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‘Sex Toy 2’ (2006) No. 2 from a Limited Edition of 50Signed, dated, numbered and emboss stamped lower edge Screenprint on paperTotal sheet size: 70 x 50 cm (Framed and behind glass)PROVENANCE- Lazarides Gallery, London - Scream Gallery, Mayfair, London- Jamie Wood Collection, LondonNOTEUK contemporary artist, Paul Insect is one of street art's most famous artists. His first major show, Bullion, at the Lazarides Gallery, London in 2007, was completely purchased by Damien Hurst before being opened to the public. (Please refer to department for Condition report. You can find the biography of this artist in our digital catalogue for this sale)

A limited edition print by Robert Taylor, 'Hurricane', first edition, Bath 1979, signed by Wing Commander R R Stanford-Tuck DSO, DFC, RAF (Retd)', framed

A copy of the first edition of the 'Voyeur' fanzine (previously BOBN) signed to front cover in biro by David Bowie. Provenance: from the collection of renowned Bowie super fan and collector Ton Van Der Horst who ran a popular Dutch fanzine 'The Voyeur'.

Lots 289-301The following collection of cartoons were all produced for Biorex Laboratories Ltd.. Incorporated on 5 October 1944, it was set up by a doctor and a chemist, who had studied at Cambridge and was interested in the natural extract of plants and materials. Since the 17th century, liquorice had been used to treat stomach ulcers - and the main extract was glycyrrhetinic acid which Biorex then developed into a cream called Biosone GA, which had the same qualities of hydrocortisone cream. The cartoons were hung in the boardroom and were most probably all part of a marketing campaign in the 1950s. They were given to the vendor who started working at the company in 1965.*(Frederick) Rowland Emett (1906-1990) 'The Logical Train' signed 'Emett', pencil and pen with a green wash, on a Windsor and Newton's Fashion Plate Board, 35 x 46cmRowland Emett was born in New Southgate, London on 22 October 1906, the elder son of the proprietor of a small advertising business.Educated at Waverley Grammar School, Birmingham, he showed his father’s enthusiasm for invention, and registered his first patent at the age of fourteen. However, he had ambitions to be a landscape painter and studied with great success at the Birmingham School of Art. The combination of artistic and scientific talents allowed Emett to work as an industrial draughtsman, while contributing with increasing regularity to Punch, Lilliput and other magazines from the late 1930s.During the Second World War, Emett worked as a draughtsman on the development of jet engines. In 1941, he was chosen to illustrate 'Bells and Grass', a series of humorous rhymes that Walter de la Mare had originally written for Punch. The poet was so impressed by the result that he immediately encouraged Emett to illustrate an edition of his more famous book, 'Peacock Pie'. In the same year, Emett married, and he and his wife set about producing the delightful children’s book, 'Anthony and Antimacassar' (1943). About the same time, Emett’s cartoons began to be collected in volume form, 'A Book of Curious Happenings' (1943) initiating a series that culminated in 'Far Twittering' (1949).In 1951, Emett reached a wider public with his designs for The Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway, and its featured engine, 'Nellie', which was sited at Battersea Park during the Festival of Britain. As his eyesight faltered, he converted more of his illustrations into increasingly complex three-dimensional machines that, from 1956, he constructed himself at a blacksmith’s forge near his home in West Sussex. He received international success through his work on the film 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' (1968), when he gave substance to the adventures of the inventor, Caractacus Potts. He achieved this by employing a team of assistants to help him make eight of his machines for the filming and a further thirty-seven for international promotional purposes. These and other inventions continue to prove popular throughout the world and remain on public exhibition in such esteemed institutions as the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.A parodist of the real world of functional engineering, Emett had long proved to be the Genius of British Eccentricity, a fact acknowledged by his being awarded an OBE in 1978. This was confirmed by the overwhelming response to the most important exhibition of his career, ‘Rowland Emett: From 'Punch' to 'Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang' and beyond’ at the Chris Beetles Gallery in 1988 and, augmented by a number of the machines, at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. He died on 13 November 1990 in a nursing home in Hassocks, Sussex, close to Wild Goose Cottage, his home in Ditchling.Condition report: Board is browned. Creased/Knocked bottom right corner. Numbered 696 to the reverse in pencil.

'Edward Bawden' by Douglas Percy Bliss, owned by Mary Ward, together with a card from his wife and a copy of the Service of Remembrance & Thanksgiving for Edward Bawden, Thursday 4 January 1990, 'A Book of Cuts', 1979, 'An Exhibition of Historical & British Wallpapers', Suffolk Galleries, May 1945,'Paul Nash - a Memorial Exhibition','The Engravings of Eric Ravilious', First Edition, and 'Ravilious & Wedgwood', 1986 (6)Condition report: All used condition - Bliss dust jacket worn, with losses.

AUTOGRAPHS : 1966 World Cup Winners first day cover sign by Alan Ball, Gordon Banks, Jack Charlton, George Cohen, Roger Hunt, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters, Nobby Stiles and Ray Wilson. limited edition no 46 of 150 framed and certified by Benham.

2 hardback books, John Betjamin 'A life in pictures' and J. Robert Oppenheimer 'Shatterer of Worlds' First edition

Bewick (Thomas, 1753-1828). The Mirror; or a Looking-Glass for Young People of both Sexes; To make them Wise, Good, and Happy. Consisting of A Choice Collection of Fairy Tales. By Mother Goose, Newcastle Upon Tyne: printed by T. Saint for W. Charnley, in the Groat-market; and M. Vesey and J. Whitfield, at Tyne Bridge End, 1778, signed at head of Contents leaf 'Thos. Bewick', 13 woodcuts on letterpress, coloured or partially coloured in a juvenile hand, toned and some soiling (including ink blot on title-page), stitching partially broken, lacking I1 and I6, and remainder of signature near-detached with consequent tear and fraying, 6pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, front pastedown with bookplate of Jane Bewick (inscribed in pencil to lower margin 'From Dr. C. Clark Bertram's Collection, Alnwick'), with ink inscription above 'TBewick 1784' (first 2 letters conjoined), rear endpapers inscribed in pencil in a childish hand 'thomas Bewick has foure children, Jane the eldest, Robert the next, Isabella the next, Elizabeth the next', with 'Bewick' in ink, original calf-backed Dutch floral boards, worn, with upper cover near-detached, 12mo in 6sQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Thomas Bewick's own copy of a rare early children's book, subsequently owned by his daughter, Jane; 5 of the 13 woodcuts are thought to be by Thomas Bewick, and the illustration on p.173, signed 'J.B.', is believed to be the earliest published example of a signed Bewick woodcut. David Gardner-Medwin, A Provisional Checklist of the Library of Thomas Bewick, The Bewick Society, 2010, 341: 'listed with Jane Bewick's books, 1806'. Worldcat lists just one copy of this edition (Dartmouth Library, New Hampshire, Hanover, New Hampshire), and two copies of a new edition of 'approximately 1783' (Robinson Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne, and The Lilly Library, Indiana University, USA). See Gumuchian 4143 for an undated edition with the suggested date of circa 1763: 'this rare work may have a frontispiece missing, but we do not know'; and ESTC for an edition of [1783?].

Darton (William & Son, publisher). The Wonders of the Telescope, by the author of "The Wonders of the Microscope", c.1830, 14 engraved plates, including frontispiece, most folding, all but 2 dated (1823), 4 with a closed handling tear, 1 a little edge-frayed, final plate nearly detached, front pastedown with early ink manuscript inscription, contemporary red quarter sheep, spine lettered in gilt with title and price (2s.6d), rubbed, board edges showing, 12mo, together with: Harris (J., publisher), Mother Bunch's Fairy Tales, published for the amusement of all those Little Masters and Misses who, by duty to their parents, and obedience to their superiors, aim at becoming Great Lords and Ladies, London: printed for J. Harris, successor to E. Newbery, c.1802, engraved frontispiece, scattered spotting, original printed stiff wrappers, rebacked with paper (coming away), rubbed with a little wear to edges, 12mo, plus: Tabart and Co. (publishers), The Book of Trades, or library of the useful arts, part II, 1 volume (only, of 3), 1st edition, London, 1804, 21 uncoloured engraved plates (complete), an additional (defective) plate 'Brazier' loosely inserted, possibly from part I, 1 plate close-trimmed at foot (affecting imprint), 1 opening with minor surface damage at gutter (affecting a few words), pp.3 publisher's advertisements at rear, contemporary red quarter morocco, gilt-lettering to spine, rubbed with a little wear to extremities, 12mo, with one other similar: The Garden; or, Familiar Instructions for the Laying Out and Management of a Flower Garden, 2nd edition, London: John Harris, 1832Qty: (4)NOTESFirst item: Darton H1605 (2). Second item: this edition not in Gumuchian or Osborne. Mother Bunch: although some editions of this title have several plates (as implied by the title page), this copy appears to follow the edition dated 1802, of which the British Library copy can be examined online, in having a frontispiece only. Book of Trades: this title when first published in 1804 comprised of two volumes or parts. In 1805 a third volume was published.

Marshall (John, publisher). The Dandies' Perambulations, embellished with sixteen coloured engravings [by Robert Cruikshank], printed and sold by John Marshall, 1823, 16 pp. including frontispiece and title, printed on one side only, each page with hand-coloured engraved illustration, a little spotting and dust-soiling, a few closed tear repairs with old paper strips to versos, ink presentation inscription dated 1831 from Henry Freeman to his brother Arthur Freeman to front pastedown, original stiff wrappers with mounted hand-coloured label to upper cover, ink initials 'A F' to frontispiece and cover label, covers creased and soiled with some corner wear, old paper reback now perished with spine showing, slim 8vo, together with: [Strickland, Agnes], The Little Tradesman; or, a peep into English industry, William Darton, [1824], 24 half-page engraved trades on 12 leaves, publisher's engraved advert leaf at rear, offsetting to pages before and after plates, ownership signature of Henry Freeman dated 1829 to title upper margin, engraved presentation leaf before frontispiece, contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards, rubbed, some corner wear, tall 12mo, plus: Elliott (Mary), Rural Employment; or, a peep into village concerns, designed to instruct the minds of children, William Darton, 1820, 18 engraved plates, a few plate titles shaved at fore-edges, some spotting or browning throughout, ownership inscription for Henry Pettener Freeman dated 1824 to front free endpaper, contemporary quarter roan over boards, rubbed and slight wear, 12moQty: (3)NOTESGumuchian, 2049, cites 1821 as the first edition of the first book though some holdings suggest 1819. The variant title 'The Dandy's Perambulation's' appears on the label on the upper cover in this edition for which no other copies have been located.

Paper Doll Book. Young Albert, the Roscius, Exhibited in a Series of Characters from Shakespeare and other Authors, 2nd edition, London: printed by S. and J. Fuller, at the Temple of Fancy, Rathbone Place, 1811, pp.23, 7 hand-coloured cut-out figures in aquatint loosely inserted (one arm reinforced on verso), with 2 original interchangeable heads (Othello's plume reinforced on verso) and 2 hats, possibly lacking a third head? but otherwise complete, front free endpaper with ownership names 'Eliza Dunn 1812' and Ellen Barker Janry 1851', verso with printed label 'Jenkins' Repository, 48, Strand, For all Kinds of Fancy Articles and Pasteboard Work', original sewn printed wrappers (printing block misaligned so lower border trimmed off), with original cream silk tie through spine slot (almost never present), small hole in upper blank margin of rear cover, contained in original printed slipcase (printed 'the third edition'), lightly marked and joints split or splitting, 16moQty: (1)NOTESGumuchian 2034; Osborne p. 420 (both listing the first edition of 1811). Gumuchian calls this "one of the most interesting and scarcest of this type of early juvenile", and indeed, it is certainly one of the rarest of Fuller's paperdoll books, and remarkable also for including more than one head. Ours has the head of Albert and another for Othello; we have seen mention of a third head for Falstaff, although have been unable to trace a copy with it present. Gumuchian and Osborne each mention one head only.

Telescope (Tom, pseudonym). The Newtonian Philosophy, and Natural Philosophy in General, explained and illustrated by familiar objects, in a series of entertaining lectures, 4th edition, Thomas Tegg and Son ..., 1838, engraved folding frontispiece, engraved vignette title, numerous engraved illustrations in text, half-title, terminal advertisement leaf, some light spotting (mainly at front and rear), front free endpaper with contemporary ownership inscription dated 1838, stitching slightly showing (but firm), original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering to front cover, faded spine with gilt title and telescope (rubbed), corners rubbed, spine frayed at foot and worn at head, small 8vo, together with: Sobersides (Soloman, pseudonym), Christmas Tales for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in Winter Evenings, London: Printed by R. Marshall, at No. 4, in Aldermary Church Yard ..., [1780?], 36 hand-coloured woodcuts (of 38), including frontispiece (with minor loss to upper right corner), 18 stories, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, lacking 8 leaves (pp.25-26, 35-36, 85-86, 99-106, 121-122), some spotting and toning throughout, [A6] with repaired tear, B1 with some loss at gutter (affecting a few words), K4 with a few words crossed-out (and associated strike-through), book ticket of Elizabeth Crosfield, contemporary green quarter morocco, worn, 12mo, plus: Dean & Munday (publishers), The Book of Trades; or, Familiar Descriptions of the Most Useful Trades, Manufactures, and Arts, practised in England, London, c.1830, 18 full-page wood-engraved illustrations (including frontispiece), occasional spotting, contemporary red quarter morocco, worn, 12mo, with 17 others related, including Small Books for the Comman Man, a Descriptive Bibliography, edited by John Meriton and Carlo Dumontet, 2010, and Juvenile Introduction to History, or Historical Beauties for Youth..., for Darton and Co., 1790Qty: (20)NOTESChristmas Tales: Osborne p.306. An extremely scarce copy of apparently the first edition of this popular collection of instructive stories. The Osborne copy (also defective) is the only other one we have found with the same early imprint 'R. Marshall'.

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, A Novel, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, engraved frontispiece, vignette title, and letterpress title all dated 1833, some spotting and toning to first and final few leaves and occasionally to text, frontispiece and vignette title with pale dampstain to lower outer blank corners, additional series titlepage deficient, contemporary green quarter calf, rear cover detached, front cover nearly detached, spine rubbed and stained, 8voQty: (1)NOTESGilson D5. Part of the first collected edition of Jane Austen's novels.

Collins (Wilkie). Poor Miss Finch, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1872, bound without advertisement leaf at end of volume I, Philosophers' Reference Library stamps to p.111 in volumes I & II & erased from p.111 of volume III, the stamps also bleached out from foot of titles and front blanks, occasional minor spotting, modern red half calf, spines with black and burgundy labels, 8vo, together with The Black Robe, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1881, half titles, 6 pp. & 32 pp. advertisements at end of volume III, occasional spotting and stains, foliate patterned endpapers, original black cloth, upper covers titled with robe design, spines lettered in gilt, Mitchell's Royal Library labels at head of upper covers, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus The Evil Genius. A Domestic Story, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1886, half titles, 32 pp. advertisements at end of volume III, occasional light toning and soiling, modern black half calf, spines with black and burgundy labels and gilt decoration, original cloth covers and spine bound-in front and rear of each volume, 8vo, plus The Woman in White, 2nd 1 volume edition, London: Sampson Low, 1862, half title, small oval albumen portrait with facsimile signature,additional engraved title (dated 1861), 1 pp. & 16 pp advertisements at end, water stain to first few leaves, some light spotting, contemporary owner inscriptions, original blindfstamped cloth, spine faded and repaired, a few small stains, 8voQty: (10)

[Dickens, Charles]. Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz", 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, 1st issue, London: Richard Bentley, 1838, half-titles to volumes 1 and 2, 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, bound without the 4 pp. advertisements in volume 1, the inserted list of illustrations noted in some copies, and the initial advertisement leaf in volume 3 (no half-title called for), marginal oxidisation to plates, imprints cropped, offsetting, a few other spots and marks, contemporary half calf, rubbed, labels chipped, 8vo (18.8 x 11.2 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESCf. Smith I 4. With the first-issue title-pages (authorship credited to "Boz" rather than Dickens), and the 'Fireside' plate in the third volume, suppressed in the second issue.

Dickens (Charles). Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, 1st separate edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1841, illustrations by George Cattermole and H.K. Browne, a little minor spotting, original green blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, corners repaired, edes slightly rubbed with small indentation, 8voQty: (1)NOTESSmith I, 6B. Smith's secondary variant binding in green cloth with the chain decoration in blind to the covers. First separate one volume edition, bound from the weekly parts from Master Humphrey's Clock.

Dickens (Charles). American Notes for General Circulation, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1842, 1st issue with p. x misnumbered xvi in volume I, 6 pp. advertisements at end of volume II, a few minor spots and stains, Leighton & Eeles binder tickets to volume I front pastedown, bookplates of James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847-1913, astronomer, politician and bibliophile), 'Bibliotheca Lindesiana', original blindstamped brown cloth, spine ends a little frayed, small inkspots to volume I covers, 8vo, plus Report of the Dinner Given to Charles Dickens in Boston, February 1, 1842, reported by Thomas Gill and William English, reporters of The Morning Post, 1st edition, Boston, 1842, rebound in later blue morocco giltQty: (3)NOTESFirst work Eckell pp. 108-109; Smith II, 3.

Dickens (Charles). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844, half title, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 etched plates by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"), a little light spotting, light marginal toning to plates, original yellow endpapers (bookplates removed from front endpaper and pastedown), hinges a little tender but holding, original blue blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt, spine a little faded to green with small nick and tears at foot, 8voQty: (1)NOTESEckel pp. 71-73; Smith I: 7. The title vignette conforms to Smith's 2nd state (no priority) with "£100" on the signpost, six studs on the trunk and signed "Phiz", and 14 line errata (the usual second setting, the first setting 13 lines). First edition in bookform, published in July 1844, after the monthly parts were issued from 31 December 1842 to 30 June 1844.

Dickens (Charles). A Tale of Two Cities, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, etched frontispiece, additional title and 14 plates by H.K. Browne, occasional light spotting, front hinge slightly tender, original green blindstamped cloth, spine faded to brown with small chip at head and frayed at foot, contained in later morocco-backed slipcase (a little rubbed with one piece of siding detached), 8voQty: (1)NOTESEckel pp. 86-90, Smith I, 13. Smith's secondary binding in green cloth, the first issue was bound in red cloth. Second issue copy, with p. 213 correctly paginated. .

Dickens (Charles). Our Mutual Friend, 1st edition in the original parts, London: Chapman & Hall, 1864/5, 20 monthly numbers in 19 original parts as issued, 40 wood engraved plates after Marcus Stone, complete with all advertisements called for by Hatton & Cleaver, except the slip following the 'Advertiser' in No. 8 ("December the First ..."), additional Chapman & Hall 8pp. catalogue dated Sept. 1 1865 at rear of No. 18 not called-for (identical to that in No. 17), 2 half-titles and 2 printed titles present, No. 8 with small pencil drawing of a gentleman's face on verso of final advertisement leaf, occasional light spotting, 1 or 2 closed tears, original printed blue-green wrappers, a little soiling and chipping, with some minor losses to spines and edges (particularly to first part), No. 2 with front cover detached, rear cover of No. 11 spotted, Nos. 8 and 9 with pencilled ownership signature on front cover, slim 8vo, housed in a custom-made terracotta cloth solander box with gilt lettering(19)Notes:Provenance: Christie's, 1st June 2009, lot 138.Eckel pp.94/5; Gimbel A149; Hatton & Cleaver, pp.345-370.

Dickens (Charles). Our Mutual Friend, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1865, bound from the parts, half-titles, 40 engraved plates by Marcus Stone, including frontispieces, each volume with an original printed wrapper (parts 5 & 16 respectively) bound-in, 8 original advertisment leaves bound-in (on white, pink, and blue paper), scattered spotting, 1st volume one plate with chip and short edge tear, all edges gilt, near contemporary maroon half morocco, rubbed, corners showing, spines faded, 8vo, together with: ibid. Bleak House, 1st edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, bound from the parts, half-title discarded, 40 etched plates by H. K. Browne, including frontispiece and additional title, generally soiled throughout, plates toned with some spotting, p.107 with long closed tear (related to paper fault), p.331 with loss to blank fore-margin, 2 plate leaves with a closed tear extending 1cm into image, modern dark brown half morocco, lightly rubbed in places, spine faded, 8vo, plus: ibid. The Personal History of David Copperfield, 1st bookform edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850, half-title discarded, title misbound after Contents, 40 etchings by H. K. Browne, including frontispiece and additional title (with date at foot), some light finger-soiling, letterpress spotted, frontispiece blank reverse with early ink manuscript signature, one plate with small stain to lower blank corner, one with short edge tear touching caption, one close-trimmed at fore-edge clipping caption, contemporary black half calf gilt, worn, cover detached at front hinge, 8vo, and 3 other Dickens 1st editions: Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Sketches by Boz (lacking 2 plates)Qty: (7)NOTESFirst three items: Eckel, pp. 94-95, 79-81, 77-78; Gimbel A149, A130, A122 respectively.

Henty (G.A.) Friends Though Divided. A Tale of the Civil War, 1st edition, London: Griffith & Farran, 1883, 8 wood-engraved plates, 32 pp. advertisements at end dated September 1983, occasional minor spotting and soiling, neat contemporary presentation inscription at head of title, small sticker to front pastedown, original red pictorial cloth gilt, spine a little faded, slight lean, 8voQty: (1)NOTESNewbolt 12.1 (3). First edition, early issue, Newbolt's note 3 with Catalogue A dated '9.83'. The earliest issue, published in 1882 (but dated 1883) has Catalogue B dated May 1882.

Kipling (Rudyard). Quartette, The Christmas Annual of the Civil & Military Gazette, by four Anglo-Indian writers, [i.e. John Lockwood, Alice, Rudyard & Alice Macdonald Kipling], 1st edition, Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1885, title printed in red and black, closed tear repair to outer margin without loss, a little dust soiled, pencil markings to Contents leaf, two closed tears without loss to pp. 37/38, marginal repair with no text loss to pp. 41/42, two words ('Ilbert Bill') circled in ink on p. 53, small closed tear repairs to outer margins of final two leaves not touching text, top edge gilt, original printed wrappers and advert leaves discarded, engraved armorial bookplate of M.C.D. Borden, contemporary crushed brown half morocco over marbled boards, gilt-titled spine with five raised bands, rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESLivingston 5; Martindell 4. One of Kipling's earliest publications, comprising 8 poems and 8 prose pieces by the Kipling family, including the first appearance of 'The Phantom Rickshaw'. Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden (1842-1912) was a textile leader from Fall River, Massachusetts who in 1880 reorganised the failed American Print Works into the American Printing Company.

Lever (Charles). Davenport Dunn, or the Man of the Day, 22 parts in 21 (as issued), 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, July 1857 - April 1859, 44 etched plates by 'Phiz' (H. K. Browne), including frontispiece and additional title (issued in final double-part), numerous advertisement leaves throughout on pink, yellow, white, green, and blue papers, very scarce minor spots, sewn as issued, 2 parts unopened, original pictorial printed pink paper wrappers, somewhat faded and dust-soiled, few minor marks, part III front cover with early ink manuscript signature at head, contained together in brown cloth-covered portfolio with matching morocco-backed slipcase (rubbed with some marks), gilt-lettering to spine, 8voQty: (1)NOTESSadleir 1401; Wolff 4084 both for the bookform. Sadleir regarded Davenport Dunn as the rarest of the octavo novels first published in parts, and this is a rare survival of the original parts in excellent condition. The character of Dunn is loosely based on the notorious Irish financier, politician and swindler John Sadleir, who eventually fell into ruin and committed suicide on Hampstead Heath. Charles Dickens also made use of the character in his novel Little Dorrit, basing Mr. Merdle on Sadleir.

Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus [... The Ghost-Seer! From the German of Schiller. In two volumes. vol. I], 2 parts in 1 volume, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, pp. [2], [v] vi-xii, 202; [4] 3-163,[1], series-title (with 'Standard Novels. No IX') to front discarded, engraved frontispiece and engraved additional title-page to first part (Shelley, both partly hand-coloured, browned, spotted and dampstained to lower outer corner), separate title-page to each part, half-title to second part (Schiller), advertisements discarded, occasional minor spots, hinges cracked, contemporary black half calf with gilt decorated raised bands, light brown morocco title label to spine, marbled sides, light wear mostly to head & foot of spine, 8vo (16.1 x 10.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESSadleir 3734a.9; Wolff 6280a. First Bentley edition of Frankenstein, extensively revised by the author, the third edition overall. Published as the ninth volume in Bentley's Standard Novels series (the volume also containing the first part only of Schiller's The Ghost-Seer), it was also the first illustrated edition, and the first in one volume. Frankenstein was first published in 1818, the second edition appearing in 1823.

[Thackeray, William Makepeace]. The Yellowplush Correspondence, 1st edition, Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838, title and a few leaves detached at front, front hinge broken, small piece of a front endpaper torn away, some spotting, bookplate of Viscount Esher (1852-1930), original cloth-backed boards, spine faded with wear to label, joints splitting, some soiling to boards, 8voQty: (1)NOTESWilliam Thackeray's first separate work in book form, the work first serialised in Fraser's Magazine from 1837-38. The pagination starts on page 13, an introduction or preface likely intended by the publishers for pages 1-12.

Verne (Jules). Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, 1st UK edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1873, 112 monochrome illustrations, 5 detached (at pp. 66-67, 79 & 246-47), publisher's 8 pp. advertisements for the season 1872-3 at end, occasional minor spotting, previous owner inscription of H.S. Dewhurst, 1873 at head of title and again to half title, armorial bookplate of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst (1888-1942), hinges tender (front hinge breaking), all edges gilt, original red pictorial cloth gilt, spine ends a little rubbed with small splits and tears, some wear to corners, 8voQty: (1)NOTESMyers 56 (noted in green cloth). The first edition in English was actually published in November 1872 (but dated 1873) preceding the more usual American first edition by James Osgood in Boston in 1873, using the English edition illustrations. Also found in blue cloth.

* Freud (Lucian, 1922-2011). British Painter. Lucian Freud [by] Lawrence Gowing, 1st edition, Thames & Hudson, 1982, colour and black and white illustration from photographs throughout, signed and inscribed in pencil by Freud to title, 'For Lambert from his friend' with two arrows pointing at his first and second names beneath, original decorative cloth, 4to, together with an Autograph Letter Signed 'Lucian', Monday night, 36 Holland Park, circa 1980s, to 'My dear Lambert', in blue ballpoint pen, regretting that he will not meet up, 'I hope you wont think it unfriendly of me but I want to work every night until I have finished my big painting. There is hardly any one I'd rather see than you - I simply feel all wrong, wormlike and pretencious [the 'c' corrected to 't' with green pencil] if Im not working hard', the additional word 'consitenly' (sic) written in green pencil beneath the word 'working', a few minor marks and light creases, one page, 4toQty: (2)

Freud (Sigmund). Psychoanalytische Studien an Werken der Dichtung und Kunst, 1st edition, Leipzig, Vienna & Zurich, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924, single photographic plate of Michelangelo's Moses, signed by the author in ink to front endpaper 'Sigm. Freud', and dated 1937, original publisher's yellow cloth, with spine and upper cover lettered in blue, generally in very good condition, 8voQty: (1)NOTESGrinstein 10687. A collection of six various essays on literature and art, originally published between 1908 and 1917 and here for the first time brought together, including The Moses of Michelangelo, and The Uncanny. Inscribed by Freud in 1937, the year before he emigrated to London.

* Grainger (Percy, 1882-1961). Australian composer and pianist. Photograph signed, 'Percy Grainger, Aug[ust] 1923', sepia bromide silver print, half-length in part profile, signed and inscribed for Frederick H. Martens in blue ink to a lighter part of the image, beneath 2 bars of an autograph musical quotation from Hillsong I, small circular blindstamp of the photographer [Alfred] Krauth, Frankfurt, to lower right corner, some silvering visible to lower and right margins (when viewed at an angle), 21.5 x 15.5 cm, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESThe first version of Grainger’s Hill Song Number 1 was composed between 1901 and 1902. After much rewriting and revising, it was eventually published by Universal Edition in 1924. Grainger said of this work, ‘…I think it is one of the very richest in herzblut [heart's blood] of all my works'. Frederick Herman Martens (1874-1932) was an American music journalist and writer.

* Sassoon (Siegfried, 1886-1967). English Poet, Writer and Soldier. Autograph Poem signed with his distinctive monogram 'SS' of the humorous poem 'Out of Date', circa 1925, 12 lines, beginning, 'A noon edition said / "Lord Out of Date is dead"...', written in light purple pencil on a Reform Club Pall Mall correspondence card, 14 x 9 cm, address side blank, preserved in a purpose-made red cloth book box with gilt-titled spine, together with three autograph letters signed by Sassoon, the first to Colin [Fenton], Heytesbury [House], 10 April 1954, declaring that some of his poems depress him and are not worth printing, mentioning his great friend Max Beerbohm lamenting the effects of solitude and disparaging the dons of All Souls, in particular A.L. Rowse, '... the other poems in the M.S. I sent to John [Sparrow] give me a feeling of depression, and I don't think many of them are worth printing. I imagine people finding them too solemn and unstimulating...', written in a close hand in blue ink to upper half a page of light blue paper with monogram signature, 8vo; an earlier autograph letter signed to Mr Horsley, London, 20 July 1926, offering to meet with members of Horsley's College Library Society, and asking him to leave it open, in blue ink on a small correspondence card with verso blank, oblong 16mo; the last and undated letter to Horsley, cancelling a proposed visit to Cambridge and sending his apologies, a little marginal toning, one page, 8vo; plus a printed decorative card featuring Sassoon's poem Another Spring with signed presentation inscription from Siegfried Sassoon to C.F. [Colin Fenton] to lower margin, verso blank, 10 x 16 cmQty: (5)NOTESThe autograph poem is apparently unpublished. It may date from circa 1920/21 if the reference to '... Caruso's grave condition...' is contemporary with the poem. In his biography of the poet, Max Egremont draws attention to the fact that Sassoon's poetry returned to satire in 1920. It was at this same time that Caruso became seriously ill, suffering a throat haemorrhage on 11 December, the news of which would have crossed most of Europe and America. Colin Fenton (1929-1982) was a student at Christ Church College Oxford, and was believed to have been John Sparrow's lover. For a time, Fenton shared Sparrow's accommodation at C1 Albany and it was Sparrow who introduced Fenton to Sassoon in 1953. Fenton was to write Sassoon's obituary for the Times in 1967. The autograph poem and letters are all apparently unpublished.

* Walton (William Turner, 1902-1983). English Composer. An archive of material by, or relating to William Walton, including one brief autograph letter signed, two typed letters signed and one score signed, the letter to the writer and musicologist Donald Mitchell on a personalised correspondence card, dated at Ischia, 23 January 1973, informing his correspondent that, 'Indeed Malcolm [Arnold] is here and working hard - in fact he seems to be halfway thro' the 1st mov[ement] of a Symph[ony]. I wish I was!', the two typed letters signed to Mrs C.E. Marrett, London, 17 May & 19 August 1949, thanking her for the photographs of the house on the Island of Ischia (one of which is present), which Walton wishes to rent from her, inviting her to tea, confirming the tenancy of San Francesco for the following year, mentioning terms and assuring her that he and his wife 'look forward immensely to our stay there', minor creasing and one with small marginal tear to blank left margin, both one page, 8vo/oblong 8vo, the signed score being a printed 1st edition of Walton's Violin Concerto in B Minor, Oxford University Press, 1945, signed in blue ballpoint pen at head of first page by 'William Walton', 'Andre Previn', and [in Korean] Kyung Wha Chung', ownership signature of the music critic E.H. Greenfield (dated 20.12.45) to front wrapper verso with various ink notes about recordings, original printed wrappers, upper cover detached and spine deficient, large 8vo, plus an autograph signature of William Walton on a white card and a good series of 9 autograph letters signed from Walton's wife, Lady Susana Walton (1926-2010), and one typed letter signed, and one programme signed, La Mortella, Ischia and London, 1983-2003, 8 of the autograph letters to Walton's biographer Neil Tierney and one to Donald Mitchell, the typed letter to Kathleen Miles, all but one letters mentioning William Walton, the earliest letter written to Donald Mitchell three weeks after Walton's death, '... William and I had just arranged for the MSS to be lent to Christ Church. We were also going to Pisa on the 29th for his birthday to celebrate with Lindsay Kemp and his group doing Façade; I thought the artists should have his birthday celebration - but very sad for me', the subsequent letters discussing photographs of Walton, his mini opera The Bear, the setting up of the Walton Charitable Trust, progress on the Walton Museum at La Mortella, Tierney's biographies of Walton and Stravinsky, progress on her book about Walton and mentioning various works including Façade, Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto, Belshazzar's Feast, Violin Sonata and further mentioning Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yehudi Menuhin, Louis Kentner and John Shirley-Quirk, plus the aforementioned photograph, a copy of the programme for the premiere of Walton's Troilus and Cressida, a typed bank instruction for Walton to pay £20 each month to Mrs Marrett and an unsigned printed Italian postcard in celebration of Walton's centenaryQty: (a folder)

* Cobb, Ruth, fl. 1902-1953. A complete set of original pen and ink and watercolour drawings for the book 'Three Little Adventurers' by Madeleine Grant Richards, [1917], all signed to lower margin, each 12.5 x 8cm (5 x 3ins), mounted in order of appearance in the story in two panoramic matching frames, glazed, each 20 x 142cm (8 x 56ins), together with a second larger original pen, ink and watercolour illustration used as the fourth illustration in the book, short closed tear to lower margin, 19.5 x 12.5cm (7.75 x 5ins), framed and glazed, plus a first edition copy of the book, some light toning, inner hinges broken and leaves coming loose, original pictorial cloth in bright condition, d.j. somewhat soiled and worn and relined, 8vo, Mrs Grant Richards publisher's contract and two royalty receipts (1918) loosely insertedQty: (7)NOTESMost of Cobb's book illustrations were drawn for children's books, including those she wrote herself. She also contributed to magazines such as Chatterbox and Punch.

Kipling (Rudyard). Just So Stories for Little Children, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1902, illustrations by the author, one or two light fingermarks, light spotting and small red stains to endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription, bookplate, original 2nd state red pictorial cloth binding (the first state binding was blocked in white and prone to flaking), spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, small stain and indentation to upper cover, small 4toQty: (1)

Milne (A. A.). A complete set of first editions of the Winnie-the-Pooh Stories, 1924-1928, comprising: When We Were Very Young, 1st edition, Methuen, 1924, illustrated throughout by E.H. Shepard, presentation copy with original publisher's ink presentation stamp at foot of title, some toning to half-title and (blank) free endpapers, stitching slightly showing in places (but firm), top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed (with light spotting), original dark blue cloth gilt, spine very slightly darkened and a little rubbed at ends, 8vo; Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st edition, Methuen, 1926, illustrated throughout by E.H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers (some toning and light spotting), top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original green cloth gilt, spine ends and corners very lightly rubbed, 8vo; Now We Are Six, 1st edition, Methuen, 1927, half-title and final page partially toned, p.65/66 with small spot centrally, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original red cloth gilt, spine a little faded and lightly rubbed at ends, 8vo; The House At Pooh Corner, 1st edition, Methuen, 1928, illustrated throughout by E.H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers (free endpapers somewhat toned), top edge gilt, remainder rough-trimmed (a few light spots), original salmon cloth gilt, spine faded, two related advertisement slips loosely inserted, 8vo, housed together in a blue cloth slipcase with ribbon-pullQty: (4)

Pardoe (Margot Mary). Charles Arriving, illustrated by Leslie Atkinson, 1st edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954, illustrations to text, front free endpaper (partly browned) with ink authorial signature, top edge lightly spotted, original cloth, some browning to spine, dust jacket, spine and folds browned and very slightly rubbed, a couple of tiny chips, 8vo, together with: Bunkle Gets Busy, 1st edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951, front free endpaper (lightly browned) with ink authorial presentation inscription, edges spotted, original cloth, somewhat rubbed and marked, spine browned, 8vo, plus: The Far Island, 1st edition, George Routledge & Sons, 1936, half-title partly browned, edges spotted, original cloth, faded, some minor marks, price-clipped dust jacket, dust-soiled and rubbed, chipped and frayed with some tears to spine, 8vo, and 20 others by Pardoe, including 8 first editions (5 from the Bunkle series), and one Bunkle reprint signed by the authorQty: (23)

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1st edition, London: Warne, 1904, first or second issue (with date on title and 'muffetees' spelt incorrectly on p.15), half-title, colour illustrations throughout, occasional finger-soiling or minor marks, frontispiece partly detached, pictorial endpapers, front pastedown has booksellers ticket at foot, stitching strained, front hinge cracked, original tan boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to front cover, boards marked, some wear to extremities, front joint cracked, 16mo, together with 15 Beatrix Potter later editions (but all before May 1919), comprising 11 different titlesQty: (16)NOTESLinder p.424; Quinby 6. Frederick Warne and Co. of London were incorporated in May 1919, therefore these books which all have the imprint Frederick Warne and Co (without 'Ltd.' at the end) were published before that date.

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1st edition, London: Warne, 1907, first, second or third issue, half-title, colour illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, stitching slightly showing in places (but firm), edges lightly spotted, original grey-green boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel, both boards with some slight skinning to fore-edges, spine a little cocked, in original printed glassine wrapper, lightly browned, edges chipped and frayed in places, small loss at head of spine, front panel with small brown spot centrally, rear panel with 3cm closed tear near spine, 16moQty: (1)NOTESLinder p.427; Quinby 13. In rare original condition, with the glassine wrapper designed to protect the book during its journey from publisher to customer. Typically, as here, the wrapper was printed with advertisements to the rear panel and the flaps, whilst the front panel was left blank, enabling the book to be identified by the visible wording and illustration on the front cover of the binding. The wrapper was usually discarded by the buyer or, in some cases, returned to the bookseller marked up to indicate which books the customer was interested in purchasing next. Where the wrapper was retained by the reader it rarely survived subsequent handling, and consequently copies are now very rarely encountered with the glassine intact. The wrapper provides fascinating information about Beatrix Potter's books as well as showing the book in its most original and complete form.

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st edition, London: Warne, 1909, early issue (with date on title, notice board on p.14 and printer's imprint on p.[86]), half-title, colour illustrations throughout, scarce light finger-soiling, first and last few leaves with minor stain at upper outer corner, pictorial endpapers, front pastedown with ink manuscript price at head, original brown boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel, both boards with small stain to upper outer corners, spine with loss at head (affecting 'The'), 16mo, together with 15 Beatrix Potter later editions (but all before May 1919), comprising 12 different titlesQty: (17)NOTESLinder p.428; Quinby 16. Frederick Warne and Co. of London were incorporated in May 1919, therefore these books which all have the imprint Frederick Warne and Co (without 'Ltd.' at the end) were published before that date.

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1st edition, London: Warne, 1911, first or second printing (with date on title), half-title, colour illustrations throughout, occasional light finger-soiling, pictorial endpapers, front pastedown with booksellers ticket at foot, stitching slightly showing, original brown boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel, extremities very lightly rubbed, front cover with tiny mark, 16moQty: (1)NOTESLinder p.429; Quinby 20.

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mr. Tod, 1st edition, London: Warne, 1912, first or second issue (with date on title), half-title (lightly spotted), 15 colour illustrations (including frontispiece), black & white illustrations in text, pictorial endpapers, rear pastedown with booksellers ticket at foot, stitching showing (but firm), edges spotted, original buff boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel, minimally rubbed in places, top corners lightly bumped, 16mo, together with: The Tale of Mr. Tod, New York: Warne, circa 1921, half-title, colour frontispiece and 13 (of 14) colour plates (lacking p.31), black & white illustrations in text, generally toned throughout, pictorial endpapers (lightly spotted), blank reverse to rear free endpaper with booksellers ticket, original grey boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel, some extremities lightly bumped, pictorial dust jacket, soiled and rubbed, some edge-fraying and chips, front panel creased with adhesive tape repairs to verso of tears and loss to upper left corner, 16moQty: (2)NOTESFirst item: Linder p.429; Quinby 21.Second item: A rare survival of an unusual dust jacket design. The more common dust jacket simply repeats the image of Mr. Tod from the front cover, whereas this jacket makes use of the endpapers design seen in Quinby X. This book and jacket can be dated to circa 1921 due to: Warne's address (26 East 22d Street), no mention of Cecily Parsley in advertisements, but the French editions of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (both published 1921) are listed as new editions, with no other French titles yet available.AMENDMENTS: The second name item is dated circa 1920s/30s. The above footnote for the second item has been revised to:Second item: This book and jacket have the following issue points: Warne's address at foot of title is 26 East 22d Street, dust jacket lists 15 titles with no mention of Cecily Parsley in advertisements, but the French editions of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny (both published 1921) are listed as new editions, with other French titles 'in course of translation'.

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1st edition, London: Warne, 1913, first or second issue (with date on title), half-title, 15 colour plates (including frontispiece), black & white illustrations to text, sparse light finger-soiling, pictorial endpapers, front free endpaper with contemporary ink ownership inscription and small skinned spot (corresponding to small previously adhered spot on pastedown), stitching somewhat strained, edges lightly spotted, original grey-green boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel and a couple of minor marks, corners a trifle bumped, 16moQty: (1)NOTESLinder p.429; Quinby 22.

Potter (Beatrix). Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, London: Warne, [1917], first or second issue, with correct endpapers, and front free endpaper with ink manuscript inscription dated 1917, half-title, colour illustrations throughout, generally lightly toned, with occasional finger-soiling or minor marks, pictorial endpapers, stitching slightly showing (but firm), top edge lightly spotted, original olive-green boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel, a few marks or stains, 16moQty: (1)NOTESLinder p.430; Quinby 23.

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st edition, London: Warne, [1918], with 'London' printed correctly on the title-page, but also p.39 with quotes before first line and p.51 without quotes before first line, half-title, colour illustrations throughout, title blank verso stained, p.8 blank reverse with partial ink manuscript inscription, some finger-soiling or marks, one plate with corner crease, first few text leaves with strike-through of text from reverse, pictorial endpapers, original grey-green boards, with inset colour pictorial panel to upper cover, rear cover lightly scratched and pinholed, spine split along front joint, 16mo, together with: The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse, Facsimile Notebook, London: Decimus Publishing, 1979, 10 tipped-in plates (most colour, one double-page), original straight-grain morocco gilt, contained in original gilt-pictorial slipcase, small 8vo (limited edition 264/500 copies), plus: The Tailor of Gloucester, A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript and Illustrations, London: Warne, 1968, a few light spots at front and rear, original gilt-lettered cloth, in clear plastic dust jacket (closed tear to front panel), contained in original pictorial slipcase (somewhat dust-soiled), 4to, (limited edition 162/1500 copies), with a quantity of Beatrix Potter later editions and related, including A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, by Leslie Linder, Warne, 1971Qty: (Approx. 120)NOTESFirst item: Linder, p.430; Quinby 25.

Basilisk Press. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [with] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson, 2 volumes, London: Basilisk Press, 1974-75, the first volume a facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer, printed in red and black, the second volume with illustrations including many tipped-in, first volume uncut, original patterned cloth from a design by William Morris, folio, housed together in original stout slipcaseQty: (2)NOTESLimited edition of 343/1515.

Chiswick Press. Sonnets, by Alfred Forman, printed for private circulation only, Chiswick Press, 1886, one or two minor spots, original limp vellum, slight soiling, small 4to, limited edition 49/50 signed by Charles Whittingham, printer, together with [Roy, William]. [Burying of the Mass - Satire on priesthood, especially Cardinal Wolsey]. Rede me and be nott wrothe for I say no thynge but trothe..., [reprinted by Charles Whittingham, Chiswick, 1845], satirical colour arms of Wolsey to title, printed in black letter, some light spotting, untrimmed, bookplates including Bernard Warrington, Pickering Collection, old bookseller cutting tipped-in at front, original cloth, chipped label to spine, loss at foot of spine, upper joint splitting, some fading, 8vo, limited facsimile edition of 100 copies (facsimile edition of the original first published in Strasbourg in 1528), plus Cuala Press. Lords and Commons. Translations from the Irish, by Frank O'Connor, The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1838, title with vignette in red, original cloth-backed boards (spine a little spotted), 8vo, with others including Happy Christmas, by E., P. and J. Gill, D., S. and M. Pepler, S. Dominic's Press, 1919, A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch, Aquila Press, 1929, limited edition 112/750 (rebacked), and The Chorle and the Birde. Done into English from the French by Master John Lydgate, Swan Press, 1929, limited edition 97/100Qty: (19)

Golden Cockerel Press. Travels into several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, 2 volumes, Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925, numerous woodcut illustrations by David Jones, many with hand-colouring, some spotting (mainly at front and rear), partly unopened, untrimmed, original three-quarter linen, some surface abrasions to paper sides, first volume with 2 corners lightly bumped, volume 2 front cover with small loss to black paper, 4toQty: (2)NOTESLimited edition 333/480 copies.

Asimov (Isaac). Pebble in the Sky, 1st edition, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950, occasional minor spotting, clear tape marks to endpapers, original grey cloth, spine lettered in red (slight clear tape residue to extremities), dust jacket, folds and edges a little rubbed, slight marginal toning, 8vo, the author's first book, together with Foundation, 1st UK edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953, some light spotting, contemporary previous owner inscription, original cloth, dust jacket, some fading to spine, medium repaired tear to front panel, slight soiling to rear panel, 8vo, plus other Asimov including Robots and Empire, 1st edition, 1985 and others, ex-libris and paperbacks etcQty: (13)

Asimov (Isaac). I, Robot, 1st UK Grayson & Grayson edition, 1952, original cloth, dust jacket, small abrasion to front panel (from sticker removal?), a little rubbed with small chips, 8vo (the first UK edition was published by Dennis Dobson in 1950), together with Capote (Truman). Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1st UK edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958, a little light spotting and toning, contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper, original cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, spine ends chipped, light spotting to rear panel, 8vo, plus Nabokov (Vladimir). Lolita, 1st UK edition, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959, small clear tape residue marks to rear pastedown, original cloth, dust jacket, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo, with four others: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, 1st UK re-issue, Grey Walls, 1953, Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, 1st US edition, 1951, Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, 1st US trade edition, 1945 and a paperback reprint of Isaac Asimov's The Martian Way and other science fiction stories, 1971 (signed by the author)Qty: (7)

Beckett (Samuel). En Attendant Godot, Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 9th edition, circa 1953, some toning and a few leaves with small chips and tears, original wrappers, glassine wrapper, some tears and losses, 8vo, together with All That Fall, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1957, original wrappers, spine and rear panel a little faded, 8vo, plus Poems in English, 1st edition, London: John Calder, 1961, light partial offsetting to endpapers, original cloth (spine tips faded), dust jacket, spine a little faded, 8vo, with others by Beckett including Happy Days, 1962, How It Is, 1964, Eh Joe & Other Writings, 1967, First Love, 1973 and All Strange Away, 1979, and The Letters of Samuel Beckett, edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and others, 4 volumes, mixed editions, CUP, 2009-2016Qty: (38)

Booker Prize. A collection of winners and short-listed, 1975-2017, including first edition winners Heat & Dust, by Ruth Jhabvala, 1975, Rites of Passage, by William Golding, 1980, Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally, 1982, Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey, 1988, The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989 (signed by the author), The Famished Road, by Ben Okri, 1991, Last Orders, by Graham Swift, 1996 (signed by the author), Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan, 1998, Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee, 1999, The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Attwood, 2000, True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey, 2001, Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre, 2003, The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst, 2004, The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai, 2006, White Tiger, 2008, Bringing Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel, 2012, and The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan, 2013, one or two textblocks a little toned, light fading to a few spines, a couple of jackets price-clipped, 8vo, together with short-listers including John Banville, Anne Enright, Sarah Waters, Iris Murdoch, Julian Barnes, Howard Jacobson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Thomas Keneally, Graham Swift, Murial Spark, A S Byatt, Kingslet Amis, Barry Unsworth, Zadie Smith et al, some later impressions or reprints, Canadian editions,etc, a couple signedQty: (93)

Brockway (Fenner). Workers' Front, 1st edition, London: Secker and Warburg, 1938, original red cloth, 8vo, together with Shaw (George Bernard). An Unsocial Socialist, 1st edition, 2nd state, London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1887, 2nd state with title error corrected and appendix at end, a few spots, bookplate of May Crawley, original dark red variant binding, spine rubbed with tears at end, light edgewear, 8vo, plus George Gissing's Demos. A Story of English Socialism, new edition, 1888Qty: (3)NOTESThe first book, Workers' Front by Fenner Brockway signed by the author and 12 members of the Independent Labour Party, including James Maxton, F.W. Jowett, Percy Williams, Sam Leckie, John McGovern, John Aplin, Kate Spurrell (signs twice), John McNair (signs twice), Tom Reed, Campbell Stephen, James Carmichael and M. Winifred Evans. The Independent Labour Party voted to disaffiliate itself from the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1932, also founding the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre, chaired by Fenner Brockway. Other notable members included the Pankhursts (Sylvia, Christabel and Emmeline), George Orwell, Oswald Mosley and A.E. Coppard.

Buchan (John). The Power-House, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1916, small marginal tear and loss to p. 17, a few minor spots, light toning to endpapers, original red cloth, very slight fading to spine, dust jacket, tears and losses to front and rear panels and spine, reinforcements to verso, 8voQty: (1)NOTESVery scarce in the dust jacket. The first 'Edward Leithen' novel.

Childers (Erskine). The Riddle of the Sands. A Record of Secret Service Recently Received, edited by Erskine Childers, 1st Colonial edition, London & Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1903, folding map frontispiece, 3 other maps and charts, 4 pp. Bell's Colonial Editions & 16 pp. Bell's Indian & Colonial Library (dated October 1902) advertisements at rear, small inscription erased from title, grey stub from where advertisement previously attached inserted before half title, endpapers a little toned, original red cloth, spine slightly darkened, one or two small light stains, 8voQty: (1)NOTESThe first Colonial edition of the classic spy thriller, published in the same year as the first English edition (published by Smith, Elder & Company).

Faulks (Sebastian). A Trick of the Light, 1st edition, London: Bodley Head, 1984, original cloth, dust jacket, tiny closed tears at spine ends, 8vo,Qty: (1)NOTESSigned by the author to title, his first book.

Fleming (Ian). Live and Let Die, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1954, occasional light spotting, original cloth gilt (slight lean), 1st state dust jacket (without credit for jacket design to front flap), head of spine chipped, short tears at head of front panel and folds, some light toning to rear panel and flap margins, 8voQty: (1)NOTESThe second James Bond adventure in the first state dust jacket.

Fleming (Ian). From Russia, With Love, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1957, pale damp stain to first few leaves and towards end, a couple of small spots to fore margins and edges, original cloth with front cover gun and rose design blocked in bronze and silver, dust jacket, small chip at foot of front fold, 8voQty: (1)

Fleming (Ian). The Man With the Golden Gun, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, small contemporary previous owner inscription to front endpaper & manuscript '18/-' to front pastedown, original black cloth, upper cover with gun blocked in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket, contained in contemporary morocco slipcase (spine a little faded), 8voQty: (1)NOTESGilbert A 13 (1.1). A fine copy in the first state binding, with the 'golden gun' blocked in gilt to the front cover. Some 940 copies were produced, according to Gilbert, many of which were sent in advance to Commonwealth countries in order to meet the official publication day. It soon became clear there was a prohibitive cost to producing this design in gilt to the front cover, so the remaining print run of around 81,000 were produced in plain boards.

Lawrence (Thomas Edward, 1888-1935). British Archaeologist, Army Officer, Diplomat and Writer. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph, first trade edition, Jonathan Cape, 1935, plates and folding maps as listed, some minor spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, modern crushed brown morocco gilt by the Chelsea Bindery, 5 raised bands, a few trivial marks, 4toQty: (1)

O'Brian (Patrick). Caesar. The Life Story of a Panda Leopard, 1st edition, London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Harry Rountree, one illustration detached, some stains to a few leaves, top edge red, original red cloth, spine and extremities faded, 2nd issue 2/6 dust jacket, spine snd extremities toned, small 4to, together with Beasts Royal, 1st edition, London: Putnam, 1934, colour frontispiece and illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe, some minor spotting, original blue cloth, spine a little faded with some lettering rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket, spine a little rubbed and chipped at ends, small 4toQty: (2)NOTESThe first 2 books by Patrick O'Brian, written aged 15 and 19 respectively under his original name of Richard Patrick Russ.