Two Day Books & Ephemera Auction

P G WODEHOUSE: 4 titles: UKRIDGE, London, Herbert Jenkins, 1924, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth; HEAVY WEATHER, London, Herbert Jenkins, 19...

JOHN PADDY CARSTAIRS: PARDON MY GUN, London, W H Allen, 1962, 1st edition, signed and inscribed, autograph letter signed on two sheets of Royal Ho...

JOSEPH CONRAD: AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS, London, T Fisher Unwin, 1896, 1st Colonial edition, 1st state, "This" for "Their" page 26, "absolution" ...

H G WELLS: THE WORLD SET FREE, London, MacMillan, 1914, 1st edition, review slip tipped in, 10pp adverts at end, original blind stamped cloth gilt

SINCLAIR LEWIS: BABBITT, New York, Harcourt Brace, 1922, 1st edition, 1st state, "Purdy" and "My" on page 49, 6pp adverts at end, orignal two-tone...

VIRGINIA WOOLF: THREE GUINEAS, London, The Hogarth Press, 1938, 1st edition, The British Library Monte Carlo label on front paste down, original c...

BERNARD CORNWELL: 7 titles: THE LORDS OF THE NORTH, London, 2008, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; AZINCOURT, London, 2008, 1st edition,...

T E LAWRENCE: 6 titles: REVOLT IN THE DESERT, London, Jonathan Cape, 1927, 1st edition, original cloth; SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, London, Jonathan ...

T H WHITE: 5 titles: MISTRESS MASHAM'S REPOSE, London, Jonathan Cape, 1947, 1st edition, original cloth; THE AGE OF SCANDAL, London, Jonathan Cape...

[JAMES FENNIMORE COOPER]: RAVENSNEST OR THE REDSKINS, London, Richard Bentley, 1846, 1st edition, 3 vols, 12mo, contemporary half morocco gilt wor...

SAMUEL BISHOP: FERIAE POETICAE SIVE CARMINA ANGLICANA ELEGIACI PLERUMQUE ARGUMENTI LATINE REDDITA..., London, Typis D Leach, Prostant Venales Apud...

DENNIS WHEATLEY: 6 titles: MURDER OFF MIAMI, [1936], 4to, original wraps, soiled and chipped; WHO KILLED ROBERT PRENTICE?, London [1937], 4to, ori...

T E LAWRENCE: THE MINT, London, Jonathan Cape, 1955, (2000) "Presentation" copy, uncut, 4to, original morocco backed cloth soiled, slip-case

[ROBERT SMITH SURTEES]: ASK MAMMA OR THE RICHEST COMMONER IN ENGLAND, ill John Leech, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1858, 1st edition in book form, 13...

DANIEL DEFOE: 6 titles: all published by Constable & Co with a limitation of 750 and printed from the 1st editions: THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES O...

JOHN BUNYAN: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, London, Arthur L Humphreys, 1906, "The Royal Library Sef D'Oeuvre Series", uncut, 4to, decorative crushed cri...

TERENCE: PUBLII TERENTII AFRI COMOEDIAE..., London, J & P Knapton and G Sandby, 1751, 2 vols in one, engraved vignette titles, 6 plates, uncut, ol...

HIPPOLYTE HOSTEIN: LES AMIS DE L'ENFANCE, ill Louis Lassalle, Paris, Louis Janet, circa 1845, hand coloured litho front, 11 tinted litho plates as...

SAMUEL ROGERS: POEMS, London for T Cadell & E Moxon, 1834, contemporary decorative morocco gilt, all edges gilt, top board reinforced with clear a...

CHARLES LEVER: OUR MESS TOM BURKE OF "OURS", ill H K Browne, Dublin, William Curry, 1843-44, 1st edition in book form, 3 vols, engraved port front...

A E COPPARD: COUNT STEFAN, ill Robert Gibbings, Waltham Saint Lawrence, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928, (600), numbered, original cloth backed de...

FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE FENELON: THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMACHUS, THE SON OF ULYSSES, trans Tobias Smollett, London for S Crowder et al, 177...

[TOBIAS SMOLLETT]: THE ADVENTURES OF SIR LAUNCELOT GREAVES, London for G G J & J Robinson, 1793, a new edition corrected [the 3rd edition] 2 vols,...

A E HOUSMAN: A SHROPSHIRE LAD - LAST POEMS, Chipping Campden, The Alcuin Press, 1929, (325) (300), 2 vols, 1st work numbered, uncut, original clot...

FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE: L'HOMME AUX QUARANTE ECUS, ill Paul-Emile Becat, Paris, Editions Arc-en-Ciel, 1951, (2000), numbered, 12 coloured ...

[DOMINIQUE BOUHOURS]: LES ENTRETIENS D'ARISTE ET D'EUGENE, Amsterdam, Estienne Roger, 1703, new edition, engraved frontis, 12mo, old calf worn, la...

[CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY]: THE NEW BATH GUIDE OR MEMOIRS OF THE B-N-R-D FAMILY IN A SERIES OF POETICAL EPISTLES, London for J Dodsley, 1776, 10th editi...

VOLTAIRE: MEMOIRES POUR SERVIR A LA VIE DE VOLTAIRE ECRITS PAR LUI-MEME, Berlin, 1784, engraved port frontis, interleaved, 12mo, old quarter calf ...

CHARLOTTE BARRETT (ED): DIARY AND LETTERS OF MADAME D'ARBLAY, preface and notes by Austin Dobson, London, MacMillan, 1904-05, 1st edition, 6 volum...

THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT, trans J C Mardrus & Powys Mathers, ill Eric Fraser, The Folio Society 1958, 1st Folio Society editi...

BRUCE CHATWIN: THE ATTRACTIONS OF FRANCE, London, Colophon Press, 1993, (10), advance reading copies reproduced from the author's revised typescri...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE WORKS, eds Henry Irving & Frank A Marshall, ill Gordon Browne, London, Blackie, 1896, 8 vols, "The Henry Irving Shakespea...

RUDOLF ACKERMANN (ED): THE REPOSITORY OF ARTS LITERATURE FASHIONS MANUFACTURES ETC, 1816, 2nd series, vol 1 parts 1-10 in 2, 1822 2nd series vol 1...

WILLIAM BURROUGHS: THE NAKED LUNCH, Paris, The Olympia Press, 1959, early issue, priced Fr18, title page with no border, Traveller's Companion ser...

OLIVIER GEORGES DESIREE: POEMES SANS RIMES, London, The Chiswick Press, designed by Herbert P Horne, 1894, 1st edition, printed for the author, fi...

REPRINTS OF RARE TRACTS AND IMPRINTS OF ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS ETC CHIEFLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN COUNTIES..., Newcastle, 1847-4...

HENRY NOEL HUMPHREYS: A RECORD OF THE BLACK PRINCE, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849, 1st edition, 4 full page and 2 text illumina...

JAMES SIBBALD: CHRONICLE OF SCOTTISH POETRY FROM THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY TO THE UNION OF THE CROWNS TO WHICH IS ADDED A GLOSSARY, Edinburgh for J S...

ROBERT HEATH: A NATURAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ISLANDS OF SCILLY... AND LASTLY A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF CORNWALL, London for R Manby and H F Sc...

THOMAS TOMPKINSON: THE MUGGLETONIAN PRINCIPLES PREVAILING BEING AN ANSWER IN FULL TO A SCANDALOUS AND MALICIOUS PAMPHLET ENTITLED A TRUE REPRESENT...

DENNIS WHEATLEY: MURDER OFF MIAMI, Hutchinson, [1936], 1st edition, Crime Dossier, 4to, original wraps soiled

SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL: A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES, London, Cassell, 1957, 1956-58, 4th edition, 1st edition, 1st ed...

ALEXANDER PECKOVER DOYLE PENROSE: WINGS OF THE YEARS, Marlborough College Press 1943, (100), 1st edition, original wraps, 2 copies only on COPAC h...

JEANNE BECU COMTESSE DU BARRY: LETTERS TO AND FROM THE COUNTESS DU BARRIE, THE LAST MISTRESS OF LEWIS XV OF FRANCE..., trans [Mathieu Francois Pid...

PETRONIUS: THE SATIRICON OF PETRONIUS, Paris, Charles Carrington, 1902 (515) (440), 1st Carrington edition, French hand made paper, 2pp adverts at...

FRANCIS EDWARD LEDGWIDGE: SONGS OF THE FIELDS, intro Lord Dunsany, London, Herbert Jenkins 1916, 1st edition, 6pp adverts at end, original cloth g...

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS: 4 titles: THE SHADOWY WATERS, London, A H Bullen, 1907, acting version, original wraps worn; CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN, Shakespea...

[EDWARD DOWDEN] 2 titles: A WOMAN'S RELIQUARY, Dundrum, The Cuala Press, 1913, (300), 1st edition, original cloth backed boards, browned at edges;...

FRANK PREWETT: POEMS, Richmond, The Hogarth Press [1921], 1st edition, original wraps browned, some chipping

F S FLINT: OTHERWORLD CADENCES, London, The Poetry Bookshop, 1920, 1st edition, original boards + FORD MADDOX HUEFFER: COLLECTED POEMS, London, Ma...

NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY: 2 titles: GENERAL BOOTH ENTERS INTO HEAVEN AND OTHER POEMS, London, Chatto & Windus, 1919, 1st edition, original cloth, s...

JOSEPH CRAWFORD SCOTT: ARTHUR JESSIESON, A NOVEL, London, Chapman & Hall, 1878, 1st edition, 2 vols in one, original green cloth gilt, inner joint...

JOHN GAY: THE BEGGARS OPERA, A FAITHFUL REPRODUCTION OF THE 1729 EDITION, New York, Argonaut Books, 1961, 4to, half faux leather gilt, card slip-c...

R M DEVENS: OUR FIRST CENTURY BEING A POPULAR DESCRIPTIVE PORTRATURE OF THE ONE HUNDRED GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS OF PERPETUAL INTEREST IN THE HI...

JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY: THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, London, Bickers, 1878, "Complete in one volume", old calf gilt, prize binding, lower board de...

JOHN MILTON: PARADISE LOST WITH NOTES SELECTED FROM NEWTON AND OTHERS TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR WITH A CRITICAL DISSERTATION ON ...

THOMAS HOOD: WHIMSICALITIES A PERIODICAL GATHERING, ill John Leech, London, Henry Colburn, 1844, 1st edition, 2 vols, 12mo, contemporary half calf...

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY: VANITY FAIR, A NOVEL WITHOUT A HERO, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1848, 1st edition, added vignette title, frontis and 3...

RICHARD DOYLE (ATTRIBUTED TO): THE CHRISTENING PROCESS OF PRINCE TAFFY, London, Fores, 1842, 1st edition, engraved caricatures on the baptism of t...

GILBERT WHITE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBOURNE, ill John Nash, London, Lutterworth Press, 1951, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper + CHARL...