COWARD (NOEL)Pomp and Circumstance, 3-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO ENID BAGNOLD loosely inserted within envelope taped to front free endpaper, ownership inscription of Enid Bagnold ('Enid Jones 1960') on front free endpaper, Heinemann, 1960--GIELGUD (JOHN) An Actor and His Time, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Dearest Enid [Bagnold]. A poor thing, but mine own! Much love as ever, John, 1975 [sic]', Sidgwick & Jackson, [1979]--MOSLEY (DIANA) A Life of Contrasts. The Autobiography, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Doris, best wishes from Diana Mosley', WITH OSWALD MOSLEY'S SIGNATURE beneath on the title, 4pp. 'Foyles Luncheons' table plan with list of invitees for lunch in honour of Mosley, 12 May 1977 loosely inserted, Hamish Hamilton, 1977, FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo; together with 3 volumes of Leonard Woolf's autobiography with the ownership signature of Enid Bagnold and 2 TYPED LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR (signed 'Leonard') to Bagnold ('Dear Enid') taped in at front (6)Footnotes:'IN FACT DEAR ENID DON'T, AS LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER MIGHT HAVE SAID, ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE BUGGERED ABOUT!' - a long letter full of advice on the art of writing plays written to Enid Bagnold, author and playwright. He notes that the 'theatre is, always has been, and always must be, a circumscribed formula', advises that she should concentrate on the third act ('In the ideal play the last act is the strongest... get the last act set in your mind or on paper before you begin the first act'), praises Bagnold's 'lovely gift of words... [but] what you need is a Sergeant-Major quality', and tells her to ignore the advice of 'actors and managers and directors [as] they are not dramatists... Oh dear how pompous and bossy I am becoming but you did ask for it and you know how much I love and admire your richness'.The letters from Leonard Woolf, both from 1967, include a discussion on new buildings at Rodmell ('I deplore the pullulation of building everywhere which turns the country and its villages into a vast suburb'), and praise for a letter sent by Bagnold to the Times in which she attacks the Royal Horticultural Society for having no female members on the council.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Shall We Commit Suicide?, first separate edition, 12pp., unrecorded issue with variant title border and without printer's name on p.12, stapled as issued in self-wrappers, some soiling, corner crease with very small chip to front wrapper, joint split at top [cf. Cohen A74; Woods A33], 207 x 95mm., Reprinted from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine of September 24, 1924 [?New York, Eilert printing Co., 1924]--[GIBB (ALEX DEWER)] With Winston Churchill at the Front, By Captain X [Capt. Alex Dewer Gibb], frontispiece portrait of Churchill, some foxing to first few pages, publisher's pictorial wrappers, soiled, scratch to upper cover, spine chipped at foot (lettering unaffected), small 8vo, London & Glasgow, Gowans & Gray, 1924--KEYNES (JOHN MAYNARD) The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill, FIRST EDITION, publisher's printed wrappers, darkened, spine and one corner reinforced, 2 chips to lower cover, 8vo, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925--CHURCHILL (WINSTON) A Speech by The Prime Minister The Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940, FIRST EDITION, 2 copies, 16pp., one copy in publisher's buff wrappers and on unwatermarked paper, and the other in light bluish grey wrappers on watermarked paper, some foxing, especially to the second [cf. Cohen A131.1; Woods A60(a)], 8vo, [Baynard Press], 1940--The Pilgrims. Speeches at the Dinner to Celebrate the Bi-Centenary of the Birth of George Washington, Tuesday, 12th July, 1932, 19 pages (Churchill's speech occupying 4), original stiff wrappers [Cohen D63], [1932]; together with the table plan for the dinner (16pp., stiff wrappers) and menu (4pp., on card), both printed in blue (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
JUDAICA - GAMEThe New Game of the Jew, engraving on 12 sections mounted on linen, comprising a central hand-coloured representation of a Jewish money-lender seated at a table holding bags of money (235 x 170mm.), surrounded by 10 numbered compartments, one of which has the 'Directions for Playing' the game, dust-soiling, folding into publisher's card slipcase, original hand-coloured engraved pictorial label ('The New Fashionable Game of the Jew' above an image of the Jewish money-lender) on the upper cover, age-soiled with a few light spots, overall image 490 x 435mm., J. Wallis, 27 May 1807Footnotes:An early nineteenth century parlour game, based on anti-semitic stereotypes of a Jewish money-lender.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DRINKWATER (JOHN)Remaining books from the library of John Drinkwater, including 105 volumes of his own works, either with his ownership inscription (often dated), or a presentation inscription (to his second wife Daisy - sometimes addressed as 'David' - or daughter Penny), with approximately 60 other copies of his works (about 20 signed by Daisy), and 10 books inscribed to him by other authors (including John Buchan, Arnold Bennett and Galsworthy - see footnote), some with additional notes and annotations, a few with loosely inserted letters and photographs, some with Drinkwater's gilt morocco bookplate, others with 'J.D.' stamp, publisher's bindings, several in dust-jackets, variable rubbing or wear, mostly 8vo, a few 4to, [c.1914-1935] (quantity)Footnotes:UPWARDS OF 100 NOVELS, PLAYS, ESSAYS AND WORKS WRITTEN, EDITED OR WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JOHN DRINKWATER, ALL EITHER WITH HIS OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION, or presentation copies to his wife or daughter, several the dedication copies.Includes: Cotswold Characters (1921), WITH 5 PROOF WOODCUTS BY PAUL NASH captioned in pencil, JD noting 'Inserted are proofs of the cuts, inscribed by P.N.'; Abraham Lincoln. A Play (1919), with a tipped-in envelope containing 'LEAVES FROM THE DINNER TABLE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, at the Great Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, June 16th 1864' written by 'Ella Virginia J.P. 1872' with note by JD 'These were given to me when I was in the U.S.A.'; The Collected Poems in 2 vol. (1931), inscribed by JD 'a copy of the large paper edition, specially bound by S. & S. Inserted is a copy of the frontispiece, coloured by Albert Rutherston' [also inscribed 'J.D. from A.R.. Dec. 1923']; Preludes 1921-1922 (1922), LIMITED TO 125 COPIES, inscribed 'No. 3, and my own copy... September 1922; Claud Lovat Fraser (1923), LIMITED TO 45O COPIES, signed by Drinkwater and Albert Rutherston; A Book for Bookmen (1926), ONE OF 50 COPIES, WITH AN ALS FROM T.S.WISE (the dedicatee) tipped-in, also another copy with 2 further ALS from Wise ('What a brick you are...'); Charles James Fox (1928), inscribed 'To David, the dearest Lady that I know. This book about Charles, whom must have been a very dear gentleman. With love from her Jonathan, Pepys House, September 1928'; A Man's House (1934), inscribed to his daughter Penny '... this play was produced at Malvern on July 23rd, three days before your fifth birthday...', with jacket and wraparound band; another copy inscribed to his wife 'wishing her luck with our play... Malvern, 23. vii. 34'; Laying the Devil (1933), inscribed 'Daisy darling, thank you for believing in this play, and for helping me by believing in it... Shaftsbury Theatre, 2.VII.33'; Garibaldi (1936), inscribed 'For My David, this first copy of the new play... 6.vi.36'; Robert Burns. A Play (1925), THE DEDICATEE'S COPY, inscribed 'Daisy Drinkwater from her Jonathan, New York, November 24th 1925'; More About Me. Poems for a Child (1929), DEDICATEE'S COPY, inscribed 'My darling little [Penelope Ann, JD's daughter, printed] from her loving father who made the rhyme, Brampton October 28th 1929'.Books inscribed by their author to Drinkwater include: Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps, with additional note by Drinkwater 'Given to me by Bennett on the evening that I read 'Robert Burns' to him. J.D.', 1923; John Galsworthy, The Dark Flower, 1913; Charles Morgan. Sparkenbroke, 1936; Ramsay Macdonald, At Home and Abroad, 1936; Amelia Defries. Rebirth, the dedication copy, 1928.; John Buchan, The Manor of Elsfield, 1931.Provenance: John Drinkwater (1882-1937); his daughter Penelope Ann and thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WILDE (OSCAR)The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, this copy unnumbered, publisher's lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon [Mason 381], small 4to, Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899Footnotes:Provenance: Ex-libris depicting two scenes of the figure of death, in one roped to a mountaineer, the other seated with a man beside a table on which stands a microscope, the lower part of the plate worn away.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LEIGH (VALENTINE)The Moste Profitable and Commendable Science, of Surveying of Landes, Tenementes, and Hereditamentes, FIRST EDTION, black letter, with blank A4, woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams and initials, one folding letterpress table (on 2 sheets joined), lacking the other table (one sheet of which supplied in facsimile), title with light dampstain in upper margin obscuring early ownership inscription, and small paper flaw in lower margin, light spotting and toning, unidentified eighteenth century armorial bookplate inside upper cover, eighteenth cenury quarter sheep with marbled sides, worn, spine ends chipped [ESTC S106757; cf. Fussell I, p.7, variant imprint], small 4to (185 x 123mm.), Andrew Maunsell, 1577Footnotes:Scarce first edition of Valentine Leigh's treatise on the science of surveying, in which he offered both technical information on the science of surveying and measurements, and more general advice to landowners on the worth of their lands, and management of rents and fees.Provenanance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, purchase aquisition note (1928) inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LEYBOURN (WILLIAM)The Compleat Surveyor: Containing the Whole Art of Surveying of Land, by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor, and Peractor... With Whatsoever Else is Necessary to the Art of Surveying, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (aged 27), title printed in red and black within typographic border, diagrams in the text, woodcut ornaments and decorative initials, small circular hole cut from margin of pp.57/58 touching printed rule border, a few small rustholes (touching letters on pp.52/54, and pp. 75/76), ink smudges on p.68, some spotting and a few small ink marks elsewhere, contemporary calf, worn with small losses at corners and foot of spine, upper hinge cracked [ESTC R20856], small folio (280 x 185mm.), R. & W. Leybourn, for E. Brewster, 1653Footnotes:Scarce at auction, the expanded version of William Leybourn's influential treatise on surveying. First published anonymously as a pamphlet titled Planometria, or, The Whole Art of Surveying of Land in 1650, there were four further editions published in the author's lifetime. Leybourn (1626-1716) was subsequently 'appointed one of the six surveyors to measure the damage caused by the Great Fire of London.... [and his] practice as a land surveyor continued and he mapped estates in London and many other English counties' (ODNB).Provenance: Anthony Methwin, several ink inscriptions to endpapers and blank recto of frontispiece, one dated 1669; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Gray, EileenEnniscorthy 1878 - Paris 1976, war eine irische Innenarchitektin und Designerin. "Adjustable Table". Entwurf: 1927, Ausführung: wohl Classicon, 1980er Jahre, Konstruktion aus verchromten Stahlrohr, höhenverstellbar, eingelegte kreisrunde Tischplatte, darauf Aufkleber mit gedruckter Signatur, H: ab 63,5 cm. Geringe Gebrauchsspuren.
Ovaler Tisch mit 2 ErweiterungsplattenEngland, Anfang 20. Jh., Mahagoni furniert, Dining Table für 4 Personen durch Platten erweiterbar für 6 und 8 Personen, die 4 spitz zulaufende Vierkantbeinen auf Füßen, die Zarge mit profilierter Unterkante und gegliedert durch die vorstehenden Beine mit je eingelegtem Muschelmotiv aus Ahorn, die ovale Tischplatte mit sehr schönem Furnierbild eingerahmt aus eingelegtem Ahornfaden konturiert mit Ebenholzfäden, HxBxT: 77/132/107 (+ 2 Erweiterungsplatten von je 51 cm). Rest., Gebrauchsspuren/kl. Bestoßungen, Kratzer.
Profilierte Kanten an Unterteil und Deckel mit passigen Aussparungen, die sich in den entsprechenden passigen Teil des Kastens einfügen. Am Boden gelbes Papieretikett: Grace Wu Bruce.H 10,8 cm; B 26,7 cm; T 16,2 cmProvenienzPrivatsammlung, Hessen, erworben bei Grace Wu BruceLiteraturVgl. ähnlichen, aber niedrigeren Kasten, abgeb. in: R. P. Piccus (Hrsg.), Wood from the Scholar's Table, Hong Kong 1984, Nr. 61Dieses Objekt wurde unter Verwendung von Materialien hergestellt, für die beim Export in Ländern außerhalb der EU eine Genehmigung nach CITES erforderlich ist. Wir machen darauf aufmerksam, dass eine Genehmigung im Regelfall nicht erteilt wird.
Canteen of Victorian silver cutlery, the majority London 1846, maker Samuel Hayne & Dudley Cater and London 1876, maker Chawner & Co (George William Adams), the fiddle pattern handles with crest depicting a bird with it's wings spread, consisting of basting spoon, twelve table spoons, twelve dessert spoons, twelve table forks, twelve dessert forks, twelve teaspoons, 112oz
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