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RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). She. A History of Adventure. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title, double coloured lithographed frontispiece, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (a few stains, occasional light spotting and staining). Original dark blue bevelled cloth lettered and decorated in gilt (extremities rubbed and scuffed, inner hinges weak with a little separation and tearing at gutter, first signature starting). FIRST EDITION, with "geneleman" on p.59, "mysogynist" on p.88, and the other first edition issue points as listed in Scott. McKay 5a; Sadleir 1092; Scott 5; Whatmore F4; Wolff 2881.

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). Cleopatra. Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis, the Royal Egyptian, as Set Forth by His Own Hand. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 8vo (190 x 130mm). Half title, frontispiece, and 28 plates by M. Greiffenhagen and R. Caton Woodville, printed publisher's slip tipped-in at "List of Illustrations", 16-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end dated January 1889 (head of dedication leaf torn away and repaired without loss, some spotting and staining). Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, bevelled edges (extremities light rubbed). Provenance: W. Curran Reedy (bookplate); old bookseller's clipped description loosely-inserted and pencil annotation to front endpaper. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title signed "H. Rider Haggard", and with a one-page autograph letter, on pale blue paper with printed heading, 'North lodge, St. Leonards on Sea,' [undated], tipped-in, stating, "Dear Sir, You ask for a word of advice. Here it is - not too comforting, I fear, but earnest. Think thrice before embarking on literature as a means of livelihood; 'of the making of many books there is no end.' Your well-wisher, H. Rider Haggard," with the recipient's name added in Rider Haggard's hand at the end, "W. Curran Reedy, Esq." Scott 13; Whatmore F10. The recipient of this presentation copy is almost certainly William Curran Reedy (1892-1970) who did not apparently heed the author's advice and went on to publish several books of poetry and on cricket.

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). Smith and the Pharaohs. And Other Tales. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., 1920. 8vo (182 x 122mm). Half title (lightly and fairly consistently browned throughout). Original russet cloth, lettered in black, upper wrapper of dust-jacket laid down on front pastedown (ink stain on lower cover, corners lightly bumped, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: "Given to Nina ... by Budgie, 9.9.21" (inscription on half title). FIRST EDITION, with "truck" on p.48, and "Man-kau-ra" on p. 58, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "To E. Wallis Budge [?]de A. S., H. Rider Haggard, 10 Nov. 1920," with a card, tipped onto the front free endpaper, with printed heading "North Lodge, St Leonards on Sea," dated "10. Nov: 1920", inscribed, "My dear Budge, Perhaps Smith and the Pharaohs may amuse you; I don't know but invest S in postage on the chance. I much enjoyed our chat the other day. Procured your [illegible word] stuff and am trying it on my mucous membranes. Ever sincerely yours, H. Rider Haggard." Rider Haggard's friendship with the renowned Egyptologist Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) is well-documented; the author dedicated his novel Morning Star (London, 1910) to him, a copy of which (the first edition, in original cloth) is included in the lot. Scott 75; Whatmore F49. (2)

RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). When the World Shook. Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1919. 8vo (188 x 120mm). Half title, 2 plates of "star charts". Original tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "To Mrs Pitt from H. Rider Haggard, St Leonards, March 1919." Scott 72. With 7 other books by the same author, ALL PRESENTATION COPIES INSCRIBED TO "MRS PITT", including Ayesha. The Return of She (London, 1905, original cloth, FIRST EDITION, the half title inscribed, "To Mrs Pitt, from H. Rider Haggard, Ditchingham, Jan. 1906," and Wisdom's Daughter. The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed (London, [1923], original cloth, FIRST EDITION, the half title inscribed, "To Mrs Pitt (Wisdom's Second Daughter) from H. Rider Haggard, 29 March, 1923"). We have been unable to identify "Mrs Pitt", the recipient of these copies; there is no one of that name listed in the index of Rider Haggard's autobiography. (8)

SPARE, Austin Osman (1886-1956, illustrator). Earth Inferno. London: Co-Operative Printing Society Limited, February 1905 [but dated 1904 on illustrations and on the verso of the final printed leaf]. Folio (440 x 340mm). Woodcut illustrations by the "ARC" engraving Co., Limited, after Austin Osman Spare, some full-page. Original green buckram lettered in black, uncut (corners lightly bumped, some very light staining). Provenance: original invoice from Otto Schulze & Co., Edinburgh, loosely-inserted, made out to Dr. H. B. McCaskie on 27th March 1909 for £1-5-6, and "out of print" added by the bookseller below. FIRST EDITION OF THE ARTIST'S FIRST (SELF-)PUBLISHED WORK. NUMBER 41 OF 265 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Harper A1a. A printed "Foreword", appearing on page 4 of the book, by the unknown (and unexplained) "C.H.L." gives a brief synopsis but sheds very little light on this puzzling work: "In venturing to submit this, the first collection of Drawings to Austin Spare's few friends and admirers, we can only hope for the kindly reception that so many have promised ... In turning contemptuously, as many will, from these Spare creations, remember - they cannot be proved to be senseless although they may seem so to us ...[etc]."

SPARE, Austin Osman (1886-1956, illustrator). A Book of Satyrs. London: John Lane, [n.d. but plates dated 1906/1907]. Folio (436 x 325mm). Introduction by James Guthrie, woodcut frontispiece and 12 plates by Austin Osman Spare, illustrations (brown ink spot to first few leaves affecting frontispiece and title, some light offsetting, occasional light staining). Original vellum-backed green paper pictorial boards, uncut (vellum lightly stained, boards a little rubbed at edges with stain rubbed away on upper cover). FIRST EDITION, second issue. LIMITED TO 300 COPIES [unnumbered and unsigned]. Harper A2b: "This edition had an additional illustration 'Pleasure' [as a frontispiece], the introduction by James Guthrie was reset to cover one and a half pages, and some vignettes rearranged."

[TATTERSALL, George (1817-49)]. The Pictorial Gallery of English Race Horses ... by Wildrake. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. Large 8vo (249 x 155mm). Additional pictorial title [?]inserted from another work titled "The Cracks of the Day" with Rudolph Ackermann imprint, 44 engraved plates, 11 full-page portraits (additional title browned and stained, occasional light spotting and staining). FINELY BOUND in later red crushed half morocco gilt by Morrell, spine with equestrian motifs stamped in gilt in the compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, original pictorial wrappers bound in at the end (section a little faded on upper cover). [?]FIRST EDITION. Huth p. 176 (citing an edition of 1850 only).

BROWN, Thomas. A Manual of Modern Farriery; embracing the Cure of Diseases Incidental to Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, and Dogs; with Instructions in Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Fishing, and Field-Sports Generally: Together with a Summary of the Game-Laws. London: George Virtue, [c. 1846]. Large 8vo (224 x 145mm). Engraved frontispiece, title vignette, and 18 plates by Thomas Brown, 8-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (occasional light spotting and staining, some text leaves browned). Original green cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt (some fraying to head of spine, lightly rubbed, ink stain to lower cover, inner hinges weak). FIRST EDITION. Huth p.154.

COOLIDGE, Harold Jefferson (1904-85). A Revision of the Genus Gorilla. Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed at the Museum, August 1929. 4to (299 x 250mm). 21 monochrome photographed plates, 2 maps, tables, diagrams (some light marginal staining). Later red pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original green printed wrappers bound in. An off-print from "Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College" (Vol. L. No. 4.). Provenance: A. J. E. Cave (stamp on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the upper wrapper inscribed, "I am sending you this belated paper with full appreciation that it was to a large extent your help & information that made it possible. I hope that you will write me your frank opinion about my conclusion. With my compliments & deepest gratitude, Harold J. Coolidge." The recipient of this presentation copy is almost certainly Professor A. J. E. Cave (1900-2001), distinguished Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.5188

GEOLOGY & PALEONTOLOGY - James BRYCE (1838-1922). Geology of Clydesdale and Arran; embracing also the Marine Zoology and the Flora of Arran. London & Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, 1859. Large 8vo (227 x 140mm). Hand-coloured wood-engraved map of Arran, diagrams (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original textured cloth (head of spine detached, some wear at foot of spine). FIRST EDITION. With 25 other books of related interest including Robert Garner's The Natural History of the County of Stafford; comprising its Geology, Zoology, Botany, and Meteorology (London, 1844, cloth, spine worn), J. Bosquet's Notice sur quelques Cirripèdes (Harlem, 1857, plates, wrappers), A. C. Ramsay's The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales (London, 1860, cloth), Dugald Bell's Among the Rocks around Glasgow (Glasgow, 1881, cloth), John Edward Lee's Note-Book of an Amateur Geologist (London, 1881, cloth), William Morris Fontaine's Contributions to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia (Washington, 1883, vol. VI of the "Monographs of the United States Geological Survey", cloth), the same author's The Potomac or Younger Mesozoic Flora (Washington, 1889, vol. XV in 2 vols. (text and plates) of the "Monographs of the United States Geological Survey", cloth), G. Lindstrom's On Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland (Stockholm, 1884, plates, wrappers), Guide des Excursions du VII Congres Geologique International (St Petersburg, 1897, cloth), Aubrey Strahan's The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth (London, 1898, cloth, 2 copies), John Tyndall's Die Gletscher der Alpen (Braunschweig, 1898, wrappers), Johannes Walther's Die Fauna der Solnhofener Plattenkalle (Jena, 1904, plate, half niger morocco, autograph note from the author pasted onto verso of upper wrapper), Richard Turner's Descriptive Catalogue of the Geological Collection in the Chambers Institution, Peebles (Edinburgh, 1927, cloth) and a bound collection of geological articles, papers, offprints etc. titled on the spine "Miscellaneous Papers 1916-1937 [by] Donald C. Barton" with Harvard University bookplate and cancellation stamp. The lot sold not subject to return. (26)

MARTIN, Brian Philip (b. 1947) & Richard ROBJENT (b. 1937, illustrator). Sporting WIldfowl of the British Isles. Studies in Words and Pictures. Holt: Fine Sporting Interests Limited, 1999. 4to (318 x 242mm). Half title, title printed in red and black, mounted coloured frontispiece and 34 plates by Richard Robjent, sepia illustrations, some full-page. Original blue half pictorial morocco gilt by A. G. Havard, Long Stratton, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, blue buckram pictorial slipcase gilt. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 356 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 303 OF 350 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST AND WITH AN ORIGINAL SEPIA DRAWING BY ROBJENT AT THE FOOT OF THE LIMITATION LEAF.

MEDICINE, miscellaneous - James MORRIS. Irritability: Popular and Practical Sketches of Common Morbid States, and Conditions Bordering on Disease. London: John Churchill & Sons, 1868. 8vo (191 x 130mm). Half title, 2-pages of advertisements at the end. Original green cloth gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Wellcome Institute Library (stamps on verso of title and on verso of final advertisement leaf). FIRST EDITION. With 15 other books of medical and psychiatric interest including Thomas King Chambers' Some Effects of the Climate of Italy (London, 1865, cloth), Edward Woakes' On Deafness, Giddiness, and Noises in the Head ... Fourth edition (London, 1896, [?]part I only, cloth), A. Marmaduke Sheild's Lectures on Nasal Obstruction (London, 1900, coloured plate, cloth, inscribed "with Author's Compliments"), William Gordon's The Influence of Strong, Prevalent, Rain-Bearing Winds on the Prevalence of Phthisis (London, 1910, cloth, inscribed offprint by the same author loosely-inserted), the same author's The Place of Climatology in Medicine (London, 1913, cloth), F. A. Servanté's The Psychology of the Boy ... Third Edition (London, 1921, cloth), C. C. Easterbrook's Mental Invalids (Edinburgh, [?1925], cloth, PRESENTATION COPY, with a related pamphlet, heavily annotated in pencil, loosely-inserted) and L. L. Vasiliev's Experiments in Mental Suggestion (Church Crookham, "Institute for the Study of Mental Images," 1963, cloth). The lot sold not subject to return. (16)

STEARN, William Thomas (1911-2001). The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer ... Introduction by Wilfrid Blunt. London: The Basilisk Press, 1976. Large folio (645 x 460mm). Half title, double-page chart of Australia, 25 coloured lithographed plates after Ferdinand Bauer mounted on thick green paper. Original green buckram-backed marbled boards, book box. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 101 OF 515 COPIES. 5708

WARREN, John Collins (1778-1856). Description of a Skeleton of the Mastodon Giganteus of North America [from additional title]. The Mastodon Giganteus of North America [from printed title]. Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1852. 4to (298 x 235mm). Lithographed frontispiece, additional title with oval coloured illustration "lithographed and printed in colours by B. W. Thayer", dedication to Richard Owen, 25 lithographed plates, large folding lithographed plate of the skeleton at the end (text lightly browned with variable spotting, a few darker spots, plates with some light staining and spotting). Original red cloth with the skeleton stamped in gilt on upper cover and blindstamped decoration, gilt edges (edges and corners quite heavily rubbed with some fraying). FIRST EDITION. cf. Wood p.620. Not in Sabin. The author, a respected surgeon, founder of the New England Journal of Medicine, first Dean of Harvard Medical School and President of the Boston Society of Natural History, was a pioneer in the discovery and use of ether anaesthesia, which he first publicly demonstrated in 1846. "Towards the close of his life, he became interested in geology and palaeontology. The skeleton of a mastodon was procured, set up in a private museum, and described by Warren in a superb volume, The Mastodon Giganteus of North America" (American National Biography). 5190

WISDEN - John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1916: W. G. Grace. A Tribute by Lord Harris. Full Statistics of MrGrace's Career in the Cricket Field ... Edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., [1916]. 8vo (162 x 100mm). Advertisements. Original stiff yellow printed wrappers (backstrip torn with some erosion at foot not affecting letters, some creasing occasionally affecting letters). Provenance: Anthony [?]Jessup (modern signature on advertisement for Wisden on p.3, possibly the Oxford University cricketer of that name who lived from 1928 to 1996). FIRST EDITION. RARE. The fifty-third edition of the Cricketers' Almanack dedicates 38-pages to W. G. Grace who had died in October 1915.

Al-BUSIRI (1211-94). Al-Kawakib Al-Durriya ... The Luminous Stars in Praise of the Best of All Creation Prophet Muhammed. A celebrated panegyric in praise of the Prophet Mohammed the Great Reformer and Lawgiver, accompanied by "Takhmis. The first complete Fine Art Facsimile Edition published by the authority of the Trustees of Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland. London: Recite Publications Inc., 1993. Folio (404 x 295mm). "Illuminated" and coloured facsimile manuscript. Original black leatherette by Hartnolls elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt edges, original black leatherette fitted silk-lined box elaborately decorated in gilt (some minor scuffing to edges of lid), black silk tie, publisher's pamphlet loosely-inserted. ONE OF 950 COPIES. 477

ARBUTHNOT, James. A Trip to Kashmir. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1900. 4to (245 x 185mm). Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece of H. H. Maharaja Sir Pertab Singh Indar Mahindar Bahadur Sitar-I-Sultanat, title with tissue-guard, half tone pictorial initials, plates and illustrations (some mostly minor mainly marginal staining). Original sunflower pictorial cloth gilt (inner hinges weak, split and separating, some light staining, corners scuffed, a few ink spots on lower cover). FIRST EDITION. RARE. Czech Asia p.13; Kaul Early Writings on India 2309.

BIROCO, Joel. It is Divine and Other Poems. Witney: The Strawberry Press, 2005. Folio (278 x 192mm). Half title, linocut frontispiece by the author printed in two colours. FINELY BOUND in full brown crushed morocco gilt, the upper cover with a stylised design in gilt based on the linocut, the spine lettered in gilt, uncut, original black book box. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 80 COPIES, THIS COPY NUMBER II OF 4 "PRINTED ON HAND-MADE GAMPI VELLUM" AND SPECIALLY BOUND WITH AN EXTRA COPY OF THE LINOCUT IN A SEPARATE FOLDER SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.

CASPARY, Vera (1899-1987). Laura. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. 8vo (184 x 122mm). Half title (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original blue cloth, spine lettered in white, dust-jacket with illustration by Bip Pares and with price of "8'6 net" unclipped (some fraying to head and foot of backstrip, edges lightly soiled). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.

CONAN DOYLE, Arthur (1859-1930). The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1894 [but December 1893]. Large 8vo (235 x 165mm). Half tone frontispiece by Sidney Paget bound before the half title [?as usual], wood-engraved illustrations (occasional spotting and staining). Original blue pictorial cloth lettered in gilt, peacock-feather endpapers (inner hinges weak, corners rubbed). Provenance: N. C. [?]Astington, 1894 (pencil inscriptions on recto of frontispiece). FIRST EDITION. De Waal 596; Green and Gibson A14a; Sadleir 746. With the same author's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (London, 1893, original cloth, rather worn, first signature detached, second edition) and The Strand Magazine (London, vols. II-III [only], July-December 1891 - January-June 1892, cloth, containing 12 original Sherlock Holmes stories). (4)

CONAN DOYLE, Arthur (1859-1930). The Valley of Fear. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title, half tone frontispiece by Frank Wiles, 6-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (some mainly marginal spotting, more pronounced to first few leaves and to fore-edge). Original red cloth lettered in gilt (spine a little faded). FIRST EDITION of the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel. De Waal 503; Green and Gibson A39a.

CUNDALL, Herbert Minton (1848-1940). Kate Greenaway Pictures. From Originals Presented by her to John Ruskin and other Personal Friends (hitherto unpublished). London: Frederick Warne, 1921. 4to (309 x 250mm). Half title, mounted photogravure portrait of Kate Greenaway, 20 mounted coloured plates by Greenaway (some spotting to tissue guards). Original tan and green buckram gilt, uncut (lightly rubbed at edges, scuff mark to lower cover, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: "Mary Whitaker from Margaret [?]Minta, May 16th, 1923." FIRST EDITION. With 4 other books, namely Ben Kutcher's Illustrated Edition of A House of Pomegranates and the story of The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde (New York, 1918, buckram-backed paper boards), Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie (London, [1924], illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser, linen-backed paper boards, ONE OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR), Bernard & Elinor Darwin's Tootleoo Two (London, Nonesuch Press, [1927], paper boards, remnants of dust-jacket) and Hilaire Belloc's Ladies and Gentleman (London, 1932, illustrated by N. Bentley, cloth-backed illustrated paper boards, dust-jacket). (5)

DAY LEWIS, Cecil (1904-72). Country Comets. London: Martin Hopkinson, 1928. 8vo. Half title. Original green paper-backed boards, printed label on upper cover, uncut (spine detached, some fading, corners a little bumped). Provenance: The Poetry Bookshop, 38 Great Russell St (small coloured label on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION, with the half title SIGNED by C. Day Lewis with Ottoline Morrell's autograph monogram on the front free endpaper. With the same author's Transitional Poem (London, Hogarth Press, 1929), From Feathers to Iron (ibid., 1932, second impression) and The Magnetic Mountain (ibid., 1933, pictorial boards to a design by Julian Bell, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, with Lady Ottoline Morrell's autograph monogram and some passages marked in pencil [?by Lady Ottoline Morrell]). From Feathers to Iron has a one-page autograph letter from Day Lewis to Lady Ottoline Morrell, contained in the original envelope which is postmarked 12 Jan 1934 and tipped-onto the front pastedown, stating, "Dear Lady Ottoline, I have asked [?]Bumpus to send you a copy of From Feather to Iron: they had not one in stock, so I'm afraid it won't be inscribed. I enjoyed yesterday afternoon so much, Yours sincerely, Cecil Day Lewis." (4)

[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-98)] i.e. "Lewis CARROLL". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. 8vo. Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (stain to upper fore-edge towards the end, some light spotting and staining). Original red pictorial cloth gilt, gilt edges (lacks spine, some scuffing and staining). Provenance: Wilfrid Henry Burd Oldham (armorial bookplate); "E. C. Oldham, April 16th 1872, from [?]G. J. O" (inscription on half title). "Thirty-first thousand." With 7 other books including John Milton's Paradise Lost (London, 1808, contemporary calf, worn), The Arabian Nights' Entertainments ... In One Volume (London, 1824, half calf), John Tyndall's Hours of Exercise in the Alps (London, 1871, half calf, FIRST EDITION), Jules Verne's Le Tour du Monde ... Collection Hetzel (Paris, [n.d. but c. 1874], later cloth) and the same author's De la Terre a la Lune (Paris, "D' Education et de Récréation. J. Hetzel et Cie," [n.d. but c. 1875, later cloth]. The lot sold not subject to return. (8)

ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart (1759-1859). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India ... The Second Edition. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. 2 volumes, 8vo (224 x 138mm). 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates, one folding uncoloured aquatint plate, one folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline (text spotted and browned, but plates generally clean, folding plate torn without loss). Modern green half leatherette, uncut, new endpapers. cf. Abbey Travel 504; Colas 960; Lipperheide 1483; Yakushi E63. The first edition has been recorded with 2 maps; the present copy (the second edition) contains only one, as called for in the list in vol. one. With 2 other related works in 4 vols., namely Emma Roberts' Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan, with Sketches of Anglo-Indian Society ... Second edition (London, 1837, 2 vols., modern tan polished leatherette gilt) and Henry Havelock's Narrative of the War in Affghanistan[sic] in 1838-39 (London, 1840, 2 vols., folding engraved map, torn, original cloth). The lot sold not subject to return. (6) 6002, 6004

FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. 8vo. Half title (some light staining to first few leaves). Original black cloth with Japanese characters stamped in gilt on the upper cover, spine lettered in silver, dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping with price of 16s. unclipped (some minor fraying and staining to edges). FIRST EDITION. With the same author's On Her Majesty's Secret Service (London, 1963, lacks front free endpaper, FIRST EDITION) and The Man with the Golden Gun (London, 1965, second impression), both in dust-jackets. (3)

HUMPHREYS, Thomas Darwin. Practical Trouser Cutting. An Elucidation of the Complex yet interesting Subject of Trouser Cutting. London: Printed and published by the John Williamson Company Limited, [?1893]. 4to (278 x 215mm). Text within rule borders throughout, 8 plates, 24-pages of advertisement's at the end dated "Spring and Summer 1893" (title lightly browned). Original green cloth gilt (inner hinges weak, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: some old technical pencil annotation to plates. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. RARE. Nothing is known of the author.

JAMES, Edward (1907-84). The Gardener Who Saw God. London: Duckworth, 1937. 8vo (184 x 120mm). Half title. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket designed by Paul Tchelitcheff with price of 7s. 6d. net unclipped (some spotting to jacket's inner turn-in, a few tears without loss). FIRST EDITION. With the same author's The Bones of my Hand ... including La Belle au Bois Dormant with other poems before published and many new ones. Also a song in French set to music by Henri Sauguet (Oxford, 1938, 4to, frontispiece by Paul Tchelitcheff, original buckram, dust-jacket), Dorothy Wellesley's The Poets and Other Poems (Tunbridge Wells, "Penns in the Rocks Series. 1.", 1943, original wrappers, ONE OF 300 COPIES, signed "Dorothy Wellesley (Duchess of Wellington)" on the title, and Dorothy Wellesley's Far Have I Travelled (London, 1952, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the title, "May Barwell from Dorothy Wellesley" (her cousin) and with an autograph letter from Dorothy's sister, Lady Serena James, to Mrs Barwell; and a later postcard addressed to "Miss Barwell", from Moscow. (4)

JAMES, Frank Linsly (1851-90). The Wild Tribes of the Soudan. An Account of Travel and Sport chiefly in the Basé Country being Personal Experiences and Adventures during three Winters Spent in the Soudan. London: John Murray, 1883. Large 8vo (223 x 160mm). Half title, etched frontispiece of "A Basé 'Professional Beauty'", 3 coloured maps, 2 of which folding, 5 etched plates and 40 wood-engraved plates, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (one plate detached, creased and soiled at one edge, a few other plates, including the frontispiece, detached or loose, a few text leaves torn, one with slight loss, a few dark marginal stains, some light marginal browning and staining). Original brown pictorial cloth gilt (hinges weak, split at lower joints, some fraying to head and foot of spine, extremities rubbed). Provenance: The Zoological Society of London (label, recording the book's purchase in January 1884, and stamp on title). FIRST EDITION. Czech (Africa) pp.82-3. With 4 other works in 5 vols., namely [Fayette Robinson's] An Account of the Organization of the Army of the United States (Philadelphia, 1848, 2 vols., plates, cloth), Frank Edward Smedley's Frank Fairlegh, or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil (London, [?1850], illustrations by George Cruikshank, roan-backed cloth), T. Gowing's A Soldier's Experience or A Voice from the Ranks: showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure (Nottingham, 1899, pictorial cloth) and Lady Mary Alice Young Hodgson's The Siege of Kumassi (London, 1901, lacks one plate, [?]original cloth, FIRST EDITION). The lot sold not subject to return. (6)

JONES, David (1895-1974). In Parenthesis. Seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu. London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1937. 8vo (222 x 140mm). Monochrome frontispiece and a plate after David Jones, map. Original tan linen boards, dust-jacket with price of "10s.6d. Net" unclipped (piece torn away from head of backstrip affecting 2 letters, some fraying at edges, more particularly at upper fore-corner of upper wrapper, some light staining). FIRST EDITION of this genre-defying modernist work which won the Hawthornden Prize and which T. S. Eliot judged "a work of genius" and W. H. Auden "a masterpiece."

LECLERC [or LE CLERC], Sébastien (1637-1714). A Treatise of Architecture With Remarks and Observations ... Necessary For Young People who would apply to that Noble Art. Engraven in Two Hundred Copper Plates by John Sturt. Translated by Mr Chambers. London: "Sold by Mr Bateman and Mrs Taylor" (and others), 1724. 8vo (195 x 120mm). Engraved title with illustration, 4 engraved dedication leaves with coats-of-arms, 181 engraved plates only (lacking [?]frontispiece and plate 79, but with an additional plate numbered 61B, ink stain to plates 67 and 68, some other staining and spotting). Contemporary half calf (rebacked, corners rubbed and bumped, inner hinges crudely reinforced with linen). This celebrated work, which ran into numerous editions, was first published in French in 1714. With 10 other books including David Blair's An Easy Grammar of Natural and Experimental Philosophy for the Use of Schools ... A New Edition (London, 1808, engraved plates including 2 folding of astronomical subjects, later cloth, worn), E. Pariset's Aphorismes d' Hippocrate, Latine-Français, Traduction Nouvelle (Paris, 1813, 100 x 60mm., elaborately decorated green morocco, rather worn) and 7 miscellaneous vols. (8vo) from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle (mixed editions) with uncoloured engraved plates. The lot sold not subject to return. (11)

MONTAGU, John-Douglas-Scott, 2nd Baron (1866-1929). The Art of Driving a Motor Car. London: The Car Illustrated, Ltd., 1906. 8vo (178 x 120mm). 57-pages, wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams, advertisements (occasional light spotting). Original red cloth lettered in black. [?]FIRST EDITION. Amongst the 39 "Rules" for drivers at the end are "Make friends with the local police", "Don't swagger about the speed of your car. The police will probably hear of it ..." and "It is not a sign of proficiency in motoring to be dirty, to indulge in bad manners, or to drive your passengers as fast as you can for the purpose of 'showing off'."

ORWELL, George (1903-50). Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. 8vo (185 x 125mm). Half title (some very faint mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original pale green cloth, the spine lettered and decorated in red, dust-jacket printed in red and designed by Michael Kennard with price of "10s. net" unclipped (cloth stained and spotted, the jacket with pieces torn away from head of backstrip not affecting letters, some fraying at foot of backstrip and at corners, backstrip faded, a few chips, some creasing). FIRST EDITION, in the scarcer and more desirable red dust-jacket. Burgess p.46: "This is one of the few dystopian or cacotopian visions which have changed our habits of thought;" Connolly The Modern Movement 99: "... the political arguments are never dull. In fact they are worked out with passionate logic. 'Double think', 'Newspeak', 'Big Brother' now form part of the language;" Fenwick A12a.

PENRUDDOCKE, Charlesana Posthema (1840-1911, illustrator). Sketches Done for Charity by Charlesana Posthema Penruddocke ... Second Edition. [No place: no publisher], 1861. Small oblong 4to (160 x 240mm). 10 wood-engraved plates. Original pink textured cloth boards, green printed label on upper cover (some fading). VERY RARE. No copy is recorded in the British Library or on COPAC of either this or the first edition. Little is known of the artist except that she was born in Bath, married one Colonel William Graydon in 1865, and died in Andover. The charming and naive illustrations, whose gentle and genteel social satire is rather lost on a modern audience, are in the manner of "Punch". With 10 other illustrated books including George Cruikshank's The Kensington Fine Art Association's Picture Album being a Collection of Engravings and Etchings (London, [n.d. but plates variously dated 1829-36], original printed wrappers), W. Ralston & C. W. Cole's Tippoo: A Tale of a Tiger (London, [n.d.], original pictorial wrappers, rather worn), and The Humours of Cynicus (London, 1891, hand-coloured illustrations, original pictorial boards) and Rouse's Scraps of Sussex, &c. ([N.p., n.d., the originals c. 1820, but this almost certainly a later facsimile set of 20 sheets of coloured views in a modern cloth portfolio]). The lot sold not subject to return. (11)

PINKERTON, John (1758-1826, editor). A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World; many of which are now first translated into English. Digested on a New Plan. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808-14. 17 volumes, 4to (274 x 210mm). 203 engraved plates, one folding, 3 engraved maps, 2 folding (variable spotting, staining and browning throughout, with some offsetting of plates and maps onto text). FINELY BOUND in contemporary polished diced calf gilt, spines elaborately gilt with black morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed, some corners more heavily). Provenance: John Henry Sparke (armorial bookplates). FIRST EDITION. Brunet III, 751 (calling for 197 plates only); Ferguson 473; Forbes 394; Hill p.236; Sabin 62957 ("... arrangement of the plates is not the same in all copies"); Kroepelien Bibliotheca Polynesia 955; Spence 912. The final "Supplementary" volume, in addition to its index, includes a useful bibliographical "Catalogue of Books of Voyages and Travels." (17)

PRIMATT, Humphry (or Humphrey) (c.1735-c.1776). A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals. London: Printed by R. Hett, and sold at T. Cadell, J. Dodsley and J. Johnson, 1776. 8vo (212 x 137mm). Without a half title ([?]as issued, front blank and title detached, variable spotting and staining). Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt (rather worn, boards detached, rubbed and scuffed, spine and corners heavily rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the author's only known work and one of the first devoted to an attack on cruelty to animals. It was reprinted in 1822 by Arthur Broome, and caught the attention of social reformers such as William Wilberforce, who, along with Broome, established the [Royal] Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1824. See the introduction to Aaron V. Garrett's "Animal Rights and Souls in the Eighteenth Century" (Bristol, 2000), pp. xix-xxi, for a detailed examination of the book and its influence. RARE.

PRITCHARD, W. (printer). The Picturesque Scenery of North Wales, Engraved on Steel, from Drawings by Eminent Artists [Title on front cover: Pritchard's Views in North Wales]. Carnarvon: W. Pritchard, [plates dated 1841-47]. Small oblong 4to (131 x 180mm). 31 engraved plates ([?]only). Original silk boards with printed label on upper cover (some light spotting). Provenance: inscription on front free endpaper dated 1850. FIRST EDITION. RARE. No copy (listed under either title) in the British Library. With 2 other topographical books, namely J. Britton & E. W. Brayley's Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated (London, 1829, plates, 19th-century red half morocco) and Henry Gastineau's Wales Illustrated in a Series of Views (London, 1830, plates, 19th-century half calf, crudely-rebacked). The lot sold not subject to return. (3)

RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939, illustrator) & William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). A Midsummer-Night's Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. 4to (250 x 188mm). Half title, tipped-in coloured frontispiece, title printed in black and green with illustrations, and 39 tipped-in coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining to text). Original cream pictorial buckram gilt (spine a little discoloured, some light staining). FIRST RACKHAM TRADE EDITION. Latimore & Haskell p.32; Riall p.87. With another copy of the same work (1911, original buckram, second trade edition) and Some British Ballads ([n.d.], illustrated by Arthur Rackham, original blue cloth, remnants of dust-jacket). (3)

RAVILIOUS, Eric (1903-42, illustrator) & James Maude RICHARDS (1907-92). High Street. London: Country Life. Printed in England at The Curwen Press, 1939. Large 8vo (231 x 150mm). Woodcut illustration on title and 24 coloured lithographed plates by Eric Ravilious (some spotting to title and first few leaves of text, a few isolated spots elsewhere). Original coloured pictorial paper boards by Eric Ravilious, ORIGINAL GLASSINE WRAPPER with card turn-ins (corners of boards lightly rubbed and a little bumped, glassine wrapper torn with minor loss, one small rust hole on the rear wrapper, a few rust spots). FIRST EDITION. "Eric Ravilious spent a year sketching these shops in London town or country villages. Jim Richards spent another year finding out what happened behind the counter. Together, with the printer's help, they have made a work of art" (from the turn-in). "In 1938, [Ravilious] collaborated with J. M. Richards, the editor of The Architectural Review, in producing a book called High Street. The illustrations were coloured lithographs of a variety of shop fronts, ranging from a cheese-monger to a clerical outfitter's and throwing in a knife-grinder for good measure. It is a delightful book, beautifully printed ..." (from John Lewis, The 20th Century Book, 1967). See also Andrew Lawson's article on the book in the Autumn 2019 issue of The Book Collector, (vol. 68, no. 3, pp.467-473): "Limited to 2000 copies in its first edition, it assumed its rarity value when Eric Ravilious's lithographic plates for the book were destroyed by a direct hit on the Curwen Press in the blitz. Any later editions from the original plates therefore became impossible ... From the outset, Ravilious's illustrations proved so popular with the public that dealers broke up copies of the book and sold the individual pictures separately. This had the effect of increasing the rarity and value of the intact book ... Ravilious's High Street remains a beacon for our memories of what we have lost."

The Rector of Overton, A Novel. In Three Volumes. London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1830 [Volume III: 1828]. 3 volumes, 12mo (174 x 100mm). Without half titles [?as issued], 5 engraved plates dated 1829, the 3 plates in vol. one engraved by R. Hicks after W. M. Craig, the 2 plates in vol. III unsigned [no plates in vol. II] (some variable worming and wormtracks at lower margins not affecting letters, a few dark spots, occasional light spotting and staining). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt with green morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed). Volumes I & II, second editions; vol. III edition not stated, but dated as the first. RARE. This second edition is not in the BL; the first, which is, was published in 1828. The author is unknown: "I trust I shall never be personally known as the author of this Work, because it is meant to shew the Higher Orders of Society in England, amongst whom I have lived, as possessing also a moral elevation, far beyond the reach of the shafts aimed at them by the flying novelists of the last few months ..." (from the Dedication to Mrs. Watts Russel [sic]). The Monthly Review (Vol.IX, no. XXXIX) for November 1828, in a scathing criticism, dismisses the "... manifold absurdities of this most ridiculous book" but makes no suggestions as to its authorship, while implying, perhaps unintentionally, that the author is male. With 3 other works in 9 vols., namely William Dodd's Sermons for Young Men ... A New Edition (London, 1810, contemporary calf), Rev. Bourne Hall Draper's Bible Illustrations; or, a Description of Manners and Customs Peculiar to the East (London, 1831, plates, contemporary cloth, worn) and The Family Friend (London, [c.1850], 6 vols, plates, illustrations, contemporary half calf, worn). (12)

SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [July] 1951. 8vo (197 x 135mm). Half title, title within single-rule border with typographical headpiece and printer's device (a few leaves lightly spotted and browned, elsewhere some extremely faint spotting). Original black buckram, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, dust-jacket by Michael Mitchell, price of $3.00 unclipped, monochrome photographed portrait of the author on the lower wrapper by Lotte Jacobi (some minor chipping at head head and foot of backstrip, another small chip to upper edge of upper wrapper, some rubbing to corners of lower wrapper affecting 2 letters, some extremely faint spotting and staining). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, the dust-jacket with the price of $3.00 directly above the 'shoulder' of the letter 'R' on the front turn-in, and the portrait on the lower wrapper cropped at the top. Anthony Burgess Ninety-Nine Novels pp.53-54; Bixby A2; Starosciak A30. "This novel is a key-work of the nineteen-fifties in that the theme of youthful rebellion is first adumbrated in it, though the hero, Holden Caulfield, is more a gentle voice of protest, unprevailing in the noise, than a militant world-changer ... The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failure of the adult world. The young used many voices - anger, contempt, self-pity - but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Anthony Burgess).

The Savoy Cocktail Book ... The Cocktail Recipes in this Book have been compiled by Harry Craddock of the Savoy Hotel London. London: Constable & Company, 1930. 8vo (192 x 128mm). Half title, coloured illustrations and decorations by Gilbert Rumbold, "Bacardi Cocktail" recipe slip tipped-in at p.[25] (occasional light spotting). Original decorated boards in green, black and silver (some crackling to surface). FIRST EDITION.

SMITH, Henry. Genius and Art Past and Present. Also Common Sense Remarks on Bookmaking and Printmaking. Torquay: Andrew Iredale, Bookseller, Strand [ie. Torquay], 1894. 4to (223 x 175mm). Half title, frontispiece and plate printed in red, title printed in red and black, diagrams, 2-pages of advertisements at the end. Original green cloth-backed pictorial boards (split at upper joint, some staining, edges rubbed). Provenance: old illegible signature on front free endpaper. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. RARE. The "Common Sense Remarks on Bookmaking ..." constitute an extended attack on William Morris, the Arts and Crafts movement as applied to printing and, by implication, the Kelmscott Press which had been founded three years before the book's publication, although it is never mentioned by name. Very little is known of the author. With Joseph Ames & William Herbert's Typographical Antiquities: or an Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1785-90, 3 vols., modern black buckram). (4)

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-94). A Collection of 26 books comprising: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (London, 1879, rather worn), The Dynamiter (London, 1885, red cloth), The Merry Men (London, 1887), Memories and Portraits (London, 1887), The Black Arrow (London, 1888), The Wrong Box (London, 1889, co-written with Lloyd Osbourne), The Master of Ballantrae (London, 1889), Ballads (London, 1890), Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (London, 1892, 2 copies), A Footnote to History (London, 1892), Catriona. A Sequel to "Kidnapped" (London, 1893), Island Nights' Entertainments (London, 1893), The Ebb-Tide (London, 1894, co-written with Lloyd Osbourne), Weir of Hermiston. An Unfinished Romance (London, 1896), A Lowden Sabbath Morn (London, 1898, illustrated by A. S. Boyd), St. Ives (London, 1898), An Inland Voyage (London, 1900), In the South Seas (London, 1900), Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers ... Fine-Paper Edition (London, 1909), The Silverado Squatters ... Fine Paper Edition (London, 1910), Lay Morals and Other Papers (London, 1911), Records of a Family of Engineers (London, 1812), Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (London, 1912), On The Choice of a Profession (London, 1916) and Edinburgh ... People's Edition (London, 1920), most FIRST EDITIONS, all in original cloth. (26)

[STOTHARD, Thomas (1755-1834, illustrator)]. Shakspeare's[sic] Seven Ages of Man. Hammersmith: W. Bromley, [plates dated January 24th, 1799]. Folio (457 x 285mm). Hand-coloured engraved pictorial title, one page of engraved text of Jacques' 'The Ages of Man' speech from 'As You Like It', 6 hand-coloured engraved plates by W. Bromley after T. Stothard (only, of 7, lacking the first plate [ie. of the infant], a few repairs at margins without loss, some mainly marginal staining and spotting). Modern red buckram. FIRST EDITION. Jaggard p.287; Lowndes 1665.

TIMLIN, William M. (1892-1943). The Ship that Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy. Told and Pictured by William M. Timlin. London: George G. Harrap & Coampany Limited, [1923]. 4to (305 x 235mm). Calligraphic text printed in blue, green and black throughout, 48 mounted coloured plates by William M. Timlin, plates and text leaves mounted on thick grey/green paper (a few short tears not affecting text or illustration). Original vellum-backed paper boards, the upper cover lettered in black, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt (head of spine worn with some loss to letters, covers rubbed, with upper fore-corner of upper cover quite worn). Provenance: P. Skipp (Broomfield House School book prize label (for "Effort")). FIRST EDITION. 2,000 copies were printed, but, of these, only 738 were sold, 350 of which were for sale in the United States. About 1,200 copies were remaindered and of these an unknown number were destroyed by enemy action in 1941. The work continues to exercise a fascination on adults and children alike, almost a century after it was first imagined and is, according to Richard Dalby, "The most original and beautiful children's book of the 1920s ..." (Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, p.102).

TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (1892-1973). The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955-56. 3 volumes, 8vo (221 x 142mm). Half titles, folding maps printed in red and black at the end of each vol. (the map in vol. 3 detached, occasional spotting). Original red cloth, spines gilt (without the dust-jackets, faded and lightly stained). FIRST EDITION. The set comprises impressions as follows: 1) The Fellowship of the Ring is a fourth impression of November 1955; 2) The Two Towers is a fourth impression of 1956 (no month of publication stated); 3) The Return of the King is a second impression of November 1955. (3)

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-82). The Eustace Diamonds. London: Chapman and Hall, 1873. 3 volumes, 8vo (181 x 118mm). (Without half titles.) Attractively bound in contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green morocco lettering-pieces (lightly rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: original Blackwell's Rare Books Invoice dated 19/12/85 for £320 loosely-inserted. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the third "Palliser" novel. Sadleir Trollope 39; Tinker 2224; Wolff 6775. With 2 other books including Jane Austen's Fragment of a Novel written ... January-March 1817. Now First Printed from the Manuscript (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1925, original buckram-backed paper boards, ERIC WALTER WHITE'S COPY). (5)

WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). The Picture of Dorian Gray. London, New York & Melbourne: Ward Lock and Co., [1891]. 8vo (195 x 300mm). Half title (half title and title spotted, some lighter spotting elsewhere). Original parchment-backed grey bevelled boards designed by Charles Ricketts, the upper cover with "Dorian Gray" stamped in gilt above 9 gilt-stamped butterfly motifs, uncut, pale green endpapers (lower half of the spine lacking, the remaining segment browned, 2 small parts detached, substantial repairs with adhesive tape). Provenance: "Percy Furnivall, from the author" (old inscription on front free endpaper); a few marginal pencil marks. FIRST TRADE EDITION IN BOOK FORM of the author's only novel, after the serialisation in Lippincott's Magazine in 1890, but preceding the signed limited edition by several months, with 'nd' on p.208. Ellman 314; Mason 328. The inscription is intriguing but we have been unable to shed much light on it. The signer may have been Percy Furnivall FRCS (1868-1939), a British surgeon and pioneer of heart surgery, although nothing links him to Wilde. Furnivall's signature itself is in a distinctive heavy italic; the words "from the author" written beneath are possibly in a separate hand, but we do not believe it to be Wilde's (although it bears a superficial resemblance).

WYATT, Matthew Digby (1820-77). The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century at the Great Exhibition MDCCCLI. London: Day & Son, March 15th 1853. Volume II only (of 2), folio (491 x 330mm). Chromolithographed title and 80 fine chromolithographed plates by F. Bedford, J. Sleigh, J. A. Vintner and others after various artists, numbered LXXIX - CLVIII (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few plates more heavily affected). Contemporary half plum morocco gilt, gilt edges (lower cover detached, heavily rubbed at extremities). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Life 85; Hardie English Coloured Books (1906) p. 253: "The book is interesting as a record of early Victorian art, with its few beauties and its many atrocities. It is valuable, too, for its clear account in the preface of the position of chromo-lithography at the time, and of the particular method of producing the plates."

MICHAEL GEORGE: (1963-2016) English Singer & Songwriter. Book signed, being a hardback edition of Bare, First Edition published by Michael Joseph, London, 1990. Signed by Michael in bold black ink to the half title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG

 MAGRITTE RENE: (1898-1967) Belgian Surrealist Artist. A.L.S., Rene Magritte, one page, 8vo, n.p. (Brussels), 19th October 1959, to Marcel Bealu, in French. Magritte informs his correspondent that it will be his pleasure to re-read his Memoire de l'ombre, remarking 'I am also very eager to know what the first edition was still holding in the shadows'. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Magritte to Bealu at the Librairie Le Pont Traverse in Paris. A charming letter with good association. VG   Marcel Bealu (1908-1993) French Novelist, Poet & Playwright who also owned the Parisian bookstore Le Pont Traverse. 

 LANE LUPINO: (1892-1959) English Actor, starred in The Lambeth Walk (1939). An unusual multiple signed hardback edition of Clowns and Pantomimes by M. Willson Disher, First Edition published by Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1925, being Lupino Lane’s personal copy and bearing his ownership signature (‘Property of Lupino Lane’) to the title page. The book is further signed by ten other actors and comedians to the front pastedown and front free endpaper including Stan Laurel (‘All kinds of good wishes Nip, Stan Laurel’), Barry Lupino (‘To one clown from another, Barry Lupino, for further particulars see page 172-3’; with an original ink caricature of the head of a harlequin in his hand), Stanley Lupino (‘Stanley Lupino, just another clown’), Julian Wylie, Clyde Cook, Edward J. Ratcliffe (dated Los Angeles, California, 21st August 1927 in his hand), Mitchell Lewis (starred in The Wizard of Oz in 1939 in the uncredited role of the Captain of the Winkie Guards), Louis Wolheim and George Clarke. Also featuring a secretarial signature of Charles Chaplin. The book is illustrated with monochrome plates and features a colour frontispiece of Joseph Grimaldi. Bound in the publisher’s orange cloth with gilt stamped illustration to the cover and title to the spine. Top edge gilt and the other edges uncut. Some age wear and staining to the cloth, otherwise G   Lupino Lane and his family are mentioned to in M. Willson Disher’s work, as referenced in Barry Lupino’s inscription, on page 173 where the author states, in part, ‘George Lupino was a circus clown, one of the Six Lupinos, high and low tumblers……To-day, Stanley Lupino, Barry Lupino and Lupino Lane are among the most accomplished, in tumbling, dancing and mimicry, of pantomime performers…..’ 

CAPABLANCA JOSE RAUL: (1888-1942) Cuban Chess player, World Champion 1921-27. Book signed and inscribed, a hardback edition of The World's Championship Chess Match Played at Havana between Jose Raul Capablanca and Dr. Emanuel Lasker with an introduction, the scores of all the games annotated by the champion, together with statistical matter and the biographies of the two masters, being a privately printed First Edition with an introduction by Hartwig Cassel, 1921. Signed and inscribed by Capablanca to the front free endpaper and dated Havana, 13th December 1921 in his hand. The limited edition, of 600 copies, is bound in the original dark red cloth and with a gilt title (extensively rubbed) to the front cover. Some staining and light age wear, not affecting the signature or inscription, G

 ARMSTRONG NEIL: (1930-2012) American Astronaut, Commander of Apollo XI (1969). The first man to walk on the moon. A vintage folio edition of the Daily News, New York’s Picture Newspaper, amusingly dated Moonday, 21st July 1969 (Volume 51, Number 22), featuring the headline Men Walk on the Moon and with Armstrong’s famous quotation printed beneath, ‘One Small Step for Man….One Giant Leap for Mankind’ and also featuring a grainy image of Armstrong stepping onto the moon’s surface, signed and inscribed by Armstrong in black ink across a light area of the image. An attractive and unusual signed souvenir relating directly to the historic Apollo XI mission. A few minor tears and nicks to the edges of the front and back pages, otherwise about VG 

ALDRIN BUZZ: (1930-     ) American Astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo XI (1969). The second man to walk on the moon. Book signed, being a hardback edition of America's Astronauts and their Indestructible Spirit by Dr. Fred Kelly, with a foreword by Buzz Aldrin, First Edition published by Aero for Tab Books Inc., Pennsylvania, 1986. Signed ('Buzz Aldrin') by Aldrin with his name alone in black ink to the half title page. Accompanied by the dust jacket. Some very minor, extremely light age wear, VG

 COURTNEY ROGER: (1902-1946) British Soldier who established the Special Boat Sections which saw action in World War II. A rare A.L.S., Roger, two pages, 8vo, Kilmarnock, 30th May 1944, to Mrs. V. Lamb (‘Dear Bunch’). Courtney commences his letter stating ‘I heard with a certain amount of anxiety that the Portsmouth area has been blitzed recently. I do hope you are alright & that the house has escaped damage’, and continues ‘The book is finished, & I have bunged it into Jenkins & by the way they are sending you Palestine Policeman through the Times Book Club’. Courtney further adds ‘Since arriving in this haggis ridden hole, I have pined steadily for Lakeside [the home of his correspondent] & my place in the garden with James, who by the way salute from me. Did you feel you needed anyone to hold your hand when Adolf was more than usually noisy. I wish I could have been there to make encouraging sounds.’ Courtney concludes his letter with a rhyme, ‘When bombs & such burst round your head/ Do you feel you need Roger/ To drag your shrinking form from your bed/ And act the perfect lodger’. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Courtney. Together with a second rare A.L.S., Roger (the signature very slightly water stained), to the verso of a sepia picture postcard of St. Michael’s church in Torrington, n.d. (2nd May 1944), to Mrs. Lamb. Courtney writes, in full, ‘Cider, Cider, everywhere. There’s nothing else to drink and though I find it very dull my body’s “in the pink”. No wine, nor whoopee, can I find, and thus I sit & grieve, until I drink my first days nose at Fareham, Monday Eve.’ Also including a rare book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of Palestine Policeman – An account of eighteen dramatic months in the Palestine Police Force during the great Jew-Arab troubles, First Edition published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1939. Signed and inscribed by Courtney, ‘To Bunch from Roger’, to the front free endpaper. Bound in the publisher’s pale cloth. With a newspaper clipping of 1983 relating to Courtney laid down beneath the signature and with a section of the dust jacket, featuring Courtney’s portrait, laid down to the front pastedown. The lot also includes David Stirling (1915-1990) Scottish Lieutenant Colonel of World War II, founder of the Special Air Service. Blue ink signature (‘with best wishes, David Stirling’) and date, 8th April 1987, in his hand on a 12mo piece. Autographs of Roger ‘Jumbo’ Courtney are rare in any form as a result of his untimely death at the age of 46. Some light overall age wear, generally G, 4 

BATTLE OF BRITAIN: A Royal Air Force museum commemorative cover issued for the 60th Anniversary of the first long-distance international air race Circuit of Europe, 18th June 1971, featuring a colour image of a Bristol Blenheim Mk.1 aircraft in flight, individually signed by two pilots associated with the Battle of Britain comprising James Lacey (1917-1989, British Fighter Pilot of World War II, the second highest scoring RAF fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain) and Hannes Trautloft (1912-1995, German Fighter Pilot of World War II, a fighter ace credited with 58 victories of which several were scored during the Battle of Britain). Signed with their names alone to clear areas of the cover. Limited edition created by Hans Rossbach and numbered 7 of 17 to the verso. VG

LUFTWAFFE: A Royal Air Force commemorative cover issued for the 25th Anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and featuring a colour image of aircraft flying in formation of Buckingham Palace, individually signed by four Luftwaffe pilots of World War II comprising Erich Hartmann (1922-1993, German Fighter Pilot of World War II, the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare with 352 victories. Knight’s Cross winner with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds), Gunther Rall (1918-2009, German Fighter Pilot of World War II, the third most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare with 275 victories. Knight’s Cross winner with Oak Leaves and Swords), Hermann Graf (1912-1988, German Fighter Pilot of World War II, an ace with 212 victories and the first pilot in aviation history to claim 200 victories. Knight’s Cross winner with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds) and Wilhelm Batz (1916-1988, German Fighter Pilot of World War II, an ace with 237 victories. Knight’s Cross winner with Oak Leaves and Swords). All have signed in blue or black inks with their names alone to clear areas of the cover. Limited edition created by Hans Rossbach and numbered 12 of 15 to the verso. VG

LUFTWAFFE: A Royal Air Force Museum commemorative cover issued for the 21st Anniversary of the first direct jet crossing of the Atlantic, 21st February 1972, featuring a colour image of a Handley Page Heyford aircraft in flight, individually signed by the Luftwaffe pilots of World War II Erich Hartmann (1922-1993, German Fighter Pilot of World War II, the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare with 352 victories. Knight’s Cross winner with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds) and Franz Eisenach (1918-1998, German Fighter Pilot of World War II, an Ace credited with 129 victories. Knight’s Cross winner). Both have signed their names in blue inks to clear areas. Limited edition created by Rossbach and numbered 17 of 18 to the verso. VG