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MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 120mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Mild toning, offsetting to endpapers, some spotting to fore-edge.) Original salmon cloth, t.e.g. (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (minor marks to upper panel, rubbing to spine ends).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BEWICK, Thomas. History of British Birds. Newcastle: by Sol Hodgson, for Beilby and Bewick, 1797-1804. 2 vols., first editions. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations and vignettes, advertisement for the fourth edition of 'A General History of Quadrupeds' verso last leaf volume 1. (Toning, occasional faint spotting.) [Bound with:] 'A Supplement to the History of British Birds'. Parts 1 and 2. Newcastle: Edward Walker, 1821. (Toning.) 8vo (234 x 143mm.) Late 19th century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, t.e.g. (sunning to spines, endpapers replaced, rubbing and scuffing to extremities). Note: the vignette of the pigsty on p.285 is partially inked out (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WHEATLEY, Dennis. Saturdays With Bricks. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1961. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (248 x 142mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Minor spotting to title-page, toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small tear to corner of upper panel, some finger-marks, nick to spine). Note: Dennis Wheatley's hobby was bricklaying and even though his house in Lymington was demolished the year after he sold it in 1968, the crinkle-crankle wall (or 'crinkum crankum', or 'serpentine', or simply, the 'wavy wall') that he built along Church Lane- still remains. Provenance: G.A.G. Badley (inscribed to by the author on the title-page.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BINDING. - [Frances G. KNOWLES-FOSTER.] 'F. Rylston Var'. The Witch of Knaresbro', an Historical Romance. Ripon and London: William Harrison and Son and Simpkin, Marshall et al., 1921. Second edition, 8vo (183 x 117mm.) Frontispiece of Knaresboro' Castle after Bernard Evans with tissue-guard, extra-illustrated with four further plates, bound-in 'Author's Note' in vari-coloured manuscript hand, red silk moiré covered endpapers. (Some spotting to title-page, toning.) Bound by Cedric Chivers, Bath, in red morocco with original hand-painted figure of the witch to the upper cover in red, black and green and gold with decorative gilt borders, gilt turn-ins, g.e. Note: in the 'Author's Note' Knowles-Foster writes that she was only a teenager when this novel was first published in 1904, and that subsequently she now feels able to use her own name rather than the pseudonym. She was also known as the 'yachting authoress' who often took her small yacht 'The Enchantress' up the Thames and was a friend to the novelist William Hope Hodgson. Provenance: Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (bookplate to the front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

LEWIS, C.S. The Last Battle. London: The Bodley Head, 1956. First edition, first impression, 8vo (196 x 132mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text by Pauline Baynes. (Minor spotting to preliminaries and occasionally within.) Original blue cloth (sunned to spine ends, lightly bumped), dust-jacket (minor loss to spine ends, chipping to extremities). - And a further six volumes by C.S. Lewis (reprints, comprising 'The Chronicles of Narnia', 1956-1963, 8vo) (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WAUGH, Evelyn. Mr. Loveday's Little Outing, and Other Sad Stories. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1936. First edition, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) Frontispiece by Thomas Derrick. (Toning, minor spotting to first and last leaves.) Original red cloth, black lettering ('flexiback' reinforcement to hinges as issued, staining and fading to covers), dust-jacket (price-clipped, chafing to spine ends, minor scuffing to spine panel).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WAUGH, Evelyn. Work Suspended, Two Chapters of an Unfinished Novel. London: Chapman & Hall, 1942. First edition, limited to 500 copies only, 8vo (186 x 119mm.) (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust-jacket (minor spotting to upper cover panel, fading to spine). Note: in his preface to Mr Woollcott, the American critic, Waugh wrote that he felt this work contained his best writing but that it was not suited to the world since the outbreak of war, since that world had 'ceased to exist'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

LEE, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. London: Heinemann, 1960. First U.K. edition, 8vo (196 x 124mm.) (Toning, endpapers browned.) Original maroon cloth (extremities bumped), dust-jacket (spotting to inner flaps, chipping and small tear at top of spine panel). Provenance: I. Gaunt (name inscribed on the front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, second impression, 8vo (187 x 123mm.) (Marginal spotting from pp.18-26, and to fore-edge, crayon mark to front-free endpaper.) Original black cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (offsetting to inner flap, spotting to spine panel). - And a further two volumes by Ian Fleming (a sixth impression of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', 1964, 8vo, and a fourth impression of 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', 1963, 8vo) (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

HAMP, Pierre. Kitchen Prelude (Mes Métiers)… translated from the French by Dorothy Bolton. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1932. First U.K. edition, 8vo (185 x 120mm.) 2pp. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Toning, faint spotting to preliminaries, odd spots of minor staining.) Original pale blue cloth (sunned to spine), dust-jacket (spine panel browned with chipping to ends and small, closed tear, slight spotting to lower panel). Note: rare. Known for writing about the working conditions of his age, Pierre Hamp [Henri Bourrillion] here writes of his early years as a pastry chef and cook at the Savoy and Berkeley hotels in London, the Restaurant Marguery in Paris, and also the Metropole in Brighton.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

PRATCHETT, Terry and Neil GAIMAN. Good Omens. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1990. First edition, 8vo (228 x 148mm.) (Toning, small mark on p.3.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small stain to lower panel, lightly rubbed). - And a quantity of approximately seventy-eight further volumes by Terry Pratchett (including 'The Compleat Discworld Atlas', 2015, 8vo) (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

CLARKE, Harry (illustrator). - Edgar Allan POE. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1919. First edition, 4to (267 x 203mm.) 24 black and white plates by Harry Clarke. (Toning, occasional browning.) Original reversed calf, t.e.g. (some loss to spine ends, upper cover warping).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

FRANCIS, Dick. Come to Grief. London: Michael Joseph, 1995. First edition, signed by Dick Francis, 8vo (232 x 148mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket (bumped at top of spine). Note: the inscription reads: 'Michael and Monica, we will surely miss seeing you both so often here on Grand Cayman's, but Mary and I send you our love and very best wishes, and hope it won't be long before our paths cross once again'. Provenance: 'Michael and Monica' (gift inscribed to on the half-title). - And a further nine volumes, all signed (10).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WORSLEY, Richard. The History of the Isle of Wight. London: A Hamilton, 1781. First edition, 4to (291 x 229mm.) Large folding engraved map of Isle of Wight by John Haywood with partial outline hand-colouring, 31 engraved plates, including 12 double-paged, 1 double-paged printed genealogy, several engraved tail-pieces. (One plate with minor marginal insect-damage, some pencil annotation, minor offsetting at B1.) Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (split to the lettering piece, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: John Walker-Heneage (bookplate to the front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WAUGH, Evelyn. Scoop. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1933. First edition, 8vo (185 x 120mm.) (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original snakeskin patterned cloth (lightly rubbed spine ends). - And a further eight volumes by Evelyn Waugh, all first editions (except 'Decline and Fall', fifth impression, 1930, 8vo) (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. First edition, deluxe issue, 8vo (182 x 116mm.) Illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Some browning to endpapers.) Original red limp calf, pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, g.e. Provenance: 'I.F.E.B' (ink inscribed to half-title and with the words 'a momento of a very pleasant memory').Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

COOKERY. - Austin de CROZE. What to Eat and Drink in France. London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1931. First edition, 8vo (186 x 122mm.) 29pp. index to rear. (Toning, spotting to the half-title, marginal tears to p.249, p.251 and p.309, offsetting to endpapers.) Original grey pictorial cloth with blue lettering (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket designed by M.H.B.J. (minor staining and crease to lower panel, two neat repairs verso, price-clipped). Note: scarce. Austin de Croze wrote on folk-lore and music but his work on gastronomy has been more significant and his focus on regional food has led him to being considered an originator of the 'food heritage movement'. Provenance: 'Olive and Will' (gift inscribed from on the half-title).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

CRUIKSHANK, Robert (illustrator). Brighton!! A Comic Sketch. London: William Kidd, 1830. First edition, 12mo (160 x 99mm.) Four wood-engraved illustrations. (Toning, 2 leaves lacking to rear.) Original printed paper wrappers, string-bound (upper cover detached). Provenance: West Sussex County Council (label and stamp verso upper cover). - And a further fourteen volumes relating to Sussex (including [Edward Berens'] 'The Smuggler. A Tale', 1823, 12mo, and 'C.D.''s 'Mrs. Wiggens's Trip to Sea, July 1842', 1843, 8vo) (15).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

INTERIORS. - Oliver MESSEL. In the Theatre of Design. New York: Rizzoli International, 2011. First edition, 4to (310 x 259mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original pink cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of approximately sixty volumes relating to interiors and furniture (including 'Masterpieces of English Furniture, the Gerstenfeld Collection', edited by Edward Lennox-Boyd, 1998, 4to). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MACPHERSON, James. The Poems of Ossian. London: W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1784. 2 vols., new edition, 8vo (220 x 128mm.) (Toning, occasional browning, marginal damp-staining to first leaves of volume one and last leaves of volume two.) Contemporary calf (rubbing to all extremities and wear to spine ends, minor staining, scuffing). Provenance: Robert Sherson (armorial bookplates to front pastedowns) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: Viking Press, 1952. First edition, first issue, 8vo (210 x 141mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (small closed tear at base of spine, chafing to spine ends, small loss to lower panel). Note: with 'bite' for 'bight' on p.281 and $4.50 price on the inner flap.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

NORFOLK. - Edmund BARTELL. Observations Upon the Town of Cromer, Considered as a Watering Place, and the Picturesque Scenery in its Neighbourhood. Holt: for John Parslee, 1800. First edition, small 4to (203 x 122mm.) Oval aquatint frontispiece, 1pp. errata to rear. (Mild toning.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (lacking calf to corners, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Sarah Davies (name inscribed to initial blank); William Davies (name inscribed to initial blank).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

KIPLING, Rudyard. Letters of Travel (1892-1913). London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920. First edition, with mounted signature of Rudyard Kipling, 8vo (196 x 121mm.) 4pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, mark to title-page, browning to initial blank.) Original red cloth (bumped to spine ends). Note: the mounted signature reads 'With all our greetings, most sincerely, Rudyard Kipling'. Provenance: Olivia Boddam (bookplate to front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BINDINGS. - William C. A. BLEW. Brighton and Its Coaches, a History of the London and Brighton Road. London: John C. Nimmo, 1894. First edition, 4to (251 x 1623mm.) (Toning, lacking all plates.) Bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e. (spotting to lower cover, faint mark to upper cover). - And a further fifty volumes, mainly of literary interest. Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (51).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BERRY, William. County Genealogies. Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Sussex. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First edition, folio (344 x 215mm.) Numerous hand-coloured crests. (Browning, occasional spotting, marginal tear with loss to p.209, repairs to half-title.) Near contemporary black half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced, rubbing to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WAUGH, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good. London: Duckworth, 1946. First edition, 8vo (216 x 132mm.) Portrait frontispiece in colour, folding map. (Toning, spotting verso the frontispiece.) Original yellow cloth (slightly browned spine ends), dust-jacket (some chipping, short marginal tears, nicks to upper panel). - And a further three volumes by Evelyn Waugh ('The Holy Places', 1952, 4to, 'A Little Learning', 1964, 8vo, and 'Helena', 1950, 8vo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

ANTIQUE & ART REFERENCE. - Andy McCONNELL. The Decanter, an Illustrated History of Glass from 1650. Suffolk, Woodbridge: Antique Collector's Club, 2004. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (273 x 218mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of approximately fifty-five volumes related to art, antique reference and interiors (including 'The First Georgians, Art & Monarchy 1714-1760', 2014, 4to). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

AFRICA. - F.L. JAMES. The Unknown Horn of Africa, An Exploration From Berbera to the Leopard River. London: George Phillip & Son, 1888. First edition, first issue, 8vo (226 x 154mm.) Half-title, 19 plates, including 9 hand-coloured lithographs of natural history subjects, mainly birds by Keulemans. (Lacking four plates and the folding map to rear, toning, occasional minor soiling.) Original brown cloth with pictorial gilt (covers weakened, rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WOOLF, Virginia. Flush. London: Hogarth Press, 1933. First edition, large paper copy, 8vo (214 x 134mm.) Photographic frontispiece, 9 further plates including 4 illustrations by Vanessa Bell. (Toning to text and plate margins.) Original tan cloth (some spotting to upper cover and spine), dust-jacket (toning, minor staining to upper panel, closed marginal tear to lower panel).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MANTELL, Gideon Algernon. The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition, 4to (308 x 232mm.) Half-title, 4pp. 'Subscribers', 42 aquatint plates engraved by Mrs. Mantell, including 1 hand-coloured map, 1 folding plate and 1 double-paged, 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Browning, occasional minor spotting especially to plate margins, 9 of the plates are facsimiles including 1 folding and 1 double-paged, front blank replaced and rear blank lacking.) 20th century brown half morocco over brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine (endpapers replaced, bumped and rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Alex E. Murray (ink inscribed to half-title and title page); West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedown and stamps to title-page).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail Book. London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1930. First edition, first issue, 8vo (191 x 122mm.) Numerous illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold, the tipped-in 'Bacardi Cocktail' slip on p.25. (Toning, minor marks to p.11 and p.53.) Original boards with art deco design (surface abrasion to lower cover, spine seam split and upper cover weakening, rubbing to extremities). Note: first issue with the numbered title-page.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

ROBINSON, W. Heath. Uncle Lubin. London: Grant Richards, 1902. First edition, small 4to (202 x 153mm.) Numerous illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Six or seven illustrations with later crayon hand-colouring, lacking frontispiece and front-free endpaper, toning.) Original pictorial cloth (hinges weakening, soiling to covers and fading to spine, rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine. An Invention. London: William Heinemann, 1895. First edition, 8vo (176 x 113mm.) Half-title with 1p. advertisement for 'The Pioneer Series' verso, 32pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning, spotting to last few leaves of advertisements and both endpapers, C8 and F8 with marginal tears, no loss.) Original publisher's oatmeal buckram with author's monogram to lower cover and the sphinx to the upper cover (faint mark to upper cover). Note: the advertisements begin with 'Donovan Pasha' by Gilbert Parker and end with Gabriele D'Annunzio's 'The Virgin of the Rocks', indicating slightly later-issue advertisements. 'The Time Machine' was Wells' first work of fiction and the also the first work of science fiction to involve time travel.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MOTOR-RACING. - Maurice HAMILTON. Formula One: The Champions. London: White Lion Publishing, 2020. First edition, first impression, 4to (305 x 238mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Slight toning.) Original pictorial boards. - And a further thirty volumes relating to classic cars and motor-racing (31).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

DIXON, Frederick. The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex. London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1850. First edition, 4to (309 x 240mm.) Half-title, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 44 lithographed plates, including 2 hand-coloured and 2 double-paged. (Toning, occasional chipping or small, marginal tears, minor marginal soiling to first few leaves, lacking blanks, ink number on title and stamp verso.) 20th century green half morocco over green cloth-covered boards (rubbing with surface loss to spine, extremities rubbed and marks to lower cover, endpapers replaced). Provenance: West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedown and front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

GAUDIER-BRZESKA, Henri. - Horace BRODZKY (introduction). Gaudier-Brzeska Drawings. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1946. First edition, 4to (275 x 216mm.) Tipped-in colour plates, black and white illustrations after Gaudier-Brzeska. (Toning, occasional corner crease.) Original pictorial cloth (lightly bumped). - And a further eighteen volumes of art reference (including Andrew Wyeth's 'The Helga Pictures', 1987, 4to) (19).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

STEWART, Basil. Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1922. First edition, folio (378 x 230mm.) Numerous colour and monochrome plates, captioned tissue-guards. (Spotting to pastedowns and occasionally within, toning.) Original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket with mounted illustration (chipping, creasing to extremities, a damp-stain at spine). Note: scarce in the dust-jacket.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

MILNE, A.A. Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 120mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Toning, offsetting to half-title and last leaf, minor spotting to fore-edge.) Original red cloth, pictorial gilt, t.e.g. (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (browning to spine panel, light rubbing to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

DIXON, Frederick. The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex. London: Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850. First edition, 4to (316 x 261mm.) Half-title, hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 44 lithographic plates, including 2 hand-coloured and 2 double-paged, index and 'Corrigenda' to rear. (Browning and spotting to plate margins and verso and to preliminaries- which are loosening, initial blank replaced.) Original blind-stamped cloth (rebacked, endpapers replaced). Provenance: Charles Hickman (gift inscribed to verso the dedication); J.H. Raymond de Jersey (ink name to initial blank).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

COUNTRY HOUSES. - Nicholas COOPER. Houses of the Gentry 1480-1680. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. First edition, 4to (284 x 240mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. Note: an accessible work from the one of the most authoritative writers on country houses. - And a quantity of approximately forty further volumes relating to country houses (including John Martin Robinson's 'Requisitioned, the British Country House in the Second World War', 2014, 4to). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

HERON-ALLEN, Edward. Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth & Co., 1911. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (307 x 236mm.) 3 folding maps in pocket to rear, numerous plates. (Light browning, labels to pastedowns and stamps verso the title-page, scattered spotting.) Original cream buckram, paper label to spine (minor soiling to covers, small area of loss to cloth of lower cover). Provenance: Worthing Public Library (bookplate to the front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WAUGH, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1945. First edition, 8vo (184 x 114mm.) (Mild toning.) Original red cloth (slight fading at spine ends), dust-jacket (browned to spine, chipping at top of spine panel, lightly rubbed).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

[BRONTE, Charlotte.] 'Currer Bell'. Shirley. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. 3 vols., first edition, 8vo (185 x 104mm.) 3pp. 'Jane Eyre' advertisement to rear of volume 3. (Lacking half-titles and the 16pp. catalogue, toning, spotting to titles, two endpapers with corner loss and 'Contents' leaf of volume 2 torn with loss.) Near contemporary black half morocco over black buckram (volume 1 with boards detached and spine lacking, rubbing to all extremities). Note: Charlotte Bronte's third novel. Provenance: William Hale-White ['Mark Rutherford'] (bookplates to the front pastedowns, and name inscribed verso front-free endpapers) (3).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] 'Lewis Carroll'. Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Being a Facsimile Of The Original MS. Book Afterwards Developed Into 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. First edition, 8vo (186 x 123mm.) Half-title, 37 illustrations by the author. (Mild toning, faint crease to front-free endpaper.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering, g.e. (spine slightly sunned).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

CRIME. - Billy HILL. Boss of Britain's Underworld. London: The Naldrett Press Ltd., 1955. First edition, 8vo (214 x 137mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original black cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (some loss to extremities). Note: a mentor to the Kray twins, Hill organised the £254,000 mailbag robbery of 1952 and the bullion robbery of 1954. During this time his bodyguard was 'Mad' Frankie Fraser. In the 1960's, after the publication of his autobiography, he worked with John Aspinall at the Clermont Club to fleece wealthy patrons at the gaming tables. He retired in the 1970's. - And a further three volumes relating to crime (including Leslie Payne's 'The Brotherhood', 1973, 8vo, and Henry Ward and Tony Gray's 'Buller', 1974, 8vo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: for Egoist Press by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. First U.K. edition, number 661 of 2000 copies, 4to (221 x 170mm.) Half-title, 2 initial blanks, 8pp. errata to rear. (Toning, spotting to blanks and occasional spotting to text, browned to margins, 1 initial blank a replacement, lacking blank to rear, a printing error on p.398, marginal loss and slight soiling to p.247, small mark to p.705.) Mid-20th century blue half morocco bound by Ramage, t.e.g. (slight fading and staining to upper cover, endpapers replaced). Note: due to censorship over 500 copies of this print run were destroyed by custom officials on both sides of the Atlantic.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WILDE, Oscar. De Profundis. London: Methuen and Co., 1905. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 121mm.) 40pp. publisher's catalogue to rear dated March 1905. (Spotting to front and rear leaves.) Original blue cloth, gilt ruled, t.e.g. (mark to upper cover, light rubbing.) Provenance: Viscount Birkenhead (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a second edition of the same volume (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

HICKS, David. On Living - With Taste. London: Leslie Frewin, 1968. First edition, 4to (305 x 232mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original turquoise cloth (lightly bumped), dust-jacket (toning). - And a further six volumes by David Hicks (including 'On Decoration- with Fabrics', 1971, 4to). Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (7).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

WAUGH, Evelyn. Black Mischief. London: Chapman and Hall, October 1932. First edition, 8vo (186 x 117mm.) Frontispiece map. (Minor marginal spotting to a few leaves.) Original snakeskin patterned cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (browned to spine, slight marginal creasing, small crease to inner flap).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

ART DECO. - Claude LINOSSIER (illustrator) and Maurice de GUERIN. Le Centaure. Lyon: Audin pour Le Cercle Gryphe, 1929. Limited edition of 133 copies only, this being unnumbered and out-of-series, 4to (282 x 229mm.) 73 woodcuts by Phillipe-Charles Burnot after designs by Claude Linossier in red and black, many enhanced with silver. (Spotting to the first quire, toning.) Original card covers, unbound as issued (light rubbing to extremities). Note: the first book published by the Le Cercle Gryphe and the only book illustrated by the Art Deco coppersmith Claude Linossier.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

ROBINSON, Charles (illustrator) and H.D. LOWRY. Make Believe. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1896. First edition, 8vo (188 x 119mm.) Frontispiece with tissue-guard, numerous black and white illustrations. (Browning to endpapers, toning.) Original green cloth with pictorial gilt to upper cover and spine, g.e. (minor staining to covers). - And a further nine volumes of children's literature (including 'Jack and the Beanstalk', illustrated by George Cruikshank, [circa 1865], 4to, and Kate Greenaway's 'The Language of Flowers', [circa 1884], 8vo) (10).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

HERBAL. - James NEWTON. A Compleat Herbal… containing the Prints and the English Names of Several Thousand Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Flowers, Exotics, &c. London: E. Cave, 1752. First edition, 8vo (186 x 111mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece of J. Newton, 175 engraved plates, 7pp. 'Index' to rear. (Browning to title, marginal paper repair to plate 145.) Near contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (some loss to the lettering piece, light rubbing). Note: Newton was a botanist and physician, but he also ran an asylum for the mentally ill in London. He began his herbal in 1680 but died before it was completed and it was published posthumously by his grandson. Provenance: Antonia Hengitt (name inscribed to front pastedown); Francis Hengitt (name inscribed to front pastedown); E.R. Massy (pencil name inscribed to initial blank).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

PHOTOGRAPHY. - André de DIENES. The Nude. London: The Bodley Head, 1956. First edition, 4to (273 x 208mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning, browning to front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth (bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket (rubbing to extremities). - And a quantity of books relating to photography and cameras (including John Everard's 'In Camera', 1957, 4to, and Tony Armstrong Jones' [Lord Snowdon] 'London', 1958, 4to) (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

ONORATI, Marsilio. Vita di Giesv Christo Redentor Nostro, Cauata da gli Euangelisti e da quell oche ne scriuono i sacri Dottori. Roma: Francesco Caualli, 1641. First edition, 4to (211 x 150mm.) Engraved frontispiece with architectural design, colophon to rear, 63pp. 'Indice'. (Browning throughout, light to moderate spotting, creasing to frontispiece.) Contemporary vellum (heavily browned, rubbed to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BUDGEN, Richard. The Passage of the Hurricane, from the Sea-side at Bexhill in Sussex, to Newingden-Level, the Twentieth Day of May 1729, between Nine and Ten in the Evening. London: John Senex, 1730. First edition, 4to (213 x 129mm.) Original card wrappers bound-in, manuscript titling to upper cover. (Toning, stamps to title and verso and margins of some leaves.) 20th century green cloth, gilt lettering to spine (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Worthing Library (bookplate to front pastedown and stamps to margins). - And a further four volumes relating to Sussex (including 'A Tour to Worthing, or, Idle Hours Not Idly Spent, containing A Slight Sketch of the Country, Anecdotes, &c', 1805, 8vo) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

[HALASZ, Gyula.] 'Brassaï' (photographer). - Daniel Henry KHANWEILER. The Sculptures of Picasso. London: Rodney Philips, 1949. First English edition, 4to (310 x 236mm.) Numerous uncoloured photographic illustrations by Brassaï, text translated from the French by A.D.B. Sylvester. (Toning, spotting to pastedowns and front-free endpaper.) Original black cloth-backed pictorial boards (lettering faded to spine, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: 'Bernard' (gift inscribed to in green ink on the front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

HILL, John. The British Herbal: an History of Plants and Trees, Natives of Britain, Cultivated for Use, or Raised For Beauty. London: for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1756. First edition, large paper copy, folio (448 x 281mm.) Engraved allegorical frontispiece and 75 engraved plates all hand-coloured in a contemporary hand, title in red and black, engraved title vignette and dedication with engraved coat-of-arms also hand-coloured, double-column text, 3pp. index to rear. (Light spotting to title-page, browning and intermittent spotting, plate 1 and 39 with corner losses, first text leaves with heavier spotting.) Contemporary calf with foliate gilt to spine compartments (lacking lettering piece, fading to gilt, rubbing to extremities, joints splitting). Provenance: Charles Butler Clough (armorial bookplate to the front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

HERBAL. - Joseph MILLER. Botanicum Officinale; or a Compendious Herbal: Giving an Account of all such Plants as are now used in the Practice of Physick, with their Descriptions and Virtues. London: E. Bell, 1722. First edition, 8vo (198 x 119mm.) Engraved headpieces and initials, 10pp. 'Index Rerum' to rear, 10pp. 'Table of English Names', 2pp. 'An Explanation of Some Abbreviation…'. (Occasional spotting and minor soiling, marginal tear to *3, initial blank replaced, illegible names inscribed to rear pastedown.) Contemporary calf, brown morocco lettering piece to spine (spine ends and corners repaired, minor scuffing). Provenance: Robert Willan (armorial bookplate to front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

SARRATT, J.H. A Treatise on the Game of Chess. London: William Miller, 1808. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (209 x 126mm.) (First blank loosening in vol. 1, toning, lacking half-titles?) Contemporary mottled calf (lacking lettering pieces, one present but detached, upper cover of volume 2 loosening, extremities rubbed). Provenance: 'Allsopp' (name inscribed to second blanks). Note: known as 'the Professor of chess', J.H. Sarratt was a pupil of Verdoni and became renowned as a player and teacher in London in the early 19th century, and the first great English writer on chess (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.

BINDING. - Arthur RACKHAM (illustrator) and [Richard Harris BARHAM]. 'Thomas INGOLDSBY'. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1898. First Rackham edition, 8vo (186 x 117mm.) 12 colour plates by Rackham, numerous illustrations in the text. (Mild toning, spotting to preliminaries.) Near contemporary red crushed morocco, gilt crossed swords as corner-pieces, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (rubbed to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.