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Lot 84

[Field (Julian Osgood)], "X.L.". Aut Diabolus Aut Nihil and Other Tales, second edition, bookplate, half-title and endpapers browned, 1895 § Stoker (Bram) "Bones and I" or, The Skeleton at Home, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, 1868 § Jarrett (Cora) Strange Houses, first English edition, light spotting to peripheral pages, 1937, original cloth, light bumping to extremities, light rubbing to spine ends; and 7 others, weird and mystery fiction, 8vo (10)

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Lot 71

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) Round the Fire Stories, "presentation copy" embossed stamp on title, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end, cloth spine very lightly faded, ends very lightly bumped, still overall very sharp and bright covers, 1908; His Last Bow, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, cloth spine faded, 1917; Adventures of Gerard, ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, one or two foxing marks to title, cloth lightly rubbed and marked to covers, spine ends creased, 1903, first editions, original cloth; and 3 others, mostly first editions by Doyle, including a first English edition of The Tragedy of the Korosko, 8vo (6) *** A very good group of Doyle first editions, including a sharp copy with bright gilt of Doyle's Round the Fire Stories, a collection of seventeen short stories, most with a fantasy or horror theme.

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Lot 124

Highsmith (Patricia) A Dog's Ransom, first American edition, New York, 1972; Those Who Walk Away, first edition, endpapers browned, 1967 § Hawk (John) The House of Sudden Sleep, first edition, endpapers spotted, light spotting to boards, jacket edges a little nicked, tear to title head, New York, 1930 § Woodward (Edward) The House of Terror, first edition, nicks to jacket spine ends and edges, lower cover a little toned, New York, 1930, first or first American editions, original boards or cloth, dust-jackets; and 24 others, thrillers and crime fiction, 8vo (29) 

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Lot 6

Ambler (Eric) The Light of Day, first edition, 1962; Passage of Arms, second impression, light foxing to first few pages, 1959; Cause for Alarm, third impression, small gift inscription on pastedown, jacket price-clipped, 1949, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, light nicks and chips to extremities; and 6 others, spy fiction, 8vo (10)

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Lot 198

Read (Herbert) Pursuits and Verdicts, one of 15 separate copies for Graham Greene, original wrappers, light fading to spine, 1983; The Contrary Experience, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly rubbed and discoloured, 1963; To Hell With Culture, second impression, original boards, dust-jacket, light fading to spine with nicks to edges, 1963, from the library of Tom Rosenthal, the last two with his bookplate on endpapers; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (5) *** Tom Rosenthal (1935-2014) was a notable publisher who headed up Secker & Warburg from 1971 to 1984.

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Lot 74

Du Maurier (George) The Martian, first English edition, original pictorial boards, gilt, corners bumped otherwise fine, dust-jacket, few chips to extremities, otherwise excellent and sharp, 1898 § Morton (A.S.) Beyond the Palaeocrystic Sea, first edition, ?later issue with publisher's label tipped onto title, original cloth, spine ends a little frayed, 1895 § Dorrington (Albert) The Radium Terrors, original pictorial cloth, spine lightly faded, otherwise excellent, 1912 § Wright Moxley (F.) Red Snow, first edition, original stiff wrappers, spine browned, extremities rubbed, New York, 1930; and c.35 others, science-fiction, v.s. (c.40)

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Lot 278

[Wyndham (John)], "John Beynon". Stowaway to Mars in The Passing Show, vol.5, nos.215, 217-19, 221-22 (6 only, of 8), illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, light fraying to edges, a few leaves loose, some with tears, some light marking, 1936 § Hamilton (Edmond) City at World's End, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, broken in pieces but neatly split down joints, glue staining, 1951; and c.40 others, science fiction, including first edition sets of H.G. Wells' The World of William Clissold, v.s. (c.45) ***  Stowaway to Mars was first published in 1936 as Planet Plane by George Newnes, then serialised for the first time here in The Passing Show as Stowaway to Mars, and again in 1937 in Modern Wonder magazine as The Space Machine.

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Lot 122

Herlihy (James Leo) Midnight's Cowboy, [4 copies], first edition, original cloth, lightly faded, dust-jacket, New York, 1965 § Grisham (John) The Firm [2 copies], first edition, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, New York, 1991, excellent copies; and c.130 others, modern American literature, v.s. (c.135)

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Lot 46

Clarke (Arthur C.) 2001: A Space Odyssey, first English edition, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to head and foot, else fine, 1968; and a first English edition of Expedition to Earth, 8vo (2)

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Lot 229

Taylor (Elizabeth) A View of the Harbour, first edition, small neat ink ownership name on front free endpaper, original cloth, spine lightly sunned, dust-jacket, loss to spine head & tail, chipping and fraying to edges, heavier to upper edge, spine lightly sunned, repaired tear to upper panel, 8vo, 1947. *** Elizabeth Taylor's third novel, scarce in jacket. The resurgence of mid-century female writers is exemplified in the 'other' Elizabeth Taylor in both collecting and reading alike. Geoff Dyer's review of Taylor's works entitled "Was Elizabeth Taylor the Best British Novelist of the Postwar Era?" attests to the growing popularity of  her post-war fiction. - The New York Times, Dec 22, 2021.

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Lot 244

Verne (Jules) The Green Ray, first English edition, translated by Mary de Hauteville, plates, one or two light foxing marks, original pictorial cloth, light bumping to corners and spine ends, light fading, still a sharp and bright copy overall, 4to, Sampson Low etc., 1883. *** Published in September 1883, a month before George Munro's pirated "Seaside Library" edition. The Green Ray was something of a departure for Verne, a love story set in Scotland, wherein a girl refuses to marry the man her uncles have chosen for her unless she sees the mysterious "green ray," which would tell her it is true love. This issue bound without the 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end. 

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Lot 42

Christie (Agatha) Sparkling Cyanide, first edition, small 'The Times Book Club' stamp to rear endpapers, original cloth, spine faded, ends bumped, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light creasing and the odd nick to edges, light spine fading, still excellent overall, 8vo, 1945.

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Lot 311

Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first trade edition, deluxe issue with 'wept big tears' on p.51 and bound in mustard-yellow cloth rather than paper boards, half-title, leaf-pattern endpapers, 31 full-page colour illustrations by Potter, small ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a few abrasion marks, pp.58-9 and 66-7 stuck together, p.80 with short marginal tear, gutter cracked and weak, contents shaken, lower hinge broken and lacking rear free endpaper, original mustard-yellow cloth with mounted colour illustration on upper cover, t.e.g., slightly rubbed and soiled, [Linder p.421, Quinby 2], 16mo, London & New York, Frederick Warne and Co. [1902]. *** Rare deluxe issue of the first trade edition of the first book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. Originally published in two privately printed editions of 250 and 200 copies (December 1901 and February 1902, respectively), this first trade edition was the first in which all of Potter's designs are printed in color. Leslie Linder records that 2000 copies from the first printing of 8000 were issued in "green cloth, light green cloth or olive-green cloth". This mustard-yellow cloth variant is therefore unrecorded by Linder, making it perhaps the rarest of the different deluxe issues of Peter Rabbit.

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Lot 72

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Lost World, first edition, frontispiece, ink gift inscription and browning on front free endpaper, light spotting to peripheral pages, original cloth with portrait decoration to upper cover, gilt, lettered in white, light rubbing, spine creased and lightly frayed, overall a very good and bright copy, 8vo, 1912.

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Lot 121

Hemingway (Ernest) Across the River and Into the Trees, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly nicked and rubbed at extremities, otherwise a bright crisp copy, 1950; The Dangerous Summer, proof copy, original wrappers, biro date on upper wrapper, 1985; and a small quantity of others, Hemingway, including a run of The Hemingway Review, v.s. (sml. qty.)

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Lot 99

Gardner (Erle Stanley) The Case of the Fugitive Nurse, first English edition, 1959 § Irish (William) Waltz into Darkness, first edition, small tape stain to upper board, jacket with 2" tear to upper panel, small portion of loss to spine tail, chips and nicks to edges, Philadelphia & New York, 1947 § Wellard (James) A Moment in Time, first edition, small ownership label laid down on front free endpapers, jacket with chips to New York, 1947, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 20 others, crime and detective fiction, 8vo (23)

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Lot 258

Wells (H.G.) The First Men in the Moon, first English edition, frontispiece and 11 plates, embossed W.H. Smith library stamp on lightly toned front free endpapers, original gilt-stamped cloth (Currey's variant B with white endpapers), very light bumping to extremities, spine faded, ends a little creased, [Currey p.518], 8vo, 1901.

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Lot 81

*** Please note, the description to this lot has changed.***Faulkner (William) The Sound and the Fury, first English edition, second state without 4pp. advertisements at end, light browning to endpapers and neat ink ownership inscription, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light soiling to spine (heavier to foot), minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light finger-soiling to panels, 2 short nicks to head of panels, still an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1931.*** Among Faulkner's most celebrated works, difficult to find in dust-jacket in good condition. 

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Lot 305

Greenaway (Kate) Under the Window, first edition, first issue with "end of contents", a few ink soiling marks, original cloth-backed boards, lightly rubbed, 1878 § Dulac (Edmund) Picture Book for the French Red Cross, first edition, original pictorial cloth, corners lightly rubbed, 1910; and 8 others, children's and illustrated, v.s. (10)

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Lot 15

Ballard (J. G.) Crash, first edition, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, very slight fading along upper and lower edges, dust-jacket, slight sunning to spine, vertical crease to upper panel with some resultant lifting of laminate, chip to upper corner, a few short nicks to head and foot with light creasing, a little rubbed at head and foot, 8vo, 1973.*** Ballard's superb exploration of car-crash sexual fetishism. Initially controversial, Crash is now regarded as a landmark work of postmodern fiction.

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Lot 127

Hollinghurst (Alan) The Sparsholt Affair, first limited edition, one of 26 copies signed by the author, original morocco, spine very lightly faded, slip-case, 2017; The Stranger's Child, first edition, one of 500 copies signed by the author, original boards, slip-case, 2011; The Line of Beauty, first trade edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, 2004; and another by Hollinghurst, first edition, 8vo (4)

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Lot 178

Milne (A. A.) Now We Are Six, first edition, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, small gift inscription and small browning patches on front free endpapers, faint foxing to half-title, original pictorial cloth, light fading patch to spine head, extremities bumped, still very sharp and bright, 1927; and 7 others by Milne, including reprints (some early) of other Christopher Robin books, some in bright or near-fine cloth, folio & 8vo (8)

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Lot 63

Dahl (Roald) Matilda, first edition, illustrations by Quentin Blake, ink ownership name on pastedown, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to head, otherwise fine, 8vo, 1988.

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Lot 189

Orwell (George) Coming up for Air, first American edition, original cloth, spine and cover edges sunned, dust-jacket, spine lightly sunned, spine ends lightly bumped, 1950 § Waugh (Evelyn) Scott-King's Modern Europe, first edition, ink gift inscription to browned front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine sunned, slight fraying along upper edge, 1947 § Eliot (T.S.) Four Quartets, first English edition, ink inscription to front free endpaper dated "Girton College 1944", a few spots, original boards, dust-jacket, a little soiled, upper edge frayed, spine sunned, repair to spine foot, 1944; and c.45 others, many signed, including Van Vechten's N*** Heaven with a signed note by the author and several signed limited editions by Norman Douglas, 8vo (c.45)

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Lot 250

Waugh (Evelyn) Scoop, first edition, light toning to endpapers, cloth spine faded, 1933; Vile bodies, tenth impression, ownership signature and spotting to endpapers, 1930; Brideshead Revisited, revised edition, pen jotting on title, boards a little soiled, dust-jacket, many tears repaired with tape verso, portion lacking from spine tail and long upper flap joint, extremities chipped and nicked, 1945, original cloth, extremities bumped and chipped, 8vo (3)

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Lot 248

Waugh (Evelyn) Remote People, first edition, plates (one becoming loose), folding map, foxing, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine slightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, creasing and fraying to head and foot, red stain to upper panel, not affecting lettering, 8vo, 1931.

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Lot 155

le Carré (John) The Little Drummer Girl, advanced proof, original wrappers, faded and lightly discoloured, 1983 § Greene (Graham) The Lost Childhood, first edition, light foxing, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine faded, extremities frayed and chipped, short tear to upper panel, 1951 § LeSieg Theo) Please Try to Remember the First of Octember, illustrations by A.J. Cummings, small ownership inscription on pastedown, original boards, corners a little rubbed, 1977; and 5 others, modern literature, including signed limited editions of Mario Vargas Llosa's works, v.s. (8) *** The lot includes several volumes of Mario Vargas Llosa, including signed first edition copies of The Scriptwriter and A Fish in the Water.

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Lot 110

Grossmith (George and Weedon) The Diary of a Nobody, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, bookplate and embossed stamp on endpapers, lightly toned,  publisher's advertisements at end browned, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, light marking to upper cover, 8vo, Bristol and London, 1892.

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Lot 87

Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale, first edition, second impression, original black boards with heart motif in red to upper cover, spine lettered in red, fractional bumping to corners, otherwise fine, dust-jacket, small scattered splatter to upper panel corner, nick to upper panel edge, light chipping to corners, spine ends lightly fraying, light toning and stain to lower panel, still overall a remarkably sharp and bright copy, 1953; and 4 others by or relating to Fleming, 8vo (5)

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Lot 223

Steinbeck (John) The Grapes of Wrath, first edition, light rubbing to upper hinge, otherwise internally very clean, original pictorial cloth, spine faded, spine ends lightly bumped, still overall a sharp and fresh copy, 1939; The Red Pony, first illustrated edition, illustrations by Wesley Dennis, original cloth with pictorial onlay on upper cover, spine lightly browned, ends a little bumped, overall near-fine, 1945, New York, 8vo (2) ***  Includes an excellent copy of Steinbeck's landmark novel, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. One of the most influential books of the century.

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Lot 171

Mastin (John) The Stolen Planet, jacket with spine faded, upper edge lightly trimmed, 1930 § Wallace (Edgar) The Day of Uniting, first American edition, cloth lightly faded, jacket chipped at edges, New York, 1930 § Clouston (J Storer) The Chemical Baby, first edition, jacket with portions of loss to lower edge, other tears and nicks to extremities, rubbed, 1934, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets; and 21 others, science-fiction, 8vo (24)

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Lot 280

Yeats (William Butler) The Tower, first edition, bookplate on front free endpaper, very faint scattered spots to first few pages, bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown, original pictorial cloth, blind-stamped and gilt by T. Sturge Moore, spine ends slightly frayed but else fine and remarkably brightly gilt, dust-jacket, uncut, half-title unopened, jacket in two pieces split along lower joint, upper joint starting, 3" triangular closed tear on upper panel, light pen mark to upper panel, extremities chipped, 8vo, 1928. *** One of 2000 copies. The Tower was Yeats' first major volume of poetry to appear as Nobel Laureate (he had been awarded the Nobel Prize five years earlier in 1923). It is considered one of the poet's most important volumes, and firmly established his place in the Modernist canon.

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Lot 174

Meredith (James Creed) The Rainbow in the Valley, first edition, signed by the author "with the author's compliments, with love from Creed" on front free endpaper, very faint spotting, original cloth, variant dust-jacket, chips and nicks to extremities, toning and discolouring to lower panel, 8vo, Dublin, Richview Press, 1939.*** A science-fiction rarity.We cannot trace another like copy with this pictorial jacket, nor signed by the author. 

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Lot 217

Shaw (George Bernard) The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Nancy Astor "to Nancy from G.B.S. 1st Dec. 1932" on half-title, illustrations by John Farliegh, some light spotting, original boards with design by Farliegh, light creasing and bumping to extremities, overall excellent, 8vo, 1932. *** An excellent association copy, dedicated to Shaw's friend Nancy Astor.American-born Nancy Astor (1879–1964), née Langhorne, succeeded her husband Waldorf Astor as Conservative MP for Plymouth Sutton in 1919, becoming the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. Despite their opposing political views, Astor and Shaw remained very close friends throughout their lives throughout the 1920s and until Shaw's death in 1950.

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Lot 20

Bates (H.E.) Catherine Foster, first edition, bookplate on endpapers, foxing on first few pages, jacket spine browned, extremities rubbed and chipped, 1929; Charlotte's Row, first edition, jacket spine broned, edges chipped and rubbed, 1931; The Woman Who Had Imagination, first American edition, jacket price-clipped, spine browned, short closed tears or chips to extremities, New York, 1934, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 9 others by Bates, including 2 proof copies, 8vo (12)  

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Lot 62

Dahl (Roald) Going Solo, first edition, signed by the author on half-title, paper remnants on endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, lower flap excised, with stub of flap tipped on to pastedown with tape, library sticker on spine tail, small patch of soiling on upper panel, 8vo, 1986.

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Lot 2

Ackroyd (Peter) London Lickpenny, first edition, signed by the author, original wrappers, lightly spotted, 1973 § Thatcher (Margaret) Statecraft, reprint, signed by the author on title, original wrappers, 2003 § Fowles (John) Wormholes, one of 550 copies signed by the author, original boards, slip-case, publisher's box, mint, 1998, 8vo (3)

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Lot 114

Heaney (Seamus) Sweeney Astray, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, Derry, Field Day, 1983; Field Work, first American edition, original boards, dust-jacket, New York, 1979 § Synge (J.M.) The Playboy of the Western World, first American edition, original boards, spine browned and rubbed, Boston, 1911; Riders to the Sea, first American edition, bookplate, original boards, Boston, 1911; The Tinkers Wedding, first American edition, original boards, Boston, 1911; and c.25 others, Irish literature, v.s. (c.30)

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Lot 139

Johnson (B. S.) & Margaret Drabble, editors. London Consequences, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "please understand this is a joke!" on title, original wrappers, light creasing to corners, 1972; Travelling People, reprint, Margaret Drabble's copy with her ownership inscription and notes, original wrappers, rubbed, 1967; Albert Angelo, reprint, Margaret Drabble's copy with her ownership inscription and notes, original wrappers, rubbed, 1967; and 4 others, all Margaret Drabble's copies with her ownership inscriptions, v.s. (7) ***  The first work was a collaborative novel, written and published for the Festivals of London in 1972. 

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Lot 257

Wells (H.G.) The War of the Worlds, first edition, issue without advertisements, publisher's 'Popular Six Shilling Novels' list to half-title verso, the odd spot, gutter and hinges very slightly cracked, original cloth, covers slightly soiled, spine darkened, loss to spine head, bumping to spine foot and corners, slight shelf-lean, [Currey p.526], 8vo, 1898.

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Lot 276

Wodehouse (P.G.) Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, 1954; Joy in the Morning, first English edition, portion of loss to jacket spine head, 1947; French Leave, 1955; Something Fishy, 1957; Cocktail Time, small ownership inscription on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly toned, 1958, first or first American editions, original boards, dust-jackets, nicks and chips to extremities, still sharp overall; and 2 others by Wodehouse, 8vo (7)

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Lot 66

De Bernieres (Louis) A Day Out for Mehmet Erbil, one of 100 copies signed by the author and illustrator, one of 150 specially-bound copies, this copy unnumbered and without the additional plate, original morocco-backed boards, slip-case, 1999; A Walberswick Goodnight Story, signed by the author on title, original wrappers, Tartarus Press, 2006; Gunter Weber's Confession, original wrappers, 2001; A Partisan's Daughter, first edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth-backed boards, slip-case, 2008; and another copy of the first from the ordinary limitation, 8vo (5)

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Lot 58

Dahl (Roald) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, first English edition, illustrations by Faith Jacques, the odd spot, original pictorial boards, spine ends and corners a little rubbed, some loss to laminate at head and foot of spine, some very light surface soiling, 1967; The Magic Finger, first English edition, illustrations by William Pene du Bois, some occasional faint spots, original pictorial boards, spotting to covers, spine ends lightly bumped, spine lightly browned, 1968; The Twits, first edition, illustrations by Quentin Blake, light water-staining to pp.10-11, original boards, light bumping to spine ends, dust-jacket, repaired tear to spine, light peeling on flap joints, spine ends and corners very slightly creased, 1980; and 3 others by or relating to Dahl, including a copy of Quentin Blake's Beyond the Page signed by the author, v.s. (6)

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Lot 214

Serviss (Garrett P.) A Columbus of Space, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, spine a little faded, ends a little bumped, still overall a crisp and sharp copy, 8vo, 1911.*** Rare in this condition, we cannot trace any other signed copy in commerce. Interplanetary adventure novel of travel by atomic powered spaceship to Venus inhabited by people and monsters. A minor science fiction classic combining high adventure in the Haggard tradition with the science fantasy of Wells and Verne.

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Lot 135

Johnson (B. S.) Travelling People, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Gregory Greynog on title, with autograph letter signed from the author to "Molly [Kershaw]" loosely inserted, related newspaper clippings loosely inserted, original boards, light rubbing to spine ends, dust-jacket, chips to edges, 8vo, 1963.

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Lot 256

Wells (H.G.) The Invisible Man, first edition, half-title, title in red and black, 2pp. advertisements at end, ink stamp to front pastedown, toning to margins, a couple of spots and small stains, hinge cracked but firm, original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, covers rubbed and soiled, spine darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, slip-case, [Currey p.526], 8vo, 1897.

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Lot 279

Wyndham (John) The Midwich Cuckoos, first edition, endpapers browned, very light shelf-lean, otherwise fine, 1957; Trouble With Lichen, second impression, light toning to endpapers, jacket spine lightly toned, nicks to edges, 1960; Chocky, first edition, review copy with slip loosely inserted, fine copy, 1968, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (3)

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Lot 79

Einstein (Albert) The Theory of Relativity, The Special & General Theory, translated by Robert W. Lawson, first edition in English, half-title, portrait frontispiece, diagrams and equations in text, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, presentation bookplate on pastedown, endpapers browned, original red cloth, spine faded, otherwise sharp, [cf. PMM 408], 1920.

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Lot 169

Markandaya (Kamala) Nectar in a Sieve, first edition, signed by the author on year of publication "Kamala Markandaya, St John's Hospital, October 1954" on front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, nicks and tears to edges, heavier to spine head, some repaired tears, small piece of loss to upper panel lower edge,  8vo, 1954.

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Lot 113

Hauser (Thomas) Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, first edition, signed commemorative plate from Ali laid down on half-title, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, faint creasing to extremities, one or two marks, 8vo, 1992.

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Lot 188

Orwell (George) Animal Farm, first American edition, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, fine cloth, jacket with chips and small portions of loss to spine ends and extremities, light nicks and tears to edges, New York, 1946; Nineteen Eighty-Four, first American edition, fine cloth, jacket spine with rubbing and surface abrasion marks, spine lightly faded and ends frayed but panels sharp, 1949; Animal Farm, second impression, cloth spine a little faded, jacket creased with nicks and tears to edges, 2" tear down spine joint creeping onto panel, spine ends with small portions of loss, 1945, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (3)

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Lot 19

Barrie (J.M.) The Little White Bird, first edition, frontispiece, light browning to endpapers and half-title, original cloth, slight toning to spine, else fine, 1902; The Plays of J.M. Barrie, first edition, toning strip on endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, portions of loss to upper panel corner and spine tail, light splash staining on upper panel, spine faded, 1928 § Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows, seventh edition, illustrations by Paul Bransom, browned endpapers with ownership inscription, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, 1913; and c.20 others, mixed literature, including a seventh edition of Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol from 1899, v.s. (c.25)

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Lot 65

Day Lewis (Cecil).- Isherwood (Christopher) All the Conspirators, 1928; Mr. Norris Changes Trains, light foxing on front free endpapers, cloth spine faded, 1935 § Kafka (Franz) The Trial, first English edition, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, review copy with compliments slip loosely inserted, 1937, first or first English editions, all Cecil Day Lewis' copies with his ownership inscription in pen or pencil on front free endpapers, original cloth, extremities rubbed, a little discoloured, 8vo (3) *** A very good trio of copies owned by the writer Cecil Day Lewis. The first being the scarce first novel by Isherwood. 

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Lot 30

Blyton (Enid) Five Go Adventuring Again, first edition, ink gift inscription on front free endpapers, cloth soiled and water-stained, 1943; Five Go Off in a Caravan, third impression, cloth lightly marked, dust-jacket, creased and rubbed at extremities, 1949; Five Run Away Together, third impression, ink gift inscription on half-title verso, faint foxing to first few pages, boards spine faded, dust-jacket, portions of loss to upper panel edges, torn down spine with tape residue stains, slightly rubbed, 1949, illustrations by Eileen Soper, original cloth or boards; and c.50 others by Blyton, most from the Famous Five series or Noddy books, v.s. (c.55) 

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Assange (Julian) The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire, first paperback edition, signed by the author "Julian Assange | Embassy of Ecuador | October 2016" on title, original wrappers, light creasing to spine, otherwise fine, 8vo, 2016. *** Julian Assange is an Australian publisher and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to wide international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, footage of a US airstrike in Baghdad, US military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

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Lot 134

Jackson (Shirley) Raising Demons, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, a few small stains to upper panel, some portions of loss to spine ends and corners, spine sunned, 1957 § Wills (Helen) Tennis, first English edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, loss to lower edge and spine ends, panels slightly soiled, spine faded, 1928 § Woolf (Virginia) Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, first edition, second impression, a few spots, original wrappers, margins toned, bowed, 1928; and 18 others, women writers, 8vo (21)

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Banks (Iain M.) The Player of Games, first trade edition, signed by the author, original boards, dust-jacket, fine, 8vo, 1988. *** The second of Banks' Culture novels to be published.

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Salter (James) A Sport and a Pastime, light rust stain from paper-clip on title, "compliments from the author" slip loosely inserted, jacket with small portion of loss to spine tail, upper edge with short tears and nicks, New York, 1967; Light Years, first edition, jacket head with light toning, nicks to upper edge, 1976; Dusk and Other Stories, first English edition, jacket spine faded, San Francisco, 1988, first or first English editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (4) *** A group of Salter's works, rare signed. 

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Lot 265

White (Antonia) Strangers, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Emily [Coleman] with very much love from Tony" on front free endpaper, dated at bottom in another hand, original boards, dust-jacket, nicks and creasing to upper edge, spine head chipped, lower panel spotted and toned, 8vo, 1954.*** A good association copy, inscribed to fellow writer and diarist Emily Coleman (1899-1974).See lot xxx for details.

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Kennedy (John F.) The Stategy of Peace, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Richard Hughes with very best wishes John Kennedy" on browned front free endpaper, original cloth, 8vo, New York, 1960.

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