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Peter Harrington
london
We are exhibiting at these fairs:
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lettering on this page from Don Friedman Presents Lady Sings the Blues, item 111.
Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra
Peter Harrington
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Catal o gue 113
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ACKROYD, Peter. Hawksmoor. London: Hamish
Hamilton, 1985
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Gift inscriptions to front free endpaper and
half-title. Contents lightly toned; an excellent copy in the
bright jacket.
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first edition, the dedication copy, inscribed
by the author on the title page to his literary agent
and the dedicatee of this novel, Giles Gordon: “For
Giles, with love from Pete. London: 20 September,
1985. ‘It is nothing, said he, it is a Trifle.’” The quotation is from p. 87 of the novel. Laid-in are Ackroyd
and Gordon’s invitations to the lunch for the 1985
Guardian Fiction Prize award, of which Hawksmoor
was the winner, together with an autograph letter
from Ackroyd to Gordon: “My dear Giles, Great dinner. Ivy again next time? No need to send me a draft.
As Milton would have it said, Festina Lente! Love,
Pete.” With the later ownership inscription of the literary agent Deborah Sinclair-Stevenson on the front
free endpaper.
£1,500
[100348]
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ADAMS,
Richard.
Watership
Down.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books/Kestrel Books, 1976
Large octavo. Original cream boards with brown cloth
spine, titles to spine in gilt and black. With the dust jacket
and slipcase. Illustrated by John Lawrence. A fine copy.
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first illustrated edition of this extremely
popular animal story. Together with three original
preliminary sketches by John Lawrence: one ink
and watercolour sketch of three rabbits in a lettuce
patch, similar to the more detailed illustration on
p. 134, as well as one pencil and ink sketch and one
ink and watercolour sketch reminiscent of the illustrations of Hazel on pp. 136 and 190. Initially turned
down by all major publishing houses, Watership Down
was finally issued by Rex Collings in 1972; sales were
over 100,000 in the first year and Adams was awarded
both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for
children’s fiction
£2,500
[102023]
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ADLEY, Charles Coles. The Story of the
Telegraph in India. London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1866
Octavo. Original maroon sand-grained cloth, title gilt to
spine and to the front board, triple fillet panel in blind to
the boards, brown surface-paper endpapers. Folding map.
Spine a little sunned, overall slightly rubbed, ?inscription
clipped from the head of the title page, first gathering a little spring, light toning, occasional foxing, a very good copy.
first edition. Uncommon, just four locations on
Copac, to which OCLC adds MIT. Adley dedicates the
book to Robert Wygram Crawford, chairman of the
Commons committee on East India Telegraphic and
Postal communications, and also of the East India
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Railway Company, as another who has “ceaselessly
advocated … measures indispensable to remedy the
unhappily benighted condition of Telegraphic science and accommodation in India” (Preface). Adley
had spent several years in the employ of the EIRC,
as an assistant engineer on the Burdwan division in
West Bengal, and for a year as resident engineer on
the construction of the Raniganj division, he was
later appointed Superintendent of the Telegraph
Department of the line. In 1858 he had founded the
Engineers’ Journal and Railway and Public Works
Chronicle of India and the Colonies, published in
Calcutta, which he also edited. After a brief retirement in England, he returned to India in 1868 joining the Public Works Department of the Government
of India. His first duty was the design of the Small
Arms Factory at Dum-Dum, Bengal, for which he was
highly commended by the Government. He was subsequently engaged in designing drainage and irrigation systems for the improvement of the famine and
fever-stricken districts near the Hooghly.
£1,250
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Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to front board in red.
Spine slightly faded, boards foxed, light foxing to contents;
a very good copy.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed on
the front free endpaper: “To Kingsley Amis, with best
wishes, from Thom Gunn.” Amis and Gunn were fellow Movement poets, both of whom had poetry published by the Fantasy Press. This is the first issue, with
the dropped letter “t” in “thought” on page 38, line 1.
£1,500
[100423]
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(AMIS, Kingsley.) GUNN, Thom. Fighting
Terms. Poems. Oxford: Fantasy Press, 1954
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(ARABIAN PENINSULA.) Arabia in Pictures—a
Portfolio of 8 Photographs. Series 1. Washington,
DC: Shoreham House, publishers for Arabian American
Oil Company, 1955
Folio. 8 high quality collotype plates loose in printed card portfolio as issued. With the original mailing card case. Corners of
the portfolio slightly creased, lower panel browned, mailing
case a touch rubbed and creased, but overall very good.
first edition, all published, rare. A superbly printed selection of images contrasting Arabia old and
new: fractionating columns at Abqaiq and a donkeypowered irrigation well; Badanah pumping station
and a family dwelling at Jiddah; the newly developed
port of Dammam and an oasis in Al Kharj; “Bedouin
Tranquility” at Jabrin; and an Aramco rig at Abqaiq.
The date is taken from the postal franking. OCLC locates only one copy at the University of Delaware.
£1,250
[100004]
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ARIOSTO, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso.
Nuovamente adornato di Figure di Rame da
Girolamo Porro … et di altre cose che saranno
notate nella seguente facciata. Venice: Francesco de
Franceschi, 1584
Quarto in eights (263 × 178 mm). Late 18th-century English
diced russia, decorative gilt spine, green morocco label,
three-line gilt border on sides, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins,
marbled endpapers. Engraved architectural title page, 2 engraved divisional titles, 51 plates. From the library of William Cavendish, seventh Duke of Devonshire (1808–1891)
with his Chatsworth bookplate; Neatham Mill Library embossed stamp on a rear blank. Front hinge split but sound,
small chip at head of spine. A truly handsome copy.
first edition with these superb illustrations
by girolamo porro and one of the most attractive
editions of Ariosto’s masterpiece. The earliest version
of the poem appeared in 1516, although it was not published in its complete form until 1532. “Ariosto’s Orlando
Furioso had become wildly successful by the time the author died in 1533. Print records document that the poem
was a best seller in the cinquecento, its popularity lasting
well into the next century … By 1600 well over 100 editions had been published. Often produced to look like
classical texts with commentaries and other accompa4
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nying paratexts (for example, the life of the poet, lists
of classical allusions, historical notes), these editions
helped the poem become an important touchstone in
debates over narrative poetry, with readers sometimes
arguing that Orlando Furioso was equal or even superior
to classical narrative poems. This process of the poem’s
canonisation as an authoritative text would eventually
earn it the status of a new kind of classical work, a vernacular classic that helped to grant the Italian language
a degree of linguistic nobility … [In addition] the Orlando Furioso was a source of inspiration for European illustrators and painters [and] the editions of Gabriel Giolito
(Venice, 1542) and Francesco dei Franceschi (Venice,
1584) are especially handsome” (Dennis Looney, Italian
Literary Studies I, 2007, p. 92).
Brunet p. 436; Graesse p. 199.
£5,750
[99913]
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AUSTEN, Jane. Pride & Prejudice. With a Preface
by George Saintsbury and Illustrations by Hugh
Thomson. London: George Allen, 1894
Octavo (175 × 115 mm). Bound by Bayntun in mid-20th
century green polished calf, with titles to spine gilt on red
and green morocco labels, gilt compartments to spine with
raised bands, marbled endpapers, edges and turn-ins gilt.
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Frontispiece with tissue guard and illustrations by Hugh
Thomson. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine
slightly faded, internally fine; an excellent copy.
first thomson edition. Thomson’s “light touch
and feeling for period manners provide a charming
and accessible gloss to the author’s work” (ODNB).
Gilson E78.
£1,500
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. The text based on
early collation of the early editions by R. W.
Chapman. With notes indexes and illustrations
from contemporary sources. Oxford: The
Clarendon Press, 1923
5 volumes, octavo (221 × 142 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski
and Sutcliffe in bright blue half morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, blue cloth boards, marbled
endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With colour frontispieces and further black and white illustrations
throughout. Bookplate to front pastedowns, an excellent set.
first clarendon press edition. One of a limited
edition of 1,000 sets on large paper with the letters in
two volumes.
£3,750
[101156]
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AVEDON, Richard. Portraits. Essay by Harold
Rosenberg. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976
Quarto. Original white cloth, grey lettered spine. With the
dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. An excellent copy.
first edition, flamboyantly signed by the
photographer on the front free endpaper. One
of the great portrait photographer’s most popular
publications, the photobook includes portraits of de
Kooning, Herbert Marcuse, Truman Capote, Genet,
Brodovitch, Jasper Johns, Marquez, Henry Miller,
William Burroughs, a double folding plate of the inner circle at Warhol’s Factory, and many other luminaries of the 1970s.
£500
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first edition, signed “Douglas Bader, 29/2/56”
on the front free endpaper. Above Bader’s signature
is the pencilled ownership inscription of Jean Blackall, 15 March 1954, and a picturesque anecdote in her
hand: “He was one of our patients at Mr Mordaunt’s
in New Cavendish St in London. He swung a leg over
the chair while signing my book”. (We understand
that Mr Mordaunt’s was a West End dental practice.)
Pasted to the rear free endpaper is a home-made
pocket containing newspaper clippings on Bader and
the film of the book (including a cinema programme
from the Odeon Bromley). Lewis Gilbert’s film starring Kenneth More was released to enormous suc-
cess in the same year as the book, and established the
Bader legend. It is nice to find a signed first edition,
most signed copies being later impressions.
£850
[100056]
[100286]
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(BADER, Douglas.) BRICKHILL, Paul. Reach
For The Sky. The Story of Douglas Bader D.S.O.,
D.F.C. London: Collins, 1954
Octavo. Original blue boards, gilt lettered spine. With the
dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 12 other plates. Jacket
stained at head of back panel, otherwise a nice copy.
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A glamorous image taken from a session at the
Keystone Talbot studios on rue Royale featuring La
Baker posing in spectacular sparkling earrings on a
tiger skin rug, carefully “signed” by her in Cyrillic, no
doubt coached by her friend Serge Lifar. Baker and
Lifar came to prominence in Paris at about the same
time, Baker for her remarkable appearances in the
Revue nègre, Lifar for his similarly ground-breaking
performances for the Ballets Russes. They became
firm friends and Lifar was happy to credit Baker for
her influence on his choreography. Keystone Talbot
was noted for its connection with some of the leading couture houses—Drecoll, Bourniche, Paquin,
Buzenet and Lewis—and the world of theatre, dance
and film, producing dramatically staged and lit images, very much as here. An amusing jeu d’esprit, with
excellent association evoking Paris in the 1920s and
1930s, and visually highly appealing.
£2,500
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(BAKER, Josephine.) Striking publicity
photograph signed in Cyrillic, from the
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collection of Serge Lifar. Paris: Studio Keyston[e]
Talbot, [c.1930]
Large glossy dark sepia publicity photo (290 × 230 mm).
Slight creasing at the corners, but overall very good.
BEARD, James. American Cookery. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 1972
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine gilt, vignette
to front board brown and red, red endpapers. With the dust
jacket. Frontispiece and vignettes in the text printed in red
and black throughout by Earl Thollander. Top edge lightly
foxed, internally fine; an excellent copy in the bright jacket,
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with a small chip to the head of the rear panel, and a few
small chips and nicks to extremities.
first edition, inscribed by the author on the
front free endpaper: “For Frances Yarborough, successful cooking! James Beard.”
£1,250
[100833]
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BECKETT, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Pièce
en deux actes. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1952
Octavo. Original white wrappers, titles to spine and front
cover in blue and black, all edges untrimmed. Some minor
rubbing and creasing to wrappers, marginal toning to contents; an excellent copy.
first edition, trade issue; there was also a limited
edition of 35 numbered copies in wrappers.
£2,250
[101852]
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BECKETT, Samuel. Oh les beaux jours. Pièce en
deux actes. Paris: Les éditions de minuit, 1963
Small octavo. Original printed wrappers. A few small stains
to covers. An excellent copy.
first edition in french, presentation copy,
inscribed by the author on the half-title: “pour C. G.
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Bjurström, amicalement Sam. Beckett”. An appealing
association copy: C. J. Bjurström (1919–2001) was a
leading Swedish translator who introduced a number
of French authors to Sweden, including Foucault and
Céline, as well as Beckett. His piece on Beckett (published in Bonniers Litterära Magasin for January 1954)
was among the earliest appreciations of the writer to
appear in Sweden. Oh les beaux jours is Beckett’s own
translation of Happy Days (1961).
Federman & Fletcher 149.
£1,250
[100404]
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BERRYMAN, John, and others. Five Young
American Poets. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust
jacket. Spine browned and gilt dulled, extremities a little
rubbed and faded, occasional light finger mark but overall
contents bright. An excellent copy in a toned and faintly
rubbed jacket.
first edition, presentation copy inscribed by
the author to his lover, Mary Jane Christenson Heming, on the front pastedown: “To Jane, with love,
John, 25 Nov 1940”; accompanied by an unpublished
12-line manuscript poem and its envelope on which
Heming has written: “Poem written to me by John
Berryman about 1941–2?” Written on Harvard Uni-
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versity stationery, signed “John” and dated “Thursday night”, it is an amorous address to Heming in
which the repeated line “Come in the cold night” is
underlined. The first two lines read: “Write not in legal language; write not at all, but come, the snow is
settling on the trees.” Heming had been a student of
Berryman’s friend Bhain Campbell. According to Ernest Milton Halliday, an intimate friend of Berryman
from 1933 to 1943, who also had a relationship with
Heming, “she was so beautiful that it was an aesthetic
experience merely to watch her take her clothes off
or put them on, and her approach to sex was disarmingly innocent. It was her custom to bring with her
one or another of the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A.
A. Milne; these she liked to read aloud while we lay
in bed, which tended to spin around the lovemaking
an aura of sweet-natured children playing in a haystack. I asked her if she had done the same with John;
yes, she said, but he didn’t think much of Milne, and
sometimes hurt her feelings by ridiculing her enthusiasm.” The other young poets of the title are Mary
Barnard, Randall Jarrell, W. R. Moses and George
Marion O’Donnell. This book is their first commercial appearance and precedes Berryman’s and Randall Jarrell’s first separate books by two years.
Ernest Milton Halliday, John Berryman and the Thirties: A
Memoir (1987), pp. 187–98.
£4,250
[101124]
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a hypothetical computing machine. Subsequently it
was Newman who rushed through publication of Turing’s “On Computable Numbers with an Application
to the Entscheidungsproblem”, and arranged for him to
spend time at Princeton where Alonzo Church was
attacking the same problem by different, but not incompatible, methods. In 1942, Newman had decided
to offer his services to the war effort, and approached
the Naval Intelligence Division, being interviewed by
the classicist Professor Frank Adcock, whose Bletchley involvement is interestingly entirely missing from
his ODNB entry.
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BEZZERIDES, A. I. Long Haul. New York: Carrick
& Evans, Inc., [1938]
Octavo. Original pale orange cloth, titles to spine and front
board in blind on brown ground with black rules. With
the dust jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins. Spine faintly
sunned, contents lightly toned; an excellent copy in the
bright, slightly rubbed jacket with minor loss to spine ends,
shallow chips to head of rear panel and short closed tear to
foot of rear panel.
title page: “For Martha Young, my new friend who
likes an old book. A. I. Bezzerides.” Long Haul was the
basis for the 1940 film, They Drive by Night, starring
George Raft and Humphrey Bogart.
£1,500
[100253]
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BIERMANN, Aenne, & Jan Tschichold. 60
Fotos/60 Photos/60 Photographies. Berlin:
Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, titles to spine black
and to front cover black and blue. With the red wraparound
band. Spine ends a little worn, wrappers a little rubbed, internally fine; an excellent copy.
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first edition of Biermann’s first and only book,
which includes Franz Roh’s important essay “The
literary dispute about photography”. Designed by Jan
Tschichold and edited by Franz Roh, the book has
text in English, French, and German.
£2,250
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(BLETCHLEY PARK.) NEWMAN, Max. Two
letters bracketing Newman’s career at Bletchley.
1942 & 1946
2 octavo one-page, typed letters, signed. Window-mounted,
framed and glazed. A little browned, signature on the second slightly faded, but overall very good.
A highly evocative pair of letters to Max Newman, the
first relating to his recruitment to the Government
Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, the second
to the conclusion of his wartime work there. Maxwell
Herman Alexander “Max” Newman (1897–1984) was
one of the most significant British mathematicians of
his generation and a leading pioneer in modern computer science. At the outbreak of the war, Newman
was lecturing in mathematics at Cambridge, where
his 1935 lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics and Gödel’s Theorem had inspired Alan Turing to
work on solving Hilbert’s Entscheidungsproblem using
The first letter, dated 15 July 1942, is from Alan Bradshaw, at the time Assistant Director (Administration), later Deputy Director, at Bletchley and one of
the unsung heroes of the operation, and is on the
headed notepaper of the establishment, which, perhaps consonant with the perceived ethos of the place,
has the address “Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Bucks.”
simply typed at the head. Bradshaw explains that
he has heard from Professor Adcock that Newman
“would like to be considered for a vacancy in this organisation”, and would like to know if he would be
“willing to accept an appointment as a Temporary
Senior Assistant at a commencing salary of £600, out
of which you would have to pay for your billeting and
meals taken at our Headquarters”. He then goes on
to address Newman’s two major concerns about the
possibilities of working at Bletchley. Newman’s father
was a German Jew who emigrated to Britain with his
family in 1912, and Newman was concerned that this
would bar him from top secret work, but Bradshaw
assures him that “in your case this will not prove any
bar to your employment here”. He was also worried
that the work he undertook would be sufficiently
stimulating, and of genuine utility, and Bradshaw is
laconically to the point: “The work you would be doing would be of great importance in the war effort”.
And so it was to prove.
Once at Bletchley, Newman realised that some of the
methods used by the Bletchley codebreakers would
be better performed with mechanised assistance; he
and Alan Turing proposed the logical requirements
for such machinery. These requirements formed
the basis of practical machines, culminating with
the Colossus, the world’s first large-scale electronic
computer, and the section at Bletchley that used the
machinery was headed by Newman and came to be
known as the Newmanry. Contrary to popular belief,
Colossus was not responsible for breaking Enigma—
that honour fell to Turing and Welchman’s Bombe.
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Rather Newman’s machine broke “Tunny”, the coding associated with the Lorenz SZ-40/42, an electromechanical wheel-based cipher machine for teleprinter signals which was used for messages at the
very highest command levels. At the end of the war,
Newman was appointed Fielden Professor of Pure
Mathematics at the University of Manchester, a position that he held until his retirement in 1964. In 1946
he established the Royal Society Computing Machine
Laboratory, which in 1948 developed the first storedprogram digital computer, the Manchester Baby.
The second letter, 27 December 1946, is on Downing
Street stationery, over the signature of Leslie Rowan,
Churchill’s principal private secretary, and acknowledges “the receipt of your cable”, and communicates
the Prime Minister’s disappointment “that he will not
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be able to include your name in the list of recommendations which he will submit to The King”. Newman
declined an OBE, an award that had already been conferred on his pupil Turing, on the grounds that it was
derisory in view of their contribution to the outcome
of the conflict.
£2,500
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jacket. 120 photogravures. Front hinge cracked and with discreet glue repair, rear hinge starting; a very good copy with
bright plates in the jacket with toned spine, and some nicks
and shallow chips to extremities.
first us edition of the second of Blossfeldt’s seminal trilogy. It was originally published earlier the
same year in Berlin under the title Wundergarten der Natur; neue Bilddokumente schöner Pflanzenformen. The artist
was by training a botanist; his use of extreme closeup technique began as part of his study. However he
swiftly developed a fully fledged abstracted aesthetic
which found a ready audience around the world.
Many subsequent photographers cite his books as a
key influence on their work.
£2,750
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BOLAN, Marc. The Warlock of Love. London:
Lupus Music, 1969
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BLOSSFELDT, Karl. Art Forms In Nature:
Second Series. Examples from the Plant World
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Photographed Direct from Nature. New York: E.
Weyhe, 1932
Folio. Original blue-green cloth, device and titles to front
board gilt, titles to spine gilt. With the photographic dust
Octavo. Original photographic boards. With the dust jacket.
Lower corner of front cover bumped, a little creasing and a
few nicks to extremities of jacket, touch of foxing to front
free endpaper. An excellent copy.
first edition, signed by the author on the
front free endpaper. The Warlock of Love is the glam
rock star’s only lifetime book of poetry.
£2,500
[100732]
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(BOYDELL, John & Josiah.) COMBE, William.
An History of the River Thames. London: Printed
by W. Bulmer & Co. for John and Josiah Boydell, 1794–6
2 volumes, folio (416 × 314 mm). Twentieth-century green
half morocco, raised bands, titles and panelling to compartments gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, 2 double-page engraved folding maps,
76 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 3 of which are folding,
by J. C. Stadler after J. Farington. Later state watermarked
1799 and lacking the series titles and the dedication to the
King. Spines lightly sunned, mild spotting to prelims and
endmatter, minor offsetting from turn-ins and plates, occasional spotting to text blocks. An excellent set.
first edition, from the library of John Roland Abbey (1894–1969), the English book collector whose
“colour-plate collection showed genuine originality and his catalogues represented real advances of
knowledge” (ODNB). A handsome work, An History of
the River Thames represents but a completed fragment
of a much grander conception: “The artists, engravers, and art dealers John Boydell and his nephew Josiah, proprietors of the Shakspeare Gallery in Pall Mall,
hired William Combe to write the text to accompany
the illustrations engraved from the drawings by Joseph Farington, the artist and diarist, for a projected
multi-volume The Picturesque Views and Scenery of the
Thames and the Severn, the Forth and the Clyde, from their
Sources to the Sea, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints. The work progressed more slowly than the
publishers had promised, with the first two (and ultimately only) volumes of the work, now renamed An
History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain, appearing in
1794 and 1796” (ODNB).
Abbey, Scenery, 432; Ray 36; Tooley 102.
£8,500
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BRANDEL, Konrad. Souvenir de Varsovie.
Warsaw: Fot. Brandel, [1880s?]
Oblong quarto (329 × 250 mm). Original dark red pebblegrained cloth, titles and panelling to front board in gilt
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and blind, panelling to rear board in blind. 26 albumen
photographs of various sizes (most approximately 105 × 145
mm), each individually mounted on cream card within light
brown decorative borders, photographs captioned in Polish
and French. Portfolio worn and soiled, cloth lightly cockled,
occasional light foxing to mounts, photos slightly faded. In
very good condition.
An appealing collection of photographs of late 19thcentury Warsaw. The portfolio showcases key landmarks of the city, including buildings and monuments along the Royal Route, focusing especially
on Nowy Swiat and Krakowskie Przedmiescie, as
well as several views of the Lazienki Park and the
Saxon Garden, the University of Warsaw and its Bo-
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tanical Garden, the National Theatre, the City Hall,
and Wilanów Palace. As such, the collection demonstrates some of the more outstanding baroque
and rococo architecture of the city, including the
Royal Castle and Sigismund’s Column, the Square of
Three Crosses, and the numerous churches along the
Royal Route, such as the Church of the Holy Cross,
St Anne’s Church, and the Church of St Joseph of the
Visitationists. Most likely produced in the 1880s, the
photographs document several views and buildings
that were partially or completely destroyed during the
Second World War, including the Kronenberg Palace,
the Kierbedzia Bridge (the remains of which was later
used as foundation for the Slasko-Dabrowski Bridge),
the historic Hotel Europejski, later rebuilt in stages
throughout the 1950s, and the Summer Theatre, built
in the Saxon Garden in 1870.
Konrad Brandel (1838–1920) first opened his studio at
1249 Nowy Swiat in 1865, focusing on portrait photography before expanding into topographic photography. The company received the silver medal for
photography at the Wroclaw photographic exhibition
in Moscow in 1885.
£1,850
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BRANDT, Bill. The English at Home. Introduced
by Raymond Mortimer. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1936
Quarto. Original laminated photographic boards, spine and
front board lettered red, photographic endpapers. With the
glassine jacket. 63 plates. Front joint starting, minor spotting to edges, contents a little cockled; an excellent copy in
the jacket with minor loss to head of spine and chip to head
of rear panel.
first us edition of this classic photobook, first
published in the UK earlier the same year. “Mr Brandt
shows himself not only to be an artist but an anthropologist. He seems to have wandered about England
with the detached curiosity of a man investigating the
customs of some remote and unfamiliar tribe” (Raymond Mortimer, introduction). Scarce in the jacket.
Parr & Badger I, 138.
£1,250
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BRASSAÏ, & Paul Morand. Paris de Nuit. Paris:
Edition Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933
Quarto. Spiral bound photographic wrappers, titles to front
cover in red. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander
box, titles to spine in red, with chemise. Illustrated with 64
full page gravure plates. Slight wear to several punch holes,
some minor rubbing but a superior copy of a notoriously
vulnerable book.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by
the author at the start of the introduction, “à Pierre
Cot, Voici un joli décor pour La Patrouille etc. (Chut!
Chut! Chut!) Très fidèlement P. Morand Paris, fev.
32”. Pierre Cot was a politician who was central to the
establishing of the French Air Force and later of Air
France. Morand’s mildly cryptic inscription alludes,
we believe, to the French equivalent of Britain’s Red
Arrows, a display wing of the air force. Pasted below this is a small photograph of Brassaï in later life
which probably relates to the photographer’s subsequent inscription on the following leaves where he
writes, “Pour Christian-Vincent Matarasso ce Paris de
Nuit perdu et retrouve avec toute ma sympathie Brassaï Ete Village le 7 mai 1965”. The Morand–Brassaï
collaboration remains one of the most influential of
all photobooks. Signed copies of this work are rare,
copies inscribed by both author and photographer
rarer still.
Parr & Badger I, 134; Roth, p. 76.
£6,500
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BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. The Secret
Garden. London: William Heinemann, 1911
BURROUGHS, William S. The Naked Lunch.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green
morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt with onlaid
morocco flower pieces, raised bands, single rule to boards
gilt, pictorial block to front board gilt with onlaid morocco
floral pieces, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, floral endpapers, gilt
edges. With 8 colour illustrations by Charles Robinson. The
occasional minor blemish otherwise an excellent copy in a
fine binding.
Octavo. Original wrappers printed in green and black. With
the dust jacket. A fine copy in the bright jacket with faintly
toned spine and spine ends lightly nicked.
first edition. The Secret Garden was first serialized,
starting in autumn 1910, in the American Magazine, a
publication aimed at adults. The book was first published in the summer of 1911 by Heinemann and simultaneously by Frederick A. Stokes in New York.
The American edition was illustrated by M. B. Kork,
whereas the English edition has illustrations by the
prolific illustrator Charles Robinson, whose younger brothers Thomas Heath Robinson and William
Heath Robinson also became illustrators.
£2,500
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£975
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BYRON, John. Manuscript order book. 1746–56
Small folio (320 × 200 mm). Original vellum, with title in ink
on front cover (“Order Book 30th April 1746”). Housed in a
flat back cloth box. Brown ink manuscript, 88 leaves written
on both sides in various clear secretarial hands. The covers
a bit soiled and darkened, inner hinges loose, but internally
in very good condition.
John Byron (1723–1786), known as “Foulweather Jack”
because of his persistent meteorological ill-fortunes,
had been midshipman on the store ship Wager, part of
Anson’s squadron bound for the Pacific. Shipwrecked
on the southern coast of Chile, he made his way to
Valparaíso and returned to Europe by a French ship,
arriving back in England in February 1746. This order book documents his naval career for the decade
following that early misadventure, comprising transcripts of the orders, signals, and other official communications received by Byron and sent by him in
the course of his various commands during the years
1746–56. Very little has been recorded of his activities
during this period, Charnock remarking in Biographia
navalis that “no mention is made of him during the
war”, and noting just a single “trivial altercation” during his West African voyage, and ODNB merely telegraphically recording his successive commands. The
present logbook to some extent fills this lacuna, providing some detailed, if relatively sparse, documentation for his activities during the period, which in turn
offers authentic insight into the nature of command
in the Royal Navy during the mid-18th century.
During his absence Byron had been promoted lieutenant; immediately on his return to England in 1746
he was made commander, and at year’s end he was
made captain. “After the [Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
concluded the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748]
Byron commanded the St Albans, one of the squadron
patrolling the coast of Guinea; in 1753 he commanded
the guard ship Augusta at Plymouth; and in 1755 the
Vanguard” (ODNB). The orders for the St Albans include
several mentions of actions at Cape Coast Castle
which was then the capital of the British possessions
on the Gold Coast and was later badly damaged by
the French in the Seven Years War. The final order in
the book is dated 27 January 1756. “In 1764 Byron was
sent out on a voyage of discovery, during the course
of which he circumnavigated the globe [and was able
to] claim the Falkland Islands for Britain and set a record of twenty-two months for a circumnavigation”
(Howgego B200). Eighteenth-century captain’s order
books like this one are exceedingly rare, especially
ones maintained by famous circumnavigators like
Byron, for whom Captain Cook named Cape Byron.
The poet Byron was his grandson.
Outside of a few letters, very little manuscript material from Byron seems to have appeared on the market;
and institutionally we have been able to trace only a
similar order book relating to his command of Dolphin, 1764–6, held by the National Maritime Museum.
£10,000
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BYRON, Robert, & David Talbot Rice. The
Birth of Western Painting. A History of Colour,
Form, and Iconography, illustrated from the
Paintings of Mistra and Mount Athos, of Giotto
and Duccio, and of El Greco. With 94 Plates.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1930
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Frank E. Horn. Tips slightly bumped and extremities a little
rubbed. An excellent copy.
first edition. During the First World War, the
authors served in the 79th Division, a unit of the US
Army created in 1917, which earned the nickname
“Cross of Lorraine”. For several months in 1919 the
Quarto. Original white cloth-backed red cloth, titles to spine
gilt, roundel to front board in blind, top edge red, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece
and 93 plates. Some minor soiling to foot of spine, sporadic
light foxing to contents. An excellent copy in a rubbed jacket
with small ballpoint pen mark to spine panel, a few nicks
and tiny closed tears.
[99729]
CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New
York: Random House, 1958
Octavo (205 × 137 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in pink morocco, black morocco title label, title to spine
silver, black leather onlay silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as
Holly Golightly with real diamond jewellery, black plain
endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins silver, all edges silver. A
fine copy.
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CAIN, James M., & Gilbert Malcolm. 79th
Division Headquarters Troop: A Record. [N.p.]
Privately printed, [1919]
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Tall quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to front board gilt,
edges uncut. Frontispiece with vignettes in the text by
authors co-edited a troop newspaper called the Lorraine Cross. Laid-in is a typed letter signed from Cain
to a fellow American who had served in the Red Cross
in France in 1919, the letter dated 18 April 1976. Cain
mentions the Lorraine Cross and the 79th Division, and
he concludes: “I don’t drive a car any more, it being
unanimously agreed I could not only break my own
neck but perhaps 25 others, on account of a tricky
heart, but if you do, we can go to lunch and reminisce.” Cain died on 27 October 1977. This book precedes what is generally regarded as Cain’s first book,
Our Government, by 11 years. Scarce.
£3,000
first edition. Number 359 from a limited edition
of 650 copies only.
£1,000
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first edition of Capote’s classic novella, the basis
for the much-loved film.
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£2,750
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(CARR, John Dickson.) DICKSON, Carter.
The Department of Queer Complaints. London:
William Morrow, 1940
Original red cloth boards, titles and design to spine in black.
With the dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the dust jacket
with just a hint of creasing at ends of spine.
first us edition. The author’s first book of short
stories, seven of them featuring Colonel March of
Scotland Yard. A Queen’s Quorum title.
£3,750
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CARTER, Howard, & A. C. Mace. The Tomb
of Tutankhamen. Discovered by the late Earl of
Carnarvon and Howard Carter. London: Cassell
and Company, Ltd, 1923–27–33
3 volumes, large octavo. Original dark yellow cloth, titles
gilt to spines and front boards, front boards decorated with
gilt scarab on black panel, green and white patterned endpapers. 414 illustrations. Ownership inscription to front
free endpaper of Vol. II. Vol. I front hinge cracked but holding; Vol. II front hinge starting, spine cracked but holding;
Vol. III front hinge starting, rear hinge cracked but holding.
Spines gently rolled, contents lightly foxed; a very good set.
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first edition of Carter’s own account of the most
spectacular archaeological discovery of the 20th
century. “In the summer of 1922 Carter persuaded
Carnarvon to allow him to conduct one more campaign in the valley. Starting work earlier than usual
Howard Carter opened up the stairway to the tomb
of Tutankhamun on 4 November 1922. Carnarvon
hurried to Luxor and the tomb was entered on 26
November. The discovery astounded the world: a
royal tomb, mostly undisturbed, full of spectacular
objects. Carter recruited a team of expert assistants
to help him in the clearance of the tomb, and the conservation and recording of its remarkable contents.
On 16 February 1923 the blocking to the burial chamber was removed, to reveal the unplundered body and
funerary equipment of the dead king. Unhappily, the
death of Lord Carnarvon on 5 April seriously affected
the subsequent progress of Carter’s work. In spite of
considerable and repeated bureaucratic interference,
not easily managed by the short-tempered excavator,
work on the clearance of the tomb proceeded slowly,
but was not completed until 1932. Carter handled the
technical processes of clearance, conservation, and
recording with exemplary skill and care. A popular
account of the work was published in three volumes,
The Tomb of Tutankhamen (1923–33), the first of which
was substantially written by his principal assistant,
Arthur C. Mace” (ODNB).
£2,950
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CHARLTON, Mary. Rosella, or Modern
Occurrences. A Novel. London: Printed at the
Minerva Press, 1799
4 volumes, duodecimo (170 × 100 mm). Contemporary quarter tree calf, marbled sides, vellum tips, spines gilt in compartments, red and black morocco labels. Half-title and engraved frontispiece to Volume I. Extremities lightly rubbed,
minor wear to corners, occasional light spotting to text
block, a few leaves with small chips to margins, a few closed
tears; Volume I with mild offsetting from frontispiece, p. 153
with a 5 cm closed tear. A very good set.
first edition of this satire on novel-reading by the
author and translator Mary Charlton (1794–1824).
Charlton wrote several popular novels for William
Lane’s Minerva Press and she “has much in common
with her fellow Minerva best-sellers. All of Lane’s top
authors worked in the Gothic mode, providing their
readers with tales of domestic persecution in quasiexotic settings, but both contemporary and modern
critics have professed to find Charlton’s descriptions
superior to those of her competitors … [Rosella is] her
best work” (ODNB). OCLC lists 11 copies in libraries
worldwide. This attractive copy from the library of
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, with his armorial
bookplate to the front pastedowns.
Block p. 39; Summers p. 488.
£7,500
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(CHESS.) CAPABLANCA, J. R. A Primer of
Chess. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1935
Octavo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered spine. With the
dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with examples of chess
moves. Jacket with a few nicks, chips and light creasing. An
excellent copy.
first edition, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “J. R. Capablanca, Margate, April 24 1936”. This
would have been signed at the Margate chess tournament of 1936, where Capablanca placed second by
half a point (played 9, won 5, lost 4). Copies with the
dust jacket are scarce; copies that have passed though
the hands of the great Cuban grandmaster and signed
by him are distinctly rare; for that copy to have been
signed at a tournament is particularly desirable.
£3,750
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CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Mysterious Affair at
Styles. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1921
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards
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gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A
fine copy.
first edition of Agatha Christie’s first book, rare.
£5,000
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CHRISTIE, Agatha. Murder on the Links.
London: Bodley Head, 1923
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue
morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands,
single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt. A fine copy.
first edition. Christie’s third novel and her scarcest.
£5,000
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The River War. An
Historical Account of the Reconquest of the
Soudan. Edited by Col. F. Rhodes. Illustrated by
Angus McNeill, Seaforth Highlanders. London,
New York & Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899
2 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration gilt to spines and front boards, black-coated
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endpapers. Both volumes separately housed in a navy full morocco book-form folding case, within a blue quarter morocco
pull-off case with blue cloth sides and titles gilt to spine. Portrait frontispiece in each volume. 4 illustrated plates and 11
folding maps in volume 1, 2 illustrated plates and 9 folding
maps and three non-folding maps in volume 2, and numerous illustrations, maps and plans in the text. Contemporary
ownership inscription to half-titles. Very light bumping to
extremities, both volumes very slightly rubbed and vol. I rear
board gently bowed; vol. I with small crease to bottom corner
of front free endpaper and half-title with two minute wormholes and negligible foxing. An excellent copy.
first edition of Churchill’s second book, preceded
only by The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), “2000
copies published on 6 November 1899” (Woods). It
includes, of course, his account of the charge of the
21st Lancers, to whom he was attached, at Omdurman on 2 September 1898, described by the Dictionary of National Biography as “that last cavalry charge
of the dying century”. DNB also considers The River
War a “superb” history; while Churchill himself more
graphically called it “a tale of blood and war”.
Cohen A2.1.a or b: Woods A2(a).
£5,000
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(CHURCHILL, Winston S., intro.) BERMANN,
Richard A. The Mahdi of Allah. The Story
of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed. With
an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Winston S.
Churchill. London: Putnam, 1931
Octavo. Original oatmeal-coloured cloth, gilt lettered spine.
With the dust jacket. 15 plates from photographs, 2 maps.
Ownership inscription of W. T. C. Thallon (?) dated from
Khartoum, 2 October 1945, on the front pastedown. Binding shaken, a few marks to top and fore-edges, back panel
of jacket detached, some nicks and chips. With the printed
slip tipped to the Dedication page.
first english edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a preliminary blank: “To Sir
Henry Wellcome in admiration of his great Research
and Archaeological work in the Sudan, Richard A.
Berman, 15th Dec., 1933”. This is the first edition with
Churchill’s introduction; it was originally published
in German in the same year under the title Die Derwischtrommel (The Dervish Drum). The pharmacist and
benefactor Sir Henry Wellcome (1853–1936) took a
personal role in Sudanese research: “Wellcome’s formidable energies were not confined to the establishment of medical research laboratories and museums:
he encouraged and financed archaeological research
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in Africa and Palestine. At Jebel Moya, in the Sudan,
he selected a late neolithic site where extensive excavations, which he himself directed for three years
up to the outbreak of war in 1914, were carried out”
(ODNB). An excellent association copy of a book not
commonly found in the dust jacket.
Cohen B 47.1; Woods B17.
£975
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Thoughts and
Adventures; Painting as a Pastime. London:
Thornton Butterworth Limited; Odhams Press Limited
& Ernest Benn Limited, 1932 & 1948
2 works bound in 1 volume, octavo (107 × 133 mm). Bound by
Bayntun (Riviere) in near-contemporary red half morocco,
red cloth sides, titles to spine gilt, gilt compartments to
spine with raised bands, boards ruled gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard,
illustrations in text, 19 plates of paintings by Churchill.
Spine slightly faded, faint scattered foxing to contents. An
excellent copy in an attractive binding.
first editions. Painting as a Pastime was first published as a two-part essay in The Strand magazine in
1921 and 1922, before appearing in Thoughts and Adventures as two separate essays entitled “Hobbies” and
“Painting as a Pastime”, from which it was reprinted
in volume form in 1948.
Cohen A95.1.a, A242.1.a; Woods A39a, A125.
£750
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Step by Step 1936–
1939. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1939
Octavo (107 × 133 mm). Bound by Bayntun (Riviere) in nearcontemporary red half morocco, red cloth sides, titles to
spine gilt, gilt compartments to spine with raised bands,
boards ruled gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Folding
map of Europe at the rear. Spine lightly faded, small stain to
top corner; an excellent copy in an attractive binding.
first edition of this volume of Churchill’s weekly
commentaries arguing against appeasement, first
published in the London Evening Standard and subsequently syndicated throughout Europe. On receiving
his copy from Churchill, Clement Atlee wrote: “It
must be a melancholy satisfaction to you to see how
right you were.”
Cohen A111.1.a; Woods A45.
£600
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World
War. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1948–54
6 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, titles gilt to spines,
top edges red, grey endpapers decorated with a design that
alternates a lion rampant with the initials “W.S.C.” In the typographical dust jackets with background design as per the
endpapers. Maps and diagrams, some folding. Contemporary bookplate to front pastedown of Volume I, bookseller’s
tickets to front pastedown of Volumes II and III. Light foxing
to edges, prelims, and endmatter of Volume I, minor spotting to cloth of Volume II. An excellent set in jackets with
lightly faded spine panels, all but one volume price-clipped.
first editions, inscribed by the author on the
half-title in the first volume: “Inscribed by Winston
S. Churchill, 1950.” Churchill’s masterpiece remains
the single most important historical account of the
Second World War. Max Beloff observed that there
was no statesman of the 20th century “whose retrospective accounts of the great events in which he has
taken part have so dominated subsequent historical
thinking.” A man who had always primarily made his
living by his pen, Churchill was the only major war
leader to give an authoritative account of the conflict,
and his ringing phrases seeped into the collective
memory. As J. H. Plumb noted in his essay in A. J. P.
Taylor’s Churchill: Four Faces and the Man, “Churchill the
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historian lies at the very heart of all historiography of
the Second World War, and will always remain there
… [we still] move down the broad avenues which he
drove through war’s confusion and complexity.”
Cohen A240.4; Woods A123(b).
£7,500
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(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) CHURCHILL,
Randolph S., & Martin Gilbert. Winston S.
Churchill. London: Heinemann, 1966–94
21 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt.
All with the dust jackets. With black and white photographic
illustrations throughout. Extremities slightly rubbed, spine
ends a touch bumped, one volume with black ink stamp to
rear pastedown. Overall an excellent set in lightly scuffed
jackets, of which 5 are price-clipped, a few with mildly
nicked and creased extremities and the occasional short
closed tears.
first editions. A complete set comprising eight
volumes of the Life, plus 13 supplementary volumes,
which form a unique and extensive source of previously unpublished Churchill material.
£4,500
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[CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.] TWAIN,
Mark. A Tramp Abroad; illustrated by W.
Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and other
artists—with also three or four pictures made by
the author of this book, without outside help; in
all three hundred and twenty-eight illustrations.
Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company,
1880
Octavo. Original brown cloth, decorative gilt spine lettered
in gilt, large gilt motif on front cover, housed in a red cloth
chemise and red quarter morocco slipcase. Portrait frontispiece, “Moses” plate, plates and numerous illustrations in
the text. A stunning copy.
first edition, with a full sheet of the original holograph manuscript, approximately 105
words, tipped-in to the front pastedown. It is written in purple ink, has the addition of six words where
parts of two lines were scored out by Clemens, and
corrected page number. On the facing front free endpaper is a full-page autograph inscription signed by
the bibliographer Merle Johnson in reference to the
manuscript, and to the bibliography of the book, in
which he begins: “Opposite you see a page of the
original MSS. of this book—I’m sure of that, but I’ve
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spent hours trying to locate the exact page.” The exact pages are 397–8.
The book shows a number of bibliographical points.
The portrait frontispiece is Blanck’s state A, with the
caption reading “Moses”, with underlying lines in
the lapel at the left of the plate almost vertical, and
engraver’s imprint at lower left (“Johnson’s preferred
state”). It has the “spots” mentioned by Johnson
who says they developed during the printing of the
original plate, which was later re-engraved. State A
(no sequence established) of the sheets, which bulk
1⅜ inches, and State B (no sequence established) of
the binding stamping with border curved at inner
edges. Blanck notes “that some copies have heavily
blindstamped on the back cover, immediately below
the publisher’s device, a numeral: 0, 4, 7, 8, 88, have
been observed”, and this is one of them, stamped
with the number “8”. Blanck continues: “it is possible that each numeral identifies a specific agent (the
book was sold by subscription) and was designed to
permit detection of any agent who violated the publisher’s rule which forbade the sale of copies to retail
bookstores.”
BAL 3386; Johnson pp. 110–111.
£8,750
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[CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.] TWAIN,
Mark. A Horse’s Tale. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1907
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board
white, horse and rider vignette to front board in white,
brown and black. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Spine slightly faded, internally fine; an excellent
copy in the slightly soiled jacket, with toned spine partially
split from front panel and chip to centre of spine panel, and
nicks and minor chips to extremities.
sprinkled. Frontispiece portrait and further illustrations
throughout. Some occasional light foxing, an excellent set.
only collected edition, rare, of the collected
works of Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), novelist, playwright, friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens. A
handsomely bound set.
£8,500
[99778]
first edition. The story was originally published
in two instalments by Harper’s Magazine in 1906. The
author’s own daughter, Susy Clemens, who died in
1896 at the age of 24 from meningitis, is understood
to have been the inspiration for the main character
Cathy Alison.
£975
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COLLINS, Wilkie. The Works. New York: Peter
Fenelon, [c.1890]
30 volumes, octavo (183 × 114 mm). Recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single
rule to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others
45; 1/30 vols showing
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CONRAD, Joseph. Tales of Unrest. London: T.
Fisher Unwin, 1898
Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, top edges
gilt, preserved in a green cloth chemise and slipcase. Title
page printed in red & black. Boards a little rubbed, spine
slightly rumpled. a few leaves with portions of the fore-edge
torn away (having been carelessly opened).
first edition, edward garnett’s copy. A significant association copy that commemorates the literary and personal friendship of Conrad and his editor
at Unwin, with Garnett’s ownership inscription at the
head of the title page and with a few marginal pencil
notes, presumably in his hand. “In 1894 Garnett ac-
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cepted Joseph Conrad’s first book, Almayer’s Folly [for
Unwin], and persuaded him not to go back to sea but
to write another. Conrad, though eleven years his
senior, nevertheless deferred to Garnett’s authority;
and Garnett’s considerable influence on Conrad’s
work, which is revealed in Letters from Conrad (1928),
is perhaps his greatest contribution to literature”
(ODNB). Garnett had read Tales of Unrest in proof. Also
present is an autograph letter signed from Conrad to
Garnett, in which Conrad advises Garnett on the final
draft of the latter’s essay “The Contemporary Critic”
which he had submitted to Blackwood’s Magazine in late
1899 and which was eventually rejected in 1901, despite Conrad’s mediation with the publisher (2pp., no
place, no date, portion torn from top corner of page
1, apparently at an early date, published in Letters from
Joseph Conrad 1895–1924). Also present is a salutation
(“Dearest Edward”) and the initials “JC” in Conrad’s
hand affixed to the front free endpaper.
Wise, Conrad, 6.
£3,750
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(COOK, James.) Complete set of the three
voyages and two related works. London: W.
Strahan and T. Cadell [and others], 1773–85
11 volumes, quarto (286 226 mm). Uniformly bound in contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked in sheepskin, gilt lettered
spines, gilt Greek-key border on sides, green linen inner hinges. All charts, plates and portraits as called-for in all volumes.
From the library of the American politician William Freeman
Vilas (1840–1908), successively Postmaster General and Secretary of the Interior, with his armorial bookplate in each
volume. Hole through the Straits of Magellan map in volume
I skilfully repaired, some general browning, scattered foxing
and spotting, otherwise a good complete set
first edition of the second voyage, second and
best edition of the first voyage and second edition of
the third voyage. The separate atlas to the third voyage is not present but its charts and plates have been
bound into the text volumes and are all present.
HAWKESWORTH, John. An Account of the Voyages
undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for
Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere.
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. 3 volumes, quarto. “Second and best edition, generally preferred to
the first as it is complete with the chart of the Straits
of Magellan and the List of Plates (missing in many
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copies of the first edition and contains some extra material in the form of a new preface in which
Hawkesworth replies to the charges of poor editing
made against him by Dalrymple” (Hordern House,
Parks Cook Collection).
COOK, James. A Voyage towards the South Pole, and
Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships
the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773,
1774, and 1775. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. 1777. 2
volumes, quarto.
COOK, James, & James King. A Voyage to the Pacific
Ocean. London: G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785. 3 volumes,
quarto.
In addition, bound uniformly with the Cook set are
first editions of two important works related directly
to these voyages:
FORSTER, George. A Voyage Round the World in his
Britannic Majesty’s Sloop, Resolution, Commanded
by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4 and
5. London: B. White, J. Robson, P. Elmsly, G. Robinson,
1777. 2 volumes, quarto. “This account was published
some months before Cook’s account of his second
voyage” (Beddie) and is “an important and necessary
addition to Cook’s voyages” (Hill).
FORSTER, John Reinold. Observations made during
a Voyage Round the World. London: G. Robinson, 1778.
Quarto. “The first botanical work to be published
from Captain Cook’s second voyage to the South Pacific (1772–5) and it is important to the history and
science of botany, as it contains large numbers of new
generic and specific names relating to the plants of
Australasia and Polynesia … it has been said to be the
foundation of our knowledge of New Zealand, Antarctic, and Polynesian vegetation” (Hill).
“Captain Cook’s three great voyages form the basis
for any collection of Pacific books. In three voyages
Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge
of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors
together had done. He was the first really scientific
navigator and his voyages made great contributions
to many fields of knowledge” (Hill 358).
Beddie 650, 1216, 1552, 1247 (George Forster), 1262 (John
Reinold Forster); Hill 783, 358, 362 (listing the first edition),
625 (George Forster), 628 (John Reinold Forster); Holmes 4,
24, 47 (listing the first edition), 23 (George Forster), 29 (John
Reinold Forster).
£20,000
[100989]
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(COOK, James.) BANKES, Thomas. A Modern,
Authentic and Complete System of Universal
Geography. Including All the late important
Discoveries made by the English, and other
celebrated Navigators of various Nations, in
the different Hemispheres; and containing a
Genuine History and Description of the Whole
World, as consisting of Empires, Kingdoms,
States, Republics, Provinces, Continents,
Islands, Oceans, &c. … throughout Europe, Asia,
Africa, and America … Together with a Complete
History of every Empire, Kingdom, and State …
In which is introduced, to illustrate the Work,
a considerable Number of the most accurate
Whole Sheet Maps, forming a Complete Atlas. To
which is added a complete guide to Geography,
Astronomy, the use of the Globes, Maps &c. …
Likewise containing … Captain Cook’s Voyages.
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Together with all the Discoveries made by other
Mariners since the Time of that celebrated
Circumnavigator. … The Whole Forming a
Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels.
London: Printed for C. Cooke, [c.1798]
2 volumes, folio (384 × 240 mm). Contemporary full tree
calf, raised bands, red and dark green morocco labels, edges speckled black. Engraved frontispiece, 83 similar plates,
and 22 maps, of which 12 folding. Extremities slightly
rubbed and bumped, minor wear to corners, boards a touch
scuffed, occasional mild spotting to text block, short closed
tears to a few leaves, a few corners turned.
first edition, later issue, of Bankes’s impressive
geography. Originally issued in 90 weekly parts, starting in 1787, copies of the work appear in several variants. “While it was being issued changes were made
to its title page, to the contents of some parts and
to the maps it contained. These changes allow a sequence of variants to be established for the title page
and for some individual parts, and allow some parts
(but not a whole set of parts) to be dated” (Prescott,
A Guide to Maps of Australia in Books Published 1780–1830,
p. 242). This continuous editing process of Bankes’s
Universal Geography, which revised and added informa-
tion (especially to the parts concerned with Australia
and the recently established colony), reflects the particular shape of the English interest in geography and
exploration at the end of the 18th century.
Beddie 507 & 2674; Sitwell, Four Centuries of Special Geography,
p. 86.
£3,750
[101906]
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COOLIDGE-RASK, Marie. London
Midnight. London: Reader’s Library, 1928
After
Octavo. Original red cloth boards, titles to spine and front
board gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with scenes from
the film. Loss to cloth at top end of spine, wear to spine, gilt
rubbed to spine and front board, corners and ends of spine
with rubbing, pages toned, in the dust jacket with small chip
to top end of spine with tape at the verso, wear to corners
and lower end of spine. A very attractive copy.
first uk photoplay edition, illustrated with
scenes from the 1927 MGM Production starring Lon
Chaney Sr., and with fabulous dust jacket art. London
After Midnight is considered one of the great lost films.
The film was based on the short story “The Hypnotist” by Tod Browning who also directed the film.
£2,500
[100598]
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(COSWAY-STYLE
BINDING.)
DICKENS,
Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick
Club. With forty-three illustrations, by R.
Seymour and Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837
CROMPTON, Richmal. Just – William. London:
George Newnes Limited, [1922]
Octavo (209 × 128 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
for Charles J. Sawyer in full olive crushed morocco, raised
bands, titles and decorations to compartments gilt; slightly
bevelled boards with gilt frames, front board with medallion inlay of red morocco with gilt monogram “C.D.” under
a lion couchant; red morocco doublures, front doublure with
an oval hand-coloured miniature portrait of Charles Dickens
mounted behind glass and surrounded with gilt decoration,
moiré silk endpapers, front endpaper with gilt stamped facsimile signature, turn-ins richly gilt, all edges gilt. Half-title,
engraved frontispiece, engraved title page, and 41 engraved
plates by Buss, R. Seymour and Phiz. Spine sunned, minor
wear to endpapers. Otherwise a fine copy.
first edition.
£3,850
[100706]
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to front cover and spine
in black. Illustrated by Thomas Henry. Ownership signature to front pastedown. Spine rolled and faded, spine ends
rubbed, minor foxing to edges. An excellent copy.
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about the magical pursuits and feuds of Crowley’s day
with many recognizable personalities … at times very
amusing in its bizarre vituperation despite formal
flaws” (Sullivan, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and
the Supernatural, pp. 106–7).
£4,500
[100641]
first edition of the first William book.
£800
[100352]
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CROWLEY, Aleister. Moonchild. A Prologue.
London: The Mandrake Press, 1929
Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Dust jacket designed by Beresford Egan.
Spine ends slightly bumped, endpapers and edges lightly
tanned. An excellent copy in a somewhat toned jacket with
slightly nicked and creased extremities, minor chips to
corners, a few closed tears, and tape repairs to verso of top
edges.
the author in pencil on the front free endpaper: “Mrs
Wood, from Aleister Crowley, to give you a little idea
of me before I see you on Thursday, A.C.” A striking
copy of one of Crowley’s best known works, “a novel
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DAHL, Roald. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.
Illustrated by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1985
DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige Beschryving
van Asie: behelsende de Gewesten van
Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of
Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome Beschrijving
van gansch Gellukigh, Woest, en Petreesch of
Steenigh Arabie. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1680
Quarto. Original illustrated boards, titles to front cover and
spine in black, dark blue endpapers. No dust jacket issued.
Small nick to foot of spine, extremities lightly rubbed, a couple of faint scuffs to boards, internally clean and bright. An
excellent copy.
first edition, signed by the author on the title
page. Rare signed.
£2,500
[100396]
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DAHL, Roald. Rhyme Stew. London: Jonathan
Cape 1989
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Inscribee’s ownwership signature to rear pastedown in pencil. Tiny nick
to rear board, light offsetting from author’s inscription to
front pastedown and front flap of jacket. An excellent copy
in a bright jacket with light fading and tiny closed tear to
spine panel.
first edition, inscribed by the author on
the front free endpaper, “Sonia, love, Roald Dahl”. A
quirky collection of poetry.
£1,500
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2 parts bound in 1, folio (317 × 194 mm). Contemporary
vellum, title inked on spine, three-line blind tooled border on sides enclosing a large arabesque blind stamp, red
speckled edges. Letterpress title printed in red and black;
engraved pictorial title, 12 double-page engraved view (2
also folding), 3 double-page maps, 22 half-page plates.
Bookplate of Heyse-Tak; front board sprung, 19th century
repair to fore-edge of engraved title. An attractive copy in a
contemporary binding.
first edition of Dapper’s Asia Minor and Mesopotamia; a German edition followed in 1681. In common with many of his contemporary travel writers such as John Ogilby, the Dutch physician Olfert
Dapper (1639–1689) never travelled to the lands he
wrote about, instead compiling extant translations
and other eye-witness accounts to produce lavish
and encyclopaedic books for the northern European
readership. His and others’ work thus both reflected and directed growing public interest in distant
places and foreign peoples. Dapper was meticulous
in using hundreds of published sources and several
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unpublished ones for each of his books; he did not
lift whole passages from one book, but often based a
single paragraph on two or three different sources. In
this sense his work is indispensible to modern scholarship, as it reflects manuscript sources that have
since been lost. Central to the contemporary appeal
of Dapper’s works were the engravings, which ranged
beyond the geographical interest served by maps and
views. Clothing, eating habits, religious beliefs, court
ceremonies, and judicial practices were all subjects
discussed by travellers and missionaries in letters
and travel books and were reproduced by Dapper.
The plates (which are excellent strong impressions)
include superb views of Baghdad, Abydos, Ephesus,
Smyrna, Magnesia, Muscat, and Mecca. Among the
half-plates are attractive botanical subjects, including the coffee tree (p. 62 in the second part).
Arcadian Library 8342; Atabey 322 (with 16 plates, but one is
an additional botanical plate not called for); Macro 805; this
edition not in Blackmer.
£6,000
[100075]
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DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by
Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation
of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1861
DARWIN, Charles. The Foundations of the
Origin of Species. Two Essays written in 1842
and 1844. Edited by his son Francis Darwin.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1909
Octavo. Original green diagonal-wave-grain cloth, covers
blocked in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, brown
endpapers, binders’ ticket to rear pastedown. Spine rolled, a
little wear to tips and spine ends, hinges starting, small torn
strip to front pastedown, a little mild foxing to contents. A
very good copy.
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, bevelled
boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Black and white
portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, Contemporary
bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Spine and board
edges slightly browned, sporadic foxing to contents. An excellent copy.
DAUMAS, Eugène. The Horses of the
Sahara, and the Manners of the Desert. With
commentaries by the Emir Abd-El-Kader.
Translated from the French by James Hutton.
London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863
third edition of “the most important biological
book ever written” (Freeman), issued in April 1861,
2,000 copies. The text was extensively altered, and a
table is given of differences between it and the second edition, a feature that occurs in each subsequent
Murray edition. The third is also notable for the addition of the historical sketch in which Darwin considers his predecessors in the general theory of evolution, which had already appeared in shorter form
in the first German edition, as well as in the fourth
American printing, both in 1860.
first edition of Darwin’s two “pencil sketches”,
the inception of the Origin. The first sketch was written in 1842, after Darwin completed his book The
Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs and was finally
free to work on his emerging theory. The manuscript
lay undiscovered for several decades until the death
of the author’s widow in 1896. A number of copies
of the 1842 sketch were printed for presentation a
few months before the first edition was published.
From the library of Oxford professor Francis Pember
(1862–1954), with his armorial bookplate to the front
pastedown. Pember was vice-chancellor of Oxford
University in the late 1920s. His daughter Katherine
married Charles Galton Darwin, the grandson of the
author. A nice Darwin family association.
Freeman 381.
£4,000
[101240]
Octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth, gilt lettered
spine, large pictorial gilt block on front cover, brown endpapers. Internal hinges neatly strengthened, spine a little
rolled. A very good copy.
first edition in english of this scarce classic work on Arab equitation, first published Paris,
1851; it is particularly uncommon in the original
cloth. Eugène Daumas (1803–1871) served for some
15 years in Algeria, he was made head of the North
Africa, Bureaux Arabes; became a personal friend of
Abd-el-Kader, the emir of Mascara, and was widely
recognised as the French Army’s leading expert on
Arab culture. When he returned to France in 1850 he
was made director of Algerian affairs in the Ministry
of War.
Podeschi, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship, 202.
£1,250
[99886]
Freeman 1556.
£1,500
[101880]
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[DICKENS, Charles.] Sketches by “Boz,”
illustrative of every-day life, and every day
people. In two volumes. Illustrations by George
Cruikshank. [… The second series. Complete in
one volume.] London: John Macrone, 1836 & 1837
Together 2 works in 3 volumes. First series: original dark
green regular-patterned straight-grain morocco cloth,
spines blocked and lettered in gilt. Second series: original
rose-pink morocco cloth, sides blocked in blind with a central wreath, spine blocked in blind with a circular pattern,
lettered and decorated in gilt over a panel of cloth stained
black, yellow endpapers. Individually housed in matching
green half morocco book-form slipcases, with chemises.
First series with a little unobtrusive cloth repair to joints,
front board of vol. I slightly cockled, small split to cloth at
centre of rear joint of vol. II, front free endpaper in vol. I beginning to separate from following leaf; second series neatly
rebacked with original spine laid down with loss of lower
lettering panel, spine a little faded, inner hinges cracked but
holding firm. Together, very occasional light spotting but
generally clean, the plates with slight oxidisation as usual:
a very good set. First series: frontispieces and 16 engraved
plates. Second series: etched frontispiece, extra engraved
title, and 8 engraved plates. With 2 plates by Cruikshank
for later editions loosely inserted. Book plates of Frederic
S. Clarke, the Dickens collector Robert Lloyd Henderson
(plate dated 1932), and Alain de Suzannet (1882–1950).
first editions of dickens’s first books, both
the first and second series, from the collection of Comte Alain de Suzannet, one of the finest
ever assembled (sold at auction, Sotheby’s, 1971, lot
5), having previously been in two similarly celebrated
collections. Eckel’s contention that there were two issues of the second series, distinguished by the pres28
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ence or lack of the list of illustrations (present here)
has lost force over the years. Sadleir was puzzled by
it, and Smith, having scrutinized 18 copies, finds that
no consistent states of binding or printing can be associated with early or late copies. Smith notes that
Macrone was anxious to print it in time for Christmas
and hurried it through the presses, leaving many mistakes uncorrected.
Eckel, pp. 11–13; Sadleir 699 & 700; Smith I, 1 & 2.
£6,500
[100027]
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[DICKSON, R. W.] A Complete Dictionary of
Practical Gardening: comprehending all the
Modern Improvements in the Art; whether in
the Raising of the Various Esculent Vegetables,
or in the Forcing and Managing of different
Sorts of Fruits and Plants, and that of Laying
out, Ornamenting, and Planting Gardens and
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Pleasure Grounds: with Correct Engravings
of the necessary apparatus, in building and
other contrivances, as well of the more rare
and curious plants cultivated for ornament
or variety: from the Original Drawings by
Sydenham Edwards. By Alexander McDonald,
Gardener [pseud.]. In two volumes. London: for
George Kearsley, by R. Taylor and Co., 1807
2 volumes, quarto (269 × 210 mm). Contemporary calf skilfully rebacked with the original spines laid down, decorative
gilt and blind-tooled spines, two-line gilt border on sides
enclosing a reticulated pattern tooled in black, all edges gilt
gauffered, marbled endpapers. 61 contemporary hand-coloured plates of flowers engraved by F. Sansom after Sydenham Edwards and 13 uncoloured plates of garden buildings
and implements, in all 74 plates. A clean set in a handsome
period binding.
first edition with fine hand-coloured botanical
plates by Sydenham Teast Edwards (1768–1819). Edwards’s early work appeared in William Curtis’s prestigious Botanical Magazine. In 1804, he was elected a
fellow of the Linnean Society. He also contributed to
the Flora Londinensis among other publications, and
his work is considered among the best scientific illustrations of the day. His plates from this work were
reprinted in The New Botanic Garden, 1812.
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Nissen, BBI 479 (calling for 73 plates); De Belder 102 (72
plates); Blunt 193; Sitwell/Blunt, Flower Books 66.
£3,750
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Memoirs of
Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1894
Large octavo. Original dark blue cloth, pictorial decoration
and titles to front board and spine in gilt and black, bevelled
boards, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by
Sidney Paget. Spine rolled, contents lightly foxed, tips a little rubbed. An excellent copy.
first edition. The second of the two primary collections of Holmes stories, containing material published 1892–3 in the Strand Magazine as further episodes of the Adventures (1892), including the climactic
“The Adventure of the Final Problem”, in which Holmes meets his doom at the Reichenbach Falls.
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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the
Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock
Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902
Octavo. Original red cloth, spine gilt lettered and decorated,
front cover gilt lettered and decorated and with hound in
black silhouette. Frontispiece and 15 plates by Sidney Paget.
Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, gift inscription to
front free endpaper. Spine slightly faded, extremities lightly
rubbed, occasional very minor foxing to contents. An excellent copy.
first edition. The Hound of the Baskervilles was Sherlock Holmes’s “comeback” novel after his shocking
demise at the Reichenbach Falls stunned his loyal Victorian readership. When first serialized in the Strand
Magazine in 1901 it was a feverish success, with queues
at the publisher’s office and throughout the country.
Green & Gibson A26.
£3,750
Green & Gibson A14.
£1,750
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(DULAC, Edmund.) SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Tempest. London: Hodder and Stoughton,
[1908]
(DULAC, Edmund.) STEVENSON, Robert
Louis. Treasure Island. With illustrations by
Edmund Dulac. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927
Quarto. Publisher’s original vellum, titles to spine and
front board gilt, original silk ribbon ties, green endpapers.
Housed in a cream cloth slipcase. With 40 tipped in colour
plates, captioned tissues. Boards toned, original silk ties
frayed, corners lightly rubbed, mild soiling to boards, ownership signature to front blank. A very good copy.
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards,
signed limited edition, number 399 of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist.
£1,000
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(DULAC, Edmund.) BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily
& Anne. The Novels. London: J. M. Dent & Sons,
1922
6 volumes, octavo. Bound by Bayntun in red half calf, red
cloth sides, green and brown morocco labels, spines richly
gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Coloured frontispiece by Dulac to each volume, 54 similar plates in all.
Boards gently bowed, light spotting to edges, leather slightly scuffed. An excellent set.
£1,500
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first dulac edition.
£1,450
[101805]
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ECKENSTEIN, Oscar, & August Lorria. The
Alpine Portfolio. The Pennine Alps from the
Simplon to the Great St. Bernard. London:
Published by the Editors, 1889
Folio (418 332 mm). Original burgundy half leather bookstyle portfolio, pebble-grained cloth sides, neatly rebacked,
title gilt to the front board, together with the accompanying
caption text volume in original printed calque paper wraps.
101 heliotypes printed on light card stock, including the
specimen plate of the Matterhorn from near Breuil, photographed by Donkin, loosely inserted in the portfolio as
issued. Portfolio slightly rubbed and soiled and with some
professional restoration, plates lightly browned, occasionally slightly more so in the margins, and with one or two
corners chipped, the text volume wraps and text a touch
browned, a few minor edge-splits, overall a very good copy.
[101811]
An attractively bound set of the Brontë sisters’ novels.
gilt to turn ins, green endpapers. With 12 colour plates and
21 black and white illustrations. An excellent copy.
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first and sole edition, number 82 of 160 copies
only. An excellent complete set of this sought-after
visual record of the Alps, a collection of superb images, many of them by noted pioneers of mountain
photography: W. F. Donkin, Honorary Secretary of the
Alpine Club and the Photographic Society, who had
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bibliothek Zurich; Mediatheque Valais, Sion; University
of Colorado, Boulder; Florida State University).
Neate p. 106.
£9,500
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died climbing in the Caucasus the previous year and to
whose memory the publication is dedicated (“he who
first raised mountain photography to the dignity of a
fine art”); and Vittorio Sella, whose commitment to excellence drove him to insist on using 30 × 40 cm plates,
inventing special pack-saddles and rucksacks to allow
their transportation. When Ansel Adams visited the
Sierra Club’s exhibition of Sella’s work he confessed to
feeling of “a definitely religious awe”.
Oscar Eckenstein (1859–1921) started climbing when
he was just 13 years old, but his “serious ascents in
the Alps began in 1886” (ODNB) when he “evidently
made up for lost time … making numerous first
ascents with various climbers [including the Austrian mountaineer Lorria] … many of these peaks
are documented in The Alpine Portfolio” (Kaczynski,
Perdurabo, p. 42). He was a distinctly eccentric individual, a “short, sturdy, asthmatic, bearded, sandalwearing, shabbily dressed bohemian, whose choice
of pipe tobacco was found particularly noxious by his
companions, in retrospect appears to belong to the
alternative culture of a much later generation of rock
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climbers” (ODNB). A railway engineer by profession,
he created new designs “for ten-point crampons
and a much shorter and more wieldy ice axe which
could be used one-handed, conducted experiments
into the relative strength of knots, and championed
the use of tricouni nails in climbing boots. Many of
these innovations, which later became commonplace
among the mountaineer’s tools of trade, were regarded with great suspicion by the establishment circles”; but he also was a “pioneer in the development
of the athletic potential of the human body on rock”.
He was a climbing mentor to Aleister Crowley, with
whom he conquered Popacatapetl, and attempted
K2, and who was in awe of both his climbing abilities and his character: “His detestation of every kind
of humbug and false pretence was an overmastering
passion. I have never met any man who upheld the
highest moral ideals with such unflinching candour”
(The Confessions, p. 151).
EINSTEIN, Albert. Relativity. The Special and
the General Theory. A Popular Exposition.
Authorised Translation by Robert W. Lawson.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920
Extremely uncommon: Copac records just two sets (BL
and NLS), to which OCLC adds four locations (Zentral-
Weil 90a.
Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine, blind lettered
on front cover. Portrait frontispiece and 5 diagrams, 8pp.
publisher’s adverts at end. Spine faded, gilt dulled, a couple
of small marks to cloth, free endpapers tanned, edges of text
block spotted. A very good copy.
first edition in english of Einstein’s first popular treatment of relativity, with an appendix on “The
Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of
Relativity” written especially for this edition. Originally published in Germany in 1916, under the title
Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, the
translation is by the physicist Robert W. Lawson of
the University of Sheffield, with whom Einstein corresponded during its preparation.
£850
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ELIOT, T. S. The Cocktail Party. A comedy.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950
Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, preserved
in a green cloth chemise within a green quarter morocco
slipcase. Spine a little sunned otherwise an excellent copy.
first edition, presentation copy from
graham greene and his lover catherine
walston to the writer norman douglas, inscribed on the front free endpaper in her hand: “To
Norman Douglas, with love from Catherine, Anacapri June 1950” and in Greene’s hand: “and with great
affection from Graham”; also inscribed in Douglas’s
diminutive hand: “British literature is suffering from
sleeping sickness owing to the T.S.E. T.S.E. fly” (a
play on Eliot’s initials and the fly which causes sleeping sickness), a typically acerbic comment by Douglas; Greene did not share his low opinion of Eliot.
A wonderful association copy, linking Greene and
Catherine Walston: “she was the great love of his
life and the inspiration for his powerful novel about
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the pains and pleasures of adultery, The End of the Affair (1951)” (ODNB). It also links the couple to a longtime resident of Capri, Norman Douglas. “[Greene]
loved Capri … [and] was particularly friendly with
… Norman Douglas. He met Douglas, hedonist and
sybarite, in 1948 soon after he had bought Rosaio [his
villa on Capri] with the proceeds of The Third Man …
Greene was fascinated by him … Douglas was tolerant, pagan in outlook, and railed against hypocrisy,
puritanism and smugness” (Norman Sherry, The Life
of Graham Greene, II p. 246–9). Also with the bookplate
of the American writer and newspaperman Vincent
Starrett (1886–1974) and inscribed at the head of the
half-title: “Vincent Starrett, 19 Aug. 1953”.
first trade edition, limited edition, number
715 of 1200 copies. The first 25 copies were a special
edition on Japanese paper and accompanied with
a signed print by Man Ray; the rest were numbered
from 21 to 1020, with an additional 200 marked VI–
CCV hors commerce. The book volume was a collaboration between the French poet Paul Eluard (Eugène
Émile Paul Grindel) and US-born artist Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky). Eluard’s second wife Maria Benz,
known as Nusch, inspired the poems and posed for
the images; the book contains 11 nudes, and one still
life with gloves.
Gallup A55.
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£2,250
[100437]
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ELUARD, Paul. Facile. Photographies de Man
Ray. Paris: Éditions G.L.M., 1935
Small quarto, pp. 24. Original cream card portfolio and
printed wrappers lettered in white on front panel, housing the unbound folded sheets. With the original glassine
jacket. 12 heliogravure images by Man Ray. With an original
photograph laid-in. Wrappers lightly rubbed, a little toning
to contents. An excellent copy.
£5,000
[100376]
EVANS, Walker. American Photographs. With
an Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. New York: The
Museum of Modern Art, 1938
Quarto. Original black cloth, printed paper spine label.
With the dust jacket. 87 plates from photographs. Minor
flecking to front panel of jacket. An excellent copy, with the
errata slip tipped to verso of title page and the rare wraparound band carrying plaudits from Archibald MacLeish and
Gilbert Seldes.
first edition, recording the first one-man show
given to a photographer at MoMA. “American Photo-
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graphs holds a well-deserved place at the top of the
pantheon, and should be studied assiduously by
any photographer attempting the tricky business of
compiling a coherent photobook. It is a complex,
elliptical, hugely ambitious work, exemplifying all
the qualities that Evans demanded from serious
photography … [it] remains a great work of art, for
it showed us all—including the photographer himself—just what might be accomplished by the photobook” (Parr & Badger).
Parr & Badger I, 114–5; Roth, p. 98.
£2,250
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EVERSON, Bill. These Are The Ravens. San
Leandro, CA: Greater West Publishing Co., 1935
Octavo, pp. 12. Original yellow wrappers, titles to front
wrapper in brown. With the glassine jacket decorated in
blind with spider and cobweb pattern. Housed in a brown
cloth chemise. A little spotting to rear wrapper; an exceptional copy.
signed limited edition, one of 15 copies specially bound by the author at the Everson Printery on 27 November 1935. This copy of the author’s
first book, a collection of sixteen poems issued in
the Pamphlet Series of Western Poets, was originally
presented by the author to Miss Frances Wilson on
19 December 1935, and subsequently inscribed by
him 44 years later on the verso of the front wrapper:
“How astounding to find this specially bound copy
of my first book, inscribed to my old college English
teacher at Fresno State. She encouraged me to write,
both when I first entered in 1931 and again when I returned in 1934. I owe her much. This second inscription for Gary Elder, fellow poet, writer, educator. Bill
Everson, March 24, 1979. Newcastle, CA.”
£3,750
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FARRELL, J. G. Troubles. London: Jonathan Cape,
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first edition of Farrell’s uncommon masterpiece,
the so-called Lost Booker. A change in the rules regarding the Booker shortlist at the start of the 1970s
precluded nominations from 1970, but in 2008 the
anomaly was rectified, and Troubles was retrospectively selected as the winner of the 1970 Booker Prize.
£875
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles gilt to spine and blind to
front board. Spine gently rolled, tips a little worn, internally
fine. An excellent copy.
first edition of the author’s first novel. It was an
instant success, running to a number of printings in
the first year.
Bruccoli A5.1.a
£2,500
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top edge pink. With the dust jacket. Some minor spotting
to edges, a few marks to front free endpaper; an excellent
copy in the jacket with slightly faded spine, short closed
tear to head of spine, some shallow chips and rubbing to
extremities.
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Letter to Max Perkins.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963
4 leaves, printed in blue on white wove paper. A fine copy.
A facsimile of a letter written by Fitzgerald to the famous Scribner editor, Max Perkins (St Paul, 19 Sept.
1919), and distributed by Scribner’s as promotional
material for Andrew Turnbull’s Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, in which this letter was printed (pp. 139–140).
The letter was written soon after the acceptance by
Scribner of This Side of Paradise, discussing the publication of the book (timing, advertising, and design),
and includes the famous reference to Zelda: “I have
so many things dependent on its success—including
of course a girl…”
Bruccoli D6.
£500
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FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary.
Provincial Manners. Translation from the
French Édition définitive by Eleanor MarxAveling. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886
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Octavo. Publisher’s blue-green diagonal-ribbed cloth, titles
in gilt on blue panel with gilt floral decoration, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, back cover ruled in blind and
publisher’s device in blind, black coated endpapers, edges
untrimmed. Frontispiece with tissue guard, 5 plates. Spine
slightly rolled and toned, extremities lightly rubbed, occasional very minor foxing to contents. An excellent copy.
first edition in english of Flaubert’s masterpiece. The translator was Karl Marx’s daughter,
then living openly with Edward Bibbens Aveling,
a married man whose name she used in conjunction with her own. Flaubert’s debut novel was five
years in the making, and originally serialized in the
Revue de Paris. It provoked charges of obscenity and
immorality from the French government, resulting
in a trial at which Flaubert was acquitted. The ensuing publicity also ensured that upon publication the
book became a bestseller. The heroine of the novel,
Emma Bovary, ultimately commits suicide by swallowing arsenic—a fate which also befell her translator, Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
£3,750
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FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1955
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and front
board in silver. With the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled,
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boards a little bowed, a little faint foxing to edges; a very
good copy in the bright jacket, with faintly sunned spine,
and lightly rubbed and nicked extremities.
first edition, first impression, one of two variant states, printed on thicker paper stock and with
the word “shoot” at p. 10, l. 31 correctly printed. The
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with slightly nicked and creased extremities, and mild toning to spine panel and flaps.
first edition of Fleming’s first collection of short
stories, all featuring James Bond. Apart from the titular story, the collection includes “From a View to a
Kill”, “Quantum of Solace”, “Risico”, and “The Hildebrand Rarity”.
Gilbert A8a (1.1).
£1,250
entire first impression (containing both “shoot” and
“shoo” states) was issued on 7 April 1955.
Gilbert A3a (1.2). £8,000
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FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. Five Secret
Occasions in the Life of James Bond. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1960
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, eye design to front board in white. With the illustrated dust jacket.
Spine gently cocked. Otherwise a fine copy in a bright jacket
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ing making a James Bond film. Fleming signed a film
agreement instead with Eon Productions, leaving
Whittingham and his producer, Kevin McClory, out
in the cold and with a pronounced grievance. The resulting court case in November 1963 is said to have
broken Fleming’s health, leading to his premature
death from heart complications in August 1964. As a
result of the court settlement, future versions of the
novel gave the credit, “based on the screen treatment
by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming” (in that order).
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Gilbert A9a (1.1).
FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1961
£750
Octavo. Original dark brown boards, titles to spine gilt,
skeletal hand design on front board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. Mild spotting to edges and occasionally
to margins of text block, a few turned corners. An excellent
copy in a bright jacket with minor foxing to verso, slightly
nicked and creased extremities, and some light chipping to
spine ends and corners.
first edition. The first novel in what has been
called the Blofeld trilogy, Thunderball introduces
the criminal organistation SPECTRE and its leader
Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The novel was based without
acknowledgement on an original screenplay by Jack
Whittingham, with whom Fleming had been discuss-
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FLEMING, Ian. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The
Magical Car. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964–5
3 volumes in one, octavo (226 × 154 mm). Finely bound by
the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, gilt titles and two
raised bands to spine, single rule to boards gilt, colour inlay
car to front board, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated throughout by John Burningham. A fine copy.
first editions, originally published in three parts,
here attractively bound together.
£1,800
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FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale; Live and Let
Die; Moonraker; Diamonds are Forever; From
Russia With Love; Dr No; Goldfinger; For Your
Eyes Only; Thunderball; The Spy Who Loved
Me; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; You Only
Live Twice; The Man With the Golden Gun;
Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Shelton: The
First Edition Library, 1981–93
14 volumes, octavo. Original black boards, illustrations to
front boards in silver, white, or gilt, titles to spines in silver,
red or gilt. With the pictorial dust jackets and printed slipcases. A fine set.
facsimile edition, reproducing the original design and dust jacket artwork of all the Ian Fleming
Bond books.
£2,250
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FORSTER, E. M. A Passage to India. London:
Edward Arnold & Co., 1924
Octavo. Original dark red cloth, black lettered spine and
front cover. With the dust jacket. Housed in a burgundy
quarter morocco solander box made by the Chelsea Bindery. Jacket spine toned, lettering faded, some closed-tears,
nicks and chips, touch of foxing to fore-edge of book block.
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first edition. Copies in the dust jacket are very
scarce. “Up to the last moment [Forster] had been assailed by doubts and despairs about his novel, but its
reception removed all his fears. The book suited the
moment, and friends and reviewers alike called it a
masterpiece and his finest achievement” (P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life, II, p. 123).
to spine in black on a blue ground. Illustrated throughout by
Frank. Spine very lightly tanned and faintly creased but an
excellent copy of a vulnerable book.
first edition. Frank’s notorious early masterpiece
was commissioned and first published as part of
Connolly, Modern Movement, 45; Kirkpatrick A10.
£9,750
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FOWLES, John. The Collector. London: Jonathan
Cape, 1963
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge
brown. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the unclipped
jacket with faintly sunned spine.
first edition.
£475
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FRANK, Robert. Les Américains. Textes réunis
et présentés par Alain Bosquet. Paris: Robert
Delpire, 1958
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Oblong quarto. Original laminated illustrated boards by
Saul Steinberg, titles to front cover in red and black, titles
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Delpire’s ambitious “Encyclopédie essentielle” (others in the series included Les Allemandes and Les Italiennes). But it was Frank’s groundbreaking adaptation
of his stylistic forebears such as Walker Evans which
has made this publication one of the key photographer’s books of the century. The book includes contributions from Simone de Beauvoir, John Steinbeck,
William Faulkner, and others.
£2,750
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FRÉART, Roland, sieur de Chambray. A Parallel
of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, in
a collection of ten principal authors who have
written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and
Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and
Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De
Lorme, compared with one another. … Written
in French … Made English for the Benefit
of Builders. To which is added, An account
of architects and architecture, … With Leon
Baptista Alberti’s treatise of statues. By John
Evelyn, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. The
third edition, with the addition of The elements
of architecture; collected by Sir Henry Wotton
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… and also other large additions. London: printed
by T.W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D.
Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1723
Folio (347 × 225 mm). Contemporary English panelled calf,
unlettered, skilfully rebacked with original spine laid down,
corners repaired. Engraved portrait frontispiece, title vignette, 40 engraved plates in the text, title printed in red
and black. Bettesworth ownership inscription at head. An
excellent copy, a few trivial marks but generally clean and
fresh throughout.
third edition of Evelyn’s translation, the first with
the addition of Wotton’s Elements, the first English
book of architecture. Evelyn had first encountered
Fréart’s book on its publication in 1650, when he was
living in Paris, and he brought a copy back on his return to England in 1652. His desire for an English renaissance in the arts and sciences led him to participate in the founding of the Royal Society in 1661. The
Parallel, concerned with the improvement of building,
was of a piece with his Sylva (the improvement of timber), Fumifugium (a remedy for pollution by laying out
squares and gardens), Sculptura (the first book in English on sculpture), and The Idea of Perfection in Painting,
in serving Evelyn’s aim to “be of service not only to
Architects and Sculptors but to Our Painters also”.
His edition was first published in 1664.
Harris 234; this ed. not in Fowler.
£1,500
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(FRENCH LITERATURE.) Fables, lettres, et
variétés historiques. Londres: chez E. et C. Dilly, et
P. Elmsly, 1777
Duodecimo (170 × 100 mm). Contemporary red morocco,
smooth spine richly gilt in compartments, green morocco
label, sides with wide gilt borders, marbled endpapers, gilt
edges. With an initial leaf of advertisements for schoolbooks published by E. and C. Dilly. A fine copy.
second edition (first published by Elmsly alone in
1771) of this compendium of passages for students of
French, here handsomely bound in red morocco, an
English binding making considerable effort to match
the generally higher standards of contemporary
French binders. Peter Elmsly, or Elmsley, was principally involved in importing foreign books and was often described as a French bookseller, although he was
born in Aberdeenshire. Elmsley served as bookseller
and shipping agent for Edward Gibbon, assisting in
the management of his affairs in London when Gibbon
was in Lausanne. He was also the first named of the
conger of booksellers who conceived and published
The Works of the English Poets with Prefaces, Biographical, and
Critical, by Samuel Johnson. For this edition he was joined
by Edward and Charles Dilly, notorious in many circles
for their republican sympathies. They published a further three editions before the end of the century.
£750
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FREUD, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung. Leipzig &
Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1900
Octavo (225 × 145 mm). Near contemporary black cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge red. Occasional pencil underlining and marginalia; binder’s stamp to rear pastedown. Text
block lightly strained in a few places and cracked between
pp. 16–17, but firm, light toning to margins, ink mark to p.
33, partially blotting out three letters, table of contents leaf
repaired and reinforced with japon along top margin and
gutter. A very good copy.
first edition of Freud’s greatest single work, The
Interpretation of Dreams, one of only 600 copies. “Die
Traumdeutung contains Freud’s general theory of the
psyche, which he had developed during the past decade. Using his refined understanding of the operation of the unconscious, Freud interpreted dreams on
the basis of wish-fulfilment theory and discussed displacement (the appearance in conscious thought of
symbols for repressed desires), regression, Oedipal
impulses, and the erotic nature of dreams. Although
this was his first major work on normal psychology,
Freud gave an unprecedented precision and force to
the idea of the essential similarities of normal and
abnormal behaviour, opening up the door to the irrational that had been closed to Western psychology
since the time of Locke” (Norman). “It contains all
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the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and
practice” (PMM). The book was published on 4 November 1899 (though post-dated by the publisher)
but sold so slowly that the second edition did not appear until nine years later.
Garrison–Morton 4980; Grolier/Horblit 32; Norman F33;
Printing and the Mind of Man 389.
£13,750
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FREUD, Sigmund. The Interpretation of
Dreams Authorised translation of third edition
with introduction by A. A. Brill, Ph.B., M.D.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1913
Large octavo. Original blue cloth, titles on front board and
spine gilt. Spine lightly faded, staining to rear cover, rubbing to corners with moderate bumping to top corners,
ends of spine with wear and closed tears to cloth, small
marking to mid spine and mid front cover, previous ownership signature and embossed stamp to front endpaper and
stamped again on the title page, pages toned, with inner
hinges started. A very good copy.
first edition in english. This is the translation that
introduced Freud to the English-speaking world. It was
published simultaneously in the UK and the USA.
£2,750
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FROST, Robert. Complete Poems. 1949. New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949
Large octavo. Original cream cloth, titles to spine gilt on a
blue ground, blue endpapers, top edge blue. In the original matching paper slipcase. Black and white frontispiece
portrait. Spine lightly faded, two tiny brown specks to front
joint; slipcase a little rubbed and faded. A fine copy with exceptionally crisp and fresh contents.
first edition, signed limited issue. Number
385 of 500 specially bound copies signed and numbered by the poet.
£2,500
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GASKELL, Elizabeth. The Works. With
introductions by A. W. Ward. In eight volumes.
London: John Murray, 1906
8 volumes, octavo (180 × 120 mm). Contemporary burgundy
half pebble-grained morocco, titles and rules to bands gilt,
matching boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispiece to each volume and 6 plates. Inscription to binder’s
front blank in each volume, some occasional light foxing,
spines a little rubbed and faded, an excellent set.
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the knutsford edition, which to date remains the
only complete edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s works.
£1,250
the Ninth Precinct on the front cover. A scarce piece
of Yippie ephemera.
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£2,250
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[HOFFMAN, ABBIE; as] “George Metesky.”
Fuck the System. New York: Privately Printed, 1967
GERSHWIN, George. George Gershwin’s Songbook. New York: Random House, 1932
Sextodecimo, pp. 30. Original pictorial wrappers, front
cover lettered in white, rear cover in black. Wrappers a little creased with a few very minor stains, internally fine. An
excellent copy.
Folio. Publisher’s blue morocco, lettered and decorated
gilt, blue endpapers, cloth inner hinges, additional separate
piece inserted in end pocket, top edge gilt. With the publisher’s blue paper-covered slipcase. Housed in a quarter
morocco solander box. Frontispiece and 18 colour illustrations. A little minor wear to tips and spine ends, a few slight
marks to boards, a little minor foxing to edges. An excellent
copy.
first edition of Hoffman’s first published work,
written under the name George Metesky—a convicted bomber better known as the Mad Bomber,
who terrorized New York in the 1940s and 1950s with
bombs planted around the city. Rather than destroying the “System”, however, Hoffman in fact offers tips
on how to hack and harness it. With extensive advice
on how to hustle through a life lived off-the-grid, this
pamphlet covers topics on obtaining free of charge
anything from food, alcohol and drugs, to flowers,
legal advice and pets. Ironically, the pamphlet itself
may have been a product of “the System”, as it is rumoured that the then mayor of New York, John Lindsay, had the pamphlet commissioned; it was printed
using the city’s presses, and features the “finest” of
signed limited edition. Number 192 of 300 copies only, signed by Gershwin and by the illustrator,
Alajalov. It was issued simultaneously with the first
trade edition.
£7,500
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GOLDMANN, Charles Sydney. With General
French and the Cavalry in South Africa. London:
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902
Octavo (214 × 132 mm). Bound for presentation in red
crushed goatskin by the Guild of Women Binders, spine
with five raised bands, title gilt to second compartment,
sides with blind rules and central panel of onlaid navy blue
goatskin with recipients initials gilt, red morocco doublures
with central panel of vellum, vellum free endpapers, gilt
dots at corners, gilt edges Housed in simple blue cloth box,
plush lined. Photogravure frontispiece portrait, numerous
folding maps, folding panoramas and plates, 8 reproductions of freehand sketches showing some of French’s and
the enemy’s positions between the Vaal River and Barberton
bound at end. Very good, the box a little rubbed, and soiled.
first edition, presentation copy to General
Sir Evelyn Wood, inscribed on the half-title. Wood
was one of the most influential British soldiers of the
19th century, seeing service in the Crimea, the Indian
Mutiny, Third Ashanti War, First Boer War, and in
Egypt and the Sudan, before becoming General Officer Commanding of Aldershot Command (one of
the most important postings in the army at the time),
Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1893 to
1897, and Adjutant-General to the Forces from 1897
to 1901. His role during the Second Boer War was
somewhat controversial due to his antipathy towards
Wolseley, the commander in chief, and Lansdowne,
the secretary of state for war: “Significantly, Wood
supplied information to Leo Amery whose Times
History of the War in South Africa was especially critical of the commanders in South Africa” (ODNB). The
author, who acted as war correspondent during the
Boer War for the Argus and the Standard, belonged “to
the somewhat hotly abused class of ‘capitalists and
mining magnates’” (Mendelssohn), closely associated with powerful mining and financial groups in the
Transvaal, and the author of a number of authoritative works on mining in South Africa.
Hackett p. 148, illustrated at p. 105; Mendelssohn, II, p. 617;
SABIB, 2, p. 367.
£1,850
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(GOLF.) WIND, Herbert Warren. The Story
of American Golf. Its Champions and Its
Championships. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1956
Quarto. Original green and black cloth, titles to spine gilt,
top edge stained green. With the dust jacket. Illustrated
with black and white photographs. An excellent copy.
presentation copy, inscribed by the author “For
David and Phyllis, all good wishes and my thanks for
your cordiality when Jack and I were missing your orange groves off the tee.” Wind was one of the great
golf writers of his generation, who co-wrote the best
instructional work of its day, Ben Hogan’s Modern Fundamentals of Golf. This is the first revised and updated
version of the title originally published in 1948.
£650
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GOREY, Edward. The Pious Infant; The Evil
Garden; The Inanimate Tragedy. New York: The
Fantod Press, 1966
3 works, sextodecimo. Single quires, wire-stitched into original pale purple, yellow and blue card wrappers printed in
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black. Housed in the publisher’s envelope with an imprint
listing the three titles and a small illustration. Wrappers
with a couple of minor stains and light fading to edges, faint
small mark to title page of The Inanimate Tragedy but overall contents bright; envelope rubbed and chipped and with
two closed tears with tape repairs. An excellent set.
first editions, limited to 500 sets. The Evil Garden
and The Pious Infant first appeared in magazines the
preceding year, respectively Holiday Magazine and Evergreen Review. Both titles are published here under
anagrams of the author’s name: “Mrs Regera Dowdy”
and “Eduard Blutig”.
Toledano A24.
£1,250
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GREENE, Graham. The Basement Room and
other stories. London: The Cresset Press Limited, 1935
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Housed in a green quarter morocco solander
box made by the Chelsea Bindery. Spine very slightly rolled
but an excellent copy in the frayed and little rubbed dust
jacket with a small chip to the top of the spine panel and
trivial loss at the tips.
first edition, in the first issue green cloth binding; an extremely uncommon title in first issue in
dust jacket.
£7,500
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[GOREY, Edward.] Dogear Wryde. Postcards:
Whatever Next? Series. N.p.: 1990
GREENE, Graham. The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951
12 black and white cards and colophon card (153 × 101 mm)
housed in the original envelope with a black and white illustration on the front. Envelope lightly edge-rubbed. A crisp
set in excellent condition.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s
device to rear board in blind, buff endpapers. With the dust
jacket. A fine copy in the unclipped jacket with lightly toned
spine and a few nicks to extremities.
signed limited edition, one of 26 lettered sets
signed by Gorey, from a complete edition of 250 sets.
Toledano A102a.
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Brennan 25; Miller 29.
£650
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GREENE, Graham. Our Man in Havana. London:
William Heinemann Ltd, 1958
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the
jacket. Spine cocked but a decent enough copy in a supplied
dust jacket.
first edition, a superb association copy with
the author’s signed presentation inscription to the
front free endpaper, “Dear Oliver, I’m glad you like
this. Anyway it’s better than a pair of old shoes! Yours
ever, Graham Greene”. The recipient was the son of
his lover, Catherine Walston, immortalized in The End
of the Affair. Inscribed copies of this major Greene “entertainment” are rare.
£5,750
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GREENE, Graham. A Burnt-Out Case. London:
Heinemann, 1961
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, publisher’s device to rear board in blind. With the dust jacket.
Spine slightly rolled, top of front hinge slightly cracked but
holding. A very good copy in the bright, slightly rubbed
jacket with a few nicks to extremities.
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first edition in english, presentation copy,
inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper:
“For Christopher Morris, in memory of a big[?] bill
at Blackwell’s.—From Graham Greene.” In common
with other Greene titles of this period, the Swedish,
Norwegian and French translations of this novel were
all published earlier, in 1960, with the Swedish version Ütbrand accepted as being the true first edition.
The UK edition was published in January 1961; the
first US edition followed in February 1961.
mathematics, as also about music, to those whom
nature did not initiate” (Publisher’s blurb). When it
was first published, Graham Greene hailed it, alongside Henry James’s notebooks, as “the best account
of what it was like to be a creative artist”. C. P. Snow’s
foreword gives sympathetic and witty insights into
Hardy’s life, with its rich store of anecdotes concerning his collaboration with the brilliant Indian mathematician Ramanujan, his aphorisms and idiosyncrasies, and his passion for cricket.
Miller 40a.
£350
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HARDY, G. H. A Mathematician’s Apology.
Cambridge: The University Press, 1940
Octavo. Publisher’s beige cloth, printed paper spine label,
with the dust jacket. Additional spine label tipped onto rear
free endpaper. Spine of dust jacket darkened, short tears to
front joint of jacket, spine ends neatly strengthened with
Japanese tissue to the reverse. A very good copy.
first edition. “Here is a personal account by a
mathematician of distinction of what mathematics
has meant to him as a man. It is intended for those
who are not mathematicians, the author frankly
recognizing that there is said to be a mystery about
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Pure Theory
of Capital. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1941
Octavo. Original publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered gilt,
with the rare dust jacket. With figures in the text. Pastedowns with some offset from the boards, dust jacket with
minor abrasion to the rear panel, the spine darkened with a
small paper label to the foot, slightly chipped at the head.
An excellent copy.
first edition of this scarce title, which showed
“the very complex nature of capital and its importance in economic booms and slumps, and stands as
a classic in the field.” (Butler). Hayek “provides lucid
expositions of his notions of ‘inter-temporal equilib-
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the ‘vertical or successive division of labor’. Although
Hayek rejects the concept of a ‘supply of capital’ as a
measurable quantity, he derives a meaningful ‘marginal productivity of investment’” (IESS).
IESS 1941b.
£4,750
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HELLER, Joseph. Catch-22. A Novel. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1961
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in bright blue
morocco, titles to spine blocked in white copied from the
original spine, pictorial onlay of a red figure to front board
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Czech poet Jindřich Heisler, scarce in the glassine
jacket. It was preceded by the 1941 clandestine selfpublished edition with original tipped-in silver gelatin prints.
£2,750
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Octavo. Original half japon, blue-green paper sides, black
morocco title label to spine, top edge trimmed, others
uncut, blue-green endpapers. With the original patterned
slipcase. Spine faintly darkened, else exceptionally bright.
A fine copy in a an edge-rubbed slipcase, with one corner
starting to fray. From the library of American book collector Ruth Helen Kaufmann, with her bookplate to the front
pastedown.
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, titles to spine in black
and to front wrapper in red and black. With the glassine
jacket. 28 heliogravures. Spine lightly toned, slight abrasion
to front free endpaper; an exceptional copy.
first edition, inscribed by the author on
the front blank, “To Michelle with good wishes Joseph Heller.”
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New
York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929
HEISLER, Jindřich. Na jehlách těchto dní.
[On the Needles of These Days.] Prague: Fr.
Borový v Praze, 1945
£1,875
copied from the dust jacket, decorative endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
signed limited edition, number 307 of 510 copies
on large paper signed by the author, in the publisher’s
slipcase also numbered 307, published simultaneously with the trade edition on 27 September 1929. A Farewell to Arms was the only Hemingway novel published
in signed limited edition format.
[100051]
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£8,750
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(HIRST,
Damien.)
SABBAG,
Robert.
Snowblind. A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade.
Introduced by Howard Marks. Edinburgh: Rebel
Inc., 1998
Octavo. Original glass mirror boards with sliver spine, titles
to spine in blind. With the metal credit card style bookmark
and the rolled-up $100 bill. Housed in the original printed
slipcase. Book designed by Damien Hirst. Boards slightly
scuffed. An excellent copy.
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signed limited edition. Number 211 of 1,000 copies signed by Robert Sabbag, Damien Hirst and Howard Marks on the title page.
£2,000
[100162]
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HOBBES, Thomas. The Moral and Political
Works. Never before collected together. To
which is prefixed, the author’s life, Extracted
from That said to be written by Himself, as
also from The Supplement to the said Life by
Dr. Blackbourne; and farther illustrated by the
Editor, with Historical and Critical Remarks on
his Writings and Opinions. London: Printed in the
Year 1750
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Folio (345 × 226 mm). Early 19th-century polished calf, spine
gilt in compartments, black morocco label, spine dated at
foot, sides with thick-and-thin gilt rule border, marbled
endpapers and edges. Engraved portrait, engraved Leviathan frontispiece. Provenance: G. Harding of Middle Temple and W. Vaughan of the Royal Medical Society, ownership
signatures on engraved title (the first crossed through, with
another dated 1836) and occasional ink marginalia; indistinct Arabic ownership stamp on both titles; Captain Willim (John Gurens Willim, 1778?–1864, retired captain in the
army of the East India Company, and disliked stepfather of
George Eliot’s common-law husband, George Henry Lewes), bookplate. Rubbed, joints cracking, occasional light
browning, some ink marginalia cropped, still a good copy.
first complete collected edition of Hobbes’s
English works. The editor shows himself to be entirely comfortable in Hobbes’s world of thought but
is anonymous and has eluded all attempts at identification. It was not superseded until the 11 volumes of
William Molesworth’s edition (1839–45).
MacDonald & Hargreaves 107.
£2,750
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HOCKNEY, David; Stephen Spender (eds.)
Hockney’s Alphabet. London: Faber and Faber for
the Aids Crisis Trust, 1991
Folio. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in blue and
gilt. Housed in the publisher’s grey cloth slipcase. 26 colour drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet, by David
Hockney. Written contributions by: Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble,
Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Seamus Heaney,
David Hockney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Erica Jong, Doris Lessing,
Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch,
Nigel Nicolsen, John Julius Norwich, Joyce Carol Oates, V.
S. Pritchett, Craig Raine, Susan Sontag, Stephen Spender,
John Updike, Anthony Burgess, Ted Hughes, Paul Theroux,
Gore Vidal, and T. S. Eliot. A fine copy.
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signed limited edition, specially bound in yellow
buckram and signed by Hockney and Spender. The
book was issued in a trade edition and two limited
editions: the present edition (limitation not stated)
and a deluxe limited edition of 300 copies bound in
quarter vellum. It was a collaborative effort, created to
raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Spender invited
several British and American writers to contribute
with texts that could accompany Hockney’s specially
drawn alphabet. Writers who contributed include several Faber authors such as William Golding, Seamus
Heaney, Ted Hughes, and Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as
Ian McEwan, Iris Murdoch, and Gore Vidal. Norman
Mailer declined, but his “letter refusing seemed such a
good model for Polite Rejection” that it was nonetheless published as his contribution (Preface).
£600
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HODGSON, William Hope. The Ghost Pirates.
London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1909
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liam Hope Hodgson—”May we be friends e’en though
we disagree”. Sept. 21st ‘09.” In the preface, Hodgson
writes that the book completes “what may be termed
a trilogy; for, though different in scope, each of the
three books deal with certain conceptions that have an
elemental kinship”. It follows The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” (1907) and The House on the Borderland (1908).
£7,500
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HODGSON, William Hope. Carnacki the
Ghost-Finder. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt,
boards ruled in blind. Spine slightly rolled and a little faded,
minor foxing to edges and contents. An excellent copy.
first edition of this collection of occult detective
short stories.
Queen’s Quorum 53.
£3,500
[101605]
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt.
Monochrome frontispiece. Spine rolled and slightly faded,
spine ends rubbed, tips lightly bumped. An excellent copy.
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the front free endpaper: “N. Rendall, Esq. from Wil45
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HOLIDAY,
Billie.
Inscribed
original
promotional photograph of Billie making a
personal appearance at the Groove Record
Shop, Chicago. Chicago: Photos by Caldwell, 1941
Glossy 8 × 10 ins (230 × 247 mm) silver gelatin photograph.
Signed by the photographer in white bottom right-hand corner recto, and with studio wet-stamp, and blue pencil markings for cropping for publication verso. Staple holes to both
right-hand corners, some creasing at the corners, small
splash mark lower left, finger-soiling verso, but overall very
good and presenting well.
A wonderful image, which remains untraced elsewhere despite our best efforts, of a smiling Lady Day
in the noted Chicago store with a small group of admiring fans. Inscribed by her “To Too [sic] fine and
Mellow People Bernice an [sic] Bill, stay on it, Billie
Holiday”. Billie is holding an OKeh disc in sleeve,
which neatly dates the image as she only recorded
for the label during 1941; her output during that year
including “God Bless the Child”, one of her biggest
hits. The Groove Record Shop was at 47th Street and
South Parkway Boulevard, now Martin Luther King
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Drive, on Chicago’s south side and was run by Bernice
and Bill Chavers, who are almost certainly pictured
behind the counter with Billie. Bernice was the sister of George and Ernie Leaner; when she took over
ownership of the shop on divorce from Bill in 1945 it
provided the springboard to launch her brothers into
the music business, ending with their establishment
of the One-derful label whose tougher blues-oriented
soul provided competition for Vee-Jay, OKeh, and
Chess’s smoother product in the 1960s. Bill Chavers
went on to run Old Wells Record Shop, a well-loved
hipster hangout and musician’s haunt in Chicago’s
Old Town. An unusual and wonderfully evocative image with excellent provenance.
£8,500
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HOLIDAY, Billie. Don Friedman Presents Lady
Sings the Blues. New York: Don Friedman, 1956
Quarto. Wire-stitched in the original light card pictorial
wraps. Profusely illustrated with artist portraits. Wraps with
some light surface rubbing, but overall very good indeed.
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Extremely uncommon, stylish and stark monochrome
programme for the 1956 Carnegie Hall concert presentation of Lady Day’s harrowing autobiography, no copies traced institutionally. In his sleeve notes to the 1961
album release critic Nat Hentoff recalled: “Throughout the night, Billie was in superior form to what had
sometimes been the case in the last years of her life.
Not only was there assurance of phrasing and intonation; but there was also an outgoing warmth, a palpable eagerness to reach and touch the audience. And
there was mocking wit. A smile was often lightly evident on her lips and her eyes as if, for once, she could
accept the fact that there were people who did dig her
… The beat flowed in her uniquely sinuous, supple way
of moving the story along; the words became her own
experiences; and coursing through it all was Lady’s
sound—a texture simultaneously steel-edged and yet
soft inside; a voice that was almost unbearably wise in
disillusion and yet still childlike, again at the centre.
The audience was hers from before she sang, greeting
her and saying good-bye with heavy, loving applause.
And at one time, the musicians too applauded. It was a
night when Billie was on top, undeniably the best and
most honest jazz singer alive”.
Billie was accompanied by Chico Hamilton’s Quintet,
with long-time Holiday accompanist Carl Drinkard
on piano, Kenny Burrell, guitar, Carson Smith, bass,
and Hamilton on drums, joined variously by Roy
Eldridge and Buck Clayton on trumpet, Coleman
Hawkins and Al Cohn on sax, and Tony Scott on clarinet. A feature of the concerts was four extracts from
the book, read by Gilbert Millstein of the New York
Times, an influential critic whose review of On the Road
the following year was to be a key factor in establishing Kerouac’s reputation. Millstein wrote later of the
experience: “It was evident, even then, that Miss Holiday was ill. I had known her casually over the years
and I was shocked at her physical weakness. Her rehearsal had been desultory; her voice sounded tinny
and trailed off; her body sagged tiredly. But I will not
forget the metamorphosis that night. The lights went
down, the musicians began to play and the narration
began. Miss Holiday stepped from between the curtains, into the white spotlight awaiting her, wearing a
white evening gown and white gardenias in her black
hair. She was erect and beautiful; poised and smiling.
And when the first section of narration was ended,
she sang—with strength undiminished—with all of
the art that was hers. I was very much moved. In the
darkness, my face burned and my eyes. I recall only
one thing. I smiled”.
£2,500
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[FORD] HUEFFER, Ford Madox. The Good
Soldier. A Tale of Passion. London: John Lane, The
Bodley Head, 1915
Octavo. Original brick red cloth, titles to front board in
white and to spine gilt, decoration to front board in blind,
top edge dyed brown. Spine gently rolled, corners and ends
of spine lightly bumped and with mild rubbing, spine lightly
toned, pages with toning and occasional spotting to pages.
A lovely copy.
first edition, english issue with the correct order
of publishers in the imprint on the title page. “A masterpiece of modernist technique, using an unreliable narrator to piece together a complex plot of sexual intrigue
and betrayal through elaborate time-shifts” (ODNB).
£5,000
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HUMBLEY, William Wellington Waterloo.
Journal of a Cavalry Officer; including the
Memorable Sikh Campaign of 1845–1846.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854
Octavo (242 × 152 mm). Rifle green hard-grained morocco
presentation binding, title gilt direct to the spine, low bands
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with single gilt fillet, compartments elaborately gilt with floral tools, concentric panels in gilt and blind to the boards,
single fillet edge-roll, all edges gilt, floral roll gilt to the turnins, marbled endpapers. Folding map frontispiece and two
folding plans. Loosely inserted bifolium, offering a selection
of reviews of the present work, St Neots printed; and another
with extracts from local papers regarding memorials to Humbley’s father, late Rifle Brigade and unsurprisingly a Peninsula and Waterloo veteran. Very light shelfwear, faint foxing
front and back, some offsetting from the frontispiece and
plans, but overall a very good copy indeed.
the author to his son: “William Wellesley Humbley
with the best love of his father, The Author, Cressener House, St. Neots, Jany. 10 1882”. One of the most
elusive and sought-after accounts of campaigning in
the Punjab, the work is extremely uncommon, with
just eight copies on Copac, to which OCLC adds four
more, all in North America. A graduate of Trinity
College, Cambridge, Humbley (1815–1886) was commissioned ensign with the 2nd West India Regiment,
and became a cornet by purchase with the 4th Light
Dragoons, before joining the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers, with whom he saw active service in the First Anglo–Sikh War. A superbly presented and provenanced
copy of this highly desirable account.
Bruce 4024; Riddick 128.
£2,500
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Typescript, matted and framed with a photograph of the
author.
Typescript of Huxley’s poem “Fifth Philosopher’s
Song,” from his collection Leda (1920), inscribed by
him at the foot, “For A. Rosewell, from the author.”
Huxley appears to have prepared a small number of
these typescripts specifically for presentation.
£1,250
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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 very gently sunned and lightly
cocked, spine ends and corners slightly bumped, mild spotting to edges. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with a few
closed tears to the slightly rubbed and creased extremities.
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HUTTON, James. Central Asia: from the Aryan
to the Cossack. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1875
Octavo. Original blue cloth neatly rebacked incorporating
the original spine, spine lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers.
Embossed library stamp of the American naturalist Albert
S. Bickmore at head of title, another at head of Contents
leaf, neat library number in red ink on title verso. Spine
slightly rolled.
first edition of this excellent and uncommon survey of the history of the region down to the Russian
expedition of 1872–3, written with a wary eye on accelerating Russianization in the khanates. The author
James Hutton (1818–1893) was born in Calcutta, the
son of a merchant. After a brief period as an ensign
in the army of the East India Company he “tumbled
into a fine fortune, tumbled out of it, then applied
himself to newspapering, [editing] the Delhi Gazette,
the Bengal Hurkura, the Englishman, the Madras Times”
(Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India, p.
186). Falling out with the Madras establishment, he
headed to England, becoming involved with Thornton Hunt and G. H. Lewes’s The Leader. “Mr Hutton
was destined, however, like so many Liberals of those
days, to become eventually a Conservative. He started
some twenty-five years ago a morning paper called
the Day, which represents the views of a particular
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section of the Conservative party, but failed, though
conducted with great ability, to obtain their active
support. After the non-success of the Day Mr Hutton
went back to India for a time. He was, indeed, connected throughout his life with Indian journalism,
now as editor, now as London correspondent” (obituary in the St James’ Gazette). Hutton was the author of
some half a dozen books and the translator of several
others, including an account of thuggee published in
1857, and a translation of Daumas’s Les chevaux du Sahara et les mœurs du désert (1863).
£1,750
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HUXLEY, Aldous. “Fifth Philosopher’s Song”,
from Leda, inscribed. [London: c.1920]
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first edition, trade issue. One of modern literature’s most appealing books, a seminal work of fiction and a triumph of book design. A superb copy in
a bright, striking jacket with the spine panel almost
entirely untanned.
£3,750
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IBN BATUTA. The Travels. Translated from the
abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved
in the public library of Cambridge. With notes
illustrative of the history, geography, botany,
antiquities, etc. occurring throughout the work.
London: for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829
Quarto (305 × 235 mm). Contemporary tan calf, both sides
with concentric panelling in gilt and blind incorporating a
pleasing palmette roll between a diced central panel and an
intermediate panel dyed brown; spine separated into compartments by flat bands tooled in gilt, titles gilt to second
on grey ground, elaborate motif blocked to third in blind,
remaining compartments with floral motif gilt to centre and
similar cornerpieces in blind; edges speckled red, marbled
pastedowns and free endpapers, pale blue endleaves, blue
silk bookmark. Presentation leaf printed in black and blue
with red foliate border. Armorial bookplate of Swedish diplomat Count Björnstjerna to front pastedown. Light rubbing
to corners, very faint wear to joints with surface splitting to
head of rear joint, a few superficial abrasions and isolated
areas of mild discolouration to boards, faint offsetting to
verso of half-title from presentation leaf. An excellent copy.
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first vernacular edition of Ibn Battuta’s Rihlah
(“Journey”), more properly known as Tuhfat al-nazzar
fi ghara’ib al-amsar wa ‘aja’ib al-asfar (A Gift for those who
Contemplate the Oddities of Cities and Marvels of Journeys);
the German scholar Kosegarten had in 1818 produced
a short edition (51 pp.) in Arabic type with Latin commentary, based on three extracts from a truncated
manuscript. The French conquest of Algeria led to
the discovery of a complete manuscript which was
used by French scholars Defrémery and Sanguinetti
to compile an edition that became the standard but
was not completed until 1874. The present edition is
the work of eminent British Orientalist Samuel Lee
(1783–1852), based on an abridged manuscript purchased by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in Egypt and
deposited at Cambridge in 1829.
Ibn Battuta was a North African legal scholar who,
upon completing the Hajj, decided to take advantage of the extensive trade routes then linking the
western Eurasian landmass to the East; travelling
over land and sea, he “is estimated to have covered
75,000 miles in forty years” (Howgego) in an odyssey that has “rightly been celebrated as the greatest
… of premodern times” (Dunn, The Adventures of Ibn
Battuta, a Muslim Traveller of the Fourteenth Century, p.
1). His wanderings encompassed North Africa, the
Horn of Africa, West Africa and Eastern Europe, the
Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia
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and China. Such a journey easily eclipses the exploits
of Marco Polo. On returning to his native Tangiers,
Ibn Battuta dictated his account to Andalusian scribe
Ibn Juzayy, who is possibly responsible for those passages that modern scholars suspect to be interpolations from sources other than the direct experience
of the author.
Each copy was issued for a dedication leaf to a specific subscriber and consequently enjoys a distinct
provenance. This copy was printed for Count Magnus Björnstjerna (1779–1847), who was for many
years Swedish Minister Resident in London, and is in
an attractive bespoke binding of superior quality to
the pebble-grain cloth in which Oriental Translation
Committee publications were typically issued.
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spotting and smudges to contents, newspaper clipping
taped to rear pastedown. A very good copy in the jacket
with lightly sunned spine and some nicks and shallow
chips to extremities.
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed
on the front free endpaper: “For Red and Gina, affectionately, Shirley. April 1951.” Hangsaman was her
second novel. Jackson led a reclusive life, and books
inscribed by her are uncommon.
£2,750
[100425]
Howgego B47, Macro 1248. Not in Atabey, Blackmer, Burrell
or Hamilton, The Arcadian Library.
£7,500
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JACKSON, Shirley. Hangsaman. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Co., 1951
Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, geometric design to
front board, titles to spine black. With the dust jacket.
Spine rolled, small dent to head of rear board, boards a
little bowed, tips and spine ends rubbed, occasional light
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JACOBS, W. W. A collection of his plays. London
& New York: Samuel French, 1907–31
JACOBS, W. W. Sea Whispers. Illustrated by
Bert Thomas. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1926]
16 works, duodecimo. Single quires sewn into original card
wrappers in a variety of colours and printed in black. Most
titles are kept in contemporary envelopes printed with a
London bookseller’s address. Housed in a brown quarter
morocco slipcase with chemise. The occasional tiny nick or
fading to wrappers, short closed tear to front wrapper of The
Monkey’s Paw, small glue stains to inside cover of chemise. A
well-preserved set in fine condition.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board
in black. With the dust jacket. Ownership signature and gift
inscription to front free endpaper. Spine rolled, frontispiece
detached, contents lightly foxed; a very good copy with
bright plates in the unclipped, slightly soiled jacket, with a
few nicks, short closed tear to head of spine, minor loss to
head of spine and tape reinforcement to verso.
signed by the author: eight are signed first impressions, including his best known title, The Monkey’s Paw: The Boatswain’s Mate (1907); The Changeling
(1908); The Grey Parrot (1908); The Ghost of Jerry Bundler (1908); Admiral Peters (no date, first performed in
1909); The Monkey’s Paw (1910); In the Library (1912);
and Keeping Up Appearances (1919). Four are unsigned
first impressions: A Love Passage (1913); Master Mariners
(1930); Matrimonial Openings (1931); and Dixon’s Return
(1932). The remaining titles are later impressions: The
Castaway (1924); Establishing Relations (1925); The Warming Pan (1929); and A Distant Relative (1930).
£2,250
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[100426]
first edition of this uncommon study, still one of
the few book-length treatises in English on the subject.
[99756]
first edition, in the scarce jacket.
£975
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JOHNSON, Obed Simon. A Study of Chinese
Alchemy. Shanghai: The Commercial Press, Limited,
1928
Octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine and front
cover. Small puncture to cloth on spine, some wear to extremities, boards slightly “dished”.
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JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916
Octavo. Finely bound for Asprey in dark blue morocco,
raised bands, titles and panelling to compartments gilt, single rule to boards gilt, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers.
Extremities gently sunned. Otherwise a fine copy.
first edition. 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.
£2,750
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane The
Bodley Head, 1936
Quarto (260 × 195 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, block design of the bow first designed
by Eric Gill gilt to front board, raised bands, titles to spine
gilt, gilt roll to turn ins, cream coloured endpapers, gilt top
edge others untrimmed. Some minor spotting to a couple of
leaves, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
first uk edition. From a total edition of 1,000
numbered copies, this is one of 900 on japon vellum,
unsigned. The Bodley Head Ulysses established the
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text for the succeeding 25 years. Printed as appendices are the International Letter of Protest against
Samuel Roth’s piracy and the famous legal judgement
by John M. Woolsey lifting the ban in America on the
publishing of the book.
£2,750
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JOYCE, James. Dubliners. Introduction by
Thomas Flanagan. Photogravures by Robert
Ballagh. [New York:] The Limited Editions Club, 1986
Quarto. Original green quarter morocco, cream-coloured
cloth sides, pale grey cloth slipcase. 6 photogravure plates
from photographs by Robert Ballagh. An excellent copy.
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JUDD, Donald. Écrits 1963–1990. Traduit de
l’américain par Annie Perez. Paris: Daniel Lelong
éditeur, 1991
Octavo. Original cream wrappers, titles to spine and front
cover in red and black. With the dust jacket. Very slight
bumping to tips, otherwise an excellent, bright copy.
first collected edition, number 29 of 75 copies signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
Judd’s various writings were originally published in
English; they are collected here and first published
together in French translation.
£975
[101236]
first edition thus, limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by Flanagan and Ballagh. Thomas Flanagan
(1923–2002) was an American professor of English at
the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and a
successful novelist. The Irish artist Robert Ballagh (b.
1943) has designed sets for Beckett’s Endgame (1991)
and Wilde’s Salomé (1998). With the relevant Limited
Editions Club newsletter loosely inserted.
£525
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the title page, and with the ownership inscription
of the recipient, C. E. ter Meulen, a Dutch financier
with Hope and Co. of Amsterdam, agents to the British Treasury. He attended the Amsterdam conference
in 1919 and corresponded with Keynes over international loans. Keynes resigned from his position as
principal representative of the British Treasury at the
Paris Peace Conference of 1919 in protest at the heavy
reparations demanded from Germany. The Economic
Consequences of the Peace was written directly afterwards
as a condemnation of Allied policy: Keynes would
continue arguing against the reparations in his 1922
book, A Revision of the Treaty.
Fundaburk 9981; Mattioli 1807; Moggridge A 2.1.1.
£1,250
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KENNEDY, John F. The Strategy of Peace. Edited
by Allan Nevis. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960
KEYNES, John Maynard. The Economic
Consequences of the Peace. London: Macmillan,
1919
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine red. With the dust
jacket. Minor fading to board edges; an excellent copy in the
unclipped jacket, with lightly rubbed and nicked extremities.
the front free endpaper: “To Joe, with warm regards
and best wishes. John Kennedy.”
£5,000
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Octavo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered gilt. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper of the Dutch banker
C. E. ter Meulen, family bookplate to the rear pastedown.
Gilt lettering slightly faded, corners lightly rubbed, but a
fine association copy with the author’s printed compliments
slip tipped-in.
first edition, presentation copy, with a printed “With the author’s compliments” slip tipped to
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KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory
of Employment, Interest and Money. London:
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936
Octavo. Original dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt,
spine ruled in gilt, boards in blind. Very slight fading of
rolled spine, otherwise a very good copy.
first edition of this key work. Written in the aftermath of the great depression, Keynes’ masterpiece
is generally regarded as one of the most influential
social science treatises of the century. It “subjected
the definitions and theories of the classical school of
economists to a penetrating scrutiny and found them
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seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (PMM), quickly
and permanently changing the way the world looked
at the economy and the role of government in society.
Moggridge A10; Printing and the Mind of Man 423.
£1,250
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KING, Stephen. Carrie. Garden City, NY: Doubleday
& Company, Inc., 1974
Octavo. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine gilt, black
endpapers. With the illustrated dust jacket. Top edge lightly
foxed; an excellent copy in the bright jacket.
page; the author’s first book.
£2,750
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Bombay Edition of the
Works. London: Macmillan & Co., 1913–38
KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems. 1886–1929. London:
Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1929
31 volumes, octavo (242 × 163 mm). Recent brown morocco,
centre tool to spines gilt, red and green morocco labels,
marbled endpapers, decorative roll to boards, top edges gilt,
others untrimmed. Browning to half-title, the occasional
minor blemish, an excellent set.
3 volumes, quarto. Original red full crushed morocco, gilt
elephant’s head motif on spines and covers, decorative gilt
turn-ins, top edges gilt, untrimmed, marbled endpapers,
housed in a fleece-lined, red cloth slipcase. Etched portrait
frontispiece of Kipling by Francis Dodd (signed by the artist), title pages and divisional titles printed in red and black.
Spines only lightly sunned. An excellent set.
the bombay edition, one of only 500 possible
complete sets signed by the author on the
half-title. The Bombay edition was initially published
in 20 volumes and limited to 1,000 copies. Kipling
continued to write and the edition eventually grew
to 31 volumes, but the last 11 volumes were limited to
500 copies only. Because later volumes were issued
separately and at a lower limitation, complete sets
such as this one are rare.
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories. London:
Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1902
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in crimson
morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands,
single rule to boards, onlay of elephant to front board, twin
rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. With
12 black and white illustrations by the author. A fine copy.
first and signed limited edition, one of 525
copies signed by the author. A beautifully produced
set, printed in Baskerville type by the Chiswick Press
on handmade paper, and very much in the manner
of the superb Sussex Edition of Kipling’s works—
”planned by Macmillan as a monument to the author who had been a pillar of the firm’s prosperity”
(ODNB). Some previously unpublished material was
included by Kipling (six additional poems in the series “The Muse Among the Motors”, together with a
new Act (III) and additional notes for “The Marréd
Drives of Windsor”). Richards notes that, according to the Kipling Journal for January 1930, the text was
revised throughout by the author “with numerous
emendations and explanatory subheadings”.
Richards A386; Stewart 574.
£2,500
first edition.
£2,500
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KLEIN, William. Life is Good & Good for You
in New York. Trance Witness Revels. London:
Photography Magazine, [1956]
KLEIN, William. Rome. New York: The Viking
Press, 1959
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom solander box.
Illustrated throughout with monochrome photographs. A fine
copy in the bright, price-clipped jacket with repaired chip to
foot of front panel, spine ends rubbed and nicked with reinforcement to rear, and short closed tear to head of rear panel.
first uk edition, presentation copy, inscribed
on the half-title: “To Dennis, Happy New York, William Klein. April ’03.” Klein’s classic photography
work was first published earlier the same year, and
is the first of his four city books which include Rome
(1960), Moscow, and Tokyo (both 1964).
£4,250
[100606]
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine in white, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout
from photos by the author. Boards a little bowed, internally
fine; an excellent copy in the bright, slightly rubbed jacket,
with a few nicks to extremities.
first edition in english of the second book in
Klein’s series of city-focussed photography titles. It
was simultaneously published in France, the UK, US,
and Japan.
£975
[100915]
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KNOX, Ronald. Essays in Satire. London: Sheed
and Ward, 1928
Octavo. Original grey cloth over bevelled boards, red morocco label, top edges gilt, untrimmed. Neat presentation
inscription on front free endpaper, spine sunned otherwise
a very good copy.
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first edition, limited to 250 copies numbered
and signed by the author. A collection of pieces that
had appeared in various periodicals, but with a new
Preface and lengthy Introduction, including an essay
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about Knox’s beloved Trollope (“A Ramble in Barsetshire”), his “proving” that Queen Victoria wrote In
Memoriam (“The Authorship of “In Memoriam”) and
particularly “Studies in the Literature of Sherlock
Holmes”, mentioned by Eric Quayle in The Collector’s
Book of Detective Fiction, who also describes Essays in
Satire as displaying “Father Knox’s erudite virtuosity
… to the full”.
£525
[99725]
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(KUNG FU.) Honourable Master Leong Fu.
Chinese Kung-Fu Karato (Atado) … The Chinese
Art of Self-Defence that is Executed Almost
Without any Bodily Contact. (Leong Fu System
of Self-Defence). Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia: 1958
21 red and white card wallets containing loose sheets, front
wrappers printed and illustrated in black, rear wrappers
illustrated with a photographic portrait of Leong Fu. Illustrated front wrappers to each number, photographic profile
of Leong Fu to rear wrapper of each number, illustrated and
photographic figures to loose sheets throughout numbers
1–21. First number front wrapper almost split but holding,
with a small chip to front top fore-corner, otherwise general
rubbing and creasing to extremities, generally the set in very
good condition.
137
uncorrected proof copy. The final novel of the
Karla trilogy, following Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The
Honourable Schoolboy.
£750
[101700]
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first editions, a rare complete set, of KungFu Karato (Atado) founder Leong Fu’s illustrated
martial arts training series. Leong Fu Lee trained
in China, but when it became a republic in 1948 he
moved to Japan, then settled in Malaysia and opened
his own school, teaching his own brand of amalgamated “Atado Karate” (Atado was his nickname).
Rare complete, with no copies recorded by OCLC in
any libraries internationally, and no trade records in
the usual channels.
£750
[99775]
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LASSER, David. The Conquest of Space. New
York: Penguin Press, 1931
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and front
board gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece, 3 plates, 6 illustrations in the text. Spine faded, tips a little worn, front
hinge starting, rear hinge cracked but holding, spine ends
slightly bumped. A very good copy in the jacket with a crude
home repair to head of spine, short closed tears and minor
chips to extremities, 7 cm closed tear to head of rear panel.
the front free endpaper: “To Fred Durant, a real pioneer & leader in the conquest of space. David Lasser.
3/19/74.” Frederick Durant was a key advisor to the US
military, intelligence, and civilian space-flight programs of the 1950s and 1960s. With a laid-in photo
of the Lasser and Ed Pendray display at the Smithsonian in Washington. Pendray was an early advocate of
rockets and spaceflight.
£2,500
[101825]
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LE CARRÉ, John. Smiley’s People. London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1980
Octavo. Original cream wrappers, titles to spine black. With
the trial dust jacket. Spine rolled, contents toned. A very
good copy in the rubbed wrappers and slightly faded jacket.
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first edition. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction. It is “an authentic and nostalgic story which
in rare fashion at once puts together the tenderness
and the tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable
ingredients of a region much reported but seldom so
well understood” (Jonathan Daniels).
£7,500
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LEM, Stanislaw. Solaris. Translated by Joanna
Kilmartin and Steve Cox. London: Faber & Faber,
1971
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Upper tip a little bumped, small abrasion to
front free endpaper, edges and endpapers lightly foxed; an
excellent copy in the unclipped, lightly soiled jacket.
first edition in english. First published ten
years earlier in Poland under the same title.
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LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia:
J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960
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Octavo. Original green cloth-backed brown boards, brown
lettered spine. With the dust jacket. Price-clipped jacket
creased at extremities, light foxing to top edge of book
block, otherwise a very good copy.
£325
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LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera.
London: Reader’s Library, 1925
Octavo. Original red cloth boards, titles to spine and front
board gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with scenes from
the film. Light wear to ends of spine and corners, pages
toned, inscription to front endpaper, in the dust jacket. An
excellent dust jacket.
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cellent copy in a jacket with small chip to head of spine, tiny
closed tear and scuff marks to rear panel.
first edition. These photographs were taken over
a number of years, starting in the 1940s. Levitt and
Agee planned the publication in 1950, five years before Agee’s death.
Parr & Badger I, 252; Roth, p. 178.
£975
[101843]
first uk photoplay edition. Illustrated with
scenes from the 1925 Universal production starring
Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin and Gibson Gowland, and with wonderful dust jacket art.
The film screenplay was based on the novel by French
writer Gaston Leroux, first serialized in 1909–10 and
published in book form in 1910.
£1,500
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LEVY, Julien. Surrealism. New York: The Black Sun
Press, 1936
Quarto. Original white boards decorated in purple, titles
to spine and front board in purple. With the dust jacket.
65 black and white images. Printed in black and purple on
white, green, yellow, and pink paper. Bookseller’s ticket to
rear pastedown. Top corner a little bumped; an exceptional
copy in the jacket with slightly sunned spine, very minor
chip to front panel, and a few nicks to extremities.
first edition of this early work on Surrealism. One
of 1,500 copies printed, and scarce in the jacket.
£975
[100617]
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LEWIS, C. S. The Screwtape Letters. London:
Geoffrey Bles, 1942
142
Octavo. Original black cloth, printed paper label to spine.
With the dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front free
endpaper. Spine slightly rolled, tips a little bumped; an excellent copy in the bright jacket with a few nicks and shallow
chips to extremities, short closed tear to head of rear panel,
and a small ink stain to spine panel.
LEVITT, Helen. A Way of Seeing. Photographs
of New York, with an essay by James Agee. New
York: The Viking Press, 1965
Oblong quarto. Original black cloth, titles to front cover and
spine in white, buff endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with 51 mainly full-page photographs. Small
ownership signature to front free endpaper in pencil. An ex-
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£3,500
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LEWIS, Wyndham. Hitler. London: Chatto &
Windus, 1931
Octavo. Original pale red and white cloth, titles to spine
black, swastika to front board black, top edge yellow. With
the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 plates. Extremely minor
foxing to contents; an exceptional copy in the professionally
restored dust jacket.
first edition of the book which helped gain Lewis
a reputation for being a Nazi sympathiser. In it, he
described Hitler as “a man of peace” and dismisses
the Jewish question as a “racial redherring”. In 1939,
he published The Hitler Cult, in which he reversed his
previously favourable impression of Hitler. With the
publisher’s publicity slip laid-in.
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first edition, presentation copy to ira gershwin, inscribed by Loewe on the front free endpaper:
“August 8th 1948. To Ira with all my admiration, Fritz”.
£2,750
[100939]
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LOWELL, Robert. Land of Unlikeness.
Massachusetts: Cummington Press, 1944
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine and front board
red, buff endpapers. Housed in a custom red solander box,
£5,750
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Ultramarine.
London:
first edition.
146
£2,750
LOEWE, Frederick, & Alan Jay Lerner. Brigadoon.
New York: Sam Fox Publishing Company, 1948
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first edition, signed limited issue, number 6
of 26 copies printed on Dacian paper and signed by
the author, from an edition of 250 only; the author’s
first book of poetry.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white. With the
supplied dust jacket. Housed in blue quarter morocco solander box with cream cloth sides. Board edges slightly faded,
minor foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the price-clipped
jacket, with a little soiling and a few nicks to extremities.
[101673]
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to front board gilt. Extremities sunned, tail of spine slightly worn, small loss to
head of spine, margins of text block toned. A very good copy.
with a section of the original glassine dust jacket laid-in.
Woodcut to title page by Gustav Wolf, printed in red and
pale blue. Board edges a little faded, head of spine very
slightly worn; an excellent copy.
LOWRY, Malcolm.
Jonathan Cape, 1933
Morrow & Lafourcade A13.
£1,500
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Giacomo Lusignan who later acted as a factotum for
the Earl of Guildford” (Blackmer).
Not in Atabey, Burrell, Macro or Hamilton, The Arcadian
Library.
£2,750
[100899]
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MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
Illustrated with numerous engravings. London:
Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852
2 volumes, octavo. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt
lettered spines gilt decorated with thistles, roses and shamrocks, yellow endpapers carrying publisher’s advertisements,
top edges gilt. Wood-engraved frontispieces, vignette halftitles, 116 vignettes in text. Spines rolled, a few nicks to bindings and marks to covers, scattered foxing, but a nice set.
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LOWRY, Malcolm. Under the Volcano. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1947
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and front board
in red. With the dust jacket. Spine and board edges slightly
faded; an excellent copy in the lightly nicked jacket with
faintly sunned spine.
first edition. The novel was published simultaneously in Britain and the USA.
£1,250
[101045]
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LUSIGNAN, Sauveur. A history of the revolt of
Ali Bey, against the Ottoman Porte, including
an account of the form of government of Egypt;
together with a description of Grand Cairo,
and of several places in Egypt, Palestine, and
Syria: to which are added, a short account of the
present state of the Christians who are subjects
to the Turkish government, and the journal
of a gentleman who travelled from Aleppo to
Bassora. London: James Phillips, 1783
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Octavo. Uncut in the original grey boards, paper backstrip,
printed paper label to spine. With a laid-in typed translation
into Italian of a British newspaper report of Joachim Murat’s invasion of Sicily, dated Messina, 19 September 1810.
Contemporary manuscript correction to author’s address
on title page, rubbed and marked overall, corners and head
of spine bumped, surface splitting to tail of both joints and
along rear hinge, old restoration to backstrip at tail, occasional light foxing as usual. Complete with the errata leaf.
A good copy.
first edition, rare in the original boards. An important account of the revolt of ‘Ali Bey, the shaykh
al-balad of Egypt who declared the country independent of the Ottoman Empire before proceeding to seize control of the Hijaz and invade Syria.
His rule ended following the insubordination of his
most trusted general, Abu al-Dhahab, which led to
Ali Bey’s exile then death outside the walls of Cairo.
“Very little is known of Lusignan, who claims to have
known Ali Bey personally. He seems to have been a
Greek or more probably a Cypriot who took refuge in
London; he advertises himself as a teacher of ancient
and modern Greek (on A5v), but there is no mention
of him in Legrand. Perhaps he is connected with the
second edition, and the first thoroughly
illustrated one, following Bentley’s 1841 first edition, which had only four plates over three volumes. An
attractive copy in the original cloth of this important
early work on popular delusions of all types, considering the credulous enthusiasm of mankind for phenomena such as alchemy, witchcraft, relics, the Crusades, urban myths, as well as economic events such
as the tulip bubble. Still in print, Mackay’s book has
had a profound influence on economics and sociology,
with many modern economists referring to his work
when analysing the stock market bubbles of our own
age. “Charles Mackay’s passionate erudition and urbane, unaffected prose style contributed to make him
one of the chief figures in the establishment of Victorian journalism as a dignified profession” (ODNB).
£950
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MACPHERSON, Sir William Grant, et al.
Medical Services Surgery of the War. London: Her
Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1922
2 volumes, octavo. Original green sand-grain cloth, gilt lettered spines. 23 colour plates, many monochrome plates,
numerous illustrations to the text. Occasional marginalia
and underlining, otherwise a very good set.
first and only edition, produced in print runs
of 1,000 and 1,500 copies respectively. The first volume includes sections on projectiles, the effects of
gas, trench foot, surgical work in field ambulances,
the development of casualty clearing stations, chest
and abdominal wounds; the second volume includes
extensive coverage of wounds to the head, neck, the
spine; the organization of orthopaedic treatment;
amputations and artificial limbs. Macpherson, the
general editor of the Official History Medical Series, was later to become colonel commandant of
the Royal Army Medical Corps, having been deputy
director-general medical services in the First World
War. During the war he was mentioned in despatches
nine times, and received honours from France, Italy
and the United States, picking up the sobriquet “Ti-
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ger Mac” on account of his ferocious energy and attention to detail.
Wells, Official Histories of the Great War, p. 72.
£950
[99887]
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MALCOLM, Sir John. The History of Persia,
from the Most Early Period to the Present
Time: containing an Account of the Religion,
Government, Usages, and Character of the
Inhabitants of that Kingdom. London: for John
Murray and Longman and Co., by James Moyes, 1815
2 volumes, quarto (294 × 228 mm). Contemporary half
russia, marbled sides, decorative gilt spines, red speckled
edges. Large folding map, 22 engraved plates (8 from archaeological sites, 8 topographical, 6 stipple portraits).
Contemporary bookplates of John Garratt (1786–1859, Lord
Mayor of London 1824–5). Joints rubbed (inner hinges neatly strengthened), closed-tear to map, plates lightly foxed. A
handsome set in a period binding.
first edition. An interesting and important work
by the diplomatist and administrator in India Sir John
Malcolm (1769–1833). Sent on a diplomatic mission
to Tehran in early 1810 Malcolm was received “with
pomp and cordiality”, developed a trusting relation-
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ship with the shah, and found time to introduce the
potato to the country (known locally as “Malcolm’s
plum”). “His classic History of Persia, which appeared
in 1815, brought him an honorary doctorate of laws
from Oxford. Translated into French (1821), German
(1830), and Persian (n.d.), the history was particularly valuable for contextualizing events surrounding his
own time in Persia, and served as the standard western work for about a century” (ODNB).
Aracadian Library 12281, and p. 91 refers; Diba p. 85; Ghani
p. 236; Schwab 360; Wilson p. 134.
£3,750
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MALORY, Sir Thomas. The Byrth, Lyf, and
Actes of Kyng Arthur; of his noble knyghes of the
rounde table, their merveyllous enquestes and
adventures, thachyevyng of the Sanc Greal; and
in the end le morte darthur, with the dolourous
deth and departyng out of thys worlde of them
al. With an introduction and notes by Robert
Southey. London: printed from Caxton’s Edition,
1485, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, by
Thomas Davidson, 1817
2 volumes, quarto (247 184 mm). Finely bound in mid-19thcentury (dated 1868) brown pebble-grained full morocco
with bevelled boards, spines in compartments with raised
bands and gilt titles direct, sides panelled with blind rules,
blind fleur-de-lis tooling, gilt titles and fleuron cornerpieces, gilt-ruled turn-ins, red edges. Half-titles in both volumes. Engraved vignette to title pages, occasional engraved
initials. Very slight rubbing to extremities, some spotting
within, a very handsome set in excellent condition.
first edition thus (the ninth overall) of Malory’s
Morte D’Arthur, here printed from a newly discovered copy of William Caxton’s first edition of 1485,
with an introduction by the poet laureate Robert
Southey. This edition was the third modern printing
of Malory, following the two competing editions of
1816 (one published by Walker & Edwards, the other
by R. Wilks, both working from copies of the last
early printing, by Stansby, 1634), but presents the
first modern appearance of Caxton’s original text.
All three evince a renewed fascination with England’s medieval and fantastical heritage during the
Romantic era, not unconnected with the changes
and upheavals effected by the Industrial Revolution.
Contemporary advertisements indicate that this edition consisted of 250 copies, with 50 on large paper,
though more may have been printed—this is not the
large paper issue, but still impressively proportioned,
and presented here in a superb and characterful binding (dated 1868 in pencil on rear free endpaper of Volume 1), with hand-illuminated colour and gilt armorial crest (to Volume 1) and sword and shield device
(to Volume 2) designating the ownership of Henry V.
Tebbs, Chelsea solicitor and patron of the arts, who
was friends with Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
£1,500
[100571]
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(MAPPLETHORPE, Robert.) RIMBAUD,
Arthur. A Season in Hell. Translated by Paul
Schmidt. With photogravures by Robert
Mapplethorpe. [New York:] The Limited Editions
Club, 1986
Quarto. Original red morocco, black lettered spine and
front cover, black cloth slipcase. 8 plates by Robert Mapplethorpe; parallel texts in French and English. Small stain
on side of slipcase. An excellent copy.
first edition of this translation, limited to
1,000 numbered copies signed by both Schmidt and
Mapplethorpe; tipped-in is the original Limited Editions Club newsletter. Mapplethorpe’s illustrations
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“display a certain visionary quality” (Classe ed., Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English, vol. 2, p. 1168).
University, returning to Princeton in 1881 to teach
Latin and logic.
[100313]
Inspired by the work of W. S. Jevons, during the year
1881 Marquand designed and “constructed a logical
machine somewhat similar to the well-known machine of Prof. Jevons, and printed logical diagrams
for problems involving as many as ten terms. This
earlier instrument and the logical diagrams formed
the basis of the machine illustrated on the accompanying plate. The new machine was constructed in
Princeton during the winter of 1881–82 by my friend
Prof. C. G. Rockwood, Jr., whose mechanical skill
and untiring patience gave me invaluable assistance
… Like the instrument of Prof. Jevons, and that of
Prof. Venn, it is constructed for problems involving
only four terms, but more readily than either of those
instruments admits of being extended for problems
involving a larger number of terms.”
£975
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MARQUAND, Allan. A New Logical Machine.
[Reprinted from the Proceedings of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol.
XXI.] Boston: The American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 1886
Octavo (242 × 157 mm), pp. 303–307 + 3 blank pages. Sewn
as issued in printed stiff paper wrappers. Plate with 2 photographic images of the logical machine. Wrappers split
along spine with a couple of tiny chips. Internally in excellent condition
original offprint of Allan Marquand’s presentation of his new logical machine to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences in November 1885. A
student of Charles Sanders Peirce, Marquand (1853–
1924) graduated from Princeton in 1874 and obtained
his PhD in philosophy in 1880 from Johns Hopkins
OCLC locates only four copies, at Yale, Harvard, Cornell and
Princeton.
£5,500
[100212]
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MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel García. One Hundred Years
of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by
Gregory Rabassa. New York: Harper & Row, 1970
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first edition of the work that “perhaps more than
any other of his works, has been viewed by posterity as the kernel of his social philosophy” (ODNB).
“Many of Mill’s ideas are now the commonplaces
of democracy. His arguments for freedom of every
[99919]
4 works, octavo. Publisher’s deluxe brown calf, spines with
titles in gilt and decoration featuring five characters from
the Pooh stories, also gilt, ruling and Milne monogram design to front boards in dark brown and gilt, illustrated endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated in black and white by Ernest H. Shepard. Extremities a little rubbed, the occasional
minor mark to contents, pastedowns of When We Were Very
Young mildly cockled. An excellent set.
158
MILL, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: John W.
Parker and Son, 1859
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MILNE, A. A. [The Winnie-the-Pooh books:]
When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh;
Now We Are Six; The House at Pooh Corner.
London: Methuen & Co, 1928–9
[100600]
Octavo. Original purple vertical-ribbed cloth, covers with border blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt and with Greek key
roll in blind at top and bottom, brick red endpapers. Spine
ends skilfully repaired. Some fraying along rear joint, covers
somewhat faded and rubbed. Pale stain to page 75, occasional
pencil side-ruling and marginalia, still a very good copy.
Printing and the Mind of Man 345.
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first edition in english. One Hundred Years of Solitude was originally published in Argentina in 1967 under the title Cien años de soledad.
kind of thought and speech have never been improved on. He was the first to recognize the tendency of a democratically elected majority to tyrannize
over a minority” (PMM).
£3,250
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s
device to front board gilt, green endpapers. With the dust
jacket in the first state, with the exclamation mark at end
of first paragraph on front flap. Corners and ends of spine
lightly rubbed, small spot to front board, in the dust jacket
with chip to lower edge of rear panel, creasing and short
closed tear to top end of spine and front panel top edge
£1,250
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A beautiful set in the deluxe publisher’s binding;
seventeenth, seventh, fourth, and third editions respectively.
£1,750
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MISHIMA, Yukio. Five Modern No Plays.
Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957
Octavo. Original black cloth-backed red boards, titles to
spine in metallic purple, titles, floral decoration and rules
to front board in blind, top edge yellow. With the dust jacket. 8 black and white plates. A couple of minor spots to top
edge; an excellent copy in the slightly rubbed jacket with a
few nicks to extremities.
first edition, signed by the author on the
front free endpaper in English and Japanese.
£2,250
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foxed. A very good copy, with the four pages of publisher’s
terminal advertisements.
tremities and with a couple of small faint marks. An exceptionally bright and fresh copy in fine condition.
rare first edition: Copac records only three
copies (Oxford, Cambridge, and Liverpool; not in
the British Library) and OCLC adds just the copy
at Columbia. Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas’ud ibn
Agha, or Mehmet Ali Pasha (1769–1849) was an Ottoman viceroy and founder of the Egyptian royal
family, who played the leading role during the
long-running Egyptian–Ottoman wars (1831–1840).
The war was concluded when the British fleet bombarded Egyptian forces in Beirut in early September
1840 and an Anglo-Ottoman force landed, forcing
an Egyptian retreat.
signed limited edition, number 110 of 200 copies signed by the artist; with a signed lithograph of “Seated Mother and Child” (1973), which
is printed on Barcham Green, numbered 35/100 and
housed in its original card chemise, loosely inserted
as issued. This deluxe edition of the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work in the print medium from
1931 to 1972 is illustrated with gorgeous reproductions which truly capture the texture and colour of
the prints. Moore’s earliest prints, made when he was
a student, were woodcuts, but he quickly moved on
to etching and lithograph. At the time this book went
to press he was experimenting with aquatints in colour and soft ground etching. The preface, by Alistair
Grant, is in English, French, and German.
£950
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(MOHAMMED ALI OF EGYPT.) The Life of
Mohammed Ali, Viceroy of Egypt. To which
are appended, the Quadruple Treaty and the
Official Memoranda of the English and French
Ministers. London: E. Churton, 1841
(MOORE, Henry.) CRAMER, Gérald; Alistair
Grant; David Mitchinson. Henry Moore.
Catalogue of Graphic Work. 1931–1972. Geneva:
Gérald Cramer, 1973
Small octavo. Original grey-green limp cloth, lettered in gilt
on the front cover, marbled endpapers. Engraved vignette
title incorporating a portrait of Mehmet Ali, engraved folding map of the Middle East. Engraved title and map lightly
£1,750
[100475]
Large quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to spine in white.
With the pictorial dust jacket and original brown cloth slipcase. Lithograph size: 175 × 250 mm (sheet size: 235 × 304
mm). Colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout in
colour and black and white. Slipcase mildly rubbed at ex-
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MOTHERWELL, Robert (ed.) The Dada
Painters and Poets: An Anthology. New York:
Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc., 1951
NAIPAUL, V. S. A House for Mr Biswas. London:
Andre Deutsch, 1961
[100830]
NIELSEN, Kay. East of the Sun and West of the
Moon. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1914]
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration
to spine and front board gilt, pictorial endpapers. Tipped-in
colour frontispiece and 24 colour plates with printed tissueguards. Mild offsetting to endpapers. An excellent copy.
first nielsen edition. The richness of Nielsen’s
colour images for this lavish illustrated book were
achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many
of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries,
such as Rackham and Dulac, which characteristically
utilized a traditional three-colour process.
[100430]
£3,750
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first edition, inscribed in pencil by marcel
duchamp to the publishers on the title page:
“Hulbeck forever, to Wittenborn and Schultz. No
drawing, Marcel. C. Caron et Hulbeck”. This anthology provides an overview of the Dada movement, collecting essays, manifestos, and illustrations by many
of its principal practitioners, including Arp, Breton,
Eluard, Schwitters, Hausmann, and Duchamp.
first edition of Naipaul’s first work to achieve acclaim worldwide. Uncommon in such nice condition.
£2,000
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board
in white and black. With the dust jacket. Black and white
illustrations throughout. Extremities sunned and slightly
rubbed, endpapers lightly toned, very mild toning to margins of text block. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed jacket with sunned spine panel, nicked and creased extremities,
a couple of closed tear, and tape repairs to verso of spine,
top edge and front fold.
£2,500
Octavo. Original pink boards, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Very minor foxing to edges; an exceptional copy
in the superb jacket.
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NOTT, Stanley Charles. Chinese Jade.
Throughout the ages. A review of its
characteristics, decoration, folklore and
symbolism. Introduction by Sir Cecil HarcourtSmith. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1936
Quarto. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front
board in green, Chinese characters blocked to front board
in green and red, pattern endpapers. With the dust jacket. 39
colour plates and numerous black and white photographs.
Wear to ends of spine and corners, mild soiling to boards,
in the dust jacket with just a touch of wear to extremities.
first edition.
£1,250
[100689]
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OLEARIUS, Adam. The Voyages and Travells
of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of
Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the
King of Persia … Containing a Compleat History
of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other Adjacent
Countries … Whereto are Added the Travels
of John Albert de Mandelslo … from Persia,
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into the East-Indies. Containing a particular
Description of Indosthan, the Mogul’s Empire,
the Oriental Ilands, Japan, China … London: John
Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669
Folio (317 × 196 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco label, compartments gilt with central lozenge tools
within scrolled corner-pieces. Engraved frontispiece, incorporating the title, with portraits of the ambassadors including Olearius, 6 double-page or folding engraved maps,
2 engraved portraits, engraved illustration to the text. A
little rubbed, corners bumped, judicious restoration to the
joints, head- and tail-caps, and edges, endpapers browned,
light toning with occasional spotting, a few minor splits
on the folds of the maps, the largest with some old paper
repairs verso, but overall a very good copy. Contemporary
ownership inscription of Vere Fane, 4th earl of Westmoreland to the title page, inked book label of General John
Fane, 11th earl, dated 1856 to the front pastedown, beneath
the armorial bookplate of Archibald Philip [Primrose], 5th
earl of Rosebery.
second edition in english, seven years after the
first; the first edition in German being the Schleswig
printing of 1647. This narrative was one of the most
influential accounts of both Russia and Persia of
its time. Adam Olearius, or Öschläger (1603–1671),
was the librarian and court mathematician to Duke
Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp. In 1633 he was
appointed secretary to the ambassadors Philip Cru-
sius and Otto Bruggemann on their mission to the
courts of Tsar Michael I and Shah Safi to negotiate
“arrangements by which Frederick’s newly-founded
city of Friedrichstadt should become the terminus
of an overland silk-trade” (Ency. Brit., 1911). The first
embassy travelled from Lübeck via Riga to Moscow
in 1633 and returned in April 1635 in order to receive
the duke’s ratification of the advantageous treaty that
they had negotiated with Michael; in 1636 they embarked on the second embassy travelling via Moscow
to Astrakhan and on to Persia, from where they returned in 1639 after a series of inconclusive negotiations. The book also includes the narrative of Johan
Albrecht de Mandelslo (1616–1644), who accompanied the embassy to Isfahan before setting off alone
from Hormuz to Surat, travelling through Gujarat to
Agra, Lahore, Goa, Bijapur and Malabar, and visiting
Ceylon, Madagascar, the Cape of Good Hope and St
Helena on his return voyage in 1639. Before his death
just five years later, he passed his journals and notes
to Ölschläger, who edited them for publication as
here, and published them with further descriptions
of the Coromandel coast, Bengal, Siam, Sumatra,
Java, Borneo, Bantam, the Philippines, Formosa,
China and Japan.
The Arcadian Library, p. 26, & p. 386; Atabey 884, “a late
French edition”; not in Blackmer; Cordier, Japonica, 362–8,
Indosinica 883 & Sinica 2076–7 for editions of Mandelslo;
Cross A4; Ghani p. 286, this edition; Henze III, pp. 638–44
Olearius, & p. 363 Mandelslo; Howgego I M38; SABIB, III,
pp. 575–6; Wilson p. 162, editions of Mandelslo noted at pp.
134–5; Wing O270g.
£7,250
[100022]
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Septentrionale; Traduits de l’Allemand. Paris:
Maradan, 1789–93
6 volumes together, 5 volumes quarto (274 × 214 mm) text
and folio (354 × 265 mm) atlas of plates and maps. In the
original pinkish paper covered boards, all neatly rebacked
to style with typographical labels Atlas with large folding
general area map, loosely inserted, and 10 other maps, 3 of
them folding, and 2 double-page; 97 plates, 26 of them folding; half-titles present in all volumes. Boards a little rubbed,
soiled and softened at the corners, lightly browned throughout, volume I with some marginal dampstaining, but overall
a very good, wide-margined set.
first edition of “the celebrated French translation” (Cross), of a work originally published in German, 1771–6. Volume I here is the second issue with
Maradan imprint and date of 1789, publication having been interrupted (as explained in the Avis) by lack
of sufficient paper of the quality required.
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In 1767 Catherine the Great invited Pallas to St Petersburg, where he became professor of natural history at
the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and in 1768, at the
specific request of the tsarina, he was placed in charge
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ORWELL, George. Animal Farm. A Fairy Story.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1945
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in plain pigskin, spine lettered vertically in gilt, cream endpapers, gilt
edges. A fine copy.
first edition.
£1,375
[100332]
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ORWELL, George. Nineteen
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949
Eighty-Four.
Octavo (178 × 120 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in
modern red morocco, titles to spine and front board gilt,
gilt raised bands to spine, single rule to boards, twin rule to
turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, original wrappers bound-in at rear. A fine copy.
first edition.
£1,250
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PALLAS, Peter Simon. Voyages en Différentes
Provinces de L’Empire de Russie, et dans L’Asie
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of an expedition of five naturalists and seven astronomers into Russia and Siberia. Over the next six years
the party traversed the empire from the plains of European Russia to the borders of Mongolia. “Pallas arrived
back in St Petersburg in July 1774 with a vast amount of
data and many fossil specimens, but broken in health.
His hair was whitened with fatigue, and nearly all of
his companions had died. His journals had been regularly despatched back to St Petersburg and were awaiting him on his arrival” (Howgego). Based upon these
Pallas published his major findings: “his chief geological contribution, based largely on his study of the Ural
and Altai Mountain ranges of Siberia, was the recognition of the temporal sequence of rocks from the centre
to the flanks of a range.” This French edition includes
additional material covering the findings of the natural historians Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, who died in
the Caucasus during the expedition, Ivan Ivanovich
Lepekhin, and Johann Gottlieb Georgi.
Atabey 900; Cohen-De Ricci p. 781; Cross D11 for the
English first; Howgego I, P10; Nissen, ZBI, 3076.
£3,750
[100524]
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PAUSANIUS. The Description of Greece.
Translated from the Greek. With Notes, in
which much of the mythology of the Greeks
is unfolded from a theory which has been for
many ages unknown … A New Edition with
considerable augmentations. London: Richard
Priestley, 1824
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2015, p. 126). Byron died in Greece in the year this
edition came out.
Lowndes VII p. 1807.
£1,250
[100748]
3 volumes, octavo (211 × 132 mm). Contemporary dark red
half roan, marbled sides, decorative gilt spines, red speckled edges, marbled endpapers. 2 folding engraved maps, 5
folding engraved views in Athens. Bookplates of the politician Henry Austin Bruce, first Baron Aberdare (1815–1895).
Small red ink splash on fore-edge of volumes I and II, scattered foxing or dust marking, neat repair to leaf [a3] in volume I. An attractive set in a period binding.
second edition, enlarged, of Thomas Taylor’s
translation, first published in 1794. Thomas Taylor
(1758–1835) “was one of the greatest classicists of his
day, and a convinced Neo-Platonist: ‘Taylor the Pagan’ was what Southey called him … His translation
of Pausanius, published in 1794, the only work of his
which we know Byron to have been acquainted, took
ten months, and such was the exertion he put into it
that he was deprived for ever afterwards of the use of
his forefinger in writing” (Peter Cochran, Manfred: an
Edition of Byron’s manuscripts and a Collection of Essays,
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PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. The Empty
Quarter. Being a description of the Great South
Desert of Arabia known as Rub’ al Khali. London:
Constable and Company Ltd., 1933
POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Pigling Bland.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1913
first edition (the first two printings are identical).
Extremely scarce in the jacket.
Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind
rules to the boards. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and
31 other plates, and with 2 coloured folding maps and a
similar plan. A little rubbed at the extremities, light toning,
else very good in an unclipped, slightly rubbed jacket, short
splits at the head of the spine, but no loss. Decidedly uncommon in the jacket.
£3,000
[100374]
Sextodecimo. Original grey boards, titles to front cover
and spine in white, illustration laid down to front cover.
Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author.
Spine slightly darkened, tiny chip to rear joint, boards with
a few minor marks and dents, internally bright and crisp.
An excellent copy.
first edition, with the final “N” dropped from
London in the imprint.
Linder p. 430; Quinby 25.
£1,250
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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny TownMouse. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1918
Arcadian Library 12686; Ghani 302; Howgego, III, p. 31; Macro
1781 & 1798 for the GJ.
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first edition, first issue. A record of the “greatest” of his “remarkable journeys” (ODNB). Ronald
Wingate considered that “it is mainly to him that the
world owes its present knowledge of Central Arabia”
(DNB), and his tombstone in Beirut describes him
as Greatest of Arabian Explorers, judgements that it
would be difficult to disagree with. Accompanied by
a very good copy of the January 1933 issue of the Geographical Journal containing the transcript of Philby’s
paper “Rub’ al Khali” read to the RGS 23 May 1932.
£1,750
Sextodecimo. Original green paper-covered boards, titles
to spine and front board in burgundy, colour illustration
pasted to front board, pictorial endpapers. With the printed
glassine jacket. 15 colour plates and many small monochrome illustrations by the author. Spine slightly rolled; an
exceptional copy in the slightly chipped jacket.
[101190]
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POUND, Ezra. Canzoni & Ripostes. Whereto
are appended the complete poetical works of T.
E. Hulme. London: Elkin Matthews, 1913
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine and front
board gilt, edges uncut. With the glassine jacket. Spine gently rolled, a little minor foxing to edges and contents. An
excellent copy in the stunning jacket.
first collected edition, one of 500 copies, in
the exceedingly scarce jacket. Also laid-in are six
hand-written pages of Pound’s poetry in an unidentified hand.
Gallup A7b.
£2,500
[100055]
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(THE PUNJAB.) The Maharajah Duleep Singh
and the Government. A Narrative. London: Printed
by the Ballatyne Press “For Private Circulation”, 1884
Octavo. Original black pebble-grained skiver over flexible
boards, title gilt to the front cover, single fillet blind panel
to both covers, all edges gilt, grey-blue decorative endpapers. Just a little rubbed at the extremities, endpapers lightly
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browned, a scatter of light foxing front and back, but overall
a very good copy indeed.
first edition. The child king Duleep Singh (1838–
1893), maharajah of Lahore, was carried into exile following defeat in the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–
9), converting to Christianity in 1854, obtaining a
royal audience and becoming “an immediate success” with the queen, and eventually settling in Elveden, Suffolk with Bamba Müller, his part-Ethiopian,
part-German wife, whom he had met in Cairo when
returning from his mother’s funeral in India. “Duleep
Singh loved Elveden and rebuilt the church, cottages,
and the school. His fame as a shooter of game was
revived in the grounds of the great estate”.
However, he then began a battle with the British government asserting the illegality of the annexation
of the Punjab, and he demanded to be reinstated as
maharaja. In 1886 he tried to return to India to place
himself as the prophesied head of the Sikh people,
but was arrested at Aden. He was received back into
the Sikh faith and from Paris made himself the centre
of various plots to overthrow British rule in the Punjab, scheming with Russian and Irish revolutionaries
to force the Khyber Pass, but all of these conspiracies
came to nothing. Increasingly dogged by ill health, he
sought a reconciliation with Victoria, who “responded with a full pardon through the secretary of state
on 1 August 1890”. He died in Paris in 1893, and was
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carried back to his beloved Elveden and buried in the
graveyard of St Andrew’s and St Patrick’s Church.
The present work was part of his campaign for reinstatement to the throne, and was distributed solely to
those who he felt could be of influence to that end.
It was “compiled, partly from historical sources, and
partly from private information and documents furnished” by Duleep Singh himself, and encompasses a
sketch of the early history of the Punjab; a biographical narrative of the Maharajah; and an explanation “of
the peculiar Relations in which the Maharajah stands
towards the Government, and the causes of the differences between them”.
£2,250
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RABELAIS, François. Five Books of the Lives,
Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his
son Pantagruel. Translated into English by Sir
Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony
Motteux. With an Introduction by Anatole de
Montaiglon. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) [DODGSON, Charles
Lutwidge.] CARROLL, Lewis. Aventures d’Alice
au pays des merveilles. Paris: Libraire Hachette,
[1907]
2 volumes, quarto (278 × 182 mm). Mid 20th-century red
half morocco by Bayntun, gilt panelled spines, red cloth
sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Portrait frontispiece of Rabelais, 14 monochrome plates after Louis
Chalon; titles printed in red and black, numerous decorative head and tailpieces.
limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies. A
handsomely bound set of this attractive edition of
Rabelais’s great work, with excellent presswork by
the Chiswick Press, and extra-illustrated with many
colour plates after Jules Garnier.
£650
70
[100271]
Quarto (280 × 227 mm). Original cream cloth, titles and vignette of the Cheshire Cat to spine in gilt, illustration of the
Gryphon and the Mock Turtle to front board gilt, top edge
gilt, fore edge untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Housed
in a custom brown crushed quarter morocco solander box
with spine lettered in gilt, marbled sides and pink fabric
lining. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 12 similar plates,
14 black and white illustrations to the text. Spine slightly
toned, boards very faintly marked in places, short section of
surface-splitting to tail of front joint, mild cockling to pastedowns. An excellent copy with bright plates.
deluxe signed limited edition, one of 20
printed on japon and signed by Rackham on the
limitation leaf, the remaining 250 printed on paper;
an edition not apparently mentioned by Latimore
and Haskell, who do refer to a French version but one
with the “same binding as the English trade edition”
(p. 28), which was issued in green cloth, with illustrations unmounted. The French signed limited edition is particularly desirable, as, unusually, Rackham
did not sign the English equivalent, being out of the
country when it was produced.
£5,750
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan
in Kensington Gardens. From The Little White
Bird. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green
morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands,
single rule to boards gilt, title block and pictorial onlay
of dancing elves to front board, inner dentelles, marbled
endpaers, gilt edges. With 50 tipped in colour plates, captioned tissues and numerous black and white illustrations.
An excellent copy.
best rackham edition, originally published in
1906. This edition is enlarged with a new frontispiece
and 7 full-page drawings not in the first edition.
£2,250
[101803]
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) [BARHAM, Richard
Harris.] The Ingoldsby Legends. London: J. M.
Dent & Co.; New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1907
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) LAMB, Charles & Mary.
Tales From Shakespeare. London: J. M. Dent &
Co., 1909
signed by the artist.
Large quarto. Original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and cover and top edge gilt, others untrimmed,
dark green pictorial endpapers, replacement ribbons.
Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 23 plates mounted on
green paper with printed tissue-guards, 12 tinted plates, 66
illustrations within the text. Boards a little yellowed, slight
bowing, corners a little rubbed, pages toned, bookplate to
front paste down. A very good copy.
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front cover
gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed,
original mauve ribbon ties. Frontispiece and 12 tipped in
colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A touch of soiling
and toning to boards. A very attractive copy.
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signed limited edition, number 160 of 560 largepaper copies signed by the artist.
Latimore & Haskell p. 30.
£1,250
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£950
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GOSSE, Edmund. The
Allies’ Fairy Book. London: William Heinemann,
[c.1916]
Large octavo. Original blue cloth boards, titles to spine
and front board in gilt, pictorial design blocked in gilt to
front board, top edge gilt others untrimmed, pictorial end-
papers. With 12 mounted colour plates, captioned tissues.
Corners lightly rubbed, occasional spotting to pages. An
excellent copy.
£750
[101787]
(RACKHAM, Arthur.) IRVING, Washington.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. London: George G.
Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1928
Tall quarto. Original full vellum, titles to spine and front
board gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 7 similar plates
by Arthur Rackham. Boards mildly bowed, mild spotting
and soiling to boards, bookplate to verso of front endpaper.
A lovely copy.
£2,500
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Vicar of Wakefield. London: George C. Harrap
& Co., 1929
Quarto. Publisher’s original vellum boards, gilt title to spine
and front board, triple rule to front board, pictorial endpapers. With 12 colour illustrations, and other decorations in
black and white. Signed on the limitation page by Arthur
Rackham. Corners rubbed, light soiling to boards. A very
good copy.
for England signed by the artist.
£1,000
[101807]
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) WALTON, Izaak.
The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative
Man’s Recreation. Being a discourse of rivers,
fishponds, fish and fishing not unworthy the
perusal of most anglers. London: George G. Harrap
& Co. Ltd, 1931
Quarto. Original full vellum, spine and front board lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 11 plates with printed
tissue guards, illustrations throughout by Arthur Rackham.
Boards mildly toned. A very good copy.
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£1,250
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RACKHAM, Arthur. The Arthur Rackham
Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites with New
Illustrations. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd,
1933
Octavo. Original japon, titles to spine and front board gilt,
pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates, black and white illustrations throughout the text. Faint soiling to boards, ends of
spine lightly bumped. A beautiful copy.
signed limited edition, number 294 of 460 copies signed by the artist.
£1,350
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RANSOME, Arthur. Swallows and Amazons;
Swallowdale; Peter Duck; Winter Holiday; Coot
Club; Pigeon Post; We Didn’t Mean to Go to
Sea; Secret Water; The Big Six; Missie Lee; The
Picts and the Martyrs; Great Northern? London:
Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930–47
12 volumes, octavo (195 × 130 mm). Bound by the Chelsea
Bindery in full green morocco, raised bands, titles and
panelling to compartments gilt, single rule to boards and
crossed flag design to front boards gilt, floral rolls to turnins gilt, marbled endpapers. With the original map endpapers bound in at end. All volumes illustrated except “Swallows and Amazons” which has maps only. Mild toning to
text blocks, occasional minor spotting to margins. Otherwise a fine set.
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first editions of the complete Swallows and Amazons series attractively bound.
£9,500
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(THE RAT PACK.) BEATON, Cecil. Triple
portrait, signed by Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis
Jr., and Dean Martin. Original taken 1964, later
printing.
Photogravure printed satin photographic paper (sheet size:
370 × 300 mm, image size: 203 × 175 mm). Some creasing at
the corners and margins, but overall very good.
A splendid image of the three leading Rat Packers
beneath a portrait of Edward G. Robinson, signed
by all beneath. Martin’s signature, made with a
fountain pen, has beaded somewhat on the semigloss surface.
£2,500
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RENNELL, James. Memoir of a Map of
Hindoostan; or the Mogul’s Empire: With an
Examination of some Positions in the former
System of Indian Geography; and some
Illustrations of the present one: And a Complete
Index of Names to the Map. London: Printed by M.
Brown, for the Author, 1783
Quarto (275 × 216 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, red
morocco label, spine divided by a broad gilt roll framed by
fine dotted rolls, single gilt fillet panel to the boards, board
edges gilt milled, edges stained yellow. Fine engraved allegorical frontispiece—pundits offering the shastas “into the
protection” of Britannia, “in Allusion to the humane Interposition of the British Legislature in Favor of the Natives of
Bengal, in the Year 1781”—and two maps, one of them folding. A touch rubbed, the front joint just starting, tan-burn
to the margins of the endpapers, the frontispiece trimmed
a little close, some browning, but overall a very good copy.
first edition of the descriptive memoir produced
by Rennell, “the father of Indian geography”, to accompany his map, “the first approximately correct
map of India” (ODNB). After an early career in the
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navy, during which he managed to master the art of
surveying, Rennell was employed in the service of
the East India Company as commander of small surveying vessels. A cruise to Bengal fortuitously had
him arriving at Calcutta “at the time when Governor Vansittart was anxious to initiate a survey of the
British territory. Owing to the friendship of an old
messmate, who had become the governor’s secretary, Rennell was appointed surveyor-general of the
East India Company’s dominions in Bengal, with a
commission in the Bengal engineers, dated 9 April
1764. He was only twenty-one years of age when he
met with this extraordinary piece of good fortune”.
Rennell’s survey of Bengal, which he embarked upon
commenced in 1764, was the first ever prepared. He
received the rank of major of Bengal engineers on 5
April 1776, and retired from active service in 1777, after having been engaged on the survey for 13 years. On
his return to England he began the publication of “a
new set of maps of Bengal to replace the inadequate
small-scale maps published by the East India Company from his earlier surveys, and, with the guarantee of
a bulk order from the company, had plates engraved
to publish A Bengal Atlas first in 1780 … [It] remained
the standard administrative map of Bengal for almost
fifty years, the river maps being pirated in Calcutta in
1825, and the last recorded London reprint appearing
in 1829 or 1830. Rennell’s general map of India, was
first published as ‘Hindoostan’ in 1782 and dedicated
to Sir Joseph Banks”.
£1,250
[100945]
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RIIS, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives. Studies
Among the Tenements of New York. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890
Octavo. Original blue-grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt and
dark blue, front cover in dark blue, drab brown endpapers (a
variant binding to that illustrated in Parr & Badger with no
priority assigned). 43 illustrations (18 halftones from photographs by the author). Spine sunned but an excellent copy.
first edition. How the Other Half Lives is the most
important work of the Danish-American social reformer and pioneering documentary photographer
Jacob August Riis (1849–1914). “His book is about
the tenements of New York: the overcrowded slums
of the Lower East Side that were home to boatloads
of immigrants who had come to the United States
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to seek a better life. It is a book about the American
Dream, its flipside at least. Riis charts the rise of
the tenement and the slum landlord, and takes us
by means of colourful and highly charged language
into the various ethnic communities that inhabited
the Lower east Side—Italian, Chinese, Jewish, Black
… it is one of the most important photobooks ever
published. It represents the first extensive use of halftone photographic reproductions in a book. These reproductions are rough, to say the least, but it is the
beginning, not of a photographic genre, but a photographic attitude, an ethos—humanist documentary
photography—in which the photographic social document is employed to bear critical witness to what is
going on in the world” (Parr & Badger).
Parr & Badger I, 53.
£3,250
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RILKE, Rainer Maria. Die Sonette an Orpheus.
Geschrieben als ein grab-mal für Wera Ouckama
Knoop. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923
Octavo (214 × 139 mm). Bound for the publishers by H. Sperling in blue calf, titles to spine gilt with raised bands, boards
ruled in gilt, gilt and green painted endpapers, turn-ins and
top edge gilt. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco
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solander box. Faint ink stamp to title page. Spine slightly
faded, a little wear to tips and spine, internally fine; an excellent copy.
first edition, deluxe issue, number 7 of 100
copies only specially bound, from the deluxe issue
of 300 copies printed on handmade paper by W. Drugulin. Die Sonette an Orpheus (The Sonnets to Orpheus) is
considered, along with the Duino Elegies, as Rilke’s
masterpiece. They were composed in what the author described as a “savage creative storm” during
February 1922. The inspiration was the death of the
nine-year old Wera Ouckama Knoop, a playmate of
Rilke’s daughter Ruth, and the poet dedicated them
as a “Grab-mal”, literally a “grave-marker”.
£3,250
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first edition, first issue binding. The sheets
were printed in the US, with 1,500 sets imported to
the UK, where the book was published on 5 March
1901. It was released in the US one month later, on
6 April 1901. Copies issued in the US were bound in
purple cloth, and in the UK in green, grey, red, or
dark blue cloth. The question of determining which
colour of cloth has priority is much debated; however, it is widely accepted that the earliest copies are
those bound in purple cloth, and Woolf posits that
the first copies issued in the UK were imported from
the US, having been bound in purple cloth.
Woolf A4.
£8,500
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ROLFE, Frederick, Baron Corvo. In His Own
Image. London and New York: John Lane: The Bodley
Head, 1901
Octavo. Original purple cloth boards, titles to spine and
front board in white, top edge gilt others, untrimmed. With
the dust jacket. Rubbing to white lettering on spine with
most lacking, faint cloth discolouration along top edges,
mild bumping to corners and ends of spine, but a most superior copy of a delicate publication in the profoundly rare
dust jacket with just the mildest wear.
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber
of Secrets. London: Bloomsbury, 1999
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt, illustrated onlay to front board, dark blue endpapers,
all edges gilt. No dust jacket issued. A fine copy.
first deluxe edition, signed by the author
on the half-title. With a certificate of authenticity
laid-in. This deluxe edition was published on 27 September 1999 in an edition of 7,500 copies; the regular
trade edition was first published 2 July 1998.
Errington A2(e).
£2,000
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000
Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and front board
gilt, illustrated onlay to front board, black endpapers, all
edges gilt. No dust jacket issued. A fine copy.
first deluxe edition, inscribed by the author on the dedication page: “To Jessica, Merry
Christmas! From J. K. Rowling and Harry Potter.”
With the ticket from the signing session and certifi76
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cate of authenticity laid-in. The deluxe edition was
published on 2 October 2000; the regular trade edition was published on 8 July 2000.
Errington A9(b).
£2,500
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RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981
Children.
Octavo. Original red quarter cloth, grey paper boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket and wraparound
band. Small faint dampstain to top edge of text block, board
corners lightly worn. An excellent copy in a jacket with slight
[ROWLING, J. K.] GALBRAITH, Robert. The
Cuckoo’s Calling. London: Sphere, 2013
Octavo. Original dark blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in the bright unclipped jacket.
first edition, signed by the author on the title page as Robert Galbraith. The first printing of the
first edition ran to at least 1,500 copies, with a cover
which features a quote from Val McDermid, while
the back cover has quotes from Mark Billingham and
Alex Gray. The copyright page does not have a number line but simply states “First published in Great
Britain in 2013 by Sphere”.
Errington A17(a).
£3,000
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fading to spine panel and a few light scuffs to rear panel;
wraparound band with some mild creasing and two short
closed tears with tape repairs to the verso.
Samara, Caucasian Mountains, the Caspian Sea
and area near Isfahan. September–November 1869
first edition, signed by the author and dated
16.11.84 on the title page. One of 1,000 copies issued
by Cape from US sheets. Midnight’s Children won the
1981 Booker Prize and, in 1993, the Booker of Bookers
Prize as the best novel to receive the award in the first
25 years of its existence.
Folio (leaf size 370 × 260 mm; images c.210 × 120 mm). Later
half sheep to style, old marbled boards, original label laid
down, lozenges gilt to the compartments. Fourteen watercolours corner slit-mounted or tipped onto album leaves,
neat calligraphic ink captions on the mounting leaves and
occasional in a minuscule hand at the foot of the images by
the artist. With a watercolour map/track chart loosely inserted. Overall very good.
£2,500
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(RUSSIA, THE VOLGA, AND THE CASPIAN.)
Album of fourteen original watercolours taken
on a trip from the Baltic to Russia and Persia.
Includes excellent views of Saint Petersburg,
Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Simbirsk,
An excellent group of very well-executed, high quality
amateur watercolour views by a mid-19th-century English traveller to Russia, including an unusual series of
views of the Volga cities: Nizhny Novgorod, Simbirsk,
Samara, and “Ouswan opposite Kazan on Volga”, i.e.
Verkhny Uslon village, located directly opposite Kazan
on banks of the river. Other images offer panoramas of
the Caucasus Mountains and the shore of the Caspian
Sea between Petrovskoye—the fortress first erected
in 1844, now Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan—and
Derbent, the country’s second city; the Greater Caucasus with Mount Shahdag, 14,000 feet, now in Azerbaijan; and of the environs of Isfahan. There are also
four excellent studies of Moscow showing the Kremlin, “Towers of Kremlin Moscow”; exterior and interior
views of St Basil’s Cathedral, the famous domes, and
inside a chapel; together with a sombre study of an abbess and a group of nuns. Also a lively street view titled
“In the Suburbs of St Petersburg”, with a fire watch
tower, drozhkys and a four-horse omnibus. Two other
views depict the harbour at Helsingborg and the Tivoli
Gardens in Copenhagen. The images are accompanied
by a hand-drawn “Map of route from Hull to St Petersburg,” covering the traveller’s route across the Baltic
Sea. A crisply and meticulously detailed visual record
of travels in Russia by a talented amateur observer.
£4,500
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SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Garden. London:
Michael Joseph, 1946
Octavo. Original green boards, titles and decoration to spine
and front board gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Vignettes
by James Broom-Lynne. Spine slightly rolled, tips bumped,
occasional minor foxing to contents. An excellent copy.
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selle Tynan très sympathique hommage de J Sartre.”
Kenneth Tynan’s first wife Elaine Dundy knew Sartre
well through her husband’s fierce advocacy of Sartre’s
work. A wonderful association copy.
£975
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signed limited edition. Number 137 of 750 copies signed by the author. It was published the same
month as the regular trade edition, in May 1946.
Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A44b.
£750
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SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Nekrassov. A Play. London:
Hamish Hamilton, 1956
Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, titles to spine in silver.
With the dust jacket. Light toning and soiling to boards,
in the dust jacket with soiling to spine and rear panel, occasional spotting to panels, closed tear to top end of spine
with tape at the verso, shallow chipping to corners. A very
good copy.
first uk edition, presentation copy, inscribed
by the author on the front endpaper, “A Mademoi78
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(SA’UD, King.) The Picture Story of a Memorable
Visit. [No place, perhaps Washington DC:] 1957
Folio (510 × 358 mm). Spiral bound within original green
cloth-backed printed buff boards. Profusely illustrated from
black and white photographs, text and captions in Arabic
and English, title page and section titles—printed on coloured washi paper—in Arabic. A little rubbed and soiled on
the boards with some chipping, mild finger-soiling to a few
leaves, but overall very good.
first and only edition of this commemorative
pictorial souvenir of King Sa’ud ibn ‘Abd al-’Aziz Al
Sa’ud’s official visit to the USA, from 29 January to 9
February 1957; extremely uncommon. The visit was
a key element in US political manoeuvring following the Suez Crisis, designed in large part to prevent
Soviet Russia from replacing French and British influence in the region. Sa’ud was persuaded to accept
the Eisenhower Doctrine, and $250,000,000 towards
his defence budget, and in so doing found himself
at odds with the rise of Arab nationalism and a target for Nasserist calls from Egypt for the removal of
the Arab monarchies. Following worsening conflict
with his brother Faisal over his indebtedness, and his
court’s refusal to keep pace with the modernisation
of other Arab nations, Sa’ud was forced to abdicate
in 1964, going into exile in Geneva. Publication is
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usually attributed to the US government, but the occasional awkwardness of the English, and the care in
the presentation of the Arabic captioning and titles,
suggest that it may have been produced in Saudi Arabia with American backing, positive spin at home for
a less than triumphant diplomatic foray.
£2,750
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SCHULBERG, Budd. Waterfront. New York:
Random House, 1955
Eva Marie Saint. The film was originally titled The
Hook, for which Arthur Miller wrote the screenplay;
he was replaced by Schulberg and the film retitled On
the Waterfront after the director, Elia Kazan, identified
eight former Communists in the film industry before
the House Committee on Un-American Activities
(HUAC) in 1952. Schulberg published his book a year
after the film’s release; it differs slightly from the film
and is closer to his original screenplay than the final
screen version.
£2,500
[100125]
Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to spine in brown and
black, cream endpapers, top edge blue. With the dust jacket.
Housed in a blue solander box. Small frayed patch to front
board, a few slight spots to edges; an excellent copy in the
bright, unclipped jacket with faintly sunned spine, laminate
lifting slightly, and a little toning to edges.
the front free endpaper: “For Vic and Evelyn, whose
warm hospitality and insight into the conditions I’ve
tried to describe helped in no small way to get this
job done. In affectionate friendship, Budd. Aug. 19,
1955.” The novel’s origins lay in the screenplay for
the 1954 American film about union violence and
corruption among dockworkers, starring Marlon
Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger and
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SCOTT, Robert Falcon. Antarctic Expedition—
Scott Memorial Plaque. [1913]
Embossed bronzed copper plaque (255 × 355 mm), in original ebonized wood frame (framed size, 367 × 455 mm).
Wide border of laurels, twined with a wreath bearing the
names of those who died on the expedition, at the corners
are roundels with portraits of Scott, his wife Kathleen, and
their son Peter, and the cross atop Scott’s grave cairn; the
border encloses a quartered panel with four scenes from the
expedition, a dogsled pulling away from the Terra Nova, the
pole party man-hauling a sled, the party at the pole, and the
graves of Scott, Scott, Wilson and Bowers, a central boss has
a portrait of the expedition cat. Small metal label with the
inscription “dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (“A sweet
and fitting thing it is to die for one’s country”). Some minor
wear to the frame, with a few expert repairs, but overall in
excellent condition.
An attractive commemorative souvenir, of which
Scott’s widow received a silver version. The polar
scenes are based on photographs by Bowers and Ponting that appeared in issues of the Daily Mirror, the
newspaper that had exclusive rights to all expedition
photographs, for either 12 February, the day on which
Scott’s death was announced, or the “Captain Scott
Number” of 21 May 1913, which published the first
images of Scott’s party at the pole.
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SCOTT, Robert Falcon. Scott memorial portrait.
London: Maull & Fox, 1913
Photogravure (400 × 240 mm). Framed and glazed in a contemporary stained oak frame with gilt sight-line. Slight
scrape in the left-hand margin, a little toned, but overall
very good.
Following the announcement of the death of Scott, the
photographers issued an advertising leaflet: “Messrs.
Maull & Fox being the proprietors of the copyright in
the only photographs of the Late Captain Robert Falcon Scott, R.N., C.V.O. taken in his full dress uniform,
wearing his decorations: have prepared from his favourite likeness a photogravure plate”. Scott is wearing
the collar of Commander of the Royal Victorian Order,
and his Polar Medal awarded in 1905 for the Discovery
Expedition, both now in the collection of the British
Museum. The publishers finished off their presentation with a facsimile signature.
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rice Sendak Feb. 71.” A 1971 Caldecott Honor title,
this was a much banned book and is ranked 25th by
the American Library Association on its “100 most
frequently challenged books of 1990–2000” list.
SENDAK, Maurice. The Nutshell Library.
Pierre, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny
and Chicken Soup with Rice. New York: Harper &
Row, 1962
£1,100
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Miniature (95 × 63 mm). All four volumes in original pink
cloth binding and with dust jackets. Housed in the original
pictorial slipcase. Illustrated by Sendak. Volume one dust
jacket with tiny closed tear to top edge, slipcase with a touch
of rubbing at corners. An excellent set.
SENDAK, Maurice. Outside Over There. New
York: Harper and Row, 1981
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Oblong quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front
board gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled, internally fine; an excellent copy in the rubbed and price-clipped
jacket with sunned spine, a few nicks to extremities, a short
closed tear to head of front and rear panels.
SENDAK, Maurice. In the Night Kitchen. New
York: Harper and Row, 1970
first edition, presentation copy, signed by the
author on the front free endpaper and dated 13 May
1981, and annotated above with “Natalie Sendak Lesselbaum (Maurice’s sister). I gave him his first book.”
A lovely association copy.
first edition, first state in the slipcase with the
original gold price sticker affixed to the front.
£450
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Hanrahan A110.
Tall quarto. Tan cloth boards, illustration pasted down to
front board, brown endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author. A bright copy in the dust
jacket with a hint of rubbing at ends of spine and corners,
lower corner of front flap clipped. An excellent copy.
half-title, “For Arnold Larsen, with best wishes! Mau-
£1,000
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SEUSS, Dr. The Seven Lady Godivas. The True
Facts Concerning History’s Barest Family. New
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front free endpaper verso, “for Terry Caywood—Best
Wishes Dr. Seuss.”
Younger & Hirsch 11.
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[SEUSS, Dr.] LESIEG, Theo. In a People House.
New York: Random House, 1972
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Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, illustrated endpapers.
Illustrations by Dr Seuss in the text. Wear to extremities,
spine with creasing and closed tears, light soiling to panels,
shallow chip to lower front cover edge. A very good copy.
first edition, advance review copy. Advance review material for any early Dr Seuss title is very uncommon.
£1,100
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SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. New
York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1958
Octavo. Original glossy pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine lightly rolled, mild toning
to boards in the dust jacket with chipping to ends of spine
and corners, wear to extremities, shallow chipping along
lower edges, toning to panels, small abrasion to rear panel.
A very good copy.
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SEUSS, Dr. The Lorax. New York: Random House,
1971
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco with multi-coloured pictorial onlay to the front board
taken from the title page, titles to spine blocked in red and
blue, blue endpapers, silver edges. Illustrated throughout by
the author. A fine copy.
first edition.
£2,500
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first us edition; originally published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan the same year, with the
slightly variant title Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother:
The Official Biography. This is one of only two copies in
this bespoke binding, the other being in the possession of the author.
Octavo. Original pictorial laminated boards. With the dust
jacket. Roy McKie illustrations. A bright copy in the dust
jacket with shallow chipping to top end of spine, creasing
to front panel lower edge, creasing and closed tears to rear
panel edges. A very bright and attractive copy.
first edition, first issue, with the correct 2.50 price
and ads to the rear panel of the dust jacket. An uncommon Seuss title.
£1,075
£5,000
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, & John Keats. The
Complete Works. London & Boston: Virtue &
Company, 1904
SHAWCROSS, William. The Queen Mother.
The Official Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
2009
Octavo. Full dark blue morocco by Brockman, gilt-tooled
overall with grid pattern bisected by semi-circular onlays
in red calf; six diamond-shaped black calf onlays to spine
and boards, circular red calf onlay to centre of spine, red
calf border onlaid to boards, all with repeating circle pattern
tooled in gilt; titles to head and foot of spine gilt on red calf
ground, multicolour silk endbands, all edges gilt, black calf
doublures with blind-tooled grid pattern and red calf onlays after design to boards, gold-sprinkled blue endpapers.
Housed in a custom quarter-morocco drop-back box with
red velvet lining and spine lettered in gilt. 20 photographic
plates. A fine copy in a custom binding with the dust jacket
bound in to rear.
12 volumes, octavo (226 × 152 mm). Publisher’s deluxe red
morocco binding, titles and floral decoration to spines gilt
separated by triple raised bands, panelled gilt design to
boards with central floral design with onlaid morocco pieces, decoration to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges
gilt, others untrimmed. Each volume with five illustrations
printed in two states on vellum paper with tissue guards
printed in red. Pages nice and clean, some minor darkening
to spines, three volumes expertly re-backed with original
spines laid down, overall an excellent set.
the memorial edition. Number 6 of 50 sets only
in this format. A particularly handsome and lavish set.
£3,000
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Georges.
Maigret
Abroad.
Translated from the French by George Sainsbury.
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1940
Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to spine black. With the
dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled, minor foxing to edges,
contents a little foxed and cockled. A very good copy in the
bright but creased jacket, with short closed tear to foot of
front panel and head of front flap, and tape repair to verso.
first edition in english. The volume comprises
two stories, La Danseuse du Gai-Moulin and Un Crime en
Hollande, both of which were first published in French
in 1931.
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third edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title: “To General George
W. Wingate, with best compliments from the author,
R. Slatin. Merano 4/III [1]928”. This is almost certainly George Wood Wingate (1840–1928), an American
lawyer who served in a New York regiment during the
Civil War and later as a general in the National Guard;
he may have been related to the book’s translator. The
location, Merano (or Meran) is a spa resort in South
Tyrol, northern Italy. Perhaps both men were taking
the waters there at the time the book was presented.
The book was first published the same year.
“Slatin’s career in the Sudan covered thirty-six eventful
years. He started in January 1879 in the finance department as an inspector with the rank of a bimbashi (the
Turkish equivalent of a major). Later that year he was
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appointed governor of Dara, in south-western Darfur,
and after less than a year became governor-general of
the whole province. In his major publication Fire and
Sword in the Sudan (1896) Slatin was vague about his duties in Darfur. However, his life as governor-general
was soon disrupted by Muhammad Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullahi, who in June 1881 declared himself the Mahdi
of the Sudan. Soon the Mahdi and his followers (ansar)
escaped from Aba Island, on the White Nile, to the
Nuba Mountains and Slatin became actively involved
in the uprising … Fire and Sword in the Sudan was published in English in 1896 and was dedicated to Queen
Victoria. Its impact on public opinion in Europe was
greater than Wingate had expected. It appeared in
numerous editions until 1935, and was translated into
German, Italian, French, and Arabic” (ODNB).
£1,500
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SLATIN, Rudolf C. Fire and Sword in the Sudan.
A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the
Dervishes. 1879–1895. Translated by Major F. R.
Wingate. London: Edward Arnold, 1896
Octavo. Original dark red cloth, gilt lettered spine, pictorial
gilt block on front cover, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece,
21 plates, 2 folding maps. A few marks to binding, touch of
foxing to title.
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SLOCUM, Joshua. Sailing Alone Around the
World. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and
George Varian. New York: The Century Co., 1900
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Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine and
front board in silver and green, top edge gilt, others uncut.
Half-tone frontispiece, 64 illustrations. Just a touch of whitening at the corner tips, very short split at the head of the
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spine, pale toning as usual, but the decorative cloth bright,
and sharp, the hinges sound, overall an excellent 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. Slocum perceived his world in a poetic manner and described his vision of reality with grace” (Toy).
Morris & Howland, p. 126 *; Toy 462.
£1,500
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SMITH, E. A. Wyke. The Second Chance.
London: The Bodley Head, 1923
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front board
in black. With the dust jacket. Spine lightly rolled, spotting
to page edges, endpapers toned, in the dust jacket with light
wear to extremities. A very good copy.
first edition. A scarce fantasy novel.
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SMITH, Patti. Witt. New York: Gotham Book Mart,
1973
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Octavo. Original black cloth, front board lettered in black
with pictorial label laid down. Photograph to front cover
by Robert Mapplethorpe, illustrated title page by Howard
Michels. Front board a little toned and rubbed, internally
fine; an excellent copy.
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first edition, signed limited issue, number 72
of 100 copies specially bound and signed by the author. An additional 26 lettered copies were produced
for the use of the author and publisher.
Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine and front
cover, purple edges, with the glassine wrapper and “wood
finish” slipcase. Slipcase a little chipped and patchily faded.
An excellent copy.
£2,250
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STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: The
Viking Press, 1952
first edition, signed limited issue, one of
1,500 copies signed by the author.
Goldstone & Payne A32.
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STEIN, Gertrude. What Are Masterpieces. Los
Angeles: The Conference Press, 1940
£2,750
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Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine red, boards ruled
in red. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Boards a
little faded and lightly spotted, internally fine. An excellent
copy in the faded jacket with some nicks and chips to extremities and tape repair to verso of head of spine.
first edition, signed limited issue of Stein’s
1936 Oxford-Cambridge lectures, number 49 of 50
copies signed by the author.
£1,500
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THOMAS, R. S. The Stones of the Field.
Carmarthen: The Druid Press Limited, 1946
Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed light blue boards, titles
to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine rubbed, boards
slightly bowed, tips a little worn. A very good copy in the
bright jacket with small chip to head of front panel and
some short closed tears to foot of panels.
the front free endpaper: “To my mother and father
with love from Ronald. Christmas 1946.” The author’s first collection of poetry.
£2,500
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of the few white individuals to win an NAACP Image
Award.
£750
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TIMKOVSKI, [Egor Fedorovich]. Voyage à
Peking, à travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821.
Traduit du Russe par M. N******, revu par M.
J.-B. Eyriès. Publié avec des corrections et des
notes par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Dondey-Dupré Père
et Fils, 1827
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the
dust jacket. Ink stamp to title page. Top edge lightly foxed;
an excellent copy in the slightly soiled jacket with rubbed
spine ends.
2 volumes, octavo text (201 × 122 mm), folio atlas (313 × 235
mm) containing the map, plans and plates; text volumes
in contemporary green quarter sheep, matching marbled
boards, title gilt direct to the spine, edges sprinkled blue,
marbled endpapers, atlas recently bound to match. Atlas
volume containing large folding lithographed route map,
plan of Forbidden City, folding plate of the Russian Embassy
at Peking, 8 lithographed plates, mostly after Chinese oil or
gouache originals, and a title page vignette. Half-titles to
the text volumes bound in. Boards of text volumes restored,
light browning throughout, but a overall very good set.
page. It was the basis for the 1971 film of the same
name, for which Tidyman co-wrote the screenplay.
For creating the Shaft books, Tidyman became one
first edition. Since the early 18th century the
Russians had by treaty maintained a school and a
church in Peking. The terms also allowed them to
send a mission once every ten years to change the
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TIDYMAN, Ernest. Shaft. New York: The
Macmillan Company, 1970
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personnel. At the time no other Western nation had
the same opportunities to study the country and its
people. “In particular, his description and mapping
of the dual route through the Gobi Desert, which he
crossed from Kiachta to Beijing, added richly to the
information gathered by his predecessors” (Henze).
Also, published here for the first time in the West, is a
map of the Forbidden City. The text is here corrected
and annotated by the great German orientalist Julius
Heinrich Klaproth, who spent many years in service
of the Russian Academy of Sciences, accompanying
Golovkin’s embassy to China of 1805, and carrying
out important linguistic and ethnographical surveys
in the Caucasus in 1808–9. After his resignation from
the Russian Academy, following an exile enforced by
the Napoleonic wars, he eventually settled in Paris,
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where, on the intercession of Humboldt, he received
a pension to continue his work and to publish from
the French capital.
Tipped-in to the plate atlas is a letter to Klaproth in
Berlin in the rather decrepit hand of the celebrated
anthropologist, naturalist, physiologist, historian
and bibliographer Johann Friedrich Blumenbach,
from Göttingen, 8 October 1812. Blumenbach writes
as secretary of the Königliche Societät der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen to thank Klaproth for the
“generous gift of 130 Asiatic coins”, and to tell him
that he has “been elected a corresponding member of
the Society’s Historical Class. I have already had your
diploma prepared and am waiting for an opportunity
to send it to you.” Interestingly Klaproth has evidently been attempting to sell the Society a number
of books (the coins perhaps as sweeteners?) “The important collection of Chinese books which Your Honour offers to sell to us … the two Chinese dictionaries
and notes for the pronunciation, plus the annals of
the Chinese realm, we should like to incorporate into
our public library, provided they can be separately acquired. If so, I shall await your gracious reply.” This
is accompanied by a clearer, contemporary German
transcription and a translation into French. An extremely appealing copy of a far from common work.
Cordier, Sinica , 2473–4; Henze V p. 327; Howgego II, K15;
Lust 551.
£2,500
[100540]
223
TOLSTOY, Leo. The Works. A new Translation
from the Russian by Constance Garnett. London:
William Heinemann, 1901–4
6 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and
top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece in both volumes of Anna Karenina. Lightly rubbed and bumped at corners and ends of spine, light off setting to endpapers. A very
attractive set.
first edition of the garnett translations.
Constance Garnett (1861–1946) was the wife of literary critic Edward Garnett and herself a highly ac-
224
claimed translator of Russian literature, recognised
for popularizing authors such as Tolstoy for the British reading public.
£2,250
[100585]
224
TROCCHI, Alexander. Cain’s Book. London: John
Calder, 1963
Octavo. Original red cloth boards, titles to spine gilt. With
the dust jacket. Bumping to ends of spine and corners, front
board top corner bent, in the mildly toned dust jacket, shallow chipping to ends of spine, light creasing along edges,
faint stain along front flap fold. A very good copy.
first uk edition, inscribed by the author on
the front free endpaper, “For Nancy Burns – Can I ask
you to be careful not to treat this book as ‘literature’?
Whatever else it is, it’s not that. Of course, there is
a good deal of ‘fiction’ in it, but … For example, my
publisher’s first question when he had read it: ‘It’s
great! But are you working on another novel now?
It was as though he hadn’t read it at all. Alex. London, March 1963.” Cain’s Book had been respectfully
received on first publication in New York in 1960 but
the London edition caused a furore and its publisher
was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
£1,250
[101514]
87
225
225
VANCOUVER, Captain George. A Voyage of
Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and
Round the World; In which the Coast of NorthWest America has been Carefully Examined
and Accurately Surveyed, undertaken by His
Majesty’s Command, Principally with a View
to Ascertain the Existence of any Navigable
Communication between the North Pacific and
North Atlantic Oceans … A New Edition, with
Corrections … London: John Stockdale, 1801
6 volumes, octavo (230 × 120 mm). Contemporary quarter
sheep, marbled boards, the marbling applied on red-ruled
ledger sheets, black morocco labels, edges sprinkled blue.
2 large folding maps and 17 folding engraved plates. Near
contemporary ownership inscriptions of “C. de Jersey” to
the tile pages of volumes I, III, IV, and V, and similarly early
inscriptions of “I. & A. Powell” to the front free endpapers of
all but volume II. A little rubbed, particularly on the boards,
some browning and occasional foxing throughout, remains
a very good set, and not unattractive.
first octavo edition, first published in quarto in
1798. “This voyage became one of the most important
ever made in the interests of geographical knowl88
225
edge” (Hill). George Vancouver (1758–1798) died before he could edit his narrative, which was prepared
for the press by his brother John, and Captain Peter
Puget. He has perhaps been overshadowed by the
hydrographic brilliance of Cook, but Hill reminds us
that “the voyage was remarkable for the accuracy of
its surveys, the charts of the coasts surveyed needing little improvement to the present day. When
Charles Wilkes resurveyed Puget Sound in 1841, he
was amazed at the accuracy Vancouver had achieved
under such adverse conditions and despite his failing
health. Well into the 1880s Vancouver’s charts of the
Alaskan coast remained the accepted standard.”
gilt. Spine faded, spine ends very slightly rubbed, internally
fine. An excellent copy.
signed limited edition, number 20 of 350 copies signed by the author. This copy is additionally
inscribed on the limitation page by Waugh: “For Darling Momo, with love from Evelyn.” Maud “Momo”
Marriott (née Kahn), was the sister of Nin Ryan and
wife of Major General Sir John Marriott. Waugh became friends with the Marriotts through Randolph
Churchill while they were stationed in the Middle
East during the Second World War.
£1,500
[99792]
NMM, I, 142; Hill 1754; Howes V23; Howgego I, V13; Sabin
98443.
£5,950
[100520]
226
WAUGH, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins. A
Romance of the Near Future. With Decorations
by Various Eminent Hands Including the
Author’s. London: Chapman & Hall, 1953
Octavo (212 × 136). Bound for Asprey in near-contemporary
quarter purple morocco, with brown cloth sides, titles to
spines gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges
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227
228
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229
WEST, Nathaniel. The Day of the Locust. New
WHITE, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. Pictures by Garth
Williams. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, design to spine and front board copied from original
dust jacket, twin rule to turn-ins black, black endpapers and
edges. A fine copy.
Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in pale tan morocco, pictorial title block in blue with black spider web design to spine and front board copied from original and Wilbur
the pig onlaid to bottom of front board in pink morocco, twin
rule to turn-ins in black, plain black endpapers, gilt edges.
Black and white illustrations in the text. A fine copy.
first edition.
£2,250
[101832]
first edition.
228
£2,750
WESTON, Edward. Edward Weston. [The Art of
Edward Weston.] New York: E. Weyhe, 1932
230
Folio. Original black and white boards. Portrait frontispiece
of Edward Weston by Brett Weston, 39 monochrome plates.
Spine toned, some scuffs, scratches and marks to binding.
first and signed limited edition, number 287
of 550 copies only signed by the artist. This first book
devoted exclusively to Weston’s work is described by
Parr & Badger as a “splendidly designed and important monograph”.
Parr & Badger I, 8.
£2,250
[100316]
229
[101100]
(WIESE, Kurt.) FLACK, Marjorie. The Story
About Ping. New York: Viking Press, 1933
Small quarto. Original printed pictorial boards, black cloth
back strip. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout
by Kurt Wiese. Corners lightly rubbed, toning to pages, in
the dust jacket with shallow chipping to ends of spine, light
wear to extremities, small stain to front panel, toning to
white areas of dust jacket. A very attractive copy.
first edition. The adventures of a duck from the
Yangtze River, The Story About Ping is an ALA notable
children’s title.
£1,375
[100541]
230
89
231
231
WILDE, Oscar. Newdigate Prize Poem.
Ravenna. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June
26, 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878
233
Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in purple
morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, single rule to
boards gilt, pictorial block to front board gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Frontispiece
with tissue guard and 2 full-page plates by William Crane,
234
head- and tailpiece vignettes by Jacob Hood. Some occasional light foxing, an excellent copy finely bound.
first edition, the regular trade issue.
£2,750
[101754]
233
Octavo (pp. 16). Original grey-green printed wrappers.
Housed in a purple quarter morocco slipcase with chemise
made by the Chelsea Bindery. Light vertical crease down
the middle, as is the case with the other very small number
of inscribed copies, perhaps folded to fit in the pocket of
someone attending the reading. An excellent copy.
WINOGRAND, Garry. Women are Beautiful.
With an essay by Helen Gary Bishop. New York:
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1975
first edition, inscribed by oscar wilde for presentation on the front cover: “With the compliments of
the author”. Ravenna was Wilde’s first independent publication. The inspiration for the poem came on a “vacation ramble” to Italy in 1877 with the Precentor and Junior Dean of Trinity College, Dublin, William Mahaffy.
Wilde’s recitation of it at Oxford was listened to with
“rapt attention” and punctuated by frequent applause.
Small quarto. Original pictorial wrappers, titles to spine and
front cover black. 85 plates. Wrappers a little soiled, internally fine. An excellent copy.
Mason 301.
234
£8,750
first edition, signed by the photographer
on the half-title. This is the wrappers issue; there was
also a hardback.
£1,500
[100445]
90
[100554]
WODEHOUSE, P. G. The Pothunters. London:
Adam & Charles Black, 1902
232
WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other
Tales. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb
Hood. London: David Nutt, 1888
232
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and cup design to spine and front board in silver. Frontispiece and 9
plates. Spine slightly sunned, extremities a touch rubbed,
minor wear to corners and spine ends, prelims and endmat-
235
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ter foxed, occasional spotting to margins of text block. A
very good copy with gilding still bright. With Leslie Mead’s
bookplate to the front pastedown and the bookplate of British bibliophile Douglas R. Vining to front free endpaper.
first edition, first issue (in blue cloth with silver lettering and cup designs) of the author’s rare first
book. Loosely inserted together with the original envelope is an autograph letter signed by Wodehouse to
Leslie Mead, a British author living in Buenos Aires.
The letter, dated 19 September 1936, finds Wodehouse
discussing publication of The Pothunters in some detail:
“The Pothunters was my first book & I imagine only a
very small number of copies were published—at a venture I should say 1000. It started as a serial in the Public
School Magazine and I had to condense the third instalment, as the magazine ceased publication. (I mean
I had to condense for the 3rd instalment—cramming
about 40,000 words into 5000!). I am so glad you like
my books. I am slowly collecting material for another
Ukridge volume. I have seven stories & need ten for a
book. I have just written another, which will appear in
The Strand sometime in 1937 …”
McIlvaine A1a.
£7,500
[100642]
234
235
WOLFE, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel.
A Story of the Buried Life. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1929
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and front
board gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a purple leather
solander box. Slight bumping to ends of spine, in the dust
jacket with light wear to corners and ends of spine, short
closed tear along rear panel top edge and rear top corner,
hint of toning to panels. A very attractive copy.
first edition, in the first issue dust jacket.
£7,500
[100673]
236
WOLFE, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1968
Octavo. Original white boards, titles to spine red and blue,
top edge blue. With the dust jacket. A few slight marks to
boards; an exceptional copy in the price-clipped jacket
with nicked and chipped spine ends and faintly sunned
spine panel.
first edition, this copy signed by the author
and, uniquely, with a further 46 autographs
collected from members of the sixties counterculture, including musicians, Merry Pranksters, poets, writers, artists, political activists, and
the like, many of which are accompanied by humor-
237
ous inscriptions. There are two colour photographs
taken by the collector Richard Synchef pasted onto
the front free endpaper, featuring the Merry Pranksters’ bus at Ken Kesey Farm in July 1988, and one of
Ken Kesey in Portland, taken 28 October 1990. The
autographs include those of Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia,
Stanley Mouse, Wavy Gravy, and many other related
figures from that era.
£9,750
[101189]
237
WOLFE, Tom. Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter
& Vine. And other stories, sketches, and essays.
Illustrated by the author. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 1976
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in gilt and
metallic red and purple. With the dust jacket. Illustrated
by the author in black and white. Spotting to top and fore
edges of textblock. An excellent copy in a lightly toned and
rubbed jacket.
the author in his distinctive ornate hand to his publicist, the famously indefatigable Jay Allen (1917–1996),
“For Jay Allen, the DiMaggio … no, the Chopin! of the
Business. He makes it all look easy! From Tom Wolfe,
December 1976”.
£675
[99815]
91
238
238
WOOLF, Virginia. The Definitive Collected
Edition of the Novels. London: The Hogarth Press,
1990
240
a bit browned, and slightly rubbed, contents lightly toned
with some foxing at the fore-edge, very good.
first and only edition. “These notes were compiled in answer to a specific questionnaire, and were
not intended to provide a comprehensive record of the
9 volumes, octavo. Original black boards, gilt titles to spines,
top edges bright green, bound green silk bookmarks. With
illustrated dust jackets. A superb set.
first definitive edition. Each volume (except The
Complete Shorter Fiction) was limited to 1,000 numbered
copies, of which these are all number 294. Although
relatively recently published, complete sets all bearing the same number are uncommon. This newly-edited collection has specially written introductions to
each title by either Angelica Garnett or Quentin Bell.
£1,500
£1,500
239
(WORLD WAR II.) Notes on the Operations
of 21 Army Group, 6 June 1944–5 May 1945. Bad
Oeynhausen: G (Ops) (Records), HQ British Army of
the Rhine, 1945
92
[101898]
240
[100134]
Foolscap quarto. Original brown cloth-backed, three-hole
cord-tied printed boards, group badge in colours to the
front board. 6 large coloured maps in end-pocket. Boards
campaign” (prefatory note). Classified “Restricted”,
this copy most likely that issued to Major General Allan
Adair, General Officer Commanding the Guards Armoured Division (“G.O.C.” is inked to the front board).
Extremely uncommon: just two copies traced on OCLC
(Australian War Memorial and Danish National Library); two copies held by the National Archives at Kew;
further copies traced at King’s College, London in the
De Guigand papers and in the Norman Scarfe Archive at
the University of Leicester, lacking maps.
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WRIGHTE, William. Grotesque Architecture,
or Rural Amusement; consisting of Plans,
Elevations, and Sections, for Huts, Retreats,
Summer and Winter Hermitages, Terminaries,
Chinese, Gothic, and Natural Grottos,
Cascades, Baths, Mosques, Moresque Pavillions,
Grotesque and Rustic Seats, Green Houses, &c.
Many of which may be executed With Flints,
Irregular Stones, Rude Branches, and Roots of
Trees. The whole containing twenty-eight entire
new designs, beautifully engraved on Copper
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241
240
Plates, with Scales to each. To which is added,
a full explanation, in letter press, and the true
method of executing them. London: printed for
Henry Webley, 1767
Octavo (229 × 143 mm). Contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked to style. Frontispiece engraved by Isaac Taylor after
A. Thornthwaite, 28 engraved plates. Pencilled ownership
inscription of John Ingleby, 1774, at head of title. Some
leaves evenly toned, but an excellent copy.
first edition. Wrighte’s striking designs for rustic
architecture and gardens are innovative in English garden design by introducing Islamic motifs to the existing modes of Chinese and Gothick, with seven plates of
designs for garden buildings inspired by mosques. The
author refers the reader for more information on the
history of Islamic architecture to “Dr. Shaw’s Account
of Barbary, Le Brun and Tournefort’s Voyages to the Levant, &c.” The first edition is scarce in commerce.
£2,750
[100351]
YEATS, W. B. A group of his own works
presented by him to actress Margot Collis.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1923–34
Together 6 works, octavo. Original green or red cloth, titles
to spine gilt, pages untrimmed. Light rubbing to ends of
spines, corners gently bumped, some sunning to spines, a
few works with soiling and markings to spine and boards,
5 inner hinges cracked, Collected Poems with bumping to
upper board edge, occasional spotting. Overall a very good
group of first and early editions.
presentation copies to his lover margot collis, inscribed by yeats “To Margot from her friend W
B Yeats Oct 1934” on the front free endpaper or half-title
in four works. Plays in Prose and Verse additionally contains two authorial annotations, signed by Yeats with
his initials, one to the beginning of the play Deirdre (“I
have crossed out a number of needless lines in the opening of the play. WBY”); another at the end of The Player
Queen: “I have altered the end. As last played in Dublin
Decima put on a mask left behind by the players [and]
makes them dance. They have shed their animal forms.
She throws them money—if I remember rightly—her
ambiguous words are a farewell to all this she has loved.
They get banishment but with great rewards. WBY.”
The works are in various editions: Plays and Controversies (1923) and Essays (1924) are first editions; Autobi-
ographies (1926) is the first collected edition; Collected
Poems (1934) is second impression; Plays in Prose and
Verse (Dec. 1931) is fourth impression; and Later Poems
(Mar. 1926) is also fourth impression. Later Poems, uninscribed, has Collis’s pencil ownership inscription
dated 20 September 1930 and so was her own copy
before she met Yeats. Plays and Controversies is similarly
uninscribed, though from the same source.
Margot Collis was the stage name used by the Irish
actress Marguerite Ruddock (1907–1951). Her intense
relationship with Yeats started in the year these books
were presented. Collis was also a poet and Yeats is
said to have helped edit her works; he included some
of her work in his edition of the Oxford Book of Modern
Verse (1936). At the time of their relationship, Collis
was married to actor Raymond Lovell. She fell passionately in love with Yeats, though he remained married to Georgie. The relationship unravelled and Collis became unstable, offering Yeats the inspiration for
his poem “A Crazed Girl”. Their correspondence was
later published under the title Ah, Sweet Dancer (1970).
Laid-in is a 4-page autograph letter signed “BM”
(unidentified; on 25 Burton Court SW3 letterhead)
advising the unnamed recipient (probably Yeats) on
the writing of a play and the portrayal of characters.
£9,750
[101729]
93
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