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KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. First edition, 4to (231 x 172mm.) Numerous illustrations by the author. (Toning, occasional soiling, tear to p.87, hinges cracked, spotting to pastedowns.) Original red pictorial cloth (fading, wear to spine ends). Note: second state binding. Provenance: John G. Wilson (pencil inscribed to front pastedown). - And a further seven volumes, including three works by Lewis Carroll in facsimile first editions ('Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', 1984, 8vo, and two copies of 'Through the Looking-Glass', 1984, 8vo) (8).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and the Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition, first impression, 8vo (186 x 122mm.) (Toning, slight spotting to fore-edge.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further five volumes related to James Bond (including Ian Fleming's 'The Man With The Golden Gun', 1965, 8vo, and John Gardner's 'Licence Renewed', 1981, 8vo) (6).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. - Alfred NOYES (editor). The Magic Casement, an Anthology of Fairy Poetry. London: Chapman & Hall, [1908.] First edition, 8vo (192 x 138mm.) Introduction and notes by Alfred Noyes, illustrations by Stephen Reid. (Toning.) Original red cloth, decorative gilt to upper cover and spine (slight dulling to spine, spine ends bumped). Provenance: E.H. Brandt (ink name inscribed and stamp to front-free endpaper). - And a further five volumes (including J.H. Dowd's 'Mr Punch Among the Children', 1934, 4to, and A.A. Milne's 'Once On a Time', 1917, 8vo) (6).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

MURDOCH, Iris. The Bell. London: Chatto & Windus, 1958. First edition, first printing, 8vo (197 x 126mm.) (Toning, some spotting to fore-edge.) Original green cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (minor chipping to extremities, some corner loss to lower panel). Provenance: Margaret E. Morris (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And a further sixteen volumes by Iris Murdoch, all first editions, except a signed, fourth impression of 'The Nice and the Good', 1969, 8vo) (17).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first impression, inscribed by actress Martine Beswick, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Mild toning, small mark to front-free endpaper.) Original black cloth with skeletal hand blind-stamped to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine (small mark to upper cover), dust-jacket (extremities bumped). Note: Martine Beswick played 'Paula Caplan' in the 1963 film of Thunderball. James Bond and Paula go undercover in search of two missing atomic bombs. Paula is captured but, rather than divulge information, she commits suicide by cyanide. Martine Beswick also played the gypsy girl 'Zora' in 'From Russia With Love'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

EVELYN, John. Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions… as it was Deliver'd in the Royal Society the XVth of October MDCLXIV upon Occasion of certain Quaeries Propounded to that Illustrious Assembly by the Honourable, the Principal Officers, and Commissioners of the Navy. London: by Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry for the Royal Society, 1664. First edition, folio (308 x 190mm.) Title in red and black with engraved vignette of the Royal Society coat-of-arms, 3 parts in 1, with 'Sir Paul Neile's Second Paper' bound-in after F2, the 'Animadversion' leaf after C4, woodcut illustrations of implements at P4, separate titles for 'Pomona' and 'Kalendarium Hortense', errata leaf to rear. (Marginal paper repair to title and with browning, minor soiling, some heavy marginal spotting, marginal paper repairs and damp-stain to A3 and B1, finger-marks.) Near contemporary calf, later red morocco lettering piece to spine (rubbed to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

GREENE, Graham. The Quiet American. London: William Heinemann, 1955. First edition, first printing, 8vo (196 x 125mm.) (Toning, marginal spotting to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth (some fading to spine, slight spine lean), dust-jacket (browning to lower panel). - And a further first printing by Graham Greene ('Our Man in Havana', 1958, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

RABELAIS, Francis. The Works…Now carefully revised, and compared throughout with the late new Edition of M. Le du Chat, by Mr Ozell. London: J. Brindley and C. Corbett, 1737. 5 vols., first English Collected edition, 12mo (164 x 90mm.) 15 engraved plates, including 10 folding and 1 map, titles in red and black. (Browning throughout, occasional spotting, lacking blanks to vol. 1, corner cut to initial blank of vol. 2.) Near contemporary calf, later red and green morocco lettering pieces to the spines (spines rubbed with loss to gilt, some spine ends chipped). Provenance: Charles Western, Whig politician (name ink inscribed verso frontispiece of vol. 1.); Thomas Western, Liberal M.P. (bookplates to front pastedowns); R.F.W. Brandt (small stamps on front-free endpapers) (5).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

BURTON, Richard F. The Memorial Edition of the Works of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton. London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893-1894. 7 vols., 8vo (211 x 131mm.) 2 frontispieces, a folding map, 13 plates and 3 folding plans in 'A Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah', 2 frontispieces to 'A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome', 1 frontispiece to 'Vikran and the Vampire, or, Tales of Hindu Devilry', 2 frontispieces, 2 plates and 2 maps to 'First Footsteps in East Africa', 2 publisher's promotional slips. (Toning, corner crease to frontispiece of vol. 1 of 'A Mission to Gelele', occasional minor spotting to front and rear leaves.) Original black cloth, pictorial gilt to covers (minor rubbing, occasional scuffing or nicks to covers) (7).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

ARCHITECTURE. - Peter Frederick ROBINSON. Designs for Ornamental Villas. London: James Carpenter and Son, 1827. First edition, 4to (287 x 231mm.) Letterpress title, 96 lithographic plates, including 17 mounted on India paper. (Lacking decorative title, occasional spotting and browning.) Contemporary green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, g.e. (light rubbing). Provenance: Joseph Neeld, politician (armorial bookplate to front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

JAMES, Montague Rhodes. More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. London: Edward Arnold, 1911. First edition, 8vo (211 x 140mm.) Half-title, advertisement leaf and 24pp. publisher's catalogue to rear. (Mild spotting to front and rear leaves, occasionally within.) Original grey pictorial cloth (slight browning to spine and extremities, light rubbing). Provenance: E.H. Brandt (pencil name inscribed to front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen, 1926. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 120mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Mild toning, browning to endpapers.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (bumped to extremities, some rubbing to upper cover). Provenance: 'Pipsy Choodlekins' (inscribed to in pencil verso p.xiv). - And a further first edition, first impression, of the Christopher Robin books ('Now We Are Six', 1927, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First edition, first state, 8vo (188 x 121mm.) (Mild toning, browning to front-free endpaper.) Original black cloth, Japanese characters in gilt to upper cover, silver lettering to spine (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (slight chipping to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

SIGNED BOOKS. - Wladziou Valentino LIBERACE. Liberace Cooks! Recipes From His Seven Dining Rooms… as told to Carol Traux. New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1971. First edition, signed by Liberace and Carol Traux, 8vo (232 x 150mm.) Numerous colour photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original white-backed blue cloth (minor spotting to spine). - And a further forty-three volumes, mainly autobiographical, all signed or autographed (including Spike Milligan's 'Monty, His Part in my Victory', 1976, 8vo, and Ken Russell's 'A British Picture', 1989, 8vo, and Janet Dunbar's 'Flora Robson', 1960, 8vo, which is signed 'from the victim of this book, best wishes, Flora Robson') (44).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

COOKERY. - Marco Pierre WHITE. White Heat. London: Pyramid Books, 1990. First edition, signed by Marco Pierre White, 4to (309 x 240mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations by Bob Carlos Clarke. (Toning.) Original grey boards, dust-jacket (closed tear to upper panel). - And a further signed volume by Marco Pierre White (the 25th anniversary edition of 'White Heat', 2015, 4to) (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

RAVILIOUS, Eric (illustrator) and J.M. RICHARDS. High Street. London: the Curwen Press for Country Life Ltd., 1938. First edition, 8vo (229 x 146mm.) Wood-engraved vignette to the title-page, 24 lithograph plates by Eric Ravilious. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial boards (some wear to top of spine and spine seam, rubbing to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. First edition, 16mo (138 x 100mm.) Half-title, frontispiece, 26 colour plates. (Frontispiece loose, toning, occasional finger-mark.) Original green cloth, mounted colour plate to upper cover (spine ends bumped, small mark to upper cover). [Linder, p. 429]. - And a further thirteen volumes by Beatrix Potter (including first editions of 'The Tale of Pigling Bland', 1913, 16mo, and 'The Tale of Tom Kitten', 1907, 16mo, and 'The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies', 1909, 16mo) (14).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The Great Gatsby. London: Grey Walls Press Limited, 1948. First U.K. edition, 8vo (185 x 119mm.) (Toning, several leaves with minor marginal marks.) Original green cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (significant loss to spine panel, soiling to lower panel). - And a further twenty volumes of 20th century literature (including a first printing of C.S. Lewis' 'Broadcast Talks', 1942, 8vo) (21).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FURNITURE. - Susan E. STUART. Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (303 x 234mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original brown cloth, dust-jackets, slipcase. - And a further thirty volumes, mainly relating to furniture (including Roberto Papini's 'Decorative Arts and Architecture of the 1920's', 2005, 4to) (32).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen, 1926. First edition, first impression, 8vo (187 x 125mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Mild toning, browning to endpapers.) Original green cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (lightly bumped to extremities). Provenance: E.M.E. (inscribed to in ink on initial blank). - And a further two books for children ('Chinese Fairy Tales, Told in English' by H.A. Giles, 1920, 16mo, and 'The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book', 1933, 8vo) (3).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

COUNTRY HOUSES. - Eileen HARRIS. The Country Houses of Robert Adam. London: Aurum Press Limited, 2007. First edition, 4to (305 x 248mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further forty volumes relating to country houses (including Roger White's 'Cottages Ornés', 2017, 4to) (41).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. The Man With The Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, 8vo (186 x 124mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth (spine ends lightly bumped, bookseller's label to front-free endpaper), dust-jacket (slight creasing to spine ends, small marks to upper panel). Note: second state binding with no golden gun to upper cover.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

WODEHOUSE, P.G. Hot Water. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1932. First edition, first printing, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) 8pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear. (Browning, light spotting to preliminaries.) Original orange cloth stamped in black (sunning to spine and margins). Provenance: 'Jane' (name inscribed to bottom edge). - And a further forty volumes by P.G. Wodehouse (including 'Mulliner Nights', 1933, 8vo) (41).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First U.K. edition, 8vo (189 x 117mm.) (Light spotting to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket designed by John Austen (chipping and tears to spine ends). - And a further three volumes by Sinclair Lewis (including 'Martin Arrowsmith', 1925, 8vo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

MINTON, John (illustrator) and H.E. BATES. The Country Heart. London: Michael Joseph, 1949. First edition, signed by John Minton and H.E. Bates on the half-title, 8vo (199 x 125mm.) (Mild toning.) Original beige cloth (lightly bumped spine ends).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

JOHNSON, Boris. The Churchill Factor. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014. First edition, signed by the author on the half-title, 8vo (234 x 149mm.) (Mild toning.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. Note: includes a photocopy of a photograph of the author at the event where the book was signed. - And a further six volumes of signed books (including Peter Mayle's 'A Year in Provence' signed by both author and the illustrator, 1989, 4to, and 'Glyndebourne, a Celebration' containing the signatures of, among others, Jane Glover and Peter Hall, 1984, 8vo) (7).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

KAFKA, Franz. The Trial… translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. First edition, 8vo (184 x 123mm.) (Toning.) Original blue cloth (minor soiling to upper cover, small split to upper joint).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

[COOMBE, William.] - George CRUIKSHANK (illustrator). The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos by Doctor Syntax. London: T. Tegg, 1815. First edition, 8vo (227 x 138mm.) Hand-coloured aquatint title, 29 hand-coloured plates. (1 plate loosening, a tear to K3 and tears to G7, spotting throughout.) Contemporary half calf (loss to spine ends, upper cover loosening). [Tooley, 151.] - And a further fifteen volumes related to A. Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (including [Robert Southey's] 'Campaigns of Arthur, Duke of Wellington', 1822, 8vo) (16).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

GREENE, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. London: William Heinemann, 1948. First edition, first printing, 8vo (184 x 120mm.) (Toning, browning to front and rear leaves.) Original blue cloth (slightly faded spine ends), dust-jacket (sunned to spine). - And a further sixteen volumes by Graham Greene, all first editions (including the first U.S. edition of 'The Man Within', 1929, 8vo, and the first edition, second state, of 'Stamboul Train', 1932, 8vo) (17).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

BOND, Michael. A Bear Called Paddington. London: Collins, 1958. First edition, first printing, signed by the author, 8vo (199 x 133mm.) Illustrations by Peggy Fortnum. (Toning, some spotting to front pastedown and preliminaries, thin marks to endpapers.) Original red cloth (fading, slight sunning to spine, minor warp to the covers). Note: signed on the front blank 'Michael Bond, October 1958'. Provenance: Jenny Warwick (name inscribed to half title and front-free endpaper, and gift inscribed to on the front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

HARDY, Thomas. Satires of Circumstance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1914. First edition, 8vo (193 x 128mm.) (Toning, uncut preliminaries.) Original olive cloth, gilt medallion to upper cover (fading gilt to spine, small marks to upper cover). Note: includes Hardy's finest poems- those written after the death of his first wife, Emma. Provenance: M.K.T. (initials inscribed on front-free endpaper); J.R. Hilton (name inscribed on front-free endpaper). - And a further nine volumes by Thomas Hardy, mostly first editions (including a second state of 'Jude the Obscure', 1896, 8vo, and 'Life's Little Ironies', 1894, 8vo) (10).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

DAHL, Roald. Over to You. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. First edition, signed and inscribed by Roald Dahl on the title-page, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) (Toning, lacking rear blank, a gift inscription crossed out on the front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth (lightly bumped).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

TIPPING, H. Avray. English Homes. London and New York: Country Life, 1929-1934. 6 vols. Mixed editions and duplicates, folio (381 x 261mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning, occasional finger-mark, corner damp-staining to first leaves of Period I, vol. I.) Original blue cloth (damp-staining to covers of Period I and II (volume 2), rubbing, fading to extremities, soiling to Period III (volume 1)), dust-jacket to Periods I and II (volume 2) (worn). Note: Period I and II (volume 2) is the 1937 edition, Period II (volume 1) is the 1929 edition, Period III (volume 1) is the 1929 edition and there is a duplicate volume with the same date, Period IIII (volume 1) is the 1929 second impression and there is a duplicate volume with the same date (6).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

RICHARDSON, Samuel. A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflections, Contained in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison. London: for S. Richardson, 1755. First edition, 8vo (167 x 96mm.) Title, 'Table to the Sentiments' to rear. (Browning.) Early 19th century blind-stamped cloth (rubbing to extremities). Provenance: T.F. Redding (ink name inscribed to the initial blank).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

[NEWBERY, John (publisher). A Little Pretty Pocket Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly with two letters from Jack the Giant Killer… to which is added A Little Song-Book. London: John Newbery, circa 1770.] 32mo (98 x 62mm.) 54 woodcut illustrations in the text with later hand-colouring to accompany verses related to children's games and pastimes, with 'A Letter From Jack the Giant Killer to Pretty Miss Polly', with 'Fables' and 'A Poetical Description of the Four Seasons' to the rear. (Lacking title-page and all leaves before B1, and all after F1, browning, some corner loss to first leaves.) Later wrappers (endpapers replaced). Note: scarce. Contains the first mention of the sport 'base-ball'. The text begins on p.17 and runs to p.82, lacking at least eight leaves at the front and four leaves to the rear (if it is the 1770 edition), lacking six leaves to rear if it is the 1760 edition. The first edition was published in 1744 but no copies of any editions before 1760 have surfaced. It was John Newbery's first children's book and its special status is in its new approach of attempting to instruct and amuse children in a way that would lead to the 'invention' of childhood as an distinct phase of development in the 19th century. If children were no longer considered as having been born innately sinful, then moral behaviour had to be learnt. To this end, John Newbery published the book with a promotional tie-in. It was sold with the option of buying either a ball for a boy or a pin-cushion for a girl and - as a marker in the art of moral behaviour- the child would push a pin into the ball or cushion on having accomplished, or felt they had accomplished, a moral act.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First edition, first impression, 8vo (188 x 120mm.) (Toning.) Original black cloth with white ski-run design to upper cover, silver lettering to spine (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (minor creasing to spine ends, spotting to lower panel). Note: with the 16s price on the inner flap.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

SIGNED BOOKS. - George Macdonald FRASER. Flashman on the March. London: HarperCollins, 2005. First edition, first impression, signed by the author, 8vo (234 x 148mm.) Signed by author to a mounted plate on title-page. (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further thirty-seven volumes of contemporary fiction, all signed (including Ralph Steadman's 'Garibaldi's Biscuits', 2008, 4to, but the slipcase edition of Peter Nicholls' 'One Day', 2009, 8vo, is unsigned) (38).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. St. Helens: The Book People, 1998. Third impression of the 'Ted Smart' edition, 8vo (197 x 128mm.) (Mild toning.) Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket (faint shelf-wear to rear inner flap). - And a further ten volumes by J.K. Rowling (including a second impression of the 'Ted Smart' edition of 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', 1998, 8vo, and a first printing by Bloomsbury of 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 2000, 8vo) (11).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

BENCHLEY, Peter. Jaws. London: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First edition, first impression, 8vo (197 x 125mm.) (Mild toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small closed tear at top of spine). Provenance: 'Bill' (gift inscribed from on the front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

PHOTOGRAPHY. - David BAILEY. Trouble and Strife. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980. First edition, signed by David Bailey, 4to (242 x 238mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations of Bailey's wife, Marie Helvin, introduction by Brian Clarke. (Toning.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (small mark to upper cover, lightly rubbed). - And a further two volumes by David Bailey, both signed ('NY JS DB 62', 2007, 4to, and 'Pictures that Mark Can Do', 2007, 4to) (3).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 122mm.) (Toning, faint spotting to rear endpaper.) Original black cloth with blind-stamped skull and gilt coins for eyes (extremities lightly bumped, a price in ink on rear pastedown), dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping (minor chipping to spine ends, browning to lower panel margins). Note: a first issue binding, denoted by the 3mm indent on the skull of the upper cover, and with 15s price on the inner flap of the dust-jacket.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - Thomas MALORY. The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, abridged… by Alfred W. Pollard. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1917. First edition illustrated by Rackham, 4to (211 x 163mm.) 16 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Toning, upper hinge weakening.) Original blue cloth with pictorial gilt (extremities bumped and rubbed, marks to spine panel). - And a further volume (Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes', 1894, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

SIGNED BOOKS. - John OSBORNE. A Better Class of Person. London: Faber and Faber, 1981. First edition, signed and inscribed by the author on the title-page, 8vo (233 x 148mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning, previous addresses of the dedicatee in ink on the initial blank.) Original red cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (inner flap with crease, spine ends lightly creased). Note: includes a Christmas card from John Osborne with the words 'and thanks for your tolerance and good humour during some testing moments!' Provenance: Judith Gollings (bookplate on the initial blank). - And a further nine volumes, all signed (including Noel Coward's mounted signature in 'The Noel Coward Diaries', 1982, 8vo, and a signed copy of Nancy Spain's 'My Boy Mo', 1959, 8vo) (10).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

LEE, Laurie. Cider With Rosie. London: The Hogarth Press, 1959. First edition, first issue, 8vo (198 x 126mm.) (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, dust-jacket (small closed tear to tail of spine panel). Note: contains the line 'a fire at the piano works almost every year' on p.272 and with the 18s. price on the inner flap. Provenance: Richard Brandt (name inscribed to front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

[BUTLER, Alban.] The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints: Compiled from Original Monuments, and other Authentick Records. London: [N.p.:] 1756-1759. 4 vols. in 6, first edition, 8vo (198 x 122mm.) 6 title-pages, 1 engraved plate of Roman torture devices. (Repair verso title-page of volume 1, tear to X1 of same volume, occasional ink annotation, browning and occasional spotting.) Early 19th century calf, two green morocco lettering pieces to spines (some loss to lower cover of volume 4, paper labels to base of spines). Note: scarce in the first edition. It was printed with no stated author or publisher. Provenance: English College, Lisbon (bookplates to front pastedowns and ink inscribed to four title-pages). - And a further nine volumes (including a first edition of Charles Dickens' 'Our Mutual Friend', 1865, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, and a book of engraved sheet music, mostly published by Clementi, with eleven longer pieces including work by Hadyn, Cramer and Dussek, with approximately twenty-four further songs and glees, [circa 1800], 4to) (15).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

BURTON, Richard F. - W.H. WILKINS. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (216 x 139mm.) 2 engraved portrait frontispieces, photographic plates. (Toning.) Original mustard cloth, t.e.g. (some fading and discolour to spines). Provenance: Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet (bookplates to the front pastedowns). - And a further six volumes related to Richard F. Burton (including, with a tipped in a.l.s., N.M. Penzer's 'Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton', 1923, 4to) (8).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

LE ROUX, Philibert Joseph. Dictionaire Comique, Satyrique, Critique, Burlesque, Libre & Proverbial. Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Cene, 1718. First edition, 8vo (183 x 120mm.) Title in red and black. (Browning, occasional spotting, illegible name to title.) Near contemporary calf (lacking lettering piece, surface rubbing). - And a further four volumes (including a 'Nouvelle Édition' of Philibert Joseph Le Roux's 'Dictionaire Comique', 1750, 8vo, and 'Anecdotes Secrettes', 1746, 12mo, attributed to Antoine Pecquet, and 'Elite des Bons Mots et des Pensées Choisies', 1704, 12mo) (5).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

CAPEK, Karel. R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). London, Edinburgh etc.: Humphrey Milford for the Oxford University Press, 1923. First British edition, first impression, 8vo (172 x 111mm.) (Toning, mounted paper over the cast list.) Original black wrappers with red lettering (rebacked with grey cloth, fading to spine, minor mark to upper cover). Note: Capek's play introduced the word 'robot' to the language (meaning 'forced labour' in the original Czech).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FERMOR, Patrick Leigh. A Time of Gifts. London: John Murray, 1977. First edition, 8vo (216 x 132mm.) Photographic frontispiece. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (minor soiling to lower cover). - And a further three volumes by Patrick Leigh Fermor (including 'Between the Woods and the Water', 1986, 8vo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

MOUNTAINEERING. - Alfred WILLS. 'The Eagle's Nest' in the Valley of Sixt; a Summer Home Among the Alps: Together With Some Excursions Among the Great Glaciers. London: Longman, Green et al., 1860. First edition, 8vo (192 x 117mm.) 2 folding engraved maps, 12 tinted lithographed plates. (Lacking publisher's advertisements to rear, toning, some creasing to one map.) Near contemporary green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, t.e.g. (browning to spine, extremities lightly rubbed). Note: Alfred Wills was an earlier pioneer in Alpine mountaineering and the third president of the Alpine Club. He was also the judge who sentenced Oscar Wilde to two years hard labour.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

WARREN, Henry C. West Country (Somerset, Devon, Cornwall). London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1938. First edition, 8vo (209 x 132mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Spotting, browning.) Original blue cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (fading, extremities rubbed). - And a further fifty-seven volumes published by Batsford (58).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

MASTERSON, Whit. Badge of Evil. London: W.H. Allen, 1956. First British edition, 8vo (184 x 120mm.) (Toning, mild spotting to fore-edge.) Original red cloth, dust-jacket (light rubbing). Note: the book that was the basis of the Orson Welles film 'Touch of Evil'. 'Whit Masterson' was a pseudonym for the literary partnership of Robert Allison 'Bob' Wade and H. Bill Miller. Provenance: 'Mr. and Mrs. Fraser' (inscribed from in ink on the front-free endpaper).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

PLATH, Sylvia. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First edition, first impression, 8vo (217 x 133mm.) (Toning.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust-jacket (faint stain to upper panel, nicks to spine ends). Note: the unclipped dust-jacket with '12s 6d net'.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

COOKERY. - Elizabeth DAVID. French Country Cooking. London: Macdonald & Co., 1958. Second edition, first impression, 8vo (195 x 126mm.) Illustrations by John Minton. (Toning.) Original grey cloth (spine ends bumped), dust-jacket (rubbing to extremities, minor tape repairs verso). - And a further volume by Elizabeth David (the second edition of 'A Book of Mediterranean Food', 1958, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

BURTON, Richard F. Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland. London: William P. Nimmo, 1875. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (217 x 135mm.) Half-titles, 6 tinted lithographs, including frontispieces and the plan, 2 folding colour maps, woodcut illustrations in the text and some full-page, 16pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Browned to margins, 1 plate damp-stained.) Late-20th Century burgundy half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Provenance: York Subscription Library (neat stamp to preliminaries) (2).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

ORWELL, George. Animal Farm, a Fairy Story. London: Secker and Warburg, May 1945. First edition, first printing, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) (Faint spotting to endpapers, mild toning.) Original green cloth, white lettering to spine (fading to tail of spine panel), dust-jacket (small tear at base of spine panel, abrasions with small closed areas of minor loss to lower panel). Note: with the 'Searchlight Books' design verso the dust-jacket and the 6s price on the inner flap.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. - Warwick GOBLE (illustrator) and Grace JAMES. Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan and Co., 1910. First edition, 4to (247 x 178mm.) 40 colour plates tipped-in on brown card with captioned tissue-guards. (Light spotting to preliminaries and throughout, browning to endpapers, date inscribed on front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (spine ends bumped, small mark to lower cover). Provenance: Roald and Pat Knutsen (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a further five illustrated volumes (including 'The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen' illustrated by William Strang, 1895, 8vo) (6).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

HICKS, David. On Living - With Taste. London: Leslie Frewin, 1968. First edition, 4to (306 x 232mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. (Toning.) Original turquoise cloth (lightly bumped), dust-jacket (toned). - And a further six volumes by David Hicks (including 'On Decoration - With Fabrics', 1971, 4to, and 'On Decoration - 5', 1972, 4to) (7).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

FLEMING, Ian. Live and Let Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First edition, first impression, 8vo (189 x 124mm.) (Toning, occasional finger-mark.) Original black cloth, gilt coin motif to upper cover (slight fading to lettering, lower corners bumped), dust-jacket (browning to lower panel, creasing at top of spine). Note: a second-state dust-jacket with the credit to Kenneth Lewis mid-way between blurb and lower margin.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.

MILNE, A.A. [The Christopher Robin Books.] London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927-1928. 4 vols., mixed editions, 8vo (188 x 121mm.) Numerous illustrations by E.H. Shepard. (Toning, browning to preliminaries.) Original green, blue, salmon and burgundy cloths, gilt vignettes to covers (bumped to spine ends), dust-jackets (chipping to spine ends, some loss to extremities, large tear lower panel and partial loss to spine panel of 'Now We Are Six', occasional finger-mark). Note: 'When We Were Very Young' is the seventeenth edition (1928), Winnie-the-Pooh is a fifth impression (1927), 'Now We Are Six' is a third edition (1927), and 'The House at Pooh Corner' is a first edition (1928) (4).Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.