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McMurtry (Larry) The Last Picture Show, first edition, very light staining to first and last couple of leaves, original cloth, dust-jacket, a few very faint spots to upper cover, a near-fine copy, 8vo, New York, 1966.

Joyce (James).- Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers, first and only edition, edited by Robert McAlmon, the odd faint spot, light marginal toning, original wrappers, a couple of bumps with very minor loss, heaviest to spine foot, upper joint partially broken, spine darkened, lightly spotted, small 4to, [Paris], [Contact Editions], [1925]. *** One of only 300 copies printed for Robert McAlmon's "Contact Editions" who separately published works by many of the Modernist writers converging in the Paris of the '20s. It was also McAlmon who personally typed and edited the handwritten manuscript of Ulysses by James Joyce with whom he had a friendship. Joyce's contribution here is Work in Progress which would later make up pp. 30-34 of Finnegans Wake. Other contributors include Mary Butts, Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Norman Douglas, Ford Madox Ford, Ernest Hemingway, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams.

Maugham (William Somerset) Cakes and Ale, one of 1000 copies signed by the author and illustrator,  original calf, lightly rubbed at extremities, 1954 § Shute (Nevil) On the Beach, first English edition, light spotting, original boards, dust-jacket, light nicks to extremities, 1957 § O'Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, first McGibbon edition, original boards, dust-jacket, light nicks to extremities, 1960; and c.85 others, modern fiction, 8vo (c.90)

Harris (Thomas) The Silence of the Lambs, first edition, slight bumping to spine ends and corners, jacket with very light creasing to spine tips and corners, New York, 1988; The Silence of the Lambs, first English edition, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 1989, original board, dust-jackets, fine copies; and 4 others from the Hannibal series, 8vo (6)

Meriwether (Louise) Daddy Was a Number Runner, first English edition, 1972 § Tey (Josephine) Miss Pym Disposes, first American edition, jacket lightly rubbed along joints and at extremities, New York, 1948 § Wesley (Mary) The Camomile Lawn, first edition, 1984 § O'Brien (Edna) The Country Girls, first edition, light creasing and nicks to spine ends, 1960, original boards, dust-jackets, fine unless otherwise mentioned; and 22 others, women writers, including a proof copy of Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry, 8vo (26) *** A very good group of renown female writers, here in very good condition. 

Puzo (Mario) The Godfather, first English edition, original boards, light bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little rubbed and creased, some very light toning, a little rubbed, an excellent example, 8vo, 1969.

Cary (Joyce) The African Witch, first edition, signed by the author on title, light spotting to preliminaries, ownership name on endpapers, original cloth, covers stained, spine ends frayed, slight shelf-lean, 8vo, 1936.

Hughes (Ted) Recklings, one of 150 copies signed by the author, jacket edges lightly toned, otherwise a fine copy, 1966; Crow, first American edition, review copy with publisher's slip loosely inserted, jacket spine faded, New York, 1971; Season Songs, a mint copy, 1976; Wodwo, jacket spine faded, 1967, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 18 others by or relating to Ted Hughes, and some newspaper clippings of early published works, and some exceptionally sharp copies, 8vo (21) 

Orwell (George) Animal Farm, first American edition, original boards, dust-jacket, chipped and nicked to extremities, edges a little rubbed, New York, 1946; The Road to Wigan Pier, first Left Book Club edition, original cloth, spine lightly faded but an unusually crisp copy overall, 1937; and 24 others, Orwell, 8vo (26)

McBain (Ed) King's Ransom, first edition, signed by the author on title, toned, one or two spots to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, a few bumps to extremities, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners slightly creased and chipped, some light soiling to lower panel, otherwise excellent, 8vo, New York, 1959.*** The basis for Akira Kurosawa's classic film, High and Low (1963).

Rand (Ayn) The Fountainhead, first edition, bookplate, original boards, second state dust-jacket, vertical crease down upper panel, spine faded, chips and creases to extremities, 8vo, 1943.

James (P.D.) Shroud for a Nightingale, second impression, jacket splitting and rubbing along joints, extremities creased and tender, 1971; An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, first edition, jacket price-clipped, spine a little faded, 1972; Death of an Expert Witness, reprint, 1977; Devices and Desires, first edition, 1989; The Murder Room, first edition, 2003; The Children of Men, first edition, 1992, all signed by the author on titles, original boards, dust-jackets, the odd nick to extremities; and 14 others by James, including 3 others signed, 8vo (20)

Fleming (Ian) Dr. No, first edition, original first state plain black boards, very minor bumping to extremities, later dust-jacket, spine faded, light rubbing to upper edge, otherwise an excellent and sharp copy, 8vo, 1958.

Thomas (Dylan) A Child's Christmas in Wales, first edition, ink gift inscription to endpaper, original second-issue boards, lettered in black on spine, dust-jacket, price-clipped, splash-mark to upper panel, light toning to spine, minor chipping to head of spine, an excellent example, 8vo, Norfolk, CN, 1954.*** The first separately-printed edition of Dylan's seasonal classic, published one year after his death. 

le Carré (John) The Naive and Sentimental Lover, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "For Angela, for whom this book could have been written, with love David" on dedication p. with dedication crossed through, additionally signed by the author on half-title, original boards, slight shelf-lean, light bumping to spine tips, dust-jacket, light fading to spine, rubbing and minor chipping to spine tips and corners, an excellent example, 8vo, 1971.*** An alternately-dedicated copy, inscribed to an important figure in Le Carré's life. 

Morris (Jan).- Venice, first edition, ink ownership name on front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, very light nicks to extremities, otherwise a very sharp copy, 1960 § Gregory (Alfred) Everest, with a Forward by Jan Morris, first edition, signed by the author and Jan Morris, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly creased at head, 1993; and an order of service for Edmund Hillary, signed by Alfred Gregory, v.s. (3)

Heller (Joseph) Catch-22, first English edition, occasional light corner-creasing, original boards, light bumping to spine tips and corners,  second issue dust-jacket with reviews to rear panel, toning to spine and panel margins, spine ends and corners a little chipped, closed tear to head of upper panel, short nicks to head of lower panel, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, 8vo, 1962.

Russian Literature.- Babel (Isaac Emmanuilovich) Konarmiia [Red Cavalry], first edition, toned at margins, original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black bound in, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, later morocco-backed boards, t.e.g., spine sunned, joints slightly rubbed, 8vo, Moscow and St Petersburg, Gosudrastvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1926.*** The first edition of "the first true masterpiece of Russia's post-Revolutionary prose fiction" (Freidin). Red Cavalry was an instant success, which met with near universal acclaim and established Babel's reputation internationally. Marshall Semyon Budyonny was enraged by Babel's account of Budyonny's cavalry, but Maxim Gorky's protection ensured that the book could be published. Eventually, however, Babel was arrested on fabricated charges in 1939 and executed in 1940.

Three boxes of modern first edition books.

A first edition Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince A/F

Nine boxed Mattel Barbie fashion dolls to include Make A Valentine Special Edition (20339), Collector Edition Enchanted Evening Barbie (14992), Happy Halloween Barbie & Kelly (17238), Holiday Treats Barbie Special Edition (17236), American Stories Collection Pilgrim Barbie Special Edition (12577), Sweet Magnolia Barbie (15653), Avon Exclusive Winter Velvet Barbie Special Edition First In A Series (15571), Limited Edition Spanish Andalucia Barbie (15758) and Barbie Collector Scorpio October 24-November 21 Pink Label (C3825), all in ex condition, boxes vg overall

40 Boxed EFE Exclusive First Edition diecast model buses to include 22710 Alexander Y Type Stagecoach Western, 20634 Plaxton Pointer Dart Stagecoach, 20405 Bristol VR Series III Northern, 17211 Leyland National MKI Stagecoach Perth Panther, 18607 Bristol VRIII Stagecoach Devon General, etc, vg to ex (3 boxes)

Boxed Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece DC Collectors Edition MMS156 Captain America 'The First Avenger' 1/6 scale action figure, contained within original shop stock box

Six boxed Mattel Barbie dolls to include 53863 Salt Lake City Fire and Ice collectors edition, 20528 Very Velvet Barbie, 29050 Timeless Silhouette, K8740 Every Girls Dream, 2767 My First Barbie Ballerina and 54194 Sunsation plus a boxed Mattel Barbie with 2 x seat belts, steering wheel, unused sticker sheet and instructions, all vg (7 items)

Cowles (Frederick) The Night Wind Howls, 1 vol first edition F Muller London 1938

A large selection of modern first edition and science fiction volumes including N. Asher, P.F Hamilton, I. Rankin, F. Forsyth etc

Hardy (Thomas) The Short Stories, 1 vol, first edition 1928, and The Woodlanders 1896 (2)

Clemo (Jack) various volumes including Clay Cuts first edition signed by Jack Clemo and the illustrator; Confession of a Rebel; Broad Autumn and others etc

Le Carre (John) Absolute Friends, 2004 signed by John Le Carre with local dedication and two other first edition volumes including Agent Running in the Field and The Little Drummer Girl (3)

Bennett (A) The Gates of Wrath, 1 vol first edition 1903; Teresa of Watling Street first edition 1904 and two others (4)

Laing (Major DT) The Matabele Rebellion 1896 With The Belingwe Field Force, 1 vol first edition 1897

Buchanan (John) The Shire Highlands (East Central Africa) as Colony and Mission 1 vol first edition 1885

The Rolling Stones Limited Edition Set - The First 8 Studio Albums

[First Australian novelist] Grimstone, Mary Leman The Beauty of the British Alps Or, Love at First Sight. London: G. Virtue, 1825. 8vo in half-sheets (20.4 x 13cm), iv [1] 4-549 [1], contemporary marbled calf gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates (of 5: lacking plate listed as facing p. 393), bookplate, front joint superficially cracked, section of cracking to rear joint, scuffs to covers, rubbing to extremities, tips showing through, intermittent spotting and browning to contents (light to moderate), quire 2K with faint transverse bars of browning to foot First edition of the first book by the first Australian novelist, extremely rare, no other copy traced in auction records, which show only a handful of copies of two other works by the author, namely Louisa Egerton (1830), written during and shortly after her voyage to Van Diemen's Land in 1825, and consequently the first novel written in Australia, and Cleone (1834). Grimstone returned to England in 1829, joining London's radical intelligentsia and associating with figures including Robert Owen and Elizabeth Gaskell; her 1834 novel Women's Love ‘advanced feminist ideas in much the same terms as had Mary Wollstonecraft’ (Australian Dictionary of National Biography). Copies of The Beauty of the British Alps were issued with Plymouth or London imprints on the title-page, though both versions appear to have comprised the same Oxford-printed sheets, with no priority assigned.

[Scottish family histories] Group of deluxe copies Anderson, John. Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton. Edinburgh: John Anderson, Jun., 1825. First edition, 4to (31 x 23cm), 324 409-12 *321-*324 325-408 [4] pp., near-contemporary red morocco richly gilt by Clarke and Bedford, broad turn-ins with elaborate foliate roll gilt, red moiré silk doublures, gilt gauffered edges, engraved frontispiece, plate facing p. 409, list of subscribers to rear, extra-illustrated with engraved arms of the dukes of Hamilton (on india paper, mounted), frontispiece offset, bookplate of T. Dawson Turner to initial blank,  pencilled annotation ‘From the Beckford lib' to front free endpaper, early-20th-century printed catalogue description for the present copy laid in, annotated Large paper copy. From the Beckford library’. Housed in custom marbled card case (now defective) with 2 related items, comprising: William Aiton, An Inquiry into the Pedigree, Descent, and Public Transactions of the Chiefs of the Hamilton Family, Glasgow: Andrew Young, 1827 (8vo, wrappers); and Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, Corrected, with an Addition, Edinburgh: John Stevenson, 1828 [bound with:] Reply to the Misstatements of Dr Hamilton of Bardowie in his Late “memoirs of the House of Hamilton, Corrected,” Edinburgh: John Stevenson, 1828 (2 works in 1 volume, 4to, wrappers);Stuart, John (editor). Registrum de Panmure. Records of the Families of Maule, de Valoniis, Brechin, and Brechin-Barclay, United in the Line of the Barons and Earls of Panmure. Compiled by the Hon. Harry Maule of Kelly, A.D. 1733. Edinburgh: [privately printed for the Earl of Dalhousie], 1874. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 150, 2 volumes, 4to (27.2 x 20.5cm), original green full morocco by Orrock presumably for the Earl of Dalhousie, green moiré silk doublures, all edges gilt, all plates as called for (including tinted lithographic facsimiles of manuscripts, colour-printed facsimiles of heraldic facsimiles, etc.), bookplates of T. Dawson Turner;[Laing, David, editor]. The Genealogy of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Drummond. By the Honourable William Drummond, afterwards First Viscount of Starthallan, M.DC.LXXXI. Edinburgh: A. Balfour and Co., 1831. First edition, one of 4 large-paper copies (in addition to 100 standard copies, all intended for private circulation), 4to (29.2 x 23cm), contemporary red morocco gilt, all edges gilt, title-page in red and black, engraved arms present in two states (coloured and uncoloured).Together with 2 others similar (George Seton, A History of the Family of Seton, 1896, first edition, one of 200 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original morocco-backed cloth, plates, bookplate of T. Dawson Brodie; and another copy of Registrum de Panmure in original red cloth gilt)(8) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Fairbairn, Thomas Relics of Ancient Architecture and other Picturesque Scenes in Glasgow Glasgow: published, and lithographed in colours by Miller & Buchanan, from Water Colour Drawings by Thomas Fairbairn, 1849. First edition, large folio (65 x 43cm), c.1900 green crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, marbled endpapers, broad inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, chromolithographic vignette title-page, 4 pp. descriptive letterpress, 20 chromolithographic plates with tissue-guards, pale mottling to rear cover, spotting to endpapers and blanks [Abbey Scenery 502] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

[Binding - 18th-century woman owner] Maxims and Discourses, Moral and Divine taken from the Works of Arch-Bishop Tillotson, and Methodiz'd and Connected. London: for J. Tonson, 1719. First edition, 8vo (22 x 14cm), [16] 109 [3] pp., contemporary red morocco, covers richly gilt with broad stylised outer roll enclosing elaborate central panels incorporating a variety of floral stamps, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt,  spine sunned, small white mark to foot of front board The Library of a Scottish Gentleman. With the ownership inscription ‘Caroline Brydges 1745’ to the initial blank: this is Lady Caroline Leigh née Brydges (1729/30-1804), daughter of Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos, wife of Thomas Leigh, and grandmother of Chandos Leigh. There is also a later Leigh family bookplate to the front pastedown.

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. First edition, 4to, original cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, xix 180 pp., half-title, wood-engravings in text, 2 maps, 93 numbered plates, mainly photographic but including 6 folding diagrams, ex Manchester Public Free Libraries with gilt shelfmark to spine, bookplate and shelfmark label to front pastedown, blind stamps to title-page and plates, title-page additionally with ink-stamp verso, cloth dust-soiled, textblock toned, plates 1 and 2 (folding diagrams) with old repairs to inner corners, plate 6 creased plate 72 loss to corner not affecting image Very rare: only two further copies traced in auction records in the last 50 years.

Deuchar, David A Collection of Etchings after the most Eminent Masters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools particularly Rembrandt, Ostade, Cornelius Bega and Van Vliet. Accompanied with Sundry Miscellaneous Pieces and a Few Original Designs. Edinburgh: David Deuchar, 1803. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt, decoration including broad roll-tool frame in diamond pattern with interstitial floral tools to covers, spines gilt-lettered ‘india proofs’ at foot, all edges gilt, etched title-page to each volume, 357 etchings on india paper (3 of which folding), mounted (in many cases more than one to a leaf), various dimensions (approx. 6 x 5cm to 19.5 x 17.5cm), a hint of rubbing to extremities, title-pages spotted, volume 4 with damp-staining to title-page and first plate (bound as frontispiece) and to foot of a few other mounts The Library of a Scottish Gentleman The number of plates in sets of this works seems to vary.

Strawberry Hill Press Memoires du comte de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine Hamilton Nouvelle édition, augmentée de notes et d'éclaircissemens necessaires, par M. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill: [Strawberry Hill Press], 1772. One of 100 copies, 4to, 19th-century citron morocco gilt by Riviere, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, xxiii 290 [3] pp., 3 engraved portraits including frontispiece [Hazen 18];Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions. London: Rest Fenner, 1817. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century green crushed half morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, top edges gilt, half-titles;[Procter, Bryan Waller]. Effigies Poeticae: or, the Portraits of the British Poets. London: James Carpenter and Son, 1824. 8vo, contemporary straight-grain green morocco by Hering, spine gilt in compartments, decorative gilt panels to covers, all edges gilt;Gilbert, David (editor).Some Ancient Christmas Carols, with the Tunes to which they were formerly sung in the West of England … Second Edition. [Bound with:] Mount Calvary, or the History of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Written in Cornish … interpreted in the English Tongue, in the Year 1682. London: John Nicholas and Son; Nichols and Son [and others], 1823-6. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, contemporary diced russia gilt, rebacked, first work with several folding plates of engraved music (collation not established);and 1 other work(6) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Einstein, Albert The Meaning of Relativity Four Lectures delivered at Princeton University, May, 1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1923. First US edition, first printing, 8vo, 123 pp.,  original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, spine toned and slightly rolled, a little rubbing to extremities, a few white flecks to to covers, strip of browning to pp. 44-5 The first US edition comprises the the sheets of London edition, published by Methuen the previous year, with a cancel title-page.

Children's and illustrated books Collection of works including: Willy Pogany (illustrator), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1910 (first edition, 4to, original green cloth, lithographed throughout, tipped-in colour plate); ibid., Parsifal, 1912 (first edition, 4to, original grey cloth, lithographed throughout, tipped-in colour plates); The Tale of Lohengrin, c.1913 (4to, original cloth, lithographed throughout); E. J. Detmold (illustrator), Hours of Gladness, by M. Maeterlinck, 1912 (first edition, 4to, original cream cloth gilt, mounted colour plates); and approx. 50 others, including W. Heath Robinson, Detmold, Dulac, etc.

Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista de' Pontificum Romanorum Effigies Rome: Domenico Basa, 1580. First edition, 8vo (15.5 x 11cm), a8 [A]-2F8 2G4, late 17th or early-18th century red morocco richly gilt, red endpapers with foliate pattern printed in gilt, all edges gilt, 2 engraved title-pages, full-page engraving of Matthew 16:18 ('Tu es Petrus'), 230 full-page engraved portraits of popes [Adams A1183; EDIT16 CNCE 10449] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman Some copies are bound with a dedication to Gregory XIII, not found here or mentioned in the Adams collation, but the EDIT16 catalogue clarifies that the work is complete without it and describes copies with the dedication as variants.

Fleming, Ian Live and Let Die London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First edition, first issue, first state, 8vo, 240 pp., original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, decorative roundel gilt to front board, with the dust jacket. very pale mottling to covers, faint spotting to edges of textblock, encroaching on margins at pp. 150-160 and in a few places elsewhere, pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dust jacket with shallow loss to top and bottom edges of folds, rubbing to folds between spine-panel and front and rear panels, small mark to front cover, rear panel spotted and browned, browning to peripheries of flaps [Gilbert A2a (1.1.)]

[Beckford, William] [Vathek.] An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript with Notes Critical and Explanatory. London: for J. Johnson, 1786. First edition, 8vo (18.8 x 11.9cm), vii 334 pp., later sprinkled calf gilt, neatly rebacked with richly gilt spine (ink-stamp ‘Bound by Riviere & Son’ to front free endpaper, perhaps referring to the rebacking only, the covers possibly earlier, the rear binder's blank watermarked 1809), marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 5 woodcuts of fans in the text, final blank discarded [Rothschild 352] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman A classic work of Gothic fiction and oriental fantasy, Vathek was originally written by Beckford in French, then translated into English by his friend the Reverend Samuel Henley, who published his English version before the publication of an edition in the original French, contrary to Beckford's instructions. French editions were subsequently printed at Lausanne in December 1786 (dated 1787) and Paris in December 1787; it has been suggested that these editions were in fact retranslations of the English version.

Baskerville, John (printer) Book of Common Prayer Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1761. 8vo (23.5 x 15cm), contemporary red morocco, spine compartments tooled in gilt to saltire pattern, covers panelled in gilt with various concentric decorative rolls and coronet cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, signatures a-c4 B-2L8 2M4 (lacking a1 or a2, possibly a half-title or blank; quire U with 7 leaves only but catchwords all aligning), spine slightly faded, old ink-staining to front board, 19th-century chromolithographic prayer slips tipped to verso of title-page, bookplate of William Ramsay of the University of Glasgow;Bodoni, Giambattista (printer). Callimaco Greco-Italiano ora pubblicato. Parma: nel regal palazzo co' tipi Bodoniani, 4to (29 x 20.6cm), [24] iv [2] 76 [2] iv [2] 100 [4], contemporary straight-grain blue morocco ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, bookplate (T. D. C. Graham);Burnet, Gilbert. The Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, etc. In which an Account is given on the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland. London: by J. Grover, for R. Royston, 1677. First edition, folio (31 x 18.6cm), near-contemporary red morocco gilt, half-title with engraved portrait verso, 3 other engraved portraits (one a plate, the rest in the text), addenda and errata leaves, bookplate (Edward Cheney)(3) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Pinter, Harold The Homecoming Images, Harold Cohen. London: Karnac - Curwen, 1968. One of 198 of 200 copies signed by Pinter and Cohen,  large folio, original green cloth, slipcase, light variable fading to cloth;Hughes, Ted. The Burning of the Brothel. London: Turret Books, 1966. Out-of-series copy from the edition of  300, 4to, original blue wrappers;Ibid. Season Songs. Pictures by Leonard Baskin. New York: Viking Press, 1975. 4to, original quarter cloth, dust jacket, signed ‘Ted Hughes 1975' on the front free endpaper, endpapers spotted;Banville, John. First Light. London: Bridgewater Press, 2006. One of 100 copies signed by the author, 8vo, original cloth;Raine, Craig. The Electrification of the Soviet Union. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. One of 100 copies signed and numbered by the author, original red quarter morocco, glassine dust jacket;Salaman, Malcolm C. The Etchings of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1923. One of 200 copies, folio, original quarter calf, slipcase (worn);and 20 others, including Seamus Heaney, Hallaig, 2002 (one of 150 copies), Enitharmon Press, Fifty Poems, a Selection by Edgell Rickword, 1970 (one of 362 copies signed Rickword, this copy additionally inscribed), Memorial Catalogue of the French and Dutch Loan Collection, Edinburgh International Exhibition 1886, 1886 (4to, original cloth, one of 520 copies), and similar, mainly poetry, including signed copies (26)

Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, dust jacket, spine rolled, dust jacket spine darkened, chips and losses to head and foot of spine and joints, marks to rear panel;Now We Are Six. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, dust jacket (chipped and marked) (2)

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice With twenty-four coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907. First ‘English Idylls’ edition, deluxe issue, 8vo, original decorative vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 24 colour plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page, contemporary calligraphic presentation slip mounted to front free endpaper, covers slightly sprung and mottled, spotting to edges, free endpapers browned, [Gilson E114]; Idem. Emma. With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs and Illustrations by Chris Hammond. London; George Allen, 1894. First edition, 8vo, original decorative blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, all plates as called for (counted in pagination and register), front inner hinge cracked and worn, private address blind stamps to free endpapers, small hole to front free endpaper; Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. With twenty-five coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1904. First ‘English Idylls’ edition, deluxe issue, 8vo, original decorative vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed,  25 colour plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page, contemporary calligraphic presentation slip mounted to verso of half-title, covers sprung The first Brock-illustrated edition of Pride and Prejudice appeared in 1895, but in that edition the illustrations were different and not in colour.

Quarles, Francis The Historie of Samson 4to (17.7 x 11.8cm), [8] 142 pp., A-T4 (-T4, blank), 19th-century purple roan backing marbled boards, wear to spine, title-page slightly marked and with old repair to upper inner corner [STC 20549] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman Very rare first edition of one of several works of biblical verse by an important 17th-century author whose writings 'serve to enrich the picture of Stuart England' (ODNB).

Burns, Robert - The "Kilmarnock Burns" Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786. First edition, 8vo, 204 x 117mm, late nineteenth century green morocco gilt by F. Bedford, spine gilt, gilt edges Roderick Terry, noted American bibliophile, armorial bookplate; Previously owned by John Dover of Glasgow; offered for sale by a Scottish institution Robert Burns was an intelligent and fun-loving youth, working as a farm labourer by day and reading the works of Scottish Enlightenment authors and philosophers, alongside playing the fiddle, in his spare time. Unusually for the era, although less so for lowland Scotland at the time, the working-class Robert Burns received a formal education in standard English. He combined this with the influences of the Scots language and folklore to create poetry which has appealed to generations worldwide, identifying the truths of human nature. Burns first started to write poetry as a boy of about fifteen, addressing them to a “bewitching” girl he had met during the harvest. Nearly 240 years after the publication of the 1786 “Kilmarnock Edition”, over 2000 editions of his poems and songs have been published.The “Kilmarnock” – or first – edition of Burns’ poems is the single most famous volume in Scotland's impressive literary heritage. However, the work almost never saw the light of day. Burns' farming activities at Mossgiel farm were not profitable and although he wished to marry Jean Armour, who was carrying his child, the marriage was opposed by her father, so Burns made plans to emigrate. It was only the suggestion by a local lawyer, Gavin Hamilton, that he could finance his voyage to Jamaica by publishing some of his poems, that led to him approaching a nearby printer, John Wilson, in Kilmarnock. On the 31st July 1786 Wilson published the volume of poetry by Burns under the unassuming title Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. It sold for three shillings and the entire print-run of 612 copies sold out within a month, bar 13 copies left with the publisher. The volume contained much of his best writing, including The Twa Dogs; Address to the Deil; Halloween; The Cotter's Saturday Night; To a Mouse; Epitaph for James Smith and To a Mountain Daisy, many of which had been written at Mossgiel farm. The success of the work was immediate.The first edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is exceptionally rare. As of the 2017 edition of Allan Young's The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census, there were 84 known copies of the book surviving, with 15 of these (including this copy) in private hands. In March 2021, the Burns Chronicle, published by Edinburgh University Press, updated the number to 88 surviving copies. [Literature: Young, Allan. The Kilmarnock Burns: A Census, 2017] 

Scottish poetry and history Collection of works, 18th-19th century Robertson, Alexander, of Struan. Poems on Various Subjects and Occasions. Mostly taken from his own Original Manuscripts. Edinburgh: for Ch. Alexander, and sold at his house, c.1750. First edition, 8vo, [4] 360 pp., contemporary sprinkled calf, 19th-century spine labels, bookplate of Sir William Fraser (1816-1898), Scottish antiquarian, 2E2 a cancel (detaching from stub);Johnston, James (editor). The Norwegian Account of Haco's Expedition against Scotland; A. D. MCCLXIII. now first published, in the original Islandic, from the Flateyan and Frisian MSS. with a literal English version and Notes. [Copenhagen]: printed for the author, 1782. First edition, large 8vo, edges untrimmed, the imposition such that ff. 1-4 of each quire measure 25 x 16cm and ff. 5-8 approx. 25 x 11.5cm;and 9 others (these not collated), including: Sir James Dalrymple, Collections concerning the Scottish History, Edinburgh, 1705 (first edition, 19th-century morocco gilt, bookplate of George Seton Veitch); William Buchanan of Auchmar, The History of the Ancient Surname of Buchanan, Glasgow, 1792 (8vo, contemporary tree sheep, engraved frontispiece, joints cracked); Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope, Edinburgh, 1799 (first edition, 8vo, original marbled boards); Sir Robert Sibbald, The History … of Fife and Kinross, Cupar, 1803 (large 8vo, later panelled calf by Ramage); Sir Harris Nicolas, History of the Earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth, 1842 (8vo, contemporary straight-grain tan morocco gilt); Donald Monro, Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides. Edinburgh: William Auld, 1774 (first edition, small 8vo, later calf, front cover detaching, effaced ownership inscription to title-page); and similar The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Modern literature, children's books, art & design Collection of works Huxley, Aldous. Along the Road. Notes and Essays of a Tourist. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. Large-paper edition, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, 8vo, original half japon;Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. London: Gibbings and Company Limited, 1897. 8vo, original green cloth decorated with Art Nouveau design, top edge, others untrimmed, 7 plates;Lang, Andrew. The Yellow Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First edition, contemporary citron morocco lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 24 plates including frontispiece;‘B. B.’ Ben the Bullfinch. Illustrated by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957. First edition, 8vo, original yellow boards, dust jacket;Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Irish Fairy Tales. By James Stephens, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1920. First edition, trade issue, 4to, original cloth, colour plates, ‘presentation copy' blind stamp to title-page;Beaton, Cecil. Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook. London: B. T. Batsford, 1937. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (chipped);[Morris, Talwin, designer]. Queen Victoria, her Life and Reign. By Thomas Archer and Amelia Hutchison Stirling. London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1901. First edition, 4 volumes, 4to, original red cloth with elaborate Art Nouveau design by Talwin Morris in gilt and green, all edges gilt;Beardsley, Aubrey, & others. The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-6. Volumes 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10 only, 4to, original yellow cloth;and 8 others similar (24)

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition, 13th impression paperback, signed and inscribed: “To Kathleen, Thank you for liking book two even better (that's the one I'm worried about at the moment!) J.K. Rowling", 8vo, original wrappers Signed and inscribed for the vendor at her place of work

Macintyre, Duncan Ban (1724-1812) Orain Ghaidhealach Le Donnchadh Macantsoir. Duneidiunn [Edinburgh]: gu feim an Ughdair, 1790. Second edition, 12mo (16.2 x 9cm), xi [1] 252 pp., contemporary red morocco, spine gilt in compartments with alternating griffin and star devices, Greek-key roll gilt to covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, half-title, list of subscribers, small spot to sigs. S-T.With 2 others, both small 8vo, in 18th-century red morocco gilt (Jacob Masen, Sarcotis Carmen editio altera, Cologne: et venit Parisiis, apud J. Barbou, 1757; Theodori Bezae Vezelii Poemata [part 2:] Marci-Antonii Mureti Juvenilia [part 3:] Joannis Secundus Hagiensis Juvenilia, Leiden, 1757, 2 engraved portraits) The Library of a Scottish Gentleman The Gaelic poems of Duncan Ban MacIntyre were first published in 1760. All contemporary editions are rare, with no copies of any edition earlier than 1832 otherwise traced in auction records. The work is entirely in Gaelic except for a dedication to John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane, a single-page biographical sketch of the author, and the list of subscribers, in which Highland residents predominate, including 150 individuals with the surname Campbell, and ten Donald McIntyres.

Stuart, John Sobieski Stolberg [& Charles Edward] Vestiarium Scoticum from the Manuscript formerly in the Library of the Scots College at Douay. With an Introduction and Notes. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1842. First edition, folio (36.8 x 26cm), original red morocco richly gilt overall including large block of the royal arms of Scotland to covers, all edges gilt, 109 pp., half-title, hand-coloured lithographic plate, 75 chromolithographic glazed plates of tartan patterns, mounted as issued, captioned tissue-guards, vellum presentation leaf to front lettered in gilt ‘The gift of the Honble Frances Fraser of Lovat on her marriage, from her grandmother Amelia Mary Fraser of Strichen, 1844’, plates offset onto tissue-guards, variable spotting to mounts The Library of a Scottish Gentleman One of 50 copies according to the ODNB. A notorious work of forgery and fantasy by the impostor Stuart brothers, Englishmen whose real surname was Allen, but who presented themselves (in good faith or otherwise) as illegitimate sons of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and set about producing works revealing the wealth, and strictly Catholic and Celtic character, of Scottish culture in the middle ages. Their claims that the Vestiarium Scoticum was based on a 15th-century manuscript in their possession were denounced by Walter Scott before his death as fraudulent, but the published work nevertheless had an enduring influence.

Naismith, John Thoughts on Various Objects of Industry pursued in Scotland Edinburgh: printed for the Author and sold by Bell and Bradfute, 1790. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, joints a little worn

Scott, Sir Walter Waverley Novels, 23 works in first edition [without "Waverley"] Guy Mannering; or, the Astrologer. Edinburgh: John Ballatyne and Co., for Longman, Hurst... 1815.3 volumes, first edition, second or third state; The Antiquary. Edinburgh: John Ballatyne and Co., for Longman, Hurst... 1816. 3 volumes, first edition;Tales of my Landlord. First Series. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1816. 4 volumes, first edition;Rob Roy. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1818. 3 volumes, first edition;Tales of my Landlord. Second Series. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1818. 4 volumes, first edition; Tales of my Landlord. Third Series. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1819. 4 volumes, first edition;Ivanhoe. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, first edition, adverts in volume 1;The Monastery. Edinburgh/London: Longman, Hurst… & Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, first edition; The Abbot Edinburgh/London: Longman, Hurst… & Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, first edition; Kenilworth. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1821. 3 volumes, first edition;The Pirate. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. 3 volumes, first edition;The Fortunes of Nigel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. 3 volumes, first edition;Peveril of the Peak. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. 4 volumes, first edition, some dampstaining to one volume;Quentin Durward. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. 3 volumes, first edition;St Ronan's Well. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. 3 volumes, first edition;Redgauntlet. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. 3 volumes, first edition;Tales of the Crusaders. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1825. 4 volumes, first edition;Woodstock; or, the Cavalier... Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1826. 3 volumes, first edition, volume 1 lacking half-title;Chronicles of the Canongate. [First Series.] Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1827. 2 volumes, first edition, volume 2 lacking volume title;Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1828. 3 volumes, first edition;Anne of Geierstein; or, the Maiden of the Mist. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829. 3 volumes, first edition, with some dampstaining;Tales of my Landlord. Fourth and Last Series. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1832. 4 volumes, first edition, volume 1 lacking volume title; All first editions, various states, all with half-titles unless stated, uniformly bound in olive green morocco gilt by Riviere, bookplates of Castlecraig Library (71)[All in Worthington, Greville. A Bibliography of the Waverley Novels, 1931] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Dundee Collection of manuscripts by James Thomson of Dundee, mid-19th century all closely written in an italic hand, most works signed by James Thomson, a few (e.g. ‘The Houff’ and ‘The Last Literary Remains of Foo-Fozzle’) not signed but in the same hand, contents comprise: ‘The Last Literary Remains and Relics of the World-Renowned Foo-Foozle, D.D.D.D. and M.L. of Ching-Chang, and Mandarin of Ten Golden Buttons and Five Siler Tassel; in Joint Stock with those of the ever famous John Young, Late of Forebank, Esquire … Chang-Quang: Souchong, Printer. Young Hyson, Publisher. 14th Day, VIth Moon, Year 1845'. 4to, 206 pp., lined paper wrappers; ‘An Account of the Island of Icolmkill [Iona] as it was in the year 1771. A New Edition revised and corrected. J. Thomson, Scripsit’, Dundee, 15th June, 1852. 4to, green paper wrappers, 16 pp., old staining to rear; ‘Tour through Part of Perth and Fifeshires from Dundee by Ingergowrie, Foulis, Longforgan, Inchture, Dunsinane, Raitt, Errol, Abernethy, Abbey of Lindores and the Abbey of Balmerino to Newport in 1823. Also An Excursion from Dundee to Meigle in the same year … By James Thomson. Third Edition enlarged [sic]’, Dundee, 18232. 8vo, drab paper wrappers, 116 pp., ownership inscription of John Campbell dated Dundee 1837 to title-page; ‘Poems and Songs by Sigma. In Three Volumes, Volume First [ … Second … Third], 1828 [dated at rear]. 4to, contemporary half calf, 125, 43, 126 pp., inscribed on versos of title-page, ‘Dundee 21st July 1841, presented to Mr John Campbell by the author as a small mark of esteem after an acquaintanceship of sixteen years without a cross word occurring during that time to mar the friendship which endured in the course of these years, James Thomson’; 'Gildas Sapiens, de Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. Gildas the Wise, concerning the Subversion and Complaint of Britain; being the Historical Part or First Thirty-One Chapters of his Epistle, Modernised from the Translation made from the Original Latin, and published in 1638. With a New Introduction and Copious Notes. By James Thomson', Dundee, 15th July 1852. 8vo, marbled wrappers, 56 pp.; ‘The Houff: a Selection of the best Epitaphs and Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern, in the Houff or Common Burying Ground, Dundee … By Old Mortality, Junior’, Dundee, 1834. 4to, contemporary limp marbled boards, 150 pp., together with another copy with a slightly variant title, disbound; ‘Narrative of Occurrences in the Parish of Newtyle at the Beginning of the 18th Century, as Illustrative of the Mourners of Former Times. With an Appendix of Select Excerpts from the Parish Register of Auchterhouse. By a Gleaner’, Dundee, 1842. Folio, 22 pp., with a pen-and-ink sketch of Newtyle Castle signed J. Thomson to title-page; ‘The Parish Register or Book of the Session, with Notes and an Appendix of Additional Curious Collections. The whole intended as Authentic Illustrations of Former Times. By James Thomson' [no date]. 4to, contemporary half calf, 211 pp., ownership inscription ‘John Campbell, Crichton Street, Dundee’ to p. 1; ‘The Parish Register or Parochial Annals, Being Extracts from the Records of Various Parishes selected as Illustrations of Ancient Manners’, 1828. 4to, blue paper wrappers, 178 pp.; ‘Supplement to the History of Dundee by James Thomson’, Dundee, 1847. Oblong 8vo, plain paper wrappers, 162 ff., written on rectos only; 'The Book of ye comoun Rentallis of the Burgh of Dundie, Almishous and Kirkwark thairof, this maid … in the tyme of Mr James Haliburtoun, Provost … Extracted from the Locked Book of Burgesses by James Thomson', Dundee, 1838. 8vo, 59 pp., blue paper wrappers (front wrapper missing, front blank detaching), inscription in a separate hand (presumably the recipient's) ‘To Mr J. Campbell from J. Thomson the editor … 1841’ on p. [3]; ‘Observations, Exclamations, and Narrations in Verse; being the Reveries, and Day-Dreams, of [symbols]. In six Cantos, by An Observer. Printed by _ And sold by all the Booksellers’. Dundee, 1825. 4to, plain paper wrappers, 40 pp..Together with a further volume of manuscript notes by Thomson (containing transcripts of 18th-century court of session hearings), and a related printed work (A Feast of Literary Crumbs … By Foo Foozle and Friends, Ancient Citizens of Dundee … Dundee: William Kidd, c.1880, no. 1 in the ‘Dundee Reprints’ series, front wrapper captioned ‘facsimile of original cover’ and including imprint J. Valentine, Dundee, 1848') (15) The author of these manuscripts can be identified with that of the published work The History of Dundee (Dundee, 1847; 2nd edition 1874) on the basis of the introduction to the ‘Supplement of the History of Dundee by James Thomson’. A mixture of literary squibs, epic poetry in Byronic cantos, and thorough antiquarianism, they are presented in the style of printed books, with neatly arranged title-pages and in one case ('An Account of the Island of Icolmkill') mock printer's signature-marks to the lower margins. The National Library of Scotland holds a manuscript  by James Thomson of Dundee titled `Gleanings of Antiquity in Forfarshire’ and dated 1825 (Adv.MS.35.6.17). Dundee Central Library holds a small collection of manuscripts by him, including ‘The Houff’ (1835), ‘The Book of the Houff' (1838), and ‘Tours through Parts of Forfar, Perth, and Fifeshires’ (1833). It is possible that parts of the ‘Supplement of the History of Dundee’ and ‘The Last Literary Remains … of Foo-Foozle’ appear in printed form in the 1874 edition of The History of Dundee and A Feast of Literary Crumbs (op. cit.) respectively, but it is unclear whether any of the works in the lot have ever been published in their entirety.

Bible; Psalms; English The Psalmes of King David translated by King James Cum Privilegio Regis Majestatis. [London: T. Harper, c.1637]. 8vo (16.7 x 10cm), 8vo, late-19th-century crushed brown morocco by Francis Bedford, spine richly gilt in compartments (second compartment with conjectural imprint ‘London 1625’ tooled in gilt), decorative gilt panels to covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, collates A-Y8 Z6, 391 pp., engraved approbation leaf by William Marshall with royal arms of Charles I, engraved allegorical title-page, fore margin of title-page expertly extended, discreet extensions to lower fore corners of a few leaves not affecting text [STC 2736.5] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman In fact the work of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, this translation was first published at Oxford in 1631, in duodecimo format. This edition contains the Authorised translation in the margins.