Modern Literature & Illustrated Books

Barbier (George, illustrator, 1882-1932) Six plates from Choderlos de Laclos' 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses', six pochoir plates only, each approx. 21...

Bates (H.E.) The Spring Song and In View of the Fact That, number 24 of 50 copies signed by the author, frontispiece portrait by William Roberts, ...

NO RESERVE Belloc (Hillaire) The Girondin, presentation inscription "from the author", autograph poem in the author's hand to endpaper, original c...

Bindings.- Innes (Hammond) The Conquistadors, 1970 § Wilson (Angus) The World of Charles Dickens, 1971 § Priestley (J.B.) The Prince of Pleasure a...

Brooke (Rupert) "1914" Five Sonnets [2 copies], original printed wrappers, 1915 § Blunden (Edmund) To Nature [2 copies], number 6 of 80 copies on ...

NO RESERVE [Bruller (Jean)], "Vercors". Le Silence de la Mer, second (first English) edition, newspaper clipping laid down on dedication p., origi...

Coppard (A. E.) The Higgler, number 4 of 39 copies with a sheet of the original manuscript, title in red and black with wood-engraved vignette, ma...

Corinth (Lovis, 1858-1925) Umarmung, etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, signed in pencil, platemark 180 x 160 mm. (7 x 6 1/4 in), sheet 255...

Dahl (Roald) Two Fables, 1986 § de Bernières (Louis) A Day out of Mehmet Erbil, signed by artist with an initialled print inserted into pocket at ...

Davies (William Henry) The Soul's Destroyer and Other Poems, pencil proof corrections throughout, ink ownership inscriptions of Laurence W. Hockey...

de la Mare (Walter) Seven Short Stories, number 159 of 170 copies signed by the author and artist, colour plates by John Nash, spotting to endpape...

Detmold (Edward J.).- Maeterlinck (Maurice) Hours of Gladness, pictorial title and 20 mounted colour plates by Edward Detmold, original pictorial ...

Douglas (Norman) Looking Back, 2 vol., dust-jackets, slip-case, 1933; South Wind, 1922, Experiments, dust-jacket, slip-case, Privately Printed, 19...

Dowson (Ernest) Verses, one of 300 'small paper' copies, title printed in red and black, tape marks to endpapers, original parchment boards with g...

Durrell (Lawrence) Six Poems from the Greek of Sekilianos and Seferis, first edition, photographic illustration to title, very light browning to t...

Durrell (Lawrence) The Alexandria Quartet, number 100 of 500 copies signed by the author, original cloth, spine slightly faded, 1962; A Private Co...

Eliot (T.S.) and others, contributors. Coterie [and] The New Coterie, 12 vol., comprising nos. 1-6/7 and 1-6 (all published), black & white illust...

NO RESERVE Feuille (André) Louis Jou: Biobibliogaphie, one of 750 copies, original printed wrappers, Bordeaux, 1984 § Matisse (Henri) Jazz, reprin...

French erotica.- Chimot (Édouard, 1880-1959) Two nudes, etching and drypoint printed with plate tone, signed in pencil in the lower right corner, ...

NO RESERVE French School (20th century) Study of two nudes, coloured chalks on wove paper over pencil, 500 x 370 mm. (19 3/4 x 14 1/2 in), under g...

NO RESERVE Gibson (Wilfred Wilson) The Early Whistler, full-page colour illustration by John Nash, original red wrappers with illustration by Nash...

Greene (Graham) The Great Jowett, original cloth, 1981; Yes and No and For Whom the Bell Chimes [2 copies], original cloth, 1983; Yes and No, orig...

Gregory (Isabella Augusta, Lady) Three Last Plays, number 7 of 150 copies signed by the author, 1928 § Gregory (Isabella Augusta, Lady, editor) Id...

NO RESERVE Guinness (Alec) A Positively Final Appearance, 1999 § Brown (Gordon) Beyond the Crash, 2010 § Thubron (Colin) In Siberia, 1999; Shadow ...

Hanley (James) Drift, jacket spine slightly faded, small abrasion to upper panel, 1930; A Passion Before Death, number 130 of 200 copies signed by...

NO RESERVE Hughes (Ted) Birthday Letters, number 31 of 300 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, 1998; and another, Hughes, 8...

Huxley (Aldous) Eyeless in Gaza, number 185 of 200 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, small mark to spine, light creasing ...

NO RESERVE Jazz.- Mezzrow (Milton "Mezz") and Bernard Wolfe. Really the Blues, first edition, signed by Mezzrow on front free endpaper, original c...

Lawrence (D.H.) Pansies, number 184 of 500 copies signed by the author, portrait frontispiece, original stiff wrappers, glacine dust-jacket (brow...

Le Gallienne (Richard) War, one of 50 copies, autograph poem "War" signed by the author loosely inserted, A.L.s. from the author loosely inserted,...

Maillol (Aristide, 1861-1944) Four plates from 'L'Art d'aimer d'Ovide', lithographs, two printed in black and two in sanguine, each on laid paper ...

Mathers (Powys) Eastern Love, 12 vol., one of 1,000 copies, hand-coloured plates by Hester Sainsbury, original calf-backed pictorial cloth, gilt, ...

Maugham (William Somerset) The Moon and Sixpence, signed presentation inscription from the author, additionally signed by the author on title, T.L...

Maugham (William Somerset) The Razor's Edge, first edition, number 675 of 750 copies signed by the author, original red buckram, spine very slight...

Maugham (William Somerset) Cakes and Ale, signed by artist, lithographed frontispiece portrait and decorations by Graham Sutherland, light brownin...

McEwan (Ian) Solar, number 76 of 100 specially-bound copies, signed by the author, original morocco, slip-case, 2010; Atonement, first edition, s...

Moore (George) The Apostle. A Drama in Three Acts, first edition, Dublin and Boston, 1911; In Single Strictness, limited edition, signed by the au...

O'Casey (Sean) Two Plays. Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman, signed presentation inscription from the author to Alice Warrender to fron...

Pater (Walter) Marius the Epicurean, 2 vol., one of 325 copies, 16 etched plates by Thomas Mackenzie, the first signed in pencil by the artist, ti...

Pissarro (Lucien, 1863-1944) Two plates from Margaret Rust's 'The Queen of the Fishes', including 'Gold cloud' and 'The little fishergirl', the la...

Priestley (J.B.) The Good Companions, jacket spotted, a few chips and tears to head and foot, 1929; Angel Pavement, spotting, jacket damp-stained,...

Radford (Dolly) Good Night, number 2 of 50 hand-coloured copies signed by the author and artist, hand-coloured woodcut illustrations by Louis Davi...

Rushdie (Salman) The Ground Beneath Her Feet, limited edition, signed by the author, original morocco, g.e., slip-case, 1999 § Amis (Martin) Exper...

[Russell (George)], "A.E.". Homeward Songs, first edition, autograph poem "Parting" signed by the author on front free endpaper, original printed ...

[Russell (George)], "A.E.". Imaginations and Reveries, first edition, signed drawing in crayon, pen and ink from the author to title, signed prese...

[Russell (George)], "A.E.". Vale and Other Poems, initialled drawings in crayon by the author to title and p.50, 1931; The Candle of Vision, 1918;...

Sebald (W.G.) The Rings of Saturn, first English edition, signed by the author, original boards, dust-jacket, 1998 § Carey (Peter) Four Easy Piece...

Shaw (George Bernard) Geneva, a Fancied Page of History in Three Acts, first edition, author's signed presentation inscription 'Mr Frank Sleap's c...

Sitwell (Edith) In Spring, spine a little chipped and browned, 1931 § Blunden (Edmund) In Summer, 1931 § Palmer (Herbert) In Autumn, signed presen...

Sitwell (Edith) The Shadow of Cain, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, A.L.s. from the author loosely inserted "Meanw...

NO RESERVE Strachey (Lytton) Queen Victoria, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, plates, original cloth, u...

Sussex Poet.- Dalmon (Charles, Sussex poet, on the fringe of the "Yellow Book" group, of Devonshire House, Sheen Road, Richmond, Surrey, 1872-1938...

Symons (Arthur) Days and Nights, first edition, signed presentation inscription from author, original cloth, 1889; Notes on Joseph Conrad, number ...

Synge (J.M.) The Playboy of the Western World, first edition, frontispiece, ink ownership inscription and browning to endpapers, original cloth-ba...

Tomlinson (H. M.) The Sea and the Jungle, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, frontispiece, 1912; All Our ...

Various Artists.- A good group of 14 early 20th century prints, including a lithograph by Charles Conder, a standing nude from 1952 by Barnet Free...

Warhol (Andy) Andy Warhol's Exposures, first English edition, signed and inscribed by the author in black marker with sketch of ?broken heart on h...

NO RESERVE Watson (William) The Prince's Quest, bookplate, 1880; The Superhuman Antagonists and Other Poems, 1919; The Collected Poems, frontispie...

Waugh (Evelyn).- Sitwell (Edith) I Live Under a Black Sun, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "For darling Evelyn [?Wa...

Yeats (William Butler) The Trembling of the Veil, one of 1,000 copies signed by the author, frontispiece, original boards, spine browned, extremit...