West Indies.- Ligon (Richard) A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes, second edition, folding engraved map with neatly repaired tear, 6 plates of natural history and 3 folding plates concerning sugar processing with the accompanying letterpress explanatory leaf (sometimes bound at end but bound here as directed), title verso with light discolouration from removal of bookplate, but an unusually bright and clean copy otherwise, later calf, gilt, upper joint cracked but holding, light rubbing to spine, [Goldsmiths' 2039; Sabin 41058; Wing L2076], folio, by Peter Parker...and Thomas Guy, 1673.⁂ An early account of Barbados with the first separate map of the island. It also includes much on cocoa, cucumbers and pomegranates, as well as illustrations of bananas and pineapples.
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NO RESERVE World.- Moorehead (Alan) The White Nile, first edition, dust-jacket, 1960 § Beaton (Cecil) New York, shelf-lean, dust-jacket broken and loosely inserted, 1938 § Van der Post (Laurens) Flamingo Feather, dust-jacket, spine browned, extremities chipped, 1955 § With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia, later cloth, Bombay, 1918 § Adams (Elizabeth) and David Redstone. Bow Porcelain, dust-jacket, 1918, original cloth; and c.45 others, travel, topography, art and design, v.s. (c.50)
NO RESERVE Wales.- Climbing in Snowdonia.- Thomson (J.M.Archer) & A.W.Andrews. The Climbs on Lliwedd, first edition, slight browning to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy in original cloth wallet with flap, slightly soiled, [Neate Q247], 1909 § Guide (A) to Beddgelert and Snowdon, with Rambles and Mountain Ascents..., stapled in original printed wrappers, a little browned, signature to upper cover, lower with small tear to bottom corner, Manchester, Abel Heywood & Son Ltd., and London, [c.1900] § Carr (Herbert R.C.), George A.Lister & Paul Orkney Work. A Walker's Guide to Snowdon and the Beddgelert District, revised edition, 2 folding maps (light staining from glue), one leaf chipped at edge, original cloth, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1949 § Carr (H.R.C.) & G.A.Lister. The Mountains of Snowdon..., first edition, remainder issue, original cloth, spine faded, gouge to upper cover, [Neate C16; Perret 0840], 1925 § James (Ron) Rock Climbing in Wales, first edition, original pictorial boards, [Neate Q222], 1970, maps, plates and illustrations, light foxing to the last two; and 10 others on Snowdonia including New Naturalists no.13 & 47 and some climbing guides, 8vo & 12mo (15)
NO RESERVE Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Idylls of the King, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at beginning, engraved Newton bookplate, 1859; Enoch Arden, etc., 8pp. publisher's catalogue at beginning, modern book-label of C.J. Sturman, engraved Eastnor Castle Library bookplate mounted on upper cover, 1864; The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian, with inscription "From the Author" on front free endpaper, 1892; The Works, 11 vol., original cloth, gilt, together in original cloth box with lid, 1876; Unpublished Early Poems, edited by Charles Tennyson, limited edition, original boards, uncut, 1931, the first three first editions, original cloth, the first two rather rubbed and faded, spine ends worn; and 8 others by the same, 8vo & 12mo (c.20)
NO RESERVE Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, third edition, Printing 3, engraved portrait frontispiece by S.A.Schoff in third state (light spotting), stain to pp.8-9, one or two other minor marks, original blind-stamped purple cloth (Binding C), bevelled edges, pale yellow endpapers, a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, Boston, Thayer & Eldridge, 1860-61 [1860]; Poems...selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait (lightly spotted), 8pp. advertisements at beginning, 8pp. reviews of works by Swinburne and 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, bookplate of F.Reddaway, lacking front free endpaper, original blue cloth, covers with 4 rule frame in blind, dark green endpapers, light soiling to upper cover, spine a little worn at head, John Camden Hotten, 1868, [BAL 21397 & 21401], 8vo (2)
NO RESERVE Bridges (Robert) The Shorter Poems, first edition, Simon Nowell-Smith's copy with his inscription and book-label, original cloth, spine slightly faded, 1890; Achilles in Scyros, one of 156 large paper copies, original cream boards, uncut, a little soiled and stained, spine browned, 1892; New Verse written in 1921, number 40 of 106 copies on handmade paper with a photogravure portrait and signed by the author, original limp vellum, gilt, uncut, spine a little soiled, Oxford, 1925 § Mckay (G.L.) A Bibliography of Robert Bridges, original half cloth, t.e.g., spines faded, New York & London, 1933; and 3 others by or about Bridges, 8vo (7)
NO RESERVE Rossetti (Christina) Verses, first edition in book form, lightly browned, original buckram, t.e.g., 1893 § Nesbit (E.) The Rainbow and the Rose, first edition, original decorated green cloth, gilt, 1905 § Gordon (A.L.) Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, first edition, pencil signature at head of title, original cloth, damp-stained, Melbourne, 1876 § [Beeching (H.C.), J.W.Mackail & J.B.B.Nichols.] Love's Looking Glass, first edition, Campbell Dodgson's copy with his ink inscription, original brown buckram, faded, 1891 § Hayes (Alfred), Richard Le Gallienne & Norman Gale. A Fellowship in Song, first edition, one of 310 copies signed by the publisher, limitation slip pasted in, contemporary half morocco, by Bumpus, spine gilt, Rugby & London, 1893 § Swinburne (A.C.) Posthumous Poems, one of 300 copies on hand-made paper, contemporary half calf, 1917 § Lang (Andrew) XXXII Ballades in Blue China, original green cloth, gilt, dust-jacket (frayed at edges, spine defective), 1888 § Bell (Mackenzie) Spring's Immortality and other poems, second edition, signed presentation copy from the author to Ashcroft Noble, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1895 § Vaughan (Henry) Secular Poems..., edited by J.R.Tutin, signed presentation copy from Tutin to Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, original cloth, Hull, 1893, some t.e.g., most uncut, a little rubbed; and a quantity of others, poetry, 8vo et infra (c.120)
NO RESERVE Grahame (Kenneth) Pagan Papers, first edition of the author's first book, one of 450 copies, title decoration by Aubrey Beardsley, bookplate, 1894 § While (Gleeson) English Illustration 'The Sixties': 1855-70, third impression, plates, occasional foxing, 1906 § Macfall (Haldane) The Book of Lovat Claud Fraser, plates and illustrations, illustrated compliments cards from Lovat Fraser loosely inserted, 1923 § Cohen (Morton N., editor) The Letters of Lewis Carroll, 2 vol., dust-jackets, 1979 § Ray (Gordon N.) The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, illustrations, original wrappers, New York, 1976, all but the first original cloth or boards; and c.75 others, children's and illustrated books, v.s. (c.80)
NO RESERVE Spark (Muriel).- Newman (Cardinal John Henry, Saint) Discourses addressed to Mixed Congregations, new impression, inscribed by Muriel Spark to Derek Stanford on half-title, 1902; The Via Media of the Anglican Church, vol.1 only (of 2), first edition, with several pencil annotations and markings to text by Spark, 1877; An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent, new edition, annotated and marked throughout by Spark and Stanford in pencil or red crayon, 1891 § Blehl (V.F.) John Henry Newman: A Bibliographical Catalogue of his Writings, Charlottesville, Va., 1978, hinges weak, original cloth, rubbed, the second with faded spine; and 5 others by or about Newman, mostly Derek Stanford's copies with his notes, 8vo (9)⁂ Muriel Spark (1918-2006), novelist, and Derek Stanford (1918-2008), biographer and essayist, worked together on several books in the 1950s. These volumes were used by them in preparation for their edition of Newman's Selected Letters published in 1957. Via Media was a collection of Newman's pre-Catholic writings, with his subsequent refutations of his own ideas printed as footnotes; Spark's annotations date from the period of her own conversion to Catholicism and show careful and prolonged study of an obviously significant text.
NO RESERVE Rossetti (William Michael) Bibliography of the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of 250 copies, original wrappers, frayed at spine and edges, 1905 § Bertram Rota. Books from the Libraries of Christina, Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti, one of only 3 copies specially bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe after publication (the others for Anthony Rota and W.E. Fredeman), inscribed by Anthony Rota "For Charles Cox with renewed thanks for his part in this exciting venture..." on front free endpaper, with DGR's printed monogram in red (gift of W.E. Fredeman) loosely inserted, later cloth, original wrapper bound in, [1973] § Fredeman (W.E.) Pre-Raphaelitism: A Bibliocritical Study, Cambridge, Mass., 1965 § Ruskin (John) Praeterita, vol.1, first edition, large paper copy, engraved frontispiece, cloth, Orpington, 1885 § Wise (T.J.) A Complete Bibliography...of John Ruskin, 2 vol., facsimile reprint, Folkestone and London, 1974 § Ives (Maura) Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography, New Castle, De., 2011 § Hawksley (L.) Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel, 2004, some illustrations, all but the first two original cloth or boards, the last three with dust-jackets; and c.25 others on Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites, 8vo & 4to (c.30)
NO RESERVE Stevenson (Robert Louis) Poems, one of 500 copies on hand-made paper, inscribed by Francis Meynell to Mary Hoadley Dodge on half-title, original vellum, spotted and soiled, 1913 § Victoria, Queen of England. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands..., edited by Arthur Helps, second edition, engraved frontispiece, some soiling, 1878 § Masson (David) Edinburgh Sketches and Memories, London & Edinburgh, 1892 § Cooper (James) Sonnets on the Fourteen Ancient Cathedrals and on the Four Universities of Scotland, Edinburgh & Glasgow, 1911 § Egerer (J.W.) A Bibliography of Robert Burns, ex-library copy, Edinburgh & London, 1964, all but the first original cloth, the last with dust-jacket, most rubbed, the second worn and damp-stained; and c.25 others on Scotland and Scottish Literature, 4to & 8vo (c.30)
NO RESERVE Bennett (Arnold) Don Juan de Marana, limited edition signed by the author, original boards, uncut and unopened, 1923 § Arnott (J.F.) and J.W. Robinson. English Theatrical Literature 1559-1900: A Bibliography, 1970 § Humphries (C.) and W.C. Smith. Music Publishing in the British Isles..., 1954 § Holroyd (Michael) Bernard Shaw, vol.1 only, signed and inscribed by the author to Dr Krishnamurti, New York, 1988 § Pearson (Hesketh) Gilbert: His Life and Strife, 1957, some illustrations, all but the first original cloth with dust-jackets, rubbed; and c.20 others, theatre, music, etc. including a small box of theatre programmes and ephemera, mostly late 19th century, a few relating to Henry Irving and Ellen Terry (sm. qty) Saleroom notice: Most of the books on the top shelf in the illustration (bar the first and last) are not part of this lot but part of lot 10.
NO RESERVE Keynes (Geoffrey) Bibliography of William Hazlitt, one of 750 copies, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, browned, Nonesuch Press, 1931 § Southey (Robert) The Life and Correspondence... 6 vol., second edition, 1849 [&] Selections from the Letters... 4 vol., 1856, together 10 vol., the first set with engraved plates, some spotting, uniform contemporary half calf, rubbed § Wise (T.J.) A Bibliography of...Samuel Taylor Coleridge, facsimile reprint, Folkestone & London, 1970 § Chilcott (T.) A Publisher and his Circle: The Life and Work of John Taylor, Keats's Publisher, 1972 § Adami (Marie) Fanny Keats, 1937 § Hayter (A) Opium and the Romantic Imagination, 1968 § Speck (W.A.) Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters, New Haven & London, 2006, plates & illustrations, all but the first original cloth with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed; and c.35 others on the Romantics and their contemporaries, 8vo and 4to (c.50)Saleroom notice: In the illustration the final two books on the bottom shelf (relating to Byron) are not included in this lot
NO RESERVE Carter (John) Taste & Technique in Book-Collecting, Cambridge, 1948 § Carter (John) & Graham Pollard. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, edited by Nicolas Barker & John Collins, second edition, 1983 § Barker (Nicolas) & John Collins. A Sequel to an Enquiry..., 1983 § Todd (William B., editor) Thomas J.Wise: Centenary Studies, Austin, Texas & Edinburgh, 1959 § Mandelbrote (Giles, editor) Out of Print & Into Profit: A History of the Rare and Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the Twentieth Century, London & New Castle, De., 2006 § Thomas (Alan G.) Great Book and Book Collectors, 1975 § Madan (F.) The Daniel Press..., facsimile reprint, 1974, some illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the first and last with dust-jackets, the first with faded spine; and c.50 others, bibliography, book trade etc., 8vo & 4to (c.55)
NO RESERVE Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Letters and Journals, edited by Leslie A. Marchand,12 vol. including supplement, 1974-94 § Bibliographical Catalogue...of Books by Lord Byron, one of 500 copies, ex-library copy with stamps to title, First Edition Club, 1925 § Elwyn (M.) Lord Byron's Wife, reprint, 1974 § Moore (D.L.) Lord Byron: Accounts Rendered, 1974; Ada Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter, 1977, illustrations, original cloth, all but the second with dust-jackets; and c.15 others on Byron, 8vo and 4to (c.30)Saleroom notice: The illustration does not show two books which are mentioned in the description but they are included in this lot, namely the First Edition Club Bibliographical Catalogue of Byron and Elwyn’s Lord Byron’s Wife.
NO RESERVE Fowles (John) The Ebony Tower, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Jean, who has helped so much" on title, printed note from the author loosely inserted, light marking to title and contents pp., original boards, dust-jacket covered in laminate, chip to head of spine, 1974; Wormholes, first edition, author's own copy with his ownership inscription facing title and a note in his hand asking for the book's return loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, 1998; and c.25 others, Fowles, 8vo (c.30)
NO RESERVE Betjeman (John) The Best of Betjeman, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, original board, dust-jacket, 1978; Collected Poems, fourth impression, 2 T.Ls.s by the author loosely inserted, bookplate to pastedown, modern half morocco, gilt, 1967 § Stephens (James) The Adventures of Seumas Beg, first edition, original cloth, 1915 § Mansfield (Katherine), E. M. Forster, Lord Dunsany, W. H. Davies and others. The Open Window, 12 vol., comprising nos. 1-12 (all published), illustrations after Jack B. Yeats, Muirhead Bone and others, preserved in custom drop-front morocco box (a little rubbed and faded), 1910-11; and c.65 others, poetry, v.s. (c.80)
![Nausea (Friedrich) Disticha Foederici Nauseæ Blancicampiani Franci Orie[n]talis in elegantissima L. Cœlii Lactantii Firmiani](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69cfbae0-6944-4b60-85fd-ab0c00b5d8b9/13a2e040-5e19-4e50-866e-ab0c00bc72d9/468x382.jpg)
Nausea (Friedrich) Disticha Foederici Nauseæ Blancicampiani Franci Orie[n]talis in elegantissima L. Cœlii Lactantii Firmiani Christianorum dissertissimi opera, italic and Roman type, title within woodcut border, woodcut decorative initials, woodcut printer's device to foot of final recto, closely trimmed at head and outer margin, affecting some foliation and printed side-notes, title and final f. strengthened at inner margin, some staining and spotting, modern vellum, 8vo, [Venice], [Giorgio del Rusconi], [1521].⁂ Scarce second edition, considerably enlarged, of this high regarded collection of distichs on the work of the early Christian author Lactantius, who was to become Constantine I, the first Christian emperor. Nausea, who became Bishop of Vienna, had visited Philipp Melanchthon in an unsuccessful attempt to return him to Roman Catholicism.
Grolier style binding.- Dictys Cretensis De Bello Troiano libri VI, collation: A6 B-N8 O4, final leaf with woodcut device, woodcut initials, contemporary calf, gilt in Grolier style, vellum endpapers, rebacked, corners slightly rubbed, 8vo (162 x 90mm.), Basel, [A. Cratander], 1529.⁂ Curious 'Grolier style' binding. This work is included in the inventory of Grolier's private library. In his The Library of Jean Grolier's Library (1971) Austin refers to the binding as 'supposititious' (p. 55, no. 160). The Dictys Cretensis binding is also mentioned in the 'old' census by A. Le Roux de Lincy (Recherches sur Jean Grolier, 1866, no. 96). The title is however not included by Anthony Hobson in his Renaissance Book Collecting (1999), in the Appendix I. "Grolier's bindings classified by H.M. Nixon, edited and with additions by A. Hobson", because - as he states - "volumes ... rebound, spurious, fakes, or forgeries... have been excluded".The binding was once owned by Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917; see both the ex libris in the copy), and was already in his ownership in 1898, when the volume was exhibited at the London Society of Arts, on occasion of the "Exhibition of Foreign and English Bookbinding at the Society of Arts", 24 January-7 February 1898. The Catalogue of this exhibition was published as an appendix to the Cantor Lectures on Decorative Bookbinding by Cyril Davenport, and the related description reads: (p. 29, no. 28, in the section "French Bindings"): "Brown calf; an early Italian [???] example from Grolier's library before he adopted his ordinary style". The expression 'Italian example' may simply be a mistake - the binding was exhibited among the French ones, and Grolier had lived in Italy until 1525. A previous owner of the copy might also have been Guglielmo Libri. In his sale catalogue of 1859 there are two entries of this Basel edition, and both are linked to Grolier. The binding of the first copy is described as an 'original' Grolier (no. 830), while the second one (no. 831) is defined as "in the same style". Hobson however states that in both cases the attribution is uncertain (see A. Hobson, "A Central Italian Bookseller and Bookbinder", Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 2010, p. 216, note 3).Provenance: contemporary and later ink annotations to front pastedown; 20th century pencil annotations stating this is a Grolier copy; Henry B. Wheatley (2 bookplates to rear endpapers).Literature: Adams D432.
St. Denis (Antoine) Les Comptes du Monde Adventureux, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, repaired tear to title, affecting a few letters of imprint, a few small wormholes / trace to lower margin of some ff., affecting the odd letter of some catchwords, 19th century red morocco by Pagnant, slightly rubbed, gilt edges, 8vo, Paris, For Vincent Sertenas, 1555.⁂ Rare first edition of this collection of prose 'contes'. There seem to be three 1555 issues, each with different imprints (Estienne Groulleau and Jean Longis).
![Fête.- [Baldini (Baccio)] Discorso sopra la mascherata della geneologia degl'iddei de'gentili, first edition, woodcut Medici](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69cfbae0-6944-4b60-85fd-ab0c00b5d8b9/cdab5ad6-a058-403c-9e64-ab0c00bbbc86/468x382.jpg)
Fête.- [Baldini (Baccio)] Discorso sopra la mascherata della geneologia degl'iddei de'gentili, first edition, woodcut Medici arms to title, woodcut historiated initials, final f. with woodcut printer's device verso otherwise blank, some spotting or light foxing, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, [Nagler Theatre Festivals of the Medici pp.24-34; EDIT 16 CNCE 3978], Florence, Giunti, 1565.⁂ A detailed description of the 21 floats and costumes of mythical characters designed by Vasari for the wedding festivities of Francesco de' Medici & Johanna of Austria.
![NO RESERVE Tacitus (Publius Cornelius) Works, [translated by Thomas Gordon], 2 vol., first Gordon edition, woodcut initials a](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69cfbae0-6944-4b60-85fd-ab0c00b5d8b9/736a8b36-6a23-4bf2-83bf-ab0c00bc7910/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Michelangelo.- Bocchi (Francesco) Ragionamento sopra L'Huomo da Bene, first edition, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut initials, foxed, modern patterned boards, small 4to, Florence, Michelagnolo Sermartelli, 1600.⁂ Includes an anecdote about Michelangelo and a companion looking at Donatello's St. Mark and the artist's response to his companion's question on his opinion of its beauty. This work not found in Steinmann & Wittkower's extensive bibliography of Michelangelo.
Wunderkammer.- Terzago (Paolo Maria) Museo ò galeria ... del ... Manfredo Settala, first Italian edition, lacking portrait frontispiece and large folding plate, occasional spotting or light foxing, 20th century vellum-backed decorative boards, [Cicognara 3461 (Latin edition)], 8vo, Tortona, heirs of Eliseo Viola, 1666. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Catalogue of the Wunderkammer of Manfredo Settala, which was bequeathed to the Ambrosiana. It included Chinese printed books on silk and porcelain, mummies, musical instruments, tropical fish and birds of paradise.
Printed on blue paper.- Rapisardi (Giuseppe) Memoria per l'Alma regia Generale Universita degli Studi di Sicilia, first edition, half-title, title with engraved vignette, some marginal staining, contemporary brown mottled calf, gilt, remains of label to foot of spine, rubbed, small 4to, Palermo, Reale Stamperia, 1805.
NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Borromeo (Anton-Maria) Catalo de' Novellieri Italiani, second edition, occasional spotting or marking, contemporary patterned limp boards, spine rather worn, but holding firm, rubbed, a wide-margined copy, Bassano, 1805 § Ciampini (Giovanni) Sacro-Historica Disquisitio, title with woodcut fruit basket ornament, some spotting, contemporary half cloth over decorative boards, rubbed, Rome, J. Koamek, 1691; and 2 others, on Italian Language, 8vo & 4to (4)⁂ The first mentioned is the foundation of the bibliography of the Italian short story writers.
NO RESERVE Russia.- Communism.- Pronin (I.) and M. Stepichev Leninist Standards of Party Life, first edition, Moscow, 1969 § Lenin (V. I.) The State and Revolution, Moscow, 1969; On Religion, Moscow, 1969; One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Moscow, 1969 § Marx (Karl) Genesis of Capital, Moscow, 1969; original printed wrappers, slight chipping to edges; and 7 others, all relating to the Soviet Union, v.s. (12)
Four Steiff limited edition teddy bears, Bertie, The First Steiff Real Silk Bear, 256 for 2010; Ruby Teddy Bear, 642 of 2000, 2013, both with certificates; Steiff Sommer, 685 of 2010, 2010; and Celeste for FAO Schwarz, 500 of 1500, 2001, both with tag certificates (Celeste with moth damage to pads)
PUNK/NEW WAVE - LPs. Absolutely staggering collection of 49 x (predominantly) LPs often presented in 'time warp' condition! Artists/titles include The Clash - The Clash (UK original S CBS 82000 A6/B6 with arrow under 'STEREO' at 9 o'clock on the labels - Ex+/Ex+ or archive copy, the sleeve still housed with shrink, generic paper inner) and The Story Of The Clash (460244 1 comp with printed inners - Ex+ copy w/hype sticker), The Damned (x2) - Damned Damned Damned (UK stock original 'correct' sleeve SEEZ 1 A1/B1, etchings A PORKY PRIME CUT/THE SOUND IS IN PLASTIC, sublime Ex+ or archive copy throughout), The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (ltd edition, number 04504) and New Rose EP, Buzzcocks - A Different Kind Of Tension (UAG 30260) and Singles Going Steady, Erasure - Pop! The First 20 Hits (Mute L2, long out of print!), The Jam - Snap! and Sound Affects, Squeeze - Cool For Cats, The Stranglers - No More Heroes and IV, Elvis Costello inc. The Best Of, My Aim Is True and Armed Forces (fantastic to see complete copy with the bonus 7" and all the postcards!), New Order, OMD, Altered Images, The Boomtown Rats, Depeche Mode - The Singles 81-85, Dexys, Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Human League, Prefab Sprout, Ultravox, The Beat and Sex Pistols - Kiss This (V2702). Condition is chiefly Ex to Ex+/archive.
THE WHO - (LARGELY) UK PRESSING LPs WITH 12". Excellent collection of 11 x LPs and 4 x 12" and 1 x 7" including collectable releases. Titles include Music For The Closing Ceremony Of 2012 The Olympic Games (3716687 limited edition release, number 0635/1000 - Mint and sealed), My Generation (Virgin RE V 2179), It's Hard, Face Dances, The Story Of, John Entwistle - Rigor Mortis Sets In (Track 2406-106), Who Came First (2408 201), McVicar (POLD 5034), Who's Last (WHO 1), Rarities Vol 1, Who's Missing, Athena (12" pic disc and 7" pic disc), Quadrophenia (2625 037, German) and Wire & Glass (ltd edition EP, number 1680). Condition is generally VG+ to Ex+.
POST PUNK/INDIE/NEW-WAVE/GOTH - LPs/12"/7" COLLECTION. Absolutely sublime collection of 17 x LPs/12" with 3 x 7" - all presented in superlative condition! Artists/titles are The Cure (x6) - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (FIXH 13 - Ex+ copy w/printed inners), Japanese Whispers (FIXM 8 - with insert, Ex+ copy, The Head On The Door (FIXH 11 w/printed inner, Ex+ copy), In Between Days (7" p/s), The Caterpillar (7" p/s) and The Lovecats, This Mortal Coil (x2) - Blood (DAD 1005 - Ex+ copy w/printed inners) and It'll End In Tears (CAD 411 w/printed inner), Bauhaus (x2) - 1979-1983 (BEGA 64 limited edition double LP number 17492 - Ex+ copy w/printed inners) and Burning From The Inside (BEGA 45), The Sisters Of Mercy (x3) - Walk Away (MR033T w/flexi), First And Last And Always (MR 337L) and Floodland (MR441L w/lyric insert), Joy Division (x2) - Love Will Tear Us Apart (FAC 23-12 TOWNHOUSE) and Atmosphere (FACUS 2, HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN, A PORKY PRIME CUT/BUT WHERE HAVE THEY BEEN, A PORKY PRIME CUT etched), Gary Numan - Dance and Telekon, New Order - Blue Monday and Cocteau Twins - Treasure and The Spangle Maker. Condition is primarily Ex+ to archive.
HOFFNUNG. GERARD, nine comic caricature books, all 1950's or 60's editions, New World for Nellie by Rowland Emett, published by Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1952 First Edition), The Early Morning Milk Train The Cream of Emett Railway Drawings, published by John Murray 1976, and The Forgotten Tram Car (1952).
COLLIS. MAURICE, Into Hidden Burma, 1953 First Edition, The Great Within by Maurice Collis, Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee, First Edition, Dancing Peel by Lorna Hill, signed First Edition, Vainglory by Ronald Firbank, 1930, the Courtship of Birds by Hilda Simon, 1977 First Edition, Departures by E.L. Grant-Watson, 1948 First Edition.
Two boxes of predominantly first Edition novels, to include the authors William Boyd, Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Simon Scarrow, etc. (+/- 60). CONDITION REPORT: The James Blish novel “A Case of Conscience” is a Faber & Faber 1958 First Edition. The rear of the dustcover is marked and the top left hand corner near the spine. The front of the dustcover is in very good condition. The book is generally clean with no foxing.
A rare copy of the First Edition Beano Annual published before the appearance of Dennis The Menace, the 1940 Beano book was issued around the outbreak of World War Two in 1939, it came a year after the weekly comic was first brought out by Dundee based D.C. Thompson in July 1938. The annual was published in relatively small numbers and it is extremely difficult to find a better copy than this one (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: The overall condition of this annual is very good. The cover is bright, clean and unmarked which is partly due to the fact the vendor, who was the original owner, cover it in brown paper when he first got it. The corners are slightly bumped and there is a very small rip +/- 1 cm to the leading edge of the front cover and a 2 cm surface rip to the spine on the front cover. On the back cover there are brown marks to the bookends and the pages are browned commensurate with age. On the frontispiece the box that says “This book belongs to” has been filled in in pencil and opposite is the price of 2s 6d also in pencil. On page 25 there is a slight stain +/- 5 cm in length but this is light and in the margin (not covering text or picture). There is a similar mark on page 31, stain mark roughly the size of a thumb on page 34 reflected on page 35, on pages 66 and 67 there are slight stains some of which are on the text but the text is still clearly visible. On page 81 there are two tears at the bottom right hand corner both of +/- 5 cm, a slight stain on page 97 and small black fingerprint (not on text). The binding is tight and some of these marks may be able to be cleaned off. Overall we consider this book to be in very good condition. A similar copy was sold last year and this is definitely in better condition.
MEYRICK (SAMUEL RUSH)A Critical Enquiry Into Ancient Armour, As It Existed In Europe, Particularly In Great Britain..., 3 vols., second edition, 80 engraved plates (mostly hand coloured), contemporary marbled boards, quarter red morocco (some wear, vol. 2 one gathering loose), e.g., spines (scuffed) elaborately tooled with close-helmets, gauntlets and cross swords, brown morocco lettering pieces gilt, folio, Henry G. Bohn, Covent Garden, 1842 - SKELTON (JOSEPH): Engraved Illustrations Of Antient Armour... From The Drawings And With The Descriptions Of Dr. Meyrick..., 2 vols., first edition, engraved frontispiece, 150 line engraved plates, later half-calf, red morocco spine labels, folio, Oxford, 1830 - GROSE (FRANCIS): Military Antiquities Respecting A History Of The English Army..., 2 vols., engraved frontispiece, title vignettes, plates, later green half morocco, t.e.g., 4to, London, 1812 - GARDNER (J. STARKIE): Armour In England..., 16 colour plates, publisher's cloth gilt, t.e.g. (top of spine damaged), signed by the author, London, 1891; another copy; Foreign Armour In England, 8 colour plates, early half-calf, gilt letters on spine, London, 1898 (10)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
HAMILTON BROADWELL. A Hamilton Broadwell hand made Limited Edition fountain pen. 14ct. HB white & yellow gold nib. Eye drop filler. The cap & barrel in chocolate 'wood grain' ebonite. The barrel impressed 017. Owners notes: Sold by David Broadwell, the first of a series of three, No17/25. Ordered September 2005, arrived 6/3/06.
WILAND. A Wiland Aleksandra fountain pen. 18ct. white & yellow gold Wiland nib. A modern Limited Edition ebonite & bakelite pen with c/c-ED filler. This cigar shaped pen is stamped 8 21 with a small gold button between the first two numerals. Original fitted case & owner's Certificate of Authenticity showing the limited Edition number & the year of production as 2009. Also outer cardboard sleeve.
C M Gavin - "Royal Yachts", first edition, No. 75 of 1000 limited edition copies, published by Rich & Cowen Limited, 27 Maiden Lane Strand W.C.2 London 1932 (one navy blue cloth bound volume), Charles Hocking - "Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam including Sailing Ships and Ships of War Lost in Action 1824 to 1962", published by Lloyds Register of Shipping, 71, Fenchurch Street, London E.C.3 1969 (two blue cloth bound volumes), Robert Southey - "The Life of Nelson", published by David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, London 1854 (one blue leather and gilt bound volume), and two volumes of "The Western Front" with drawings by Muirhead Bone
A GROUP OF ROYAL CROWN DERBY, to include three limited edition loving cups 'Welcome The First Child of T.R.H The Prince and Princess of Wales' No 483/500, 'Welcome The Second Child of TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales' No 270/750 and '85th Birthday HM Queen...', No 385/500, all with certificates, four miniature Royal commemorative loving cups and two thimbles '23rd July 1986' (9)
A ROYAL DOULTON STAND 'THE PICKWICK COLLECTION', with three advertising character jugs, 'Mr Pickwick', first of a series of limited edition of 2000 made for Pick-Kwik Wines and Spirits Derby, 'Mr Pickwick', third of a series of limited edition of 2000 with Special Permission by Jim Beam (variation 7) and 'Sgt Buzfuz', the second in a series of limited edition of 2000 'Dewars' whisky (4)
HARDY, Captain Eric (R. Signal Secretary, Jerusalem Naturalists’ Club), A Handlist of the birds of Palestine. Printed in the office of the Education Officer-in-Chief, G. H. Q, Middle East Forces [1946], First and only edition; 4to. (typewritten), PP: (iv), 1-47, (ii)Bibliography, + line Map of North and Central Palestine. Loose in paper wrappers, as issued. (Scarce)
CHILDREN: 1- Upton, B: Golliwogg in the African Jungle . Longmans, Green and Co., 1908, first edition. Illustrated throughout with full page colour plates. PP: (i)advert, 1-24, 24*-25*, 25-64, (i)advert. Oblong 4to. in original pictorial boards; rubbed and little chipped; inner hinges cracke; pages & illustrations clean & bright; 2- Ten Little Nigger Boys. Juvenile products Ltd. Copyright No. 9910; no date. Original pictorial wrappers and colour illustrations throughout. (2)
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