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Welcome to our summer catalogue for 2012, a new selection from our stock of books, manuscripts, maps, prints and original artwork. The catalogue is in two parts, with the first part (items 1–189) followed by a selection of items priced under £1,250. We are next exhibiting at: York National Book Fair 14–15 September 2012 York Racecourse www.yorkbookfair.com 24th ILAB International Antiquarian Book Fair (Zurich) 27–30 September 2012 Zurich Convention Centre Further details at www.ilab.org

The items in this catalogue are offered for sale. The condition is guaranteed as described. Items ordered without prior inspection are understood to be sent on approval and may be returned for any reason within 10 days of receipt. Postage and insurance are extra. We accept all major credit cards, as well as direct payment. Deferred billing may be arranged for institutions on request.

Front cover illustration adapted from Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Les Européens; item 32. Illustrated above: Brock’s original watercolours for Pride and Prejudice: “I think him very disagreeable” (left); “They solaced their wretchedness by duets after supper” (right); items 5 & 6. Illustration opposite: Brock, original watercolour for Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village; item 125. Back cover illustration: from Walker Evans’s American Photographs; item 71.

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ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. Illustrated by John Lawrence. [London:] Paradine, 1976 Octavo. Deluxe green morocco bound for the publisher by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt in compartments with rabbit and floral tools, rabbit design to upper board gilt, marbled endpapers, turn-ins and all edges gilt. Housed in a marbled slipcase. Colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout by John Lawrence. Spine faded, minor semi-circular dampstain to edge of upper board, spot of tape residue to front free endpaper. An excellent copy.

Deluxe limited edition. One of 250 numbered and specially bound copies signed by the author on the title page and the illustrator on the frontispiece.

£2,500

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(ASHENDENE PRESS) BERNERS, Dame Juliana. A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1903 Octavo (195 × 134 mm), pp. 48 (including colophon). Bound in full niger morocco by Florence Paget (signed in gilt “F.P. 1904” at the foot of the rear turn-in), 5 raised bands with blind decoration extending over onto the covers, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, turn-ins gilt all round with two single fillets and a dotted roll, board edges ruled with a single fillet. Handset in Subiaco type and printed in black with an opening initial flourished in red. Frontispiece and other illustrations reproduced by Charles Keates by woodcut from the Wynkyn de Worde Boke of St. Albans. Spine slightly sunned, a little surface discolouration to joints, upper corners gently bumped, a very good copy, fresh and clean.

One of 25 copies on vellum, of which 20 were for sale (from a total edition of 175 copies). Although Franklin suggests that Katherine Adams was responsible for the binding of all the vellum copies of this book, this copy proves the exception. Florence Paget was one of a small group of talented women binders used by Hornby at this date: she bound some copies of the ornate Song of Solomon for Hornby the same year, and some of the illuminated copies of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament in 1904. This was the first prose work to appear in the Ashendene Subiaco type, created by Emery Walker and Sydney Cockerell from the first roman type used by 2


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Sweynheym and Pannartz at the press they established in 1465 at Subiaco near Rome.

which generated a richly comic correspondence between the author and the Prince Regent’s librarian.

An attractive copy in the deluxe vellum binding with the illustrations signed and dated C. E. Brock 1908.

Ashendene XVI.

Gilson A8.

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AUSTEN, Jane. Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. London: for John Murray, 1816 3 volumes, octavo (173 × 95 mm). Contemporary brown half calf, spines gilt in compartments, black calf labels, red speckled edges. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper of volume I in ink and to front pastedowns of volumes II and III in pencil. Repairs to corners and ends of spines, each front hinge repaired. Bindings a little rubbed, spotting to contents, particularly to volume I. A very good set.

First edition of perhaps the most perfectly constructed of Jane Austen’s novels. She had fallen out with Egerton over publication of Mansfield Park and transferred to Murray, who published the second edition of that book and the first edition of Emma, of which 2,000 copies were printed. Emma is the only one of Jane Austen’s novels to bear a dedication, to the Prince Regent, the arrangement of

£9,750

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AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. With twenty-four coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co.; New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1908 Octavo. Original full vellum, elaborately gilt to spine and upper board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece, vignette title, and 22 plates by C. E. Brock. Contemporary ownership inscription to front blank, boards ever so slightly bowed, endpapers tanned. An excellent copy.

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(AUSTEN, Jane) BROCK, C. E. Original watercolour, “I think him very disagreeable.” 1907 Original pen-and-ink watercolour illustration (370 × 267 mm) presented in a handmade gold leaf frame, with conservation glass and in an attractive wash-line mount. Margins slightly marked, with a very slight running of the signature ink, else in excellent condition.

Brock’s original signed illustration for Pride and Prejudice (chap. XVI, p. 78) published by J. M. Dent in 1907 as part of their “Series of English Idylls”. The illustrations Brock created are a full and original revision of his previous illustrations for the same work published by Macmillan in 1895. Brock was elected as a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in the year following the publication of these illustrations. The scene depicts Elizabeth discussing with Wickham her distaste for Mr Darcy. (For illustration, see front inside cover.)

£3,250

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(AUSTEN, Jane) BROCK, C. E. Original watercolour, “They solaced their wretchedness by duets after supper.” 1907 Original pen-and-ink watercolour illustration (370 × 267 mm) presented in a handmade gold leaf frame, with conservation glass and in an attractive wash-line mount. Margins faintly marked, excellent condition.

Brock’s original signed illustration for Pride and Prejudice (chap. VIII, p. 40, Dent 1907), depicting Bingley’s sisters managing to take their minds off Jane’s illness. (For illustration, see front inside cover.)

£3,250

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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels [&] The Letters. The text based on collation of the early editions by R. W. Chapman. With notes indexes and illustrations from contemporary sources. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1923–32 5 volumes, octavo (215 × 135 mm). Finely bound by Roger de Coverly in dark blue half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispieces, black and white illustrations in the text. An excellent set.

First Chapman edition, large paper copy, limited to 1,000 sets, of which 950 were for sale. A particularly handsome set of Austen’s novels and letters in the authoritative edition of R. W. Chapman.

£4,500

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to Boyd, “Wine of Cyprus”. On publication Boyd’s first reaction was to deprecate the tight ABAB rhyme scheme of the latter poem. EBB quickly wrote to him on 13 August 1844 to defend her “double rhymes”, adding: “I hope Miss Heard received her copy…” After the death of his wife in 1834, EBB had continued to support Boyd, but “The Mournful Mother” suggests that she had transformed her early embarrassing infatuation into a safer, maternal concern for the blind scholar. In September 1846 she confided to Boyd, uniquely, her impending elopement with Robert Browning, who had initially been attracted to her by the verses in these volumes. The binding was designed, executed and signed by John Grabau, a binder at the Roycroft from 1902 to 1905, and afterwards on his own account.


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(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey) MALORY, Sir Thomas. Le Morte D’Arthur. The Text as Written by Sir Thomas Malory and Imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the Year MCCCCLXXXV and now Spelled in Modern Style. With an Introduction by Professor Rhys and Embellished with Many Original Designs by Aubrey Beardsley. London: J. M. Dent, 1893 2 volumes, large octavo. Bound from the original parts with the wrappers in half brown morocco with green boards, titles to spines gilt, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. With black and white illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Gift inscription to fly leaf, some minor blemishes to a couple of leaves, an excellent copy.

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First edition. One of 1,500 ordinary paper copies, out of a total edition of 1,800. In 1892, seeking to emulate the books of the Kelmscott Press, John M. Dent commissioned the 20-year-old Beardsley to produce this edition. The 351 designs appearing in the first edition required 18 months for the artist to finish, Beardsley balking at Dent’s original projection of 500 drawings. Of this, Beardsley’s first major work, John Lewis states: “In Le Morte D’Arthur Beardsley learnt his job, but the result is no bungling student’s work … If he had never illustrated another book, this edition of Morte D’Arthur could stand as a monument of decorative book illustration” (The Twentieth Century Book, pp. 148-9).

£2,500

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Barnes A5; Hayward 239.

£9,500

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BARRETT, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems. In two volumes. London: Edward Moxon, 1844 2 volumes, octavo (170 × 104 mm). Bound c. 1905 by John Grabau in dark blue morocco gilt, spines divided in six compartments by raised bands, gilt lettered in two, others with flower tools, dated at foot, sides with gilt panels with floral cornerpieces, turn-ins ruled in gilt, blue patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut; original green cloth (Carter A) bound in at end. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed solander box. Bookplates of Frank Henry Goodyear (1849–1907). A touch of rubbing to some extremities, free endpapers tanned at margins from turn-ins, an excellent copy in a fine binding.

First edition, first issue, of the collection that made Elizabeth Barrett’s fame, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “To Miss Heard, with the author’s regards, August 1844”. A superb association: Miss Heard was a friend and, in EBB’s mind, rival for the attentions of the blind classicist Hugh Stuart Boyd (1781–1848), to whom EBB was devoted in the earlier 1830s, very like Dorothea to Casaubon. EBB confided to her diary her jealousy of all others who took up Boyd’s time: “The society of that Miss Hurd [Heard] is as much valued as mine – as much! at least as much” (quoted in Forster, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography, p. 57). The collection includes two poems inspired by Boyd: “The Mournful Mother (of the Dead Blind)” and another specifically addressed

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BEATON, Cecil. Sketch of Pierrot. c. 1930

BEATON, Cecil. Sketch of a man with a top hat. c. 1930

Size: 360 x 240 mm. Framed size: 530 x 430 mm Ink on paper. Excellent condition.

Size: 340 × 240 mm. Framed size: 530 x 430 mm Ink on paper. Excellent condition.

Signed by the artist.

Signed by the artist.

BEAUMONT, Francis, & John Fletcher. Comedies and Tragedies … Never printed before, And now published by the Authours Originall Copies. London: for Humphrey Robinson, and for Humphrey Moseley, 1647

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Folio (325 × 211 mm). Early nineteenth-century red straight-grained morocco, spine divided in six compartments by raised bands, gilt-lettered in two and place and date at foot, the others gilt all over with acorns, stars, leaf sprays, circles, etc, sides with a narrow rope roll in gilt enclosing central double panel with flower tools at the corners, turn-ins gilt with matching tools, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved frontispiece portrait of John Fletcher by William Marshall in second state (reading “Vates Duplex” for “vates duplex”, and with “J. Berkenhead” in small type). Bookplates of American collector J. Harsen Purdy and comic-book writer Paul S. Newman. Joints and headcaps neatly restored, some rubbing in places, corners just worn at tips, small stain at head through to sig. G2, a few minor blemishes, a very good copy.

First edition. The third and last of the three great collections of Jacobean drama was published long after the deaths of Beaumont and Fletcher, in 1616 and 1625 respectively, but still echoing the format of the folios of their contemporaries Jonson and Shakespeare. The volume contains 34 plays and a masque. Not all the plays are by Beaumont and Fletcher: Beaumont alone wrote The Knight and the masque, several are collaborations between Fletcher and Philip Massinger, and some attributions remain conjectural. Editorship is usually assigned to the playwright James Shirley, who wrote the preface. Fletcher’s work has also been extensively studied in the context of his collaboration with Shakespeare on three plays in 1612–13 for the King’s Company. His solo play, The Woman’s Prize, first published here, is a mock-sequel to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and depends on knowledge of it. The printing of the folio was farmed out to several printers, including Susan Islip, a rare example of a female printer in the 17th century. Greg III 1013; Pforzheimer 53; Wing B1581.

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BECKETT, Samuel. Krapp’s Last Tape and Embers. London, Faber & Faber, 1959

BENNING, R. A View of London as it was in the year 1647. [Vue de Londres comme il etoit dans L’An 1647.] London: J. Boydell 1756

Octavo. Original blue wrappers printed in black and red. Housed in a quarter black morocco drop down box. Trace of rub at the tips of the backstrip but in reality a fine copy.

Copper engravng. Uncoloured. Size: 260 mm x 940 mm. 2 sheets conjoined as issued. Very good condition.

First edition, first impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to one of his closest and longest known friends, “To Tom [McGreevy] with love from Sam, Xmas, 1959”. McGreevy and Beckett had known each other since the late 1920s – McGreevy had preceded Beckett at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. It was McGreevy who introduced Beckett to Joyce with a compelling recommendation. In 1936 the elder man played a patient and pivotal role in the complex final development of Beckett’s prose masterpiece, Murphy.

This large panorama of a pre-fire London, taken from the south bank of the Thames looking north, closely resembles Wenceslas Hollar’s bird’s-eye view of the city. The extent of the panorama is from Westminster Abbey in the west to beyond the Tower in the east.

Beckett signed as many books as people had the gall to put in front of him. He was equally generous with casual associates; copies particularly of lesser works bearing his writing abound. What are rare are the true association copies of the more important works inscribed at publication, such as this.

(BIBLE; English) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, by W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, Printers to the University: and sold by W. Dawson, London, 1783

£6,500

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Large quarto (288 × 220 mm). Contemporary red morocco, sides with a wide gilt border built up with a dog-tooth and line roll enclosing repeated drawer-handle tools, two birds on a branch, a floral spray, and an upright floral tool; spine divided into six compartments by raised bands, dark blue goatskin label in second compartment, others alternately gilt all over to a lattice pattern and gilt with large intersecting floral swag tools, board edges and turn-ins gilt with a decorative roll, spot-marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Printed in double column. A little imperceptible repair to foot of joints, few light scratches, slight browning at the foot of gatherings K and L, some sealing wax blots around the edges of the front endleaves; a very handsome late eighteenth-century family Bible.

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legiance as a dissenting minister in 1782. However around the time of this gift he fell out with Lady Huntingdon and was dismissed from preaching in any of her chapels in July 1788. The recipient James Wittit Lyon became a successful lawyer. He married Emma Dalton in 1825, and bought the estate of Miserden Park, Gloucestershire, in 1839. In 1830 he was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Herbert 1286.

£5,500

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Presentation copy from the Reverend Thomas Wills (1740–1802) to the Lyon family. The front flyleaf records the Bible as being “The Gift of the Revd. Thomas Wills to James Wittit Lyon, Janry 26. 1787”, when the boy was five months old. The front pastedown has the book label of the recipient’s father Benjamin Lyon, who married Rebekah Wittit on 11 August 1785. Details of the Lyon children are given on the facing page, all having been baptized by the Rev Thomas Wills. The Church of England clergyman Thomas Wills was minister for Spa Fields in London, one of Lady Huntingdon’s chapels, where Benjamin Lyon sat on the chapel committee. He was a charismatic Calvinist preacher in the tradition of George Whitefield. Under pressure for his lack of orthodoxy, he eventually took the oath of al-

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(BIBLE; English, Catholic) The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate: diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in divers languages. The Old Testament, first published by the English college at Douay, A.D. 1609. And the New Testament, first published by the English college at Rheims, A.D. 1582. With notes, critical, historical, and explanatory, selected from the most eminent commentators and critics by the Rev. George Haydock. Revised and corrected with additions by the Very Rev. Frederick Canon Oakeley, M.A., and the Rev. Thomas G. Law, of the Oratory. London: Virtue and Company, Limited, 1884

BOND, Michael. A Bear Called Paddington. London: Collins, 1958

2 volumes, folio (370 × 268 mm). Contemporary black morocco over bevelled boards, sides richly panelled in gilt with three-line gilt rules enclosing an elaborate roll alternating flower-heads and fleurs-de-lys, the rules extending to the board edges at top, fore and bottom edges, enclosing a central panel with a large cross onlaid in red goatskin decorated in gilt with blind decoration at inner corners of the panel, spines richly gilt in compartments and gilt-lettered in two, gilt decorative roll to turn ins, green morocco inner hinges, yellow coated endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved frontispieces and extra engraved titles, 35 engraved plates after Raphael, Titian, Rubens, John Martin and others, with tissue guards, 2 coloured maps, double-sided engraved register of births, deaths and marriages (unused). A little rubbing to some extremities, minor foxing to frontispieces and extra titles, an excellent set, clean, firm and sound.

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An extremely handsome illustrated edition of the Douai Bible. The publishing firm of George Virtue (1794–1868) founded its reputation on lavishly illustrated books, including a popular series of steel-engraved topographical books. The firm had its own printing works and was self-sufficient in printing, engraving, and bookbinding, even provided such services for other publishers. Under the leadership of his son James the firm became a limited company in 1875. Following his father’s example, Virtue continued to publish illustrated books of distinction, particularly editions of the Bible, Shakespeare, and topographical works, even though his commitment to such expensive production standards ensured periodic financial difficulties.

Octavo (210 × 120 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments with floral tool, red morocco label. Half-title, device on title, second state of I5, Q7 and U6, errata/advertisement leaf at end. Two bookplates to front pastedown, portion of tipped-in ticket remaining to front free endpaper. Bookplate of the Boswellian collector Robert McKinlay. Wear to corners and ends of spine, joints starting, spotting and partial toning to endpapers. A very good copy.

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Octavo. Original cerise cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. Spine bumped and a little darkened, dust jacket lightly chipped to corners, a slightly larger chip to head of front panel, a little foxing to fore edge.

First edition, first impression. The first Paddington book. Bond based Paddington Bear on a lone teddy bear he noticed on a shelf in a London store near Paddington Station on Christmas Eve 1956, which he bought as a present for his wife. The bear inspired Bond to write a story and, in ten days, he had written the first book.

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leck … The tour … deepened the friendship between the pair, and increased Johnson’s respect for and confidence in Boswell as a future biographer” (Pat Rogers in ODNB). Johnson had published his own account, very different in tone, in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 1775. The final leaf advertises Boswell’s Life of Johnson as “Preparing for the Press, in one Volume Quarto” (ODNB). Pottle 57; Rothschild 456; Tinker 333.

£1,250

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BOSWELL, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, With Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Containing Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published; A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men and Books: with an authentick account of The Distresses and Escape of the Grandson of King James II. in the Year 1746. London: by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785

First edition of Boswell’s version of their three-month trek through the highlands and islands of Scotland in late 1773. Boswell’s account “has the chatty informality of a ‘rough’ guide: its focus is on Johnson, as it describes his charged encounters with the native population, whether humble cottagers or important personages like Lord Monboddo and Boswell’s formidable father Lord Auchin-

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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 (413 × 307 mm) Contemporary diced russia, neatly rebacked in calf, red and black labels, raised bands, compartments gilt with foliate tools, palmette rolled panel, single fillet edge-roll, urn and flower roll to the turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, two-sheet engraved folding map, 76 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 3 of which are folding, by Stadler after Farington. Armorial bookplate of the Viscounts Strathallan, imposed over an earlier plate; later colour printed bookplate of bibliophile and philanthropist Harris Hollin; that of actor and collector Michael Lerner loosely inserted. A little rubbed, light browning, occasional foxing, a few plates with pale offsetting, but overall a very good copy.

First edition with the series titles and the dedication to the King, “both being removed from later printings” (Abbey), all watermarks for 1794. Tooley adds that “these early impressions within aquatint borders are infinitely superior to later pulls. Poor and mediocre copies are relatively common, the work is almost invariably stained

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with offsets, and even the text is frequently spotted … fine, clean, and perfect copies are really rare”. A highly desirable copy of “One of the earliest of the great aquatint topographical works” (Ray). Abbey, Scenery, 432; Ray 36; Tooley 102.

£7,500

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BREWER, H. W. A Bird’s Eye View of the West End of London. London: The Graphic, 1889 Mounted size: 400 x 1115 mm. Wood engraving, with hand colour; folded as issued. Some nicks and tears to the margins, with slight loss, but in good overall condition.

A detailed panorama of Victorian London, as seen from the Houses of Parliament; issued as a special supplement to the Graphic Magazine.

£1,700

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BRODOVITCH, Alexey. Ballet. 104 photographs by Alexey Brodovitch. Text by Edwin Denby. New York: J. J. Augustin, [1945.]

BRONTË, Anne & Emily. Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Wuthering Heights. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848

(BROOKE, Rupert) SYNGE, John M. The Playboy of the Western World. A comedy in three acts. Dublin and London: Maunsel and Co. Ltd., 1912

Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in grey morocco, title onlaid in white morocco to front board, twin rule to turn-ins in silver, off-white endpapers, silver edges. Black and white photographs. A fine copy.

First edition, first printing. Between 1935 and 1937 Brodovitch photographed several of the leading Russian ballet companies while they were in New York on their world tours. With 104 photographs the contents are divided into 11 segments, one for each ballet performance. On the contents page, Brodovitch introduces each chapter in a typographic style that emulates the feel of the dance it is describing.

£4,500

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2 works bound together in one volume, octavo (185 × 125 mm). Contemporary black half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Bound without the advertisement leaf at the end of the first work. Ownership inscription. Some wear to paper sides, a few small wormholes to spine, spotting to early and late leaves. Withal a very good copy.

First US editions of both books, which were published separately in July and April of 1848 respectively (originally issued both in wrappers and in cloth, the trimmed size of these pages is closer to that of the cloth-bound editions). Both title pages carry incorrect attributions: Tenant of Wildfell Hall’s stated author “Acton Bell” (i.e. Anne Brontë) is falsely credited with being also the author of Wuthering Heights, and the title page of Wuthering Heights claims it to have been written by the author of Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë).

£5,000

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Octavo. Original japon backed grey paper boards, titles to upper board and spine gilt, top edge gilt. Some spotting to contents, boards soiled, spine dull. Good.

Pocket Edition reprint. With the fine signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, “Reginald Berkeley from Rupert Brooke December 1913”. Reginald Berkeley and Brooke met on board the RMS Niagara on the voyage from Fiji to New Zealand in the autumn of 1913. They struck up a friendship based on Berkeley’s inchoate interest in the craft of writing. A lawyer by profession at first in Auckland and then from 1919 back in London, dur-

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ing the war Berkeley served as a captain in the Rifle Brigade. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1916. The gift by Brooke of his own copy of Synge’s masterpiece is telling. He had long admired its author and the Playboy in particular. His lover Cathleen Nesbitt acted in an early production and is known to have inscribed to him in 1913 a copy of Synge’s Poems and Translations. In a long letter to Berkeley written on board the Niagara, Brooke composed one of his more notable disquisitions on the art of writing plays. Remarkably in his later life Berkeley would indeed become a successful dramatist. He wrote the original play of The Lady with the Lamp, famously starring Edith Evans as Florence Nightingale, and went on to adapt numerous English theatrical works for Hollywood of which the best known was Coward’s Cavalcade. Books inscribed by Brooke are rare.

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BUCHAN, John. [The Richard Hannay series:] The Thirty-Nine Steps; Greenmantle; Mr Standfast; The Three Hostages; The Island of Sheep; The Courts of The Morning; Sick Heart River. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons / Hodder and Stoughton, 1915-40

BURROUGHS, William S. The Naked Lunch. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959

BURTON, Richard F. First Footsteps in East Africa; or, an Exploration of Harar. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856

7 individual works, octavo. Uniformly bound in recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Contents of The Thirty-Nine Steps partially toned, some minor foxing to a few leaves but overall a clean set in excellent condition.

£2,250

All first editions, first impressions. Major-General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by Buchan. In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that the character is based in part on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War.

£3,500

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Octavo. Original wrappers printed in green and black. With the dust jacket. A superb copy.

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BURROUGHS, William S. Naked Lunch. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959 Octavo. Original black boards, black cloth backstrip, titles to spine gilt, black top-stain. With the dust jacket. Housed in a yellow cloth folding case Binding very lightly rubbed, some faint toning and spotting to edges of contents. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some nicks and faint spots.

First US edition, first printing. Originally published in France in the same year (see previous item).

£850

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Octavo. Original brick red cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind-stamped panels to the boards. mid brown surface-paper endpapers, ads. to the pastedowns. Housed in a red half morocco book-style drop-back box. Chromolithographic frontispiece and 3 similar plates, 7 illustrations to the text and 2 full-page maps. Slightly rubbed and soiled, minor splits at the head and tail of the spine, front hinge neatly repaired, light toning, largely unopened, a very good copy.

First edition, second issue, brick red cloth and without Appendix IV on infibulation, as usual. Following his “pilgrimage” to Mecca, instead of returning to Britain – “where he would have received a hero’s welcome at the Royal Geographical Society and the applause of the general” – Burton “lingered in Cairo until November 1853 … planning the penetration of another forbidden city. This time his objective was Harar, an important religious centre and notorious base for the slave trade in Somalia” (ODNB). The expedition was enthusiastically supported by the Bombay Council, and the party

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of four – joining Burton were Stroyan, with whom Burton had worked in Sind; Herne, a skilled photographer and surveyor; and John Hanning Speke, a young officer taken on at the last minute following the death of Assistant-Surgeon J. E. Stocks – assembled at Aden in October 1854. There the political resident, Colonel James Outram, “dismissed their plan as excessively dangerous.” Burton accordingly revised the plan, reserving the inland trip to Harar for himself. Speke was forced to return early to Aden from his trip to Wadi Nugal by the treachery of his guide. Burton spent ten days in Harar, where he was “spied upon constantly, but … learnt much from local scholars” (Howgego), meeting up with the other two party-members at Berbera. Once back in Aden, Burton planned a further trip, a trek up the Nile from the Somali coast. But on their return to Berbera in April their camp was attacked by Somali tribesmen, Stroyan being killed by a spear thrust, Burton receiving his famous facial wound, and the party barely escaping. An account of the skirmish is included in the Postscript. Abbey 276; Casada 35; Gay 2714; Howgego, II, B95; Penzer pp. 60-3.

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CAMUS, Albert. Les Justes [The Just Assassins]. Paris: Gallimard, 1950 Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in red and black. Wrappers a little rubbed and spotted, spine rolled and tanned, contents browned as often

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “a Pierre Chavet, amicalement, Albert Camus”.

£2,750

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CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York: Random House, 1958

CARTER, Howard, & A. C. Mace. The Tomb of Tut·Ankh·Amen discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter … London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923–27–33

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. Images à la Sauvette. Paris: Éditions Verve, 1952

Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in pink morocco, black morocco title label, title to spine silver, inlaid black leather silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly with real diamond jewellery, black plain endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins silver, all edges silver. Housed in a custom black velvet drawstring bag. A fine copy.

First edition, first printing.

£2,750

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3 volumes, octavo. Original sand cloth, titles gilt to spine and upper board, gilt scarab on black on-lay to the upper boards, green patterned endpapers. Profusely illustrated from photographs by Harry Burton, photographer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cloth slightly rubbed, heads and tails of the spines crumpled, small snaps to the lower joint of volume I, hinges a touch loose, light toning to the text, near contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper of volume I, later inscriptions to the half-titles of vols. II, and III, but overall a very good set. Publisher’s presentation blind-stamp to the title page of volume I.

First editions, first impressions in original cloth of a set only rarely found complete thus. A key text of Egyptology, Carter’s account of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen, is the primary source for what is surely, alongside Schliemann’s discovery of Troy, the most famous archaeological excavation of all time: the first and to date the finest royal tomb found virtually intact in the history of Egyptology.

£2,250

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spine lightly surface cracked, an exceptional copy with the perfect-bound plates entirely sound and the binding uncompromised.

Folio. Original lithographic boards with titles and decoration by Matisse in black, green and blue, titles to front cover and spine in black. 126 photographic plates. Spine lightly bumped, a couple of light marks and dings to white boards as usual but a much brighter copy than is usually found of this vulnerable publication.

First edition, first printing. The photographer’s finest and definitive collection of images. Published in translation as The Decisive Moment. Roth 101, Parr & Badger.

£2,750

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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. Les Européens. Photographies. Paris: Editions Verve, 1955 Folio. Original boards, with the full wraparound lithographic decoration and titles after Joan Miro in red, yellow, blue and black. 144 photographic illustrations by Cartier-Bresson. Corners lightly bumped, head and foot of

First edition, first printing. One of the legendary photographer’s key books. This, the true first edition, was never issued in dust jacket. Copies in this condition are very scarce.

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CERVANTES, Miguel de. The Life and Exploits Of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish, By Charles Jarvis, Esq; in two volumes. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, and R. Dodsley, 1742 2 volumes, quarto (282 × 231 mm). Contemporary full calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels, double gilt rule to boards, red speckled edges, cloth markers. 68 copper engraved plates by Vandergucht and Virtue, and a portrait of the author. Bookplates of W. Middleton. Joints starting but holding firm, corners bumped, covers marked, raised bands rubbed but gilt still bright, an attractive set.

First edition of the Jarvis translation. Charles Jarvis, a friend and one-time art tutor of Alexander Pope, was primarily an artist and an art collector. He also had literary ambitions, and this translation of Don Quixote, his major literary undertaking, published posthumously and frequently reprinted, is generally considered to be close in spirit to the original. Vol. I also contains, as issued, a reimpression of The Life of Michael de Cervantes Saavedra. Written by Don Gregorio Mayáns & Siscár: His Catholick Majesty’s Library-Keeper. Translated, from the Spanish Manuscript, by Mr. Ozell, with a separate title, dated 1738. It also contains the “Supplement to the translator’s preface”, more commonly known as “A dissertation on the origin of books of chivalry” by William Warburton, which is not found in all copies.

£3,500

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CHANDLER, Raymond. The High Window. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1943 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Trivial spotting to the fore edges but an exceptional copy in the little rubbed and frayed dust jacket with some small loss at the spine and two corners.

First UK edition, first impression. This copy, although unmarked, is from the author’s own library which sold at auction in the autumn of 2011. A considerably scarcity in any condition, this printing of Chandler’s magnificent third novel is a true rarity in dust jacket.

£3,750

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(CHANDLER, Raymond) The Simple Art of Murder to The Art of the Mystery Story, A collection of critical essays edited with a commentary by Howard Haycraft. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt, red topstain. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the worn dust jacket.

First edition, first printing of this anthology to which Chandler contributed, his own copy with the editor’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, “For Raymond Chandler with the admiration and gratitude of Howard Haycraft Nov 14 ‘46”. A perfect association copy of a major critical anthology in the field of detective fiction. Chandler has made five minor corrections to the text of his own essay.

£3,750

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CHESTERTON, G. K. The Incredulity of Father Brown. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1926 Octavo. Original black cloth, rule and titles to upper board and spine in red. With the pictorial dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, spotting to edges. An excellent copy in the bright dust jacket, lightly marked, and rubbed to the extremities.


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£1,750

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CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Secret of Chimneys. London: John Lane, 1925 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and geometric design to spine and upper board in black. Spine rolled, cloth very lightly rubbed, dark spot to bottom edge of upper board, spotting to edges, endpapers, and scattered through contents. An excellent copy.


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CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1926 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and border to spine and upper board in red. Ends and corners rubbed, spine slightly rolled and faintly faded, light spotting to early leaves. A very good copy.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author Rafael Sabatini to the playwright Charlton Mann on the front free endpaper, “Charlton Mann, from Rafael Sabatini with all kind thoughts, this isn’t a bad one of its kind, R.S.”

£1,500

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CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Hound of Death and Other Stories. London: Odhams Press Limited, 1933 Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Cloth mottled, titles oxidised as very often, spotting to endpapers and occasionally to contents. A very good copy in the exceptionally nice dust jacket with a little bleed to the verso but none of the usual fading at the spine.

First edition, first impression. This title was published by Odhams when the Crime Club declined to do so. (The latter subsequently decided they had missed a trick and put out a small number in their own binding and dust jackets.) Copies of this edition are far from scarce but pretty ones like the present example are uncommon.

£875

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CHURCHILL, Winston Leonard Spencer. The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War... With maps, plans, etc. London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, black coated endpapers. Frontispiece portrait and 6 maps, 4 of them folding and coloured, 4 full-page. Ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Cloth a little rubbed and dulled at extremities, corners bumped, spot to lower board, spotting to contents. A very good copy.

First edition, home issue, only printing, second state of Churchill’s first book, this copy with the errata slip at p.1, the catalogue dated 3/98. Cohen A1.1.b; Woods A1a.

£5,500

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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The River War; an Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899

CHURCHILL, Winston S. Thoughts and Adventures. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1932

2 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration gilt to spines and upper boards, facsimile gilt signature and block of one of Kitchener’s Nile gunboats to the upper board, and of the Mahdi’s tomb to the spine, black surface paper endpapers. With 25 illustrations, 16 maps and plans in vol. I, and 33 illustrations, 18 maps and plans in vol. II by Angus McNeil, Seaforth Highlanders. Very slightly rubbed, corners a touch bumped, head and tail of the spine mildly crumpled, some foxing as usual, but a very good copy indeed, the hinges entirely uncracked.

First edition, first impression, second state (minor typographic error corrected on p. 459, vol. II), of Churchill’s second book: “2000 copies published on 6 November 1899” (Woods). It includes 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”. The first edition of DNB also judges The River War a “superb” history; Churchill himself more graphically called it “a tale of blood and war”. Cohen A2.1.b: Woods A2(a).

£5,500

Octavo. Original olive cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board. With the dust jacket. Jacket a little rubbed, some chipping and tail of the spine and at the corners, starting to separate along the joint of the spine and upper panel, contents very lightly toned, neat contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper, a very good copy and uncommon thus.

First edition, first impression. The second volume of Churchill’s autobiographical writings, covering his early political career, the battle of Sidney Street, a near silence on Gallipoli, service on the western front, the negotiation of the Irish settlement, thoughts on the “Mass effects of modern life” and life “Fifty years hence”. A collection of Churchill’s magazine and newspaper journalism written in the same informal style as My Early Life, Thoughts and Adventures proved surprisingly successful. Published on 10 November 1932 in a run of 4,000, three additional printings of 1,000 were required in the same month, two of them before publication, Butterworth writing to Churchill: “We are truly delighted at this success which confounds the Jonahs of the Bookselling trade…To keep pace with


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the increasing demand, we had to get both printers and binders to work overtime. The sheets were delivered by passenger train, and the cases were made by the binders in advance” (quoted in Cohen). A very difficult book to find in jacket. Cohen A95; Woods A39(a).

£4,500

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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War. London: Cassell & Co., 1948-54 6 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and rampant lion device to spines, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Numerous maps and plans to the text, some full-page. Some light spotting to a few leaves otherwise an excellent set in fine bindings.

First editions, first impressions. With a fly-leaf signed and dated 1950 by Winston Churchill to volume 1.

£7,500

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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The War Speeches of the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill. Compiled by Charles Eade in three volumes. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1951-52 3 volumes, octavo (240 × 147 mm). Contemporary red half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, flat bands with gilt dotted role, title and volume numbers gilt in second and third compartments, single fillet panels to others, single gilt rule to spine and corner edges, red linen sides, Cockerell endpapers, all edges gilt. Title pages in red and black. Spines a little sunned, else a handsome set in excellent condition.

First editions, first impressions. Although the publication statement in vol. I gives 1951 as the date of issue, all three volumes were published simultaneously in an edition of 4,740 sets in September 1952. (Five hundred sets of sheets were exported for the American edition, published 1953.) Eade corrected the titles of a number of the speeches and inserted the “secret session speeches” in the correct chronological order. Cohen A263.1(I-III).a; Woods A136.

£1,250

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(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Ten Chapters. 1942 to 1945. Germany: Printed by Printing and Stationery Services, 21 Army Group, 1945 Oblong octavo (167 × 123 mm). Original black pebble-grained padded skiver, title gilt to the upper board together with 8th Army and 21 Army Group shields, single blind ruled panel to the boards. Slightly chipped at the tail of the spine, light toning of the text, else very good.

True first edition, printed and published by the 21 Army Group for Montgomery in Germany, predating the Hutchinson trade edition of 1946. General Brian Horrocks’s copy, inscribed to him by Montgomery: “To: Jorrocks: who played no small part in the events recorded in these chapters. B. L. Montgomery, FieldMarshal, Germany 14-7-45.” We can trace only one other copy of this presentation edition, the BL copy: none recorded in IWM, not known to Cohen. “Montgomery’s brief historical settings for the ‘ten chapters’ each of which consists wholly or substantially of Churchill’s entries (in facsimile) in Montgomery’s diary … In a letter of 8 January 1946 … Churchill had expressed the wish that the diary would be published one day” (Cohen). Horrocks and Montgomery became friends during the inter-war years, when they

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were both advocates of mechanized mobile warfare. Horrocks was promoted brigadier during the Dunkirk evacuation and rose to corps commander under Montgomery at El Alamein. Loosely inserted is a cheque for £10 made out to Horrocks and signed by Montgomery, annotated by Montgomery on the reverse; “This cheque is in payment of a bet that the German war would not be over by 1-8-45. B. L. Montgomery Field-Marshal, Berlin 29-845.” The cheque is countersigned by Horrocks, who has also made a note on the front pastedown relating to the details of the bet, which was a favourite of Montgomery’s. Cohen A226 for the Hutchinson edition of the following year.

£4,500

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CLARK, Robert, ed. Golf: A Royal & Ancient Game. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1875 Tall quarto. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board in gilt and black, brown coated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Extremities worn, contents lightly toned. An excellent copy.


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on the front blank, “To Derek Campbell from W. Laidlaw Purves. 22 April, 1876”. Purves was the founder of the legendary Royal St. George’s course in Sandwich, Kent.

£1,500

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CLARKE, James Stanier, & John McArthur. The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. From His Lordship’s Manuscripts. London: Printed by T. Bensley, For T. Cadell and W. Davies, and W. Miller, 1809 2 volumes, quarto (338 × 272 mm). Contemporary full green straightgrained morocco, flat bands, title gilt direct to the spines, compartments with nested concentric gilt panels, wide arabesque rolled panels to the boards enclosing ruled and foliate panels in blind, dog-tooth edge-roll, all edges gilt, dog-tooth roll to turn-ins, dun endpapers. Frontispiece and 3 other plates to volume I, 7 plates to volume II, 4 of them accompanied by plans, headpieces, vignettes and facsimiles to the text, double page pedigree to volume I. Armourial bookplates of Anthony Cliffe of Bellevue, Co. Wexford to the front pastedowns, and his ownership inscription to the

title page of volume I. A little rubbed at the extremities, a couple of minor scuffs to the boards, frontispiece slightly damped in the tail margin, light toning, a very good copy.

First edition. “One of the main foundation stones of the Nelson legend” (Wilson, “Nelson Apotheosised” in Cannadine, ed., Admiral Lord Nelson); “the ‘official’ biography” (NMM). McArthur, a former naval purser, had served with Nelson in the Mediterranean. When advertisements appeared asking for material for a biography to be written by Clarke, the prince regent’s librarian and chaplain, McArthur claimed, groundlessly, that Nelson himself had asked him to write his life and that he had already incurred considerable expense in preparing the book, including the commissioning of a set of paintings to be engraved as illustrations. It was agreed that the authors would pool their efforts but they further fell out over whose name should come first on the title page. The finished work is wonderfully illustrated with anecdotal headpieces and plates by Westall and battle scenes by Nicholas Pocock. Cowie 137; NMM, II, 921.

£4,500

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COCTEAU, Jean. Le Sang d’un Poète. Film. Photographies de Sacha Masour. [Paris:] Robert Marin, 1948

CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. A story between two notes. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd, 1919

Quarto. Printed card wrappers, as issued, edges uncut. In the original glassine wrapper. Portrait frontispiece and 48 monochrome photographs in the text. Ends rubbed. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed wrapper.

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt. top edge stained green. With the dust jacket supplied from another copy. Contents occasionally lightly marked, hinges starting, spine a little dull but a very good copy in the somewhat frayed dust jacket supplied from another copy with minor loss at the top of the spine and the corners.

CORYATE, Thomas. Coryat’s Crudities: Reprinted from the Edition of 1611. To which are now added, His Letters from India, &c. and extracts relating to him, From Various Authors: being A more particular Account of his Travels (mostly on Foot) in different Parts of the Globe, than any hitherto published. Together with his Orations, Character, Death, &c. With CopperPlates. London: W. Cater; Samuel Hayes; J. Wilkie; and E. Easton at Salisbury, 1776

First edition, first impression, number IV in a limited hors commerce edition of 45. Inscribed by the author, with an original ink drawing (one of Cocteau’s characteristic portrait line-drawings), to the half-title: “A Genevieve Marchand, souvenir bien amical de Jean Cocteau.” A scarce volume and the first appearance of Cocteau’s infamous film of 1930 in book form. Includes, loosely inserted, the flyer for the sale of the Times Bookshop collection, Jean Cocteau 1899-1963.

£2,500

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First edition, first impression, first issue bound without front free endpaper. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the half title, “Mme Alvar from her friend Joseph Conrad 1919”. In November 1919 Conrad wrote to Alvar thanking her for her letter of praise for The Arrow of Gold: “You have expressed yourself charmingly and I can assure you that your fine and understanding sympathy has given me the greatest pleasure.” Alvar had been introduced to Conrad by Jean Aubry.

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3 volumes, octavo (200 × 120 mm). Nineteenth-century polished calf, contrast labels, spine gilt in compartments, double-ruled panel with floral corner-pieces to the boards, plain single line edge-roll, marbled edges and endpapers, milled roll to the turn-ins. 8 engraved plates copied from 17thcentury blocks, engraved illustrations within text. Contemporary armorial

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bookplate and early ownership inscription of H. C. Morewood to first volume; later plates of Hardress Llewellyn Lloyd in all three. Joints, headcaps and one tear to side very skilfully repaired, an excellent set.

First collected edition of the writings of Thomas Coryate (1577?– 1617), effectively the second edition with additional material. The Crudities, describing his tour from London to Venice and back, is his best known work, with many points of historical interest, including his admirable rendering of the story of William Tell (cited as the earliest in English); it is also remembered for the prefatory mock-panegyric verses by the most illustrious authors of the day, including Jonson, Chapman, Donne, Campion, Harington, and Drayton. The whole apparatus of the book, including these verses, the plates and the original spelling, is reproduced here. Howgego, I, C198.

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CROWLEY, Aleister. The Equinox. The Official Organ of the A A. The Review of Scientific Illuminism. London: for Aleister Crowley and published by him at the Office of The Equinox, 1909–13

papers, edges untrimmed, Edmonds & Remnant’s binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. Housed in a green cloth folding case. Folding diagram to face p. 117. Murray’s general list advertisements dated January 1860. Bookseller’s ticket to front free endpaper, a little rubbed and bumped along the extremities, some small spots to cloth, hinges starting, occasional spotting to contents. An excellent copy.


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brown coated endpapers, Edmonds & Remnant’s binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. Engravings in the text. Bookplate, contemporary ownership inscription to front blank, pencil marks to verso of front blank and to recto of rear free endpaper. Cloth a little rubbed and marked, hinges cracked, lower corner of last ad leaf torn. A very good copy.

DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. In two Volumes. With Illustrations. London: John Murray, 1871

First edition, first issue with the errata on the verso of the title leaf of vol. II. Here the word “evolution” appears for the first time in any of Darwin’s works, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of the Origin of Species the following year. Darwin had hoped that one of his supporters might tackle the thorny question of human evolution, but was forced to face the logic of his own theory himself. Darwin deviated from his ostensible subject of mankind to describe sexual selection in the animal kingdom, enabling him to answer those who saw peacock tails as an expression of divine aesthetics. Darwin also set out a definite family tree for humans, tracing their affinity with the Old World monkeys, and laid out his views on the evolutionary origins of morality and religion. “The Descent, understood by Darwin as a sequel to the Origin, was written with a maturity and depth of learning that marked Darwin’s status as an élite gentleman of science” (ODNB).

2 volumes, octavo (182 × 120 mm). Contemporary red half calf, spines

£3,750

10 volumes, quarto. Original white boards printed in black, green, and red. Rubbed, worn, and tanned, with chips and creases to bindings, spine of number IV split but holding. A very good set.

Second edition, the usual issue with 1860 on the title page (a very few copies only have 1859). “The misprint ‘speceies’ is corrected and the whale-bear story diluted, an alteration which Darwin later regretted, although he never restored the full text” (Freeman).

First editions, first impressions of all ten issues of volume I of Crowley’s semi-annual journal of occultism.

The final definitive text, as Darwin left it at his death, and the first printing to be bound in the same style as the first three editions of the Origin. “The page height is nearly two centimetres greater than before and the wider margins give the whole book a much better appearance” (Freeman p. 36).

Freeman 376.

Freeman 20.

£6,750

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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. Fifth thousand. London: John Murray, 1860 Octavo signed and sewn in twelves. Original diagonal-wave-grain green cloth, covers blocked in blind, titles to spine gilt, chocolate coated end-

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DARWIN, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World. Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy. Tenth Thousand. London: John Murray, 1860

gilt in compartments, marbled sides, edges, and endpapers. Engravings throughout. With the half-title in vol. I only. Bookplate to each volume. Bindings a little rubbed, spotting to title pages. An excellent set, attractively bound.

£1,750

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[DEFOE, Daniel.] The Life And Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, Who lived eight & twenty years all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last strangely deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. [The Farther Adventures ...] London: for John Stockdale, 1790 2 volumes, octavo (230 × 145 mm). Recently rebound to style in streaked calf, spines elaborately gilt in compartments with anchor tools, red and green morocco labels, blue endpapers, floral roll to boards and top edges gilt. Engraved frontispieces, vignette title pages, 12 plates, and portrait. Rather inexpertly opened with consequent small tears to some fore-edges, vol. II fore-edge trimmed a little shorter, slight foxing to outer leaves, two leaves in first gathering of vol. I reattached at inner margin, wants final leaf of adverts (Gg8, vol. II), still a good copy.

First Stockdale edition, handsomely presented with frontispiece and engraved title in each volume and the novel text illustrated by 12 engravings by Medland after Stothard. The wording of the engraved titles preserves the illusion that the work is autobiographical, but Stockdale appends Chalmers’s Life of Defoe (with engraved portrait) and a fascinating attempt at a Defoe bibliography: “A List of Writings, which are considered as undoubtedly De Foe’s” distinguished from “A List of Books which are supposed to be De Foe’s”.

£1,500

The “Hand-made Edition”, limited to 150 numbered sets. A deluxe set of Defoe’s works in a particularly handsome binding.

£3,950

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(DEFOE, Daniel) JOHNSON, Charles. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, and also Their Policies, Discipline and Government, from their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, in 1717, to the present Year 1724. [Together with] The History of the Pyrates. London: for Charles Rivington, J. Lacey, and J. Stone, 1724; T. Woodward, 1728 2 volumes, octavo (190 × 117 mm). Recently rebound to style in panelled calf with double-line rules, floral roll, and cornerpieces in blind, pink labels to spines, 5 raised bands. Folding frontispiece and 2 plates of which 1 is folding. Vol. II lacking the front blank and the map depicting the middle part of America, as often. Occasional light spotting to contents, some small marginal notations in a contemporary hand to vol. II. Vol. I washed, vol. II with some markings and short marginal tears. A very good set.


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First edition of this rare work which established the pirate mythology, including the concept of buried treasure and the name of the flag, the Jolly Roger. Still an important source for the history of piracy, it “embodies many items relating to the Colonial History of British America, nowhere else extant” (Sabin), including the adventures of Blackbeard and his capture by Lieutenant Robert Maynard in the James River, and the lives of Captain Kidd and the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Though originally attributed to Daniel Defoe by his bibliographer John Robert Moore, a number of sources, including P. N. Furbank, W. R. Owens, and David Cordingly, have contested the Defoe authorship, and Hill writes that “if the author was Defoe, it is interesting to note that he also wrote an elaborate review of the work”. The scholar Arne Bialuschewski has linked it more conclusively to Nathanial Mist, a former sailor and the publisher of the Weekly Journal who “died a poor and bitter man” in 1737. Vol. II lacks the map of the middle part of America which is not usually found, and in fact is questionable as to whether or not it appeared in the first edition. An attractive set of this important first book on piracy.

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DICKENS, Charles. The Works. Illustrated Library Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874 30 volumes, octavo. Early 20th-century red half morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands gilt, red cloth boards, top edges gilt. Illustrated plates throughout by, among others, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), George Cattermole, Marcus Stone, H. K. Browne, Sir Edwin Landseer, John Leech, F. Walker, Maclise, Standfield, Doyle and Tenniel. A very handsome set in excellent condition.

Illustrated Library Edition. An attractive example of what Dickens called “the best edition of my works”.

£6,000

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£5,750

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DEFOE, Daniel The Works. New York: George D. Sproul, 1905 16 volumes, octavo (214 × 136 mm). Finely bound by Whitman Bennet in contemporary burgundy half morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With 4 monochrome plates in each volume, captioned tissues printed in red. Some spotting to one limitation page, the occasional minor blemish, an excellent set.

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First and last two volumes only shown.

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(DICKENS, Charles) SMITH, F. Hopkins. In Dickens’s London. Twenty-Two Photogravure Proofs Reproducing the Charcoal Drawings by F. Hopkins Smith. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1914 22 loose photogravure proofs. Each matted and housed in the publisher’s folder. An excellent set in the original folder.

First edition. One of a limited edition of 150 numbered sets, each signed on the limitation leaf by the artist and the publisher. Additionally signed by Smith on the print “Coffee-Room, George Inn”.

£2,500

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(DISNEY, Walt) TAYLOR, Deems. Fantasia. With a Foreword by Leopold Stokowski. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940 Folio. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in blue, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout. Faint toning to lower edge of upper board. An excellent copy in the priceclipped jacket with a chip filled in at the head of the spine panel and

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repairs to rubbed and scuffed areas on the centre of the lower panel and bottom edges of both panels.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Walt Disney at the end of the foreword, “To Jack Hardy, best wishes, Walt Disney”.

£5,000

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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] CARROLL, Lewis. The Game of Logic. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, black coated endpapers. With the original counters. Housed in a red quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Game diagram frontispiece and diagrams throughout. Very lightly rubbed at extremities, contents lightly toned. An excellent copy.


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First edition, first impression, with the original paper counters and game card in their original envelope. A lovely copy of the book that was Carroll’s attempt to introduce formal deductive logic to children.

£3,000

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DOUGHTY, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. With a New Preface by the Author, Introduction by T. E. Lawrence … London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, Ltd., and Jonathan Cape, 1921 2 volumes octavo (219 × 140 mm). Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green full morocco, title gilt to the spines, raised bands with dotted roll, single panel gilt to the compartments and boards, single gilt edge-roll, top edge gilt, the others uncut, twin gilt rules to turn-ins, black endpapers. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and 9 other plates, 6 of them folding, large folding coloured map in an end-pocket to volume I, illustrations to the text throughout, many full-page. Light browning else very good.

First Lawrence edition, Norman Douglas’s copy, with a one-page letter signed from Jonathan Cape soliciting a review from the London Mercury (Douglas reviewed the book in May 1921) and a wonderful two-page autograph letter signed from Doughty to Douglas: “Dear Sir, It would always give me pleasure to see you, a friend of Mr. Edward Garnett, if anything should bring you this way; & to talk over literary subjects … I have never contributed anything to Periodical Literature. The Arabia Deserta vols. & succeeding volumes … have occupied every hour of my time & strength, year in & year out without intermission for 55 years, nearly.” With Douglas’s pencilled page-notes to the versos of the original rear free endpapers, which have been retained, laid down on Japanese tissue, and bound in at the end of vol. I; occasional pencil marks to the margins. First published in 1888, this second edition is the first with Doughty’s new preface and Lawrence’s introduction, one of 500 copies only. Lawrence had long admired Doughty’s work and was instrumental in getting it republished by Cape; it was to be the publisher’s first book. O’Brien A013.

£3,500

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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes Ltd., 1892 & 1894

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902

2 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines, elaborate decorative borders to boards, pictorial onlays to front covers of Holmes and Watson on a train on front cover of Adventures and Moriaty on Memoirs, burgundy endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout the text by Sydney Paget. Some minor spotting to a few leaves otherwise in excellent condition.

First editions of the first two great collections of Holmes stories. The first collection, Adventures, is the first issue with the misprint “Miss Violent Hunter” on page 317; there is no corresponding issue point for Memoirs.

£5,375

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Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front board in gilt, hound design to front board in black. Frontispiece and 15 plates. A fine copy.

First edition, first impression. A stunning copy.

£6,500

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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Works. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1902 13 volumes, octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, red morocco labels, decoration to spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated throughout. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent set handsomely bound.


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The Author’s Edition. This is a rare US issue which, unlike the UK edition, includes The Hound of the Baskervilles. The omission was due to the fact that the author wanted a set that contained only the works for which he wanted to be credited, as he states in the preface: “Outside of this edition there is no work of mine up to this date which I do not willingly suppress.”

ter Quaint Fragment (of which only six copies are known to exist). Inscribed by the author on the title page, “For the desk, or wastepaper basket of Mr. Walter de la Mare”. Due to the quality of paper used for the wrappers, they almost always chip and crack. Despite splits that have been professionally repaired, this copy is in the best condition we have seen, with no paper loss.

£3,750

£6,500

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DURRELL, Lawrence. Ten Poems. London: The Caduceus Press, 1932

(DURRELL, Lawrence) NORDEN, Charles. Panic Spring. A Romance. London: Faber and Faber, 1937

Octavo. Original brown wrappers printed in black. Housed in a brown quarter morocco solander case and chemise. Wrappers professionally restored to the spine and verso and backed with tissue, contents lightly toned. A very good copy.

Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Edges a little rubbed. An excellent copy in the priceclipped jacket with toned spine panel and a few tiny nicks and short splits.

First edition, first impression of this extremely rare pamphlet, the earliest obtainable Durrell publication, his second work af-

First edition, first impression of the author’s second novel, published pseudonymously more than two decades prior to the Alexandria Quartet. An attractive copy of this uncommon edition.

£1,500

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DURRELL, Lawrence. The Black Book. An Agon. Paris: Obelisk Press, 1938 Octavo. Original tan wrappers printed in pink and black, rebacked with the original spine and wrappers laid onto card. Wrappers rubbed, tanned, spotted and chipped. Front blank loose with evidence of old repair, short split to half-title at the head of the spine, contents tanned. A good copy.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the halftitle, “To Peter from Larry. Paris, 1938”. Durrell also re-inscribed the half-title in a bolder hand at a later date, “Inscribed for Peter Bull by his old friend Larry Durrell, April 1973”. Bull was a British character actor probably best known for his role as the Russian ambassador in Dr. Strangelove. Bull has added his ownership inscription to the half-title in pencil. Presentation copies of the first edition of The Black Book are of the utmost scarcity. We have encountered only one other copy on the market.

£4,500

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Quarto. Original white pigskin backed marbled boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, other untrimmed. With the original marbled slipcase. A little spotting to the spine, upper board slightly bowed. An excellent copy.

First edition thus. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. A magnificent piece of book production executed in Verona under the direction of Giovanni Mardersteig, the greatest printer of the twentieth century.

£3,750

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(ERNST, Max) CREVEL, Rene. Mr. Knife Miss Fork. Translated by Kay Boyle. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1931 Small octavo. Original black cloth, elaborate decoration to lower board in blind and to upper board and spine gilt, black endpapers. With the publisher’s gold trimmed black card slipcase. 19 photograms by Max Ernst. Short tear to one plate, some minor rubbing to the gilt but an unusually nice copy in the lightly worn slipcase.

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First edition, sole printing. From a total edition of 255 copies

ELIOT, T. S. The Waste Land. London: Printed at the Officina Bodoni for Faber & Faber, 1961

£7,500

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EVANS, Walker. American Photographs. With an Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, [1962]

FLEMING, Ian. Complete set of the Bond novels and story collections. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953-66

Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 87 monochrome plates. Spine bumped, white dust jacket age toned and rubbed to edges, corners lightly nicked.

14 volumes, octavo. Uniformly bound in recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, rule to boards, plain black endpapers, gilt edges. Some mild damp staining to the bottom of the last few pages of Casino Royale, the occasional minor blemish, an excellent set.

Second edition. An important association copy bearing Evans’s signed presentation inscription to the photographer Arnold Crane and with the recipient’s ownership signature to the front pastedown. Crane was best known as a portrait photographer but his most important work was in the documentation of everyday life in America in the 1950s. In his later years he began the sizeable task of photographing his contemporary photographic colleagues including wonderful studies of Man Ray and Ansel Adams. One of the best assemblages of Evans’s work ever printed, based on the landmark exhibition of the photographer’s work held at MOMA in 1938. (Illustrated on the back cover of this catalogue)

First editions, first impressions. Complete set of all the original Bond books starting with Casino Royale (1953) and ending with Octopussy (1966).

Parr & Badger, Roth 101.


£2,250

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£8,500

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FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, skeletal hand design to front cover in blind. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped, a very good copy, dust jacket rubbed to corners and head and foot of spine.

£500

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FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. With Vivienne Michel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, dagger design to front cover in silver and blindstamp, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. A sharp bright copy, dust jacket lightly rubbed with black mark to fold of front flap.

First edition, first impression. The tenth James Bond book. In some ways this is one of the most ambitious of Fleming’s Bond books. It purports to be the firsthand testimony of a 23-year-old Canadian woman with whom Bond has an ill-fated affair. In time-honoured literary tradition Fleming claims to have been sent Michel’s manuscript account of which he is merely the editor. Michel therefore gets a spurious credit as co-author on the title page. This novel is the only Bond book to be written in the first person.

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FLEMING, Ian. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Magical Car. Adventure Number One, Two and Three. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964–5

FORSTER, E. M. Where Angels Fear to Tread. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906; [with] LAWRENCE, D. H. Twilight in Italy. London: Duckworth & Co., 1916

FORSTER, E. M. A Room With A View. London: Edward Arnold, 1908

3 volumes, octavo. Original illustrated boards, titles to front covers and spines in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jackets. Illustrated throughout by John Burningham. Spines lightly bumped otherwise an excellent, bright set, one small closed tear to dust jackets of volume one & two.

2 works, octavo. Angels: original blue cloth, titles gilt to spine and upper board. Twilight: original blue textured cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in black. Spines somewhat faded, covers a little marked and rubbed, some spotting to edges, Angels spine rolled; withal both in good condition.

First editions, first impressions.

Both copies inscribed by Forster in 1916 on the front free endpapers to Aida Borchgrevink (née Ada Starr), a friend and correspondent of his from about 1912 to 1928. She was described by John Furness as “an ebullient, romantic woman” who “sang Wagner at the top of her voice while she drove” and insisted on calling Forster “Rickie”. Twilight in Italy is first edition, first impression, Where Angels Fear to Tread is second impression.

£2,000

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FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 Octavo. Original green and white patterned wrappers printed in black. Spine rolled, lightly rubbed at extremities. An excellent copy.

£975

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Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.


£2,000

First edition, first impression, one of only 500 copies printed by the Woolfs. Signed by the author on the title page. According to Woolmer the wrappers exist in two states and the label in at least three states with no precedence ascertained; this copy in the grey and orange wrappers with the plain white label lettered in black. Woolmer 9.

£2,000

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FORSTER, E. M. The Story of the Siren. Richmond: Printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1920 Octavo. Original green, grey, and orange marbled wrappers, printed paper label to upper wrapper. Wrappers rubbed and faded along the edges, contents toned. An excellent copy.

Advance proof copy.

£650

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FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America. To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now collected into one Volume, and illustrated with Copper Plates. The Fifth Edition. London: for F. Newbery, 1774

Octavo (225 × 170 mm). Mid twentieth-century burgundy half morocco, spine gilt in compartment, marbled sides and endpapers, red speckled edges. In a red cloth slipcase. Frontispiece and 6 plates of which 4 are folding, 6 wood engravings within the text, 6 staves of musical notation within the text. Bound without half-title. Contemporary marginalia to page 373. Binding a little rubbed, spots to pages 290 & 291, and to 500 & 501, pages 430 and 431 tanned from inserted material but contents overall clean and fresh. An excellent copy.


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that were published – I made drawings for two more books that were not used. I have done some book jackets, the most recent one for a novel called ‘Sexual Intercourse’ by Rose Boyt published last year [signed] Lucian Freud”.

£2,500

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Fifth edition, the last to be published during Franklin’s lifetime and the most complete. Described as “The most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America” (PMM), it includes descriptions of his most important electrical investigations, including the kite-flying experiment and his novel work with Leyden jars, lightning-rods, lighting strokes, and charged clouds. These researches won Franklin the Royal Society’s Copley medal in 1753, and made his reputation as America’s first great scientist. The contents of this edition are much expanded, including two more plates than the previous edition and containing letters on scientific and philosophical subjects written between 1747 and 1768. Norman 830; Printing and the Mind of Man 199.

£5,000

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(FREUD, Lucian.) MOORE, Nicholas. The Glass Tower; London: Editions Poetry, 1944; SANSOM, William. The Equilibriad. London: The Hogarth Press, 1948; POPEHENNESSY, James. The Baths of Absalom. London: Allan Wingate, 1954 3 works, octavo. Original boards, The Glass Tower and Baths of Absolom with dust jackets. All volumes illustrated by Lucian Freud. All very good copies, lightly rubbed to corners, dust jackets toned, The Equilibriad with gift inscription to pastedown. Together with an autograph postcard signed by Freud, dated 19 Nov. [1990].

First editions, first impressions of three works illustrated by Lucian Freud. The Equilibriad limited to 750 copies signed by Sansom. With a postcard illustrated with Freud’s “Filly”, inscribed by the artist, “Dear Gina, the books you mention are the only ones I illustrated

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GIBRAN, Kahlil. The Prophet. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt. 12 illustrations after drawings by the author. Bookplate of the author and Christian scholar J. M. Rasooli to front pastedown. Spine dull with lettering only just visible as often, some browning to front endpapers from the bookplate and old clippings but an excellent copy.

First edition, first printing. Gibran is one of a select group of literary geniuses, with Beckett, Conrad and Nabokov, whose greatest works were written in a language other than that of their birth. Born in the Lebanon, Gibran emigrated to the US. Having first published several works in Arabic, he produced The Prophet, his masterpiece, in English in 1923. It has remained in print ever since. This first printing is a scarce book in any state.

£6,750

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GORMLEY, Antony. Feeling Material. London: Sadler’s Wells. 2006

GORMLEY, Antony. Shared Vision. Fyfield: Oak Tree Fine Press, 2011

Sheet size: 74 x 57 cm. Image size: 49 x 34.5 cm. Etching on wove paper. Excellent condition. Presented float-mounted in a black frame with UV glass.

Sheet size: 28.2 x 21.8 cm Giclée on Hänemuhle etching paper. Fine condition. Presented in a black wooden frame with UV glass.

HAMMETT, Dashiell. A complete set of 12 short story paperback originals. New York: Spivak-bestseller Mystery; Mercury Mystery 1943–62

HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the D’Urbervilles. A Pure Woman. With forty-one engravings by Vivien Gribble. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926

12 individual works, octavo. Original colour wrappers. Housed in a blue cloth folding case. $106,000 Blood Money with blind stamp of owner’s name to top edge of upper wrapper and title page. A Man Named Thin with two library ink stamps to the titlepage and a library card envelope to the inner side of the lower cover. Wrappers lightly rubbed, contents very slightly toned. An excellent set.

Large octavo (280 × 191 mm). Original vellum-backed boards, titles gilt to spine, marbled sides, pages uncut. With the dust jacket. Housed in blue cloth chemise and blue half morocco slipcase. Frontispiece, 41 illustrated plates, folding map inserted before rear free endpaper. A fine copy in the faintly marked and creased dust jacket, with a small tear to joint of front panel.

Edition of 250. Signed and dated in pencil lower right by Gormley, numbered lower left.

£3,000

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Edition of 26 lettered A–Z. Signed by Gormley and lettered lower right.

£1,600

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First editions, first impressions, including the first printings of the reissues of the first two volumes in the series (The Big Knock-Over, a reissue of $106,000 Blood Money, and They Can Only Hang You Once, a reissue of The Adventures of Sam Spade). The set comprises $106,000 Blood Money (1943); The Adventures of Sam Spade (1944); The Continental Op (1945); Return of the Continental Op (1945); Hammett Homicides (1946); Dead Yellow Women (1947); Nightmare Town (1948); The Big Knock-Over (1948); They Can Only Hang You Once (1949); Creeping Siamese (1950); Women in the Dark (1951); and A Man Named Thin (1962).

Deluxe edition, one of a limited edition of 325 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. The illustrations in this edition constitute the last commission ever completed by the respected wood-engraver Vivien Gribble before her death.

£3,250

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Layman A9.1; A9.4; A11.1a; A11.1.b; A12.1; A13.1; A14.1; A15.1; A16.1; A17.1; A18.1; A19.1.

£2,750

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HAYEK, F. A. The Road to Serfdom. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1944 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Working Class Movement Library blind stamp to title page. Spotting to edge and endpapers. A very good copy in the rubbed, toned, and spotted jacket with closed tears repaired with tape to the verso.

First edition, first impression, a copy with an interesting provenance.

£3,750

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fillets to boards with cornerpieces, decoration to turn-ins, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Each volume contains a hand-coloured frontispiece, with both tinted and monochrome illustrations and facsimile documents throughout. Library bookplate to front pastedown of each volume, library serial code stamped to each limitation page, spines uniformly faded to brown, an excellent set.

Edition de Luxe, limited to 1,000 copies. A particularly handsome set, comprising Hazlitt’s Life in six volumes, Bourienne’s Memoirs of Napoleon in four, and Madame Junot, the Duchess d’Abrantes’s Memoirs in six. A balanced selection of Napoleonic biography containing the views of Hazlitt, a committed English Napoleonist, the emperor’s school friend and faithful secretary Bourienne, and Madame Junot’s lively and partial picture of life at Napoleon’s court.

£6,000

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HAZLITT, William; Duchess d’Abrantès; Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourienne. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte [together with] Memoirs of Madame Junot [and] Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. London: The Grolier Society, [c.1900] 16 volumes, octavo (222 × 145 mm). Contemporary purple crushed morocco, titles to spines, Napoleonic devices to spines and boards, multiple

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HELLER, Joseph. Catch-22. A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Cloth a little faded and dulled at extremities, top-stain faded. An excellent copy in the lightly


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rubbed and toned jacket with a few miniscule nicks and a tiny closed tear on the upper fold.


£2,500

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(HERSHOLT, Jean, ed.) The Evergreen Tales. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949–52 15 volumes, tall octavo. Original coloured cloth, titles and decoration to spines and upper boards in various colours, various coloured and pictorial endpapers. Housed in 5 original red slipcases with printed paper labels. Colour illustrations by a variety of artists throughout each volume. Minor scratch to the spine of Bluebeard, but otherwise cloth and contents are fresh and bright. An excellent set.

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HOCKNEY, David. That’s the Way I See It. Edited by Nikos Stangos. London: Thames and Hudson, [1993] Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and design to upper board in yellow, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 365 illustrations, 315 in colour. An excellent copy in the dust jacket that is a little lightly rubbed at the extremities.

First edition, first impression. With an original full-page gouache painting by the author on the half-title of a hand in brown against a background of blue and a black ink grid, holding a green sign surrounding the printed half-title with the painted words “For Caren” and inscribed by the artist, dated 2 April 1994.

£7,500

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Complete set of the Evergreen Tales, each volume no. 342 of 2,000 or 2,500 numbered copies, of which six are signed by the editor Jean Hersholt, six are signed by both editor and artist (Rafaello Buson, Ervine Metzl, Fritz Eichenberg, Everett Gee Jackson, Edward Ardizzone, and Robert Lawson), and three are unsigned as issued. A beautiful example of a set that is that not usually found complete.

£1,500

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HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953 Octavo. Original mid-blue cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece and 7 other coloured plates, 48 black and white plates, sketches, maps and plans to the text. Light rubbing to edges, “Christmas 1953” in an unknown hand to front free endpaper, dust jacket rubbed to edges, but a very good copy indeed.

First edition, first impression. This copy signed on the front free endpaper by Hunt and Edmund Hillary, together with nine other members of the team; George Lowe, who had attempted Cho Oyu the previous year with Hillary; Michael Ward, the “medical linchpin” (Guardian obituary) of the expedition, co-author of the appendix relating to physiology and medicine; Tom Bourdillon, who had been with Shipton on the 1951 reconnaissance of Everest, and with his father developed the oxygen equipment used on the expedition, here contributing the appendix on oxygen; Wilfrid Noyce, whose diary appears here as Appendix 1, and who published his own highly successful account, South Col, the following year; Mike Westmacott, who was responsible for keeping the treacherous Khumbu icefall open; George Band, the youngest member

of the expedition, co-author of the appendix on diet and first up Kangchenjunga with Joe Brown in 1955; Alfred Gregory, who was responsible for expedition photography and reached 28,000 feet in support of the final assault; Griffith Pugh, whose role was to study the effects of high altitude on the fitness and capability of the climbers and to advise on diet, equipment and acclimatization; and Charles Evans, who reached first the south summit of Everest with Tom Bourdillon. Extremely unusual to find a copy signed by so many of the key members of the team. Neate H135; Yakushi H269a.

£2,500

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HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine gilt on blue ground, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Cloth a little rubbed, toned at the spine and edges. An excellent copy.

First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.

£4,500

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Baldwin and Co.; Rodwell and Martin; and R. Saunders, 1816

HUXLEY, Aldous. Eyeless in Gaza. London: Chatto & Windus, 1936

9 volumes bound as 28 (vol. I in 2, vol. VI in 5, all other volumes in 3), octavo (217 × 131 mm). Each volume bound by C. Lewis in contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments, armorial crest of Francis Darby gilt stamped to front and rear board, double gilt rule to covers, gilt roll to edges of boards and turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, all edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece to vol. I. Occasional small marks to covers, extremities lightly scuffed, some spotting to endpapers but leaves generally fresh. In excellent condition.

Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in red, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. A stunning copy, the best we have seen.


£500

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JAMES, Henry. Roderick Hudson. By Henry James, Jr. In three volumes. Revised edition. London: Macmillan and Co. 1879 3 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue-green fine-bead-grain cloth, doublerule border and curved-edge panel in black on front cover and in blind on rear cover, lettering and publisher’s device in gilt and decorative rules at top and bottom in black on spines, brown-coated endpapers, all edges untrimmed. Parry’s Public Library, Liverpool, labels to front pastedowns. Publisher’s adverts dated May 1879 at end of vol. I. Spines slightly rolled, some skilful repair to inner hinges, a very good copy.

First Gifford edition, considered by many to be the best edition of Jonson due to Gifford’s comprehensive scholarship. A stylishly unique set, sumptuously bound by the early 19th-century gentleman’s binder of choice into 28 individual volumes for Francis Darby, the son of the great industrialist Abraham Darby III (one of the men responsible for building the first cast iron bridge, over the Severn). Each elaborately gilt volume now comprises one of Ben Jonson’s works.

£3,000

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First English edition of James’s début novel, published 11 June 1879, in an edition of 500 copies. James began the first novel he would acknowledge in Florence in spring 1874. It was serialized in Howells’s Atlantic, then published in book form at Boston, November 1875, in an edition of 1,500 copies. It was thoroughly revised by James (removing, among other things, the chapter-titles, an experiment not to be repeated by him) after his move to London. The three volume London edition is rare. Edel & Laurence A3b; Supino 3.17.0.

£7,500

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JONSON, Ben. The Works. In nine volumes. With notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical memoir, by W. Gifford, Esq. London: G. and W. Nicol; F. C. and J. Rivington; Cadell and Davies; Longman and Co.; Lackington and Co.; R. H. Evans; J. Murray; J. Mawman; J. Cuthell; J. Black; 46

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JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: The Egoist Press, 1922 Octavo (215 × 168 mm). Uniquely bound in contemporary Italian half vellum, green morocco label to spine with gilt titles, and white paper to sides with a floral pattern in red and blue. Light rubbing to spine label and extremities, browning and a small burn mark to upper board, leaves slightly cockled, with a small stain to early leaves. Withal in very good condition.

First UK edition (printed in France for distribution in London) – the second printing overall, limited to 2,000 numbered copies for publication in the UK of which 500 were reportedly destroyed on arrival by British Customs. This copy is stamped “Press Copy” on the halftitle, and “Unnumbered Press Copy” on the limitation leaf. As with the February edition, all the press copies, by Joyce’s own account (letter to Weaver, 17 November 1922), were stamped by Joyce himself, wielding the two rubber stamps “with great delight”. This copy was owned by Lauro De Bosis, and has his bookplate; with its unique binding and press copy status, the assumption is that it was given (or sent) to De Bosis by Joyce himself. Lauro De Bosis was a young Italian poet, only 20 at the time of publication. In his short life he would become acquainted, among many other literary figures, with Ezra Pound, would lecture at Harvard, and complete Italian translations of Aeschylus and Sophocles as well as Frazer’s Golden Bough. Indeed, Joyce himself had once said of De Bosis that if he were ever to choose someone to translate his works into Italian, De Bosis would have been the man for the job. To have chosen the young De Bosis over, for example, the more established Italo Svevo, who had taught Joyce his Italian in the first place, indicates something of Joyce’s high esteem of De Bosis. The young poet’s esteem of Joyce was perhaps higher still, for after receiving this book De Bosis became obsessed with the figure of Icarus (and, by extension, Joyce’s Icarian character Stephen Dedalus). In 1928, De Bosis entered the literary competition of the Olympic Games with a classical drama entitled “Icaro”, for which he won the silver medal. It was a work of Romantic mytho-politics in which the tyrant-villain Minos bore obvious parallels to Mussolini, and the hero Icarus to De Bosis himself. Then, on 3 October 1931, after enduring a period of political exile for his support of Victor Emmanuel III (De Bosis was secretly posing as a bell-boy at

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a Rome hotel named after the king), Lauro De Bosis, not a trained flyer, took to the skies over Rome in a plane that he had bought for the purpose (christened Pegasus), and hurled thousands of antifascist leaflets down upon the city. Through the agency of Mussolini’s air force, De Bosis completed his first and final flight in true Icarian style, plunging in flames into the Tyrrhenian sea. A superb association copy, in a unique binding, given by Joyce to someone who might indeed be the most Stephano-Daedalian of his acquaintances, a man simultaneously motivated by myth and politics, even to the extent of self-destruction.

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KAFKA, Franz. Die Verwandlung [Metamorphosis]. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in blue. With the dust jacket. Contents somewhat browned, with some light spotting throughout, spine a little darkened but an excellent copy in the nicked and rubbed dust jacket tanned at the spine and with a few scuffs and stains.

Octavo. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black, illustration by Ottomar Starke. Wrappers marked and somewhat rubbed, some light repair. Very good.

First UK edition, first impression. A very presentable copy of a deeply uncommon book in dust jacket, the first printing in English of one of the most remarkable novels of the century.

First edition, first printing. The publication of this work, the first of Kafka’s masterpieces, was a rather confused affair. Two basic issues were intended: one in wrappers, the other bound in boards. Sales seem not to have been good and, after a year or so, numerous copies remaining unsold were stamped on the title pages with the official stamp of the German censors. This copy has no stamp to the title page and is presumed to be one of the earliest issued.

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KAFKA, Franz. The Trial. Translated by Edwin and Willa Muir. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1937

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(KELMSCOTT PRESS) SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poems of William Shakespeare, Printed After the Original Copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover’s Complaint. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1893 Octavo. Original limp vellum by Leighton of London, titles to spine gilt, blue silk ties. Printed in black and red. Spine a little dust-soiled, ties torn away at ends, a very good copy.

First Kelmscott edition, one of only 500 copies printed Peterson A11.

£3,250

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(KELMSCOTT PRESS) GUILELMUS, Archbishop of Tyre; William Caxton, trans. The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and the Conquest of Iherusalem. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1893 Large quarto. Original limp vellum by Leighton of London, gilt titles stamped to spine, gold silk ties. Borders 5a and 6; side, corner, half, and three-quarter borders; six- and eight-line initials; chapter titles in red, text in Troy type, table of contents and glossary in Chaucer type. Covers somewhat toned and faintly creased. An excellent copy.

First Kelmscott edition, one of 300 copies. Morris declared Caxton’s history to be “a delightful book to read.” Peterson A15.

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(KELMSCOTT PRESS) MORRIS, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1894

(KELMSCOTT PRESS) MORRIS, William. The Sundering Flood. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1897

Large quarto. Original limp vellum by Leighton of London, spine lettered in gilt, three pairs of silk ties. Wood-engraved illustrations designed by Walter Crane in the text; woodcut borders; 3-, 5-, 6- and 8-line initials; chapter titles in red. Ends of silk ties lacking. Lightly rubbed at the extremities with some small marks to the head of the spine. An excellent copy.

First illustrated edition, one of 250 paper copies (seven were done on vellum). The only Kelmscott title to be printed twice, The Story of the Glittering Plain was rushed through the press in May 1891 as the first book of the press before William Crane had time to design illustrations for it. That first edition, a small quarto, is illustrated only with initials and ornaments. This larger format illustrated edition has 23 woodcuts by Crane. The copy text was not taken from the first Kelmscott printing but the edition printed in 1891 at the Chiswick Press.

First edition, first impression. One of 300 paper copies. Described on the colophon as “the last romance written by William Morris”, the book was published posthumously after Morris had dictated the ending to his friend Sydney Cockerell from his deathbed. A beautifully preserved document of Morris’s peculiar fin-de-siècle medievalism, at the same time celebrated as an important precursor for the modern fantasy genre. Peterson A51.

£2,500

Peterson A22.

£6,750

Octavo (204 × 139 mm). Original cream cloth-backed blue boards, white paper label to spine and titles to upper board in black. Border 10; half and three-quarter borders; three-, six- and twelve-line initials; chapter titles and shoulder notes in red; line-block map (on front pastedown) drawn by H. Cribb, Chaucer type. Ownership inscription (“E. Colquhoun”) to front free endpaper, small nicks to extremities, label faintly frayed. Otherwise a marvellous copy in excellent condition.

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(KENT, Rockwell) MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick or The Whale. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930 3 volumes, quarto. Original black cloth, decoration to the upper boards and titles to spines in silver, top edges stained black, others uncut. In the original acetate dust jackets with paper flaps and original aluminium slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Rockwell Kent. Contemporary bookplate to each volume. Only the faintest rubbing to boards, light partial tanning to front endpapers of volume I from inserted material. An impressive set in excellent condition.


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century book illustration and credited with reviving public interest in a sublime but difficult novel.

£7,500

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(KENT, Rockwell) VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de. Candide. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. New York: Random House, 1928 Tall quarto. Original brown cloth, titles, pictorial design, and ruling to spine and upper board gilt, patterned endpapers. Housed in a brown quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Engraved title page and illustrations throughout by Rockwell Kent. Top corner bumped. An excellent copy.

First edition thus, first impression. One of a limited edition of 1,470 numbered copies signed by the artist on the limitation leaf. With the expurgated plate tipped-in between the front blanks and inscribed by Kent, “The only unexpurgated copy inscribed to Stephen Etnier by Rockwell Kent. Nov 1928”. Etnier was an American realist painter and one of Kent’s protégés. Loosely inserted is another copy of the suppressed plate, signed in pencil by Kent. Accompanying it is a typed letter dated December 1937 on Random House stationery from then-president of the firm, Bennett Cerf, to Etnier, enclosing “a special copy of the suppressed Kent plate, signed by him”. Below Cerf ’s signature Etnier has written in pencil: “All prints like this were made without my permission by the Brick Row Bookshop, Cambridge, Mass when I had the slip cover made. Stephen Etnier”. It is also accompanied by a brochure of unknown origin illustrating the published and suppressed plates, and the related text. Despite Etnier’s note that the loose plate was copied from his volume, this may not be the case, as the image in the brochure reproduces the pencilled Kent signature on the loose plate, which is in a completely different location than the one on Etnier’s original tipped-in plate. The loose plate also bears the mark of a paperclip, indicating it may have been a publisher’s file copy. As the loose plate is signed and came directly from the president of Random House, it seems unlikely that it originated surreptitiously from the Brick Row Bookshop. More likely is that Random House issued the unnamed brochure and that its president later mailed the file copy of the plate to Etnier.

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KEROUAC, Jack. The Subterraneans New York: Grove Press, Inc. 1958

KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936

Octavo. Original brown cloth-backed boards, white paper to sides, with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Bookseller’s ticket of Witkowers (Hartford, Connecticut), to rear pastedown. A fine copy.

First edition, first printing, no. 95 of 100 specially bound copies.

£2,750

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KEROUAC, Jack. Excerpts from Visions of Cody. New York: New Directions, 1960 Octavo. Original white boards, purple cloth backstrip, titles to spine in silver, orange endpapers, titles to upper board in purple and red. A beautiful copy.

First edition, first printing. One of a limited edition of 750 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.

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Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly tanned and nicked dust jacket with a few minor marks and spots but little of the tanning common to this publication.

First edition, first impression. Written in the aftermath of the great depression, Keynes’s masterwork is generally regarded as probably the most influential social science treatise of the century; it quickly and permanently changed the way the world looked at the economy and the role of government in society.

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First edition, first impression. A superb copy of one of Larkin’s earliest works, his second novel.

£1,500

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LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. London, Jonathan Cape, 1927 Quarto. Original quarter brown pigskin on sand buckram, title gilt to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed Coloured portrait frontispiece and 10 other similar plates, 8 uncoloured plates, folding map at the rear. Rubbed at extremities with small worn spots at the ends of the spine, edges of boards faded, spotting to endpapers, map toned. A very good copy.

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LARKIN, Philip. A Girl in Winter. A Novel. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1947

First English edition, large paper issue, limited to 315 numbered copies, of which 300 were for sale. The costs for production of the 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom had ballooned to such an extent that Lawrence was contemplating selling either his library or some of his property to clear the debt. Eventually he settled on an abridgement, undertaken in 1926 by Lawrence himself with the help of some of his fellow servicemen, an earlier attempt by Edward Garnett having been set aside. Published in March 1927 in Great Britain and America, in both limited and general issues, three impressions were soon sold out and two more quickly added. The profits from this publication made the fortunes of the Cape publishing house. O’Brien A101.

£1,500

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Octavo. Original turquoise cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine lightly rolled, otherwise a fine copy in the slightly rubbed jacket.

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[LAWRENCE, T. E.] The Odyssey of Homer. London: Printed and published by Sir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers, 1932 Quarto. Original black niger, title gilt to spine, top edge gilt, the others uncut. In the original black card slipcase. Roundel in black on gold leaf to the title page and to the head of each of the 25 books, loose tissue-guards to each. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Some minor scuffing and spotting to boards. endpapers tanned from turn-ins. An excellent copy.

First Lawrence edition, limited to 530 copies. This remarkable collaboration was initiated by the book designer Bruce Rogers who, “Inspired by reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom … persuaded Lawrence to undertake a new translation of The Odyssey.” Joseph Blumenthal, curator of the 1973 Pierpont Morgan exhibition “Art of the Printed Book: 1455–1955”, stated that “During the several years spent in selecting the 112 books finally shown, I handled every title reputed to

be among the finest volumes ever made since Gutenberg. I believe that Bruce Rogers’s Odyssey is indisputably among the most beautiful books ever produced … with a classic austerity, Rogers created a masterpiece.” O’Brien A141.

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First edition, first impression of the UK trade edition, Alan Winstanley trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, before working for Sydney Cockerell in Letchworth. In 1959 he took over Harry Bailey’s bindery in Salisbury at Bailey’s invitation, producing superb binding and conservation work from there until his retirement in 2000. O’Brien A042.

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LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 Quarto (246 × 182 mm). Late 20th-century designer binding by Alan Winstanley (his gilt stamp dated 1973 to lower turn-in) of alum-tawed pigskin with gilt-tooled geometric onlays of green, black and red morocco to both boards and spine, all edges gilt, single fillet panel to turn-ins, endpapers of Japanese washi paper with pronounced cedar bark fibres. Housed in a white satin-lined, white buckram slipcase. Numerous plates in colour and black and white, 4 folding maps. Slipcase a little rubbed and finger-soiled, green onlay to the spine slightly sunned, and the spine a touch toned, but overall a splendidly-presented copy.

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LENNON, John. A Spaniard in the Works. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 2 works, octavo. Original pictorial boards, titles to front cover and spine in white. Original white wrappers. With the dust jacket. Housed together in a black cloth clamshell box. Illustrated throughout by Lennon. Both copies in fine condition, dust jacket of proof lightly rubbed to edges.

First edition, first impression, offered here together with a proof copy. The text and illustrations are printed in brown and green throughout, the green appearing much lighter in the proof. This is the only proof copy we have encountered of Lennon’s second book.

£1,500

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LEWIS, Sinclair. Dodsworth. A Novel. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929 Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine and upper board in orange. Spine faded, ends and corners rubbed, slight fading to boards with a few marks. Withal a very good copy, internally fresh.

First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author to the poet and writer Vita Sackville-West and her diplomat husband Harold Nicolson, “Dear Vita & Harold, all our love, Sinclair Lewis”.

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LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. North to the Orient. With Maps by Charles A. Lindbergh. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935

LORCA, Federico Garcia. Primer Romancero Gitano. 1924–1927. Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1928

LOWRY, L. S. Our Town. Manchester: Grove Galleries Limited, c. 1970

Octavo. Original white wrappers, designed by Lorca printed in black and red. Wrappers a little rubbed and marked, spine creased and sunned. Very good indeed.

Image size: 43.2 x 60.9 cm. Sheet size: 57.8 x 76.8. Colour offset lithograph on heavy wove paper. Residue of cellophane tape to extreme upper edge from previous hinging otherwise in excellent condition.

First edition, first printing. With the presentation inscription at “Romance de la Guardia Civil Española” from that poem’s dedicatee Juan Guerrero, “A Pedro Flores gran pintor español este ejemplar de mi Juan Guerrero Murcia Agosto 1928”. Flores and Guerrero were both born in Murcia and were long time friends. Flores exhibited works at numerous European exhibitions to critical acclaim. Jean Cassou said of him “Pedro Flores has the same significance for the modern Spanish painting as Federico Garcia Lorca for the modern Spanish poetry”. Copies of the first edition of Gypsy Ballads are exceedingly scarce. Widely regarded as Lorca’s most important and popular collection of poetry this first edition sold out on publication and a second edition immediately went to print. Numerous printings have been produced subsequently.

Edition of 850. Signed in pencil lower right by Lowry, numbered lower left. Print after an oil on canvas by Lowry from 1943.

Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and plane design to upper board in silver, map endpapers, top edge stained blue. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece, map headpieces. Spine rolled. A superb copy in the jacket that is very lightly rubbed and nicked at the extremities.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the half-title by both Charles and Anne Lindbergh, “For Doctor Albert H. Ebeling from Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh – 1935”. The recipient was a long-time colleague of Alexis Carrel, Lindbergh’s collaborator and co-author of the book The Culture of Organs. Lindbergh and Carrel worked together to create the “perfusion pump”, which would allow living organs to exist outside the body during surgery. It was Carrel’s idea of “genetic superiority” in certain human strains that caused controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism against Lindbergh.

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MANSFIELD, Katherine. The Garden Party. And Other Stories. With coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin. London: The Verona Press, 1939 Tall octavo. Original green and white patterned cloth, titles to spine gilt on red ground. With the dust jacket and the publisher’s card slipcase. Colour lithographs throughout by Marie Laurencin. Light spotting to endpapers. A superb copy in the dust jacket that is toned along the spine panel.

First illustrated edition, one of 1,200 numbered copies designed by designed by Hans Mardersteig of the Officina Bodoni. A lovely example of this beautifully produced edition, with the original numbered slipcase.

£1,500

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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Bishop’s Apron. A Study in the Origins of a Great Family. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1906 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Cloth rubbed, dulled, and marked, corners worn and bumped, spotting to edges of contents, endpapers browned. A good copy.

First edition, first impression. (Illustration overleaf )

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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Painted Veil. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925

MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. The Razor’s Edge. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1944

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Very slightly rubbed at extremities, spine a little toned, spotting to edges and occasionally to contents. A very good copy in the rubbed, chipped, and dulled jacket with some short closed tears and tape repairs to the verso.

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Ends and corners lightly rubbed, faint spotting to fore-edge and early leaves. An excellent copy in the slightly marked dust jacket.

First edition, second issue, first state with the cancel title page and 26 titles listed on the verso of the half-title, and the cancelled text leaves as described by Stott. Inscribed by the author on the halftitle, “By W. Somerset Maugham for J. W. Palmer”.

£2,500

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First UK edition, first impression.

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First published 1817 in three volumes. A very handsome set of this highly influential work. Mill began writing his monumental history in 1806, expecting “the project to take three years” when finally published “it was an immediate success, and secured for Mill what he had long lacked: a modicum of prosperity. Better still, it led – with help from Joseph Hume and Ricardo – to his appointment in 1819 as assistant (later chief ) examiner of correspondence at the British East India Company” (ODNB).

£1,250

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MILL, James. The History of British India. Second Edition. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820

MINGUS, Charles. Beneath the underdog. His world as composed by Mingus. Edited by Nel King. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971

6 volumes, octavo (222 × 132 mm) Contemporary light tan calf, red morocco lettering pieces and dark tan numbering pieces, flat bands, compartments gilt with arabesque corner-pieces and a central device composed of drawer handles, acorn and pineapple tools, triple fillet gilt panel to the boards, foliate edge-roll, marbled edges and endpapers, foliate roll to the turn-ins. Folding map of the Eastern Part of Persia bound as frontispiece to vol. I, large attractive map of India, coloured in outline, as frontispiece to vol. III. Very slightly rubbed, some tan-burn to the endpapers, light toning, the occasional spot of foxing, offsetting on the map of Persia which also has an old repair verso, but overall very good.

Octavo. Original silver and black cloth, title in black to spine. In the dust jacket. Light toning, slight foxing to the fore-edge, a very good copy in a slightly rubbed and tanned jacket.

First edition of this classic jazz life, inscribed on the half-title, “Best in life Steven – Charles Mingus.” “The turbulent voice of Beneath the Underdog, Mingus’s self-told story of life and hard times, is audible in every note of the music” (Cook and Morton, Penguin

Guide to Jazz Recordings). Very rarely found signed, let alone inscribed, and consequently highly desirable thus.

£1,875

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(MITFORD, Mary Russell) BROCK, C. E. An upright, downright, English Yeoman.1904 Original pen-and-ink watercolour illustration (404 × 288 mm), in a washline mount. Margins faintly marked, with chips to edges, image bright and clean, in very good condition.

The original illustration, signed by the artist, for one of the character portraits in Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village, which comprised a series of sketches of country life. Brock’s illustrations form part of the “Series of English Idylls” published by J. M. Dent & Co. The figure depicted is a classic English archetype, Farmer Thorpe, “a stout, square, sturdy personage of fifty, or there-about, with a hard weather-beaten countenance, of that peculiar vermilion, all over alike, into which the action of the sun and wind sometimes tans a fair complexion; sharp, shrewd features, and a keen grey eye. He looks completely like a man who will neither cheat nor be cheated.” (For illustration, see page 89.)

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(MITFORD, Mary Russell) BROCK, C. E. Oh, they will never do for cricket. Our Village. A country Cricket match. 1904

MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law, Field-Marshal. El Alamein to the River Sangro. [Together with;] — Normandy to the Baltic. Germany: Printing and Stationery Services, British Army of the Rhine, 1946

Original pen-and-ink watercolour illustration (356 × 236 mm), in a washline mount. Margins a little toned. In excellent condition.

The original illustration, signed by the artist, for one of the character portraits in Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village. The scene depicted illustrates the narrator’s opinion of the gentleman cricketer, as opposed to “capital hitters” such as the village blacksmith. According to Barclay’s World of Cricket, this passage of Mitford’s work constitutes “the first major prose on the game.” (For illustration, see page 1.)

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2 works, octavo. Original blue and red sand-grain cloth, titles gilt to spine and upper boards, 21 Army Group flash to the upper boards in blue and gilt. With the original dust jackets. First-named with coloured map frontispiece and 16 coloured folding maps, the second with coloured map frontispiece and 49 folding maps and diagrams. Both with a little shelfwear to the cloth, jackets slightly rubbed and with a few small chips, but overall a very good pair.

True first editions, published by the British Forces in Germany at the end of the war, both of them inscribed to the same man: “To Sgt. Castle with my grateful thanks. B. L. Montgomery Field-


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Marshal, Berlin 8-1-46,” in the first; “To: S[quadron] Q[uarter] M[aster] S[ergeant] Castle from Montgomery of Alamein, Field Marshal” in the second. The inscriptions reflecting Montgomery’s elevation to viscount in the New Year’s honours list. Monty’s own account of his commands during the Second World War, from the key campaign in the Western Desert that secured his reputation (of which Churchill remarked “Before Alamein we never had a victory, after Alamein we never had a defeat”) to his acceptance of the surrender of the German generals at Luneberg Heath. In his review of the first volume, Field Marshal Earl Wavell described this as “an austere document. There are no polemics, no light relief, no attempt at literary flourishes; but all is clearly, exactly and simply set out, a model of lucid and restrained statement.” These BAOR issues are unusual in jacket, uncommon inscribed, and remarkably so as here, the pair jacketed and inscribed on issue to the same recipient. The books are accompanied by Sergeant Castle’s medals, 1939–45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, and War Medal 1939–1945 or “Victory Medal”.

£1,500

First edition, first impression. Exceptionally scarce first edition of the author’s celebrated novel. Adapted into a hugely successful play and later a Steven Spielberg film. Copies of the first edition are rarely seen, with only a couple recorded at auction in the past thirty years.

£1,750

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MURAKAMI, Takashi. Kansei Korin Red River. Tokyo: Kaiki Kiki Ltd., 2010 Diameter size: 71 cm. Offset lithograph with cold foil stamp and high gloss varnishing on UV paper. Fine condition. Presented in a black lacquer box frame with UV glass. Edition of 300. Signed and numbered in pen along lower right edge by Murakami.

£1,450

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MORPURGO, Michael War Horse. Kingswood: Kaye & Ward, 1982 Octavo. Original laminated pictorial boards, titles to front cover and spine in red and black. No dust jacket issued. Owner’s name to front free endpaper, spine slightly toned otherwise an excellent copy.

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MURAKAMI, Takashi. Flower Smile. Tokyo: Kaiki Kiki Ltd., 2011

MURDOCH, Iris. Under the Net. A Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954

MUSSOLINI, Benito. Fine photographic portrait inscribed to Edward Gordon Craig. Rome: 1932

Sheet size: 50 cm x 50 cm. Offset lithograph with cold foil stamp on UV paper. Fine condition.

Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled. An excellent copy in the jacket that is a little rubbed and nicked along the edges with a faded spine panel.

Original photograph, sheet size 374 × 267 mm, image size 250 × 178 mm. Slight creasing at the corners, but overall very good.


Excellent, official portrait study. Boldly (as ever) inscribed by Mussolini in the lower margin: “A Edward [Gordon] Craig, molto cordialmente, Mussolini, Roma 4 agosta 1932 – X”. Evidently from the period where Craig was drawn to fascism as a possible source of patronage: “His frustration with the society that declined to support his work persuaded him to offer his art to Mussolini, whom Craig admired perhaps more for his theatrical personality than for his politics” (Innes, Edward Gordon Craig: A Vision of Theatre, p. 136). In his fascinating personal rumination on Mussolini’s image, Italo Calvino remarks on how it was around this date that Il Duce started “putting Italy into uniform” (“Il Duce’s Portraits”, New Yorker, 6 Jan 2003). As here, the earlier portraits showed him “dressed in civilian clothes, with a stiff upturned collar, as was common among important peo-

Edition of 300. Signed and numbered in pen lower right by Murakami.

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ple in those days … [emphasizing] a certain continuity and the respectability of the man who had restored order.” From 1932 onwards he “became a profile on a medal, like a Roman Emperor.”

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O’BRIEN, Flann. The Dalkey Archive. London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1964

ORWELL, George. Homage to Catalonia. London: Secker and Warburg, 1938

Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine in gold. With the pictorial dust jacket. Some foxing to fore edge and the occasional margin but an excellent copy in the little tanned and very slightly rubbed dust jacket with a couple of short tears.

Octavo. Original light green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Partial tanning to endpapers, but an excellent copy in the somewhat tanned and chipped jacket.

First edition, first impression. A superb presentation copy with the author’s remarkable signed inscription to the front free endpaper, “To Joe McGrath – If only because there’s an odd mention of a horse in this book, to say nothing of those dark horses, the Jesuits. I hope you’ll read it. To do so is as good as going to Confession. Brian O’Nolan 23 Sept. 1964.” The recipient was a long time associate of the turf and the founder of the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes, a venture which had made him a rich man. In later life he turned his hand to breeding and running racehorses. His three-year-old Arctic Prince won the Epsom Derby in 1951. Inscribed copies of this astonishing masterpiece are profoundly uncommon.

£4,250

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(OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY) MURRAY, James A. H. ed. A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded mainly on the materials collected by The Philological Society. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888-1933 11 volumes bound in 21, large quarto (330 × 255 mm). Original dark blue half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, blue cloth


boards, blue endpapers, top edges gilt. A few leaves lightly spotted and some browning to page edges, spines faded to brown and some minor wear to a couple of head-caps, boards a little marked with some cockling to one, an excellent set.

First edition in book form. “The N.E.D., as it was originally cited, or the O.E.D., as it is now known, is the greatest treasure-house of any language in the world, unrivalled for its comprehensiveness and ease of consultation as well as for its reliability and scholarship” (PMM 371). “The scheme of ‘a completely new English Dictionary’ was conceived in 1858… Herbert Coleridge and after him Dr. F. J. Furnivall, were the first editors. Their work, which covered 20 years, consisted mainly in the collection of materials, and it was not until Dr. J. A. H. Murray took the matter up in 1878 that the preparation of the Dictionary began to take active form…. The essential feature of the Dictionary is its historical method, by which the meaning and form of the words are traced from their earliest appearance on the basis of an immense number of quotations, collected by more than 800 voluntary workers. The Dictionary contains a record of 414,825 words, whose history is illustrated by 1,827,306 quotations” (Drabble, 728). The OED was originally issued in fas-

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cicles which were gathered into book form as each volume was completed. After Murray’s death the editing was entrusted to his colleagues Henry Bradley, W. A. Craigie, and C. T. Onions. The one-volume supplement, edited by W. A. Craigie and C. T. Onions, was published in 1933.

£7,500 135.

(PICASSO, Pablo.) (LIFAR, Serge.) LAURENT, Jean, & Julie Sazonova. Rénovateur Du Ballet Français (1929— 1960). Paris: Buchet/Castel, 1960 Octavo. Original stiff wrappers. Colour illustration and titles to front cover by Picasso, titles to spine in black and blue, top edge uncut, other edges untrimmed, With the original glassine wrapper. Housed in a card slipcase. Monochrome photographs throughout the text including frontispiece of Lifar by Picasso. Small stain to foot of fly leaf, minor wear to corners of glassine otherwise an excellent copy.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the fly leaf by the choreographer “A Madame Baron, grande amie des arts, cordialement , Serge Lifar, Cannes le 3.9.63.» Together with a drawing by Picasso in blue crayon of a ballet dancer, signed and dated 14.10.63

£7,500

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(PINE, Robert Edge) PINE, John. [Magna Carta] By Permission of … [the] Trustees of the Cottonian Library. This Plate being a Correct Copy of King John’s Great Charter … London: Robert Edge Pine, Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, [c. 1780-84]

PINTER, Harold. The Caretaker. A Play in Three Acts. London: Encore Publishing Co. Ltd., 1960

POUND, Ezra. Quia Pauper Amavi. London: The Egoist Ltd, [1919]

Octavo. Black and white printed card wrappers, as issued. Very slight rubbing to spine but an exceptional copy.

Tall octavo. Original holland boards, white paper title label to spine, foreedge and bottom edge untrimmed. Some marks and rubbing to boards, title label rubbed, leaves toned with some a little loose. Withal a good copy.

Copper-engraving on paper (710 x 509 mm). Mounted, framed and glazed. Horizontal crease at centre, repairs and reinforcement at verso, some light toning, but remains an attractive example.

An excellent copy of this uncommon facsimile of Magna Carta, this issue published in celebration of the success of the American Revolution. Having the status of “a sacred text, the nearest approach to an irrepealable ‘fundamental statute’ that England has ever had… in brief it means this, that the king is, and shall be, below the law” (Pollock and Maitland, History of English Law, p. 173), Magna Carta was often alluded to in royal charters establishing English colonies in America and was to prove inspirational to many later generations of Americans. (The Magna Carta memorial at Runnymede was erected in 1957 by the American Bar Association.)

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Pinter on the title page, “August 1967, To Alan Clodd, with best wishes, Harold Pinter”. Alan Clodd was the publisher of the Enitharmon Press, and an early collector of Pinter’s work. Though the inscription may be retrospective, Clodd certainly was there from the outset, and closely so, for the book contains two programmes for early performances of the play: one for the first performance at the Arts Theatre Club, another after its transfer to the Duchess Theatre. The book also includes, laid in, a signed photograph of Pinter, intimately captured in conversation.

£2,750

First edition, first impression, one of a limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author on the title page, and one of the germinal texts for what would become Pound’s Cantos.

£1,500

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The original engraving was made by John Pine, working from one of the Cottonian library copies, and published in 1733. It was issued coloured on vellum, the border decorated with representations of the arms of the barons. The present issue on paper was published by the engraver’s son and pupil, the portrait painter Robert Edge Pine, some 50 years after the original. The younger Pine no doubt intended the reissue as a political gesture, perhaps also as a personal leave-taking. He was known for his republican sympathies, and in 1784 emigrated to America. Pine visited Mount Vernon in 1785 and painted Washington’s portrait as part of his project to produce a series of history paintings commemorating the Revolution, but in the event his only historical picture completed in America was “The Congress Voting Independence”, finished, presumably after his death, by Edward Savage, which now hangs at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. It seems quite possible that Robert Pine’s Magna Carta was suppressed, certainly we have been unable to trace any other copies institutionally, and just a couple of copies at auction in the last forty years.

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RANJITSINHJI, K. S. The Jubilee Book of Cricket. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1897

RODGERS, Richard, & Oscar Hammerstein. The Sound of Music. A New Musical Play. Book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse. Suggested by the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp. New York: Random House, 1960

ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997

ROWLING, J. K. The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger. London: Children’s High Level Group in association with Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2008

Large quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 22 photogravures and 115 tissue-guarded photographic plates. Some mild spotting and browning to the plates, overall in excellent condition and in a fine binding.

One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Ranjitsinhji was an Indian prince and Test cricketer who played for the English cricket team and is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. The majority of the photographs were taken by Hawkins of Brighton, considered one of the best photographers of the time.

£2,500

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Octavo. Original marbled boards, orange cloth backstrip titles to spine and upper board gilt, portrait mounted on front board, black top-stain. With the dust jacket. Small mark to lower edge of upper board. A superb copy in the jacket that is only slightly rubbed at the extremities.

First edition, first printing. Advance review copy with the publisher’s slip loosely inserted. Scarce in such nice condition.

£1,250

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Octavo (193 × 123 mm). Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery, spine and front cover in orange-red morocco, back cover in purple morocco; spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in two compartments and dated at foot, other compartments ruled around in gilt with stars in corners; front cover with a central panel in variously coloured onlays after the original cover design, titles and author’s facsimile signature in gilt; back cover ruled around in gilt and with central figure of the young Dumbledore in variously coloured onlays, with gold and silver stars; ivory moiré silk doublures and endpapers; edges silver with hologram stars. A fine copy.

True first edition, first printing, with all the requisite points: Bloomsbury imprint, 10-down-to-1 number line, copyright Joanne Rowling, and the list of equipment on p. 53 with “1 wand” appearing twice in the list. The first and rarest of the Harry Potter books.

£7,500

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Octavo. Original illustrated boards, titles to front cover and spin in purple. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Rowling. A fine copy.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by J. K. Rowling on the fifth page.

£1,500

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RUSCHA, Ed. Absolut Ruscha. Åhus: Absolut Vodka, 1988

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Sheet size: 114.3 x 84 cm. Offset lithograph on wove paper.

RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s Children. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980

Edition of 200. Signed and dated in pencil lower right by Ruscha. Ruscha was one of the first artists to be commissioned by Absolut along with Warhol and Haring.

£2,500

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RUSKIN, John. The Stones of Venice. With illustrations drawn by the author. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1873

Octavo. Perfect bound into original blue wrappers printed in black. Contents toned and shaken, wrappers rather marked and sunned. Very good.

Uncorrected proof copy for the unpublished Cape edition: rare. Cape planned the production of their edition of this title in their customary way but at proof stage became concerned about the cost involved. They abandoned the publication before printing, choosing instead to import 1,000 sets of sheets of the US edition which they issued with a cancelled title page and in the Cape binding and dust jacket. This uncorrected proof state represents the earliest printing of Rushdie’s masterpiece and is of notorious scarcity. A brief comparison of the proof and published texts has revealed numerous substantive differences.

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3 volumes, quarto. Original brown cloth, titles and winged lion of St Mark to spines gilt, boards blocked in blind with foliate border and gilt bird centrepiece. 53 plates by the author. Bookplates of George William Henderson of Fordell. Ends of spines rubbed, vol. I hinges cracked, vol. II spine slightly rolled, small wormhole to upper joint of vols. I and III. A very good set.

One of a limited edition of 1,500 copies, signed by the author at the end of the preface.

£1,750

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SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. The Little Prince. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943

Quarto. Original pale brown cloth, lettering and device to spine and front cover blocked in dark red. With the colour pictorial dust jacket. Colour and monochrome illustrations in the text after originals by the author. Minor production flaw in lower edge of page 59. An exceptional copy in the jacket that is very slightly rubbed and toned with a few tiny marks and a short split to the lower panel.

First English language edition, first printing, trade issue. An unusually nice copy of one of the classics of children’s literature. The original manuscript was in the author’s native French, but it was both written and published in America, the English and French editions appearing in April 1943, perhaps simultaneously.

£3,250

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SARTRE, Jean-Paul. L’être et le néant. Essai d’ontologie phénoménologique. Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1943 Octavo. Generously bound in red quarter morocco by Baillot, with the original wrappers bound in, titles gilt to spine, raised bands, marbled paper to sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a matching slipcase. A beautiful copy in superb condition.

Definitive sixth edition, presentation copy inscribed by Sartre, “A Madame de Boule [?], hommage respecteux de l’auteur, J-P Sartre”, and additionally annotated with the signed comment, “Je considère cette édition comme définitive”. Sartre has also continued the final words of the text, (“Nous y consacrerons un prochain ouvrage”) in manuscript: “, qui s’intitulera Traité de Morale. J-P Sartre”. The promised work was never completed. Annotations of his own books by Sartre are extremely rare.

£3,250

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SASSOON, Siegfried. Poems. Selected by Dennis Silk. Marlborough: The Marlborough College Press, 1958 Quarto. Original red calf, titles to spine gilt, red calf endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Binding rubbed, spine faded with a mark to tail, abrasion to front pastedown from removal of small bookplate, spotting to edges. A very good copy.

First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 150 numbered copies with Sassoon’s monogram to the limitation leaf. A rare volume, comprising all of Sassoon’s war poems. Also signed at the end of the preface by D. R. W. Silk, warden of Radley College, international cricketer and Sassoon’s close friend, who supervised this volume being printed by the boys of Marlborough College, made many unique recordings of the poet reciting his own work, and in 2009 became president for life of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship. Silk has made an emendation to the table of contents and dated Sassoon’s monograph, adding the dates of the poet’s death and birth. The suggestion is that this was Silk’s own copy, which he had Sassoon sign for him at the time of publication and later dated the signature after the poet’s death.

£1,250

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First edition, first printing, of the Nobel laureate economist’s most influential book, which pioneered the application of game theory of political and social analysis. Inscribed by the author to the Republican senator Bob Bennett on the front free endpaper, “To Bob Bennett, with great affection and appreciation, Tom.” According to the TLS (6 Oct 1995), Schelling’s is considered one of the hundred books most influential in the West since 1945.

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Caldecott Award bestowed upon the book on publication. The winning of such a prestigious prize compelled the publishers to recall the entire edition and change the text on the dust wrapper to include the achievement. Copies therefore with the original blurb are rare and indubitably the earliest.

Edition of 200. Signed by the author. This image from Where the Wild Things Are was created in 1971 as part of a project with 19 different images from eight different books comprising Maurice Sendak’s favourite images that he felt could exist on their own without text, for framing or hanging on the wall.

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SENDAK, Maurice. Outside Over There. New York: Harper and Row, 1981

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SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963 Landscape folio. Original pictorial paper boards with green cloth backstrip, titles to front cover in black, pictorial endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a custom made slipcase. Colour illustrations by the author throughout. Edges lightly rubbed and toned, dust jacket toned and lightly creased to the spine, price clipped.

First edition, first printing, in the first issue jacket. Signed by Sendak on the half title. There seem to be multiple issues of the first printing of this elusive and important book. Variations in price occur throughout the later states but have no bearing on the status of the true first issue. Primacy is established through the text of the blurb which, as in the present copy, makes no mention of the

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Oblong quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and creased jacket.

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SENDAK, Maurice Off to Bed without their Supper. Harper & Row, 1971

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, “For Charlotte with very best wishes! Maurice Sendak, April 2000”. Sendak has also drawn a goblin, like those depicted in cloaks at the beginning of the book, holding a sunflower.

£1,500

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Paper size: 265 x 580 mm. Framed size: 310 x 620 mm Original process lithograph on white wove paper. Fine condition

SCHELLING, Thomas C. The Strategy of Conflict. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1960 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Very light marks to top and bottom edge of boards, light spotting to edges. An excellent copy in the chipped but bright jacket.

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SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest. South The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914–1917. London, William Heinemann, 1919 Octavo. Original midnight-blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in silver and with large block of the Endurance in silver to the upper board, publisher’s device in blind to lower board. Colour frontispiece, folding map and 87 plates. Somewhat rubbed, cloth a little stained towards the spine, which is lightly creased, neat repair at the head, endpapers slightly discoloured, light toning, foxing to the fore-edge, about very good.

First edition, new (i.e. second) impression, one month after the first, printed on superior paper stock and so less prone to the heavy browning which tends to mar the first impression. This copy inscribed apologetically on the front free endpaper: “To C. S. Evans with kindest

Christmas wishes from the unliterary author. Ernest Shackleton, Dec. 1919.” Evans was Shackleton’s editor at Heinemann. Books on Ice 7.8; Conrad p. 224; Spence 1107; Taurus Collection 105.

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SHUTE, Nevil. What Happened to the Corbetts. London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1939] Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Spine a little creased and faded, with light spotting to edges. A very good copy in the jacket.

First edition, first impression. Scarce in the dust jacket. Undated first editions (like this one) have a claim to priority over dated first editions as 1,000 undated copies were distributed free to members of the ARP (Air Raid Precautions) on the day of publication.

Inscribed by Shackleton to his editor

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Contains, loosely inserted, a contemporary review clipping of the book, in which the reviewer somewhat prophetically praises Shute’s urgent imagining of a war that would (literally) shake the foundations of “any middle-class city-dwelling family”.

£2,250

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First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Smith to the first blank, “To Murray with love from Dodie. Flinchingfield, Essex. November 1956”. The recipient was the theatrical producer Murray Macdonald who produced several of Dodie Smith’s plays in the 1940s and ‘50s.

£2,500

SHUTE, Nevil. Landfall A Channel Story. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1940 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spotting to the page edges but an exceptionally bright copy in the lightly rubbed jacket.

First edition, first impression. Very scarce in this condition.

£1,750

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. Two corners lightly bumped, spine a touch faded but an excellent copy in the price-clipped dust jacket rather tanned at the spine.

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SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. London: Heinemann, 1956

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SPILLANE, Mickey. My Gun Is Quick. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1950 Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. A very good copy in the nicked and slightly short dust jacket.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. The scarce second Mike Hammer mystery.

£1,750

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First edition, first printing. A beautiful copy.

STEADMAN, Ralph. Save the Whale. 1980

STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, 1937

STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, 1939

£1,250

Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine and upper board in brown and black, blue top-stain. With a supplied dust jacket. Housed in a brown half morocco slipcase and chemise. Portions of the original dust jacket and related news clippings tipped-in on the endpapers, blanks, and half-title, with corresponding tanning and some glue marks to the half-title where one piece has become unstuck. Spine just a little toned, top-stain faded. A very good copy in the supplied jacket which is rubbed, toned, and chipped with tape repairs to the verso and a small green mark to the spine panel.

Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine and pictorial decoration across boards and spine in brown, sheet music endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket that is very lightly rubbed at the extremities with tanned spine panel.

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Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. In a green quarter morocco box. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with a couple of internal repairs.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “For L. H. Cantor with greetings from Steinbeck 1937”.

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Sheet size: 81.3 x 58.4 cm. Pen and ink and watercolour on paper. Excellent condition. Presented in a black metal clip frame.

Signed and dated in ink lower left by Steadman.

£5,000

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STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine dark green on brown ground and to upper board in dark green, yellow top-stain. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a few tiny nicks and short splits.

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STEINBECK, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. London: Heinemann, 1961

First UK edition, first impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, “For Alex & Greta Barclay with a greeting from John and Elaine Steinbeck” The recipients were an English couple with whom the Steinbecks would stay when in the UK. English editions of Steinbeck’s works are seldom found inscribed.

£3,750

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STERN, Philip van Doren. The Greatest Gift. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1944

THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. New York: Random House, 1971

Octavo. Original blue boards decorated in white and black, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Some small worn spots at extremities, rear hinge starting, short tear to lower joint. An excellent copy in the jacket with a few tiny nicks, a chip to the spine panel affecting the title, a small chip at the tail of the spine panel. and three closed tears

First edition, first impression of the story on which the film It’s a Wonderful Life was based. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, “For Manny Piller who was one of the discoverers of this story. From the author Philip Van Doren Stern. Xmas, 1944”. A lovely copy.

£2,500

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Octavo. Original quarter black cloth with grey boards, titles to spine in silver, pictorial decoration to front cover in blind. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. Edges of boards faded, top edge a little dusty, dust jacket slightly faded to spine.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the illustrator on the half title “For Leslie on behalf of the Good Doctor from Ralph Steadman, 15 may 96.” With a loose sketch of Hunter S. Thompson by Steadman on the page stating Thompson’s previous publications.

£1,500

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Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. With illustrations by the author in black and white. A fine copy.


£7,500

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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other verses from The Red Book. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1962 Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Pauline Baynes. A superb copy in the minimally rubbed and nicked dust jacket.

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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1937

£275

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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The History of Middle Earth: The Book of Lost Tales; The Lays of Beleriand; The Shaping of Middle-Earth; The Return of the Shadow; The Treason of Isaengard; The War of the Ring; Sauron Defeated; The Lost Road and Other Writings; Morgoth’s Ring; The War of the Jewels; The Peoples of Middle-Earth. London: George Allen & Unwin; Unwin Hyman; Harper Collins, 1983–96 12 vols. Original cloth, titles to spines gilt. With the dust jackets. All near fine in fine dust jackets.

First editions, first impressions. Edited by Christopher Tolkien, this is a complete set of the first editions of the poems, tales and songs that underlay The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

£4,750

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(TOLKIEN, J. R. R.) BELLOC, Hilaire. Characters of the Reformation. With 23 Portraits by Jean Charlot. London: Sheed and Ward, 1936 Octavo, pp. 324. Original burgundy cloth, top edge stained red, titles to spine gilt. 23 colour portrait plates. Spine a little faded, marks to rear cover, light spotting to edges and front endpapers. A very good.

First edition. A birthday gift from Tolkien to his son Michael. With a presentation leaf pasted to the front pastedown inscribed “Michael H. R. Tolkien from his father J. R. R. T. 22 October 1945”. The recipient has stuck onto this page a slip of paper bearing his ownership signature together with a clipped picture of a library. There is his further ownership inscription dated February 1946 on the half title page.

£1,925

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(TOLKIEN, J. R. R.) BELLOC, Hilaire. The Crisis of Our Civilization. London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1937 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. Some very minor spotting to endpapers, spine a little sunned but an excellent copy .First edition, first impression. A birthday gift from Tolkien to his son Michael. With the home-made bookplate of Michael Tolkien to the front pastedown bearing the presentation inscription of his father J. R. R. Tolkien, “Michael Tolkien, from his father October 22nd 1945”. 22 October is the date of Michael Tolkien’s birthday. With the recipient’s earlier ownership inscription on the front free endpaper.

£1,925

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(VICTORIA, Queen) AYTOUN, William Edmondstoune. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems. With


Illustrations by Joseph Noel Paton and Waller H. Paton. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863 Small quarto (240 × 179 mm). Contemporary dark blue straight-grained morocco “Scottish” presentation binding by Ramage of Edinburgh, title gilt direct to the spine, narrow bands with pointillé rope-twist roll, compartments with double-fillet panel enclosing an red morocco on-lay panel with foliate arabesque tooling, both boards with a red morocco onlaid panel with foliate rolled tooling and double quatrefoil corner tools, enclosing fleur-delys cornerpieces, the upper board with a large onlaid Scottish lion within escutcheon, red morocco on yellow, surmounted by a Tudor Crown, Queen Victoria’s favourite pattern, dotted wavy edge-roll, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Housed in a plush-lined, blue full morocco book-style box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, title gilt to the spine and upper board. Numerous steel-engraved head-pieces, vignettes and near full-page illustrations. Very slightly rubbed at the extremities, but overall very good.

First published 1849. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper to Queen Victoria from the Prince and Princess of Wales: “To Dearest Mama from her most dutiful & affectionate children Alexandra & Albert Edward. In remembrance of February 10th 1865.” A gift from her son and heir, later Edward VII, and his wife to the queen on the 25th anniversary of her marriage to Prince Albert, who had died four years earlier, plunging Victoria into profound grief and

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seclusion. Aytoun’s Lays, modelled on the works of Macaulay and Scott and first published in Blackwood’s beginning in 1844, “became important texts in the romantic revival in mid-Victorian Scotland” (ODNB), a movement which Victoria’s passion for Scotland, first fired by her 1842 visit with Albert, did much to encourage. Mounted on the front pastedown is a label with the ink-stamp of George VI, addressed to the Rev. John Stirton, who was minister of Glamis, and author of a history of the parish. The label is initialled in the lower left corner “MR” and annotated by Stirton, “A gift from Queen Mary. Her hand writing. JS.” A superb high Victorian gift-book, handsomely presented, and with extended provenance.

£2,500

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VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade. New York: Delacorte Press, 1969 Octavo. Original turquoise cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, black endpapers. With the dust jacket. Slightly rubbed at edges, some spotting to boards. An excellent copy in the dust jacket.


£1,500

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First edition, first printing of the author’s second book, which is of considerable scarcity.

WALCOTT, Derek. 25 Poems. Bridgetown, Barbados: Advocate Company, 1949

£3,750

Octavo. Original red cloth, printed paper labels to spine and upper board. With the dust jacket. Dampstain and loss of size to lower corners of boards, light spotting to endpapers. A very good copy in the rubbed, marked, and tanned jacket which is split with loss down the spine panel.

Second edition revised and the earliest obtainable of the author’s rare first book. OCLC records only three institutional copies of the first edition, and only four of this edition.

£3,250

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WALCOTT, Derek. Epitaph for the Young. XII Cantos. Barbados: Advocate Co., 1949 Octavo. Original grey cloth, white paper title label to upper board printed in black. Printer’s quality control ink stamp to rear pastedown. Cloth rubbed and marked, spots of dampstain and associated loss of size to edges and head of spine.

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(WARHOL, Andy.) COOPER, Michael. Blinds & Shutters. Forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Introduction by Terry Southern. Consultant Bill Wyman. Guildford: Genesis / Hedley 1990 Quarto. Original black morocco and yellow buckram, titles to front cover in black and yellow, titles to spine in yellow, all edges red. Housed in the publisher’s silkscreened solander box with a sliding blind beneath which is a unique photograph (in this case of the Beatles). With the original packing box. Over 600 photographs by Michael Cooper and 93 key contributors. A fine copy.

First edition, first impression. Limited to 5,000 copies, this is no. 1,160 signed by 11 of the contributors: Adam Cooper, Allen Jones, Bill Wyman, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Eric Clapton, Ann Marshall, Billy Al Bengston, Craig Kauffman, John Dunbar, and Colin Self. Each copy is signed by a different selection of contributors.


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Warhol signed very few copies as the signature sheets were collected as the book was compiled, the book was not published until 1990 and Warhol died in February 1987.

£3,750

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WAUGH, Alec. The Loom of Youth. With a Preface by Thomas Seccombe. London: Grant Richards Limited, 1917

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WAUGH, Evelyn. Vile Bodies. London: Chapman and Hall, 1930 Octavo. Original black and red snakeskin patterned cloth, titles to spine gilt. A superb copy.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed “Evelyn Waugh, London, 1930.” Waugh’s second novel.

£7,500

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Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in yellow. With the dust jacket. Cloth worn at extremities, lower corner bumped. A very good copy in the rubbed, creased, and chipped jacket with some marks to the spine panel.

First edition, first impression of the author’s first book. An important semi-autobiographical novel by the elder brother of Evelyn Waugh which “caused a sensation by what then seemed to be its frank treatment of homosexuality in public schools” (ODNB). Particularly scarce in the dust jacket.

£7,500

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WAUGH, Evelyn. Edmund Campion. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1935 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Gift inscription from the Countess Idina Brassey to the Priory of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Haywards Heath, to the front free endpaper, and with the Priory’s bookplate on the front pastedown. Cloth a little rubbed and spotted, circular sticker residue to upper board, lower corner bumped, spine slightly rolled and faded, faint spotting to contents. A very good copy in the lightly rubbed and marked jacket.

First edition, first impression. A very tricky book to find in genuinely nice condition.

£1,750

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WHITE, E. B. Charlotte’s Web. Pictures by Garth Williams. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952

Octavo. Publisher’s red morocco, titles to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges, silk place-marker. Portrait frontispiece from a painting by Toulouse-Lautrec. Ownership signature to front pastedown. Contents lightly toned. An excellent copy.

Octavo. Original light brown cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black and blue, blue and white spider-web patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Garth Williams. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Some loss of size from cloth. An excellent copy in the slightly rubbed and nicked jacket with toned spine panel.

First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 50 numbered copies signed by the editor, politician and legal reformer H. Montgomery Hyde, and the author of the foreword, Travers Humphreys, a barrister who participated in the Wilde vs. Queensbury case.


£1,500

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(WILDE, Oscar.) The Trials of Oscar Wilde. Edited, with an Introduction by H. Montgomery Hyde. With a Foreword by Travers Humphreys. London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1948

£1,500

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(WITCHCRAFT: GAUFRIDI, Louis) The Life and Death of Lewis Gaufredy: A Priest of the Church of the Accoules in Marceilles in France, (who after hee had given him selfe soule and bodie to the Divell) committed many most abhominable Sorceries, but chiefly upon two very faire young Gentle-women, Mistris Magdalene of the Marish, and Mistris Victoire Corbier, whose horrible life being made manifest, hee was Arraigned and Condemned by the Court of Parliament of Aix in Province, to be burnt alive, which was performed the last day of Aprill. 1611. Together with the 53. Articles of his Confession. To which is annexed, a true discourse of a most inhumaine murther, committed by foure women Witches, upon a young Gyrle, of about tenne yeares olde, who were all executed the 28. of June last past. Translated and faithfully collected out of two French copies, the one printed at Paris, the other at Roane. Anno. 1612. London: printed by Tho. C[reede] for Richard Redmer, and are to be solde at his shoppe, 1612 Small quarto (163 ×120 mm), 36 unnumbered pages. First word of the title is xylographic. Late eighteenth-century green half morocco, giltlettered direct, marbled boards. Engraved bookplates of Scrope Berdmore, Warden of Merton College, Oxford from 1790; Henry Combe Compton (1798–1866), MP for South Hampshire; and Manuel de Aguilera y Ligues, Marqués de Cerralbo (1904–1977). Spine rubbed, tips worn, rather closely trimmed affecting a few headlines, still a good copy.

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First edition. Rare: ESTC locates four copies only in the UK and the same number in North America, to which OCLC adds one at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. No copy appears in auction records. The Gaufridi case predates the much analysed affair at Loudun: it involved witchcraft, shows that the coming of the Antichrist could be just as urgent a matter for Catholics as for Protestants, was an early episode of the type for which France eventually became notorious, involving the wholesale possession and exorcism of a community of female religious, and is remarkable for the fact that in its course the Antichrist was supposed to have made a personal appearance. The charges against Gaufridi originated in the accusations of one of his Ursuline penitents, Madeleine Demandols de La Palud. She alleged that he had sexually enchanted her (the devil had given his breath aphrodisiacal qualities), inducted her into

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witchcraft, and taken her to sabbats. Eventually she was physically invaded by demons who refused to leave until Gaufridi was “converted, or dead, or else punished by justice”. His guilt was sealed by “the discovery on his body of demonic marks – insensitive areas that, according to demonological theory, were actually acquired during the formal pact with Satan but which signified a more general allegiance to the cause of the Antichrist” (Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons, 1999, p. 425). ESTC notes that the French originals mentioned in the title have not been traced. There was, however, published at Aix-enProvence, 1611, Confession faicte par messire Louys Gaufridi … à deux peres capucins du couvent d’Aix … le 11e Avril 1611; with a Dutch translation published at Delft in 1612. Caillet 4067 & 4367 ff; Coumont L72.1; STC 11687.

£5,750

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WOOLF, Virginia. The Voyage Out. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in black. Bookplate. Lightly rubbed at extremities, spine a little rolled, contents toned. An excellent copy.

First edition, first impression of the author’s first book. Kirkpatrick A1a.

£1,500

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WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader. London: The Hogarth Press, 1925 Octavo. Original grey cloth-backed boards, titles to spine in black, Vanessa Bell designed boards in green and brown. With the Vanessa Bell dust jacket. Some minor spotting to the fore edges and mild browning to the boards from the binder’s glue but an exceptional copy in the superb dust jacket.

First edition, first impression, first issue binding. One of Woolf ’s scarcest books to find in dust jacket especially in this condition.

£8,750

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(WOOLF, Virginia, & Roger Fry, eds.) CAMERON, Julia Margaret. Victorian Photographs of Famous Men & Fair Women. London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926

WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando. A Biography. London: The Hogarth Press, 1928

WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929

Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Bookseller’s blind stamp to front free endpaper. Spotting to edges, endpapers toned, three small chips from the free endpapers also affecting the front pastedown. An excellent copy in the beautiful dust jacket with only a few small nicks and short splits.

Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped, gilt to spine oxidized, dust jacket chipped with loss to some of the review on the back panel.

Quarto. Original vellum-backed pink paper boards, titles to spine gilt. With 25 photographic plates after Cameron. Small bookplate. Boards rubbed and marked with some wear to the corners, endpapers tanned. A very good copy.

First edition, first impression. One of 450 copies numbered by the Woolfs in purple ink. Published 28 October 1926, 710 copies were printed, the unnumbered balance with a cancel title being sent to Harcourt, Brace & Company. Kirkpatrick B5a; Woolmer 86.

£1,500

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First edition, first impression. A lovely copy in a superb example of the dust jacket.

£1,750

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First US trade edition, first printing. Signed on the front free endpaper by Woolf. Preceded by the signed limited edition issued in the USA and simultaneously in the United Kingdom. One of the author’s best known works and a key essay in the history of literary theory.

£5,500

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£1,750

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YEATS, W. B. The Winding Stair. New York: The Fountain Press, 1929 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and floral roll to boards gilt, red morocco labels to spine, purple endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Ownership signature to first blank, small white spot to spine. Very good.

First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 642 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title.

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WOOLF, Virginia. Between the Acts. London: The Hogarth Press, 1941

Wade 164.

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Previous owner’s inscription. Extremities lightly rubbed. An excellent copy in the lightly chipped and marked dust jacket.

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Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. A bright clean copy in lightly edge rubbed dust jacket, price clipped.

£1,750

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WOOLF, Virginia. [The novels and short stories.] London: Duckworth & The Hogarth Press, 1915–40

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10 volumes, octavo. Bound to match in recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. The occasional minor blemish, mild browning to halftitle of Flush, an excellent set.

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First editions, first impressions of The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, Flush, The Years, and Between the Acts.

£4,750

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190. AKHMATOVA, Anna. The Complete Poems. Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer. Edited and with an Introduction by Roberta Reeder. Somerville, MA: Zephyr Press, 1990 2 volumes, large octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spines and upper board gilt. With the dust jackets. A fine set. First edition, first printing. The complete works in the original Russian with facing English translation.

£350

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191. ALASTAIR. Forty-Three Drawings. With a Note of Exclamation by Robert Ross. London, John Lane The Bodley Head; New York, John Lane Company, 1914

192. ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales. Translated by Mrs. E. Lucas and illustrated by Thomas, Chas. and William Robinson. London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1923

Tall quarto. Original white cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tipped-in frontispiece and 42 plates with printed tissue-guards. Cloth very lightly rubbed and marked, endpapers tanned. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 500 numbered copies; the first book of Alastair, the nom-de-plume of Baron Hans Henning Voight (1887–1969), whose self-taught drawings carry stylistic echoes of those of Aubrey Beardsley.

£450

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Octavo (186 × 135 mm). Finely bound by Riviere & Son in red calf, two brown morocco labels, decoration to spine in compartments separated by raised bands, rule to boards with cornerpieces, roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and vignette and black and white illustrations throughout. Touch of fading to spine label, an excellent copy. Eleventh edition. A particularly handsome copy of Andersen’s Fairy Tales.

£375

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193. AWDRY, Wilbert Vere. James the Red Engine. Leicester: Edmund Ward, [1948] Duodecimo. Original blue boards, titles and illustration to front board gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by C. Reginald Dalby. Corners rubbed, owner’s name in pencil to front free endpaper, dust jacket priced 4/-, corners nicked, spine ends lightly chipped, edges lightly rubbed. A very bright copy. First edition, first impression of the third book in the Railway Series.

£1,250

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194. AWDRY, Wilbert Vere. Tank Engine Thomas Again. Leicester: Edmund Ward, [1949] Duodecimo. Original blue boards, titles and illustration to front cover gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by C. Reginald Dalby. Edges lightly rubbed, dust jacket priced 4/-, corners nicked, edges lightly nicked and creased, otherwise a very bright copy. First edition, first impression of the fourth book in the Railway Series. The Three Railway Engines was the first book in the Railway Series, introducing Edward, Gordon and Henry. Thomas the Tank Engine appeared a year later in 1947 and again in 1949 and has become synonymous with the series.

£1,250

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195. (BEATLES, The.) MARTIN, George & William Pearson. Summer of Love. The Making of Sgt. Pepper. Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2006 Quarto. Original full pink morocco, portrait of Martin by Peter Blake mounted on front cover, titles to spine gilt, all edges gilt. Housed in the custom made printed box. All housed in a printed draw-string cloth bag. A fine copy. First edition, first impression. Limited to 2,000 copies in total, this one of 350 deluxe copies signed by George Martin, with an additional photographic print of the Beatles with Martin in the studio signed by Frank Herrman presented in a portfolio and a T shirt with Peter Blake’s portrait of Martin on the front.

£1,250

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196. (BEATLES, The.) WARD, Michael. A Day in the Life. Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2007

198. BETJEMAN, John. Old Lights for New Chancels. Verses Topographical and Amatory. London: John Murray, 1940

Octavo. Original blue Indian silk, titles and sun decoration to front cover blocked in copper and silver, all edges copper. A set of 24 lithographic photographs (43 x 32 cm) with an embossed signature. Housed in a blue Indian silk solander box, blocked in silver and copper to cover and spine, lined with cloth. With the original packing box. Photographs by Michael Ward. A fine copy.

Octavo. Original blue boards, white paper title label to upper spine. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown, extremities faintly rubbed. A truly excellent copy in the somewhat tanned and marked dust jacket with small chips to extremities.

First edition, first impression. Limited to 750 copies signed by Michael Ward. Rare prints of the Beatles taken over a period of 24 hours on 19 February 1963, the day the Beatles discovered they had achieved their first UK number one single.

First edition, first impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the British industrialist and philanthropist Sir (Percy) Malcolm Stewart (1872–1951) on the front free endpaper, “To Sir P Malcolm Stewart, in deep gratitude, from, John Betjeman, I.X.MCMXLVII” [1 Oct 1947].

£500

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197. BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse. London: John Murray, 1937 Octavo. Original black morocco-grain cloth, titles and clasp design to upper board gilt, blue endpapers, all edges gilt. With the dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed with a little damp-stain to the edges. A very good copy in the somewhat rubbed, tanned, and dulled jacket with a small chip from the tail of the spine panel. First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Inscribed for Ronald Church by John Betjeman, Christmas 1960”.

£475

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199. BETJEMAN, John. Summoned By Bells. London: John Murray, 1960

First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 175 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.

Quarto. Publisher’s deluxe green calf, titles to spine, bell pattern to boards, and top edge gilt, patterned endpapers. Portrait frontispiece. Ends of spine slightly rubbed. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 125 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf.

£750

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200. BETJEMAN, John. A Nip in the Air. London: John Murray, 1974 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy.

£425

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201. BLEK LE RAT (Xavier Prou). Blek le Rat. San Francisco: Art Publishing, Ltd., 2011 Quarto. original white boards, titles and illustration to front cover and titles to spine in black. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated throughout. Fine condition. First edition, deluxe issue: Limited to 100 copies signed by Blek le Rat with original artwork, spray-paint on wood (25.4 x 33.1 cm.), numbered and signed by Blek le Rat.

£750

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202. BLYTON, Enid. Five Go Adventuring Again. An Adventure Story for Boys and Girls. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1943 Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine and front cover in black. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen A. Soper. Boards a little mottled, small light stain to head of front cover, dust jacket rubbed, lightly chipped to corners and edges. First edition, first impression. The second adventure of the Famous Five.

£1,000

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203. (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.) The Book of Common Prayer. And

the administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: together with the psalter of psalms of David. Cambridge: Printed by C. J. Clay at The University Press, 1862 Octavo (149 × 87 mm). Contemporary red bevelled boards, titles to spine gilt, raised bands decorated in blind, brass clasps and cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. In excellent condition. An attractively bound prayer book.

£275

204. (BRADY, James Buchanan) MORELL, Parker. Diamond Jim. The Life and Times of James Buchanan Brady. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1934 Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, blue top-stain, diamond-shaped paper label to spine printed in blue and black, portrait of Tully to upper board in blind with a faux diamond inset into the board. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 12 plates. Spine slightly rolled, glue residue visible around faux diamond in cover, endpapers toned. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression. The biography of the larger-than-life figure James “Diamond Jim” Brady, American tycoon, philanthropist, and toast of the New York social scene during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A collector of jewellery and precious stones, he owned 30 sets of diamond jewellery, one for each day of the month. He was also known for his enormous appetite, being described by one restaurateur as “the best 25 customers I ever had”. A very attractive copy, and uncommon with both the dust jacket and the faux diamond remaining in the cover.

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205. BRANDT, Bill. Perspective of Nudes. With a Preface by Lawrence Durrell and an Introduction by Chapman Mortimer. London: The Bodley Head, 1961 Quarto. Original grey and white patterned boards, titles to spine and upper board in red. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout from photographs by the author. Slightly rubbed along the lower edge, top corner bumped, faint spotting to endpapers. An excellent copy in the jacket with small chips at the top corner and head of spine. First edition, first impression of one of those seminal works of art which apparently came about by accident. Brandt was experimenting with a fish-eye lens and produced these extraordinary images of nudes on beaches, distorting and merging with the rocks which surround them. Roth 101, Parr & Badger.

£975

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206. (BRONTË) DELAFIELD, E. M., ed. The Brontës. Their Lives Recorded by Their Contemporaries. Compiled with an Introduction… London: The Hogarth Press, 1935 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece. Lightly rubbed at extremities, upper board slightly bowed, spine faded. Bookplate. A very good copy in the rubbed, dulled, and nicked jacket First edition, first impression. Woolmer 366.

£450

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207. BULGAKOV, Mikhail. The Master And Margarita. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1967 Octavo. Original green and black boards, titles



to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Very slightly rubbed at extremities, faint spotting to endpapers. An excellent copy in the slightly toned jacket with some tiny spots to the spine panel.

to turn-ins gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 39 plates, head- and tailpieces. Bookplate. Spine toned, a little spotting to contents. An excellent copy.

First Glenny edition, first impression, the preferred English translation from the unexpurgated text. It had been preceded in 1967 by Mirra Ginsburg’s English translation from the bowdlerised Soviet version. The version here is complete and the standard English translation of one of the 20th century’s literary masterworks. Scarce.

First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 1,250 numbered copies, this an outof-series presentation copy. Very handsomely bound.

£675

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208. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland; Alice Through the looking Glass. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938 & 1935 2 volumes, small octavo (148 × 96 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in red polished calf, green and blue morocco labels, elaborate decoration to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, twin rule to boards, pictorial block to front boards, dentelles, decorative endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a marble card slipcase. With black and white illustrations by John Tenniel. Inscription to binder’s front blank in each volume otherwise in excellent condition. A handsomely bound pair, which were first published in 1866 and 1872 respectively.

£875

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209. (CHARLES II) AIRY, Osmund. Charles II. London: Goupil & Co., 1901 Large quarto (322 × 245 mm). Contemporary turquoise morocco, spine gilt in compartments with custom tools related to Charles II, boards gilt panelled with floral cornerpieces and Charles II tools, crest centrepiece to upper board, rose tools

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£375

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210. CORNWELL, Patricia. Postmortem. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1990 Octavo. Original red boards, black cloth backstrip, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the jacket. First edition, first printing.

£750

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211. COWARD, Noël. This Happy Breed. A Play in Three Acts. London: William Heinemann, 1943

212. COWARD, Noël. Pretty Polly Barlow and other stories. London: Heinemann, 1964 Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Minor crease to spine. An excellent copy in the rubbed, creased, and slightly spotted jacket with a few short splits. First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Binkie [Beaumont] with love always, Noël”. (For provenance, see previous item.)

£650

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213. DAHL, Roald. James and the Giant Peach. A Children’s Story. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1967 Octavo. Original pictorial laminated boards, titles to spine and front cover in black. No dust jacket was issued for this edition. Illustrated

throughout the text by Michel Simeon. Very minor rubbing to spine tips. A bright copy in much better condition than is usually found without cracking to the lamination. First UK edition, first impression.

£750

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214. DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1973 Octavo. Original laminated pictorial boards, titles to front cover and spine in black. Illustrated by Faith Jaques. Small nick to head of spine, some loss of laminate to foot of spine, corners lightly rubbed, internally bright and clean. First UK edition, first impression. A very handsome copy of the increasingly scarce first UK edition.

£500

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Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Beaumont’s bookplate pasted in on the half title. A fine copy in lightly nicked and marked dust jacket. First edition, first impression. The dedication copy with the author’s presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, “For Binkie, With my love Noël, See Dedication dear Hugh”. Though dedicated to Hugh “Binkie” Beaumont (1908– 1973), the presiding genius behind the firm of H. M. Tennent Ltd, the theatrical management team that reigned supreme over London’s West End for the middle decades of the twentieth century, Coward actually produced this play himself, having previously co-produced the filmed version.

£1,500

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215. DAHL, Roald. The Magic Finger. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1968

Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Spine bumped with just the slightest of fading to the dust jacket.

Octavo. Original pictorial paper covered boards, titles to spine and front cover in black. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated by William Pène du Bois. White boards a little rubbed with some cockling of the paper covered boards, but overall a bright copy.


First UK edition, first impression.

£375

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216. DAHL, Roald. The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar. And Six More. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977 Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt, cream endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket. First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, “Charles love Roald Dahl 1979”.

£1,500

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£400

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219. DAHL, Roald. The BFG. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982


220. DAHL, Roald. The Witches. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983

trated throughout. Spine and edges of boards a little faded, light spotting to free endpapers. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some small nicks and short splits, two of which are repaired with tape to the verso.

Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. An excellent copy in the bright dust jacket with just a minor crease to top of spine and front panel. First edition, first impression.

£250

Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped, some light brown spotting to pastedowns and endpapers, light rubbing to corners of dust jacket. First edition, first impression.

£300


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221. DAVID, Elizabeth. French Provincial Cooking. Illustrated by Juliet Renny. London: Michael Joseph, 1960 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt on red ground, pictorial design to upper board in red, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Illus-

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First edition, first impression of the author’s most influential work. David (1913–1992) taught herself Mediterranean-style cooking while living abroad during the early 1940s and began writing a food column for Harper’s Bazaar in 1949. Her first book was published to wide acclaim the following year and she is now recognised for her profound influence on British culinary culture.

£975

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222. DAWKINS, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Lightly rubbed at ex-

tremities, corners bumped, spotting to edges and occasionally to contents. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. First edition, first impression of the author’s first book, signed by him on the title page. An examination of the ways that evolution acts on individual genes rather than on species, it was an immediate best-seller and revolutionised the way that both scientists and the public viewed evolution. A beautiful copy in the striking Desmond Morris dust jacket.

£975

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223. DEIGHTON, Len. The Ipcress File. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1962 Octavo. Original orange boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine a little rolled, edges of text block spotted, with some encroachment to text block. A very good copy,

with the dust jacket rubbed at the extremities. First edition, first impression. Review copy, with the loosely inserted publisher’s review copy note.

£975

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224. DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in The Northern Counties of Scotland and in England. London: Printed by C. Richards, 1838 2 volumes, octavo (241 × 148 mm). Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spines separated by raised bands, panelled tooling to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 40 full-page engraved plates and numerous illustrations within the text. Bookplate to front pastedown in each volume and auctioneer’s small description pasted to front pastedown of volume 1, some mild foxing to a few leaves, spines and boards a little rubbed otherwise in excellent condition. First small paper edition. A handsome copy.

£425

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225. DICK, Philip K. The World Jones Made. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1968

217. DAHL, Roald. The Twits. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980 Boards a little marked towards head, a very good copy in the somewhat faded price-clipped jacket.

Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket.


First hardcover edition. The author’s first book, originally published as a paperback in 1956.

£250

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£1,250

[73513]

218. DAHL, Roald. George’s Marvellous Medicine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981 94

95



Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in terracotta morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, pictorial block to the front board taken from the original, roll to turn-ins, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. With 20 tipped in colour plates, tissue guards. One plate lightly creased otherwise an excellent copy in a fine binding.

First edition, first impression. Signed by Forester on the front free endpaper.

crime novel, set in the seedy back streets of 1930s London.

£1,500

£275

First Dulac edition.

229. FORESTER, C. S. The Gun. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1952

231. FORESTER, C. S. Brown on Resolution. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1952

Octavo. Original red cloth, with titles to front and spine gilt. Top stained red. With the dust jacket. A fine bright copy, with the excellent dust jacket a little creased and faded at the extremities.

Octavo. Original red cloth, with titles to front and spine gilt. Top stained red. With the dust jacket. Extremities slightly rubbed, an excellent copy in the very good dust jacket, slightly stained and deteriorated at top edge.

Peter Harrington

226. DULAC, Edmund. Lyrics Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z. London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1908] Quarto. Original white cloth backed grey boards with bevelled edges, titles and colour pictorial design to upper board, pictorial endpapers. Illustrations by Dulac throughout. Binding a little rubbed at the extremities with wear to the corners, spine tanned. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression. A lovely copy.

£850

[72562]

227. (DULAC, Edmund) KHAYYÁM, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]

£1,500

[74320]

228. FORESTER, C. S. The Happy Return. London: Michael Joseph, 1937 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Spine tips lightly faded, bookplate to pastedown, dust jacket lightly rubbed to edges with a small chip to head of spine, a bright copy.

First printing of the Greenwich edition. First published in 1933 by the Bodley Head. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his second wife on the half title, “To Dorothy, from C. S. Forester”. From the Forester and TroughtonSmith family archive, with loosely inserted bookplate inscribed by A. S. Troughton-Smith, the author’s great nephew. A story of guerrilla warfare set in Napoleonic Spain. Forester’s story was the basis for the famous Hollywood film, The Pride and the Passion (1957), starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren.

£275

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[75571]

Catalogue 85

[75573]

First printing of the Greenwich edition. First published in 1929 by the Bodley Head. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his second wife both on the front free endpaper, “To Dorothy, with love from, C. S. Forester” and on the half title, “To Dorothy from, C. S. Forester”. From the Forester and Troughton-Smith family archive, with loosely inserted bookplate inscribed by A. S. Troughton-Smith, the author’s great nephew. A nautical novel set during World War I on Resolution Island, in the Galapagos.

£275

African Queen was adapted in 1951 into the famous film of the same name staring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.

£475

[75587]

233. (FRAZIER, E. Franklin) WORK, John. American Negro Songs and Spirituals. A Comprehensive Collection of 230 Folk Songs, Religious and Secular, with a Foreword by John W. Work. New York: Crown Publishers, 1940 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board in brown. With the dust jacket. Spine and edges of boards tanned, contents toned. An excellent copy in the rubbed and creased jacket with some chips and closed tears professionally repaired on the verso. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Marie and E. Franklin Frazier with affection and esteem from their friend John W. Work” Work

(1901–1967) was an American composer and educator who attended Julliard and obtained music degrees from both Columbia and Yale, then taught music theory at Fisk University for 39 years. This seminal work helped to establish the African American folk song as an important musical form, and contains 230 songs along with information on the origins different types of black folk music. Work met the recipient of this copy, E. Franklin Frazier (1894–1962), when Frazier served as research professor of sociology at the Fisk University in the late 1920s and early 30s. During this period Frazier published a number of important articles on African American life, including “The Negro Family in Chicago” (1932), which critics argued was the most important study of its type since DuBois’s “The Philadelphia Negro” of 1899. Frazier left Fisk to head the sociology department at Howard University in 1934, and published the groundbreaking book The Negro Family in the United States in 1939, as well as the more controversial work Black Bourgeoisie in 1957. An attractive copy with a superb association.

£525

[74213]

[75575]

230. FORESTER, C. S. Plain Murder. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1952

232. FORESTER, C. S. The African Queen. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1953

Octavo. Original red cloth, with titles to front and spine gilt. Top stained red. With the dust jacket. Tail of spine slightly bumped, else a fine bright copy, with the excellent dust jacket a little faded along top edge.

Octavo. Original red cloth, with titles to front and spine gilt. Top stained red. With the dust jacket. A fine bright copy with the dust jacket faintly faded at the extremities and very slightly chipped at head of spine, else in fine condition.

First printing of the Greenwich edition. First published in 1930 by the Bodley Head. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his second wife on the half title, “To Dorothy, from C. S. Forester”. From the Forester and TroughtonSmith family archive, with loosely inserted bookplate inscribed by A. S. Troughton-Smith, the author’s great nephew. Forester’s second

First printing of the Greenwich edition. First published in 1935 by William Heinemann. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his second wife on the half title, “To Dorothy from, C. S. Forester”. From the Forester and TroughtonSmith family archive, with loosely inserted bookplate inscribed by A. S. Troughton-Smith, the author’s great nephew. A colonial adventure story set in Africa after the outbreak of war in 1914. The 97

Peter Harrington

234. FRY, Christopher. The Lady’s Not For Burning. A Comedy. London: Oxford University Press, 1949

236. GAVIN, C. M. Royal Yachts. Published by gracious permission of His Majesty the King. London: Rich & Cowan Ltd., 1932

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Rear free endpaper faintly toned. An excellent copy in the price-clipped and rubbed jacket with some marks, nicks, and short closed tears

Quarto. Original navy blue hard-grain morocco, titles to front cover and spine gilt, royal standard to the front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Tissue-guarded, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 15 similar colour plates, 94 half-tone plates.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author and all 11 cast members of the original John Gielgud production that toured Britain in 1949, including Gielgud (who has also written “Brighton – March 8th 1949”), Richard Burton, Pamela Brown, Claire Bloom, David Evans, Nora Nicholson, Richard Leech, Harcourt Williams, Eliot Makeham, Peter Bull, and Esme Percy. With the original programme from the Theatre Royale in Brighton for the week of Monday 7 March 1949.

First edition, number 275 of 1,000 copies only. A full and documented account of British royal yachts and their owners from the earliest times to 1932. Includes lists of royal yachts from the Restoration to 1932, with data on design, building, armament, origins of names, etc.

£875

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235. GALBRAITH, J. K. The Great Crash 1929. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in silver. With the dust jacket. Graph frontispiece. Mild toning to the ends of the spine, slight bump to top corner. A lovely bright copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with two closed nicks to the front fold. First edition, first printing. A best-seller on publication and never out of print since. Galbraith’s study is an economic history of the build-up to the Wall Street Crash, written on the principle that those that don’t know history are destined to repeat it. Not without its lighter moments, as the FT’s reviewer observed, “Professor Galbraith performed a necessary and useful task in producing a lively and highly readable account of that disaster... it abounds in witty remarks”. A tricky book to find in a decent jacket.

£975 98

£875

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237. (GOBLE, Warwick) BASILE, Giambattista. Stories from the Pentamerone Selected and Edited by E. F. Strange. Illustrated by Warwick Goble. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1911

238. GREENE, Graham. Brighton Rock. An Entertainment. New York: The Viking Press, 1938

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Contents a little browned and slightly rolled but an excellent copy in the little sunned dust jacket with a couple of short tears.

Octavo. Original pink and black cloth, titles and ruling to spine and upper board in silver, black top-stain. With the dust jacket. Marginal staining to three leaves, spot to prelims, endpapers a little browned but a bright copy in the somewhat tanned and rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of pieces of internal repair.


Quarto (280 × 215 mm). Recent two-tone blue morocco by the Cottage Bindery of Bath, spine gilt in compartments, boards gilt panelled, blue moiré silk endpapers, turn-ins and top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a grey cloth slipcase. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 31 plates on brown paper with printed tissue-guards. Spine faded. An excellent copy. First Goble edition, first impression. The deluxe limited edition, one of only 150 numbered copies.

£2,000

[77049]

Catalogue 85

First edition, first printing, precedes the UK edition.

£1,250

[71986]

239. GREENE, Graham. Our Man in Havana. An Entertainment. London: Heinemann, 1958

£325

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240. GREENE, Graham. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1950 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, tan endpapers. With the dust jacket. Bump to edge of upper board. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a short closed tear to the lower panel. First edition, first impression.

£1,250

[70349]

241. [HAWKINS, Thomas] A View of the Real Power of the Pope, and Of the Power of the Priesthood over the Laity. With an Account how they use it. By T. H. Esq; London: Printed in the Year 1733 Octavo (196 × 119 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, raised bands, unlettered. Early ownership inscriptions of Benjamin Coleman, 1787, and Mary Coleman to front endpapers. Old and inoffensive ink stain running down the rear joint with a couple of ink spots to top edge not affecting the text, a handsome copy in excellent condition, clean and fresh. First edition. An interesting example of the apparently widespread attitude of ordinary English Catholics at this time, exhibiting considerable anti-clericalism and impatience bordering on disgust with papal temporal power. The work includes one chapter rich with thinly disguised personal details settling the author’s score with various English priests. Thomas Hawkins (c. 1675–1766), of Nash Court, Boughton under Blean, Kent, was a member of a notable English Catholic family, numbering the poet and translator Sir Thomas Hawkins (bap. 1575, d. 1640?) among his forebears. His father, also Thomas, died in 1678, and after 1688 the family was plundered and forced into exile in France, where Hawkins took the opportunity to study at the University of Paris. The second part of the book consists of a translation of the prefatory discourses of Claude Fleury’s Histoire ecclésiastique (1691).

£750

[72617]

[76759] 99

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242. HEDIN, Sven. Through Asia. London: Methuen & Co., 1898 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to the spines and to the upper boards together with a gilt block, all within single fillet panel, top edge gilt the others uncut. Photogravure frontispiece to each and over 120 full-page illustrations from Hedin’s superb photographs and sketches, 4 of them coloured, 4 sketch-maps, and a large folding map at the rear of each volume. A little rubbed, endpapers browned, some foxing at the fore-edge, but the hinges sound, text very clean, unusually well-preserved, a very good set. First edition in English, translated from the Swedish edition of the same year, of the book that established Hedin’s world-wide fame. “Popular account of three and a half years’ of explora-

tions in the Pamirs, the deserts of Takla Makan and Lob-nor region, Tsaidam and Southern Tibet in 1893-97” (Yakushi). Hedin’s credentials as one of the great explorers are beyond question. “Judged merely by his maps he was brilliant, as today’s satellite surveys have shown. Sir Francis Younghusband, who met him in Kashgar in 1890 when he was still unknown, was much struck by him. ‘He impressed me as being of the true stamp for exploration – physically robust, genial, even tempered, cool and persevering … I envied him his linguistic ability [Hedin was fluent in seven languages], his knowledge of scientific subjects, and his artistic accomplishments. He seemed to posses every qualification of a scientific traveller, added to the quiet, selfreliant character of his northern ancestors’” (Hopkirk, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road, p. 55). Yakushi H97b.

£750

[75536]



243. JEKYLL, Gertrude. Wood and Garden. Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899

246. KESEY, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. A Novel. London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1962

First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 750 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. With a flyer for Lewis’s review “The Enemy, No. 2” loosely inserted.

Octavo. Original maroon boards, titles to spine in silver, pictorial design to spine in blue. With the dust jacket. Gift inscription to front pastedown. Edges spotted. An excellent copy in the slightly rubbed and spotted jacket.

£825

Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, decorative title block to spine and front board, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. With illustrations from photographs by the author. A fine copy. First edition, first impression.

£1,250

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244.

JEKYLL, Gertrude, & Edward Mawley. Roses for English Gardens. London: Country Life & George Newnes, 1902 Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, decorative title block to spine and front board, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. With 148 illustrations after photographs by the author. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy finely bound. First edition, first impression.

£1,250

[75858]

245. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Shelton, Connecticut: The First Edition Library, [2004]

Facsimile edition, reproducing the 1922 first edition in its trade format (750 copies).

100

First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in the same year. This copy lacks the inked-out copyright slug on the verso of the title page that is normally present in this edition, but has the pages 35/6 and 85/6 cancelled as usual.

£650

[71960]

[74613]

249. (MASONIC BINDING) PRESTON, William. Illustrations of Masonry. The Twelfth Edition, with considerable additions. London: for G. Wilkie, 1812 Octavo (173 × 100 mm). Contemporary straightgrained black morocco elaborately gilt with masonic hieroglyphs and Greek key rolls to the boards and spine, marbled endpapers, floral

roll to turn-ins and all edges gilt. Contemporary ownership signature to front blank, contemporary bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Professional repairs to joints and corners. Excellent condition. An attractive Masonic binding executed by John Lovejoy, who was a member of the Masons between 1791 and 1812 and specialised in this style. A similar binding by him appears as item 260 in Maggs catalogue 1075. Lovejoy is also known as one of the journeymen who advocated for reduced working hours in 1781, only to oppose the same measures as a master when strike action was called in 1786. Maggs Bros. 1075, Book Binding in the British Isles, 260.

£950

[75244]

247. LEE, Laurie. Cider with Rosie. With drawings by John Ward. London: The Hogarth Press, 1959 Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket with tanned spine panel and with nicks at the corners and ends of spine. First edition, first impression. A lovely copy.

£250

[72907]

248. LEWIS, Wyndham. The Apes of God. London: The Arthur Press, 1930

Quarto. Original blue wrappers, titles to upper wrapper in white. Housed in a fawn cloth folding box, green calf title labels to spine gilt. A fine copy.

£575

Catalogue 85

Large octavo. Original salmon cloth, titles to spine in blue. With the dust jacket. Cloth very lightly rubbed, a little spotting to endpapers. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and dulled jacket that has been washed and has been repaired to the verso along the folds and some splits and frayed areas.

[74591]

101

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250. MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and decorations to upper board gilt, map endpapers, top edges gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by E. H. Shepard. Partial toning to free endpapers. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with toned spine panel and a few small abrasions. First edition, first impression. A lovely copy.

£2,500

[76216]

251. MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927 Octavo. Finely bound by Riviere in bright red crushed morocco, two crimson morocco title labels, decoration to spine in compartments separated by raised bands, twin rule to boards, pictorial motifs to front board, roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers with original pictorial endpapers bound in, gilt edges. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. A fine copy. A handsome binding on the sixteenth edition of the first of the four Winnie-the-Pooh books, first published in November 1924.

£650

[73033]

252. MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927 Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe limp blue calf, titles to spine and ruling and pictorial designs to upper board gilt, pink pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. With the publisher’s box. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Very slightly rubbed at the tips. A superb copy in the original box. 102

First edition, first impression, deluxe issue.

£875

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253. MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928 Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles to spine and pictorial design to upper board gilt, pink pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by E. H. Shepard. Edges of boards slightly faded, light partial toning to free endpapers. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a few faint marks. First edition, first impression.

£1,000

[74475]



254. MISES, Ludwig von. Omnipotent Government. The Rise of the Total State and Total War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1944

255. MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone With The Wind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956

256. MITFORD, Nancy. Madame de Pompadour. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954

Tall octavo. Publisher’s presentation skiver, spine gilt in compartments, light blue endpapers. Lightly rubbed at extremities, endpapers faded at the edges. An excellent copy.

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in silver, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 20 plates. A little rubbed at extremities, ends of spine worn. A very good copy in the jacket that is somewhat rubbed and nicked at the extremities with a short closed tear at the base of the spine panel.

Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Bookplate. A little rubbed and dulled at extremities, top corner bumped. An excellent copy in the rubbed, chipped, and creased jacket. First edition, first impression of this influential right-libertarian critique of socialism and the total state, with a particular focus on Nazi Germany and the economic origins of the Second World War.

£300

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Catalogue 85

Limited edition in celebration of the dedication of “White Columns on Peachtree”, the colonial revival building that was home to Atlanta’s WSB and WSB-TV stations from 1956 to 1998. WSB-TV was founded in 1948 by James M. Cox, publisher of the Atlanta Journal newspaper, making it the second oldest broadcaster south of Washington D.C. This copy signed on the limitation leaf by Jean Hendrix, the station’s promotions manager, and John M. Outler, the general manager.

£875

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First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, “Gillian and John with love from Nancy Mitford”. The recipients were likely John Sutro, independent filmmaker, and his wife, Gillian, a fashion journalist. The couple moved in literary circles, counting Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh among their friends; Nancy Mitford thought Gillian “one of the ten best dressed women in England”.

£525

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257. MORRISON, Arthur. Tales of Mean Streets. Lizerunt, Squire Napper, Without Visible Means, Three Rounds, and others. London: Methuen & Co., 1894 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles gilt to spine and upper board. Housed in a yellow and orange patterned slipcase. Bookplate of the American writer on wicca, Scott Cunningham, showing a unicorn designed by the English wood engraver Eric Gill. Covers somewhat marked. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression, with the 32 pp. catalogue of books. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Arthur Morrison, 1894”. The first book from the author who went on to write A Child of the Jago.

£875

[76323]

258. (O’NEILL, Eugene, ed.) The Complete Greek Drama. All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations. Edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O’Neill, Jr. In Two Volumes. New York: Random House, 1938 2 volumes, octavo (222 × 140 mm). Contemporary red morocco by Maurin, spines gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, double-line ruling to boards, turn-ins, and top edges gilt. Frontispiece to each volume. A superb set. A beautifully bound set of the eighteenth printing.

£600

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259 PEAKE, Mervyn. [The Gormenghast trilogy:] Titus Groan; Gormenghast; Titus Alone. With an Introduction by Anthony Burgess. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1968

260. (POGANY, William) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Translated by Abraham Howard. With Illustrations by Willy Pogany. Boston: Dana Estes & Company, [c. 1908]

3 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spines in silver, purple endpapers. With the dust jackets. Ownership ink stamps to front free endpapers of vols I and II, bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown of volume I. Lightly rubbed at extremities, spotting to top edges of contents. An excellent set in the price-clipped, rubbed and faintly toned jackets with a small chip to the lower panel of vol. III.

Quarto (265 × 190 mm). Contemporary green morocco, elaborate floral decoration to spine, boards, and turn-ins gilt, rose-shaped pink onlays, burgundy morocco doublures and silk free endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 29 plates with printed tissue-guards. Two bookplates to front free endpaper. Spine browned, edges of boards tanned, binding lightly rubbed. An excellent copy.

First illustrated edition, reset and with a new introduction by Anthony Burgess. Originally published in 1946.

First US edition, first printing. Originally published in the UK in 1908. A handsomely bound copy.

£300

£850

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261. PYNCHON, Thomas. Gravity’s Rainbow. New York: The Viking Press, 1973

and white pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 11 plates with printed tissue guards, line drawings throughout. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Spotting to edges of contents. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some nicks and short splits.

Octavo. Original orange boards, titles to spine in red, orange top-stain. With the dust jacket. Small note in ink to front free endpaper. Topstain a little faded, edges slightly rubbed and dulled. An excellent copy in the rubbed and creased jacket with a darkened area to the corner of the upper panel and a small spot to the lower panel. First edition, first printing.

£975

[73574]

262. RACKHAM, Arthur. Little Brother & Little Sister. And Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917 Quarto. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial designs to spine and upper board gilt, pictorial endpapers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 11 plates on olive paper, illustrations throughout the text. Lightly rubbed at edges, spotting to endpapers and occasionally to contents. An excellent copy. First trade edition, first impression.

£475

[74372]

263. (RACKHAM, Arthur) ANDERSON, Hans. Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1932 Quarto. Original red cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board gilt, pink

104

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First Rackham trade edition, first impression.

£1,250

[74540]

264. (RACKHAM, Arthur) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. From The Little White Bird. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906 Quarto. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board gilt, brown endpapers, grey edges. With the dust jacket. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 49 plates on brown paper with printed tissue-guards. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Scratch and small puncture to cloth of lower board, small area with loss of size on upper board. An excellent copy in the rubbed and toned jacket that is frayed at the edges with some short closed tears repaired with tape to the verso, and a snag to the lower panel.

Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908 Octavo (245 × 175 mm). Contemporary exhibition binding of orange morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine and boards elaborately gilt with black morocco onlays, silk doublures, turn-ins and top edge gilt. Original cloth retained. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 39 plates on grey paper with printed tissue guards. Bookplate. Binding lightly rubbed, some marks and a small scratched area to the upper board, joints starting, contents toned. A handsome copy. First Rackham trade edition.

£1,250

[74541]

266. RUTHERFORD, Ernest. Radioactive Substances and Their Radiations. Cambridge: the University Press, 1913

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. 3 plates, diagrams throughout. Small portion of front free endpaper cut away, probably to remove an ownership inscription. Binding very lightly rubbed at extremities with a scattering of tiny pale spots, free endpapers unevenly toned. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression. Rutherford radically updates his 1904 book on radioactivity in light of the latest research, offering the first book-published description of the Geiger-Marsden, or “gold foil”, experiment, which conclusively proved that the structure of the atom was a tiny nucleus surrounded large areas of empty space within the orbits of the electrons. In 1917 Rutherford would be the first to succeed in splitting the atom.

£350

[72467]

First US edition, first impression. The first Rackham edition was originally published in the UK in the same year. A lovely copy in the rare dust jacket.

£2,500

[73436]

265. (RACKHAM, Arthur) SHAKESPEARE, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London, William Heinemann; New York, 105

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267. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Twelve Days. An account of a journey across the Bakhtiara Mountains in South-Western Persia. London: The Hogarth Press, 1928 Octavo. Original brown and black patterned cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 32 plates. Times Book Club ticket to rear pastedown. Cloth a rubbed with some small marks, corners bumped, front hinge cracked, some light spotting throughout. A very good copy in the rubbed and dulled jacket with some nicks and short splits. First edition, first impression. From the library of English publisher Roger Senhouse (1899– 1970), with his bookplate and pencilled notes to the front free endpaper. Senhouse was a member of the Bloomsbury group, translated several of the novels of Colette, and became co-owner of Secker and Warburg in 1935.

£875

[75875]

268. [SCOTT, Sir Walter.] Rob Roy. In Three Volumes. Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co.; London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 3 volumes, octavo (170 × 100 mm). Late twentieth-century brown half calf, spines gilt in compartments, brown cloth sides, marbled endpapers, blue speckled edges. Occasional spotting to contents. An excellent set. First edition, attractively bound.

£425

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Octavo (150 × 95 mm). Contemporary green morocco fanfare-style binding by Ramage, massed tools to spine and boards gilt, white silk doublures and free endpapers, all edges gilt. A little spotting to silk endpapers. An excellent copy. A beautiful copy, in an elaborately gilt tooled fanfare-style binding that was probably produced for exhibition.

£1,500

[75639]

270. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works. With Photogravures by E. J. Sullivan. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1911 3 volumes, octavo (197 × 130 mm). Contemporary red half calf, spines gilt in two compartments with a floral design, red cloth sides, pink endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece to each volume and 36



plates with printed tissue guards. Dampstain to tails of spines extending onto the boards, contents toned and occasionally spotted. An excellent set.

copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a few short closed tears, repairs to the ends of the spine including the publisher’s imprint replaced by that from another jacket in the same series, and slight dampstain to the lower panel.

gilt. Housed in a cream cloth folding case. Illustrations throughout. A fine copy.

First Photoplay edition, first printing. Published to accompany the 1931 Universal Pictures film starring Boris Karloff, who appears on the jacket.

£1,250

A very attractively bound set with Art Nouveau floral decoration to the spines.

£500

[73147]

271. SHELLEY, Mary. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus. Illustrated with scenes from the Universal Photoplay. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1931] Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and plate from film stills. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Spine rolled, front hinge cracked, contents lightly toned, but cloth bright and clean. A very good

£1,500

Catalogue 85

One of a limited edition of 265 copies expressly designed and bound by Zaehnsdorf and signed by the author on the limitation leaf. [71928]

[74698]

272. SIMON, André L. Wines of the World. London: The Arcadia Press & McGraw Hill, 1969 Large octavo (262 × 185 mm). Fine red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, titles to spine gilt, five raised bands, grape vine design to upper board in gilt with green and turquoise onlays, marbled endpapers, floral design to turn-ins and all edges

273. (SUN TZU) CALTHROP, E. F. Captain. The Book of War. The Military Classic of the Far East. Translated from the Chinese … London: John Murray, 1908 Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine and also to upper board with red decorative panel and centre device. Boards a little soiled, light foxing and browning to the endpapers, text mildly browned, a very good copy.

First edition. Calthrop served in the Far East as a language officer observing the Russo-Japanese War. Inevitably he found himself tempted by the previously untranslated writings of Sun Tzu and Wu Tzu. His first essay at translation was issued, perhaps privately, in Tokyo in 1905, followed by the issue of this, the first UK edition. As a result Lionel Giles, the leading Sinologist of the period, was prompted to produce his own translation in 1910, and in the introduction drew attention to the previous “translation” into French by Père Amiot in 1782, and commented on Calthrop’s work: “the translator’s knowledge of Chinese was far too scanty to fit him to grapple with the manifold difficulties of Sun Tzu”. This should not to detract from the importance of Calthrop’s translation in stimulating interest in this founding text of strategic thought. Uncommon, and this an unusually nice copy.

£950

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274. THOMAS, Dylan. In Country Sleep and other poems. New York: New Directions, 1952 Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine and upper board in red. With the dust jacket. Photographic portrait tipped-in on title page. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Dark marks to edges of boards. An excellent copy in the jacket that is lightly rubbed at the extremities with some areas of minor dampstain at the edges and a few very short splits. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the tipped-in portrait.

£1,750

[71989]

269. SHAKESPEARE, William. Songs and Sonnets. Edited by F. T. Palgrave. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902 106

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and black illustrations throughout. Gift inscription to front free endpaper, boards toned, dust jacket nicked to corners with a couple of small chips to the back panel. white panels toned.

First Thomson edition. Inscribed by the illustrator on the slightly browned original front free endpaper “Oliver H. Perry, Esq. with kind regards Hugh Thomson Nov. 24 1891.”

280. WATERHOUSE, Keith. Billy Liar. London: Michael Joseph, 1959


£875

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275. THOMAS, Dylan. Under Milk Wood. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1954 Octavo. Original green wrappers printed in black. Wrappers lightly rubbed, dampstain to lower edges of wrappers and early leaves of contents. A very good copy. Advance proof copy with the publisher’s proof ink stamp to the upper wrapper.

£475

[72404]

276. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise. Drawings by Hilary Knight. A Book for Precocious Grown Ups. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955 Quarto. Original white boards, titles and decoration to spine and cover in black and red, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Pink, red

£1,250

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277. (THOMSON, Hugh) GASKELL, Mrs. Cranford. With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. And illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan and Co., 1891

Octavo (181 × 119 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in dark green crushed morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, green endpapers, gilt edges. With numerous black and white illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A fine copy.

[74316 ]

278. [VAHEY, John George Hazlette; as] “PROUDFOOT, Walter.” Conspiracy. London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., [1933] Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, a few small spots to boards. An excellent copy in the rubbed, creased, and nicked jacket with short closed tears repaired with tape to the verso. First edition, first impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, “Geoffrey & Marian Moy with all the best love from the author. JV 12 Sept 33”.

£750

[72911]

Catalogue 85

A handsome reprint of Walt Whitman’s classic poetry book.

£375

Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Ownership signature and partially erased mark to front free endpaper. Light partial tanning to free endpapers. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with some tiny nicks and short closed tears. First edition, first impression.

£275

[72810]

281. WENTWORTH, Patricia. Pursuit of a Parcel. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1942 Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles to spine and mask device to upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Small cataloguing slip tipped-in to rear gutter. Spine rolled. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket.

279. WALLACE, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996


Octavo. Original blue boards, blue cloth backstrip, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the dust jacket.

282. WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass Including Sands at Seventy, First Annex, Good-by My Fancy, Second Annex, A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads and Portrait from Life. New York: Aventine Press, 1931

First edition, first printing, in the first state jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the lower flap.

£575

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£525

[75976]

283. YATES, Richard. Revolutionary Road. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961 Octavo. Original red cloth-backed boards, titles gilt to spine, black paper to covers. With the dust jacket. Spine a little faded, some light marks to covers, edges and endpapers faintly spotted. An excellent copy in the slightly rubbed dust jacket.

284. YEATS, Jack B. Broadside Characters. Drawings. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1971 Tall quarto. Original blue cloth, printed and hand-coloured paper label to upper board, grey endpapers. Illustrated title and 8 hand-coloured plates by Jack B. Yeats. A fine copy. First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 300 numbered copies with handcoloured plates.

£625

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First edition, first printing. Yates’s critically acclaimed novel was a finalist for the 1962 National Book Award in competition with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer (they all lost), and in 2008 was made into a film by Sam Mendes starring Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet.

£650

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[75070]

Octavo (220 × 142 mm). Finely bound by Maurin in green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, two bands, triple rule to boards, roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine just at little faded and rubbed, an excellent copy.

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