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Lot 256
Wells (H.G.) The Invisible Man, first edition, half-title, title in red and black, 2pp. advertisements at end, ink stamp to front pastedown, toning to margins, a couple of spots and small stains, hinge cracked but firm, original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, covers rubbed and soiled, spine darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped, slip-case, [Currey p.526], 8vo, 1897.
Lot 236
Thatcher (Margaret) Statecraft, jacket spine head very lightly bumped, 2002 § Johnson (Boris) The Churchill Factor, 2014 § Clark (Alan) The Tories, jacket spine head very lightly bumped, spine lightly sunned, 1998, first editions, signed by the authors on titles, original cloth, dust-jackets, fine or near-fine copies; and 3 others, signed first editions, most UK politics, 8vo (6)
Lot 90
Fleming (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, jacket with light chipping to corners and spine head, otherwise excellent and sharp, 1962; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, small ink ownership name on front free endpaper, boards lightly marked, jacket head frayed, spine faded, 1963, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 5 others, all but one relating to Fleming, 8vo (7)
Lot 279
Wyndham (John) The Midwich Cuckoos, first edition, endpapers browned, very light shelf-lean, otherwise fine, 1957; Trouble With Lichen, second impression, light toning to endpapers, jacket spine lightly toned, nicks to edges, 1960; Chocky, first edition, review copy with slip loosely inserted, fine copy, 1968, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (3)
Lot 78
Eddison (E. R.) The Worm Ouroboros, illustrations by Keith Henderson, half-title working loose, modern black morocco, 1926 § Herbert (A. P.) The Water Gypsies, original boards, dust-jacket, chip to upper corner and spine head, a few nicks and frays to edges, original glacine jacket, 1930 § Swinnerton (Frank) Sketch of a Sinner, original boards, dust-jacket, spine lightly faded, slightly worse to spine, few chips and nicks to spine ends and edges, 1929, first editions, New York; and c.25 others, 1920s and 1930s American literature, v.s. (c.30)
Lot 79
Einstein (Albert) The Theory of Relativity, The Special & General Theory, translated by Robert W. Lawson, first edition in English, half-title, portrait frontispiece, diagrams and equations in text, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, presentation bookplate on pastedown, endpapers browned, original red cloth, spine faded, otherwise sharp, [cf. PMM 408], 1920.
Lot 169
Markandaya (Kamala) Nectar in a Sieve, first edition, signed by the author on year of publication "Kamala Markandaya, St John's Hospital, October 1954" on front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, nicks and tears to edges, heavier to spine head, some repaired tears, small piece of loss to upper panel lower edge, 8vo, 1954.
Lot 188
Orwell (George) Animal Farm, first American edition, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, fine cloth, jacket with chips and small portions of loss to spine ends and extremities, light nicks and tears to edges, New York, 1946; Nineteen Eighty-Four, first American edition, fine cloth, jacket spine with rubbing and surface abrasion marks, spine lightly faded and ends frayed but panels sharp, 1949; Animal Farm, second impression, cloth spine a little faded, jacket creased with nicks and tears to edges, 2" tear down spine joint creeping onto panel, spine ends with small portions of loss, 1945, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (3)
Lot 19
Barrie (J.M.) The Little White Bird, first edition, frontispiece, light browning to endpapers and half-title, original cloth, slight toning to spine, else fine, 1902; The Plays of J.M. Barrie, first edition, toning strip on endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, portions of loss to upper panel corner and spine tail, light splash staining on upper panel, spine faded, 1928 § Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows, seventh edition, illustrations by Paul Bransom, browned endpapers with ownership inscription, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, 1913; and c.20 others, mixed literature, including a seventh edition of Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol from 1899, v.s. (c.25)
Lot 240
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, tenth impression, stain on title and few few pages, jacket with chips and nicks along edges and extremities, splitting along lower joint, abrasion mark to upper panel, 1961; The Two Towers, eighth impression, cloth fine, jacket spine faded, light creasing to edges, bright and sharp panels, 1961; The Return of the King, seventh impression, light spotting, jacket light spotted, spine faded, 196, first editions, folding maps, small book-labels to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jackets, light browning to spines, 8vo.
Lot 65
Day Lewis (Cecil).- Isherwood (Christopher) All the Conspirators, 1928; Mr. Norris Changes Trains, light foxing on front free endpapers, cloth spine faded, 1935 § Kafka (Franz) The Trial, first English edition, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, review copy with compliments slip loosely inserted, 1937, first or first English editions, all Cecil Day Lewis' copies with his ownership inscription in pen or pencil on front free endpapers, original cloth, extremities rubbed, a little discoloured, 8vo (3) *** A very good trio of copies owned by the writer Cecil Day Lewis. The first being the scarce first novel by Isherwood.
Lot 30
Blyton (Enid) Five Go Adventuring Again, first edition, ink gift inscription on front free endpapers, cloth soiled and water-stained, 1943; Five Go Off in a Caravan, third impression, cloth lightly marked, dust-jacket, creased and rubbed at extremities, 1949; Five Run Away Together, third impression, ink gift inscription on half-title verso, faint foxing to first few pages, boards spine faded, dust-jacket, portions of loss to upper panel edges, torn down spine with tape residue stains, slightly rubbed, 1949, illustrations by Eileen Soper, original cloth or boards; and c.50 others by Blyton, most from the Famous Five series or Noddy books, v.s. (c.55)
Lot 9
Assange (Julian) The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire, first paperback edition, signed by the author "Julian Assange | Embassy of Ecuador | October 2016" on title, original wrappers, light creasing to spine, otherwise fine, 8vo, 2016. *** Julian Assange is an Australian publisher and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to wide international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, footage of a US airstrike in Baghdad, US military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Lot 134
Jackson (Shirley) Raising Demons, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, a few small stains to upper panel, some portions of loss to spine ends and corners, spine sunned, 1957 § Wills (Helen) Tennis, first English edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, loss to lower edge and spine ends, panels slightly soiled, spine faded, 1928 § Woolf (Virginia) Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, first edition, second impression, a few spots, original wrappers, margins toned, bowed, 1928; and 18 others, women writers, 8vo (21)
![[Remi (George)], "Hergé". The Adventures of Tintin: The Crab with the Golden Claws, 1958; King Ottokar's Sceptre, 1958](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/28ec0438-5e65-4ea7-bcd0-b163012997a3/2c7c39db-900d-4349-98f7-b16400bd667a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 199
[Remi (George)], "Hergé". The Adventures of Tintin: The Crab with the Golden Claws, 1958; King Ottokar's Sceptre, 1958; Red Rackham's Treasure, 1959, first English editions, two with name or gift inscriptions on endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, lightly rubbed at edges, overall sharp and bright copies, 4to (3)
Lot 208
Salter (James) A Sport and a Pastime, light rust stain from paper-clip on title, "compliments from the author" slip loosely inserted, jacket with small portion of loss to spine tail, upper edge with short tears and nicks, New York, 1967; Light Years, first edition, jacket head with light toning, nicks to upper edge, 1976; Dusk and Other Stories, first English edition, jacket spine faded, San Francisco, 1988, first or first English editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (4) *** A group of Salter's works, rare signed.
![White (Antonia) Strangers, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Emily [Coleman] with very much](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/28ec0438-5e65-4ea7-bcd0-b163012997a3/f3f5c928-5cfe-4874-a214-b16400be0beb/468x382.jpg)
Lot 265
White (Antonia) Strangers, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To Emily [Coleman] with very much love from Tony" on front free endpaper, dated at bottom in another hand, original boards, dust-jacket, nicks and creasing to upper edge, spine head chipped, lower panel spotted and toned, 8vo, 1954.*** A good association copy, inscribed to fellow writer and diarist Emily Coleman (1899-1974).See lot xxx for details.
Lot 163
Leroux (Gaston) Nomads of the Night, 1925 § Gollomb (Joseph) The Curtain of Storm, endpapers toned, jacket price-clipped, small portion of loss to lower edge, 1933 § Alexie (Sherman) The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, 1993 § Symons (Julian) Bogue's Fortune, jacket price-clipped, 1956, first editions, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, some light rubbing, New York; and 17 others, detective and crime fiction, 8vo (23)
Lot 170
Masefield (John) The Collected Poems..., one of 530 copies, this copy with inscription from the author "Bitter, though honour is it, if he do / Aught with the first without the other two / John Masefield" on half-title verso, endpapers toned, original cloth, fine, dust-jacket, spine browned, edges creased and rubbed, chips to spine head with light repairs, 8vo, 1927.
Lot 117
Heller (Joseph) God Knows, first edition, one of 350 copies signed by the author, original boards, dust-jacket, slip-case, New York, 1984; We Bombed in New Haven [3 copies], first edition, ownership name on front free endpapers, 1968 § Stone (Robert) A Hall of Mirrors, Book Club issue, signed presentation inscription from the author on half-title, original boards, dust-jacket, 3" tear from lower edge on upper panel with small portion of loss, other small nicks to edges, New York, [1967]; A Flag for Sunrise, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on half-title, original boards, dust-jacket, 1981; and c.130 others, modern American literature, v.s. (c.135)
Lot 50
Coward (Noël) A Withered Nosegay, programme of Blithe Spirit loosely inserted, jacket broken at lower joint and slightly browned, corners and spine ends chipped, chip to tail of lower panel, a little frayed at head, light surface soiling, 1922; Present Indicative, endpapers browned, cloth spine slightly faded, spine ends a little bumped, jacket spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corners a little chipped, very slight creasing to head, 1937; Future Indefinite, signed by the author on title, spine ends a little bumped, spine slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed, lower panel foxed, 1954, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, very good overall, 8vo (3) *** A Withered Nosegay was Noël Coward's first book and is scarce in the dust-jacket.
Lot 180
Muir (Edwin) Journeys and Places, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Emily, with love, Edwin" on front free endpaper, jacket damp-stained, chipped at extremities, 1937; Collected Poems, Emily Holmes Coleman ownership inscription on front free endpaper, with her annotations throughout, light toning to endpapers, jacket spotted, spine faded, chips and nicks to extremities, 1952, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, splitting down joints, 4to & 8vo (2) *** The owners and recipient of the inscription was Emily Coleman, (1899–1974) an American-born writer and a lifelong compulsive diary keeper. She also wrote a single novel, The Shutter of Snow (1930).See lot XXX for details.
Lot 12
Ballard (J. G.) The Four-Dimensional Nightmare, first edition, original boards, bumping to corners and spine tips, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some surface-wear towards foot of spine, short nicks to head and foot of upper panel, a very good, bright copy, 8vo, 1963.
Lot 85
Figes (Eva) Patriarchal Attitudes: Women in Society, first edition, TLs from the author, loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly toned and rubbed, light nicks to edges, 1970 § Fry (Christopher) Death is a Kind of Love, signed presentation inscription from the author, with another gift inscription on front free endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, light scuff to spine head, otherwise fine, Tidal Press, 1979 § Hillary (Richard) The Last Enemy, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper, original cloth, spine faded, corners bumped, 1942; and c.30 others, literature, v.s. (c.30) *** Signed inscriptions from Richard Hillary (1919-1943) are rare. An Anglo-Australian Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Second World War, Hillary died in an airplane crash soon after the publication of The Last Enemy (1942).
Lot 67
Dick (Kay) An Affair of Love, signed by the author on title, jacket with light chips to spine ends, 1953 § Townsend Warner (Sylvia) The Flint Anchor, 1954; The Corner that Held Them, jacket price-clipped, light chipping and nicks to extremities, 1948 § Benson (Stella) Tobit Transplanted, first edition, jacket with light spotting and fraying to spine ends, otherwise excellent, 1931, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and c.25 others, women writers, 8vo (c.25)
Lot 211
Scott (Paul) The Chinese Love Pavilion, jacket price-clipped, 1960; The Birds of Paradise, spine ends creased, 1962; The Mark of the Warrior, first American edition, sticker removed from jacket upper panel, 1958; The Corrida at San Feliu, first American edition, jacket spine faded, tear to upper panel lower corner, New York, 1964, first or first American editions, original boards, dust-jackets, extremities creased and frayed, light rubbing overall; and a proof copy of Birds of Paradise, 8vo (5)
![Waugh (Evelyn) [The Sword of Honour Trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Men at Arms, jacket with small chips to corners, very light](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/28ec0438-5e65-4ea7-bcd0-b163012997a3/951e2071-d0f3-4992-9257-b16400bdf2ee/468x382.jpg)
Lot 254
Waugh (Evelyn) [The Sword of Honour Trilogy], 3 vol., comprising Men at Arms, jacket with small chips to corners, very light expert repairs and retouches to joints and extremities, 1952; Officers and Gentlemen, very faint spotting and one or two nicks to edges, 1961; Unconditional Surrender, one or two light surface marks, otherwise fine, 1961, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, excellent examples generally, 8vo.
Lot 140
Johnson (B. S.) Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "for Gordon Williams who think this is charming... | Bryan" on title, original boards, fine, dust-jacket, light creasing to to edge, otherwise fine, 8vo, 1973.*** A good association copy, with Johnson inscribing this to his friend fellow writer Gordon Williams. The latter's novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm was made into a film entitled Straw Dogs.
Lot 277
Woolf (Virginia) The Common Reader, ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, boards with light bumping to extremities, spine lightly faded, otherwise excellent, 1925 § Mansfield (Katherine) The Garden Party and Other Stories, ownership inscription on browned front free endpaper, faint foxing to first few pages, boards with light bumping to extremities and a few marks to upper cover, otherwise excellent, 1922, first editions, original boards or cloth-backed boards, 8vo (2)
Lot 55
Cummings (Ray) The Girl in the Golden Atom, first edition, bookshop label on pastedown, endpapers lightly toned and marked, light scattered spotting, original cloth, spine faded, lightly browned, spine end lightly frayed, [Currey p.128], 1922; together with a first American edition of the same work, 8vo (2)
Lot 238
Thomson (Christine Campbell, editor) More Not At Night, 1926; You'll Need a Night Light, 1931; At Dead of Night, 1928; Gruesome Cargoes, ink ownership name on front free endpapers, 1928, reprints, endpapers browned, original red boards, some light bumping to extremities, otherwise excellent; and 3 others from the 'Not At Night' series, these first editions, 8vo (9) *** An excellent group of the mystery, weird fiction series, 'Not at Night'.
Lot 22
Bedford (Sybille) The Sudden View, initialled presentation inscription from the author on front free endpapers, additionally signed with strikethrough printed name, jacket lightly marked and foxed, 1953; A Favourite of the Gods, initialled presentation inscription from the author on front free endpapers, additionally signed with strikethrough printed name, 1963; The Faces of Justice, autograph note signed from the author loosely inserted, original cloth, jacket very lightly rubbed at extremities, 1961, first editions, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets; and 5 others by Bedford, all but one signed, the last a proof copy, 8vo (8)
Lot 52
Coward (Noël).- Ashton (Winifred), "Clemence Dane". The Shelter Book, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Noël Coward, original cloth, spine faded, dust-jacket, spine faded and chipped at edges, 1940 § Tangye (Derek) The Way to Minack, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Noël Coward, original cloth, dust-jacket, light creasing to spine head, otherwise excellent, 1968; and 8 others, Noël Coward's copies, most with either an ownership inscription or a signed presentation inscription from the author or a friend, v.s. (11) *** A good group of Coward association copies, including the first mentioned from Winifred Ashton, a long-term friend of Noël Coward and an actress, playwright and novelist. Years after Dane expressed an interest in returning to acting, Coward wrote the part of Madame Arcati, the eccentric medium in Blithe Spirit for her.
Lot 200
Rendell (Ruth) From Doon with Death, first edition, original dark green boards with gilt lettering, very slight bowing to upper cover, dust-jacket, corner crease to front flap, slight rubbing to spine tips and upper fore-edge, but a fine copy generally, 8vo, 1964.*** A superb example of the author's first novel, rare in such good condition.
Lot 136
Johnson (B. S.) Trawl, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "for June with love Bryan", ticket and signing event information loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, fraying to top edges, light peeling of laminate along joint, 1966; Albert Angelo, reprint, signed by the author, original wrappers, light rubbing to spine, 1964; A Dublin Unicorn, 'Byron Press Pamphlet series', one of 25 copies signed by the author, original wrappers, toned, 1972; and 8 others by or edited by Johnson, including 2 copies from the library of Barry Cole, friend of the author and sometime contributor to works, 8vo (11)
Lot 179
Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, light toning strip on front free endpapers, ownership inscription on half-title, faint damp-staining and one or two finger-staining marks to pages, original pictorial cloth, gilt, damp-stained, dust-jacket, damp-stained with discolouration, portion of loss to spine tail, some nicks and tears to joints, spine faded, splitting joints, repaired with tape verso, 8vo, 1928.
Lot 75
Durrell (Lawrence) Justine, first edition, soiling and stamp on endpapers, jacket with Book Society sticker on spine, torn along upper flap, nicks and tears to extremities, stained at edges, 1957; Mountolive, stamps on endpapers, 1958, jacket edges nicked and torn, light chipping and some loss to lower panel along joint, 1958; Clea, first edition, ownership name on toned front free endpaper, jacket spine faded, slight shelf-lean, 1960, original cloth, lightly marked, dust-jackets; and 11 others by Durrell, 8vo (14)
Lot 164
Lewis (C.S.) The Last Battle, first edition, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, ink ownership and gift inscription on front free endpaper, original boards, spine faded, dust-jacket, few chips to corners and spine ends, these reinforced with tape verso, some light spotting, heavier to lower panel, 8vo, 1956.
Lot 227
Stout (Rex) The League of Frightened Men, third edition, 1937; The Black Mountain, first edition, gift inscription on front free endpaper, 1955; How Like a God, first American edition, spine faded, New York, 1935, original cloth, corners lightly bumped, otherwise excellent; and 7 others, crime and detective fiction, 8vo (10)
Lot 161
Le Guin (Ursula K.) Rocannon's World, first Gollancz edition, jacket price-clipped with new price sticker, 1979 § Ballard (J.G.) Concrete Island, 1973 § Dick (Philip K.) Lies, Inc., first Gollancz edition, 1984, original boards, dust-jackets, fine copies; and 2 others, supernatural and weird fiction, 8vo (6)
Lot 306
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Heath Robinson (W.).- Poe (Edgar Allan) The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, first edition, title printed in red and black, plates and illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, occasional light spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, spine and cover margins toned, 1900 § Rabelais (Francis) The Works of Mr Francis Rabelais, 2 vol., new edition, plates and illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, contemporary half morocco, spines gilt, spines lightly sunned, [1913]; and 6 others, illustrated, 8vo and 4to (9)
Lot 261
Wells (H.G.), Sax Rohmer, P.C. Wren, Baroness Orczy & others. My Adventure Story, first edition, ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, original cloth, extremities bumped, later dust-jacket, light chipping and creasing to edges, 1934 § Drur (Lieut. Col.) The Tadpole of an Archangel, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, light creasing and nicks to edges, 1933; and 8 others, adventure fiction, 8vo (10)
Lot 308
Kingsley (Charles) The Water Babies, first Wilcox Smith illustrated edition, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith, captioned tissue-guards, ink inscription to front free endpaper, the odd faint spot, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners a little bumped, spine a little sunned, [c.1930] § Carroll (Lewis) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 48 colour plates by Margaret W. Tarrant, the odd faint spot, original cloth, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, dust-jacket, some slight soiling, a few short tears to corners and spine ends, [c.1925] § Wagner (Richard) Tannhauser, 12 mounted colour plates by Willy Pogany, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners bumped, [c.1911]; and c. 50 others, illustrated, including works by Louis Wain, v.s. (c.55)
Lot 348
Tenniel (John).- Dalziel Brothers, after. Original manuscript text of 'The Mock Turtle's Story', with inset drawings, 4pp., pen and ink, light spotting, pasted down onto thick card album leaf, with 19th century Irish photographs verso, page measures c.255 x 200mm (c.10 x 8in), [c.1870s]. *** Probably after the wood-engravings by the Dalziel brothers, for the first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
Lot 91
Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice, boards lightly marked, jacket spine faded, head a little frayed, upper edge creased, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, plain boards with light fading strip, jacket, few dents on upper cover, otherwise fine, 1965, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 9 others by or relating to Fleming, 8vo (11)
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