Gorringes Book Sale - Tuesday 26th July 2022

° ° Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel - The Lord of the Rings, 4th impressions of The Fellowship of the Ring, in slightly torn and discoloured d/j, and T...

° ° West, Rebecca - Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937, 1st edition, 2 vols, 8vo, green cloth in uncli...

° ° An early 20th century album of manuscript poetry and verse, in a fine calligraphic hand, mainly in black ink, with rubricated capitals, inters...

° ° Lee, Laurie - Cider with Rosie, 1st edition, with reference to the fire at the piano works at p.272, original green cloth boards, in unclippe...

° ° Shakespeare, William - The Tempest. pictorial title, 20 coloured plates (mounted) and some text decorations (by Arthur Rackham). 1st trade edi...

° ° Aesop - Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton. 13 coloured plates (with captioned guards), ...

° ° Wagner, Richard - The Ring of the Niblung ..., 2 vols., comprising The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie, and Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods....

° ° De La Motte Fouqué - Undine. Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney. coloured pictorial title, 15 coloured plates (with captioned guards) & ...

° ° Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer-Night's Dream. pictorial title, 40 coloured and mounted plates (with captioned guards), text illus. & decor...

° ° Potter, Beatrix - The Roly-Poly Pudding. First Edition. coloured pictorial title, full-page coloured and num. text illus.; publisher's red clo...

° ° Mills, John - The Life of a Foxhound, illustrated by J.A. Shepherd, 8vo, vellum gilt, with 8 tipped-in colour plates, Hodder and Stoughton, Lo...

° ° Andersen, Hans Christian - Fairy Tales ... Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies, signed by the artist. 12 colour...

° ° [Dodgson, Rev. Charles Lutwidge] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. By Lewis Carroll ... Limited Edition (of 1,000 numbered copies - but one ...

° ° Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Illustrated by the Author. 2nd edition, sixth impression. coloured frontis and 8 text il...

° ° Greene, Graham - 3 works - A Sort of Life. 1st ed. original cloth with clipped d/j. 8vo. The Bodley Head, London, 1971; Travels with my Aunt....

° ° Greene, Graham - A Burnt out Case. 1st English ed. original cloth with I clipped d/j. 8vo. Heinemann, London, 1961. ...[more]

° ° Greene, Graham - Our Man in Havana. 1st ed. original cloth with unclipped d/j. 8vo. Heinemann, London, 1958. ...[more]

° ° Greene Graham - The End of The Affair. 1st ed. original cloth with unclipped d/j. 8vo. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1951. ...[more]

° ° Greene, Graham - The Quiet American, 1st ed. original cloth with unclipped d/j. 8vo. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1955. ...[more]

° ° Bolan, Marc - The Warlock of Love. 1st ed. Original pictorial printed boards with unclipped d/j. 8vo. Lupus Music, Plymouth, 1969. ...[more]

° ° Anon - Die Olympischen Spiele 1936. 1st ed. 2. Vol. Complete with numerous illustrated plates and text illus. Original cloth with unclipped pi...

° ° Mayne, John - The Siller Gun. A Poem, in Four Cantos, 8vo, paper boards, Thomas Cadell, London, Glocester [sic], 1808; [Lewis, Matthew Gregory...

° ° Maugham, William Somerset - The Moon and Sixpence, 1st edition, 8vo, quarter calf, William Heinemann, London, 1919 ...[more]

° ° Lawrence, David Herbert - The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, 1st edition, 8vo, Duckworth & Co., London, 1914 ...[more]

° ° Le Carre, John - 7 Works - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1st American edition, 8vo cloth, in torn d/j, Coward McCann, New York, 1964; Th...

° ° Fleming, Ian - 12 paperbacks, published by Pan Books, consisting - Casino Royale, 1964; Live and Let Die, 1965; Moonraker, 1964; Diamonds Are ...

° ° Pearson, John - The Profession of Violence: the rise and fall of the Kray Twins. First Edition. 9 photo. plates; publisher's cloth and d/wrapp...

° ° (Pearson, John - Ms. Notebook, The Kray Twins) a med. octavo cloth bound ruled notebk of approx. 120 used pages; apparently compiled for the a...

° ° Hughes, Ted - The Hawk in the Rain. first edition. half title; blue cloth and d/wrapper. 1957 ...[more]

° ° (Pearson, John - Ms. Notebooks) 2 small octavo notebooks of 120 and 100pp. (approx.) filled with pasted-in receipts, labels, tickets, adverts....

° ° Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot, a Tragicomedy in Two Acts, 1st British edition, 8vo, yellow cloth in unclipped d/j, a review copy, with p...

° ° Hanham, Frederick (editor) - Natural Illustrations of The British Grasses, 1st edition, folio, red watered silk, by Astle & Sins, with 62 pag...

° ° Milne, A.A - Winnie-The-Pooh. 1st Canadian edition. illus (by Ernest H. Shepard), half title, coloured pictorial map on e/ps., publisher's gil...

° ° Wilson, Sir John - The Royal Philatelic Collection, with frontis portrait of King George VI, folio, crushed red morocco, with gilt Royal Coat ...

° ° Churchill, Winston Spencer - A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 1st edition, 4 vols, red cloth gilt, with price clipped d/j’s, Cassell...

° ° Swinburne, Algernon Charles - Songs Before Sunrise, one of 650, 4to, fine green morocco gilt binding by M. Dunkels, published for the Florence...

° ° Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Supplemental Nights, Library edition, translated by Sir Richard Burton, 12 ...

° ° Adams, Henry Gardiner - Humming Birds, Described and Illustrated, 8vo, rebound quarter red morocco, with 8 colour plates, Groombridge and Sons...

° ° Shakespeare, William - The Works of Shakespeare, edited by Howard Staunton, 3 vols, 4to, red morocco gilt, with illustrations by Sir John Gilb...

° ° Poetry rebound in fine bindings - 6 works - Gower, George Leveson - Poems, 8vo, crushed blue morocco by Birdsall, Northampton, front board mon...

° ° Maugham, William Somerset - Ah King, 1st edition, one of 175, signed, 8vo, calf gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, William Heinemann, London, 19...

° ° Maugham, William Somerset - The Vagrant Mood, 1st edition, one of 500, signed, 8vo, calf gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, William Heinemann, L...

° ° Eton College interest - Lyte, Sir H.C. Maxwell - A History of Eton College (1440-1910), 8vo, maroon calf, ink presentation inscription to fron...

° ° Fishing interest - Ronalds, Alfred - Fly-Fisher’s Entomology, 3rd edition, 8vo, quarter green morocco and green cloth, with 20 hand-coloured p...

° ° Fine bindings - 5 works - Thoms, William J (editor) - Early English Prose Romances, one of 500, 2 parts bound in 1, Robert the Deuyll and Robi...

° ° Churchill, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). The Collected Works ... Centenary Edition. London: Library of Imperial History, 1973-1975. Limited edi...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for 1881, 18th edition, original paper wrappers, tears to spine, spotting to endpapers. ...[more]

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for 1882, 19th edition, original paper wrappers, minor loss to spine head and foot, slight spotting to end...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for 1883, 20th edition, original paper wrappers, spotting to early advertisements, title, endpapers and pa...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for 1884, 21st edition, original paper wrappers, very minor spotting to early advertisements, title and pa...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for 1885, 22nd edition, original paper wrappers, 2cm. tear to upper spine, but paper present, spotting to ...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for years, 1895 (32nd edition) original paper wrappers, spine with some paper loss, gutters neatly strengt...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for the years, 1900 (37th edition) - 1906 (43rd edition), all rebound brown cloth gilt, and retaining orig...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for the years 1907 (44th edition) - 1913 (Jubilee number), all rebound brown cloth gilt, and retaining ori...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for the First World War Years - 1914 (51st edition) - 1918 (55th edition), all rebound brown cloth gilt, a...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for the years 1919 (56th edition) - 1929 (66th edition), all rebound brown cloth gilt, and retaining origi...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers’ Almanack for the years 1930 (67th edition) -1938 (75th edition), all rebound brown cloth gilt (excepting issues for...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers Almanack for the Second World War Years - 1939 (76th edition) - 1945 (82nd edition), rebound issues for 1939, 1941 a...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers Almanack for the years 1946 (83rd edition) - 1959 (96th edition), original hardbacks for, 1946-49, 1950 and 1952, wi...

° ° Wisden, John - Cricketers Almanack for the years 1960 (97th edition) - 1974 (111th edition), original hardbacks for, 1962, 1964, and, with dus...