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Los 81
Multifaceted light brown crystal with dark brown mane. Limited edition, includes renewal Lion's Head paperweight. Swarovski etched backstamp. This item has its original box, 8.75"L x 8.75"W x 5.25"H. Issued: 2016Dimensions: 7"L x 2.25"W x 5"HManufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.
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Hand painted in matte finish collectibles including I Brought You A Gift, Spring Gifts, and Angel with Lantern. Depicts a young boy holding flowers, little girl with basket, and a small angel shinning light. Goebel backstamp. Tallest measures: 2"W x 4.75"H. Shortest measures: 2"L x 1.75"W x 3.25"H Manufacturer: Goebel HummelCountry of Origin: GermanyCondition: Age related wear.
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Cupid and Psyche. The artwork depicts, with subtle and refined eroticism, Cupid and Psyche in the moment before the kiss, foreshadowed by the posture of their bodies and the gazes that contemplate each other with an equal intensity: their lips, although extremely close, are not yet united. The two sculpted figures show a clear influence from knowledge of classical statuary. Indeed, some characteristics reminiscent of figures created by ancient sculptors, such as the facial features of the characters, can be observed.Furthermore, the compositional structure of the group is carefully designed to convey a sense of balance. The sculpture's composition is based on an X-shaped structure with a soft appearance and a sinuous flow. This structure allows the sculpted group to exude greater lightness and visual dynamism. Ambient light softly glides over the bodies of the two youths, creating subtle shadows in the folds of their garments.Traditionally, the main perspective that provides the correct interpretation of the group is the frontal view. With this perspective, the observer has the opportunity to fully grasp the compositional structure. Additionally, all the main details of the sculpture and the meticulous balance between the sculpted masses are appreciated from the front. Although, from other angles, the observer still has the opportunity to capture small details.Origin: 19th-century Florence.Condition: Excellent state of preservation.Dimensions: 50x50 cm H80cm.
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Qing Dynasty, Ca. 18th Century AD.A pair of cloisonné, enamelled cranes with twin-light candelabra. Each crane has a slender neck elegantly curved in an "S" shape, surmounted by a red crest and a beak biting on the candelabra. The slender body is predominantly enamelled in yellow within the gilt outline, and the wings and tail feathers are detailed in shades of red, white, light and dark green. The cranes stand sturdily with long legs and claws on a bronze stand support by toad feet.一对掐丝珐琅仙鹤型双灯烛台。每只仙鹤的颈部都呈优雅的 "S "形弯曲，颈部饰有红色徽章，鹤嘴咬在烛台上。纤细的鹤身在镀金轮廓内主要以黄色珐琅彩绘，翅膀和尾羽则以红色、白色、浅绿色和深绿色细化。仙鹤长腿张牙舞爪，稳稳地站立在由蟾蜍脚支撑的青铜支架上。 Size: 390-395mm x 150-150mm; Weight: 2.81kg
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Ca. AD 1200.A turquoise-glazed light clay pitcher with a spherical lower body resting atop a flaring, unglazed base. The main body tapers to a cylindrical neck with wide, circular mouth. The strap handle to the rear, and a curved long spout at the front. The exterior is decorated with black-painted registers of stylised designs. Size: 110mm x 90mm; Weight: 175g Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.
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Rowlandson (Thomas) An image seller offering plaster statuettes, brush and ink, watercolour, on laid paper with small partial watermark, sheet 107 x 138 mm (4 1/4 x 5 3/8 in), hinged into mount, minor spotting and light surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1800]; together with another by Rowlandson "A Village Wonder, or The Dead Horse", point of the brush, watercolour, sheet 180 x 275 mm (7 x 10 3/4 in), laid onto paper support, heavily browned and with spotting, unframed, [circa 1800] (2)Provenance:[An Image Seller] Abbott and Holder, London;Private collection, London
Los 147
Shiel (M. P.) Above All Else, margins toned, cloth a little water-stained to lower edge, jacket creased and nicked along joints and upper edge, 1943; Science, Life and Literature, light foxing to margins, jacket price-clipped, damp-stained, 1950 § Barlow (James) One Half of the World, jacket lightly chipped at corners, otherwise excellent, 1957, first editions, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets; and 7 others, weird and mystery fiction, 8vo (10)
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Verne (Jules) Caesar Cascabel, first American edition, plates by George Roux, bookplate, stain to first few pages, variant yellow cloth, New York, 1890 § Parrish (Randall) My Lady of the North, book-label on endpapers, occasional light foxing to margins, Chicago, 1904 § Spearman (Frank H.) Held for Orders Being Stories of Railroad Life, dust-jacket, split along spine joints, tape stain to upper edge, chips and tears along edges and extremities, light browning along edges, New York, 1903, original pictorial cloth, lightly rubbed at corners, otherwise excellent and bright; and c.55 others, early 20th century fiction, mostly American, v.s. (c.60)
Los 92
*** Please note, the description to this lot has changed.***Hemingway (Ernest) A Moveable Feast, very faint spotting to fore-edge, lower panel of jacket with light surface soiling, 1964; The Old Man and the Sea, contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper, jacket price-clipped, very small hole on lower flap joint, 1952; Across the River and into the Trees, small biro mark on front free endpaper, later green library cloth, spine lightly faded, jacket very slightly trimmed, spine ends a little creased and discoloured, 1950, first English editions, original or later cloth, dust-jackets, all sharp copies; and another by the same, 4to & 8vo (4)
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Grey (Zane) The Man of the Forest, first edition, contemporary ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, plates, 1920; The Light of Western Stars, ownership name on pastedown, 1914; The Lone Star Ranger, later issue, front free endpapers browned, 1915, New York, original cloth, spines a little faded, corners bumped; and 8 others by the same, 8vo (11)
Los 63
Fleming (Ian) Live and Let Die, first edition, ex-library copy with stamp and few marks and stains to front and rear endpapers, otherwise internally free of library markings, lower endpaper with reinforced tape along inner hinge, this offset onto final page of text at inner hinge margin, margins lightly toned, some light finger-soiling or spots, original black boards with gilt medallion to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, gilt a little faded, corners bumped, small faint stain to lower cover, very slight shelf-lean, 8vo, 1954.
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Vonnegut (Kurt) Breakfast of Champions, first edition, original cloth with gilt signature stamped on upper cover, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, spine head a little frayed, 1973; Jailbird, uncorrected proof copy, contemporary ink publisher's notes on first page, original wrappers, light stain to upper wrapper, 1979; God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, proof copy, original wrappers, 1999; and 3 others by the same, including a photoduplicated typescript of Slapstick or Lonesome No More, with some corrections, 8vo (6)
Los 137
Pullman (Philip) His Dark Materials: Northern Lights, first edition, bookplate signed by the author loosely inserted, original boards, light rubbing to spine and corner tips, first issue dust-jacket with 'Point' on spine and '7-9 Pratt Street' on lower flap, sunning to spine, light creasing to head and foot, rear panel with sticker to verso and some show-through, 8vo, 1995.
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Johnston (Mary) The Witch, ?first edition, light foxing, boards with light surface scratches on covers, a little rubbed at extremities, 1914 § Le Queux (William) The Woman in the Way, cloth spine browned, 1907 § Brooks (Collin) The Ghost Hunters, ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, [c.1930] § Asquith (Cynthia) The Ghost Book, eighth thousand, light creasing to spine ends, [c.1926], original cloth or boards; and 6 others, weird and horror fiction, 8vo (10)
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Pym (Barbara) Excellent Women, scattered foxing, bookplate removed from front pastedown, jacket with light surface soiling to rear panel, some chipping to fore-edges, 1952; Less Than Angels, short split to foot of upper joint, neat tape repairs to joints verso, 1955, first editions, original boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jackets, slight toning to spines, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 8vo (2)
![Orwell (George) Folwark Zwierzecy [Animal Farm], translated by Teresa Jelenska, light staining to endpapers, original wrapper](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/814996a3-4f24-42b8-8480-b10f00fbebc7/4402b3d1-071b-4053-8df8-b10f00fea9b3/468x382.jpg)
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Orwell (George) Folwark Zwierzecy [Animal Farm], translated by Teresa Jelenska, light staining to endpapers, original wrappers, light toning to spine, Odnowa, 1974; and 9 others, offprints and samizdats, v.s (9) *** An excellent group of rare Eastern European samizdats of Orwell's Animal Farm, many by émigré presses in London for the Polish market. The work was banned in Poland until 1988 and was only distributed through the sources in England or as samizdats. The translator, Teresa Jeleńska (1892-1969), was one of the first to translate George Orwell into Polish. A writer and journalist, Jeleńska met Orwell in London during WWII while writing for Dziennik Polski, the newspaper of the Polish government in exile. The first translated edition appeared in 1947 in London, only two years after the original novel. It was republished again in 1956 by the World Union of Poles Abroad, by the publishing house Free Europe. It wasn't until 1976 that her translation was published in Poland, during the blossoming of Polish underground publishing.
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Eliot (T.S.) Ash-Wednesday, first edition, number 1 of 600 copies signed by the poet, endpapers toned, original decorative cloth, gilt, preserved in rare original glassine wrapper with paper flaps (very few nicks, otherwise pristine), original card slip-case (light nicks and chips to edges), [Gallup A15a.], 4to, London & New York, 1930. *** A superb copy of Eliot's classic 'conversion poem', number one of the limitation and with rare jacket and slip-case.
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Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, jacket price-clipped, light fraying to top edge, extremities a little chipped, spine head with short tears, light marks to lower panel, 1963; You Only Live Twice, ink ownership name on front free endpaper, jacket extremities a little nicked, short tear to lower panel lower edge, 1964; The Man with the Golden Gun, small bookseller's label on pastedown corner, jacket price-clipped, otherwise near-fine, 1965; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, jacket price-clipped, otherwise fine, 1966, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (4)
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Limited Editions Club.- Dumas fils (Alexandre) Camille, translated by Edmund Gosse, 12 colour plates by Marie Laurencin, a couple with very light toning, original cream buckram with gilt floral design on upper cover, t.e.g., housed in slipcase (quite worn, old tape repair to lower joint), 1937 § Thackeray (William Makepeace) Vanity Fair, 2 vol., illustrations and colour plates by John Austen, a few spots to fore-edge, endpapers browned, original cloth-backed patterned boards, dust-jackets, browning to spines, very lightly creased at edges with a couple small nicks, vol. 1 a few faint stains to spine foot, housed together in patterned slipcase (wear to extremities), Oxford, 1931, both one of 1500 copies signed by the artist, [for] The Limited Editions Club; and others, Limited Editions Club, several illustrated by John Austen, all housed in original slipcases, 4to & folio (13)
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Henham (E.G.), "John Trevena". Written in the Rain, first edition, original cloth, a little faded and soiled, 1910 § Dady di Beauclerk. True Love, bookplates, ownership name on half-title, light foxing, original silk-covered boards, gilt, rubbed, upper joint broken but holding, rubbed, spine worn, 1869 § Gissing (George) Human Odds and Ends, first edition, ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels, light spotting, original cloth, lightly rubbed, corner bumped, 1898; and c.65 others, mixed literature, v.s. (c.70)
![[Manning (Frederick) ], "Private 19022". Her Privates We, first trade edition, original pictorial cloth, light browning to sp](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/814996a3-4f24-42b8-8480-b10f00fbebc7/ed50ee6a-70e7-4bf6-9693-b10f00fe7bff/468x382.jpg)
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[Manning (Frederick) ], "Private 19022". Her Privates We, first trade edition, original pictorial cloth, light browning to spine ends and top edge, remnants of original glacine dust-jacket with printed card flap loosely inserted, 8vo, 1930. *** Her Privates We was published the previous year as The Middle Parts of Fortune, subsequently revised and with obscenities partially expurgated for the present edition.
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Fletcher (J. S.) The Air-Ship, ?first edition, rare variant red blind-stamped cloth, 1903 § Harvey (W.F.) Midnight House & Other Tales, ALs from the author loosely inserted, 1910 § Mundy (Talbot) The Ivory Trail, endpapers spotted, 1920 § Bellamy (Edward) Equality, spine browned, title detached, New York, 1897, original cloth, light bumping to extremities; and 6 others, mystery fiction, 8vo (10) *** We cannot trace another like example of the The Air-Ship in the red blind-stamped cloth.
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Fleming (Ian) For Your Eyes Only, ink ownership inscription on front free endpapers, very faint marking to contents page, boards with eye design in white to upper cover, spine lettered in silver, edges lightly rubbed, corners bumped, later issue dust-jacket, light fading on spine, very light creasing, 1960; Thunderball, boards with skeletal hand in blind to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, jacket with small portion of damp-staining to upper panel, spine ends and upper edge a little creased, 1961; The Spy Who Loved Me, ownership name on pastedown, boards with dagger motif blocked to front board in silver and blind, spine lettered in silver, jacket edges and spine ends a little chipped and frayed, light shelf-lean, 1962, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (3)
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Yeats (William Butler) Poems, first revised edition, prize bookplate, light browning and spotting to endpapers, original decorative cloth, gilt, uncut, spine ends and extremities a little bumped but very bright in general, 1908 § le Carré (John) The Night Manager, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to top edge, 1993 § Onions (Oliver) Collected Ghost Stories, first edition, very light fading on endpapers, original decorative cloth, spine a little bumped, 1935 § Ford (F.M.) No More Parades, first edition, bookplate partially removed from pastedown, foxing to peripheral pages, original cloth, light spotting to fore-edge, otherwise excellent, 1925; and 7 others, mixed modern literature, 8vo (11)
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Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first English edition, cut signature of the author on title, illustrations by Faith Jacques, small patch of abrasion to front free endpaper and pastedown, original pictorial boards, slight shelf-lean, very light sunning to spine, slight wear to spine ends with some pealing to laminate, a very good copy overall, 4to, 1967.
![Harbou (Thea von) Metropolis, third impression [first movie tie-in edition], illustrations, 2pp. publisher's advertisements a](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/814996a3-4f24-42b8-8480-b10f00fbebc7/f9374609-516c-45cb-ab82-b10f00fe0c98/468x382.jpg)
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Harbou (Thea von) Metropolis, third impression [first movie tie-in edition], illustrations, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end, contemporary gift inscription in German on half-title, original printed wrappers with design by Werner Graul, upper joint splitting from bottom, light creasing to edges, cornes a little tender, chip to spine ends, still an excellent copy of a rare edition, Berlin, August Scherl, 1926; and 2 other editions of this same work, including the first Dutch edition, 8vo (3) *** The first was prepared for the press by von Harbou during the writing of the screenplay for the 1927 film; the illustrations are all from photographs taken on set.
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Christie (Agatha) They Do It With Mirrors, first edition, gift card laid onto front free endpaper, ink date to front pastedown, original cloth, dust-jacket, lower panel with small abrasion and closed tear to foot, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light rubbing to head and foot, 1952 § Hudson (W.H.) Green Mansions, plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, original cloth-backed boards, some bumping to corners, New York, [1946]; and c.40 others, similar, 8vo (c.40)
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Christie (Agatha) A Caribbean Mystery, 1964; Passenger to Frankfurt, 1970; Postern of Fate, 1973; Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, 1975; By the Pricking of My Thumbs, jacket price-clipped, creased at lower panel, 1968, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing and nicks to extremities, overall excellent copies; and 16 others by the same, 8vo (19)
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White (Patrick) The Aunt's Story, first English edition, very light toning to margins, original boards, dust-jacket by Roy de Maistre, spine toned, light surface wear to lower panel, chips and nicks to upper edge, spine head with small portion of loss, one or two other small stains and tears, still overall a bright copy in an unrestored jacket, 8vo, 1948. *** An early work from the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White, scarce in the jacket. The jacket artist, Roy de Maistre, was an Australian artist renowned for his early experimentation with "colour-music", and is recognised as the first Australian artist to use pure abstraction which was greatly influenced by Cubism. The two men were close friends, and White dedicated his first novel Happy Valley (1939) to De Maistre, acknowledging De Maistre's influence on his writing.
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Vidal (Gore) Washington, D.C., first edition, signed by the author on title, 1967; The Season of Comfort, cut signed presentation inscription from the author "love from Gore" tipped on to half-title, 1949 § Spillane (Mickey) The Deep, 1961 § Solzhenitsyn (Alexander) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1963 § Stegner (Wallace) Second Growth, 1947, first editions, some light toning to endpapers, original boards or cloth, some light bumping to spine ends, dust-jackets, some with lightly faded spines, some nicks and tears to extremities, spine ends a little frayed; and c.65 others, mid-20th century fiction, 8vo (c.70)
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Wodehouse (P.G.) Ice in the Bedroom, very light surface marking to lower panel of jacket, otherwise a crisp and fine copy, 1961; Do Butlers Burgle Banks?, jacket clipped and re-priced on flap, 1968; Company for Henry, jacket clipped and re-priced, 1967; Something Fishy, 1957, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, spines a little creased and chipped but overall excellent copies; and 25 others by the same, many in jackets, 8vo (29)
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Khan (Ismith) The Jumbie Bird, first edition, review copy with slip loosely inserted, light toning strip on endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly creased at extremities, top edge a little frayed, 1961 § Achebe (Chinua) Things Fall Apart, review copy with slip loosely inserted, illustrations by Uche Okeke, original wrappers, 1965; and 2 others, by African writers, including Ngugi's Weep Not Child and Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard, 8vo (4) *** The edition of Achebe's acclaimed book Things Fall Apart include an introduction and notes by Nigerian academic and Aigboje Higo.
Los 125
O'Donnell (Elliott) Haunted Highways and Byways, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "with all best wishes from Elliott O'Donnell" on half-title, bookplate, very light spotting on half-title, original boards, dust-jacket, spine browned, ends very lightly frayed, 8vo, 1914. *** An attractive abridgment of the weird and supernatural tales of psychic detective O'Donnell.
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Fleming (Ian) Dr. No, first edition, light staple staining to margins of pp.238-9, original second state boards with silhouette in brown, spine lettered in silver, fore-edge very lightly marked, dust-jacket, light nicks and chips along edges, insect-bitten along joints and lower panel leaving surface wear, 8vo, 1958.
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Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, folding map at end, contemporary ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, light soiling marks to cloth, 1954; The Two Towers, folding map at end, endpapers browned, spine sunned, light fading to upper panel, faint spots to panels, 1955; The Return of the King, lacking folding map, light spotting on endpapers, cloth soiled and spotted, 1955, first edition, second impressions, original cloth, spines dulled, ends and extremities bumped and creased; and 2 others sets of the same work, comprising third or fourth impressions, and a second edition set, all without jackets, 8vo (9)
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le Carré (John) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, fifth impression, jacket spine a little faded, spine ends and extremities very slightly chipped, panels with the odd spot or light stain, 1963; A Legacy of Spies, "exclusive signed edition", signed by the author, 2017; Our Kind of Traitor, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, 2010; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, first edition, 1974, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing and scuffs to extremities; and 2 others, including another title by le Carré and a first edition copy of Arthur C. Clarke's The Sands of Mars, 8vo (6)
Los 163
Threlfall (T.R.) The Strange Adventures of a Magistrate, plates, endpapers toned, cloth spine a little faded, corners a little rubbed, 1903 § Frome (David) Mr. Pinkerton Has the Clue, few light spots to peripheral pages, cloth spine faded, 1936 § Davis (Richard Harding) In the Fog, illustrations, cloth extremities rubbed and frayed, New York, 1902; and 7 others, crime fiction, 8vo (10)
![Beardsley (Aubrey).- Malory (Sir Thomas) [Le Morte Darthur] The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur..., 2 vol., one of 1500 c](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/814996a3-4f24-42b8-8480-b10f00fbebc7/a5aef7e3-7a96-4a31-9fdb-b10f00ff5bdf/468x382.jpg)
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Beardsley (Aubrey).- Malory (Sir Thomas) [Le Morte Darthur] The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur..., 2 vol., one of 1500 copies, from an edition of 1800, 2 photogravure frontispieces, plates, illustrations and decorations by Aubrey Beardsley, bookplates, very light offsetting to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, gilt, uncut, spines faded, a few marks to covers but still an excellent set, [Lasner 22], 4to, 1893-94. *** A remarkably clean pair of the ordinary edition of this masterpiece of Beardsley executed when he was just twenty years old.
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*** Please note, the description to this lot has changed.***Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited, first book club edition, light scattered spotting mainly to first and last few pages, original cloth, light surface staining, spine ends lightly bumped, dust-jacket, one or two spots, spine ends a little nicked and frayed, spine lightly sunned, small hole to spine foot, top edge a little creased but in general a very crisp and excellent copy, Boston, 8vo, 1945.
![Robinson (Charles) [Garden scene], an original illustration, pen and black ink, signed lower right, sheet 325 x 520 mm (](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/814996a3-4f24-42b8-8480-b10f00fbebc7/52289f50-58e7-4fb9-8f1a-b10f01001946/468x382.jpg)
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Robinson (Charles) [Garden scene], an original illustration, pen and black ink, signed lower right, sheet 325 x 520 mm (12 3/4 x 20 1/2 in), minor handling creases, some light surface dirt, unframed, [early 20th century]; together with another smaller by the same hand, 145 x 130 mm (5 3/4 x 5 1/8 in), and a watercolour by Edmund Sullivan for 'The Vicar of Wakefield', signed and dated, on artists' board, 260 x 180 mm (10 1/4 x 7 in), hinged into mount, unframed, 1913 (3)
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Elphinstone Hope (Mrs C.-W.) The Star of the Fairies, presentation inscription from "To the star of the fairies, my sweet Miranda, Arthur" dated 1887 on half-title, 11 plates, spotting throughout, original pictorial cloth, gilt, corners and extremities a little bumped, 1881 § Waite (Arthur Edward) Belle and the Dragon, presentation inscription on pastedown, hinge cracked, light finger-staining, stains to pp.58/59, original pictorial cloth, rather stained and worn, corners bumped, 1894 § Peart (M.A.) Over the Moon, small ownership inscription on endpapers, very faintly spotted, original cloth, dust-jacket, worn with triangular portions of loss to upper panel, fraying and nicks to edges, 1927; and 25 others, mostly relating to fairies, and others, similar, v.s. (c.30) *** The first with curious provenance which also relates to the second mentioned: Belle and the Dragon is set in the mythic land of Ravendale, and features lightly disguised versions of Waite and his cohort. Waite's wife, Ada, is represented as the dormouse, while her sister, and Waite's first and true love, Dora, is featured as the heroine, Mesuline. Waite first met Dora in 1886 and the two fell almost immediately in love; however, in June 1887 she married one Reverend Granville Stuart-Menteath. In January 1888, Waite in turn married her sister Ada. Dora and Waite remained close despite their marriages and the two families lived near one another in Gunnersbury. The first mentioned is presumably inscribed to Dora from Waite.
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Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Tarzan and the City of Gold, book-label on pastedown, dust-jacket, light creasing and nicks to edges, lower panel with discolouration, still overall a crisp copy, Tarzana, 1933; Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, contemporary ink ownership name on front free endpapers, cloth spine sunned, ends a little frayed, Chicago, 1918; The Tarzan Twins, gift inscription on half-title, cloth-backed boards, spine rubbed, covers chipped in places, Illinois, 1927, first editions, original cloth or boards; and 6 others by or relating to Burroughs, 8vo (9)
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Rilke (Rainer Maria) Auguste Rodin, translated by Jessie Lemont and Hans Trausil, one of 500 copies, signed presentation inscription from the translators on front free endpapers, original boards with paper label on upper cover and spine, light toning to upper edge, dust-jacket, light chipping and nicks to extremities, very light toning, otherwise excellent, 4to, 1919. *** one of 500 copies published in June 1919 by The Sunwise Turn Bookshop, NY.
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Nash (Paul), Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and others.- Read (Herbert, editor) Unit 1. The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, first edition, light spotting to peripheral pages and fore-edge, original cloth, spine very lightly faded, dust-jacket, faded, heavier to spine, some creasing to upper edge, but overall a remarkably intact copy, 4to, 1934. *** The accompanying book for the first (and only) exhibition of the Unit One group of artists, rare in the dust-jacket.
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Wyndham (John) I Trasfigurati, author's own copy with his ownership stamp on title, original wrappers, lightly faded, 1980; Les Triffides, first French edition, light foxing, original wrappers, light bumping and creasing, Editions Opta, 1974; 'Derelict of Space' in Fantasy: A Magazine of Thrilling Science-Fiction, no.3, pp.3-20, original wrappers, light creasing and tears to extremities, 1939; and 10 others, Wyndham, v.s. (13) *** The copy of 'Derelict of Space' is from the library of the author's brother.
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Poem-of-the-Month Club.- Collection of c.89 broadsides signed by the authors, including: Julian Symons, A Reflection on Auden (5 copies); Kingsley Amis, Wasted and Kipling at Bateman's (2 copies); Seamus Heaney, Land (2 copies); John Betjeman, A Wembley Lad and The Crem (2 copies, with the two-word autograph correction); W. H. Auden, Natural Linguistics (2 copies); Stevie Smith, Francesca in Winter (3 copies); Robert Graves, Advice from a Mother (3 copies); Philip Larkin, The Explosion (2 copies); Stephen Spender, Art Student (3 copies); and other authors (Glyn Hughes, Alan Ross, C. Day Lewis, Norman MacCaig, Thom Gunn &tc), the odd marginal spot, loose as issued, with some related printed inserts, in 2 original half sheep portfolios with ties, spines little sunned, light spotting, some wear to extremities, folio, 1970s. *** Comprising a total of c.36 of the 48 broadside poems published by The Poem of the Month Club between 1970-1977, all in duplicate and some multiples.
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Fleming (Ian) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 3 vol., first editions, illustrations by John Burningham, original pictorial boards, spine ends a little bumped and discoloured, dust-jackets, lightly toned at top edge and spine, light chips and nicks to extremities, still very good overall, 4to, 1964-65.
![Forster (E.M., writer, 1879-1970) Typed Letter signed to "Madan" [Madan Blanchard], 2pp., 4to, West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/814996a3-4f24-42b8-8480-b10f00fbebc7/b83bbe50-3a43-4d4f-829c-b10f00fde87e/468x382.jpg)
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Forster (E.M., writer, 1879-1970) Typed Letter signed to "Madan" [Madan Blanchard], 2pp., 4to, West Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Dorking, 14th November, 1931, an imagined follow up to 'A Letter to Madan Blanchard' published by the Hogarth Press a few months before, folds; together with A Letter to Madan Blanchard, first edition, light scattered spotting straying onto page margins, original wrappers, [Kirkpatrick A14a; Woolmer 254], 1931; and a letter of provenance, v.s. (3) *** A remarkable unpublished follow up letter to Forster's published work 'A Letter to Madan Blachard' in letter form.In 1931, Leonard Woolf wrote to Forster asking to help launch a pamphlet series that would take the form of letters to "anyone, dead or alive, real or imaginary, on any subject" (Letters p.303). Though they did not succeed commercially (Harcourt Brace issued the first three individually, and by March, 1932, had sold only 125 copies), the first in the series, Forster's 'A Letter to Madan Blanchard' was the most widely read and remains a pertinent denunciation of Empire as well as a meditative exploration of one's essential humanity. The character of Blanchard himself is not imaginary, but a real eighteenth-century mariner who deserted his shipmates and captain to remain behind on a Pacific island in the year 1783. Lee Boo, a young black prince, sailed away with the ship's company to be raised in England while Blanchard the sailor was left in his place to go native on the Pellew island. Allegedly, after the pamphlet was published, a book collector named Hardie wrote an amusing letter to Forster about his piece. Rather than responding directly to his correspondent, Forster here addresses Madan once again, constructing a quasi follow up to the first in epistolary form. Here, a facetious Forster replies to Madan, and in keeping with the tone of the first, Forster injects this letter with arch bemusement, imagining him to still be alive: "one irregularity invariably leads to another - at least so it still is on this side of the world - and it almost seems as if, as a final misdemeanour, you have declined to die". In his response to the marooned sailor's imagined questions, Forster quips "I do not think that I have anything else to say, and I do not really know how to answer your questions. 'Airmail' is of course air mail, 'steam packet' a steam packet, and 'Mussolini' a local accelerator, which has hitherto only worked south of the Alps. Pigeons, whom you so quaintly remember, still exist, and wagons stand tipped up when they exist at all".A delightful follow-up letter, and a singular Forsterian item.
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Dulac (Edmund).- Poe (Edgar Allan) The Bells and other Poems, one of 750 copies signed by the artist, 28 tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac, vignette illustrations, captioned tissue-guards, very light offsetting, third plate with short tear to fore-edge and old tape repair to verso (tape lightly offset to surrounding ff.), flier for Leicester Galleries exhibition of Dulac's watercolours for this work loosely inserted, browning to endpapers, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, original elaborately gilt-stamped pictorial vellum, t.e.g., others uncut, lacking ties, fore-edge toned, a few subtle marks in faint green pen along joints, else excellent, 4to, [1912].
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MacDiarmid (Hugh).- An Afternoon with Hugh MacDiarmid, plates, a little cockled, original wrappers, slip-case (a little rubbed), privately printed, 1969; On a Raised Beach: a Poem, first edition, one of 200 copies, signed presentation inscription from the author "signed with every high regard and best wishes for Arthur Thompson" on front free endpaper, loose in original wrappers as issued, light scratches, 1967; and 11 others by or relating to MacDiarmid, some signed by the poet, some signed from Duncan Glen, v.s. (13) *** Christopher Murray Grieve (1892 –1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is considered one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Renaissance and has had a lasting impact on Scottish culture and politics.
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Levinson (Andre) Bakst: the Story of the Artist's Life, one of 315 copies, plates and illustrations, most colour, many with captioned tissue-guards, bookplate of Charles Ballantyne, light spotting to fore-edge, occasionally very light spotting or marginal finger-soiling elsewhere, but overall very good, upper hinge cracked, original vellum, uncut, covers lightly foxed and toned, large 4to, The Bayard Press, 1923. *** A sumptuously produced biography of Bakst, profusely illustrated with his stage-designs, portraits and miscellaneous drawings and paintings.
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