S Bourquin Wilhelm Posselt-A Pioneer Missionary among the Xhosa and Zulu and First Pastor of New Germany, Natal)Limited Signed First Edition No 34. A Pioneer Missionary among the Xhosa and Zulu and the First Pastor of New Germany, Natal. His own Reminiscences -Tranlated and edited by S. Bourquin.SIGNED to title page. Original red cloth with gilt blocking to front cover/spine. ISBN 0 620 18495 7 viii plus 152 pages text with illustrations. Contains supporting data. Near fine condition. ***Due to annual holidays, despatch will be from 10th August 2013. Various shipping options are available. Publisher Place: Westville Publisher: Bergtheil Museum Municipality of Westville-Natal Publication Date: 1994 Condition: Very Good Size: 16 X 23cm Category: Africana Reserve: $50 Click here to view further details and images
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Chandler, Raymond PLAYBACK - UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY OF RAYMOND CHANDLER`S LAST NOVEL The very rare uncorrected proof copy of the correct first edition of this novel, this first UK edition appearing before the US one. It is hardly ever encountered. Regretfully, the original yellow wrappers are heavily foxed. Internally, however, there is only scattered foxing. This is a fragile book in very mediocre state. A better copy, if ever offered, would cost several thousand dollars. But this is possibly the only opportunity for the Cnandler collector to fill this gap. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Publication Date: 1958 Condition: Fair only Size: 8vo. Category: Modern First Editions Reserve: $150 Click here to view further details and images
Brodrick (A.) A WANDERER`S RHYMES (Presentation Copy) 280pp. Original cloth boards with faded pictorial. Gilt to upper edge of text-block pages. Author`s presentation note to front free EP; `S.J.Meintjes with the Author`s best wishes in remembrance of old Pretoria days - AB. London 8/10/98.` Stained cover. EP`s heavily toned. a few crayon side/underlinings. Bumped corners. Light cracking to EP joints but binding is tight. Scarce first edition of this collection of poetry, of which SABib lists only 6 copies. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Wilkinson Bros. Limited Publication Date: 1898 Condition: Good Size: 176mm x 117mm x 24mm Category: Africana Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images
Ellis (Rev. William) ELLIS`S THREE VISITS TO MADAGASCAR THREE VISITS TO MADAGASCAR DURING THE YEARS 1853-1854-1856, INCLUDING A JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL. With notices of the natural history of the country and of the present civilization of the people. xiv + 426pp + 6pp. Original Embossed Pictorial Cloth with gilt titled spine. No Date, 1885 (? ) ; Reprint of Original Edition, Preface Dated 1858 (Not Updated)Illustrated by woodcuts from photographs. No Map and Frontis as called for but most likely never bound-in as there is no evidence of such ever being detached. Research on other available copies of this particular publication all indicate the same. Presentation note to prelim, dated 1889. Some Edgewear and scuffing to covers with light blistering to front cover cloth. Internally very good. Ellis was sent to Madagascar three times to investigate whether Christians were being maltreated. That investigation was not productive, as he was denied access to the capital, but it was the first widely read account of the island, and a thorough description of the society, customs, religion and natural history. In 1852 the affairs of Madagascar had reached such a crisis that Ellis (1794-1872), a missionary, was requested to visit the island, in order to ascertain and improve the condition of the christians. (DNB). He visited the Cape in 1854 on which he gives an interesting account of many places together with botanical notes and information respecting the natives.Grandidier 1633; Mendelssohn I, p.518; SAB II, p.185. Publisher Place: Philadelphia Publisher: John E. Potter and Company Publication Date: c1885 Condition: Good Size: 193mm x 138mm x 35mm Category: Travel & Exploration Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images
Jerome (K.Jerome) MY FIRST BOOK xxiv plus 309pp. Red Pictorial Cloth. Gilt title to spine. New Edition with 185 illustrations. Frontispiece portrait Jerome. Boards are faded. Some tears to head and tail of spine. Ex Libris paste-down to front fixed EP. Prev owner`s stamp to front free EP. Light foxing to prelims. Internally tight and clean. 22 authors talk about their `first` book, viz.; The experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, `Q`, Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Chatto & Windus Publication Date: 1897 Condition: Good Size: 214mm x 160mm x 30mm Category: Books about Books Reserve: $30 Click here to view further details and images
FLEMING IAN THUNDERBALL - 1st.. EDITION IN DW. The ninth James Bond novel.There is an ownership signature and date in red ballpoint on the front pastedown, but otherwise this is a very good clean unfoxed copy. The dw. has some wear/rubbing along both front and rear folds possibly due to fishmothing. Otherwise it is complete with light edge wear. It is not price-clipped but has a 16/- sticker over the original 15/- shilling price on the front flap. With an reasonable reserve price. Publisher Place: London Publisher: Jonathan Cape Publication Date: 1961 Condition: Very Good Size: 8vo. Category: Modern First Editions Reserve: $180 Click here to view further details and images
Cole (Desmond T.) LITHOPS FLOWERING STONES (First printing - signed copy) 254pp. Hardcover with d.w. This printing is limited to 2500 copies of which this is number 1599. Signed by the author. Book Condition: Very good overall condition. Previous owners name has been neatly penned to the front loose end-paper. This first edition was Cole`s first definitive work on this unique group of succulent plants which are entirely confined to the southern part of the African continent. Publisher Place: Randburg, South Africa Publisher: Acorn Books Publication Date: 1988 Condition: Very good Size: 251 x 195 x 22 mm Category: Botanical Reserve: $75 Click here to view further details and images
Books: GAY, John: Poems on Several Occasions. Two volumes bound in one. Tonson, 1720, 1st edn. PP [10] including Subscribers` list, 268, [7] Including the second title-page, 272-546, titles printed in red and black; with 3 engraved plates plus many head and tail pieces. Bound in contemporary full leather with a new spine, and THOMSON, James: The Seasons. Hamilton, 1793, First Stockdale edition. With frontis portrait, 4 plates plus illus. PP Title-page, xxiv (including the subscribers` list), (19) Notes by STOCKDALE, & 1-227. Leather backed boards Covers worn; occasional foxing and browning; o/w G (2) John Gay:: Frontis, title-page and a couple of other pages professionally repaired; occasional foxing and the odd smudge; o/w VG;
Books: Four good fountain pen related titles, including, "Omas" by Emilio Docini, "Waterman Past and Present - The First Six Decades" by Max Davis and Gary Lehrer, "The Book of Fountain Pens and Pencils" by Stuart Schneider and George Fischler, and also by the same authors "Fountain Pens and Pencils - The Golden Age of Writing Instruments (2nd Edition)" (4)
Muffin the Mule books and printed ephemera: two University of London Press printer’s mock up books for Muffin the Mule and Here Comes Muffin! By Annette Mills, the first part corrected in pencil; a signed first edition of ‘Here Comes Muffin’ inscribed ‘A First edition for dear Tetta with our love! Annette & Molly, Muffin’ (worn); fifteen other books and publications; and a quantity of Muffin headed paper
"Bernard Shaw, St Joan, Constable London 1924, olive green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering, first edition, fifth impression; four other volumes by Shaw with the same binding; George Eliot, Middlemarch, Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1878; and John Barrie, My Lady Nicotine, 1893, and; John Bunyan, Pilgrim`s Progress, Thomas Kelly, c1844, undated, engravings dated 1841, embellished with numerous illustrative engravings with fold out hand coloured map; together with John Bunyan, The Visions, London 1844, and; H.A. Guerber, The Myths of Greece & Rome, London 1918; E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art, London 1950; together with a large quantity of books, mainly literary works, dating from 1900-1950"
Kureishi, Hanif, Something to tell you, Faber and Faber, first edition, 2008, hard back with dust wrapper, signed and inscribed, together with other volumes signed and inscribed by the authors, including Christopher Logue, Jim Haynes, Hugo Williams, Emma Tennant, etc (18). Provenance: the estate of Hercules Bellville
Montegrappa, a limited edition Historia fountain pen, with a marbled grey resin body and silver coloured pierced Greek fretwork band to the cap, the two colour nib stamped `18K`, engraved with a Greek key design, stamped `Montegrappa Italy M`, the clip with rotating sphere, cap impressed `Montegrappa Italy`, .925 and 1055VI, with dust cover, in a presentation box with book detailing the first 100 years of Montegrappa works, no. 705/1000
A mixed collection of books including a limited edition Nicholas Crabbe or The One and the Many by Fr Rolfe, published by Chatto & Windus 1960, edition 27/215 copies complete with slip case, a first edition of Sunburst by Mauricio Magdaleno, The Son of Man by Emil Ludwig, The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki, etc, many with the book plate of the Harford family including Sir George Arthur Harford Baronet
Lauthier (Joseph) Nouvelles Regles Pour Le Jeu De Mail, 12o., published by C. Huguier & A. Cailleau, Paris, 1717, 4 engraved plates, contemporary calf, gilt spine with raised bands (rubbed, joints cracked) Provenance: Sotheby’s Musselburgh, 13th July 1992, lot 471. A First Edition of the earliest printed rules of the game of mail.
Sutphen (William G. Van Tassel) The Golficide, And Other Tales of the Fair Green, A FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF AMERICAN GOLF FICTION, 8vo., published in London and New York, 1898, 6 half tone plates, original pictorial green cloth (nick in head of spine, light rubbing to joints), Robertson and Mullems Booksellers label; sold together with another title by the same author, The Nineteenth Hole: Being Tales of the Fair Green, A FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND SERIES OF STORIES by America’s pioneer writer on golf, published by Harper in London & New York, 1901, 8vo., coloured photogravure portrait of the author, 8 half tone plates after A.B. Frost, original half cloth (2)
After Lemuel Francis Abbott BLACKHEATH GOLFERS a mezzotint from the first edition by V. Green, published by Abbott, , London, 1790, with margins laid down onto the backboard, light staining but generally in good condition, the plate 67 by 47cm., 26 1/4 by 18 1/2in., framed & glazed Provenance: Maureen, Countess of Dufferin and Ava, Christie’s London, 25th March 1990, lot 411.
William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste, 1753, printed by J. Reeves for the author, London, 2 copies; first copy is first edition, first issue, green cloth; second copy is first edition, second issue, with two large fold-out plates and index bound in front, handsome late binding with marbled boards and leather spine
![[Signed Robert Frost Advance Copy Poem] [Signed Robert Frost Advance Copy Poem], Robert Frost, The Gold Hesperidee, 1935, adv](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1979/2879269/398-2013625102836_468x382.jpg)
[Signed Robert Frost Advance Copy Poem] [Signed Robert Frost Advance Copy Poem], Robert Frost, The Gold Hesperidee, 1935, advance copy (1 of 7) of first edition, first issue, The Bibliophile Press, Cortland, N.Y./ A, stiff tan wraps, brown thread, inscribed "To Earle Newton, my best wishes in his next undertaking as a publisher, Robert Frost", with a handwritten note, loose, by the publisher, noting that 7 advance copies were printed, one each to Frost, the illustrator, the text designer, and four to Earle Newton Note: Earle Newton started his own printing business, The Bibliophile Press, when he was just 12 years old. The young Mr. Newton printed cards, letterheads and pamphlets and continued to operate his press while he was a student at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Amherst`s poet-in-residence, Robert Frost, was very interested in his student`s printing career and offered Newton the opportunity to print the first separate edition of his poem, "The Golden Hesperidee". Newton`s mother, Ann McGraw illustrated the cover, and a friend, Charles Miller, designed the text cut.
Historic Railway Books by various authors: including Our Iron Roads by Williams, First Edition 1852, Our Home Railways by Gordon with 36 coloured plates 1910, Locomotive Engine by Stretton, The Model Locomotive and Engineer Fireman and Engine-Boy by Reynolds 1879 and other books, generally G (24) others include Splendid Book of Railways by Boulton 1932, British Railways by Ross 1904, British Locomotives Illustrated by Bell 1933, British Steam Horses by Dow 1950, Economics of Rail Transport in Great Britain by Sherrington 1928, British Railways by Elton with various colour plates, 1947 others include Splendid Book of Railway s by Boulton 1932, British Railways by Ross 1904, British Locomotives Illustrated by Bell 1933, British Steam Horses by Dow 1950, Economics of Rail Transport in Great Britain by Sherrington 1928, British Railways by Elton with various colour plates 1947
Thornton R. : The Temple Flora. Folio Society facsimile edition ( book form ) 2008. Elephant folio. Qtr. binding with leather spine, gilt titling, cloth boards with decorative/illustrative upper board. Limited edition of 1980 numbered copies of which the first 600 are in book form - this is no.380. Twenty nine full size colour plates, nine preliminary colour plates and nine monochrome plates. Also two additional loose prints suitable for framing. Together with commentary volume 'The Temple of Flora ' - a commentary by Stephen Harris. Both volumes housed in the original Folio Society clamshell or solander box. CONDITION REPORT: Condition: Fine copy.
JOHN BETJEMAN "Summoned by bells", first edition 1960, published John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, JOHN BETJEMAN "Continual dew", published John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, one volume "John Betjeman's Collected Poems", 4th edition 1958, GERALD DURRELL "The Bafut Beagles", illustrated by Ralph Thompson, published London 1954, one volume "British Water - Colour Art as illustrated by drawings presented to Kind Edward VII by The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours", one volume "John Betjeman's Collected Poems 1958", one volume "Who's Who 1963", two volumes Debrett's Peerage 1932 and 1957, two volumes Burke's Landed Gentry 1969 and 1972, LEADER SCOTT "The Orti Oricellari", printed Florence 1893, LEADER SCOTT "Vincigliata" and "Maiano", printed Florence 1881, one volume "Greece described" by J A MCCLYMONT, etc
![[Books]. Enid Blyton, Ring O` Bells Mystery, first edition, Collins, London 1951. Blue-grey cloth, lacking dust jacket, octav](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/35652/2880954/679-201362112481_468x382.jpg)
![[Books]. P.G. Wodehouse, Money For Nothing, first edition, Jenkins, London 1928. Orange cloth, octavo; with Young Men in Spat](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/35652/2880954/681-201362112489_468x382.jpg)
[Books]. P.G. Wodehouse, Money For Nothing, first edition, Jenkins, London 1928. Orange cloth, octavo; with Young Men in Spats, first edition, Jenkins, London 1936. Green cloth, octavo; The Mating Season, first edition, Jenkins, London no date. Orange cloth, dustjacket, octavo; and a further thirty-one titles by the same, (34).
John Berney Crome (British, 1768-1821) `Gravel Pit, Marlingford` etching, c.1812, first state from first edition of 60 impressions 9 x 6 7/8in. (22.5 x 17.5cm.) * Provenance: Label verso for William Weston Gallery, 7 Royal Arcade, Albemarle Street, London, with details of etching. See Illustration.
Thomas Dicey An Historical Account of Guernsey, from its First Settlement before the Norman Conquest to the Present Time. Giving a particular and entertaining Description of the Island, its Produce, Trade, Laws, Privileges, Religion, and Government in general. To which is added some proper Remarks on Jersey and the other Islands, first edition 1751, rebound in modern calf with gilt title to spine.
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