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Bannerman (Helen). The Story of Little Black Sambo, 1st edition, Grant Richards, 1899, twenty-seven full-page colour illustrations, some finger-soiling and intermittent spotting, a few light creases, mainly to corners, endpapers lightly spotted and toned, text block spine skilfully strengthened, original light green striped cloth, a few minor marks, some wear to extremities, rubbed and darkened spine, minor loss to tail and part of front joint, 16mo (129 x 79mm) The rare first edition of this classic, published as Number 4 in The Dumpy Books for Children series. (1)

Baum (L. Frank). The Wizard of Oz, Line Illustrations by W.W. Denslow, 8 Colour Stills from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film, 1st UK edition, 1st issue, Hutchinson [1939], eight colour plates, black & white line illustrations, some full-page, title and final printed page toned, some spotting, mainly to margins and edges, original green cloth, front cover with blue lettering and image of tin woodman, slightly faded spine a little toned at ends, dust jacket, spine lightly toned, a few small chips and tears to edges, two closed tears to head of rear panel, 4to The extremely scarce first issue of the British publication produced to tie-in with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie. The blurb on the inside front flap states '...a film taken from the original story is being released to the public in the Autumn'. Therefore this issue was presumably published in early 1939, prior to the film's August release. The more common later issue features a different scene from the film on both pictorial boards and dust jacket. Both state 'The only Edition containing the complete original text on which the movie is based'. (1)

Blyton (Enid). The Folk of the Faraway Tree, Illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler, 1st edition, George Newnes, 1946, frontispiece and numerous letterpress illustrations, hinge split between half-title and frontispiece, original red cloth, gilt lettered to spine and upper cover (dulled on former), slightly spotted spine and margins of covers faded, one or two small marks, 8vo The final book in Enid Blyton's phenomenally popular Enchanted Wood trilogy. The series is still in print, but all three of the titles are extremely scarce in first edition, and this last one appears to be particularly so. (1)

Disney (Walt). Mickey Mouse Presents Bucky and Bo, Dean & Son, Ltd., circa 1936, black & white illustrations throughout, toned and some light spotting, front pastedown with ownership name dated 1936, hinges strengthened with paper, original colour pictorial boards, rubbed, rebacked, small oblong 8vo, together with 12 other Walt Disney Mickey Mouse related including Mickey Mouse Sails for Treasure Island, 1st edition, Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1933; Mickey Mouse and Bobo the Elephant, 1st edition, Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1935; Mickey Mouse and the Sacred Jewel, 1st edition, Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1936; Mickey Mouse and the Pirate Submarine, 1st edition, Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1939; The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, Story and Illustrations by Staff of Walt Disney Studio, 1st edition, George G. Harrap & Co Ltd., 1931, etc., all illustrated throughout, some browned, original pictorial boards, 12mo & 8vo The first title is rare, apparently with less than 20 copies known. Not traced on COPAC. (13)

Morris (Rev. F.O.). A History of British Birds, six volumes, 1st edition, 1851 - 1857, title page to each volume, 358 coloured engraved plates (complete as lists), variable spotting, a couple of plates with minor traces of adhesion, together with A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1853 - 1856, 225 chromolithographed plates, intermittent spotting, both first volumes with armorial bookplate of Lewis Fry, matching contemporary vellum gilt, soiled with occasional minor marks, calf labels on darkened spines, rubbed in places, both final volumes with 'Index' in ink manuscript on spine, 8vo (9)

Moveable. Touch and Go. A book of Transformation Pictures, with verses by Fred. E. Weatherly, 1st edition, Nister, circa 1894, eight working chromolithographed slatted transformation pictures, two with broken tabs, black & white illustrations to text, endpapers and title toned, most leaves with one or more tears, one page with some adhesive tape stains and old repairs, free endpapers and first two & final two leaves detached, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some light wear to extremities, spine ends frayed with minor loss at head, a few minor marks (mainly on back cover), 4to, together with Crane (Walter, illustrator), Pan-Pipes a Book of Old Songs, newly arranged & with accompaniments by Theo: Marzials; engraved & printed in colours by Edmund Evans, 2nd edition, circa 1890s, colour lithographed illustrations, two leaves with short closed tear, intermittent spotting (mainly to lower margins), each free endpaper with torn loss to lower corner, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, extremities worn, oblong 4to, plus four others similar, including The Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear, 39th authentic edition, circa 1908 (6)

Norton (Mary). The Borrowers, 4th edition, 1956, colour frontispiece, and illustrations to text by Diana Stanley, some pale spotting to endpapers and first and last few leaves of text, original blue cloth in dust wrapper, very slightly rubbed to extremities, author's presentation copy, inscribed in blue ink to title to Mr Ward of the Barnstaple Building Society, 'Mr Ward, c/o Barnstaple Building Society, with best wishes from one of his prospective [arrow drawn pointing to the title of the book], Mary Norton - July 1st 1958', together with Blyton (Enid), My Fourth Nature Book, The Rabbit's-Party and Other Stories, reprinted, 1953, illustrations by Eileen A. Soper, original red cloth in torn and frayed dust wrapper, endpapers lightly spotted, author's presentation inscription in blue ink to front endpaper 'with lots of love from Enid Blyton', both 8vo (2)

Potter (Beatrix, and Sendak, Maurice). Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit. A new printing from the original line-blocks made for the first Private Edition of 1901, introduced by Maurice Sendak, New York: Battledore, 1995, thirty-four separate prints of the original Beatrix Potter illustrations, on deckle-edged Arches paper, each numbered on verso, sheet size 13.5 x 10cm (5.25 x 4ins), each with tissue guard and enclosed in printed grey wrappers, together with 25pp. booklet in loose printed wrappers, 16mo, contained in original grey cloth solander box, gilt titled on spine and with inset illustration on upper cover, a few light marks Limited edition, 178/250 copies, signed by Maurice Sendak and the printer Iain Bain. (1)

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st privately printed edition, [Strangeways, December, 1901], colour frontispiece, woodblock engravings from the author's line drawings throughout, some finger-soiling, stitching partially broken and signatures starting, contemporary inscription by the author on front free endpaper 'For Mrs Oliver, from Beatrix Potter - with kind regards & best wishes for Christmas 1901', and later ownership name above of Joan Lamb, original olive-green boards (faded to beige), with flat spine, a little rubbed and upper cover with one or two light marks, spine and lower return with old adhesive tape stain to lower half, and joints mostly split, but with only minor loss at ends (.5" at head), upper cover with printed lettering and vignette of Peter and siblings, 16mo Linder, p.420; Quinby 1. An unrestored copy of Beatrix Potter's extremely rare first book: one of only 250 copies, and this copy inscribed by Beatrix Potter. The character of Peter Rabbit was based on Beatrix's own pet rabbit, and he made his first appearance in a letter written in 1893 to Noel, the five-year-old offspring of her former governess, Annie Carter. Noel and his siblings so enjoyed this and subsequent letters that Beatrix thought about having the story published. In 1900 she sent the story to at least six different publishers, all of whom rejected it, including Frederick Warne, who later decided to take the book on. Undeterred, Beatrix decided to have her little book privately printed, and in 1901 250 copies were published priced at 1/6 each, of which this is one. They sold so well that in February 1902 she had a further 200 copies printed with slightly amended text. (1)

Bramsen (John). Travels in Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, the Morea, Greece, Italy, etc. etc., 2 volumes, 2nd edition, Henry Colburn and Co., 1820, bound without the advertisement leaf, spotting to front and rear, later 19th-century half calf, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Falconer (William), The Shipwreck, a Poem ... illsutrated by additional notes, and corrected ... with a life of the author, by James Stanier Clarke, 1st edition thus, for William Miller, 1804, half-title, vignette sub-title, 3 engraved plates (spotted), occasional minor soiling, modern half calf, large 8vo, plus, Conybeare (William John, & John Saul Howson), The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, 2 volumes, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, engraved additional title pages, 37 plates and maps, several double page, many after W. H. Bartlett, offsetting, gift inscriptions to endpapers, gilt edges, later maroon morocco gilt by Nutt of Cambridge, rubbed, 4to, and 2 others Blackmer 570 for Falconer; cf. 194 for the first edition of Bramsen. (7)

Seuss (Dr.). Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, New York: Random House, 1st edition, 1958, numerous colour illustrations, colour illustrated endpapers, pale toning to upper parts of free endpapers, original pictorial boards, extremities lightly rubbed, dust jacket, a little dust-soiled in places, spine ends and corners a little rubbed, folio, together with Werner (Jane), The Tall Book of Make-Believe, Pictures by Garth Williams, 1st edition, New York, London: Harper and Brothers, 1950, half-title, pictorial title, numerous colour and black & white illustrations, some poems with small pencilling either above or below title, one page with light pencilling across text, pictorial endpapers, front hinge split, original pictorial boards, some minor marks, both joints split and frayed, spine lifting at ends (creased and fragile at head), tall 8vo, with seven other Dr. Seuss titles, later printings, and five others similar First item: first edition points include 'Copyright, 1950, 1951, 1958' on imprint page, and 14 titles listed on final page (ending with 'Mulberry Street', dust jacket with '295/295' price on front flap, and 14 books displayed on rear panel. (14)

Steadman (Ralph, illustrator). Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1985, colour illustrations, half-title with red ink authorial presentation inscription and doodle (with mock date), all edges gilt, original leather gilt, front cover with gilt decoration, matching slipcase, 4to, together with Still Life with Raspberry or the Bumper Book of Steadman, 1st edition, 1969, numerous black & white illustrations, title with red ink authorial signature, with mock age and date, frontispiece with red ink moustache added to lower right face by Steadman, original boards, dust jacket with some tears and losses, 4to, and three other Steadman-related items: Adonis / A Mirror for the Twentieth Century, colour poster, signed by Steadman in gold ink lower right, 48.5 x 68.5cm (19 x 27ins), framed and glazed, plus another poster, Today the Struggle, and The Hunting of the Snark an Agony in Eight Fits, by Lewis Carroll, 1975 First item, limited edition 220/250 copies. The vendor informs us that at a literary festival he persuaded a reluctant Steadman to sign the first two items in red ink, over a glass of red wine. Apparently although the limitation of Treasure Island states 250 copies, only 50 or so were released as Steadman objected to the binding. (5)

Fanfrolico Press. Women in Parliament by Aristophanes, Done into English by Jack Lindsay, with Illustrations by Norman Lindsay..., 1929, illustrated title, four full-page engraved plates, illustrations, top edge gilt, original blue half morocco gilt, some marks and wear, spine faded, folio, together with Marchetti (Ludovic, illustrator), Othello, the Moor of Venice, a Tragedy, by William Shakespeare, [1893], half-title, additional pictorial title, colour and black & white illustrations, variable spotting, especially to title, all edges gilt, quarter morocco gilt, rebacked, a few minor marks, some wear to corners, folio First item: limited edition, 260/500 copies signed by the translator. (2)

Bodkin (M. McDonnell). Paul Beck, the Rule of Thumb Detective, 1st edition, 1898, publisher's advertisements at rear (toned), occasional minor marks, one leaf with 4cm closed tear, endpapers spotted and toned, front pastedown with ownership name removed, front hinge nearly split, original pictorial cloth, mottled, some wear to extremities, spine darkened, 8vo The first collection of Bodkin's short stories to feature the detective Paul Beck. His later book, The Capture of Paul Beck (1909), is credited with inventing the first detective family in fiction. A rare find as a first edition. (1)

Boyd (William). A Good Man in Africa, 1st edition, 1981, original cloth, dust jacket, some fading to spine (as often), 8vo Signed to title, the author's first published book. (1)

Burgess (Anthony). A Clockwork Orange, 1st edition, 1962, bookseller ticket to front endpaper, original cloth, price-clipped first issue dust Jacket (with wide flaps), spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends, tiny closed tear at foot of rear panel, 8vo, together with Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Based on the Novel by Anthony Burgess, Lorrimer, 1972 (2)

Chandler (Raymond). The Little Sister, 1st UK edition, 1949, a few light spots and stains, original red cloth, dust jacket, tears and losses to spine, a few repairs to verso, 8vo, the fifth 'Philip Marlowe' novel, precedes the first American edition, together with Jhabvala (Ruth Prawer). The Nature of Passion, 1956; Esmond in India, 1958; The Householder, 1960; Get Ready For Battle, 1962; A Backward Place, 1965, 1st editions, original cloth, dust jackets (Nature of Passion, Get Ready for Battle and A Backward Place price-clipped with replacement price stickers, some toning to The Householder), 8vo, plus nine other 1st editions by Jhabvala including Like Birds, Like Fishes and Other Stories, 1963, A Stronger Climate, 1968, A New Dominion, 1972, An Experience of India, 1971 and Heat & Dust, 1975 (15)

Braithwaite (Cecil). Fishing Vignettes. Being Extracts from a Diary and Other Fragments 1875 to 1922, [1923], portrait frontispiece, half-tone illustrations, one or two light spots, top edge gilt, original half morocco, spine a little faded, 8vo, limited edition, number 48 of an unspecified total, together with The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, edited by John Major, John Nimmo, 1889, bound with The Practical Fly-Fisher more Particularly for Grayling or Umber, by John Jackson, 2 parts in one, portrait frontispiece and six etched plates to first work, 10 hand-coloured plates to second work, top edge gilt, later green half morocco by Bayntun, Bath, spine faded, 8vo, plus The Scots Angler. A Monthly Magazine of River and Loch, volumes I & II, July 1896-June 1897 bound in one volume, monochrome illustrations, occasional light soiling, modern morocco-backed boards, 4to, with six others including David Webster's The Angler and Loop-Rod, 1885, another copy of John Jackson's The Practical Fly-Fisher, 1889 and Sir Edward Grey's Fly Fishing, Haddon Hall Library series, 2nd edition, 1899 (9)

Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1953, a little faint spotting to endpapers, small previous owner signature to front endpaper, bookseller ticket to front pastedown, original black cloth with heart motif in red to upper cover, slight lean, 1st issue dust jacket (without Times review), short closed tears at head of spine and lower joint, tiny nicks at folds and minor toning and marks to rear panel, 8vo The first appearance of Mr Bond and one of only 4728 printed. (1)

Forester (C.S.). Flying Colours. Including a Ship of the Line, 1st edition, Michael Joseph in conjuntion with The Book Society, 1938, a few light spots to fore edges, original green cloth lettered in silver, dust jacket, tear at head of spine repaired, one or two tiny closed marginal tears, 8vo First printing of Flying Colours, published a day before the first separate trade edition. (1)

Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 38th edition, 1931, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, publisher's catalogue at end, illustrated endpapers, top edge green, original green cloth gilt, dust jacket, some toning to spine, light ring stain and a few spots to front panel, 8vo, the first edition illustrated by E.H. Shepard, together with Toad of Toad Hall. A Play from Kenneth Grahame's Book 'The Wind in the Willows', by A.A. Milne, 1st edition, 1929, partial offsetting from flaps to endpapers, top edge gilt, original cloth (two corners a little bumped), dust jacket, spine toned and chipped at ends, 8vo, plus Kenneth Grahame's First Whisper of 'The Wind in the Willows', edited by Elspeth Grahame, 1st edition, 1944 (3)

Graves (Robert). Country Sentiments, 1st edition, Martin Secker, 1920, a few light spots, original boards, spine renewed (endpapers), author's presentation copy inscribed to front blank 'Eric Kennington from Robert Graves. See p.22', with Eric Kennington's ownership stamp below, together with Fairies and Fusiliers, 1st edition, Heinemann, 1917, some light spotting at front and rear, Kennington ownership stamp to front endpaper, original cloth, a little rubbed and spine faded, plus The Pier-glass, 1st edition, Martin Secker, [1921], & Whipperginny, 1st edition, Heinemann, 1923, some spotting to half title and advert leaf to first volume, both original boards, with modern reback, rubbed to edges, and other early 20th century poetry, including W.H. Davies, Collected Poems, First and Second Series, reprinted, 1923, Walter De La Mare, Memory and Other Poems, 1st edition, 1938, Rupert Brooke, 1914 & Other Poems, 8th impression, September 1915, Elinor Jenkins, Poems, 1st edition, 1915, Eiluned Lewis, December Apples, 1st edition, 1935, Ralph Hodgson, Poems, 1st edition, reprinted June 1917, Dorothy Wellesley, A Broadcast Anthology of Modern Poetry, 1st edition, Hogarth Press, 1930, etc., all 8vo Ex libris Eric Kennington (1888-1960). (15)

Greene (Graham). Journey Without Maps, 1st edition, 1936, 24 half-tone illustrations, map endpapers, original yellow cloth, spine and extremities a little dust soiled, dust jacket, spine toned and chipped at ends, closed tear along lower joint, a few very small nicks and tears to edges, 8vo Very scarce in the dust jacket and a good copy of Graham Greene's well regarded first travel book. (1)

Greene (Graham). The Man Within, 1st edition, 1929, a few light spots, bookseller sticker to front endpaper, original black cloth, dust jacket, some toning to spine, a few chips and small tears at ends, small nicks at folds, a little light soiling to panels, 8vo The author's first novel. (1)

Greene (Graham). The Confidential Agent, 1st US edition, Viking, New York, 1939, endpapers a little toned, original cloth (some toning to extremities), dust jacket, a few chips and tears to spine ends and folds, 8vo, together with Rumour at Nightfall, 1st US edition, Doubleday, New York, 1932, first few leaves with marginal water stain, rear hinge a little tender, original boards, some fading, small indenation to upper cover, 8vo (2)

Hardy (Thomas). The Woodlanders, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1887, half-titles, without advertisements as issued, some spotting to half-titles and free endpapers, volume 1 front free endpaper with embossed W.H. Smith & Son library stamp, most hinges cracked, original dark green pebble-grained cloth (secondary binding), gilt blocked to spine and single-rule border with inner frame in black to upper boards, some light mottling, extremities worn, 8vo Purdy, pages 54-57. Originally published in monthly installments, Hardy sometimes mentioned The Woodlanders as being his favourite (and best) of his own novels. The first edition comprised 1000 copies, of which 860 were initially bound, with the remainder bound up in dark green pebbled cloth, blocked in black on the front and in blind on the back with a single-rule border and inner frame with square corners (as here). Purdy states that this secondary, less common, binding is never found on ex-library copies, making this a very unusual example. (3)

Heaney (Seamus). Death of a Naturalist, 1st edition, Faber, 1966, original green cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, fine The poet's second published book and first book of poetry. (1)

Jacobs (William Wymark). A collection of books, letters, theatre programmes, and ephemera relating to the author William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943), comprising a complete set of all UK and some US editions of all his novels and short stories, including Many Cargoes, 1896 (author's first book), The Skipper's Wooing, 1897, Sea Urchins, 1898, More Cargoes, 1898 (1st US edition), A Master of Craft, 1900 (with a one page letter to Leslie Mead, 1931 contained in tipped-in envelope, Light Freights, 1901, The Lady of the Barge, 1902, At Sunwich Port, 1902 (inscribed to Charles Wilson), Odd Crafy, [1903], Captains All, 1905, Dialstone Lane, 1904, Short Cruises, 1907, Salthaven, 1908 (signed), Sailor's Knots, 1909, Ship's Company, [1911], Night Watches, 1914, The Castaways, 1916, Deep Waters, [1919, with a loose one page letter, 1919 to Mr Wilson], Sea Whispers, [1926], Fifteen Stories, 1926, The Night-Watchman and Other Longshoremen, 1932, Snug Harbour (New York, 1931) and Cruises and Cargoes, 1934, some illustrated, occasional light spotting and toning, original cloth, a little rubbed but in generally good overall condition, plus a further five volumes signed or inscribed by the author, an Author's Autograph Edition, New York, 1897 (limited signed edition 884/1000), a quantity of duplicate first editions, reprints, cheap editions, paperbacks, bibliographies, photo postcards and related articles of the actresses Rita Jolivet and Jessie Bateman, theatre programmes of the Beauty and the Barge etc, plus two original pencil drawings by the artist Will Owen, illustrator of many of Jacobs' books, plus Owen's Three Jolly Sailors and Me, [1919] and some books, artwork and ephemera William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of mainly humourous maritime stories, but is best remembered for his short horror story 'The Monkey's Paw' which appears in The Lady of the Barge, among other supernatural tales. His wife Eleanor Jacobs, was a suffragette, and sentenced to one month's hard labour for smashing a window with a hammer. (approx 200)

Joyce (James). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 2nd edition, Egoist Press, [1918], a little light toning and spotting, a few short marginal tears, original green cloth, spine a little darkened with lettering faded, split to lower joint, corners rubbed, slight lean, 8vo Slocum & Cahoon A13. One of 1000 copies printed and the first edition published from English sheets. (1)

Le Carre (John). Call For the Dead, 1st edition, 1961, a few minor spots, mainly to endpapers and pastedowns, original red cloth, small wormhole at foot of upper joint, slight fading at spine tips, price-clipped dust jacket, spine a little rubbed and toned with small chips at head, closed tear along fold and loss of publisher name at foot, small wormhole at foot of upper panel, small nicks and closed tears at folds, 8vo The author's first book and debut of George Smiley. (1)

Patterson (James). The Thomas Berryman Number, 1st edition, Little Brown, Boston, 1976, original boards, dust jacket, small repairs to verso, a few small chips, 8vo, the author's first book and signed to title, together with Black Market, 1st UK edition, 1986, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, plus the Midnight Club, 1st US edition, 1989, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, with a large quantity of others by Patterson including Hide and Seek, 1st UK edition, 1996 and Pop Goes the Weasel, 1st US edition, 1999, Alex Cross books etc (approx 160)

Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Hobbit or There and Back Again, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1937, four colour plates by the author, illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, pages 81-88 with short closed tear at gutter, some light spotting and soiling, small presentation inscription to half title, map endpapers, original green pictorial cloth, spine a little toned and rubbed at ends, a few light stains and some wear at corners, 8vo The second impression with the colour plates, published in the same year as the first printing. (1)

White (Patrick). Happy Valley. A Novel, 1st edition, 2nd impression, February 1939, original cloth (spine slightly darkened with tiny nick at foot), dust jacket, spine toned with chips and losses at ends, tears along folds, modern green morocco-backed foldover box, 8vo Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to front endpaper, December 1939. The second printing of the author's first book and published in the same month as the first impression. White would not allow further English printings during his lifetime as he feared being libelled by descendants of some of the characters appearing in the book. (1)

Wodehouse (P.G.). Love Among the Chickens, 1st edition, [1906], half title, frontispiece and three illustrations by H.M. Brock, page 31 detached, page 33 with medium closed tear, a little light spotting and soiling, oval ink stamp and previous owner signature at front, library label remnants at end, contemporary green library (?) cloth gilt, a little rubbed, some fading and stains to covers, 8vo McIlvaine A7a. The author's first adult novel. (1)

Wodehouse (P.G.). The Inimitable Jeeves, 1st edition, 1923, some light spotting and stains, original green cloth, spine a little darkened and rubbed at ends, a few light stains, slight lean, 8vo, together with Carry On, Jeeves!, 1st edition, 1925, some spotting, small ink stamp at foot of front endpaper, original green cloth, spine a little rubbed and faded, upper cover with small stain and one edge rubbed, 8vo, plus Something Fresh, 2nd edition, 1915, endpapers a little toned, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, with 11 others by Wodehouse, including first editions Meet Mr. Mulliner, 1927, Big Money, 1931, If I Were You, 1931, Mulliner Nights, 1933, Laughing Gas, 1936, Lord Emsworth and Others, 1937, and The Code of the Woosters, 1938 (14)

Wodehouse (P.G.). Very Good, Jeeves!, 1st edition, 1930, advertisements at rear, some light spotting, endpapers with light partial toning, original orange cloth (some fading to extremities of covers, one or two small indentations), dust jacket, spine faded and chipped at ends, a few small nicks and tears, 8vo McIlvaine A42b. Scarce in the first issue dust jacket. (1)

Dickens, Charles - The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit - 1844, first edition, Charles Dickens Volume 3 only of Master Humphreys Clock, 1841, and five other vols. ( 7).

A. A. Milne, 'The House at Pooh Corner', first edition, published 1928 by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, brown leather gilt tooled cover and spine,.

Mao's Little Red Book, first edition, half-title printed in red, title printed in red with green imprint and border, sepia-toned portrait of Chariman Mao, uncorrected endorsement leaf of Lin Biao printed in black, and 30 chapters comprising 250 pp., pp.82-83 corrected and without errata slip in pocket at end, small Chinese stamp and ink characters to front fly-leaf, light stain affecting fore-edge of first 20 ff., further light stain to rear fly-leaf, some other minor marking, fly-leaves browned, original card in red vinyl covers, small split near foot of spine, a little light marking, 12mo, [Beijing], printed and edited by the Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 1964.*The first edition of Mao's Little Red Book, in the iconic second issue red vinyl binding, which was issued almost simultaneously with the first issue paper wrappers to be shared and discussed by the P.L.A. brigades.

Mao's Little Red Book, first edition, half-title printed in red, title printed in red with green imprint and border, sepia-toned portrait of Chariman Mao, uncorrected endorsement leaf of Lin Biao printed in black, and 30 chapters comprising 250 pp., pp.82-83 corrected, several Chinese stamps on half-title, light damp-stain affecting upper fore-corner of several ff., some other minor marking, original wrappers printed in red & black, somewhat dog-eared with some soiling, 12mo, [Beijing], printed and edited by the Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 1964.*The first edition of Mao's Little Red Book in the first issue paper wrappers, intended for the personal use of P.L.A. officers.

A rare first edition signed copy of Thomas Keneally’s ‘Schindler’s Ark’, 2006, Volume IX from the Oak Tree Press First Chapter Series, limited edition number 148 of 150, with images by Antony Gormley, signed and dated by the author ‘27/01/08’.Together with Robert Lebel's ‘La Saint-Charlemagne’, 1976, published by Le Soleil nor, Paris, inscribed ‘c8/250’, and one other book documenting Charles Mozley work (3)

RUGGLE (George) 'Ignoramus', first edition, 1668, London, Ex Officina J[ohn] R[edmayne], copperplate frontispiece of Ignoramus

A first edition copy of ‘The Life of Edward Clarendon’, by L. Kirkham, 1759, published at the Clarendon Printing-House, Oxford, with engraved portrait

A collection of art books, including a first edition 1927 copy of Vladimir Polunin's 'Continental Scene Painting', published by C.W. Beaumont, London, dw, along with 'Germany Divided: Baslitz and his generation', and Nasti (Mauro) ‘Schmied’, 1991, stamped number 606, published by Gudo Tomani Editore, Schio (4)

A collection of poetry, plays, novels and artwork published by the prestigious Limited Edition Club, New York & Connecticut, including poetry by Robert Graves (ill. Paul Hogarth, 1980), Siegfried Sassoon (ill. David Daiches, 1981), Seamus Heaney (ill. Henry Pearson, 1982) and Hart Crane (photography by Richard Benson, signed, 1981) together with 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee William (ill. Al Hirschfeld, 1982) and illustrated works by Joseph Conrad, Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller Each first edition work housed within book covers, with accompanying monthly LEC newsletter (13)

Books: a first edition copy of Bernard Shaw's 'The Doctor's Dilemma' (1911), 'Sybil or The Two Nations', Benjamin Disraeli (1895), and three mapbooks, including an 1891 edition of Bartholomew's 'Pocket Atlas of the World'. Together with other works by Horace, Sir Walter Scott and Pouchet (qty)

A first edition copy of Luciani Samosatensis (Lucian of Samosta) Opera, 3 volumes plus index, 1743, text in Greek and Latin, title page in black and red, vol 1 with engraved frontispiece. Published by Jacobi Weststenii, Amsterdam (4)

First edition of Richard Bentley's Terence: PUBLII TENENTII AFRII (Terence), 'Comoediae, Phaedri Fabulae Aesopiae, Publii Syri et Alorium Veterum Sententiae', published by Cambridge, 1726, 1st edition, with two engraved plates; the section on the fables of Phaedrus has its own pagination.

Gerald Coulson. The First Blow, artist signed limited edition print, also signed by Flight Lieutenant George Booth, 49cm x 61cm

Antiquarian Book/Natural History Interest Grouse And Grouse Moors By George Malcolm First Edition Published By Adam and Charles Black, London, 1910. Cloth Bound with black embossed spine, title and cover illustration. Illustrated by renowned sporting artist, Charles Whymper with 16 full-page illustrations in colour, this a 1910 first edition of this classic in shooting literature. The first section deals with moors and their management and the second with the shooting of grouse. Good overall condition with some slight foxing to page edges and mild wear to top of spine.

Adams, RichardWatership Down. London: Rex Collings, 1972. First edition, 8vo, compliments slip from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (where Adams worked at the time of writing), original brown cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped, neat ownership signature to free-endpaper, otherwise fine condition

Brown, George Mackay - a collection of his books, signed and addressed to himA large quantity of books signed by G. Mackay Brown, including: Millman, Lawrence Last places: a journey in the north. London: Andre Deusch, 1990. First edition, 8vo; Montgomerie, Norah and William The well at the world's end. London: The Bodley Head, 1975. First edition, 8vo; Graves, Robert King Jesus. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1946. First edition, 8vo; A large quantity of books with messages to George: Burgess, Anthony Little Wilson and Big God. London: Heinemann, 1987. First edition, 8vo; Betjeman, John The illustrated summoned by bells. London: John Murray, 1989. Third edition, 8vo; MacDougall, Carl The Casanova papers. London: Secker & Warburg, 1996. Uncorrected proof copy, 8vo; Maddox, Brenda The married man: D. H. Lawrence. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. First edition, 8vo; and a large quatity of unsigned books (qty)

Brown, George Mackay, a collection of autograph and typescript items, comprising1) Autograph "Coal", 7pp. story of coal and Brother Julius at Newbattle Abbey, revised in pencil, with autograph note at top "shortened version instead of this"2) Autograph Addendum to STV script by Ian Grimble "The Holy Stones", 3pp., 4to, numerous corrections, additions and deletions, initialled and dated "GMB 18/19 May 1976"3) Autograph Under Brinkies Brae, dated 29-5-80, 2pp., 8vo, black biro, corrections in pencil, also marked "not published GMB" in pencil at head of page 1 [Draft, apparently not published, of one of his weekly contributions to The Orcadian 4) Typescript. Christmas Visitors, a Story, dated 18 Nov. 1982 (struck through), 8pp. including title, 4to, numerous pencil additions and corrections [First published in Christmas Stories, Perpetua Press, 1985]; 5) Typescript. "Dialogue", dated Stromness, 1975. Folio, 12pp., numerous corrections and additions in pencil, annotated "Corrected script" on title leaf; 6) Skatehorn the Tramp, 2pp., large 8vo, 35 lines of poetry, half scored through or deleted, initialled, undated [Possibly an ear early draft of part of The Horse Fair from The Wreck of the Archangel (1989); 7) Typescript. The Living Poet, 5 leaves 4to, partly scared through and with pencil notes [possibly script for broadcast, 1979], with note "In Voyages, 1983"; 8) Autograph Ballad of the Golden Bird. 12 leaves, large 8vo, black biro, undated, each leaf lightly scored through [Published as The Golden Bird: Two Golden Stories, John Murray, 1987; 9) Autograph A Spell for Green Corn - 1 [1961-62] The Maskers (a play), 21 leaves, 8vo, red, blue and black biro, corrected in pencil, note on verso of last leaf "Written 1965 ? 1966 ?", Cancelled (scored through), revised 17 - Dec. 1974" [First published Hogarth Press, 1970]; 10) Autograph Song for the Spring of Equinox. 12pp on 12mo notepaper, autograph manuscript, pencil and biro, signed 1/3/1996; 11) Typescript Keepers of the House, December 1976, 14 leaves, 4to, autograph corrections, note on title page "The Old Stile Press (1986), limited edition, working copy"; 12) Autograph Foreword: The Lordly Ones (Anthology of Stones, ed John Matthews) 1994, 2pp., 8vo, black ink, signed George Mackay Brown; 13) Typescript. The Third Magus. 9pp., 4to, dated October 1978, annotated in pencil including note "Not to be used" and "Working copy", [1st published in Andrina & other Stories, 1982); 14) Autograph Kirkwall: Conservation Area (Foreword), 4pp. 4to, initialled GMB March 1985, some pencil annotations; 15) Autograph Perilous Seas. A Dramatic Biography of John Gow the Pirate (1798-1725) in six parts. Signed and dated October 1954, parts 1 and 4-6 only, 113 pages, 8vo, pencil, red underlining of stage directions; 16) Autograph. 2 pp., 8vo, uncaptioned "Light and sea-noise and soil of Birsay", ink, corrections and additions in pencil; 17) Typescript. Magi I, 3pp., folio, torn in 4 and stapled back together, lacking 1 corner (with text), with photocopy of the poem written out in another hand; 18) Typescript The Third Magus, 9 pp., 4to, dated October 1978 at end, 1st page lightly scored through with pencilled note "Not to be published GMB"; 19) Autograph 2 manuscript leaves, one with notes of The Scotsman review of best books 1994, the 2nd a note on envelope verso: Maeshowe: Poster Poem for National Museum of Scotland, initialled "GMB 5-iii-96"; 20) Typescript "A Christmas Story", pp. 2-7, lacking page 1, pencil revision to last page.

Burns, RobertPoems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: William Creech, 1787. Second [First Edinburgh] edition, 8vo, half-title, first issue with "skinking" on p. 263 and "Boxburgh" for "Roxburgh" in list of subscribers, engraved frontispiece, list of subscribers, contemporary tree calf, early ownership inscription of Edward Bethy, Captain of the Life Guards, 1812, some splitting to joints

Dickens, CharlesAmerican Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. First edition, first issue (with "xvi" on verso of Contents leaf vol.1), 8vo, original maroon blindstamped cloth, owner's name erased from head of front free endpaper of vol. 1, spines faded, bindings rather stained

Dostoyevsky / Dostoevsky, FyodorThe Brothers Karamazov. London: William Heinemann, 1912. First English edition, 8vo, half-title (stating this is volume 1 of Dostoyevsky's works) with adverts to verso, original red cloth with decoratively tooled spine, joints weak, some wear and fading to covers

[Dutens, Louis]Memoirs of a Traveller, now in Retirement. Written by himself. Interspersed with historical, literary, and political Anecdotes, relative to many of the principal Personages of the present Age. London: Printed for Rich. Phillips, 1806. First edition in English, 5 volumes, small 8vo, half-titles, contemporary half green morocco, bookplate of the Gladstone family library at Fasque, ownership inscription cut from the upper margin of title-page in volume I

Fleming, IanThrilling Cities. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First edition, 8vo, original quarter cloth, dust-jacket not price-clipped, a puncture and some dampstaining to dust-jacket and covers; [Idem] You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped, some very slight dampstaining to lower cover of dust-jacket, slight shelf-lean; [Idem] The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth gilt, dust-jacket not price-clipped, slight soiling to p.59, slight shelf-lean (3)

Fleming, IanFrom Russia, with Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. First edition, first impression with 'first published 1957' to copyright page and rear flap of dust-jacket blank, 8vo, original black cloth with gun and rose motif, dust-jacket not price-clipped but with a little chipping, slight darkening, a couple of foxing stains and some slightly indented marks to lower cover, very small closed tear to p.197, a few light internal marks, slight foxing to fore-edges and small damp spot to upper edge not affecting pages

Fleming, IanGoldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth with skull motif, dust-jacket not price clipped but with one small repair to a fold, slight foxing and darkening and a little chipping and rubbing, a few light marks to covers, a few small internal marks