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Click here to subscribeCHARLES SIMPSON: EL RODEO - ONE HUNDRED SKETCHES MADE IN THE ARENA DURING THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL CONTEST (1924) BY CHARLES SIMPSON R.I, R.O.I. REPRODUCED IN COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY R B CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM AND DESCRIPTIVE LETTERPRESS BY ARTIST, London, John Lane - The Bodley Head, 1925. First edition. Linen backed boards titled in red and black. Some text inscriptions in ink within, of unknown origin.
J Y COUSTEAU: SILENT WORLD, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1953, first edition, original cloth d/w (losses) plus WILLIAM BEEBE: NONSUCH LAND OF WATER, New York, Brewer Warren & Putnam, 1932, first edition, original cloth gilt, plus PHILIPPE TAILLIEZ: AQUARIUS, London, George G Harrap, 1964, first edition, original cloth d/w, (small part losses), plus GERARD MORGAN-GRENVILLE: BARGING INTO FRANCE, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1972, first edition, original cloth d/w (very small part losses) plus DAVID JAMES DUNCAN: THE RIVER WHY, London, Hutchinson, 1983, fiRst edition, original cloth d/w, vgc plus GILBERT DOUKAN: UNDERWATER HUNTING, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1955, third impression, original cloth d/w (part losses) plus L T C ROLT: NARROW BOAT, ill Denys Watkins-Pitchford, London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948 revised edition, original cloth d/w, (7)
VINTAGE CHILDREN'S FICTION: 7 Titles: T C BRIDGES: WINGS OF ADVENTURE, London, The Children's Press, ; PERCY F WESTERMAN: THE MYSTERY OF THE KEY, London, Blackie and Son, ERROLL COLLINS: THE SEA FALCON, London, Lutterworth Press; 1941; S BERESFORD LUCAS: THE MYSTERIOUS AIRPORT, London, The Children's Press; GUN BUSTER: GRAND BARRAGE, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1944; GUN BUSTER: VICTORY SALVO, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1946, First edition; ARTHUR CATHERALL: THE FLYING SUBMARINE, London, The Children's Press. a/f (7)
SIR WILLIAM ADAMS: PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON ECTROPIUM, OR EVERSION ON THE EYE-LIDS, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW OPERATION FOR THE CURE OF THAT DISEASE: ON THE MODES OF FORMING AN ARTIFICIAL PUPIL; AND A DESCRIPTION OF A SERIES OF NEW AND IMPROVED OPERATIONS FOR THE CURE OF THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF CATARACT, London, J Callow, 1814 [second edition? First published 1812]. Bound in half calf with marbled boards (very rubbed), stained throughout and upper board looseing. Coloured frontis.
A pair of novels: LAURIE LEE: CIDER WITH ROSIE, London, The Book Club, 1959. In original unclipped dustjacket, significat damage to edge of FFEP and back edge of dustjacket. Foxing to edges and some toning throughout; NOEL COWARD: POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE, London, Heinemann, 1960, First edition. In original unclipped dustjacket (2)
STEVEN RUNCIMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES in 3 volumes: THE FIRST CRUSADE AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM; THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM AND THE FRANKISH EAST 1100-1187; THE KINGDOM OF ACRE AND THE LATER CRUSADES. Cambridge, Uniersity Press, 1951/1952/1954. Uniformly bound in red cloth with gilt titles to spines (3)Ex libris
JOHN FORBES-ROBERTSON: THE GREAT PAINTERS OF CHRISTENDOM FROM CIMABUE TO WILKIE, London, Cassell Petter and Galpin, ND. Bound in blue cloth decorated in black and gilt pictorial design. Text in red and black to title page, illustrated throughout profusely. Some toning to first few pages and some minor foxing throughout. Spine rubbed with some loss to head and foot.
VINTAGE FICTION: 5 Titles: P G WODEHOUSE: SAM THE SUDDEN, London, Methuen, 1928, Fifth edition; GRACE METALIOUS: RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE, London, The Book Club, 1960, First edition; ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD; THE LONG VIEW, London, Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1956; DORIS POCOCK: THE TREASURE OF THE TREVELLYANS, London, Wars, Lock and Co, 1959; NEVIL SHUTE: TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM, London, The Book Club, 1960. All in original dustjackets, each with wear, tear and creasing, a/f (5)
BIBLIOGRAPHY INTEREST: 5 titles: ALAN HORNE: THE DICTIONARY OF 20TH CENTURY BRITISH BOOK ILLUSTRATORS, Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 1994, with original dustjacket; WALTER E SMITH: ELIZABETH C GASKELL - A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS... Los Angeles, Heritage Bookshop, 1998 (First editiion), with original dustjacket (part loss to front); MICHAEL SADLER: EXCURSIONS IN VICTORIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY, Folkestone Dawsons, 1974 (Reprint), with original dustjacket; ALBERT TILLMA: POP-UP! POP-UP! - POP-UP BOOKS, THEIR HISTORY, HOW TO COLLECT THEM AND HOW MUCH THEY'RE WORTH, Washington, Whalestooth Farm, 1997; GREENE, HANFF, MARTIN, HAFF AND GREENE: BIBLIO-GRAPHIA OZIANA, The International Wizard of Oz Club, 1981 (Second Printing) (5)
CONSTANTINE JOHN PHIPPS: A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE UNDERTAKEN BY HIS MAJESTY'S COMMAND 1773, London, W Bowyer and J Nichols, 1774. Bound within contemporary boards, with original map taped in to title page. Seemingly a burn mark to first 5 leaves which has been taped over, mark present on further pages. Tipped in black and white plates and fold-out charts.Ex libris
LEWIS CARROLL: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE: 2 editions: London, Macmillan and Co, 1872. Possibly a first edition, which was published in 1871 but dated within the book a year later, limited to 9000 copies. Bound in red cloth blocked in gilt with Queen of Hearts in gilt to upper board. The cover has been pasted to contemporary red boards and new endpapers inserted. Some staining to boards; London, Macmillan and Co, 1887, (2)
Military interest: B H LIDDELL HART: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL, London, Cassell and Co, 1951 (enlarged and revised edition), Pres insc to NCD Brownjohn from author (GBE, KCB, CMG, MC, Service number 11420) to frontis; CHARLES EADE: THE DAWN OF LIBERATION, London, Cassell and Co, 1945, First edition; VLADIMIR DEDIJER: TITO SPEAKS, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1953, First edition (3)
DICK FRANCIS: 2 Titles: BLOOD SPORT, London, Michael Joseph, 1967. First edition within original blue boards and unclipped dustjacket designed by Broome Lynn; RAT RACE, London, Michael Joseph, 1970. First edition within original teal boards and dustjacket designed by Beverly De Barrow. Pencil name inscription to frontis (2)
THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF LORD NELSON, in 3 volumes, London, Fisher, Son and Co, 1933. Uniformly bound in blue cloth with gilt pictorial emblem to covers. Spliced by Charles Britton and rearranged from the first 22 volumes of The Naval Chronicle to reproduce these 3 volumes, relating only to Nelson. Ex Libris
JEAN DE ROTONCHAMP: PAUL GAUGUIN, Weimar par les Soins du Comte de Kessler, Paris, Edouard Drue, 1906, (300) (250) numbered (211), plates very foxed, Eric Gill's copy, signed and inscribed on first blank "A E R Gill Ditchling, Sussex from Count Kessler 1906", Harry Clemens Ulrich Graf von Kessler (1868-1937) commissioned Gill to design chapter headings and title pages for the Insel Vertag Publishing House, original wraps worn, soiled and detached, largely disbound.
Richard Barrett Davies. c1837. Kennel Scenes numbers 1-4. Draughting Hounds, The Mother, Sent to Walks, First Disipline. Hand coloured lithograph’s. Framed and glazed, old ornate gilt leaf and black frame. The frame’s measure approx; 58cm x 48cm. With Wooden backing. Print size’s approx; 37cm x 29cm. Original prints. [4]
L’Illustration. Rene Baschet. Seven large folio volumes. Which include 1919 [Jan-June], 1920 [July-Dec], 1921 [July-Dec], 1922 [Jul-Dec], 1924 [2 vols Jan-Dec], and 1925 [Jan to June]. All uniformly bound in period half morocco , marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine. Large folio’s measuring approx 40cm x 31cm. Illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome. Covers a variety of subjects including art, aviation, cars, military, astronomy, social history. Some illustrations double page. **L'Illustration (1843–1944) was a French illustrated weekly newspaper published in Paris. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, after 1906, the first international illustrated magazine; distributed in 150 countries.
ENID BLYTON FIRST EDITIONS: 4 Titles: FIVE HAVE A MYSTERY TO SOLVE, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. With original unclipped dustjacket, large loss to back and some internal pencil markings; FIVE GO TO DEMON'S ROCK, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. With clipped (torn) dustjacket, name inscriptions to jacket and title page; FIVE GO TO MYSTERY MOOR, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1954. With original unclipped dustjacket, loss to head and foot of spine, some inscriptions; FIVE FALL INTO ADVENTURE, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1950. With original unclipped dustjacket, loss to head and foot of spine, various pencil and ink inscriptions/markings (4)
ANTIQUARIAN CHILDRENS' 5 Titles: IDA WAUGH: LITTLE CHICKS AND BABY TRICKS, London, Griffin-Farran and Co, c1885, First edition; THE LITTLE HOUSEWIFE, FATHER TUCK'S LITTLE PET SERIES, Lacking frontis; OUR DARLING'S FIRST BOOK - BRIGHT PICTURES AND EASY LESSONS FOR LITTLE FOLK, London, Blackie and Son, c1946; ABC OF GAMES AND TOYS, T Nelson and Sons, c1914; JEAN SUTCLIFFE: LISTEN WITH MOTHER, London, Juivenile Productions, c1950 (5)
DURRELL, Lawrence. A collection of 16 Faber and Faber Uk First Editions including; The Dark Labyrinth 1961. Sauve Qui Peut 1966. Livia or Buried Alive, 1978. New Poems 1963 [Hutchinson of London 1963]. On seeming to Presume, 1948, The Ikons and other poems 1956. Esprit De Corps, 1957. Acte 1965. An Irish Faustus 1963. And other. All in the original unclipped dust jackets
NELSON INTEREST: 5 TITLES: OLIVER WARNER: A PORTRAIT OF LORD NELSON, London, The Reprint Society, 1959, Ex Libris; OLIVER WARNER: THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE, London, B T Batsford, 1961, First edition; ADMIRAL SIR W M JAMES: THE DURABLE MONUMENT, London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1948, First edition; OTTO ERICH DEUTSCH: ADMIRAL NELSON AND JOSEPH HAYDN, The Nelson Society, 2000 (translated from the original 1982 German); STUART LEGG: TRAFALGAR - AN EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF A GREAT BATTLE. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1966, First edition (5)
MIXED FIRST EDITIONS: 4 Titles: LAWRENCE DURRELL: SELECTED POEMS 1935-1963, London, Faber and Faber, 1964, paperback; W L WARREN: KING JOHN, London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1961, in original unclipped dustjacket; MARY STEWART: THE GABRIEL HOUNDS, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1967, in original unclipped dustjacket; ARTHUR RANSOME: SWALLOWDALE, London, Jonathan Cape, 1963 [reprint, but first with Ransom illustrations] (4)
VINTAGE FICTION: 4 Titles: HENRY WILLIAMSON: THE PHASIAN BIRD; London, Faber and Faber, 1948, First edition; E PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM: THE OSTREKOFF JEWELS, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1932, ND; COMPTON MACKENZIE: THE SOUTH WIND OF LOVE, London, Rich and Cowan, 1937, First edition; T C BRIDGES: ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND, London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1937, First edition. All in original dustjackets, each with significant creasing, tears or losses, a/f (4)
VINTAGE FICTIONS: 5 Titles: ELIZABETH FOREMAN LEWIS: WHEN THE TYPHOON BLOWS, London, George G Harrup and Co, 1944, First edition; F. A. M WEBSTER: THE TRAIL OF THE SKULL, London, Juvenile Productions Lts, 1937, First edition; ALEC WAUGH: FUEL FOR THE FLAME, London, The Book Club, 1959, First edition; LT. COL. F. S. BRERETON: TRAPPED IN THE JUNGLE, London, Hollis and Carter, 1946, Reprint; WILFRID ROBERTSON: WINGS OVER THE ZAMBEZI, London, Oxford University Press, ND. All in original dustjackets, all with considerable wear and some losses, a/f (5)
ENID BLYTON FIRST EDITIONS: 5 Titles: FIVE ARE TOGETHER AGAIN, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1963. With original unclipped dustjacket, small losses to head and foot of spine, gift inscription to title page; FIVE HAVE A MYSTERY TO SOLVE, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. wITH ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUSTJACKET, some creasing and rubbing, name inscribed; FIVE GO TO DEMON'S ROCKS, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. With original unclipped dustjacket, some creasing, gift inscription and some pencil marke to title page; FIVE GO TO BILLYCOCK HILL, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1957.With original unclipped dustjacket, some creasing (with a further copy of the same, with a clipped dustjacket and more excessive creasing and part loss to dustjacket) (5)
E V LUCAS: 4 Titles: THE SLOWCOACH, London, Wells Gardner, 1910. Bound in brown cloth with green and black pictorial tooled design to cover; ONLY THE DAY, London, Methuen and Co, 1936, First; Pleasure Trove, London, Methuen and Co, 1935, First; A FRONDED ISLE AND OTHER ESSAYS, London, Methuen and Co, 1927, First. Latter three volumes all in original dustjackets (3)
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