NO RESERVE Hemingway (Ernest) For Whom the Bell Tolls, first edition, cloth spine faded, dust-jacket, rather rubbed and creased with many chips and tears to extremities, small loss to corners and fore-edges, worse to spine ends with portions affecting text and title, New York, 1940; To Have and to Have Not, first edition, bookplate to pastedown, endpapers browned with remnants of removed bookplate, very occasional light marginal spotting, cloth soiled and extremities frayed and bumped, New York, 1937; Across the River and into the Trees, first English edition, light foxing to endpapers and first few pp., cloth a little faded, jacket extremities very lightly bumped and creased, light tape repairs verso and retouches to spine ends, but in affect a very handsome example, 1950, original cloth, first and last with dust-jackets; and 13 others, Hemingway, 8vo (16)
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Hemingway (Ernest) Across the River and into The Trees, first American edition, first printing with the Scribner's "A" and seal on copyright page, browning stain to front free endpapers, small embossed name stamp to endpaper, original cloth, spine ends very lightly bumped, dust-jacket, soiling mark to upper cover, portion of loss to spine head, other nicks and chips to fore-edge and spine tail, short tears to lower panel, New York, 1950.
Highsmith (Patricia) Strangers on a Train, first edition, internally fine, original cloth, lightly faded, dust-jacket, price-clipped, portion of loss to spine head, joints lightly rubbed, nicks and short tears to fore-edge, some neatly repaired with tape verso, but in affect still a remarkably clean copy, 8vo, New York, 1950.⁂ An immediate success upon publication, Highsmith's psychological thriller was optioned to be adapted into a film by Alfred Hitchcock shortly after and would go on to be nominated for three Academy Awards.
Hines (Barry) A Kestrel for a Knave, first edition, cut signatures of the author and Ken Loach on title, original boards, light sunning to spine, dust-jacket, light rubbing and toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, extremities rubbed, light toning to lower panel, 8vo, 1968.⁂ Scarce in the dust-jacket, the basis for Ken Loach's classic film of the same name.
![Housman (A.E.) A Shropshire Lad, first edition, American issue [one of 150 copies], title printed in red and black, bookplate](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/1cc5cb5d-91eb-4edc-9cc0-af2500c6fce5/468x382.jpg)
Housman (A.E.) A Shropshire Lad, first edition, American issue [one of 150 copies], title printed in red and black, bookplate of Christopher Clark Geest, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, usual light browning to text margins, endpapers toned with scattered spotting, original parchment-backed boards, new paper label to spine, spine and margins of boards browned, parchment spotted, rubbed, preserved in custom cloth drop-back box, [Carter, Sparrow & White 2], 8vo, New York, 1897.⁂ Housman's most popular poetry collection in the more scarce American issue. 500 sets of sheets were printed, with 350 for the UK and 150 given a cancel title and issued in the US.
![Howard (Elizabeth Jane) [The Cazalet Chronicles], 5 vol., comprising The Light Years, jacket price-clipped, light creasing to](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/87d956e7-da97-48c1-a12b-af2500cb2091/468x382.jpg)
Howard (Elizabeth Jane) [The Cazalet Chronicles], 5 vol., comprising The Light Years, jacket price-clipped, light creasing to spine ends, 1990; Marking Time, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 1991; Confusion, jacket with very light sunning to spine, light creasing to head, 1993; Casting Off, signed by the author on title, jacket with light sunning to spine, 1995; All Change, 2013, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine overall, 8vo.⁂ Howard's best-selling family saga series, now very difficult to find in first edition in good condition.
NO RESERVE Hughes (Ted) Lupercal, first edition, browning to endpapers, original cloth, rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, some marginal toning to panels, short nick to head of upper panel, a sharp and excellent copy overall, 8vo, 1960.⁂ A sharp copy of Hughes' second collection.
Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, mail sticker and ink ownership name to pastedown, very faint scattered spotting to first and last few pages, one or two light finger-soiling marks, original cloth, light marks to upper cover, spine lightly faded, joints and extremities a little rubbed and frayed, 8vo, 1932.
![James (Henry) The Two Magics. The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End, first edition, title printed in red and black, 32pp.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/daaebca1-7492-464a-9f07-af2500c9e023/468x382.jpg)
James (Henry) The Two Magics. The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End, first edition, title printed in red and black, 32pp. advertisements at rear, light browning to endpapers, small armorial bookplate of Robert, Earl of Crewe, original issue blue cloth with four irises in blind to upper cover, lettered in gilt, light discolouration to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, extremities a little rubbed, an excellent copy, [Edel & Laurence A52a; Tymn 3-123], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1898.⁂ The first edition in book form of Turn of the Screw, one of the best and most influential ghost stories ever published.
James (Henry) A Small Boy and Others, first English edition, photogravure frontispiece, original cloth, light bumping and faint rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, very light toning to spine, tear with light creasing to foot of upper fore-edge, vertical crease to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light finger-soiling to panels, an excellent example overall, [Edel & LaurenceA71b], 8vo, 1913.⁂ The first volume of James' autobiography, rare in the dust-jacket in such condition.
Joyce (James) Chamber Music, first edition, first impression, pictorial title, bookplate of Maxwell Steinhardt to pastedown, very faintly offset, small paper repair to front free endpaper (nicked), original cloth, gilt, third variant binding with thin wove endpapers and the poems in signature C poorly centred on the page, very light rubbing to spine ends, otherwise a very excellent copy, [Slocum & Cahoon A3], 12mo, 1907.⁂ Joyce's first published volume of poetry, scarce in the first issue, preceded only by the separately published poems Et tu Healy (of which no printed copies are known) and the rare broadside The Holy Office.The priority of the second and third variants is undetermined but now thought that very few copies of the first edition were actually gathered and bound in 1907, perhaps only 50-100. When Joyce was at the height of his fame later in the 1920s, Elkin Mathews seem to have "rediscovered" the remainder of his poems and bound them up in a slightly darker green cloth. Maxwell Steinhardt was a retired lawyer and an avid book collector. An admirer of George Bernard Shaw, he was president of the Shaw Society of America.
Kerr (Judith) Mog the Forgetful Cat, first edition, illustrations by the author, original pictorial boards, light bumping to spine ends and corners, dust-jacket, price-clipped, minor chipping to foot of spine and lower corner, light creasing to head and foot, but a near-fine example otherwise, 8vo, 1970.⁂Kerr's classic children's book, rare in the dust-jacket in such lovely condition.
Kipling (Rudyard) Just So Stories, first edition, first state, plates and illustrations by the author, ink gift inscription dated 1902 to endpapers, some scattered spotting, first state pictorial cloth, slight shelf-lean, spine lettering and decoration rubbed away (as often), some rubbing to covers, [Livingstone 267], 4to, 1902.⁂ In the first state binding which was blocked with a white colouring that was highly prone to rubbing.
![[Birkin (Charles Lloyd, editor)] The "Creeps" Omnibus, first edition, light marginal toning, original cloth, spine darkened,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/34ddff66-ad50-43fe-80f5-af2500cb17e8/468x382.jpg)
[Birkin (Charles Lloyd, editor)] The "Creeps" Omnibus, first edition, light marginal toning, original cloth, spine darkened, covers spotting, dust-jacket, flaps detached but present, tear running down upper joint and into front panel with panel separated and with large chip to foot, significant portion of loss to lower panel, chipping, creasing and fraying to head and foot, 8vo, [1935].⁂ A classic omnibus, exceptionally rare in the dust-jacket in any condition.
Larkin (Philip) Jill, light edge spotting, remains of library labels to front pastedown and endpaper, original boards, light rubbing to spine, Fortune Press, 1946; The Whitsun Weddings, original cloth, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, minor chipping to head of spine and corners, an excellent copy, 1964, first editions; and a first edition of High Windows, 8vo (3)⁂ A loosely inserted bookseller's note states that Jill came from the collection of Harry Chambers, founde and director of the Peterloo Poets and Phoenix Pamphlets.
Le Carré (John) The Spy Who Came in from The Cold, first edition, strip of loss to pastedown and endpaper from lower fore-edge, light foxing to first few pp. and margins of text, original boards, spine lightly faded, dust-jacket, spine very lightly faded, corners a little chipped, very faint ring stain to upper panel with some browning, otherwise still in effect a bright copy, 8vo, 1963.
Le Carré (John) A Perfect Spy, first edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, light creasing to head, otherwise excellent, 8vo, 1986⁂ Le Carré's semi-autobiographical novel regarded by many as his greatest. Philip Roth called A Perfect Spy "the best English novel since the war".
Levi (Primo) Moments of Reprieve, translated by Ruth Feldman, 1986; The Mirror Maker, 1990; Other People's Trades, 1989; The Sixth Day, 1990, first English editions, all but the first translated by Raymond Rosenthal, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing to spine heads, otherwise near-fine copies; and another first English edition of Levi, 8vo (5)⁂ Rare group of Levi's first English editions.
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Lewis (C.S.) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, first edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, bookplate removed from front free endpaper, endpapers browned, original cloth, spine end extremities rather discoloured and soiled, spine ends lightly frayed, seventh impression dust-jacket, price-clipped, tear along upper panel repaired, or or two other closed tears, nicks and frays to extremities but overall still in effect an attractive and sharp copy, 8vo, 1950.
Maby (Joseph Cecil) By Stygian Water, first edition, initialed presentation inscription from the author to F. D. Ommanney dated Oxford, 1934 to endpaper, light scattered foxing, original blue cloth, lettered in yellow, spine a little rubbed and faded, dust-jacket priced at 5/-, light toning and 2 splash marks to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short tears to head of joints, a few short nicks and light creasing to head and foot, old tape repairs to verso, light rubbing, a very good, bright copy, 8vo, 1933.⁂ A rare collection of supernatural stories by Maby who was also a noted author on dowsing and paranormal research. We can trace no other presentation copies or copies in the striking dust-jacket. Francis Downes Ommanney (1903-80), writer and biologist who took part in a number of research expeditions to Antarctica.
Mann (Thomas) Buddenbrooks, 2 vol., vol.1 cloth a little rodent-damaged, 1924; The Magic Mountain, 2 vol., 1927; Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, 1954; The Black Swan, 1954, first English editions, original cloth, light fading, last two with dust-jackets, rather creased and frayed, first worn and torn; and 3 others by Mann, including a 2 vol. first American edition of Joseph in Egypt in the original slip-case, 8vo (9)
Blyton (Enid) The Land of Far-Beyond, first edition, illustrations by Horace Knowles, ink gift inscription to endpaper, original pictorial cloth, fine, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, patch of light toning to upper panel, minor chipping to head of spine, short closed tear to head of upper panel, an excellent example, 8vo, 1942.
NO RESERVE Marquez (Gabriel Garcia) One Hundred Years of Solitude, first English edition, ink ownership name to lightly browned endpapers, original boards, spine ends lightly bumped and discoloured, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light rubbing and short tears to edges, some neatly repaired with glue, tear to lower panel repaired with glue, 8vo, 1970.
Middleton (Stanley) Holiday, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, very light sunning to spine, short nick to foot of spine, minor chipping to corner tips, light toning and faitn finger-soiling to lower panel, 8vo, 1974.⁂The Booker Prize-winner for 1974 and one of the most difficult Booker titles to find in good condition.
NO RESERVE Miller (Arthur) Homely Girl, first edition, signed by the author, light toning to cover, New York, 1995 § Camus (Albert) Notebooks. 1935 [- 1951], 2 vol., early reprints, dust-jackets, vol. 1 torn and repaired with some chipping and loss to extremities, light browning to spines, New York, 1966-69, original boards; and 4 others, modern literature, 8vo (7)
Milne (A. A.) Winnie-The-Pooh, first edition, previous owner's ink signature to early blank, 1926The House at Pooh Corner, frontispiece, 1928; Now We Are Six, first edition, vignette title, 1927, pictorial endpapers and illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original pictorial cloth, gilt, fractional bumping to spine extremities; and a later edition of 'When We Were Small', 8vo (4).
Milne (A. A.) Winnie The Pooh, first edition, pictorial endpapers cockled and browned with contemporary ink markings verso, half-title and other pages crudely reinforced with tape, scribbles to title vignette and throughout to illustrations, 1926; The House at Pooh Corner, endpapers browned, 1928, original cloth, lightly soiled, extremities bumped, spine ends creased and frayed; and a second edition of Now We Are Six, 8vo (3)
Milne (A. A.) Now We Are Six, first edition, illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, half-title browned, fore-edge lightly spotted, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine darkened and ends bumped but excellent overall, dust-jacket, spine faded, light rubbing to joints, nicks and tears to edges, spine ends chipped, 8vo, 1927.
Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, pictorial endpapers browned, contemporary ink gift inscription to half-title, original cloth, edges faded, one or two splatter stains to lower cover, spine ends bumped, dust-jacket, edges and corners rather creased and frayed, spine ends chipped with loss to head, spine browned and a little rubbed, 8vo, 1928.
Milne (A. A.) House at Pooh Corner, first edition, pictorial endpapers browned, contemporary ink ownership inscription to half-title, light spotting to half-title, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine faded, spine ends bumped, 1928; Now We Are Six, hinge cracked, lower hinge broken, half-title and last page browned, original pictorial cloth, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, spine ends frayed, 1927, 8vo (2)
Moore (Marianne) Selected Poems, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to David Posner " 'don't like to inscribed' a book Mr. Posner? It is just that I don't like to reread it - and there may be misprints. I do like to reread lines so resolute as those of yours printed in the New York Times the past months" dated May 4, 1958 to endpaper, printed receipt from Elkin Mathews for David Posner for the present volume dated 1949, original cloth, light bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head, light surface soiling, 8vo, 1935.
Ojike (Mbonu) My Africa, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, light foxing and soiling to panels, chipping and creasing to head, 8vo, New York, 1946.⁂ Mbonu Ojike's most famous work, rare signed. Ojike (1914-56) was a prominent Nigerian nationalist and writer who spent eight years in the US lecturing and raising awareness of African perspectives. This work was a culmination of his thinking from that period and was published just prior his return to Nigeria.
Orwell (George) Burmese Days, stains to pp.16-19, 1935; Keep the Apisdistra Flying, spotting to pp.10-11 and pp.206-307, remnants of paper label to upper cover, 1936, first editions, contemporary ink ownership names to front free endpapers, half-title and endpapers browned and spotted, hinges cracked but holding firm, original cloth, rather marked and discoloured, corners bumped, extremities creased and frayed, spine ends defective with slight loss to text, [Fenwick A2a; A4a]; and a first edition set of The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, 1968, 8vo (6)
Orwell (George) The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, 4 vol., first edition, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, vol.1 with contemporary ink ownership inscription to endpapers, others with light soiling mark, original cloth, spine ends lightly bumped, dust-jackets, spines lightly faded but overall excellent, 1968; and a first edition of Shooting an Elephant by Orwell, 8vo (5)
Pasternak (Boris) Doctor Zhivago, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, first English edition, very light browning to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, very slight toning to spine, short tear to head of upper joint, rubbing to spine tips and corners, small patch of browning to front panel, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1958.
NO RESERVE Pinter (Harold) The Homecoming, first edition, 1965; The Caretaker, wrappers lightly browned, 1960; The Birthday Party and other Plays, jacket price-clipped, 1960; No Man's Land, 1975, all but the second original boards and dust-jackets, jacket extremities lightly rubbed or frayed but mostly very crisp copies, second original wrappers; and 9 others by Pinter, 4to & 8vo (14)
![Powell (Anthony) [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, original cloth, one or two with light soiling marks](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/16c935bb-0f33-42b3-a012-af2500c92002/468x382.jpg)
Powell (Anthony) [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, original cloth, one or two with light soiling marks, dust-jackets, A Question of Upbringing jacket price-clipped, A Buyer's market jacket third impression with upper flap fore-shortened with "cheaper edition" to foot, The Acceptance World with paper repairs to upper flap, all with some chips and creases to head and tail, some light toning or fading but largely crisp and excellent copies, 8vo, 1951-75.
NO RESERVE Rendell (Ruth) The Unkindness of Ravens, first edition, jacket price-clipped, 1985; The New Girl Friend and Other Stories, contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, 1985; The Speaker of Mandarin, 1983; Live Flesh, 1986; Going Wrong, 1990, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, fine copies; and 24 others by Rendell, 8vo (29)
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, first edition, first impression, second state with corrected text on p. 7 and "J. K. Rowling" to copyright p. but without advertisement at rear, original pictorial boards, fine, dust-jacket, light creasing to head and foot, near-fine otherwise, 8vo, 1999.
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first deluxe edition, original red cloth with mounted colour illustration, gilt signature and lettering, slight bumping to spine tips, faint mark to foot of upper cover, g.e., 1999; and a first deluxe edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 8vo (2)
![Rowling (J.K.) [The Harry Potter novels], 7 vol., first deluxe edition, first impressions, original cloth with mounted colour](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/5f5a7705-74fd-4d19-a93f-af2500ca3923/468x382.jpg)
Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, large print edition, 2001; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, first edition, 2003; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, first adult edition, Bloomsbury publishing promotional ephemera including bookmarks, stickers and Harry Potter bookplate dated June 2003 loosely inserted, 2003, original boards, all but the first with dust-jackets, mint copies; and 10 others, mixed editions of the Harry Potter series novels, 8vo (13)
![[Rowling (J.K.)], "Robert Galbraith". The Silkworm, first edition, signed by the author as Robert Galbraith on title, hologra](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/15232d37-2bd0-4b90-8a19-af2500c75e01/468x382.jpg)
Rubens (Bernice) The Elected Member, first edition, edge spotting, light foxing to endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, spine a little sunned, some tape-strengthening to verso of head and foot of spine, small patch of light browning to rear panel, but an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1969.⁂ A bright copy of the second ever book to win the Booker Prize. Scarce.
Runyon (Damon) Runyon From First to Last, 1968; On Broadway, 1970, half-titles, bookplate of Michael Matantos, uniformly bound in modern half grey morocco, gilt, slightly sunned at spines and extremities, t.e.g.; with 3 others, including one of 250 copies of the 1999 edition of Caesar signed by Patrick O'Brian, 8vo & 4to (5)
Rushdie (Salman) Midnight's Children, first edition, first issue on American sheets, original cloth-backed boards, bumping to corners, light sunning to upper and lower edge, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, light creasing to head, small nick to foot of lower joint and upper corners, still an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1981.⁂ Rushdie's Booker Prize-winner, voted the Best of Booker in both 1993 and 2008.
![NO RESERVE Sansom (C.J.) [Matthew Shardlake Series], comprising Dissolution, 2003; Dark Fire, 2004; Sovereign, 2006; Revelati](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1b4391d1-47f1-4a38-ae1d-af2500c33954/e720a506-9ac1-47ba-a527-af2500c8e9e9/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Sansom (C.J.) [Matthew Shardlake Series], comprising Dissolution, 2003; Dark Fire, 2004; Sovereign, 2006; Revelation, 2008; Heartstone, 2010; Lamentation, 2014; Tombland, 2018; first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, very light creasing to spine ends with one or two nicks, otherwise near fine; and another first edition from the author from outside the series, 8vo (8)
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