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Click here to subscribeWelsh (Irvine) Trainspotting, first edition, original wrappers, light sunning to spine extremities a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners, an excellent copy, 8vo, 1993.*** Welsh's first book, long-listed for the Booker Prize and adapted for the classic 1996 Danny Boyle film of the same name.
Golding (William) Fire Down Below, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, one or two light bumps to extremities, 1989; Fire Down Below, proof copy, original wrappers, spine lightly faded, 1989; and 18 others by Golding, including a copy of William Golding: The Man and His Books, A Tribute on his 75th Birthday which is signed by Golding, 8vo (21)
Milne (A. A.) Now We Are Six, first edition, half-title browned, light occasional foxing, gutter slightly cracked in places, some light surface wear to covers, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, the odd spot, endpapers lightly browned, lower hinge cracked but holding, stain to foot of lower cover, covers slightly faded, 1928; When We Were Very Young, fourth edition, one marginal tear, light spotting and staining, gutter cracked in places, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, hinges cracked but holding, covers slightly soiled, rubbed, 1924, original pictorial cloth, gilt, t.e.g., spine ends and corners lightly bumped, heavier to When We Were Very Young, spines slightly faded, 8vo (3)
Ballard (J. G.) The Atrocity Exhibition, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Dear Joe and Jos [Tilson], sorry it's taken so long, but here at last is your visa for tomorrow, lots of love, Jim" to front free endpaper, faint spotting to endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, slight creasing to head, an excellent example, 8vo, 1966.***Ballard's controversial, experimental novel with an excellent inscription. Joe Tilson (1928-2023) British visual artist, trustee, along with Ballard of the Institute for Research in Art and Technology.
Gaiman (Neil) American Gods, limited edition signed by the author on limitation p., jacket with light creasing to head and foot, New York, 2001; Norse Mythology, signed by the author on title, 2017, first or first American editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine copies, 8vo (2)
Simenon (Georges) The Triumph of Inspector Maigret, first English edition, 32pp. publisher's adverts at end, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, spine sunned and light marking to lower cover, still a sharp copy, 8vo, [1934]. *** Exceedingly rare in commerce. The first Simenon novels were translated into English and published by Hurst & Blackett (a former imprint of Hutchinson) in 1933/34. They published only three books before Routledge succeeded them just before the war. All three of these early novels - Introducing Inspector Maigret, Inspector Maigret Investigates and The Triumph of Inspector Maigret are very rare.
Malamud (Bernard) The Natural, first English edition, some scattered edge-spotting, original boards, dust-jacket, light toning to spine and panel margins, minor chipping and slight rubbing to spine tips and corners, 1952; The Natural, uncorrected proof, original printed wrappers, browning to spine and covers, date on upper cover altered by hand, light creasing to spine, 1963; The Fixer, first edition, original cloth, light bumping to spine tips, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light creasing to head, light surface soiling, New York, 1966, excellent or near-fine copies; and 10 others by the same, 8vo (13)
Wouk (Herman) The Caine Mutiny, first edition, original cloth, light rubbing to spine and corner tips, dust-jacket, faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short closed tears, some creasing to head and foot, tape strengthening to verso, rubbed, 8vo, Garden City, NY, 1951.*** Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, twice adapted for film.
Clarke (Arthur C.) The Songs of Distant Earth, first English edition, signed by the author on date of publication, on title, 1986; The Fountains of Paradise, first edition, 1979; Imperial Earth, jacket price-clipped, 1975; 2010 Odyssey Two, first edition, 1982, original boards, dust-jackets, fine or near-fine copies, 8vo (4)
Sackville-West (Vita) All Passion Spent, first edition, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, portion of loss to spine, tear across spine and other nicks and chips to edges, 1931 § Isherwood (Christopher) Sally Bowles, ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, original cloth, spine faded, 1937 § The Hogarth Letters., ownership inscription on pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, 1932 § [Bussy (Dorothy)] Olivia, first English edition, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, rubbing to extremities, the odd nick and tear to edges, 1949, Hogarth Press; and 17 others from press, and by Mansfield, Forster, and Wyndham Lewis, v.s. (21)
Ballantyne (R.M.) The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, first edition, first issue with View From the Hill Top frontispiece, colour printed wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 3 plates only (of 6), by the author, tissue guards, occasional light foxing or marginal toning, original variant red gilt pictorial cloth, shelf-lean, light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners bumped and a little frayed, short split to head of upper joint, [Quayle 12a], 8vo, London, Edinburgh and New York, T. Nelson and Sons, 1858 [but 1857].
Heyerdahl (Thor) The Kon-Tiki Expedition, first edition, signed by the author on endpapers, plates, 2pp. advertisements, very light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, some light shadowing from jacket, dust-jacket, light foxing to verso, neat and expert repairs to spine ends and corners, in effect a near-fine example, 8vo, 1950.
Sinclair (Lewis) Ann Vickers, first English edition, original cloth, slight faying to spine, dust-jacket with green line to upper cover, light toning to spine and panel margins, slight chipping to spine tips and corners, 1933 § Le Carre (John) The Little Drummer Girl, uncorrected proof, original wrappers, light creasing, toning and fading, 1983; and 26 others, modern literature, 8vo (28)*** The first one of only 300 copies issue with this dust-jacket.
Ballard (J. G.) The Crystal World, first American edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, slight creasing to head, light rubbing to extremities, New York, 1966; Concrete Island, first American edition, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, New York, 1974; The Atrocity Exhibition, new revised edition, signed by the author, illustrations, original wrappers, San Francisco, CA, 1990; and 3 others, American editions of Ballard's work, 8vo (6)
Zamyatin (Yevgeny) We, translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, first English edition, original boards, very slight fading to spine, dust-jacket, very slight toning to spine, minor rubbing to spine tips and corners, a near-fine example, 8vo, 1970.*** A superb copy of Zamyatin's dystopian satire, an influence on the writings of Orwell, Huxley and Vonnegut.
Yeats (William Butler) The Tower, first edition, few pages unopened, original pictorial cloth, brightly gilt, spine lightly faded, extremities lightly rubbed, 1928; Last Poems and Plays, first American edition, dark green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, morocco turn-ins, spine lightly faded otherwise a very attractive copy, New York, 1940; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (4)
Steinbeck (John) East of Eden, first edition, first issue with 'bite' for 'bight' on p.281, upper hinge slightly cracked, original cloth, short tear to spine head, spine ends very lightly bumped, dust-jacket, vertical crease to spine, spine head frayed, tape stains along joints and edges, some minor loss to extremities, New York, 1952
Greene (Graham) A Burnt Out Case, 1961; Our Man in Havana, jacket price-clipped, 1958; The Potting Shed, endpapers browned, light foxing to preliminaries, ownership name on title, jacket creased with the odd nick to edges, spine chipped, 1958; The Quiet American, light foxing on endpapers, short tear to jacket tail, 1955; The Comedians, jacket price-clipped, 1966, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, one or two nicks to spine heads, overall mostly excellent or even near-fine copies; and 7 others, Greene, including a first edition, second issue of Stamboul Train, 8vo (12)
Douglas (Lord Alfred) Nine Poems, first edition, one of 50 copies, signed presentation inscription from the author "Francis, from his affect. Uncle, Alfred Douglas. A belated Wedding gift, London, May 1926" on front free endpaper, corrections to pp.1 & 8 by the recipient, bookplate, original Curwen Press patterned paper boards, lightly faded, extremities a little rubbed, preserved in custom-made chemise and slip-case, 4to, privately printed, 1926.
Barstow (John Montagu Orczy) "John Blakeney". A Gay Adventurer: Being the Biography of Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., Known as "The Scarlet Pimpernel", first edition, frontispiece and illustrations, 32pp. advertisements at end, some light spotting to first couple of leaves, original cloth, covers mottled, spine ends very lightly bumped, dust-jacket, spine lightly toned, lower joint slightly split at head, a couple of corners very slightly chipped, otherwise a near-fine jacket, 8vo, [1935].
Lee (Laurie) Cider With Rosie, first edition, bookplate on front free endpaper, a little spotted, original boards, very lightly damp-stained, dust-jacket, original Book Society Choice wraparound band, light creasing to spine ends, otherwise an excellent copy overall, 1959; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (3)
Miller (Henry) Plexus, 2 vol., limited edition, original wrappers, stain and writing removed from upper wrappers, edges rubbed, Paris, Olympia Press, 1953; Tropic of Cancer [&] Tropic of Capricorn, later but early printings, original wrappers, light spotting, extremities a little rubbed, Obelisk Press, Paris, [c.1939]; Tropic of Capricorn, first American edition, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, ends a little rubbed, New York, 1916; and c.65 others, by or relating to Miller, v.s. (c.70)
Masefield (John) Animula, one of 250 copies, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, original printed wrappers, chip to head of spine, some creasing to extremities, Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1920; Victorious Troy, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, original cloth, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, some chipping and tears to extremities, 1935; The Bird of Dawning, limited edition signed by the author, original buckram, toning to spine, 1933; and c.70 others, Masefield, v.s. (c.75)
Forsyth (Frederick) The Odessa File, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, a little nicked at extremities, 1972; The Biafra Story, reprint, original wrappers, a little creased, spine sunned, 1969; Avenger, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, a little nicked at extremities, 2003, signed by the author on titles; and 5 others by Forsyth, 8vo (8)
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Mr. Tod, first edition, first or second impression, with the publication year on the title, one or two spots, boards of spine split and repaired with tape, few nicks and chips to spine ends and corners, 1912; The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, first or second impression, slight rubbing to upper cover, bumping to extremities, 1906; The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, early printing with "author of 'Tale of Peter Rabbit'" on title, some finger-soiling marks, boards rebacked, preserved in custom-made drop-back box, 1903, original boards with pictorial onlays, 16mo (3)
Woolf (Virginia) To the Lighthouse, first edition, second impression, very light browning and faint ink ownership stamp to endpapers, original cloth, very slight fading to spine, light rubbing to extremities, dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell and priced at 7/6, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, short split to head of upper fore-edge, closed tear to foot of upper panel, the odd short nick or small chip to head and foot with light creasing but a very good example overall, [cf. Kirkpatrick A10a], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1927.*** Published one month after the first impression, with only 1,000 copies printed, compared to runs of 3,000 for the first impression and 1,500 for the third.
Connolly (Cyril) Enemies of Promise, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Ethel from Cyril with much love. "A never writer to an ever reader. Newes." Nov. 17. 38. Chelsea Square" to endpaper, original cloth, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, spine slightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, an excellent example, 8vo, 1938.*** Cyril Connolly's classic of autobiography and literary criticism, his attempt to examine why he never created a significant literary work. Scarce inscribed.
*** Please note, the description to this lot has changed.***Levi (Primo) If This is a Man, signed by the author on title, new edition, 1966; If Not Now, When?, first English edition, signed by the author on title, 1986; Roth (Joseph) Right and Left, first English edition, 1991; Bashevis Singer (Isaac) The Slave, first English edition, 1963, original boards, dust-jackets, light nicks to extremities, otherwise excellent; and c.100 others, mostly war and historical fiction, 8vo (c.105)
Camus (Albert) The Plague, translated by Stuart Gilbert, first English edition, very light spotting to fore-edge, original cloth, lightly marked, dust-jacket by Michael Ayrton, light surface marking to lower panel, light fraying and nicks to extremities, small patch retouching to spine head, overall a sharp and excellent copy, 8vo, 1948.
Walliams (David) Awful Auntie, first edition, signed by the author on title, 2014; Grandpa's Great Escape, signed by the author on half-title, signed with doodle from the illustrator on dedication page, 2015; The Midnight Gang, fourth impression, signed by the author and illustrator, bookplate on endpapers, 2016; The Ice Monster, first edition, signed by the author and illustrator with original doodle by Ross, 2018, illustrations by Tony Ross, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing to spine ends, 8vo (4)
Doyle (Roddy) Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, first edition, signed by the author on title, jacket with light toning to panels, otherwise excellent, 1993 § Toibin (Colm) The Heather Blazing, first edition, signed by the author on title, 1992 § McGahern (John) The Leavetaking, ex-library copy with barcode sticker to endpapers and stamps to title verso, otherwise clean, jacket lightly creased at top edges, 1974 & c.60 others, Irish fiction, 8vo (c.65) *** Includes a first edition set of Edna O'Brian's The Country Girls trilogy.
Vonnegut (Kurt) Player Piano, first English edition, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, faint edge-spotting, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, rubbing to spine tips and corners, minor chipping to corners, 1 or 2 short nicks to head, faint surface soiling to lower panel, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1953.*** Vonnegut's first book, a dystopia that takes place in a hyper-automised society.
Hemingway (Ernest) Across the River and Into the Trees, first edition, endpapers a little foxed, book-label, small ownership stamp on title, New York, 1950; A Farewell to Arms, first English edition, War literature pamphlet from the publisher loosely inserted, cloth spine lightly faded, jacket few tears to edges, light chipping and nicks to edges, 1929; Men Without Women, first edition, second printing, 1928; The Sun Also Rises, first edition, early printing, New York, 1927, original boards or cloth, light bumping to extremities, otherwise excellent; and 9 others by Hemingway, 8vo (13)
Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, first illustrated edition, plates and illustrations by William Nicholson, 20th century red crushed morocco, gilt, signed N.P., with brown morocco inlays to covers, t.e.g., others uncut, original dust-jacket panels and flaps bound in, 8vo, 1929.
Wodehouse (P.G.) Ring for Jeeves, first edition, a few faint spots to first few leaves, jacket with a few short tears, 1953; Big Money, sixth printing, toned, jacket priced at 5/-, lower flap slightly creased at head, [1930s]; The Heart of a Goof, ninth printing, pp.13-14 loose, offsetting onto half-title, odd spot to fore-edge, jacket priced at 5/-, upper edge creased and chipped with some minor loss, joints slightly rubbed, [1930s]; Meet Mr. Mulliner, ninth printing, toned, very slightly cockling to upper edge, jacket priced at 5/-, a couple of short tears, [1930s], original cloth, spine ends lightly bumped, slight shelf-lean, dust-jackets, spines sunned, spine ends and corners slightly chipped and frayed, a few stains; and c.40 others by Wodehouse, 8vo (c.45)
Wells (H.G.) The History of Mr. Polly, first edition, original boards, spine label a little rubbed, 1910; Christina Alberta's Father, first edition, endpapers renewed, 1925; Br. Britling Sees it Through, first American edition, small neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper, New York, 1919, original boards, light bumping to extremities; and 34 others, science-fiction, 8vo (37) *** Including the scarce Omnibus edition of Le Guin's Earthsea series from 1977.
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005, first paperback editions, original wrappers, mint, [Errington A2(b); A7(e); A9(e); A12 (d); A13(c)]; and the first 4 books in the first English 'Celebratory' edition, mint, 8vo (9)
Powys (John Cowper) Porius, limited edition signed by the author, frontispiece, original half morocco, 1951 § Milne (A.A.) Winne-the-Pooh, first edition, illustrations and map endpapers by E. H. Shepard, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine darkened, slight fraying to spine tips and corners, light marking to covers, 1926 § Rushdie (Salman) Shame, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, a fine copy, 1983; and c.150 others modern literature, 8vo (c.150)
Bradbury (Ray) Fahrenheit 451, first edition, frontispiece, Joseph Losey's copy with his pencil inscription to front free endpaper, original boards, light fading to tips of spine, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends and corners chipped with tape repairs to verso, some light rubbing and creasing, 8vo, 1954. *** Joseph Losey (1909-1984), film and theatre director, blacklisted in the United States by Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee, he moved to Europe and made the majority of his remaining films in the UK.
Hogarth Press.- Palmer (Herbert E.) Songs of Salvation, Sin, and Satire, first edition, light occasional spotting, original marbled boards with printed title label, edges uncut and largely unopened, circular shelf-label to upper cover, light crease to corner of upper cover, upper joint slightly rubbed with small chip, otherwise bright and excellent, Printed & published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, [1925] § Yeats (W.B.) Reveries on Childhood & Youth, first edition, mounted colour frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine darkened, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, 1916; Cutting of an Agate (The), first edition, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, endpapers lightly spotted, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, some light staining to lower cover, 1919; and 5 others, poetry, 8vo (8)
Fleming (Ian) Octopussy and the Living Daylights, jacket price-clipped with sticker to front flap, slight sunning to spine, 1966 § Markham (Robert) Colonel Sun, jacket price-clipped with sticker to front flap, 1968 § Gardner (John) Licence Renewed, jacket with light sunning to spine, 1981 § Benson (Raymond) Doubleshot, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 2000 § Faulks (Sebastian) Devil May Care, signed by the author on title, 2008 § Boyd (William) Solo, signed by the author, 2013 § Horowitz (Anthony) Trigger Mortis, limited edition signed by the author, 2015, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine overall; and 22 others, James Bond, 8vo (28)
Buchan (John) The Thirty-Nine Steps, first edition, 2pp. publisher's adverts at end, signed gift inscription in the year of publication on front free endpaper, hinge cracked at title, page margins toned, original cloth, faint ring-mark to upper cover, corners bumped, spine ends lightly frayed, 8vo, 1915.
Ballard (J. G.) Crash, reprint, jacket price-clipped with sticker to front flap, 1974; Hello America, first edition, 1981 § Goddard (James) and David Pringle, editors. J.G. Ballard. The First Twenty Years, first edition, illustrations by Carol Gregory, jacket with some light sunning, Hayes, Bran's Head Books, 1976, all signed by Ballard, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine; and 7 others, Ballard, 8vo (10)
Waugh (Evelyn) Black Mischief, first trade edition, map frontispiece, light scattered spotting, original cloth, spine ends lightly bumped, strip of fading to lower edge of upper cover, dust-jacket, spine toned, spine ends and corners slightly frayed, some very light spotting, otherwise a clean and crisp jacket, 1932; Basil Seal Rides Again, one of 750 copies signed by the author, colour frontispiece by Kathleen Hale, original blue cloth decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine and portions of cover lightly sunned, mylar dust-jacket, a few small stains along spine, minor loss to spine head and foot of upper flap joint, tear to lower panel, 1963; A Selection from the Occasional Sermons of the Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnot Knox..., one of 550 copies, title in red and black, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, dust-jacket, a few tears, most pronounced to spine foot, a few faint stains, spine darkened, original slip-case, printed label to spine, most joints broken, some tape repair, rubbed, 1949; and 7 others, Waugh, 8vo and 4to (10)
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, first American "Collector's edition", original green morocco, gilt with pictorial onlay to upper cover, [Errington A4(d)], New York, 2000; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first American deluxe edition, original red morocco, gilt with pictorial onlay to upper cover, [Errington A2(i)], 2002; and 3 others from the series, first American editions in deluxe hardback, [all published], New York, 8vo (5) *** A run of the American deluxe editions in different formats, all published.Scholastic only published the first and second novels in the series as the "Collector's edition" in green and red morocco, similar to the first English deluxe editions. Books 5-7 were published also as a version of the American Deluxe edition but changed to boards, dust-jacket and slip-case. There were no published Scholastic collector's or deluxe editions for Prisoner of Azkaban or Goblet of Fire, making this a rare complete run of the first American deluxe editions.
McMurtry (Larry) Terms of Endearment, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpapers, New York, 1975; Moving On, first edition, jacket spine ends creased and frayed, New York, 1970; The Last Picture Show, reprint, signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper, [1970]; Some Can Whistle, first edition, signed by the author on title, a fine copy, 1969; and 30 others, some others by McMurtry or other westerns, including a first edition of Guthrie's The Way West, 8vo (c.30)
Smith (Dodie) The Hundred and One Dalmatians, first edition, illustrations and pictorial endpapers by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone, foxing to edges and endpapers, original cloth, light sunning to spine, dust-jacket, sunning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, tape strengthening to head of spine verso, foxing to verso and flaps, light spotting to recto, 1 or 2 short nicks to head or foot, a very good example overall, 8vo, 1956.
Pinter (Harold) The Birthday Party, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, original pictorial wrappers, upper cover detached, lower cover becoming detached, upper cover creased and slightly rubbed at extremities, some surface wear, 8vo, Encore Publishing, 1959. *** Pinter's first published play, preceded only by his student play The Room. Scarce signed.
Hartley (L. P.) The Go-Between, first edition, some edge-spotting, original cloth, rubbing to top edge, dust-jacket, price-clipped, very light sunning to spine, vertical crease, spine ends and corners a little chipped, chip to head of upper panel with short closed tear, 2 closed tears to head of rear panels, light rubbed, 8vo, 1953.
Rhys (Jean) Postures, first edition, neat ownership inscription and insect damage on front free endpaper, slightly affecting pastedown and half-title, cloth a little damp-stained, spine faded, 1928; Tigers are Better Looking, first edition, jacket extremities fractionally rubbed, 1968; Sleep it Off Lady, first edition, dust-jacket, corners bumped, 1976; Good Morning Midnight, ownership sticker on front free endpaper, dust-jacket, price-sticker on upper flap, few nicks to extremities, 1967, original boards; and 4 others by Rhys, including a first American edition of Tigers are Better Looking, 8vo (8)
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