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Click here to subscribeDICKENS (Charles) Collection of works, essays, commentaries and references, mainly 20th century, including: Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition 1844, 8vo, some typical staining to plates, bound in two vols., half calf; PROCTER (A. A.) Legends and Lyrics, introduction by C. Dickens, 1866, half morocco; DARTON (F.J. Harvey) Vincent Crummles, 1926, one of 400 copies, uncut, illustrated, modern binding; Novels including Rochester Edition works by Methuen,
Literature, Plays, bindings. Various mainly 18th century works, including: ROWE (Elizabeth) Letters, two vols., 1753, 12mo, contemporary calf; MARLBOROUGH (Duchess of) Account of the Conduct of --, 1742, 8vo, BEAUMONT (J) Original Poems, 1749, 4to, first edition, later half calf; MONTAGU (Lady M) The Works, 4 vols (of 5), 1803, 8vo, calf; others
Bible, Geneva version, London: Robert Barker 1632, black letter, engraved title page trimmed and remounted, calendar, prayers and psalms at the beginning, lacking NT title, the first three leaves replaced from another edition otherwise pagination complete; Concordances and Psalms at end, final page 'imprinted by John Daye 1583', typical age staining and signs of use, few marks, recased in a good 19th century blind stamped morocco binding with repaired spine ends, all edges gilt and with repeated stamped design. [Ref. Herbert 179; Darlow & Moule 136].
WELSTED (L) Epistles, Odes &c. London 1724, 8vo, first edition, rebacked; ibid. The Works of Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime or a Treatise.., London 1712, 8vo, foxing, later bound; CHESTERFIELD (Earl of) Life of ---, 1774, two vols., 12mo, calf; SMOLLET (T) The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane, in three vols. 1819, 8vo, hand coloured plates, sporadic foxing, half calf; HUDDESFORD (G) The Poems, two vols in one, 1801, 8vo, rebound; POPE (A) The Dunciad, with Notes Variorum.., London: Lawton Gilliver 1729, 8vo, ass frontispiece, rebacked calf; etc
FROST (Robert) The Cow's in the Corn. Printed by James and Hilda Wells, Gaylordsville: The Slide Mountain Press, 1929, small 8vo, first separate edition, number 16 of 91 copies, each signed by the author "Robert Frost / Franconia / 1929", decorated patterned paper over thin boards, lacking spine strip, boards slightly bowed, and corners rubbed
ADAMS (Richard) Collection of first editions, mostly signed copies, good or fine in dust wrappers, including: Watership Down, 1976, illustrated edition, signed, slip case; Shardik, 1974, signed; The Plague Dogs, 1977, signed; Watership Down Film Picture Book, 1978, signed; The Girl in a Swing, 1980, signed; Voyage Through the Antarctic, 1982, signed; The Legend of Te Tuna, 1982, signed numbered 50 of 330 copies; and others (15)
COWPER (William). Poems, 2 vols., first edition, printed for J. Johnson, 1782-85, 8vo, half-title to vol. II only, with John Newton's preface, lacks free endpaper, armorial Chawton bookplates, tree calf a little chipped; also - Memoir of the Early Life of ---, 2nd edition 1816, small 8vo, portrait, boards (3)
MILNE (A. A.) Now We Are Six, first edition 1927, 8vo, illustrated by E.H.Shepard, contemporary gift inscription, original cloth gilt, t.e.g., binding tight; together with another first edition copy, good; KIPLING (R) The Light that Failed, first printing in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, London, January 1891, portrait frontispiece, lacking original wrappers, half morocco (rubbed) by Sizer; SHACKLETON (Sir Ernest H.) The Heart of the Antarctic, in two volumes first edition London 1909, frontispieces, illustrated with coloured and black and white plates, pictorial cloth, faded spines, spine ends slightly bumped, volume 1 lacks two colour plates (5)
Literature, 19th century, various including: The Keepsake for 1844, small 4to, morocco (rubbed); Beauties of the British Poets, two vols 1824, 12mo, half calf; The Pledge of Friendship a New Year's Gift for 1826, 12mo, original slip case; STEVENSON (R. L.) The Master of Ballantrae, first edition 1889, Cassells, covers soiled; etc
BOYD (William) Collection of first editions, with some signed more recent works, in dust wrappers, including: A Good Man in Africa, 1981, slight spotting to fore edge; An Ice Cream War, 1982; Stars and Bars, 1984; The New Confessions, 1987; The Blue Afternoon, 1993, signed; Transfigured Night, 1995 (edition of 2000 copies), signed by the author and the illustrator Ian Beck; Cork, 1994, no.21 of 236 copies, signed; Protobiography, 1998, edition of 138 copies, signed; A Haunting, 2000, edition of 138 copies, signed; Any Human Heart, 2004, signed; and others (18)
History, naval, and maritime. Various including: CHURCHILL (Sir W. S.) History of the Second World War, first edition in dust wrappers; Lloyd's Register of Yachts, 1909, no.413, for 'H.M.S. Enchantress', marked to front cover, [Churchill was aboard Enchantress as First Sea Lord for about eight months from 1911 till the start of WWI]; others later (quantity);
BLACK (William) Sabina Zembra, A Novel, three vol., Macmillan 1887, cloth; BRADDON (Mary E.) Robert Ainsleigh 3 vols., Copyright edition Berlin 1872, somewhat browned, half morocco; DU MAURIER, (George) Peter Ibbetson, two vols., 1892, first edition thus, original cloth; SIMPSON (John P.) The Lily of Paris, three vols., London 1851, 8vo, slight age staining, recased
DICKENS (Charles), first editions, including Master Humphrey's Clock, 2 vols, 1850; Little Dorrit, 1857 (stained), in damaged binding; Bleak House, 1853, plates with marginal staining, binding damaged; David Copperfield, 1850, staining, binding damaged; Edwin Drood, 1870, spine damaged; A Christmas Carol, 2nd edition, 1843, coloured plates, soiled cloth; 4 others (sold not subject to return)
A collection of modern first editions, mostly good or better in dust wrappers, including: RUSHDIE (Salman) The Satanic Verses, first edition, signed; Shalimar the Clown, signed; The Moor's Last Sigh, signed; East, West, signed; Fury, signed; Shame, signed; few others by Rushdie; also - ROY (A) The God of Small Things 1997, signed; twelve titles by Lisa St Aubin DE TERAN, including two signed; SMITH (Zadie) White Teeth, 2000, signed; Jane ADAMS, four signed works; others by Miles GIBSON, Paul MICOU, etc (quantity)
Literature, poetry etc. BYRON (Lord) The Genuine Rejected Addresses... for Drury Lane Theatre, 1812, 8vo, first edition, calf, Signet arms to covers, rubbed; Memoirs of the Regency of His Royal Highness the Late Duke of Orleans, London 1732, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, calf; PARNELL (T) Poems on Several Occasions, 1737, 8vo, added title, slightly soiled, rebacked calf; WHISTON (W) Memoirs.., 1749, 8vo, two vols., rebacked calf; SHELLEY (P B) The Poetical Works, four vols in two, London: E. Moxon 1839, 12mo, half calf; few others (15)
REYNOLDS (John) The Triumphs of God's Revenge against the Crying and Execrable sin of Murther, sixth edition 1679, folio, added engraved title, (both titles rather frayed and laid down), final leaf damaged, old calf rebacked; together with A Speech by the first Earl of Shaftesbury, folio, 2pp, double column, London: for F.S. 1681. Note: the speech was made in the presence of Charles II, whereby the Earl sought to pass a bill which would have excluded James II from the succession.
Literature, 18th and 19th century. EDGEWORTH (Maria) Patronage, in 4 vols., 2nd edition 1814, uncut in boards; JAMES (Henry) The Aspern Papers, 2 vols., first edition London 1888, 8vo, [only 650 copies printed], modern half morocco; BEAUMONT (G) The Warrior's Looking-Glass, Sheffield 1808, 8vo, somewhat toned, boards; also LE SAGE. Gill Blas, 6th edition in 4 vols., 1785, 12mo, plates, lacking labels to spines, calf; SCOTT (Sir W) Kenilworth, 3 vols., 1821, first edition, uncut, modern boards; BLACK (J) Life of Torquato Tasso, in two vols., Edinburgh 1810, 4to, frontispieces and vignette titles, damp stain to titles, original boards; others in varying condition (quantity)
PULLMAN (Philip) The Golden Compass, first edition Knopf 1996, signed by the author to a label to half title, dust wrapper, pen mark to lower edge otherwise good; The Scarecrow and his Servant, first edition Doubleday 2004, signed to title by the author, dust wrapper; and a Pullman signed Astrid Lindgren Award brochure 2005 (3)
BANNERMAN and LODGE, The Birds of the British Isles, first edition, 1953-63, colour plates, lacking vol. V, and lacking one dust wrapper; AUDUBON (J J), The Original Watercolour Paintings for The Birds of America, 2 volumes, 1966, slip case (slightly damaged); CHALMERS (Patrick), Birds Ashore and Aforeshore, no date, illustrated by Winifred Austen; and others Birds.
COCKBURN (George) A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar up the Mediterranean to Sicily and Malta in 1810 & 1811 including a description of Sicily and the Lipari Islands, and an Excursion in Portugal, two vols., first edition London: for J.Harding 1815, 8vo, engraved titles with aquatint vignettes (some foxing), complete with hand-coloured aquatint plates as called for, three engraved maps (two folding), two tailpieces and three plates, some mainly light spotting and foxing, contemporary bookplates of George Agnew, contemporary rubbed leather backed cloth boards, uncut (2)
1919 to 1945 AD. Group comprising: World War I pair, 1914-1918 War medal and Victory medal (both named as issued to LIEUT. H. G. V. RUMBALL of the Royal Garrison Artillery to edge); with World War II 1939-1945 War medal and Defence medal (un-named, as issued); first three mounted on pin bar with ribbons, last loose; with matching miniatures, mounted in pairs, with ribbons and pin bars; with cased silver-gilt Masonic Founder's jewel for Priory Lodge No. 4618 by L. Simpson & Co, London with enamelled pictorial centre, with pale blue ribbon and enamelled pin bar with stamped London hallmark for 1923; with cased gold Masonic jewel by L. Simpson & Co, London, of a set square with past Master pendant , reverse inscribed 'Presented to / W. Bro. G. H. RUMBALL P. M. / by the Brethren of the / PRIORY LODGE No. 4618 / in appreciation of his / efficient services / as fourth W. M. during the year 1927-28' and with stamped London hallmark and 9 carat mark for 1927; with suspender bar for 1927-28, pale blue ribbon with enamelled pictorial emblem affixed, with pin bar inscribed QUARTUS; with a 1912 edition pocket book 'The Lectures of the Three Degrees in Craft Masonry'. BBM 124; MY 168/BBM 126; MY 170/BBM 140; M/MY 185/BBM 141; MY 186. H. G. V. Rumball was gazetted lieutenant 20th August 1918 (with printout of entry); the Priory Lodge, number 4618, is today based at the Masonic Hall, Sudbury, Suffolk and was founded 6 February 1924. 430 grams total. [9] Extremely fine; minor wear to war medals.
Published 1717 AD. Romae Antiquae Notitia or the Antiquities of Rome, 6th edition, octavo, 'Printed for T. Child at the White Hart and and R. Knaplock at the Bishop's Head in St Pauls, London' [title (red and black); ded.; pref.; contents; xxx pp. essays; 375pp. text; 18pp. index; 8pp. scriptores; 2pp. publisher's menu; engraved fp. plus 13 plates (8 folding) including map of Rome at p.29; later Victorian half cloth binding (boards detached; text block sound); ex libris 'Joh Hill Thompson 1775' and J. W. Horne (both inked to reverse of fp."). Property of an Essex, UK lady; by inheritance. BMGCPB 13, p.163; 590, d.17. The author's first and best known work, the first edition of which appeared in 1696, the year Kennett (1674-1715) graduated with a Master of Art from Oxford College; prefaced by his two essays titled The Roman Learning and The Roman Education, it passed through eighteen English editions from 1696 to 1820 (it was also published in Ireland and the USA and translated into Dutch), remaining, for over a century, the standard work on the subject; according to DNB, the book's elegant synthesis of the antiquarian data assembled over the previous 200 years ensured it a leading place among books on the daily life of the Romans until the nineteenth century. 513 grams, 20 x 13cm (8 x 5"). [No Reserve] Text block sound; some browning; worthy of rebinding.
Redgrave (Michael) "The actor's ways and means", first edition 1953, dedicated and signed together with "The Aspern Papers", signed first edition dated 1959, with Queen's Theatre programme, "The Mounte-bank's tale, signed first edition dated 1959, Findlater (Richard) Michael Redgrave - Actor, first edition dated 1956, a collection of letters and signed photographs and christmas cards from Michael Redgrave to Miss Barbara Thair, theatre programmes, Theatre World, plays and Players magazines, Anthony Newley promotion photographs, some signed, signed ephemera including John Neville, Robert Morley, etc
British Empire King George V In an Imperial Album Vol II issues from 1928 (First Edition) in generally very good condition with several sets to 1/- (or equivalent) including Ceylon, St. Helena (1934), Bermuda 1936 set; New Zealand 1935-36 set (14 cartons); general range of 1935 Jubilee low and odd values. Cat œ200++. Very clean lot and album.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN - a collection of 8 books with written by J. R. R. Tolkien to include a first edition The Silmarillion, a set of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (all 6th impression of the revised second edition), The Hobbit, Smith of Wootton Major, Tree and Leaf - Smith of Wooton Major - The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and Farmer Giles of Ham. Lot further includes Tolkien and the Silmarillion by Clyde Kilby.
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