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Lot 1353
15 boxed Citybus Limited Corgi Original Omnibus and EFE Exclusive First Editions diecast models to include 8 x EFE's featuring 4 x 99501, 2 x 13912 and 2 x ltd edn 19906 diecast model buses and 7 x Corgi Original Omnibus models featuring 2 x Network 26, 2 x 45007, 1 x Millennium Collection, 1 x OM45405 and 1 x 44507, all diecast ex, boxes vg overall with some signs of storage and edge wear
Lot 6162
Assorted literature, modern first editions etc., including Agatha Christie: 'Endless Night', London, Collins Crime Club, 1967, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper, Jack Kerouac: 'Scattered Poems', City Lights Books, July 1977, 5th printing, orig. pictorial wraps, Aldous Huxley: 'Texts and Pretexts', L, C & W, 1932, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Graham Greene: 'Monsignor Quixote', L, Bodley Head, 1982, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Boris Pasternak: 'An Essay in Autobiography', L, Collins & Harvill, 1959, 1st Uk edition, portrait frontis + 10 full page ills. as called for, orig. wraps, Lawrence Durrell: 'Sebastian', L, Faber, 1983, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Ernest Hemingway: 'Islands in the Stream', L, Collins, 1970, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Stephen Bagnall: 'The Attack', L, Hamish Hamilton, 1947, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, scarce, Antonio Ruiz Vilaplana: 'Burgos Justice', L, Constable, 1938, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Aharon Appelfeld: 'Badenheim 1939', L, Dent, 1981, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Henri Charriere: 'Papillon', L, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1970, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Wallace Stegner: 'Angle of Repose', NY, Doubleday, 1971, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, plus 7 others including Jean-Paul Sartre, Alistair Maclean, Elleston Trevor etc. (19)
Lot 6215
(William Blake, Nonesuch Press.) 'The Illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil with the First Eclogue and the Imitation by Ambrose Philips. The Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes', London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937, 1st edition, limited edition, No.546 of 1,000 copies, printed by the Curwen Press from design by Meynell, illustrations & plates throughout, plus a further suite of 16 plates in rear pocket as called for, original publisher's patterned cloth boards, acetate protective cover
![Edward Walker Slade: 'The Skull, and Other Poems', Bristol, printed and published for the author, 1829, 1st edition, vi,[2],2](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b3c2c738-19d0-4d60-8532-b0c100bdc003/062df7a9-36cb-4410-bcce-b0c10108df42/468x382.jpg)
Lot 6248
Edward Walker Slade: 'The Skull, and Other Poems', Bristol, printed and published for the author, 1829, 1st edition, vi,[2],220pp, list of subscribers at end, old boards worn, scarce, plus James Storer & John Greig: 'Views in North Britain, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Burns', London, 1805, engraved frontis, added engraved title page + 18 engraved plates as called for, old boards worn, lacks backstrip, [John Baldwin Buckstone: 'The Green Bushes; Or, A Hundred Years Ago. A Romance', London, E. Lloyd, 1847, folding hand coloured frontis, engraved ills. in text, 64pp, bound together with Victorian Penny Dreadful 'The Bottle; or, the First step to crime. A romance.', L, E. Lloyd, [1847], parts 1-7, each part with full page engraved illustrated title page, appears incomplete, 64pp (of 94pp?), leaves toned/foxed throughout, old half cloth worn (3)
Lot 6100
Mervyn Peake: 'Titus Groan', London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, in second impression dust wrapper as often (original 18/- price sticker stuck over 15s net price, VGC+/VGC+), together with another 1946 1st edition copy of the same title, original cloth gilt, second impression dust wrapper, 'Titus Alone', L, E & S, 1959, 1st edition, b/w frontis, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (21s price intact). The first and the third books in the author's Gormenghast series of fantasy novels, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure. (3)
Lot 6163
Assorted literature, modern fiction, biography etc, 11 titles, including D.H. Lawrence, 2 titles, both first editions published London, Martin Secker, both original cloth gilt: 'The Lost Girl', 1920, 'The Ladybird', 1923; Mervyn Peake: 'Titus Groan', L, E & S, 1946, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt; Nina Hamnett: 'Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography', L, Allan Wingate, 1955, 1st edition, frontis + 10 ills. as called for, orig. cloth, d/w; plus 7 others including Dylan Thomas, Henry Miller, W. Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh etc (11)
Lot 6191
(Feminism, Women's Liberation, Counter Culture) 'Spare Rib', 24 assorted issues 1975-1978, comprising No.'s 29, 31, 34, 35, 36, 41, 44, 45, 47, 49, 51-56, 58-60, 62-64, 73 & 75, plus six duplicates (No.'s 47,49, 51, 53, 54, 58). Spare Rib was an active part of the emerging Women’s Liberation Movement in the late 20th century. Running from 1972-93, this now iconic magazine challenged the stereotyping and exploitation of women, while supporting collective, realistic solutions to the hurdles women faced. Emerging from the counter culture of the late 1960s as a consequence of meetings involving, among others, Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe, the title derives from the Biblical reference to Eve, the first woman, created from Adam's rib. Spare Rib included contributions from well-known international feminist writers, activists and theorists, as well as stories about ordinary women in their own words. Articles tackled many different threads of feminism from many different angles. Subjects included "liberating orgasm", "kitchen sink racism", anorexia and the practice of female genital mutilation. The magazine reflected the sometimes turbulent debates about how best to tackle issues such as sexuality and racism (30)
Lot 6086
Laurie Lee, the autobiographical trilogy: 'Cider With Rosie', London, The Hogarth Press, 1959, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (by John Ward, 18s price intact), 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning', London, Andre Deutsch, 1969, 1st edition, signed on half title, original cloth, dust wrapper (30s/£1.50 price intact), 'A Moment of War', London, Viking, 1991, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (£14.99/C$24.99). An excellent first edition set of Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy, his most significant literary contribution (3)
Lot 6180
T.S. Eliot: 'The Four Quartets - East Coker; Burnt Norton; Dry Salvages; Little Gidding', London, Faber & Faber, 1940, 1941, 1941, 1942, 1st editions, 1st impressions, each original printed wraps (first 3 titles stapled, Little Gidding stitched, East Coker wraps detached with some small part losses), plus W.H. Auden: 'Spain', L, Faber, 1937, 1st edition, and a January 1941 4th impression copy of 'East Coker', each orig. stapled printed wraps (6)
![Sebastian Faulks [The French Trilogy], comprising 'The Girl at the Lion d'Or', 1989, signed piece mounted to title page; 'Bir](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b3c2c738-19d0-4d60-8532-b0c100bdc003/411fd172-d05b-484c-b14a-b0c101080f2f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 6081
Sebastian Faulks [The French Trilogy], comprising 'The Girl at the Lion d'Or', 1989, signed piece mounted to title page; 'Birdsong', 1993, signed bookplate mounted to title page; 'Charlotte Gray', 1998, signed to title page, all first UK editions published Hutchinson, all original cloth gilt, all in dust wrappers, internally none with previous ownership names or inscriptions, all with leaves clean/VGC, all fine in original cloth, 'Birdsong' & 'Charlotte Gray' v. light foxing/spotting to top page edges, wrappers with minimal wear to extremities, otherwise excellent and crisp copies, all with prices intact (3)Condition: Girl at the Lion d’Or – No previous owner markings or other internal markings, leaves clean/VGC. Very slight spine lean, else binding sound, text block sound, clean & tight, page edges clean, no spotting. Externally cloth fine/clean, no sunning/fading. EP’s unmarked. Dust wrapper no losses, tears or nicks, price intact.Birdsong - No previous owner markings or other internal markings, leaves clean/VGC. Very slight spine lean, else binding sound, text block sound, clean & tight, some slight spotting to top page edges, very minimal spotting to other page edges (this barely noticeable at all really). Externally cloth fine/clean, no sunning/fading. EP’s unmarked. Dust wrapper no losses, tears or nicks, just very slight crease near top edges of front and rear panels & very slightly rubbed in same place, price intact.Charlotte Gray - No previous owner markings or other internal markings, leaves clean/VGC. Binding sound, text block sound, clean & tight, top page edges with some foxing/toning, other edges generally clean/VGC. Externally cloth fine/clean, no sunning/fading. EP’s unmarked. Dust wrapper no losses, tears or nicks, price intact. (3)
Lot 6160
Fifteen modern first editions etc and proofs, mainly signed & inscribed to the publisher Dan Franklin (b.1949), plus a small number flat signed by author or unsigned but with Dan Franklin's ownership signatures at front, including Salman Rushdie, 2 titles: 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet', London, Jonathan Cape, 1999, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to Dan Franklin on half title, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'Fury', L, Cape, 2001, 1st edition, signed on title page, orig. cloth, d/w, Ian McEwan: 'For You The Libretto', L, Vintage, 2008, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to Dan Franklin on title page, orig. wraps, Kate Figes: 'On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions', L, Virago, 2018, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to Dan Franklin on title page, orig. cloth, d/w, Bill Bryson: 'Made in America', L, Secker, 1994 reprint, signed & inscribed to Dan Franklin on title page, orig. cloth, d/w, Dan Franklin bookplate on front pastedown, Tom Willocks: 'Green River Rising', L, Cape, 1994, uncorrected proof, signed & inscribed to Dan Franklin on title page, orig. pictorial wraps, plus others Helen Fielding, Toby Litt, James Scudamore, Mark Haddon, Michael Caine, Richard Ford etc (15)
Lot 6157
Fiction, modern first editions, 15 titles, including George Griffith: 'The Rose of Judah', London, C. Arthur Pearson, 1899, 1st edition, 7 b/w plates (of 8, lacks frontis), original pictorial cloth, Henry Rider Haggard: 'Fair Margaret', L, Hutchinson, 1907, 1st edition, b/w frontis + 14 full page b/w illustrations on 7 leaves as called for, original cloth gilt, Aldous Huxley: 'The Olive Tree', L, Chatto & Windus, 1936, 1st trade edition, orig. cloth gilt, d/w, John Myers Myers: 'Silverlock', NY, E.P. Dutton & Co, 1949, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Joseph Wechsberg: 'Home Coming', NY, Knopf, 1946, 1st edition, orig. cloth d/w, Graham Greene, 2 titles: 'The Quiet American', L, Heinemann, 1955, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'J'Accuse', L, 1982, 1st edition, orig. wraps, plus Graham Swift 'Last Orders' 1st edition signed, Salman Rushdie 'Shame' 1983 1st, others William Golding, Norman Mailer etc (15)
Lot 6237
(Shakespeare.) 'The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare', New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1939, limited edition, No.153 of 1,950 copies, 6 b/w plates after Edy Legrand as called for, folio, original cloth backed patterned paper covered boards, orig. prospectus loosely inserted; plus 5 others Shakespeare related, including Caroline Spurgeon: 'Keats's Shakespeare, a Descriptive Study Based on New Material', 1929, 2nd edition, frontis + 20 plates as called for, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper, Rothery: 'The Herladry of Shakespeare', L, The Morland Press, [1930], frontis + 10 full page plates + numerous ills. in text as called for, 4to, rebound cloth, 'Antony and Cleopatra. A Facsimile of the First Folio Text', L, [1929], The Chiswick Press for Faber & Gwyer, Folio, orig. quarter cloth, 'Macbeth by William Shakespeare, as Arranged for the Stage by Forbes Robertson and Presented at the Lyceum Theatre on Saturday , September 17, 1898', London, The Nassau Press, 1898, 7 plates, orig. cloth backed boards, orig. theatre programme loosely inserted, plus 1 other (6)
Lot 6145
Ian Fleming: 'Live and Let Die', London, Jonathan Cape, 1954, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper by Kenneth Lewis (dust wrapper 1st printing/2nd state, with Kenneth Lewis "floating"credit well below the blurb on inside front flap, neatly price clipped to inside front flap, inside rear flap with 10s. 6d. price intact). A first edition copy of the second of Ian Fleming's Bond novels, following on from Casino Royale. Adapted into the 1973 film starring Roger Moore and Jane Seymour
Lot 6288
(Science, Medicine, Astrology, Occult, Witchcraft etc.) A Renaissance library, twelve C16th-C18th mainly Italian texts, including (Demonology, Magic, Occultism, Witchcraft.) Strozzi Cigogna (1568-1605): 'Del palagio de gl'incanti, et delle gran merauiglie de gli spiriti, & di tutta la natura : Diuiso in libri XXXXV. & in III. prospettiue. Spirituale, celeste, et elementare / di Strozzi Cigogna gentilhuomo Vincention, theologo, filososo, & dottor di leggid, & nuncio della Citta di Vicenza', Brescia, Appresso Francesco Tebaldino, 1605, 1st edition,[40],623,[1]pp, wood engraved device on title page, decorative woodcut initials, 8vo, old paper covered boards, m/s title to spine. First edition of the author’s most important work on occultism (The first edition of 1605 was published simultaneously, by four different publishers, in Venice and Brescia.) Strozzi Cigogna (1568-1605) studied law at Padua; a late humanist, he devoted himself to poetry and philosophy, achieving lasting fame with ‘Il Palagio degl’incanti’, published in 1605. It is a treatise on daemonology—a winning combination of ancient and Scholastic theories on god, the nature and origin of the world, with a Renaissance interest towards pagan, Christian, Hermetic and Cabalistic ideas, and a wealth of learned and popular anecdotes. Some of these Cicogna had heard from the archpriest of Barbarano, near his hometown Vicenza, who recounted supernatural events which had happened to him (‘Storia popolare d’Italia’, VII, 163). ‘The most comprehensive and original treatise on angelic beings ever written in early modern Europe’ (Maggi, ‘Company of Demons’, 17). Robert Burton drew heavily from Cigogna’s work for his ‘Anatomy of Melancholy’; one of Cigogna’s anecdotes inspired a poem by the English Gothic novelist Matthew Gregory Lewis; Paul Dubé: 'Il medico de' poveri, trattato prattico che insegna il modo di curare qualsivogliano infirmità humane per via di medicamenti di niuna, o pochissima spesa... [The Doctor for the Poor]', Bassano, Gio. Antonio Remondini, 1734, 420pp, Pt. [2] (p. [349]-420) has special title page: Il chirurgo de' poveri with wood engraved printers device, 12mo, contemporary paper covered boards (worn); Jeronimo Cortez: 'Stock image for O Non Plus Ultra do Lunario, e Pronostico Perpetuo, Geral e Particular para Todos Os Reinos e Provincias (Classic Reprint) (Portuguese Edition) for sale by GF Books, Inc.Stock ImageO Non Plus Ultra do Lunario, e Pronostico Perpetuo, Geral e Particular para Todos Os Reinos e Provincias [The Incomparable Lunary]', Lisbon, Francisco Borges de Sousa, 1768, [8],312pp, wood engraved illustration to title page and wood engraved ills. to text throughout, 16mo, old calf gilt (worn); Raimondo Lullo: 'Di Natura della Quinta Essentia [Concerning the Five Principles]', c.1700, a/f, lacks title page, ff.[27],151, also includes the work Albertus Magnus 'Filosofo Clarissimo de Minerali, & di cose Metalliche', wood engraved ills. in text, contemporary m/s notes to margins of some leaves, 16mo, contemporary vellum. Lullo or Lully was a 13th Century Catalan philosopher and this book enunciates his philosophical principles. Albertus Magnus was a 13th Century German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop; Timoteo Rosselli: 'De' secreti universali parte prima [e seconda][Concerning Secrets of the Universe]', Venice, 1644, 2 parts in 1, ff.[8],136,[8],132, 16mo, contemporary calf gilt; Guillaume Budé: 'Trattato delle monete e valuta loro, ridotte dal costume antico, all'vso moderno ... Tradotto per Gio. Bernardo Gualandi [Treatise on money and the value of gold]', Florence, Appresso i Giunti, 1562, [8],309,[11]pp, 16mo, contemporary vellum; Atanagio Cavalli: 'Delle Apparizioni, ed Operazioni de' Spiriti, Dissertazione. [Concerning apparitions and the workings of spirits]', Milan, Federico Agnelli, 1765, CCLXIXpp., contemporary vellum; Florian Canale Breciano: 'De' secreti universali raccolti, et esperimentati trattati nove : ne' quali si hanno rimedii per tutte l'infermità de' corpi humani. Come anco de' cavalli, bovi, & cani. Con molti secreti appartenenti all'arte chemica, agricoltura, & caccie come nell'indice alfabetico', Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1613, [24],269pp, contemporary vellum worn; Leonardo Fioravanti: 'Dello specchio di scientia vniversale / dell'eccell. Dottore ... M. Leonardo Fioravanti Bolognese', Venice, Per il Valentini, 1624, ff.[16],347, 16mo, contemporary vellum; plus 3 others similar (all appear to be lacking title pages) (12)
Lot 6079
Six first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, comprising Gregory David Roberts: 'Shantaram', London, Little Brown, 2004, Robert Edric: 'The Kingdom of Ashes', L, Doubleday, 2007, Mick Herron: 'Slough House', L, Murray, 2021, Katie Kitamura: 'Intimacies', L, Cape, 2021, Joel Dicker: 'The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer', L, Maclehose/Quercus, 2021, signed, Howard Jacobson: 'Zoo Time', L, Bloomsbury, 2012 (6)
Lot 6307
(Suffragettes, W.S.P.U., D.H. Lawrence.) A Leather bound visitor book 1912-1954 The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, Barrow-in-Furness, and Tan Llan, Llanelltyd, containing signatures of D.H. Lawrence and Suffragette W.S.P.U. members. The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, Barrow-in-Furness, attracted fashionable society and the artistic and literary elite in the pre WW1 years. Signatures/guests 1912-1914 include D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930); W.S.P.U. members Gwendoline E. Cook, Lilian Lenton (1891-1972), active member of the W.S.P.U., arrested and held hunger strikes multiple times, winner of a French Red Cross for her service in WWI, Elizabeth Grew, Emily & Maud Fussell; Laurence Housman (1865-1959), writer, artist & radical activist, Adolph Paul Oppé (1878-1957), British art historian, critic, art collector and museum official, Hugh Dalton (1887-1962), Maurice Grey, Janet & George Trevelyan, Ellen Melicant Cobden, R. Elliott Seabrooke, William Arnold-Forster (1886-1951), W. Walmesley White, Maurice Gray (1890-1918) etc etc, plus a few photographs post 1914, at the last entry for The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, the hostess wrote "The Play is Ended", mounted photograph at the beginning of the album c.1912, possibly depicting the hostess. A gap in years follows before re-emerging at 'Tan Llan', Llanelltyd, Wales. Tan Llan gives a contrasting atmosphere of a refuge away from society, politics, and WW2; guests write short descriptions of their stay and the peace and beaty of their surroundings. The hostess is praised for her welcoming hospitality "After weeks of Air Raids & nightly bombing, this has been the MOST lovely & peaceful change" Ethel H. Dunbar Sewart, a regular visitor 1940-42. Signatures/inscriptions/addresses: Suffragette Lilian Lenton describes her address as "Al Large", 1-6th August, 1914, meeting D.H. Lawrence on his arrival (6-8th August.) Lawrence is known to have stayed following a walking tour of Westmoreland (where Elliott Seabrooke had also built a studio.) D.H. Lawrence signature and address clipped from a letter (likely to be a booking request.) Writer and social activist Janet Penrose Trevelyan (1879-1956,) her husband, the historian George Macaulay Trevelyan; Ellen Melicent Ashburner "Nellie" Cobden (1848-1914), was a suffragette, author & the first wife of the painter Walter Sickert; Artists, pacifist & actor R. Elliott Seabrooke (1886-1950); Frederick Bligh Bond (1864-1945) English architect, illustrator, archaeologist and physical researcher "Much enjoyed my rest after a rather strenuous time, and improved greatly under the care of my kind hostess" Aug. 5th, 1941. Mounted black & white photograph of the Tan Llan rooftops, looking towards the surrounding Welsh hills on leaf preceding 1944 entries, approx. 35 pages of manuscript entries in total spanning the period July 1912-c.1954. Oblong quarto leather bound tobacco brown traditional visitor book, decorative gilt border, all edges gilt, pale blue marbled end papers, approx. dimensions 21 x 26cm
Lot 6043
Enid Blyton, three Adventure Series first editions, all published London, Macmilan, all original pictorial cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'The River of Adventure', 1955, 'The Mountain of Adventure', 1949 (d/w with some part losses), 'The Circus of Adventure', (d/w part loss head of spine/top corner rear panel) (3)
Lot 6380
(India.) Major A.C. Yate: 'Lieutenant-Colonel John Haughton, Commandant of the 36th Sikhs: A Hero of Tirah, A Memoir.', London, John Murray, 1900, 1st edition, lacks portrait frontis, else 25 b/w ills. from photographs + 4 folding maps as called for (Plan of Chareekar with small marginal loss just affecting edge of printed area), original deep red cloth gilt, tope edge gilt, others uncut. First and only contemporary edition of this interesting and engaging biography of "one of the most distinguished soldiers of the [Tirah] campaign" (Nevill, p. 303), described by Lord Methuen as "the best leader of men I ever saw". Increasingly uncommon on the market. John Haughton (1852-1898) was the son of Lt.-Col. John Colpoys Haughton, "the staunch defender of Charikar in 1841 [whose name] is known but to the few serious students of Indian Frontier warfare" (p. ix). In India, the younger Haughton commanded the 36th Sikhs during the 1897-1898 Tirah campaign to subdue part of the Indian frontier. In the last major battle of the campaign, Haughton was killed by sheer overwhelming numbers. A plaque in the chapel at Uppingham School commemorates Haughton's death, "while boldly defending a position to the last against overwhelming odds". The present work also contains a detailed description of the famous engagement at Saragarhi, where 21 members of Haughton's 36th Sikhs were involved in an heroic last stand against 10,000 Afghans.
Lot 6080
Anthony Burgess: 'Time for a Tiger', London, William Heinemann, 1956, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. The author's first novel, set in British Malaysia; together with ten assorted novels, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, including John le Carré: 'The Russia House', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1989; Evelyn Waugh: 'The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy', L, Chapman & Hall, [1948]; Ian McEwan: 'Atonement', L, Jonathan Cape, 2001; Mario Vargas Llosa: 'The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta', L, Faber & Faber, 1986; William Trevor, 2 titles: 'Elizabeth Alone', L, Bodley Head, 1973, 'Felicia's Journey', L, Viking, 1994; plus 4 others (11)
Lot 6235
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919). American politician, 26th President of the United States, 1901-1909. A Typed Letter Signed dated April 28th 1911, 13 lines, to Lucy Bethia (Colquhoun) Walford (1845-1915), Scottish novelist and artist, "My dear Mrs Walford: Not only have I always shared with Mrs Roosevelt my fondness for your books, but I have long been a particular admirer of the "Moor and the Loch"; and I had no idea that John Colquhoun was your father until Mrs Roosevelt told me...I could ask nothing better for my own boys than that they should take exactly the view of sport that your father sets forth in the first chapter under that title. With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt", on "The Outlook, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York" headed paper, in original postally used envelope
Lot 6123
Joan Fleming: 'Malice Matrimonial', London, Collins Crime Club, 1959, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by William Randell, John W. Vandercook: 'Murder in New Guinea', L, W.H. Allen, 1960, 1st UK edition, original cloth, dust wrapper by WIlliam Randell, Allan Mackinnon: 'Nine Days' Murder', L, Collins Crime Club, 1945, 1st edition, orig. cloth, first edition of the Scottish author's first novel, Leslie Charteris: 'Featuring the Saint', L, H & S, 1931, 1st edition, orig. cloth, Kate Atkinson: 'When Will There be Good News?', L, Doubleday, 2008, 1st UK edition, signed by author on title page, orig. cloth, d/w, Patricia Highsmith, 2 titles, both first editions published London, William Heinemann, both orig. cloth, both in dust wrappers: 'A Dog's Ransom', 1972, 'Found in the Street', 1986, Elly Griffiths: 'The Last Remains', L, Quercus, 2023, 1st Uk edition, signed, orig. cloth gilt, d/w (8)
Lot 6247
Charles Dickens: 'The Nonesuch Dickens. The Complete Works of Charles Dickens', London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937-38, 23 volumes, one of 877 sets, without the etched steel plate in box, but with the accompanying Nonesuch Dickensiana volume, original variously coloured full buckram by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co. Ltd., black morocco gilt letter-pieces on spines, top edges gilt. Intended as a definitive edition of Dickens' works the Nonesuch Press edition was printed using the original steel plates and woodblocks created by Chapman & Hall for the illustrations in the first editions of the books. The largest project of the Nonesuch Press and one of their great triumphs, esteemed for the quality of its printing, illustrations, and paper. As noted in the Prospectus, collected within Nonesuch Dickensiana, also included here, "it will never be possible for a more complete and perfect edition to be put upon the market" (24)
Lot 6184
Dennis Potter: 'The Singing Detective', London, Faber, 1986, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, Tennessee Williams, 3 titles, all first editions, all London, Secker & Warburg, all orig. cloth, all in d/w's: 'Baby Doll', 1957, 'Orpheus Descending', 1958, 'Four Plays', 1956 (first collected edition), Matt Crowley: 'A Breeze from the Gulf', NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1974, 1st edition, signed & inscribed on FFEP dated 8.14.75, orig. cloth, d/w, Brian Friel: 'Lovers, Winners & Losers', NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein: 'Me and Juliet', NY, Random House, 1953, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, Harry Bloom: 'King Kong an African Jazz Opera', L, Collins, 1961, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, William J. Kerr: 'Images of Imagination', NY, Exposition Books, 1954, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by author to Paul Gallico on FFEP, orig. cloth, Joe Orton: 'Between Us Girls', L, 1998, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w (10)
Lot 6134
John le Carre: 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold', London, Victor Gollancz, 1963, 1st edition, signed piece attached to half title, original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, dust wrapper (priced 18/- net as called for,) with accompanying Typed Letter Signed from Vicki Phillips, assistant to Le Carré, regarding the signing of the book, July 2018 on David Cornwell headed paper, with orig. envelope and compliment slip. Signed first edition copy of le Carré's third book. The definitive Cold War novel, it won le Carré the 1964 Somerset Maugham Award and secured his reputation as a master of the spy thriller.
Lot 6129
John le Carré, 17 titles, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, of which 9 UK first editions/first impressions: 'The Looking-Glass War', L, Heinemann, 1965, 'A Small Town in Germany', L, Heinemann, 1968, 'Smiley's People', L, Hodder & Stoughton, 1980, 'A Perfect Spy', L, H & S, 1986, 'Singe & Single', L, H & S, 1999, 'Absolute Friends', L, H & S, 2004, 'The Mission Song', L, H & S, 2006, 'Agent Running in the Field', L, Viking, 2019, 'Silverview', L, Viking, 2021, plus US first edition/first impressions of 'Call for the Dead', NY, Walker, 1962 (dust wrapper with no price), 'The Russia House', NY, Viking, 1989, 'The Secret Pilgrim', NY Knopf, 1991, 'Our Game', NY Knopf, 1995, 'The Tailor of Panama', NY, Knopf, 1996, 'Single & Single', NY, Scribner, 1999, plus 2 others UK later impressions (17)
Lot 6147
Graham Greene, 7 titles, all UK first editions, original cloth, with dust jackets, unless stated: 'A Burnt-Out Case', 1961; 'Doctor Fischer of Geneva', 1980; 'The Human Factor', 1978; 'Monsignor Quixote', 1982; 'The Comedians', 1966, (no dust jacket); 'The Little Train', illustrated Edward Ardizzone, first thus 1977; 'The Potting Shed', Berlin, Velhagen & Klasing [1958], slight ink marks on four pages, original paper-covered boards, issued without a dust jacket; plus Evelyn Waugh, 3 titles, UK first editions: 'A Tourist in Africa', 1960, dust jacket; 'Scott-King`s Modern Europe', 1957, dust jacket; 'Robbery Under Law', 1939, (no dust jacket) (10)
Lot 6368
(India, Sikh.) PRINCESS BAMBA DULEEP SINGH COLLECTION catalogue, Dr. F.A. Khan: 'The Princess Bamba Collection (Antiques of Sikh Period) Catalogue', Department of Archaeology, Government of Pakistan, 1961, 17pp letterpress, 3 colour plates (portrait of Maharajah Duleep Singh; Maharajah Ranjit Singh at Amritsar; Maharajah Sher Singh in Council) + 10 b/w illsutrations (7 full page, 1 double page folding, 2 on 1 page) as called for, original pictorial wraps, neatly rebacked gilt cloth. Rare first and only edition of the remnants of the Sikh art collection held by Maharajah Duleep Singh and inherited by his eldest daughter in Lahore. The collection was sold to the Lahore Fort in 1958.
Lot 6365
William Broadfoot: 'The Career of Major George Broadfoot, C.B. (Governor-General's Agent N.W. Frontier, 1844-5) in Afghanistan and the Punjab. Compiled from his Papers and those of Lords Ellenborough and Hardinge.', London, John Murray, 1888, 1st edition, portrait frontis + 2 maps as called for, 445,[3]pp + publisher's 28pp catalogue of adverts at end dated October 1888, original cloth gilt (spine faded, slightly worn.) First edition of this uncommon memoir of the man described by his fellow political officer, Colin McKenzie, as "the foremost man in India". Broadfoot (1807-1845) first served in India in the late 1820s with the 34th Native Infantry Madras Army. After returning to Britain to study at Addiscombe, he rejoined the Madras Army, commissariat department, in 1838 serving with distinction during the latter stages of the First Afghan War, famously prevailing against the majority to insist on the defence of Jalalabad; "and thus the firmness of one man, and he nearly the junior in the council of war, preserved his country's arms from suffering another deep and disgraceful blow" (Durand, The First Afghan War, p400). After the lifting of the siege, Broadfoot joined the relieving army under Major-General George Pollock "and distinguished himself in the actions at Mamu Khel, Jagdalak, and Tezin. In October he was promoted brevet major and made a CB" (ODNB). He had caught the eye of the governor-general, Lord Ellenborough, for his inspirational role as part of the "illustrious garrison" at Jalalabad, and was made commissioner at Tenasserim in Burma, but his health suffered in the climate, and he requested a transfer. "In 1844 Sir Henry Hardinge, the new governor-general, appointed him his agent for the north-western frontier: an important position when war with the Sikhs seemed likely. He reported on the Punjab situation, negotiated with the Sikhs and, when war seemed imminent, gathered supplies for the army. In December 1845 the Sikhs invaded British territory. Broadfoot served on Hardinge's staff and was at the battles of Mudki and Ferozeshahr. At the latter, on 21 December, he was killed, shot through the heart".
Lot 6202
Humphry Repton: 'Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening', Oxford, Phaidon Press, Limited, 1980, limited edition facsimile of the original 1803 edition, No. 391 of 445 copies only, portrait frontispiece + numerous colour and black & white plates, maps & plans as called for, folio, original quarter calf gilt by A.D. Constance & Co, Bristol, top edge gilt. Humphry Repton was born in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, in 1752, and became the last great designer of the classic phase of the English landscape garden, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown. His style is thought of as the precursor of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the 19th century. During his life he designed around 400 landscapes and gardens, and became famous for his Red Books. When his parents died in 1778 he used his small legacy to move to a modest country estate at Sustead, near Aylsham in Norfolk. His first two landscape jobs were for Jeremiah Ives, textile merchant and mayor of Catton, and for Thomas Coke of Holkham Hall in Norfolk. Repton produced designs for the grounds of many of the foremost country houses in England, Scotland and Wales. Other commissions in Norfolk and Suffolk as well as the aformentioned include Honing Hall, Broke Hall, Gunton Park and his last commission, Sheringham Park. He died on 24 March 1818 and is buried in St Michael’s Church, Aylsham in Norfolk.
Lot 6195
(John Lennon, The Beatles), John Lennon, two titles, both first editions published London, Jonathan Cape: 'In His Own Write', 1964, 'A Spaniard in the Works', 1965, each original pictorial laminated boards; plus a duplicate 1964 first edition copy of 'In His Own Write', and 'The Penguin John Lennon', 1966, 1st thus, orig. pictorial wraps, together with Bill Adler (ed.); Osborn (ill.): 'Love Letters to the Beatles', London, Anthony Blond, 1964, 1st edition, orig. pictorial boards, dust wrapper; Michael Braun: 'Love Me Do: The Beatles' Progress', L, Penguin Books, 1964, 1st UK edition, orig. pictorial wraps, plus 2 copies of Charles Hamblett: 'Here are The Beatles', each Four Square/New English Library, 1964 1st UK editions, each orig. pictorial wraps (8)
Lot 6303
(Scotland, Estate Houses, Landed Estates.) An 19th Century manuscript account book, probably Fairholme/Pringle family of Greenknowe, Berwickshire, Scottish borders, 90 pages of manuscript pen & ink entries c.1716-1771, entries include for wages paid on Whitsunday & Martinmas to various individuals, accounts for various goods services "To Ms Pringle for washing..To Mr Sandilands for lint..Patrick Crightoun for discharge..To James Mitchelson...To Robert my gardiner.." etc etc, entries for crops, produce including wheat, oats, hay, rye grass etc., "books lent out as to whome. Mr Archbald Stewart stairs institution. Mrs Cleghorn first vol. of Kidderpop's Miscellanys, Ray's ... Theologi. To my brother Thomas - Boyers French and English dictionary vol. first...The Laird of Marjoribanks Bangors answer to the convocation", etc etc, contemporary calf worn (19 x 8cm). From the estate of George Fairholme of Greenknowe (1789-1846), provenance by descent.
Lot 6367
RARE PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOK ON SIKH SHRINES IN WEST PAKISTANDepartment of Archaeology in Pakistan, 1962. First edition. pp, 143, illustrations. The earliest book and compilation of Sikh related sites in the newly formed West Pakistan post 1947, putting together an early history and photograph of Sikh shrines many of which today do not exist or have been defaced or destroyed. This rare book has 76 photo plates including the Samdhi of Maharajah Sher Singh, Mahan Singh, Suchet Singh, Teja Singh, Jawahir Singh, Phula Singh and Charhat Singh. A most valuable account and record. Original green cloth (slightly worn), dust wrapper (with internal repairs/reinforcement)
Lot 6316
An autograph album c.1920's-1940's, signatures of several sportspeople, including footballers Tommy (W.T.) Whewell, who made a record 259 appearances for Corinthian F.C., killed 2nd October 1940 by a bomb on his home in Hampstead, aged 36; Tom Whittaker (1898-1956), on Arsenal F.C. letterhead, Mark Hooper (1901-1974), Sheffield Wednesday, Berry Nieuwenhuys (1911-1984), South African footballer who played predominantly for Liverpool, plus others George Eyston (1897-1979), British engineer, inventor, and racing driver best known for breaking the land speed record three times between 1937 and 1939, Jack Hobbs (1882-1963), English cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket, the leading run-scorer and century-maker in first-class cricket, with 61,237 runs and 197 centuries, plus athletes, jockeys, boxers etc; plus others stage/screen/celebrities incl. Gracie Fields (1898-1979), Stella Moya, Nat Gonella, Charles Laughton, Jean Gillie, Anna Neagle etc., contemporary cloth gilt
Lot 6266
(Perfume.) Simon Barbe: 'Le Parfumeur François, qui enseigne toutes les Manières de tirer les Odeurs des Fleurs, & de faire toutes Sortes de Composition de Parfums: avec le secret de purger le tabac en poudre, & le parfumer de toutes fortes d'odeurs ; pour le divertissement de la noblesse, l'utilité des personnes religieuses, & necessaire aux baigneurs & perruquiers.', Amsterdam, Chez Paul Marret, 1696, engraved frontispiece, 50 unnumbered pages, 170pp, 20 unnumbered pages. Classic manual of perfumery originally published in 1693, this 1696 edition being the first illustrated edition. Scarce in all editions, describing the extraction of fragrances from plant and animal sources and providing recipes for their use in hair and face powders, soaps, essences and oils, pomades, mouthwashes, scented gloves, and snuff. Boun together in one volume with three other late 17th Century works in French language, comprising Sir Kenelm Digby: 'Discours fait en une celèbre assemblée touchant la guérison des playes & la composition de la poudre de sympathie : enrichie avec beaucoup des remèdes et rare secrets tirez de memoires du Chevallier Digby, avec aucuns secrets pour la conservation de la beauté des dames', Utrecht, R. Van Zyll, 1681, 378pp. Powder of sympathy was a form of early pseudoscientific navigation and alchemy, in the 17th century in Europe, whereby a remedy was applied to the weapon that had caused a wound with the aim of healing the injury it had made. Weapon salve was a preparation, again applied to the weapon, but based on material from the wounded patient rather than on any remedy for the wound; [Claude Boutet]: 'Traité de mignature, pour apprendre aisément à peindre sans maître; et le secret de faire les plus belles couleurs l'or bruny, l'or en coquille, et le vernis de la chine', A La Haye : chez Estienne Foulque et Louis Van Doolen, 1688, "Dernière édition, corrigée et augmentée de plusieurs secrets", [16], 168, [8]pp; 'Instruction générale pour la Teinture des Laines et manufactures de Laine de toutes couleurs, et pour la culture des drogues ou ingrédiens qu'on y employe.', Paris, Chez Francois Muguet, 1671, [24],188pp, 12mo, contemporary calf gilt (worn), spine gilt in compartments, gilt titled to spine "Remedie Experimé"
Lot 6146
Ian Fleming, thirteen James Bond 007 novels, facsimile editions published Shelton, Connecticut, The First Edition Library by arrangement with Glidrose Ltd. and Jonathan Cape, 1981-1993, comprising Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man With the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights, 13 volumes, all original cloth gilt, dust wrappers, original slipcases (13)
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Lot 6258
(Satire.) Alfred Bunn: 'A Word with Punch', London, Published at 60 St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, [1847], "No. 1, - (to be continued, if necessary.)" All ever published. 12pp, engraved illustrations throughout. A satire on the principal contributors of the periodical 'Punch', G.A. À Beckett, Douglas Jerrold and Mark Lemon, with extracts from their writings. Punch’s first star writer, Douglas Jerrold, was nicknamed “the Little Wasp” for his stinging humor and slight frame. In 1843, he began skewering the flamboyant theatrical impresario Alfred Bunn (1796-1860) whom he called “the Poet Bunn” for his supposed literary pretensions. Jerrold never explained why Bunn was chosen, but for four years Punch ridiculed his productions, his management of Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres and, especially, his 1846 breach-of-contract suit against soprano Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale.” In retaliation, a fed up Bunn met with editor Albert Smith and writer Shirley Brooks, who had their own quarrels with Punch, and together with George Augustus Sala, they created a twelve-page “squib” that turned the tables on Bunn’s chief tormentors at the magazine: Jerrold, editor Mark Lemon and writer Gilbert á Beckett. On the back, a parody of the famous Warren’s Blacking ad shows Lemon reflected as an ass; another ad offers old issues of Punch “in any quantity, and at any price, on the premises.” Inside are several columns of Punch-like anecdotes, puns and poems, but the heart is Bunn’s seven-page takedown of Jerrold, Lemon and á Beckett, called “Wronghead,” “Thickhead” and “Sleekhead” respectively. With relish and in detail, he exhumes their many theatrical flops, reprints their favor-begging correspondence and nit-picks their verse for faulty images, a blood sport back then. After all that, speaking directly to Punch, he warns: “In carrying out the purport of this little squib, I have confined myself … to matters of a literary nature…. Your puppets, who have assailed, ridiculed and caricatured me for years, without any reason whatever, will not … abandon this branch of their trade now that I have given them reason…. In that case, I am prepared to pay back any compliment I receive with the highest rate of interest allowed by law, and shall let you, and perhaps them, into a secret or two worth knowing.” The response from Punch was … silence, at least in print, though there were reports of staff being dispatched to buy up all the copies of “A Word with Punch” they could locate. The attacks on Bunn ceased immediately and were never renewed, and the “secret or two” he claimed to know stayed secret; one Punch biographer called it “the only defeat of its kind in the magazine’s history.” As a bonus, two months later the courts ruled for Bunn against Jenny Lind, who had to pay him £2,000 damages. Very scarce. Bound together with 'An Account of the Tradesmen's Tokens of Essex', Lowestoft, Samuel Tymms, 1868, 28pp, and Lewis Nockall Cottingham, Architect: 'Some Account of an Ancient Tome...Discovered at Rochester Cathedral 1825', London, J. Taylor, [nd], c.1850, engraved title page followed by 5 stone lithograph plates, scarce. All bound together, 4to, 19th Century half calf gilt, two mounted manuscript letters at front from Nattali & Bond publisher's, 1871, re Joseph Lilly book sale at Sotheby's, 1871, "...this was written by Bunn in retaliation for the attacks made upon him in Punch. The title is "No.1 to be continued, if necessary", but Bunn did not find it necessary to continue it...it is very difficult to meet with. If you would like to purchase it please say how much you will give. Yr. most obed. servts. Nattali & Bond"
Lot 6046
Conor O'Brien: 'Two Boys Go Sailing', London, J.M. Dent, 1936, 1st edition, b/w frontis + 12 b/w plates & map end papers by B. Ganly as called for, original pictorial cloth, pictorial dust wrapper (by B. Ganly, worn with some part losses). Scarce juvenile fiction title by Edward Conor Marshall O'Brien (1880-1952), Irish arsitocrat, intellectual, naval architect and ship builder, and mountaineer. He was also owner and captain of one of the first boats to sail under the tri-colour of the Irish Free State. He was the first amateur Irish sailor to sail around the world, which he did in the Saoirse, a ship he designed himself
Lot 6144
Ian Fleming: 'Diamonds are Forever', London, Jonathan Cape, 1956, 1st edition, original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, silver diamond motif to front cover, dust wrapper (by Pat Marriott, 12s 6d price intact). First edition, first printing of the fourth James Bond novel, adapted into the 1971 film starring Sean Connery
Lot 6098
Ernest Hemingway: 'Men Without Women', New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927, 1st edition, 1st issue, Scribner's seal verso of title page, page number '3' in perfect type at foot of p.3, and on heavier stock paper weighing approx. 16 ounces (2nd issue copies have an imperfect '3' at foot of p.3 and weigh less than 14 ounces), original black cloth, printed paper labels to spine and front cover (label to spine slightly worn), two-tone gold endpapers with charging bull design, facsimile dust wrapper. Hemingway's collection of 14 short stories, four being previously unpublished, including the first appearance in book form of "The Killers," the Hemingway classic that has been made into 4 films.
Lot 6060
Arthur C. Clarke: 'A Fall of Moondust', London, Gollancz, 1961, 1st edition, ex library, original cloth, dust wrapper, Jules Verne: 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea', London, Ward Lock, c.1902, 2 black & white plates by Henry Austin as called for (of Nautilus submarine and shark attacking divers), parts I & II complete, 146;185pp + [6]pp catalogue of ads at rear, original pictorial cloth gilt, Evelyn Waugh: 'Black Mischief', L, Chapman & Hall, 1932, 1st edition, original cloth gilt (worn); plus 3 other assorted first editions (6)
Lot 6376
Lady Edwina Mountbatten (1901-1960), a signed monochrome photograph of Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, English heiress, socialite, relief worker and the last vicereine of India as the wife of (the then) Rear Admiral The 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma. The image depicting her in the uniform of St. John Ambulance, of which which she was instrumental in the promotion of as a modern international first aid organisation. She joined St John Ambulance in 1939 at the outbreak of WWII, following the end of the war she was heavily involved in the role that St John Ambulance played alongside the International Red Cross in the repatriation of prisoners of war. She travelled throughout the Far East and supported the successful return of more than 90,000 prisoners captured by the Japanese. In 1947, Edwina travelled to India with her husband, who had been appointed Viceroy. At a time of great change for the country, this was a politically sensitive post. Yet Edwina continued her charitable mission to improve standards of nursing care and first aid for those in need.Source: Museum of the Order of St John. Image approx size 18 x 13cm, signed beneath to the mount in blue ink, gilt framed and glazed
Lot 6116
Four signed crime fiction first editions, comprising P.D. James: 'A Certain Justice', L, Faber & Faber, 1997, 1st edition, signed on title page, Colin Dexter, 3 titles: 'The Jewel That Was Ours', L, Macmillan, 1991, signed on title page, 'Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories', L, Macmillan, 1993, signed & inscribed on title page, 'The Daughters of Cain', L, Macmillan, 1994, signed on title page, plus Sebastian Faulks (writing as Ian Fleming): 'Devil May Care', L, Penguin, 2008, 1st edition, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers (5)
Lot 6099
Bernard Malamud: 'The Natural', New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1952, 1st edition, (stated first edition verso of title page), original publisher's blue cloth gilt, publisher's compliment slip loosely inserted, pictorial dust wrapper ($3.00 price to inside front flap intact). The author's first novel, widely considered as one of the greatest baseball narratives of all time, basis for the acclaimed 1984 film of the same name directed by Barry Levinson, and starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall and Kim Basinger.
Lot 6075
A collection of 41 assorted mid 20th Century novels, all original cloth, all but one in dust wrappers, some former copies of David Higham (1895-1978), literary agent, with his ownership signatures on FFEP, including Hugh McGraw: 'The White Cat', L, Arthur Barker, 1950, 1st edition, pencil ownership sig. David Higham FFEP (d/w worn), Ralph Arnold, 2 titles: 'Fish and Company', 1951, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Skeletons and Cupboards', 1952, 1st edition, orig. cloth, Josephine Tey: 'To Love and Be Wise', L, Peter Davies, 1953 reprint, orig. cloth, d/w, Angus Wilson: 'The Wrong Set', 1949, 1st, orig. cloth, d/w, Edward Atiyah, 2 titles: 'Donkey from the Mountains', L, Hale, 1961, 1st Uk edition, 'The Eagle Flies from England;, L, Hale, 1960, 1st Uk edition, "David Higham's File Copy" stated in pencil on FFEP, both original cloth, both in pictorial dust wrappers by Val Biro, Bruce Marshall, 10 first editions in dust wrappers, including 'The Red Danube', Constable, 1947, 'The Fair Bride', Constable, 1953, 'Girl in May', Constable, 1956, etc, William Mayne, 10 first editions in dust wrappers, including 'On the Stepping Stones', 1963, 'Plot Night, 1963, 'The Member for the Marsh', 1956, 'The Changeling', 1961, etc, plus others Nigel Balchin (2), Noel Langley (2), Constantine Fitz Gibbon (3), Harold Acton, Jonathan Burke etc (41)
Lot 6125
(Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes.) 'The Strand Magazine, an Illustrated Monthly', London, George Newnes, January-June 1902, volume XXIII, includes part of Arthur Conan Doyle: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' in serialized form, parts 6-9 (of 9), being No.'s 133 (p.3-15), 134 (p.123-130), 135 (p.243-252) & 136 (p.363-372, this being the conclusion of the story), 4 full page black & white plates + 21 in text b/w illustrations by Sidney Paget as called for. The first five parts of the story appeared in the previous volume of The Strand Magazine/previous parts, issued August-December 1901. Original pictorial cloth gilt (slightly worn, inner joints weak).
Lot 6108
James Kennaway, 3 titles, all first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'Tunes of Glory', New York, Harper & Brothers, 1956, 1st US edition, (with correct C-G code on the copyright page), signed & inscribed on FFEP "To Talbot, with love from James (Kennaway)", original cloth, dust wrapper (with $3.00 price to inside front flap intact). Basis of the 1960 British drama film of the same name directed by Ronald Neame, 'Household Ghosts', L, Longmans, 1961, 1st edition, 'Silence', L, Cape, 1972, 1st edition (3)
Lot 6059
Thea von Harbou: 'Metropolis', London, Reader's Library, September 1927, 1st edition, 4th printing, 250pp, small 8vo, original publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt lettered and decorated. Verso of title page states that the first edition, first print run was 100,000 copies in February 1927, followed by three print runs of 50,000 copies each in March, May and September 1927 respectively, this being a September 1927 4th printing copy. Landmark Science-Fiction and Fantasy story set in 2026 in a technologically advanced city, sustained by the existence of an underground society of labourers. Written in conjunction with the film directed by Von Harbou's husband Fritz Lang; together with Robert Hugh Benson: 'The Necromancers', L, Hutchinson, [nd], c.1909, original cloth gilt (2)
Lot 6305
Rembrandt van Rijn; Edme Francois Gersaint: 'Catalogue raisonné de toutes les pieces qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt...avec les augmentations nécessaires, par les sieurs Helle & Glomy.', Paris, Chez Hochereau, 1751, 1st edition, engraved portrait frontis of Rembrandt-Van-Rhein by Jean-Baptiste Glomy as called for, second part with separate printed title page 'Supplement au catalogue raisonné de ... Rembrandt.', by Pierre Yver, Amsterdam, Pierre Yver, 1756, first part xxxii,326pp., second part viii,187,[11]pp. + errata leaf, the copy of George Fairholme of Greenknowe (1789-1846), Geologist, land owner, banker, traveller and naturalist, with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown, and copious manuscript pen & ink notes to text and margins throughout, stating sizes and various remarks about the works "Mr B. has an impression of this , great part of which is unfinished, the figures at bottom of angels being only traced out" (No.43 L'Annonciation aux Bergers) "another landscape, on the right are houses, particularly a large one with a turret, surrounded by trees, a river runs through in the foreground on the left...and in the background a view of Amsterdam with windmills...in the middle are two small figures on horseback, one of which seems pointing at the prospect. It has neither name nor date, and is one of those that he washed in Indian Ink - it is extremely scarce, as I never saw another - J.B.", 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, morocco gilt label to spine, together with John Evelyn: 'culptura historico-technica: or, The history and art of engraving...To which is now added, A chronological and historical series of the painters from the eleventh century. Extracted from Baldinucci, Florent Le Compte, Fairthorne, the Abecedario pittorico, and others authors. With copper-plates.', L, J. Marks, 1770, 4th edition, 10 engraved plates as called for, xi,264pp., contemporary calf, morocco gilt label to spine, armorial book plate of George Fairholme of Greenknowe. His father, William Fairholme (mother Elizabeth) made his living from banking and was a serious art collector. Nothing is known of George's childhood years and there is no record of his attending any university. But he was probably tutored at home and self-taught in keeping with his family’s wealthy financial situation. In 1800 an uncle bequeathed to him the Greenknowe estate (5000 plus acres) near Gordon, Berwickshire. Like many in his day he used his wealth to pursue his study of geology both in Britain and in Europe. On 15 November 1818 he married Caroline Forbes, who was the eldest daughter of the eighteenth Lord Forbes and granddaughter of the sixth Duke of Atholl. They lived in Perth; Greenknowe; Berne, Switzerland; Brussels; Ramsgate, Kent; and many other locations in Europe. They had five children, William, James (a naval officer lost on the Franklin Expedition), George, Charles and Elizabeth Marjory. George died in November 1846 in Royal Leamington Spa, willing homes, paintings and nearly 3000 pounds to each child. From the estate of George Fairholme, provenance by descent (2)
Lot 6333
Charles Darwin: 'On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects', London, John Murray, 1862, 1st edition, later issue, publisher's two 16pp catalogues of adverts at end both dated September 1871, 34 woodcut illustrations (of which 1 folding) as called for, vi,365,[1]pp + two 16pp catalogues of adverts at end, original blindstamped plum cloth gilt (worn, inner joints split, top board and backstrip detached from text block), front cover with gilt orchid design. Less than 2,000 copies of the first issue of the first edition were printed, these with adverts dated December 1861 and in ribbed cloth. Later issues of the first edition with adverts dated April 1868 and September 1871 also seemingly very scarce and printed from the same sheets, preceding the 1877 2nd edition. The first work by Darwin after his groundbreaking Origin of Species. This one complimenting his "evolutionary theory".
Lot 6276
(William Wilberforce, Abolition of Slavery.) Thomas Scott: 'Letters and papers of the late Rev. Thomas Scott', London, L.B. Seeley & Son, 1824, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by William Wilberforce on verso fo front free end paper "To the Revd. .. Richards, a Testimony of the cordial Esteem & Regard of his sincere friend W. Wilberforce Bath Octr. 24th 1824", engraved portrait frontispiece of Reverend Thomas Scott, xix, 515pp, contemporary calf gilt, housed in modern cloth slipcase. William Wilberforce (1759-1833), abolitionist and philanthropist, was born to a family of merchants, was first educated at Hull Grammar School under the evangelical Anglican minister Joseph Milner, and after the death of his father aged 9 was reared by an evangelical aunt and uncle in London. Through their influence, he came to faith at the age of 12. In this home he came into contact with such men as George Whitefield, the great evangelist, and John Newton, who had converted from a life of a slave trade, and ultimately penned the hymn Amazing Grace. Wilberforce's mother and other close family friends were alarmed at young William's religious "enthusiasm" and sought to reverse this course. By the time he arrived at St. John's College at Cambridge in 1776, his evangelicalism was well behind him, and he was as worldly as any of his friends, and vastly popular, displaying the charisma of a natural leader. In 1784, while respected as one of Parliament's leading debaters, Wilberforce embarked upon a European tour with Isaac Milner, an Anglican clergyman, who was known as a brilliant Cambridge scientist and mathematician. Unaware of Milner's evangelical convictions, Wilberforce was surprised to find that someone whom he could respect intellectually could also embrace a Christian worldview. Milner influenced Wilberforce greatly, by the end of two European trips, the politician was convicted of his sin. He acknowledged "a sense of my great sinfulness in having so long neglected the unspeakable mercies of my God and Savior." At this time, Wilberforce sought counsel from John Newton, by then the leading Anglican evangelical in London, and by October 1785 the 'great change' became complete. For a time Wilberforce thought about a call to ministry and retiring from public life, but Newton and Pitt urged him to stay in Parliament and serve Christ there. After a long period of self-questioning and prayer, Wilberforce reached his famous conclusion that "God had set before me two objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners" [i.e. morality]. While due in part to the influence of Newton, a former slave trader, Wilberforce's embracing of the anti-slavery cause was from the direct effect of embracing the Christian worldview. But this was not a popular cause. Wilberforce was the target of tirades, assassination threats, slander, the wrath iof Admiral Nelson, and was on one occasion even beaten on the street by an irate sea-captain. Despite threats to his life, he put forward a bill in the House of Commons in 1793 advocating gradual abolition, which failed by 8 votes. Promised the support of some Members of Parliament, he found himself abandoned, and despite Wilberforce reintroducing the Abolition Bill almost every year in the 1790s, little progress was made. However, Wilberforce's resolve to end slavery never abated. He was joined in his efforts by like-minded Christian friends known as the “Clapham Sect”. For twenty years they labored to turn public opinion and political leaders against the evils of slavery and the tide began to turn. On the night of February 23, 1807, excitement grew in the House of Commons as his latest motion was debated. Speech after speech spoke in favor of abolition, and his fellow members began to pay tribute to Wilberforce. The climax came when Solicitor General Sir Samuel Romilly contrasted the reception that Napoleon and Wilberforce would receive at the end of a day’s labors: Napoleon would come home in power and pomp, yet tormented by the bloodshed and oppression of war he had caused. “Wilberforce would come home to ‘the bosom of his happy and delighted family,’ able to lie down in peace because he had ‘preserved so many millions of his fellow creatures." The House of Commons rose to its feet, turned to Wilberforce, and began to cheer. They gave three rousing hurrahs while Wilberforce sat with his head bowed and wept.” (Belmonte, Hero for Humanity, p. 148) Then the Commons voted to abolish the slave trade by a vote of 283 to 16. Wilberforce went on to lobby the governments of other nations, including the US, to adopt similar measures, and to assure that the laws were enforced. After stopping the trading of slaves, he devoted himself for the next 25 years to ending the institution of slavery itself. Three days before his death in 1833, he heard that the House of Commons had passed a law emancipating all slaves in the British Empire.Wilberforce’s faith in Jesus Christ changed him from a careless, wealthy young politician to a tireless, compassionate public servant. He developed and used his gifts of leadership and persuasion to champion countless efforts to better society. He was a moral leader who voted against his party when principle required it. His partnership with his Christian brothers and sisters in the Clapham Sect serves as a model for Christians working together to bring about meaningful reform in society. He persisted for decades in the tasks God had called him to, despite illness, physical threats, and enormous opposition.
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