There are 596772 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeNO RESERVE Bawden (Nina) In Honour Bound, presentation inscription from the author to front free endpapers, 1961 § Robey (George) The Lady in Question, 1922 § Ellroy (James) Blood on the Moon, 1985 § Hart (L. H.) Venus Died at Dawn, 1947, first editions, some endpapers browned, original cloth, dust-wrappers, first and last edges frayed or rubbed with chips to extremities, others crisp and bright; and 21 others, crime and thrillers, v.s. (25
Harris & Son (John, publisher) A Visit to the Bazaar, third edition, 32 stipple-engraved plates of shopkeepers, some foxing or offsetting, original roan-backed printed pictorial boards, rather worn, Harris & Son, 1820 § London Melodies; or, Amusement for all Good Children, hand-coloured illustrations of street-sellers with verses below printed on one side only, inner margin stained, later boards covered with netting and gold thread, original wrappers bound in (upper detached), Hodgson, [c.1830], 12mo & 8vo (2)⁂ The first includes plates of a bookseller, jeweller, linen draper, toy shop, pastry cook, musical instruments, hatter, optician, umbrella maker and many others.
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, first edition, with "you" for "your" on p.13 line 3, 16 plates by Sidney Paget, endpapers browned with contemporary ink presentation inscription, a few plates loose or becoming so, frontispiece detached, occasional very light spotting, some light marginal toning, original red pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt and black, light sunning to covers and spine, extremities bumped, joint splitting, still an attractive copy overall, [Green & Gibson A26; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone], 8vo, 1902.⁂ Sherlock Holmes' most famous adventure and one of the most celebrated crime novels of all time.
NO RESERVE Forester (C.S.) The Happy Return, 1937 § Smeaton (Oliphant) A Mystery of the Pacific, 1899 § Hyne (Cutcliffe) Further Adventures of Captain Kettle, 1899, first editions, some illustrations, bookplate to last, light foxing to second half-title and title, original cloth, last two pictorial or gilt, light bumping to extremities, spines a little faded, still overall bright crisp copies; and 29 others, mostly naval and some adventure literature, 8vo (32)
NO RESERVE Graves (Robert).- The Carthusian, vol. X, no.325 - vol. XI, no.363, 36 numbers in all, with Robert Graves first published poem in no.349, bound in one vol., contemporary half morocco, rubbed, upper cover detached, October 1908 - December 1912.⁂ The Charterhouse School Magazine, containing Robert Graves' first published poem 'The Mountainside at Evening', as well as various references to him in the reports of school activities.
NO RESERVE Greene (Graham) Our Man in Havana, signed by the author to title, 1958; It's a Battlefield, 1934; The End of the Affair, 1951, first editions, second with bookplate to pastedown, light fore-edge spotting to last, original cloth, spine ends lightly bumped and frayed, spines a little faded, last with dust-jacket, small chips to extremities; and 8 others by Greene, 8vo (11)
NO RESERVE Hill (Susan).- Ghost Stories, collected by Susan Hill, first edition, signed by Hill to bookplate on pastedown, 1983 § Barlow (James) One Half of the World, first English edition, T.L.s from Barlow loosely inserted, 1957 § Dickinson (William Croft) The Sweet Singers, illustrations by Joan Hassal, 1953, light occasional spotting to second and last, original boards, second lightly marked, dust-jackets to first two, first lightly bumped, second extremities a little chipped and frayed, last original wrappers; and 8 others, horror fiction, v.s. (11)
NO RESERVE Kirkpatrick (B. J.) A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf, third edition, Oxford, 1980; A Bibliography of Katherine Mansfield, 1989 § Armitage (C. M.) and Neil Clark. A Bibliography of the Works of Louis Macneice, Alberta, 1973 § Sagar (Keith) and Stephen Tabor. Ted Hughes: A Bibliography 1946-1995, second edition, 1998 § Davis (Robert Murray), Paul A. Doyle et al. A Bibliography of Evelyn Waugh, New York, 1986, original cloth, first three with dust-jackets, light marking to first, all still clean and fresh copies; and c.80 others, literary criticism, biography and bibliography etc., v.s. (c.85)
Le Carré (John) Absolute Friends, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 2004 § Mantel (Hilary) Bring Up the Bodies, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, 2012 § Smith (Alexander McCall) The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, first American edition, original wrappers, New York, 2002, all signed by the author, near-fine generally; and 15 others, similar, most signed and fine, 8vo (18)
NO RESERVE Literary periodicals.- A collection of c.150 literary journals, periodicals and magazines, including numbers from The Criterion, The London Mercury, The Adelphi, and The Captain, original wrappers, some spotting and staining, some spines defective, v.s., late 19th and early 20th century.⁂ Includes numbers 97-102 of the Captain, featuring the first serialization of P. G. Wodehouse's 'Jackson Junior' from 1907.
NO RESERVE MacNeice (Louis) Collected Poems 1925-1948, 1949; Christopher Columbus, 1944 § Plath (Sylvia) Crossing the Water, 1971 § Aiken (Conrad) The Kid, 1947, first editions, some with ink ownership names to endpapers, original boards, dust-jackets, some fading and toning, some lightly bumped or frayed but overall clean and crisp copies; and a large quantity of others, poetry, v.s. (lge qty)
NO RESERVE Mann (Thomas) Dieser Friede, Stockholm, 1938 § Hewlett (Maurice) The Little Iliad, coloured plates by Philip Burne-Jones, wrappers toned and creased, 1915 § Koestler (Arthur) Arrival and Departure, jacket marked with short tear to upper panel, 1943 § Wells (H. G.) You Can't Be Too Careful, 1941 § Tarkington (Booth) The Fascinating Stranger, 1923, first editions, occasional light scattered spotting, first original wrappers, others original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, light bumping and creasing to extremities, ; and c. 55 others, literature, v.s. (c.60)
McEwan (Ian) Atonement, 2001 § Waters (Sarah) Fingersmith, 2002 § Clarke (Susanna) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, 2004 § Levy (Andrea) Small Island, 2004, first editions, signed by the author, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine generally; and 14 others, similar, most signed and fine, 8vo (18)
NO RESERVE Moore (Brian) Lies of Silence, 1990 § Tremain (Rose) Sacred Country, 1992 § Mo (Timothy) The Redundancy of Courage, 1991, first editions, all one of 150 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, fine copies; and 39 others, special or limited editions, including a second edition of Norton's facsimile edition of Shakespeare's First Folio, v.s. (42)
O'Donnell (Elliott) The Sorcery Club, first edition, half-title, four black and white plates, occasional spotting, mainly marginal but including half-title, front endpaper browned, original pictorial cloth, spine toned, head rubbed with small tear, extremities scuffed, 1912; Dunsany (Edward Plunkett, Lord) The Blessing of Pan, first edition, pictorial frontispiece, very occasional light spotting, original cloth, spine toned, a little rubbed and soiled, 1927 § Lee (Frederick George, Rev.) Glimpses in the Twilight, first edition, small stain to first 3 ff. of introduction, original pictorial cloth, some small stains to covers, spine toned, extremities rubbed, 1885; and 24 others, all ghost stories, mainly first editions, 8vo (27)
NO RESERVE Priestley (J.B.) English Journey, ink signature on front free endpaper, dust-jacket slightly soiled, corners and edges with slight abrasions, small tears at head and tail of joints, 1934 § Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells, ink inscription on half-title, dust-jacket price clipped and slightly foxed, small chip on corner and spine, 1960, both first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 12 others, 8vo (14).
NO RESERVE Pritchett (V. S.) Nothing Like Leather, first American edition, presentation inscription from the author to Kingsley Martin to title, bookplate to pastedown and endpapers browned, cloth faded and lightly stained, New York, 1935 § Baring-Gould (S.) Early Reminiscences 1834-1864, publisher's comp slip loosely inserted, 1923 § Holst (Spencer) Stories, presentation inscription from the author to title, 1976 § Wilson (Angus) The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot, 1958 § Casanova (Giacomo) My Life and Adventures, 1932, first editions, some with illustrations, original cloth, all but the first with dust-jackets, light bumping and creasing to extremities, some minor chips; and c.50 others, literature, v.s. (c.55)⁂ First with presentation inscription from Pritchett to Kingsley Martin, the editor of the New Statesman, the magazine for which Pritchett served for many years as a literary editor. The bookplate is of eminent publisher Christopher MacLehouse.
NO RESERVE Sassoon (Siegfried) Satirical Poems, paper damage to pp.1-15 slightly affecting some text, 1926 § Davies (David) Foundations of Victory, 1941 § Tomlinson (H. M.) Waiting for Daylight, 1922, first editions, first and last with presentation inscription from the author to title or endpapers, first and second with light browning to endpapers, original cloth, first lightly faded, last two with dust-jackets, first very lightly spotted with small chips to extremities; and 41 others relating to the World Wars, v.s. (44)
NO RESERVE Thielen (Benedict) Dinosaur Tracks, first edition, jacket and fore-edge spotted, 1937 § Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Mitsou, or the Education of Young Women, translated by Raymond Postgate, publisher's copy with typed and manuscript letters loosely inserted, 1957 § Warner (Rex) Greeks and Trojans, first edition, illustrations by Edward Bawden, 1951, original cloth, dust-jackets, light bumping and creasing to extremities; and c.50 others, literature, v.s. (c.55)
NO RESERVE Warner (Sylvia Townsend) Mr. Fortune's Maggot, 1927 § Henniker-Heaton (Rose) Dinner With James, 1931 § Waddell (Helen) Peter Abelard, presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, 1933 § Burnett (Frances Hodgson) The One I Knew Best of All, [c.1905], first two first editions, last with presentation bookplate to endpaper, original boards or cloth, all but the third with dust-jackets, some small chips to corners and light bumping or fraying to spine ends but overall attractive copies; and 64 others by women writers including Dorothy Sayer's copy of Konrad Lorenz's Man Meets Dog with her ownership inscription, 8vo (68)⁂ The last mentioned is a later reprint, though very scarce in presentation binding and dust-jacket.
NO RESERVE Williamson (Henry) Goodbye West Country, 1937; Lucifer Before Sunrise, 1967 § Hughes (Ted) and others. Henry Williamson: The Man, The Writings, ownership inscription of Rose Marie Duncan to endpapers, 1980, first editions, first is second issue, ink ownership signature to first endpapers, original cloth or boards, dust-jackets, a little bumped and frayed; and 11 others by Williamson, 8vo (14)
NO RESERVE Wodehouse (P.G.) If I Were You, 1931 § Douglas (Norman) In the Beginning, signed by the author to front free endpapers, some light spotting, 1928 § Marsh (Edward) et al. Tribute to Walter de la Mare on his Seventy-fifth Birthday, jacket price-clipped, 1948 § Dugan (Alfred) Lord Geoffrey's Fancy, 1962, first editions, original cloth, all but the first with dust-jackets, lightly rubbed to joints, some small tears and chips to extremities, light fading to spines; and c.55 others, literature, v.s. (c.60)
NO RESERVE Children's.- Hughes (Thomas) Tom Brown's School Days, edited by F. Sidgwick, etched frontispiece, plates, half-title and frontispiece small tear in margins, pre-First World War pictorial dust-jacket, very slightly creased at head, t.e.g., others uncut, edges foxed, 1913 § Norton (Mary) The Borrowers Afloat, first edition, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations by Diana Stanley, dust-jacket edges creased, 1959; and another, 8vo (3).
Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock, plates by Aubrey Beardsley, original decorated turquoise cloth, gilt, uncut, Leonard Smithers, 1896 § Bates (H.E.) Through the Woods, wood-engraved illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker, original cloth, 1936 § Young (Francis Brett) Portrait of a Village, wood-engraved illustrations by Joan Hassall, 1937 § Beerbohm (Max) A Book of Caricatures, mounted plates with captioned tissue guards, frontispiece detached, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed and stained, 1907, the first a little browned, the rest with some light spotting, rubbed; and c.20 others, modern illustrated, v.s. (c.25)
NO RESERVE Ransome (Arthur) The Big Six, London and Toronto, 1940 § Williams (Ursula Moray) Hobbie, presentation inscription from the author with sketch to front free endpaper, 1958, first editions, illustrations, original cloth, first spine lightly faded, dust-jackets, extremities chipped and frayed, first with small portion of loss to spine head and tear along upper panel; and c.55 others, children's literature, v.s. (c.60)
NO RESERVE Du Maurier (George) Trilby, one of 250 large paper copies signed by the author, endpapers browned, original vellum-backed boards, a little discoloured, housed in original slip-case, 1895 § Joyce (James) and others. The Venture, an Annual of Art and Literature, original pictoiral cloth, rubbed and stained, 1905 § Hewlett (Maurice) The Forest Lovers, plates by A. S. Hartrick, bookplate to pastedown, light browning to endpapers, 1909 § Von Chamisso (A.) The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and the Cold Heart, plates by Wilhelm Hauff, [c.1913], plates and illustrations, many in colour, last two tipped in, some endpapers browned, occasional light foxing; and 14 others, illustrated books, v.s. (17)⁂ The Venture, one of only two issues, contains 'Two Songs' - the first printing of two poems by Joyce (What Counsel Has The Hooded Moon and Thou Leanest To The Shell of Night). These poems subsequently appeared in Joyce's first printed book entitled 'Chamber Music' (Slocum & Cahoon B2), published two years later. List of contributors include Edmund Gosse, Alice Meynell, Arthur Ransome, and Edward Thomas, among many others.
δ Beerbohm (Max) Mr Reginald McKenna, black chalk and watercolour on wove paper, signed and inscribed, sheet 320 x 160 mm (12 1/2 6 1/4 in), under glass, laid onto mount support, some scattered spotting and surface dirt, framedProvenance:Ernst Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, London;P.E.R. English, Esq. (purchased at the 1957 exhibition)Exhibited:Leicester Galleries, London, Max Beerbohm Memorial Exhibition, June 1957, no. 127⁂ Mckenna was a prominent British banker and Liberal politician. His first Cabinet post under Henry Campbell-Bannerman was as President of the Board of Education, after which he served as First Lord of the Admiralty. His most important roles were as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the premiership of H. H. Asquith.δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Rackham (Arthur).- Wagner (Richard) The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, 1910 § Swinburne (A.C.) The Springtide of Life, 1918 § Ingoldsby (Thomas) The Ingoldsby Legends, 1929, all with colour plates by Arthur Rackham, most tipped in or mounted with captioned tissue guards, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, most gilt, all a little rubbed, the first with some light staining, 4to (3)
Architecture.- Langley (Batty and Thomas) The Builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrances, first edition, 99 engraved plates, lacking engraved frontispiece, plate 69 trimmed at outer edge just within border, some staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, spine in compartments, upper cover detaching, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 16mo, printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, 1741.⁂ Rare first edition of this title.
Art reference.- Steinberg (Saul) The Passport, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, small splits to spine extremities, 1955 § Wilhelm Busch Album. Humoristischer Hausschatz, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, original cloth, housed in original pictorial slipcase, a little rubbed, Stuttgart, 1964 § Mandl (G. T.) Three Hundred Years in Paper, first edition, half-title signed by author, plates, original boards, dust-jacket, 1985 § Hurst (Alex A.) Arthur Briscoe - Marine Artist. His life and work, Sussex, Teredo Books Ltd., illustrations, original cloth, original slipcase, a little rubbed, 1974 § The Robert von Hirsch Collection 4 vol., illustrations, original boards, gilt, dust-jackets, one or two short tears, a little rubbed, 1978; and others, art reference and catalogues, v.s. (small qty).
Steinberg (Saul) The Art of Living, New York, [1949] § Durrell (Lawrence) Sauve qui peut, illustrations by Nicolas Bentley, 1966 § Brand New Monty Python Bok (The), [1974], first editions, illustrations, original cloth or boards, the last two with dust-jackets, a little rubbed and soiled; and c.45 others, humour, v.s. (c.50)
NO RESERVE Michel (Emile) Rembrandt, his Life, his Work, and his Time, 2 vol., first edition, portrait frontispiece, p1894 § Cork (Richard) Vorticism, 2 vol., 1976 § Davis (Stuart) Catalogue Raisoneé, 3 vol., 2007, first editions, plates and illustrations, original boards or cloth, first gilt and extremities rubbed and spine faded, last two with dust-jackets, second a little faded and toned, last in fine condition; and c.70 others, art, v.s. (c.75)
NO RESERVE Theatre.- Strindberg (August) The Inferno, first edition, 1912; The Father, translated by N. Erichsen, second edition, 1899 § Lind-Af-Hageby (L.) August Strindberg: The Spirit of Revolt, 1913, last with frontispiece, first with ink ownership inscription to half-title, original cloth or boards, light bumping to spine ends, second a little marked; and c.80 others, theatre, v.s. (c.85)
NO RESERVE Architecture and decorative arts.- Wharton (Edith) The Decoration of Houses, plates by Ogden Codman, later blue morocco-backed boards, faded and lightly rubbed, New York, 1897 § Woodhouse (Thomas) Artificial Silk, its Manufacture and Uses, contemporary ink ownership name to half-title, original cloth, dust-jacket, lightly frayed and chipped to extremities, a little toned, 1927 § Macqouoid (Percy) and Ralph Edwards. The Dictionary of English Furniture, 3 vol., original cloth, first 2 vol. with dust-jackets, fraying and bumping to extremities, lightly spotted and browned, 1924-1927 § Streit (A.) Das Theatre, untersuchungen Theater-Bauwerk, light spotting, original wrappers, Vienna, 1903, first editions, plates and illustrations, some light spotting and foxing; and c.50 others, architecture and decorative arts, v.s. (c.55)
[Surtees (Robert Smith)] Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, 1853; "Plain or Ringlets?", 1860; Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, 1865; "Ask Mamma", contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, g.e., 1858; Handley Cross, later tan calf, gilt, by Morrell, spine gilt with fox mask motifs, g.e., 1854, all but the last first editions, all with hand-coloured plates by John Leech, the first three original pictorial red-pink cloth, gilt, spines gilt and a little faded, slightly rubbed, the second preserved in slip-case, the third in later cloth drop-back box; and 3 others by the same, 8vo (8)
Perrault (Charles) Histoire de Peau d'Ane, one of 230 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece, borders and initials designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by him and Esther Pissarro, 3 illustrations by T.Sturge Moore, some light browning, slight worming to upper edge of first few leaves, free endpapers browned, original floral patterned-paper boards, uncut, spine rubbed and browned, printed by the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1902 § Steele (Robert, editor) Some Old French and English Ballads, one of 200 copies, printed in red & black, wood-engraved colour frontispiece by L.Pissarro, original boards, a little soiled and stained, Eragny Press, 1905 § Smollett (T.) [The Novels], 11 vol., one of 780 sets, occasional spotting, original green buckram, uncut, Oxford, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1925-26 § Ashton (John, editor) The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight, number 50 of 100 large paper copies, illustrations, original vellum-backed boards, uncut, spine gilt, rubbed, corners worn, 1887; and c.20 others, private press and limited editions, v.s. (c.35)
Linguistics.- Ibn Wahshih (Ahmad bin Abubekr) Ancient Alphabets and Hieroglyphic Characters Explained..., translated by Joseph Hammer[-Purgstall], English and Arabic text, illustrations, pencil annotations, lightly browned, modern half calf, spine gilt with roan labels (one scuffed), printed by W.Bulmer & Co., 1806 § Baretti (Joseph) An Introduction to the most useful European Languages, first edition, text in Spanish, French, Italian & English printed in double column, from the library of Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Moira with engraved book-label , contemporary calf, red morocco label, a little rubbed, spine chipped at head, T.Davies, 1772 § Chambaud (Louis) Nouveau Dictionnaire François-Anglois & Anglois- François, 2 vol., contemporary calf, rubbed, spines worn, 1805; and another, 4to & 8vo (5)⁂ The first is a curious work claiming that hieroglyphs were deciphered many years before Champollion.
Linguistics.- [Badcock (John)], "Jon Bee". Slang. A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life, first edition, contemporary ink inscription to fore-margin of title, some spotting, later calf-backed boards, T.Hughes, 1823 § Forby (Rev. Robert) The Vocabulary of East Anglia, 2 vol., first edition, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with green roan labels and slightly faded, 1830 § [Baudouin (A.)] The Man of the World's Dictionary, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached, 1822, rubbed; and c.60 others on languages, words, dialects, names etc., v.s. (c.65)
[West (William)] Tavern Anecdotes, and Reminiscences of the Origin of Signs, Clubs, Coffee-Houses..., folding etched frontispiece, engraved additional vignette title and portrait, and title, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, 1825 § Watson (R.) A Scrapbook of Inns, 1949 § Belloc (H.) The Highway and its Vehicles, limited edition, 1926 § von Boehn (Max) Modes and Manners, 4 vol., 1932-35 § Young (G.M., editor) Early Victorian England 1830-1865, 2 vol., 1934 § Briggs (Asa) Victorian Cities, 1963, plates and illustrations, all but the first original cloth, the last three with dust-jackets, most a little rubbed or soiled; and c.65 others, mostly social history, v.s. (c.70)
Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Poems...Modernized, edited by Robert Hengist Horne, first edition, original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt, Whittaker & Co., 1841 § Skipsey (Joseph) Carols from the Coal-Fields..., first edition, errata slip, original cloth, paper label (chipped), splits to joints, 1886 § Locker (Frederick) London Lyrics, presentation copy from the author to Sir John Simeon inscribed in pencil on half-title, bookplate of Stephen Louis Simeon, upper hinge weak, original cloth, cockled, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1862 § Trollope (Anthony) An Autobiography, 2 vol. in 1, mounted portrait, light spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, Edinburgh & London, 1883 § Lamb (Charles) The Life and Works, 12 vol., Edition de Luxe, one of 675 copies, foxing, original blue cloth, gilt, uncut, spines rubbed and faded, 1899-1900, all rubbed; and c.50 others, mostly nineteenth century literature, 8vo & 4to (c.55)⁂ The first contains contributions by Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others.
[Abbott (Edwin A.)], "A Square". Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, first edition, half-title, illustrations by the author, ownership signature to front free endpaper, original wrappers, uncut, pictorial glacine dust-jacket, rubbed and soiled, upper cover torn and with a few small stains, a little frayed at edges, spine worn and defective, small 4to, 1884.
Hardy (Thomas) ) Jude the Obscure, half-title, etched frontispiece, map (a little browned), 1896; Poems of the Past and the Present, [one of 500 copies], half-title, advertisement leaf and final blank at end, 1902, first editions, uniform original dark green cloth with gilt monogram medallion to upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed and marked, the first with faint stains to upper cover and corners slightly worn; and 2 volumes of poetry by Hardy, 8vo (4)
Architecture.- Donaldson (Thomas Leverton) A Collection of...Doorways, from Ancient Buildings in Greece and Italy, first edition, 26 engraved plates, a few with partial hand-colouring, some light foxing, original cloth, roan label, 1833 § Chambers (Sir William) A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture...with...An Examination of Grecian Architecture by Joseph Gwilt, 2 vol., engraved portrait and plates, lacking one plate, offsetting, contemporary half morocco, 1825, a little rubbed, 4to (3)
Proust (Marcel) [Remembrance of Things Past], 12 vol., plates by Philippe Jullian, pencil notes to endpapers, original cloth, decorative dust-jackets designed by Enid Marx, slightly rubbed and soiled, some a little frayed at edges, Chatto & Windus, 1957 § Zweig (Arnold) The Case of Sergeant Grischa, first English edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, rubbed and a little frayed at upper edge, 1928 § Capek (Karel) War with the Newts, first English edition, 2 advertisement leaves at end, original cloth, rubbed and soiled, § Balzac (H. de) [The Novels], 22 vol., one of 250 sets (unnumbered), etched plates, original pictorial red cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, rubbed and stained, Leonard Smithers, 1897-99; and c.25 others on continental literature, 8vo (c.60)
Lewis (Cecil Day) The Buried Day, 1960 § Cecil (David) Two Quiet Lives, pictorial title by Barbara Jones, 1948 § Gaunt (William) Arrows of Desire: A Study of William Blake and his Romantic World, 1956 § Gérin (W.) Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius, Oxford, 1967 § Bryant (Arthur) Samuel Pepys, Cambridge, 1938, first editions, plates and illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the last with dust-jackets, the first two price-clipped, a little rubbed; and c.50 others, biographies and literary criticism, 8vo & 4to (c.55)
Facsimiles.- Schedel (Hartmann) Chronicle of the World: The Complete and Annotated Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, introduction by Stephen Füssel, original faux reversed calf, Cologne, 2001 § Ovid. The Metamorphoses...translated by William Caxton 1480, 2 vol., limited edition, contemporary calf, gilt, slip case, New York & Cambridge, 1968 § Lichtenberger (John) Prognosticatio in latino...A Reproduction of the First Edition (Printed at Strasburg, 1488)edited by W.Harry Rylands, partly hand-coloured, original cloth, Manchester, Holbein Society, 1890, facsimile reprints, the second limited, folio (4)
Chesterton (G.K.) The Napoleon of Notting Hill, first edition, 7 plates by W.Graham Robertson and map, 22pp. advertisements at end, free endpapers browned, original pictorial grey-green cloth stamped in black and red, rubbed, spine browned and worn at head, 1904 § Maugham (W.Somerset) The Narrow Corner, 1932 § Waugh (Evelyn) The Loved One, illustrations by Stuart Boyle, [1948] § Russell (Bertrand) Satan in the Suburbs, illustrations by Asgeir Scott, 1953 § Durrell (Lawrence) Mountolive, 1958, first editions, original cloth, the last three with dust-jackets, all a little rubbed; and c.35 others, modern novels, 8vo (c.40))⁂ The first is the author's first novel, a satirical fantasy set in the future featuring a main character based on Max Beerbohm, and said to have influenced George Orwell's 1984.
Douglas (Norman) London Street Games, first edition, 1916; Old Calabria, second edition, 1920; Some Limericks, n.p., privately printed, 1929; In the Beginning, original patterned-paper boards, spine soiled and label chipped, [Florence], 1927; Nerinda, original boards, slip-case, Florence, 1929, the last three limited editions, the last two signed by the author, the first three original cloth, most uncut, slightly rubbed; and 6 others by or about Douglas, 8vo (11)
Johnson (Pamela Hansford) This Bed Thy Centre, [the author's first book], slight damp-staining to inner margin at beginning, 193; Blessed Above Women, 1936; Too Dear for My Possessing, 1940; An Avenue of Stone, 1947; The Philistines, 1949; The Humbler Creation, signed by the author on title, 1959, first editions, original cloth or boards, the last three with dust-jackets, a little rubbed, some spines slightly faded; and c.20 others by or with contributions by the same, 8vo (c.25)
Stoppard (Tom) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, first edition, original wrappers with dust-jacket, lightly foxed and soiled, 1967 § Hughes (Ted) Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama, first American edition, illustrations by Leonard Baskin, original cloth, dust-jacket, New York, 1978; and a small quantity of others, modern poetry, plays, anthologies etc., 8vo & 4to (c.50)⁂ The first item was issued simultaneously with the hardback edition.
Yeats (William Butler) The Tower, first edition, original pictorial cloth, gilt, designed by Thomas Sturge Moore, pictorial dust-jacket, rubbed, upper cover with short tear, spine defective and detached, 1928; The Winding Stair and other poems, first edition, original blind-stamped cloth designed by Sturge Moore, spine gilt, uncut, traces of paint to upper cover, 1933; and 15 others, modern Irish literature, 8vo & 4to (17)
Agriculture.- Young (Arthur) A Course of Experimental Agriculture, 4 vol., first Dublin edition, half-titles in vol.1 & 4 (as called for), 2 folding plans, engraved bookplate of N.C.Colthurst of Ardrum, Co.Cork, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, spine ends of vol.1 slightly worn, Dublin, for J.Exshaw [& others], 1771; General View of the Agriculture of the County of Essex, 2 vol., first edition, folding hand-coloured engraved map, 57 engraved plates only (of 58, lacking plate 2), 2 folding, 16pp. publishers' catalogue at end of vol.2, map a little stained and frayed at outer edge with loss to border, slight worming to one folding plate, foxing, contemporary half russia, rubbed, 1807; Travels...with a view of ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France, 2 vol., first Dublin edition, half-title in vol.1, 3 folding engraved maps, one hand-coloured (stained and torn at edge), some foxing, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, joints split, spine ends a little worn, Dublin, 1793; Letters concerning the Present State of the French Nation, first edition, contemporary sheep, worn, 1769, 8vo (9)
Bates (Henry Walter) The Naturalist on the River Amazons, second edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding map at end (defective), occasional spotting or soiling, a few leaves slightly frayed a edges, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, cockling to upper cover, 1864 § Hartwig (Dr. George) The Subterranean World, first edition, wood-engraved plates, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine very slightly faded, 1871 § [Knapp (J.L.)] The Journal of a Naturalist, first edition, folding aquatint frontispiece, 10 engraved plates at end (some offsetting), contemporary half calf, 1829, a little rubbed; and 8 others including others by Hartwig and a small French volume with hand-coloured plates of insects, 8vo et infra (11)
Trees & Forestry.- Evelyn (John) Silva, edited by A.Hunter, 2 vol., fourth edition, engraved portrait and 45 plates, 2 folding, light offsetting, some foxing to plates, mostly marginal, contemporary half calf, York, 1812 § Nicol (Walter) The Practical Planter, or, a Treatise on Forest Planting, second edition, advertisement leaf at end, original boards, uncut, 1803 § Pontey (William) The Profitable Planter, second edition, lacking engraved frontispiece but with advertisement leaf at end, Huddersfield, 1808; The Forest Pruner, second edition, 8 engraved plates, some printed in sepia and hand-tinted, 3 folding, title soiled, 1808, together 2 works in 1 vol., some light soiling or browning, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached § Taylor (Joseph) Arbores Mirabiles, first edition, half-title (loose), 6 engraved plates (foxed and offset), contemporary roan-backed boards, 1812, all rubbed, spines worn and defective, v.s. (5)
Food & Drink.- Cocktails.- Thomas (Jerry) How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion...[with] A Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, Fancy Syrups, &. &c....by Christian Schultz, first edition, later issue with altered title and price "$2.50" to upper cover, illustrations, 8pp. publishers' catalogue at end, lightly browned, bookplate of Archibald MacColl, original green cloth, rubbed and a little damp-stained, spine torn at head and frayed at foot, 8vo, New York, 1862.⁂ The first recipe book for mixed drinks or cocktails, by the "father of American mixology". Jerry Thomas was a famous bar-tender who worked throughout the United States but particularly in New York, where he ran several bars. His signature drink was the "Blue Blazer", involving flaming whiskey, which was developed at the El Dorado gambling saloon in San Francisco.
Food & Drink.- Cookery.- Weltzin (C.) Ny Kokbok, eller anwisning till en myckenhet nu brukliga Mat-Rätters Tillredande, lightly browned, contemporary calf-backed boards, a little worn, Stockholm, H.A. Nordström, 1804 § Lambert (M.) Le Nouveau Cuisinier Parisien..., half-title, engraved frontispiece, contemporary paste-paper boards, Paris, 1833 § Brillat-Savarin (J.A.) Physiologie du Goût ou Meditations de Gastronomie, 2 vol., one of 566 copies, lithograph plates and illustrations by Pierre Noury, original printed wrappers, uncut, spines a little browned and chipped at foot, Paris, 1926 § Coutance (A.) L'Olivier, wood-engraved illustrations, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, uncut, spine faded, Paris, 1877, all rubbed; and 2 others, continental cookery, v.s. (7)⁂ The first is an early Swedish cookery book.
Food & Drink.- Jameson & Son (John) & others, distillers. Truths about Whisky, second edition, 4 folding lithograph plates, occasional spotting, with card showing scale for jars and beer casks loosely inserted, original cloth, 1879 § Roose (Samuel) The Wine and Brandy Dealer's Complete Guide and Stock Book, containing a new and complete Treatise on Ullaging..., first edition, large folding table signed by the author, with label "Lot No.322 From the Beaudesert Library sold at Christie's on Jan. 25/26, 1905" to front pastedown, contemporary diced calf, spine gilt but lacking portion at head, London & Wolverhampton, 1835 § Faulkner (Frank) The Art of Brewing..., first edition in book form, 5 plates (foxed at edges), original cloth, 1876, all a little rubbed, the firsts with small stains to lower cover; and 3 others, similar, 8vo (6)
Food & Drink.- Morewood (Samuel) A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs ... in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors, wood-engraved frontispiece, illustrations, tissue guard to frontispiece foxed, bookseller's stamp to foot of title, a few stains to text, bookplate of Henry Rogers Broughton, bound in old tree calf boards rebacked in calf ruled in gilt with morocco label, staining to upper cover, new endpapers, 8vo, Dublin, 1838.⁂ Greatly expanded from the first edition of 1824 and including sections on opium and other intoxicating drugs around the world.
Loading...
![Steinberg (Saul) The Art of Living, New York, [1949] § Durrell (Lawrence) Sauve qui peut, illustrations by Nicolas Bentley, 1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/c6164722-4496-440e-809e-ad4400beb431/468x382.jpg)
![[Surtees (Robert Smith)] Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, 1853; "Plain or Ringlets?", 1860; Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, 1865; "Ask](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/bddaafbf-9168-41d9-80eb-ad4400bf552a/468x382.jpg)
![Linguistics.- [Badcock (John)], "Jon Bee". Slang. A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/b7db5674-ba4c-4b54-a13b-ad4400bf114b/468x382.jpg)
![[West (William)] Tavern Anecdotes, and Reminiscences of the Origin of Signs, Clubs, Coffee-Houses..., folding etched frontisp](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/60903a0a-eddf-41a1-82be-ad4400bf7a2c/468x382.jpg)
![[Abbott (Edwin A.)], "A Square". Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, first edition, half-title, illustrations by the auth](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/fff2e522-175a-40f6-a40d-ad4400bf8fcb/468x382.jpg)
![Proust (Marcel) [Remembrance of Things Past], 12 vol., plates by Philippe Jullian, pencil notes to endpapers, original cloth,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/17cc3f1a-a45a-4cc5-91f6-ad4400bf2543/468x382.jpg)
![Johnson (Pamela Hansford) This Bed Thy Centre, [the author's first book], slight damp-staining to inner margin at beginning,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/436e3b4d-6a75-4523-8ef2-ad4400bf73d1/468x382.jpg)
![Food & Drink.- Cocktails.- Thomas (Jerry) How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion...[with] A Manual for the Manu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/285fc665-f533-4226-a8f3-ad430108a064/289e0089-718f-4ed7-a5e9-ad4400bf8b3c/468x382.jpg)
