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Click here to subscribeDominic Branigan Signed Book, Clonliffe Harriers Athletic Club 1886, 2013 by Dominic Branigan 2013 Hardback Book First Edition with 238 pages Signed by Dominic Branigan on the Title page published by Original Writing Ltd Dublin, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Katie Taylor Signed Book, Katie Taylor My Olympic Dream, The Gold Medal Winner's Astonishing Own Story by Katie Taylor 2012 Hardback Book First Edition with 213 pages Signed by Katie Taylor on the Title page published by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Richard Hymans Signed Book, The United states Olympic Trials for Track and Field 19008 -1992 by Richard Hymans (ATFS) 1996 Softback Book First Edition with 319 pages Signed by Richard Hymans on the Title page published by USA Track and Field, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Kelly Holmes Signed Book, Kelly Holmes My Olympic Ten Days by Kelly Holmes with Richard Lewis 2004 Hardback Book First Edition with 80 pages Signed by Kelly Holmes on the Second page published by Virgin Books Ltd, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Sally Gunnell Signed Book, Running Tall by Sally Gunnell and Christopher Priest 1994 Hardback Book First Edition with 199 pages Signed by Sally Gunnell on the First page published by Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd London, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Sebastian Coe Signed Book, Sebastian Coe Born To Run, The Authorizes Life in Athletics by David Miller 1992 Softback Book First Edition with 212 page Signed by Sebastian Coe on the First page published by Pavilion Books Ltd London, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
John Joe Barry Signed Book, The Ballincurry Hare, The Life and Times of a Champion by John Joe Barry 1986 Softback Book First Edition with 111 pages Signed by John Joe Barry on the Title page published by Athletic Publications Ltd Dublin, signs of ageing good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Noel Henry Signed Book, Irish Marathon Legends by Noel Henry 1992 Softback Book First Edition with 86 pages Signed by Noel Henry plus one other on the Title page (also signed to the cover) published by Athletic Promotions Ltd, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Kevin McCarthy Signed Book, Gold, Silver and Green, The Irish Olympic Journey 1896, 1924 by Kevin McCarthy 2010 Hardback Book First Edition with 415 pages Signed by Kevin McCarthy on the First page published by Cork University Press, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Dublin University Football Club, 1854, 2004 150 Years of Trinity Rugby Edited by Trevor West 2003 Hardback Book First Edition with 160 pages published by Wordwell Ltd, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
St Abban's Athletic Club, 50 Years 1955, 2005 When a Dream Becomes a Reality 2005 Softback Book First Edition with 232 pages published by St Abban's Athletic Club, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Kevin Kelly Signed Book, Robert Sadler and the lost Copenhagen Running Grounds Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, A Story of Early Pedestrianism and Athletics in South London by Kevin Kelly 2013 Softback Book First Edition with 80 pages Signed by Kevin Kelly on the Title page published by Local History Publications, Plus The Olympics 100 Years ago (Softback Book), Atlanta 96 (Magazine), American Photo, The Olympics (Magazine), Olympic Times 1984 (Magazine), good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
W H W Platt Signed Book, Northwest of Ireland Hockey 1895, 1968 by W H W Platt 2006 Softback Book First Edition with 397 pages Signed by W H W Platt on the Title page published by W H W Platt, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Sean and Maeve Kyles Signed Book, The Remarkable Kyles by Dennis O'Hara 2012 Softback Book First Edition with 192 pages Signed by Sean and Maeve Kyles on the Title page published by O'Hara Publications, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Irish Olympians by Lindie Naughton and Johnny Watterson 1992 Softback Book First Edition with 280 pages Signed by approx. 10 Athletes on the Title and Fourth pages published by Blackwater Press Dublin, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Hockey in Ireland by T S C Dagg 1944 Hardback Book First Edition with 232 pages published by The Kerryman Ltd Tralee, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Steven Moore Signed Book, The Irish on the Somme, A Battlefield Guide to the Irish Regiments in the Great War and the Monuments to their Memory by Steven Moore 2005 Softback Book First Edition with 280 pages Signed by Steven Moore on the Title page published by Local Press Ltd Belfast, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Andy Williams Signed Book, Moon River and Me, The Autobiography by Andy Williams (Limited Edition) 2009 Hardback Book First Edition with 308 pages Signed by Andy Williams on the Fifth page published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson London, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Salman Rushdie Signed Book, The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie 1995 Hardback Book First Edition with 437 pages Signed by Salman Rushdie on the Title page published by Jonathan Cape London, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Philippa Gregory Signed Book, The Taming of The Queen by Philippa Gregory 2015 Hardback Book First Edition with 436 pages Signed by Philippa Gregory on the Title page published by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Martin Peters Signed Book, The Ghost of '66 by Martin Peters with Michael Hart 2006 Hardback Book First Edition with 312 pages Signed by Martin Peters on the Title page Inscribed recollection of scoring in the World Cup Final 1966, published by Orion Books, good condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Star Trek Collectables includes Playmates First Contact Borg Ship, Unused, within Excellent opened packaging. Playmates The Next Generation Starship Enterprise, Good (Discoloured), complete, within Good Plus opened packaging. Playmates The Next Generation Romulan Warbird, Good Plus, complete, within Good opened packaging. The Hamilton Collection Limited Edition collector's plates x 5, each with certificate, within Good opened packaging. (8)
Collection of around thirty-six numismatic philatelic coin covers including Westminster Mint The Peter Pan collection six cover collection, limited edition 389 of 750, 1936 Year of the Three Kings, Treasures of the Deep, First Man on the Moon, First Moon Landing, The 75th Anniversary of VE Day Ultimate 50p coin cover, etc.
Strachey (Julia). Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, uncorrected proof, London: Hogarth Press, 1932, ink annotations and corrections, R. & R. Clark Ltd, Edinburgh ink stamps and 'First Proof' stamps, contemporary morocco-backed boards, spine ends chipped, 8vo, together with An Integrated Man, uncorrected proof, London: John Lehman, 1951, a few ink corrections, original wrappers with publisher's label to upper wrapper, tear and loss at spine ends, a little toned, 8vo, plus Fry (Roger). A Sampler of Castile, London: Hogarth Press, 1923, 16 monochrome illustrations, endpapers toned, previous owner signature of Lawrence Gowing, original illustrated boards, some toning and light edge wear, 4to, limited edition 6/550, with others, Hogarth Press etc, including, Art and Commerce, by Roger Fry, Hogarth Press, 1926, Afterthoughts, by Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931 (limited edition of 100), The Man on the Pier, by Julia Strachey, 2nd impression, 1951, plus an album of photographs belonging to Julia Strachey, circa 1916 and later, with numerous family photographs loose and mounted, with a copy typescript poem of 'The Sluggard's Quadrille and Other Remains of Stephen Tomlin' loosely inserted QTY: (17)NOTE:Small archive of books and photographs belonging to the writer Julia Strachey (1901-1979), the niece of Lytton Strachey, and was associated with the Bloomsbury Group through him. She married the sculptor Stephen Tomlin in 1927, and after they separated in 1934 she married artist and critic Lawrence Gowing, in 1939.Her most famous novel was Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, in 1932, of which Virginia Woolf remarked 'I think it astonishingly good - complete and sharp and individual'.
Wordsworth (William). The Little Maid and the Gentleman; or, We Are Seven, Embellished with Engravings, York: J. Kendrew, circa 1820, 16 pp. (including wrappers), woodcuts throughout, original printed yellow wrappers, faded, Folklore Society London faint ink stamp to front wrapper and title-page, small circular adhesive label with pencil notes on rear wrapper, 96 x 64 mm, together with twelve other chapbooks from the same series, all printed by J. Kendrew, including: The History of Little Tom Tucker; The Courtship, Marriage, and Pic Nic Dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren; Tom, The Piper's Son; The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog Part I; The Death and Burial of Cock Robin; The Life and Death of Jenny Wren; The History of a Little Boy Found Under a Haycock (x2); etc., all in original yellow wrappers, two with Folklore Society London stamp to front wrapper, all 16 pp.QTY: (13)NOTE:Osborne, p.87. A rare chapbook edition of Wordsworth's poem, first published in 1798.
Karamsin (Nicolai). Russian Tales, translated into English by John Battersby Elrington, 1st English edition, London: G. Sidney, 1803, [5], 262 p., presentation copy lengthily inscribed by the translator to the Prince William Duke of Gloucester to blank leaf at front, engraved portrait frontispiece, one engraved plate, Duke of Gloucester's bookplates to both front and rear pastedowns, lightly dust-soiled, all edges gilt, contemporary calf gilt, worn, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:An exceedingly scarce first edition. A second edition was published in the following year. The translator's dedication leaf states 'This translation is not offered to your perusal, by Genius aiming at Fame; but by a Gentleman in Prison, laboring for Bread'.
Dodgson (Charles Luttwidge, "Lewis Carroll"). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 2nd (first published) edition, London: Macmillan, 1866, half-title, illustrations by John Tenniel, lacking table of contents leaf, near-contemporary gift inscription in brown ink to head of half-title, a few leaves with paper reinforcements to outer blank margin, a few closed marginal tears, spotting with some margins frayed, endpapers renewed, all edges gilt, modern red cloth, original circular medallion illustrations mounted to covers, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 46.Sold not subject to return.
* Hanley (James, 1897-1985). English novelist, short story writer and playwright. A collection of mostly first edition books from the estate of Nina Froud, his literary agent and collaborator; and Tamaro Lo, literary agent, Nina Froud's colleague and collaborator on a number of cookery books, comprising: 24 books inscribed to Nina Froud; 3 books inscribed to Nina and George Froud; 2 copies of Levine - both the dedication copies for George & Nina, one with an extensive presentation inscription, one also with a letter; 4 inscribed books but with front end papers removed [probably formerly John Cowper Powys's copies - an explanatory letter enclosed regarding their return from Powys's widow to Hanley]; a signed limited edition of The German Prisoner; inscribed book by Patric Shone [pseudonym of James Hanley]; 5 books inscribed to Tamaro Lo or Tamara Lo and Tak-Shing, including the dedication copy of Say Nothing and one duplicate; together with:18 unsigned books from the same collection, plus copies of all three novels by Timothy Hanley [James's wife], including two inscribed to Nina Froud; 4 presentation copies of books by Gerald Hanley [James’s brother], to Nina Froud; and approx. 180 letters from James Hanley to Nina Froud [plus a couple of typed copy letters from Froud to Hanley], both personal and business, including correspondence relating to their collaboration on their biography of Chaliapin as related to Maxim Gorky QTY: (2 cartons)
* English playing cards. Iranian Popular Playing Cards, Thomas De La Rue, for the Iranian Monopoly, circa 1937, a complete deck of 52 offset playing cards (French suits), plus joker and title card, designed by V. Romanowski de Boncza, double-ended courts representing different Persian dynasties, aces with Persian smybols, lightly dusty, joker with tiny pale brown stain centrally, versos green with black double-ended design of warriors fighting, each card 90 x 62 mm, with original box bearing Iranian tax seal, together with: Optik pack, Thomas De La Rue & Co, circa 1905, a complete deck of 52 offset playing cards (French suits), plus joker, double-ended courts, spade and diamond suit signs adapted for players with defective sight, standard 1862 ace of spades, lightly dusty, few minor marks, versos red/pink ornamental pattern, each card 90 x 62 mm, with original 2-part box, plus: Q Playing Cards, De La Rue, for W. & G. Baird, 1936, a complete deck of 52 offset playing cards (French suits), plus joker and score card, double-ended courts showing only the heads, plain aces, indices with values as words rather than numbers, 10 of diamonds with tiny mark centrally, versos blue with central white letter Q, each card 88 x 58 mm, with original box, with 19 other De La Rue 20th century packs, including: Lyons Corner House pack, circa 1935; Film Star pack, 1933; Culbertson's Own Self-Teaching Playing Cards, circa 1935; Onoto pack, with verso design of parrot on trellis with berried tree by Sir Edward J. Poynter; Baron's Filter Tipped pack; and others, many with original box, including one 1932 Centenary facsimile of the second De La Rue deck in unopened tax wrapper with original box, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 15 display boards, most encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40.5 cm and similarQTY: (22)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: Cary collection, ENG 132 (de luxe edition); Fournier, British 420.Third item: Berry, The Waddington Playing-Card Collection, [W293]; EPCS newsletter no.18 (Nov. 1987) pp.2-3; Fournier, British 440.
Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving, 2 volumes, New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1895, monochrome illustrations by Arthur Rackham (frontispiece) and others, light damp stain to fore margins of first volume, top edge gilt, original publishers gilt decorated brown full calf, rubbed and some marks, limited edition 2/175, large 8vo, together withDulac (Edmund, illustrator). Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross, London: Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1915, original decorated grey cloth in dustwrapper, some marks and wear, torn and near detached along upper joint, with two original printed advertisements (one for the exhibition of Dulac's drawings at the Leicester Galleries, November- Christmas 1915 and the other for the publication of the picture book) loosely inserted at the front, 4to, plus Cecily M. Barker. Fairies of the Flowers and Trees, reprinted, London: Blackie & Son, circa 1950, colour illustrations, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, and other miscellaneous illustrated literature, including Hergé, The Adventures of Tin Tin, Black Island, 1st English edition, 1966 & Tin TIN and the blue Oranges, 1st English edition, 1967, and five other reprint English editions of Tin Tin, 8 art deco printed illustrations advertising Rilette cigarettes, circa 1920s, each framed and glazed, a run of Cassell's Magazine, 12 volumes, 1896-1904, several issues of The Gentle Woman for 1900, several Tarzan paperback editions, two framed and glazed lithographs of illustrations by Georges Redon entitles Il a bu de l'Eu, and Ne buvez jamais d'eau, etc.QTY: (100)
Larkin (Philip, 1922-1985). High Windows, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1974, author's signed presentation inscription to front free endpaper, 'For Rosemary - Guide, Comforter & friend, with warm good wishes, Philip', original cloth gilt in dust jacket, some toning and spotting to endpapers, dust jacket and flaps with old water stain marks to head and foot of dust jacket, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: From the library of Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber & Faber.
Dahl (Roald). The Gremlins, 1st UK edition, London: Collins, 1944, colour frontispiece, full-page colour illustrations, further black and white illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, lightly marked and rubbed, 4to, together with:Revolting Rhymes, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1982, illustrations by Quentin Blake, original pictorial boards, 4to, withDirty Beasts, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1983, illustrations by Rosemary Fawcett, preliminary leaves lightly spotted, original pictorial boards, 4to, with a first edition of The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me and a reprint of Dirty BeastsQTY: (5)
Stackhouse (Thomas). A New History of the Holy Bible, from the beginning of the World, to the establishment of Christianity, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: Stephen Austen, 1742, titles in red and black, 30 engraved plates (including frontispiece to first volume), 5 engraved maps, occasional browning and few damp stains mostly to margins, modern half calf, gilt decorated spines with dark green morocco title labels, folio, together with:Le Maistre de Sacy (Isaac-Louis). L'histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament..., Paris: Aux depens des Libraires Associes, 1770, half-title, engraved illustration to title and numerous illustrations throughout volume, light toning scattered spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine with maroon morocco title label, repaired to joints, board edges and head and foot of spine, light wear at head of spine, 4to,Mislin (Jacques). Les Saints Lieux: pèlerinage à Jérusalem en passant par l'Autriche, la Hongrie, la Slavonie, les provinces Danubiennes, Constantinople, l'Archipel, le Liban, la Syrie, Alexandrie, Malte, la Sicile et Marseille, 3 volumes, Paris: Jacques Lecoffre, 1858, scattered spotting, contemporary quarter morocco, 8vo, and Stanley (Arthur). Sinai and Palestine in connection with their history, 5th edition, London: John Murray, 1858, folding colour lithograph maps, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine with morocco title label, spine torn, 8vo, plus Josephus (Flavius). The Complete Works, London: London Printing and Publishing Company, circa 1850, engraved frontispiece, additional title and plates, some browning, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, light wear to extremities, 4toQTY: (8)
Lunardi (Vincent). An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England, in a series of letters to his Guardian Chevalier Gherardo Compagni,..., 1st edition, London: printed for the author, 1784, signed by the author to the foot of the half-title, engraved folding frontispiece, lacking 2 further engravings, modern endpapers, some light toning & offsetting, later half calf, slim 8vo, together with:Saint-Fond (M. Faujas de), Description des Expériences de la Machine Aérostatique de MM. De Montgolfier,..., 1st edition, Paris: Chez B. Le Franco, 1784, hand-coloured frontispiece, 8 further engraved plates 2 of which are also hand-coloured, some marginal period annotations throughout, frontispiece & title page trimmed to the foot, later endpapers with an armorial bookplate to the front endpaper, contemporary gilt decorated full calf, boards & spine lightly marked & rubbed, 8voQTY: (2)
* Swiss playing cards. Nouveau Jeu d'Officiers, Geneva, Switzerland: Johann Rudolf Hauser, 1744, 41 (of 52, without: 8, 7, 6 of diamonds; valet, 10, 9 of spades; 8, 4 of hearts; 8, 3, ace of clubs) copper engraved playing cards (French suits), each card depicting a character in military costume (the Dames portraying their wives), with small suit sign and Roman numeral (pip cards) or French rank (courts) to upper left, and Arabic numerals (1-52) to upper right, captioned at the foot in 3 languages, 20 cards with early hand-colouring, spotted and dusty, some marks and stains, extremities somewhat worn, Dame of clubs with long vertical tear, and small loss to lower right corner, 10 of clubs with small surface losses (affecting background), plus one (of 2) title cards, title printed in French and Italian, with imprint, toned and dusty, short tear to lower edge, also with sometime added (and partly removed) diamond suit sign and Roman numeral to upper corners, versos speckled red, each card approximately 107 x 71 mm, plus a 1962 letter from the Scottish United Services Museum, regarding the original engravings upon which this pack is based, all cards mounted with photo corners onto 3 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), each board 42 x 59.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.British Museum 1896,0501.800 (Schreiber, Swiss 26); Fournier, SWI 1; Mann, All Cards on the Table, p.168; Schweizer Spielkarten (1978) No.130a.The cards represent soldiers of various countries including Germans, Poles, Highlanders, and Pandars, with designs based on a series of engravings by Martin Engelbrecht: Costumes Militaires de 1740. The first edition of this pack, Jeu d'Officiers, illustrated Maria Therese and her allies, in addition to soldiers that took part in the wars of 1740. This second edition replaces Maria and allies with additional soldiers.
Paulson (Ronald). Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times, 2 volumes, Newhaven and London: Yale University Press, 1971, colour frontispiece to first volume, numerous monochrome illustrations, original dark blue cloth gilt in dustwrappers, minor fraying to extremities (restrengthened to head of spines verso), 4to, together with:Hogarth's Graphic Works, First Complete Edition, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Newhaven and London: Yale University Press, 1965, monochrome illustrations, original cream cloth, oblong 4to, plusLewis (Wilmarth S. and Philip Hofer). The Beggar's Opera by Hogarth and Blake, A Portfolio, 1st edition, Newhaven and London, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Newhaven and London: Yale University Press, 1965, printed title, and 11 actual size monochrome reproductions, separately bound printed booklet, all contained in original brown cloth portfolio, atlas folio, andTownsend (Patricia Rose). Hogarth, Pictur'd Morals, 45 copper engravings reproduced from Hogarth's original works from the collection at the British Museum, 1st edition, London: Historical Arts 1967, monochrome plates, original green cloth in dustwrapper, very slightly frayed to extremities, large folio, plus others related including Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby, 2 volumes, 1968, John Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, 2 volumes, Cornell University Press, 1982, Joseph Burke and Colin Caldwell, Hogarth The Complete Engravings, 1968, etc., mostly 4toQTY: (15)
Dahl (Roald). The Gremlins, From The Walt Disney Production, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1943, colour frontispiece, further full-page colour illustrations, rear pastedown with repaired tear from head to foot, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust jacket, head of spine chipped with small loss (approx 2 cm), lightly rubbed, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Dahl's debut work, first published in the USA to accompany a Disney film that was ultimately cancelled.
Kipling (Rudyard). Plain Tales from the Hills, 3rd edition, 1890; The Light That Failed, 1st edition, 1891; The Light That Failed, June 1891 reprint; Life's Handicap. Being Stories of Mine Own People, 1st edition, 1891; Many Inventions, 1st edition, 1893, publisher's advertisements at rear of each, bookplates of A. P. Watt to all except The Light That Failed 1st edition, original blue cloth gilt, spine ends a little rubbed, small bumps to one or two corners, 8vo QTY: (5)NOTE:All signed by the author to titles, all bar Many Inventions inscribed to A. P. Watt (1834-1914), founder of A. P. Watt and Son the world's first literary agency in 1875. His clients included Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy.
* Mont Blanc game. The New Game of the Ascent of Mont Blanc, 4th edition, circa 1870, A.N. Myers & Co., boxed game, comprising: folding hand-coloured lithograph, sectionalised on linen, with 50 views arranged in a spiral, and vignettes to corners, 42 x 53 cm; bone teetotum; 6 painted turned bone game pieces; and 15pp. instruction booklet in original printed wrappers (toned and foxed, re-spined), small slim 8vo, lacking original counters, but with approximately 100 'spielmarke' metal counters in a metal tin, all contained in original foliate paper-lined green cloth-covered box, with gilt titled red morocco label to hinged lid, 5 x 23 x 15.5 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:First published around 1856, all editions are rare.
Burnet (Gilbert). Some Letters, Containing an Account of what seemed most Remarkable in Travelling through Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, &c. In the Years 1685 and 1686, 2nd edition, corrected and altered in some places by the author, Rotterdam: Printed for Abraham Acher, 1687, [xxii],336pp., bound withThree Letters concerning the Present State of Italy, written in the Year 1687. I. Relating to the Affair of Molinos, and the Quietists. II. Relating to the Inquisition, and the State of Religion. III. Relating to the Policy and Interest of some of the States of Italy, [London?], 1688, [xvi],191pp., with errata to verso of final leaf, occasional minor marks and light soiling, all edges gilt, attractive late 18th or early 19th century gilt-decorated red full morocco, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:Pascal (Blaise). Pensées de Mr. Pascal sur la Religion, et sur quelques autres sujets, qui ont esté trouvées apres sa mort parmy ses paperes, Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfganck, suivant la copie imprimée a Paris 1677, old ownership insription to title, a few marks, later calf, backstrip deficient, 12mo, plus[Davies, John]. Reflections upon Monsieur Des Cartes's Discourse of a Method for the Well-guiding of Reason, and Discovery of Truth in the Sciences. Written by a private Pen in French, and Translated out of the Original Manuscript, by J. D., London: Printed and are to be sold by Peter Parker, 1679, [14 (of 16)], 93pp., lacking A2(?), some marks and light soiling, title and final leaf relined, late 19th or early 20th century boards, 12mo, and other 17th century works, with defects including Hugh Latimer, [Frutefull Sermons], circa 1578, lacking title (text begins on A1 'to the Right Honourable the Lady Katherine, Dutches of Suffolke), final leaf with some repairs, old calf, worn with covers detached, small 4to, Charles Hoole, The Common Accidence Examined and Explained by short questions and answers according to the very words of the book. Conducing very much to the ease of the teacher, and the benefit of the learner, 1690 (lacking leaf of index at end), The Divine Banquet, or Sacramental Devotions, 1716, and the first volume of a two-volume bible published by Thomas Basket, 1756 (in contemporary binding), the last three works 12moQTY: (7)NOTE:Provenance: From the library of Alan Clutton-Brock (1904-1976), thence by descent.
* English playing cards. Royal National Patriotic Playing Cards, 2nd edition, David Kimberley & Sons, circa 1893-1897, a complete deck of 52 colour and gold lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts representing rulers of France, Britain, Germany and America, aces with four flags of the nation, those of spades and hearts with patterned backgrounds, ace of diamonds with Patentee W. Kimberley Birmingham England, all cards with gold border, spade pip signs in blue, heart pip signs crimson, no indices on pip cards, courts with worded ranks, lightly dusty, few minor marks (mainly to pip cards), 9 of diamonds with corner crease, versos blue clocks on gold, rounded gilt corners, each card 91 x 62 mm, in unrelated box, together with: 3rd edition pack of the same, David Kimberley & Sons, circa 1898, 52 complete, as above except no gold, muddy colours, aces with four flags on cloud backgrounds, pip signs black or red, pip cards with indices, courts and aces still with worded ranks, flimsy cardstock, toned and soiled, some rubbing and creases, 2 of diamonds with loss to one corner, king of hearts with tear (from side edge near hand, then turning vertically and towards pip sign), jack of clubs with short edges tears associated with corner crease, light wear to edges, versos pink clocks design, each card 93 x 63 mm, plus: 4th edition pack of the same, Kimberley Press, circa 1899-1901, 52 complete, redesigned double-ended courts, still with worded ranks, aces with two flags and two crowns, two additional cards: one red Characters card and a blank, toned and lightly soiled, some minor marks and scratches (mainly to pip cards), versos blue clocks pattern, each card 91 x 63 mm, with original two-part box, and four 5th edition decks of the same, circa 1902-1905, each slightly different: the 1st with Character card but no joker, versos royal blue on blue-black flags of the British Empire; the 2nd with Character card and joker, versos colourful flags of the British Empire, original 2-part box (no mention of Kimberley Press) with title card adhered to verso; the 3rd with Character card and joker, versos blue and pale pink clocks on dark blue; the 4th with Character and title cards (no joker), versos lilac and mauve clocks on pinky-blue, original box (flap detached), a quantity of cards from each pack mounted with photo corners onto 7 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40.5 cmQTY: (7)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Berry, Playing-Cards of the World, [211] (4th edition); Berry, The Waddington Playing-Card Collection, [W285] (5th edition); Fournier, British 335 (2nd edition).See Trevor Denning in The Playing-Card vol. XX no. 2 (Nov 1991), pp. 59-67 for details of the different editions of this striking pack. He notes (p. 66) that the third edition is almost as scarce as the first one, and concludes that it was quickly replaced by the completely redesigned fourth edition.
* Russian playing cards. Anti-Religious pack, State Card Factory (Goskartfabrika) in Leningrad, 1931, 52 (of 53, without joker) colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), Russian indices, double-ended courts representing different religions, double-ended aces with symbols of religions, arts and sciences, ace of diamonds with maker's name, other aces with Russian captions 'So it was - So it is', joker depicts a capitalist holding the strings of the four religions, lightly toned and dust-soiled, few minor marks, one pip card with slight corner crease, rounded corners, versos colourful image of Baba Yaga carrying a child through a forest, each card 90 x 58 mm, with original (somewhat damaged) box, titled and dated 1931, together with: Anti-Religious pack, as above, a complete deck of 52 plus joker colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), English indices, double-ended aces without captions, lightly dusty, two pip cards with small spots of adhesion (from versos of other cards), 3 of hearts with surface loss to portion of blank area (the loss adhered to 3 of diamonds verso), small pale mark to jack of diamonds background, rounded corners, silvered edges, versos blue and grey double-ended pattern with horned heads, each card 89 x 58 mm, with original (somewhat damage) box, titled and numbered N-701, 17-19 cards from each pack corner mounted onto 2 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of display boards), the remainder in clear plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40 cmQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Cartorama 62 #263; Cary RUS 15; Fournier, Russia 40 & 41.The first pack described is the uncommmon Russian edition of this well-known deck. The second is the more usually found, but still attractive export pack.
Wells (H. G.). The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, his remarkable adventures in this changing world, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1930, signed by Wells to front free endpaper, 6 double-page folding black and white illustrations, a few leaves almost loose, original red cloth gilt, closed tear to head of spine, dust jacket, a few small marginal tears, extremities lightly frayed, 8vo, together with:First and Last Things. The Definitive edition, The Thinker's Library No. 1, London: Watts & Co., [1952], signed by Wells to front free endpaper, advertisement leaf at end, endpapers toned, original pictorial brown cloth, upper joint split, lightly rubbed, small 8voQTY: (2)
Powys (John Cowper, 1872-1963). Wood and Stone, A Romance, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1915, inscribed 'For Lucy, from Katie, with love and best wishes for Xmas 1917' to front flyleaf, original cloth, rubbed, spine deficient, 8vo, together with Rodmoor, A Romance, 1st edition, New York, G. Arnold Shaw, 1916, author's initialled inscription for Gertrude M Powys, 7 November 1916, to front flyleaf, original cloth, slightly rubbed and some spine lean with slight wear at head of spine, plus Ducdane, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925, inscribed to front free endpaper verso, 'To Lucy from ARP [Albert Reginald Powys], March 20', map endpapers, inner hinges near broken, original cloth, some spine lean and damp marking, 8vo, plus Wolf Solent, 1st UK edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, author's signed presentation inscription to half-title, 'For Lucy from her loving brother John. The Summer of 1929', some spotting, lower hinges cracked, original cloth, rubbed and damp stained, some edge wear and fraying along joints and at spine ends, 8vo, plus A Glastonbury Romance, 1st edition, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1932, author's signed presentation inscription to front flyleaf, 'Lucy Amelia, not forgetting either M or H, from her faithful brother John, March 1932', inner hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, rubbed and slightly soiled, spine faded and slightly damp stained near foot, 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Lots 672-687: This collection of Powys-related books, letters, graphic material and family ephemera was accumulated over many years by Lucy Amelia Penny (née Powys), 1890-1986. She was the youngest child of the Reverend C. F. Powys, vicar of Montacute, Somerset, and Mary Cowper Johnson, whose family with its many literary connections came from Norfolk.After her marriage in 1912, to Hounsell Penny, a miller from Somerset, Mrs Penny lived first at Horsebridge on the River Test, then at Shootash, Hampshire, and finally from 1950 in the same cottage in Mappowder in the Blackmore Vale, Dorset, near to her brother T. F. Powys, author of Mr Weston’s Good Wine (1927) and Unclay (1931). Her other brothers were the novelist and essayist, John Cowper Powys, author of Wolf Solent (1929) and A Glastonbury Romance (1932) (once described by George Steiner as ‘England’s Dostoevsky’), and Llewelyn Powys, religious controversialist and essayist and author of Skin for Skin (1925) and The Cradle of God (1929). Among other members of this talented family were the poet Philippa Powys (Katie), the artist Gertrude M. Powys, who studied at the Slade, and A.R. Powys (Bertie), architect and conservationist, all of whom are well represented in books and other material in the collection. The collection is emphatically family-orientated, since Lucy regarded herself as the custodian of their interests and achievements (particularly as children), and also of the family papers. These include memorabilia from the Powys parents, grandparents and forebears, from the extended family and from the Powys ‘circle’. It consists of several hundred family-owned books (for the most part in a much-used condition but with significant inscriptions and insertions), including many inscribed and gifted first editions of Powys works. There are also examples of graphic work by family members, paintings by Gertrude Mary Powys, a small number of manuscripts and typescripts and much highly significant ephemera. There are also over 700 family photographs (in folders), and over 2000 family letters, including the letters of Mary Casey to and from her mother, Lucy Penny. Dr Peter Foss For further details on the contents of the Powys lots please contact Chris Albury | chris@dominicwinter.co.uk
Bradbury (Ray). The Martian Chronicles, Avon: The Heritage Press, 1974, inscribed by Bradbury 'Jack! More of Mugnainis' work! Love! Ray, July 1976' to front free endpaper, full-page colour illustrations, original blue pictorial cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in silver, large 8vo, together with:The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope, New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1981, contemporaneously lengthily inscribed by Bradbury to Jack Clayton to front free endpaper, in full 'Jack - I go to sleep each night with tears of happiness in my eyes because of this film and because of you - with love -', faint damp-stain to foot of most leaves, original red cloth-backed boards lettered in gilt, dust jacket, red staining to rear panel and verso, 8vo, withSomething Wicked This Way Comes, New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1983, contemporaneously lengthily inscribed by Bradbury to Jack Clayton and his wife to front free endpaper, in full ' For Haya & Jack - who believed and believed until this all came true! With my loving thanks over one third of a life!', all edges gilt, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, some wear with loss to foot of rear joint, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with Long After Midnight, New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1976, contemporaneously lengthily inscribed by Bradbury to Jack Clayton and his wife 'Haya! - Jack! This first edition - with love!' to front free endpaper, original brown cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket, spine faded, 8vo, plusI Sing The Body Electric, 1st edition 2nd impression, New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1969, inscribed by Bradbury 'For Jack - with the continued admiration and friendship of Ray Bradbury, July 2, Apollo Year One' to front free endpaper, original blue cloth lettere din silver, portions faded, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: Inscribed to Jack Clayton (1921-95), film director and producer. Clayton worked with Bradbury on the film Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983).
Chandler (Raymond). The Raymond Chandler Omnibus, 1st edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, [1953], front endpapers supplied from another book with author's author's bold, signed presentation inscription in blue ballpoint pen to recto of front free endpaper, 'To Thomas Wylly, the world's nicest landlord. With my love, Raymond Chandler, Dec 26th 1957, La Jolla, California', later endpapers at rear, original blue cloth in unclipped dust jacket, slightly rubbed at head of spine and a little marginal toning and dust-soiling, 8vo, preserved in a cloth slipcaseQTY: (1)NOTE:First Omnibus edition containing complete texts of The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window and The Lady in the Lake. The enigmatic, signed presentation inscription on the front flyleaf is evidently supplied from another book, the front endpapers possibly removed from a damaged copy of the same title and carefully inserted here. Time to call in Philip Marlowe.
Kahnweiler (Daniel-Henry). Juan Gris, His Life and Work, translated by Douglas Cooper, 1st English edition, Lund Humphries, 1947, tipped-in colour plate, monochrome illustrations, original cloth, 4to, together with:Bardi (P. M., introduction). Marino Marini, Graphic Work and Paintings, 1st English edition, Thames & Hudson, 1960, colour and monochrome plates, original cloth in dustwrapper (designed by the artist), square 4to, plusKlee (Paul). Paul Klee: the thinking eye, the notebook of Paul Klee edited by Jurg Spiller, 1st English edition, Lund Humphries, 1961, original cloth-backed boards, small square 4to, with typed letter signed from Norbert Lynton to Lawrence Gowing dated 8 April 1960, writing in detail about Paul Klee, loosely inserted, and others on 20th-century European art and artists, including Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon Pastels, 1st edition, Thames Hudson, 1987, Peter De Francia, Fernand Leger, Yale University Press, 1987, Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, 1972, Kenneth Silver, Esprit de Corps, The Art of the Parisian Avant-Guarde and the First World War 1914-1925, Princeton University Press, 1989, etc., mostly original cloth including many paperbound editions and catalogues, some in dustwrappers, 4to/8voQTY: (5 shelves)
Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit or There and Back Again, 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937, colour frontispiece, 12 colour and monochrome illustrations by the author, advertisement leaf at rear, The Elvenking's Gate illustration at p. 177 with juvenile colouring-in in brown and green crayon, occasional minor spotting, map endpapers (slight toning), Blackwell ticket to foot of front pastedown, original green pictorial cloth, some fading and light spotting to spine, small closed tears at spine tips, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Published in the same year as the first impression, and the first with colour plates.
Lewis (Cecil). Sagittarius Rising, 1st edition, London: Peter Davies, 1936, original cloth (slight toning to spine), dust jacket, slight toning to spine, one or two tiny nicks at ends, tiny hole to lower fold of spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:A near-fine copy of Cecil Lewis's classic account of his experiences as a fighter ace in the Royal Flying Corps and later in the Royal Air Force during the First World War, the basis of the film Aces High. He was one of the five founding executives of the BBC in 1922.
Valentia (George Annesley, Viscount). Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: William Miller, 1809, first volume with half-title inscribed to verso 'To his beloved aunt Apphia Lady Lyttelton from her affec. nephew the author', 60 engraved plates (3 folding), 9 folding engraved maps and plans, 3 engraved vignette illustrations, lacking advertisement leaf at end of volume 3, some light spotting, occasional damp staining (mostly light in vols. 1 & 2, majority to vol. 3), armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts to upper pastedowns, contemporary half calf, spine with Greek key gilt decoration to raised bands and black morocco title labels, spines very slightly damp marked, minor wear to extremities, 4toQTY: (3)NOTE:cf. Abbey, Travel 515.Apphia Lyttelton (née Witts), Lady Lyttelton (1743-1840) was the wife of Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton (1744-1779).
Rowling (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st deluxe edition, first printing, 1999, all edge gilt, original red cloth with mounted colour illustration and gilt signature, together with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1st deluxe edition, first printing, 1999, original blue cloth with mounted colour illustration and gilt signature, some minor marks to half title page, all edges gilt, both 8voQTY: (2)
Dahl (Roald). Over To You, 1st edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946, small gift inscription to half-title, water spot to fore-edge, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, price-clipped (touching text), rear panel lightly dust-soiled, extremities chipped, 8vo, together with:Switch Bitch, 1st edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1974, original blue cloth lettered in silver, dust jacket, 8vo, withMy Uncle Oswald, 1st edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1979, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket, price-clipped, 8vo, with 6 others by Dahl, including first editions in dust jackets of Boy and Going SoloQTY: (9)
Walton (Izaak & Cotton, Charles Cotton). The Complete Angler: or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing, 2 parts in one, 2nd Hawkins edition, London: J. Rivington, T. Caslon and R. Withy, 1766, 14 engraved plates only (of 16, including 2 frontispieces and 1 of 2 music plates), wood engraved illustrations of fish and few headpieces, advertisement leaf at front, repaired closed tears to E2, E5, S1, S8 and T1, few ink marks and splashes, some toning and scattered spotting, endpapers renewed, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, 8vo, (Coigney 10; Westwood & Satchell, p. 221), together with:O'Gorman. The Practice of Angling, particularly as Regards Ireland, 2 volumes, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1845, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume, some minor toning, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines with green morocco labels, spines and extremities rubbed, 8vo, Mosely (Martin E.). The Dry-Fly Fisherman's Entomology... being a supplement to Frederic M. Halford's The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook, London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1921, portrait frontispiece, 16 hand-coloured plates, publisher's green cloth wallet binding gilt, small 8vo,Medwin (Thomas). The Angler in Wales, or Days and Nights of Sportsmen, 2 volumes, London: Richard Bentley, 1834, etched frontispiece to each volume, few vignette illustrations, light toning and scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn (1836 -1907) to upper pastedowns, hinges splitting, contemporary half calf, sheep rebacked spines with gilt decoration, rubbed, 8vo, plus Jardine (William). The Naturalist's Library, Ornithology volumes 12 & 14 only, Edinburgh, 1842-43, numerous hand-coloured engraved plates, uniform contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines, 8voQTY: (8)
* Eliot (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965). Greetings Card Signed, 'T. S. Eliot', [?New York], Hallmark Cards, c. 1950s, greetings card with colour reproduction of a painting of Rouen Cathedral by Claude Monet tipped on to front, two verses from The Rock ('O light invisible, we praise Thee!') printed to right inside page, inscribed in blue ink, 'From Charles, with love' to blank left page and signed in blue ink by Eliot at foot of the two verses, printed credits, copyright details and card reference number at foot of inside left page and second leaf verso, two brown spots and some browning and adhesion marks to final page with loss of copyright wording, one light spot adjacent to Eliot's autograph, slim 8vo, together with first edition copies of books with author's signed presentation inscriptions to Rosemary Goad from Brian Aldiss, Michael Dibdin, Fay Godwin, Rachel Ingalls, Julian Symons and Naguid Mahfouz, plus a small quantity of Goad's ephemera including orders of service for T. S. Eliot and Geoffrey Faber, a framed and glazed etching of T. S. Eliot by P. E. Rose, 1987, a few photographs loosely contained in a leather blotter, education certificates, private press ephemera of Merrion Press and Cuckoo Hill Press, etc. QTY: (approx. 30)NOTE:Provenance: Given by the Faber & Faber editor Charles Monteith to Rosemary Goad, the first female director of Faber.
Austen (Jane). Mansfield Park: A Novel, 1st illustrated edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title with vignette illustration, both engraved by Greatbatch after Pickering, toning to frontispiece, additional title and letterpress title, bound without half-title/series title and without advertisement leaves at rear (A1, 2E5 & 2E6), occasional spotting, front free endpaper with early inscription 'Jane E. Dyce from her affect. brother A. N. C. Maclachlan', contemporary pale red half calf, gilt decorated spine with black morocco title label, upper joint split and lower board near detached, 8vo (16.5 x 10.3 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Gilson D3; Keynes 44.The first single-volume edition and first illustrated edition of this work. The letterpress title, frontispiece and additional engraved title all bear the date 1833.
Dahl (Roald). Matilda, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1988, illustrated by Quentin Blake throughout, gift inscription to front free endpaper, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:The BFG, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1982, illustrated by Quentin Blake throughout, original grey cloth gilt, dust jacket, 8vo, withJames and The Giant Peach, a children's story, 1st UK edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967, illustrated by Michel Simeon throughout, original blue pictorial boards, 8vo, with first UK editions of Danny The Champion of the World, George's Marvellous Medicine, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Twits, The Witches, Esio Trot and Rhyme Strew, all with dust jackets (except Fantastic Mr Fox which was issued without)QTY: (10)
Babbage (Charles). The Exposition of 1851; or, views of the industry, the science, and the government of England, second edition, with additions, London: John Murray, 1851, half-title, 4pp. publishers advertisements at end, plus additional 16-page publishers catalogue, dated February 1851, several marginal annotations in brown ink by Whitmore Jones to preface, and further note in brown ink to chapter XVI, to the first page bound in at rear, binders ticket of Remnant & Edmonds, London to rear pastedown, original blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, some light soiling and splash marks, faded to spine and edges, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Presentation copy from Charles Babbage to John Henry Whitmore (1795/96-1853) of Chastleton; From the library of Alan Clutton-Brock (1904-1976), thence by descent.Author's presentation copy, from Charles Babbage to John Henry Whitmore Jones. Chapter XIII is an account by Babbage of the design and construction of his Difference Engine. An appendix contains De Morgan's review of Weld's History of the Royal Society, in particular 'Mr Babbages Calculating Machine'.Origins of Cyberspace 67.'Babbage had been proposed to head the Industrial Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851 but was rejected because of his early radicalism and his conflicts with the government over the Difference Engine. Resentful over his treatment, Babagge decided to publish a book on the Exhibition to set before the public the ideas that he otherwise would have presented at the Exhibition's governing committees. Babbage's Difference Engine, although certainly one of the engineering marvels of the 19th century, was not included in the Exhibition.'
Betjeman (John, 1906-1984). Continual Dew, A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1937, line illustrations and decorations throughout, author's signed presentation inscription to front flyleaf, 'Wulfric Scudamore (Mitchell) V.C. from John Betjeman M.C. (promoted)', with Mitchell's bookplate to facing pastedown, several sometimes lengthy notes by Mitchell in ballpoint pen, including below author's inscription, title verso, dedication leaf and in margins of several poems, all edges gilt, original cloth in slightly browned and torn dust jacket, 8vo, together with:Betjeman (John), An Oxford University Chest... , 1st edition, London: John Miles, 1938, black & white plates from photographs and illustrations to text, author's signed presentation inscription to front flyleaf, 'Wulfric Scewdermoor Mitchell, Irish Mitchul o Sean o Betjeman, 1938', with Mitchell's bookplate on facing pastedown, top edge gilt, original quarter cloth gilt over marbled boards, a little rubbed, 4to, plus 6 others by Betjeman, Summoned By Bells, First and Last Loves, English Landscape, Church Poems, Collected Poems, High and Low, Uncollected Poems, and 2 by John Piper, Romney Marsh and John Piper on his 80th Birthday, all with bookplates or ownership inscriptions and many with lengthy annotations by William Scudamore Mitchell to endpapers and some margins of text, mostly original cloth, 8voQTY: (11)NOTE:William Scudamore Mitchell (1912-1987), advertising manager at Shell prior to the Second World War. Mitchell worked with John Betjeman and John Piper on the Shell Guides series, and was himself the author of East Sussex, A Shell Guide (Faber & Faber, 1978). During the war, Mitchell was sent to Singapore where he was interned by the Japanese, as a prisoner-of-war on the Burma Railway. His account of the experience was published in 1996 as The Setting Sun, An Account of Life in Captivity under the Japanese. Mitchell later worked as advertising manager for the Egg Marketing Board until his retirement. He stayed at Fawley Bottom with John and Myfanwy Piper on numerous occasions, and owned several works by Piper.
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