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Click here to subscribeSHAKESPEARE. Folio Society editions, 37 vols. circa 1960-76, including reprints, lacking slip cases; BRAND (John) Observations on Popular Antiquities, Newcastle Upon Tyne: T. Saint, for J. Johnson, 1777, 8vo, first edition, half calf rubbed; HARDIE (M) Watercolour Painting in Britain, three vols., slip cases; dictionaries and references on printing etc by Prideaux, Holloway, Anderson and Redgrave.
[LINDLEY, Augustus Frederick] TI-PING TIEN-KWOH, The History of the TI-PING REVOLUTION, including a Narrative of the Author's Personal Adventures, London: Day & Son, 1866, first edition, two volumes in one, large 8vo, chromolithographed views and plates, folding frontispiece and two folding maps, as called for, half contemporary calf lightly rubbed in places, gilt spine, marbled boards and edges, contents generally good with only very slight sporadic staining. Note: An important first-hand account of the Taiping revolution. In 1863, aged only twenty, Lindley resigned from the British merchant navy to fight on the side of the Taiping peasant rebels along with several other foreign volunteers. He engaged in the dramatic capture of one of Britain's best Yangzi gunships, the Firefly, which was handed to the Taiping leaders.
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED, RACKHAM (Arthur, illus.), The Sleeping Beauty retold by C. S. Evans, royal 8vo, first edition, London: William Heinemann 1920, illustrated in silhouettes by A. Rackham, one tipped-in coloured plate, red cloth-backed decorated boards, pictorial endpapers; GREENAWAY (Kate), Marigold Garden, London: George Routledge and Sons, no date, colour illustrations printed by Edmund Evans, cloth-backed decorative boards, light staining throughout; together with a collection of five books illustrated by BOUTET DE MONVEL(Maurice), to include Jeanne d'Arc, first edition, oblong 4to, Paris: Plon, Nourrit [1896], 48 pages, each with a colour illustration, original lavender cloth, stamped in gilt and green; another, no date, white cloth; La Fontaine: Fables; Vieilles chansons et rondes; Nos enfants par Anatole France, Paris: Hachette; and BOTREL (Théodore), Les Chansons des petits Bretons. Quinze chansons choisies pour la jeunesse, 32 illustrations by Madeleine Jacquier, Paris: Georges Ondet, 1902, cloth (8)
CHRISTIE (Agatha), A collection of first editions, most with the original dust wrapper, to include: The Hound of Death and Other Stories, Odhams, 1933, light foxing throughout, lacking original dust wrapper, burgundy cloth; A Caribbean Mystery, 1964, original dust wrapper stained; Hickory Dickory Dock, 1955, original dust wrapper worn; Ordeal by Innocence, 1958; Nemesis, 1971; Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories, 1979; Cat Among the Pigeons, 1959; Sleeping Murder, Miss Marple's Last Case, 1976; Elephants Can Remember, 1972; together with The Burden, second edition, 1973; a bibliographical guide to Agatha Christie and her works by Randall Toye; and The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne (12)
Uncorrected Proof Copies.WILSON (Angus), Henlock and After, Late Call, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, The Wild Garden, The Mulberry Bush, The Middle Age of Mrs Elliot, The Old Men at the Zoo, A Bit off the Map; THOMAS (Edward), Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds; also with HUGHES (Ted), The Hawk in the Rain, first edition, 1957, signed by the author, dustwrapper, and few others including [SUTHERLAND (Graham)]Poetry London/Apple Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, 1979, no. 54 of 150 copies, signed by Sutherland and Tambimuttu, with inserted record
Literature, various. GIBBON (Edward) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in six volumes mixed edition (mostly first) 1777-1788 (vol. I fourth edition 1781), 4to, cloth rebacked, one map only, sporadic staining and toning; Miscellaneous Works, two vols., 1796, 4to, silhouette frontispiece; BROWNE (Thomas) Pseudodoxia Epidemica: 2nd edition, London 1650, folio, title with margins tape-repaired, one leaf with taped tears without loss to text, rebacked worn calf (9)
BELLOC (Hilaire), The Girondin, Thomas Nelson 1911, 8vo, original cloth, first edition inscribed by Belloc to his very close friend Charlotte Balfour "For Charlotte Balfour from the author January 1915", also with manuscript notes by Belloc on the front endpapers forming the draft of a poem.
Literature, bindings. FALLE (Rev. P.) An Account of the Isle of Jersey, first edition, London: for John Newton, 1694, 8vo., lacking the map, worming to lower margin, half title, worn calf; POPE (A) Works, in nine vols., 1757, small 8vo, bindings rubbed with one board detached; MONK (J H) The Life of Richard Bentley, in two vols., 2nd edition, 1833, 8vo, inscribed 'from the author', contemporary cloth; MURPHY (A) The Works of Samuel Johnson, new edition in 12 vols., 1816, 8vo, calf, rebacked, rubbed; The Gentleman and Lady's Key to Polite Literature.., London: for T. Carnan & F. Newberry 1776, 12mo, boards detached; Prayer Book and Psalter, Oxford 1726, 12mo; Polyglot Bible, c.1850; few others, later.
Fine bindings. GRAVES (Robert) Good-Bye to all That, first edition 1929, modern quarter morocco, top edge gilt; DOBSON (A) The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other Poems of the XVIIIth century, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, 1892, numbered large paper edition, plates on Japanese vellum, half morocco by Ramage; and other bindings - poetry and literature, by Riviere, Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Zaehnsdorf, etc (16)
COLONNA (Francesco). Hypnerotomachie, ou discours du songe de Poliphile, déduisant comme amour le combat à l'occasion de Polia, [translated from Italian into French], folio in 6s, first French edition, Paris: Louis Cyaneus for Jacques Kerver, 1546, engraved title page and wood engravings after designs attributed to Jean Cousin or Jean Goujon, title page and colophon in old facsimile, the illustration of the Worship of Priapus is well preserved in this copy unlike others, brown morocco (20th century), later endpapers, text appears to collate complete but title and colophon supplied in good facsimile, some marginal staining (repaired), slip case.
ELIOT (T. S.) The Cocktail Party, 1st edition 1950, inscribed by the author to Donald Bain, signed also by the actors including Alec Guiness, faded cloth; another copy - first American edition 1950, also signed by the actors including Guiness, dust wrapper; other first editions in worn dust wrappers by Eliot including: After Strange Gods, 1934; The Confidential Clerk, 1954; etc (12)
CHRISTIE (Agatha), The Body in the Library, first edition, 1942, dustwrapper (loss to lower part of spine); Ten Little Niggers, fourth impression, 1942, dustwrapper slightly worn at head; The Moving Finger, 1943, first edition, dustwrapper slightly chipped at head; Taken at the Flood, 1948, in dustwrapper worn at spine ends (4)
PICCOLOMINI (Agostino Patrizio), Rituum ecclesiasticorum siue sacrarum cerimoniarum, first edition, Gregorius de Gregoriis, Venice, 21 November 1516, small folio, three woodcut divisional illustrations in the text, some capitals in red or blue, later vellum (stained) with pattered paper panels to both boards, front and rear free endpapers waterstained and repaired, title page browned and slightly soiled, light marginal dampstaining, recased with new endpapers.
Detective and Crime Fiction, and novels, various mainly mid 20th century works including first or early paperback editions; also MURDOCH (Iris) The Nice and the Good, first edition, 1968, dustwrapper, inscribed by the author; with WOOLF (Virginia) Granite and Rainbow, 1958, first edition, dustwrapper (faded); and others
DA VINCI (Leonardo), A Treatise of Painting, first English edition, London: J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1721, small 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece, two engraved folding tables and thirty-three numbered plates, contemporary full calf (damaged, upper board detached), spine label missing, spine ends cracked, contents good.
CARROLL (Lewis) [Dodgson Rev. Charles Lutwidge] Sylvie and Bruno, 1889; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, 1893, 8vo, first editions, illustrated by Harry Furniss, original red cloth gilt; WELLS (H G) In the Days of the Comet, first edition London 1906, 8vo, original cloth gilt, a good copy; The Secret Places of the Heart, first edition 1922, dust wrapper; SINCLAIR (Upton) Oil! A Novel, London reprint 1927, chipped dust wrapper; WILLIAMSON (Henry) The Village Book, 1930, signed ltd edition (504), vellum backed, slip case; MASEFIELD (John) Odtaa; Sard Harker; both signed numbered copoies in dust wrappers; three others (11)
KIPPIS (Andrew) The Life of Captain James Cook, Dublin: for Messrs. H. Chamberlaine, W. Colles, [et al], 1788, 8vo, first Irish edition, contemporary tree calf, slight cracking to rear joint, some rubbing; [AUBIN] The Cheats and Illusions of Romish Priests and Exorcists. Discover'd in the History of the Devils of Loudun, London 1703, 8vo, first leaves browned, good recent sprinkled calf (2)
MURDOCH (Iris), The Sandcastle, Chatto & Windus 1957, 8vo, first edition, recently rebound in half green morocco, some light foxing, with an autograph postcard signed by Iris Murdoch tipped in; together with The Bell, Chatto & Windus 1958, first edition, signed, dust wrapper, slightly worn (2)
ALICE IN WONDERLAND. DODGSON (Rev. C.) Rhyme ? and Reason ?, Macmillan & Co 1883, first edition, 8vo, ilustrations by A. B. Frost and H. Holiday, cloth (slightly faded); A Tangled Tale, first edition 1885, first free end paper slightly fore-edge damaged; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Rackham, colour plates, two library stamps, worn cloth; another copy, illustrated by John Tenniel, Riccardi Press 1914, ltd ed (1000), damaged dust wrapper; twelve others (16)
Literature, leather bound. BYRON (Lord) Complete Works, four vols., Paris 1832, 8vo, half calf; FINDEN (Edward) Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron, three volumes, 1833-34, small 4to, plates, half bound (rubbed); [COLLIER, (Jane)] An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; with proper rules.., London 1753, 8vo, first edition, frontispiece, thick paper, contemporary cracked calf; STANHOPE (G) Epictetus His Morals with Simplicius his Comment, 2nd edition 1700, 8vo, calf; few others later (15)
RUEL (Jean) translator, Veterinariae Medicinae libri II, folio, first edition, Paris: [Louis Blaublom] for Simon de Colines, 1530, woodcut equestrian portrait of King Francis I to title, criblé woodcut initials, ruled throughout in red (faded), brown morocco over wooden boards, interlaced foliate scrolls of various colours with gilt ornaments around the papal arms of Paul III Farnese, gilt edges gauffered and painted in colours, ornamental silver clasps, eight heads as bosses, spine worn, title slightly stained, very sporadic foxing throughout, slipcase. The binding is believed to be 19th century.
CLARK (Simon), Blood & Grit, signed, 8vo, original paperback wrappers, first edition of Clark's first book, limited to 500 copies, this copy signed by Clark and the illustrator Dallas Goffin; together with Vampyrrhic, Hodder & Stoughton, 1998; Hotel Midnight, A Collection of Short Stories, first edition, 2005, with Christmas card signed by Clark loosely inserted; The Tower, Robert Hale 2006; CLARK (Simon) and LEBBON (Tim), The Exorcising Angels, Shrewsbury MA: Earthling Publications 2003, first edition, 8vo, original black morocco with dust wrapper, preserved in traycase, one of 26 lettered copies signed by both authors & Edward Miller (dust wrapper artist) (5)
TOLKIEN (J. R. R.), Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, first edition, 8vo, edited by Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925, original green cloth gilt (worn), spine faded, some markings in pencil, frontispiece and plate present as required, errata slip, some pages untrimmed; together with SASSOON (Siegried), Selected Poems, London: Heinemann Ltd, 1925, light foxing, cloth; SHAW (Bernard), In Good King Charles's Golden Days, illustrations in colour by Feliks Topolski, London: Constable & Co, no date; BEERBOHM (Max), Fifty Caricatures, 4to, first edition, London: William Heineman, 1913, original green cloth gilt, fifty plates, caricatures of Churchill, Bernard Shaw, Thomas Hardy, Lloyd George, Roger Fry and others (4)
LANG (Andrew) Fairy Book series: The Red Fairy Book, first edition London 1890, rebacked preserving part original spine, some foxing; Green Fairy Book, 1892; Violet Fairy Book, 1901; Olive Fairy Book, 1907; Orange Fairy Book, 1906; Yellow Fairy Book, 3rd edition 1897; Blue Fairy Book, (condition varies) (7)
Bindings - Poetry etc. [AKENSIDE (Mark)] The Pleasures of Imagination a Poem, London: for R. Dodsley 1744, 4to, first edition, title in red and black, later half calf; FENZI (Cav. Sebastiano) English and Italian Fugitive Verses, Florence 1860, 8vo, inscribed to original blue bound-in wrapper by the author to Lord Lindsay; LINDSAY (Lord) Ballads, Songs and Poems translated from the German, Wigan 1841, 4to, author's inscription to half title, slight staining; BROWN (Walter) Fables, illustrated by Bewick, London 1884, 4to, frontispiece slightly marked, uncut, later half calf (4)
BENCHLEY (Peter), Jaws, Garden City New York: Doubleday and Company 1974, 8vo, first edition, inscribed by the author "Keep yours shut if you know what's good for you, Peter Benchley", recently finely bound in full dark blue morocco, boards with single gilt line panel, spine lettered in gilt with gilt rules and centre tools, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
CORGI AEROPLANES/AIRPLANES - CLASSIC PROPLINERS - a selection of 10 packaged The Aviation Archive Classic Propliners Corgi 1:144 scale models to include a limited edition Vickers Viscount 800 British Air Ferries (AA30503), 2 x first issue Vickers Viscount Continental Airways (47603), a limited edition Vickers Viscount 806 British Airways (47608), a limited edition Douglas DC-3 Continental Airlines (AA30001), a Vickers Viscount Parcelforce (47602), a limited edition Vickers Viscount 800 Aer Lingus (AA30501), a limited edition Vickers Viscount 700 United Airlines (AA30502), a first issue Vickers Viscount 800 series Lufthansa (476704) and a limited edition Vickers Viscount 836 British Midland Airways (47609).
RICHARD NIXON - a hardback first edition copy of 'In The Arena A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal' with bookplate signed by Richard Nixon, former US president from 'The Museum Shop The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace'. Authenticated by Garry King of Autografica for entry into this sale.
Eighty Sketches in Watercolour from Nature by R. Stephenson, London, The Saint Catherine Press, 1926, no. 59/220 together with Art, History and Literature Illustrations: A Series of 18 Coloured and 100 Half-Tone Illustrations, Jessie Noakes, London, Virtue and Co. Ltd, English Pastels 1750-1830 by R. R. M. See, London, G.Bell and Sons Ltd, 1911, First Edition, no. 397/750, and George Morland His Life and Works by Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart. and E. D. Cuming, London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907
Agatha Christie; A collection of 12x vintage Agatha Christie First Edition novels, to include; A Caribbean Mystery, The Pale Horse, Destination Unknown, Dead Man's Folly, At Bertram's Hotel, Miss Marples Six Final Cases, Endless Night, Sleeping Murder, Curtain and Passenger To Frankfurt. All with dust covers.
Caroll, LEWIS; Sylvie & Bruno Concluded. Very rare First Edition book1893, inscribed by the author. First Edition, presentation copy. With Forty Six Illustrations by Harry Furniss. Published by Macmillan & Co 1893. Beautiful red morocco covers, with gilt borders and panel work to front and verso. Signed / inscribed by the author, Lewis Carroll, to the frontis ' Catherine E Lloyd, with the regards of her old friend, the Author,' and then dated Dec 27, 1893. Finished with a flamboyant swirl, in the hand of the author. Carroll most famously wrote ' Alice's Adventures In Wonderland .' Very rare copy of this book, even rarer with inscription in the hand of Carroll.
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