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Click here to subscribeClemens, Samuel Longhorne. The Adventures of Hucklebury Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), first edition, first issue, without half-title, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated 'October 1884', leaf pattern endpapers, frontispiece with tissue guard, preliminaries with ownership inscription dated 'Christmas 1883', original pictorial boards, spine dulled, head of spine slightly chipped, 8vo, London: Chatto and Windus, 1884
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House, first edition, issue unknown, half-title, engraved additional title, frontispiece and 38 engraved plates after Hablot Knight Browne, some spotting, contemporary half morocco, 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, [n.d.] Chapman and Hall appears as the imprint on both the title and additional title of this volume, however, all the internal flaws noted by Smith (1982, pp.82-82) are present, save those which are conditional.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House, first edition in book form, engraved additional title, frontispiece and 38 engraved plates after H.K. Browne, spotted as usual, with 'received' on p.620, but with final 'i' on p.xiii slightly elevated, otherwise all points conform to Smith pp.82-83, preliminaries stamped 'J.H. Lumsden', contemporary half calf, 8vo, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853
Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition in book form, early issue, engraved frontispiece, additional title, and 41 engraved plates after Phiz, Seymour and others, including the two 'suppressed' plates, signed 'R W Buss', contemporary ownership inscription of 'Fred Lamb, Wakefield' on additional title, endpapers and B1, somewhat browned, contemporary half morocco, spine rubbed and chipped with slight loss, 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1837
Betjeman, John. Continual Dew, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipped with slight loss, 8vo, London: John Murray, 1937; Old Lights for New Chancels, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipped with slight loss, 8vo, London: John Murray, 1940; New Bats in Old Belfries, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket chipped with slight loss, 8vo, London: John Murray, 1945; and 6 others, poetry, 8vo (9)
Durrell, Lawrence. [The Alexandria Quartet], comprising; Justine, fourth impression, 1958; Balthazar, first edition, 1958; Mountolive, first edition, 1959; Clea, first edition, 1960; all original cloth in dust-jackets, light spotting, extremities occasionally chipped, the jacket for Justine with some repairs, 8vo, London: Faber and Faber (4)
Eliot, Thomas S. What is a Classic?, first edition, original cloth, faded, 8vo, London: Faber and Faber, 1945; The Cocktail Party, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, London: Faber and Faber, 1950; Burnt Norton, first edition, original wrappers, 8vo, London: Faber and Faber, 1941; The Dry Savages, first edition, original wrappers, 8vo, London: Faber and Faber, 1941; and 11 others, 8vo (15)
Greene, Graham. Brighton Rock, first English edition, later impression, original red cloth gilt, slightly soiled, original dust-jacket, creased with some loss to ends of spine affecting imprint and author's name, also to lower right front corner and rear flap, all affecting text, but neatly repaired, priced at '3s.6d. net' on front flap, endpapers browned, in later cloth case, 8vo, London: William Heinemann, 1938
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer... with Illustrations by Barnett Freedman, first illustrated edition, 15 coloured plates, light spotting, original cloth, dust-jacket chipped with loss, 8vo, London: Faber and Faber, 1931; Grigson, Geoffrey, editor. The Poet's Eye... with 16 Lithographs by John Craxton, plates, original decorated cloth, dust-jacket chipped with loss, 8vo, London: Frederick Muller, 1944; Townshend, Frank. Earth, number 151 of 250 copies, signed by the author, original full vellum, slipcase, 8vo, London: Alfred Knopf, 1929; and 9 others literature, v.s. (12)
Stein, Gertrude. The Making of Americans, being a History of a Family's Progress, first edition, [one of 500 copies], half-title, preliminary blank with contemporary owner's index in pencil, a few marginal notes in pencil, contemporary cloth, extremities slightly chipped, original paper wrappers bound in, 4to, Paris: Contact Editions, 1925 This copy has a contemporary review of the work by Edith Sitwell loosely inserted.
Wilde, Oscar. Salome.. with Sixteen Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, large 8vo, London: John Lane, 1930; Powys, T.F. Goat Green, first edition, illustrations by Gwenda Morgan, original cloth, dust-jacket, London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1937; and 2 others (4)
Bowen, Emanuel and Thomas. Atlas Anglicanus, or, A Complete Sett of Maps of the Counties of South Britain; Divided into Their respective Hundreds, Wapentakes, Wards, Rapes, Lathes, &c., first edition, engraved title, 45 engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, frontispiece, title and first map with repairs to fore-edge, 5 maps shaved affecting plate number, later half calf, worn, upper cover detached, folio, London: T. Kitchen, [1767]
GOLF: DARWIN (Bernard): 'The Frank Reynolds Golf Book..'; London, Methuen, 1932. First edition. 4to, orig. paper covered boards, spine rubbed with some loss, slight discolouration to a few early leaves; together with 'Tee Shots and Others', by the same author; London, 1911; and W. Park's 'The Game of Golf'; London, 1896, both 8vo in publisher's cloth, good copies with some wear and spotting; together with four other related pamphlets or periodicals and a golf card game. (Small carton) Condition Report: Title page dated 1896. Good condition, a few joints strained but firm, rubbed to edges of spine. Other bits: (1) Prestbury Golf Club handbook, mid 1950s. (2) 'Do You Golf', 1926. (3) Enmore Park Golf Club Ball Programme, 1939. (4) Western New York Golfer, Oct. 1925.
BILLINGSLEY (John): 'General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset with Observations on the Means of its Improvements..'; Bath, R. Cruttwell, 1798; 8vo, period quarter calf, rubbed and scuffed; with folding map; together with a quantity of miscellaneous antiquarian, largely 18th-19th century, to include: a first edition of Carsten Borchgrevink's 'First on the Antarctic Continent', 1901, lacking maps but inscribed from the author to the half title. (Three shelves)
BAWDEN (Edward, Illustrator): 'Well on the Road..'; London, G. Bell & Sons, 1935. First edition. Small 4to, orig. pub. cloth backed boards, remains of dustjacket loosely inserted at the rear, some light rubbing and dust marking, else a good copy; HERRING (Robert): 'Adam & Evelyn at Kew..'; London, Elkin Mathews, 1930. Illustrations by Edward Bawden. No.367/1000, inscribed by Herring, 8vo, orig. pub. cloth, dustjackets, a little frayed to edges; together with eighteen other volumes illustrated by, or about, Bawden, including a publisher's proof copy of Alexander Gray's 'The Historical Ballads of Denmark'; Edinburgh University Press, 1958. (20)
ROBINSON (William Heath): 'Some Frightful War Pictures..'; London, Duckworth & Co., 1916 reprint. Small folio, orig. orange wrappers printed in black with printed onlay to upper, rubbed and marked with closed tear to the inlay, some internal spotting and marking; together with two copies of the 1915 hardback first edition of the same, one defective, the other in better condition, though with damage to lower edge of upper cover. (3)
ROBINSON (W. Heath, Illustrator): 'Then and Now..'; Manchester, Port of Manchester Warehouses Limited, 1921. First edition. 4to, 48 p.p., orig. printed buff paper wrappers, spine frayed and partially split; together with five others by, or with contributions from, Heath Robinson, including 'Heath Robinson on Leather (with compliments of Connolly Brothers Curriers Limited)..'; Earle's Early Etchings..', pub. G. & T. Earle Limited, 1949; 'Motor Mania..', published by 'The Motor Owner' (edges frayed w.a.f.); and two others. (6)
POETRY: McGOUGH (Roger): 'Frinck: A Life in the Day Of, and Summer with Monika..'; London, Michael Joseph, 1967. 8vo, dustjacket, extrems rubbed; LOGUE (Christopher): 'The Words of the Establishment Songs Etcetera..'; published by Poet & Printer, 1966. 12mo, orig. brown printed paper covers; TZARA (Tristan): 'Selected Poems..'; London, Trigram Press, 1975; LENNON (John): 'A Spaniard in the Works..'; London, Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition; together with approx. one hundred and forty others, largely post-war English poetry in hardback and paperback, many first editions, plus a group of forty five duplicates of Louis Macneice's 'The Other Wing', pub. Faber & Faber in the 'Ariel Poem' series, numerous other titles by Michael Frayn, Brian Patten, Adrian Mitchell, etc, condition generally sound. (Two shelves)
EMETT (Rowland): 'Anthony & Antimacassar..'; London, Faber & Faber, 1943. Oblong 8vo, orig. pub. printed boards, rather rubbed and browned, early ownership inscription to 'F.F.E.'; first edition; together with twelve others illustrated by Emett, to include: Puffin Cut-out Book No.7, 'The Emett Festival Railway' and 'Hobby Horses' in the Guinness Advertising Series, condition generally VG. (13)
MAN RAY: 'Man Ray photographs 1920-34 Paris..'; Hartford, (1934); first edition. 4to, spiral-bound in pictorial wrappers, some bumping and creasing to edges/corners, but largely a very good copy; together with a second copy of the same, spiral spine broken in several places and tape repair to lower joint, generally a lesser copy than the first named. N.B.: Most copies have the fictitious 'Deuxieme Edition' title page: the publisher, hoping to create demand, recalled many copies and replaced the title page with the stated second edition title page, although in reality a first edition, second issue, as are the two copies present here. (2)
FREEDMAN (Barnett): BULLEY (Margaret H.): 'Art & Understanding..'; London, Batsford, 1937. First edition. 4to, orig. pub. cloth, with dustjacket designed by Barnett Freedman; SASSOON (Siegfried): 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer..'; London, Faber & Faber, 1931. First edition. 8vo, orig. publisher's boards, dustjacket, chipped with some loss to extrems; together with approx. fifty others with illustrations or dustjacket designs by Barnett Freedman, largely in good to very good condition, mostly 8vo, to include another copy of the second named item. (Approx. 52)
SHELL GUIDES: A collection of nine pre-war spiral-bound Shell guides, first editions published by Architectural Press and Batsford in orig. card covers, to include: Cornwall (1934); Derbyshire (1935); Devon (1935); Dorset (1936); Kent (1935); Oxon (1938); Somerset (1936); The West Coast of Scotland (1938); Wiltshire (1935); together with the second edition of Betjeman's 'Cornwall', 1935. Together, ten volumes, some wear and marking but condition generally sound. (10)
HASKINS (Sam): 'November Girl..'; London, Bodley Head, 1967. First edition. Folio, orig. pub. boards, dustjacket, a little chipped at points but otherwise VG; together with a second copy of the same title; plus three copies of the same author's Photo Graphics, one of them inscribed by the artist to upper free end paper; plus a copy of 'Five Girls..'; London, Bodley Head, 1965, G/VG in dust wrapper. (6)
PHOTO BOOKS: WOLFF (Paul, Dr.): 'Arbeit!..'; Berlin, (1937), 4to, publisher's boards with dustjacket, a little worn and nicked to edges with a few short tears, else VG; MILLER (Henry): 'Brassai..'; Paris, Editions Neuf, 1952. First edition. Small 4to, orig. red cloth with photograph onlay to upper cover, a few light marks and stains to covers, else VG; together with approx. one hundred and eighty nine others, photo books, various sizes, many in dustjacket where appropriate. (Large quantity)
DECORATIVE & APPLIED ARTS: DAY (Susan): 'Art Deco & Modernist Carpets..'; San Fransisco, Chronicle Books, 2002. Folio, orig. pub. cloth, dustjacket, a fine copy; ROWELL (Margit) & WYE (Deborah): 'The Russian Avant Garde Book, 1910-34..'; New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2002. 4to, pub. blue boards, dustjackets, VG; GEDDES (Norman Bel): 'Horizons..'; Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1932. First edition. 4to, pub. boards decorated in silver and black with dustjacket, minor chipping to edges else VG; together with a large quantity of other books over five shelves, chiefly large format modern reference works on graphic design, applied arts and related, generally in very good condition. (Large quantity)
ARCHITECTURE: MCGRATH (Raymond) & FROST (A.C.): 'Glass in Architecture & Decoration..'; London, Architectural Press, 1937. First edition. Folio, orig. pub. green cloth with dustjackets, a little frayed to extrems else VG; together with a large quantity of other books on architecture over six shelves, various formats and bindings, cross-period 20th century publications, largely in good to very good condition. (Quantity: six shelves)
WRIGHT (Frank Lloyd, 1869-1959): 'The Disappearing City..'; New York, William Farquhar Payson (1932). First edition. Sm. 4to, orig. green pub. cloth in dustjacket, a little browned and with a few chips and tears to extrems, early ink gift inscription to upper free end paper, otherwise G/VG. (1)
WRIGHT (Frank Lloyd, 1869-1959): DE FRIES (H.): 'Frank Lloyd Wright Als Dem Lebenswerke Eines Architekten..'; Berlin, Ernst Pollak, 1926. 4to, orig. publisher's cloth backed boards, minor wear and marks else VG; WRIGHT (Frank Lloyd): 'An Organic Architecture, The Architecture of Democracy..'; London, Lund Humphries, 1939. First edition. Sm. 4to, publisher's brick red cloth lettered in yellow, minor wear; 'Drawings for a Living Architecture..'; New York, Horizon Press, 1959. Oblong 4to, publisher's red cloth, lightly rubbed and marked else VG; together with approx. one hundred and sixty other volumes by, or about, Frank Lloyd Wright, to include: 'His Two Lectures on Architecture..'; pub. Art Institute of Chicago, 1931, various publishers, sizes and formats. (Quantity)
WRIGHT (Frank Lloyd, 1869-1959): 'An Autobiography..'; London & N.Y., Longmans Green & Co., 1933. 8vo, orig. publisher's cloth, browned and spotted with a few light marks. First edition; together with a first edition of his 1943 book of the same title, large square 8vo in red pub. cloth, spine sunned else VG. (2)
LLEWELLYN (Richard): 'How Green Was My Valley..'; London, Michael Joseph, 1939. No.143/200 copies, signed by the author. 8vo, orig. brown buckram with red morocco label, without slip case, rather rubbed and marked; AMIS (Martin): 'Experience'; London, Jonathan Cape, 2000. Limited edition 81/150 copies, inscribed and dated by the author. 8vo, orig. black morocco gilt lettered to spine, contained in black buckram slip case and with paper limitation statement present; CAPEK (Karel): 'The First Rescue Party..'; London, George Allen & Unwin, 1939. First English edition. 8vo, orig. pub. orange cloth, with dustjacket, a little chipped to extrems, a few light spots and marks; together with approx. sixty other volumes, 20th century hardback and paperback fiction / literature, to include: some science and detective fiction periodicals, some drama by Alan Ayckbourn, Alan Bleasdale, etc. (Two shelves)
GLASS & CERAMICS: GOLDSTEIN (Sydney M.): 'Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass..'; New York, Corning, 1979. 4to, publisher's cloth with dustjacket, spine sunned; KORN (Arthur): 'Glas Im Bau Und Als Gebrauchsgegenstand..'; Berlin, Ernst Pollak, (1929). First edition. 4to, orig. pub. cloth, rubbed and marked; together with a quantity of other books over six shelves, largely glass, porcelain and pottery reference, various sizes and formats, many in dustjackets, largely in VG condition. (Quantity: six shelves)
HEDRICK (Ulysses Prentice): 'The Cherries of New York..'; Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, 1915. First edition. 4to, orig. green pub. cloth gilt lettered, a little rubbed and marked, else VG. With frontis & 56 plates. WOODHOUSE (Lionel): 'The Butterfly Fauna of Ceylon..'; Columbo, Ceylon Government Press, 1942. 4to, orig. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed. With 51 plates & one folding colour map; together with eleven other volumes, natural history. (13)
WHITE (Terence Hanbury): 'The Sword in the Stone'; London, Collins, 1938. First edition. 8vo, orig. pub. cloth with dustjacket, a little rubbed and frayed to top edges, else a very good copy; together with: 'The Once & Future King'..; 8vo, pub. cloth with dustjacket, a little browned and rubbed. (2)
PRIESTLEY (Joseph): 'Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways Throughout Great Britain, as a Reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's New Map of Inland Navigation..'; London, Longman Rees et al, 1831. First edition; large paper copy. 4to, orig. cloth boards with printed label, binding loose and frayed with the frontis detached and contents shaken and spotted; WEINTHAL (Leo): 'The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway..'; London, (1923-26), three vols. only, large 4to, orig. half morocco gilt, rubbed and with some damp marking to the boards; together with a quantity of other railway reference and history, 19th and 20th century, various sizes, formats and condition. (Quantity: six shelves)
FAIRBAIRN (William, Engineer): 'Remarks on Canal Navigation, Illustrative of the Advantages of the Use of Steam, as a Moving Power on Canals..'; London, Longman, Rees et al, 1831. First edition. 8vo, period cloth boards, worn and rubbed with spine deficient; with five folding plates; together with PRIESTLEY (Joseph): 'Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain..'; London, Longman, Rees et al, 1831. 8vo, period cloth, rubbed and worn with loss along the hinges; with frontispiece and folding hand col. plate at rear, some foxing and offsetting. (2)
TITANIC: OFFICIAL CASUALTIES REPORT: 'Shipping Casualties (Loss of the Steam Ship 'Titanic'..'; London, published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1912. Folio, 74 p.p., orig. blue printed wrappers, spotted and a little worn to corners, a few short nicks and creases, otherwise good. The first edition of this casualty report following the loss of the Titanic. (1)
YACHT RACING: 'The Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Pocket Guide to the Yacht Races 1903..'; oblong 8vo, 8 p.p. within orig. chromolitho card covers, stapled to spine, some light wear and marking else VG; together with 'Marine Album..'; Philadelphia, George Harris & Sons, 1880. First edition. Oblong 8vo, ten full-page chromolithographs of marine vessels, including images to upper and lower covers, the latter with slight loss to top outer corner, cord-tied to spine, some light wear and marking, otherwise in good condition. (2)
MOTOR RACING: POMEROY (Laurence): 'The Grand Prix Car..'; London, Motor Racing Publications, 1955. Second impression. Two vols., 4to, pub. red cloth, a little rubbed and marked; (same author): 'The Grand Prix Car 1906-39..'; first edition. 4to, pub. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed else VG; together with a quantity of other motor racing publications, to include: a run of nine vols. from 2-10 of 'Motor Racing..', 1955-63 in uniform black cloth, several volumes of 'Auto Course..', etc., mostly large format publications, many in dustjacket, condition generally sound. (Quantity: three shelves)
RICHARDS (J.M.) & RAVILIOUS (Eric): 'High Street': first edition, Country Life, 1938. Twenty four colour lithographic plates, some light spotting, original pictorial boards, slightly rubbed to edges and with a little chipping to spine ends, corners a touch bumped, else a very good copy, 8vo. (1)
WILSON (William): 'Traction Engines on Highways: Their Use and Abuse..'; Exeter, Henry Eland, 1882. First edition. 8vo, orig. plain printed paper wrappers, a little browned and chipped. A scarce pamphlet arising from a controversy following the death of two people whose horses took fright at a traction engine near Sheffield on April 10 1882. (1)
TRACTION ENGINES AND STEAM CARS: LAYRIZ (Otfried, Lieut. Col.): 'Mechanical Traction in War for Road Transport, with Notes on Automobiles Generally..'; London, Sampson Low et al, 1900. First edition. 8vo, orig. red pub. cloth blocked in black, frontispiece detached, externally rubbed and marked but otherwise a good copy; KENNEDY (John): 'The History of Steam Navigation..'; Liverpool, Charles Birchall, 1903. First edition. 8vo, orig. pub. purple cloth, sunned and rubbed to edges; FLETCHER (William): 'The History & Development of Steam Locomotion on Common Roads..'; London, 1891, 8vo, pub. pale blue cloth; ROLT (L. T. C.): 'Waterloo Iron Works, The History of Taskers of Andover, 1809-1968..'; David & Charles, 1969. First edition. 8vo, orig. cloth with dustjacket, VG; together with a quantity of other books on steam cars, traction engines and related industry, 19th and 20th century, 8vo and 4to, some in dustjacket, largely in good to very good condition. (Quantity: four shelves) Condition Report: We would not post this lot, too much quantity for us.
CORAM (Dudley, Compiler): 'Aston Martin, the Story of a Sports Car..'; London, Motor Racing Publications Limited, 1957. 8vo, dustjacket, a little sunned to spine and rubbed to edges, else VG; SMITH (Brian E.): 'Daimler Days, A Celebration of One Hundred Years of Daimler Motor Cars..'; London, 1996. First edition. Two vols., folio, pub. cloth with dustjacket, in orig. slip case, a very good copy; together with a quantity of other books on various marques, to include: Rolls-Royce; Bentley; Alfa Romeo; Citroen; and Lotus, mostly more recent publications in dustjacket, 8vo and 4to. (Quantity: four shelves)
LE CORBUSIER: 'Aircraft..'; London, Studio Limited, 1935. First edition. 4to, pub. blue cloth with dustjacket, a little rubbed and marked; SMITH (Ross, Sir): '14,000 Miles Through the Air..'; New York, Macmillan, 1922. First edition. 8vo, pub. blue cloth, lightly rubbed else VG; together with approx. eighty other volumes on aviation, largely British publications with a few European, cross-period 20th century publications, various sizes, formats and conditions. (Quantity: two shelves)
CHANDLER (Raymond): 'The Long Good-bye..'; London, Hamilton, 1953. First UK edition. 8vo, orig. pub. cloth with dustjacket, rubbed and chipped to extrems with a little loss; 'The Little Sister'.. London, Hamilton, 1949, 8vo, publisher's cloth with dustjacket, a little nicked and frayed to extrems; together with fifteen other books by or about Chandler, including several other first editions in dustjacket, UK and US issues. (17)
CRICKET: A miscellany, to include: Wisden Cricketers' Almanacs for the years 1946, 1947, 1957, 1958 & 1959; together with a first edition of 'W. G. Grace on Cricket', 1891; a disbound early 20th century scrap book of press cuttings on cricket and football matches; an album of approx. two hundred later 20th century cricket related postcards; and similar. (Small carton)
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