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Lot 175
Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, endpaper collage of Orwell's eyes, binder's "Certificate of Authenticity" leather label to rear pastedown, modern blue morocco in jacket design with skull buttons and white lettering "Winston Smith" to the left breast, onlayed prosthetic eye to tan morocco chest, spine lettered in white, 8vo, Secker and Warburg, 1949.⁂ This copy number 59 of 100 specially-bound copies.
Lot 176
Owen (Wilfred) Poems, first edition, photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, endpapers browned, original cloth, very light fading and soiling, spine ends bumped, but still overall an excellent copy, 4to, 1920.⁂ A remarkably crisp copy of this post-humously published collection of Owen's best-known war poems. Published by Seigfried Sassoon after Owen's death includes "Dulce et decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and "Strange Meeting".
Lot 177
Peake (Mervyn) Titus Groan, first edition, original cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed, dust-jacket, first state, torn along joints and spine, tape repairs, spine ends and lower fold head chipped, a few other small tears, spine toned, folds rubbed, 1946; Gormenghast, first edition, ink ownership inscription front pastedown, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, some tears along joints and folds, reinforced with paper and tape to verso, edges and folds worn, toning, 1950; Titus Alone, frontispiece, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, some toning and light surface soiling, a few small tears and chips, 1982; and 5 other first editions by the same, 8vo (8)
![Pevsner (N. B. L.) [The King Penguin Series], numbered 1-76, various editions though most first edition, some spotting or fox](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/05398481-71a3-49b2-9201-aea700bb7aff/24307a30-affc-42d2-b376-aea700c048e9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 178
Pevsner (N. B. L.) [The King Penguin Series], numbered 1-76, various editions though most first edition, some spotting or foxing, some endpapers browned, few with contemporary ink ownership inscriptions, original pictorial boards, rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, some with dust-jackets, rubbed, light chipping to extremities, 8vo, 1941-59.⁂ Most first editions, others first reprint. Detailed edition list available on request.
Lot 182
Powell (Anthony) Afternoon Men, first American edition, original cloth, light staining to upper cover, dust-jacket, very light fading to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, short vertical split to spine, some splitting to upper fore-edge, tear with creasing to upper panel, a few small nicks and tears with creasing to head and foot, extremities rubbed, 8vo, New York, 1932.⁂ Powell first novel, scarce.
![Powell (Anthony) Two Plays, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "John & Rosemary [Monagan] fro](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/05398481-71a3-49b2-9201-aea700bb7aff/75ef4de0-be6b-4a60-82f5-aea700c05be6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 186
Powell (Anthony) Two Plays, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "John & Rosemary [Monagan] from Tony. The Chantry, August, 1987" to endpaper, additionally signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, light toning, a few short closed tears to head and foot, 8vo, 1971.⁂ John Monagan (1911-2005), Conneticut politician and author who maintained and lengthy correspondence and friendship with Powell.
Lot 187
Powell (Anthony) O, How the Wheel Becomes It! , signed presentation inscription from the author "For Ronald Bottrall, Thank you so much for Against a Setting Sun, which I much look forward to reading in bed, which is my time for poetry" to endpaper, additionally signed by the author on title, some light toning to jacket, else fine, 1983; John Aubrey and his Friends, jacket with light browning, a few short tears with creasing to head of lower panel, 1948, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and the first American edition of the second, 8vo (3)
![[Russell (George)] "A. E.". Midsummer Eve, first edition, one of 450 copies signed in full by the author on half-title, bookp](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/05398481-71a3-49b2-9201-aea700bb7aff/2ee05566-ad7e-4d1f-9d6d-aea700beac6b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 19
[Russell (George)] "A. E.". Midsummer Eve, first edition, one of 450 copies signed in full by the author on half-title, bookplate of the Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo to front pastedown, letter from the Assistant Curator at Buffalo stating that the book was sold as a duplicate loosely inserted, original boards, light sunning to spine, New York, William Edwin Rudge for Crosby Gaige, 1928; Homeward Songs, fourth edition, signed in full by the author with verse quotation on endpaper, scattered spotting, light browning to endpapers, pencil note by Colin Smythe to pastedown "Given me by Iris Wise on 26 May 1990... marked by James Stephens in pencil possibly on contents by AE", original boards, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1908; Gods of War, first edition, loose in original wrappers, split to foot of spine, Dublin, 1915; The Renewal of Youth, first edition, bookplate of W. MacDonald Mackay to inside front cover, original wrappers, housed in folding chemise and custom slip-case, Orpheus Press, 1911; and 3 others, Russell, 8vo (7)
Lot 192
Rendell (Ruth) From Doon with Death, first edition, light foxing to endpapers, light edge-marking, original dark green boards, spine lettered in gilt, spine a little creased and rubbed, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light rubbing to extremities, some light creasing but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1964.⁂ The author's first novel, introducing Chief Inspector Wexford.
![NO RESERVE [Rivett (Edith Caroline)] "E.C.R. Lorac". The Sixteenth Stair, first edition, ex-libris to front free endpaper, or](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/05398481-71a3-49b2-9201-aea700bb7aff/6296c3ca-1551-4048-b517-aea700c018f1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 195
NO RESERVE [Rivett (Edith Caroline)] "E.C.R. Lorac". The Sixteenth Stair, first edition, ex-libris to front free endpaper, original cloth, top edge of spine and front cover slightly faded, dust-jacket price-clipped and with a few short tears tape repaired to verso and a few minor nicks to spine ends and corners, an excellent copy overall, 8vo, 1942.
Lot 196
Rosen (Michael) and Helen Oxenbury We're going on a Bear Hunt. first edition, first printing, pictorial boards, light marks to top edge and lower front board corner, head of spine slightly bumped, lacks dust-jacket, within clear protective wrapper, oblong 4to, 1989; Sendak (Maurice) Where the Wild Things Are. first Library edition, first printing, pictorial boards, dust-jacket unclipped, Harper Crest gilt sticker to inside front flap, further within clear protective wrapper, half-title, Library of Congress catalogue card number 63-21253 on title page, a near fine copy, oblong 4to, 1963. (2)
Lot 2
Buchan (John) Sir Walter Ralegh, The Stanhope Essay, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to C. H. Dick dated "July '97" to front endpaper, browning to endpapers, bookplate of John Buchan to rear pastedown, original cloth, spine a little darkened, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, 1897.⁂ Rev. Charles Hill Dick, author of Highways and Byways in Galloway and Carrick and occasional correspondent of Buchan's.
Lot 20
Yeats (William Butler) Where There Is Nothing. Being Volume One of Plays for an Irish Theatre, number 47 of 100 copies on japan vellum, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, some light creasing to head and foot, light rubbing, but a clean and excellent example overall, [Wade 45], 8vo, New York, 1903.⁂ This edition referred to by Wade as the large paper first American public edition. Rare.
![NO RESERVE Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter's School Books [comprising:] Quidditch Through the Ages [and] Fantastic Beasts and Whe](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/05398481-71a3-49b2-9201-aea700bb7aff/6d20734c-07a2-43ae-8277-aea700bf519b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 201
NO RESERVE Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter's School Books [comprising:] Quidditch Through the Ages [and] Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, first editions, original wrappers, overall fine, 2001 with original plastic wrapper, opened, lightly creased, plus Hogwarts Library sticker; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first paperback edition, original pictorial wrappers, some light fading to spine, very light scuffing to edges, overall near fine, 1998; and 4 others by the same and Robert Galbraith, v.s. (7)
Lot 204
Rushdie (Salman) The Ground Beneath Her Feet, one of a limited edition signed by the author, full black morocco, g.e., cloth slipcase, sunned along one edge, lightly scuffed, 1999; The Moor's Last Sigh, one of a hundred copies signed and numbered by the author, full green morocco, spine lightly toned with three small water stains, cloth slipcase, 1995; and 6 other first editions by the same, of which 2 signed by the author, 8vo (8)
Lot 206
NO RESERVE Russell (Bertrand) History of Western Philosophy, first edition, original cloth, lightly spotted, dust-jacket, extremities a little chipped and creased, otherwise a very clean copy, 8vo, 1946.⁂ A survey of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic philosophers to the early 20th century, it was criticized for Russell's over-generalization and omissions, particularly from the post-Cartesian period. Yet when Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, it was later dubbed as one of the books that won him the award and provided Russell with financial success and acclaim.
Lot 211
NO RESERVE Shaw (George Bernard) Cashel Byron's Profession, first edition, title browned, scattered spotting, original light blue wrappers printed in black and red, toned and spotted, spine browned and chipped at ends, housed in custom-made slip-case, 8vo, 1886.⁂ Preceded only by two Fabian Society pamphlets, published in 1884 and 1885.
Lot 214
NO RESERVE Sillitoe (Alan) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, first edition, A.L.s signed to "Bill" loosely inserted, light spotting to endpapers and preliminaries, original cloth, dust-jacket, joints a little rubbed, small amounts of chipping at ends and corners, glue staining along lower flap edge, 1958 § Storey (David) Flight Into Camden, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, some light surface soiling and toning, joints, folds and extremities a little rubbed, 1960; Flight Into Camden, uncorrected proof copy, original wrappers, spine creased, 1960, 8vo (3) ⁂ The signed autograph note from Sillitoe thanks the recipient for a copy of a review of "SNASM" by the journalist Cecil Roberts.
Lot 216
NO RESERVE Spark (Muriel), "Muriel Camberg". "Dust" in Gillespie's High School Magazine, original wrappers, fore-edge lightly spotted, covers a little toned, 1934 § Hollinghurst (Alan) "Isherwood is at Santa Monica" in Sycamore Broadsheet 22, single f., Sycamore Press, Oxford, 1975 § Duffy (Carol Ann) Meantime, first edition, Whitebread Book of the Year Award Winners bookmark loosely inserted, original wrappers, lightly scuffed, 1993; and 4 others, poetry, 8vo (7)⁂ The first constitutes Muriel Spark's first appearance in print, from herself as a girl in 'Form 3. A.', and the second is Hollinghurst's respective first poetry printing whilst completing his Masters at Oxford.
Lot 218
NO RESERVE Stapledon (Olaf) Star Maker, half-title, title with light spotting and a very few other light instances, gutter slightly cracking at p.116, original pictorial wrappers, some very light damp-staining and toning, spine slightly creased, 1937 § Crichton (Michael) Westworld, black and white photographic illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, two very small scuffs to spine foot, 1974 § Haldane (J. B. S.) My Friend Mr Leakey, illustrations by L. H. Rosoman, half-title, light finger-soiling to title, original cloth, dust-jacket, some toning, spine with chip at head and centre, also with small tears along joints and foot, folds and edges lightly creased or scuffed, 1937, first editions, 8vo and 12mo (3)⁂ Chichton's Westworld was never published in hardback, making the paperback the true and first edition. Published by Bantam in New York, this is a rare UK first print copy with the "40p" overprint on upper cover.
Lot 22
Yeats (William Butler) Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, first edition, plates, decorations and illustrations by Norah McGuinness, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, gilt, very light rubbing to spine tips and corners, else fine, dust-jacket, slight darkening to spine, short tear to head of upper joint, light creasing to head, some light marking to upper panel, but a near-fine copy generally, [Wade 157], 8vo, 1927.
Lot 221
NO RESERVE Stone (Irving) Those Who Love: a Biographical Novel of Abigail and John Adams, first edition, signed and inscribed by author, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, 4 tears, tape repairs to verso, slight creasing to edges, a little rubbed, 8vo, New York, 1965.
![NO RESERVE [Sutor (Allain)] "Unknown Soldier". Somnolia, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to en](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/05398481-71a3-49b2-9201-aea700bb7aff/dc9d41c2-3a27-4bde-81c7-aea700bf8eee/468x382.jpg)
Lot 223
NO RESERVE [Sutor (Allain)] "Unknown Soldier". Somnolia, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to endpaper, original cloth, light rubbing to extremities, Kinnaird Head Press, 1934 § Wolfe (Tom) The Bonfire of the Vanities, first English edition, light marginal toning, original boards, dust-jacket, very light sunning to spine, light creasing to head and foot, 1988; and 12 others, modern literature, 8vo (14)
Lot 224
Tartt (Donna) The Little Friend, one of 350 copies signed by the author, on title, original rexine-backed boards, slipcase, lightly sunned at edges, 2002 § Byatt (A. S.) The Children's Book, one of a limited edition signed by the author, original pictorial boards, spine foot a little bumped, dust-jacket, decorative slipcase, 2009 §Hornby (Nick) About A Boy, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine lightly sunned, some light creasing to spine ends and edges, 1998; and c.110 others twentieth century literature, 8vo (c.110)
Lot 226
Thomas (Dylan) Under Milk Wood, first edition, signed presentation inscription from Richard Burton to endpaper, ownership stamp and erased address to front free endpaper, original cloth, slight shelf lean, spine a little dulled, spine ends and corners a little rubbed and bumped, 8vo, 1954.⁂ Burton famously voiced the First Voice for the BBC 1954 recording. Thomas died in 1953, prior to the publication of this complete edition. Copies signed by Burton are rare.
Lot 230
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, fourth impression, contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, 1955, The Two Towers, second impression, third impression jacket, 1955, The Return of the King, first edition, first impression, with signature mark '4' and sagging text to p.49, 1955, folding maps, original cloth, spine ends bumped and creased, first and third lightly marked and soiled, dust-jackets, spines toned, second joint splitting, last lacking lower cover, rather creased with frayed edges, torn with portions of loss to spine ends, corners chipped, 8vo.
Lot 233
Tutuola (Amos) The Palm-Wine Drinkard, first edition, browning to endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, original cloth, light sunning to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, spine a little dulled, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head, a very good copy, 8vo, 1952.⁂ Tutuola's first book and the first African novel published in English outside of Africa. The Palm Wine Drinkard was reviewed enthusiastically by Dylan Thomas and was translated into French by Raymond Queneau.
Lot 234
Verne (Jules) Around the World in Eighty Days, translated by Geo. M. Towle, first English edition, engraved frontispiece and 53 plates, 48pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated October 1873, school prize bookplate, some light spotting and occasional soiling, gutter split, contents shaken, several plates loose or working loose, hinges cracked but holding, original blue pictorial cloth, gilt, spine sunned with 25mm tear at centre, ends a little chipped, covers with some staining and discolouration, g.e., 8vo, 1874 [but 1873].
Lot 235
Waugh (Evelyn) Labels, first edition, frontispiece and plates, bookplate to endpaper, original cloth, spine slightly faded, light sunning to upper and lower edge, dust-jacket, Book Society label to upper panel as issued, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, and few short tears to head with creasing, light spotting, a very good example, 8vo, 1930.
Lot 236
Waugh (Evelyn) They Were Still Dancing, first American edition, original cloth, light surface soiling to spine, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, a few short closed tears with creasing to head of spine and joints, some light surface soiling, but overall a sharp and excellent example of a rare jacket, 8vo, New York, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931.⁂ An excellent example of the first American edition of Remote People, rare in this or any condition.Waugh fell out with Cape & Smith after they reneged on their agreed advance of $600, based on the poor sales of Labels (published in the U.S. as A Bachelor Abroad). Incensed, Waugh broke off relations with Cape & Smith and took They Were Still Dancing to Farrer & Rinehart. The print run had already taken place however, therefore the preliminaries of the Farrer & Rinehart edition had to be published as cancels, and the cloth binding still carried the Cape & Smith logo. It is impossible to know the exact number of the 1931 first edition that were sold, but it has been estimated that there might be as few as 150 copies in existence, including those without dust-jackets.
Lot 237
Waugh (Evelyn) Remote People, first edition, plates, folding maps (1 a little creased), light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short splits to head and foot of joints and upper fore-edge, light creasing to head and foot, light marking to upper panel, a very good example overall, 8vo, 1931.⁂ A difficult title to find in the dust-jacket.
Lot 239
Waugh (Evelyn) Black Mischief, first edition, map frontispiece, book label of Derek Marlowe to front free endpaper, original cloth, very light sunning to spine, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, tear to head of lower joint and lower for-edge, old tape to verso with some show-through to upper and lower panels, light creasing to head and foot, 8vo, 1932.⁂ Derek Marlowe (1938-96) English author and screenwriter.
Lot 24
NO RESERVE Ackroyd (Peter) Country Life, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, 1978; London Lickpenny, Ferry Press, 1973; Ouch, [?one of 200 copies], 1971, original wrappers; and 3 others by Ackroyd, one signed by the author, 8vo (6)⁂ The second, Ouch, is Ackroyd's first published piece and one of his more scarce works.
Lot 240
Waugh (Evelyn) Black Mischief, first American edition, title illustration, pictorial endpapers, original cloth, sunning to spine, light wear to lower corners, dust-jacket, light browning and creasing to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, neat strengthening tissue repairs to verso, some light surface soiling, but a very good example overall, 8vo, New York, 1932.
Lot 242
Waugh (Evelyn) Scoop, first edition, first issue with 'as' in last line of p.88, bookplates and label to pastedown, original patterned cloth, light fading to spine, ends a little bumped and creased, first state dust-jacket with the Daily Beast masthead, worn with various and significant portions of loss, joints splitting, tape-stained, 8vo, 1933.⁂ Waugh's classic on the world of Fleet Street journalism, with the original dust-jacket issued before Lord Beaverbrook threatened to sue due to the obvious visual play on the Daily Express.
Lot 243
Waugh (Evelyn) Scoop, first American edition, light marking to endpaper, original cloth, light toning to covers, minor bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head and foot, light surface soiling, short split to head of fore-edges, but a very good copy overall, 8vo, Boston, 1938.
Lot 244
Waugh (Evelyn) Put Out More Flags, first edition, scattered spotting, name partially erased from front free endpaper, slight shelf-lean, jacket spine sunned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, creasing to head and foot, small chip to lower fore-edge, light surface soiling, 1942; Put Out More Flags, first American edition, light tape marking to endpapers, light bumping to spine tips and corners, jacket spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corners chipped, light creasing to head and foot, extremities a little rubbed, New York, Boston, 1942, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (2)
Lot 245
Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited, first edition, some light creasing to title, original cloth, light sunning to spine, dust-jacket, spine browned, light toning to panels, internal chip towards head of spine, chipping to head of panels, split to foot of upper joint, but a very good example overall, 8vo, 1945.
Lot 246
Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited, first American edition, one of 600 copies, original cloth, light sunning to spine, slight fraying to head of spine, dust-jacket, spine browned, browning to spine and panels, spine ends and corners chipped, chipping to head of lower panel, light surface soiling, extremities rubbed, split to fore-edges, Boston, 1945; and the first American trade edition of the same, 8vo (2)
Lot 251
Waugh (Evelyn) Basil Seal Rides Again, first edition, 1963; Basil Seal Rides Again, first American edition, Boston, 1963, limited editions signed by the author, colour frontispiece by Kathleen Hale, original blue cloth with gilt decoration to upper cover, mylar dust-jackets, chipped at head and foot with some loss, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to (2)
Lot 252
NO RESERVE Weighell (Ron) The White Road, first edition, one of 400 copies, signed by the author to title, press order form loosely inserted, original pictorial cloth, 1997 § Machen (Arthur) Ritual and Other Stories, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little marked, light soiling to spine head, The Taurus Press, 1992, and another, horror, 8vo (3)⁂ An excellent group of scarce horror titles.
Lot 254
NO RESERVE West (Rebecca) The Return of the Soldier, first edition, contemporary pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light browning to half-title, original cloth, fore-edges spotted, spine a little faded and ends bumped but still a remarkably sharp and excellent copy overall, 8vo, 1918.
![Wilde (Oscar) Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play about a Good Woman, first edition, [one of 500 copies], 16pp. publisher's catalog](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/05398481-71a3-49b2-9201-aea700bb7aff/c488b3c3-57f7-4804-a4c4-aea700bfcd3f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 256
Wilde (Oscar) Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play about a Good Woman, first edition, [one of 500 copies], 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, library blindstamps to several pages, occasional light finger-soiling or spotting, original lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, recased, toning to spine and edges, uncut, [Mason 357], 8vo, 1893
Lot 257
NO RESERVE Williams (Tennessee).- Women: A Collaboration of Artists and Writers, first edition, signed presentation inscription "For Jordan [Massee] and Paul [Bigelow] with love at Xmas, Tenn[essee Williams] and Frank [Merlo] to endpaper, 11 mounted plates, loose as issued, some very light marginal toning, small patches or browning to endpapers, photograph of Williams and Merlo loosely inserted, cloth-backed stiff wrappers, dust-jacket designed by Paul Rand, some light chipping and creasing to head and foot with neat tape repairs to verso, [Crandell B15], 4to, New York, Samuel M. Kootz, [1948].⁂ A lovely association copy of this rare publication.Samuel Kootz held the exhibition "Women" at his gallery in 1947 featuring works by Picasso, Braque and other gallery artists. The present work joined 11 of the works exhibited to original essays by 11 writers including Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre and William Carlos Williams. Inscribed to Paul Bigelow (1905-88), playwright and one of Williams' closest friends, and Jordan Massee, cousin and close friend of Carson McCullers. Williams visited Massee at his family home at Macon, Georgia and there was introduced both to the larger-than-life William Jordan Massee senior, who formed the basis of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Big Daddy, and to the clandestine world of young gay men in Georgia who's secretive and at times tortured lives would provide a theme that ran through much of Williams' work. For more on Jordan Massee see lots 57, 59 and 320. Frank Merlo (1922-1963) was Williams' partner of 15 years, representing by far the most stable relationship Williams experienced. Merlo's death in 1963 was a crisis for Williams and marked the start of steady and tragic decline.
Lot 26
Adams (Douglas) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first edition, one or two very minor instances of light finger-soiling, original cloth, small amount of sunning to spine head and top edge, dust-jacket, second state, lower panel blank without Capricorn One advert, sunning to spine, some light bumping along top edge, price clipped, overall a bright and excellent copy, 8vo, 1979.
Lot 264
Wyndham (John) The Midwich Cuckoos, first edition, half-title, occasional marginal spotting, ex-library copy lacking free endpapers, old tape marks to pastedowns, weak upper hinge, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, slight chipping to spine extremities, small tear to spine head, 1957 § Waugh (Evelyn) Officers and Gentlemen, first edition, stain to p.21, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, chipping and small loss to corners and spine extremities, rubbed and worn, a little stained, 1955 § Wells (H. G.) The Fate of Homo Sapiens, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, short tear to spine foot, slight creasing to extremities, 1939; and others, many first editions, 8vo (c.95)
Lot 265
Yeats (William Butler) Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, first edition, mounted colour frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats, tears to backing of frontispiece, original pictorial cloth, gilt, very light sunning to spine, dust-jacket priced at 6/-, browning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, creasing to head and foot, light spotting and soiling to panels, extremities rubbed, [Wade 113], 8vo, 1916.⁂ Rare in the dust-jacket, we can trace no other example at auction.
Lot 266
NO RESERVE Yeats (William Butler) Responsibilities and other Poems, first edition, embossed presentation stamp on title, original pictorial cloth, gilt, dust-jacket slightly frayed and chipped, half-inch piece missing from foot of spine, a couple of small splits at fold of front flap, [Wade A115], 8vo, 1916.⁂ The presence of the rare dust-jacket has ensured that the pictorial cloth beneath, designed by T. Sturge Moore, remains in beautifully bright and clean condition.
Lot 28
Amis (Kingsley) One Fat Englishman, signed presentation inscription from the author "A first edition at last to good old Bryan [Forbes]" to endpaper, 1963; Ending Up, presentation inscription "Kingsley Amis raises a glass to Bryan Forbes" to title, tipped in f. with additional inscription from Amis to Forbes at front, light creasing to endpaper, dust-jacket for The Riverside Villas Murder bound at rear, 1974, first editions, bookplate of Bryan Forbes to front pastedowns, attractive 20th century red half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, 8vo (2)⁂ Bryan Forbes (1926-2013), film director, screenwriter, producer and author, adapted Amis' novel That Uncertain Feeling for film.
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