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Lot 148
Synge J.M. Clarke Harry (ills) " Queens" The Dolmen Press May 1986, ' This first edition is dedicated by the Publisher for Robin at sixty ' blue cloth, gilt titles to front boards and backstrip , Stratton Helen (ills) " Grimm's Fairy Tales" Blackie & Son n.d. col frontis , col and black and white plates, rebound half green crushed morocco over marbled boards, gilt rules, gilt titles on brown pastedowns to back strip, top edge green, Robinson, Charles " The Story of the Weathercock" by Evelyn Sharp. col frontis, col plates, ills throughout text, pictorial endpapers, green pictorial cloth with gilt titles, slight fading to front board, Castle Agnes and Egerton " Our Sentimental Garden" William Heinemann 1914 col frontis with tissue guard, col plates with tissue guards, ills throughout text, pictorial endpapers, front hinge cracked and separating, green cloth with gilt titles, backstrip faded, White Flora (ills) " Stories Told to Children " by Michael Fairless, Duckworth & Co. 1914, col frontis tipped in with tissue guard, col plates tipped in , tissue guards, off setting on ffep, green pictorial cloth, gilt titles, corners bumped, Stratton Helen (ills) " Heroic Legends ..." retold by Agnes Crozier Herbertson, col frontis with tissue guard, col plates, red pictorial cloth, gilt titles, aeg. and one other vol (7) ALL PLATES IN ALL BOOKS PRESENT AS REQUIREDBOOKS NOT COLLATED UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED, PLEASE ENSURE YOU ARE SATISFIED BEFORE YOU BID
Lot 151
Le Carre, John " The Honourable Schoolboy" Hodder and Stoughton 1977 , signed by the author on the title page, map on endpapers, black cloth, d-j not price clipped, "Single & Single" Hodder and Stoughton, signed and dated by the author on title page ' 25 11 '99 Cheltenham', maroon cloth, d-j not price clipped "Smiley's People" Hodder and Stoughton 1980, signed on title page, blue cloth, d-j not price clipped ( 3)BOOKS NOT COLLATED UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED, PLEASE ENSURE YOU ARE SATISFIED BEFORE YOU BIDCondition ReportThe Honourable Schoolboy is first edition, first printing, slight chips to top of d-j, see further images
Lot 190
Three tennis related books, comprising Burrow (F.R.). Lawn Tennis, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, 1922; Burrow (F.R.). The Centre Court and Others first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937; Lacoste (Rene). Lacoste on Tennis, for Dunlop Sports, Burrow, 1931 inscribed and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on page 60; Burrow (J.). Wimbledon Who’s Who and Tennis Celebrities, first edition, for Dunlop Sports, 1934, good condition, some wear to spine of The Centre Court
Lot 228
A QUANTITY OF POKEMON CARDS, just over 100 Pokemon TCG cards from Base Set, Base Set 2, Fossil, Jungle and Team Rocket sets. Notable holo cards include Dark Alakazam Team Rocket 1, Dark Blastoise Team Rocket 3, Cahrizard Base Set 4 (Spanish), Mew Black Star Promo 9, Mewtwo Base Set 10, Nidoking Base Set 11, Flareon Jungle 3, Jolteon Jungle 4, Nidoqueen Jungle 7, Scyther Jungle 10, Snorlax Jungle 11 (x2), Dark Dugtrio Team Rocket 6, Dark Raichu Team Rocket 83, Aerodactyl Fossil 1, Articuno Fossil 2, Dragonite Fossil 4, Gengar Fossil 5, Hitmonlee Fossil 7, Moltres Fossil 12, Alakazam Base Set 1, Blastoise Base Set 2, Poliwrath Base Set 13, Venusaur Base Set 15 and Zapdos Base Set 16 (x2). First edition cards are Dark Alakazam Team Rocket 1, Dark Blastoise Team Rocket 2, Machamp Base Set 8 (not shadowless), Dark Kadabra Team Rocket 39, Sandslash Fossil 41, Dark Persian Team Rocket 42, Psyduck Team Rocket 65, Mr. Fuji Fossil 58, The Boss's Way Team Rocket 73 and Imposter Oak's Revenge Team Rocket 76. Condition ranges from good to fair
Lot 238
A QUANTITY OF POKEMON CARDS, cards from Base Set, Base Set 2, Jungle, Fossil and Team Rocket sets, stored in two booklets and two Team Rocket folders, all Base Set holos included, other holos include Dragonite Fossil 4, Dark Charizard Team Rocket 4, Dark Blastoise Team Rocket 3, Dark Dragonite Team Rocket 5, Dark Raichu Team Rocket 83, Charizard Base Set 2 4, Jolteon Jungle 4 and Articuno Fossil 2, Jungle Snorlax 11, Victreebel 14 and Pinsir 9 no set symbol error cards, first edition cards include Rocket's Sneak Attack Team Rocket 72, Charmander Team Rocket 50, Dark Flareon Team Rocket 35 and Gastly Fossil 33, condition ranges from good to fair
Lot 22
SIX PORTRAITS OF SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE BY W. ROTHENSTEIN 1915 FIRST EDITION. FOLIO. PP X + 6 PLATES WITH TISSUE GUARDS. LINEN-BACKED BOARDS. TWO-PAGE PREFATORY NOTE BY MAX BEERBOHM. THE PLATES ARE EXCELLENT REPRODUCTIONS OF ROTHENSTEIN'S PENCIL DRAWINGS. COVERS RUBBED AT THE EDGES AND A BIT MARKED. ACCEPTABLE CONDITION
Lot 405
Erik Nitsche (Swiss, 1908 - 1998) "Hansel and Gretel" Signed lower right. Original Mixed Media painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting is the original painting which was published on the Fleetwood First Day Cover for the German 80pf Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm stamp issued January 1, 1985. Known as the fathers of German philology, and publishers of the beloved Grimm's Fairy Tales, the brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm contributed enormously to Germany's literary heritage. In 1812, the Grimm brothers published their first collection of tales, entitled Kinder- und Hausmarchen (Tales of Children and the Home.) The stories included had been collected from peasants and villagers and then put into literary form by Wilhelm. In addition to this work, the brothers edited other bits of folklore and primitive literature they uncovered. This work led to the publication of two volumes of Deutsche Sagen (German Legends) between 1816 and 1818. Their studies of folklore naturally led the Grimms to develop an interest in the relationship of the ancient German language with the modern. In 1819, the first edition of Jakob's Deutsche Grammatik (German Grammer) was published and later editions followed. In addition to this work, the brothers began work to show relationships between similar words from different languages. The rules they formulated of such relationships became known as Grimm's Law. In 1854, the brothers published the first volume of their German Dictionary which contained nearly two thousand pages and got only as far as the letter B. The project took over one hundred years to complete and included sixteen volumes. Of course, it was finished by later scholars. Image Size: 12 x 14 in. Overall Size: 15 x 20 in. Unframed. (B09299)
Lot 7079
Four scarce Great Yarmouth ephemeral pamphlets and booklets, comprising: 'Souvenir of The Great Gale, Monday, November 29th 1897. Supplement to The "Yarmouth Mercury", December 4th, 1897.', [12]pp, 5 black and white full page illustrations from photographs by Tilley Bros., A. Yallop & F.H. Sayers, oblong, original printed wraps; 'The Great Fire at J. & W.F. Goode's, late Winton's Rooms, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth, September 5th, 1901. Supplement to The "Yarmouth Mercury", September 14th, 1901.', [8]pp on 1 folding leaf, 10 black and white illustrations from photographs by F.H. Sayers, King Street, Gt. Yarmouth; [James Spilling]: ''Arry & 'Arriett at Yarmouth. A Tale About Norfolk Dumplings', London, Jarrolds, circa 1880, 55th thou., 29,[3]pp, original stitched pictorial printed wraps (wraps chipped and detached but present); Frederick Danby Palmer: 'Yarmouth Notes - First Series, 1830-40', Great Yarmouth, J. Buckle, 1887, 1st edition, 76pp, original printed card wraps (foxed) (4)
Lot 7084
Three scarce 19th Century Great Yarmouth visitor guidebooks: 'The Visitor's Guide, to The Town and Neighbourhood of Great Yarmouth.', Great Yarmouth, John Cooper, 1853, first edition, engraved folding map + 6 engraved plates as called for, 103pp, original cloth gilt, EP's replenished; plus an 1856 second edition of the same guidebook, published John Cooper, without maps/plates, 86pp + ad. leaf at end, old half calf gilt; plus 'Pictorial Guide to Great Yarmouth', Yarmouth, George Nall, 1864, 10th edition revised and enlarged, folding map + 30 illustrations (of which 25 full page), 158pp, original blindstamped cloth gilt (3)
![John Kirby: 'The Suffolk Traveller; or, a Journey through Suffolk', Ipswich, printed by John Bagnall, 1735, 1st edition, [4],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/db92bc8e-909d-46a5-84b8-ad320108d7a6/d4604c79-64d7-49a6-bfd4-ad3300bd0322/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7112
John Kirby: 'The Suffolk Traveller; or, a Journey through Suffolk', Ipswich, printed by John Bagnall, 1735, 1st edition, [4],206pp + errata leaf at end, 12mo, rebound polished half calf gilt, marbled paper covered boards. The first single county road-book, with antiquarian notices, produced from an actual survey which Kirby made of the whole county in 1732, 1733, and 1734. Includes a description of Diss, Harleston & Thetford St. Mary. John Kirby (1690-1753) lived at Wickham Market, Suffolk, where he is known to have run nearby Glevering Watermill. Very scarce
Lot 7128
William Taylor: 'The History and Antiquities of Castle Rising, Norfolk', Lynn & London, 1850, engraved frontis + 11 engraved plates as called for (by William Taylor & William Pickford), original cloth gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip, copy of P.F.H. Bedingfield of Heacham; plus John Sapwell: 'A History of Aylsham', 1960, 1st edition, folding map + 10 plates as called for, original cloth gilt; T. Hugh Bryant: The Churches of Norfolk: hundred of Brothercross', 1914, numerous ills. from photos as called for, covering The Burnhams, North & South Creake and Waterden, North Norfolk, original cloth gilt; 'Coke of Norfolk & His Friends, the Life of...First Earl of Leicester, of Holkham', 1908, vol 2, numerous plates, original cloth gilt (lacks backstrip), top edge gilt (4)
Lot 7133
Arthur Henry Patterson: 'Sea-side Scribblings for visitors; or, how to make the most of a holiday jaunt', London, Jarrold and Sons, [1887], 1st edition, 139pp + [5]pp adverts at end, association copy, signed by Patterson and dated Yarmouth 30/3/89, inscribed beneath "to S.J. Batchelder", the prolific Broadland artist Stephen John Batchelder (1849-1932), plus Patterson's manuscript "Key to Characters" of the book loosely inserted "Mussel dredger...Mr Spanton. Row 5", "Shore gunner...A Patterson", "Conchologist....Mr Schofield Corkcutter - Preston", "Punt gunner...."Pintail" Thomas Fales-Hill", "Fish dealer....Joe Colby. Frogs Hall", "Bird Catcher....Sharp, chair-mender etc Row 58", original pictorial paper covered boards (chipped and worn), lacks backstrip, boards neatly attached to text block with 3 strips of cloth. the authors first proper book, scarce; together with a manuscript book 1888/1889 containing a list of pictures in the possession of Henry Teasdel and R.H. Teasdel, with some Samuel Aldred of Yarmouth m/s lists and some letters loosely inserted, contemporary calf with decorative gilt coats of arms to covers (2)
Lot 7145
Rev. John Thorley: 'Melisselogia. Or, the Female Monarchy. Being an Enquiry into the Nature, Order, and Government of Bees, Those Admirable, Instructive, and Useful Insects. With a New, Easy, and Effectual Method to preserve them, not only in Colonies, but common Hives, from that cruel Death, to which their Ignorant, Injurious, and most Ingrateful Owners so commonly condemn them.', London, 1744, 1st edition, 3 (of 5) engraved plates, lacks frontis and folding plate, 206pp + explanation of plates leaf, contemporary calf, lacks top board. 'Thorley's secret was the puffball narcotic, which he used when uniting colonies...Of English writers, Thorley was the first to mention having found wax scales in the pockets of worker bees' (British Bee Books)
Lot 7159
Falconry - Jack Mavrogordato, complete works in three 1st edition volumes: 'A Hawk for the Bush. A Treatise on the Training of the Sparrow-hawk and other short-winged hawks', illustrated George Lodge, London, Witherby, 1960, 1st edition, author inscribed presentation to FFEP, 8 plates (4 coloured) as called for, large 8vo, original pictorial cloth (VGC), dust wrapper (unclipped); 'A Falcon in the Field. A Treatise on the Training and Flying of Falcons; Behind the Scenes', illustrated D.M. Henry & George Lodge, London, Knightly Vernon, 1966, 1st edition, 12 coloured plates + 12 hood plates + 3 line drawings as called for, large 8vo, original cloth (VGC), dust wrapper (unclipped); 'Behind the Scenes, An Autobiography', Element, 1982, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. A very scarce first edition set of the complete works of the falconer Jack Mavrogordato (3)
![Thomas Fairfax: 'The Complete Sportsman; Or, Country Gentleman's Recreation', London, J. Cooke, [1760], 1st edition, engraved](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/db92bc8e-909d-46a5-84b8-ad320108d7a6/d0a1d55e-0b10-46b1-906d-ad32011653ad/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7165
Thomas Fairfax: 'The Complete Sportsman; Or, Country Gentleman's Recreation', London, J. Cooke, [1760], 1st edition, engraved frontis, 240pp, early sporting book covering hunting, shooting, racing, angling, cock-fighting and more, 12mo, old half calf gilt; [Sir Humphry Davy]: 'Salmonia: Or Days of Fly Fishing', London, John Murray, 1828, 1st edition, 3 plates of flies + ills. in text as called for, first edition of a book that "ranks high in the scale of angling literature" (Westwood & Satchell, p.77), 12mo, contemporary half calf gilt; George Hanger: 'Colonel George Hanger, To All Sportsmen, and particularly, to Farmers and Gamekeepers...', London, printed for the author, J.J. Stockdale, 1814, 1st edition, 226pp, lacks leaf between title page and dedication, dedication to Thomas Coke of Holkham Hall, Includes a passage on jack-lighting deer at night in South Carolina, comments on American rifles and riflemen and backwoods lore, and mention of Wild Turkey, and other material, gleaned from Hanger's service as second-in-command to Tarleton during service in the American Revolution, contemporary quarter cloth gilt (worn); Lieut. Col. P. Hawker: 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting', 1854, 10th edition, engraved frontis + 8 engraved plates and numerous ills. in text as called for, contemporary half calf gilt; Ian Alan, 8th Duke of Northumberland: 'The Shadow on the Moor', 1931, [2nd printing], original cloth gilt (5)
![Will Goldston: 'Exclusive Magical Secrets', London, The Magician Limited, [1912], limited edition, (439/1000), numbered, port](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/db92bc8e-909d-46a5-84b8-ad320108d7a6/5c4320bd-2143-43e4-9f90-ad32011661e6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7177
Will Goldston: 'Exclusive Magical Secrets', London, The Magician Limited, [1912], limited edition, (439/1000), numbered, portrait frontis and numerous illustrations in text throughout as called for, 506pp, pictorial end papers, "This book is the property of the Order of the Magi library" inkstamp to half title, with a contemporary inscription above "Presented by Bro. Evanson Jan 1929", plus a few other "Order of the Magi" inkstamps at front and end, the first of Goldston's three volumes of so called "locked books", original calf gilt (worn, backstrip with losses and near detached), with original brass locking clasp in working order and with key present, together with Bob Nelson: 'Comedy Mentalism', 1962, volume 1, 59pp, original spiral bound printed wraps (2)
![A collection of 20 books and booklets on Magic, Conjuring, Card Tricks etc, including [Wiljalba Frikell]: 'The Magician's Own](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/db92bc8e-909d-46a5-84b8-ad320108d7a6/3e0197e1-4978-4925-aa48-ad320116639d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7178
A collection of 20 books and booklets on Magic, Conjuring, Card Tricks etc, including [Wiljalba Frikell]: 'The Magician's Own Book...Containing Ample Instructions for Recreations in Chemistry, Acoustics, Pneumatics, Legerdemain, Prestidigitation...Performances with Cups and Balls, Eggs, Hats, Flowers, Coin, Books, Cards...Glasses, Dice, Knives, &c., &c.', edited W.H. Cremer, London, John Camden Hotten, [1871], frontis + illustrations in text as called for, xii,325pp + [30] publishers catalogue of adverts for new books for 1872 at end, original pictorial cloth gilt; C. Lang Neil: 'The Modern Conjurer and Drawing-Room Entertainer', London, Hamley Bros. & C. Arthur Pearson, 1903, 1st UK edition, numerous ills. from photos in text throughout, 414,[2]pp, original cloth gilt (worn); E. Burger & R.E. Neale: 'Magic & Meaning [Expanded]', Seattle, Hermetic Press, 2009, 2nd edition expanded, 2nd impression, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Will Dexter (edited): 'Magic Circle Magic', London, Harry Clarke, 1963, leaf after contents stating this copy No. 303 of "a restricted first edition", 265pp, original leatherette gilt; Ben Harris: 'Gellerism Revealed (The Psychology and Methodology Behind the Geller Effect)', Micky Hades International, 1985, 95pp, original spiral bound printed wraps; 'H.M. Vakil's Cigam Magic The India's Only Magical Monthly', Calcutta, March 1955, Vol.2 No.16, [8]pp, original pictorial printed wraps; G. Buckingham: 'It's Easier Than You Think', 1952, 1st edition, original boards gilt; Jean Hugard & F. Braue: 'The Royal Road to Card Magic', 1954, 3rd impression, original cloth; plus 12 others similar (20)
Lot 7181
Jean De Clerck: 'A Textbook of Brewing', translated Kathleen Barton-Wright, London, Chapman & Hall, 1957-58, 1st English edition, 2 volumes, xx,587pp; xx,650pp, folding chart + numerous diagrams and illustrations in text as called for, uniform original cloth gilt. Jean De Clerck is known as one of the brewing world’s most influential scientists and scholars, he attended the brewing school at Belgium’s famed Catholic University of Louvain, becoming its professor in 1943, and in 1947 founded the European Brewery Convention. The following year he published his canonical two-volume work 'Cours de Brasserie' [Textbook for Brewing], this, the first English Edition, being published in 1957-58. (2)
![Samuel Johnson: 'The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets' with critical observations on their works, Bathurst [&c] 17](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/db92bc8e-909d-46a5-84b8-ad320108d7a6/6301fd5f-93a8-4289-ac55-ad3500f08017/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7244
Jane Austen: 'The Works of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion & Northanger Abbey', introductions by Austin Dobson, 6 volumes in 5, "Peacock Series", London, Macmillan, 1897-98, 5 tissue guarded frontispieces and 195 full page illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Charles E. Brock as called for, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey & Persuasion first Macmillan editions of 1897, Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice first Macmillan edition reprints of 1897, Emma second Macmillan edition reprint of 1898, uniform original red "cloth elegant" decorated in gilt, the upper covers and spines with elaborate Art Nouveau floral designs by Albert Angus Turbayne (1866-1940), one of the most distinguished figures of Victorian book design, endpapers with peacock design in yellow, all edges gilt, all housed together in the original publishers red cloth covered lidded wooden box (battered and worn, lid with 2 tape repairs and waterstaining, but a very scarce survivor nonetheless), the inside lid of the box with 3 labels affixed stating that the books were given as a wedding present, this believed to be near contemporary to the date of publishing in October 1898. Generally in clean, tight, VG condition externally and internally, each volume with small, neat "M.H.Browne" or "M.H.B." ownership signatures to verso of frontis or half title at head of page, bindings square, gilt generally bright, very slightly rubbed to boards/spines, corners minimally bumped/cloth worn, red cloth spines bright, not faded, top wrap of Mansfield Park dust wrapper worn with closed tears (but unusually still present owing to rarity of surviving wrappers). A wonderful set of Jane Austen's novels in the "Peacock Series", in the original "cloth elegant" designed by A.A. Turbayne
Lot 7247
Henry James: 'Transatlantic Sketches', Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1875, 1st edition, 401pp, original publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, J.R. Osgood & Co publisher at foot of spine, cloth slightly rubbed and with some general wear to boards, otherwise internally clean. First edition of the author's second book, published just three months after his first
Lot 7260
John le Carre: 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1974, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (slightly worn at extremities, not price clipped). The first volume of le Carre's brilliant George Smiley The Quest for Karla trilogy, adapted into a television series and a film, a staple of the spy fiction genre
Lot 7265
Charmian Clift, four UK 1st editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, comprising: 'Walk to the Paradise Gardens', Hutchison, 1960, 'Mermaid Singing', Michael Joseph, 1958, 'Peel Me a Lotus', Hutchinson, 1959, 'Honour's Mimic', Hutchinson, 1964, all written on the Greek Islands of Kalymnos & Hydra, plus 'The Big Chariot', by Clift and her husband George Johnston, Faber, 1958, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper. On 8th July 1969, the eve of publication of Johnston's novel 'Clean Straw for Nothing', Clift committed suicide, by taking an overdose of barbiturates in Mosman, a Sydney suburb. It has been suggested by academics as likely that the impending publication of Johnston's novel, which Clift knew would lay bare her infidelities whilst on the island of Hydra, prompted her suicide. Scarce first editions, all in unclipped dust wrappers (5)
Lot 7266
Louis de Bernieres, collection 17 titles, many signed/limited editions, including 'Gunter Weber's Confession', Tartarus Press, 2001, limited edition, (300), this number 56/100 signed and numbered copies, original wraps, printed label to top wrap, plus another copy of the same work but one of 300 limited edition copies; 'A Walberswick Goodnight Story', Tartarus Press, 2006, limited edition, (146/200), signed and numbered, original wraps, printed label to top wrap; 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin', Vintage, 1999, paperback edition, signed to title page; signed limited edition copy of 'Labels', (2000), with original wrap around band, and signed copies of 'Red Dog', 'Does the Sun Rise Over Dagenham?', 'Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World', and 3 others, plus first edition copies of 'Notwithstanding', 2009, 'Birds Without Wings', 2004, Clark: 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin Illustrated Film Companion', 2001, Harris: 'Captain Corelli's Island Cephallonia, etc etc. Provenance Ian Latter (17)
Lot 7275
A collection of 24 Henry Williamson novels etc, including: 'The Beautiful Years, A Tale of Childhood', London, Collins, 1921, 1st edition, one of 750 copies printed, authors first book, [4]pp adverts at end, original cloth (generally VGC), publishers review copy; a complete set of 13 1st editions of 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight' series titles, all published London, Macdonald, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, comprising: 'The Dark Lantern', 1951, (dust wrapper unclipped), 'Donkey Boy', 1952, (d/w unclipped), 'Young Phillip Maddison', 1953, (d/w price clipped), 'How Dear is Life', 1954, (d/w unclipped), 'A Fox Under My Cloak', 1955, (d/w unclipped), 'The Golden Virgin', 1957, (d/w unclipped), 'Love and the Loveless', 1958, (d/w unclipped), 'A Test to Destruction', 1960, (d/w unclipped), 'The Innocent Moon', 1961, (d/w unclipped), 'It Was the Nightingale', 1962, (d/w clipped), 'The Power of the Dead', 1963, (d/w clipped), 'The Phoenix Generation', 1965, (d/w unclipped), 'A Solitary War', 1966, (d/w unclipped), 'Lucifer Before Sunrise', 1967, (d/w unclipped), 'The Gale of the World', 1969, (d/w unclipped), all generally VGC/VGC+ in VGC/VGC+ wrappers; 'Stumberleap', Putnam, [1926], 1st edition, original pictorial wraps; 'The Linhay on the Downs', Cape, 1934, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w, 'Goodbye West Country', 1937, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w (priced 5s), 'The Children of Shallowford', 1939, 1st edition, original cloth, d/w; plus 6 others (24)
Lot 7277
A.G. Street, English farmer, writer and broadcaster, collection of 35 books, nearly all published by him, including: 'Farmer's Glory', Faber, 1932, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (chipped and worn), authors first book describing his time in Canada and how he returned to Wiltshire; 'Strawberry Roan', Faber, 1932, 1st edition in wrapper; 'Hedge Trimmings', Faber, 1933, 1st edition in wrapper; 'To Be A Farmer's Boy', Faber, 1935, 1st edition in dust wrapper; 'Country Days', 1936 reprint in wrapper; 'Land Everlasting', 1937 reprint in wrapper; 'The Endless Furrow', 1934 1st in wrapper; 'Thinking Aloud', 1944 reprint in wrapper; 'Country Calendar', illustrated Lionel Edwards, 1935, 2nd edition in wrapper; 'The Gentleman of the Party', 1936 1st in wrapper (worn with part losses a/f); 'Moonraking', illustrated Lionel Edwards, 1936, 1st edition; 'Farming England', Batsford, 1937, 1st edition, coloured frontis after painting by John Nash, dust wrapper by Brian Cook; 'From Dusk Till Dawn', Harrap, 1942, 1st edition in wrapper; 'In His Own Country', E & S, 1950 1st in wrapper; plus 16 other 1sts in wrappers (of which 1 ex lib) & 5 other reprints in wrappers, mainly based on the Wiltshire farming community and to some degree autobiographical, or on the Home Guard, which he was a member of during the Second World War (35)
Lot 7279
Adrian Bell, a collection of 33 titles, including nearly all published by him, plus some biographies, collections of short stories by countryside writers including Bell etc: 'Men and the Fields', illustrated John Nash, London, Batsford, 1939, 1st edition, 8 coloured litho plates by Nash as called for, original cloth gilt, pictorial dust wrapper by John Nash; 'Corduroy; Silvery Ley; The Cherry Tree', illustrated Harry Becker, London, Country Book Club, 1951, de luxe illustrated edition, 3 volumes, colour & black & white plates throughout as called for, uniform original cloth, dust wrappers, Bell's classic rural trilogy; 'Silver Ley', Cobden-Sanderson, 1931, 1st edition, signed and inscribed by Bell to FFEP, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb, authors 2nd book; 'The Cherry Tree', 1932, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb (with part loss at head of spine); 'Folly Field', 1933, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb (with neat tape repair/reinforcement to spine); 'The Balcony', 1934, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (by John Nash); 'The Open Air an Anthology of English Country Life', 1936, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'By-Road', 1949, 3rd impression, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'The Shepherd's Farm', 1939, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Clifford Webb (with some small part losses); 'Apple Acre', 1947 reprint, original cloth; 'Sunrise to Sunset', 1944, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'The Budding Morrow', 1946, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by Asgeir Scott; 'The Black donkey', 1949, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'The Flower & The Wheel', 1949, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (with some small part losses); 'The Path by the Window', 1952, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'Music in the Morning', 1954, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; 'A Young Man's Fancy', 1955, 1st edition in wrapper; 'A Suffolk Harvest', 1956 1st edition in wrapper; 'The Mill House', 1958 1st in wrapper; 'My Own Master', 1961 1st in wrapper; 'A Street in Suffolk', 1964 1st in wrapper; 'A Countryman's Notebook', Ipswich, Boydell Press, 1975, 1st edition in wrapper; 'The Green Bond', Boydell Press, 1976 1st in wrapper, Adrian Bell autograph postcard signed loosely inserted; plus proof copy of 'Music in the Morning', 1st Reynolds Stone illustrated edition of 'The Open Air', 1949, in wrapper, 'Countryside Mood; Countryside Character; Country Company', 1945, 1946, 1949, 1st editions, 3 volumes, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, contributions from Adrian Bell, J. Wentworth Day, Henry Williamson, A.G. Street, H.J. Massingham etc, plus 3 others. Adrian Bell came to Suffolk from London in 1920. He was first a farm pupil and then a farmer and lived in various parts of the County for the next 60 years until his death in September 1980. During that time he wrote 25 books, most of which were based on his life and work in Suffolk. His work on farms included the rebuilding of a near-derelict 89-acre (36 ha) smallholding at Redisham, near Beccles. His first book, Corduroy, published in 1930, vividly describes his early years on the land when farming depended on the horse to do what man could not. He also contributed many articles to various magazines and for 30 years his 'Countryman's Notebook' was a feature of the Eastern Daily Press, he was also the first 'setter' of the Times crossword and is credited with help develop its cryptic style. (33)
Lot 7281
A collection of 32 assorted Agatha Christie books, of which several first editions (32), including:'They Came to Baghdad', 1951, 1st edition, no wrapper; '4.50 From Paddington', 1957, 1st, no wrapper; 'Destination Unknown', 1954, 1st, no wrapper; 'Murder is Announced', 1950, 1st, no wrapper; 'Mirror Crack'd', 1962, 1st, no wrapper; 'Murder in the Mews', Odhams, 1937, 1st thus, no wrapper; 'Hound of Death', Odhams, 1933, 1st edition, no wrapper; 'Endless Night', 1967, 1st, dust wrapper; 'Third Girl', 1966, 1st, dust wrapper; 'Hallowe'en Party', 1969, 1st, dust wrapper; 'Sleeping Murder', 1976, 1st, dust wrapper; Nemesis', 1971, 1st, dust wrapper; 'Elephants Can Remember', 1972, 1st, dust wrapper; 'They do it with Mirrors', 1952, 1st, dust wrapper; 'A Caribbean Mystery', 1964, 1st, dust wrapper; 'Passenger to Frankfurt', 1970, 1st, dust wrapper; 'Postern of Fate', 1973, 1st, dust wrapper; 'By the Pricking of my Thumbs', 1968, 1st, dust wrapper; 'Curtain, Poirot's Last Case', 1975, 1st, dust wrapperetc etc
Lot 7288
A collection of 30 modern 1st editions etc. all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, including Bernice Rubens, two titles: 'Set on Edge', and 'Madame Sousatzka', both London, E&S, 1960 and 1962, 1st editions, authors first and second novels, Hugh McGraw: 'The Man in Control', Arthur Barker, 1953, 1st editions, Jocelyn Brooke, three titles 'The Military Orchid', 1948, 1st edition. 'The Goose Cathedral', 1950, 1st edition, 'The Dog at Clambercrown', 1955, 1st edition, Edith Simon, two titles: 'The Past Masters', and 'The Sable Coat', both Cassell, 1953 and 1958, 1st editions, plus others Penelope Gilliatt, John Hearne, Balachandra Rajan, Mollie Hales, Simon Hodgson, etc. (30)
![George Orwell [ie Eric Arthur Blair]: 'Nineteen Eighty Four', New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1949, 1st US edition, stated](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/db92bc8e-909d-46a5-84b8-ad320108d7a6/db507b66-1ee1-49cc-aedf-ad3500f0c3f4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7298
Albert Camus: 'The Plague', London, Hamish Hamilton, 1948, 1st UK edition, original cloth, worn and unevenly faded. Considered an existentialist classic, a stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition, and a bestseller during the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the prescience of the fictional cordon sanitaire of Oran with national lockdowns giving the message of the novel newfound relevance. Originally published in Paris as 'La Peste', Camus' second novel. Together with Penelope Gilliatt: 'one by one', New York, 1965, 1st US edition, original quarter cloth, dust wrapper. The writer and film critic's first novel, about a plague in contemporary London (2)
Lot 7302
James Purdy, nine UK 1st editions, all original cloth,all in unclipped dust wrappers, comprising his first ten works (in nine books): '63: Dream Palace', 1957, 'Malcolm', 1960, 'Colour of Darkness', 1961, 'The Nephew', 1961, 'Children is All', 1963, 'Cabot Wright Begins', 1965, 'Eustace Chisholm & the Works', 1968, 'Jeremy's Version', 1971, 'I am Elijah Thrush', 1972, plus a 1972 US 1st edition of 'I am English' in wrapper, and a 1956 New York edition of '63: 'Dream Palace' in original wrappers (11)
Lot 7308
Allan Mallinson, 3 titles: 'Light Dragoons, the Origins of a New Regiment', Leo Cooper, 1993, 1st edition, signed, 'Too Important for the Generals', Bantam Press, 2016, 1st edition, 'Fight to the Finish: The First World War - Month by Month', Bantam Press, 2018, 1st edition, all original cloth, dust wrappers (3). Provenance Ian Latter
Lot 7315
A collection of 17 works of literature, poetry, plays, surrealism, modernism, etc., including Antonin Artaud: 'Collected Works', London, Calder & Boyars, 1968-74, 1st UK edition, 4 volumes, vols 1, 3 & 4 original cloth gilt, vol 4 ex library in dust wrapper, vol 2 original wraps; Jean Cocteau: 'Opium: The Diary of a Cure', London, Peter Owen, 1957, 1st thus, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, (spine browned); Andre Masson: 'Mythologies', Paris, 1946, limited edition, (729/830), one of 550 copies on Rives paper, vignette title and 40 illustrations as called for, folio, original pictorial wraps (worn); Samuel Beckett, 2 titles: 'No's Knife', Calder & Boyars, 1967, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, 5 page typescript of Beckett's 'Not I' loosely inserted, 'Imagination Dead Imagine', 1971, 3rd printing, original pictorial wraps; 'Gambit International Theatre Review', 1970, vol. 4 No. 16, contains Beckett's 'Breath' in its first British publication, original wraps; Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Theatre', Gallimard, 1962, 32 plates as called for, original decorative gilt boards, acetate dust wrapper (worn); 'Lautremont's Maldoror', translated Alexis Lykiard, London, 1970, original boards gilt, dust wrapper (worn and soiled); plus others Claude Mauriac, Marguerite Duras, Francine Saigon, Georges Fourest, etc (17)
![Ted Hughes: 'Lupercal', London, Faber & Faber, 1960, 1st edition, printed dedication "To Sylvia [Plath]", original maroon](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/db92bc8e-909d-46a5-84b8-ad320108d7a6/ceeb641a-f442-460d-afc0-ad32011b3803/468x382.jpg)
Lot 7367
Henry Noel Humphreys: 'Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare', London, Longman et al, 1857, 2nd edition, printed throughout in gold and black, first leaf of text within a chromolithographed border in colours and gold and tissue guarded, black leather backed original papier mache boards (worn with some cracks and small part losses), central oval relief of a bust of Shakespeare on the upper cover, and a similar oval with his monogram on the lower cover
Lot 7392
King Penguin series, a complete set of 76 volumes, 1939-1959, comprising 72 first editions and 4 revised editions/reprints, all original pictorial boards (some bumped/worn/small part losses to backstrips), 26 in dust wrappers, includes John Piper 'Romney Marsh', 1950, 1st edition, No.55, 16 colour plates plus ills in text and words by John Piper; 'Life in an English Village', 1949, 1st edition, No.49, 16 lithographs by Edward Bawden; plus firsts in wrappers of 'Magic Books from Mexico', 1953, 'Egyptian Paintings', 1954, etc etc (76)
![[MISCELLANEOUS]. BALLET Dolin, Anton. Markova, Her Life and Art, first edition, Allen, London, 1953, blue cloth, postrait fr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c344d8eb-825a-4bca-99e3-ace100a87c44/17d83eb0-eec1-4b5b-ad6c-ad3b00a57759/468x382.jpg)
Lot 864
A collection of 13 vintage mid 20th century Enid Blyton "Five" childrens books including 4 first editions. Collection comprises of Five Have A Wonderful Time (First Edition 1952), Five Go Down To The Sea ( First Edition 1953) Five Go To Mystery Moor( First Edition 1954) Five Go On A Hike Together ( First Edition 1951) Five Get Into Trouble (1953) Five Fall Into Adventure (1951) Five Go Off To Camp, Five On Kirrin Island Again, Five Go Off In A Caravan, Five Go To Smugglers Top, Five Run Away Together (1954) Five Go Adventuring Again (1952) Five On A Treasure Island (1955).
Lot 136
Kinsella, Thomas & Le Brocquy, Louis. The Tain. Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish Táin Bó Cuailgne. Brush Drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Dublin, 1969. First edition. IX, Black buckram, image of the bull by Le Brocquy in white on upper cover, title in white on spine. Limited to 1,750 copies of which 750 copies are for sale in the United States of America. In slipcase.
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