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Lot 273

NO RESERVE Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1928 to frontispiece recto, browning to endpapers, slight tide-mark to fore-edge, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine a little sunning, light marking and surface soiling, extremities rubbed, dust-jacket, neat and expert repairs and restoration to head and foot, portion of repair to upper panel, in effect an excellent example, 8vo, 1928.

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Lot 274

Milne (A. A.) The Christopher Robin Story Book, first edition, deluxe issue, half-title, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers, original red crushed morocco, gilt, spine lightly faded, 1929; Now We Are Six, first edition, bookplate to endpapers, half-title toned, original pictorial cloth, spine ends creased, dust-jacket, large portions lacking, light even toning, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, pictorial endpapers browned, ink gift inscription to half-title, original pictorial cloth, lightly sunned with one or two staining marks, 1928, 8vo (3)⁂ The first is a seemingly exceedingly rare and curious Milne item: we are able to trace only one other like example in commerce and thus must have been a very small run. Presumably the deluxe issue of this work, emulating the binding of the Winnie-The-Pooh deluxe issues in limp calf binding. This copy is without the 8pp. adverts which are in the trade issue, and the top-corner pictorial motifs of Tigger and Owl have been swapped, and are overlaid on the the blind stamping.

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Lot 276

NO RESERVE Mitchell (M. E.) Yet in My Flesh, first edition, endpapers toned, original cloth, dust-jacket, near-fine, 1933 § Leiber (Fritz) The Wanderer, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, original wrappers, lightly creased, New York, 1964 § Berkeley (Reginald) Cassandra, signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpapers, original boards, lightly scuffed, dust-jacket, spine browned, extremities chipped, 1931 § Ayrton (Elisabeth) Day Eight, signed presentation inscription from the author to Basil Wright, additionally signed on title, original boards, dust-jacket, 1978; and c.25 others, science-fiction, v.s. (c.30)

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Lot 278

NO RESERVE Morgan (Richard) Altered Carbon, signed by the author on title, jacket with very slight fading to spine, 2002 § Roshwald (Mordecai) Level 7, jacket with light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head, a few short closed tears to head and foot, 1959, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and a first edition set of Hannu Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief trilogy, 8vo (5)⁂ A good group of both classic and modern science-fiction.

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Lot 280

Morrison (Toni) Beloved, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To David, Toni Morrison" on half-title, light marginal toning on jacket edges, New York, 1987; Tar Baby, signed by the author on title, ownership name on endpaper covered with 'void' stamp, jacket price-clipped, 1981, original boards, dust-jackets; and a first English edition of Jazz by Morrison, 8vo (3)

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Lot 284

NO RESERVE Nabokov (Vladimir) Lolita, first English edition, original boards, very shallow dent to spine, dust-jacket, small splash mark to spine, two minor short tears to rear panel, light rubbing to extremities, still an excellent example, 8vo, 1959.

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Lot 285

NO RESERVE Naipaul (V. S.) The Mystic Masseur, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, light chips and tears along edges, 8vo, 1957.

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Lot 287

Naipaul (V. S.) A House for Mr Biswas, first edition, light spotting to first few pages, original boards, very light strip of fading to spine head, otherwise excellent, dust-jacket, small portion of loss to spine head, light nicks and fraying to extremities, spine very lightly faded, 8vo, 1961.⁂ Naipaul's post-colonial novel which received world-wide acclaim and remains his most loved work. Scarce in such bright and unrestored condition.

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Lot 288

NO RESERVE Naughton (Bill) Alfie, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper (a little smudged at foot with some ink offsetting onto pastedown), light damp-staining to rear endpaper and occasionally just visible to margins, original boards, dust-jacket, very light toning and vertical crease to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light creasing to head, extremities a little rubbed, 8vo, 1966.

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Lot 289

Newby (P. H.) Something to Answer For, uncorrected proof, light marginal toning, original wrappers, Proof Copy ink stamp to upper cover, light creasing and toning to spine, faint crease to upper cover, 1968; Something to Answer For, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to spine tips, near-fine otherwise, 1968, housed together in custom slipcase, 8vo (2)⁂ The winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969.

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Lot 291

NO RESERVE North (William) The Slave of the Lamp. A Postuhumous Novel, first edition, 7pp. adverts at end, bookseller's blind stamp on endpapers, foxing, cloth rubbed, frayed at edges and splitting along joints, New York, 1855 § Besant (Walter) The Revolt of Man, new edition, ownership inscription on title, printed author's pseudonym blocked out and written in autograph correction, newspaper cuttings laid down to endpapers, hinge cracked, 1882, original decorative or pictorial cloth, 8vo (2)⁂ A pair of excellent 19th century scarce science-fiction novels. The first is centered around a group of Bohemian artists and writers in 1850's New York. The second, a scarce work by Besant, is an anti-suffragette science-fiction novel, depicting a female-dominated society of the future, where religion has been abolished. The work represents the contemporary anxieties of Victorian men around female emancipation.

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Lot 293

O'Brien (Edna) The Country Girls, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, light foxing on endpapers, original boards, 1960; together with an ALs from Stephanie Calman to Peter Grimsdale, folds, n.d., 8vo, (2)⁂ The folded note is from from Stephanie Calman to Peter Grimsdale, former television commissioner at the BBC and Channel 4, thanking him for the stay she had at his house. They were later married.

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Lot 294

O'Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, first edition, Edmund Crispin's copy with his ownership signature of his real name "Bruce Montgomery, 1944" on half-title, light foxing to margins, original black cloth, spine gilt, very light soiling marks to covers, spine ends and corners a little frayed, still overall a very sharp copy, 8vo, 1939.⁂ The exceedingly rare author's first novel. Most of the issue was destroyed in 1940 when the Germans bombed London, including Longmans' premises.

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Lot 295

O'Donnell (Elliott) Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter, first edition, ink ownership name to front free endpapers, light spotting to first few pages, cloth lightly soiled, extremities a little scuffed, 1928 § Benson (Robert) The Light Invisible, second impression, cloth extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, 1903; and 11 others, ghost stories and haunted tales, 8vo & 4to (13)

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Lot 296

NO RESERVE O'Flaherty (Liam) Return of the Brute, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper with pencil ownership inscription below, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short nicks with light creasing to head and foot, a very good copy, 8vo, Mandrake Press, 1929.

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Lot 298

Orwell (George) The Road to Wigan Pier, trade issue without 24pp. forward at the beginning, illustrations, ownership name to front endpapers, library plate torn away from lower pastedown, original cloth, boots library sticker on upper cover (worn), spine browned, extremities bumped and rubbed, [Fenwick A.5b], 8vo, 1937.⁂ A first edition of the rare trade issue of Orwell's account of Northern working class life and coalmining. This first trade or regular edition, published on 8 March 1937, was preceded by Gollancz's Left Book Club edition a few weeks before, issued in limp orange cloth.

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Lot 299

NO RESERVE Orwell (George) The English People, first edition, plates and illustrations, light browning to endpapers, original boards, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, jacket with very light toning to spine, very light creasing to head, 1949; Burmese Days. A Novel, first uniform edition, very light sunning to spine and head and foot of covers, 1949, dust-jackets, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to extremities, excellent examples overall, [Fenwick A.11a & A.2e], 8vo (2)

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Lot 301

NO RESERVE Osborne (John) Look Back in Anger, first edition, Autograph Note signed by the author tipped onto front free endpaper, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to head and foot, near-fine otherwise, 8vo, 1957.⁂ In the note, Osborne refers to himself as a "sometime playwright" and apologises for the delay in writing which was due to the message to him being sent "c/o The Royal Court Theatre, where I have been Persona Non Grata for many years".

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Lot 304

Palmer (Tony) The Trials of Oz, first edition, signed by the author, Richard Neville, Jim Anderson, and Felix Dennis on endpapers with drawing by Feliks Topolski, original wrappers, light surface staining, corners and extremities creased, spine faded, 8vo, 1971.⁂ This work documents the trials of Oz, a landmark six-week trial in June and July 1971 of the joint editors of the counter-culture magazine Oz in which the three men were prosecuted on three charges, including obscenity, for the 28th issue known as Schoolkids Oz. The three accused were convicted of obscenity and given sentences ranging from nine to fifteen months, but released on appeal at which the trial judge was severely reprimanded for misdirecting the jury.

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Lot 306

Pasternak (Boris) Doctor Zhivago, first English edition, newspaper cuttings loosely inserted, endpapers lightly toned, original cloth, dust-jacket, light chipping and creasing to spine ends, nicks to corners, still excellent overall, 8vo, 1958.

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Lot 307

NO RESERVE Paton (Alan) Cry, the Beloved Country, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 3 small holes to upper panel and 1 to lower panel, light creasing to head, a very good copy overall, 8vo, 1948.

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Lot 308

NO RESERVE Phillpotts (Eden) The Flint Heart: A Fairy Story, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to this friend, Basil Hastings, from Eden Phillpotts, 1914" on front free endpaper, endpapers toned, occasional light spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and frayed, still overall a very attractive copy, 1910; The Miniature, dedication copy with the author's presentation inscription "to J. Keighley Snowden, in friendship [print] from Eden Phillpotts [manuscript]" on dedication page, original cloth, extremities bumped and rubbed, dust-jacket, light bumps to edges, otherwise excellent, 1926; and 4 others, including a copy of The Owl of Athene, with a presentation inscription from the author reading "Buy me for the Charing Cross Hospital", 8vo (6)

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Lot 309

NO RESERVE Pinter (Harold) Five Screenplays, one of 360 copies signed by the author, original cloth, mylar dust-jacket, a few small nicks or chips to head and foot, 1971; and the first trade edition of the same, 8vo (2)

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Lot 311

Pope (Dudley) Rammage, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "in the hope that the next few dozen in the series keep him busy" on title, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to spine ends, else fine, 8vo, 1965.⁂ The first book in the popular Napoleonic naval series.

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Lot 316

Pratchett (Terry) Johnny and the Dead, first edition, signed by the author on title, 1993; The Carpet People, revised edition, signed by the author on title, jacket spine faded, 1991; [The Nomes Books], 3 vol., first editions, comprising Truckers, 1989; Diggers, 1990; Wings, 1990, original boards, dust-jackets, mint or fine copies; and 4 others by Pratchett, v.s. (9)⁂ A good collection of non-Discworld Pratchett books.

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Lot 319

Proust (Marcel) Swann's Way, endpapers toned, 1922; Cities of the Plain, 2 vol., ownership name on front free endpaper, 1929, translated by C. K. Moncrieff, first English editions, original cloth, spines faded, ends a little creased; and 4 others, including 2 vol. of another edition of the last, and a copy of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, 8vo (7)

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Lot 320

Pullman (Philip) Northern Lights, first edition, original boards, first issue dust-jacket with 'Point' on spine and '7-9 Pratt Street' on lower flap, light creasing to spine head, otherwise excellent, 8vo, 1995.

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Lot 323

NO RESERVE Punshon (E. R.) The Mystery of Lady Isobel, first edition, publisher's advertisements at end, very faint abrasion mark to front free endpaper, scattered faint spotting, a few small stains, gutter cracked at points with a few leaves loose or working loose, upper hinge repaired at foot, original cloth, wear to corners, rubbed, 8vo, 1907.⁂ The author's first mystery novel.

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Lot 324

NO RESERVE Pym (Barbara) A Glass of Blessings, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, short closed tear to foot of upper joint, lower panel a little browned with some light surface wear, minor chipping to foot of flaps, light surface soiling, extremities a little rubbed, 8vo, 1958.⁂ Pym's fifth novel, rare.

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Lot 327

NO RESERVE Rendell (Ruth) A New Lease of Death, first edition, signed by the author on title, photograph of the author signing loosely inserted, light spotting to endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, very light fading to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example, 8vo, 1967.⁂ The second Inspector Wexford mystery, rare flat signed in this manner.

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Lot 328

NO RESERVE Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first deluxe edition, first printing, original cloth with mounted colour illustration and gilt signature, slight shelf-lean, else fine, 8vo, 1999.

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Lot 33

NO RESERVE Banks (Iain M.) The Player of Games, jacket with slight fading to spine, short nick to head of upper panel, light creasing to head, 1988 § Crichton (Michael) Jurassic Park, jacket with light creasing to spine tips, 1991, first of first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine; and a signed first edition of The Testaments, 8vo (3)

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Lot 332

NO RESERVE Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first Large Print edition, 2001 § Tiffany (John) & Jack Thorne. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, first edition, "special rehearsal edition script", 2016 § Smith (Sean) J. K. Rowling: A Biography, first edition, 2001, original boards, dust-jackets; and a quantity of others, comprising books, board games, cassettes, collectable stickers, and other promotional material for the book and film franchise, v.s. (qty.)

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Lot 333

Rowling (J.K.) The Casual Vacancy, first edition, signed by the author to title with Author's hologram sticker to verso of half-title, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to extremities, otherwise fine, 8vo, 2012.

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Lot 334

Rushdie (Salman) Midnight's Children, first edition, first issue, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Charles" on title, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, else fine, 8vo, 1981.

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Lot 337

Sansom (William) The Equilibriad, first edition, number 510 of 750 copies signed by the author, full-page illustrations, endpapers lightly browned, original buckram-backed boards, original glacine wrapper, torn with portions of loss but largely intact, 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1948.

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Lot 339

NO RESERVE Sassoon (Siegfried) The Heart's Journey, one of 590 copies, signed by the author on title, other gift inscription on title, bookplate to pastedown, original boards, dust-jacket, torn along joints, light chips to extremities, light surface soiling, 1927; Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, first illustrated edition, endpapers browned, original cloth, spine ends bumped, dust-jacket, front flap replaced with paper, other paper repairs verso, tears and nicks to extremities, lightly toned, 1929; and 3 others by the same, 4to & 8vo (5)

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Lot 34

NO RESERVE Banville (John) Nightspawn, first edition, signed by the author on title, ink numbering to head of title, spotting to top edge, original boards, bumping to foot of spine and to upper cover, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, dent on upper panel, otherwise excellent, 8vo, 1971.⁂ Banville's second novel, scarce signed.

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Lot 341

[Sassoon (Siegfried)], "Lyre (Pinchbeck)". Poems, first edition, lightly foxed, original glacine jacket, lightly torn with chips to edges, 1931; Collected Poems, first edition, jacket with very light nicks to edges, 1947; Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, first illustrated edition, illustrations by William Nicholson, 1929; Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, first edition, surface soiling to jacket, spine browned, 1930, original boards, all but the first with jackets, light creasing and chipping to edges, spines lightly browned or toned, 8vo (4)⁂ The first is a pseudonymously published book of poems, a parody of Humbert Wolfe.

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Lot 342

NO RESERVE Schroedinger (Erwin) What is Life?, first English edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short split to foot of upper fore-edge, an excellent example, 8vo, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1944.⁂ A cornerstone title in the study of quantum physics, scarce in the dust-jacket.

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Lot 344

Shaffer (Peter) Amadeus, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, light bumping to extremities, otherwise fine, 8vo, 1980.⁂ Shaffer adapted his own play for the Milos Forman film which won them both Academy Awards, as well as Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham. Scarce signed.

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Lot 348

NO RESERVE Sinclair (Upton) The Jungle, first American edition, second issue with battered print on copyright page, endpapers lightly browned, bookplate carefully removed from pastedown, spine faded, ends lightly creased, 8vo, New York, 1906.⁂ Sinclair's powerful exposure of the Chicago meat-packing industry.

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Lot 349

NO RESERVE Sitwell (Osbert) Before the Bombardment, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Somerset Maugham "with affection, homage and fear... 2. Oct. 1926" to endpaper, light browning to endpaper, original cloth, light sunning to cover margins, dust-jacket, very slight toning to spine, short nick to foot of lower joint, else fine, 8vo, Duckworth, 1926.⁂ A superb copy of Sitwell's first novel with an excellent literary association.

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NO RESERVE Barker (Pat) [The Regeneration Trilogy], 3 vol., first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, some light sunning to spines, else fine, 1991-95; and a first edition of Birdsong, 8vo (4)⁂ Barker's classic First World War trilogy, the last instalment of which, The Ghost Road won the 1995 Booker Prize.

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Lot 352

NO RESERVE Star Wars.- Lucas (George) Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, New York, 1976 § Pop-Up Books of Star Wars, illustrated by Wayne Douglas Barlowe, moveable illustrations, original boards, 1978; and 11 others related to Star Wars, including an original 1977 vintage R2-D2 radio-controlled Kenner toy and limited edition Star Wars Monopoly game, v.s., v.d. (13)

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Lot 353

Stark (Freya) [Autobiography], 4 vol., comprising Traveller's Prelude, reprint, signed by the author on half-title, boards very lightly marked, 1951; Beyond Euphrates, first edition, 1951; The Coast of Incense, first edition, 1953; Dust in the Lion's Paw, reprint, 1962, photographic illustrations, light browning and spotting to preliminaries or endpapers, original boards, dust-jackets, price-clipped with new price stickers, light nicks to edges, otherwise a very sharp and bright set, 8vo. ⁂ A remarkably bright set of Stark's autobiographical quartet.

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Lot 355

Steinbeck (John) The Moon is Down, first edition, second issue without full stop on p.112, dust-jacket, light creasing to spine head, lower panel with light surface wear, New York, 1942; The Red Pony, first trade edition, illustrations by Wesley Dennis, original cloth with pictorial onlay to upper cover, spine ends bumped, New York, 1945; Cannery Row, first English edition, gift inscription on endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, chipping to extremities, heavier to spine head, 1945, original cloth or boards; and 5 others by Steinbeck, 4to & 8vo (8)

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Lot 356

NO RESERVE Steinbeck (John) The Wayward Bus, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, very light rubbing to extremities, otherwise an excellent and sharp copy, 8vo, New York, 1947.⁂ Scarce in this crisp condition.

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Lot 358

Stevenson (Robert Louis) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, first English edition, first issue with date altered by hand on upper cover, ownership inscription on half-title, advertisement leaf at end for second edition of 'A Child's Garden of Verses' (detached and with numbers in blue crayon to verso), original wrappers printed in red and blue, spotted and very slightly frayed at corners, lacking spine and lower wrapper, [Prideaux 17], 8vo, 1886.⁂ Originally intended for publication at Christmas 1885 but postponed until January 1886 to ensure less competition on the bookstalls.

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Lot 362

Thatcher (Margaret) The Downing Street Years, first edition, signed bookplate by the author laid down on half-title, 1993; The Path to Power, signed by the author on title, 1995, original boards, dust-jackets, very lightly marked and faded, otherwise excellent, 8vo (2)

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Lot 363

NO RESERVE Thatcher (Margaret) The Path to Power, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author and Dennis Thatcher on title, additional signed presentation inscription from Dennis Thatcher on half-title, plates, some abrasion to fore-edge, original boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, light creasing to head, 8vo, 1995.

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Lot 366

Thompson (Edward) The Making of the English Working Class, first edition, light toning strip on endpapers, wrappers laminated onto boards, 1963 § Sykes (Christopher) Four Studies in Loyalty, first American edition, dedication copy, with signed presentation inscription from the author "to Diane Abdy [print] from Christopher, 'with this I bury all unkindness' on dedication page, original boards, spine ends rubbed, dust-jacket, rubbing and chipping to extremities, New York, 1948, 8vo (2)⁂ The first mentioned is an important work of English social history written by E. P. Thompson, a New Left historian. It was placed in the top 100 Modern Library best Nonfiction books of the 20th century.

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Lot 367

Thorndike (Russell) The Slype, "author's edition", signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper, New York, [1930] § Tilton (Alice) Cold Steal, first edition, New York, 1939 § [Murdock van DeVenter (Emma), "Lynch Lawrence". The Last Stroke: A Detective Story, [1896] § Crossley (Maud) and Charles King. The Forbidden Hour, second printing, signed presentation inscription from the authors on front free endpaper, [1925], original pictorial or decorative cloth, light bumping to spine ends; and 6 others, crime and mystery fiction, 8vo (10)

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Lot 369

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, folding map at end, contemporary ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, light soiling marks to cloth, 1954; The Two Towers, folding map at end, endpapers browned, spine sunned, light fading to upper panel, faint spots to panels, 1955; The Return of the King, lacking folding map, light spotting on endpapers, cloth soiled and spotted, 1955, first edition, second impressions, original cloth, spines dulled, ends and extremities bumped and creased; and 2 others sets of the same work, comprising third or fourth impressions, and a second edition set, all without jackets, 8vo (9)

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Bates (H.E.) The Darling Buds of May, first edition, endpapers lightly toned, 1958 § Wodehouse (P.G.) Cocktail Time, first edition, first impression, original red boards with gilt spine, jacket price-clipped, overprice sticker torn away, [McIlvaine A81a], 1958 § White (T.H.) The Sword in the Stone, first American edition, ownership name on half-title, 1939, original boards, dust-jackets, light chipping and nicks to extremities, still overall excellent copies; and 22 others, 20th century literature, v.s. (25)

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Lot 374

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, first edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, boards with light scuffing to corners, otherwise fine, jacket lightly rubbed along joints, creasing and rubbing to corners, 1962; Farmer Giles of Ham, third impression, 1961, original boards, dust-jackets; and 4 others by Tolkien, including a second edition set of The Lord of the Rings, 8vo (6)

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Lot 375

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, first single-volume edition, original wrappers designed by Pauline Baynes, light marks to fore-edge, creasing and light rubbing to edges, 1968; Smith of Wootton Major, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, original boards, lightly rubbed, spine ends bumped, 1967, 8vo & 4to (2)

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Lot 378

Toole (John Kennedy) A Confederacy of Dunces, first English edition, original boards, dust-jacket, exceedingly minor peeling to upper edge, otherwise fine, 8vo, 1981.⁂ A superb copy of John Kennedy Toole's satiric masterpiece. Toole committed suicide in 1969, in part due to his lack of publishing success. His mother subsequently began promoting the book, which was finally published in 1980, later winning the Pulitzer Prize that year.

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Lot 379

Vance (Jack) Vandals of the Void, first edition, jacket frayed and creased at extremities with some nicks, Philadelphia, 1953; The Eyes of the Underworld, jacked sunned, San Francisco, 1977; Big Planet, San Francisco, 1978, original boards, dust-jackets; and 25 others by Vance, v.s. (28)

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Lot 383

[Vickers (William Edward)], "David Durham". The Exploits of Fidelity Dove, first edition, initialed inscription from the author on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly browned with light foxing, original cloth, rather sunned, 8vo, [1924].⁂ Very scarce collection of stories featuring a female criminal (it was later printed under the author's other pseudonym of Roy Vickers. Ellery Queen, in his bibliography, The Detective Story, was unaware of this title, only listing the 1935 edition. Exceedingly scarce with any inscription from the author - we can trace no other like copy at auction. The inscription seems to urge the unknown recipient not to use this book as a form of moral guidance.

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