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Agatha Walker (1888-1980): a painted wax statuette, Jean Forbes-Robertson in the role of Peter Pan, 1930, inscribed, dated and signed in monogram to the plinth 34cm high. This wax figurine is modelled on the actress Jean Forbes-Robertson (1905-1962) in the title role of J M Barrie's 1904 children's play 'Peter Pan'. Jean Forbes-Robertson first played the part at the Gaiety Theatre, Christmas 1927, and subsequently became one of the best-known actresses associated with the role, playing it at the Garrick Theatre, 1928/1929; at the St James's, 1929/1930; and at the Palladium for five consecutive Christmases, from 1930 until the end of the 1934/35 season. Other actresses took the part subsequently at the Palladium, but Jean Forbes-Robertson returned to play it for the last time there for the 1938/39 season. This is one of several wax figurines modelled by Agatha Walker in the 1920s and 1930s, mostly of actors and actresses in costume for roles in successful productions on the London stage. There had been a craze for ceramic figurines of performers in the 19th century and Walker attempted to revive this tradition with her limited edition sculptures. They were modelled from life in plaster and coated with a fine wax layer which was then coloured. In 1931 there was an exhibition of her wax figures at the Fine Art Society.

Sir William Dugdale: ‘Monasticon Anglicanum: A history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, friaries, and cathedral and collegiate churches... in England and Wales.’, London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1817-1830, 6 volumes in 8 (volume 6 is in 3 parts/volumes), engraved additional titles and 242 plates (see footnote), many double-page, plates rather spotted; together with DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM: ‘The History of Saint Paul's Cathedral, in London.’, London: Lackington, Hughes [&c.], 1818, 67 engraved plates, some double-page, [BAL RIBA 934]ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, WITH PROOF PLATES, together 9 volumes, folio (473 x 315mm.), half-titles, list of subscribers in volume 1, nineteenth-century dark blue morocco gilt by J. Wright (the volume of St. Paul's uniformly bound by Ramage), gilt edges. Provenance: probably Henry Perkins (1778-1855), a subscriber to a large paper copy, with initials "HP" on upper cover of each volume, sale by Gadsden, Ellis & Co., 3 June 1873, lots 396 and 387 (but see footnote). All indications are that this copy belonged to Henry Perkins, though the copy sold at his library sale (see provenance) was described as being bound in purple morocco by Herring, possibly in error. As is often the case Monasticon Anglicanum is without the plate of a Benedictine nun at p.451 in vol.2. It is presumably omitted as it appears to be a duplicate of the same plate which is present at p.436 vol.1.This new edition of Monasticon Anglicanum, the work of John Paley, Sir Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, greatly expanded the first edition of 1655 by drawing on records in the Tower of London and the Cottonian collection. It contains an enormous amount of information on the history of English religious houses and incorporates the charters of foundation, donation and confirmation granted to religious establishments. The fine engraved plates include plans and views of abbeys, cathedrals, monasteries and priories as well as engravings of costumes and seals. From the collection of Father Peter Harris, with his bookplates to front pastedowns (9)

Winston S. Churchill, 2 titles: 'Marlborough. His Life and Times.', London, George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1934-1938, 4 volumes, volume 1 November 1934, new edition, revised, volumes 2-4 1934-1938, 1st editions, 1st impressions, portrait frontispiece to each volume, 99 additional plates, 14 facsimiles of letters, and 182 maps and plans, several folding, collated complete/as called for, uniform original purple cloth, spines lettered in gilt, Marlborough crest gilt to front covers, top edges gilt, in the "Limited Presentation Edition" dust wrappers (worn, some small part losses/tape repairs). Churchill's biography of the first Duke of Marlborough, his ancestor who led British forces to victory against Louis XIV, "took its place at once among the classics of historical writing. As the story of his ancestor's leadership of a grand alliance to prevent the domination of the continent by a single power, it was also a source of inspiration to Churchill in his campaign against appeasement" (ODNB). Cohen A97.2(I-IV).a; Langworth pp. 166-8; Woods A40(a); together with 'Lord Randolph Churchill', London & New York, Macmillan, 1906, 1st edition, 2 volumes, frontispiece portraits to each volume + 16 plates, collated complete/as called for, ex Wolverhampton Girls' School Library, inkstamps verso of title pages and to half title of volume 2, else no other lib markings to leaves/leaves clean/VGC, original red cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, lib markings removed from spines, ruling continued to boards in blind, front covers lettered in gilt with the Churchill family crest stamped in gilt, edges untrimmed. Churchill's great biography of his father Lord Randolph Churchill (6)

Winston Churchill: 'The Major Works of Sir Winston Churchill. Centenary First Edition', London, Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1974, 'centenary first edition', 25 volumes, each with tipped in photographic frontis of Churchill, comprising 'My Early Life', 'The World Crisis', 5 vols, 'The Second World War', 6 vols, 'Marlborough', 4 vols, 'History of the English Speaking Peoples', 4 vols, 'Lord Randolph Churchill', 2 vols & 'War Speeches', 3 vols, uniform burgundy morocco gilt, Winston Churchill monograms to front covers, silk end papers, all edges gilt (25)

Winston S. Churchill: 'The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. Edited by Col. F. Rhodes. Illustrated by Angus McNeill, Seaforth Highlanders.', London, Longmans, Green & Co, June 1900, 1st edition, 3rd impression, 2 volumes, "Only 140 copies of the third printing were ever made available. it is far and away the scarcest of the first-edition printings" (Ronald I. Cohen, Churchill bibliographer), ex Prahran library, photogravure portrait frontispiece to volume 1 + 4 other portrait plates (lacks frontis of Kitchener to volume 2, else complete), one full-page photogravure to the text, 50 wood-engravings to the text by Angus Neil, 23 colour maps and battle plans, all but 3 folding (folding map vol.I facing p.146 "The Dervish Empire" with neat tape repair), 11 maps to the text of which 2 full-page, recased, retaining original publisher's dark blue cloth, with lettering and pictorial decorations to spines and front covers in gilt, replenished end papers and pastedowns, volume I with publisher's 32pp catalogue of adverts at end. This was Churchill's second book, after The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898). "Overcoming the objections of Kitchener, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, Churchill obtained a temporary posting with the 21st lancers, and arrived in the Sudan in time to take part in the celebrated cavalry charge at the battle of Omdurman (2 September 1898), in which the regiment galloped by accident into a hidden ravine crammed with armed men. Churchill, who shot and killed at least three of the enemy with his Mauser pistol, was cool and courageous but lucky to survive a bout of hand-to-hand fighting in which 22 British officers and men were killed. [In The River War] the story of the campaign is firmly embedded in a remarkably sympathetic history of the Sudanese revolt against Egyptian rule" (ODNB). Churchill himself graphically described his account as "a tale of blood and war". Cohen A2.1.d; Langworth pp. 27-29; Woods A2(a) (2)

Thomas Tredgold: 'The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines...Completing Division A. And Forming the First Volume of the New Edition of Tredgold on the Steam Engine', London, John Weale, 1850, 41 engraved plates of steam engines/locomotives as called for, (of which 40 multi folding), including Stephenson's Rocket etc, large 4to, old half calf gilt, 'The Principles and PRactice and Explanation of the Machinery Used in Steam Navigation; Examples of British and American Steam Vessels...', London, John Weale, 1851, vol.II, Part.I, text volume, 340,42,52,20,5,[1]pp, large 4to, old half calf gilt (2)

John Hunt (1910-1998): 'The Ascent of Everest. 40th Anniversary Edition', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1993, limited edition (332/500), numbered, signed by ten surviving members of the 1953 British Everest Expedition, including John Hunt, Charles Evans, Griffith Pugh, George Band, Alfred Gregory, George Lowe, Michael Westmacott, Charles Wylie, Michael Ward and Edmund Hillary, commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the First Ascent on 29th May, 1953, foreword by John Hunt, colour photographic frontis + black & white maps/ills. as called for, original half blue morocco gilt, gilt blocked illustration on front cover, top edge gilt, slipcase

Margaret Gowing: 'Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945', London, Macmillan & Co, 1964, 1st edition, the personal copy of Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968), Nobel Laureate and President of the Royal Society, signed & inscribed to him by the author to verso of half title "Sir Henry Dale, in gratitude and admiration, Margaret Gowing, September 1964", with Dale's ownership signature to front pastedown, and additionally loosely inserted are Dale's copy letters to Winston Churchill and Churchill's scientific adviser, Lord Cherwell, 11th May 1944, concerned with setting up a meeting between Churchill and Niels Bohr, which is referenced in pages 346-366 of the book. Niels Bohr was on a par with Einstein as a theoretical physicist, and after the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938, Bohr was acutely aware of the theoretical possibility of making an atomic bomb, though he considered the practical difficulties so prohibitive as to prevent the realization of a bomb until well after WW2 could be expected to end. In September 1943 word reached Bohr that he was about to be arrested by the Germans, and he fled Denmark to Sweden. From there, he was flown to Britain, where he joined the British Tube Alloys nuclear weapons project, and was part of the British mission to the Manhattan Project. Taking part for several weeks at a time in the work in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to develop the atomic bomb, he made significant technical contributions, notably to the design of the so-called initiator for the plutonium bomb. His most-important role, however, was to serve, in J. Robert Oppenheimer’s words, “as a scientific father confessor to the younger men.” Bohr became convinced that the existence of the bomb would “not only seem to necessitate but should also, due to the urgency of mutual confidence, facilitate a new approach to the problems of international relationship.” The first step toward avoiding a postwar nuclear arms race would be to inform the ally in the war, the Soviet Union, of the project. He was conscious of the likelihood of tension between Russia and the Western Allies after the war, but he believed the atomic bomb was something so big that it could be the means of promoting confidence and co-operation between nations. Furthermore, Bohr believed it would be disastrous if Russia should learn on her own about the bomb, and knowing the competence of the Russian physicists Bohr felt certain, like many leading scientists when they considered the point, that the margin of time before the Russians were able to construct a bomb themselves would be very small. In this backdrop of deep concern with the unique situation with which an atomic bomb would confront the world, Bohr was desperately anxious to meet Churchill and receive any suggestion from him on the subject. Sir Henry Dale was the President of the Royal Society and a member of the Tube Alloys Consultative Council. He was an old friend of Bohr's and during his visit to England Bohr had told Dale about his hopes and fears, these conversations taking place in the most secret place the men could think of, on iron park chairs in the middle of the biggest expanse of grass in Hyde Park. Dale was also greatly concerned with the deeper implications of the bomb and he wrote to the Prime Minister begging him to see Bohr on the question of international control. After outlining Bohr's credentials, Dale concludes his letter to Churchill "...It is my serious belief that it may be in your power even in the next six months to take decisions which will determine the future course of human history. It is in that belief that I dare to ask you, even now, to give Professor Bohr the opportunity of brief access to you". Bohr was unable to convince Churchill of his viewpoint, however, instead being suspected by Churchill of spying for the Russians, and came away from the meeting greatly disappointed at the way the world was apparently governed, with small points exercising a quite irrational influence. After the war, Bohr persisted in his mission for what he called an “open world” between nations, continuing his confidential contact with statesmen and writing an open letter to the United Nations in 1950. Original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (with 55s net price still intact). Together with a printed book of words of remembrance for Henry Hallett Dale by Lord Alexander Todd, in English & German, published Heidelberg, Verlag Lambert Schneider, 1968/69, original wraps. Provenance - from the estate of Lord Alexander R. Todd (1907-1997), British biochemist who who also became a Nobel Laureate and PResident of the Royal Society, and married Dale's daughter, a distinguished Scientist in her own right (2)

Hans Holbein: 'The Dance of Death', London, Privately Printed, 1916, limited edition, (one of 250 copies only), profusely illustrated throughout with enlarged facsimiles of Holbein's famous woodcut designs executed by Hans Lutzelburger, from the first complete edition published at Lyons in 1547. With the French text, accompanied by an English verse translation, edited, with a preface, by Frederick H. Evans. Original paper covered boards, printed paper label to spine

Thomas Robert Malthus: 'An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions. A New Edition, very much Enlarged.', London, printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley, 1803, 2nd edition, the 'great quarto edition', the first to bear Malthus's name, substantially enlarged, rewritten, and re-titled, "In 1803 Malthus published a greatly expanded second edition of the Essay, incorporating details of the population checks that had been in operation in many different countries and periods. Although nominally a second edition, it was regarded by Malthus as a substantially new work. He did not claim originality for the idea that population tends to outrun the food supply. In the preface to the second edition he stated that in writing the first edition he had deduced the principle of population from the writings of David Hume, Robert Wallace, Adam Smith, and Richard Price, but that in the intervening period he had become aware that much more had been published on the subject. He nevertheless believed that even more remained to be done, especially in describing the means by which populations are checked and in drawing out the practical implications of the principle of population. In the second edition, he made clear what was only implicit in the first, that prudential restraint should, if humanly possible, be 'moral restraint' - that is, delayed marriage accompanied by strictly moral pre-marital behaviour, although he admitted that moral restraint would not be easy and that there would be occasional failures. Whereas in the first edition he had said that all the checks to population would involve either misery or vice, in the second edition he attempted to lighten this 'melancholy hue' (Essay on the Principle of Population, 1st edn, 1798, iv) and 'to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first essay' (2nd edn, 1803, vii) by arguing that moral restraint, if supported by an education emphasizing the immorality of bringing children into the world without the means of supporting them, would tend to increase rather than diminish individual happiness" (ODNB). The first edition, published anonymously, is now a great rarity. This second was the result of much criticism, as well as the great success of the first; further correspondence with Godwin; and travels abroad, on the continent and in Scandinavia, along with reading of travel literature, which resulted in numerous new case studies being added (see Watkin Tench's copy, below). There are more comparisons with other countries and Malthus places a new emphasis on moral or 'natural restraint' (he is opposed to contraception and abortion); allowing that it is possible for such restraint to be practised, Malthus thus reviewed what was 'too gloomy a view of human nature in his first essay' (New Palgrave).The pessimist line, with its origins in Hume, Smith and Godwin, extended from Malthus to Ricardo, to James Mill and his son John Stuart, to Darwin and Wallace, even to Marx and Engels, the utopians who were driven to condemn Malthus, but were themselves prophets of doom and of the 'misery of the working classes', in what was arguably an age of remarkable economic and social development (Norman). viii,[4],610pp, title page and some leaves of preface and contents with tidemark to inner margin (not affecting printed text of title page), pp1/2 with small part loss at tope corner just affecting printed page numbers, pp42, the first word on line 12 "a" of "accounts" affected by small black mark, else some sporadic light spotting/foxing to some leaves throughout, mainly marginal, otherwise leaves generally clean/VGC. Quarto, professionally rebound paper covered boards, printed paper label to spine. Hugely influential work by Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), the towering English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography

(Hydrotherapy, Baths), Andrew White Tuer & Tristram Ellis: 'Luxurious Bathing', London, Field & Tuer, 1880, 2nd edition, Proofs before Letters, Japanese Paper, one of 20 copies only, signed "One of first 20 proofs Tristram Ellis", etched title + 8 etched plates as called for, oblong, original vellum & parchment over boards (15 x 24cm)

(Cookery), a collection of 25 mainly 19th and early 20th Century cookery and related books and booklets, plus a few earlier titles, including T. Williams: 'The Accomplished Housekeeper, and Universal Cook', London, J. Scatcherd, 1797, 1st edition, xvi,274[2]pp, 12 engraved plates of place settings/bill of fare as called for, but lacks large part of folding frontis, 12mo, contemporary calf, later rebacked; Vincent la Chapelle: 'The Modern Cook', London, for the author and sold by Nicolas Prevost, 1733, 1st edition in English, volume 1 (of 3 volumes) only, viii,[20],328pp, 2 folding plates of menus at end, contemporary calf worn. The first 'new' English cookery book to be published in the 18th century, which appeared in English while the author was in Chesterfield's employment. One of the great 18th century classics, having a strong influence on upper class food in England; William Kitchiner: 'The Cook's Oracle containing receipts for plain cookery on the most economical plan for private families, also the art of composing the most simple, and most highly finished broths, gravies, soups, sauces, store sauces, and flavoring essences...', L, A. Constable, [1822], 4th edition, 12mo, old half calf; [Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell]: Modern Domestic Cookery', L, John Murray, 1853, engraved frontis + 1 engraved plate + ills. in text, 644pp + 32pp adverts at end, original cloth gilt (worn); Edward Spencer: 'Cakes & Ale', L, Grant Richards, 1897, 1st edition, 2pp ads at end, original pictorial cloth; George H. Ellwanger: 'The Pleasures of the Table', L, Heinemann, 1903, 1st UK edition, ills. throughout, rebound contemporary cloth gilt; Auguste Mario: 'Easy French Cookery', L, Cassell, 1910, 1st English language edition, 8 plates as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt (worn); A.B. Marshall: 'The Book of Ices', L, circa 1894, revised and enlarged edition, vii,[1],80pp, original cloth gilt, scarce; Adelaide Keen: 'With a Saucepan Over the Sea', Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1902, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt; Vera, Countess Serkoff: 'The Visits of Doris. Cookery Hints to a Young Housewife', L, A.E. Walter, [1920], 1st edition, original decorative wraps; Mrs Black: 'Household Cookery and Laundry Work', L, Collins, c.1890, 75th thou., orig. cloth; E & B May: 'May's Practical Methods. To Ensure Instant Relief and Permanent Cure of Diseases without Drugs, Minerals or Doctors' Fees', L, c.1897, 5th thou., [2],81,[10]pp, original cloth covered boards; Janet McKenzie Hill: 'Practical Cooking and Serving', L, Heinemann, 1903, 1st edition, colour frontis + numerous plates throughout, 10 pages of contemporary m/s receipts at front and end, original cloth gilt; plus 12 others similar (25)

(Mixology, Cocktails, Drinks), David A. Embury: 'The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks', London, Faber & Faber, 1953, 1st edition, original cloth (worn) lettered in silver to spine. Scarce first edition of this classic cocktail guide; William Schmidt: 'The Flowing Bowl, When and What to Drink', New York, Charles L. Webster, 1892, 1st edition, portrait frontis, xvi,294pp + [10]pp ads at end, original cloth gilt and silvered (VGC); William Terrington: Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks', L, George Routledge, circa 1870, [2],xv,223,[19]pp, original "yellowback" pictorial paper covered boards (worn), later rebacked cloth. Scarce (3)

(Cookery), a collection of 17 20th Century cookery titles, including Lily MacLeod: 'A Cook's Notebook', London, Faber, 1958, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, scarce; Xavier Marcel Boulestin & Jason Hill: 'Herbs, Salads, and Seasonings', illustrated Cedric Morris, London, Heinemann, 1930, 1st edition, 16 plates + ills. in text as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, scarce; two others Xavier Marcel Boulestin 'The Conduct of the Kitchen', L, Heinemann, 1925, 1st edition, original cloth, 'Eggs - One Hundred & Twenty Ways of Cooking', L, Heinemann, 1932, 1st edition, orig. paper covered boards; Maura Laverty & Sybil Le Brocquy: 'Maura Laverty's Cookery Book', L, Longmans, July 1946, 2nd printing, illustrations throughout by the eminent Irish artist Louis Le Brocquy at the age of 30, before he was widely known, original cloth. Irish author Maura Laverty's first cookbook; Louis Diat: 'Cooking à la Ritz', L, The Restaurant Trade Journal, February 1946, 2nd printing, original cloth; Edouard de Pomiane: 'Cooking in Ten Minutes', Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1948, 1st UK edition, 19 woodcut illustrations after drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, orig. cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards; two scarce Good Housekeeping cookery titles: 'Learning to Cook', L, Gramol, 1947, 1st edition, orig. cloth, dust wrapper, 'Sweet Making Book', L, Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1927, 1st edition, original wraps (slightly worn, contemporary writing on rear cover in pencil and pen & ink); Graham Greene (introduction): 'Venus in the Kitchen, or Love's Cookery Book', edited Norman Douglas, L, Heinemann, 1952, 1st edition, chapter and other illustrations/decorations by Bruce Roberts throughout, original cloth, dust wrapper (by Bruce Roberts); L.H. Braun & W. Adams: 'Fanny Hill's Cook Book', L, Odyssey Press, 1972, 3rd impression, illustrations throughout by Brian Forbes, original cloth, dust wrapper; plus 6 others similar (17)

Florence White: 'Flowers as Food. Receipts and Lore from Many Sources', London, Jonathan Cape, 1934, 1st edition, signed and inscribed by the author to the female aviator and socialite Delphine Reynolds (1907-1993) on FFEP "Miss Delphine Reynolds, from the author Florence White, January 12th 1935, First Edition", with Delphine Reynold's pencil ownership signature/inscription above "Miss Reynolds, The Cottage, Gatwick Aerodrome, Sussex", original cloth. Scarce

A box of Typography, Printing, Private Press books, including 'Alphabet and Image', James Shand Shenval Press, Dec. 1946 & September 1947, No's 3 & 5, No.3 with coloured litho & woodcut ills by John Nash, and typography by Eric Gill, etc, No.5 with ills. by Barnett Freedman & Lynton Lamb etc, each orig. wraps; 'Image: A Quarterly of the Visual Arts', No.3 Winter 1949-50, No.4 Spring 1950, No. 6 Spring 1951, content/ills. John Buckland-Wright, Edward Ardizzone, Blair Hughes-Stanton etc, each orig. wraps; Gotthard de Beauclair: 'Suite Fur Euralda', ill. Adolf Wamper, 1953, limited edition (189/350), original cloth gilt, slipcase; F. Petrarca: 'Lettera a Giovanni Anchiseo', Milan, 1967, orig. printed wraps, slipcase; Ovid: 'Die Jagd auf den calydonischen Eber', Darmstadt, 1984, ltd. edn. (150), orig. decorative paper covered boards; C.B. Cottrell & Sons Co., New York (published): 'Problems of Pressmanship', c.1903, 115,[7]pp, trade catalogue, ills. of printing presses etc throughout, orig. cloth gilt; Stanley Morison: 'Grundergeln der Typographie [First Principles of Typography]', Berlin, [1953], orig. cloth gilt; Ruari McLean: 'Jan Tsichold: Typographer', 1975, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, plus others including 'Typography: 3', Shenval Press, Summer 1937, Parenthesis 42, etc etc

(Private Press, Typography), a collection 15 private press and typography related titles, including Margaret Wells: 'Margaret Wells A Selection of her Wood Engravings', Wakefield, The Fleece Press, 1985, limited edition, one of 170 copies (of a total edition of 200), 15 full page engravings and engraved colophon illustration, 4to, original yellow cloth, printed paper label to spine, printed paper title label/illustration to front cover; Edward Burrett: 'Full Point. A typographer remembers', Esher, The Penmiel Press, 1976, limited edition (98/125), numbered and signed by Burrett to limitation page, further signed & inscribed by Burrett for Yuri "Yurka" Galitzine (1919-2002) "For Yurka Galitzine good friend and work colleague - to record the 25th Anniversary of the founding of Galitzine and Partners - Edward Burrett 22 May 1979", on first blank, 4to, original cloth gilt, slipcase; Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 'Hand and Soul', Birmingham School of Printing, [1944], limited edition, 65 copies printed for private circulation only, [4],5-20,[3], designed, printed and published by Leonard Jay, illustrated title page printed in green by Henry S. Sands, illustrated Blue Jay Leonard Jay colophon, 4to, stitched leaves, plain card covers with pencil title to front cover; 'The Old Book Seller. A short story by L.M. Wilson', Greenock, The Black Pennell Press, 1989, limited edition, (71/75), numbered, original quarter elephant hide over decorated paper covered boards, printed paper label to front cover; Yves Perrine: 'Arbre', Laon (Aisnes), 1997, limited edition, one of 50 copies only, 8 etched plates, 5 leaves of text printed on glassine (including limitation page/colophon), all loose as issued in original green cloth binding, ribbon ties; 'J.H. Mason R.D.I. A selection from the notebooks of a scholar-printer made by his son John Mason. Illustrated by Rigby Graham', Leicester, The Twelve by Eight, 1961, signed by John Mason, 12 full page black & white ills. by Rigby Graham as called for, original pictorial wraps by Rigby Graham; Alan Tarling: 'Will Carter, Printer, an illustrated study', The Galahad Press, 1968, to, original spiral bound printed card covers; John Crombie & Sheila Bourne: 'When the Cat's Away', Kickshaws, 1983, 1st edition, one of 600 copies (of a total edition of 650), colour illustrated leaves throughout, original spiral bound colour illustrated card covers; Antoine Pentsch: 'des aventures de T l'Escargot', Montreal, l'atelier du Silence, 1995, limited edition, (53/100), numbered and signed, original wraps; plus 6 others similar (15)

Eric Ravilious; Alan Powers & James Russell: 'Eric Ravilious: The Story of High Street', Sparham, Mainstone Press, 2008, limited edition, (750), profusely illustrated in colour and black & white throughout, 4to, original cloth lettered in silver, printed paper label to front cover, original slipcase; plus 10 others Eric Ravilious related, including James Russell: 'Ravilious Submarine', Mainstone Press, 2013, 1st edition, profusely illustrated in colour, oblong 4to, original cloth backed pictorial boards; Ravilious & J.M. Richards: 'High Street', V & A published facsimile of the original edition first published in 1938 by country Life and printed at the Curwen Press, orig. pictorial boards, dust wrapper; 'Eric Ravilious Imagined Realities', Imperial War Museum, 2003, 1st edition, colour ills. throughout, orig. pictorial wraps; Richard Dennis: 'Ravilious & Wedgwood', 2006, folio, original decorative laminated boards; 'Eric Ravilious in Context', 2002; Binyon: 'Eric Ravilious Memoir of an Artist', 2004; Friend: 'Ravilious & Co The Pattern of Friendship', 2017 1st in d/w; 'Eric Ravilious Design', ACC, 2015, orig. cloth, d/w; plus 2 others (11)

Alan Ross & John Minton: 'Time was away. A Notebook in Corsica', London, John Lehmann, 1948, 1st edition, 1st issue, black & white map frontispiece + 8 colour lithographed plates + over 50 other full page and in text black & white illustrations by John Minton as called for, original yellow cloth, the first issue stamped in green and gilt on the spine (v. light wear, else generally cloth VGC), wraparound pictorial dustwrapper by John Minton (worn with some part losses and internal repairs, some surface rubbing in places). A scarce first issue copy of Alan Ross and John Minton's classic artistic collaboration and ode to the island of Corsica

(Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, Max Beerbohm, Henry James etc), 'The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly', London, Elkin Mathews & John Lane, April 1894, Volume I, 1st edition, frontis + 14 illustrations on 15 full page plates as called for (three of which by Aubrey Beardsley), 272pp + 18pp Index to Publishers' Announcements followed by 14,[1]pp catalogue of adverts dated 1894, original yellow pictorial cloth blocked in black (by Beardsley), (worn, spine browned, inner joints split). The first volume of the iconic literary and artistic periodical of the 1890's, first edited by Beardsley and forever associated with his artwork and the more decadent attitudes of the fin-de-siecle

Mervyn Peake, 6 titles: 'Poems and Drawings', London, The Keepsake Press, 1965, limited edition (one of 150 copies only), frontispiece and 4 full-page line drawings by Peake printed in brown, [16]pp, pale blue plain card stapled wraps; 'Letters from a Lost Uncle', London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948, 1st edition, [ii],[130]pp, illustrated throughout with line drawings in soft pencil interspersed with typewritten text and passages in the author's hand, original pictorial cloth; 'Titus Groan', L, E & S, 1946, 1st edition, 2nd impression (dust wrapper stated "Second Impression" to inside front flap), 438pp, original cloth, d/w; 'The Craft of the Lead Pencil', L, Allan Wingate, 1946, 1st edition, [2],19,[3]pp, full page and in text ills. by Peake, original pictorial boards; 'Figures of Speech', L, Gollancz, 1954, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper; 'Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor', L, Nelson, 1967, 3rd edition of Peake's classic children's book, first published in 1939, small 4to, original pictorial laminated boards (6)

(Marc Chagall), Abraham Sutzveker: 'Siberia. A Poem', translated from the Yiddish by Jacob Sonntag, London, Abelard-Schuman Ltd, 1960, 1st edition, preface & 9 full page lithograph illustrations Marc Chagall, 46,[2]pp, folio, original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, pictorial dust wrapper (21s net price intact). Other copies retailing and on copac/JISC library hub all state publication date of 1961, however this copy states "first published 1960" verso of title page, and bearing no indication elsewhere in this copy of it being the later date of 1961

Samuel Beckett, two 1st editions: 'Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts.', London, Faber & Faber, 1956, 1st edition, publishers printed note tipped in, original yellow cloth (v. slightly bumped head & foot of spine, else VGC), spine lettered in red, dust wrapper (slightly worn, couple of closed tears with small tape repairs verso, price clipped). First UK edition of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century, 'Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts', London, Faber & Faber, 1962, 1st edition, original cloth gilt (VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 9s6d price intact) (2)

James Joyce: 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', London, The Egoist Ltd., Oakley House, Bloomsbury Street, [1917], 1st British edition; American sheets, one of approximately 750 copies of Joyce's classic stream of consciousness work, his first novel. The first edition was printed in America and published by B.W. Huebsch in 1916, this is the first British edition made up of American sheets and published by The Egoist in 1917, "Copyright, 1916, by B.W. Huebsch - Printed in the United States of America" verso title page, 299pp, recased retaining majority of original green cloth, replenished front pastedowns/EP's. Slocum and Cahoon 'Bibliography of James Joyce' A12

Eric Gill: 'Art-Nonsense and Other Essays', London, Cassell & Francis Walterson, 1929, 1st edition, wood engraved illustration to title page, original cloth gilt; Stanley Morison: 'First Principles of Typography', Cambridge, 1936, 1st reprint, 33,[1]pp, ex Repton School Library, original cloth, dust wrapper (laid down on boards); John Arlott & Michael Ayrton: 'Clausentum', London, Jonathan Cape, 1946, 1st edition, 6 plates by Ayrton as called for, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Arthur Waley (translated): 'The Lady Who Loved Insects', London, The Blackamore Press, 1929, limited edition (464/550), 4 dry-point etched illustrations by Hermine David, printed at the Curwen Press, original cloth gilt (worn/waterstained); 'Priapus 17. Spring 1969', edited John Cotton, 36,[1]pp, 1 full page plate and illustrated front cover by Rigby Graham; Gertrude Bone: 'Of the Western Isles', London, Foulis, 1925, 1st edition, 40 woodcut ills. by Stephen Bone as called for, to, original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards (6)

Keith Douglas, 2 titles: 'Alamein to Zem Zem', London, Editions Poetry London, 1946, 1st edition, colour frontis + 2 colour plates & black & white ills. in text as called for, original quarter cloth, dust wrapper. Scarce first edition of the British soldier-poet Keith Douglas's military memoir of the Western Desert campaign of WWII, written shortly before his death in action in Normandy in June 1944, 'Selected Poems', edited with an introduction by Ted Hughes, L, Faber, 1964, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w (2)

Roald Dahl, 2 first editions, each published London, Michael Joseph, each original cloth, dust wrappers: 'My Uncle Oswald', 1979, 'Tales of the Unexpected', 1980 (first collected edition) (2)

Raymond Briggs: 'The Snowman', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1978, 1st edition, [32]pp, colour illustrations throughout, large (but relatively neat) contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, else leaves generally clean/VGC, 4to, original pictorial laminated boards (slightly worn/toned). Multiple award winning iconic children's book, adapted into a Bafta winning animated short, first broadcast 26 December 1982, which remains a Christmas classic

Raymond Briggs: 'Midnight Adventure', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961, 1st edition, illustrated frontis/title page + numerous line drawings in text by Briggs throughout as called for, original pictorial boards and matching pictorial dust wrapper by Briggs (boards slight fading to extremities and slightly bumped head and foot of spine, else VGC; d/w some small part losses at corners/head & foot of spine and fading to spine and surrounding areas of front and rear wrap, else generally VGC, 6s6d price intact). The extremely scarce first book by Raymond Briggs (1934-2022), English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author; together with Arthur Calder-Marshall: 'The Fair to Middling', London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959, 1st edition, black & white ills. by Raymond Briggs, original blue cloth lettered in silver, pictorial dust wrapper by Raymond Briggs (a few nicks & chips, else generally VGC, 15s price intact) (2)

An original unpublished manuscript by Harry Henry (1916-2008), titled 'Lewis Carroll and the Subconscious', dated October 1932, "Published by the Upton Press, Unlimited", and with m/s text opposite title page "This edition is strictly limited to one copy, signed and illustrated in pen & ink by the author", 8 page manuscript study + 3 full page m/s pen & ink illustrations, "Any student of the life and works of Lewis Carroll...cannot have failed to have been struck by a...presentiment - that hidden in his words is something of the esoteric, or, at least, of the subconscious. This may be purely unintentional on the author's part. He himself always emphatically disclaimed ever having written any serious or solemn meaning into his verse. Yet..when..discussing himself, he was quite untrustworthy, his love of fun overcoming his passion for truth...it is quite possible that while he did not intentionally put any great truths into his work, yet his subconscious may have had a vast effect in the shaping of his thoughts...Living as he did a solitary and somewhat morose existence, it is obvious he must have become in some degree introspective and self analytical. For example, he himself says * In 'Principles of Parliamentary Representation', p.35,II.28,29 "Very often it seems to me as though I am, and yet at the same time I am not, what I am; for, after all, what am I?"...His biographer, Edward Lloyd, a contemporary and a close friend of Dodgson, said of him: "Up to the age of 35 it seemed to his more observant friends and acquaintances that the hereditary madness of the Dodgson family was becoming manifest in him. Howbeit, after that age he became quite normal, only relapsing into the eccentric when engaged on some new work of fancy or imagination." This seems quite satisfactorily to bear out the general facts of the theory here put forward: namely, that until the writing of the Jabberwocky - immortal, certainly, but how full of subconscious meaning - his eccentricity could find no outlet save in peculiar and striking ways...Let us first take the Jabberwocky, from 'through the Looking-Glass.'...The third verse: "He took his vorpal sword in handLong time the manxome foe he soughtSo rested he by the Tumtum treeAnd stood awhile in thought." is by far the most important. It is obvious *this view is supported by Paul Selver and James Joyce - two very great authorities on Carroll. *that the Jabberwock - 'the jaws that bite, the claws that catch' - represents the many and rampant forces of death, destruction and annihilation. This is amplified by the adjective 'manxome' - a portmanteau word combining manevolent, suicidal, and doom.+So the author says in a letter to Alice Liddell, dated June, 1872..." and so on, the manuscript signed H. Henry at page 8 at the conclusion of the words, and the following 3 pages of pen & ink illustrations each signed by him, small 4to, contemporary silk binding with manuscript pen & ink title written on front cover. Harry Henry (1916-2008) was seen by many as the father of the market research industry in Britain. A former director of the Thomson Organisation, he changed the face of newspaper publishing in Britain. He was an innovator in all aspects of marketing and the media, and there are few key industry research bodies on which he did not serve in a distinguished capacity. In 1965 he was responsible for the introduction to Britain of Yellow Pages directories, his single main achievement. During WW2 he was principal statistician of 21 Army Group in the invasion of Europe 1944-45 where he was the "father" of military statistical analysis, for which he does not get the credit he deserves. During this period he demonstrated the inverse proportion between military speed of advance and the increase in rate of V.D. He married into the literary and academic family, the Ansteys, of whom the best known was the late Victorian humourist. This interesting unpublished manuscript was written age 16 or 17 (1932).

Beatrix Potter, 2 titles: 'Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes', London, Frederick Warne & Co, [1917], 1st edition, 1st or 2nd printing (believed to be identical), with correct end papers, colour frontis + 14 colour plates as called for, original paper covered boards, mounted colour illustration to front cover; together with an a/f worn 1913 first edition of 'The Tale of Pigling Bland', 14 colour plates, lacks frontis, binding worn, leaves loose (2)

Enid Blyton, 'Famous Five', complete set of the 21 children's detective series novels, all 1st editions, 1st impressions, all published Hodder & Stoughton, London, all in original cloth, all bar one in dust wrappers ('Five Go Adventuring Again'), all dust wrappers designed by Eileen Soper, comprising 'Five on a Treasure Island', 1942, 32 illustrations by Eileen Soper, publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in black (no internal names or inscriptions, cloth slightly bumped at top right corner, else generally a clean, tight, VGC+ copy), dust wrapper (first issue wrapper, price clipped, but with wider flaps denoting the first issue, some small part losses and minor internal repairs/restoration, else generally VGC). The first of The 'Fives' Books, a very scarce title in 1st edition, in a generally VGC example of the rare dust wrapper; 'Five Go Adventuring Again', June 1943, colour frontis + black & white ills. by Eileen Soper, publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in black (no internal names or inscriptions, cloth slightly bumped/worn); 'Five Run Away Together', August 1944, colour frontis + 8 full page 2 colour illustrations (4 in red and black and 4 in blue and black) and numerous illustrations in black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in black (neat contemporary gift inscription top corner verso FFEP, else internally leaves clean/VGC, cloth slightly bumped worn), dust wrapper (first issue dust wrapper, with price of 6/- net on the front flap intact, and rear flap having the extract from the Daily Sketch and listing the Happy, Merry and Jolly Story Books as called for, slightly toned and with some small part losses at corners and head and foot of spine, else generally VGC). The third and rarest book in the Famous Five series, difficult to find in any condition, this a nice copy in a generally VGC example of the rare wrapper; 'Five Go to Smuggler's Top', July 1945, colour frontis + full page 2 colour illustrations ( in red and black and blue and black) and numerous illustrations in black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth v slightly bumped at corners and with one or two small marks, else generally VGC), dust wrapper (some mainly internal repairs/restoration but else a fairly decent example of the still very scarce wrapper with 6/- price intact); 'Five Go Off in a Caravan', November 1946, colour frontis + illustrations in blue & black and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth v slightly bumped at corners/head & foot of spine, else generally VGC), dust wrapper (some minor internal repairs/restoration, some light creases and v small part losses, else 6/- price intact and generally VGC); 'Five on Kirrin Island Again', August 1947, colour frontis (with telescope the wrong way around as called for) + illustrations in blue & black, red & black, and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, publisher's red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth VGC), dust wrapper (some very light edgewear and toning, else an excellent example with 6/- price intact, telescope worng way around as called for); 'Five Go Off to Camp', August 1948, colour frontis + illustrations in blue & black, red & black, and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth slightly discoloured towards top edge of front cover, else VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC example with 6/- price intact); 'Five Get Into Trouble', October 1949, black & white frontis + illustrations in blue & black, red & black, and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, publisher's red cloth lettered in black (sporadic light foxing, contemporary ownership signature to recto of rear blank, cloth generally VGC), dust wrapper (couple of very light creases and very small nicks/chips, else generally VGC example with 6/- price intact); 'Five Fall Into Adventure', 1950, frontis + illustrations in blue & black, red & black, and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 6/- price intact); 'Five on a Hike Together', 1951, illustrations in blue & black, red & black, and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original grey cloth lettered in red (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth generally VGC), dust wrapper (VGC, 7/6 price intact); 'Five Have a Wonderful Time', 1952, illustrations in blue & black, red & black, and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth generally VGC), dust wrapper (VGC, 7/6 price intact); 'Five Go Down to the Sea', 1953, illustrations in blue & black, red & black, and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth VGC), dust wrapper (small contemporary inscription at foot of inside front panel, else near fine, 7/6 price intact); 'Five Go to Mystery Moor', 1954, illustrations in blue & black and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 7/6 price intact); 'Five Have Plenty of Fun', 1955, illustrations in blue & black and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 7/6 price intact); ' Five on a Secret Trail', 1956, illustrations in blue & black and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 7/6 price intact); 'Five Go to Billycock Hill', 1957, illustrations in blue & black, red & black, and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth generally VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 7/6 price intact); 'Five Get Into a Fix', 1958, illustrations in blue & black and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth slightly bumped at corners/head & foot of spine, else generally VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 7/6 price intact); 'Five on Finniston Farm', 1960, illustrations in blue & black and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 7/6 price intact); 'Five Go to Demon's Rock', 1961, illustrations in blue & black and black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 7/6 price intact); 'Five Have a Mystery to Solve', 1962, illustrations in black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 7/6 price intact); 'Five are Together Again', 1963, illustrations in black & white throughout by Eileen Soper, original red cloth lettered in black (internally no names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC, cloth VGC), dust wrapper (generally VGC, 7/6 price intact). An excellent first edition complete set of the 21 Famous Five novels, scarce to find together in collectable condition (21)

Adrian Bell, a collection of 32 titles, including nearly all published by him, plus some biographies, collections of short stories by countryside writers including Bell etc: 'Corduroy; Silver Ley; The Cherry Tree', illustrated Harry Becker, London, Country Book Club, 1951, de luxe illustrated edition, 3 volumes, colour & black & white plates throughout as called for, uniform original cloth, dust wrappers, Bell's classic rural trilogy; 'Silver Ley', Cobden-Sanderson, 1931, 1st edition, signed and inscribed by Bell to FFEP, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb, authors 2nd book; 'The Cherry Tree', 1932, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb (with part loss at head of spine); 'Folly Field', 1933, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb (with neat tape repair/reinforcement to spine); 'The Balcony', 1934, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (by John Nash); 'The Open Air an Anthology of English Country Life', 1936, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'By-Road', 1949, 3rd impression, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'The Shepherd's Farm', 1939, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb (with some small part losses); 'Apple Acre', 1947 reprint, original cloth; 'Sunrise to Sunset', 1944, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'The Budding Morrow', 1946, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Asgeir Scott; 'The Black donkey', 1949, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'The Flower & The Wheel', 1949, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (with some small part losses); 'The Path by the Window', 1952, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'Music in the Morning', 1954, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'A Young Man's Fancy', 1955, 1st edition in wrapper; 'A Suffolk Harvest', 1956 1st edition in wrapper; 'The Mill House', 1958 1st in wrapper; 'My Own Master', 1961 1st in wrapper; 'A Street in Suffolk', 1964 1st in wrapper; 'A Countryman's Notebook', Ipswich, Boydell Press, 1975, 1st edition in wrapper; 'The Green Bond', Boydell Press, 1976 1st in wrapper, Adrian Bell autograph postcard signed loosely inserted; plus proof copy of 'Music in the Morning', 1st Reynolds Stone illustrated edition of 'The Open Air', 1949, in wrapper, 'Countryside Mood; Countryside Character; Country Company', 1945, 1946, 1949, 1st editions, 3 volumes, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, contributions from Adrian Bell, J. Wentworth Day, Henry Williamson, A.G. Street, H.J. Massingham etc, plus 3 others. Adrian Bell came to Suffolk from London in 1920. He was first a farm pupil and then a farmer and lived in various parts of the County for the next 60 years until his death in September 1980. During that time he wrote 25 books, most of which were based on his life and work in Suffolk. His work on farms included the rebuilding of a near-derelict 89-acre (36 ha) smallholding at Redisham, near Beccles. His first book, Corduroy, published in 1930, vividly describes his early years on the land when farming depended on the horse to do what man could not. He also contributed many articles to various magazines and for 30 years his 'Countryman's Notebook' was a feature of the Eastern Daily Press, he was also the first 'setter' of the Times crossword and is credited with help develop its cryptic style. (32)

Eleven modern first editions etc, including Tom Wolfe: 'The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby', London, Jonathan Cape, 1966, 1st UK edition, original cloth gilt, "psychedelic" wavy design dust wrapper. Wolfe's first book, a collection of essays mainly on modern American culture and an iconic title in the New Journalism movement of the 1960's; Wilson Harris: 'Tumatumari', L, Faber, 1968, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Garet Rogers: 'Brother Surgeons', L, Putnam, 1957, 1st edition, orig. cloth, dust wrapper (by Biro). Scarce; R.A. Lafferty: 'Nine Hundred Grandmothers', L, Dennis Dobson, 1975, 1st UK edition, collection of 21 Science Fiction stories, original cloth, dust wrapper (by Richard Weaver); C.S. Lewis: 'Till We Have Faces. A Myth Retold', L, Geoffrey Bles, 1956, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; William Cooper: 'Young People', L, Macmillan, 1958, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; Shiva Naipaul: 'Fireflies', L, 1970, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Spike Milligan: 'Adolf Hitler My Part in His Downfall', L, 1971, 2nd impression, orig. cloth, d/w; Chiang Yee: 'Chinpao at the Zoo', L, Methuen, 1942, 2nd impression, orig. cloth, d/w; Michael Baldwin: 'There's a War On', L, H & S, 1970, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Jessica Hawke: 'Follow My Dust! An Autobiography of Arthur Upfield', L, Heinemann, 1957, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w (11)

Henry James: 'The Golden Bowl', London, Methuen, 1905, 1st UK edition, half title, [4],548pp + publisher's 40pp catalogue of adverts at rear dated February 1905, denoting the first issue, original decorative cloth gilt. An uncommon UK first edition of one of Henry James's most important novels

Len Deighton, 3 titles: 'The Ipcress File', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1962, 2nd impression, original cloth gilt (near fine), dust wrapper by Raymond Hawkey (15/- net price intact, generally VGC). The basis for the 1965 film of the same name, starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer. Len Deighton's first novel, and the first novel in the Harry Palmer series, "Secret File No. 1"; 'Horse Under Water', London, Jonathan Cape, 1963, 1st edition, original cloth gilt (VGC), dust wrapper by Raymond Hawkey (price clipped, some toning/browning, else generally VGC). The second Harry Palmer novel, "Secret File No.2"; 'Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain', London, Jonathan Cape, 1977, 1st edition, signed & inscribed Len Deighton bookplate loosely inserted "To Derek and Liz and all the family, all our love and thanks, Len D.", original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (3)

C.S. Forester, thirteen 1st editions, of which twelve Hornblower series titles, all published London, Michael Joseph, including 'The Happy Return', 1937, original cloth silvered, replenished EP's/pastedowns, dust wrapper (by Rowland Hilder, generally VGC, 7/6 price intact), first Hornblower series novel, 'A Ship of the Line', 1938, original cloth, dust wrapper (by Rowland Hilder, slightly worn with part loss at foot of front panel, price clipped), second Hornblower novel, 'Flying Colours including A Ship of the Line', 1938, 1st edition (preceding the separate edition by one day), original cloth lettered in silver, replenished EP's/pastedowns, facsimile dust wrapper, 'The Commodore', 1945, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Lord Hornblower', 1946, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Mr Midshipman Hornblower', 1950, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Lieutenant Hornblower', 1952, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Hornblower and the Atropos', 1953, orig. cloth, d/w (2 copies), 'Hornblower in the West Indies', 1958, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Hornblower & the Hotspur', 1962, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Hornblower & the Crisis', 1967, orig. cloth, d/w, plus 'The Ship', 1943, orig. cloth, d/w (13)

Emma Lathen [i.e. Mary Jane Latsis & Martha Henissart], 23 mystery/detective novels, comprising 23 of the 24 novels written under the pseudonym "Emma Lathen", all 1st editions, all in original cloth, all in dust wrappers, from 'Banking on Death', London, Victor Gollancz, 1961, the co-authors first novel, to 'Right on the Money', L, Victor Gollancz, 1993, these all UK firsts, all published Victor Gollancz except 'Something in the Air', L, Simon & Schuster, 1988, plus the final book written as Emma Lathen 'A Shark Out of Water', New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997, 1st US edition. 'Accounting for Murder', 1964, received a Silver Dagger award, 'Murder Against the Grain', 1967, received a Gold Dagger award, with the author also receiving Edgar, Ellery Queen and Agatha awards (23)

(Crime Periodical; Penny Dreadful, Jack the Ripper), Harold Furniss (edited): 'Famous Crimes Past & Present. Police Budget Edition', 56 very scarce assorted issues in original printed wraps ranging between Volume I No.2 & Volume IX No.111, [nd], circa 1903-1905, issues comprise volume I, numbers 2-9, 13 (7); volume II, numbers 16-19, 21-23 (7); volume III, numbers 23, 27, 29-34, 36, 37 (12); volume IV, numbers 43, 44, 46-48, 50-52 (8); volume V, numbers 54, 55, 57, 58 (4); volume VI, numbers 67, 70, 72, 74, 76 (5); volume VII, numbers 82, 83, 87-89 (5) plus front cover only of number 90; volume VIII, numbers 94, 95, 98, 103-105, 107 (7); volume IX, number 111 (1), pages toned and brittle with chips to extremities, a few issues with loose front covers and final page, as expected, scarce survivors being produced as "penny dreadful" throwaway street literature on cheap paper, of the 56 issues present, it appears 5 issues are defective (these being vol.I no.9, pages present 194-212pp, lacking final 4 printed pages; vol.I no.13, pages present 290-308pp, lacking final 4 printed pages; vol.VII no.88, pages present 146-158pp, lacking final 2 printed pages; vol.VIII no.104, pages present 194-206pp, lacks final 2 printed pages; vol.VIII no.105, pages present 210-222, lacks final 2 printed pages), remaining issues all collated complete, content includes notorious 19th Century criminal cases and murderers, including Jack the Ripper Whitechapel Murders (numbers 16,17 & 18); Charles Peace (numbers 2,3 & 4); Florence Maybrick; The Great Coram Street Murder; William Palmer the Rugeley Poisoner; Margaret Catchpole; Pierre Voirbo; murder of Emma Keyse; Constance Kent murder of Francis Saville Kent at Road Hill House; Catherine Hayes; Madeleine Smith; Kate Webster; James Bloomfield Rush; Victor Prévost; Henry Wainwright murder of Harriet Lane; Ned Kelly; Captain William Kidd; Franz Muller murder of Thomas Briggs, the first railway murder in Britain; John Thurtell the Elstree Murder; Dennis Nilsen The Muswell Hill Murderer; murder of George Victor Townley; The Battersea Murder Mystery/The Thames Torso murder mystery 1873; the Tichborne claimant case, etc etc. Each original stapled pictorial wraps. Very scarce, particularly in original part form

Constance Lytton: 'Prisons & Prisoners. Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Walton, Spinster', London, William Heinemann, 1914, 1st edition, two portrait plates of the author in both guises as called for, 16pp publisher's catalogue of adverts at end, original publisher's purple cloth with WSPU motif by Sylvia Pankhurst on front cover. Scarce first edition of the remarkable autobiography of the aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton, recounting her remarkable masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class seamstress 'Jane Warton'.Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton, to give her her full name, was the grand-daughter of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and although her family was very influential, she rejected completely her background and joined the WSPU. She was arrested four times, and under the name of Constance Lytton she was given preferential treatment and privileges; she was not forcilbly fed when she went on hunger strike, and was soon released. However, when she went to Liverpool under the name of 'Jane Warton', she was arrested, forcibly fed, and her health was permanently damaged.

Arnold White: 'The Modern Jew', London, William Heinemann, 1899, 1st edition, signed and inscribed in pencil to half title "Charles Beresford Sept. 1899 From Arnold White", xvii,301pp + publisher's 32pp catalogue of adverts at end dated July 1899, rebound (not recent) cream polished buckram, calf gilt title label to spine. Chapters include: What is a Jew?; The Problem in Russia; The Jew in Austria/America/France/England/The Argentine Colonies; The Aloofness of Israel; Money Lenders; The Destitute Alien in Great Britain; Zionism; "Darkest Russia"; The Conversion of the Jews; Jewish Humour. One of several books by Arnold Henry White (1848-1925), English journalist and antisemitic campaigner against immigration. Historians of British antisemitism consider Arnold White (publicist, author, journalist, campaigner) a key exponent of racially orientated anti-Jewish sentiment in the United Kingdom in the period before the First World War. These attitudes were repeatedly demonstrated by his vehement opposition to East European Jewish immigration and underscored by a large literary output on the topic. In the late 1880s, White frequently clashed with leading Anglo-Jewish figures on immigration yet, in general terms, there was often difficulty in assigning him definitively to the antisemitic camp, as a result of his work for Baron Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Colonization Association, which led to a more flattering interpretation of White's contribution to solving the so-called ‘Jewish question’. For instance, an appreciation in the Jewish Chronicle described him as a ‘veritable Janus at the gates of Jewry’, essentially a two-faced troublemaker whose true attitude was not easy to determine. For almost three decades, the question of whether White was friend or foe was asked by various individuals and publications. Very scarce

(Tartarus Press), Gustav Meyrink: 'The Golem', Tartarus Press, 2004, limited edition (one of 300 copies only), 25 lithograph illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag, original cloth lettered in silver (fine), dust wrapper (VGC or better, £30 price intact). Gustav Meyrink's masterful expressionist horror of the Prague ghetto, first published in serial form from December 1913 to August 1914. This Tartarus Press limited edition translated by Mike Mitchell, and published marking the centenary of the publication of the final instalment of The Golem in August 1914. An enduring piece of modernist fantasy

Guy Boothby: 'Dr. Nikola's Experiment', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1899, 1st UK edition, 20 full page plates by Sydney Cowell as called for, vi,[2],340pp, original pictorial cloth gilt. Third of the four novels featuring Doctor Nikola, an occult adventurer who seeks immortality. The diabolical doctor, a precursor to Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, is considered by some to be the first fictional super villain. Dr. Nikola attempts to rejuvenate a senile man

A collection of modern first editions etc, including Roald Dahl: 'Switch Bitch', London, Michael Joseph, 1974, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; John le Carré, 2 titles: 'The Honourable Schoolboy', L, H & S, 1977, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Smiley's People', L, H & S, 1980, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; George MacDonald Fraser, 2 titles: 'Flashman in the Great Game', L, Barrie & Jenkins, 1975, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Pyrates', L, Collins, 1983, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; John Gardner: 'October Light', L, Cape, 1977, 1st edition in dust wrapper; plus 5 others (11)

Twelve modern first editions etc, including J.M. Coetzee: 'Dusklands', Johannesburg, Ravan Press, Apirl 1974, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, the debut novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature; Elizabeth Jane Howard, 2 titles: 'The Long View', L, Jonathan Cape, 1956, 1st edition, orig. cloth, dust wrapper, 'Something in Disguise', L, Cape, 1969, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; V.S. Naipaul: 'Guerrillas', L, Andre Deutsch, 1975, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Prudencio de Pereda: 'Windmills in Brooklyn', NY, Atheneum, 1960, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Nancy Brysson Morrison, 2 titles: 'The Winnowing Years', L, The Hogarth Press, 1949, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Following Wind', L, Hogarth Press, 1954, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Iris Murdoch, 2 titles: 'An Unofficial Rose', L, Chatto & Windus, 1962, 2nd impression, 'The Black Prince', L, Chatto, 1973, 1st edition, each orig. cloth, dust wrapper; plus 3 others (12)

[TRADE & ADVERTISING] Four catalogues, including those for Hoods Ltd, Birmingham, 1930; and Alfred Goslett Furniture, Upholstery [and] Mirrors, London, no date [circa 1930]; together with a book, Display Illustrated, first edition, Blandford Press, London, 1949, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, small quarto, (5).

[MISCELLANEOUS] Twelve assorted works, including Peary, R.E. Nearest the Pole. A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peery Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906, first edition, Hutchinson, London, 1907, black buckram gilt, illustrations, two maps (both creased), quarto (covers damp-marked); Pollard, Major H.B.C. A History of Firearms, first edition, Bles, London, 1926, maroon cloth, top edges gilt, plate illustrations, quarto (covers damp-marked); and Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor, Chambers, London & Edinburgh, no date [circa 1911], navy blue cloth gilt with pictorial onlay, top edges gilt, colour plate and black and white text illustrations by Gordon Browne, quarto.

[MISCELLANEOUS] J.G. Harrod & Co.'s Royal County Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall, second edition, Norwich, 1878, original maroon cloth, period advertisements, quarto; Kelly's Directory of Devonshire, 1897, crimson cloth, folding map (torn, without loss), period advertisements, quarto (spine faded; covers splash-marked); Conan Doyle, A. Adventures of Gerard, Newnes, London, no date [preface dated March 1903], original blue cloth gilt, sixteen plate illustrations (including frontispiece, as called for), octavo (covers with damp-marked fore edges; spine ends nicked and torn; one plate detached, with torn and creased fore edge); Shaw, Bernard. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, first edition, Brentano's, New York, 1928, original green cloth, tall octavo; and five assorted other works, (9).

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(Travel, Middle East, Arabia, North Africa), a collection of 13 titles and a map relating to the Middle East and North Africa, including Ahmad ibn Ali al-Makrizi & Etienne Marc Quatremere: 'Histoire des Sultans Mamlouks de l'Égypte', Paris, The Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain & Ireland, 1837-1845, 1st edition. 4 parts in 2 volumes, vol. I xix,253,[1]pp;278pp, vol. II vi,288pp;324pp, ex Repton School Library, 4to, contemporary green morocco gilt, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt. Scarce; Yacoub Pasha Artin: 'England in the Sudan', translated George Robb, L, Macmillan, 1911, 1st edition, folding map + ils. from photos as called for, original cloth gilt; Edward Stanford Ltd (published): 'The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan', engraved folding map, coloured in outline, dissected & backed onto linen, printed at the War Office, December 1921, approx. 91 x 69cm, folding into original cloth slipcase, printed paper label to front; Sir Martin Conway: 'Palestine and Morocco, Lands of the Overlap', L, Edward Arnold, 1923, 1st edition, 8 plates as called for, ex Repton School Library, orig. cloth gilt; Freya Stark: 'A Winter in Arabia', London, John Murray, 1940, 1st edition, 3 maps (of which 1 folding), plus numerous photogravure illustrations by the author as called for, original cloth gilt (spine faded), dust wrapper (with tape repair, else 16s price intact and generally VGC). The author's beautifully illustrated account of her time in the Hadhramaut (in what is now Yemen), at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored the vast hinterlands of Arabia. One of the most important pieces of literature on the region and a book that placed Freya Stark in the pantheon of great writers and explorers of the Arab World; Budgett Meakin: 'The Moors, a Comprehensive Description', L, Swan Sonnenschein, 1902, 1st edition, lacks front and rear endpapers, ills. throughout, original cloth gilt (worn/soiled); T.E. Lawrence: 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom', L, Cape, 1935, 1st trade edition, folding maps & plates as called for, 4to, original cloth gilt; Bertram Thomas: 'Arabia Felix', L, Cape, February 1932, 1st reprint, large folding map + numerous photographic plates, ex Repton School library, orig. cloth gilt; Richard Burton: 'Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah', L, George Bell & Sons, 1898, 2 volumes, colour frontis to volume 1 + 3 folding maps/plans + 14 black & white plates as called for, uniform original cloth gilt. Disguised as a Pashtun Muslim and supported by the Royal Geographical Society, in 1853 Burton undertook a hajj journey to the two Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, this two volume work recounts that journey. Burton spent years in preparation, mostly during his time in India. Although Burton was not the first non-Muslim to perform the hajj, the accuracy of his well-documented account, including his measurements of the Kaaba in Mecca and his Victorian-era observations on Muslims (especially his copious notes on manners), brought him immediate fame; two mid 19th Century Murray's Handbooks for Travellers in Egypt (1858) & Turkey (1854), each with folding maps/plans etc, each original cloth gilt (slightly worn), plus 1 other (14)

(Nepal), Colonel William Kirkpatrick: 'An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul, Being the Substance of Observations Made During a Mission to that Country, in the Year 1793', London, W. Bulmer for William Miller, 1811, 1st edition, stipple engraved title vignette, large multi-folding engraved map of Nepal + 14 engraved plates (of which one hand coloured aquatint) complete as called for, 4pp. publisher's catalogue at end, 4to, contemporary diced calf gilt (worn, boards detached but present, lacks part of backstrip at head and tail of spine), all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt. William Kirkpatrick's account of his 1792 diplomatic mission to Nepal, "leading the first Britons into that kingdom". Kirkpatrick (1754-1812) was an officer with Lord Cornwallis in India and was dispatched to Nepal to settle a dispute between Nepal and Tibet. At the time Nepal was spoken of as another El Dorado and was the subject for 'Lost Horizon'. In this work Kirkpatrick outlines his route to Katmandu, provides an historical sketch of the country, and details the boundary and divisions of Nepal. The appendices contain official papers and letters relating to his mission and the origin of the war between Nepal and Tibet, and include the correspondence of Cornwallis with Tibet during the war. The work provides much on the topography, geography, climate, agriculture, botany, zoology, culture, peoples, economy, history and with an extensive vocabulary listing. Scarce

(Nepal, Himalayas), Francis Hamilton: 'An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal, and of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha', Edinburgh & London, 1819, 1st edition, half title, 7 engraved plates (of which 5 folding) plus large engraved folding map at end complete as called for, titled "..the Dominions of the House of Gorkha", this generally covering the mountainous Himalaya region of present day Himachal Pradresh and Uttarakhand in Northern India, Nepal, Sikkim, West Bhutan & Southern Tibet, the engraved plates comprising frontis "View of the Temple of Bouddhama in Kasacheit" (Boudhanath stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal), "View of Kathmandu and Lalita Patan from the West", plus 5 folding engraved sectional views of the Himalaya Mountains, 4to, contemporary calf gilt (worn, top board detached but present, lacks large part of backstrip), all edges gilt, Gulielmi Douglas armorial bookplate to front pastedown, later ownership inscription of H.A. Holdich (1874-1964), British Army Lieutenant, 5th Gurkha Rifles. This account describes the country as it stood previous to the war with the British in 1814, the book is divided into 2 parts: The first part has 3 chapters that describes the tribes that inhabit the Gorkha territories along with their manners and customs; the second chapter covers the geography of the country along with its flora and fauna; the third concerns the law and government. The second part has three sections: the first is a description of the states east from the river Kali, it includes a chapter on Sikkim. Further on the next section is of the dominions of the family descended from Makanda Sen, the king of Makwanpur. The book concludes with a section on Nepal proper and a notice on Kumaun, with charts of weather observations from Feb 1802 to March 1803. Surgeon to the Governor General of India, Lord Wellesley from 1803-04, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829) was appointed to a succession of survey posts in Asia, initially in Burma and India. His two years (1802-04) in Nepal were followed by a brief interlude as director of the Natural History Project of India, a short-lived scheme instigated by his patron, Lord Wellesley, and eventually a topographical survey of Bengal. Scarce

A collection of fourteen various volumes relating to Islam, The Quran etc, including E.M. Wherry: 'A Comprehensive Commentary on the Quran: Comprising Sale's Translation and Preliminary Discourse, with Additional Notes and Emendations. Together with A Complete Index to the Text, Preliminary Discourse, and Notes', London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Limited, 1896, 4 volumes, uniform original cloth gilt. A scarce early copy of this fundamental 4-volume study of the Quran. The text is important not only for being one of the first comprehensive commentaries of the Quran in English, but also in the broader context of the history of Christian-Muslim relations. Its author, Elwood Morris Wherry (1843-1927), was a Christian theologian, and his commentary on the Quran stemmed from his work on an edition he issued of the Quran in Roman Urdu intended for use by missionaries in India; Sir William Muir, 2 titles: 'The Caliphate, its Rise, Decline and Fall, from Original Sources', L, RTS, 1892, 2nd edition revised, 3 folding maps as called for, original cloth gilt, 'The Life of Mohammed, from Original Sources', Edinburgh, 1912, new and revised edition, 9 plates/folding maps & plans as called for, orig. cloth gilt; T.J. De Boer: 'The History of Philosophy in Islam', L, Luzac, 1903, orig. cloth gilt; Klein: 'The Religion of Islam', L, Kegan Paul et al, 1906, orig. cloth gilt (worn); a book containing 28 pages of manuscript Christian hymns in Arabic for North Africa, with similar printed pages bound in at end, ownership signature to rear pastedown "Craggs Simpson 1925", contemporary red cloth (slightly worn); a circa early 20th Century printed Quran, in contemporary leather binding (slightly worn); James Haldane: Missionary Romance in Morocco', L, Pickering & Inglis, [1937], 1st edition, frontis + 15 mainly full page ills. from photos as called for, orig. cloth; plus 3 others similar (14)

William Eden Hooper: 'The British Empire in the First Year of the Twentieth Century and the Last of the Victorian Reign, Its Capital Cities and Notable Men', London, Heywood & Co., c.1902, de luxe limited edition of 1000, 2 volumes, 2 folding colour maps, numerous plates including sepia photogravures, 4to, original vellum gilt (worn and with soiling in places to bindings), top edges gilt, others uncut (2)

Johns (WE) Biggles delivers the goods, 1 vol. first edition 1946 dust jacket

Smith (W. H. B.) Smith's Standard Encyclopedia of Gas, Air and Spring Guns of the World 1957 dust jacket; Hiller (D. E.) The Collector's Guide to Air Rifles 1985 and Air Pistols first edition (3)

Lambeth (Joseph A.) Lambeth Method of Cake Decoration and Practical Pastries, one vol. first edition illus. 1936

The Beatles Anthology, first edition dust jacket; The John Lennon Letters; The Beatles Price and Reference Guide for American Records and other related vols.