Pop-Up Book. Libroteatro Hoepli, Cenerentola, Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1940, 6 full-page colour scenes with cut-outs and multiple paste-overs, all scenes joined to form continous theatre when opened fully, third scene with closed tear to lower right edge, sixth scene with repairs in brown adhesive tape, some small closed tears, lacking clasp, 16 pp text volume (overall spotting) inserted into pocket on front pastedown, original publisher's cloth backed pictorial boards, title to spine, some rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, oblong 4to, together withLa Bella addormentata nel bosco, 3rd edition, [Milano: Hoepli], 1943, 6 full-page colour scenes with cut-outs and multiple paste-overs, all scenes joined to form continous circle, first scene with replaced lower edge (with loss of text), scenes 4 and 5 with old adhesive tape marks, scene 5 with restoration to lower edge (some loss of text?), original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, rebacked, silk ties, oblong 4to, and 7 other similar peepshow books by artists including: Roland Pym, Patricia Turner, Kathleen Hale, etc., titles comprising: Puss in Boots, The Birth of Jesus, Beauty & the Beast, The Sleeping Beauty, Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves, Cinderella, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, 8voQTY: (9)
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* Robinson (Thomas Heath, 1865-1950). The Curate and the Parrot, two original pen and ink illustrations, first depicting a gentleman wearing clerical attire riding a bike, a cage containing a parrot hanging from his hand, the title in bold surrounding him, signed lower left, 21.5 x 33 cm, the second depicting the same gentleman standing next to another gentleman in country attire looking up an wooden electricity pylon, the cage and the rear bicycle wheel visible, signed lower left, 31.5 x 23.5 cm, overall spotting, both mounted (53 x 42 cm) QTY: (2)
* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). 'Moon Landing', 3062 Kirchstetten, Bez. St. Pollen, Hinterholz 6, Austria, 1 September [1969], Auden's typed carbon copy fair copy on personal stationery, with a dated and signed note for Anthony in blue ballpoint pen at head, 'That was indeed a princely gift which I am very proud to receive. Thanks a million. So sorry you have been having a low – evidently drugs still can't do everything. Herewith a topical poem. Love Wystan', small stain to top left corner not affecting any text, 1 page, folio, with the accompanying envelope, together with a related typed carbon copy of Rossiter’s letter to Auden, 16 September 1969, 3 pages, 4to QTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: From the family, by direct descent. For further information please see https://www.anthonyrossiter.co.uk 'Moon Landing' was first published five days after Auden dated and sent this grumpy non-celebratory poem to Rossiter (New Yorker, 6 September 1969). Just six weeks previously on 21 July, as part of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission, Neil Armstrong had become the first person to step onto the Moon's surface.
* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Wystan Auden’, Kirchstetten (Westbahn), Hinterholz #6, Austria, 20 April [1967], to Anthony Rossiter, 'Many thanks for the [R. D.] Laing book which I thought excellent. Hope you will not dislike the enclosed', a little creasing, on personal stationery in blue ballpoint pen, 1 page, 4to, together with the aforementioned original typed poem by Auden, 'Prologue at Sixty', sellotape adhesion mark at head of first page not affecting legibility, 2 pages (back-to-back), small narrow folio, plus a two-page carbon copy of a different fair typed copy of the same poem, dated by Rossiter 'April 20th 1967' at head, folio, with the accompanying envelopeQTY: (3)NOTE:'Prologue at Sixty' was first published in New York Review of Books, 18 May 1967, later appearing in Auden's collection, City without Walls and Other Poems (Faber, 1969). Provenance: From the family, by direct descent. For further information please see https://www.anthonyrossiter.co.uk
Pratchett (Terry, 1948-2015). Death Trilogy (Mort/Reaper Man/Soul Music), 1st one-volume edition, London: Victor Gollancz, 1998, signed and inscribed from the author in blue-green felt tip to title, 'To Sraha (Pain!), lots of wigles, Terry Pratchett', some spotting to preliminary leaves, together with The Wee Free Men, A Story of Discworld, 1st edition, Random House, 2003, author's signed presentation inscription for Jo Lee with 'Big wee wishes' in black felt tip to title, plus 7 other unsigned Terry Pratchett first editions, Moving Pictures/Small Gods/Men at Arms/Hogfather/Thud!/Nation and Small Gods (1st US edition), all original cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, fineQTY: (9)
Reeve (Clara). The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story, London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778, engraved frontispiece with early signature to verso of S. Andrews (paper tape to gutter between frontispiece and front free endpaper), light offsetting from frontispiece to title, occasional light spotting, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Hon. Booth Grey to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, red morocco title label to spine, upper joint split and lower joint cracked, wear at head and foot of spine and to board corners, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:The story was first published anonymously the year before under the title 'The Champion of Virtue'.
Film and Entertainment. A group of 40 signed first editions relating to film and entertainment, including Alec Guinness, A Positively Final Appearance; Robbie Williams/Chris Heath, Reveal (signed by Robbie Williams); Michael Caine, The Elephant to Hollywood; Brian Sewell, Outsider; Helen Mirren, In the Frame, with further volumes signed by Sir John Mills, Lynn Redgrave, Annabel Clarke, John Cleese (4), Michael Palin (6), Eileen Atkins, Simon Pegg, Stephen Fry, Bill Owen, John Fraser, Graham Norton, Alan Wicker, Joan Collins, David Frost, Richard Whiteley, George Baker, Rupert Everett, Alexei Sayle, Martin Jarvis, Shane Ritchie, Derren Brown, Harriet Walters, Shane Ward, Sheridan Morley, Geena Davies, Robert Henrey, Sue Perkins and Eric Idle, plus other similar, original cloth in dust jackets, mostly VG+/fineQTY: (40)
Adams (Richard). Watership Down, presentation copy, London: Rex Collings, 1974, inscribed by the author to title 'For Robin and Paddy Borwick, with all good wishes from Richard Adams', original green cloth gilt, dust jacket, spine faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:Chatwin (Bruce). In Patagonia, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1977, cartographic frontispiece, black and white illustrations after photographs, original blue cloth gilt, dust jacket (price-clipped), 8vo, plusCarré (John Le). Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1st edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974, signed by the author to bookplate mounted to half-title, a few spots, small library stamp to title verso, original black cloth gilt, dust jacket, head of spine frayed with small loss, 8vo, withFleming (Ian). The Diamond Smugglers, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1957, frontispiece, black and white illustrations after photographs, neat ownership inscription to head of front free endpaper, original black cloth lettered in silver, dust jacket, spine faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo, with 8 other modern first editions, many in dust jacketsQTY: (12)
* American playing cards. Hustling Joe I (No.61), Cincinnati, United States: United States Playing Card Co., 1895, the complete deck of 52 plus joker colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended humorous courts relating to the suits (eg. diamond courts all holding diamonds), their coloured backgrounds extending to the card edges, partially transformed comic pip cards, AS with red Hustling Joe and maker's details, top edges of cards lightly toned and dusty, with occasional very faint edge stain (mainly affecting pip cards), example card (additional KS) with corner clipped (by manufacturer?), rounded corners, versos green double-ended image of frogs diving, swimming etc., each card 88 x 63 mm, original two-part box, inner sleeve intact, outer sleeve lacking top panel, rubbed and dust-soiled with slight wear, together with: Cleveland Comic Campaign Deck (comic political playing cards), New York: A.H. Caffee, 1888, a complete deck of 52 plus joker colour printed playing cards (French suits), without the description card, double-ended courts caricatures of political figures, joker pictures Cleveland knocking out Harrison, triplicate indices, soiled and worn, with corner losses and few tears, KS with one corner sometime reattached (stains from previous adhesive tape repair), versos red on buff design picturing newspaper editors, original box (worn with losses), plus: The Stage Playing Cards (No. 65x), Cincinatti, United States: USPC Co., 1896, a complete deck of 52 plus joker colour & gold printed playing cards (French suits), courts and aces picturing 4 stage stars of the day, Marshall P. Wilder on the joker, no condition points to note, rounded corners, gilt edges, versos gold & brown ornamental pattern, each card 88 x 63 mm, original two-part box, both sleeves lightly rubbed to extremities, outer sleeve a trifle dusty, with 9 other American packs, 5 by the USPC Co.: Nile Fortune Cards (circa 1904), Gypsy Witch Fortune Telling (circa 1970), Gaigel Playing Cards (circa 1895), 2 standard decks (one Aviator circa 1970, the other with image of New York on versos, 1975), and 4 by Andrew Dougherty: Triplicate Playing Cards (1876, without joker), R.F. Foster's Patented Self-Playing Whist Cards (2 decks - 1st series 1889 & 2nd series 1891), and a standard deck with Excelsior AS (32 cards piquet deck, no joker), a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 12 boards (54.5 x 41 cm & similar), some boards encapsulated in plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bagsQTY: (12)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First 3 items: Hochman T9, A5 & SE3 respectively.
Booker Prize. Winners and shortlisters, 1968-2023, a collection of mostly first UK editions, uncorrected proofs, hardbacks and softbacks, approximately 51 signed including The Public Image, by Muriel Spark, 1968, The Big Chapel, by Thomas Kilroy, 1971, signed by the author, Pasmore, by David Storey, 1972, Ending Up, by Kingsley Amis, 1974 (uncorrected proof), Heat and Dust, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1975, Peter Smart's Confessions, by Paul Bailey, 1977 (signed), Praxis, by Fay Weldon, 1978 (signed), A Bend in the River, by V. S. Naipaul, 1979, The Sirian Experiments, by Doris Lessing, 1981, An Ice-Cream War, by William Boyd, 1982, What's Bred in the Bone, by Robertson Davies, 1st US edition, 1985 (David Lodge's copy with his pencil annotations), Chatterton, by Peter Ackroyd, 1987 (inscribed), The Book of Evidence, by John Banville, 1989, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle, 1993 (inscribed), The Folding Star, by Alan Hollingshurst, 1994 (signed), The Keepers of Truth, by Michael Collins, 2000 (signed), Atonement, by Ian McEwan, 2001 (signed), Fury, by Salman Rushdie, 2001 (signed), and Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel, 2012, limited edition proof 49/500, a few duplicates etc QTY: (approximately 152)
* Lehmann (Rosamond, 1901-1990). A group of 7 Autograph Letters Signed and 3 Postcards Signed, 'Rosemary', and two initialled 'R', 70 Eaton Square, London, 1954/1967 and 2 undated, all to Anthony Rossiter, the earliest letter (15 January 1954) saying that she is very pleased to have been invited to open his first exhibition and later saying, 'as you know, I believed in you as an artist-to-be when you were very young. It is lovely to think you have gone on so single-mindedly, and that Gilbert Spencer, whom I used to see quite often, is encouraging you to hold an exhibition', another saying 'I am so touched by your saying that I influenced you towards adopting your present way of life. I know I played a small part - but it was you, it was yourself, your driving force and single-mindedness that really guided you!' (25 March 1963), 'I want to tell you how much The Pendulum has moved and impressed me. I usually try my best not to review books written by my friends: but this book of yours seemed to me a completely special case. I asked the literary editor of The Listener if I could review it for him - and he agreed - and I do hope you will like what I have written. It came from the heart and I took trouble with it... ' (26 July 1966), and others concerning books, art and health, etc., a total of 17 pages, mostly 8vo QTY: (10)NOTE: Provenance: From the family, by direct descent. For further information please see https://www.anthonyrossiter.co.uk
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* [Carroll, Lewis]. A set of 12 hand-drawn doilies illustrated with characters and scenes from Alice in Wonderland, after John Tenniel, early 20th century, pen & ink, each on a circle of cream satin edged with lace, depicting Alice, the Mad Hatter, the gryphon and mock turtle, the dodo, the caterpillar, etc., some fading and foxing, overall diameter 18 cm (7 ins), together with:Leech (John, after). A part set of 11 (of 12?) hand-drawn doilies, pen & ink, each on a circle of cream satin with fringed edging, each with a humorous cartoon, and hand-written text below, titles including 'From the Mining Districts', 'Pride Feels No Pain', 'Mal-A-Propos', 'Those Horrid Boys Again', foxed, overall diameter 22 cm (8.75 ins), plus 2 other sets of hand-drawn doilies similar, the first a set of 12, with pen and ink vignettes in the style of Richard Doyle, e.g. a jester, a small man wearing a barrel, young people in a garlanded boat, anthropomorphic wine bottles and a rat, a traveller with his dog, a musician at a street corner, diameter 18 cm (7.5 ins), the second a set of 6 doilies with watercolour views, including St Michael's Mount and Vesuvius erupting, diameter 18.5 cm (7.25 ins) QTY: (41)NOTE:An unusual hand-drawn set of 'Alice' doilies by an accomplished hand.
The Nonesuch Press. Nonesuch Dickensiana, Retrpspectus and Prospectus; I. Charles Dickens and his Illustrations by Arthur Waugh, II. A Bibliographical list of the original illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens being those made under his supervision, now compiled for the first time by Thomas Hatton, III. Retrospectus, Editions of Dickens Works IV. Prospectus, The Nonesuch Dickens, Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937, burnt orange printed title wrappers separating each volume, form for advance subscription bound to rear, bookseller's ticket to lower corner of upper pastedown, light spotting to first and last few leaves, contemporary letter from B+H Blackwell Ltd loosely inserted, publisher's original blue cloth covers by Leighton-Straker, gilt decoration to upper board, spine a little faded, 8vo, together with: Wood Lea Press. Greenwood (Jeremy). Ravilious Engravings, with an Introduction by John Craig, Woodbridge: Wood Lea Press, 2008, portrait frontispiece, colour and black & white illustrations throughout, original grey cloth with silver gilt lettering to spine, contained within matching slipcase, folio, limited to 800 copiesUllman (Anne, editor). The wood engravings of Tirzah Ravilious..., with recollections by Henry Swanzy and Robert Harling, London: Gorden Fraser, printed by The Roundwood Press, 1987, many illustrations, plain paper wrappings with decorative dust jacket, contained within green cloth slipcase, 4to, limited edition 187/1000Whistler (Laurence). Pictures on Glass..., signed by the author, Ipswich: The Cupid Press, 1972, black and white frontispiece, black and white illustrations, letter from the author loosely inserted, original black cloth gilt, contained within matching slipcase, 8vo, limited edition 458/1400 QTY: (4)
Waugh (Evelyn). The Holy Places, limited edition, London: Queen Anne Press, 1952, wood-engravings by Reynold Stone, original publisher's red buckram gilt, dust jacket, margins spotted, spine toned, 8vo, 482 of 950 copies, together with:Ninety-Two Days, 1st edition, London: Duckworth, 1934, folding map, 24 black and white illustrations, publisher's advertisement leaf at end, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plusLabels, 1st edition London: Duckworth, 1930, frontispiece, 5 black and white illustrations after photographs, ownership blindstamp at head of front free endpaper, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, spine somewhat faded, 8vo, withRobbery Under The Law, The Mexican Object Lesson, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1939, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, upper panel and front flap of dust jacket only, 8vo, with 6 other first edition works in dust jacket, one by Waugh, five by William GoldingQTY: (10)
![AR * Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976), 'Ratty and Mole', [1959], fine pencil, ink and watercolour with body colour on off-](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c7e0fe7d-cc7e-430f-bede-b14e0119bce5/438084d8-706d-4654-987a-b1880119230b/468x382.jpg)
AR * Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976), 'Ratty and Mole', [1959], fine pencil, ink and watercolour with body colour on off-white wove paper, signed lower left, 26.5 x 18.5 cm, framed and glazed with photocopies of Shepard’s manuscript labels to picture verso pasted to back of frameQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Acquired by the vendors’ parents directly from the artist at an exhibition of his own work in Haslemere, Surrey, 29 May – 12 June 1965. Framed and mounted for the exhibition the picture was priced at 15 guineas.Shepard’s line drawings were first used to illustrate a new Methuen edition of Wind in the Willows in 1931. In 1959 Methuen published a new Shepard edition with an additional eight colour plates from watercolours by the artist.This watercolour of Ratty and Mole in a rowing boat by the reeds in the near foreground and Otter and his young son Portly on the far side of the river. The scene is described in Chapter 7, ‘The Piper at the Gates’, when Mole and Rat reunite the missing Portly with his father.‘They watched the little animal as he waddled along the path contentedly and with importance; watched him till they saw his muzzle suddenly lift and his waddle break into a clumsy amble as he quickened his pace with shrill whines and wriggles of recognition. Looking up the river, they could see Otter start up, tense and rigid, from out of the shallows where he crouched in dumb patience, and could hear his amazed and joyous bark as he bounded up through the osiers on to the path. Then the Mole, with a strong pull on one oar, swung the boat round and let the full stream bear them down again whither it would, their quest now happily ended.’The picture was also used as a full-bleed design for the upper panel of the dust jacket of the first edition in 1959, but later replaced with a design featuring all four of the book’s major characters and title lettering. The original watercolour of this latter design, which Shepard described as the cover design in his inventory for the Haslemere exhibition, was sold by Sotheby’s, London, 10 December 2019, lot 252. In the reed bed at the lower edge of the drawing Shepard has added a hand-painted roughly torn strip of paper that sits raised above the lower edge to give extra depth to the picture. This overlaid strip is original and intentional and is clearly visible in the reproductions.This 'trompe l'oeil' paper strip is an integral part of Shepard’s original drawing and is clearly visible in the reproductions.
![AR * Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976), 'The Hour is Come’, [1959], fine pencil, ink and watercolour with body colour on of](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c7e0fe7d-cc7e-430f-bede-b14e0119bce5/c8836bce-0707-4413-908c-b188011923cb/468x382.jpg)
AR * Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976), 'The Hour is Come’, [1959], fine pencil, ink and watercolour with body colour on off-white wove paper, signed lower left, 26.5 x 18.5 cm, framed and glazed with photocopies of Shepard’s manuscript labels to picture verso pasted to back of frameQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Acquired by the vendors’ parents directly from the artist at an exhibition of his own work in Haslemere, Surrey, 29 May – 12 June 1965. This watercolour does not appear in Shepard’s manuscript inventory for the exhibition but was obtained directly from the artist at the same time.Shepard’s line drawings were first used to illustrate a new Methuen edition of Wind in the Willows in 1931. In 1959 Methuen published a new Shepard edition with an additional eight colour plates from watercolours by the artist.This watercolour features at the very end of the story in Chapter 12, ‘The Return of Ulysses’, and shows the moment Badger, with Ratty, Mole and Toad behind him, on the threshold and ready to burst in and attack the Weasels in Toad Hall.‘The Badger drew himself up, took a firm grip of his stick with both paws, glanced round at his comrades, and cried: “The hour is come! Follow me!” And flung the door open wide. My! What a squealing and a squeaking and a screeching filled the air! Well might the terrified weasels dive under the tables and spring madly up at the windows! Well might the ferrets rush wildly for the fireplace and get hopelessly jammed in the chimney! Well might tables and chairs be upset, and glass and china be sent crashing on the floor, in the panic of that terrible moment when the four Heroes strode wrathfully into the room!’
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Johnson (J., printer). Lessons for Children from Two to Three Years Old, [by Anna L. Barbauld], Part 1, London: J.Johnson, 1797, 2 pages advertisements after title-page and one on final page, some spotting and toning to preliminaries, ownership inscription to front pastedown in brown ink 'Margaret Meux 1800', upper wrapper and title-page partly detached at lower edge, original printer's marbled wrappers, printed label to upper wrapper, lower part of spine wrapper lacking, 12mo, together withLessons for Children of Three Years Old, [part 2], London: T. Bensley, lacking title-page and final advertising leaf, bookplate of Elizabeth Meux to front pastedown, top corner of final page lacking corner with small loss to text, top margins closely trimmed affecting the first word 'Lessons', contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, remnants of red label to spine, plusLessons for Children., Part III being the second for children of three years old, [by Anna L. Barbauld], London: J. Johnson, 1798, ownership inscription in brown ink to front free endpaper 'Margaret Meux 1800', one page of advertisements to rear, original marbled wrappers, printed label to upper wrapper, slight loss to lower spine, and a duplicate, erroneously labelled 'part II' on printed label, 12 moQTY: (4)NOTE:Osborne, p. 108.
Modern Fiction. A large group of 100 signed (mostly) first editions by modern fiction writers, including Philippa Gregory, The White Queen (scarce variant binding); Andrew Taylor, The King's Evil; Lee Child, Never Go Back; Helena Attlee, Lev's Violin; John Bayley, Alice, with further volumes signed by Andy McNab (7), Gore Vidal, Robert Harris, Conn Iggulden, P. D. James, William Trevor, Maeve Binchy (2), Ruth Rendell (3), Deborah Moggach, Peter Ackroyd (2), Patrick Macgrath and others, original cloth in dust jackets, mostly VG+/fineQTY: (100)
Life and Adventures of Mr. Pig and Miss Crane, A Nursery Tale, embellished with designs, circa 1832, 12 lithographed drawings, with tissue guards (except one), first plate collated upside down, some scattered foxing and toning throughout, minor offsetting to some pages, paper with 'Afonwen 1832' watermark, original printed paper wrappers, H.E.Delamere signature in brown ink to upper wrapper, upper wrapper detached, spine detached, overall finger soiling, oblong 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:The British Library attributes the author as being Lucy Charlotte Wrangham, but a manuscript note in the Bodleian Library copy attributes authorship to H.E. Delamere.
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Yeats (William Butler). The Wanderings of Oisin and other Poems, 1st edition, first issue, London: Kegan, Paul, 1889, [1], viii, 155 pp. original publisher's black cloth gilt, lower cover with publisher's device in blind, a very good unblemished copy, 8vo, 17.5 x 11.5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 ins)QTY: (1)NOTE:Wade 2.First edition, first issue of Yeats' first trade book preceded only by the privately printed Mosada (published in 1886 in the Dublin University Review). 500 copies were printed, financed by Kegan Paul but with guarantees from subscribers arranged with the help of John O'Leary. When subscriptions weren't as forthcoming as hoped, Kegan Paul sold the remaining 98 copies to Fisher Unwin.
Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, illustrations by Arthur Rackham, introduction by A. A. Milne, deluxe limited edition, London: Methuen & Co, 1951, mounted colour frontispiece, 11 mounted colour plates, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original full vellum gilt, spine lightly spotted with small amount of wear to head, 4to, contained in original slipcase with paper title label to upper cover (some marks)QTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition, 329/500 copies. Riall, p. 200.'Published originally by The Limited Editions Club with 16 colour illustrations, and was not published in England until 1950 by Methuen. This is the 1st deluxe edition with text illustrations' (Riall).'This book was first issued in October 8th, 1908, since when it has been reprinted in a variety of editions, illustrated and unillustrated, 99 times. This one hundredth edition, published in 1951, is printed on handmade paper and is limited to 500 copies...' (limitation page).
Maugham (W. Somerset). The Book Bag, The Lugano Series No. 9, Florence: G. Orioli, 1932, signed by the author at foot of photogravure frontispiece, additionally inscribed by the author to Arthur Jeffress 'For Arthur, his friend, his ancient friend, Willie', with Jeffress' bookplate to front pastedown, uncut, original cloth-backed blue boards, dust jacket, lightly rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with:Ashenden, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1928, small bookseller's ticket at foot of front pastedown, original blue cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plusHaggard (H. Rider). Allan Quartermain, 1st edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887, frontispiece, black and white illustrations, upper hinge cracked, original black cloth gilt, spine faded, lightly rubbed, 8vo, plusDickens (Charles). Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1840, engraved frontispiece and illustrations, contemporary green half calf gilt, some wear and scuffing, tall 8vo, with 8 other works including a first edition of Dennis Wheatley's Come into my Parlour (inscribed and in dust jacket) and a first edition of H. G. Well's A Modern UtopiaQTY: (14)NOTE:The first work inscribed to Art Dealer and 'Bright Young Thing' Arthur Jeffress.
Gregynog Press. Laboratories of the Spirit, by R. S. Thomas, Gregynog Press at the University of Wales Press, 1976, printed in red and black on Batchelor hand-made paper, initials in red and blue, a little light spotting to a few early leaves, top edge gilt, original blue morocco by Sally Lou Smith (signed in initials to rear turn-in), covers with multi-coloured morocco onlays with gilt and silver geometric shapes (very small loss to one onlay to lower cover), 4 pp. prospectus (with folds) loosely inserted, contained in publisher's morocco-backed solander box (spine faded), folio, 295 x 20 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition, copy number VIII/XV copies specially bound by Sally Lou Smith, signed by the poet, from a total edition of 215.The first book under the revived imprint Gwasg Gregynog under the stewardship of Michael Hutchins, after the original Gregynog Press closed in 1940.
Galbraith (Robert, i.e. J. K. Rowling). The Silkworm, 1st edition, signed, London: Sphere, 2014, signed by the author to title (with authenticity hologram at head), original black cloth lettered in silver, dust jacket, publisher's wraparound, 8vo, together with:Rowling (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1st paperback edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, original pictorial paper wrappers, spine lightly faded, 8vo, plusFleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1959, ink ownership inscription to final text leaf, small library stamp to head of half-title, some loss to outer blank margin of rear free endpaper, original pictorial cloth gilt, faint tape residue to head and tail of covers, lightly rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with the Lord of the Rings trilogy (later impressions without dust jackets), a first US editon of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and 11 othersQTY: (18)
Shannon (Charles, and Ricketts Charles, illustrators). Daphnis and Chloe, a most sweet and pleasent pastorall romance for young ladies, done into English by Geo. Thornley Gent., limited edition of 210 copies, London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1893, wood-engraved illustrations by Ricketts and Shannon, decorative initials, untrimmed, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, very lightly rubbed, 4to QTY: (1)NOTE:Watry A6. One of 210 copies.Issued by Shannon and Ricketts from The Vale, though the first Vale Press publication was Milton's Early Poems of 1896.An early Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts collaboration. While not officially a Vale Press work, it does have 'The Vale' lettered in gilt to spine base.
Stoker (Bram). The Snake's Pass, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891, one or two light stains, original red cloth gilt, spine skillfully rebacked with original spine relaid, gilt lettering and illustration dulled, light adhesion marks to upper cover, contained in crimson morocco gilt solander box, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Presentation copy, inscribed to half-title 'Mrs. Leycester, with most kind remembrance of Bram Stoker, Christmas 1890'.The author's first novel, published in November 1890 but dated 1891.
Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, reprinted, London: Richard Bentley, 1846, engraved frontispiece and vignette title (both with imprints dated 1833), letterpress title, frontispiece with former owner's signature show-through, damp-staining and damp-mottling to leaves at front and rear of volume with some light fraying to fore-edge, endpapers also damp-mottled and with few adhesive tape repairs, near-contemporary burgundy half calf by Harrison of Pall Mall, gilt decorated raised bands, modern marbled paper sidings to boards, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Gilson D7. A reprint of Benson's first illustrated edition published in 1833 (see Gilson D5).
Private Press Prospectuses. Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, February 16th, 1897, 8 pp., printed in red and black, woodcut vignette to first page, lightly spotted, 8vo, together with:Doves Press. Catalogue of Books Printed & Published at the Doves Press, 1900-1911, January 1912, 8 pp., printed in red and black, faint central fold crease, 8vo, plusAshendene Press. A List of the Books printed at the Ashendene Press, MDCCCXCV-MCMXIII, Chelsea, Shelley House, 1913, 8 pp., printed in red and black, a few blank ink price annotations in margins, 8vo, withThe Golden Cockerel Press. Prospectus for 1926, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1926, 4 pp., large woodcut illustration to first page, 8vo, with a folder of other prospectuses and ephemera related to other private pressesQTY: (A small folder)
Hogarth Press. Stories of the East, by Leonard Woolf, 1st edition, London: printed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1921, 55 pp., publisher's list to last leaf verso, staples rusted, a few minor spots, text block separating at gutter from front endpaper, original buff wrappers, upper cover illustrated in red by Dora Carrington, 8vo, together with Composition as Explanation, by Gertrude Stein, 1st edition, Hogarth Essays series, Hogarth Press, 1926QTY: (2)NOTE:First work 300 copies printed. Woolmer 16 & 110 respectively.
* Playing card boxes. A group of 20 playing card boxes, most 19th century, some original including: The Second Empire Pack (Field #41) original two-part box; Karten-Almanach, Tubingen, 1807, original two-part box with accompanying booklet, plus another box of the same, lacking pull-off lid; Petit Jeu Prophetique original two-part box (pull-off lid broken); Comic-Karte, by Frommann & Bunte, Darmstadt, original box (defective); Transformation of Cards Metastasis, original box (defective); slipcase box with printed paper label 'The Use, Gramaticall Cards, comprizing the Generall Rules of Lilley's Gramer in ye 4 Principall parts thereof, Vizt, Orthographia, Etymologia, Syntaxis, Prosodia ...' (see British Museum 1982,U.4625.1-52), 1676?; Austrian Costume Tarock (Masked Ball) two-part box; plus other boxes probably not original including: a (probably Canadian, mid 19th century) birch bark box (defective) with moose hair embroidered design representing a type A8 GIII Rex Hall & Son exportation ace of spades, floral designs to (broken) lift-off lid panels, side & rear panels with designs incorporating a heart, a diamond and a club respectively; a green box outer with pink inner case with flap (possibly French costume pack box?, defective); dark brown leather covered box with flap, with gold tooled ornamental design and 'Court Game of Geography'; two-part brown leather covered box (defective), with marbled paper on inner lip and inside, and later typewritten label 'Playing Cards with geographical designs after J. H. Seyfrid, also with original volume of explanatory text titled Europäisch Geographische Spiel-Charte, 1678, with engraved (uncoloured) frontispieced showing men playing cards, marbled boards (spine rubbed and faded with wear), see British Museum 1871,1209.5188-5240; two-part brown leather covered box, gold-tooled 'Valentine' to lift-off lid; a large-format (12 x 8 cm) box with lift-off lid, covered (inside and out) in marbled paper, ink manuscript paper labels to lid and end panel of base 'Le Blason'; a book-form slipcase (outer part only) covered in brown leather, the fully gold-tooled spine with title Jeu de la Guerre; a brown leather covered box with gold-tooling and title Court Game of Astrophiligeon (adhesive tape to all edges), various conditions, some repairsQTY: (20)NOTE:The unusual birch bark box with coloured moose hair embroidery is very like those held in the collections of the Colonial Williamsburg and the McCord Museum. These items, often small boxes such as pill boxes, were likely made for the tourism industry, either by First Nations women or by local nuns. Unfortunately our example is badly broken, although all the sections appear to be present and the imitation ace of spades front panel is intact, as is the rear panel.
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* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Two Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Wystan’, 77 St Mark’s Place, New York, 9 March [1968], and 3062 Kirchstetten, Hinterholz 6, Austria, 3 July [1968], both to Anthony Rossiter, the first letter saying 'Many thanks for your telegram and for the picture which arrived yesterday and which I like very much. So sorry about my idiocy: sent Garrett the Foreword yesterday. Have you read Bruno Bettelheim's book about autistic children, The Empty Fortress [first published 1967]? If not, I recommend it very highly...', blue ballpoint pen on thin paper, 1 page, 4to; the second letter on personal stationery from Austria, thanking him for his letter and Fingers in the Door [by Frank Tuohy, first published 1970] 'which I have just finished reading and I'm enormously impressed by. A real important new talent', and in return recommending Ronald Blythe's Akenfield, Portrait of an English Village [first published 1969], which he is sure that Rossiter will enjoy as much as he did, and ending that he hopes one day that he will be able to visit them in Austria, old sellotape remains to 3 margins touching a few words including signature at foot but not affecting ink or legibility, 1 page, 8vo, both with the accompanying envelopesQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: From the family, by direct descent. For further information please see https://www.anthonyrossiter.co.uk
Johns (W. E.). Biggles and the Plot That Failed, 1st edition, Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1965, original light red cloth, dust jacket, head of spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:Biggles Takes The Case, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952, black and white illustrations, small tape residue to endpapers, original red pictorial cloth, dust jacket, lightly rubbed, 8vo, withBiggles Hunts Big Game, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948, 11 illustrations, original red pictorial cloth, dust jacket lightly rubbed, 8vo, withBiggles Goes Home, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1960, black and white illustrations in-text, original pictorial boards, 8vo with 55 other Biggles titles in dust jacket, some first editionsQTY: (59)
Vale Press. A Bibliography of the Books Issued by Hacon & Ricketts, Vale Press, 1904, wood-engraved frontispiece by Charles Ricketts, wood-engraved double-page border, printed in red and black, endpapers a little toned, original cloth-backed boards, 8vo, limited edition of 250, together with Essex House Press. The Last Records of a Cotswold Community: Being the Weston Subedge Field Account Book for the Final Twenty-Six Years of the Famous Cotswold Games, Hitherto Unpublished, and now edited with a study on the old time sports of Campden and the village community of Weston, by C. R. Ashbee, Essex House Press,1904, woodcut illustrations by Edmund New, light toning to endpapers, original buckram, spine toned, some dust-soiling, 4to, limited edition 16/75, plus Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry, by C. R. Ashbee, Essex House Press, [1908]QTY: (3)NOTE:First two works Tomkinson 50 & 46 respectively.
Essex House Press. A Book of Cottages and Little Houses for Landlords, Architects, Builders and Others: with suggestions as to cost, the housing difficulty, & the improvement of taste in these matters by C. R. Ashbee, M. A., Architect, Essex House Press, 1906, woodcut frontispiece and illustrations by F. L. Griggs, 29 half-tone illustrations bound at rear (one or two small marginal stains), top edge gilt, original cream buckram gilt, spine s little toned with small stain, light marginal dust-soiling, small 4to, together with The Last Records of a Cotswold Community; Being the Weson Subedge Field Account Book for the Final Twenty-Six Years of the Famous Cotswold Games, Hitherto Unpublished, Essex House Press, 1904QTY: (2)NOTE:Tomkinson 69 & 50 respectively. First work limited edition 36/50 copies, issued on paper with the Essex House Press mark and reserved for subscribers to the Press, from a total edition of 250.
Essex House Press. The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio, divided into foure bookes very necessary and profitable for yonge gentilmen & gentilwomen abiding in cort, palaice, or place, done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby, Essex House Press, 1900, woocut initials 'Alphabet of Bloomers' designed by C. R. Ashbee, partly unopened, a few minor spots front and rear, original limp vellum gilt, silk ties, tiny closed tear to foot of spine, light dust-soiling to covers, 4to, limited edition 60/200, together with American Sheaves & English Seed Corn: Being a series of addresses mainly delivered in the United States, 1900-1901, Essex House Press, 1901, woodcut initials, preface leaf initial in red, original vellum gilt, 8vo, limited edition 296/300, plus Of the Imitation of Christ in Four Books by Thomas A Kempis, London: Keegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., 1898, title printed in red and black within woodcut border, wood-engraved illustrations, wood-engravings by Clemence Housman after Laurence Housman, light offsetting, original limp vellum gilt, lacking ties, light dust-soiling, 8vo,limited edition of 660 QTY: (3)NOTE:Tomkinson 12 & 21 for first two works.
Comics. Collection of comics, including "Nick Fury, Agent of Shield" #1 (Marvel, June 1968, VG), stunning cover by Jim Steranko, "The Forever People" #1 (DC, March 1971, VG), first appearance of the Forever People, first full appearance of Darkseid, Superman appearance, story, cover and art by Jack Kirby, together with a selection of other 12c and 15c DC comics such as Superman, Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane, Superboy, Adventure Comics and Action Comics (featuring Superman), Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, World's Finest (featuring Superman & Batman), The Flash, Sea Devils, Batman, Tales of the Unexpected, Detective Comics and Spider-man, plus a collection of graphic novels, other comics (X-men, Judge Dredd, Crisis, Eagle, Beazer, Wizzard, Topper, Classics Illustrated, King Kong, Rupert, War Picture Library, Battle Picture Library), a collection of miscellaneous periodicals (Radio Times, Razzle, Punch, Picturegoer, Film Weekly, Film Pictorial, Picture Show) and some British Royalty-related publications QTY: (2 cartons)
Nash (Paul, illustrator). Genesis. Twelve Woodcuts by Paul Nash with the first chapter of Genesis in the Authorised Version, Folio Society limited facsimile edition, 2017, 12 wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth gilt, dust jacket, 4 pp. text by Sebastian Carter, both contained in original solander box with mounted monochrome illustration to upper lid, 4to, limited edition 110/750, together with Gill (Eric, illustrator). The Song of Songs, Folio Society limited facsimile edition, 2017, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, original cloth, dust jacket, 4 pp. text by Sebastian Carter, both contained in original solander box with illustration mounted to upper lid, 4to, limited edition 110/750 QTY: (2)
* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Typed Letter Signed, ‘W. H. Auden’, 3062 Kirchstetten, Hinterholz 6, Austria, 23 July [1969], a brief note thanking Rossiter for his charming letter, 'I'm so glad you enjoyed our meeting as much as I did. But very sorry to hear about your arm. Do you often have trouble with it? Shall much look forward to reading The Golden Chain. I enclose three little poems', 1 page on personal stationery, 4to, with carbon copies of Auden's own typing of the three poems on recto and verso of a separate sheet with one manuscript correction of a single letter to the first line of 'Natural Linguistics, and 'P.T.O.' written on both sides, 2 pages, 4to, with the accompanying envelope QTY: (2)NOTE:'Natural Linguistics' was first published in Harper's (October 1969); 'Smelt and Tasted' and 'Heard and Seen' were both first published in Poet (Madras), (June 1969).The Golden Chain (Hutchinson, 1970) was Rossiter's second book of autobiography.Provenance: From the family, by direct descent. For further information please see https://www.anthonyrossiter.co.uk
* Auden (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973). Three Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Wystan’, 77 St Mark's Place, New York, 4 January 1972, All Souls College, Oxford, 20 October 1972 & Christ Church, Oxford, 3 January 1973, the first saying that he is sorry to hear that Rossiter has had a relapse, 'Really, doctors should know the proper dose to give. All well here. Have finished a new book of poems which should be out in the summer. The world is getting very strange. A few weeks ago a very respectable professional photographer came here to take some photos for an agency. Suddenly – I couldn't believe my ears - in a most conventional voice he suggested taking a shot in the nude!'; the second letter saying that it will be another ten days before he can get into his Christ Church cottage, 'British workmen are so lazy', and hoping to see him soon; the third and final letter to Rossiter thanking him for his letter and [Charles] Tomlinson's book, 'The latter I find very good, though I wish there were more variety of tone', concluding that it was nice seeing them both again and hoping to meet again soon, the first two in blue ballpoint pen, the last in black ballpoint pen, all 1 page, 4to (the last 8vo), with the accompanying envelopesQTY: (3)NOTE:Provenance: From the family, by direct descent. For further information please see https://www.anthonyrossiter.co.uk
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Meggendorfer (Lothar). Bewegliche Schattenbilder, II Vorstellung, München: Braun & Schneider, [1887], 8 plates of silhouette figures with moveable elements, all tabs present (except plate 2), mainly in working order (plate 5 a little stiff, some pivots pins missing), plate 1 partially detached from gutter, text leaves with some offsetting including from pivot pins, part of lower hinge cracked, cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed with some loss, cloth spine with remnants of original paper spine laid down, 4to, together withPrincess Rose-Petal and her Adventures, London: H. Grevel & Co, circa 1900, six coloured moveable plates, four tabs present, third plate lacking one man's head, first two leaves detached, previous presentation inscription to title-page dated '1901', some toning to edges, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, head of upper joint splitting, oblong 4toQTY: (2)
Cummings (E. E.). The Enormous Room, 1st edition, 1st issue, signed, New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922, signed by the author to front free endpaper, original brown cloth, dust jacket, upper joint split, a few closed tears, some paper reinforcements, some loss to spine extremities, 8vo, contained in green morocco-backed box, spine lettered in giltQTY: (1)NOTE:The author's first book. A first edition, first issue, with "Shit!" present on final line of p. 219.
Nister (Ernest, publisher). Come and Go, a Novel Book for Children. Verses by Clifton Bingham, Ernest Nister, circa 1909, six full-page chromolithographs, each scene with one die-cut illustration showing two scenes (first scene lacking die-cut), silk ribbons sometime replaced (string from fourth scene not working), some closed tears, gutter strengthened, decorative endpapers, hinges strengthened, Dawson ex libris stamp to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, oblong 4to, together withHappy Families and their Tales, a volume of pictures & stories of domestic pets, [1898], five chromolithograph pop-up plates, all complete and in working order, some supports replaced, second plate with head of goat replaced, third plate with ears of bunny replaced, fifth plate with head and neck of goose replaced, some minor creasing to cut-outs, gutter strengthened in places, hinges reinforced, decorative endpapers, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, extremities a little rubbed, oblong 4to, plusMoving Animals, a novel book for children with verses by Shelia E. Braine, circa 1913, six chromolithograph pages with transformative illustrations, tabs all present (a little creased and soiled), each tab pull reveals one or more caged animals moving, gutter reinforced in places, decorative endpapers, Dawson ex libris label to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some rubbing to lower board, oblong 4to, and Little Pets, circa 1896, (lacking free front endpaper)QTY: (4)NOTE:Come and Go! contains a new mechanism introduced by the Nister Company. Each scene has a die-cut card with two images illustrated on each half of the same side, string is attached to two points of the die-cut. When pulled one way one of the images is revealed in the window, when pulled the other way the die-cut rotates 180 degrees to reveal the other illustration.
* Boyle (Eleanore Vere, 1825-1916). Here we are on Tom Tickler's ground/Picking up gold and silver!, circa 1852, pen & grey ink on paper, mounted on card, depicting a number of small girls in the countryside picking flowers, with goats and trees in the background, pencilled caption lower right, sheet size 17 x 13cm, together with two other small sketches by the same artist, one of a small girl cradling a dove, pencil and red ink on card, edges irregularly cut, sheet size 10.5 x 9.5cm, and the other of the Madonna and Child within an architectural setting, red ink and watercolour wash on card, with coloured paint blotches beneath, trimmed to top and left-hand edge (latter with 1" closed tear), sheet size 20 x 7cm, plus a folder of approximately 45 prints and engravings of illustrations by Boyle, many relating to Child's Play, some spotted, some mounted, contained together in a green half morocco folder, lettered in gilt on upper cover 'Child's Play EVB', rubbed, lacking ties, inscribed by the artist on front pastedown 'William Bloxall Esqre. from EVB his grateful pupil Feby 1st 1852'QTY: (1)NOTE:One of seventeen drawings Eleanore Vere Boyle executed for her first book 'Child's Play', a compilation of nursery rhymes published in 1852. Considered one of the most important female illustrators of the mid 19th century, Boyle moved in artistic circles which included Charles Eastlake, Thomas Landseer, the Pre-Raphaelites and Sir William Boxall (1800-1879) who was an English painter and director of the National Gallery from 1866 to 1874.
* Finnish playing cards. Baltic (or Russian) pattern, Finland, Helsinki: Gustaf Otto Wasenius (GOW), circa 1845, the complete deck of 52 stencil coloured lithographed playing cards (French suits), no indices, double-ended courts most similar to Baltic (or Russian) pattern, but without any turbans and QS without face on shoulder, AD with three ink stamps: maker's initials, Helsinki card stamp, and Krono Kort stamp, toned and dusty, finger-soiling to edges, some marks and stains (mainly to pip cards), few minor creases, spade courts each with single small hole, 6C lightly cockled, versos red dotted geometric pattern, each card 90 x 57 mm, with accompanying extract of a typewritten letter (see below), together with: Swedish playing cards, Swedish version of Provincial Paris pattern, Norrkoping: Lithografiska Aktiebolaget, 1872, a complete deck of 52 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts, kings and queens named, kings & queens of clubs and spades still with rudimentary wheatsheaves, AH with tax stamp and dated maker's stamp, toned and dusty, some marks and brown stains (mainly to pip cards), loose cards somewhat bowed, 3 pip cards with small corner crease, versos blue dotted ovals and circles, each card 89 x 60 mm, plus: Indian playing cards, Children's Alphabet cards, first edition, Poona [now Pune]: Chitrashala Press, circa 1940, a complete deck of 52 plus 2 jokers chromolithographed playing cards (French suits), each (except jokers) with miniature playing card to lower right corner, single figure courts (head & shoulders only) depicting Maharajas, Maharanis, and princes, with rank, suit sign and Marathi letter (or letters), pip cards each with Marathi number, and a central illustration, with the corresponding Marathi word and initial letter above, the two jokers each have a different central illustration with no lettering, all cards with blue border, some very minor edge rubbing, 2 & AC with corner crease, 2D with crease to top edge (with tiny wear), AC & KH with horizontal crease seemingly original to manufacture, versos a boy making a house of cards, square corners, each card 80 x 60 mm, with original box, and with 21 other decks, all 20th century, all believed complete, comprising: Canada 1 pack, Sweden 1, South Africa 1, Poland 4 packs, Iceland 4, China 4, Hungary 2, Israel 2, Norway 1, Finland 1, a quantity of cards from each deck corner mounted onto 24 display boards, 3 encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of display boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40 cm and similarQTY: (24)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: an extremely rare early Finnish deck. The maker was identified by Eddie Scheulin, who found an article on a Gnav pack with exactly the same stamps (according to an accompanying typewritten letter extract). See World of Playing Cards webpage: Playing Cards from Finland for an example price list by this cardmaker.Second item: Mann, All Cards on the Table, #137 for a similar, slightly earlier, deck.Third item: Gordhandas: Playing-Cards of the Chitrashala Press - part 1, in The Playing-Card, vol.30, no.3, Nov/Dec 2001, pp.132-138.
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* Transformation cards. Repository of Arts: Pictorial Cards [Beatrice or the Fracas], 1st edition, London: Ackermann [1818-1819], 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates, each depicting four playing cards (French suits), with figures and architectural motifs, single-figure courts, red pip signs hand-coloured, each plate with imprint to lower margin (including date and number of issue), and with plate and volume numbers to upper right corner, the plates mounted with photo corners onto black paper, the corresponding letterpress leaf describing each plate is mounted similarly, plates with a few faint foxing spots, two plates with brown marks to margins, occasional light toning, some offsetting, toning and foxing to text, each plate approximately 24 x 14.5cm, text leaves slightly larger, contained together in an A4-sized album of clear pockets, each plate facing its description leaf, together with Munchener Bilderbogen: Kartenspielereien, 4th edition, Munich: Braun & Schneider, circa 1860, 4 sheets, each depicting one complete suit (13 cards) of wood-engraved playing cards (French suits), red pip signs stencil coloured, single-figure courts, 4 club pip cards with caption, each sheet with imprint, edition and sheet number (77-80) at foot, and with title and a poem in German to upper margin, few faint foxing spots, margins finger-soiled, few minor marks, some edge-fraying and chips (mainly to sheets 77 & 78), edge tears extending into 2 cards: 7C (3mm) and 3H (35mm), 6S & 6C lightly toned, each sheet approximately 42.3 x 33.7cm, each in a large clear plastic sleeveQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: Rare. Field 22: 'One of the most artistic and imaginative transformation packs'. The cards were not issued in playable form, but were commonly cut up for use, and therefore rarely survive intact in their original format.Second item: Field 33-34.
Newbery (E., Publisher). The Ladder to Learning, step the first, being a collection of select fables, consisting of words of only one syllable intended as an easy introduction to the useful art of reading, [by Mrs Sarah Trimmer], London: E Newbery, printed by J. Crowder, 1799, numerous black & white woodcuts throughout, previous ownership inscription 'Margaret Mieux 1800' in brown ink to verso of free front endpaper, small closed tear to free front endpaper, original colourful Dutch floral boards, some small splits to floral boards over foot of spine, 16 mo, together with three other foreign language children's booksQTY: (4)
Milne (Alan Alexander). Winnie-The-Pooh and the Bees, circa 1952, four double-page colour pop-up plates, colour illustrations throughout, first pop-up with minor repair to bridge, third pop-up with some creases (3 characters) which have been strengthened to verso, presentation inscription to title-page in black ink, some offsetting to title and last leaf, original spiral-bound pictorial boards, slight edge wear and toning to margins, together withWinnie-The Pooh and Eeyore's Tail. a pop-up picture book, [1953], four double-page colour pop-up plates, colour illustrations throughout, first pop-up with some minor closed tears to tree trunk and Little Roo (with small repair to verso), slight offsetting to title and last leaf, original spiral-bound pictorial boards, slight edge wear and toning to margins, 8vo QTY: (2)
* Ransome (Arthur, 1884-1967). A group of 5 Autograph Letters Signed and 9 Typed Letters Signed, 'Arthur Ransome', various places, 11 February 1953 to 4 September 1955, all to Morley Kennerley [of Faber & Faber], concerning fishing books and related including Ransome's idea to reprint a series of old fishing books, 'Here's the anthology back. Thanks for letting me see it. I have been through it and noted several possible candidates. Now then: those diaries:- I should like to look at them, though I dread adding to the pile of the last year's arrears due to my having been so often and for so long out of action' (11 February 1953); 'I have made several deep dives into that vast bag, and found a great deal of interest. I think the owner knowing all the people mentioned, should make a selection from all the diaries, from start to finish, thus making it the record of a whole fishing life... ' (3 June 1953); 'Here is a copy I made of the letter written by James Leisenring to G. E. M. Sques. I wish you would read it and see if you think as highly of it as I do. I go to the Itchen tomorrow (to catch cold and no grayling)' (28 November 1954); 'Smythe. I have been wasting a lot of time doing a job for the National Book League, producing their new "Reader's Guide" to Fishing books. In it, I have taken the chance of calling attention to the Smythe diary, quoting a sentence from it and saying that it "has been edited by his son and is shortly to be published"...' (19 February 1955); 'Of course Smythe must have his Fishing Gazette stuff if he wants it, even though it is poor beside the Provost's genuine diary' (25 May 1955); ‘Here is H. A. Morritt’s farewell book … Anyhow, I shall be most grateful to you if you will consider adding this to your growing list of really good fishing books. You might follow it up with other very short but very good books, such as a reprint of John Beever (1849), or The Northern Angler (1800), etc.’ (13 August 1955); ‘I think your idea of a series of reprints of all the smaller fishing classics is a very good one. All the best fishing books were written in the days when no one thought it necessary to inflate them. Such a series would allow the inclusion of such books as Morritt’s, and all the books would help each other. In the end the series would offer safe bets to mothers and wives wanting to give presents to sons and husbands. You might lead off with Beever for the fly-fishers and balance him with Nobbes (1682) on the pike. Two days ago by pure accident I came across the only copy I’ve ever seen of John Beever’s first edition of 1849… a small paper-bound of 64 pages… Blurb for Smythe. Do send me the proofs. I could send the blurb by return of post if only I had the proofs. If you have no proofs, let me know and I will, with greater difficulty, write an inferior blurb’ (19 August 1955), a few marks and filing pin holes, etc., a total of 16 pages, 4to/8vo, plus an Autograph Postcard Signed, 3 sheets of proof notes and a collection of 30 related carbon copies of correspondence from Kennerley to Ransome on the same subjectsQTY: (a folder)
Eliot (T. S.) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Poetry. A Magazine of Verse, vol. VI, No. III, June 1915; Three Poems, Poetry. A Magazine of Verse, vol. VII, No I. October 1915; Observations, Poetry. A Magazine of Verse, vol. VIII, No. VI, September 1916, one or two short closed tears, original wrappers, short closed tear to October 1915 upper wrapper, spine ends chipped, small losses to September 1916 spine, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Gallup C18 for The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the separate first printed appearance of the poem; Gallup C21 for Three Poems ('A fourth poem, "The Death of Saint Narcissus", was set up in type apparently for publication in Poetry, but was not printed.'); Gallup C28 for Observations (with the misspelling 'T. R. Eliot' printed to upper wrapper contents list)Poetry. A Magazine of Verse, edited by the poet and art critic Harriet Monroe was founded by her in Chicago in 1912. The journal also published early works by Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and Tennessee Williams among others.
Greene (Graham). Rumour at Nightfall, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1931, a few small spots to preliminaries, original red blindstamped cloth gilt, backstrip lightly faded, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with:A Gun For Sale, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1936, light occasional spotting, original red cloth gilt, some faint white staining to covers and backstrip dulling gilt, 8vo, plusThe Name of Action, 1st edition, London: William Heinemann, 1930, small stamps and excised bookplates to pastedowns and front free endpaper, original blue cloth gilt, small stain to head of upper cover, rubbed, 8vo, with 5 other Graham Greene first editions, including The Third Man and A Burnt-Out Case in dust jacketsQTY: (8)
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King (Jessie M., illustrator). A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde, [6th edition], London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1915], illustrated colour title, 16 tipped-in coloured plates, letterpress spotted, pictorial endpapers (free endpapers toned), top edge gilt, original decorative blue cloth, faded spine with ends lightly worn, 4to, together with The High History of the Holy Graal, translated from the Old French by Sebastian Evans, London: J.M. Dent & New York: E.P. Dutton, 1903, numerous illustrations, half-title and endpapers spotted and toned, top edge gilt, original pictorial cloth, spine faded and slightly stained, few minor marks, 8vo, plus The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, by William Morris, London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904, numerous illustrations, scarce light spotting to letterpress, front pastedown with pictorial bookplate of Henry J. Synnatt, top edge gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded, covers rubbed and marked, 8vo, with 4 others illustrated by King and published by Foulis: Isabella or the Pot of Basil, [1907], with original Christmas 1907 greetings slip loosely inserted (with two ink manuscript names); another slightly later edition of the same (colour illustration adhered to front cover); two copies of The Grey City of the North, one 1910 (with red stain to front cover), the other 1914, plus 3 other Foulis envelope-type books: Rabbi Ben Ezra (illustrated by W. Russell Flint); A Little Book of Sundials (illustrated by Alfred Rawlings, 1919); The Dream of Gerontius (illustrated by Robert T. Rose), also another Foulis book (Corners of Grey Old Gardens), and 4 others similar, all narrow or small 8voQTY: (15)NOTE:First item: The sixth edition of this book, but the first edition to be illustrated by Jessie M. King.
Wilde (A., publisher). The Newest, Best and Very-Much Esteemed Book of Knowledge ... , 1st edition, London: A. Wilde, 1764, pp.[x]+156, possibly missing first leaf (blank?), engraved title with different woodcut to each side (partially detached and close-trimmed edges creased), woodcuts throughout, generally toned, lacking endpapers and stitching, contemporary sheep, worn, with spine vertically split and covers detached (old adhesive tape to lower cover), 12mo QTY: (1)NOTE:Rare; the last copy recorded at auction sold at Sotheby's in 1974.The title-pages list all manner of useful information pertaining, amongst other things, to astronomy and the planets, husbandry, natural phenomena such as meteors, thunder-bolts, and blazing-stars, medical conditions, such as the 'signification of moles on man or woman', the interpretation of dreams and Pythagoras's Wheel of Fortune, and the Seven Wonders of the World.
* Fowles (John, 1926-2005). A group of 4 Typed Letters and 1 Autograph Letter Signed, Belmont House/Underhill Farm, Lyme Regis, 1960-74, all to Anthony Rossiter, the first saying that their stepdaughter Anna has been accepted for Bristol, that Elizabeth and he are both sorry we missed the exhibition 'which I hope was successful - and the book. I saw only the rather nasty review from Jupiter Cyril; bad notices from that quarter are almost a compliment, I think, and I'm sure you got justice elsewhere', the second (16 May 1968) giving his thoughts about The Pendulum 'a very remarkable document of courage; a remarkable practical proof of what R. D. Laing has been on about for some time now (hope you've read his book), with the added pleasure of your being a much better writer than he is - and of course, writing from the inside. I wish only that there had been some illustrations - but I gather that's been corrected in the American edition. The book reminded me at times of Montaigne - that almost inhuman contemplation of objectivity about one's own journey through life - and you can't have higher praise from me than that', the last letter (18 December 1974) seemingly referring to his collection of novellas and short stories The Ebony Tower (1974), 'I was delighted the artistic side of the title story meets your approval. I was rather afraid it might be a case of fools rushing in... I think my stepdaughter and her recently acquired husband, who is doing pottery at the RCA, were a little horrified at the use I made of their own miscries in the art-education world. I have also just returned from shocking the Americans a little by suggesting that most of the New York School gigantists are ludicrously over-rated. But so many there have invested so much in the stuff that it is rather like attacking the New York Stock Exchange!', a total of 8 pages, 8vo, plus an Autograph Letter Signed from Elizabeth Fowles to Anneka (12 June 1968), plus the accompanying envelopes and Anthony Rossiter's first edition copy of Fowles's The Collector (Cape, 1963) with some pencil annotations, underscorings and coffee stains, hinges cracked, original cloth in worn dust jacket, 8voQTY: (7)NOTE:Provenance: From the family, by direct descent. For further information please see https://www.anthonyrossiter.co.uk
Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Tom Kitten, London: Frederick Warne and Co, circa 1914, half-title, colour illustrations throughout, a few minor marks, and some foxing (mostly to edges), pictorial endpapers, original green boards, front cover with inset colour pictorial panel, in original printed glassine wrapper, slightly toned, edges chipped and frayed in places, 16moQTY: (1)NOTE:For the first edition see Linder, p. 427; Quinby 13.In the rarely-found opaque glassine dustjacket, designed to protect the book during its journey from publisher to customer. Typically, as here, the jacket was printed with advertisements to the rear panel and the flaps, whilst the front panel was left blank, enabling the book to be identified by the visible wording and illustration on the front cover of the binding. The dustjacket was usually discarded by the buyer or, in some cases, returned to the bookseller, marked up to indicate which books the customer was interested in purchasing next. Where the wrapper was retained by the reader it rarely survived subsequent handling, and consequently copies are now very rarely encountered with the glassine intact. The dustjacket provides fascinating information about Beatrix Potter's books and related merchandise as well as showing the book in its most original and complete form.
Yeats (William Butler). John Sherman and Dhoya, Pseudonym Library Series, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891, untrimmed in original yellow printed wrappers, upper joint splitting, small tears and losses at foot of spine, some dust-soiling and small ink stain to upper wrapper, circular stain to rear wrapper, slim 8vo, together with The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, Cameo Series, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892, frontispiece, some toning to endpapers, original parchment-backed boards, spine a little rubbed with some toning, corners rubbed, slim 8vo, plus Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1913], portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, light toning to half-title, presentation inscription, original blue cloth gilt, spine ends repaired, 8vo, with others by or on Yeats including 1st editions Poems of Spenser, illustrated by Jessie M. King, [1906], The Cutting of an Agate, 1919, and Early Poems and Stories, 1925QTY: (29)NOTE:Wade 4 & 6 for first two titles respectively. John Sherman and Dhoya was written under Yeats' pseudonym 'Ganconagh'.
* Sassoon (Siegfried Loraine, 1886-1967). Two Autograph Letters Signed with monogram 'SS', Heytesbury House, Wiltshire, 5 November 1965 & 27 February 1967, both to Anthony Rossiter, the first referring to Dom Aelred and saying that it is difficult for him to drive himself to Downside [School] now, before continuing, 'It is extraordinary, the consoling effect the Memoirs have on people. A famous steeplechase rider wrote to me last March, saying that it had been the greatest blessing to his mind while in hospital after a bad accident. I always say that the clue to its charm is that it is an unprofessional piece of writing. My later books are more skilful, though not less natural, I hope. You mentioned John Moore. He was brought here once, about twelve years ago, and I found him quite delightful, like his books. I hope you will bring yourself here some afternoon. I am something of a solitary, though befriended by my beeches!; the second letter referring to a recent visit by Dom Aelred and saying that he should wait until the spring before visiting, 'You must also realize – in your tremendous young intellectual explorativeness – that you are addressing the much simplified mind of a complete quietest! I still try to respond to what the world expects of me – (my renown as a war writer, as you infer, has become almost a burden on me) – but I exist in a kind of domestic retreat from worldly concerns. And am, as always, that simple soul George Sherston. Him you will find in his library – living a lot in meditation on past life and those I have loved and lost. That self, people say, does give out the light of faith and submissiveness. But the intellectual adventurer is not there. You must take him as you find him!', both 1 page, 8vo, with the accompanying envelope to the second letterQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: From the family, by direct descent. For further information please see https://www.anthonyrossiter.co.uk Sassoon and Rossiter shared a friendship with Dom Aelred, a monk at Downside School. Dom Aelred was Christopher Ingram Watkin (1918-1997), a housemaster at Downside School, 1948-62, and then Headmaster, 1962-75. Siegfried Sassoon converted to Catholicism in 1957 under the instruction of Dom Sebastian Moore at Downside Abbey, close to his home. Sassoon also sometimes played for a Downside Abbey team called ‘The Ravens’, continuing playing well into his seventies. After meeting Dom Father Aelred Watkin, the Headmaster of Downside School near Bath, in 1960, Rossiter became increasingly drawn to the Catholic Church. He adored the poetry of Gregorian ritual and in his own search for truth, was attracted by the combination of moral values and mysticism that the Benedictines taught. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1962, the beginning of a lifelong attachment to Downside Abbey and to its monastic community. This led to his being asked to paint the portrait of Dom Father Aelred Watkin upon his retirement as Headmaster of the school. The painting hangs, with the other portraits of former headmasters, in the school dining room.
Spring-Heeled Jack. Selection of rare "Spring-Heeled Jack" one-penny pulp comics by Aldine Publishing, 1904, including #1 "Man or Fiend", #2 "A Mystery of Mysteries", #5 "The Price of Guilt" and #7 "A Leap for Liberty", front cover designs by Robert Prowse and text by Charlton Lea, author of "The Dick Turpin Tales", illustrations by C.H. Blake, all complete but worn in places with some loss, covers detached and many loose pages, together with 9 issues of Dick Turpin penny dreadful comics, #41, 42, 45, 53, 54, 61, 62, 63 and 66, some covers and other pages missing, some lossQTY: (13)NOTE:Inspired by a Victorian-era urban legend, this British penny dreadful series features a heroic bat-winged avenger of the night, and was a precursor to several pulp and comic book characters. The Lord Mayor of London, Sir John Cowan, received complaints from several parts of London describing a demonic creature with eyes like balls of fire and hands like icy claws, and able to bound from roof-top to roof-top with ease. The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in London in 1837, and the last in Liverpool in 1904. The Duke of Wellington, although aged nearly 70 went out armed on horseback to hunt and kill the monster. The Army in 1870 set traps to catch him after scared sentries reported being terrified by a man who sprang onto the roof of their sentry box. For a while, suspicion rested on the eccentric young Marquis of Waterford, who was considered ‘wild’ by Victorian society.
* French playing cards. Variety of Paris pattern, Nantes: Roiné (père), Dumoutier, & Roiné (fils), circa 1810, a complete piquet deck of 32 stencil coloured wood engraved playing cards (French suits), single figure courts, JC with maker's details, some cards with watermark eagle of the First Empire (1804-1815), dusty and toned, some light finger-soiling, QS with some small brown stains, KD & QD each with tiny surface loss (likely from paper flaw), 9C with minor corner crease, versos plain white, each card 83 x 55 mm, plus original wrapper (darkened & dusty with some brown marks), 12 cards and wrapper mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 40.5 x 53.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.BNF Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b105260534 (for an Aluette deck by the same makers).Pierre-Vincent and the merchant-cardmaker Jean-Baptiste Cosnard, known as Dumoutier, worked together between 1807 and 1824. His eldest son Pierre (also a cardmaker) joined them for a short time, between 1810-1814. Although the jack of clubs lists all three cardmakers, the wrapper does not mention the son, indicating that this pack was likely produced shortly after Pierre (fils) had joined the company in 1810 and they were still using up old wrappers.
* English playing cards. Shakespearean Playing Cards, Swan Sonnenschein & Co Ltd, 1904, a complete presentation deck of 52 + 1 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts portraying characters from Shakespeare's plays, designed by Frederic Colin Tilney, with joker representing the jester Touchstone, each named and with suitable quote alongside, decorative ace of spades with maker's details amidst swans and Tudor roses in wreaths, lightly toned, occasional minor rubbing (mainly affecting pip cards), 4D with very faint corner crease, 9 & 10H pip signs faintly scratched, rounded corners, versos elaborate yellow and white on dark blue pattern of swans within captioned border, each card 92 x 61 mm, with original box (spotted and worn), tuck-in flap with ink manuscript presentation inscription on inner surface: To Miss R. Appleton, wishing kindest regards, F.C. Tilney, Sep 30 1913, outer surface of flap with slightly later unrelated (apparently) ink manuscript ownership inscriptionQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Berry, The Playing-Cards of the World, [457]; Cartorama 62 #189.An unusual presentation pack, with the box inscribed by the designer Frederick Colin Tilney. This first edition of the Shakespearean Cards, although published by Swan Sonnenschein, was printed by Bemrose & Sons Ltd as stated on the ace of spades.
Meggendorfer (Lothar, illustrator). Für Brave Kinder, 7th edition, Munchen: Braun & Schneider, circa 1888, 8 coloured lithographs each with moveable elements, all working with tab (some renewed), first plate gutter reinforced, light offsetting from pivot pins, Dawson ex libris and Fritz ? Homburg stamps to front pastedown, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a few small water stains to upper board, light rubbing to extremities, 4to, housed in custom-made modern slipcaseQTY: (1)
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