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Click here to subscribeHughes (Ted) Crow, from the Life and Songs of the Crow, second edition, number 388 of 400 copies signed by the author and artist, plates by Leonard Baskin, original buckram-backed cloth, uncut, board slip-case (very slightly rubbed), 4to, 1973. *** Contains some poems not in the first edition.
Hughes (Ted) Gaudete, first edition, inscribed by the author to the poet Al Alavarez "For Al & Anne, friendship is long/ life short/ folly interrupts/ love Ted" on front free endpaper, 1977; Season Songs, first American edition, inscribed by the author and artist "To Charles, on his revisiting his homeland - a book about it, from Ted May 1976 & from Leonard who limned it" on front free endpaper, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, New York, 1975; Selected Poems, 1957-1967, New York, 1972; The Interrogator: A Titled Vulturess, one of 250 copies, folded sheet with tipped-in facsimile, unbound, Ilkley, 1975, all with illustrations by Leonard Baskin, the first three original cloth or cloth-backed boards, dust-jackets, very slightly rubbed; and prospectus and a photocopy of corrcted proof for Howls & Whispers published in 1998, v.s. (6) (6)
Hughes (Ted) Moortown, first edition, signed by the author on title, errata slip loosely inserted, lightly browned as usual, 1979; another copy, first American edition, signed and inscribed "For Fred of Dick Legg End with best wishes from Min`s Son-in-Law Ted Hughes" on half-title, New York, 1979, illustrations by Leonard Baskin, original cloth or cloth-backed boards, dust-jackets, spines slightly faded, the second a little rubbed, 8vo (2) (2)
Hughes (Ted) Remains of Elmet: A Pennine Sequence, first edition, inscribed by the author and artist to Leonard Clark on title, photographic illustrations by Fay Godwin, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket slightly marked, 4to, 1979. *** Leonard Clark (1905-81), poet, editor and critic, who reviewed Hughes` first two collections of poetry and became a friend. Hughes` inscription reads, "For Leonard all the best from Ted. Towers fall and dunghills rise./ The skylines still embrace the skies. June 1979".
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, first separate edition, with A.L.s. from the author in envelope loosely inserted, discussing a visit to Galashiels and the American publishers Griffiths, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, some springing to gatherings, pencil inscription & blind-stamp on front endpapers, original cloth decorated in gilt & black, rubbed and frayed at spine and corners, some running of colour visible on endpapers, [Green & Gibson A26a], 8vo, 1902.
Doyle Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Return of Sherlock Holmes, first edition, plates by Charles Raymond Macauley, front endpapers split with ink name, original cloth, rubbed, spine slightly dulled, [Green & Gibson A29c; De Waal 626], 8vo, New York, 1905. *** Preceding the English edition by a month.
Greene (Graham) It`s a Battlefield, 1934 § Sayers (Dorothy L.) Unnatural Death, inscribed by the author to endpaper, 2/6 edition, spotted, 1935 § Carroll (Lewis) The Hunting of the Snark, frontispiece and illustrations, 1p. advertisements at end, t.e.g., lacking spine strip, 1876, first editions, original cloth; and 18 others, Modern Firsts, some paperbacks, 8vo (21)
Jarman (Derek) The Exhibition of Derek Jarman Luminous Darkness, first edition, illustrations, original black cloth, gilt, Tokyo, Uplink, 1990; Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script: The Derek Jarman Film, first edition, signed by the author, illustrations, original paperback covers, Waterstones` wrap-a-round, 1993 § Queer Edward II, first edition, signed by the author, photographs by Liam Longman, original paperback covers, 1991; Queer. Paintings by Derek Jarman, Exhibition Catalogue, first edition, signed by the artist, original paperback covers, 1991; and 14 others by Jarman, as issued in good to fine condition, v.s. (16)
Pullman (Philip) His Dark Materials, first collected edition, with a near full-page original colour illustration by the jacket artist David Scutt depicting Iorek Brynison and the alethiometer on front free endpaper, with the artist`s stamp & signature, original boards, dust-jacket, a fine copy, 8vo, 2001.
Sexton (Anne) Live or Die, first English edition, signed presentation copy from the author to fellow poet & personal friend George [MacBeth], original maroon cloth, a very good copy, dust-jacket, edge wear, fraying with slight loss to spine ends and corners, 8vo, 1967. *** An important association copy of one of the "confessional" poets` major works, for which she won the Pulitzer Price in 1967. Her method of self-revelation often caused controversy, leading MacBeth to say of her "She saw sincerity as a technique, the style that happened to fit what she wanted to say." She enjoyed a close friendship with Sylvia Plath, and knew fellow confessional poets Robert Lowell and William de Witt Snodgrass.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, first American edition, 6 colour plates, 25 black and white illustrations (not found in the English edition), pictorial endpapers, hinges carefully restored, ink name on front free endpaper, original green pictorial cloth, dust-jacket, slightly chipped with loss at edges, [Linder p.432], 4to, Philadelphia, 1930.
[Kilner (Rev. Joseph)] The Account of Pythagoras`s School in Cambridge as in Mr. Grose`s Antiquities of England and Wales…, first edition, with the "Something Supplementary", 9 engraved plates, 2 folding, some with light spotting, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, covers detached, spine rather worn and chipped at head and foot, folio, n.p., [c.1790]. *** Pythagoras`s School was a mediaeval building in Cambridge owned by Merton College, Oxford, through the endowment of its founder, Walter de Merton. This account was written by a Fellow of Merton College.
Hooker (Joseph Dalton) Himalayan Journals, 2 vol., first edition, 2 tinted lithograph frontispieces and 10 plates, 1 folding, 2 folding maps, trimmed at head, some affecting caption, some damp-staining to edges, errata slips, bookplate of Charles Bingham Penrose on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, joints splitting on vol.1, 8vo, 1854.
Ellis (Henry) Voyage en Chine, 2 vol., first French edition, half-titles, engraved portrait, 3 folding maps and 7 aquatint plates, ink stamp of the library at Chateau du Breau sans Nappe to titles, contemporary sheep, spines gilt with double red morocco labels, a little rubbed and some abrasions to lower cover vol.1, 8vo, Paris, 1818.
Timkowski (George) Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China, 2 vol., first English edition, lithograph frontispiece, folding map and folding plan, later half calf, worn, 1827; Voyage a Peking, 3 vol. (including Atlas), first French edition, Atlas with additional lithograph vignette title, folding map, 2 double-page plans and 8 lithograph plates, ex-library copy with a few ink stamps (not affecting plates), Atlas foxed, text in modern half sheep, Atlas in contemporary mottled half calf, extremities worn, Paris, 1827, 8vo and 4to (5) (5)
Langdon (Perceval) The Opening of Tibet, first American edition, mounted colour frontispiece, plates, one with tears, modern green half morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, New York, 1905 § Hemeling (K) English-Chinese Dictionary of the Standard Chinese Spoken Language, contemporary cloth library binding, original front wrapper/title bound in, Shanghai, 1916 § Leach (E.R.) Social Science Research in Sarawak, folding map, modern library buckram, library stamp to verso, bookplate, H.M.S.O., 1950, v.s. (3)
Cockburn (Major James [Pattison]) Swiss Scenery from Drawings, first edition, engraved vignette title, 60 engraved plates, The Kings Royal Rifle Corps Museum stamp to paste-down, marginal browning to plates, contemporary straight-grained half morocco, gilt, a little worn, 8vo, 1820. *** Cockburn (1779-1847), army officer and watercolour painter, was a pupil of Sandby. He made the drawings for this book whilst on leave from Malta and Woolwich, where he was stationed after 1815. He was "a very accomplished artist" and his continental drawings were used for many other publications. (DNB)
Chapman (Abel) and Walter J. Buck. Wild Spain. Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun…, first edition, plates, illustrations, advertisements at end, original cloth, spine gilt, spine slightly faded, a few water spots to covers, 1893; Savage Sudan, first edition, frontispiece map, plates, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a couple of nicks to spine ends, corners frayed, 1921; and a copy of On Safari, by the same, 8vo (3)
New Naturalists.- Harvey (L.A.) and D. St Leger-Gordon Dartmoor, 1953 § Moore (Ian) Grass and Grasslands, 1966 § Simms (Eric) British Larks, Pipits & Wagtails, 1992 § Majerus (Michael E.N.) Ladybirds, 1994, first edition, illustrations, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, the odd nick, but generally in very good condition; and 4 others, The New Naturalist, 8vo (8)
Bienville (M.D.T.de) La Nymphomanie,ou Traité de la Fureur Utérine, first edition, half-title, contemporary light speckled calf, 19th century reback, later endpapers, slightly worn and rubbed, Marc-Michel Rey, 1771 § Deventer (Hendrik van) New Improvements in the Art of Midwifery, first edition in English of the second part of Deventer`s Manuale Operatien, pagination as in the Wellcome copy, one engraved plate in text, contemporary calf, rebacked, slightly worn, a few contemporary annotations, some slight damp staining and soiling, T.Warner, 1724, 8vo (2) (2)
Viardel (Cosme) Observations sur la pratique des acouchemens naturels contre nature et monstreux, second edition, 17 engraved plates, 3 folding, 6 in facsimile, some damp-staining and contemporary signature to title, modern half morocco, l`Auteur et Jean de`Houry, Paris, 1674 § Roederer (Johann George) De Uteri Scirrho Commendation Medica, folding engraved plate, library stamps, modern green morocco, Gottingen, 1756 § Simpson (J.Y) Memoir on the Sex of the Child, Edinburgh, 1844, bound with 3 others by the same, most presentation copies from the author, ex-library copies with stamp on title, modern morocco, gilt, spine faded; Anæsthesia, Hospitalism Hermaphroditism, first edition, original cloth, wear to head and tail of spine, library stamp to title, 1871 § Harvey (William) The Works, first collected edition in English, original cloth, slightly worn and faded, The Sydenham Society, 1847 § Krafft-Ebbing (Dr. R.v.) Psychopathia Sexualis, authorized English edition, original cloth, slightly soiled, Brooklyn, New York, 1934 § Witkowski (Gustave Jules) Accoucheurs et Sages-Femmes Célèbres, first edition, illustrations, contemporary quarter parchment, marbled boards, original wrappers bound in, Paris, [1891]; Histoire des Accouchements chez tous les peuples, l`Arsenal Obstétrical, illustrations, contemporary half morocco, worn, upper cover loose, spine broken and lacking, Paris [1889]; Les Seins et L`Allaitement, illustrations, later cloth, Paris,1898; and a quantity of others, medical, v.s. (qty)
Folkes, M., A Table of English Silver Coins from The Norman Conquest to the Present TimeÉ, 1st edn, London, 1745, 161pp + errata; bound with A Table of English Gold Coins from The Eighteenth Year of King Edward the Third to the present Time, 2nd edn, London, 1745, 12pp, 61 engraved plates; bound with a Supplement of 6 engraved plates from Gifford’s 1763 edition (Manville 133). Blue leather, decorated gilt edging and ribbed spine, all edges gilt; interior tape strengthening of binding and extremities rubbed, internally very fine and fresh; signed ÔWalter Murphy from R.A.H. [R.A. Hoblyn], 3/9/84’ on first free endpaper Provenance: Ex libris Walter Murphy, 1884; Capt Harold Paget, with his bookplate; Alfred Bole
Beaton (Cecil). The Parting Years. Diaries 1963-74 First Edition inscribed by the author `To Bat & Buster with love from Cecil` on the front endpaper original cloth dust-wrapper [1978] - and 5 others by Beaton including The Face of the World New York and Far East (6)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
[Beckford (William Thomas)]. An Arabian Tale from an unpublished Manuscript with notes critical and explanatory First Edition second issue with p.48 correctly numbered ownership signature of H. Hill on the title and a note about the translation in a different hand contemporary mottled calf slightly rubbed bookplate [Rothschild 352] 1786* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
Cricket - Bradman (Don). Farewell to Cricket First Edition original cloth faded and warped [1950]; Britton (C.J.) G.L. Jessop First Edition original cloth Birmingham 1935; Caple (S. Canynge) compiler. The Cricketers` Who`s Who First Edition original cloth 1934 - and approx. 40 others on Cricket (quantity)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
Dickens (Charles). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club First Edition in Book Form 43 plates including frontispiece modern half morocco 1843 - and 19 others leatherbound including Wilson`s History of British India (20)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
Hunt (Captain G.H.). Outram & Havelock`s Persian Campaign second edition 8 lithographed plates original cloth head of spine torn 1858 - and 7 others on the East including a worn copy of Chapman`s Lhasa and 4 Freya Stark first editions without dust-wrappers (8)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
Salinger (J. D.). The Catcher in the Rye First English Edition original cloth dust-wrapper (without photo) 1951 - and 6 others including a second impression of Fleming`s On her Majesty`s Secret Service and a first edition of Joyce`s Two Tales of Shem and Shaun faded (7)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) No te escaparás, plate 72 from: Los Caprichos (Harris 107) etching with burnished aquatint, 1799, on laid paper without watermark, a fine impression printed in warm sepia retaining the delicate burnished highlights, from the First Edition, with margins, with several small binding defects at the left sheet edge, some pale stains and surface dirt in the margins, two short tears at the lower sheet edge, otherwise in good condition P. 212 x 202 mm., S. 303 x 203 mm. View on Christie's.com
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) The Castel Sant'Angelo, from: Vedute di Roma (H. 30) etching, 1754, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in a Single Circle, second state (of four), with the price erased but before numbers, from the First Paris Edition, 1800-07, with wide margins on three sides and a narrow margin below, with the usual central fold, irregular trimmed edges, moisture stains and discolouration in the margins, two wormholes in the upper image, otherwise generally in good condition, with three others from the same series: The Temple of Portunus (?) (H. 47), Hind's third state (of five), The Tomb, called La Conocchia (H. 130), Hind's first state (of three) and Hadrian's Villa: The Piazza d'Oro (H. 132), Hind's first state (of three) P. 17 x 22in., S. 18 x 26in. P. 439 x 560 mm., S. 470 x 664 mm. (H. 30) (and similar) (4) View on Christie's.com
Max Klinger (1857-1920) Amor und Psyche, Opus Va & Vb (Singer 64-109) two volumes comprising the complete 46 etchings, circa 1880, on Chine appliqué, from the unknown edition size, the first volume including 14 large etchings and the second volume including 32 vignettes on nine sheets, hors-texte, published by Theo. Stroefer's Kunstverlag, Munich, some with foxing, otherwise in generally good condition, loose in two brown card folders with the artist's name, title and a table of contents printed in black, the corners and extremes of the spine showing wear, minor soiling and scratches, otherwise in good condition S. 457 x 321 mm. (overall) (2) View on Christie's.com
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943) Le Balcon sur la Mer (Laboureur 274) etching, 1923, on pale blue laid paper, third, final state, signed in pencil, numbered 49/57, with wide margins, time staining, predominately to the extreme sheet edges, a few unobtrusive foxmarks and minor soiling in the margins, otherwise in good condition; with L'Eau Frache, from Toilettes (L. 633), woodcut, 1907, on thin Japan laid paper, first state of two, signed in blue pencil, from the edition of 1050 for Hyperion (there were also 23 impressions of the first state and 30 of the second), with wide margins, pale foxing and remains of old tape along the top sheet edge verso, otherwise in good condition P. 297 x 210 mm., S. 477 x 307 mm. (2) View on Christie's.com
Bancroft (George) Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln, delivered... on the 12th of February, 1866, 8vo, original cloth gilt, portrait, Washington DC, 1866, first edition, printed card pasted in of Charles O`Neill, inscribed `To my Edwin Eddison, with compliments, Washington D.C., July 13, 1866`. With the printed card of Congressman Charles O`Neill (1821-93), `Father of the House of Representatives`. .
Pullen (John J.) The Twentieth Maine, a volunteer Regiment in the Civil War, 8vo, cloth, d-j, plates, 1959; another edition, 8vo, cloth, d-j, Dayton OH, 1991; Marvel (W.) Race of the Soil, the Ninth New Hampshire Regiment in the Civil War, 8vo, cloth, d-j, plates, maps, Wilmington NC, 1988; The Story of the Fifty-fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War 1861-1865 by a Committee of the Regiment, 8vo, cloth, d-j, plates, 1887 [reprint:] Huntingdon WV, 1993; Otis (G.H.) The Second Wisconsin Infantry, 8vo, cloth, plates, Dayton OH, 1984; Longacre (E.G.) To Gettysburg and Beyond, the Twelfth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, 8vo, cloth, d-j, plates, Hightstown NJ, 1988; Longacre (E.G.) Jersey Cavaliers, a History of the First New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, 8vo, cloth, d-j, Hightstown, 1992 (7).
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