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Click here to subscribeGray, Hugh. Letters from Canada, Written During a Residence There in the Years 1806, 1807, and 1808, first edition, London: Longman, 1809, complete with folding map and three tables. Octavo, restored half-calf with morocco title label lettered in gilt, armorial bookplate for George Crompton. Contents good & bright, the map with some offsetting and a reinforced tear at edge, binding tight & square with light surface wear
Domenech, Abbé Emmanuel. Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America, first edition, in two volumes, London: Longman, 1860. Complete with 58 plates and a folding map, as called for. Octavo, full polished calf with raised bands and morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers & page edges, contemporary gift inscription relating to Eton. Contents good & bright; well-preserved & vibrant plates; spotting to endleaves; occasional pale spots and folded corners; bindings tight & square with some discolouration and light surface wear (2)
Stedman, John Gabriel. Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America, first edition, in two volumes, London: Printed for J. Johnson & J. Edwards, 1796. Engraved title pages, frontispiece and 80 plates, as called for. Quarto, contemporary tree-calf with raised bands and contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, bearing armorial bookplates for Robert Moubray of Cockairny (and inscribed by the same). Contents generally good, clean, bright; pale spotting & marks in places; plate 36 has a short tear & slight loss at edges; bindings with bumping to corners and wear around edges, splitting to joints, lower board of first volume becoming loose (2)
Russell, William. The History of America, from its Discovery by Columbus to the Conclusion of the Late War, first edition, in two volumes, London: Fielding & Walker, 1778, illustrated with 50 [of 51] plates and maps. Vol.I: frontis., red & black title, 2pp. advertisement, 596pp.; Vol.II: title, 629pp., 3pp. errata & directions for placing maps/cuts. Contents generally well-preserved and good with pale spotting & faint staining in places; the plates are mostly very good & bright, though the folding map of North America is torn/creased; lacking only one plate [the map of the world]; there is an owner inscription on blank leaf prior to title of each volume, 'Josh Scott Senior, 1802'; the rear of the first volume is inscribed, 'Ann Holdsworth, Westgate, 1778'; the rear of the second volume is inscribed, 'John Keegan, Contractor, Wakefield', accompanied by a manuscript 'Composition', signed, 'Kate Keegan, age - 9 year old, Wakefield'. Quarto, quite crudely rebacked and incorporating the worn contemporary calf boards (2)
Burnaby, Andrew. Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America, in the Years 1759 and 1760, with Observations upon the State of the Colonies, first edition, London: T. Payne, 1775. Quarto, unbound, stitched, paper covers. Title; 6pp. introduction; 106pp.; errata & advertisement [possibly lacking a half-title]. Generally good with pale spotting & staining in places
Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, London: John Murray, 1857. Complete with all plates & maps as called for [not tinted]. Octavo, embossed cloth. Contents very good, clean, bright; very light spotting & folded corners in a few places; pale spotting to the folded map in rear wallet; cloth expertly restored with recent endpapers
Harris, Captain William Cornwallis. The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, first edition, London: John Murray, 1839. Complete with all plates & folding map as called for (Hunting at Meritsane is positioned as a frontispiece). Contents good, clean, bright; a few pale spots & light creasing in places; a few pages loose but present & complete; cloth good with slight wear to extremities, slight shelf-lean; bookseller's ticket on pastedown (J. Bain, 1, Haymarket)
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows, first edition, first printing, London: Methuen and Co., 1908. Octavo, publisher's gilt pictorial blue-green cloth, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, frontispiece by Graham Robertson with protective tissue-guard. Contents complete, including half-title, occasional pale spotting, heavier on a few leaves, occasional creasing and wear at the untrimmed edges but not affecting the text itself, some very faint ink & pencil impressions on a few leaves, contemporary owner inscription, bookplate and embossed address on front free endpaper (24 Kenilworth Road, Leamington), cloth bumped & worn at corners/edges/headcaps, some splitting to joints, the cloth at spine feeling a little stiff/reinforced, some scuffing and shelf-lean. A first impression of one of the classics of children's literature
Rackham, Arthur (Illust.). The Ring of the Niblung, first edition, London: Heinemann, 1939. Large octavo, publisher's blue cloth, illustrated with 37 plates only [of 48]. Contents good, clean, bright, some very pale spotting in places; contemporary gift inscription; cloth with some discolouration, slight wear and bumping
Soper, Eileen A. Collection of three books comprising: Wild Encounters, first edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1957; Wanderers in the Field, first edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959; Wild Favours, first edition, London: Hutchinson, 1963. Publisher's cloth with unclipped dust-jackets, protective cellophane wrappers on each. Contents very good, clean, bright; two jackets are well-preserved with slight toning, dust-jacket of Wild Encounters has bars of discolouration from tape securing cellophane wrappers verso and consequently some marks to its cloth (3)
Delafield, E. M. Two signed presentation copies to Amy Johnston & G. H. Gray [of Macmillan]: The Provincial Lady at Home and Abroad, first edition, London: Macmillan, 1935; Love Has No Resurrection, first edition, London: Macmillan, 1939 (2)Provenance: Vendor's late aunt was Amy Johnston who together with her partner G. H. Gray worked for Macmillan publishers during the 1930s
Durrell, Gerald. Collection of three books comprising: Birds, Beasts & Relatives, first edition, London: Collins, 1969, publisher's cloth with unclipped dust-jacket designed by Eileen Walton, contents very good, clean, bright, binding & jacket well-preserved; Rosy is My Relative, first edition, London: Collins, 1968, publisher's cloth with neatly price-clipped dust-jacket designed by Jack Larkin, contents very good and bright, a few pale marks to endpapers, light bumping to upper corner, jacket vibrant with a very short tear and slight wear at lower corner; The Overloaded Ark, second impression, London: Faber & Faber, 1953, publisher's cloth with unclipped dust-jacket designed by Ley Kenyon, contents good & bright with spotting to edges of text-block & prelims, dust-jacket good with some discolouration and a few marks to rear, a few nicks at top & bottom of spine (3)
Rowling, J. K. The Harry Potter Gift Set, containing: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, fourth issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4'; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, seventh issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, print line reads '10 9 8 7'. Contents very good, clean, bright; bindings good and vibrant with slight shelf-lean and faint bumping to extremities; dust-jackets faded to spines with creasing & tear to jacket of first book; slipcase well-preserved with faint bumping to extremities
Beardsley, Aubrey; Vincent O'Sullivan. The Houses of Sin, first edition, numbered 101 of 400, London: Leonard Smithers, 1897. Octavo, publisher's imitation parchment, gilt pictorial design to boards by Beardsley, untrimmed edges, lightly tipped-in envelope addressed by the author, bearing bookplate of Gilbert Frankau. Contents very good, clean, bright; some offsetting to endpapers; a short tear to edge of limitation page; a small dark mark running through blank margin of a few pages; discolouration and surface wear to binding with bumping to edges & corners. (Ex Lot 75, Sotheby's, Illustrated Books, 2 November 1995). Together with The Savoy, No.1, January 1896, London: Leonard Smithers, 1896, lacking the cover and Christmas card by Beardsley but containing his other nine illustrations as called for, Mudie's Library binding; three Bon-Mots (two Samuel Foote & Theodore Hook, one Charles Lamb & Douglas Jerrold) with Grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley, one bearing owner inscription of Haldane MacFall, one bearing bookplate of Albert Julian Pell of Wilburton Manor (ex part Lot 74, Sotheby's, 1995), in varying condition, sold as found with all faults, also the Sotheby's sale catalogue with copy of invoice (6)The cover design for The Houses of Sin has been termed "one of Beardsley's most daring and most successful covers". Beardsley described his finished drawings to publisher Leonard Smithers as "Very pretty! I think you will like it."
Rockwell, Norman (Illus.); Molly Rockwell. Willie Was Different: The Tale of an Ugly Thrushling, signed first edition, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. Signed & inscribed on half-title. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, complete with dust-jacket. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding well-preserved with bump to corner; dust-jacket bright with two tears and light wear to extremities
Pratchett, Terry; Neil Gaiman. Good Omens, signed & inscribed by Pratchett, 'Do you know, it's amazing, but there are practically NO cats in this book?', first edition, London: Gollancz, 1990, hardback, publisher's red cloth with dust-jacket, contents good & bright, gift inscription on front free endpaper, spotting to edges of text-block, shelf-lean, d.j. worn with loss. Together with Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett, signed & inscribed, first edition, London: Gollancz, 1988, publisher's green cloth, internally clean & bright, some pale spotting to gutters, shelf-lean, lacking d.j. (2)
Aliens. Huygens, Christiaan. The Celestial World Discover'd: Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets, first edition in English, London: Printed for Timothy Childe at the White Hart at the West-end of St. Paul's Church-yard, 1698. Comprising: front blank leaf, title (repaired corner), notice to the reader, a further notice to the reader & publisher, the complete text (B1-L8) with all five folding plates, rear blank leaf. Octavo, worn contemporary calf boards, rebound/rebacked, housed in a later cloth slipcase. Contents with general toning & marks, signs of handling over time, slight wear/loss to extreme edges of some pages, recent endpapers with owner inscriptions on front pastedown, occasional annotation (the earlier marginalia in ink, the later in pencil)First edition in English of Huygens' Cosmotheoros [published the same year as the Latin edition], in which he speculates on the existence of extra-terrestrial life. Though speculative, Huygens' descriptions of intelligent alien life are informed by scientific reasoning
Faraday, Michael. A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter, first edition, London & Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Co., 1860. Octavo, vi, contents, 179pp., numerous illustrations within the text, contemporary leather binding lettered in gilt, owner inscription of Hope Wedgwood, 'I heard these lectures. He was a perfect lecturer', plus tipped-in gift inscription to H G Wedgewood, 1860, signed with initials. Contents good & bright, slight wear to gutter at title, spotting to front & rear blanks, very faint spotting on title, binding worn at spine
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright; usual light toning to page edges, a couple of very pale spots on opening leaves; tight and square; covers very well-preserved and vibrant; faint creasing at corners, light wear at extreme corners; light creasing at spine; a couple of very faint scuffs. An excellent example
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter. Collection of four first edition, first issue paperbacks, all bearing the full number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1': Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, London: Bloomsbury, 1998; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, London: Bloomsbury, 1999 (x 2); Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, adult edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Condition generally very good, clean, bright, with some light creasing and pale spots/marks in places (4)
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Signed by the author in black ink on front free endpaper. Contents very good, clean, bright; neat contemporary owner inscription on front pastedown; binding tight and square, boards well-preserved and vibrant, a couple of very faint bumps; lacking dust-jacket. The second novel in the Harry Potter seriesProvenance: Vendor had this book signed when J. K. Rowling visited Alford Primary School in Aberdeenshire where he was a pupil
Dulac, Edmund (Illust.). Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross, first edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1915], quarto, publisher's cloth, complete with all plates as called for, plus several loosely-inserted Dulac prints from other works, contents with very pale spotting/staining in places, binding worn and feeling a little loose; Stories from Hans Andersen, London: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots, n.d., large octavo, complete with 12 colour plates, contents generally good and bright with some very pale spotting in places, cloth with some light discolouration and wear to extremities (2)
Ball, John (Ed.). Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers: A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club, first edition, London: Longmans, 1859. Complete with all chromolithographic plates, maps and woodcuts, as called for. Errata slip present. 516pp. Association copy bearing signature of Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), English writer, mountaineer and father of Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell, dated 1888 & pasted verso of frontis. Octavo, publisher's gilt cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. Contents good, chromo plates vibrant, maps bright, some general toning & slight wear to untrimmed edges, very pale spots in places, the larger folding map of Snowdon (which is printed on a more delicate paper) has some closed tears & light spotting, an additional C20 illustration pasted to blank section of one map, cloth worn to edges, the gilt rubbed from illustration on upper board
Whymper, Edward. Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, first edition, first issue, London: John Murray, 1871. Complete with all plates & maps, as called for, plus wood-engravings within the text. 432pp. Octavo, publisher's gilt green cloth, rebacked with the original spine laid down. Contents good, clean, bright, the plates well-preserved, a few pale spots in places, slight wear at gutter of front endpapers, contemporary owner inscription of Edward Seaton on half-title, cloth worn at corners
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first edition, hardback, London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Signed by the author in bold black ink on dedication page. Contents very good with light toning and a couple of pale marks in places; toning and very faint spotting to edges of text-block, a little dusty; pictorial boards with sunning to extreme edges and spine; slight bumping to headcaps; a few faint scuffs/marks, lacking dust-jacket
Workman, Fanny Bullock; William Hunter Workman. Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh, first edition, London: Constable, 1908. Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs taken by the author, including a photogravure portrait of each author, a colour frontispiece, and a folding map of Kashmir. Octavo, publisher's gilt green cloth with illustrated panel, top edge gilt, rebacked with the original spine laid down. Contents good & bright, a few very light spots & marks in places, the photogravure of Peak above Basin Glacier with some staining, some incredibly pale staining to title & opening leaves, some surface wear and a couple of tears to list of illustrations, the final page of list with loss to corner (not affecting text), the cloth with discolouration & wear
Abraham, Ashley P. Rock-Climbing in Skye, first edition, London: Longmans, 1908. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Complete with all collotype plates, as called for, plus line diagrams in the text, and folding map in rear pocket. Contents good & bright, the folding map well-preserved, some light spotting to page edges, heavier throughout endpapers & introduction, some pale staining to some margins (not affecting text), cloth with some marks and wear to corners/extremities. Together with On Alpine Heights, first edition, London: Methuen, 1919, and The Complete Mountaineer, third edition, London: Methuen, 1923, by George Abraham (3)
Baker, Ernest A. The Highlands with Rope and Rucksack, first edition, presentation copy signed & inscribed by the author, 'To my old friend A. S. E. Ackermann, with very best wishes, E. A. Baker, Sept. 1923', London: Witherby, 1923. Octavo, publisher's gilt green cloth with dust-jacket, uncut/opened pages, complete with all plates as called for. Contents good, clean, bright, pale spots on a few leaves, cloth very well-preserved & bright, dust-jacket with some closed tears and slight loss. Together with Moors, Crags & Caves of the High Peak, first edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903, octavo, publisher's illustrated cloth, complete with two folding maps & illustrated plates, as called for, contents with light spotting throughout, otherwise good, cloth well-preserved with light wear to extremities (2)
Smith, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians, first edition, London: Heinemann, 1956. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth, unclipped dust-jacket. Contents good & bright with some incredibly pale staining to gutters of opening leaves, some very pale spotting in places, cloth in good order, lightly bumped at base of spine, dust-jacket with discolouration & light spotting, wear at spine & corners
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents generally good, clean, bright, usual toning around page edges, a few small marks in places; extreme corners folded on some leaves; one short tear to p.219 (not affecting text); gutter slightly worn and exposed between p.222/223; ownership stamp on half-title; covers worn and lacking delicate laminate finish, fading to spine
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Contents very good, clean, bright, with usual toning to page edges; covers well-preserved with applied protective laminate covering; a small 5mm tear/crease at top edge of p.14; a small mark across the number of p.18; some very faint creasing and incredibly pale marks on opening leaves; slight creasing to laminate covers/spine; slight bumping/wear to extreme corners; some very faint spotting on the top edge of text-block, otherwise a very good example
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, 22nd issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, hardback, signed during the production of the first film by the following cast members: Daniel Radcliffe [Harry Potter]; Rupert Grint [Ron Weasley]; Emma Watson [Hermione Granger]; Jamie Waylett [Vincent Crabbe]; Tom Felton [Draco Malfoy]; Joshua Herdman [Gregory Goyle]; Matthew Lewis [Neville Longbottom]; Oliver Phelps [George Weasley]; James Phelps [Fred Weasley]; Alfred Enoch [Dean Thomas]; Devon Murray [Seamus Finnigan]. Contents very good, clean, bright, appears unread; binding very good, bold, vibrant, one soft bump at bottom of upper board; dust-jacket good with slight wear to extreme corners and slight fading to spineProvenance: Vendor's mother was a work colleague of Jamie Waylett's grandmother at the time of the first film's production. This signed book was a gift for the vendor's son who was a big fan of the books and the same age as the characters in their first year at Hogwarts
Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, first edition, London: Macmillan, 1961. Octavo, publisher's turquoise cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Victor Reinganum, priced 13s 6d. Contents very good, clean, bright; binfing very good, tight, square; a couple of light bumps around top of spine; dust-jacket well-preserved, bold colours, some light bumping & wear around corners/edges; some very light spotting at top edge; a couple of pale spots on rear endpapers
Miscellaneous collection of books to include Robson's Commercial Directory of the Seven Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hants, 20th edition, London: William Robson & Co., 1839, with six folding maps, half-calf; The South American Gentleman's Companion, by Charles H. Baker, New York: Crown Publishers, 1951, two volumes in blue cloth, worn slipcase; four cookery books, including The Lady's Every-Day Book, London: Bemrose & Sons, 1875; India, Burma and Ceylon, London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1910, folding map, gilt cloth; Be Vivid, Be Vital, by Barbara Cartland, first edition, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1956, red cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket; Breakheart Pass, by Alistair Maclean, London: Book Club Associates, 1974, and Almanack of Sport 1966, London: Sampson Low, 1965. Condition varied, collection sold as found with all faults (10)
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World, first edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, pencil owner inscription dated 1932. Contents good, clean, bright, some pale spots & marks in places, lightly creased, shelf-lean, cloth with some light marks, bumping to corners and wear to edges, lacking dust-jacket
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows, first edition, first printing, London: Methuen and Co., 1908. Octavo, publisher's gilt pictorial blue-green cloth, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, frontispiece by Graham Robertson with protective tissue-guard. Contents complete, including half-title; internally very good, clean, bright, a few light handling marks in places, some page corners with very light fold-lines, a few very pale spots in places, more pronounced but still quite pale at final leaves & rear endpapers, lower gutters of a few pages with slight splitting at base, neat gift inscription dated 1909 on verso of ffep, later undated gift inscription on recto, binding good, tight & square, cloth in good order with most of the gilt design preserved, some light marks & rubbing, corners bumped with wear, some wear & splitting around top & bottom of spine. A first impression of one of the classics of children's literature
Hemingway, Ernest. Across the River and into the Trees, first edition, first issue, London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. Octavo, publisher's green cloth, neatly price-clipped dust-jacket. Contents very good, clean & bright, a small ink mark on p.130, endpapers with very pale spotting, binding tight & square, cloth very good & bright, dust-jacket well-preserved & bold, very slight wear at corners & around edges of spine, a couple of nicks at top edge
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'; '1 wand' appears twice on p.53; 'Philosopher's' is misspelled 'Philospher's' to rear cover; 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' [rather than 'Witchcraft and Wizardry'] to rear cover. Appears unread. Contents very good, clean, bright; usual light toning to page edges; one small, very faint mark with surface wear on p.17; tight and square; covers very well-preserved and vibrant; very light bump to corner of lower cover; incredibly faint crease at top of upper cover; incredibly light wear to extreme corners/edges. An excellent example
Wain, Louis. Peter: A Cat o' One Tail, first edition, London: Pall Mall Gazette Office, 1892. Small quarto, full buckram lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, Khaki Club Library label on front pastedown, 88pp., contents bright with some pale spotting, one leaf detached but present, opening blank before title becoming loose with wear at gutter
Johns, Captain W. E. Biggles - Charter Pilot, first edition, Oxford University Press, London: Humphrey Milford, 1943. Octavo, publisher's red cloth with dust-jacket, colour frontispiece, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown (Wilding & Son Ltd., Shrewsbury). Contents very good, clean, bright, some very pale spotting to endpapers & half title; cloth covers well-preserved with light bumping to corners, a few pale marks and slight shelf-lean; jacket with wear/loss in protective cellophane wrappers. Scarce
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, 48th printing, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, signed by Daniel Radcliffe [Harry Potter], Harry Melling [Dudley Dursley], and Chris Columbus [Director], with a loosely inserted Bloomsbury bookplate signed by J. K. Rowling. Together with a small archive of original photographs taken during the production of the first film at 12 Picket Post Close, Berkshire, which was used as 4 Privet Drive - where, in the story, Harry lives in a cupboard under the stairs with the Dursleys; a signed letter from the Assistant Location Manager for Warner Bros, on Harry Potter letterhead, thanking the vendor for allowing the crew to shoot scenes at the house (vendor's name removed); a copy of the original letter from Warner Bros approaching the vendor to use their property in the film (personal details removed), and a quantity of newspaper clippings relating to 12 Picket Post Close being used as 4 Privet Drive in the filmProvenance: Vendor lived at 12 Picket Post Close, which was used as 4 Privet Drive in the first film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, directed by Chris Columbus, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2001
Tudor, Tasha (Illus.). Increase Rabbit, by T. L. McCready, first edition, New York: Ariel Books, 1958, signed by both the author and the illustrator, inscribed, 'With much love from Increase Rabbit, her family and all the Warners'. Publisher's pictorial cloth, unclipped dust-jacket, loosely-inserted advertisement for Pekin White. Contents good and bright; some discolouration/offsetting to endpapers; some pale marks to cloth; some toning and slight wear to d.j.
Rowling, J. K. Signed. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, 13th issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, paperback, signed by the author & dedicated 'To James' on half-title; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback with dust-jacket, signed by the author & dedicated again 'To James' on front free endpaper. Philosopher's Stone internally very good, clean, bright, a small ink splash on fore-edge just coming in slightly to very edge of a few pages & inner cover, a small nick & crease to edge of p.221, binding tight & square, covers good with well-preserved bold colours, faint crease to lower corner, a few faint surface scuffs, wear to corners & nick at top of spine, Chamber of Secrets internally very good, clean, bright, a couple of very light handling marks, binding very good, tight & square, boards bold & vibrant, very slight wear at one extreme corner, dust-jacket very well-preserved, bold & bright, very slight wear & at extreme corners, some very light bumping around base of spine. Very good examples. Rowling signature specialist Adam Houston has kindly approved the authenticity of these signatures (2)Provenance: Both books were signed for vendor when J. K. Rowling visited his school in Dunblane
Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Octavo, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, priced 18s. Contents very good, clean, bright; cloth good, corners bumped, shelf-lean; dust-jacket good with bold colours, some wear to corners & edges of spine, one very short tear at lower edge, the verso with some very pale staining & marks
Tourtel, Mary. Margot the Midget, first edition, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1922]. Bearing gift inscription, 1923. Publisher's illustrated card covers. Contents very good, clean, bright, some light handling marks in places, endpapers with discolouration, rear endpapers & lower board with ink splash at base, boards with wear to corners & loss to spine
Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1969; The Magus, London: World Books, 1967; Daniel Martin, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. All with unclipped dust-jackets, contents generally good and bright with occasional pale marks, some ink annotation to the first title, wear to jackets (3)
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Lost World, first film edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [c.1925]. Octavo, publisher's red cloth, unclipped yellow dust-jacket. Contents generally good with toning and occasional pale marks, text-block becoming loose from binding, dust-jacket with wear/loss in protective cellophane wrappers
Tolkien, Christopher. The Silmarillion, first edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth, folding map at rear, price-clipped dust-jacket with protective plastic sleeve. Contents very good, clean, bright; one tiny mark on front-free endpaper, a few light marks on edges of text-block; binding tight and square, slight fading to spine of jacket. Together with The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, by J. R. R. Tolkien, third impression, 1968, and The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, first edition, 1981 (3)
Macnie, Isa M. "Mac". The Celebrity Zoo (First Visit), Some Desultory Rhymes and Caricatures, signed presentation copy, numbered 91 of a limited second edition, Brown & Nolan, 1925. Small quarto, illustrated paper covers. Internally good & bright, slight wear/loss to corners of covers. Irish Interest
Peters, Ellis. Six first edition novels from the Cadfael Chronicles series, first printings, all published by Macmillan in unclipped dust-jackets: The Virgin in the Ice, 1982; The Sanctuary Sparrow, 1983; The Devil's Novice, 1983; Dead Man's Ransom, 1984; The Pilgrim of Hate, 1984; An Excellent Mystery, 1985. Contents good, clean, bright; pencil inscriptions to front free endpapers; bindings tight and square; pale stain to edge of text-block of Dead Man's Ransom; a couple of dark marks to ffep of The Pilgrim of Hate (6)
Hockney, David. Cameraworks, first edition, London: Thames & Hudson, 1984, hardback, publisher's cloth with dust-jacket, internally clean & bright, a couple of small inscriptions on ffep, a few pages with wear at edges, binding feeling a little loose, some very pale staining to cloth, slight wear to jacket at corners/spine. Together with David Hockney Prints 1954-77, exhibition catalogue, The Midland Group & Scottish Arts Council in association with Petersburg Press, 1979, clean & bright with creasing to spine (2)
Awdry, Rev. W. Troublesome Engines, first edition, Leicester: Edmund Ward, 1950, green cloth, unclipped dust-jacket priced 4/-, together with a second impression of the same, 1951. Internally good & bright, contemporary owner inscription with some offsetting, some pale spotting & cockling to endpapers, jacket of second with slight loss at corners & edges, the first with creasing & loss, in protective cellophane wrappers, sold with all faults (2)
Awdry, Rev. W. Henry the Green Engine, first edition, Leicester: Edmund Ward, 1951, yellow cloth, unclipped dust-jacket priced 4/6, internally clean & bright, cloth bright, jacket bold with some creasing & wear at corners/edges, a couple of closed tears, in protective cellophane wrappers, sold with all faults
Awdry, Rev. W. Toby the Tram Engine, first edition, Leicester: Edmund Ward, 1952, grey cloth with unclipped jacket, together with Edward the Blue Engine, first edition, 1954, blue cloth with unclipped jacket, internally good & bright, a few pale marks, contemporary gift inscription, jackets with general creasing & wear at edges, in protective cellophane wrappers, sold with all faults (2)
Awdry, Rev. W. Gordon the Big Engine, first edition, Leicester: Edmund Ward, 1953, brown cloth, unclipped jacket priced 4/6, internally good & bright, some toning & very pale spotting at endpapers, jacket with a few nicks & slight wear at edges, in protective cellophane wrappers, sold with all faults
Awdry, Rev. W. Collection of three Thomas books comprising: Four Little Engines, first edition, London: Edmund Ward, 1955, black cloth with unclipped jacket priced 5/-; Percy the Small Engine, first edition, 1956, green cloth with clipped jacket; The Eight Famous Engines, first edition, 1957, light blue cloth with unclipped jacket. Internally good & bright, Percy with ownership stamp & inscription on endpapers, jackets with general wear & slight loss at edges, a few tears, in protective cellophane wrappers, sold with all faults (3)
Awdry, Rev. W. Collection of four Thomas books comprising: Duck and the Diesel Engine, first edition, London: Edmund Ward, 1958, red cloth with unclipped jacket priced 5/-; The Little Old Engine, first edition, 1959, cream cloth with unclipped jacket; The Twin Engines, first edition, 1960, dark brown cloth with unclipped jacket; Branch Line Engines, first edition, 1961, navy cloth with unclipped jacket. Internally good & bright, jackets with general wear at corners & edges, a couple of short tears, in protective cellophane wrappers, sold with all faults (4)
Awdry, Rev. W. Collection of five Thomas books comprising: Gallant Old Engine, first edition, London: Edmund Ward, 1962, black cloth with unclipped jacket priced 5/6; Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine, first edition, 1963, navy cloth with clipped jacket; Mountain Engines, first edition, 1964, navy cloth with unclipped jacket; Very Old Engines, first edition, 1965, navy cloth with unclipped jacket; Main Line Engines, first edition, 1966, dark brown cloth with unclipped jacket. Internally good & bright, jackets with general wear at corners & edges, a couple of short tears, in protective cellophane wrappers, sold with all faults (5)
Lang, Andrew, The Brown Fairy Book, first edition, London: Longmans, 1904, octavo, publisher's gilt brown cloth, all edges gilt, illustrated endpapers, colour frontispiece with protective tissue-guard, internally very good & bright, some sympathetic repairs to cloth binding; The Pink Fairy Book, first edition, London: Longmans, 1897, publisher's gilt pink cloth, all edges gilt, contents good with some very pale spotting, sympathetically rebound with new spine & endpapers. Together with a signed photographic postcard of the illustrator, Henry Justice Ford (3)
[Bannerman, Helen]. The Story of Little Degchie-head, first edition, London: James Nisbet & Co., 1903. 12mo, publisher's pictorial cloth, 36 colour illustrations including frontispiece. Contents good with handling marks & wear in places, a couple of tears, cloth binding good, lacking front free endpaper and half-title (if it calls for one), sold with all faults
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