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BECKETT, Samuel. Endgame. London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First edition, first printing, 8vo (199 x 116mm.) Includes 'Act Without Words'. (Mild toning.) Original cloth, dust-jacket. - And a further ten volumes by or about Beckett (including 'Happy Days', 1962, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (11).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.

GETTY, Alice. The Gods of Northern Buddhism. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1914. First edition, 4to (286 x 224mm.) Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, numerous plates, coloured and uncoloured. (Toning to margins.) Original green cloth, gilt ornament to upper cover. - And a further ten books relating to Buddhism and Asian mysticism (including John Campbell Oman's 'The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India', 1903, 8vo, and R. Austin Freeman's 'Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman', 1898, 8vo) (11).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.

BRANDT, Bill. The English at Home. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1936. First edition, 8vo (233 x 178mm.) 63 photographic illustrations by Bill Brandt. (Toning.) Original pictorial boards (wear to spine panel). Provenance: John Wyndham (gift inscribed to verso the front-free endpaper). - And a quantity of approximately forty-five further volumes, mainly literary, including Muriel Spark's 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', 1961, 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.

MAWE, John. The Linnaean System of Conchology, Describing the Orders, Genera, and Species of Shells, Arranged into Divisions and Families. London: for the Author, 1823. First edition, 8vo (211 x 123mm.) 37 hand-coloured lithographed plates with tissue-guards. (Toning, some browning, spotting to the tissue-guards.) Brown half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, later black morocco lettering piece to spine (rebacked with original spine laid-down, endpapers replaced.) Provenance: Ann Capron (gift inscribed to on the initial blank; B.S. Morton, marine ecologist (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And a related volume (William Wood's 'Index Testaceologicus; or, A Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, Arranged According to the Linnean System' with 38 hand-coloured plates, 1825, 8vo) (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.

[WEISZ, Ehrich.] 'Harry HOUDINI'. Magical Rope Ties & Escapes. London: Will Godstone, [1921.] First UK edition, 8vo (188 x 116mm.) Advertisements to pastedowns, 7 half-tone plates, numerous illustrations. (Toning, browning to title-page.) Original pictorial boards, blue lettering to spine (some loss to the lettering, minor soiling to lower cover). - And a further fifteen volumes relating to 'Houdini' (including a facsimile reprint of 'The Unmasking of Robert-Houdini', [?], 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the family of Barry Murray (16).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.

RICHARDSON, Robert. Travels Along the Mediterranean… extending as far as the Second Cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus, Balbec, &c. London: T. Cadell, 1822. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (214 x 130mm.) 6 lithographed plates, 1 hand-coloured, 2 folding engraved plans. (Lacking half-titles, browning, spotting to all plates and occasionally heavy to text.) Contemporary cloth, brown morocco lettering pieces to the spines (spotting, fading, some discolouring to cloth). Note: mainly relates to the Middle East rather than the Mediterranean.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. - Don McCULLIN. Southern Frontiers, a Journey Across the Roman Empire. London: Jonathan Cape, 2010. First edition, first impression, oblong 4to (288 x 343mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations, text by Barnaby Rogerson. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial boards, 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.

HAZLITT, William. Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters. London: for William Hone, 1819. First edition, 8vo (214 x 128mm.) (Browning, spotting to front and rear leaves.) Near contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, morocco lettering piece to the spine (spine heavily sunned, inner hinge weakened, rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Richard Tidswell (bookplate to front pastedown). Note: after many years of being out-of-print, Hazlitt's work is gaining in recognition, especially since the publication of 'Day-Star of Liberty', a critical work on Hazlitt by poet Tom Paulin. - And a further three volumes by William Hazlitt (including 'A View of the English Stage', 1818, 8vo, and 'Lectures on the English Poets', 1818, 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.

MOUNTAINEERING. - C.K. HOWARD-BURY. Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. First edition, large 8vo (252 x 168mm.) Frontispiece with tissue-guard, 32 plates, 3 folding maps to rear. (Toning, light to moderate spotting, a 3-inch tear to one map.) Original blue cloth (lightly rubbed, staining to upper cover). Provenance: Edith M. Pateman (ink name to front-free endpaper). - And a further ten volumes relating to mountaineering and travel (including Frederick Hardman's 'Scenes and Adventures in Central America', 1852, 8vo, and H.D. Inglis's 'A Personal Narrative of a Journey Through Norway, Part of Sweden, and the Islands and States of Denmark', 1835, 8vo) (11).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. - Ronald Sutherland GOWER. Thomas Gainsborough. London: George Bell and Sons, 1903. First edition, 8vo (208 x 123mm.) Numerous plates, folding facsimile letter. (Mild toning.) Near contemporary blue half morocco over blue cloth-covered boards bound by Truslove & Hanson with an art nouveau design to spine, t.e.g. (slight sunning to spine). - And a further nine volumes (including Elisha Kent Kane's 'Arctic Explorations in Search of Sir John Franklin', 1885, 8vo, and a signed copy of Victorien Sardou's play 'Fernande', 1870, 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.

CONJURING. - Will GOLDSTON. Exclusive Magical Secrets. London: The Magician, Ltd., [1912.] Limited edition, this being number 888, first edition, 4to (245 x 180mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Toning, minor spotting to preliminaries.) Original maroon morocco-covered boards with brass lock and key (rubbing to extremities and lower joint splitting). Note: one of the trilogy of Goldston's famous 'Locked Books' of magic. In this case both lock and key are present and functioning. - And a further forty volumes relating to Will Goldston (including two copies of 'More Exclusive Magical Secrets', [1921], 4to, and twenty volumes of 'Goldston's Magical Quarterly', 1934-1939, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (41).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.

BROOKES, Samuel. An Introduction to the Study of Conchology: Including Observations on the Linnaean Genera and on the Arrangement of M. Lamarck. London: for John and Arthur Arch, 1815. First edition, 4to (263 x 194mm.) 11 lithographed plates, 9 hand-coloured, contemporary numbering in ink to the shells. (Toning, light spotting throughout, but heavily L1-M2, small newspaper advertisement mounted to front-free endpaper, lacking 4pp. 'Explanation of the Plates' to rear.) Near contemporary green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (rebacked, part of original spine laid-down, hinges strengthened, rubbing to all extremities). Provenance: Charles R. Maxwell (name inscribed verso front-free endpaper); Irene Jones (name inscribed on front-free endpaper and on B1); E.S. Gourlay (name inscribed verso the front-free endpaper); B.S. Morton, marine ecologist (bookplate on 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.

DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition in book form, 8vo (212 x 126mm.) Etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by H.K. Browne. (Toning, occasional spotting, bound without the half-title.) Contemporary green half-calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). - And a further volume by Charles Dickens (the first edition in book form of 'Little Dorrit', 1857, 8vo) (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.

BENCHLEY, Peter. Jaws. London: Andre Deutsch, 1974. First edition, 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 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.

STOKER, Bram. Dracula. London: William Rider & Son, 1912. Ninth edition, 8vo (178 x 114mm.) 4pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Lacking rear endpaper, text-block nearly cracked at title-page, toning, name erased from front-free endpaper.) Original red blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spine (fading, minor soiling). - And a further eighteen miscellaneous volumes (including the first American edition of Erich Maria Remarque's 'The Road Back', 1931, 8vo) (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.

CONJURING. - Allan SLAIGHT. The James File. Toronto: Hermetic Press, 2000. 2 vols., first edition, 4to (278 x 218mm.) Numerous illustrations, includes the index volume. Original black cloth, silver lettering, dust-jackets. Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (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.

HANFF, Helene. 84, Charing Cross Road. London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. First UK edition, signed in a presentation signature by the author, 8vo (217 x 133mm.) (Toning, spotting to the front-free endpaper and fore-edge, finger-mark to the title-page.) Original red cloth (upper cover lifting, bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket designed by Janet Halverson (toned, small closed tears to spine ends). Note: the epistolatory book that became a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft. Helene Hanff's letters to Marks & Co. are mainly addressed to Frank Doel, who died in 1968 and Helene was unable to visit London until 1971, the year of the English publication of their letters, and so never met him. The book is inscribed to John Wilson, an employee of Hatchards (and the son of John G. Wilson, who wrote 'The Business of Bookselling'). It's likely that Hanff inscribed this copy while on that visit to England. The dedication reads: 'To John Wilson who probably wrote better letters but was too lazy to make a book of them- with admiration for his beautiful beard, Helene Hanff'. Provenance: John Wilson (dedication 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.

CONJURING. - David BEN. Dai Vernon: A Biography. Chicago: Squash Publishing, 2006. First edition, 8vo (228 x 149mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. Original black cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of approximately sixty-five volumes relating to magic (including T.A. Water's 'Mind, Myth & Magic', 1993, 8vo, and a signed copy of Ernest E. Noakes' 'Mirthful Memory of a Magician', 1920, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (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.

TRAVEL. - Edward IVES. A Voyage from England to India, in the Year MDCCLIV. And an Historical Narrative of the Operation of the Squadron and Army in India. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (264 x 207mm.) 2 folding engraved maps, 12 engraved plates. (Textblock wholly split in several places, many loose leaves, some spotting and soiling.) Contemporary calf (lacking spine, covers detached). Provenance: 'Mr. Stocker' (gift inscribed to by the author on the front pastedown). - And a further three unrelated volumes (including a Liberty catalogue 'Dress and Decoration', [1905], folio) (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.

CONJURING. - John FISHER. The Suave Deceiver. [Los Angeles:] The Miracle Factory, 2007. First edition, signed by the author, 4to (254 x 200mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations. Original black cloth, dust-jacket. Provenance: Barry Murray (gift inscribed to on the half-title by the author). - And a further fifty-two volumes related to magic (including 'The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley', edited by Stephen Minch, 2 vols., 1991, 8vo, and a signed copy of David Charvet's 'Jack Gwynne, The Man, His Mind, and His Royal Family of Magic', 1986, 4to). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (53).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.

DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition in book form, 8vo (215 x 128mm.) Portrait frontispiece, 39 plates by 'Phiz'. (Lacking half-title, spotting and browning to plates, marginal tear to plate at p.175 and marginal paper repair to p.609, toning.) Near contemporary black half morocco, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (wear to spine ends, rubbing to extremities). - And a further two first editions by Charles Dickens (including 'Dombey and Son', 1848, 8vo, and 'Master Humphrey's Clock', 2 vols., 1840, 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.

AUDEN, W.H. New Year Letter. London: Faber and Faber, 1941. First edition, first impression, 8vo (213 x 134mm.) (Toning.) Original grey cloth, red lettering to spine (browning to margins, lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (fading, stain and loss to top of spine panel). - And a quantity of approximately fifty volumes of 20th century British and American poetry (including Kenneth Patchen's 'Outlaw of the Lowest Planet', 1946, 8vo) (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.

WESTMORELAND, Kathy. Elvis and Kathy. California: Glendale House, 1987. First edition, 8vo (213 x 128mm.) (Toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket (chipping to top of spine, some fading, crease and small tear to lower panel). - And a quantity of approximately forty-five further volumes relating to Elvis Presley (including a signed copy of Bill E. Burk's 'Elvis Memories: Press Between the Pages', 1993, 8vo) (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.

SITWELL, Edith. Collected Poems. London: Macmillan & Co., 1957. First edition, with 5 a.l.s. loosely inserted, 8vo (215 x 134mm.) (Spotting and browning to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Original blue cloth (browned to extremities), dust-jacket (browning and staining to spine panel). Note: the letters are all addressed to Sheila Wilson and dated 1955-1958. They are chatty, affectionate letters, referring to the literary life: her publisher has reduced her 'to idiocy' by making her sign her name 3000 times, inviting Sheila for drinks 'with a boy who I think is going to be a really great poet'- Quentin Stevenson. There's other news: 'We are all really pleased about Osbert getting the C.H.' And domestic travails, too: the grumbling cat who follows the 'gay parlour-maid' around then 'climbs up the honeysuckle…in the middle of the night and starts grumbling again'. There's also a signed post-card and printed questionnaire she has written to fend off amateur poets from pestering her. One of the eighteen, interrogative questions being '[What is the] Age, Sex and Weight of your wife?'. Another, indicative of the time, being: 'Did you ever meet Burgess and Maclean, or anyone who ever knew them?' Sitwell helped Quentin Stevenson publish his first book of poetry but he soon changed his name to John Quentin, and is perhaps better known as a film actor.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.

LANG, Andrew (editor.) The Red Romance Book. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1905. First edition, 8vo (182 x 120mm.) 8 colour plates with illustrations by H.J. Ford, numerous monochrome plates, tissue-guard. Original red cloth with pictorial gilt to upper cover, g.e. (some sunning to spine, lightly bumped). - And a further sixteen volumes relating to Andrew Lang (including 'Magic and Religion', 1901, 8vo) (17).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. - Joseph THOMSON. To the Central African Lakes and Back: the Narrative of the Royal Geographical Society's East Central African Expedition, 1878-80. London: Sampson Low, Marston et al., 1881. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (189 x 124mm.) Albumen portraits of Keith Johnston and Joseph Thomson mounted as frontispieces, 2 large folding colour maps. (Spotting to preliminaries of volume 2 and to fore-edges, pencil annotation to rear endpaper of volume 1, a wave to frontispiece of same volume, a 1-inch tear to one map, lacking publisher's catalogue.) Original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spines (burn mark to upper cover of volume 2). Note: Thomson accompanied Keith Johnston on the expedition from Dar es Salaam to the Lakes Nyasa and Tanganika, but when Johnston died on the expedition Thomson took over the leadership and became the first European to cross the 250-mile plateau between the two lakes.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.

CONJURING. - T. Nelson DOWNS. Modern Coin Manipulation. London: T. Nelson Downs Magical Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) Portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations by Fred Morgan. (Toning, label residue to title-page.) Original red cloth, gilt lettering and silver stamping to upper cover (some soiling to lower cover). - And a further six volumes (including Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant's 'Our Magic', [1911], 8vo, and Henry Ridgely Evans' 'Magic and Its Professors', [1902], 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (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.

KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. First edition, 4to (231 x 166mm.) Numerous illustrations by the author. (Toning, spotting to preliminaries and red dye stain to corner of leaves at front and rear, small corner loss to front-free endpaper.) Original red pictorial cloth (some fading, minor soiling to lower cover, extremities bumped, hinges tender). Note: second sate binding. Provenance: Alix M. Troup (name inscribed to front-free endpaper); Joan Willes (name inscribed to front-free endpaper). - And a further eleven illustrated volumes (including Rudyard Kipling's 'Kim', 1902, 8vo) (12).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.

CONJURING. - [Angelo J. LEWIS.] 'Professor HOFFMAN'. Conjurer Dick; or, the Adventures of a Young Wizard. London & New York, [1886.] First edition, 8vo (190 x 132mm.) Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, 8pp. publisher's advertisements to rear. (Toning.) Original blue pictorial cloth in black and gilt (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Hamley's Magical Saloons (paper label mounted over the imprint). - And a further thirteen volumes related to magic (including Professor Hoffmann's 'Tricks With Cards', 1889, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (14).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.

SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Heir. London: William Heinemann, 1922. First edition, signed in a presentation signature by the author, 8vo (187 x 116mm.) (Spotting to preliminaries and rear endpaper, toning.) Original brown cloth (slight sunning to spine, small stain to top of spine panel). Provenance: John G. Wilson (dedication on the front-free endpaper). - And a further eighteen volumes, all signed by the authors (including, with an inscribed leaf loosely inserted, Arthur Ransome's 'The Soldier and Death', 1920, 12mo) (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.

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 volumes of 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 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.

SPAIN. - Richard FORD. A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain. London: John Murray, 1845. 2 vols. First edition, a signed presentation inscription from Richard Ford to Sir John Brackenbury mounted on initial blank, 8vo (176 x 108mm.) 2 folding engraved maps to the rear of each volume, one linen-backed, typed bibliographic notes mounted on the front pastedown of volume 1, the 24pp. 'The Handbook Advertiser' on blue paper to the rear of volume 2. (Two tears along creases to one map, paper repairs verso, browned and with old adhesive residue, toning, occasional spotting.) Original red cloth (spine ends worn, upper cover of volume 1 loosening). Note: the tipped-in inscription by Richard Ford is on a duplicate text leaf mounted on the initial blank. Provenance: Sir John Brackenbury (ink inscribed to on the duplicate leaf).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.

POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903. First edition, second printing, 16mo (138 x 96mm.) Half-title, coloured frontispiece, 26 plates by Beatrix Potter. (Toning, marginal tear to p.52, small stamp verso front-free endpaper.) Original plum-coloured boards with mounted illustration to upper cover (inner hinge cracked, but holding, spine seams splitting). [Linder, p.423]. - And a further five volumes (including a reprint of John Ross' 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage', [n.d. circa 1836], 8vo) (6).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.

[MILLAR, Kenneth.] 'John MACDONALD'. The Moving Target. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1951. First UK edition, 8vo (184 x 116mm.) (Some spotting to front and rear leaves.) Original black cloth (bumped to spine ends), dust-jacket (some loss to spine ends, with tear to top of spine panel). Note: the first Lew Archer novel. - And a further four novels by John Ross MacDonald (including 'Experience with Evil', 1954, 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.

SEGAL, Louis. The Conquest of the Arctic. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1939. First edition, 8vo (219 x 137mm.) Numerous photographic illustrations, folding map to rear, a publisher's review slip loosely inserted. (Toning, spotting to fore-edge.) Original blue boards, dust-jacket (light rubbing to extremities). - And a further five volumes relating to the Arctic (including volume 1 of the 'Spitsbergen Papers: Scientific Results of the First Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen (1921)', 1925) (6).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.

[LUDOLF, Hiob.] Job LUDOLPHUS. A New History of Ethiopia. Being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia, Vulgarly, though Erroneously called the Empire of Prester John. London: Samuel Smith, 1682. First English edition, folio (313 x 197mm.) Title, Ethiopic alphabet plate, genealogical table, 8 engraved plates, 7 folding. (Damp-stain to lower margin throughout, browning, burn holes to margin of Kk2, small hole to rear blank.) 18th century half-calf, later red morocco lettering piece to the spine (rebacked, rubbing to extremities, pencil notes to front pastedown). Provenance: Henry Randolph Trafford (bookplate to front pastedown) [Wing L3468.]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.

CONJURING. - [Angelo J. LEWIS.] 'Professor HOFFMAN'. Drawing-Room Amusements and Evening Party Entertainments. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. First edition, 8vo (182 x 117mm.) Frontispiece with tissue-guard, numerous illustrations. (Minor spotting to preliminaries.) Original blue cloth with pictorial gilt, red and blue (small paper labels affixed to upper cover and spine (weakening of upper hinge, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: 'Magic Circle Library' (paper labels mounted to both pastedowns, stamps to title-page and leaf B1, cancelled stamp in ink on the front pastedown, dated 1987). - And a further four volumes related to magic (including 'Puzzles Old and New', [circa 1893], 8vo, and 'Magical Titbits', 1911, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (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.

L'ESTRANGE, Roger. A Brief History of the Times. London: Charles Brome and R. Sare, 1687-1688. 3 vols. in 1 vol. First edition, 8vo (186 x 118mm.) Separate titles and pagination. (From X1-Z1 corner loss with text affected, minor soiling, marginal loss to front blank.) Contemporary calf (heavily rubbed, some spine loss). Note: L'Estrange's name appears on the title-page of the third volume. - And a further six volumes (including, without the maps, Richard Blome's 'Britannia: or, A Geographical Description of the Kingdoms', 1673, folio, and Henry Crouch's 'A Complete View of the British Customs', 1745, 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.

CONJURING. - William J. HILLIAR. Modern Magician's Hand Book. Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., 1902. First edition, 8vo (193 x 129mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth with pictorial red, black and white stamping to upper cover (lightly bumped spine ends). Provenance: L. Davenport & Co. (mounted paper label mounted over imprint). - And a further eleven volumes related to conjuring (including Professor Hoffmann's 'Magical Titbits', 1911, 8vo, and C. Lang Neil's 'The Modern Conjurer and Drawing-Room Entertainer', 1903, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (12).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.

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First edition, first impression, 8vo (194 x 125mm.) (Spotting to front-free endpaper and lightly to preliminaries, toning.) Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket. Note: this is the third state of the first impression, with 'J.K. Rowling' on the imprint leaf and 2pp. of advertisements to the rear.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.

FORSTER, E.M. Alexandria: A History and a Guide. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Limited, 1922. First edition, 8vo (184 x 114mm.) 2 folding maps. (Lacking 1 folding map, a damp-stain to the lower margins throughout, toning, blanks replaced.) Later brown half morocco over paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). Note: has the map intended for p.144 at p.44. As with Italy and India, Forster's time in Egypt was significant in terms of his personal growth. - And a further five volumes relating to travel (including William Cochran's 'Pen and Pencil in Asia Minor', 1887, 8vo) (6).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.

IRELAND. - John TEMPLE. The Irish Rebellion: or, A History of the Beginnings and First Progress of the General Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland… in the year 1641. London: R. White for Samuel Gellibrand, 1646. First edition, small 4to (188 x 140mm.) In 2 parts, engraved headpieces and initials. (Toning, trimming to upper margin K1-K4 and to margin of M3, text slightly affected, lacking rear blank?) 20th century blue card covers. [Wing T627.] - And a further three related items ([George Story's] 'A True and Impartial History of the Most Material Occurrences in the Kingdom of Ireland During the Last Two Years with the Present State of Both Armies', 1691, 4to, and '[J.C.'s] 'The State of the Papist and Protestant Proprieties in the Kingdom of Ireland', 1689, 4to, and 'The Articles of Peace Made and Concluded by his Excellency James Lord Marquess of Ormond… with the General Assembly of the Roman Catholicks of the said Kingdom', 1661, 4to) (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.

CONJURING. - Sidney W. CLARKE. The Annals of Conjuring. Seattle: The Miracle Factory, 2001. First edition, 4to (253 x 198mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original black cloth, dust-jacket. - And a quantity of approximately forty-nine volumes related to magic (including Tommy Wonder and Stephen Minch's 'The Books of Wonder', 2 vols., 1996, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Barry Murray (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.

CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail Book. London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1930. First edition, first issue, 8vo (192 x 121mm.) Numerous illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold, the tipped-in 'Bacardi Cocktail' slip on p.25. (Toning, a recipe in pink ink on the lined blank leaves to rear.) Original boards with art deco design (surface abrasions, rubbing to extremities). Note: first issue with the numbered title-page. - And a related volume (Ambrose Heath's 'Madame Prunier's Fish Cookery Book', 1938, 8vo) (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.

SYMONDS, Mary and Louisa PREECE. Needlework Through the Ages. London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1928. First edition, 4to (309 x 247mm.) Frontispiece, 103 plates from photographs with captioned tissue-guards. (Repair to 3-inch tear to frontispiece, toning, occasional finger-mark.) Original vellum-backed cloth, t.e.g. (rubbed to extremities, minor soiling to covers). Provenance: Victoria and Albert Museum (label to front pastedown, 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.

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-1955. 3 vols. First editions, all volumes signed by Tolkien on the front-free endpapers, 8vo (221 x 137mm.) 3 folding maps to rear. (Browning to endpapers of volume 2, light spotting to endpapers of volumes 1 and 3, toning, the map in 'The Return of the King' replaced with one from a later edition.) Original red cloth (some sunning and staining to spines, lightly bumped spine ends). Note: 'The Fellowship of the Ring' and 'The Two Towers' are second impressions, 'The Return of the King' is a first impression. It has the '4' signature on p.49 and the slipped text. The second impression of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' has always been notably (2 or 3mm) smaller than other impressions. A possible reason is that the printer, Jarrold & Son, did not keep the type standing from the first impression and so when the publisher, Allen & Unwin, asked for another impression the printer had to quickly re-set the type, which led to many new inaccuracies in the text, as well as a slightly different sized binding. [Hammond, 97.].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.

HARRY POTTER 'Order of the Phoenix', first edition, 2003, Bloomsbury Press

J K ROWLING 'HARRY POTTER & THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE' 2005 FIRST EDITION - first published with 'eleven outstanding owls' mistake to P99, original dust jacket, Bloomsbury Publishing

J K ROWLING 'HARRY POTTER & THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE' 2005 FIRST EDITION - first published with 'eleven outstanding owls' mistake to P99, original dust jacket, Bloomsbury Publishing

David Gascoyne (1916-2001) Collection of books, including Poems 1937-1942, 1943 First edition with Graham Sutherland illustrations. Inscribed by David Gascoyne to Pamela Chandler with dedication, signed Colchester 4, XII, 79, together with a printers proof copy of 'The Sun at Midnight' by David Gascoyne, Enitharmon Press, 1970, various other David Gascoyne and Vernon Watkins booksCondition report: Poems 1937-1942 - dust jacket with splits to spine, slight losses to periphery. Otherwise condition is generally very good, some discolouration to dust jackets. Slight rubbing.

Paul Roche (1916-2007) collection of typed poems, some with annotations, believed to all relate to Paul Roche, including 'The Cathedrals of Anguish' a poem delivered by Paul Roche at the John F Kennedy Memorial Evening, also a related flyer from this event, a note on a poem titled Poems 1964, reads 'Pamela, these are most of my recent poems, it'll be some time before they're anymore.,,' also a first edition copy of 'The Rat & The Convent Dove' and other tales and fables, with inscription to Pamela from Paul, dated July 1964, various others by Paul Roche and possibly others

Jeremy Reed (b. 1951) copy of the original typed manuscript for his novel ‘The Lipstick Boys', in brown envelope with inscriptions - 'For David Gascoyne- The lipstick Boys, a novel, Jeremy Reed, Flat 39, 22 Park Crescent, London W. 1', together with two first edition copies of the published book, London: Enitharmon Press, 1984, with Keith Vaughan front cover and Kathleen Raine foreword

Kathleen Raine and her circle - collection of books, predominantly poetry, including many first editions and works with inscriptions e.g. four copies of 'Stone and Flowers', each 1st edition of her first published work with illustrations by Barbara Hepworth, also 'The Presence' by Kathleen Raine, with hand written poem and numbered 13/50, also very rare Enthaemon Press Proof edition of 'Faces of Day and Night' 1972, one of 85 copies, also Kathleen Raine, Living in Time, 1946 first edition, and the very rare 'The Lost Country' signed, and numbered 38/100, works including some periodicals, printed lectures etc. (3 boxes)

Two sets of Fine Art Covers First Day covers sets in original slipcases with eight bound volumes of covers, including Lennon and McCartney postmark Mendips. Limited edition of 850 with certificate of authenticity.Condition report: Each red book contains one cover. In each slip case contains one cover.

William MakepicenThackery - Vanity Fair, 1848 first edition, half calf with marbled boards

T. E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935 first public edition, cloth binding, together with collection of Rider-Haggard books including early editions

George Orwell: Animal Farm, first edition, May 1945, pub. by Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd, London, with dust wrapperCondition report: Contents - a little time staining and minor creases but basically good, no inscriptions etc. Cloth ends with slight wear to spine and bending corners. Dust jacket has some staining and small losses, wear to spine and edges, no restorationmultiple additional images now available attached to the lot online

Antiquarian books, including Statutes at Large from the first year of James the First... 1763, William Forsyth Treaty on Fruit Trees, 1810, Francis Pompey, The Pantheon, 2nd Edition, 1698, 17th century book of Common Prayer, various others (one box)

Arthur Rackham - Cinderella, de-luxe edition bound in white calf, signed and numbered 43 from an edition of 850Condition report: Cover is quite worn and discoloured, surface dirt, surface losses, corners curled. Personal stamp and pen inscription on first title page, a little staining to green end papers. Contents with a few slight marks and minor stains but otherwise generally good, slight browning at edges

Groucho Marx - Groucho and Me, signed presentation copy from the author, first edition, first printing 1959