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Click here to subscribeA first edition of the Oakfield plays by Marguerite Steen, published London 1932 and signed by the author, Nursery Songs by Joseph Moorat and Paul Woodroffe, a small collection of poetry and other books some leather bound, an album containing a quantity of pressed mosses from California dated 1899, two autograph albums, a small collection of charming greeting cards and postcards, etc together with some framed pictures of Bristol
A mixed collection of books including a first edition of As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee, Wiltshire Village by Heather and Robin Tanner, six examples of Britain in Pictures published by Collins, various Batsford titles etc, together with a Le Grand Livre de L'impressionnisme français - La Bibliotheque Des Arts
Rory Breslin (b.1963) MASK OF THE BARROW, 2014 bronze; (no. 1 from an edition of 3) signed, dated and numbered by left ear 35 x 16in. (88.90 x 40.64cm) The Mask of the Barrow is a larger than life-sizeadaptation of Edward Smyth's River-God keystonedepiction on the South facade of Dublin's CustomHouse.The inherent symbolism presented in the workconjures the characteristics of the Barrow. Its visagepresents an ill-humoured and almost sullen facesuggestive of a slow-flowing river. The mouth isdrawn down at the corners and exudes many smallfish and water weeds which mingle with the beard.Above its broad and blunt nose, the top of the headis adorned by the fell of a sheep, whose fore-legshang down in front of two inverted vases, typicalclassical symbols of springs of water. The Barrowwas renowned for its fisheries and there is thepossibility that there were many sheep walks on it'sbanks. The twin vases, with the evocative waterflowing from their mouths suggest that it is in it'slower course after it has received the waters of the Nore. The Custom House was the first major publicbuilding built in Dublin as an isolated structure withfour monumental façades. It is often consideredarchitecturally the most important building in Dublinand is sited on the river front with Beresford Place tothe rear. The site chosen for the new Custom Housemet with much opposition from city merchants at thetime, who feared that its move down river from itsoriginal site at Essex Quay would lessen the value oftheir properties while making the property ownersdown river wealthier.Designed by James Gandon, the Custom Housewas completed in 1791 at a cost of nearly half amillion pounds. There is a strong Irish theme to thesculpture with the Irish rivers being symbolised andHibernia in the main pediment sculpture. Given thatthere was an Irish Parliament at this time, the buildingis a demonstration of the aspirations of the Irishmenwho were responsible for running the country at thistime. The Barrow keystone, one of fourteenemblematic renditions of the larger rivers of Ireland, ispositioned to the far right of the portico facing theLiffey. The River-Gods have survived the fires of 1789and 1883 and the most devastating fire of 25 May1921. Breslin's approach to the work is that of a composerto a past and perhaps over-looked precious musicalcomposition. The score of the head is adhered to,while the rhythm and cadence of the features aresubtly under-stressed or emphasised to enhance themetrical pattern of the finished bronze mask.
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) THE TÁIN. CÚCHULAINN IN WARP SPASM, 1969 Aubusson tapestry; (no. 2 from an edition of 9) signed and numbered on label on reverse 72½ x 50½in. (184.15 x 128.27cm) Taylor Galleries, Dublin;Private collection Louis le Brocquy was living in France with his young family when he received a life-changing invitation, in December 1966. Publisher Liam Miller wanted him to collaborate with Thomas Kinsella on a new translation of Ireland's oldest saga. Le Brocquy penned an enthusiastic affirmative that Christmas Eve and spent much of the next three years visualising An Táin Bó Cúailgne. In September 1969, Dolmen Press published it as The Táin.The Táin was born of some eighty stories about the Ulaidh, a prehistoric people who lived in the north and north-western regions of what is now called Ireland. Part epic, part soap opera, the tales were vivid, vicious, inconsistent and often rather rude. Oral versions survived for long enough to be collected by scribes, whose fragmentary manuscripts are now in Trinity College and the Royal Irish Academy. Translators and writers such as Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats had retold some of the Cúchulainn tales - and Joyce's Finnegans Wake drew on its meandering style - but Thomas Kinsella's Táin was the first widely-accessible version, especially when Oxford University Press' 1970 paperback followed the de luxe and limited editions produced by Dolmen Press. The Táin marked a unique cultural moment, for Ireland and the world. The State had just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising and was driving ahead with Seán Lemass' Second Programme for Economic Expansion. By 1969 when it was published, Northern Ireland was in conflict, and global events such as the Prague Spring, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, as well as wars in Vietnam, Angola and elsewhere, underlined its themes of invasion and carnage. Meanwhile, The Beatles sang "All You Need is Love." Its impact was instant. Although characters like Cúchulainn and Ferdia, Medb and Aillil, were local, the collaborators translated them into a crisply contemporaneous style that resonated through the cultural hierarchy. It engaged lovers of art, language, music and Celtic studies, as well as popular culture. The Táin became an Irish Iliad, with Cúchulainn as a Superhero reincarnating to a new age of rock, cartoons and animation.The images le Brocquy called 'shadows thrown by the text' became so iconic that it is almost impossible now to imagine The Táin differently. Yet no one had visualised the full saga previously and no artist from Ireland had engaged so thoroughly with pieces of writing in so collaborative a way. Le Brocquy made hundreds of drawings, many of which appear in the de luxe and limited editions, with a handful printed in the paperback and a precious twenty in these tapestries. Communication was difficult in those pre-digital days because he was in France and Miller was in Dublin, so that many key design decisions relied on sending letters through the post.Le Brocquy's innovative, daring approach cast the saga as a virtual alphabet composed of spontaneous, inky letters. The present work, Cúchulainn's Warp Spasm, speaks both of calligraphic marks from Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Yves Klein's bodily-marked Anthropometries, as well as cave paintings traced by prehistoric peoples.The translation into tapestry, via le Brocquy's Táin lithographs, crested on the momentum from oral to written traditions, from drama to poetry and from visual culture to music. Duché's subtly-textured cottons and wools freed le Brocquy's black-on-white marks into a textured, sensual material that illuminates the sense of a blot or stain without definite edges, which is what he wanted. Here, the statuesque shapes let le Brocquy grow the book's relatively modest scale into a life-affirming series of interconnected images that speak to each other like letters in a phrase or Medb Ruane,April 2012. [Abridged note reprinted from Whyte's Important Irish Art auction catalogue, May 2012]
A selection of 18th / 19th Century mostly leather bound books to include: a very early edition of Master Humphrey's clock, by Charles Dickens, Vol III, published by Chapman & Hall, London 1841; Arabian Tales : being a continuation of the Arabian nights entertainments, consisting of one thousand and one stories / tr. from the Arabian manuscript into French, by Chavis and Cazotte, and now tr. into English from the last French edition, Vols I, II & III, published Edinburgh 1792; a fairly rare pamphlet of The Weekly Entertainer; or Agreeable and Instructive Repository for Monday August 9, 1784, printed by R.Goadby & Co, Sherbourne; The Works of Rev. John Newton,...published by direction of his executors in six volumes, London 1808, Vol I; a first edition of Elements of Mechanical Philosophy, being the substance of a course of lectures on that science, by John Robinson, Vol I, London 1804, etc. (13) (faults)
Collection of (8) Antiquarian Books. (2) Volumes "The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti" by L. A. Symonds, 1893, leather cloth boards; (2) Volumes, Mark Twain's Autobiography with Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine, 1924 First Edition, (2) Volumes, The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, selected by Sidney Colvin, 1899 & (2) Volumes, Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, by the Earl of Chesterfield. (Last 3 sets with leather and marble cloth boards).
One Volume, American Bard, Being the preface to the first edition of Leaves and Grass now restored to its native verse rhythms and presented as a living poem. Lime Kiln Press, Santa Cruz, 1981, with all inserts. Limited edition #57/115, illustrated and signed by William Everson. Both printed and illustrated with two woodcuts.
COMING OF CHRIST THE: John Masefield (1878-1967) English Poet & Writer, Poet Laureate 1930-67. Book signed and inscribed, an 8vo paperback edition of The Coming of Christ, Cathedral Edition published by William Heinemann, London, 1928. Signed by Masefield in bold black fountain pen ink to the half title page, 'For Douglas Wood from John Masefield, Canterbury Play, May 28 - 29 1928'; Gustav Holst (1874-1934) English Composer. Signed 4to printed score for the music composed by Holst to Masefield's The Coming of Christ, the paperback edition being an advance copy published by J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., London, 1928. Signed ('Gustav Holst') in dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to the title page. Some light overall age wear, a few small stains and other minor faults to both editions, G, 2In the 1920s Masefield wrote a large number of dramatic pieces, most based on Christian themes. To his amazement, the poet encountered a ban on the performance of plays with biblical subjects that stretched back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of Oscar Wilde's Salome. However, a compromise was reached, and in 1928 The Coming of Christ became the first play to be performed in an English Cathedral since the Middle Ages.
ROWLING J.K.: (1965- ) British Author of the Harry Potter books. Book signed, a hardback edition of The Casual Vacancy, First Edition, published by Little, Brown, London, 2012. Signed ('JK Rowling') in bold black ink with her name alone to a clear area of the title-page. Bound in black cloth with dust jacket. Together with a 12mo printed ticket for the Cheltenham Literature Festival, 6th October 2012, at which Rowling was appearing to discuss her novel The Casual Vacancy and sign copies. EX, 2
CHICHESTER FRANCIS: (1901-1972) British Sailor & Aviator, the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route. Signed 23 x 19 print entitled Lone Adventurer, after the oil painting by the artist J. Lawrence Isherwood, the image depicting Chichester in a head and shoulders pose with his ketch, Gipsy Moth IV at sea in the background. Limited Edition 34 of 75 published by Henry Dunn of Whitefield, Manchester, 1972. Signed by Chichester with his name alone in bold pencil to the lower white border and also signed by the artist with his name alone in bold pencil to the lower white border. Framed and glazed to an overall size of 25.5 x 21.5. VG
LALANDE JOSEPH: (1732-1807) French Astronomer, Freemason and Writer. A.L.S., Dela Lande, one page, 8vo, Paris, 15th March 1782, to Comte de Saluce, in French. Lalande informs his correspondent 'Your reputation in the Sciences… inspired me with the confidence to ask you for some enlightenment for the second edition of my book Voyage to Italy.' Continuing 'The establishment of the Academy of Sciences and that of the Fine Arts are two subjects of which I would like to be able to indicate the date and the current constitution, and if there are any other notable establishments since 1766…' Adding 'I spoke in my first edition of you Sir, of Messieurs Michelotti, Gerdil, d'Antoni, Allions, Gaber, Cigna, Carcia, Bartoli, Ansaldi, Pasin, Berta, Savi… others whose celebrity warrants quoting/including… I would very much like it if you would be kind enough to point them out to me.' Further adding 'Travellers and the public that make frequent use of this book will share my recognition and I will not allow them to be ignored in my preface, and a Monsieur the Baron of Choiseul will voluntarily be responsible for passing this memoire to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.' Concluding 'I would also very much like to know when Le Probeccaria died, where Cardinal Girdil is, how many printed volumes in your Academy… ' With blank integral leaf. With a piece torn from the bottom right corner, not affecting text or signature, with signs of former mounting to verso with one corner having a small portion missing. G
ARMSTRONG NEIL: (1930-2012) American Astronaut, Commander of Apollo XI (1969). The first man to walk on the Moon. A rare 4to hardback edition of The Retrospect 1947, being the Yearbook (Volume XXXX) published by the Class of 1947 from Blume High School, Wapakoneta, Ohio, featuring various printed text and images relating to various sporting, theatrical and other events that took place throughout the year, and also including small portrait images and brief printed text relating to the students and teachers at the school, one of them being the young Neil Armstrong, with the added caption ‘He thinks, he acts, ‘tis done’ alongside his image. Signed by Armstrong in fountain pen ink to a clear area beneath his printed text with an early form of his signature in block letters. The Yearbook is also signed by eighteen further Senior classmates of Armstrong, all in fountain pen inks with their names alone alongside their portraits. Also featuring a number of annotations in the hand of a previous owner, largely indicating where various students have died, in some cases accompanied by the date of their death. A highly unusual form of Armstrong’s signature. A few pages loose and the entire contents separated from the binding and with some light overall age wear, G The young Neil Armstrong and his family consistently moved around Ohio, living in twenty different towns, before finally returning to the town of his birth, Wapakoneta, in 1944. It was during this period that Armstrong’s passion for flying grew and whilst attending Blume High School he also took flying lessons at the grassy Wapakoneta airfield.
First-year Harry Beck London Underground DIAGRAMMATIC CARD MAP. The undated edition with no print-code, issued c. August 1933. Refers to re-naming of Dover St station to Green Park and the merger of Holborn and British Museum stations. Very light wear to covers but an excellent example, crisp and firm. [1]
1933 first edition of the Harry Beck London Underground POCKET DIAGRAMMATIC MAP with the famous cover slogan 'A new design for an old map'. This is the less-common paper version and a special issue which has been over-printed on the map-side with 'Ministry of Health Sports Ground' at Eastcote Station. A very good copy in excellent condition, very lightly used. [1]
Selection of Edinburgh Corporation Transport Dept FOLD-OUT MAPS of trams, buses, coaches comprising undated edition, c late 1920s/early 1930s, 1929 edition, undated edition c early 1950s and 1955/56 edition. All have been used to a greater or lesser degree, the first has age and damp stains. [4]
London Transport OFFICIALS' TIMETABLES of Country Area Buses, Western Area dated April 6th, 1938 (first ever edition) and South-East Area dated Oct 12th, 1938 (the second edition). Both in very good condition, the former has a faint impression of a rubber stamp on the cover and a name written inside. [2]
Quantity of art reference books and catalogues, mostly British School, some profusely illustrated folios and scholarly monographs, including: Rothenstein (Sir John) Paul Nash, 1961, Beaverbrook Newspapers, First Edition, protective covers, pp. 20, b&w and colour plates [&] Keynes (Geoffrey) William Blake's Water-Colour Designs For The Poems Of Thomas Gray [exhibition catalogue], 1971, Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, pictorial soft card wraps, monochrome and colour plates; in total approx 85 (qty) Provenance: from the collection of architectural historian Derek Linstrum (five boxes)
The Medallic History of Britain - a First Edition Proof Set of 100 24 carat gold plated on Sterling Silver proof medals issued in a limited edition by Franklin Mint Limited contained in a hardwood chest of five drawers with binder of reference information on the events and personalities portrayed on the medals - Est £500 - £600
This model was introduced in 1990. This is a Second Series following the first edition model. Made of stainless steel. Has the look of a Python with vent rib, solid lug, red ramp front sight, white outline rear, six shot, double action, and Colt gold medallion Pachmayr grips. Revolver has light drag line. Never been fired. Now cylinder burn. Near new condition inside and out. Comes in plastic carry case with all paperwork and matching outer cardboard sleeve. The early Anaconda revolvers are another member of the Snake Family that is continuously growing in popularity and value. Serial Number-MM08448; Manufacturer-Colt; Model-Anaconda; Caliber-.44 Magnum; Barrel Length-6"; FFL Status-Modern;
This model was introduced in 1990. This is a Second Series following the first edition model. Made of stainless steel. Has the look of a Python with vent rib, solid lug, red ramp front sight, white outline rear, six shot, double action, and Colt gold medallion Pachmayr grips. Revolver has light drag line. Never been fired. No cylinder burn. Near new condition inside and out. Comes in plastic carry case with all paperwork and matching outer cardboard sleeve. The early Anaconda revolvers are another member of the Snake Family that is continuously growing in popularity and value. Serial Number-MM02587; Manufacturer-Colt; Model-Anaconda; Caliber-.44 Magnum; Barrel Length-4"; FFL Status-Modern;
Referred to as the Colt Armory Edition, a total of 250 revolvers were manufactured in full nickel plate with silver medallion ivory grips. The first time the Colt Single Action Army is stamped on barrel with ".45 ACP". Comes with an extra .45 LC cylinder numbered to gun. Comes in a blue lined French fitted French walnut case with a copy of the Colt Armory book. Revolver was manufactured in 1983. Revolver is unfired. Has a light drag line. A unique, very small production Single Action Army marked for .45 ACP in a beautiful presentation. Serial Number-SA66037; Manufacturer-Colt; Model-S.A.A.; Caliber-.45 LC; Barrel Length-4 - 3/4"; FFL Status-Modern;
Manufactured by Krieghoff for the German Luftwaffe. The toggle link has the early stamp "HK" around anchor or "SUHL" and 28. Chamber stamped with S (1935) year code. There are four Imperial eagle stamps on the right side of frame and rail with '2' stamped under two of them. Very early three digit gun with all matching numbers including aluminum bottom magazine. Barrel is stamped 883 with Imperial eagle at bottom. No serial number before 3500. Early first year military contract with the distinctive salt type blue commercial type finish. With grips removed, you can see the Imperial eagle on safety sear. Lovely straw colors still evident. Barrel shows hint of muzzle wear. Wear on the right rail. Trigger guard and grip straps are smooth blue-brown patina. There is also high edge wear on hump, edges of side plate and forward rail, along with some high edge front frame wear. Has the early style checkered walnut grips. This exact gun is featured on page 265 in the book titled "Third Reich Lugers" by Jan C. Still, first edition. Serial Number-628; Manufacturer-Luger; Model-P08; Caliber-9mm; Barrel Length-4"; FFL Status-Curio & Relic;
DICKENS CHARLES. 1st edition - A Tale of Two Cities. Frontis, title vignette & plates by H. K. Browne, lacking plate at p109. Some tape & other repairs noted & substantial loss of text at p197 (substituted in manuscript). "Affectionately" mis-spelt at p134 & p213 mis-paginated (thus 1st issue). No publisher's catalogue. Half morocco, gilt back. First Edition, 1859.
DICKENS (Charles) A Christmas Carol, in Prose being a Ghost Story of Christmas, first edition, London: Chapman & Hall 1843, title in red and blue, half-title and verso of title in blue, green stained endpapers, 'Stave I' on page1, four coloured illustrations, 2 pp. adverts at end, old bookseller's catalogue entry pasted in to front endpaper, publisher's ribbed cloth gilt, lightly worn/faded, small tear starting at head of lower board joint, spine slightly cocked, a.e.g.; with first editions of : The Chimes, The Haunted Man; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; all in publisher's bright red cloth gilt, a.e.g.; with a later red cloth covered box
POTTER (Beatrix), Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne and Co., 1902, 16mo, original paper-covered boards, titles to spine and front board, first trade edition, with the original leaf-pattern endpapers and with "wept big tears" on p. 51 (neat repairs to spine); with another later edition (2)Condition report: First trade edition with grey leaf endpapers: Few tears with some loss to upper margins of pp. 48, 50 and 51. A crease to page 52.
POTTER (Beatrix), The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, Frederick Warne & Co, 1903, deluxe first edition, original floral cloth with two white labels printed in gilt to the front board, 85 pp with frontispiece and 26 illustrations in colour by the author (neat repairs to spine) Condition report: Approximately 10 pages have some remnants of tape or old tape marks. There are no torn pages, although some corners are rather frayed. There are faint pencil marks to few pages (see photos). Some creasing to pp. 14, 38 and 50.
[DOYLE, Richard 1824 - 1883] The Brother to the Moon's Visit to the Court of Queen Vic, London: Messrs. Fores, c.1842. oblong 8vo, 24 now loose hand-coloured etchings printed by W. Kohler, original printed covers, rear board with pagoda illustration marked 'Fore's Chinese Exhibition second edition'. Note: This comic album came about after the conclusion of the First Opium War between the British Empire and China with the 1842 Treaty of Nanking. Doyle was inspired by the news that the Emperor wished to send an Ambassador to England. The album depicts a panorama of the Chinese delegation paying homage to the victorious Queen of England.
KIPLING (R) A Song of the English, illustrated by Heath Robinson, Hodder & Stoughton no date, 4to, 30 tipped in colour plates as required, captioned guards, cloth gilt; ROBINSON (W Heath) Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, publ. Boots, no date, 4to, tipped in colour plates, original cloth gilt in pictorial dust wrapper, slight foxing to some outer margins and edges; SOUTHBY (Logi) The White Dragon, first edition 1934, 4to, illustrated, extra loose plates at end, cloth in dust wrapper (3)
LANG (Andrew) [The Fairy Books]: The Blue Fairy Book, 1889, first edition, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated August 1889, neat ownership name, spine ends and corners a little bumped, spine slightly rubbed and with partial crease mark; The Green Fairy Book, 1892, neat ownership name, very slight sporadic spotting or foxing, spine ends and board tips very slightly worn; The Pink Fairy Book, 1897, spine slightly faded, light spotting mainly to first and last leaves; The Violet Fairy Book, 1901, very slight occasional stains; with - The Blue Poetry Book, 1891; The Red Book of Animal Stories, 1899, both in bright cloth gilt with only minor foxing or spotting (6)
PALMER (W T) The English Lakes painted by A.Heaton Cooper, A & C Black 1905, 4to, signed edition de luxe no. 179 of 250 copies, faded cloth; MENPES (M & D) World's Children, 1903 first edition, 4to, no. 17 of 500 de luxe copies, original drawing signed by Menpes before half title, colour plates with guards, t.e.g. others uncut, original cloth gilt; CUNDALL (H M) Birket Foster, A & C Black 1906, one of 500 de luxe copies, cloth; (3)
RACKHAM (Arthur; illust.) Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, London: George Harrap 1935, first edition, small 4to, colour and black and white plates, publisher's black cloth; MORLEY (Christopher) Where the Blue Begins, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, London & New York, no date, small 4to, blue cloth gilt (2)
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