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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 197

Hemingway (Ernest) - Winner Take Nothing, first edition, first issue with 'A' on verso of title and 'wo hundred and twenty-five pounds' on p.159, very light age-toning, original cloth, gilt, slight shelf-lean, otherwise a very good copy, dust-jacket, edge wear, chipped at corners and spine ends, rubbed at fore-edges, browning to spine, 8vo, New York, 1933. Fourteen of Hemingway's best short stories, six of which are first appearances, exemplifying the writing style and archetypes the author was most famous for.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 198

Hemingway (Ernest) - The Torrents of Spring, first English edition , some light, mostly marginal spotting, original yellow cloth lettered in blue to spine, printed dust-jacket, some light spotting and superficial rubbing, spine slightly darkened, 8vo , 1933.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 200

Hueffer [- Ford] (Ford Madox) - The Heart of the Country: A Survery of a Modern Land, title printed in red & black, 2pp. advertisements, some spotting, ink name of novelist Stephen Reynolds on front free endpaper, original cloth, spine slightly sunned, t.e.g., others uncut , 1906; Women & Men, number 68 of 300 copies, loose portrait of the author loosely inserted, original printed wrappers, light dust-soiling, small hole near spine, Paris, Three Mountains Press , 1923; Some do not , light toning, front free endpaper browned, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine browned with some light marking, a few small chips and minor closed tears , 1924, first editions ; and 12 others, Ford, 8vo (15)

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Lot 201

Hughes (Richard) - A High Wind in Jamaica, first English edition , original cloth, dust-jacket, spine browned with small hole, otherwise an attractive example , 1929 § Sherriff (R.C.) and Vernon Bartlett. Journey's End, first edition , one of 600 copies signed by the authors, original vellum-backed cloth , 1930 § Blunden (Edmund) Great Short Stories of the War, first edition , number 44 of 250 copies on india paper signed by Blunden, original cloth-backed boards , 1930 § West (Rebecca) A Letter to a Grandfather, first edition , original pictorial wrappers, Hogarth Press , 1933 § Eliot (T.S.) The Rock, proof copy , letter from Forster bibliographer B.J. Kirkpatrick on Bertram Rota headed paper listing where this copy is at variance with the published edition loosely inserted, original plain wrappers, splitting, 1934 § Orwell (George) The Road to Wigan Pier, first edition , plates, original limp orange cloth, spine creased with slight shelf lean, Left Book Club , 1937; and 30 others, Modern Literature , 8vo & oblong 4to (36)

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Lot 202

Hunter (Evan) - The Blackboard Jungle, facsimile dust-jacket, New York, 1954; Second Ending, jacket with short closed tear to head and accompanying creasing, 1956; Strangers When We Meet, jacket a little rubbed, New York, 1958; A Matter of Conviction, light browning to margins, jacket a little rubbed, New York, 1959; Mothers and Daughters, New York, 1961, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets ; and 27 others by the same, 8vo (32)

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Lot 203

Huxley (Aldous) - Antic Hay, 1923; Those Barren Leaves, 1925; Do What you Will, 1929, some marginal spotting, orginal cloth, dust-jackets, spines slightly browned otherwise attractive copies ; Arabia Infelix and other poems, one of 692 copies signed by the author, pictorial title, original cloth-backed boards , 1929; The World of Light , number 60 of 130 copies signed by the author, original buckram-backed patterned boards, t.e.g. , 1931 § Chapman (J.B.) Genealogy of Aldous Huxley and some others, one of 50 copies , this unnumbered , foreword signed by Huxley at end, fold-out format as issued, some browning and light dust-soiling , 1931, first editions ; and 21 others, Huxley, 8vo (27)

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Lot 205

Huxley (Aldous) - Brave New World, ink ownership inscription, original cloth, spine lightly browned, vertical crease to spine, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1932 § Maugham (W.S.) Liza of Lambeth, Jubilee Edition, limited edition signed by the author, light foxing to endpapers, original vellum-backed boards, spine browned, a little warped, dust-jacket, browned at spine and margins, a little chipped at head, 1947; and 3 others, modern first editions, 8vo (5)

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Lot 206

Huxley (Aldous) - Brave New World, patch of browning to foot, shelf-lean, spine lightly faded, spine end and corners a little bumped, 1932 § Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, ink ownership inscription, dust-jacket, spine browned, some chipping and creasing to head and foot, 1963, first editions, original cloth or boards ; and 4 others, modern first editions, 8vo (6)

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Lot 207

James (M.R.) - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, first edition , 4 plates, 16pp. advertisements dated November 1904 at end, occasional soiling, original cloth, yapp edges, joints torn, ring-stain on upper cover, 8vo, 1904.

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Lot 210

Mailer (Norman) - The Naked and the Dead, one of 240 deluxe copies for the Collector's Book Club, upper hinge weak, original morocco, spine faded, spine chipped at head, rubbed and scuffed, 1949 § Monsarrat (Nicholas) The Cruel Sea, first edition, jacket with closed tear to upper panel, some light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, excellent otherwise, 1951 § Jones (James) From Here to Eternity, first English edition, jacket spine slightly browned, some light rubbing to head and foot, New York, 1951 , last 2 in original boards and dust-jackets ; c.80 others, modern first editions and others, 8vo (c.85)

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Lot 211

Maugham (W.Somerset) - Of Human Bondage, without advertisements, full morocco, gilt. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e. , 1915; The Moon and Sixpence, first issue , browning throughout, full morocco, gilt, by Asprey , 1919; Ashenden or The British Agent, contemporary half morocco, by Asprey , 1928, spines sunned ; A Writer's Notebook, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, original wrap-around, preserved in modern morocco-backed drop-back box , [1949], first editions , [A22a, A23a, A38 & A71a] ; and 29 others, Somerset Maugham, including the Stott bibliography, 8vo (33)

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Lot 212

Maugham (W.Somerset) - The Book-Bag, one of 725 copies signed by the author on frontispiece, original buckram-backed boards, sunning to edges, dust-jacket, soiled and torn, Florence , 1932; The Judgement Seat, number 1 of 150 copies signed by the author and artist, frontispiece by Ulrica Hyde, original cloth , 1934; Don Fernando, number 125 of 175 copies signed by the author, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, slip-case , 1935; The Unconquered, number 14 of 300 copies signed by the author, original cloth, ?original glacene jacket, New York , 1944; Cakes and Ale, limited edition signed by the author and artist, frontispiece portrait by Graham Sutherland, original two-tone leather, t.e.g., others uncut, preserved in contemporary morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, no slip-case , [1954], first editions ; and 2 others by Maugham in same style as last, [Stott A44, A49, A50a, A63, A41b, A71 & A75], 8vo (7)

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Lot 213

Mitchell (Flora H.) - Vanishing Dublin, first edition, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped), extremities a little chipped and frayed, 4to, Dublin , 1966.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 214

Orwell (George) - Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition , light browning to last printed page, otherwise very good, original cloth, partly sunned , 1949; and 3 others, Orwell, 8vo (4)

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Lot 215

O'Brian (Patrick) - Blue at the Mizzen, 1999 § [Saint (Dora Jessie)], "Miss Read". Village School, 1955 § Mottram (R.H.) The Crime at Vanderlynden's, 1926, first editions , original cloth, a little spotting to extreme fore-edges, dust-jackets ; and c.85 others similar, 8vo (c.90)

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Lot 216

Priestley (J.B.) - Talking, number 35 of 75 copies signed by the author, frontispiece portrait, original cloth, dust-jacket, marked and slightly rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut , 1926; Angel Pavement, limited edition signed by the author, frontispiece portrait, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, slip-case (soiled) , 1930; Faraway, one of 25 speically bound copies , pictorial title by Kenneth Hobson, full morocco by Henry T.Wood Ltd, spine sunned, g.e. , [1932]; The Happy Dream , number 14 of 400 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, t.e.g., others uncut, Whittington Press, Andoversford , 1976, first editions ; and 27 others, Priestley, 8vo (31)

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Lot 218

Rendell (Ruth) - Wolf to the Slaughter, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, spine ends and corners a little chipped and creased, horizontal creasing to upper panel, 8vo, 1967.

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Lot 219

Salinger (J.D.) - Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, first edition, first issue without dedication , original boards, dust-jacket, spine a little faded, creasing to spine ends, closed tear to head of panels with tear to head of lower panel repaired, otherwise excellent, 8vo, Boston , [1963]. The scarce first issue, reportedly one of only 20 to 30 copies.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 22

Sicilian Botany.- Hogg - Observations on some of the Classical Plants of Sicily, MS (John, classical scholar and naturalist, 1800-69) Observations on some of the Classical Plants of Sicily, MS. to be printed in Professor Hooker's Journal of Botany, 1834, JH, autograph manuscriptinitialled "JH", title and 14pp., 1834; Catalogue of Sicilian Plants, 40pp., [1843], both autograph manuscripts, folds, some soiling ; and a small quantity of others, Botany, including an ALs from William Yarrell to Hogg thanking him for having sent the catalogue, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty). First mentioned published in Hooker's Botanical Journal, 1834.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 220

Schulberg (Budd) - What Makes Sammy Run, jacket price-clipped, spine slightly faded, closed tear and creasing to upper panel, spine chipped at head, additional facsimile dust-jacket covering original, [c.1941]; The Harder They Fall, jacket spine slightly faded, 2 very short closed tear to head of upper panel, light creasing to spine ends, New York, 1947; The Disenchanted, jacket price-clipped, spine slightly faded, some light damp-staining to foot, New York, 1950; Some Faces in the Crowd, jacket price-clipped, spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, New York, 1950, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets ; and 9 others by the same, 8vo (13)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 222

Shaw (Irwin) - The Young Lions, ink ownership inscription, jacket with split to upper fore-edge, spine slightly faded, a little rubbed at extremities, New York, 1948; The Assassin, jacket spine faded, a little chipped and creased at head and foot, New York, 1946; Act of Faith and Other Stories, jacket spine slightly browned, closed tear to foot of upper panel, New York, 1946 ; The Troubled Air, jacket spine ends and corners chipped, a little creased at head and foot, New York, 1951, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets ; and 19 others by the same, 8vo (23)

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Lot 223

Shute (Nevil) - On the Beach, 1957; Requiem for a Wren, 1955; In the Wet, 1953; A Town like Alice, 1950; The Rainbow and the Rose, 1958, first editions , original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (5)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 224

Simenon (Georges) - Magnet of Doom, 1948; A Wife at Sea, 1949; Aunt Jeanne, 1953; Act of Passion, 1953; Danger Ahead, 1955, first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, some light fading to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, but mostly excellent overall ; and c.80 others by the same, mostly Maigret, 8vo (c.85)

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Lot 225

Sinclair (Upton) - The Jungle, first edition, first issue with broken '1' in 1906 on the copyright page, broken 'y' on line one of p.99 and large '3' on p.385, original pictorial sage cloth, spine slightly rolled, otherwise a very good copy, New York , 1906; The Brass Check. A Study of American Journalism, 3pp. advertisements, original wrappers, some minor marking, rubbed with some small splits, Pasadena , [1919], first editions ; and 17 others, Sinclair, including the hardback edition of the second mentioned, plus 2 Jack London titles, 8vo (21)

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Lot 228

Stevenson (Robert Louis) - Records of a Family of Engineers, first edition , title printed in red & black, original cloth , printed dust-jacket, an attractive copy , 1912; and 4 others, RLS, 8vo (5)

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Lot 229

Theroux (Paul) - Sailing Through China, number 83 of 150 copies signed by author & artist, illustrations by Patrick Procktor, original cloth with mounted illustration , 1983 § Chatwin (Bruce) and Paul Theroux. Patagonia Revisited, number 65 of 250 copies signed by the authors, illustrations by Kyffin Williams, original cloth-backed patterned cloth , 1985, first editions , glacene jackets, Salisbury, 8vo (2)

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Lot 230

Thomas (Dylan) - Under Milk Wood, ink ownership insription, jacket price-clipped, a little rubbed at hea and foot, 1954 § Deighton (Len) Horse Under Water, 1963, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent copies ; and 37 others, modern first editions, 8vo (39)

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Lot 231

Waugh (Evelyn) - Brideshead Revisited, Book Society edition, faded in patches, dust-jacket, spine browned, loss to spine ends, corners chipped, surface soiling, 1945; Black Mischief, first edition, some light scattered spotting or finger-soiling to prelims, bookplate, spine faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1932; Scoop, first edition, light browning to endpapers, spine faded, some light rubbing to extremities, 1938, original cloth ; and 4 others by the same, 8vo (7)

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Lot 232

Wells (H.G.) - The Time Machine. An Invention, early reissue, no advertisements, original brown wrappers printed in black, worn at spine with upper cover becoming detached, some loss , 1895; The War of the Worlds, first appearance , in Pearson's Magazine, collated into one vol., illustrations by Warwick Goble, advertisements, later cloth , 1897; In the Days of the Comet, 14pp. advertisements, bookplate , 1906; Meanwhile , minor spotting , 1927; The Open Conspiracy, jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer, spine browned with small stain , 1928; The Way the World is Going, jacket design by M. Alleyne , 1928; The New America: The New World, 1935, all but first first editions , last 5 original cloth, last 4 in dust-jackets with some minor rubbing and chipping ; and 45 others, H.G. Wells, v.s. (52)

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Lot 233

Wells (H.G.) - Bealby. A Holiday, first edition , 4pp. advertisements dated 'Spring, 1915' and 31pp. publisher's catalogue at end, a little light spotting to margins and edges of earlier ff., original cloth, slightly mottled, spine lightened , original orange dust-jacket printed in black with mounted colour illustration on upper panel, rubbed, some edge wear, split at upper fore-edge, spine lightened with some fraying at ends, [Wells 57], 8vo , 1915.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 234

Chaucer (Geoffrey) - The Works, [ with ] A Companion Volume to the Kelmscott Chaucer by Duncan Robinson , 2 vol., limited edition, the first a facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Chaucer, printed in red and black, illustrations, many tipped in, original patterned cloth designed by William Morris, the first uncut, together in board slip-case (a little rubbed, chip to one edge), folio, Basilisk Press, 1974-75.

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Lot 239

Sassoon (Siegfried) - The Path to Peace: Selected Poems, number 80 of 500 copies, printed in blue and black, initials supplied by hand by Margaret Adams, the first in gold, the rest in red and blue, with the additional poem 'Awaitment' loosely inserted (often missing), and with 3 other additional Sassoon poems printed by the press ('A Prayer at Pentecost', 'Nativity' and úith Unfaithful') tipped into wrappers and loosely inserted, original vellum-backed patterned-paper boards, transparent wrapper, Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960; Something about Myself, reproduction of illustrated calligraphic manuscript by Margaret Adams, printed in blue and brown, original cream wrappers, cat in gold on upper cover, spine soiled, Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1966; Satirical Poems, first edition , light browning to half-title and final leaf, original cloth, dust-jacket, a little soiled, spine browned, 1926; and 4 others by or about Sassoon, 4to & 8vo (7)

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Lot 241

Animations.- Finch (Christopher) - The Art of Walt Disney, 1973 § Beck (Jerry) and Will Friedwald. Animation Art, The Characters, The Creators, The Limited Editions, 1997 § Canemaker (John) Winsor McCay, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987 § Treasures of Disney Animation Art, Abbeville Press, New York, 1982, plates and illustrations, the first original pictorial buckram, transparent dust-jacket, worn and slightly soiled, the other, original boards, dust-jackets ; and 53 others concerning animation, v.s.( 57)

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Lot 243

Baring Gould (S.) - Amazing Adventures, first edition, coloured title-page and 24 full-page colour illustrations by Harry B. Neilson, original boards, rebacked, new endpapers, a few fore-edges slightly soiled, slightly rubbed , [1903] § Franc-Nohain (Marie-Madeleine) Les Memoires de Footit & Chocolat Clowns, first edition , illustrations by René Vincent, original cloth backed boards with photographic image by du Gay, rubbed at extremities, [1914] § Ries (Gerta) Dreamland, 7 panoramic seaside views with 32 of 55? slot-in figures by the author, original cloth backed boards, rubbed at edges, New York , [1925] § Weedon (L.L.), Evelyn Fletcher and others, The Model Menagerie, 6 chromolithographed pop-up plates of zoo animals in cages, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed at corners , [?1895], v.s. (4)

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Lot 244

Brett (David) - Two Nursery Favourites, first edition, Untearable, original illustrations by the author, original decorated cloth, Dean & Son, [1905]; Ten Little Niggers with Music, illustrations by David Brett, decorated upper board, rubbed and soiled, [1905] § Trier (Walter) 10 Little Negroes, A New Version, illustrations by Trier, original boards, first three pages with lower corner lacking, n.d. § Gibbings (Robert) A True Tale of Love in Tonga, engravings by the author, original cloth backed boards, rubbed, 1935; and 16 other titles similar, v.s (c.90)

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Lot 247

Goudge (Elizabeth) - The Little White Horse, first edition, colour frontispiece The Little White Horse, first edition, colour frontispiece, illustrations by C. Walter Hodges, original cloth, gilt, spine slightly dulled, dust-jacket, slightly browned, edges a little creased and rubbed, small piece torn away from head of spine, 8vo, 1946.

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Lot 248

Milne (A.A.) - For the Luncheon Interval. Cricket and Other Verses For the Luncheon Interval. Cricket and Other Verses, slightly foxed and browned, original printed wrappers, slightly browned, edges uncut, 1925; Winnie-the-Pooh , fifth edition, 1927; When We Were Very Young, reprint, 1925; Now We Are Six, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, all but the second and third first editions, all but the first illustrations E.H. Shepard, all but the first original morocco, gilt, g.e., 8vo (5).

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Lot 249

Milne (A.A.) - Winnie the Pooh, some light creasing and browning to endpapers, slight shelf-lean, 1926; Now We Are Six, some light browning and small damp-stain to endpapers, spine darkened, fading to fore-edge, 1927, first editions, frontispiece and illustrations by Ernest H.Shepard, pictorial endpapers, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., 8vo (2)

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Lot 25

Hermeticism.- Sibley - The Clavis or Key to Unlock the Mysteries of Magic of Rabbi Solomon (Ebenezer, translator ) The Clavis or Key to Unlock the Mysteries of Magic of Rabbi Solomon, manuscript fair copy, 300pp., hand-coloured frontispiece ("The Grand Pentacle of Solomon"), title and numerous drawings in the text, slightly browned, original half calf, rubbed, joints splitting but holding, lacks part of spine, sm. 4to, n.d. [c. 1880]; and 2 others Hermeticism, including a modern printed copy of the first, 4to (3).

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Lot 252

Ross (Charles Henry) - The Surprising Adventures of a Clumsy Boy Crusoe, first edition , 23 illustrations on 12 leaves, hand coloured, original cloth backed printed limp boards, upper board with slight crease, rubbed at extremities, oblong 8vo, Griffith and Farran , [1866] Only four copies mentioned on Copac and only one hand-coloured at Cambridge.

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Lot 254

Ten Little Niggers, first edition, 12 chromolithograph full page illustrations and covers mounted on linen, text in verse and music, slightly rubbed at extremities, 4to, McLoughlin Bro'. New York, 1894

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Lot 255

Tolkien (J.R.R.) - The Hobbit, thirteenth impression, colour frontispiece and map endpapers by the author, original green boards, spine slightly faded, pictorial dust-jacket, a little rubbed and frayed at edges, tear to upper joint, 1961 § Peake (Mervyn) Titus Alone, first edition , frontispiece by the author, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine browned, 1959 § Wagner (Richard) Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods, 1911 § Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, sixth edition , 1909, the last two with tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, some light spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, spines faded ; and a quantity of others, mostly children's books, 8vo & 4to (Qty)

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Lot 272

Amano (Yoshitaro) & Yukihiro Tsunoyama, - editors. Textiles of the Andes: Catalog of Amano Collection editors. Textiles of the Andes: Catalog of Amano Collection , San Francisco, 1979 § Woolley (Linda) Medieval Life and Leisure in the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, 2002 § Hart (A.) & Susan North. Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries, 1998 § Cooke (Edward S.) & others. Upholstery in America & Europe from the Seventeenth Century to World War I, New York & London, 1987 § Seligman (G.S.) & Talbot Hughes. Domestic Needlework, [1926], illustrations, many colour, the last two with embossed stamp on title, original cloth or boards, all but the last with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed and frayed at edges, the first also with slip-case ; and c.30 others, textiles and costume, many catalogues, v.s. (c.35)

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Lot 276

Baker (George P.) - Calico Painting and Printing in the East Indies in the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries, 2 vol. including portfolio of colour plates, first edition , text with map, colour plate and illustrations, light marginal soiling, original cloth-backed limp boards, uncut, portfolio with 34 colour plates only on 33 sheets (of 37 on 35, lacking plates 1, 7 & 30, supplied in high quality colour reproductions loose in folder), some plates a little frayed at edges, loose as issued with text in patterned cloth portfolio with ties, spine worn and frayed, large folio, 1921; sold not subject to return

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Lot 278

Beckwith (C.) & Angela Fisher. - African Ceremonies, 2 vol., New York, 1999 § Treasures of the Ancient Andes, text in Japanese, Tokyo, 1980, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, the first with slip-case, the second with box ; and 10 others on tribal and primitive art, mostly catalogues, 4to (13)

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Lot 281

Bühler (A.) & Eberhard Fischer. - The Patola of Gujarat: Double Ikat in India, 2 vol., Basle, 1979 § Yamanobe Tomoyuki. Fabrics from the Silk Road: The Stein Collection, National Museum, New Delhi, Kyoto, 1979 § Andrews (Fred. H.) Wall Paintings from Ancient Shrines in Central Asia, Recovered by Sir Aurel Stein, plate vol. only, 32 plates, some colour, some double-page, loose as issued in original cloth portfolio with ties, worn, lower cover severely damp-stained affecting final five plates, 1948 § Textiles in the Shosoin, 2 vol., Japanese text, each vol., with accompanying English booklet in original wrappers, main vol. original cloth, each in cloth box with lid, Tokyo, 1963 § Yoshida Mitsukuni. [Kyoto Kanoko], Japanese text, one of 1000 copies, Kyoto, 1975 § Kahlenberg (M.H.) & others. Asian Costumes and Textiles from the Bosphorus to Fujiyama: The Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection, New York, 2001 § Rhie (M.M.) & Robert A.F.Thurman. The Sacred Art of Tibet, 1996 § Zo (Za-yong) & U Fan Lee. Traditional Korean Painting, Tokyo & New York, 1990, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, some pictorial, the last three with dust-jackets, the first and fifth with slip-cases ; and a small quantity of others, Asian art, particularly textiles, including issues of Hali , Textile History, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, Central Asian Review etc., many catalogues, v.s. (Qty)

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Lot 284

Ertug (Ahmet) & others. - Silks for the Sultans: Ottoman Imperial Garments from Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, 1996; Reflections of Paradise: Silks and Tiles from Ottoman Bursa, Istanbul, 1995 § Raby (Julian, editor ) The Nasser D.Khalili Collection of IslamicArt, vol.IX & XXI (Cobalt and Lustre: The first centuries of Islamic pottery [ & ] The Arts of War: Arms and Armour of the 7th to 19th centuries), 1994-92 § Rajab (Jehan S.) Palestinian Costume, embossed stamp on title, London & New York, 1989 § Mortensen I.D.) Nomads of Luristan: History, Material Culture, and Pastoralism in Western Iran, 1993, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards, the last four with dust-jackets, the first three with slip-cases ; and c.35 others, Islamic art etc. including textiles and costume, some catalogues, v.s. (c.40)

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Lot 286

Foskett (Daphne) - A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, 2 vol., New York & Washington, 1972 § Smart (Alastair) Allan Ramsay 1713-1784, Edinburgh, 1992 § Munhall (Edgar) Whistler and Montesquiou, New York & Paris, 1995 § Campbell (Colin) & others. The Art of William Nicholson, 2004 § Wilton (A.) & Anne Lyles. The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880, 1993, plates and illustrations, many colour, the first three original boards with dust-jackets, the first rubbed, the last two original wrappers ; and a quantity of others, mostly British art, some catalogues, 4to & 8vo (Qty)

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Lot 288

Gilbert (Christopher) - The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 2 vol., 1978; Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, 2 vol., London & Leeds, 1978; English Vernacular Furniture 1750-1900, New Haven & London, 1991; Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, 1996 § Joy (Edward, editor ) Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, reprint, Woodbridge, 1980 § Galea-Naudi (J.) & Denise Micallef. Antique Maltese Furniture, Valletta , 1989, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first two and last with slip-cases ; and c.20 others on furniture, some catalogues, 4to (c.25)

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Lot 290

Hillier (Jack) - Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection, 3 vol., 1976 § Boudaille (Georges) The Drawings of Picasso, 1988 § Smejkal (Frantisek) Surrealist Drawings, 1975 § Reitlinger (Henry Scipio) Old Master Drawings, 1922, plates and illustrations (many colour), a little soiling, original cloth or cloth-backed boards, the first with t.e.g., rubbed and a little marked, the first, second and third with dust-jackets, the first with slip-case ; and c.60 others on painting and drawing, some catalogues, v.s. ( c.65)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 296

Loukomski (G.K.) - Le Kremlin de Moscou, 2 vol. (Architecture/Mobilier; Les Palais et le Musée des Arts Décoratifs), mounted plates, loose as issued in original board folders with ties, lacking spines, Paris, n.d. § Cracraft (J.) The Petrine Revolution in Russian Imagery, Chicago, 1997 § Kirichenko (E.) & Mikhail Anikst. The Russian Style, 1991 § Rudenstine (A.Z., editor ) The George Costakis Collection: Russian Avant-Garde Art, small embossed stamp on title, 1981 § Razina (T.) & others. Folk Art in the Soviet Union, Leningrad, 1989, all but the first with illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, one or two rubbed ; and 8 others, Russian art, v.s. (14)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 297

Mastai (M.L.d'Otrange) - Illusion in Art: Trompe l'Oeil. A History of Pictorial Illusionism, 1976 § Fahy (Conor, editor ) Printing a Book at Verona in 1622: The Account Book of Francesco Calzolari Junior, Paris, 1993 § Alexander (J.J.g.) The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550, London & New York, 1994 § Holloway (O.E.) French Rococo Book Illustration, 1969 § Carey (F., editor ) The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, 1999 § Early Children's Books and their Illustration, New York, 1975, illustrations, many colour, the first two original cloth with dust-jackets, the rest original wrappers, a little rubbed ; and a small quantity of others on books and illustration, mostly catalogues, 4to (sm.qty)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 300

Orgel (S.) & Roy Strong. - Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vol., limited edition, London, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1973 § Mayor (A.Hyatt) The Bibiena Family, New York, 1945 § Ricci (Corrado) La Scenografia Italiana, Milan, 1930 § Mancini (Franco) Scenografia Napoletana dell'Età Barocca, signed by the authoron verso of title, Naples, 1964 § Ashton (Geoffrey) Pictures in the Garrick Club: A Catalogue, 1997, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards, all but the third with dust-jackets, some rubbed, the first also with slip-case ; and c.15 others, theatre and theatre design etc., 4to (c.20)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 307

Raby - The Nasser D.Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol.I & III (Julian, editor ) The Nasser D.Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol.I & III: The Abbasid Tradition; After Timur (Qur'ans of the 8th to the 10th [and] 15th and 16th Centuries) , 1992 § Guest Grace Dunham) Shiraz Painting in the Sixteenth Century, Washington, D.C., 1949, illustrations, some colour, original cloth, the first with slight stain to upper cover, the last two with dust-jackets and slip-cases, library labels on spines (removed from the last), 4to (3)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 309

Rutter (John) - Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, first edition, large paper copy with proof plates on india paper , half-title, hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial title, letterpress title with mounted wood-engraved coat-of-arms on india paper, 14 engraved plates on india paper and mounted (including a different state of plate 5 and plate of visitor's ticket to Fonthill), with 2 hand-coloured aquatint versions of plates 6 & 7, folding lithograph map with routes hand-coloured, double-page genealogical table, wood-engraved vignettes on india paper, list of subscribers at end, some light spotting and soiling, mostly marginal, generally a good copy, old ink inscription to half-title, contemporary half morocco over boards, upper cover with engraved vignette title, uncut, a little rubbed and stained, corners worn, rebacked in calf, [Abbey, Scenery 418], large 4to, Shaftesbury & London, 1823.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 312

Soane (John) - Plans, Elevations and Sections of Buildings executed in the... Plans, Elevations and Sections of Buildings executed in the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire , first edition , list of subscribers, 47 engraved plates, title soiled, browned, some foxing, new endpapers, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, edges uncut, [Berlin Kat. 2341a; Harris 842], Messrs.Taylor, 1788; and another, a later edition of the same, folio (2).

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 313

Turner (Jane, - editor ) The Dictionary of Art, 34 vol., Grove editor ) The Dictionary of Art, 34 vol., Grove, 1996 § Campbell (Colin) William Nicholson: The Graphic Work, New York, 1983 § Guillaud (J. & M.) Matisse: Le Rythme et la Ligne, embossed stamp on title, Paris & New York, 1987 § Cachin (F.) Manet, 1991 § Birks (Tony) Hans Coper, New York, 1983 § Kenseth (Joy, editor ) The Age of the Marvelous, original wrappers, Hanover, N.H., 1991, illustrations, some colour, the first original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed, labels on spines ; and c.40 others, art, some catalogues, v.s. (Qty)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 316

Wilkinson (J.G.) - Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, 3 vol. and Atlas to Second Series (lacking 2 vol. text from Second Series), first edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece, lithographed plates, some chromolithographed, some folding, illustrations, some light foxing, original pictorial green calf, gilt, rubbed, spines faded, splits to joints, 1837-41§ Faulkner (R.O.) The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, 3 vol., Warminster, 1973-78 § Doxiadis (E.) The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt, 1995 § Haynes (Sybille) Etruscan Bronzes, 1985 § Armagan (Tahsin Özgüç'e) Anatolia and the Ancient Near East, Ankara, 1989, the last three with illustrations, some colour, all but the first original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed or browned ; and c.30 others, archaeology and antiquities, some catalogues, 8vo & 4to (c.40)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 318

Wilson (Richard) - An Italian Sketchbook, 2 vol., original cloth, slip-case, 1968 § Hibbert (Christopher) The Grand Tour, original boards, dust-jacket, 1987 § Wilton (A.) & Ilaria Bignamini. Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century, 1996 § Jenkins (I.) & Kim Sloan. Vases & Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his Collection, 1996 § Marshall (D.R.) & others. Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Rome, 2011, illustrations, some colour, all but the first original wrappers ; and c.25 others on Italy and the Grand Tour, v.s. (c.30)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 319

Africa.- Denham - and Capt. Hugh Clapperton. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries... ( Major Dixon) and Capt. Hugh Clapperton. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, first edition , engraved frontispiece and 36 plates & plans by Finden after the authors, one printed in sepia and hand-coloured, large folding engraved map, vignettes, title a little foxed, some other light spotting and soiling, mostly marginal, large folding map creased at edge, contemporary blind-stamped calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked with gilt spine, 4to, 1826. Account of the expedition to discover the course of the Niger.

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