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Lot 218
Private Eye: The first edition Friday 25th October 1961 (vol. 1 no.1) printed on three sheets of orange paper, original staples; and the subsequent two editions (Tuesday 7th November and Thursday 30th November), no.2 printed on three sheets of orange paper (original staples), no. 3 on orange folded paper and loose centre sheet; and the 'Once Only' published 'Swill' magazine, edited by Patrick Allen and Ralph Steadman, words by Patrick Allen, drawings by Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe (tears to back two pages and spine)Qty: 4
Lot 222
Arthur Ransome, ten first edition novels published by Jonathan Cape from the Swallows and Amazons series, with dust covers, prices and green cloth bindings: Peter Duck (1932), owner's inscription in ink dated 1932 on the flyleaf; Winter Holiday (1933); Coot Club (1934) with loose Erratum leaf for page 19; Pigeon Post (1936); We Didn't Mean to go to Sea (1937); Secret Water (1939) owner's stamp on front endpaper map; The Big Six (1940); Missee Lee (1941) owner's inscription in ink dated 1941 on the flyleaf; The Picts and The Martyrs (1943); Great Northern? (1947)Qty: 10
Lot 373
Dickens, Charles. Mixed collection of works to include Bleak House, first edition bound from the parts with characteristic stab-holes, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853, two Lloyd's Sixpenny Novels editions of Oliver Twist and Old Curiosity Shop, and others, condition varied, sold with all faults (17)
Lot 63
Football Autographed Wayne Rooney 16 X 12 Auto-Edition: Colorized, Depicting Man United's Wayne Rooney Celebrating After Scoring The Opening Goal Against Chelsea In The 2011 Champions League Quarter-Final First Leg At Stamford Bridge, Signed In Black Marker. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10
Lot 134
First edition 1956, printed in the People's Republic of China from author Isreal Epstein. Regarding the opium war, Taiping revolution, revolutionary wars, and War of Liberation 1946-49. Pages number 145 with canvas spine cover and hard front and back cover.Dimensions: 6"L x 0.5"W x 8.5"HCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 131
New York: Lee Furman, 1939. First edition hardcover book with original dust jacket cover. Signed and inscribed by the author in pencil and in green ink. Lowell Jackson Thomas (American, 1892-1981) was a writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler best remembered for popularizing T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. 'Magic Dials: The Story of Radio and Television' contains over 140-pages, discussing the technological history with colored, and black and white images.Artist: Lowell ThomasIssued: 1939Dimensions: 9"W x 12"H x 0.75"DEdition Number: 1st Edition Manufacturer: Lee FurmanCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Good.
Lot 105
Satellite! The first step into the last frontier, the full facts about man's exploration of space, authored by Erik Bergaust and William Beller. Published in New York in 1956. Hardcover, First Edition, 240 pages.Published in 1956, before the launch of the Sputnik satellite into orbit, this book provides a viewpoint of the coming future of space exploration from two astrophysicists. Artist: Eric Bergaust and William BellerIssued: 1956Dimensions: 8.5"L x 5.75"W x 1"HCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 3091
AMIS, Martin. Yellow Dog. London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. First edition, second impression, signed by the author to the title-page, 8vo (232 x 148mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (minor mark to upper panel). - And a further thirteen volumes of 20th century fiction (including William Golding's 'The Pyramid', 1967, 8vo, and Kingsley Amis' 'The James Bond Dossier', 1965, 8vo) (14).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3014
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902. First edition, 8vo (183 x 114mm.) 4 plates. (Lacking 12 plates, soiling to half-title which is also partially loose, soiling to initial blank and margin of p.31, text-block cracked at pp.81-82.) Original red pictorial cloth (discolouring to upper cover, bumped and rubbed, spine panel heavily rubbed).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3052
AFRICA. - Albert R. COOK. Uganda Memories (1897-1940). Kampala: The Uganda Society, 1945. First edition, limited to 750 copies only, 4to (247 x 183mm.) Photographic plates, 2 folding maps. (Toning.) Original green cloth (extremities bumped, minor damp-spots). - And a further twenty miscellaneous volumes (including T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', 1936, 4to, and E.L. Grant Watson's 'The Leaves Return', 1947, 4to) (21).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3019
BINDING. - Ayn RAND. The Fountainhead. New York and Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First edition, early printing, 8vo (200 x 134mm.) (Light toning.) Full black morocco bound by Asprey, two purple morocco lettering pieces to the spine, g.e. Note: Rand's first major novel. Her main character, Howard Roark, overcomes obstacles to demonstrate that 'man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress'. It became a best-seller and was also the first statement of Rand's ideas.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3145
NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers Afield. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1955. First edition, first impression, 8vo (197 x 133mm.) Colour frontispiece and illustrations by Diana Stanley. (Browning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth (spotting to spine), dust-jacket (loss to spine ends, tape repairs to upper panel). - And a further three volumes of Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers' series (including 'The Borrowers Afloat', 1959, 8vo, 'The Borrowers Aloft', 1961, 8vo, and 'The Borrowers Avenged', 1982, 8vo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3087
TRAVEL. - J.W. GREGORY. The Great Rift Valley, Being a Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo. London: John Murray, 1896. First edition, 8vo (226 x 153mm.) Half-title, colour frontispiece, 20 photographic plates, 2 folding maps, 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, spotting to endpapers, some damp-staining to rear pastedown.) Original blue cloth (spine ends bumped, discolouring to lower cover). - And a further eight volumes (including Samuel Sharp's 'Letters From Italy', [1767], 8vo, and Nagayo Ogasawara's 'Life of Admiral Togo', 1934, 8vo) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3078
JOHNSON, Samuel. Dictionary of the English Language: In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. London: J.F. & C. Rivington et al., 1785. Seventh edition, folio (413 x 256mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds. (Frontispiece with chipped margins and a tear, laid-down, title-page with marginal paper repairs and first and last leaves also, browning, minor spotting.) 19th century calf-backed paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece (endpapers replaced, lightly rubbed). Note: the first unabridged edition in one volume, published just after Johnson's death.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3007
MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. First edition, deluxe issue, 8vo (183 x 115mm.) Illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Mild toning, faint crease to front-free endpaper.) Original blue limp calf, pictorial gilt, g.e. (spine lightly rubbed, extremities bumped).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - [Charles Lutwidge DODGSON.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland… With a Proem](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/52a8a9aa-ee8e-41bc-9cd4-b03f00b08831/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3039
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - [Charles Lutwidge DODGSON.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland… With a Proem by Austin Dobson. London: William Heinemann, [1907]. First trade edition, 8vo (202 x 153mm.) Half-title, 13 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, numerous illustrations. (Toning, occasional very minor spotting.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (some fading to spine). Provenance: B.H. Waite (name inscribed verso frontispiece).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3171
BIRDS. - Michel THEVENOT and Rae VERNON and Patrick BERGIER. The Birds of Morocco. Herts, Tring: British Ornithologists' Union, 2003. First edition, 8vo (245 x 156mm.) Numerous colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Pictorial boards. - And a quantity of approximately fifty-five further volumes related to birds (including Hadoram Shirihai and Gabriel Gargallo and Andreas J. Helbig's 'Sylvia Warblers', 2001, 8vo) (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![SUSSEX. 'Brightonian' Cartoons of Local Celebrities and Local Events. [Brighton: 1883-1884.] Folio (367 x 245mm.) 76 black an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/94d18280-218a-47c7-9a47-b03f00b091b2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3053
SUSSEX. 'Brightonian' Cartoons of Local Celebrities and Local Events. [Brighton: 1883-1884.] Folio (367 x 245mm.) 76 black and white lithographed caricatures of local dignitaries and officials, 2pp. 'Index To Cartoons'. (Browning and spotting to first and last leaves.) Near contemporary green buckram, gilt lettering to upper cover (wear to spine ends, rubbed). Note: the 'Brightonian' was a weekly Brighton newspaper that had an unnamed caricature of a local official in every edition. They were mostly drawn by 'Sea Salt'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3003
MITFORD, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945. First edition, first impression, 8vo (184 x 118mm.) (Spotting to pastedowns, browning.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (two large tears with some loss to upper panel and tail of spine). Note: scarce in the dust-jacket. The first novel in Mitford's 'Radlett Trilogy'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3109
SMITH, John Thomas. An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London, With Anecdotes of Their More Celebrated Residents. London: Richard Bentley, 1846. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (218 x 137mm.) (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning.) Original black blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spines (light rubbing, occasional mark, lower joint of vol. 1 splitting). Provenance: Mary Ann (name-plate to pastedowns) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![[COX, Nicholas. The Gentleman's Recreation in four parts. London: for N.C. and sold by J. Wilcox et al., 1721.] Sixth edition](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/3e9c35bb-1223-4eaf-9b5c-b03f00b0a634/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3083
[COX, Nicholas. The Gentleman's Recreation in four parts. London: for N.C. and sold by J. Wilcox et al., 1721.] Sixth edition. Engraved folding frontispiece. (Lacking title and blanks, lacking plates, browning, occasional corner creases, half-title for 'Venerie Normande, ou L'Ecole de la Chasse' mistakenly bound-in.) [Bound with:] John MANWOOD. An Abridgment of Manwood's Forest Laws, and Of All the Acts of Parliament Made Since. London: by H.P. for N.C., 1721. Black letter. (Corner loss to Hhh4 and first leaf of 'The Table for Hunting', browning.) 8vo (194 x 115mm.) Contemporary calf (rebacked with original spine laid-down, endpapers replaced, extremities rubbed). - And a further twelve volumes (including J. Farmer's 'The History of the Ancient Town, and Once Famous Abbey, of Waltham, in the County of Essex', 1735, 8vo) (13).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3159
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition, second issue, 8vo (179 x 108mm.) 12pp. publisher's advertisements to rear dated November 1855. (Toning, two quires loose, light spotting to endpapers.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth (some loss to spine ends). - And a quantity of approximately ninety-five further editions of Longfellow's 'Song of Hiawatha', many illustrated (including 'The Song of Hiawatha' illustrated by George H. Thomas, 1860, 4to, and Walt Disney's 'Hiawatha', 1938, folio, and 'Hiawatha' illustrated by Harrison Fisher, 1906, 4to, and 'The Player's Edition' of 'The Song of Hiawatha' with illustrations of Wa-ya-ga-mug and the Indian Players from photographs by Grace Chandler Horn, 1911, 4to) (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![NASH, Paul (illustrator). - L. Archier LEROY. Wagner's Music Drama of the Ring. London: Noel Douglas, [1925.] First edition,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/9c9a7a1d-22d8-4a7a-bcfb-b03f00b0ac6e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3092
NASH, Paul (illustrator). - L. Archier LEROY. Wagner's Music Drama of the Ring. London: Noel Douglas, [1925.] First edition, 8vo (220 x 139mm.) 4 wood-engraved illustrations by Paul Nash. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries, faint spotting to 1 illustration.) Original boards designed by Paul Nash, paper label to spine (spine ends lightly rubbed, small stain to lower cover). Provenance: L.E.C. Hughes (stamp to front-free endpaper and title-page). - And a further thirty-nine mainly literary volumes (including Franz Kafka's 'The Trial', 1946, 8vo) (40).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3108
DODD, George. Days at the Factories. London: Charles Knight, 1843. First edition, 8vo (195 x 138mm.) 25 plates, including 2 folding. (Toning, paper repair to p.78.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth (upper joint split, inner hinge weakened, light rubbing). Provenance: Alfred Ernest Maskew(?) (ink name inscribed to front-free endpaper); R.M. Philpott (ink name inscribed to front pastedown); A.R. Mounten (ink name inscribed front-free endpaper). - And a further eight related volumes (including Archibald Prentice's 'Historical Sketches and Personal Recollections of Manchester', 1851, 8vo, and 'Report of the Poor Law Commissioners', 1840, 8vo, and John Tidd Pratt's 'The Law for Facilitating the Enclosure of Open and Arable Fields in England and Wales', 1837, 8vo) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3131
GALLAND, Antoine (translator). Les Mille et Une Nuit, Contes Arabes. Traduit en François par Mr. Galland. Lyon: Antoine Briasson. 1706-1719. 11 vols. [of 12.]., early edition, 8vo (147 x 81mm.) Engraved decoration to titles, headpieces and initials. (Occasional browning, label residue to pastedowns.) Contemporary calf, gilt (partial loss to spine panel of vol. 2, extremities rubbed). Note: rare. The first European translation of 'The Thousand and One Nights' was Antoine Galland's and it was published in Paris in twelve volumes between 1704 and 1717. This publication dates of this set are vols. 1-4, 1709; vol. 5, 1717; vol. 6, 1719; vol. 7, 1706; vol. 8, 1710; vol. 9, 1713; vol. 11-12, 1717. Vol. 10 is lacking. Also note that vol. 8 is published by Freres Bruyset. Provenance: Luke A. Ionides (name-plates to front pastedowns); Miss. Craies (ink inscribed as a 'donation from' on front pastedowns); Gloucestershire County Library (stamps to front pastedown and title-pages) (11).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3013
WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Ernest. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First edition, unnumbered copy from an edition of 1000 only, small 4to (206 x 147mm.) (Toning.) Original lilac cloth, decorative gilt designed by Charles Shannon (discolouring to spine, spine ends bumped).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3093
ORWELL, George. Coming Up For Air. London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. First edition, second impression, 8vo (184 x 118mm.) (Occasional minor spotting.) Original blue cloth (some sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, lower joint splitting.) - And a further thirty-two literary volumes (including the fourth impression of Rebecca West's 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon', 1943, 2 vols., 8vo, and J.K. Huysmans' 'Against the Grain', [1946], 8vo) (33).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First edition, sig](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/3712b87e-e91d-4931-b2e5-b03f00b0735e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3009
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First edition, signed and inscribed by Lewis Carroll to the half-title, 8vo (183 x 119mm.) Numerous illustrations by Harry Furniss, 'Advertisement Leaf' loosely inserted. (Toning, some spotting to preliminaries and rear endpaper.) Original red cloth, gilt roundels to covers, g.e. (slight fading to spine, minor staining spots to spine and lower cover). Note: the inscription reads: 'Lady Eustace Cecil, with the Author's sincere regards, Dec. 28th, 1893'. It's possible that Lady Eustace Cecil was the inspiration for 'Lady Muriel' in 'Sylvie and Bruno Concluded'. They met in 1875 at a party in Hatfield House at the invitation of Lord and Lady Salisbury. Provenance: Lady Eustace Cecil (inscribed to by the author on the half-title).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3089
COLLINS, Wilkie. The Moonstone, A Romance. London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. New edition, 8vo (225 x 146mm.) Double-column text, 2pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional spotting, lacking half-title?) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (top of spine torn, some staining to covers). Provenance: H.J. Starbuck (ink name inscribed to front-free endpaper and to first text leaf). - And a further eighteen volumes (including W.B Yeats' 'The Cutting of an Agate', 1919, 8vo) (19).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3066
LANG, Andrew (editor). The Brown Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. First edition, 8vo (181 x 115mm.) 8 colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations. (Toning, occasional minor spotting, front-free endpaper loosening.) Original brown cloth with pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, g.e. (upper joint splitting, slight spine lean). Provenance: Rita B. Longhouse (name inscribed to the initial blank). - And a further six volumes (including 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' illustrated by Frank Brangwyn, 1919, 4to) (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3139
PRATCHETT, Terry. Wyrd Sisters. London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1988. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (215 x 136mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth (slight spine lean), dust-jacket (spotting verso, lightly bumped extremities, crease to inner flap). Note: Pratchett's signature in the earlier style.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3119
GREECE. - King CONSTANTINE I. A King's Private Letters, Being Letters written by King Constantine of Greece to Paola Princess of Saxe-Weimar during the Years 1912 to 1923. London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Limited, 1925. First edition, inscribed by Paola Princess of Saxe-Weimar, 8vo (213 x 133mm.) 2 photographic plates. (Mild toning.) Original purple cloth (sunned to the spine, wear to spine ends). Provenance: Paola, Princess of Saxe-Weimar (gift inscribed from on the frontispiece); Prince Arthur of Connaught (gift inscribed to on the frontispiece).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
![DICKENS, Charles. [The Christmas Books.] A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Bradbury &](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/700f72e6-42cc-410b-a062-b038010e4b89/c6e4d60f-912e-4d9a-ac98-b03f00b07d3e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3023
DICKENS, Charles. [The Christmas Books.] A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1860. Fourteenth edition, 8vo (163 x 94mm.) Etched hand-coloured frontispiece, half-title, title in red and blue. (Browned to margins, spotting to title, occasional browning and minor soiling.) Original red blind-stamped cloth, gilt wreath to upper cover, g.e. (chipped at top of spine, bumped to extremities, minor stains to covers). Provenance: W.H. Smith & Son Library (embossed stamp to half-title). - And a further four volumes comprising all the 'Christmas Books' (a first edition of 'The Battle of Life', 1846, 8vo, a thirteenth edition of 'The Chimes', 1845, 8vo, a twenty-second edition of 'The Cricket on the Hearth', 1846, 8vo and a first edition of 'The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain', 1848, 8vo) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3073
DRYDEN, John. The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas. London: Jacob Tonson and Richard Wellington, 1701. 2 vols., first collected edition, folio (346 x 199mm.) Titles in red and black. (Lacking portrait frontispiece, intermittent browning but heavily in vol. 1 Eee3-Xxx, occasional spotting.) Contemporary calf, later red morocco lettering pieces (rebacked, later front pastedown to vol. 2). Provenance: B. W. Beatson (ink inscribed to initial blanks).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3122
AFRICA. - Henry Morton STANLEY. How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; including Four Months Residence with Dr. Livingstone. London: Sampson Low etc., 1872. First edition, 8vo (219 x 136mm.) Half-title, mounted photographic frontispiece, 5 maps including 4 folding, 28 plates, illustrations in the text, 8pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (1 map with a six-inch closed tear, toning, occasional light spotting.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth (hinges weakened, joints rubbed). Provenance: Walter Beaton (ink inscribed to half-title); Andrew G. Beaton (ink inscribed to half-title). - And a further volume (David and Charles Livingstone's 'Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries', 1865, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3160
GIBSON, Charles Dana. Americans. New York and London: R.H. Russell and John Lane, 1901. First edition, oblong folio (288 x 430mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original cloth-backed boards, t.e.g. (minor spotting to covers), original publisher's box (worn). - And a further three volumes by Charles Dana Gibson (including 'Our Neighbours', 1905, oblong folio) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3081
MOTOR-CARS. - Nick GEORGANO (editor). The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile. London: The Stationery Office, 2000. 2 vols., first edition, large 8vo (274 x 211mm.) Numerous coloured and uncoloured photographic illustrations, foreword by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, white lettering to spines, dust-jackets (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3008
Robinson, Charles (illustrator). - Frances Hodgson BURNETT. The Secret Garden. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition, 8vo (204 x 147mm.) Half-title, 8 colour plates by Charles Robinson with captioned tissue-guards, 6pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear. (Lacking front-free endpaper, light spotting to numerous leaves.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt (inner hinge weakened, upper joint split, rubbing to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3006
MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 119mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Mild toning, offsetting to endpapers, light spotting to fore-edge.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g., dust-jacket (chipping to spine ends and browning to spine panel, small mark to upper panel). Note: the first issue dust-jacket with '117th thousand' to the rear inner flap.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3102
WAINWRIGHT, Alfred. Welsh Mountain Drawings. Kendal: Westmoreland Gazette, 1981. First edition, oblong 4to (218 x 269mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (slight rubbing). - And a further forty-three volumes by Alfred Wainwright (including 'Lakeland Mountain Drawings', 1980, oblong 4to) (44).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3144
WAR. - Paul BRICKHILL. Reach for the Sky. Douglas Bader, His Life Story. London: Collins, 1954. First edition, including a loosely inserted R.A.F. Club Annual Dinner menu signed by Douglas Bader, 8vo (205 x 130mm.) Numerous black and white illustrations. (Toning, spotting to fore-edge.) Original blue cloth (some fading, lightly bumped), dust-jacket (browned and spotting to lower panel, spine ends creased). - And a further five related volumes (including a copy of John Golley's 'John 'Cat's-Eyes' Cunningham: The Aviation Legend', signed by John Cunningham, 1999, 8vo, and C.F. Rawnsley and Robert Wright's 'Night Fighter', also inscribed by John Cunningham, 1957, 8vo) (6).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3032
AFRICA. - John Reynell MORRELL. Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social, and Natural, of French Africa. London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1854. First edition, 8vo (212 x 133mm.) Folding map, 11 lithographed plates, illustrations in the text. (Several plates with light to moderate spotting and to endpapers, toning.) Contemporary full calf, green morocco lettering piece to the spine (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Montague Hanley (gift inscribed from verso frontispiece); Frederick Festus Holly (gift inscribed to verso frontispiece).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3141
ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First edition, first impression, 8vo (198 x 126mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries.) Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket. Note: a first impression second state with 'J.K. Rowling' to the copyright page and, unlike the third state, no advertisements to the rear.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3001
KINGSLEY, Charles. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for Land-Baby. London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1863. First edition, first issue, 8vo (190 x 134mm.) Half-title, 2 engraved plates by J. Noel Paton, with 'L'Envoi' leaf at B1. (Toning, finger-marks to half-title, 1 plate slightly trimmed with minor chipping, spotting to rear endpaper, lacking advertisement leaf.) 20th century red straight-grain half morocco (front-free endpaper replaced). Note: Kingsley suppressed the 'L'Envoi' leaf after the first 200 copies were printed. Provenance: Emily C. Beauchamp (name inscribed to initial blank).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3140
FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. First edition, first impression, 8vo (187 x 122mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth with the Smith & Wesson gun and rose in red and silver to upper cover, red lettering to the spine (faintly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (some loss at top of spine and rear panel, tape repairs verso, chipping to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3045
DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. First edition in book form, early issue. 16 plates by Hablot K. Browne with tissue-guards. (Spotting to plate margins, lacking half-title.) [Bound with:] 'The Adventures of Oliver Twist'. London: Chapman and Hall, [circa 1860]. 24 plates by George Cruikshank. (Spotting to plate margins, toning.) 8vo (213 x 133mm.) Near contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, green morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). Note: the word 'affectionately' misspelt on p.134, p.213 has been corrected, list of plates leaf unsigned. - And a further five volumes by Charles Dickens, [circa 1860] (6).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3079
[FROISSART, Jean. Here begynneth the first volum of sir Johan Froyssart: of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flauders: and other places adioynynge. Traslated out of Frenche into our maternall englysshe tonge, by Johan Bourc. London: in Fletestrete by Richarde Pynson, 1523.] Folio in 6s (312 x 215mm.) Black letter, double-column, woodcut initials. (Lacking 9 leaves, being fos. 1-6, 30, 176 and 258, fo. 73 is detached and repaired with text loss, possibly from another edition, fo. 125 is torn with large loss, text-block cracked at fo. 205, quires b1-e111 detached, browning, marginal chipping and some corner losses.) Near contemporary calf (worn, upper cover detached). Note: the spine has mounted label with the erroneous date of '1525'. [ESTC S121316].Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3016
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. The House of the Dead… from the Russian by Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1915. First U.K. edition, 8vo (188 x 119mm.) 16pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Mild toning, blank ex-libris label mounted to front pastedown and stamp to rear pastedown, small closed hole to initial blank.) Original red cloth (hinges weakened, extremities bumped). Note: being vol. 5 of 'The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3120
DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 2 vols. in 1, first edition in book form, early issue, 8vo (210 x 131mm.) Half-titles, 40 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone, includes the 3-line slip addressed to the reader bound-in at p.1. (Lacking the publisher's catalogues, light spotting to preliminaries and some plate margins.) Near contemporary green half calf (lacking a lettering piece to the spine, extremities heavily rubbed).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Lot 3017
LUDECKE, Kurt G.W. I Knew Hitler, the Story of a Nazi Who Escaped the Blood Purge. London: Jarrolds, 1938. First U.K. edition, 8vo (212 x 129mm.) Portrait frontispiece, photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original black cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (chipping to top of spine, minor soiling to upper panel, slight fading to spine panel). Note: loosely inserted is a publisher's advertisement for the third impression of Gerhard Schacher's 'Germany Pushes South-East', [1938]. Aside from Goebbels's diaries, there are very few insider accounts of Hitler's rise to power. Ludecke had joined the Nazi party in 1922. His book has been described by 'Horizon Chasers' as a work that reaches 'high levels of sociological contemplation, and in its studious portraits of various Nazi leaders, of Tacitean éclat'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
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