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DUMAS, Alexander. Les Trois Mousquetaires. Paris: M.M. J. -B. Fellens et L.- P. Dufour, 1846. First illustrated edition, 8vo

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DUMAS, Alexander. Les Trois Mousquetaires. Paris: M.M. J. -B. Fellens et L.- P. Dufour, 1846. First illustrated edition, 8vo (237 x 151mm.) Half-title, wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, 32 wood-engraved plates by A. Gusman, G. Lecestre and others after Beauce and others, tissue-guards, illustrated initials and tail-pieces. (Spotting to preliminaries, light to moderate spotting throughout including marginal damp-staining.) Contemporary black morocco, gilt lettering to spine (rebacked, lightly rubbed extremities). – And a further illustrated volume by Dumas (‘Vingt ans Après’, 1846, 8vo) (2).

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HUXLEY, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954. First edition, first impression, 8vo (187 x 119mm

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Lot 4003

HUXLEY, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954. First edition, first impression, 8vo (187 x 119mm.) (Offsetting to front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket designed by John Woodcock (offsetting to inner flap). Note: the first edition was published simultaneously in America and England. ‘One bright May morning,’ Huxley wrote, ‘I swallowed four-tenths of a gram of mescaline dissolved in half a glass of water and sat down to wait for the results’.

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MILITARY. – E.P. STEBBING. At the Serbian Front in Macedonia. London and New York: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1917. First

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Lot 4104

MILITARY. – E.P. STEBBING. At the Serbian Front in Macedonia. London and New York: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1917. First edition, 8vo (189 x 125mm.) Photographic plates, 1 folding map, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional marginal spotting.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (chipped to extremities, slightly dust-soiled). – And a further thirteen volumes related to war, escape and captivity (including Joseph Lee’s ‘A Captive at Carlsruhe, and Other German Prison Camps’, 1920, 8vo, and Antoinette Tierce’s ‘Between Two Fires’, 1931, 8vo, and E.O. Mousley’s ‘The Secrets of a Kuttite’, 1922, 8vo) (14).

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TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984. Deluxe ‘India Paper’ edition, 9th impression, 8v

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Lot 4131

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984. Deluxe ‘India Paper’ edition, 9th impression, 8vo (222 x 137mm.) (Faint crease to first leaves.) Original black cloth, gilt design by Tolkien to upper cover, original box with mounted paper label (slight rub).

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RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First trade

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Lot 4157

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First trade edition, 4to (251 x 181mm.) 40 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, numerous black and white illustrations. (Spotting to endpapers, mild toning.) Original beige cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (lightly bumped extremities). – And a further four volumes illustrated by Arthur Rackham (including William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, 1926, 4to, and Richard Wagner’s ‘The Ring of the Niblung’, 1939, 4to, and Robert Browning’s ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’, 1934, 8vo, and Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’, 1933, 8vo) (5).

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BEATTIE, William. The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny, and The Ban de la Roche. London: George Virtue,

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Lot 4143

BEATTIE, William. The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny, and The Ban de la Roche. London: George Virtue, 1838. First edition, 4to (270 x 203mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title, 70 engraved plates, folding map. (Toning, some marginal spotting.) Contemporary green diced morocco, maroon morocco lettering piece to the spine, g.e. (some fading and scuffing to extremities). – And a further volume (N. Bailey’s ‘An Universal Etymological English Dictionary’, 1783, 8vo) (2).

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LESSING, Doris. The Golden Notebook. London: Michael Joseph, 1962. First edition, second impression, 8vo (216 x 134mm.) (Mild

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Lot 4112

LESSING, Doris. The Golden Notebook. London: Michael Joseph, 1962. First edition, second impression, 8vo (216 x 134mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (slight chipping to extremities). – And a further twenty-seven literary volumes (including Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’, 1933, 8vo, and Kingsley Amis’ ‘The James Bond Dossier’, 1965, 8vo, and Jean Rhys’ ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, second impression, 1966, 8vo, and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, 1941, 8vo) (28).

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CHRISTIE, Agatha. Murder Is Easy. London: The Crime Club, 1939. First edition, 8vo (174 x 114mm.) (Toning, occasional scatter

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Lot 4137

CHRISTIE, Agatha. Murder Is Easy. London: The Crime Club, 1939. First edition, 8vo (174 x 114mm.) (Toning, occasional scattered spotting, lacking 2pp. advertisements.) Variant brown cloth, black lettering to spine (some fading and spotting to spine). Provenance: Audrey Hobby (ink name inscribed to front pastedown). – And a further first edition in a variant binding (Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Jamaica Inn’, 1936, 8vo) (2).

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AIRSHIPS. – Alberto SANTOS-DUMONT. My Airships, the Story of My Life. London: Grant Richards, 1904. First edition, 8vo (204 x

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Lot 4059

AIRSHIPS. – Alberto SANTOS-DUMONT. My Airships, the Story of My Life. London: Grant Richards, 1904. First edition, 8vo (204 x 137mm.) Photographic illustrations, manuscript annotation to front-free endpaper and half-title by Lord Ventry. (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning.) Original boards (lightly rubbed). Note: Lord Ventry co-wrote ‘Jane’s Pocket Book 7: Airship Development’ and he also set up the ‘The Airship Club’ in 1948 to fund the building of an airship. Eventually, Ventry’s airship – named ‘Bournemouth’ - had its first flight in 1951. It made eleven flights before crash landing in 1952. Provenance: Lord Ventry (ink annotation to preliminaries). – And a further twenty-five volumes related to airships, Zeppelins, ballooning and early aeronautics (Ernst A. Lehmann’s ‘Zeppelin. The Story of Lighter-than-air Craft’, 1937, 8vo and ‘The Hero of a Thousand Flights’, [1913], 4to, and Griffith Brewer’s ‘Theory of Ballooning’, 1918, 8vo, and ‘The Andree Diaries’, 1931, 8vo, and also a French cast paper-weight model of a De Dion Bouton single cylinder engine) (26).

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ASIA. – Charles A. SHERRING. Western Tibet and The British Borderland. London: Edward Arnold, 1906. First edition, 8vo (247 x

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Lot 4149

ASIA. – Charles A. SHERRING. Western Tibet and The British Borderland. London: Edward Arnold, 1906. First edition, 8vo (247 x 152mm.) Photogravure frontispiece, photographic illustrations, some full-page, 5 maps including 2 large folding colour maps of Western Tibet. (Toning, one folding map loose.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt (extremities rubbed, small stain to upper cover).

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GAY LITERATURE. – [Thomas BURKE.] ‘Paul Pry’. For Your Convenience, A Learned Dialogue Instructive To all Londoners and Londo

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Lot 4010

GAY LITERATURE. – [Thomas BURKE.] ‘Paul Pry’. For Your Convenience, A Learned Dialogue Instructive To all Londoners and London Visitors. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1937. First edition, 8vo (183 x 120mm.) Illustrated title-page and illustrated endpapers by Philip Gough. (Toning, slight spotting to margins of endpapers.) Original green cloth, facsimile dust-jacket. Note: scarce. The first ‘Gay Guide’ to London and written by the author of ‘Limehouse Nights’, Thomas Burke. The work takes the form of a discreet and indirect conversation between two men in the Thélème Club where, by innuendo, they discuss the best public toilets for gaining ‘full satisfaction’. The endpaper maps provide visual assistance in locating the toilets.

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RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – C.S. EVANS (editor). Cinderella. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, 4to (252 x

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Lot 4037

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – C.S. EVANS (editor). Cinderella. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, 4to (252 x 185mm.) Tipped-in frontispiece, tissue-guard, decorative title in three colours, 3 double-paged colour plates, numerous silhouette illustrations. (Toning, name partially erased from half-title.) Original pictorial boards (light spotting), dust-jacket (some chafing to edges).

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WAIN, Louis (illustrator) and Claire WAIN. Louis Wain’s Great Big Midget Book. London: Dean & Son, Ltd., [1934.] First ed

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Lot 4052

WAIN, Louis (illustrator) and Claire WAIN. Louis Wain’s Great Big Midget Book. London: Dean & Son, Ltd., [1934.] First edition, 16mo (116 x 99mm.) Numerous black and white illustrations by Louis Wain. (Toning.) Original pictorial boards (lightly bumped). Note: scarce. The last book that Louis Wain published in his lifetime. Louis and his sister, Claire, worked on it while he was a patient at Napsbury psychiatric hospital in Hertfordshire where he spent the last fifteen years of his life. – And a further thirteen small-format books, mainly by Kate Greenaway (including ‘Almanach de Kate Greenaway 1890’, [1889], 16mo, and Maurice Sendak’s ‘The Nutshell Library’, 4 vols., 1964, 16mo) (10).

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POETRY. – Keith DOUGLAS. Alamein to Zem Zem. London: Editions Poetry, 1946. First edition, 8vo (224 x 168mm.) 3 colour plates

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Lot 4128

POETRY. – Keith DOUGLAS. Alamein to Zem Zem. London: Editions Poetry, 1946. First edition, 8vo (224 x 168mm.) 3 colour plates, black and white drawings by the author in the text. (Browned.) Original red cloth-backed boards (staining to spine), dust-jacket (spotting, some losses to spine panel, browned). – And a further seven volumes related to poetry (including ‘An Anthology of ‘Nineties’ Verse’ edited by A.J.A. Symons, 1928, 8vo, and Edmund Blunden’s ‘Poems of Many Years’, 1957, 8vo) (8).

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SPENSER, Edmund. Faerie Queene… with a Glossary, and Notes explanatory and critical by John Upton. London: for J. and R. Tons

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Lot 4139

SPENSER, Edmund. Faerie Queene… with a Glossary, and Notes explanatory and critical by John Upton. London: for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. 2 vols., new edition, 4to (252 x 197mm.) (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (joints splitting, extremities heavily rubbed with some loss). Note: the first annotated edition. Provenance: Marcus Somerville (bookplates to front pastedowns) (2).

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BELLOC, Hilaire. Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults Only and Mature at That. London: Duckworth, 1932. First edition, 4to (246 x

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Lot 4127

BELLOC, Hilaire. Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults Only and Mature at That. London: Duckworth, 1932. First edition, 4to (246 x 184mm.) Illustrations by Nicholas Bentley. (Toning, contemporary gift inscription on the front-free endpaper.) Original white cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust-jacket (toned, small repair to lower panel). – And a further seven illustrated volumes (including Eden Phillpotts’ ‘A Dish of Apples’, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, [1921], 4to, and J.M. Barries’ ‘Peter Pan in Kensington Garden’, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, [1909], 4to) (8).

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PAYNE-GALLWEY, Ralph. The Book of Duck Decoys, their Construction, Management, and History. London: John van Voorst, 1886. Fi

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Lot 4152

PAYNE-GALLWEY, Ralph. The Book of Duck Decoys, their Construction, Management, and History. London: John van Voorst, 1886. First edition, 4to (247 x 181mm.) 14 colour lithographic plates, including 2 folding. (Toning, occasional scattered spotting.) Original teal cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (minor marks to lower cover). Note: plates complete as collated. Provenance: John Neston Diggle (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a related volume (J. Whitaker’s ‘British Duck Decoys of Today, 1918’, 1918, 8vo) (2).

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O’BRIEN, Edna. The Country Girls. London: Hutchinson, 1960. First edition, 8vo (196 x 121mm.) (Some spotting to front-free en

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Lot 4031

O’BRIEN, Edna. The Country Girls. London: Hutchinson, 1960. First edition, 8vo (196 x 121mm.) (Some spotting to front-free endpaper.) Original black cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (price-clipped, spine ends rubbed). Note: the author’s first novel.

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DIMENT, Adam. The Bang Bang Birds. London: Michael Joseph, 1968. First edition, 8vo (198 x 127mm.) Original red cloth, dust-j

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Lot 4120

DIMENT, Adam. The Bang Bang Birds. London: Michael Joseph, 1968. First edition, 8vo (198 x 127mm.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small tear to rear panel). – And quantity of approximately forty further volumes, mostly first editions (including T.H. White’s ‘The Goshawk’, 1951, 8vo, and Rian James’ ‘All About New York’, 1931, 8vo, and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’, first U.K. edition, 1964, 8vo, and J.D. Salinger’s ‘Franny and Zooey’, first U.K. edition, 1962, 8vo, and Tennessee Williams’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, first U.K. edition, 1956, 8vo) (a quantity).

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THEROUX, Paul. Murder in Mount Holly. London: Alan Ross, 1969. First edition, 8vo (183 x 116mm.) (Mild toning, ex-library sta

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Lot 4121

THEROUX, Paul. Murder in Mount Holly. London: Alan Ross, 1969. First edition, 8vo (183 x 116mm.) (Mild toning, ex-library stamps verso title and front-free endpaper.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (extremities rubbed). Note: Theroux wrote most of this novel during the state of emergency and curfew in Kampala in Uganda in 1966 when, for twelve days, people were not allowed out of their homes. – And a further twenty-nine volumes of fiction and travel-writing and memoir by Paul Theroux, all first editions, one signed (‘The Black House’, 1974, 8vo) (30).

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WAR. – E.W.C. SANDES. In Kut and Captivity with the Sixth Indian Division. London: John Murray, 1919. First edition, 8vo (216

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Lot 4103

WAR. – E.W.C. SANDES. In Kut and Captivity with the Sixth Indian Division. London: John Murray, 1919. First edition, 8vo (216 x 134mm.) Half-title, 15 photographic illustrations on 12 plates, including portrait frontispiece of Major General Townshend, 13 maps, 9 folding. (Browning to half-title, toning.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (upper joint splitting). – And a further fifteen volumes related to war and captivity (including C.L. Woolley’s ‘From Kastamuni to Kedos’, 1921, 4to, and E.W.C. Sandes’ ‘Tales of Turkey’, 1924, 8vo) (15).

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ASIA. – Perceval LANDON. Lhasa, an Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent

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Lot 4150

ASIA. – Perceval LANDON. Lhasa, an Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4. London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., 1905. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (239 x 163mm.) Half-titles, 7 maps, including 1 large folding colour map to rear of vol. 2, numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning, light spotting to half-titles.) Original russet cloth, gilt lettering (some fading to gilt, spine ends rubbed). Provenance: R. Colenutt (ink stamp to front pastedowns). – And a further two volumes (L.A. Waddell’s ‘The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism’, 1934, 8vo, and Marco Pallis’ ‘Peaks and Lamas’, 1946, 8vo) (4).

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MOTOR-RACING. – Enzo FERRARI. My Terrible Joys… translated by Ivan Scott. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963. First U.K. edition,

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Lot 4077

MOTOR-RACING. – Enzo FERRARI. My Terrible Joys… translated by Ivan Scott. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963. First U.K. edition, with 2 mounted colour photographs of Ferraris, 8vo (230 x 156mm.) Introduction by Stirling Moss, photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (slight abrasions to base of spine). – And a further eleven volumes related to motor-racing (including Rudolf Caracciola’s ‘Mercedes Grand Prix Ace’, [1955], 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (12).

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AMIS, Martin. Dead Babies. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First edition, first impression, 8vo (197 x 118mm.) (Mild toning.) Or

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Lot 4094

AMIS, Martin. Dead Babies. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First edition, first impression, 8vo (197 x 118mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth (faintly bumped at top of spine), dust-jacket (slight rub to extremities). – And a further twenty volumes by Martin Amis, all first editions, four signed by Amis. Note: the signed volumes are ‘Time’s Arrow’, ‘London Fields’, ‘The Information’ and ‘Heavy Water and Other Stories’. ‘Visiting Mrs. Nabokov’ is a second impression (21).

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BINDING. – Kenneth GRAHAME. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. Twenty-fifth edition, 8vo (183 x 1

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Lot 4014

BINDING. – Kenneth GRAHAME. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. Twenty-fifth edition, 8vo (183 x 137mm.) 20 colour plates by William Payne. (Blanks replaced.) Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in green full morocco, gilt lettering to spine, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Note: the first edition with William Payne’s illustrations.

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SIGNED BOOK. – Eric HEBBORN. Drawn to Trouble. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1991. First edition, signed by the author, 8

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Lot 4042

SIGNED BOOK. – Eric HEBBORN. Drawn to Trouble. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1991. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). Note: one of the greatest and most infamous art forgers of the 20th century. Hebborn was found dead on a street in Rome in 1996, most likely murdered by a blow to the back of his head.

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SPEER, Albert. The Slave State. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1981. First edition, includes a 29-line typed letter from A

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Lot 4043

SPEER, Albert. The Slave State. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1981. First edition, includes a 29-line typed letter from Albert Speer, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). Note: Albert Speer, the ‘Nazi Architect’, was sentenced to twenty years in prison for his close involvement with Hitler and the Nazi’s inner command. He was released in 1966 and his books are a fascinating witness account while also being an attempt to portray himself as unaware of the ‘Final Solution’. However, this has been steadily undermined by research showing that Speer not only knew the fate of the Jews but actively participated in their persecution. This letter, in German and on Speer’s headed paper, is dated March 1969 and mentions the imminent publication of his memoirs in the U.K. in May, 1970. He suggests that while wanting to visit England, he is unsure if he is an ‘unwillkommene Person’ or not. He says he intends to ask his U.K. publisher (‘es wird sicher ein guter sein’ [‘who will certainly be a good one’]) to find out for him. Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.

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SUSSEX. – Edward HERON-ALLEN. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, 4to (3

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Lot 4175

SUSSEX. – Edward HERON-ALLEN. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, 4to (307 x 246mm.) 3 folding maps in pocket to rear, numerous plates. (Toning, occasional scattered spotting, corner crease to frontispiece ‘B’ and small tear to plate 42.) Original cream buckram, paper label to spine (some spotting to lower cover, minor finger-marks and small stain to upper cover). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.

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AMIS, Kingsley. Lucky Jim. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953. First edition, 8vo (182 x 116mm.) (Mild toning.) Original gree

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Lot 4007

AMIS, Kingsley. Lucky Jim. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953. First edition, 8vo (182 x 116mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth (some fading to top of spine), dust-jacket (spine browned). Note: first printing of Amis’ first novel.

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BERRY, William. County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the families of Sussex. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First ed

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Lot 4167

BERRY, William. County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the families of Sussex. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First edition, folio (347 x 209mm.) Half-title, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, loosely inserted manuscript pedigree of the ‘Polhill’ family. (Toning, occasional light spotting, blanks creased.) Original green boards, later paper label to spine (rebacked, extremities rubbed). – And a further fourteen volumes (‘Sussex Notes and Queries. A Quarterly Journal of the Sussex Archaeological Society’, 17 vols. in 14, 1927-1971, 8vo) (15).

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ZOLA, Émile. Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille) … translated from the 63rd French edition. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1885. First En

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Lot 4155

ZOLA, Émile. Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille) … translated from the 63rd French edition. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1885. First English edition, 8vo (189 x 121mm.) Engraved plates, 2pp. publisher’s advertisement at front and 17pp. publisher advertisements at rear. (Browning and light scattered spotting, tape repair to hinges.) Original blue cloth with pictorial gilt, red and black (fading to spine and upper cover gilt, slight warping to covers and crease to lower cover, rubbed). – And a further twelve volumes by or about Émile Zola (including ‘His Masterpiece? (L’Oeuvre.) Or, Claude Lantier’s Struggle For Fame’, 1886, 8vo, and ‘How Jolly Life Is!’, 1886, 8vo) (13).

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HARTLEY, L.P. The Go-Between. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First edition, 8vo (183 x 119mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries and

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Lot 4002

HARTLEY, L.P. The Go-Between. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First edition, 8vo (183 x 119mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (two repairs verso spine panel, minor chipping, two small closed tears at spine ends). Note: made into a film in 1971 by Joseph Losey from a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Provenance: D.M. (?) (ink name inscribed to ‘Book Society’ bookplate on front-free endpaper).

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MOTOR-RACING. – Chris NIXON. Auto Union Album 1914-1939. Middlesex: Transport Bookman Publications, 1998. First edition, sign

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Lot 4206

MOTOR-RACING. – Chris NIXON. Auto Union Album 1914-1939. Middlesex: Transport Bookman Publications, 1998. First edition, signed by the author, oblong 4to (229 x 293mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth-backed covers, dust-jacket. – And a further nine volumes related to motor-racing (including Chris Nixon’s ‘Shooting Star’, 2000, oblong 4to, and his ‘The Robert Fellowes Collection Grand Prix 1934-1939’, 2001, oblong 4to, both signed, and Michael Cooper-Evans’ ‘Rob Walker’, 1993, 4to, which has two tipped-in signed photographs of racing drivers Rob Walker and Tony Rolt). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (9).

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SIGNED BOOK. – Ean WOOD. The Josephine Baker Story. London: Sanctuary Publishing, 2000. First edition, a photographic postcar

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Lot 4041

SIGNED BOOK. – Ean WOOD. The Josephine Baker Story. London: Sanctuary Publishing, 2000. First edition, a photographic postcard signed by Josephine Baker mounted to the front-free endpaper, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black boards, dust-jacket (spine faded). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.

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ASIA. – William Montgomery McGOVERN. To Lhasa in Disguise, a Secret Expedition Through Mysterious Tibet. New York and London:

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Lot 4148

ASIA. – William Montgomery McGOVERN. To Lhasa in Disguise, a Secret Expedition Through Mysterious Tibet. New York and London: The Century Co., 1924. First edition, signed by William Montgomery McGovern, 8vo (223 x 144mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue pictorial cloth (slight fading). Note: signed by McGovern to the lower edge of the frontispiece: ‘With best wishes, and in pleasant memories of Boston, love W.M. McGovern, 1926’. Thought to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones, McGovern was, perhaps, even more impressive. He was reputed to speak twelve languages. He was a war correspondent during the Second Sino-Japanese war, did secret work for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Second World War, he was an adventurer and a writer and - having studied in Berlin, Oxford and at the Sorbonne - was an academic for many years.

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BRATBY, John. Breakdown. London: Hutchinson, 1960. First edition, 8vo (212 x 132mm.) Illustrations by the author. (Toning.) O

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Lot 4134

BRATBY, John. Breakdown. London: Hutchinson, 1960. First edition, 8vo (212 x 132mm.) Illustrations by the author. (Toning.) Original black and grey cloth, dust-jacket designed by John Bratby (slight chipping to spine ends).

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RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – Henrik IBSEN. Peer Gynt, a Dramatic Poem. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936. Fir

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Lot 4034

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – Henrik IBSEN. Peer Gynt, a Dramatic Poem. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936. First trade edition, signed by Arthur Rackham to the title-page, 4to (248 x 189mm.) 12 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. Original brown cloth (lightly bumped extremities), dust-jacket (some loss at top of spine, extremities chipped).

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FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Mild to

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Lot 4099

FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth with dagger blocked in blind and silver to upper cover (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (spine ends chipped, price-clipped, small stain to spine panel). – And a further eleven volumes related to Ian Fleming (including ‘You Only Live Twice’, 1964, 8vo, and John Gardner’s ‘License Renewed’, 1981, 8vo, and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, 1964, 4to, and four first issue softbacks: two copies of ‘Thunderball’, 1963, and ‘For Your Eyes Only’, 1962, and ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, 1967, and ‘You Only Live Twice’ [second issue], 1966) (12).

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SIGNED BOOKS. – P.R. REID. Colditz, The Full Story. London: Macmillan, 1984. First edition, with mounted signatures of Airey

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Lot 4102

SIGNED BOOKS. – P.R. REID. Colditz, The Full Story. London: Macmillan, 1984. First edition, with mounted signatures of Airey Neave and P.R. Reid, 8vo (215 x 131mm.) Photographic illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. Note: signed by Airey Neave and P.R. Reid on mounted R.A.F. commemorative covers. – And a further eight volumes related to Colditz, five of them multi-signed on mounted bookplates (including Eric Williams’ ‘The Wooden Horse’, signed by Williams and Oliver Philpot on a mounted RAF commemorative cover, 1950, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (9).

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AIRSHIPS. – J.E. MORPUGO. Barnes Wallis. London: Longman, 1972. First edition, 8vo (215 x 134mm.) Photographic illustrations.

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Lot 4078

AIRSHIPS. – J.E. MORPUGO. Barnes Wallis. London: Longman, 1972. First edition, 8vo (215 x 134mm.) Photographic illustrations. Original grey cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). – And includes a mounted photograph of the lounge of the R100 airship, signed and dated to the mount by Barnes Wallis.

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MILLAR, H.R. (illustrator). The Golden Fairy Book. Comprising Stories by Moritz Jokai, George Sand, M. Lermontov, E. Laboulay

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Lot 4163

MILLAR, H.R. (illustrator). The Golden Fairy Book. Comprising Stories by Moritz Jokai, George Sand, M. Lermontov, E. Laboulaye, Xavier Marmier, Souvestre, M.P. Granal, Daniel Dare, Voltaire, Gonzalo Fernandez Francoso, Alexander Dumas. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1894.] First edition, 8vo (198 x 141mm.) Illustrations by H.R. Millar. Original mustard cloth, gilt decoration, g.e. (some finger-marking). Provenance: Car I. Taboris (bookplate to front pastedown).

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STOREY, David. This Sporting Life. London: Longmans, 1960. First edition, first impression, 8vo (183 x 122mm.) (Toning, sligh

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Lot 4095

STOREY, David. This Sporting Life. London: Longmans, 1960. First edition, first impression, 8vo (183 x 122mm.) (Toning, slight erasure to half-title.) Original grey cloth, dust-jacket (slight chipping to spine ends, toned to edges). Note: made into a film in 1963 by Lindsay Anderson and starring Richard Harris. – And a further six novels by David Storey, all first editions (7).

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SIGNED BOOKS. – Stanley I. KUTLER. Abuse of Power, the New Nixon Tapes. New York London et al.: The Free Press, 1979. First e

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Lot 4047

SIGNED BOOKS. – Stanley I. KUTLER. Abuse of Power, the New Nixon Tapes. New York London et al.: The Free Press, 1979. First edition, first impression, signed by Richard Nixon on a mounted photograph, 8vo (231 x 149mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black and cream boards, dust-jacket. – And a further three signed autobiographies (including Tony Blair’s ‘A Journey’, 2010, 8vo, and Bill Clinton’s ‘My Life’, first U.K. edition, 2004, 8vo, and John Major’s ‘The Autobiography’, first edition, 1999, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (4).

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SIGNED BOOKS. – Francis K. MASON. Battle Over Britain. London: McWhirter Twins Ltd., 1969. First edition, multi-signed by man

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Lot 4069

SIGNED BOOKS. – Francis K. MASON. Battle Over Britain. London: McWhirter Twins Ltd., 1969. First edition, multi-signed by many WWII airmen, 8vo (235 x 168mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped). Note: with an annotation to the half-title listing the year when each airman signed the book, including the signatures of Peter Townsend and J.E Johnson and E.M. Donaldson, all done in 1969. – And a further eleven volumes, all multi-signed by airmen of various squadrons, including many signed photographs (including Kenneth G. Wynn’s ‘Men of the Battle of Britain’, 1989, and Nigel Steel and Peter Hart’s ‘Tumult in the Clouds’, 1997, and Richard Hough and Denis Richard’s ‘The Battle of Britain’, 1989, and Willi Reschke ‘Jagdgeschwader 301/302 ‘Wilde Sau’’, 2004, and Patrick Barthropp’s ‘Paddy’, 2001, and Brian Kingcome’s ‘A Willingness to Die’, 1999, and Colin Gray’s ‘Spitfire Patrol’, 1990, and J.E. Johnson and P.B. Lucas’ ‘Glorious Summer’, 1990, and Edward H. Sims’ ‘The Greatest Aces’, 1967, and Werner Held’s ‘JG 54, a Photographic History of the Grunherzjäger’, 1994, and ‘Johnnie’ Johnson’s ‘Wing Leader’, 1956). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (12).

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WILKINSON, J.G. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. London: John Murray, 1837. 3 vols., first edition, first series

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Lot 4199

WILKINSON, J.G. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. London: John Murray, 1837. 3 vols., first edition, first series, 8vo (219 x 134mm.) Tinted lithographic frontispiece, numerous plates, 3 folding, some in colour, illustrations within text, errata leaf. (Spotting to front and rear leaves.) Original black cloth with pictorial gilt to upper covers and spines (frayed to spine ends of volumes 2 and 3, replaced endpapers to volume 1). – And a further sixteen miscellaneous volumes (including H.T. Stainton’s ‘A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths’, 2 vols., 1857-1859, 8vo) (19).

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GAY, John. The Beggar’s Opera. London: for John Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 24th

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Lot 4140

GAY, John. The Beggar’s Opera. London: for John Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 24th May 1728. Second edition, 8vo (195 x 115mm.) Title, engraved music within text. (Browning, last leaf H2 with small paper repair to corner, contemporary ink annotation to lower margins, blanks replaced.) Near contemporary half calf (rebacked with original spine laid-down, extremities rubbed, endpapers replaced). Note: in the first edition the music was at the rear, not within the text. Provenance: C.E. Lawrence (gift inscribed to on front-free endpaper); Barbara Pool (gift inscribed to on the front-free endpaper); Charles Hughes (bookplate to front pastedown).

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SAUNDERS & OTLEY (publisher). Charles the Tenth and Louis Philippe: The Secret History of the Revolution of July 1830. Lo

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Lot 4055

SAUNDERS & OTLEY (publisher). Charles the Tenth and Louis Philippe: The Secret History of the Revolution of July 1830. London: Saunders and Otley, 1839. First edition, 8vo (214 x 127mm.) 2 engraved portrait plates. (Toning, occasional scattered spotting.) Contemporary green half calf (scuffing, stain to lower cover). Note: rare. Only a few printed copies in U.K. institutions. Simon Saunders and Edward Otley founded their publishing company in 1824, mainly publishing three-decker novels. It was closed in 1871. Provenance: Samuel Stanthorpe (ink name inscribed verso front-free endpaper). – And a further seven volumes (including Edward Ward’s ‘The London-Spy Compleat, in Eighteen Parts’, 1718, 8vo, and M. Madan’s ‘A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius’, 2 vols., 1813, 8vo) (8).

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SIGNED BOOKS. – Christine KEELER and Douglas THOMPSON. The Truth At Last. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 2001. First edition,

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Lot 4113

SIGNED BOOKS. – Christine KEELER and Douglas THOMPSON. The Truth At Last. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 2001. First edition, signed by Christine Keeler, 8vo (233 x 147mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (spine ends bumped). – And a further thirteen volumes, all signed (including William J. Mann’s ‘Kate, the Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn’, with a photographic card mounted to front-free endpaper signed in ink by Katharine Hepburn, 2006, 8vo, and ‘The Richard Burton Diaries’ edited by Chris Williams’, with tipped-in signatures of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, 2012, 8vo, and Bernard Cornwell’s ‘Sharpe’s Tiger’, signed by the author to the title-page, 1997, 8vo). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (14).

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CRICHTON, Michael. Jurassic Park. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition, 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Original blue cloth-back

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Lot 4119

CRICHTON, Michael. Jurassic Park. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition, 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Original blue cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket (slight chafing to top of spine). – And a quantity of approximately fifty volumes of contemporary literature, mostly first editions (including Patrick Süskind’s ‘Perfume’, 1986, 8vo, Alasdair Gray’s ‘Poor Things’, [third impression], 8vo, and John Gardner’s ‘Spin the Bottle’, 1964, 8vo, and Bruce Chatwin’s ‘Viceroy of Quidah’, 1980, 8vo, and Chatwin’s ‘On the Black Hill’, 1982, 8vo, and Ian McEwan’s ‘The Comfort of Strangers’, 1981, 8vo) (a quantity).

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SIGNED BOOKS. – Adrian STEWART. They Flew Hurricanes. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2005. First edition, signed by 10 Batt

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Lot 4101

SIGNED BOOKS. – Adrian STEWART. They Flew Hurricanes. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2005. First edition, signed by 10 Battle of Britain pilots, 8vo (233 x 152mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further seventeen volumes, all multi-signed (including ‘Tommy Leader’ with Clive Williams, 2007, and Norman Franks’ ‘Frank ‘Chorta’ Carey’, 2006, and Hugh Dundas’ ‘Flying Start’, 1988, and Alfred Price’s ‘Battle of Britain: The Hardest Day’, 1979) (18).

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HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker. The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex. Lewes and London: Sussex Press, B

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Lot 4172

HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker. The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex. Lewes and London: Sussex Press, Baxter and Nichols and Son, 1835. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (319 x 247mm.) 2 engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved folding maps, 54 engraved plates, tissue-guards, numerous illustrations in the text, ‘Subscriber’s Copy’ label to front pastedown. (Spotting to plate margins, light marginal spotting to text.) Maroon half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, later black morocco lettering pieces (rebacked). Provenance: Herbert Lawrence (bookplates to front pastdowns). – And a further ten volumes, mostly related to Sussex (including Mark Anthony Lower’s ‘Sussex; Being an Historical, Topographical, and General Description of every Rape, Hundred, River, Town, Borough, Parish, Village, Hamlet, Castle, Monastery, and Gentleman’s Seat in that County’, 1831, 8vo, and Henry Burstow’s ‘Reminiscences of Horsham’, 1911, 8vo, and Robert Phillips’ ‘A Geological, Historical, and Topographical Description of the Borough of Reigate and Surrounding District’, 1885, 8vo, and also W.H. Davenport Adams’ ‘Lighthouses and Lightships’, 1875, 8vo) (12).

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SIGNED BOOKS. – Robert FORSYTH and Eddie J. CREEK. JV44 – The Galland Circus. Surrey, Burgess Hill: Classic Publications, 199

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Lot 4072

SIGNED BOOKS. – Robert FORSYTH and Eddie J. CREEK. JV44 – The Galland Circus. Surrey, Burgess Hill: Classic Publications, 1996. First edition, signed by 14 Luftwaffe pilots on mounted photographs, 4to (302 x 223mm.) 3 sheets of stiff blue card bound-in with 12 mounted photographs and photographic illustrations with original signatures in ink, numerous illustrations, some folding. Original blue cloth (extremities bumped), dust-jacket. Note: with the signatures of Adolf Galland, Günther Lützow, Johannes Steinhoff, Heinz Bär, Walter Krupinski, Wilhelm Lemke, Erich Hohagen, Kurt Bühligen, Karl-Heinz Schnell, Herbert Kaiser and Hans Günberg and three others. – And a further ten volumes related to the Luftwaffe, all multi-signed (11).

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SUPERNATURAL. – A.J. Howard HULME and Frederic H. WOOD. Ancient Egypt Speaks. London: Rider & Co., [1937.] First edition,

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Lot 4197

SUPERNATURAL. – A.J. Howard HULME and Frederic H. WOOD. Ancient Egypt Speaks. London: Rider & Co., [1937.] First edition, 8vo (213 x 134mm.) 4 photographic portraits, index, 16pp. advertisements to rear. (Toning.) Original tan cloth, dust-jacket (toned, minor chipping to upper panel). – And a further fifteen volumes related to the supernatural (including Frederic H. Wood’s ‘This Egyptian Miracle’, [1939], 8vo, and Lionel A. Weatherly and J.N. Maskelyne’s ‘The Supernatural?’, [1891], 8vo, and Frederic H. Wood’s ‘After Thirty Centuries’, 1937, 8vo) (16).

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SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. London: The Bodley Head, 1967. First U.K. edition, oblong 4to (227 x 249mm.) Illu

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Lot 4033

SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. London: The Bodley Head, 1967. First U.K. edition, oblong 4to (227 x 249mm.) Illustrations and text by Sendak. (Mild toning, contemporary gift inscription verso front-free endpaper.) Original pictorial boards (lightly bumped), dust-jacket (price-clipped, closed tear to upper panel and tear at top of spine, marginal damp-stain and verso).

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FISHING. – [Richard BOWDEN-SMITH.] Fly-Fishing in Salt and Fresh Water. London: John van Voorst, 1851. First edition, 8vo (22

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Lot 4016

FISHING. – [Richard BOWDEN-SMITH.] Fly-Fishing in Salt and Fresh Water. London: John van Voorst, 1851. First edition, 8vo (222 x 138mm.) Half-title, 5 hand-coloured plates, 1 black and white plate, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements. (Toning, occasional finger-mark, slight marginal loss to p.69.) Original green blind-stamped cloth (faint mark to lower cover). Provenance: Chas F. Humbert (circular bookplate to front pastedown); S.N. Rudge (ink name to front pastedown).

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SIGNED BOOK. – Larry HAGMAN with Todd GOLD. Hello Darlin’, Tall (And absolutely True) Tales About My Life. London: Simon and

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Lot 4049

SIGNED BOOK. – Larry HAGMAN with Todd GOLD. Hello Darlin’, Tall (And absolutely True) Tales About My Life. London: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First edition, first impression, containing 5 mounted photographs and a ‘Hagman’ $100 bill with 14 signatures from the cast of Dallas, 8vo (232 x 150mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. Note: contains the signature of Larry Hagman (J.R. Ewing) on the title page, on 3 mounted photographs including the group photo and on the $100 bill, the signature of Linda Gray (Sue Ellen Ewing) on a mounted photocard and on 2 mounted photographs, including the group photo. Aside from Larry Hagman and Linda May, the group photo also contains the signatures of cast members Patrick Duffy (Bobby Ewing) and Jim Davis (Jock Ewing), Charlene Tilton (Lucy Ewing) and Barbara Bel Geddes (Ellie Ewing), Victoria Principal (Pamela Ewing) and Steve Kanaly (Ray Krebbs). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.

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[BARNES, Julian.] ‘Dan Kavanagh’. Duffy. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First edition, 8vo (196 x 122mm.) (Mild toning.) Origin

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Lot 4130

[BARNES, Julian.] ‘Dan Kavanagh’. Duffy. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. First edition, 8vo (196 x 122mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. – And a further sixteen volumes by Julian Barnes, all first editions (including ‘Before She Met Me’, 1982, and ‘History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters’, signed by the author, 1989, and ‘The Porcupine’, signed by the author, 1992, and ‘England, England’, signed by the author, 1998, 8vo, and ‘Pulse’, signed by the author’, 2011) (17).

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WESTERMAN, Percy F. A Watch Dog of the North Sea. London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1916. First edition, 8vo (199 x 141mm.) 6

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Lot 4028

WESTERMAN, Percy F. A Watch Dog of the North Sea. London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1916. First edition, 8vo (199 x 141mm.) 6 colour plates. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial cloth, dust-jacket (some loss to upper edges, slightly dust-soiled). Note: scarce in the dust-jacket. – And a further twelve illustrated volumes (including Jules Verne’s ‘The Moon-Voyage… containing ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ and ‘Round the Moon’’, [1880?], 8vo, and ‘The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais’, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, 2 vols., [1921], 8vo) (13).

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CLARKE, Harry (illustrator) and L.D’O WALTERS (editor). The Year’s at the Spring, an Anthology of Recent Poetry… with an intr

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Lot 4164

CLARKE, Harry (illustrator) and L.D’O WALTERS (editor). The Year’s at the Spring, an Anthology of Recent Poetry… with an introduction by Harold Monro. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1920. First edition, 4to (263 x 197mm.) 24 plates by Harry Clarke, 12 coloured. (Toning, occasional light spotting.) Original brown cloth, dust-jacket (slightly chipped spine ends).

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WINGFIELD, R.D. A Touch of Frost. London: Constable, 1990. First edition, 8vo (215 x 129mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth (

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Lot 4133

WINGFIELD, R.D. A Touch of Frost. London: Constable, 1990. First edition, 8vo (215 x 129mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth (small marks to lower cover), dust-jacket (spine ends bumped, small tear at top of spine). Note: the second book in the ‘Jack Frost’ series and certainly the most scarce with a print run of only 500-600 copies.

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