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Lot 76

Byatt (A.S.) [The Frederica Quartet], comprising Babel Tower, signed by the author on title, original boards,  jacket extremities creased, 1996; The Virgin Garden, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, ex-library copy with few stamps and markings, hinge repair, library binding, jacket with tear to upper flap, 1978; Still Life, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, original boards, 1985; A Whistling Woman, jacket with light creasing to edges, original boards, 2002; and 10 others, including 3 others signed, 8vo (15)

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Lot 103

Deighton (Len)  [The Harry Palmer series], comprising The Ipcress File, 1962; Horse Under Water, light abrasion mark to title, 1963; Funeral in Berlin, 1964; Billion-Dollar Brain, ownership name on front free endpaper, 1966; An Expensive Place to Die, 1967; Spy Story, 1974; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy, 1976, first editions, original boards, all but Billion-Dollar Brain with dust-jackets, few nicks to spine ends, otherwise excellent or fine; and 22 others by Deighton, completing the Harry Palmer series and some from the Bernard Samson series, 8vo (27)

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Lot 91

Christie (Agatha) Destination Unknown, ink inscription to endpaper, dust-jacket, price-clipped, rubbing to spine tips and corners, 1954; At Bertram's Hotel, ink inscription to endpaper, jacket with light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, light creasing to head, 1965 § Marsh (Ngaio) Death and the Dancing Footman, fading to spine, 1942 § Allingham (Margery) The Fashion in Shrouds, spotting, endpapers browned, spine ends and corners bumped, rubbed, 1938, first editions, original cloth; and c.55 others, Christies, Marsh, Sayers and Allingham, 8vo (c.60)

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Lot 212

Kerouac (Jack) On the Road, first English edition, light strip of toning on front free endpaper, bookseller's sticker on pastedown, original boards, very small chip to spine tail, dust-jacket, light creasing and one or two nicks to upper edge, few marks to lower panel, still overall an excellent and crisp copy, 8vo, 1958.

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Lot 121

[Fearn (John Russell)],"Vargo Statten". Creature from the Black Lagoon, first edition, light spotting and strips of browning to endpapers, original boards, spine sunned, dust-jacket, portions of loss to spine head and tail, spine browned, light creasing to edges, the odd nick and short closed tear to extremities, repaired with tape verso, corners chipped, 8vo, [1954].

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Lot 160

Gray (Alasdair) The Fall of Kelvin Walker, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "to Liz from [blank] VIA alasdair 27 March 1984 (no) 6" on front free endpapers, 1985; Something Leather, signed by the author in year of publication on front free endpapers, 1990; 1982 Janine, signed presentation inscription from the author "for Bethsy [printed] and Chris from alasdair 26 March 1986", 1984, first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, light surface marks, otherwise fine, Edinburgh; and 7 others by Gray, 8vo (10) 

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Lot 307

Priestley (J.B.) Wonder Hero, jacket with splitting to fore-edge, 1933; The English Comic Characters, one of 75 copies signed by the author, 1925; They Walk in the City, jacket with light toning to spine, some chipping to head and foot, 1936, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and c.75 others, Priestley, 8vo (c.80)

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Lot 416

Welsh (Irvine) Trainspotting, first edition, original wrappers, light sunning to spine extremities a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners, an excellent copy, 8vo, 1993.*** Welsh's first book, long-listed for the Booker Prize and adapted for the classic 1996 Danny Boyle film of the same name. 

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Lot 152

Golding (William) Fire Down Below, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, one or two light bumps to extremities, 1989; Fire Down Below, proof copy, original wrappers, spine lightly faded, 1989; and 18 others by Golding, including a copy of William Golding: The Man and His Books, A Tribute on his 75th Birthday which is signed by Golding, 8vo (21) 

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Lot 210

Kazantzakis (Nikos) Zorba the Greek, translated by Carl Wildman, light browning to endpapers, jacket with minor chipping to foot of spine, light surface soiling, near-fine, 1952; The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, translated by Kimon Friar, illustrations by Ghika, a few light marks to covers, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, a little creased at head, rubbed, small patch of abrasion to spine, 1959, first English editions, original cloth, light bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jackets, 8vo (2)

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Lot 273

Milne (A. A.) Now We Are Six, first edition, half-title browned, light occasional foxing, gutter slightly cracked in places, some light surface wear to covers, 1927; The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, the odd spot, endpapers lightly browned, lower hinge cracked but holding, stain to foot of lower cover, covers slightly faded, 1928; When We Were Very Young, fourth edition, one marginal tear, light spotting and staining, gutter cracked in places, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, hinges cracked but holding, covers slightly soiled, rubbed, 1924, original pictorial cloth, gilt, t.e.g., spine ends and corners lightly bumped, heavier to When We Were Very Young, spines slightly faded, 8vo (3)

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Lot 28

Ballard (J. G.) The Atrocity Exhibition, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Dear Joe and Jos [Tilson], sorry it's taken so long, but here at last is your visa for tomorrow, lots of love, Jim" to front free endpaper, faint spotting to endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, slight creasing to head, an excellent example, 8vo, 1966.***Ballard's controversial, experimental novel with an excellent inscription. Joe Tilson (1928-2023) British visual artist, trustee, along with Ballard of the Institute for Research in Art and Technology.

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Lot 79

Carey (Peter) The Tax Inspector, 1991 § Ackroyd (Peter) First Light, 1989 § Thomas (D.M.) The White Hotel, 1981, first editions, each signed by the authors on titles, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing to extremities, otherwise excellent; and c.200 others, modern literature, 8vo (c.200)

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Lot 177

Hartley (L. P.) The Go-Between, light foxing, jacket price-clipped, tear to jacket upper panel, 1953; The Travelling Grave and Other Stories, endpapers spotted, jacket spine lightly faded, 1952; The Hireling, page edges toned, jacket faded, 1957; The Brickfield, ink ownership name on front free endpaper, half-title with strip of browning, jacket with some portions of loss to upper edge, spine faded, 1964, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, all with the odd nick and tear to edges and extremities; and 16 others by Hartley, 8vo (20)

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Lot 147

Gaiman (Neil) American Gods, limited edition signed by the author on limitation p., jacket with light creasing to head and foot, New York, 2001; Norse Mythology, signed by the author on title, 2017, first or first American editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine copies, 8vo (2)

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Lot 360

Simenon (Georges) The Triumph of Inspector Maigret, first English edition, 32pp. publisher's adverts at end, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, spine sunned and light marking to lower cover, still a sharp copy, 8vo, [1934]. *** Exceedingly rare in commerce. The first Simenon novels were translated into English and published by Hurst & Blackett (a former imprint of Hutchinson) in 1933/34. They published only three books before Routledge succeeded them just before the war. All three of these early novels - Introducing Inspector Maigret, Inspector Maigret Investigates and The Triumph of Inspector Maigret are very rare. 

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Lot 252

Malamud (Bernard) The Natural, first English edition, some scattered edge-spotting, original boards, dust-jacket, light toning to spine and panel margins, minor chipping and slight rubbing to spine tips and corners, 1952; The Natural, uncorrected proof, original printed wrappers, browning to spine and covers, date on upper cover altered by hand, light creasing to spine, 1963; The Fixer, first edition, original cloth, light bumping to spine tips, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light creasing to head, light surface soiling, New York, 1966, excellent or near-fine copies; and 10 others by the same, 8vo (13)

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Lot 431

Wouk (Herman) The Caine Mutiny, first edition, original cloth, light rubbing to spine and corner tips, dust-jacket, faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short closed tears, some creasing to head and foot, tape strengthening to verso, rubbed, 8vo, Garden City, NY, 1951.*** Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, twice adapted for film. 

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Lot 18

Ballantyne (R.M.) The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, first edition, first issue with View From the Hill Top frontispiece, colour printed wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 3 plates only (of 6), by the author, tissue guards, occasional light foxing or marginal toning, original variant red gilt pictorial cloth, shelf-lean, light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners bumped and a little frayed, short split to head of upper joint, [Quayle 12a], 8vo, London, Edinburgh and New York, T. Nelson and Sons, 1858 [but 1857].

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Lot 247

[Macdonald (Ross)], "Kenneth Millar". Blue City, jacket with a few small nicks and some creasing to head and foot, 1949 § Bardin (J.F.) The Deadly Percheron, jacket with toning to spine, chipping to spine ends and corners, marking and soiling to panels, 1947 § Chandler (Raymond) Playback, browning to endpapers, jacket with chipping to spine tips and corners, closed tears with creasing to head and foot, 1958 § Woolrich (Cornell) Rendezvous in Black, publisher's initial to title verso, jacket spine faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, a few short nicks to head and foot with some light creasing, extremities rubbed, New York, 1948, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jacket; and 14 others, US detective fiction, 8vo (18)

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Lot 181

Heyerdahl (Thor) The Kon-Tiki Expedition, first edition, signed by the author on endpapers, plates, 2pp. advertisements, very light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, some light shadowing from jacket, dust-jacket, light foxing to verso, neat and expert repairs to spine ends and corners, in effect a near-fine example, 8vo, 1950.

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Lot 365

Sinclair (Lewis) Ann Vickers, first English edition, original cloth, slight faying to spine, dust-jacket with green line to upper cover, light toning to spine and panel margins, slight chipping to spine tips and corners, 1933 § Le Carre (John) The Little Drummer Girl, uncorrected proof, original wrappers, light creasing, toning and fading, 1983; and 26 others, modern literature, 8vo (28)*** The first one of only 300 copies issue with this dust-jacket. 

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Lot 87

Chatwin (Bruce) In Patagonia, first edition, original boards, dust-jacket, extremely light creasing to spine head, otherwise a fine copy, 8vo, 1977. *** Scarce to find in this condition without the usual heavy fading to spine.

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Lot 26

Ballard (J. G.) The Crystal World, first American edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, slight creasing to head, light rubbing to extremities, New York, 1966; Concrete Island, first American edition, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, price-clipped, light toning to spine, minor chipping to spine tips and corners, New York, 1974; The Atrocity Exhibition, new revised edition, signed by the author, illustrations, original wrappers, San Francisco, CA, 1990; and 3 others, American editions of Ballard's work, 8vo (6)

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Lot 166

Greene (Graham) A Burnt Out Case, 1961; Our Man in Havana, jacket price-clipped, 1958; The Potting Shed, endpapers browned, light foxing to preliminaries, ownership name on title, jacket creased with the odd nick to edges, spine chipped, 1958; The Quiet American, light foxing on endpapers, short tear to jacket tail, 1955; The Comedians, jacket price-clipped, 1966, first or first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, one or two nicks to spine heads, overall mostly excellent or even near-fine copies; and 7 others, Greene, including a first edition, second issue of Stamboul Train, 8vo (12)

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Lot 381

Swift (Graham) The Sweet Shop Owner, 1980; Shuttlecock, 1981; Waterland, 1983; Out of this World, 1988, first editions, each signed by the author on titles, original boards, dust-jackets, light rubbing to extremities, otherwise excellent or fine copies; and 5 others by Swift, 2 others signed, 8vo (9)

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Lot 45

Barstow (John Montagu Orczy) "John Blakeney". A Gay Adventurer: Being the Biography of Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., Known as "The Scarlet Pimpernel", first edition, frontispiece and illustrations, 32pp. advertisements at end, some light spotting to first couple of leaves, original cloth, covers mottled, spine ends very lightly bumped, dust-jacket, spine lightly toned, lower joint slightly split at head, a couple of corners very slightly chipped, otherwise a near-fine jacket, 8vo, [1935].

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Lot 199

James (M.R.) The Five Jars,  endpapers evenly browned, 1922 § Toksvig (Signe) The Last Devil, some light spotting, 1927 § le Queux (William) Mysteries, browning and spotting to first few pages, 1914, first editions, original boards or cloth, light bumping to extremities, otherwise excellent; and 7 others, weird fiction, 8vo (10)

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Lot 234

Lee (Laurie) Cider With Rosie, first edition, bookplate on front free endpaper, a little spotted, original boards, very lightly damp-stained, dust-jacket, original Book Society Choice wraparound band, light creasing to spine ends, otherwise an excellent copy overall, 1959; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (3)

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Lot 228

Le Carré (John) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, cloth spine ends lightly bumped, jacket extremities slightly frayed, spine sunned, 1974; The Little Drummer Girl, light spotting to front free endpaper, stain to jacket lower panel, spine slightly sunned, 1983; A Perfect Spy, jacket spine and upper edge slightly sunned, 1986, first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets; and 17 others by Le Carré, mostly first editions, 8vo (20)

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Lot 270

Miller (Henry) Plexus, 2 vol., limited edition, original wrappers, stain and writing removed from upper wrappers, edges rubbed, Paris, Olympia Press, 1953; Tropic of Cancer [&] Tropic of Capricorn, later but early printings, original wrappers, light spotting, extremities a little rubbed, Obelisk Press, Paris, [c.1939]; Tropic of Capricorn, first American edition, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, spine faded, ends a little rubbed, New York, 1916; and c.65 others, by or relating to Miller, v.s. (c.70) 

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Lot 257

Masefield (John) Animula, one of 250 copies, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, original printed wrappers, chip to head of spine, some creasing to extremities, Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1920; Victorious Troy, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to title, original cloth, dust-jacket, light toning to spine, some chipping and tears to extremities, 1935; The Bird of Dawning, limited edition signed by the author, original buckram, toning to spine, 1933; and c.70 others, Masefield, v.s. (c.75)

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Lot 295

Parker (Bessie) Cinderella at the Zoo, illustrations by N. Parker, light toning to endpapers, original boards, spine ends rubbed, dust-jacket, one or two repaired tears and the odd nick, still in effect a sharp and excellent copy, 4to, 1917. *** A remarkable example of this beloved work, illustrated with sharp and bright pictures. 

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Lot 427

Woolf (Virginia) To the Lighthouse, first edition, second impression, very light browning and faint ink ownership stamp to endpapers, original cloth, very slight fading to spine, light rubbing to extremities, dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell and priced at 7/6, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners chipped, short split to head of upper fore-edge, closed tear to foot of upper panel, the odd short nick or small chip to head and foot with light creasing but a very good example overall, [cf. Kirkpatrick A10a], 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1927.*** Published one month after the first impression, with only 1,000 copies printed, compared to runs of 3,000 for the first impression and 1,500 for the third. 

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Lot 38

Ballard (J. G.) Empire of the Sun, signed presentation inscription from the author on title, light marginal toning, some browning to front free endpaper, 1984; The Kindness of Women, signed by the author on title, 1991, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine copies, 8vo (2)*** Ballard's Booker-shortlisted semi-fictionalised account of his time as a child in a Japanese internment camp together with its sequel. 

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Lot 95

Connolly (Cyril) Enemies of Promise, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Ethel from Cyril with much love. "A never writer to an ever reader. Newes." Nov. 17. 38. Chelsea Square" to endpaper, original cloth, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, spine slightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, an excellent example, 8vo, 1938.*** Cyril Connolly's classic of autobiography and literary criticism, his attempt to examine why he never created a significant literary work. Scarce inscribed. 

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Lot 215

King (Stephen) Salem's Lot, 1975; The Shining, 1977, first English editions, some light marginal toning, original boards, dust-jackets, some light creasing to spine tips and corners, fine copies, 8vo (2)*** The author's second and third novels, scarce in such superb condition.

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Lot 239

*** Please note, the description to this lot has changed.***Levi (Primo) If This is a Man, signed by the author on title, new edition, 1966; If Not Now, When?, first English edition, signed by the author on title, 1986; Roth (Joseph) Right and Left, first English edition, 1991; Bashevis Singer (Isaac) The Slave, first English edition, 1963, original boards, dust-jackets, light nicks to extremities, otherwise excellent; and c.100 others, mostly war and historical fiction, 8vo (c.105)

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Lot 61

Bradbury (Ray) Earthlight, proof copy, original wrappers, 1972; Reach for Tomorrow, proof copy, original wrappers, 1972; 'The Other Foot' and 'The Emissary' in New Story, no.1 & no.5, original wrappers, light nicks and fraying to edges, Paris, March and July 1951; and c.10 others, science-fiction, v.s. (c.15) 

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Lot 78

Camus (Albert) The Plague, translated by Stuart Gilbert, first English edition, very light spotting to fore-edge, original cloth, lightly marked, dust-jacket by Michael Ayrton, light surface marking to lower panel, light fraying and nicks to extremities, small patch retouching to spine head, overall a sharp and excellent copy, 8vo, 1948.

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Lot 407

Walliams (David) Awful Auntie, first edition, signed by the author on title, 2014; Grandpa's Great Escape, signed by the author on half-title, signed with doodle from the illustrator on dedication page, 2015; The Midnight Gang, fourth impression, signed by the author and illustrator, bookplate on endpapers, 2016; The Ice Monster, first edition, signed by the author and illustrator with original doodle by Ross, 2018, illustrations by Tony Ross, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing to spine ends, 8vo (4)

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Lot 111

Doyle (Roddy) Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, first edition, signed by the author on title, jacket with light toning to panels, otherwise excellent, 1993 § Toibin (Colm) The Heather Blazing, first edition, signed by the author on title, 1992 § McGahern (John) The Leavetaking, ex-library copy with barcode sticker to endpapers and stamps to title verso, otherwise clean, jacket lightly creased at top edges, 1974 & c.60 others, Irish fiction, 8vo (c.65) *** Includes a first edition set of Edna O'Brian's The Country Girls trilogy. 

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Lot 404

Vonnegut (Kurt) Player Piano, first English edition, original cloth, slight shelf-lean, faint edge-spotting, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, rubbing to spine tips and corners, minor chipping to corners, 1 or 2 short nicks to head, faint surface soiling to lower panel, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1953.*** Vonnegut's first book, a dystopia that takes place in a hyper-automised society.

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Lot 62

Brooke (Rupert) 1914 and Other Poems, book-label to front pastedown, newspaper advertisement tipped in at rear, offset onto rear endpapers, uncut, a few very slight tears to spine label, spine ends and upper corners lightly bumped, otherwise an excellent copy, 1915; The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With a Memoir, spine label browned, some light surface wear to covers, spine ends very lightly bumped, later dust-jacket, a few short tears, spine ends and corners slightly bumped, spine slightly darkened, lightly toned, 1918, first editions, portrait frontispieces, additional spine labels tipped-in at end, original cloth, paper spine labels, 8vo (2)*** 1914 Includes the first book appearance of Brooke's best-known poem 'The Soldier'. This volume was published by Rupert Brooke's Rugby classmate Frank Sidgwick in June 1915, less than two months after Brooke had died in the war.

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Lot 21

Ballard (J. G.) A collection of 22 science fiction periodicals, including Science Fiction Adventures, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing Fact and Science Fiction, Fantastic Stories of Imagination and others, 19 signed by Ballard, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, some light creasing and rubbing, 8vo, 1960s-70s.*** Signed issues include the first appearance of The Drowned World, The Illuminated Man, Mr. F is Mr. F, The Singing Statues, Passport to Eternity and The Sherrington Theory. 

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Lot 180

Hemingway (Ernest) Across the River and Into the Trees, first edition, endpapers a little foxed, book-label, small ownership stamp on title, New York, 1950;  A Farewell to Arms, first English edition, War literature pamphlet from the publisher loosely inserted, cloth spine lightly faded, jacket few tears to edges, light chipping and nicks to edges, 1929; Men Without Women, first edition, second printing, 1928; The Sun Also Rises, first edition, early printing, New York, 1927, original boards or cloth, light bumping to extremities, otherwise excellent; and 9 others by Hemingway, 8vo (13)

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Lot 213

Kerouac (Jack) On the Road, browning to endpapers, occasional foxing, slight bumping to spine tips, jacket with light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, portion of loss to head of lower panel, not affecting text, light creasing to head, some light spotting and faint surface soiling to lower panel, one or two short nicks to head and foot, a very good copy, 1958; The Dharma Bums, second state with label correcting imprint on verso of title, jacket with small chip to foot of lower panel, light rubbing to spine tips and corners, a fine copy, 1959, first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (2)

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Lot 23

Ballard (J. G.).- AMBT. A quarterly of poems, short stories, drawings & c., 10 issues, 5 signed by Ballard, illustrations, original wrappers, some light toning and rubbing, 1970-88; and c.25 others, magazine and periodicals with contributions by Ballard, 4to (c.35)*** Signed issues include those with the first appearances of News from the Sun, Zodiac 2000, The Unlimited Dream Company, The Life and Death of God and Landfall, at Last. 

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Lot 415

Wells (H.G.) The History of Mr. Polly, first edition, original boards, spine label a little rubbed, 1910; Christina Alberta's Father, first edition, endpapers renewed, 1925; Br. Britling Sees it Through, first American edition, small neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper, New York, 1919, original boards, light bumping to extremities; and 34 others, science-fiction, 8vo (37) *** Including the scarce Omnibus edition of Le Guin's Earthsea series from 1977. 

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Lot 303

Powys (John Cowper) Porius, limited edition signed by the author, frontispiece, original half morocco, 1951 § Milne (A.A.) Winne-the-Pooh, first edition, illustrations and map endpapers by E. H. Shepard, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine darkened, slight fraying to spine tips and corners, light marking to covers, 1926 § Rushdie (Salman) Shame, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, a fine copy, 1983; and c.150 others modern literature, 8vo (c.150)

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Lot 420

Winterson (Jeanette) Sexing the Cherry, signed bookplate by the author, 1989 § Mitford (Nancy) Don't Tell Alfred, light strip of browning on front free endpaper, jacket with small portions of loss to edges and spine head, few other nicks to edges, 1960 § Hill (Susan) The Woman in Black, jacket with a few nicks to extremities, 1983 § Bowen (Elizabeth) The Death of the Heart, blank Book Society bookplate, light spotting to first few pages, boards with small patch of light damp-staining to lower corner, light shelf-lean, 1938 § Waters (Sarah) The Night Watch, signed by the author on title, 2006, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and c.185 others, women writers, 8vo (c.185)

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Lot 60

Bradbury (Ray) Fahrenheit 451, first edition, frontispiece, Joseph Losey's copy with his pencil inscription to front free endpaper, original boards, light fading to tips of spine, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends and corners chipped with tape repairs to verso, some light rubbing and creasing, 8vo, 1954. *** Joseph Losey (1909-1984), film and theatre director, blacklisted in the United States by Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee, he moved to Europe and made the majority of his remaining films in the UK.

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Lot 186

Hogarth Press.- Palmer (Herbert E.) Songs of Salvation, Sin, and Satire, first edition, light occasional spotting, original marbled boards with printed title label, edges uncut and largely unopened, circular shelf-label to upper cover, light crease to corner of upper cover, upper joint slightly rubbed with small chip, otherwise bright and excellent, Printed & published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, [1925] § Yeats (W.B.) Reveries on Childhood & Youth, first edition, mounted colour frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine darkened, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, 1916; Cutting of an Agate (The), first edition, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, endpapers lightly spotted, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, some light staining to lower cover, 1919; and 5 others, poetry, 8vo (8)

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Lot 243

Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first paperback editions, original wrappers, light creasing and rubbing to extremities, some shelf-lean, original slip-case, 1959-65; together with additional copies of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Last Battle, small 8vo (9) *** A seminal work of children's literary fiction. Originally published between 1950 and 1956 the chronicle was adapted to the screen first in 1967, and most famously in 2005 by Walt Disney Pictures. C. S. Lewis famously stated: "They'd be no good on TV. Humanised beasts can't be presented to the eye without at once becoming either hideous or ridiculous. I wish the idiots who run the film world [would] realize that there are stories which are for the ear alone".

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Lot 141

Fleming (Ian) Octopussy and the Living Daylights, jacket price-clipped with sticker to front flap, slight sunning to spine, 1966 § Markham (Robert) Colonel Sun, jacket price-clipped with sticker to front flap, 1968 § Gardner (John) Licence Renewed, jacket with light sunning to spine, 1981 § Benson (Raymond) Doubleshot, jacket with light creasing to head and foot, 2000 § Faulks (Sebastian) Devil May Care, signed by the author on title, 2008 § Boyd (William) Solo, signed by the author, 2013 § Horowitz (Anthony) Trigger Mortis, limited edition signed by the author, 2015, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine overall; and 22 others, James Bond, 8vo (28)

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Lot 33

Ballard (J. G.) Crash, reprint, jacket price-clipped with sticker to front flap, 1974; Hello America, first edition, 1981 § Goddard (James) and David Pringle, editors. J.G. Ballard. The First Twenty Years, first edition, illustrations by Carol Gregory, jacket with some light sunning, Hayes, Bran's Head Books, 1976, all signed by Ballard, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine; and 7 others, Ballard, 8vo (10)

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Lot 410

Waugh (Evelyn) Black Mischief, first trade edition, map frontispiece, light scattered spotting, original cloth, spine ends lightly bumped, strip of fading to lower edge of upper cover, dust-jacket, spine toned, spine ends and corners slightly frayed, some very light spotting, otherwise a clean and crisp jacket, 1932; Basil Seal Rides Again, one of 750 copies signed by the author, colour frontispiece by Kathleen Hale, original blue cloth decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine and portions of cover lightly sunned, mylar dust-jacket, a few small stains along spine, minor loss to spine head and foot of upper flap joint, tear to lower panel, 1963; A Selection from the Occasional Sermons of the Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnot Knox..., one of 550 copies, title in red and black, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, dust-jacket, a few tears, most pronounced to spine foot, a few faint stains, spine darkened, original slip-case, printed label to spine, most joints broken, some tape repair, rubbed, 1949; and 7 others, Waugh, 8vo and 4to (10)

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Lot 240

Levin (Ira) A Kiss Before Dying, 1954; The Stepford Wives, 1972 § Blatty (Peter) The Exorcist, jacket with a few neatly repaired short tears to head, 1971, first English editions, original boards, dust-jackets, light rubbing to extremities, else fine; and an early reprint of Rosemary's Baby, 8vo (4)

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Lot 66

Brookner (Anita) A Start in Life, jacket price-clipped, price sticker to front flap, spine very slightly faded, short nick to upper joint, 1981; Providence, jacket with light toning to spine and upper panel, slight crease to head of spine, 1982; Look at Me, jacket with light toning to spine, 1983; Hotel du Lac, light spotting to top edge, jacket with very light fading to spine, 1984, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, excellent or near-fine copies; and 9 others by the same, 8vo (13)***An excellent run of Brookner's novels, including her Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac. 

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Lot 349

Sassoon (Siegfried) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, one of 750 copies, 1930; Sherston's Progress, one of 300 copies, light browning to endpapers, 1936, signed by the authors, original blue buckram, uncut, spines faded, 8vo (2) 

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