Lee, Laurie, The Sun My Monument, London, The Hogarth Press, 1944, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), half title, signed and dated by Iris Murdoch on the front free endpaper, stiff board wrappers, dust-jacket, First Edition. Auden, W. H., The Enchafed Flood or The Romantic Iconography of the Sea, London, Faber & Faber, 1951, 8vo (218 x 130mm.), half title, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, First Edition. Myers, Frederic W. H., Fragments of Prose & Poetry, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), half title, frontispiece portrait of the author, and 3 portrait plates, original cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, First Edition. Spark, Muriel, Doctors of Philosophy A Play, New York, Alfred A. Knoff, 1966, 8vo (215 x 135mm.), half title, printer device on title, dedication inscription from the author to Hugo Manning on front free endpaper, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, First Edition. With a number of other works a limited edition of F. E. Budd (editor) 'Lullabies' (London, 1930), Sidney Keyes 'The Cruel Solstice' (London, 1943), and Elizabeth Jennings 'Recoveries' (London, 1964).
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Francis, Dick, Odds Against, London, Michael Joseph, 1965, 16mo (195 x 130mm.), half title, signed by the author on the title, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, First Edition. Francis, Dick, Flying Finish, London, Michael Joseph, 1966, 16mo (195 x 130mm.), half title, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, price clipped. Francis, Dick, Blood Sport, London, Michael Joseph, 1967, 16mo (195 x 130mm.), half title, ownership name and reference number on front free endpaper, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, price clipped, dust-jacket torn.. With a number of other Dick Francis works, some signed, including 'Forfeit' (London, 1968), 'Enquiry' (London, 1969), and 'Rat Race' (London, 1970).
Surtees, Robert Smith (1803-1864), John Leech, & Hablot K. Browne (illustrator), Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, London, Bradbury, Evans and Co., [n.d.], 8vo (215 x 130mm.), engraved colour frontispiece, illustrated title, 23 colour plates, contemporary red calf gilt, black morocco lettering piece, First Edition.
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870), & R. Seymour and Phiz (illustrators), The Pickwick Papers, London, Chapman and Hall, 1837, 4to (210 x 125mm.), additional illustrated title, frontispiece, and 39 plates, some spotting, contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper, later half calf, front cover detached, armorial bookplate of J. F. Wright, First Edition in Book form. Dickens, Charles, & H. K. Browne (illustrator), Dombey and Son, London, Bradbury and Evans, 1848, 8vo (205 x 125mm.), additional illustrated title, frontispiece, and 38 plates, some spotting, contemporary half calf by D. Sydenham of Paddington, rubbed, First Edition in Book form. With two other Dickens first editions (book form) 'Little Dorrit' (London, 1857), and 'David Copperfield' (London, 1850)
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973), The Lord of the Rings, London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954-1955, 8vo (215 x 133mm.), three volumes [the first two volumes, The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers are second editions, the third and final volume, The Return of the King is a first edition], half titles, 4 maps, of which 3 are folding, printed in red and black, original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, decorative dust-jackets
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) George A. Birmingham, Irishmen All, T. N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1913. First edition. With twelve colour plates by Jack B. Yeats tipped in. Appears to be the author's presentation copy, inscribed but not signed and with a photograph of the author tipped in on front free endpaper. €200-€300
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) John M. Synge, In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara, Maunsell & Co., Dublin, 1911. First edition, with eight drawings by Jack B. Yeats, which were never again printed (subsequent editions of the book were unillustrated). Octavo, rebound in green library cloth with gilt lettered calf label at spine. €200-€300
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) A Selection from the Love Poetry, Cuala Press, Dublin, 1913. First edition. Printed and published by the author's sister Elizabeth C. Yeats. LIMITED EDITION OF 300 COPIES. Octavo, in the original grey papered boards, backed with linen and with paper title label at spine. An attractive book, containing much of Yeats' finest work and rare in this condition. €500-€700
James Stephens (1850-1900) Irish Fairy Tales, Macmillan & Co, London, 1924.. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) with 16 colour plates. Third edition, although first thus (the first edition was large format and the second unillustrated). A beautiful book. Octavo, red cloth stamped in gilt at spine and on upper board; top edge gilt. €80-€100
Illustrated Irish translation, J.M. Barrie, Tir na Deo, or Peter Pan and Wendy, Translated by Mairead Ni Ghrada, Oifig Diolta Foilleac in Rialtais, Baile Atha Cliath/Dublin, 1938. First edition thus. A beautiful Irish publication, with twelve tipped-in colour plates by Mabel Lucy Attwell and further b&w illustrations (a few which have been coloured in with watercolour by a fairly competent child) throughout the text. Octavo; blue cloth with gilt at spine. Rare. €100-€150
John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1927) Standish O'Grady, Finn and His Companions, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1892. First edition. With two full-page plates by John Butler Yeats (on the circumstances surrounding the execution of these, see Snoddy, pp. 745-746). Published as part of the Fisher Unwin's Children's Library series, in decorated cloth boards with the floral pattern repeated on the edges of the book and on the endpapers. Also with a copy of the third impression, again published by Fisher Unwin, circa 1908, but where the illustrations are mistakenly attributed on the title page to Jack B. Yeats (which must have been a trifle galling to his father). This copy has one of the Yeats designs reproduced on the upper board. A most unusual pair. €300-€400
Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) An Irish Portrait: The Autobiography of Paul Henry RHA, Batsford, London, 1951. First edition, with PAUL HENRY'S SIGNATURE tipped in on front free endpaper. Octavo, original red cloth, in the scarce dust-jacket, not price-clipped. With a foreword by Sean O Faolain and twelve full-colour plates by Henry. A collector's item. €500-€700
Irish modern art - survey studies, Irish Women Artists From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, National Gallery of Ireland and the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1987, A well illustrated and very useful source book. Also with this lot, Susan Stairs, The Irish Figurists and Figurative Painting in Art, George Gallery Montague Ltd, Dublin, 1990. These two both in stiffened card wrappers. Also, Kenneth McConkey, A Free Spirit: Irish Art 1860-1960, Antique Collectors' Club in association with Pym's Gallery, London, 1990. First edition; author's presentation copy, signed and inscribed on title-page. (3) €120-€150
Irish country houses, Maurice Craig, Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size, Architectural Press Ltd, London, 1977. Illustrated throughout with photographs, elevations and floor-plans. Very difficult to come by. Also, Desmond Guinness and William Ryan, Irish Houses & Castles, Thames & Hudson, London, 1978 (second impression), the much reprinted and lauded volume, illustrated with copious photographs, many of them interesting and little-seen interior views. Plus, Brian de Breffny and Rosemary Ffolliott, The Houses of Ireland: Domestic architecture from the medieval castle to the Edwardian villa, Thames & Hudson, London, 1975 (first edition) with photographs by George Mott; and Mark Bence-Jones, Burke's Guide to Country Houses. Volume 1: Ireland, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1980 (reprint); a useful reference. All in exceptionally nice condition. (4) €250-€300
Irish decorative arts, C. P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Alec Tiranti Ltd, London, 1967. First edition of this classic study of Rococco plasterwork in Dublin. Blue cloth boards, in a price-clipped dust-jacket. Also Dudley Westropp, Irish Glass: A History of Glass-Making in Ireland from the sixteenth Century, Allen Figgis, Dublin, 1978; revised edition with additional text and illustrations, edited by Mary Boydell. In gilt-stamped green buckram boards with clear glassine jacket. (2) €150-€180
Irish silver, Douglas Bennett, Irish Georgian Silver, Cassell & Co., in association with the Collector's Book Club, England, 1973. This edition appeared one year after the first. Bennett's text remains the authoritative work on this subject. With 255 b&w photographs, 158 illustrations of marks, and a table of 305 makers' marks, it is an indispensible reference, and exceedingly difficult to find. €300-€400
A Peggy Nisbet Replica Limited Edition (5000) Royal Doulton porcelain doll of HM Queen Elizabeth II P1953, British, 1985, comprising Queen in 1953 Coronation robes ; N.B. the original was the first Peggy Nisbet doll to be made in an entire edition of just 250 for Harrods; within special presentation box, complete with numbered signed certificate, wrist tag, 9"/23cm.
A Royal Doulton porcelain figure - "Standing Beefeater" (Model 505) - The standing figure of a Beefeater holding a facsimile of the first edition of The Illustrated London News, Saturday, 14th May 1842, on square base, 7.75ins high (green printed mark to base - initialled below in black "BC", with impressed date code for June 1926 - slight chip to front of scroll of newspaper)
A collection of hard-backed Books including "The Art of the Tin Toy" by David Pressland in card slipcase, "Encyclopaedia of Toys" by Constance King, "Collecting Matchbox Diecast Toys - the First 40 Years", "The Great Book of Corgi" by Marcel Van Cleemput, "Lehmann Toys", "The Hornby Book of Trains, 25 year Edition", "The Life Story of Meccano by Frank Hornby", "75th Anniversary of Meccano Booklet Edition" by New Cavendish Books, all Excellent to Near Mint. (7)
MORANT, PHILIP The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex. First Edition, 1768 2 vols., folio, cont. calf, spine gilt (rebacked, some wear to spine of Vol. 1). Nine folding engraved maps and 24 plates and plans, some folding or double page. One hand coloured extra illustration (of arms and brasses in North Ockenden church). (Plate of Audley End cut round and mounted.) Upcott, Vol. 1, pp.224-228 (2)
DERHAM, WILLIAM Astro-Theology: Or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, From a Survey of the Heavens. 1715. First Edition. 8vo., cont. panelled calf (old reback, some wear). Three folding plates by J. Senex at end. With five others, including Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, New Edition, ed. Ralph Church. 1758-59-58. 4 vols, 8vo, cont. calf (upper covers detached). (6)
DICKENS, CHARLES The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. First Edition in book form, 1839. Issue with visitor for sister on p.123; . . . MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. First Edition in book form, 1844. Issue with 100# on engraved title. Both 8vo., cont. half calf (spines worn). Plates by Phiz (spotted, lacking half title). (2)
DICKENS, CHARLES Master Humphrey's Clock. First Edition in Book Form. 1840-41. 3 vols. bound in two. 8vo., cont. half green morocco, spines gilt (lacks dedication to Samuel Rogers and title page for Vol. 3). Illustrations by G. Cattermole and H. K. Browne. With Vol 1 only of the same, orig. cloth (joints split), and three others. (6)
MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO The Works . . . Written Originally in Italian . . . and faithfully Translated into English. First Edition in English. Printed for John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple Bar. 1675. Folio, half calf, 5pp. bookseller's catalogue at end (p.21/22 with hole affecting a few letters; p.71/72 and p.207/8 with very small hole, probably paper faults). Wing M128 with different imprint. Sold w.a.f.
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie . . . Trans. Philemon Holland. Printed by Adam Islip, 1601 First Edition in English. 2 vols. in one. Folio, cont. calf gilt (worn, lacks backstrip, lower cover detached). Woodcut on title. Errata leaf at end (some staining to final leaves and dust soiling throughout, small rusthole to Ggg3-6 at end of Vol. 1, Ii4 with minute hole barely affecting text in Vol. 2, possibly lacking a first
COINS Hawkins, Edward. The Silver Coins of England. First Edition, 1841 Cont. roan backed boards (rubbed). Engraved frontis. and 47 plates at end. -- Humphreys, Henry Noel. The Gold, Silver and Copper Coins of England. Sixth Edition, 1849. Orig. cloth (lacks backstrip, broken in binding). Title and 23 chromolithographic plates. Text illustrations. -- Evans, John. The Coins of the Ancient Britons. First Edition, 1864. Orig. cloth (3)
DESCAMPS, JEAN BAPTISTE La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et Hollandois. First Edition. 4 vols., Paris 1753-64. 8vo., cont. mottled calf gilt, spines gilt with maroon labels (upper joints just cracking, heads of spines chipped, lacks three numeral labels). Engraved frontispiece in Vol. 1 and portraits in the text. Woodcut initials and ornaments. (4)
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