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LE CARRE, John. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, 8vo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 18/-), contents with marginal staining and handling marks, folded corners, front endpapers with small ink marks and an untidily removed label, binding good & square, jacket very good, well-preserved with light wear to extremities, very slight discolouration to spine, overall good, London: Gollancz, 1963

GARNER, Alan. Typed Letter Signed, "Dear Miss Tinling, Thank you for your letter - and for your enthusiasm. I hasten only to insist that the next book will be neither more nor less for adults or children than the others are. Yours sincerely, Alan Garner", complete with envelope, postmarked Cheshire, 29 October 1967. Together with The Owl Service, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, publisher's cloth lettered in silver, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill (priced 15s), London: Collins, 1967; Red Shift, FIRST EDITION, London: Collins, 1973, and The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, first Armada paperback edition, 1971 (4) Provenance: The vendor's aunt managed the children's department at Heffers, Cambridge

HUXLEY, Thomas Henry. Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, first edition, first printing, loosely-inserted AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the author to his bookseller on 6 December 1893, 8vo, publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt, [viii], 159pp., 8pp. publisher's advertisements at rear (dated February 1863), red advert endpapers, binding good, tight & square, some bumping & wear to extremities, internally well-preserved, clean & bright, a few spots & marks in places, London: Williams & Norgate, 1863    ❧ The first book devoted to the topic of human evolution, published eight years before Darwin's Descent of Man

Collection of Paul Gallico, including: Flowers for Mrs Harris, First UK edition, unclipped d.j., a little spotting and shelf marks, bright and solid, London: Michael Joseph, 1958._ The Man Who Was Magic, First UK edition, unclipped d.j., London: Heinemann, 1966._ The Snow Goose, beautifully illustrated by Peter Scott, some loss at d.j., London: Michael Joseph, 1946._ Together with The Hand of Mary Constable, First UK edition, unclipped d.j. - The Zoo Gang - Mrs Harris Goes to New York, First UK edition - The Small Miracle, wear to d.j. - Coronation A Novel, 2 copies of First - The Steadfast Man, First edition - Snowflake - The Small Miracle 1974 edition - Love of Seven Dolls, 3rd printing._ Generally bright and solid with some toning, w/a/f (14) 

FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, publisher's imitation black cloth lettered in gilt, embossed skull with gilt coins, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 15s.), internally fine, very clean & bright, binding very good, slight shelf-lean, jacket well-preserved, bold & vibrant, light wear to extremities, overall an excellent example, housed in protective mylar covers, London: Jonathan Cape, 1959

A selection of classics, including: Charles Dickens Master Humphrey's Clock, First edition, vol. 3 Barnaby Rudge, occasional spots and marks, 'vol III' rubbed out, rubbing/bumping at edges, 1841 - The Spectator, 18th c. periodical, contemp. full-calf, 6 volumes of 8, internally clean and bright, contemp. owner inscription ffep, c. 1780 - John Milton Paradise Lost, vol. 1 only, full-calf, with some rubbing/dry, 1765 - together with 12 other titles, varied condition, w/a/f (20)

PIGNORIA, Lorenzo. Vetustissimae Tabulae Aeneae Sacris Aegyptiorum..., FIRST EDITION, 4to, [xii], 43, [5] pp., early marginalia & annotation in red ink, early inscription scored through title and following leaf, several paper repairs, mostly marginal, otherwise good & bright, rebound in quarter vellum with marbled boards, Venice: Rampazettum, 1605    ❧ A first edition of one of the earliest works of Egyptology

FLEMING, Ian. Dr. No, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, publisher's imitation black cloth lettered in silver, female silhouette on front panel, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 13s. 6d.), internally very good & bright, a couple of lightly folded corners, some rubbing/marks on ffep, binding very well-preserved, tight & square, some spotting to fore-edge/top-edge (encroaching marginally at page edges), dust-jacket very good, some toning & marks on rear panel, overall an excellent example, housed in protective mylar covers, London: Jonathan Cape, 1958

ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first edition, 10th printing, 8vo, hardback, bold & vibrant boards, usual toning to edges of text-block, 2cm marginal loss to pp.103/104 (not affecting text), a few very faint marks, shelf-lean, slight bumping to extreme corners, light creasing to ffep, dust-jacket with creasing to front flap, else a nice copy, London: Bloomsbury, 1997

WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, 8vo, publisher's maroon cloth, [1-6], 7-293pp., tipped-in advertisement for Boots Book-Lovers' Library, contents mostly very good & bright, roughly cut edges, a few leaves with pale marginal stains, rear endpapers slightly worn with an early library label on pastedown, cloth discoloured & worn, London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Together with first editions of The Common Reader, 1925; Flush, 1933; The Moment, 1947; The Captain's Death Bed, 1950; A Writer's Diary, 1953; Granite and Rainbow, 1958; Roger Fry, 1940; Between the Acts, second impression, 1941; A Haunted House, fourth impression, 1947; The Death of the Moth, fourth impression, 1945, and others, including uniform editions, later printings, and biographical & bibliographical works on Woolf. Condition varied, some with unclipped dust-jackets designed by Vanessa Bell, sold as one collection with all faults (24)

The Haw Lantern, FIRST edition, SIGNED dedication to Kevin Mulqueen - a teacher and poet with a presence online discussing and reading poetry, toning to paper, d.j. bright, London: Faber and Faber, 1987  

MODERN FIRSTS. Modesty Blaise, by Peter O'Donnell, ex-library, London: Souvenir Press, 1965; On the Beach, by Nevil Shute, London: Heinemann, 1957; Butcher's Dozen, by The Crime Writers Association, London: Heinemann, 1956; The History of Mr. Polly, by H. G. Wells, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1910; Ashenden or The British Agent, by W. Somerset Maugham, London: Heinemann, 1928; Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell, New York: Macmillan, (reprinted) September 1936; The Len Deighton Companion, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author, Grafton paperback, 1988; Berlin Game, by Len Deighton, London: Hutchinson, 1983; Salar the Salmon, by Henry Williamson, illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe, first thus, London: Faber & Faber, 1948, plus a third impression of the 1935 edition; The Henry Williamson Animal Saga, London: Macdonald, 1960; Motoring Stories, edited by John Welcome, London: Faber & Faber, 1959; The Sports Car, by John Stanford, London: Batsford, 1957; Motor Car Lover's Companion, edited by Richard Hough, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1965, condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (14)

ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first deluxe edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2000._Prisoner of Azkaban, first deluxe edition, second printing, 1999._Chamber of Secrets, hardback fourth printing, 1998_Prisoner of Azkaban, hardback second printing, 1999._Philosopher’s Stone, celebration edition, first printing, paperback, 2001. (5) _RANSOME, Arthur. Great Northern, FIRST ed., unclipped d.j., rubbing at edges, chipping/toning at spine, London: Jonathan Cape, 1947._Coot Club, unclipped d.j., spotting/toning/chipping, 1934._The Picts and the Martyrs, first, no d.j., 1943._Secret Water, first, no d.j., 1939._The Big Six, first, no d.j., 1940._Winter Holiday, first, no d.j., 1933._Missee Lee, first, no d.j., 1941._Pigeon Post, first, no d.j., 1936._Swallows and Amazons, sixth printing, no d.j., 1934 (9) (14)

DOUGHARTY, John. Mathematical Digests, first edition, illustrated with copper-engravings throughout, mispaginated but complete and conforming with the copy held by the National Library of Scotland, i.e. [2], iv, 80, 87-451, [3], 4 pp., 4to, internally well-preserved, clean & bright, some light creasing & handling marks in places, marginal loss to title (not affecting text), one short tear at top of p. 329 (not affecting text), rebacked, incorporating worn contemporary calf boards, ffep bearing early owner inscription of James Guthrie, ffep gutter taped, very scarce, London: E. Owen, [c. 1747]

PEARCE, Philippa. PRESENTATION COPIES. Tom's Midnight Garden, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author, 8vo, publisher's blue-green cloth lettered in silver, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 10s 6d), some pale spotting to endpapers/fore-edge, jacket worn around spine/corners, otherwise a very respectable copy of this very rare first issue, London: Oxford University Press, 1958, and A Dog So Small, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author, unclipped d.j. (priced 13s 6d), spotting, London: Constable & Company, 1962, sold with all faults (2) Provenance: The vendor's aunt managed the children's department at Heffers, Cambridge ❧ A first printing of Pearce's best known novel, Tom's Midnight Garden, is now incredibly difficult to find in any condition, especially signed. This is a very scarce brace of signed first editions

FLEMING, Ian. Diamonds are Forever, FIRST EDITION, first impression [with "Boofy" for "Dolly", p.134], 8vo, publisher's black imitation cloth lettered in silver, embossed upper panel with silver diamond, unclipped first issue dust-jacket (priced 12s. 6d.), internally good & bright, neat contemporary owner inscription on ffep dated 1956, some spotting to fore-edge (encroaching marginally at page edges), faint spillage-marks to p.132/133, a couple of lightly folded corners, binding well-preserved, tight & square, jacket good & bold, slight wear & loss at corners/edges, overall very good, housed in protective mylar covers, London: Jonathan Cape, 1956

NORTON, Mary. The Borrowers Aloft, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SIGNED by the author during the year of publication (September 1961), 8vo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in red, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 12s 6d), a well-preserved example, pale spotting in places, more pronounced at endpapers, binding very good, tight & square, jacket very good, bold & vibrant, light wear to extremities, neat 2cm tear at rear edge, London: J. M. Dent, 1961. Together with The Borrowers Afloat, reprinted 1960, unclipped d.j. (priced 12s 6d), internally near-fine, light rubbing & edge-wear to d.j. (2) Provenance: The vendor's aunt managed the children's department at Heffers, Cambridge

Harris's Cries of London, charming example of the scarce 10th edition, contemp. writing on blank leaves (sayings and proverbs) by a "John Olerenshaw" of Leigh, 48 hand-coloured engravings, many old paper repairs, sympathetically rebound in quarter-calf, poor condition but interesting, London: J. Harris, 1806._ LESAGE, Alain-Rene. The Devil upon Two Sticks, sixth ed., interesting engravings, full-calf, later repairs, Vol. I only [of 2], London: J. Tonson, 1729._ SANDHAM, Miss. The Adopted Daughter, FIRST ed., Regency era children's book, contemp. full-calf, internally bright, some offsetting at end papers, some bumping to boards, splitting towards head of front joint but solid, attractive little book, London: J. Harris, 1815._ GAY, John. Fables, 2 parts in one vol., half-calf, owner inscription ffep, "Elizabeth Trevor", no frontispiece or half-title, Newcastle upon Tyne: J. White, 1766._ PATTEN, R. The History of the Late Rebellion, FIRST ed., contemp. full-calf, some bumping and rubbing at edges, London: J. Baker._ HALL, John. Jacob's Ladder: or the Devout Soul's Ascention [sic] to Heaven, 13th ed., contemp. crude binding, interesting engravings, heavily toned, re-backed, London: T. Varnum and J. Osborn, 1711._ JOHNSON, Samuel. The Beauties of Johnson, in two vols, Vol. I (6th ed.), Vol. II (5th ed.), uniformly bound in contemp. full-calf, some splitting at joints, rubbing at edges, London: G. Kearsley, 1782._ GREGORY, J. A Comparative View of the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World, third ed., contemp. full-calf, contemp. writing at ffep, owner inscription, "Captain Thomas Graves of the Royal Navy, 1784", solid copy with bumping/rubbing at corners, London: J. Dodsley, 1766._ STERNE, Laurence. Original Letters, first edition thus, Dublin, 1788._ HAYWARD, J. The Horrors and Terrors of the Hour of Death and Day of Judgement, 17th ed., rebound, 1717._ The Brothers, 12mo, charming wood-engravings, 1820._SOMNER, William. A Treatise of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent, first ed., rebound, ex-library, 1693._WALKER, Ellis. The Morals of Epictetus, 12mo, later attractive half-calf, 1737._ MAVOR, William. The British Tourists: or Travellers Companion, Vol. IV, fold-out map of London, contemp. full-calf, 1790._ CHAPONE, Mrs. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, contemp. full-calf, 1790._ Pity's Gift, second ed., wood-engravings, re-backed, 1798._ HAWKER, Robert. Zion's Pilgrim, 6th ed., contemp. full-calf, 1818. (18) _ Also 13 attractive full-calf bindings, mostly 19th-century, and 9 cloth-bound 19thC books, condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (40)  

LE CARRE, John. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, FIRST EDITION (Hodder & Stoughton, 1974); The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, 17th impression (Gollancz, 1964); Single & Single, SIGNED FIRST EDITION (Hodder, 1999); The Honourable Schoolboy, FIRST EDITION (Hodder, 1977), and 10 others, including some first editions, condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (14)

FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, publisher's imitation black cloth lettered in silver & gilt, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 16s.), internally good, some faint spotting to opening leaves and marginally in places, binding good, shelf-lean, jacket very good, bold & vibrant, one mark to edge of rear flap, overall very good, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964

Selection of 20th century works, including: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 13th imp., no d.j., and The Silmarillion, 2nd imp., no d.j., 1977 - John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells, First ed., 1960 (x2) - Edna O'Brien, Girls in Their Married Bliss, 2nd printing, 1964 - John Moore, The Blue Field, First edition, 1948 - Christopher Fry, The Dark is Light Enough, First edition, 1954 - W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale, collected edition, 1934 - A. T. Davies, Dylan: Druid of the Broken Body, 1964 - J. B. Priestley, Angel Pavement, 2nd printing, 1930 - Rupert Brooke, 1914 & Other Poems, 15th printing, 1916_ All in fair condition with occasional rubbing/toning, w/a/f (11)

BUCKLAND, Rev. William. Reliquiæ Diluvianæ or, Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel, first edition, 4to., vii + 303pp., folding table and 23 plates including maps of East Yorkshire, Bavaria, Coast of Devon & Dorset, and a folding plate of Sections of the Coast, hand-coloured, Vale of the Evenlode, Thames etc., hand-coloured. Bound in full red leather gilt, gilt title on spine, marbled endpapers and page edges. Tipped-in portrait engravings, an engraving with a 1906 photograph of Kirkdale Cave on front endpapers, a laid down printed page on ffep Men I Have Known by Buckland. Library label of J. W. Puttrell, Hanover Square, Sheffield [Founder of the Derbyshire Pennine Club in November 1906, a leading pioneer of cave exploration.] Binding a little scuffed with wear on corners and spine head and tail, otherwise internally in very good condition. London: John Murray, 1823 ❧ One of the great early classic works [Challinor – History of British Geology, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1971. Ref. No. 109]

Preoccupations Selected Prose 1968-1978, SIGNED FIRST edition, unclipped d.j., well-preserved, v. faint spotting at edges, London: Faber and Faber, 1980._ Together with: TOMLINSON, Charles. The Sense of the Past, SIGNED and dated, published lecture pamphlet, Liverpool University Press, 1983._ (2) 

The Comedians, FIRST edition, unclipped d.j., internally bright, well-preserved bright d.j, slight tone at spine, light mark at text-block edge, London: The Bodley Head, 1966._ Our Man in Havana, FIRST edition, bright unclipped d.j., some toning at edges, light bumping/rubbing at corners, slight toning at spine, London: Heinemann, 1958._ A Burnt-Out Case, FIRST UK edition, unclipped d.j., internally bright, light toning at edges, London: Heinemann, 1961._ Ways of Escape, FIRST edition, unclipped d.j., a little toning to d.j., London: The Bodley Head, 1980._ Collected Essays, FIRST edition, unclipped d.j., some marking at edges, small tear head of d.j., London: The Bodley Head, 1969._ (5) 

RACKHAM, Arthur (Illust.). The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning, first edition, 4 colour plates, London: George Harrap & Co., 1934

Ian Fleming Collection, including From Russia with Love, First edition, First printing, no d.j., some toning/bumping at edges, small felt-tip mark front paste down, Jonathan Cape, 1957._ You Only Live Twice, First edition, First Printing, owner inscription ffep, short tears/loss to d.j., felt-tip '5' on cover, Jonathan Cape, 1964._ Goldfinger, First Book Club ed., no d.j., some marking on cloth, 1959._ The Life of Ian Fleming by John Pearson, unclipped d.j., Companion Book Club, 1966 (4)

A collection of books relating to James Bond, including biographical & bibliographical works on Ian Fleming, to include The Life of Ian Fleming, by John Pearson, FIRST EDITION, unclipped dust-jacket, London: Jonathan Cape, 1966; Double 0 Seven, James Bond: A Report, by O. F. Snelling, FIRST EDITION, unclipped d.j., London: Neville Spearman/Holland Press, 1964; The Book of Bond or Every Man His Own 007, by Lt.-Col. William Tanner, FIRST EDITION, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, and others, condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults, together with a promotional IBM film poster for Goldeneye, 1995, 83cm x 59.5cm

JANSSON, Tove. Moominland Midwinter, FIRST UK EDITION, 8vo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped but incomplete dust-jacket (priced 11s 6d.), London: Ernest Benn, 1958, plus a first Puffin paperback of the same, 1974, and The Exploits of  Moominpappa, second UK edition, unclipped d.j. (priced 16s), London: Ernest Benn, 1966, sold with all faults (3)

WARHOL, Andy. 25 Cats & Holy Cats, Facsimile Edition, First Edition, two volumes with vibrant colour illustrations throughout, housed in a slipcase designed by Yolanda Cuomo, some light handling marks to boards/spines, else fine/near-fine, New York: Panache Press at Random House, 1987

DEFOE, Daniel. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, lacking title, advertisement for the fourth edition of the first part, [v], 373pp., 12pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, engraved map only partially present, rebound, sold with all faults, [c. 1719]

GREENE, Graham. The Quiet American, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, finely bound in green half morocco with marbled boards, internally very good with marginal spots in places, loosely-inserted catalogue entry from Harrington Bros, London: Heinemann, 1955. Together with FIRST EDITIONS of Loser Takes All (Heinemann, 1955); A Burnt-Out Case (Heinemann, 1961); The Honorary Consul (Bodley Head, 1973); The Human Factor (Bodley Head, 1978); Doctor Fischer of Geneva (Bodley Head, 1980); Monsignor Quixote (Bodley Head, 1982); The Captain and the Enemy (Reinhardt/Viking, 1988), and a second printing of The Quiet American (Heinemann, 1955), a Collected Edition of Stamboul Train (1974), and a Vanguard Library edition of The Power and the Glory, condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (11)

MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, deluxe edition in gilt morocco, 8vo, internally well-preserved & bright, a few leaves with marginal handling marks/spots, owner inscriptions on front blank, binding worn and lacking spine, sold with all faults, London: Methuen, 1926

FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, publisher's imitation black cloth lettered in gilt, white eye on upper panel, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 15s), internally very good, clean & bright, binding very good, light bumping to extreme corners, jacket very well-preserved, usual slight discolouration to spine title, overall an excellent example, housed in protective mylar covers, London: Jonathan Cape, 1960

FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, publisher's imitation black cloth lettered in silver, unclipped dust-jacket (stickered price 16s/80p), an exceptional, near-fine example, housed in protective mylar covers, London: Jonathan Cape, 1966

WYNDHAM, John. The Midwich Cuckoos, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, 8vo, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Dick Hart (priced 13s 6d), internally very good & bright, neat contemporary owner inscription dated 25 October 1957, binding good & square with bumping and wear around corners, jacket very good with some toning and handling marks, paper labels verso, London: Michael Joseph, 1957

LARKIN, Philip. The Whitsun Weddings, first edition, first printing, hardcover with unclipped dust-jacket (priced 12s, 6d), internally well-preserved, clean & bright, owner inscription on ffep, "Mary Hodgson, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, March 1964", a few incredibly faint spots to endleaves, binding tight & square, jacket good with some general toning & light surface scuffs, slight loss at top of spine, overall very good, London: Faber & Faber, 1964. Together with The Less Deceived, first edition, second issue [with "sea" showing correctly on p.38], again inscribed by Mary Hodgson, September 1956, and with her manuscript copies of An Arundel Tomb and Self's the Man on rear blanks (which she records as being copied from The Observer on 22 March 1959), also a tipped-in copy of The Whitsun Weddings on rear free endpapers (extracted from Encounter, June 1959), plain card in publisher's captioned wrappers, Hessle: The Marvell Press, 1955; Poetry, Vol. 102, No. 5, August 1963, featuring the first publication of Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath (Fever 103° and Purdah also featured); New Poetry 1964, featuring Daddy by Sylvia Plath [pre-dating its publication in Ariel]; The Critical Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 1964, featuring Dice by Ted Hughes (5)

[WYNDHAM, John]. BEYNON, John. The Secret People, FIRST EDITION, London: Newnes, [1935], and Planet Plane, FIRST EDITION, London: Newnes, [1936], 8vo, publisher's cloth, the first title good & bright, the second with pale spotting internally and marks/wear to cloth, sold with all faults (2)

Evie Hone HRHA (1894-1955) Untitled Gouache, 60 x 37cm (23½ x 14½'') Although untitled this painting by Evie Hone depicts The Crucifixion and was completed in c.1928-1930. Its predominant decorative palette of pastel pinks and pale purples, grey-blues and pale yellow, its shallow pictorial space and distinctive round arched canopy all derive from specific medieval sources. A smaller version by Hone (almost half the size at 31.6 x 21.8cm) of the same picture is in the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI.7852). The NGI version is much darker in tone, dominated by greys and golds, strokes of red and rose pinks, and has an unprecedented and almost graphic use of black akin to the lead lines found in stained glass. Both paintings were made sometime after the spring of 1928 when Hone went to France to join Mainie Jellett and Albert Gleizes who had been painting at Moly-Sabata, the utopian art colony established by Gleizes in the department of Ardèche of the Rhône valley in eastern France the year before. Gleizes had first painted a Crucifixion scene in 1926, after an intense five years of experimentation in abstraction. However, the version he painted in 1930 is compositionally closer to Hone’s two versions of the subject. Like the NGI painting it is smaller, measuring 24 x 16cm; it is now in the collection of Musée national d’art moderne in Paris (AM 1357 D). Again, it is darker, composed of deep blues, browns, greens and ochre creams and has more patterns of stripes and dots than Hone’s more linear and lyrical versions. A further version by Gleizes from 1935 is in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI.2008.35). This is perhaps the largest of all the known versions (117.5 x 77.3cm) and is marked by stronger, more intense primary colours – predominantly blues, oranges and greens. Gleizes returned again to the theme in 1949 about the time he was completing etchings for an illustrated edition of the seventeenth century French philosopher Blaise Pascal’s Pensées sur l'homme et Dieu (published in 1950). When setting up his colony at Moly-Sabata, Gleizes had initiated a scheme of mural decoration for the Église Sainte-Blanches at nearby Serrières. This was to depict The Crucifixion, The Coronation of the Virgin and The Descent from the Cross in the format of a triptych. Gleizes and Jellett worked on the scheme for most of 1927, but the following year just as Hone arrived the project came to an abrupt end when the designs were rejected by the church. Hone’s two versions of The Crucifixion follow on from this scheme and subsequent variants by Jellett and Gleizes of which Jellett’s Coronation of the Virgin (Homage to Fra Angelico) (Private Collection) is perhaps the best known. The source for all these paintings by Gleizes, Jellett and Hone is more than likely Hone’s copy of André Jolles’s Fra Angelico da Fiesole: Acht Farbige Wiedergaben Berühmter Gemälde (published in Leipzig in 1926). Hone’s versions of The Crucifixion, as well as a number of pochoirs (limited edition colour prints), are among the few known works by her from this critical period. Dr. Joseph McBrinn, October 2024

CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART, MISCELLANY - Chinese Porcelain. The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, 2 volumes, 4to, coloured plates, original dark blue silk boards, slipcase. FIRST EDITION. With 9 other works in 12 volumes. (14)CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART, MISCELLANY - Chinese Porcelain. The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987. 2 volumes, 4to (352 x260mm). Coloured plates. Original dark blue silk boards, the upper covers with Chinese characters stamped in blind, the spines lettered in silver, slipcase. FIRST EDITION. With 9 other works of related interest in 12 volumes, namely Les Hautes Époques de l' Art Chinoir d' après les Collections du Musée Cernuschi (Paris, [n.d.], 4to, plates loose as issued in original portfolio, ties), Collection of Rare Old Chinese Porcelains Collected by Sir William Bennett, K.C.V.O., Purchased and Exhibited by Gorer (London, 1910, 8vo, coloured plates, original green cloth gilt, [?]lacks front free endpaper), Helen White's Snuff Bottles from China. The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection (London, 1990, 4to, coloured plates, original silk boards, dust-jacket, slipcase, FIRST EDITION), Wang Shixiang's Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture. Ming and Early Dynasties (Hong Kong, 1990, 2 volumes, 4to, coloured plates, original buckram, slipcase, trade edition); and including 4 volumes (only) from The Baur Collection (namely, Pierre-F. Schneeberger's Chinese Jades and Other Hardstones (Geneva, 1976), B. W. Robinson's Japanese Sword-Fittings and Associated Metalwork (1980), John Ayers' Japanese Ceramics (1982) and Pierre-F. Scheeberger's Japanese Lacquer (1984)); and the catalogue of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor (New York, Sotheby's, September 11-19, 1997, 3 volumes, coloured illustrations, original wrappers, slipcase, price-list loosely-inserted). (14)

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935). Crusader Castles, London, 1936, 2 volumes, 4to, illustrations, 2 folding maps contained in envelope, original half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 135 OF 1,000 COPIES. (2)GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS - Thomas Edward LAWRENCE [i.e. "Lawrence of Arabia"] (1888-1935).  Crusader Castles, edited by A. W. Lawrence. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. 2 volumes, 4to (250 x 190mm). Titles printed in red, collotype portrait of the author with his four half brothers as a frontispiece to volume II, collotype illustrations, maps, plans and facsimiles after the author, many full-page, some printed in colours, 2 folding maps after H. Pirie-Gordon printed in red and black and contained in the original loosely-inserted envelope (small stain at the foot of the title page to the second volume, not affecting letters, some extremely faint marginal spotting and staining to a few leaves, envelope for the 2 folding maps lightly spotted but both the maps clean). Original russet half morocco and cream buckram by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the spines lettered in gilt with five raised bands, with the publisher's cockerel motif stamped in gilt at the foot of each spine, top edges gilt, others uncut (some very light staining to the buckram). Provenance: The Collection of Leonard Messel, Nymans, Sussex. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 135 OF 1,000 COPIES. The statements of limitation in each volume, on the verso of each title, read: "Printed and published in Great Britain by Christopher Sandford, Francis J. Newbery, and Owen Rutter at The Golden Cockerel Press, 10 Staple Inn, London, and completed on the [in vol. I:] 20th May [in vol. II:] 1st August 1936. The edition is limited to 1000 copies printed in Perpetua type on British mould-made paper." The number of this copy (135) appears at the end of the first volume statement. Volume I, which contains Lawrence's original thesis submitted at Jesus College, Oxford, in 1910, has a Foreword by A. W. Lawrence, his youngest brother and literary executor; volume II, which contains Lawrence's letters on military architecture written to his mother, has a Preface by her. It is interesting that A. W. Lawrence's Foreword concludes with a brief account of a minor fall-out with the press regarding the layout of the book: he writes, "In order to avoid loss of detail in the collotype reproductions through loss of scale, I have arranged that some of the larger plates should be turned on their sides, and other departures made from Golden Cockerel concepts of book-production. The Press wishes it to be appreciated that it does not advocate this treatment, and has agreed to issue the book in this way only with reluctance. A. W. L." Found in the book was a fragment of an obscure undated newspaper article, pasted onto a piece of card, which was probably used by a previous reader as a marker. It is difficult to see the article's relevance, until one remembers that Lawrence was a keen motorcyclist and was killed in a motorbike accident near his home in Clouds Hill, Dorset, in 1935, a year and a day before the publication of Crusader Castles. The article reads: "The special allowance of petrol granted for men on leave can now, where the man himself is not the registered owner of a vehicle, be claimed for a car or motor-cycle registered in the name of his wife." Chanticleer [Bibliography of The Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-36] 112; Clements T. E. Lawrence. A Reader's Guide pp.27-28; O'Brien T. E. Lawrence: A Bibliography A188-189: "The first of The Golden Cockerel volumes of Lawrence's 'literary remains' to be published after his death." (2)

COLOUR PRINTING - James E. DOYLE (1824-83). A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485, London, 1864, 4to, 81 coloured illustrations by Edmund Evans after James E. Doyle, attractively bound in contemporary red crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION.COLOUR PRINTING - James E. DOYLE (1824-83).  A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485 ... The Designs Engraved and Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. 4to (270 x 205mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, initials, some printed in colours, 81 wood block coloured illustrations by Edmund Evans after James E. Doyle. Attractively bound in contemporary red crushed morocco gilt by Hayday & Co., the spine with 8 raised bands with narrow horizontal strips of green morocco onlays, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Richard Sanders (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. "Evans's next work of importance was A Chronicle of England, written and illustrated by James E. Doyle, brother of Dicky Doyle [i.e. Richard Doyle (1824-83)], the well-known Punch artist, and son of 'H. B.' the caricaturist. The artist drew the designs on wood himself, and coloured a proof of each subject as he received it from the printer. For each of the eighty-one illustrations nine or ten colour-blocks were engraved, and the whole work was done on a hand-press, employed on this book for the last time. The work was published in 1864 at two guineas, and the entire edition sold out within a year of its publication. Colour illustrations are almost invariably on separate plates, and it is a striking feature of this book that all the illustrations are in the text. Mr Evans told me that he considered this the most carefully executed book he had ever printed" (Hardie). Hardie English Coloured Books pp.269-70; Muir pp.157-8; Ray England 241.

LAW - The Book of the Bench, London, 1909, large 4to, 39 mounted coloured portraits of judges by "Spy" and others, original pictorial vellum gilt. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 76 OF 175 COPIES.LAW - The Book of the Bench. With Thirty-Nine Reproductions in Colour from Paintings by "Spy" and Other Cartoonists. London: James Mackenzie Limited, 1909. Large 4to (325 x 260mm). Half title, 39 mounted coloured portraits of judges by Leslie Matthew Ward (i.e. "Spy") and others (some very faint spotting and staining at the margins of text, not affecting plates). Original full vellum lettered in gilt with an allegorical figure of Justice stamped in gilt on the upper cover and a sword and scales on the spine, top edges gilt, others uncut (small red stain to the lower edge of upper cover, some other light staining mainly to the spine, lacks ties). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 76 OF 175 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER.

CRICKET - Charles CROMBIE (1880-1967). Laws of Cricket, London, [1907], oblong 4to, 12 coloured plates by Charles Crombie (plates detached). original pictorial boards by Crombie (stained, detached). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. RARE in the original boards.CRICKET - Charles Exeter Devereux CROMBIE (1880-1967, illustrator).  Laws of Cricket. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd. ... Copyright of Perrier, [1907]. Oblong 4to (270 x 380mm). Title printed in green, red and black, coloured advertising leaf for Perrier, 12 coloured plates by Charles Crombie, coloured advertisements for Perrier laid down on the verso of each leaf (title stained and frayed, all the plates and leaves detached, some staining at stitching holes, but the plates very clean). Original pictorial boards (stained, boards detached). Provenance: From the Estate of the Late Kenneth Partridge. Further details of the provenance can be found here: https://www.bellmans.co.uk/story/the-collection-of-the-kenneth-partridge. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, and RARE in the original boards. In addition to his work as a sporting and editorial cartoonist, Crombie also illustrated a number of P. G. Wodehouse's short stories in The Strand Magazine between 1926 and 1930. Padwick A Bibliography of Cricket 7012.

MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh ... Fifth Edition, 1927, 8vo, half title, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some full-page, original green pictorial cloth gilt, dust-jacket (some light staining to the jacket, a few short tears without loss).MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956).  Winnie-the-Pooh ... Fifth Edition. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. 8vo (189 x 125mm). Half title, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some full-page. Original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, pale green pictorial endpapers, dust-jacket with price of 7/6 on the backstrip (some light staining to the jacket, a few short tears without loss, some minor chipping at corners). Provenance: Daphne J. Glover, 1927 (signature on front free endpaper). The first edition appeared in October 1926: please see the previous lot.

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Some Remiscences, London, 1912, large 8vo, half title, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end, fine original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket (jacket torn with slight loss). FIRST EDITION.CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924).  Some Reminiscences. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. Large 8vo (200 x 135mm). Half title with publisher's advertisement on the verso, preceded by a blank leaf, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (occasional spotting, more pronounced to the first few leaves including the title). Fine original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, uncut, yellow dust-jacket with monochrome photographed portrait of the author on the upper wrapper (jacket torn with slight loss at corners, backstrip darkened and spotted, some light dust-soiling, repairs on the verso of the backstrip with adhesive tape). Provenance: The Property of a Collector. FIRST EDITION of this second collection of autobiographical essays. The cloth binding is in exceptionally fine, bright condition, and the book is not often found in its dust-jacket. Cagle A15b; Wise 20: "'He who has read to the end of this book,' said Mr. Conrad, 'knows all that's worth knowing of me'. The contents of the volume had appeared serially in The English Review, from December 1908 to June 1909, inclusive." 

MISCELLANY - E. R. PENNELL (1855-1936) & J. PENNELL (1857-1926). The Life of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1908, 2 vols., 4to, plates, original buckram-backed boards. FIRST EDITION, second impression. With various other works in c.35 vols. (c.35)MISCELLANY - E. R. PENNELL (1855-1936) & J. PENNELL (1857-1926).  The Life of James McNeill Whistler. London: William Heinemann, [November] 1908. 2 volumes, 4to (255 x 195mm). Half titles, 2 etched frontispieces, plates and illustrations). Original buckram-backed paper boards lettered in gilt, uncut. FIRST TRADE EDITION, second impression. With various other miscellaneous works in c.35 volumes including W. S. Gilbert's The Bab Ballads (London, 1908, 8vo, attractively bound in contemporary half morocco gilt, sixth edition), Winston Churchill's The World Crisis 1911-[1918] (London, 1924-27, vols. I-IV only (of 5), large 8vo, plates and maps, original cloth, without the dust-jackets, mixed editions), R. H. Bacon's The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverstone. Admiral of the Fleet (London, 1929, 2 vols., large 8vo, plates, original cloth gilt, FIRST EDITION), Douglas Goldring's South Lodge. Reminiscences of Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford and the English Review Circle (London, 1943, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION), Frank MacShane's The Life and Work of Ford Madox Ford (New York, 1966, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, reprint) and Christopher Milne's The Enchanted Places (London, 1974, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION). Provenance: The Property of a Collector. Please note that only part of the lot is illustrated. The lot sold as a quantity, not subject to return. (c.35)

ALDIN, Cecil (1870-1935, illustrator). Old Inns, London, 1921, 4to, 16 mounted coloured plates by Cecil Aldin, illustrations, original vellum-backed boards (lightly stained, corners rubbed). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 166 OF 380 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.ALDIN, Cecil (1870-1935, illustrator).  Old Inns. London: William Heinemann, 1921. 4to (290 x 230mm). Half title, printed in red and black throughout, 16 mounted coloured plates with printed tissue guards and 44 monochrome illustrations by Cecil Aldin (some spotting to title and, more faintly, to dedication leaf). Original vellum-backed paper boards, the upper cover with letters in gilt suspended from a hanging pub sign, the spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some staining mainly to the upper cover, corners rubbed and bumped). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 166 OF 380 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Cecil Aldin's attractive colour plates include illustrations of three venerable Sussex inns, "The Spread Eagle" in Midhurst, "The Star" in Alfriston and "The Mermaid" in Rye.

MANWOOD, John (d.1610). A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest ... The Third Edition, London, 1665, 8vo, printed in black letter (mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning), contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed). With 2 defective books. (3)MANWOOD, John (d.1610).  A Treatise of the Laws of the Forest, Wherein is declaered not onely those Laws, as they are now in force, but also the Original and beginning of Forests; and what a Forest is in its own proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a Chase, a Park, or a Warren ... Also a Treatise of the Pourallee, declaring what a Pourallee is, how the same first began, what a Pourallee-man may do, how he may hunt and use his own Pourallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his own Chase; together with the limits and bounds, as well of the Forest, as the Pourallee ... The Third Edition Corrected, and much Inlarged. London: "Printed for the Company of Stationers," 1665. 8vo (178 x135mm). Printed in black letter, woodcut headpieces and initials (lacks a1 [?blank], i.e. all before title, title spotted and shaved at foot, variable mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning throughout). Contemporary full calf (rebacked, quite heavily rubbed and scuffed, a few old repairs, new endpapers). Provenance: some later mainly pencil annotation. Cf. Goldsmiths' 284; Kress 207; Schwerdt II, p.7; Wing M554. See DNB for a list of the various editions of "this excellent work", including the first which was printed for private circulation in 1592. The author is described in the same reference work as "... a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, gamekeeper of Waltham Forest, and justice of the New Forest." With 2 other books, namely Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland ... Written first in Latine by William Camden ... Translated newly into English by Philemon Holland ... Finally, revised, amended, and enlarged with sundry Additions by the said Author (London, "Impensis Georgii Bishop", 1610, folio, lacks all the maps, defective, contemporary reverse calf) and The Book of Common-Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments (London, 1662, folio, fine engraved architectural title, black letter, elaborate woodcut initials and decorations, prayers for "Gunpowder. Treason" at the end, many repairs, with some sections supplied in manuscript, later annotation, modern old-style half calf. The lot sold not subject to return. (3)

CHINESE CERAMICS - R. KRAHL (and others). Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, [London], 1986, 3 volumes, folio, coloured and monochrome illustrations, buckram, dust-jackets, slipcases. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 955 OF 1,000 COPIES. (3)CHINESE CERAMICS - Regina KRAHL ([dates unknown]), Nurdan ERBAHAR ([dates unknown]) (and others).  Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul. [London:] Sotheby's Publications, 1986. 3 volumes, folio (364 x 255mm). Half titles, titles printed in red and black, coloured and monochrome plates and illustrations. Original dark blue pictorial buckram gilt, top edges gilt, dust-jackets, slipcases. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 995 OF 1,500 COPIES. (3)

CHINESE CERAMICS - Liu LIANG-YU. A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, Taiwan, 1991, 5 volumes, folio, coloured illustrations, original brown buckram, dust-jackets. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. (5)CHINESE CERAMICS - Liu LIANG-YU ([dates unknown]).  A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, translated by Andrew Morton. Taiwan: Aries Gemini Publishing Ltd., 1991. 5 volumes, folio (380 x 260mm). Coloured illustrations (some light spotting to the title of the first volume). Original brown buckram lettered in gilt (light staining to the boards of the first volume), dust-jackets. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. The five volumes comprise: 1) Early Wares: Prehistoric to Tenth Century, 2) Sung Wares, 3) Liao, Hsi-Hsia, Chin and Yuan Wares, 4) Ming Official Wares, and 5) Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares. (5)

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). The Rover, London, 1927, 8vo, (the half title and title torn with severe loss), original cloth. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "L. Hallowes from her friend J. Conrad. 1923."CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924).  The Rover. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923. 8vo (195 x 135mm). (The half title and title torn with severe loss and in fragments, the printed dedication leaf torn without loss, some staining and spotting, more pronounced to the first and last few leaves). Original green cloth, the upper cover lettered in gilt, the spine lettered in dark green (faded and stained). Provenance: The Property of a Collector. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the word "go" in the second line of p.221 lacking the letter "g". IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "L. Hallowes from her friend J. Conrad. 1923." [Please see the note relating to Lilian Hallowes in lot 542.] The author's last completed novel. Ehrsam p.301; Keating 180; Smith 23.

MISCELLANY - [LOCH, C. G. (1854-1904)]. The Foreign Tour of the Misses Brown and Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw & Did at Biarritz & The Pyrenees, London, [c.1880], 4to, illustrations, boards. With 9 other works in 10 vols. (11)MISCELLANY - [LOCH, Catharine Grace (1854-1904)].  The Foreign Tour of the Misses Brown and Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw & Did at Biarritz & The Pyrenees by Mrs Brown. London: Bickers & Son & Ipswich: Cowell's Anastatic Press, [c.1880]. 4to (310 x 245mm). Title and leaves numbered 1 - 49, illustrations printed by the "anastatic" process (lacks all before title [i.e. ?blanks], some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker larger spots). Original blue cloth-backed printed paper boards (edges rubbed, a little faded and stained, stain to lower cover). Written in imitation of Richard Doyle's The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson (London, 1855), this is a reprint of the 1877 original, with the addition of London and Bickers & Son to the imprint. With 9 other miscellaneous works in 10 volumes, namely Richard Wotton's Reliquiæ Wottonianæ ... The Fourth Edition (London, 1685, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and plate, very defective, lacks all after p.202, contemporary calf, lacking lower cover), Joseph Addison's The Free-Holder or Political Essays (London, 1761, 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, originally published in periodical form between 1715 and 1716), [Henry Mackenzie's] The Man of Feeling. A New Edition (London, 1781, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached), [Oliver Goldsmith's] The Citizen of the World: or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London, to his Friends in the East (London, 1790, 2 vols., 19th-century half calf, a reprint of a collection which was first published in 1762), The Guardian. Volume the Second (London, 1797, vol. II only, 8vo, engraved illustration, contemporary calf, rubbed), [Laurent Bordelon's] Hints on Conversation, &c. &c. Translated from the French, By a Lady (London, 1819, 8vo, contemporary diced calf, rubbed, with some loss to head of spine, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of a work that was first published in France in 1694), Thomas Moore's The Loves of the Angels. A Poem ... Third Edition (London, 1823, 8vo, contemporary calf with elaborate gilt borders, rebacked), Thomas Gray's An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (London, 1869, 4to, 16 lithographed plates by various artists printed in colours, some staining, original green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and black, gilt edges) and John Pye & John Lewis Roget's Notes and Memoranda Respecting the Liber Studiorum of J. M. W. Turner (London, 1879, 8vo, etched frontispiece, original cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, spine lacking, rubbed, FIRST EDITION). The lot sold as a quantity, not subject to return. (11)

CHINESE CERAMICS - Edgar GORER (1872-1915) & J. F. BLACKER ([dates unknown]). Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, 2 volumes, 4to, 254 coloured plates, original cream pictorial buckram gilt. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 318 OF 1,000 COPIES. (2)CHINESE CERAMICS - Edgar GORER (1872-1915) & J. F. BLACKER ([dates unknown]).  Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones. Illustrated by Two Hundred and Fifty-Four Pages of Gems of Chinese Ceramic and Glyptic Art. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1911. 2 volumes, 4to (311 x 240mm). Half titles, titles and text in English and French, 254 coloured plates, 6 of which folding (some very light marginal browning to the text, but the plates unaffected). Original cream pictorial buckram gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some patches of light staining to the covers, the spines a little darkened, without the very scarce dust-jackets). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 318 OF 1,000 COPIES. Cordier Bibliotheca Sinica III, 3860. (2)

"TWAIN, Mark" (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, New York, 1885, 8vo, frontispiece, heliotype portrait, illustrations by E. W. Kemble, original green cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of "one of the great works of American fiction.""TWAIN, Mark" [i.e. Samuel Langhorn CLEMENS (1835-1910)].  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to Fifty Years Ago. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Large square 8vo (214 x 170mm). Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece by Edward Winsor Kemble dated 1894, heliotype plate of a bust of the author sculpted by Karl Gerhardt, 173 wood-engraved illustrations by Kemble (light stain at lower margin of frontispiece, portrait lacks tissue guard, some light staining and browning, a few darker spots). Original green publisher's pictorial cloth gilt (extremities rubbed, some light scuffing and scratching to covers, nick at lower edge of upper cover, small faint stain to lower cover). Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of "[Twain's] masterpiece and one of the great works of American fiction." Please note the following issue points in the present copy: the portrait has the imprint "Heliotype Printing Co." and has the tablecloth clearly visible beneath the bust of the author; the title is a cancel with the copyright date on the verso given as 1884; p.[9] has "Huck decided to Leave" under the heading for Chapter VI (in later issues it was changed to "decides"); p.[13] has the illustration "Him and another Man" wrongly listed as being at p.88 (in later issues it was corrected to p.87); p.57, in the 23rd line, has the reading "... with the was ..." (in later issues it was corrected to "... with the saw ..."); p.155 has the last "5" missing from the pagination; p.283 is a cancel of the defaced engraving and has the corrected version. The publishers issued three different bindings simultaneously (leather, green cloth and red cloth) and none are assigned precedence. "[Huckleberry Finn is] generally accepted as [Twain's] masterpiece and one of the great works of American fiction ... Perennially popular as an adventure story, the novel is also a profound moral commentary on the nature of the 'American experience' and the institution of slavery, and a vital contribution to the myth of the frontier, told with a freshness and raciness that shocked some if its readers, and has given rise to many theses on the subject of 'Southern Humour'. Twain's use of the innocent narrator to present oblique moral judgement is masterly, and his use of the vernacular extremely sensitive" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Drabble, 1985). "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since" (Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa, 1935). Please note that the green of the binding is much brighter than it appears in our catalogue illustrations. BAL 3415; Grolier 100 American Books 87; Johnson pp.43-50; MacDonnell 31; McBride 93.

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Youth, London, 1902, 8vo, original cloth gilt (spine darkened and spotted). FIRST EDITION of this collection of three stories which includes "Heart of Darkness", arguably the author's best-known work.CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924).  Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title with publisher's advertisement on the verso, 32-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end dated "10/02" (two very faint spots at the lower margin of the title, small stain at the edge of the contents leaf, some light staining to the stitching at a few gutters, most pronounced to pages 168 and 169). Original pale green cloth lettered and decorated in darker green, the spine lettered in gilt (spine darkened with some light spotting, extremities very lightly rubbed). Provenance: The Property of a Collector; Beatrice H. Maclaurin (etched bookplate designed by Sir David Young Cameron R.A.). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of this collection of three stories which includes "Heart of Darkness", arguably the author's best-known and most influential work, and certainly the one which has most captured the public imagination. It includes the line "Mistah Kurtz - he dead" which T. S. Eliot chose as the epigraph to "The Hollow Men", and the story provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film "Apocalypse Now" which transferred the setting from the 19th-century Congo Free State to the Vietnam War. "Three stories including 'Heart of Darkness' from which Eliot took the epigraph ... for his 'Hollow Men'. This account of a superman running an ivory business in the heart of the Congo for a greedy sanctimonious Belgian company and brutalising himself and the natives in the process, is a masterpiece of sinister deterioration seen by a narrator who is himself profoundly altered by it" (Connolly). Cagle A7a; Connolly The Modern Movement 14; Ehrsam p.326; Keating 38; Modern Library Top 100 67 (citing "Heart of Darkness"): "... one of the most searing and relevant books of the twentieth century"; Wise 10: "Regarding this volume Mr. Conrad has furnished the following notes:- '"Youth" and "Heart of Darkness" are the first short stories of mine which attracted  attention to my work in a wider sphere. Most critics dismissed "The End of the Tether" either with contempt or with a few cursory remarks. The first and second stories are autobiographical, the idea emerging from the narrative. The third story was suggested to me by the fate of a man I knew'." 

CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). An Outcast of the Islands, London, 1896, 8vo, title printed in red and black (some light spotting to a few leaves), original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S SECOND NOVEL, FIRST ISSUE. RARE.CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924).  An Outcast of the Islands. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo (205 x 132mm). Advertisement for "Almayer's Folly" on the verso of the first blank, half title with publisher's advertisement on the verso, title printed in red and black (some light spotting to a few leaves). Original green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some very light staining, corners a little bumped). Provenance: The Property of a Collector; Arthur T. Cummings (later pencil signature to the front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S SECOND NOVEL, FIRST ISSUE, with "this" for "their" in line 31 of p.26, "absolution" for "ablution" in line 12 of p.110, p.129 mispaginated, and with "hate" for "fate" in line 26 of p.356. Cagle A2a; Ehrsam p.293; Keating 4; Smith 2; Wise 2: "In a copy of the First Edition of An Outcast of the Islands Mr. Conrad has written: 'Before beginning this book I hesitated whether I should go on writing or not. Edward Garnett's remark "you have the temperament, you have the style - why not write?" tipped the scale.'" RARE.

MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). The House at Pooh Corner, London, 1928, 8vo, half title, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some full-page, original pink pictorial cloth gilt, dust-jacket. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956).  The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. 8vo. Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some full-page. Original pink pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, pictorial endpapers, dust-jacket with the price of 7/6 on the backstrip (small faint stain to jacket, some very minor fraying at the head and upper corners of the backstrip, small pencil number at the upper edge of the front free endpaper, repeated at the upper edge of the half title). Provenance: The Property of a Collector. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION.

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Bring Me Your Love, Santa Barbara, 1983, 4to, illustrations by R. Crumb, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 346 OF 376 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Krumhansl 79b.BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Bring Me Your Love. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. 4to (267 x 190mm). Title printed in pink and turquoise, illustration on title and 3 full-page illustrations by R. Crumb (a few faint isolated spots, mainly at margins). Dark denim cloth-backed pictorial paper boards by Earle Gray with a coloured illustration by R. Crumb, printed label on spine, pink endpapers, acetate wrapper. Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 346 OF 376 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Krumhansl 79b.

GRAHAME, Kenneth (1859-1932). The Wind in the Willows, London, 1950, large 8vo, 12 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket (frayed at edges). FIRST U.K. RACKHAM TRADE EDITION.GRAHAME, Kenneth (1859-1932) & Arthur RACKHAM (1867-1939, illustrator).  The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1950. Large 8vo (232 x 150mm). Half title, 12 coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations (some light spotting to the half title and title). Original green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket with price of 21/- unclipped (jacket frayed at edges with slight loss at corners). FIRST U.K. RACKHAM TRADE EDITION. "Kenneth Grahame himself originally asked Arthur Rackham to illustrate his book, but at that time it could not be managed, and it was not until nearly thirty years later that Rackham was approached again, and consented. In the meantime the author had died, and the book had become a classic of the century ... The pictures were finished just as the war broke out in 1939, and were first published in America by the Limited Edition Club. This year we have great pleasure in announcing the 97th edition of The Wind in the Willows, with the illustrations the author did not live to see" (from the front turn-in of the dust-jacket). Hudson p.173; Riall p.200.

DULAC, Edmund (1882-1953, illustrator). Stories from Hans Andersen, London, 1911, 4to, 24 mounted coloured plates by Edmund Dulac only (of 28), FINELY BOUND in brown half crushed morocco gilt. FIRST TRADE EDITION.DULAC, Edmund (1882-1953, illustrator).  Stories from Hans Andersen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. 4to (310 x 250mm). Pale green decorative borders, head- and tail-pieces and peacock tail motifs throughout, 24 mounted coloured plates by Edmund Dulac only (of 28). FINELY BOUND in brown half crushed morocco by The Times Book Club, the spine with 5 compartments and lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, endpapers with a stylised peacock design (one corner scuffed). Provenance: "Presented to my daughter Eva, Dec. 25th 1917, George William Poulton" (signature on front free endpaper). FIRST TRADE EDITION. The 4 missing plates are at p.5 ("One day he was in a high state of delight because he had invented a mirror"), p.89 ("'Is it possible?' said the gentleman-in waiting ..."), p.101 ("The music master wrote five and twenty volumes about the artificial bird") and at p.131 ("The Eastwind flew more swiftly still"). Hughey Edmund Dulac. His Book Illustrations 27b.