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Lot 153
A.E Wright (British 20th Century), autumn landscape with plowing team and ostler, signed and dated, oils on canvas. 48 x 39cm approx, framed. Together with Alan Wright (probably the artist), 'Tom Sayers the last great bare knuckle champion', first edition, The Book Guild Limited, 1994, hardbacked book with dust jacket. (2)(B.P. 21% + VAT)
Lot 62
Ray Bellisario (Italian, 1936-2018): Freedom - First Day Out Of Prison, Lying In A Field signed by Christine Keeler,1964, printed later,no.2/10, the silver gelatin print, hand printed from the original negative, depicting Christine Keeler in a field on the day she was released from Holloway prison in June, 1964, having served four and half months of a nine month sentence for perjury, signed by both the photographer and Keeler in black ink to the lower border, framed and glazed, accompanied by a letter from Christine Keeler's son, Seymour Platt, 20in x 16in (51cm x 41cm)Footnotes:Provenance:Copyright purchased by the vendor in 2013, and following this an edition of 10 prints of this image were produced, all signed by Christine Keeler.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 182
The Beatles: A Group Of Unusual Richard Avedon Posters,1967,versions of the First Edition posters as available via The Daily Express, comprising a colour separation/proof of George Harrison, lacking text, and four varying composite images of George Harrison and Ringo Starr, two with text, two with overprinted text, 19 1/2in x 28in (49.5 x 71cm), (5)Footnotes:It is not known if these were print experiments or simply misprints. However the composite images of George and Ringo are interesting and possibly unique twists on the familiar posters.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 103
Marc Bolan: A Signed Copy Of The Warlock Of Love,Lupus Music, 1969,First Edition, signed by Bolan in blue ballpoint pen on the flyleaf, with dust jacket, accompanied by a sheet of Wizard Record Company stationery with typewritten message, Congratulations! Melody Maker Competition Winner. Marc Bolan, (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 193
John Lennon: A Full Set Of Bag One Lithographs, in vinyl portfolio and with exhibition catalogue,1970,publ. Cinnamon Press, limited edition of 300 sets, comprising 15 lithographs on BFK Rives paper, each signed in pencil by John Lennon, and numbered, seven framed, the lithographs numbered as follows:Alphabet Poem: H.C. 1/VL (Artist's Proof)John & Yoko: 74/300Honeymoon: 200/300I Do: 55/300Exchange Of Rings: 6/300Bed In For Peace: 154/300Bag One Title: 6/300Erotic No 7: 82/300Erotic No 2: 6/300Erotic No 6: 233/300Erotic No 8: 170/300Erotic No 4: 219/300Erotic No 5: 80/300Erotic No 3: 299/300Erotic No 1: 269/300Together with an original white vinyl zippered portfolio, designed by fashion designer Ted Lapidus, complete with the original tag and key, and a catalogue from the US exhibition at the Lee Nordness Gallery in New York, unframed images 23in x 30in (58.4cm x 76.1cm), framed images 29 1/2in x 36 3/4in (75cm x 93.5cm)Footnotes:Provenance:This set was compiled by the vendor over a period of time from various sources.John's suite of lithographs, created to chronicle his wedding to Yoko and their honeymoon, was first exhibited at the London Arts Gallery, 22 New Bond Street, London, on 15th January 1970. Individual lithographs were for sale at £40 each, with the full set, in portfolio, priced at £550. The exhibition was scheduled to last for two weeks but on the second day, apparently after complaints, the gallery was raided by the police, on the basis that the gallery had exhibited 'to public view eight indecent prints to the annoyance of passengers, contrary to Section 54(12) of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, and the third schedule of the Criminal Justice Act 1967'.The case came to court at the end of the following April, at the Marlborough Street Magistrates' Court. However, the magistrate, Mr. St.John Harmsworth, threw the case out, deciding that the erotic images were '...unlikely to deprave or corrupt.' Anthony Fawcett, John and Yoko's assistant at the time, gives a detailed account of the creation of the lithographs in his book, John Lennon: One Day At A Time: A Personal Biography Of The Seventies, (New English Library Ltd., 1977).All reproduction rights reserved to the Estate of the late John Lennon.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 63
Ray Bellisario (Italian, 1936-2018): Freedom - First Day Out Of Prison, Lying In A Field signed by Christine Keeler,1964, printed later,no.2/10, the silver gelatin print, hand printed from the original negative, depicting Christine Keeler in a field on the day she was released from Holloway prison in June, 1964, having served four and half months of a nine month sentence for perjury, signed by both the photographer and Keeler in black ink to the lower border, framed and glazed, accompanied by a letter from Christine Keeler's son, Seymour Platt, 16in x 20in (41cm x 51cm)Footnotes:Provenance:Copyright purchased by the vendor in 2013, and following this an edition of 10 prints of this image were produced, all signed by Christine Keeler.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 753
FIVE FIRST EDITION VOLUMNS OF 'THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER' TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, London, printed for Bernard Lintot, 1725/6, original calf., Vols I, II & III dated 1725, vols IV and V dated 1726, each volume with gilded crests of Trinity College, Dublin on the front and back covers, and with a book plate award from Trinity to Carolo Hendrick signed by officials and dated 1734 on the inside cover; together with THE ILIAD OF HOMER, TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, printed for Bernard Lintot, MDCCXXXII, Vols I, II, IV, V, VI (All Third Editions), these volumes also with gilded crests of Trinity College, Dublin on the front and back covers, and with a book plate award from Trinity; together with Vol IV (Forth Edition) of The Iliad translated by Pope (Without Trinity Crest but with same award plate on the inside cover; together with a 19th Century TCD prize binding, 'The Bride of Cornith; the first Walpurgis Night' (12)
Lot 10
Presentation copy for Sir Edmund Gosse. Drinkwater, John. Tides: A Book of Poems, the first book issued by The Beaumont Press, London: Cyril William Beaumont, 1917, limited edition numbered 244 of 250, bound in quarter cloth with paper title label and decorated boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, untrimmed page edges. Presentation inscription on half-title, 'To Edmund Gosse, from John Drinwater, October 1917.' Tipped-in autograph letter on front pastedown, black ink on headed paper (260 Mary Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham), dated 5 October 1917, 'My dear Gosse, This just to send you a book with my love and to say how greatly we are looking forward to your visit. Kathleen salutes you all. Yours, John Drinkwater. I'm tremendously thrilled with my copy of Swinburne from Heinemann. Indeed I am on Olympus. This, I know, is another to my long list of debts to you.' Bookplate on front free endpaper for Dorothy E. More of The Gray House, Chadlington, Oxford. Contents good, clean, bright; some offsetting to front free endpaper, some spots to p.14/15; binding tight and solid, well-preserved with light wear/bumping to corners; slight wear/discolouration to paper title label on spine
Lot 11
Fleming, Ian. For Your Eyes Only, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, complete with dust-jacket (priced 15s.). Contents good and bright; binding and boards good; some discolouration to edges of text-block and endleaves; dust-jacket with discolouration and fading to spine; some creasing/wear to edges with chipping and slight loss at corners/headcaps
Lot 12
Fleming, Ian. Thunderball, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, complete with dust-jacket (priced 15s.). Contents good and bright, but with dampstaining to end section and lower board (also inner dust-jacket, which lightly shows through); small ink ticks next to list of other books in series; binding good; dust-jacket with general discolouration, light creasing to edges, and slight loss/short tears around headcaps/corners
Lot 13
Fleming, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Publisher's cloth lettered in silver with vibrant red endpapers, complete with dust-jacket (priced 15s.). Contents good and bright; binding good with light bumps to corners; dust-jacket with general discolouration, slight loss and short tears around headcaps/corners
Lot 14
Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, second state, London: Jonathan Cape, March 1964. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, complete with dust-jacket (priced 16s.). Contents good and bright; binding good and tight; dust-jacket with a little general discolouration and faint chipping around corners/headcaps. Together with On Her Majesty's Secret Service, seventh impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964 (2)
Lot 171
Collection of books, 18th to 20th century, to include Through Tibet to Everest, by Captain J. B. L. Noel, first edition, London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1927, in later green cloth; Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck, by Rodolphe Topffer, [1841], in publisher's gilt cloth (contents loose as found); TV Astronomer, Patrick Moore (signed on title); facsimile of Ogilby's Britannia; an incomplete volume of Anson's Expedition; a 1758 edition of Butler's Hudibras; Nimord's Life of John Mytton, Kegan Paul, gilt green cloth; Jorrocks's Jaunts & Jollities, Surtees, Kegan Paul, gilt green cloth; one volume of a Dore illustrated Bible; two leather-bound volumes of Punch; The Land and the Book, W. M. Thomson, 1865, and others, in two cartons (2)
Lot 181
Bacon, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, first complete edition, first issue, London: Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret and Richard Whitaker, 1625. Small quarto, contemporary calf boards, rebacked. Text complete in 340 pages, plus opening blank leaf, title page, and Epistle Dedicatorie to Duke of Buckingham. Owner inscription on title page, 'John Cranch, 1796'; heavily inscribed to opening endpapers, blank leaf and verso of title, 'Elogies on the illustrious author'; occasional marginalia throughout; the second leaf of Dedication with trimmed margins and pasted copper-engraved portrait of the author. Pale dampstaining to pages; old tape hinging title to blank leaf
Lot 190
Catlin, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, first edition (with 'Frederick' on p.104), in two volumes, London: Published by the Author, 1841, printed by Tosswill & Myers. Large octavo, contemporary embossed cloth with morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Featuring frontispiece, two maps (one folding), one chart, and 310 plates (including plates 113 & 114), the plates and non-folding maps/chart arranged on 75 leaves in Vol.I and 104 leaves in Vol.II. Contents generally very good, clean, bright; occasional light marks and pale spotting in places; folding map is very good and well-preserved; small paper repair to verso of frontispiece; bindings tight and solid; fading to spine/edges; light bumping/wear to cloth at corners/extremities. A very good example of this important work
Lot 193
Fleming, Ian. Dr. No, first edition, first issue, London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. Octavo, publisher's plain black cloth boards, first state (no silhouette to upper board), unclipped dust-jacket (priced 13s. 6d., advertising From Russia With Love), bearing bookseller's ticket to front pastedown (Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge). Contents generally very good, clean, bright; binding good but with shelf-lean; dust-jacket unclipped with some discolouration/marks and splitting/loss to corners/headcaps
Lot 199
Piper, John (Illus.). Sitwell, Edith and William Walton. Facade, London: OUP, 1972, limited edition, signed by Walton and numbered 172 of 250 (1000 copies printed, the first 250 signed). Quarto, publisher's quarter-morocco binding with pictorial boards, the covers/endpapers/frontispiece/illustrations by John Piper, top edge gilt, complete with 7" recording, the book with protective clear wrappers, the whole housed in cloth solander box lettered in gilt. Contents very good, clean, bright; one small pale spot of discolouration on title page; binding very good, tight, solid; solander box sunned with a couple of small splits to cloth, otherwise good
Lot 203
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit, first edition, first impression, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937. Octavo, publisher's decorated green cloth, black & red illustrated map endpapers, frontispiece, nine plates/illustrations (all present as called for), publisher's advertisement leaf at rear. Contents generally very good, clean, bright throughout; some light toning and very faint spotting to endleaves; light crease to front free endpaper; plate facing p.146 with pale dampstaining; lacking dust-jacket; some splitting/loss to cloth at spine/headcaps, the cloth with some marks and discolouration; the boards a little bumped at lower corners; shelf-lean. The true first edition, first impression of Tolkien's debut novel (one of only 1500 printed on 21 September 1937)
Lot 209
Gibson, John; Emanuel Bowen. Atlas Minimus, first edition, London: J. Newbery, 2 January 1758, engraved allegorical frontispiece, title page, Preface, Index (with Errata referring to map of Africa), complete with all 52 hand-coloured miniature maps (numbered), including the Americas, plus publisher's advertisement at rear. Full calf. Contents good, clean, bright; all maps exceptionally well-preserved with bold colours; owner inscriptions to front pastedown/verso of frontispiece; rear free endpaper torn with loss at corner; front free endpaper presumably lacking (no blank leaf before frontispiece); binding solid with bumping/wear to corners and some splitting to joints around headcaps
![[Stedman, Fabian]. Campanalogia: Or the Art of Ringing Improved, with plain and easie Rules to guide the Practitioner in the](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2a31accd-7a35-40ff-8a60-ac440119e074/ac3614ff-901c-4b75-bd59-ac5200e95af1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 213
[Stedman, Fabian]. Campanalogia: Or the Art of Ringing Improved, with plain and easie Rules to guide the Practitioner in the Ringing of all kinds of Changes. To Which is added, a great variety of New Peals, scarce first edition, London: Printed by W. Godbid for W. S., 1677. The opening blank leaf, title and dedicatory pages with contemporary owner inscriptions and marginalia, 1684 to 1695 (Thomas Hucker; William March; John March; George Day); the closing page of text and rear blank heavily inscribed to record an article relating to the meeting of a company, 20 September 1683, with list of names/signatures, including John Champion; James Young; George Day; William Young, and others. Rebound in 19th-century half-leather with marbled boards; two small etchings of churches in Weston-super-Mare pasted on opening blank; title and dedicatory pages reinforced with paper at gutter (and paper repairs to edges of blank before title), similarly at final page of text and rear blank; pages 83 to 94 added in manuscript (black ink), remainder of text complete, errata at end of dedication. Binding with some rubbing and wear; contents with marks in places. Bells / Bell-Ringing Interest. A scarce and important work
Lot 214
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book, first edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. Octavo, publisher's gilt blue cloth, 19 illustrated plates (including frontispiece), plus numerous illustrations and head-pieces within the text; text complete (including half title, preface, contents). Contents generally good with occasional light spots and marks; black pencil marks on p.63; lacking front free endpaper; protective tissue-guard for frontispiece with some discolouration and short tears; contemporary gift inscription on opening blank leaf, dated 1894; ownership stamp for James Forbes on half title; blind-stamped address on title (Sussex Bell, Haslemere, Surrey). Binding with shelf-lean, becoming a little loose; cloth worn with some dampstaining/cockling, corners bumped, loss to cloth at headcaps and corners
Lot 215
Milton, John. Paradise Regained, a New Edition with Notes of various Authors, by Thomas Newton, London: Beecroft, Strahan et al., 1773. Two volumes in full contemporary calf with contrasting red & black morocco title labels lettered in gilt (titled 'Vol III' and 'Vol IV'); marbled endpapers; armorial bookplate on front pastedown of each volume (Frederick Edward Morrice); engraved frontispiece portrait of Milton, plus two engraved plates in first volume and three in the second; text complete with preface, table of contents, index, Samson Agonistes. Contents good, clean, bright; bindings with some discolouration/marks; wear/loss to calf at corners and headcaps; some cracking/wear to spines, splitting to joints; upper board of second volume becoming loose but not yet detached (2)
Lot 218
Evans, Edward. South With Scott, first edition, London: Collins, 1921. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in red, portrait frontispiece, four folding plans/maps, six pages of publisher's advertisements at rear, untrimmed page edges. Contents generally good and bright; tear to p.265; some pale spotting to opening leaves; newspaper clipping relating to Evans, 1924, pasted on verso of front free endpaper; binding tight and solid with light wear to extremities and an overall discoloured/varnished appearance. Together with a revised edition of the same, 1948, bearing intriguing gift inscription in pencil on front free endpaper, 'For Jack for his birthday, xii Augt 1948, from his brother who knows every crack & ripple in the district, and the history of these latitudes from the days of Capt Cook to the present time.' (2)
Lot 219
Collection of ten 20th-century books, comprising: 1. Wells, H. G. The Shape of Things to Come, first edition, London: Hutchinson, 1933, publisher's blue cloth, lacking dust-jacket. 2. Joyce, James. Ulysses, London: Bodley Head, 1954, green cloth lettered in gilt, dust-jacket wit slight loss. 3. Fleming, Ian. From Russia, With Love, London: Jonathan Cape, 1957, blue cloth, lacking dust-jacket. 4. Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun, London: Book Club, 1965, with dust-jacket. 5. Maugham, William Somerset. The Razor's Edge, US edition, Heinemann, 1944, lacking dust-jacket. 6. Golding, Louis. The Miracle Boy, limited edition, signed and numbered 50 of 50, London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, gilt cloth. 7. Dexter, Colin. The Remorseful Day, London: Macmillan, 1999, inscribed and signed by author, 'So glad you enjoy old Morse! And every best wish to you & yours in life always, Colin Dexter.' 8. Hewlett, Dorothy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London: Cassell, 1953, signed by the cast of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1953, Speedwell Players, for Edward Newman (producer), with loosely inserted programme and telegram for the same. 9. Morecambe, Eric. The Reluctant Vampire, London: Methuen, 1983, signed by the author on title page. 10. Thomas, Dylan. Under Milk Wood, London: Dent, reprinted 1954, bearing gift inscription from 'Willy Nilly Postwoman!' (10)
![Dickens, Charles. Works. Bindings. First Library Edition, 21 volumes [of 22], London: Chapman and Hall, 1858-59. Uniformly bo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2a31accd-7a35-40ff-8a60-ac440119e074/deef7661-d3ec-401d-8441-ac5200d36078/468x382.jpg)
Lot 22
Dickens, Charles. Works. Bindings. First Library Edition, 21 volumes [of 22], London: Chapman and Hall, 1858-59. Uniformly bound in half-calf with oxblood morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, and marbled page edges. Includes Sketches by Boz; Pictures from Italy/American Notes; Pickwick Papers; Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby; Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge; Martin Chuzzlewit; Dombey and Son; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Little Dorrit. The dedication page to Pickwick Papers describes this set as the 'best edition of my books'. Contents generally good and bright; some light spotting and dampstaining (mostly opening leaves/titles); bindings quite well-preserved with some rubbing and wear to extremities/headcaps; a few of the text blocks/opening leaves are pulling away from the binding internally (12)
Lot 225
Levi, Riso. Billiards in the Twentieth Century, first edition, Manchester: Printed & Published by Riso Levi, no date, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt; Billiards for All Time, Wilmslow: Riso Levi, 1935, presentation copy signed by the author in bold blue ink, gilt green cloth; Billiards: The Strokes of the Game, first edition, two parts, Manchester: Riso Levi, n.d., gilt blue cloth; The In-Off Game, tenth thousand, Manchester: Riso Levi, n.d., gilt green cloth; Billiards for the Million, fifth thousand, Manchester: Riso Levi, n.d., gilt blue cloth (6)
Lot 44
Poley, Arthur F. E. St. Paul's Cathedral, London: Measured, Drawn & Described, first edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1927, at the Chiswick Press. Folio, bound by Zaehnsdorf in half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, cloth boards with gilt illustration of St. Paul's to upper board, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt (remainder untrimmed). Complete with all 32 plates as called for, including the frontispiece with protective tissue-guard. Stated 'first edition', featuring list of subscribers. An impressive publication. Contents good, clean, bright; occasional light handling marks and pale spotting to some tissue-guards; one small stain to the edge of one plate; binding tight and solid, well preserved for such a large book, with light rubbing and wear to extremities, the leather slightly damaged near upper headcap. Architecture / Architectural History Interest
![Newton, Isaac. [Principia]. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, first edition in English, translated by Andrew](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2a31accd-7a35-40ff-8a60-ac440119e074/0791a2b2-f602-4713-8361-ac5200d5f1a3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 45
Newton, Isaac. [Principia]. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, first edition in English, translated by Andrew Motte, with The Laws of the Moon's Motion, by John Machin, in two volumes, London: Benjamin Motte, 1729. Full contemporary calf, two engraved frontispieces, 47 folding plates, two folding tables, three engraved head-pieces, and numerous woodcut capitals and headers. Complete with dedication to Sir Hans Sloane, Author's Preface, Preface by Roger Coates, Index, Laws of the Moon's Motion, and Errata slip. Binder's ticket to front pastedown of each volume: Thackray Bookseller, 51 Shude Hill, Manchester. Contemporary owner inscription to front free endpaper of first volume, 'Roger Hesketh', and his initials to title page of the same. Contents very good, clean, bright, with occasional pale spotting; frontispiece/front free endpaper becoming loose in first volume; tear to lower blank section of p.317 of first volume; bindings intact and solid with rubbing to boards and wear/loss to headcaps/corners; morocco title label lettered in gilt on second volume only; splitting to spines/joints. The first English edition of Newton's Principia, considered the most important work in the history of science (2)
Lot 46
Wright, Thomas. The Use of the Globes: Or, The General Doctrine of the Sphere...A Synopsis of the Doctrine of Eclipses, first edition, London: John Senex, 1740. Red & black title page, 30 engraved plates including frontispiece (27 of which are folding), four pages of Postscript, two pages of Errata, two pages of publisher's advertisements (postscript/errata/adverts duplicated), contemporary owner inscription to verso of frontispiece, 'T. White, No.197'. Contents good, clean, bright; full calf with black morocco title label lettered in gilt, wear to corners/headcaps, upper board detached
Lot 50
Rowling, J. K. The Harry Potter Gift Set, deluxe editions of the first four novels in the series, each one signed by the author in bold blue ink on the title page (four signed books), housed in a cloth-covered slipcase featuring another signature by Rowling in silver ink. Comprising: Philosopher's Stone, seventh impression; Chamber of secrets, seventh impression; Prisoner of Azkaban, eighth impression; Goblet of Fire, first edition. In fine, unread condition; some very minor rubbing and faint wear to the corners of slipcaseProvenance: Acquired by the vendor at Caird Hall, Dundee at the end of a reading in aid of Maggie's Dundee, Saturday, 2 June 2001. The vendor bought the gift set from a bookstall run by James Thin prior to the event, which began at 10.30am, and had the books and slipcase signed at the end of the talk (around an hour later). The vendor was working for Caird Hall, and is still employed there to date
Lot 52
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1', second state with no dropped line of text error, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, bearing Bloomsbury bookplate signed by the author to front pastedown. Binding tight and solid; boards good and vibrant; dust-jacket well-preserved with bold colours; contents good, clean, bright; gift inscription on pastedown
Lot 53
Rowling, J. K. The Casual Vacancy, first edition, London: Little, Brown, 2012, hardback, complete with dust-jacket, signed by the author in bold black ink on title page, hologram sticker, loosely-inserted note on compliments slip from Bath Festivals. Binding tight and solid; dust-jacket well-preserved with minimal knocks to extreme edges; contents good, clean, brightProvenance: Purchased by the vendor at a charity auction for Julian House in Bath
![Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 19](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2a31accd-7a35-40ff-8a60-ac440119e074/46a074df-a5c1-4fd6-b0a7-ac5200da4154/468x382.jpg)
Lot 67
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue [one of only 500], London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, publisher's laminated pictorial boards, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; usual very faint toning to page edges; tiny dent/nick to extreme edge of a few pages; one tiny mark on outer page edges; binding very good, laminate entirely present, boards and spine bold and vibrant; slight shelf-lean; very faint wear to extreme corners and outer edges of headcaps; a couple of incredibly faint scratches/impressions to the covers; one inscription in blue ink to rear pastedown, which records the date vendor first read the book to his children; seven magazine clippings relating to the film pasted on opening endleaves and rear pastedown. The author's debut novel and first in the Harry Potter series. Very scarce. Only 500 copies were printed of this true first issue hardback, and 300 of those were sent to schools and libraries - this being one of the more desirable 200
Lot 72
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, hardback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1', second state without the dropped line of text error. Contents good and clean with light toning around page edges; boards bold and vibrant with shelf-lean and slight bumping to extremities; dust-jacket bold and unclipped with some light creasing and cockling
Lot 834
SHEPARD (Ernest H) The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, first edition, original gilt pink cloth, t.e.g., MILNE (A.A), Winnie-the-Pooh and the Bees, a collection of other children's books, BUCHAN (John) The Adventures of Richard Hannay, five volumes, Folio Society, slip-case, The Works of Mr William Congreve, 1753, volume two only, original full calf and a few others (qty).
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