Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Undine. By De La Motte Fouqué. Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney, London: William Heinemann, 1909. 4to, original pictorial vellum, 15 tipped-in colour plates, silk ties, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, binding marked, spine abraded, plate 5 tissue-guard creased, plate 6 (p. 24) incorrectly bound with duplicate tissue-guard for plate 9 (p. 40), browning to text-leaf adjacent to each plate,Dulac (Edmond, illustrator). Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. 4to, original decorative vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 48 tipped-in colour plates (of 50: lacking frontispiece and plate 43), rear tie perished,Du Maurier (George). Trilby. A Novel, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895. Large 8vo, original decorative vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure portrait frontispiece, plate and tailpieces by the author printed in red,Thomson (Hugh). The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 4to, original pictorial vellum richly gilt with additional decoration in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 22 tipped-in colour plates (of 25: lacking the plates facing pp. facing pp. 18, 48 and 140), ties perished (qty: 4)Footnote: Rackham: first edition thus, deluxe issue, number 270 of 1000 copies signed by the artist.Dulac: first edition thus, deluxe issue, number 6 of 350 copies signed by the artist.Du Maurier: limited edition, number 600 of 600 copies.Thomson: first edition thus, deluxe issue, number 67 of 350 copies signed by the artist.
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Shakespeare (William). A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Robert Anning Bell. Edited with an Introduction by Israel Gollancz, London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1895. 4to, original white buckram over bevelled boards, title and Art Nouveau decoration gilt to front, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with an additional suite of 12 wood-engravings on india paper, mounted (comprising duplicates of the frontispiece, title-page, 9 plates and the tailpiece; requisite number unknown), partly unopened, tear to duplicate plate facing p. 31, Wyndham (Richard). A Book of Towers and Other Buildings of Southern Europe. A Series of Dry-Points. With an Introduction and Brief descriptions by Sacheverell Sitwell, London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1928. Folio, original yellow half vellum, edges untrimmed, half-title, engraved additional title-page, 24 engraved plates, with original slipcase (sunned and worn),Lawrence (John). John Clare. The Shepherd’s Calendar, London: Paradine, 1978. 4to, original quarter cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 13 tipped-in woodcut headpieces, laid-in tissue-guards, original slipcase, Krutch (Joseph Wood). Edgar Allan Poe. A Study in Genius, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 8vo, original vellum-backed patterned boards, edges untrimmed, 12 halftone photograph plates, unopened,Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). The Chase by William Somerville. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1735, with a Memoir of the Author, London: George Redway, 1896. 4to, original quarter vellum, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, printed on japon,and one other (Arthur Rackham, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1911, browned, frontispiece tissue-guard loose, not collated) (qty: 6)Footnote: Shakespeare: first edition thus, deluxe issue, number 4 of 50 copies on hand-made paper.Wyndham: first edition, number 325 of 350 copies only, printed on Zanders hand-made paper.Lawrence: first edition thus, number 218 of 400 copies (numbered 101-500) signed by the artist and printer.Krutch: first edition, number 111 of 140 copies on Borzoi rag paper signed by the author, from the total edition of 150 copies.
![[Lamb, Charles]. Elia [and:] The Last Essays of Elia, London: Taylor and Hessey [-Edward Moxon], 1823-33. 2 works, 8vo, uncut](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/60baa70e-a662-49bc-bbe2-ade90095bd86/1feb9076-3c5d-4889-b150-ae1300af3259/468x382.jpg)
[Lamb, Charles]. Elia [and:] The Last Essays of Elia, London: Taylor and Hessey [-Edward Moxon], 1823-33. 2 works, 8vo, uncut in original boards, pp. [4] 341 [1], xii 283 [1], 6 + 4 pp. advertisements to rear, Elia front board detached, Last Essays inscribed ‘from the author’ on the front free endpaper, and with a laid-in newspaper clipping headed ‘Conclusion of the Hazlitt sale’ and mentioning ‘Charles Lamb’s Elia, 1823, and Last Essays of Elia, 1833, first editions, original boards, uncut, 28l.’, each housed in a custom blue crushed morocco slipcase with envelope flap, made in 1894 by Riviere & Son (qty: 2)
Four Various Silver Dishes, Two Stamped '950 Sterling', One Stamped 'J Tavara 925' and one by Walker and Hall, Sheffield, 1910, the first two tapering leaf-shaped and with loop handle, the second square and with hammered finish, the centre set with a commemorative medal the last heart-shaped and with angular handle, 19cm wide and smaller, 8oz 13dwt, 269gr (4) Condition report: There is some surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use.
Disraeli (Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield). Novels and Tales. Hughenden Edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882. 11 volumes, 8vo, contemporary maroon half calf,Montaigne (Michel de). Essays of Montaigne. Translated by Charles Cotton … Edited by William Carew Hazlitt, London: privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 1923. 5 volumes, large 8vo, contemporary blue half morocco, gilt spines, Shakespeare (William). Dramatic Works. The Text of the First Edition, number 422 of 550 copies only, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1883. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, etched plates,and 5 uniformly bound works by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the lot not collated and sold as fine bindings (qty: 27)
A Victorian Glass Decanter and Stopper, of lobed oval form, engraved with flowering branches, 20cm high; A Matching Cylindrical Beaker, 15.5cm high; and A Baccarat Dyonisos Decanter and Stopper, 36.5cm high (3)Condition report: First decanter and beaker with large foot chips. Decanter neck with slight chipping. All with some typical minor wear and scratching. No chips or cracks to the Baccarat.
![Reid (Stuart J., editor). The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria [series-title], London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/60baa70e-a662-49bc-bbe2-ade90095bd86/139b66e1-5ea6-4227-9e38-ae00010d3cca/468x382.jpg)
Reid (Stuart J., editor). The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria [series-title], London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1890-3. 9 works, 8vo, original quarter japon, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure portrait frontispieces (mounted), partly unopened (qty: 9)Footnote: First editions, deluxe issues, each work number 57 of 250 copies. A complete set, comprising: Sir Robert Peel; The Earl of Derby; The Earl of Aberdeen; Lord Salisbury; Lord Melbourne; Lord Beaconsfield; Lord Palmerston; Lord John Russell; William Ewart Gladstone.
Chinese School (19th century): A Fan Painting, depicting two ducks amongst bamboo and with calligraphy, seal mark in red, 55cm by 26cm, framed and glazed; and A Similar Fan Painting, depicting pine trees, 47cm by 23cm, framed and glazed (2)Condition report: Both removed from original sticks, with marks at the edges showing the previous bonding. Both with wear and staining to the creases, most evident in the first fan. Wear and discoloration. The second fan with some loss to the top-left edge.
A Pair of Victorian/Edward VII Silver Toastracks and a Pair of George V Silver Toastracks, The First Pair by Heath and Middleton, London, 1897 and 1902, The Second Pair by S. W. Smith and Co., Birmingham, 1926, each with five bars and an overhead loop handle; Together With: two further five-bar toastracks, 11.5cm wide and smaller, 12oz 17dwt, 400gr (6) Condition report: Each fully marked either under border or on border. There is some surface scratching and wear as well as some repairs to the bars on some.
Greene (Graham). A group of first editions, 1948-88, comprising The Heart of the Matter, A Burnt-Out Case, A Sense of Reality, The Comedians, May We Borrow Your Husband, Travels with my Aunt, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, Monsignor Quixote, The Tenth Men, and The Captain and the Enemy, all in original cloth with the dust jacket (except The Heart of the Matter, without jacket), jackets in variable condition (qty: 11)
BOOTLE V BOLTON WANDERERS 1889 Single card programme for the match at Bootle 25/3/1889 in Bolton Wanderer's first League season as a founder member of the Football League. The Football League included Bolton and the rival Football League Alliance included Bootle. As there were so few League matches many other fixtures were arranged. Very slightly creased and very slightly worn. Generally good
RAITH ROVERS - FIRST ISSUE Home programme v East Fife, 30/10/48, regarded as being the first ever issue by Raith Rovers although the Supporters Club did issue single-sheet programmes pre-war. This is a League Cup tie and was attended by approximately 20,000 fans. Programme has a very slight horizontal crease but no writing. Good
STOCKPORT COUNTY V HULL CITY / STALYBRIDGE CELTIC V CREWE ALEXANDRA 1913 Joint issue programme for matches played at Stockport including the League match on 21/3/1913 and the Cheshire Cup Semi-Final on 22/3/1913. Slightly creased and very slightly worn. One of the earliest know Stockport home programmes. Believed to be the first season of issue as this is programme No. 25 with no Volume stated. Generally good
HUDDERSFIELD TOWN V BRADFORD PARK AVENUE 1921 Programme for the League match at Huddersfield 22/1/1921 in their first top flight season. On 1/2/1921 legendary Manager Herbert Chapman was appointed Assistant to Ambrose Langley and replaced Langley in charge of Huddersfield in March 1921. Small repair at the staple and small tape marks inside. Fair to generally good
WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS Book entitled 'The Wolves The First Eighty Years' by Percy M Young 1st Edition 1959. Excellent Condition. Complete with three cards, team photo 56/7 from the Daily Express, team picture issued by Jimmy Mullen Sports Shop and a signed picture of Jimmy Mullen. Also eight season tickets books ranging between 67-68 to 92-93. Good
1883-1906 F.A. CUP Association Football English Cup Winners booklet published by Keys & Taylor, Birmingham. Scarce 32-Page booklet which includes full page team group photo with team line-up from each of the previous FA Cup Finals 1883-1906 previous winners included Wanderers, Oxford University, Royal Engineers, Old Etonians, Clapham Rovers, Old Carthusians, Blackburn Olympic, Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa, West Brom, Wolves, Preston North End, Notts County, Notts Forest, Sheffield United, Bury, Tottenham, Manchester City, Everton. The central pages include Wolverhampton Wanderers 1906-07 season's full ''First'' XI and ''Reserve'' team Fixtures. The booklet requires some restoration, the original outer covers have brown tape repairs at the spine and slight paper loss with very minimal text affected. There are some loose internal pages although it is fully complete. Fair at best
FIRST BRITISH TEAM MATCH IN EUROPE 1955/56 Rot-Weiss Essen v Hibernian played 14/9/1955 at Georg-Melches (Stadt Essen) Very rare Essen daily paper dated 14/9/1955 which previews the game. Includes preview on the central page plus single sheet insert titled ''Stadt Essen'' which also previews the game. This was first ever game played by a British team in European football. Generally good
ARSENAL Eighteen programmes including 10 at Highbury and 8 aways for season 1961/2: Arsenal v Ipswich, Dundee and Dynamo Kiev, all Friendlies. First team homes v Barnet, Brentford, Tottenham S-F and Millwall Final, all London FA Cup) and neutrals at Highbury England v Luxembourg, England v Young England, Ipswich v Luton FA Cup. Aways v Chelsea SEC Lge Cup S-F, Bexleyheath Met. Lge Cup, Bohemians, Dartford Met. Lge, tippex mark on cover, Middlesbrough (Fr), Tooting & Mitcham, West Ham SJFC and Gothenburg Alliance, Arsenal player autographs printed sheet.
PRESS PHOTOS / NORTHERN IRELAND Two original 10" x 8" B/W Press photos, one of which have stamps and paper notations on the reverse with Northern Ireland scoring the first goal in the home match v Italy 15/1/1958, very slightly creased and the other has the stamp on the reverse and shows the team being presented to a guest of honour at Wembley in the late 1950's, with paper loss at the top left corner. Fair to generally good
LEEDS UNITED SC Leipzig v Leeds United ICFC (1st Leg) played 24/11/1965 at Bruno-Plache-Stadion, Leipzig. Rare issue of the daily Saxony (Leipzig/Dresden) paper ''Sachsisches Tagblatt'' dated 24/11/1965 which includes a preview of the game on the back page and includes the Leeds team line-up. No official programme was published for the game which was Leeds' first season in Europe. Generally good
CRYSTAL PALACE SCRAPBOOK / FOOTBALL AUTOGRAPHS A scrapbook compiled for Palace's first top flight season 1969/70. The scrapbook contains 20 signatures including Bert Head, Gerry Queen, John McCormick Tony Taylor, John Jackson, Bobby Tambling, Peter Osgood, Alan Hudson, Jeff Astle, Brian Kidd, Denis Law X 2, Jimmy Greaves, Alan Gilzean, Alan Oakes, John Radford, Billy Bonds, Trevor Brooking, Geoff Hurst and Bobby Moore, which is a very small signed picture. Good
Juvenile.- Maupertuy (Jean-Baptiste Drouet de, translator) Elemens Historiques, Ou Méthode Courte Et Facile Pour Aprendre L'Histoire Aux Enfans, 2 vol., first edition in French, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, armorial stamp to lower corners of titles, some water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, bookplates of the Danish historian Aage Fasmer Blomberg, contemporary calf, gilt, covers with rampant lion crest centre-pieces, spines in compartments, rubbed, 12mo, Paris, André Cailleau, 1730.⁂ Translation of Rudimenta Historica, Sive Brevis, facilisque methodus Juventutem Orthodoxam notitia Historica imbuendi, Augsburg, 1726-1727.
NO RESERVE Influence on Ulysses.- Dujardin (Édouard) Les lauriers sont coupés, first edition, one of 400 copies on vélin anglais mécanique, in an edition of 420 copies, half-title with justification, etched portrait by Jacques-Émile Blanche, remains of a label to upper margin of half-title, lightly browned, original printed wrappers, spine creased and little darkened, lightly spotted and browned, 8vo, Paris, Librairie de la Revue Indépendante, 1888.⁂ Hailed as the first notable 'stream of conciousness' novel and acknowledged by Joyce as a prime influence on Ulysses. The story was first published the preceding year in the Revue Indépendante. It follows the thoughts of Daniel Prince, a naive student, who becomes enamoured by the actress Lea D'Arsay, a woman only interested in his money. As the plot develops Prince daydreams of eloping with D'Arsay and one evening at her apartment just before they are about to take an evening stroll Prince falls asleep and dreams of his past, his parents and the first girl he fell in love with. The novel derives its name from a children's song, Nous n'irons plus au bois ('We'll to the woods no more') and symbolises the withering of a laurel tree as the beginning of regrowth.
Holocaust.- Schiet (Jan) Tentoonstelling van Fotografische Opnamen van Duitse Concentratiekampen en Verwoest Arnhem, illustrations, text in Dutch, lightly browned, ex-library with ink-stamp inside upper cover, original paper wrappers, detached, neat tape repair to spine verso, remnants of old tape to spine, lightly sunned, 12mo, [Amsterdam], [?1945].⁂ Rare. A pamphlet produced almost immediately post-war for an exhibition of photographs of German Concentration Camps and destroyed Arnhem. This includes the famous and controversial photograph of the Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in Buchenweld, which was first published in the 'New York Times.' It does not include any images of Arnhem. We can only assume that images of Arnhem were only shown in the exhibition itself. In the immediate aftermath of the War exhibitions of photos showing the horrors of Concentration Camps were a way to show the people of Europe what had been done by the Nazis. It also eventually built enough support for the War Crimes trials.
Beeton (Mrs. Isabella Mary, writer on household management and journalist, 1836-65).- 9 letters sent to Mrs Beeton, some addressed to "Bella", together 29pp., 8vo, 1857-63 & n.d., on the birth of her first son and sympathizing on the death of her son Archy, folds; and a small quantity of typescript copies of letters to Mrs Beeton, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).
NO RESERVE Serpell (Dr Sara).- Collection of letters and printed material from the archive of Dr Sara Serpell, including: a quantity of letters, both signed autograph and signed typed letters from various individuals, including: Myrna Loy, Robert Bolt, John Gielgud, Paul Rogers; signed photographs including Nina Epton and Emma Thompson; printed material including: 1898 The Daily Chronichle Newspaper, theatre programs, typewritten manuscripts by e.g. Antonia Fraser, some with folds, a few lightly soiled, v.d., v.s., c.1895-c.1990 (sml. qty)⁂ Dr Sara Serpell first worked as a secretary to R. D. Smith, before becoming a Shakespearean scholar. Smith was a BBC radio producer who worked with and helped figures like Harold Pinter and Richard Burton at the outset of their careers, friends with others such as Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas and Bertie Rogers, and was also the inspiration for the character Guy Pringle in his wife, Olivia Manning's, Fortunes of War. For a full list of contents of contents of the collection, please enquire.
NO RESERVE Drake Brookshaw (Percy) Archive of dust-jackets, proofs, newspaper & magazine clippings, some original pencil sketches, selection of dust-jackets and illustrations tipped-in or pasted into albums, many newspaper and magazine clippings loosely housed in large envelopes, includes a small selection of photographs showing sculpture, small volume containing a few pencil sketches, c.1930-60's § Stern (G. B.) Bernadette, first edition, inscribed to Brookshaw by the author, illustrations by Brookshaw, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipping to corners and extremities, small hole to lower cover, 1960; and 16 others illustrated by Brookshaw, most in dust-jackets, v.s. (small qty.)
NO RESERVE Air Travel and Airmail.- "Conquest of the Atlantic" Postcard, signed by multiple participants in ground-breaking trans-Atlantic crossings including: Frank Browdie, A. G. (Bert) Evenden, J. Kelly-Rogers, W. C. Wood, Bobby Oxspring and others, black card mount, 1977; and a cut signature of Alexander of Tunis, v.s. (2)⁂ This postcard was released in 1977 to commemorate the conquest of the Atlantic between 1919 and 1977, celebrating many ground-breaking crossings: the R34 Airship crossing of 1919; the 1939 first airmail service from Southampton to New York; the 1948 first jet crossing from England to Canada by No.54 Squadron R.A.F; first direct non-stop flight by Alock and Brown and with a British Airways Concorde stamp dated 22 November 1977.
Mysticism.- Boehme (Jacob) Aurora, that is, the Day-Spring. Or Dawning of the Day in the Orient... that is the Root or Mother of Philosophie, Astrologie & Theologie..., first edition in English, initial leaf bearing verses from the books of Revelations, Isaiah, and Matthew and engraved frontispiece by Hollar bound after E4, b4 errata f., lacking A3 and F1&4, contemporary ink pen trials, a few repaired tears with minor loss, stained and spotted, lightly browned throughout, 19th century half calf, covers detached, spine creased and with ends worn, [Wing B3397], small 4to, by John Streater, for Giles Calvert, 1656. sold not subject to return.⁂ First English translation of the most important work by this famed mystic; being the publication which brought about his expulsion from Dresden. Rare at auction. Provenance: Godfrey Pearson; William Sale (contemporary ink inscriptions).
Davenant (William) The Works of Sr William Davenant Kt, engraved portrait frontispiece, scattered spotting, small marginal paper defect to first T2, tiny marginal rust holes to second T3, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, [Wing D320], folio, by T.N. for Henry Herrington, 1673.
Kuwait.- Shamlan (Saif Marzuq) Tārīkh al-ghaws. 'alá al-lu'lu' fī al-Kuwayt wa-al-Khalīj al-'Arabī[Pearling in the Arabian Gulf: a Kuwaiti memoir], 2 vol., first edition, signed presentation inscription in arabic from author to front endpaper, additional colour title, vol. 1 folding map, marginal tear and tape repair to verso, vol. 2 folding colour diagram, photographic illustrations and plates, some colour, original cloth, gilt, corners and extremities lightly scuffed, 8vo, 1975-78.⁂ Presentation inscription is dedicated to Dr. Peter Clark, who later translated the work into English under the title as given in English above, in 2000. The inscription reads, 'It gives me great pleasure as author of this to present it to Mr Peter Clark, in appreciation, and as a memento of the diwaniya [reception] this year. With Greetings, 10 May 1998. The Author, Saif Marzuq Shamlan'. The author, born 1926 to a distinguished Kuwaiti family of pearl-merchants and seafarers, evokes the last decades of the pearling industry after 1900, basing his account on personal recollections as well as documentary and oral sources, including divers, ships masters and peal merchants, with numerous illustrations of sailing vessels, divers, crew and members of his own family.
![Europe.- [Bethel (Slingsby)] The Interest of princes and states, first edition, initial blank, 2 advertisement ff. at end, F4](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/590b44bf-8e48-4195-ae9e-adff0121b94c/0a011a54-4546-4b8a-924f-adff012687e1/468x382.jpg)
Europe.- [Bethel (Slingsby)] The Interest of princes and states, first edition, initial blank, 2 advertisement ff. at end, F4 short tear at head within text, but without loss, water-stained, occasional spotting, contemporary ink marginalia, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, leather lifting from boards, worn at head and outer edge, rubbed, [Wing B2064], 8vo, Printed for John Wickins at the White-Hart against St Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1680.⁂ First edition of this work composed by Bethel during his travels. In it he advocates freedom of trade and liberty of conscience. Provenance: George Mulgrave (contemporary ink signature to title and his marginalia).
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