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1 ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books/Kestrel Books, 1976 Large octavo. Original cream boards with brown cloth spine, titles to spine in gilt and black. With the dust jacket and slipcase. Illustrated by John Lawrence. Near fine in dust jacket, with light edge wear, in near fine slipcase.

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first illustrated edition, inscribed by the author to his editor, “To John Guest, wise friend and kindly critic, with deep appreciation. Richard Adams.” Illustrator John Lawrence has also signed below Adams’s inscription. This extremely popular animal story was initially turned down by all major publishing houses. When finally issued by Rex Collings in 1972, sales were over 100,000 in the first year and Adams was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children’s fiction. £1,750

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2 (ALASTAIR.) WILDE, Oscar. The Birthday of the Infanta. With illustrations by Alastair. Paris: The Black Sun Press; Éditions Narcisse, 1928

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Quarto. Original cream card wrappers lettered and ruled in black and burgundy, all edges uncut, title page in burgundy and black, pages numbered in burgundy. With the glassine jacket and housed in the original silver paper-covered chemise and slipcase. Frontispiece and 8 plates, with tissue guards, engraved in black, sepia and red, 2 illustrations in the text. Slipcase and chemise a little worn, with small loss to bottom edge of slipcase, free endpapers a touch finger-marked, frontispiece lightly offset, one tissue guard slightly creased. A bright copy in excellent condition.

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limited edition, no. 87 of 100 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen paper from an edition of 113 copies (8 of which, according to George Robert Minkoff, were probably never printed). This copy differs slightly from Minkoff ’s description in that it does not have an errata slip. Minkoff A13a.

£975

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3 AMBLER, Eric. Cause for Alarm. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939 Octavo. Original pale green cloth, titles and zigzag pattern to spine, zigzag pattern to front cover and publisher’s device to rear cover, all in red, top edge red. With the illustrated dust jacket. Very light fading to extremities, endpapers slightly tanned. An excellent copy in dust jacket with slightly rubbed and nicked extremities.

first us edition of this classic spy thriller set in fascist Italy. Originally published the previous year by Hodder and Stoughton in Great Britain. £475

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4 ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. New York: Boni & Liverlight, 1925 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board in yellow, decoration to spine in blind, pictorial endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth slipcase with matching chemise. Contemporary bookplate to front pastedown, leather book label to front free endpaper verso. Spine gently rolled, rear hinge starting, halftitle partially tanned. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed jacket with some minor chipping and one short closed tear.

first trade edition, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author to Jane W. Prall, the mother of his third wife, Elizabeth Prall, on the half-title, “To Jane W Prall, With Love, Sherwood Anderson”. £4,500

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5 (ARABIAN NIGHTS.) LANE, Edward William, trans. The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes. Illustrated by Many Hundred Engravings on Wood, From Original Designs by William Harvey. London: Charles Knight and Co, 1839–41

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3 volumes, octavo (246 × 160 mm). Contemporary tan full calf, spines elaborately gilt in compartments with arabesque tooling and two morocco title labels (one red one blue), sides panelled in gilt and black with arabesque cornerpieces, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved half-titles and engraved vignette illustrations in the text throughout. Spines and board edges superficially rubbed, a few trivial scratches and minor spots to calf, mild spotting to some end leaves, but on the whole a sound and attractive set in very good condition.

first edition of Lane’s translation, in a handsome contemporary binding appropriately decorated in the arabesque style. Lane’s translation “reigned as the leading English translation of the Nights for decades, and its copious notes are stimulating microessays of enduring value” (ODNB). £600

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6 (ARABIAN NIGHTS.) BURTON, Richard F., trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. With introduction explanatory notes on the manners and customs of Moslem men and a terminal essay upon The History of The Nights. London: privately printed by the Burton Club, [c.1900]

untrimmed. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Mild bumping and wear to corners, light wear along spine edges, a few volumes with light fading to spines and cloth sides, a very good set.

limited edition of 1,000 numbered sets. A complete set of Burton’s translation of the Arabian nights, containing ten volumes of the Arabian Nights plus the seven supplementary volumes. A particularly handsome set. £4,500

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7 ASPDEN, Don. Mike of Company D. With drawings by Paul Brown. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939 Ocatvo. Original green boards, spine and front board lettered and blocked in dark blue. Frontispiece and 31 illustrations. Contents toned, in the jacket that has a few nicks to the extremities, a slightly toned spine, and a chip and short closed tear at head of the front flap. An excellent, bright, copy.

first edition. The story of a dog who worked his way into the affections of a US Army Company during the First World War. Both the author and illustrator were with the AEF. £650 [91339]

17 volumes, octavo (243 × 162 mm). Contemporary Bayntun binding of brown half morocco, rose cloth sides, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others

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8 ATWATER, Richard & Florence. Mr. Popper’s Penguins. New York: Harper and Row, 1979 Octavo. Original tan cloth boards with lettering in blue to spine and front board, with the the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Robert Lawson. Light spotting to front board, light toning to spine, in dust jacket with toning to front panel and rear panel flap fold edge, spine darkened, light chipping to ends of spine and rear panel top edge, a very good copy.

first edition. From the legendary editor, Margaret K. McElderry’s collection, with a pencil note on front flap in her hand “M.K.McE. for his Majesty H.L.R.” McElderry was known as the “grande dame of children’s publishing.” She became the first publisher to have titles win the Caldecott and Newbery Awards in the same year. Mr. Popper’s Penguins is a Newbery Honour title, and the basis for the 2011 film starring Jim Carrey. £1,250

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AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice: a novel. In two volumes. By the author of “Sense and Sensibility,” &c. Third edition. London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817 2 volumes, duodecimo. Rebound to style in half calf with marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments with gilt decorations and titles to red label, sprinkled edges. Bookplates of Sir Archibald Edmonstone (1795-1871), third baronet of Duntreath, Stirlingshire, to front pastedowns. A fine copy with very light foxing throughout.

third edition, the only one of Austen’s novels to be published a third time in her lifetime (though whether it was actually published before or after her death on 18 July 1817 is unknown). Gilson A5.

£5,500

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10 AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. London: Richard Bentley, 1870

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5 volumes, octavo (180 × 119 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, brown morocco labels, elaborate decoration to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Engraved frontispiece

to each novel. Contemporary inscription to binder’s front blank in each volume, the occasional minor blemish, spines a little rubbed, an excellent set.

Richard Bentley first published Jane Austen’s works in his Standard Novels series in 1833 and he continued to reprint her works for the next half century, representing the bridge between the original lifetime editions and the later critical and fully illustrated editions. £2,250

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11 AUSTEN, Jane. (BROCK, C. E.) Emma. With twenty-four coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. London & New York: J. M. Dent & Co. & E. P. Dutton, 1909 Octavo. Original full vellum, spine and front boards lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt to spine and front board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece, decorated title-page and 22 other coloured plates after watercolour drawings by C. E. Brock. A fine, bright copy, with the boards bowed as usual.

A lovely, fresh copy in the deluxe vellum binding, published as part of the “Series of English Idylls” by J. M. Dent & Co. Though sometimes qualified as “chocolate-box”, Brock’s illustrations showed a sharp eye for characterisation and the ironic hu-

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12 BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London: Charles Knight, 1832 Octavo (170 × 104 mm). Original purple cloth, rebacked preserving the original spine. Engraved title page. Original spine ends worn.

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mour of Jane Austen’s writing. His drawings were particularly well-researched; he and his brother Henry collected antique furniture and clothing so that their friends and relations could model for the artists in their Cambridge studio. Gilson E127.

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first edition. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures was Babbage’s most successful lifetime publication, selling 3,000 copies. Prompted by the demands for precision in the construction of his first calculating engine, Babbage had made a conscientious and detailed survey of factories and workshops both in England and Europe. An encyclopaedic record of craft, manufacturing, and industrial processes, as well as an analysis of the domestic organization of factories, the work demonstrates Babbage’s remarkable prescience. He proposed many scientific management techniques for the first time, including subdivided work, cost accounting, and merit pay systems. He advocated the decimalization of currency, foresaw the role of tidal power as an energy source, and predicted the exhaustion of coal reserves. “The book is at once a hymn to the machine, an analysis of the development of machine-based production in the factory, and a discussion of social relations in industry … It was at once translated into French and German, both translations being published in 1833. Throughout the world the book had much effect, becoming the ‘locus classicus’ of the discussion of machinery and manufacturing” (Anthony Human, Charles Babbage, Pioneer of the Computer). “Economy was a turning point in economic writing and firmly established Babbage as a leading authority of the industrial movement” (ODNB).

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first edition in english, presentation copy from the artist to R. B. Kitaj praising his earlier work, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Ron Kitaj. Please make concrete the marvelous [sic] images that are drifting in you as in the first exhibition at Marlborough. Love Francis. London 20/9/83”. Kitaj coined the phrase “School of London” consisting, at the core, of himself, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, and Michael Andrews. It was a fictional notion, a term that then sparked both debate and denial but which now has come to evoke the works of this select group of artists. £7,500

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13 (BACON, Francis.) LEIRIS, Michel. Francis Bacon, Full Face and in Profile. Translated by John Weightman. Oxford: Phaidon, 1983

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Quarto. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth clamshell box. 241 colour illustrations including 12 fold-out triptychs. Original French text printed at end. Book near fine, spine of dust jacket a little toned.

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BALLARD, J. G. The Drought. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965

(BARBIE.) LAWRENCE, Cynthia, & Betty Lou Maybee. Here’s Barbie. Illustrated by Clyde Smith. New York: Random House, 1962

Octavo. Original brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Spine cocked and faded, edges faded. In the jacket that has a faded spine and toned edges. A good copy.

first edition. £575

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15 BALLARD, J. G. Crash. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973 Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Text block very slightly warped, light tanning to edges and endpapers. Otherwise an excellent copy in a bright jacket with lightly rubbed extremities and very slightly bubbling.

first edition of the author’s fifth novel. Pringle A114.

£675

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Octavo. Original laminate pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Clyde Smith. A superb copy in the dust jacket.

first edition, signed by co-author Maybee on the half-title. One of the first three Barbie books, published simultaneously in 1962 along with Barbie’s Fashion Success and Barbie’s New York Summer. A stunning copy in the original dust jacket. £475

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17 BARRIE, J. M. Peter and Wendy. Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911] Octavo. Contemporary half vellum, green morocco label, spine lettered in gilt, marbled boards, boards single ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece, illustrated title page, 11 plates. Edges foxed, boards lightly rubbed with a few spots, minor foxing to the first few pages. An excellent, bright, copy.

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first edition. Peter and Wendy is an expanded adaptation into novel form of the story first made popular in the 1904 stage play. In 1906 Barrie sanctioned the publication of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the text extracted from his earlier story collection The Little White Bird and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Barrie reserved for himself the task of turning his theatrical success into a novel. Peter and Wendy tells the story familiar from the stage version, with Peter as an older child flying off with Wendy and the other Darling children to battle Captain Hook and all the rest. Barrie added a final chapter to the book in which Peter returns for Wendy years later, but she is grown, with a child of her own. The stage play was not published until 1928. £1,250

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18 BAUM, L. Frank. Ozma of Oz. A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too

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Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1907 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in black, decoration to spine in black, red and yellow, titles and decoration to front board in red, yellow, black and blue, decoration to rear board in red, black and yellow, colour pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece, Small contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. Closed tears to spine expertly repaired, extremities lightly chipped, faint surface loss to top edge of rear board, occasional light finger mark. A very good copy.

first edition, first state of both binding and text. The latter has the following points: the “O” in “Ozma” on p. [11], line 5, which is lacking in later copies; the illustration p. [221] printed in colour; the advertisement p. [272] listing only two titles. Baum’s third Land of Oz story and the first to be consciously written as part of an ongoing series reunites Dorothy with the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and Princess Ozma and introduces the characters of Tik-Tok, the Hungry Tiger, the Yellow Hen, and the Nome King. Bienvenue & Schmidt pp. 29–30.

£600

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19 BAUM, L. Frank. The Emerald City of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1910 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, pictorial title panel to front cover with metallic ink, spine lettered in black and stamped in metallic silver, black and orange pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and 15 colour plates embellished with metallic green ink, and numerous black and white drawings. Spine gently rolled, small dent to the edge of the rear board, tips rubbed, ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.

first edition. The sixth of Baum’s fourteen Land of Oz books. Bienvenue & Schmidt pp. 45–7.

£750

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20 BAUM, L. Frank. Rinkitink in Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1916 Octavo. Original pale blue cloth, pictorial title panel to front cover, spine lettered and stamped in black, black and white pictorial endpapers. 12 full-colour plates, black-andwhite illustrations in the text. An excellent copy.

first american edition. The tenth book in the Land of Oz series. Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 65.

£1,000

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21 BAUM, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz. Line Illustrations by W. W. Denslow. 8 Colour Stills from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1939] Quarto. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 7 plates from film stills, line drawings throughout. Lightly rubbed and bumped at the corners and lower edges, some spots to edges. Boards bright and fresh. An excellent copy in the price-clipped and lightly rubbed jacket with a closed tear to the upper panel, light spotting to rear panel.

first uk film tie-in edition, the first film edition having been published in America in the same year. A beautiful copy including eight colour illustrations from film stills. £1,150

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22 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. Le Morte D’Arthur Portfolio. Reproductions of Eleven Designs Omitted from the First Edition of Le Morte D’Arthur Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley and Published in MDCCCXCIII, also Those Made for the Covers of the Issue in Parts and a Facsimile Print of the Merlin Drawing. With a Foreword by Aymer Vallance and a Note on the Omitted Designs by Rainforth Armitage Walker. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, printed at Edinburgh by Turnbull and Spears, 1927

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Quarto. Original black cloth-backed two-tone blue cloth ruled in gilt, titles to spine gilt, text printed on multi-coloured paper. Photographic illustrations throughout. Front board slightly bowed, spine sunned but gilt still bright, front endpapers lightly toned. A very good copy.

Tall quarto. Original limp vellum, brown calf backstrip, titles to spine and elaborate floral design by Beardsley to front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Engraved title, headand tailpieces, initials, and 14 plates, one of which is tippedin. A few minor spots and slightly rubbed areas to binding, light spotting to edges of text block. An excellent copy.

£525

BECKETT, Samuel. Murphy. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt. Spine cocked, small faint white smudge to bottom edge of front board, boards lightly rubbed, endleaves mildly foxed. A very good copy.

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23 BEATON, Cecil. The Face of the World. An International Scrapbook of People and Places. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1957 8

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first edition. A lovely copy of this lavish edition in superb condition. £650

first edition, signed limited issue. One of an unspecified edition thus bound, numbered and signed by Cecil Beaton. The limitation cannot have been high, perhaps 150 copies. Ours is number 51 and we cannot recall having seen a number over 100. Scarce.

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first edition, first issue binding. The personal copy of the Irish writer Kate O’Brien (1897–1974), with her signature and inscriptions on the front free endpaper and the title and facing page, including

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the 11-line note: “I reviewed this novel for ‘The Spectator’ when it appeared in August 1938. Almost the only review of ‘Murphy’ to appear in England that summer. I was told long after that my review gave Samuel Beckett much pleasure. K. O’B. May 1970”. This copy is one of no more than 718 copies from the first batch of bindings produced by Webb Son and Co, which are of smooth green cloth. The two subsequent batches, in November 1941 and April 1942, were of coarser material, most probably due to wartime shortages. Federman & Fletcher 25.

£3,500

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February. Magee subsequently gave this copy to director Peter Brook, with whom he later collaborated on scene and screen, adding another gift inscription to the title page: “To Peter Brook with gratitude, Patrick Magee.” With loosely inserted autograph note signed by Magee: “It is never worthwhile giving anybody anything except your most treasured possessions. If you think this is sentimental—you are crazy—in the wrong way. Love, Pat.” This is the first volume of a two-volume collection of Beckett’s dramatic works published by Suhrkamp. It includes Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Act without Words I and II, and Cascando. French and German versions of the plays are printed in facing text throughout, the English translations are collected at the end.

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BECKETT, Samuel. Dramatische Dichtungen. Französische Orginalfassungen. Deutsche Übertragung von Elmar Tophoven. Englische Übertragung von Samuel Beckett. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1963

BECKETT, Samuel. How It Is. London: John Calder, 1964 Octavo. Original full vellum, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in the original cream cloth slipcase. A fine copy with numerous unopened gatherings. The slipcase is worn with several splits and chips.

signed limited edition, no. 90 of 100 copies numbered and signed by Beckett; all printed on handmade paper and bound in vellum. Federman & Fletcher 384.102.

£1,250

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BELLOW, Saul. Henderson the Rain King. A Novel. New York: The Viking Press, 1959 Octavo. Original white buckram-backed orange cloth, titles to spine in red, blue and black and to front board in black, top edge yellow. With the dust jacket. Front board a little bowed, very light spotting to fore edge of text block. An exceptionally bright copy in the jacket with very light rubbing to head and tail of spine panel and tiny chips at corners of flaps.

Octavo. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine white on black label, cream bound silk bookmark. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in an excellent jacket with very light rubbing along edges and a small closed tear to rear cover.

first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Beckett on the title page: “For Pat with love and gratitude. Sam, Paris Feb. 1964.” At the time, Patrick Magee was playing the part of Hamm in Endgame, which opened at Studio des Champs-Elysées in late

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29 BERTON, Pierre. The Secret World of Og. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961 Octavo. Original green cloth with green and orange lettering to spine, blocked image to front cover, with the dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout by William Winter. Light offsetting on title page, light toning to page edges, dust jacket with wear to front flap fold and front spine edge, creasing and short closed tears along rear panel top edge, a very good copy.

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28 BENTLEY, E. C., & H. Warner Allen. Trent’s Own Case. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1936 Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to front board and spine in blue, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Minor spotting to the fore edge but an exceptionally nice copy in the dust jacket.

first edition, one of a handful of copies known with the signatures on the half-title of many of the luminaries of the golden age of British detective fiction: Sayers, Bentley, Warner Allen, Sadleir, Henry Wade, Frank Swinnerton, Milward Kennedy, Nicho10

las Blake, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Martha Smith, dated 21 May 1936. The book was clearly signed by the guests of the so-called Trent Dinner, which had been organised as a celebration of the publication of this long-awaited sequel to Bentley’s widely praised mystery Trent’s Last Case (1913). Bentley had always maintained there would be no follow-up to his earlier novel but apparently under the persistent urging of many of the guests at the dinner, chief among them Sayers, he agreed to co-author Trent’s Own Case with Warner Allen. Only two other multiply signed copies are known. £4,750

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30 BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse. London: John Murray, 1937

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Octavo. Original black boards, titles and illustration to front board gilt, all edges gilt. With the illustrated dust jacket. With illustrations by among others Osbert Lancaster and de Cronin Hastings. Dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. Corners of front boards slightly worn, endpapers lightly foxed. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with tanned spine and some minor chipping to corners and spine ends.

first edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “There’s a long, long trailer winding, Out of broken hearts & brains, While the Ealing boys are minding, Our John V. Baines”, and dated 1943. Betjeman’s second book of poetry, containing his classic poem “Slough”. Peterson A5a.

£975

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31 BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books. The Tenth Edition, with the Last Corrections of the Author; Additions by Richard Burn, and Continued to the Present Time by John Williams. London: for A. Strahan; T. Cadell, and D. Prince, 1787 4 volumes, octavo (207 × 129 mm). Contemporary tan calf, spine compartments in blind, red morocco labels. Boards a little rubbed, scuffed, and bumped, spotting to endpapers and very occasionally to contents, which are overall quite fresh. An excellent set.

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the last edition with the author’s own corrections; a handsome set in contemporary bindings. “In some 2,000 pages the common law’s tortuous complexities were outlined in a manner at once authoritative, clear, elegant, and even engaging … the Commentaries depicted England’s constitution and laws as reflecting the natural order of the cosmos, yet also rooted in the nation’s distinctive historical development, like ‘an old Gothic castle, erected in the days of chivalry, but fitted up for a modern inhabitant’ (Blackstone, Commentaries, 3.268) … Blackstone’s Commentaries would become the most celebrated, widely circulated, and influential law book ever published in the English language” (ODNB). £1,250

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32 BLIGH, William. The Log of H.M.S. Bounty 1787–1789. Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 1975 Small folio (324 × 208 mm). Contemporary blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt in compartments, rules to boards, cornerpieces, and ship and facsimile signature

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centrepieces gilt, burgundy silk doublures and free endpapers, elaborate floral roll to turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt. Housed in a blue cloth folding case. 5 plates of facsimile ship plans, folding facsimile map, facsimile manuscript pages. A fine copy.

facsimile edition, one of 50 copies signed on the limitation leaf by Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, no. 199 of 500 copies. Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf, a beautiful production. £1,750

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33 BOND, Michael. More about Paddington. With Drawings by Peggy Fortnum. London: Collins, 1959 Octavo. Original teal cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Black and white line drawings throughout. Spine very gently cocked, extremities slightly rubbed, edges and endpapers lightly foxed. An excellent copy in a lightly foxed jacket with faded spine, slightly nicked spine ends, and a couple of small closed tears to covers.

first edition of the second Paddington book. £1,250

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BOND, Michael. Paddington at Large. With Drawings by Peggy Fortnum. London: Collins, 1962

(BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.) The Book of Common Prayer. And the administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the united Church of England and Ireland: together with the psalter of psalms of David. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1761

BRAMAH, Ernest. The Wallet of Kai Lung. London: Grant Richards, 1900

Octavo (149 × 237 mm). Contemporary crimson morocco, spine and boards decorated with gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Very minor foxing to the contents. An excellent copy.

first edition, first issue, rare with dust jacket. The first of Bramah’s books to feature his wandering Chinese storyteller Kai Lung.

Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. A little spotting to endpapers and edges of text block, sometimes affecting the margins of the contents. An excellent copy in the price-clipped and partially faded jacket with a few spots.

first edition, signed by the author on the half-title, “Michael Bond, August 1965”. £525

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35 BOND, Michael. Paddington Goes to Town. Illustrations by Peggy Fortnum. London: Collins, 1968 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. Lower edges of boards just a little rubbed. An excellent copy in the rubbed and partially toned jacket with a few spots and adhesive residue to the bottom edge of the upper panel.

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37 BOYD, William. A Good Man in Africa. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981 Octavo. Original dark yellow boards, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine ends a little bumped, edges tanned. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with slightly creased extremities and lightly rubbed rear panel.

first edition of Boyd’s first novel. £575

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Octavo. Original green pictorial cloth printed in black, white, and yellow, titles to spine and front cover in black. With the dust jacket, black cloth chemise and slipcase. Spine ends and bottom edges of boards lightly rubbed. An excellent copy in professionally restored dust jacket with original spine, covers, and flaps laid down on matching card stock. A few small white marks to slipcase.

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39 BRAUTIGAN, Richard. The Tokyo-Montana Express. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1980 Together 2 copies, octavo. Blue cloth backing cream boards, red endpapers, spine lettered in gilt, front board blocked in gilt. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the slightly rubbed jacket that has a few nicks to the extremities. Offered with the uncorrected galley proof and a loosely inserted sketch.

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per, dated 1980, and inscribed by the author on the title page: “Richard Brautigan. This copy is for Pink, ‘a good guy’. Pine Creek, Montana, October 6, 1980.” The proof copy is identically inscribed, except that it is dated “September 10, 1980” and contains a loosely inserted original sketch, drawn on a paper towel, of the two men. Brautigan’s work is a semi-autobiographical collection of 131 short stories, each representing a stop on an imaginary railway line connecting Japan and Montana. Brautigan married his second wife, the Japanese-born Akiko Yoshimura, in 1977, after meeting her in July 1976 while living in Tokyo, Japan. The couple settled in Pine Creek, Park County, Montana for two years; they divorced in 1980. £875

BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily, & Anne. The Novels. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1907 12 volumes, octavo (210 × 140 mm). Contemporary blue half morocco, blue cloth sides, raised bands, title and decoration to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt top edge. Illustrated throughout from photographs. Some occasional light foxing, some volumes with rubbing to corners and ends of spines, a few bindings with light soiling to cloth covers, a very attractive set.

The Thornton edition. A very handsomely bound set of the Brontë sisters’ novels illustrated with photographs of places associated with them.

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41 BUCCI, Anselmo. Croquis du front italien—50 pointes sèches documentaires. Avec préface de l’artiste en italien et en français en quatre albums. Paris: D’Alignan, 1917 4 folio fascicles, original printed light card wrappers, contents loose as issued. First fascicle containing two bifolia with letterpress preface in French and Italian, and two— different—small etched illustrations to each, together with a total of 54 etchings, signed, titled, and numbered by the artist in pencil. Wrappers browned and separating at the spines but complete, first and last sheets in each fascicle showing marginal browning due to contact with wraps, very occasional light finger-soiling, but overall very good.

first edition of 125 copies only, this one of 100 on Hollande after 25 on japon. Extremely uncom-

mon: OCLC lists only the 1997 reprint; just one copy at auction over the last 40 years. A superb series of etched illustrations of life on the Italian Front as a member of a volunteer cyclist battalion. The Italian artist Bucci (1887–1955) attended the Accademia di belle arti di Brera in Milan, before moving to Paris in 1906. He debuted at the Salon des arts décoratifs in 1907 with a number of symbolist works with marked Fauvist overtones, and took part in the Salon des indépendants from 1910 on. In 1915 he enlisted in the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion alongside Bocchioni, Marinetti, Piatti, and Sironi, a very Futurist gesture, and his first solo show—Famiglia Artistica, Milan, 1915—took place while he was on leave. £5,000

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42 BURNS, Robert. The Complete Writings. With an essay on Burns’s life, genius, and achievement by W. E. Henley and with an introduction by John Buchan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926 10 volumes. Octavo (225 × 155 mm). Bound in publisher’s brown morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations to spine, ornate gilt work to covers, green silk endpapers and marbled top edges. With engraved plates throughout. A fine set.

large paper edition, limited to 750 copies for the United States and 250 copies for Great Britain: this is copy number 2 of the American issue. £3,750

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43 CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York: Random House, 1958 Octavo (205 × 137 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in pink morocco, black morocco title label, title to spine silver, black leather onlay silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly with real diamond jewellery, black plain endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins silver, all edges silver. Housed in a custom made black velvet, drawstring bag. A fine copy.

first edition of Capote’s classic novella, the basis for the much-loved film. £2,750

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chips, spines faintly sunned, boards of Vol. III a little discoloured. A finely bound set in excellent condition.

first edition, one of 1,000 copies printed. “Carlyle wrote his French Revolution as a secular ‘tract for the times’ and as a warning for his compatriots of the frightful consequences of materialism, utilitarianism and democracy. Scottish puritanism and German romanticism were his lodestars; ‘History is the essence of innumerable biographies’ was his historical creed. The result is not a work of scholarship but a prose epic, teeming with colourful scenes of dramatic events and imaginative portraits of the leading revolutionaries. The book at once captured the English-speaking world, and has, outside France, moulded popular conception of the French revolution down to the present day” (PMM).

ed as called for. 144 photographic illustrations by CartierBresson. Small loss to head of spine, extremities rubbed, a few tiny brown spots to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in a slightly chipped and creased jacket.

first us edition, inscribed by the photographer on the half-title to his second and last wife, Martine Franck, co-founder of the Henri CartierBresson Foundation, “For Martine, salutations,

Dyer p. 85; Printing and the Mind of Man 304; Tarr A8.1.

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CARLYLE, Thomas. The French Revolution: a History. In three volumes. London: James Fraser, 1837

£2,100

3 volumes, duodecimo (186 × 120 mm). Late 19th-century blue straight-grain morocco, brown morocco labels, raised bands, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, boards panelled in gilt and blind, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, silk page markers. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. With all half-titles, without the advert leaf at the end of Vol. II. The occasional light blemish to contents, extremities lightly rubbed and with a few tiny

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Europeans. Photographs. New York & Paris: Simon and Schuster; Éditions Verve, 1955

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Henri Cartier Bresson”. The Europeans is one of the legendary photographer’s two or three key books. £6,750

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46 CHANDLER, Raymond. Farewell My Lovely. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940 Octavo. Original salmon cloth, titles to board and spine in blue, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Spine gently

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first uk edition. presentation copy inscribed by chaplin on the half-title: “To Derek + Kit, Hoping to see you in July—Yours ever, Charles Chaplin”. Originally published the same year by Simon & Schuster in New York. £1,500

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first edition of Chandler’s second novel. £4,250

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47 CHAPLIN, Charles. My Autobiography. London: The Bodley Head, 1964 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with 24 black and white photographic plates. Corners of boards very lightly bumped, faint foxing to endpapers and prelims. An excellent copy in a jacket with slightly rubbed head and tail of spine panel and one internally tape-repaired closed tear.

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first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Edward Heron Maxwell, from his friend the Author”. An ichthyology classic illustrated with chromolithographs which capture, thanks to the use of silver and gold, the glistening beauty of fish scales. £450

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51 (CHURCHILL, John, 1st duke of Marlborough.) MURRAY, Sir George, ed. The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, from 1702 to 1712. London: John Murray, 1845

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48 CHESS, Victoria, & Edward Gorey. Fletcher and Zenobia. Illustrated by Victoria Chess. New York: Meredith Press, 1967 Duodecimo. Original colour pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by Victoria Chess. Very light rubbing to top and bottom edges of boards, faint partial tanning to front free endpaper, otherwise a truly superb copy in the jacket with tiny light mark to front panel and the faintest rubbing to head and tail of spine panel.

first edition, inscribed by Victoria Chess on the front free endpaper and with her drawing of a very fat cat in blue felt pen: “For Bob & Helena, from Victoria Chess, 20.2.68”. £575

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49 CHILDISH, Billy. I am Here to Build Jurrusolom. London: The Aquarium, 2004 Tall quarto (357 × 210 mm). Original buff linen, front board with hand print in dark blue oil paint on a ground of white and dark red-brown oil paint, cream endpapers, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Colour reproductions of 5 of Childish’s paintings, one black and white photograph, and one black and white line drawing. A fine copy.

signed limited edition, no. 39 of 100 copies signed and numbered by Billy Childish; with an original pencil self-portrait of the artist on the front free endpaper. £850

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CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, H. The Sporting Fish of Great Britain. With note on Ichthyology. Illustrated by Sixteen Lithographs of Fish in Gold, Silver, and Colours. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886

5 volumes, octavo (216 × 134 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, darker brown morocco labels, volume numbers direct to the spine, bands enclosed between paired rules gilt and blind, double rule in blind to the spine

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and corner edges, edges sprinkled red, olive green endpapers. Engraved frontispiece from the Kneller portrait to volume I, half-titles bound in to all. Spines just a little scuffed, slightly rubbed, light browning occasional foxing, but overall a very good set in a pleasingly solid contemporary binding. Armorial bookplates of Robert Barton of County Wicklow (motto “fide et fortitudine”).

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first edition. The editor “Murray was after Wellington the most respected soldier of his time in Britain, whose opinion carried immense weight both at home and abroad and not only on military matters” (ODNB). Bruce 1786 (“a major source for the Spanish War of Succession”).

£1,250

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52 CHURCHILL, Winston S. The World Crisis 1911–1914. Sydney & Melbourne: Australasian Publishing Company Ltd., 1923 Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine and in blind to front board. In the typographical dust jacket. 6 maps, 5 of them folding, 2 plates of facsimile documents. Endpapers differentially browned, foxing to the fore-edge, light toning, and a handful of leaves more heavily browned, but overall a very good copy in slightly foxed jacket, a little rubbed on the upper and lower panels, a short triangular tear to the spine across Churchill’s name, the resulting flap wrinkled, but no loss. An exceptionally well-preserved copy.

australian issue. Exceedingly uncommon, particularly so in the jacket of which Cohen notes he had “examined only a photocopy”. Separate Australian issues were produced for just this and the subsequent volume.

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53 CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life. A Roving Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930 Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, signature block to front board, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, gilt edges. With photographs and black and white illustrations. A fine copy.

first edition. £1,750

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54 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Arms and the Covenant. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1938 Octavo (220 × 157 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, titles to spine with lion centre tools in compartments, raised bands, roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece portrait. Slight browning to half-title an excellent copy in a fine binding.

first edition. Cohen A107; Woods 44a.

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55 CHURCHILL, Winston S. “Help him finish the job—Vote National”—election poster from the Khaki Election of 1945. London: S. H. Benson Ltd., 1945 Lithographically printed poster on thin paper stock (760 × 495 mm). Black and white head and shoulders bust portrait of Churchill, text in red in a bold sans serif. Trimmed slightly off-centre, thereby losing the left-hand side of the grey panel which encloses the design, light browning, creased from being folded into quarters, the horizontal crease harder, some splits on the folds, a couple of minor chips from the edges, but overall very good.

Striking poster from the Conservatives’ disastrous 1945 General Election campaign. “Churchill himself should have been the party’s passport to victory. But he was not. He was at the centre of the publicity campaign. The main Tory poster was a picture of the old warhorse with the slogan ‘Help him finish the job—Vote National’. The word ‘Conservative’ did not even appear. If it had been a presidential election, perhaps Churchill could have won” (Harris, The Conservatives, p.370). His assertion during the opening broadcast of the campaign that Attlee’s

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56 CLARKE, James Stanier, & John M‘Arthur. The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. From His Lordship’s Manuscripts. London: Printed by T. Bensley, For T. Cadell and W. Davies, and W. Miller, 1809 2 volumes, quarto (338 × 272 mm). Contemporary full green straight-grain morocco, broad flat bands, title gilt direct to the second compartment, authors to the fourth, frigate and pinnace device to first, third, and fifth compartments within cable panel with fouled anchor corner-pieces, broad gilt rolled panel incorporating the British motifs of rose, thistle and harp enclosing a wide acanthus roll in blind to

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the boards, all edges gilt, zig-zag roll to turn-ins, grey-green endpapers. Frontispiece and 3 other plates to volume I, portrait frontispiece and 6 other plates to volume II, 4 of them accompanied by plans, headpieces, vignettes and facsimiles to the text, double page pedigree to volume I. Book-ticket of Raoul, Comte Chandon de Briailles, eminent historian and promoter of champagne, verso of the front free endpapers. Spines a little sunned, slightly rubbed on the boards, corners bumped, light toning and some off-setting from the plates, but overall a very good copy.

first edition. “One of the main foundation stones of the Nelson legend” (Wilson, “Nelson Apotheosised” in Cannadine (ed.), Admiral Lord Nelson), “the ‘official’ biography” (NMM). M‘Arthur, a former naval purser, had served with Nelson in the Mediterranean and had already begun collecting material for a biography when he saw “an advertisement in the papers announcing that the Nelson family had selected a gentleman ‘of high respectability and rank’ to write the life, and asking all who had letters … in

their possession not to make their material available to anyone else.” McArthur came forward claiming, groundlessly, that Nelson himself had asked him to write his life, and that he had already incurred considerable expense in preparing the book, including the commissioning of a set of paintings to be engraved as illustrations. An unseemly squabble ensued, the outcome of which was fairly inevitable in that Earl Nelson was under pressure from the Prince Regent to commission his librarian and chaplain, James Stanier Clarke, to write the book. It was agreed that the authors would pool their efforts, but not before they had further fallen out over whose name should come first on the title page. That we do not refer to McArthur & Clarke is a lasting memorial to the usefulness of a powerful patron. Cowie 137; NMM, II, 921.

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57 CONDER, Josiah, & Kazuma Ogawa. Landscape Gardening in Japan [and:] —— Supplement … Tokyo: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1893 2 volumes, folio. Original green cloth, bevelled boards, titles and pictorial decoration gilt to front board gilt, landscape in blind to rear board, gilt-patterned endpapers. 37 plates and numerous illustrations to the text in volume I, volume II with 40 tissue-guarded collotype plates from photographs. Neat contemporary book-tickets of Else Lindquist to the front pastedowns. A little rubbed at the extremities, corners bumped, title pages lightly browned, some marginal browning, but overall very good and remains a handsome set.

first edition. In 1876 Conder was contracted to the Japanese Imperial Government as professor of architecture at the Imperial College of Engineering, which “involved him in teaching the first generation of architects in the Western tradition and in act-

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ing as architect to the new energetic and innovative Japanese government … [however] Conder arrived in Japan receptive to it and to its culture. He taught his students to admire and be proud of the great Japanese temples and castles” (ODNB). The present work is the first study to introduce the Japanese garden aesthetic to Western readers. The superb collotypes in the supplement were produced by the great Japanese photographic pioneer Ogawa from his own photographs. £1,850

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58 COOK, James, & James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Being a copious, comprehensive, and satisfactory Abridgement of the Voyage … London: John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy, 1784

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plates, including a folding plate of the death of Cook, 2 folding maps A little rubbed, light browning, occasional spotting, slight off-setting from but not to the plates, tear with no loss to the large general map, neatly repaired verso, overall a very neat and attractive set.

first octavo edition, issued in the same year as the unabridged official account in quarto. “This abridged account is preferred by some readers because, the nautical and technical parts having been deleted, the work reads more like an adventure” (Hill).

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Rahman on the rear free endpaper, “To Dan, Remain beautiful and Black, Rahaman Ali, 1974”. Originally printed in Great Britain in the same year under the title Man of Destiny. [91664]

£1,500

Beddie 1560; Forbes, Hawaiian National Biography, 95; Hill 362; Parks Collection 75.

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59 COTTRELL, John. Muhammad Ali, Who Once Was Cassius Clay. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, red and blue decoration to spine and front board. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with 12 black and white photographic plates. Head of spine lightly faded, tiny stain to one plate. An excellent copy in a toned, lightly rubbed and priceclipped jacket with a slightly chipped head of spine panel.

first us edition, inscribed by muhammad ali on the front free endpaper, “To Dan Johnson, Muhammad Ali, peace, July 14–74”, and by his brother

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60 (CRANE, Walter.) SPENSER, Edmund. Spenser’s Faerie Queene. A Poem in Six Books with the Fragment Mutabilitie. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Pictured by Walter Crane. London: George Allen, 1894–7

6 volumes, quarto (275 × 215 mm). Finely bound by Stikeman in near-contemporary black full morocco, with the original parts wrappers bound at the rear of each volume and all the individual title and final imprint leaves for each part (and the Directions to the Binder slip) bound at the end of the volume 6, spines in compartments with raised bands and gilt titles direct, top edges gilt, floral gilt roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Crane illustrated half-title, frontispiece and title page, facsimile plates from the original editions, and Crane illustrated plates and vignettes throughout the set. Nearcontemporary armorial bookplate to volume one. Surface rubbing to some joints, but all sound, internally clean and fresh but for some offsetting to endpapers from the turn ins, a truly lovely set in excellent condition.

first crane edition, finely bound by Stikeman from the original parts, one of only 1,000 copies printed, on handmade paper. Crane wrote his very own Spenserian stanza on his triumphant attempt to illustrate Spenser’s great poem, which appears following the general title page in volume I: “Great Spenser’s noble rhyme have I essayed / To picture, striving still, as faithful squyre, / Each faerie knight to serve, in armes arrayde / ‘Gainst salvage force, and deathful dragons dire, / Or Blatant Beast with poisonous tongues of fire; / To limn the Lion mylde with Una fayre, / The False Duessa, and the Warlike Mayd. / “Be Bolde,” I read, and did this emprise dare, / And now the door is oped, so let the masque forth fare.” £875

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61 DAHL, Roald. James and the Giant Peach. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961 Tall quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, pictorial design to front board in blind, green endpapers. With the dust jacket. Printed on laid paper. Illustrated throughout by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown. Spine rolled and just a little faded, minor crease to the corner of a couple of early leaves, some spotting to rear pastedown. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a few nicks and short splits.

first edition, printed on laid paper. £1,250

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62 DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Joseph Schidelman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt and to front board in blind, ochre endpapers, top edge purple. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Joseph Schidelman. Small stain on introduction page, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with just a hint of wear at extremities.

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first edition (with the six-line colophon on the final page which was cut to five in subsequent printings). An attractive copy of this beloved children’s tale. £1,500

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63 DAHL, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978 Quarto. Original yellow paper boards, green cloth spine, titles to spine in red, white endpapers, with dust jacket. Illustrated throughout the text in colour by Quentin Blake. A very good copy in dust jacket with spine lightly faded, creasing to lower front panel edge.

first us edition, signed by both author and illustrator: by Roald Dahl on the front free endpaper and by Quentin Blake on the title page. £1,250

first edition, signed by the illustrator Quentin Blake on the title page.

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64 DAHL, Roald. The Twits. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. An excellent copy.

DAHL, Roald. George’s Marvellous Medicine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981 Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. An excellent copy.

first edition, signed by the illustrator Quentin Blake on the title page. £800

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66 DAHL, Roald. The BFG. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 Octavo. Original grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake Spine bumped, dust jacket lightly nicked to corners.

first edition, inscribed by the author “To Jason, Abby & Alexis, Love Roald Dahl 2/5/83”. £3,250

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67 DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in dust jacket with mild creasing to upper edge of rear panel.

first edition. A very attractive copy of the everpopular Dahl story, the basis for both the film and stage musical. £450

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68 DARWIN, Charles. A contemporary assembled collection of his major works in early editions. London: John Murray/Smith, Elder and Co., 1876–83 13 works bound in 14 volumes, octavo (190 × 125 mm). Uniformly bound in contemporary full tree calf, brown and green spine labels, raised bands, gilt to compartments, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Extremities lightly rubbed, a few volumes with light scratches to covers, generally excellent condition.

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[3rd thousand]. 1882 [Freeman 1328]; 13) The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms ... Eighth thousand. 1883 [Freeman 1366].

The collection comprises the major published works of Darwin (in order of original publication, all published by John Murray in London except where noted): 1) A Naturalist’s Voyage, 1882 [Freeman 38]; 2) Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands. Smith, Elder and Co., 1876 [Freeman 276]; 3) The Origin of Species ... Sixth edition, with additions and corrections to 1872 (twenty-fourth thousand). 1882 [Freeman 408]; 4) The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects ... Second edition, revised (third thousand). 1882 [Freeman 803]; 5) The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants ... third thousand. 1882 [Freeman 839]; 6) The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication ... Second edition, revised, fifth thousand. 1882 (2 vols.) [Freeman 883]; 7) The Descent of Man ... Second edition (seventeenth thousand), revised and augmented. 1883 [Freeman 957]; 8) The Expression of the Emotions of Man and Animals [10th thousand]. 1873 [Freeman 1144]; 9) Insectivorous Plants ... fourth thousand. 1876 [Freeman 1221]; 10) The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom. Second edition. 1878 [Freeman 1251]; 11) The Different Forms of Flowers … Second edition. 1880 [Freeman 1280]; 12) The Power of Movement in Plants

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DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1888 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards ruled in blind, brown endpapers. Folding diagram. Spine darkened; an excellent, bright copy.

Sixth edition (35th thousand). The text is reprinted from stereotypes of the sixth edition, 18th thousand, dated 1876, the definitive text with Darwin’s last corrections; it continued to be reissued in this form through to 1929. “The most influential scientific work of the 19th century” (Horblit) and “the most important biological book ever written” (Freeman). Freeman 423.

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DE KOONING, Willem, & Frank O’Hara. Poems. Introduction by Riva Castleman. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1988

Octavo. Original colour illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. With colour frontispiece and half-title, 6 colour plates, 20 black and white plates, and numerous line illustrations in text, by Reginald L. Knowles and Horace J. Knowles. Edges of boards lightly rubbed, small nick to tail of spine, endpapers a little browned. Otherwise an excellent copy in a toned jacket with lightly chipped and nicked extremities.

Large folio. Original black Nigerian goatskin boards, titles to front cover gilt. Housed in the original black silk clamshell box, titles to spine in gilt on black Nigerian goatskin ground. 17 lithographs by De Kooning transferred from their original mylar sheets to lithographic plates and printed on handmade ochre tinted Kitakata paper. Each print was torn by hand and pressed into the book’s pages by the intaglio method. All in excellent condition.

first edition of Dasent’s translations of Norse fairy tales illustrated by Reginald and Horace Knowles. This was the brothers’ second book after their work on Holme Lee’s Legends from Fairyland (1907); while Reginald did the coloured and more detailed pieces, the brothers shared credit for these early collaborations.

first complete and signed limited edition, one of 550 numbered copies signed by De Kooning. The drawings were originally created in 1967 as charcoal drawings on mylar sheets, to illustrate O’Hara’s Ode to Willem de Kooning. Only three of De Kooning’s drawings were used in that original MoMA publication. This publication reproduces the complete

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72 [DEFOE, Daniel.] Mémoires et avantures de madlle. Moll Flanders, écrits par elle-même. Traduit de l’anglois. London: Chez Nourse, 1761 Small octavo (155 × 100 mm). Contemporary cat’s paw calf, black morocco label, spine attractively gilt with floral tools and leaf sprays in compartments, single rule to boards in black, all edges red, marbled endpapers, silk page marker. Typographical border to title, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initial. Tiny reference number or price inked to front free endpaper verso, joints a little worn, one tiny wormhole to front joint, faint craquelure to boards, tiny chips to one edge of title label. An exceptionally bright and fresh copy.

first edition in french of Moll Flanders; Defoe’s classic novel was originally published in London in 1722. The first edition is notoriously scarce but the French edition comes a close second, appearing only twice at auction in the past 50 years and with six copies in institutions worldwide as recorded by ESTC. £3,750

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73 DEFOE, Daniel. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. London: Shakespeare Press, 1831 2 volumes, octavo (210 × 135 mm). Brown crushed morocco gilt by Rivière, gilt titles to spine, raised bands, elaborate gilt design to compartments, double gilt rule to boards, gilt to turn ins, green endpapers, top edges gilt. George Cruikshank illustrations throughout. Bookplate to front pastedowns, a very attractive set.

first cruikshank-illustrated edition, with a clipped signature of the artist laid in. £600

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block to front cover in black and blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. Complete with the original publisher’s crossword competition slip. A fine copy in a price-clipped, tanned jacket with slightly rubbed extremities.

first edition, inscribed by the author on the title page: “For Clive Hirschhorn with many thanks and my warmest good wishes. Len Deighton, July 1987”, and with an autograph note from Deighton to Hirschhorn dated 19 July 1987 loosely inserted: “Dear Clive, to the best of my recollection the very first copies of ‘Horse’ had the crossword. Again best wishes—Len”. £1,250

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74 DEIGHTON, Len. Horse under Water. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt, pictorial

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DERRIDA, Jacques. Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money. Translated by Peggy Kamuf. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Tiny bump to top edge of rear board. An excellent copy in the jacket.

first edition in english, inscribed by the author on the half-title: “Pour Brooks, que j’espère connaître un jour—de loin mais avec toute ma sym-

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pathie, J. Derrida, Paris le 10 mai 1994”. Laid in is Derrida’s typed letter signed in which he agrees to sign a copy of one of his books. Given Time, Derrida’s essay on the notion of the gift, was originally published in France as Donner le temps in 1991. £1,500

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76 DIAGHILEV, Serge. Souvenir—Serge de Diaghileff ’s Ballet Russe [sic]. New York: Metropolitan Ballet Company Inc. 1916 Quarto. Original cord-tied embossed grey card wraps. 36 pages including many full-colour illustrations of costumes and scenery by Leon Bakst and others. Wraps just a little rubbed, and with some minor chipping at the extremities, neat contemporary ownership inscription to the title page, but overall very good.

Original 1916 programme, a sumptuous production issued by the Metropolitan Ballet Company for the first and only American tour of the Ballets Russes, superbly illustrated and containing brief introductions to the repertoire. This copy has Diaghilev’s carte-de-visite loosely inserted. £1,650

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and Thomas Hatton; [with:] Nonesuch Dickensiana. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937–9

DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844

Together 25 volumes, large octavo. Original buckram in various colours, black morocco label to each spine, top edges rough gilt, others untrimmed; Nonesuch Dickensiana in original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Illustrated after the original plates. The 24th volume is a book-form case containing an original engraved steel plate (see below). Spines of 15 volumes slightly sunned, spines of 3 volumes a bit toned, occasional light foxing to endpapers, a few minor nicks to fore edges of text blocks. Minor mottling to boards of The Old Curiosity Shop and Reprinted Pieces; front inner hinge of Martin Chuzzlewit partially cracked; a few small light stains to plate mount; light foxing and browning to front endpaper of Nonesuch Dickensiana. Otherwise an excellent set with bright and fresh labels.

Octavo (220 × 135 mm). Recent brown half calf, marbled sides, red morocco spine label, raised bands, gilt rule to compartments, marbled edges. Engraved frontispiece, vignette title, and 38 plates. Moderate toning to plates, occasional spotting, a very good copy.

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78 DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853 Octavo (220 × 135 mm). Recent brown half calf, marbled sides, red morocco spine label, raised bands, gilt rule to compartments, marbled edges. Engraved frontispiece, vignette title, and 38 plates. Plates with heavy toning, occasional spotting, lacking the half-titles, an excellent copy.

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79 DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857 Octavo (223 × 120 mm). Recent brown half calf, marbled sides, red morocco spine label, raised bands, cream endpapers, marbled edges. Engraved frontispiece, vignette title, and 38 plates. Occasional spotting to pages, a very good copy.

and 38 engraved plates by Marcus Stone. Spines gently sunned, very light offsetting from turn-ins, occasional minor chips and nicks to fore edges of text block, minor professional repairs to spine ends of Volume I. Otherwise an excellent set.

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first edition in book form. A bright and attractively bound set of the author’s last completed novel. Our Mutual Friend was originally published in 20 monthly numbers between May 1864 and December 1865, illustrated by Marcus Stone, working “in the sentimental-realist style of 1860s book illustration, quite different from the caricatural style of Cruikshank and Browne” (ODNB).

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2 volumes, octavo (210 ×136 mm). Bound for Sawyer in dark red-brown full crushed morocco, raised bands to spine, titles and decorations to compartments gilt, double frames to boards gilt, floral rolls to turn-ins gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Frontispieces

DICKENS, Charles. The Nonesuch Dickens. Published under the editorial direction of Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter

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first nonesuch edition, one of only 877 sets. This peculiar limitation is due to the inclusion with each set of one of the original plates used in Chapman and Hall’s first printings of each title. Since they held in their archive 877 such plates—the majority steel but with a number of wood blocks—the limitation was enforced. This set includes the steel plate of “Mr. Dick Fulfils my Aunt’s Predictions”, an illustration from David Copperfield by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne). Also included is the pendant volume Nonesuch Dickensiana, with an essay by Waugh concerning Dickens and his illustrators, a bibliographical list compiled by Hatton of the illustrations to the works by Dickens, a retrospect of previous editions of Dickens’s works, and a prospectus for the Nonesuch Dickens itself. £7,500

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82 (DISNEY, Walt.) PALMER, Robin. Mickey Never Fails. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1939 Octavo. Original tan pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, with the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by the Walt Disney Studio. An excellent copy in jacket with light wear to extremities.

first edition. D. C. Heath was under contract in the late 1930s to the late 1940s to produce an educational series of books, similar to the Dick and Jane primers, featuring popular Disney characters. In all they produced 12 stories. Scarce in original dust jackets. £750

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83 DIXON, Franklin W. The Tower Treasure. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1927 Octavo. Original red cloth with Hardy Boys’ shield to front board in black, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Walter S. Rogers illustrations. An excellent copy in dust jacket with small chip to front top edge, lower

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first edition of the first Hardy Boys title. An exceptionally hard to find title in collectable condition, long considered one of the holy grails of American children’s book collecting. Complete with all first issue points, this is a stunning copy.

DONLEAVY, J. P. The Ginger Man. Paris: The Olympia Press, [1955]

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84 [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and triple rule to spine gilt, pictorial medallion centrepieces and triple frames to boards gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. With 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. Small bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Small repair to front joint, very light rubbing to board edges, slight wear to corners, some light staining to boards, and slight foxing to verso of front free endpaper. Otherwise a very good, clean copy in an unusually bright binding.

first edition, with “wade” for “wabe” on page 21. £2,750

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86 (DOVES PRESS.) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Eine Tragoedie. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1906–10 2 volumes. Original limp vellum by the Doves Bindery, titles to spines gilt. Printed in black and red in Doves type. Light bowing and discolouration to the boards as usual, edges of text blocks a little spotted. An excellent set.

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limited edition of 372 copies. With a loosely inserted leaf signed by the cast of a 1930 production of Faust at the Cosmopolitan Theatre. Franklin, pp. 273–4; Ransom, pp. 251–2.

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87 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Sign of Four. London: Spencer Blackett, 1890 Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single gilt fillet rule to boards, twin rule to dentelles, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. With frontispiece by Charles Kerr. An excellent copy with ownership signature to front of frontispiece.

first edition. This copy has both internal issue points: “138” on the contents page is incomplete and appears as “13” and “wishes” is misspelt on p. 56 as “w shed”. This copy is bound with the publishers’ advertisement catalogue. £5,000

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88 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1894 Large octavo. Original dark blue cloth, pictorial decoration and titles to front board and spine in gilt and black, bevelled boards, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. Contemporary school prize plate to front pastedown, small booksellers’ tickets to pastedowns. Light foxing throughout, free endpapers lightly toned, spine rolled, extremities a little rubbed, minor scratches and marks to boards, rear inner hinge starting. An excellent copy, the cloth bright and fresh.

first edition. The second of the two primary collections of Holmes stories, containing material published 1892–3 in The Strand magazine, including the climactic “The Adventure of the Final Problem”, in which Holmes meets his doom at the Reichenbach Falls. £2,250

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Octavo. Original red cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board in gilt and black. Housed in a hessian slipcase. Black and white frontispiece and 15 plates. Very lightly rubbed at extremities, spine a little faded, top edge dusty, a few spots to fore edge of text block, pastedowns faintly foxed but overall contents fresh. An excellent copy with cloth clean and bright.

first edition. £4,500

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90 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. Containing also Two Original Plays for Home Performance […] With Numerous Original Engravings by D. H. Friston, R. André, and Matt Stretch. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1987 Octavo. Pictorial wrappers. With the dust jacket. In the red slipcase, lettered in gilt. A fine, bright, copy.

limited edition facsimile of the first Sherlock Holmes story, no. 489 of 500 copies thus, presented in a smart red slipcase. £750

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(DULAC, Edmund.) OMAR KHAYYÁM; Edward Fitzgerald, trans. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Rendered into English Verse. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]

ELIOT, George. Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871–72

Quarto. Original white boards, gilt titles and illustrations to spine and front cover, pictorial endpapers, with the publishers’ original pictorial box. With 20 tipped-in colour plates, tissue guards. A bright and fresh copy in original box with light soiling, title written in colour pencil to one edge, tape and some splitting to corners, original paper title label still present.

first dulac edition. £500

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92 (DULAC, Edmund.) Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1914] Quarto (280 × 230 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, titles to spine, raised bands, pictorial block to front board, inner dentelles, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. With 23 mounted colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Occasional spotting to pages, an excellent copy.

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4 volumes, octavo. Contemporary light brown half calf, raised bands to spines, floral decorations to compartments gilt, red and green morocco labels, triple ruling to boards in blind, marbled boards, edges and endpapers marbled. Spine ends, corners and boards slightly rubbed, a few light scuff marks to leather, green labels faded, occasional foxing throughout, small light dampstains to tails of Volumes II-IV, slight crack to top of Volume IV rear inner hinge. Otherwise a very good set.

first edition in book form of George Eliot’s sixth and greatest novel, the title pages showing the line “The Right of Translation is Reserved” at foot. In its slow gestation, the book grew too long for the traditional three-decker format. It was Lewes who suggested to Blackwood that, on the model of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, it should be serialised in eight parts at two-monthly intervals, and published in book form in four volumes. £2,500

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94 ELIOT, T. S. (BENTLEY, Nicolas.) Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1940

Octavo. Original cream boards, titles to spine in red, pictorial block of two dancing cats to front board. With the dust jacket. With numerous colour and monochrome illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. With an appropriately jocular gift inscription on front free endpaper: “To Mary & Tiddler with love from Mary & the Tail-less One. Blitzkrieg Christmas 1940.” Spine gently rolled, spine ends slightly bumped. An excellent copy in jacket with a few small chips to spine ends and folds.

first illustrated edition, issued in November 1940 with illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. The first edition, unillustrated except for the author’s own pictorial designs on the dust jacket, had been published on 5 October 1939. Gallup A34c.

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95 (EUCLID.) BYRNE, Oliver. The first six books of The Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners. London: William Pickering, 1847 Quarto (233 × 185 mm). Rebound to style in dark blue half calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco labels,

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in a brown morocco box lettered in gilt and with a cloth jacket for each volume. A little rubbing to extremities, few small single wormholes to the spines, toning to endleaves, occasional faint spot and light offsetting, but an excellent set, from the library of American composer of musical theatre and rare book collector Jerome Kern with his book label to each front pastedown.

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raised bands, marbled paper sides, brown endpapers. Geometric diagrams printed in red, blue and yellow; printed in Caslon old-face type with ornamental initials by C. Whittingham of Chiswick. Board edges lightly rubbed, spotting and offsetting as virtually always with this book. A very good copy.

first edition of this celebrated book, the most interesting and inventive attempt to revisualise the classic ur-text of geometry by printing the diagrams in various colours, a method which stretched the printers’ skills to their utmost. Oliver Byrne was an Irish author and mathematician (fl. 1835–1885). He wrote a considerable number of books mainly on

mathematical and mechanical subjects. McLean, Victorian Book Design, p. 70.

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96 FIELDING, Henry. Amelia. In Four Volumes. London: for A. Millar, 1752 4 volumes, duodecimo (166 × 98 mm). Contemporary tree calf, twin red and black morocco labels, raised bands, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, single gilt rule to boards, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed

first edition of Fielding’s last novel, published 19 December 1751. Though primarily the story of a troubled marriage, Amelia may also be considered the first novel of social protest and reform in English. Fielding also showed interest in the debate on female intelligence and education in the novel, through the prodigious Virgil-quoting figure of Mrs Atkinson. Another theme of the novel is the extortionary practices of prison keepers: its influence is particularly strong on the great novels of Dickens’s middle period, Bleak House and Little Dorrit. Millar ordered William Strahan to print the work on two of his printing presses in order to produce a total of 5,000 copies for the first run of the work. Rothschild claims that there were two impressions, one in December 1751, the second in January 1752, but this seems to be a confusion with the second edition of 3,000 copies which Millar ordered to follow on the heels of the first but subsequently cancelled. Cross III, p. 321; Rothschild 853.

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All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk textured paper, prospectus of the English issue by Quaritch with English translation of the text bound before the plates. A little rubbed, rebacked with the original spine laid down, slightly darkened on the bands and at the edges, upper corners restored, text pages becoming brittle, one corner lost, no loss of text, small gouge from two leaves of text and lower wrap with minor loss, English text/prospectus browned and with some splitting at the edges, archival tissue repairs, plates marginally browned, one or two with minor chips at the edge, but overall genuinely a very good copy in a handsome binding which remains attractive.

first edition with English prospectus and text. Fischbach was educated at the Berlin Academy of Industrial Design before moving to Vienna “where he prepared drawings for the collection of patterndesigns in the Austrian Museum” (New International Encyclopaedia). In 1870 he was made instructor in ornamentation at the Royal Academy in Hanau, before joining the newly organised Industrial Art School at Saint Gallen as director in 1883, holding the position until 1888. “He founded many societies for the advancement of industrial art and by his work exercised a great influence on textile designing in Germany. In 1909 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acquired his collection of antique embroideries and fabrics” (Encyclopaedia Americana). Fischbach’s monograph concentrates on 15th to 18th century patterned tapestry, damask and brocade designs from France, Italy, and Germany. The superb chromolithographic plates were printed of Bernhard Dondorf of Frankfurt, best known for the production of fine quality playing cards, an excellent placement of the work in view of the nature of the designs. £2,500

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FISCHEL, Oskar, & Max von Boehn. Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century: As Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time. Translated from the German by M. Edwardes. With an Introduction by Grace Rhys. London: London, J. M. Dent & Sons Limited; New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1927 4 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in contemporary blue-green half morocco, compartments tooled in gilt, raised bands, titles to spines direct, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated throughout with chromolithographic plates, photographic plates and illustrations in the text.

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second edition in english, revised and enlarged, the first to include a fourth volume. A copiously illustrated book on European fashion and manners between 1790 and 1878, Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century was originally published in Germany under the title Die Mode: Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert nach Bildern und Kupfern der Zeit in 1907, and in Britain in 1909. The fourth volume extends the period covered to 1914 and heralds the arrival of the “Modern Amazon”. £675

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FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963

first edition, in the first binding, with the spine lettered in gilt. Gilbert A8a (1.1).

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signed limited issue, no. 116 of 250 copies signed by the author (there were additionally 35 unnumbered copies marked “Presentation”); Fleming’s only signed limited edition.

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first edition, one of 3,495 first state copies without the silhouette subsequently blocked on the front board. Gilbert A6a (1.1).

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Octavo. Original dark brown boards, titles to spine in gilt, skeletal hand design on front board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine ends slightly bumped, edges lightly toned. An excellent copy in a very good jacket with minor chips to corners, and a few nicks and creases along the lightly toned extremities.

first edition. The first novel in the Blofeld trilogy, Thunderball introduces the criminal organisation SPECTRE and its leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Gilbert A9a (1.1).

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FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964 Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in silver, front cover with Japanese characters stamped in gilt, bamboo-patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with one short closed tear to front panel.

first edition, first state (without March in the copyright date). Gilbert A12a (1.1).

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105 FORTESCUE, Sir John William. A History of the British Army. London: Macmillan and Co., 1902–30 13 volumes bound in 19, octavo (217 × 142 mm), 14 text volumes and 5 map volumes, the maps to volume IV in an end-pocket rather than as a separate volume. Contemporary blond half calf, marbled boards, red morocco lettering-pieces, black morocco numbering-pieces, narrow, low bands with a single fine dotted roll, floral lozenge centre-tools to the compartments, arabesqued floral corner pieces linked by a fine dotted roll, dog-tooth roll in blind to the spine and corner edges, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Numerous folding coloured maps as called for. A little light shelf-wear, pale toning to the text, but overall very good indeed. 104

104 FORSTER, E. M. A Room with a View. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1908 Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to front board and spine gilt. Spine lettering a little dull, spine slightly faded, extremities rubbed, front board faintly dampstained, small bumps to edges and corners of boards, front and rear inner hinges cracked but holding, light dampstain to front pastedown. A very good copy.

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cally” (DNB), and covering the period 1100 to 1870. Described by Brian Bond as “the product of indefatigable research in original documents, a determination to present a clear, accurate, and readable narrative of military operations, and a close personal knowledge of the battlefields, which enabled him to elucidate his account with excellent maps. Most important, however, was his motivation: namely, a lifelong affection for the old, long-service, preCardwell army, the spirit of the regiments of which it largely consisted, and the value of its traditions to the nation.” A beautifully presented set of this important work, bound for Cora Colgate Stafford—her monogram, surmounted by the countess’s coronet, gilt to the tail of the spines, her engraved bookplate to the front pastedowns—one of the “Dollar Princesses” of the “Gilded Age”, Cora was the widow of the soap

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magnate Samuel J. Colgate, on his death in 1897 inheriting a fortune that would be worth around $250 million today, and the following year marrying Henry William George Byng, the 4th Earl of Stafford. £7,500

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106 FRANK, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Translated by B. M. Mooyaaer-Doubleday with a forward by Storm Jameson. London: Constellation Books, 1952 Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turnins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. With photographic illustrations throughout. An excellent copy.

first edition in english, preceding the US edition published the same year. The British-born translator, Barbara Mooyaart-Doubleday, was living in Amsterdam in 1947 when the original Dutchlanguage edition appeared. Having impressed Anne Frank’s father Otto with a sample chapter, she was engaged to make the whole translation by the London publisher Vallentine Mitchell, who specialized in books of Jewish interest. But the London edition was received quietly and it was not until later in the year when the same text was published in New York, with a preface by Eleanor Roosevelt, that the book entered the best-seller lists and announced itself as one of the emblematic books of the 20th cen-

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tury. “The reason for her [Anne Frank’s] immortality was basically literary. She was an extraordinarily good writer, for any age, and the quality of her work seemed a direct result of a ruthlessly honest disposition” (Time, 14 June 1999).

challenged received ideas on education and university planning and heralded the information technology revolution.

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107 FULLER, R. Buckminster. Education Automation. Freeing the scholar to return to his studies. A Discourse before the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Campus Planning Committee. April 22, 1961. Foreword by Charles D. Tenney. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962 Quarto. Original japon-backed black boards, titles to spine in black, top edge black. With the dust jacket Tiny split at head of front inner hinge. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket.

first edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was a visionary thinker, inventor and architect who invented the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion map. As a young man he was expelled from Harvard but his innovative ideas earned him 47 honorary doctorate degrees. His prophetic lecture

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FUSCO, Paul. RFK Funeral Train. Introduction by Norman Mailer. London: Magnum Photos, [1999] Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers, titles to front cover in green and white. Illustrated throughout with 68 full page xerographs by Fusco printed on a Xerox DocuColor 100 Digital Colour Press (9 different front covers were issued). Block very slightly undulated otherwise in excellent condition.

first edition, printed in an edition of 350 copies. Numbered on the front cover and first page of text. In June 1968 Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in California. Fusco accompanied the funeral train which carried the coffin from New York City to Washington DC and photographed those paying respect along the track side. Kennedy’s coffin was placed in the last carriage and was visible through large observation windows. Parr & Badger II, 46.

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110 GAY, John. The Beggar’s Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. To which is Added, the Musick Engrav’d on copper-plates. London: Printed for John Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln’s-InnFields, 1728 109

109 GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Horrified Heirs. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1964 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine and front board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a black morocco-backed solander box with a facsimile of the front panel of the dust jacket pasted on the front cover. Spine a little sunned at head and tail, head lightly crumpled, very faint white mark to lower joint of front board, light dampstain to lower gutter of endpapers. An excellent copy in a slightly edge-chipped and rippled jacket with faint dampstaining to the verso.

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first edition, certified first copy to be printed, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his close friend, scientist John Glaister on the front free endpaper: “To my friend, John Glaister, D. Sc., M.D., F.R.S.E., this first copy ever to come from the printers and binders (see certificate on the following page). With all good wishes, yours, Erle Stanley Gardner, September 1964”. Professor John Glaister (1892–1971), whose achievements as a forensic scientist are the object of a two-paragraph homage at the end of the Foreword, succeeded his father in the Regius Chair of Forensic Science at the University of Glasgow and was well-known for his dramatic appearances at court as an expert witness.

Octavo (195 × 115 mm). Rebound to style in mottled quarter calf, red morocco label, raised bands ruled in gilt, marbled paper sides, vellum wing tips, edges speckled red. Woodcut historiated capitals and head- and tailpieces, 8 leaves of printed music. Small contemporary annotation to p. 33. Boards lightly rubbed, some scattered light spots to text, top lines of printed music just shaved. An attractive copy in excellent condition.

first edition. Gay’s satire of the royal court was an immediate triumph which ran for a record 62 consecutive performances at the Theatre Royal where it premiered in January 1728. Two variants of the first edition have been recorded. In one variant page 53 contains three bars of music, the text ends on page 59 and is followed by advertisements on page 60. In the other variant, which omits the bars of music on page 53, the text ends on page 58 and is followed by advertisements on pages 59 and 60. This copy be-

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111 GENET, Jean. Miracle of the Rose. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1966 Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, edges of text block and endpapers a little spotted, two very small dampstains to top edge of text block. An excellent copy in a lightly toned jacket with faint crease to bottom edge of front panel and one tiny closed tear.

first us edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “A M. Don C—pour vous— pourquoi je sais vous connais [sic] tout. Jean G.” and signed by the recipient, Don Coralle, on the title. £1,500

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GEOFFREY of Monmouth. The British History, Translated into English From the Latin. With a large Preface concerning the Authority of the History. By Aaron Thompson, late of Queen’s College, Oxon. London: for J. Bowyer, H. Clements, and W. and J. Innys, 1718 Octavo (190 × 117 mm). Near-contemporary panelled calf, sometime rebacked and relined. 16pp. list of subscribers, final errata leaf. A little rubbed with some repair to covers, small chip to top corner of first blank, mild spotting throughout. A very good copy, sound and presentable.

first edition in english, William Cole’s copy, of “one of the most popular and influential historical works of the middle ages” (ODNB), by Geoffrey of Monmouth (c.1100–1154/5), bishop of St Asaph. Completed by 1139, Geoffrey’s Historia Regum Britanniae introduced such figures as Arthur, Merlin, and King Leir to an international reading public. “The fact that thereafter the Arthurian cycle was mediated primarily through the mid-fifteenth-century Morte d’Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory should not detract from the position of Geoffrey of Monmouth as its great originator.” The figure of King Leir [Lear] seems to have been Geoffrey’s original creation, and arguably the most successful. “Indeed, Tatlock described the Leir story ‘along with the vogue of Arthur’ as ‘Geoffrey’s greatest contribution to the world’.” The Historia makes Britain’s foundation

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contiguous with classical myth, in the person of Brutus, a Trojan émigré. It proceeds to an account of a series of royal dynasties, some of whose members enjoyed later fame, to the last glorious British kings, notably Uther Pendragon and Arthur, before the final victory of the Saxons. Geoffrey concludes his history in the seventh century AD, where Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica begins. From the library of the Cambridge antiquary William Cole (1714–1782), with his early ownership inscription “G.l.mus Cole Aul. de Clare Cant SocCom” dated 1735 (aged 21, his second year as a pensioner at Clare College, Cambridge) and his later armorial bookplate to the title page verso, by which time he was installed as a fellow at Kings College, Cambridge. He was close friends, since Eton, with Horace Walpole, who called him his “oracle in any antique difficulties” and he similarly assisted many notable contemporaries, including Francis Grose, writing the account of the School of Pythagoras at Cambridge in Grose’s Antiquities. Though Cole published no independent work of his own, he assembled some 100 volumes of manuscript notes, a considerable portion of which were towards histories of Cambridgeshire and the Colleges of the university, which are now at the British Museum. £3,750

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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. The Sorrows of Werter: A German Story. London: for J. Dodsley, 1783

6 volumes, octavo (180 × 110 mm). Contemporary brown full calf binding by W. Nutt, raised bands, red and green morocco spine labels, ornate gilt design to compartments, gilt double rule to boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Portrait frontispiece and folding map to vol. I, map to vol. II. ownership signature to front free endpaper, boards rubbed with the occasional scuff and a little wear to corners and ends of spine, a very handsome set.

2 volumes, octavo (158 × 95 mm). Contemporary tan calf, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, bird central tools, twin red and dark green morocco labels, edges speckled red. Front joints cracked but holding firm, light chipping to extremities, faint marks and scuffs to boards, corners of boards a little bumped, tiny loss to bottom corner of front pastedown of Volume I. An excellent set.

A handsome set of this classic work, first published in 1776–88. £650

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114 GIBRAN, Kahlil. The Madman. His Parables and Poems. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1919] Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed black boards, titles to spine and front board gilt. Three two-tone illustrated plates reproduced from drawings by the author. Spine slightly bumped, corners and edges of boards a little worn, endpapers lightly tanned, minor foxing to edges. Otherwise a very good copy.

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116 GOLDSMITH, George. Album of pencil and watercolour sketches of the Mediterranean, including views of the coast of Spain, Gibraltar,

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Majorca, Corfu, and Alexandria Troas on the Turkish Aegean coast. HMS Childers, at Sea: 1834–9 Landscape quarto (208 × 280 mm) sketchbook. Contemporary half binding of white paper and green board. 21 leaves. With 27 watercolours and drawings, the majority in colour, just 4 are solely in pencil, including 11 double-page panoramas. All but 3, which are portraits/costume studies, have pencil or ink captioning and annotation. Externally a little rubbed and soiled, light browning to the contents, but overall very well preserved.

An attractive collection of watercolour views and panoramas of the Mediterranean coast, high quality officer’s sketches by the young British naval lieutenant George Goldsmith. The album was compiled during his service on HMS brig-sloop Childers, commander Henry Keppel, near the coast of Spain in May 1834–April 1839. The majority of the views depict the north-eastern coast of Spain, with highly-detailed and well-finished double-page panoramas of Barcelona “from the outer mole”, Valencia, Alicante, and Malaga. The other views depict “Port Vendre, East Coast of Spain”, Cadiz, “Roland’s Gap” (Le Brèche de Roland), Altea, Tarragona, Cape St. Antono, and Cartagena. The album also includes five studies taken of the ruins of the ancient Greek city Alexandria Troas on the coast of the Aegean Sea in modern Turkey, with panoramas of the ruins “in a thickly wooded country”; “Interior of a Ruin at Alexandria Troas beneath the present level of the land”; and “Inscription on the

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ruined pedestal of a Statue at Alexandria Troas”. The other views depict Bellver Castle of Majorca (Palma castle and lazaretto), the embankment and the palace of Corfu, “Entrance to the Grotto of Antiparos” and entrance to the Straits of Salamis—“French liner & Frigate standing in”. There are also two portraits of HMS Childers herself, an image of a “trading

lugger of SE coast of Spain” and three portraits, two of women in Spanish costumes, and a pencil study of one of Goldsmith’s young crewmates sleeping. George Goldsmith joined the Royal Navy in 1821 and was promoted lieutenant (1828), commander (1841), captain (1842), vice-admiral (1867) and admiral (1875). He served in the Mediterranean, West

Coast Africa, and the East Indies. He took part in the 1st Anglo-Chinese War, with HMS Hyacinth, and the Crimean War in command of HMS Sidon. Upon return to Britain he became superintendent of the dockyard at Chatham and was created Companion of the Bath for his services in the Crimea. £7,500

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

Octavo. Original sage cloth, titles and decoration to spine and boards gilt, floral design with monogram to endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Corners a little worn, some faint tanning to endpapers. An excellent copy in a chipped jacket with a tanned spine panel and minor soiling.

Octavo. Original orange cloth with black border at head, titles to spine in silver, rules to spine and front board in silver, top edge black. With the dust jacket. Spine a little faded, some rubbing to top corners of boards, endpapers slightly foxed. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed jacket with a few minor chips and creases and one small tape repair to verso of rear flap.

first and signed limited edition, no. 41 of 285 copies signed and numbered by the author. A small limitation and scarce in the dust jacket. One of the twelve books in the Grayson Books series, edited by John Hackney. Brennan 7; Miller 12a.

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first edition. £650

120 GREENE, Graham. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1950 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Endleaves and endpapers a little tanned, rear inner hinge starting but still holding firm. A very good copy in a rubbed jacket with some small nicks and short splits, a small spot of dampstain to the verso not visible on the front, and a professional repair to the fold of the front flap.

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GREENE, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. A Novel. London: William Heinemann, 1948

£750

Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine in silver, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, very light foxing to edges, bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown and date in ink to rear free end-

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Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s device to rear board in blind, top edge blue. With the dust jacket and the original “Book Society & Daily Mail Book of the Month” wraparound band. Small rubber stamp with the date “13 Dec 1955” on the front free endpaper. Spine faintly rubbed at head and tail. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed and spotted jacket.

first edition of the original text, published in December 1955. Miller states that the novel was first published earlier the same year in Swedish translation from the manuscript as Den Stillmane Amerikanen. Brennan 33; Miller 35a.

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122 GRIFFITHS, Anselm John. Observations on some Points of Seamanship; with Practical Hints on Naval Oeconomy, &c. &c. The Whole Profits are for the Benefit of the Royal Naval Charitable Society. Cheltenham: [For the Author,] Printed by J. J. Hadley, Minerva Press, Queen’s Buildings, 1824

Octavo (206 × 129 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked and recornered with the original plain spine laid down, title gilt direct to spine, fouled anchor devices in compartments, marbled edges. A little rubbed on the boards, ex-Cruising Club library with their small gilt supralibros and initials to the tail of the spine, light browning throughout, occasional scatter of foxing, but overall very good.

first edition. Uncommon: COPAC has just BL and NLW for this edition; OCLC adds eight further copies including NMM, NYPL, and the US Navy Department Library. A wide-ranging guide on matters naval intended to “assist the rising officer in forming correct conclusions” (preface), it was first published at the expense of the author at Cheltenham in 1824, with all his profits going for the benefit of the Royal Naval Charitable Society. A second edition was published in Portsmouth in 1828 and this is the one most often encountered, although far from common itself. The author made lieutenant in 1790 and fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars. He was serving as Troubridge’s first lieutenant in the Culloden at the Battle of St. Vincent in 1797. With the Leonidas he assisted at the capture of Cephalonia in 1809 and the reduction of St. Maura in 1810–11, reaching the rank

This copy with the ownership inscription of another subscriber, Capt. George Wyndham, fourth earl of Egremont, to the title page, his initials gilt to the tail of the spine, and the Egremont bookplate to the front pastedown. Wyndham was commissioned in 1806, commander 1810: “he was very actively employed towards the end of 1811 in the Hawke brig on the Cherbourg station; obtained post-rank 1812; and subsequently commanded the Bristol troop-ship, in the Mediterranean” (O’Byrne). He died in 1845. £1,500

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123 GROTE, George. A History of Greece; from the earliest period to the close of the generation contemporary with Alexander the Great. London: John Murray, 1851 12 volumes, octavo (220 × 145 mm). Bound in contemporary half vellum for Hatchards, gilt titles and design to spine, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt top edges. With portraits, maps and plans. Covers mildly soiled, bookplate to inside front boards, occasional spotting to pages, but generally fresh internally. A very attractive set.

A handsomely bound third edition. The first edition (1846–56) “was received with universal acclamation, was translated into French and German, shaped the European conception of its subject-matter throughout the 19th century, and still merits respect as a monument of industrious Victorian scholarship” (Printing and the Mind of Man 321). £1,750

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124 HAMILTON, Richard; Eduardo Paolozzi; Victor Pasmore; & others. This Is Tomorrow. Edited by Theo Crosby. Designed by Edward Wright. London: The Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1956 Square octavo. Original coil-bound wrappers, titles to front cover in brown and white. Coil somewhat rubbed and bumped, corners a little creased, edges slightly rubbed, minor chipping to top and bottom of wrappers along coil. Otherwise an excellent copy of this fragile book.

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Art Gallery, 9 August–9 September 1956. The driving force was Theo Crosby and the intention was to showcase collaborative efforts by groups of artists from both the fine and applied arts. Twelve groups of three to four architects, artists, designers, and theorists were asked to produce work on the theme of modern life. This iconic show pre-empted the emergence of Pop Art. £850

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125 HAMILTON, Richard. Palindrome. New York: Multiples Inc., 1974 Lenticular acrylic, laminated on collotype in 5 colours on Chromolux paper. Sheet size: 72.5 × 57.1 cm. Excellent condition. Presented in an aluminium frame with UV preventive glass

edition of 100, signed and numbered in pen lower left by Hamilton. Printed by Hamilton and Heinz Häfner at Eberhard Schreiber, Stuttgart, and photographed and laminated at Vari-Vue, Mount Vernon, New York. £10,000

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126 HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930 Octavo (190 × 135mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, gilt rule to compartments, single rule gilt to boards, gilt blocked falcon to front board, twin rule to turn ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Occasional light spotting to pages, an excellent copy.

first edition. A handsomely bound copy of one of the greatest thrillers ever written. £3,000

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first edition in book form. The novel was originally published in weekly instalments in both the Graphic and Harper’s Weekly from 2 January to 15 May 1886, in a bowdlerized text. It was published in book form on 10 May 1886 in a small print run of 758 copies, of which only 650 were bound. Smith, Elder was not without some misgivings about the storyline; their reader James Payn reported that “the lack of gentry among the characters made it uninteresting.” Purdy, pp. 50–51.

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HAY, Sir Andrew Leith. A Narrative of the Peninsular War. London: John Hearne, 1850

2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, decorative bands and floral decorations on front covers and spines in black, titles to spines gilt, grey floral endpapers. Small blind library stamp to front free endpaper of Volume I. Spines slightly cocked, boards and spine ends very lightly rubbed,

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Octavo (214 × 132 mm). Contemporary red hard-grained morocco Eton leaving gift binding, title gilt direct to the spine, flat bands, compartments with quatrefoil centretools, surrounded by drawer handle and arabesque devices, attractive concentric panelling enclosing a large tool of a trophy of arms and standards, surmounted by a

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shako and with a superimposed roundel with a capital “W” within a laurel wreath, all edges gilt, gilt floral roll to the turn-ins, pale cream surface-paper endpapers. Folding map frontispiece and 20 plates, engraved by Lizars after the author’s own sketches. Eton leaving inscription dated 1854 to the front free endpaper, “Skelmersdale from his sincere friend Henry H. Chilton”. Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom, was known as The Lord Skelmersdale between 1853 and 1880, was a member of every Conservative administration between 1866 and 1898, and served three times as Lord Chamberlain of the Household under Lord Salisbury. A little rubbed, light judicious restoration to the upper joint, lightly browned and with some foxing to the plates as usual, but a very good copy.

Fourth edition; first published in 1831. Hay “entered the army as an ensign in the 72nd foot [in] 1806, went to the Peninsula in 1808 as aide-de-camp to his uncle General Sir James Leith, and served through the war until 1814. He was much employed in gaining intelligence, and was present at many of the actions from Corunna to the storming of San Sebastian. During this time he made many sketches, … these were published in … A Narrative of the Peninsula War” (ODNB). Sandler 1623.

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129 HAY, William. The Mystery of Alfred Doubt. Being the Adventure of a Retired Statesman. A novel. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge pale green. With the dust jacket. Later bookseller’s ticket and bookplate to pastedown. Cloth very lightly flecked, edges foxed with minor encroachment to the margins, in the jacket that has one chip at the top of the spine, front panel creased at upper inner corner, rear panel slightly marked. A very good, bright copy.

first edition. The author and essayist William Gosse Hay (1875–1945) was born into a South Australian family to the colonist Alexander Hay and his second wife, Agnes Grant Gosse, a novelist. This, his fifth historical novel, is set in Tasmania in the 1830s. £650

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130 HAYEK, Friedrich A. von. The Road to Serfdom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, for Laissez Faire Books, 1984

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special 40th anniversary signed edition; no. 11 of 200 copies printed, signed by the author. With an additional foreword in which Hayek discusses how the first publication in 1944 was received in Britain and America. £3,750

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131 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926 Octavo. Original black cloth, gold labels to spine and front board, Cleon design of a seated classical figure to the title page. Extremities lightly rubbed, a couple of tiny white specks to boards, faint bumps to bottom edge of front board and bottom corners, spine faded, tanning to endpapers and mild spotting to edges of text block. An excellent copy.

first edition, first issue with the misprints “stoppped” on p. 181, l. 26, “down-staris” on p. 169, l. 34, and “BOOK THREE” instead of “BOOK III” (p.

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132 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Black and white illustrations within the text by Edward Shenton. Spine rolled, spine and edges of boards faded, light offsetting from jacket to front board and spine, a couple of small nicks to rear board, light spotting to edges of text block, tiny dampstain to fore margin of two leaves. A very good copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with small neat repairs to head and tail of spine and top edge of front panel.

first uk edition. Originally published in America the previous year by Scribner’s. Hanneman A13.

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133 HERBERT, Frank. Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1965 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white, textured endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled. A bright copy in excellent condition in a lightly rubbed and chipped jacket.

first edition, first issue dust jacket with the imprint number on the spine panel. £4,500

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134 HIGHSMITH, Patricia. The Talented Mr Ripley. London: Cresset Press, 1957 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Edges slightly tanned, endpapers a little browned, file copy stamp to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with a few nicks, a couple of small light dampstains to the sunned spine, and lightly tanned flaps.

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135 HIRSCHFIELD, Al. Show Business Is No Business. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951 Octavo. Original purple cloth backed blue boards, titles to spine and front board in pink, pictorial endpapers, top edge purple. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by Al Hirschfield. Lower corner worn. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with a few nicks, short splits, and some minor creasing.

first edition, elaborately inscribed by the author on the pale blue front blank, “To Arnold Weissberger, with affection, Al Hirschfield. 1/27/54”, along with a large drawing in red ink by Hirschfield, who has incorporated the publisher’s printed logo into a typical self-portrait—as a slightly crazed looking, hirsute figure—the Simon and Schuster device forming the fretboard and sound-hole of a bass-like instrument in the artist’s hands. Also on the front free endpaper is a gift inscription in another hand presenting the book to Weissberger, who was a New York-based theatrical lawyer and celebrity photogra-

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136 HIRST, Damien. Damien Hirst. London: Jay Jopling and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1991 Quarto. Original dark blue boards, titles to front board and spine in yellow, illustrated endpaper. With 2 loose facsimile letters to Damien Hirst from Sophie Calle. 24 colour photographs illustrating Hirst’s art works. A fine copy.

signed limited edition, no. 155 of 250 signed by the artist. Interweaving Hirst’s art works with a transcription of his discussion with French artist Sophie Calle, this catalogue was published to accompany one of the solo exhibition held at the ICA between 13 December 1991 and 2 February 1992. £2,250

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137 HIRST, Damien. From the Cradle to the Grave. Selected Drawings. Text by Hugh Allan

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first and signed limited edition, one of 1,500 copies signed and numbered by the artist. Published on the occasion of Hirst’s exhibition of drawings at the Tivoli Gallery, Ljubljana, 10 June–28 September 2003, and subsequently toured under British Council auspices to other venues in Europe. £550

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first edition, special edition, signed by Hockney and Spender. This book was published to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust and appeared in three different editions. Several British and American writers were invited to contribute with texts to accompany Hockney’s specially drawn alphabet. With the exception of Norman Mailer, all writers asked agreed and contributors include William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguros, Ian McEwan, Iris Murdoch, and Gore Vidal. While Mailer declined, his “letter refusing seemed such a good model for Polite Rejection” that it was nonetheless published as his contribution (Preface).

first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Harry, Best wishes from Peter Hopegood (Cedric)”. England-born Peter Hopegood (1891–1967, birth name Cedric Hopegood) established himself in Australia after serving in the First World War. In this “informal autobiography” the author, best known for his mystical poetry, recalls his time serving in France during the war as well as his pre- and post-war adventures in Canada and the Antipodes, subsiding on odd jobs such as cow-puncher, horse-breaker, gaol warder, and finally trying his hand at “cattle-farming, pearlfishing and much else besides” (front flap blurb).

£500

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[HOPEGOOD, Peter.] Peter Lecky by Himself. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in white, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. White blocking to spine titles chipped, light spotting to spine and boards, remains of removed label to gutter of front free endpaper, endleaves and edges of text block slightly foxed, else foxing light and occasional. A very good copy in a lightly spotted and toned price-clipped jacket with a few minor nicks and chips.

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140 HUGHES, Ted. The Hawk in the Rain. London: Faber and Faber, 1957 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in yellow. With the dust jacket. Light spotting to front joint but overall cloth still bright, endpapers and top edge of prelims a little foxed. An excellent copy in the spotted jacket with sunned spine panel and a few tiny nicks.

first edition of the author’s first book. With the author’s article on The Hawk in the Rain written for the Poetry Book Society Bulletin (September 1957, No. 15) loosely inserted. £575

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141 HUGHES, Ted. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. London: Faber and Faber, 1970 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Dust jacket drawing by Leonard Baskin. A fine copy in a lightly rubbed jacket.

first edition. Laid in is Leonard Baskin’s signed autograph letter to Berthold Wolpe who designed the dust jacket for Faber, dated 11 July 1970: “T. Hughes’s Crow was inspired not by my crows but resulted from a commission to Ted in one [of ] his darkest moments. I will this evening draw a suitable

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£1,500

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142 HUGHES, Ted. Crow Wakes. Woodford Green, Essex: Poet & Printer, 1971 Octavo. Original japon-backed red and black patterned paper boards, titles to spine and front board in black. Small black mark to rear board. An excellent copy.

first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Charles Monteith (1921–1995), Faber & Faber publisher who succeeded T. S. Eliot as editor of poetry and became director of the publishing house in 1977, “To Charles from Ted, ‘The harvest of dregs is very great’”, facing the inscription in Hughes’s hand, “Author’s copy, No. 4. Sept. 20th 1971” on the front pastedown. Hughes has also added one line to the title poem (“I ran. I ran and as I ran”) and made a few corrections (to “Bones” and “The Ship”). Number 4 of 100 copies reserved for the author from a limited edition of 200 copies. £1,500

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143 HUGHES, Ted. A Dancer to God. Tributes to T. S. Eliot. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993

Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in a lightly edge-rubbed jacket.

first us edition, presentation copy inscribed in verse by Ted Hughes on the front free endpaper to Charles Monteith (1921–1995), Faber & Faber publisher and long-time colleague of T. S. Eliot whom he succeeded as editor of poetry: “For Charles, Outlasting iron / The Tree of Words / Would have to be Yew. / On every branch / a dozen birds / Prefer the view. Best wishes always, affectionately Ted 1993”. A Dancer to God was originally published in Great Britain by Faber & Faber in 1992. Sagar A99.

£1,500

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144 HUTCHINSON, G. S. Machine Guns. Their History and Tactical Employment (being also a History of the Machine Gun Corps, 1916–1922) London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938 Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket, housed in the original plain card mailing-box. Frontispiece and 7 other plates. Boards very slightly bowed, faint foxing—largely only visible verso—to the jacket, else a freakishly well-preserved copy in its original mailer.

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Gun Corps, far from common, and rare indeed in such condition. £750

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145 HUTCHINSON, Horace G., ed. Famous Golf Links. Andrew Lang, H. S. C. Everard, T. Rutherford Clark etc. With numerous illustrations by F. P. Hopkins, T. Hodge, H. S. King, and from photographs. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891 Octavo. Original dark grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles and landscape centrepiece to front board in black, black endpapers. With frontispiece, 18 plates, and 13 illustrations in text. With owner signatures and dates to front

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flyleaf and verso of front free endpaper. Spine and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, a couple of small light marks to boards, slight foxing throughout, both inner hinges cracked to gauze lining but firm. A very good copy.

first edition. Hutchinson (1859–1932) was a golfer and writer who from 1890 was “a prolific writer on golf both in books and newspapers”, contributing to both the Badminton Library and Country Life magazine (ODNB). £1,750

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147 JAMES, M. R. Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary. With Four Illustrations by the Late James McBryde. London: Edward Arnold, 1904 Octavo. Original brown buckram, yapp edges, spine and front board lettered in black, boards double ruled in red. Frontispiece and 3 plates. Gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Minor foxing to the endpapers, otherwise an excellent, bright copy.

first edition. The author’s first book of ghost stories.

146 HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London & Paris: The Albatross, 1947 Octavo. Original card wrappers printed in orange, black and white. With the dust jacket. Wrappers lightly rubbed at extremities but overall very bright, edges of contents faintly toned, one inner hinge cracked but still holding firm. An excellent copy in a slightly chipped and rubbed jacket with a few short splits.

presentation copy inscribed by the author: “Pour Jean Thierry-[Mieg ?] de Aldous Huxley qui demande pardon d’avoir si mal écrit son nom, 1948”. Second Albatross Press edition, vol. 47 in the Albatross Modern Continental Library. Brave New World was originally published in 1932. £3,500

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148 JARMAN, Derek. Blue. The Blue Press, 1994 Folio. Original blue boards, titles to front cover blindstamped, text printed on Somerset 100% mould made cotton. Light scuffing to boards, otherwise in excellent condition.

one of five proof copies, all published. The book was intended to be published to accompany Jarman’s final film Blue; the projected limitation was to be 150 copies accompanied with a signed print and 25 copies with a painted solander box. Unfortunately Jarman died in February 1994 while the publication was still at the proofing stage and the complete project never materialized. £1,500

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151 JOHNS, W. E. The Cruise of the Condor. A Biggles Story. London: John Hamilton Ltd, [1933] Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, top edge blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 4 black and white plates. Literary agent’s label pasted to front free endpaper. Spine ends slightly bumped, extremities a little rubbed. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with mildly toned spine, small hole to spine panel, some minor chipping to the lightly rubbed extremities, and chip to front panel partially affecting the first ‘T’ in the title.

first edition of the second Biggles novel, in which he flies a seaplane named the Condor in search of South American treasure. £4,750 149

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[JEAMSON, or JAMESON, Thomas.] Artificiall Embellishments. Or Arts best directions How to Preserve Beauty or Procure it. Oxford: printed by William Hall, 1665

JEKYLL, Gertrude. Wood and Garden. Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur. London: Longman, Green & Co., 1899

Octavo (147 × 90 mm). Contemporary sheep, ruled in blind, neatly rebacked and relined to style. Ownership inscription of Mrs L. H. Musgrove at head of text and dated 1820 to rear free endpaper. Two leaves (sigs. C2–3) with scorch marks at head, a few marks elsewhere, a very good copy.

Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front board gilt, pages untrimmed. With 71 illustrations from photographs by the author. Small ownership signature to front free endpaper (below Mrs Simonds’s signature), contemporary blind bookseller’s stamp to rear free endpaper, a few marginal marks in light pencil. Contents a little shaken and foxed, spine worn and faded. A very good copy.

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first and only edition of this manual of cosmetics. The author Thomas Jeamson (or Jameson) was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he became a fellow. He proceeded bachelor of medicine at Oxford 12 October 1664, and doctor of medicine 9 July 1668. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians, 26 June 1671. He published this work anonymously but his publisher failed to keep the secret, and he was greatly ridiculed in Oxford for it. The text has an interesting selection of recipes for makeup, deodorants, depilatories, shampoos, and remedies for minor ailments, but there is an undeniably comic mismatch between the treatment of pustules and dandruff and the author’s tone of highflown gallantry. A rare book.

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Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in black. With the pictorial dust jacket by Bradshaw. 32 black and white photographic plates. Spine ends and corners a little rubbed, edges, prelims, and endmatter lightly foxed, occasional mild foxing to margins. An excellent copy in a likewise excellent jacket with a few nicks and very light chipping to spine ends and corners.

first edition of Johns’s survey of the history of flight, in the scarce dust jacket. £525

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153 JOHNS, W. E. Biggles—Air Commodore. London: Oxford University Press, 1937 Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and airplane decoration to spine and front board in blue, top edge blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece by Howard Leigh and 7 black and white line drawings by Alfred Sindall. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine a little toned, ends rubbed and bumped, boards stained along fore edges, edges lightly foxed, occasional spotting to margins. A very good copy in lovely bright jacket with a few nicks and short closed tears.

first edition of the 12th Biggles book, in the uncommon first issue jacket. £3,250

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JOHNS, W. E. Worrals of the W.A.A.F. London: Lutterworth Press, 1941

JONES, George. The Battle of Waterloo, with those of Ligny and Quatre Bras, described by Eye-witnesses and by the Series of Official Accounts published by Authority. To which are added Memoirs of F.M. The Duke of Wellington, F.M. Prince Blücher, the Emperor Napoleon, etc., etc. London: L. Booth, 1852

Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles to spine in dark blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped, edges a little foxed, small light stain to front board. An excellent copy in a lightly cockled and creased jacket with slightly rubbed and nicked extremities, and a few small chips to spine ends and rear panel.

first edition, in the second impression jacket, signed by the author on front free endpaper. The first of Johns’s books featuring Joan “Worrals” Worralson. £1,500

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Octavo. Original blue cloth, elaborately blind- and giltstamped, large trophy of arms and standards to front board enclosing a roundel with capital “W” encircled by a laurel wreath. Lithographic double portrait frontispiece, medallic vignette to the title page, double-page facsimile note, large folding two-part panorama of the battlefield, 33 etched plates and one folding lithographic plate, 8 handcoloured maps on 4 folding sheets, the large coloured “Historical” map bound in at the front. Somewhat rubbed,

and a little stained, some skilful restoration at spine, pale cream surface-paper endpapers renewed, light toning, some foxing and off-setting as usual, a very good copy, partially unopened.

First published in 1817, this the eleventh edition, enlarged and corrected. “The fully expanded version of ‘The Battle of Waterloo’ published by Booth and often listed under his name. The earlier editions were simply a vehicle for carrying the official accounts of the battle. To these were added as the years went by ‘an account … by a near observer’, ‘other circumstantial details’, ‘biographical notes’, and finally a suite of plates by George Jones” (Sandler). Sandler’s copy lacked two plates; the large and highly attractive map of the field is often lacking. This is a nicely restored copy, remaining appealing in the original cloth. Sandler 1876.

£750

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156 JONES, John T. An Account of the War in Spain, Portugal, and the South of France, from 1808 to 1814 inclusive. London: T. Egerton, 1818 Octavo (213 × 133 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked to style, title direct to spine, low bands, beaded roll, compartments with central device incorporating foliate tools, edges marbled. Folding map frontispiece with some colour, and 4 other maps on 3 folding sheets, 2 with colour. A little rubbed on the boards, light browning, occasional marginal foxing, a very good copy.

first edition of this important account by the brigade major of engineers in the Peninsula, which was written “partly in response to French accounts which he believed distorted, claimed the importance of the guerrilla war had been much overrated … Jones was considered among the first military engineers of his day. He possessed talents of the highest order: great mathematical knowledge, coupled with sound judgement. He was present at six sieges, at five as brigade major, and his intimate knowledge gave great value to his publications on them. His reputation as a military engineer was not confined to Britain” (ODNB). Provenance: armorial bookplate of Philip Gore, fourth Earl of Arran, to the front pastedown. Gore’s diplomatic career began in 1820 when he was sent as attaché to the British embassy in Stockholm, he transferred to Paris in 1825, and to Lisbon a year later. There he was promoted to secretary of legation in 1828 and to chargé d’affaires in 1832. Gore has a further connection with the Iberian Peninsula in that he was married to Elizabeth Marianne Napier, second daughter of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, the great contemporary historian of the war. Bruce 3452; Sandler 1878 for the second edition.

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JOYCE, James. Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934

JOYCE, James. Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935

Octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spine and front board in black and red, bevelled boards, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Housed in a cream cloth slipcase and matching chemise by J. Desmonts, J. Macdonald Co, Conn. Small bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Cloth a little spotted. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with some very light creasing and nicking along edges.

first authorized american edition, trade issue. According to Slocum and Cahoon 100 copies were printed first for reasons of copyright, followed by 10,300 copies for the regular issue. It was preceded as the first American edition by the pirated edition of the ninth Shakespeare and Company Ulysses done in New York for Samuel Roth, unauthorized by Joyce and sold illegally in the United States. Rare in this condition. Slocum & Cahoon A21.

£3,500

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Quarto. Original dark red cloth, titles and decorations to spine gilt, decoration to front cover gilt, top edge speckled red, others untrimmed, text printed in double columns. Housed in the original slipcase. With 6 soft-ground etchings and 19 drawings printed on coloured paper. Spine ends slightly rubbed, slight offsetting to plates, front inner hinge cracked to gauze lining but still firm. An excellent copy in worn slipcase.

signed limited edition, no. 962 of 1,500 copies signed by the artist. Probably not having troubled to read Joyce’s book, Matisse chose subjects from the Odyssey for the etchings and each piece is accompanied by several preliminary studies printed on either yellow or blue paper. Slocum A22.

£3,250

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159 KAFKA, Franz. The Metamorphosis. Translated by A. L. Lloyd. London: The Parton Press, 1937 Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed dark brown boards, titles to spine in black, titles to front board in black on blue paper. Housed in a dark blue cloth chemise and matching quarter morocco slipcase. Top corners of front board slightly bumped, spine very gently rubbed. An excellent copy.

first english-language edition of the author’s masterpiece which was originally published in October 1915 as Die Verwandlung in the German magazine. This copy with neat pencil marginalia amending the English translation on pages 49–59 by Erich Heller, who co-edited Briefe an Felice (1967), Der Dichter über sein Werk (1969), and Über das Schreiben (1983), and

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160 KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other poems. London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1820 Duodecimo (165 × 98 mm). Contemporary full calf, spine gilt-tooled in compartments, black morocco title label, sides bordered with a double gilt rule, board-edges giltrolled, marbled endpapers and edges. Without half-title and publisher’s advert leaf. Near-contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper verso, and pencil ownership inscription to first blank. Joints repaired, covers marked and scratched, with rubbing to spine and corners, and some small loss to the text of the title label and date at the foot (sometime restored in gilt paint), front joint a little cracked; still a very good copy, sufficiently sound and internally very clean and fresh.

first edition of Keats’s third book, and the last published in his lifetime, about which he had “low hopes, though not spirits … this shall be my last trial; not succeeding, I shall try what I can do in the apothecary line.” Though Keats did not live to see his fame confirmed, this last collection is his greatest single volume, containing the magnificent se-

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ries of odes on which his reputation now rests, as well as his longer narrative poems—two medieval romances: the chilling “Isabella or the Pot of Basil” and the gothic romance “The Eve of St Agnes”; and two mythological fantasies: the weird “Lamia” and the ambitious, Miltonic fragment “Hyperion”. An appealing copy, internally very fresh, and in a contemporary binding. Hayward 233; MacGillivray 3; Tinker 1420.

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161 (KELMSCOTT PRESS.) SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poems. Printed After the Original Copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover’s Complaint. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893 Octavo (210 × 150 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full green morocco, gilt titles and box design to spine, raised bands, gilt floral decoration to covers, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Printed in black and red. Occasional spotting, an excellent copy.

first kelmscott edition, one of 500 copies printed. Peterson A11.

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162 (KELMSCOTT PRESS.) MORRIS, William. The Well at the World’s End. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1896 Large quarto. Original full limp vellum by J. and J. Leighton of London, three red silk ties, titles to spine gilt, edges untrimmed. Printed in the Chaucer type in double columns, black and red, with elaborate woodcut title page and 3 designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, woodcut initials and borders by Morris throughout. Small ownership signature to half-title and small ownership rubber stamp to limitation page. Vellum typically bowed and a little rubbed, ends of 2 silk ties lacking, faint partial tanning to endpapers. An excellent copy.

first kelmscott edition. One of 350 copies on paper (there were 8 copies on vellum). Because of various production delays this splendid Kelmscott Press book spent several years in the making. Although William Morris had originally intended the Kelmscott edition to be first, the more conventional Chiswick Press edition was issued in 1894. Buxton Forman 164; Ransom p. 329; Walsdorf 39.

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163 (KELMSCOTT PRESS.) MORRIS, William. The Water of the Wondrous Isles. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1897 56

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first edition, one of 250 copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper (there were 6 copies on vellum). With the bookplate of soap manufacturer and book collector William Malin Roscoe (1857–1915) designed by Edmund Hort New (1871–1931) and dated the year of publication of this work. Birmingham Group artist New provided design work for the Kelmscott Press from 1895 and illustrated Mackail’s biography of Morris, published in 1901. Forman 168; Franklin p. 210; Peterson A45; Walsdorf 45.

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164 KENDALL, Carol. The Gammage Cup. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959 Octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettering to spine black, with the dust jacket. Erik Blegvad illustrations. An excellent copy with small ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear to ends of spine, mild toning to rear panel.

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first edition. An ALA notable children’s title, also 1960 Newbery Honor title. This fantasy novel for young adults returned to the spotlight in 1999 during a legal dispute over J. K. Rowling’s invention of the word Muggles in the Harry Potter series. Muggles is a character in this novel, although Carol Kendall was more amused by the coincidence than inclined to bring suit. £1,000

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165 KENEALLY, Thomas. Schindler’s Ark. Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982 Octavo. Original black board, titles to spine in white. With pictorial bookplate of George and Hedy Hunter to front free endpaper. Spine slightly cocked, spine ends and bottom edges of boards lightly rubbed, light foxing to edges and endpapers. A very good copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with a few creases, some light toning to flaps, and a small white mark to front cover.

first edition, inscribed by the author to two holocaust survivors on the title page: “To George and Hedy Hunter, to celebrate your survival, Best wishes Tom Keneally 1986.” With three loosely inserted postcards from Dachau concentration camp. £475

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first uk edition, preceded in book form by the US edition the previous month, and originally published 1896-7 in Pearson’s Magazine. Written while newlywed Kipling was living in Vermont, Captains Courageous is Kipling’s only novel set entirely in America.

KING, Stephen. Carrie. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974 Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt, black endpapers. With the illustrated dust jacket. Rear board gently bowed. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with a small closed tear to rear panel.

£1,000

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167 KINNEY, Jeff. Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Greg Heffley’s Journal; Rodrick Rules; Do-It-Yourself Book; The Last Straw; Dog Days; Ugly Truth; Cabin Fever; The Third Wheel; Hard Luck. New York: Amulet Books, 2007–13 Octavo. Original laminated pictorial boards. Black and white illustrations throughout the author. An excellent and bright set.

first editions, each title signed by the author on the title page: a complete signed set of this popular chapter book series, which started life as an online cartoon. The first book title had a print run of 25,000 copies. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules, and Dog Days were all made into feature films. A witty se-

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168 KIPLING, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. A story of the Grand Banks. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1897

KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little Children. Illustrated by the Author. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902 Quarto (235 × 175 mm). Bound for Asprey and Co in red half morocco, red cloth sides, raised bands, titles to spine gilt, gilt rule to compartments, single gilt rule to covers, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout by the author. Ownership inscription to front blank, spine lightly faded, extremities lightly rubbed, a very good copy.

first edition of Kipling’s famous collection of 12 stories and 12 poems including “How the Camel Got His Hump” and “How the Leopard Got His Spots.” £850

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Crown octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover with gilt titles and pictorial designs, black endpapers, all edges gilt. With frontispiece and 22 full-page illustrations. With illustrations by I. W. Taber. Spine gently rolled, extremities very lightly rubbed, a few light spots throughout and a small stain to the half-title. With bookplate and small blue bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. A very good copy.

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LANG, Andrew, ed. The Pink Fairy Book. With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897

LANG, Andrew, ed. The Grey Fairy Book. London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900

LANG, Andrew, ed. The Crimson Fairy Book. With eight coloured plates and numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903

Octavo. Original pink cloth with gilt titles and illustration to spine and front board, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated frontispiece, and numerous vignette and full page illustrations in the text throughout by H. J. Ford. A few faint marks to cloth, with the spine a little faded but considerably less so than usual, gilt only a little dulled, repair to hinges, some foxing mostly to end leaves, bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. A very good copy with the cloth colour presenting much more evenly between spine and boards than is common with this title.

first edition of the fifth instalment in Lang’s Fairy Books series. Lang notes in his Preface that, “Mr Ford, as usual, has drawn the monsters and mermaids, the princes and giants, and the beautiful princesses, who, the Editor thinks, are, if possible, prettier than ever.” £450

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Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board gilt, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated frontispiece, vignette title page, 31 plates, and illustrations in the text throughout by H. J. Ford. Very slight dulling to the gilt at spine but on the whole the gilt and cloth respectively well-defined and retaining its tone, very slight rubbing to the tips, some internal spotting mostly restricted to early and late leaves, a nice copy, square sound and in excellent condition.

first edition of the sixth in Lang’s Fairy Book series, with tales “deriving from many countries— Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world” (Lang’s preface), many of them highly phantasmagorical and strange. Lang’s preface contains the intriguing observation, “The stories, as usual, illustrate the method of popular fiction. A certain number of incidents are shaken into many varying combinations, like the fragments of coloured glass in the kaleidoscope. Probably the possible combinations, like possible musical combinations, are not unlimited in number”. £500

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Octavo. Original crimson cloth, illustration to front cover and spine gilt, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers with line drawings, all edges gilt. Colour frontispiece, vignette engraved title page, 7 colour plates, 35 engraved plates, and illustrations in the text throughout. Spine a little faded, extremities lightly rubbed, gilt a little dulled but still bright, title page tissue guard foxed but otherwise internally clean. A very good copy.

first edition of the eighth of Lang’s Fairy Books, a truly international collection with stories originating from Eastern Europe, Sicily, Scandinavia, and the Far East. £425

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173 LANG, Andrew, ed. The Orange Fairy Book. With eight coloured plates and numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906

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first edition of the tenth Fairy Book. £450

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174 LATHAM, Charles. In English Homes. The Internal Character, Furniture & Adornments of Some of the Most Notable Houses in England, Historically Depicted from Photographs Specially taken. London: Country Life and George Newnes, 1909

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175 LAWRENCE, D. H. Movements in European History. Oxford & London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1926 Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front board in dark green. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Lightly rubbed at extremities, joints fraying a little, a couple of minor marks to rear board, endpapers and endleaves faintly foxed and tanned. An excellent copy.

presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page: “To the Wilkinsons, from D. H. Lawrence”. Lawrence’s school textbook was originally published in 1921 under the pseudonym Law-

Third edition; first published in 1904. A handsomely bound set featuring the great historic estates of England. [88975]

rence H. Davison and was reissued under his real name in 1925. This is a revised edition of the latter, intended “for Irish Schools, with appendices on Early Mediterranean History, Ireland and the Normans, Ireland and Foreign Countries” (title page). £875

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176 LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 Quarto. Publisher’s tan quarter pigskin, buckram boards, title gilt to spine, crossed swords device gilt to front board, Cockerell marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With a portrait frontispiece and 53 plates, many of them in colour, and 4 folding maps. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. An extremely well-preserved copy, the spine showing none of the flaking often encountered, cloth unspotted, the joints and hinges entirely sound, just a touch of foxing to the fore-edge with minor encroachment to the margin, contemporary gift inscription verso of the front free endpaper, a very good copy.

limited edition, no. 691 of 750 numbered copies. The third English edition overall, after the abandoned Oxford edition and the privately-printed subscribers edition, this limited edition was published at the same time as the trade edition.

3 volumes, folio. Bound in late 20th-century blue half morocco, blue cloth boards, raised bands, titles and decoration to spines gilt, gilt edges. Illustrated with photographs taken by Charles Latham. Light soiling to cloth boards, corners gently bumped, a very good set.

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LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927

(LAWRENCE, T. E.) HART, Basil Henry Liddell, & Sir Ronald Storrs. Lawrence of Arabia. London: The Corvinus Press, 1936

(LÉGER, Fernand.) GOLL, Iwan. Die Chapliniade. Eine Kinodichtung. Mit vier Zeichnungen von Fernand Léger. Dresden: Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag, 1920

Quarto. Original brown quarter pigskin, buckram boards, title gilt to spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed Coloured portrait frontispiece, 10 coloured plates, 8 black and white plates, one folding map at the end. Occasional unopened folds. Spine ends and boards slightly rubbed, light cockling to rear board, mild tanning to endpapers and half-title, small chip to folding map stub.

first edition, large paper issue, no. 169 of 315 numbered copies, of which 300 were for sale. The costs for production of the 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom had ballooned to such an extent that Lawrence was contemplating selling either his library or some of his property to clear the debt. Eventually he settled on the publication of an abridgement, undertaken in 1926 by Lawrence himself with the help of some of his fellow servicemen, an earlier attempt by Edward Garnett having been set aside. Published in March 1927 in Great Britain and America, in both limited and general issues, three impressions were soon sold out and two more quickly added. The profits from this publication made the fortunes of the Cape publishing house. O’Brien A101.

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Quarto. Original sand half cloth, matching kinari chiri paper sides by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, title gilt to the spine, single gilt rules at spine and corner edges, Corvinus device to front board, top edge gilt, others uncut. With the paper flaps of the original jacket laid in. With the grey card slipcase. Slipcase with publisher’s ink limitation number. A lovely copy in excellent condition, lacking the glassine part of the jacket but with the paper flaps preserved, in the somewhat rubbed slipcase.

signed limited edition, no. 73 of 128 copies signed by Liddell Hart. Colonel S. F. Newcombe’s copy (without ownership inscription) of this attractively produced book by the Corvinus Press, printing Liddell Hart’s and Storrs’s eulogy addresses given at a luncheon in memory of Lawrence about a month after his death. Colonel Newcombe was Lawrence’s key mentor and a pall-bearer at his funeral. The original jacket had paper flaps and the rest glassine—it rarely survives; neither jacket not slipcase are noted by O’Brien. O’Brien E101.

£3,750

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Square octavo. Original cream paper boards printed in black, Charlie Chaplin design with pink and green labels to front board by Hans Blanke. Text in German. Four black and white illustrations by Fernand Léger. Boards and spine a little darkened, closed tears to head and tail of spine, small dampstain to lower front joint, endpapers tanned. An excellent copy.

first edition of Iwan Goll’s “cinepoem” based on the character of Charlie Chaplin and illustrated with the famous cubist portraits of The Tramp by Fernand Léger who would develop the theme of a deconstructed Chaplin puppet in his avant-garde film Ballet Mécanique (1924). £3,750

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180 (LÉGER, Fernand.) COOPER, Douglas. Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace. Traduction de l’anglais par François Lachenal. Geneva: Éditions des Trois Collines, 1949

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first edition, double presentation copy. Inscribed by the artist “Très cordialement, F Leger” and by the author “For Basil, with all my love, this product of a summer holiday on Porquerolle, Douglas. Genéve, le 3 Octobre 1949”. The recipient was Cooper’s lover at the time, Basil Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree, physician and leading advocate of geriatric medicine. £1,500

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Octavo. Contemporary full vellum, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 22 engraved plates of which one is folding. Vellum slightly rubbed, front board gently bowed, small chip to morocco label, light foxing and occasional spotting throughout. Otherwise an excellent copy.

first edition of Rigaud’s translation. A beautifully bound copy of this foundational practical treatise on Renaissance art, first published at Paris in 1651. The work had previously been translated into English in 1721.

LEONARD, Elmore. The Moonshine War. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1969

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Octavo. Original green cloth backing black boards, spine lettered in black, green endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped, a good copy in the jacket that has a few nicks to the extremities, a lightly toned spine and a short closed tear at the head of the rear panel.

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first edition.

Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine faded and rolled; an excellent copy in the jacket that has a faded spine, nicks to the extremities and tape repairs to the verso.

£750

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LEONARDO DA VINCI. A Treatise of Painting. Faithfully translated from the original Italian, and now first digested under proper heads, by John Francis Rigaud. London: Printed for J. Taylor, 1802

£650

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LEWIS, C. S. Perelandra. A Novel. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943

first edition, first issue binding of blue cloth with gilt lettering. Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the second book in Lewis’s Space Trilogy. £1,250

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signed limited edition, no. 53 of 200 copies signed by the artist. The subjects include Anthony Asquith, Stella Benson, G. K. Chesterton, Noel Coward, Augustus John, James Joyce, and J. B. Priestley. £2,500

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185 LEWIS, Wyndham. One-Way Song. London: Faber and Faber, 1933 Octavo. Original full vellum, titles to spine and front cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With decorated title page and 4 illustrations by Lewis. Fore edges of boards lightly bowed and rubbed, endpapers and edges slightly foxed. An excellent copy.

signed limited edition, no. 22 of 40 signed by Lewis. A collection of satirical poetry. Morrow & Lafourcade A21a. 184

£1,750

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186 184 LEWIS, Wyndham. Thirty Personalities and a Self Portrait. London: Desmond Harmsworth, 1932 62

Folio. Unbound sheets contained in the original white cloth-backed black portfolio, title label to front board printed in black, original ties. 31 reproductions after Wyndham Lewis, with the original tissue guards titled. Tissue guards with a couple of corners turned, portfolio somewhat rubbed and scuffed but an excellent copy.

LOOS, Anita. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady. Intimately Illustrated by Ralph Barton. London: Brentano’s, Ltd, [1926]

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first uk edition (a year after the New York first), presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Rudolf Stulik, with very best wishes of Anita Loos. London, Aug 21, 1926”. Austrian-born Rudolf Stulik was a London chef whose Restaurant de La Tour Eiffel at 1 Percy Street was a favourite haunt of the Bloomsbury Group and the Vorticists, counting among its regulars Augustus John and Nancy Cunard. In the early sixties William Roberts put his memories of the restaurant down on canvas in his painting “The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel: Spring, 1915” (in the Tate Gallery collection), which depicts Stulik in the company of his illustrious patrons, among them Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Cuthbert Hamilton. Roberts said of Stulik’s restaurant: “In my memory la cuisine française and Vorticism are indissolubly linked” (The Listener, 21 March 1957). £2,250

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187 LOSSING, Benson J. History of the United States. From the Aboriginal Times to the Present Day. Illustrated with Over 1000 Engravings by F. O. C Darley and Other Well-Known Artists. New York: Lossing History Company, 1909 8 volumes bound in 4, large octavo (232 × 162 mm). Contemporary brown half calf, spines gilt in compartments, green and red morocco labels, grey endpapers, marbled sides, top edges gilt. Frontispiece to each volume and illustrations throughout. Spines faded, boards a little rubbed with the occasional scuff, contents very fresh. An excellent set.

A handsome set of this popular history of the United States by the historian, journalist, and educator Benson Lossing (1813–1891). Originally published in 1895. £750

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188 LOUDON, Jane Webb. The Ladies’ FlowerGarden of Ornamental Annuals. London: William Smith, 1840

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gilt bands, elaborate gilt rule to boards, marbled edges and endpapers. 48 hand-coloured lithographs with tissue guards. Boards lightly rubbed, two small spots to the foot of the front board. A very good copy.

first edition. Loudon was the wife of landscape gardener and horticultural writer, John Loudon, who designed the Birmingham Botanical Garden. She began to write popular botanical books to help pay off the debts that her husband incurred in publishing his Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum. A beautifully illustrated copy in an attractive binding. £1,500

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189 LOUDON, Jane Webb. British Wild Flowers. London: William Smith, 1847 Quarto (270 × 210 mm). Contemporary green half hardgrained morocco, green cloth, spine lettered in gilt with raised bands, boards ruled in blind, gilt edges and marbled endpapers. 60 hand-coloured lithographs with page guards. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Hinges cracked, boards scuffed. Internally fine, overall a very good copy.

£950

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190 LOWTHER, George. The Adventures of Superman. Based on the cartoon character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Illustrations by Joe Shuster. Foreword by Josette Frank. New York: Random House, 1942 Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles to spine gilt, box design to spine blue, pictorial onlay block to front board copied from the original cover, twin rule to turn-ins blue, green endpapers, gilt edges. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout by Joe Shuster. A fine copy.

first edition. This book is the first novelization of a comic book character, and also the first Superman story credited to someone other than Jerry Siegel. It was Lowther who first provided many now-familiar details of Superman’s birth and early life. £2,250

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first edition of Maclean’s (1902–1990) autobiographical collection of short stories, including the title story, “Logging and Pimping and ‘Your pal, Jim’”, and “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky”. £1,250

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192 MAHON, Lord. History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713–1783. London: John Murray, 1839–54 7 volumes, octavo (215 × 134 mm). Contemporary tan calf, raised bands to spines, red and brown morocco labels, titles and decorations to compartments gilt, coat of arms on front boards gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Small bookseller’s tickets to verso of front free endpapers. Boards occasionally a bit scuffed and soiled, extremities gently rubbed, mild spotting to prelims and endmatter. An excellent set.

A handsomely bound complete set of Mahon’s History of England. First published between 1836 and

1853, this set from the library of the Supreme Court in Canterbury, New Zealand, is the second edition. £450

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193 MALIK, Michael Abdul. From Michael de Freitas to Michael X. London: Andre Deutsch, 1968 Octavo. Original orange boards, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Light bumps to top corners of boards, faint partial tanning to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in a jacket with mild sunning to spine panel and one tiny closed tear.

first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “26 July ’69, To Molly, a Beautiful Sister, Peace and Love, Michael”. Michael Abdul Malik adopted the nickname Michael X when he became a Black Power leader in 1960s London. His activism earned him the support and friendships of famous figures such as Muhammad Ali and John Lennon. He was hanged in 1975 in his native Trinidad for the murder of two of his supporters, which had been committed on the commune he founded there. £2,500

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194 MALORY, Sir Thomas. La Mort d’Arthur. The most ancient and famous History of the renowned Prince Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table. London: printed and published by R. Wilks; sold also by Simpkin & Marshall, and all other Booksellers, 1816 3 volumes, duodecimo. Rebound to style in recent half calf, black paper sides, spines gilt in compartments with decoration and title direct, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece illustrations and vignette title page to each volume, Round Table folding plan (a contemporary facsimile from the 1634 edition) to volume one. Some very minor marks to covers, slight spotting to some plates but otherwise internally quite fresh, volume one folding plan a little creased at the folds. Very good condition indeed.

first edition thus, the first modern Malory (no edition of the Morte d’Arthur, first printed by Caxton in 1485, had been printed since William Stansby’s 1634 printing) and the earliest edition acquirable without great difficulty and expense—even in 1816, the Stansby printing had “long since become rare”. In 1816, after almost two centuries of obsolescence, Malory’s text, the chief vessel of Arthurian legend in the English language, had a sudden resurgence,

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with two effectively simultaneous printings in direct competition with one another: this edition and that of Walker & Edwards. These are the seventh and eighth editions overall, though there is disagreement as to which takes precedent. The text of both was taken from the Stansby edition (unlike Southey’s subsequent edition in 1817, taken from a rediscovered Caxton copy); Wilks’s edition has some expurgated alterations for the sake of “the fair sex”, though retains a facsimile of the Stansby title page and the Round Table plate, here present. Volume I

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bears a six-page disquisition on the bibliographic history of the Morte d’Arthur, which addresses Walker & Edwards’s rival edition in suitably chivalric terms: “Let it be remembered, that we did not throw down the gauntlet”, and so on at length. £1,500

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195 MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobiography. Randburg: Macdonald Purnell (Pty) Ltd., 1994 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt, map of South Africa endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 46 black and white photographic illustrations. Spine bumped in near fine dust jacket.

first edition, signed by Nelson Mandela and dated at the publication date, 14 December 1994, on the half-title. £3,750

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197 MARSHALL, Fred, ed.; Frank Habitch, & others. Chelsea Birds. A Photographic Essay. London: Freehold AG, 1971 Quarto. Original pictorial ring-bound wrappers. 40 leaves of black and white photographs. Wrappers a little rubbed and scuffed. An excellent copy.

first edition. A playful collection of photographs of women in the streets of Chelsea by Frank Habitch, John Robins, Jak Kilby, and Stephen Fry capturing the spirit of London in the 1960s. £2,500

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198 MILL, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869 Octavo (197 × 121mm). Original dark yellow cloth, titles to spines gilt, boards blocked in blind, brown coated endpapers. Spine slightly darkened, occasional spotting to front board. A few leaves a little roughly opened. Pencil annotations to the rear endpaper. A lovely copy.

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196 MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel García. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. New York & Evanston: Harper & Row, 1970

first edition, “the last of [Mill’s] great political tracts” and his “most unpopular and bitterly contested” work (ODNB). Mill had long been a women’s rights advocate, having been influenced by the thinking of his father, the Utilitarian philosopher James Mill, and by his long friendship with, and then marriage to, the philosopher Harriet Taylor Mill (1807– 1858), a passionate advocate for equality. Indeed,

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s device to front board gilt, green endpapers. With the dust jacket. Small contemporary ownership signature to half-title, contemporary US bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Extremities faintly rubbed, top corners of boards a little bumped. An excellent copy in a bright and very lightly rubbed price-clipped jacket.

first english language edition, first state dust jacket with the exclamation mark at the end of the first paragraph on the front jacket flap. Originally published in Buenos Aires in 1967. £1,750

the freedom of women can be seen as a microcosm of Mill’s general philosophy of freedom, in which “the ‘greatest good’ of the community is inseparable from the liberty of the individual” and the definition of tyranny is expanded to include the domination of minorities by a democratically elected majority (PMM 345). The Subjection of Women was the only one of Mill’s works “on which he made a financial loss, even though pirated popular editions soon began to circulate widely in Europe and America. Among campaigners for women’s suffrage, however, it rapidly became a sacred text and gave him a position of heroic, almost apostolic, authority within the nascent women’s movement” (ODNB). See Printing and the Mind of Man 345 & 398.

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MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. With decorations by E. H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co, July 1925

MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., 1927

Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe blue morocco, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and boards gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Spine rolled and sunned but gilt still bright, rear board sunned along joint, endpapers lightly foxed. An excellent copy.

Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and pictorial designs to boards gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Front free endpaper lightly foxed, half-title a little browned. An excellent copy in a jacket with a tanned and brittle spine beginning to split and one small closed tear to rear panel.

deluxe binding. When We Were Very Young was first published on 6 November 1924. Copies of the seventh and tenth impressions were later issued in deluxe bindings, this copy being a tenth impression. £950

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200 MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926 Octavo. Original dark green cloth, titles to spine and pictorial decoration front cover gilt, top edge gilt, map endpapers. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, a very small light stain to spine and a small dark mark to fore edge. An excellent copy.

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202 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 front board gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. With contemporary gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Spine slightly toned, spine ends bumped and rubbed, slight bump to top edges of boards, a small dark stain to fore edge, light browning to free endpapers, rear pastedown lightly cockled. A very good copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with toned spine, chipping to head

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first edition. The fourth and last book in the Winnie-the-Pooh series and the first to feature the character of Tigger. £500

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203 MILTON, John. The Poetical Works. With Notes of Various Authors, and with some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty’s State-Paper Office, by the Late Rev. Henry John Todd. London: Rivingtons [& 15 others in London and Liverpool], 1852 4 volumes, octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary red full crushed morocco by White of Piccadilly, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, twin light brown labels, boards panelled in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved portrait frontispiece and one facsimile. Contemporary red morocco label to front pastedown of Volume I. Extremities lightly rubbed, occasional light scuffing and minor scratches to boards, endleaves a little foxed. An excellent set.

First published in 1801, this is a handsomely bound set of the fifth edition of Todd’s edition. £675

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204 MOTHERWELL, Robert, & Octavio Paz. Three Poems. (Tres Poemas.) Translated by Eliot Weinberger. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1987 Large folio. Original Irish linen boards with a lithograph recessed into the front cover, titles to spine in black. Housed in the original Irish linen clamshell box, titles to spine in black. 27 original lithographs by Motherwell printed on various handmade Japanese papers by Trestle Editions and hand-mounted upon mould-made paper from Cartiere Enrico Magnani. Excellent condition. Wear to head and foot of upper joint of box.

signed limited edition, one of 750 copies signed by Motherwell and Paz. The text is printed in the original Spanish in red alongside English translations in black. Included is “The Skin of the World, The Sound of the World”, Paz’s tribute to Robert Motherwell. £2,750

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205 MUNNINGS, Sir Alfred. The Autobiography. An Artist’s Life; The Second Burst; The Finish. London: Museum Press Ltd., 1950–52 3 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt, facsimile of author’s signature to front boards gilt. With the dust jackets. Photographic frontispiece portraits and

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presentation copies to fellow Royal Academician John Cosmo Clark with lengthy inscriptions to the front endpapers or half-titles, all dated 17 April 1953; vols. I and III are first editions; vol. II, second. The inscriptions reflect Munnings’s trenchant views on RA formalities (Volume I, commiserating with Cosmo Clark, who had been part of the RA Selecting and Hanging Committee for the first time in 1953: “Have I not been through the endless, hopeless, thankless task?”) and modern art (Volume III: “Today, Artists? — are casting all standards to the wind, God help us!”). Also with an original line drawing of clouds to Volume III half-title.

first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mrs Trelease, with good wishes from Iris Murdoch, August 1957”. With a loosely inserted newspaper review.

£1,500

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MURDOCH, Iris. The Sandcastle. A Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957 Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine faintly faded, endpapers, endleaves and fore edge of text block a little foxed, top edge dusty. A very good copy in a lightly edge-chipped and spotted jacket.

£1,250

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207 MUSSOLINI, Benito. The Cardinal’s Mistress. Translated by Hiram Motherwell. London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1929 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine cocked, very minor foxing to the top

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of France, From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814. London: Thomas and William Boone, 1867

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bumped, boards mildly rubbed, prelims and endmatter lightly foxed. Otherwise an excellent copy.

first uk edition. A romance novel, first published as a serial book in the Trento newspaper Il Popolo, and released in instalments from 20 January to 11 May 1910 under the title Claudia Particella, l’Amante del Cardinale: Grande Romanzo dei Tempi del Cardinale Emanuel Madruzzo. Fiercely anticlerical, it was withdrawn from circulation in Italy after Mussolini found it expedient to make a truce with the Vatican, sealed by the Lateran Treaties in 1929.

first english-language edition, presentation copy from nabokov’s agent, Otto Klemen, inscribed on the front free endpapert: “To Margaret Anne—although not a book for children. O. Klement.” Camera Obscura was the first of Nabokov’s works to be translated into English and one of two famously scarce and cheaply produced books issued by the hapless firm of John Long. It sold poorly and was remaindered in red paper boards. Nabokov greatly disliked Winifred Roy’s translation and its poor quality “prompted Nabokov to undertake translating his next novel, Despair, by himself, a major step in his decision to become an Englishlanguage writer” (Boyd, Russian Years, p. 446).

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208 [NABOKOV, Vladimir.] NABOKOFF-SIRIN, Vladimir. Camera Obscura. A Novel. Translated by Winifred Roy. London: John Long, Limited, 1935 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. Spine gently cocked and gilding to spine slightly darkened, spine ends, corners, and top edge of rear board a bit

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209 NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South

6 volumes, octavo (190 × 115 mm). Contemporary dark brown half morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, marbled boards ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers and top edges. With 55 maps and plans. Contemporary armorial bookplates to front pastedowns, recent auction stickers to rectos of rear free endpapers. Contemporary gift inscription to the first blank of volume I, small ink-stamps of the military historian Col. Frederick Myatt, author of British Sieges of the Peninsular War. Light rubbing to extremities, a few board corners faintly bumped, fore edge a little foxed, occasional light foxing, chiefly at endleaves. A very good set.

First published between 1828 and 1840, this is a nicely bound set of the revised edition of a work that certainly divided opinion: “Soult considered it ‘perfect’, Sir Robert Peel ‘eloquent and faithful’, the Spanish general Alava felt it too pro-French, and a British officer in India demanded satisfaction on his return for a ‘most unfounded calumny’ about his conduct at Barossa” (ODNB). As a result all volumes in the revised edition have plump appendices of “justificatory pieces” in answer to Napier’s critics. His controversy with Beresford over Albuera was particularly rancorous. Perhaps judgement is best left to the acknowledged master chronicler of the conflict, Sir Charles Oman, who described Napier’s work as “magnificent (if somewhat prejudiced and biased)”. £600

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210 (NAPOLEON.) ABELL, Elizabeth. Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon, during the First Three Years of his Captivity on the Island of St. Helena: including the Time of his Residence at her Father’s House, “The Briars”. London: John Murray, 1844 Octavo. Original green fine-grained cloth elaborately decorated in blind and gilt, title and bee devices gilt to spine, Légion d’Honneur device gilt to centre of front board and in blind to rear, both within triple fillet panels in blind with groups of four bees, similarly in blind, in corners, cream surface-paper endpapers. Engraved half-title with Légion d’Honneur vignette, lithographed frontispiece of The Bri-

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ars, and 5 other scenic plates, engraved by Henry Vizetelly. A little rubbed, and a touch mottled, frontispiece, half-title and plates somewhat foxed as usual, text lightly toned, but overall very good and remains attractive. Contemporary pencilled ownership inscription of Maria Nickleson.

first edition, and uncommon thus, particularly in the cloth. Mrs Abell, née Betsy Balcombe, was the daughter of an East India Company official at St Helena. At the time of his arrival in exile, Napoleon’s intended residence, Longwood, was still being refurbished, so he lodged for two months with the Balcombe family, and struck up a warm friendship with 14-year-old Betsy, who called him “Boney” to his face, without reproach. When the ex-emperor removed to Longwood she continued to visit him, arousing the suspicions of the ever over-cautious governor, Sir Hudson Lowe. In 1818 the Balcombe family left the island, but Betsy remained in contact with the Bonaparte family, Joseph, Napoleon’s elder brother, visiting her in London in 1830. The sevenpage subscriber’s list includes some interesting notabilities including Hans Busk, Captain Marryat, Sir Francis Burdett, and Lady Blessington. £425

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with an 1802 letter signed by Napoleon, sending troops for Marshal Ney in Switzerland]. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898 Octavo (236 × 158 mm). Near-contemporary red crushed morocco by Stikeman & Co., author and title direct to the spine within single fillet panels in second and third compartment, French fillet panel with small coronet centretool to others, French fillet frame to boards, small Imperial eagle corner-tools, and a large capital N within laurel wreath to the centre, single fillet edge-roll, olive branch tools to the turn-ins, marbled endpapers, tricolour silk page-marker intact, top edge gilt, the others uncut. Numerous illustrations to the text, many full-page, but this copy extra-illustrated with 75 original engravings, together with an etching on vellum by Ruet after Meissonier, and a page-and-a-half letter from Napoleon dated 1802, signed Bonaparte, on his stationery as First Consul. Just a little rubbed, particularly on the joints, but overall very good.

first edition in book form, originally published during 1896 as a serial in McClure’s Magazine, for which Tarbell was an editor. This copy has been enhanced by the addition of numerous contemporary portraits and plates, including a very handsome

Peter Harrington 101 Scenery, Etc. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown and Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1823 2 volumes, folio (361 × 259 mm). Contemporary brown russia, wide flat bands, title, author, and volume number in the second, third and fourth compartments respectively, first, fifth and sixth ornately gilt, attractive triple fillet panel with scalloped corners and foliate corner-pieces to the boards, triple fillet edge-roll, all edges gilt, wide turnins with three concentric panels of multiple fillets, brown surface-paper endpapers. Half-titles bound in, 57 plates on 51 sheets, all of them present in two states—proof, and etched, both on India paper—and 3 in three states including engraved before letters, together with the supplementary suite of seven engraved plates with letterpress leaf of descriptive text. Just a little rubbed, corners bumped, some foxing as usual, but overall very good indeed.

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etched equestrian portrait of Napoleon by Ruet after Meissonier, signed in pencil by the engraver, but most of all by the presence of a letter sent by Napoleon as First Consul from St. Cloud, 13 Vendémiaire An 11 [5 October, 1802]. In a secretarial hand, but signed Bonaparte, the letter is addressed to Berthier as Minister of War, and directs him to send a demibrigade of the 89e, “since no other troops are available”, to Besançon where it will complete a battalion of 61e which is under the orders of Marshal Ney, to be ready to join the Marshal at Schaffhausen should he so order. Following the collapse of the Helvetic Republic due to the Stecklikrieg Insurgency, Ney was in command of the French army reoccupying Switzerland. Tarbell is often remembered as a muckraker for her attack on Rockefeller and Standard Oil, but essentially she was a pioneer of the techniques of investigative journalism; she was also the author of a series of populist biographies, such as the present work. A handsome presentation. £2,750

first edition, first issue dated 1823 on both title pages. The plates are engraved after a series of views of Paris painted by Nash, who was regarded by Turner “as the finest architectural artist of the day” (ODNB). The text is provided by John Scott, whose Visit to Paris and Paris Revisited were much admired by Scott. Beckford made four pages of notes on his copies and Reginald Heber considering him an excellent “French tourist”. This the Beckford–Rosebery copy, with the clipped auction description from part III of the Hamilton Palace Sale mounted on the front

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212 NASH, Frederick, John Scott, & M. P. B. de la Boissière. Picturesque Views of the City of Paris and its Environs; consisting of Views on the Seine, Public Buildings, Characteristic

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first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the photograph to the designer Rudi Gernreich on the front panel of the pull-off lid: “A set of ‘Real French Postcards’—for Rudi from Helmut, 1976.” Rudi Gernreich (1922–1985) is widely regarded as one of the great innovators of 20th-century fashion. He is perhaps best known for scandalizing the public with his “monokini”, or topless swimsuit. One of the rarest Helmut Newton items, this is the only example we have ever encountered. There no auction records, no record of other sales, no mentions in any literature we can trace, and nothing in library records. The pull-off lid to the box is marked “Series No. 1”, but no other series of Newton’s postcards is known to us. The inscription to Gernreich is dated 1976, the same year as Newton’s first recorded publication, White Women, but the postcards themselves are variously dated 1971 to 1975. Newton’s first two exhibitions were in 1975, one being at the Galerie Nikon in Paris. It is possible that this was produced for that show as an inventive exhibition catalogue. £8,750

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214 NEWTON, Isaac. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. Editio ultima cui accedit analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones ac differentias cum enumeratione linearum tertii ordinis. Amsterdam: sumptibus Societas, 1723

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213 NEWTON, Helmut. Newton’s White Box: 20 Postcards. Paris: Xavier Moreau, [1975?] Octavo. White laminated card pull-off box with 20 colour and black & white postcards from photographs by Helmut Newton loosely inserted in an internal tray; titles printed in

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Quarto (255 × 192 mm), in two parts. Contemporary Dutch vellum over boards, boards with blind stamped central design and double ruled in blind, spine lettered in manuscript, raised bands, red speckled edges. Woodcut vignette to title page, 3 engraved folding plates, numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. Small bookplate to front pastedown. Binding somewhat soiled, scattered minor foxing, occasional marginal toning, inscription on the front free endpaper abraded with resulting small holes, and small puncture to the rear pastedown that is lifting at the edges. An excellent copy.

second amsterdam edition, the only edition of the Principia to append Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones ac differentias, first published 1711, describing Newton’s method of calculus—the whole work

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215 NEWTON, Isaac. A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English. London: for F. Fayram, 1728 Octavo (199 × 124 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, corners restored, new lettering piece, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges. 2 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams throughout. Errata supplied in an early hand. Title page slightly dust soiled, paper flaw at head of C2 just touching headline, small inkstain on E7 recto touching 3 letters only, small paper loss to fore edge margin of L3 not affecting text, a few trivial marks: these flaws minor only, a very good copy.

first edition in english. Also published the same year in Latin as De Mundi systemate and originally intended as the third book of Principia—”but that afterwards to avoid the disputes which might arise, if those who were unacquainted with the prin-

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ciples laid down in preceding books, and full of the prejudices which many years had made natural to them, should take it in hand, he put the substance of that book into propositions in the mathematical way, that it might be read by those only who had studied the principles beforehand” (Newton, Preface). Ahead of his time “Newton points to the possibility of Terrestrial Tidal effects, which were discovered by Michelson in 1919, and another passage indicates the existence of the planet Uranus, which was actually first seen by Herschel in 1781” (Babson). The translator was probably Andrew Motte. Babson 18; Norman 1593; Wallis 30.

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216 NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Gesammelte Werke. Munich: Musarion, 1920–29 23 volumes, octavo (238 × 165 mm). Publisher’s full vellum, covers with two double-rule gilt borders, spines ruled gilt with two leather labels, top edge gilt. 4 photographic portraits and 7 facsimiles in volume 21. Ex-libris to front pastedowns covered over. A little light spotting to the bind-

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ings and contents, first few spines slightly soiled. A clean, tight set.

first complete collected edition, no. 106 of 185 special copies on rag paper and bound in full vellum, from a total edition of 1,600. Arranged chronologically, with an introduction by Richardo

Oehler, notes and indexes, this was the first edition to claim completeness, and has only been surpassed by the Colli and Montinari edition, still in progress. Ziegenfuss 2, 216.

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217 (NOLDE, Emil.) URBAN, Martin. Emil Nolde. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings. London: Sotheby’s Publications, 1987 2 volumes, quarto. Original black boards, spine and front board lettered in gilt, dark blue endpapers. With the dust jackets. Richly illustrated throughout with photographic plates. A fine set in the jackets, of which volume I has a faded spine.

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first nonesuch press edition, one of 90 deluxe issue copies on Oxford India Paper bound in one volume in full vellum. There were also 1,450 copies on Van Gelder rag paper, in two volumes bound in half vellum. An excellent edition, attractively printed, and comprehensively illustrated with black and white reproductions of William Blake’s remarkable visual interpretations of Milton’s poetical works. Though individual suites of Blake’s illustrations had been

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219 O’BRIAN, Patrick. The Surgeon’s Mate. London: Collins Place, 1980

first edition of the seventh book in the Aubrey– Maturin series.

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(NONESUCH PRESS.) MILTON, John. Poems in English with Illustrations by William Blake. Miscellaneous Poems, Paradise Regain’d & Samson Agonistes; [and] —— Paradise Lost. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926

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220 O’BRIAN, Patrick. The Far Side of the World. London: Collins, 1984 Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the price-clipped dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped, margins of text block lightly tanned, as always. Otherwise an excellent copy in a delightfully bright jacket with some very gently rubbing to spine ends.

Two volumes bound as one, octavo. Publisher’s deluxe full vellum, titles gilt to spine. Illustrated plates after William Blake. Armorial bookplate. Vellum faintly spotted and slightly warped, but all sound, slight crinkling to a few leaves as is usual with India paper, in a very few instances leading to small chips at the gutter. Very good condition. 218

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published previously with individual poems by Milton, the Nonesuch edition is the first to publish such a comprehensive pairing of text and image.

Octavo. Original dark red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Front board gently bowed, edges very lightly toned. An excellent copy in a lightly toned jacket with slightly rubbed rear panel.

first edition. A complete catalogue raisonné of this leading figure of the German expressionist movement. £1,000

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first edition with the second state dust jacket of the tenth book in O’Brien’s Aubrey-Maturin series.

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boards a little bumped. An excellent copy in a rubbed and slightly chipped jacket with a couple of tiny closed tears and small puncture to front panel. 221

The publisher printed the incorrect price on the dust jacket and solved the error by price-clipping the jacket and adding a sticker for £9.95; this copy lacks the sticker. Very few survived with the original price. Cunningham A19a.

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221 ORWELL, George. The Road to Wigan Pier. London: Gollancz, 1937 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase, with chemise. With 32 photographic plates. Light bumps to top corners of boards, top and bottom edges of text block a little spotted. An excellent copy in the classic Gollancz yellow typographic dust jacket, which is lightly chipped and with tanning to spine panel, faint waterstain to rear panel and several old tape repairs to the verso.

first edition, the preferred trade issue. One of 1,000 copies published in this format. The other versions are in the familiar limp orange cloth of the Left Book Club. Copies of this seminal work of

reportage in this state and condition are rare. Asked what the Wigan Pier was on a BBC radio programme in 1943 Orwell replied: “Well, I am afraid I must tell you that Wigan Pier doesn’t exist. I made a journey specially to see it in 1936, and I couldn’t find it. It did once exist, however […]. At one time, on one of the little muddy canals that run round the town, there used to be a tumble-down wooden jetty; and by way of a joke someone nicknamed this Wigan Pier. The joke caught on locally, and then the musichall comedians got hold of it, and they are the ones who have succeeded in keeping Wigan Pier alive as a byword, long after the place itself had been demolished”. Exceedingly scarce in the dust jacket. Fenwick A.5b.

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222 ORWELL, George. Animal Farm. A Fairy Story. London: Secker and Warburg, 1945 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket. Fading to head and tail of spine, corners of

first edition, orwell’s literary agents christy & moore’s copy, with their label pasted on the front free endpaper and the pencil inscription “File copy. 17.8.45”. Christy & Moore were Orwell’s literary agents throughout his career. In 1932, after his manuscript for Down and Out in Paris and London had been rejected by both Jonathan Cape and Faber and Faber, the unknown Eric Blair gave it to his friend Mabel Fierz so that she could re-use the paper clips or do what she liked with it. Fierz took it to Leonard Moore of Christy & Moore who negotiated its publication by the new publishing house Gollancz. It was in a letter to Moore, regarding the publication of Down and Out that Blair first adopted his pseudonym. Crick, p. 235.

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223 ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty Four. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949 Octavo (185 × 122 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. An excellent copy.

first edition. £1,375

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224 OSBORNE, John. Look Back in Anger. A Play in Three Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1957 Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, endpapers lightly tanned. An excellent copy in a jacket with minor chipping at head of spine panel and faint rubbing at extremities.

first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Bethel

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Solomons, John Osborne”, with Solomons’s bookplate. Bethel Solomons (1885–1965) was an Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist born to a prominent Jewish family. A gifted rugby player, he played internationally for Ireland. His father’s optician practice incidentally featured in Joyce’s Ulysses: “Striding past Finn’s hotel Cashel Boyle O’Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell stared through a fierce eyeglass across the carriages at the head of Mr M. E. Solomons in the window of the Austro-Hungarian viceconsulate”. £2,500

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225 OUSELEY, Sir William. Catalogue of Several Hundred Manuscript Works in Various Oriental Languages. London: Printed by A. J. Valpy, M.A., 1831

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Quarto. Stitched in original marbled wraps. Housed in black cloth drop-back box, title gilt to spine. Frontispiece with some hand-colour. A little rubbed on the wraps, lightly browned, overall very good.

first edition of the catalogue of one of the finest collections of such works in private hands at that date, with descriptions of 724 manuscripts offered for sale as a group. This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart, with Sir Wm. Ouseley’s compliments, London July 24th 1831”, but Phillipps, the foremost bibliomaniac of his own or any other era, managed to resist the temptation to add Ouseley’s collection to his own assemblage of over 60,000 manuscripts. The collection remained unsold at Ouseley’s death in 1842, being purchased the following year by the Bodleian. The catalogue is decidedly uncommon: just 10 copies on OCLC; no copies traced at auction. £3,000

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226 OWEN, Wilfred. Poems. With an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920

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first edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Given to the ‘Little Lady’, Miss Louise Paine, who is the real Little Lady, for whom these stories were told, by her father, the author

£3,500

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228 (PARRISH, Maxfield.) SAUNDERS, Louise. The Knave of Hearts. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925 Small folio (350 × 295 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, titles to spine gilt, two raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial onlay of a court jester to front board, inner dentelles gilt, original pictorial endpapers bound in, all edges gilt. With colour pictures by Maxfield Parrish. Previous owner’s inscription to the inside of the pictorial endpaper, overall internally very clean and beautifully bound.

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227 PAINE, Albert Bigelow. The Hollow Tree. With pictures by J. M. Conde. New York: R. H. Russell, 1898 Quarto. Original pictorial paper covered boards, brown cloth spine. Housed in a brown quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated in black and white by J. M. Conde. Spine cloth worn at ends, moderate bumping and rubbing to boards at corners with some paper loss, a very good copy.

Albert Bigelow Paine.” Paine has also signed at the foot of the text and made an autograph correction in ink on page 12. This is in effect the dedication copy: “The Little Lady is four years old, going on five, and is found of stories, this makes her and the story teller good friends” (Introduction). Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 105.

first edition. This slim volume, promoted and published by Sassoon after Owen’s death, and backed by Edith Sitwell, contains all Owen’s best known poems, including “Dulce et Decorum est”, “Insensibility”, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, “Futility” and “Strange Meeting”. £8,250

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229 PASTERNAK, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1958 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket that has three closed tears to the front panel and some small nicks to the extremities.

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signed limited edition, no. 115 of 150 copies signed by the author and with his original painting on the front cover. As stated by Patchen on the rear pastedown “no two covers [are] alike”.

PATCHEN, Kenneth. Panels for the Walls of Heaven. Berkeley, CA: Bern Porter; The Gillick Press, 1946 Octavo. Original cloth-backed binder’s boards with original painting by the author on the front cover. Illustrations in the text. Contemporary book label to front free endpaper, gift inscription on blank leaf at rear. Boards slightly rubbed, remains of taped acetate jacket to fore edges of pastedowns, tape shadow to outer edges of free endpapers, contents faintly foxed. A very good copy.

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in aid of the Comforts Fund for Women and Children of Soviet Russia. 1942 Octavo. One folded sheet of poems and 10 artist’s engravings on 10 sheets, all loosely contained as issued in the original red cloth-backed grey portfolio with blue paper label to front cover, black cotton ties and red endpapers. 10 signed engravings by John Piper, John Banting, John Buckland Wright (who contributed 2 prints, one being after Roland Penrose), Mary Wykeham, Ithell Colquhoun, Dolf Rieser, C. Salisbury, Julian Trevelyan, Mary Wykeham, and Geza Szobel. All sheets signed, most numbered 39/100 and titled, some dated. Lacks sheet listing artists and order form. Extremities a little rubbed, boards lightly soiled, spine faded, text faintly foxed. An excellent copy.

limited edition, one of 100 unnumbered copies. Co-edited by Nancy Cunard and painter John Banting in aid of Soviet Russia at a time when it was being invaded by Nazi Germany, Salvo for Russia is a collection of ten engravings by—mainly surrealist—painters and four poems by Cecily Mackworth, James Law Forsyth, J. F. Hendry and Nancy Cunard. It features John Piper’s first published etching. £5,000

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232 PLATH, Sylvia. The Colossus and other poems. London: Heinemann, 1960 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, publisher’s device to rear board in blind. With the dust jacket. With contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. A fine copy in a very good jacket with slightly rubbed and tanned extremities, a few nicks and chips to spine ends and corners.

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233 PLATH, Sylvia. The Colossus & Other Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in dark green, author’s initials to front board and publisher’s device to rear board in blind, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Minor foxing to edges and endpapers. A fine copy in a fine jacket with slightly toned rear panel.

first us edition of Plath’s first and only collection of poetry published in her lifetime. Originally published in Great Britain in 1960. This copy is a review copy with the publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £1,250

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234 PLATH, Sylvia. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber, 1965 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled. An excellent, fresh copy in a dust jacket with two tiny splits at head of faintly toned spine panel.

first edition. A beautiful copy, uncommon in such nice condition. £1,200

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235 POE, Edgar Allan. Complete Poetical Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1909 Octavo (190 × 130 mm). Contemporary blue morocco by Rivière, raised bands, title to spine gilt, ornate gilt design to compartments, elaborate floral design gilt to covers, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Black and white frontispiece engraving Book plate to front pastedown and front free endpaper, light rubbing to corners, an excellent copy.

£450

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237 POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London & New York: Frederick Warne and Co, 1903

first trade edition, with a single-page endpaper occurring four times. This edition was preceded by 500 copies privately printed for the author. Eleven of the illustrations are repeated from the privately-printed edition and sixteen are entirely new for this edition.

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236 (POGANY, Willy.) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Translated by Abraham Howard. With Illustrations by Willy Pogany. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1908

Linder p. 430; Quinby 4.

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POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1904

signed limited edition, one of 250 copies signed by the artist.

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Quarto (275 × 225 mm). Red morocco with onlay binding by Bayntun, raised bands, gilt to compartments, ornate decorations to covers gilt, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 30 plates with printed tissue-guards. An excellent copy with the faintest of fading to spine.

£2,750

Sextodecimo. Original dark green boards, titles to front board and spine in white, pictorial label with illustration to front board, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Lightly rolled and toned spine with tiny splits to head and tail, otherwise a lovely bright copy.

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Sextodecimo. Original grey paper-covered boards, printed in dark green, illustration mounted on front board, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by Beatrix Potter. Spine gently rolled and lightly tanned, superficial tear to lower half of rear joint, one inner hinge

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first edition, first issue, with “muffatees” (“muffetees” in second issue onward) and “we” in Roman type (italic in second issue onward) on page 15. Issued in both grey and tan paper boards, without priority. Potter’s introduction of Peter Rabbit’s cousin Benjamin, the fourth of her books to be published. Quinby 6. Linder, 424.

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239 POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny TownMouse. London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1918 Sextodecimo. Original grey boards, titles to front cover and spine in white, illustration laid down to front cover. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Small rust stain to head of front cover, owner’s name and date to front free end paper, otherwise a lovely bright copy.

first edition with the ‘N’ dropped from London on the title page. Linder p. 430; Quinby 25.

£2,000

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240 POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny; … Timmy Tiptoes; … Mr. Tod; … Little Pig Robinson; … Two Bad Mice; … Mrs. Tittlemouse. London: Frederick Warne & Co., [c.1970] 6 volumes, sextodecimo. Bound in contemporary full red, green, blue and brown morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, 2 raised bands, gilt rule and titles to front covers, original endpapers bound in, gilt top edges. With colour illustrations by the author. A charming set with minor wear to extremities and light soiling to covers.

A delightfully bound set of some of Beatrix Potter’s most beloved stories. £875

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241 POUND, Ezra. Exultations. London: Elkin Mathews, 1909

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Small octavo. Original dark red boards, titles to spine and front board gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine toned, a few small white spots to boards, rear board lightly soiled, spine and corners slightly rubbed, small nick to head of spine, edges and endpapers slightly foxed. A very good copy.

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first edition of Pound’s fourth collection of poetry.

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242 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. From “The Little White Bird.” London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906 Octavo (273 × 234 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in terracotta morocco, titles and decoration to spine, pictorial title block to front board, roll to turn-ins, dark green endapers, gilt edges. With 50 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissues bound in at the back. Occasional spotting to pages, an excellent copy in a fine binding.

signed limited edition, no. 405 of 500 copies signed by the illustrator. Barrie asked Rackham to illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained unpublished until 1928) but make a new book from

those chapters from The Little White Bird (1902) that had first introduced the character. £4,750

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243 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1913 Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, single rule to boards, pictorial block to front board, roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 13 coloured plates, captioned tissues and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding.

signed limited edition, one of 1,130 numbered copies signed by the artist. £2,750

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244 RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: William Heinemann, 1913 Quarto. Original white cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front board gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 43 plates on brown paper with printed tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text. A few minor marks to cloth, slight spotting to endleaves and tissue guards. An excellent copy.

signed limited edition, no. 986 of 1,030 numbered copies signed by the artist. £1,500

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245 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London & New York: William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Co, 1915 Large quarto. Original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board gilt, top edge gilt, others

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untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 11 plates on grey paper with printed tissueguards, illustrations throughout in black and white. Lacks ribbon ties. Boards slightly bowed as often, faint red mark to rear joint, fore edge lightly spotted, outer edges a little tanned, small superficial cracks to edges of pastedowns. A very good copy.

signed limited edition, no. 81 of 525 copies signed by Rackham on the limitation leaf. £4,500

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246 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) EVANS, C. S. The Sleeping Beauty. London: William Heinemann, 1920 Quarto. Original quarter vellum, gilt titles to spine, japon boards, titles to spine gilt, titles and decoration to front board gilt, green pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, partly uncut. One mounted colour plate, 3 double-page silhouette drawings with colour, 8 single-page silhouette drawings in black and white and 41 drawings in the text by Arthur Rackham. Boards a little rubbed, small scuff to front board, faint offsetting from illustrations. An excellent copy.

signed limited edition, no. 5 of 625 copies signed by the artist. £1,500

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247 RACKHAM, Arthur. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations. London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1933 Octavo. Original japon, titles to spine and front board gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates, black and white illustrations throughout the text. A little spotting to boards and endpapers, boards faintly rubbed, top edge a touch dusty. An excellent copy.

signed limited edition, no. 15 of 460 copies signed by the artist. Latimore & Haskell p. 69.

£1,350

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248 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by A. A. Milne. London: Methuen & Co, 1951 Tall octavo. Original full white calf, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. In the publisher’s cream card slipcase. With 12 mounted colour and numerous black and white illustrations. Slipcase slightly rubbed and spotted and with one short superficial tear, a few hair line cracks to spine, faint spots to boards, endpapers faintly tanned. An excellent copy.

hundredth edition, limited to 500 copies and printed on handmade paper. Rackham had been asked to illustrate the first edition of the book in 1908, but was already committed to illustrating A Midsummer Night’s Dream and turned Grahame down. It was a decision he regretted for much of the rest of his life, until given the opportunity to illustrate the book for the Limited Editions Club in the late 1930s. First published in 1940, his illustrations for this children’s classic were be his last completed work. £2,250

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RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. With Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939

Two volumes, quarto (205 × 160 mm). Recent quarter calf and marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered gilt. Bookplate of Sir Archibald Grant of Monymoske, with his ownership inscription dated 1750 to the head of the title (slightly trimmed). First and last leaves a little toned, a very good copy.

first edition of Ramsay’s great work, left unpublished at his death in 1743, and given by his wife to Foulis, and seen through the press thanks to the good offices of Hutcheson and, after his death in 1746, John Stevenson. “It reiterated many of the arguments of Ramsay’s Cyrus, but made more explicit his attempt to reconcile Newtonian ideas to his own philosophy” (ODNB.) £3,250

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signed limited edition, one of 770 copies signed by Wyeth and Rawlings. A tender story of a boy and a fawn, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. £1,500

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251 RAY, John. A Collection of English Words Not Generally used, With their Significations and Original, in two Alphabetical Catalogues, The one of such as are proper to the Northern, the other to the Southern Counties. With Catalogues of English Birds and Fishes: And

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an Account of the preparing and refining such Metals and Minerals as are gotten in England. London: by H. Bruges for Tho. Burrell, 1674 Octavo (146 × 90 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, double blind rules, flat spine with blind twin rules in compartments, unlettered, red speckled edges. Title printed in red and black, woodcut initials. Almost complete loss to blank leaves A1 and L4, small contemporary marginal annotations p. 79. Extremities lightly chipped, split to upper rear joint, edges of text block a little faded, small paper flaw or remains of tipped-in label to initial blank, light foxing to fore edge of text, outer edges of endleaves lightly tanned. An excellent copy.

first edition. John Ray (1627–1705) was the supreme European naturalist before Linnaeus, and he was also a lexicographer. His travels around Britain with his friend Francis Willughby were primarily to seek out botanical specimens, but they also generated evidence about antiquities, customs, and language, which Ray shared with Willughby and deployed himself in his own works. This is the second of his two books of English lexicography, after A Collection of English Proverbs (1670). Wing R388; Keynes, Ray 23.

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Fourth Venetian edition, and third Ratdolt edition. Rolewinck’s chronological history of the world, richly illustrated with woodcut illustrations and diagrams, was famous for its complex page design and typographical layout, with the chronology following a double timeline—measuring from both the Creation and the birth of Christ. Rolewinck (1425-1502) was a Carthusian monk and prolific author. This book was both the most popular of his numerous writings and the most popular concise world chronicle of its time, being printed 32 times in the 15th century, including translations into French, German and Dutch. Goff R-270.

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252 READ, Herbert, & others. Surrealism. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1936 Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in black and red. With the dust jacket. 96 pages of black and white photographic plates. Cloth darkened at the edges and spine, contents toned, gift inscription and signature on the front free endpaper. A very good copy in the jacket that has a few nicks and chips to the extremities and tape repairs to the verso.

first edition. The author’s scarce monograph on the Surrealist exhibition of June 1936, with essays by André Breton, Hugh Sykes Davies, Paul Éluard, and Georges Hugnet. Uncommon in the dust jacket, designed by Roland Penrose, with his now classic photo-montage design with a surreal shell and key over a typographic background. £675

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253 (REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua.) LESLIE, Charles Robert, & Tom Taylor. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Some Notices of his Contemporaries. Extra Illustrated. London: John Murray, 1865 84

2 volumes bound in 4, octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary brown full levant morocco by Root & Son, spines elaborately gilt in compartments, titles to spines gilt, portrait of Reynolds and his signature to front boards gilt, triple gilt rule to boards, top edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Extra illustrated with 225 plates. Board edges slightly darkened, extremities faintly rubbed, partial tanning to free endpapers, occasional light offsetting from plates. An excellent set.

first edition of the biography of the 18th-century portraitist and first president of the Royal Academy. The work was begun by Royal Academician Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) in reaction to Allan Cunningham’s uncomplimentary biography of the painter in his Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1829–33) and finished by dramatist and journalist Tom Taylor after Leslie’s death. £875

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254 ROLEWINCK, Werner. Fasciculus temporum. Venice: Ernard Ratdolt, 1484 [Super-chancery] folio (310 × 217 mm). 66 numbered leaves, 8 unnumbered leaves. Cream calf spine and tips, marbled boards, spine lettered in manuscript. Genealogical diagrams with woodcut or metal cut roundels, whiteon-black woodcut ornamental initials, and white-on-black woodcuts are interspersed throughout the text, some with

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255 ROWLING, J. K. [Complete set of the Harry Potter collector’s edition deluxe:] Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; … the Chamber of Secrets; … the Prisoner of Azkaban; … the Goblet of Fire; … the Order of the Phoenix; … the Half-Blood Prince; … the Deathly Hallows. London: Bloomsbury, 1999–2007 7 volumes, large octavo. Original red, blue, green, purple, burgundy, blue and grey cloth with pictorial onlays, titles to front covers gilt, titles to spines gilt, all edges gilt. No dust jackets issued. A fine set, the last three volumes intact in shrinkwrap.

first deluxe editions. £2,500

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256 [ROWLING, J. K.] GALBRAITH, Robert. The Cuckoo’s Calling. London: Sphere, 2013 Octavo. Original dark blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy.

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which features a quote from Val McDermid, while the back cover has quotes from Mark Billingham and Alex Gray. The copyright page does not have a number line but simply states “First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Sphere”. It is thought that Rowling signed 250 copies of the first edition for promotional purposes before the secret of her authorship was revealed, some four months after publication. £3,000

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257 RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s Children. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981 Octavo. Original burgundy cloth-backed grey paper boards, titles to spine and author’s initials to front board in silver, fore edge uncut. With the dust jacket. Faint toning to top and bottom edges of boards, fore edge of front free endpaper slightly finger-marked. An excellent copy in a lightly soiled jacket.

first edition, UK issue taken from the American sheets, presentation copy inscribed by the author: “To Tanya Leaver, (hello again!), Salman Rushdie”. Coming after the less than stellar success of Grimus, Cape issued only 1,000 copies from US sheets. The winner of the 1981 Booker Prize and, in 1993, winner of the Booker of Bookers Prize as the best novel to win the award in the first 25 years of its existence. £2,250

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RUSKIN, John. Modern Painters. Their Superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting to the Ancient Masters. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1851–60

SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Edwardians. London: The Hogarth Press, 1930

5 volumes, large octavo (258 × 172 mm). Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full blue morocco, raised bands to spines, titles and ornaments to compartments gilt, triple frames to boards gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, ornamental rolls to turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. With the original green cloth bound in. Frontispieces and numerous engravings throughout. Armorial bookplate of David Salomons Bart. to front pastedowns. Spines sunned, a few light scuff marks to boards, minor touch-ups to gilding on boards, slight offsetting from turn-ins and bookplates. Volume I: a couple of small repairs to front board edges, rear board slightly soiled; Volume V: extremities of front board lightly sunned. Otherwise an excellent set.

A complete set of Ruskin’s defence of modern painters, which the author began after reading a newspaper review attacking Turner’s contributions to 1842 year’s Royal Academy exhibition. This is the fifth edition, revised by the author, attractively bound by Zaehnsdorf. £975 86

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Octavo. Original japon-backed pink cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Corners slightly bumped and worn, a few light stains to spine, slight bump to lower front cover, edges tanned. An excellent copy.

signed limited edition, no. 44 of 125 copies signed by the author. Woolmer 235A.

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260 SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. The Little Prince. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943 Quarto. Original pale brown cloth, titles and pictorial design to spine and front board in dark red. With the dust jacket. Housed in a matching light brown cloth chemise and slipcase, case backed in brown morocco. Illustrated throughout by the author. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine ends and corners a bit

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first english-language edition, trade issue, contemporaneous with the first French edition also done in New York by the same publisher. Although the manuscript was composed in the author’s native French language, it was written in Asharoken, New York, and first published in New York City. £2,500

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261 SALTEN, Felix. Bambi. A Life in the Woods. Foreword by John Galsworthy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928 Octavo (215 × 140 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, gilt lettering to spine, gilt block of deer to front cover, original pictorial endpapers, gilt edges. Kurt Wiese black and white illustrations throughout. An excellent copy.

first english-language edition. The timeless tale of a deer and his woodland friends, which served as the basis for the Walt Disney film. £1,500

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262 SAYERS, Dorothy L. Whose Body? New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and geometric panelling to spine and front board in dark blue. One ownership signature to front pastedown and another inked out on the front free endpaper. Shaken, cloth rubbed, spine tanned, lower corner bumped, rear hinged cracked, endpapers tanned, contents toned. A good copy.

first edition of Sayers’s first detective novel, in which she introduces Lord Peter Wimsey. Published prior to the British edition. £750

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263 SAYERS, Dorothy L. Busman’s Honeymoon. A Love Story with Detective Interruptions. London: Victor Gollancz, 1937 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Very slight rubbing to ends and corners, gilt titles a little dulled. An excellent copy in the rubbed jacket with 2 small closed tears to foot of spine panel.

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first uk edition. Originally published in New York in the same year. This copy has all the issue points associated with the British first edition, including the erratum at p. 335. Gilbert A25, b. I.

£1,750

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264 SENDAK, Maurice. Nutshell Library. Pierre, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny and Chicken Soup with Rice. New York: Harper & Row, 1962 Miniature (95 × 63 mm). All four volumes in original pink cloth binding and with dust jackets. In the original pictorial slipcase housed in a cloth solander box with image of slipcase blocked to front. Illustrated by Sendak. An excellent and bright set, dust jacket with very minor wear to spine, in edge-worn slipcase.

first edition, each volume inscribed by Sendak with an original ink drawing pertaining to the corresponding story on the front free endpaper. Slipcase with gold price sticker affixed to front; the books in the preferred pink cloth first state binding. £2,250

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265 SEUSS, Dr. Dr. Seuss’s ABC. New York: Beginner Books, Random House, Inc., 1963 Octavo. Original pictorial laminate boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by Dr. Seuss. Mild soiling to covers, internally bright and clean, dust jacket with mild soiling to panels, small abrasion to top front edge and rear flap fold, a very good copy.

first edition. £475

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266 [SEUSS, Dr.] LESIEG, Theo. I Wish I Had Duck Feet. New York: Random House, 1965 88

Octavo. Original pictorial laminated boards, with dust jacket. B. Tobey illustrations. A bright copy in dust jacket with small chip to rear bottom edge, and mild creasing to lower front edge.

first edition, first issue, with the correct 195/195 price on the front flap. £725

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267 [SEUSS, Dr.] LESIEG, Theo. The Many Mice of Mr. Brice. New York: Random House, 1973 Octavo. Original pictorial laminated boards. Roy McKie illustrations. An excellent copy with all pop-ups and movable parts in working order.

first edition, first issue, with orange binding and the original price sticker to front board. Dr.

Seuss’s scarce pop-up book which was reissued as The Pop-Up Mice of Mr. Brice. £725

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268 SEUSS, Dr. The Cat’s Quizzer. New York: Beginner Books, Random House, 1976 Tall quarto. Original pictorial laminate boards, patterned endpapers. A little wear to ends of the spine and corners, which is very slightly faded. A very good copy.

first edition, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper, “for Cameron with Best Wishes, Dr. Seuss”. Younger & Hirsch 13.

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SHARP, Archibald. Bicycles & Tricycles. An Elementary Treatise on Their Design and Construction. With Examples and Tables. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and double-line rules to spine gilt, blind single fillet panels to the boards, black surface-paper endpapers. Copiously illustrated with engravings and engineering diagrams. A little rubbed at the extremities, mild foxing to the fore-edge, slightly later gift inscription to the first blank, but overall a very good copy indeed, the hinges, unusually, entirely uncracked.

first edition of this classic treatise on bicycle engineering. The author was an instructor in engineering design at the Central Technical College of South Kensington (incorporated into Imperial College in 1907) and the inventor of the first spoked tension wheel, which “dramatically improved a bicycle’s stability and balance” (Popular Science, December 1997). The book’s success rests not only on Sharp’s technical expertise, but also on his ability to make engineering accessible to the public. Not superseded until the 1970s, Sharp’s book is now uncommon in commerce. £750

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and a memoir, by William Michael Rossetti. In three volumes. London: John Slark, 1885 3 volumes, quarto. Late 20th century red half morocco binding, raised bands, titles to spines gilt, single rule to boards gilt, gilt to top edges. A very good set with mild bumping to corners, handsomely bound.

limited edition, no. 77 of 200 copies. Rossetti’s first edition of his literary hero was Shelley, with a Memoir (2 vols., 1870), which he revised (3 vols., 1878) in response to criticism of the first edition. £675

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271 SHERRIFF, R. C. The Hopkins Manuscript. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1939 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in blue. With the dust jacket. Spine darkened, contents toned, in the jacket that has a faded spine and a few tiny nicks to the extremities.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Vernon Bartlett, from Bob Sherriff, with every good wish. Esher, 28 April 1939.” Sherriff is best known today for his enduring play Journey’s End, based on his experiences as a captain in the First World War. The writer (and later politician) Vernon Bartlett had collaborated with Sherriff into turning the play into a novel, published in 1930. £450

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274 SPEECHLY, William. A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating and training that plant, so as to render it abundantly fruitful. Together with new hints on the formation of vineyards in England. York: Printed by G. Peacock for the author, 1790

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272 SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In Three Volumes. The Ninth Edition. London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1799

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rocco, with black onlay patches (imitating a Dalmatian’s colouring), title to spine gilt, cream endpapers with original pictorial endpapers at front and back, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone. A fine copy.

first edition. £1,500

Quarto. Original boards, rebacked to style, white paper title label printed in black to spine, untrimmed edges, partly uncut. Illustrated with 5 numbered engraved plates (3 folding). From the library of William Thomas Salvin, who owned the manor of Burn Hall in Durham from 1806, with his signature to both the half-title and title dated 1798. Small loss to bottom corner of title page, boards rubbed and spotted, faint offsetting to plates, a couple of small marginal tears, light spotting to contents, the occasional finger mark. An excellent copy.

first edition. A “practical, well-written and beautifully printed manual” (from Gabler, quoting Edward Hyams in Grapes under Cloches), the book proved to have long lasting popularity and two further editions appeared in 1805 and 1821. William Speechly (c.1740–1821), was gardener to the third Duke of Portland, at his estate Welbeck Abbey in Notting-

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the last 18th-century edition of Smith’s highly influential work. Tribe 67.

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273 SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians. London: Heinemann, 1956 Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in white mo-

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hamshire. Encouraged by the duke he started writing down and publishing his knowledge and experience in gardening; already in 1776 he had contributed to Alexander Hunter’s edition of Evelyn’s Silva, which was shortly followed by his own Treatise on the Culture of the Pineapple (1779). In the present work Speechly describes 50 species of grapes, and thoroughly examines hothouse culture, the construction and management of vineyards, pruning, irrigation, grafting, insect and blight control, etc. There was also an undated edition published in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. Although Bibliotheca Vinaria prioritizes the undated London edition by suggesting a publication date of 1789, this seems unlikely. Speechly was based in Nottinghamshire and had connections in Yorkshire where his career as a gardener had started, at Castle Howard. This edition is printed at his expense and is surely the true first.

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Folio. Original black cloth, titles and rules to front board and spine in gilt. No dust jacket was produced for this edition. Numerous full page photogravure illustrations by Steichen. Extremities lightly rubbed and faded, foxing to fore edge of text block, light foxing to other edges, occasional light spot to fore margin of plates. A stunning copy, the best one we have come across.

signed limited edition, no. 898 of 925 copies signed by Sandberg and Steichen. One of the great photographic books of its era, reproducing with brilliant quality some of Steichen’s very best work, including his iconic portraits of Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, and Fred Astaire, as well as his still lives. £2,750

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STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, 1939 Octavo (202 × 133 mm). Publisher’s presentation binding of dark blue half morocco, titles to spine gilt, author’s name gilt on brown ground, greyish-tan cloth sides, grey endpapers, top edge gilt. A little rubbing to spine and extremities, endpapers tanned from turn-ins, small chips to the edges of a few leaves at rear. An excellent copy.

one of ten copies of the fifth printing specially bound for presentation at the request of the author, this copy with the presentation leaf left blank. £3,250

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STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in dark green on brown background, front board lettered in dark green. With the dust jacket. A fine copy, with extremely minor fading to the cloth, in the unclipped jacket that has minor toning to the top of the flaps.

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279 STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. London: Humphrey Milford, 1929 Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, black, and white, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. With the illustrated dust wrapper. Housed in the original illustrated slipcase. With coloured frontispiece, 11 colour plates, one map, and occasional black and white decorations in text by Rowland Hilder. With contemporary gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Extremities slightly rubbed, light foxing to edges, endpapers slightly browned, occasional spotting throughout. An excellent copy in an excellent jacket with slightly tanned spine, a few light stains to front cover, and a small chip to rear cover. Housed in a very good slipcase with soiled back and slightly worn corners.

first edition with these illustrations. £475

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280 STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897 Octavo (190 × 125 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in mustard-yellow morocco in imitation of the original cloth binding, lettered in red on spine and front cover, single-line border tooled in red on sides, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, Toning to pages with some spotting, small stamp and ink lettering to title page, a very good copy.

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first edition, early issue, printed on less bulky paper stock then the very first copies, of Stoker’s classic tale of vampirism. £3,750

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281 SUDEK, Josef. Praha panoramatická. Prague: Státní Nakladatelství Krásné Literatury, Hudby a Uméní, 1959 Oblong quarto (350 × 220 mm). Original cream cloth, illustration to covers and titles to spine in black, top edge black, others trimmed. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with 284 monochrome panoramic photographs. Boards very mildly soiled. Otherwise a fine copy in a gently toned jacket with slightly nicked extremities, a few small chips to spine ends and folds, and a couple of minor holes to rear panel.

first edition, signed and dated by Sudek on the front flyleaf: “J. Sudek, Praha 10/III 59”. Sudek’s most famous book, this volume collects 284 beautiful panoramic views of Prague. “No photographer, save possibly Atget, was so devoted to the task of portraying a city, and with such stunning results, as Sudek” (Sawyer, Creative Camera, no. 190, April 1980). Parr & Badger I, 211.

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282 SUDEK, Josef, & Emanuel Poche. Karlův most: ve fotografii. Prague: Státní Nakladatelství, 1961 Quarto. Original grey boards, illustration to front cover gilt, titles to spine in blue. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with 160 black and white photographic plates. A fine copy in a mildly toned jacket with a few nicks and minor chips to extremities repaired with tape to verso.

first edition, presentation copy inscribed on the front flyleaf by Sudek in Czech and dated 20 May 1961. This volume collects numerous photographs by Sudek of Prague’s oldest bridge, the Charles Bridge. £2,500

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283 SWINBURNE, Charles Algernon. The Complete Works. London: William Heinemann, 1925 20 volumes, octavo (220 × 145 mm). Full burgundy morocco by Stikeman and Co, raised bands, gilt titles to spine, ornate floral design to spine and covers, silk endpapers, gilt top edge. An excellent set.

the bonchurch edition, no. 5 of 780 sets. A very attractive library set. £2,850

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284 [TAYLOR, Phoebe Atwood.] Freeman Dana. Murder at the New York World’s Fair. New York: Random House, 1938

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Octavo. Original blue and orange cloth, titles to spine and decoration to front board in blue. With the dust jacket. Faint spotting to spine, some foxing to endpapers and margins of last leaves. An excellent copy in a rubbed jacket with a few tiny chips and short closed tears.

first edition. Random House commissioned Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909–1976) to write the book to coincide with the much publicized World’s Fair which took place in 1939. It is the only novel the author wrote under the pseudonym Freeman Dana (she also wrote as Alice Tilton). Scarce in dust jacket. Hubin pp. 105 & 389.

£1,250

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285 TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. Lyrical Poems. Selected and Annotated by Francis T. Palgrave. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885 Octavo (154 × 97 mm). Early 20th-century green morocco, spine, boards, and turn-ins elaborately gilt blocked with art nouveau style floral design, yellow silk doublures and free endpapers, edges gilt over green. Near-contemporary gift inscription to front blank. Boards browned, dampstain and spotting to silk endpapers. A very good copy.

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286 THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 Octavo (210 × 137 mm). Finely bound by W. Root & Son, red pebble-grained morocco, gilt tool reproducing Thackeray’s caricature of himself as a jester (woodcut tailpiece, Chapter IX) to front board and spine, spine gilt in compartments with gilt titles direct, twin rules and floral cornerpieces to sides, turn-ins and top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece, vignette title and 38 plates with tissue guards, illustrations throughout the text. Small minor scuff to rear board, joints faintly worn, tiny closed tear to fore edge of front free endpaper, outer edges of free endpapers tanned, the occasional light blemish to contents, final plate very mildly tanned. An excellent copy with bright plates.

first edition, first issue, with all the points traditionally associated with the first edition: the drophead title in rustic lettering to page 1; the “Marquis of Steyne” woodcut on page 336 (later suppressed); and “Mr Pitt” for “Sir Pitt” on page 453 (“Mr” underlined in light pencil). £1,250

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287 THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Works. London: J. M. Dent, 1904

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30 volumes, octavo (207 × 140 mm). Contemporary black half morocco, marbled boards, raised bands to spines, titles and floral decorations to compartments gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Each volume with tissue-guarded frontispieces as well as numerous illustrations in text, including the original illustrations by

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the temple edition of Thackeray’s works, no. 11 of 250 sets issued.

Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Very slight wear to rear joint. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed price-clipped jacket with a few creases to covers and a small dark mark to front cover.

£2,250

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(THATCHER, Margaret.) MURRAY, Patricia. Margaret Thatcher. London: W. H. Allen, 1980

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289 THATCHER, Margaret. The Downing Street Years. London: Harper Collins, 1993 Octavo. Original full blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, all edges gilt, blue silk ribbon page marker. With the slipcase Book fine in slipcase with light rubbing to lower edge.

signed limited edition, one of 250 copies signed by Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to lead a major Western democracy. [92131]

£1,250

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290 THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. New York: Random House, 1971 Octavo. Original black cloth-backed grey boards, titles to spine in silver, Ralph Steadman design decoration to front board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. With illustrated title page and 19 black and white line drawings by Ralph Steadman. Top edges of boards a bit sunned, edges slightly foxed. An excellent copy in a very lightly rubbed jacket with mildly toned spine panel and gently bumped spine ends.

first edition of Thompson’s best-selling acidfuelled romp. [92553]

£750

291 THOMPSON, Hunter S. Hey Rube. Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward

Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the Sports Desk. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004 Octavo. Original grey and pink boards, spine lettered in silver. With the dust jacket. A fine copy, in a fine, bright jacket.

first edition, signed by the author on the title page. Thompson’s last book, collected from his weekly column called “Hey, Rube” for ESPN.com’s “Page 2”, before his death in 2005. £450

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292 THOMPSON, Hunter S. Gonzo. Introduction by Johnny Depp. Los Angeles: AMMO Books, 2006 Folio. Original illustrated boards, titles to front board and spine in red and orange, black endpapers. Housed in the original blue cloth solander box and the original cardboard packing box. With an original photograph by Thompson mounted to inside of solander box lid with corner mounts. Book illustrated with numerous photographs and artworks by Thompson, Steve Christ, Annie Leibovitz, and Ralph Steadman. A fine copy.

first edition, no. 2,438 of 3,000 copies. AMMO Books’ first publication—prepared in collaboration with Thompson, though issued posthumously— brings together the author’s photographs and archives to create a large-scale visual biography. £750 288

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293 TIMLIN, William M. The Ship that Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy. London: George G. Harrap, 1923 Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full blue morocco, gilt titles and box design to spine, raised bands, gilt rules to boards, centre onlay pictorial design of a ship and stars to front board, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges. 48 mounted colour plates, and 48 mounted pages of text by Timlin on grey background paper. A fine copy.

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the original 14th-century manuscript (now held as part of the Cotton Library at the British Library) with copious notes, details and glossaries by Tolkien and Gordon. Scarce in the dust jacket. Hammond B7a.

£2,250

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TOLKIEN, J. R. R., & E. V. Gordon, eds. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925

Octavo. Original buff wrappers printed in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Small contemporary ownership signature to title page, occasional small marginal mark in light pencil. Wrappers edges a little creased, short splits to head and tail of backstrip. An excellent copy.

first edition. £4,500

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Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and axe design to front board gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. With the dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece. Contents largely unopened. Spine slightly faded, spine ends slightly rubbed, light foxing throughout. An excellent copy in toned jacket with a few small chips along the top of rear panel.

first edition. With the errata slip tipped-in facing p. vi. A scholarly edition of the Middle English alliterative romance, the text being reproduced from 96

first edition, preceding by six months its appearance in Vol. 22 of the annual Proceedings of the British Academy. One of 500 copies printed. Hammond & Anderson A2.

£1,250

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296 TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Hobbit or There and Back Again. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1937 Octavo (190 × 135 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, titles to spine and front cover gilt, raised with bands with gilt to compartments, gilt blocked dragon to front cover, gilt rule to turn ins, original map endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece and 9 illustrations after the author’s drawings; with final advert leaf. An excellent copy.

first edition. Hammond & Anderson A3b.

£7,500

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297 TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968 Octavo (215 × 143 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt in two compartments, gilt rules, raised bands with dotted gilt roll, front cover with large eye of Sauron motif in gilt, covers ruled around in gilt, green endpapers, twin rule to turn ins, gilt edges. A fine copy.

first one-volume edition. the Lord of the Rings was always intended as a single-volume work,

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though it was originally published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955. This edition, originally issued as a paperback, has Tolkien’s definitive text, from the second edition of 1966, published in one volume for the first time. £1,500

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298 TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace. From the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Authorized translation. In four volumes. London: Walter Scott, [1889] 4 volumes, octavo. Contemporary tan polished calf by John Bumpus, spines gilt-lettered direct and with floral motifs in compartments, board edges gilt with dotted roll, turnins gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With the half-titles. A little occasional rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.

first complete translation into english from the russian, the work of the American editor and translator Nathan Haskell Dole (1852–1935). This English issue omits the preface to the American edition but retains Dole’s editorial footnotes. Walter Scott reissued the work in two volumes in 1897. The English translation was preceded by Vizetelly’s truncated version and by Clara Bell’s translation from the

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French, both 1886. Dole was the editor of Tolstoi’s Collected Works (20 volumes, 1899). Line–Ettlinger–Gladstone 105.

£3,500

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299 TOMLINSON, D. W. “Tommy”. The Sky’s the Limit. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1930 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles gilt and decorations in dark blue to spine and front board, top edge dark blue. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 24 other plates. With bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine ends very lightly rubbed, pastedowns slightly browned. An

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excellent copy in a bright jacket with slightly faded spine and minor repairs to verso of folds and spine ends.

first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: “To Mason Letteau, with Kindest regards, D. W. ‘Tommy’ Tomlinson”. A lovely copy in the art deco jacket designed by Guy E. Fry. £575

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300 TREVOR, Elleston. Now Try the Morgue. London: Gerald G. Swan, 1948 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt and front board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. Light mottling to the boards, spine ends and edges of boards a bit rubbed, front inner hinge partially cracked to gauze lining, edges and margins of text block toned. Otherwise an excellent copy in a bright jacket with slightly toned spine and rear panels, a small light dampstain to edge of rear panel, a few short closed tears to front and rear panels, spine ends mildly nicked.

first edition of this gangster novel written by the prolific author of The Flight of the Phoenix (1964). £750

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301 VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. The Polar Express. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985 Oblong quarto. Original burgundy cloth, bell design to front board and spine lettered in silver, brown endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout by the author. A few nicks on jacket extremities, one short closed tear on the rear panel. An excellent copy.

first edition, with the $15.95 price on the jacket and the complete number line down to 1 on the copyright page. £525

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302 VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co, Ltd, 1899 Octavo. Original dark-green vertical grain cloth, spine lettered gilt and gilt bands at head and foot, covers with four blind rules at head and three blind rules at foot, top edge gilt, others uncut. Minuscule ownership signature to front pastedown. Spine rolled, extremities a little rubbed, top corners of boards slightly bumped, front and rear inner joints a touch tender. An excellent copy.

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first edition, with the author’s carte-de-visite pasted onto the title page. Norwegian-American professor Thorstein Veblen’s first and most successful work was written as a serious economic analysis of contemporary America, but after William Dean Howells gave the book a rave review as a social satire, it became a best-seller. “Into it he poured all the acidulous ideas and fantastic terminology that had been simmering in his mind for years. It was a savage attack upon the business class and their pecuniary values, half concealed behind an elaborate screenwork of irony, mystification and polysyllabic learning” (DAB). “The treatise is essentially an analysis of the latent functions of ‘conspicuous consumption’ and ‘conspicuous waste’ as symbols of upperclass status and as competitive methods of enhancing individual prestige. Veblen’s term ‘conspicuous consumption’ has become part of everyday language” (IESS) and in modern economy Veblen goods are those whose demand increases in proportion to their price, in contradiction with the law of demand. Einaudi 5851; Grolier, American, 100.

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303 VERNE, Jules. Works. Edited by Charles F. Horne. New York: Vincent Parke and Co., 1911

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15 volumes, octavo (226 × 155 mm). Bound for Brentano’s in dark green half morocco, dark green linen cloth, raised bands to spine, gilt titles and figurative tools of an elephant, an airplane, a hot air balloon, and a ship to compartments, ruling to boards gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 10 hand-coloured lithographs, 33 sepia and black-and-white lithographs, all with captioned tissue guards, occasional illustrations in text; hand-coloured limitation leaf in Volume I. Fore edges gently tanned, light offsetting from turn-ins. An excellent set.

WAGNER, Richard. Der Ring des Nibelungen. Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung. Mainz: B. Schott’s Söhne, 1876 Octavo. Contemporary green cloth, titles and Carow’s monogram to front board gilt. With 4 cabinet cards by W. Höffert, featuring opera singers performing as Wotan, Sieglinde, Siegfried, and Brünnhilde. Extremities slightly rubbed, minor wear to bottom corner of front board, lightly foxed throughout.

edition d’amiens, limited to 600 sets, collecting 26 of Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires. £8,750

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The copy of Emily Tyler Carow (1865—1939—sisterin-law of President Theodore Roosevelt), with her owner signature and date to front free endpaper, and with occasional marginalia in her hand specifying who performed the different roles in Dresden, 1894. The first public performance of the complete Ring cycle was at Beyreuth in August 1876, though Schott’s first edition of the complete libretti was dated a year earlier.

304 VONNEGUT, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday. With drawings by the author. [New York:] Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1973

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Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front board in blue and gilt, black endpapers, top edge yellow. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author. Contents faintly toned. A remarkably fresh copy in a jacket with a few spots to top edge of rear flap.

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306 WAGNER, Richard. My Life. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1911 2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, gilt titles to spines. With the dust jackets. With frontispiece portraits and tissue guards. Front and rear covers slightly rubbed, endpapers lightly browned, tanned deckle edges. A very good copy in dust jackets with nicks and splits to extremities and minor wear to Volume II rear cover.

first english-language edition of Wagner’s autobiography, Mein Leben, which he had dictated to his wife Cosima, and had privately printed in small numbers between 1870 and 1880 (with the young Friedrich Nietzsche as proof-reader). Due to its controversial content, Cosima attempted to recall all published copies, and it was only in 1911 that a generally published edition was achieved, by F. Bruckmann of Munich. Constable’s is the English translation of that edition, and the first edition in English. £525

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307 WALPOLE, Horace. Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the Principal Artists, and Incidental Notes on Other Arts, Collected by the Late Mr. George Vertue, Digested and Published from his Journal MSS. by the Honourable Horace Walpole, with 100

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may be bound together, or sold each of them severally. London: Printed for Richard Marriot, and sold by most Booksellers, 1676

5 volumes, octavo (245 × 155 mm). Contemporary red half morocco by C. Lewis, raised bands, fleur-de-lis tools to compartments gilt, titles to spines gilt, red cloth sides, twin ruling to boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 81 engraved plates, including frontispieces and woodcut head- and tail-pieces. 3 auction records neatly tipped-in on initial blank of Volume I. Very minor rubbing to spines and boards, top edge of front board of Volume V a touch faded, light foxing throughout and occasional mild offsetting from plates. A very good set.

3 volumes in one, octavo (150 × 90 mm.). Contemporary brown calf with covers twin-ruled in blind, unlettered, raised bands with twin rules in blind, all edges marbled. Dark red morocco pull-off case, green morocco labels, with chemise. First eight words of first title engraved within a cartouche of dolphins and fish, first six words of third title engraved within a cartouche of angling paraphernalia, 10 engravings attributed to Pierre Lombart in Part I (repeated in part II), woodcut initials and headpieces, 2 pages of printed music. Front board expertly repaired, contemporary ownership inscriptions to pastedowns and front endpaper, a couple of small marginal annotations in light pencil. Hairline cracks to spine and sides, marbling to edges faded, occasional marginal dampstaining, tiny loss to bottom corner of one leaf. An excellent copy.

A handsomely bound set of this copiously illustrated edition of Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, which was originally published in 1762. £1,000

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308 WALTON, Izaak; Charles Cotton; Robert Venables. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man’s Recreation. Part. I. Being a Discourse of Rivers, and Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing. The Fifth Edition much corrected and enlarged. The Universal Angler, Made so, by Three Books of Fishing. The First by Mr. Izaak Walton; The Second by Charles Cotton Esq.; The Third by Col. Robert Venables. All which

first complete edition, the fifth overall, the last to receive Walton’s own revisions, bound under the title The Universal Angler, with Charles Cotton’s and Robert Venables’s continuations, “all of which may be bound together, or sold each of them severally”. Venables’s text, The Experienced Angler, or Angling Improved, is the fourth, enlarged, edition (the third extant) and Cotton’s Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream is the first edition. Pforzheimer 1052; Wing W674.

£6,000

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309 WAUGH, Evelyn. Vile Bodies. London: Chapman & Hall, 1930 Octavo. Original black and red snakeskin cloth, titles to spine gilt. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. With the front panel of the dust jacket loosely inserted. Spine very slightly faded, spine

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ends and bottom corners slightly worn, edges tanned, slight foxing throughout, a few small red stains along the bottom edge of prelims. An excellent copy.

first edition, presentation copy inscribed to David and Tamara Talbot-Rice on the front free endpaper: “For David & Tamara with love from Evelyn (published Jan. 14th 1930).” The Talbot-Rices were friends of Waugh’s from Oxford; both went on to become art historians. £7,500

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Octavo. Original black and red snakeskin cloth, titles to spine gilt. With black and white frontispiece by J.  D.  M. Harvey. With the front panel of the dust jacket loosely inserted and small bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Spine cocked and very slightly faded, edges tanned, light foxing throughout. An excellent copy.

first edition of Waugh’s fourth published novel, considered by many his masterpiece.

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WAUGH, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder. A Novel. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1945 Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Contemporary US bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine rolled, extremities lightly rubbed, top corner of boards a little bumped. A very good copy in a slightly chipped jacket with tanning to spine panel and one faint ring mark to front panel.

first edition.

WAUGH, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. London: Chapman & Hall, 1934

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312 WAUGH, Evelyn. The Loved One. An AngloAmerican Tragedy. Illustrated by Stuart Boyle. London: Chapman & Hall, [1948] Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Spine gently rolled, extremities a touch rubbed. An excellent copy.

signed limited edition, no. 66 of 250 numbered large-paper copies signed by both author and illustrator, this copy additionally inscribed by Waugh, “Mr. G. Edward Line’s copy”. G. Edward Line was London president of the Rotary Club. £2,500

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313 WAUGH, Evelyn. Love among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future. With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands Including the Author’s. London: Chapman & Hall, 1953 Octavo, pp. 51. Original red cloth, decoration to front board and titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt others untrimmed, printed in black and dark red. Illustrations in dark red.

signed limited edition, no. 23 of 50 copies reserved for presentation from the author, and with his additional inscription to the limitation page, “Jack & Frankie with love from Evelyn”. The recipients were Waugh’s friends Jack and Frances Donaldson, the latter being the author of Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour (1967). Their bookplate is affixed to the front free endpaper. The signed limited edition totalled 350 copies. £2,250

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314 WEST, Mae. The Constant Sinner (Babe Gordon). London: John Long, Limited, [1934] 102

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Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in white. With the dust jacket. Rear joint split at foot, spine faded, a few marks to boards, light foxing to outer leaves. A very good copy in the jacket that has a tear at the foot of the front joint, another short tear and a chip at foot, still bright.

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first uk edition; originally published in New York, 1930. Mae West played the role of Babe Gordon in her play The Constant Sinner on Broadway, 14 September to November 1931. With Long’s publisher’s list for spring 1934 at the end.

Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in bright blue morocco, spider’s web blocked in silver foil across the boards, twin rule to turn-ins in silver, red and blue pattern endpapers, silver edges. Black and white illustrations in the text. A fine copy.

£750

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

first edition. £1,500

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316 WHITMAN, Walt. Signed proof leaf with one page of poems from Leaves of Grass. [Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891] Single leaf (c.250 × 125 mm) printed with one proof page of text, and a single cutting (comprising the title and first 5 lines of “A Persian Lesson” from the previous page) pasted down at the head. Three horizontal folds with verso repair strengthening some folds at the edges, some mild creases to corners.

proof sheet, signed by whitman and dated “April 8 ’91”, of page 419 (and a cutting from page 418 pasted down at head) of the “Deathbed Edition” (1891–2) of Leaves of Grass. The poems presented are “A Persian Lesson”, “The Commonplace”, and “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”, all from the “Good Bye My Fancy” annex. Of the poems on this leaf, the first, “A Persian Lesson”, presented alongside Whitman’s signature dated less than a year before his death (26 March 1892), is perhaps the most evocative of a last testament—“For his o’erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi … under an ancient chestnut-tree wide spreading its branches, /

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spoke to the young priests and students.” The lesson, couched in the idiom of Eastern philosophy with which Whitman was enchanted, is one concerned with cosmic consciousness and the way to visionary ecstasy, the kernel being: “It is the central urge in every atom … / to return to its divine source and origin.”

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dated reprint published in October 1895 under the Ward Lock & Bowden Limited imprint (Mason 330) repeats the error. £3,000

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WILDE, Oscar. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime & other stories. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1891

WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward, Lock and Co., [1891]

Crown octavo. Original orange paper boards, titles to spine and front board in dark red, decoration by Charles Ricketts to spine and boards in dark red. Contemporary bookplate of Charles Batchelor to front pastedown. Spine slightly cocked, extremities a little rubbed, front inner hinge starting, partial light foxing to endpapers, faint tanning to halftitle. An outstanding copy; scarce thus.

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Octavo (195 × 135 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in vellum, titles and gilt rules to spine, single rule to boards, floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some mild spotting to prelims and fore-edge, an excellent copy.

first edition in book form. The story was first published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, July 1890, and was substantially revised for book publication, with six new chapters. The point often given for this first printing of April 1891 (p. 208, l. 23, “nd” for “and”) is not sufficiently distinctive, as the un-

first edition, one of 2,000 copies printed. This volume contains four short stories: the title story, “The Sphinx without a Secret”, “The Canterville Ghost”, and “The Model Millionaire”. Mason 345.

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319 WILDE, Oscar. Lady Windermere’s Fan. A Play about a Good Woman. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893 Quarto (218 × 160 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, panelling to boards gilt, floral corner pieces gilt, decoration to turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Mild toning to pages, an excellent copy.

first edition. £3,750

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320 WILLYAMS, Cooper. A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Ship the Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B., now Viscount and Baron Nelson of the Nile, and Duke of Bronte in Sicily. With a Description of the Battle of the Nile on the First of August 1798, and a detail of events that 104

occurred subsequent to the battle in various parts of the Mediterranean. London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. White, 1802 Quarto (297 × 240 mm). Modern dark blue half morocco, marbled boards, raised bands to spine, titles to spine gilt, floral decorations to compartments gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers. With etched

dedication page by Thomas Girtin, 40 aquatints signed J. C. Stadler, all but one after drawings by the author, occasional woodcut tailpieces, one double-paged map, and one plan detailing the battle of the Nile. Joints, corners, and tail of spine very gently rubbed, light offsetting from plates throughout, occasional small nicks and chips to margins of text block. An excellent copy.

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Abbey Travel 196; Blackmer 1813; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.335; Prideaux, p.223.

£2,500

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321 [WILSON, Bill.] Alcoholics Anonymous. The story of how more than one hundred men have recovered from alcoholism. New York: The Works Publishing Company, 1939 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to front board and spine gilt. Gift inscription to front free endpaper, contents a little toned but an unusually nice copy. 320

first edition of this richly illustrated first-hand account. The topographer and artist Cooper Willyams (1762–1816) was serving as chaplain on board the Swiftsure during the Battle of the Nile and “his account, full of engravings from his own drawings … contained ‘the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle’” (ODNB).

first edition of the founding text of Alcoholics Anonymous, hugely influential through its mutation into the wider Twelve Steps movement. The first

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edition is a genuinely rare book. With an inscription on the half-title dated 1978 “To Sybil and Bob in memory of Frank Thatcher from Cliff and Dorothy Walker”, all of whom were early members of the Los Angeles chapter. £7,500

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322 WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus. Introduction by Bertrand Russell. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1922 Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turnins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. An excellent copy bound without the advertisements at the back.

first edition of one of the philosophical masterpieces of the 20th century, the inspiration for the Cambridge school of analysis of the inter-war years and of the logical positivism of the Vienna circle. £2,250

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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Carry On, Jeeves! London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1925

WODEHOUSE, P. G. Meet Mr. Mulliner. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928

WODEHOUSE, P. G. Summer Lightning. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1929

Octavo. Original light green cloth, titles to spine in black, titles and decoration to front board in black. With the illustrated dust jacket. With owner signature and date to front free endpaper. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, edges tanned, small closed tear to p. 128. An excellent copy in a lightly rubbed jacket with a few closed tears to covers and small chips to top of folds and rear cover.

first edition of this collection of ten short stories. McIlvaine A34a.

£4,750

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Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front cover in red. With the illustrated dust jacket. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed. An excellent copy in jacket with sunned spine, slightly rubbed and nicked extremities, and small tape repairs to verso of spine ends.

Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered and blocked in black, front board lettered in black. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped, extremities faded, some stains to the head and foot of the spine, some foxing to contents, in the jacket

first us edition of this collection of nine short stories. Wodehouse introduces the character of Mr Mulliner who narrates all of the tales. Originally published in London by Herbert Jenkins, 1927. McIlvaine A38b.

£750

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that has a lightly faded spine, panels slightly creased and a little marked, and a few tiny nicks to extremities. A very good, bright, copy.

first uk edition, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author: “With the author’s compliments, P. G. Wodehouse, Aug. 1929.” The novel originally appeared as a serial in both America and Britain earlier that same year. It had been first published in book form some three weeks earlier in America under the title Fish Preferred. McIlvaine A41b.

£4,750

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326 WODEHOUSE, P. G. Blandings Castle and Elsewhere. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1935 Octavo. Original light blue-green cloth, titles and publish-

er’s device to spine in black, titles to front board in black, top edge dark blue-green. With the illustrated dust jacket. Spine gently cocked and sunned, small dark stain to rear board, edges slightly foxed, front inner hinge cracked to gauze lining but firm. An excellent copy in a bright jacket with nicked and chipped extremities, minor foxing to spine, and a few closed tears professionally repaired.

first edition of this collection of short stories. McIlvaine A53a.

£2,500

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ends and corners slightly rubbed, light browning to endpapers, text block cracked to gauze lining between pp. 320-1, but still firm. An excellent copy in a worn but bright jacket with a large closed tear to front panel professionally repaired, nicked and chipped extremities, slightly toned flaps, and light foxing to verso.

first omnibus edition, collecting the stories in Meet Mr Mulliner (1927) and Mr Mulliner Speaking (1929), as well as the Mulliner stories from Blandings Castle (1935). McIlvaine B5a.

£1,250

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WODEHOUSE, P. G. Mulliner Omnibus. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1935 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board in dark green, top edge dark green. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Spine-

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328 WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. London: Hogarth Press, 1929 Octavo (180 × 120 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.

first edition, trade issue.

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light spotting to contents. An excellent copy in a rubbed slipcase with neatly repaired edges.

ows to front free endpaper, occasional light finger mark to contents. An excellent copy.

signed limited edition, no. 472 of 550 copies signed by the author.

first edition, one of 500 copies printed of Yeats’s lyrical, visionary play.

Kirkpatrick A15.

Symons p. 11; Wade 30.

£1,250

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WYNDHAM, John. The Day of the Triffids. London: Michael Joseph, 1951

WOOLF, Virginia. Beau Brummell. New York: Rimington & Hooper, 1930

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the illustrated dust jacket. Housed in a green cloth solander box. Spine ends and edges of boards slightly rubbed, very light circular stain to rear board. Otherwise an excellent copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket with a few nicks and a small tape repair to verso of head of spine.

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Royal quarto. Original red cloth-backed grey boards, pink paper label to front board, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt. In the original green card slipcase. With 2 illustrations by W. A. Dwiggins in pink, green and orange. Spine a little tanned, a few minor marks and nicks to boards, sporadic

£750

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first edition. An attractive copy of this science fiction classic. £2,500

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331 YEATS, W. B. The Shadowy Waters. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1900

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Quarto. Original blue vertical-grain cloth, titles to spine, flower design to front board, and top edge gilt, bevelled boards. Cloth a little rubbed, wear to extremities, faint spotting and tanning to endpapers, two small tape shad-

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332 YEATS, W. B. In the Seven Woods: being poems chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age. Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1903 Octavo. Original white linen, white paper label to front board with titles in red, printed in black and red, all edges uncut, partly unopened. Endpapers toned, cloth a little spotted and with some cockling. An excellent copy.

first edition, one of 325 copies printed. The first book printed from the Yeats sisters’ press. Symons p. 15; Wade 49.

£2,250

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Front cover illustration from W. E. Johns’s Biggles—Air Commodore, item 153

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