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Lot 64
Qianlong period (AD 1735-1796), Qing dynasty.A Chinese Canton enamel punch bowl. Decorated with panel paintings depicting recumbent scenes of animals and nature. Each panel is framed with a foliage scrolling band. A foliage band can also be seen on the rim of the interior.一件中国广东珐琅彩潘趣碗。饰有描绘动物和自然景色的画。每幅画的边框均饰有卷叶纹。内壁的边缘也有卷叶纹。 Size: 200mm x 290mm; Weight: 1.5kg
Lot 67
Qianlong period (AD 1735-1796), Qing dynasty.A set of three Chinese mandarin punch bowls. The body is decorated with panel paintings depicting figures in a garden, with gilt bands on the rims. This would be a fine examle of Chinese export porcelain made in a manner accommodating to Western taste and function. 一套三个中国潘趣酒碗。碗身饰有描绘花园中人物的嵌板画，边缘有镀金带。这是中国外销瓷器中的精品，其制作方式符合西方人的品味和功能。 Size: 130mm x 310mm; Weight: 5.1kg
Lot 123
Persia, Ca. 11th-12th century AD.A beautiful example of a bronze scroll holder with a tubular tapering body and a collar. Decorated with a panel of Eastern Kufic script. Size: 295mm x 54mm ; Weight: 1.65kg Provenance: Private London collection of Early Islamic Art - M.A.; formerly acquired on the UK art market since the 1980s.
Lot 46
Qianlong period (AD 1735-1796), Qing dynasty.A group of mandarin famille rose tea service consisting of a teapot, a creamer, a tea caddy, two teacups, a cup with handle, and three cupholders. The service is decorated in the export style, with gilding on the rims or handles. Each piece depicts a scene of court officials painted in the Chinoiserie-style, behind each panel painting the space is filled with a geometric pattern.一组粉彩茶具，包括一个茶壶、一个奶精壶、一个茶盒、两个茶杯、一个带柄杯和三个杯架。茶具的装饰为出口风格，边缘或手柄上有镀金装饰。每件器物都描绘了一幅中国风的宫廷官员场景，每幅画的背后都有一个地纹图案。 Size: 75-195mm x 45-110mm; Weight: 1.03kg
Lot 92
*** Please note, the description to this lot has changed.***Hemingway (Ernest) A Moveable Feast, very faint spotting to fore-edge, lower panel of jacket with light surface soiling, 1964; The Old Man and the Sea, contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper, jacket price-clipped, very small hole on lower flap joint, 1952; Across the River and into the Trees, small biro mark on front free endpaper, later green library cloth, spine lightly faded, jacket very slightly trimmed, spine ends a little creased and discoloured, 1950, first English editions, original or later cloth, dust-jackets, all sharp copies; and another by the same, 4to & 8vo (4)
Lot 152
Stein (Gertrude) Last Operas and Plays, first edition, New York, 1949; Three Lives, jacket spine browned, chips to extremities, portions of loss to lower panel, Connecticut, 1933; Lectures in America, ink ownership and gift inscriptions on browned endpapers, jacket split down joints, chipped along edges, portion of loss to spine head and hole on spine, New York, 1935, original cloth, spine ends frayed, dust-jackets, nicked and chipped at edges; and 50 others by the same, including c.30 vol. of Stein bibliographies, v.s. (c.55)
Lot 137
Pullman (Philip) His Dark Materials: Northern Lights, first edition, bookplate signed by the author loosely inserted, original boards, light rubbing to spine and corner tips, first issue dust-jacket with 'Point' on spine and '7-9 Pratt Street' on lower flap, sunning to spine, light creasing to head and foot, rear panel with sticker to verso and some show-through, 8vo, 1995.
Lot 138
Pym (Barbara) Excellent Women, scattered foxing, bookplate removed from front pastedown, jacket with light surface soiling to rear panel, some chipping to fore-edges, 1952; Less Than Angels, short split to foot of upper joint, neat tape repairs to joints verso, 1955, first editions, original boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jackets, slight toning to spines, spine ends and corners a little chipped, 8vo (2)
Lot 69
Fleming (Ian) On Her Majesty's Secret Service, jacket price-clipped, light fraying to top edge, extremities a little chipped, spine head with short tears, light marks to lower panel, 1963; You Only Live Twice, ink ownership name on front free endpaper, jacket extremities a little nicked, short tear to lower panel lower edge, 1964; The Man with the Golden Gun, small bookseller's label on pastedown corner, jacket price-clipped, otherwise near-fine, 1965; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, jacket price-clipped, otherwise fine, 1966, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (4)
Lot 71
Fleming (Ian) You Only Live Twice, second but scarce state with "first published March 1964" on copyright page, ink ownership name on front free endpaper, jacket with tear along upper panel lower edge, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, some nicks and creases to extremities, still overall crisp and excellent copies; and 6 others by or relating to Bond, 8vo & 4to (9)
Lot 67
Fleming (Ian) For Your Eyes Only, ink ownership inscription on front free endpapers, very faint marking to contents page, boards with eye design in white to upper cover, spine lettered in silver, edges lightly rubbed, corners bumped, later issue dust-jacket, light fading on spine, very light creasing, 1960; Thunderball, boards with skeletal hand in blind to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, jacket with small portion of damp-staining to upper panel, spine ends and upper edge a little creased, 1961; The Spy Who Loved Me, ownership name on pastedown, boards with dagger motif blocked to front board in silver and blind, spine lettered in silver, jacket edges and spine ends a little chipped and frayed, light shelf-lean, 1962, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, 8vo (3)
Lot 35
Christie (Agatha) They Do It With Mirrors, first edition, gift card laid onto front free endpaper, ink date to front pastedown, original cloth, dust-jacket, lower panel with small abrasion and closed tear to foot, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light rubbing to head and foot, 1952 § Hudson (W.H.) Green Mansions, plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, original cloth-backed boards, some bumping to corners, New York, [1946]; and c.40 others, similar, 8vo (c.40)
Lot 37
Christie (Agatha) A Caribbean Mystery, 1964; Passenger to Frankfurt, 1970; Postern of Fate, 1973; Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, 1975; By the Pricking of My Thumbs, jacket price-clipped, creased at lower panel, 1968, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, light creasing and nicks to extremities, overall excellent copies; and 16 others by the same, 8vo (19)
Lot 182
White (Patrick) The Aunt's Story, first English edition, very light toning to margins, original boards, dust-jacket by Roy de Maistre, spine toned, light surface wear to lower panel, chips and nicks to upper edge, spine head with small portion of loss, one or two other small stains and tears, still overall a bright copy in an unrestored jacket, 8vo, 1948. *** An early work from the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White, scarce in the jacket. The jacket artist, Roy de Maistre, was an Australian artist renowned for his early experimentation with "colour-music", and is recognised as the first Australian artist to use pure abstraction which was greatly influenced by Cubism. The two men were close friends, and White dedicated his first novel Happy Valley (1939) to De Maistre, acknowledging De Maistre's influence on his writing.
Lot 188
Wodehouse (P.G.) Ice in the Bedroom, very light surface marking to lower panel of jacket, otherwise a crisp and fine copy, 1961; Do Butlers Burgle Banks?, jacket clipped and re-priced on flap, 1968; Company for Henry, jacket clipped and re-priced, 1967; Something Fishy, 1957, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, spines a little creased and chipped but overall excellent copies; and 25 others by the same, many in jackets, 8vo (29)
Lot 64
Fleming (Ian) Dr. No, first edition, light staple staining to margins of pp.238-9, original second state boards with silhouette in brown, spine lettered in silver, fore-edge very lightly marked, dust-jacket, light nicks and chips along edges, insect-bitten along joints and lower panel leaving surface wear, 8vo, 1958.
Lot 164
Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, folding map at end, contemporary ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, light soiling marks to cloth, 1954; The Two Towers, folding map at end, endpapers browned, spine sunned, light fading to upper panel, faint spots to panels, 1955; The Return of the King, lacking folding map, light spotting on endpapers, cloth soiled and spotted, 1955, first edition, second impressions, original cloth, spines dulled, ends and extremities bumped and creased; and 2 others sets of the same work, comprising third or fourth impressions, and a second edition set, all without jackets, 8vo (9)
Lot 199
Elphinstone Hope (Mrs C.-W.) The Star of the Fairies, presentation inscription from "To the star of the fairies, my sweet Miranda, Arthur" dated 1887 on half-title, 11 plates, spotting throughout, original pictorial cloth, gilt, corners and extremities a little bumped, 1881 § Waite (Arthur Edward) Belle and the Dragon, presentation inscription on pastedown, hinge cracked, light finger-staining, stains to pp.58/59, original pictorial cloth, rather stained and worn, corners bumped, 1894 § Peart (M.A.) Over the Moon, small ownership inscription on endpapers, very faintly spotted, original cloth, dust-jacket, worn with triangular portions of loss to upper panel, fraying and nicks to edges, 1927; and 25 others, mostly relating to fairies, and others, similar, v.s. (c.30) *** The first with curious provenance which also relates to the second mentioned: Belle and the Dragon is set in the mythic land of Ravendale, and features lightly disguised versions of Waite and his cohort. Waite's wife, Ada, is represented as the dormouse, while her sister, and Waite's first and true love, Dora, is featured as the heroine, Mesuline. Waite first met Dora in 1886 and the two fell almost immediately in love; however, in June 1887 she married one Reverend Granville Stuart-Menteath. In January 1888, Waite in turn married her sister Ada. Dora and Waite remained close despite their marriages and the two families lived near one another in Gunnersbury. The first mentioned is presumably inscribed to Dora from Waite.
Lot 23
Burroughs (Edgar Rice) Tarzan and the City of Gold, book-label on pastedown, dust-jacket, light creasing and nicks to edges, lower panel with discolouration, still overall a crisp copy, Tarzana, 1933; Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, contemporary ink ownership name on front free endpapers, cloth spine sunned, ends a little frayed, Chicago, 1918; The Tarzan Twins, gift inscription on half-title, cloth-backed boards, spine rubbed, covers chipped in places, Illinois, 1927, first editions, original cloth or boards; and 6 others by or relating to Burroughs, 8vo (9)
Lot 6
Beckett (Samuel) Waiting for Godot, first English edition, contemporary ownership name on toned and spotted front free endpaper, original cloth, dust-jacket, light discolouring to spine ends and lower panel, extremities very slightly rubbed, still overall a very crisp and excellent copy, 1956; and another by the same, 8vo (2)
Lot 33
Christie (Agatha) Towards Zero, first edition, original cloth, light toning to top and bottom edges, spine ends a little bumped, dust-jacket, light discolouration, short closed tear to lower panel from bottom edge, spine a little faded, short horizontal tear across spine, portion of loss to spine tail, 1944 § Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) India Speeches and an Introduction, first paperback edition in book form, some light marginal toning, original printed wrappers, spine faded, some very small chips to extremities, short tears to lower panel, 1931; and 6 others, mixed modern literature including 4 works by John Dickson Carr, 8vo (8)
Lot 29
Christie (Agatha) The Secret of Chimneys, reprint, ownership name on browned front free endpaper, original decorative cloth, extremities a little rubbed and bumped, dust-jacket, shortnered at head and front flap affecting text, a few closed tears, jacket spine priced 2'6, light surface marking on lower panel, 8vo, 1927. *** An early reprint of this scarce work, printed 2 years after the first edition.
Lot 143
Russell (Bertrand) In Praise of Idleness, first edition, scattered spotting, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine browned, spine ends a little chipped at head, pencil notes to lower panel, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent example, 1935; and 9 others by the same, mostly first editions, 8vo (10)
Lot 116
Mastin (John) The Autobiography of a Picture, ink ownership inscription on endpapers, 1910 § Carling (John R.) The Weird Picture, 1905 § Baerlein (Anthony) Daze, the Magician, signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper, dust-jacket, torn with portion of loss to upper panel and spine, tears and fraying to edges, 1936, first editions, lightly foxed or spotted, original cloth, lightly faded; and c.50 others, horror and mystery fiction, v.s. (c.50)
Lot 127
O'Donnell (Peter) Modesty Blaise, 1965; I, Lucifer, jacket price-clipped, spine head creased, 1967; A Taste for Death, jacket spine faded, 1969; The Silver Mistress, jacket lower panel evenly toned, 1973, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, light rubbing to extremities; and 6 other Modesty Blaise books, 8vo (10)
Lot 30
Christie (Agatha) The Mysterious Mr. Quin, first separate edition, light marginal browning, advertisement card for Pall Mall Building Society loosely inserted, advertisements to title verso and inside covers, original wrappers, light creasing to spine, light rubbing to extremities, slight surface soiling to lower panel, 8vo, [c.1930].*** Rare separate publication of the title story from Christie's 1930 collection.
Lot 145
Sabatini (Rafael) The Snare, light toning and foxing, 1917 § England (George Allan) The Flying Legion, cloth spine ends frayed, dust-jacket, broken, lacking spine and lower panel, edges rather chipped and nicked, Chicago, 1920 § Proctor (H.B.) The Mummy's Deam, light foxing, original wrappers, split along joint, spine browned and chipped, a little frayed, 1898 § Stockton (Frank R.) The Great Stone of Sardis, ownership name on pastedown, front free endpapers a little browned, 1898 § Markwick (Edward) The City of Gold, ownership inscription on front free endpapers, frontispiece and plates, few finger-soiling marks, 1896, first editions, all but the last original cloth, light fraying to extremities; and c.75 others, mostly late 19th and early 20th-century adventure fiction, v.s. (c.80)
Lot 13
Blixen (Karen), "Isak Dinesen". Out of Africa, first American edition, light spotting to endpaper gutter, light chipping to corners, larger chips to spine head thought not affecting title, New York, 1938; Last Tales, first edition, jacket spine browned, light rubbing on jacket panels, chip to lower panel, 1957; and another first edition by Patrick Leigh Fermor, 8vo (3)
Lot 1
Adams (Douglas) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first hardback edition, original boards, second state dust-jacket without the Capricorn One advert on rear panel, one or two nicks to extremities, light foxing to flaps, slightly offset onto endpapers, spine lightly sunned, some light bumping along spine head and top edge, otherwise an excellent copy, 8vo, 1979.
Lot 81
Greene (Graham) The Name of Action, first edition, light foxing on first and last few pages, original cloth, first state dust-jacket priced "7/6 Net" on spine, edges brittle with some chipping, 1" tear along lower panel joint tail, spine toned with few light surface scuffs, otherwise a remarkably fresh and bright copy, [Wobbe A3a], 8vo, 1930. *** Rare with the first state unrestored dust-jacket. Greene later disowned this work, as well as Rumour at Nightfall, saying that they were "of a badness beyond the power of criticism properly to evoke...." - Wobbe.
Lot 22
Burroughs (Edgar Rice).- Goss (Geoffrey Walter) Original dust-jacket upper panel and spine artwork for 'Tarzan the Terrible', watercolour and bodycolour over pencil, heightened with white, 285 x 170 mm (11 1/4 x 6 3/4 in), the ape 110 x 37 mm (4 1/4 x 1 1/2 in), under glass, mounted together, brown mark to the left of the head of the figure held aloft by Tarzan, framed, [circa 1933]. *** Goss' original artwork for the third English edition. The dust-jacket for the first English edition was executed by Fred Leist in a style more typical to the 1910s and 1920s. Goss' style would bring more movement to the illustrations and would bear a close resemblance to works by his American counterparts.
Lot 181
White (T.H.) The Once and Future King, first single-volume edition, endpapers browned from newspaper clipping loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, light fading to spine and joints, light discolouring to lower panel, still very tight and sharp overall, 1958; and another by the same, 8vo (2)
Lot 160
Temple (William F.) Four Sided Triangle, cloth lightly faded, dust-jacket, spine ends reinforced with paper verso, light fading, [1949] § White (James) All Judgement Fled, dust-jacket, light scuffing on lower panel, 1968 § Symons (J.H.) The Supreme Mystery, foxing, cloth spine ends a little creased, 1917, all first editions, signed presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper or titles, original cloth; and c.25 others, science-fiction, 8vo (c.30)
Lot 155
Steinbeck (John) Burning Bright, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, light marking and the occasional light nick or surface scuff, short tear on lower panel, spine faded, still overall a very crisp example, New York, 1950; and a proof copy of Steinbeck's biography by Nelson Valjean, 8vo (2)
Lot 148
RKO-Radio Pictures Exhibitors Books, published by RKO (1933-1935) - irst edition hardback books, features RKOs forthcoming production slates for the years, 1933-1934 and 1934-1935, illustrated throughout, original boards titled in red to front cover, and cloth with cork panel with RKO-Radio Pictures gilt device to upper cover, 4to. (2)Condition Report: signs of wear to both bindings with rubbing to spines and corners, some internal marks and tears to a few pages, boards detaching from 1934-1935 volume with gilt devise to front cover.
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