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Click here to subscribe[WILDE (Oscar)] The Importance of Being Ernest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People By The Author Of Lady Windermere's Fan, first edition, London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899, 4to, No.163 of 1000, fore and lower edges untrimmed, cloth gilt (discoloured and tatty, title and half title discoloured)
TREVELYAN (R C) Sisyphus an Operatic Fable, 1908, small 4to; STEVENSON (R L) Prayers Written at Vailima, 2nd impression 1910, illuminated by A Sangorski, vellum (silk ties broken), Provenance: ex Girton College with stamp; DAVIES (W H) Secrets, first edition 1924; PRIESTLEY (J B) Albert Goes Through, first edition 1933, illustrated by Blampied, blue cloth
DRINKWATER (John) Collection of signed and inscribed works to Eddie Marsh including A Book for Book Men, 1926; Preludes, 1922; Summer Harvest, 1933; Seeds of Time, 1921; Tides, 1917, all first editions in varying dust wrappers; together with FRY (Christopher) The First Born, second edition, with two autograph letters signed from the author to Mr Johns; THORNDIKE (Russell) The Further Adventures of Dr Syn, 85th thousand, paperback, inscribed by the author, and two others (9)
George Bernard Shaw The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, third reprint of the first edition, London: Constable & Co Ltd 1932, inscribed 'Shaw Oct 1933' and with newspaper clipping of the author paste down facing half title, woodblock illustrations, printed covers (worn); together with five other volumes including two first editions by Shaw (6)
WILDE (Oscar) The Picture of Dorian Gray, first edition in book form, London: Ward, Lock and Co [1891], 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the verso of the half title 'Frank, from his friend Oscar. Oct 22 '91', in worn bevelled boards with gilt design after Charles Ricketts (untrimmed, occasional finger soiling, sewing weak, lacking original vellum spine strip, in need of rebacking) The novel was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in July 1890. The inscription may be to Frank Richardson who would have known Wilde through his friend Ada Leverson*. By family repute this copy has been in the same ownership as Sherard's 'Oscar Wilde', Hermes Press 1902, included in this lot, which has Frank Richardson's bookplate designed by Charles Sykes to the inside front cover. Equally this might be Frank Harris, who edited the English literary journal 'The Fortnightly Review' from 1886-1894 and who was a friend of Wilde. *Reference: Guy (Josephine) The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Historical Criticism, Intentions, The Soul of Man, volume 4, OUP, page xl. together with SHERARD (R H) Oscar Wilde, Hermes Press 1902; The Happy Prince, second edition 1889 (poor condition); Twelve Portraits by William Rothenstein, 1929 folio, cloth (4)
SCOTT (Captain Robert F) The Voyage of The Discovery, first edition, in 2 volumes, London: Smith, Elder & Co 1905, lacks folding map to volume 1, ex library with stamps, binding worn; and a collection of later Antarctic books by Hillary, Fuchs, Barber, Kearton, Weaver etc (including some modern)
Various. 16 volumes, many in dust wrappers: HADINGHAM (Evan) Ancient Carvings in Britain, Garnstone Press 1974; LEWIS (W S) Horace Walpole, 1961; Rabelais's Works, illustrated by Frank Pape, 2 vols 1933; LANCASTER (Osbert) The Littlehampton Bequest, first edition 1973; Drayneflete Revealed, 1949, first edition; HILL (Draper) Mr Gillray the Caricaturist, 1965; O'BRIEN (Flann) The Poor Mouth, illustrated by Ralph Steadman, 1973; KETTELWELL (John) The Story of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, (Alfred A Knopf) 1928; FALK (Bernard) Thomas Rowlandson his Life and Art, illustrated, [no date]; POUND (Omar) Arabic and Persian Poems, Fulcrum Press 1970; etc (16)
[Books]. Oliver, G. Rolls-Royce: The Best Car in the World, first edition, Haynes, Sparkford 1988. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Rasmussen, Henry. Corvettes for the Road: The Survivors Series, first edition, Motorbooks International, Osceola, 1984. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, oblong quarto; and assorted other books of motoring interest.
[Books]. Motorcycling. Clew, Jeff. The Douglas Motorcycle: 'The Best Twin', revised dition, Haynes, Sparkford 1981. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Briercliffe, Harold, & Brockway, Eric. The Illustrated History of Douglas Motorcycles, first edition, Haynes, Sparkford 1991. Pictorial boards, illustrations, quarto; Clew, Jeff. The Scott Motorcycle: The Yowling Two-Stroke, reprint, Haynes, Sparkford 1990. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and assorted other books of motorcycle interest; together with a quantity of trials programmes, club membership cards, and other ephemera.
[Books]. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938, reprint, Arco Publishing Co., New York no date. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Boiten, T. Bristol Blenheim, first edition, The Crowood Press, Ramsbury 1998. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Bingham, Victor. Bristol Beaufighter, first edition, Airlife Publishing, Shrewsbury, 1994. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and assorted other books of aviation interest.
[Books]. Wall, Robert. Bristol Aircraft. A Pictorial History of British Achievement, reprint, Halsgrove, Tiverton 2001. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Luff, David. Bulldog: The Bristol Bulldog Fighter, first edition, Airlife Publishing, Shrewsbury 1987. Boards, dustjacket, illustrations, square quarto; and assorted other books of aviation interest.
Jones, Owen Glynee. Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District, first edition, London Longmans, Green, 1897. Rubbed cloth, illustrated, octavo, plus Bechtold, Fritz. Nanga Parbat Adventure 1935; Ruttledge, Hugh. The Unfinished Adventure, 1937; Hunt, John. The Ascent of Everest, 1953, signed. (4)
Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, London John Murray, 1857. Cloth, maps and illustrations, octavo, plus Lugard, Captain F. D. The Rise of Our East African Empire, two volumes, first edition, Edinburgh William Blackwood, 1893. Marked cloth, author's signed presentation inscription to Sir Percy Anderson, maps and illustrations, octavo. (3)
Raine, James. Saint Cuthbert. With an Account of the State in which his Remains were Found upon the Opening of his Tomb in Durham Cathedral in the Year MDCCCXXVII, first edition, Durham Geo. Andrews, 1828. Later half morocco, quarto, plus Raine, Angelo. Mediaeval York, London John Murray, 1955. Morocco, presentation inscription, plus three others related. (6)
Morison, Stanley & Day, Kenneth. The Typographic Book 1450-1935, first edition, London Ernest Benn, 1963. Dust wrapper, slip case, quarto, plus Ames, Joseph. Typographical Antiquities or the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland, four volumes, Hildesheim, George Olans, 1969. Cloth, octavo, plus other volumes related. (30)
Aldin, Cecil. A Sporting Garland, London Sands & Co., no date. Boards, oblong quarto, colour illustrations, plus Every-Day Characters, first edition, London Keegan Paul, 1896. Picture boards, octavo, plus The Dog Who Wasn"t What He Thought He Was, first edition, London Raphael Tuck, no date, plus others illustrated by Aldin. (shelf)
Blackburn, Henry. Randolph Caldecott. A Personal Memoir of his Early Art Career, first edition, London Sampson Low, 1886. Cloth, illustrated, octavo, plus Caldecott, Randolph. (Illustrator) Old Christmas, limited edition 110/250, London Macmillan & Co, 1892. Cloth, octavo, plus others by/about Caldecott. (shelf)
Crane, Walter. Queen Summer or the Journey of the Lily to the Rose, large paper copy first edition, London Cassell & Co., 1891. Vellum backed decoraive boards, folio, plus Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden, first edition 1906; Legends for Lionel, first edition 1887; Slate and Pencilvania (2), first edition 1885, plus other first editions. (8)
Dulac, Edmund. (Illustrator) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayan, London Hodder & Stoughton, no date. Publishers red gilt decorated cloth, tipped in colour illustrations, plus Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book, first edition, London Hodder & Stoughton [1915]. Decorated cloth, tipped in colour plates, plus the Picture Book for he French Red Cross. (3)
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