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Lot 376

Kent (Rockwell).- Melville (Herman) Moby Dick, or The Whale, first Rockwell Kent edition, illustrations by Rockwell Kent, original pictorial cloth, light bumping to spine tips else fine, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, 1 or 2 short nicks to head of panels, very light creasing to head and foot, extremities lightly rubbed, a sharp and excellent example overall, 8vo, New York, 1930.*** An attractive example, scarce in the dust-jacket in good condition. 

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Lot 359

Remarque (Erich Maria) All Quiet on the Western Front, first English edition, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, first issue dust-jacket priced at 7s. 6d. and with the "German Opinions" to the front flap, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, spine a little creased at head, a near-fine copy, 8vo, 1929.*** A superb example of this anti-war classic. 

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Lot 209

Montesquieu (Charles Secondat, Baron de) De L'Esprit des Loix, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, lacking errata leaves, contemporary ownership inscription of Carolus Beaumont to titles, further 18th and 19th century ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, vol. 2 title with loss to upper blank corner and short tear to fore-margin, vol. 2 very small puncture mark to lower margin from start to L2, the occasional small marginal defect, vol. 1 occasional light damp-staining, mainly to upper corner, occasional very light spotting or finger-soiling, some light browning, uncut in contemporary sheep-backed boards, remains of paper labels to spines, small later label to vol. 2 upper cover, quite heavily rubbed, [PMM 197], 4to, Geneva, Barrillot & Fils, [1748]. *** An uncut and unsophisticated copy of "in many ways one of the most remarkable works of the eighteenth century" (PMM). Montesquieu divides his work into six main sections, touching on general law and forms of government, military arrangement and taxation, economics and religion, Roman, French and feudal law, and a peculiar discussion on the effects of climate and geography on national character. The work influenced the formation of the United States Constitution and was the ideological basis of the French Revolution. 

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Lot 123

Patte (Pierre) Monumens Érigés en France a la Gloire de Louis XV, first edition, engraved title-vignette and head-pieces, woodcut tail-pieces, 42 engraved plates only (of 57), some double-page and/or folding, privilege/errata leaf at end, a very clean copy, bookplate of Duveen Brothers Paris Library, later half morocco, rubbed and scuffed, [Berlin Kat. 2516; Millard, France 130], Paris, the Author, Desaint & Saillant, 1765 § Cottart (Pierre) Recueil des Oeuvres..., engraved architectural title, head-pieces and 19 plates only on 18 sheets, some double-page and/or folding, several trimmed and mounted, spotted and browned, small ink stamp of C.F. Mewes to foot of title, contemporary mottled calf, worn, [cf.Berlin Kat. 2384], [Paris], [?1680s] § Héré de Corny (Emmanuel) Histoire detail & devis des Edifices Publics...de la capitale de ses états S.M.Le Roi de Pologne Duc de Lorraine et de Bar, 2 parts in 1, third edition, engraved title-vignette, folding plan and 2 large plates of ironwork only (of 3), engraved illustrations in text, light spotting, contemporary sprinkled calf, worn, repairs at edges, Paris, 1765; and 5 others, French, folio & oblong folio; sold not subject to return (8)*** The first is an important work on urban planning in eighteenth century France, including proposals for what is now the Place de la Concorde as well as practical concerns such as sanitation and conservation.

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Lot 373

[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, second (first published) edition, first issue with contents leaf with inverted "s" in last line and p. 30 incorrectly numbered 3, very occasional light spotting and some faint finger-soiling, blue endpapers, darkening to spine and covers, neatly and skilfully rebacked, retaining original backstrip, corners a little bumped, rubbed, 1866; Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There, first edition first issue with "wade" for "wabe" on page 21, occasional corner-creasing and some light marginal spotting or finger-soiling, some cracking to gutter with the odd gathering a little loose, cracking to upper hinge, slight shelf-lean, spine darkened, finger-soiling to covers, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, 1872 [1871], frontispieces and illustrations by John Tenniel, light foxing to half-titles, Newton bookplates and labels, original pictorial cloth, gilt, g.e., rubbed, preserved together in custom pull-top box (spine a little faded), [Crutch 46 & 84], Macmillan, 8vo (2) 

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Lot 144

Saunders (George) A Treatise on Theatres, first edition, half-title, 13 engraved plates & plans, 4 folding, very occasional light spotting, original boards, uncut, rubbed and stained, later paper spine and label, upper cover detached, [BAL Cat. 2908], 4to, for the Author, 1790.*** The first book on theatre architecture by an English architect, covering all aspects of construction including sections on acoustics, lighting, seating areas & leg-room, along with notes on some of the principal theatres of Europe. 

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Lot 319

[Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)], "Mark Twain". Tom Sawyer Abroad, by Huck Finn, frontispiece and illustrations by Dan Beard, some cracking to hinges, BAL state B binding (no priority), light toning to spine and covers, spine tips and corners a little frayed, 1894; The American Claimant, slight toning to spine, light soiling to covers, extremities rubbed, 1892; The £1,000,000 Bank Note, frontispiece, ink inscriptions to endpapers, spine browned, rubbing to spine tips and corners, 1893, first editions, advertisements, original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, excellent copies generally, [BAL 3440 3434 & 3436], New York, Charles L. Webster, 8vo (3)

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Lot 361

Salinger (J.D.) The Catcher in the Rye, first English edition, bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, original boards, spine very slightly faded, sunning to spine tips, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, short tears and creasing to head of spine, minor chipping to foot of spine and corners, some light finger-soiling to lower panel, a very good, bright example overall, 8vo, 1951.

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Lot 362

Sassoon (Siegfried) The War Poems , first edition, presentation inscription signed with monogram from the author to Stephen Tennant on Valentine's Day on half-title, light browning to endpapers, book-labels of Simon Nowell-Smith and Judith Adams Nowell-Smith to front pastedown, original cloth, paper labels to upper cover and spine, very light sunning to spine, minute chip to spine-label, light bumping to spine ends and corners, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, closed tear to head of upper joint, extremities a little rubbed, an excellent example, 8vo, 1919.*** A superb association copy inscribed from Sassoon to his lover Stephen Tennant on Valentine's day less than a year after their first meeting. Sassoon and Tennant were introduced by the Sitwells in June 1927, they fell passionately in love and began an affair that lasted nearly six years. 

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Lot 184

Whistler (Laurence) The Imagination of Vanbrugh and his Fellow Artists, first edition, book-label of J.B.Bury, handsome pictorial black cloth, gilt, designed by Whistler, 1954 § Adam (William) Vitruvius Scoticus, one of 400 facsimile reprints, Edinburgh, 1980 § Elmes (James) Sir Christopher Wren and his Times, book-label of Gavin Stamp, 1852 § Bolton (Arthur T., editor) The Portrait of Sir John Soane, R.A...., light spotting, [1927] § Stroud (Dorothy) Henry Holland, A.L.s. & A.Pc.s. from the author loosely inserted, 1966 § Downes (Kerry) Vanbrugh, inscribed to Gavin Stamp & with his book-label, 1977 § Harris (John) Sir William Chambers Knight of the Polar Star, book-label of Gavin Stamp, 1970 § Saint (Andrew) Richard Norman Shaw, New Haven & London, 1976, plates & illustrations, original cloth or boards, the second with slip-case, the last four with dust-jackets, very slightly rubbed; and c.95 others on British architects, v.s. (c.100)

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Lot 308

Stowe (Harriet Beecher) Uncle Tom's Cabin, first Cruikshank edition, frontispiece portrait, title vignette and 27 plates by George Cruikshank, occasional light finger-soiling or the odd spot, original blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, slight bumping and rubbing to spine tips and corners, but a near-fine example overall, g.e., [cf. BAL 19518], 8vo, John Cassell, 1852.*** A superb example of this early English edition, preceded by the Clark & Co. edition of 1852, rare in such condition. 

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Lot 423

Crowley (Aleister) The City of God. A Rhapsody, number 140 of 200 copies signed by the author below frontispiece portrait, additional signed presentation inscription from the author "To Gladys Mitchell also a Builder with the admiration of Aleister Crowley Dec. 3 '44" to limitation p., and with 3pp. Autograph Letter signed from Crowley to Mitchell loosely inserted, original stitched wrappers, light fading to covers, spine ends a little chipped, creasing to extremities, [Yorke 44], 8vo, Published by the O. T. O., 1943. *** With a charming inscription from Crowley to the detective fiction writer Gladys Mitchell. In the letter Crowley discusses his reputation "I am so accustomed to being denounced as Head of the Internation Drug Traffic, White Slave Traffic, German Spy System, Fourth Division of the O.G.P.U, and so on. A busy lad" and discusses a recent book of Mitchell's that has occasioned the correspondence between the two writers (possibly The Worsted Viper which involves Satan worshipers in Norfolk). He also praises her creation Mrs. Bradley and makes a gift of the present inscribed work.

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Lot 323

Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles, first edition, first issue with "you" for "your" on line 3, p.13, 15 plates only (of 16, lacking frontispiece), 1 plate a little frayed, soiled and deatched, light browning to endpapers, original red pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, some splitting to foot of lower joint, some light marking to covers, rubbed, [Green & Gibson A26], 8vo, 1902.

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Campbell (Colen) Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect. . . , vol.1 & 2 only (of 5), later editions, engraved titles in third state without imprints, text in English & French, engraved dedication in vol.1 and 158 plates, 27 double-page and 4 quadruple, some light foxing or browning (particularly vol.1), with nineteenth century ink inscription "From the library of the late Sir Robert Smirke R.A." to head of pastedown of vol.1, later ink inscriptions of Hannah Hudson Mersham le Hatch 1939 to front free endpapers, handsome contemporary diced russia with gilt fillet border and floral corner-pieces, spines in compartments with gilt latticework and black morocco labels, rubbed and scuffed, joints split, spine ends and corners worn, [Harris 102; Millard, British 10], folio, [1731 or later]. *** Sir Robert Smirke's copy of the first two volumes of Campbell's monumental work promoting the virtues of neo-Palladianism and featuring many of the great houses of England. Smirke (1780-1867) was one of the leaders of Greek Revival architecture in Britain and designed the British Museum. Hannah Hudson was the American-born wife of Robert Spear Hudson, Minister of Agriculture in Churchill’s wartime government.

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Lot 444

Potter (Beatrix) [A set of 16 works], constituting: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first trade edition, frontispiece a little creased at upper corner and with short closed tear at inner-edge, preserved endpapers a little chipped at gutter, [1902]; The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1903; The Tailor of Gloucester, short tear to half-title repaired with tape, 1903; The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1904; The Tale of Two Bad Mice, 1904; The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, 1905; The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1906; The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1907; The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1908; The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1909; The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1910; The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1911; The Tale of Mr. Tod, 1912; The Tale of Pigling Bland, some light spotting, 1913; The Story of Miss Moppet, first edition in book form, some light foxing, rear free endpapers preserved, [1916]; Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes, frontispiece detached, some foxing, [1922], first editions unless otherwise stated, first or early printings, a few with contemporary ink ownership inscriptions to half-titles or endpaper, some light soiling, bound in modern half morocco in a variety of colours, spines gilt, original upper and lower covers laid down (some very lightly rubbed or soiled), front free endpapers preserved, 12mo.

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Lot 78

Gregor (Joseph) Denkmäler des Theaters. Inszenierung/Dekoration Kostüm des Theaters under der grossen Feste aller Zeiten, 12 vol., [a complete set], one of 544 sets, this set for the Austrian musicologist Otto Deutsch (one of 44 unnumbered for presentation), 355 plates tipped into 270 mounts, several colour or tinted, vol.1 with light spotting to mounts, each volume with loosely-inserted accompanying text booklet in original wrappers, loose as issued in original half vellum portfolios, paper label to upper covers, a little rubbed and soiled, a few neatly rebacked or repaired, large folio & oblong folio, Vienna & Munich, [1930].*** A complete set of this mammoth publication, issued under the joint auspices of the Austrian National Library and of the Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe der Denkmäler des Theaters, reproducing some of the most spectacular costume and set designs produced in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Rare to find a complete set.Comprising: Vol.I  L.O.Burnacini. Maschere, 20 plates; Vol.II Szenische Architektur und Architektur-Phantasien, 22 plates; Vol.III A.D.Bertoli. Desseins, 32 plates; Vol.IV Pompe funèbre de S.A.R.Charles III Duc de Lorraine, 13 plates; Vol.V Altvlaemisches und altniederlaendisches Theater, 22 plates; Vol.VI Cours de Testes et de Bague faites par le Roy en l’année 1662, 21 plates; Vol.VII Theater und Garten, 29 plates (on 23 mounts);  Vol.VIII Groteskkomödie und Stegreifstuck, 39 plates (on 25 mounts); Vol.IX Theater des Mittelaltes, 27 plates (on 20 mounts);  Vol.X Magna Allegoria Mortis Imagines, 35 plates (on 22 mounts); Vol.XI Feste des Sonnenkoenigs, 51 plates (on 23 mounts); Vol.XII Wiens letzte grosse Theaterzeit, 44 plates (on 29 mounts). 

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Lot 124

Periodicals.- Loudon (John Claudius) The Architectural Magazine, and Journal of Improvement in Architecture, Building and Furnishing..., vol. 1-3 & 5 only (lacking vol.4), mixed set, wood-engraved title-vignettes and illustrations, light water-stain to beginning of vol.1, contemporary half calf, 1834-38 § Architectural History: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Great Britain, vol.1-43 & Index to vol.1-25, illustrations, vol.27 (Festschrift for Howard Colvin) bound in cloth-backed boards, the rest original printed wrappers, York [later Leeds], 1958-2000 § Associated Architectural Societies. Reports & Papers, vol.1-27 (lacking only part of year 1856) with index volumes for 1850-1900, original printed wrappers, some defective, Nottingham & Lincoln, 1850-1904, rubbed, some soiled; and a quantity of others including a run of SPAB reports, odd volumes of The Builder's Magazine and other periodicals, mostly architectural, v.s.; sold not subject to return (9 boxes)*** The first was the first regular architectural periodical in England, a short-lived but influential magazine which appeared the same year as the Institute of British Architects (later R.I.B.A.) was founded.

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Lot 366

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, third impression, jacket with some spotting to panels, light toning to spine, small patch of red staining to head of rear panel, 1955; The Two Towers, second impression, jacket with light browning to spine tips, 1955; The Return of the King, first impression, jacket with light toning and creasing to spine tips, sliver of marking to margins of flaps, 1955, first editions, folding maps, some spotting or browning to endpapers along with some tape-marking, original cloth, dust-jackets, bright and excellent or near-fine overall, 8vo.

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Lot 339

Durrell (Lawrence) Pied Piper of Lovers, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Clive Hirschhorn on front free endpaper, signed presentation inscription on author's loosely-inserted carte de visite "The secret is to keep trying and you'll win!", ink ownership inscription to endpaper, some cracking to upper hinge but holding firm, original cloth, spine slightly faded, light rubbing and bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket price at 7/6 (though with some shadowing indicating removal of a later price sticker), spine darkened, spine ends and corners repaired and restored, neat repairs and strengthening to top edge, in effect an excellent example, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, 1935.*** First edition of the author's first novel, exceptionally rare. The dust-jacket was designed by Lawrence Durrell's wife, Nancy. Only a few copies sold at the time, much of the later stock was destroyed in the Blitz. We can trace only one other inscribed copy selling at auction. This copy sold at the Hirschhorn sale, Bloomsbury Auctions, 25th October, 2012, lot 96. 

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Lot 227

Hunter (Julia) Scientific Toys. Made for amusement, but illustrating some important principles, manuscript, 40pp. excluding blanks, including 9 watercolour illustrations by Edith Evans, some spotting and light toning to first and last few leaves, contemporary morocco, upper cover with "Mrs. J. G. Evans" stamped in gilt, little rubbed, mainly to spine ends and corners, g.e., housed in a modern marbled drop-back box, 8vo, 1884. *** A discussion of various scientific discoveries and processes, with illustrations including a pulse glass, the optical illusion of a thaumatrope, a phrenological head, "The Burning Ship" or an experiment with potassium, "table turning", and "Prince Rupert's drops". The work is dedicated to "Nevil Morton Evans, From his affectionate grandmother Julia Hunter at Seventy Seven, January 1884", the illustrations by his aunt Edith. Edith Evans (née Hunter), for whom the work was bound, was the wife of Welsh paleographic expert John Gwenogvryn Evans. 

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Lot 358

Plath (Sylvia) Ariel, first edition, original cloth dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, short nick to head of lower joint, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, a near-fine example otherwise, 8vo, 1965.

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Lot 483

Atlas.- Jamieson (Alexander) A Celestial Atlas, comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps, engraved title and dedication, one uncoloured engraved plate, 30 engraved celestial maps (all but 2 with hand-colouring), tissue-guards (a few torn), contemporary ink gift inscription to pastedown, first and last plate with short marginal tear, occasional marginal finger-soiling, some light spotting and browning to text, some water-staining at beginning and end, affecting title and a few plates, original half morocco, printed paper label to upper cover, worn with loss, upper cover detached, oblong 4to, G. & W. B. Whittaker, T. Cadell & N. Hailes, 1822. 

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Lot 365

Tolkien (J.R.R.) Farmer Giles of Ham, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "with best wishes from J.R.R. Tolkien. Christmas, 1949" to front free endpaper with ink inscription below in another hand in Gaelic, illustrations by Pauline Diana Baynes, occasional marginal foxing, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, toning to head, dust-jacket, price-clipped, short nick to foot of lower panel, very light surface soiling but near-fine generally, [Hammond & Anderson A4a], 8vo, 1949.*** Inscribed to Professor Diarmaid Murphy who has added his inscription in Gaelic to the endpaper. Tolkien served as an external examiner at the University of Galway for 1949, 1950, 1954 and 1959, where Murphy was lecturing in English and both men are listed as examiners on the examination papers for those years. 

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Lot 345

Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, first edition, neat pencil ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, some light scattered edge-spotting, very light sunning to spine, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped and creased, spotting to flaps, an excellent example, [Connolly, The Modern Movement 75], 8vo, 1932.

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[Austin (Henry)] Thoughts on the Abuses of the Present System of Competition in Architecture..., modern marbled boards, 1841 § Scott (Sir Francis E.) Shall the New Foreign Office be Gothic or Classic? A Plea for the Former..., presentation copy from the author to Hon. W.C.Talbot MP inscribed at head of title, errata slip, stitched, lightly soiled, 1860 § Johnson (John) Reliques of Ancient English Architecture, lithographed pictorial title and plates by Alfred Newman, light spotting or staining, mostly marginal, original cloth, gilt, rebacked in calf, corners repaired, new endpapers, [1850s] § Richardson (A.E.) Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries, presentation copy from the author to "my dear friend Hanslip Fletcher", bookplate of architect Ir. M.Bolton, photogravure plates, 1914 § Walcot (W.) Architectural Water-Colours & Etchings, 1919 § Pollen (Anne) John Hungerford Pollen 1820-1902, 1912, the last three with plates & illustrations, original cloth, rubbed; and a quantity of others, architecture, v.s. (c.150)

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Lot 434

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, second impression, half-title spotted, the odd faint spot, some light staining to inner margins, short tear to spine head, 1954; The Two Towers, first impression, occasional light spotting, 1954; The Return of the King, first impression, without signature mark "4" and text block straight on p.49, some light staining to inner margins, very faint spotting along board fore-edge, 1955, first editions, folding maps, last leaf or two foxed at margins, endpapers foxed, book-labels to front pastedowns, edges spotted, original cloth, spine ends lightly bumped, spines faded, a few small stains, board fore-edges nibbled with some loss, otherwise excellent, 8vo.

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Lot 369

Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited, first edition, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, rear endpaper removed with stub remaining, original cloth, sunning to spine tips, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, neat and expert repairs and restorations to spine ends and corners comprising 1" at foot of spine and 1/2" at head, in effect a near-fine example, 8vo, 1945.*** Waugh's most popular novel, his exploration of the demise of the English country house and Catholic identity.

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Lot 443

Milne (A. A.) [The Christopher Robin books], 4 vol., comprising When We Were Very Young, first state without roman numeral on contents p., 1924; Winnie-The-Pooh, map endpapers, 1926; Now We Are Six, pictorial endpapers, half-title lightly browned, slight cracking to gutter at p.5, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, pictorial endpapers, spine slightly faded, 1928, first editions, illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, all but the third with light browning to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, bumping to spine ends and minute rubbing to corners, t.e.g., 8vo.*** An attractive and bright set of Milne's classic series.   

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Lot 250

Baskerville (John).- Bible, English. The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New, first Baskerville edition, list of subscribers ending with "York", births and deaths of the Miles family in ink manuscript to front free endpaper, scattered spotting or light foxing, particularly near start, light browning and soiling to endpapers, early 19th century russia, elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in compartments, upper cover with "John Miles/ West End/ Hampstead" in gilt within central blind-tooled lozenge, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, lower cover with some light scuffing and very small patch of worm damage to head, some light rubbing to extremities, preserved in a contemporary calf "dust-jacket" (rubbed), [Gaskell 26; Herbert 1146], folio, Cambridge, John Baskerville, 1763. *** One of c.1250 copies, in an attractive and well-preserved binding. This edition "has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus, and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen" (T.B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, p. 279).

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Lot 482

Antarctica.- Murray (George, editor) The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901, first edition, half-title, illustrations, 3 folding maps loosely inserted in pocket to rear pastedown, presentation bookplate "To the Zoological Society of London by the Royal Geographical Society, October 10th 1901", small circular ink-stamp "Zool. Soc. Lond. Library 1901" to half-title and foot of title, further Zoological Society ink-stamps and labels to endpapers, half-title browned, some spotting to maps, margins very slightly toned, front free endpaper loose and rear free endpaper little chipped at edges, original blue cloth, spine slightly darkened, rubbing to spine ends and corners, some light rubbing and soiling elsewhere, [Rosove 235 "very scarce"; Spence 829], 8vo, Royal Geographical Society, 1901. *** Conceived of by Sir Clements Markham as a primer for the participants of the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04 under Captain Scott, containing articles on various branches of Antarctic science and exploration, including geography, climate and botany.

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Lot 370

Wells (H.G.) The Time Machine, first edition, first issue with 16pp advertisements at end including those for 'The Manxman' and 'The Naulahka', some light marginal finger-soiling, endpapers browned, neat pencil inscription of Clive Hirschhorn to front pastedown, original buckram lettered in purple with Egyptian design to cover, slight shelf-lean, spine a little dulled, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, extremities rubbed, an excellent example overall, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Currey p.525; Wells 4], 8vo, 1895.*** An excellent example of this science fiction cornerstone. This copy sold at the Hirschhorn sale, Bloomsbury Auctions, 25th October, 2012, lot 395.

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Lot 229

Women's suffrage.- Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, presented to Alice Roberts "On behalf of all women who will win freedom by the bondage which you have endured for their sake...We, the Members of the Women's Social and Political Union, herewith express our deep sense of admiration for your courage...in enduring a long period of privation and solitary confinement in prison for the 'Votes for Women' Cause...", single sheet, printed on recto only, calligraphic name of recipient, chromolithographed 'Angel of Freedom' vignette to head, all within purple, green and gilt foliate border incorporating the portcullis and prisoner's arrow motif, some repaired tears and laid down, loss to upper edge, top right corner and lower left corner, a few other shallow chips to extremities, light soiling, tipped onto card mount, sheet c.445 x 304mm., mount 597 x 385mm., [September 1908 & later]. *** Designed by Sylvia Pankhurst to incorporate the purple, green and white colours adopted by the WPSU in June 1908, these illuminated addresses were presented to ex-prisoners who had suffered for the cause. The 'Angel of Freedom' device was incorporated into various WPSU designs, including tea-sets and medallions. From April 1909, the meeting of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance, the addresses were accompanied by a Holloway Brooch (not present).

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Lot 161

Theatres.- Littmann (Max) Die Königlichen Hoftheater in Stuttgart, only edition, photogravure plates, original boards with illustration mounted on upper cover, Darmstadt, 1912 § Beijer (Agne) Slottsteatrarna pa Drottingholm och Gripsholm, limited edition, original cloth, Stockholm, 1937 § Zucher (Paul) Theater und Lichtspielhäuser, original cloth, Berlin, 1926 § [Graslin (J.J.L.)] Réflexions d'un Citoyen, sur la Construction d'une Salle de Spectacle à Nantes, drop-head title, annotations in pencil, stitched in contemporary wrappers, upper cover with title in ink manuscript and inscription “Monsieur de Kevegant Premier Juge Consul”, a little stained, [Nantes], [c.1783] § [Caristie (Auguste)] Notice sur l'État Actuel de l'Arc Orange de des Théatres Antiques d'Orange et d'Arles, 9 lithographed plates, ink stamp "H.Revoil Architecte" to title, pencil tracing loosely inserted, light foxing to plates, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, original printed upper wrapper mounted on upper cover, Paris, 1839, plates and/or illustrations, a little rubbed; and 15 others on theatres and theatre design, v.s. (20)

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Lot 462

Goldfinger (Erno) and Colin Penn. Planning Your Homes, 20 sheets, 500 x 360mm., colour, small holes at corners, some light toning, mainly marginal, minor chipping to head of final sheet, [for the Air Ministry & Admiralty Education Department], [1945].*** Unrecorded on Library Hub.The sheets here include plans of rooms in accordance with family size, comparisons for insulation materials; how to achieve optimum warmth, quiet, light, and fresh air, as well as designs for everyday activities - "A good plan must co-ordinate these physical and functional requirements" - sheet 12.

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Lot 333

Camus (Albert) The Outsider, first English edition, neat ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth, very slight shelf-lean, small mark to upper cover, dust-jacket, price-clipped, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some light surface soiling to lower panel, an excellent example, 8vo, 1946.

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Lot 320

[Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)], "Mark Twain". Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World, first edition, issue with single imprint on title and without signature "11" to p. 161 (no priority established), portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, decorated in blue and gilt, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, [BAL 3451], 8vo, Hartford, CN, The American Publishing Company, 1897.

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Voghera (Giovanni) Illustrazione dell'Arco della Pace in Milano, lithographed title and 28 plates, modern half morocco over marbled boards, [Not in BAL], Milan, 1838 § Salazaro (Demetrio) Studi sui Monumenti della Italia Meridionale dal IVo. al XIIIo. secolo, 3 parts in 2 vol., 64 plates, 34 chromolithographed, some mounted actual photographs, tissue guards, light foxing, bookplate of the Somerset antiquary Frederick A. Wood, Chew Magna, Somerset (c.1822-1904), contemporary vellum printed in red, yapp edges, rubbed and soiled, Naples, 1871-81, large folio (3)*** The Arco della Pace in Milan, now known as the Arco del Sempione, was originally designed as a temporary structure for the wedding ceremonies of the Emperor Napoleon I’s brother-in-law, but Cagnola’s distinguished design, based on the arch of Septimus Severus in Rome, so impressed contemporaries that Napoleon ordered it to be built as a permanent structure in stone. 

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Burgess (Anthony) A Clockwork Orange, first edition, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips, original first issue dust-jacket with wide flaps priced at 16s., light toning to spine, spine a little chipped at head, very short closed tear to head of upper joint, minor chipping to corner tips, very light creasing to head and foot, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1962.

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Gardens.- Leopold (Joseph Friedrich) [Austheilung eines Prächtigen Gartens, so gantz in eine Ebnelieget], 7 parts in 1 vol., 37 engraved plates, some of multiple images, the first slightly larger and folded (browned at fold), some light foxing or soiling, mostly marginal, staining to last few plates, handsome modern calf with triple gilt fillet border, spine gilt with red morocco label, speckled edges, a few slight scuffs, [Not in Berlin Kat.], oblong folio, Augsburg, 1716-20.*** Rare suite of garden designs, from the simple to the very elaborate, including parterres, topiary, a maze, fountains, and pavilions. 

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Suffragettes & Politicians.- Autographs.- Autograph album, signatures including: Emmeline Pankhurst ("Can man be free if woman be a slave? (Shelley)/ E. Pankhurst") and Ramsay MacDonald ("A man's a man for a' that/ J. Ramsay Macdonald") on the same page, also Ethel & Philip Snowdon, Isabella O. Ford, Nellie Martel, Arthur Henderson, John Hodge and others, cut signature of Elizabeth Garrett [Anderson] laid down, 35pp. excluding blanks, a few illustrations in watercolour and pencil, A.L.s. from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to R. Spence Watson loosely inserted, 4pp. plus envelope, stamped 1886 on envelope, referring to the Egyptian policy of the late government among other topics "very glad to see how well the meeting of the Women's Liberal Association had passed off" (some light spotting, central fold), some light finger-soiling, upper hinge weak but holding, original red morocco, lacking backstrip, upper cover nearly detached, wear to extremities, oblong 8vo (c.103 x 160mm.), [c.1905-06]. *** Internal evidence suggests that this album likely belonged to Margaret Hodge, eldest daughter of Labour M.P. John Hodge (1855-1937). John Hodge was an active supporter of the women's franchise movement and knew the leading lights of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Manchester, including the Pankhursts and Isabella Ford, with Margaret known to accompany him to meetings.Among the names gathered here are Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the WSPU, who shares a page with future Prime Minister and then Secretary of the Labour Party Ramsay Macdonald. Also Ethel Snowden, a leading campaigner for women's suffrage, and her husband Philip, the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer. The loosely inserted letter is from Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, a campaigner for women's suffrage who led Britain's largest women's rights association, the NUWSS, for over twenty years. The album also contains the cut signature of her elder sister, physician and suffragist Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. 

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Beckford (William).- Rutter (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, first edition, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional pictorial title and plate, 10 other engraved plates including unnumbered plate of South West View (as usual), large folding lithographed plan, wood-engraved vignettes, genealogical tables and list of subscribers at end, tissue guards, small stain to inner margin of additional title, occasional light foxing, ink presentation inscription to Rose Lawrence from “her very sincere friend, J.H.Smyth” (Rev.John Hill Smyth, a Liverpool clergyman and subscriber) at head of half-title and with bookplate of her husband Charles Lawrence, later book-label of the travel writer Edward Hutton, contemporary dark red embossed boards, uncut, rebacked in red calf, [BAL 2881; cf.Abbey, Scenery 418 & Millard, British 72, large paper copies], Shaftesbury, by the Author, 1823 § Brydone (Patrick) A Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, errata leaf at end of vol.1, occasional browning, light marginal worming to vol.2, contemporary calf, some scuffs & light stains, spines worn at head, W.Strahan & T.Cadell, 1773 § Beckford (William) Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal, 2 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, foxing at end of vol.1, contemporary half calf, rebacked, 1834, all rubbed, 4to & 8vo (5)*** The first was a gift from one of the original subscribers to Rose Lawrence (née d’Aguilar), a Liverpool-based poet, author of The Last Autumn at a Favourite Residence and Other Poems, 1836, and a friend of another early nineteenth century female poet, Mrs Hemans. 

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*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed *** Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first issue with 'Miss Violent Hunter' in the last sentence on p.317 and without name to street sign on upper cover, very occasional light spotting, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title, very slight toning to spine, upper cover corner bumped with resultant creasing to following pages, 1892; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, light browning to endpapers, 1894, first editions, illustrations by Sidney Paget, a very clean set generally, original pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt, light bumping and rubbing to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to extremities but a bright, near-fine set overall, g.e., preserved in folding chemises and morocco-backed slip-case (spines sunned, splitting to one joint), [Green & Gibson A10a & A14], 8vo (2) *** A superb set of the complete Sherlock Holmes short stories. Rare in such condition.

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Lot 349

King (Stephen) Carrie, first edition, original cloth, a few very light marks to upper cover, dust-jacket, faint toning to spine, very light creasing to spine tips, light rubbing to extremities, a near-fine example, 8vo, Garden City, NY, 1974.*** A superb copy of the author's first novel.

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Lot 327

Beckett (Samuel) Waiting for Godot, first English edition, publisher's note tipped in, faint foxing to title and half-title, endpapers a little browned, cast list altered by hand with note below "(seen at Criterion theatre with Gladys on Nov. 8/55)", original cloth, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, neat repairs and restoration to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to extremities, in effect a near-fine example, 8vo, 1956.

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Rawlins (Thomas) Familiar Architecture; Consisting of Original Designs of Houses for Gentlemen and Tradesmen, Parsonages and Summer-Retreats..., first edition, with author's signature of authentication at foot of title, list of subscribers, 60 engraved plates, with final letterpress leaf 'References to the Apparatus' at end (creased), light browning to text, one plate with short tear to lower margin, later endpapers, bookplate removed, contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in calf, spine ruled in gilt and preserving old red morocco label, [BAL 2716; Harris 730], 4to, for the Author, 1768.*** Designs for small houses, both town residences for gentlemen or wealthy tradesmen and country villas, by a stone mason of Norwich, and also including centrally-planned churches or chapels, and designs for chimney-pieces. The list of subscribers includes Sir William Chambers and James Adam, as well as many Norfolk landowners. 

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Lot 433

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression, map endpapers, illustrations, frontispiece and 3 colour plates, light toning to endpapers and splitting from upper edge of flyleaf, upper hinge cracked at half-title, spotting throughout but very faint and occasional, pp.15/16 loose, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, light surface toning and discolouring, cloth splitting along upper joint and some edges, repairs to spine ends, preserved in facsimile jacket, [Hammond A3a], 8vo, 1937 [but 1938].  *** The second impression was the first version of the book to be illustrated in colour: the first impression had two plates only, both of which were uncoloured. A total of 2,300 copies were printed, and some 400 held at the binder's London warehouse were destroyed during the Blitz in November 1940. 

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Lot 165

Trade Catalogue.- D & S. [Catalogue of teapots etc.], 37 engraved plates, 2 double-page, all with prices in manuscript, with letterpress 'A List of the Prices of Tin Patty Pans, Scollop Shells, Tart Pans, and Tin Plates' bound in at beginning, some light offsetting, original wrappers, contemporary manuscript note in French headed "Livre 63090 W & L" to inside front wrapper, a little faded at edges, spine reinforced, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box with gilt-stamped red morocco label, 4to, [?Sheffield], [c.1820].*** Rare catalogue featuring teapots, coffeepots, dishes, cutlery, cruet stands, candlesticks, metal boxes etc., possibly by Dewsnap & Son of Sheffield who were silver and silver-plate manufacturers operating in the early 19th century. The French note mentions that the pieces were all in white metal (pewter) and the metal boxes are described as "Britannia metal", a pewter alloy with the appearance of silver developed in Sheffield in the late 18th century.

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[Combe (William)] [The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax], comprising The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque; The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation; The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife, 3 vol., first edition, 2 hand-coloured aquatint vignette titles (vol. 2 without) and 78 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson, original ink and wash sketch by Rowlandson bound into vol. 1 at start, captioned "St. Michael's Mount Cornwall" in ink on verso, the odd spot or patch of light soiling, light offsetting, handsomely bound in purple crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt, inner gilt dentelles, spines uniformly sunned, some very slight rubbing to spine ends and corners, t.e.g., [Tooley 427-29], 8vo, R. Ackermann, 1812-20-21. *** The original sketch by Rowlandson depicts Doctor Syntax at work sketching the Mount from the beach below.Provenance: Rowlandson sketch at Christie's, South Kensington, British and Continental Watercolours and Drawings, 3 May 2001, lot 81.

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Lot 363

Steinbeck (John) Of Mice & Men, first English edition, frontispiece and decorations by Michael Rothenstein, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light toning to spine, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, lower panel with light foxing and short closed tear to head, still an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1937.

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Lot 262

Criminal Broadside.- Transportation.- Sentences of the Prisoners that were Tried at the Summer Assizes, printed broadside, crude printing affecting odd letter, crease marks, light finger soiling, c.315 x 210 mm., St. Lawrence, Norwich, Walker, [1827]. *** Rare. Seemingly unrecorded.  The broadside records 3 prisoners sentenced to transportation and 11 prisoners sentenced to death. 

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Lot 202

More (Sir Thomas) La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, & l'exemplaire de vie heureuse, first French edition, collation: *8 A-O8 complete, woodcut decoration to title, woodcut device and decoration to verso of final leaf, woodcut illustrations and initials, small stain to F3, some light foxing and soiling, but overall an excellent copy, 19th century dark blue morocco, gilt, by Trautz-Bauzonnet, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., preserved in chamois leather pouch, 8vo, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550.*** A superb copy of this translation of More's highly important work by the Norman poet, Jean le Blond, which appeared a year before the English translation, the first edition having been printed in Latin in 1516.Literature: Mortimer, Harvard French, 391; Adams, M-1759; Brunet III 1894, and Supplement I, 1115-16; Davies, Fairfax Murray French 391.

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Lot 348

Isherwood (Christopher) Goodbye to Berlin, first edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper, some light browning to endpapers with show-through to 2 following leaves, original cloth, slight toning to spine, dust-jacket, neat and expert restoration to spine tips and corners, some creasing to head of spine, in effect a near-fine example, [Connolly, The Modern Movement 86; Westby and Brown p.4; Woolmer 451], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1939.*** Isherwood's remarkable portrait of Berlin and wider Germany during the final days of the Weimar Republic. Scarce signed.

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Lot 341

Graves (Robert) Good-Bye to All That, first edition, first issue, frontispiece, plates, light foxing to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, light surface soiling, short nick to head of upper panel, light creasing to head, a near-fine copy, 8vo, 1929.*** The first issue, with the reference to Spiritualism on p. 290 and the unauthorised transcription of a poem from Sassoon to Graves on pp. 341-3, subsequently removed at Sassoon's request and reintroduced in the second edition.

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Lot 427

Harbou (Thea von).- Metropolis. Premier Presentation at Marble Arch Pavilion, W.1. Monday, March 21st. Special Season, souvenir programme, photographic illustrations, some light creasing, original pictorial wrappers, light spotting, rubbing to spine, an excellent example, 4to, 1927.*** Original programme for the the UK premier of Fritz Lang's metropolis, scarce in good condition. 

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Lot 346

Isherwood (Christopher) Mr. Norris Changes Trains, first edition, foxing to first and last few leaves, original cloth, fading to spine ends and corners, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends chipped with strengthening tape to verso, minor chipping to corners, short nicks to head and foot with light creasing, extremities rubbed, a very good example overall, [Westby and Brown p.4; Woolmer 369], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1935.*** Isherwood's third novel, his first based on his experiences of living in Weimar Germany, scarce in the jacket in good condition.

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Lot 310

Verne (Jules) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, second American edition, second issue without "End" on p.303, 109 engraved plates by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou, illustrations, occasional light soiling, later leaves with light damp-staining to fore-margin, 1 or 2 gatherings standing a little proud, ink ownership inscription "Jas. Shearer, Bay City, 1873" to pastedown, frontispiece recto and title, original green pictorial cloth, gilt, strengthening and repair to spine ends, corners a little bumped, rubbed, g.e., a very good, attractive copy overall, 8vo, Boston, Geo. M. Smith & Co., 1873.*** The second American edition, the first being exceptionally rare with the majority of the stock thought to have been lost in the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

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Conjuring.- Houdini (Harry) The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To The Royal Southampton Y. Club. With best wishes from the author Harry Houdini. April 29/1911" to front free endpaper, frontispiece, illustrations, advertisement f. at end, front free endpaper with embossed stamp of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club Library, ink note to rear free endpaper, some browning to endpapers and verso of advertisement f., some light soiling, original pictorial cloth, spine a touch darkened and with a couple tiny nicks to foot, corners bumped and little worn, rubbing to joints and extremities, still overall very good, 8vo, George Routledge & Sons, 1909. *** A classic work by Houdini, the date of inscription of significance: Houdini premiered his newest escape, the 'Water Torture Cell', on the 29th April 1911 at the Southampton Hippodrome, as part of a once staged one-act play Challenged or Houdini Upside Down. The sole purpose of the performance was to obtain a copyright for the escape (performance being a necessary condition for copyright), the first public performance taking place in Berlin the following year.

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White (Tim, artist, 1952-2020) Archive of original artwork illustrations for 'Weaveworld' by Clive Barker, comprising three original illustrations for cover and spine designs on boards, and other original variation designs for illustrations or initials of the work on paper, all signed by the artist, some mounted on sheets (one detached), v.s., [1987] (sml qty)*** A remarkable archive documenting the creation of the entire publication of the science-fiction artwork for the first edition of Barker's novel Weaveworld. Tim White is celebrated as a representative of a new school of super-realists that began shaping British science-fiction art in the mid-1970s. Other notable works include designs for Frank Herbert, Robert A. Heinlein, H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. The artist was particularly pleased with this work, and described in a letter that the "painting is a bit magical in that in certain light it seems to 'come alive'. I don't know if you have read the book? The carpet design in the book does just that!". Published in White's Chiaroscuro (1988), the illustrator explains the central theme of carpet within the novel: "gradually the idea evolved to use the carpet border to reflect events in the novel...the final design includes 32 separate vignettes, each portraying elements of the story", all of which is surrounded by a border of imagined "viruses, bacteria, parasites"..."whose purpose is to defend the carpet". White even claimed that Collins commissioned the Royal College of Art's Tapestry Studio to create the carpet itself, though the whereabouts is unknown. For the main cover image, White utilised colour theory, and deliberately chose contrasting primary colours to create a visually unsettling effect. While he enjoyed creating the designs for the work, White disliked the time constraints placed on him by the publisher. He recalled having "a bit of a bad time withe art director", and found that of daily nagging phone calls from Collins put him under pressure. Ultimately, though, White's labours were rewarded: "When the book came out and Clive Barker was on the Jonathan Ross show, with his book, he called me a genius!".  Archive comprises: 1) 'Uriel', front panel jacket design for 'Weaveworld', airbrush and acrylic on board, signed in image and on board below in pen,c.35 x 245mm ( image c.300 x 155mm (11 ½ x 6 ¼in), taped down.2) 'Magic Carpet', 2 designs for spine and lower panel, airbrush and acrylic on boards, signed in image and on board below in pen, c.350 x 235mm (13 ¾ x 9 ¼in) and 345 x 80mm (13 ¾ x 3 ½ in), taped down.3) Untitled back cover design for lower panel, acrylic on paper, signed by the artist below, 190 x 120 mm (7 ½ x 4 ½ in). 4) 10 designs for 'Weaveworld', mostly illustrations and one jacket design, acrylic and pencil, laid down on 2 sheets, one detached, pencil designs slightly foxed, each signed on image, some with captions below, with inscription "Dear John, here are some ideas for 'Weaveworld', I hope you like them. Kind regards Tim" at top of first sheet, largest image 120 x 65mm (4¾ x 2¾ in), smallest  50 x 30mm (2 x 1 in).5) 4 designs for initials and in-text decorations, black pen and ink on 3 sheets, signed by the artist. 6) First edition of Weaveworld, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, 1987.    

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Mandela (Nelson) Long Walk to Freedom, first edition, signed by the author and dated "14.12.94" on half-title, note of provenance loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to head and foot, else fine, 8vo, Randburg, 1994.*** The note of provenance, written by the then-head of Penguin Books, South Africa, describes purchasing the present volume at a pre-publication party for the book at which Nelson Mandela spoke. 

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Lugar (Robert) Architectural Sketches for Cottages, Rural Dwellings, and Villas, in the Grecian, Gothic and Fancy Styles, first edition, 38  engraved plates & plans including 23 sepia aquatints, marginal foxing, modern boards, [Abbey, Life 30; cf. BAL 1968, 1815 edition], 1805 § Plaw (John) Ferme Ornée; or, Rural Improvements, A New Edition, advertisement leaf, 38 sepia aquatint plates, [BAL 2578; Berlin Kat. 2305; cf.Abbey, Life 48, 1795 edition], 1800 § Laing (David) Hints for Dwellings…, 34 engraved plates and plans, mostly aquatints, faint ink signature to title, some light foxing, mostly marginal, [cf.Abbey, Life 27, 1804 edition & BAL Cat 1715, 1800 first edition, but incomplete], 1801, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine, corners worn, 4to (2)***  Plaw had introduced a new style of architectural book with his Rural Architecture... of 1794, with aquatint designs set in a picturesque landscape. The first item by Lugar, features some designs in an Indian style influenced by Daniell's views, including a small Taj Mahal. 

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