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SCOTTISH LITERATURE & POETRY A collection of editions and works on Scottish poets and writers, mostly prior to 1800, many signed or initialled by Sydney Goodsir Smith, some with inscriptions or inserted letters from the editors, to include: IRVING D. The history of Scottish poetry. 1st edition, cloth, 8vo., Edinburgh, 1861; FERGUSSON R. Poems, edited by M.P. McDiarmid (Scottish Text Society 3rd series vols. 21 & 24), quarter roan, cloth boards, 8vo., Edinburgh, 1950-54; GRAHAM Dougal, The collected writings, edited by G. MacGregor, 2 vols., cloth, 8vo., Glasgow, 1883; HECHT H. Songs from David Herd's manuscripts, quarter cloth, paper boards, 8vo., one of 750 copies, Edinburgh, 1904; LAING D. Early popular poetry of Scotland and the Norhern border. 2 vols., cloth, 8vo., London, 1895; SCOTT A. The poems, ed. James Cranston, (Scottish Text Society vol. 36), quarter roan, cloth boards, 8vo., 1896 and 52 others [61]
GELIEU Jonas de The bee preserver or practical directions for the management and preservation of hives; translated from the French [by Clementina Stirling Graham] ... 1st thus, with errata slip, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, 12mo., Edinburgh: John Anderson, 1829. Note: With a presentation inscription from the translator to Robert Graham of Redgorton, Advocate, the main founder of the present collection.
BANNATYNE CLUB. The Bannatyne Garlands, etc. A collection of the Bannatyne Garlands, by Sir Walter Scott and others, and other ephemeral publications by the Bannatyne Club., modern buckram, although a number of the original coloured wrappers are preserved separately, comprising: [i] The poems of George Bannatyne [edited with an extensive commentary by David Laing], 1824 Note: Terry 4a [ii] A Bannatyne garland, quhairin the president speaketh [by Sir Walter Scott], [1823] Note: Terry 118.1. [iii] The Bannatyne garland, number second [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], [1823] Note: Terry 118.2. [iv] Ane richt pithie and pleasant ballat of Bannatyne, 1824 Note: Terry 118.3. [v] A Bannatyne garland [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], 1824 Note: Terry 118/4 [vi] Ane Bannatyne Garlande, brevit be Maister Patrick, of the Kingis Chekar [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], 1826 Note: Terry 118.5. [vii] A new Bannatyne garland; compylit be Doctor Jehan of the Hall Ryal, [by Dr. John Jamieson], 1829 Note: Terry 118.6 Bound in is a note to Robert Graham, dated 18 February, 1828 apologising for the omission of Graham's name from the list of those attending the Club dinner and hence a delay in sending him his copy [viii] Ane new Bannatyne garland [by Patrick Fraser Tytler], 1829 Note: Terry 118.7. [ix] Ane plesand garland, being ane lytill and merrie conceited geste callit Ye coirne-clyppis ... [by Robert Pitcairn], [1830?] Note: Terry 118.8. ....
BANNATYNE CLUB 2 albums of autographs of the members of the Club, which Robert Graham of Redgorton, one of the founding members of the Club, regularly obtained from the Club Secretary David Laing, mostly on sealed election slips, but also including some MS letters or notes. The items are arranged in order of election date and the collection begins with signatures of the original members as at February 1823 commencing with Walter Scott's election slip and cover, both signed by Scott, a further election slip signed "W. Scott", and a short letter to Robert Graham of Redgorton from Scott apparently with reference to the date of a Club dinner, (Scott also appears to have added the words "The Duke of" to The Duke of Buccleuch's election slip ) and including signatures on election slips and correspondence from John Clerk of Eldin, Lord Cockburn, James Maidment, Patrick Fraser Tytler, etc.; four further members were elected on 27 February, 1823 William Adam, Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court, Sir Samuel Shepherd, Lord Chief Baron of Scotland, the Hon. Lord Bannatyne, and Sir William Arbuthnot, and their signatures follow. The collection continues apparently complete until about 1842 when there are a few gaps in the signatures of members. The collection concludes with a number of printed ephemera, receipts to Robert Graham for his subscription, notices of publications, minutes, etc. [2]
CROMARTY George Mackenzie, Earl of An historical account of the conspiracies by the Earls of Gowry, and Robert Logan of Restalrig against James VI ... to which is added a vindication of Robert III King of Scotland, and all his descendents, from the imputation of bastardy ... 1st edition, with titlepage in red and black, half title, contemporary calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, 8vo., Edinburgh: Watson, 1713. MEMOIRS of the Lord Viscount Dundee, the Highland clans and the massacre of Glenco: with an account of Dundee's officers after they went to France by an officer of the Army .... 1st edition, contemporary sheep, with the printed booklabel of Robert Graham, 8vo., 1714. Note: 'The memoirs of the Lord Viscount Dundee' has been doubtfully attributed to Charles Leslie; 'The massacre of Glenco', also published under the title 'Gallienus redivivus' has been variously attributed to Leslie and to George Ridpath [MESTON William] Mob contra mob: or, the rabblers rabbled ... pp. 32 original wrappers, 8vo., Edinburgh: n.p., 1738. Note: Foxon M216 NARRATIVE of the late riots at Edinburgh; and a vindication of its magistracy against the charges advanced in the memorial for the papists of Scotland ... 28 pp., later marbled wrappers, 4to., London: n.p., 1779 [4]
DALYELL, Sir John Graham A brief analysis of the chartularies of the Abbey of Cambuskenneth, Chapel Royal of Stirling, Preceptory of St. Anthony at Leith ... 1st edition, hand coloured frontis. heightened with gold, original boards, amateurly rebacked, 8vo., Edinburgh: Aitken, 1828. DALYELL, Sir John Graham A brief analysis of the ancient records of the Bishopric of Moray ... 1st edition, frontis. facsim. printed in red and black, original quarter cloth, printed paper label, marbled boards, fore-edges uncut, joints worn, 8vo., Edinburgh: Aitken, 1826. DALYELL Sir John Graham A tract chiefly relative to monastic antiquities ... 1st edition, facsim. frontis. with capital hand coloured in blue, original boards, printed paper label, label chipped, with the signature of Robert Graham of Redgorton at the front, 8vo., Edinburgh: Constable, 1809 [3]
[WISHART George, Bishop of Edinburgh] I.G. [i.e. James Graham, Marquess of Montrose] de rebus auspiciis serenissimi, et potentissimi Caroli ... sub imperio illustrissimi Iacobi Montisrosarum Marchionis, Comitis de Kincardin &c. ... commentarius, interprete A. S. [i.e. Agricola Sophocardio pseud. of George Wishart] ... contemporary red morocco, the covers tooled in gilt, with a border made up of fillets and roll tools, a panel of roll tools enclosing sprays and a central oval ornament of sprays, etc. , the spine tooled gilt in compartments, a.e.g., some rubbing, particularly to the raised bands and edges, the covers with some small scuff marks, 8vo., large paper ?, Paris: ex typ. Ioannis Bessin, 1648.
WISHART George, Bishop of Edinburgh Memoirs of the most renowned James Graham Marquis of Montrose; translated from the Latin ... with an appendix, containing many curious papers relating to the history of these times ... 1st thus, engraved port. frontis., contemporary sheep, rubbed, 8vo., Edinburgh: by W. Ruddiman jun. for A. Kincaid, et al., 1756. The history of the Kings Majesties affairs in Scotland under the conduct of the most honourable James Marques of Montrose ... 2nd edition, corrected, 19th century light tan calf, a.e.g., spine rubbed, lacking port. frontis., 8vo., The Hague: by Samuel Browne, [1647] and 2 others [4]
TRIALS A collection of accounts of famous trials, to include: RAYNER J.L. & CROOK G.T. The complete Newgate calendar. 5 volumes. London, 1926; COCKBURN, Henry, Lord. An examination of the trials for sedition which have hitherto occurred in Scotland. 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1888; DUNDONNELL cause, second trial. Report of the trial by jury, Thomas Mackenzie Esq., against Robert Roy in the Court of Session at Edinburgh, 4th January 1831 and four following days. Edinburgh, 1831; The TRIAL of James Stuart, Esq. younger of Dunearn, before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on Monday, June 10 1822. 3rd ed., Edinburgh, 1822; ROUGHEAD, William. The seamy side. 1st ed., with a presentation inscription from the author to Mrs Maxtone Graham, January, 1938 London, 1938 and 19 others [29]
LAING David, editor Various pieces of fugitive Scotish [sic] poetry; principally of the seventeenth century ... Original paper boards, fore-edges uncut, 8vo., Edinburgh: for W. & D. Laing, 1825. Note: One of 72 copies SCOTT Alexander Poems from a manuscript written in the year 1568 ... Original quarter roan, paper boards, 8vo., [Edinburgh, 1821] Note: A presentation copy from Laing to Robert Graeme of Redgorton EARLY metrical tales; including the History of Sir Egeir, Sir Gryme, and Sir Gray-Steill ... Frontis., original paper boards, fore-edges uncut, lower inner joint splitting, 8vo., Edinburgh: W. & D. Laing, 1836. SELECT remains of the ancient popular poetry of Scotland ... Contemporary half roan, marbled boards, fore-edges uncut, small 4to., Edinburgh: W. & D. Laing, 1822 [5] One of 108 copies, of which, according to Brunet, a number perished in a fire. A PROOF with ms corrections of the poem "Tayis bank" from the above work with an accompanying letter to Robert Graham of Redgorton from David Laing tipped in at the front
STODART R.R. Scottish arms: being a collection of armorial bearings A.D. 1370-1678 ... with heraldic and genealogical notes by R.R. Stoddart ... 1st edition, 2 volumes, colour plates, original cloth over bevelled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, slight wear to heads and tails of spines, fore-edges a little spotted, folio, Edinburgh: Paterson, 1881 Note: Numbered as no 332 of 300 copies [sic] NISBET Alexander A system of heraldry ... 1st edition, 24 engraved plates of armorial bearings, contemporary calf, head and tail rubbed, folio, Edinburgh: MackEuen, 1722 Note: A second volume was added in 1742. Provenance: with the bookplate of Thomas Graham of Balgowan WRIGHT Thomas The roll of arms of the princes, barons, and knights who attended King Edward I to the siege of Caerlaverock, in 1300 ... 1st edition, 5 plates of armorial bearings, hand coloured and finished in gold, original cloth over bevelled boards, contents loose, 4to., London: Hotten, 1864. BALFOUR Sir James Ancient heraldic and antiquarian tracts ... Original cloth, 12mo.., Edinburgh: Stevenson, 1837 [5]
Fagan (Louis). The Reform Club: Its Founders and Architect, 1836-1886, pub. Quaritch, 1887, frontis. and b & w illusts., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, some wear to spine, together with The Cafe Royal Story. A Living Legend, ed. Leslie Frewin, foreword by Graham Greene, 1st ed., 1963, b & w illusts., orig. printed boards in glassine d.j. and slipcase, plus Grand Hotel. The Golden Age of Palace Hotels, An Architectural and Social History, texts by David Watkin, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Pierre-Gene Remy & Frederic Grendel, New York, 1984, num. b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., all folio, with others relating to the history of clubs, hotels, restaurants and cafes, etc. (3 shelves)
Carre, John le, The Tailor of Panama, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1996, tall 8vo (235 x 150mm), half title, illustrated endpapers, original half tone cloth, decorative dust-jacket, First Edition With a number of other mainly modern first edition fictional works, including Alec Waugh's 'The Mule on The Minaret' (New York, 1965), Francoise Sagan's 'Those Without Shadows' (London, 1957), Salmon Rushdie's 'Haroun and Sea of Stories' (London, 1990), Graham Greene's 'The Human Factor' (New York, 1978), Kingsley Amis 'Difficulties with Girls' (London, 1988), a limited edition copy of Marco Denevi's (illustrated by Juan Carlos Barberis & translated by Harriet de Onis 'Secret Ceremony' (USA, 1961), Herbert Selby Jr 'The Room, a novel' (London, 1971), John Steinbeck's 'The Winter of our Discontent' (London, 1961), V. S. Naipauls 'A Bend in the River' (London, 1970), John Barth's 'Giles Goat-Boy' (London, 1967), Umberto Eco's 'Foucault's Pendulum' (London, 1989), Desmond Bagley's 'Flyaway' (London, 1978), and Arthur Conte's 'I Am A Village' (London, 1960)
PIOTROWSKI, TADEUSZ. Linocuts. Introduction by Stanislaw Gliwa P.P., Mapledon, Dartford, Kent, 1955. One of 50 copies in English. Folio, orig. wraps. With A.L.S. from Gliwa and additional linocut loosely inserted. With 2 other limited editions in Polish, from the same press; five items printed by Stanbrook Abbey press, and 3 others, including two Graham sutherland catalogues. (11)
A COLLECTION OF GRAHAM FARISH MODEL RAILWAY ITEMS, 1104 9400 Class Pannier Tank GWR, 1404 Hall Class GWR, 1446 GWR Castle Class Loco 'Winchester', 2004 5 Tank Wagon GWR, 2123 7 Tank Wagon Powell Gwinnell, 2201 Mineral Wagon LNS, 2204 Mineral Wagon GWR, 2404 Twin Vent Van GWR, 2604 Cattle Van GWR, 0624 Mainline Coach GWR, 0634 Break End Coach Mainline GWR, 3104 Break Van GWR, all boxed
* Woods (Rob). An archive of approx. fifty watercolours, drawings and sketches, late 1920s/early 1930s, mostly accomplished working theatrical and costume designs, etc., many loosely inserted in a working scrap album with contemp. newscuttings, mostly initialled or signed (usually Rob Woods) and many dated, two larger theatrical portraits in watercolour and pencil with bodycolour, varnished, framed and glazed (one with glass broken), approx. 35 x 30 cm and 50 x 40 cm. From the library of Anthony Crane. The only details about the artist known are that his full name was Graham Robson Woods and that he committed suicide at a young age in the mid 1930s. (a folder)
Greene (Graham). Yes and No and For Whom the Bell Chimes, Bodley Head, 1983, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, ltd. ed. 60/750, signed by the author, together with The End of the Affair, 1st ed., Heinemann, 1951, bookplt., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, and Chase (James Hadley, writing as "Ambrose Grant"), More Deadly Than the Male, 1st ed., 1946, orig. cloth in rubbed and chipped d.j. with loss to spine ends, 8vo. Third volume apparently edited by Greene and with a jacket design by his then mistress, Dorothy Craigie. (3)
Greene (Graham). It's a Battlefield, 1934; The Lawless Roads, 1939; The Power and the Glory, 1940; The Ministry of Fear, 1943; all 1st eds., all orig. cloth, rubbed, some wear to second vol., together with The Potting Shed, 1958; The Complaisant Lover, 1959; Carving a Statue, 1964; The Return of A.J. Raffles, 1975, all orig. cloth in rubbed d.j.s, 8vo, 'Raffles' vol. ltd. ed. signed by Greene, plus seven others by Greene. (16)
* British Everest South West Face Expedition 1972, an official souvenir card with black and white logo design and col. illust. from a photo by Doug Scott, signed by all eleven team members, Chris Bonington, James Roberts, Dave Bathgate, Mick Burke, Nick Estcourt, Dougal Haston, Kelvin Kent, Hamish MacInnes, Doug Scott, Barney Rosedale and Graham Tiso, horizontal fold, verso blank, a little creased, 19.5 x 22. cm (unfolded), together with a related b&w folding promotional flyer (Autmn 1972) with Expedition text by Bonington, a full list of sponsors, team members, publications, etc., 8pp, square 8vo (2)
Autograph Album. Approx. 300 cut signatures, mostly 19th c., arranged by categories including leaders, India, the Church, Science, Literature, Military, etc., signatures include Queen Victoria (three), Florence Nightingale, Randolph S. Churchill, Robert Cecil, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl Russell, William Ewart Gladstone, Arthur James Balfour, Viscount Palmerston, Joseph Chamberlain, Anthony Ashley Cooper. Reginald McKenna, Charles John, Viscount Hardinge of Lahore, First Earl Northbrook, Viscount Curzon, Sir Charles Napier, Joseph Lister, Victor Horsely, William MacCormac, Sir Lucas Pepys, Sir William Jenner, Frederick Treves, James Paget, Guglielmo Marconi, John Strutt, Norman Lockyer, Frederick Abel, Jospeh Hooker, Walter Besant, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sir William Napier, Benjamin Jowett, Richard Temple, Sir John Moore, Robert Anstruther, Ralph Abercromby, John Hely-Hutchinson, Sir John Doyle, Duke of Wellington, Sir Thomas Picton, Thomas Graham, Kenneth Howard, Sir Edward Pakenham, Fitzroy Somerset, Sir John Fox Burgoyne, Lord Rokeby, Jeffrey, Lord Amherst of Montreal, Sir william Myers, Sir Charles Green, Major-General Robert Ross, Gathorne Hardy, etc., most pasted in plus some loose, plus a Queen Victoria signed Royal Pardon loosely inserted, 19th-c. half morocco, rubbed, folio. The signatures were collected by Lt. Col. Francis Arthur, O.B.E., who worked at the War Office 1922-45. (1)
Teichman (Eric). Travels of a Consular Officer in North-west China, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1921, num. b & w illusts. from photos., two single-page maps, two folding maps in rear pocket, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, together with Graham (Stephen), Through Russian Central Asia, 1st ed., 1916, photogravure frontis., b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed, plus Cobbold (Ralph P.), Innermost Asia. Travel & Sport in the Pamirs, 1st ed., 1900, photogravure port. frontis., num. b & w illusts. from photos., two single-page maps and two folding maps at rear, later plum half morocco gilt, a little rubbed, and two others, all 8vo (5)
GREENE, Graham. THE QUIET AMERICAN. William Heinemann Ltd, London 1955. First edition. 8vo. Blue-grey cloth, endpapers with some faint spotting, dustwrapper price-clipped, abraded with small loss of text to lower panel. STEINBECK, John. EAST OF EDEN. Viking Press, New York 1952. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth, sunning to head and foot of spine, small mark to lower board; vg. Plus 1 other. (3)
ROBERTSON, W. Graham. AUTOGRAPH MANSUCRIPT OF HIS PLAY "ARCHIBALD" inscribed on front wrapper 'W. Graham Robertson, Sandhills, Witley, Surrey. [n.d., but c. 1919]. 4to; 23 pages written in black ink on lined paper on rectos only, with some corrections and crossings out in the authors hand; spine of title page defective. ROBERTSON, W. Graham. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS PLAY "ROMPS AND ROMANCE" inscribed on front wrapper 'W. Graham Robertson, Sandhills, Witley, Surrey. [n.d., but c. 1919]. 4to; 17 pages written in black ink on lined paper on rectos only; minor chipping to spine of title page. ROBERTSON, W. Graham. THE SLIPPERS OF CINDERELLA and Two other Plays. William Heinemann, London, 1919. FIRST EDITION. 8vo; in the original printed dustwrapper, chipped at head; with a loosely inserted manuscript note initialled by the author, with an original illustration by him on the verso. (3) A fine collection of items by W. Graham Robertson, including the manuscripts of two of his plays, Archibald and Romps and Romance. Also included in the lot is a first edition of The Slippers of Cinderella in which "Archibald" appears for the first time. The book also contains a loosely inserted manuscript note from the author with an original illustration.

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