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Click here to subscribeFleming (Ian) Live and Let Die, first edition, third impression, occasional spotting, original boards, slight shelf-lean, covers a little mottled, dust-jacket, light discolouration to spine, spine and corners chipped at head, spotting to lower panel, still an excellent example overall, 1956; and an early re-issue of Moonraker, 8vo (2)⁂ With a print run of only 999, the third impression is far more scarce than the previous two.
Fleming (Ian) From Russia, With Love, light spotting to endpapers, covers mottled, jacket spine browned, spine chipped and creased at head, panels foxed, rubbing to fore-edges, 1957; The Spy Who Loved Me, slight shelf-lean, jacket spine browned, creasing to head, 1962; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, shelf-lean, jacket spine browned, spotting, spine ends and corners a little chipped at head, creasing, 1963, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets; and a copy of Diamonds Are Forever lacking the jacket, 8vo (4)
Lewis (C.S.) [The Narnia Chronicles], 7 vol., first editions, comprising The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, bookplate to endpaper, shelf-lean, fading to spine and top and bottom edges, jacket chipped at head and foot, abrasion to lower panel, internal tearing to spine, blind-stamp to flaps, marking, 1950; Prince Caspian, jacket spine slightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, tape-stain to lower fore-edge, 1951; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, bookplate to endpaper, jacket spine slightly browned, spine ends and corners a little chipped, tape staining and wear to lower fore-edge, surface soiling,1952; The Silver Chair, bookplate to endpaper, jacket spine a little darkened with chip to head affecting lettering, chipping and creasing to extremities, 1953; The Horse and his Boy, jacket spine faded, tape staining to lower panel, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, 1954; The Magician's Nephew, ink gift inscription to endpaper, jacket tape staining to panel edges, spine slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed, 1955; The Last Battle, jacket spine slightly browned, light rubbing to extremities, 1956, plates, illustrations and maps by Pauline Baynes, including colour where called for, original cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo.⁂ An unsophisticated set, collected by the vendor as a child whose bookplate is occasionally featured.
ƟRichard Adams, Watership Down, first edition, signed by the author [London, Rex Collings, 1972]complete with large folding map, title signed “Yours sincerely, Richard Adams”, some faint scattered spotting to preliminary and penultimate leaves and pastedowns, original brown cloth, gilt vignette to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, corners and spine ends a little bumped, lower cover with with some discolouration, volume with slight shelf lean, original dust-jacket, spine slightly faded, extremities with some very faint finger-soiling, a few closed tears along creases and a few small chips to head and tail of spine with fractional loss, unclipped, overall an excellent copy, 8voAn excellent copy of the author's first landmark novel. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟDoris Lessing, Works, first and limited editions, signed by the author [most London, 1950-2007]a group of 14 volumes, comprising: The Grass is Singing (1950, the author's first work, slight shelf lean, spine a little faded, small closed tear along upper crease of dust-jacket), This was the Old Chief's Country (1951, dust-jacket with some light surface soiling), Martha Quest (1952, slightly spotted at endpapers, dust-jacket chipped at extremities with some loss to head of spine, price clipped), Martha Quest (1952, duplicate copy), Five (1953, dust-jacket spine creased at head and foot with slight loss, price clipped), A Proper Marriage (1954, small tear to lower crease of dust-jacket), The Habit of Loving (1957, lower cover of dust-jacket with some light surface soiling), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965, dust-jacket spine darkened and head and tail a little chipped with loss), The Four-Gated City (1969), The Good Terrorist (1985, number 93 of 250 specially bound copies signed by the author), Three Stories (1988, number 185 of 350 copies signed by the author), The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter Griot and the Snow Dog (2005), Doris Lessing Nobel Prize Lecture (2007, copy “S” of 26 hand bound full leather copies signed by the author), all signed by the author, original cloth or boards, original dust-jackets present where applicable, overall very presentable and clean collection, 8vo Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Ɵ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or there and back again, first edition, first impression [London, George Allen & Unwin, 1937]complete, “1937” printed on the titlepage, frontispiece in black and white, original map endpapers and pastedowns, very slightly browned, original green decorated cloth, with Tolkien’s own mountain and dragon design, very slight shelf lean otherwise excellent condition, original first impression dust-jacket with “Dodgeson” (better known as Lewis Carroll) manual correction on lower flap, some very small restoration to small scuff marks, overall a fine and remarkably clean copy, 8voAn exemplary copy of the true first edition of Tolkien’s debut novel, first printed in September 1937 with a limited run of 1500 copies. It offered its reader, exhausted by the horrors of the First World War and fearful of the next, an escape into the imaginary lands of Middle Earth, travelling with them through the Shire, Rivendell and Mirkwood, leading to the climatic confrontation with the dragon Smaug under the Lonely Mountain. The Hobbit proved wildly popular and had completely sold out by December of the same year. The second impression soon followed, with a print run of 2300 copies, including new additions of colour plates and additional maps. The second printing bears the same date of publication “1937” on the titlepage and is often misidentified as the first edition of the work.Its popularity grew steadily on a global scale since its publication, with numerous editions published, and radio and television versions realised as far afield as Finland. In 2012-2014 it was once again honoured as a seminal work of fantasy literature, in Peter Jackson’s trilogy of film adaptations.As the work was intended to be book for children, few first edition copies emerge in the same outstanding condition as the present example. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Good Regency mahogany secretaire bookcase, the raised open shelf back with reeded pilasters over the secretaire drawer with fall front enclosing a green leather lined interior over fabric lined brass grille doors flanked by reeded column pilasters and upon short turned feet, 36" wide, 20" deep, 60.5" high
A Louis XVI mahogany and gilt metal mounted secretaire abattant, by M SCHMIDT & M OHNEBERG, circa 1780, the rectangular marble top with rounded front corners and moulded edge, above a single drawer and a fall front opening to an arrangement of shelves, drawers and a pigeon hole, the lower section with a pair of cupboard doors opening to a fall front drawer below a shelf, flanked by fluted pilasters, on turned tapering feet terminating in brass caps, the top twice stamped 'A M SCHMIDT' and the back stamped 'M OHNEBERG', 144cm high, 79cm wide, 36cm deep Provenance: Private Collection, London Martin Ohneberg, was made master in 1773. Antoine Marie Schmidt was made master in 1784.For a related secretaire stamped OHNEBERG, see Christie’s Paris, 7th April 2009, Lot 249 (EUR 6,000)
A George I walnut and featherbanded bureau bookcase, circa 1720, the moulded cornice above a pair of mirror panelled doors, opening to an adjustable shelf section above an arrangement of pigeon holes, three small drawers and a pair of candle slides beneath, the hinged fall below opening to an arrangement of pigeon holes, small drawers, and a well section with sliding cover, above two short and two long drawers, on bracket feet, 202cm high, 98cm wide, 57cm deep Provenance: Private Collection, Hampshire
18th Century style oak potboard dresser with boarded three shelf rack back over two deep drawers with shape frieze below on square legs. 45 x 150 x 211cm approx. (B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: overall in fair condition, medium colour. Some old splits to boards, may have been constructed from old wood.
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