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![[HUNTING] Stewart, F.A. Hark to Hounds, first edition, Collins, London, 1937, scarlet cloth gilt, dustjacket, nine plate ill](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/141493c6-2e96-4cda-83b9-a89e00da90f7/f1cc9696-e647-4dcb-bc72-d8a15704b45a/468x382.jpg)
![[HUNTING] Stewart, F.A. Hunting Countries, first edition, Collins, London, 1935, scarlet cloth gilt, dustjacket, twelve colo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/141493c6-2e96-4cda-83b9-a89e00da90f7/1545c5a5-809c-43e2-b981-bab7169be0db/468x382.jpg)
Lot 96
Pan Annuaire du Luxe a Paris, An 1928. Paris: Paul Poiret, 1928. First edition, all published. Original mustard cloth, front cover labelled in silver and black. 32.5 x 28cm; Title on translucent paper, photographic portrait of Poiret, followed by two leaves of introductory text, followed by six sections, each with a section title, and a total of 115 plates. R. The plates are an extraordinary array of advertisements by all the leading designers of the day, including Charles Martin, Foujita, Cocteau, Boucher, Dignimont etc.
Lot 6
HARPER, CHARLES G; The Romance of the Road, first and only original edition 1927, printed and published by Ed. J. Burrow & Co Ltd, 109 Kingsway, London, WC2 and Cheltenham. 64 numbered pages of text and illustrations plus approximately 68 unnumbered pages of colour and monochrome advertisements of the era. The products shown include Daimler, Bus and Omnibus Coachwork, coaches, Vanden Plas, tools, tyres, car parts & fittings, perfect bound in faux leather textured light card with gold embossed title, a horse drawn carriage and a period single deck motor bus, 30.5 x 25cm.
![[CLASSIC LITERATURE]. ILLUSTRATED Ibsen, Henrik, & Rackham, Arthur, illustrator. Peer Gynt, first edition, Harrap, London, 1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d4afebbc-21d8-45ff-b66f-a89e0094c4ac/ecee4b5d-5b55-4364-eff0-c958ec006a9a/468x382.jpg)
![[HISTORY]. COAL MINING Samuel, Raphael, editor. Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers, first edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Lo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d4afebbc-21d8-45ff-b66f-a89e0094c4ac/eb9a78e8-7167-4b8d-9d74-495543e001f6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 254
[HISTORY]. COAL MINING Samuel, Raphael, editor. Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers, first edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, octavo; Wilson, John. A History of the Durham Miners' Association 1870-1904, Veitch, Durham, 1907, blue cloth, plate illustrations, octavo; Garside, W.R. The Durham Miners 1919-1960, first edition, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1971, cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and a further seventeen works, (20).
![[MISCELLANEOUS] Benson, Stella. Hope Against Hope and Other Stories, limited edition of 670, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Macmillan](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d4afebbc-21d8-45ff-b66f-a89e0094c4ac/eede3ba0-0f6e-485c-ed17-adccb9ebb6c6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 270
[MISCELLANEOUS] Benson, Stella. Hope Against Hope and Other Stories, limited edition of 670, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Macmillan, London, 1931, quarter ivory buckram, top edges gilt, octavo; Louys, Pierre. The Twilight of the Nymphs, translated by Phillis Duveen, limited edition 614/1200, The Fortune Press, London, 1928, quarter black buckram, dustjacket, black and white plate illustrations by Cecil Beaton, octavo; Hartley, Dorothy, editor. Thomas Tusser 1557 Floruit, his Good Points of Husbandry, first edition, Country Life, London, 1931, quarter buckram, full-page and text illustrations, quarto; and three other assorted works, (6).
Lot 371
COINS - GREAT BRITAIN comprising a George III 'cartwheel' twopence, 1797; Victoria crowns, 1891, 1893 (LVI) & 1900 (LXIV); commemorative crowns; and others; together with a silver commemorative medal, 'Man's First Landing on the Moon 20th July 1969', limited edition 135/1500, 64mm diameter (94g), in case of issue.
Lot 107
NO RESERVE St. Dominic's Press.- Cornford (Frances) Autumn Midnight, first edition with "Sxipence" on upper wrapper, wood-engraved frontispiece and initials by Eric Gill, original pink wrappers with Gill engravings, uncut, St.Dominic's Press for The Poetry Bookshop, 1923 § Mairet (Ethel M.) A Book on Vegetable Dyes, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, original wrappers, uncut, printed Douglas Pepler at Ditchling for the Hampshire House Workshops, 1916 § Saint Dominic: Scenes from the Life of the Saint..., wood-engraving by David Jones, original cloth-backed silver-printed boards with pictorial label on upper cover, uncut, rubbed, spine damp-stained, 1929 § Kelly (Bernard) The Mind & Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., number12 of 300 copies, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, nick to lower edge of boards, dust-jacket, 1935, Ditchling, St. Dominic's Press; and another on Eric Gill, 8vo (5)
Lot 13
Farrell (J.G.) A Girl in the Head, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "It wasn't a good pâté (better luck next time). Lerve, Jim, July 1968" to front free endpaper, front free endpaper browned, bookplate, original boards, dust-jacket, spine slightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, still excellent overall, 8vo, 1967.⁂ Farrell's third book, rare signed, we can trace no other like copy. The recipient was Sandy Ellis, Farrell's girlfriend from 1966-68. Three other titles inscribed to Ellis from Farrell were offered in these rooms (22nd March 2018, lots 250-252).
Lot 26
Greene (Graham) The Power and the Glory, first edition, endpapers and half-title a little browned, original cloth, spine darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 8vo, 1940.⁂ Much of the first edition stock was destroyed when Heinemann's warehouse was bombed during the war making this one of Greene's scarcest titles.
Lot 28
Greene (Graham) The Heart of the Matter, first edition, light browning to half-title, original boards, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, surface soiling to lower panel and 2 short closed tears to head, crease to upper panel, light rubbing to extremities, still a very good example overall without any of the usual fading to spine, 8vo, 1948.
Lot 34
Hardy (Thomas) Jude the Obscure, first edition, etched frontispiece, contemporary ink ownership inscription, original cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners a little bumped, [Purdy pp.86-87], 1896 § Tess of the D'Urebervilles, one of 1500 copies, illustrated by Vivien Gribble, original cloth, spine faded, 1926; and 5 others, Hardy, 8vo (7)
Lot 38
Hemingway (Ernest) To Have and Have Not, first edition, light toning to text margins, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipped and creased at head and foot, extremities rubbed, very good overall, preserved in custom drop-back box replicating upper cover design in blind on upper cover, 8vo, New York, 1937.
Lot 49
Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, dust-jacket, spine browned with loss to head, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light surface soiling, 1928; and 2 others, Milne, 8vo (3)
Lot 51
Orczy (Baroness) The Scarlet Pimpernel, first edition, light scattered foxing, original cloth with design to upper cover, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little bumped, rubbed, 8vo, 1905.⁂ First edition of this classic adventure novel, the first to introduce the trope of the daring hero with a secret identity into popular culture.
Lot 54
Osborne (John) The Entertainer, first American edition, signed presentation inscription "A remembrance Paul Slickey with love John 10.4.59" to front free endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, pen mark to lower panel, light rubbing to extremities, New York, 1958; Don't Look Back in Anger, fifth impression, signed presentation inscription "To dear Marie - with love and the greatest admiration" to front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine browned, chipped at head, 1958, 8vo (2)⁂ Inscribed to Marie Lohr (1890-1975), Australian actress who featured in the disastrous 1959 production of Osborne's only musical, The World of Paul Slickey.
Lot 55
Owen (Wilfred) Poems, first edition, portrait frontispiece, tissue guard, title browned, browning to endpapers, original cloth, paper label to spine, spine slightly browned, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light marking and fading to covers, sm.4to, 1920.⁂ The most important book of poetry from the first world war. The power of Owen's poetry is as significant today as it was when first written, under the encouragement of Siegfried Sassoon (who wrote the introduction to this posthumously published collection), in the trenches of Flanders, mostly in 1917 and 1918. Owen was killed one week before the armistice was signed in 1918.
![Pinter (Harold) Landscape and Silence, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Eric [Kahane] to tit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c27806b1-3890-44ef-a467-a8ab00b1fc38/10b93414-fca2-445b-8021-29faf66f2134/468x382.jpg)
Lot 57
Pinter (Harold) Landscape and Silence, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Eric [Kahane] to title, original boards, dust-jacket, browned, spine ends and corners chipped, extremities rubbed and a little creased, 8vo, 1969.⁂ Eric Kahane (1926-1999), Pinter's French translator.
Lot 61
Pinter (Harold) The Birthday Party, first edition, signed by the author on title, light toning to text margins as often, original pictorial wrappers, short split to foot of spine, extremities a little creased, rubbed, 8vo, Encore Publishing Co., 1959.⁂ Pinter's first published play, preceded only by his student play The Room. Scarce signed.
Lot 65
NO RESERVE Poetry.- Yeats (William Butler) Per Amica Silentia Lunae, first edition, ink ownership inscription, original decorative cloth, gilt, spine rubbed and darkened spine ends and corners a little bumped, corner of lower cover nibbled, 1918 § Eliot (T.S.) Dry Salvages, original printed wrappers, fading, split to foot of spine, creased, 1941 § Campbell (Roy) Sons of the Mistral, original boards, dust-jacket, browning, extremities chipped, 1941, first editions; and c.47 others, poetry, 8vo (c.50)
Lot 68
Rhys (Jean) The Left Bank and Other Stories, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "For Teresa & John, with best wishes, Jean Rhys... 1976" to front free endpaper, endpapers browned, original cloth, paper label to spine, spine a little discoloured, 8vo, 1927.⁂ The author's first book, rare, especially signed, we know of no other like copy. The recipients are John Chilton (1932-2016), the jazz trumpeter and writer, and his wife Teresa.
Lot 71
Rhys (Jean) Wide Sargasso Sea, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "For John + Teresa, Jean Rhys, Best wishes for a happy, New Year" to title, original boards, dust-jacket, spine ends a little rubbed and creased, a near-fine copy otherwise, 8vo, 1966.⁂ Rhys' breakthrough novel, a prequel to Jane Eyre that brought her out of obscurity and allowed her works to receive the attention they had long deserved. Rare signed.
Lot 77
Stark (Freya) Baghdad Sketches, first edition, 12 plates, ink ownership inscription, original cloth, paper labels to spine and upper cover, spine a little dulled, some minor marking to covers but an excellent example overall, 8vo, Baghdad, The Times Press Ltd., 1932.⁂ First edition of the author's scarce first book.
Lot 78
Stein (Gertrude) and Virigl Thompson. The Mother of Us All, first edition, number 17 of 55 copies signed by Thompson and with three original black & white photographs by Carl van Vechten of Stein, Thomson and two of the original cast members, laid on card and signed on verso with original envelope, as issued, illustrations, browning, very occasional spotting, light stain to lower margin of half-title and front pastedown, original printed cloth by R. J. Pontabry, rubbed, soiled, small stains to lower extremities, 4to, [1947].
Lot 84
Waley (Arthur, translator) A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, first edition, endpapers browned, original cloth-backed boards, spine darkened, spine ends and corners bumped, 8vo, 1918.⁂ Waley was an accurate scholar ... and brought a whole civilization into English poetry ... Today the poems are as necessary and haunting as ever" - Cyril Connolly, The Modern Movement.
Lot 85
Wells (H.G.) The World Set Free, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Mrs. Townsend with warmest regards from H.G.Wells" to front free endpaper, 8pp. advertisements, light foxing and browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine slightly faded, light rubbing to extremities, still excellent overall, 8vo, 1914.
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