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Peter Harrington: Catalogue 94
Peter Harrington
london
Christmas 2013
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Peter Harrington
london
Catalogue 94
Christmas 2013
Main catalogue 1–196
Gift selection 197–344
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TENNIEL, John, after. Alice Through the Looking-Glass chess set.
England: 2013
Individually hand crafted wooden chessboard (57 cm square) after a unique original design by John Tenniel, the marquetry cut by hand, the outlines of the illustrations hand
printed, the illustrations hand tinted in watercolour after the originals by Tenniel, the
border background gilded in 16.5 carat white gold. Hand carved, hand turned chessmen
of rosewood and boxwood with felt base pads, St George pattern (the pattern on which
Tenniel based his illustrations), the King 11 cm high.
limited edition, one of 150 sets, which will never be re-issued. The
design is based on an original chessboard, previously undocumented but rediscovered in the summer of 2011, hand-painted by John Tenniel after his original designs for Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1872),
signed in each corner with his monogram. Tenniel’s 16 illustrations around the
edges of the board, presented within borders representing shards of shattered
glass, show significant differences from previously seen versions, with far greater background detail in some images. The original chessboard has been dated
from forensic paint analysis to c.1875, long predating The Nursery Alice illustrations
which Tenniel completed in 1885. It cannot be proved whether the original was
intended as a maquette for eventual commercial production, made as a gift, or
created by Tenniel purely for his own enjoyment. However that may be, his chessboard stands as a superbly literal expression of the central conceit of the book,
here offered in a superbly hand crafted, strictly limited edition reproduction.
£3,500
Front cover illustration from Edward L. Moss’ Shores of the Polar Sea, item 118
Back cover illustration from William M. Timlin’s The Ship that sailed to Mars, item 176
Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra
[86015]
The items in this catalogue are offered for sale. The condition is
guaranteed as described. Items ordered without prior inspection are
understood to be sent on approval and may be returned for any reason
within 10 days of receipt. Postage and insurance are extra. We accept all
major credit cards, as well as direct payment. Deferred billing may be
arranged for institutions on request.
Peter Harrington
100 Fulham Road, London SW3 6HS
Tel + 44 (0)20 7591 0220
www.peterharrington.co.uk
All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk
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(ASIAN ART.) Three Hundred Masterpieces
of Chinese Painting in the Palace Museum.
Selected and Compiled by an Editorial
Committee of the Joint Board of Directors of
the National Palace Museum and the National
Central Museum, Taichung, Taiwan. Taiching,
Taiwan: National Palace Museum and National
Central Museum, 1957
[AUSTEN, Jane.] Sense and Sensibility. In
Three Volumes. The Second Edition. London:
Printed for the author by C. Roworth, and published
by T. Egerton, 1813
6 volumes, folio (440 × 315 mm). Bound Chinese-style, silk
cord-tied golden brown brocade covered wraps, mounted
silk title-panel with title in calligraphic style to the upper
panels, silk paper liners, the volumes housed three each
in two blue cloth folding portfolio- cases with bone toggle
closures, paper labels to the upper panel. This set retaining
the original corrugated card tray mailing-cases with paper
labels to the lids, containing the original tissue wrapping.
300 plates, either collotype or tipped in colour plates,
tissue-guards captioned in English and Mandarin. Mailing cases a little worn, cloth portfolios just a touch dusty
and with very minor insect damage to the lining paper, the
separate volumes in excellent state, a very good set indeed.
first edition, limited to 1,500 sets.
£2,750
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3 volumes, octavo (173 × 102 mm). Near-contemporary olive
cloth, probably Viennese c.1840, titles to spine gilt, speckled edges. All half-titles present, terminal blanks present in
volumes II and III but not volume I. Spines toned, cloth a little rubbed and spotted, creasing to corners of the final third
of volume II, faint dampstain to the margin of the last two
leaves in volume III. An attractive and unsophisticated set.
second edition. Sense and Sensibility was first published in late 1811; the first edition was sold out by
July 1813. This second edition, with the text significantly revised by Austen and the substitution of “By
the author of Pride and Prejudice” for “By a Lady”
on the title page, appeared in October 1813. Austen
received her copy on 6 November, and wrote to her
sister Cassandra, “My 2nd Edit. has stared me in
the face … I cannot help hoping that many will feel
themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it”
(Gilson, p. 16). This set has the ownership signature
of pianist and salonnière Henriette von Pereira-Arn-
stein (1780–1859), who passed it on to her daughter
Florentina after her marriage to Graf Moritz II von
Fries of Schloss Vöslau in 1836 (her married name
appears on one of the half-titles). Copies of lifetime
editions of Austen’s novels in early and unsophisticated bindings are uncommon; this copy is particularly attractive in that its Continental binding and
ownership history demonstrate the early 19th-century German taste for English fiction.
Gilson A2.
£9,750
[84838]
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. Edinburgh: John
Grant, 1905–06
10 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in recent full burgundy
morocco, gilt decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled
endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Engraved frontispiece portrait. A very good set in a handsome binding.
The Winchester Edition, the most attractive of the
unillustrated editions of Jane Austen’s works produced around this time. The Winchester Edition was
first published by Grant Richards in 1898; this is the
first John Grant issue.
£2,450
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(AUSTEN, Jane) BROCK, C. E. “I think him
very disagreeable.” 1907
Original pen-and-ink water colour illustration (370 ×
267 mm) presented in wash-line mount and handmade
gold leaf frame with conservation glass. Margins slightly
marked, with very slight running of the signature ink. In
excellent condition.
original signed illustration for the edition
of Pride and Prejudice published by J. M. Dent & Co
in 1907. The illustrations are entirely redrawn from
those done by Brock for the edition published by
Macmillan in 1895. The costume and interior decor are accurate to the Regency period: Brock and
his brother Henry used to collect antique furniture
and clothing so that their friends and relations could
model for the artists in their Cambridge studio. C.
E. Brock was elected as a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in the year following the publication of these illustrations. The scene
depicted shows Elizabeth discussing her distaste for
Mr Darcy with Wickham.
£3,250
[75951]
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BAKER, Charles H. The Gentleman’s
Companion. Volume 1: Being an Exotic
Cookery Book, or, Around the World with
Knife, Fork and Spoon. Volume II: Being an
Exotic Drinking Book, or, Around the World
with Jigger, Beaker and Flask. New York: The
Derrydale Press, 1939
2 volumes, octavo. Original burgundy cloth-backed boards,
red buckram sides, titles gilt to spines. Humorous photographic frontispieces to both volumes. Bookseller’s ticket
to volume 1. Spine somewhat dulled, ends and corners
rubbed, cloth sides faintly marked, entirely clean within;
very good condition.
first edition, first printing; limited to 1,250
copies, both volumes numbered 98. The first volume
is inscribed by the author, “With mine good wishes,
always, Charles H. Baker”. Charles H. Baker was a
writer for Esquire magazine, based in Florida, and
was known as the “Town & Country Gourmet”. He
was regarded by the Hemingway set as the pinnacle
of knowledge in all matters of good living.
[83712]
£1,250
SCARCE INSCRIBED COPY
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(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.) The Yellow Book. An
Illustrated Quarterly. Volume 1. London: Elkin
Mathews & John Lane; Boston: Copeland & Day,
April, 1894
Square octavo. Original yellow pictorial cloth printed in
black with Beardsley designs. 32pp. publisher’s adverts at
rear. Illustrated throughout. Spine tanned, ends and corners rubbed, hinges cracked but holding fine, and light
spotting to some early and late leaves. A good copy.
inscribed copy of the second edition of the
first volume of The Yellow Book, which ran to 13 volumes, 1894–7. Inscribed by Beardsley in the month
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of publication on the front free endpaper, “with
Aubrey Beardsley’s compliments, April 20, 1894.”
Inscribed copies of any of Beardsley’s publications
are deeply uncommon. Though the recipient is unknown, they were evidently keenly interested in the
progress of the publication: laid in are very many
contemporary review clippings and ephemeral material, including Beardsley illustrations, and a spate
of review clippings tipped-in on the rear adverts,
following the publication and reception of The Yellow Book and other Beardsley productions. These
include some notice of the public outrage surrounding Beardsley’s over-thin depiction of Mrs Patrick
Campbell (see p. 157), which eventually cost Beardsley his editorship, leading to his departure and
subsequent instalment as art editor, alongside publisher Leonard Smithers and literary editor Arthur
Symons, of rival periodical The Savoy. This inaugural
volume of The Yellow Book includes writing by Henry
James, Richard Le Gallienne, Max Beerbohm, A. C.
Benson, Arthur Symons, Edmund Gosse, Arthur
Waugh, Richard Garnett, and George Moore, and
art by Sir Frederick Leighton, Aubrey Beardsley, and
Walter Sickert.
£875
[84938]
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BECKETT, Samuel. Stirrings Still. Illustrated
by Louis le Brocquy. New York, Blue Moon Books;
London, John Calder, 1988
Tall quarto. Original white calf-backed buckram, titles to
spine and pictorial design to upper board gilt. Housed in
the publisher’s slipcase. Original lithographic portrait in
two tones of Beckett, 8 original lithographic drawings in
black ink printed by Pierre Chave. A fine copy.
signed limited edition, one of 226 numbered
copies on velin de Rives paper signed by both Beckett
and le Brocquy.
£3,250
[84274]
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. A Fragment on
Government; Being an Examination of what
is delivered, on the Subject of Government in
General, in the Introduction to Sir William
Blackstone’s Commentaries: with a Preface,
in which is given a Critique on the work at
large. London: Printed for T. Payne, P. Elmsly and
E. Brooke, 1776
Octavo (210 × 125 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked, flat
spine ruled in blind, preserving the original red morocco
spine label, new endpapers. With the half-title. Ownership
inscription of Sam Lewin in pencil to the title-page, with
further family ownership signatures to the original free
endpaper. Corners skilfully renewed. Occasional spotting.
A very good copy.
first edition of Bentham’s first book, published
anonymously. “This slim volume … offers a masterly
analysis of Blackstone’s failure to think systematically about crucial themes concerning government.
While Bentham was content to point out the confusions in Blackstone’s thought without developing
his own ideas at any length, he none the less gave
the first formulation of the principle of utility as the
foundation of his system as well as some indication
of the direction of his thought on themes such as
sovereignty, the social contract, submission, resistance, and fictions” (ODNB).
£8,500
[84060]
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(BLACK SUN PRESS.) CRANE, Hart. The
Bridge. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930
Tall quarto. Original white wrapper, titles to spine and
upper wrapper in red and black. With the original glassine jacket. Housed in the publisher’s silver card slipcase.
3 plates from photographs by Walker Evans. Small dampstain to spine slightly affecting wrappers. An excellent,
fresh copy in the original glassine jacket.
first edition, first impression. One of 200
copies on holland paper from a total limited edition
of 284 copies. The Bridge was Crane’s only attempt at
a long poem, inspired by his view of the Brooklyn
Bridge from his apartment in Columbia Heights,
and includes three plates from photographs of the
bridge by his friend Walker Evans.
£6,500
[84247]
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BLANCKLEY, Thomas Riley. A Naval Expositor,
Shewing and Explaining the Words and Terms
of Art belonging to the Parts, Qualities, and
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Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing,
Fitting a Ship for Sea. Names of each particular
Part of a new Ship, as they are put together
(in a progressive Manner) for Frameing and
Finishing the Structure Building on the Stocks.
London: printed by E. Owen, and engraved by Paul
Fourdrinier, 1750
Quarto (273 × 210 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked
with new red morocco label, edges sprinkled red. Fullyengraved title within elaborate rococo border, letterpress
printed text and each page with engraved terms and illustrations in outer margin, in all more than 300 marginal
engravings, and 3 larger engravings in the text. With list
of subscribers and dedication leaf. Inscription of W. H. M.
Daniell to front pastedown recording the gift of the book
from Howard Marquand, at “Taunton about 1890” (Daniell rose to the rank of commander RN and was serving
on board the Camperdown at the time of her disastrous collision with HMS Victoria off Tripoli in 1893); later armorial
bookplate of John Gretton beneath. Boards a little worn,
front hinge reinforced with linen, occasional leaf spotted,
overall a very good copy.
are themselves engraved, in many cases accompanied by an intricately engraved thumbnail sketch of
the item in question. A more thorough explanation
is provided in letterpress. “Regarded by Röding as
the best English book of its kind before Falconer,
1769” (Craig), Blanckley is one of the most visually
attractive books in the field. The four-page list of
subscribers provides a roll call of England’s naval
notables of the time, and the detailed engravings by
Paul Fourdrinier (d.1758) are particularly splendid.
The French engraver had been a pupil of Bernard
Picart in Amsterdam before setting up a workshop
in London in 1720, where he concentrated on engraving portraits and book illustrations, particularly
for architectural works.
Bibliotheca Nautica 2284; Craig pp. 12–13.
£2,750
[84346]
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BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily, & Anne. The
Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Edited by Temple
Scott. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924
12 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles and foliate
decoration to spines gilt, top edges green. With the printed dust jackets. Photographic frontispiece showing Thornton Hall, and numerous photographic plates illustrative of
Brontë country. Tips rubbed, and some minor marks to the
cloth, but an excellent set with fresh leaves, all in their only
faintly soiled and spine-tanned jackets. A superb set in excellent condition.
The Thornton Edition, rarely found in the jackets.
£1,250
[80131]
first edition of this beautifully produced dictionary of naval terminology. The terms to be defined
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BYRON, Robert. The Road to Oxiana. London:
Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1937
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The
History of the most Renowned Don Quixote of
Mancha: And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha.
Now made English according to the Humour
of our Modern Language and Adorned with
several Copper Plates. By J[ohn]. P[hilips].
London: printed by Thomas Hodgkin, and sold by
William Whitwood, 1687
Octavo. Original first issue binding of royal blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket supplied from another copy. Frontispiece and 15 plates. Spine slightly faded,
some light rubbing to extremities. An excellent copy in the
rubbed, creased, and slightly marked dust jacket.
first edition, first issue, presentation
copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Anthony Jeffreys from Robert Byron 1937”
and with the recipient’s bookplate to the front pastedown. Jeffreys was a contemporary of Byron’s who
entered the civil service and rose to become Clerk
Assistant in the House of Lords.
£7,500
[79781]
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CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New
York: Random House, 1958
Octavo. 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 black velvet draw-string bag. A fine copy.
first edition.
£2,750
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[84834]
Folio (316 × 195 mm). Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, sides ruled in blind with
fleurons at inside corners, red sprinkled edges. Engraved
frontispiece and 8 plates, 2 images to each plate. Armorial
bookplate of John Ward, probably John Ward (1679-1758),
biographer of the Gresham professors, fellow of the Royal
Society, and one of the original trustees of the British Museum. A little skilful restoration to corners and front joint,
one or two trivial spots, one leaf (sig. 3O2) hand-trimmed
a little short at fore-edge apparently at an early date; an excellent copy.
first illustrated edition in english, translated by John Phillips (1631–1706), nephew of the poet
John Milton. This English translation superseded
Shelton’s, published in two parts, 1612–20, which was
already archaic to later 17th-century readers.
£6,500
[62964]
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CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1977
Octavo. Original dark blue boards, titles to spine gilt, map
endpapers. With the dust jacket. 8 pages of illustrations
from photographs. Spine rolled, minor dampstain to lower board. A very good copy in the jacket with faded spine
panel and dampstain to the lower panel.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed by
the author on the title page, “[?] with love, Bruce,
28/June ’78”, with the author’s additional signature
next to his printed name, which he has crossed
through. We are unable to determine the name or
identity of the recipient.
£2,750
[84570]
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CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie Gabriel F. A.,
comte de. Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce.
Paris: 1782
Folio (522 × 335 mm). Contemporary dark green straightgrain morocco by Kalhoeber (ticket verso of front free
endpaper), title direct to the spine, paired narrow bands,
framed by gilt rules of various thickness, simple geometric
panelling to the boards, beaded edge-roll, all edges gilt,
bold Greek key roll to the turn-ins, marbled endpapers.
With engraved vignette title, 13 maps, 2 of them folding,
32 full-page views, 27 sheets of half-page plates, maps and
plans, 29 full-page plates (largely of architectural details),
4 costume illustrations on 1 sheet and 14 superb illustrative
head- and tailpieces. A little rubbed and scuffed, corners
bumped, some judicious restoration at the head and tail of
the spine and to the board edges, light browning and occasional foxing of the contents, but overall very good, and
a handsomely-presented copy.
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CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Adventure of the
Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrees.
London: for The Crime Club by Collins, 1960
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in black. With
the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket that is very
lightly rubbed along the edges with a few short splits.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed
by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Peter,
from Agatha, Nov. 1960”.
£2,750
[84104]
first edition, first issue, the Discours préliminaire
concluding on the fourth line of p. xvi. The first volume only, but complete in itself, and without doubt
one of the most desirable of all 18th-century works on
Greece. A second volume was published in two parts,
the first in 1809, and the “final biographical livraison
was published posthumously” (Blackmer), edited by
the cartographer Barbie du Bocage, in 1822.
Blackmer 342; Cohen–de Ricci 238; Atabey 241; Weber II, 571.
£6,500
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Ian Hamilton’s
March. Together with Extracts from the Diary
of Lieutenant H. Frankland a Prisoner of War
at Pretoria. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1900
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine and upper
board, black surface-paper endpapers. Frontispiece portrait, 9 maps and plans to the text, folding coloured map
at the rear. Spine just a touch dull, mild foxing front and
back, and to fore-edge, a very good copy.
first edition, first issue. “The volume consists
of 17 letters to the Morning Post, beginning with that
of 31 March 1900 and concluding with that of 14 June
… in contrast to London to Ladysmith, the texts of the
originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never
appeared in periodical form” (Cohen). Publisher’s records indicate that 5,003 copies were printed.
Cohen A8.1.a.
£900
[80589]
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. 1919 Recorded
Speech. Hayes, Middlesex: manufactured by The
Gramophone Co., Ltd, for “His Master’s Voice”,
[November 1918]
Black shellac disc, 78 rpm gramophone record, in the original Hime & Addison sleeve. A few minor dust spots to both
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sides of the record, but virtually no scratches; the sleeve
only a little creased and faded round the edges.
Original issue HMV D380; a rare recording of Winston Churchill, MP, orating in his prime, speaking in
November 1918, after the Great War and before the
general election, about the rebuilding of Britain and
the need for an election. The reverse is a speech on
the same subject by Labour politician John Robert
Clynes, who has signed his name in the wax under
the label on his side of the record. Both men ran for,
and attained, seats in the December 1918 general
election. Clynes went on to lead the Labour Party to
their breakthrough victory in the following general
election in 1922.
£850
[83799]
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Secret Session
Speeches. Compiled by Charles Eade. London:
Cassell and Company Ltd., 1946
Octavo. Publisher’s mid-blue cloth, title gilt to spine, three
gilt rules to the upper board. With the dust jacket. 16 plates
from photographs. A very good copy in a slightly rubbed
and chipped jacket.
first uk edition, presentation copy, inscribed
by Churchill on the front free endpaper; “To Richard
Hopkins from Winston S. Churchill, 1948”. A superb
association: Hopkins was a career civil servant who
first encountered Churchill in 1913, when, as a young
Treasury official, he worked with him on the negotiation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Agreement. Hopkins
was next involved in the successful reorganization of
the Inland Revenue, rising to chairman of the board in
1922. In 1927 Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, appointed him controller of finance and supply
services at the Treasury, where he played an important role for many years, notably bringing Keynes into
the Treasury as a wartime adviser. The book was first
published in America a month earlier, but Churchill
usually privileged the London editions of his works.
Cohen A227.2.b; see Peden, “Sir Richard Hopkins and
the ‘Keynesian Revolution’ in Employment Policy, 1929–
1945” in The Economic History Review, new series, vol. 36,
no. 2 (May 1983).
£3,000
[84067]
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World
War. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1948–54
6 volumes, octavo (207 × 131 mm). Bound in near contemporary red half morocco on matched boards by Maurin - miniscule ink-stamp top corner verso of the front free endpapers
- flattened bands with gilt foliate roll forming 6 compartments with single fillet panel, title in the second and author
in the fourth, floral spray corner-pieces to the rest, single
gilt rule to the spine and corner edges, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Maps and diagrams, some folding. Minimal
shelf-wear, internally clean and bright, a very handsome set.
first editions of Churchill’s masterpiece in a
highly attractive fine binding.
Cohen A240.4; Woods A123(b).
£1,750
[84157]
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[CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.] TWAIN,
Mark. The Complete Writings. New York and
London: Harper & Brothers, 1929
37 volumes, octavo. Recent full green morocco, spines
gilt in compartments, burgundy morocco labels, marbled
endpapers, decorative roll to boards and top edges gilt,
others untrimmed. Printed on specially made all rag Old
Enfield Paper which bears the watermark “Samuel L. Clemens – Mark Twain”. Frontispiece portrait and illustrations
throughout. An excellent set.
The Stormfield edition, limited to 1,024 numbered
sets; this set with a card signed by Twain tipped-in
on the limitation page in the first volume.
£7,500
[68660]
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CLOWES, William Laird. The Royal Navy A
History From the earliest times to the present.
Assisted by Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B.,
P.R.G.S., Captain A. T. Mahan, U.S.N., H. W.
Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, E. Fraser, etc.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company,
1897–1903
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Nigger of the
“Narcissus”. A Tale of the Sea. London: William
Heinemann, 1898
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board
gilt. With publisher’s ad on verso of half-title and with 4
page publisher’s ad and 16 page Heinemann catalogue at
rear. Cloth rubbed with a few small worn spots, brown
spot to lower board, hinges starting, endpapers tanned,
spotting to contents, especially to pages 112 and 113, spine
cracked in the gutter between pages 64 and 65, 80 and 81,
7 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spines
gilt, armorial crest to boards gilt, grey coated endpapers,
top edges gilt. 25 photogravures and hundreds of full page
and other illustrations. Paton family bookplate to each
volume. Ends and corners rubbed, covers a little marked,
occasional light spotting to edges, end matter and to the
photogravure plates; overall in very good condition.
first edition, first issue bindings with the
spines giving the names “Theodore Roosevelt” in
vols. 1 and 2, “Col. Theodore Roosevelt” in vols. 3,
4, and 5, and “President Roosevelt” only in vols. 6
and 7.
£1,000
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May Watson (1875–1967) married Conrad’s close
friend Edward Lancelot Sanderson, the dedicatee
of An Outcast of the Islands, in 1898. In an affectionate
letter to Sanderson on 26 December 1897, sending
him “all the wishes suitable to the season and which
friendship may dictate”, Conrad closes by referring
to this copy: “My affectionate regards and duty to
Miss Watson. I’ve sent off a copy of the ‘N’ for her.
You must wait for yours a little. With love Ever Yours
Joseph Conrad” (Collected Letters, I, p. 435). Signed
and inscribed copies of Conrad novels published
before 1900 are exceptionally rare: we can trace only
two such examples of this title at auction since 1990.
This copy is the first issue with the publisher’s catalogue in the earlier state of 16 rather than 32 pages;
in Cagle’s b binding with the publisher’s name at the
foot of the spine a uniform 3 mm in height.
£12,500
[84961]
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and 160 and 161. A very good copy. From the library of Conrad collector Stanley J. Seeger, with his bookplate.
first english edition, first issue, presentation copy of Conrad’s first English novel, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,
“To Miss Watson from her very faithful friend and
servant, the Author. 24th December, 1897”. Helen
(CRANACH PRESS.) RILKE, Rainer Maria.
Duineser Elegien. Elegies From the Castles of
Duino. London: Printed by Kessler at The Cranach
Press for the Hogarth Press, 1931
Large octavo. Original japon-backed mulberry paper
boards, titles to spine gilt. Text printed in both English and
German. Lightly rubbed, minor scratches and small white
mark to lower board, spotting to boards, edges of text
block, and scattered through contents. A very good copy.
first edition, one of 230 numbered copies on
handmade paper signed by the translators Vita and
Edward Sackville-West (there were a further eight
copies on vellum). Kessler initially set up the Cranach Press with the intention of producing German
translations of major international works of literature such as Virgil and Shakespeare. This joint production with the Hogarth Press represented a slight
departure, printing Rilke’s masterpiece, one of the
finest poetical sequences in the German language,
in both English and German.
Woolmer 268.
£2,250
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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.
Spine bumped with just the slightest of fading to the dust
jacket.
first edition, inscribed by the illustrator
on the title page “For Jonathan, Quentin Blake”
[80075]
£800
[84617]
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CROMPTON, Richmal. Just – William.
Illustrated by Thomas Henry. London: George
Newnes, Limited, [1922]
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles to spine, raised bands, single rule to
boards, twin rule to turn-ins, gilt edges. With black and
white illustrations. A fine copy.
first edition. The first book in the Just William series.
£1,250
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DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and
Selection in Relation to Sex. In Two Volumes.
With Illustrations. London: John Murray, 1871
DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species by
means of natural selection, or the preservation
of favoured races in the struggle for life. Sixth
edition, with additions and corrections.
(Eleventh thousand.) London: John Murray, 1872
(DEAN, James.) BAST, William. James Dean. A
Biography. New York: Ballantine Books, 1956
[DICKENS, Charles.] Oliver Twist; or, the
Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz.” In three
volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1838
DICKENS, Charles. Great Expectations. In
three volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861
2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spines
gilt, sides with panels blocked in blind, dark blue coated
endpapers. Engravings throughout. Cloth a little rubbed at
extremities with some small worn spots, spotting to halftitles, joints repaired. An excellent set.
first edition, first issue with the errata on the
verso of the title leaf of vol. II. Here the word “evolution” appears for the first time in any of Darwin’s
works, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition
of the Origin of Species the following year. Darwin had
hoped that one of his supporters might tackle the
thorny question of human evolution, but was forced
to face the logic of his own theory himself. Darwin
deviated from his ostensible subject of mankind to
describe sexual selection in the animal kingdom,
enabling him to answer those who saw peacock tails
as an expression of divine aesthetics. Darwin also
set out a definite family tree for humans, tracing
their affinity with the Old World monkeys, and laid
out his views on the evolutionary origins of morality and religion. “The Descent, understood by Darwin
as a sequel to the Origin, was written with a maturity
and depth of learning that marked Darwin’s status
as an élite gentleman of science” (ODNB).
£7,500
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Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered gilt, covers
stamped in blind with four-line outer border, blind rules at
head and tail of spine, brown endpapers. Folding diagram
facing p. 91. Ownership ink stamp to front free endpaper.
Cloth a little rubbed at extremities with some small white
spots and loss of size, hinges repaired, a little spotting to
edges of text block. An excellent copy.
first issue of the sixth edition. Darwin constantly revised each edition, and it is in this issue of
the Origin that the word “evolution” occurs for the
first time. It had been used in the first edition of The
Descent of Man the previous year, but not before in
this work. Other additions were a new chapter, VII,
and a glossary compiled by W. S. Dallas. It was this
text, with minor corrections in the eighteenth thousand, 1876, that formed the final lifetime text, the
basis for subsequent reprints.
Freeman 393.
£2,500
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Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black. With the
photographic dust jacket (reproducing two photographs
by Roy Schatt). Photographic portrait frontispiece by Roy
Schatt. Corners nicked, spine rolled with a crease. Still an
excellent copy in the spine-faded and rubbed jacket with
creases and tears to the extremities and a small ink mark
to rear panel.
first edition, scarce hardback edition, of Dean’s
posthumous biography written (as his first book)
by his close friend William Bast, who Dean met rehearsing for a student theatre production of Macbeth at UCLA in 1950. This is the copy of Dean’s Rebel
Without a Cause co-star Steffi Skolsky (who played Mil
under the stage-name Steffi Sidney), with her owl
bookplate stamp to the front pastedown, and her occasional ink annotations in the text. This copy has
also been signed on the front free endpaper by the
film’s screenwriter, “Stewart Stern, ‘Rebel Without
a Cause’”.
£950
[82039]
3 volumes, octavo (189 × 117 mm). Early 20th-century red
half calf, green morocco labels, 4 raised bands, red speckled edges. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Frontispiece to
each volume and 21 plates by George Cruikshank. All halftitles present; bound without terminal advert leaf in vol. I.
2 bookplates to each volume. Spine faded, bindings a little
rubbed and scuffed, spotting and toning to title page and
occasionally to contents.
first edition, first issue, with Boz title-pages
and the Fireside plate. Bentley decided to publish
Oliver Twist in book form before serialization was
complete, and Cruikshank had to complete the last
few plates in a hurry. Dickens did not see them until
the eve of publication and disliked the final “fireside” plate. Cruikshank designed a replacement, the
“church” plate, but early copies went out without it.
Dickens had also decided that he would no longer
be known as Boz; again this decision was too late for
the earliest copies, those published between 9 and
16 November.
£3,750
[84959]
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DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In
Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1843
Small octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in
crimson morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised
bands, single rule to boards with cornerpieces, onlay to
front board reproducing the frontispiece to centre of front
board, roll to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt
edges. With colour illustrations by John Leech. Some mild
browning and staining to a few leaves, an excellent copy in
a fine binding.
first edition, first issue. Dickens’s lavish gift
book was one of his biggest publishing triumphs
and the foundation of many of the elements of the
modern Christmas festival. This copy has the crucial
first issue text points: the half-title in blue, the title
page in red and blue, and “STAVE I” at the head of
the text.
£5,000
3 volumes, octavo (180 × 120 mm). Contemporary half
calf, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides, reddish
brown endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Pencilled ownership inscriptions erased from last 2 title pages. Rubbed,
marbled sides rather worn, small dampstain at foot of first
front joint, a sprinkle of foxing to blanks and very slightly
to titles, a very good copy.
first edition, third issue (stated “third edition”).
Great Expectations was first published in All the Year
Round, from 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861. According to Edgar Rosenberg (Dickens Studies Annual, 2
(1972), p. 376, n. 13), it was first published in threevolume book form on 6 July 1861, closely followed
by four other so-called editions (actually issues) on
5 August, 17 August, 21 September, and 30 October.
These first five issues were probably printed at a
single impression and published with altered titlepages to imply and encourage a rapid sale. In all five
issues, the same misprints persist, though some deterioration of the type has been noted. The genuine
second edition was the one-volume “Library Edition” of 1862.
£3,250
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DICKINSON, Emily. Poems (Second Series.)
Edited by two of her friends: T. W. Higginson
and Mabel Loomis Todd. Boston: Roberts
Brothers, 1891
Small octavo. Publisher’s deluxe binding, green clothbacked, white cloth sides, covers decorated with gilt titles,
double rule and floral design, all edges gilt. 4 page of facsimile manuscript as frontispiece. Ends and corners slightly rubbed, spine a little dulled, white cloth sides faintly
spotted, endpapers toned but otherwise internally fresh;
first edition, deluxe issue, of Dickinson’s second book, published in the year following the first
collection.
£2,250
[85028]
SIGNED BY THE ORIGINAL ALICE
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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] CARROLL,
Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland;
Through the Looking Glass. Illustrated by John
Tenniel. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932
& 1835
2 volumes, octavo. Publisher’s red and blue full levant morocco, spines gilt in compartments with tools based on Tenniel’s illustrations, boards elaborately gilt stamped, all edges
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gilt. Housed in the publisher’s red and blue cloth slipcases.
Frontispiece and engraved title to each volume and illustrations throughout by John Tenniel. Slightly rubbed at the extremities, spines a little faded. An excellent set.
signed limited editions, each one of 1,500
numbered copies of the Centennial Edition. The
first work is signed by the original Alice, Alice Hargreaves (neé Liddell), as issued. This copy includes
the original card notice and also the typed letter
(dated 15 April 1932) from the Limited Editions Club
to its members describing their negotiations to per-
suade her to sign the edition. The second volume
has the bookplate of Frank Rea Sloan, Jr.
£3,500
[80225]
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(DORÉ, Gustave.) TENNYSON, Alfred,
Lord. (Idylls of the King) Vivian; Guinevere.
Illustrated by Gustav Doré. London: Edward
Moxon, 1867
2 volumes bound in 1, folio (410 × 300 mm). Contemporary
red morocco for Hatchard’s, spine gilt in compartments,
boards gilt panelled with fleur-de-lis cornerpieces and
green onlay, marbled endpapers, gilt floral roll to turn-ins,
all edges gilt. 2 frontispieces and 16 plates by Doré. A few
small marks to binding, some minor spotting to contents
and offsetting from plates. Excellent condition.
A handsome volume combining two of the Arthurian
poems in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, “Vivian” and
“Guinevere”. These two poems, each focusing on
Arthur’s downfall as perpetuated by the moral shortcomings of women, were among the first four of the
Idylls published in 1855. All twelve poems of the complete cycle would not be published until 1885.
£1,500
[84050]
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(DOVES PRESS.) BIBLE; English. The English
Bible containing the Old Testament & the
New Translated out of the original tongues
by special command of His Majesty King
James the First and now reprinted with the
text revised by a collation of its early and other
principal editions and edited by the late Rev. F.
H. Scrivener M.A. LL.D. for the Syndics of the
University Press Cambridge. Hammersmith: The
Doves Press, 1903–05
Five volumes, large quarto (241 × 343 mm). Contemporary
full burgundy morocco by Stikeman, gilt-panelled with 13
sets of rules, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated burgundy and navy morocco doublures with red and green
morocco onlays, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt,
uncut. Housed in custom slipcases. Doves type printed in
black with red initial letters by Edward Johnston, on handmade paper. A fine set.
first edition thus, one of 500 sets, the masterpiece of the Doves Press, famous for its austerely
dramatic incipit with Johnston’s single elongated
initial “I”.
Tomkinson 6.
£12,000
[82578]
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Sign of Four.
London: Spencer Blackett, 1890
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board
gilt, decorative border to boards and ends of spine in black,
black coated endpapers. W. H. Smith blindstamp to front
free endpaper. Repairs to small worn spots at head of
spine, spine and upper board spotted and darkened, rear
1/2 vols showing
hinge cracked, margins of contents faintly toned. An excellent copy.
first edition, first issue, with the Spencer
Blackett imprint on the spine. Publication of the
Standard Library was taken over by Griffith Farran &
Co. who issued the bulk of this printing in bindings
stamped with their name.
£12,500
[79786]
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes. London: George Newnes Ltd., 1892 & 1894
2 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in
dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines, elaborate decorative borders to boards, pictorial onlays to front
covers of Holmes and Watson on a train on front cover of
Adventures and Moriarty on Memoirs, marbled endpapers,
decoration to turn-ins, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout
the text by Sydney Paget. The occasional minor blemish
otherwise an excellent set in a fine binding.
first editions of the first two great collections
of Holmes stories. The first collection, Adventures,
is the first issue with the misprint “Miss Violent
Hunter” on page 317; there is no corresponding issue point for Memoirs.
£5,375
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works. The
Crowborough Edition. New York: Doubleday,
Doran & Co., 1930
24 volumes, octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, twin morocco title labels burgundy, titles and decoration to spines,
roll to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. With
photogravure frontispiece portrait in volume I. A fine set.
The Crowborough edition, limited to 760 numbered
sets, signed on the limitation page by Arthur Conan
Doyle in volume one. “The Crowborough Edition
was intended to be a complete and definitive edition
of the author’s works of fiction. [Doyle] was to have
revised each book, written new prefaces, and arranged the stories in their final order. Unfortunately
he was prevented from doing so by illness and by his
other commitments … [The Crowborough Edition]
reprints the introductions from the Author’s Edition, but otherwise is set from the existing editions
without any corrections” (Green and Gibson A 61).
£13,500
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(DULAC, Edmund.) COUCH, Arthur Quiller.
The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales
from the Old French. Illustrated by Edmund
Dulac. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]
Quarto (308 × 239 mm). Attractively bound in contemporary tan full morocco, spine gilt in compartments each
with a putto design gilt, sides with a double gilt-ruled border and elaborate floral cornerpieces, each with a putto design gilt, top edge gilt. With a tipped-in colour frontispiece
and 29 colour plates with tissue guards. Spine rolled and
faded, ends and corners worn, a few minor marks to covers, small crease to the corners of four plates, hinge cracking between quires M and N. A very good copy.
signed limited edition, one of 1,000 numbered
copies signed by the artist on the limitation leaf.
£1,250
[80916]
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(DULAC, Edmund.) OMAR KHAYYÁM;
Edward Fitzgerald (trans.) Rubáiyát of Omar
Kháyyám. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]
Quarto. Original full vellum, titles and illustrations to
front cover and spine gilt. New ribbons. 20 mounted colour
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plates by Edmund Dulac. Vellum lightly mottled with surface scratches but a sharp, clean and internally bright copy.
£1,750
[59935]
THE ORIGIN OF MODERN DANCE
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DUNCAN, Isadora. Der Tanz Der Zukunft. (The
Dance of the Future.) Übersetzt und Eingeleitet
von Karl Federn. Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1903
Octavo. Original cream wrappers printed in blue. Housed in
a blue cloth folding case. Portrait frontispiece and a single
double-sided plate. Text in German and English. Wrappers
toned and rubbed, some wear at ends of spine, lower corner
of wrappers and early leaves of contents a little creased and
dulled. A very good copy of this fragile production.
rare first edition of Duncan’s 1903 Berlin address that became the manifesto of modern dance.
Coupling Nietzchean philosophy with Greek classicism, Duncan theorised a completely new form of
dance that originated in the body itself – the solar
plexus – and aspired to be as free and natural as the
dance of the ancient Greeks.
£2,750
[83693]
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DURRELL, Lawrence. [The Alexandria
Quartet:] Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea.
London: Faber and Faber, 1957–60
4 volumes, octavo. Original cloth, titles to spines gilt on coloured grounds. With the dust jackets. Spines rolled, some
mild rubbing and toning to edges of boards. An excellent
set in the jackets that are very lightly rubbed along the edges
with some small nicks and a few short closed tears.
first editions.
£3,250
[84110]
boards, endpapers and edges. Bookseller’s small ticket
to lower front pastedown, the occasional minor blemish,
spine and boards a little rubbed with some minor wear to
board edges, overall an excellent copy.
first edition in book form of George Eliot’s sixth
and greatest novel, with the title-pages showing
the line “The Right of Translation is Reserved.” 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. Prufrock and Other Observations.
London: The Egoist, 1917
ELIOT, George. Middlemarch. A Study of
Provincial Life. Edinburgh and London: William
Blackwood and Sons, 1871–72
Octavo. Original buff wrappers printed in black. Housed
in a tan cloth folding case. Wrappers rubbed and tanned,
spine professionally repaired, chip from tail of spine. A
very good copy.
4 volumes, octavo (174 × 116 mm). Contemporary half red
calf, brown morocco labels, elaborate decoration to spines
in compartments separated by raised bands, marbled
first edition of Eliot’s first book; 500 copies
printed. Prufrock was perhaps the most auspicious
poetical debut in 20th-century literature.
£8,750
[84971]
University, provided Nishizaki the necessary access
to the original periodical when he visited there as a
Fulbright research scholar.
£2,250
[83742]
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FAULKNER, William. New Orleans Sketches.
Edited with Notes by Ichiro Nishizaki. [Tokyo:]
Hokuseido, [1955]
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust
jacket. Light partial tanning to endpapers, tipped-in typescript portion has been re-inserted, leaving a trace of old
glue visible in the gutter. An excellent copy in the dust jacket
with toned spine panel and a few minor spots and nicks.
first edition, editorial presentation copy
inscribed by Ichiro Nishizaki on the front free endpaper, “For Dr. Garland Taylor, with remembrances and
gratitude from the editor, Ichiro Nishizaki. Tokyo, Japan”, and with a typescript of the English translation
of his introduction tipped-in following the Japanese
language version. Nishizaki had been studying Lafcadio Hearn when he came across Faulkner’s 1925 series
of vignettes in the Times-Picayune, predating his published work as a novelist. Nishizaki decided to publish
them in book form, and Taylor, the librarian at Tulane
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stained at the fore-margin, no encroachment beyond the
printed panel, some chipping, but overall a very good copy.
first and only edition, extremely uncommon on
the market, especially in the elaborate publisher’s
binding. James Fergusson (1808–1886) was one
of Victorian Britain’s foremost architectural
historians. He had begun his career with the family
firm of Fairlie, Fergusson & Co. in Calcutta, before
going into business as an indigo planter. He quickly
made his fortune “and was able to retire, and as
‘an expert draughtsman with a camera-lucida’ he
explored India ‘chiefly on a camel’s back, from end
to end and from side to side’ exploring the rock-cut
temples of Ajanta, Ellora, and elsewhere” (ODNB).
His first published work was Illustrations of the RockCut Temples of India (1845), with lithographic plates.
Such was the interest generated by this work that the
East India Company appointed Robert Gill to make
a complete pictorial survey of the murals at Ajanta.
By 1863 Gill had produced around 30 paintings, nearfull-scale copies of the principal frescoes. These were
sent to London, but the majority were lost in the
1866 fire at the Crystal Palace, where they were being
exhibited in the India Court.
Gill had meanwhile learnt to use a camera and was
documenting the frescoes in this medium on his
own account. The EIC had for some time been trying to encourage “the use of photography on paper
to expedite and economise the labours of the Cave
Committee”, and Gill was finally officially commissioned to photograph the caves in 1868. It was from
Gill’s nearly 200 stereoscopic views that Fergusson
selected the views in this book. It has been suggested that this edition may have privately produced for
Fergusson; it certainly predates the Cundall editions
of the same year.
Gernsheim 211 & 212 for variants.
£5,750
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three years before My 60 Memorable Games. Co-authored with education researchers Stuart Margulies
and Donn Mosenfelder, it uses the technique of programmed instruction developed by B. F. Skinner to
teach increasingly complex concepts in a structured
way for the independent learner.
£1,875
[83531]
FERGUSSON, James, & Robert Gill. The Rock
Cut Temples of India. Illustrated by Seventyfour Photographs taken on the Spot by Major
Gill. Described by James Fergusson. London:
John Murray, 1864
Octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth elaborately
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blocked with panels of knot-work, title gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt, dark brown surface-paper endpapers. Small albumen print mounted as vignette on the title
page, and 73 half-stereoscope albumen prints (mostly 76 ×
76 mm), mounted on stiff paper, red ruled border with cross
patté corner-pieces to all leaves, fully interleaved, plans to
the text. Externally bright and very clean, gutta-percha perished, now sewn, and lined with linen bands, scattered light
foxing, the interleaves browned otherwise, one leaf cleanly
torn across, now professionally repaired, one leaf slightly
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920
52.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles gilt to spine and blind
to upper board. Spine titles a little dulled, top edge darkened, front hinges just starting, single spray of spotting
over pages 256–6 but otherwise internally clean; a very
good copy of a fragile book.
FISCHER, Bobby; with Stuart Margulies &
Donn Mosenfelder. Bobby Fischer Teaches
Chess. New York: Basic Systems, 1966
Octavo. Original pictorial laminate boards, titles to spine
and upper board in red. Chess diagrams throughout. Spine
faded, some light rubbing and toning of boards, laminate
peeling at two small spots on the hinges. An excellent copy.
first edition, signed by Fischer on the front free
endpaper. This early Bobby Fischer book was published while he was at the height of his fame and
first edition of the author’s first novel, an instant success, running to a number of printings in
the first year.
Bruccoli A5.1.a
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£1,250
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Inscribed postcard and
original photograph. North Africa: [February 1930]
Postcard (85 × 137 mm) and original photograph, mounted,
glazed and framed together with a recent print of another
photograph. Lower corner of postcard missing, small pinhole and circular mark to top edge, neither affecting text.
Top corner of photograph missing, not affecting subjects
of photograph. Dampstain to lower edge of mat not affecting the framed materials.
Inscribed postcard and original photograph from
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s 1930 trip to North Africa, undertaken shortly before Zelda’s first breakdown. On the postcard Fitzgerald has written, “Dear
Helen Thompson, just ‘The Sahara’ will reach me
– or ‘Sheikh Fitzgerald – Africa’. Sometimes tho I
call at the [?] Trust, 4 Place de la Concorde & take
my mail away in a truck (a toy truck!), Scott Fitzger-
ald”. Accompanying the postcard is an original photograph of the author and his wife on camels with
palm trees in the background.
£7,500
[82643]
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FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary
Provincial Manners. Translation from the
French Édition définitive by Eleanor MarxAveling. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886
Octavo. Publisher’s blue-green diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth,
front cover with gilt scroll borders enclosing medallion at top
and bottom and with title in gilt on blue panel surrounded by
larger panel of gilt putti and floral sprays at centre, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, back cover blocked in blind with
outer 3-line rule and publisher’s device at centre, black coated
endpapers, edges untrimmed. Frontispiece. Spine rolled and
a little toned, cloth rubbed at extremities with wear at the tips,
rear hinge cracked, contents faintly toned.
first edition in english of Flaubert’s masterpiece,
one of the best titles in the famous sequence of English
translations of French and Russian novels published
by Henry Vizetelly in this decade, many of which affronted Victorian notions of propriety. The translator
was Karl Marx’s daughter, then living openly with Edward Bibbens Aveling, a married man whose name she
used in conjunction with her own. Like Emma Bovary,
Eleanor was to die at her own hand by poison.
£4,000
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FLEMING, Ian. Diamonds are Forever. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1956
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and diamond
design to upper board in silver, diamond pattern to upper board in blind. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped,
owner’s name to front free endpaper, dust jacket rubbed to
edges, restored to corners, price clipped.
first edition. Inscribed on the pastedown by two
of the actors who appeared in the film version: Lana
Wood (“Plenty O’ Toole”) and Trina Parks (“Thumper”). The fourth James Bond book.
£2,000
[80858]
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FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: London:
Jonathan Cape, 1961
Octavo. Original dark grey boards, titles to spine in silver,
skeletal hand motif on front board blocked in blind. With
the dust jacket. Spine a little rolled, lightly rubbed at extremities, edge of upper board bumped, a little spotting
and dulling to edges of text block. A very good copy in the
jacket that is very lightly rubbed along the edges with a
couple of small spots to the upper panel.
first edition, signed by the author on the
front free endpaper.
£8,500
[84499]
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57.
FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me.
(FLEMING, Ian.) You Only Live Twice [film
poster]. London: Warner Bros., 1983
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, dagger design to upper board in silver and blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly
rubbed jacket that is a little curled along the upper edges.
Sheet size: 75.4 × 101 cm (UK quad size). Offset lithograph
on wove paper. Light soft creasing, has never been folded.
Presented in a black wooden frame with UV glass.
first edition.
£875
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Broccoli, directed by Lewis Gilbert, screen play by
Roald Dahl.
£1,750
[84445]
Film poster for You Only Live Twice, based on the novel by Ian Fleming, starring Sean Connery as James
Bond, produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R.
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(FLEMING, Ian.) CONNOLLY, Cyril. “Bond
Strikes Camp.” London: The London Magazine,
1963
Octavo. Original green wrappers printed in black. Some
minor rubbing but very good indeed.
sole printing of Connolly’s wicked Bond parody,
with Fleming’s superb presentation inscription to
Richard Hughes: “Dikko – ouch! Ian”. Hughes was
a good friend of Fleming’s and the dedicatee of You
Only Live Twice, for which in April 1963 he was aiding
Fleming’s researches. We know of no other presentation copies by Fleming of this publication.
£12,500
[81452]
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FORSTER, E. M. Howard’s End. London: Edward
Arnold, 1910
gilt. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free
endpaper, bookplate of Gilbert A. Harrison, bookseller’s
ticket to rear pastedown. Spine rolled and faded, cloth
rubbed at extremities with some wear at the corners and
ends of spine, corners and edges of boards bumped, endpapers tanned, occasional spotting to contents. A very
good copy.
first edition, signed by the author on the title page. Of Forster’s three great works, signed copies of A Room with View and Howard’s End are the most
difficult to obtain, with signed copies of the present
being especially rare – we have handled only two
copies and can locate only two others have appeared
at auction.
£5,750
[84290]
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FRANK, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl.
Translated from the Dutch by B. M. MooyaartDoubleday. With a foreword 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. A fine copy.
first edition in english; originally published in
Dutch in 1947.
£1,375
[81306]
61.
FRANK, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. Tokyo:
Yugensha, 1972
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Folio. Original black cloth, titles to spine and upper board
in white, black endpapers. With the Japanese text booklet
laid in at the rear. House in the original black cloth slipcase
with a Frank photograph set in to one of the sides. With the
original cardboard shipping case. Black and white photographs in the text throughout. A fine copy in all the original
packaging, of which the corners are bumped.
first edition.
£3,750
[83511]
62.
FULLER, J. F. C. Decisive Battles: Their
Influence upon History and Civilization. Vol.
I. From Alexander the Great to Frederick the
Great. Vol. II. From Napoleon the First to
General Franco. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode,
1939–40
2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spines.
With the dust jackets. 53 full-page maps and plans. From
the library of Col. Roderick “Rory” Macleod with his ownership inscriptions to the front free endpapers and upper
panels of the jackets. Cloth very slightly mottled, endpapers with a scatter of foxing, but a very good set in somewhat tattered jackets, internally foxed, and sunned at the
spines and with some chips and splits.
first edition. Extremely uncommon, remarkably so, even in these slightly disreputable jackets.
The greater part of this edition was destroyed in the
Blitz, which was a stroke of good fortune for Fuller’s
reputation, as the original text has been described
by Anthony Trythall, Fuller’s first biographer and
a far from hostile witness, as “shrill Fascist special
pleading.” Fuller was able to “prune it of Fascist encrustation” (Brian Holden Reid in ODNB), and expand it in the 1950s, in the process turning it into
“the major work on which his reputation as a historian must rest … thenceforward he was able to bask
in the sunshine of a prophet restored to honour in
his own country” (Michael Carver in DNB).
£850
[80870]
63.
GASKELL, Elizabeth. Cranford and Other
Tales. A New Edition. London: Smith, Elder, &
Co., 1897
7 volumes, octavo (167 × 110 mm). Contemporary red half
calf, spines gilt in compartments, green and brown morocco labels, marbled endpapers, sides, and edges. Bindings lightly rubbed with occasional scuffs and small spots,
spotting to blanks and title pages but otherwise contents
clean and fresh. Spines faded, bindings lightly rubbed with
occasional scuffs and small spots, spotting to blanks and
title pages but otherwise contents clean. A very good set.
An attractive set of novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, including Cranford, Ruth, Lizzie Leigh, Wives & Daughters,
Mary Barton, Sylvia’s Lovers, and North & South.
£850
64.
[GOGOL, Nicolai.] [Dead Souls.] Home Life
in Russia. By a Russian Noble. Revised by
the Editor of “Revelations of Siberia.” In Two
Volumes. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1854
2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spines
gilt, spines and boards elaborately blocked in blind, yellow
coated endpapers. Spines and edges of boards browned,
cloth rubbed with some wear at the extremities, dampstain
to early leaves of volume II, small abraded spot to pages 242
and 243 of volume II. A very good set.
first edition in english of Gogol’s satirical masterpiece. Dead Souls was first published in Moscow in
1852 under the censor-imposed title The Adventures
of Chichikov, and told the story of a middling gentleman intent on raising his social standing by buying
the names of deceased serfs from landowners in
order to commit fraud. Gogol’s original intention
was to publish a further two parts mimicking the
structure of the Divine Comedy. In the second part
Chichikov would experience a moral transformation
corresponding to purgatory, but Gogol burned the
manuscript shortly before his death. Copies of the
first English language edition of Dead Souls are rare:
only one has appeared at auction since 1986.
£6,500
[84134]
[84066]
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65.
(GOLF.) DARWIN, Bernard, et al. A History of
Golf in Great Britain. With a foreword by Sir
George Cunningham, GCIE, KCSI. Captain
(1950–51) of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club
of St Andrews. London: Cassell & Company Ltd.,
1952
Quarto. Recent dark green morocco, titles and decoration
to spine, raised bands, pictorial block to front board, single rule to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 5
colour plates and numerous black and white plates. Presentation bookplate to front free endpaper, an excellent copy.
first edition. The other contributors are H. Gardiner-Hill, Sir Guy Campbell, Henry Cotton, Henry
Longhurst, Leonard Crawley, Enid Wilson, and Lord
Brazabon of Tara.
£975
[79986]
66.
(GOLF) HUTCHINSON, Horace G. Fifty Years of
Golf. London: Country Life and George Newnes, 1919
30
Octavo. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in dark green
morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands,
golf motif to front board within single rule, twin rule to
turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece and
twenty-five illustrations. A fine copy.
first edition.
£975
[79981]
67.
(GOLF.) HOGAN, Ben. Five Lessons. The
Modern Fundamentals of Golf. With Herbert
Warren Wind. Drawings by Anthony Ravielli.
New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1957
Tall quarto. Original green and white cloth, titles to spine in
green and to upper board in orange, light brown endpapers.
With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Spine very slightly rolled. An excellent copy in the toned
jacket that is very slightly rubbed along the edges.
first edition. Signed by Hogan on the frontispiece.
£1,250
[79819]
68.
(GOLF.) HUTCHINSON, Horace G., and
others. 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
morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, golf
motif to front board within single rule, twin rule to turn-
ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Ownership inscription
to half-title, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
first edition.
£975
[79979]
69.
GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the
Willows. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1931
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and pictorial design to upper board gilt, map endpapers, top edge
green. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by E.
H. Shepard. Cloth bright and fresh, spotting to edges of
text block, endpapers, title pages, and occasionally to contents. A lovely copy in the jacket that is only lightly rubbed
at the extremities.
first edition illustrated by e. h. shepard;
first published in 1908 with only the frontispiece
as illustration. On page 30 Shepard drew Rat at the
oars when it should be Mole, a mistake that was corrected in subsequent editions.
£2,250
[84664]
70.
GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S.
Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885–6
2 volumes, octavo. Publisher’s superior binding of tan full
sheep, red and dark blue morocco labels, marbled edges
and endpapers. Engraved portrait frontispiece, one etched
plate and one folding facsimile to each, 47 full-page plans
in all, folding map at the rear of volume II. Slightly rubbed,
and a few very minor patches of stripping, light toning as
usual, an unusually well-preserved set in this attractive,
but fragile, binding.
first edition. Grant’s autobiography sold over
300,000 sets and has remained continually in print
since its first appearance.
£975
dulled, light spotting to endpapers. An excellent copy in
the rubbed, nicked, and partially tanned jacket with closed
tears to the folds. Volume II: Spine rolled, cloth rubbed and
a little scuffed, corners bumped, spotting to endpapers
and title pages, rear hinge cracked. A very good copy in the
rubbed, chipped, and partially tanned jacket with tape repairs to the verso.
first editions, Claudius the God inscribed by the
author in pencil on the front free endpaper, “from
Robert Graves to May Ashley – 27 Whitehall Lane
– 1934”. With the publisher’s compliments slip
tipped-in below and Ashley’s bookplate to the front
pastedown.
£3,750
[84295]
[80238]
71.
GRAVES, Robert. I, Claudius; Claudius the
God. London: Arthur Barker, 1934
2 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spines
gilt. With the dust jackets. Folding diagram to volume I,
2 folding diagrams to volume II. Volume I: cloth a little
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72.
GREENE, Graham. The Heart of the Matter.
London: William Heinemann, 1948
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine in silver,
top edge red. With the dust jacket supplied from another
copy. A little shaken, boards slightly bowed, spine lettering
somewhat dull. Very good in the particularly bright dust
jacket.
by the author “For Gervase Mathew from Graham
Greene with love.” Greene’s close friend Father
Mathew was the dedicatee of The Power and the Glory,
the preceding novel to this in what has been called
Greene’s Catholic trilogy. He was a Dominican, a
scholar of Byzantine studies at Oxford University,
and a member of the Inklings group. Auction records show only two inscribed first editions of The
Heart of the Matter at auction since 1975.
£12,500
[81412]
73.
GREENE, Graham. The Third Man and The
Fallen Idol. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1950
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver, tan
endpapers. With the dust jacket. Endpapers tanned. An excellent copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket.
first edition.
£875
[82966]
74.
HALLAM, Arthur Henry. Remains in Verse
and Prose. [London:] [privately] printed by W.
Nicol, 1834
Octavo (192 × 122 mm). Mid 19th-century full dark brown
morocco, gilt-lettered spine, raised bands, turn-ins prettily
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gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Without the half-title.
Spine with minor wear in places, small stain at upper inner
corner of last few leaves, a very good copy.
first edition of Henry Hallam’s touching memoir of his son, the private publication of which came
about at the instigation of Arthur’s friends, chief
among them Alfred Tennyson, who felt that his writings deserved a wider audience after his premature
death in Switzerland in September 1834. The memoir is better as a demonstration of Arthur Henry
Hallam’s thinking than as an account of his life,
however, as his father expunged from the record his
“infatuation with Anna Wintour, his engagement
to Emily Tennyson, and his adventures in Spain”
(ODNB), that is, Arthur and Alfred’s abortive effort
to aid the Spanish rebellion against Ferdinand VII.
Hallam is still remembered for his association with
Tennyson and as the inspiration for In Memoriam.
£2,000
[84983]
75.
HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the D’Urbervilles. A
Pure Woman. In Three Volumes. London: James
R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891
3 volumes, octavo (188 × 125 mm). Early 20th-century blue
half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, titles to spine gilt,
5 raised bands, blue endpapers, blue cloth sides, top edges
gilt. A little toning of contents, and occasional small spots
and marks but overall an excellent set.
first edition of Hardy’s masterpiece.
Purdy p. 67.
£3,500
[84372]
76.
HAYEK, Friedrich A. von. The Road to
Serfdom. With Foreword by John Chamberlain.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1944].
Octavo (205 × 135 mm). Original blue cloth, spine lettered in
gilt, with the dust jacket. With Hayek’s signature to the front
free endpaper. Signed by the original buyer on both front
and back pastedowns, with an additional comment written
above Hayek’s signature. The dust jacket with tears and chip-
ping to the head and tail of the spine. Tape stains to the endpapers where the dust jacket was fixed to the pastedowns,
newspaper clipping taped to the front free endpaper causing
staining. Internally a very good, clean copy.
signed copy of the first American edition, third impression. Hayek’s classic polemic against centralization and collectivism is among the most influential
and popular expositions of classical liberalism and
libertarianism. The original owner, Hermina Henke
Kolitz, has signed the rear pastedown with her name
and address and the date of December 1944, the year
of publication. Above Hayek’s signature, she has
added the note “author’s autograph, terrible writing”, and signed her name and the date 1945. Signed
copies of Hayek’s classic work are very rare.
by founder Martin Greenberg on the verso of the
front free endpaper, “Gnome Press file copy, Martin
Greenberg”. The Gnome Press, founded by Greenberg and author David Kyle in 1948, was one of the
most important science fiction presses of the 20th
century, publishing Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy
and other classics.
£975
[82256]
78.
HUGHES, Ted. Three River Poems. Catadrome.
Caddis. Visitation. [North Tawton, Devon:] The
Morrigu Press, 29 April 1981
[84390]
Three large sheets loose in a green card folder with a white
paper label. Illustration by Ted Hughes to each poem. Single closed tear to the top edge of folder.
HEINLEIN, Robert A. Methuselah’s Children.
Hicksville, NY: Gnome Press, 1941
first edition, one of 75 numbered sets signed by
Ted Hughes on each sheet. The Morrigu Press publications, printed by Hughes’s son, are almost the
only place where Ted Hughes’s very accomplished
illustrations were published.
£2,250
77.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in red. With
the dust jacket. Contents tanned as often. A superb copy in
the bright, fresh dust jacket.
first edition, first issue binding and dust
jacket, the publisher’s file copy, inscribed
£1,000
[83791]
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81
79.
82.
HUME, Fergus. The Man with a Secret. A
Novel. London: F. V. White & Co., 1890
3 volumes, octavo. Original blue sand-grain cloth, titles to
spines gilt and to front boards in orange, with decorative
roll blind to front boards, and publisher’s insignia blind
to rear board, patterned endpapers. Near-contemporary
(1900) ownership inscription. Corners bumped, spines
rolled and a little dulled, a few minor marks to covers, tanning to early and late leaves and a few spots to edges. Still
a very good set.
first edition of one of the earliest novels written
by author of The Mystery of the Hansom Cab.
£1,500
[80966]
80.
HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London:
Chatto and Windus, 1932
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge
blue. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled and a little faded, a
little light spotting to endpapers. An excellent copy in the
jacket that is only very lightly rubbed along the edges.
first edition, trade issue. One of modern literature’s most appealing books, a seminal work of fiction and a triumph of book design. A stunning copy,
uncommon in such lovely condition.
£4,750
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[84100]
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81.
IVES, J. C. Six Years with the Colours in
Zululand, Penang and Hong Kong. Salisbury: E.
Milton Small, 1891
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt in display types with a
single fillet panel to the upper board, blue-green surfacepaper endpapers, edges sprinkled red. A little rubbed and
soiled, some chipping head and tail of the spine, foxing
and browning, overall a very good copy.
first edition. “Ives served in the 3rd (East Kent)
Regiment of Foot during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War”
(Raugh). Ives was a corporal in the 2nd Battalion
and gives a good account of the Battle of Nyezane,
and of reactions to the disaster of Isandlwana which
took place the same day. Ives also gives a detailed
narrative of the building of the fort at Eshowe, siege
conditions there, the arrival of the relief force, and
the Battle of Gingindlovu. The book concludes with
a brief account of his time in the Far East, at Penang for two years, and short visits to Singapore and
Hong Kong, where he experiments with opium.
Raugh 2761.
£1,500
[80198]
JAMES, Henry. [The novels and stories.]
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921–3
35 volumes, octavo. Recent burgundy half morocco, titles
and decoration to spines, raised bands, burgundy cloth
boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. A fine set.
large format edition of the final and most
complete collected works, with additions and corrections made to the New York edition of 1907. A
smaller format “pocket edition” was printed from
the same plates on appreciably thinner paper and is
probably a separate impression.
£8,750
[79760]
83.
(JAZZ.) (ARMSTRONG, Louis.) RAMSEY,
Frederic, & Charles Edward Smith. Jazzmen.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939
Octavo. Original tan cloth, lettered in blue. With the dust
jacket. 32 plates from photographs. Cloth a little stained,
spine tanned, endpapers browned towards the gutter, light
toning else, jacket clipped on the front flap, but showing
the price of $2.75 on the lower, wearing on the folds and
chipping head and tail of the spine, a very good copy.
first edition, inscribed on the half-title, in
characteristic green ink, by Louis Armstrong, “Best
1/35 vols showing
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wishes to Louise from Louis Armstrong”, and with
a gift inscription to this recipient to the front free
endpaper, dated in the year of publication. A classic jazz history, Jazzmen was one of the earliest books
published in the US to treat jazz as worthy of serious
cultural, historical and critical appreciation. There
could be no more appropriate signer than the great
trumpeter Louis Armstrong, whose photograph
graces the dust jacket, and who is the central figure in this “adventure story”; Chapter 5 is devoted
entirely to Armstrong, a lengthy appreciation of his
work by early jazz scholar William Russell.
£1,500
[80062]
84.
(JAZZ.) HANDY, W. C. Father of the Blues.
An Autobiography. Edited by Arna Bontemps.
With a Foreword by Abbe Niles. New York: The
Macmillan Company, 1941
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title in black to upper board
and spine, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Portrait
frontispiece, musical scores to the text.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by
the author on the front free endpaper, “To Dr. W. M.
Wells, with sincere appreciation of all favours and
[help?], Harlem Hospital, W. C. Handy, 11–27–1943”.
The recipient was probably Dr William Monroe
dier Petit and five silkscreens by Georges Bru, Jérémy Chabaud, Alain Lestié, Bernard Morteyrol, and
Michel Tyszblat. Very French, very stylish, and with
illustrations of some wonderful vintage pieces.
Wells, who spent much of his career in Orlando,
where he built a hotel and entertainment venue for
African Americans and hosted musical acts such as
Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, B. B. King, Louis Armstrong, and Bo Diddley.
£1,000
£1,350
[83191]
[83674]
85.
(JAZZ.) HOFSTEIN, Francis (ed.) L’Art du Jazz.
Paris: Éditions du Felin, 2009–11
2 volumes large octavo. Original colour-printed silk finish wraps with gloss detailing. Each with accompanying
CD, and original signed and numbered silk-screen prints.
Housed in plain blue card drop-back boxes. Superbly illustrated throughout, and with additional suites of silkscreens. Very good.
limited editions of this handsomely produced
and beautifully illustrated French jazz review: the
first volume, one of 37 signed numbered copies, with
a CD of guitarist Raymond Boni, and 4 original silkscreens by Jacques Lacomblez, Pierre Loeb, Bernard
Rancillac, and Jean-Claude Silberman; the second,
one of 20 numbered, with CD featuring bassist Di35
86.
(JAZZ.) MINGUS, Charles. Beneath the
Underdog. His world as composed by Mingus.
Edited by Nel King. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971
Octavo. Original silver and black cloth, title in black to
spine, top edge grey-blue. In the dust jacket. Very good in
jacket slightly chafed at the edges and on the folds.
first edition of this classic jazz life, with a loosely
inserted album leaf inscribed in blue medium nib
Sharpie by Mingus, “Good Luck Frank, Charles Mingus”. The autograph was obtained just two days after
the star-studded “Charles Mingus and Friends” concert at the Lincoln Center’s Philharmonic Hall, Mingus’s first concert appearance in six years, his first
in New York for ten years, and featuring such luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Gene Ammons, Lee Konitz, Milt Hinton, and, sitting in for an
ailing Roy Eldridge, the 18 year-old Jon Faddis. “The
turbulent voice of Beneath the Underdog, Mingus’s selftold story of life and hard times, is audible in every
note of the music” (Cook and Morton, Penguin Guide
to Jazz Recordings).
£875
[81838]
87.
(JAZZ.) REINHARDT, Django. Jazz Hot,
Revue Internationale de la Musique de Jazz,
36
Organe Officiel de la Fédération Internationale
des Hot Clubs Revue Mensuelle. Paris: Jazz Hot,
December 1936
Quarto. Wire-stitched in the original pictorial wraps. Profusely illustrated throughout. Contents loose from the
wraps which are a little worn, separating at the spine, with
a few edge-splits and slightly loss to the spine.
special holiday issue of this influential French
jazz periodical, this copy boldly signed by Django
above the photograph of the Quintette. The Quintette du Hot Club de France was formed just two
years before at the suggestion of the founders of
the Hot Club – Pierre Noury, Hugues Panassié, and
Charles Delaunay, who all contribute articles or artwork to the journal – becoming in effect their “house
band” without a house. In 1937 they were chosen by
American signer Adelaide Hall as residents at her
club La Grosse Pomme. Virtually illiterate, Django’s
signature was the only piece of calligraphy that he
ever mastered, becoming a little more competent
over time.
£3,750
[83445]
88.
JOHNS, W. E. Biggles & Co. Illustrations by
Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall. London:
Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1936
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and airplane decorations
to spine and upper board in blue, top edge blue. With the
dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 6 full-page illustrations in the text. Pencil underlining to the two previous
Biggles titles on both the half title verso and the jacket rear
panel. Spine a little rolled and slightly creased, light toning
around board edges. A very good sound copy in the rubbed
jacket with three chips along top edge and soiling to the
rear panel.
first edition.
£1,750
[80839]
89.
JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the
English Language: in which The Words are
deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated
in their Different Significations by Examples
from the best Writers. To which are prefixed,
A History of the Language, and An English
Grammar. London: by W. Strahan, for J. and P.
Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes;
A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755
2 volumes, folio (415 × 257 mm). Sometime rebound to
style in half calf, red and black morocco labels, raised
bands, old marbled paper sides. Paper restoration at lower margin and upper inner corner of first title leaf and at
top margin of second leaf, sporadic minor browning, a
good copy.
first edition of this most famous of English dictionaries. This work has at various times been called
“the most important British cultural monument of
the 18th century” (Hitchings); “the only dictionary
[of the English language] compiled by a writer of
the first rank” (Robert Burchfield); “the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the
field of lexicography” (PMM); and the first genuinely
descriptive dictionary in any language. “Johnson’s
writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton’s discoveries had in mathematics” (Webster).
Courtney and Smith p. 54; Chapman & Hazen p. 137; Fleeman 55.4D/1a; PMM 201; Rothschild 1237.
residue of removed bookplates to both volumes; still a very
good copy, sound and presentable.
[72604]
first edition of the most famous biography in
any language. The immense task of compiling the
thousands of notes Boswell had recorded of “the
great man’s talk, habits and opinions” was begun
after Johnson’s death in 1784. Made up of trifling incidents as well as the significant events in Johnson’s
life, the work remains a masterpiece of portraiture.
“Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of
dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the
first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers” (Macaulay). This copy has p. 135, vol. 1, in the
uncorrected first state, reading “gve”. Some copies
were corrected in the press to “give”, and 1,750 copies in either state were available on publication day,
16 May 1791 (800 were sold in the first two weeks).
£17,500
90.
(JOHNSON, Samuel.) BOSWELL, James.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Comprehending
an Account of His Studies and Numerous
Works, in Chronological Order… The Whole
Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary
Men in Great Britain for Near a Century During
Which He Flourished. In Two Volumes. London:
by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791
2 volumes, quarto (270 × 212 mm). Contemporary full tree
calf, spines gilt in compartments with two coloured morocco labels to each, sides bordered with a gilt roll, red
speckled edges. Portrait frontispiece engraved by James
Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2 engraved facsimile
plates by H. Shepherd. Neat 19th-century rebacking to
style, slight rubbing to extremities and a few scratches to
boards, edges a little darkened, some very few spots to occasional leaves and mild offsetting at the endpapers, faint
Courtney 172; Grolier, English 54; Rothschild 463; Pottle
79; Tinker 338.
£4,250
[81094]
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for this book, the first of the Kelmscott octavo books
with a woodcut title.
Peterson A17.
£1,250
[84665]
96.
(KENT, Rockwell.) MELVILLE, Herman. Moby
Dick or The Whale. Illustrated by Rockwell
Kent. New York: Random House, 1930
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and illustrations to
spine and upper board in silver. With the dust jacket Illustrations throughout by Rockwell Kent. Bookseller’s ticket.
Very slight rubbing to the silver on the covers, very light
spotting to edges, gentle rubbing to corners. An excellent
copy in the slightly spine tanned jacket with some small
tears along top edge.
JOYCE’S FIRST OBTAINABLE
PUBLICATION
92.
JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916
91.
JOYCE, James, & F. J. C. Skeffington. Two Essays.
A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question
and The Day of the Rabblement. Dublin: Privately
printed by Gerrard Bros., 15 October [1901]
8 page pamphlet. Original pink wrappers printed in black.
Housed in a marbled slipcase and chemise. Spine tanned,
some spotting to wrappers. An excellent copy.
first edition of James Joyce’s first obtainable published work. Joyce was a student at University College, Dublin, when he penned this essay critical of
the theatre of Yeats, Moore, and Martyn. This essay
and another, advocating female equality within the
university, by Joyce’s schoolmate F. J. C. Skeffington
were both rejected by the University College newspaper, Joyce’s because he mentioned D’Annunzio’s Il
fuoce, which was on the Index. Instead, the two young
men paid to have the essays published as a pamphlet
in a small run of perhaps 100 to 200 copies which they
hand-delivered. Joyce’s only previously published
work was Et Tu, Healy!, a pamphlet printed by his father when he was aged nine, of which no copy survives. Two Essays is scarce, with only six copies appearing at auction since 1990. The present copy is unusually nice, without the creasing usually seen.
Slocum & Cahoon B1.
£9,750
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Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper
board in blind. Housed in a blue board slipcase and chemise. Bookplate, neat contemporary ownership signature
to front free endpaper. Very lightly rubbed at extremities,
small faint spot to fore-edge. A beautiful, fresh copy.
first edition, and a superb copy of Joyce’s first
novel, which is rare in such excellent condition.
Due at least in part to the adverse reception of the
Egoist serialisation of A Portrait, no English printer
would print the book for fear of prosecution under
the obscenity laws. It was Huebsch who undertook
the true first publication in book form, first publishing on 29 December 1916. He sent from this print
run about 750 sets of sheets for issue in the UK the
following February. Although the number of copies
issued in America is unknown, it is unlikely to have
been large since Huebsch had sold out by March and
called for a second printing by April.
Slocum & Cahoon A11.
£10,000
[84625]
93.
JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and
Company, 1922
Small quarto (224 × 176 mm). Contemporary red morocco,
spine gilt in compartments, titles and panelling to boards
first rockwell kent trade edition. First published the same year by the Lakeside Press of Chicago in a three-volume limited edition, this trade edition proved immensely popular. It has been credited
with contributing greatly to the rediscovery of Moby
Dick as a classic.
in gilt and blind, maroon silk doublures and endpapers,
speckled edges. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. Contents
faintly toned. An excellent copy.
first edition, one of 750 on arches paper.
There were also 100 signed copies on thicker paper
and 150 large paper copies.
£12,500
[84725]
£1,250
[81822]
94.
97.
JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London, Faber
and Faber; New York, The Viking Press, 1939
KEROUAC, Jack. Doctor Sax. Faust Part Three.
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959
Large octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and top
edge gilt. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the
dust jacket. Tiny nicks to corners, faint partial tanning to
endpapers. An excellent copy in the somewhat rubbed and
mildly marked jacket.
copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.
£12,500
first edition, hardcover trade issue.
[80707]
£2,000
[82615]
95.
98.
(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) TENNYSON, Alfred,
Lord. Maud. A Monodrama. Hammersmith: The
Kelmscott Press, 1893
KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory
of Employment Interest and Money. London:
Macmillan and Co., 1936
Octavo. Original limp vellum by J. and J. Leighton of London, titles to spine gilt, red silk ties. Ends of silk ties lacking, a little creasing to edge of lower cover, mark to corner
of pages 37 and 38. A very good, fresh copy.
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green
single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, burgundy
plain endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
first kelmscott edition, one of 500 copies on
paper. The woodcut borders were specially designed
first edition of perhaps the single most famous
work on economics published in the 20th century.
95
£1,575
[82597]
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Quarto. Publisher’s tan quarter pigskin on sand buckram
boards, title gilt to spine, crossed swords device gilt to
upper 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. An extremely
well-preserved copy, the spine showing none of the flaking
often encountered, cloth unspotted, the joints and hinges
entirely sound, very good indeed.
limited edition of 750 numbered copies.
O’Brien A041.
£2,500
[81820]
103.
LENNON, John. Power to the People. The
Political Thoughts of John Lennon. London:
New English Library, 1972
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99.
KLEIN, William. Life is Good & Good for You
in New York. Trance Witness Revels. Paris:
Album Petite Planète 1, 1956
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with monochrome
photographic reproductions. Minor rubbing, dust jacket
nicked and rubbed to edges, slightly larger chip to head of
back panel and foot of spine, front flap creased.
first edition. The true first edition of Klein’s classic photography work and the first of his four city
photobooks which cover Rome (1960), Moscow, and
Tokyo (both 1964).
£1,875
[85092]
100.
LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de.
An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Pérouse
… Performed in the Years 1791, 1792, and 1793
… under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni
d’Entrecasteaux. London: For John Stockdale, 1800
Quarto (272 × 211 mm). Contemporary green half calf on
marbled boards, black morocco label, flat bands with small
floral tools gilt. Frontispiece and 44 other plates, large
folding map. A little rubbed at the extremities, neat repair
to split at head of upper joint , marbled paper skilfully re-
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newed, some offset from the frontispiece, light toning and
the occasional spot of foxing, but overall a very good copy.
first edition in english, same year as the
French, this in the favoured, and less common,
single-volume quarto edition. “Although unsuccessful in the search for La Pérouse, the voyage was of
considerable importance because of the scientific
observations that were made and the surveys of the
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coasts of Tasmania, New Caledonia, the north coast
of New Guinea, and the southwest coast of Australia. Labillardière’s account of the Tongans is an excellent contribution to the ethnology of that people”
(Hill).
Ferguson 309; Hill 955 (the 2 volume octavo edition); Sabin
38421.
£3,500
[79886]
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101.
(LAWRENCE, T. E.) A Short Note on the
Design and Issue of Postage Stamps Prepared
by the Survey of Egypt for His Highness Husein
Emir & Sherif of Mecca & King of the Hejaz.
Cairo: Survey of Egypt and Government Press, 1918
Quarto. Original white boards decorated in green, similarly
decorated endpapers. Housed in plum morocco-textured
cloth drop-back box, title gilt to the spine. A complete set
of the stamps mounted as frontispiece, frontispiece and title page, printed in green, within broad decorative border
printed in brown, 12 colour plates at the rear. The box a
little bumped, very light marginal browning, but otherwise
the book itself is a wonderful copy.
first and only edition. One of 200 copies, this
copy unnumbered and without an ad personam presentation, but with the compliments slip of the Surveyor General of Egypt, Ernest M. Dowson, laid in.
T. E. Lawrence is not explicitly mentioned in the
text, but in his brief introduction, Dowson refers
to “El Emir ‘Awrunis of the Northern Armies of his
Highness the King of the Hejaz at whose suggestion
this work was undertaken”, and he confirms TEL’s
role in the conception, design, and printing of this
series of stamps in his contribution to A. W. Lawrence’s T. E. Lawrence by his Friends, “Mapwork and
printing in the Near East”. TEL himself wrote to his
family on the subject on a number of occasions, in
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July 1916 remarking to his mother that “Arnie will be
glad to hear I am printing stamps for the Sherif of
Mecca”, and explaining “I’m going to have flavoured
gum on the back so that one may lick without unpleasantness”; and in February 1917 sending AWL
some examples, “Herewith a few 1/8 piastre Hejaz
stamps … What do you think?” (Home Letters, p. 328
and p. 337). In the National Portrait Gallery centenary exhibition catalogue, Jeremy Wilson clarifies
TEL’s motivations: “After Hussein’s declaration of
independence Ottoman stamps could no longer be
used in the Hejaz. Lawrence suggested that the issue
of a new, distinctive series of stamps would be one
way of publicising the emergence of a new nation.”
TEL did the initial research on design with Ronald
Storrs, wandering “round the museum in Cairo collecting suitable motifs in order that the design in
wording, spirit and ornament, might be as far as
possible representative and reminiscent of a purely
Arab source of inspiration” (Storrs, Orientations, p.
220). This copy has a second partial set, lacking the
2 paistre, two postally used, hinge-mounted on a
trimmed album page, loosely inserted.
Not in O’Brien.
£3,750
Quarto. Original green wrappers, titles to front cover in
black. With the dust jacket. Many full page illustrations
throughout. Book near fine, over-sized dust jacket lightly
creased to edges. With a note on Granada Publishing
Limited notepaper laid in: “The compiler of this little opportunist book which was never published! Peter Haining
Editorial Director NEL”.
proof copy, never published. Though the publisher’s stamp to the verso of the dust jacket states
“Publication date 20 Apr 1972”, the book was never
published, probably because permission to publish
was refused by Lennon, who feared it would jeopardize his US green card application. In 1972 Lennon
and Yoko Ono were living in New York and wanted
to settle there permanently. But Richard Nixon was
running for re-election that year. Opposition to the
Vietnam War had reached a peak, and Lennon and
Ono often showed up at antiwar rallies to sing “Give
Peace a Chance” — and to tell their fans that the best
way to bring that about was to vote against Nixon.
The Nixon administration were refusing Lennon a
green card on the grounds that he had been admitted to the country improperly. He had pleaded guilty
to a misdemeanour charge of cannabis possession
in London in 1968, and immigration law at the time
banned the admission of anyone convicted of any
drug offence.
£8,500
[84429]
[84528]
102.
LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A
Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935
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104.
106.
LEWIS, C. S. The Screwtape Letters. London:
Geoffrey Bles, 1942
LINCOLN, Abraham. “Political Religion of
America” [calligraphic manuscript on vellum].
Los Angeles, CA: C. Everette Smith Studio, [c.1930]
Octavo. Original black cloth, printed paper label to spine.
With the dust jacket. A little minor rubbing and loss of
size from lower corners. An excellent copy in the lightly
rubbed, spotted, and nicked jacket with toned spine panel.
first edition. The most difficult of the author’s
books to find in the dust jacket.
£2,750
[84173]
105.
LEWIS, C. S. The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe. A Story for Children. Illustrations
by Pauline Baynes. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950
Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, spine lettered in silver.
With the colour printed dust jacket. Custom blue morocco
solander case by The Chelsea Bindery. Coloured frontispiece and numerous uncoloured illustrations by Pauline
Baynes. Just a trace of ghosting to the spine through the
jacket but a lovely copy in superb dust jacket with a few tiny
nicks and a single minute chip at one lower corner of the
spine panel.
first edition of the first book in the Narnia series.
None of the Narnia books is common in this condition but examples of this title in such wonderful
condition are rare.
£12,500
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[81116]
Quarto (269 × 207 mm). Full blue morocco, title gilt to the
spine, narrow raised bands, compartments gilt with double fillet panels, rose corner-pieces, concentric multiple
gilt panels to the boards, fleuron corner-pieces, single fillet edge-roll, red morocco doublures, with blue morocco
turn-ins, elaborate gilt ruled panels to both, cream moiré
silk free ends, white silk page-marker, all edges gilt. Manuscript on 5 leaves of vellum in an elegant calligraphic hand,
title page with gilt initials and gilt torch of freedom device,
2 large gilt initials with decoration in blind of scrolls and
“stars and bars”, the whole interleaved and bulked with
hammer-finished Japanese paper. A little rubbed at the extremities, else a very good copy.
illuminated manuscript on vellum reproducing a key section of one of Abraham Lincoln’s earliest published speeches. The text is taken from “The
Perpetuation of our Political Institutions. Address
by Abraham Lincoln before the Young Man’s Lyceum of Springfield, Ill, January 27, 1837” (recte 1838;
the dating is an error by the calligrapher). In this
address Lincoln focused on citizenship and the crucial necessity of inculcating reverence for the law,
almost to the point of cultivating a political religion,
predicting that destructive forces would otherwise
flow unchecked and threaten American institutions,
potentially even the Constitution. The speech was
given against the background of two recent murders
by pro-slavery mobs: the first a case where a freed
African-American had killed a constable in St. Louis
and been lynched by a mob; the second, the murder
of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Presbyterian minister and
editor of the abolitionist Alton Observer, shot dead
next to his printing press just three months prior
to this speech. C. Everette Smith was a bibliophile
and a partner in the noted Los Angeles furniture and
decorating firm of Cannel, Smith & Chaffin. His studio produced a number of patriotic manuscripts on
vellum around this date, including “America” (also
known as “My Country ’tis of Thee”) by his ancestor
Samuel Francis Smith and the Gettysburg Address.
No other copies of the present text have been traced.
£1,250
[84122]
107.
LYON, Danny. The Bikeriders. New York and
London, The Macmillan Company and Collier–
Macmillan Limited, 1968
Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with black and white
photographs by Lyon. A bright copy with small red spot to
bottom edge slightly bleeding on to the pages (remainder
spot), dust jacket nicked to corners, small chip to foot of spine
with loss to ‘N’ in Macmillan, small amount of sellotape to
verso of foot of spine, a couple of small closed tears to edges.
first edition, scarce hardback issue. Lyon’s first
book is one of the iconic American photobooks of
the sixties.
£1,250
[84249]
pictorial block copied from the original cover to the front
board, inner dentelles, dark green endpapers with original
endpapers bound in, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With
12 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissues and numerous
monochrome illustrations throughout. A fine copy.
copies signed by the artist.
£3,500
[84901]
108.
109.
(MACKENZIE, Thomas.) RANSOME, Arthur.
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme.
London: Nisbet & Co., [1920]
MAN RAY. La photographie n’est pas l’art.
Forward by Andre Breton. Paris: G.L.M., 1937
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson
Octavo. Sheets loose as issued in original blue wrappers
with titles in black. With the original dye cut black outer
wrapper. Housed in a black rounded spine cloth slipcase
with chemise. 12 heliograph reproductions after photo-
graphs by Man Ray. Typical fading to the upper wrapper
through the viewing pane cut into the outer wrapper but
an excellent copy,
first and only edition. One of the photographer’s little masterpieces. There has been speculation recently that one of the plates exists in two
states. Apparently the heliograph failed in some way
or other and a half tone was produced to finish the
run. Certainly the plate in question, “Plein-air artistique”, is a little grainy but on the same paper stock.
We assume this therefore to be in the first state although quite what bearing this might have on priority is unclear. The dye-cut outer wrapper, by the way,
was added to allow simple viewing of the images
within a handy basic frame.
£2,250
[81185]
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110.
MASCLET, Daniel (ed.) Nus: La Beauté de la
Femme. Paris: Daniel Masclet, 1933
Quarto. Original white heavy card wrappers with red cord
through spine as issued, titles to front cover in black 96
black and white photogravure plates. Wrappers lightly discoloured and rubbed.
first edition. This album was produced from the
first International Salon of Nude Photography, Paris
1933. Contributing photographers include Drtikol,
Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, and many others.
£1,250
[80256]
111.
(MASEREEL, Frans.) HUGO, Victor. NotreDame de Paris. Translated by Jessie Haynes.
With a Critical Introduction by Andrew Lang
and with Wood-Cut Illustrations by Frans
Masereel. Paris: R. Coulouma for the members of the
Limited Editions Club, 1930
2 volumes, large octavo (252 × 192 mm). Contemporary
red-orange morocco, spines gilt in compartments, borders to boards composed of gilt rules and dotted lines with
arabesque cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, turn-ins and
all edges gilt. Woodcut illustrations throughout by Frans
Masereel. Superb condition.
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first edition thus, one of 1,500 numbered copies
signed by the artist on the limitation leaf. A superb
set, this edition is rarely seen in a contemporary fine
binding. The artist Frans Masreel (1889–1972) was
an important figure in the Belgian graphic arts community of the early 20th century, producing more
than 20 “wordless novels”, including his 1919 masterpiece Mon livre d’heures. His influence stretched
across the 20th century, inspiring other artists including Lynd War, Will Eisner, and Art Spiegelman.
£850
Waterfield. Of Human Bondage is one of the author’s
key books, and almost invariably features in “novel
of the century” lists. The UK edition is printed from
the first issue American plates containing the misprint at page 257, line 4.
£1,875
[83497]
[80253]
Spine lightly browned, sides rubbed, but a tight, fresh
copy, with none of the endemic browning to the text one
associates with this book.
first edition. Melville’s first collection of short
stories, among them some of his most memorable, including “Bartleby”, “Benito Cereno”, “The
Lightning-Rod Man”, and “The Enchantadas”. From
the library of the American novelist and short-story
writer John Cheever (1912–1982) with his father’s
calling card (“Mr. Frederick Lincoln Cheever, Jr.”
with “& Mrs” added by hand) loosely inserted.
BAL 13669; Wright II, 1702.
112.
£2,750
MAUGHAM, William Somerset. Of Human
Bondage. London: William Heinemann, 1915
114.
MELVILLE, Herman. The Works. London:
Constable and Company Ltd, 1922–24
Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, titles to spine and front
board gilt. Re-cased with split endpapers repaired; spine
dulled, extremities rubbed, a few small marks to rear
board, tanning to edges and endpapers with a few stains to
front pastedown; still a very good copy in sound condition.
first uk edition, presentation copy, inscribed
by Maugham to his lover, the writer and literary salonist Isobel Violet Hunt (1862–1942), on the front
free endpaper, “Violet Hunt, from her affectionate
friend, W. S. Maugham”. Hunt was the inspiration
for the character Nora Nesbit in this novel, and he
also wrote her into The Moon and Sixpence as Rose
[85084]
16 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in recent full blue morocco, titles to spines with gilt ship motifs in compartments,
single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt.
Title pages printed in blue and black. A fine set.
the standard edition, limited to 750 copies. The
Standard Edition was published episodically, and includes, among other pieces, the first edition of the
novella Billy Budd, which was discovered in manuscript among Melville’s papers that year.
£12,500
[84447]
115.
MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. With
Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926
MELVILLE, Herman. The Piazza Tales. New
York: Dix & Edwards; London: Sampson Low, Son &
Co., 1856
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and decorations to upper board gilt, map endpapers, top edges gilt.
With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by E. H.
Shepard. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities with a few
small scuffs and some loss of size, minor wear to lower corners, partial toning to free endpapers. A very good copy in
the jacket with tanned and creased spine panel with some
nicks at the ends.
Duodecimo. Original green vertical-fine-ribbed cloth,
spine lettered and decorated in gilt, sides blocked in blind.
£1,875
113.
first edition.
116.
MONRO, Vere. A Summer Ramble in Syria,
with a Tartar Trip from Aleppo to Stamboul.
London: Richard Bentley, 1835
2 volumes, octavo (213 × 132 mm). Contemporary maroon
morocco by G. Cartland of Eton, title gilt directly to the spine,
flat bands with an attractive gilt lozenge roll, floral panels to
the compartments, elaborate gilt panel composed of floral,
foliate and palmette tools within blind panels to the boards,
all edges gilt, pale cream surface-paper endpapers,brown
silk page-markers still intact. Lithographed frontispiece to
each. Inscribed in 1845 as an Eton leaving present to Arthur
Benson Dickson from “his sincere friend” William Thomas
Dickson. Very minor shelfwear, pale browning, overall a
clean and handsome set.
first edition. The plates show a pilgrim encampment on the banks of the Jordan, and Monro’s bivouac
on Mount Lebanon, “previous to passing the snow”.
Atabey 827; Blackmer 1148; Rohricht 1833; Weber I, 234.
£2,250
[80231]
[82889]
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reach the pole via Smith Sound. A sledge party under
Commander Markham of the Alert did reach 83°20’
N, a heroic achievement considering that the pack
ice was extremely rough, and also drifting south
almost as fast as they were travelling northwards.
But both ships were severely affected by scurvy and
Nares made the “morally courageous” decision to
return home.
Books on Ice 4.7; Howgego, IV, N6.
£6,000
[84181]
119.
MURDOCH, Iris. The Good Apprentice.
London: Chatto & Windus and The Hogarth Press,
1985
Octavo. Original teal boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket.
first edition, the dedication copy inscribed
by the author on the title page, “For Brigid with
much love from Iris” and with the printed dedication on the verso of the following leaf circled in red
ink. Brophy (1929–1995) was a fellow novelist and
critic with whom Murdoch is thought to have had
one of her many affairs.
£1,500
117.
MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law. El Alamein
to the River Sangro; Normandy to the Baltic.
Germany: Printing and Stationery Services, British
Army of the Rhine, 1946
Together 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue sand-grain
paper and red sand-grain cloth respectively, titles gilt to
spine and upper boards, 21 Army Group flash to the upper boards in blue and gilt. First-named with coloured map
frontispiece and 16 coloured folding maps, the second with
coloured map frontispiece and 49 folding maps and diagrams. El Alamein … slightly rubbed on the boards, and
with some careful restoration at the spine and to the hinges, Normandy … sunned and a little creased at the spine,
but overall very good pair.
true first editions, published by the British
Forces in Germany at the end of the war, both volumes inscribed “To: Alan Cunningham with my best
wishes Montgomery of Alamein Field-Marshal, June
1946.” An extremely interesting association. Cunningham had served with distinction in the First
World War, and, as General Officer Commanding
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East Africa during the campaign to reconquer Abyssinia, he showed himself a brilliant, daring leader.
In 1941 he was chosen by Auchinleck to command
the Eighth Army in the Western Desert, but was unable to deal with Rommel’s fast-moving operations
and was dismissed. Following the war Cunningham
was appointed High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief Palestine and High Commissioner Transjordan, positions that he held with considerable
dignity until the end of the British Mandate in 1948.
His tenure was however greatly complicated by his
relationship with Montgomery, who held the position of Chief of Imperial General Staff during that
period. Montgomery never hesitated to tell anyone
who would listen that Cunningham was his failed
predecessor, who had been removed from duty in
the midst of battle. A remarkable presentation,
therefore, of Montgomery’s own account of his
commands during the Second World War, presented
to a man whose reputation he was doing all he could
to undermine.
£2,000
[81655]
[84794]
118.
MOSS, Edward L. Shores of the Polar Sea. A
Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875–6.
Illustrated by Sixteen Chromo-Lithographs
and numerous Engravings. London: Marcus Ward
& Co., 1878
Folio. Original publisher’s blue cloth, elaborately decorated in black and gilt on the spine and upper board, panels
in blind to the lower board, all edges gilt, brown surfacepaper endpapers. Title page in red and black, coloured map
frontispiece, 16 mounted chromolithographs on textured
card, line-drawn historiated initials to each chapter, 28
vignette illustrations to the text. A little rubbed, corners
bumped and head and tail of the spine crumpled, some adhesion damage to the endpapers and foxing verso, as also
to half-title, lightly to the title, and a scatter throughout,
but tight, and overall clean, remaining an unusually wellpreserved copy in the cloth.
first and only edition. A “sumptuous volume”
(Books on Ice). Moss was naval surgeon aboard Nares’s flagship Alert “but also served as artist for the
expedition.” The Nares expedition was intended to
120.
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. Paris: The Olympia
Press, 1955
2 volumes, octavo. Finely bound for Asprey in burgundy
half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised
bands, burgundy cloth boards, marbled endpapers, gilt
edges. Boards ever so slightly bowed, an excellent copy.
first edition of one of the most notorious books
published in the 20th century, published three years
before the American edition and four before the
London.
£2,250
[83168]
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121.
(NELSON.) CLARKE, James Stanier, & John
M‘Arthur. The Life and Services of Horatio,
Viscount Nelson, … from His Lordship’s
Manuscripts. London: Fisher, Son, & Co., [1839-40]
3 volumes, octavo (221 × 137 mm). Contemporary tree calf,
spines elaborately gilt-tooled in compartments with black
bands, sides bordered with a foliate gilt roll, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece
and vignette half-title to each, 31 other engraved plates
in all, folding plan. The portrait of St. Vincent, called for
in volume III, is instead present in volume II. Spines and
extremities rubbed, joints starting, ink gift inscriptions to
the versos of the vignette half-titles with some throughsetting of the ink, occasional light spotting around the plates.
A good set, attractively bound.
second complete edition, preceded by the
1809 first edition in two weighty folio volumes,
and a much abridged single octavo edition in 1810;
this second complete edition was more practicable
than the first, originally issued in seven parts to be
bound, as here, in three. This edition includes three
appendices published for the first time: the recollections of Tom Allen, Nelson’s naval servant; memoirs
of Thomas Masterman Hardy, Nelson’s flag captain
and the dedicatee of this biography; and those of
Lord Collingwood, the “noble fellow” who succeeded Nelson after his death at Trafalgar.
Cowie 137 for the first edition, this edition not noted;
NMM, II, 923.
£850
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[80711]
ume II with five facsimile signatures. Half-titles bound in.
Contemporary ownership inscription of William French to
the title pages. A little rubbed, slight foxing to, and offsetting from, the frontispieces, text lightly browned, occasional spot of foxing, an attractive set.
122.
(NELSON.) LLOYD, Frederick. Life of Viscount
Nelson, also of Sir R. Abercrombie, and
Marquis Cornwallis, with a Sketch of the Life
of Sir W. S. Smith, K.S. Ormskirk: J. Fowler, 1806
Octavo (207 × 122 mm). Recent half calf on marbled boards,
red morocco label, rolled bands, gilt device to compartments. Portrait frontispiece to each of the 4 works, and 13
other plates, 4 of them portraits (including one of the Duke
of York not called for), 5 of them folding views of Nelson’s
victories. Somewhat browned, the plates particularly, as
usual, title page to the first item repaired and with an ink
library stamp verso, embossed library stamp to the this
and also to the last leaf, two of the folding plates with old,
quite neat, paper reinforcements verso of folds, one plate
with short split at the fore-edge, archival tape repair, overall very good.
first editions of all four biographies, each with
separate title page and here issued together with a
general title and directions to the binder, the latter
three paginated continuously. Despite the continuous pagination, the imprint of the second part credits
Fowler as the printer, whereas the last two are printed by J. Lang of Liverpool, suggesting that the work
grew by degrees. The portrait frontispiece of Nelson
is somewhat loosely based on the Abbot portrait of
1797. The unusual provincial publication of this biography in Ormskirk, a small town near Liverpool,
provides an interesting footnote. Our colleague Michael Nash reminds us that “in 1806 Liverpool was the
major UK port for Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
and Baltimore. Regular ‘Liverpool Packets’ (chiefly
Yankee vessels) left the Mersey every week. This book
appeared very shortly after Trafalgar and Nelson’s
death, and it reached the New World ahead of the
London publications, and it was pirated in the States
almost within days”. John Watts in Philadelphia was
one of the earliest to get in on the act.
Cowie 132; NMM, II, 914.
£1,500
[83586]
123.
(NELSON.) SOUTHEY, Robert. The Life of
Nelson. London, Printed for John Murray, Bookseller
to the Admiralty and to the Board of Longitude, 1813
Octavo (160 × 99 mm). Contemporary citron straight-grain
half morocco, marbled boards, title gilt direct to the spine,
narrow gilt rolled bands forming compartments with attractive floral tooling in blind centred on a small gilt quatrefoil tool, quadruple fillets to the spine and corner edges,
marbled edges, blue silk page-markers remain intact. Engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, frontispiece of vol-
first edition. “Southey constructed an early19th century hero as a model for the young – in his
words, a ‘patriotic manual.’ He told a friend that he
would write ‘such a life of Nelson as shall be put into
the hands of every youth destined for the Navy’”
(Knight, The Pursuit of Victory, p. 542). Elegantly written and surprisingly even-handed on the issue of the
Neapolitan Jacobins.
Cowie 139; NMM, II, 927.
£875
[81447]
124.
NEWTON, Helmut. Sumo. London: Taschen,
1999
Elephant folio (70 × 50 cm). Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Together with original metal stand designed by Philippe
Starck and shipping packaging. 450 photographs in colour
and black-and-white. Fine copy.
first edition. One of 10,000 signed and numbered by the photographer. A book so large and
heavy that it comes with its own metal folding
stand, engraved with the author’s name. Taschen’s
definitive work on the iconoclastic photographer, a
remarkable production.
£8,500
[84779]
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125.
NIJINSKY, Vaslav. Gala de danse au bénéfice
de Vaslav Nijinsky, organisé par Serge Lifar
sous le patronage du Comité de l’Art des
Fêtes de Paris, le juin 28 1939 dans le Cadre de
l’Exposition des Ballets Russes de Diaghilew.
Paris: Bureau de Concerts Marcel de Vamlalète, 1939
Quarto. Wire-stitched in the original gold anodized card
wraps with fuchsia silk tie. Eight photogravure plates
with Japanese tissue guards, line-drawings to the text
after Cocteau. Merest hint of rubbing on the wraps, remains a superb copy.
Spectacular and uncommon (two copies only on
OCLC) programme for the benefit concert organized by Serge Lifar to raise funds for Nijinsky, whose
mental collapse had kept him in a sanatorium in
Switzerland since 1919. The cover design employs
one of Baron Adolf de Meyer’s superb images of
Nijinsky in the Le Spectre de la Rose (1911), printed in
black on the gold anodized wrapper.
£1,750
[84013]
126.
O’CONNOR, Flannery. Wise Blood; A Good
Man is Hard to Find; The Violent Bear it Away.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company; Farrar,
Strauss & Cudahy, 1952–55–60
50
3 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in
yellow, black and grey morocco, titles blocked to spines
copied from the original covers, black endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a black leather-entry slipcase made by The
Chelsea Bindery. A fine set.
first editions. O’Connor only published two
novels. Together with her short story collection The
Violent Bear it Away, the three books represent all that
was published in her lifetime.
£5,750
[83667]
ORWELL, George. Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1945
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in white
pigskin, lettered down spine, twin rule to turn-ins, cream
endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
scribed by the author on the front free endpaper,
“For Eddie with best wishes from Mervyn, March –
1946”. The recipient was likely literary patron Sir Edward Marsh, who had known Peake since the 1930s,
assisted with the manuscript of some of the author’s
first edition.
£1,375
[83607]
ORWELL, George. Inside the Whale and Other
Essays. London: Gollancz, 1940
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Housed in a quarter morocco green solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Pages very lightly
tanned as usual, attractive bookplate to the front pastedown, but an exceptionally nice copy in the lightly marked
and somewhat faded dust jacket.
first edition, one of 1,000 copies printed. Orwell may well have been the finest essayist England
produced in the entire century. Despite his radical
credo in his essays he remains the last of the great
Victorian prose stylists. Besides the title essay, this
book prints his notable studies of Charles Dickens
and boy’s weeklies.
[81858]
PEAKE, Mervyn. Titus Groan; Gormenghast;
Titus Alone. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1946–
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3 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt.
With the Peake designed dust jackets. Volume I: cloth
rubbed with some wear at corners and ends of spine, some
small spots to cloth and edges of text block. A very good
copy in the rubbed and partially tanned jacket with some
nicks and closed tears along the folds, and a triangular
closed tear to the lower panel. Volume II: Bookseller’s
ticket to front free endpaper. Some scuffs to upper board,
spine faded. An excellent copy in the rubbed and toned
jacket with some chips and nicks and considerable wear
along the spine folds. Volume III: Spine rolled, a little spotting to edges of text block. An excellent copy in the lightly
rubbed jacket with slightly toned spine panel.
first editions of the Gormenghast trilogy. The
first volume, Titus Groan, is a presentation copy in-
the rear. A little rubbed and soiled, gilt flaked from the cover
devices, hinges reinforced with linen, endpapers slightly
browned, light toning and the occasional spot of foxing to
the text-block, short tear to the map-stub, and a couple of
tiny nicks to the fore-edge, overall a very good copy.
deluxe signed limited edition, number 2 of
500 copies signed by Peary and R. A. Bartlett. The
work that is the basis of Peary’s claims to have been
first to the pole.
Arctic Bibliography 13230 for the trade edition; cf. Books on
Ice 5.7; Howgego III, P8
129.
127.
£12,500
128.
£2,250
poems in 1938, and owned an oil painting and three
drawings by Peake. The first issue of the first volume
with the correct binding and dust jacket.
£2,500
[84514]
130.
PEARY, Robert E. The North Pole. With an
Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1910
Quarto. Original white cloth, gilt, title to spine with the
head of a Polar Bear, embossed portrait medallion of Peary
to the upper board, and Polar Bear to the lower, top edge
gilt the others uncut, lacks silk ties. Photogravure portrait
frontispiece and 3 other similar plates, 112 half-tones from
photographs tipped onto captioned leaves, large folding coloured circumpolar map showing Peary’s route to the Pole at
[84182]
131.
PHILLPOTTS, Eden. My Adventure in The
Flying Scotsman. A Romance of London and
North-Western Railway Shares. London: James
Hogg and Sons, 1888
Small octavo. Printed wraps laid down on card boards, as
issued. Housed in a brown cloth folding case. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled, half title and rear endpapers tanned.
A relatively sound copy in good condition.
first edition of the author’s scarce first book. “In
1888, Eden Phillpotts’s first book marked the beginning of one of the most prolific writing careers of our
time … the cornerstone honour should be accorded
to Mr. Phillpott’s maiden mystery, the thin, fragile
book with the ‘rainbow’ stamping which is seldom
found even in the so-called complete collections
of Eden Phillpott’s work. Modern readers will undoubtedly agree that My Adventures in the Flying Scotsman is an old fashioned tale of theft and attempted
murder, relying a bit too strongly on the long arm
of coincidence, but peopled with richly Victorian
characters caught in the fell clutch of melodramatic
circumstance” (Queen’s Quorum 13).
£1,500
[79769]
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134.
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester.
[London:] Privately printed, December 1902
Sextodecimo. Original pink boards, titles and illustration
to front board in black. Green morocco folding case, upper cover lettered in gilt within gilt wreath. Colour frontispiece, 15 colour plates. Spine a little rubbed and with tiny
hole towards head, two small marks to front cover, slight
marginal toning, a very good copy.
132.
POE, Edgar Allan. The Works. In Ten
Volumes. Newly Collected and Edited, with
a Memoir, Critical Introductions and Notes
by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George
Edward Woodberry. With Over Fifty Full-Page
Illustrations. New York & Pittsburg: The Colonial
Company, Limited, 1903
10 volumes, octavo (214 × 140 mm). Contemporary brown
half morocco, brown morocco label, floral decoration
to spines with green onlaid pieces and vertical filets and
lozenges, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt.
Frontispieces and illustrations throughout. Bookplate to
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front pastedowns, spines a little faded and rubbed, an excellent set.
autograph edition, one of 150 numbered copies
signed by the editors and publisher on the limitation
leaf. Editors Edmund Clarence Stedman and George
Edward Woodberry were both well-known poets,
literary critics, and scholars. Woodberry was also a
noted authority on Poe; his 1884 biography became
the standard text.
£2,250
[84224]
133.
(POGANY, Willy.) WAGNER, Richard.
Tannhauser. A Dramatic Poem, Freely
Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T. W.
Rolleston. Presented by Willy Pogany. London:
G. G. Harrap & Co., 1911
Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe reversed calf, titles and decorative designs to spine and upper board in blind, pictorial
endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Small colour
frontispiece tipped-in to illustrated page, 16 tipped-in colour plates, illustrated half-title, title, and contents leaves,
numerous full-page illustrations and illustrations within
the text, elaborate decorative borders. Binding rubbed,
some wear to corners and edges, spine tanned, but contents clean and fresh. A very good copy.
£850
[80259]
boards, small gift inscription to verso of frontispiece, a
lovely bright copy.
first edition.
Linder p. 423; Quinby 5.
£1,250
[80598]
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. TiggyWinkle. London and New York: Frederick Warne and
Co., [c.1911]
Sextodecimo. Original olive boards, titles to front cover
and spine in white, pictorial label with illustration to front
cover, pictorial endpapers. Pictorial endpapers, frontispiece and 26 colour plates by the author. A couple of finger
marks, but overall a bright copy.
true first edition, one of 500 copies privately
printed for the author a year before Warne’s trade
edition, issued in the same month and in similar
format to the second privately-printed Peter Rabbit.
The text of this edition is considerably longer than
that of the first trade and the cover incorporates a
vignette illustration that was never used again.
inscribed by the author on the front free
endpaper.”For Rose Hedges from Miss Potter.
Christmas 1911”. Rose Hedges was in service to Beatrix Potter’s mother.
£2,500
£4,500
136.
[83184]
137.
[84192]
PYNCHON, Thomas. V. A Novel. Philadelphia &
New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1963
135.
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1903
Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine in silver, V design to upper board in blind, yellow endpapers, top edge
black. With the dust jacket. Ends of spine a little faded. An
excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some nicks,
short splits, and minor creasing along the edges.
Sextodecimo. Original grey boards, titles to front cover
and spine in white, pictorial label with illustration to front
cover, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and 26 illustrations in colour by the author. A couple of minor marks to
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first edition, first issue dust jacket without reviews on the lower panel.
£875
[80304]
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tables to the text. Light shelfwear, head and tail of spines
slightly crumpled, short split at the head of volume II, and
a small chip at the tail, endpapers a little mottled, some
light scattered foxing, but overall bright, clean and tight an
exceptional copy.
turn-ins, and all edges gilt. Tipped-in colour frontispiece
and 2 plates, 6 full-page line drawings, smaller illustrations throughout. A fine copy.
Geography of North America. London: Longman,
Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851
copies signed by both the author and illustrator on
the limitation leaf.
2 volumes, octavo (220 × 135 mm). Original brown morocco-grain cloth, title gilt to spines, patterned endpapers
with publisher’s ads to the pastedowns. Tissue-guarded
chromolithographic frontispiece to each, and 8 similar
plates in volume I, together with a large folding handcoloured map on thin paper, 8 woodcuts, and numerous
£875
[84666]
first edition. “His descriptions are particularly
valuable for their treatment of his personal experiences with Indians and Eskimos; the appendix
contains a comparative table of Eskimo dialects
and vocabularies” (Hill). The majority of the plates,
superbly lithographed by Hanhart from officer’s
sketches, are of the native American peoples encountered. Richardson had accompanied Franklin
on his first two expeditions, but was unable to join
the third in 1845 due to his professional duties as
a physician and the recent death of his wife. When
nothing was heard from Franklin and the Admiralty
made the decision to mount an expedition in search
of him, Richardson “said that he had a sacred duty
to help his old friend”, and joined the party: “his
search for Franklin in 1847–9 was a model of careful planning and good execution, with no loss of
life, no injuries, no shortages of food, and no lack
of shelter.”
Arctic Bibliography 14489; Hill 1452; Sabin 71025; Streeter
Sale VI:3716.
£4,250
[84183]
141.
RANSOME, Arthur. Swallowdale. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1931
138.
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter
Pan in Kensington Gardens. (From ‘The
Little White Bird’.) With Drawings by Arthur
Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906
Quarto. Original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to
spine and upper board gilt, brown endpapers with map to
front free endpaper, yellow silk ties, top edge gilt. Housed
in a green cloth slipcase. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and
49 plates on brown paper with printed tissue guards. Slight
loss of gilt from spine title, else a very fresh copy in superb
condition.
copies signed by the artist. Barrie asked Rackham to
illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained unpublished until 1928) but to make a new book from
those chapters from The Little White Bird (1902) that
had first introduced the character.
£4,500
[79913]
139.
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) EVANS, C. S. Cinderella.
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, William
Heinemann; Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1919
Quarto. Original quarter japon, titles and mouse design to
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spine gilt, white paper boards, titles and silhouette design
to upper board gilt, green and white pictorial endpapers,
top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tipped-in colour frontispiece, illustrations throughout the text. Minor rubbing at
extremities. An excellent copy.
copies on Japanese vellum signed by the artist, from
a total edition of 850 numbered and signed copies.
£1,750
[81862]
140.
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) PHILLPOTTS, Eden.
A Dish of Apples. London & New York: Hodder &
Stoughton, 1921
Quarto (245 × 187 mm). Recent green morocco by Bayntun,
spine elaborately gilt in compartments with apple tools,
marbled endpapers, ruling and cornerpieces to boards,
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Spine of book and edges of boards a little
faded as is so often with this book, otherwise a nice copy
in a lightly edge chipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed and
marked.
first edition. The second novel in Ransome’s famous series, published only a year after Swallows and
Amazons and certainly as scarce.
£7,500
[84074]
142.
RICHARDSON, John. Arctic Searching
Expedition: A Journal of a Boat-Voyage Through
Rupert’s Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of
the Discovery Ships Under Command of Sir
John Franklin with an Appendix on the Physical
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143.
ROBERTS, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts.
Forty-One Years in India from Subaltern to
Commander-in- Chief. London: Richard Bentley
and Son, 1897
2 volumes, octavo (214 × 1437mm). Fine dark red full morocco publisher’s presentation binding for Field-Marshal
Roberts, blocking similar to the one-volume edition with
title gilt to the spine, and central to the upper boards together with a “signature” block, all within a thick and thin
ruled panel with square bastion corners, Robert’s arms in
similar panel to the lower boards, all boards with banderolles bearing Roberts’ motto “virtute et valore” head and
tail, all edges gilt, maroon surface paper endpapers. Vol. I
with steel-engraved portrait frontispiece and 7 other portraits, steel-engraved and photogravure, 6 maps and plans,
3 of them folding, vol. II with frontispiece and 10 other
plates and portraits, 3 folding maps and a folding panorama. Spines and upper boards just a touch sunned, one
or two minor scuffs, some preliminary foxing, but a handsome set in excellent condition.
presentation copy of the 32nd edition, inscribed
on the first binder’s blank; “Mrs. Fairley from the
Author, Roberts F.M.” An autograph note laid in
signed by D. E. Peploe (the Scots authoress D. E.
Stevenson) explains that the book was presented “to
my aunt, Letitia Whiteway Fairley, as a recognition
of her work in transcribing the book into Braille”.
Fairley was also a Roberts, her grandfather Captain
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Thomas Roberts being the field marshal’s uncle,
and she was herself born in India. A runaway bestseller, Roberts’s memoirs ran to eight editions/impressions in the first month after publication, and
to this 32nd within three years.
Ladendorf 364; Riddick 401; Taylor 669.
£1,650
[84075]
144.
(ROBINSON, Charles.) STEVENSON, Robert
Louis. A Child’s Garden of Verses. Illustrated
by Charles Robinson. London, John Lane, The
Bodley Head; New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1896
Octavo (216 × 150 mm). Contemporary orange morocco by
Douglas Cockerell for W. H. Smith, Viscount Hambleden,
spine gilt in compartments with acorn tools, Hambleden
fist grasping oak leaves to upper board gilt, green endpapers with unused binding cloth from the trade edition
laid-down, top edge gilt. Printed on japon. Illustrations
throughout by Charles Robinson. Spine toned. An excellent copy.
limited large paper edition, one of 150 copies
on japon, this copy finely bound by Douglas Cockerell for W. H. Smith, Viscount Hambleden, whose
bookplate is on the front free endpaper. Cockerell
(1870–1945) was one of Britain’s leading craft bookbinders at the turn of the 20th century. “Whereas
Cobden-Sanderson thought of the decoration of
books as the embellishment of great literature,
Cockerell thought of it more soberly, as the expression or flowering of the book’s construction, arranging his simple vocabulary of flowers and leaves
and scrolling lines into roundels, panels, and arabesques that echo the proportions and structure of
the book” (ODNB). In 1904 he began working with
the W. H. Smith firm, producing for the bookseller
craft bindings as well as high quality trade bindings.
£2,500
[84030]
145.
(ROBINSON, W. Heath.) KIPLING, Rudyard.
Collected Verse. With illustrations by W. Heath
Robinson. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910
Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson
pictorial title block to front board, inner dentelles, dark
green endpapers, gilt edges. With 9 tipped in colour
plates, captioned tissues and 8 black and white linedrawings. A fine copy.
first and only edition in this form, with illustrations by the cartoonist, illustrator and author W.
Heath Robinson.
£1,500
[80006]
146.
147.
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. The Winning of
the West. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons at The
Knickerbocker Press, 1900
ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997
4 volumes, large octavo (250 × 163 mm). Original dark green
crushed half morocco, spine with three raised bands, giltlettered direct, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge
gilt, others uncut, cream silk page-markers. Frontispiece
to each volume, 98 plates, portraits, etc., with captioned
tissue guards, 5 folding maps extending from full-page
stubs on light wove paper, routes and boundaries marked
in colour as issued. Spines evenly sunned, rear joint of vol.
III almost imperceptibly restored towards the head, light
damp-staining at end of vol. II, a few minor areas of rubbing, an excellent set overall.
daniel boone edition, limited to 200 numbered
copies, each with an original page of manuscript
tipped-in to volume I; the leaf here (172 × 212 mm)
has 16 lines, the original of the text printed in vol.
IV, relating to British negotiations with the Seven
Nations in 1794. The Daniel Boone edition is the deluxe issue of Roosevelt’s most ambitious published
work, originally published between 1889 and 1896 in
four volumes, a sprawling narrative of the opening
of America’s western frontier.
Howes R433.
£12,500
[83640]
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, titles to front cover
in yellow, white and dark green, titles to spine in yellow,
white and black. Issued without dust jacket. Lightest of
curling to corners otherwise a sharp copy.
first edition, first impression, paperback issue,
with all the requisite points of first printing: the
Bloomsbury imprint, 10-down-to-1 number line,
and the list of equipment on p. 53 with “1 wand” appearing twice in the list.
£3,000
[81270]
148.
the others stating “First Edition” on the copyright
page). Signed by J. K. Rowling on the half-title of
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
£4,500
[80704]
149.
ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and The Goblet
of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000
Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket, titles to front cover and spine in blue, black and red. A fine
copy in the jacket.
first edition, first impression. Signed by J. K.
Rowling on the dedication page.
£1,250
[83094]
ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone; … Chamber of Secrets;
… Prisoner of Azkaban; … Goblet of Fire; …
Order of the Phoenix; … Half-Blood Prince; …
Deathly Hallows. London, Bloomsbury, 1999–2007
7 vols. Large octavo. Original red, blue, green, purple, burgundy, blue, and grey cloth with pictorial onlays, titles to
upper boards gilt, titles to spines gilt, all edges gilt. No
dust jackets issued. A fine set.
first deluxe editions, all first impressions
(number 1 on the printing line of the first three,
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155.
SEUSS, Dr. Bartholomew and the Oobleck.
Written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. New York:
Random House, 1949
Tall octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark
blue morocco, titles blocked to spine in white, pictorial
onlay to front board copied from the original with the titles
blocked in white, twin rule to turn-ins in white, light blue
endpapers with the original pictorial endpapers bound in,
gilt edges. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy.
the author on the front free endpaper verso, “An extra blob of Oobleck For the Macpherson’s [sic] with
best wishes – Dr. Seuss.”
£2,750
[80760]
156.
151
152
150.
152.
153.
RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s Children.
[SASSOON, Siegfried.] Sonnets. [Privately
printed for the author,] 1909
SAYERS, Dorothy L. Whose Body? New York:
Boni and Liveright, 1923
Octavo. Original quarter burgundy cloth, light purple
boards, titles to spine and upper board in silver. With the
dust jacket. An excellent copy in the somewhat faded dust
jacket.
Small quarto. Original holland boards. Very faint marks to
covers and endpapers, but an excellent copy.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board
in dark blue. Pencilled ownership inscription to front free
endpaper. Spine rolled and faded, scratch to upper board,
contents toned. A very good copy.
first edition, UK issue taken from the American
sheets. Midnight’s Children won the 1981 Booker Prize,
as well as the 1993 “Booker of Bookers” celebrating
the best book in the history of the prize.
£1,500
[82960]
151.
SALINGER, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. Slight fading to board edges and spine
ends, spotting to top edge, still an attractive copy in excellent condition in the lightly rubbed and soiled jacket with a
few small chips along top edge.
first uk edition. Originally published in the US
in the same year.
£1,250
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[82872]
first edition of Sassoon’s very scarce privatelyprinted fourth book; one of 50 copies printed. This
copy is from the library (though without ownership
inscription) of G. S. Wilson, who was the “decent,
fair-minded” master at Henley House crammer
school (Frant, near Tunbridge Wells) whom Sassoon
“especially liked” (Max Egremont). Sassoon left
Marlborough School having found little acceptance
or academic success, and in autumn 1904, aged 19,
went to Henley House to cram for Cambridge. He
found some happiness there – he met his hunting
hero, Norman Loder, at Henley House – and made
firm enough friends with his teacher to remain in
contact thereafter. This copy has textual corrections
in Sassoon’s hand to seven lines. Sassoon’s pre-war
books are very seldom offered for sale.
Keynes: A4.
£2,000
[83526]
SEUSS, Dr. How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
New York: Random House, 1957
Tall quarto. Original pictorial boards, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Ends and corners rubbed. An
excellent copy in the jacket with rubbed extremities and
creases along top edge.
first edition, first issue with the advertisement
for The Cat in the Hat on the back.
£1,250
[84394]
Quarto. Original pictorial covered boards. No dust jacket
issued. Illustrated throughout by the author. Boards toned,
spine bumped, light rubbing to top corner of front free
endpaper.
SEUSS, Dr. Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose.
New York: Random House, 1948.
Tall octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles to spine blocked in blue foil, titles and
pictorial block to front board in blue foil copied from the
original, twin rule to turn-ins in blue foil, turquoise endpapers with the original pictorial endpapers bound in, gilt
edges. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy.
first edition, inscribed by the author to the
original front free endpaper verso, “Best wishes Dr.
Seuss.”
£2,500
[80762]
£3,000
[80668]
157.
SEUSS, Dr. The Lorax. New York: Random House,
1971
154.
first edition, presentation copy. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the verso of
the original front free endpaper, “With best wishes to
Jack Macpherson! Dr. Seuss”, and the recipient’s address label pasted to the top of the front free endpaper.
[81226]
first edition of Sayer’s first detective novel, introducing Lord Peter Wimsey. Publication preceded
the UK edition of the same year.
£1,500
endpapers bound in, gilt edges. Illustrated by the author
in colour throughout. The recipient’s address label pasted
to the top of the front free endpaper, an excellent copy in
a fine binding.
first edition, first issue with the three lines
of copyright and highlighted yellow panel to back
cover. Seuss’s environmental masterpiece.
£800
[83077]
158.
SEUSS, Dr. You’re Only Old Once. New York:
Random House, 1986
Tall quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in bright
blue morocco, titles to spine blocked in silver foil, pictorial onlay to front board copied from the original, twin rule
to turn-ins in silver, purple endpapers, with the original
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160
159.
SHACKLETON, Ernest H. South. The Story
of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914–1917.
London: William Heinemann, 1919
Octavo. Original midnight-blue cloth, title in silver to the
spine and to the upper board together with a large block
of Endurance stuck in the ice, publisher’s device in blind to
lower board, traces of blue to top edge still visible. Colour
frontispiece and 87 half-tone plates, folding map at the
rear. Head and tail of the spine slightly crumpled, spine lettering a touch flaked, small patch of bubbling of the cloth
on the lower board, contemporary gift inscription to the
front free endpaper, evenly browned as usual, short tear
into the stub of the map as often, but a far better copy than
is usually encountered, the cloth bright, hinges and textblock remaining tight, a highly desirable copy.
first edition.
Books on Ice 7.8; Conrad p. 224; Spence 1107; Taurus 105.
£4,750
[84612]
160.
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of
Shakespear. In Six Volumes. Collated and
Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope.
[The Seventh Volume … The Whole Revis’d
and Corrected, with a Preface, by Dr. Sewell.]
London: for Jacob Tonson, [vol. VII by J. Darby, for A.
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Bettesworth, F. Fayram, W. Mears, J. Pemberton, J.
Hooke, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley, E. Symon,] 1725
Together 7 volumes, quarto (274 × 220 mm). Contemporary
sprinkled calf, boards ruled in gilt with a three-line fillet,
fleurons at corners, neatly rebacked in closely matching
brown morocco, relined, corners repaired. Frontispiece
engraved portrait of Shakespeare, engraved plate of the
Shakespeare monument, incorporating a portrait bust;
first title printed in red and black, engraved head- and tailpieces, decorated initials. Armorial bookplates of Patricia
Cottenham (Peter Cottenham is listed among the subscribers). Some occasional light spotting or browning, a few
pencil marginal strokes, a very good set.
first edition, the first collected edition in quarto,
only the second modern edition of Shakespeare, intended by Pope to remedy what he perceived as the
deficiencies of Rowe’s 1709 edition. After the four
Folios and two Rowe editions, this is the seventh
edition overall. Pope had been working simultaneously on this and his celebrated translation of Homer,
published the same year, for the past few years, and
Tonson published them both in sumptuous quarto
format, handsomely printed and decorated. Johnson
states that 750 copies were printed, although 140 were
left unsold. The first volume is dated 1725, the others
1723, suggesting that the first volume was printed
last: certainly Tonson did not send Pope a proof of
his Preface until 23 December 1724. As with Rowe,
Pope’s edition covered only the plays; the supplementary volume of Shakespeare’s poems with a preface
the dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket.
first edition. Sherman’s first book publication,
containing 40 of the original 69 self portraits featuring her in imaginary B-movie actress roles. The entire series was purchased by MoMA in 1995.
£1,500
by George Sewell was published in 1725, but neither
Tonson nor Pope had any part in it.
Pope’s edition silently “regularised” Shakespeare’s
metre and rewrote his verse in several places. Lewis Theobald and other scholars soon attacked it,
incurring Pope’s wrath and inspiring the first version of The Dunciad. Although his editorial practices
have generally been judged as falling short of the
very highest standards of contemporary scholarship, many of Pope’s emendations survive, and his
Preface, printed here for the first time, remains a
notable critical essay. His revision of Rowe’s life of
Shakespeare is also considered valuable.
Ford, Shakespeare 1700–1740, pp. 19–21; Griffith 149; Jaggard, p. 498.
£7,500
[84219]
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SHERMAN, Cindy. Untitled Film Stills. With an
Essay by Arthur C. Danot. New York: Rizzoli, 1990
[81996]
162.
SLOCUM, Joshua. Sailing Alone Around the
World. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and
George Varian. New York: The Century Co., 1900
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine
and upper board in silver and green, top edge gilt, others
uncut. Half-tone frontispiece and numerous engraved illustrations, some full-page. Bookplate. Contemporary
pencilled ownership inscription of San Francisco master
mariner Capt. Charles E. Foye to front free endpaper. Binding rubbed with wear at the lower corners and spine ends,
and some mild dampstain along the edges of the boards,
margins of contents faintly toned. A very good copy.
first edition of this superb narrative of the first
single-handed circumnavigation of the globe. “The
classic account of a small boat voyage, which has
been compared favourably to Thoreau’s Walden. Slo-
cum perceived his world in a poetic manner and described his vision of reality with grace” (Toy).
Morris & Howland, p. 126 *; Toy 462.
£875
[84099]
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SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature
and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In Three
Volumes. The Sixth Edition. London: for A.
Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1791
3 volumes, octavo (204 × 125 mm). Contemporary red quarter crushed morocco, spines gilt in compartments, black
morocco labels, marbled endpapers and sides. Ownership
signature to title page of volume I. Boards rubbed, some
wear to corners, spines faded, pages 89–92 of volume I
creased in the upper corner, minor dampstain to title page
of volume II, occasional light spotting. A very good set.
sixth edition. Each volume with the bookplate
of the distinguished botanist William Borrer (1781–
1862), Fellow of the Linnean and Royal societies,
who is credited with the identification of 21 species
of flowering plants.
£2,750
[82888]
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manufactures. Together with the true uses, and
the abuses of the aulnageors, measurers, and
searchers offices. By W.S. Gent. London: Printed
by I. Grismond, 1656
Small octavo (136 × 85 mm). Early diced calf, probably late
18th-century, rebacked to style, marbled endpapers. With
errata on leaf A8r. Boards bowed, rather closely trimmed,
shaving some headlines, outer leaves somewhat toned,
still a good copy.
first edition of this study of the English wool
trade, the traditional backbone of the economy, at
a time when English wool manufacture was facing
strong competition from the Dutch. The alnager,
a position formally abolished under English law in
1699, was an officer appointed to examine woollen
cloth and certify its quality.
Goldsmiths’ 1369; Kress 946; Wing S4255bA.
£1,950
[79857]
S[MITH]., W. The Golden Fleece, wherein
is related the riches of English wools in its
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165.
dust jacket. Illustrated throughout the text by Ralph Steadman. Spine bumped, white dust jacket a little marked and
rubbed, 9 cm closed tear to foot of front panel.
STANLEY, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa
or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin,
Governor of Equatoria. London: Sampson Low,
Marston, Searle, and Rivington Limited, 1890
2 volumes, octavo (215 × 136 mm). Red pebble-grain morocco presentation binding by Mansell “successor to Hayday” (ink-stamp verso of front free endpaper of volume I),
title gilt direct to spine, low bands, compartments simply,
but attractively panelled, floral central tools, boards similarly panelled with large “autograph” tool to the centre of
the upper boards, gilt rolls to turn-ins, marbled endpapers,
gilt edges. Frontispiece and coloured folding map to each
volume, maps in cloth-gusseted end-pockets, folding map
and coloured profile sketch to vol. II, 36 other plates in
all, numerous illustrations to the text. Extremities a little
rubbed, some marginal foxing, but overall a very good set,
handsomely bound
first edition, this copy specially bound for
presentation by the Emin Pasha Relief Committee to Major General Sir F. W. de Winton, with
a red morocco label to this effect mounted on the
front free endpaper of volume I. “De Winton was an
associate of William Mackinnon, the ship-owner,
and one of what H. M. Stanley called ‘the Mackinnon Clan’ which tried to create a British economic
presence in the Congo. In 1885 he was appointed
administrator-general of the Congo under the rapacious Leopold II’s International Association enterprise, just before it became the Congo Free State. He
held this office only until 1886, when he was created
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first edition, one of an edition of 50 copies. Steadman has added a drawing in felt tip to the half-title of
a curate sitting at a table with an exploding egg and
inscribed the page “or The Curates Egg (Parts of it are
excellent) Ralph Steadman, July 69. P.S. This is a rotten Yoke”, and numbered the page 33/50.
£1,250
[84148]
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STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: The
Viking Press, 1952
a commander of the order of Leopold. In 1887 he
acted as secretary of the Emin Pasha relief committee, and assisted Stanley in his preparations for the
relief expedition” (ODNB).
Howgego IV, S60.
£3,000
[84092]
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STEADMAN, Ralph. Still Life with Raspberry
or The Bumper Book of Steadman. London:
Rapp & Whiting Limited, 1969
Quarto. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt. With
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine dark green on
brown ground and to upper board in dark green, top edge
yellow. With the dust jacket. Spine faintly tanned, corners
very slightly rubbed, top edge faded. Still an excellent copy
in the jacket.
first edition.
£1,750
[81959]
168.
[STERNE, Laurence.] The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. York & London: R.
and J. Dodsley, T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1760–67
9 volumes, octavo (151 × 96 mm). Late 19th-century red
morocco gilt signed by Rivière and Son, green endpapers,
gilt edges. Collates complete (as per Rothschild) with 6
1/34 vols showing
half-titles, preliminary blank in vol. V, inserted marbled
leaf, all as called for, except that the engraved frontispiece
issued with vol. III has been moved to the front of vol. IV
and the vol. IV half-title transferred to vol. III. Extra-illustrated with 4 frontispieces and 1 plate from an early French
edition and 7 Cruikshank plates from the 1832 edition.
Bookplates of Mary Herbert and the literary agent Giles
Gordon. Paper restoration to fore edge of engraved frontispiece, contents of vol. IV washed, vol. XI dampstained at
foot to early leaves, overall a good set.
whose bookplate is on the front free endpaper of volume I. The Edinburgh edition of the works of RLS, of
which 1,035 sets were printed, is known for the high
quality of its printing and paper and is considered
the best of the collected Stevenson editions. This set
is complete with the concluding two volumes of Stevensoniana issued in 1903 and 1917, often lacking.
first edition, first state throughout, with
Sterne’s signature in ink in vols. V, VII and IX to protect against piracy, as called for. The episodic nature
of its publication means that Tristram Shandy is rare
in first edition throughout.
170.
Rothschild 1970.
£7,500
[84211]
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works.
Edinburgh: by T. and A. Constable for Longmans
Green and Co., 1894
34 volumes, octavo (215 × 147 mm). Contemporary reddishbrown crushed morocco by Douglas Cockerell for W. H.
Smith, Viscount Hambleden, spines gilt in compartments
with acorn tools, Hambleden fist grasping oak leaves to
upper boards gilt, green endpapers, top edges gilt. Illustrations throughout. Spines tanned, some minor scuffs to
bindings, contents fresh. An excellent set.
the edinburgh edition, finely bound by Douglas Cockerell for W. H. Smith, Viscount Hambleden,
£8,500
[84952]
STOWE, Harriet Beecher. The Writings. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1896
16 volumes, octavo. Recent green half calf, red and brown
morocco labels, centre tool to spines, raised bands, marbled boards, cream endpapers, top edges gilt. Engraved
frontispieces and vignettes. Some mild staining to spines,
an excellent set.
the riverside edition, naturally including her
most famous novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but also a
handful of pieces making their first appearance in
this set, including “Tribute of a Loving Friend to the
Memory of a Noble Woman”, “Sojourner Truth, the
Libyan Sibyl”, “Our Florida Plantation” (all in Vol.
4); “Our Second Girl” (Vol. 8); “The Mourning Veil”
and “New England Ministers” (Vol. 14); and “Little Captain Trott” (Vol. 16). The introductory notes
also contain extracts from letters and other material
published here for the first time.
£1,850
[83613]
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TEMPLE, Frederick, et al. Essays and Reviews.
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1860
Octavo. Original purple cloth blocked in blind to spine
and boards, brown coated endpapers, titles to spine gilt.
Pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper,
pencilled inscription to title, newspaper clipping tipped-in
to rear pastedown. Cloth rubbed, contents shaken, some
worn spots to joints and ends of spine, small spot to lower
board, corners bumped, occasional spotting to contents,
spine cracked in the gutter at several places, a good copy.
first edition of this groundbreaking collection of
theological essays, the first assault on Biblical literalism from within the ranks of British theologians.
The edifice of literalism had been crumbling for
several decades, under assault from the science of
Lyell and Darwin and the new Biblical criticism of
Baur and Strauss at the University of Tübingen. “But
all these were outside the Church of England, and it
was thus with a double force that Essays and Reviews,
when it generally became known, struck clergy and
laity. Not only did the book subscribe to the modern
non-literal concept of the Bible text, but, far worse,
the authors were with one exception beneficed clergy, and the majority came from the sanctuary of Oxford” (PMM 348). Two of the contributors, Rowland
Williams and Henry Bristow Wilson, were found
guilty by the Court of Arches, though the verdict was
overturned by the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council, and in the long-term the Church came to
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accept much of what the essayists advocated. Rare,
particularly in the original cloth.
PMM 348.
£1,750
[84097]
signed limited deluxe edition, one of 200 copies signed by Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to
lead a major Western democracy.
£2,250
[84362]
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first edition, with the points of first issue: the
drop-head 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.
£1,500
[84370]
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THATCHER, Margaret. The Collected
Speeches. London: Harper Collins, 1997
Octavo. Original full blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, all
edges gilt, blue silk ribbon page marker. Housed in the
publisher’s slipcase. Fine in slipcase.
THOMPSON, Winfield M., & Thomas
W. Lawson. The Lawson’s History of The
America’s Cup. A record of fifty years. Boston:
Thomas Lawson, 1902
Large quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark
blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine, three raised
bands, burgundy endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins, top
edge gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy.
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 (208 × 127 mm). Recent red morocco by Bayntun,
spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, singleline rule to boards, turn-ins, and all edges gilt. Housed in
a red cloth slipcase. Frontispiece and illustrated title page,
38 plates, illustrations throughout. A superb copy.
175.
first edition, one of 3,000 copies.
£1,750
[79762]
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THOMAS, Dylan. 18 Poems. London: The
Sunday Referee and the Parton Bookshop, 1934
TIMLIN, William M. The Ship that Sailed to
Mars. A Fantasy. New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Company [1923]
dust jacket. Small bump to upper joint, contents faintly
toned in the margins. A very good copy in the rubbed,
dulled, and tanned jacket with some spotting, nicks, and
short splits, closed tears to the upper spine fold, and tape
repairs to the verso.
Quarto (294 × 220 mm). Recent green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, single-line rules to boards, turn-ins, and all edges
gilt. Housed in a green cloth slipcase. 48 mounted colour
plates, and 48 mounted pages of text. A little toning to
edges of contents. An excellent copy.
first edition, first issue. One of 250 copies
bound with a flat spine, fore edges untrimmed, the
1934 integral title page, and the correct dust jacket
with the 3/6 price intact. The second issue of 1936
varied in all these respects. The author’s first collection of poetry.
£2,500
[84200]
first edition, US issue (the book was produced in
Great Britain, and published simultaneously in Britain and America). Born in Northumberland, Timlin
emigrated to South Africa, where he studied art and
practised as an architect. The Ship That Sailed to Mars
(1923) is his only published book, a fantastical illustrated gift book that rivalled those of Rackham, Du-
lac, Goble, and Nielsen. The book was published in
Britain by George Harrap, who had earlier published
Willy Pogany, and they followed a similar format
here, reproducing Timlin’s original calligraphic text
mounted, like the plates, on grey matte paper.
£1,750
[84671]
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TIPPING, H. Avray, & Christopher Hussey.
English Homes. Norman and Plantagenet;
Medieval and Early Tudor; Early Tudor; Late
Tudor and Early Stuart, 2 volumes; Late Stuart;
Sir John Vanbrugh and his School; Early
Georgian; Late Georgian. London: Country Life &
George Newnes, Ltd., 1921–37
9 volumes, folio. Original blue buckram-backed mid-blue
cloth, title gilt to spines and upper boards, gilt rule to the
spine edges, all edges gilt apart from volumes I and II,
volume II which is entirely ungilded, blue marbled endpapers. With the dust jackets. Frontispiece to each volume
and all copiously illustrated throughout. The jackets a little
tanned at the spines and with some minor chipping, creasing and a few edge-splits, but overall this is a wonderfully
preserved set.
first editions, first impressions save for volume II of periods I and II, Mediaeval and Early Tudor,
which was published out of sequence in 1936, this an
early impression dated 1937.
£6,500
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1/16 vols showing
178.
179.
TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Last Chronicle of
Barset. With thirty-two illustrations by George
H. Thomas. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1867.
TURGENEV, Ivan. The Novels and Stories.
Translated from the Russian by Isabel F.
Hapgood. With an Introduction by Henry
James. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903–04
2 volumes, octavo. Original purple sand-grain cloth, titles and illustration to front boards and spines gilt, sides
panelled in blind, brown coated endpapers, red speckled
edges. 32 illustrated plates, and a number of vignette illustrations in the text. Armorial bookplates of John William
Clay. Spines rolled and slightly dulled, corners bumped,
some faint marks to cloth, front hinges just starting, some
light spotting to leaves and mild cockling throughout. A
very good set.
first edition, bound from the original parts in the
publisher’s cloth; with the following issue points:
publisher’s rights printed on the verso of the titles
pages, vol. 1 p. 157 final D of the running headline
not broken, vol. 1 plate facing page 120 with short
explanatory underline, vol. 2 p. 298 l. 21 word 3 the
name is Crawley rather than Toogood, vol. 2 plate
facing page 370 “Consent” has capital “C”.
Sadleir 26.
£950
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16 volumes, large octavo (228 × 154 mm). Finely bound in
contemporary brown crushed half morocco, spines gilt in
compartments with titles direct, light brown cloth boards
with gilt rules, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others
untrimmed. Illustrated throughout with photogravures
(including tissue guards). A beautiful set with the spines
sunned on 7 volumes; all in excellent condition.
limited edition, no. 73 (consistently throughout
the set) of 204 copies printed on Ruisdael handmade
paper at the De Vinne Press.
£2,500
[81911]
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VALIENTE, Doreen. Where Witchcraft Lives.
London: The Aquarian Press, 1962
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in black. With
the dust jacket. Letter inked to front pastedown. Some
faint toning to boards, edges lightly rubbed and a little
dulled, minor spotting to edges of text block. An excellent
copy in the price-clipped and lightly rubbed and marked
jacket with a closed tear to the lower panel.
first edition of the first book by “the mother of
modern pagan witchcraft” (ODNB). Doreen Valiente
(1922–1999) became interested in the occult as a
child, and was a practising clairvoyant by the time
she was a teenager. In 1953, after reading an article
on modern witchcraft, she joined Gerald Gardener’s
coven, and eventually became high priestess. She left
after the two had a falling-out in 1957 and ran her own
coven until the early 1960s. In addition to serving as a
leader of British neo-paganism, Valiente wrote “some
of the major works of Wicca, including the enduring
version of the most important, The Charge of the Goddess” (ODNB). The present work is a survey of historical and contemporary witchcraft practices in Sussex;
it is uncommon in the dust jacket.
£1,300
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(VEDDER, Elihu.) OMAR KHAYYÁM.
Rubáiyát. Rendered into English Verse by
Edward Fitzgerald. With Accompaniment of
Drawings by Elihu Vedder. Boston, Houghton
Mifflin and Company; London, Bernard Quaritch,
[late 19th century]
Folio (390 × 320 mm). Contemporary olive half morocco,
title to spine gilt, 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers and
edges, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrated title and halftitle, and 52 plates by Elihu Vedder. Bookplate. Binding
tanned and a little rubbed and scuffed. An excellent copy.
attractively bound copy of the Rubáiyát illustrated by Elihu Vedder, originally published in
1885. Vedder (1836–1923) was an American artist
who trained in New York, Paris, and Italy, and became friends with authors such as Herman Melville
and Walt Whitman. Strongly influenced by the PreRaphaelites, as well as the mysticism of William
Blake and W. B. Yeats, Vedder became known for his
allegorical paintings of women and was also commissioned to produce glassware and sculptures for
Tiffany. This edition of the Rubáiyát was so popular that it sold out in six days, and it made Vedder’s
name as a leading American illustrator.
£850
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182.
VERTOT, René Aubert de, abbé. The History
of the Knights of Malta; illustrated With LXXI.
Heads of the Grand Masters, &c. Engraved by
the best Hands in France, from the Original
Paintings, under the Inspection of Mons.
Bologne, Director of the Royal Academy of
Painting. With Maps by Mons. de Lille, and
the Plans and Fortifications of Malta by the
Chevalier de Tigné. And a compleat Index to the
whole. In Two Volumes. London: For G. Strahan;
F. Gyles; Mess. Woodman and Lyon; D. Browne;
Mess. Groenewegen, Prevost, and Vanderhoeck; C.
Davis; and T. Osborne, 1728
2 volumes, folio (455 × 289 mm). Contemporary speckled
calf, neatly rebacked to style, raised bands, red morocco
lettering- and numbering pieces, single helical twist panel
to the boards. Frontispiece portrait of Vertot engraved by
Laurent Cars after J. Delijen and 70 other portraits engraved by Cars, folding general map engraved by Delahaye
and three other folding maps by Delahaye and De Berey,
one full-page plan. Boards somewhat pitted, carefully refurbished on the edges, endpapers renewed, some occasional light foxing, but overall a very good, and massive,
copy, presenting well on the shelf.
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first edition in english, one of 25 royal folio copies, the largest paper edition (Lowndes p.
1864), measuring some 70 mm taller and 50 mm
wider than the “ordinary” Large Paper copies, print-
ed on a very heavy stock. Commissioned by the Order, Vertot’s history, originally published in French
in 1726, remained the standard work for two centuries. The text here also includes Vertot’s “Discourse
upon the Alcoran”, originally given before the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1724,
and his “Dissertation on Zizim”, a historiographical
study of Cem Sultan’s time on Rhodes.
Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, during
his Various Campaigns in India, Denmark,
Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and
France. Compiled from Official and other
Authentic Documents … London: John Murray,
1844–7
[79853]
8 volumes, octavo (236 × 142 mm). Modern red hard-grain
half morocco, matching buckram boards. Portrait frontispiece to volume I. Frontispiece somewhat foxed as usual,
light browning, else a sound and very good set.
VON NEUMANN, John, & Oskar Morgenstern.
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944
“An Enlarged Edition, in Eight Volumes”, much
preferred to previous editions. A great deal of extra material has been added to the coverage of both
the wars in India and Europe; “extracts from the
Instructions for the movements of the Army, and
from the General Orders, circulated by the Quarter
Master General and Adjutant General, in the Peninsula, France, and the Low Countries, have also been
added to this edition”; the whole is fully indexed.
£6,250
183.
Octavo (235 × 153 mm). Original oatmeal cloth, spine lettered in gilt on a dark red panel, top edge pale red, preserved in a custom made cloth box. List of corrigenda
printed on thin paper tipped onto the front free endpaper.
Small bookseller’s ticket tipped onto the front free endpaper. A very good copy.
first edition of the groundbreaking text that created the interdisciplinary research field of game theory.
£2,500
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(WELLINGTON,
Arthur,
Duke
of.)
GURWOOD, John (ed.) The Dispatches of
£1,750
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WELLS, H. G. The Invisible Man. A Grotesque
Romance. London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897
gilt, pictorial design to upper board in black. Spine a little
faded, extremities rubbed, lower corners bumped, hinges
cracked, endpapers and margins of contents tanned. A
very good copy.
first edition. With the bookplate of the American
mystery writer and journalist Fulton Ousler, the author of The Greatest Story Ever Told, the basis for the 1965
film starring Max von Sydow and Charlton Heston.
£1,250
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WELLSTED, James Raymond. Travels in
the City of the Caliphs, along the Shores
of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean.
Including a Voyage to the Coast of Arabia, and
a Tour of the Island of Socotra. London: Henry
Colburn, 1840
2 volumes, octavo (213 × 132 mm). Attractive mid-blue calf
Eton gift binding by Ingalton – embossed gilt ticket to
front pastedown of volume I – twin red morocco labels, the
volume numbers on buff onlayed roundels, arabesque foliate corner-pieces, flat bands with triple rules between oak
leaf tools, compartments ornately gilt with panels of volutes and arabesques within a double fillet, ornate gilt panel to the boards within rope-twist in blind, gilt roll to edges
and turn-ins, marbled edges and endpapers, brown silk
page-markers remain intact. Lithographic frontispiece to
each, folding map. Contemporary gift inscription to Baron
Guernsey, Heneage Finch, later 6th Earl of Aylesford, from
his friend R. S. Gates “on his leaving Eton, July 1843” to the
first blank of volume I. Somewhat rubbed, slight scrape to
the lower board of volume I, overall a touch mottled, foxing to frontispiece and title page of volume I, short tear, no
loss, to the map, light browning throughout, overall a very
good set in an unusual binding which remains attractive.
first edition. “Wellsted was an acute observer
and not blinded by prejudice or ignorance in his
description of the local people. His accounts of the
geography of Oman, particularly the irrigation systems and the way of life in remote mountain tracts,
continue to be important as a unique description of
the country at an early date” (ODNB).
Howgego III, 635; Macro, Arabian Peninsula, 2283.
£3,500
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WHITE, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. Pictures by
Garth Williams. New York: Harper and Brothers,
1952
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, cream endpapers, silver edges. Black and white illustrations in the
text. A fine copy.
first edition.
£1,500
[80037]
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188.
WILDE, Oscar. A House of Pomegranates.
The Design & Decoration of This Book by C.
Ricketts & by C. H. Shannon. London: James R.
Osgood McIlvaine & Co., 1891
Quarto. Original green cloth-backed tan boards, titles and
decoration to spine and upper board in gold and orange,
pictorial endpapers. Engraved title, 4 plates, illustrations
throughout. Covers slightly darkened but the gilt bright,
spine a little rolled, ends and corners very lightly rubbed,
light spotting to fore-edge and end matter, hinges just
starting, plates somewhat faded, but an attractive copy in
first edition, one of 1,000 copies printed, of this
beautifully presented book that Wilde said was “intended neither for the British child nor the British public.”
£2,250
[84847]
189.
WILDE, Oscar. Lady Windermere’s Fan. A play
about a good woman. London: Elkin Mathews and
John Lane, 1893
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Octavo. Original pink cloth, spine gilt-lettered, covers with
stylised leaf devices in gilt, edges untrimmed. Spine faintly
faded, corners gently bumped and some spotting to edges
and end matter; an excellent copy.
first edition. Wilde’s first light comedy, Lady
Windermere’s Fan was produced at the St. James’s
Theatre on 20 Feb. 1892, and was published the following year.
£1,500
[84848]
190.
WILDE, Oscar. Complete Works. Edited by
Robert Ross. Boston: The Wyman-Fogg Company,
[c.1910]
10 volumes, octavo (204 × 139 mm). Contemporary green
half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, matching
cloth boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Monochrome frontispieces. Minor marks to a
couple of spines, an excellent set.
authorized edition.
£2,750
[80166]
191.
WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando. A Biography.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1928
Octavo. Original rough-grain advance issue brownish-orange cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper.
Spine slightly rolled, spotting to edges of text block, light
partial toning to free endpapers. A very good copy in the
lightly rubbed jacket with a few short closed tears.
first edition, in the advance issue rough-grain
cloth.
Kirkpatrick A11.
£1,750
[83547]
192.
WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own.
New York: The Fountain Press; London, The Hogarth
Press, 1929
signed limited edition, one of 492 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title. The signed
limited edition precedes the first trade edition.
Kirkpatrick A12a, Woolmer 215A.
£6,500
[84113]
193.
YARRELL, William. A History of British Birds.
Illustrated by 520 wood-engravings. In three
volumes. London: John Van Voorst, 1843
3 volumes, octavo (215 × 134 mm). Finely bound by W. Pratt
in green morocco, titles and decoration to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, elaborate cornerpieces and fillets to boards, decoration to turn-ins, floral
decorative endpapers, gilt edges. With black and white illustrations. Bookplate to front pastedowns, the occasional
minor blemish, an excellent set.
first edition.
£850
[82687]
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. Spine and edge
of upper board faded, cloth slightly rubbed and marked,
margins of contents faintly toned. A very good copy.
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Peter Harrington
london
illustasrtion coming Yeats
Catalogue 94
Christmas 2013
Gift selection 197–344
194.
3 volumes, quarto. Original green cloth, gilt titles to spines
and front boards, green endpapers. Housed in green paper-over-boards slipcase. Portrait frontispiece, numerous
black and white illustrations in the text. A fine copy.
first edition. In addition to incorporating the
29 poems first published in the limited 1917 Cuala
Press edition of the same title, this edition of The
Wild Swans at Coole includes the first book appearances of “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory” and
“An Irish Airman foresees his Death”, two of Yeats’s
most important poems, both concerning the death
of the son of Lady Augusta Gregory, Yeats’s patroness and the chatelaine of Coole Park. The collection
also includes the title poem, “The Collar Bone of
a Hare”, “Upon a Dying Lady”, “Broken Dreams”,
“Ego Dominus Tuus” “Phases of the Moon”, “The
Scholars” and “To A Young Beauty”.
first edition, one of 1,500 numbered copies.
£1,875
YEATS, Jack B. Life in the West of Ireland.
Dublin and London: Maunsel and Company Ltd., 1912
Tall quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper
board gilt. With the dust jacket. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 7 plates, 16 tipped-in reproductions from paintings, 32 plates of line drawings. Gift inscription to verso of
front free endpaper, ownership ink stamp to front pastedown. Spine rolled, cloth rubbed and mottled, front hinge
cracked, endpapers tanned, spotting to contents. A good
copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket with chips and closed
tears and a spot of dampstain to the upper panel.
first trade edition, in a variant binding with the
Talbot Press imprint at the base of the spine. Rare in
the dust jacket.
£2,000
[84298]
194
195.
YEATS, Jack B. A Catalogue Raisonné of the
Oil Paintings. London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1992
£1,250
[79767]
196.
YEATS, W. B. The Wild Swans at Coole. London:
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919
Octavo. Original decoratively gilt blue cloth designed by
Sturge Moore, front and spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership
inscription. Spine faded, ends and corners a little rubbed;
a very good copy indeed in the spine-tanned jacket with
small chips to ends and corners.
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197.
ACKROYD, Peter. Chatterton. London: Hamish
Hamilton, 1987
Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Lower corner bumped, margins of contents tanned. An excellent copy in the dust jacket.
the author to his literary agent Giles Gordon and his
wife on the title page, “For Giles and Margaret with
love from Peter. London: September 7, 1987. ‘This is
very unexpected …’”. Additionally signed by Ackroyd on the title page.
£500
[84231]
first edition. Originally issued in 12-page weekly
parts, or as single sheets in the News of the World, this
is the first book issue, bound without a title page but
in what appears to be a publisher’s binding. One of
the first serious fan publications for the burgeoning
sports, it comprises individual and team portraits of
the leading exponents of both the rugby and association codes. Team portraits include Southampton
St. Mary’s, Wolves, Sheffield Wednesday, Corinthians, Harlequins, and the Royal Arsenal. Among the
individuals featured are the sporting prodigy C. B.
Fry and Arthur Wharton, the first black professional
football player in the world.
£625
[83623]
198.
199.
ALCOCK, C. W., & Rowland Hill. Famous
Footballers. London: Hudson & Kearns, [1897]
AMIS, Martin. Dead Babies. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1975
Folio. Publisher’s dark green pebble-grain cloth, title and
footballer device gilt to the upper board. 224 full-page halftone illustrations from photographs, facsimile signatures
to the individual portraits. A little rubbed at the extremities, endpapers browned, but otherwise a very nice copy.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper.
Endpapers tanned. An excellent copy in the jacket with a
tiny nick at the head of the spine panel.
first edition.
£275
[84989]
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Large octavo (244 × 149 mm). Contemporary calf, brown
morocco label, narrow bands, spine gilt in compartments,
double fillet gilt panel with small floral tools at the corners
enclosing dotted panel in blind, floral edge-roll, milled roll
to the turn-ins, marbled edges and endpapers. Coloured
lithographic frontispiece and 19 further tinted lithographic
plates, 3 of them in colour, 32 text illustrations, and a folding lithographic map, route inked in red. Bookplate presenting this copy from James Hornby to John Barrington
Trapnell Chevallier, Eton 1875. A little rubbed, light toning,
a very good copy.
first edition. Having trained as a stonemason, Atkinson practised as an architect, but abandoned the
profession for the pursuits of an explorer and topographical artist. He died in 1861, the Athenaeum describing him in its obituary notice as “the type of an artistic
traveller, thin, lithe, and sinewy, with a wrist like a rock
and an eye like a poet’s; manner singularly gentle, and
air which mingled entreaty with command”.
Czech p. 15; Howgego II, A18; Yakushi A111f.
£475
[80622]
AUDEN, W. H. Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1930
ANGLESEY, Marquess of. A History of the
British Cavalry 1816 to 1919. London: Leo Cooper,
1973–97
8 volumes, octavo. Original plum cloth, title gilt to spine,
the first two volumes with mulberry top edges. All in unclipped jackets. Profusely illustrated, many plates, maps
and plans to the text. Very good indeed.
first editions throughout. An excellent set of
Anglesey’s indispensable history of the British cavalry. Volume II is signed on the title page.
£575
[84990]
Octavo (203 × 129 mm). Contemporary calf, red morocco
label enclosed in triple fillet gilt panel, low bands framed
by single gilt rules. Advert leaf before the title bound in.
Later armorial bookplate of Col. Hugh E. E. Everard, of
the Worcestershire Regiment to front pastedown. A little
rubbed and with some skilful restoration to joints and headcaps, some foxing and browning, but overall very good.
first edition. These 18th-century Army Lists are
becoming harder and harder to find, and those for
the years of the American War of Independence are
particularly desirable. With emendations in a contemporary hand to the pages relating to the First,
Coldstream, and Third Regiments of Foot Guards.
£750
[80986]
201.
202.
(ARMY LIST.) A List of the General and FieldOfficers, As they Rank in the Army; of the Officers
in the Several Regiments of Horse, Dragoons,
and Foot, on the British and Irish Establishments
… London: Printed for J. Millan, 1776
ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam. Oriental and
Western Siberia: a Narrative of Seven Years’
Explorations and Adventures in Siberia,
Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese
Tartary, and Part of Central Asia. London: Hurst
and Blackett, 1858
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Octavo. Original blue wrappers, titles to front wrapper in
black, quadruple line rule to border in red. Housed in a
navy blue cloth folding case. Spine a little tanned, some
light spotting, ends and corners rubbed, but still a very
good copy, internally fresh and generally in better condition than is usually met with.
first edition. Auden’s first regularly published
book; 1,000 copies printed.
Bloomfield & Mendelson A2a
£500
[84769]
204.
(BALLARD, J. G.) STOPPARD, Tom. Empire of
the Sun. A Screenplay. Based on the novel by J. B.
Ballard. Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 7 Jan. 1986
Perfect bound with brass fasteners. Original white wrappers printed in blue. “Box F” inked to upper wrapper.
Wrappers a little rubbed, edges creased. An excellent copy.
first draft of the screenplay for the film Empire
of the Sun, directed by Stephen Spielberg, written
by Tom Stoppard, and based on the semi-autobiographical novel by J. G. Ballard. Number 007.
£500
(BARBIE.) LAWRENCE, Cynthia, & Betty Lou
Maybee. Here’s Barbie. Illustrated by Clyde
Smith. New York: Random House, 1962
Octavo. Original colour laminate boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. A superb copy in the dust jacket that is just a little rubbed at the
ends of the spine panel.
first edition of one of the first three Barbie
books, published simultaneously in 1962 with Barbie’s Fashion Success and Barbie’s New York Summer.
£225
[80434]
206.
BARNES, Julian. Flaubert’s Parrot. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1984
Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket.
first edition.
203.
200.
205.
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£250
[82806]
207.
BARRIE, J. M. Peter and Wendy. Illustrated by
F. D. Bedford. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board gilt. Frontispiece, illustrated
title page, and 11 plates. Some rubbing to extremities, book
plate to front free endpaper and spotting to first and last
pages, overall a very presentable copy.
first edition, first issue. Peter and Wendy is Barrie’s expanded adaptation into novel form of the
story first made popular by his 1904 stage play Peter
Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up.
£750
[81810]
208.
(BARTLETT, W. H.) WILLIS, N. P., & J. Stirling
Coyne. The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland.
Illustrated from Drawings by W. H. Bartlett.
London: George Virtue, [c.1840]
2 volumes, tall quarto (272 × 216 mm). Contemporary
green half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised
bands, green cloth boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
2 engraved title pages, 118 steel-engraved plates, map.
Bookplate to front pastedowns, some occasional light foxing, an excellent copy.
First published in 1842. Bartlett, one of the most
prolific topographical artists of his day, had served
an apprenticeship to the antiquary John Britton.
During his heyday in the 1830s Bartlett travelled all
over Europe, the Middle East, and North America,
fulfilling commissions for drawings for travel books,
most of which were published by George Virtue.
first book by Brian Glanville, only 19 at the time of
publication, one of Britain’s foremost sports writers.
£450
[83662]
210.
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BAUM, L. Frank. The New Wizard of Oz. With
pictures by W. W. Denslow. Indianapolis: The
Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1939]
BASTIN, Cliff. Cliff Bastin remembers. An
Autobiography in Collaboration with Brian
Glanville. With a Foreword by Tom Whittaker.
London & Edinburgh: The Ettrick Press Ltd., 1950
Quarto. Original green cloth with titles and illustration in
black, gilt titles also to spine, top edge dyed yellow, photographic endpapers. With the illustrated dust jacket. Colour
illustrated plates and numerous black and white line drawings in the text by W. W. Denslow. Endpapers illustrated
with photographic stills from the film. Illustrated bookplate. Corners just nicked, with the cloth bright; a really superb copy in the jacket slightly rubbed at ends and corners.
£675
209.
Octavo, original red cloth, title in white to the spine. In the
dust jacket. 32 plates. Very good in slightly rubbed jacket,
some chipping head and tail of the spine, no loss of text.
first edition. This with the inscription, “Best
wishes from Cliff Bastin, Arsenal & England, 1929–
47”, on a pinkish album leaf mounted on the halftitle. This early “ghosted” autobiography was the
first edition of the film tie-in, printing the original text on which the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film
was based, alongside Denslow’s illustrations and
with photographic stills from the film to the jacket
and endpapers.
£750
[84943]
75
211.
front pastedown of volume 1, some occasional light foxing,
spines a little faded and rubbed, an excellent set.
(BEATLES.) EPSTEIN, Brian. A Cellarful of
Noise. London: Souvenir Press, 1964
£600
220.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Illustrated with 33 photographs. Spine
bumped, boards a little marked, dust jacket chipped and
creased to edges, tape strengthening to edges of verso.
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Complete Works.
Edited from numerous manuscripts by the Rev.
Walter W. Skeat. London: Oxford University Press
Humphrey Milford, 1927
first edition. The autobiography of the Beatles’
legendary manager, published after the Beatles had
conquered the United States.
£250
Octavo (178 × 118 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in blue half morocco, titles and centre tool to spine in
compartments separated by raised bands, marbled boards
and endpapers, gilt edges. Black and white frontispiece.
The occasional minor blemish, excellent condition.
[79983]
212.
BEATON, Cecil. Ballet. London, New York:
Wingate, 1951
£250
Octavo. Original powder blue moiré silk cloth, titles to
upper board and spine gilt, top edge stained pale blue,
colour-illustrated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated by the
author, with photographic plates. Corners rubbed, spine
and board-edges faded, a few faint spots to early and late
leaves. Still a good copy of a beautiful book.
deluxe limited issue, signed on the half-title
by Beaton as called for. This copy does not have the
limitation slip, but the binding and signature-placement are that of the signed limited issue, which
was of a very small but undisclosed number. From
the infrequency with which this issue appears, and
given that so far the highest number we have traced
has been 32, we suspect the limitation to have been
around 50 copies.
£375
[82176]
213.
BECKETT, Samuel, and others. Our
Exagmination Round His Factification For
Incamination of Work in Progress. With letters
of protest by G. V. L. Slingsby and Vladimir
Dixon. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929
Octavo. Bound for Dudley Eaton Fitts in Mallorca in black
cloth-backed boards with red cloth sides and gilt titles to
spine (and his initials “df ” to the foot), with the original
wrappers bound in. Leaves considerably less tanned than
usual, with Fitts’s binding generally rubbed but entirely
sound. An excellent copy.
first edition, trade issue, though with the
Shakespeare & Co. compliments slip tipped-in at
the first blank. With the ownership inscription of
American poet, critic, and translator Dudley Eaton
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221.
COLLINS, Wilkie. The Moonstone. With an
introduction by Vincent Starrett. Illustrated by
Dignimont. New York: The Heritage Press, 1959
Octavo (233 × 153 mm). Finely bound by Maurin in red morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, twin
rule to boards, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top
edge gilt. With colour lithographs. A fine copy.
Fitts, dated 1932 in Corp-Mari, Palma-de-Mallorca,
with his annotations. Fitts often invoked Joyce in his
literary criticism, and was also acquainted with the
likes of Robert Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and
Henry Miller. The compliments slip suggests that
this book was sent to Fitts for his critical attention.
£500
[81230]
214.
BELLAMY, Edward. Looking Backward 2000–
1887. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888
Duodecimo. Original green cloth, decoration and titles to
upper board and spine gilt and in black. Housed in a greenmorocco-backed book-form folding case. Corners a little
rubbed, partial tanning to front endpapers, occasional
pencil marginalia; a superb copy in excellent condition.
first edition, first issue with the J. J. Arakelyan slug
on the copyright page. One of the great classics of fantasy literature and the most famous American utopian
romance, which imagined the world in the year 2000
perfected by scientific and technological progress.
£750
[82562]
215.
BRANDT, Bill. The English at Home.
Introduced by Raymond Mortimer. London:
B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1936
Quarto. Original glazed photographically illustrated
boards, titles to front board and spine in red. 63 full-page
photographs by Brandt. Some minor rubbing to spine tips
and corners, head of front joint just starting to crack, bookplate to front free endpaper, overall a bright copy.
first edition of the photographer’s first book.
£450
[84175]
216.
BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. With
lithographs by Barnett Freedman. London:
Collins, 1955
Octavo (220 × 133 mm). Contemporary blue morocco, titles
and decoration to spines, raised bands, twin rule to boards
and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With colour
lithographs. An excellent copy.
A handsomely bound volume of Jane Eyre. The British
artist Barnett Freedman shows his total mastery of
the difficult medium of auto-lithography, where the
artist draws his own designs onto the stones without the intervention of trade craftsmen or photomechanical means. The lithographs here were originally created for the 1942 edition of Jane Eyre published
by George Macy’s Heritage Press in America.
£450
[83876]
217.
BRONTE, Emily. Wuthering Heights. With
lithographs by Barnett Freedman. London:
Collins, 1955
Octavo (220 × 133 mm). Contemporary blue morocco, titles
and decoration to spines, raised bands, twin rule to boards
and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With colour
lithographs. An excellent copy.
See previous item.
£450
[83878]
218.
BURGESS, Anthony. The World of William
Shakespeare. London: The Arcadia Press, 1971
Octavo. Original red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, title to spine
gilt on brown ground, colour onlay depicting the Globe
Theatre to upper board, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Double-sided colour frontispiece, illustrations throughout. Spine faded, some small marks and scuffs to morocco.
An excellent copy.
and finely bound copies signed by the author on the
limitation leaf.
£325
[83871]
219.
BYRON, Lord. The Works. London: John Murray,
1823
George Macy’s Heritage Press reprinted classic volumes previously published by the more exclusive
Limited Editions Club.
£450
[80139]
222.
COLLINS, Wilkie. The Woman in White. With
an introduction by Vincent Starrett. Illustrated
by Leonard Rosoman. New York: The Heritage
Press, 1964
Octavo (248 × 165 mm). Finely bound by Maurin in red morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, twin
rule to boards, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top
edge gilt. With colour lithographs. A fine copy.
See previous item.
£450
[80140]
4 volumes, octavo (213 × 135 mm). Contemporary burgundy straight-grain morocco, titles and elaborate decoration
to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, panelled design to boards, plain brown coated endpapers, gilt
edges. Engraved frontispiece of the author. Bookplate to
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226.
DAHL, Roald. The BFG. Illustrations by
Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982
Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. A few
trivial marks to boards, top edge tanned, faint spotting to
edges and endpapers; and excellent copy in the jacket with
a small tear at the top fore-corner of the front panel.
first edition, signed by the illustrator Quentin
Blake on the title page.
£750
[84518]
227.
DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrated by Quentin
Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
pictorial dust jacket. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Uninscribed “this book belongs to”
sticker to front free endpaper. A superb copy in the jacket.
[84500]
228.
DAVID, Elizabeth. An Omelette and a Glass of
Wine. London: Robert Hale, 1984
223.
224.
CONRAD, Joseph. Within the Tides. Tales.
Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page &
Company, 1921
DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory Illustrated by Faith Jaques. London:
George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1967
Octavo. Original blue limp morocco, titles and ship design
to spine and upper cover gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge
gilt. With the dust jacket. Gutter cracked at title page. From
the library of Conrad collector Stanley J. Seeger, with his
bookplate on front free endpaper verso. An excellent copy
in the price-clipped, rubbed, and nicked jacket with some
short splits.
Octavo. Original laminated pictorial boards, titles to front
cover and spine in black. Vignette illustrations by Jaques in
the text throughout. Ends and corners slightly rubbed, and
spine a little rolled, but still an excellent copy.
presentation copy to his wife’s doctor, inscribed
by Conrad on the front free endpaper, “D.W.R. from
J.C.” The Deep Sea edition. The recipient, Douglas
Whitehead Reed (1883–1930) qualified as a radiologist and surgeon in 1909. He was senior surgeon at
both the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and St.
George’s House, a nursing home in Canterbury.
During the early 1920s he attended to the problems
with Jessie Conrad’s leg. Within the Tides was originally published in 1915.
£525
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[85070]
first uk edition. A very nice copy of the increasingly
scarce first UK edition (originally published New York,
Knopf, 1964, with illustrations by Joseph Schindelman).
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. An excellent copy in the dust jacket.
half-title. A lovely copy of this collection of 62 essays
and recipes.
£650
[84766]
229.
[84498]
DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol in
Prose; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth.
Copyright Edition. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1846
DAHL, Roald. The Twits. London: Jonathan Cape,
1980
Octavo (155 × 108 mm). Contemporary burgundy half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, marbled sides. Spine a
little faded, some minor rubbing at the extremities, spotting to endpapers, title pages, and occasionally to contents. A very good copy.
£600
225.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Fine
in slightly spine faded dust jacket.
first edition.
£375
[81798]
£475
An attractively-bound volume of three of Dickens’s
Christmas books, including A Christmas Carol. Tauchnitz editions are sometimes thought of as piracies; in
fact they were authorized editions for sale to English-
[84036]
230.
DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver
Twist; or The Parish Boy’s Progress; A Tale of Two
Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, [c.1870] & 1866
Octavo (210 × 131 mm). Contemporary dark blue half calf,
titles and elaborate decoration to spine in compartments
separated by raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and
edges. With black and white illustrations. Binder’s small
ticket to bottom of front pastedown, the occasional minor
blemish, an excellent copy.
Two lifetime editions bound together, combining
Oliver Twist (first published in 1838) and A Tale of Two
Cities (first published in 1859).
£200
first edition.
£475
speaking travellers on the Continent. Between 1841
and the novelist’s death in 1870 Tauchnitz, a publisher
who enjoyed Dickens’s complete trust, published the
entire range of Dickens’s novels. Dickens even sent
one of his sons to Tauchnitz to learn German.
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231.
Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1867
Octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, Alice motif centre tool
to spine in compartments separated by raised bands, single
rule to boards, plain green endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated
by John Tenniel. Inscription to half-title, the occasional light
blemish, an excellent copy in a handsome binding.
sixth edition.
£750
[80028]
232.
Lewis. Aventures d’Alice au pays des merveilles.
Traduit de l’anglais par Henri Bué. Ouvrage
illustré de 42 vignettes par John Tenniel.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1869
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine, pictorial roundels and triple line borders to boards gilt, green coated
endpapers, top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 42 illustrations
by John Tenniel. Spine toned, cloth rubbed and a little
spotted, wear to corners, contents faintly toned with occasional spotting. A very good copy.
first french language edition, originally
published in English in 1865 (though dated 1866).
£750
[80207]
233.
FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and The Living
Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and upper
board in silver, grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. An
excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket.
first edition, first issue without the publisher’s over-price sticker on the front flap.
£200
Fleming family crest to front cover and titles to spine gilt,
top edge gilt (inspired by Fleming’s own design for a limited edition of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Cape, 1963).
With the glassine dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth slipcase with Fleming family crest in gilt to front. With black
and white illustrations throughout plus four suites of eight
colour plates. A fine copy.
first deluxe edition, limited to 250 numbered
copies signed by Gilbert. A painstaking bibliography of the works of Ian Fleming, covering everything
from the first draft of Casino Royale in 1952 to editions
still in print today.
£350
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234.
(FLEMING, Ian.) GILBERT, Jon. Ian Fleming:
The Bibliography. Preface by Fergus Fleming.
Foreword by Michael L. Vanblaricum. Edited
by Brad Frank. London, Queen Anne Press, 2012
Quarto. Original quarter bound vellum with black boards,
79
235.
244.
FLEMING, Peter. News From Tartary: A
Journey from Peking to Kashmir. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1936
(GOLF.) VARDON, Harry. The Gist of Golf.
Illustrated from photographs posed by the
author. New York: George H. Doran and Company, 1922
gilt, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and
illustrations from photos throughout, folding map. Spine
a little rolled. An excellent copy in the jacket with minor
repairs to the ends of the spine panel.
Octavo. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, golf motif to front board within single rule, twin rule to turn-ins,
marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Folding illustrative charts
with black and white photographs posed by the author.
Some creasing to charts, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
first edition.
£750
first edition. Vardon was an American professional golfer and member of the fabled Great Triumvirate of the sport along with John Henry Taylor
and James Braid. He won the Open Championship a
record six times and also won the US Open.
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236.
FORESTER, C. S. Mr Midshipman Hornblower.
London: Michael Joseph, 1950
£450
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. An excellent copy in price clipped dust
jacket, lightly rubbed to edges.
245.
GREENE, Graham. Our Man in Havana.
London: Heinemann, 1958
first edition, inscribed by the author “Marjorie, with love from, C. S. Forester.”
£600
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust
jacket. Spine rolled. An excellent copy in the dust jacket.
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first edition.
237.
FOSTER, J. J. Miniature Painters British and
Foreign. With some of account of those who
practised in America in the eighteenth century.
Illustrated by numerous examples selected
from celebrated collections. In two volumes.
London: Dickinsons, 1903
2 volumes, quarto (345 × 250 mm). Finely bound by Bickers
& Son in brown morocco, titles and decoration to spines in
compartments separated by raised bands, elaborate panelled
tooling to boards, decoration to turn-ins, green endpapers,
top edges gilt. With 123 engravings. Spines a little dulled and
rubbed, boards slightly marked, an excellent copy.
deluxe edition, one of 570 numbered copies
signed by the author.
£675
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238.
FOWLES, John. The French Lieutenant’s
Woman. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge brown. With the dust jacket. Spine
bumped, dust jacket rubbed to edges
80
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£575
first edition, signed by Fowles on the title page,
dated 2000.
£750
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239.
(FROST, Terry.) GOODING, Mel. Terry Frost:
Act & Image. Works on Paper through Six
Decades. London & St. Ives: Belgrave Gallery, 2000
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the
dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket.
first edition, elaborately signed on the front
free endpaper by Frost.
£375
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240.
GALLUP, George. A Guide to Public Opinion
Polls. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944
Octavo. Original salmon cloth, titles to spine gilt on burgundy ground, top edge burgundy. With the dust jacket.
An excellent copy in the dust jacket with lightly toned spine
panel and lower panel.
first edition of Gallup’s first book for the general
reader on public opinion polling, which he had used
to predict Franklin Roosevelt’s success in the presidential election of 1936. Review copy with the publishers’ slip loosely inserted.
£350
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241.
GERNSHEIM, Helmut. Julia Margaret
Cameron. Her Life and Photographic Work.
Introduction by Clive Bell. London: The Fountain
Press, 1948
Large octavo. Original cream cloth, titles to upper board
and spine in red. With the dust jacket. With 54 photographic plates. Cloth stained at but a decent copy in the
somewhat rubbed and frayed dust jacket.
first edition, presentation copy. Inscribed by
the author to the front free endpaper, “To Lee with
love Helmut” and with his signed Christmas card
laid in. It is tempting to identify Lee as the photographer Lee Friedlander with whom Gernsheim was
friendly at the time, but regardless of this, presen-
tation copies of Gernsheim’s more important works
are not common.
£275
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242.
GIBRAN, Kahlil. Jesus the Son of a Man. His
words and his deeds as told and recorded by
those who knew him. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1928
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front
board gilt, design by Gibran gilt to front board. With the
illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated frontispiece and plates,
vignette designs to title page and in the text. Spine somewhat dulled, corners gently bumped, faint marks to cloth,
rear hinge starting; still a very good copy in the creased and
marked jacket with rubbing and small tears to edges.
first edition of Gibran’s imaginative biography of
Jesus, made up of poetic character sketches voiced
by “those who knew him”.
£375
243.
(GOLF.) DARWIN, Bernard, and others. The
Golfer’s Companion. Henry Cotton, Robert
H-K Browning, A. H. Padgham, Hylton Cleavor,
Eleanor Helme, O. B. Keeler, R. C. RobertsonGlasgow and Peter Lawless. Edited by Peter
Lawless. Illustrated by Harry Rountree. London:
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1937
golf motif to front board within single rule, twin rule to
turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With double page
colour frontispiece and numerous black and white line
drawings within the text. The occasional minor blemish,
an excellent copy in a fine binding.
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246.
HAMILTON, Patrick. Unknown Assailant.
London: Constable, 1955
the dust jacket. Edges and margins tanned as usual, but
otherwise an excellent copy in the somewhat soiled and
rubbed jacket.
first edition. The third volume in the Gorse series.
£375
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first edition.
£450
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copies signed by the author, from a total edition of
3,000 copies. This a presentation copy, additionally
inscribed by Heinlein on the limitation leaf, “Respectfully inscribed to Vice Admiral Leslie Clarke
Stevens, US Navy, Robert A. Heinlein, Lt USN, Retired”. Heinlein graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1929 and served as an officer until 1934. The
recipient, Vice Admiral Leslie Clark Stevens (1895–
1956) was the father of television producer Leslie
Stevens, known for his work on sci-fi series such The
Outer Limits and Battlestar Galactica.
£750
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250.
HIRST, Damien. I Want to Spend the Rest of
My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to
One, Always, Forever, Now. London: BoothClibborn Editions, 1997
Quarto. Original red cloth, title and design stamped in
black, blind and gilt to the upper board, and to the spine
in black. With the dust jacket. With over 700 diagrams and
illustrations, including pop-ups, overlays, movables, etc. A
very good copy in like jacket.
247.
HASKELL, Arnold. Baron at the Ballet.
Introduction and a Commentary by Arnold
L. Haskell. Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell.
London: Collins, 1950
Quarto. Original full dark green morocco binding with gilt
lettering to the spine. Boards with gilt ruled border. Top
edge gilt. Illustrated throughout with 8 full-page colour
and over 270 mono photo plates by Baron. Neat previous
owners name on the front free endpaper. Minor rubbing to
the extremities but overall a very good.
deluxe limited edition, one of 150 copies signed
by Baron and Arnold Haskell. A powerful collection
of images by Baron (Sterling Nahum: 1906–1956),
the official photographer for Sadler’s Wells Ballet.
£450
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248.
(HATHERELL, William.) SHAKESPEARE,
William. Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. With
82
Illustrations by W. Hatherell. London: Hodder &
Stoughton, [c.1912]
Quarto. Recent burgundy morocco, titles to spine, raise
bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers. With 22
coloured plates and printed tissues and further line drawings throughout. An excellent copy.
first hatherell edition. Hatherell (1855–1928)
was a skilled illustrator in the sentimental genre
whose work usually appeared in magazines such as
The Graphic, Harpers, Scribner’s, and The Century.
£450
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249.
HEINLEIN, Robert A. Assignment in Eternity.
Four Long Science Fiction Stories. Reading, PA:
Fantasy Press, 1953
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine very faintly toned. An excellent copy in
the fresh dust jacket with only a short closed tear to the upper panel.
first edition. Hirst’s first publication, as tricksy
as might be expected. A confection of pop-ups,
transparencies, movables, foldables, inserts, diecuts, stickers and posters, and the rest.
£350
[82250]
HORNBY, Nick. Fever Pitch. London: Victor
Gollancz Limited, 1992
Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Boards faded a little at the edges. A beautiful
copy in the jacket.
first edition.
£325
HOPPÉ, E. O. Romantic America: Picturesque
United States. New York: B. Westermann Co., 1927
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine
and front board in gilt, green endpapers. With the dust
jacket. 304 full page photogravure illustrations by Hoppé.
Faint fading to spine and board edges. An excellent copy
in the somewhat tanned and rubbed jacket with a few very
small chips and tears along the edges.
first american edition, trade issue. A superb
book printed from the plates of the German first edition and issued more or less simultaneously with it.
The printing process represented a step change in the
technology of photographic reproduction and complemented Hoppe’s famous illustrations perfectly.
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253.
HOROWITZ, Louis, & Boyden Sparks. The
Towers of New York. The Memoirs of a Master
Builder. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1937
Octavo. Original grey-green cloth, printed paper label
to spine, top edge dyed green. Portrait frontispiece and
7 plates. Cloth rubbed and marked, spine and edges of
boards faded, endpapers tanned. A very good copy.
first edition, presentation copy. Inscribed by
Horowitz, “With best wishes for a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year to Charles Sumner Woolworth, whose brother Frank played an important
role in the unimportant life of L Horowitz – December 25, 1937”. Horowitz was president of the Thompson-Starrett Company, who pioneered the construction of skyscrapers and built many of New York’s
landmark buildings. Frank Woolworth had awarded
the contract for the Woolworth Building, then the
world’s tallest skyscraper, to Thompson-Starrett.
£375
251.
£575
252.
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254.
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. Very mild rubbing to extremities, single
faint spot to front free endpaper; an excellent copy in the
very good jacket, tanned with some tears and with loss to
top edge at the head.
first edition of the author’s first book.
£450
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255.
HUGHES, Ted. Eat Crow. London: Rainbow Press,
1971
Duodecimo. Publisher’s full black calf by Zaehnsdorf, titles gilt to spine, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, oth-
ers untrimmed. In the black cloth slipcase. With frontispiece drawing by Leonard Baskin. Covers a bit marked, and
some mild spotting within. A very good copy.
copies signed by the author on the limitation page.
Eric Quayle’s copy, with his bookplate dated November 1971, and an autograph letter signed to Quayle
from Keith Douglas of the Rainbow Press forwarding
Ted Hughes’s warm regards and his promise to visit
Quayle’s book collection when he is next in Cornwall.
£525
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256.
HUGO, Victor. Les Misérables. A Novel.
Translated from the original French by Chas.
E. Wilbour. Complete in one volume. New York:
Carleton, Publisher, 1863
5 volumes bound as one, octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decoration gilt to spine, sides panelled in blind,
brown endpapers. Contemporary ownership inscriptions.
Spine a little faded, ends and board-edges worn, cloth a
bit marked, hinges cracked, leaves tanned with occasional
mild spotting.
First single-volume issue of the first American
edition of Les Misérables. On its first publication
in 1862 Wilbour’s translation was the earliest in
English language.
£250
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257.
(INDIA.) “An Anglo-Indian”. Indian Outfits
& Establishments: a Practical Guide for
Persons about to reside in India; detailing the
Articles which should be taken out, and the
Requirements of Home Life and Management
there. London: L. Upcott Gill, 1882
Octavo. Original blue ornately embossed cloth, title gilt to
the spine and upper board, pale yellow surface-paper endpapers, those at the front printed with ads. A little rubbed,
light toning, but overall very good.
first and only edition. A compilation of articles originally published in The Bazaar.
£450
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258.
266.
(JAZZ.) FRIEDLANDER, Lee. American
Musicians. Photographs. Preface by Joel Dorn.
Interviews with Ruth Brown and Steve Lacy. New
York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 1998
LOWRY, L. S. The Drawings. With an
introduction and notes by Mervyn Levy.
London: Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1963
Quarto. Original grey green cloth, titles to spine gilt.
With the dust jacket. Spine lightly bumped, some spotting to boards otherwise an excellent copy in edge
chipped dust jacket.
Quarto. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine. With the
dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and
white. Very good in jacket.
Friedlander to John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet; “For John Lewis with pleasure, Lee Friedlander.”
Features numerous images of Lewis and the other
members of the MJQ.
first edition, signed and dated by Lowry on
the front free endpaper.
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MAILER, Norman. The Executioner’s Song.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979
(JAZZ.) LOMAX, Alan. Mister Jelly Roll. The
Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans
Creole and “Inventor of Jazz”. New York: Duell,
Sloan and Pearce, 1950
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in silver and
copper, yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket. A couple
of faint spots to cloth. An excellent copy in the jacket with
a little minor creasing along the edges.
£300
£600
267.
259.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to upper board and
spine in pink, top edge stained blue, map endpapers. With
the dust jacket. Drawings by David Stone Martin. An immaculate copy in the dust jacket rather faded at the spine
and with a single nick.
first edition. A record of the remarkable series of
interviews between Lomax and Jelly Roll.
£250
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260.
(JAZZ.) STEARNS, Marshall. The Story of Jazz.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1956
Octavo, original blue cloth, title in silver to the spine. In
the dust jacket. 16 plates. Cloth very lightly rubbed at the
tips, light partial toning to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a few nicks and
short splits and faded spine panel.
on the front free endpaper, “For Libby – you know
[underlined] who my favourite sister is!” One of the
most influential, if controversial, of all jazz studies,
translated into 12 languages and never out of print
since its first publication in 1956. Stearns was one of
the first jazz scholars to examine in detail the West
African musical tradition and to argue for the vital
role it played in the development of jazz.
£450
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front free endpaper.
£375
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268.
261.
KEATS, John. The Poems. New York: Privately
printed for The Scott-Thaw Company, 1904
2 volumes, quarto (215 × 173 mm). Contemporary dark blue
morocco, titles and decoration to spines, multiple rules to
boards and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt,
others untrimmed. Black and white frontispiece of Keats
and vignettes. Some minor wear to gutters, endpapers
tanned at fore-edge, front joints neatly restored, a very
good copy.
limited edition of 350 copies.
£450
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262.
LEE, James S. The Underworld of the East.
Being Eighteen Years Actual Experiences of
the Underworlds, Drug Haunts and Jungles
of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1935
Octavo. Original red cloth, lettered in black. In the strikingly simple typographical dust jacket. 18 plates.
first edition of this uncommon memoir of a
young Yorkshire mining engineer’s drug experiences in the East.
£650
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263.
LIVINGSTONE, David. Missionary Travels and
Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch
of Sixteen Years’ Residence in the Interior of
Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good
Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence
across the Continent, down the River Zambezi,
to the Eastern Ocean. London: John Murray, 1857
Octavo. Original terracotta sand-grain cloth, title gilt to
the spine, blind panels to spine and boards, brown surfacepaper endpapers. Folding frontispiece and 22 other plates,
illustrations to the text, 3 folding maps, one of them in an
end-pocket. Contemporary armorial bookplate of John
Lupton to front pastedown. A little rubbed, small inksplash to the upper board, minor snag to the upper joint,
short split at tail of spine, hinges started, short split to flap
of end-pocket, light toning, some foxing to fore edge, but
overall a very good copy.
first edition, this copy conforming to Bradlow’s variant no. 7: with frontispiece, plate 8 and
17 wood-cuts by Whymper, and the ads dated November 1, 1857.
Abbey Travel 347; Bradlow, “The Variants of the 1857 edition
…” in Lloyd, ed. Livingstone 1873–1973; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I, p. 908; PMM 341.
£750
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264.
LODGE, David. The Picturegoers. A Novel.
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1960
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in black. With
the dust jacket. Ownership initials to front free endpaper.
Spine slightly rolled, a couple of faints spots on the title
page. An excellent copy in the jacket that is a little faded on
the spine panel.
265.
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. Tales of a
Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863
Octavo. Original green cloth patterned in blind, titles gilt
to spine, brown coated endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated title page. 22 pages of publisher’s advertisements at the
rear. Titles bronzed, corners lightly rubbed, otherwise an
excellent copy.
first edition, first issue with Tales of a Wayside Inn advertised on p. 11 of the adverts as “Nearly
Ready”. This copy has a tipped-in slip bearing the
author’s signed inscription, “yours truly, Henry W.
Longfellow, 1877”, and bears the ownership inscription and armorial bookplate of Mrs W. D. Hatch,
Willowbrook, Christmas 1863.
£600
MAPPLETHORPE, Robert. The Black Book.
Foreword by Ntozake Shange. New York: St
Martin’s Press, 1986
the photographic dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in
monochrome. A superb copy in the jacket with a few trivial
white marks to the top left corner of the front panel.
first edition of Mapplethorpe’s photographic
collection of black male nudes.
£275
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first edition, inscribed copy of the author’s
first novel. Inscribed by Lodge on the title page,
“David Lodge, Edinburgh, Aug 26, 2004”.
£325
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271.
MÉRIMÉE, Prosper. Carmen. Translated
from the French and illustrated by Edmund H.
Garrett with a memoir of the author by Louise
Imogen Guiney. Winchester, MA: The De Vinne
Press, January 1896
Large paper octavo. Original full vellum, titles gilt to spine,
two vellum-hinged clasps, patterned endpapers, top edge
gilt. Portrait frontispiece of Mérimée, vignette title page,
10 vignette illustrations, 5 full page illustrated plates, title
and illustration leaf printed in red and black. Covers slightly soiled and bowed, lower clasp defective, leaves lightly
tanned but clean. An excellent copy.
269.
270.
(MARIE ANTOINETTE.) CAMPAN, Madame
Jeanne-Louise-Henriette. Memoirs of the
Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
– extensively extra-illustrated. London: Henry
Colburn, 1843
MAXIM, Sir Hiram S. Monte Carlo Facts and
Fallacies. With Illustrations by George A.
Stevens. London: Alexander Moring Ltd., 1904
2 volumes, octavo (214 × 131 mm). Twentieth-century orange
tan full morocco by Bayntun, title gilt direct to the spine,
raised bands, crown and sceptre devices gilt to double-fillet
panelled compartments, similar panel to the board, dotted
edge-roll, all edges gilt, wide turn-ins with double rules,
fleuron corner tools, marbled endpapers, 2 chestnut silk
page-markers to each. An extra-illustrated set with new title
pages printed in red and black, the original portrait frontispieces to each coloured, and 101 additional plates from 18thor 19th-century sources; 64 portraits, 15 of them coloured,
and 37 other plates, 6 of them coloured including 3 costume
plates, and 6 of them double-page or folding. Spines a little
sunned, text-blocks with some browning, else a very handsome set in an excellent state of preservation.
first edition in english; first published in
French in 1823.
£650
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Octavo. Original bright yellow cloth, title in red and black
to spine, and to the upper board with illustrations including a portrait of Maxim. Frontispiece and 18 other plates after line-drawings by Stevens, tables at the rear. Pink paper
book-ticket of the Galignani Library, rue de Rivoli, Paris,
and Avenue Masséna, Nice, to front pastedown. A little
rubbed, some splitting at the head and tail of the spine,
upper hinge just started, light toning, else a very good copy
and still attractive.
first and only edition. After a bout of bronchitis
in 1901 the great inventor Hiram S. Maxim was forced
to winter on the Riviera for his health and he occupied himself by observing the habits of gamblers. His
book aims to give “some idea of how the majority of
the players … think and reason on the subject of gambling … [affording] an opportunity of pointing out
the errors in their mathematical calculations and the
fallacies of their logic and reasoning” (Preface).
£250
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signed limited edition, one of 50 copies signed
by the artist and printed on Japanese paper, preceding the Little, Brown & Co. trade edition, which is the
first American and the first illustrated by Boston artist
Edmund H. Garrett. This deluxe edition is extra-illustrated, with a different portrait frontispiece from the
trade edition, a colour-printed illustration leaf, and
four extra vignettes. This copy includes an original
and signed colour painting by Garrett on the title page
of two colourful banderillas (the spears used in bullfighting) joined by a grey ribbon. Mérimée’s novella
was first published in the journal Revue des Deux Mondes
in 1845, and expanded into book form the following
year. It was not until 1875, however, with the creation
of Bizet’s opera based on the third part of Mérimée’s
text, that Carmen became universally known.
£275
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272.
MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. London: Methuen
& Co. Ltd., 1927
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and pictorial
designs to boards gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt.
With the dust jacket. Ownership inscription, partial tanning to half-title and final leaf, slight rubbing to the tips,
but a bright copy in the mildly soiled jacket with a closed
tear to top edge.
first edition. The third Winnie-the-Pooh book.
£750
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273.
MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. With
Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London:
Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928
Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles to spine and pictorial design to upper board gilt, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket.
Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Contemporary
gift inscription to front free endpaper. Corners bumped
with creasing to lower corner, partial tanning to free endpapers. Cloth and gilt bright and fresh, contents clean. An
excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with an abrasion
and a closed tear to the upper panel and some nicks from
the ends of the spine panel.
first edition. The last of the series.
£750
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274.
PARKER, Dorothy. Death and Taxes. New York:
The Viking Press, 1931
Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine gilt and to
upper board in blind. With the dust jacket. Spine titles a
little dulled, partial tanning to endpapers. A superb copy
in the jacket with some very minor abrasions to the bottom edge of the upper panel and a small nick at the head
of the spine panel.
first edition of her third collection of acerbic,
witty verse.
£325
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275.
PERELMAN, S. J. Look Who’s Talking! New
York: Random House, 1940
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt on black
ground. With the dust jacket. Spine and edges of boards
a little faded, some light spots to lower board, endpapers
toned. An excellent copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket
with a spot of dampstain to the upper panel, some spotting
to the lower panel, and tanned spine panel.
first edition. Collects 24 stories and essays originally published in magazines.
£300
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276.
(POGANY, Willy.) OMAR KHAYYÁM; Edward
Fitzgerald (trans.) The Rubáiyát of Omar
Khayyám. Presented by Willy Pogany. London:
George G. Harrap & Co., 1909
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and upper board elaborately gilt blocked, Persian style endpapers, top edge gilt,
others untrimmed. 24 tipped-in colour plates. Spine and
edges of boards tanned, spotting to edges of text block occasionally affecting margins of contents, which are faintly
toned. A very good copy.
£750
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277.
POLANSKI, Roman. Roman. New York: William
Morrow and Company, Inc., 1984
Octavo. Original white cloth-backed white boards, titles to
spine in copper, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. Some
spots to top edge of text block. An excellent copy in the
jacket with faintly toned spine panel with a miniscule split
at the top edge.
278.
PRATCHETT, Terry. Strata. Gerrards Cross: Colin
Smythe, 1981
Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine lightly bumped in fine dust jacket.
first edition. Pratchett’s third novel.
£400
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the author on the front free endpaper, “To Richard, In
thanks for his understanding, Roman Polanski. Paris,
Jan, 84”. The recipient, Richard P. Rogers (1944–2001),
was a Harvard professor and documentary filmmaker.
£750
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279.
Portrait frontispiece, and engraved plates and vignettes after illustrations by Turner and Stothard. One or two trivial
spots to early matter; a superb copy.
PRATCHETT, Terry. Eric. London: Victor Gollancz
Ltd, 1990
first edition.
£350
Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Josh Kirby. Spine
bumped, small closed tear to back panel of dust jacket.
288.
first edition. The ninth novel in the Discworld
series, scarce in the hardback format.
£200
RUSCHA, Edward. Colored People. [Los
Angeles:] Edward Ruscha, 1972
[84238]
Duodecimo. Original yellow wrappers, titles to front cover
in black. 15 colour photographic plates of cacti by Ruscha.
Very minor rubbing to back wrapper, an excellent copy.
280.
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) AESOP. Aesop’s Fables.
A new translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. With
an introduction by G. K. Chesterton and
illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London:
William Heinemann, 1912
first edition; 4,065 copies printed.
£500
RUSHDIE, Salman. Two Stories. Privately
printed, 1989
Quarto. Original brown cloth, brown morocco label to
spine with gilt titles, black morocco label with gilt design
to front cover. Housed in the publisher’s brown cloth slipcase. With five woodcuts and three linocuts by Bhupen
Khakhar. The slightest rubbing to spine ends and the edges of the slipcase, but a superb copy.
first rackham edition.
[81300]
281.
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) DICKENS, Charles. A
Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1972
Octavo. Finely bound by Bayntun in crimson calf, brown
and burgundy morocco labels, elaborate decoration to
spine in compartments separated by raised bands, twin
rule to boards, holly blocked to front board, roll to turnins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated by Arthur
Rackham, with 12 colour prints and 18 in black and white.
An excellent copy.
A handsomely bound reprint of this classic Christmas tale.
£750
[80905]
282.
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) MOORE, Clement C.
The Night Before Christmas. Illustrated by
Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co.
Ltd., 1931
Octavo. Original pictorial printed wrappers. With the dust
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289.
Quarto. Original green cloth, titles and decoration to spine
and front board, pictorial endpapers, top edge stained
green. With 13 colour plates, captioned tissues and further
monochrome illustrations throughout. Endpapers a little
toned and spotted and occasional light foxing throughout,
a very good copy.
£375
[84382]
jacket. 4 colour plates and 17 black and white illustrations
by Arthur Rackham. Inscription to half-title, minor creasing to fore-edge, an excellent copy in the dust jacket with a
couple of small chips to the back panel and some restoration to the front panel and tape repair to verso.
first rackham edition.
£295
[81299]
283.
RAY-JONES, Tony. A Day Off. An English
Journal. With an introduction by Ainslie Ellis.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1974
Quarto. Original tan cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
photographic dust jacket. 120 photographic illustrations.
Minor rubbing to spine tips, an exceptionally nice copy in
the dust jacket.
first edition, scarce hardback issue. Ray-Jones
died in 1972 leaving this superb collection as his testament. The premise follows in the tradition of Brassaï
and Bill Brandt linking his disparate subjects in time
to produce a pictorial essay of considerable power.
£750
[84081]
284.
(RHYS, Jean.) CARCO, Francis. Perversity.
Translated by Ford Madox Ford. Chicago: Pascal
Covici, 1928
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in red and
black, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket removed from rear pastedown. A few spots to front free
endpaper. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with very
slightly faded spine panel.
first english language edition. Though the
title page states that the translator was Ford Madox
Ford, this edition was actually translated by Jean
Rhys, who was his lover in Paris during the mid
1920s.
£375
[80633]
285.
[RICHARDSON, Samuel.] Pamela; or, Virtue
Rewarded. In a series of Familiar Letters from
a Beautiful Damsel, to her Parents. Published
signed limited edition, one of 60 in cloth and
signed by the author, from a total edition of 72.
in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and
Religion in the Minds of Youth of both sexes.
London: for H. Woodfall, John Rivington, W. Strahan,
R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, M. Richardson, and B.
Collins, 1767
RODGERS, Richard, & Oscar Hammerstein
II. Carousel. A musical play based on Ferenc
Molnar’s Liliom (as adapted by Benjamin
Glazer). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946
4 volumes, duodecimo. Contemporary mottled full calf,
spines in compartments with foliate gilt tooling and red
morocco labels, blue cloth bookmarkers, marbled endpapers, red edges. Spines and corners a little rubbed, front
hinge of volume I just starting, internally fresh; a lovely set
in very good condition.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to front
board and spine gilt, top edge green. With the dust jacket.
Illustrated with photographs from the original production.
Contemporary ownership inscription. Board edges and
top edge slightly faded. An excellent copy in the spinetanned jacket.
An attractive set in a contemporary binding of Samuel Richardson’s popular epistolary novel Pamela (first
published in 1740; this the eighth edition, printing
a number of letters and poems praising the work),
which excited much heated debate as to the morality
of its message, so much so that Richardson deputed
female reading groups to aid him in the revising of
the text for each edition.
£500
[82792]
286.
first edition.
£375
[81964]
£475
[83367]
290.
RUSSELL, Bertrand. Principles of Social
Reconstruction. London: George Allen & Unwin
Ltd., 1916
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine a little dulled. A sound copy in very good
condition, with the deteriorated jacket.
first edition. From the library of Russell’s friend
and publisher Stanley Unwin.
£375
[81668]
287.
ROGERS, Samuel. Poems. London: Printed for T.
Cadell and E. Moxon, 1834
Octavo. Finely bound by Gregory (Booksellers to the
Queen), Bath, in red full morocco, spine in compartments
with gilt titles direct, arabesque cartouche gilt-stamped
to sides, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
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Octavo. Original plum cloth, title gilt to the spine, panelling in blind to the upper board, top edge mulberry. With
the striking pictorial jacket by Dorothea Braby. Portrait
frontispiece and one other portrait plate, full-page map.
Cloth a little spotted, light foxing to the fore-edge, encroaching at the ends, and barely to the margins, jacket a
little rubbed, and flaked at the spine with a small chip at
the head just nipping one letter of the author’s name, but
overall a very good copy of a pretty book.
by the author, “For Ellie with love and greetings
from the Author, July 1937”, and signed on the title
page. Rutter, who was himself in the North Borneo
Civil Service before embarking on a successful career as an travel writer and novelist, ghost-writes
the remarkable tale of the conversion to Islam of
the Sarawak-based British colonial official “David
Chale”. Chale was in fact Gerard McBryan, unbalanced eminence grise at the court of Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak.
£350
[84597]
294.
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. All Passion Spent.
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth
Press, 1931
291.
RUSSELL, Bertrand. Roads to Freedom.
Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1918
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in blue. Gift
and ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper. Lightly
rubbed at extremities, spine and edges of boards tanned,
margins of contents browned. A very good copy.
first edition. From the library of Russell’s friend
and publisher Stanley Unwin.
£675
[81718]
292.
RUSSELL, Bertrand & Dora. The Prospects of
Industrial Civilisation. London: George Allen &
Unwin, 1923
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and rules in yellow. With
the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the spine-tanned jacket split at the front joint.
first edition, produced in collaboration between
Bertrand and his second wife Dora, inspired by
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their separate (but simultaneous) visits to Bolshevik
Russia in 1920. From the library of Russell’s friend
and publisher Stanley Unwin, with a revealing and
involved 1982 typed letter signed from Dora Russell
addressed to Rayner Unwin, in which she responds
to Unwin’s rejection of “my Machine Age book”
(which was eventually published the following year
by Routledge & Kegan Paul as “Religion of the Machine Age”). In the letter she makes a strident claim
concerning the present book, that “If it had not been
for my insights about industrialism in 1920, the book
… would not have been written. It was very much my
book, we issued it as joint and I left the actual writing to Bertie. Incidentally, for years after the divorce,
he did me out of half of the royalties”.
£475
[81712]
Octavo. Original light green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Covers faded and spine somewhat rolled,
tanned and mottled, light spotting to edges. A good sound
copy in the tanned and rubbed jacket.
first edition.
£325
[80048]
295.
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Family
London: The Hogarth Press, 1932
History.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Spine somewhat faded with a mild crease, ends
and corners slightly rubbed, cloth very trivially marked,
mild toning to some leaves; a sound copy in very good condition, with the faded jacket slightly creased and rubbed.
first edition.
293.
£675
RUTTER, Owen. Triumphant Pilgrimage.
An English Muslim’s Journey from Sarawak
to Mecca. London: George G. Harrap & Company
Ltd., 1937
296.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in dark green,
map to front pastedown. With the dust jacket. Map and
jacket drawn by Ben Nicholson. Some fading to spine and
board edges, slight spotting and tanning to edges and to
early and late leaves. A very good copy in the lightly rubbed
and faintly marked jacket.
first edition; 10,590 copies printed.
Woolmer 351.
£375
297.
SASSOON, Siegfried. Counter-Attack. London:
William Heinemann, 1918
Octavo. Original red and tan wrappers. Upper wrapper
professionally repaired at the joint, wrappers rubbed and
toned, wear to ends of spine, contents spotted and tanned.
A very good copy.
first edition of this important collection which
includes a number of Sassoon’s “savagely realistic
and compassionate war poems” and “established his
stature as a fully-fledged poet” (ODNB).
Keynes A17.
£375
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Dark Island.
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The
Hogarth Press, October 1934
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298.
SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. Economic
Doctrine and Method: an Historical Sketch.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1954]
Octavo (218 × 138 mm). Original blue cloth, spine lettered
gilt. With the dust jacket. With the bookplate of Nobel
prize winning economist George Stigler. Small crease to
the upper panel of the dust jacket, and a short tear to the
head of the spine, an excellent copy.
first edition in english (first published in
1914 as Epochen der Dogmen- und Methodengeschichte) of
Schumpeter’s brilliant early treatise of the development of economic ideas. The work was developed
into the mammoth History of Economic Analysis, published posthumously in 1954 (see next item).
Swedberg S.004.
£350
[85017]
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299.
SCHUMPETER, Joseph Alois. History of
Economic Analysis. Edited from Manuscript by
Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1954
Octavo (280 × 150 mm). Original green cloth, titles to spine
in silver. Front inner hinge slightly strained, short snag to
head of the spine. A few side-rules and marginal notes in
blue ballpoint pen. A good copy.
first edition.
£250
[84088]
300.
[SCOTT, Sir Walter.] The Life of Napoleon
Bonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a
Preliminary View of the French Revolution.
By the author of “Waverley”. In nine volumes.
Edinburgh: Printed for Ballantyne and Co. for
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1872
301.
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays. Edited
by Howard Staunton. The illustrations by John
Gilbert. Engraved by the brothers Dalziel.
London: George Routledge & Co., 1858
3 volumes, octavo (248 × 169 mm). Contemporary green
morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands,
green pebble-grain cloth boards, green endpapers, marbled edges. Illustrated throughout. Some occasional light
foxing, spines a little darkened and boards a little marked,
an excellent set.
first staunton edition.
£450
[82626]
9 volumes, small octavo (182 × 115 mm). Contemporary
tan half calf, black morocco label, roll to bands, marbled
boards, blue endpapers, marbled edges. Engraved frontispiece of the author. Small ownership signature to top of
title pages, some occasional foxing and browning, spines a
little rubbed, a very good set.
£575
[84305]
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302.
front board, gilt turn-ins, pale yellow coated endpapers, all
edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece of the author. Covers a little mottled, ends and corners lightly rubbed, sight spotting
to some early and late leaves. Very good condition.
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Complete
Works. The Text and Order of the First Folio
with Quarto Variants & a Choice of Modern
Readings Noted Marginally: To Which are
Added Pericles and the First Quartos of Six
of the Plays with Three Plays of Doubtful
Authorship: also the Poems According to the
Original Quartos and Octavos. London: The
Nonesuch Press, 1953
A handsomely bound school-prize copy of the new
edition of Smith’s great work (first published in
1776), with a Kings College London evening classes
prize plate dated 1869.
£300
311.
SMITH, Edward E. The Skylark of Space. In
collaboration with Mrs Lee Hawkins Garby.
Illustrated by O. G. Estees Jr. Providence, RI:
Hadley Publishing Company, [1947]
4 volumes, octavo (209 ×128 mm). Contemporary red morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single
rule to boards with crest to front, decoration to turn-ins,
marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. An excellent set.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the
illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated title page and 5 full-page
illustrated plates. Spine slightly dulled, mild fading along
board edges. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket.
The second Nonesuch Shakespeare, produced to coincide with the Coronation.
£750
[83873]
303.
SHAW, George Bernard. Pygmalion. New York:
Everybody’s Magazine November 1914
Octavo. Original black limp morocco, titles to upper cover
gilt. With the dust jacket. Extremities rubbed. An excellent
copy in the rubbed and chipped jacket.
first separate american issue, unauthorised,
and the first separate issue in English, comprising
sheets from the periodical publication specially
bound up and distributed by Putnam. When advised
by Shaw’s agent that they had acquired serial rights
only, distribution in this format was halted. This
copy in the deluxe limp morocco; there was also a
trade issue in green cloth.
Laurence A124d.
£575
[85016]
304.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Complete Poetical
Works. Edited by Thomas Hutchinson. London:
Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford, 1929
Octavo (178 × 118 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red morocco, titles and floral centre tool to spine
in compartments separated by raised bands, single rule
to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt
edges. Engraved frontispiece of Shelley. Foxing to verso of
frontispiece, an excellent copy.
£450
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305.
307.
308.
SHUTE, Nevil. Pastoral. London: William
Heinemann Ltd, 1944
SIMES, Thomas. A Military Course for the
Government and Conduct of a Battalion,
designed for their Regulations in Quarter,
Camp, or Garrison; with Useful Observations
and Instructions for their Manner of Attack
and Defence. London: Printed for the author, 1777
(SITWELL, Osbert.) Wheels: A Second Cycle.
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1917
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Very lightly rubbed at extremities. An excellent
copy in the rubbed, creased, chipped, and spotted jacket.
first edition.
£450
[81031]
306.
SHUTE, Nevil. The Chequer Board. London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1947
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust
jacket. Very slightly rubbed at extremities, minor bump to
upper corner. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket
with some small chips and closed tears, one of which affects the titles on the spine panel.
first edition.
£225
[80951]
Octavo (208 × 128 mm). Contemporary calf, red morocco
spine label. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 17 similar plates with a total of 20 plans and diagrams, advert leaf
bound before the plates, 14pp. subscribers list. Armorial
bookplate of Major John Taubman, speaker of the Manx
Parliament. Extremities a little rubbed, corners worn, upper joint slightly cracked at head, small tear and repair to
upper board, mild offsetting from frontispiece, very light
toning, else very good.
second edition, the same year as the first, the
dedication dated 1 October, rather than 22 September. “From the rebellious conduct of the Americans
it appears to me that there is a great necessity of
publishing something of this kind” (Introduction).
£750
[64009]
Octavo. Original quarter black cloth, white boards printed
in black with circular designs in green and red, edges untrimmed. Boards rubbed, scuffed, and tanned, wear to corners, contents toned with dampstain to edges. Bookplates
of Simon and Judith Nowell-Smith. Endpapers spotted, a
good copy.
first edition of the second Wheels anthology. Inscribed by contributor Osbert Sitwell on the front
free endpaper, “To the Modern Munchausen from
Osbert Sitwell”. This collection also includes poetry
by Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, Arnold James,
Iris Tree, E. W. Tennant, Helen Rootham, and Aldous Huxley.
£275
[80861]
309.
SKELTON, Sir John. Charles I. London and Paris:
Goupil & Co., 1898
Quarto (314 × 236 mm). Finely bound by Birdsall in turquoise half morocco, titles to spine, crown centre tool
with monogram below in each compartment separated by
raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, gilt edges.
Illustrated throughout with a coloured frontispiece and
41 black and white illustrations. Bookplate to front pastedown, some occasional light foxing, spine a little dulled
and boards lightly marked, an excellent copy.
first edition.
£275
[81793]
310.
SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature
and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. With a
life of the author, an introductory discourse,
notes, and supplemental dissertations. By
J. R. McCulloch, Esq. New edition, revised,
corrected, and improved. Edinburgh: Adam and
Charles Black, 1863
Octavo (220 × 136 mm). Finely bound in dark purple full
morocco, spine gilt in compartments, sides panelled in
blind with the Kings College London crest gilt stamped to
first illustrated edition, inscribed by both
illustrator and publisher: “11.18.84 – with
sincerest respect & love, Oscar G. Estees”, and “To
Jerry Weinst [sic], Donald M. Grant”. First published
in the magazine Amazing Stories (1928, vol. 3, no. 5),
and then in an unillustrated edition in 1946. Jerry
Weist was a pioneering fan, collector, and bibliographer of science fiction, who in 1974 opened one of
the first speciality comic stories in North America.
£675
[82273]
312.
STANLEY, Henry Morton. Through the Dark
Continent. or the sources of the Nile around
the great lakes of Equatorial Africa and down
the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1878
2 volumes, octavo (221 × 146 mm). Publisher’s sprinkled
sheep, double red morocco labels, low bands, gilt milled
edge-roll, marbled edges and endpapers. Portrait frontispiece in each volume and 32 plates, numerous woodengravings to the text, many full-page, 10 maps in all, 2
large folding coloured in end-pocket to each volume, one
double-page and one folding. Sunned at the spines, a little
rubbed, a little splitting on the folds of the pocketed maps
as usual, but overall a very good set.
first us edition, same as the UK, unusually in a
publisher’s full leather binding.
£650
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ing stills from the film. With a Frederick Ungar Publishing
Co., New York, distribution sticker on the rear panel of the
jacket. Light rubbing to corners. An excellent copy in the
jacket with tiny nicks to the tips.
first edition of the authorised translation of
the film (itself an adaptation of a novel by Heinrich
Mann), which was shot in Berlin during the winter of
1929, and was the first sound film shot in Germany,
as well as being the film that launched Marlene Dietrich to fame. This copy has been inscribed by the
actress on the title page, “To Joseph, Dietrich” - it is
tempting to think of this inscription as being to the
director himself, since he was still alive, and living in
America where this book was distributed, until 1969,
though the unGermanic spelling argues against it.
£650
[80952]
316.
STERNE, Laurence. The Sermons of Mr.
Yorick. [Sermons by the late Rev. Mr. Sterne.]
London: Printed for R. & J. Dodsley, [1760]; [vols.
3–4] for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1768; [vols.
5–7] for W. Strahan; T. Cadell, Successor to M. Millar;
and T. Beckett and Co., 1769
313.
STANLEY, Henry Morton. The Autobiography.
Edited by his Wife Dorothy Stanley. London:
Sampson, Low, Marston and Co. Ltd., 1909
Octavo. Original blue cloth, double gilt fillet panel to the
upper board, in blind to the lower board, title and roundel – map of Africa with Stanley’s route and his African
name Bula Matari “Breaker of Rocks” – gilt to upper
board and spine. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and
15 other similar plates, folding double-sided facsimile latter, folding coloured map at the rear. A little rubbed and
with some skilfull restoration at the head and tail of the
spine, and also to the hinges, endpapers a little browned,
text lightly toned, overall very good.
on the front free endpaper, “Jenny R. Mathews
from her affectionate friend Dorothy Stanley, May
23rd 1914”, and with the bookplate of George Brewster and Jenny Modisette Mathews to the front
pastedown. Brewster was a partner in a successful
mill in Buffalo, NY; Jenny, his wife, was the daughter of a prominent local clergyman. The George B.
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Mathews house, their Elizabethan Revival home,
which features on the bookplate, still stands.
£725
[80535]
314.
STEIN, Gertrude. Matisse, Picasso, and
Gertrude Stein. With two shorter stories. Paris:
Plain Edition, [1933]
Octavo. Original tan wrappers printed in black. Housed
in the publisher’s tan slipcase. Spine very slightly toned.
A superb copy.
first edition; 500 copies printed.
£375
[82294]
315.
STERNBERG, Josef von. The Blue Angel.
An authorized translation of the German
continuity. London: Lorrimer Publishing, 1968
dust jacket. With black and white plates throughout show-
Small octavo (157 × 92 mm), 7 volumes. Contemporary full
sprinkled calf, spines gilt in compartments with pale red
morocco label, sprinkled edges. Housed in a cloth slipcase.
Engraved frontispiece portrait. Modern morocco book label to first volume, near-contemporary armorial bookplate
to the versos of the title pages in each volume. Minor rubbing to extremities, a few small marks and scratches, joints
just starting at the head to the front boards of two volumes,
offset tanning near endpapers; an excellent set. A few instances of ink marginalia.
first editions of Sterne’s sermons except for volumes 3 and 4, which are both “New Edition”.
£750
[83214]
317.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Strange Case
of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Other Fables.
New Impression. London: Longmans, Green, and
Co., 1909
Octavo (190 × 124 mm). Contemporary blue half morocco
by M. Young & Sons of Liverpool, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, blue cloth sides, top edge gilt.
Spotting to contents. An excellent copy.
A handsomely bound copy of the classic novella,
originally published in 1886, together with 20 short
stories originally published as Fables, 1896.
£275
[81198]
318.
STUART, James. Three Years in North America.
Edinburgh: Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, and
Whittaker and Co., London, 1833
2 volumes. 12mo (195 × 121mm). Finely bound in early 20thcentury red half morocco, spine in compartments with gilt
titles direct, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt,
red cloth bookmarker. Large and detailed folding map of
North America showing the author’s route. Spines darkened, one or two minor nicks, faint spotting to early and
late leaves. Excellent condition.
second edition, revised, published the same year
as the first edition.
£275
[80689]
319.
SYNGE, John M. Poems and Translations.
Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1909
Octavo. Original holland boards. Mild tanning to spine,
very slight fading along board edges; a lovely copy in excellent condition.
first edition, one of 250 copies, containing
Synge’s own poems and his translations of Petrarch,
with a handsome eulogy to the late author by W. B.
Yeats as introduction: Yeats’s essay is dated 4 April
1909, Synge had died on 24 March.
Wade 243.
£750
[83982]
320.
SYNGE, John M. Deirdre of the Sorrows. A
Play. Churchtown: Cuala Press, 1910
Octavo. Original holland boards. Uncut. Covers tanned
and marked with corners rubbed and a little loss to cloth at
the head, title label defective, leaves also somewhat tanned
with a few marks; still a good copy.
first edition, one of 250 copies. The play was left
unfinished at Synge’s death in 1909. With a preface
by W. B. Yeats, who helped finish it and had it performed at the Abbey Theatre.
Wade 245.
£225
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321.
(SYNGE, John M.) MASEFIELD, John. John
M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections, With
Biographical Notes. Churchtown, Dundrum: The
Cuala Press, 1915
Octavo. Original white linen-backed boards, grey paper
sides, black titles to front board, grey endpapers. Armorial “McInerney” bookplate. Corners nicked, faint stain
to cloth spine, faint toning to endpapers, marginal tear to
p.21-2; an excellent copy.
first edition, one of 350 numbered copies. This
copy is from the Garvan Collection on Ireland, with
the bookplate and shelfmark annotation to title verso in pencil.
£225
[83957]
322.
TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Works. London:
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1892–7
compartments separated by raised bands, elaborate roll to
boards and turn-ins, white water-marked endpapers, gilt
edges. Black and white frontispiece to each volume. Some
occasional light foxing, spines faded, an excellent set.
£450
[82549]
323.
THEARLE, Samuel J. P. The Modern Practice
of Shipbuilding in Iron and Steel. London and
Glasgow: Collin’s Clear-Type Press, 1910
2 volumes, octavo (215 × 134 mm) text volume with quarto
(261 × 208 mm) atlas of plates, both in original blue cloth
on bevelled boards, title gilt to the spines and also within
black panels to the upper boards together with a gilt block
of a ship frame on the stocks. 57 plates, 15 of them doublepage. A little shelf-wear at spine-ends and corner-tips, 4
pages of the prefatory material bound out of order, endpapers little browned, but in exceptional condition.
fourth and final edition.
£325
[80342]
7 volumes, small octavo (170 × 114 mm). Contemporary
blue morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spines in
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324.
ners, ends, joints and raised bands superficially rubbed,
spine a trifle sunned; excellent condition.
(TOLKIEN, J. R. R.) HALL, John R. Clark
(trans.) Beowulf and The Finnesburg Fragment.
A Translation into Modern English Prose. New
Edition, Completely Revised, with Notes and
an Introduction by C. L. Wrenn. With Prefatory
Remarks by J. R. R. Tolkien. London: George Allen
& Unwin Ltd, 1940
first edition, copiously extra illustrated throughout. Bookplate of American textiles-printing businessman Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden (1842–
1912), founder of the American Printing Company,
nicknamed “the Calico King”.
£500
332.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With
the dust jacket. ownership signature to front free endpaper. Spine rolled, light partial tanning to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with
tanned spine panel and a few nicks.
WALSH, J. M. Death at His Elbow. London:
Collins, 1941
Octavo. Original plum cloth, titles to spine in silver. With
the dust jacket. Publisher’s over-price sticker to front flap
of jacket. Ownership inscription partially removed from
front free endpaper. Binding a little rubbed, bumped, and
faded along the edges. A very good copy in the rubbed and
chipped jacket, with fraying at the ends of the spine panel
affecting the titles.
first tolkien edition, originally published
without Tolkien’s commentary in 1911.
£375
[82811]
325.
first edition.
TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Adventures of Tom
Bombadil and other verses from the Red Book.
With Illustrations by Pauline Baynes. London:
George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1962
Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Pauline Baynes. Mild rubbing to
corners, a few very faint spots to endpapers; a lovely copy
in excellent condtiion, in the lightly rubbed jacket with
small closed tears and chips along top edge.
first edition.
£300
[83332]
326.
TOLKIEN, J. R. R. [The Lord of the Rings.]
The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers;
The Return of the King. London: George Allen &
Unwin Ltd, 1966
£450
WAUGH, Evelyn. Vile Bodies. London: Chapman
and Hall, 1930
327.
329.
330.
331.
TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace. Translated by
Louise and Aylmer Maude with a foreword by
Clifton Fadiman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958
(TROTSKY, Leon.) DEUTSCHER, Isaac.
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879–1921; The
Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921–1929; The
Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929–1940. London:
Oxford University Press, 1954–63
USTINOV, Peter. We Were Only Human.
London: Heinemann, 1961
(VAN DYCK, Sir Anthony.) CARPENTER,
William Hookham (ed.) Pictorial Notices:
consisting of a Memoir … With a descriptive
catalogue of the etching executed by him: and
a variety of interesting particulars relating to
other artists patronised by Charles I. Collected
from original documents in her majesty’s state
paper office, the office of public records, and
other sources. London: James Carpenter, 1844
Octavo (205 × 136 mm). Finely bound by Maurin in dark red
half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, triple raised
bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge
gilt. Double colour illustrated title page. Gift inscription to
binder’s front blank, spine a little darkened, an excellent copy.
The Innersanctum edition, first published in 1942.
£375
[85066]
328.
second edition. Tolkien corrected and revised a
number of errors and inconsistencies for the second
edition, attempting to provide information on a few
points that readers had raised.
Octavo. Original cream boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Browning to spine otherwise near fine in
fine dust jacket.
96
[83109]
[80475]
333.
3 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt,
top edges red. With the dust jackets. Folding map in red
and black tipped-in at rear of each volume. An excellent set
in the jackets that are lightly rubbed at the extremities with
occasional small marks and some dulling of the lower panels but overall bright and fresh.
£750
[84639]
TOOLE, John Kennedy. A Confederacy of
Dunces. Foreword by Walker Percy. London:
Allen Lane, 1981
first uk edition.
£500
[80906]
Together 3 works, octavo. Original black cloth, titles to
spines gilt. With the dust jackets. Work 1: folding map;
work 2: frontispiece and 6 photographic plates; work 3: 6
photographic plates. A superb set in excellent condition,
with only mild rubbing and tanning to the jackets (of
which work 2’s is price-clipped).
by the biographer to his publisher Geoffrey Cumberledge on the front free endpaper of work 1, “To
my good publisher, with kindest regards, Isaac
Deutscher, February 1954”.
£750
[80047]
Octavo. Original pictorial laminate boards. Boards a little
toned, two small nicks to spine, bump to lower board. An
excellent copy.
the author on the front free endpaper, “Für Oberuntergruppenführer – SS – Wehrkreis BeverlyBage
Landroost von und zu Roth, Sieg Heil!!!!!”, below
which he has made an elaborate, cartoonish drawing of a Nazi officer carrying three cameras labelled
Leica, Zeiss, and Goetz. We Were Only Human was Ustinov’s attempt to deal with the Nazi horror through
black humour, and comprises 23 caricatures of Nazi
officers, politicians, war profiteers, diplomats, religious leaders, and others in prison uniforms.
£375
[83913]
Octavo. Original black and red snakeskin patterned
cloth, titles to spine gilt. Armorial bookplat. A superb
copy with gentle rolling to the spine and faint spotting
to front endpapers.
first edition.
£750
[80089]
Quarto. Beautifully bound c.1900 by Lortic & Fils in full
morocco, spine in compartments with gilt titles direct and
gilt tooling in both foliate and geometric designs, sides
bordered with a quadruple gilt rule, and panelled with a
triple rule and foliate cornerpieces gilt, red morocco pastedowns with elaborately gilt dentelles, patterned silk free
endpapers, additional marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 2
portraits (including frontispiece) and a facsimile letter; copiously extra illustrated throughout with over 120 plates of
different kinds, mounted in various ways, and derived from
numerous different publications ranging from France to
Scotland, and spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. Cor-
97
337.
WHITE, Patrick. The Twyborn Affair. New York:
The Viking Press, 1980
Octavo. Original cream boards with black cloth spine, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped, dust
jacket a little dusty with one small closed tear to head of
front panel.
first edition, presentation copy. Inscribed
by the author, “For Angus McBean, almost my first
photographer who wanted to take me climbing a
ladder, Patrick White, Spring 1980.”
£675
[82753]
338.
WILDE, Oscar. The Works. Edited, with
a introduction by G. F. Maine. London and
Glasgow: Collins, 1957
Octavo (205 × 132 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski and
Sutcliffe for Bernard Quaritch Ltd. in red half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth
boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Black and white
frontispiece. Minor soiling to fore-edge, an excellent copy.
£425
339.
334.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Men At Arms; Officers and
Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender. London:
Chapman and Hall, 1952–55–61
3 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spines gilt,
top edges blue. With the dust jackets. Tiny nicks to corners, trivial mark to the spine of volume 3, an excellent set
in the bright and only mildly spine-faded jackets with two
or three small closed tears at the front joints, and a few very
minor marks.
first editions; an attractive set of the Sword of
Honour trilogy. With the bookplates of Frederick
Baldwin Adams Jr, book collector and director of the
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
£750
[82040]
335.
WHARTON, James B. Squad. London: John Lane,
The Bodley Head, 1929
Octavo. Original light tan cloth, titles to spine and upper
board in blue. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled and toned,
98
[83813]
a little spotting and toning to endpapers, lower edges
dulled. A very good copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket
with a minor crease to the upper panel, some faint spotting
to the spine panel, and a short closed tear repaired with
tape to the verso.
first uk edition; originally published in the US
the previous year. This novel of the First World War
follows the adventures of a squad of eight Americans, and was based on the author’s own experience
with the 111th Infantry.
£375
[83538]
336.
WHITE, Patrick. Voss. A Novel. London: Eyre &
Spottiswoode, 1957
the dust jacket designed by Sydney Nolan Spine bumped,
light brown strip to endpapers, the lightest of toning to
spine of dust jacket. An excellent copy.
first edition, signed on the title page by White.
The Nobel prize-winning Australian author’s fifth
and perhaps finest novel.
£450
[82757]
WOLFF, Paul. Arbeit! Introduction by Paul G.
Ehrhardt. Berlin: Volk und Reich Verlag, 1937
Quarto. Original japon parchment boards, rules and titles embossed and in black on front cover and spine. With
the dust jacket. With over 200 photographic illustrations
mostly full-page. Joints partially split, dust jacket nicked to
edges, spine faded. Extremely scarce thus.
first edition. Wolff ’s highly influential celebration of German industrialism, with 200 photogravure plates in the manner of Renger-Patzch’s Eisen
und Stahl (1931).
£475
[84214]
340.
WORDSWORTH,
Christopher.
Greece,
Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. A New
Edition, carefully revised. With numerous
engravings illustrative of the scenery,
architecture, costume, and fine arts of that
country. And a History of the Characteristics
of Greek Art, by George Scharf. London: John
Murray, 1859
Quarto (242 × 161 mm). Handsome Harrow prize binding
of contemporary brown full calf, spine gilt in compartments, sides bordered with double rule and fleurons gilt, a
blind roll, and with school crest gilt to front board, gilt roll
to board edges, marbled endpapers and edges. Numerous
engraved illustrations on plates and in the text throughout.
A few scratches and marks to covers, spine darkened, extremities lightly rubbed, very faint spotting to a few early
leaves but otherwise internally fresh. A very good copy.
£350
[80680]
341.
YEATS, W. B. October Blast: Poems. Dublin: The
Cuala Press, 1927
Octavo. Original holland boards. McInerney armorial
bookplate. Spine label tanned and slightly chipped, very
slight discolouration around board edges, mild toning to
endpapers; still an excellent copy.
first edition; one of 350 copies printed,
containing the first publication of some of Yeats’s
very best poems, including “Sailing to Byzantium”,
“The Tower”, and “Among School Children”,
preceding by a year the better known collection The
Tower, which contains many of the same poems.
£750
[84000]
342.
YEATS, W. B. The Death of Synge, and other
passages from an old diary. Dublin: The Cuala
Press, 1928
Octavo. Original tan linen-backed boards, grey-green paper sides, white paper title label to spine, titles black to
front board, grey-green endpapers. With an unprinted paper jacket. Uncut. A superb copy.
first edition; 400 copies printed.
£375
[84001]
343.
YEATS, W. B. A Packet for Ezra Pound. Dublin:
The Cuala Press, 1929
Octavo. Original holland boards, write paper title label to
spine, titles to upper board in black, blue endpapers. Vignette engraved title page. Slight partial tanning to corners, ends and endpapers, single hinge breached within;
an excellent copy.
first edition; one of 425 copies. Yeats lived with
Pound more than once: first in the Ashdown Forest, where Pound’s ostensibly secretarial status produced the drastic renovation of Yeats’s poetic style
in his 1914 collection Responsibilities, and in Rapallo
during the late 1920s, the period of association with
which Yeats’s Packet is concerned. With a newspaper-clipping portrait of Yeats (with an extremely
stern expression) laid in.
£675
[84605]
344.
Octavo (215 × 131 mm). Modern maroon half morocco on
marbled boards, title gilt direct to the spine, raised bands,
lozenge devices to the compartments. Title page in red and
black, bound with the half-title. Half-title with some tanburn from the previous binding, title page a little soiled,
light toning to the text-block, else very good.
first edition of Hobson-Jobson, which provides a
comprehensive insight into the everyday language
of British officers in colonial India, especially the
incorporation of Hindustani, Bengali, and other Indian terms into English usage.
£750
[84608]
YULE, Henry, & Arthur Coke Burnell.
Hobson-Jobson: being a Glossary of AngloIndian Colloquial Words and Phrases, and
of Kindred Terms; Etymological, Historical,
Geographical, and Discursive. London: John
Murray, 1886
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