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Click here to subscribeGoldsmith (Oliver) The Vicar of Wakefield, 1929 - Swinburne (Algernon Charles) The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood, original gilt pictorial rexine, slightly rubbed, spine a little faded, 1918 - The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book, dust-jacket, some tears, 1933, plates, some colour, by Arthur Rackham, first and third original cloth; and 6 others, Children's, 4to & 8vo (9).
Grahame (Kenneth) The Wind in the Willows, first edition, frontispiece with tissue guard, some foxing, particularly at beginning and end, contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed and slightly frayed, lower joint rubbed and repaired, gilt a little rubbed, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, 1908.
Heath (Ambrose) Good Soups, 1935; Good Potato Dishes, 1935; Good Sweets, 1937; Good Drinks, 1939; Good Food without Meat, 1940 - Simon (Andre L.) What about Wine?, wood-engraved illustrations by David Gentleman, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1953, first editions, all but the last with decorative titles by Edward Bawden, original pictorial boards by Bawden, the first two and fifth with dust-jackets, all rubbed and soiled; and 8 others, Cookery, 8vo (14).
Infant's Library (The), 14 vol. (of 16) lacking vol. 2 and vol. 6, the first with 26 woodcut illustrations, the last with 34 portraits, the remainder each with 13 full-page engraved illustrations, original boards, lacking one upper cover, most of the volumes rebacked, vol. 1 reinserted upside down, upper cover loose, 64mo (54 x 44mm.), John Marshall, [c.1800].
Johns (Captain W.E.) Biggles Hits the Trail, first edition, colour frontispiece, illustrations by Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall, margins a little browned, prize bookplate on front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, edges darkened, dust-jacket, torn, upper flap loose, edges torn with loss, 8vo, Oxford University Press, 1935.
Kipling (Rudyard) The Jungle Book, with illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895, first editions, illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling, minor foxing, original cloth, slightly rubbed, cover vignette and spine titles blocked in gilt, g.e., 8vo
Kipling (Rudyard) Just So Stories, second edition, illustrations by the author, original pictorial cloth, 1902 - Stevenson (Robert Louis) Treasure Island, 1911; Kidnapped, 1913, 2 vol., each with coloured pictorial title-pages and 14 plates by N. C. Wyeth, original cloth, large pictorial labels on upper covers - Edgar (Marriot) Albert and Balbus and Samuel Small, illustrations by John Hassall, original pictorial boards, n.d. - Playbox Annual, coloured plates, illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, [1922] - Lofting (Hugh) Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, 1924; Doctor Dolittle's Garden, 1928, 2 vol., first English editions, coloured frontispieces and illusrations by the author, original cloth, n.d. - The Big Book for Girls, coloured frontispiece and 3 plates, illustrations by Grace Lodge and others, original pictorial boards, n.d. - De la Mare (Walter) Peacock Pie, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, original pictorial cloth, 1946; and 22 others, including 15 in wrappers from "The London Library", "Schoolboys' Own Library", etc., v.s. (31).
Lear (Edward, artist and author, 1812-88) An important autograph letter signed to Lady Wyatt, 4 pp., 8vo, San Remo, 4th December (altered to the 11th) 1870, discussing mutual acquaintances and their own health, some times in nonsensical fashion "I adjure you not to have any phitzavagew any more", the availablity of villas and social life in the area, "I don't go out at all: coach hire is to be shunned", before describing the Villa Emily at some length, with plans of the ground and first floors, and a small map of the adjoining properties, finishing with descriptions of watercolours that he is working on "I have done one bit of rock so well that you sprain your ankles directly you look at it", with a similarly amusing story about a foreground figure so lifelike that he stepped out of the picture to borrow Lear's handkerchief. Villa Emily was Lear's first home, built after years of travel to his own specifications just outside San Remo. The letter provides one of the first and best descriptions of the house and its layout, with typically nonsensical features such as a barble malcony, china cubbid and Bakdor.
Milne (A.A.) When We Were Very Young, first edition, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, ownership inscription on front endpaper, original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, lower corners bruised, spine ends a little frayed, 1924; Winnie the Pooh, third edition, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, original cloth, gilt, lower edge a little faded, dust-jacket, soiled, rubbed, small tears to edges, corners worn, 1927, 8vo (2).
Milne (A.A.) When We Were Very Young, owner's name on front free endpaper, small crease to spine, 1924; Winnie-the-Pooh, marking to a few ff., bookseller's small sticker on front pastedown, front pastedown slightly bubbled and discoloured, 1926; Now We Are Six, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, stain affecting pp.160-168, some other marking, 4pp. with small ink-mark, spine slightly faded, 1928, first editions, illustrations by E.H.Shepard, original cloth, corners slightly bumped and rubbed, some cockling and light soiling, t.e.g., 8vo (4).
Mirth & Merriment or Favorite Festivals from Twelfth day to Christmas, 8 hand-coloured woodcut plates with letterpress caption and 2-line verse below each one, foxed and frayed, first and last plate laid down on inside of wrappers, original decorative pink wrappers printed in red and black, soiled, torn and slightly defective, some repairs, preserved in modern cloth-backed board folder, tall 8vo, Dean & Son, 1862.
Oxley (J.Macdonald) Bert Lloyd's Boyhood, a Story from Nova Scotia, 1892 - Callwell (J.M.) A Champion of the Faith, 1894 - St. Leger (Hugh) The Rover's Quest, 1897 - Meade (L.T.) Girls of the Forest, 1902 - Grant (Mrs. G. Forsyth) Chums at Last, 1905 - Baldwin (May) Peg's Adventures in Paris, 1906 - Sherwood (Mary) The Fairchild Family, 1913, all but the last first editions; and 26 others, all with plates, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, (29).
Phillips (Bill) Five gouache paintings for the Teddy Bear comic, including three large designs depicting a father and child bear taking a Christmas tree home on a sledge, a bear in a railway engine pedal car, and a couple of bears in an open sports car, the first and the two smaller designs framed and glazed, v.s. (5).
Pogwda•eff (Georges A. de) A set of eleven drawings to illustrate "La Tempete de Neige" by A.S. Pushkin, comprising five finished designs in crayon and wash, three full-page, and preliminary crayon designs for each, the first with an alternative for the finished design, signed in full or with initials, in individual wrappers, with typescript of the text, in folder and slipcase, 4to.
Rackham (Arthur) Feats on the Fjord, 1899 - Lamb (Charles and Mary) Tales from Shakespeare, upper cover loose, 1899 - Kingsley (Charles) The Heroes, 1899 - Fouque (F. de la Motte) Sintram and his Companions, 1900, 4 vol., each with coloured frontispiece and 11 full-page illustrations, the first two by Arthur Rackham, the third by Thomas Heath Robinson, the fourth by Charles Robinson, original calf gilt - Lang (Jeanie) Stories from the Odyssey, coloured frontispiece and 7 plates by William Heath Robinson, original limp cloth, n.d. - Creswick (Paul) Under the Black Raven, [inscription dated 1906] - Stevenson (J.G.) The Challenge, 1906, 2 vol., each with frontispiece and 7 plates by Thomas Heath Robinson, original pictorial cloth; and 12 others, 8vo and 16mo (19).
Ruskin (John) The King of the Golden River, third edition, with "hooter" nose in frontispiece, modern roan-backed boards, original wrappers bound in, 1851; Another copy, seventh edition, revised frontispiece, original cloth gilt, Orpington, n.d. - [Hughes (Thomas)] The Scouring of the White Horse, first edition, slightly stained, original cloth gilt, slightly worn, Cambridge, 1859, all three with wood-engraved illustrations after Richard Doyle - [Yonge (Charlotte M.)] The Little Duke, or Richard the Fearless, first edition, lithographed frontispiece and 7 plates by J[ane] B[lackburn], slightly stained, original cloth gilt, 1854 - Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Uncle Tom's Cabin, 2 inserted wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth gilt, 1852; Another edition, wood-engraved pictorial title, title vignette and 47 plates, one torn, some leaves spotted, contemporary half calf, upper hinge broken, 1852 - [Hughes (Thomas)] Tom Brown's School Days, engraved portrait frontispiece and title vignette, wood-engraved illustrations after Arthur Hughes, original cloth gilt, recased, 1869; and 8 others, 8vo and small 4to (14).
Tale of Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves (The), translated by J.C.Mardrus and then E.Powys Mathers, original cloth-backed boards, spine rubbed and faded, New York, 1949 - Thackeray (W.M.) The Newcomes, original pictorial cloth, Cambridge, 1954 - Dickens (Charles) The Short Stories, edited by Walter Allen, original half cloth, New York, 1971; Great Expectations, New York, Heritage Club, 1939, the first three limited editions for The Limited Editions Club, the first out of series and unsigned, the other two signed by the artist, all with plates and/or illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, some colour, all but the first with slip-cases, slightly rubbed; and 2 others illustrated by the same, small folio & 8vo (7).
Blake (William) The Songs of Experience, facsimile reprint by J.P.Trumble, S.E.Muir and William Muir, 27 facsimile leaves, all but one hand-coloured, light soiling to first two leaves, original printed wrappers, uncut, soiled and frayed at edges, 4to, Bernard Quaritch, 1927. "Copy No.23" signed by William Muir on verso of final leaf and inside front wrapper.
Chanticleer: A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press April 1921-1936 August, one of 300 copies signed by the partners, 1936; Pertelote...October 1936-1943 April, original cloth, rubbed, 1943; Cockalorum...June 1943-December 1948, original cloth, dust-jacket frayed, 1948 Cock-a-Hoop...September 1949-December 1961, one of 300 copies signed by the partners, wood-engraved illustrations, the first and last similar original morocco-backed patterned cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, the last with frayed glacine wrapper, 8vo, Golden Cockerel Press (4).
Seven Acres Press.- Haberly (Loyd) John Apostate: An Idyl of the Quays, number 11 of 125 copies signed by the author, decorative title and woodcut illustrations and initials by Haberly, first leaf of text printed in red and black, original pigskin, uncut, very slightly rubbed and faded, small 4to, Long Crendon, Seven Acres Press, 1927.
L'Estrange (Sir Roger) A Compendious History of the most remarkable passsages of the last fourteen years, with an account of the Plot, first edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary annotations at beginning and end, nineteenth-century blind-tooled panelled calf, upper cover loose, Sir Henry Irving's copy, with his bookplate, an autograph letter signed by him inserted, 8vo, A Godbid and J. Playford for S. Neale, 1680. (1).
Gontcharova (Natalia) and others. Large announcement and programme for the Bal Olympique, the announcement in four different sates, one on mould-made paper with a woodcut by Fotinsky after Barthe and a costume design by Gontcharova, the other three on yellow, blue and pink paper with the woodcut by Fotinsky replaced by a lineblock of the drawing by Barthe, 653mm. by 250mm, the first slightly frayed; the programme 12 pages with a large woodcut by Fotinsky after Borlin, and illustrations by Picasso and others, unbound, 4to, Paris, 1924.
London Palladium London Palladium (The), An important collection of over 600 photographs of performers who appeared at the theatre after its reopening in 1928, almost all signed and inscribed to George Black, director of the theatre, some postcard size, but the majority 10 by 8 prints or larger, mounted in two large albums, the first with a manuscript title-page in sign-written style, original cloth, one tie loose, large folio, 1929-1938. Leading comedians, singers, musicians, dancers, band leaders, conjurors, circus and novelty acts are represented in the collection, many appearing early in their careers. They include Larry Adler, Marie Burke (2), Harry Champion (2), Cicely Courtneidge, Gracie Fields (2), Flanagan and Allen, George Forby, Will Fyffe (3), Tommy Handley, Will Hay (2), Seymour Hicks, Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Vera Lynn, Max Miller (2), Nervo and Knox (2), Vic Oliver, Ted Ray (2), Al Read, Paul Robeson, Billy Russell, Sophie Tucker, Max Wall, Nellie Wallace, Fats Waller, and George [Wee Georgie] Wood. Bandleaders include Louis Armstrong, Billy Cotton, Duke Ellington, Jack Hylton, and Jack Payne. Conjurers represented include Cardini (2), Chris Charlton, Chefalo, Cortini, Horace Goldin, and Jasper Maskelyne, while the circus acts include the Four Julians, the Keminys, Palermo and his sealion mimics (2), Power's Dancing Elephants, and other similar troupes of acrobats, jugglers, and animal acts.
Indian General Service, 1936, bars N.W.F. 1937-9, 1936-7, the first bar detached, 5884249 PTE F.G.EVANS NORTH'N R, VF; with Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, George VI, 751933 PTE T. McG H.ROSS R.P.C.; with Campaign Service Medal, Elizabeth II, bar Northern Ireland, 24174395 TPR D.MATHISON RTR, boxed EF
A Huntley & Parlmer's BREAKFAST BISCUITS miniature lithographed tin, 6.5cm l, c1928; a small collection of other miniature tins and packaging; four miniature lithographed tinplate signs - CHUMS THE BEST PAPER FOR BOYS; READ THE MODEL ENGINEER EVERY THURSDAY; OXO and a similar lithographed miniature show card - W J BASSETT-LOWKE & CO, all first half 20th c
Debrett, John. Debrett's Peerage Of the United Kingdom & Ireland. The Sixteenth Edition, Considerably Improved. 2 volumes, 1826. Engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved plates of coats of arms. Some foxing. The inner front hinge of the first volume broken. Contemporary half morocco bindings, rubbed and worn. (2).
Hall, Peter. Picturesque Memorials of Salisbury: a series of Original Etchings and Vignettes, Illustrative of the Most Interesting Buildings, and Other Remains of Antiquity, In That City and Neighbourhood. ...... 4to., Salisbury, 1834. Bound with; [Hall, Peter]. Picturesque Memorials of Winchester. Winchester, 1830. The first work with 28 engraved plates and wood engraved vignettes as tailpieces. The second work with 18 engraved plates. Some scattered foxing. Contemporary full calf binding, distressed, the upper board detached, the backstrip of the spine off (but preserved), the lower board loose.
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