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Click here to subscribeCHRISTIE, AGATHA: POIROT'S EARLY CASES London, Collins Crime Club, 1974.PRESENTATION COPY, signed and inscribed by the author on title page to her private secretary Daphne Honeybone (see above) in the year of publication. FIRST EDITION. 8vo., brown cloth, dust jacket. Small tear and a little creasing to jacket.
CHRISTIE, AGATHA; THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1921FIRST EDITION. 8vo., original tan cloth decorated and lettered in black, front of original and rare dust jacket affixed to upper pastedown. Later quarter blue morocco & marbled paper solander box. Slight wear to top of spine. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HER BROTHER-IN-LAW inscribed 'Abney' on the front free endpaper (the home of Christie's brother in law James Watts). ALS FROM THE AUTHOR dated Jan. 27th [1921] from her home at 8 Addison Mansions, Blythe Road W14 tipped in at the rear “My Dear Pop, The book is out at last….”. Inserted loose is a TLS FROM THE AUTHOR dated 7 June 1960 to the American collector James Keddie who then owned the book, explaining that it was sent to her brother-in-law at Abney Hall in 1921. Contemporary ‘Bookman’ book review tipped onto the lower free endpaper.Agatha Christie’s first book and the debut of Poirot.
Trevor Brooking 16x12 inch hand signed colour photo, Autographed Editions, Limited Edition. Photo Shows Brooking driving his countrys first goal for England Vs Hungary in a 3-1 victory in 1981. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
John Connelly 16x12 inch hand signed, black and white photo, Autographed Editions, Limited Edition. Photo Shows Connelly scoring Englands first goal against Sweden during a friendly at Wembley in 1959. Sweden won 3-2. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Bill Foulkes 12x16 Manchester United Signed, Colourised photo, Autographed Editions, Limited Edition. Photo shows captain Foulkes shaking hands with Sheffield Wednesday captain Albert Quixall before United's first game post Munich, 19th February 1958. FA Cup 5th Round. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Denis Law Scotland 12x16 Signed colourised, Autographed Editions, Limited Edition photo. Photo shows Denis scoring Scotland's first goal against World Cup Winners England at Wembley in 1967. Further goals from Lennox and McCalliog sealed a memorable 3-2 win for the Scots. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Denis Law Scotland 12x16 Signed colourised, Autographed Editions, Limited Edition photo. Photo shows Crerand and Henderson congratulating Law after his scored Scotland's first goal in a 2-2 draw with England at Wembley, during a home Internationals Game. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Steve Chalmers Celtic 16x12 inch Signed black and white, Autographed Editions, Limited Edition photo. Photo shows Chalmers heading Celtic's first goal against Dundee in the 1967 Scottish League Cup Final. Celtic scored 4 more goals in a 5-3 victory. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
FIRST EDITION' HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE',with dust jacket, along with two first editions of 'Order of the Phoenix', one with dust jacket, first edition 'The Deathly Hallows' with dust jacket, and three further volumes comprising 'Prisoner of Azkaban', 'The Goblet of Fire' and 'The Deathly Hallows', all with dust jackets (7)
Johann Christoph Volkamer (German, 1644-1720). Group of seven botanical engravings from "Hesperidum Norimbergebsium," First Latin Edition, Nuremberg: 1713. These hand-colored engravings depict large flowers and fruits in a Baroque style in front of views of gardens, palaces or villages in a German, Austrian, or Italian landscape.Provenance: W. Graham Arader III, Pennsylvania; Private collection, Minnesota.(Each) Sight; Height: 13 in x width: 8 1/4 in. Framed; Height: 20 in x width: 15 in.
Persian fables.- Sa'di. Select fables from Gulistan, or The bed of roses, translated by Stephen Sulivan, first edition in English, lacking half-title, small ink ownership stamp to verso of title, stained, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, covers detached, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for J. Ridley, in St. James's Street, 1774.⁂ A rare copy at auction of this landmark of Persian literature, with the last copy we can trace being in 1915. Its influence is found in La Fontaine and Voltaire, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who had addressed one of his own poems to Sa'di, provided the preface to Francis Gladwin's 1808 translation of Golestan.
Trollope (Anthony) Framley Parsonage, first edition, later one-volume issue, 6 wood-engraved plates after J. E. Millais, some light foxing, original cloth, joints and corners lightly scuffed, Smith, Elder & Co., 1861; The American Senator, first one-volume edition, half-titles, very occasional light spotting, gutter beginning to crack at hinges, endpapers renewed, original cloth, recased, spine rubbed, Chapman and Hall, 1877; John Caldigate, first edition, later one-volume issue, half-title, spotting, endpapers renewed, original cloth, spine a little toned and soiled, extremities scuffed, Chapman & Hall, 1879, [Sadleir c.f. 11, 46, 55], 8vo (3)
NO RESERVE Africa.- Moffat (Robert) Missionary Labours and Scenes and Southern Africa, first edition, colour Baxter print frontispieces, engraved vignette title, woodcut plates and illustrations, folding map, occasional heavy spotting, bookplate, previous owner's ink initials to title, contemporary diced calf, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, 1842 § The Life and Travels of Mungo Park, woodcut frontispiece, scattered spotting, bookplate, near contemporary calf, gilt, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, Edinburgh, n.d.; 8vo (2).
NO RESERVE Holroyd (Michael) Bernard Shaw, 3 vol., first edition, plates, original cloth, price-clipped dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, 1988-91 § Munnings (Sir Alfred) An Artist's Life, 3 vol., portrait frontispiece, plates, original cloth, housed in original slipcase, 2001 § Fridlander (Ernest D.) Matthew Maris, one of 750 copies, frontispiece, plates, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, 1921; and others biography, 8vo & 4to (c.80)
Physics.- Gamow (G.) Constitution of Atomic Nuclei and Radioactivity, folding table at end, publishers compliments slip loosely inserted, a few spots to title, two minor scratches to upper cover, dust-jacket, spine and extremities sunned with a few small chips, larger chip to upper panel, affecting two letters of title, small tears to lower joints, Oxford, 1931 § Heisenberg (Werner) Die Pysikalischen Prinzipien der Quantentheorie, first edition, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, photographic plate, cloth gilt, spine slightly sunned, lightly rubbed, a few spots of light soiling, Leipzig, 1930, numerous diagrams, margins and endpapers lightly toned, original cloth; and two others, an early English translation of the last, and a copy of Schrödinger's Four Lectures on Wave Mechanics, 8vo (4)
Fleetwood (William, Bishop) Chronicon Preciosum: Or, an Account of English Money, the Price of Corn, and Other Commodities, for the last 600 Years, first edition, bookplate to pastedown, light damp-staining, heavier to last few pp., contemporary calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed, light rubbing to extremities, [Goldsmiths' 4403], 8vo, Charles Harper, 1707.⁂ The first major attempt at an historical survey of prices, wages and incomes.
Baines (Edward) History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, first edition, extra-illustrated with 18 plates, some folding or double-page, contemporary ink ownership signature to half-title, portrait frontispiece offset to title, occasional spotting or foxing, modern burgundy half morocco, 8vo, [1835].
Coward (T. A.) The Vertebrate Fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay, 2 vol., first edition, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, scattered spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1910 § Carr (J. W.) The Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire, unopened, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, Nottingham, 1916 § Large (E. C.) The Advance of the Fungi, first edition, plates and illustrations, scattered spotting, bookplate, original cloth, light staining, chipping to spine extremities, 1940 § White (Gilbert) The Natural History of Selborne, frontispiece and illustrations by Claire Oldham, faint abrasion mark to front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight creasing to extremities, The Cresset Press, 1960; and others Natural History, v.s. (c.85)
Fielding (Henry) The Works, 4 vol., first edition, portrait frontispiece, occasional spotting, some light foxing to initial and final ff. (including some titles, endpapers etc), endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, rebacked, some repairs to corners, small amounts of scuffing to spine ends, A. Millar, 1762 § Pope (Alexander) The Poetical Works, 3 vol., near contemporary ink ownership inscriptions to titles, occasional spotting, mainly to endpapers, paper repairs to hinges, contemporary half calf, rebacked with morocco labels to spine, Glasgow, Andrew Foulis, 1785 § Rousseau (Jean-Jacques) Emilius; or, An Essay on Education, 2 vol., translated by Mr. Nugent, half-titles, 7 engraved plates, very occasional light marginal foxing or spotting, front endpaper vol. 1 coming loose, contemporary calf, spines gilt, joints cracking, light wear to spine ends and upper corners, lower corners with leather repairs, for J. Nourse and P. Vailant, 1763; and 3 others similar, v.s. (14)
NO RESERVE Silverware.- Pewter.- Oman (Charles) English Church Plate 597-1830, first edition, frontispiece, plates, faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, small loss and chipping to corners and extremities, 1957 § Kerfoot (J. B.) American Pewter, frontispiece, plates, original cloth-backed boards, small tape mark to upper cover, dust-jacket, rubbed, creasing and chipping to corners and extremities, New York, Bonanza Books, n.d. § A short history of The Worshipful Company of Pewterers of London and a catalogue of pewterware in its possession, 2 vol., plates, original boards, 1968-78; and others similar, v.s. (20).
NO RESERVE Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket a little frayed and soiled, 1930 § Thesiger (Wilfred) The Marsh Arabs, first edition, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket a little rubbed and frayed, 1964; and 9 others, literature, 8vo (11)
Potter (Beatrix) The Pie and the Patty-Pan, first edition, first printing with date on title and mottled lavender endpapers, colour frontispiece and 9 colour plates, plain illustrations in text, some light finger-soiling, a few marginal spots, occasional splitting at gutter, light browning to some endpapers, original maroon boards with mounted colour illustration, light rubbing and surface soiling, spine a little darkened, but a very good copy overall, [Linder p.425; Quinby 9], small 4to, 1905.
Collectables.- Forsyth (Hazel) & Geoff Egan. Toys, Trifles & Trinkets: Base-metal Miniatures from London 1200 to 1800, first edition, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight creasing to edges, 2005 § Wettergren (Erik) The Modern Decorative Arts of Sweden, illustrations, faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, rubbing to corners and extremities, 1927 § Parakilas (James) Piano Roles. Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, 1999 § Haskell (Arnold) Infantilia: The Archaeology of the Nursery, frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, slight rubbing, 1971; and others collectables, v.s. (50)
Hitler (Adolf) Mein Kampf, first illustrated edition in original 18 parts, photographic illustrations, some light toning, original pictorial wrappers, some surface soiling, issue 1 upper cover with some loss to extremities, a few covers detached, some joints starting, 8vo, 1939.⁂ Scarce in the original parts.
Potter (Beatrix) The Roly-Poly Pudding, first edition, first printing with "All rights reserved" to foot of title, colour frontispiece, pictorial title, 17 full-page colour illustrations and numerous plain illustrations in text, pictorial endpapers, some light finger-soiling, a couple endpapers very lightly foxed, original red cloth with mounted colour illustration, very lightly rubbed, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, but an excellent and bright example, [Linder p.427; Quinby 15], 4to, 1908.
King (John Glen) The Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church, in Russia, first edition, double-page engraved frontispiece, 12 engraved plates, title with engraved vignette, light spotting, hinges reinforced with paper, contemporary half calf, rebacked, 1772 § Vidy Pervoklassnogo Stavropigіal'nago Soloveckogo Monastyrja [Images of the Stravropegic Solovetsky Monastery of the First Order], 25 black and white photographic plates, hinges and first plate reinforced with paper at gutter, original cloth, rebacked, small amounts of soiling to covers, lightly scuffed, [c.1900], 4to and small oblong folio (2)
Economics, law & politics.- McCulloch (J. R.) The Principles of Political Economy, first edition, a few spots but mostly internally clean, modern cloth, spine faded and ends lightly rubbed, Edinburgh, for William and Charles Tait, 1825 § Bilhon (J. F.) Principes D'Administration et D'Economie Politique..., light marginal damp-staining, contemporary calf, rebacked, Paris, F. Louis, 1819 § Burlamaqui (J. J.) The Principles of Politic Law: Being a Sequel to the Principles of Natural Law, bookplate to pastedown, contemporary calf, lightly rubbed, for J. Nourse, 1752; and 9 others, similar, 8vo (12)
NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) Bleak House, first edition in book form, later issue, half-title, frontispiece, pictorial title and 38 plates by Halbot K. Browne, some light offsetting, occasional spotting, secondary binding variant, blind-stamped green cloth, portion of lower cover discoloured, spine faded, joints splitting with small tear to spine head, spine ends bumped, [Eckel pp.79-81; Smith I,10] Bradbury & Evans, 8vo, 1853.⁂ This secondary binding is identical to the primary cloth of Dombey and Son [Smith I, 8].
Trollope (Anthony) The Claverings, 2 vol., first edition in book form, 16 wood-engraved plates after M. Ellen Edwards (lacking tissue guards), single leaf of advertisements at rear of each vol., vol. 2 with manuscript bookplate to pastedown, also with first 12 ff. loose (including preliminaries), some light spotting and finger soiling, some cracking to hinges, original cloth, gilt and blind-stamped in black, some toning, mainly to spines, extremities rubbed, [Sadleir 27], 8vo, Smith, Elder & Co., 1867.⁂ This cloth is the variant noted by Sadleir, as opposed to the green cloth blocked only in gilt. He makes no distinction for primacy, but suggests that this present example being slightly more ornate hints at its earlier production.
Dickens (Charles) Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol., first one-volume edition, late issue, half-titles, additional pictorial title and 40 wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone, advertisement leaf at end, bookplate to endpapers, original cloth, small split to upper joint, extremities a little rubbed and bumped, [Eckel pp.94-5; Smith I,15], Chapman and Hall, 8vo, 1865.⁂ The additional pictorial title is a variant with Chapman and Hall's address given as 'Henrietta Street', where the publishers moved in 1880, as opposed to 'Piccadilly'. This may explain the variant green cloth.
Management Science.- Taylor (Frederick Winslow) The Priciples of Scientific Management, lacking front free endpaper, ink ownership inscription to half-title, spine slightly darkened, [PMM 403], 1911; Shop Management, folding table, light sunning to spine, 1911, first trade editions, original cloth; and the 1947 first combined edition including his testimony before the special house of representatives committee, 8vo (3)⁂ Frist trade editions of Taylor's landmark works on management science, the first voted the most influential management book of the twentieth century.
NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 vol. in 1, first edition bound from the original parts, wood-engraved frontispieces and illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne, occasional spotting and soiling but generally clean, near contemporary handsome green straight-grain morocco, gilt, spine gilt but a little faded, 8vo, 1840.
NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles editor) The Pic Nic Papers, 3 vol., first edition, frontispieces and 11 etched and lithographed plates by George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne and Day & Haghe, after Cruikshank, Browne and R. J. Hamerton, vol. 1 with small marginal repair to D3, occasional scattered spotting, bookplates of Thomas A. Stillman and Jessie Stillman Taylor, crushed green half morocco gilt by Mansell, spines gilt in compartments with initials "G. C." to foot, light rubbing to extremities, [Eckel pp.143-5], 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1841.⁂ This copy agrees with that cited by Eckel except that it does not contain the rare misprint on p.iii of the introduction, 'publisher young'. However, neither does it have the imprint of Cox & Son on the verso of the title page of volume I, which is cited by Eckel as a sign of a later issue.
Plautus (Titus Maccius) Marcus Accius Plautus, ex fide, atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum emendatus, edited by Denis Lambin, first edition, title with large woodcut printer's device, charming woodcut head-pieces, historiated and decorative initials, ruled throughout in red, errata and privilege ff. at end, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf panels with gilt arabesque centre-pieces laid onto modern calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red leather label, contemporary panels themselves worn in places, a wide-margined copy, [Adams P1500], folio (348 x 210mm.), Paris, [Jean Le Blanc, junior for] Jean Macé, October, 1576.⁂ Rare copy at auction of the first edition of this important and handsomely printed edition of Plautus. Lambin was Professor of Latin, and later Greek, at the Collège de France. Provenance: 'Bought this book at Chartres in France 1719' and a related bibliographical note beneath (ink inscription to front free endpaper).
Nicholson (Renton) Dombey and Daughter: a Moral Fiction, first edition, 12 wood-cut illustrations, double-page text column, some spotting or finger-soiling to margins, modern calf-backed boards, spine gilt, lightly faded, tall 8vo, [1847].⁂ A biting parody of Dicken's Dombey and Son by the promoter of the scandalous 'Judge and Jury' entertainments.
Dickens (Charles) Hard Times. For These Times, first edition in book form, first issue with p.244 misnumbered 44, half-title, occasional scattered spotting or light marginal finger soiling, original first state olive green cloth, priced 5/- at foot of spine, spine and cover margins toned, small chip spine foot, light bumping to spine ends and corners, but a sharp and excellent example overall, [Eckel p.131; Smith I,11], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1854.
East Asia.- Laures (Johannes) Kirishitan Bunko, A Manual of Books and Documents on the Early Christian Missions in Japan, first edition, very light spotting, some staining to last few leaves, mostly unopened, original upper printed wrapper bound in (some tape marks), contemporary cloth, tan morocco label to spine, lightly rubbed, lower cover with patch of staining, spine ends bumped, Tokyo, Sophia University, 1940 § Salaman (Malcolm C., editor) Elizabeth Keith, no. 9 in the Masters of the Colour Print series, 8 tipped-in colour plates by Elizabeth Keith with captioned tissue-guards, bookplate of M. Sheldon Ridge, publisher's review slip tipped-in to front free endpaper, some light scattered spotting, mostly to endpapers, original boards, paper labels to upper cover and spine, lightly rubbed and toned, a few chips to spine ends, 1933, 4to (2)⁂ The second depicting mainly Korean scenes, but also some of China and Hong Kong.
NO RESERVE Delany (Patrick) Eighteen Discourses and Dissertations upon Various very Important and Interesting Subjects, first edition, lacking initial errata leaf, L3 with small marginal loss, 2B2 with ink-stain to verso, scattered spotting, later half-morocco, bumping to corners and extremities, rubbed, 8vo, 1766.
[Evans (Marian)], "George Eliot". The Mill on the Floss, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, advertisement f. to vol. 1, vol. 3 with 16pp. advertisements at end, hinges weak, contents shaken, bookplates of C. P. Currie to pastedowns, original cloth (Carter variant B), vol. 1 with splitting to joints, spine ends and corners bumped with some fraying to spine ends, rubbing to extremities, [Carter, Binding Variants, pp.110-111; Sadleir 816], William Blackwood & Sons, 1860; and 4 others, the 1873 new edition of Middlemarch, 8vo (7)
Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord) Lara, A Tale, fourth edition, 4 engraved plates, 1 trimmed, 2 short marginal tears (pp.55-57), scattered faint spotting, contemporary owner's ink signature to title, previous owner's ink signature to endpapers, near contemporary morocco, gilt, g.e., slight rubbing to joints and extremities, 1814 § Yeats (Jack B.) The Amaranthers, first edition, half-title, previous owner's pencil signature, faint spotting to title, original cloth, small tear to spine head, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1936; and others, a mixed group, v.s. (34)
Machiavelli (Niccolò) Oeuvres de Machiavel. Nouvelle Edition. Augmenté de l'Anti-Machiavel & autres pieces, 6 vol., half-titles, titles in red and black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, vol. 3 1 folding plate and 7 folding tables, some light damp-staining (mainly vol. 1 and 3, mostly top edge), contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with morocco labels, vol. 1 spine and lower joint chipped, spine ends a little worn, small 8vo, The Hague, 1740⁂ The first edition of Machiavelli's works to include the rebuttal of Machiavelli's 'The Prince', composed by Frederick the Great of Prussia (1712-1786) and edited by Voltaire, here printed in vol. 6 as a parallel text as stipulated by Frederick.
New Naturalist.- Fitter (R. S. R.) London's Natural History, first edition, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, small tear and loss to spine head, chipping to corners and extremities, 1945 § Stamp (L. Dudley) Britain's Structure and Scenery, first edition, short tears to edges,1946 § Imms (A. D.) Insect Natural History, first edition, slight chipping to spine extremities, 1947 § Pearsall (W. H.) Mountains and Moorlands, first edition, ex-library with usual ink-stamps, cracked hinges, small library label to spine foot, 1950; plates, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket; and others from the New Naturalist series, mixed editions, 8vo (36)
Natural History.- Skues (G. E. M.) The Way of a Trout with a Fly, first edition, 1921; Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream and Kindred Studies, first edition, 1910, frontispieces, scattered spotting, original cloth, gilt, slight rubbing to corners and extremities § Witherby (H. F.) A Practical Handbook of British Birds. 2 vol., 30 plates, of which 11 colour, illustrations, scattered spotting, near contemporary half-morocco, a little rubbed, 1920 § Coston (H. E. Towner), F. T. K Pentelow & T. W. Butcher. River Management, the Lonsdale Library vol. XXIV, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, previous owner's ink inscription, original buckram backed boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, small tear to top edge, slight chipping and small loss to spine extremities, n.d.; and others similar, v.s. (c.40)
Trollope (Anthony) North America, 2 vol., 32pp. of advertisements dated October 1862 at rear vol. 1, half-titles, folding map (torn with tape repair, no loss, creased), bookplates, vol. 1 upper hinge with paper repair, lower cracked, initial pages with glue staining at gutter, very occasional light spotting or soiling, original cloth, spines sunned, spine ends a little torn, Chapman and Hall, 1862; South Africa, 2 vol., half-titles, folding colour map (with tear, no loss), double-page colour plate, 32pp. of advertisements dated November 1877 at rear vol. 2, vol. 1 gutter cracking at p.128, light spotting to initial pages, original cloth, spines toned, some light soiling and bumping, 1878, first editions [Sadleir 14, 48]; and a copy of West Indies and the Spanish Main, second edition, 8vo (5)
Trollope (Anthony) How the "Mastiffs" went to Iceland, first edition, colour map frontispiece, 14 lithographed plates and 2 mounted photographic plates, foxing throughout (including to plates), hinges weak, original blue cloth, gilt, some soiling, spine toned, extremities rubbed, g.e., [Sadleir 51], 4to, Virtue & Co., 1878.
Trollope (Anthony) Mr Scarborough's Family, 3 vol., first edition in book form, 32pp. of advertisements dated March 1883 to end of vol. 1, vol. 2 and 3 only with half-titles, vol. 2 library stamp to rear endpaper verso (coming loose), vol. 2 p.157 soiled, hinges renewed, original green-blue cloth decorated in brown, recased, spines very lightly toned, some light surface wear and soiling, a few very small tears at spine ends, [Sadleir 66], 8vo, Chatto & Windus, 1883.
NO RESERVE [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll".- [Reed (Latham R.)] Frankie in Wonderland. With apologies to Lewis Carroll, the original and pre-historian of the New Deal, first edition, original wrappers, some light marking and fading, 8vo, New York, 1934.⁂ A scarce anti-New Deal pamphlet.
Ireland.- Holmes (George) Sketches of some of the Southern Counties of Ireland collected during a tour in the Autumn, 1797, in a series of letters, first edition, 6 sepia aquatint plates by Alken after Holmes, 1 etched plate by Holmes, final f. with distances covered and errata, offsetting, C8 short tear at head, foxing, lightly browned, contemporary red half morocco, spine with later gilt, corners worn, rubbed, [not in Abbey], 8vo, J.D. Dewick for Longman and Rees, 1801.
Trollope (Anthony) The Fixed Period, 2 vol., first edition in book form, half-titles, ink ownership inscription front endpaper verso, vol. 1 gutter split at p.1, occasional light spotting or finger-soiling, staining from library labels to upper covers, William Blackwood and Sons, 1882; An Old Man's Love, 2 vol., first edition in book form, 4pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear vol. 2, bookplates, vol. p.137 torn with tape repair (affecting text, but no loss), occasional soiling, mainly marginal, hinges cracking, vol. 2 with small stain to spine, Blackwood and Sons, 1884; The Life of Cicero, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, ink ownership inscriptions, some foxing at initial and final ff., many ff. unopened, Chapman and Hall, 1880, first editions, original cloth, some toning, scuffing to extremities, [Sadleir 62, 69, 59]; and 3 others by the same, 8vo (9)
Dickens (Charles) A Child's History of England, 3 vol., first edition, vol.1 second issue, vol.2 & 3 first issue, frontispieces, bookplate to vol.1 &3 pastedown and endpapers, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spines rubbed and faded, spine ends bumped and frayed, 1853; The Christmas Numbers of All the Year Round, first collected edition, a few light scattered spots, modern biro ownership inscription to endpaper and endpaper, original green blind-stamped cloth, spine ends bumped but a very clean copy overall, [1868]; and 6 others by Dickens, v.s. (9)
NO RESERVE Okey (T.) Paris, one of 150 copies, illustrations, endpapers browned, some light spotting to endpapers, original decorative cloth, gilt, light bumping and creasing to extremities, 1904 § Webber (Andrew Lloyd, curator) Pre-Raphaelite and other Masters, first edition, signed presentation inscription from Webber to half-title, 2003; and 2 others, 8vo & 4to (4)
NO RESERVE Dickens (Charles) Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol., first one-volume edition, half-titles, additional pictorial title and 39 only (of 40) wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone, advertisement leaf at end, spotting, hinges weak, original cloth, small chip head of lower joint, spine ends bumped, extremities scuffed, [Eckel pp.94-5; Smith I,15], Chapman and Hall, 8vo, 1865.⁂ This particular variant green cloth binding similarly appears on the first one-volume edition of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844).
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