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Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Nelson edition, 1925. Scarce. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt title to spine. Contents good and bright, light spotting to endpapers; binding tight and solid, some light rubbing and a little knock at top of upper board. [Coigney 287]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Japanese edition, Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1926. Publisher's red gilt cloth, original dust-jacket, bookseller's ticket (Kitazawa Bookstore). Contents good and bright, some offsetting to endpapers, remnants o an old label to rear free endpaper; binding tight and solid, red cloth very good and bright, dust-jacket very good with slight wear to headcaps. Together with another copy of the same, lacking dust-jacket, light spotting and discolouration to spine. (2) [Coigney 291]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Mason abridged edition, London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1930. Publisher's blue gilt cloth with pictorial endpapers. Contents good, clean, bright; binding tight and solid with faint wear to extremities. Scarce. [Coigney 306]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Arthur Rackham illustrated edition, limited edition numbered 660 of 775 and signed by the artist, London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1931. Full vellum binding with gilt titles and fish to spine, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, pictorial endpapers, loosely inserted pre-publication 'specimen pages' of the work, and a loosely inserted publisher advertisement for Rackham's Night Before Christmas, illustrated with colour plates with protective captioned tissue-guards, housed in slipcase. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding very good, tight. An excellent copy. [Coigney 312]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Swedish edition, Stockholm: Wahlstrom & Widstrand, 1945.  Publisher's quarter-cloth with title label, paper boards with pictorial detail of boat to upper board, bookplate for Kurt Winberg. Contents good, clean, bright; binding good and tight. [Coigney 361]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Spanish edition, Barcelona: Publicaciones Literarias Y Deportivas, 1955. Scarce. First recorded by Coigney in his 1989 Walton bibliography, but he never saw a copy to personally examine. Publisher's card covers with paper title label to upper board. Contents good and bright; binding good with a little wear/loss at headcaps. [Coigney 392]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first French unabridged edition, limited edition numbered numbered 1649 of 3000. Publisher's pictorial boards. A good clean copy. [Coigney 411]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Ephemera edition, London: Ingram, Cooke and Co., 1853. Publisher's embossed green cloth with gilt pictorial spine. [Coigney 69]. Together with three copies of the second Ephemera edition, 1854 (two in publisher's embossed cloth, one in full crushed morocco) [Coigney 70], the third Ephemera edition, 1859 (publisher's embossed cloth) [Coigney 75], the fifth Ephemera edition, 1862 (publisher's cloth with pictorial title to spine) [Coigney 80], and 8two copies of the ninth Ephemera edition (publisher's cloth, variant colours) [Coigney 112] (8)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Rennie edition, Edinburgh: Published for the Proprietors, Chambers, Orr, Curry, 1833, British Library cloth [Coigney 36]; sixth Rennie edition, 1834, half-leather [Coigney 41]; seventh Rennie edition, 1835, publisher's cloth [Coigney 42]; eighth Rennie edition, 1836, half-calf [Coigney 45]; tenth Rennie edition, 1836, half crushed morocco [Coigney 47]; sixteenth Rennie edition, 1849, publisher's cloth [Coigney 64]; seventeenth Rennie edition, 1849, publisher's cloth [Coigney 65]; eighteenth Rennie edition, 1851, publisher's cloth [Coigney 66]; twentieth Rennie edition, 1857, publisher's cloth [Coigney 73]. Condition varied (9)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Jesse edition, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856, publisher's embossed red cloth [Coigney 71]; two copies of the second Jesse edition, 1861 (one in publisher's embossed green cloth, the other in green half-calf with crushed morocco title label) [Coigney 79], two copies of the fourth Jesse edition, 1876, (one in publisher's embossed green cloth, the other in recent half-calf) [Coigney 98] (5)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Bell, Daldy and Low edition, 1863, publisher's gilt cloth [Coigney 82]; first Bell and Daldy edition, 1864, publisher's green gilt cloth [Coigney 83]; second Bell, Daldy and Low edition, 1865, publisher's gilt cloth [Coigney 84]; first George Bell edition, 1875, full vellum [Coigney 96]; second George Bell edition, 1879, publisher's green gilt cloth [Coigney 105] (5)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, two copies of the second Little, Brown edition, 1867 (one in publisher's gilt green buckram, the other in maroon buckram) [Coigney 89]; two copies of the first Murray edition, 1869 (one in Coigney's first binding variant of blue gilt cloth, the other in Coigney's third binding variant of burgundy cloth) [Coigney 91]; the third Little, Brown edition, 1870, publisher's green gilt cloth with armorial bookplate for John Greenway Jr. [Coigney 93]; the second Murray edition, 1872, publisher's burgundy cloth [Coigney 94]; the third Nicolas edition, 1875, publisher's gilt maroon cloth [Coigney 95]; the Ward Lock edition, 1878, publisher's paper covered boards [Coigney 104]; first Scribner and Welford edition, [1879], blue gilt cloth (binding variation from Coigney) [Coigney 106] (9)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, two copies of the first Davies edition, [1878], one in publisher's pictorial green cloth (binding as Coigney's first and second variants), the other in red pictorial cloth (Coigney's fourth variant but not blue) [Coigney 102]; fifth Davies edition, [1880], publisher's pictorial brown cloth (different to Coigney's mustard yellow) [Coigney 111]; seventh Davies edition, 1884, blue cloth with paper title label [Coigney 121]; two copies of the eleventh Davies edition, [1890], one in blue cloth with gilt spine, the other in red pictorial cloth [Coigney 149]; two copies of the fourteenth Davies edition, [1895], one in blue cloth with blind-embossed '58' to lower board (as per Coigney), the other in grey/blue worn cloth [Coigney 168] (8)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Crowell edition, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1884], publisher's gilt green cloth [Coigney 120]; third Crowell edition, [1893], in Coigney's second binding variant of burgundy cloth [Coigney 161]; fourth Crowell edition, [1898], publisher's gilt red cloth [Coigney 187]; sixth Crowell edition, [1898], embossed "Astor Edition" maroon cloth [Coigney 189]; tenth Crowell edition, [1900], unusual reverse calf binding with pictorial design of gentleman reading to upper board [Coigney 199] (5)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Cassell edition, 1886, publisher's printed boards [Coigney 129]; second Cassell edition, 1886, publisher's printed paper boards [Coigney 130]; third Cassell edition, [1886], printed paper covers [Coigney 131]; Alden (sixth Cassell edition), 1889, gilt blue cloth [Coigney 147]; two copies of the eighth Cassell edition, 1891 (one in printed paper wrappers, the other in embossed blue cloth) [Coigney 151]; tenth Cassell edition, [1892], publisher's embossed grey cloth [Coigney 160]; eleventh Cassell edition, 1898, embossed blue cloth [Coigney 184]; two copies of the eighteenth Cassell edition, 1909 (one in red & black cloth, the other a variant binding in gilt green cloth) [Coigney 245] (10)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, third Lovell edition, [1895], maroon cloth with gilt title and 'Oxford Edition' to spine (first recorded by Coigney) [Coigney 170]; first Scott edition, [1895], publisher's gilt green cloth [Coigney 171]; second Scott edition, [1895], stained blue cloth with paper title label [Coigney 172]; three copies of the first Lovell Coryell edition, [1892] (two variations in gilt blue cloth, the third in maroon) [Coigney 159]; tenth Ephemera edition, [1893], gilt maroon cloth [Coigney 162]; first Gibbings (tenth Davies) edition, 1890, gilt turquoise cloth [Coigney 148]; second Gibbings (thirteenth Davies) edition, 1895, gilt olive green cloth [Coigney 167] (9)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton.The Complete Angler, two copies of the first Lang edition, London: J. M. Dent, 1896, publisher's gilt pictorial green cloth (one with remnants of the original dust-jacket) [Coigney 174]; two copies of the first Le Gallienne edition, 1896, publisher's pictorial cloth with untrimmed page edges [Coigney 179]; second Le Gallienne edition, 1897, pictorial cloth [Coigney 180]; two copies of the Pearson (fifteenth Davies) edition, 1899 (one in publisher's embossed red cloth, the other in half crushed morocco with marbled boards and marbled endpapers) [Coigney 190]; the Hurst edition, [1903], gilt red cloth [Coigney 221]; fourteenth Cassell but with half-title referred to by Horne and with different binding (red cloth) [possibly Coigney 226] (9)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, two copies of the first Dobson edition, 1899 (one in gilt green calf, the other in blue as per Coigney's second variation) [Coigney 193]; second Dobson edition, 1902, gilt olive green cloth [Coigney 214]; three copies of the third Dobson edition, 1905 (two variations of publisher's blue cloth, the third in gilt green) [Coigney 229]; first Rouse abridged edition, 1906, publisher's printed cloth covers, scarce [Coigney 235] (7)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, first Caldwell edition, [1897], publisher's gilt maroon cloth [Coigney 183]; second Burt edition, 1900, publisher's gilt maroon cloth [Coigney 202]; second McClurg edition, 1900, publisher's gilt pictorial blue cloth [Coigney 203]; two copies of the first Macmillan edition, 1901, in two variations of publisher's gilt red cloth [Coigney 207]; second Macmillan edition, 1906, blue cloth [Coigney 234]; third Macmillan, 1925, blue cloth [Coigney 280]; first Buchan / Methuen edition, 1901, red cloth [Coigney 208]; first Gay & Bird edition, 1901, embossed green cloth [Coigney 209]; Brentano's (third Gay & Bird) edition, 1901, full calf [Coigney 213] (10)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Daglish illustrated edition, London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927. Publisher's cloth binding with untrimmed page edges, featuring 16 mounted woodcuts by E. Fitch Daglish, protective captioned tissue-guards, gift inscription for Christmas 1939 to half-title. Contents good and bright, some discolouration to endleaves and light spotting to boards. [Coigney 295]. Together with the second Daglish illustrated edition, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1927, publisher's quarter-cloth with pasted woodcut to upper board, in similar condition with wear to corners [Coigney 296]; the Heritage/Nonesuch edition, New York: Heritage Press, London: Nonesuch Press, 1936, publisher's pictorial gilt blue cloth, bookplate for H. M. Stecker, good clean copy [Coigney 324]; two copies of the second Grosset & Dunlap Special Edition, 1937, publisher's blue cloth, one bearing bookplate for Jeffrey Norton, some toning and discolouration to boards [Coigney 330] (5)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, collection of editions not listed by Coigney (or differing in some way from those listed by Coigney), comprising: Frederick Warne, "Chandos Classics", not 1888 as inscribed in pencil, doesn't appear to be recorded (no mention elsewhere of the Lansdowne advertisements to front and rear pastedown), publisher's maroon buckram with '58' blind-stamped to upper board; first Lowell edition, c.1889, Little, Brown, & Company, but unlike Coigney's [144] because the title page bears no date, publisher's red cloth; the first Cassell edition, 1886, bound together with two other Cassell titles from the same year (Sermon's on the Card and Childe Harold), not recorded by Coigney; a Cassell edition, c.1886, bound together with the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, recorded by Coigney for the first time in his addenda; an edition published in Philadelphia by John C. Winston Co., (no reference in Coigney), full leather with upper board detached; Cassell edition, 1905, in publisher's reversed calf, not listed by Coigney but referred to: 'Both Horne and Oliver list a Cassell reprint dated 1905 which they have not seen and cannot describe, the only listing which mentions it being the catalogue of C. W. Bushell's Private Angling Library (Australia), probably confused with this edition (No.226). It is therefore not listed here.'; a Davies edition not recorded by Coigney, which lists 75 Chandos Classics to front pastedown (Coigney's 103 lists 50, and his 107 lists 78); the true Japanese second edition, Tokyo, Kenkyusha, 1935, not listed by Coigney though he does say the following: 'The Kenkyusha textbook had probably two more editions between 1926 and 1936; I have not seen a copy of these' [Coigney, p.245]; a Collins edition not listed by Coigney, with seven pages of advertisements indicating that Illustrated Classics are priced at 2/6 and 5/- (Coigney 293 states 2/- and 4/-); a Nelson edition with all the main features of Coigney 390 (1954), but with gift inscription dated 1950; a Collins edition, no advertisements as in Coigney 329, binding and pages different; an edition published by Gordon Classic Library (no reference in Coigney); two copies of a Modern Library edition not recorded by Coigney, which list '362 Outstanding Books' to verso of dust-jacket (Coigney's 364 lists 341, and Coigney's 378 lists 371), along with another Modern Library edition that lists 271, one that lists 281, and one that lists 304 (17)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, collection of 20th century / modern editions, comprising: second Heritage Press edition, 1948 [Coigney 375]; third Heritage Press edition, 1976 [Coigney 438]; Easton Press edition, 1976, not listed by Coigney; fourth Rackham illustrated edition, 1975 [Coigney 435]; fifth Rackham edition, 1975 [Coigney 436]; sixth Rackham edition, 1979 [Coigney 443]; Rackham Folio Society, 2000; the Flyfisher's Classic Library Quarter Centenary Edition, 1993; Rackham, 1985 (not in Coigney); Rackham, 1988; Rackham, 1992; two copies of the first Scolar Press, 1971 [Coigney 424]; second Scolar Press, 1976 [Coigney 437]; Oxford, 2014; Folio Press, 1973 [Coigney 428]; Derrydale Press, 1994; Rackham Flyfisher's Library, 2003; tenth Le Gallienne, 1985 [Coigney 455]; Le Gallienne, 1990; two copies of Le Gallienne, 1996; fourth Folio Society, 1966 [Coigney 416]; Bevan, 1983 [Coigney 451]; Buchan, 1982; Nottingham Court Press facsimile, 1983 [Coigney 450]; second Penguin, 1985 [Coigney 454]; Senate, 1994; Everyman, 1995; Modern Library, 1996, hardback; Modern Library, 1996, softback; Dover, 1993; Dodo Press, no date; Vane / Lightning Source, no date;  18th Everyman, 1962 [Coigney 401]; 19th Everyman, 1964 [Coigney 407]; three copies of the 20th Everyman, 1965 [Coigney 413]; 21st Everyman, 1970 (hardback not mentioned by Coigney) [Coigney 422]; 23rd Everyman, 1975 [Coigney 434]; 24th Everyman, 1983 [Coigney 449]; Abercrombie & Fitch, 1966 [Coigney 417]; 11th Nelson, 1965 [Coigney 458]; Nelson, vellum, no date; third A. & C. Black facsimile, 1978 [Coigney 440]; Medlar Press, 2002; first World Classics, 1982 [Coigney 447]; Hamlyn, 1987; 7th Buchan, 1967 [Coigney 418] (52)

Walton, Izaak. Collection comprising: The Complete Angler, Haakon Ameln, Oslo: N. W. Damm & Son, 1943, limited to 400 copies, publisher's paper wrappers; The Chronicle of The "Compleat Angler" of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, by Thomas Westwood, London: W. Satchwell 1883, quarter-calf; Waltoniana, Indebted Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton, by Richard Herne Shepherd, London: Pickering, 1878, gilt olive green cloth; Walton and Some Earlier Writers on Fish and Fishing, by R. B. Marston, London: Elliot Stock, 1894, gilt green cloth; The Lives...by Izaak Walton, a New Edition, in two volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1805, full contemporary calf; The Lives...by Izaak Walton, London: Henry Washbourne, 1847, full crushed morocco; The Lives...by Izaak Walton, OUP, 1956; Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton, A Sketch of Their Lives, by E. Marston, London: Longmans, 1908, gilt blue cloth; Izaak Walton and His Friends, by Stapleton Martin, London: Chapman and Hall, 1903, gilt green cloth; The Art of The Compleat Angler, by John R. Cooper, Durham: Duke University Press, 1968, green cloth with dust-jacket; Izaak Walton, A Drama in Four Parts, by Charles Dance, Meadow Run Press, 2000, red cloth with slipcase; Izaak Walton's Literary Legacy, by Robert Guiver, 2012; Staffordshire Worthies, by Frederick Wm. Hackwood, Stafford & Birmingham: Chronicle, 1911 (the first two chapters on Walton and Cotton), publisher's cloth (14)

Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, not price clipped (18s), dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, publisher's black cloth with gilt title to spine. Contents good, clean and bright, slight wear to headcaps/corners. Together with On Her Majesty's Secret Service, second impression, London: Jonathan Cape, April 1963, with dust-jacket (2)

Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange, first edition, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1962, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 16s), black publisher's cloth with gilt title to spine. Contents generally good and bright, slight wear/spotting to page edges, dust-jacket worn to headcaps/extremities, slight wear to title at spine

Original 1841 guide to the brothels and prostitutes of London: The Swell's Night Guide through the Metropolis, by the Hon. F. L. G., London: Printed for the Author for Private Circulation by Roger Funnyman, Strand [1841], scarce first edition, with another publisher/bookseller label pasted over the top: 'Edwards' Parisian Repository, 183, Fleet Street (Three doors west from Fetter Lane)'. Wood-engraved pictorial title page, frontispiece depicting semi-naked ladies, plus a further 17 plates and smaller vignettes within the text. 'It is our intention...to present a list of the most beautiful women in London - their names and residences - whether kept in private, or trading on "their own bottoms"'. The book describes the clubs, pubs and bars in which prostitutes are to be found ('The Spotted Horse - Those who like to look upon real flesh and blood women will be here delighted...we hate a living skeleton and would walk a mile to see a pretty woman'), as well as warnings ('Kelsey's - A notorious house for the informers...it is situated in Bow Street). The book describes individual prostitutes: 'Miss Allen...a perfect English beauty...she is in her nineteenth year; of symmetrical form...no one will regret passing an hour in her company, and drinking deep at that "mystic fountain" of human pleasure'; 'Mrs Buchan...she is about twenty-nine years of age; remarkably well formed, and possessing a pair of black eyes, bright enough to lead an anchorite to the path of error'; 'Mrs Smith...a very agreeable woman...in addition to pouting lips, which would tempt an anchorite, has a knack of coaxing a customer into a purchase which is novel and delightful. We recommend a trial'; 'Eliza Birch...resides in Buckingham Street, Fitzroy Square. Our heroine is a pretty, a very pretty woman, and, what is more, is possessed of considerable accomplishments, having received an excellent education'; 'Rose Paris...her bust is full and voluptuous, and is really a cradle for all the loves to dwell'; 'Miss Allison...her mouth is cast in the very mould of perfection, while her lips' rosy tinge would lure a hermit to wish to brush their dew'; 'Mrs Brougham...she is now verging fast into the "sear and yellow leaf" of time...she numbers amongst her admirers, a goodly train of sighing swains, who appear to enjoy the possession of a dame "fair, fat, and fifty", amongst whom we might, if we wished, name a certain amorous member of the highest class of the nobility'. The book closes with a useful guide to contemporary London criminal slang ('Explanation of the Flash Words Now in Use in the Metropolis'), for example: 'Academy - A Brothel'; 'Angels - Young Unmarried Women'; 'Anointed - Ripe for Mischief'; 'Barking Irons - Pistols'; 'Beaks' Men - Police Officers'; 'Betty - Picklock Key'; 'Bit of Muslin - A Sweetheart'; 'Blow the Gab - To Inform Against a Person'; 'Bolt the Moon - Cheating the Landlord'; 'Bunch of Fives - Closed Fists'; 'Cag Mag - Bad Meat'; 'Canary Bird - Inmate of a Prison'; 'Dimper Mot - An Enchanting Girl'; 'Drawing a Wiper - Stealing a Handkerchief'; 'Dub the Jigger - Fasten the Door'; 'Giving Turnips - Cutting an Acquaintance'; 'Glue - A Fashionable Disease'; 'Hempen Widow - The Wife of a Man Hanged'; 'Lightning - English Gin'; 'Low Water Mark - Little or No Money'; 'Lumber a Ticker - To Pawn a Watch'; 'Moisten Your Chaffer - To Drink'; 'Monkey Up - Violent Passion'; 'On the Mallet - Goods on Tick'; 'Wet the Other Eye - Another Glass'. Publisher's cloth with gilt title to upper board ('Swell's Guide'), a little worn with old repairs to headcaps/extremities; contents with general discolouration and marks, occasional folded corners, contemporary inscriptions to rear endleaves, some pages becoming loose but appears complete (151 pages, not including title/frontispiece or endleaves)

Radclyffe, Charles William. Memorials of Rugby, Printed by Day and Haghe, Lithographers to the Queen, first edition, Rugby: J. S. Crossley, 1843. Folio, 24 plates (hand-coloured lithographic illustrations), list of subscribers, red & black title page, contemporary half crushed morocco with raised bands, pale yellow endpapers, loosely inserted invoice from George Over Limited, Booksellers, Rugby, dated 9 April 1954. Plates generally good and bright, some foxing and discolouration in places (mainly confined to opening and closing leaves), front free endpaper and title page detached, some wear to spine and splitting to joints

Eric Revilious (Illus). High Street, written by J.M Richards, illustrated by Eric Revilious, first edition, London: Country Life, printed at the Curwen Press 1938, colour lithographic plates as called for, bespoke contemporary binding in blue & grey gilt cloth by Gordon Booth, A.R.C.A, and bearing his bookplate

Cheyne, George. Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: Containing the Elements of Natural Philosophy, and Proofs for Natural Religion, Arising from them, first edition, London: George Strahan, 1705. The book deals with subjects such as astronomy, referring to Isaac Newton (an acquaintance of the author), and 'the 'Origination of this World , and of Mankind'. Contemporary calf, no leaves before title page or after Finis. Early Science / Philosophy Interest

Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress, by "Boz", first edition, in three volumes, London: Richard Bentley, 1838. Octavo, publisher's brown/plum embossed cloth with gilt titles to spines, pale yellow endpapers with bookseller's ticket to each pastedown ('Sold by J. Brown, Penrith'), half-titles to Vol.I and Vol.II with advertisement to verso of each, four pages of advertisements to rear of Vol.I (worn with loss at edges, originally uncut), two pages of advertisements preceding frontispiece of Vol.III, 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank (including frontispieces), the "fireside" plate appears to be a replacement, bindings have a little wear and shelf-lean, some general discolouration/spotting (3)

Orczy, Baroness. The Scarlet Pimpernel, first edition, eighth impression, London: Greening & Co., 1905, publisher's cloth. Together with The Uncrowned King, first edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935, dust-jacket with wear (2)

Collection of scarce published works comprising: A Shelley Letter: Unfinished, Unsigned, Undated, limited edition (only 14 copies printed), Winchester: Printed by E. H. Blakeney at his Private Press, May 1936, publisher's grey card covers with black title to upper board, together with another two copies of the same; Tennyson, Alfred. A Welcome, London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1863, 4pp. (single sheet folded), first edition with solid black diamond to title; two copies of a theatre programme for a performance of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester, 1924, in publisher's gilt grey paper covers, limited to 25 copies (one numbered 12, the other numbered 20); The Pedigree of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: Printed for Private Distribution, 1880, limited edition American Issue numbered 24 of 50, paper wrappers worn with loss, untrimmed page edges (7)

Athletics Interest. Newton, Arthur F. H. Running in Three Continents, first edition, signed presentation copy, London: H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1940. Scarce. Publisher's cloth with gilt title to spine, contents generally good but discolouration/marks to opening and closing leaves. Newton was a long distance runner who won the Comrades Marathon in South Africa five times

Rolfe, Frederick ("Baron Corvo"). Hadrian the Seventh, first edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Original publisher's purple cloth with white pictorial upper board and gilt title to spine, publisher's advertisements at rear. Contents generally good and bright, some spotting/foxing to opening leaves and page edges throughout, binding with light wear to extremities and bumps to corners. Scarce

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, Dublin: Webb and Chapman, 1845. First Irish edition, published the same year as the first American edition and before the first UK edition of 1846. Publisher's original blue blind-embossed cloth with gilt title to spine, pale yellow endpapers bearing owner inscription, 'Willm Moore, purchased of Frederick Douglass at the Subscription Rooms Exteter, August 29th 1846' (it is documented that Douglass gave an address at the Royal Subscription Rooms to generate support for the abolition of slavery in the United States). Preface outlines the reasons for fleeing to England and Ireland, 'For it may not be generally known in Europe, that a slave who escapes from his master is liable, by the Constitution of the United States, to be dragged back into bondage'. Contents generally good throughout with pale spotting in places, binding tight and solid with some discolouration to edges/spine; a good copy of a scarce and important work

Travel / Exploration Interest. Bell, James Stanislaus. Journal of a Residence in Circassia During the Years 1837, 1838 and 1839, first edition, in two volumes, London: Edward Moxon, 1840. Complete with all 13 plates as called for: 12 lithographs (three of which hand-coloured), folding engraved map of Circassia (in good order). Contents generally good, clean and bright, occasional pale spotting/foxing (tissue-guard of Vol.II frontis.). Rebound/rebacked but completely retaining the original publisher's embossed brown cloth with gilt titles (2)

South Pole / Terra Nova Expedition Interest. Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World, first one-volume US edition, presentation copy signed by Cherry-Garrard, New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, 1930. Publisher's cloth, two tipped-in newspaper clippings to front pastedown, dedication to front free endpaper, 'Inscribed to Alice / Apsley Cherry-Garrard [with best] wishes July 7 1936, 31st July 1935', the black ink running in places. The book also includes a loosely inserted Christmas card published by The Royal Geographical Society with a tipped-in colour print of one of Wilson's watercolours of Mount Erebus, 'from Angela'. Contents generally good and clean throughout, binding a little discoloured/worn, completely intact but feeling a little loose. Together with The Diary of W. Lashly, University of Reading: 1938-39; a very scarce book, numbered 8 of just 75 copies printed in the Fine Art Department, publisher's quarter-cloth and salmon pink paper boards, with original glassine wrappers, again with inscription by Cherry-Garrard to front free endpaper, 'To Alice from Cherry, Christmas 1939'. Contents clean and bright, occasional little mark, slight offsetting to endpapers, upper board a little lighter around top/edge from sunlight, glassine wrapper has a little wear. Also included in this lot is a copy of Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, by George Seaver, London: John Murray, reprinted 1935, with pencil owner inscription for A. M. Cairnes' (Alice), and an unusual book consisting solely of a 'Foreword' about Cherry-Garrard, by George Seaver, in quarter-cloth and plain grey paper boards bearing morocco label to upper board, 'A.C.G. 1886-1959' (4)Provenance: Alice M. Cairnes was the vendor's mother; Apsley Cherry-Garrard was a very good friend of the Cairnes family (the vendor fondly recalls, "Cherry was my unofficial godfather")

Travel / Exploration Interest. Forster, John Reinold. Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World, on Physical Geography, Natural History, and Ethic Philosophy, London: G. Robinson, first edition, 1778. Quarto, full marbled calf with 'Book Club Boston' in gilt to upper board, red morocco title label, errata and list of subscribers at rear. Folding table present, lacking folding chart/map. Contents generally good, clean and bright, some discolouration/spotting to opening leaves, contemporary owner inscription to front free endpaper, 'Samuel R Fydell', remnants of old label to front pastedown

Travel / Exploration Interest. Percival, Robert. An Account of The Island of Ceylon, containing Its History, Geography, Natural History, with the Manners and Customs of its various Inhabitants; to which is added, The Journal of an Embassy to the Court of Candy, first edition, London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1803. Quarto, handsome later half crushed morocco with marbled boards, gitl title, raised bands, untrimmed page edges, engraved folding map frontispiece (with a few reinforcements) plus three folding charts within the text

Travel / Exploration Interest. Boswell, James. An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, first edition, Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. Engraved folding frontispiece, 'A New and Accurate Map of the Island of Corsica'. Full contemporary calf with red morocco title label, gilt title, raised bands. Attractive binding in very good order, tight and solid; contents generally very good, clean and bright throughout, some discolouration and pale spotting to a few leaves.

Letters on the Study and Use of History, by the late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, first edition, in two volumes, London: A. Millar, 1752. Contemporary full calf boards, sympathetically rebacked with full calf spines, contrasting red & green title labels, raised bands (2)

Staffordshire / Lichfield History Interest. Presentation Copy. Mundy, Francis Noel Clarke. Needwood Forest, first edition, Lichfield: Printed by John Jackson, 1776. Dedication signed by the author in black ink to title page, 'The Gift of the Author Fr:s Mundy Esq. to J. C. Talbot'. A scarce poetry book attempting to rescue the ancient woodland in Staffordshire, with contributions from Erasmus Darwin, Anna Seward, Sir Brooke Boothby, and Erasmus Darwin Junior. Full contemporary calf with oxblood morocco title label. Contents good, clean and bright throughout

Churchill, Winston. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, first edition, London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1956-58. Full crushed red morocco, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, raised bands, finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath

Churchill, Winston. The Story of the Malakand Field Force, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. Full dark green crushed morocco, marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt, raised bands, finely bound by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey & Co. First edition, first issue, no errata slip, 32 pages of advertisements at rear

Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c., by Mr. & Mrs. Hall, first edition, London: How and Parsons, 1841-43. Contemporary half-calf with gilt titles, armorial bookplates for J. Francis Gaskell, illustrated throughout with numerous steel-engraved topographical plates (3)

Collection of poetry books to include: Letters From Iceland, by W. H. Auden & Louis Macneice, first edition, Faber and Faber, 1937, signed by W. H. Auden to front blank leaf, publisher's cloth (no dust-jacket); October and Other Poems, by Robert Bridges, London: William Heinemann, 1920, limited edition numbered 20 of 65 on hand-made paper, signed by Robert Bridges, publisher's grey paper covered boards with paper title label to spine; Noonday and Other Poems, by T. Lovatt Williams, signed by the author, blue paper covers; Earth of Cualann, by Joseph Campbell, limited edition numbered 422 of 500, Dublin & London: Maunsel and Company Ltd., 1917, uncut and untrimmed page edges, quarter-vellum plus dust-jacket; The Old Huntsman, by Siegfried Sassoon, London: Heinemann, 1917, paper covered boards; Poems, by William Cowper of the Inner Temple, two volumes, London: Jones & Company, 1824, miniature (9.5cm height), full calf with black title labels, and others, together with Man About the House, by John Hampson, London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935, limited edition numbered 15 of 250, signed by the author (26)

Browning, Robert. The Poetical Works, in three volumes, fourth edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Presentation copy with tipped-in autograph letter (signed) to front-free endpaper of first volume (addressed to Rev. J. M. Bellew, the English author and preacher): 'Dear Sir, May I beg your acceptance of a copy of the poems, one or two of which you have been reciting so admirably? Yours very faithfully, Robert Browning. 19 Warwick Crescent, Upper Westbourne Terrace, W. Nov. 1. '65'. Publisher's dark brown buckram, publisher's advertisements to rear of second and third volume (for 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Works' and 'Robert Browning's Works'), bindings rubbed with wear to headcaps and corners (3)

Plath, Sylvia Ariel, first edition, London, Faber and Faber, 1965, publishers gilt red cloth, with original unclipped dust jacket, good clean condition, slight chipping edges. Together with Winter Trees, 1971 (2)

An album of GB stamp booklets, a box of empty booklets and a ring binder of limited edition first day lithographs with sets of stamps attached

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (London, Ted Smart) in illustrated slipcase.  J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (London Bloomsbury, 2000).  First edition, first printing.  J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (London, Bloomsbury, 2003).  First edition, first printing.  J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (London, Bloomsbury, 2007).  First edition, first printing.  6 volumes.  

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (London Bloomsbury, 2000).  First edition, first printing.  Fine in like dust jacket; J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (London, Bloomsbury, 2003).  First edition, first printing.  Adult dust jacket.  J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (London, Bloomsbury, 2005).  Adult dust jacket.  J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (London, Bloomsbury, 2007).  First edition, first printing.   4 volumes. 

Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe (New York, Frankin Library).  Signed first edition.  Shrink wrapped; Peter Mayle, Hotel Pastis (New York, Frankin Library).  Signed first edition.  Shrink wrapped; T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville (New York, Frankin Library).  Signed first edition.  Shrink wrapped; Carrie Fisher, Delusions of Grandma (New York, Frankin Library).  Signed first edition.  Shrink wrapped.  4 volumes 

Allen Kurzweil, A Case of Curiosities (New York, Frankin Library).  Signed first edition.  Shrink wrapped; Isabel Allende, The Infinite Plan (New York, Frankin Library).  Signed first edition.  Shrink wrapped; Pete Dexter, Brotherly Love (New York, Frankin Library).  Signed first edition.  Shrink wrapped; Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (New York, Frankin Library).  Signed first edition.  Shrink wrapped.  4 volumes.  

John Wisden Cricketers Almanack for 1935 First Edition edited by Sydney J. Southerton, full scores and bowling analyses of all important matches played in 1934 bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles   

Laurie Lee The First Born (signed copy) H.E. Bates Oh! To Be In England 1963 First Edition, The Country Heart 1949, Tom Sharpe Blott On The Landscape 1975, Philip Larkin High Windows, Dylan Thomas Quite Early One Morning, Stanley Spencer (signed by Author), Chistopher Isherwood & 2 others (10) 

Oscar Wilde Salome, A.A. Milne first edition, Charles Dickens, Poets Country, Kipling, Sackville-West, John Piper, Bernard Darwin etc  (23)    

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling 1999 first edition in card covers, J.R.R. Tolkien Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth 1980 first edition in dust wrapper and Terry Pratchett Reaper Man 1991 (3)  

John Steinbeck Cannery Row 1945 first edition, The Day of The Triffids by Jon Wyndham, Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast 1964 first edition in dust wrapper, The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells 1910 with frontispiece, The Wayward Bus, John Steinbeck (5)  

John Fowles Daniel Martin 1977 first edition, Dick Francis High Stakes, Knock Down, Twice Shy and Slay-Ride all first editions, with Ruth Rendell, Kingsley Amis and Alan Garner, all in dust wrappers  (9)  

Alistair Maclean Where Eagles Dare Collins 1967 first edition, The Spy Who Came in From The Cold by John le Carre 1963, The Day of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 1971 first edition with The Odessa File, The Dogs Of War, The Shepherd and similar, mostly in dust wrappers (9)