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Lot 84
Cornish poetry interest. JOHN HARRIS. 'Shakspere's Shrine, An Indian Story, Essays, and Poems,' original purple cloth with gold embossed decorations, soiled and rubbed, contempoary ink signature to titlepage, Hamilton, Adams, and Co, London, 1866; 'A Story of Carn Brea, Essays, and Poems,' original cloth, chips to spine cloth pannel, contemporay ink inscription to free endpaper, Hamilton, Adams, and Co, London, 1863; 'Luda: A Lay of the Druids,' original cloth, chips and rubbed, toning, Hamilton, Adams, and Co, London, 1868; ANNIE E. ARGALL. 'The Inspiration of Song and Other Poems,' rare first edition, original cloth, frontis depicting author, ink inscription to free endpaper 'To my Nephew John Argall from the late authors husband signed and dated', Netherton and Worth, Truro, 1894; With four other books on poetry. (8)
Lot 137
Signed Helen Dunmore. BURNING BRIGHT By Helen Dunmore (1994) Viking. First edition. Together with INGO By Helen Dunmore (2005) Harper Collins First edition Signed by author. Together with THE TIDE KNOT By Helen Dunmore (2006) Harper Collins. First edition Signed by author All in protective wrappers (3).
Lot 346
THE TAX INSPECTOR By Peter Carey and other books THE TAX INSPECTOR By Peter Carey (1991) Faber and Faber. Together with THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH (1994) Signed by author and THE HISTORY OF THE KEELY GANG (2000) Reprint and JACK MAGGS (1997) and MY LIFE AS A FAKE (2003) with second copy published by Alfred A Knopf as First US edition and WRONG ABOUT JAPAN (2005) and HIS ILLEGAL SELF (2008). All published by Faber and Faber except one listed (8)
Lot 8
Signed A. L. Rowse A. L. ROWSE. 'Discovering Shakespeare: A Chapter in Literary History,' signed, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, some light spotting to endpapers, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1989; 'A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A. L. Rowse,' signed by author Richard Ollard, original cloth, unclipped dj, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1999; With three other works by Rowse. (5)
Lot 80A
Eight works on mining in Cornwall, plus one other. D. B. BARTON. 'A History of Copper Mining in Cornwall and Devon,' original cloth, unclipped dj, good to fine, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1968; 'A History of Tin Mining and Smelting in Cornwall,' original cloth, unclipped dj, D. Bradford and Barton, Truro, 1967; 'Essays in Cornish Mining History,' two vols, tears to unclipped dj's, 1968; CYRIL NOALL. 'Levant: The Mine Beneath the Sea,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, D. Bradford and Barton, Truro, 1970; With five others including 'Derbyshire Lead Mining', and two more works by D. B. Barton. (9)
Lot 156
Six works by Roald Dhal. THE TWITS By Roald Dahl (1981) Alfred A Knopf. First US edition Together with ESIO TROT (1990) Jonathan Cape. Together with THE VICAR OF NIBBLESWICKE (1991) Guild Publishing. Together with MY UNCLE OSWALD (1979) Michael Joseph. All First editions and two others THE WITCHES Viking (1983) and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH Viking (1995) Not first. All in dust jackets and none price clipped (6)
Lot 198
Five works by Jeanette Winterson. WRITTEN ON THE BODY (1992) Jonathan Cape. First edition Price clipped SEXING THE CHERRY (1989) Bloomsbury First edition Second printing. ART & LIES. A PIECE FOR THREE VOICES AND A BAWD (1994 Jonathan Cape. First edition LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING (2004) Fourth Estate Signed First edition. THE.POWERBOOK (2000) All by Jeanette Winterson in protective wrappers (5)
Lot 384
The Hogarth Press. Fifteen works. Hogarth Lectures No 1, 'A Lecture on Lectures,' by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, original cloth, 1927; Hogarth Living Poets No 1, 'Different Days,' by Frances Cornford, card boards, spotting to titlepage, 1928; The Hogarth Letters No 1, 'A Letter to Madan Blanchard,' thin card wraps, 1931; The Hogarth Letters No 3; (Psycho-Analytical Epitomes No 1) JOHN RICKMAN. 'A Genral Selection from the Works of Sigmund Freud,' second impression, original cloth, 1937; The New Hogarth Library No 1, 'Selcted Poems William Plomer,' first edition, original cloth, spotting throughout, 1940; With three other 'The New Hogarth Library,' all with dj's and Seven other works published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. (15)
Lot 5
Twenty-one works on Cornwall including Vyvan, Trewin and Tregellas. THURSTAN C. PETER. 'History of Cornwall for Schools,' original cloth, preface by A. T. Quiller-Couch, illustrations, vg, Richard Tayler, Redruth, 1905; WALTER H. TREGELLAS. 'Cornish Worthies,' two vols, original cloth, some spotting, Elliot Stock, London, 1884; C. C. JAMES. 'A History of The Parish of Gwennap in Cornwall,' original cloth, unclipped dj, price label to title page, published by author, n.d; J. C. TREWIN. 'Down to the Lion,' first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, Carroll & Nicholson, 1952; Five works by C. C. VYVAN. 'Journey up the Years' 1996, 'The Old Place', 'The Helford River', 'Our Cornwall' 1948, 'A Cornish Year' 1959; With eleven other books mostly about Cornwall. (21)
Lot 83
Rev WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES. 'St. Michael's Mount, A Poem', First edition, carcked joints to half leather with marbeled boards, ex libris 'John Blowey', engravin to titlepage, some contemporay ink corrects and notes to margins, errata and advertisment to rear, vg, B. C. Collins, Salisbury, 1798.
Lot 175
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 'Posthumous Poems,' first edition, rebacked, gilt embossed coat of arms to front board, William Heinemann, 1917; 'The Letters of......,' unopened, 2 vols, original cloth, William Heinemann, 1918; With another unopened first 'Posthumous Poems,' and four other books. (8)
Lot 68
Kernowek (Cornish) Interest. EDWIN NORRIS. 'The Ancient Cornish Drama,' first edition, two vols, half green pebbled leather with marbled boards, some spotting, At the University Press, Oxford, 1859; UNCLE JAN TREENOODLE. 'Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialect,' rebacked with original publishers label to front board, frotis engraving of Dorothy Pentreath of Mousehole, John Russell Smith, London, 1846; WHITLEY STOKES. 'Gwreans An Bys. The Creation of the World, A Cornish Mystery,' original cloth, rubbed, The Philological Society, A. Asher & Co, Berlin, 1863; MATTHEW ARNOLD. 'On the Study of Celtic Literature,' original cloth, Smith, Elder and Co, 1867; With twelve other books and booklets including R. Morton Nance. (17)
Lot 130
THOMAS KENEALLY SCHINDLER’S ARK (1982) Hodder & Stoughton. First edition. (1982) Booker Prize winner. Together with A PASSENGER By Thomas Keneally (1979) Collins. First edition. Price clipped. Together with A FAMILY MADNESS By Thomas Keneally (1985) Hodder and Stoughton First edition. Not price clipped. All In protective wrappers.NORMAN LAMONT IN OFFICE By Norman Lamont (1999) Little, Brown & Company. First edition Signed by Lamont, Chancellor of the Exchequer during John Major’s government.A WALK WITH A WHITE BUSHMAN (1986) Chatto & Windus. Price clipped. Together with YET BEING SOMEONE OTHER (1982) Hogarth Press. Second impression. Price clipped. Together with THE VOICE OF THE THUNDER (1993) Chatto & Windus. First edition. Not price clipped. Signed. All by Laurens van der Post. Fine in fine dust jackets and protective wrappers. (7)
Lot 348
James Morris Collection HEAVENS COMMAND By James Morris (1973) Faber and Faber. First edition. FAREWELL THE TRUMPETS By James Morris (1978) Faber and Faber. First edition. Together with CONUNDRUM By Jan Morris (1974) Faber and Faber. First edition. Together with LAST LETTERS FROM HAV (1985) Viking. First edition. PLEASURES OF A TANGLED LIFE (1989) Barrie and Jenkins. Together with LOCATIONS (1992) Oxford University Press. Together with SYDNEY (1992) Viking. First edition. Together with FISHER’S FACE (1995) Viking (8)
Lot 85
Cornish crosses and worthies. ARTHUR G. LANGDON. 'Old Cornish Crosses,' original cloth, fold out map for frontis, illustrated, some spotting, Joseph Pollard, Truro, 1896; T. F. G. DEXTER and HENRY DEXTER. 'Cornish Crosses Christian and Pagan,' first edition, original cloth, slight spotting to engraved frontis and titlepage, some graphite notes to margins, Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1938; WALTER H. TREGELLAS. 'Cornish Worthies,' two vols, quarter leather, some toning and spotting, Elliot Stock, London, 1884. (4)
Lot 347
Five works by Penelope Lively ACCORDING TO MARK By Penelope Lively (1984) Heinemann. First edition Signed by author. Together with CITY OF THE MIND By Penelope Lively (1991) Andre Deutsch. First edition Together with HEAT WAVE (1996) Viking Together with THE PHOTOGRAPH (2003) Viking. In protective wrapper. Together with AMMONITES & LEAPING FISH. A LIFE IN TIME (2013) Fig Tree. All first editions (5)
Lot 279
Thriller and detective fiction. Thirty-one works. P. D. JAMES. 'Original Sin,' signed, first edition, original cloth, unlined dj, ex libris ink stamp to title page, toning, Faber and Faber, 1994; FREDERICK FORSYTH. 'The Day of the Jackal,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Hutchinson, London, 1971; LEN DEIGHTON. 'XPD,' first edition, original cloth, spotting to endpapers, unclipped dj, Hutchinson, 1981; 'Spy Story,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, hole to half title, Jonathan Cape, 1974; 'Close Up,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped, Jonathan Cape, 1972; 'Yesterday's Spy,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Jonathan Cape, 1975; REGINALD HILL. 'Underworld,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped, some light spotting to endpapers, Collins, 1988; With twenty-four other works including four Hill's, Peter Wright, John Gardner and B. M. Gill. (31)
Lot 316
CORNELIUS LE BRUN. 'Voyages De Le Brun Par La Moscovie, En Perse, Et Aux Indes Orientales'. Vol II, first French edition, full leather, rubbed and bumped, cracked joints with some loss, title page printed in red and black, richly illustrated, seventy-five copper engravings intaglio, forty-two full page, four fold out, ten double page and nineteen large vignettes with text, including scenes, ships, costumes, natural history, views of cities etc, amongst the main folding plates is a view of Shiraz, an example of cuniform and a stone relief, both in Persia, Amsterdam, Chez less Freres Wetsteinn, 1718.
Lot 359
A.N. WILSON KINDLY LIGHT By A.N. Wilson (1979) Secker & Warburg. First edition and WISE VIRGIN (1983) Secker & Warburg. Reprint and GENTLEMEN IN ENGLAND (1985) Hamish Hamilton and A BOTTLE IN THE SMOKE (1990) and DAUGHTERS OF ALBION (1991) and THE VICAR OF SORROW (1993) and A WATCH IN THE NIGHT (1996) All published by Sinclair-Stevensen. First editions. Together with WINNIE AND WOLF (2007) Hutchinson. Foxed to edges (8)
Lot 381
'A Horse's Tail,' first edition, original pictorial cloth, plates and frontis, Harper & Brothers, 1907; 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,' first UK edition, original cloth with sunbleaching and cracked joints, frontis, Chatto and Windus, 1900; 'A Tramp Abroad,' first edition, staining to original pictorial cloth, illustrations, inner cracked joints resulting in some loose leaves, chatto and Windus, London, 1880; 'More Tramps Abroad,' first UK edition, original decorative cloth, small amount of spotting, Chatto & Windus, 1897; Plus four other reprints. (8)
Lot 170
JOHN LE CARRE 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,' first edition, original cloth, small tears to top and sun bleaching to unclipped dj, spotting to edge of textblock, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1974; IRIS MURDOCH. 'The Unicorn,' first edition, original cloth with some tape residue, small tears to unclipped dj, ex libris with ink stamps to free endpaper and pastedown, Chatto & Windus, London, 1963; JOHN FOWLES. 'Daniel Fowles,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Jonathan Cape, 1977; With nine other works, some of which are firsts. (13)
Lot 4
Thirteen works on the history and culture of Cornwall. JOHN KITTO. 'Memoirs of...,' by J. E. Ryland, contemporary half leather in a poor state, watermark to first few leaves including titlepage, good textblock, William Oliphant and Sons, Edinburgh, 1856; MABEL QUILLER-COUCH. 'Some Western Folk,' first edition, some staining to original cloth, Horace Marshall & Son, London, 1897; A. C. TODD. 'Beyond The Blaze: A Biography of Davies Gilbert,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, ex libris with multiple stamps etc, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1967; With ten other books including two copies of 18th century Cornish life and two copies of 19th century Cornish life. (13)
Lot 61
Cornish Mining Interest. 'Mines and Miners of Cornwall,' clear run from I to VI plus vol IX, card wraps, Truro Bookshop, 1963; D. B. BARTON. 'A History of Copper Mining in Cornwall and Devon,' original cloth, unclipped dj, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1968; BRYAN EARL. 'Cornish Mining: the Techniques of Metal Mining in the West of England, Past and Present,' original clot, staining to clipped dj, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1969; ROGER BURT (ed). 'Cornish Mining: Essays on the Organisation of Cornish Mines and he Cornish Mining Economy,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, David and Charles, 1969; E. H. DAVIDSON. 'Handbook of Cornish Geology,' second edition, card boards, 1930; With fourteen booklets on Mining in Cornwall. (25)
Lot 275
Fourteen Agatha Christie first editions. AGATHA CHRISTIE. '4.50 from Paddington,' first edition, original cloth, spotting to underside of unclipped dj, vg, The Crime Club, 1957; 'The Clocks,' first edition, original cloth, some tears to clipped dj, spotting to edge of textblock, The Crime Club, 1963; 'At Bertram's Hotel,' first edition, original cloth, spotting to underside of unclipped dj, spotting to edge of textblock, The Crime Club, 1965; 'Ordeal by Innocence.' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, light spotting to endpapers and edge of textblock, The Crime Club, 1958; 'The Pale Horse,' first edition, original cloth, uncliped dj,heavy spotting throughout, The Crime Club, 1961; 'The Came to Baghdad,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, 1951; 'Cat Among the Pigeons,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, some spotting, The Crime Club, 1959; 'Destination Unknown,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, spotting to edge of textblock, The Crime Club, 1954; 'After the Funeral' first edition, original cloth, small tear with loss to uncliped dj, vg, The Crime Club, 1953; 'Murder in the Mews,' first edition, original cloth, spotting to unclipped dj, heavy spotting to edge of textblock, Odhams Press, 1938; 'Taken at the Flood,' first edition, original cloth, tears to clipped dj, some spotting, The Crime Club, 1948; 'The Mirror Cracke'd from Side to Side,' first edition, original cloth, spotting to clipped dj, spotting to edge of textblock, The Crime Club, 1962, two copies; 'A Pocket Full of Rye,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, spotting to edge of textblock, The Crime Club, 1953; 'Nemesis,' first reprint, original cloth, unclipped dj, The Crime Club, 1971. (15)
Lot 245
Twelve first edition 'Flashman's' by G. M. Fraser. G. M. FRASER. 'Flashman,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, some sun bleaching, Herbert Jenkins, 1969; 'Flashman at the Charge,' first edition, 1973; 'Flashman in the Great Game,' first edition, 1975; 'Flashman's Lady,' signed by author (pasted in), first edition, 1977; 'Flash for Freedom!' first edition, 1971; 'Royal Flash,' first edition, 1970; 'Flashman and the Dragon,' first edition, 1985; 'Flashman and the Mountain of Light,' first edition, 1990; 'Flashman and the Redskins,' first edition, 1982; 'Flashman and the Angel of the Lord,' first edition, 1994; 'Flashman and the Tiger,' first edition, 1999; 'Flashman on the March,' first edition, 2005; 'A Quick Flashman,' paper wraps, published for Ottakar's, n.d. (13)This set is genrally in a vg condition. Please see list below for defects spotted.Price clipped dj on 'Flashman in the Great Game' with two slight tears, small amount of water damge to inner front flap on the 'Flashman', 'Royal flash' has suffered the worst for damage including repairs tears and a small amount of loss t the dj and water mark to the cloth, 'Flash for Freedom' priced clipped and spotting to edge of textblock, front free endpaper clipped on the 'Flashman and the Dragon'.
Lot 39
Three works on Bernard Leach. BERNARD LEACH. 'Kenzan and His Tradition,' first edition original cloth, toning to unclipped dj, illustrations, Faber and Faber, 1966; 'Drawings, Verse & Belief,' revised edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Jupiter, 1973; 'Bernard Leach, Hamada & their Circle: From the Wingfield Digby Collection,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Phaidon, Christie's, Oxford, 1990. (3)
Lot 179
V. S. NAIPUL. 'The Mimic Men,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, tear to dj, a spotted edge of textblock, owner signature in ink to free endpaper, Andre Deutsch, 1967; SHIVA NAIPAUL. 'Fireflies,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, spotting to top of textblock, Andre Deutsch, 1970; 'The Chip-Chip Gatherers,' first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, spotting to edge of textblock, Andre Deutsch, 1973. (3)
Lot 91
Forty-one diverse works of Poetry. 'Wheels: A Second Cycle,' first edition, anthology featurig Edith Sitwell, E. E. Tennant, Osbert Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, Sacherevell Sitwell etc, cloth baced pictorial boards, B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1917. V. SACKVILLE-WEST. 'Solitude,' first edition thus, original orange cloth, The Hogarth Press, 1938; BERNARD KELLY. 'The Mind & Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J,' limited edition 42/300, cloth backed boards, Pepler & Sewell, St Dominic Press, 1935; PADRAIG O'HORAN. 'Roadways of The Heart,' first edition thus, original cloth, unclipped dj, uncut leaves, vg, The Fortune Press, London, 1943; DARYL KLEIN. 'The Column in the Valley,' cloth backed boards, The Fortune Pree, n.d; DAVID GASCOYNE. 'Poems 1937-1942,' first edition thus, original cloth backed pictorial boards, textblock loosening from binding, PL Editions, 1943: WALTER DE LA MARE. 'Ding Dong Bell,' first edition, original cloth, Selwyn & Blount, London, 1924; 'Bells & Grass,' first edition, original cloth, Faber and Faber, 1941; 'Motley and Other Poems,' card boards, rubbed, Constable and Company, 1918; 'Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes,' reprint, original cloth, unclipped dj, some spotting, Constable and Company, 1923; With 32 other poetry works including Edith Sitwell, Poetry London, Christopher Caudwell, and Adrian Mitchell etc. (41)
Lot 54
Thirty-seven good books on the history and culture of Cornwall. A. G. FOLLIOTT-STOKES. 'The Cornish Coast and Moors,' original cloth, photographic plates, some spotting, Stanley Paul & Co, n.d; Miss M. A. COURTNEY and THOMAS Q. COUCH. 'Glossary of Words in use in Cornwall,' original cloth, frontis, The English Dialect Society, London, 1880; BERNARD WALKE. 'Twenty Years in St. Hilary,' first edition, original cloth, spotting throughout, 1935; H. O'NEILL HENCKEN. 'The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly,' first edition, original cloth with gold tooled standing stone to front board, plates, vg, 1932; With 33 other diverse works on Cornwall including C. C. Vyvan, G. G. Harper, and C. C. Rogers etc. (37)
Lot 310
Dylan Thomas. Five first editions and five other works. 'Quite Early One Morning,' first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, tear and nibbles, spotting to edge of textblock, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1954; 'Adventures in the Skin Trade,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Putnam, 1955; 'Under Milk Wood,' fist edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, spotting to top edge of textblock, J. M. Dent, 1954; 'Prospect of The Sea,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Putnam, 1955; 'Twenty Years A-Growing,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, spotting to edge of textblock, J. M. Dent, 1964; With five other works. (10)
Lot 38
CORNISH MINING Interest. 'The Cornish Miner in America,' by Arthur Cecil Todd, first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, owner signature to endpaper, illustrations, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1967; T. A. MORRISON. 'Cornwall's Central Mines: The Southern District 1810-1895,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, illustrations, Alison Hodge, 1983; ARTHUR CECIL TODD. 'The Search for Silver: Cornish Miners in Mexico 1824-47,' reprint, original cloth, unclipped dj, Cornish Hillside Publications, St Austell, 2000; With four other works all card wraps. (7)
Lot 277
Detective fiction and other fiction. Thrity-seven works. PATRICIA HIGHSMITH. 'Ripley's Game,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, ex libris with ink stamps etc, Heinemann, 1974; HAMMON INNES. 'Maddon's Rock' 1956, 'Levkas Man' 1971, 'The White South' 1949, 'The Strode Venture' 1965; PATRICIA WENTWORTH. 'The Waterslash' 1953, The Listening Eye'; ARTHUR UPFIELD. 'The Devils Step' 1965, 'The Sands of Windee' 1959, 'Bony and the Mouse' 1959, 'The Will of the Tribe' 1962; 'Man of Two Tribes' 1956; ALISTAR MACLEAN. 'The Guns of Navarone' 1957, 'The Way to Dusty Death' 1973, 'Force 10 from Navarone' 1968, 'Bear Island' 1971; With twenty other works including M. R. D. Meek, Elizabeth Ferrars, Sara Woods, Josephine Tey, Sydney Fowler, John Buchan. (37)
Lot 290
P. G. WODEHOUSE. Twetny works including eight first editions. 'Spring Fever,' first edition, original clioth, unclipped dj, Herbert Jenkins, n.d; 'Money in the Bank,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Herbert Jenkins, n.d; 'Full Moon,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Herbert Jenkins, n.d; 'Quick Service,' second printing, original cloth, unclipped dj, Herbert Jenkins, n.d; 'The Coode of the Woosters,' fourth printing, original cloth, unclipped dj, inscribed free endpaper, Herbert Jenkins, n.d; 'Joy in the Morning,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Herbert Jenkins, n.d; 'Something Fishy,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, ex libris label to free endpaper, Herbert Jenkins, 1957; 'Do Butlers Burgle Banks?' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Herbert Jenkins, 1968; 'The Head of Kay's,' first edition, original pictorial cloth, some red leakage to front leaves from cloth, spotting, Adam & Charles Black, London, 1905; 'A Prefect's Uncle,' reprint, original pictorial cloth, Adam & Charles Black, 1912; 'Ice in The Bedroom,' first edtion, original cloth, unclipped dj, Herbert Jenkins, 1961; With nine other works by Wodehouse, mostly early reprints including 'Carry On Jeeves', 'The Gold Bat', and 'The Code of the Woosters'. (20)
Lot 273
'The Hollow' by Agatha Christie. First edition, original cloth, rubbed, clipped dj, sporadic light spotting, g, The Crime Club, 1946; with 'The Hollow, a play in three acts', thin card wraps, with some loss to spine, ink owner signature to half-title, ink annotations and underlining throughout, Samuel French, London,1952. (2)
Lot 292
LOUISA ANNE MEREDITH. 'Bush Friends in Tasmania,' 'Native flowers, fruits and insects, Drawn from Nature, With Prose Descriptions and Illustrations in Verse,' last edition, folio, original bevelled edge green cloth with ornate gilt decorations, mold and water damage to bottom of rear board, limited edition 106/700, two signatures by the author one being a loose chromolithographed plate signed and inscribed, plate 1 loose, gilt textblock edge, chromolithographed plates, a small amount of spotting, MacMillan & Co, executed by Vincent Brooks, London, 1891. Meredith is considered one of the first female photographers in Australia, although none of her photos was published. An early member of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals.
Lot 159
Seven books on mountaineering. ANNAPURNA By Maurice Herzog (1952) Jonathan Cape. First edition. Together with THE MATTERHORN By Guido Rey ((1946) Basil Blackwell. First edition. Together with EARLY TRAVELLERS IN THE ALPS By GR de Beer (1930) Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. First edition. Together with THE ASCENT OF NANDA DEVI By WW Tilman (1937) Cambridge University Press. No dust jacket. TALES OF MANY MOUNTAINS By Norman Croucher, Amanda Press. Signed first edition. Paper boards. Together with A HISTORY OF BRITISH MOUNTAINEERING By RLG Irving (1955) BT Batsford Ltd. First edition. Not price clipped. Together with THE MOUNTAIN WORLD Edited by Marcel Kurz (1953) George Allen & Unwin contains account of first Swiss Everest expedition of 1952. A good classical mountaineering collection (7)
Lot 107
H. H. MUNRO (Saki). 'The Chronicles of Clovis'. First edition, original pictorial coth, slight splitting to joins, rubbed and faded, corners turned, toning throughout, John Lan The Bodley Head, Londo, 1912; 'The Square Egg,' reprint, original cloth, spotting throughout, 1924; 'The Unbearable Bassington,' original cloth, rubbed and bumped, spotting throughout,n.d. (3)
Lot 239
VALENTINE WEIGELIUS. 'Astrologie Theologized...' '...What Astrologie, and the light of Nature is. What influence the Starres naturally have on Man, and how the same may be diverted and avoided,' first edition in English, marbled boards with loss to spine, ink signature to pastedown, binders cut causing some loss to margin notes and page numbers, tide mark to pages 15-22, burn hole from page 17 through to 20, printed for George Whittington, at the blue Anchor in Cornhill, neer the Royall Exchange, London, 1649.Weigel was a German theologian, philosopher, and mystical writer, and an important precursor of theosophy.
Lot 104
Henry James first editions. 'The Finer Grain,' first edition, original cloth with god decorations to spine, staining to rear board, spotting to endpapers and edge of text block, Methuen & Co, 1910; 'The Wings of Dove,' first edition, original cloth, corners turned, rubbed and staining, Archibald Constable and Co, 1902; 'The Better Sort,' first edition, marking and sunbleached original cloth, spotting and toning, Methuen and Co, 1903; With two other works by James, both are not firsts. (5)
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