Machen (Arthur) The Great God Pan, first edition, half-title, 20pp. advertisements at end, title decoration and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, neat contemporary ink ownership inscription and light browning to endpapers, 2 autograph letters from a Cornish bookseller loosely inserted, original pictorial cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light toning to spine light marking to upper cover, an excellent copy, uncut, [Tymn 3-156], 8vo, London & Boston, 1894.⁂ Machen's most famous and celebrated novella, a classic horror title that influenced Stoker and Lovecraft.
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Machen (Arthur) The Three Impostors or The Transmutations, first edition, 30pp. advertisements at end, title and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, original decorative cloth, uncut, very slight toning to spine, light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, else fine, [Tymn 3-161], 8vo, London & Boston, 1895.⁂ A superb copy of Machen's horror novel, essentially a series of interconnected weird and supernatural tales involving pagan rites and a secret society.
Machen (Arthur) The Great Return, first issue with top edge unstained, light edge-spotting, slight bumping to spine ends, jacket with light toning to spine, minor creasing and fraying to head and foot, 1915; The Terror, light foxing to endpapers, spine ends a little bumped, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, fraying to head of spine, short tear to head of upper panel, light surface soiling, 1917; War and the Christian Faith, light foxing, jacket with toning and spotting, nick to head of spine, light creasing to head, 1918, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent copies; and 3 others by the same, 8vo (6)
Machen (Arthur) The Hill of Dreams, one of 150 large-paper copies signed by the author, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, printed on blue paper, light browning to endpapers, original blue cloth, light bumping to spine ends and corners, otherwise excellent, 8vo, 1922.⁂ A special edition of Machen's semi-autobiographical novel, seemingly among the rarest of limited editions by the author.
Machen (Arthur) The Secret Glory, issue with lower edge trimmed but fore-edge uncut, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, minor fraying to head of spine, light creasing to head, light surface soiling, [1922]; Far Off Things, light browning to endpapers, spine a little sunned, 1922; Things Near and Far, light browning to endpapers, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, 1923; The London Adventure or the Art of Wandering, browning to endpapers, dust-jacket with light toning to spine, spine chipped at head, light surface soiling, 1924, first editions, edge-spotting, original cloth; and 11 others by the same, 8vo (15)
Machen (Arthur) The Works, 9 vol., The Carleon Edition, one of 500 sets signed by the author, vol. 1 frontispiece, some ligth edge-spotting, original buckram, fine, dust-jackets, light browning to spines, some rubbing and occasional chipping to spine tips and corners, light surface soiling to panels, but a near-fine set overall, 8vo, 1923.
Machen (Arthur) The Shining Pyramid, one of 250 signed copies signed by the author, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine browned and chipped at head, light toning to head of upper panel, an excellent copy, [Tymn 3-158 (the American first edition)],1925; and the American first edition of the same, 8vo (2)⁂ A collection of stories including several titles. The Shining Pyramid features Machen's occult detective Dyson investigating strange happenings and the disappearance of a young girl.
MacLean (Alistair) H. M. S. Ulysses, 1955; The Guns of Navarone, short tear along lower edge of jacket, 1957; South by Java Head, 1958; The Last Frontier, jacket price-clipped, jacket split along upper joint, 1959, first editions, some endpapers browned, original boards, light bumping to spine ends, dust-jackets, light rubbing and scuffing to extremities and joints; and 27 others by the same, including 2 under his pseudonym Ian Stuart, 8vo (31)
NO RESERVE MacNeice (Louis) Solstices, 1961; Holes in the Sky, 1948; The Earth Compels, 1938; Spring-board, light spots to endpapers, 1944; Visitations, original wrap-around, light spots to jacket, 1957; Autumn Sequel, endpapers lightly browned, 1954, first editions, original cloth, spine ends a little bumped, dust-jackets, spines darkened, some minor nicks to spine ends, overall very good or excellent copies, 8vo (6)⁂ A good first edition group of the revered Irish poet's works.
Malamud (Bernard) The Fixer, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Tom Maschler to half-title, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped with $5.75 ink price stamp to front flap, light sunning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips, small chip to head of front panel, light rubbing, 8vo, New York, 1966.⁂ The Fixer, Malamud's fourth novel, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Bellow (Saul) The Dangling Man, first edition, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light toning to spine, mottling to lower cover and upper fore-edge, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, a few nicks and light creasing to head, a very good copy overall, 8vo, New York, Vanguard Press, 1944.⁂ Bellow's first published work.
[Manning (Frederick)], "Private 19022". Her Privates We, first trade edition, the odd spot, original pictorial cloth, light browning to spine ends, else fine, glacine dust-jacket with printed card flaps, light toning to spine, chip and tear to foot of spine, tear to foot of upper panel, 8vo, 1930.⁂ Rare in the delicate glacine jacket. Her Privates We was published the previous year as The Middle Parts of Fortune (see previous lot), subsequently revised and with obscenities partially expurgated for the present edition.
NO RESERVE Mansfield (Katherine) The Garden Party, 1922 The Doves' Nest, 1923; Something Childish and Other Stories, 1924 § Forster (E.M.) Pharos and Pharillon, the Hogarth Press, 1923, first editions, some with ink ownership names to front free endpapers or half-title, some with browned endpapers, original cloth, light rubbing or bumping to extremities, spines a little faded, ends frayed; and 8 others by Mansfield and Forster, 8vo (12)
Mantel (Hilary) [The Thomas Cromwell trilogy], 3 vol. comprising Wolf Hall, cut signature of the author on title, slight bumping to head, 2009; Bring Up the Bodies, signed by the author on title, 2012; The Mirror and the Light, signed by the author on limitation f. at front, 2020, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine, 8vo.⁂ Mantel's celebrated series, charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the first two in the series won the Booker Prize in their respective years.
Marquand (John P.) Thank You, Mr. Moto, third printing, jacket spine a little sunned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, tear to head of lower panel, creasing to head, n.d. § Radcliffe (Garnett) In the Grip of the Brute, first cheap edition, jacket with 4/6 price label to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, extremities rubbed, 1938 § Bush (Christopher) Eight O'Clock Alibi, first edition, light browning to endpapers, second printing jacket, price-clipped, light rubbing and creasing to head, New York, 1937, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 7 others, early reprint detective fiction in jackets, 8vo (10)
NO RESERVE Marsh (Ngaio) Off With His Head, jacket price-clipped, some chips to extremities with slightly larger portion of loss to upper panel head, 1957; Clutch of the Constables, 1968; Tied Up in Tinsel, 1972; Light Thickens, jacket price-clipped, 1982, first editions, original boards, spine ends a little bumped, dust-jackets, light creasing or minor chipping to extremities, otherwise excellent copies; and 9 others by the same or by David Serafin, 8vo (13)
Martin (George R. R.) A Dance With Dragons, first edition, signed by the author, dust-jacket, 2011 § Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Fellowship of the Ring, fourth impression, slight shelf-lean, sunning to spine, spine ends a little frayed, 1955 § Moore (Alan) Watchmen [2 copies], first hardback edition, illustrations by Dave Gibbons, slipcase, New York, 1988 § Morgan (Richard) Altered Carbon, first edition, light toning to margins, 2002, original cloth or boards, 8vo (5)
Bellow (Saul) The Victim, first edition, signed by the author on title, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, light surface soiling, a very good copy overall, 8vo, New York, Vanguard Press, 1947.⁂ The author's second novel. Bellow would later refer to Dangling Man as his MA and The Victim as his Ph.D.
Maschler (Tom).- Atwood (Margaret) Life Before Man, signed presentation inscription from the author to Tom Maschler, jacket with light sunning to spine, 1980 § Drabble (Margaret) The Middle Ground, signed presentation inscription from the author to Tom Maschler, 1980 § Nin (Anais) The Children of the Albatross, jacket spine and corners chipped with loss, creasing and fraying to extremities, New York, 1947; The Four-Chambered Heart, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few small chips to head and foot, light creasing to head and foot, New York, 1950, first or first English editions, bookplate of Tom Maschler to front pastedowns, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 9 others, Maschler, 8vo (13)⁂ An excellent collection of books belonging to the publisher Tom Maschler (1933 - 2020).
Mason (A.E.W.) At the Villa Rose, first edition, light browning to endpapers, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original green cloth, spine a little dulled, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, 8vo, 1910.⁂ The first of the Inspector Hanaud novels, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
NO RESERVE Maugham (William Somerset) The Complete Short Stories, 3 vol., modern half morocco over original cloth, spines gilt in compartments, 1951; The Magician, 1908; Cakes and Ale, 1930; The Merry-Go-Round, 1904; The Trembling Leaf, 1921; Cosmopolitans, 1936, first editions, light foxing or browning to endpapers or first few pages, all but the first original cloth, light rubbing to extremities, light fading; and 7 others by the same, 8vo (15)
McBain (Ed) Killer's Wedge, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Otto Penzler "Good one. Julie Styne optioned it as a play. I wrote seven versions. Result: no production. Ed McBain" to endpaper, marginal browning (as usual), original cloth, light bumping to spine tips, dust-jacket, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to extremities, a near-fine example overall, 8vo, New York, [1959].⁂ A lovely copy with an excellent association of the first McBain book to be published in the US in hardback.
NO RESERVE McEwan (Ian) The Cement Garden, 1978; The Comfort of Strangers, 1981; The Child in Time, 1987; The Innocent, 19990; Black Dogs, 1992; Atonement, 2001, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, some light creases to spine ends, one or two marks but otherwise excellent copies; and 4 others by the same, first editions, 8vo (10)
Bellow (Saul) The Adventures of Augie March, first edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth, spine slightly toned with light fraying to head, first issue dust-jacket with John Steinbeck advertisement to rear flap, very slight sunning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, a few short nicks and light creasing to head of upper panel, some light surface soiling, an excellent example overall, 8vo, Viking Press, New York, 1953.⁂ Bellow's most popular novel and his first to win the National Book Award.
Middleton (Stanley) Holiday, one of 350 copies signed by the author, Oak Tree First Chapter Series, 2007 § Gordimer (Nadine) The Conservationist, one of 350 copies signed by the author, Oak Tree First Chapter Series, 2007 § Fitzgerald (Penelope) Offshore, first edition, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, 1979 § Keneally (Thomas) Schindler's Ark, dust-jacket price-clipped, light sunning to spine, 1982; and 4 others, similar, 8vo (8)
NO RESERVE Moore (Patrick) and A.L. Helm. Out Into Space, first edition, plates and illustrations, Moore's own copy with his "Please return" ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, bookplate of literary agents "Christy & Moore Ltd." tipped-in beneath, original cloth, dust-jacket, creasing and chipping to extremities, two short tears to head of upper panel, some light surface soiling to lower panel, 8vo, 1954.⁂ A scarce science fiction title by the astronomer and presenter.
Moore (Brian) The Luck of Ginger Coffey, signed by the author on title, dust-jacket, light toning, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1960 § Stapledon (Olaf) The Last and First Men, light spotting, slight shelf-lean, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1930 § Beckett (Samuel) Three Novels, dust-jacket, light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, 1959 § Ghali (Waguih) Beer in the Snooker Club, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, spine chipped at head, New York, 1964, first or first English editions, original cloth; and c.20 others, modern literature, 8vo (c.25)
Mottram (R. H.) [The Spanish Farm trilogy], 3 vol., comprising The Spanish Farm, jacket with light toning to spine, 1924; Sixty-Four, Ninety Four!, jacket with light toning to spine, slight fraying to head of spine, 1925; The Crime at Vanderlynden's, 1926, all signed or with signed presentation inscriptions from the author; Ten Years Ago. Armistice & other memories forming a pendant to 'The Spanish Farm trilogy', jacket with short closed tear and light creasing to head, light surface soiling, 1928, first editions, light browning to endpapers, some scattered spotting, original cloth, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine copies, 8vo (4)⁂ A complete set of Mottram's memoirs of the First World War. Rare inscribed and in the dust-jackets.
Mottram (R. H.), John Easton and Eric Partridge. Three Personal Records of the War, number 47 of 100 copies signed by the authors, maps, glacine dust-jacket, chipped and broken, Scholartis Press, 1929 § Mottram (R. H.) A History of Financial Speculation, plates, dust-jacket, light rubbing to head and foot, else fine, 1929; Dazzle, light browning to endpapers, dust-jacket, spine ends a little creased, foxing to lower panel, 1932, first editions, original cloth; and 10 others by Mottram, 8vo (13)
NO RESERVE Murdoch (Iris) The Philosopher's Pupil, 1983; The Unicorn, small portions of loss to spine ends, 1963 § Huxley (Aldous) The Doors of Perception, ink ownership name to endpapers, jacket with large tear to upper panel, nicked and frayed at extremities, 1954, first editions, original cloth or boards, light bumping to spine ends, dust-jackets; and 21 others, modern literature, 8vo (24)
Nabokov (Vladimir) Lolita, first English edition, original boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, very light sunning and faint creasing to spine, minor chipping to spine chips and corners, chip to head of upper fore-edge, a few small nicks and tears with light creasing to head and foot, neat tape strengthening to upper and lower edge verso, but an excellent example generally, 8vo, 1959.
Bellow (Saul) Herzog, first edition, signed by the author on endpaper, original cloth, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, rubbing and minor chipping to spine tips and corners, short nick to foot of upper panel, light rubbing to fore-edge, an excellent copy generally, 8vo, New York, Viking Press, 1964.⁂ Bellow's second novel to win the National Book Award, often cited as Bellow's masterpiece.
Naipaul (V. S.) A House for Mr Biswas, first edition, light cockling to first few pages, original boards, spine ends bumped, dust-jacket, light creases to extremities, a few chips to spine head, short tear to upper edge, 8vo, 1961.⁂ Naipaul's post-colonial novel which received world-wide acclaim and remains his most loved novel. Scarce in such bright and unrestored condition.
Naipaul (V. S.) [India trilogy], 3 vol., first editions, all signed by the author to titles, comprising An Area of Darkness: An Experience of India, ink ownership name removed from endpapers, light creasing to extremities, corners and spine ends neatly retouched, 1954; India: A Wounded Civilization, fore-edge lightly spotted, 1977; India: A Million Mutinies Now, 1964, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo.
Naipaul (V. S.) Guerrillas, 1975; The Return of Eva Peron with The Killings in Trinidad, 1980; Among the Believers, 1981; Finding the Centre, 1984, first editions, signed by the author to title, original boards, dust-jackets, light bumping or creasing to extremities, otherwise near-fine copies; and another first edition by the same, 8vo (5)
Narayan (R. K.) The Bachelor of Arts. With an Introduction by Graham Greene, jacket with small hole and portion of loss to spine, spine ends and extremities creased and frayed, spine a little faded, but still a very good example of a scarce jacket, 8vo, 1937; Mr Sampath, endpapers browned, jacket with closed tear to upper panel spine faded, small nicks and chips to spine ends, 1949, first editions, very light browning to endpapers, original cloth, lightly discoloured and faded, dust-jackets; and 4 others by the same, 8vo (6)⁂ The first is a rare Greene item. Greene was enthused with Narayan's writing and was instrumental in getting his work published, persuading Hamish Hamilton to publish the Indian author's first book Swami and Friends and then, when that failed to achieve commercial success, Nelson to publish this his second novel.
Niebuhr (Reinhold) The Nature and Destiny of Man, 2 vol., vol. 1 first edition, first printing, vol. 2 second printing, errata slip to vol.1, pencil underlinings and other markings to text, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, some rubbing to covers, dust-jackets, light browning to spines, light creasing to spine tips and corners, but a bright and excellent set generally, 8vo, 1941-43.⁂ Influential work by theologian and ethicist Reinhold, cited as one of the most influential non-fiction books of the 20th century. Rare, we can trace no other examples of first editions at auction.
Nin (Anaïs) Children of the Albatross, upper hinge cracked, New York, 1947; The Diary of Anais Nin. Volume Two 1934-1939, dust-jacket, loss to spine ends, creasing and chipping to extremities, New York, 1967; The Diary of Anais Nin. Volume Six 1955-1966, "Dear Renate Hidden in these pages which will make her visible to the world. Love Anaïs" to endpaper, proof dust-jacket with inscription from the author "Cover by drawing by Peter Druks" on spine, light sunning, additional dust-jacket, light sunning, some chipping to head, New York, 1976, first editions, signed presentation inscriptions from the author to Renate Druks, original cloth, 8vo (3)⁂ A superb group of association copies inscribed to the author's good friend, the artist and filmmaker Renate Druks (1921-2007). Druks hosted the legendary Come as Your Madness Halloween Ball at which Nin dressed in a feline leotard with a birdcage surrounding her head from which hung rolls of paper containing lines from her books. As indicated by the inscription on the proof jacket, Renate's son, Peter Druks also embraced surrealism, his work adorned the jacket of volume six of Nin's diary, in which Nin gave account of Peter's suicide.
O'Brian (Patrick) The Wine-Dark Sea, jacket with small dent to upper joint, 1993; The Commodore, 1994; The Yellow Admiral, 1997; The Hundred Days, slight shelf-lean, 1998; Blue at the Mizzen, jacket with publisher's sticker to upper panel, 1999, first editions, some light marginal toning, original boards, light rubbing, dust-jackets, some light creasing to head and foot, else fine, 8vo (5)
O'Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, first American edition, jacket with light browning to spine and panel margins, some chipping and fraying to head and foot, New York, 1939; The Hard Life, first edition, jacket with light toning to spine, light rubbing and faint creasing to head and foot, 1961, original boards, dust-jackets; and 5 others by the same, 8vo (7)
O'Flaherty (Liam) Return of the Brute, browning to endpapers, some splaying to covers, dust-jacket, a few short tears to head and foot, rubbed, to spine, 1929 § [Galsworthy (John)] "A. R. P-M". The Burning Spear, light sunning to spine, covers a little creased, 1919 § Hanley (James) The German Prisoner, one of 500 copies signed by the author, frontispiece by William Roberts, rubbing and fading to spine, Privately Printed [1930] § Tomlinson (H. M.) All Our Yesterdays, limited edition signed by the author, portrait frontispiece, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, glacine dust-jacket, 1930; and 15 others by the same and similar, war authors, 8vo (19)
Bellow (Saul) Mosby's Memoirs & other stories, signed by the author on title, jacket with light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 2 short tears to head, light rubbing to head and foot, Viking Press, 1968; Him with his Foot in his Mouth and other stories, signed by the author on endpaper, Harper & Row, 1984; Something to Remember Me By. Three Tales, presentation bookplate signed by the author to members of the Boston University class of 1995 to endpaper, Viking Press, 1991, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine, New York; and a signed copy of the Collected Stories, 8vo (4)
Ogilvy (David) Confessions of an Advertising Man, third printing, signed presentation inscription from the author to front endpaper, original cloth, very light bumping to extremities, dust-jacket, barcode sticker to lower panel, small defect upper panel lower edge at fold foot, small amounts to chipping to other fold and spine ends, repair to verso, some light surface soiling and sunning, price-clipped, 8vo, 1963.⁂ Signed presentation inscription reads, "?Irving Lichter from your new partner David Ogilvy, January 1964".
Orwell (George) The Road to Wigan Pier, ink ownership name to front free endpaper, original wrappers, creased and frayed at extremities, Left Book Club, 1937; England, Your England and Other Essays, first edition, original cloth, faded, jacket chipped at edges, spine lightly darkened, still overall a very crisp copy, 1953; Shooting the Elephant and Other Essays, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, creased and chipped at extremities, light surface soiling to lower cover, still a very good copy, 1950; and 13 others by or relating to the same, 4to & 8vo (16)
Palmer (Herbert Edward) Two Fishers and other poems, original wrappers, some splitting to spine, extremities rubbed, Elkin Mathews, 1918; Song of Salvation, Sin, and Satire, signed presentation inscription from the author "For G. G. Cameron... Edition limited to 300 copies printed on a hand-press by Virginia Woolf" to endpaper, original paper boards with label to upper cover, light fading and some chipping to spine, [Woolmer 72], Hogarth Press, [1925], first editions; and 5 others by the same, all inscribed, 8vo (7)
NO RESERVE Pargeter (Edith) Sunrise in the West, 1974; The Dragon at Noonday, 1975; The Hounds of Sunset, review copy slip loosely inserted, 1976; Afterglow & Nightfall, 1977 § Peters (Ellis) City of Gold and Shadows, 1973; Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers!, 1976; An Excellent Mystery, 1985; The Hermit of Eyton Forest, 1987, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing to spine ends, one or two toned, otherwise bright and near-fine copies, 8vo (8)⁂ An excellent group by the author Edith Pareter, with the other titles under her pseudonym, Ellis Peters.
Pemberton (Clive) The Weird 'o it, first edition, 32pp. advertisements, scattered foxing, light browning to endpapers, original cream cloth, lettered in red and black, light bumping and slight fraying to spine tips and corners, light rubbing and surface soiling, 8vo, Harry J. Drane, 1906.⁂ An exceptionally rare collection of ghost stories, Drane published books in small print runs, it is estimate as few as 300 copies of this book were printed. Three cloth variants exist although without priority.

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