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Lot 440
NATHAN ADAMS. 'The Fifth Horseman,' first UK edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, MacMillian, London, 1968; DESMOND BAGLEY. 'The Snow Tiger,' original cloth, unclipped dj, Book Club Associates, London, 1975; LEN DEIGHTON. 'Close Up,' original cloth, unclipped dj, Book Club Associates, London, 1972; With forty-two other books. (45)
Lot 402
MILITARY INTEREST. 'The Long Road to Baghdad,' by Edmund Candler, two vols, third impression, original cloth, rubbed and bumped, Cassell, 1919; 'The Zeppelins,' by Capt Ernst A. Lehmann and Howard Mingos, original cloth, rubbed and bumped, G. P. Putnam's Sons, London; 'Airmen or Noahs: Fair Play for Our Airmen,' by Rear Admiral Murray F. Sueter, original cloth, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Bath, 1928; 'India by Air,' by Sir Samual Hoare, original cloth, Longmans Green and Co, London, 1927; 'Fight to Victory,' by Ronald Walker, first edition Penguin Special paperback, rebound with card boards, dedicated to Brother MIA 1940, Penguin, 1940; With eight other books and booklets. (16)Condition report: These books are of their time and have been used. Most are rubbed and bumped, and there is toning throughout. Generally, the bindings are tight and there is still a good few years of use.Please see our website for more photos as requested.
Lot 75
BERNARD SHAW. 'The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism,' first edition, original decorative boards, Constable and Company Ltd, London, 1928; 'The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God,' first edition, original pictorial boards, Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1932; 'Geneva,' first edition, original cloth, Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1939; 'In Good King Charles's Golden Days,' first edition, original cloth, Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1939; 'Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings,' standard edition, original cloth, Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1934. (5)
Lot 469
ANNE TYLER. 'The Tin Can Tree,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, MacMillan, London, 1966; 'Slipping Down The Line,' USA first edition, unclipped dj, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970; 'The Accidental Tourist,' first edition, clipped dj, Chatto & Windus, London, 1985; With nine other Tyler's; CHRISTOPHER BURNS and ALI SMITH. 'under water,' signed by authors, 32/250, ring bound, Cumbria County Council, 2003; CLYDE EDGERTON. 'In Memory of Junior,' advance uncorrected proof, card wraps, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,1992; With ten other books. (24)
Lot 335
FRANK KINGDON WARD. 'Plant Hunting on the Edge of the World,' first edition, original cloth, frontispiece photograph loose, some spotting, Victor Gollancz, London, 1930; 'Assam Adventure,' first edition, original cloth, Jonathan Cape, 1941; 'Burma's Icy Mountains,' first edition, unclipped dj, Jonathan Cape, 1949; 'Plant Hunter in Manipur,' first edition, original cloth, Jonathan Cape, 1952; 'Berried Treasure,' first edition, clipped dj, Ward Lock & Co, London, 1954; 'Return to the Irrawaddy,' first edition, original cloth, fading to spine, spotting to edge of textblock, Drew Melrose, London, 1956; 'Pilgrimage for Plants,' first edition, unclipped dj, George G. Harrap, 1960; plus one other about Kingdon-Ward
Lot 433
Harold Pinter. 'The Hothouse.' original cloth, unclipped dj, Eyre Methuen, London; PHILLIP MARSDEN. 'The Main Cages.' Signed, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Flamingo, 2002; JOSEPH O'CONNER. 'Star of the Sea.' Limpback proof copy, corners turned, toning, Secker & Warburg, 2002; GRAHAM SWIFT. 'The Light of the Day.' First edition, unclipped dj, Hamish Hamilton, 2003; With three other first editions including Peter Ackroyd, Will Self and Joeseph O'neill. (9)
Lot 437
JOHN UPDIKE. 'Midpoint & Other Poems,' First edition (of this anthology), original cloth, unclipped dj, Andre Deutsch, 1969; KENNETH KOCH. 'A Possible World.' Uncorrected proof, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2002; ADRIENNE RICH. 'Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988.' First edition, clipped dj, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1989; PAUL AUSTER. 'Facing the Music.' Limited to 1000 copies, Station Hill, New York, 1980; With five other poetry books including two C. K. Williams. (9)
Lot 180
H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'King Soloman's Mines,' first edition, folding colour map as frontispiece, lacking advertisements, ex libris, Cassell & Company, 1885; 'Allan Quatermain: Being an Account of His Further Adventures and Discoveries in Company with Sir Henry Curtis, Bart., Commander John Good, R.N., and One Umslopogaas,' first edition, rebounding half leather, lacking advertisements, Longmans Green and Co, London, 1887; 'Beatrice,' second edition, same binding as previous two, Longmans Green and Co, 1890; 'The Virgin of the Sun,' first edition, half red Moroccan, Cassell and Company, London, 1922; With a well bound school prize copy of 'Colonel Quaritch,' 1890. (5)
Lot 52
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD. 'Christina, The Maid of the South Seas; A Poem,' first edition, full dark purple leather with embossed boards and gilt compartment spine, rubbed, errata to last leaf, advertisement reads "The following Poem is founded on a recent discovery, by an American vessel, of a small English colony, established by some of the mutineers of the Bounty, in one of the numerous islands of the South Seas." extensive notes by author about the poem, A. J. Valpay, London, 1811.
Lot 188
BEVERLEY NICHOLS. 'Sunlight on the Lawn,' first edition, clipped dj, Jonathan Cape, 1956; EDEN PHILLPOTTS. 'My Garden,' original cloth, Country life, London 1906; A. T. JOHNSON. 'A Garden in Wales,' original cloth, Edward Arnold & Co, London, 1927; SACHEVERELL SITWELL. 'Old Fashioned Flowers,' first edition, original cloth, Country Life, London, 1939; DOROTHY SENIOR. 'Some Old English Worthies,' original cloth, Stephen Swift, 1912; With eight other books. (13)
Lot 152
LEO BRUCE (Rupert Croft-Cooke). 'A Bone and a Hank of Hair,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Peter Davies, 1961; 'Nothing Like Blood,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Peter Davies, 1962; 'Die All, Die Merrily,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Peter Davies, 1961; 'Death of Cold,' signed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Peter Davies, 1956; 'Furious Old Women,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Peter Davies, 1960; Dead Man's Shoes,' signed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Peter Davies, 1958; 'At Death's Door,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Hamish Hamilton, 1955; 'Our Jubilee is Death,' signed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Peter Davies, 1959; 'Death in Albert Park,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, W. H. Allen, 1964; 'Death at Hallows End,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, W. H. Allen, 1965; 'Case with Ropes and Rings,' signed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Nicholson & Watson, 1949; 'Crack of Doom,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Peter Davies, 1963; 'A Bone and a Hank of Hair,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, Peter Davies, 1961. (13)
Lot 266
GRAHAME GREEN. 'The Power and the Glory,' reprint, original cloth, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1942; 'The End of the Affair,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped cloth, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1951; 'A Sense of Reality,' first edition, unclipped dj, original cloth, The Bodley Head, London, 1963; 'The Honorary Consul,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped, The Bodley Head, London, 1973; 'The Tenth Man,' first edition, original cloth, The Bodley Head and Anthony Blond, London, 1985; 'The Captain and the Enemy,' first edition, clipped dj, original cloth, Reinhart Books, 1988; 'The Comedians: A Novel,' US edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Viking Press, New York, 1966; With three others. (10)
Lot 368
TED HUGHESSELECTED POEMS 1957-1967 By Ted Hughes (1974) Harper and Row. First US edition. Together with THE IRON WOMAN By Ted Hughes (1993), RAIN CHARM FOR THE DUCHY AND OTHER LAUREATE POEMS By Ted Hughes (1992), UNDER THE NORTH STAR By Ted Hughes (1981) and FFANGS THE VAMPIRE BAT AND THE KISS OF TRUTH By Ted Hughes (1986). All first editions and published by Faber and Faber except first listed. Fine condition (5)
Lot 327
H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'Montezuma's Daughter.' First edition, original boards, sun bleached spine. clean tight text block, Longmans Green and Co, 1893; 'The People of the Mist,' first edition, original cloth, Longmans Green and Co, 1894; 'Colonel Quaritch,' first edition, original cloth, some leaves loose, Longmans Green and Co, 1889; With thirty-three other Haggard's. (36)
Lot 136
MARY NORTON. 'The Borrowers,' first edition, original cloth, rubbed and bumped with sporadic foxing, ex libris stamp on title page and half title, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1952; 'The Borrowers Afield,' first edition, clipped, dj, original cloth, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1955, vg; 'The Borrowers Aloft,' first edition, second impression, unclipped dj, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1961; with four other Mary Norton's. (7)
Lot 363
THE LORD OF THE RINGS By JRR Tolkein (1971) London : George Allen & Unwin. Three volumes. Revised second edition. Sixth impression first two volumes. First volume with crude removal of ownership labels to fep. Third volume price clipped and from fifth impression. All in clean dust jackets. (3)
Lot 470
ART INTEREST. 'Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in Soviet Museums,' first edition, original cloth, Phaidon, 1985; 'Felix Nussbaum: Art Defamed, Art in Exile, Art in Resistance: A Biography,' unclipped dj, The Overlook Press, Woodstock, New York, 1995; 'Roman Vishniac: Verschwundene Welt (A Vanished World),' card wraps, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1996; With ten other books. (13)
Lot 297
HUBERT B. DRYSDALE WOODCOCK and WILLIAM THOMAS STERN. 'Lilies of the World: Their Cultivation & Classification,' Clipped dj, original cloth, Country Life, London, 1950; W. G. Hiscock. 'John Evelyn and His Family Circle,' first edition, clipped dj, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1955; Roy Hay. 'In My Garden,' first edition, unclipped dj, tears to DJ, Gryphon Books, London, 1955; With eighteen other good quality books on Botany and Natural History. (21)
Lot 456
'I Walked By Night: Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers.' Cheap edition, edited by Lilias Rider Haggard, original boards, illustrations complete by Edward Seago, pencil inscription under frontispiece, toning to the edges of some leaves, Nicholson & Watson, London, 1946, vg. Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years.At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind.
Lot 122
CORNWALL INTEREST. 'A Compendium of the History and Geography of Cornwall,' by Rev J. J. Daniel, third edition, Netherton & Worth, 1894; 'The Granite Kingdom: Poems of Cornwall,' clipped dj, An Anthology Edited by D. M. Thomas, D. Bradford, Truro, 1970, vg; 'History of Penzance,' by P. A. S. Pool, unclipped dj, toning and foxing to dj, The Corporation of Penzance 1974; 'Geevor,' by Cyril Noall, first edition, unclipped dj, Geevor Tin Mines, Dowrick Design & print, St Ives, 1983; With twenty-three other books on Cornish history and culture, including a Reg Watkiss and three volumes of 'St Just: An Archaeological Survey of the Mining District'. (27)
Lot 443
LOREN EISELEY. 'The Night Country.' First edition, unclipped dj, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1971; ALISTAIR MACLEOD. 'The Lost Salt Gift of Blood.' Signed, first UK edition, unclipped dj, Jonathan Cape, 1991; With forty-three mostly first editions including numerous Anne Tyler's, Marilynne Robinson, Laurence Whistler, Jane Hamilton, Kent Haruf, Patrick White etc. (45 in two boxes)
Lot 296
HEINRICH HARRER. 'Seven Years in Tibet,' first UK edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1953; F. M. BAILEY. 'No Passport to Tibet,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, ex libris label, The Travel Book Club, 1957; PENELOPE CHETWODE. 'Kulu: The End of the Habitable World,' original cloth, unclipped dj, The Travel Book Club, 1973. (3)
Lot 187
REGINALD ARKELL. 'Playing the Games,' first edition, illustrated by Robert S. Sherries, original cloth, Herbert Jenkins, 1935; 'More Green Fingers,' first edition, illustrated by Eugene Hastain, original cloth, Herbert Jenkins, 1938; 'Old Herbaceous,' second impression before publication, illustrated by John Minton, original cloth, unclipped dj but with defects, Michael Joseph, 1950; 'Green Fingers,' tenth printing, Herbert Jenkins, 1936. (4)
Lot 322
NEVIL SHUTE. 'The Far Country.' First edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, tear to dj top of spine and bottom of spine, owner inscription to endpaper, intermittent foxing and toning, Wiliam Heinemann, London, 1952, g; With four other firsts 'The Rainbow and the Rose,' Trustee from the Toolroom,' 'Beyond the Black Stump,' 'Requiem for a Wren.'; And three others. (8) Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years.At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind.
Lot 408
JEFFERY FARNOL. Handwritten letter signed by the author, addressed to 'Herbert and Edyth Evans,' postmark Eastbourne 24 dec 1946. '....very grateful thanks for your so unexpected but most welcome gift,' '....more especially as I have already already....(?)....another novel-4 ideas have I. but which I Shall decide upon I have.....no idea.'; 'The Chronicles of the Imp,' given as gift by Farnol as mentioned in letter, first edition, paper wraps, Sampson Low, London, 1915; 'My Lord of Wrybourne,' signed and inscribed by author, first edition, original, unclipped dj, Sampson Low, London, 1948; 'Heritage Perilous,' inscribed and signed by author, unclipped dj, Sampson Low, London, 1948. (4)
Lot 324
MARY RENAULT. 'The Bull from the Sea.' First UK edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, foxing to edge of text block, spine dj faded, Northumberland Press, Gateshead on Tyne, 1962, g; 'Fire From Heaven,' 'The Persian Bot,' 'Funeral Games.' all first editions, with 'The Mask of Apollo' being second. (5) Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years.At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind.
Lot 184
HAMMOND INNES. 'The White South,' original cloth, clipped dj, Collins, 1949; 'Campbell's Kingdom,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Collins, 1952; 'The Doomed Oasis,' first edition, unclipped dj, Collins, 1960; 'Atlantic Fury,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Collins, 1962; 'Sea and Islands,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Collins, 1967; 'The Strode Venturer,' first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, Collins, 1965; 'Levkas Man,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Collins, 1971; 'The Big Footprints,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Collins, 1977. (8)
Lot 400
WILLIAM GOLDING. 'Rites of Passage,' first edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Faber, 1980; 'Close Quarters,' first edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Faber, 1987; 'Fire Down Below,' first edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Faber, 1989; JOSIAH GREGG. 'Commerce of The PRAIRIES,' second edition, clipped dj, University of Oklahoma Press, Holborn Publishing Company, London, 1958; ROGERS MCVAUGH. 'Edward Palmer: Plant Explorer of the American West,' first edition, clipped dj, University of Oklahoma Press, 1956; With twenty-three other books in very good condition. (28)
Lot 135
ARTHUR RANSOME. 'Coot Club,' first edition, original cloth, some foxing, rubbed and bumped, Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1934; 'Missee Lee,' first edition, original cloth, Jonathan Cape, 1941; 'The Big Six,' first edition, original cloth, Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1940; 'The Picts and The Martyrs: or, Not Welcome at All,' first edition, original cloth, Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1943; 'We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea,' second edition, unclipped dj, original cloth, Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1937; plus one more first 'The Big Six'. (6)
Lot 268
CORNWALL INTEREST. 'The St. Just Mining District,' by Cyril Noall, first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, D. Bradford Barton, Truro, 1973; 'Mines of The Sixties: A Selection from the Contributions of The Truro Correspondent to the Mining Journal Between 1860 & 1866,' collected and annotated by G. W. Hall, original cloth, unclipped dj, Griffin Publications, Ludlow, 2000; 'Ancient Scilly,' by Paul Ashbee, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1974; 'Cornish Silhouettes,' by C. C. Rogers, first edition, original cloth, John Lane and the Bodley Head, 1924; 'Houses and Gardens of Cornwall,' signed and inscribed by author Helen McCabe, clipped dj, Tabb House, Padstow, 1988; 'Letters from a Cornish Garden,' by C. C. Vyvyan, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Michael Joseph, London, 1972; 'Down The Rhone on Foot,' original cloth, Peter Owen, London. (8)
Lot 380
WILLIAM CAMDEN. 'Britain or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands adjoyning, out of the depth of Antiquitie,' second edition, full leather, loose front board, missing frontispiece and maps, tide mark to first 100 leaves, F. K. R. Y and I. L, London, 1637
Lot 141
Lord TEIGNMOUTH and CHARLES G. HARPER. 'The Smugglers: Picturesque Chapters in the History of Contraband,' first edition, two vols, original cloth, sporadic toning and foxing, Cecil Palmer, London, 1923; A. K. HAMILTON JENKIN. 'Cornwall and the Cornish,' reprint, original cloth, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1935; F. F. LEE. 'The Lure of The Sea,' original cloth, George G. Harrap & Co, London; T. H. HUXLEY. 'Diary of the Voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake,' original cloth, rodent bites to front endpapers frontispiece and titlepage, Chatto & Windus, London, 1935. (5)
Lot 439
C. S. LEWIS. 'Poems.' First edition, uncipped dj, Geoffrey Bles, London, 1964; GEOFFREY HILL. 'Mercian Hymns.' First edition, limpback, Andre Deutsch, 1971; GAVIN EWART. 'The deceptive grin of the gravel porters.' Signed, limpback, London Magazine editions, 1968;THOM GUNN. 'Touch.' First edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Faber, 1967; 'Moly,' first edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Faber, 1971; 'The Occasions of Poetry: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography.' First edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Faber, 1982; With six other poetry books. (12)
Lot 281
AGATHA CHRISTIE. 'Nemesis,' uncorrected advance proof, paper wraps, The Crime Club, 1971; 'Hercule Poirot's Christmas,' first edition, original cloth, The Crime Club, London, 1939; 'Third Girl,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, The Crime Cub, 1966; 'The Clocks,' first edition, original cloth, The Book Club, 1963; with three paperbacks. (7)Condition report: Hercule Poirot's Christmas- Slight splitting to top edge to spine joint, spotting to edge of textblock with some encroachment into the leaf, name, date and price inscribed to front endpaper.Nemesis- vg, some remnants of leaves folded to top corner (i.e bookmarker)Please see further photos uploaded to our website.
Lot 318
JOHN E. BRYAN. 'Bulbs.' Two volumes, unclipped dj, illustrations throughout, Christopher Helm, London, 1986; LEO JELITTO and WHLHELM SCHACHET. 'Hardy Herbaceous Perennials.' Third revised edition, B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1990. (4) Dr Rob Senior arrived in West Cornwall from his native Yorkshire in the early 1960’s where he took up his vocation as a young GP and served the local community for 40 years. At the age of 12, Rob bought a book on Cacti. It was his first book, and established the twin passions of his life, books and plants. His library is a fabulous, eclectic collection of books, largely on plants and horticulture, but also nature and many other subjects, all brought together by a man with a curious and inquisitive mind.
Lot 447
PETER ACKROYD. 'Hawksmoor,' first edition, clipped dj, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1985; 'Chatterton,' first edition, unclipped dj, Hamish Hamilton, 1987; With three other first edition Ackroyd's; HEINRICH HARRER. 'Seven Years in Tibet,' second impression, unclipped dj, rubbed dj, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1953; with eleven other books. (17)
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