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Click here to subscribeTOMKINSON, G.S. A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses Public and Private in Great Britain and Ireland. London: The First Edition Club, 1928. Limited edition of 1000 copies, 4to (250 x 185mm.) Printed in red and black. (Light spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards (lightly bumped and scuffed), dust-jacket (torn with slight loss and soiled).
FILM & THEATRE. – Eric BARKER. Steady, Barker!. London: Secker & Warburg, 1956. First edition, 8vo (196 x 127mm.) Occasional illustrations. (Light browning.) Original cloth, dust-jacket. Provenance: Vivian Cox (presentation inscription signed by Barker ‘This isn’t conceit. Just a personal souvenir to that very erudite man with thanks for having me and all the fun off the set. Eric August ‘58’). – And a quantity of others, a number relating to films, the theatre and plays or poetry (a quantity).
LANG, Andrew (editor). The Yellow Fairy Book. London & New York: 1894. First edition, 8vo (182 x 116mm.) Numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. (Slightly affected by damp, some spotting or browning.) Original decorative cloth blocked in gilt, g.e. (extremities bumped, spine slightly darkened). – And two others by Lang (3).
BIOGRAPHIES. – Lucy NORTON. First Lady of Versailles. Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1978. First edition, 8vo (215 x 126mm.) Occasional illustrations. (Occasional soiling.) Original cloth, dust-jacket. Provenance: ‘Bill’ (presentation inscription signed by the author, dated ‘Christmas 1980’ to half-title). – And forty-two others, all biographies, all 20th Century (43).
NELSON, Robert. A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England… the twentieth edition. London: 1752. 8vo (201 x 122mm.) Engraved frontispiece. (Title-page and some other leaves torn without loss, Qq7 torn with slight loss and repaired with tape to margin, some spotting and browning.) Contemporary calf (worn, upper cover detached, stitching broken, frontispiece and first quire now loosely inserted).
Somerville, E. OE., & Ross, M. Some Irish Yesterdays, first edition, Longmans, Green & Co., London 1906. Cream cloth with pictorial onlay, illustrations, octavo (spine browned); In Mr Knox`s Country, first edition, 1915. Green cloth, illustrations, octavo; and fifteen others by or on the same, (17).
[Archery]. Elmer, Robert. Target Archery, first edition, Hutchinson`s Library of Sports and Pastimes, London 1952. Blue buckram, plate illustrations, octavo; Hodgkin, Adrian. The Archer`s Craft, first edition, Faber & Faber, London 1951. Green cloth, dustjacket, plate illustrations, quarto; Edwards, C.B. An Archer`s Notes, first edition, Petty & Sons, Leeds 1949. Blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and four other works of related interest, (7).
[Archery]. Hay, Ian. The Royal Company of Archers 1676-1951, first edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh & London 1951. Green cloth gilt, frontispiece, plate illustrations, quarto; Oxley, James. The Fletchers and Longbowstringmakers of London, first edition, The Worshipful Company of Fletchers, London 1968. Black cloth gilt, armorial frontispiece, plate illustrations, quarto; and Lake, Fred, & Wright, Hal. A Bibliography of Archery, first edition, The Simon Archery Foundation, Manchester 1974. Boards, dustjacket, quarto, INSCRIBED BY ONE AUTHOR, (3).
[Archery]. Elmer, Robert. Target Archery, first edition, Hutchinson`s Library of Sports and Pastimes, London 1952. Pale blue boards, dustjacket, plate illustrations, octavo; Edwards, C.B., & Heath, E.G. In Pursuit of Archery, first edition, Kaye, London 1962. Boards, dustjacket, plate and text illustrations, octavo; Edwards, C.B. An Archer`s Notes, first edition, Petty & Sons, Leeds 1949. Blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Edwards, C.B. The "Tox" Story. An Account in Brief of The Royal Toxophilite Society, R.T.S., Burnham 1968. Stiff card covers, small octavo; and five further works of related interest, (9).
[Archery]. Roberts, T. The English Bowman (facsimile of 1801 edition), EP Publishing, Wakefield 1973. Boards, dustjacket, octavo; Moseley, Walter Michael. An Essay on Archery, (facsimile of 1792 edition), EP Publishing, 1974. Cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Heath, E.G. A History of Target Archery, first edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1973. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, octavo; Latham, J.D., & Lt. Cdr. W.F. Paterson, (editors). Saracen Archery. An English Version and Exposition of a Mameluke Work on Archery (ca. A.D. 1368), first edition, The Holland Press, London 1970. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Hodgkin, Adrian Eliot. The Archer`s Craft, second edition, Faber & faber, london 1974. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and Rausing, Gad. The Bow. Some Notes on its Origin and Development, Acta Archaeologica Lundensia, Bonn / Lund 1967. Cloth backed boards, illustrations, quarto, (6).
[Archery]. Hodgkin, Adrian Eliot. The Archer`s Craft. A Sheaf of Notes on certain Matters concerning Archers and Archery, the Making of Archers` Tackle and the Art of Hunting with the Bow, first edition, Faber & Faber, London 1951. Green cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Elmer, Robert. Target Archery, first edition, Hutchinson`s Library of Sports and Pastimes, London 1952. Blue buckram, plate illustrations, octavo; Duff, James. Bows and Arrows: How they are Best Made for All Kinds of Target Shooting, (facsimile of 1927 edition), Simon Archery Foundation, Manchester 1992. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, octavo; Rounseville, Phillip. Archery Simplified, first edition, Barnes, New York 1931. Green cloth with target motif, plate and text illustrations, octavo; Grimley, Gordon. The Book of the Bow, first edition, Putnam, London 1958. Cloth, dustjacket, plate illustrations, octavo; Edwards, C.B. An Archer`s Notes, first edition, Petty & Sons, Leeds 1949. Blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and two other works of related interest, (8).
[Archery]. Heath, E.G. The Grey Goose Wing, first edition, Osprey, Reading 1971. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; Hill, Howard. Wild Adventure, First British edition, Hale, London 1955. Maroon cloth, plate illustrations from photographs, octavo; and a further thirty-six assorted works of archery interest, (38).
MacKenzie, W.M. Pompeii, first edition, Black, London 1910. Cloth, plate illustrations by Alberto Pisa, eight page publisher`s catalogue, quarto; Tuker, M.A.R., & Malleson, Hope. Rome, Black 1925. Cloth, dustjacket, colour plate illustrations by Alberto Pisa, octavo; and eleven other works of Italian interest, (13).
Novgorod Icons, 12th-17th Century, first edition, Phaidon, Oxford 1980. Cloth, dustjacket, large quarto; Architecture of the Russian North, 12th-19th Centuries, first edition, Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad 1976. Boards, dustjacket, quarto, in plain card slip-case; Bizjak, Milko. Pipe Organs in Slovenia, first edition, Ljubljana 1985. Cloth, dustjacket, quarto; and twelve other volumes, including others in icons, (15).
Ison, Walter. The Georgian Buildings of Bath, first edition, Spire Books Ltd, Reading 2004. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Hinchcliffe, Tanis. North Oxford, second impression, Yale University Press, New Haven & London 1992. Cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Booth, General. In Darkest England and the Way Out, Salvation Army, London no date [circa 1890]. Black cloth gilt, folding colour frontispiece, six pages of advertisements, octavo; and a further twenty-six works of topographical and social historical interest, (29).
Potter, Beatrix. The World of Peter Rabbit, twenty-three volumes, Warne, London 1988. Pictorial boards, dustjackets, each illustrated, the whole in a presentation box; Austwick, J. & B. The Decorated Tile. An Illustrated History of English Tile-Making and Design, first edition, Pitman House, London 1980. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Peppin, Brigid, & Micklethwait, Lucy. Dictionary of British Book Illustrators: The Twentieth Century, first edition, Murray, London 1983. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and a further seven assorted works, (10).Best Bid
Thomson, William. A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grape Vine, first edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh & London 1862. Blind stamped green cloth, thirty-two page publisher`s catalogue, octavo; and Redding, Cyrus. A History and Description of Modern Wines, first edition, first edition, Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot, London 1833. Full calf, vignette illustrations, octavo, (2).
Sassoon, Siegfried. Siegfried`s Journey 1916-1920, first edition, Faber & Faber, London 1945. Pink cloth, portrait frontispiece, octavo; Langley, Noel. The Inconstant Moon, first edition, Barker, London 1949. Pictorial boards, illustrated by Ronald Searle, octavo (lacking front free endpaper and with scarred front pastedown); Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Butcher, S.H. & Lang, Andrew, The Medici Society, London 1949. Blue cloth, dustjacket, colour plate illustrations by W. Russell Flint, square octavo (lacking front free endpaper); and assorted other works.
[Wine]. Allen, H. Warner. The Wines of Portugal, new edition, Rainbird, London 1963. Blue cloth with an art vellum spine, illustrations, quarto; Simon, Andre. The History of Champagne, first edition, Ebury Press, London 1962. Yellow cloth with an art vellum spine, illustrations, quarto (pp. 87-90 detached); Fletcher, Wyndham. Port. An Introduction to its History and Delights, first edition, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London 1978. Boards, dustjacket, quarto; and assorted other works of related interest.
Williamson, Henry. The Patriot`s Progress; being the Vicissitudes of Pte. John Bullock, first edition, Bles, London 1930. Maroon cloth, illustrations by William Kermode, octavo (covers faded and damp marked); with The Village Book, first edition, Cape, London 1930. Tan cloth, octavo; A Clear Water Stream, first edition, Faber & Faber, London 1958. Blue cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and a further twenty-five titles by the same, including first editions, (28).
Fraser, George MacDonald. Flashman, first edition, Jenkins, London 1969. Red boards, dustjacket, octavo; Royal Flash, first edition, Barrie & Jenkins, London 1970. Red boards, dustjacket, octavo; and Flash for Freedom, first edition, Barrie & Jenkins, London 1971. Red boards, dustjacket, octavo (jacket price clipped and chipped at spine head), (3).
Amis, Kingsley. The Green Man, first edition, Cape, London 1969. Blue Boards, dustjacket, octavo (jacket slightly faded at spine and creased to front flap); Sillitoe, Alan. A Tree on Fire, first edition, Macmillan, London 1967. Grey boards, dustjacket, octavo; Braine, John. The Jealous God, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1964. Green boards, dustjacket, octavo (jacket nicked and chipped); and assorted other titles by John Fowles, Gore Vidal, Edna O`Brien and others, (10).
Autographs - Red Dwarf. A paperback book, Naylor, Grant. Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Roc, New York 1992, first U.S. edition, signed by Chris Barrie (Rimmer), Craig Charles (Lister), Danny John-Jules (The Cat), Chloe Annett (Kochanski), Robert Llewellyn (Kryten), and Norman Lovett (Holly); a Red Dwarf Official Fan Club programme, Dimension Jump `98, signed by Chloe Annett, Chris Barrie, Ed Bye, Craig Charles, Hattie Hayridge, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Norman Lovett, and Doug Naylor; and a signed black and white portrait photograph of Danny John-Jules, (3). Note: Sold in aid of Stepping Stones (Notts), a community-based residential complex for adults with learning difficulties.Best Bid
WILLA CATHER: THE NOVELS AND STORIES OF WILLA CATHER; The Autograph Edition: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1937. Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Various (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. White cloth spine with blue cloth boards with gold decoration on front covers and black label spines with gold printing. "This is a limited signed edition by the author 970 copies of this edition have been printed from type at the Riverside Press Cambridge Massachusetts of which nine hundred and fifty signed and numbered copies are for sale. This copy is number 491 Signed underneath by Willa Cather in volume 1. Twelve volumes of 13 volume set (9th volume missing) each volume has the pages uncut and top page edges in gilt a few of the spine labels have minor chipping otherwise the set is clean complete and tight. The first volume which is signed by the author is volume 1 "O Pioneers!" 262 pages; volume 2 "The Song of the Lark" 581 pages; volume 3 "Alexander`s Bridge & April Twilights" 217 pages; volume 4 My Antonia 371 pages; volume 5 "One of Ours" 514 pages; volume 6 "Youth and the Bright Medusa" 289 pages; volume 7 "A Lost Lady" 173 pages; volume 8; "The Professor`s House" 281 pages;( volume 9 "Death comes for the Archbishop" 348 pages- missing); volume 10 "Shadows on the Rock" 325 pages; Volume 11 Lucy Gayheart & My Mortal Enemy 329 pages; volume 12 "Obscure Destiny & Literary Encounters" 328 pages; volume 13 "Sapphira and the Slave Girl" 285 pages. All volumes with the number 491 present/matching together with another Willa Cather Her Life and Art by James Woodress; publ. Pegasus New York 1970.
Seven limited edition spitfire prints - After Frank Wootton - `Hurricane MK1: Bob Stanford Tuck leading 257 Squadron into action during the Battle of Britain`, ltd ed 790/850, pencil signed to margin by artist and Bob Stanford Tuck c/w certificate of authenticity; John Young - `Boeing B17E Fortress...`, ltd ed 167/850, pencil signed to margin by the artist and Lt. General Ira C. Eaker; Frank Wootton - `Meteor strikes its first blow`, ltd ed 189/850, pencil signed to margin by the artist and Frank Whittle; John Young - `North American B-25B Mitchell`, ltd ed 167/850, pencil signed to margin by the artist and Lt General James H. Doolittle; Terence Cuneo - `Mosquito Mk VI`, ltd ed 86/850, pencil signed to margin by the artist and Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC DSO DFC RAF (Ret`d); Denis Pannett - `Westland Lysander Mk III`, ltd ed 116/850, pencil signed to margin by the artist and Odette Hallowes GC MBE; and John Young - `Short Sunderland`, ltd ed 116/850, pencil signed to margin by the artist (7)
Vassall.Football. The Rugby Game 1889 with a Chapter on Professionalism by Arthur Budd first edition contemporary ink signature on half-title advertisements on endpapers (a little browned) original pictorial cloth a little rubbed one or two small marks to lower cover 8vo 1889. ***Scarce; the sixth earliest work on rugby..
Golf.- Jones/Keeler. Down the Fairway inscr. The Golf Life and Play of Robert T.Jones Jr. fifth printing signed and inscribed by the author to Jack McLean on front free endpaper light marginal staining New York 1931 § Vardon (Harry) The Complete Golfer first edition 40pp. catalogue dated March 1905 at end photogravure portrait and some plates loose some spotting and soiling a little wrinkled by damp pencil numbers on endpapers 1905 § Hutchinson (Horace G.) Fifty Years of Golf first edition 1919 § Lang (Andrew) & others. A Batch of Golfing Papers edited by R.Barclay loose in binding n.d. § Golfer`s Handbook (The) 19th year loose in binding Edinburgh 1917 plates and illustrations original cloth all but the third rather rubbed the first two and last stained; and 8 other books and 13 magazines/pamphlets on golf 8vo & 4to(26) ***Jack McLean Scottish golfer Scottish Amateur Champion in 1932 1933 & 1934 winner of the Irish Open in 1932 and 1933 finalist in American Amateur Open in 1936. All the books in this lot belonged to McLean one or two have his name on front free endpaper..
Sullivan (Sir Edward) & others. Yachting 2 vol. Badminton Library second edition reissue contemporary half roan 1901 § Lowe (G.) Gordon Lowe on Lawn Tennis [c.1920] § Morrison (A.J.) A New Way to Better Golf fourth edition 1932 § Smythe (F.S.) The Mountain Scene 1937 § Hunt (John) The Ascent of Everest 1953 plates and illustrations all but the first original cloth the last with dust-jacket all rubbed; and 12 others sport 8vo & 4to(18)
Davey (Richard) The Pageant of London 2 vol. first edition colour plates contemporary red crushed morocco 1906 § Gladstone (Florence M.) Notting Hill in Bygone Days first edition frontispiece and plates original cloth gilt 1924; and a small quantity of others mostly London some Travel including a few Baedekers v.s.(Sm.Qty.)
Dickens Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi 1st ed. 2 vol. first edition first issue half-title engraved portrait frontispiece and 12 plates lacking advertisements minor worm traces to lower margin of final plate some light browning occasional spotting attractive modern dark brown morocco gilt t.e.g. [Eckel p140ff] 12mo 1838.
Dickens (Charles) Dombey and Son 1st book first edition in book form wood-engraved frontispiece additional pictorial title and 40 plates occasional foxing contemporary half calf slightly rubbed 1848 § Mathews (Mrs.) Memoirs of Charles Matthews Comedian 4 vol. half-titles frontispieces plates occasional spotting a few small stains original cloth spines repaired some fading 1838-1839 § Jones (Henry Arthur) The Crusaders: An Original Comedy of Modern London Life one of 30 copies this a signed presentation copy from the author original vellum lacking 1 set of ties slightly soiled 1893; and 21 others 19th century English Literature v.s.(27)
Egan (Pierce) The Life of an Actor first edition 27 hand-coloured etched and aquatint plates including frontispiece wood-engraved vignettes some spotting and soiling one or two scorch-marks contemporary calf gilt spine gilt a little rubbed corners slightly bumped [Abbey 414; Tooley 195] 8vo 1825.
Moynet (Georges) Trucs et Décors hand-coloured frontispiece and 29 plates some foxing Paris [c.1890] § Thorne (Ross) Theatre Buildings in Australia to 1905; From the time of the First Settlement to arrival of cinema 2 vol. limited edition slip-case Sydney 1971 § Steinhauser (Monika) Die Architektur der Pariser Oper Munich 1969 § Sforza (Francesco) Grandi Teatri Italiani Rome 1993 § Graubner (Gerhard) Theaterbau Aufgabe und Planung ink stamp on half-title tape repairs to dust-jacket Munich 1968 § Mello (Bruno) Trattato di Scenotechnica embossed stamp on title Milan 1973 illustrations some colour original cloth all but the first two with dust-jackets; and 12 others continental theatre and stage design v.s.(19)
Hamilton and others. Le Fédéraliste... 2 vol. first edition in French and second overall half-titles lacking pp.v-xx (introduction) second half-title with small area of blue paper stuck down and some feint offsetting from print contemporary sheep-backed pink boards spines gilt slightly rubbed [Sabin 23993; PMM 234 (first edition)] 8vo Paris Chez Buisson 1792. ***Rare. "When Alexander Hamilton invited his fellow New Yorker John Jay and James Madison a Virginian to join him in writing the series of essays published as The Federalist it was to meet the immediate need of convincing the reluctant New York state electorate of the necessity of ratifying the newly proposed Constitution of the United States." (PMM)..
Simmel (Georg) Kant Sechsehn Vorlesungen first edition original cloth Leipzig 1905 § Podach (E.F.) Nietzsches Zusammenbruch original boards dust-jacket worn Heidelberg 1930 § Das Kamasutram des Vatsyayana contemporary half morocco Berlin 1915 § Ibsen (Henrik) Samtliche weke 5 vol. original cloth Berlin 1907 § Moralgedichte Bonifatius Keisewtter illustrations original cloth dust-jacket slip-case Hanua au Main 1966; and a large quantity of similar mostly in German of literature and philosophy v.s.(5 boxes Q)
Pamphlets.- Tunstall (James) A Vindication without half-title marbled wrappers J. & J. Rivington 1755 § Montesquieu (Charles de) A View of the English Constitution small tear and paper flaw to title B. White & H. Payne 1781 § Letter (A) to a late Noble Comander of the British Forces in Germany second edition R. Griffiths 1759 § [Walpole (Robert Earl of Orford)] Some Considerations concerning the Publick Funds the Publick Revenues and the Annual Supplies second edition price obliterated from imprint [Kress 4248] J. Roberts 1735 some spotting disbound except the first; and 10 others 8vo(14)
Hayley (William) Plays of Three Acts first edition lacks half-title some spotting later morocco-backed cloth new endpapers 4to T. Cadell 1784 § Cibber (Colley) The Dramatic Works 5 vol. portrait Brynkinalt Library bookplates contemporary calf rubbed J. Rivington &c 1775 § Foote (Samuel) The Lame Lover a Comedy later cloth-backed boards rubbed Paul Vaillant 1770; and a quantity of others plays most disbound 8vo (c. 100)
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