Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, translated by Margaret Armour, London: William Heinemann, 1910, 34 tipped-in colour plates, some light spotting, bookplate of Arthur Waugh, top edge gilt, original vellum gilt, lacking ties, light soiling to covers, 4to, limited edition of 20 presentation copies from the publisher, from a total edition of 1150, together with Irish Fairy Tales, by James Stephens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, London: Macmillan & Co., 1920, 15 mounted colour plates only (of 16, lacking plate opposite p. 40), some spotting and toning to endpapers, bookplate, top edge gilt, original vellum-backed boards, covers a little rubbed and toned with some light edge wear, 4to, limited signed edition of 520 copiesQTY: (2)NOTE:First work inscribed "To Arthur Waugh, with the publisher's kind regards & good, good wishes, 10 Sep. 1910', and further inscription to limitation leaf "also twenty copies for presentation of which this in one [No.[ 00, Wm. Heinemann"Arthur Waugh (1866-1943) was an author, critic and publisher, and father of authors Alec and Evelyn Waugh.
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Richards (J.M. & Ravilious, Eric). High Street, 1st edition, London: Country Life Ltd., 1938, 24 colour lithograph plates, large woodcut vignette to title, light spotting to endpapers, a few minor spots to fore-edges, contents generally in good clean condition, ownership inscription to front pastedown, original colour pictorial boards, very slightly rubbed to extremities, small chip to head of spine with slight loss, original pictorial boards, a little rubbed to extreme foot of spine and board edges, original printed advertising bookmark for high street loosely inserted, 8vo QTY: (1)
Rountree (Harry, illustrator). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York: Thomas Nelson, [1908], 92 colour illustrations, of which 14 full-page, pp. 116-117 running heads partly obscured by adhesion damage, p. 165 with marginal repaired tear, neat contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper verso, a little light spotting and toning to endpapers, front hinge tender, top edge gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, one or two small indentations to edges, 4to QTY: (1)
Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot, London:MacMillan and Co., 1907, colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, title page and illustrations page detached, previous owners notes in pencil to free front endpaper, publisher's list of books illustrated by Hugh Thomson bound in at rear of volume, Notable New Books leaflet loosely inserted into rear, elaborately decorated green gilt cloth, spine elaborately decorated with title and illustrations, a bright copy, very good condition, together withScenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot, London: MacMillian and Co., 1906, colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, spotting to free endpapers, ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown, gilt-edged, elaborately decorated green gilt cloth, gilt decorated spine, 8vo, plusTales of the Canterbury Pilgrims retold from Chaucer and Others by F.J. Harvey Darton, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, London: Darton & Co, 1904, 24 full page black and white illustrations, some spotting throughout, blue cloth with gilt decoration, faded top and left margin, spine gilt decorated with some rubbing, back cover faded to top and right-hand margins, 8vo, withCranford by Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, London: Macmillan & Co, 1891, tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous small illustrations, minor spotting, rear inside hinge partly cracked, inside front hinge partly cracked, previous owners marks on half-title page, all edges gilt, dark green cloth with gilt decoration, gilt decorated spine, 12mo, plusLang (Andrew, Editor). The Book of Princes and Princesses, by Mrs. Lang, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1908, 8 colour plates, 9 black and white plates, tissue guard to frontispiece, publisher's adverts at rear, free front endpaper browned, some spotting, small booksellers label and previous owners notes in pencil to front pastedown, gilt-edged, original gilt decorated blue cloth, some minor stains to covers, gilt decorated spine, 8vo, together withThe Red Book of Animal Stories, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899, 32 black and white plates, light spotting, gilt spine, previous owners notes in pencil to verso of free front endpaper, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine faded, cloth rubbed at headcap and tail with minor loss, 8vo, plusThe Green Fairy Book, 3rd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1893, 14 black and white illustrated plates, tissue-guard to frontispiece, occasional spotting throughout, gilt-edged, original gilt decorated green cloth, gilt decorated spine, minor stains to covers, 8vo, withThe Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang, 1936, Bewick's Select Fables, A Child's Garden of Verses by R. L Stevenson, Old Christmas by Washington Irving, London: Macmillan & Co, second edition, 1876, and The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens, 9th edition, 1846, QTY: (12)
![Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911], 28](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dbc58c58-2262-4c1d-801f-aea600db9801/de3fd075-b2c8-43ca-8f9e-aea60105a305/468x382.jpg)
Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911], 28 tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, tissue guards with printed captions, illustrations to text, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, browning to free-endpapers, original vellum gilt, lacking ties, 4to (Edition de Luxe 161/350, signed by the artist), together with:Thorpe (James, illustrator), The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation: being a discourse of Fish & Fishing not unworthy the perusal of most Anglers, by Izaak Walton, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911], 25 tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, printed captions to tissue guards, pictorial endpapers with some browning, original green cloth gilt, light fraying at head of spine, 4to,Thomson (Hugh, illustrator), Shakespeare's Comedy As You Like It, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1909], 40 tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, printed captions to tissue guards, light toning and spotting to endpapers, original green cloth gilt, spine with some browning and light fraying at head, 4to,Reynolds (Frank, illustrator), Mr Pickwick, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910], colour illustrated title, 25 tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, printed captions to tissue guards, original red cloth gilt, some fading and spine with slight browning, light fraying at head & foot of spine, 4to,Reynolds (Frank, illustrator), The Personal History of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911?], colour illustrated title, 21 tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, printed captions to tissue guards, some light toning, pictorial endpapers, original red cloth gilt, some fading spine and light fraying at head & foot, 4toQTY: (5)
Wende (Bernhard & Ilse Wende-Lungershausen). Klaus - der Hitlerjunge, Berlin, 1933, 16 pp. with colour illustrations, occasional light soiling, printed preface by Heinrich Himmler, original cloth-backed illustrated boards, a few light marks and stains, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Uncommon Hitler Youth propaganda publication aimed at children and illustrated by Ilse Wende-Lungerschausen.
Calligraphic Manuscript. A manuscript retirement presentation volume to Gwilwym Jones, Principal of Stroud School of Art, 1952, with manuscript verses on 10 leaves, extracted from Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, John Drinkwater and others, calligraphically executed in colours by various hands, with accompanying pen, ink and watercolour illustrations, opening with the lines 'Let men do these things if they will. Perhaps there is no harm in it; W.S. Landor, tipped-in etched portrait frontispiece, mezzotint view signed by Robert Dodd, 1952, with signatures of contributors including Edward R. Payne, L.W. Mildmay, Arthur D. Arnold, Ivanna M. Lees, Gladys Sharpley, Robert Dodd, Kathleen M. Blair, endpapers with original country scene in red crayon, original red morocco, upper cover with central diamond blue morocco onlay with initials 'G J' in gilt and corner onlays with stylised bird in gilt, some light marks, 4to, with a small descriptive note loosely inserted together with Selections from Catullus, Translated by Sir William Marris, with the Latin Text, circa 1935, 11 pages of calligraphic text, first words heightened in gold with decorative tailpieces, original green morocco gilt by Frank Garrett, Birmingham Municipal School of Art, spine faded to brown, slight darkening to cover margins, 8voQTY: (2)
Chivers (Cedric). Poems of Sentiment by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, London: Gay and Hancock, Ltd., 1909, decorative initials, some scattered spotting, front free endpaper inscribed 'To Wendy from Uncle Cecil. A small reward for all she did for us when my darling died, April 21st 1948', top edge gilt, vellum doublures with gilt-ruled turn-ins, armorial bookplate of Cecil Francis Milsom to upper pastedown, binder's gilt stamp to rear turn-in, contemporary vellucent binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath, with floral & foliate design to upper cover in gold and colours, flora design to lower board and elongated panel also in gold and colours to spine, generally in very good, clean condition, with fleece-lined light green cloth slipcase, 8voQTY: (1)
![Chivers (Cedric).The House of Joy that is Gone, by Richard Le Gallienne, London: Vanity Fair, [1910], 17p., half-title presen](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dbc58c58-2262-4c1d-801f-aea600db9801/11f640d5-6215-426c-bba9-aea60105a6f0/468x382.jpg)
Chivers (Cedric).The House of Joy that is Gone, by Richard Le Gallienne, London: Vanity Fair, [1910], 17p., half-title present, light spotting to free endpapers, front free endpaper with contemporary inscription 'to Mrs Goodeve a souvenir from Queenie and Cecil [Milsom] with their love, May 1911', top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, vellum doublures with gilt-ruled turn-ins, binder's gilt stamp to rear turn-in, contemporary vellucent binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath, upper cover with title and painting of a seated Saint Cecilia with gilt halo playing the pipe organ, within a decorative border incorporating intertwined hearts, and three sets of monogram initials (CFM, GLM & EFG), elongated title panel to spine, shamrock motif within gilt roundel to lower cover, generally in very good, clean condition, with fleece-lined light green cloth slipcase, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Major Cecil Francis Milsom DSO (1881-1963), of The Warren, Northam, North Devon was educated at Bath College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served during World War I (despatches three times), O.C. Central Requisition Office 1914-15, Senior Staff Officer 31st Division 1915-18, Commander R.A.S.C., Chester District, 1918-19. On 3rd June 1911, he married Lucy Gwladys Morris (d.21 April 1948), eldest daughter of Sir Robert Armine Morris, 4th Bt., D.L., J.P., of Sketty Park, Glamorgan, and had two daughters Hazel Lucy Mary and Sylvia Cecily Veronica.
Chivers (Cedric). "The Little Flowers" & the Life of St. Francis with the "Mirror of Perfection", London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1910?], decorative frontispiece and title, front blank free endpaper with contemporary inscription and attached petal, all edges gilt, vellum doublures with gilt-ruled turn-ins, binder's gilt stamp to rear turn-in, contemporary vellucent binding by Cedric Chivers of Bath, with title and painting of St. Francis standing within a wooded landscape to upper cover in gold and colours (St. Francis' halo in mother of pearl), elongated title panel in gold and colours to spine, generally in very good, clean condition, with fleece-lined light green cloth slipcase, 8voQTY: (1)
Kelmscott Press. The Life and Death of Jason, a Poem by William Morris, Kelmscott Press, 1895, two large woodcut illustrations designed by Edward Burne-Jones, each within woodcut borders, woodcut partial borders and initials, last few leaves with some light partial toning, original limp vellum, ties, binding worn with losses and burn marks, pencil note at front "Caught up in the Blitz", 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Peterson A34; Tomkinson 34. One of 200 paper copies.
Golden Cockerel Press. Miller (Patrick). Ana The Runner, a treatise for Princes & Generals attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul, Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937, signed by Miller to limitation page, black and white frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations, few light spots to fore-edge, original brown quarter morocco gilt, lightly marked, 8vo, 94 of 150 signed copies, together with:Mathers (E Powys). A Circle of the Seasons, Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1929, engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved plates with tissue-guards, original beige cloth gilt, backstrip toned, boards marked, 8vo, 385 of 500, withGantillon (Simon). Maya, Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1930, wood-engraved frontispiece, numerous further wood-engravings with tissue-guards, endpapers toned, original brown cloth gilt, backstirp toned, boards lightly marked, 8vo, with 5 other works published by The Golden Cockerel Press including The Lottery Ticket, We Happy Few, The New London Letter Writer, Lucina Sine Concubitu and Woman in DetailQTY: (8)
![Anderson (Doris Garland). Nigger Lover, 1st edition, London: L. N. Fowler & Co., Ltd., [1938], photographic portrait fron](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dbc58c58-2262-4c1d-801f-aea600db9801/325fa0c6-9a29-4f77-a685-aea60105adfc/468x382.jpg)
Anderson (Doris Garland). Nigger Lover, 1st edition, London: L. N. Fowler & Co., Ltd., [1938], photographic portrait frontispiece of the author, and two other full-page photographs of Garland Anderson and the couple leaving Honalulu, some light spotting to preliminary leaves and outer margins, ink presentation inscription from Garland Anderson to front endpaper 'All success from Garland Anderson to Mrs A. Hawkesford', original black cloth, lettered in white, lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:An impressionistic account of an inter-racial marriage between a white English woman and the black American Playwright Garland Anderson whose play Appearances was the first series play by a black writer to be produced on broadway, in 1925, where it ran for twenty-three performances before being transferred to London.
Bates (H.E.) The Darling Buds of May, 1st edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1958, light partial offsetting to endpapers from flaps, original cloth, dust jacket, small chip at head of front panel, 8vo, together with two others by the author: A Breath of French Air, 1959, and When the Green Woods Laugh, 1960QTY: (1)NOTE:Presentation copy, The Darling Buds of May inscribed by the author to David and Angelica Garnett "David & Angelica, affectionally as always, HE, 1/58". From the library of David Garnett, with his bookplate. David Garnett (1892-1981), writer, and member of the Bloomsbury Group married his second wife Angelica, the daughter of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, in 1942. Bates had written a memoir of Edward Garnett, David's father in 1950.
Charteris (Leslie). Enter the Saint, 1930; Featuring the Saint, 1931, 1st editions, a little light spotting, slight toning to endpapers, original cloth, slight fading to spines, 8vo, together with a period signed photograph of the author, with Hughes Studios Canera Portraits ink stamp to verso, inscribed 'Sincerely, Leslie Charteris' with his Saint stick man motif QTY: (3)
Christie (Agatha). Death in the Clouds, 1935; Cards on the Table, 1936; Ten Little Niggers, 1939; Murder is Easy, 1939, 1st editions, some light spotting, light toning to endpapers, previous owner inscription to Death in the Clouds, original cloth, some fading and light spotting to spines, 8voQTY: (4)
Christie (Agatha). One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 1st edition, London: Collins Crime Club, 1940, 3 pp. advertisements at end, a few light spots, original cloth, slight fading to spine, 7s 6d dust jacket, spine snd lower joint torn with loss, clear tape repair to spine, a few chips at folds, 8voQTY: (1)
![Cromie (Robert). The Crack of Doom, 1895; The Next Crusade, 1896; A Plunge into Space, 2nd edition, [1891]; The Lost Liner, [](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dbc58c58-2262-4c1d-801f-aea600db9801/c15b57a7-5a2a-4313-a883-aea60105b3e8/468x382.jpg)
Cromie (Robert). The Crack of Doom, 1895; The Next Crusade, 1896; A Plunge into Space, 2nd edition, [1891]; The Lost Liner, [1898], 1st editions, frontispiece and title illustrations to A Plunge into Space, advertisements, a little light spotting, some toning to endpapers, tear and marginal loss to The Crack of Doom half title, previous owner inscriptions at front, original cloth, Crack of Doom and Lost Liner spines with some fading, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Uncommon science fiction titles by Northern Irish novelist Robert Cromie (1855-1907), The Crack of Doom contains the first description of an atomic explosion, A Plunge into Space has the preface by Jules Verne and precedes H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon by 10 years.
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![Conan Doyle (Arthur). The Lost World, 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912], 5 monochrome plates, illustrations,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dbc58c58-2262-4c1d-801f-aea600db9801/edbf0230-9588-49cf-80fb-aea60105b7c0/468x382.jpg)
Conan Doyle (Arthur). The Lost World, 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912], 5 monochrome plates, illustrations, p. 233 lower corner torn away, scattered light spotting, contemporary previous owner signature, original blue cloth gilt, spine a little rubbed with some fading, joints and edges lightly rubbed, one corner a little bumped, 8vo, together with The Land of Mist, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1926], publisher's catalogue at end, some light spotting, original cloth, edges a little rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)
![Conan Doyle (Arthur). The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Novel, 1st US edition, New York: George H. Doran, [1914], 7 plate](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dbc58c58-2262-4c1d-801f-aea600db9801/3788f61d-4dc4-4427-8582-aea60105b877/468x382.jpg)
Conan Doyle (Arthur). The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Novel, 1st US edition, New York: George H. Doran, [1914], 7 plates by Arthur I. Keller (frontispiece detached), a little light offsetting and toning, previous owner signature, original red cloth gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, a few small stains to covers, letter 'n' in Conan in gilt to upper cover partially rubbed, 8vo, together with His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1917, advertisements at end, endpapers a little toned, original cloth gilt, spine faded, 8vo, plus The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1927, a little light spotting, endpapers lightly toned, original cloth, some fading to spine, 8vo, together with The Sign of Four, 3rd edition, 1893QTY: (4)NOTE:The Valley of Fear was first published in New York, preceding the first Uk edition by 3 months.
Dumas (Alexandre). The Three Musketeers, translated by William Robson, 2 volumes, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1894, illustrations by J. Huyot after Maurice Leloir, some light spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco by Truelove & Hannon, spines decorated in gilt with musket and cross motifs, joints slightly rubbed, folioQTY: (2)NOTE:Edition de Luxe 750/750
Fleming (Ian). A set of 13 James Bond novels, from Casino Royale to Octopussy, Pan paperback editions, 1955-67, lacking only On Her Majesty's Secret Service from the complete set, some toning to textblocks, original pictorial wrappers, joints and edges a little rubbed, a few light creases, 8vo, together with four US Permabook paperback editions of early titles and three others includding Mayllower-Dell paperbacks QTY: (20)
Fleming (Ian). Dr No., 2nd impression, London: Jonathan Cape, May 1958, bookplate of Laurence Clark to front endpaper (with faint clear tape residue mark), original cloth with silhouette of a dancing girl to upper cover, price-clipped dust jacket, small clear tape marks to verso, a few light marks to rear panel, 8vo, together with four others: Casino Royale, 1957 re-issue, Live and Let Die, 1959 reprint, Moonraker, 1958 re-issue, and From Russia, With Love, 1957 reprintQTY: (5)
Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1960, tiny closed tear and light marginal crease to p.159, original cloth, dust jacket, small restorations at head of spine and front panel, spine lettering overpainted and partially peeling off onto protective plastic cover, 8vo QTY: (1)
Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 2nd impression, April 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, 1st editions, bookplate of Laurence Clark to front endpapers (with a couple of light clear tape residue marks), original cloth, price-clipped dust jackets, small clear tape marks to versos, slight toning to OHMSS spine and faint show-through to rear panel, 8voQTY: (3)
Francis (Dick). Dead Cert, 1st edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1962, signed by the author to the title page, original cloth in facsimile dust jacket, cloth spine slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8voNerve, 1st edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1964, signed by the author to the title page, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly marked & rubbed with some loss to the head & foot of the spine, 8voFor Kicks, 4th impression, London: Michael Joseph, 1971, signed by the author to the title page, original cloth in dust jacket, 8voOdds Against, 1st edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1965, signed by the author to the title page, some minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, light rubbing to the spine, 8vo, together with 35 further works by Dick Francis, all signed 1st editions, all original cloth, all bar one in dust jackets, includes 3 duplicate copies, G/VG, 8vo QTY: (39)
Gardner (John). Goldeneye, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996, slight toning to textblock (as often), original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, together with Cold, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996, light toning to textblock, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, with six others related including Licence Renewed, 1981, signed by the author, Colonel Sun by Robert Markham (i.e. Kingsley Amis), 1968, The Bond Affair, edited by Oreste del Buono & Umberto Eco, 1966, and R.D. Mascott's The Adventures of James Bond Junior 0031/2, 1967 QTY: (8)
Graves (Robert). Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, one or two light finger marks, original salmon cloth, dust jacket, professionally restored at spine ends, head of rear panel and folds, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:First edition, first state with the passages on pages 290 & 341-343. These were included without Siegfried Sassoon's permission and a second issue hastily printed with asterisks on the blank pages where the offending material had been removed.
Greene (Graham). The Man Within, 1st US edition, 1929; Stamboul Train, 1st edition, 2nd state, 1932; Nineteen Stories, 1st edition, 1947; The Quiet American, 1st edition, 1955, a little light spotting and toning, original cloth, Man Within spine a little rubbed and faded, price-clipped dust jackets for Nineteen Stories and The Quiet American, small ink inscription to Quiet American front flap,8vo, together with others including Kingsley Amis's That Uncertain Feeling, 1955, I Like it Here, 1958, and Colonel Sun, 1968, and other Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis, John Buchan et al QTY: (50)
Hilton (James). Good-bye Mr. Chips, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934, illustrations by Bip Pares, some light spotting, original cloth, dust jacket with the Evening Standard Book of the Month wraparound band (slight toning to spine of band), edges a little rubbed, 8vo, signed by the author to front free endpapers, together with To You Mr. Chips, 1st edition, 1938QTY: (2)
Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1932, a few minor spots, original cloth (spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends), slight lean, dust jacket, reinforcements to verso, small repairs and some retouching, some light toning to spine and flap margins, 8voQTY: (1)
Lawrence (D.H.) The White Peacock, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: William Heinemann, 1911, 1st issue with pp. 227-230 tipped-in, a little light spotting, some toning to endpapers, blank bookplate, front hinge a little tender, original blue cloth with windmill device stamped in blind to lower cover, some fading to spine, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo (Roberts A16), together with Sons and Lovers, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Duckworth & Co., 1913, 1st issue with title tipped-in and 20 pp.publisher's list at end, title with faded publishers? ink stamp, a little minor spotting, original cloth gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo (Roberts A4.1), plus The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Duckworth & Co., 1st issue with 20 pp. publisher's catalogue at end, light toning to endpapers, original cloth, spine a little faded, 8vo (Roberts A6), with two others: Women in Love, 1st trade edition, Martin Secker, 1921 (Roberts A15c), and The Virgin and the Gipsy, G. Orioli, Florence 1930, limited edition 220/810 (Roberts A54) QTY: (5)
Le Carré (John). The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1st edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1963, a few light spots to edges, original blue cloth gilt, small portion of fading to base of spine and boards, dust jacket, a few spots to panels, extremities slightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:A bright attractive copy.
Stevenson (Robert Louis). The Master of Ballantrae. A Winter's Tale, 1st edition, London: Cassell & Company, 1889, 1st issue with July advertisements at end, one or two light spots at front, some toning to endpapers, rear hinge slightly tender, original pictorial cloth, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:A bright copy.
The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly, 13 volumes, a complete run, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, April 1894-April 1897, volume I a later issue (with April on front cover correctly spelt), numerous illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Laurence Housman and others, occasional light spotting, original yellow pictorial cloth in bright condition, 8vo, plus a duplicate of volume X QTY: (14)
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937, 4 colour plates by the author, illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, occasional light spotting, presentation inscription to half title, dated 1940, map endpapers, Blackwell ticket to front pastedown. original green pictorial cloth, small stains at foot of spine and covers, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:The second impression, published in the same year as the first, and the first with the colour plates.
Waugh (Evelyn). Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Chapman & Hall, 1928, frontispiece and 5 plates by the author, a little light spotting, contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper "Carl Winter, 1928, Coll Exon. Oxon.", original cloth, spine slightly rubbed at ends, in dustwrapper, pale toning to spine, a few chips and nicks at folds (generally a very good copy)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Carl Winter (1906-1966), art historian and museum curator, who worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum before moving to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1946, at which time he also became a Fellow of Trinity College. Together with Patrick Trevor-Roper and Peter Wildeblood, Carl Winter gave evidence to the Wolfenden Committee, whose report led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967. Winter's evidence was given anonymously as 'Mr White'. His testimony was portrayed in the BBC television dramatisation Consenting Adults.Connolly, The Modern Movement, 58. First edition, first issue of the author's first novel with the names "Martin Gaythorn-Brodie" and "Kevin Saunderson" unchanged on pages 168-69.The author's first novel, with his own illustrations, in the dust jacket also designed by him. After the book was rejected for indecency by Duckworth (the publisher of his earlier biography of Rossetti), Waugh offered the manuscript to Chapman & Hall, but he did so while his father, who was the managing director of the firm, was away on holiday. The acting-director agreed to publish the novel and Arthur Waugh returned to London to discover that his son was his firm's newest author. When Arthur Waugh's biography was published three years later, however, Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, the two novels published under his directorship of Chapman & Hall, were not mentioned.
Wilde (Oscar). An Ideal Husband, 1st edition, London: Leonard Smithers, 1899, unopened, some light spotting front and rear, original lilac cloth with gilt designs by Charles Shannon, some fading to spine, small marginal light spotting to upper cover, small 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Mason 385. Limited edition of 1000 copies.
Wilde (Oscar). The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, 1st edition, London: Leonard Smithers, 1899, some light spotting front and rear, original lilac cloth with leaf spray ornaments in gilt designed by Charles Shannon, spine a little faded, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Mason 382. Limited edition of 1000, this copy out-of-series. Provenance:
A 19th century Chinese porcelain Hu vase: red ochre and light-brown trickling glazes against a crackle glaze ground, two elephant-mask handles and of flattened form, on conforming octagonal foot (hairline crack to underside of base) (24cm high) Christie's London, original invoice dated 28 May 1987 referring to the Great Tew Park dispersal, together with original invoice
A large late 19th / early 20th century Chinese porcelain vase; the neck with flaring rim above a ruyi head border, the vase with two 'double' opposing dogs of Foo (lion dogs, temple guardians) handles, each side with a turquoise ground and a lilac ground, applied Chilong dragon and further over two shaped reserves decorated in famille rose enamels with a musician group before mountains and two figures, one with an open-winged tethered stork, the second panel similarly decorated with figures before mountains and two oncoming figures about to light a firework placed upon rockwork and each with hands covering their ears, the main burnt-orange ground decorated with chrysanthemums, a peony and various other flowers in low relief, the base with lappet border in Ming style, the underside of the base with red six-character seal mark (63cm highest)
A very fine and comprehensive light-brown leather desk-set comprising: dome-topped compartmentalised stationery cabinet, pen-stand with central hexagonal glass tray labelled 'Val St Lamvert' (Belgium) and with two gilt-metal pen-holders, a large folding gilt-metal-mounted paper- holder, a desk paper-tray and weighted cover, a matching gilt-metal and leather desk-calendar, notepad with folding lid and a matching desk-blotter
An Arrau or giant South American skeletal turtle carapace (podocnemis expansa): a good light blonde example (68.5cm long x 52.5cm widest x approx. 16.5cm highest) CITES Annex B, Appendix IIFootnote:Note: Please be aware that this lot contains materials which maybe subject to import/export restrictions, especially outside Great Britain, due to CITES regulations. Please note, it is the buyers sole responsibility to obtain any relevant export or import licence. For more information please visit http://www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites/
René Lalique (France, 1860-1945), a circular light amber coloured glass bowl in the 'Volubilis Pattern, France' circa 1930, designed in 1921; the three opalescent volubilis (Morning Glory) flowers to the base with stems that act as feet, etched mark of R Lalique, France, no.383 (21.5cm diameter)Condition Report: This has come from a private vendor and there are no major problems noted. The etched marks and writing to the underside are clearly visible, some minor scratches to the inside of the bowl commensurate with usage and age. Otherwise in good original condition.
An Art Deco style/period bowl marked 'Saumont' (Henri), France' to underside and with concentric opalescent semi-spheres in relief to the underside (26cm diameter)Condition Report: There are some scratches commensurate with age and usage to the inside of the bowl, mostly lower half. when held up to the light the opalescence is pleasing. Otherwise no chips, damages or restorations noted.
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