A collection of 80+ mainly works of poetry, plays, etc, some signed, including George Macbeth: 'The Screens', L, Turret Books, 1967, limited edition, number 83 of 300 copies in total, one of the first 100 copies numbered & signed by George Macbeth, six folding illustrated printed leaves, all housed loose in original portfolio as issued; Keith Harrison: 'Two Variations on a Ground', L, Turret Books, 1967, limited edition, number 31 of 150 copies in total, one of the first 50 copies numbered & signed by Harrison, orig. printed wraps; Peter Reading: 'Shitheads', L, Squirrelprick Press, 1989, limited edition (166/200), signed by the author and the publisher Michael Caine to limitation page, orig. pictorial printed wraps; Edward Lucie-Smith: 'Egyptian Ode', Daedalus Press, 1969, limited edition (197/226), signed & numbered to limitation page, further signed & inscribed to title page to Juliet Standing of Daedalus Press, orig. printed wraps; Edward Lowbury: 'Goldrush', The Celandine Press, 1983, limited edition (120/200), signed, orig. marbled paper wraps; Tony Harrison: 'Palladas: Poems', Anvil Press, 1975, 1st edition, signed, orig. wraps; Jeremy Hilton: 'To Poach River Country', 1977, limited edition, one of 25 copies only signed by author and three illustrators, this copy numbered 6, orig. printed wraps, ALS loosely inserted; Edgell Rickword: 'Collected Poems', L, Bodley Head, 1947, 1st edition, signed by author to FFEP, orig. cloth, d/w; Padriec Suemus O'Sullivan: 'Weep Not My Children', [1959], signed and inscribed to inside front cover, 17pp, original pictorial printed wraps; John Brandi: 'Poem Afternoon in a Square of Gudalajara', 1970, (300), orig. stitched wraps; Adrian Mitchell: 'Out Loud', Cape Goliard Press, 1969, 2nd edition, signed & inscribed and with pen & ink sketch to title page, orig. wraps; Hermon Ould: 'Time's Nemesis', Tring, The Porch, 1942, signed & inscribed, orig. wraps; Allen Ginsberg: 'T.V. Baby Poem', Beach Books in association with City Lights, 1968, orig. printed wraps; Phil Baines, David Blamey et al: 'bound image', 1988, limited edition (1010/2000), litho. ills. throughout, orig. pictorial wraps; John Wain: 'In the Beginning', 1979, limited edition (44/50), signed, linocut by Brenda Stones, orig. marbled paper wraps; plus others Turret Books, Bill Butler, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett, Paul Gogarty, Barry MacSweeney, Christopher Logue, T.S. Eliot 'Little Gidding', Faber, 1942, 1st edition, orig. printed wraps, Unicorn Press, Crabgrass Press, Anvil Press, Grosseteste Press, Rivelin Press, The Ferry Press, Galloping Dog Press, Mandeville Press, John Welch, etc etc (800+)
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A collection of 22 mainly poetry volumes from the early to mid 20th Century, including D.S. Savage: 'The Autumn World', London, The Fortune Press, [1939], 1st edition, signed & inscribed by the author to the poet & crime writer Julian Symons verso FFEP, original cloth gilt; Andrew Young: 'Speak to the Earth', L, Cape, 1939, 1st edition, signed to FFEP, orig. cloth; W.J. Turner: 'Pursuit of Psyche', L, Wishart, 1931, 1st edition, publishers compliment/review slip loosley inserted, orig. cloth, d/w (worn); Duff Cooper: 'Translations and Verses', L, The Dropmore Press, 1949, limited edition (421/600), orig. cloth, d/w (slightly worn); D.H. Lawrence: 'The Collected Poems of D.H. Lawrence. Volume One Rhyming Poems. Volume Two Unrhyming Poems', L, Martin Secker, September 1929, 2nd printing, 2 volumes, uniform original cloth gilt; C.H. Lay: 'In and Out', L, The Swan Press, 1930, 1st edition, orig. quarter vellum, dust wrapper, collection of 36 poems by the Suffolk poet; Bernard Gutteridge: 'Traveller's Eye. Poems', L, 1947, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by the author to John Yeoman on FFEP "John Yeoman with my love Bernard. West Knoyle '34 to Chelsea '47", orig. cloth gilt; Archibald MacLeish: 'Poems', L, 1935, 1st edition, ownership signature of Bernard Gutteridge at head of FFEP, with later inscription to John Yeoman beneath from Gutteridge, orig. cloth; 'The Chapbook A Miscellany (No.39) 1924', Poetry Bookshop, 1924, illustrations by Edward McKnight Kauffer and Terence Prentis, original pictorial paper covered boards (lacks backstrip); WIllem van Doorn: 'Of the Tribe of Homer', Amsterdam, 1932, signed and inscribed by author to John Yeoman on half title and with two Autograph Letters Signed by van Doorn to Yeoman loosely inserted, orig. wraps; T.R. Henn: 'The Lonely Tower. Studies on the Poetry of W.B. Yeats', L, Methuen, 1950, 1st edition, Typed Letter Signed by author to John Yeoman loosely inserted, orig. cloth, d/w (worn with losses); James Laver: 'Whistler', 1930, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to John Yeoman, orig. cloth gilt; plus 9 others. From the estate of John Richard Harding Yeoman (1916-1988), Copy Writer and Director for several Advertising Agencies, Assistant Secretary (Publicity) for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Borough Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea, Governor of the Chelsea School of Art, and lover of art, poetry and books. John Yeoman’s first wife was Antonia Yeoman, née Beryl Antonia Thompson (1907-1970), the Australian-English commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the name “Anton” (22)
A collection of 50 circa mid 20th Century works of poetry, mainly 1st editions, including Patrick Kavanagh: 'The Great Hunger', London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1966, orig. printed wraps, plus 1 other Patrick Kavanagh; Jon Silkin: 'The Peaceable Kingdom', L, C & W, 1954, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; George Seferis: 'The King of Asine', L, John Lehmann, 1948, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w (with part loss); William Empson: 'The Gathering Storm', Faber, 1940, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt. Scarce; Richard Murphy: 'Sailing to an Island', Faber, 1963, 3rd impression, signed & inscribed by author to John Yeoman, orig. cloth, d/w; William McLeod Rivera: 'The End of Legend's String', Views Associates, 1960, signed and inscribed to John Yeoman on FFEP and with TLS to him loosely inserted, original quarter cloth gilt; plus others Cecila Day Lewis (2), R.S. Thomas (2), Edwin Muir (3), Charles Causley (2); Roy Fuller (4), John Fuller (2), Edward Thomas, Dannie Abse, Julian Symons, W.R. Rodgers, Keidrych Rhys etc etc. From the estate of John Richard Harding Yeoman (1916-1988), Copy Writer and Director for several Advertising Agencies, Assistant Secretary (Publicity) for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Borough Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea, Governor of the Chelsea School of Art, and lover of art, poetry and books. John Yeoman’s first wife was Antonia Yeoman, née Beryl Antonia Thompson (1907-1970), the Australian-English commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the name “Anton” (50)
(Pre-Raphaelite), Florence Harrison (illustrated); William Morris: 'Early Poems of William Morris', London, Blackie, 1914, 16 tissue guarded tipped in coloured plates + 12 black & white plates by Harrison as called for, 4to, original decorative cloth gilt (slightly worn), top edge gilt; 'The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with illustrations from his own pictures and designs', edited W.M. Rossetti, London, Ellis & Elvey, 1904, 2 volumes, 20 tissue guarded plates as called for, orig. quarter japanese vellum over blue cloth gilt; Ernest Rhys: 'Sir Frederic Leighton, Bart., P.R.A. An illustrated chronicle by Ernest Rhys, with prefatory essay by F.G. Stephens', L, George Bell, 1895, 1st edition, 15 photogravure plates + numerous other plates & ills. throughout as called for, large 4to, rebound cloth with title part of original cloth gilt affixed to front cover; Ernest Richard Hughes (illustrated); Straparola, Giovanni Francesco: 'The Nights of Straparola. Now first translated into English by W.G. Waters. Illustrated by E.R. Hughes. F.P.', L, Lawrence & Bullen, 1894, limited edition, this being number 10 of 210 copies printed on Japanese Vellum only, 2 volumes, 20 plates as called for, rebound cloth gilt; plus a 19th Century edition of Tennyson's Poems, illustrated by Millais and others, and 2 others William Blake (9)
A.A. Milne: 'When We Were Very Young', illustrated E.H. Shepard, London, Methuen, December 1924, 3rd edition, original pictorial cloth gilt (gilt bright, VGC), top edge gilt, dust wrapper (a few nicks and small closed tears, spine a little toned/sunned, else generally a generally VGC wrapper, and identical to the first edition dust wrapper in every way, rear inside flap does not state "3rd edition" as some other copies appear to)
Tennessee Williams: 'Baby Doll', London, Secker & Warburg, 1957, 1st edition; Christopher Isherwood: 'Down There on a Visit', L, Methuen, 1962, 1st edition; Brigid Brophy: 'Hackenfeller's Ape', ill. Asgeir Scott, L, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953, 1st edition; Louis-Ferdinand Celine: 'North', L, The Bodley Head, 1972, 1st UK edition; Margaret Drabble: 'The Millstone', ill. Quentin Blake, L, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, [1965], 1st edition; Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 'The First Circle', L, Collins & Harvill, 1968, 1st UK edition, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers (6)
Kazuo Ishiguro, 3 titles: 'The Unconsoled', London, Faber & Faber, 1995, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'When We Were Orphans', L, Faber, 2000, 1st edition, orig. cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Remains of the Day', L, 1993, first film tie in paperback edition, orig. pictorial wraps (3)
Patrick Leigh Fermor: 'A Time to Keep Silence', London, John Murray, 1957, 1st edition, black & white chapter heading illustrations by John Craxton, 8 full page illustrations from photos, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (by Peter Todd Mitchell). First edition of the author's third book, detailing his introspective experiences in some of Europe's oldest and most venerable monasteries.
Patrick Leigh Fermor: 'Between the Woods and the Water', London, John Murray, 1986, 1st edition, 1st impression, double page map, original cloth gilt, pictorial dust wrapper by John Craxton (a VGC+ internal and external copy, d/w with £13.95 price intact), together with 'A Time of Gifts', L, John Murray, 1987, 7th printing, and a 1986 3rd impression of 'Between the Woods and the Water', both orig. cloth gilt, both in pictorial dust wrappers by John Craxton. The first two books in Fermor's celebrated travel trilogy that recounts his walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, both works are well known for their "blend of youthful joie de vivre, [and] erudition that enlightened the reader about the historical background of middle Europe" (ODNB). (3)
Hilary Mantel: 'Wolf Hall', London, Fourth Estate, 2009, 1st edition, 1st impression, signed by author to title page, original black cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial dust wrapper by Andy Bridge (£18.99 price intact). A signed first edition copy of Mantel's 2009 Booker Prize winning novels, the first title of the author's acclaimed Thomas Cromwell historical novel trilogy
![Charles Todd [i.e. Carolin Watjen & David Watjen], seven Inspector Ian Rutledge crime/mystery novels, all UK or US first](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/00cb7519-64fb-443f-8bcf-afb000dc08be/704ead86-e243-4cef-a2fb-afb300a9291a/468x382.jpg)
Charles Todd [i.e. Carolin Watjen & David Watjen], seven Inspector Ian Rutledge crime/mystery novels, all UK or US first editions, first printings, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: 'A Test of Wills', London, Headline, 1996, 1st UK edition, the author's first novel, 'Wings of Fire', L, Headline, 1998, 1st UK edition, 'Search the Dark', L, Headline, 199, 1st UK edition, 'A Long Shadow', NY, Morrow, 2006, 1st US edition, 'A False Mirror', NY, Morrow, 2007, 1st US edition, 'A Pale Horse', NY, Morrow, 2008, 1st US edition, 'A Matter of Justice', NY, Morrow, 2009, 1st US edition (7)
David Peace: 'The Red Riding Quartet: Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty, Nineteen Eighty Three (Signed First Printing Set)', London, Serpent's Tail, 1999-2002, 1st edition, all signed by the author to title page, 1974, 1977 & 1983 original pictorial wraps, 1980 original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (4)
P.G. Wodehouse: 'Heavy Weather', London, Herbert Jenkins, 1933, 1st edition, 1st impression, original blue cloth with border and lettering in orange (cloth generally VGC, internally neat ownership inscription at head of FFEP (not recent), else leaves generally clean/VGC), dust wrapper (second state priced 2/6 to the spine, not 7/6, but otherwise mirroring the first issue wrapper (wrapper with a few nicks/chips/small part losses, closed tear between fore edge of dust wrapper front panel and inside front flap, else generally bright/VGC). A good first edition example of the fourth 'Blandings' comedic novel, scarce in either the first or second state dust wrapper
Fitzroy Maclean: 'Eastern Approaches', London, Jonathan Cape and the Book Society, September 1949, portrait frontis of the author + 14 b/w ills. from photos on 11 full page plates + 3 folding maps as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. The extraordinary memoir of the early life of Major-General Sir Fitzroy Maclean (1911-1996). Recounts travels, often incognito, in Soviet Central Asia, and coverage of the Moscow State Trials, operating with the Long Range Desert Group behind Axis lines in the Western Desert, and being dropped in occupied Yugoslavia where he lived rough with Josip Broz Tito and his Yugoslav Partisans while commanding the Maclean Mission there. It has been widely speculated that Ian Fleming used Maclean as one of his inspirations for James BondNB this is not a first edition copy, but a Book Society (Book Club) edition published the same year as the first edition
![John le Carré [i.e. David John Moore Cornwell], 3 titles: 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold', London, Victor Gollancz, 1963,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/00cb7519-64fb-443f-8bcf-afb000dc08be/5b2d2708-8d5f-4fcd-ac83-afb300a93b57/468x382.jpg)
John le Carré [i.e. David John Moore Cornwell], 3 titles: 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold', London, Victor Gollancz, 1963, 1st edition, 1st impression, some water splashing affecting four pages at front, original blue cloth, dust wrapper (18/- price intact). A first edition copy of the author's superb highly sophisticated breakthrough third novel, depicting Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. A sequel to le Carré's previous novels 'Call for the Dead' and 'A Murder of Quality', which also featured the fictitious British intelligence organization, "The Circus", and its agents George Smiley and Peter Guillam; together with 'Single & Single', L, Hodder & Stoughton, 1999, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, the scarce promotional release with the variant dust wrapper design by Andy Bridge & released before the first UK trade edition, 'A Legacy of Spies', L, Penguin/Viking, 2017, 1st edition, "Exclusive Signed Edition", signed by the author to half title and with promotional bookmark loosely inserted, original cloth lettered in silver, dust wrapper (3)
Harry Hossent, four Spy Thriller first editions, all signed & inscribed by the author to one Tony Bloch on FFEP, all published London, John Long, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, comprising: 'Spies Die at Dawn', 1958, 'No End to Fear', 1959, 'Memory of Treason', 1961 & 'Run for Your Death', 1965 (4)
Nine signed first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, including Charles Humana: 'The House and the Fort', L, Hogarth Press, 1951, signed & inscribed by the author to the literary agent David Higham to FFEP, original cloth, dust wrapper, plus 3 others by Charles Humana, all signed & inscribed to David Higham; Donald Seaman: 'The Bomb That Could Lip-Read', L, Hamish Hamilton, 1974, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by author on FFEP, plus 2 others Donald Seaman signed & inscribed on FFEP; Mollie Harris: 'A Kind of Magic', L, Chatto & Windus, 1969, signed to title page, 'Another Kind of Magic', L, C & W, 1971, signed to title page and further signed & inscribed on half title, plus a 4th impression of 'A Kind of Magic', 1974, signed to title page, orig. cloth, d/w (10)
(Signed Fiction), a collection of twenty three modern first editions etc, all signed, including Louis de Bernieres: 'Corelli's Mandolin', New York, Pantheon Books, 1994, signed and dated 1994 by Louis de Bernieres to half title, advance reader's copy, uncorrected proof, original pictorial wraps (slightly worn), slipcase. The first US edition was published simultaneously with the first UK edition, signed proof of de Bernieres best known fourth novel 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'; plus others Roddy Doyle, Ian McEwan, Alan Hollinghurst, Graham Swift, Dick Francis, Peter Carey, Iain Sinclair, Caryl Phillips, Jon McGregor, Chang-rae Lee, Laurie Lee 'Cider With Rosie', 1962 Penguin paperback, signed by Laurie Lee to title page, Martin Amis, Simon Armitage etc (23)
A collection of fifty nine modern first editions etc, advance proofs, including Hilary Mantel, 2 titles: 'The Giant, O'Brien', L, 4th Estate, 1998, uncorrected proof, original wraps, 'A Change of Climate', L, Viking, 1994, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Irvine Welsh 'Ecstasy', L, Cape, 1996, 1st edition, 1st impression, orig. cloth, d/w; Milan Kundera, 2 titles: 'The Joke', L, Faber, 1983, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', L, Faber, [1984], uncorrected advance proof, original printed wraps (backstrip with part surface loss of paper at foot), publishers printed slip loosely inserted; Ben Okri: 'Stars of the New Curfew', L, Secker, 1988, 1st in d/w; Cormac McCarthy, 3 titles, all UK 1st editions, 1st impressions, all published Picador, all in d/w's: 'Cities of the Plain', 1998, 'No Country for Old Men', 2005, 'The Road', 2006; Haqruki Murakami, 3 UK 1st editions in dust wrappers; J.M. Coetzee, 4 UK 1sts in dust wrappers & 1 UK proof in original wraps; plus numerous others including Graham Greene, Nadine Gordimer, Michael Ondaatje, V.S. Naipaul, Angela Carter, Iris Murdoch, Richard Brautigan, Simon Raven, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colm Toibin, etc etc (59)
George MacDonald Fraser, five first editions in dust wrappers, comprising: 'Flashman in the Great Game', L, Barrie & Jenkins, 1975 (two copies), 'Flashman's Lady', L, Barrie & Jenkins, 1977, 'Flashman and the Dragon', L, Collins Harvill, 1985, 'Flashman and the Mountain of Light', L, Collins Harvill, 1990; Bernard Cornwell: 'Sharpe's Prey', L, 2001, 1st edition, signed & inscribed, original cloth, dust wrapper, plus 5 other Bernard Cornwell "Sharpe" 1st editions in dust wrappers (11)
![Hilary Mantel: [The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy], all UK first editions, first impressions, all published London, Fourth Estate,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/00cb7519-64fb-443f-8bcf-afb000dc08be/1482f9fd-9f4f-4482-8c97-afb300a94b2f/468x382.jpg)
Hilary Mantel: [The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy], all UK first editions, first impressions, all published London, Fourth Estate, 2009-2020, all in collectable condition in unclipped dust wrappers, comprising 'Wolf Hall', 2009, original cloth gilt (cloth very slightly bumped lower corner of upper and lower board, else VGC, internally leaves clean/VGC, no previous owner names/inscriptions), pictorial dust wrapper by Andy Bridge (VGC, minimal fading to spine, £18.99 price intact), 'Bring Up the Bodies', 2012, original cloth gilt (cloth near fine, no previous owner names/inscriptions), pictorial dust wrapper by Andy Bridge (near fine, £20 price intact), 'The Mirror & the Light', 2020, original cloth gilt (cloth near fine, no previous owner names/inscriptions), pictorial dust wrapper by Julian Humphries (near fine, £25 price intact). Mantel's celebrated series, charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the first two in the series won the Booker Prize in their respective years, making Hilary Mantel the first woman and the first British author to win the prize twice, and the first person to win the prize for two novels in a trilogy. (3)
Dick Francis, two signed & inscribed first editions: 'Risk', London, Michael Joseph, 1977, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to FFEP and dated November 1977, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, 'Trial Run', L, Michael Joseph, 1978, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to title page "Christmas 1978. Grand-Beau, With love & best wishes from the Armstrong-Brown family - & me! Dick Francis", with further signed and inscribed card paper clipped overleaf "With compliments, Dick Francis, Penny Chase, Blewbury, Didcot, OX11 9NH", orig. cloth gilt, d/w (2)
A collection of seventeen modern first editions etc, some signed, including J.M. Coetzee, 2 titles: 'Life & Times of Michael K', London, Secker, 1983, 1st edition, Typed Letter Signed from the author to one Tony M. Chance attached to front pastedown, bookplate of Tony M. Chance to FFEP, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, 'Stranger Shores', L, Secker, 2001, 1st edition, signed piece attached to front pastedown, orig. cloth, d/w; Graham Swift: 'Last Orders', NY, 1996, 1st US edition, signed, orig. wraps, slipcase; Doris Lessing: 'The Good Terrorist', L, Cape, 1985, 1st edition, bookplate signed by the author attached to FFEP, org. cloth gilt; John Fowles: 'Wormholes', L, Cape, 1998, 1st, author signed bookplate attached to FFEP, orig. cloth, d/w; James Ellroy: 'Perfidia', L, Heinemann, 2014, 1st, signed to title page, orig. cloth, d/w; Terry Pratchett: 'A Hat Full of Sky', L, Doubleday, 2004, 1st UK, orig. cloth, d/w; Edgar Rice Burroughs: 'Jungle Girl', L, Odhams, [1933], 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w (slightly worn, some small part losses); Anthony Burgess: 'Devil of a State', L, 1961, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Raymond Chandler: 'Playback', L, 1958, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w (part losses); Alistair MacLean 'The Last Frontier' & 'Night Without End' 1sts in wrappers, etc etc (17)
A collection of twenty eight modern first editions etc, all in dust wrappers, some Crime Fiction, including Patricia Wentworth, 3 titles: 'Ladies' Bane', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1954, 1st edition, 'The Allington Inheritance', L, H & S, 1960, 1st edition, 'The Watersplash', NY, Lippincott, 1951, 1st edition; Phoebe Atwood Taylor: 'The Asey Mayo Trio', L, Collins Crime Club, 1946, 1st edition (wrapper with some part losses); Alan Hunter, 2 titles: 'Gently Floating', L, 1963, 1st edition, 'Gently Sahib', L, 1964, 1st edition (facsimile dust wrapper); Christopher Isherwood: 'The World in the Evening', L, Methuen, 1954, 1st edition; Emma Tennant: 'The Last of the Country House Murders', L, Cape, 1974, 1st edition; Christopher Wood: 'Make it Happen to Me', L, Constable, 1969, 1st edition; 'Nightwebs, a Collection of Stories by Colonel Woolrich', NY, Harper, 1971, 1st edition; plus others Tolkien, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas, Ernest Hemingway, H.M. Tomlinson, Rebecca West, etc (28)
Three Science Fiction first editions, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, comprising Philip K. Dick: 'A Scanner Darkly', London, Victor Gollancz, 1977, 1st edition; Alan Dean Foster: 'Alien', L, Macdonald, 1979, 1st UK edition, 1st printing of the original novelization of the screenplay by Dan O'Bannon of the groundbreaking 1979 film, Alien, starring Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt; John Wyndham: 'Chocky', L, Michael Joseph, 1968, 1st edition (3)
A collection of eighteen Science Fiction & Fantasy titles, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers, including John Christopher: 'The Twenty-second Century', London, Grayson & Grayson, 1954, 1st edition in book form, the author's first Science Fiction book; William Hjortsberg: 'Gray Matters', L, Gollancz, 1973, 1st edition, signed on FFEP; Terry Pratchett: 'Guards! Guards!', L, Gollancz, 1989, 1st edition; John Lymington: 'Night of the Big Heat', NY, Dutton, 1960, 1st US edition; Jack Williamson: 'The Humanoids', NY, Simon & Schuster, 1949, 1st edition; Edward E. Smith: 'Skylark Three', Reading, Pennsylvania, Fantasy Press, 1948, 1st edition; Pelham Groom: 'The Purple Twilight', L, T. Werner Laurie, 1948, 1st edition; Michael Crichton: 'The Andromeda Strain', L, Cape, 1969, 1st edition; plus 9 others including Charles Eric Maine, Douglas Hill, Sax Rohmer "Dr. Fu Manchu" novels etc (18)
Dorothy L. Sayers: 'Unnatural Death', London, Ernest Benn, 1927, 1st edition, ex-lending library with remains of labels to front endpapers. Lacks one leaf (pp 97/98), few other leaves loose, gatherings loose. Lower endpaper with pencil notes. Original yellow cloth, worn; spine detached but present. The author's third Peter Wimsey novel, one of only 1000 copies of the first edition.
Crime Fiction, a collection of 25 titles, including Agatha Christie, 4 UK first editions, all published Collins, all original cloth, all in dust wrappers: '4.50 from Paddington', 1957, 'Hallowe'en Party', 1969, 'Sleeping Murder. Miss Marple's Last Case', 1976, 'Miss Marple's Final Cases and two other stories', 1979; James M. Cain: 'Three of a Kind', London, Robert Hale, [1945], 1st UK edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; Lawrence G. Blochman: 'Rather Cool for Mayhem', L, Cassell, 1952, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; John Buxton Hilton: 'Death in Midwinter', L, Cassell Crime, 1969, 1st edition, signed & inscribed to FFEP, orig. cloth, d/w; Robert B. Parker: 'Mortal Stakes', L, Andre Deutsch, 1976, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; John Ross Macdonald: 'The Galton Case', L, Cassell, 1960, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w; George Baxt: 'A Queer Kind of Death', L, Cape, 1967, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, d/w; plus 15 others John Paddy Carstairs, Laurence Meynell, Erle Stanley Gardner, James Hadley Chase, George Bellairs etc (25)
Elly Griffiths, the first eleven Dr Ruth Galloway series of crime/mystery novels, all UK first editions, 1st impressions, ten signed/signed & inscribed by author, all published London, Quercus, all original cloth, all in unclipped dust wrappers and in collectable condition, comprising: 'The Crossing Places', 2009, signed & inscribed to title page, 'The Janus Stone', 2010, signed & inscribed to title page, 'The House at Sea's End', 2011, signed & inscribed to title page, 'A Room Full of Bones', 2012, signed & inscribed to title page, 'Dying Fall', 2013, signed & dated to title page with promotional bookmark loosely inserted, 'The Outcast Dead', 2014, signed & inscribed to title page, 'The Ghost Fields', 2015, signed & inscribed to title page, 'The Woman in Blue', 2016, signed & inscribed to title page, 'The Chalk Pit', 2017, 'The Dark Ange'', 2018, signed & inscribed to title page, 'The Stone Circle', 2019, signed to title page. Crime mystery series whose protagonist, forensic archeologist Dr Ruth Galloway, lives in a cottage at the edge of a salt marsh in North Norfolk, with various Norfolk settings evocatively rendered throughout the series of novels. (11)
Patricia Wentworth: 'A Marriage Under the Terror', New York & London, Putnam's, August 1910, 4th printing, original cloth gilt; Daphne du Maurier, 2 titles: 'The House on the Strand', L, Victori Gollancz, 1969, 1st edition, orig. cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Parasites', L, Gollancz, 1949, 1st edition, orig. cloth d/w (staining to front cover of dust wrapper); Iris Murdoch, 3 first editions in dust wrappers: 'The Time of the Angels', L, 1966, 'A Fairly Honourable Defeat', L, 1970, 'Henry and Cato', L, 1976; Muriel Spark: 'The Mandelbaum Gate', L, Macmillan, 1965, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, plus 3 other Muriel Spark 1sts in dust wrappers (10)
Dylan Thomas: 'Under Milk Wood', London, J.M. Dent, 1954, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (slightly worn with some small part losses, 8s 6d price intact). A first edition copy of Dylan Thomas's lyrical and impassioned celebrated 'play for voices', commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage.
(Binding), William Shakespeare: 'As You Like It. With Twelve Illustrations by Emile Bayard. With an introduction by Edward Dowden, LL.D.', London, Cassell & Co, 1887, "The International Shakespeare", 12 engraved plates, of which 4 full page and 8 half page, as called for, some waterstaining and professionally repaired worm damage to lower edge of half title and frontis, and some water staining lower edge title page and first few leaves, folio, rebound quarter green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spine gilt decorated and titled with onlaid coloured leather lettering, top edge gilt, front cover of original cloth binding laid down on FFEP
(Bindings), Walter Scott: 'Waverley Novels', Edinburgh & London, Cadell & company; Simpkin & Marshall, 1829-1833, 48 volumes, engraved frontispieces and vignette title pages, handsome uniform half brown morocco gilt, marbled paper covered boards, top edges gilt, armorial bookplates of Jeremiah James Colman (1830-1898), English mustard manufacturer and the third member of the family in charge of the eponymous company Colman's. He was a popular philanthropist in his home town of Norwich and a Liberal politician who represented the city in parliament, neat pen & ink inscription (not recent) verso of FFEP in each volume "This book was at The Clyffe, Corton, prior to 1898, and was bought by E.M.C. and H.C.C. at the sale in 1917". Clyffe House, Corton, Lowestoft, Suffolk, was purchased by Jeremiah James Colman in 1869 as a second residence for his family. The house was enlarged in 1874 and Jeremiah and his son, Russell purchased more land in Corton, Blundeston, Flixton, Gunton, Hopton and Lound, most of which was bought from the Fowler family of Gunton Hall. Jeremiah spent £70,000 on a sea wall in the 1870s to try to prevent coastal erosion but this started to crumble in 1903 and by 1917 'The Clyffe' was in such a dangerous position that the contents of the house had to be sold and the house was partially demolished. The sale took place on 23-27 July 1917, the "E.M.C." referred to in m/s inscription being Ethel Mary Colman (1863-1948), philanthropist who was Lord Mayor of Norwich in 1923–24, notable for having been both the first woman to be Lord Mayor of Norwich, and the first woman to be a Lord Mayor in the United Kingdom. She was the third of six children to Jeremiah Colman and his wife Caroline Colman (née Cozens-Hardy). The "H.C.C." in the m/s inscription being her sister, Helen Caroline Colman (b.1866-d.?), both sisters were sent to study at Miss Hannah Pipe's School for Young Ladies in Clapham Park, London, they went on to become lifelong companions, returning to Norwich and rejoining the social life expected of upper-class young ladies of the time (48)
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[William Combe]; Thomas Rowlandson (illustrated): 'The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque; A Poem - The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Seacrh of Consolation; A Poem', London, R. Ackerman, 1855, 9th edition, 1820, 3rd edition, 2 volumes, first title with 30 hand coloured aquatint plates by Rowlandson as called for, second title with 24 hand coloured aquatint plates by Rowlandson as called for, uniform contemporary cloth, gilt leather title labels to spines (worn) (2)
Thomas Love Peacock: 'The Halliford Edition of The Works. Edited by H. F. B. Brett-Smith and C. E. Jones. In Ten Volumes.', London, Constable & Co; New York, Gabriel Wells, 1924-1934, limited edition (one of 675 copies only), 10 volumes, rebound quarter peach crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spines with decorative floral design, top edges gilt. As well as Peacock's major writings, this impressive collected edition brings together for the first time his review articles, his plays (original and translated), his operatic criticism, his unfinished novels, his letters, and his poems (10)
![(Bumpus Binding), Noel Coward: [Works], a collection of works by Coward in fourteen volumes , including first editions of the](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/00cb7519-64fb-443f-8bcf-afb000dc08be/4b299c39-b4fd-45c9-a740-afb300a993ce/468x382.jpg)
(Bumpus Binding), Noel Coward: [Works], a collection of works by Coward in fourteen volumes , including first editions of the authors first three books, all specially bound for Jack [John C.] Wilson, comprising: 'A Withered Nosegay', L, Christophers, 1922, 1st edition, 'The Young Idea', [1924], bound together with "I'll Leave It to You", 1920; 'Chelsea Buns', [1925]; 'Three Plays (The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels)', 1926, 2nd impression; 'Three Plays with a Preface (Home Chat; Sirocco; This Was a Man)', 1928; 'The Queen Was in the Parlour', L, Benn, 1932, 3rd impression, bound with 'The Marquise', 1930, 2nd impression, and 'Easy Virtue', 1937, 4th impression; 'Spangled Unicorn', [1932]; 'Conversation Piece', 1934; 'Point Valaine', L, Heinemann, 1935; 'Operette', 1938, 1st edition, 'Present Indicative', 1937, 1st edition; 'Tonight at 8.30', 1937, first one volume edition; 'Collected Sketches and Lyrics', [nd], 14th thou., uniform fine full crushed blue green morocco gilt by Bumpus Ltd, Oxford, front covers each with single fillet gilt borders, each front cover with central "JN" monogram (the initials of the first names of Coward and Wilson) intertwined with a circle gilt, spines in compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and lettering, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt, spines a little suned and just a little wear, a very nice set. Bookplates of the New York collector Herbert Schimmel to front pastedowns. John C. Wilson (1899-1961) was an American theatre director and producer. During the run of The Vortex by Noël Coward in 1924, Wilson met Coward and soon became his business manager and lover. Wilson used his position to steal from Coward, but the playwright was in love and accepted both the larceny and Wilson's heavy drinking. Wilson began his theatre career in 1931 as General Manager for the original Broadway production of Coward's hit play Private Lives. He began producing shows on Broadway in 1935, including Coward's Tonight at 8.30 in 1936 and Set to Music in 1939. Wilson's first project as a director was another Coward work, Blithe Spirit, in 1941. (14)
(Bindings, Literature), a collection of 33 volumes, including 'The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser', edited Alexander Grosart, [Manchester], Printed for the Spenser society [by Hazell, Watson, and Viney], 1882-84, limited edition (100 copies only), 9 volumes (all published, stated in 10 volumes, but volume 10 never published), handsomely rebound quarter morocco gilt; Samuel Butler: 'Hudibras', L, T. Bensley, 1801, 2 volumes, engraved frontispieces and vignettes as called for, uniform quarter brown morocco gilt; Washington Irving: 'A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus', L, John Murray, 1828, 4 volumes, uniform contemporary calf gilt, smartly later rebacked; Maria Edgeworth: 'Popular Tales', 1817, 6th edition, 3 volumes, uniform rebound quarter morocco gilt over marbled paper covered boards; Samuel Johnson: 'Rasselas', L, Hector M'Lean, 1819, full page and in text engravings by A. Raimbach, 4to, rebound quarter morocco gilt over marbled paper covered boards; Edmund Spenser: 'The Legend of the Knight of the Red Crosse or of Holinesse. The first book of Spenser's Faerie Queene illustrated with twelve drawings by C. M. B. Morrell.', L, Sampson Low, 1871, vi,220pp, a/f, lacks title page, a few text leaves and all plates supplied in facsimile, 4to, full contemporary vellum gilt by Birdsall & Son Northampton, all edges gilt, gilt patterned end papers and paste downs; plus 13 others including Gay's Fables, Sterne's Works, Wordsworth, Thomson, Oliver GOldsmith etc (33)
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(King Arthur of Britain, Merlin, Mythology), Jeffrey [Geoffrey] of Monmouth: 'The British History, translated into English from the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth, with a large Preface concerning the Authority of the History by Aaron Thompson', London, J. Bowyer et al, 1718, first English edition, cxi,[16],401,[54]pp, rebound full leather gilt, retaining part of contemporary leather binding to front and rear covers, replenished marbled paper end papers and pastedowns. The first English edition of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae', completed c. 1138, which contains the first narrative account of Arthur's life. An imaginative and fanciful account in which Geoffrey depicts Arthur as a king of Britain who defeated the Saxons and established a vast empire. Many elements and incidents that are now an integral part of the Arthurian story appear in Geoffrey's Historia, including Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, the magician Merlin, Arthur's wife Guinevere, the sword Excalibur, Arthur's conception at Tintagel, his final battle against Mordred at Camlann, and final rest in Avalon.
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(Cookery, Wine and Wine Making, Confectionery), [Mr. Borella]: 'The Court and Country Confectioner: or, the House-Keeper’s Guide..., To which is added, a dissertation on the different species of fruits, and the art of distilling simple waters, cordials, perfumed oils, and essences, by an Ingenious Foreigner, now head confectioner to the Spanish Ambassador in England.', London, G. Riley et al, 1770, 1st edition, [2],ii,3,xxiii,[1],271 + 46pp 'On Distilling in General' at end, some marginal worm damage at front from title page to pp.vii (marginal, not affecting text) and from p.111 to end, contemporary calf worn. Later editions revealed the author to be Mr. Borella, head confectioner to the Spanish ambassador to England. A rare cookery title, the first English book with a whole section of ices and ice creams, including for tea ice cream.
(Anatomy), M.N.,B.A.: 'Anatomy Epitomized and Illustrated: Containing, I. A concise and plain description of all the parts of the human body ... II. A large and choice collection of sculptures, exhibiting a just idea of the ... several parts of the body', London, John Noon, 1737, 1st edition, 17 engraved folding anatomical plates as called for (1 plate loose), [4],182pp + [2]pp adverts at end, contemporary vellum, manuscript pen & ink title to spine. A scarce anonymous work, sometimes attributed to Dr. Thomas Gibson (1647-1722), whose 'The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized' was first published in 1682 and went into several editions. This work stated on title page as "by M.N.,B.A.", which appears to contradict it being by Gibson, University of Glasgow states author as M. Nesbit.
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A collection of antiquarian and leather bound volumes, including [Bulstrode Whitlocke]: 'Memorials of the English affairs, or, An historical account of what passed from the beginning of the reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second his happy restauration : containing the publick transactions, civil and military : together with the private consultations and secrets of the Cabinet.', London, Nathaniel Ponder, 1682, 1st edition, 704pp, folio, contemporary panelled calf, armorial bookplate of Robert Bristow (1688-1737), MP for Winchelsea, Director of the Bank of England and East India Company, to front pastedown; Sir William Temple: 'The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart.', L, T. Woodward et al, 1750, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf gilt, armorial bookplates of Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford (1743-1800) to front pastedowns; 'The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley', 1707-1711, 3 volumes, numerous engraved plates, uniform contemporary calf gilt; 'The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, The Jewish Historian', L, J. & J. Cundee, c.1812, 2 volumes in 1, numerous engraved plates, folding maps etc, thick 4to, contemporary calf gilt worn; 'The Poetical Works of Nicholas Rowe', 1715; 'The Historie of Philip de Commines. [Translated from the French by Thomas Danett.], circa 1601, a/f, lacks title page; Sidney Algernon 'Discourses Concerning Government', 1763, a/f; 'The Botanic Garden A Poem', 1799, 4th edition, etc etc. From the estate of John Richard Harding Yeoman (1916-1988), Copy Writer and Director for several Advertising Agencies, Assistant Secretary (Publicity) for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Borough Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea, Governor of the Chelsea School of Art, and lover of art, poetry and books. John Yeoman’s first wife was Antonia Yeoman, née Beryl Antonia Thompson (1907-1970), the Australian-English commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the name “Anton”
Alexander Pope: 'The works of Alexander Pope in verse and prose. Containing the principal notes of Drs Warburton and Warton...to which are added, now first published, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs of the life of the author. By William Lisle Bowles', London, J. Johnson et al, 1806, 10 volumes, 22 engraved plates as called for; 'The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope...With Additional Notes, Critical and Illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield', L, T. Longman et al, 1796, new edition, 6 volumes, engraved frontis to volume I; 'The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope...With Additional Notes, Critical and Illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield', L, T. Longman et al, 1796, new edition, 5 volumes, all uniform contemporary full speckled calf gilt (worn, several volumes boards detached but present), "Favente Deo" Lester family armorial bookplates to front pastedowns, ownership inscription of John Bingley Garland (1791-1875) to front pastedown and FFEP of 'Works' volume I "...1854 - To Margaret Deborah Garland. These volumes are presented to her by her Father for her future pleasures and studies - Part of the books bequeathed by BL Lester to J. Bingley Garland...". John Bingley Garland was a successful merchant, pioneer Canadian politician, public servant and mysterious ‘outsider’ artist. Garland is responsible for one of the most ambitious and remarkable sets of collages produced during the nineteenth century, the so-called ‘Victorian Blood Book’ a manuscript formerly in the collection of Evelyn Waugh and now in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin (21)
James Boswell: 'The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.', London, Charles Dilly, 1793, second edition (first 8vo edition), 3 volumes, engraved portrait + 2 folding plates as called for ('Round Robin' & 'Facsimiles'), 'Additions', 'Catalogue' & 'Corrections' - pp xxxvi - at end of vol 3, light foxing to a few prelims., contemporary tree calf rebacked to style (3)
(Australia, Royal Tour 1920), Edward Prince of Wales, (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom January-December 1936, later Duke of Windsor, a mounted sepia photograph of Edward Prince of Wales taken during the Royal Tour of Australia, Melbourne, May 1920, the Prince of Wales posing in centre of photograph surrounded by 14 other politicians and members of his staff who accompanied him during the Royal Tour, fully signed to the mount by Edward Prince of Wales and all others, including Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979); Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey (1872-1949); Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar (1860-1934), sixth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1914 to 1920; Helen Munro Ferguson, Viscountess Novar (1865-1941), wife of the aforementioned, Red Cross leader, political activist; Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham (1879-1955); Haniel Haddon Kilby (1889-1955); plus others including Dudley North, C.R. Duncan, J.G. Duncan Hughes, Piers Legh, etc., the image approx 19 x 31cm, with mount approx size 28 x 43cm, blindstamp of the photographer "Kricheldorff Melbourne" to mount, from the estate of Mr Sidney Orchard, Chief messenger at Admiralty House, Sydney, Australia, personal attendant to John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860-1908), the first governor-general of Australia, in office from 1901 to 1902, and several other governor generals of Australia subsequently upto at least 1928, with some associated ephemera including certificate awarding Sidney Orchard the Royal Victorian Medal (Silver), dated 29th April, 1927, signed by the Secretary of the Royal Victorian Order, on Buckingham Palace headed paper, together with an early 20th Century mounted portrait photograph, believed to be of Sidney Orchard and his wife, the mount blindstamped "Jalma..119 Swanston Street, Melbourne", image approx 19 x 14cm, plus an Australian Daily Guardian Newspaper August 16 1928, front page article on Sidney Orchard (newspaper toned/worn), plus letter of provenance, all housed together in postally used envelope sent from 100 Queen Street, Melbourne, to London, circa 1943
(Travel & Exploration), William Spotswood Green: 'The High Alps of New Zealand, or a Trip to the Glaciers of the Antipodes, with an Ascent of Mount Cook', L, Macmillan, 1883, 1st edition, b/w frontis + maps (1 folding) as called for, xiv,350pp + 32pp catalogue of ads at end, original cloth gilt, professionally rebacked retaining original backstrip. The first New Zealand climbing book; Msjor-General Donald Macintyre: 'Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas', Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1891, new edition, frontis + 31 b/w ills. as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt; Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (1837-1924): 'Two Happy Years in Ceylon', L, Chatto & Windus, 1901, new edition, frontis, folding map + 23 plates & 4 ills. in text as called for, orig. pictorial cloth; Sven Hedin: 'Big Horse's Flight. The Trail of War in Central Asia', L, Macmillan, 1933, 1st edition, folding map, profusely illustrated with b/w plates (mainly from photographs) as called for, original cloth gilt; Rex Hardinge: 'Gambia and Beyond', L, Blackie, 1934, 1st edition, frontis + 15 plates as called for, orig. cloth; Peter Freuchen: 'Arctic Adventure. My Life in the Frozen North', L, Heinemann, 1936, 1st edition, 66 plates/maps as called for, orig. cloth; plus 2 others similar (8)
(India), an album of approximately 85 mid 20th Century snapshot photographs taken in and around the town of Cuttack, in the state of Odisha, eastern India, in 1951 by a British? engineer on secondment, images mainly approx 9 x 6 cms, including street scenes, local people, trades, animals, the images loosely corner mounted on card leaves, many images with manuscript captions to the leaves, images include Circuit House; police stations; jail; cinema; images of shop front of H. Bilimoria & Co., captioned "Best shop in main street" beneath; image of man posing next to horse drawn carriage captioned "Garry outside Railway station"; rickshaws and bicycles; river scenes; coconut vendor; "Bearer Cuttack Country Club"; several images at factory of workers including a few posing in front of refrigerator, the card leaf captioned "First Indian built refrigerator special day when first one was delivered. Kalinga refrigerators, Cuttack, 1951"; others overleaf of same factory including sheet metal cabinet production and delivery to Cuttack hospital etc; several images Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves (formerly Cuttack caves), near Bhubaneswar; Lingaraj temple; views on way to Puri and at Puri, bay of Bengal, the card leaves in ring bound contemporary "Woods of Colchester Limited" folder
(Travel, Africa, South America), Henry Savage-Landor, 3 titles: 'Across Widest Africa. An Account of the Country and People of Eastern, Central and Western Africa as seen during a Twelve Months' Journey from Djibuti to Cape Verde.', London, Hurst & Blackett, 1907, 1st edition, 2 volumes, folding coloured map + numerous black & white illustrations, mainly from photographs, as called for, uniform original cloth gilt. Landor was an English painter, writer and explorer who travelled the world. With an assignment to paint Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, Landor took the opportunity to make a trip across Africa. The journey took about a year and he covered eight thousand miles; 'Across Unknown South America', London & New York, Hodder & Stoughton, 1913, 1st edition, 2 volumes, 2 folding maps + 8 coloured plates and 260 black & white ills. as called for, 4to, uniform original cloth gilt; 'Everywhere, the Memoirs of an Explorer', London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1924, 1st edition, port. frontis + 22 ills. + 8 maps & diagrams as called for, original cloth gilt; Frederick Courtney Selous: 'Travel and adventure in South-East Africa; being the narrative of the last eleven years spent by the author on the Zambesi and its tributaries; with an account of the colonisation of Mashunaland and the progress of the gold industry in that country', London, Rowland Ward, 1893, 3rd edition (published same year as the first) folding map + numerous Illustrations from photographs and line drawings as called for, Czech, p. 146: "Selous describes numerous adventures with lions and leopards, particularly near the Zambesi, Zweswi, and Manyami rivers, with additional sport after rhinoceros, eland, and hartebeest. After returning to the Transvaal, he linked with Montague Kerr and traveled into Matabeleland. Selous hunted more lions and rhinoceros, and vividly depicts an elephant hunt near the Zweswi River . he concludes with a chapter on rifles, and another reflecting earlier sporting adventures after elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, and others." Gee "Sportsman's Library", xviii, 503 pp, original tan pictorial cloth gilt; Kingston: 'Great African Travellers from Bruce and Mungo Park to Livingstone, Stanley, Gordon Cumming, Selous and Sir Harry Johnston', L, Routledge, 1914, new edition, profusely illustrated with full page plates and b/w ills. in text throughout, original pictorial cloth; M.F. Hill: 'Permanent Way. The Story of the Kenya and Uganda Railway', Nairobi, East African Railways and Harbours, [1949], plates and maps, 4to, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; plus others including Hillaby 'Journey to the Jade Sea', 1964, A Maitland 'Speke', 1961, Stenning 'Savannah Nomads', 1959, Debenham 'The Way to Ilala', 1955, plus others the Mahdiya, Sokoto Caliphate, Lake Rudolf, Sudan etc (17)
Arnold Louis MUMM (1859-1927): 'Five Months in the Himalaya. A Record of Mountain Travel in Garhwal and Kashmir', London, Edward Arnold, 1909, first edition, 29 photographic plates (of which 4 folding) + 47 photographic illustrations mounted in-text & 2 folding colour maps at end as called for, original navy blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Includes the account of the ascent of Trisul with T.L. Longstaff, the first climb over 7,000m
(Mountaineering, Travel, Himalayas), Fanny Bullock & William Hunter Workman, 2 titles: 'Ice-bound Heights of the Mustagh. An account of two seasons of pioneer exploration and high climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya', London, Constable & Co, 1908, 1st edition, 2 large folding colour maps (VGC) + 170 illustrations, several full page, of which 6 coloured and 3 photogravure portraits, as called for, the impressive illustrations all from the authors own photographs, xv, 444pp, original green pictorial cloth gilt (generally VGC). Account of the authors' 1902-1903 expedition in the Baltistan Himalayas. They explored the Chogo Lungma Glacier and later reached the Nushik La from the Hoh Lumba Glacier; 'The Call Of The Snowy Hispar. A Narrative Of Exploration And Mountaineering On The Northern Frontier Of India, with an Appendix by Count Dr. Cesare Calciati and Dr. Mathias Koncza', London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1910, 1st edition, 2 large folding maps at rear + 113 plates as called for, including 6 folding panoramas, numerous photogravures and b/w ills. from photographs, xvi,297,[2]pp, original burgundy pictorial cloth gilt (generally VGC), armorial bookplate of Reginald Hepburn Heath to front pastedown. Neate W122 'Account of their fourth expedition in 1908. They explored the Hispar glacier then descended the Biafo glacier'. Perret 4605 'tres rare et recherché'. Fanny Bullock Workman (1859-1925) was an American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer, notably in the Himalayas. She was one of the first female professional mountaineers; she not only explored but also wrote about her adventures, publishing eight travel books with her husband William Hunter Workman, and championed women's rights and women's suffrage. Mrs Workman set several women's altitude records, notably establishing a new world height record for women (c.23,000 ft) when she climbed the Pinnacle Peak during an expedition in 1906. She was aged 47 (2)
(Mountaineering, Exploration, Travel, Hunting), a collection of sixteen late 19th/early 20th Century mountaineering and exploration books relating to the Himalayas, Alps, Rockies, Andes, Dolomites etc, including Edward WHYMPER, 3 titles: 'Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69', London, John Murray, 1871, 4th thousand, 5 folding maps, 23 full page engraved plates + 92 illustrations in text as called for, 432pp, original green cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt (VGC). Edward Whymper (1840–1911) was an English mountaineer, explorer, illustrator, and author best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Four members of his climbing party were killed during the descent. Whymper also made important first ascents on the Mont Blanc massif and in the Pennine Alps, Chimborazo in South America, and the Canadian Rockies. His exploration of Greenland contributed an important advance to Arctic exploration, 'The Ascent of the Matterhorn', London, John Murray, 1880, 1st edition, 2 folding maps + 14 full page engraved plates + 91 illustrations in the text as called for, xxii, 325pp, original blue decorative cloth gilt, bevelled edges, gilt blocked illustration of the Matterhorn to front cover (VGC), 'Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator', L, John Murray, 1892, 2nd edition, folding lithographic map in rear pocket + 3 further maps (of which 2 folding) + 20 full page engraved plates + 118 ills. in text as called for, original decorative cloth gilt, bevelled edges; Lieutenant P.T. Etherton: 'Across the Roof of the World: a Record of Sport and Travel Through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia', London, Constable & Co, 1911, 1st edition, folding map, portrait frontis + numerous full page plates and ils. in text as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. The author hunted sheep, gazelle, ibex, wapiti, and roe deer. Czech, p. 73: "This book represents a wonderful blend of travel, explorations, and big game hunting."; Guido Rey: 'The Matterhorn', L, T. Fisher Unwin, 1907, 1st edition, 14 tipped in tinted plates + 11 full page plates from photographs + 23 in text ills. by Edouardo Rubino as called for, 336pp, original cloth, leather gilt labels to spine, top edge gilt, others uncut; Hugh Tuttledge: 'Everest: The Unfinished Adventure', L, Hodder & Stoughton, November 1937, 1st edition, portrait ills. of the 13 expedition members on 7 full page plates at front (including Hugh Ruttledge as the portrait frontispiece) + 2 folding maps & portfolio of sixty-three photographic plates at rear, as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. After his attempt to summit the mountain in 1933, Ruttledge was invited to lead the sixth British attempt on Everest in 1936. Because of recent failed expeditions, the pressure on Ruttledge's large and talented team to succeed was great, but heavy snow and an early monsoon forced them to abort their summit attempt; James D. Forbes: 'Norway and Its Glaciers, Visited in 1851; Followed by Journals of Excursions in the High Alps of Dauphine, Berne, and Savoy', Edinburgh, A & C black, 1853, 1st edition, 2 coloured lithograph maps (of which 1 folding at rear) + 10 coloured lithographic plates (including frontis) + 22 wood engravings in text as called for, xxiv,349pp, original blindstamped cloth gilt (VGC). Bookplate of Peter Bicknell (1907-1995), British architect, author, exhibition curator and mountaineer, attached to FFEP; Sir William Martin Conway: 'THE FIRST CROSSING OF SPITSBERGEN. Being an Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration and Survey, with Descriptions of Several Mountain Ascents, of Boat Expeditions in Ice Fjord, of a Voyage to North-East-Land, the Seven Islands, down Hinloopen Strait, nearly to Wiches Land, and into most of the Fjords of Spitsbergen, and of an almost complete circumnavigation of the main Island', L, Dent, 1897, 1st edition, 8 colour lithographic plates (after sketches by H.E. Conway) + 2 large folding colour maps + numerous photographic black & white plates & ills. as called for, xii,371pp, original quarter beige over green bevelled edge cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. The author spent the summers of 1896 and 1897 exploring the interior of West Spitsbergen. They made 13 mountain ascents, produced a survey sketch of about 600 sq miles of central West Spitsbergen, almost completed a circumnavigation of the main island; Samuel Turner: 'Siberia. A Record of Travel, Climbing and Exploration', L, T. Fisher Unwin, 1905, 1st edition, portrait frontis + 2 folding maps + numerous full page & in text black & white ills. from photgraphs as called for, original red pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. A journey across Siberia and the pioneering winter exploration of the Altai Mountains, the highest mountains of Siberia; Lewis R. Freeman: 'On The Roof Of The Rockies. The Great Columbia Icefield Of The Canadian Rockies', NY, Dodd Mead, 1925, 1st US edition, frontis + 60 full page ills. from photographs as called for, xiii,[3],270pp, original pictorial cloth gilt, dust wrapper (scarce in d/w); J. Monroe Thorington: 'The Glittering Mountains of Canada - a Record of Exploration and Pioneer Ascents in the Canadian Rockies, 1914-1924', Philadelphia PA, John W. Lea, 1925, 1st edition, limited edition (1059/1500), numbered, 65 plates from photos (including frontispiece), 4 panoramic plates and 6 maps as called for, original cloth gilt; Walter Dwight Wilcox: 'The Rockies of Canada. A Revised and Enlarged Edition of "Camping in the Canadian Rockies", NY & London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909, 3rd edition, large folding colour map in pocket at rear + numerous photogravure and other ills. by the author as called for, orig. cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut; plus Sanger Davies 'Dolomite Strongholds', 1894, John Tyndall 'The Glaciers of the Alps', 1860, Marsh 'Two Seasons in Switzerland', 1895 & Javelle 'Alpine Memories', 1899 (16)
(Lhasa, Tibet, Nepal, Buddhism, Himalayas), a collection of twenty four titles relating to travel and the history, religion and people of Tibet and Nepal, including William Woodville Rockhill: 'Diary of a Journey through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892', Washington D.C., The Smithsonian Institution, 1894, 1st edition, large folding map + 27 plates + 13 ills. in text as called for, original cloth gilt. William Woodville Rockhill (1854-1914) was a United States diplomat, the first American to learn to speak Tibetan, and one of the West's leading experts on the modern political history of China. A narrative of the author's second journey through Mongolia and Tibet, which was described in diary form. He started from Peking on Nov. 30, 1891 and travelled northwards to Hwang-ho via Kalgan, thence to Lan-cho, Sining-fu, Kumbum Monastery, Tsaidam, Changtang, Tangla Range, Chamdo and Batang. Scarce; Schuyler Jones: 'Tibetan Nomads. Environment, Pastoral Economy, and Material Culture', Thames & Hudson, 1996, 1st edition, numerous photographic illustrations in colour and black & white, maps, diagrams etc, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper; Suydam Cutting: 'The Fire Ox and other Years. An Account of his Travels in Tibet, Nepal, Assam, and other Far Eastern Lands', L, Collins, 1947, 1st edition, profusely illustrated throughout, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper; Francesco Maraini: 'Secret Tibet', L, Hutchinson, 1952, 1st edition, numerous illustrations from photographs by the author as called for, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper; F. Spencer Chapman: 'Lhasa: The Holy City', L, Chatto & Windus, 1938, 1st edition, 8 colour plates + 64 pages of photographic plates as called for, original yellow pictorial cloth gilt; A. Henry Savage-Landor: 'Tibet and Nepal', L, A & C Black, 1905, 1st edition, ex South Morningside circulating library, 75 colour plates as called for, orig. decorative cloth gilt; Heinrich Harrer: 'Seven Years in Tibet', L, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953, 1st edition, colour frontis, map + black & white photographic plates as called for, original cloth gilt, d/w, and 'Return to Tibet', 1984, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; plus others including Sis and Vanis 'On the Road through Tibet', [1957], profusely illustrated from photos, Oakley 'Holy Himalaya', 1905, Fleming 'Bayonets to Lhasa', 1961, Tucci 'The Religions of Tibet', 1980, 'Karmapa the Black Hat Lama of Tibet', 1976, Bailey 'No Passport to Tibet', 1957, Schary 'In Search of the Mahatmas of Tibet', Ford 'Captured in Tibet', 1957, Mathiessen 'The Snow Leopard', 1978, etc etc (24)
Fifteen assorted mountaineering titles, including Ed Webster: 'Snow in the Kingdom, My Storm Years on Everest', Eldorado Springs CO, Mountain Imagery, 2000, 1st edition, signed to title page, original cloth, dust wrapper; Col. Narinder Kumar: 'Kanchenjunga. First Ascent from the North-East Spur', 1978, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper; Arnold Lunn: 'A Century of Mountaineering 1857-1957', L, 1957, 1st edition, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, d/w; Hawkins: 'Far, Far the Distant Peak. The Life of Wilfrid Noyce, Mountaineer, Scholar, Poet', 2014, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Berry: 'The Thunder Dragon Kingdom. A Mountaineering Expedition to Bhutan', Crowood Press, 1988, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; plus others Nanda Devi, Annapurna, Everest, Rakaposhi etc (15)
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