We found 106046 price guide item(s) matching your search

Wilde (Oscar). The Sphinx, with decorations by Charles Ricketts, 1st edition, London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1894, illustrated title page, one half-page illustration and eight full-page illustrations by Charles Ricketts, decorative initials, engraved bookplate to front pastedown, neat ownership inscription in pencil to rear pastedown 'E Seligmann', a few leaves to rear with small faint damp-stain to upper right-hand corner (not affecting text or image), pastedowns and endpapers lightly spotted, original pictorial vellum gilt, some staining to front board upper margin, boards slightly bowed, small 4to, one of 200 copiesQTY: (1)NOTE:Ray 262.Provenance: Possibly Georges E. Seligmann, New York art dealer and collector.A landmark in late 19th-century book production. With Ricketts in complete control for the first time, The Sphinx is seen by many as his greatest work. "No illustrated book was ever more thoroughly planned... The result is a perfect whole, as harmonious as it is dazzling" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book, 1976, no. 262). "Mr Ricketts has never made a lovelier thing than the group of maidens clustering round "the moon horned Io" as she weeps" (Pall Mall Budget, 21 June 1894).

Ariel Poems. Collection of 28 volumes, first and new series, 1927-54, comprising The Linnet's Nest, by Henry Newbolt (3 copies), The Wonder Night, by Laurence Binyon, Alone, by Walter de la Mare (2 copies), The Chanty of the Nova, by Hilaire Belloc, The Early Whistler, by Wilfrid Gibson, Self to Self, by Walter de la Mare (2 copies, one without rear cover), Troy, by Humbert Wolfe (2 copies including signed Large Paper edition, limited edition 428/500), To My Mother, by Siegfried Sassoon, Winter Nights, by Edmund Blunden, A Snowdrop, by Walter de la Mare, The Outcast, by James Stephens, Inscription on a Fountain-Head, by Peter Quennell, The Triumph of the Machine, by D.H. Lawrence (2 copies), Jane Barston 1719-1746, by Edith Sitwell, The Gum Trees, by Roy Campbell, Nativity, by Roy Campbell, The Winnowing Dream, by Walter de la Mare (2 copies), The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, by T.S. Eliot, Christmas Eve, by C. Day Lewis, The Other Wing, by Louis MacNeice, and Prometheus, by Edwin Muir, each with lithographed frontispiece by illustrators including Edward Ardizzone, Michael Ayrton, Hilaire Belloc, R.A. Davies, Barnett Freedman, Claudia Guercio, Robin Jacques, David Jones, Ralph Keene, John Piper, John Nash, Charles Ricketts, Albert Rutherston, James Sellers, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Stephen Tennant, and Althea Willoughby, original sewn wrappers, four new series titles contained in original envelopes, some wear to few covers, 8voQTY: (28)

Auden (W.H.) The Orators. An English Story, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1932, all edges gilt, finely bound in recent morocco by James Brockman, Oxford, covers with circular design onlaid in cream and grey, solander box, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper "To Olive, with love from her little Wysta[n], 1932" (most likely inscribed in Auden's left hand, with the 'n' in 'Wystan' shaved when the book was rebound), note of provenance tipped-in opposite. From the library of Olive Mangeot (wife of French violinist André Mangeot, 1883-1970). Christopher Isherwood's first job in London was as secretary to Mangeot's string quartet, in 1925, and Olive became a mother figure to Isherwood and his circle of friends.Auden's second work, 1000 copies printed.

Benson (Stella). Tobit Transplanted, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co., 1931, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in dustwrapper, minimal fraying to extremities, small repair to verso of the front wrapper, together withSanson (William). The Last Hours of Sandra Lee, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1961, original black cloth gilt in dustwrapper, plus Mann (Thomas). Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man, translated from the German by Denver Lindley, 1st English edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1955, front endpaper somewhat browned, original cloth in frayed and chipped dustwrapper, and other literature and fiction of the 1920s-50s, included Alain Robbe Grillet, The Voyeur, 1959, Best Black Magic Stories, edited by John Keir Cross, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1960, E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Man without Nerves, New York: P. F. Collier, 1934, Kenneth Patchen, See You in the Morning, 1st edition, London: Grey Walls Press, 1949, Edgar Wallace, Dorn Ford Yates, Warwick Deeping, Ruby M. Ayres, Francis Brett Young, Jeffery Farnol, Francis Brett Young, Taylor Cordwell, William Le Queux, F.L.M. Dell, Joseph Hocking etc., including some first editions, all original cloth in dustwrappers, some minor fraying (generally in good condition), 8voQTY: (54)

Chesterton (G.K.). The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, 1st edition, Bristol & London, [1908], half-title and advert leaf at end, minor soiling and marks, front free endpaper, original red cloth lettered in black to upper cover and in gilt to spine, rubbed and a little frayed at spine ends, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:First issue without full stop after 'K' on spine.

Lear (Edward). Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, &c., 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1851, uncoloured lithographed single-page map frontispiece, 20 tinted lithograph plates, some very light spotting to plates only, contemporary ownership signature of J. R. Gilbert to head of title, front inner hinge a little shaken, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt spine, rubbed and some marks and light overall soiling, large 8vo, together withBartlett (W. H.). The Nile Boat; or Glimpses of the Land of Egypt, 1st edition, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1849, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved vignette title page, single page engraved map, and 32 engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations to text, 8pp. publishers advertisements at rear, original yellow chalk-glazed endpapers with printed advertisements, original gilt-decorated pale pink cloth, spine lightly faded (generally a very good copy), large 8vo, plusAlexander (Colonel Sir James E.). Incidents of the Maori War, New Zealand in 1860-61, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1863, tinted lithograph frontispiece view of New Plymouth, Taranaki, single-page engraved map, original yellow chalk-glaze endpapers, contemporary prize bookplate to front pastedown from Leek Commercial School, dated mid-summer 1869, gilt-decorated and blind-stamped green cloth, very lightly rubbed (generally in excellent condition), 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Abbey Travel 45; Blackmer 986 (for the first work).

Hughes (Ted). Night Arrival of Sea-Trout; The Iron Wolf; Puma, hand-printed at The Morrigu Press, 25 March, 13 April & 14 April 1979, broadsides, printed to rectos, one or two light spots, each a proof copy from a limited edition of 30 copies and signed in pencil by the poet, and each inscribed in pencil to Alan Hancox from Ted Hughes, Xmas 1987 at foot, together with Woodpecker, Morrigu Press, August 19, 1979, broadside, limited signed edition 15/60, also inscribed for Alan Hancox, Xmas 1987, first three 30 x 20.5 cmQTY: (4)

Hughes (Ted, adapter). Seneca's Oedipus, London: Faber and Faber, 1969, a few light spots front and rear, original wrappers, slight marginal toning, 8vo, inscribed to title "Ted Hughes, Jan 6th 1970, [Ex Libris R.L.S. with love from R.L.S.], To Professor Sedgewick from his hidden neighbour. Since Oedipus, tore out his eyes/How much we have enjoyed his cries/And all the associated, diverse mythological and crazy lies", together with Meet My Folks!, London: Faber and Faber, revised edition, 1987, illustrations by George Adamson, original wrappers, 8vo, inscribed "For Alan, warmest greetings from Ted, 29 November 1987, 'Out of a little grass comes a great ass', plus Season Songs, Faber and Faber, revised edition, 1985, original wrappers, 8vo, inscribed "For Alan, best wishes from Ted, 19 August 1989", with 2 others: A Choice of Emily Dickinson's Verse, selected with an introduction by Ted Hughes inscribed "To Beatrix Holmes, greetings, Ted Hughes. January 1975, with additional annotations, possibly by Alan Hancox, and a press cutting pasted in, and First and Always. Poems for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, compiled and edited by Lawrence Sail, introduction by Ted Hughes, inscribed to Alan and Shelagh Hancox from Lawrence Sail, 4th October 1989, with a loose inscribed card from the same QTY: (5)

Keulemans (John Gerrard). A Natural History of Cage Birds, Parts 1-3 (of 4) only, 1st edition, London: John Van Voorst, [1871], 3 parts bound in one, title-page, 82 pages of text, 18 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates, original printed wrapper to first part bound in at front, single-leaf prospectus, and printed wrappers to second and third parts bound in at rear, top edge gilt, bookplate of John Buchanan Kinshaw, contemporary gilt blind-panelled sprinkled full calf, a little rubbed to joints and edges, upper hinge and joint weak, small folio (sheet size 28.7 x 19 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Mullens & Swann, page 327 "exceptionally fine plates"; Nissen IVB 492; Sitwell (1990), page 111. Only 4 parts of a projected 20 were issued.

Isherwood (Christopher). All the Conspirators, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1928, half title, all edges gilt, recent fine tan morocco by James Brockman, Oxford, covers with vertical black stripe bordered with gold and silver repeat pattern rolls and horizontal lines in black, contained in original cloth solander box, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper "bought this book in 1928. In September 1932, the author saw it on her shelves and kindly offered to add to its value by affixing his autograph. Christopher Isherwood." Printed note of provenance tipped-in opposite.From the library of Olive Mangeot, her pencil signature above inscription, Olive Mangeot, was the wife of violinist André Mangeot to whose International String Quartet Christopher Isherwood became secretary in 1928, whilst writing this his first book. Olive Mangeot became a mother figure to Isherwood and his circle of friends.

James (P.D.). A group of 10 first edition novels, all published Faber, 1972/2003, titles comprise, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, 1972, The Black Tower, 1975, Death of a Expert Witness (2 copies), 1977, Innocent Blood, 1980, A Taste for Death, 1986, Devices and Desires, 1989, A Certain Justice, 1997, Death in Holy Orders, 2001, The Murder Room, 2003, all but the first signed by the author on titles, some dated, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, plus a signed postcard portrait of the author from the painting by Michael TaylorQTY: (10)

Joyce (James). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 2nd edition, London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917 [but 1918], a little slight toning, original green cloth, faint stains to rear cover, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Slocum & Cahoon A13. The first English edition with English sheets. The book was first published in New York by B.W. Huebsch in 1916, followed by the first English edition in 1917, circa 750 copies bound up from American Sheets (as English printers would not accept the responsibility of printing it); the present copy is the first English using sheets printed in England.

Joyce (James). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1st UK edition, London: The Egoist, 1917, original front cover bound to rear, one leaf with marginal paper repair to upper margin (touching text), endpapers renewed, modern green crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, all edges gilt, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Slocum and Cahoon A12.The first UK edition used the remaining sheets from the first edition published in New York by Huebsch in the preceding year. This is because 'English printers would not accept the responsibility of printing it'. (Slocum and Cahoon p.19).

Larkin (Philip). Aubade, 1st separate edition, Madison, Wisconsin: The Penstemon Press, 1980, illustration by Kathleen Gray Schallock, contents printed on Fabriano, Richard de Bas, Japanese handmade paper, original grey wrappers, contained in original silver-lined envelope, oblong 12mo, with Kathleen Gray Schallock business card loosely inserted, together with:Larkin (Philip), High Windows, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1974, original cloth in dust-jacket, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:The first work is a limited edition, number 96/250 initialled by the author Philip Larkin and illustrator Kathleen Gray Schallock.

Le Carre (John). Our Game, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, map endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, tiny closed tear at head of spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Signed by the author to bookplate tipped-in at title. In the suppressed first issue dust jacket, subsequently changed for the second impression as the author disliked the design.

Lewis (C.S.) Broadcast Talks, Reprinted with some alterations from two series of Broadcast Talks (Right and Wrong: A Clue to the Meaning of the Universe and What Christians Believe) given in 1941 and 1942, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942, partial offsetting from flaps to first and last leaves, original cloth, dust jacket, spine toned with tears at ends, small tear and loss to front panel, a few light stains, 8vo, together with Christian Behaviour. A further series of Broadcast Talks, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1943, original cloth, dust jacket, spine toned with tears at ends, 8vo, plus The Great Divorce. A Dream, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1945, original cloth, dust jacket, spine a little faded, a few small tears, 8vo, together with others by or related to C.S. Lewis including Miracles, 1947, Till We Have Faces, 1956, The Four Loves, 1960, The Screwtape Letters, April 1942 reprint, Studies in Words, 1960, An Experiment in Criticism, 1961, The Discarded Image, 1964, Poems, 1964, Spenser's Images of Life, 1967 The Dark Tower and Other Stories, edited by Walter Hooper, 1977, and Collected Letters, edited by Walter Hooper, volumes I & II, 2000-2004 QTY: (58)

Lovecraft (H.P.) The Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath, Buffalo: Shroud, 1955, original cloth, dust jackets in 2 states, first state jacket with some light ink offsetting to front panel, later state yellow jacket with very slight toning to spine, with 'Limited Collector's Edition' to front flap, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition, one of 50 specially bound copies, signed by Kenneth J. Krueger (label to colophon), editor/publisher of Shroud, from a total edition of 1500, this copy 301/1500.

Lovecraft (H.P.) The Outsider and Others, collected by August Derleth and Donal Wandrei, 1st edition, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1939, one or two faint spots, slight toning to endpapers, bookplate of Lyndon Han Liew, original black cloth gilt, dust jacket designed by Virgil Finlay, spine a little toned and chipped at ends, small abrasion to spine title, small chips at folds, $5.00 price intact, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:The first collected edition of Lovecraft's important and best stories, mostly originally published in horror and fantasy pulp magazine Weird Tales first published in 1923.

Books - Local Interest and Art History - Nicolson (Benedict), Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, two-volume set, first edition; Hulton (Paul) The Work of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 2 vol., 1977; others, The Pre-Raphaelites, Wright of Derby; The Sculptures of Michelangelo; Botticelli; etc

Sadequain, The Holy Sinner, Edition of 1200, with dust cover, in slip case, Karachi: Mohatta Palace Museum in collaboration with Unilever Pakistan, 2003, 46cm x 29.7cmNotes: Sadequain: The Holy Sinner was published to accompany a retrospective held in 2002-2003 that featured over two hundred of Sadequain's non-calligraphic works. It reflected the artist's existential preoccupations with human suffering underpinned by his famous notion of 'mystic figuration'.This catalogue is a first edition and was part of the numbered first edition of 1200 catalogues that were published for the exhibition.Please refer to department for condition report

A collection of novels and reference material on literature and history, to include: The International Library of Famous Literature, ed. Dr Richard Garnett et. al., twenty volumes, half bound in calfskin with marbled boards and end pages, London: The Standard, 1900, together with John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, twenty-first edition, later three quarter morocco bound with marbled boards and end pages and gilt tooling and lettering to spine, London: J. Clarke, 1724; Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, two volumes, blue cloth bound with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, with protective case, New York: Macmillan Company, 1948; J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first editions, London: Bloomsbury; and various others, approximately 37 books in totalInternational Library: spines are heavily worn revealing orange colour, some with splits. Most other volumes in good condition with light wear to dust covers and bindings

A Coalport Characters The Snowman figure group, The Adventure Begins, Snowman and Boy running, first edition, 13cm high, boxed.

A Coalport Characters The Snowman Snow Globe, first edition, 14cm high, boxed.

Dickens (Charles). Master Humprey's Clock, first edition, half morocco with marbled boards, published by Chapman & Hall, London 1840.

P W R Curling (Hotspur). Illustrated by Lionel Edwards R.I. British Racecourses Book, first edition with dust wrapper, published by H F & G Witherby Ltd 1951.

Aristotle's. Secrets Of Nature In The Generation Of Man, twenty first edition, printed and published 1738.

A Thomas Blackshear's figure modeled as Rose Beauty, Ebony Vision Series, Timeless Tranquility Collection, limited edition first issue, No 1478/1500, boxed with certificate.

A Thomas Blackshear's figure modeled as Leapfrog, Ebony Vision Series First Issue, limited edition 271/1000, For Lennox, boxed with certificate.

A Thomas Blackshear's figure modeled as a Child Should Lead Them, Rhino Rider First Issue Series, limited edition 279/1000, boxed with certificate.

Three Blackshear Jamboree Parade figures, First Limited Edition, comprising Tiny Tina, Jingles, Birdy, and Leo & Theo, all boxed with certificates. (3, AF)

δ Paul Nash (1889-1946)Study for the front cover of 'Outline: An Autobiography'Gouache with collage on thin blue wove paper, circa 1930s/40s, overall 235 x 160mm (9 1/4 x 6 1/4in)This work is an unused design for the front cover of Paul Nash's autobiography 'Outline'. Nash began writing his memoirs in the late 1930s but struggled to recount his experiences of the war and the autobiography was unfinished when he died in 1946. It was later published posthumously and the cover design for the first edition bears resemblance to this earlier work. This picture was previously owned by Nash's contemporary, the artist Rigby Graham, who was an admirer of Nash's work and published 'A Note on the Book Illustrations of Paul Nash' (1965).Provenance: Rigby Graham (artist, 1931-2015);thence by descent;From whom acquired by the present ownerδ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

δ Ken Kiff (1935-2001)Woman, Waves and Flowers; Green FlowerTwo woodcuts printed in colours, 1991, both signed in pencil, the first numbered from the edition of 50, the second numbered from the edition of 35, printed by Jo Briggs, London, on handmade paper, with full margins, largest sheet 880 x 650mm (34 5/8 x 25 1/2in)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

δ Harold Cohen (1928-2016)The HomecomingThe complete portfolio, comprising of the book and an additional suite of lithographs printed in colours, 1968, each sheet signed and dated in pencil, the book with the title-page and justification, this copy signed and dated by the artist in pencil, further signed by Harold Pinter, numbered from the edition of 200 (only the first 25 include the additional suite of plates), printed by Curwen Press, London, published by Karnac (Books) Ltd., London, on wove paper, the full sheets loose in the original green silk covered boards, the book bound in green silk, both within the matching slipcase, overall 520 x 410mm (20 1/2 x 16 1/8in)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

δ Bridget Riley (b.1931) (after)Untitled (Cover for Art International)Lithograph, 1965, signed, titled and inscribed c.1967 in pencil verso, a rare impression printed before text, there is no known edition, published by Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, on wove paper, with full margins, sheet 410 x 485mm (16 1/8 x 19 1/8in)This rare work was conceived as the poster and folded invitation for Bridget Riley's first New York show at Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, 1965. Very few impressions of the poster were printed before text and this is amongst a handful of impressions that she signed. This particular work was signed, titled and dated by the artist at Gallery Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, on the occasion of her first museum exhibition at Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 1971. δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.

AGUSTÍN REDONDELA (Madrid, 1922 - 2015)."Vista de pueblo", 1973.Oil on canvas.Signed and dated in the lower right corner.With label of the Galería Theo, Valencia.Size: 46 x 55 cm; 70,5 x 79,5 cm (frame).In this work Redondela offers us a sober, typically Castilian landscape, dominated by a sombre atmosphere of great evocative power, based on the contrast of the intense, bright tones of the foregrounds and the faint, greyish, transparent tones of the mountain background, whose undulating peaks appear clearly outlined against a leaden sky with white tones. The painter leaves aside the narrative description of the landscape in order to construct it using only colour, which is very carefully worked and studied, and a synthetic, expressive and emphatic line based on thick black strokes.A painter who was mainly self-taught and considered one of the most original Spanish landscape painters of the 20th century, Agustín González Alonso trained with his father, the painter and scenographer José González "Redondela". After the Civil War he attended classes at the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts with the landscape painter José Ordoñez, and in 1945 he sent a painting to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts for the first time, signed with the pseudonym Redondela. That same year he held his first personal exhibition at the Estilo gallery in Madrid. It was at this time that he came into contact with the Madrid School, and in 1947 he was selected to exhibit at the Salón de los Once de la Academia Breve e Crítica de Arte de Eugenio d'Ors. In the fifties Redondela obtained a grant from the Catherword Foundation in Philadelphia (1954), the National Painting Prize (1953) and the first medal at the National Exhibition (1957). Throughout his career he combined painting with stage design, working for plays by Jacinto Benavente, Joaquín Calvo Sotelo, Dodie Smith and Peter Ustinov, among others. He also did some work as an illustrator, including a luxurious edition of Cela's "Viaje a la Alcarria" in 1978. In 1996 the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando awarded him the José González de la Peña prize, and two years later the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid dedicated an important anthological exhibition to him. He is currently represented in the Museum of Fine Arts in La Coruña, the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Landscape in Priego de Córdoba, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, the Camón Aznar Museum in Zaragoza, the museums of Buenos Aires, Caracas and Havana and the Oswaldo Guayasamín House-Museum in Quito, among other public and private collections.

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, 1746 - Bordeaux, France, 1828)."Los desastres de la guerra" (79 etchings).First edition. 1863. Published by the Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando. MadridEdition of 80 etchings on Guarro paper (79 etchings, copy number 47 is missing).Numbered and titled copies in plate.Hard cover.Presents marks of use and deterioration due to the passage of time.Size: 17,5 x 22 cm (print), 24 x 34 cm (paper), 25 x 37 x 6 cm (book).Belonging to the book published by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando of the collection of prints, the first edition of "Los desastres de la guerra" (1923). This first edition appeared in 1863, and others followed in 1892, 1903 and 1906, this one being the most sought after and sought after.Edition of prints in which Francisco de Goya reflected the horror unleashed during the War of Independence, which began in 1808. Enrique Lafuente Ferrari's contribution to the study of Goya's Disasters of War is considered fundamental. To him we owe the first attempt, with scientific criteria, to systematise the analysis of the Disasters, becoming an obligatory point of reference in subsequent studies."The Disasters of War", a work from the Aragonese painter's last period, have become over time a series of timeless prints that can be applied to any war in the world. Death, torture, hunger, disease, lack of solidarity... these are all disasters that are part of any war, showing the bitterest side of the human being. Goya began to engrave the plates around 1810, after returning from the front, and finished the series in 1815. "The Disasters" give free rein to one of the fundamental aesthetic categories of modernity: pathos. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Goya did not set up a systematic, serial chronicle of events, but transformed or eliminated the anecdotal in order to arrive at a universal vision.They exemplify a world in crisis, understood in the sense of change. Conceptually, they reveal the fissures of a socio-political structure based on an impeded stratification of the strata, and of a system of values based on the immobilism of customs and the tyrannical religious oppression of consciences.Aesthetically, they anticipate modern sensibility and the shift towards an art dominated by subjectivity and creative freedom. Biographically, the Caprichos appear in one of the most decisive decades in Goya's life and artistic production. This is why successive generations of writers, artists and intellectuals over the last two centuries have been unable to ignore its status as a symbol: a symbol of the end of the Ancien Régime, of the change in taste between Classicist and Romantic aesthetics, and of the crisis that occurred in the biography and art of a universal creator.The historiography specialising in Goya has established a sequence of events supposedly determining the creation of the Caprichos. This sequence appears to be characterised by a progressive departure from normative art and a consequent approach to the domain of invention. This new conception of art is linked to the biographical episodes of the serious illness that left him deaf, his intimate relations with the Duchess of Alba and his ties of friendship with the circle of enlightened intellectuals. The conclusion is that Goya needed a series of satirical prints that would provide a multiple response to his inventive perception of art, his progressive isolation, his distrust of human beings and his social concerns rooted in the Enlightenment.

David Hockney (born 1937)Illustrations for Fourteen Poems by C. P. Cavafy (Edition A) (M.C.A. Tokyo 47-55) The complete set of thirteen etchings with aquatint, 1966-67, on Crisbrook handmade paper, with title page, text, table of contents and justification, signed and numbered 147/500 in pencil on the justification, loose (originally bound), including Portrait of Cavafy II (only issued with the first 250 sets), signed and dated in pencil, loose (as issued), published by Editions Alecto, London, 1967, the full sheets, together with the original lilac cloth-covered boards, eight framedSheet 460 x 326mm. (18 1/8 x 12 3/4in.); Portfolio 485 x 340 x 30mm. (19 1/8 x 13 3/8in.)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson A.R.A (1889-1946)Swooping Down on a Taube (Black 21; Leicester Galleries 28) Lithograph, 1917, on Holbein wove paper, signed in pencil, from the edition of 200, published by the Stationery Office, London, as part of the series Britain's Efforts and Ideals: Making Aircraft, with wide margins, framed Image 402 x 300mm. (15 3/4 x 11 3/4in.); Sheet 478 x 390mm. (18 3/4 x 15 3/8in.)Footnotes:Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson was one of the great printmakers of the early twentieth century, most celebrated as a chronicler of modern warfare and a master of multiple print techniques. He was held in high esteem by contemporaries such as Walter Sickert and Paul Nash for his acute eye for detail, feeling for composition and technical skill. His experiences as an ambulance driver and medical orderly at the Front imbued his work with a strong emotional intensity and his depictions are regarded as some of the most powerful images of World War I.His first major exhibition held at Leicester Galleries in Autumn 1916 was a critical and commercial success and would lead to his commission as an official war artist in 1917. The Ministry of Information commissioned him to create six lithographs on the theme of Building Aircraft to be included in the propaganda series The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals. These works were taken on tour around the country to boost morale and were sold to raise funds for the war effort.The Building Aircraft lithographs detail the process from manufacture, to assembly and finally to flight. Nevinson was particularly interested in aerial combat, which would play an important new role during the First World War and he produced three images of aircraft in flight. In preparation for the series, Nevinson was taken on his first flight in June 1917 and commented 'the whole newness of vision and the excitement of it infected my work and gave it an enthusiasm which can be felt'.In Banking at 4,000 feet he uses variations in tone and steep diagonals to convey the drama and exhilaration of flight, which is literally a white-knuckle ride as indicated by the hand gripping the side of the aircraft. He invites the viewer to share the experience of being in the air by placing them in the cockpit.Swooping down on a Taube depicts a British Sopwith Camel attacking a German Taube. Taube means dove and the plane was named for its bird-like profile. Nevinson conveys a sense of movement and tension using the sweeping arc of the plane's trajectory set against the strong diagonals, representing rays of light, emanating from the searchlights below. He added scratch marks through the crayon to create highlights which intensify the drama.The immediacy of these images and the unusual viewpoints proved popular with visitors to the Fine Art Society exhibition, with one critic commenting that the artist 'contrives to make the visitor almost giddy' and another that he had 'the power of expressing sensations rather than visual facts'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

JAMES, Montague Rhodes. A Thin Ghost and Others. London: Edward Arnold, 1919. First edition, 8vo (183 x 119mm.) (Toning, minor spotting to fore-edge.) Original pictorial cloth (light rubbing). Note: James' third collection of stories. Provenance: E.H. Brandt (small stamp to front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 122mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth with gilt Japanese letters to upper cover, silver lettering to spine, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (minor mark to lower panel). Note: with the 16s price to the inner flap of the dust-jacket and 'First Published 1964' on the copyright page, and with the bamboo-style endpapers.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. Diamonds are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 122mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth with blind-stamped diamond motif (spine ends lightly bumped), dust-jacket (creasing to spine ends, corner loss to upper panel). Note: first issue with 'Boofy' for 'Dolly' on p.134. Provenance: Oswald Cowie (name-plate in manuscript hand mounted to initial blank).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

JOHNSON, Boris. The Churchill Factor. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2014. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (233 x 148mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (slight sunning to upper panel). - And a further five political biographies, all signed (including Harold Wilson's 'A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers', 1977, 4to, and Edward Heath's 'The Course of My Life', 1998, 8vo) (6).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Folio Edition 1623, from the Chatsworth Copy in the Possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1902. Limited edition, this being number 913 of 1000 copies signed by Sidney Lee. Folio (368 x 228mm.) Introduction by Sidney Lee, list of Subscribers. (Mild toning.) Near contemporary white buckram-backed boards, paper labels mounted to spine (rubbing to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. First edition, signed and inscribed by John Hunt with an a.l.s., 8vo (221 x 140mm.) Numerous coloured and uncoloured plates. (Spotting to title and some marginal spotting, toning.) Original blue cloth (bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket (chipping to spine ends, extremities rubbed). Note: the letter reads: 'Dear Jack, Nothing could give me greater pleasure than to propose [sic] for the Fellowship of the RLS [sic]! It is such a good experience from various points of view. Yours, John. P.S. I assume you will find a seconder before forwarding your application'. Provenance: 'Jack and Muriel' (inscribed to by John Hunt on the title-page); Grace Deuce [sic] (gift inscribed from on the front-free endpaper). - And a further seven volumes relating to climbing and mountaineering (including E.F. Norton's 'The Fight for Everest: 1924', 1925, 8vo, and C.G. Bruce's 'The Assault on Mount Everest 1922', 1924, 8vo) (8).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

SAPPHO. - [Anne DACIER.] Les Poesies D'Anacreon et de Sapho, Traduites de Grec en Francois, avec des Remarques par Mademoiselle le Fevre. Paris: Denys Thierry & Claude Barbin, 1681. First edition of Dacier's translation, 12mo (161 x 90mm.) Engraved frontispiece, engraved head and tail-pieces, text in French and Greek. (Toning, browning.) Contemporary calf, gilt lettering to spine (light rubbing). Provenance: 'A.C.' (ink inscribed to front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

NEW NATURALIST. The New Naturalist Library. London: Collins and Harper Collins, 1945-2015. 124 vols., including 115 first editions and 2 volumes signed by the authors, 8vo (222 x 151mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Browning and occasional spotting.) Original cloth (extremities bumped to some early volumes), dust-jackets (24 volumes are price-clipped, chipping to some spine ends). Note: a run of one hundred and twenty-four volumes of the New Naturalist, comprising 1-115, 119-126, 128. Numbers 3, 4, 20, 22, 42, 43, 47, 65 and 82 are reprints. Volume 70 is a first edition, first state, signed by its author R.J. Berry, number 110 is signed by its author, David Cabot. - And a further eleven volumes related to the New Naturalist (including ten New Naturalist Monographs, and one reference work: Tim Bernhard and Timothy Loe's 'Collecting the New Naturalist', 2015, 4to) (135).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

JAMES, Montague Rhodes. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. London: Edward Arnold, 1904. First edition, 8vo (208 x 144mm.) Frontispiece with tissue-guard and 3 further monochrome plates by James McBryde, 16pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear. (Light spotting to preliminaries and occasionally within.) Original oatmeal buckram with yapp edges (minor marks to upper cover). Provenance: E.H. Brandt (name inscribed to front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. The Man With The Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, 8vo (186 x 124mm.) (Mild toning, faint marks against list of author titles.) Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (price-clipped, pen mark to inner flap). Note: a second-state binding with no golden gun. - And a further two volumes (including Ian Fleming's 'Octopussy and the Living Daylights', 1966, 8vo, and Kingsley Amis's 'The James Bond Dossier', 1965, 8vo) (3).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

CONRAD, Joseph. The Rover. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923. First edition, first issue, 8vo (194 x 123mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries and first text leaves, spotting to fore-edge.) Original green cloth (lower cover bumped, minor mark to upper cover), dust-jacket (small tape repairs verso, minor marks to lower panel). Note: has 'o' for 'go' on p.221. Comes in the scarce, alternate colour dust-jacket. Provenance: W.O.P. Rosedale (ink inscribed to front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

AFRICA. - A.L. KITCHLING. On the Backwaters of the Nile. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. First edition, 8vo (218 x 140mm.) 56 photographic illustrations on 48 black and white plates, 1 folding map of 'The Uganda Project' to rear. (Toning, some light to moderate spotting.) Original brown cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (extremities bumped). Provenance: H.R. Nelson (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further seventeen volumes, mainly relating to Africa (including John H. Weeks' 'Among Congo Cannibals', 1913, 8vo) (18).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

BANTING, John. A Blue Book of Conversation. London: Editions Poetry, 1946. First edition, 8vo (242 x 183mm.) 25 cyanotype illustrations by John Banting. (Spotting to front-free endpaper, toning.) Original blue cloth (spine ends rubbed, minor soiling to lower cover).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FURST, Herbert. The Decorative Art of Frank Brangwyn. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head Ltd., 1924. First edition, 4to (312 x 258mm.) Numerous colour plates and black and white illustrations. (Toning.) Original tan cloth (some finger-marks to covers, lightly bumped extremities). - And a further twenty-two volumes related to the art of Frank Brangwyn (including Walter Shaw Sparrow's 'Prints and Drawings by Frank Brangwyn', 1919, 4to, and 'Belgium', 1916, 4to, and A.W. Kinglake's 'Eothen: or Traces of Travel Brought Home From the East', 1913, 4to) (23).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. First edition, 4to (231 x 172mm.) Numerous illustrations by the author. (Toning, occasional soiling, tear to p.87, hinges cracked, spotting to pastedowns.) Original red pictorial cloth (fading, wear to spine ends). Note: second state binding. Provenance: John G. Wilson (pencil inscribed to front pastedown). - And a further seven volumes, including three works by Lewis Carroll in facsimile first editions ('Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', 1984, 8vo, and two copies of 'Through the Looking-Glass', 1984, 8vo) (8).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and the Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition, first impression, 8vo (186 x 122mm.) (Toning, slight spotting to fore-edge.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further five volumes related to James Bond (including Ian Fleming's 'The Man With The Golden Gun', 1965, 8vo, and John Gardner's 'Licence Renewed', 1981, 8vo) (6).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. - Alfred NOYES (editor). The Magic Casement, an Anthology of Fairy Poetry. London: Chapman & Hall, [1908.] First edition, 8vo (192 x 138mm.) Introduction and notes by Alfred Noyes, illustrations by Stephen Reid. (Toning.) Original red cloth, decorative gilt to upper cover and spine (slight dulling to spine, spine ends bumped). Provenance: E.H. Brandt (ink name inscribed and stamp to front-free endpaper). - And a further five volumes (including J.H. Dowd's 'Mr Punch Among the Children', 1934, 4to, and A.A. Milne's 'Once On a Time', 1917, 8vo) (6).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

MURDOCH, Iris. The Bell. London: Chatto & Windus, 1958. First edition, first printing, 8vo (197 x 126mm.) (Toning, some spotting to fore-edge.) Original green cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (minor chipping to extremities, some corner loss to lower panel). Provenance: Margaret E. Morris (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And a further sixteen volumes by Iris Murdoch, all first editions, except a signed, fourth impression of 'The Nice and the Good', 1969, 8vo) (17).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first impression, inscribed by actress Martine Beswick, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Mild toning, small mark to front-free endpaper.) Original black cloth with skeletal hand blind-stamped to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine (small mark to upper cover), dust-jacket (extremities bumped). Note: Martine Beswick played 'Paula Caplan' in the 1963 film of Thunderball. James Bond and Paula go undercover in search of two missing atomic bombs. Paula is captured but, rather than divulge information, she commits suicide by cyanide. Martine Beswick also played the gypsy girl 'Zora' in 'From Russia With Love'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

EVELYN, John. Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions… as it was Deliver'd in the Royal Society the XVth of October MDCLXIV upon Occasion of certain Quaeries Propounded to that Illustrious Assembly by the Honourable, the Principal Officers, and Commissioners of the Navy. London: by Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry for the Royal Society, 1664. First edition, folio (308 x 190mm.) Title in red and black with engraved vignette of the Royal Society coat-of-arms, 3 parts in 1, with 'Sir Paul Neile's Second Paper' bound-in after F2, the 'Animadversion' leaf after C4, woodcut illustrations of implements at P4, separate titles for 'Pomona' and 'Kalendarium Hortense', errata leaf to rear. (Marginal paper repair to title and with browning, minor soiling, some heavy marginal spotting, marginal paper repairs and damp-stain to A3 and B1, finger-marks.) Near contemporary calf, later red morocco lettering piece to spine (rubbed to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

GREENE, Graham. The Quiet American. London: William Heinemann, 1955. First edition, first printing, 8vo (196 x 125mm.) (Toning, marginal spotting to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth (some fading to spine, slight spine lean), dust-jacket (browning to lower panel). - And a further first printing by Graham Greene ('Our Man in Havana', 1958, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

RABELAIS, Francis. The Works…Now carefully revised, and compared throughout with the late new Edition of M. Le du Chat, by Mr Ozell. London: J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1737. 5 vols., first English Collected edition, 12mo (164 x 90mm.) 15 engraved plates, including 10 folding and 1 map, titles in red and black. (Browning throughout, occasional spotting, lacking blanks to vol. 1, corner cut to initial blank of vol. 2.) Near contemporary calf, later red and green morocco lettering pieces to the spines (spines rubbed with loss to gilt, some spine ends chipped). Provenance: Charles Western, Whig politician (name ink inscribed verso frontispiece of vol. 1.); Thomas Western, Liberal M.P. (bookplates to front pastedowns); R.F.W. Brandt (small stamps on front-free endpapers) (5).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.