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CARTER, Angela (1940-92). The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, London, 1979. 8vo, original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket illustrated by Malcolm Ashman (the jacket very lightly browned at upper edge). FIRST EDITION.CARTER, Angela (1940-92).  The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1979. 8vo (196 x 125mm). Half title. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket illustrated by Malcolm Ashman with price of £4.95 unclipped (the jacket very lightly browned at upper edge). FIRST EDITION. Clute & Grant The Encyclopedia of Fantasy 171: "The Bloody Chamber is a central collection of revisionist-fantasy versions of fairy-tales and other material, couched in an archaizing diction reminiscent of the work of Isak Dinesen ... and directed in the main to a rewriting of the traditional cloistral view of women expressed in the literature." In 2008 The Times ranked Angela Carter as tenth in their list of "The Fifty Greatest British Writers since 1945."

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). On Her Majesty's Secret Service, London, 1963, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. With 3 other books by the same author, all FIRST EDITIONS in dust-jackets. (4)FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. 8vo (189 x 125mm). Half title. Original dark brown cloth with ski-tracks ruled in white on the upper cover, the spine lettered in silver with the publisher's device at the foot, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping with price of 16s. unclipped. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Biondi & Pickard p.53; Gilbert A11. With 3 other books by the same author, namely You Only Live Twice (London, 1964, the FIRST ISSUE with "First published 1964" on the verso of the title, owner's signature on front free endpaper), The Man with the Golden Gun (London, 1965, sections cut away from the head of the title and the following leaf, not affecting letters, some surface abrasion to the edges of the upper wrapper of jacket [see illustration]) and Octopussy and the Living Daylights (London, 1966, owner's signature on title, dust-jacket price-clipped), all FIRST EDITIONS in original cloth and dust-jackets. Please note that the dust-jackets have been photographed in their protective acetate wrappers which we have not removed to avoid damaging them. (4)

JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). Typed letter, signed ("Henry James"), to Joseph Conrad, 21 Carlyle Mansions, London, 19 June 1913. Two-and-a-half-pages, 229 x 175mm; with a printed pamphlet, "Three letters from Henry James to Joseph Conrad" (London, 1926).JAMES, Henry (1843-1916).  Typed letter, signed ("Henry James"), to Joseph Conrad, 21 Carlyle Mansions, London, 19 June 1913. Two-and-a-half-pages, 229 x 175mm; with a printed pamphlet, "Three letters from Henry James to Joseph Conrad" (London: First Edition Club, 1926). "I merely lift the edge of this crimson veil of contrition to say to you, peeping, as it were, from under it ...". A letter of almost comically Jamesian indirection in which the author apologises for not being in touch, expresses a desire to see Conrad, pronounces himself in better health than recently, and hopes that as soon as he has returned to Rye Conrad will come down in his "(I won't say life-saving, but literally life-making) miraculous car" to see him. "I always knew you were a shining angel, and now, under this fresh exhibition of your dazzling moral radiance (to say nothing of the other sorts) my natural impulse, you see, is to take advantage of these sublime qualities in you up to the very hilt. Thus it is that I throw myself upon the use of this violent machinery for at last, and in all humility, approaching you; because I feel that you will feel how I must have some pretty abject personal reason for it. That reason, to deal with it in a word, is simply that, having so miserably, so helplessly failed to do what I was, during all the dreadful time, unspeakably yearning to – which was neither more nor less than to get again into nearer relation with you by some employment, however awkward, of hand or foot – I now leave each of these members as just damnably discredited and disgraced, and seek the aid of nimbler and younger and more vivid agents than my own compromised 'personality' has proved itself able to set in motion ... For the moment I merely lift the edge of this crimson veil of contrition to say to you, peeping, as it were, from under it, that I don't despair of helping you to lift it almost altogether off me when once we shall really be within mutual reach ... I hear with fond awe of your possession of a (I won't say life-saving, but literally life-making) miraculous car, the most dazzling element for me in the whole of your rosy legend. Perhaps you will indeed again, some July afternoon, turn its head to Lamb House." In his 1905 essay, "Henry James: An Appreciation", Joseph Conrad had compared James's oeuvre to a "majestic river", and in the present letter the waters are indeed in full flow. Provenance: The Scribner Book Store, New York (printed envelope, undated); collection of James Gilvarry – his sale, Christie's, New York, 7 March 1986, lot 163.

BINDING WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS - E. V. LUCAS (1868-1938). A Wanderer in London, London, 1926, 2 volumes, 8vo, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, FINELY BOUND by Bayntun in blue morocco, EACH VOLUME WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Provenance: W. A. FOYLE (bookplate). (2)BINDING WITH TWO FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS - E. V. LUCAS (1868-1938).  A Wanderer in London ... Twenty-Sixth Edition Revised. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. 2 volumes, 8vo (183 x 118mm). Coloured plates, illustrations, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with c.250 engraved plates, a few hand-coloured. FINELY BOUND by Bayntun in contemporary full dark blue crushed morocco gilt, the covers with the coat-of-arms of the City of London, the spine gilt in six compartments, dentelles, blue silk liners, EACH VOLUME WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING, the first of Old Lambeth Bridge and Lambeth Palace; the second of the Tower of London (some minor scuff marks to the upper cover of vol. II). Provenance: W. A. FOYLE, BEELEIGH ABBEY (red morocco armorial bookplate, from Christie's sale on 13 July, 2000, part of lot 849); "From Sir Hugh Walpole Library, July /45" (pencil inscription on the front free endpaper of vol. one). (2)

BINDING - William Bond CAVENDISH [?but William Bengo COLLYER] (1782-1854). Lectures on Scripture Comparison, London, 1826, 8vo, FINELY BOUND BY THOMAS GOSDEN in contemporary red morocco gilt. A ROYAL BINDING FOR QUEEN ADELAIDE.BINDING - William Bond CAVENDISH [?but William Bengo COLLYER] (1782-1854).  Lectures on Scripture Comparison: or, Christianity Compared with Hinduism, Mohammedanism, The Ancient Philosophy, and Deism. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826. 8vo (215 x 132mm). FINELY BOUND BY THOMAS GOSDEN in contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, the covers with a border of floriated tooling in gilt and blind, the upper cover with a morocco label laid down lettered in gilt, "The Rev. W. B. Cavendish's Lectures on Scripture Comparisons [sic]. Her Majesty's Copy", the spine gilt in six compartments, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: A ROYAL BINDING BY THOMAS GOSDEN FOR QUEEN ADELAIDE, the wife of William IV (label on the front cover and bookseller's old description tipped-in at the front). The binding is faintly stamped on the front pastedown, "Bound by T. Gosden". Thomas Gosden (1780-1840) was chiefly known for binding sporting books, particular The Compleat Angler, and so it is rare to see a theological book bound by him. The book itself is, in all other copies we have located including that in the British Library, attributed to William Bengo Collyer, an English Congregational Minister and writer. We can only assume that the author assumed a pseudonym, retaining his initials, for the present edition, although his motivation for doing so remains obscure. The work was first published, with an identical title, and under Collyer's name, in 1823.

GILL, Eric (1882-1940) & David JONES (1895-1974, illustrator). Christianity and Art, Abergavenny, Francis Walterson, 1927, 8vo, woodcut frontispiece by David Jones, original blue buckram. NUMBER 21 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST.GILL, Eric (1882-1940) & David JONES (1895-1974, illustrator).  Christianity and Art. Capel-y-Ffin, Abergavenny: Francis Walterson, 1927 [but 1928]. 8vo (196 x 113mm). Half title, woodcut illustration by Eric Gill on the title and at the end, woodcut frontispiece by David Jones titled "The Artist", printed in Caslon type on Batchelor hand-made paper. Original blue buckram gilt, uncut (spine faded, without a dust-jacket, as issued). NUMBER 21 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST. The colophon states: "This essay was first printed in Blackfriars, the review of the English Dominicans. It has been revised by the Author and is now published with the permission of the Editor of Blackfriars. This edition was printed at The Shakespeare Head Press at Stratford-upon-Avon for Francis Walterson ..." The only book to be signed as part of the limitation both by Gill and Jones. Evan Gill Eric Gill. A Bibliography 13.

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Thunderball, London, 1961, 8vo, half title (some mostly very faint marginal staining and spotting). Original dark brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket (some staining to turn-ins). FIRST EDITION. Gilbert A9.FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. 8vo (188 x 120mm). Half title (some mostly very faint marginal staining and spotting, a little heavier to a few leaves towards the front and end). Original dark brown cloth with a skeletal hand stamped in blind on the upper cover, the spine lettered in gilt with the publisher's device at the foot, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping with price of 15s. unclipped (the jacket with a few chips at the head and narrow strip torn away from the foot of the backstrip, adhesive tape stains to turn-ins and to endpapers). Please note that the dust-jacket has been photographed in its protective acetate wrapper which we have not removed to avoid damaging it. FIRST EDITION, with the first issue jacket with "Sidney" on the rear turn-in. Biondi & Pickard pp.46-47; Gilbert A9.

FLOYER, John (1649-1734). A Treatise of the Asthma, London, 1698, small 8vo, some leaves mis-bound [see full description], but all present, later calf. FIRST EDITION. RARE.[FLOYER, John (1649-1734)].  A Treatise of the Asthma. Divided into Four Parts. In the First is given A History of the fits ... In the Second, The Cacochymia which disposes to the Fit ... In the Third, The Accidental Causes of the Fit ... In the Fourth, The Cure of the Asthma Fit, and the Method of Preventing it is Proposed. To which is annext a Digression about the several Species of Acids distinguish'd by their Tastes. London: Printed for Richard Wilkin, 1698. Small 8vo (157 x 100mm). Title within double rule border, with "Postscript. Some Reflexions on the Dissection of the Broken Winded Mare" (R1-[R4], i.e. pp.241-247) bound after "To the Reader", with b2-[b3] ("To the Reader. A Scheme of the several Species of the Asthmas") inserted between p.244 and 245 [as found in another copy in the trade], but all leaves present (a few short tears at margin of title, small piece torn away from lower margin of A3, a few small holes occasionally affecting text, variable mainly marginal browning, spotting and staining throughout, a few darker spots). Later calf, spine with red morocco lettering-piece (some staining, lightly rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); John Bostock (old signature at head of title, probably that of John Bostock (1773-1846), one of the first chemical pathologists); unidentified old institutional stamp and pencil number with initials "M.B." on title and at head of the Preface. FIRST EDITION. RARE. "The work on asthma is ... very noteworthy, not only as containing excellent clinical observations, but as giving the first account, derived from dissection, of the change in the lungs now called emphysema, which is found in one of the forms of asthma as then understood. This observation, which has been often quoted in modern text-books, was made not on the human subject, but on a broken-winded mare. Floyer clearly distinguishes spasmodic asthma (from which he himself suffered), and assigns for it the same cause as do most modern authorities, viz. : 'contraction of the muscular fibres of the bronchia'. His other medical writings are less important" (DNB). Garrison & Morton 3166: "Floyer himself suffered from asthma for over 30 years. He recognised the influence of heredity in asthma. The above [work] includes (p.239) an important early account of emphysema."

DAHL, Roald (1916-90). The Gremlins, New York, 1943, 4to, illustrations, some coloured, original pictorial boards (edges rubbed, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. With another book by the same author. (2)DAHL, Roald (1916-90).  The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production. A Royal Air Force Story. New York: Random House, 1943. 4to (278 x 215mm). Illustrations, some full-page and coloured (short tear to half title, some very faint marginal browning and staining). Original red cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers printed in yellow and red (edges rubbed, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: "To David K. Spradling II from Florence Walker Clifton, Xmas 1943" (inscription on front free endpaper, with remnants of a Christmas sticker beneath). FIRST EDITION of the author's first children's book. His name is given as "Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl" and a printed note on the verso of the title states: "The R. A. F. Benevolent Fund will receive the author's share of the proceeds from the sale of this book." The illustrator of the book is not identified, either with a credit or signature, but they probably worked for Walt Disney studios, the illustrations undeniably having a 'cartoonish' appearance. The Disney film which was to be based on the book never materialised, and the film "Gremlins" produced by Warner Bros. in 1984 owed little to it apart from the character of its mischievously destructive creatures. With the same author's James and the Giant Peach (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1961, 4to, illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, original orange cloth, dust-jacket, torn and frayed at corners, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the author's second children's book). (2) 

BINDING - London Interiors, London, [c.1841-44], 2 volumes bound in one, 4to, engraved frontispiece, title and 74 plates, attractively bound in contemporary elaborately decorated green morocco gilt (crudely rebacked). FIRST EDITION.BINDING - London Interiors: A Grand National Exhibition of the Religious, Regal, and Civic Solemnities, Public Amusements, Scientific Meetings, and Commercial Scenes of the British Capital. London: Joseph Mead, [1841-44]. 2 volumes bound in one, 4to (270 x 215mm). Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, wood-engraved plate of the "Interior of the Exhibition", 74 engraved plates (frontispiece and engraved title spotted and stained, some mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Attractively bound in contemporary elaborately decorated green morocco gilt, gilt edges (crudely rebacked preserving old spine, some rubbing and scuffing, corners bumped). Provenance: Shelley Holford, Essex (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION.

HOWELL, James ([?]1594-1666). Londinopolis, London, 1657, folio, engraved portrait and double-page view of London, contemporary calf (with flaking and surface abrasion). FIRST EDITION, [?]PRESENTATION COPY.HOWELL, James ([?]1594-1666).  Londinopolis; An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain: Whereunto is added another of the City of Westminster, with The Courts of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging. London: Printed by J. Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, 1657. Small folio (278 x 180mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Abraham Bosse after Claude Melan, title printed in red and black, woodcut initials, double-page engraved view of London with the title ("London the glory of Great Britaines Ile, Behold her Landschip here, and tru pourfile") in a baroque cartouche (lacks the blank before the portrait, variable browning and spotting throughout the text but not affecting the portrait, title and plate, some darker spots, upper fore-corner of Q1 torn away but present, unsightly rust hole in Aa4 affecting a few letters). Contemporary calf ruled in gilt (much flaking and surface abrasion, some inconspicuous old repairs, possibly a later spine, later endpapers). Provenance: later ink annotation at the margin of p.389 speculating as to the future population of London; a few old marginal textual corrections or notes in ink; Ross Collins (modern pencil signature on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION, [?]PRESENTATION COPY, with a contemporary slip pasted onto the upper margin of the portrait inscribed, "For his very worthy frend [sic], Mr Jacob Bonnel," and 2 further slips pasted onto the lower margin inscribed "5 Nonas Junii" and "1657". A later pencil note on the front pastedown reads, "Presentation Copy from the Author (see the flyleaf before the portrait) in the handwriting of Howell." Since the flyleaf in question has at some point been removed, the inscriptions have been cut out later and pasted onto the frontispiece. Brunet II, 652: "cet ouvrage est en grande partie tiré de Stow's survey"; ESTC R13420; Grolier 487; Pforzheimer 515; Wing H3091.

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Dr. No, London, 1958, 8vo, some marginal ink marks, original cloth with silhouette on the upper cover, dust-jacket by Pat Marriott. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S SIXTH BOND NOVEL, later issue dust-jacket. Gilbert A6.FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Dr. No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. 8vo (189 x 125mm). Half title (ink lines in the form of a "V" to the upper margins and, on one occasion, the lower margin of most pages between the first text page and p.47, where the marks abruptly stop, the remainder of the book unmarked, page-numbers 38, 39 and 40 scribbled out, some spotting to the last few leaves and rear endpapers). Original black cloth, the upper cover with the silhouette of "Honeychile" stamped in very faint brown, the spine lettered in silver with the publisher's device stamped in silver at the foot, dust-jacket by Pat Marriott with the author's name on the backstrip in tan lettering, with the price clipped and an advertisement with reviews of "From Russia, With Love" on the lower wrapper (the jacket with a chip not affecting letters at the head of the backstrip, some fraying at the head and foot of backstrip and at corners, some staining and spotting to lower wrapper). Please note that the dust-jacket has been photographed in its protective acetate wrapper which we have not removed to avoid damaging it. Provenance: illegible juvenile [?]inscription on front pastedown, almost certainly in the same hand that has marked the book internally. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S SIXTH BOND NOVEL, in the second or later issue dust-jacket. The blurb on the front turn-in, with its retrospective reference to "publication day" (drawing further attention to the fact that it is a second or later issue of the jacket), states: "On publication day a leading article in the Manchester Guardian said: 'In spite of what is commonly said by magistrates and others, there is evidence that fiction of this kind provides a vicarious satisfaction of innately violent instincts which tends to prevent their expression in the everyday world. Taking this point of view, we should be grateful to Mr. Fleming for providing a conveniently accessible safety-valve for the boiling sensibility of modern man ... To call down thunder upon the head of Bond or his creator is the sign of a guilty conscience'."  The plot of "Dr. No" formed the basis of the first Bond film of 1962 which starred Sean Connery in the lead role and Ursula Andress as Honeychile Ryder (although the character's name was shortened to Honey for the film). Biondi & Pickard p.44; Gilbert A6.

BULLEID, Arthur (1862-1951) & Harold St. George GRAY (1872-1963). The Glastonbury Lake Village. A Full Description of the Excavations and the Relics Discovered, 1892-1907, London, 1911, 2 volumes, 4to, 101 plates, green buckram. FIRST EDITION. (2)BULLEID, Arthur (1862-1951) & Harold St. George GRAY (1872-1963).  The Glastonbury Lake Village. A Full Description of the Excavations and the Relics Discovered, 1892-1907. [London:] The Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, 1911. 2 volumes, 4to (306 x 250mm). 101 plates, many folding. Original green pictorial buckram gilt, top edges gilt. FIRST EDITION. (2)

MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). A Gallery of Children, London, [1925]. 4to, 12 coloured plates by H. Willebeek le Mair, original cream pictorial buckram. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 392 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956) & Henrietta WILLEBEEK LE MAIR (1889-1996, illustrator).  A Gallery of Children. London: Stanley Paul & Co., Ltd., [1925]. 4to (322 x 255mm). Half title, coloured illustration on title and 12 coloured plates by "Saida" (some very faint staining to the title and contents leaves). Original cream pictorial buckram gilt, bevelled edges, top edges gilt, others uncut (light stain to one corner of the upper cover). Provenance: Peggie Morden (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 392 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The book has an interesting origin. The delightful coloured illustrations by "Saida" (i.e. pseudonym of Henrietta Willebeek le Mair) were originally commissioned by the American company Colgate (of toothpaste fame) for an advertising campaign, although there is nothing overtly commercial about them. They proved so popular with the public, however, that A. A. Milne wrote a series of 12 children's fantasy stories based around them, and in so doing produced his first prose work for children, a year before Winnie-the-Pooh.

JONES, Paul (1921-97, illustrator). Flora Superba, London, 1971, folio, 16 coloured lithographed plates by Paul Jones, original half vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 48 of 506 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.JONES, Paul (1921-97, illustrator).  Flora Superba. Selected and Painted by the Artist. Text by Wilfrid Blunt. Foreword by Sir George Taylor. London: The Tryon Gallery, 1971. Folio (528 x 370mm). Half title, title printed in green and black, 16 coloured lithographed plates by Paul Jones. Original half vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the spine lettered in gilt, floral motif stamped in gilt on the upper cover, top edges gilt, slipcase (the slipcase frayed at extremities). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 48 OF 506 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. "The plates were printed in muliti-coloured lithography at The Curwen Press Limited of London who also composed the type in Monotype Walbaum. The colour plates have been printed on a matt coated cartridge made by Bowaters at Sittingbourne, Kent, and the text on Arma all-rag paper made by E. Towgood & Sons, Limited, at Sawston, Cambridge" (from the limitation leaf). Both the publisher's note and Wilfrid Blunt's Introduction draw comparisons between the present work and that masterpiece of early 19th-century botanical books, The Temple of Flora.

LONDON, GENERAL - Warwick DRAPER (1873-1926). Chiswick, London, 1923, small folio, plates, original buckram-backed paper boards. FIRST EDITION. With 23 works of related interest in 24 volumes, bound in cloth or buckram. (25)LONDON, GENERAL - Warwick DRAPER (1873-1926).  Chiswick. London: Philip Allan & Co., 1923. Small folio (253 x 165mm). List of subscribers, half title, coloured frontispiece by Christopher Draper, title printed in orange and black with woodcut printer's device, half tone plates. Original buckram-backed paper boards, spine with gilt lettering-piece, uncut (scuff mark to upper cover, white stain on spine, rubbed at corners, bumped at lower edge). FIRST EDITION. With 23 works of related interest in 24 volumes, bound in cloth or buckram, including John Timbs' Clubs and Club Life in London. With Anecdotes of its Famous Coffee Houses, Hostelries, and Taverns (London, [1872], 8vo, plates, original brown buckram, the upper cover stamped in gilt "Beef & Liberty"), Tom Taylor's Leicester Square; Its Associations and its Worthies (London, 1874, 8vo, folding facsimile map, plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked preserving original spine), Charles Eyre Pascoe's No. 10, Downing Street, Whitehall: Its History and Associations (London, 1908, 4to, plates, some coloured, original blue buckram gilt), Charles G. Harper's Thames Valley Villages (London, 1910, 2 volumes, large 8vo, plates, fine original green pictorial buckram, top edges gilt, others uncut), R. R. C. Gregory & F. W. Nunn's The Story of Lee [Lewisham] (London, 1923, 4to, frontispiece and illustrations, original dark blue buckram gilt), Kenneth Hare's London's Latin Quarter (London, 1926, 4to, coloured and plain plates by Dorothea St. John George, original "art deco" cloth) and Donald Maxwell's The New Lights of London Being a Series of Impressions of the Glamour and Magic of London at Night (London, 1926, large 8vo, fine coloured lithographed plates by the author, original blue cloth gilt). Please note that only a small part of the lot is illustrated. (25)

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). From Russia, With Love, London, 1957, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIFTH BOND NOVEL, and the first to have its dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping. Gilbert A5.FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. 8vo (188 x 125mm). Half title. Original black cloth with gun and rose motif stamped in red and white on the upper cover, the spine lettered in red and white, dust-jacket "devised by the author and executed by Richard Chopping", with the price of 13s. 6d. unclipped and an advertisement with reviews of "Diamonds are Forever" on the lower wrapper (some minor patches of abrasion to the upper wrapper of the jacket). Please note that the dust-jacket has been photographed in its protective acetate wrapper which we have not removed to avoid damaging it. Provenance: "C. J. S. from J. S. Christmas 1957" (inscription on front pastedown). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIFTH BOND NOVEL, and the first to have its dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping. Biondi & Pickard p.41; Gilbert A5.

SOMERSET MAUGHAM, William (1874-1965). Liza of Lambeth, London, 1947, large 8vo, original vellum-backed paper boards, dust-jacket. NUMBER 288 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. "Jubilee Edition."SOMERSET MAUGHAM, William (1874-1965).  Liza of Lambeth. London: William Heinemann, 1947. Large 8vo (220 x 145mm). Half title, title printed in red and black. Original vellum-backed decorated pink paper boards, top edges gilt, others uncut, dust-jacket with price of "Two guineas net" unclipped (jacket with a small piece torn away from head of backstrip, some fraying to upper edge, clean tear to lower turn-in). NUMBER 288 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The "Jubilee Edition", published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the author's first novel in 1897. "His first novel, Liza of Lambeth, which belonged to the 'new realist' school of G. A. Moore, drew on [the author's] experiences of slums and Cockney life as an obstetric clerk. It was the beginning of a long and prolific career ..." (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Drabble, 1985). Stott A Bibliography of the Writings of W. Somerset Maugham A1f.

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The Movie "Barfly", Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1987, large 8vo, photographed illustrations, original boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 179 OF 400 "SPECIAL HARDCOVER COPIES" NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Krumhansl 103.C.BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  The Movie "Barfly". An Original Screenplay ... for a Film by Barbet Schroeder. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Large 8vo (229 x 149mm). Title printed in red and black, monochrome photographed illustrations by Michael Montfort and Andrew Cooper of scenes from the making of the film (some extremely faint marginal staining to a few leaves, small light stain to the limitation leaf). Original dark blue cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards, the upper cover with a monochrome photographed illustration of Charles Bukowski (as himself), Faye Dunaway (as Wanda Wilcox) and Mickey Rourke (as Hank Chinaski), printed paper spine label, yellow endpapers (some light spotting to front endpapers, without an acetate wrapper, [?]as issued). Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 179 OF 400 "SPECIAL HARDCOVER COPIES" NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Krumhansl 103c.

GALSWORTHY, John (1867-1933). The Dark Flower, London, 1913, 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "Conrad Ackner, Cordially, John Galsworthy." With 4 other books by Galsworthy, all PRESENTATION COPIES to Conrad Ackner. (5)GALSWORTHY, John (1867-1933).  The Dark Flower. London: William Heinemann, 1913. 8vo (184 x 120mm). 7-pages of publisher's advertisements at the front, half title (a few small stains and spots). Original burgundy cloth (extremities lightly rubbed, last few leaves loose, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "Conrad Ackner, Cordially, John Galsworthy." Conrad Ackner was a renowned "society dentist" who came to England from Vienna before the First World War and numbered among his clients, in addition to John Galsworthy, many celebrities and royalty. In 1929 Sir John Lavery painted him in his surgery at Welbeck Street attending to his wife's teeth. With 4 other books by John Galsworthy, namely The Freelands (London, 1915, original cloth, without the dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION) and Plays: Second Series [Third Series & Fourth Series] (London, 1919-20, 3 vols., original cloth, dust-jackets, torn with some loss), all PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed by the author to Conrad Ackner. (5)

WATHEN, James ([?]1751-1828). Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China; Returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, London, 1814, 4to, 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, modern half morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.WATHEN, James ([?]1751-1828).  Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China; Returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena; in the H. C. S. The Hope, Capt. James Prendergrass. London: Printed for J. Nichols (and others), 1814. 4to (264 x 205mm). 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Clark after drawings by the author (without a half title [?as issued], 11 plates browned and with margins trimmed, lacking the advertisements found in a few copies). Modern old-style half brown morocco and marbled boards. Provenance: Royal Geographical Society (small blue stamps to title and on versos of plates). FIRST EDITION. "In 1811 ... [the author] accompanied James Prendergast [sic] in his ship the Hope on a voyage to India and China, in which he visited Madras, Penang, Canton, Macao, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena. In 1814 he published an account of his travels ... illustrated with twenty-four coloured prints from his own drawings. His narrative is lively, and his account of eastern life is minute and interesting" (DNB). Abbey Travel 517; Brunet IV, 707: "Volume orné de 20 [sic] belles planches color"; Cordier Sinica p.2107 (erroneously stating the date of publication as 1824); Gay 1063; Lust 386; Mendellsohn II, p.591.

WILSON, Charles William (1836-1905, editor). Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. London: J. S. Virtue and Co., [1881-84]. 4 volumes, 4to, engraved titles with vignettes, 39 engraved plates, illustrations, contemporary half roan. FIRST EDITION. (4)WILSON, Charles William (1836-1905, editor).  Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. London: J. S. Virtue and Co., [1881-84]. 4 volumes, 4to (323 x 250mm). Additional engraved titles with vignettes, titles printed in red and black, 39 engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations, some full-page, maps (occasional spotting and staining). Contemporary dark burgundy half roan and pebbled boards gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Blackmer 1817. (4)

MALORY, Thomas (1416-71) & Aubrey BEARDSLEY (1872-98, illustrator). The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, New York, 1927, 4to, illustrations, buckram, DUST-JACKET, third edition, ONE OF 1,600 COPIES. With 3 works in 4 vols., and another jacket. (6)MALORY, Thomas (1416-71) & Aubrey BEARDSLEY (1872-98, illustrator).  The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1927. 4to (294 x 225mm). Etched frontispiece, woodcut illustrations including four full-page, ornamental borders and initials, by Aubrey Beardsley. Original dark blue buckram gilt with decorations designed by Aubrey Beardsley, top edges gilt, others uncut, with the dust-jacket after a design by Beardsley (the jacket with a few tears without loss and some fraying at the corners). Provenance: Fonnie E. Davis (bookplate). A FINE COPY of the third edition, in its RARE dust-jacket. ONE OF 1,600 COPIES. With 3 other related works in 4 volumes, namely the same author's The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur (London, 1893, 2 vols., 4to, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, original decorated tan buckram gilt, ONE OF 1,800 COPIES), The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur (London, 1909, 4to, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, original decorated green buckram gilt, the second edition, ONE OF 1,500 COPIES) and Reproductions of Eleven Designs Omitted from the First Edition of Le Morte Darthur illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley (London, 1927, original vellum gilt, NUMBER 145 OF 300 COPIES); together with a dust-jacket for the work for the J. M. Dent & Sons (London) edition of 1927 (the book not present). (6)

CHANCELLOR, E. Beresford (1868-1937). The History of the Squares of London, London, 1907, 4to, 36 plates, some in 2 states, vellum-backed cloth. FIRST EDITION, NO. 5 OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With a letter from the author loosely-inserted.CHANCELLOR, Edwin Beresford (1868-1937).  The History of the Squares of London Topographical & Historical. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1907. 4to (250 x 195mm). Half title, frontispiece in 2 states, one coloured, 35 plates, some in 2 states. Contemporary vellum-backed green cloth boards, the spine with a tan morocco lettering piece, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 5 OF 50 COPIES "ON HAND-MADE PAPER" SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Loosely-inserted is a one-page autograph letter from the author, 3-pages, signed ("E. Beresford Chancellor"), and dated 23.2.'25, to one Mr E. J. Finch, on the subject of prints of old houses in Kennington [or possibly Kensington] Square, with a note added by Mr Finch to the top left of the first page of the same letter.

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Goldfinger, New York, 1959, 8vo, half title (a few pages with light stains and spots), original black cloth with skull design stamped in blind with gold coins as eyes, dust-jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Gilbert A7b.FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Goldfinger. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. 8vo (188 x 120mm). Half title (a few pages with light stains and spots). Original black cloth with skull design stamped in blind and with gold coins as eyes, the spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping with price of $3.00 unclipped (jacket with some fraying at head and foot of backstrip). Please note that the dust-jacket has been photographed in its protective acetate wrapper which we have not removed to avoid damaging it. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Biondi & Pickard p.45; Burgess Ninety-Nine Novels p.74 (his only choice of a work by Fleming): "... Fleming's passion for plausibility, his own naval intelligence background, and a kind of sincere Manicheism, allied to journalistic efficiency in the management of his récit, make his work rather impressive"; Gilbert A7b.

LONDON, THE THAMES - Walter G. BELL (1867-1942). The Thames from Chelsea to the Nore, London, 1907, 4to, mounted coloured frontispiece, 30 lithographed plates, morocco gilt. ONE OF 310 COPIES. With 8 other books of related interest, leather-bound. (9)LONDON, THE THAMES - Walter George BELL (1867-1942).  The Thames from Chelsea to the Nore. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907. 4to (278 x 215mm). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece, title printed in red and black, and 30 lithographed plates by Thomas R. Way. Attractively bound by Henry Sotheran in dark blue half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, original blue cloth gilt wrappers bound in at the end (spine faded, some light staining to boards). FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 310 COPIES, this copy unnumbered. With 8 other books of related interest, all bound in half morocco or half calf, including John Fisher Murray's A Picturesque Tour of the River Thames in its Western Course (London, 1862, large 8vo, wood-engraved plates COLOURED BY HAND, maps, later half blue morocco gilt), G. H. Birch's London on Thames in Bygone Days (London, 1903, 4to, coloured plates, later blue half morocco gilt) and W. L. & M. A. Wyllie's London to the Nore (London, 1905, large 8vo, coloured plates, later brown half morocco gilt with ship motifs in the compartments of the spine). (9) 

NONESUCH PRESS - William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). The Works, London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929-33, 7 volumes, large 8vo, original full niger morocco gilt. NUMBER 798 OF 1,050 COPIES. (7)NONESUCH PRESS -  William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616).  The Works  ... The text of the First Folio with Quarto variants and a selection of modern readings: edited by Herbert Farjeon. [London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1929-33. 7 volumes, large 8vo (235 x 150mm). Titles within ruled borders with small woodcut ornaments. Original full niger morocco by A. W. Bain, the covers with double gilt-ruled fillets, the spines with five raised bands and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some very light scratching and scuffing to covers). ONE OF 1,600 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 798 OF 1,050 COPIES FOR SALE IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The limitation leaf states: "This edition consists of 1,050 copies for sale in Great Britain & Ireland and 550 copies for sale in the United States of America. It has been designed by Francis Meynell, printed and made in England by Walter Lewis, M.A., Printer to the University, at the Cambridge University Press, in Monotype Fournier with new capital letters made for this edition, and bound in London by A. W. Bain." Nonesuch Century 58: "The Shakespeare represents the chef d' oeuvre of the Nonesuch Press ... This is the finest of all editions of our greatest poet"; Ransom Private Presses p.169. (7)

BAKST, Léon (1866-1924, illustrator). The Designs of Léon Bakst for The Sleeping Princess, London, 1923, 4to, portrait of Bakst by Picasso, 54 coloured plates by Bakst, original vellum-backed boards. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. NUMBER 385 OF 1,000 COPIES.BAKST, Léon (1866-1924, illustrator).  The Designs of Léon Bakst for The Sleeping Princess. A Ballet in Five Acts after Perrault. Music by Tchaikovsky. Preface by André Levinson. London: Benn Brothers Limited, 1923. Large 4to (389 x 285mm). Half title, coloured illustration by Léon Bakst laid down on the title and another at the head of the list of plates, full-page lithographed portrait of Bakst by Pablo Picasso, 54 mounted coloured plates by Bakst. Original vellum-backed blue buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (lightly stained, corners rubbed and bumped, without the slipcase). Provenance: "M.K.S. from A.F.S." (pencil inscription on front free endpaper). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. NUMBER 385 OF 1,000 COPIES. From André Levinson's Preface: "In less than six weeks - his time was necessarily restricted - Léon Bakst composed, or, rather, improvised the six scenes and the three hundred costumes (a whole world of pictorial fiction) which the ballet contains. A less bold, more timorous worker, seeking the exact historical document, nosing about in portfolios, compiling dossiers, would have succumbed to the difficulties. Bakst, above all else an imaginative artist, triumphed. Instead of building up an imitation, he created a dream of reality ... This effect is traceable to three things, a buoyant, grandiose organisation of space, an expert orchestration of colours and an inexhaustible wealth of decorative invention." The ballet is more commonly known as "The Sleeping Beauty."

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). You Only Live Twice, London, 1964, 8vo, original black cloth with Chinese characters stamped in gilt on the cover, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping with price unclipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Gilbert A12.FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. 8vo (189 x 125mm). Half title. Original black cloth with Chinese characters stamped in gilt on the upper cover, the spine lettered in silver, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping with the price of 16s. unclipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "First published 1964" on the verso of the title. Biondi & Pickard p.49; Gilbert A12.

LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-95). Fables Choisies, Bouillon, 1776, 4 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece and 248 engraved plates, contemporary calf. With 2 early 19th-century editions of French works in 7 vols. (11)LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-95).  Fables Choisies, mises en vers. Bouillon: "Aux Dépens de la Société Typographique," 1776. 4 volumes, 8vo (205 x 125mm). Half titles, engraved frontispiece and 248 engraved plates after Oudry including the additional plate in vol. one numbered "XLIII. 2. planche" for the fable "Le Meunier, son  Fils, et l' Ane" which is sometimes lacking, ornaments on titles and throughout (some staining at fore-edge of leaves occasionally touching the text or image, one leaf torn in vol. III without loss, a few short tears or small pieces torn away from leaves without loss). Attractively bound in contemporary mottled calf gilt, the spines gilt in six compartments, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: "Du Catalogue du Freres Perisse, Imprimeur-Libraires, rue Merciere, à Lyon" (printed label on front pastedown of vol. one); "Les Fables de La Fontaine Ettrene de l' an 1800 Adolphe [?]Devillay, Souvenir precieux des mon cher Adolphe, [?]R. B." (inscription on the front free endpaper of all vols., although only the first vol. has the second sentence and initials). This edition not in Brunet; Cohen-de Ricci 552; Lewine Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books p.276: "[contains a] ... frontispiece after that of Oudry, and 248 plates copied or imitated from Oudry by Alard, Bertin, Crescent and Savart, or not signed ..."; Rochambeau p.42, 109. With 2 early 19th-century editions of French works in 7 vols., namely Montesquieu's Oeuvres Complètes (Paris, 1818, 5 vols. 8vo) and Jean de la Bruyère's Les Caractères ... suivis des Caracterès de Théophraste, Traduit du Grec par la Même (Paris, 1826, 2 vols., 8vo), both attractively bound in contemporary calf. (11)

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). In the Shadow of the Rose, Santa Barbara, 1991, 4to, original coloured decorated boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 721 OF 750 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH A SELF-PORTRAIT SKETCH. Krumhansl 122a.BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  In the Shadow of the Rose. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. 4to. Title printed in turquoise, pink and black (some very faint spotting to the title and slightly heavier spotting to the half title [which is bound after the title] and "Table of Contents" leaf). Original black cloth-backed coloured decorated paper boards, printed spine label, turquoise endpapers, turquoise dust-jacket, acetate wrapper (some light spotting and staining to boards). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 721 OF 750 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH AN ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT SKETCH. The book bears a printed dedication to the actor Sean Penn. Krumhansl 122a.

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Just So Stories, London, 1902, 4to, illustrations by the author, original cloth. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. With c.50 other books, a few inscribed by Kipling to Stanley Baldwin. (c.50)KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936).  Just So Stories For Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. 4to (230 x 175mm). Half title, 22 plates, illustrations and initials by the author (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original red pictorial cloth (lightly stained and rubbed, inner hinges weak, spine a little faded). Provenance: Phyllis Neilson Terry, October 15, 1902 (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the binding blocked in white. Stewart 260. With c.50 other books by, or relating to, the same author including H. Staunton's The Chess Tournament. A Collection of the Games Played at this Celebrated Assemblage (London, 1852, 8vo, diagrams, contemporary half calf, INSCRIBED BY KIPLING, "Stan from Rud: Dec 31, 1919" [i.e. inscribed by Kipling to Stanley Baldwin who was a first cousin of the poet's]), Rudyard Kipling's The Brushwood Boy (London, 1907, 8vo, coloured plates by F. H. Townsend, original cloth), Verse. Inclusive Edition 1885-1918 (London, 1919, 3 vols., large 8vo, original buckram gilt, SIGNED BY KIPLING on the half title of the first vol. and INSCRIBED BY KIPLING, "Stan from his cousin, New Year, 1919-20"), Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (London, 1923, 4to, original cloth), Harry Stillwell Edwards' Eneas Africanus (Macon, Georgia, 1924, square 8vo, original wrappers, INSCRIBED BY KIPLING in pencil, "Read every word of this and study the map, R."), Horati Carminum Libri IV (London, "Impensis Petr. Davies", 1926, large 8vo, coloured illustrations, original decorated cloth, INSCRIBED BY KIPLING, "Stan from Rud. Dec. 1926") and Sea and Sussex (London, 1926, 4to, mounted coloured plates by Donald Maxwell, original cloth gilt). Please note that only a very small part of the lot is illustrated. (c.50)

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Live and Let Die, London, 1954, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket (jacket in second state). FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND OF THE AUTHOR'S JAMES BOND NOVELS. Gilbert A2.FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. 8vo (189 x 125mm). Half title. Original black cloth with blind-stamped circular device to the upper cover, the spine lettered and the publisher's device stamped in very pale green, without any remnants of prior gilding [possibly a variant issue binding?], the dust-jacket with the wording "devised by the author and executed by Kenneth Lewis" in italics directly beneath the blurb on the front turn-in [indicating the jacket is in the second state], with the price of 10s. 6d. unclipped and with an advertisement for the second impression of "Casino Royale" on the lower wrapper (the corners of the cloth binding a little bumped, some minor inconspicuous repairs at edges of jacket). Please note that the dust-jacket has been photographed in its protective acetate wrapper which we have not removed to avoid damaging it. Provenance: "R. N. B." (initials on armorial bookplate with the motto "Perseverando"). FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND OF THE AUTHOR'S JAMES BOND NOVELS. Biondi & Pickard p.41; Gilbert A2.

MISCELLANY, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS - Willy POGANY (1882-1955, illustrator). Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales, London, [1913], 4to, coloured plates, cloth gilt. With c.45 other mostly 20th-century illustrated books. The lot sold not subject to return. (c.45)MISCELLANY, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS - Willy POGANY (1882-1955, illustrator).  Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales. London: George G. Harrap, [1913]. 4to (240 x 180mm). Half title, 16 mounted coloured plates by Willy Pogany, illustrations, some full-page, decorations. Original coloured pictorial cloth gilt. With c.45 other late-19th-century and 20th-century illustrated books including Edward Fitzgerald's Rubâ'yât of Omar Khayyam with their Original Persian Sources (London, 1899, small folio, frontispiece, original decorated buckram gilt), Harry Graham's Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (London, [c.1899], oblong 12mo, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, "fifth impression"), Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (London, 1902, 4to, illustrations, many leaves detached or loose, original pictorial cloth, FIRST EDITION), The Golden Staircase. Poems and Verses for Children (London, 1906, 4to, coloured plates by M. Dibdin Spooner, original cloth gilt), Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows ... Second Edition (London, 1908, 8vo, frontispiece, original pictorial cloth gilt), Joseph Bédier's The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (London, 1910, 4to, coloured plates by Florence Simmons, original pictorial cloth), William Blake's Songs of Innocence (London, [c.1910], 4to, coloured plates by Honor C. Appleton, original tan buckram gilt), Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women (London, 1912, 4to, coloured plates by Richard Copping, original pictorial cloth gilt), John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River (London, 1932, 8vo, coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, limp boards and wrappers), Lord Berners' The Camel. A Tale (London, 1936, 8vo, illustrations by the author, original cloth gilt, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION) and Hans Andersen's The Nightingale (Leicester, [1945], 4to, coloured illustrations by Rene Cloke, original coloured pictorial boards). Please note that only a small part of the lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (c.45)

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window, Glendale, California, Poetry X/Change, [1968], square 8vo, illustration by the author, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. RARE.BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window. Glendale, California: Poetry X/Change, [1968]. Square 8vo (209 x 157mm). Double-page centrefold illustration by the author printed in orange, with printed signature "BUK '68". Original stiff pictorial wrappers with a photographed self-portrait, wearing a gas mask, by P. David Horton. Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. FIRST EDITION of one of the author's scarcest collections. RARE. Dorbin A12: "Small edition, limitation unknown."

[MOULIN, Peter du (1601-84, attributed)]. Tragicum theatrum actorum, Amsterdam, 1649, small 8vo, 8 engraved portraits, folding plate of the execution of Charles I (lacks all before title [i.e. blanks]), contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION.[MOULIN, Peter du (1601-84, attributed)].  Tragicum theatrum actorum, & casuum tragicorum Londini publice celebratorium, quibus Hiberniæ proregi, Episcopo Cantuariensi, ac tandem Regi ipsi, aliisque vita adempta, & ad Anglicanam metamorphosin via est aperta. Amsterdam: Apud Jodocum Jansonium, 1649. Small 8vo (139 x 90mm). Woodcut ornament on the title, 8 engraved portraits, folding plate of the execution of Charles I with the Banqueting House in the background, 4-pages of errata inserted between pp.84 and 85 (lacks all before title [i.e. blank or blanks], variable but mostly light browning throughout, some light spotting mainly at margins). Contemporary mottled calf gilt (neatly rebacked, rubbed). Provenance: Nathan of Churt (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION.

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Hollywood. A Novel, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1989, 8vo, original boards. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 398 OF 500 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A SMALL ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. Krumhansl 112c.BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Hollywood. A Novel. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, April 1989. Large 8vo (228 x 152mm). Monochrome photographed portrait of the author by Michael Font (one leaf [pp.215/216] creased from top to bottom not affecting legibility, probably a printing flaw). Original burgundy cloth-backed pictorial boards, the upper cover with a Martini cocktail and the Hollywood sign, printed paper label on spine, pinkish grey endpapers, acetate wrapper. Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 398 OF 500 "SPECIAL HARDCOVER COPIES" NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH AN ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT SKETCH BENEATH HIS SIGNATURE. Krumhansl 112c.

MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). The Hums of Pooh, London, 1929, 4to, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, boards. ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ARTIST & COMPOSER. With 3 other books in the same series, one of which a SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. (4)MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956).  The Hums of Pooh. Lyrics by Pooh. Music by H. Fraser-Simson. Introduction and Notes by A. A. Milne. Decorations by E. H. Shepard. Additional Lyrics by Eeyore. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1929. 4to (320 x 255mm). Half title, illustrations by E. H. Shepard. Original blue buckram-backed grey paper boards, printed label on upper cover, uncut. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ARTIST AND COMPOSER, this being an out-of-series copy, with part of the statement of limitation crossed out and inscribed beneath, "This is a presentation copy for H. Simmonds, Esq." With 3 other books in the same series, namely More "Very Young" Songs from "When We Were Very Young" and "Now We Are Six" (London, 1928, 4to, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original blue buckram-backed grey paper boards, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ARTIST AND COMPOSER, this being an out-of-series copy, with part of the statement of limitation crossed out and inscribed beneath, "This is a presentation copy for H. Simmonds, Esq.", the same author's Teddy Bear and Other Songs (London, 1926, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original buckram-backed boards, first trade edition) and Songs from "Now We Are Six" (London, 1927, 4to, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original buckram-backed boards, first trade edition). (4)

KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Collected Verse, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912, 4to, original full limp vellum, ties, slipcase. NUMBER 368 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND PRINTER.KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936).  Collected Verse. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. 4to (265 x 205mm). Half title, title printed in turqoise and black, turqoise initials (some very light marginal staining to first few leaves). Original full limp vellum lettered and decorated in gilt, blue silk ties, top edges gilt, others uncut (a little bowed, lightly stained), slipcase. NUMBER 368 OF 500 "EDITION DE LUXE" COPIES PRINTED ON HANDMADE PAPER SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND PRINTER. Richards A258.

THE VINE PRESS, STEYNING - Lillygay, Steyning, 1920, 8vo, woodcut illustrations, original wrappers, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 504 OF 550 COPIES "PRINTED ON ANTIQUE LAID PAPER". With 3 other books from the same press. (4)THE VINE PRESS, STEYNING - Lillygay: An Anthology of Anonymous Poems. Steyning: The Vine Press, 1920. 8vo (195 x 125mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with woodcut illustration, full-page woodcut illustrations by Eric and Percy West, the poem "Colophon" printed in red, the actual colophon printed in black, with a 4-page printed prospectus for the press loosely-inserted. Original printed wrappers (quite heavily spotted, joints torn). FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 590 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 504 OF 550 COPIES "PRINTED ON ANTIQUE LAID PAPER." EXUBERANTLY INSCRIBED [?]BY THE EDITOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, "The Editor. Victor B. Neuburg, [followed by illegible words - see illustration], vii:xi:MCMxxxi." Victor Benjamin Neuburg (1883-1940) was a poet, writer, theosophist and occultist, friend and sometime partner of Aleister Crowley. Having served in the First World War, he moved to Steyning in West Sussex where he founded The Vine Press. The present collection was its first publication. Although the title page describes the poems contained in it as "anonymous", many were largely Neuburg's own work, or his free adaptations of traditional ballads. The composer Philip Heseltine, better known under his pseudonym Peter Warlock, set five of them to music. With 3 other books from the same press, namely Songs of the Groves: Records of the Ancient World (Steyning, 1921, 8vo, woodcut illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust-jacket, lacking lower half of backstrip, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 206 OF 550 COPIES "ON ANTIQUE LAID PAPER"), Swift Wings: Songs in Sussex (Steyning, 1921, 8vo, 2 woodcut illustrations, original cloth-backed red pictorial boards, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 154 OF 550 COPIES "ON ANTIQUE LAID PAPER") and Larkspur: A Lyric Garland (Steyning, 1922, 8vo, woodcut illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 451 OF 550 COPIES "ON ANTIQUE LAID PAPER"). (4)

LONDON, CHIEFLY THE WEST END - Arthur Irwin DASENT (1859-1939). Piccadilly in Three Centuries, London, 1920, large 8vo, plates, attractively bound in green half morocco gilt. With 12 other books of related interest, all leather-bound. (13)LONDON, CHIEFLY THE WEST END - Arthur Irwin DASENT (1859-1939).  Piccadilly in Three Centuries with some Account of Berkeley Square and the Haymarket. London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. Large 8vo (220 x 142mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece and 11 plates. Attractively bound by Henry Sotheran in green half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine faded). FIRST EDITION. With 12 other books of related interest, all leather-bound, including Edgar Sheppard's The Old Royal Palace of Whitehall (London, 1902, large 8vo, plates, red half morocco gilt, joints split), E. Beresford Chancellor's The Private Palaces of London (London, 1908, 4to, plates, attractively bound in brown half morocco gilt, upper joints splitting), the same author's The Romance of Soho (London, 1931, 8vo, plates, attractively bound in blue half morocco gilt), the same author's The Annals of Covent Garden and its Neighbourhood (London, [n.d.], 8vo, plates, attractively bound in brown half morocco gilt, spine faded), P. H. Ditchfield's London's West End (London, 1925, 8vo, plates, red half calf gilt) and J. C. Squire's A London Reverie (London, 1928, 4to, plates by Joseph Pennell, FINELY BOUND by Henry Sotheran in tan half morocco gilt with floral motifs in the compartments of the spine). (13)

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Moonraker, London, 1955, 8vo, original black cloth, dust-jacket (frayed with slight loss). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S THIRD JAMES BOND NOVEL, with "shoo" corrected to "shoot" in the penultimate line of p.10. Gilbert A3.FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Moonraker. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8vo (188 x 125mm). Half title (faint strip of browning to left side of half title, a few leaves with marginal stains, in particular at the fore-margins of pp.62-63 and running in the lower margins from pp.83-95). Original black cloth lettered in silver, dust-jacket "devised by the author and executed by Kenneth Lewis" with price of 10s. 6d. unclipped and advertisements for "Live and Let Die" and "Casino Royale" on the lower wrapper (some loss to head of backstrip affecting letters, some fraying and creasing at upper edge of upper wrapper, some fraying at joints, some staining to lower wrapper, with a single more pronounced stain, rear turn in spotted, some spotting to part of rear endpaper). Please note that the dust-jacket has been photographed in its protective acetate wrapper which we have not removed to avoid damaging it. Provenance: "J. A." (initials to corner of half title). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S THIRD JAMES BOND NOVEL, with "shoo" corrected to "shoot" in the penultimate line of p.10. Biondi & Pickard pp.41-42; Gilbert A3.

"DINESEN, Isak" [i.e. Karen BLIXEN (1885-1962)]. Out of Africa, New York, 1938, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With c.24 other books by, or relating to, the same author. (c.25)"DINESEN, Isak" [i.e. Karen BLIXEN (1885-1962)].  Out of Africa. New York: Random House, 1938. 8vo (206 x 140mm). Half title, title in a green panel (stain at margin of one leaf near the end). Original black buckram-backed cloth with flamingo design stamped in gilt on the upper cover, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, dust-jacket with price of $2.75 unclipped (the jacket with small pieces torn away from the upper corners, some very minor fraying to the head and foot of backstrip). Provenance: "H.W." (label on front pastedown). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With c.24 other books by, or relating to, the same author, including Seven Gothic Tales ... With an Introduction by Dorothy Canfield (New York, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934, 8vo, original half cloth and paper boards gilt, without the dust-jacket, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION), Out of Africa (London, Putnam, "Reprinted May 1938", 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Winter's Tales (New York, Random House, 1942, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION), Shadows on the Grass (London, Michael Joseph, 1960, 8vo, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION) and Shadows on the Grass (New York, Random House, 1961, 8vo, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION). Only a small part of the lot is illustrated. (c.25)

LONDON - [David HENRY (1710-92)]. An Historical Account of the Curiosities of London and Westminster, in Three Parts, London, 1759-61, 12mo, contemporary calf. With 9 works of related interest in 10 vols. (11)LONDON - [David HENRY (1710-92)].  An Historical Account of the Curiosities of London and Westminster, in Three Parts. Part I. Contains a full Description of the Tower of London ... Part II. Contains the History of Westminster-Abbey ... Part III. Treats of the Old Cathedral of St Paul's and the New. London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1760 [second part dated 1761; third part dated 1759]. 3 parts in one volume, 12mo (165 x 100mm). Woodcut ornaments, tables (some light browning and spotting). Contemporary speckled calf gilt (joints splitting, rubbed). Provenance: Sir John Cope, Bart. (armorial bookplate). [?]FIRST EDITION. Cf. Roscoe A219. With 9 works of related interest in 10 vols., namely Thomas Lane's The Student's Guide through Lincoln's Inn ... The Third Edition (London, 1814, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, 2 facsimiles, one folding, original cloth-backed boards, the title inscribed "from the Author"), John James Park's The Topography and Natural History of Hampstead ... Republished with Additions and Corrections (London, 1818, large 8vo, folding engraved map of Hampstead, plates, 19th-century half morocco), William Robinson's The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham High Cross ("Middlesex", Printed for the Author, 1818, large 8vo, large folding hand-coloured engraved map, plates, modern half morocco gilt), Thomas Cromwell's Walks through Islington (London, 1835, 8vo, plates, contemporary green calf gilt, FIRST EDITION), William Edward Trotter's Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles round London (London, 1839, large 8vo, plates, FINE original cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, FIRST EDITION), John Thomas Smith's The Cries of London: Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times (London, 1839, 4to, 30 etched plates, 19th-century black half calf gilt, FIRST EDITION), London Interiors: a Grand National Exhibition (London, 1841-44, 2 vols., 4to, engraved plates, attractively bound in contemporary black half calf gilt, FIRST EDITION), The Comic Almanack ... Second Series, 1844-1853 (London, [n.d.], wood-engraved plates and illustrations by George Cruikshank and others, a few folding, attractively bound by Rivière in full red calf gilt) and Thomas Crofton Croker's A Walk from London to Fulham (London, William Tegg, 1860, 8vo, illustrations, contemporary half morocco, FIRST EDITION). The lot sold not subject to return. (11)

JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84) - Johnsoniana, London, John Murray, 1836, 8vo, engraved plates, FINELY BOUND in half tan morocco by Zaehnsdorf. With a one-page autograph letter from John Murray IV loosely-inserted. FIRST EDITION.JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-84) - Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell: being, Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr Johnson. London: John Murray, 1836. 8vo (222 x 140mm). Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title with vignette, and 43 plates, one folding, verso of p.529 blank [see provenance footnote], 17pp. of publisher's advertisements at the end (the plates lightly browned, one plate torn at margin without loss). FINELY BOUND in tan half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt in compartments with decorative motifs stamped in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine a little darkened with a small scuff mark to lowest compartment). Provenance: Loosely-inserted is an autograph letter from the publisher John Murray IV (1851-1928) relating to this copy, on paper headed "50, Albermarle Street, W.", dated July 21, [19]09, stating, "Dear Sir, I am rather puzzled by yours of yesterday. I have one copy of Johnsoniana and in it p.530 is printed on the same page as 529 (as is natural). The page begins 'during my travels, written to him from [?]Loca [?]Solemnia' ... and ends with the imprint of 'A. Spottiswoode, New Street Square'. We have no 'waste' of this book remaining, [illegible word], John Murray. To [?]Mr F. Blackburn." A pencil note on the blank page in question reads: "This is the last page of the book, but is unaccountably blank. I wrote to Mr Murray about it; see his answer attached to fly leaf at the front. F. Blackburn, 1909." The missing text and colophon in this copy has been supplied in ink manuscript. FIRST EDITION.

RUSSELL, Bertrand (1872-1970). Satan in the Suburbs & Other Stories, London, 1953, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION of the author's first collection of short stories. With 4 other books by Russell and one by W. H. Auden, FIRST EDITIONS. (6)RUSSELL, Bertrand (1872-1970).  Satan in the Suburbs and Other Stories. London: The Bodley Head, 1953. 8vo (200 x 130mm). Half title, illustrations by Asgeir Scott, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (very lightly browned at margins). Original black cloth, the dust-jacket with price of 9s 6d unclipped (the jacket with some fraying to the foot of the backstrip). FIRST EDITION of the author's first collection of short stories. "Bertrand Russell is a singular phenomenon in the collecting world, in that although a philosopher and a mathematician, he is collected because he is literary. Not that he concerned himself primarily with literature (although his essays as well as his rare forays into the short story are damnably good) ..." (Joseph Connolly Modern First Editions). Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950. Barron Fantasy Literature 3-315. With 5 other books, 4 of which by Bertrand Russell, namely Marriage and Morals (London, 1929, original dark blue cloth, without the dust-jacket), Education and the Social Order (London, 1932, spotted, original dark blue cloth, dust-jacket, jacket worn with loss), Human Society in Ethics and Politics (London, 1954, original green cloth, dust-jacket) and Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories (London, 1954, illustrations by Charles Stewart, original black cloth, dust-jacket, jacket frayed with slight loss), all FIRST EDITIONS; and with W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety. A Baroque Eclogue (London, Faber and Faber, 1948, 8vo, original mustard yellow buckram, dust-jacket, FIRST U.K. EDITION). (6)

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Casino Royale, London, 1953, 8vo, original black cloth (without the dust-jacket, but supplied in modern facsimile). FIRST EDITION. With 2 other books by Fleming, both in facsimile dust-jackets. (3)FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title (quite heavy spotting to the front and rear endpapers and half title, some mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original black cloth with red heart motif stamped on the upper cover, the spine lettered in red with the publisher's device at the foot (without the dust-jacket, but supplied in modern facsimile, hinges a little weak, some very faint white stains to the cloth, slight rubbing to the red lettering on the spine). Provenance: Leslie New (label on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S SCARCE FIRST BOND NOVEL. Biondi & Pickard The James Bond Books of Ian Fleming. A Descriptive Bibliography p.40; Gilbert Ian Fleming. The Bibliography A1. With the same author's Diamonds are Forever (London, 1956, original cloth, inner hinges weak with narrow split at the front, endpapers and half title spotted, some light spotting and staining) and For Your Eyes Only (London, 1960, original cloth), both FIRST EDITIONS in facsimile dust-jackets. (3)

LONDON, POVERTY - Henry MAYHEW (1812-87). London Labour and the London Poor, London, [n.d. but vol. IV: 1862]. 4 volumes, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth gilt. With 2 other books of related interest. (6)LONDON, POVERTY - Henry MAYHEW (1812-87).  London Labour and the London Poor: The Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Cannot Work, and Will Not Work. London: Charles Griffin and Company, [vols. I - III n. d., but c.1865]; vol. IV: 1862. 4 volumes, 8vo [vols. I-III (214 x 140mm); Vol: IV: (227 x 150mm)]. Half titles, 93 wood-engraved plates including frontispieces, 4-pages of "Illustrations of Street Art", maps, tables (lightly browned throughout, vol. III with darker brown patch at upper margin). Original pictorial cloth gilt, vols. I-III uniform; vol. IV with uniform spine (titled "Extra Volume") but the boards not uniform with the first three vols. (spines faded, corners rubbed, some fraying, inner hinges weak). Provenance: Binchara Branford (old signature on title of vol. one, with some annotation). With 2 other books of related interest, namely, A. Highmore's Pietas Londinensis: the History, Design, and Present State of the Various Charities in and near London (London, 1810, thick 8vo, 984-pages, modern old-style half calf, FIRST EDITION) and John Thomas Smith's The Cries of London: Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times (London, 1839, 4to, portrait and 30 etched plates, contemporary [?or original] cloth-backed boards, spine almost detached, FIRST EDITION). (6)

AMUCHASTEGUI, Axel (1921-2002, illustrator). Some Birds and Mammals of North America, London, 1971, folio, 16 coloured plates, original quarter morocco. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 505 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With a companion work on South America. (2)AMUCHASTEGUI, Axel (1921-2002, illustrator).  Some Birds and Mammals of North America ... with a descriptive text by Les Line. London: The Tryon Gallery, 1971. Folio (530 x 355mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, 16 fine coloured lithographed plates by Axel Amuchástegui. Original morocco-backed marbled paper boards by Zaehnsdorf, the spine lettered in gilt, facsimile signature of the artist stamped in gilt on the upper cover, top edges gilt, slipcase (some very minor scuffing to the head and foot of the spine, the slipcase rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 50 OF 505 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. "The plates were printed in multi-colour lithography at The Curwen Press Limited in London who also composed the type in Monotype Caslon. The book has been printed on Arma all-rag paper made by E. Towgood & Sons Ltd at Sawston, Cambridge" (from the limitation leaf). With the same artist's Some Birds and Mammals of South America ... with an introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell and descriptive text by Carlos Selva Andrade (London, The Tryon Gallery, 1966, folio, 16 fine coloured lithographed plates by Axel Amuchástegui, original morocco-backed marbled paper boards by Zaehnsdorf, slipcase, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 131 OF 305 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST). (2)

[BELL, Vanessa (1879-1961)] - Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Nov. 8th to Jan 15th 1910-11, London, Grafton Gallery, [1910], 8vo, 38-page exhibition catalogue, wrappers. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY VANESSA BELL ON THE WRAPPER.[BELL, Vanessa (1879-1961)] - [Exhibition Catalogue:] Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Nov. 8th to Jan. 15th 1910-11. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Under Revision). London: Ballantyne & Company Ltd [for Grafton Galleries], [1910]. 8vo (178 x 120mm). 38-page exhibition catalogue, advertisements (some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining, very lightly browned throughout). Original printed wrappers (detached, lacking backstrip, some fraying and short marginal tears not affecting letters, each wrapper lightly stained at one edge). FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY VANESSA BELL ON THE UPPER WRAPPER. The exhibition held at the Grafton Galleries in London was a ground-breaking succès de scandale which first established the term 'Post-Impressionist'. It contained previously unseen works by Manet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, Seurat and Van Gogh, among others, and shocked the British artistic establishment which remained largely Victorian in outlook, as revealed in the vitriol of contemporary reviews with their accusations of 'degeneracy'. On the gallery's "Honorary" and "Executive" committees were Clive Bell - Vanessa Bell's husband - Roger Fry, Lionel Cust, Lady Ottoline Morrell and, its Secretary, Desmond MacCarthy. In the catalogue's 7-page introductory essay, unattributed but probably by Roger Fry, the writer (commenting specifically on Matisse, although his words could apply more generally to the artists on display) states: "... this search for an abstract harmony of line, for rhythm, has been carried to lengths which often deprive the figure of all appearances of nature. The general effect ... is that of a return to primitive, even perhaps of a return to barbaric, art. This is inevitably disconcerting ..." Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), who has signed the upper wrapper of this catalogue in ink, was an English painter and interior designer, a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group and sister of Virginia Woolf. Provenance: Included in the lot is Sotheby's 'Charleston' catalogue for its sale held on 21st July 1980, containing 130 lots "... donated from various sources to be sold for the benefit of The Charleston Trust ..." and in which the present exhibition catalogue ("Vanessa Bell's copy") is included as lot 225 with the footnote "The celebrated exhibition which introduced Post-Impressionism into this country"; loosely-inserted is an accompanying autograph note from the buyer. RARE.

HUMPHRIES, Barry (1934-2023). Shades of Sandy Stone, Edinburgh, "Privately Printed at The Tragara Press," 1989, large 8vo, original wrappers. ONE OF 130 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 20 OF 30 FOR PRESENTATION, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper.HUMPHRIES, Barry (1934-2023).  Shades of Sandy Stone. The Reveries of a Returned Man. Edinburgh: "Privately Printed at The Tragara Press," 1989. Large 8vo (242 x 160mm). Woodcut vignette by Andrew Baird, glossary of Australian terms at the end. Original buff wrappers with printed label mounted on the upper wrapper. Provenance: from the Collection of the late Robert Michael Booth (1945-2024), publisher, writer, collector and broadcaster. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 130 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 20 OF 30 COPIES ON VÉLIN ARCHES FOR PRESENTATION TO THE AUTHOR'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS. PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "For Robert [Booth] + Suzie, May they be as happy as Sandy + Beryl - or happier! With love from Barry + Lizzie, 1990."

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Cold Dogs in the Courtyard, Chicago, "Published Jointly by the Literary Times and Cyfoeth Publications," 1965, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. ONE OF 500 COPIES.BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Cold Dogs in the Courtyard. Chicago: "Published Jointly by the Literary Times and Cyfoeth Publications," 1965. 8vo (211 x 139mm). Original tan printed pictorial wrappers with an illustration on the upper wrapper by Betsy Milam and the price of $1.25, and with a photographed portrait of the author on the lower wrapper [uncredited], stapled. Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. ONE OF 500 COPIES. Dorbin A7; Krumhansl 16.

BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (1904-71, photographer) & Erskine CALDWELL (1903-87). Say, is this the U.S.A., New York, 1941, 4to, monochrome photographed illustrations, original pictorial boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND AUTHOR.BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (1904-71, photographer) & Erskine CALDWELL (1903-87).  Say, is this the U.S.A. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. 4to (307 x 215mm). Half title, monograph photographed illustrations by Margaret Bourke-White (title spotted and stained, occasional light spotting, mainly to text). Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket (the jacket with a small section torn away from lower edge of upper wrapper, some creasing, lightly browned and stained). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. Although the tone of the book is generally up-beat about contemporary American life, some of the photographs and captions draw attention to the stark injustices of racial segregation, as embodied in the so-called "Jim Crow Laws", which were not officially, and fully, overturned until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

England Illustrated, or, A Compendium of the Natural History, Geography ... of England and Wales, London, 1764, 2 volumes, 4to, 53 engraved maps only (of 54, lacking the map of Hertfordshire), 29 plates, calf. FIRST EDITION. With another book. (3)England Illustrated, or, A Compendium of the Natural History, Geography, Topography, and Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Civil, of England and Wales. With Maps of the Several Counties, and Engravings of many Remains of Antiquity, Remarkable Buildings, and Principal Towns. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764. 2 volumes, 4to (288 x 225mm). 2 large folding engraved general maps of England and Wales by Thomas Kitchin at the front of each volume, 51 engraved county and island maps only (of 52, lacking the map of Hertfordshire), 29 engraved plates, illustrations (some light spotting and staining). Contemporary calf, the spines elaborately decorated in gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces (skilfully rebacked preserving old spines, minor repairs to corners, some light scuffing and staining). Provenance: Henry Wemyss Feilden (armorial bookplate); Catherine Haughton Jackson (old signatures on front pastedowns). FIRST EDITION. Brunet II, 180; Chubb CCXXIV (listed under Thomas Kitchin); Lowndes p.668; Upcott I, xxiv. With [William Herbert's] Select Views of London and its Environs; Containing a Collection of Highly-Finished Engravings (London, 1804, large 4to, engraved plates, contemporary half calf, rubbed). (3)

[PEPLER, H. D. C. (1878-1951)]. The Law the Lawyers Know About ... Witanbel Watloo, Ditchling, St. Dominic's Press, 1929, 16mo, 3 woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill and one by David Jones, contemporary morocco-backed boards by ROGER POWELL (see note).[PEPLER, H. D. C. (1878-1951)].  The Law the Lawyers Know About ... Witanbel Watloo. Telegraphic Address of the L.C.C.. Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1929. 16mo (125 x 95mm). 8-pages, 3 woodcut illustrations by Eric Gill and the "Witanbel Watloo" woodcut by David Jones (rectangular patches of browning at upper and lower edges of title and final leaf). Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards by ROGER POWELL with "Lawyers" stamped in gilt on the upper cover and the binder's stamp on the rear pastedown dated 1932. A very early and modest binding by Roger Powell (1896-1990), described by Bernard Middleton as "one of the most important and influential bookbinders of the last hundred years and, arguably, of any period." Provenance: "Best Christmas wishes from [?]Woolrych" (old inscription on title). The booklet was first published in 1923, with a further, undated, edition also being recorded. Evan R. Gill Bibliography of Eric Gill 272; Taylor & Sewell Saint Dominic's Press: A Bibliography A117.

Coalport The Snowman Figure First Edition ' The Hug ' Complete with Box + The Snowman Figure First Edition ' The Wrong Nose ' with Box, Together with a Monty Bear Teddy Tales Musical Figure with Box. ( 3 ) Items In Total.

HEANEY, SEAMUSStation IslandFaber and Faber, first edition 1984Boards with dust jacketCondition Report: First edition, not signedBlack boards Very good/near perfect condition See additional images

BENNETT, DOUGLAS Irish Georgian Silver, Cassell, London 1972, First Edition, signed by author; together with Douglas Bennett, Collecting Irish Silver 1637 - 1900, Souvenir Press, London, 1984. (2)

HENDRICK DONCKER (1625 - 1699) A Chart of the South-East Coast of Ireland (1664) 430x 543mm Yrlandt van Dubling tot Corkbeg and Le Coste de Zud-est d`Irlande, de Dubling jusques a Corcbeg in separate cartouches. This is from the first edition of the Nieuw Groot Steuermans Zee-Spiegel (1664)

WILDE, OSCAR An Ideal Husband. London: Smithers, 1899. Octavo. First edition, first impression. pp. [xiv], 213. Original lavender publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt flourishes to the spine and front panel. Decorative bookplate of Georg Mecklenburg on front pastedown. One of 1,000 copies printed. Condition Report: Top edge gilt. Light wear to extremities and usual mild fading. A nice copyMason 385