed extremities and very
slightly bubbling.
first edition of the author’s fifth novel.
Pringle A114.
£675
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[91687]
Octavo. Original laminate pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by
Clyde Smith. A superb copy in the dust jacket.
first edition, signed by co-author Maybee on
the half-title. One of the first three Barbie books,
published simultaneously in 1962 along with Barbie’s
Fashion Success and Barbie’s New York Summer. A stunning copy in the original dust jacket.
£475
[92756]
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BARRIE, J. M. Peter and Wendy. Illustrated by
F. D. Bedford. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]
Octavo. Contemporary half vellum, green morocco label,
spine lettered in gilt, marbled boards, boards single ruled
in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece, illustrated title page, 11 plates. Edges foxed, boards lightly
rubbed with a few spots, minor foxing to the first few pages. An excellent, bright, copy.
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first edition. Peter and Wendy is an expanded adaptation into novel form of the story first made popular in the 1904 stage play. In 1906 Barrie sanctioned
the publication of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the
text extracted from his earlier story collection The
Little White Bird and illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Barrie reserved for himself the task of turning his
theatrical success into a novel. Peter and Wendy tells
the story familiar from the stage version, with Peter as an older child flying off with Wendy and the
other Darling children to battle Captain Hook and
all the rest. Barrie added a final chapter to the book
in which Peter returns for Wendy years later, but she
is grown, with a child of her own. The stage play was
not published until 1928.
£1,250
[92386]
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BAUM, L. Frank. Ozma of Oz. A Record of
Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas,
the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin
Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the
Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too
18, 19, 20, 21
Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded
Herein. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1907
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in black, decoration to spine in black, red and yellow, titles and decoration to front board in red, yellow, black and blue, decoration to rear board in red, black and yellow, colour pictorial
endpapers. Colour frontispiece, Small contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. Closed tears to
spine expertly repaired, extremities lightly chipped, faint
surface loss to top edge of rear board, occasional light finger mark. A very good copy.
first edition, first state of both binding and
text. The latter has the following points: the “O” in
“Ozma” on p. [11], line 5, which is lacking in later
copies; the illustration p. [221] printed in colour; the
advertisement p. [272] listing only two titles. Baum’s
third Land of Oz story and the first to be consciously
written as part of an ongoing series reunites Dorothy with the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, the Tin
Woodman and Princess Ozma and introduces the
characters of Tik-Tok, the Hungry Tiger, the Yellow
Hen, and the Nome King.
Bienvenue & Schmidt pp. 29–30.
£600
[92157]
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BAUM, L. Frank. The Emerald City of Oz.
Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly
& Britton Co., 1910
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, pictorial title panel to front
cover with metallic ink, spine lettered in black and stamped
in metallic silver, black and orange pictorial endpapers.
Frontispiece and 15 colour plates embellished with metallic
green ink, and numerous black and white drawings. Spine
gently rolled, small dent to the edge of the rear board, tips
rubbed, ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
first edition. The sixth of Baum’s fourteen Land
of Oz books.
Bienvenue & Schmidt pp. 45–7.
£750
[92273]
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BAUM, L. Frank. Rinkitink in Oz. Illustrated by
John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1916
Octavo. Original pale blue cloth, pictorial title panel to
front cover, spine lettered and stamped in black, black and
white pictorial endpapers. 12 full-colour plates, black-andwhite illustrations in the text. An excellent copy.
first american edition. The tenth book in the
Land of Oz series.
Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 65.
£1,000
[91073]
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BAUM, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz. Line
Illustrations by W. W. Denslow. 8 Colour Stills
from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film. London:
Hutchinson & Co., [1939]
Quarto. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket.
Colour frontispiece and 7 plates from film stills, line drawings throughout. Lightly rubbed and bumped at the corners and lower edges, some spots to edges. Boards bright
and fresh. An excellent copy in the price-clipped and lightly rubbed jacket with a closed tear to the upper panel, light
spotting to rear panel.
first uk film tie-in edition, the first film edition having been published in America in the same
year. A beautiful copy including eight colour illustrations from film stills.
£1,150
[92616]
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BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Le Morte D’Arthur
Portfolio. Reproductions of Eleven Designs
Omitted from the First Edition of Le Morte
D’Arthur Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley
and Published in MDCCCXCIII, also Those
Made for the Covers of the Issue in Parts and
a Facsimile Print of the Merlin Drawing. With
a Foreword by Aymer Vallance and a Note on
the Omitted Designs by Rainforth Armitage
Walker. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, printed
at Edinburgh by Turnbull and Spears, 1927
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Quarto. Original black cloth-backed two-tone blue cloth
ruled in gilt, titles to spine gilt, text printed on multi-coloured paper. Photographic illustrations throughout. Front
board slightly bowed, spine sunned but gilt still bright,
front endpapers lightly toned. A very good copy.
Tall quarto. Original limp vellum, brown calf backstrip, titles
to spine and elaborate floral design by Beardsley to front cover
gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Engraved title, headand tailpieces, initials, and 14 plates, one of which is tippedin. A few minor spots and slightly rubbed areas to binding,
light spotting to edges of text block. An excellent copy.
£525
BECKETT, Samuel. Murphy. London: George
Routledge & Sons, 1938
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt. Spine
cocked, small faint white smudge to bottom edge of front
board, boards lightly rubbed, endleaves mildly foxed. A
very good copy.
[88545]
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BEATON, Cecil. The Face of the World. An
International Scrapbook of People and Places.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1957
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first edition. A lovely copy of this lavish edition
in superb condition.
£650
first edition, signed limited issue. One of
an unspecified edition thus bound, numbered and
signed by Cecil Beaton. The limitation cannot have
been high, perhaps 150 copies. Ours is number 51
and we cannot recall having seen a number over
100. Scarce.
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first edition, first issue binding. The personal copy of the Irish writer Kate O’Brien (1897–1974),
with her signature and inscriptions on the front free
endpaper and the title and facing page, including
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the 11-line note: “I reviewed this novel for ‘The Spectator’ when it appeared in August 1938. Almost the
only review of ‘Murphy’ to appear in England that
summer. I was told long after that my review gave
Samuel Beckett much pleasure. K. O’B. May 1970”.
This copy is one of no more than 718 copies from the
first batch of bindings produced by Webb Son and
Co, which are of smooth green cloth. The two subsequent batches, in November 1941 and April 1942,
were of coarser material, most probably due to wartime shortages.
Federman & Fletcher 25.
£3,500
[91674]
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February. Magee subsequently gave this copy to director Peter Brook, with whom he later collaborated
on scene and screen, adding another gift inscription
to the title page: “To Peter Brook with gratitude,
Patrick Magee.” With loosely inserted autograph
note signed by Magee: “It is never worthwhile giving anybody anything except your most treasured
possessions. If you think this is sentimental—you
are crazy—in the wrong way. Love, Pat.” This is the
first volume of a two-volume collection of Beckett’s
dramatic works published by Suhrkamp. It includes
Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Act without Words I and II,
and Cascando. French and German versions of the
plays are printed in facing text throughout, the English translations are collected at the end.
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£1,500
BECKETT, Samuel. Dramatische Dichtungen.
Französische Orginalfassungen. Deutsche
Übertragung von Elmar Tophoven. Englische
Übertragung von Samuel Beckett. Frankfurt am
Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1963
BECKETT, Samuel. How It Is. London: John
Calder, 1964
Octavo. Original full vellum, titles to spine gilt, top edge
gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in the original cream cloth
slipcase. A fine copy with numerous unopened gatherings.
The slipcase is worn with several splits and chips.
signed limited edition, no. 90 of 100 copies
numbered and signed by Beckett; all printed on
handmade paper and bound in vellum.
Federman & Fletcher 384.102.
£1,250
[92411]
BELLOW, Saul. Henderson the Rain King. A
Novel. New York: The Viking Press, 1959
Octavo. Original white buckram-backed orange cloth, titles to spine in red, blue and black and to front board in
black, top edge yellow. With the dust jacket. Front board a
little bowed, very light spotting to fore edge of text block.
An exceptionally bright copy in the jacket with very light
rubbing to head and tail of spine panel and tiny chips at
corners of flaps.
Octavo. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine
white on black label, cream bound silk bookmark. With the
dust jacket. A fine copy in an excellent jacket with very light
rubbing along edges and a small closed tear to rear cover.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed
by Beckett on the title page: “For Pat with love and
gratitude. Sam, Paris Feb. 1964.” At the time, Patrick
Magee was playing the part of Hamm in Endgame,
which opened at Studio des Champs-Elysées in late
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first edition.
£1,250
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BERTON, Pierre. The Secret World of Og.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961
Octavo. Original green cloth with green and orange lettering to spine, blocked image to front cover, with the dust
jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout by William Winter. Light offsetting on title page, light toning
to page edges, dust jacket with wear to front flap fold and
front spine edge, creasing and short closed tears along rear
panel top edge, a very good copy.
first edition of this fantasy novel based on the
author’s own children, the basis for the animated
television series of same title.
£650
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BENTLEY, E. C., & H. Warner Allen. Trent’s
Own Case. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1936
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to front board and
spine in blue, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Minor
spotting to the fore edge but an exceptionally nice copy in
the dust jacket.
first edition, one of a handful of copies known
with the signatures on the half-title of many of the
luminaries of the golden age of British detective fiction: Sayers, Bentley, Warner Allen, Sadleir, Henry
Wade, Frank Swinnerton, Milward Kennedy, Nicho10
las Blake, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Martha Smith,
dated 21 May 1936. The book was clearly signed by
the guests of the so-called Trent Dinner, which had
been organised as a celebration of the publication of
this long-awaited sequel to Bentley’s widely praised
mystery Trent’s Last Case (1913). Bentley had always
maintained there would be no follow-up to his earlier novel but apparently under the persistent urging
of many of the guests at the dinner, chief among
them Sayers, he agreed to co-author Trent’s Own Case
with Warner Allen. Only two other multiply signed
copies are known.
£4,750
[91643]
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BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew. A Little Book
of Bourgeois Verse. London: John Murray, 1937
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Octavo. Original black boards, titles and illustration to
front board gilt, all edges gilt. With the illustrated dust
jacket. With illustrations by among others Osbert Lancaster and de Cronin Hastings. Dust jacket designed by E.
McKnight Kauffer. Corners of front boards slightly worn,
endpapers lightly foxed. An excellent copy in a slightly
rubbed jacket with tanned spine and some minor chipping
to corners and spine ends.
first edition, inscribed by the author on
the front free endpaper: “There’s a long, long trailer
winding, Out of broken hearts & brains, While the
Ealing boys are minding, Our John V. Baines”, and
dated 1943. Betjeman’s second book of poetry, containing his classic poem “Slough”.
Peterson A5a.
£975
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BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries
on the Laws of England. In Four Books. The
Tenth Edition, with the Last Corrections
of the Author; Additions by Richard Burn,
and Continued to the Present Time by John
Williams. London: for A. Strahan; T. Cadell, and D.
Prince, 1787
4 volumes, octavo (207 × 129 mm). Contemporary tan calf,
spine compartments in blind, red morocco labels. Boards
a little rubbed, scuffed, and bumped, spotting to endpapers and very occasionally to contents, which are overall
quite fresh. An excellent set.
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the last edition with the author’s own corrections; a handsome set in contemporary bindings. “In some 2,000 pages the common law’s tortuous complexities were outlined in a manner at once
authoritative, clear, elegant, and even engaging …
the Commentaries depicted England’s constitution and
laws as reflecting the natural order of the cosmos, yet
also rooted in the nation’s distinctive historical development, like ‘an old Gothic castle, erected in the
days of chivalry, but fitted up for a modern inhabitant’
(Blackstone, Commentaries, 3.268) … Blackstone’s Commentaries would become the most celebrated, widely
circulated, and influential law book ever published in
the English language” (ODNB).
£1,250
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BLIGH, William. The Log of H.M.S. Bounty
1787–1789. Guildford: Genesis Publications
Limited, 1975
Small folio (324 × 208 mm). Contemporary blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt in compartments, rules to
boards, cornerpieces, and ship and facsimile signature
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centrepieces gilt, burgundy silk doublures and free endpapers, elaborate floral roll to turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt.
Housed in a blue cloth folding case. 5 plates of facsimile
ship plans, folding facsimile map, facsimile manuscript
pages. A fine copy.
facsimile edition, one of 50 copies signed on
the limitation leaf by Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl
Mountbatten of Burma, no. 199 of 500 copies. Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf, a beautiful production.
£1,750
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BOND, Michael. More about Paddington. With
Drawings by Peggy Fortnum. London: Collins, 1959
Octavo. Original teal cloth, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. Black and white line drawings throughout. Spine very gently cocked, extremities slightly rubbed,
edges and endpapers lightly foxed. An excellent copy in a
lightly foxed jacket with faded spine, slightly nicked spine
ends, and a couple of small closed tears to covers.
first edition of the second Paddington book.
£1,250
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BOND, Michael. Paddington at Large. With
Drawings by Peggy Fortnum. London: Collins,
1962
(BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.) The Book of
Common Prayer. And the administration of the
sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of
the church, according to the use of the united
Church of England and Ireland: together with
the psalter of psalms of David. Cambridge: John
Baskerville, 1761
BRAMAH, Ernest. The Wallet of Kai Lung.
London: Grant Richards, 1900
Octavo (149 × 237 mm). Contemporary crimson morocco,
spine and boards decorated with gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges
gilt, marbled endpapers. Very minor foxing to the contents. An excellent copy.
first edition, first issue, rare with dust jacket.
The first of Bramah’s books to feature his wandering
Chinese storyteller Kai Lung.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. A little spotting to endpapers and edges of
text block, sometimes affecting the margins of the contents. An excellent copy in the price-clipped and partially
faded jacket with a few spots.
first edition, signed by the author on the
half-title, “Michael Bond, August 1965”.
£525
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BOND, Michael. Paddington Goes to Town.
Illustrations by Peggy Fortnum. London: Collins,
1968
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. Lower edges of
boards just a little rubbed. An excellent copy in the rubbed
and partially toned jacket with a few spots and adhesive
residue to the bottom edge of the upper panel.
first edition, inscribed by the author on the
half-title, “With all good wishes, Michael Bond”.
£475
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BOYD, William. A Good Man in Africa. London:
Hamish Hamilton, 1981
Octavo. Original dark yellow boards, titles to spine gilt.
With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine ends a little bumped,
edges tanned. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with
slightly creased extremities and lightly rubbed rear panel.
first edition of Boyd’s first novel.
£575
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Octavo. Original green pictorial cloth printed in black,
white, and yellow, titles to spine and front cover in black.
With the dust jacket, black cloth chemise and slipcase.
Spine ends and bottom edges of boards lightly rubbed. An
excellent copy in professionally restored dust jacket with
original spine, covers, and flaps laid down on matching
card stock. A few small white marks to slipcase.
£2,750
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BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Tokyo-Montana
Express. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour
Lawrence, 1980
Together 2 copies, octavo. Blue cloth backing cream boards,
red endpapers, spine lettered in gilt, front board blocked in
gilt. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the slightly rubbed
jacket that has a few nicks to the extremities. Offered with
the uncorrected galley proof and a loosely inserted sketch.
first edition, with an original signed selfportrait of the author on the front free endpa-
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per, dated 1980, and inscribed by the author on the
title page: “Richard Brautigan. This copy is for Pink,
‘a good guy’. Pine Creek, Montana, October 6, 1980.”
The proof copy is identically inscribed, except that it is
dated “September 10, 1980” and contains a loosely inserted original sketch, drawn on a paper towel, of the
two men. Brautigan’s work is a semi-autobiographical collection of 131 short stories, each representing
a stop on an imaginary railway line connecting Japan
and Montana. Brautigan married his second wife, the
Japanese-born Akiko Yoshimura, in 1977, after meeting her in July 1976 while living in Tokyo, Japan. The
couple settled in Pine Creek, Park County, Montana
for two years; they divorced in 1980.
£875
BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily, & Anne. The
Novels. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1907
12 volumes, octavo (210 × 140 mm). Contemporary blue
half morocco, blue cloth sides, raised bands, title and
decoration to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt top edge. Illustrated throughout from
photographs. Some occasional light foxing, some volumes
with rubbing to corners and ends of spines, a few bindings
with light soiling to cloth covers, a very attractive set.
The Thornton edition. A very handsomely bound set
of the Brontë sisters’ novels illustrated with photographs of places associated with them.
[91787]
£1,875
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BUCCI, Anselmo. Croquis du front italien—50
pointes sèches documentaires. Avec préface
de l’artiste en italien et en français en quatre
albums. Paris: D’Alignan, 1917
4 folio fascicles, original printed light card wrappers, contents loose as issued. First fascicle containing two bifolia
with letterpress preface in French and Italian, and two—
different—small etched illustrations to each, together
with a total of 54 etchings, signed, titled, and numbered by
the artist in pencil. Wrappers browned and separating at
the spines but complete, first and last sheets in each fascicle showing marginal browning due to contact with wraps,
very occasional light finger-soiling, but overall very good.
first edition of 125 copies only, this one of 100
on Hollande after 25 on japon. Extremely uncom-
mon: OCLC lists only the 1997 reprint; just one copy
at auction over the last 40 years. A superb series of
etched illustrations of life on the Italian Front as a
member of a volunteer cyclist battalion. The Italian
artist Bucci (1887–1955) attended the Accademia di
belle arti di Brera in Milan, before moving to Paris in
1906. He debuted at the Salon des arts décoratifs in
1907 with a number of symbolist works with marked
Fauvist overtones, and took part in the Salon des
indépendants from 1910 on. In 1915 he enlisted in
the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion alongside Bocchioni,
Marinetti, Piatti, and Sironi, a very Futurist gesture,
and his first solo show—Famiglia Artistica, Milan,
1915—took place while he was on leave.
£5,000
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BURNS, Robert. The Complete Writings.
With an essay on Burns’s life, genius, and
achievement by W. E. Henley and with an
introduction by John Buchan. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Co., 1926
10 volumes. Octavo (225 × 155 mm). Bound in publisher’s
brown morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations to spine, ornate gilt work to covers, green silk
endpapers and marbled top edges. With engraved plates
throughout. A fine set.
large paper edition, limited to 750 copies for the
United States and 250 copies for Great Britain: this
is copy number 2 of the American issue.
£3,750
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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 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.
£2,750
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chips, spines faintly sunned, boards of Vol. III a little discoloured. A finely bound set in excellent condition.
first edition, one of 1,000 copies printed. “Carlyle wrote his French Revolution as a secular ‘tract for
the times’ and as a warning for his compatriots of
the frightful consequences of materialism, utilitarianism and democracy. Scottish puritanism and German romanticism were his lodestars; ‘History is the
essence of innumerable biographies’ was his historical creed. The result is not a work of scholarship but
a prose epic, teeming with colourful scenes of dramatic events and imaginative portraits of the leading revolutionaries. The book at once captured the
English-speaking world, and has, outside France,
moulded popular conception of the French revolution down to the present day” (PMM).
ed as called for. 144 photographic illustrations by CartierBresson. Small loss to head of spine, extremities rubbed, a
few tiny brown spots to front free endpaper. An excellent
copy in a slightly chipped and creased jacket.
first us edition, inscribed by the photographer on the half-title to his second and last wife,
Martine Franck, co-founder of the Henri CartierBresson Foundation, “For Martine, salutations,
Dyer p. 85; Printing and the Mind of Man 304; Tarr A8.1.
[92141]
CARLYLE, Thomas. The French Revolution: a
History. In three volumes. London: James Fraser,
1837
£2,100
3 volumes, duodecimo (186 × 120 mm). Late 19th-century
blue straight-grain morocco, brown morocco labels, raised
bands, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, boards
panelled in gilt and blind, inner gilt dentelles, marbled
endpapers, top edges gilt, silk page markers. Housed in a
blue cloth slipcase. With all half-titles, without the advert
leaf at the end of Vol. II. The occasional light blemish to
contents, extremities lightly rubbed and with a few tiny
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Europeans.
Photographs. New York & Paris: Simon and
Schuster; Éditions Verve, 1955
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Folio. Original boards with the full wraparound lithographic decoration and titles after Joan Miro in red, yellow,
blue and black. With the plastic dust jacket with paper flaps
and the captions supplement—in English—loosely insert-
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Henri Cartier Bresson”. The Europeans is one of the
legendary photographer’s two or three key books.
£6,750
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CHANDLER, Raymond. Farewell My Lovely.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940
Octavo. Original salmon cloth, titles to board and spine
in blue, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Spine gently
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first uk edition. presentation copy inscribed by chaplin on the half-title: “To Derek +
Kit, Hoping to see you in July—Yours ever, Charles
Chaplin”. Originally published the same year by Simon & Schuster in New York.
£1,500
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rolled, extremities a little rubbed. An excellent copy in a
lightly rubbed and very slightly edge-chipped jacket with
slight tanning to edges of flaps and the verso and light
dampstaining to foot of spine panel.
first edition of Chandler’s second novel.
£4,250
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CHAPLIN, Charles. My Autobiography. London:
The Bodley Head, 1964
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with 24 black and
white photographic plates. Corners of boards very lightly
bumped, faint foxing to endpapers and prelims. An excellent copy in a jacket with slightly rubbed head and tail of
spine panel and one internally tape-repaired closed tear.
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Octavo. Original green cloth, bevelled boards, gilt titles to
spine and front board, gilt crest to front board, dark brown
coated endpapers. Frontispiece, 13 other chromolithographic plates “in gold, silver, and colours” and 2 plain plates, all
with tissue guards. 1 page of publisher’s advertisements at
the rear. Extremities lightly rubbed, advertisement leaf a little loose, spotting to endleaves. An excellent copy.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by
the author on the title page, “Edward Heron Maxwell, from his friend the Author”. An ichthyology
classic illustrated with chromolithographs which
capture, thanks to the use of silver and gold, the
glistening beauty of fish scales.
£450
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(CHURCHILL, John, 1st duke of Marlborough.)
MURRAY, Sir George, ed. The Letters and
Dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of
Marlborough, from 1702 to 1712. London: John
Murray, 1845
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CHESS, Victoria, & Edward Gorey. Fletcher
and Zenobia. Illustrated by Victoria Chess. New
York: Meredith Press, 1967
Duodecimo. Original colour pictorial boards. With the
dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by Victoria Chess. Very light rubbing to top and bottom edges of
boards, faint partial tanning to front free endpaper, otherwise a truly superb copy in the jacket with tiny light mark
to front panel and the faintest rubbing to head and tail of
spine panel.
first edition, inscribed by Victoria Chess on
the front free endpaper and with her drawing of a
very fat cat in blue felt pen: “For Bob & Helena, from
Victoria Chess, 20.2.68”.
£575
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CHILDISH, Billy. I am Here to Build
Jurrusolom. London: The Aquarium, 2004
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 and numbered by Billy Childish; with an
original pencil self-portrait of the artist on the front
free endpaper.
£850
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CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL,
H.
The
Sporting Fish of Great Britain. With note on
Ichthyology. Illustrated by Sixteen Lithographs
of Fish in Gold, Silver, and Colours. London:
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886
5 volumes, octavo (216 × 134 mm). Contemporary half
calf, marbled boards, darker brown morocco labels, volume numbers direct to the spine, bands enclosed between
paired rules gilt and blind, double rule in blind to the spine
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and corner edges, edges sprinkled red, olive green endpapers. Engraved frontispiece from the Kneller portrait
to volume I, half-titles bound in to all. Spines just a little
scuffed, slightly rubbed, light browning occasional foxing,
but overall a very good set in a pleasingly solid contemporary binding. Armorial bookplates of Robert Barton of
County Wicklow (motto “fide et fortitudine”).
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first edition. The editor “Murray was after Wellington the most respected soldier of his time in
Britain, whose opinion carried immense weight
both at home and abroad and not only on military
matters” (ODNB).
Bruce 1786 (“a major source for the Spanish War of Succession”).
£1,250
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The World Crisis
1911–1914. Sydney & Melbourne: Australasian
Publishing Company Ltd., 1923
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine and in blind to
front board. In the typographical dust jacket. 6 maps, 5 of
them folding, 2 plates of facsimile documents. Endpapers
differentially browned, foxing to the fore-edge, light toning,
and a handful of leaves more heavily browned, but overall a
very good copy in slightly foxed jacket, a little rubbed on the
upper and lower panels, a short triangular tear to the spine
across Churchill’s name, the resulting flap wrinkled, but no
loss. An exceptionally well-preserved copy.
australian issue. Exceedingly uncommon, particularly so in the jacket of which Cohen notes he
had “examined only a photocopy”. Separate Australian issues were produced for just this and the subsequent volume.
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life.
A Roving Commission. London: Thornton
Butterworth Limited, 1930
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in burgundy
morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands,
single rule to boards gilt, signature block to front board,
marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, gilt edges. With photographs and black and white illustrations. A fine copy.
first edition.
£1,750
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Arms and the
Covenant. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1938
Octavo (220 × 157 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, titles to spine with lion centre
tools in compartments, raised bands, roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece portrait. Slight
browning to half-title an excellent copy in a fine binding.
first edition.
Cohen A107; Woods 44a.
£1,500
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Cohen A69.4(I).
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. “Help him finish the
job—Vote National”—election poster from the
Khaki Election of 1945. London: S. H. Benson Ltd.,
1945
Lithographically printed poster on thin paper stock (760 ×
495 mm). Black and white head and shoulders bust portrait of Churchill, text in red in a bold sans serif. Trimmed
slightly off-centre, thereby losing the left-hand side of the
grey panel which encloses the design, light browning,
creased from being folded into quarters, the horizontal
crease harder, some splits on the folds, a couple of minor
chips from the edges, but overall very good.
Striking poster from the Conservatives’ disastrous
1945 General Election campaign. “Churchill himself should have been the party’s passport to victory.
But he was not. He was at the centre of the publicity campaign. The main Tory poster was a picture of
the old warhorse with the slogan ‘Help him finish
the job—Vote National’. The word ‘Conservative’
did not even appear. If it had been a presidential
election, perhaps Churchill could have won” (Harris, The Conservatives, p.370). His assertion during
the opening broadcast of the campaign that Attlee’s
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programme would require “some sort of Gestapo”
to implement it probably put paid to that hope.
In a wonderful juxtaposition driven not by a sophisticated sense of irony, but by the exigencies of paper
rationing, the sheet has been reused to print a poster for the Artists’ International Association annual
exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery. Founded in
1933, the AIA was an exhibiting society that organised exhibitions and events to promote and support
various left-of-centre political causes, their 1945 exhibition “This Extraordinary Year” was staged as a
celebration of the defeat of fascism and the Labour
election victory. S. John Woods, the designer of the
poster, was at the time head of Ealing Studios advertising department. “Unusually for a designer working in film advertising, Woods wasn’t afraid to bring
politics into the equation. Throughout the 1930s he
moved in artistic circles that included Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, soaking
up the energy and fervour of the interwar generation, cultivating a love of British abstract and surrealist art and actively contributing to exhibitions and
articles challenging the established order. Many of
the artists that Woods employed at Ealing, including
James Fitton and James Boswell, explored the way
in which art could project their political affiliations.
Fitton and Boswell were founding members of the
left-wing Artists’ International Association” (Claire
Smith, “Ealing and the Art of the Film Poster”, BFI
website, retrieved 6 June 2014). An appealingly ambivalent evocation of the political and cultural challenges besetting Britain at the end of the Second
World War.
Art.IWM PST 8448.
£1,250
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CLARKE, James Stanier, & John M‘Arthur.
The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. From
His Lordship’s Manuscripts. London: Printed
by T. Bensley, For T. Cadell and W. Davies, and W.
Miller, 1809
2 volumes, quarto (338 × 272 mm). Contemporary full green
straight-grain morocco, broad flat bands, title gilt direct
to the second compartment, authors to the fourth, frigate
and pinnace device to first, third, and fifth compartments
within cable panel with fouled anchor corner-pieces, broad
gilt rolled panel incorporating the British motifs of rose,
thistle and harp enclosing a wide acanthus roll in blind to
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the boards, all edges gilt, zig-zag roll to turn-ins, grey-green
endpapers. Frontispiece and 3 other plates to volume I, portrait frontispiece and 6 other plates to volume II, 4 of them
accompanied by plans, headpieces, vignettes and facsimiles
to the text, double page pedigree to volume I. Book-ticket of
Raoul, Comte Chandon de Briailles, eminent historian and
promoter of champagne, verso of the front free endpapers.
Spines a little sunned, slightly rubbed on the boards, corners bumped, light toning and some off-setting from the
plates, but overall a very good copy.
first edition. “One of the main foundation stones
of the Nelson legend” (Wilson, “Nelson Apotheosised” in Cannadine (ed.), Admiral Lord Nelson), “the
‘official’ biography” (NMM). M‘Arthur, a former naval purser, had served with Nelson in the Mediterranean and had already begun collecting material for
a biography when he saw “an advertisement in the
papers announcing that the Nelson family had selected a gentleman ‘of high respectability and rank’
to write the life, and asking all who had letters … in
their possession not to make their material available
to anyone else.” McArthur came forward claiming,
groundlessly, that Nelson himself had asked him
to write his life, and that he had already incurred
considerable expense in preparing the book, including the commissioning of a set of paintings to
be engraved as illustrations. An unseemly squabble ensued, the outcome of which was fairly inevitable in that Earl Nelson was under pressure from
the Prince Regent to commission his librarian and
chaplain, James Stanier Clarke, to write the book. It
was agreed that the authors would pool their efforts,
but not before they had further fallen out over whose
name should come first on the title page. That we do
not refer to McArthur & Clarke is a lasting memorial
to the usefulness of a powerful patron.
Cowie 137; NMM, II, 921.
£3,500
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CONDER, Josiah, & Kazuma Ogawa. Landscape
Gardening in Japan [and:] —— Supplement …
Tokyo: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1893
2 volumes, folio. Original green cloth, bevelled boards, titles and pictorial decoration gilt to front board gilt, landscape in blind to rear board, gilt-patterned endpapers. 37
plates and numerous illustrations to the text in volume
I, volume II with 40 tissue-guarded collotype plates from
photographs. Neat contemporary book-tickets of Else
Lindquist to the front pastedowns. A little rubbed at the
extremities, corners bumped, title pages lightly browned,
some marginal browning, but overall very good and remains a handsome set.
first edition. In 1876 Conder was contracted to
the Japanese Imperial Government as professor of
architecture at the Imperial College of Engineering,
which “involved him in teaching the first generation of architects in the Western tradition and in act-
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Japanese government … [however] Conder arrived in
Japan receptive to it and to its culture. He taught his
students to admire and be proud of the great Japanese
temples and castles” (ODNB). The present work is the
first study to introduce the Japanese garden aesthetic
to Western readers. The superb collotypes in the supplement were produced by the great Japanese photographic pioneer Ogawa from his own photographs.
£1,850
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COOK, James, & James King. A Voyage to
the Pacific Ocean; undertaken by Command
of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in
the Northern Hemisphere: performed under
the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and
Gore in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and
1780. Being a copious, comprehensive, and
satisfactory Abridgement of the Voyage …
London: John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John
Fielding, and John Hardy, 1784
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4 volumes, octavo (210 × 130 mm). Contemporary green
morocco, marbled boards with vellum tips, title gilt direct
to the spine. Portrait frontispiece to volume I, and 48 other
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plates, including a folding plate of the death of Cook, 2
folding maps A little rubbed, light browning, occasional
spotting, slight off-setting from but not to the plates, tear
with no loss to the large general map, neatly repaired verso, overall a very neat and attractive set.
first octavo edition, issued in the same year as the
unabridged official account in quarto. “This abridged
account is preferred by some readers because, the nautical and technical parts having been deleted, the work
reads more like an adventure” (Hill).
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Rahman on the rear free endpaper, “To Dan, Remain
beautiful and Black, Rahaman Ali, 1974”. Originally
printed in Great Britain in the same year under the
title Man of Destiny.
[91664]
£1,500
Beddie 1560; Forbes, Hawaiian National Biography, 95; Hill
362; Parks Collection 75.
£1,850
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COTTRELL, John. Muhammad Ali, Who Once
Was Cassius Clay. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, red and
blue decoration to spine and front board. With the dust
jacket. Illustrated with 12 black and white photographic
plates. Head of spine lightly faded, tiny stain to one plate.
An excellent copy in a toned, lightly rubbed and priceclipped jacket with a slightly chipped head of spine panel.
first us edition, inscribed by muhammad ali
on the front free endpaper, “To Dan Johnson, Muhammad Ali, peace, July 14–74”, and by his brother
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(CRANE, Walter.) SPENSER, Edmund.
Spenser’s Faerie Queene. A Poem in Six Books
with the Fragment Mutabilitie. Edited by
Thomas J. Wise. Pictured by Walter Crane.
London: George Allen, 1894–7
6 volumes, quarto (275 × 215 mm). Finely bound by Stikeman
in near-contemporary black full morocco, with the original
parts wrappers bound at the rear of each volume and all the
individual title and final imprint leaves for each part (and the
Directions to the Binder slip) bound at the end of the volume
6, spines in compartments with raised bands and gilt titles
direct, top edges gilt, floral gilt roll to turn-ins, marbled
endpapers. Crane illustrated half-title, frontispiece and title
page, facsimile plates from the original editions, and Crane
illustrated plates and vignettes throughout the set. Nearcontemporary armorial bookplate to volume one. Surface
rubbing to some joints, but all sound, internally clean and
fresh but for some offsetting to endpapers from the turn ins,
a truly lovely set in excellent condition.
first crane edition, finely bound by Stikeman
from the original parts, one of only 1,000 copies
printed, on handmade paper. Crane wrote his very
own Spenserian stanza on his triumphant attempt
to illustrate Spenser’s great poem, which appears
following the general title page in volume I: “Great
Spenser’s noble rhyme have I essayed / To picture,
striving still, as faithful squyre, / Each faerie knight
to serve, in armes arrayde / ‘Gainst salvage force, and
deathful dragons dire, / Or Blatant Beast with poisonous tongues of fire; / To limn the Lion mylde with Una
fayre, / The False Duessa, and the Warlike Mayd. / “Be
Bolde,” I read, and did this emprise dare, / And now
the door is oped, so let the masque forth fare.”
£875
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DAHL, Roald. James and the Giant Peach.
Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1961
Tall quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, pictorial
design to front board in blind, green endpapers. With the
dust jacket. Printed on laid paper. Illustrated throughout
by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Contemporary gift inscription
to front pastedown. Spine rolled and just a little faded, minor crease to the corner of a couple of early leaves, some
spotting to rear pastedown. An excellent copy in the lightly
rubbed jacket with a few nicks and short splits.
first edition, printed on laid paper.
£1,250
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DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory. Illustrated by Joseph Schidelman. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt and to front
board in blind, ochre endpapers, top edge purple. With
the dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout
by Joseph Schidelman. Small stain on introduction page, a
very good copy in a very good dust jacket with just a hint of
wear at extremities.
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first edition (with the six-line colophon on the final
page which was cut to five in subsequent printings). An
attractive copy of this beloved children’s tale.
£1,500
[92070]
£800
[89254]
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DAHL, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile. New
Quarto. Original yellow paper boards, green cloth spine,
titles to spine in red, white endpapers, with dust jacket. Illustrated throughout the text in colour by Quentin Blake.
A very good copy in dust jacket with spine lightly faded,
creasing to lower front panel edge.
first us edition, signed by both author and
illustrator: by Roald Dahl on the front free endpaper and by Quentin Blake on the title page.
£1,250
first edition, signed by the illustrator
Quentin Blake on the title page.
[90339]
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DAHL, Roald. The Twits. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1980
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. An
excellent copy.
DAHL, Roald. George’s Marvellous Medicine.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981
Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake.
An excellent copy.
first edition, signed by the illustrator
Quentin Blake on the title page.
£800
[89255]
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DAHL, Roald. The BFG. London: Jonathan Cape,
1982
Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake Spine bumped,
dust jacket lightly nicked to corners.
first edition, inscribed by the author “To
Jason, Abby & Alexis, Love Roald Dahl 2/5/83”.
£3,250
[89245]
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DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrations by
Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988
dust jacket. An excellent copy in dust jacket with mild
creasing to upper edge of rear panel.
first edition. A very attractive copy of the everpopular Dahl story, the basis for both the film and
stage musical.
£450
[88747]
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DARWIN, Charles. A contemporary assembled
collection of his major works in early editions.
London: John Murray/Smith, Elder and Co., 1876–83
13 works bound in 14 volumes, octavo (190 × 125 mm). Uniformly bound in contemporary full tree calf, brown and
green spine labels, raised bands, gilt to compartments,
single rule to boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Extremities lightly rubbed, a few volumes with light scratches
to covers, generally excellent condition.
A collection of Darwin’s works in early London editions. No collected edition of Darwin was published
in his lifetime. The first serious attempt to do so was
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the Appleton edition of his Selected Works in 1895.
Nonce collections such as this, assembled by interested readers from editions available in Darwin’s
lifetime or shortly after and bound to match, are
scarce in commerce.
[3rd thousand]. 1882 [Freeman 1328]; 13) The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms ...
Eighth thousand. 1883 [Freeman 1366].
The collection comprises the major published
works of Darwin (in order of original publication, all
published by John Murray in London except where
noted): 1) A Naturalist’s Voyage, 1882 [Freeman 38];
2) Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands. Smith,
Elder and Co., 1876 [Freeman 276]; 3) The Origin of
Species ... Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to
1872 (twenty-fourth thousand). 1882 [Freeman 408]; 4)
The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by
Insects ... Second edition, revised (third thousand). 1882
[Freeman 803]; 5) The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants ... third thousand. 1882 [Freeman 839]; 6)
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
... Second edition, revised, fifth thousand. 1882 (2 vols.)
[Freeman 883]; 7) The Descent of Man ... Second edition (seventeenth thousand), revised and augmented. 1883
[Freeman 957]; 8) The Expression of the Emotions of Man
and Animals [10th thousand]. 1873 [Freeman 1144]; 9)
Insectivorous Plants ... fourth thousand. 1876 [Freeman
1221]; 10) The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the
Vegetable Kingdom. Second edition. 1878 [Freeman 1251];
11) The Different Forms of Flowers … Second edition. 1880
[Freeman 1280]; 12) The Power of Movement in Plants
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£6,000
[91726]
DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species by
Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation
of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1888
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards
ruled in blind, brown endpapers. Folding diagram. Spine
darkened; an excellent, bright copy.
Sixth edition (35th thousand). The text is reprinted
from stereotypes of the sixth edition, 18th thousand, dated 1876, the definitive text with Darwin’s
last corrections; it continued to be reissued in this
form through to 1929. “The most influential scientific work of the 19th century” (Horblit) and “the most
important biological book ever written” (Freeman).
Freeman 423.
£750
[92378]
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DASENT, Sir George Webbe, trans. Norse
Fairy Tales. Selected and adapted. London: S. T.
Freemantle, 1910
DE KOONING, Willem, & Frank O’Hara.
Poems. Introduction by Riva Castleman. New
York: The Limited Editions Club, 1988
Octavo. Original colour illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. With colour frontispiece and half-title, 6 colour plates, 20 black and white
plates, and numerous line illustrations in text, by Reginald L. Knowles and Horace J. Knowles. Edges of boards
lightly rubbed, small nick to tail of spine, endpapers a little browned. Otherwise an excellent copy in a toned jacket
with lightly chipped and nicked extremities.
Large folio. Original black Nigerian goatskin boards, titles
to front cover gilt. Housed in the original black silk clamshell box, titles to spine in gilt on black Nigerian goatskin
ground. 17 lithographs by De Kooning transferred from
their original mylar sheets to lithographic plates and printed on handmade ochre tinted Kitakata paper. Each print
was torn by hand and pressed into the book’s pages by the
intaglio method. All in excellent condition.
first edition of Dasent’s translations of Norse
fairy tales illustrated by Reginald and Horace
Knowles. This was the brothers’ second book after their work on Holme Lee’s Legends from Fairyland
(1907); while Reginald did the coloured and more
detailed pieces, the brothers shared credit for these
early collaborations.
first complete and signed limited edition,
one of 550 numbered copies signed by De Kooning.
The drawings were originally created in 1967 as charcoal drawings on mylar sheets, to illustrate O’Hara’s
Ode to Willem de Kooning. Only three of De Kooning’s
drawings were used in that original MoMA publication. This publication reproduces the complete
Twentieth Century British Book Illustrators, pp. 279-81.
£1,250
[92332]
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original suite of 17 drawings for the first time, accompanied by 13 poems by O’Hara.
£2,250
[91821]
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[DEFOE, Daniel.] Mémoires et avantures de
madlle. Moll Flanders, écrits par elle-même.
Traduit de l’anglois. London: Chez Nourse, 1761
Small octavo (155 × 100 mm). Contemporary cat’s paw calf,
black morocco label, spine attractively gilt with floral tools
and leaf sprays in compartments, single rule to boards in
black, all edges red, marbled endpapers, silk page marker.
Typographical border to title, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initial. Tiny reference number or price inked to front
free endpaper verso, joints a little worn, one tiny wormhole
to front joint, faint craquelure to boards, tiny chips to one
edge of title label. An exceptionally bright and fresh copy.
first edition in french of Moll Flanders; Defoe’s
classic novel was originally published in London in
1722. The first edition is notoriously scarce but the
French edition comes a close second, appearing
only twice at auction in the past 50 years and with
six copies in institutions worldwide as recorded by
ESTC.
£3,750
[92147]
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DEFOE, Daniel. The Life and Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe. London: Shakespeare Press, 1831
2 volumes, octavo (210 × 135 mm). Brown crushed morocco
gilt by Rivière, gilt titles to spine, raised bands, elaborate
gilt design to compartments, double gilt rule to boards,
gilt to turn ins, green endpapers, top edges gilt. George
Cruikshank illustrations throughout. Bookplate to front
pastedowns, a very attractive set.
first cruikshank-illustrated edition, with a
clipped signature of the artist laid in.
£600
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block to front cover in black and blind. With the pictorial
dust jacket. Complete with the original publisher’s crossword competition slip. A fine copy in a price-clipped,
tanned jacket with slightly rubbed extremities.
title page: “For Clive Hirschhorn with many thanks
and my warmest good wishes. Len Deighton, July
1987”, and with an autograph note from Deighton
to Hirschhorn dated 19 July 1987 loosely inserted:
“Dear Clive, to the best of my recollection the very
first copies of ‘Horse’ had the crossword. Again best
wishes—Len”.
£1,250
[92298]
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DEIGHTON, Len. Horse under Water. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1963
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt, pictorial
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DERRIDA, Jacques. Given Time: I. Counterfeit
Money. Translated by Peggy Kamuf. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 1992
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Tiny bump to top edge of rear board. An excellent copy in the jacket.
first edition in english, inscribed by the
author on the half-title: “Pour Brooks, que j’espère
connaître un jour—de loin mais avec toute ma sym-
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pathie, J. Derrida, Paris le 10 mai 1994”. Laid in is
Derrida’s typed letter signed in which he agrees to
sign a copy of one of his books. Given Time, Derrida’s
essay on the notion of the gift, was originally published in France as Donner le temps in 1991.
£1,500
[91624]
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DIAGHILEV, Serge. Souvenir—Serge de
Diaghileff ’s Ballet Russe [sic]. New York:
Metropolitan Ballet Company Inc. 1916
Quarto. Original cord-tied embossed grey card wraps. 36
pages including many full-colour illustrations of costumes
and scenery by Leon Bakst and others. Wraps just a little
rubbed, and with some minor chipping at the extremities,
neat contemporary ownership inscription to the title page,
but overall very good.
Original 1916 programme, a sumptuous production
issued by the Metropolitan Ballet Company for the
first and only American tour of the Ballets Russes,
superbly illustrated and containing brief introductions to the repertoire. This copy has Diaghilev’s
carte-de-visite loosely inserted.
£1,650
[90084]
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and Thomas Hatton; [with:] Nonesuch
Dickensiana. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937–9
DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of
Martin Chuzzlewit. With Illustrations by Phiz.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844
Together 25 volumes, large octavo. Original buckram in
various colours, black morocco label to each spine, top
edges rough gilt, others untrimmed; Nonesuch Dickensiana
in original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt,
top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Illustrated after
the original plates. The 24th volume is a book-form case
containing an original engraved steel plate (see below).
Spines of 15 volumes slightly sunned, spines of 3 volumes a
bit toned, occasional light foxing to endpapers, a few minor nicks to fore edges of text blocks. Minor mottling to
boards of The Old Curiosity Shop and Reprinted Pieces; front inner hinge of Martin Chuzzlewit partially cracked; a few small
light stains to plate mount; light foxing and browning to
front endpaper of Nonesuch Dickensiana. Otherwise an excellent set with bright and fresh labels.
Octavo (220 × 135 mm). Recent brown half calf, marbled
sides, red morocco spine label, raised bands, gilt rule to
compartments, marbled edges. Engraved frontispiece, vignette title, and 38 plates. Moderate toning to plates, occasional spotting, a very good copy.
first edition in book form.
£475
[89230]
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DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. With
Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Bradbury
and Evans, 1853
sides, red morocco spine label, raised bands, gilt rule to
compartments, marbled edges. Engraved frontispiece,
vignette title, and 38 plates. Plates with heavy toning, occasional spotting, lacking the half-titles, an excellent copy.
£500
[89227]
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DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. With
Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Bradbury
and Evans, 1857
sides, red morocco spine label, raised bands, cream endpapers, marbled edges. Engraved frontispiece, vignette
title, and 38 plates. Occasional spotting to pages, a very
good copy.
and 38 engraved plates by Marcus Stone. Spines gently
sunned, very light offsetting from turn-ins, occasional
minor chips and nicks to fore edges of text block, minor
professional repairs to spine ends of Volume I. Otherwise
an excellent set.
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first edition in book form. A bright and attractively bound set of the author’s last completed novel. Our Mutual Friend was originally published in 20
monthly numbers between May 1864 and December
1865, illustrated by Marcus Stone, working “in the
sentimental-realist style of 1860s book illustration,
quite different from the caricatural style of Cruikshank and Browne” (ODNB).
DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. In Two
Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865
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2 volumes, octavo (210 ×136 mm). Bound for Sawyer in dark
red-brown full crushed morocco, raised bands to spine, titles and decorations to compartments gilt, double frames
to boards gilt, floral rolls to turn-ins gilt, top edges gilt,
others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Frontispieces
DICKENS, Charles. The Nonesuch Dickens.
Published under the editorial direction of
Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter
£500
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[89180]
£750
first nonesuch edition, one of only 877 sets.
This peculiar limitation is due to the inclusion with
each set of one of the original plates used in Chapman and Hall’s first printings of each title. Since
they held in their archive 877 such plates—the majority steel but with a number of wood blocks—the
limitation was enforced. This set includes the steel
plate of “Mr. Dick Fulfils my Aunt’s Predictions”, an
illustration from David Copperfield by Phiz (Hablot K.
Browne). Also included is the pendant volume Nonesuch Dickensiana, with an essay by Waugh concerning
Dickens and his illustrators, a bibliographical list
compiled by Hatton of the illustrations to the works
by Dickens, a retrospect of previous editions of
Dickens’s works, and a prospectus for the Nonesuch
Dickens itself.
£7,500
[92562]
[92701]
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(DISNEY, Walt.) PALMER, Robin. Mickey
Never Fails. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1939
Octavo. Original tan pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers,
with the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by the
Walt Disney Studio. An excellent copy in jacket with light
wear to extremities.
first edition. D. C. Heath was under contract in the
late 1930s to the late 1940s to produce an educational
series of books, similar to the Dick and Jane primers,
featuring popular Disney characters. In all they produced 12 stories. Scarce in original dust jackets.
£750
[92755]
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DIXON, Franklin W. The Tower Treasure. New
York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1927
Octavo. Original red cloth with Hardy Boys’ shield to front
board in black, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket.
Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Walter S. Rogers illustrations. An excellent
copy in dust jacket with small chip to front top edge, lower
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front edge and top of spine, spine mildly darkened else a
very attractive copy.
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first edition of the first Hardy Boys title. An exceptionally hard to find title in collectable condition, long considered one of the holy grails of American children’s book collecting. Complete with all
first issue points, this is a stunning copy.
DONLEAVY, J. P. The Ginger Man. Paris: The
Olympia Press, [1955]
[91627]
first edition of Donleavy’s first novel, a debauched comedy following the misadventures of
Sebastian Dangerfield.
£6,000
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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] CARROLL,
Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and what
Alice found there. London: Macmillan and Co.,
1872
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and triple rule to spine gilt,
pictorial medallion centrepieces and triple frames to boards
gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. With 50 illustrations
by John Tenniel. Small bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown.
Small repair to front joint, very light rubbing to board edges,
slight wear to corners, some light staining to boards, and
slight foxing to verso of front free endpaper. Otherwise a
very good, clean copy in an unusually bright binding.
first edition, with “wade” for “wabe” on page 21.
£2,750
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Octavo. Original green and white wrappers printed in
black. Housed in a dark red cloth solander box. Very light
foxing to edges. A fine copy in clean and bright wrappers.
£975
[90808]
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(DOVES PRESS.) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang
von. Faust. Eine Tragoedie. Hammersmith: The
Doves Press, 1906–10
2 volumes. Original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, titles to spines gilt. Printed in black and red in Doves type.
Light bowing and discolouration to the boards as usual,
edges of text blocks a little spotted. An excellent set.
first doves press editions. Volume I is one of
300 copies on paper from a limited edition of 325
copies, Volume II one of 250 copies on paper from a
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limited edition of 372 copies. With a loosely inserted
leaf signed by the cast of a 1930 production of Faust at
the Cosmopolitan Theatre.
Franklin, pp. 273–4; Ransom, pp. 251–2.
£2,000
[90405]
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Sign of Four.
London: Spencer Blackett, 1890
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands,
single gilt fillet rule to boards, twin rule to dentelles, dark
green endpapers, gilt edges. With frontispiece by Charles
Kerr. An excellent copy with ownership signature to front
of frontispiece.
first edition. This copy has both internal issue
points: “138” on the contents page is incomplete
and appears as “13” and “wishes” is misspelt on p.
56 as “w shed”. This copy is bound with the publishers’ advertisement catalogue.
£5,000
[90033]
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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. Contemporary school prize plate to
front pastedown, small booksellers’ tickets to pastedowns.
Light foxing throughout, free endpapers lightly toned,
spine rolled, extremities a little rubbed, minor scratches
and marks to boards, rear inner hinge starting. An excellent copy, the cloth bright and fresh.
first edition. The second of the two primary collections of Holmes stories, containing material published
1892–3 in The Strand magazine, including the climactic
“The Adventure of the Final Problem”, in which Holmes meets his doom at the Reichenbach Falls.
£2,250
[90954]
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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. Housed in a hessian slipcase. Black and white frontispiece and 15 plates.
Very lightly rubbed at extremities, spine a little faded, top
edge dusty, a few spots to fore edge of text block, pastedowns faintly foxed but overall contents fresh. An excellent
copy with cloth clean and bright.
first edition.
£4,500
[90527]
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet.
Containing also Two Original Plays for Home
Performance […] With Numerous Original
Engravings by D. H. Friston, R. André, and
Matt Stretch. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1987
Octavo. Pictorial wrappers. With the dust jacket. In the red
slipcase, lettered in gilt. A fine, bright, copy.
limited edition facsimile of the first Sherlock
Holmes story, no. 489 of 500 copies thus, presented
in a smart red slipcase.
£750
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(DULAC, Edmund.) OMAR KHAYYÁM;
Edward Fitzgerald, trans. Rubáiyát of Omar
Khayyám. Rendered into English Verse. London:
Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]
ELIOT, George. Middlemarch. A Study of
Provincial Life. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and
Sons, 1871–72
Quarto. Original white boards, gilt titles and illustrations
to spine and front cover, pictorial endpapers, with the publishers’ original pictorial box. With 20 tipped-in colour
plates, tissue guards. A bright and fresh copy in original
box with light soiling, title written in colour pencil to one
edge, tape and some splitting to corners, original paper title label still present.
first dulac edition.
£500
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(DULAC, Edmund.) Sindbad the Sailor
and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights.
Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder
and Stoughton, [1914]
Quarto (280 × 230 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, titles to spine, raised bands, pictorial
block to front board, inner dentelles, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. With 23 mounted colour plates by Edmund
Dulac. Occasional spotting to pages, an excellent copy.
first dulac edition.
£1,750
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4 volumes, octavo. Contemporary light brown half calf,
raised bands to spines, floral decorations to compartments gilt, red and green morocco labels, triple ruling to
boards in blind, marbled boards, edges and endpapers
marbled. Spine ends, corners and boards slightly rubbed,
a few light scuff marks to leather, green labels faded, occasional foxing throughout, small light dampstains to tails
of Volumes II-IV, slight crack to top of Volume IV rear inner
hinge. Otherwise 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.
£2,500
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ELIOT, T. S. (BENTLEY, Nicolas.) Old Possum’s
Book of Practical Cats. London: Faber and Faber
Limited, 1940
Octavo. Original cream boards, titles to spine in red, pictorial block of two dancing cats to front board. With the
dust jacket. With numerous colour and monochrome illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. With an appropriately jocular
gift inscription on front free endpaper: “To Mary & Tiddler with love from Mary & the Tail-less One. Blitzkrieg
Christmas 1940.” Spine gently rolled, spine ends slightly
bumped. An excellent copy in jacket with a few small chips
to spine ends and folds.
first illustrated edition, issued in November
1940 with illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. The first
edition, unillustrated except for the author’s own
pictorial designs on the dust jacket, had been published on 5 October 1939.
Gallup A34c.
£875
[90893]
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(EUCLID.) BYRNE, Oliver. The first six books
of The Elements of Euclid in which coloured
diagrams and symbols are used instead of
letters for the greater ease of learners. London:
William Pickering, 1847
Quarto (233 × 185 mm). Rebound to style in dark blue
half calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco labels,
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in a brown morocco box lettered in gilt and with a cloth
jacket for each volume. A little rubbing to extremities, few
small single wormholes to the spines, toning to endleaves,
occasional faint spot and light offsetting, but an excellent
set, from the library of American composer of musical
theatre and rare book collector Jerome Kern with his book
label to each front pastedown.
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raised bands, marbled paper sides, brown endpapers. Geometric diagrams printed in red, blue and yellow; printed in
Caslon old-face type with ornamental initials by C. Whittingham of Chiswick. Board edges lightly rubbed, spotting
and offsetting as virtually always with this book. A very
good copy.
first edition of this celebrated book, the most
interesting and inventive attempt to revisualise the
classic ur-text of geometry by printing the diagrams
in various colours, a method which stretched the
printers’ skills to their utmost. Oliver Byrne was an
Irish author and mathematician (fl. 1835–1885). He
wrote a considerable number of books mainly on
mathematical and mechanical subjects.
McLean, Victorian Book Design, p. 70.
£6,750
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FIELDING, Henry. Amelia. In Four Volumes.
London: for A. Millar, 1752
4 volumes, duodecimo (166 × 98 mm). Contemporary tree
calf, twin red and black morocco labels, raised bands,
spines elaborately gilt in compartments, single gilt rule to
boards, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed
first edition of Fielding’s last novel, published
19 December 1751. Though primarily the story of a
troubled marriage, Amelia may also be considered
the first novel of social protest and reform in English. Fielding also showed interest in the debate
on female intelligence and education in the novel,
through the prodigious Virgil-quoting figure of Mrs
Atkinson. Another theme of the novel is the extortionary practices of prison keepers: its influence is
particularly strong on the great novels of Dickens’s
middle period, Bleak House and Little Dorrit. Millar
ordered William Strahan to print the work on two
of his printing presses in order to produce a total
of 5,000 copies for the first run of the work. Rothschild claims that there were two impressions, one in
December 1751, the second in January 1752, but this
seems to be a confusion with the second edition of
3,000 copies which Millar ordered to follow on the
heels of the first but subsequently cancelled.
Cross III, p. 321; Rothschild 853.
£2,750
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textured paper, prospectus of the English issue by Quaritch with English translation of the text bound before the
plates. A little rubbed, rebacked with the original spine
laid down, slightly darkened on the bands and at the edges,
upper corners restored, text pages becoming brittle, one
corner lost, no loss of text, small gouge from two leaves of
text and lower wrap with minor loss, English text/prospectus browned and with some splitting at the edges, archival
tissue repairs, plates marginally browned, one or two with
minor chips at the edge, but overall genuinely a very good
copy in a handsome binding which remains attractive.
first edition with English prospectus and text.
Fischbach was educated at the Berlin Academy of
Industrial Design before moving to Vienna “where
he prepared drawings for the collection of patterndesigns in the Austrian Museum” (New International
Encyclopaedia). In 1870 he was made instructor in
ornamentation at the Royal Academy in Hanau,
before joining the newly organised Industrial Art
School at Saint Gallen as director in 1883, holding
the position until 1888. “He founded many societies for the advancement of industrial art and by his
work exercised a great influence on textile designing in Germany. In 1909 the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, acquired his collection of antique
embroideries and fabrics” (Encyclopaedia Americana).
Fischbach’s monograph concentrates on 15th to
18th century patterned tapestry, damask and brocade designs from France, Italy, and Germany. The
superb chromolithographic plates were printed of
Bernhard Dondorf of Frankfurt, best known for the
production of fine quality playing cards, an excellent placement of the work in view of the nature of
the designs.
£2,500
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FISCHBACH, Friederich. Ornamente der
Gewebe [Ornament of Textiles] von 1000
vor Christus bis 1800 nach Christus. Hanau:
Commissions-Verlag von G. M. Alberti, 1884
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Folio (445 × 355 mm). Red full morocco by Blunson & Co.,
title direct to spine, gilt panels to compartments with lozenge centre-tools, concentric gilt and blind panels, foliate
corner-pieces to central panel, and large ornate centretools to both boards, wide floral roll to turn-ins, gilt floral
“brocade” endpapers, gilt edges. Gilt and black decorative
wraps bound in before the title page and at conclusion of
the German text, 160 fine chromolithographic plates on
FISCHEL, Oskar, & Max von Boehn. Modes
and Manners of the Nineteenth Century: As
Represented in the Pictures and Engravings
of the Time. Translated from the German by
M. Edwardes. With an Introduction by Grace
Rhys. London: London, J. M. Dent & Sons Limited;
New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1927
4 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
in contemporary blue-green half morocco, compartments
tooled in gilt, raised bands, titles to spines direct, blue
cloth sides, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated
throughout with chromolithographic plates, photographic
plates and illustrations in the text.
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99, 100, 101, 102, 103
second edition in english, revised and enlarged, the first to include a fourth volume. A copiously illustrated book on European fashion and
manners between 1790 and 1878, Modes and Manners
of the Nineteenth Century was originally published in
Germany under the title Die Mode: Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert nach Bildern und Kupfern der
Zeit in 1907, and in Britain in 1909. The fourth volume extends the period covered to 1914 and heralds
the arrival of the “Modern Amazon”.
£675
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Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, eye design to front board in white. With the dust jacket. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Dampstaining to
endpapers, edges of text block and bottom corner of a few
leaves, faint abrasion to top edge of front pastedown. A
very good copy in a toned, rubbed and a little scuffed jacket
with one small puncture to front panel and tiny chips to
head and tail of spine panel and corners.
FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963
first edition, in the first binding, with the spine
lettered in gilt.
Gilbert A8a (1.1).
[90244]
Octavo. Original vellum-backed black cloth, titles to spine
gilt, ski track decoration to front board in white, top edge
gilt. Without the original clear acetate jacket. Colour frontispiece portrait of Ian Fleming. Light scuffing to bottom
corner of rear board, tiny dampstain to tail of spine. An
excellent copy.
signed limited issue, no. 116 of 250 copies signed
by the author (there were additionally 35 unnumbered copies marked “Presentation”); Fleming’s
only signed limited edition.
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£950
FLEMING, Ian. Dr. No. London: Jonathan Cape,
1958
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Gilbert A11a.
FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1961
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Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. Spine very lightly rolled, tiny brown stain
to fore edge of front free endpaper and initial 15 leaves. A
very good copy in a jacket with some light soiling to rear
panel and flap folds and minor nicks to tips of spine panel.
first edition, one of 3,495 first state copies
without the silhouette subsequently blocked on the
front board.
Gilbert A6a (1.1).
£1,750
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FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. Five Secret
Occasions in the Life of James Bond. London:
Octavo. Original dark brown boards, titles to spine in gilt,
skeletal hand design on front board in blind. With the
pictorial dust jacket. Spine ends slightly bumped, edges
lightly toned. An excellent copy in a very good jacket with
minor chips to corners, and a few nicks and creases along
the lightly toned extremities.
first edition. The first novel in the Blofeld trilogy, Thunderball introduces the criminal organisation
SPECTRE and its leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Gilbert A9a (1.1).
£750
[92419]
£9,750
[91588]
FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1964
Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in silver,
front cover with Japanese characters stamped in gilt, bamboo-patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with one short closed tear to
front panel.
first edition, first state (without March in the
copyright date).
Gilbert A12a (1.1).
£500
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FORTESCUE, Sir John William. A History of
the British Army. London: Macmillan and Co.,
1902–30
13 volumes bound in 19, octavo (217 × 142 mm), 14 text
volumes and 5 map volumes, the maps to volume IV in
an end-pocket rather than as a separate volume. Contemporary blond half calf, marbled boards, red morocco
lettering-pieces, black morocco numbering-pieces, narrow, low bands with a single fine dotted roll, floral lozenge centre-tools to the compartments, arabesqued floral corner pieces linked by a fine dotted roll, dog-tooth
roll in blind to the spine and corner edges, top edge gilt,
marbled endpapers. Numerous folding coloured maps as
called for. A little light shelf-wear, pale toning to the text,
but overall very good indeed.
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FORSTER, E. M. A Room with a View. London:
Edward Arnold & Co., 1908
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to front board and
spine gilt. Spine lettering a little dull, spine slightly faded,
extremities rubbed, front board faintly dampstained, small
bumps to edges and corners of boards, front and rear inner
hinges cracked but holding, light dampstain to front pastedown. A very good copy.
first edition.
£2,250
[90610]
Publication began in 1899 and the final volume was
first published in 1930; in this set volumes I and II are
of the second edition of 1910, the continuation being
in firsts. Here this magisterial history—which truly
deserves such treatment and very rarely receives it—
has been extremely handsomely bound, and is also
inscribed by Fortescue on the front free endpaper of
volume I with a paraphrase of Ecclesiasticus XLIV:1;
“Laudemus viros gloriosus, et patres nostros in generatione sua [Now let us praise famous men, and
our country—rather than “parentes”/fathers—that
begat us] Eccles. XLIV.I J. W. Fortescue, May, 1910”.
“A choice set”, as it might have been described in a
previous era.
Truly a lifetime’s work, and to this day an irreplaceable source, written “vigorously, lucidly, and graphi-
cally” (DNB), and covering the period 1100 to 1870.
Described by Brian Bond as “the product of indefatigable research in original documents, a determination to present a clear, accurate, and readable narrative of military operations, and a close personal
knowledge of the battlefields, which enabled him
to elucidate his account with excellent maps. Most
important, however, was his motivation: namely,
a lifelong affection for the old, long-service, preCardwell army, the spirit of the regiments of which
it largely consisted, and the value of its traditions to
the nation.”
A beautifully presented set of this important work,
bound for Cora Colgate Stafford—her monogram,
surmounted by the countess’s coronet, gilt to the
tail of the spines, her engraved bookplate to the
front pastedowns—one of the “Dollar Princesses”
of the “Gilded Age”, Cora was the widow of the soap
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magnate Samuel J. Colgate, on his death in 1897 inheriting a fortune that would be worth around $250
million today, and the following year marrying Henry William George Byng, the 4th Earl of Stafford.
£7,500
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FRANK, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl.
Translated by B. M. Mooyaaer-Doubleday
with a forward by Storm Jameson. London:
Constellation Books, 1952
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turnins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. With photographic
illustrations throughout. An excellent copy.
first edition in english, preceding the US
edition published the same year. The British-born
translator, Barbara Mooyaart-Doubleday, was living in Amsterdam in 1947 when the original Dutchlanguage edition appeared. Having impressed Anne
Frank’s father Otto with a sample chapter, she was
engaged to make the whole translation by the London publisher Vallentine Mitchell, who specialized
in books of Jewish interest. But the London edition
was received quietly and it was not until later in the
year when the same text was published in New York,
with a preface by Eleanor Roosevelt, that the book
entered the best-seller lists and announced itself
as one of the emblematic books of the 20th cen-
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tury. “The reason for her [Anne Frank’s] immortality was basically literary. She was an extraordinarily
good writer, for any age, and the quality of her work
seemed a direct result of a ruthlessly honest disposition” (Time, 14 June 1999).
challenged received ideas on education and university planning and heralded the information technology revolution.
For the publication history, see www.raoulwallenberg.net/
news/barbara-mooyaart-doubleday-receives-the-wallenberg-centennial-medal
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£1,475
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FULLER, R. Buckminster. Education
Automation. Freeing the scholar to return to
his studies. A Discourse before the Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville Campus
Planning Committee. April 22, 1961. Foreword
by Charles D. Tenney. Carbondale, IL: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1962
Quarto. Original japon-backed black boards, titles to spine
in black, top edge black. With the dust jacket Tiny split at
head of front inner hinge. An excellent copy in a slightly
rubbed jacket.
first edition, signed by the author on the
front free endpaper. Richard Buckminster Fuller
(1895–1983) was a visionary thinker, inventor and
architect who invented the geodesic dome and the
Dymaxion map. As a young man he was expelled
from Harvard but his innovative ideas earned him 47
honorary doctorate degrees. His prophetic lecture
£1,250
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FUSCO, Paul. RFK Funeral Train. Introduction
by Norman Mailer. London: Magnum Photos,
[1999]
Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers, titles to front
cover in green and white. Illustrated throughout with 68
full page xerographs by Fusco printed on a Xerox DocuColor 100 Digital Colour Press (9 different front covers
were issued). Block very slightly undulated otherwise in
excellent condition.
first edition, printed in an edition of 350 copies. Numbered on the front cover and first page of
text. In June 1968 Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in California. Fusco accompanied the funeral
train which carried the coffin from New York City
to Washington DC and photographed those paying
respect along the track side. Kennedy’s coffin was
placed in the last carriage and was visible through
large observation windows.
Parr & Badger II, 46.
£1,000
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As attested by the certificate mentioned by Gardner
this copy was the very first to roll off the press.
£3,500
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GAY, John. The Beggar’s Opera. As it is Acted
at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields.
To which is Added, the Musick Engrav’d on
copper-plates. London: Printed for John Watts, at
the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln’s-InnFields, 1728
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GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The Case of the
Horrified Heirs. New York: William Morrow and
Company, 1964
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine and front board
in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a black
morocco-backed solander box with a facsimile of the front
panel of the dust jacket pasted on the front cover. Spine a
little sunned at head and tail, head lightly crumpled, very
faint white mark to lower joint of front board, light dampstain to lower gutter of endpapers. An excellent copy in a
slightly edge-chipped and rippled jacket with faint dampstaining to the verso.
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first edition, certified first copy to be
printed, the dedication copy, inscribed by
the author to his close friend, scientist John Glaister on the front free endpaper: “To my friend, John
Glaister, D. Sc., M.D., F.R.S.E., this first copy ever to
come from the printers and binders (see certificate
on the following page). With all good wishes, yours,
Erle Stanley Gardner, September 1964”. Professor
John Glaister (1892–1971), whose achievements as a
forensic scientist are the object of a two-paragraph
homage at the end of the Foreword, succeeded his
father in the Regius Chair of Forensic Science at the
University of Glasgow and was well-known for his
dramatic appearances at court as an expert witness.
Octavo (195 × 115 mm). Rebound to style in mottled quarter
calf, red morocco label, raised bands ruled in gilt, marbled
paper sides, vellum wing tips, edges speckled red. Woodcut historiated capitals and head- and tailpieces, 8 leaves
of printed music. Small contemporary annotation to p. 33.
Boards lightly rubbed, some scattered light spots to text,
top lines of printed music just shaved. An attractive copy in
excellent condition.
first edition. Gay’s satire of the royal court was an
immediate triumph which ran for a record 62 consecutive performances at the Theatre Royal where it
premiered in January 1728. Two variants of the first
edition have been recorded. In one variant page 53
contains three bars of music, the text ends on page
59 and is followed by advertisements on page 60. In
the other variant, which omits the bars of music on
page 53, the text ends on page 58 and is followed by
advertisements on pages 59 and 60. This copy be-
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longs to the latter group, the earliest variant according to research on the variations in press numbers
by Walter E. Knotts, Philip Gaskell and W. B. Todd.
Rothschild 928.
£1,500
[90323]
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GENET, Jean. Miracle of the Rose. Translated
from the French by Bernard Frechtman. New
York: Grove Press, Inc, 1966
Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine in black. With
the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, edges of text block and
endpapers a little spotted, two very small dampstains to
top edge of text block. An excellent copy in a lightly toned
jacket with faint crease to bottom edge of front panel and
one tiny closed tear.
first us edition, inscribed by the author on
the front free endpaper, “A M. Don C—pour vous—
pourquoi je sais vous connais [sic] tout. Jean G.” and
signed by the recipient, Don Coralle, on the title.
£1,500
[91662]
GEOFFREY of Monmouth. The British History,
Translated into English From the Latin. With a
large Preface concerning the Authority of the
History. By Aaron Thompson, late of Queen’s
College, Oxon. London: for J. Bowyer, H. Clements,
and W. and J. Innys, 1718
Octavo (190 × 117 mm). Near-contemporary panelled calf,
sometime rebacked and relined. 16pp. list of subscribers,
final errata leaf. A little rubbed with some repair to covers, small chip to top corner of first blank, mild spotting
throughout. A very good copy, sound and presentable.
first edition in english, William Cole’s copy,
of “one of the most popular and influential historical works of the middle ages” (ODNB), by Geoffrey
of Monmouth (c.1100–1154/5), bishop of St Asaph.
Completed by 1139, Geoffrey’s Historia Regum Britanniae introduced such figures as Arthur, Merlin,
and King Leir to an international reading public.
“The fact that thereafter the Arthurian cycle was mediated primarily through the mid-fifteenth-century
Morte d’Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory should not detract from the position of Geoffrey of Monmouth as
its great originator.” The figure of King Leir [Lear]
seems to have been Geoffrey’s original creation,
and arguably the most successful. “Indeed, Tatlock
described the Leir story ‘along with the vogue of
Arthur’ as ‘Geoffrey’s greatest contribution to the
world’.” The Historia makes Britain’s foundation
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contiguous with classical myth, in the person of
Brutus, a Trojan émigré. It proceeds to an account
of a series of royal dynasties, some of whose members enjoyed later fame, to the last glorious British
kings, notably Uther Pendragon and Arthur, before
the final victory of the Saxons. Geoffrey concludes
his history in the seventh century AD, where Bede’s
Historia ecclesiastica begins.
From the library of the Cambridge antiquary William Cole (1714–1782), with his early ownership
inscription “G.l.mus Cole Aul. de Clare Cant SocCom” dated 1735 (aged 21, his second year as a pensioner at Clare College, Cambridge) and his later
armorial bookplate to the title page verso, by which
time he was installed as a fellow at Kings College,
Cambridge. He was close friends, since Eton, with
Horace Walpole, who called him his “oracle in any
antique difficulties” and he similarly assisted many
notable contemporaries, including Francis Grose,
writing the account of the School of Pythagoras at
Cambridge in Grose’s Antiquities. Though Cole published no independent work of his own, he assembled some 100 volumes of manuscript notes, a considerable portion of which were towards histories of
Cambridgeshire and the Colleges of the university,
which are now at the British Museum.
£3,750
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GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: Henry G.
Bohn, 1853
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. The Sorrows
of Werter: A German Story. London: for J. Dodsley,
1783
6 volumes, octavo (180 × 110 mm). Contemporary brown
full calf binding by W. Nutt, raised bands, red and green
morocco spine labels, ornate gilt design to compartments,
gilt double rule to boards, marbled endpapers and edges.
Portrait frontispiece and folding map to vol. I, map to vol.
II. ownership signature to front free endpaper, boards
rubbed with the occasional scuff and a little wear to corners and ends of spine, a very handsome set.
2 volumes, octavo (158 × 95 mm). Contemporary tan calf,
spines elaborately gilt in compartments, bird central tools,
twin red and dark green morocco labels, edges speckled
red. Front joints cracked but holding firm, light chipping
to extremities, faint marks and scuffs to boards, corners of
boards a little bumped, tiny loss to bottom corner of front
pastedown of Volume I. An excellent set.
A handsome set of this classic work, first published
in 1776–88.
£650
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. The Madman. His Parables
and Poems. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1919]
Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed black boards, titles
to spine and front board gilt. Three two-tone illustrated
plates reproduced from drawings by the author. Spine
slightly bumped, corners and edges of boards a little worn,
endpapers lightly tanned, minor foxing to edges. Otherwise a very good copy.
first uk edition of Gibran’s first English-language title. The American edition was published by
Knopf, New York, the previous year.
£975
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Fourth edition in English. With the ownership signature of Emma Sneyd on both initial blanks, dated 22 September 1793. Emma Sneyd, née Vernon
(1754–1818), became the centre of a famous scandal in 1789 when she eloped with local clergyman
William Sneyd, leaving her then-husband Henry
Cecil, later Earl of Exeter. She was able to marry
Sneyd after her husband divorced her in 1791 but
this second marriage was short-lived as Sneyd died
in 1793, the same year that Emma Sneyd acquired
Goethe’s epistolary masterpiece on the agonies of
being caught in a love triangle.
£875
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GOLDSMITH, George. Album of pencil and
watercolour sketches of the Mediterranean,
including views of the coast of Spain, Gibraltar,
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Majorca, Corfu, and Alexandria Troas on the
Turkish Aegean coast. HMS Childers, at Sea:
1834–9
Landscape quarto (208 × 280 mm) sketchbook. Contemporary half binding of white paper and green board. 21 leaves.
With 27 watercolours and drawings, the majority in colour,
just 4 are solely in pencil, including 11 double-page panoramas. All but 3, which are portraits/costume studies, have
pencil or ink captioning and annotation. Externally a little rubbed and soiled, light browning to the contents, but
overall very well preserved.
An attractive collection of watercolour views and
panoramas of the Mediterranean coast, high quality officer’s sketches by the young British naval
lieutenant George Goldsmith. The album was compiled during his service on HMS brig-sloop Childers,
commander Henry Keppel, near the coast of Spain
in May 1834–April 1839. The majority of the views
depict the north-eastern coast of Spain, with highly-detailed and well-finished double-page panoramas of Barcelona “from the outer mole”, Valencia,
Alicante, and Malaga. The other views depict “Port
Vendre, East Coast of Spain”, Cadiz, “Roland’s Gap”
(Le Brèche de Roland), Altea, Tarragona, Cape St.
Antono, and Cartagena.
The album also includes five studies taken of the ruins of the ancient Greek city Alexandria Troas on the
coast of the Aegean Sea in modern Turkey, with panoramas of the ruins “in a thickly wooded country”;
“Interior of a Ruin at Alexandria Troas beneath the
present level of the land”; and “Inscription on the
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ruined pedestal of a Statue at Alexandria Troas”. The
other views depict Bellver Castle of Majorca (Palma
castle and lazaretto), the embankment and the palace of Corfu, “Entrance to the Grotto of Antiparos”
and entrance to the Straits of Salamis—“French
liner & Frigate standing in”. There are also two portraits of HMS Childers herself, an image of a “trading
lugger of SE coast of Spain” and three portraits, two
of women in Spanish costumes, and a pencil study
of one of Goldsmith’s young crewmates sleeping.
George Goldsmith joined the Royal Navy in 1821
and was promoted lieutenant (1828), commander
(1841), captain (1842), vice-admiral (1867) and admiral (1875). He served in the Mediterranean, West
Coast Africa, and the East Indies. He took part in
the 1st Anglo-Chinese War, with HMS Hyacinth, and
the Crimean War in command of HMS Sidon. Upon
return to Britain he became superintendent of the
dockyard at Chatham and was created Companion
of the Bath for his services in the Crimea.
£7,500
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GREENE, Graham. The Bear Fell Free. London:
Grayson & Grayson, 1935
GREENE, Graham. Brighton Rock. New York:
The Viking Press, 1938
Octavo. Original sage cloth, titles and decoration to spine
and boards gilt, floral design with monogram to endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With the dust
jacket. Corners a little worn, some faint tanning to endpapers. An excellent copy in a chipped jacket with a tanned
spine panel and minor soiling.
Octavo. Original orange cloth with black border at head,
titles to spine in silver, rules to spine and front board in
silver, top edge black. With the dust jacket. Spine a little
faded, some rubbing to top corners of boards, endpapers
slightly foxed. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed jacket
with a few minor chips and creases and one small tape repair to verso of rear flap.
first and signed limited edition, no. 41 of 285
copies signed and numbered by the author. A small
limitation and scarce in the dust jacket. One of the
twelve books in the Grayson Books series, edited by
John Hackney.
Brennan 7; Miller 12a.
£2,750
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first edition, preceding the English edition by
one month.
Miller 17.
£2,750
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paper. An excellent copy in jacket with slightly nicked spine
ends and rubbed extremities.
first edition.
£650
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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. With
the dust jacket. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket to front
pastedown. Endleaves and endpapers a little tanned, rear
inner hinge starting but still holding firm. A very good copy
in a rubbed jacket with some small nicks and short splits, a
small spot of dampstain to the verso not visible on the front,
and a professional repair to the fold of the front flap.
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first edition.
GREENE, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. A
Novel. London: William Heinemann, 1948
£750
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine in silver,
top edge red. With the dust jacket. Spine ends and corners
slightly rubbed, very light foxing to edges, bookseller’s
ticket to front pastedown and date in ink to rear free end-
[90670]
Brennan 22; Miller 26c.
[93026]
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GREENE, Graham. The Quiet American.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1955
of rear-admiral of the red in 1841. In a long career he
amassed an encyclopaedic store of practical knowledge which he imparts in pithy style. The book certainly enjoyed considerable popularity, and the few
copies encountered of either edition tend to have
been subject to a certain amount of “service wear”
on board Her Majesty’s Ships. Among the better
known subscribers included in the List (Thomas
Masterman Hardy, Admiral Saumurez, both Brentons, Lord Gambier, et al.) is Captain Francis W.
Austen, Jane Austen’s brother, who had a bright
naval career, being promoted for a brilliant single
ship action during the blockade of Egypt and seeing service in the channel under Gambier and in the
blockade of Toulon and pursuit of the French fleet to
the West Indies. He missed Trafalgar as his ship was
being re-provisioned.
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Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s
device to rear board in blind, top edge blue. With the dust
jacket and the original “Book Society & Daily Mail Book of
the Month” wraparound band. Small rubber stamp with
the date “13 Dec 1955” on the front free endpaper. Spine
faintly rubbed at head and tail. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed and spotted jacket.
first edition of the original text, published in
December 1955. Miller states that the novel was first
published earlier the same year in Swedish translation from the manuscript as Den Stillmane Amerikanen.
Brennan 33; Miller 35a.
£650
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GRIFFITHS, Anselm John. Observations on
some Points of Seamanship; with Practical
Hints on Naval Oeconomy, &c. &c. The Whole
Profits are for the Benefit of the Royal Naval
Charitable Society. Cheltenham: [For the Author,]
Printed by J. J. Hadley, Minerva Press, Queen’s
Buildings, 1824
Octavo (206 × 129 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled
boards, rebacked and recornered with the original plain
spine laid down, title gilt direct to spine, fouled anchor
devices in compartments, marbled edges. A little rubbed
on the boards, ex-Cruising Club library with their small
gilt supralibros and initials to the tail of the spine, light
browning throughout, occasional scatter of foxing, but
overall very good.
first edition. Uncommon: COPAC has just BL
and NLW for this edition; OCLC adds eight further
copies including NMM, NYPL, and the US Navy Department Library. A wide-ranging guide on matters
naval intended to “assist the rising officer in forming correct conclusions” (preface), it was first published at the expense of the author at Cheltenham
in 1824, with all his profits going for the benefit of
the Royal Naval Charitable Society. A second edition was published in Portsmouth in 1828 and this is
the one most often encountered, although far from
common itself.
The author made lieutenant in 1790 and fought
throughout the Napoleonic Wars. He was serving
as Troubridge’s first lieutenant in the Culloden at the
Battle of St. Vincent in 1797. With the Leonidas he assisted at the capture of Cephalonia in 1809 and the
reduction of St. Maura in 1810–11, reaching the rank
This copy with the ownership inscription of another
subscriber, Capt. George Wyndham, fourth earl of
Egremont, to the title page, his initials gilt to the
tail of the spine, and the Egremont bookplate to the
front pastedown. Wyndham was commissioned in
1806, commander 1810: “he was very actively employed towards the end of 1811 in the Hawke brig on
the Cherbourg station; obtained post-rank 1812; and
subsequently commanded the Bristol troop-ship, in
the Mediterranean” (O’Byrne). He died in 1845.
£1,500
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GROTE, George. A History of Greece; from the
earliest period to the close of the generation
contemporary with Alexander the Great.
London: John Murray, 1851
12 volumes, octavo (220 × 145 mm). Bound in contemporary half vellum for Hatchards, gilt titles and design to
spine, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt
top edges. With portraits, maps and plans. Covers mildly
soiled, bookplate to inside front boards, occasional spotting to pages, but generally fresh internally. A very attractive set.
A handsomely bound third edition. The first edition
(1846–56) “was received with universal acclamation,
was translated into French and German, shaped the
European conception of its subject-matter throughout the 19th century, and still merits respect as a
monument of industrious Victorian scholarship”
(Printing and the Mind of Man 321).
£1,750
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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 coil-bound wrappers, titles to
front cover in brown and white. Coil somewhat rubbed and
bumped, corners a little creased, edges slightly rubbed,
minor chipping to top and bottom of wrappers along coil.
Otherwise an excellent copy of this fragile book.
first edition. One of 1,300 copies of the catalogue
of the This Is Tomorrow exhibition at The Whitechapel
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Art Gallery, 9 August–9 September 1956. The driving force was Theo Crosby and the intention was to
showcase collaborative efforts by groups of artists
from both the fine and applied arts. Twelve groups
of three to four architects, artists, designers, and
theorists were asked to produce work on the theme
of modern life. This iconic show pre-empted the
emergence of Pop Art.
£850
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HAMILTON, Richard. Palindrome. New York:
Multiples Inc., 1974
Lenticular acrylic, laminated on collotype in 5 colours on
Chromolux paper. Sheet size: 72.5 × 57.1 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in an aluminium frame with UV preventive glass
edition of 100, signed and numbered in pen
lower left by Hamilton. Printed by Hamilton and
Heinz Häfner at Eberhard Schreiber, Stuttgart, and
photographed and laminated at Vari-Vue, Mount
Vernon, New York.
£10,000
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HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New
Octavo (190 × 135mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands,
gilt rule to compartments, single rule gilt to boards, gilt
blocked falcon to front board, twin rule to turn ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Occasional light spotting to
pages, an excellent copy.
first edition. A handsomely bound copy of one of
the greatest thrillers ever written.
£3,000
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tanned edges, occasional foxing internally, joints partly
cracked but still very firm.
first edition in book form. The novel was originally published in weekly instalments in both the
Graphic and Harper’s Weekly from 2 January to 15 May
1886, in a bowdlerized text. It was published in book
form on 10 May 1886 in a small print run of 758 copies, of which only 650 were bound. Smith, Elder was
not without some misgivings about the storyline;
their reader James Payn reported that “the lack of
gentry among the characters made it uninteresting.”
Purdy, pp. 50–51.
£7,500
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HARDY, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge.
The Life and Death of a Man of Character.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1886
HAY, Sir Andrew Leith. A Narrative of the
Peninsular War. London: John Hearne, 1850
2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, decorative bands
and floral decorations on front covers and spines in black,
titles to spines gilt, grey floral endpapers. Small blind library stamp to front free endpaper of Volume I. Spines
slightly cocked, boards and spine ends very lightly rubbed,
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Octavo (214 × 132 mm). Contemporary red hard-grained
morocco Eton leaving gift binding, title gilt direct to the
spine, flat bands, compartments with quatrefoil centretools, surrounded by drawer handle and arabesque devices, attractive concentric panelling enclosing a large
tool of a trophy of arms and standards, surmounted by a
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shako and with a superimposed roundel with a capital “W”
within a laurel wreath, all edges gilt, gilt floral roll to the
turn-ins, pale cream surface-paper endpapers. Folding
map frontispiece and 20 plates, engraved by Lizars after the
author’s own sketches. Eton leaving inscription dated 1854
to the front free endpaper, “Skelmersdale from his sincere
friend Henry H. Chilton”. Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st
Earl of Lathom, was known as The Lord Skelmersdale between 1853 and 1880, was a member of every Conservative
administration between 1866 and 1898, and served three
times as Lord Chamberlain of the Household under Lord
Salisbury. A little rubbed, light judicious restoration to the
upper joint, lightly browned and with some foxing to the
plates as usual, but a very good copy.
Fourth edition; first published in 1831. Hay “entered
the army as an ensign in the 72nd foot [in] 1806,
went to the Peninsula in 1808 as aide-de-camp to his
uncle General Sir James Leith, and served through
the war until 1814. He was much employed in gaining intelligence, and was present at many of the actions from Corunna to the storming of San Sebastian. During this time he made many sketches, …
these were published in … A Narrative of the Peninsula
War” (ODNB).
Sandler 1623.
£750
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HAY, William. The Mystery of Alfred Doubt.
Being the Adventure of a Retired Statesman. A
novel. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top
edge pale green. With the dust jacket. Later bookseller’s
ticket and bookplate to pastedown. Cloth very lightly
flecked, edges foxed with minor encroachment to the
margins, in the jacket that has one chip at the top of the
spine, front panel creased at upper inner corner, rear panel
slightly marked. A very good, bright copy.
first edition. The author and essayist William
Gosse Hay (1875–1945) was born into a South Australian family to the colonist Alexander Hay and his
second wife, Agnes Grant Gosse, a novelist. This, his
fifth historical novel, is set in Tasmania in the 1830s.
£650
[91225]
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HAYEK, Friedrich A. von. The Road to
Serfdom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, for
Laissez Faire Books, 1984
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Octavo (200 × 130 mm). Original tan skiver, front cover
with double-line gilt rule borders, spine ruled, stamped
and lettered gilt, edges gilt, watered silk endpapers. An
excellent copy.
special 40th anniversary signed edition; no.
11 of 200 copies printed, signed by the author. With
an additional foreword in which Hayek discusses
how the first publication in 1944 was received in
Britain and America.
£3,750
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926
Octavo. Original black cloth, gold labels to spine and
front board, Cleon design of a seated classical figure to
the title page. Extremities lightly rubbed, a couple of tiny
white specks to boards, faint bumps to bottom edge of
front board and bottom corners, spine faded, tanning to
endpapers and mild spotting to edges of text block. An
excellent copy.
first edition, first issue with the misprints
“stoppped” on p. 181, l. 26, “down-staris” on p. 169,
l. 34, and “BOOK THREE” instead of “BOOK III” (p.
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[235]). Hemingway’s second novel draws on his and
Hadley’s tumultuous time in France in the 1920s.
Grissom A.6.1.a; Hanneman 6A.
£3,750
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Black and white illustrations within the text by
Edward Shenton. Spine rolled, spine and edges of boards
faded, light offsetting from jacket to front board and spine,
a couple of small nicks to rear board, light spotting to
edges of text block, tiny dampstain to fore margin of two
leaves. A very good copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with
small neat repairs to head and tail of spine and top edge
of front panel.
first uk edition. Originally published in America
the previous year by Scribner’s.
Hanneman A13.
£675
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HERBERT, Frank. Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton,
1965
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white, textured endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled.
A bright copy in excellent condition in a lightly rubbed and
chipped jacket.
first edition, first issue dust jacket with the
imprint number on the spine panel.
£4,500
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HIGHSMITH, Patricia. The Talented Mr
Ripley. London: Cresset Press, 1957
pictorial dust jacket. Edges slightly tanned, endpapers a
little browned, file copy stamp to front free endpaper. An
excellent copy in a bright jacket with a few nicks, a couple
of small light dampstains to the sunned spine, and lightly
tanned flaps.
first uk edition, inscribed by the author on
the title page: “Patricia Highsmith, 6 June 1985, Amsterdam”. Highsmith’s classic psychological thriller
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was first published in America by Coward-McCann
in 1955.
£3,250
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HIRSCHFIELD, Al. Show Business Is No
Business. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951
Octavo. Original purple cloth backed blue boards, titles
to spine and front board in pink, pictorial endpapers, top
edge purple. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout
by Al Hirschfield. Lower corner worn. An excellent copy in
the lightly rubbed jacket with a few nicks, short splits, and
some minor creasing.
first edition, elaborately inscribed by the
author on the pale blue front blank, “To Arnold
Weissberger, with affection, Al Hirschfield. 1/27/54”,
along with a large drawing in red ink by Hirschfield,
who has incorporated the publisher’s printed logo
into a typical self-portrait—as a slightly crazed looking, hirsute figure—the Simon and Schuster device
forming the fretboard and sound-hole of a bass-like
instrument in the artist’s hands. Also on the front
free endpaper is a gift inscription in another hand
presenting the book to Weissberger, who was a New
York-based theatrical lawyer and celebrity photogra-
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pher with a wide international clientele. Weissberger may have received the book as a gift and then had
Hirschfield inscribe it later.
£1,250
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HIRST, Damien. Damien Hirst. London: Jay
Jopling and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1991
Quarto. Original dark blue boards, titles to front board
and spine in yellow, illustrated endpaper. With 2 loose facsimile letters to Damien Hirst from Sophie Calle. 24 colour
photographs illustrating Hirst’s art works. A fine copy.
signed limited edition, no. 155 of 250 signed by
the artist. Interweaving Hirst’s art works with a transcription of his discussion with French artist Sophie
Calle, this catalogue was published to accompany
one of the solo exhibition held at the ICA between 13
December 1991 and 2 February 1992.
£2,250
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HIRST, Damien. From the Cradle to the
Grave. Selected Drawings. Text by Hugh Allan
and Annushka Shani. London: Other Criteria in
Association with the British Council, 2004
Oblong quarto. Original illustrated boards with black cloth
spine, titles to spine in white, all edges gilt. No dust jacket
issued. Housed in the original printed clamshell cardboard
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box. Illustrated with over 341 drawings using a six colour
printing process to highlight the tonal qualities of the pencil line. Fine in fine box.
first and signed limited edition, one of 1,500
copies signed and numbered by the artist. Published
on the occasion of Hirst’s exhibition of drawings at
the Tivoli Gallery, Ljubljana, 10 June–28 September
2003, and subsequently toured under British Council auspices to other venues in Europe.
£550
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HOCKNEY, David, & Stephen Spender, eds.
Hockney’s Alphabet. London: Faber and Faber for
the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991
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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 marks to front and rear panels.
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first edition, special edition, signed by
Hockney and Spender. This book was published
to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust and appeared in three different editions. Several British
and American writers were invited to contribute
with texts to accompany Hockney’s specially drawn
alphabet. With the exception of Norman Mailer, all
writers asked agreed and contributors include William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguros, Ian
McEwan, Iris Murdoch, and Gore Vidal. While Mailer declined, his “letter refusing seemed such a good
model for Polite Rejection” that it was nonetheless
published as his contribution (Preface).
first edition, presentation copy inscribed by
the author on the front free endpaper, “For Harry,
Best wishes from Peter Hopegood (Cedric)”. England-born Peter Hopegood (1891–1967, birth name
Cedric Hopegood) established himself in Australia
after serving in the First World War. In this “informal
autobiography” the author, best known for his mystical poetry, recalls his time serving in France during
the war as well as his pre- and post-war adventures
in Canada and the Antipodes, subsiding on odd jobs
such as cow-puncher, horse-breaker, gaol warder,
and finally trying his hand at “cattle-farming, pearlfishing and much else besides” (front flap blurb).
£500
[92515]
[HOPEGOOD, Peter.] Peter Lecky by Himself.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board
in white, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. White blocking to spine titles chipped, light spotting to spine and
boards, remains of removed label to gutter of front free
endpaper, endleaves and edges of text block slightly foxed,
else foxing light and occasional. A very good copy in a
lightly spotted and toned price-clipped jacket with a few
minor nicks and chips.
£475
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HUGHES, Ted. The Hawk in the Rain. London:
Faber and Faber, 1957
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in yellow. With
the dust jacket. Light spotting to front joint but overall
cloth still bright, endpapers and top edge of prelims a little
foxed. An excellent copy in the spotted jacket with sunned
spine panel and a few tiny nicks.
first edition of the author’s first book. With the
author’s article on The Hawk in the Rain written for the
Poetry Book Society Bulletin (September 1957, No.
15) loosely inserted.
£575
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HUGHES, Ted. Crow: From the Life and Songs
of the Crow. London: Faber and Faber, 1970
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Dust jacket drawing by Leonard Baskin. A fine
copy in a lightly rubbed jacket.
first edition. Laid in is Leonard Baskin’s signed
autograph letter to Berthold Wolpe who designed
the dust jacket for Faber, dated 11 July 1970: “T.
Hughes’s Crow was inspired not by my crows but
resulted from a commission to Ted in one [of ] his
darkest moments. I will this evening draw a suitable
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crow for F&F’s jacket. I know & admire yr work & am
pleased for this opportunity to tell you so …”
Sagar A25 (4,000 copies).
£1,500
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HUGHES, Ted. Crow Wakes. Woodford Green,
Essex: Poet & Printer, 1971
Octavo. Original japon-backed red and black patterned paper boards, titles to spine and front board in black. Small
black mark to rear board. An excellent copy.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed
by the author on the front free endpaper to Charles
Monteith (1921–1995), Faber & Faber publisher who
succeeded T. S. Eliot as editor of poetry and became
director of the publishing house in 1977, “To Charles
from Ted, ‘The harvest of dregs is very great’”, facing
the inscription in Hughes’s hand, “Author’s copy, No.
4. Sept. 20th 1971” on the front pastedown. Hughes
has also added one line to the title poem (“I ran. I ran
and as I ran”) and made a few corrections (to “Bones”
and “The Ship”). Number 4 of 100 copies reserved for
the author from a limited edition of 200 copies.
£1,500
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HUGHES, Ted. A Dancer to God. Tributes to T.
S. Eliot. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in white. With
the dust jacket. A fine copy in a lightly edge-rubbed jacket.
first us edition, presentation copy inscribed
in verse by Ted Hughes on the front free endpaper
to Charles Monteith (1921–1995), Faber & Faber publisher and long-time colleague of T. S. Eliot whom
he succeeded as editor of poetry: “For Charles, Outlasting iron / The Tree of Words / Would have to be
Yew. / On every branch / a dozen birds / Prefer the
view. Best wishes always, affectionately Ted 1993”. A
Dancer to God was originally published in Great Britain by Faber & Faber in 1992.
Sagar A99.
£1,500
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HUTCHINSON, G. S. Machine Guns. Their
History and Tactical Employment (being also a
History of the Machine Gun Corps, 1916–1922)
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust
jacket, housed in the original plain card mailing-box. Frontispiece and 7 other plates. Boards very slightly bowed,
faint foxing—largely only visible verso—to the jacket, else
a freakishly well-preserved copy in its original mailer.
first edition of this highly-esteemed study by
the wartime commander of 33rd Division Machine
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Gun Corps, far from common, and rare indeed in
such condition.
£750
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HUTCHINSON, Horace G., ed. Famous
Golf Links. Andrew Lang, H. S. C. Everard,
T. Rutherford Clark etc. With numerous
illustrations by F. P. Hopkins, T. Hodge, H. S.
King, and from photographs. London: Longmans,
Green and Co., 1891
Octavo. Original dark grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles
and landscape centrepiece to front board in black, black
endpapers. With frontispiece, 18 plates, and 13 illustrations in text. With owner signatures and dates to front
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flyleaf and verso of front free endpaper. Spine and corners
lightly rubbed and bumped, a couple of small light marks
to boards, slight foxing throughout, both inner hinges
cracked to gauze lining but firm. A very good copy.
first edition. Hutchinson (1859–1932) was a golfer and writer who from 1890 was “a prolific writer
on golf both in books and newspapers”, contributing to both the Badminton Library and Country Life
magazine (ODNB).
£1,750
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JAMES, M. R. Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary.
With Four Illustrations by the Late James
McBryde. London: Edward Arnold, 1904
Octavo. Original brown buckram, yapp edges, spine and
front board lettered in black, boards double ruled in red.
Frontispiece and 3 plates. Gift inscription to the front free
endpaper. Minor foxing to the endpapers, otherwise an excellent, bright copy.
first edition. The author’s first book of ghost stories.
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HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London &
Paris: The Albatross, 1947
Octavo. Original card wrappers printed in orange, black
and white. With the dust jacket. Wrappers lightly rubbed at
extremities but overall very bright, edges of contents faintly toned, one inner hinge cracked but still holding firm. An
excellent copy in a slightly chipped and rubbed jacket with
a few short splits.
presentation copy inscribed by the author:
“Pour Jean Thierry-[Mieg ?] de Aldous Huxley qui
demande pardon d’avoir si mal écrit son nom, 1948”.
Second Albatross Press edition, vol. 47 in the Albatross Modern Continental Library. Brave New World
was originally published in 1932.
£3,500
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£875
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JARMAN, Derek. Blue. The Blue Press, 1994
Folio. Original blue boards, titles to front cover blindstamped, text printed on Somerset 100% mould made cotton. Light scuffing to boards, otherwise in excellent condition.
one of five proof copies, all published. The
book was intended to be published to accompany
Jarman’s final film Blue; the projected limitation was
to be 150 copies accompanied with a signed print
and 25 copies with a painted solander box. Unfortunately Jarman died in February 1994 while the publication was still at the proofing stage and the complete project never materialized.
£1,500
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JOHNS, W. E. The Cruise of the Condor. A
Biggles Story. London: John Hamilton Ltd, [1933]
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt, top edge blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. Colour
frontispiece and 4 black and white plates. Literary agent’s
label pasted to front free endpaper. Spine ends slightly
bumped, extremities a little rubbed. An excellent copy in
a bright jacket with mildly toned spine, small hole to spine
panel, some minor chipping to the lightly rubbed extremities, and chip to front panel partially affecting the first ‘T’
in the title.
first edition of the second Biggles novel, in which
he flies a seaplane named the Condor in search of
South American treasure.
£4,750
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[JEAMSON, or JAMESON, Thomas.] Artificiall
Embellishments. Or Arts best directions How
to Preserve Beauty or Procure it. Oxford: printed
by William Hall, 1665
JEKYLL, Gertrude. Wood and Garden. Notes
and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a
Working Amateur. London: Longman, Green &
Co., 1899
Octavo (147 × 90 mm). Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind,
neatly rebacked and relined to style. Ownership inscription
of Mrs L. H. Musgrove at head of text and dated 1820 to rear
free endpaper. Two leaves (sigs. C2–3) with scorch marks at
head, a few marks elsewhere, a very good copy.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine
and front board gilt, pages untrimmed. With 71 illustrations
from photographs by the author. Small ownership signature
to front free endpaper (below Mrs Simonds’s signature),
contemporary blind bookseller’s stamp to rear free endpaper, a few marginal marks in light pencil. Contents a little
shaken and foxed, spine worn and faded. A very good copy.
Madan 2705; Wing J503.
£2,750
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Sixth impression of Jekyll’s first book; with an autograph letter signed by the author tipped-in on
the second blank. The letter, dated 18 March 1921,
thanks Mrs Simonds for the offer of “some of your
seedlings of Zephyranthes candida but I have now
so many plants to take care of and so much of my
garden designing business in hand, that, with many
thanks, I will not ask you for them. If I had been
younger and stronger I should have accepted with
pleasure. I grew the lovely thing years ago, with
other South American bulbous plants & should have
been glad to see it growing again.” The addressee’s
ownership signature appears on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a 1967 pamphlet, containing draft
byelaws of the Royal Horticultural Society.
£975
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JOHNS, W. E. Some Milestones of Aviation.
London: John Hamilton Ltd., [1935]
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first and only edition of this manual of cosmetics. The author Thomas Jeamson (or Jameson)
was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he
became a fellow. He proceeded bachelor of medicine
at Oxford 12 October 1664, and doctor of medicine 9
July 1668. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians, 26 June 1671. He published this
work anonymously but his publisher failed to keep
the secret, and he was greatly ridiculed in Oxford for
it. The text has an interesting selection of recipes for
makeup, deodorants, depilatories, shampoos, and
remedies for minor ailments, but there is an undeniably comic mismatch between the treatment of
pustules and dandruff and the author’s tone of highflown gallantry. A rare book.
[91830]
[92423]
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in black. With
the pictorial dust jacket by Bradshaw. 32 black and white
photographic plates. Spine ends and corners a little
rubbed, edges, prelims, and endmatter lightly foxed, occasional mild foxing to margins. An excellent copy in a
likewise excellent jacket with a few nicks and very light
chipping to spine ends and corners.
first edition of Johns’s survey of the history of
flight, in the scarce dust jacket.
£525
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JOHNS, W. E. Biggles—Air Commodore.
London: Oxford University Press, 1937
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and airplane decoration
to spine and front board in blue, top edge blue. With the
pictorial dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece by Howard
Leigh and 7 black and white line drawings by Alfred Sindall. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free
endpaper. Spine a little toned, ends rubbed and bumped,
boards stained along fore edges, edges lightly foxed, occasional spotting to margins. A very good copy in lovely
bright jacket with a few nicks and short closed tears.
first edition of the 12th Biggles book, in the uncommon first issue jacket.
£3,250
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JOHNS, W. E. Worrals of the W.A.A.F. London:
Lutterworth Press, 1941
JONES, George. The Battle of Waterloo, with
those of Ligny and Quatre Bras, described by
Eye-witnesses and by the Series of Official
Accounts published by Authority. To which
are added Memoirs of F.M. The Duke of
Wellington, F.M. Prince Blücher, the Emperor
Napoleon, etc., etc. London: L. Booth, 1852
Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles to spine in dark
blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped, edges a
little foxed, small light stain to front board. An excellent
copy in a lightly cockled and creased jacket with slightly
rubbed and nicked extremities, and a few small chips to
spine ends and rear panel.
first edition, in the second impression jacket,
signed by the author on front free endpaper.
The first of Johns’s books featuring Joan “Worrals”
Worralson.
£1,500
[92295]
Octavo. Original blue cloth, elaborately blind- and giltstamped, large trophy of arms and standards to front
board enclosing a roundel with capital “W” encircled by
a laurel wreath. Lithographic double portrait frontispiece,
medallic vignette to the title page, double-page facsimile
note, large folding two-part panorama of the battlefield, 33
etched plates and one folding lithographic plate, 8 handcoloured maps on 4 folding sheets, the large coloured
“Historical” map bound in at the front. Somewhat rubbed,
and a little stained, some skilful restoration at spine, pale
cream surface-paper endpapers renewed, light toning,
some foxing and off-setting as usual, a very good copy,
partially unopened.
First published in 1817, this the eleventh edition, enlarged and corrected. “The fully expanded version of
‘The Battle of Waterloo’ published by Booth and often listed under his name. The earlier editions were
simply a vehicle for carrying the official accounts of
the battle. To these were added as the years went by
‘an account … by a near observer’, ‘other circumstantial details’, ‘biographical notes’, and finally a suite
of plates by George Jones” (Sandler). Sandler’s copy
lacked two plates; the large and highly attractive map
of the field is often lacking. This is a nicely restored
copy, remaining appealing in the original cloth.
Sandler 1876.
£750
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JONES, John T. An Account of the War in Spain,
Portugal, and the South of France, from 1808 to
1814 inclusive. London: T. Egerton, 1818
Octavo (213 × 133 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled
boards, rebacked to style, title direct to spine, low bands,
beaded roll, compartments with central device incorporating foliate tools, edges marbled. Folding map frontispiece
with some colour, and 4 other maps on 3 folding sheets, 2
with colour. A little rubbed on the boards, light browning,
occasional marginal foxing, a very good copy.
first edition of this important account by the
brigade major of engineers in the Peninsula, which
was written “partly in response to French accounts
which he believed distorted, claimed the importance of the guerrilla war had been much overrated
… Jones was considered among the first military engineers of his day. He possessed talents of the highest order: great mathematical knowledge, coupled
with sound judgement. He was present at six sieges,
at five as brigade major, and his intimate knowledge
gave great value to his publications on them. His
reputation as a military engineer was not confined
to Britain” (ODNB).
Provenance: armorial bookplate of Philip Gore,
fourth Earl of Arran, to the front pastedown. Gore’s
diplomatic career began in 1820 when he was sent
as attaché to the British embassy in Stockholm, he
transferred to Paris in 1825, and to Lisbon a year later. There he was promoted to secretary of legation
in 1828 and to chargé d’affaires in 1832. Gore has
a further connection with the Iberian Peninsula in
that he was married to Elizabeth Marianne Napier,
second daughter of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, the great contemporary historian of the war.
Bruce 3452; Sandler 1878 for the second edition.
£450
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses. New York: Random House,
1934
JOYCE, James. Ulysses. With an Introduction
by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri
Matisse. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935
Octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front board
in black and red, bevelled boards, top edge red. With the
dust jacket. Housed in a cream cloth slipcase and matching chemise by J. Desmonts, J. Macdonald Co, Conn. Small
bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Cloth a little spotted.
An excellent copy in a bright jacket with some very light
creasing and nicking along edges.
first authorized american edition, trade issue. According to Slocum and Cahoon 100 copies
were printed first for reasons of copyright, followed
by 10,300 copies for the regular issue. It was preceded as the first American edition by the pirated edition of the ninth Shakespeare and Company Ulysses
done in New York for Samuel Roth, unauthorized by
Joyce and sold illegally in the United States. Rare in
this condition.
Slocum & Cahoon A21.
£3,500
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Quarto. Original dark red cloth, titles and decorations to
spine gilt, decoration to front cover gilt, top edge speckled
red, others untrimmed, text printed in double columns.
Housed in the original slipcase. With 6 soft-ground etchings and 19 drawings printed on coloured paper. Spine
ends slightly rubbed, slight offsetting to plates, front inner
hinge cracked to gauze lining but still firm. An excellent
copy in worn slipcase.
signed limited edition, no. 962 of 1,500 copies
signed by the artist. Probably not having troubled to
read Joyce’s book, Matisse chose subjects from the
Odyssey for the etchings and each piece is accompanied by several preliminary studies printed on either
yellow or blue paper.
Slocum A22.
£3,250
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159
KAFKA,
Franz.
The
Metamorphosis.
Translated by A. L. Lloyd. London: The Parton
Press, 1937
Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed dark brown boards, titles to spine in black, titles to front board in black on blue
paper. Housed in a dark blue cloth chemise and matching
quarter morocco slipcase. Top corners of front board slightly
bumped, spine very gently rubbed. An excellent copy.
first english-language edition of the author’s
masterpiece which was originally published in October 1915 as Die Verwandlung in the German magazine.
This copy with neat pencil marginalia amending the
English translation on pages 49–59 by Erich Heller,
who co-edited Briefe an Felice (1967), Der Dichter über
sein Werk (1969), and Über das Schreiben (1983), and
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with a loosely inserted hand-written note from Heller, written on a correspondence card while he was
professor of German at University College, Swansea.
£2,750
[92410]
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KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.
Agnes, and other poems. London: for Taylor and
Hessey, 1820
Duodecimo (165 × 98 mm). Contemporary full calf, spine
gilt-tooled in compartments, black morocco title label,
sides bordered with a double gilt rule, board-edges giltrolled, marbled endpapers and edges. Without half-title
and publisher’s advert leaf. Near-contemporary ink gift
inscription to front free endpaper verso, and pencil ownership inscription to first blank. Joints repaired, covers
marked and scratched, with rubbing to spine and corners,
and some small loss to the text of the title label and date
at the foot (sometime restored in gilt paint), front joint a
little cracked; still a very good copy, sufficiently sound and
internally very clean and fresh.
first edition of Keats’s third book, and the last
published in his lifetime, about which he had “low
hopes, though not spirits … this shall be my last
trial; not succeeding, I shall try what I can do in the
apothecary line.” Though Keats did not live to see
his fame confirmed, this last collection is his greatest single volume, containing the magnificent se-
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ries of odes on which his reputation now rests, as
well as his longer narrative poems—two medieval
romances: the chilling “Isabella or the Pot of Basil”
and the gothic romance “The Eve of St Agnes”; and
two mythological fantasies: the weird “Lamia” and
the ambitious, Miltonic fragment “Hyperion”. An
appealing copy, internally very fresh, and in a contemporary binding.
Hayward 233; MacGillivray 3; Tinker 1420.
£8,750
[90573]
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(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) SHAKESPEARE,
William. The Poems. Printed After the Original
Copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The Rape
of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover’s
Complaint. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893
Octavo (210 × 150 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full green morocco, gilt titles and box design to
spine, raised bands, gilt floral decoration to covers, gilt
inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Printed in black and
red. Occasional spotting, an excellent copy.
first kelmscott edition, one of 500 copies
printed.
Peterson A11.
£5,000
[91614]
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(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) MORRIS, William.
The Well at the World’s End. Hammersmith: The
Kelmscott Press, 1896
Large quarto. Original full limp vellum by J. and J. Leighton
of London, three red silk ties, titles to spine gilt, edges untrimmed. Printed in the Chaucer type in double columns,
black and red, with elaborate woodcut title page and 3 designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, woodcut initials and borders by Morris throughout. Small ownership signature to
half-title and small ownership rubber stamp to limitation
page. Vellum typically bowed and a little rubbed, ends of
2 silk ties lacking, faint partial tanning to endpapers. An
excellent copy.
first kelmscott edition. One of 350 copies on
paper (there were 8 copies on vellum). Because of
various production delays this splendid Kelmscott
Press book spent several years in the making. Although William Morris had originally intended the
Kelmscott edition to be first, the more conventional
Chiswick Press edition was issued in 1894.
Buxton Forman 164; Ransom p. 329; Walsdorf 39.
£4,500
[90399]
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(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) MORRIS, William.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles. Hammersmith:
The Kelmscott Press, 1897
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Large quarto. Original full limp vellum by J. and J. Leighton of London, titles to spine gilt, green silk ties, edges
untrimmed. Elaborate woodcut borders and ornaments
entirely designed by William Morris, “except the initial
words Whilom & Empty, which were completed from his
unfinished designs by R. Catterson-Smith” (Colophon).
Text printed in red and black Chaucer type in double columns, with a few lines in Troy type and shoulder-notes in
red. Some faint spots to edges of contents, vellum typically
bowed. An excellent copy.
first edition, one of 250 copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper (there were 6 copies on vellum). With the bookplate of soap manufacturer and
book collector William Malin Roscoe (1857–1915)
designed by Edmund Hort New (1871–1931) and
dated the year of publication of this work. Birmingham Group artist New provided design work for the
Kelmscott Press from 1895 and illustrated Mackail’s
biography of Morris, published in 1901.
Forman 168; Franklin p. 210; Peterson A45; Walsdorf 45.
£5,000
[92407]
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KENDALL, Carol. The Gammage Cup. New
York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959
Octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettering to spine black, with
the dust jacket. Erik Blegvad illustrations. An excellent
copy with small ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear to ends of spine, mild
toning to rear panel.
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first edition. An ALA notable children’s title,
also 1960 Newbery Honor title. This fantasy novel
for young adults returned to the spotlight in 1999
during a legal dispute over J. K. Rowling’s invention of the word Muggles in the Harry Potter series.
Muggles is a character in this novel, although Carol
Kendall was more amused by the coincidence than
inclined to bring suit.
£1,000
[89563]
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KENEALLY, Thomas. Schindler’s Ark. Sydney:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1982
Octavo. Original black board, titles to spine in white. With
pictorial bookplate of George and Hedy Hunter to front
free endpaper. Spine slightly cocked, spine ends and bottom edges of boards lightly rubbed, light foxing to edges
and endpapers. A very good copy in a slightly rubbed jacket
with a few creases, some light toning to flaps, and a small
white mark to front cover.
first edition, inscribed by the author to
two holocaust survivors on the title page: “To
George and Hedy Hunter, to celebrate your survival, Best wishes Tom Keneally 1986.” With three
loosely inserted postcards from Dachau concentration camp.
£475
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first uk edition, preceded in book form by the US
edition the previous month, and originally published
1896-7 in Pearson’s Magazine. Written while newlywed
Kipling was living in Vermont, Captains Courageous is
Kipling’s only novel set entirely in America.
KING, Stephen. Carrie. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt, black
endpapers. With the illustrated dust jacket. Rear board
gently bowed. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket
with a small closed tear to rear panel.
£1,000
[91428]
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KINNEY, Jeff. Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Greg
Heffley’s Journal; Rodrick Rules; Do-It-Yourself
Book; The Last Straw; Dog Days; Ugly Truth;
Cabin Fever; The Third Wheel; Hard Luck. New
York: Amulet Books, 2007–13
Octavo. Original laminated pictorial boards. Black and
white illustrations throughout the author. An excellent and
bright set.
first editions, each title signed by the author on the title page: a complete signed set of this
popular chapter book series, which started life as an
online cartoon. The first book title had a print run of
25,000 copies. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules, and
Dog Days were all made into feature films. A witty se-
[90040]
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first edition of the author’s first book.
£1,250
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ries that bridges the gap between chapter books and
graphic novels.
£2,000
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. A
story of the Grand Banks. London: Macmillan &
Co., Limited, 1897
KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little
Children. Illustrated by the Author. London:
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902
Quarto (235 × 175 mm). Bound for Asprey and Co in red half
morocco, red cloth sides, raised bands, titles to spine gilt,
gilt rule to compartments, single gilt rule to covers, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout by the
author. Ownership inscription to front blank, spine lightly
faded, extremities lightly rubbed, a very good copy.
first edition of Kipling’s famous collection of 12
stories and 12 poems including “How the Camel Got
His Hump” and “How the Leopard Got His Spots.”
£850
[90332]
Crown octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover
with gilt titles and pictorial designs, black endpapers, all
edges gilt. With frontispiece and 22 full-page illustrations.
With illustrations by I. W. Taber. Spine gently rolled, extremities very lightly rubbed, a few light spots throughout and a small stain to the half-title. With bookplate and
small blue bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. A very
good copy.
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170
171
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LANG, Andrew, ed. The Pink Fairy Book. With
numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. London,
New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1897
LANG, Andrew, ed. The Grey Fairy Book.
London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green,
and Co., 1900
LANG, Andrew, ed. The Crimson Fairy Book.
With eight coloured plates and numerous
illustrations by H. J. Ford. London, New York and
Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903
Octavo. Original pink cloth with gilt titles and illustration
to spine and front board, black coated endpapers, all edges
gilt. Illustrated frontispiece, and numerous vignette and
full page illustrations in the text throughout by H. J. Ford.
A few faint marks to cloth, with the spine a little faded but
considerably less so than usual, gilt only a little dulled,
repair to hinges, some foxing mostly to end leaves, bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. A very good copy with the
cloth colour presenting much more evenly between spine
and boards than is common with this title.
first edition of the fifth instalment in Lang’s
Fairy Books series. Lang notes in his Preface that,
“Mr Ford, as usual, has drawn the monsters and
mermaids, the princes and giants, and the beautiful
princesses, who, the Editor thinks, are, if possible,
prettier than ever.”
£450
[92905]
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board gilt, black coated endpapers,
all edges gilt. Illustrated frontispiece, vignette title page,
31 plates, and illustrations in the text throughout by H.
J. Ford. Very slight dulling to the gilt at spine but on the
whole the gilt and cloth respectively well-defined and retaining its tone, very slight rubbing to the tips, some internal spotting mostly restricted to early and late leaves, a nice
copy, square sound and in excellent condition.
first edition of the sixth in Lang’s Fairy Book
series, with tales “deriving from many countries—
Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France,
Greece, and other regions of the world” (Lang’s preface), many of them highly phantasmagorical and
strange. Lang’s preface contains the intriguing observation, “The stories, as usual, illustrate the method of popular fiction. A certain number of incidents
are shaken into many varying combinations, like
the fragments of coloured glass in the kaleidoscope.
Probably the possible combinations, like possible
musical combinations, are not unlimited in number”.
£500
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Octavo. Original crimson cloth, illustration to front cover
and spine gilt, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers with
line drawings, all edges gilt. Colour frontispiece, vignette
engraved title page, 7 colour plates, 35 engraved plates, and
illustrations in the text throughout. Spine a little faded, extremities lightly rubbed, gilt a little dulled but still bright,
title page tissue guard foxed but otherwise internally clean.
A very good copy.
first edition of the eighth of Lang’s Fairy Books,
a truly international collection with stories originating from Eastern Europe, Sicily, Scandinavia, and
the Far East.
£425
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LANG, Andrew, ed. The Orange Fairy Book.
With eight coloured plates and numerous
illustrations by H. J. Ford. London, New York and
Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906
174
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles gilt to spine, illustrative design gilt to front page, all edges gilt. Colour frontispiece, engraved vignette title page, 6 colour plates, 17 black
and white plates, and numerous vignette engraved illustrations in the text throughout. Contemporary ownership
inscription to front free endpaper. Gilt only very slightly
dulled but still bright, and the cloth colour still vivid, spine
slightly rolled, very slight rubbing to ends and corners,
faint spotting to end leaves but otherwise internally clean,
an attractive copy in excellent condition.
first edition of the tenth Fairy Book.
£450
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LATHAM, Charles. In English Homes. The
Internal Character, Furniture & Adornments of
Some of the Most Notable Houses in England,
Historically Depicted from Photographs
Specially taken. London: Country Life and George
Newnes, 1909
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175
LAWRENCE, D. H. Movements in European
History. Oxford & London: Oxford University Press;
Humphrey Milford, 1926
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and decoration to spine
and front board in dark green. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Lightly rubbed at extremities, joints
fraying a little, a couple of minor marks to rear board, endpapers and endleaves faintly foxed and tanned. An excellent copy.
presentation copy, inscribed by the author
on the title page: “To the Wilkinsons, from D. H.
Lawrence”. Lawrence’s school textbook was originally published in 1921 under the pseudonym Law-
Third edition; first published in 1904. A handsomely
bound set featuring the great historic estates of England.
[88975]
rence H. Davison and was reissued under his real
name in 1925. This is a revised edition of the latter,
intended “for Irish Schools, with appendices on Early Mediterranean History, Ireland and the Normans,
Ireland and Foreign Countries” (title page).
£875
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LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A
Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935
Quarto. Publisher’s tan quarter pigskin, buckram boards,
title gilt to spine, crossed swords device gilt to front board,
Cockerell marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut.
With a portrait frontispiece and 53 plates, many of them
in colour, and 4 folding maps. Armorial bookplate to front
pastedown. An extremely well-preserved copy, the spine
showing none of the flaking often encountered, cloth unspotted, the joints and hinges entirely sound, just a touch
of foxing to the fore-edge with minor encroachment to the
margin, contemporary gift inscription verso of the front
free endpaper, a very good copy.
limited edition, no. 691 of 750 numbered copies.
The third English edition overall, after the abandoned Oxford edition and the privately-printed subscribers edition, this limited edition was published
at the same time as the trade edition.
3 volumes, folio. Bound in late 20th-century blue half morocco, blue cloth boards, raised bands, titles and decoration to spines gilt, gilt edges. Illustrated with photographs
taken by Charles Latham. Light soiling to cloth boards,
corners gently bumped, a very good set.
£750
176
O’Brien A041.
174
£2,000
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178
179
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178
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LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1927
(LAWRENCE, T. E.) HART, Basil Henry
Liddell, & Sir Ronald Storrs. Lawrence of
Arabia. London: The Corvinus Press, 1936
(LÉGER, Fernand.) GOLL, Iwan. Die
Chapliniade. Eine Kinodichtung. Mit vier
Zeichnungen von Fernand Léger. Dresden:
Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag, 1920
Quarto. Original brown quarter pigskin, buckram boards,
title gilt to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed Coloured portrait frontispiece, 10 coloured plates, 8 black and
white plates, one folding map at the end. Occasional unopened folds. Spine ends and boards slightly rubbed, light
cockling to rear board, mild tanning to endpapers and
half-title, small chip to folding map stub.
first edition, large paper issue, no. 169 of 315
numbered copies, of which 300 were for sale. The
costs for production of the 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom had ballooned to such an extent that Lawrence
was contemplating selling either his library or some
of his property to clear the debt. Eventually he settled on the publication of an abridgement, undertaken in 1926 by Lawrence himself with the help of
some of his fellow servicemen, an earlier attempt by
Edward Garnett having been set aside. Published in
March 1927 in Great Britain and America, in both
limited and general issues, three impressions were
soon sold out and two more quickly added. The
profits from this publication made the fortunes of
the Cape publishing house.
O’Brien A101.
£1,750
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Quarto. Original sand half cloth, matching kinari chiri paper sides by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, title gilt to the spine,
single gilt rules at spine and corner edges, Corvinus device
to front board, top edge gilt, others uncut. With the paper flaps of the original jacket laid in. With the grey card
slipcase. Slipcase with publisher’s ink limitation number.
A lovely copy in excellent condition, lacking the glassine
part of the jacket but with the paper flaps preserved, in the
somewhat rubbed slipcase.
signed by Liddell Hart. Colonel S. F. Newcombe’s
copy (without ownership inscription) of this attractively produced book by the Corvinus Press, printing
Liddell Hart’s and Storrs’s eulogy addresses given at
a luncheon in memory of Lawrence about a month
after his death. Colonel Newcombe was Lawrence’s
key mentor and a pall-bearer at his funeral. The original jacket had paper flaps and the rest glassine—it
rarely survives; neither jacket not slipcase are noted
by O’Brien.
O’Brien E101.
£3,750
[91080]
Square octavo. Original cream paper boards printed in
black, Charlie Chaplin design with pink and green labels
to front board by Hans Blanke. Text in German. Four black
and white illustrations by Fernand Léger. Boards and spine
a little darkened, closed tears to head and tail of spine,
small dampstain to lower front joint, endpapers tanned.
An excellent copy.
first edition of Iwan Goll’s “cinepoem” based on
the character of Charlie Chaplin and illustrated with
the famous cubist portraits of The Tramp by Fernand Léger who would develop the theme of a deconstructed Chaplin puppet in his avant-garde film
Ballet Mécanique (1924).
£3,750
[90658]
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(LÉGER, Fernand.) COOPER, Douglas.
Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace. Traduction
de l’anglais par François Lachenal. Geneva:
Éditions des Trois Collines, 1949
180
181
Small quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, titles to front
cover and spine in black. With 8 tipped-in colour plates and
119 black and white illustrations throughout the text. Spine
faded and toned, small split to head of spine, wrappers
rubbed, internally clean and bright.
182
first edition, double presentation copy.
Inscribed by the artist “Très cordialement, F Leger”
and by the author “For Basil, with all my love, this
product of a summer holiday on Porquerolle, Douglas. Genéve, le 3 Octobre 1949”. The recipient was
Cooper’s lover at the time, Basil Mackenzie, 2nd
Baron Amulree, physician and leading advocate of
geriatric medicine.
£1,500
[88797]
181
Octavo. Contemporary full vellum, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 22
engraved plates of which one is folding. Vellum slightly
rubbed, front board gently bowed, small chip to morocco
label, light foxing and occasional spotting throughout.
Otherwise an excellent copy.
first edition of Rigaud’s translation. A beautifully bound copy of this foundational practical treatise
on Renaissance art, first published at Paris in 1651.
The work had previously been translated into English in 1721.
LEONARD, Elmore. The Moonshine War. New
York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1969
Schimmelman 24.
Octavo. Original green cloth backing black boards, spine
lettered in black, green endpapers. With the dust jacket.
Spine bumped, a good copy in the jacket that has a few
nicks to the extremities, a lightly toned spine and a short
closed tear at the head of the rear panel.
183
first edition.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine faded and rolled; an excellent copy in the
jacket that has a faded spine, nicks to the extremities and
tape repairs to the verso.
£750
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LEONARDO DA VINCI. A Treatise of Painting.
Faithfully translated from the original Italian,
and now first digested under proper heads,
by John Francis Rigaud. London: Printed for J.
Taylor, 1802
£650
[92412]
LEWIS, C. S. Perelandra. A Novel. London: John
Lane The Bodley Head, 1943
first edition, first issue binding of blue cloth
with gilt lettering. Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the
second book in Lewis’s Space Trilogy.
£1,250
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signed by the artist. The subjects include Anthony
Asquith, Stella Benson, G. K. Chesterton, Noel Coward, Augustus John, James Joyce, and J. B. Priestley.
£2,500
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185
LEWIS, Wyndham. One-Way Song. London:
Faber and Faber, 1933
Octavo. Original full vellum, titles to spine and front cover
gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With decorated title page and 4 illustrations by Lewis. Fore edges of boards
lightly bowed and rubbed, endpapers and edges slightly
foxed. An excellent copy.
signed limited edition, no. 22 of 40 signed by
Lewis. A collection of satirical poetry.
Morrow & Lafourcade A21a.
184
£1,750
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184
LEWIS, Wyndham. Thirty Personalities and a
Self Portrait. London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1932
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Folio. Unbound sheets contained in the original white
cloth-backed black portfolio, title label to front board
printed in black, original ties. 31 reproductions after
Wyndham Lewis, with the original tissue guards titled.
Tissue guards with a couple of corners turned, portfolio
somewhat rubbed and scuffed but an excellent copy.
LOOS, Anita. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The
Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady.
Intimately Illustrated by Ralph Barton. London:
Brentano’s, Ltd, [1926]
186
187
Octavo. White cloth-backed red cloth boards, titles to spine
and front board in black. With the dust jacket. Boards a little worn and bowed, spine lettering faintly faded, half-title
tanned, the occasional blemish to contents, front and rear
inner hinges starting. A very good copy in a lightly chipped
and rubbed jacket with tape repairs to head and tail of
spine panel verso.
first uk edition (a year after the New York first),
presentation copy, inscribed by the author on
the front free endpaper: “To Rudolf Stulik, with very
best wishes of Anita Loos. London, Aug 21, 1926”.
Austrian-born Rudolf Stulik was a London chef
whose Restaurant de La Tour Eiffel at 1 Percy Street
was a favourite haunt of the Bloomsbury Group and
the Vorticists, counting among its regulars Augustus
John and Nancy Cunard. In the early sixties William
Roberts put his memories of the restaurant down on
canvas in his painting “The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel: Spring, 1915” (in the Tate Gallery collection), which depicts Stulik in the company
of his illustrious patrons, among them Ezra Pound,
Wyndham Lewis, and Cuthbert Hamilton. Roberts
said of Stulik’s restaurant: “In my memory la cuisine
française and Vorticism are indissolubly linked” (The
Listener, 21 March 1957).
£2,250
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LOSSING, Benson J. History of the United
States. From the Aboriginal Times to the
Present Day. Illustrated with Over 1000
Engravings by F. O. C Darley and Other
Well-Known Artists. New York: Lossing History
Company, 1909
8 volumes bound in 4, large octavo (232 × 162 mm). Contemporary brown half calf, spines gilt in compartments, green
and red morocco labels, grey endpapers, marbled sides, top
edges gilt. Frontispiece to each volume and illustrations
throughout. Spines faded, boards a little rubbed with the
occasional scuff, contents very fresh. An excellent set.
A handsome set of this popular history of the United
States by the historian, journalist, and educator Benson Lossing (1813–1891). Originally published in 1895.
£750
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LOUDON, Jane Webb. The Ladies’ FlowerGarden of Ornamental Annuals. London:
William Smith, 1840
188
gilt bands, elaborate gilt rule to boards, marbled edges
and endpapers. 48 hand-coloured lithographs with tissue
guards. Boards lightly rubbed, two small spots to the foot
of the front board. A very good copy.
first edition. Loudon was the wife of landscape
gardener and horticultural writer, John Loudon,
who designed the Birmingham Botanical Garden.
She began to write popular botanical books to help
pay off the debts that her husband incurred in publishing his Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum. A beautifully illustrated copy in an attractive binding.
£1,500
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189
LOUDON, Jane Webb. British Wild Flowers.
London: William Smith, 1847
Quarto (270 × 210 mm). Contemporary green half hardgrained morocco, green cloth, spine lettered in gilt with
raised bands, boards ruled in blind, gilt edges and marbled
endpapers. 60 hand-coloured lithographs with page guards.
Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Hinges cracked,
boards scuffed. Internally fine, overall a very good copy.
£950
[93076]
Quarto (270 × 210 mm). Contemporary green half hardgrained morocco, green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, raised
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LOWTHER, George. The Adventures of
Superman. Based on the cartoon character
created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
Illustrations by Joe Shuster. Foreword by
Josette Frank. New York: Random House, 1942
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in crimson
morocco, titles to spine gilt, box design to spine blue, pictorial onlay block to front board copied from the original
cover, twin rule to turn-ins blue, green endpapers, gilt edges. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout by
Joe Shuster. A fine copy.
first edition. This book is the first novelization of
a comic book character, and also the first Superman
story credited to someone other than Jerry Siegel. It
was Lowther who first provided many now-familiar
details of Superman’s birth and early life.
£2,250
[90262]
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MACLEAN, Norman. A River Runs Through It
and Other Stories. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1976
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Octavo. Original light blue linen cloth, titles to spine in
silver, yellow-beige endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine
copy in a fine jacket with very lightly sunned spine panel.
first edition of Maclean’s (1902–1990) autobiographical collection of short stories, including the
title story, “Logging and Pimping and ‘Your pal,
Jim’”, and “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a
Hole in the Sky”.
£1,250
[92678]
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MAHON, Lord. History of England from the
Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles,
1713–1783. London: John Murray, 1839–54
7 volumes, octavo (215 × 134 mm). Contemporary tan
calf, raised bands to spines, red and brown morocco labels, titles and decorations to compartments gilt, coat of
arms on front boards gilt, marbled edges and endpapers.
Small bookseller’s tickets to verso of front free endpapers.
Boards occasionally a bit scuffed and soiled, extremities
gently rubbed, mild spotting to prelims and endmatter. An
excellent set.
A handsomely bound complete set of Mahon’s History of England. First published between 1836 and
1853, this set from the library of the Supreme Court
in Canterbury, New Zealand, is the second edition.
£450
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MALIK, Michael Abdul. From Michael de
Freitas to Michael X. London: Andre Deutsch, 1968
Octavo. Original orange boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the pictorial dust jacket. Light bumps to top corners of
boards, faint partial tanning to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in a jacket with mild sunning to spine panel
and one tiny closed tear.
the author on the front free endpaper, “26 July ’69,
To Molly, a Beautiful Sister, Peace and Love, Michael”. Michael Abdul Malik adopted the nickname
Michael X when he became a Black Power leader in
1960s London. His activism earned him the support
and friendships of famous figures such as Muhammad Ali and John Lennon. He was hanged in 1975
in his native Trinidad for the murder of two of his
supporters, which had been committed on the commune he founded there.
£2,500
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MALORY, Sir Thomas. La Mort d’Arthur.
The most ancient and famous History of the
renowned Prince Arthur, and the Knights of
the Round Table. London: printed and published by
R. Wilks; sold also by Simpkin & Marshall, and all
other Booksellers, 1816
3 volumes, duodecimo. Rebound to style in recent half
calf, black paper sides, spines gilt in compartments with
decoration and title direct, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece illustrations and vignette title page to each volume,
Round Table folding plan (a contemporary facsimile from
the 1634 edition) to volume one. Some very minor marks to
covers, slight spotting to some plates but otherwise internally quite fresh, volume one folding plan a little creased at
the folds. Very good condition indeed.
first edition thus, the first modern Malory (no
edition of the Morte d’Arthur, first printed by Caxton
in 1485, had been printed since William Stansby’s
1634 printing) and the earliest edition acquirable
without great difficulty and expense—even in 1816,
the Stansby printing had “long since become rare”.
In 1816, after almost two centuries of obsolescence,
Malory’s text, the chief vessel of Arthurian legend
in the English language, had a sudden resurgence,
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with two effectively simultaneous printings in direct competition with one another: this edition and
that of Walker & Edwards. These are the seventh and
eighth editions overall, though there is disagreement as to which takes precedent. The text of both
was taken from the Stansby edition (unlike Southey’s subsequent edition in 1817, taken from a rediscovered Caxton copy); Wilks’s edition has some
expurgated alterations for the sake of “the fair sex”,
though retains a facsimile of the Stansby title page
and the Round Table plate, here present. Volume I
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bears a six-page disquisition on the bibliographic
history of the Morte d’Arthur, which addresses Walker
& Edwards’s rival edition in suitably chivalric terms:
“Let it be remembered, that we did not throw down
the gauntlet”, and so on at length.
£1,500
[89890]
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MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom.
The Autobiography. Randburg: Macdonald Purnell
(Pty) Ltd., 1994
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, map
of South Africa endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 46
black and white photographic illustrations. Spine bumped
in near fine dust jacket.
first edition, signed by Nelson Mandela and
dated at the publication date, 14 December 1994, on
the half-title.
£3,750
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MARSHALL, Fred, ed.; Frank Habitch, &
others. Chelsea Birds. A Photographic Essay.
London: Freehold AG, 1971
Quarto. Original pictorial ring-bound wrappers. 40 leaves
of black and white photographs. Wrappers a little rubbed
and scuffed. An excellent copy.
first edition. A playful collection of photographs
of women in the streets of Chelsea by Frank Habitch,
John Robins, Jak Kilby, and Stephen Fry capturing
the spirit of London in the 1960s.
£2,500
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MILL, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869
Octavo (197 × 121mm). Original dark yellow cloth, titles to
spines gilt, boards blocked in blind, brown coated endpapers. Spine slightly darkened, occasional spotting to front
board. A few leaves a little roughly opened. Pencil annotations to the rear endpaper. A lovely copy.
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MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel García. One Hundred
Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish
by Gregory Rabassa. New York & Evanston: Harper
& Row, 1970
first edition, “the last of [Mill’s] great political
tracts” and his “most unpopular and bitterly contested” work (ODNB). Mill had long been a women’s
rights advocate, having been influenced by the thinking of his father, the Utilitarian philosopher James
Mill, and by his long friendship with, and then marriage to, the philosopher Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–
1858), a passionate advocate for equality. Indeed,
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s device to front board gilt, green endpapers. With the
dust jacket. Small contemporary ownership signature to
half-title, contemporary US bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Extremities faintly rubbed, top corners of boards a
little bumped. An excellent copy in a bright and very lightly
rubbed price-clipped jacket.
first english language edition, first state
dust jacket with the exclamation mark at the end
of the first paragraph on the front jacket flap. Originally published in Buenos Aires in 1967.
£1,750
the freedom of women can be seen as a microcosm
of Mill’s general philosophy of freedom, in which
“the ‘greatest good’ of the community is inseparable
from the liberty of the individual” and the definition
of tyranny is expanded to include the domination
of minorities by a democratically elected majority
(PMM 345). The Subjection of Women was the only one
of Mill’s works “on which he made a financial loss,
even though pirated popular editions soon began
to circulate widely in Europe and America. Among
campaigners for women’s suffrage, however, it rapidly became a sacred text and gave him a position of
heroic, almost apostolic, authority within the nascent women’s movement” (ODNB).
See Printing and the Mind of Man 345 & 398.
£2,500
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MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. With
decorations by E. H. Shepard. London: Methuen
& Co, July 1925
MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. With
Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London:
Methuen & Co., 1927
Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe blue morocco, titles and pictorial
decoration to spine and boards gilt, pictorial endpapers, all
edges gilt. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Spine
rolled and sunned but gilt still bright, rear board sunned
along joint, endpapers lightly foxed. An excellent copy.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and pictorial
designs to boards gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt.
With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Ernest H.
Shepard. Front free endpaper lightly foxed, half-title a little
browned. An excellent copy in a jacket with a tanned and
brittle spine beginning to split and one small closed tear
to rear panel.
deluxe binding. When We Were Very Young was first
published on 6 November 1924. Copies of the seventh and tenth impressions were later issued in deluxe bindings, this copy being a tenth impression.
£950
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MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. With
Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926
Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine and pictorial decoration front cover gilt, top edge gilt, map endpapers. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, a very small
light stain to spine and a small dark mark to fore edge. An
excellent copy.
first edition.
£750
[90526]
first edition.
£500
[90207]
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MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. With
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1928
Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles to spine and pictorial design to front board gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers.
With the illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by
E. H. Shepard. With contemporary gift inscription to verso
of front free endpaper. Spine slightly toned, spine ends
bumped and rubbed, slight bump to top edges of boards, a
small dark stain to fore edge, light browning to free endpapers, rear pastedown lightly cockled. A very good copy in a
slightly rubbed jacket with toned spine, chipping to head
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of spine partially affecting the title, and light silverfish
damage along flap folds and bottom of front cover.
first edition. The fourth and last book in the
Winnie-the-Pooh series and the first to feature the
character of Tigger.
£500
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MILTON, John. The Poetical Works. With
Notes of Various Authors, and with some
Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,
Derived Principally from Original Documents
in Her Majesty’s State-Paper Office, by the Late
Rev. Henry John Todd. London: Rivingtons [& 15
others in London and Liverpool], 1852
4 volumes, octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary red full
crushed morocco by White of Piccadilly, spines elaborately
gilt in compartments, twin light brown labels, boards panelled in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled
endpapers. Engraved portrait frontispiece and one facsimile. Contemporary red morocco label to front pastedown
of Volume I. Extremities lightly rubbed, occasional light
scuffing and minor scratches to boards, endleaves a little
foxed. An excellent set.
First published in 1801, this is a handsomely bound
set of the fifth edition of Todd’s edition.
£675
[89919]
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MOTHERWELL, Robert, & Octavio Paz. Three
Poems. (Tres Poemas.) Translated by Eliot
Weinberger. New York: The Limited Editions Club,
1987
Large folio. Original Irish linen boards with a lithograph recessed into the front cover, titles to spine in black. Housed
in the original Irish linen clamshell box, titles to spine in
black. 27 original lithographs by Motherwell printed on
various handmade Japanese papers by Trestle Editions and
hand-mounted upon mould-made paper from Cartiere Enrico Magnani. Excellent condition. Wear to head and foot
of upper joint of box.
signed limited edition, one of 750 copies
signed by Motherwell and Paz. The text is printed
in the original Spanish in red alongside English
translations in black. Included is “The Skin of the
World, The Sound of the World”, Paz’s tribute to
Robert Motherwell.
£2,750
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MUNNINGS, Sir Alfred. The Autobiography.
An Artist’s Life; The Second Burst; The Finish.
London: Museum Press Ltd., 1950–52
3 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt,
facsimile of author’s signature to front boards gilt. With
the dust jackets. Photographic frontispiece portraits and
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490 black and white illustrations by the artist. Boards
slightly rubbed, spines and extremities lightly sunned,
spine ends and board edges lightly rubbed, edges tanned.
Volume I boards slightly bumped, spine gently cocked;
light browning to Volume II front free endpapers; small
dark stain to front board of Volume III. A very good set in
slightly rubbed jackets with a few small nicks and chips to
extremities, as well as ghosts of library stamps the tail of
the spines.
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presentation copies to fellow Royal Academician John Cosmo Clark with lengthy inscriptions to
the front endpapers or half-titles, all dated 17 April
1953; vols. I and III are first editions; vol. II, second.
The inscriptions reflect Munnings’s trenchant views
on RA formalities (Volume I, commiserating with
Cosmo Clark, who had been part of the RA Selecting
and Hanging Committee for the first time in 1953:
“Have I not been through the endless, hopeless,
thankless task?”) and modern art (Volume III: “Today, Artists? — are casting all standards to the wind,
God help us!”). Also with an original line drawing of
clouds to Volume III half-title.
the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mrs Trelease, with good wishes from Iris Murdoch, August
1957”. With a loosely inserted newspaper review.
£1,500
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MURDOCH, Iris. The Sandcastle. A Novel.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1957
Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine faintly faded, endpapers, endleaves and
fore edge of text block a little foxed, top edge dusty. A very
good copy in a lightly edge-chipped and spotted jacket.
£1,250
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MUSSOLINI, Benito. The Cardinal’s Mistress.
Translated by Hiram Motherwell. London:
Cassell and Company Ltd, 1929
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With
the dust jacket. Spine cocked, very minor foxing to the top
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of France, From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814.
London: Thomas and William Boone, 1867
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edge. An excellent copy in the bright jacket that has some
small chips and nicks to the extremities.
bumped, boards mildly rubbed, prelims and endmatter
lightly foxed. Otherwise an excellent copy.
first uk edition. A romance novel, first published as a serial book in the Trento newspaper Il
Popolo, and released in instalments from 20 January to 11 May 1910 under the title Claudia Particella,
l’Amante del Cardinale: Grande Romanzo dei Tempi del Cardinale Emanuel Madruzzo. Fiercely anticlerical, it was
withdrawn from circulation in Italy after Mussolini
found it expedient to make a truce with the Vatican,
sealed by the Lateran Treaties in 1929.
first english-language edition, presentation copy from nabokov’s agent, Otto Klemen, inscribed on the front free endpapert: “To
Margaret Anne—although not a book for children.
O. Klement.” Camera Obscura was the first of Nabokov’s works to be translated into English and one of
two famously scarce and cheaply produced books
issued by the hapless firm of John Long. It sold
poorly and was remaindered in red paper boards.
Nabokov greatly disliked Winifred Roy’s translation
and its poor quality “prompted Nabokov to undertake translating his next novel, Despair, by himself,
a major step in his decision to become an Englishlanguage writer” (Boyd, Russian Years, p. 446).
£750
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[NABOKOV, Vladimir.] NABOKOFF-SIRIN,
Vladimir. Camera Obscura. A Novel. Translated
by Winifred Roy. London: John Long, Limited, 1935
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt. Spine gently cocked and gilding to spine slightly darkened, spine ends, corners, and top edge of rear board a bit
£4,750
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NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick. History
of the War in the Peninsula and in the South
6 volumes, octavo (190 × 115 mm). Contemporary dark
brown half morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt,
raised bands, marbled boards ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers and top edges. With 55 maps and plans. Contemporary armorial bookplates to front pastedowns, recent
auction stickers to rectos of rear free endpapers. Contemporary gift inscription to the first blank of volume I, small
ink-stamps of the military historian Col. Frederick Myatt,
author of British Sieges of the Peninsular War. Light rubbing to
extremities, a few board corners faintly bumped, fore edge
a little foxed, occasional light foxing, chiefly at endleaves.
A very good set.
First published between 1828 and 1840, this is a nicely bound set of the revised edition of a work that 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 all volumes in the
revised edition have plump appendices of “justificatory pieces” in answer to Napier’s critics. His controversy with Beresford over Albuera was particularly rancorous. 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)”.
£600
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(NAPOLEON.)
ABELL,
Elizabeth.
Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon,
during the First Three Years of his Captivity on
the Island of St. Helena: including the Time
of his Residence at her Father’s House, “The
Briars”. London: John Murray, 1844
Octavo. Original green fine-grained cloth elaborately decorated in blind and gilt, title and bee devices gilt to spine,
Légion d’Honneur device gilt to centre of front board and
in blind to rear, both within triple fillet panels in blind with
groups of four bees, similarly in blind, in corners, cream
surface-paper endpapers. Engraved half-title with Légion
d’Honneur vignette, lithographed frontispiece of The Bri-
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ars, and 5 other scenic plates, engraved by Henry Vizetelly.
A little rubbed, and a touch mottled, frontispiece, half-title
and plates somewhat foxed as usual, text lightly toned, but
overall very good and remains attractive. Contemporary
pencilled ownership inscription of Maria Nickleson.
first edition, and uncommon thus, particularly
in the cloth. Mrs Abell, née Betsy Balcombe, was
the daughter of an East India Company official at St
Helena. At the time of his arrival in exile, Napoleon’s intended residence, Longwood, was still being
refurbished, so he lodged for two months with the
Balcombe family, and struck up a warm friendship
with 14-year-old Betsy, who called him “Boney” to
his face, without reproach. When the ex-emperor
removed to Longwood she continued to visit him,
arousing the suspicions of the ever over-cautious
governor, Sir Hudson Lowe. In 1818 the Balcombe
family left the island, but Betsy remained in contact
with the Bonaparte family, Joseph, Napoleon’s elder
brother, visiting her in London in 1830. The sevenpage subscriber’s list includes some interesting notabilities including Hans Busk, Captain Marryat, Sir
Francis Burdett, and Lady Blessington.
£425
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(NAPOLEON.) TARBELL, Ida M. A Short Life
of Napoleon Bonaparte [extra-illustrated and
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with an 1802 letter signed by Napoleon, sending
troops for Marshal Ney in Switzerland]. New
York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898
Octavo (236 × 158 mm). Near-contemporary red crushed
morocco by Stikeman & Co., author and title direct to the
spine within single fillet panels in second and third compartment, French fillet panel with small coronet centretool to others, French fillet frame to boards, small Imperial eagle corner-tools, and a large capital N within laurel
wreath to the centre, single fillet edge-roll, olive branch
tools to the turn-ins, marbled endpapers, tricolour silk
page-marker intact, top edge gilt, the others uncut. Numerous illustrations to the text, many full-page, but this
copy extra-illustrated with 75 original engravings, together
with an etching on vellum by Ruet after Meissonier, and a
page-and-a-half letter from Napoleon dated 1802, signed
Bonaparte, on his stationery as First Consul. Just a little
rubbed, particularly on the joints, but overall very good.
first edition in book form, originally published
during 1896 as a serial in McClure’s Magazine, for
which Tarbell was an editor. This copy has been enhanced by the addition of numerous contemporary
portraits and plates, including a very handsome
Scenery, Etc. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme,
and Brown and Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1823
2 volumes, folio (361 × 259 mm). Contemporary brown russia, wide flat bands, title, author, and volume number in
the second, third and fourth compartments respectively,
first, fifth and sixth ornately gilt, attractive triple fillet
panel with scalloped corners and foliate corner-pieces to
the boards, triple fillet edge-roll, all edges gilt, wide turnins with three concentric panels of multiple fillets, brown
surface-paper endpapers. Half-titles bound in, 57 plates
on 51 sheets, all of them present in two states—proof, and
etched, both on India paper—and 3 in three states including engraved before letters, together with the supplementary suite of seven engraved plates with letterpress leaf of
descriptive text. Just a little rubbed, corners bumped, some
foxing as usual, but overall very good indeed.
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etched equestrian portrait of Napoleon by Ruet after Meissonier, signed in pencil by the engraver, but
most of all by the presence of a letter sent by Napoleon as First Consul from St. Cloud, 13 Vendémiaire
An 11 [5 October, 1802]. In a secretarial hand, but
signed Bonaparte, the letter is addressed to Berthier
as Minister of War, and directs him to send a demibrigade of the 89e, “since no other troops are available”, to Besançon where it will complete a battalion
of 61e which is under the orders of Marshal Ney, to
be ready to join the Marshal at Schaffhausen should
he so order. Following the collapse of the Helvetic
Republic due to the Stecklikrieg Insurgency, Ney
was in command of the French army reoccupying
Switzerland. Tarbell is often remembered as a muckraker for her attack on Rockefeller and Standard Oil,
but essentially she was a pioneer of the techniques
of investigative journalism; she was also the author
of a series of populist biographies, such as the present work. A handsome presentation.
£2,750
first edition, first issue dated 1823 on both title pages. The plates are engraved after a series of
views of Paris painted by Nash, who was regarded by
Turner “as the finest architectural artist of the day”
(ODNB). The text is provided by John Scott, whose
Visit to Paris and Paris Revisited were much admired by
Scott. Beckford made four pages of notes on his copies and Reginald Heber considering him an excellent “French tourist”. This the Beckford–Rosebery
copy, with the clipped auction description from part
III of the Hamilton Palace Sale mounted on the front
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free endpaper verso of volume I, and Rosebery bookplates to both front pastedowns.
£2,000
[89010]
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NASH, Frederick, John Scott, & M. P. B. de
la Boissière. Picturesque Views of the City of
Paris and its Environs; consisting of Views
on the Seine, Public Buildings, Characteristic
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black. Housed in a custom grey cloth slipcase and chemise.
Gernreich’s address sticker affixed to the rear panel of the
upper part of the box. Laminate chipped at foot of front
panel of pull-off lid, box a little creased, slight rubbing to
the edges of some postcards, overall condition good.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed
by the photograph to the designer Rudi Gernreich
on the front panel of the pull-off lid: “A set of ‘Real
French Postcards’—for Rudi from Helmut, 1976.”
Rudi Gernreich (1922–1985) is widely regarded as
one of the great innovators of 20th-century fashion.
He is perhaps best known for scandalizing the public with his “monokini”, or topless swimsuit. One
of the rarest Helmut Newton items, this is the only
example we have ever encountered. There no auction records, no record of other sales, no mentions
in any literature we can trace, and nothing in library
records. The pull-off lid to the box is marked “Series
No. 1”, but no other series of Newton’s postcards is
known to us. The inscription to Gernreich is dated
1976, the same year as Newton’s first recorded publication, White Women, but the postcards themselves
are variously dated 1971 to 1975. Newton’s first two
exhibitions were in 1975, one being at the Galerie
Nikon in Paris. It is possible that this was produced
for that show as an inventive exhibition catalogue.
£8,750
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NEWTON, Isaac. Philosophiae naturalis
principia mathematica. Editio ultima cui
accedit analysis per quantitatum series,
fluxiones ac differentias cum enumeratione
linearum tertii ordinis. Amsterdam: sumptibus
Societas, 1723
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NEWTON, Helmut. Newton’s White Box: 20
Postcards. Paris: Xavier Moreau, [1975?]
Octavo. White laminated card pull-off box with 20 colour
and black & white postcards from photographs by Helmut
Newton loosely inserted in an internal tray; titles printed in
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Quarto (255 × 192 mm), in two parts. Contemporary Dutch
vellum over boards, boards with blind stamped central
design and double ruled in blind, spine lettered in manuscript, raised bands, red speckled edges. Woodcut vignette
to title page, 3 engraved folding plates, numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Binding somewhat soiled, scattered minor foxing,
occasional marginal toning, inscription on the front free
endpaper abraded with resulting small holes, and small
puncture to the rear pastedown that is lifting at the edges.
An excellent copy.
second amsterdam edition, the only edition of
the Principia to append Analysis per quantitatum series,
fluxiones ac differentias, first published 1711, describing Newton’s method of calculus—the whole work
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being reprinted here as a second part with separate
title page, pagination, and index.
Babson 12.
£7,000
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NEWTON, Isaac. A Treatise of the System of
the World. Translated into English. London: for
F. Fayram, 1728
Octavo (199 × 124 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, corners restored,
new lettering piece, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled
edges. 2 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams throughout.
Errata supplied in an early hand. Title page slightly dust
soiled, paper flaw at head of C2 just touching headline,
small inkstain on E7 recto touching 3 letters only, small
paper loss to fore edge margin of L3 not affecting text, a
few trivial marks: these flaws minor only, a very good copy.
first edition in english. Also published the
same year in Latin as De Mundi systemate and originally intended as the third book of Principia—”but
that afterwards to avoid the disputes which might
arise, if those who were unacquainted with the prin-
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ciples laid down in preceding books, and full of the
prejudices which many years had made natural to
them, should take it in hand, he put the substance
of that book into propositions in the mathematical way, that it might be read by those only who had
studied the principles beforehand” (Newton, Preface). Ahead of his time “Newton points to the possibility of Terrestrial Tidal effects, which were discovered by Michelson in 1919, and another passage
indicates the existence of the planet Uranus, which
was actually first seen by Herschel in 1781” (Babson).
The translator was probably Andrew Motte.
Babson 18; Norman 1593; Wallis 30.
£9,500
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Gesammelte Werke.
Munich: Musarion, 1920–29
23 volumes, octavo (238 × 165 mm). Publisher’s full vellum, covers with two double-rule gilt borders, spines ruled
gilt with two leather labels, top edge gilt. 4 photographic
portraits and 7 facsimiles in volume 21. Ex-libris to front
pastedowns covered over. A little light spotting to the bind-
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ings and contents, first few spines slightly soiled. A clean,
tight set.
first complete collected edition, no. 106
of 185 special copies on rag paper and bound in
full vellum, from a total edition of 1,600. Arranged
chronologically, with an introduction by Richardo
Oehler, notes and indexes, this was the first edition
to claim completeness, and has only been surpassed
by the Colli and Montinari edition, still in progress.
Ziegenfuss 2, 216.
£4,500
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(NOLDE, Emil.) URBAN, Martin. Emil Nolde.
Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings.
London: Sotheby’s Publications, 1987
2 volumes, quarto. Original black boards, spine and front
board lettered in gilt, dark blue endpapers. With the dust
jackets. Richly illustrated throughout with photographic
plates. A fine set in the jackets, of which volume I has a
faded spine.
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first nonesuch press edition, one of 90 deluxe issue copies on Oxford India Paper bound in
one volume in full vellum. There were also 1,450 copies on Van Gelder rag paper, in two volumes bound in
half vellum. An excellent edition, attractively printed,
and comprehensively illustrated with black and white
reproductions of William Blake’s remarkable visual
interpretations of Milton’s poetical works. Though
individual suites of Blake’s illustrations had been
[92348]
£750
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O’BRIAN, Patrick. The Surgeon’s Mate. London:
Collins Place, 1980
first edition of the seventh book in the Aubrey–
Maturin series.
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Cunningham 16a.
£875
(NONESUCH PRESS.) MILTON, John. Poems
in English with Illustrations by William Blake.
Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain’d &
Samson Agonistes; [and] —— Paradise Lost.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926
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O’BRIAN, Patrick. The Far Side of the World.
London: Collins, 1984
Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
price-clipped dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped, margins of text block lightly tanned, as always. Otherwise an
excellent copy in a delightfully bright jacket with some very
gently rubbing to spine ends.
Two volumes bound as one, octavo. Publisher’s deluxe full
vellum, titles gilt to spine. Illustrated plates after William
Blake. Armorial bookplate. Vellum faintly spotted and
slightly warped, but all sound, slight crinkling to a few
leaves as is usual with India paper, in a very few instances
leading to small chips at the gutter. Very good condition.
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published previously with individual poems by Milton, the Nonesuch edition is the first to publish such
a comprehensive pairing of text and image.
Octavo. Original dark red boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the pictorial dust jacket. Front board gently bowed, edges
very lightly toned. An excellent copy in a lightly toned jacket with slightly rubbed rear panel.
first edition. A complete catalogue raisonné
of this leading figure of the German expressionist
movement.
£1,000
220
first edition with the second state dust jacket of
the tenth book in O’Brien’s Aubrey-Maturin series.
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boards a little bumped. An excellent copy in a rubbed and
slightly chipped jacket with a couple of tiny closed tears
and small puncture to front panel.
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The publisher printed the incorrect price on the
dust jacket and solved the error by price-clipping the
jacket and adding a sticker for £9.95; this copy lacks
the sticker. Very few survived with the original price.
Cunningham A19a.
£675
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ORWELL, George. The Road to Wigan Pier.
London: Gollancz, 1937
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase, with chemise.
With 32 photographic plates. Light bumps to top corners
of boards, top and bottom edges of text block a little spotted. An excellent copy in the classic Gollancz yellow typographic dust jacket, which is lightly chipped and with
tanning to spine panel, faint waterstain to rear panel and
several old tape repairs to the verso.
first edition, the preferred trade issue.
One of 1,000 copies published in this format. 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 rare. Asked
what the Wigan Pier was on a BBC radio programme
in 1943 Orwell replied: “Well, I am afraid I must tell
you that Wigan Pier doesn’t exist. I made a journey
specially to see it in 1936, and I couldn’t find it. It
did once exist, however […]. At one time, on one
of the little muddy canals that run round the town,
there used to be a tumble-down wooden jetty; and
by way of a joke someone nicknamed this Wigan
Pier. The joke caught on locally, and then the musichall comedians got hold of it, and they are the ones
who have succeeded in keeping Wigan Pier alive as a
byword, long after the place itself had been demolished”. Exceedingly scarce in the dust jacket.
Fenwick A.5b.
£9,750
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ORWELL, George. Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1945
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in white. With
the dust jacket. Fading to head and tail of spine, corners of
first edition, orwell’s literary agents
christy & moore’s copy, with their label pasted
on the front free endpaper and the pencil inscription
“File copy. 17.8.45”. Christy & Moore were Orwell’s literary agents throughout his career. In 1932, after his
manuscript for Down and Out in Paris and London had
been rejected by both Jonathan Cape and Faber and
Faber, the unknown Eric Blair gave it to his friend Mabel Fierz so that she could re-use the paper clips or do
what she liked with it. Fierz took it to Leonard Moore
of Christy & Moore who negotiated its publication by
the new publishing house Gollancz. It was in a letter
to Moore, regarding the publication of Down and Out
that Blair first adopted his pseudonym.
Crick, p. 235.
£2,750
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ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty Four.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949
Octavo (185 × 122 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine,
raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins,
burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. An excellent copy.
first edition.
£1,375
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OSBORNE, John. Look Back in Anger. A Play
in Three Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1957
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, endpapers lightly tanned.
An excellent copy in a jacket with minor chipping at head of
spine panel and faint rubbing at extremities.
the author on the front free endpaper: “To Bethel
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Solomons, John Osborne”, with Solomons’s bookplate. Bethel Solomons (1885–1965) was an Irish
obstetrician and gynaecologist born to a prominent
Jewish family. A gifted rugby player, he played internationally for Ireland. His father’s optician practice
incidentally featured in Joyce’s Ulysses: “Striding past
Finn’s hotel Cashel Boyle O’Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell stared through a fierce eyeglass across
the carriages at the head of Mr M. E. Solomons in the
window of the Austro-Hungarian viceconsulate”.
£2,500
[91589]
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OUSELEY, Sir William. Catalogue of Several
Hundred Manuscript Works in Various Oriental
Languages. London: Printed by A. J. Valpy, M.A.,
1831
224
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Quarto. Stitched in original marbled wraps. Housed in
black cloth drop-back box, title gilt to spine. Frontispiece
with some hand-colour. A little rubbed on the wraps, lightly browned, overall very good.
first edition of the catalogue of one of the finest collections of such works in private hands at that
date, with descriptions of 724 manuscripts offered
for sale as a group. This copy is inscribed on the
front free endpaper, “To Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart,
with Sir Wm. Ouseley’s compliments, London July
24th 1831”, but Phillipps, the foremost bibliomaniac
of his own or any other era, managed to resist the
temptation to add Ouseley’s collection to his own
assemblage of over 60,000 manuscripts. The collection remained unsold at Ouseley’s death in 1842,
being purchased the following year by the Bodleian.
The catalogue is decidedly uncommon: just 10 copies on OCLC; no copies traced at auction.
£3,000
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OWEN, Wilfred. Poems. With an Introduction
by Siegfried Sassoon. London: Chatto & Windus,
1920
226
Quarto. Original red cloth, printed paper label to spine.
With the printed dust jacket. Housed in a red quarter morocco slipcase, titles to spine gilt, and matching red cloth
chemise. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue
guard. Boards very gently bowed, cloth a little creased and
cockled, a few minor bumps to front board, free endpapers
lightly browned, slight offsetting from tissue guard to title
page. Otherwise an excellent and bright copy in a slightly
toned jacket with a couple of small spill-burns to front panel, a short closed tear to spine, and some minor chipping
to spine ends and corners.
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front free endpaper, “Given to the ‘Little Lady’, Miss
Louise Paine, who is the real Little Lady, for whom
these stories were told, by her father, the author
£3,500
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(PARRISH, Maxfield.) SAUNDERS, Louise.
The Knave of Hearts. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1925
Small folio (350 × 295 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea
Bindery in full red morocco, titles to spine gilt, two raised
bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial onlay of a court
jester to front board, inner dentelles gilt, original pictorial
endpapers bound in, all edges gilt. With colour pictures by
Maxfield Parrish. Previous owner’s inscription to the inside of the pictorial endpaper, overall internally very clean
and beautifully bound.
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PAINE, Albert Bigelow. The Hollow Tree. With
pictures by J. M. Conde. New York: R. H. Russell,
1898
Quarto. Original pictorial paper covered boards, brown
cloth spine. Housed in a brown quarter morocco solander
box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated in black and white
by J. M. Conde. Spine cloth worn at ends, moderate bumping and rubbing to boards at corners with some paper loss,
a very good copy.
Albert Bigelow Paine.” Paine has also signed at the
foot of the text and made an autograph correction in
ink on page 12. This is in effect the dedication copy:
“The Little Lady is four years old, going on five, and
is found of stories, this makes her and the story teller good friends” (Introduction).
Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 105.
first edition. This slim volume, promoted and
published by Sassoon after Owen’s death, and
backed by Edith Sitwell, contains all Owen’s best
known poems, including “Dulce et Decorum est”,
“Insensibility”, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, “Futility” and “Strange Meeting”.
£8,250
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first edition. Parrish was especially well-served
here by a beautifully printed volume with superbly
done colour reproductions. The publisher spared no
expense, and priced the book at $10.00, a very high
price for the day.
227
£3,500
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PASTERNAK, Boris. Doctor Zhivago.
Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward
and Manya Harari. London: Collins and Harvill
Press, 1958
Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the
dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket that has three
closed tears to the front panel and some small nicks to the
extremities.
first edition in english.
£575
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signed by the author and with his original painting
on the front cover. As stated by Patchen on the rear
pastedown “no two covers [are] alike”.
PATCHEN, Kenneth. Panels for the Walls of
Heaven. Berkeley, CA: Bern Porter; The Gillick Press,
1946
Octavo. Original cloth-backed binder’s boards with original painting by the author on the front cover. Illustrations
in the text. Contemporary book label to front free endpaper, gift inscription on blank leaf at rear. Boards slightly
rubbed, remains of taped acetate jacket to fore edges of
pastedowns, tape shadow to outer edges of free endpapers,
contents faintly foxed. A very good copy.
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£1,750
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230
(PIPER, John.) CUNARD, Nancy, & others.
Salvo for Russia. A limited edition of new
poems, etchings and engravings produced
232, 233, 234
in aid of the Comforts Fund for Women and
Children of Soviet Russia. 1942
Octavo. One folded sheet of poems and 10 artist’s engravings on 10 sheets, all loosely contained as issued in the
original red cloth-backed grey portfolio with blue paper
label to front cover, black cotton ties and red endpapers.
10 signed engravings by John Piper, John Banting, John
Buckland Wright (who contributed 2 prints, one being after Roland Penrose), Mary Wykeham, Ithell Colquhoun,
Dolf Rieser, C. Salisbury, Julian Trevelyan, Mary Wykeham,
and Geza Szobel. All sheets signed, most numbered 39/100
and titled, some dated. Lacks sheet listing artists and order form. Extremities a little rubbed, boards lightly soiled,
spine faded, text faintly foxed. An excellent copy.
limited edition, one of 100 unnumbered copies. Co-edited by Nancy Cunard and painter John
Banting in aid of Soviet Russia at a time when it was
being invaded by Nazi Germany, Salvo for Russia is
a collection of ten engravings by—mainly surrealist—painters and four poems by Cecily Mackworth,
James Law Forsyth, J. F. Hendry and Nancy Cunard.
It features John Piper’s first published etching.
£5,000
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PLATH, Sylvia. The Colossus and other poems.
London: Heinemann, 1960
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s device to rear board in blind. With the dust jacket.
With contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper.
A fine copy in a very good jacket with slightly rubbed and
tanned extremities, a few nicks and chips to spine ends
and corners.
first edition. The Colossus was the only regularly
published work by Plath published under her own
name in her lifetime; it proved one of the most influential first books of poetry of the post-war period.
£2,750
231
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PLATH, Sylvia. The Colossus & Other Poems.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in dark green,
author’s initials to front board and publisher’s device to
rear board in blind, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed.
With the dust jacket. Minor foxing to edges and endpapers.
A fine copy in a fine jacket with slightly toned rear panel.
first us edition of Plath’s first and only collection
of poetry published in her lifetime. Originally published in Great Britain in 1960. This copy is a review
copy with the publisher’s review slip loosely inserted.
£1,250
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PLATH, Sylvia. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber,
1965
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine gently rolled. An excellent, fresh copy in
a dust jacket with two tiny splits at head of faintly toned
spine panel.
first edition. A beautiful copy, uncommon in
such nice condition.
£1,200
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POE, Edgar Allan. Complete Poetical Works.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1909
Octavo (190 × 130 mm). Contemporary blue morocco by
Rivière, raised bands, title to spine gilt, ornate gilt design
to compartments, elaborate floral design gilt to covers, gilt
dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Black and white
frontispiece engraving Book plate to front pastedown and
front free endpaper, light rubbing to corners, an excellent
copy.
£450
237, 238, 239
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester.
London & New York: Frederick Warne and Co, 1903
first trade edition, with a single-page endpaper occurring four times. This edition was preceded by 500 copies privately printed for the author.
Eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the
privately-printed edition and sixteen are entirely
new for this edition.
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(POGANY, Willy.) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang
von. Faust. Translated by Abraham Howard.
With Illustrations by Willy Pogany. London:
Hutchinson and Co., 1908
Linder p. 430; Quinby 4.
£1,500
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1904
signed limited edition, one of 250 copies signed
by the artist.
80
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Quarto (275 × 225 mm). Red morocco with onlay binding by
Bayntun, raised bands, gilt to compartments, ornate decorations to covers gilt, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt
edges. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Colour frontispiece
and 30 plates with printed tissue-guards. An excellent copy
with the faintest of fading to spine.
£2,750
Sextodecimo. Original dark green boards, titles to front
board and spine in white, pictorial label with illustration
to front board, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and 26
colour illustrations by the author. Lightly rolled and toned
spine with tiny splits to head and tail, otherwise a lovely
bright copy.
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Sextodecimo. Original grey paper-covered boards, printed
in dark green, illustration mounted on front board, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations
by Beatrix Potter. Spine gently rolled and lightly tanned,
superficial tear to lower half of rear joint, one inner hinge
cracked but still holding firm, occasional minor mark to
contents. A bright copy in excellent condition.
first edition, first issue, with “muffatees”
(“muffetees” in second issue onward) and “we” in
Roman type (italic in second issue onward) on page
15. Issued in both grey and tan paper boards, without
priority. Potter’s introduction of Peter Rabbit’s cousin
Benjamin, the fourth of her books to be published.
Quinby 6. Linder, 424.
£1,500
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny TownMouse. London and New York: Frederick Warne &
Co., 1918
Sextodecimo. Original grey boards, titles to front cover
and spine in white, illustration laid down to front cover.
Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author.
Small rust stain to head of front cover, owner’s name and
date to front free end paper, otherwise a lovely bright copy.
first edition with the ‘N’ dropped from London
on the title page.
Linder p. 430; Quinby 25.
£2,000
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin
Bunny; … Timmy Tiptoes; … Mr. Tod; …
Little Pig Robinson; … Two Bad Mice; … Mrs.
Tittlemouse. London: Frederick Warne & Co.,
[c.1970]
6 volumes, sextodecimo. Bound in contemporary full red,
green, blue and brown morocco, titles and decoration to
spines gilt, 2 raised bands, gilt rule and titles to front covers, original endpapers bound in, gilt top edges. With colour illustrations by the author. A charming set with minor
wear to extremities and light soiling to covers.
A delightfully bound set of some of Beatrix Potter’s
most beloved stories.
£875
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POUND, Ezra. Exultations. London: Elkin
Mathews, 1909
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Small octavo. Original dark red boards, titles to spine
and front board gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed.
With contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper.
Spine toned, a few small white spots to boards, rear board
lightly soiled, spine and corners slightly rubbed, small
nick to head of spine, edges and endpapers slightly foxed.
A very good copy.
242
first edition of Pound’s fourth collection of poetry.
242
Gallup A4a.
£500
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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 (273 × 234 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in terracotta morocco, titles and decoration to spine,
pictorial title block to front board, roll to turn-ins, dark
green endapers, gilt edges. With 50 tipped-in colour plates,
captioned tissues bound in at the back. Occasional spotting to pages, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
signed limited edition, no. 405 of 500 copies signed by the illustrator. Barrie asked Rackham
to illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained
unpublished until 1928) but make a new book from
those chapters from The Little White Bird (1902) that
had first introduced the character.
£4,750
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) Mother Goose. The
Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur
Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1913
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark
green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, single rule
to boards, pictorial block to front board, roll to turn-ins,
marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With
13 coloured plates, captioned tissues and numerous black
and white illustrations throughout. The occasional minor
blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
signed limited edition, one of 1,130 numbered
copies signed by the artist.
£2,750
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham’s Book
of Pictures. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur
Quiller-Couch. London: William Heinemann, 1913
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles and decoration to spine
and front board gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.
Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 43 plates on brown paper with printed tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text. A few minor marks to cloth, slight spotting to endleaves and tissue guards. An excellent copy.
signed limited edition, no. 986 of 1,030 numbered copies signed by the artist.
£1,500
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) DICKENS, Charles.
A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur
Rackham. London & New York: William Heinemann;
J. B. Lippincott Co, 1915
Large quarto. Original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board gilt, top edge gilt, others
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untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 11 plates on grey paper with printed tissueguards, illustrations throughout in black and white. Lacks
ribbon ties. Boards slightly bowed as often, faint red mark
to rear joint, fore edge lightly spotted, outer edges a little
tanned, small superficial cracks to edges of pastedowns. A
very good copy.
signed by Rackham on the limitation leaf.
£4,500
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) EVANS, C. S. The
Sleeping Beauty. London: William Heinemann,
1920
Quarto. Original quarter vellum, gilt titles to spine, japon
boards, titles to spine gilt, titles and decoration to front
board gilt, green pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, partly uncut. One mounted colour plate, 3
double-page silhouette drawings with colour, 8 single-page
silhouette drawings in black and white and 41 drawings in
the text by Arthur Rackham. Boards a little rubbed, small
scuff to front board, faint offsetting from illustrations. An
excellent copy.
signed by the artist.
£1,500
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RACKHAM, Arthur. The Arthur Rackham
Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites with New
Illustrations. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd,
1933
Octavo. Original japon, titles to spine and front board gilt,
pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates, black and white illustrations throughout the text. A little spotting to boards and
endpapers, boards faintly rubbed, top edge a touch dusty.
An excellent copy.
signed by the artist.
Latimore & Haskell p. 69.
£1,350
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth.
The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Arthur
Rackham. Introduction by A. A. Milne. London:
Methuen & Co, 1951
Tall octavo. Original full white calf, titles to spine gilt, top
edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In the publisher’s cream
card slipcase. With 12 mounted colour and numerous
black and white illustrations. Slipcase slightly rubbed and
spotted and with one short superficial tear, a few hair line
cracks to spine, faint spots to boards, endpapers faintly
tanned. An excellent copy.
hundredth edition, limited to 500 copies
and printed on handmade paper. Rackham had
been asked to illustrate the first edition of the book
in 1908, but was already committed to illustrating A
Midsummer Night’s Dream and turned Grahame down.
It was a decision he regretted for much of the rest of
his life, until given the opportunity to illustrate the
book for the Limited Editions Club in the late 1930s.
First published in 1940, his illustrations for this children’s classic were be his last completed work.
£2,250
250
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250
RAMSAY, Andrew Michael. The Philosophical
Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion.
Unfolded in a geometrical order. Glasgow:
Robert Foulis, 1748–49
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling.
With Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939
Two volumes, quarto (205 × 160 mm). Recent quarter calf
and marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered gilt. Bookplate of Sir Archibald Grant of Monymoske, with his
ownership inscription dated 1750 to the head of the title
(slightly trimmed). First and last leaves a little toned, a very
good copy.
first edition of Ramsay’s great work, left unpublished at his death in 1743, and given by his wife to
Foulis, and seen through the press thanks to the
good offices of Hutcheson and, after his death in
1746, John Stevenson. “It reiterated many of the arguments of Ramsay’s Cyrus, but made more explicit
his attempt to reconcile Newtonian ideas to his own
philosophy” (ODNB.)
£3,250
[90441]
Quarto. Original blue-green cloth lettered and blocked in gilt,
pictorial endpapers. In the publisher’s slipcase. With 14 full
page colour illustrations, two black and white illustrations
and a facsimile letter from N. C. Wyeth. Hinges cracked but
holding. An excellent copy, in the darkened slipcase.
by Wyeth and Rawlings. A tender story of a boy and a
fawn, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.
£1,500
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RAY, John. A Collection of English Words
Not Generally used, With their Significations
and Original, in two Alphabetical Catalogues,
The one of such as are proper to the Northern,
the other to the Southern Counties. With
Catalogues of English Birds and Fishes: And
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an Account of the preparing and refining such
Metals and Minerals as are gotten in England.
London: by H. Bruges for Tho. Burrell, 1674
Octavo (146 × 90 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, double
blind rules, flat spine with blind twin rules in compartments, unlettered, red speckled edges. Title printed in red
and black, woodcut initials. Almost complete loss to blank
leaves A1 and L4, small contemporary marginal annotations p. 79. Extremities lightly chipped, split to upper rear
joint, edges of text block a little faded, small paper flaw or
remains of tipped-in label to initial blank, light foxing to
fore edge of text, outer edges of endleaves lightly tanned.
An excellent copy.
first edition. John Ray (1627–1705) was the supreme European naturalist before Linnaeus, and he
was also a lexicographer. His travels around Britain
with his friend Francis Willughby were primarily to
seek out botanical specimens, but they also generated evidence about antiquities, customs, and language, which Ray shared with Willughby and deployed himself in his own works. This is the second
of his two books of English lexicography, after A Collection of English Proverbs (1670).
Wing R388; Keynes, Ray 23.
£2,750
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contemporary [?] hand colouring in green, red and yellow
inks. Damage to lower portion of spine, boards worn, minor repairs to the first leaf and to eighteenth leaf, 4 wormholes touching a few single letters in the first 24 leaves,
a stain to the twelfth through fourteenth leaves, some
browning, light foxing throughout. A very good copy.
Fourth Venetian edition, and third Ratdolt edition.
Rolewinck’s chronological history of the world,
richly illustrated with woodcut illustrations and diagrams, was famous for its complex page design and
typographical layout, with the chronology following a
double timeline—measuring from both the Creation
and the birth of Christ. Rolewinck (1425-1502) was a
Carthusian monk and prolific author. This book was
both the most popular of his numerous writings and
the most popular concise world chronicle of its time,
being printed 32 times in the 15th century, including
translations into French, German and Dutch.
Goff R-270.
£6,250
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READ, Herbert, & others. Surrealism. London:
Faber and Faber Limited, 1936
Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in black and red.
With the dust jacket. 96 pages of black and white photographic plates. Cloth darkened at the edges and spine, contents toned, gift inscription and signature on the front free
endpaper. A very good copy in the jacket that has a few nicks
and chips to the extremities and tape repairs to the verso.
first edition. The author’s scarce monograph on
the Surrealist exhibition of June 1936, with essays
by André Breton, Hugh Sykes Davies, Paul Éluard,
and Georges Hugnet. Uncommon in the dust jacket,
designed by Roland Penrose, with his now classic
photo-montage design with a surreal shell and key
over a typographic background.
£675
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(REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua.) LESLIE, Charles
Robert, & Tom Taylor. Life and Times of Sir
Joshua Reynolds: With Some Notices of his
Contemporaries. Extra Illustrated. London: John
Murray, 1865
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2 volumes bound in 4, octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary brown full levant morocco by Root & Son, spines
elaborately gilt in compartments, titles to spines gilt, portrait of Reynolds and his signature to front boards gilt, triple gilt rule to boards, top edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles,
marbled endpapers. Extra illustrated with 225 plates. Board
edges slightly darkened, extremities faintly rubbed, partial
tanning to free endpapers, occasional light offsetting from
plates. An excellent set.
first edition of the biography of the 18th-century
portraitist and first president of the Royal Academy.
The work was begun by Royal Academician Charles
Robert Leslie (1794–1859) in reaction to Allan Cunningham’s uncomplimentary biography of the painter in his Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors
and Architects (1829–33) and finished by dramatist and
journalist Tom Taylor after Leslie’s death.
£875
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ROLEWINCK, Werner. Fasciculus temporum.
Venice: Ernard Ratdolt, 1484
[Super-chancery] folio (310 × 217 mm). 66 numbered
leaves, 8 unnumbered leaves. Cream calf spine and tips,
marbled boards, spine lettered in manuscript. Genealogical diagrams with woodcut or metal cut roundels, whiteon-black woodcut ornamental initials, and white-on-black
woodcuts are interspersed throughout the text, some with
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ROWLING, J. K. [Complete set of the Harry
Potter collector’s edition deluxe:] Harry Potter
and the Philosopher’s Stone; … the Chamber
of Secrets; … the Prisoner of Azkaban; … the
Goblet of Fire; … the Order of the Phoenix; …
the Half-Blood Prince; … the Deathly Hallows.
London: Bloomsbury, 1999–2007
7 volumes, large octavo. Original red, blue, green, purple,
burgundy, blue and grey cloth with pictorial onlays, titles
to front covers gilt, titles to spines gilt, all edges gilt. No
dust jackets issued. A fine set, the last three volumes intact
in shrinkwrap.
first deluxe editions.
£2,500
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[ROWLING, J. K.] GALBRAITH, Robert. The
Cuckoo’s Calling. London: Sphere, 2013
Octavo. Original dark blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy.
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first edition, signed by the author on the title page as Robert Galbraith. The first printing of the
first edition ran to at least 1,500 copies, with a cover
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which features a quote from Val McDermid, while
the back cover has quotes from Mark Billingham and
Alex Gray. The copyright page does not have a number line but simply states “First published in Great
Britain in 2013 by Sphere”. It is thought that Rowling
signed 250 copies of the first edition for promotional
purposes before the secret of her authorship was revealed, some four months after publication.
£3,000
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RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s Children.
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth-backed grey paper
boards, titles to spine and author’s initials to front board
in silver, fore edge uncut. With the dust jacket. Faint toning to top and bottom edges of boards, fore edge of front
free endpaper slightly finger-marked. An excellent copy in
a lightly soiled jacket.
first edition, UK issue taken from the American
sheets, presentation copy inscribed by the author:
“To Tanya Leaver, (hello again!), Salman Rushdie”.
Coming after the less than stellar success of Grimus,
Cape issued only 1,000 copies from US sheets. The
winner of the 1981 Booker Prize and, in 1993, winner
of the Booker of Bookers Prize as the best novel to win
the award in the first 25 years of its existence.
£2,250
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RUSKIN, John. Modern Painters. Their
Superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting to
the Ancient Masters. London: Smith, Elder, & Co.,
1851–60
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Edwardians.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1930
5 volumes, large octavo (258 × 172 mm). Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full blue morocco, raised bands to spines, titles
and ornaments to compartments gilt, triple frames to
boards gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, ornamental
rolls to turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. With the original
green cloth bound in. Frontispieces and numerous engravings throughout. Armorial bookplate of David Salomons
Bart. to front pastedowns. Spines sunned, a few light scuff
marks to boards, minor touch-ups to gilding on boards,
slight offsetting from turn-ins and bookplates. Volume I:
a couple of small repairs to front board edges, rear board
slightly soiled; Volume V: extremities of front board lightly
sunned. Otherwise an excellent set.
A complete set of Ruskin’s defence of modern
painters, which the author began after reading a
newspaper review attacking Turner’s contributions
to 1842 year’s Royal Academy exhibition. This is
the fifth edition, revised by the author, attractively
bound by Zaehnsdorf.
£975
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Octavo. Original japon-backed pink cloth, titles to spine
gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Corners slightly
bumped and worn, a few light stains to spine, slight bump
to lower front cover, edges tanned. An excellent copy.
signed by the author.
Woolmer 235A.
£975
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SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. The Little
Prince. Translated from the French by
Katherine Woods. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock,
1943
Quarto. Original pale brown cloth, titles and pictorial design to spine and front board in dark red. With the dust
jacket. Housed in a matching light brown cloth chemise
and slipcase, case backed in brown morocco. Illustrated
throughout by the author. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine ends and corners a bit
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rubbed, occasional foxing to edges, endpapers, and margins of text block. Otherwise an excellent copy in a slightly
toned jacket with some minor foxing to front panel.
first english-language edition, trade issue,
contemporaneous with the first French edition also
done in New York by the same publisher. Although
the manuscript was composed in the author’s native
French language, it was written in Asharoken, New
York, and first published in New York City.
£2,500
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SALTEN, Felix. Bambi. A Life in the Woods.
Foreword by John Galsworthy. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1928
Octavo (215 × 140 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, gilt lettering to spine, gilt block of
deer to front cover, original pictorial endpapers, gilt edges.
Kurt Wiese black and white illustrations throughout. An
excellent copy.
first english-language edition. The timeless tale of a deer and his woodland friends, which
served as the basis for the Walt Disney film.
£1,500
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SAYERS, Dorothy L. Whose Body? New York:
Boni and Liveright, 1923
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and geometric panelling
to spine and front board in dark blue. One ownership signature to front pastedown and another inked out on the
front free endpaper. Shaken, cloth rubbed, spine tanned,
lower corner bumped, rear hinged cracked, endpapers
tanned, contents toned. A good copy.
first edition of Sayers’s first detective novel, in
which she introduces Lord Peter Wimsey. Published
prior to the British edition.
£750
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SAYERS, Dorothy L. Busman’s Honeymoon.
A Love Story with Detective Interruptions.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the
dust jacket. Very slight rubbing to ends and corners, gilt
titles a little dulled. An excellent copy in the rubbed jacket
with 2 small closed tears to foot of spine panel.
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first uk edition. Originally published in New
York in the same year. This copy has all the issue
points associated with the British first edition, including the erratum at p. 335.
Gilbert A25, b. I.
£1,750
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SENDAK, Maurice. Nutshell Library. Pierre,
Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny and
Chicken Soup with Rice. New York: Harper &
Row, 1962
Miniature (95 × 63 mm). All four volumes in original pink
cloth binding and with dust jackets. In the original pictorial slipcase housed in a cloth solander box with image of
slipcase blocked to front. Illustrated by Sendak. An excellent and bright set, dust jacket with very minor wear to
spine, in edge-worn slipcase.
first edition, each volume inscribed by
Sendak with an original ink drawing pertaining to
the corresponding story on the front free endpaper.
Slipcase with gold price sticker affixed to front; the
books in the preferred pink cloth first state binding.
£2,250
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SEUSS, Dr. Dr. Seuss’s ABC. New York: Beginner
Books, Random House, Inc., 1963
Octavo. Original pictorial laminate boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout
by Dr. Seuss. Mild soiling to covers, internally bright and
clean, dust jacket with mild soiling to panels, small abrasion
to top front edge and rear flap fold, a very good copy.
first edition.
£475
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[SEUSS, Dr.] LESIEG, Theo. I Wish I Had Duck
Feet. New York: Random House, 1965
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Octavo. Original pictorial laminated boards, with dust
jacket. B. Tobey illustrations. A bright copy in dust jacket
with small chip to rear bottom edge, and mild creasing to
lower front edge.
first edition, first issue, with the correct
195/195 price on the front flap.
£725
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[SEUSS, Dr.] LESIEG, Theo. The Many Mice of
Mr. Brice. New York: Random House, 1973
Octavo. Original pictorial laminated boards. Roy McKie
illustrations. An excellent copy with all pop-ups and movable parts in working order.
first edition, first issue, with orange binding
and the original price sticker to front board. Dr.
Seuss’s scarce pop-up book which was reissued as
The Pop-Up Mice of Mr. Brice.
£725
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SEUSS, Dr. The Cat’s Quizzer. New York: Beginner
Books, Random House, 1976
Tall quarto. Original pictorial laminate boards, patterned
endpapers. A little wear to ends of the spine and corners,
which is very slightly faded. A very good copy.
verso of the front free endpaper, “for Cameron with
Best Wishes, Dr. Seuss”.
Younger & Hirsch 13.
£1,250
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SHARP, Archibald. Bicycles & Tricycles. An
Elementary Treatise on Their Design and
Construction. With Examples and Tables. With
Numerous Illustrations. London: Longmans,
Green, and Co., 1896
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and double-line rules
to spine gilt, blind single fillet panels to the boards, black
surface-paper endpapers. Copiously illustrated with engravings and engineering diagrams. A little rubbed at the
extremities, mild foxing to the fore-edge, slightly later gift
inscription to the first blank, but overall a very good copy
indeed, the hinges, unusually, entirely uncracked.
first edition of this classic treatise on bicycle engineering. The author was an instructor in engineering design at the Central Technical College of South
Kensington (incorporated into Imperial College in
1907) and the inventor of the first spoked tension
wheel, which “dramatically improved a bicycle’s stability and balance” (Popular Science, December 1997).
The book’s success rests not only on Sharp’s technical
expertise, but also on his ability to make engineering accessible to the public. Not superseded until the
1970s, Sharp’s book is now uncommon in commerce.
£750
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Complete Poetical
Works. The text carefully revised, with notes
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and a memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. In
three volumes. London: John Slark, 1885
3 volumes, quarto. Late 20th century red half morocco
binding, raised bands, titles to spines gilt, single rule to
boards gilt, gilt to top edges. A very good set with mild
bumping to corners, handsomely bound.
limited edition, no. 77 of 200 copies. Rossetti’s
first edition of his literary hero was Shelley, with a
Memoir (2 vols., 1870), which he revised (3 vols.,
1878) in response to criticism of the first edition.
£675
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SHERRIFF, R. C. The Hopkins Manuscript.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1939
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in blue. With
the dust jacket. Spine darkened, contents toned, in the
jacket that has a faded spine and a few tiny nicks to the
extremities.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by
the author on the front free endpaper: “To Vernon
Bartlett, from Bob Sherriff, with every good wish.
Esher, 28 April 1939.” Sherriff is best known today
for his enduring play Journey’s End, based on his experiences as a captain in the First World War. The
writer (and later politician) Vernon Bartlett had collaborated with Sherriff into turning the play into a
novel, published in 1930.
£450
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SPEECHLY, William. A Treatise on the Culture
of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous
methods of propagating, cultivating and
training that plant, so as to render it abundantly
fruitful. Together with new hints on the
formation of vineyards in England. York: Printed
by G. Peacock for the author, 1790
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature
and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In Three
Volumes. The Ninth Edition. London: Printed for
A. Strahan; and T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1799
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rocco, 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
Quarto. Original boards, rebacked to style, white paper
title label printed in black to spine, untrimmed edges,
partly uncut. Illustrated with 5 numbered engraved plates
(3 folding). From the library of William Thomas Salvin,
who owned the manor of Burn Hall in Durham from 1806,
with his signature to both the half-title and title dated 1798.
Small loss to bottom corner of title page, boards rubbed
and spotted, faint offsetting to plates, a couple of small
marginal tears, light spotting to contents, the occasional
finger mark. An excellent copy.
first edition. A “practical, well-written and beautifully printed manual” (from Gabler, quoting Edward Hyams in Grapes under Cloches), the book proved
to have long lasting popularity and two further editions appeared in 1805 and 1821. William Speechly
(c.1740–1821), was gardener to the third Duke of
Portland, at his estate Welbeck Abbey in Notting-
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3 volumes, octavo (205 × 128 mm). Contemporary tree calf,
spines gilt in compartments, titles to spine gilt on red and
green morocco labels, all edges yellow. Spine ends and corners slightly worn, green morocco labels of Volumes I and
II worn off, board edges and joints a bit rubbed, top edges
darkened, mild tanning to endpapers, occasional foxing to
margins of text block. Volume I: short split to bottom of
front joint, small rust mark affecting one word on p.111,
small stain to p.293 affecting one letter, small hole to fore
margin of p.321; Volume II: a few small stains to text of
p.466, not affecting legibility; Volume III: small nick to
fore edges of p.323 and HH8. Otherwise an excellent set.
the last 18th-century edition of Smith’s highly influential work.
Tribe 67.
£2,250
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SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One
Dalmatians. London: Heinemann, 1956
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in white mo-
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hamshire. Encouraged by the duke he started writing down and publishing his knowledge and experience in gardening; already in 1776 he had contributed to Alexander Hunter’s edition of Evelyn’s Silva,
which was shortly followed by his own Treatise on
the Culture of the Pineapple (1779). In the present work
Speechly describes 50 species of grapes, and thoroughly examines hothouse culture, the construction
and management of vineyards, pruning, irrigation,
grafting, insect and blight control, etc.
There was also an undated edition published in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. Although
Bibliotheca Vinaria prioritizes the undated London
edition by suggesting a publication date of 1789, this
seems unlikely. Speechly was based in Nottinghamshire and had connections in Yorkshire where his
career as a gardener had started, at Castle Howard.
This edition is printed at his expense and is surely
the true first.
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Folio. Original black cloth, titles and rules to front board
and spine in gilt. No dust jacket was produced for this edition. Numerous full page photogravure illustrations by
Steichen. Extremities lightly rubbed and faded, foxing to
fore edge of text block, light foxing to other edges, occasional light spot to fore margin of plates. A stunning copy,
the best one we have come across.
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,
including his iconic portraits of Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, and Fred Astaire, as well as his still lives.
£2,750
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STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New
York: The Viking Press, 1939
Octavo (202 × 133 mm). Publisher’s presentation binding of
dark blue half morocco, titles to spine gilt, author’s name
gilt on brown ground, greyish-tan cloth sides, grey endpapers, top edge gilt. A little rubbing to spine and extremities, endpapers tanned from turn-ins, small chips to the
edges of a few leaves at rear. An excellent copy.
one of ten copies of the fifth printing specially
bound for presentation at the request of the author,
this copy with the presentation leaf left blank.
£3,250
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STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: The
Viking Press, 1952
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in dark green
on brown background, front board lettered in dark green.
With the dust jacket. A fine copy, with extremely minor
fading to the cloth, in the unclipped jacket that has minor
toning to the top of the flaps.
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(STEICHEN, Edward.) SANDBERG, Carl.
Steichen the Photographer. New York: Harcourt
Brace and Company, 1929
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Bibliotheca Vinaria p. 50; Bitting pp. 444–5; Gabler G37890;
Henrey 1376; Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, p. 132.
£1,500
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first edition.
£1,750
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.
London: Humphrey Milford, 1929
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine
and front cover in gilt, black, and white, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. With the illustrated dust wrapper.
Housed in the original illustrated slipcase. With coloured
frontispiece, 11 colour plates, one map, and occasional
black and white decorations in text by Rowland Hilder.
With contemporary gift inscription to verso of front free
endpaper. Extremities slightly rubbed, light foxing to
edges, endpapers slightly browned, occasional spotting
throughout. An excellent copy in an excellent jacket with
slightly tanned spine, a few light stains to front cover, and
a small chip to rear cover. Housed in a very good slipcase
with soiled back and slightly worn corners.
first edition with these illustrations.
£475
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STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald
Constable and Company, 1897
Octavo (190 × 125 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in mustard-yellow morocco in imitation of the original
cloth binding, lettered in red on spine and front cover, single-line border tooled in red on sides, marbled endpapers,
all edges gilt, Toning to pages with some spotting, small
stamp and ink lettering to title page, a very good copy.
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first edition, early issue, printed on less bulky
paper stock then the very first copies, of Stoker’s
classic tale of vampirism.
£3,750
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SUDEK, Josef. Praha panoramatická. Prague:
Státní Nakladatelství Krásné Literatury, Hudby a
Uméní, 1959
Oblong quarto (350 × 220 mm). Original cream cloth, illustration to covers and titles to spine in black, top edge black,
others trimmed. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with 284
monochrome panoramic photographs. Boards very mildly
soiled. Otherwise a fine copy in a gently toned jacket with
slightly nicked extremities, a few small chips to spine ends
and folds, and a couple of minor holes to rear panel.
first edition, signed and dated by Sudek on
the front flyleaf: “J. Sudek, Praha 10/III 59”. Sudek’s
most famous book, this volume collects 284 beautiful panoramic views of Prague. “No photographer,
save possibly Atget, was so devoted to the task of
portraying a city, and with such stunning results, as
Sudek” (Sawyer, Creative Camera, no. 190, April 1980).
Parr & Badger I, 211.
£4,750
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SUDEK, Josef, & Emanuel Poche. Karlův most:
ve fotografii. Prague: Státní Nakladatelství, 1961
Quarto. Original grey boards, illustration to front cover
gilt, titles to spine in blue. With the dust jacket. Illustrated
with 160 black and white photographic plates. A fine copy
in a mildly toned jacket with a few nicks and minor chips to
extremities repaired with tape to verso.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed on
the front flyleaf by Sudek in Czech and dated 20 May
1961. This volume collects numerous photographs
by Sudek of Prague’s oldest bridge, the Charles
Bridge.
£2,500
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SWINBURNE, Charles Algernon. The
Complete Works. London: William Heinemann,
1925
20 volumes, octavo (220 × 145 mm). Full burgundy morocco
by Stikeman and Co, raised bands, gilt titles to spine, ornate floral design to spine and covers, silk endpapers, gilt
top edge. An excellent set.
the bonchurch edition, no. 5 of 780 sets. A very
attractive library set.
£2,850
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[TAYLOR, Phoebe Atwood.] Freeman Dana.
Murder at the New York World’s Fair. New York:
Random House, 1938
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Octavo. Original blue and orange cloth, titles to spine and
decoration to front board in blue. With the dust jacket.
Faint spotting to spine, some foxing to endpapers and
margins of last leaves. An excellent copy in a rubbed jacket
with a few tiny chips and short closed tears.
first edition. Random House commissioned
Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909–1976) to write the
book to coincide with the much publicized World’s
Fair which took place in 1939. It is the only novel the
author wrote under the pseudonym Freeman Dana
(she also wrote as Alice Tilton). Scarce in dust jacket.
Hubin pp. 105 & 389.
£1,250
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. Lyrical Poems.
Selected and Annotated by Francis T. Palgrave.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1885
Octavo (154 × 97 mm). Early 20th-century green morocco,
spine, boards, and turn-ins elaborately gilt blocked with
art nouveau style floral design, yellow silk doublures and
free endpapers, edges gilt over green. Near-contemporary
gift inscription to front blank. Boards browned, dampstain
and spotting to silk endpapers. A very good copy.
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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
and Evans, 1848
Octavo (210 × 137 mm). Finely bound by W. Root & Son, red
pebble-grained morocco, gilt tool reproducing Thackeray’s
caricature of himself as a jester (woodcut tailpiece, Chapter
IX) to front board and spine, spine gilt in compartments
with gilt titles direct, twin rules and floral cornerpieces to
sides, turn-ins and top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece, vignette title and 38 plates with tissue guards, illustrations throughout the text. Small minor scuff to rear
board, joints faintly worn, tiny closed tear to fore edge of
front free endpaper, outer edges of free endpapers tanned,
the occasional light blemish to contents, final plate very
mildly tanned. An excellent copy with bright plates.
first edition, first issue, with all the points traditionally associated with the first edition: the drophead title in rustic lettering to page 1; the “Marquis
of Steyne” woodcut on page 336 (later suppressed);
and “Mr Pitt” for “Sir Pitt” on page 453 (“Mr” underlined in light pencil).
£1,250
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A handsomely bound copy of Tennyson’s poems, the
covers and spine featuring elaborate art nouveau floral designs in gilt.
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£450
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THACKERAY, William Makepeace.
Works. London: J. M. Dent, 1904
The
30 volumes, octavo (207 × 140 mm). Contemporary black
half morocco, marbled boards, raised bands to spines, titles and floral decorations to compartments gilt, top edges
gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Each volume
with tissue-guarded frontispieces as well as numerous illustrations in text, including the original illustrations by
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the author and additional ones by C. E. Brock. Minor offsetting to boards and endpapers, corners slightly rubbed,
a few volumes with small nicks to top of joints, minor scuff
marks to leather of Volume I rear board. Otherwise an excellent set.
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the temple edition of Thackeray’s works, no. 11
of 250 sets issued.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Very slight wear to rear joint. An excellent copy
in a slightly rubbed price-clipped jacket with a few creases
to covers and a small dark mark to front cover.
£2,250
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(THATCHER, Margaret.) MURRAY, Patricia.
Margaret Thatcher. London: W. H. Allen, 1980
first hardback edition, presentation copy
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signed by the subject on front free endpaper:
“To Mrs. Johnson with every good wish. Margaret
Thatcher, 6.X.80.” Originally published in paperback in 1978, this new and revised edition gives
an early account of the premiership of Margaret
Thatcher.
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£650
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THATCHER, Margaret. The Downing Street
Years. London: Harper Collins, 1993
Octavo. Original full blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, all
edges gilt, blue silk ribbon page marker. With the slipcase
Book fine in slipcase with light rubbing to lower edge.
by Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to lead a major Western democracy.
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£1,250
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THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas. A Savage Journey to the Heart of the
American Dream. New York: Random House, 1971
Octavo. Original black cloth-backed grey boards, titles to
spine in silver, Ralph Steadman design decoration to front
board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. With illustrated title page and 19 black and white line drawings by Ralph
Steadman. Top edges of boards a bit sunned, edges slightly
foxed. An excellent copy in a very lightly rubbed jacket with
mildly toned spine panel and gently bumped spine ends.
first edition of Thompson’s best-selling acidfuelled romp.
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£750
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THOMPSON, Hunter S. Hey Rube. Blood
Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward
Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the
Sports Desk. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004
Octavo. Original grey and pink boards, spine lettered in silver. With the dust jacket. A fine copy, in a fine, bright jacket.
first edition, signed by the author on the title page. Thompson’s last book, collected from his
weekly column called “Hey, Rube” for ESPN.com’s
“Page 2”, before his death in 2005.
£450
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THOMPSON, Hunter S. Gonzo. Introduction
by Johnny Depp. Los Angeles: AMMO Books, 2006
Folio. Original illustrated boards, titles to front board and
spine in red and orange, black endpapers. Housed in the
original blue cloth solander box and the original cardboard
packing box. With an original photograph by Thompson
mounted to inside of solander box lid with corner mounts.
Book illustrated with numerous photographs and artworks
by Thompson, Steve Christ, Annie Leibovitz, and Ralph
Steadman. A fine copy.
first edition, no. 2,438 of 3,000 copies. AMMO
Books’ first publication—prepared in collaboration
with Thompson, though issued posthumously—
brings together the author’s photographs and archives to create a large-scale visual biography.
£750
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293
TIMLIN, William M. The Ship that Sailed to
Mars. A Fantasy. London: George G. Harrap, 1923
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full blue
morocco, gilt titles and box design to spine, raised bands,
gilt rules to boards, centre onlay pictorial design of a ship
and stars to front board, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges. 48
mounted colour plates, and 48 mounted pages of text by
Timlin on grey background paper. A fine copy.
294, 295, 296, 297
the original 14th-century manuscript (now held as
part of the Cotton Library at the British Library) with
copious notes, details and glossaries by Tolkien and
Gordon. Scarce in the dust jacket.
Hammond B7a.
£2,250
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[90265]
TOLKIEN, J. R. R. Beowulf. The Monsters
and the Critics. Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial
Lecture, British Academy, 1936. London:
Humphrey Milford, [1937]
TOLKIEN, J. R. R., & E. V. Gordon, eds. Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1925
Octavo. Original buff wrappers printed in black, fore and
bottom edges untrimmed. Small contemporary ownership
signature to title page, occasional small marginal mark in
light pencil. Wrappers edges a little creased, short splits to
head and tail of backstrip. An excellent copy.
first edition.
£4,500
294
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and axe design
to front board gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. With the
dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece. Contents largely
unopened. Spine slightly faded, spine ends slightly rubbed,
light foxing throughout. An excellent copy in toned jacket
with a few small chips along the top of rear panel.
first edition. With the errata slip tipped-in facing p. vi. A scholarly edition of the Middle English
alliterative romance, the text being reproduced from
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first edition, preceding by six months its appearance in Vol. 22 of the annual Proceedings of the British
Academy. One of 500 copies printed.
Hammond & Anderson A2.
£1,250
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit or There and
Back Again. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1937
Octavo (190 × 135 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, titles to spine and front cover gilt,
raised with bands with gilt to compartments, gilt blocked
dragon to front cover, gilt rule to turn ins, original map
endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece and 9 illustrations after the author’s drawings; with final advert leaf. An excellent copy.
first edition.
Hammond & Anderson A3b.
£7,500
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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968
Octavo (215 × 143 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt in two
compartments, gilt rules, raised bands with dotted gilt
roll, front cover with large eye of Sauron motif in gilt, covers ruled around in gilt, green endpapers, twin rule to turn
ins, gilt edges. A fine copy.
first one-volume edition. the Lord of the Rings
was always intended as a single-volume work,
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though it was originally published in three volumes
in 1954 and 1955. This edition, originally issued as
a paperback, has Tolkien’s definitive text, from the
second edition of 1966, published in one volume for
the first time.
£1,500
[90270]
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TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace. From the
Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Authorized
translation. In four volumes. London: Walter
Scott, [1889]
4 volumes, octavo. Contemporary tan polished calf by John
Bumpus, spines gilt-lettered direct and with floral motifs
in compartments, board edges gilt with dotted roll, turnins gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With the half-titles.
A little occasional rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
first complete translation into english
from the russian, the work of the American editor and translator Nathan Haskell Dole (1852–1935).
This English issue omits the preface to the American
edition but retains Dole’s editorial footnotes. Walter
Scott reissued the work in two volumes in 1897. The
English translation was preceded by Vizetelly’s truncated version and by Clara Bell’s translation from the
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French, both 1886. Dole was the editor of Tolstoi’s Collected Works (20 volumes, 1899).
Line–Ettlinger–Gladstone 105.
£3,500
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TOMLINSON, D. W. “Tommy”. The Sky’s the
Limit. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1930
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles gilt and decorations in
dark blue to spine and front board, top edge dark blue.
With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 24 other
plates. With bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine
ends very lightly rubbed, pastedowns slightly browned. An
300
excellent copy in a bright jacket with slightly faded spine
and minor repairs to verso of folds and spine ends.
the author on front free endpaper: “To Mason Letteau, with Kindest regards, D. W. ‘Tommy’ Tomlinson”. A lovely copy in the art deco jacket designed by
Guy E. Fry.
£575
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TREVOR, Elleston. Now Try the Morgue.
London: Gerald G. Swan, 1948
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt and front
board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. Light mottling to the boards, spine ends and edges of boards a bit
rubbed, front inner hinge partially cracked to gauze lining,
edges and margins of text block toned. Otherwise an excellent copy in a bright jacket with slightly toned spine and
rear panels, a small light dampstain to edge of rear panel, a
few short closed tears to front and rear panels, spine ends
mildly nicked.
first edition of this gangster novel written by the
prolific author of The Flight of the Phoenix (1964).
£750
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VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. The Polar Express.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985
Oblong quarto. Original burgundy cloth, bell design to
front board and spine lettered in silver, brown endpapers.
With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by
the author. A few nicks on jacket extremities, one short
closed tear on the rear panel. An excellent copy.
first edition, with the $15.95 price on the jacket
and the complete number line down to 1 on the copyright page.
£525
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VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure
Class. An Economic Study in the Evolution of
Institutions. New York: The Macmillan Company;
London: Macmillan & Co, Ltd, 1899
Octavo. Original dark-green vertical grain cloth, spine lettered gilt and gilt bands at head and foot, covers with four
blind rules at head and three blind rules at foot, top edge
gilt, others uncut. Minuscule ownership signature to front
pastedown. Spine rolled, extremities a little rubbed, top
corners of boards slightly bumped, front and rear inner
joints a touch tender. An excellent copy.
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first edition, with the author’s carte-de-visite
pasted onto the title page. Norwegian-American
professor Thorstein Veblen’s first and most successful work was written as a serious economic analysis
of contemporary America, but after William Dean
Howells gave the book a rave review as a social satire, it became a best-seller. “Into it he poured all
the acidulous ideas and fantastic terminology that
had been simmering in his mind for years. It was a
savage attack upon the business class and their pecuniary values, half concealed behind an elaborate
screenwork of irony, mystification and polysyllabic
learning” (DAB). “The treatise is essentially an analysis of the latent functions of ‘conspicuous consumption’ and ‘conspicuous waste’ as symbols of upperclass status and as competitive methods of enhancing individual prestige. Veblen’s term ‘conspicuous
consumption’ has become part of everyday language” (IESS) and in modern economy Veblen goods
are those whose demand increases in proportion to
their price, in contradiction with the law of demand.
Einaudi 5851; Grolier, American, 100.
£3,750
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VERNE, Jules. Works. Edited by Charles F.
Horne. New York: Vincent Parke and Co., 1911
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15 volumes, octavo (226 × 155 mm). Bound for Brentano’s
in dark green half morocco, dark green linen cloth, raised
bands to spine, gilt titles and figurative tools of an elephant,
an airplane, a hot air balloon, and a ship to compartments,
ruling to boards gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 10
hand-coloured lithographs, 33 sepia and black-and-white
lithographs, all with captioned tissue guards, occasional illustrations in text; hand-coloured limitation leaf in Volume
I. Fore edges gently tanned, light offsetting from turn-ins.
An excellent set.
WAGNER, Richard. Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried;
Götterdämmerung. Mainz: B. Schott’s Söhne, 1876
Octavo. Contemporary green cloth, titles and Carow’s
monogram to front board gilt. With 4 cabinet cards by
W. Höffert, featuring opera singers performing as Wotan,
Sieglinde, Siegfried, and Brünnhilde. Extremities slightly
rubbed, minor wear to bottom corner of front board, lightly foxed throughout.
edition d’amiens, limited to 600 sets, collecting
26 of Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires.
£8,750
[92500]
The copy of Emily Tyler Carow (1865—1939—sisterin-law of President Theodore Roosevelt), with her
owner signature and date to front free endpaper,
and with occasional marginalia in her hand specifying who performed the different roles in Dresden,
1894. The first public performance of the complete
Ring cycle was at Beyreuth in August 1876, though
Schott’s first edition of the complete libretti was
dated a year earlier.
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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
£975
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front
board in blue and gilt, black endpapers, top edge yellow.
With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author.
Contents faintly toned. A remarkably fresh copy in a jacket
with a few spots to top edge of rear flap.
[91223]
first edition.
£500
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WAGNER, Richard. My Life. London: Constable
and Company Ltd., 1911
2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, gilt titles to spines.
With the dust jackets. With frontispiece portraits and tissue guards. Front and rear covers slightly rubbed, endpapers lightly browned, tanned deckle edges. A very good
copy in dust jackets with nicks and splits to extremities and
minor wear to Volume II rear cover.
first english-language edition of Wagner’s
autobiography, Mein Leben, which he had dictated to
his wife Cosima, and had privately printed in small
numbers between 1870 and 1880 (with the young
Friedrich Nietzsche as proof-reader). Due to its controversial content, Cosima attempted to recall all
published copies, and it was only in 1911 that a generally published edition was achieved, by F. Bruckmann of Munich. Constable’s is the English translation of that edition, and the first edition in English.
£525
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WALPOLE, Horace. Anecdotes of Painting in
England: With Some Account of the Principal
Artists, and Incidental Notes on Other Arts,
Collected by the Late Mr. George Vertue,
Digested and Published from his Journal MSS.
by the Honourable Horace Walpole, with
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Considerable Additions by the Rev. James
Dallaway. London: Printed at the Shakespeare Press,
by W. Nicol, for John Major & Robert Jennings, 1828
may be bound together, or sold each of them
severally. London: Printed for Richard Marriot, and
sold by most Booksellers, 1676
5 volumes, octavo (245 × 155 mm). Contemporary red half
morocco by C. Lewis, raised bands, fleur-de-lis tools to
compartments gilt, titles to spines gilt, red cloth sides,
twin ruling to boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
81 engraved plates, including frontispieces and woodcut
head- and tail-pieces. 3 auction records neatly tipped-in
on initial blank of Volume I. Very minor rubbing to spines
and boards, top edge of front board of Volume V a touch
faded, light foxing throughout and occasional mild offsetting from plates. A very good set.
3 volumes in one, octavo (150 × 90 mm.). Contemporary
brown calf with covers twin-ruled in blind, unlettered,
raised bands with twin rules in blind, all edges marbled.
Dark red morocco pull-off case, green morocco labels,
with chemise. First eight words of first title engraved within a cartouche of dolphins and fish, first six words of third
title engraved within a cartouche of angling paraphernalia, 10 engravings attributed to Pierre Lombart in Part
I (repeated in part II), woodcut initials and headpieces,
2 pages of printed music. Front board expertly repaired,
contemporary ownership inscriptions to pastedowns and
front endpaper, a couple of small marginal annotations in
light pencil. Hairline cracks to spine and sides, marbling to
edges faded, occasional marginal dampstaining, tiny loss
to bottom corner of one leaf. An excellent copy.
A handsomely bound set of this copiously illustrated
edition of Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, which was
originally published in 1762.
£1,000
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WALTON, Izaak; Charles Cotton; Robert
Venables. The Compleat Angler or the
Contemplative man’s Recreation. Part. I. Being
a Discourse of Rivers, and Fish-Ponds, Fish and
Fishing. The Fifth Edition much corrected and
enlarged. The Universal Angler, Made so, by
Three Books of Fishing. The First by Mr. Izaak
Walton; The Second by Charles Cotton Esq.;
The Third by Col. Robert Venables. All which
first complete edition, the fifth overall, the last
to receive Walton’s own revisions, bound under the
title The Universal Angler, with Charles Cotton’s and
Robert Venables’s continuations, “all of which may
be bound together, or sold each of them severally”.
Venables’s text, The Experienced Angler, or Angling Improved, is the fourth, enlarged, edition (the third extant) and Cotton’s Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or
Grayling in a Clear Stream is the first edition.
Pforzheimer 1052; Wing W674.
£6,000
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WAUGH, Evelyn. Vile Bodies. London: Chapman
& Hall, 1930
Octavo. Original black and red snakeskin cloth, titles to
spine gilt. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box
by the Chelsea Bindery. With the front panel of the dust
jacket loosely inserted. Spine very slightly faded, spine
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ends and bottom corners slightly worn, edges tanned,
slight foxing throughout, a few small red stains along the
bottom edge of prelims. An excellent copy.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed to
David and Tamara Talbot-Rice on the front free endpaper: “For David & Tamara with love from Evelyn
(published Jan. 14th 1930).” The Talbot-Rices were
friends of Waugh’s from Oxford; both went on to become art historians.
£7,500
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Octavo. Original black and red snakeskin cloth, titles to
spine gilt. With black and white frontispiece by J. D. M.
Harvey. With the front panel of the dust jacket loosely inserted and small bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown.
Spine cocked and very slightly faded, edges tanned, light
foxing throughout. An excellent copy.
first edition of Waugh’s fourth published novel,
considered by many his masterpiece.
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WAUGH, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. The
Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles
Ryder. A Novel. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1945
Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Contemporary US bookseller’s ticket to rear
pastedown. Spine rolled, extremities lightly rubbed, top
corner of boards a little bumped. A very good copy in a
slightly chipped jacket with tanning to spine panel and one
faint ring mark to front panel.
first edition.
WAUGH, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. London:
Chapman & Hall, 1934
£975
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£1,750
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WAUGH, Evelyn. The Loved One. An AngloAmerican Tragedy. Illustrated by Stuart Boyle.
London: Chapman & Hall, [1948]
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, top
edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Spine gently rolled, extremities a touch
rubbed. An excellent copy.
signed limited edition, no. 66 of 250 numbered
large-paper copies signed by both author and illustrator, this copy additionally inscribed by Waugh,
“Mr. G. Edward Line’s copy”. G. Edward Line was
London president of the Rotary Club.
£2,500
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WAUGH, Evelyn. Love among the Ruins. A
Romance of the Near Future. With Decorations
by Various Eminent Hands Including the
Author’s. London: Chapman & Hall, 1953
Octavo, pp. 51. Original red cloth, decoration to front board
and titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt others untrimmed,
printed in black and dark red. Illustrations in dark red.
signed limited edition, no. 23 of 50 copies reserved for presentation from the author, and with
his additional inscription to the limitation page,
“Jack & Frankie with love from Evelyn”. The recipients were Waugh’s friends Jack and Frances Donaldson, the latter being the author of Evelyn Waugh:
Portrait of a Country Neighbour (1967). Their bookplate
is affixed to the front free endpaper. The signed limited edition totalled 350 copies.
£2,250
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WEST, Mae. The Constant Sinner (Babe
Gordon). London: John Long, Limited, [1934]
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Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in white. With
the dust jacket. Rear joint split at foot, spine faded, a few
marks to boards, light foxing to outer leaves. A very good
copy in the jacket that has a tear at the foot of the front
joint, another short tear and a chip at foot, still bright.
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first uk edition; originally published in New
York, 1930. Mae West played the role of Babe Gordon
in her play The Constant Sinner on Broadway, 14 September to November 1931. With Long’s publisher’s
list for spring 1934 at the end.
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in bright
blue morocco, spider’s web blocked in silver foil across the
boards, twin rule to turn-ins in silver, red and blue pattern
endpapers, silver edges. Black and white illustrations in
the text. A fine copy.
£750
[91059]
WHITE, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. Pictures by Garth
Williams. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952
first edition.
£1,500
[90128]
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WHITMAN, Walt. Signed proof leaf with
one page of poems from Leaves of Grass.
[Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891]
Single leaf (c.250 × 125 mm) printed with one proof page of
text, and a single cutting (comprising the title and first 5
lines of “A Persian Lesson” from the previous page) pasted
down at the head. Three horizontal folds with verso repair
strengthening some folds at the edges, some mild creases
to corners.
proof sheet, signed by whitman and dated
“April 8 ’91”, of page 419 (and a cutting from page
418 pasted down at head) of the “Deathbed Edition”
(1891–2) of Leaves of Grass. The poems presented are
“A Persian Lesson”, “The Commonplace”, and “The
Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”, all from the
“Good Bye My Fancy” annex. Of the poems on this
leaf, the first, “A Persian Lesson”, presented alongside Whitman’s signature dated less than a year before his death (26 March 1892), is perhaps the most
evocative of a last testament—“For his o’erarching
and last lesson the greybeard sufi … under an ancient chestnut-tree wide spreading its branches, /
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spoke to the young priests and students.” The lesson, couched in the idiom of Eastern philosophy
with which Whitman was enchanted, is one concerned with cosmic consciousness and the way to
visionary ecstasy, the kernel being: “It is the central
urge in every atom … / to return to its divine source
and origin.”
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dated reprint published in October 1895 under the
Ward Lock & Bowden Limited imprint (Mason 330)
repeats the error.
£3,000
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WILDE, Oscar. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime &
other stories. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine
& Co, 1891
WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., [1891]
Crown octavo. Original orange paper boards, titles to spine
and front board in dark red, decoration by Charles Ricketts
to spine and boards in dark red. Contemporary bookplate
of Charles Batchelor to front pastedown. Spine slightly
cocked, extremities a little rubbed, front inner hinge starting, partial light foxing to endpapers, faint tanning to halftitle. An outstanding copy; scarce thus.
£3,000
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Octavo (195 × 135 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea
Bindery in vellum, titles and gilt rules to spine, single
rule to boards, floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some mild spotting to prelims and fore-edge,
an excellent copy.
first edition in book form. The story was first
published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, July 1890,
and was substantially revised for book publication,
with six new chapters. The point often given for
this first printing of April 1891 (p. 208, l. 23, “nd”
for “and”) is not sufficiently distinctive, as the un-
first edition, one of 2,000 copies printed. This
volume contains four short stories: the title story,
“The Sphinx without a Secret”, “The Canterville
Ghost”, and “The Model Millionaire”.
Mason 345.
£1,250
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WILDE, Oscar. Lady Windermere’s Fan. A Play
about a Good Woman. London: Elkin Mathews &
John Lane, 1893
Quarto (218 × 160 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery
in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt,
panelling to boards gilt, floral corner pieces gilt, decoration
to turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers gilt, top edge gilt, others
untrimmed. Mild toning to pages, an excellent copy.
first edition.
£3,750
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WILLYAMS, Cooper. A Voyage up the
Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the
Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the
command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson,
K.B., now Viscount and Baron Nelson of
the Nile, and Duke of Bronte in Sicily. With
a Description of the Battle of the Nile on the
First of August 1798, and a detail of events that
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occurred subsequent to the battle in various
parts of the Mediterranean. London: Printed by T.
Bensley for J. White, 1802
Quarto (297 × 240 mm). Modern dark blue half morocco,
marbled boards, raised bands to spine, titles to spine
gilt, floral decorations to compartments gilt, top edge
gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. With etched
dedication page by Thomas Girtin, 40 aquatints signed J.
C. Stadler, all but one after drawings by the author, occasional woodcut tailpieces, one double-paged map, and one
plan detailing the battle of the Nile. Joints, corners, and
tail of spine very gently rubbed, light offsetting from plates
throughout, occasional small nicks and chips to margins
of text block. An excellent copy.
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Abbey Travel 196; Blackmer 1813; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.335;
Prideaux, p.223.
£2,500
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[WILSON, Bill.] Alcoholics Anonymous. The
story of how more than one hundred men have
recovered from alcoholism. New York: The Works
Publishing Company, 1939
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to front board and spine
gilt. Gift inscription to front free endpaper, contents a little toned but an unusually nice copy.
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first edition of this richly illustrated first-hand
account. The topographer and artist Cooper Willyams (1762–1816) was serving as chaplain on board
the Swiftsure during the Battle of the Nile and “his
account, full of engravings from his own drawings
… contained ‘the first, the most particular, and the
most authentic account of the battle’” (ODNB).
first edition of the founding text of Alcoholics
Anonymous, hugely influential through its mutation
into the wider Twelve Steps movement. The first
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edition is a genuinely rare book. With an inscription on the half-title dated 1978 “To Sybil and Bob in
memory of Frank Thatcher from Cliff and Dorothy
Walker”, all of whom were early members of the Los
Angeles chapter.
£7,500
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus. Introduction by Bertrand
Russell. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and
Co., 1922
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turnins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. An excellent copy
bound without the advertisements at the back.
first edition of one of the philosophical masterpieces of the 20th century, the inspiration for the
Cambridge school of analysis of the inter-war years
and of the logical positivism of the Vienna circle.
£2,250
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Carry On, Jeeves! London:
Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1925
WODEHOUSE, P. G. Meet Mr. Mulliner. Garden
City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.,
1928
WODEHOUSE, P. G. Summer Lightning.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1929
Octavo. Original light green cloth, titles to spine in black,
titles and decoration to front board in black. With the illustrated dust jacket. With owner signature and date to front
free endpaper. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped,
edges tanned, small closed tear to p. 128. An excellent copy
in a lightly rubbed jacket with a few closed tears to covers
and small chips to top of folds and rear cover.
first edition of this collection of ten short stories.
McIlvaine A34a.
£4,750
[90887]
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front
cover in red. With the illustrated dust jacket. Spine ends
and corners lightly rubbed. An excellent copy in jacket with
sunned spine, slightly rubbed and nicked extremities, and
small tape repairs to verso of spine ends.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered and blocked
in black, front board lettered in black. With the dust jacket.
Spine bumped, extremities faded, some stains to the head
and foot of the spine, some foxing to contents, in the jacket
first us edition of this collection of nine short
stories. Wodehouse introduces the character of Mr
Mulliner who narrates all of the tales. Originally
published in London by Herbert Jenkins, 1927.
McIlvaine A38b.
£750
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that has a lightly faded spine, panels slightly creased and
a little marked, and a few tiny nicks to extremities. A very
good, bright, copy.
first uk edition, inscribed on the front free
endpaper by the author: “With the author’s compliments, P. G. Wodehouse, Aug. 1929.” The novel originally appeared as a serial in both America and Britain earlier that same year. It had been first published
in book form some three weeks earlier in America
under the title Fish Preferred.
McIlvaine A41b.
£4,750
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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Blandings Castle and
Elsewhere. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1935
Octavo. Original light blue-green cloth, titles and publish-
er’s device to spine in black, titles to front board in black,
top edge dark blue-green. With the illustrated dust jacket.
Spine gently cocked and sunned, small dark stain to rear
board, edges slightly foxed, front inner hinge cracked to
gauze lining but firm. An excellent copy in a bright jacket
with nicked and chipped extremities, minor foxing to
spine, and a few closed tears professionally repaired.
first edition of this collection of short stories.
McIlvaine A53a.
£2,500
[91543]
327
ends and corners slightly rubbed, light browning to endpapers, text block cracked to gauze lining between pp.
320-1, but still firm. An excellent copy in a worn but bright
jacket with a large closed tear to front panel professionally
repaired, nicked and chipped extremities, slightly toned
flaps, and light foxing to verso.
first omnibus edition, collecting the stories
in Meet Mr Mulliner (1927) and Mr Mulliner Speaking
(1929), as well as the Mulliner stories from Blandings
Castle (1935).
McIlvaine B5a.
£1,250
[91544]
WODEHOUSE, P. G. Mulliner Omnibus.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1935
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board in dark green, top edge dark
green. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Spine-
107
328
328
WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own.
London: Hogarth Press, 1929
Octavo (180 × 120 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine
gilt, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
first edition, trade issue.
329
light spotting to contents. An excellent copy in a rubbed
slipcase with neatly repaired edges.
ows to front free endpaper, occasional light finger mark to
contents. An excellent copy.
signed by the author.
first edition, one of 500 copies printed of Yeats’s
lyrical, visionary play.
Kirkpatrick A15.
Symons p. 11; Wade 30.
£1,250
[91750]
WYNDHAM, John. The Day of the Triffids.
London: Michael Joseph, 1951
WOOLF, Virginia. Beau Brummell. New York:
Rimington & Hooper, 1930
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in silver. With
the illustrated dust jacket. Housed in a green cloth solander box. Spine ends and edges of boards slightly rubbed,
very light circular stain to rear board. Otherwise an excellent copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket with a few nicks
and a small tape repair to verso of head of spine.
329
Royal quarto. Original red cloth-backed grey boards, pink
paper label to front board, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt.
In the original green card slipcase. With 2 illustrations by
W. A. Dwiggins in pink, green and orange. Spine a little
tanned, a few minor marks and nicks to boards, sporadic
£750
[91808]
330
[91592]
£1,375
330
first edition. An attractive copy of this science
fiction classic.
£2,500
[90298]
331
YEATS, W. B. The Shadowy Waters. London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1900
329
108
Quarto. Original blue vertical-grain cloth, titles to spine,
flower design to front board, and top edge gilt, bevelled
boards. Cloth a little rubbed, wear to extremities, faint
spotting and tanning to endpapers, two small tape shad-
331
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332
YEATS, W. B. In the Seven Woods: being
poems chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age. Dundrum:
The Dun Emer Press, 1903
Octavo. Original white linen, white paper label to front
board with titles in red, printed in black and red, all edges
uncut, partly unopened. Endpapers toned, cloth a little
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first edition, one of 325 copies printed. The first
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Symons p. 15; Wade 49.
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