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Los 180

King (Stephen) Salem's Lot, light toning to margins, jacket with light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, 1976; The Stand, light marking to endpaper, jacket with very light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, 1979, first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally excellent or near-fine examples; and 20 others by the same and others, horror, 8vo (22)

Los 127

Churchill (Rudolph S.) Winston S. Churchill: The Official Biography, 24 vol., first edition, illustrations, contemporary pencil ownership signature to front free endpapers, original cloth, light bumping to spine ends, dust-jackets, very minor marks to extremities, else an excellent set, 8vo, 1966-2000.⁂ The project was begun by Winston Churchill's son Randolph, who published the first two volumes before his death, which was then continued by Martin Gilbert. The supplementary volumes, often lacking, are of special value, forming a unique and extensive source of previously unpublished Churchill material.From the library of John Grigg (1924-2001, 2nd Baron Altrincham) - a British writer, historian and politician, known for renouncing his peerage and for his 1957 article criticizing the Queen and monarchy.

Los 217

Woolf (Virginia) The Common Reader, small chip and tear to head of title, scattered foxing, light browning to endpapers, light wear to spine and corners, toning to covers, 1928; The Common Reader: Second Series, dust-jacket, light browning to spine and margins, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light fraying to head, still excellent overall, 1932, first editions, original cloth or boards, 8vo (2)

Los 137

Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Tarzan the Untamed, first English edition, light browning to text, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, light fading to spine, splash marks to spine and covers, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, spine a little darkened, chipping and creasing to head and foot, light damp-staining to margins, extremities rubbed, 8vo, 1920.⁂ An early Burroughs title, rare in the jacket.

Los 130

Allain (Marcel) and Pierre Souvestre. The Long Arm of Fantomas, first American edition, frontispiece, New York, 1924; A Limb of Satan, Stanley Paul & Co., n.d.; A Nest of Spies, bookplate to pastedown, Stanley Paul & Co., n.d., original cloth, light rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners; and 3 other Fantomas titles, 8vo (6)

Los 190

Miller (Henry) The Rosy Crucifixion Book Two Plexus, 2 vol., first edition, limited edition, edges foxed, original fawn wrappers, some light rubbing and minor creasing, but a bright and excellent example overall, 8vo, Paris, Olympia Press, for private circulation, 1953.

Los 224

Beardsley (Aubrey) Under the Hill, second edition, frontispiece, plates, occasional light foxing, some pulling to gatherings, original decorative cloth, gilt, spotting to spine, 1913 § Hastings (Viscount) The Golden Octopus. Legends of the South Seas, one of 750 copies, plates by Blamire Young, light browning to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine darkened, 1928; and 2 others, children's and illustrated, 4to & 8vo (4)

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NO RESERVE Sermons.- Robinson (Robert) Christianity a system of humanity. A sermon in behalf of the Protestant dissenting charity-school, At Horsly-Down, Southwark, for the educating and clothing of fifty poor boys, preached at Salter's Hall, London, On Wednesday, March 3d, 1779, first edition, some spotting and light soiling, disbound, Cambridge, Printed by T. Fletcher, 1779 § Sunday schools.- Adkin (Rev. Lancaster) The Sabbath. A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of St. Stephen's, Norwich, to promote the establishment of Sunday schools, occasional spotting, disbound, Norwich, Printed and sold by J. Crouse and W. Stevenson, [1785]; and 6 others, similar, 8vo & small 4to (8)

Los 145

Crowley (Aleister) Tannhauser. A Story of Our Time, new edition, scattered foxing, original cloth, 1907; Eight Lectures on Yoga, first edition, frontispiece portrait, illustrations, errata slip at rear, original cloth, some light marking, [1939]; and 2 others, Crowley, 4to & small 4to (4)

Los 136

Burgess (Anthony) [The Malayan Trilogy], 3 vol., first editions, comprising Time for a Tiger, jacket spine faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1956; The Enemy in the Blanket, abrasion to front free endpaper, jacket spine a little browned, spine ends and corners chipped, light browning to lower panel, 1958; Beds in the East, jacket spine sunned and a little browned with chip to head affecting first word of author's name, a few neat tape repairs to verso, lower panel a little browned, some chipping and creasing to head, 1959, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo.

Los 154

NO RESERVE Donleavy (J. P.) The Ginger Man, second edition, revised, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, Paris, Olympia Press, 1958 § Baldwin (James) Nobody Knows My Name, first edition, ink inscription to endpaper, jacket spine slightly faded spine ends and corners chipped, light creasing to head and foot, New York, 1961 § Faulkner (William) The Town, first English edition, jacket spine lightly faded, spine ends a little chipped, 1958, original boards, dust-jackets; and 15 others, American literature, 8vo (18)

Los 36

NO RESERVE Thucydides. De Bello Poloponnesiaco libri octo, edited by Henri Estienne & John Hudson, parallel Greek and Latin text, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, large engraved vignette to head of dedication, 2 double-page engraved maps, some spotting and staining, occasional light browning, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments with later red morocco label, Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetsten and W. Smith, 1731; and 10 others, Classics, including a scarce 18th century Gloucester printing of Sallust and a 5 vol. large paper edition of Homer, Glasgow, 1814, v.s. (11)

Los 19

NO RESERVE Morrice (David) The art of teaching, or communicating instruction, examined, methodized, and facilitated; as well as applied to all the branches of scholastic education, first edition, errata f., 4pp. advertisements at end, some spotting and light browning, later cloth-backed boards, printed title and library paper labels to spine, spine ends little frayed, corners worn, rubbed, Lackington, Allen and Co., 1801 § Marsh (Herbert) A vindication of Dr. Bell's system of tuition, in a series of letters, first edition, limp library cloth, gilt, printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811 § Clarke (Rev. Liscombe) A letter to H. Brougham... in reply to the Strictures on Winchester College, contained in his letter to Sir Samuel Romilly, first edition, presentation copy from the author to the Provost of Eton College, half-title, occasional spotting, modern boards, little faded, J. Hatchard, 1818; and 9 others, early 19th century Education, including more Brougham, 8vo (12)

Los 23

NO RESERVE Religion.- Bowles (John) A letter addressed to Samuel Whitbread, esq. M.P. in consequence of the unqualified approbation expressed by him, in the House of Commons, of Mr. Lancaster's System of education, second edition, half-title, some spotting and light browning, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt and with long morocco label, Printed for John Joseph Stockdale, 1808 § Vincent (William) A Defence of public education, addressed to the most Reverend the Lord Bishop of Meath... In answer to a charge annexed to his Lordship's discourse, preached at St. Paul's, on the anniversary meeting of the charity children, first edition, A. Strahan for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1801 bound with another related, occasional spotting, modern boards, faded; and 20 others, religious schools and religious education in schools, including a few disbound pamphlets, v.s. (22)⁂ I: Bowles, a barrister, demands that 'when education is made a national concern, youth must be brought up as members of the national church', confirming the fears of English radicals, such as Paine, Priestley and Godwin that a state-controlled national education would deny religious and political freedom. This strong division of opinions was one of the reasons why a national education system was not implemented until 1870. II: Vincent was headmaster of Westminster and wrote his reply to the charge that the public schools neglected Christian teaching. He describes the Christian education received at Westminster and adds a few words on Winchester.

Los 86

NO RESERVE Women.- Helme (Elizabeth) Instructive rambles extended in London, and the adjacent villages. : Designed to amuse the mind and improve the understanding of youth, 2 vol. in 1, lacking half-titles and frontispieces, vol.2 H6 lower corner torn away, affecting catch-word, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with black morocco label, printed by and for Sampson Low; and sold by E. Newbery, 1800; and 2 others, Women, v.s. (3) sold not subject to return.

Los 84

NO RESERVE British Army Officer in the American War of Independence.- Darell (Rev. William) The History of Dover Castle, engraved title, folding plan and 8 only of 9 engraved plates, wormhole in lower margins of endpapers and all to B1, some light spotting and toning, Charles Cornwallis, Marquess Cornwallis's copy with his engraved bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints splitting, gilt panelled spine, 1 morocco label only of 2, 4to, S. Hooper, 1786.⁂ Charles Cornwallis, first Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), fought in the American Revolutionary War (surrendered at Yorktown); governor-general of India and lord lieutenant of Ireland.

Los 243

Poe (Edgar Allan) The Raven. The Pit and the Pendulum, signed presentation inscription from the artist to Henry Payne, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates by William Thomas Horton, original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, light surface soiling, spine slightly faded, 4to, 1899.⁂ A rare edition with Horton's atmospheric illustrations. Henry Payne (1868-1940) member of the Arts and Crafts Birmingham Group of artists.

Los 4

NO RESERVE Blind & deaf.- Moon (William) Light for the blind: a history of the origin and success of Moon's system of reading (embossed in various languages) for the blind, first edition, half-title, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece, specimen plate of Moon's embossed alphabet, frontispiece and title foxed, occasional spotting elsewhere, original blue cloth, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, soiled and rubbed, Longmans & Co., 1873 § International Health Exhibition, London, 1884. Oral Instruction of the deaf and dumb, some spotting, 1884 bound with 3 other works relating to the IHE, modern cloth; and 6 others, blind & deaf education, v.s. (8)

Los 201

NO RESERVE Sayers (Dorothy L.) Busman's Honeymoon, 1937; The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club, 1928; Double Death, 1939, first or first American editions, first light spotting to half-title, the last lightly spotted, original cloth, the second decorative, light marking, spine ends creased and bumped; and 7 others, mostly 20th century detective or fantasy fiction, 8vo (10)

Los 103

NO RESERVE Blank paper.- An album of c.50 sheets of blank 19th century paper, each sheet c.194 x 160mm., a few ff. at start lettered, occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary vellum, soiled, small 4to, [c.1850].

Los 61

Ruskin (John, art critic and social critic, 1819-1900).- Albumen print photograph of Filippino Lippi's Madonna and Child signed by Ruskin below image, light fading to image, faint blind-stamp of Ruskin lamp to lower corner of image, light creasing to mount, c.280 x 225mm., c.1875.⁂ An interesting piece of Ruskin ephemera - the present example is very similar in subject, mount and used of blind-stamp to those held at the Ahmoleon that were donated by Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School in 1875 for use as teaching aids. It seems likely therefore that the present example was gifted by Ruskin from his personal collection.

Los 218

Woolf (Virginia) Three Guineas, light fading to cloth, jacket with a few neat repairs and some light retouching, light fading to spine, short split to head of upper joint, 1938; The Death of a Moth, jacket spine ends and corners chipped with restoration, light toning to spine, 1942, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 2 others, 8vo (4)

Los 144

Crispin (Edmund) The Moving Toyshop. A Detective Story, first edition, map illustration, original cloth, light fading to spine, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, splash mark to upper panel, but an excellent copy overall, 8vo, 1946.⁂ An attractive copy of this classic work of detective fiction, dedicated to Philip Larkin, The Moving Toyshop provided the inspiration for the merry-go-round dénouement of Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.

Los 291

NO RESERVE Italy.- Martyn (Thomas) A tour through Italy. Containing full directions for travelling in that interesting country, new edition, folding hand-coloured engraved map, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, spine worn and repaired, Printed for C. and G. Kearsley, [1791] § Dickens (Charles) Pictures from Italy, first edition in book form, initial and final advertisement f., half-title, wood-engraved illustrations by Samuel Palmer, occasional spotting, original blue cloth, small nick at head of spine, little light staining, [Eckel, p. 126; Pine-Coffin 844(5)], 1846; and 6 others, 18th & 19th century works on Italy, v.s. (8)

Los 206

Susann (Jacqueline) Valley of the Dolls, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, minor chipping and creasing to spine ends and corners, very light toning to panels, but generally near-fine overall, 8vo, New York, [1966].

Los 148

NO RESERVE Dahl (Roald) Danny the Champion of the World, illustrations by Jill Bennett, jacket creased, some minor chipping to spine ends and corners, 1975; The BFG, cut signature of the artist to title, illustrations by Quentin Blake, light toning to margins, 1982, first editions, cut signature of the author to titles, original boards, dust-jackets, light sunning to spines, excellent or near-fine otherwise, 8vo (2)

Los 187

Le Carré (John) Smiley's People, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, original boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, short closed tear to foot of lower panel, spine ends a little chipped, light rubbing to head and foot, 8vo, 1980.

Los 303

NO RESERVE Voyages.- Heyerdahl (Thor) The Kon-Tiki Expedition, first edition, signed by the author on endpaper, plates, occasional light spotting, bookplate to pastedown, ?lacking rear endpaper, original cloth, light fading and small mark to spine, dust-jacket, tape repairs to spine ends and corners verso with some light show-through, light rubbing and minor creasing to head and foot but a sharp and excellent copy overall, 8vo, 1950.

Los 207

Swift (Graham) Last Orders, signed by the author jacket with light fading to spine, 1996 § Potter (Dennis) Ticket to Ride, bookplate signed by the author, 1986 § Amis (Martin) London Fields, 1989, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally fine; and 13 others, similar, 8vo (16)

Los 212

NO RESERVE Wells (H.G.) When the Sleeper Wakes, first edition, frontispiece and plates, very occasional light stains or finger-soiling, ink ownership initials to pastedown, offset to endpaper, endpapers browned, contents a little shaken, original cloth, gilt, lightly marked, spine a little soiled and dulled, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, 1899.

Los 160

Fitzgerald (F. Scott) The Great Gatsby, scattered spotting, slight shelf-lean, fading to spine and covers, lower joint splitting, slit to spine, rubbing and light wear to extremities, 1926; Tales of the Jazz Age, "review copy" blind-stamp to title, spine a little dulled, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light rubbing to extremities, 1923, first English editions, original cloth; and 4 others, Fitzgerald, 8vo (6)

Los 266

NO RESERVE Pear Tree Press.- Guthrie (James) The Elf. A little book, Winter, 1899 and Spring and Summer, 1900, each one of 300 copies, occasional spotting, little light browning, original pictorial wrappers, little fading, small 4to, Ingrave & Shorn, James Guthrie, 1899-1900 (3)

Los 189

Marquez (Gabriel Garcia) News of a Kidnapping, first edition in English, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, very light fading to spine, a near-fine example otherwise, New York, 1997; and 2 work by Mario Vargas Llosa, 8vo (3)

Los 129

Acton (Harold) Memoirs of an Aesthete, first edition, illustrations, some light spotting to endpapers and edges, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine dulled, spine ends and corners chipped, chipping to upper fore-edge, light spotting and soiling, a few short closed tears and light creasing to head and foot, 8vo, 1948.⁂ Acton's classic memoir, encompassing his childhood in Florence, his period in Oxford with the likes of Waugh and Robert Byron and his taking up residence in Peking in 1932, rare in the dust-jacket.

Los 24

NO RESERVE Schools .- Trollope (Rev. William) A History of the Royal Foundation of Christ's Hospital with an account of the plan of education, the internal economy...and memoirs of eminent blues, engraved frontispiece and 8 plates, title foxed and with offsetting from frontispiece, occasional spotting or light foxing, modern boards, some fading and spotting, William Pickering, 1834 § Newcombe (Rev. Richard) A Memoir of Gabriel Goodman, D.D. Dean of Westminster during forty years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the restorer of the wardenship of Ruthin; with some account of Ruthin School, and the names of its most eminent scholars, engraved portrait and 4 plates, portrait foxed and offsetting on to title, occasional spotting or light foxing, mostly to plates, modern boards, some fading and spotting, Ruthin, Taliesin Press, 1825; and 15 others, Schools and related, v.s. (17)

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NO RESERVE Europe.- [Byron (Anne Isabella Milbanke, Baroness, attributed to)] What de Fellenberg has done for education, first edition, ?lacking half-title, spotted, a few small stains, modern marbled boards, Saunders and Otley, 1839 § Perry (Walter Copland) German university education; or, the professors and students of Germany, first edition, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some spotting and light browning, original green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, chipped at head and with label removed from foot, corners worn, [Bonn: printed by Charles Georgi] & London, Longman [& others.], 1845; and 8 others, 19th century European Education, v.s. (10)

Los 290

NO RESERVE Italy.- Guidi (Jean-Baptiste-Marie) Lettres contenant le journal d'un voyage fait à Rome en 1773, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, half-titles, woodcut ornaments to titles and head- and tail-pieces, occasional spotting, little lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, head of spine and corners worn, rubbed, Geneva & Paris, no printer, 1783 § [Dupaty (Charles-Marguerite-Jean-Baptiste Mercier)] Lettres sur l'Italie, 3 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispieces to each vol., some spotting and light browning, 19th-century blue marbled boards by Meslant with his ticket, Paris, Desenne & Maradan, 1797; and 7 others, 19th century French works on Italy, v.s. (11)

Los 164

Fleming (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, light tape-staining to endpapers, jacket with minor chipping to spine ends and corners, light creasing to head, surface-soiling, 1962; You Only Live Twice, light staining to front free endpaper, ink gift inscription to pastedown, jacket spine lightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1964, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 4 others, Bond, 8vo & large 4to (6)

Los 250

Cave (R.) and Geoffrey Wakeman. Typographia naturalis, number 317 of 330 copies, 5 tipped in plates, including nature-prints, gilt title decoration, original morocco-backed boards with nature-printed leaf to upper cover, Wymondham, Brewhouse, 1967 § Louÿs (Pierre) The Twilight of the Nymphs, limited edition, illustrations by Cecil Beaton, original cloth, dust jacket, Fortune Press, 1928 § MacQueen (Kenneth) Adventure in Watercolour, limited edition, double-signed by the author/ artist, tipped in plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, upper panel torn at head, spine ends and corners chipped, light surface soiling, Sydney, n.d., and 4 others, limited editions, 4to & 8vo (7)

Los 179

Kernahan (Coulson) Captain Shannon, first edition, plates, 1897 § Hume (Fergus) The Silent House in Pimlico, n.d. § "Waters". The Detective Officer and other tales, frontispiece, 1878 § Campden (John) The Hundredth Acre, frontispiece, ink gift inscription to endpaper, 1906 § Marsh (Richard) The Crime and the Criminal, frontispiece and plate, hinges weak, n.d., occasional light foxing or browning, original cloth, some light rubbing or fading; and 5 others, early detective fiction, 8vo (10)

Los 214

Wicks (Mark) To Mars Via The Moon An Astronomical Story, plates, covers with light discolouration to foot, upper cover with small patch of staining and wear to upper corner, 2 puncture marks to spine, 1911 § Graham (Winifred) The Gods of the Dead, endpapers browned, spine faded, 1912 § Benson (Robert Hugh) Lord of the World, lacking front free endpaper, foxing, 1907, first or first English editions, original cloth; and 5 others, science fiction, fantasy and supernatural, 8vo (8)

Los 161

NO RESERVE Fleming (Ian) [A collection of 42 James Bond Pan paperbacks], light toning to margins, original wrappers, creasing to spines, rubbing and creasing to extremities, a few with wear or covers detaching, small 8vo, v.d..

Los 131

Atwood (Margaret) The Handmaid's Tale, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on half-title, light toning to margins, invitation to author's reading loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to head and foot, near-fine otherwise, 8vo, 1986.⁂ The first English edition of Atwood's dystopian classic, the basis for the hugely successful television series.

Los 132

Betjeman (John) Ghastly Good Taste, first edition, errata slip, folding illustration at rear, jacket upper flap loosely inserted, original cloth-backed pink boards, paper label to spine light browning to spine, some light fading to margins, but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1933.

Los 301

Russia.- Thompson (A. Beeby) The Oil Fields of Russia, second edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, plates and illustrations, some folding, title page detached, presentation bookplate from Mr. W. M. Guiness, Shell Petroleum Co." to pastedown, original cloth, lettered in gilt, light rubbing to tips of spine and corners, 4to, 1908.

Los 138

Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Tarzan and the Lost Empire, first English edition, Prudential bookmark loosely inserted, light spotting, original cloth, very light creasing to spine, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, light staining to spine and extremities, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, 8vo, 1931.

Los 183

Kramer (Larry) Reports from the Holocaust: the making of an AIDS activist, signed presentation inscription from the author to his husband Dave Webster to endpaper, New York, 1989; The Normal Heart, signed by the author, small patches of adhesion to upper panel, New York, 1985, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, light toning to spines, else fine; and a copy of Faggots with a signed presentation inscription, 8vo (3)⁂ Three important works by the writer and LGBT rights activist who died in May this year, the first with an excellent association inscription.

Los 297

NO RESERVE Philippines.- Collection of Reports from the Anti-Imperialist League, paper pamphlets, original wrappers, some light staining to covers, some folds or creases, [early 20th century]; and small quantity of others, including volumes relating to American annexation of the Philippines or Manila, and a collection of speeches made to the House of Representatives in Boston, v.s., v.d. (sml qty)

Los 95

NO RESERVE Philosophy.- Brown (Thomas) Sketch of a system of the Philosophy of the Human mind, first edition, half-title, some light foxing, library stamps, contemporary calf, upper joint split, but holding, piece missing from head of spine, corners little worn, rubbed, 8vo, Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute [et al.], 1820.⁂ Rare in commerce. Brown (1778-1820) Scottish philosopher, poet, tutor and member of the American Antiquarian Society.

Los 163

Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, light browning to endpapers, jacket price-clipped, spine a little browned, spines ends and corners a little chipped, a few short tears and creasing to head and foot, light staining to upper panel, 1961; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, lacking front free endpaper, spotting to edges, jacket with tape-staining to flaps, light fading to spine, spotting, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head and foot, 1963, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 4 others, Bond, 8vo & 4to (6)

Los 85

Medals.- Dassier (John [Jean] & Son, medal makers) An explanation of Dassier's medals of the sovereigns of England, 6 engraved plates (the first signed 'London published 1st Jan., 1797 M. Young, Ludgate Hill), each c.284 x 368mm., 8 ff. of explanatory text, subscription form for 'Dassier's Medals of the Roman History' dated 1797, bound in at start, little marginal water-staining or mostly light soiling to plates, occasional spotting, contemporary stitched marbled wrappers, little creasing, oblong small folio, M. Young, Ludgate Hill, 1797.⁂ A very good copy of a rare work in commerce. Dassier was a Swiss medalist, who following in the footsteps of his father became chief engraver at the Geneva mint. In 1731 he issued a series of medals dedicated to George II, which depicted British sovereigns from William the Conqueror to George II.

Los 194

NO RESERVE O'Casey (Sean) The Plough and the Stars, frontispiece portrait, light fading to covers, dust-jacket, repaired tears to upper panel, spine a little browned, spotting, chipping to head and foot, 1926 § [Murray (John, editor)] Shinid or the Island, presentation inscription from the editor to endpaper, for Private Circulation, 1938 § O'Brien (Kate) Pray for the Wanderer, spotting, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine browned, hole to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1938, first or first English editions, original boards; and 35 others, Irish literature, 8vo (38)

Los 208

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., first editions, vol. 1 fifth impression, vol. 2 fourth impression, vol. 3 second impression, folding maps, original cloth, some slight shelf-lean, dust-jackets, vol. 1 jacket with remains of tape and heavy tape staining to margins, light browning to spines, spine ends and corners chipped, rubbing and creasing to extremities, some splitting to head or foot of joints and fore-edges, light toning to panels, 8vo, 1955-56.

Los 176

NO RESERVE Hersey (John) Hiroshima, first edition, bookplate signed by the author to half- title, original cloth, spine browned, light fraying to spine ends, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, chip to upper joint, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo , New York, 1946.⁂ First edition of this landmark work, one of the earliest examples of New Journalism and never out of print.

Los 159

Faulks (Sebastian) Birdsong, first edition, signed by the author on title, ink gift inscription to half-title, original boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light creasing to head and foot, near-fine otherwise, 8vo, 1993.

Los 238

NO RESERVE Lear (Edward) More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc., first edition, half-title, illustrations by the author, occasional spotting, a few finger-marks, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine gilt, small repair to head of spine, little light staining, rubbed, a good copy, [Noakes 83; Osborne I, p.70], Robert John Bush, 1872; and 3 others, Children's, 1 falsely purporting to be from the library of Lewis Carroll, v.s. (4)⁂ The author's third book.

Los 196

Plath (Sylvia) Ariel, jacket with light toning to spine and panels, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short closed tears with accompanying creasing to head and foot, 1965; Crossing the Water, light browning to endpapers, very light surface soiling to jacket, else near-fine, 1971; Winter Trees, near-fine, 1971, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 3 others, Plath, 8vo (6)

Los 142

Coward (Noel) Blithe Spirit, light fading to lower cover and spine, jacket spotted, spine slightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head and foot, 1942 § Nabokov (Vladimir) Lolita, jacket with light rubbing to head and foot, light vertical crease to upper panel, light creasing to head, but a bright and excellent example overall, 1959, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 16 others, 8vo (18)

Los 245

Rilke (Rainer Maria) Puppen, first edition, one of 150 copies, 16 hand-coloured plates by Lotte Prizel, some light foxing, original cloth-backed decorated boards, plain dust-jacket, spotted and borwned, chipping to head of spine and corners, card slip-case with paper label to upper cover, some wear to corners, small folio, Munich, 1921.

Los 172

Greene (Graham) The Heart of the Matter, ink ownership inscription, browning to endpapers, spine faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short tears and creasing to head and foot, 1948; Our Man in Havana, jacket spine lightly dulled, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light surface soiling to lower panel, 1958, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 4 others, Greene, 8vo (6)

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