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Click here to subscribeSay, Jean-Baptiste. A Treatise on Political Economy; or the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth... translated by C. R. Prinsep, 2 volumes, first edition in English, some browning, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, London: Longman, et al., 1821
Sick, Helmut. Birds in Brazil, first edition, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, 4to, Princeton: University Press, 1993; Mayr, Ernst. The Birds of Northern Melanesia, plates, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, Oxford: University Press, 2001; Hilty, Steven L. Birds of Colombia, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, Princeton: University Press, 1986; Goodman, Steven, editor. The Birds of Egypt, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jacket, 4to, Oxford: University Press, 1989; and 100 others, approx. similar, plus various pamphlets and periodical publications in four boxes, v.s. (a quantity)
Williams, Samuel Wells. Easy Lessons in Chinese: or Progressive Exercises to Facilitate the Study of that Language, especially Adapted to the Canton Dialect, first edition, frontispiece, folding table of characters, a few leaves with minor tears, but p.97 neatly torn across entire width, contemporary calf, worn, joints cracked, 8vo, Macao: Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1842 RARE.
[Anon] Flowers from an Indian Garden, Second Series, first edition, tinted title, introductory leaf printed in gold with chromo-lithographed border, 11 chromo-lithographed plates, each with text leaf printed in gold, loose, as usual, publisher's blind-stamped cloth gilt, all edges gilt, folio, Dusseldorf: Breidenbach & Co., [1860]
Accum, Frederick. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, etc., first edition, title vignette, 6pp. of advertisements, original publishers decorated boards, extremities worn and bumped with slight loss, 8vo, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820
Caird, John. The Complete Confectioner and Family Cook, first edition, engraved frontispiece, tear to inner margin, without loss, 7 engraved plates, 3 folding, 24 woodcut illustrations in text, P1 torn without loss, contemporary boards, worn, spine with amateur repair, 8vo, Edinburgh: John Anderson, 1809
Salmon, William, translator. Pharmacopoeia Bateana: or Bate's Dispensatory, first edition, engraved plate of Zwelfer's Method laid down as front endpaper, L2 and errata leaf with paper flaw affecting text, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, 8vo, London: S. Smith and B. Walford, 1694; Quincy, John. Pharmacopoeia Officinalis and Extemporanea: Or, A Complete English Dispensatory, seventh edition, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked, 8vo, London: J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1728 (2)
Mackenzie, George. Observations upon the Laws and Customs of Nations, as to Precedency, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, early leaves waterstained, folio, Edinburgh: Andrew Anderson, 1680, bound with; The Science of Herauldry, engraved frontispiece, trimmed, without additional engraved title, 30 engraved plates, soiled, occasional waterstains, a few leaves torn, folio, Edinburgh: Andrew Anderson, 1680, sold w.a.f.
Rawstorne, Lawrence. Gamonia: or, The Art of Preserving Game, coloured plates, modern crushed full morocco by Hatchards, all edges gilt, 8vo, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1929; Swann, Alfred J. Fighting the Slave-Hunters in Central Africa, first edition, half-title, plates, contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt, 8vo, London: Seeley and Co., 1910; and 40 others, mostly leather bound literature, v.s. (42)
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition in book form, engraved portrait frontispiece, 39 engraved plates after H.K. Browne, portrait stained in lower outer corner, some plates spotted, half title, first issue with visiter instead of sister on p. 123, contemporary half calf, lower joint split at head, rubbed, booklabel of Wiston Old Rectory, 8vo., London, Chapman and Hall, 1839
Evelyn, John. Silva: Or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, With Notes by A. Hunter, New Edition, 2 vols, engraved portrait frontispiece, 42 plates and 3 folding tables. Presentation copy inscribed on first blank in each volume, "To Miss England from her affectionate friend A. Hunter", contemporary tree calf gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, wear to heads and tails of spines, some rubbing, 4to, York, Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley, and others, 1786
Guillim, John. A Display of Heraldrie, fourth edition, numerous woodcut armorials in text, title lightly browned with small repair to blank outer corner, lacks first and final blanks, later half calf, rebacked, armorial bookplate of Joseph Jones, folio, London, Printed by T. R. for Jacob Blome, 1660; Shirley, Evelyn Philip. The Noble and Gentle Men of England, second edition, armorials in text, original cloth gilt, spine defective, 4to., Westminster, John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1860 (2)
Dickens, Charles. [Christmas Books] The Chimes: A Goblin Story, first edition, first issue, 1845; The Cricket on the Hearth, first edition, 1846; The Battle of Life: A Love Story, first edition, later issue, frontispiece and additional title hand-coloured, tissue guard, 1846; The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain, first edition,1848, all with half-titles, illustrations, occasional spotting, original cloth gilt, corners bumped, the last volume with spine chipped, all edges gilt, 8vo, London: Bradbury and Evans, 8vo (4)
Cruikshank, George and William Harrison Ainsworth. The Tower of London, first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece and 39 engraved plates, occasional browning, early twentieth-century half morocco by Bayntun, faded, top edge gilt, 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, 1840; Pogany, Willy and Richard Wagner. Parsifal, tipped-in coloured plates, illustrations, original morocco-backed cloth boards, top edge gilt, 4to, London: Harrap and Co., 1912; and 2 others, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 4to (4)
Greswell, William Parr. Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Joannes Picus of Mirandula, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Fracastorius and the Amalthei, second edition, large paper copy, contemporary crimson straight-grained morocco, all edges gilt, 8vo, Manchester: Cadell and Davis, 1805; Annals of Parisian Typography, first edition, wood-engraved illustrations, early nineteenth century cloth, 8vo, London: Cadell and Davis, 1818; The Monastery of Saint Werburgh, A Poem, extra-illustrated with 12 engraved plates and plans, contemporary green straight-grained morocco by Winstanley, blocked in blind, all edges gilt, 8vo, Manchester: Privately Printed, 1823 (3) William Parr Greswell (1765-1854) was an English clergyman and bibliographer.
Smollett, Tobias. A Complete History of England, 4 volumes, first edition, engraved frontispieces, folding engraved map, errata leaf at the end of volume one, some browning, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed, joints cracked, bookplate of Coker Court, 4to, London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 1757-1758
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de. Letters Concerning the English Nation, first edition, later pencil annotations, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved bookplate of Thomas Powys, 8vo, London: C. Davis, 1733; La Henriade, second edition, A4 repaired, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo, London: Woodman and Lyon, 1728 (2)
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, first edition, Ff4 with paper fault to margin, not affecting text, early nineteenth century calf gilt, joints cracked, bookplate of Merthyr Guest, 8vo, London: J. Johnson, 1792 Affixed to the endpapers are newspaper clippings from January 1885 discussing the authenticity of a portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Opie then recently purchased by the National Gallery.
Eliot, Thomas Stearns. Four Quartets, first collected edition, original cloth, untrimmed, 8vo, London: Faber and Faber, 1944; Geoffrey Faber (1889-1961), number 92 of 100 copies for private circulation, untrimmed, original boards, slipcase, 8vo, London: Merrion Press, 1961; De La Mare, Walter. Winged Chariot, first edition, hand-made paper, untrimmed, original cloth, 8vo, London: Faber and Faber, 1951; and 4 others, 8vo (7)
Fleming, Ian. Dr. No, first edition, first issue, original cloth, without the dancing girl in silhouette, 8vo, London: Jonathan Cape, 1958; You Only Live Twice, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, slightly cocked, ends of spine chipped, 8vo, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964; Thunderball, 1961; The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962; The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, all original cloth, 8vo (5)
Fleming, Ian. Goldfinger, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, torn with loss, the upper cover inscribed in biro pen by a previous owner, 8vo, London: Jonathan Cape, 1959; You Only Live Twice, third impression, original cloth, dust-jacket, slightly torn, 8vo, London: Joanthan Cape, 1965; The Man with the Golden Gun, third impression, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 (3)
Greene, Graham. May We Borrow Your Husband?, number 230 of 500 copies, signed by Graham Greene, original boards, glassine wrapper, 8vo, London: Bodley Head, 1967; The Quiet American, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket chipped, lightly stained and torn, 8vo, London: William Heinemann, 1955; Our Man in Havana, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket chipped and torn, 8vo, London: Heinemann, 1958; The Complaisant Lover, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, London: William Heinemann, 1959; and 5 others by the same author, 8vo (10)
Powell, Anthony. The Acceptance World, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, torn with loss, 8vo, London: William Heinemann, 1955; At Lady Molly's, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, extremities chipped, 8vo, London: William Heinemann, 1957; Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, extremities chipped, 8vo, 1960; and 5 others, modern literature, 8vo (8)
von Harbou, Thea. Metropolis, first edition in English, with the title omitted for the list of books on p.7 and also from the rear dust-jacket flap, original red cloth gilt, original dust-jacket, spine discoloured, extremities chipped with occasional slight loss, 8vo, London: The Reader's Library Publishing Company, [1927]
Williamson, Henry. Tarka the Otter, first edition, one of 1100 copies, modern half morocco, untrimmed, top edge gilt, slipcase, 8vo, London: Chiswick Press for G.P. Putman, 1927; White, Gilbert. The Natural History of Selborne, illustrations, modern half morocco by Henry Sotheran, top edge gilt, 8vo, London: The Bodley Head, 1900 (2)
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son, first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates after Hablot Knight Browne, browned, tissue guards, contemporary half calf, spine repaired, extremities rubbed, 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1848; The Personal History of David Copperfield, first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates after Hablot Knight Browne, browned, contemporary half calf, rebacked, rubbed, 8vo, London: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850; Bleak House, first edition in book form, engraved frontispiece, additional title and 38 engraved plates after Hablot Knight Browne, browned, contemporary half calf, extremities worn, 8vo, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853 (3)
Sassoon, Siegfried. Counter-Attack And Other Poems, first English edition, original orange paper wrappers with flaps, nicks to head and tail of spine, top outer corners of text browned, 8vo, London: William Heinemann, 1918 [Keynes A17a]; another copy, fourth impression, lacking upper cover, Marjorie Forster's name and date July 1918 on half title, 8vo, London: William Heinemann, 1919, and a worn copy of The Old Huntsman, 1917 (3)
Sassoon, Siegfried. The War Poems, first edition, original red cloth, faded, 8vo, London: William Heinemann, 1919 [Keynes A20]; Munro, Harold, editor. Twenty-Three New Poems by Contemporary Poets. The Monthly Chapbook, Number 1, Volume 1, original wrappers, repaired with loss, 8vo, London: Poetry Bookshop, July 1919 [Keynes C98] (2)
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of An Infantry Officer, number 337 of 750 copies, signed by the author, spine faded, London: Faber & Faber, 1930 [Keynes A33b]; The Old Century, first edition, signed on title, London: Faber & Faber, 1938 [Keynes A42]; another edition, fifth impression, inscribed on flyleaf, "Dennis Silk from SS. Heytesbury 26.7.53", original cloth, dust jacket, torn with loss, London: Faber & Faber, 1946; Meredith, first edition, dust jacket, torn with loss, London: Constable, 1948 [Keynes A53a]. all original cloth, 8vo (4)
Sassoon, Siegfried. Poems by Pinchbeck Lyre, first edition, inscribed on front flyleaf, "Sibyl from Christabel May 14th 1931", original black paper boards, 8vo, London: Duckworth, 1931 [Keynes A35] Possibly from Christabel, Lady Aberconway, the society hostess (1890-1974), to Sibyl Colefax (1874-1950), interior designer
Sassoon, Siegfried. Selected Poems, first edition, original cloth gilt, dust jacket, London: William Heinemann, 1925 [Keynes A24]; Satirical Poems, first English edition, original cloth gilt, London: William Heinemann, 1926 [Keynes A26a]; Nativity, illustrated by Paul Nash, number 7 of the Ariel Poems, original wrappers, London: Faber and Gwyer Ltd, 1927 [Keynes A27a]; To My Mother, illustrated by Stephen Tenant, number 14 of the Ariel Poems, original wrappers, London: Faber and Gwyer Ltd., 1928 [Keynes A29a]; Poems by Pinchbeck Lyre, first edition, original black paper boards, transparent tissue dust jacket, London: Duckworth, 1931 [Keynes A35]; Early Morning Long Ago, one of 50 copies, original stiff blue covers, London: Chiswick Press, 1941 [Keynes A46]; with 3 others by the same author, 8vo (9)
Gardner, Brian, editor. Up the Line to Death. The War Poets 1914-1918. Foreword by Edmund Blunden, first edition, with a 14 line autograph manuscript poem by Siegfried Sassoon on half title "In the Church of St. Ouen" signed and dated March 4th, 1917, and another poem "If after death, love, comes a waking…" on verso, 8 lines, untitled and unsigned, but in the same hand, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, London: Methuen, 1964 Loosely inserted is a short typed letter signed to Dennis Silk from Laurence Whistler, 28th March 1979, and a photocopy of a letter from Robert Graves to Timothy Budd, 1971. Patrick Campbell in Siegfried Sassoon: A Study of the War Poetry (McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999) p. 139, refers to "In the Church of St. Ouen" and notes, "It seems curious that Sassoon did not publish this poem during a lifetime that ended with the resolution of his spiritual quest. Perhaps his abiding conviction was that the sonnet was too "purple", too self-indulgent for public consumption." First published in Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's Pilgrimage, assembled by Dame Felicitas Corrigan, Victor Gollancz, 1973. "If after death…" appears to be unpublished.
[Sassoon, Siegfried] Cohen, Joseph. The Three Roles of Siegfried Sassoon, offprint from Tulane Studies in English, Volume VII, Cohen's tipped in compliment slip inscribed with manuscript verse by Sassoon in pencil: "Joe, with your professional permit/I shall persist in role of hermit/Retaining - with your kind consent -/My neck and role of country gent./As for your talk of 'angry prophet'/Cohen, for mothball's sake, come off it!" and a few pencil annotations in text, loosely inserted is a page of comments, addressed to Dennis Silk by "R" [ Reginald Jennings, a master at Marlborough] 21.v.1958. original green wrappers, New Orleans: Tulane University, 1957; Collected Poems, first English edition, dust jacket, London: Faber and Faber, 1947 [Keynes A52a]; Keynes, Geoffrey. A Bibliography…, inscribed to Dennis Silk, signed with initials, 4 May 1962, accompanying ALS, 2pp., of the same date, Lammas House, with autograph pencil list of poems by Sassoon, on Heytesbury House headed paper, 1p., n.d. and Dennis Silk's Lords Taveners membership card, 2011, loosely inserted, dust jacket, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962; and 16 others by or about Sassoon, including Patrick Campbell. A Study of the War Poetry, 1999, mostly original cloth, 8vo. (12)
Bolton, Arthur T. The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 2 volumes, first edition, plates, illustrations, original cloth gilt, all edges gilt, folio, London: Country Life, 1922; Cook, Theodore Andrea. Twenty-Five Great Houses of France, first edition, tipped-in plates, illustrations, original publisher's half morocco, top edge gilt, folio, London: Country Life, [n.d.]; and 6 others, similar (9)
Blunden, Edmund. Retreat. New Sonnets and Poems, number 46 of 112 signed copies on hand-made paper, with two notes loosely inserted, from Michael Barford, (English cricketer, born 1950), presenting the volume to Dennis Silk, original cloth, dust-jacket torn and repaired, uncut, Thavies Inn: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1928; Near and Far New Poems, first edition, inscribed on front flyleaf, "In Dennis Silk's copy a belated inscription "can now be disclosed" with the kindest wishes of his friend Edmund Blunden at Heytesbury 10 August 1961", original cloth, some spotting, mostly to uncut edges, dust-jacket browned, London: Cobden-Sanderson 1929; Poems of Many Years, inscribed on front flyleaf, "With kindest wishes and admirations to Dennis Silk, from Edmund Blunden 7 Novr. 1957", and 5 line quote from the poem Cricket, I Confess, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipped at head and tail and lightly browned, London: Collins, 1957; with another volume and a pamphlet by the same author, inscribed to Dennis Silk, 8vo (5)
Owen, Wilfred. Poems, second impression, photogravure portrait, original red cloth, spine worn, small 4to, London: Chatto & Windus 1921 [Keynes B2]; Davie, Ian. Piers Prodigal and other poems, Foreword by Siegfried Sassoon, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, London, Harvill Press,1961 [Keynes B33]; Murray, Lt. Col. Hon. Arthur C. Lord Grey of Fallodon, photographic portrait frontispiece and 2 plates, original cloth gilt, presentation copy from the author to Charles Howard, postcard from Siegfried Sassoon to Dennis Silk loosely inserted, 14.4.60, one corner torn away, "This card is [of] Lord Grey's station at Fallodon, where he was allowed to stop the express train and alight." 8vo, Edinburgh: Reprinted for the Author, 1947 (3)
Sorley, Charles Hamilton. Marlborough and other poems, first edition, photographic portrait frontispiece, 4pp. printed leaflet loosely inserted, "Lines Written Before Leaving England" comprising Sorley's poems Expectans Expectavi and Two Sonnets Written in France, original cloth, bookplate of The Old Oxyard Oare Wiltshire, 8vo, Cambridge: at the University Press, 1916; [-] The Marlborough Anthology by poets educated at Marlborough College 1912-1969, number 76 of 440 copies, quarter leather, 8vo, Marlborough: College Press, 1972 (2)
Kelmscott Press. Morris, William. Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, first edition, second or third issue, text printed in red and black, original publisher's holland-backed paper boards, slightly soiled, 16mo, London: Kelmscott Press, 1893 This issue has the typographic errors on p.41 and p.45 corrected.
Golden Cockerel Press. Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi, being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel from the Latin Text, first edition, number 57 of 250 copies, six wood-engravings by Eric Gill, printed in red and black, original cream burckram gilt, dust-jacket, ends of spine chipped with very slight loss, lightly soiled, 4to, Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926
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