Collection of books to include The Bondmaid, by Pearl S. Buck, Limited de Luxe Edition signed by the author and numbered 25 of 750, London: Theodore Brun Limited, 1949, full crushed morocco lettered in gilt; Mountains & Molehills, by Frances Cornford, illustrated with woodcuts by Gwen Raverat, Cambridge: University Press, 1934, blue cloth with worn jacket; The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry, in two volumes, London: Constable & Co., 1928, publisher's cloth; Chamber Music, by James Joyce, first American edition, unauthorized, Boston: The Cornhill Company, [1918], green cloth lettered in gilt; Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, Philadelphia: David McKay, 1894, full green crushed morocco; Ibn Yamin: 100 Short Poems, by Rodwell, London: Kegan Paul, 1933, yellow cloth with worn jacket, and others, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (26)
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Aleister Crowley. Biography. Three books, comprising: The Legend of Aleister Crowley, by P. R. Stephensen, London: Mandrake Press Ltd., 1930, owner inscription, 'K. B. Grant', publisher's blue paper covers, well-preserved, clean and bright, spine faded; The Great Beast, by John Symonds, first impression, London: Rider and Company, 1951, octavo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jacket, promotional band, internally very clean and bright, binding tight and square, cloth very well-preserved, some wear to edges of jacket and loss to band; Aleister Crowley, by Charles Richard Cammell, first edition, London: The Richards Press, 1951, octavo, publisher's polished red buckram lettered in gilt, unclipped d.j., internally very good and bright, binding tight and square, buckram very well-preserved, some wear/loss to d.j. (3)Provenance: Vendor's uncle was Kenneth Grant (1924-2011), ceremonial magician, writer and personal secretary of Aleister Crowley
Collection of books on bees & beekeeping to include The Apiary of Bees, Bee-Hives and Bee Culture, by Alfred Neighbour, Kent & Co., 1865; Bee-Keeping in Britain, by R. O. B. Manley, first edition, 1948; Bees & Honey, A "Bee-Craft" Book, 1945, and others, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (21)
Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1964, publisher's black cloth, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 16s. net), contents good, clean, bright, neat contemporary owner inscription on front free endpaper, light spotting and dust to edges of text-block, shelf-lean, dust-jacket well-preserved and vibrant (all four books in this lot were consigned within protective plastic wallets) with a short nick at top of spine; The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, publisher's black cloth, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 18s net), contents good, clean, bright, neat contemporary owner inscription on ffep, a couple of faint marks to fore-edge, dust-jacket very well-preserved and vibrant; The Spy Who Loved Me, fifth impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, publisher's black cloth, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 16s. net), contents good, clean, bright, neat contemporary owner inscription on ffep, spotting and dust to edges of text-block, d.j. well-preserved and vibrant; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, fourth impression, London: Jonathan Cape, 1963, publisher's dark brown cloth, unclipped dust-jacket (priced 16s. net.), contents good, clean, bright, a few pale spots on opening pages, neat contemporary owner inscription on ffep, d.j. vibrant with a few little nicks to edges. The vintage plastic wallets, which helped to preserve the jackets so well, have been carefully removed but will be included with the books in this lot (4)
Collection of miscellaneous books, predominantly mid-20th century novels, poetry, literary criticism, biography, to include Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence, first standard edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935; Nonesuch Dickensia, Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1937; The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, by George Bernard Shaw, London: Constable, 1932; How to Sing, by Lilli Lehmann, New York: Macmillan, 1914; The Edwardians, by Vita Sackville-West, first edition, published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1930; Feeding the Mind, by Lewis Carroll, London: Chatto & Windus, 1907; Collected Poems, by Vita Sackville-West, London: Hogarth Press, 1933; Frederick Delius, by Clare Delius, London: Nicholson & Watson, 1935; Harold Nicolson Diaries, in three volumes, London: Collins, 1966-68, and others, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (66)
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, first edition, hardback, London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Signed by the author in bold black ink on dedication page. Contents very good with light toning and a couple of pale marks in places; toning and very faint spotting to edges of text-block, a little dusty; pictorial boards with sunning to extreme edges and spine; slight bumping to headcaps; a few faint scuffs/marks
Tourtel, Mary. Rupert Little Bear's Adventures, Number Three, first edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Limited, [1925]. Quarto, publisher's grey paper boards with illustrated cover and spine, loosely inserted prospectus introducing Rupert and His Friends, dated 1925. Contents generally good and bright with pale spotting in places, most pronounced on edges of text-block and opening few leaves (including title); binding tight and square with slight wear to corners and extremities
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, signed first deluxe edition, London: Bloomsbury, 1999, print line on copyright page reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Signed by the author in bold black ink on dedication page, together with a golden ticket for The Hogwarts Express Tour, National Railway Museum, York, 9 July 2000, a badge from the event, 'I was on the Hogwarts Express Book Tour, July 2000', and four photographs taken on the day. The book is very good, clean, bright, appears unread, tight and square, a couple of small bumps to jointsProvenance: Vendor attended the above event where her son had this book signed (pictured in the photographs). Rowling apparently complimented him on the jacket he was wearing
The Golden Hind: A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Literature, edited by Austin Osman Spare and Clifford Bax, October 1922, featuring illustrations by John Austen, John Nash, Glyn W. Philpot, Robert Gibbings, Laurence Bradshsaw, Cecil French, and others. Contents clean and bright with light spotting to first and last leaves; publisher's paper covers well-preserved and brightProvenance: Vendor's uncle was Kenneth Grant (1924-2011), ceremonial magician, writer and personal secretary of Aleister Crowley
Lang, Andrew. Collection of Fairy Books, early editions, including The Brown Fairy Book, first edition, 1904; Red Fairy Book, 1895; Blue Fairy Book, 1903; Violet Fairy Book, 1902; Green Fairy Book, 1902; Grey Fairy Book, 1924; Olive Fairy Book, 1918. Together with Lang's Animal Story Book, 1927, Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts, 1899, and three fairy books by other authors: The Scottish Fairy Book, by Elizabeth W. Grierson, 1917; The Italian Fairy Book, by Anne Macdonell, 1911, and The Silver Fairy Book, various authors, no date. Condition varied, sold as found with all faults (12)
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Contents very good, clean, bright; boards bold and vibrant; dust-jacket well-preserved with slight fading to spine; slight shelf-lean. The second novel in the Harry Potter series
Spare, Austin Osman. Earth Inferno, signed limited edition numbered 7 of 265, London: The Co-operative Printing Society, 1905. Spare's first book, published when he was 18 years old. Folio, publisher's brown paper wrappers lettered in black, untrimmed edges, eleven large illustrations, plus two smaller and numerous decorations. Contents good, clean, bright, some faint handling creases, some very pale spotting at beginning and end, paper covers with some wear around edges and a small area of loss at frontProvenance: Vendor's uncle was Kenneth Grant (1924-2011), ceremonial magician, writer and personal secretary of Aleister Crowley
Wildman, Thomas. A Treatise on the Management of Bees; Wherein is Contained the Natural History of those Insects, first edition, London: Printed for the Author by T. Cadell, 1768. Quarto, featuring list of subscribers, three folding copper-engraved plates, later half-calf lettered in gilt with marbled boards, all edges marbled, bookplate for Ernest H. Pee, pencil inscription on front free endpaper, 'Purchased at the sale of The Earl of Dudley's Library, 1923', bookseller's ticket on pastedown, 'R. Davies, Birmingham'. Contents generally good and bright with occasional pale spotting including to plates, more pronounced spotting to title and opening leaves; binding tight and square with wear to extremities
Pratchett, Terry. The Carpet People, first edition, Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1971. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, price-clipped dust-jacket, gift inscription on front free endpaper. Contents good, clean, bright; binding tight and square; faint bumps to corners; Duraseal protective jacket
Dickens, Charles. Dombey & Son, first edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, illustrated with steel-engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), half-calf, text-block good, externally sound, separated from contents inside cover, plates foxed. Together with Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844, and David Copperfield, London: Chapman & Hall, c. 1855, full calf, engraved plates. Sold as found with all faults (3)
Lang, Andrew. The Orange Fairy Book, first edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. Octavo, publisher's gilt orange cloth, all edges gilt, numerous illustrations throughout including eight colour plates, bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown (Start & Sons, Worcester St, Wolverhampton). Contents very good, clean, bright; some very pale spotting in places, heavier/more pronounced on endpapers and tissue-guard; cloth very well-preserved and bright with only a few very small marks in places; slightest discolouration to spine; very light wear to extreme edges, slight shelf-lean
Fortune, Dion. The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage, first edition, London: William Rider & Son Ltd., 1924, octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in black, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, internally very good, clean, bright, cloth binding well-preserved with very light bumping to corners and slight discolouration to spine, slight shelf-lean. Together with The Sea Priestess, London: Published by the Author, 1938, owner inscription, 'K. B. Grant'; The Mystica; Qabalah, London: Williams & Norgate, 1948; Psychic Self Defence, London: Aquarian Press, 1952; The Training & Work of an Initiate, London: Aquarian Press, 1955; The Demon Lover, London: Aquarian Press, 1957, condition generally very good internally, jackets with wear when present, those without jackets with discoloured cloth (6)Provenance: Vendor's uncle was Kenneth Grant (1924-2011), ceremonial magician, writer and personal secretary of Aleister Crowley
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair, first edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, illustrated with 40 full-page plates by Thackeray, earliest imprint with suppressed plate of the Marquis of Steyne and rustic heading to p. 1, worn half-calf, bearing label on front pastedown for Charles L. Lawrence, Oriental Club, Hanover Square, 'Bought this book at Sotheby's sale, July 18th 1924 for £12.10.0', and one other (2)
Natural History. Mixed collection of books, comprising: Audubon's Birds of America, Baby Elephant Folio edition, New York & London: Abbeville Press, 1990, white buckram, dust-jacket, slipcase; Anatomy and Physiology of the Honeybee, by R. E. Snodgrass, first edition, fourth impression, New York & London: McGraw-Hill, 1925, publisher's cloth; The Book of Poisons, by Gustav Schenk, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1956, green cloth with worn d.j.; The Sacred Bee, by Hilda M. Ransome, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937, purple cloth, very worn d.j.; Familiar Wild Flowers, in four volumes, by F. Edward Hulme, London: Cassell, n.d., green cloth, numerous colour plates; The Sport of Shooting, by Owen Jones, London: Edward Arnold, 1911, blue cloth; White's Selborne, stereotyped edition, London: Sonnenschein, n.d., full calf, prize label. Condition varied, sold as found with all faults (9)
The Book of Tea, by Okakura Kakuzo, first edition, Edinburgh & London: T. N. Foulis, 1919, complete with ten plates as called for (including frontispiece), publisher's pictorial cloth, internally clean and bright, neat contemporary owner inscription, some general discolouration and slight wear around spine/headcaps and inner gutters; Blossoms from a Japanese Garden, by Mary Fenollosa, London: Heinemann, 1913, complete with 20 tipped-in colour plates as called for, publisher's pictorial cloth; Bushido, The Soul of Japan, by Inazo Nitobe, fifth edition, Tokyo: Shokwabo, London: Simpkin Marshall, 1903, publisher's pictorial cloth with dust-jacket, frontispiece portrait, internally good, owner inscriptions, discolouration to d.j. and tissue guard of frontis., together with four other books relating to Japan, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (8)
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, fourth issue hardback, London: Bloomsbury, 1997. Contents generally bright with occasional light creasing and wear; bumping with wear/loss to corners/edges/headcaps; ex-school library copy: Twyford C of E First School, Buckingham, bearing library label on front free endpaper and library stamp on front pastedownProvenance: The headteacher of Twyford C of E School has kindly provided a letter advising that the book has been withdrawn from the school library and that any funds generated from this sale will be going towards updating their existing library stock
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Eves Without Leaves [nude photography], Photogravure Studies, by Walter Bird, Roye, John Everard, first edition, London: C. Arthur Pearson, December 1940, hardcover lacking spine, some pale spotting to contents. Together with Pett's Annual, guest artist Illingworth, Birmingham: Thomas's Publications Ltd., c.1944, Jane's Journal, by Pett, c.1947, and others, including London Opinion, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (11)
Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, first edition, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1926. Octavo, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers, neat contemporary gift inscription, Christmas 1926. Contents good, clean, bright; very slight wear to the extreme top edge of a couple of pages; binding tight and square, well-preserved, one small mark on upper board, faint cockling near centre of joint on lower board
Venables, Bernard. The Gentle Art of Angling, first edition, London: Reinhardt, 1955, in dustwrapper, and a later edition of 1959; Baleia! Baleia! Whale Hunters of the Azores, New York: Knopf, 1969, in dustwrapper; Coming Down the Zambezi, London: Constable, 1974; Silver: The Life Story of an Atlantic Salmon, by Roderick Haig-Brown, second edition, London: A & C Black, 1946, in price-clipped jacket, and two other works illustrated by Venables (7)
Edgar Lustgarten (1907-1978), British broadcaster and crime writer. Archive of material including publishing & television contracts, manuscript song lyrics, signed presentation copies of books, newspaper clippings and true crime articles. To include the first proposal for his 'At the Bar of History' series; Jacob Lustgarten's naturalisation papers of Bury New Road, Manchester; wills; Edgar's birth certificate, 1907; signed copy of Verdict in Dispute, inscribed to Joan Miller; signed copy of Judges and the Judged; a first edition of Blondie Iscariot, Scribner, 1948, and others, in one carton
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, first issue, London: Bloomsbury, 1998, hardback, publisher's pictorial boards complete with dust-jacket, print line reads '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Signed by the author in black ink on dedication page, 'To Jill, who very spookily gave me a beautiful card with something from Book Four on it! With many thanks, J K Rowling'. The book includes a loosely-inserted sealed envelope relating to the inscription (see provenance below), 'sealed 22.2.99'. Contents very good, clean, bright; very slight knock to extreme edges of a few pages with one incredibly faint red mark to fore-edge; one very short tear to extreme edge of p.125; a few very faint creases to opening leaves; binding with very slight shelf-lean; covers clean and vibrant; two pronounced bumps/splits to edge of upper board; dust-jacket clean and bright with some very faint bumps and marks. The second novel in the Harry Potter seriesProvenance: Vendor's mother was a teacher who had been enjoying reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with her class at Dunblane Primary School. In February 1999, Rowling visited the school, signed books and answered questions. The vendor has kindly provided the following statement:'My mum had arranged with a couple of other members of staff to take JK Rowling for lunch at the café in the High Street in Dunblane and asked them if they minded if I could come along too. I was 11 years old at the time, and a huge Harry Potter fan. The other staff were quite happy, and my mum was able to pick me up from my school a couple of miles away and we all arrived at the café. JK Rowling sat beside me and the two of us had a good chat. She was really lovely. I had brought a card which I had made for JK Rowling, and also my copy of Chamber of Secrets which I was hoping that JK Rowling would sign. Amazingly, she said that I had drawn a creature from Book 4 on the front of the card! She asked me not to tell anyone because it was a secret. Book 4 was not due to be released for more than a year as I remember. I never told anyone what the creature was, although now I can reveal that it was a mermaid shaped liked a ‘J’ for Joanne. JK Rowling then signed my book with that amazing inscription. That night, I wrote the name of the creature on a piece of paper (and maybe other things – I can’t remember now) and, without letting anyone see it, placed it in an envelope. My mum and I signed and sealed the envelope just for fun and and I used it thereafter as a bookmark. I never imagined that the book would ever be worth anything and I lent it to a couple of friends after finishing it. Now I want to move house and have decided to sell my precious book. I would be happy to write about my lunch with JKR for the buyer and answer any questions s/he may have. I hope it gives them as much pleasure and excitement as it has given me.'
Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, first edition, London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1928. Octavo, publisher's salmon pink cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers, neat owner and gift inscription on front free endpaper, Xmas 1928. Contents good, clean, bright, a few very light marks in places; general offsetting to endapers; some discolouration to cloth, corners bumped, slight wear to extremities
Richard Walker Interest. Mixed collection, to include a small collection of books, ephemera and recordings. Collection includes the order of service and a typed copy of the address given by Frederick H. Buller at Walker's funeral; three home VHS cassettes and two audio cassettes, one of the videos filmed July, 1977 at his fishing lodge in Stoney Stratford (outlined in a loosely-inserted letter addressed to Tim Walker); Walker's Pitch, second impression, Peterborough: E. M. Art and Publishing Ltd., 1966; Fly Dressing Innovations, first edition, London: Ernest Benn, 1974; How Fish Feed, stated first impression, Angling Times Publication, no date; Carp Fishing, Angling Times Book, 1960, and others, condition varied, sold as found with all faultsProvenance: By descent. Richard Walker was the vendor's father-in-law
Cobbold, Lady Evelyn. Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert, first edition, London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. Small quarto, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, frontispiece and illustrations within text. Contents generally good, clean, bright, endpapers marked/foxed; binding tight and square, cloth good and bright with slight wear at corners and edges of spine
Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Chopping, priced 18s net. Octavo, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt. Contents very good, clean, bright, some very light toning and pale marks to edges of text-block; cloth well-preserved, corners bumped, jacket with some general discolouration and slight wear/loss to extremities, verso of jacket with some pale dampstaining
Cobbold, Lady Evelyn. Pilgrimage to Mecca, first edition, London: John Murray, 1934. Octavo, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, frontispiece and illustrations within text. Contents good, clean, bright; some pale spotting in places, offsetting to endpapers; binding tight and square, a few pale marks to the cloth in places, corners slightly bumped
Tolkien, Christopher. The Silmarillion, first edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. Octavo, publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, unclipped dust-jacket, contemporary ink gift inscription, contents generally good and bright with some light spotting in places, heavier spotting to endpapers and edges of text-block, some dust and marks to cloth, some light dirt to dust-jacket, slight shelf-lean
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House, first edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853, with 40 steel-engraved plates, name of Francis Ann Harwood on top-edge of title page. Octavo, half-calf, gilt-embossed spine. Plates foxed, spine rubbed. Together with Little Dorrit, first edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857, the name of Fanny Harwood on title, plates foxed, binding worn, sold as found with all faults (2)
Crowley, Aleister. Jephthah and Other Mysteries Lyrical and Dramatic, first edition, London: Kegan Paul, 1899, printed at The Chiswick Press. Octavo, publisher's quarter-cloth with paper-covered boards and paper title label to spine. Publisher's 12pp. catalogue bound at start. Contents very good, clean, bright, untrimmed page edges; owner inscription, 'K. B. Grant, 1950'; binding tight and square, bumping/wear to corners, discolouration to spineProvenance: Vendor's uncle was Kenneth Grant (1924-2011), ceremonial magician, writer and personal secretary of Aleister Crowley
Cricket. Alan Hill (1928-2021), author and biographer of cricketers. Archive of correspondence, photographs and ephemera. Collection includes a number of handwritten letters relating to Hill's well-received biography of Hedley Verity, most dating from 1984-86, including correspondence from Charles John Barnett, William Eric Bowles, Sir Donald George Bradman, Sir Leonard Hutton, James Charles Laker, John Kay, Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, Norman Walter, Dransfield Yardley, John Arlott, and others, some providing recollections for use in the book; one letter is from Mary Wilson, signed by former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson, politely declining to write the foreword for the book; includes a four-page letter (four sides of two sheets) from Charlie Barnett on Cowcombe House letterhead, 10 September 1943, to Hedley Verity's father, expressing his grief at the news of Hedley's death in the war, 'Dear Mr Verity, Thank you very much indeed for your very nice letter. I cannot say how grieved I am to hear the very bad news of Hedley's death...something very concrete seems to have fallen out of my life, cricket for one thing will never be the same again for me...From the day I came to know him well, you will remember it as we sailed from Tilbury for India I had just parted from my mother and you saw Hedley off, it was my first trip away from Home and I felt a little bit under the weather when Hedley turned to me and seeing how I felt said "I think a walk round the boat is indicated", from that day he has always been my very dear friend, and has since become one to my family too. You as his father must feel very proud of him, and although I know you Yorkshire folk are not given to open sentiment and expression, I still know that deep down you are very proud of him...If at any time we have the opportunity of doing anything to help Kathaline or the boys we shall expect to be told...My very sincere sympathy to you all in this great loss. Please feel such a sacrifice has not been in vain. Yours very sincerely, Charles Barnett'; there are a further seven signed letters from Barnett, in which he recounts his life and career for the book; several interesting letters from Don Bradman, including one in which he relates his memories and opinion of the Lords test of 1934 (pictured), and one in which he writes of Bill Edrich, 'He was a controversial figure, especially in the field of matrimonial pursuits, but earned everyone's respect in the cricket world. Yes - W.J.O'Reilly has passed on. A happy release after having had a leg amputated but he maintained his belligerent attitude to all things right to the last. I don't know how Bill Bowes could ever have rated him as a bowler. Bowes never stayed long enough at the crease to evaluate anyone. Thank you for your kind reference to my wife. I am pleased to say she is much better but we are both suffering from an incurable malady - old age. Any suggestions?'. The archive includes a number of letters from Johnny Wardle relating to his biography, several letters from Colin Cowdrey relating to his foreword, letters from Ted Lester, Dickie Bird, Donald Carr, Roy Hattersley, Cyril Washbrook, and others; numerous press photographs bearing stamps verso (predominantly 1950s-80s); various signed programmes for luncheons and other events; a small quantity of ephemera, including a souvenir of England v Australia, 1938, a telegram to the England team, 1949, a couple of published pamphlets on Hedley Verity; a quantity of modern photographs of social gatherings and matches, as well as reproductions of photographs for research or use in the books, and an extensive collection of more than 200 audio cassette recordings of interviews (full list available on request), the whole housed in two containers
Walker, Richard. Drop Me A Line, presentation copy from the author to his parents, first edition, London: Douglas Saunders, MacGibbon & Kee, 1953, inscribed in blue ink on front free endpaper, 'To Mother and Edwin with love from Dick 26/10/53', additionally inscribed and signed by the author's son, 'This copy of "Drop Me a Line" was dedicated by the author Richard Stuart Walker to his mother, Mrs Elsie May Walker, and his step-father, Edwin Halford. It came to me, his son, on my grandmother's death on 11th January 1990, Timothy Stuart Walker.' Octavo, publisher's blue cloth, internally clean and bright with some very light spotting on endpapers; cloth covers well-preserved with very faint wear at corners; dust-jacket present but worn with lossProvenance: By descent. Richard Walker was the vendor's father-in-law
Collection of assorted books, fiction, poetry, ghost stories, history, to include Selected Poems, by Charles Baudelaire, Falcon Press, 1946, bearing owner inscription, 'K. B. Grant', with quotation inscribed on half-title; The Centaur, by Algernon Blackwood, first edition, London: Macmillan, 1911, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt; Iron and Smoke, by Sheila Kaye-Smith, London: Cassell, 1928, signed by the author; When Evil Wakes, edited by August Derleth, Souvenir Press, 1963; An Anthology of Haiku Ancient and Modern, by Asatoro Miyamori, Tokyo: Maruzen, 1932; In Ghostly Japan, by Lafcadio Hearn, Boston: Little, Brown, 1919; The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James, London: Edward Arnold, 1949; The Chronicles of Clovis, by Saki, London: John Lane, 1926; The Haunted and the Haunters, by Lord Lytton, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1925; Libro de Cuentos y Leyendas, by Javier Villafane, La Plata, 1945, illustrated with colour lithographic plates; Charles II, by Osmund Airy, London: Goupil & Co., 1901, in paper wrappers; Henry VIII, by A. F. Pollard, London: Goupil & Co., 1902, in paper wrappers, and others, condition varied, sold as found with all faults (32)Provenance: Vendor's uncle was Kenneth Grant (1924-2011), ceremonial magician, writer and personal secretary of Aleister Crowley
Late-Georgian scrapbook of prints, predominantly late-18th century but with earlier material, to include an engraved portrait of Carlos Coloma by Paulus Pontius after Anthony van Dyck, c.1630-1645 (other examples in British Museum); Rural Beauty or Vauxhall Garden, illustrated sheet music or ballad, engraved by George Bickham Jnr, c.1740 (example in V&A); engraved portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman, 1640; Blindman's Buff, droll engraving, Laurie & Whittle, 1794; A Taste in High Life, etching & engraving after William Hogarth; Elegia Quinta, stipple engraving by Thomas Kirk after Richard Westall, J. & J. Boydell, 1797; miniature etching of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax, engraved by Thomas Worlidge, 1755 (example in BM); engraved portrait of Countess of Clarendon by Goldar after Kneller (example in NPG); Taking Water for Vauxhall, printed for Robert Sayer, 1790 (example in Yale); engraved portrait of Christopher Columbus by Bartolome Vazquez, 1791 (example in BM); engraving of putti with fish by Pieter van Avont after Wenceslaus Hollar, c.1644-1652 (example in BM); etching of family with baby by Thomas Rowlandson, 1787; Nap in the Country, etching by Rowlandson, 1785 (example in Met); The Satyr and the Peasant, etching by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1764 (example in Met); The Gigg with a view of Epsom Downs, engraving, Robert Sayer 1792; A Fleet Wedding, engraving by John June, 1747; various portraits including James Whitney (highwayman), Christopher Wright (Gunpowder Plot), Mary Davis (grew horns), Elizabeth Woodcock (found buried in snow), Joseph Capper (eccentric inmate at Horns pub, Kennington), Dicky Dickinson (Governor of Scarborough Spaw), Mrs [Letitia Ann] Sage ('the first female aerial traveller'), Henry Blacker ('The Irish Giant'), John Hatfield ('The Famous Seducer'), and numerous other portraits, fashion plates, stipple engravings by Bartolozzi or similar, natural history plates, and various smaller clippings, well-filled with approximately 180 pictures, plus 25 loose prints, including a stipple-engraved portrait of George Washington by Ridley, 1800, Daniel Dancer (miser), John Elwes (miser), a small mezzotint droll of a fashionable young woman by Sayer, and others. Contemporary polished calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down and a later morocco title label lettered in giltProvenance: From the collection of Stanley Austin, author of The History of Engraving, [1908], thence by descent
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse, second impression, London: Hogarth Press, 1927. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, lacking dust-jacket, internally clean and bright, neat ownership bookplate, general discolouration and light bumping/wear to cloth. Together with 15 other books, including The Waves, second impression, 1931; A Room of One's Own, fifth impression, 1930; Orlando, first edition, 1928; The Years, first edition, 1937; Granite & Rainbow, first edition, 1958; Walter Sickert: A Conversation, first edition, 1934; Quack, Quack!, by Leonard Woolf, first edition, 1935, and others, including pamphlets, lacking dust-jackets on all but Granite & Rainbow, sold as found with all faults (16)
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[Tiphaigne de la Roche, Charles François]. Giphantia: Or A View of What Has Passed, What is Now Passing, And, during the Present Century, What Will Pass, In the World, first English edition, in two volumes, London: Robert Horsfield, 1761, Vol.II dated 1760. 132 pp. & 126pp.; advertisement leaf at rear of Vol.II; title page of Vol.I printed in red & black; loosely inserted 6pp. review from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1761. Octavo, rebound in a "signed" Malkin presentation 18th-century style mottled calf binding with embossed optical geometric design to covers and "steampunk" cogs, housed in a compartmentalised slipcase and quarter leather & marbled paper board box. Contents toned with pale dampstaining and marks in places; untrimmed edges.The novel is notable for predicting the modern process of photography in Chapter XVII of Vol.I (see images)'In 1760 the French writer Charles Francois Tiphaigne de la Roche wrote a novel that today would be considered science fiction. Titled Giphantie, an anagram of his name, it describes his imaginary travels...the author prophecies the fixing of transient images of nature by the action of light.' [Photography: Essays & Images, edited by Beaumont Newhall, 1980, pp.13-14]
Lofting, Hugh. The Story of Dr Dolittle, first edition, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920. Octavo, publisher's decorated orange cloth with central illustrated panel, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece with protective tissue-guard. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding tight and square, cloth well-preserved and vibrant, slight discolouration and marks to spine in places, light wear to extremities
Walker, Richard. Two presentation copies: Still-Water Angling, third impression, London: David & Charles, 1979, inscribed and signed in blue ink on front free endpaper, 'To Lynn with all my love, Richard Walker, or Dad?', internally clean and bright with very light spots in places, cloth and dust-jacket well-preserved with some discolouration and pale spotting to inside of jacket; Coarse Fishing, first edition, Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1983,inscribed on ffep, 'To Nancy Hattersley with every good wish, Richard Walker', clean and bright with a couple of light handling marks near dedication, cloth and jacket well-preserved if a little dusty (2)Provenance: By descent. Richard Walker was the vendor's father-in-law
Lawrence, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first trade edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935, with loosely-inserted newspaper clippings, 1935, plates, small quarto, tan buckram. Together with Austin Dobson: The Story of Rosina, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, London: Kegan Paul, 1895, and seven others (9)
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), founder of modern nursing, known as "The Lady with the Lamp". Autograph letter signed in black ink on 10 South Street, Park Lane W. letterhead, October 1885, addressed to William Rathbone VI around the time of his appointment as MP for Arfon. Rathbone is remembered for his philanthropic work and development of nursing, inspired by the care given by nurses to his first wife, Lucretia, when she was dying in 1859, which resulted in his close friendship with Nightingale. The letter is well-preserved, clean and bright, folded, very light creasing, a few pale spots
Leonardo da Vinci. A Treatise on Painting, first edition in English, London: Senex & Taylor, 1721. Engraved frontispiece, title page printed in red & black, 35 engraved plates, two of which are folding plates, a further two of which are tables stated 'to fold out' but appear self-contained as single plates (pictured), the tables are not numbered, the others are numbered 1-33 with 27 misnumbered as 26, contemporary ink illustration of horse to lower margin of one plate, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and capitals, 3pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Octavo, full polished calf sympathetically rebacked. Contents generally good and bright with occasional light creasing, toning and marks; very pale dampstaining in places; some discolouration and slight wear to folding plates; frontispiece & title with pale dampstaining, light creasing and wear to edges, more pronounced to verso of frontispiece with archival reinforcement to gutter; calf binding attractive with wear to lower corners and extremities, slight bumping to edges in placesFirst edition in English of the influential Trattato della pittura, compiled from numerous manuscripts after Leonardo's death
Walker, Richard. No Need To Lie, first edition, review copy with loosely inserted slip from E. M. Art & Publishing Ltd., 17 April 1964, signed by Peter J. Thomas on dedication page, publisher's green cloth with worn dust-jacket, internally clean and bright. Together with another the same, lacking jacket with some pale spotting and bumps to corners (2)Provenance: By descent. Richard Walker was the vendor's father-in-law
Richard Walker Interest. Collection of signed/limited editions of works relating to Walker, comprising: Richard Walker: Biography of an Angling Legend, by Barrie Rickards, first edition (one of 699), Ellesmere: The Medlar Press, 2007, inscribed by the author to Tim [Richard Walker's son], additionally signed by Pat Marston Walker [Richard's second wife] and Peter J Thomas; Be My Guest: Dick Walker 1918-1985, edited by Peter Maskell, 2010, signed & numbered 185 of 570; another the same, 168 of 570, additionally signed by Pat Marston Walker; Walker's Pitch, illustrated by Tom O'Reilly, 2003, signed & numbered 670 of 980; Walker's Pitch II, illustrated by Tom O'Reilly, 2008, signed & numbered 76 of 500; No Need to Lie, illustrated by Tom O'Reilly, Little Egret Press, 2001, signed & numbered 28 of 500, additionally inscribed on ffep, 'For Tim Walker with best "fishes!" Tom O'Reilly July 02', also signed by Tim Walker and Peter J Thomas; Still-Water Angling, fourth impression, 1979, inscribed by Barrie [Rickards] to Tim [Walker]; Angling: Fundamental Principles, by Barrie Rickards, Boydell Press, 1986, inscribed by the author, 'Tim, you did well to unearth this! Barrie Rickards' (8)Provenance: By descent. Richard Walker was the vendor's father-in-law
Walker, Richard. Four presentation copies from the author to his son: Dick Walker's Modern Fly Dressings, first edition, London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1980, inscribed and signed in blue ink on front free endpaper, 'To Tim Walker, always be sure your flies are in good order, Richard Walker', internally good and bright with spotting to endpapers, boards good and solid with one small bump and fading; Catching Fish, first edition, London: David & Charles, 1981, inscribed on ffep, 'To Tim with love and thanks, Dad, Richard Walker', clean and bright, cloth and dust-jacket well-preserved with very slight fading; Dick Walker's Trout Fishing, first edition, London: David & Charles, 1982, inscribed on ffep, 'To Tim, my son, Richard Walker, July 1982', internally clean and bright, cloth and dust-jacket well-preserved but dusty and slightly discoloured; Dick Walker's Coarse Fishing, first edition, Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1983, inscribed on ffep, 'To my son Tim with love and gratitude, Richard Walker', clean and bright, cloth well-preserved, dust-jacket good with slight fading (4)Provenance: By descent. Richard Walker was the vendor's father-in-law
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T E Lawrence, Jonathan Cape, third impression August 1935, together with The Eye of the Wind, by Peter Scott, Hodder & Stoughton, 1961 first edition, The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone, Doubleday & Co, New York, 1961, first edition, signed and with a presentation inscription
Trumpets from Montparnasse, by Robert Gibbings, illustrated by the author, 1955 first edition, together with The Seasons and The Farmer, by F Fraser Darling, illustrated by C F Tunnicliffe, 1939 first edition, Through the Woods by H E Bates, illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker, published by Victor Gollancz 1936, Cheddar Gorge, Edited by John Squire, illustrated by E H Shepard, published Collins London, 1937 first edition, and Adam's Rib, by Robert Graves, published Trianon Press, 1955 first edition
A Blue Seed, by Ricko Nakagawa, illustrated by Yuriko Omura, published by Richard Sadler, 1965 first English edition, together with Lo Cheng, by Chiang Yee, published by Penguin, The Cat In The Hat Comes Back by Dr Seuss, Collins 1961 first UK edition, The Story of Lengthwise, by Ernestine Cobern Beyer, illustrated by Don Madden, Chatto, Boyd and Oliver, 1969 first UK edition, and Bennett Cerfs Book of Riddles, lustrated by Roy McKie, Collins and Harvill, 1962 first UK edition
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