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Lot 101

WW1 German 1918 Dated M-15 Saxon Other Ranks Belt Buckle, good example of the all steel belt buckle for an enlisted man in a Saxon regiment. Complete with its 1918 dated leather tab which is stamped with makers mark “Robert Ehrharch Zwonitz”. Some surface wear to the buckle and some light cracking to the leather tab.

Lot 11

WW1 Kraftfahr-Battalion (Motor Transport) Nr 4 Field Grey Shoulder Strap, light grey top with field grey underside, red chain stitched gothic K with number 4 underneath.

Lot 152

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Doublets: A Word Puzzle, first edition, bookplate to pastedown, title and endpapers a little browned, original blind-stamped cloth, gilt, few marks and light rubbed to spine ends and corners, 12mo, 1879.

Lot 195

Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, light sunning to spine, red dust-jacket, spine faded and with 1" portion of loss to foot, spine ends and corners chipped, splitting to lower joint and upper fore-edge, tearing and creasing to head and foot, rubbed, 8vo, 1949.

Lot 216

Wolfe (Tom) The Bonfire of the Vanities, signed by the author, jacket price-clipped, light fading to spine, 1988 § Updike (John) Couples, jacket with light fading to spine, light creasing to head and foot, 1968 § Vizinczey (Stephen) In Praise of Older Women, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1966, first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 20 others, 8vo (23)

Lot 222

Yourcenar (Marguerite) L'Œuvre au noir, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Étienne Couch de la Ferté on half-title, original wrappers, light creasing to spine, light surface soiling to covers, 8vo, Paris, [1968].⁂ Yourcenar's celebrated historical fiction novel, published as The Abyss in the UK. Étienne Couch de la Ferté, author of numerous works on ancient jewellery.

Lot 220

Yourcenar (Marguerite) Le Coup de Grâce, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to half-title, light browning to margins, original wrappers, light creasing and browning to spine, spine ends chipped, light creasing to extremities, 8vo, Paris, 1939.⁂ Yourcenar's classic war novel, set during the Russian Civil War, adapted for film in 1976.

Lot 204

Smith (Frederick Edwin, Earl of Birkenhead) The World in 2030, first edition, plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, bookplate to pastedown, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, some light discolouration to covers, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing and fraying to head, rubbing to extremities, 8vo, [1930].⁂ First edition of this utopian work, rare in the dust-jacket.

Lot 157

Dunsany (Edward Plunkett, Lord) Time and the Gods, first edition, plates by Sidney H. Sime, occasional scattered foxing, browning to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards with pictorial onlay, light dulling to spine, light rubbing to extremities, uncut, 4to, 1906.⁂ An attractive example of this important early fantasy work.

Lot 162

Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, sticker to endpaper, jacket price-clipped, small patches of browning to flaps, light discolouration to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped and creased, 1961; The Man with the Golden Gun, small patch of staining to title and facing p., jacket spine lightly browned, small patch of staining to upper cover, spine ends and corners a little chipped and creasing, small mark to head of lower panel, 1965, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 3 others, Fleming, 8vo (5)

Lot 133

Boyd (William) An Ice Cream War, signed by the author, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 1982 § Searle (Ronald) Back the the Slaughterhouse, signed presentation inscription from the author to publisher Tony Godwin, illustrations, jacket chipped and creased at head, 1951 § Le Carré (John) Smiley's People, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, ink gift inscription to endpaper, jacket spine a little discoloured, light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, New York, 1980 § Mantel (Hilary) The Mirror & the Light, signed by the author, 2020 § Winton (Tim) The Shepherd's Hut, one of 26 specially-bound copies signed by the author, original morocco, slip-case, 2018 § Glück (Louise) Firstborn, first English edition, jacket with light soiling and some rubbing to extremities, 1969, first or first American editions, all but the last in original boards and dust-jackets; and c.65 others, modern literature, v.s. (c.70)

Lot 192

Nesbit (E.) The Incomplete Amorist, first American edition, presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, 1906; The Wonderful Garden, 1911; The Literary Sense, 1903 § Burnett (Frances Hodgson) A Little Princess, 1905; The One I Knew Best of All, 1893, first editions, some with illustrations, some with occasional light spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, some light marking or rubbing to extremities but overall bright, crisp copies; and 10 others by the Nesbit or Burnett, 8vo (15)

Lot 188

NO RESERVE Le Carré (John) The Little Drummer Girl, one of 739 copies signed by the author on upper cover (the signature rather faded), proof copy of paperback edition, publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted, original wrappers, light marking to upper cover, 8vo, Pan Books, 1984

Lot 177

Hughes (Ted) Lupercal, jacket with light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, small chip to foot of upper panel, short closed tears and some light creasing to head and foot, 1960; Wodwo, very light toning to jacket spine, else fine, 1967; Crow, jacket with portrait of Hughes affixed by tape to verso, near-fine otherwise, 1970, first editions, light browning to endpapers, original boards, dust-jackets; and 8 others, Hughes, 8vo (11)

Lot 249

Ballet.- Anthony (Gordon) Ballet: Camera Studies, number 46 of 100 copies signed by the author, tipped in photographic plates, occasional scattered spotting, original morocco-backed cloth, light surface soiling to covers, some insect damage to upper joint, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, 1937.

Lot 173

Greene (Graham) The End of the Affair, browning to half-title, ink inscription to endpaper, jacket spine lightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, large chip to foot of rear panel, 1951; The Quiet American, jacket spine lightly browned, light browning to head, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, 1955, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo (2)

Lot 199

Rosen (Michael) We're Going on a Bear Hunt, first edition, illustrations by Helen Oxenham, original boards, dust-jacket, very light patch or shadowing to upper panel, minor creasing to tips of spine and corners, but a fine example overall, oblong 4to, Walker Books, 1989.

Lot 104

Brontë (Charlotte).- Gaskell (Elizabeth C.) The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles and frontispieces, 16pp. advertisements dated March, 1857 to end of vol. 2, some foxing to frontispieces but a very good, clean copy generally, original cloth, shelf-lean, contents a little shaken, some bumping and minor wear to spine ends and corners, light rubbing, 8vo, 1857.

Lot 203

Shilts (Randy) And the Band Played On. Politics, People and the Aids Epidemic, New York, 1987 § White (Edmund) States of Desire. Travels in Gay America, New York, 1980, first editions, signed presentation inscription from the authors to half-titles, original cloth, dust-jackets, light sunning to spines, else fine, 8vo (2)⁂ A pair of landmark gay non-fiction works. Whilst writing the first, Shilts was diagnosed with HIV but declined to be told the result as he did not wish to interfere in his objectivity as a writer.

Lot 16

NO RESERVE Kindergartens & Infants.- Bainbrigge (William Henry) Early education: being the substance of four lectures delivered in the public hall of the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool. Printed by request, first edition, presentation copy from the author, half-title, some spotting or mostly light foxing, original blind-stamped cloth, spine little chipped to head and with paper label removed from foot, g.e., Blackadder and Co., 1854; and 9 others, 19th century Kindergartens & Infants, v.s. (10)

Lot 278

Egypt.- Carter (Howard) and A.C. Mace. The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, 3 vol., vol. 2 & 3 first editions, plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, very light rubbing and bumping to extremities, brown cloth slip-case, 8vo, 1927-30.

Lot 165

Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice, first issue, light browning and tape-staining to endpapers, shelf-lean, jacket spine lightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head, light rubbing to extremities, 1964; The Man with the Golden Gun, ink inscription to half-title, jacket with light browning to spine spine ends and corners a little chipped, minor creasing to head, light rubbing to extremities, 1965, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and 4 other James Bond titles, 8vo (6)

Lot 171

Golden (Arthur) Memoirs of a Geisha, New York, 1997 § Niffenegger (Audrey) The Time Traveller's Wife, 2004 § Dunmore (Helen) Zennor in Darkness, light fading to spine, 1993 § Tremain (Rose) Restoration, ink gift inscription to dedication, light toning to margins, 1989, first or first English editions, signed by the authors, original boards, dust-jackets; and 20 others by the same and similar, 8vo (24)

Lot 202

Scott (Paul) [The Raj Quartet], 4 vol., comprising The Jewel in the Crown, light browning to half-title, jacket price-clipped, spine faded, spine ends and corners chipped, rubbed, 1966; The Day of the Scorpion, spotting, front free endpaper replaced, abrasion to pastedown, ink stamps erased from title verso, jacket spine lightly sunned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1968; The Towers of Silence, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, spine ends and corners a little chipped, short closed tear to head of upper panel, light creasing to head and foot, 1971; The Division of the Spoils, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, jacket spine sunned, light creasing to head and foot, 1975, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo.

Lot 143

NO RESERVE Cricket.- James (C. L. R.) Beyond a Boundary, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends and corners rubbed and a little chipped, light browning to lower panel, light rubbing, 8vo 1963.⁂ First edition of this celebrated cricket memoir, often regarded as one of the great books about cricket, now rare in the jacket.

Lot 178

Hughes (Ted) Five Autumn Songs for Children's Voices, number 16 of 37 copies signed by the author, with a verse in manuscript from the poem 'Who's killed the leaves' to title verso, from an edition of 500, original wrappers, light creasing to lower cover, else fine, [Sagar and Tabor, A18], 1968; Where is the Truth?, first edition, illustrations by R. J. Lloyd, original boards, dust-jacket, fine, 1984; and 3 others, periodicals with contributions by Hughes, v.s. (5)⁂ Sagar and Tabor note that 'the compilers have not seen an example of the first 37 copies', such is their scarcity. A catalogue issued by Richard Gilbertson states that the poems were first published in the Festival programme in Little Missenden at the request of Pat Harrison, a local teacher, but in fact the texts arrived too late for inclusion, so this booklet constitutes their first appearance. Sagar and Tambor, p.45.

Lot 140

Chesterton (G.K.) The Secret of Father Brown, 1927 § Trevor (Ralph) The Ghost Counts Ten, [1938] § [Tillett (Dorothy Stockbridge)], "John Stephen Strange". The Chinese Jar Mystery, 1934 § Hill (Headon) The Golden Temptress, 1924 § Biggers (Earl Derr) The Chinese Parrot, 1927, first or first English editions, some scattered foxing, original cloth, some spines with light fading, some rubbing but generally sharp and excellent copies; and 3 others, detective fiction, 8vo (8)

Lot 299

Polar.- Shackleton (Ernest).- Begbie (Harold) Shackleton. A Memory, first edition, 16pp. advertisements, foxing to endpapers and edges, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine lacking 1" portion at head and chipped at foot affecting part of imprint, chipping to corners, light surface soiling, a few small splash marks, light creasing to head and foot, 8vo, Mills & Boon, 1922.⁂ Rare in the dust-jacket.

Lot 180

King (Stephen) Salem's Lot, light toning to margins, jacket with light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, 1976; The Stand, light marking to endpaper, jacket with very light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, 1979, first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally excellent or near-fine examples; and 20 others by the same and others, horror, 8vo (22)

Lot 127

Churchill (Rudolph S.) Winston S. Churchill: The Official Biography, 24 vol., first edition, illustrations, contemporary pencil ownership signature to front free endpapers, original cloth, light bumping to spine ends, dust-jackets, very minor marks to extremities, else an excellent set, 8vo, 1966-2000.⁂ The project was begun by Winston Churchill's son Randolph, who published the first two volumes before his death, which was then continued by Martin Gilbert. The supplementary volumes, often lacking, are of special value, forming a unique and extensive source of previously unpublished Churchill material.From the library of John Grigg (1924-2001, 2nd Baron Altrincham) - a British writer, historian and politician, known for renouncing his peerage and for his 1957 article criticizing the Queen and monarchy.

Lot 217

Woolf (Virginia) The Common Reader, small chip and tear to head of title, scattered foxing, light browning to endpapers, light wear to spine and corners, toning to covers, 1928; The Common Reader: Second Series, dust-jacket, light browning to spine and margins, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light fraying to head, still excellent overall, 1932, first editions, original cloth or boards, 8vo (2)

Lot 137

Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Tarzan the Untamed, first English edition, light browning to text, ink inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth, light fading to spine, splash marks to spine and covers, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, spine a little darkened, chipping and creasing to head and foot, light damp-staining to margins, extremities rubbed, 8vo, 1920.⁂ An early Burroughs title, rare in the jacket.

Lot 130

Allain (Marcel) and Pierre Souvestre. The Long Arm of Fantomas, first American edition, frontispiece, New York, 1924; A Limb of Satan, Stanley Paul & Co., n.d.; A Nest of Spies, bookplate to pastedown, Stanley Paul & Co., n.d., original cloth, light rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners; and 3 other Fantomas titles, 8vo (6)

Lot 190

Miller (Henry) The Rosy Crucifixion Book Two Plexus, 2 vol., first edition, limited edition, edges foxed, original fawn wrappers, some light rubbing and minor creasing, but a bright and excellent example overall, 8vo, Paris, Olympia Press, for private circulation, 1953.

Lot 224

Beardsley (Aubrey) Under the Hill, second edition, frontispiece, plates, occasional light foxing, some pulling to gatherings, original decorative cloth, gilt, spotting to spine, 1913 § Hastings (Viscount) The Golden Octopus. Legends of the South Seas, one of 750 copies, plates by Blamire Young, light browning to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine darkened, 1928; and 2 others, children's and illustrated, 4to & 8vo (4)

Lot 25

NO RESERVE Sermons.- Robinson (Robert) Christianity a system of humanity. A sermon in behalf of the Protestant dissenting charity-school, At Horsly-Down, Southwark, for the educating and clothing of fifty poor boys, preached at Salter's Hall, London, On Wednesday, March 3d, 1779, first edition, some spotting and light soiling, disbound, Cambridge, Printed by T. Fletcher, 1779 § Sunday schools.- Adkin (Rev. Lancaster) The Sabbath. A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of St. Stephen's, Norwich, to promote the establishment of Sunday schools, occasional spotting, disbound, Norwich, Printed and sold by J. Crouse and W. Stevenson, [1785]; and 6 others, similar, 8vo & small 4to (8)

Lot 145

Crowley (Aleister) Tannhauser. A Story of Our Time, new edition, scattered foxing, original cloth, 1907; Eight Lectures on Yoga, first edition, frontispiece portrait, illustrations, errata slip at rear, original cloth, some light marking, [1939]; and 2 others, Crowley, 4to & small 4to (4)

Lot 136

Burgess (Anthony) [The Malayan Trilogy], 3 vol., first editions, comprising Time for a Tiger, jacket spine faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 1956; The Enemy in the Blanket, abrasion to front free endpaper, jacket spine a little browned, spine ends and corners chipped, light browning to lower panel, 1958; Beds in the East, jacket spine sunned and a little browned with chip to head affecting first word of author's name, a few neat tape repairs to verso, lower panel a little browned, some chipping and creasing to head, 1959, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo.

Lot 154

NO RESERVE Donleavy (J. P.) The Ginger Man, second edition, revised, jacket spine ends and corners a little chipped, Paris, Olympia Press, 1958 § Baldwin (James) Nobody Knows My Name, first edition, ink inscription to endpaper, jacket spine slightly faded spine ends and corners chipped, light creasing to head and foot, New York, 1961 § Faulkner (William) The Town, first English edition, jacket spine lightly faded, spine ends a little chipped, 1958, original boards, dust-jackets; and 15 others, American literature, 8vo (18)

Lot 36

NO RESERVE Thucydides. De Bello Poloponnesiaco libri octo, edited by Henri Estienne & John Hudson, parallel Greek and Latin text, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, large engraved vignette to head of dedication, 2 double-page engraved maps, some spotting and staining, occasional light browning, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments with later red morocco label, Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetsten and W. Smith, 1731; and 10 others, Classics, including a scarce 18th century Gloucester printing of Sallust and a 5 vol. large paper edition of Homer, Glasgow, 1814, v.s. (11)

Lot 19

NO RESERVE Morrice (David) The art of teaching, or communicating instruction, examined, methodized, and facilitated; as well as applied to all the branches of scholastic education, first edition, errata f., 4pp. advertisements at end, some spotting and light browning, later cloth-backed boards, printed title and library paper labels to spine, spine ends little frayed, corners worn, rubbed, Lackington, Allen and Co., 1801 § Marsh (Herbert) A vindication of Dr. Bell's system of tuition, in a series of letters, first edition, limp library cloth, gilt, printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811 § Clarke (Rev. Liscombe) A letter to H. Brougham... in reply to the Strictures on Winchester College, contained in his letter to Sir Samuel Romilly, first edition, presentation copy from the author to the Provost of Eton College, half-title, occasional spotting, modern boards, little faded, J. Hatchard, 1818; and 9 others, early 19th century Education, including more Brougham, 8vo (12)

Lot 23

NO RESERVE Religion.- Bowles (John) A letter addressed to Samuel Whitbread, esq. M.P. in consequence of the unqualified approbation expressed by him, in the House of Commons, of Mr. Lancaster's System of education, second edition, half-title, some spotting and light browning, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt and with long morocco label, Printed for John Joseph Stockdale, 1808 § Vincent (William) A Defence of public education, addressed to the most Reverend the Lord Bishop of Meath... In answer to a charge annexed to his Lordship's discourse, preached at St. Paul's, on the anniversary meeting of the charity children, first edition, A. Strahan for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1801 bound with another related, occasional spotting, modern boards, faded; and 20 others, religious schools and religious education in schools, including a few disbound pamphlets, v.s. (22)⁂ I: Bowles, a barrister, demands that 'when education is made a national concern, youth must be brought up as members of the national church', confirming the fears of English radicals, such as Paine, Priestley and Godwin that a state-controlled national education would deny religious and political freedom. This strong division of opinions was one of the reasons why a national education system was not implemented until 1870. II: Vincent was headmaster of Westminster and wrote his reply to the charge that the public schools neglected Christian teaching. He describes the Christian education received at Westminster and adds a few words on Winchester.

Lot 86

NO RESERVE Women.- Helme (Elizabeth) Instructive rambles extended in London, and the adjacent villages. : Designed to amuse the mind and improve the understanding of youth, 2 vol. in 1, lacking half-titles and frontispieces, vol.2 H6 lower corner torn away, affecting catch-word, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with black morocco label, printed by and for Sampson Low; and sold by E. Newbery, 1800; and 2 others, Women, v.s. (3) sold not subject to return.

Lot 84

NO RESERVE British Army Officer in the American War of Independence.- Darell (Rev. William) The History of Dover Castle, engraved title, folding plan and 8 only of 9 engraved plates, wormhole in lower margins of endpapers and all to B1, some light spotting and toning, Charles Cornwallis, Marquess Cornwallis's copy with his engraved bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints splitting, gilt panelled spine, 1 morocco label only of 2, 4to, S. Hooper, 1786.⁂ Charles Cornwallis, first Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805), fought in the American Revolutionary War (surrendered at Yorktown); governor-general of India and lord lieutenant of Ireland.

Lot 243

Poe (Edgar Allan) The Raven. The Pit and the Pendulum, signed presentation inscription from the artist to Henry Payne, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates by William Thomas Horton, original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, light surface soiling, spine slightly faded, 4to, 1899.⁂ A rare edition with Horton's atmospheric illustrations. Henry Payne (1868-1940) member of the Arts and Crafts Birmingham Group of artists.

Lot 4

NO RESERVE Blind & deaf.- Moon (William) Light for the blind: a history of the origin and success of Moon's system of reading (embossed in various languages) for the blind, first edition, half-title, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece, specimen plate of Moon's embossed alphabet, frontispiece and title foxed, occasional spotting elsewhere, original blue cloth, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, soiled and rubbed, Longmans & Co., 1873 § International Health Exhibition, London, 1884. Oral Instruction of the deaf and dumb, some spotting, 1884 bound with 3 other works relating to the IHE, modern cloth; and 6 others, blind & deaf education, v.s. (8)

Lot 201

NO RESERVE Sayers (Dorothy L.) Busman's Honeymoon, 1937; The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club, 1928; Double Death, 1939, first or first American editions, first light spotting to half-title, the last lightly spotted, original cloth, the second decorative, light marking, spine ends creased and bumped; and 7 others, mostly 20th century detective or fantasy fiction, 8vo (10)

Lot 103

NO RESERVE Blank paper.- An album of c.50 sheets of blank 19th century paper, each sheet c.194 x 160mm., a few ff. at start lettered, occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary vellum, soiled, small 4to, [c.1850].

Lot 61

Ruskin (John, art critic and social critic, 1819-1900).- Albumen print photograph of Filippino Lippi's Madonna and Child signed by Ruskin below image, light fading to image, faint blind-stamp of Ruskin lamp to lower corner of image, light creasing to mount, c.280 x 225mm., c.1875.⁂ An interesting piece of Ruskin ephemera - the present example is very similar in subject, mount and used of blind-stamp to those held at the Ahmoleon that were donated by Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School in 1875 for use as teaching aids. It seems likely therefore that the present example was gifted by Ruskin from his personal collection.

Lot 218

Woolf (Virginia) Three Guineas, light fading to cloth, jacket with a few neat repairs and some light retouching, light fading to spine, short split to head of upper joint, 1938; The Death of a Moth, jacket spine ends and corners chipped with restoration, light toning to spine, 1942, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 2 others, 8vo (4)

Lot 144

Crispin (Edmund) The Moving Toyshop. A Detective Story, first edition, map illustration, original cloth, light fading to spine, dust-jacket, spine a little browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, splash mark to upper panel, but an excellent copy overall, 8vo, 1946.⁂ An attractive copy of this classic work of detective fiction, dedicated to Philip Larkin, The Moving Toyshop provided the inspiration for the merry-go-round dénouement of Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.

Lot 291

NO RESERVE Italy.- Martyn (Thomas) A tour through Italy. Containing full directions for travelling in that interesting country, new edition, folding hand-coloured engraved map, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, spine worn and repaired, Printed for C. and G. Kearsley, [1791] § Dickens (Charles) Pictures from Italy, first edition in book form, initial and final advertisement f., half-title, wood-engraved illustrations by Samuel Palmer, occasional spotting, original blue cloth, small nick at head of spine, little light staining, [Eckel, p. 126; Pine-Coffin 844(5)], 1846; and 6 others, 18th & 19th century works on Italy, v.s. (8)

Lot 206

Susann (Jacqueline) Valley of the Dolls, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, minor chipping and creasing to spine ends and corners, very light toning to panels, but generally near-fine overall, 8vo, New York, [1966].

Lot 148

NO RESERVE Dahl (Roald) Danny the Champion of the World, illustrations by Jill Bennett, jacket creased, some minor chipping to spine ends and corners, 1975; The BFG, cut signature of the artist to title, illustrations by Quentin Blake, light toning to margins, 1982, first editions, cut signature of the author to titles, original boards, dust-jackets, light sunning to spines, excellent or near-fine otherwise, 8vo (2)

Lot 187

Le Carré (John) Smiley's People, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, original boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, short closed tear to foot of lower panel, spine ends a little chipped, light rubbing to head and foot, 8vo, 1980.

Lot 303

NO RESERVE Voyages.- Heyerdahl (Thor) The Kon-Tiki Expedition, first edition, signed by the author on endpaper, plates, occasional light spotting, bookplate to pastedown, ?lacking rear endpaper, original cloth, light fading and small mark to spine, dust-jacket, tape repairs to spine ends and corners verso with some light show-through, light rubbing and minor creasing to head and foot but a sharp and excellent copy overall, 8vo, 1950.

Lot 207

Swift (Graham) Last Orders, signed by the author jacket with light fading to spine, 1996 § Potter (Dennis) Ticket to Ride, bookplate signed by the author, 1986 § Amis (Martin) London Fields, 1989, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, generally fine; and 13 others, similar, 8vo (16)

Lot 212

NO RESERVE Wells (H.G.) When the Sleeper Wakes, first edition, frontispiece and plates, very occasional light stains or finger-soiling, ink ownership initials to pastedown, offset to endpaper, endpapers browned, contents a little shaken, original cloth, gilt, lightly marked, spine a little soiled and dulled, extremities lightly rubbed, 8vo, 1899.

Lot 160

Fitzgerald (F. Scott) The Great Gatsby, scattered spotting, slight shelf-lean, fading to spine and covers, lower joint splitting, slit to spine, rubbing and light wear to extremities, 1926; Tales of the Jazz Age, "review copy" blind-stamp to title, spine a little dulled, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light rubbing to extremities, 1923, first English editions, original cloth; and 4 others, Fitzgerald, 8vo (6)

Lot 266

NO RESERVE Pear Tree Press.- Guthrie (James) The Elf. A little book, Winter, 1899 and Spring and Summer, 1900, each one of 300 copies, occasional spotting, little light browning, original pictorial wrappers, little fading, small 4to, Ingrave & Shorn, James Guthrie, 1899-1900 (3)

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