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Thea von Harbou: 'Metropolis', London, Reader's Library, September 1927, 1st edition, 4th printing, 250pp, small 8vo, original publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt lettered and decorated, pictorial dust wrapper (slightly worn, some chips and small part losses, but else generally complete and without restoration). Verso of title page states that the first edition, first print run was 100,000 copies in February 1927, followed by three print runs of 50,000 copies each in March, May and September 1927 respectively, this being a September 1927 4th printing copy, with 'Metropolis' mentioned in the list of Readers Library books at front and on rear flap of dust jacket. Landmark Science-Fiction and Fantasy story set in 2026 in a technologically advanced city, sustained by the existence of an underground society of labourers. The pictorial dust wrapper by Aubrey Hammond depicts a classic green robot figure against expressionist skyscrapers with the blurb "the book sensation of Europe". Written in conjunction with the film directed by Von Harbou's husband Fritz Lang. The dust jacket was designed by Aubrey Hammond who gained notoriety for his London Underground posters.
DAVIS, CHARLES H: 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead.' Putnam's, 1894. Folio. Covers partly, lightly damp speckled. Inner front board bit wormed, with single worm hole to gutter of first 4 leaves of prelims.Signature on end paper. This is the first Davis edition with 187pp and 99 plates. Covers partly, lightly damp speckled. Inner front board bit wormed, with single worm hole to gutter of first 4 leaves of prelims.Signature on end paper. This is the first Davis edition.This copy is NOT the usual Ex Library one. The 99 plates are from originals from the Louvre and Turin Papyri. A second having been issued in the following year. Very scarce
(Pre Raphaelites), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (illustrator); William Allingham: 'Flower Pieces and Other Poems', London, Reeves & Turner, 1888, 1st edition, x,194pp, original quarter Japanese vellum gilt, frontispiece with tissue guard + 1 otherillustration as called for, some light foxing to the first and last few pages, D.G. Rosetti frontispiece ‘The Maids of Elfin-Mere’ with light foxing to borders of the page but illustration itself clean and clear. The second Rossetti illustration is completely cleanand unaffected. Two round marks on front cover, spine a little mottled, text block tight, overall a very good copy. William Allingham (1824-89) was anIrish poet and man of letters who was on terms of close friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti,the Pre-Raphaelite artist. His second volume of verse – ‘Day and Night Songs’[1854] – firstcontained the poem ‘The Maids of Elfin-Mere’ with a woodcut by Rossetti which the latter wasunhappy with, feeling that his own inexperience at drawing on wood for engraving, and theineptitude of the Brothers Dalziel in carrying out the engraving, had resulted in something hecould not put his name to. Yet that same illustration became a seminal work of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The engraving appeared again the following year when ‘Songs’ wasrevised and enlarged as ‘The Music Master’ and was reprinted in this volume in whichAllingham is keen to emphasise that ‘the limited number of copies now published are in norespect inferior to those which appeared in the first edition’. This First Edition of a later collection an affordable way to collect what Burne-Jones described as, on first seeing it in 1856, ‘the most beautiful drawing for an illustration I have ever seen’. It also contains another Rossetti illustration - 'The Queen's Page' - facing p.189. Houfe, p. 284. Reid, pp. 30-5. White, p. 160.
(Scotland), BEATTIE, WILLIAM. Caledonia Illustrated in a Series of Views .... ill. W.H.Bartlett and T.Allom. London: Virtue, 1840. New Edition, 2 volumes, Volume 1. [x], [1], 2-200pp. Folding map, vignette title page and 73 plates. Volume 2. [vi], [1], 2-172pp. Frontis, vignette title page and a further 94 engraved plates. Some waterstaining. 4to, full contemporary suede worn, vol 1 rebacked in calf (not recent); together with CARDONNEL, Adam De. Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland.... London: Edwards, 1788. First Edition, large paper 4to format copy, 99 etched plates, 19th Century full suede leather, later rebacked (3)
A collection of Norfolk and East Anglia interest titles, including Walter Rye, 2 titles: 'The First Register Book of the Parish of Lammas and Little Hautbois', Norwich, 1905, 75pp, original cloth backed printed paper covered boards. Scarce, plus First Register Old Buckenham, 1902, same binding (spine worn); J.W. Norie: 'The New Seaman's Guide and Coaster's Companion', L, J.W. Norie & Co, Chartsellers to the Admiralty and East India Company, 1829, engraved frontispiece depicting lighthouses, beacons and lightships, including Cromer and Lowestoft, 372pp, manuscript ownership signatures at front Henry Kettle Winterton Norfolk 1837 & Benjamin Kettle Winterton Norfolk 1845, oblong, original cloth (worn); A.M. Wilson: 'Friends of Yesterday', L, A.H. Bullen, 1903, 1st edition, appears to be a satire/fictitious account of rural life in Norfolk & Suffolk, frontis + 16 b/w ills. from photographs, original cloth gilt (worn); John Kirkpatrick: 'History of the Religious Orders and Communities, and of the Hospitals and Castle, of Norwich', Yarmouth, Sloman, 1845, intro. Dawson Turner, some m/s notes at front, rebacked retaining original cloth gilt; W.A. Cutting: 'Gleanings about Gayton', Norwich, 1889, 267pp, old cloth backed boards; C.M. Hoare: 'Records of a Norfolk Village, Being Notes on the History of the Parish of Sidestrand', 1914, 5 b/w plates from photos as called for, orig. printed paper covered boards (worn); 'Domesday Book...Fac-Simile of the Part Relating to Norfolk', 1862, 343pp, large 4to, old cloth gilt (worn); 3 booklets by T.H. Swales reprinted from Norfolk Archaeology on Norfolk Manorial Lords, Suppression of Monasteries, Dissolution, 1950's-60's; plus Bryant's Norfolk Churches 4 vols Hundreds of Diss, Brothercross, Taverham, Shropham; plus 2 others (17)
Wood, Ellen, Mrs. Henry: 'East Lynne', London, Richard Bentley, 1861, 1st edition, 3 volumes, Triple Decker. All three volumes dated '1861': First Edition. Vol. I, 320. Vol. II, 323.Vol. III, 305. Plain late 19th Century quarter black leather with black water grained boards, gilt ruled titles to spines, all page edges speckled red, pale yellow endpapers, no half titles,as called for. Rubbing and wear to top and bottom of spines and some spine scuffing. Innerhinges all intact and text blocks tight. Foxing almost entirely restricted to first and last fewpages in all volumes. Otherwise, the pages are clean and fresh. No stickers, inscriptions or othermarkings. Originally serialised in 'The New Monthly Magazine' between January 1860 andSeptember 1861, then issued as here on 19 September 1861. A classic Victorian SensationNovel bestseller, although the genre-defining line "Gone! And never called me mother!" doesnot appear in the book, but from later stage adaptations. Genuinely rare [not just scarce] withfull first edition status to all three volumes. Sadleir 3333; Wolff 7269 (3)
(Mountaineering, Climbing), a collection of approximately 50 mountaineering titles, including F. Spencer Chapman: 'Helvellyn to Himalaya. Including an Account of the First Ascent of Chomolhari', London, Chatto & Windus, 1940, 1st edition, frontis + 47 plates as called for, original cloth, dust wrapper; G.R. de Beer: 'Early Travellers in the Alps', L, Siggwick & Jackson, 1930, 1st edition, 50 plates + folding map & ills. in text as called for, orig. cloth, d/w; Paul Bauer: 'Himalayan Campaign. The German Attack on Kengchenjunga', Basil Blackwell, 1937, 2nd impression, orig. cloth, d/w; H.W. Tilman: 'Nepal Himalaya', C.U.P., 1952, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; plus numerous others including Everest, Lhotse, Nanda Devi, Annapurna, Nanga Parbat, K2, Karakoram; J. Morris 'Living with Lepchas. A Book about the Sikkim Himalayas', 1938 1st edition; Tyndall 'The Glaciers of the Alps', 1896; Reinhold Messner, Gaston Rebuffat, John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Joe Simpson signed copy of 'Touching the Void'; Alps, Rocky Mountains, Cairngorms, Antarctica etc (Approx. 50)
Yoko Ono: 'Grapefruit. A book of instructions. Introduction by John Lennon.', London, Peter Owen, 1970. 'First British Commonwealth Edition', being the first English language edition, 14 cms square, b/w ills. by John Lennon. Original cloth. Dust jacket, slightly worn but with no loss, not price-clipped. An early example of conceptual art
Wilkie Collins: 'Mr Wray's Cash-Box; or, the mask and the mystery. A Christmas Sketch.', illustrated John Everett Millais, London, Richard Bentley, 1852, 1st edition, viii,171pp + [4]pp publisher's catalogue at end. All details [except for binding] correspond exactly todescription of first edition in the Bibliography of Collins by Parrish and Miller, and to Wolff1367 [Sadleir did not have a copy], including the ads to the rear. The binding is presumablyrecent and virtually pristine. Fine three quarter tan morocco over marbled paper covered boards by Stikeman & Co., spines gilt ruled in compartments, raised bands, top page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inner hinges all intact, text blocks tight. Frontispiece by Millais still has its tissue guard. Pages all very clean with only the most occasional mild spot of foxing and just a touch of browning to page edges, no previous owner marks. The Millais frontispiece is believed to be his first ever book illustration and this early work by Collins is now very scarce.
William H.G. Kingston: 'The Circassian Chief', London, Richard Bentley, 1843, 1st edition, 3 volumes, triple decker, Vol. I, vi + 338. Vol. II, [iv] + 300. Vol. III, [iv] + 280. Bound fully in caramel diced Russia; backstrips with wide gilt decorated flattened bands, giltlettered maroon morocco label in second and fourth compartments, remainder gilt panelled withdouble gilt rules, and filled with gilt volutes, fleurons and draw handles; sides panelled withtriple gilt fillet, small rosettes at corners, gilt decorated board edges and turn-ins, marbledendpapers, purple silk markers. All page edges gilt. Kingston's first published novel in firstedition. Rare (not just scarce) in any contemporary edition or binding - we have never seenanother. [Wolff 3841]. Gilt bright, extremities almost pristine, hinges intact, text blocks tight,and clean unfoxed pages. Half titles discarded, but otherwise a lovely set. (3)
Arthur Conan Doyle: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', London, George Newnes, 1902, 1st edition, 1st issue with "you" for "your" on p.13, line 3, frontispiece + 15 plates by Sidney Paget as called for, lacks front free end paper and half title, original pictorial scarlet cloth (slightly bumped and rubbed at extremities, else generally VGC), hound blocked in black to front cover, gilt decorated and lettered to front cover and spine, design signed A.G.J. in gilt to front cover. A first edition, first issue copy of the third of the four crime novels by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival. One of the most famous stories ever written, an iconic and definitive book widely considered as the best of the four Holmes novels, a Haycraft Queen cornerstone.
H.E. Bates: 'A Breath of French Air', London, Michael Joseph, 1959, 1st edition, signed by author to title page, original publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, original pictorial dust wrapper designed by Broom Lynne. Condition: book tight, clean and unbumped, no previous ownership names/inscriptions, leaves clean/VGC. Light edge wear to jacket and slight rubbing to jacket front, otherwise, a fine copy - dust wrapper without chips or tears, clean andbright, 12s6d price intact to inside front flap. The second novel in the Larkin series, Pop Larkin and hisfamily of seven, all born without the benefit of clergy, step outside their rural paradise intoanother world. Armed with plenty of tax-free cash, their Rolls-Royce and a little French, theytake their first holiday abroad. Their intensely English but wholly unconventional reactions tolife in France, especially its ideas on love and food, are in that same vein of slightly Rabelaisianpicaresque slap-stick that delighted readers and viewers of 'The Darling Buds of May', now[2021] remade for television by Simon Nye as 'The Larkins'.
Oscar Wilde; Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator): 'Salome: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, With Sixteen Drawings By Aubrey Beardsley', London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907, first edition thus, 16 full page plates by Aubrey Beardsley, all in his characteristic Decadent style, and all as called for, xx, [4], 66, [2] adverts, includes the casts for the first performance of the play in England in 1905 and for the première of Richard Strauss's opera, original publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and titles with elaborate floral decoration to front cover, designed by Beardsley. This is the First Edition to contain all Beardsley's erotic plates, with the suppressed title-page design showing hermaphrodite genitalia, previous editions having been censored. Cover design is clean and bright except for one 2 cm x 1 cm 'smudge' at the bottom right corner. The spine is also bright, but has some mild wear at the extremities. Hinges are intact and the text block is sound. Internally, neat earlier 20th Century inscription to first blank, a little mainly marginal toning to some pages, but else generally all leaves & illustrations are clean and without foxing. A lovely, fresh copy.
Blaise Pascal: 'Monsieur Pascall's Thoughts, Meditations, and Prayers, Touching Matters Moral and Divine', translated from the French by Joseph Walker, London, Jacob Tonson, 1688, first edition in English, title within double-rule border, dedication page/A3 part excised at head, mainly light waterstaining throughout, slightly more prominent to earlier and later leaves, old half vellum, marbled paper covered boards, calf gilt title label to spine, [Wing P-645; cf. PMM 152 (first edition)]. Rare first English edition of Pascal's famous defence of Christianity, published posthumously from papers found after the philosopher's death. Pascal's Pensées "has been the subject of endless controversy, as has Pascal's purpose and standpoint in writing them . . . It is, however, a book for which the enquiring mind has had solid reason to be grateful from its first imperfect publication to the present day." (PMM)
Seven modern first editions, comprising Umberto Eco: 'The Name of the Rose', L, Secker & Warburg, 1983, 1st UK edition, author's multi award winning debut novel, one of the best selling books ever published, having sold over 50 million copies worldwide; Kingsley Amis: 'The Anti-Death League', London, Victor Gollancz, 1966, 1st edition; Philip Roth: 'The Ghost Writer', L, Cape, 1979, 1st UK edition; Bruce Chatwin: 'The Viceroy of Ouidah', L, Cape, 1980, 1st edition; Joseph O'Neill, 2 titles: 'Netherland', L, 4th Estate, 2008, 1st edition, 'The Dog', L, 4th Estate, 2014, 1st edition; Tomothy Mo: 'Pure', L, Turnaround Books, 2012, 1st edition, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers (7)
Margaret Thatcher, 4 titles, all signed first UK editions, first impressions, all published London, Harper Collins, all original cloth gilt, all in unclipped dust wrappers: 'The Downing Street Years', 1993, signed in blue ink to title page, 'The Path to Power', 1995, signed in blue ink to blank leaf between half title and title page, 'The Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher', edited Robin Harris, 1997, signed in blue ink to title page, 'Statecraft. Strategies for a Changing World', 2002, signed in blue ink to title page. All in collectable condition (near fine to fine), internally no previous ownership names/inscriptions, wrappers all with prices intact, the UK first edition of 'Collected Speeches' being a particularly scarce title to find signed (4)
Ian Fleming: 'The Man with the Golden Gun', London, Jonathan Cape, 1965, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (18s price intact), together with a 1965 first Book Club edition of the same title, and a 1962 1st Book Club edition of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', both original cloth, both in unclipped dust wrappers (3)
(Women's Rights, Feminism, Suffrage, Social Reform), John Stuart Mill: 'The Subjection of Women', London, Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1869, 1st edition, iv,188pp, ex Repton School library, 19th Century inkstamp and later de-accession inkstamp to title page, no other lib. markings, original cloth gilt (worn), pencil ownership signature to FFEP of John Henry Gurney Senior (1819-1890), English banker, amateur ornithologist, and Liberal Party politician of the prominent Quaker family, the Gurneys of Norfolk. J.H. Gurney Senior was the son of Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), banker, Quaker minister, humanitarian and philanthropist of Earlham Hall, Norwich, and the nephew of Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 1780-1845), the famous prison reformer, social reformer & philanthropist. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the treatment of prisoners, especially female inmates, and as such has been called the "Angel of Prisons". She was instrumental in the 1823 Gaols Act which mandated sex-segregation of prisons and female warders for female inmates to protect them from sexual exploitation. Fry kept extensive diaries in which the need to protect female prisoners from rape and sexual exploitation is explicit. Joseph John Gurney joined his sister Elizabeth Fry in her attempt to end capital punishment and institute improvements in prisons, together they visited prisons all over Great Britain to gather evidence of the horrible conditions in them to present to Parliament. They published their findings in a book entitled Prisons in Scotland and the North of England. Gurney campaigned against slavery during trips to North America and the West Indies from 1837-1840, he also continued to promote the abolition of capital punishment and advocated total abstinence from alcohol. A first edition and interesting association copy of one of the great statements of the equality of the sexes, recognized as an early contribution in the feminist canon: "among campaigners for women's suffrage. it rapidly became a sacred text and gave him a position of heroic, almost apostolic, authority within the nascent women's movement" (ODNB). Mill had long been a women's rights advocate, having been influenced by the thinking of his father, the Utilitarian philosopher James Mill, and by his long friendship with, and then marriage to, the philosopher Harriet Taylor Hardy (1807-1858), a passionate advocate for equality.
Hilary Mantel, 5 titles, all published London, Fourth Estate, all original cloth, dust wrappers, comprising the Thomas Cromwell trilogy: 'Wolf Hall', 2009, 4th impression, d/w spine sunned, 'Bring Up the Bodies', 2012, 1st edition (fine/fine), 'The Mirror & the Light', 2020, 1st edition (fine/fine), 'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher and Other Stories', 2014, 1st edition, signed title page of another first edition copy of the same title loosely inserted (fine/fine), 'Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books', 2020 (fine/fine) (5)
[Sylvia Plath], written pseudonymously as Victoria Lucas: 'The Bell Jar', London, William Heinemann, 1964, 2nd edition, part of the Contemporary Fiction series, this being the only edition besides the first to bear Sylvia Plath's pseudonym Victoria Lucas, original green cloth lettered in silver to spine (minimal foxing to outer edges of textblock, else internally leaves clean/VGC, no previous ownership names/signatures, cloth VGC, silver lettering bright), dust wrapper (striking black, white and mauve geometric design by Dodie Masterman, some slight fading/dusting to mauve and white elements, but else no tears, generally VGC). Semi autobiographical novel which reveals Plath's own struggle with mental illness - both the author and the protagonist occupy a small area between genius and madness. Plath committed suicide a month after the book was published in the UK in 1963. The second edition was publshed in the Heinemann Contemporary Fiction Collection & uses the Authors original pseudonym, Victoria Lucas; this was later changed under the guidance of her husband, the Poet Ted Hughes & her mother to her real name, Sylvia Plath in the trade edition published two years later by Faber in 1966 (not published in the US until 1971)
Cecil Beaton: 'The Book of Beauty', London, Duckworth, 1930, 1st edition, 27 portrait plates from collotype phtographs by Beaton depicting beautiful women of the period, including aristocrats and socialites, several of which part of the avant garde/bohemian circle dubbed "The Bright Young Things" or "Bright Young People" by the tabloid press of the time, plus colour frontispiece from the author's drawing of Queen Alexandra and 100 line drawings in the text as called for, xii,67pp, portraits include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard, Anna May Wong, Georgina Curzon, Norma Shearer, Lillie Langtry, Gladys Cooper, Lady Diana Cooper etc, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper (part loss at head of spine and head of front panel, small part loss foot of spine and some other small part losses, closed tears, etc., but generally a fairly complete example of a very scarce dustwrapper, 25/- price intact to inside front flap). Very scarce first edition copy in dust wrapper of the first book by the famed British fashion, portrait and war photographer, interior designer, painter and costume designer Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)
(Pre Raphaelites), Christina Rossetti; Dante Gabriel Rossetti (ill.): 'Goblin Market and Other Poems', London & Cambridge, Macmillan & Co., 1862, 1st edition, viii,192pp, recased in light blue cloth covers, dark blue cloth spine, gilt leather title label, replacement white endpapers, 19th Century ownership inscription in pencil on FFEP. Binding a little dull and bumped to corners. Internally relatively clean and free from foxing prelims. with very slight water stain to tops of pages (not affecting woodcuts). Overall a very good rebound first dditioncopy of Rossetti’s first volume of poetry. The title poem, ‘Goblin Market’, has intrigued readersever since publication. Ostensibly a children’s poem, it is full of remarkable, sensual imagerywhich to the modern eye can only be interpreted as intensely sexual. This is reinforced by thetwo woodcuts contributed to the volume by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti – on the titlepage and the facing page: ‘Golden head by golden head’ in particular has a characteristic Pre-Raphaelite sensuality. (D. G. Rossetti also designed the original covers in blue cloth with giltdecoration and titles). A rare book, including two of D. G. Rossetti’s excursions intobook illustration. Houfe, p. 284. De Beaumont No. 342 in Goldman pp. 26, 81, 134. White, p. 117, 161, 162. Reid, p. 46. VBD, pp.222, 226.
Laurie Lee, the autobiographical trilogy: 'Cider With Rosie', London, The Hogarth Press, 1959, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (18s price intact), 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning', London, Andre Deutsch, 1969, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (price clipped, else VGC), 'A Moment of War', London, Viking, 1991, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (price clipped, spine slightly faded, else VGC). A first edition set of Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy, his most significant literary contribution (3)
MOULE, THOMAS. Great Britain Illustrated: A Series of Views from Drawings By William Westall, A.R.A. Engraved By, and Under the Direction of Edward Finden with Descriptions By Thomas Moule. . ill. William Westall. London: Charles Tilt, 1830. First Edition. 118 fine steel engraved views on 59 plates as called for, viii, 118,[4]pp blank. additional .vignette title page, large paper copy measuring 26.75 x 20.25cms, 4to, old half calf gilt
Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin: 'An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk...', Fersfield and Lynn, 1739-1775, first edition, four volumes (of five, lacks volume 5), numerous engraved plates/plans/folding genealogical tables + numerous engravings in the text, folio, contemporary reverse calf gilt worn, some boards detached but present, ownership signatures at front of each volume "John Beevor M.D.", inkstamps "J. Beevor 1770" & "J. Beevor 1768", pencil inscription on front pastedown volume I "From the library of Lord North august 1885", old manuscript pen & ink indexes/lists of religious houses at end of each volume, a few m/s annotations to margins of text (4)
Hilary Mantel: 'Wolf Hall', London, Fourth Estate, 2009, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, pictorial dust wrapper by Andy Bridge(£18.99 price intact), 'Bring Up the Bodies', L, Fourth Estate, 2012, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, pictorial dust wrapper by Andy Bridge (£20 price intact). First edition copies of Mantel's 2009 & 2012 Booker Prize winning novels, the first two historical novels of the author's acclaimed Thomas Cromwell trilogy (2)
John Payne (translated): 'The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen, now first done into English Prose and Verse by John Payne', London, Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and for Private Circulation only, 1890, limited edition, numbered (this copy number 4 of an unknown limitation), 6 volumes, original Japanese vellum gilt, top edges gilt; together with 'The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre', London, PRivately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1922, limited edition, 5 volumes, illustrations throughout by S. Freudenberg & Dunker as called for, uniform original decorative cream cloth gilt, top edges gilt (generally VGC), 'The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio', ill. Louis Chalon, L, Navarre Society, limited edition, 2 volumes, original decorative cloth gilt, tope edges gilt (13)
Wilkie Collins: 'Poor Miss Finch', London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1872, 1st edition, 3 volumes, Triple Decker. All details [except for binding] correspond exactly to description of first edition in the Bibliography of Collins by Parrish and Miller, and to Sadleir 602 and Wolff 1372, including ads to the rear of Vol. I. The binding is presumably recent and virtually pristine - just the tiniest nick to the top of the rear board of Vol.I. Fine three quarter tan morocco over marbled paper covered boards by Stikeman & Co, spines gilt ruled in compartments, raised bands, top page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inner hinges all intact, text blocks tight. Pages all very clean with only the most occasional mild spot of foxing and just a touch of browning to page edges, no previous owner marks (3)
BAYLEY, F.W.N.. The New Tale of a Tub: An Adventure in Verse. With Illustrations, Designed By Lieutenant J.S. Cotton. Lithographed By Aubry.. ill. J.S. Cotton. London: Colnaghi and Puckle., 1841. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Cloth. Good+ / No Jacket. Publisher's blind stamped, plain green cloth, gilt lettered, quite heavily worn at edges and corners. 2 short tears to leaves repaired. Very slt occas. soiling to margins some leaves. Text of 16pp. The scarce folio original edition, containing 7 fine litho. full page plates to illustrate the humourous verse. The subject being the efforts of 2 drunken Europeans to put a tiger into a barrel. With a contemporary inscription Catherine Gurney to Samuel Gurney Cresswell. Catherine Gurney OBE (1848-1930) was a British activist in the temperance movement, and is remembered for her work in establishing police convalescent homes, orphanages and schools, including St George's House, in Harrogate, and a member of the prominent Quaker banking family the Gurneys of Norfolk, many members of the family also being involved in social reform
HERVEY, SYDENHAM H.A.. The Suffolk Green Books, Publications Nos. 1- 14 and 16-20. . Wells: Ernest Jackson, 1894. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. An almost complete run of 27 of 29 volumes published from 1894 to 1928 and lacking only publication no.15: Great and Little Whelnetham Registers and volume 20, no. 5 Dictionary of Herveys: Summary and index. The project was completed with later History and the out of county final volumes 21: County Warwick.Ladbroke and its Owners and publication no.22: County Somerset. Wedmore Parish Registers, 1561-1812. Publisher's uniform green cloth gilt, spines a bit darkened, heads of spines very slty rubbed, Front end paper joints of several volumes cracked but sound. Some covers of early volumes slty marked. Some end papers bit browned with occasional light title page and text foxing, mainly the early volumes. Publications no.s 19 and 20 have the covers badly faded to a light green and are therefor non-matching in the run. These volumes are inscribed "Proof Sheets" on the title pages and contain Sydenham Hervey's ms. corrections. Most volumes have a dated presentation inscription from the author and editor to Thelma Parker with her bookplates. The early volumes have the heraldic bookplate of Thomas and Maud Dundas instead. Publications 1-3 (in 5 volumes) , 1894-have the imprint Ernest Jackson, Wells. Publications 5-7 have the imprint George Booth, Woodbridge, 1900- and Publication no. 8 on have the imprint Paul and Mathew, Bury St. Edmunds, 1904-. Scarce to find as a near complete set (28)
W.B. Yeats: 'Poems Lyrical and Narrative. Being the First Volume of the Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats', London, Chapman & Hall, 1908, 1st collected edition, volume I only of the eight volume set of Collected Works, one of only 1,060 copies, engraved port. frontis, ix,244,[1]pp, ex library, blindstamped armorial crests to leaves at front and end (possibly Repton School), ref. number to verso of title, original publisher's primary (deluxe) binding of quarter vellum over grey cloth boards (worn, inner joints weak), gilt titles, top edge gilt
Walter de la Mare: 'Poems', London, John Murray, 1906, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by author on FFEP "'Walter de la Mare with all good wishes April 1914", original publisher's green cloth, gilt titled to front cover and gilt titled and decorated to spine, binding clean, gilt bright to spine and cover, hinges intact and text block firm, internally slight foxing/spotting to EP's, else leaves clean, housed in a custom made folding cloth chemise and handsome finely produced quarter blue morocco slipcase, raised bands, lettered in gilt, and gilt rules. A romantic poet, shouldered to one side by modernism, Walter de la Mare is ripe for rediscovery now. Signed & inscribed first edition of the author's second volume of poetry
Arthur Ransome: 'Swallows and Amazons. Illustrated by the author with help from Miss Nancy Blackett', London, Jonathan Cape, 1953, 'the first and only cheap edition...It will not be reprinted ... with all the illustrations and maps from the Standard Edition', b/w ills. throughout, map illustrated end papers/front pastedowns, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; together with J.M. Barrie: 'The Plays of J.M. Barrie', L, H & S, 1936 reprint, contemporary Admiralty fine prize binding, half navy morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, Admiralty emblem in gilt to front cover and with presentation bookplate to front pastedown (2)
(Topography), a collection of various topographical works, including Rev. F.O. Morris: 'A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland', London, William Mackenzie, c.1870, volumes 1 (2 copies), 5 & 6 only, numerous chromolithograph plates as called for, each 4to, variant original decorative morocco/cloth gilt bindings, all edges gilt; Lysons: 'Magna Britannia...Volume the Fourth, Containing Cumberland', L, 1816, 43 engraved maps, plans, views etc (some folding) as called for, 4to, old half calf gilt, 'Additional Plates...for the First Volume of Magna Britannia, Containing the Counties of Bedford, Berks, and Bucks', L, 1813, 12 engraved plates (some folding/coloured), 4to, old paper covered boards worn; Henry Nugent Bell: 'The Huntingdon Peerage', L, 1821, 2nd edition, engraved port. frontis + other port. plates, folding pedigrees etc, 4to, orig. paper covered boards worn; John Prince: 'The Worthies of Devon', L & Plymouth, 1810, new edition, 6 engraved portrait plates + 5 engraved plates of coats of arms as called for, 4to, contemporary half calf gilt; Thomas Dugdale: 'Curiosities Of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Historical, Entertainings Commercial Alphabetically arranged', London, Tallis, circa 1860, in 4 volumes, engraved frontispieces, title pages & numerous engraved plates & maps, uniform old calf gilt, plus volumes 4-10 of the same work, numerous engraved plates & maps, original cloth gilt, duplicate volume 4; plus 4 mid 19th Century Handbooks for Travellers published by John Murray, comprising '...Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire', 1859, folding map at end, '...Durham and Northumberland', 1864, folding map at end, '...Berks, Bucks & Oxfordshire', 1860, folding map at end, '...Kent and Sussex', 1863, lacks map, uniform old full calf gilt; '12 Views in North Wales...Pub. By G. Humphreys, Bangor', c.1846, 12 engraved views, each tissue guarded, oblong (approx 13 x 21cm), original wraps; plus 3 others similar (28)
Harold Pinter: 'No Man's Land', London, H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, 1975, 1st edition, signed limited issue, number 8 of 150 copies, numbered and signed by Harold Pinter to limitation page, original red and black cloth lettered in gilt. Pinter's play was first performed at the National Theatre on 23 April 1975 with a cast that included John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson
A collection of 30 modern first editions etc, including Ernest Hemingway 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', L, Cape, 1941, 1st edition, original cloth gilt; John Betjeman: 'Summoned by Bells', L, John Murray, 1960, 1st edition, orig. cloth, dust wrapper; plus others Angus Wilson, C.P. Snow, Len Deighton, Kingsley Amis, E.M. Forster, W.S. Maugham, Henry WIlliamson, Philip Roth etc (30)
Enid Blyton: 'Five on a Treasure Island', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1942, 1st edition, 32 full page black & white illustrations by Eileen Soper as called for, original pale blue cloth, lettered in black, facsimile dust wrapper (in very collectable condition, internally no previous owner names or inscriptions, leaves clean, externally cloth very slightly bumped and rubbed at corners/extremities, else cloth largely without any of the usual mottling and marking. A scarce first edition example of the first book in Enid Blyton's Famous Five series
A collection of fifty plus assorted poetry titles, mainly first editions, including Edward Lowbury; John Bratby (illustrated): 'Masada. Byzantium. Celle. Apocryphal Letters by Edward Lowbury', Sceptre Press Limited, 1985, limited edition (56/75), numbered & signed by the author and illustrator, original cloth gilt; William Scammell: 'A Second Life', Harry CHambers/Peterloo Poets, 1982, limited edition (13/50), numbered & signed, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Reg Gadney: 'Gone to Nagasaki', London, Downshire Press Editions, 1995, limited edition (51/75), numbered & signed, orig. card wraps, wove dust wrapper, orig. envelope; Alfred Lord Tennyson: 'In Memoriam A.H.H.', New York & London, The Bankside Press for M.H. Mansfield, 1900, limited edition, (65/100), inscribed to limitation page "This is No. 65 of 100 copies reserved for Great Britain...", rubricated initials from designs by Blanche McManus, original pictorial buckram gilt, top edge gilt; T.S. Eliot: 'The Elder Statesman', L, Faber, 1959, 1st edition, ex library, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; 'George Crabbe Poems. Selected and Introduced by Geoffrey Grigson', L, the Grey Walls Press Limited, 1950, 1st edition, orig. pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper (both by Leslie Atkinson); Walter de la Mare: 'Winged Chariot', L, Faber, 1951, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w (design on jacket taken from title page wood engraved vignette by Joan Hassall); Joan Edwards: 'Visitor's Book', L, The Epworth Press, 1960, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Aldous Huxley: 'The Cicadas and Other Poems', L, Chatto & Windus, 1931, 1st edition, original cloth, printed paper label to spine; E.M. Beloe: 'Nicholas Murford's Fragmenta Poetica. Greenland Fishery Museum Reprint, with Notes by Edward Milligen Beloe Coroner of King's Lynn in the County of Norfolk.', King's Lynn, printed by Thew & Son for subscriber's, [1914], large paper edition, this copy numbered 57 and signed in initials by E.M. Beloe, xxv,66pp, 4to, orig. printed wraps (worn); Christopher Hassall: 'Words by Request', L, Arthur Barker, 1952, limited edition (500), orig. cloth, acetate and paper dust wrapper; Paul Scott Mowrer; Emery Kelen (ill.): 'School for Diplomats', The Golden Quill Press, 1964, signed & inscribed by the author on FFEP, orig. leatherette boards, d/w; plus others Edward Thomas, George Crabbe, Beat poets, Zen Haiku, Art Garfunkel, Paul Dehn, Robert Bly, etc etc (50+)
Fr. Rolfe: 'Don Tarquinio. A Kataleptic Phantasmatic Romance', London, Chatto & Windus, 1905, first edition, first impression, in the first issue binding (of the 1011 sets of sheets printed only 650 were issued in the primary binding, the rest being sold off in cheaper formats over the ensuing decades), xiii,257pp + [6],32pp adverts at rear, original pictorial purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt
T.E. LAWRENCE (contributor); PIRIE-GORDON, H.: 'A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.... July 1917 to October 1918..', Cairo: Government Press, 1919. Quarto. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Printer Wrapper. Good+ / No Jacket. Original printed paper covers , slty marked and rubbed at lower edge and slight damage to final map. Contains two reports written by T. E. Lawrence, "Sherifian Co-Operation in September" and "Story of the Arab Movement", in which he details the Ashraf contribution to the War effort and narrates his own involvement in a third-person report, the first published account of the Arab campaign. Collates thus: [6], 113, [1pp]. and with 56 coloured maps. Collates thus- Portrait frontis, [vi, 113, [1], [ 56]pp. 56 maps with text as forementioned on facing leaves. Moderate crayon marks at foot of p. 13, slight tear to surface of map 56 measuring 0.75 x 0.75 cms
A collection of seventeen World War One related titles, several of which scarce personal narrative, first hand accounts etc., including the Rev. H.C. Foster: 'At Antwerp and the Dardanelles', London, Mills & boon, [1918], 1st edition, 8 black & white plates from photos as called for, lacks FFEP, original cloth; G.E.R. Gedye: 'The Revolver Republic. France's Bid for the Rhine', L, Arrowsmith, 1930, 1st edition, 25 b/w ills. from photographs as called for, original cloth gilt. Very scarce, probably the best contemporary British account of the occupation of the Rhineland; Cecil Sommers: 'Temporary Heroes', L, John Lane, 1917, 1st edition, frontis + 6 b/w plates as called for, original cloth gilt (worn); A.H. Tubby: 'A Consulting Surgeon in the Near East', L, Christophers, 1920, 1st edition, port. frontis + 15 b/w plates from photographs as called for, orig. cloth gilt; Julian Bell (edited): 'We Did Not Fight. 1914-18 Experiences of War Resisters', L, Cobden-Sanderson, 1935, 1st edition, various contributors incl. Bertrand Russell, Siegfried Sassoon etc, orig. cloth; Private Frank Richards: 'Old Soldiers Never Die', L, Faber, 1933, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt; Compton Mackenzie: Aegean Memories', L, Chatto & Windus, 1940, 1st edition, frontis + 7 plates & map at end as called for, orig. cloth gilt; Frederick Seymour Cocks: 'The Secret Treaties and Understandings. Text of the available documents, with introductory comments and explanatory notes by F.S.C., and a preface by Charles Trevelyan', L, Union of Democratic Control, [1918], 2 maps at end (on each side of one folding leaf) as called for, orig. card wraps, printed paper label to front cover and spine; Alfred Grosch: 'St. Pancras Pavements. An Autobiography', London, Catholic Book Club, 1947, orig. cloth, dust wrapper. Scarce title notable for its straightforward account of life as a P.O.W. in WW1; J.E. Buckrose: 'War-Time in Our Street', 1917, 1st edition, orig. pictorial cloth; John Irving: 'Coronel and the Falklands', L, Philpot, c.1920, orig. cloth gilt; The Rev. Francis Irwin: 'Stonyhurst War Record. A Memorial of the Part Taken by Stonyhurst Men in the Great War', The Authorities of Stonyhurst College, 1927, 1st edition, signed & inscribed presentation Stonyhurst College bookplate to front pastedown "To the Secretary, Imp. War Graves Commn. in gratitude for valuable assistance from the author - Francis Irwin S.J.", xxxiv,442pp., illustrations from photographs throughout, 4to, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt, dust wrapper. Scarce; 'The Legion Book', L, Cassell, 1929, 1st edition, printed at the Curwen Press, ills. in text including Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, CLare Leighton + 12 half tone plates as called for, produced in support of veterans of WW1, contributors include Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Wallace, Aldous Huxley, Edmund Blunden etc; plus 4 others similar (17)
Enid Blyton, 'Secret Seven', complete set of the 15 adolescent detective series novels, all 1st editions, 1st impressions, all published Brockhampton Press, Leicester, comprising: 'The Secret Seven', 1949, colour frontis & black & white ills. by George Brook, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Secret Seven Adventure', 1950, ill. George Brook, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Well Done, Secret Seven!', 1951, ill. George Brook, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Secret Seven on the Trail', 1952, ill. George Brook, orig. cloth, 'Go Ahead Secret Seven', 1953, ill. Bruno Kay, orig. cloth, 'Good Work Secret Seven', 1954, ill. Bruno Kay, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Secret Seven Win Through', 1955, ill. Bruno Kay, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Three Cheers Secret Seven', 1956, ill. Burgess Sharrocks, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Secret Seven Mystery', 1957, Burgess Sharrocks, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Puzzle for the Secret Seven', 1958, Burgess Sharrocks, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Secret Seven Fireworks', 1959, Burgess Sharrocks, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Good Old Secret Seven', 1960, Burgess Sharrocks, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Shock for the Secret Seven', 1961, ill. Burgess Sharrocks, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Look out Secret Seven', 1962, ill. Burgess Sharrocks, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Fun for the Secret Seven', 1963, ill. Burgess Sharrocks, orig. cloth, d/w. A collectable first edition set of the 15 full length Secret Seven novels (15)
Wilkie Collins: 'The New Magdalen', London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1873, 1st edition, 2 volumes, All details [except for binding] correspond exactly to description of first edition in the Bibliography of Collins by Parrish and Miller, and to Sadleir 600 and Wolff 1370, including ads to the rear of Vol. II. The binding is presumably recent and virtually pristine. Fine three quarter tan morocco over marbled paper covered boards by Stikeman & Co, spines gilt ruled in compartments, raised bands, top page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inner hinges all intact, text blocks tight. Pages all very clean with only the most occasional mild spot of foxing and just a touch of browning to page edges, no previous owner marks (2)
WALKER, JOHN. An Attempt Towards the Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England... In the Late Times of the Grand Rebellion. . London: J.Nicholson, 1714. First Edition. Containing parts 1 and 2. The projected part 3 was never published. Part 1. [iv], li, [xvii], -204pp. Part 2. 436pp, folio, contemporary, blind stamped, mid brown panelled calf, probably as bound by the publisher
Elizabeth Raffald: 'The Experienced English House-keeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, House-keepers, Cooks, &c. Wrote purely from Practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton', Manchester, Printed by J. Harrop, for the author, and sold by Messrs. Fletcher and Anderson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London; and by Eliz. Raffald, Confectioner, near the Exchange, Manchester, 1769, 1st edition, signed by the author to leaf A1 as usual (for copyright reasons) and with contemporary ownership signature above "Everina Nicholson her book the 4th of December", 2 folding engraved bills of fare as called for, iii,362,xipp + 2 leaves of plates at end, contemporary calf gilt (slightly worn). Mrs. Raffald spent fifteen years as housekeeper to Lady Elizabeth Warburton (to whom the work is dedicated), married the gardener, opened a confectioner's shop in Manchester and set up a cookery school. She went on to have fifteen daughters, run two inns, found Salford's first newspaper, establish a registry office for servants and compile Manchester's first Directory.
(Scotland), William Forbes: 'The institutes of the law of Scotland. Volume first : comprehending the private law: to which is subjoin'd, the constitution of the session, &c. and of the commission for plantation of churches, valuation of tithes, &c. with a scheme of the form of process observ'd in the courts', Edinburgh, W. Brown, 1722, 1st edition, volume I, viii,270pp + [1]pp publisher's advert at end, contemporary calf, gilt leather title label to spine; together with William Gilpin: 'Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain; Particularly the High-Lands of Scotland.', London, R. Blamire, 1789, 1st edition, 2 volumes in 1, 40 plates (comprising mainly aquatint views, plus some maps etc) as called for, contemporary calf gilt (2)
Albert Einstein, H.A. Lorentz, H. Minkowski & H. Weyl: 'The Principle of Relativity, A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity...with Notes by A. Sommerfeld, translated by W. Perrett and G.B. Jeffery', London, Methuen & Co., 1923, 1st edition, viii,216pp, ex library, inkstamp to recto and verso of title page, else no other library m,arkings, rebound cloth gilt, replenished EP's/front pastedowns. Many of the papers appear here in English in book form for the first time, notably Einstein's 'Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on its Energy Content?' [The E=MC2 Paper]. Uncommon. Weil 59a.
George Orwell: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', London, Secker & Warburg, 1949, 1st edition, 1st printing, original cloth (worn, boots label removed from front cover and rear pastedown, cloth at spine edges rubbed/frayed in places, spine a but sunned and with spotting, neat contemporary ownership inscription at head of front pastedown, else internally leaves clean/VGC, no other previous owner names or markings). A first edition copy of Orwell's classic dystopian social science fiction novel
NINE BOXED LIMITED EDITION ROBERT HARROP DESIGNS 'BEANO, DANDY CHRISTMAS' SCULPTURES, comprising a 2001 BDCS01 Plug & Wilfrid 'First Day of Xmas!', a 2003 BDCS03 Fatty 'Second Day of Xmas!' (holly leaf missing), a 2005 limited edition BDCS05 Danny & Smiffy 'Fourth Day of Xmas!' no 915/1000, a 2006 limited edition BDCS06 Teacher 'Fifth Day of Xmas!' no 650/750, a 2008 limited edition BDCS08 Toots & Sydney 'Sixth Day of Xmas!' no 6/400, a 2010 limited edition BDCS10 Lord Snooty, Snitch and Snatch 'Eighth Day of Xmas!' no 280/300, a 2011 limited edition BDCS11 Desperate Dan 'Nine Desperate Days of Xmas!' no 150/250, a 2013 limited edition BDCS13 The Beano Book 1975 'The 10th Day of Xmas!' no 11/200, and a 2013 limited edition BDMILL10 Billy Whizz 'The 11th Day of Xmas!' no 34 of a Harrop's Christmas Event, with certificate (9 + 9 boxes) (Condition Report: most appear ok, specific obvious damage as stated, minor wear to boxes)

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